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As is tradition, I celebrated Independence Day by journeying up to Blaine, the place of my childhood, to sweat in the 100-degree heat and laugh my head off with Jodi Hanson and her family.
I only see Jodi and her brood once or twice a year so we have to back a lot into the day, bouncing from topic to topic in ways that make absolutely no sense. So I present to you a short list of things I was right about:
- That “I Will Always Love You” was, in fact, used in the movie “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
- The proper pronunciation of the word “conch.”
- How we should have used napkins instead of giant plates for our little pieces of cake.
- That, indeed, the 40s were 70 years ago (math for the win!)
I was wrong about one thing though, the pointy-ness of alligator snouts. Oh, and that gnocchi was spelled with a K, but blame that one of momentary heat-induced stupidity.
Besides being right (and quite cocky) about thing, it was pointed out that I spend a lot of time talking The Fungus Gnats. I was surprised to learn that not everyone is as fascinated by The Great Infestation of 2012 as I am. What’s wrong with people? | http://www.iwilldare.com/2012/07/things-i-was-right-about-yesterday/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Pretty much everyone is home from the holidays at this point, and that includes a heaping helping of recaps from last night's shootout loss.
Take a look at the reports from the Dispatch, Crimespree, Martinit Hockey, Strait-Jackets, DBJ, and Puck-Rakers.
We offer our own deathless prose, and Rob Mixer has postgame coverage and some predictable quotes.
Shawn Mitchell talked to Ryan Johansen yesterday about missing the World Juniors, while Bob Hunter finally sees Scott Howson losing patience and preparing to take action. (To which most fans should with a resounding "Well, DUH!")
Speaking of the WJCs, Backhand Shelf has a nice summary of the early action, discusses Marty Turco's trip to Europe, and a new episode of The Quiet Room looks at the injury situation in Buffalo.
At THW, Alex Stallings takes another look at the Jeff Carter trade.
Speaking of injuries, Crimespree talks about the "concussion epidemic" not being a new problem. Meanwhile, Shea Weber was shut down "indefinitently" yesterday.
Speaking of concussions, I'm kinda shocked that Wayne Simmonds didn't give one to Eric Brewer when he demolished him last night.
ESPN: Still ignoring hockey in the most classless fashion possible. Lovely.
Over at Puck Daddy, the Habs apparently love Subway, there are absolutely no Jackets featured in the best saves of 2011, and the Charity point isn't doing much for Columbus, but it's the only thing keeping San Jose alive.
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Anti-Authoritarian Revolution and Law Reform in Egypt: A Jadaliyya E-Roundtable
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Since the Mubarak presidency ended on February 11, 2011, the debate has shifted from how—or if—to amend the existing Egyptian constitution to how to replace/rewrite it. What, in your opinion, are the consequences of the suspension of the constitution to consolidating the gains and advancing the protesters’ aspirations for a post-authoritarian political order in Egypt?
TAMIR MOUSTAFA: Replacing the constitution was one of the central demands of pro-democracy activists. On the one hand, this suspension facilitates political reforms outside of the narrow procedures that were set out in the constitution. But this route forward also places the military outside of any legal framework. Amendments to the constitution are dependent on the military’s good will – something that we cannot take for granted. And even if Egypt proceeds towards free and fair elections, the military’s direct entry into political life will likely haunt the Egyptian political system for years to come. A similar tension between political expediency and democratic representation casts a shadow on the constitutional reform committee that was established by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This committee is staffed mostly by jurists with legal expertise, but makes almost no attempt to represent various political trends. This is obviously objectionable from the standpoint of democratic representation, and it clearly undermines the legitimacy of the process. The only potential benefit of this route forward is the possibility that amendments to the constitution can be adopted more swiftly than they would if the whole constitution were rewritten. But meaningful amendments are dependent on the military’s willingness to make a genuine break from the past – and this is anything but certain at this point.
ASLI BALI: I agree with Tamir that the consequences of suspension depend entirely on the process that is put in place. But I disagree that the Egyptian constitution can be fixed by amending it. While it has some liberal elements, they have been badly distorted by numerous amendments and suspensions under emergency decrees. In his February 2 speech, Mubarak himself promised amendments to Articles 76 and 77, which would revise the terms of eligibility for presidential candidacy and introduce term limits. Such modest reforms would not be nearly expansive enough to address the repressive elements that have been introduced since the adoption of this constitution in 1971, and particularly the introduction of a deeply repressive package of amendments by the Mubarak regime in 2007. Further, the existing constitution has long been associated with the consolidation of executive power, weakening of the judicial branch and the rights deprivations of the Mubarak era, which makes it an intrinsically defective instrument from which to initiate regime transformation. Reports have emerged that a limited amendments package of five or six provisions is now being undertaken. Whatever additional provisions are included, such a limited package of incremental amendment will not be sufficient to entrench the goals of the revolution. Egypt needs a new constitution, one that shifts the balance between the branches of government away from the executive, introduces (or reinstates) institutional guarantees of judicial independence, lifts the emergency decrees and restores civilian judicial jurisdiction over most matters, strengthens individual rights protections and repeals emergency-based limitations, and establishes the basis for a pluralist party system. In other words, the constitutional architecture needs to be radically altered to excise the “legalities” of authoritarianism.
The replacement of the current constitution with one that better reflects the aspirations of the protesters and lays the foundation for the liberalization of the political order is probably the best avenue. But a number of institutional conditions would have to be met to make this alternative feasible (rather than creating a pretext for a military junta to draft a new constitution at its own discretion). In my view, the best approach would be to undertake extra-constitutional measures to convene a caretaker national unity government with proper institutional protections (e.g., those who serve in the caretaker government would not be permitted to run for presidency). This caretaker government should represent a broad swath of the non-National Democratic Party (NDP) organized political spectrum and the leadership of the protest-based opposition. It should also include elements of the military who do not reflect the political chain of command under Mubarak, but a lower level of the military’s professional bureaucracy. This caretaker government would essentially pursue a technocratic governance model designed to put in place the mechanisms of institutional transformation, including introducing a liberalized political party system and convening new legislative elections within 6-9 months of liberalization once parties have had a chance to form, and presiding over a constitution-drafting process that is turned over to the new parliament as a constituent assembly. This caretaker government should eventually oversee a transition to a new executive (whether presidential or parliamentary). Ideally, there will be a provisional arrangement to create the institutional infrastructure in order to convene new legislative elections in a truly competitive multi-party electoral environment. A freely elected legitimate parliament would then be able to serve as a sort of constituent assembly to preside over the drafting of a new constitution (with an initial draft produced by an independent commission of jurists with a representative composition drawn from legal academics, jurists and constitutional experts reflecting Egypt’s political diversity), its vetting through the assembly and ultimately a constitutional referendum.
TAMIR MOUSTAFA: I agree entirely with Asli on the illiberal aspects of the constitution. But it is important to note that out of its 211 articles, only about a dozen are fundamentally illiberal and each of these is easily identified. These articles can and must be amended. But the pro-democracy movement should not lose sight of the fact that the current constitution contains most of the liberties and protections that they currently seek. I also want to point out that there are significant risks in scrapping the constitution entirely and starting from scratch. As Asli notes, this route forward would take up to a year to complete in the best case scenario. In the meantime, a number of divisive issues would almost certainly come to the fore. For example, should a new constitution declare that “Islam is the religion of the state” and that “Islamic jurisprudence is the principle source of legislation” as the current constitution does? And what should a new constitution say about the nature of the economy? These fault lines would inevitably emerge if a constitution was rewritten from the ground up and you can bet that the cooperation we have seen among pro-democracy activists would come under significant strain as a result. I am not suggesting that these are not important debates to be had – they most certainly are, and genuine debate on these issues is long overdue. I only suggest that such debate at this juncture would further imperil an already difficult democratic transition. Rather than demanding a completely new constitution, pro-democracy activists may be wise to make targeted demands for constitutional amendments and to mobilize all their energy to force those targeted amendments through. After the most crucial constitutional amendments are in place and free and fair elections are held, a fully representative People’s Assembly could, of course, propose additional amendments, or bring an entirely new constitution to a national referendum. The number one goal right now should be to remove the most egregious roadblocks that are entrenched in the constitution, not to open divisive can of worms through a complete rewrite of the constitution.
SAMERA ESMEIR: The Egyptian revolution constituted a state of exception—that is, a suspension of the grounds of legitimacy of both the Egyptian state and its constitution. Notwithstanding its many “progressive” articles, as Tamir notes, this constitution enabled, and was enabled by, a lingering state of emergency and a normalized state security apparatus. The Egyptian revolution interrupted this illusionary state of emergency and introduced instead a new temporality shattering the continuity of the previous emergency/security. By so doing, the revolution shifted the definition of the exception from the grounds of normalized security-driven legalities, which were the Egyptian state’s technologies of rule, to the self-organized plural groups working collectively “on the ground” and laying claim to the present and the future of Egypt. It might have been necessary to suspend the previous constitution if one were to remain true to the new political temporality of the revolution. But as Asli points out, the constitution was suspended so that some of its articles could be amended. In criticizing this approach, Asli argues that the “constitutional architecture needs to be radically altered to excise the ‘legalities’ of authoritarianism.” Her critical point is crucial to guaranteeing genuine regime change. Yet it seems to me that the political praxes of the Egyptian revolution, like other popular revolutionary movements, surpass the demand to transition to a new regime that will join the universal family of liberal democracies.
Historically speaking, wars, social movements and reform movements were all vehicles to regime change. The ongoing Egyptian revolution has an additional aspect: It has been claiming new grounds of legitimacy, while engendering collective political practices that defy the order of legality/security. A new revolutionary constitution, whether reformed or newly drafted, must inscribe in its articles this practice of disobedience and collective organization/mobilization; it must allow for the ongoing revolution to persist in making political claims. If the new/reformed constitution is to follow the footsteps of the revolution, it should not be merely a text constituting yet another vehicle for transition from authoritarianism to liberal democracy with a renewed security paradigm. Rather, it should provide a vehicle for revolutionary political praxis. The challenge, of course, is that such a revolutionary constitution will cease to be a constitution. And this perhaps indicates that constitutional reform may even occasionally contradict this revolutionary moment.
Is constitutional reform one of the most pressing issues at this point, or is this secondary to other kinds of legal and political reforms? Why?
TAMIR MOUSTAFA: Constitutional amendments are a crucial first step in laying the groundwork for political reform. One of the most insidious tactics of the Mubarak regime was to build illiberal constitutional amendments right into the constitution itself, so that they could not be challenged even in the courts. As Asli notes, the 2005 and 2007 constitutional amendments entrenched aspects of the emergency law directly into the constitution (article 179), robbed the judiciary of its role in monitoring elections (article 88), and made it virtually impossible to have meaningful contestation in presidential elections (article 76). But the legal conundrums that Egypt faces are far deeper than the constitution alone. The regime has spun out illiberal legislation for decades, undermining the constitutional guarantees on fundamental rights that are already specified in the constitution. Laws regulating the press, political parties, police powers, elections, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, and just about every other area of political and social life are designed to strengthen the hand of the executive. Even if the constitution is successfully amended, a deeper web of illiberal legislation will remain on the books until it is revised by an empowered and representative People’s Assembly.
ASLI BALI: Constitutional reform is a pressing priority because the constitution has been an instrument for the consolidation of authoritarian control. Without addressing the centralization of power in the hands of the (unaccountable) executive power, Egypt would continue to have Mubarak-style governance without Mubarak. Constitutional reform is an essential first step for redressing the distribution of power between the branches of Egyptian government, among other crucial goals, though as Tamir points out, constitutional reform alone will not be sufficient.
SAMERA ESMEIR: Constitutional reform is a pressing issue because it is underway. One of the first texts that will constitute the post-Mubarak era will be the constitution. We may recall, however, that the revolutionaries in Egypt did not posit constitutional reform as the most important priority, just as they refused to swap Omar Suleiman with Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian revolutionary movement articulated a set of linked political demands; constitutional reform was only one of them. The unifying slogan of the revolution was: “al-sha'b yorid isqat al-nitham," or, in English, "the people want to topple the regime.” This concise slogan captures complex political aspirations that the singular demands, on their own, fail to articulate. Situating the constitutional question next to other demands reveals an appreciation, on the part of the revolutionaries, of the hollowness of a legal text that lacks institutions to enforce it. The constitutional text itself, as constitutive as it may claim to be, is destined to remain abstract and general, and thus open to different, competing interpretations. This ambiguity of legal language, indeed any language, is not necessarily negative. But this ambiguity is a reminder of the obvious point that any constitution is a site of battles and conflicts that are never resolved apriori and is not a recipe for redemption. Further, most legal/regulatory action takes place not in the constitutional text, but in other numerous laws, statutes, regulations and security practices that ultimately constitute the world of the law. Often times these other legalities neither validate nor violate the constitution, while being the most constitutive of social and political life. Because they lived under an intrusive security state, the revolutionaries seem to have understood this proliferation of security legalities in many domains of social life and therefore did not restrict their demands to constitutional reform. The challenges for the revolutionary movement are therefore much more complex than replacing an “illiberal” constitution with a “liberal” one. One of these challenge is to overcome the security state, whether liberal or authoritarian.
HUSSEIN AGRAMA: I find myself largely in agreement with what Tamir, Asli and Samera have said. This protest movement cannot be framed as a referendum on constitutional reform, even though such reform is, and has been, one of its demands. But, as Samera has pointed out, we need to view all of the protestors’ demands together in order to see the full extent of their political aspirations. The animating principles of the protest movement can also be discerned by the manner in which it developed over its 18-day span. Here are two of the principles that I saw being articulated by the movement as a whole. The first is that no one – no one person, group of people, social or economic class, religious or ideological political orientation—should have a monopoly on power. It is worth noting that during the protests, no one person or group emerged as the leader. Even those people who were hailed for having sparked the movement (like Wael Ghonim) rejected any such leadership or symbolic role. All efforts were deliberately collaborative, and this ethos only grew as the days went by. The second principle is that the national security paradigm, which has gripped Egypt for so long and has become intensified under its “war on terror,” must be completely dismantled. It should be remembered that much of the animus of the protestors was directed at against the Ministry of the Interior, a hub of the massive security apparatus that had come to define the state.
It is precisely these two principles that constitutional reform is ill-equipped to defend. To take just one example: it was the rise and entrenchment of the state security apparatus that led to the distortion and erosion of constitutional protections, and not the other way around. And, as Tamir has rightly noted, it takes only a few articles to distort the entire thing. If this happened before, despite constitutional guarantees, what is to prevent it from happening again? That is why I think that overemphasizing constitutional reform would represent a serious setback for the overall aspirations of the protest movement. From within the oft-made political distinction between constituting and constituted power, a constitution falls decidedly on the side of the latter. When a constitution loses its links to the powers that ostensibly established it, then its text becomes open to the widest interpretive distortions of legal and judicial thought. From the vantage point of the tradition of democratic legitimacy, what we saw in Egypt was a historic assertion of unbridled popular sovereignty – self-organized, sustained, focused and resolute. As a manifestation of constituting power, it sweeps away what came before and is itself the source of the legitimacy of what comes after. The question, then, is not so much how to amend or reform particular articles of the constitution, but rather, how to maintain the links to this democratic constituting power – a question that cannot be resolved on constitutional grounds. To put this another way, we have long been suffering under the illusion that it is a constitution that guarantees and protects our rights. But the truth is that it is constitutions themselves that need be protected and guaranteed. The question of how to do that cannot be resolved on constitutional grounds, but in the case of Egypt, it cannot be resolved solely on domestic grounds either. This is a point I will say more about below.
Beyond the constitution, which laws must be addressed (and how) in order to advance the goal of anti-authoritarianism and a democratic political system in Egypt?
ASLI BALI: The panoply of repressive legislation passed by the Mubarak regime since the 1980s affects press freedoms, restrictions on the right of peaceful assembly, draconian regulation of non-governmental organizations (Egypt’s odious NGO law became a model for the Palestinian Authority), procedural protections, civilian court jurisdiction, establishment of extraordinary security courts, rights of collective bargaining, political party formation, the convening of elections, and the broad expansion of police powers. All of this legislation emanating from the state of emergency imposed in October 1981 would have to be repealed and dismantled, but the permissive condition for this legislation has been a constitution that does not protect against such far-reaching assertions of police powers and which, since 2007, has constitutionalized the infrastructure for normalizing the emergency decrees through new counterterrorism laws. The constitutional infrastructure has to be dismantled and new guarantees put in place before the legislative measures to repeal emergency provisions would represent a durable anti-authoritarian reform.
What role, if any, can/should political parties, movements, and activists play in influencing the process of post-Mubarak legal reform in Egypt? How will protesters/opposition movements influence the pursuit and legitimacy of ongoing reforms?
SAMERA ESMEIR: One difficulty in Egypt is that the revolutionary movement did not result in a revolutionary council taking over the work of governance during the so-called transitional period. Instead, there was a realignment of forces within the regime, and some hope that this realignment may engender a rupture with the past. Absent such a revolutionary council, the process is being orchestrated by figures that were either previous actors in the Mubarak regime or are now “neutral” actors. Further, after the fall of Mubarak’s regime, Egyptians are still in the process of articulating political programs, backed up by specific political movements, to implement the demands of the revolution and to resist the new security state. The result is that these demands remain, in part, attached to idealized slogans of unity and love. The politicization of these demands entails relocating them to the field of the political, of conflict, and of disagreement with the military. The rhetoric of love, unity, neutrality and technocracy risks depoliticizing the revolution—which is a political event par excellence—by disconnecting it from the political process, now fashioning itself as technocratic and neutral, despite its being orchestrated by the military. I agree with Tamir that “the military’s direct entry into political life may haunt the Egyptian political system for years to come.” The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has particular political and economic connections that are far from neutral. There are many signs, however, indicating resistance to depoliticization. This resistance points to the political influence that the revolutionaries are attempting to effect beyond the legal reform process.
TAMIR MOUSTAFA: I agree with Samera that if meaningful legal reform is to materialize in Egypt, it will be the result of sustained mobilization of the Egyptian public, both inside and outside of formal political institutions. There are important and specific roles for political parties, rights groups, trade unions, professional syndicates (especially the lawyers syndicate), and other formal political groupings. These formal organizations have the ability to articulate specific and targeted demands for legal and institutional reforms and they can play an instrumental role in coordinating political engagement. But the last three decades and the last three weeks of Mubarak’s rule underline the fact that these formal organizations cannot bring about change by themselves. It is “everyday Egyptians” who have proven their ability to force change in Egypt. The most crucial developments to nurture in the months and years to come are therefore the organic links between political parties, civil society organizations, and the Egyptian masses. These are precisely the organic links that the Mubarak regime severed so successfully through three decades of authoritarian rule.
HUSSEIN AGRAMA: Again, I fully agree with Tamir, Asli and Samera that some kind of revolutionary council or (non-NDP) care-taker civilian unity government should take over from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. I also agree that that ongoing political mobilization from within formal and informal institutions is an absolute necessity if the protest movement is to achieve its goals. This is one of the ways to maintain the links to the constituting power that I mentioned above. But I am afraid that even this will not be enough.
Tamir notes that it was everyday Egyptians who were able to force change. I want to consider the distinct possibility that it was not everyday Egyptians that forced change, but that their protests were used by the army as a pretext to effect a realignment of political forces within the regime. (This is not to devalue any of the achievements of the protest movement.) Had the army taken a different stance toward the protesters, things might have turned out quite differently. But the army seems to want to put back in place, albeit in a somewhat restructured form, existing institutions of the regime – including the state security forces. But one of the animating principles of the protest movement was the dismantling of the national security paradigm which has reigned in the country for so long, and confounded all democratic possibilities. Will the army let go of this paradigm?
The army, at least the highest echelons, is a moneyed and propertied class whose interests coincide with the foreign policy imperatives that sustain it rather than the overall dispositions of Egyptian people. So there is a broader, regional dimension to the question constitutional and legal reform. Many of the strategic regional arrangements with the army, particularly between it, Israel and the United States, will not be accepted by a genuine civilian government. But it is precisely these arrangements that sustain the army. What this means, given the current situation, is that the protest movement, if it is to move forward, must at some point clash politically with the army. It means that the army will have to be restructured, so that it can no longer be the moneyed, propertied, rentier class that it is. The army must become subject to a different set of regional political and economic incentives. And this depends on broader regional transformations – particularly the future of Palestinian rights. In this sense, the future of the protest movement in Egypt is linked to the fate of Palestine. That future, in turn, is interwoven with that of the entire region. No discussion of genuine legal and constitutional reform can ignore the question of the army within this broader, regional dimension.
What is the relationship between constitution drafting and revolutions? What are the grounds of legitimacy of each event, how do they overlap or diverge from each other in the case of Egypt?
ASLI BALI: Revolution is typically an extra-constitutional or irregular transition in power within a given society producing regime change as a result of popular bottom-up demands or vanguard-led top-down overthrow. Either way, a revolution represents a break in ordinary legality and constitutes an extra-constitutional moment. To establish the bases for the legitimacy (and claims to authority) of the new regime, a revolution will typically be followed by a constitutional exercise. The legitimacy of that exercise derives from the consent it is able to command from either the popular constituency of the revolution, or in the case of a revolution without a social base from the acquiescence and tacit consent the new system enjoys. In a case like Egypt, the revolution has been the result of a popular uprising and the source of the legitimacy of the new constitution will have to be the participation and consent of the social constituency of the revolution, meaning the representatives of the opposition protesters. The measure of a legitimate constitution will be (1) the participation of representatives of the revolution’s constituents in the drafting process; and (2) the relationship between the substantive protections afforded by the constitution and the anti-authoritarian demands of the uprising.
SAMERA ESMEIR: A revolution is not constitutional reform. The first exceeds the latter and may also contradict it. Revolutions disrupt the taken for granted association between legality and legitimacy, introducing new grounds of legitimacy beyond state law. As Asli writes, revolutions are “extra-constitutional.” And I would add, revolutions are “extra-legal.” Modern law is incapable of sanctioning a revolution. Revolutions, however, maintain an aspiration to constitute a new legal order. Ironically, this order for the most part institutes new relationships of obedience between the law and the citizenry, making it illegal to wage another revolution, or to introduce the political praxis cultivated among the members of the revolutionary movement.
This paradoxical relationship between law and revolution is evident in contemporary debates about legal reform. Specifically, because the revolutionary movement in Egypt is yet to accomplish its declared objectives, the focus on legal reform, and the institution of a new legal order, becomes one way to secure some objectives. But this focus may jeopardize the ongoing revolution in two ways. First, this focus risks confining the sphere of political action and political opposition to the realm of the juridical, and therefore ignoring a much more difficult challenge to the security institutions of the state, including the military. If such narrow focus is to become dominant, Egypt's democratic practice will be mainly centered on the law, like many Western democracies, sidelining other alternatives for democratic politics—ones that do not necessarily pursue politics through the law. Second, this focus also risks translating the revolutionary practice of collective self-organization to the practices of law-drafting that lack the collective, self-organizing element. The experience of the revolutionary movement in Egypt, however, has taught us, as Hussein points out, that collective self-organization is in itself an important political practice and the challenge therefore is not only how to translate collective demands into the law, but how to maintain collective action as a form of political practice.
How did the 18-day revolutionary act get equated, in some circles, with a constitutional crisis, and what does this “rhetoric of crisis” reveal about the relationship between legality, revolutions and the possibilities for democratic politics?
ASLI BALI: The rhetoric of constitutional crisis, constitutionalism and legality was cynically deployed (at least in some circles) as an argument for enabling the Mubarak regime to set the terms of a transition, thereby undercutting the very demand of the protesters – an end to the Mubarak regime – by enabling the regime itself to control and manage the process by which it would be replaced. This amounts to a ploy for regime maintenance under a different leadership (i.e., a managed succession plan in the name of legality) rather than regime change. To demand that regime transition be undertaken in accordance with the constitutional rules of the ancien regime is to assert the legitimacy of the very system protesters were seeking to remove. This logic is apparent in the cries of those who would have extended Mubarak’s term in office to enable him to issue decrees that would provide putative legitimacy to the process by which he would be removed. To suggest that continuation of Mubarak’s presence in his office was required in order to manage his removal is nonsensical without a claim that there is some legitimacy associated with a process dictated by rules written by the regime to consolidate power in the hands of Mubarak. But to concede such legitimacy is to deny the basic claims of the protesters that such consolidation of power (represented by the terms of the constitution, inter alia) is intrinsically illegitimate¸ precisely why the demand was that Mubarak had to go.
In none of the celebrated moments of transitional justice around the world in the 1990s was there a suggestion that erstwhile authoritarians were in a position to dictate the terms of the transition. Romanians did not apply Ceausescu’s rules to depose Ceausescu. Arguments from legality that proposed the current Egyptian constitution’s rules around executive control as the appropriate benchmark for determining what rule of law would require were naïve at best and disingenuous at worst. Human rights advocates look to international norms to assess the legality of transitional measures; democratic politics looks to the legitimacy of popular consent. The order created by Mubarak’s distortion of constitutionality could not satisfy either benchmark and should not be deemed an appropriate yardstick for managing a transition away from authoritarianism.
SAMERA ESMEIR: The rhetoric of constitutional crisis accomplished three tasks. First, this rhetoric equated the revolutionary movement with the generation of crises, hence depicting the older regime as orderly. Second, this rhetoric was also anti-revolutionary in that it argued for the necessity of a quick transition away from the “crisis”--that is, from the revolution. Third, the focus on crisis also prioritized the old constitution over the revolutionary movement and its modalities of political practice. Legal experts began to focus on the risk of a constitutional vacuum, forgetting that when there was no such vacuum, and even prior to 2007 when the more draconian articles were introduced, the constitution was incapable of safeguarding Egyptians. Crucially, then, this rhetoric intensified the power of the constitution by circularly justifying its existence on its own grounds; the constitution is necessary as a constitution. Meanwhile, the revolutionary movement was understood in limited instrumental terms—achieving certain objectives—as opposed to more constitutive terms—a reservoir of political practices guiding the future of politics in Egypt (and elsewhere). Ironically, then, even though there is less reference to the vocabulary of crisis during these post-Mubarak days, its logic persists: Constitution drafting is assumed to put an end to the state of emergency and to deliver Egypt to a new era. But what escapes critical analysis is that the work of the contemporary security state needs not rely on the state of emergency. Rather, the state of emergency could be abolished and new normal legalities could be introduced to strengthen the security state. Recently, we heard that the State Security Police would not abolished, but reformed. This reform, like constitution drafting, does not necessarily mean weakening security forces, but often times it also means perfecting their operations. To combat these operations, the constitution is not the most central tool. Necessary are the political practices that the revolutionary movement initiated in January 2011 as they undergo further politicization while struggling with the new rulers of Egypt.
5 comments for "Anti-Authoritarian Revolution and Law Reform in Egypt: A Jadaliyya E-Roundtable "
Thank you to all those responsible for this wonderful e-roundtable. It was quite informative, exemplifying the best of blogging on contemporary issues/topics in the socio-political blogosphere. I look forward to more such roundtables at Jadaliyya.
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your silence on deadly decades of US domination is complicity with the world's #1 destroyer, now starring soft power strategic non-violence, preparing the ground for more hard power, in the name of 'humanitarian aid', 'human rights', and 'freedom'.
Kudos to Jadaliyya for organizing this outstanding roundtable. Two points to be emphasized: the constitution is supposed to protect the citizenry, but who wil protect the constitution? Second, there is need to provide space for political and civil society groups as a channel for articulating and pursuing the protesters' demands. This will not be achieved so long as the security state is in existence, even in a modified form. Needless to say, Egypt's revolution is just starting.
Great discussion. I had a short op-ed published on this topic echoing many of the concerns in this discussion. It can be read at AOL news at
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best time to write a new constitution is YESTERDAY. Any delay gives the defunct regime, of Mubarak and Co (they are still there the Shafiq (of Egypt Air reputation) fake transition cabinet, to play a funny game of hide and grab with the revolution. Patching up the tattered document called “current Constitution “ is simply garbage and trickery. If the Army high command is serious they should 1. Abolish the emergency law (قانون الطوارئ ) NOW (not after things cool down. They can rule by fiat as they are doing now but with a supervisory “presidium” composed of 5 members selected initially by the youth revolutionaries and approved in an imperfect but reasonably representative social media referendum. Main point: this is no time for perfectly legal tight legislation. Let us do it and work on the long term at the same time.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
This week's Jamaica 50th feature is the town of Port Antonio. The capital of Portland, located on the north east coast of the island, is known for its lush vegetation.
It offers locals and tourists a variety of natural beauty of beaches, hidden coves and rivers. The waterfalls blend with the captivating background of the Blue Mountain range and is home to one of the most beautiful harbours in the Caribbean.
The town was originally settled by the Spaniards and got its name from an early Spanish governor who named the twin harbours Puerto de Anton and Puerto de Francisco after his two sons.
One of the most unique features of Port Antonio is its double harbour. The Titchfield Peninsula was the first place to be settled by the English, and is known as the oldest settlement of the town. This separates the East Harbour from the West Harbour and together with Navy Island The Peninsula protects the deeper west harbour from the prevailing easterly winds.
Its streets are filled with numerous legendery buildings including the neo-Romanesque Anglican stone church (1840), and the charming gingerbread DeMontevin Lodge (1881), now a popular guest house on the Titchfield Peninsula. Fort George (1729), which overlooks the harbours, has cannons pointing out to the sea.
Among the many historical areas in the parish is Fort George, which is situated in Titchfield.
In 1728, the task of building a fort was assigned which, after being built, became known as Fort George. The fort which was built to hold 22 guns and several George III cannons, has walls 10-feet thick. The fort was used during World War I. The barracks of the fort now houses classrooms for the Titchfield High School.
The Port Antonio Court House is a stone and brick building and was erected in 1895 on the direction of the Colonial Secretary. A plaque on the wall inside the building bears the message to the Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated November 16, 1918, after World War I.
Another church is The St George Anglican Church, which.
Another historical aspect of this busy town is The Folly Point Lighthouse. Built in 1888, its tower is constructed of masonry and is fire proof. It flashes a white light of two seconds duration followed by eight seconds of darkness. The light is visible for a distance of 13 miles.
Port Antonio's beauty and historical sights has definitely contributed to Jamaica's rich heritage and culture.
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Marco Benevento, Dave Driewitz, Scott Metzger & Joe Russo to Pay Tribute to Levon Helm at Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Bowl will pay tribute to Levon Helm on June 4 with an event dubbed “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: A Celebration of the Life & Music of Levon Helm.” An all-star lineup of musicians will take part in the celebration, including Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, Dave Driewitz & Scott Metzger (the members of Bustle In Your Hedgerow) along with special guests Craig Finn & Tad Kubler (The Hold Steady), members of Guster, members of The Felice Brothers, Nicole Atkins, Phosphorescent, Family Band, Diamond Doves, Kelli Scarr, Yellowbirds and Tom Hamilton (American Babies). Proceeds from the evening will go to benefit Helm’s Barn studio.
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The most prestigious of Cosplay shows is definitely the World Cosplay Summit, the international meeting of Cosplayers from all over the world! Organized by TV Aichi, the World Cosplay Summit French selections take place at Japan Expo every year!
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Meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Phnom Penh on Nov. 20, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda expressed a desire to accelerate talks to settle certain bilateral trade issues so that Japan can begin negotiations on entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade zone.
Mr. Noda has already decided to include Japanese participation in the TPP talks in the Democratic Party of Japan’s manifesto for the Dec. 16 Lower House election and to make it an election issue. The DPJ leadership says it will not recognize as candidates on the DPJ ticket those who oppose Japan’s participation in the TPP talks.
It is regrettable that the government has not provided sufficient information about the TPP even though people continue to raise questions and fears about it. Voters should not cast their ballots Dec. 16 without being fully informed, since the TPP is expected to drastically change the way Japan trades and does business. Thus it will have a great impact on the nation’s social and economic fabric. The TPP is not only about the elimination of tariffs. There is much talk about how to protect or grow Japan’s agricultural sector if Japan joins the TPP. Agriculture, though important, is only one of the issues related to the TPP.
At present, it is unclear whether Japan can join the TPP negotiations since the U.S. automotive industry has opposed the inclusion of Japan. The industry argues that Japanese automotive regulations have impeded the penetration of foreign cars into the Japanese market.
But Mr. Noda appears to think that following his re-election, Mr. Obama does not have to worry much about pressure from domestic industries, that the U.S.-led negotiations on the TPP will accelerate and that Japan should not lose this timely chance to join the negotiations. He also hopes that Japan’s participation in the TPP talks will strengthen its ties with the U.S. at a time when Japan’s ties with China have plummeted due to the dispute over Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Mr. Noda has not yet been able to clearly show what benefits the TPP would bring Japan. The U.S. is pushing negotiations on the TPP with the ultimate goal of making TPP participants accept business standards that are advantageous to American companies. The U.S. has a clear idea of the Japanese business sectors into which it wants to expand its interests.
Unfortunately, Japan does not have comparable goals, making for a rather weak negotiating position. In addition, there are concerns in Japan that the TPP’s Investor-State Dispute Settlement provision will supersede domestic political decisions and institutions in the areas of consumer safety, medical services, social welfare, environmental protection, etc. The government is obliged to explain how the ISDS operates as well as other TPP matters.
A move on the part of Japan to enter the TPP talks without fully addressing people’s fears and concerns would be a betrayal of their trust. The government should clearly explain what benefits and risks the TPP would bring Japan. | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/11/27/opinion/shed-more-light-on-the-tpp/ | 2013-05-18T10:54:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I was a fan of Jessica & her work from afar until she joined the Philadelphia Modern Quilt Guild. We quickly became friends and I was lucky enough to get to work with her last fabric line as it was being released for spring market. Once she revealed that she had completed a book I was SUPER excited for her & glad that I didn't have to keep it a secret for long!
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Julie:
If I came over to stay at your house what would I find recorded on your dvr?
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Oh goodness. A better question would be what you wouldn't find. I record a lot of TV. Some of my favs are Glee and Amazing Race (which I love to watch with the kids). And so far I'm digging Revenge and Pan Am. The only ones we keep and don't erase are Glee and So You Think You Can Dance (no Dancing with the Stars for me...).
Julie:
We really do like a bunch of the same shows. Glee, Amazing Race, SYTYCD are also on my DVR.... but so is Dancing with the Stars!
Julie:
You know I just moved... If you moved into a new house what is the first room you would want to decorate?
Jessica:
This is actually a real possibility. We were looking at houses this past weekend. We want to stay in the area but our needs are a little different. But I don't relish the thought of moving. It sucks. And I know I would be living out of boxes for a long time. I would say it would be the kids' rooms I would decorate first. I have enough "stuff" that the living room wouldn't really get decorated per se, but just made to feel like ours. But, I like to go all out on the kids' rooms because they're small enough to be a do-able project. I know what room it wouldn't be: my bedroom. We've lived in this house over 6 years and I still haven't gotten farther than paint on the walls and furniture.
Julie:
Wow I didn't know you were considering moving! I hope you find the perfect house.... but the kids rooms?? That wasn't the answer I was hoping for... as I don't have kids rooms to decorate. I secretly was hoping you'd tell me where to start with this house! PS- I do love it out here but I miss you Jess!! Please come visit & decorate my home. :-)
Julie:
I love your new book... Is it possible for you to pick a favorite project?
Jessica:
It's difficult for sure. I guess I would go with the cover quilt, called Pebble Road. It was really where it all began. It was the first project I made for the book. The idea actually came from the "pebble" quilting I wanted on the solid background. And then the stripe of vibrant circles was added to take it to another level. I'm really pleased with the color combination and thrilled that it's such an achievable King size quilt. A close second is the Twin String Quilts. It's an traditional pattern but I love the monochromatic look with the pops of contrast. I love how tons of different prints in the same color family creates such a deep texture. And I really like the idea of two coordinating but not matching quilts on side-by-side twin beds.
Julie:
I love the Twin String Quilts too. It is probably my favorite quilt pattern in the book. My favorite pattern overall is the Gradations Bag. In general I love making bags, but something about this bag just makes it feel special & I can't wait to make it!
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If I moved into a new house I would decorate the living room first--I spend the most time there and that is what people see when they come over.
I do the bedroom first as you have to sleep there and I would like it to be homey right away!
My bedroom. My solace. My place. And ironically the room that is most not-decorated in my current house.
I would redecorate the kitchen first because that is my happy place!
If I moved into a new house, I would decorate the living room first. Its where we live 90% of the time that we are home. Its the heart of our home!
I think I would decorate the bedroom first so I would have a calm place to rest after the stress of moving
My living room first because that's the room I'm in most of the time! Thanks for the chance to win this.
Oh, I love the string quilts!
I'm also moving! Soon, hopefully...when I move into my new home I would probably also concentrate my efforts on the livingroom first, followed by my bedroom.
Thanks for the chance at the giveaway. The books sounds fantastic!
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definitely the bedroom! i like to have my safe haven all set up first :)
I would have to decorate the living room first. We are in desperate need of new couches and I think moving to a new house would actually make us do it! Then I could make cute little throw pillows to put on it =D
Kitchen first for sure! There is just so much to organize in the kitchen; i'd feel like I accomplished so much getting that out of the way!
I'm embarrassed to say that we moved into a new house three years ago and still haven't properly decorated (we're holding off due to a huge renovation which will hopefully come next year). The first room that I plan on decorating after the reno is the living room because it's where we spend the most time.
I'd decorate the kitchen first. Of course, by "decorating" I pretty much mean just unpacking and organizing. I'm not much of a decorator!
I'd start with the living room. It's where I spend the most time, and visitors will definitely see it.
I'd do the living room first, then the kid's room. Bedroom last. The book looks absolutely stunning, will have to check when it is available on amazon.com and give a hint to santa...
I tend to decorate the kitchen first... makes me feel more at home to see familiar prints on the walls.
I think I need this book! are the awesome red pillows on the cover in the book too? love those!
the first room I would decorate is my kitchen because I spend alot of time in there and it is often the hub of activity for our family.
My bedroom cause I spend time in there at night reading, surfing the new, texting, watching movies (don't own a TV) so I want it to be a room I want to go to.
I am now converted to living room. I want a warm color Quilted
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Well we moved in six years ago and I am still awaiting the redecorating! Many other things have to take priority! But in my house I would LOVE it to be the kitchen!!
It would be the living room. I think the place my family spends time together is the most important.
thanks for this opportunity. This book looks wonderful!!
I would have my kitchen done first! It's where we congregate most and is most important. Second, sewing room...
Hi Julie, when we moved here 8 years ago the first two rooms we did were the kitchen and our bedroom. The kitchen because I needed that to be clean and the bedroom because it was somewhere lovely to go to at the end of a busy day decorating the rest of the house....and no, even after 8 years we still haven't done every room and the kitchen and bedroom have been done again!!
I also would decorate first my living room and the kitchen. These are the rooms where we spend the most time as a family!Thanks for the give away!
Probably whateve box of decor I came to first!
I would have to say my living room.
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I moved into a new house last year, and though I am ashamed to say...my sewing room was the first one that felt "finished."
I'm a terrible decorator. I prefer having nothing on the walls...but the front entryway is my first place to make it look like it's home!
I would decorate the living room first as that is where everyone is always doing something, visiting, watching tv, reading a book, entertaining etc.
I would decorate my living room because that is where we spend most of our time.
I will hopefully be moving into a new house soon! And most important is my piano studio :)
I would decorate the living room because it is where most people see first.
The first room I would decorate is the family room - we spend most of our time there!
thank you for the chance to win!
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We are hoping to move into a new house at some point. I think I would like to decorate the kitchen/dining area first. But secretly, the sewing room, just not practical though.
In a new house I would decorate my bedroom first; my respite place.
We just moved into a new place a few months ago. The first room we did was the kitchen--instantly made it feel like our home!
my living room/sewing area has been the first to be decorated after my recent move.
I would have to go with the family room first..my family spends so much time there...and since I work from home I use my recliner and a laptop desk for my work area. Such a cool book, would love to win! Lisa in Texas
The bedroom; I like it to be peaceful and romantic.
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new house- i would want to do the living room first..i think its the most used space in any house and it would be fun to start from scratch and make it all cozy and pretty! raineoc@yahoo.com
I think my bedroom would have to be first! It's my quiet place.
It would probably be my kids rooms. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I'm not much of a decorator, but maybe when I get to build my dream house in a few years I would decorate my living room first probably.
My kid's room. So that they feel at home throughout the chaos of moving!
The first room I would redo is a tie between the office (my husband has to study all the time for school so that's important) or the living room. A home feels like home to me once the living room is complete.
Good luck decorating your new house! =)
My sewing room! I spend most of my time in there as I am a longarm quilter and have a business, so once that is in place, I feel the rest is just putting it all together, room by room!
I would decorate the kitchen first. I have to have an organized, clean kitchen even if the rest of the house is a disaster.
Great post! It would be my bedroom - it's the last thing you see at night and the first thing you see in the morning. I was in my house two days before I started painting the walls in my bedroom -it was awful!
Definitely the living room, the first room everyone sees when they walk in and where we spend the most time!
The main living space (and the guest bath) would be first for me...it's the room that welcomes everyone into the house. The boys' rooms would be next since we would want them to feel as comfortable as possible in their new space. I figure I can always just shut my bedroom door ;) Good luck decorating your new home! Smiles~Beth P.S. it's great to have you back!!
The kid's room - sorry! ;) We moved 2.5 years ago and his is still the only room that's decorated. I don't even have frames for half the pictures I want to put up in the living room.
It would have to be my bedroom and this time I would decorate in the colors I like. Sick to death of all white, yuck! (It was hard not to choose my sewing studio). LOL
I would definitely decorate the living room first. It is the room the family and friends spend most of the time in and I would need to have it just right. Speaking of which, it is the only room in my current house that is decorated to my liking. :)
Probably my bedroom. But I got married and moved into my husband's house over 2 years ago, and it is still not done. So I guess it would be the first to be decorated when I move :) Thanks.
I think the first room would be the master bedroom. So there's someplace relaxing to run and hide from all the moving boxes!
Definitely the first room I would want set up is my quilting room. I think the first room I would decorate is the dining room. I have lived in my house for 5 years and the dining room is horrible. All the other rooms desperately needed to be done first, so it got left to the end. I think we are going to do it this fall.
I'd love to win a copy. We move often and I usually decorate my daughters' room first. We have lots of fun art from friends and family for them so it is always the funnest and most whimsical room. Plus it helps them transition faster to the new environment.
The first room to set up must be the one you spend the most time in - different for everyone. I would create my leisure space first, while chomping at the bit to establish my sewing room. DH must be established before I can run off and play in my room - makes us both happy. Love these blog reviews and thank you for the opportunity to win. Judy C
I'd start in the room you spend the most time in. It's your home, start with the room that speaks to you the most. Whether that's the kitchen/living room/bedroom or sewing room. ;) Make that room comfortable and work from there.
I always decorate my computer room first. Yes I know it sounds dorky but I live in front of my computer. Thanks for the great fun giveaway. I am LOVING those scrappy string twin quilts!
I would decorate the bedroom first!
I think the kitchen needs to be organized first, as I spend a lot of time in it. It takes a bit of work to get it organized, too, so when it is done, the rest seems a piece of cake...!!
I would decorate the family room first. In most modern homes that and the kitchen are where people spend the most time! And since they are often one big open space you get double bang for your buck....and time and energy!
First off, Julie, I just want to say I am soooo excited to have you back..I have missed your blogging. I too have just moved so I completely understand the transitional period. I had no internet for 6 weeks! OUCH!
The first room I decorated..my sewing room! I am happy!
Have fun in your new adventure. Your home from what you have shown looks absolutely beautiful!
We are about to move, and I have big plans for my sewing room. I've never had the privilege of having my own space just for sewing, where I can close the door and keep the kids from piling junk on my sewing table :) so it's going to be the most complete decorating project. I also have paint for our bedroom, but no huge plans for that yet. (Ooh, and I love that bag!)
This book looks great! I am in the process of purchasing a home right now! It has been a long process, over a year, and may be a little bit longer. I am excited to decorate the entire house and have colors picked out for certain rooms. I think I will start with the kitchen. I want a red cherries theme!
The first room I would decorate would be the bathroom. I like to think that I could figure out how to decorate a small space :)
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The bedroom. Last time we moved it was the first room to actually be all assembled and put together as we had to wait for our new sofa for quite a long time. We basically lived in it and it was good to have this comfort space be all ours whilst the rest was still in boxes/waiting to be be finished. :)
My office - I spend a ton of time in there, and that's where I display my valued collection of dragon statues!
I would do the kitchen/dining area first. Why? Because you have to eat, and you have to be organized to cook and as long as you are organizing a room, you may as well decorate it. And an eating area is essential since most people don't like to eat standing up holding their plates. :)
It would probably be a kitchen if it's a big one (I live in London, space is scarce) if not then it would have to be living room which would double as my sewing area too. It would be any space that we are likely to spend most of the time.
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My first room to decorate is the kitchen/great room; that is where all my quests congregate and enjoy each other's company and food.
Living room/den - where ever the most people congregate
If I moved into a new house, the first room I would decorate would be the master bedroom. A well decorated and peaceful room would inspire peace and harmony throughout the rest of the home.
My living/family room would be the first room I decorated. Book looks great, thanks for a chance to win a copy.
I would probably go with the living room first! I say "probably" but I really mean "definitely" because I move pretty often and this is usually how I start off! I like to get the public areas of my home in order first so that people can come over and have something to sit on other than boxes :)
The kitchen is the first room unpacked. The quilt room is the first room decorated! Need my place to get away from all the mess.
It would definitely be the living room. We still have a 1980s plaid couch! Pillows are not enough to save this room.
The kitchen would be first for me. That seems to be the room where people gather. Plus if you can make a nice meal in a nice atmosphere it can improve your whole day.
Well, I decorated my downstairs family room first, however if we had furniture for upstairs at the time we moved in, I would have probably started decorating there first.
The kitchen, for sure! If my kitchen is a mess, I'm not going in there. And yes, I'd love to win the book, beautiful projects!
It would have to be my bedroom...it is the sadest thing ever...no quilt either...can you believe it!!! So pathetic!! Thanks for sharing.
I would decorate the master bedroom first because it is the room I have the clearest vision for - other rooms of the house are in flux and I am still nailing down exactly how i want them to look. ~ Karen H
I would decorate my bedroom first! It's the first thing you see in the morning when you wake up, so why not start your day out in a place that you love?
Thanks for the chance to win!
Tracy
my bedroom - i always feel better when my bedroom is in order
The living room -- I'm not one much for keeping up appearances, but its nice to have a place for guests to feel comfortable. That said, I should probably finish decorating my living room. We moved in 2 1/2 years ago!
I would decorate the living room first, that is where you have guests! You can always close the other doors! LOL
I would start with my family room, it's where we spend the most time :)
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Oh, I must get a copy of this book! I love the pics you've shared. I would decorate the family room first because it's where we spend most of our time. Thanks for the giveaway! Please, please, please pick me! :)
We moved into our home 6 months ago and the first room to get done was the bedroom.
It always is.
I NEED a calm place to escape all the chaos, stubbed toes and boxes that overwhelm me!
The first room I would decorate would be my daughter's room. nlundeen at catt dot com
I would do the bedroom first, that way after a day of unpacking you have a place to escape to that is organized and feels like home.
In years past I have always decorated my children's rooms first, but now that they are grown and gone I would decorate my kitchen first. The kitchen is the heart of my home!
i always do the master bedroom first, so that at the end of the day, i can relax in a calm, beautiful environment! a peaceful and happy mama makes a peaceful and happy family!
Now, I would do the kitchen first...since I spend a great deal of time there! When my children were younger, it would have been the family room!
I would decorate my bedroom. We have lived in our house for a long time and our room still look horrible! I don't do much there except sleep and get dressed, but still the color is life-sucking beige. Did I mention that it was horrible? I want to just take everything out, toss most of it, repaint, get new fresh furniture, new blinds or shades or something and have it look gorgeous and restful. I need help!
I would do the family room, as that's where we spend most of our time. I would make sure to have a comfy spot for reading and/or watching tv. Best of luck to you!
I would get the craft/sewing area all set up, then decorate the living room!
I'd have to organize the kitchen first, but I think I'd decorate the bedroom first because it could be done faster and there'd be a relaxing place you could enjoy while you tackled the rest
I would decorate the kitchen first as it is one of the rooms that I spend the most time (and for practicality reasons)...but a second choice would probably be my living room as I spend time crafting (sewing, card making etc) and watching TV there. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would decorate the family room first as that is where our family spends the majority of the time. I would want my bedroom also finished and then my quilt room!
The craft room! or creative space s the first thing I'd get going on because then I feel like I have a creative haven amidst the chaos.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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I'd start with the kitchen - the most important room in any home!
I love baking so I'd decorate the kitchen first. A house isn't a home until it has cake batter splatted on the kitchen wall! That's my idea of decorating. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
I would decorate my kitchen first. I spend a lot if time there and feel it's the heart of my home.
I'd pick the room that needed the least work and get that done first.
I would want to decorate my bedroom first - sanctuary.
I moved not too long ago and the first room I decorated was the living room. It's the first thing that is seen when people come in, and it's nice to have it look like a welcoming home. (Even if the rest of the house is a disaster)
Jessica's book looks delectable. The first room that I like to decorate when I move is the dining room because this is where I like to hang out the most. Drinking coffee and chatting or reading the newspaper.
Decorate or make functional? ... probably the living room so I could get out my books. Functional order has always been bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, livingroom, office :)
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If I moved into a new house, the first room I would decorate would be the room my family and guests would use the most, the great room or the family room.
I'd want to decorate the living room.
The kitchen. With 4 kids, I spend most of my time there so it has to be functional for the family and pretty for me to enjoy being in it.
The baby's room. Eva always gets the first and best in our house! :)
i would go right to the room i'd make my craft room and 'do' this room up first! very important room!
I would decorate the bedroom first. It helps to wake up in a beautiful room every morning.
I think I would start with the living room, because that's where we end up most of the time. Good luck getting your home decorated and feeling like home!
After making sure the kitchen and bathroom are functional, I would jump in and decorate the living room. Concentrate on the part of the room that makes me feel good (for me it is an easy chair with a good view of the TV and a table / lamp beside it so can handsew). After that, I decorate for company.
Have fun - it doesn't have to be done all at once. Thanks for the giveaway.
I think I would decorate the main living area first. The place you'll be hanging out in :). I LOVE te quilt on the cover of this book!!
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I think my living/family room would be first! That's probably where we spend the most awake hours and I need it to put me in a relaxed & happy mood. And I DVR DWTS, too!
I'd decorate the living room first since then guests would think I'd done the whole house. :D
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would put the kitchen together first but hen decorate the family room. Thanks for the giveaway.
i would want to decorate my living room first. then there would be a nice room to invite people over to! they don't need to be in the other rooms.
Definitely the living room because that is where guests hang out most!
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Well, that is hard to answer, the living room would make sense since it's usually where I do most of my living but since my quilting studio is currently half my house I'm going to have to say my studio just for the sanity of it!
we just moved last summer, so i very clearly remember asking myself this question. because i have three kids (5, 3, and 2 months at the time), i wanted a functional kitchen. so i unpacked that first. but once i unpacked, i wanted my family room to look presentable. so that's the first room i'd decorate and fully furnish. of course, i give that advice and yet 15 months after moving in, our family room still needs some personality! thanks for the chance to win this awesome book.
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Living room first!
When I moved out of my ex's place into my own with barely anything, that was the space that frustrated me the most, due to barely having a stick of furniture to go in it, or anything else to personalize the space.
While the kitchen is certainly often the heart of every home, the living room is often the center. And it's nice to have a place that you can come together with others, and sit and talk or watch some TV and such.
wow that is a beautiful bag and fun apron! We just moved into our dream home we built (even designed with an architect) a year ago and the first room was our living/dining room to decorate and that's what it would be in the next house too. it's where we spend the majority of our time. thanks for the chance to win!
If I were to move I would decorate my room first because I would need a place to retreat to that was completely done- and most bedrooms are a reasonable size to do quickly. I'd love a copy of this book.
I would want to decorate my living room first because we spend alot of time there in the evenings and it would be the largest space in the house. tkmattson@hotmail.com
The bedroom! Having a peaceful oasis when moving into a new home is so important.
From what I've seen of this book so far, I want to make every project!
After living in our home for two years now I still have not decorated our home. I just can not casue I want to tear out the walls and replace them and alot of other things in this house too. But the rooms we set up first were the kids rooms, then our room and finally the kitchen. Living room still looks like a frat house. :(
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I moved into my house 19 years ago. It had the original 1940 bathroom - peach/cranberry tile everywhere. Tub was oh, so, pitted and ugly. I remodeled all the other rooms and finally...three years ago, gutted the bathroom. Love it. I'm sorry I didn't do it first.
Patty C. from Cincinnati
Living room so I could have people over. Plus, I do almost everything there so if I don't get it organized, there no hope for the rest!
Thanks for the chance...
I'd probably decorate the living room first, since we spend so much time there!
I am living this now. A month in house with no furniture. Only 12 more days and then boxes will be everywhere. I can't wait to get family room ready for us to relax and enjoy! Thank goodness for my little sewing machine to help with sanity. My sewing room would be next!
Jan
The bedroom. (Of course curtains go on all the windows immediately, no matter what room!)
the kitchen. that room is used most in my house. books looks amazing, thanks for a ll the sneak peeks!
The 1st space would have to be the living room -- I'm also not one much for keeping up appearances, but its nice to have a place for everyone to feel comfortable when they walk into my space. :D
I'm with Jessica on this one: the kid's room!
My bedroom--I need to make my nest comfy! A new quilt works wonders...
I've moved 5 times in 12 years (finally in a house I want to stay in!), and the first room I decorate is always my home office. I'm self-employed and that's where I spend the most time. Having a pleasant workspace is so important!
I think it would be the living space, either family room or living room, depending on the layout. Sewing room would be a close second. Really like this book and would love to win!
We have been in our new apartment in So.Cal. for about 6 weeks and I want to update the living area, tiny though it may be. We are lucky in that there was a red accent wall already here, since we can't paint ourselves.
If I was you, the room I would decorate first is the room where you spend the most time. I'm guessing that is your sewing room.
Definitely the living room - that is where we spend the most time. I'm kind of hypocritical in saying that, though, because we moved back in April and our living room is not NEARLY where I want it to be. But I think it's good to live in a place for a bit before making more purchases so you don't regret them later and can't return them. Thanks for the chance to win!
Hmmm. I hate moving because I have too much crap. First, I would try to get rid of all that stuff I don't need. THen I would probably go after the family room/living room, which is where I relax and talk to people. I would put several quilts in it, none of which are considered crap.
we moved into our home this year last year and we decorated our bedrooms first. And i think i'd do that again.
My bedroom! Then the kitchen. Then the sewing room if I had one :)
I've been moving a lot over the past couple of years and we generally set up the living first - couch, end tables, a chair or two and the television. Tada!
Kitchen! It is where I spend most of my time in my house :)
I would decorate the tv/living room first. That's usually where I spend the most time, either sewing, watching movies, or playing board games. I collect artwork from every place I travel to, so I have lots to play around with :)
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It would depend on what needed it most - in our current house we had to do our room first as it was wallpaper that had been painted an awful pale pink with a frieze of pink roses - I couldn't sleep in it! But if it were just choosing for the sheer pleasure of it then the living room would be first, we spend a lot of time there.
I would probably want to decorate one of the public areas first-living room or kitchen.
I would decorate the livingroom first, but unpack the kitchen first because the kitchen is the most important room to me. Then my sewing room.
My kids room, they are the most fun :)
thanks,
annabelle
My bedroom, it definately needs updating!
Ahhh... well for me it would be the kitchen/dining room... we spend alot of time there (I'm not a big fan of TV)... I do my sewing there, cook, hang out.... The projects in the book are beautiful... thanks for sharing.
the kitchen!
thanks for the fun interview and giveaway!
The family room - it's where we are all the time!
I think I'd have to decorate the living room first as it's the room everyone sees, that you spend most time in and that you can change to make it feel YOUR home.
Wonderful giveaway, thank you!
We moved into our new home 2 months ago after almost 30 years in our 'old' house. The first room I decorated was our bedroom. The furniture in that room is a 'given' - bed, chests of drawers and we now have a walk in closet. So, the bed got a new duvet cover, bought new pillows, and we bought new nightstands and the rest I figured out from what we already owned eg: pictures for the walls. I kept it really simple but I did totally organized the walk in closet and told my dh that he can no longer store shotguns and rifles under our bed!
for me, the sleeping room is most important since I don't spend a lot of my time at home... I basically work, get back home to take a shower and get some sleep and then I'm off to work again... so: the bedroom.
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That pebbling on the cover quilt makes my heart race. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to do some pebbling but it always looks like a 2 year old did it! The bag is amazing too. I like that it is quite wide but not too deep. Anyway, the question. I would decorate the living room first as it is the most used room in my house, especially if the TV is in it! Thanks for the opportunity to win this beautiful book.
Living room ASAP, so that the house looks presentable. I love, love LOVE the quilts!! Thanks for the giveaway!
We moved 4 years ago after living in the same home for 33 years. I was traumatized by the building experience so it took me awhile to decorate my first room which was the living room that also adjoins the dining room and the kitchen. My daughter recently quilted me a beautiful quilt for the couch and it brought the entire room together.
The guest bathroom. I always love a sparkly clean and well decorated bathroom. And that means changing the theme to go with the seasons.
For me it would be the living room, so I can close the doors and forget the boxes and mess in the rest of the house!
When the hubs and I bought our first home 2 years ago, the first room we decorated was the living room. It's the heart of the house. We decided to do all the family rooms first before starting on bedrooms and bathrooms. In 2 years, we have completed the living room, kitchen, dining, and just finished the guest room. Now we're too tired of decorating to fool with the rest. :) My sewing room was a big one for me. It has yet to be painted, but I have shelving, thread racks, and my design wall up, so there isn't much "builder's flat beige" showing through, so I can live with it.
I'd do all the bathrooms first - I'm not a decorator, so I'd start small, get a finish & have a sense of accomplishement!
Bathroom, hands down. why? It's a smal space, so little changes, and projects can have big impacts. But mostly, because that's where I start and endy my day - If it's a place I enjoy to look at, I feel like the day starts and ends on a better foot. Good luck with all of the unpacking
I love sleep so the first room I'd decorate would be the bedroom. P.S. That gradation's bag is super cute!
When I move into a new house, the first thing is decorate and put in order the room I will use most, which is usually the living room and entrance way. I want it nice when people start to visit!
The kitchen would be first. All heck can be breaking loose around the house, but as long as I can enjoy a cup of coffee in the kitchen all is well in my world.
I would decorate the family room since we spend most of our time there. Actually, I hate decorating, so hopefully, my DDL would do.
What a beautiful book! I'd love to win it =)
I'll be moving in a few days and the first room I'll decorate will be the living room. So the largest room will already be done and the smaller rooms are done more quickly.
I would decorate my living room first so we can rest and feel comfortable during the settling in period. Kitchen has always been "my spot" in the house, though. I would give myself more time to decorate my kitchen as I already have many plans for my "dream kitchen" :)
Thanks for the chance to win this awesome book! :)
Would love to decorate a room with a Longarm in it that I don't own yet :)...thanks for the chance!
I'd say the family room. I have so many fun collections and quilts to show off that I rotate the look every season. How fun to have a new room and an excuse to buy more collections and make more quilts.
I would definitely decorate the living room first - its where everyone hangs out together and the room that company sits in.
Thanks for the chance to win - it looks like a lovely book!
I unpack and decorate everything within a week and a half of moving, kitchen always is first to be "put away" and decorating would have to be the living room first.
Congrats to Jessica!
I would decorate my bedroom first -- I left that to last in my current place and it still is not complete!
I would decorate the Living Room first, as it is a room we all share, and spend a lot of time in, also if someone were to come over, they would be seeing this room and I wouldn't want it to look poorly.
The front room, so I at least have one room for guests to come into that's finished.
The bedroom so I would have sanctuary from the mess. Plus, it's like cleaning, I always start in the places that no one sees, so it forces me to finish where company might see. Glad to see you back Julie.
I would decorate my living room first. Since we would be spendin the most time in there.
Hard to say because I have to live in the house before I get a feel for how it would be decorated. I guess it would be the family room. It's the most used room in the house so I would get a feel for how i want to decorate it fast. Master bedroom is always last!
Thank you!
My first room would have to be my bedroom followed closely by the kitchen since these are the most rooms are both a necessity. I am so glad you are back on and enjoy your new home. And would love to have this book. Thanks.
Well, I moved recently (in with my fiancee), and the room I first decorated was, of course, "my room"! We took everything out of the guest room, and I repainted everything, removed the sliding closet doors, and set it up as guest room/sewing studio/wonderful escape place! It's still in need of a few things (aka picture hanging), and I'm about to completely redo how I store my fabric, but it's great to have the place where you want to relax in great shape! Thanks for the chance to win this book - I'm a huge fan of both of your design aesthetics! Dance Party and Kingdom = awesome!
My bedroom would be the first place to be done.
Happy days.
Bev,xoxo
Ohhhh, if it were only me it would be my sewing studio, but with a fantastic husband I would do the living room first. It's where we spend so much time together,(which is, actually, desperate for help! lol).
I LOVE the Pebble Road quilt and that great bag!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this great book!
It is the living room, then the bedrooms. We recently moved and that's how it went.
I think we would do the kids bedroom first, then kitchen ... Thanks for the giveaway.
The main bathroom!
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I would decorate the kitchen first. It is a gathering place in our home - the first room we enter when we come home, the last room we leave when we go out, and the room where so many conversations take place over the preparation and eating of meals, dishes, opening mail, recycling, doing homework, and so on. In fact, I've painted my kitchen 3 times in the 7.5 years I've lived in my house. It is important for my kitchen to be homey and comfortable. Good luck decorating! We want to see photos, you know!
Probably my bedroom. This house was built in the 80s and it still has the builder grade paint in the master bedroom. I'd love to have a restful retreat.
Living room. :)
Our new house will have a playroom and i think that would be so much fun to decorate!
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The gym is an awesome place to meet someone. You already know the following: you have similar schedules since you’re at the gym at the same time; you both are committed to health and fitness; you have seen each other sweaty and in spandex sans makeup or hairdo; you most likely live in the same general vicinity. So that means you should buy good workout clothes rather than the torn shirt from the 5K you ran in high school or the threadbare sports bra which isn’t really supporting the girls anyway. It means you should make eye contact with people and smile rather than stare into space with a grimace on your face. It means getting your smoothie or protein shake at the gym rather than running home immediately afterwards. The gym is a great place to meet someone but so is any other place that you regularly attend. You just need to learn how to take advantage of every situation, such as the cafe where you work with your laptop — look up every once in a while and make eye contact; an airplane — keep the volume on your headphones low so you can join in a conversation; the supermarket — change out of your sweats and into jeans before walking the aisles. | http://www.jdate.com/blog/2012-11/a-jew-in-the-gym/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Week of Thursday, May 10, 2007
John Allen
John Thomas Allen, 68, Lawrence, died May 6, 2007, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born Jan. 15, 1939, near Winchester, the son of William A. and Rachel L. Edmonds Allen.
He moved to Lawrence from Oskaloosa in 1983 to reside at Residential Alternatives and entered Cottowood Inc. for day services and community employment.
He attended school in Larned and worked on several dairy farms with his father. He also worked at the Jefferson County Geriatric Center in Winchester.
Survivors include three brothers, Marlin W. Allen, LaCygne, Harold “Ray” Allen, Piper, and Russell E. Allen, Osceola, Mo. He was preceded in death by a sister, Minnie M. Allen McAfee.
A Celebration of Life memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, at Lawrence Funeral Chapel, 3821 W. 6th Street, Lawrence, where a visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Tuesday prior to service. Memorials can be made to Residential Alternatives Activity Fund, P.O. Box 3828, Lawrence, 66047.
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This was a really good, quick weeknight dinner. It’s from Gourmet magazine and I really just tweaked it a little by adding some lemon zest. We had this with some herbed polenta and uh, I think some broccoli. It was a week or so ago. It’s kind of a blur.
I think the thing I liked best about it was the stuffing kind of vibe. But it was on the outside. It was topping! Crispy topping rocks.
Chicken Breasts with Horseradish-Scallion Crust
This will serve two
1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp chopped scallion
1/2 tsp minced garlic
1/2 cup fine fresh bread crumbs
Zest of 1/2 lemon
2 tbsp drained bottled horseradish
1/2 tsp chopped fresh tarragon or a pinch dried, crumbled
salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a small bowl whisk together mustard and mayonnaise until combined well. Now, I found it easy to make my own bread crumbs in the food processor and when I did, I just tossed in the lemon zest, tarragon, green onion and horseradish and pulsed it all together.
Pat chicken dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 10-inch non-stick skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and brown chicken, about 2-3 minutes on each side.
Transfer chicken to a shallow baking dish and pour off all but about 2 teaspoons oil from skillet. Add the garlic and cook for about 30 seconds. Remove skillet from heat and add the breadcrumb mixture.
Remove skillet from heat and stir in bread crumbs, horseradish, tarragon, and salt and pepper to taste. Spread mayonnaise mixture on skin side of each chicken breast and top evenly with bread crumb mixture. Now, this is funny — I made the mayo/mustard mixture and put it in the fridge while I made the breadcrumbs and browned the chicken. Then, I totally forgot about it.
::slaps self on forehead::
I just kind of pushed the horseradish moistened breadcrumbs into the chicken and it seemed to work fine. So, you could probably skip the mayonnaise and mustard — your call.
Bake chicken in middle of oven 8-10 minutes, or until cooked through, and then let stand 5 minutes. If you want extra browning, give the top of the chicken a quick spray with olive oil before putting it in the oven.
Delicious! Okay, seriously, next week there will be talk of shoes.
Wow, what a delicious idea! I have some fresh horseradish lying around, and some chicken breasts in the freezer – thanks for the recipe. I will be trying this sometime this week.
LadyC: I hope you like it! I thought it was a nice, quick kind of 1?
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Beautiful card. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful technique … I always wondered how those flowers were made. Another awesome video!!
I enjoyed this video so much and I learned a ton. I like the way you inked those flowers an idea that i would like to borrow. Looking forward to week six. Have a great weekend too.
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Lovely color and designs. Thanks so much for sharing.
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I love your ideas!!!!! So glad I found your blog! The flowers are absolutely gorgeous! I need more ranger products..LOL
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Where do you find the “shiney”/slick paper that you use?
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great ideas, i never thot to use alcohol inks on flowers and buttons. can’t wait to try it!
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Ingredients:
4 oz margarine
1 cup caster sugar
2 cups self raising flour
2 eggs
1 tablespoon milk
Method:
Mix all the ingredients together. Place in a 7" lined tin and bake at 180 degrees (lower for fan assisted ovens) for just under an hour. I mix by hand, if you use an electric mixer it will probably rise a bit better.
Delicious when still warm. The best bit is the crust!
You can make the cake more fun by dividing the mixture into several parts before putting into the tin. Mix a few drops of food colouring into each part, then layer the coloured mixtures into the tin. Rainbow cake! Or you can make the mixture in two halves, and in one half replace some of the flour with cocoa powder. Layer the two mixtures together in the tin to make marble cake.
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I believe there is actually a Facebook group forIrish JETs, but only really one that is official, I think it's the one with the small 's' in 'JETs' .
Also, I remember in the application back there was a sheet which had a list of Japanese courses that you can take. I might type up a few on here if don't have it.
Also, all alternates please check your email! There are MORE things to come from the embassy! :/
It was also, quite possibly, down to me *gleeful giggle* I brought in my reply form/passport photocopy this morning as I have no patience when it comes to JET (too excited), I think I was the first person to give it in, as 20 minutes later the email was sent out to say that there was meant to be another form in our post, but it's being sent out to us today.
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Here's an unrelated picture of Teubert punching somebody two years ago.
Apparently, Colten Teubert is acting badly:
[A] couple folks have e-mailed me for my take on "Teubertgate". [F]or those of you who don’t know what that is, the Pats’ Colten Teubert chased Brandon’s Mark Stone around the ice with a minute left in Brandon’s 10-2 win over the Pats on Friday, until Stone dropped the gloves. Teubert KO’d Stone in the fight and Stone ended up in the hospital overnight with a concussion. Needless to say, some members of the Wheat Kings were not happy with Teubert and let him know on his way off the ice, as well as (allegedly) outside the Pats dressing room. (via Tuesday musings | OHL Hockey News)
Now, there's really just no way this is the whole story. Unless Teubert has more than one screw loose. Hopefully, there was an inciting incident that required Colten's "attention." Otherwise, it's not really what you would call good leadership. I went to the score sheet, and noticed that there were no fewer than twenty major or misconduct penalties in the game, only one of which (the fighting major) was Teubert's; so whatever happened, Teubert is not the only actor. A Wheat-Kings blog has some more details, none of which make Teubert look any better:
Teubert [...] followed the winger around the ice despite his team being on a 5-on-3 penalty-kill and was going to be assessed slashing and elbowing penalties before the fight happened. [...] Somehow, Teubert maanged to escape an instigator penalty on the play and what would have been an automatic game misconduct. The incident so irked the Wheat Kings that Brandon co-captain Brayden Schenn [...] came across the ice while Teubert was being escorted to the Regina dressing room to give the defenceman his opinion of what transpired. (via Luber's Lounge)
Apparently, this is all on the video, which unfortunately has been pulled from both youtube and hockeyfights.com by the Wheat Kings. I would love to know the whole story though. Anybody see this clip before it was pulled?
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The Roman Church does not claim any jurisdiction over persons who have not been baptized; therefore the relations of the popes, as the heads of the Church, to the Jews have been limited to rules regarding the political, commercial, and social conditions under which Jews might reside in Christian states. As sovereigns of the Papal States the popes further had the right to legislate on the status of their Jewish subjects. Finally, voluntary action was occasionally taken by the popes on behalf of the Jews who invoked their aid in times of persecution, seeking their mediation as the highest ecclesiastical authorities. The general principles governing the popes in their treatment of the Jews are practically identical with those laid down in the Justinian Code: (1) to separate them from social intercourse with Christians as far as possible; (2) to prevent them from exercising any authority over Christians, either in a public (as officials) or a private capacity (as masters or employers); (3) to arrange that the exercise of the Jewish religion should not assume the character of a public function. On the other hand, however, the popes have always condemned, theoretically at least, (1) acts of violence against the Jews, and (2) forcible baptism.
The history of the relations between the popes and the Jews begins with Gregory I. (590-604), who may be called the first pope, inasmuch as his authority was recognized by the whole Western Church. The fact that from the invasion of the Lombards (568) and the withdrawal of the Byzantine troops the Roman population was without a visible head of government made the Bishop of Rome, the highest ecclesiastical dignitary who happened to be at the same time a Roman noble, the natural protector of the Roman population, to which the Jews also belonged. Still, even before this time, Pope Gelasius is mentioned as having recommended a Jew, Telesinus, to one of his relatives as a very reliable man, and as having given a decision in the case of a Jew against a slave who claimed to have been a Christian and to have been circumcised by his master against his will (Mansi, "Concilia," viii. 131; Migne, "Patrologia Græco Latina," lix. 146; Vogelstein and Rieger, "Gesch. der Juden in Rom," i. 127-128). In the former instance the pope acted merely as a private citizen; in the latter he was most likely called upon as an ecclesiastical expert to give a decision in a local affair. The legend may also be quoted which makes of the apostle Peter an enthusiastic Jew who merely pretended zeal for Christianity in order to assist his persecuted coreligionists (Jellinck, "B. H." v. 60-62, vi. 9-10; Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 165-168; "Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1903).Gregory the Great.
Nevertheless, the history proper of the popes in their relation to the Jews begins, as said above, with Gregory I. He often protected the Jews against violence and unjust treatment on the part of officials, and condemned forced baptism, but he advised at the same time the winning of the Jews over to Christianity by offering material advantages. Very often he condemned the holding of Christian slaves by Jews (Grätz, "Gesch." v. 43; Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 132-135). A very obscure order is contained in a letter of Pope Nicholas I. to Bishop Arsenius of Orta, to whom he prohibits the use of Jewish garments. Leo VII. answered the Archbishop of Mayence, who asked whether it was right to force the Jews to accept baptism, that he might give them the alternative of accepting Christianity or of emigrating (Aronius, "Regesten"; comp. Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 139). Anacletus II. (antipope), whose claim to the papal throne was always contested, was of Jewish descent, and this fact was used by his opponents in their attacks upon him. Benedict VIII. had a number of Jews put to death on the ground of an alleged blasphemy against Jesus which was supposed to have been the cause of a destructive cyclone and earthquake (c. 1020; Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 213).
In the bitter fight between Gregory VII. and the German emperor Henry IV. the pope charged the emperor with favoritism to the Jews, and at a synod held at Rome in 1078 he renewed the canonical laws which prohibited giving Jews power over Christians; this necessarily meant that Jews might not be employed as tax-farmers or mint-masters. Calixtus II. (1119-24) issued a bull in which he strongly condemned forced baptism, acts of violence against the lives and the property of the Jews, and the desecration of their synagogues and cemeteries (c. 1120). In spite of the strict canonical prohibition against the employment of Jews in public capacities, some popes engaged their services as financiers and physicians. Thus Pope Alexander III. employed Jehiel, a descendant of Nathan ben Jehiel, as his secretary of treasury (Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 225).Innocent III.
The extreme in the hostile enactments of the popes against the Jews was reached under Innocent III. (1198-1216), who was the most powerful of the medieval popes, and who convened the Fourth Lateran Council (1215); this council renewed the old canonical prohibitions against trusting the Jews with public offices and introduced the law demanding that Jews should wear a distinctive sign on their garments (see Badge). The theological principle of the pope was that the Jews should, as though so many Cains, be held up as warning examples to Christians. Nevertheless he protected them against the fury of the French Crusaders (Grätz, l.c. vii. 5; Vogelstein and Rieger, l.c. i. 228-230). Gregory IX., who in various official documents insisted on the strict execution of the canonical laws against the Jews, was humane enough to issue the bull. "Etsi Judæorum" (1233; repeated in 1235), in which he demanded that the Jews in Christian countries should be treated with the same humanity as that with which Christians desire to be treated in heathen lands. His successor, Innocent IV., ordered the burning of the Talmud in Paris (1244); but Jewish history preserves a grateful memory of him on account of his bull declaring the Jews innocent of the charge of using Christian blood for ritual purposes (see Blood Accusation). This bull was evidently the result of the affair of Fulda (1238), concerning which Emperor Frederick II. also issued a warning. The defense of the Jews against the same charge was undertaken by Gregory X., in his bull "Sicut Judæis" (Oct. 7, 1272; Stern, "Urkundliche Beiträge," i. 5).
The relations of the popes to the Jews in the subsequent two centuries present a rather monotonous aspect. They issued occasional warnings against violence, threatened the princes who allowed the Jews to disregard the canonical laws concerning badges or concerning the employment of Christian servants, but conferred minor favors on certain Jews. As a typical instance, it may be noted that Boniface VIII., when the Jews did him homage, insulted them by returning behind his back the copy of the Torah presented to him, after making the oft-repeated remark about reverence for the Law but condemnation of its misrepresentation.Martin V.
The excitement of the Church during the Hussite movement rendered the Jews apprehensive, and through Emperor Sigismund, who was heavily indebted to them, they obtained from Pope Martin V. (1417-31; elected by the Council of Constance after the Great Schism) various bulls (1418 and 1422) in which their former privileges were confirmed and in which he exhorted the friars to use moderate language. In the last years of his pontificate, however, he repealed several of his ordinances, charging that they had been obtained under false pretenses (Stern, l.c. i. 21-43). Eugene IV. and Nicholas V. returned to the policy of moderation, especially in advising the friars against inciting mobs to acts of violence. Sixtus IV., while sanctioning the Spanish Inquisition, repeatedly endeavored (1482 and 1483) to check its fanatic zeal and prohibited the worship of the child Simon of Trent, whom the Jews of Trent were falsely accused of having murdered (1474). He also employed several Jews as his physicians.
Alexander VI. (Borgia), known in history as the most profligate of all the popes, was rather favorably inclined toward the Jews. It is especially noteworthy that he allowed the exiles from Spain to settle in his states, and that he fined the Jewish community of Rome for its objection to the settlement in its midst of these unfortunates. Occasionally, however, he ordered the imprisonment of Maranos; and on the whole it seems that the pope's leniency was prompted by his greed. Leo X. also, the humanist on the throne of St. Peter, was in general favorably inclined toward the Jews, whom he employed not only as physicians, but also as artists and in other positions at his court. The beginning of the Reformation influenced his action in the controversy between Reuchlin and Pfefferkorn, which he settled in such a way as not to give any encouragement to those who demanded reforms in the Church.
Clement VII. (1523-34) is known in Jewish history for the interest which he took in the case of the Messianicpretender David Reubeni, and for the protection which he granted to Solomon Molko, who, as an apostate, had forfeited his life to the Inquisition. He also issued an order to protect the Maranos in Portugal against the Inquisition (1533 and 1534).The Reformation.
The Reformation and the consequent strictness in enforcing the censorship of books reacted on the condition of the Jews in so far as converts from Judaism eagerly displayed their zeal for their new faith by denouncing rabbinical literature, and especially the Talmud, as hostile to Christianity. Consequently Pope Julius III. issued an edict which demanded the burning of the Talmud (1553) and prohibited the printing of it by Christians. In Rome a great many copies were publicly burned (Sept. 9, 1553). The worst was yet to come. Paul IV. (1555-59), in his bull "Cum nimis absurdum" (July 12, 1555), not only renewed all canonical restrictions against the Jews—as those prohibiting their practising medicine among Christians, employing Christian servants, and the like—but he also restricted them in their commercial activity, forbade them to have more than one synagogue in any city, enforced the wearing of the yellow hat, refused to permit a Jew to be addressed as "signor," and finally decreed that they should live in a ghetto. The last measure was carried out in Rome with unrelenting cruelty.Pius V.
After a short period of respite under Paul IV.'s successor, Pius IV. (1559-66), who introduced some alleviations in his predecessor's legal enactments, Pius V. (1566-72) repealed all the concessions of his predecessor, and not only renewed the laws of Paul IV., but added some new restrictions, as the prohibition to serve Jews by kindling their fires on the Sabbath; he excluded them from a great number of commercial pursuits, and went so far in his display of hatred that he would not permit them to do homage, although that ceremony was rather a humiliation than a distinction (1566). Three years later (Feb. 26, 1569). (1572-85), who, while he showed an occasional leniency, introduced a large number of severe restrictions. Thus, the Jews were prohibited from driving through the streets of the city, and they were obliged to send every week at least 150 of their number to listen to the sermons of a conversionist preacher (1584). The terrible custom of keeping Jews in prison for a certain time each year, and of fattening them and forcing them, for the amusement of the mob, to race during the carnival, when mud was thrown at them, is mentioned (1574) as "an old custom" for the first time during Gregory's pontificate.
Sixtus V. (1585-90), again, was more favorable to the Jews. Aside from some measures of relief in individual instances, he allowed the printing of the Talmud after it had been subjected to censorship (1586). The policy of succeeding popes continued to vary. Clement VIII. (1592-1604) again issued an edict of expulsion (1593), which was subsequently repealed, and in the same year prohibited the printing of the Talmud. Under Clement X. (1670-76) a papal order suspended the Inquisition in Portugal (1674); but an attempt to interest the pope in the lot of the Jews of Vienna, who were expelled in 1670, failed. The worst feature of the numerous disabilities of the Jews under papal dominion was the closing of the gates of the Roman ghetto during the night. Severe penalties awaited a Jew leaving the ghetto after dark, or a Christian entering it.Pius VI.
Pius VI. (1775-1800) issued an edict which renewed all the restrictions enacted from the thirteenth century. The censorship of books was strictly enforced; Jews were not permitted any tombstones in their graveyards; they were forbidden to remodel or enlarge their synagogues; Jews might not have any intercourse with converts to Christianity; they were required to wear the yellow badge on their hats both within and without the ghetto; they were not permitted to have shops outside the ghetto, or engage Christian nurses for their infants; they might not drive through the city of Rome; and their attendance at conversionist sermons was enforced. When under Pius VI.'s successors the pressure of other matters caused the authorities to become negligent in the fulfilment of their duties, these rules were often reenforced with extreme rigor; such was the case under Leo XII. (1826).
Pius IX. (1846-78), during the first two years of his pontificate, was evidently inclined to adopt a liberal attitude, but after his return from exile he adopted with regard to the Jews the same policy as he pursued in general. He condemned as abominable laws all measures which gave political freedom to them, and in the case of the abduction of the child Mortara (1858), whom a servant-girl pretended to have baptized, as well as in the similar case of the boy Fortunato Coën (1864),; he refused to interfere in behalf of Captain Dreyfus or to issue a statement against the blood accusation. In an official document he denounced Jews, freemasons, and anarchists as the enemies of the Church.
Pius X. (elected 1903) is not sufficiently known to permit a judgment in regard to his attitude toward the Jews. He received Herzl and some other Jews in audience, but in his diocese of Mantua, before he became pope, he had prohibited the celebration of a solemn mass on the king's birthday because the city council which asked for it had attended a celebration in the synagogue.
- Berliner, Gesch. der Juden in Rom, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1893;
- Vogelstein and Rieger, Gesch. derJuden in Rom, Berlin, 1895;
- Stern. Urkundliche Beiträge über die Stellung der Päpste zu den Juden, Kiel, 1893-95;
- Pastor, Gesch. der Päpste;
- Mansi, Concilia, Bullarium Magnum.
The following is a partial account of the more important bulls issued by popes with reference to the Jews up to the middle of the eighteenth century:
- 1120. Calixtus II. issues bull beginning "Sicut Judæis non" and enumerating privileges of the Jews (Vogelstein and Rieger, "Gesch. der Juden in Rom," i. 219 [hereafter cited as V. R.]).
- 1145. Eugenius III., ordering Jews to remit interest on debts of Crusaders while absent (Baronius, "Annales").
- 1191. Clement III. confirms the bull "Sicut Judæis non" (Rios, "Hist." ii. 469 [hereafter cited as Rios]).
- 1199 (Sept. 15). Innocent III. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1207 (Jan.). Innocent III., ordering Jews of Spain to pay tithes on possessions obtained from Christians (Rios, i. 360).
- 1216 (Nov. 6). Honorius III. in favor of German Jews, confirming the "Sicut Judæis non" of Clement III. (V. R. i. 9).
- 1219. Honorius III., permitting the King of Castile to suspend the wearing of the badge (Aronius, "Regesten," i. 362).
- 1228 (Oct. 21). Gregory IX., remitting interest on Crusaders' debts to Jews and granting a "moratorium" for repayment (V. R. i. 233).
- 1233 (April 6). Gregory IX. issues the bull "Etsi Judæorum," demanding same treatment for Jews in Christian lands as Christians receive in heathen lands (V. R. i. 234).
- 1233. Gregory IX., in bull "Sufficere debuerat," forbids Christians to dispute on matters of faith with Jews ("Bullarium Romanum," iii. 479).
- 1234 (June 5). Gregory IX. to Thibaut of Navarre, enforcing the badge (Jacobs, "Sources," Nos. 1227, 1388).
- 1235. Gregory IX. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1239 (June 20). Gregory IX., confiscating all copies of Talmud (V. R. i. 237).
- 1240. Gregory IX., ordering all Jewish books in Castile to be seized on first Saturday in Lent while Jews were in synagogue (Rios, i. 363).
- 1244 (March 9). Bull "Impia gens" of Innocent IV., ordering Talmud to be burned (Zunz, "S. P." p. 30).
- 1246 (Oct. 21). Innocent IV. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1247 (May 28). Innocent IV. issues the "Divina justitia nequaquam," against blood accusation.
- 1247 (July 5). Innocent IV. issues the "Lacrymabilem Judæorum Alemaniæ," against blood accusation (Baronius, "Annales," 1247, No. 84; Stobbe, "Die Juden in Deutschland," p. 185; Aronius, "Regesten," No. 243).
- 1250 (April 15). Innocent IV., refusing permission to Jews of Cordova to build a new synagogue (Aronius, "Regesten," p. 369).
- 1253 (July 23). Innocent IV., expelling Jews from Vienne (Raynaldus. "Annales"; V. R. i. 239).
- 1253 (Sept. 25). Innocent IV. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1267 (July 26). Clement IV. issues the "Turbato corde" calling upon Inquisition to deal not only with renegades, but also with the Jews who seduce them from the faith ("Bullarium Romanum," iii. 786; V. R. i. 243).
- 1272. Gregory X. confirms the "Sicut Judæis non" (V. R. i. 245, with edition of a denial of blood accusation: Stern, "Urkundliche Beiträge über die Stellung der Päpste zu den Juden," p. 5).
- 1272 (July 7). Gregory X., against blood accusation (Scherer, "Rechtsverhältnisse der Juden," p. 431).
- 1274. Gregory X. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1278 (Aug. 4). Nicholas III. issues the "Vineam sorce," ordering conversion sermons to Jews ("Bullarium Romanum," iv. 45).
- 1286 (Nov. 30). Bull of Honorius IV. to Archbishop of York and of Canterbury, against Talmud (Raynaldus, "Annales"; Scherer, "Rechtsverhältnisse," p. 48).
- 1291 (Jan. 30). Nicholas IV. issues the "Orat mater ecclesia" to protect the Roman Jews from oppression (Theiner, "Codex Diplomaticus," i. 315; V. R. i. 252).
- 1299 (June 13). Boniface VIII. issues bull "Exhibita nobis," declaring Jews to be included among powerful persons who might be denounced to the Inquisition without the name of the accuser being revealed (V. R. i. 251).
- 1317. John XXII. orders Jews to wear badge on breast, and issues bull against ex-Jews (Zunz, "S. P." p. 37).
- 1320 (June 28). John XXII., ordering that converts shall retain their property ("Bullarium Romanum," III., ii. 181; Ersch and Gruber, "Encyc." section ii., part 27, p. 149; V. R. i. 305).
- 1320 (Sept. 4). John XXII. issues to French bishops bull against Talmud.
- 1337 (Aug. 29). Benedict XII. issues the bull "Ex zelo fidei," promising inquiry into host-tragedy of Pulka (Raynaldus, "Annales"; Scherer, "Rechtsverhältnisse," p. 368).
- 1345 (July 5). Clement VI., against forcible baptism.
- 1348 (July 4). Clement VI. confirms "Sicut Judäis non."
- 1348 (Sept. 26). Clement VI., ordering that Jews be not forced into baptism; that their Sabbaths, festivals, synagogues, and cemeteries be respected; that no new exactions be imposed (Aronius, "Regesten," ii. 200; V. R. i. 313; Raynaldus, "Annales," 1348. No. 33; Grätz, "Gesch." viii. 351).
- 1365 (July 7). Urban V. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1389 (July 2). Boniface IX. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1390 (July 17). John of Portugal orders bull of Boniface IX. of July 2, 1389, to be published in all Portuguese towns (Kayserling, "Gesch. der Juden in Portugal," p. 39).
- 1397 (April 6). Boniface IX. confirms by bull grant of Roman citizenship to the Jewish physician Manuele and his son Angelo (V. R. i. 317).
- 1402 (April 15). Boniface IX., granting special privileges to Roman Jews—reducing their taxes, ordering their Sabbath to be protected, placing them under the jurisdiction of the Curia, protecting them from oppression by officials; all Jews and Jewesses dwelling in the city to be regarded and treated as Roman citizens (V. R. i. 318-319).
- 1415 (May 11). Benedict XIII., "Etsi doctoribus gentium," against Talmud or any other Jewish book attacking Christianity (Rios, ii. 626-653; see years 1434 and 1442, below).
- 1417. Bull against Talmud (Jost. "Gesch. der Israeliten," vii. 60).
- 1418 (Jan. 31). Martin V., forbidding the forcible baptism of Jews or the disturbance of their synagogues (Raynaldus, "Annales"; V. R. i. 4).
- 1420 (Nov. 25). Martin V. issues to German Jews bull "Concessum Judaæis," confirming their privileges (V. R. i. 5). No Jew under twelve to be baptized without his own and his parents' consent (Scherer, "Rechtsverhältnisse," p. 414).
- 1420 (Dec. 23). Martin V. issues "Licet Judæorum omnium," in favor of Austrian Jews.
- 1421 (Feb. 23). Martin V., in favor of Jews and against anti-Jewish sermons; permits Jewish physicians to practise (V. R. i. 5).
- 1422 (Feb. 20). Martin V. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1423 (June 3). Martin V. issues bull "Sedes apostolica," renewing the law regarding badge (V. R. i. 8).
- 1426 (Feb. 14). Martin V. issues bull against Jews (Zunz, "S. P." p. 48).
- 1429 (Feb. 15). Martin V. issues the "Quamquam Judæi," which places Roman Jews under the general civic law, protects them from forcible baptism, and permits them to teach in the school (Rodocachi," Il Ghetto Romano," p. 147; V. R. i. 8).
- 1432 (Feb. 8). Eugenius IV. issues a bull of protection for Jews, renewing ordinances against forcible baptism and disturbance of synagogues and graveyards (V. R. i. 10).
- 1434 (Feb. 20). Eugenius IV., prohibiting anti-Jewish sermons V. R. i. 11).
- 1442. Bull of Benedict XIII. published at Toledo (Rios, iii. 44).
- 1442 (Aug. 8). Eugenius IV. issues a bull against Talmud (shortly after withdrawn; Zunz, "S. P." p. 49). The Jews were ordered to confine their reading of Scripture to the Pentateuch; handwork was forbidden to them; no Jews were permitted to be judges (Rieger, 11).
- 1447 (Nov. 2). Nicholas V. confirms "Sicut Judæis non."
- 1451 (Feb. 25). Bull of Nicholas V. prohibiting social intercourse with Jews and Saracens ("Vita Nicolai," v. 91; V. R. i. 496).
- 1451 (May 28). Bull of Nicholas V., similar to that of Aug. 8, 1442, to extend to Spain and Italy; the proceeds to be devoted to the Turkish war (V. R. i. 16).
- 1451 (Sept. 21). Nicholas V. issues the "Romanus pontifex," relieving the dukes of Austria from ecclesiastical censure for permitting Jews to dwell there (Scherer, "Rechtsverhältnisse," pp. 423-425).
- 1472 (Feb. 21). Sixtus IV., ordering taxation of Roman Jews at a tithe during the Turkish war, a twentieth otherwise (compounded for 1,000 gulden in 1488), and a carnival tax of 1,100 gulden (V. R. i. 126).
- 1481 (April 3). Sixtus IV., ordering all Christian princes to restore all fugitives to Inquisition of Spain (Rios, iii. 379; V. R. i. 21).
- 1481 (Oct. 17). Bull of Sixtus IV. appointing Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor-general of Avignon, Valencia, and Catalonia (Rios, iii. 256).
- 1500 (June 1). Alexander VI., demanding for three years for the Turkish war one-twentieth (see 1472) of Jewish property throughout the world (V. R. i. 28, 126).
- 1524 (April 7). Clement VII. issues bull in favor of Maranos (V. R. i. 59).
- 1531 (Dec. 17). Bull introducing Inquisition into Portugal at Evora, Coimbra, and Lisbon (Grätz, "Gesch." ii. 266).
- 1540. Paul III., granting Neo-Christians family property except that gained by usury, also municipal rights, but must not marry among themselves or be buried among Jews (V. R. i. 63).
- 1540 (May 12). Paul III. issues "Licet Judæi," against blood accusation.
- 1554 (Aug. 31). Julius III., in bull "Pastoris æterni vices," imposes tax of ten gold ducats on two out of the 115 synagogues in the Papal States (Rodocachi, "II Ghetto Romano," p. 228; V. R. i. 145).
- 1555 (March 23). Paul IV., claiming ten ducats for each synagogue destroyed under bull of July 12, 1555 (V. R. i. 155).
- 1555 (July 12). Paul IV. issues the "Cum nimis absurdum" for Jews of Rome, which renews most of the Church laws, including the order to wear the yellow hat and veil, not to hold any real property (to be sold within six months), not to trade except in second-hand clothing, not to count fragments of month in reckoning interest; to sell pledges only eighteen months after loan and to repay surplus, to keep business books in Italian in Latin script, to live only in specified quarters with only two gates, not to be called "Signor," to maintain only one synagogue (V. R. i. 152-153).
- 1555 (Aug. 8). Bull of Paul IV.: Jews may dispense with yellow hat on journeys; dwell outside ghettos when the latter are crowded; acquire property outside ghettos to extent of 1,500 gold ducats; Jews of Rome are released from unpaid taxes on payment of 1,500 scuti; Jews may have shops outside ghetto; rents in ghettos may not be raised (V. R. i. 161-162).
- 1567 (Jan. 19). Bull of Pius V., "Cum nos nuper," orders Jews to sell all property in Papal States (V. R. i. 164).
- 1569 (Feb. 26). Bull of Pius V., "Hebræorum gens," expels Jews from the Papal States, except Rome and Ancona, in punishment for their crimes and "magic" (V. R. i. 168).
- 1581 (March 30). Bull "Multos adhuc ex Christianis" renews Church law against Jewish physicians (V. R. i. 174).
- 1581 (June 1). Gregory XIII. issues the "Antiqua Judæorum improbitas," giving jurisdiction over Jews of Rome to Inquisition in cases of blasphemy, protection of heretics, possession of forbidden works, employment of Christian servants (V. R. i. 174).
- 1584 (Sept. 1). Bull "Sancta mater ecclesia" orders 150 Jews (100 Jews, 50 Jewesses) to attend weekly conversionist sermons (Zunz, "S. P." p. 339; Jost, "Gesch. der Israeliten," iii. 210; V. R. i. 173).
- 1586 (Oct. 22). Bull of Sixtus V., favorable to Jews (Grätz, "Gesch." ix. 482).
- 1587 (June 4). Sixtus V., granting Magino di Gabriel of Venice the monopoly of silk-manufacture in Papal States for sixty years, and ordering five mulberry-trees to be planted in every rubbio of land (V. R. i. 181).
- 1592 (Feb. 28). Bull of Clement VIII., "Cum sæpe accidere," forbidding Jews to deal in new commodities (V. R. i. 184).
- 1593 (March 8). Bull of Clement VIII., in favor of Turkish Jews (Grätz, "Gesch." ix. 486).
- 1604 (Aug. 23). Bull of Clement VIII., in favor of Portuguese Maranos (Grätz. "Gesch." ix. 500).
- 1610 (Aug. 7). Paul V., "Exponi nobis nuper fecistis," regulates dowries of Roman Jews (V. R. i. 196).
- 1658 (Nov. 15). Alexander VII., in bull "Ad ea per quæ," orders Roman Jews to pay rent even for unoccupied houses in ghetto, because Jews would not hire houses from which Jews had been evicted (V. R. i. 215).
- 1674 (Oct. 3). Clement X., suspending operations of Portuguese Inquisition against Maranos (Grätz, "Gesch." x. 276; V. R. i. 223).
- 1679 (May 27). Innocent XI. suspends grand inquisitor of Portugal on account of his treatment of Maranos (Grätz, "Gesch." x. 279).
- 1747 (Feb. 28). Bull "Postremo mense superioris anni" of Benedict XIV. confirms decision of Roman Curia of Oct. 22, 1597, that a Jewish child, once baptized, even against canonical law, must be brought up under Christian influences (V. R. i. 242-245; Jost, "Gesch." xi. 256 n.). | http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1128-alexander-vii-pope | 2013-05-18T10:21:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Translation of the Linkmenys chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
Translation of the Linkmen-360)
Written by Dov Levin
Translated by Shaul Yannai
A county town in the Utena district.
* In the Lithuanian part
Linkmenys is located in northeastern Lithuania, between the Ziezdrys and Uslai Lakes, about 32 km southeast of Utena, the district's city. Linkmenys is mentioned in historical records in the German language in 1373 as a fortress by the name of Castrum Lenghmene when the Livonian Order campaigned in the area. Later, the Great Prince of Lithuania had an estate there. Subsequently, the town by the name of Linkmenys, which had a tavern and a brewery, became part of the estate. A few artisans lived there as well. The villages in the surrounding areas were known for cultivating flax. During the period of Russian Rule (1795-1915), Linkmenys was the center of a county and belonged to the province of Vilnius. After WWI, at the beginning of the 1920's, the Lithuanians and the Poles had a number of battles in the area. From that time until 1939, the demilitarized zone between the Lithuanians and the Poles passed through the town. The Lithuanian side remained with a relatively small piece of land and population. It was forbidden to cross the cease-fire line due to the continuous tensions between Poland and Lithuania. The two sides of Linkmenys were reunited only after Poland was defeated at the beginning of WWII, and thereafter the town was included in the Svencionys district.
Apparently, the first Jews who settled in Linkmenys did so in the 19th century and came from estates in the surrounding areas. Many of them made their livelihood there by fishing and by trading timber. One of the local traders, Meir Gavande, became a prominent seller of timber to Danzig and Hamburg in Germany. The timber business brought livelihood to dozens of Jewish wagoners who were nicknamed Di Wozhakes. The latter worked a few months a year while they transported the timber in the dense forests and abroad. While they were disconnected from their families, they lived in semi-collective frameworks and managed to keep the mitzvot and pursue their Torah studies. The Jewish population in Linkmenys had blacksmiths, shoemakers, and a large number of grocers and peddlers. Many of them maintained auxiliary farms. Although the town was removed from Torah centers and most of the town's Jews worked hard to make a living, they did their best to maintain their religion. They were meticulous in attending the local Bet Midrash, which was built of wood. In addition to praying, they used to study Mishnayot, or at least to recite Psalms. One of the 3 blacksmiths, Rabbi Yitzkhak Nafkha, studied Kabala and was highly respected by the public. The blacksmith Hirshe Leib, in addition to being a blacksmith, served also as the community's Rabbi without charging a fee for that service. On the eve of Yom Kippur many members of the community would come to his door in order to be blessed by him. His son-in-low, Rabbi Akiva Itskovitz, a scholar and a meticulous follower of the mitzvot, was nominated by the authorities to serve as the county's Staroste (governor) and was highly respected by the entire population. His nickname was Dar Frumer Staroste. The local teachers were highly respected among the Jewish community, especially Rabbi Shimon Ze'ev. Rabbi Neta, the shoemaker, served as the local undertaker. In addition to the local Bet Midrah, there was also the Hasidic Minyan. Among the natives of Linkmenys who gained renown in the world was the Great Rabbi Efraim Zer, who settled in Vilnius, and Dr. Shemuel-Leib Zer, one of the leading teachers and scholars of literature and the Hebrew Bible at the Yeshiva University in New York.
From the end of the 19th century, Linkmenys had young Jewish people who read extensively secular literature. They were assisted by the Mefitsey Haskala Society, among others, which provided them with books from time to time.
At the end of WWI, the Linkmenys Jewish Community received extensive aid from the Jewish Organization of YeKoPo. During the latter part of the 1920's, the community received the following sums of money (in German marks): 6,000 for feeding children; 7,000 for heating; 19,100 for cultural activities; 4,000 for medical aid; 36,100 in total.
Due to the fact that the town was divided during the period between the two world wars, most of the Jews (about 200) remained on the Polish side of the town, and only about 80 on the Lithuanian side. The economic situation of the latter was better than their kin on the other side, but they all suffered terribly because they were disconnected from their families. Further, due to the fact that the cease-fire line passed through the Jewish cemetery, most of the Jews of Linkmenys were unable to pay homage to their forefathers by visiting their graves. After much lobbying by Jewish community workers from both sides of the town, the Polish and Lithuanian authorities acceded and permitted the Jews of Linkmenys to visit the cemetery twice a year: during the Fast of Gedalia and Tisha B'Av (The Ninth of Av). Those visits became the meeting grounds of hundreds and sometimes thousands of Jewish relatives and acquaintances from Poland and Lithuania. Those occasions, which were filled with joyful tears and excitement, brought together parents and children and relatives who had not seen one another for a long time, were also occasions for matchmaking and even business transactions. The visitors and their guests would come in groups, sit among the graves, and feast. Journalists from near and far came to report on those exceptional gatherings. The authorities of Poland and Lithuania used to charge a fairly large fee from those who attended that occasion. The Jews were not always permitted to cross the border in order to hold those meetings. Sometimes it was the Poles who imposed restrictions, at other times it was the Lithuanians. The interruptions by the authorities intensified during the 1930's.
The entire community of Linkmenys was reunited when the region of Vilnius, including Linkmenys, was transferred to Lithuania in October, 1939. In August, 1940, all of Lithuania, including Linkmenys, was annexed by the Soviet Union. After a one-year rule by the Soviet Union, the town was conquered by the German army in the summer of 1941. The Jews of Linkmenys, as the rest of the Jews in the other towns and cities in Lithuania, were murdered by the Germans and their Lithuanian collaborators during the autumn of 1941. A meager few survived, mostly Jews who managed to escape into the interior of the Soviet Union or found refuge in the villages or in the forests.
At the beginning of 1990's, a memorial inscribed in Yiddish and Lithuanian, was erected on the mass grave in the Dvariskiai Forest. It reads: Here, in this place, in 1941, the Nazi murderers and their local collaborators brutally murdered 120 Jews children, women, men. Sacred is the memory of the innocent victims.
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem, M-1/E-321/211.
Zer, Z., Leben in Sheinkait in Unser Shtetl (Living in Fairness in Our Town), included in the book: Yizkor Book for the Svencionys Region (Edited by S. Kantz). Tel Aviv 1964, pp. 1223-1258.
Di Yiddishe Shtime [The Jewish Voice] (Kaunas), 13.8.1929, 21.8.1929, 23.7.1931, 24.7.1031, 24.7.1932, 12.8.1932, 3.10.1933, 6.10.1936.
Hamelitz [The Advocate] (St. Petersburg),#41, 7.11.1882.
Folksblat (Kaunas), 18.7.1937, 20.7.1937.
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For playwright Miriam Hoffman, Yiddish is hardly a dying language. "It just doesn't want to die," said Hoffman, who will teach Yiddish at the Dec. 14-20 intensive language/culture immersion courses at UCLA and the University of Judaism.
"Yiddish was always a problem since its birth," said Hoffman, who writes children's books on the subject, lectures at Columbia University and writes for the Yiddish-language newspaper, Forvertz. "It had to compete with the sacred language, which is Hebrew. Yiddish carried [Zionism] on its back for 1,000 years."
The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language (CIYCL) is sponsoring, "The Art of Yiddish 2003 -- Entering the Heart of a Culture Through Its Beat," with four levels of language courses, klezmer music and lectures on Yiddish literature. A finale performance will feature renowned actor and Yiddish true-believer Theodore Bikel.
Miriam Koral, CIYCL's director, expects several hundred people to float in and out of the various events and classes, but there also will be a core of about 30 people attending all the language courses, many returning for their fourth Yiddish winter seminar.
"They have been inspired to learn Yiddish in other venues," Koral said. "Our intention is to inspire people so that they have a real respect for this language, this heritage and language to go out and really sink their teeth into."
Bikel publicly has complained that many Jews feel a need to support Israel by emphasizing Hebrew over Yiddish. But Yiddish thrives among throngs of Chasidic and other Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles' Fairfax District and, in larger numbers, Brooklyn's Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park neighborhoods and upstate New York's New Square and Kiryas Yoel communities.
Hoffman told The Journal that when she leaves her Bronx home to visit those enclaves, "it's like going into Yiddishland. The children play in Yiddish in the streets, the restaurants are in Yiddish and there is the publishing of books in Yiddish for children. It's exciting because it all starts with the little ones."
"The Art of Yiddish 2003 -- Entering the Heart of a
Culture Through Its Beat: An Immersion in the Living Language, Literature, Song
and Dance." Dec. 14-20, Royce Hall, UCLA Campus and The University of Judaism.
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Families of Fallen IDF Soldiers Honored
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Following a similar event organized last year in New York, the Western Region of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces honored local families of fallen Israeli soldiers at a formal dinner held at the Olympic Collection on Oct. 29. The event was meant to extend recognition and support that bereaved families might often miss living outside of Israel.
The event was hosted by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), attended by the Israel Ministry of Defense and supported by The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and the Israeli Leadership Council. Rabbi Isaac Jeret, chairman of the FIDF National Rabbinic Cabinet and rabbi of Congregation Ner Tamid, served as master of ceremonies and Los Angeles Consul General Jacob Dayan offered opening remarks.
“There is no more moral army in the world than the IDF,” Dayan said. “We did everything we could in Gaza to avoid casualties. I don’t know how many bereaved families we added to the list to be moral.”
About 100 people, the majority Israeli ex-pats, attended the event.
“We will never forget your loved ones, your struggle to cope with your pain, and your loss,” said Colonel Yair Ben-Shalom, head of Casualties and Town Majors Department of the IDF, who came from Israel to extend his support to the families. His department is responsible for first notifying families of their loss and maintaining ties between the army and the bereaved.
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“I’d like to pray with you that my work will become unnecessary,” he said.
Ben-Shalom was joined by Aryeh Muallem, deputy director general at the Ministry of Defense and head of the Bereaved Families and Commemoration Department, which deals with the financial, material and psychological support to which the bereaved are entitled. Both Muallem and Ben-Shalom conducted separate meetings with local families to open dialogue and inform them of their rights.
With entertainment provided by Israeli singer-songwriter Noa Dori and an Israeli flag lowered to half-staff, the mood in the dining hall fluctuated between festive and somber.
“Better it’s festive,” said Elan Argil, a real estate investor from Woodland Hills, who lost a brother in 1982 in the Lebanon War. “It’s not Yom HaZikaron [Memorial Day]. It’s easy for me to come to tears. On Yom HaZikaron I spend my day in tears. It was a really important event for us to know that they care. It’s a blessing.” | http://www.jewishjournal.com/circuit/article/families_of_fallen_idf_soldiers_honored_20091111 | 2013-05-18T10:42:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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I came across a recent article on Ynet in which Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger said that a woman who does not take her husband’s last name is keeping the home from being united:
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Turning his attention to the question of last names, Rabbi Metzger said that even though this was not a Jewish law issue, but rather, a move that took root in the past 200 years, a woman should stick to the husband’s last name and renounce her maiden name.
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Since I was not at the conference, I did not have a chance to voice a response. But, on the off chance that Rabbi Metzger or someone in his office goes online, please take note:
Dear Rabbi Metzger,
Until you actually become a married woman, I would say that speaking out as to whether or not a married woman should change her last name is arrogant, ignorant and, dare I say, insulting.
Why not say that the husband should also take his wife’s name? Isn’t that just as unifying?
I, too, am a married Ashkenazi Jew, and since I have never met you, I can only guess that your false logic stems from one family you met where the difference in last names became an issue. I want you to know that this is not the case in all families. Not every couple where the wife keeps her maiden name is falling apart at the seams. Just like not every couple where the wife takes her husband’s name is perfect.
If there are cracks in the Jewish home, I think the couple has more important things to worry about than the wife’s last name. And if that is the dividing line between them, maybe the issue should have come up before they married.
A wife keeping her own name is not the end of Judaism or civilization. It just means that women — who chose to marry and keep their maiden names —no longer have to feel like they need to erase who they were because they add Mrs. before their first name.
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The first time I sat in that auditorium I was a lowly freshman; my sister, who last week was singing and dancing on stage, was just two months old; my father was still married to my stepmother; and my husband was a senior in high school nearly 2,000 miles away.
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March 11, 2004
World Briefs
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Powell, Fayyad Meet
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad to increase accountability.
"What they talked about was improving the transparency and accountability of Palestinian finance, with a recognized goal of making sure the money didn't go to the terror -- none of the money ended up in the hands of the terrorist groups," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said after Powell met Fayyad. The United States reprimanded Israel for a recent raid on Palestinian banks believed to be holding terrorist money. U.S. officials said such actions undermine moderate reformers like Fayyad.
Purim Attack Foiled
A major terrorist attack planned against Purim revelers in Jerusalem was foiled. According to the Shin Bet, a raid on a Palestinian terror cell in Ramallah prevented a suicide bombing in Israel's capital on Saturday. Further details were not immediately available, but the reported arrests allowed Israel to lower a high alert in Jerusalem that had caused massive traffic jams as police searched incoming cars.
French Mosques to Be Protected
French mosques will receive the same police protection as synagogues, the country's interior minister said. Nicolas Sarkozy made his remarks Monday after two mosques were destroyed by arson last Friday. Muslim leaders accused the government of a late response and suggested that Jews were given better protection by the state than Muslims. Jewish groups were among the first to condemn the attacks. The chief rabbi of Lyon, Richard Wertenschlag, expressed his shock in a letter to the head of the region's Muslim Council.
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Denver Synagogue Vandalized
More than 100 people cleaned swastikas off a Denver synagogue. Sunday morning's cleaning at the BMH-BJ Congregation came after the swastikas were painted on the synagogue last Friday night. The synagogue's rabbi, Daniel Cohen, said the vandalism might have been sparked by Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which critics say blames Jews for the death of Jesus.
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A Soldier Remembered in His ‘Letters to Talia’.
I remember hearing about the book when it was first published in its original Hebrew, but as usual I let news of Hebrew books fly over my consciousness, since I don’t expect to read them. It’s not that I don’t read Hebrew at all. My Hebrew is for labels, ads, my pay slip, letters and notices on the Shiloh email list, our weekly newsletter and the very occasional newspaper or magazine article.
I received Letters to Talia from Gefen Publishing House to review. I don’t remember if they mailed it to me or it was one of the books I picked up from them at the Jerusalem International Book Fair. But it really doesn’t matter how I got it, because it’s a great book and I must tell you why.
First of all the translation by Yehuda Burdman is fantastic. I have no idea how easily the original Hebrew read, but it was a true pleasure reading it in English. I even carried the book around with me to take advantage of a few minutes’ reading time here and there. I don’t normally do that. My bags are always too full and my time too short for such a luxury. But this book followed me around for the few days it took to complete reading it.
Now, what’s it about?
Dear Dov,You must really be surprised to be receiving a letter from a girl you don’t know… Dov Indig was killed on October 7, 1973, in a holding action on the Golan Heights in Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Letters to Talia, published in his memory by family and friends, contains excerpts from an extensive correspondence Dov maintained with Talia, a girl from an irreligious kibbutz in northern Israel, in 1972 and ’73, the last two years of his life. At the time, Talia was a highschool student, and Dov was a student in the Hesder yeshiva Kerem B’Yavneh, which combines Torah study with military service. It was Talia’s father who suggested that Talia correspond with Dov, and an intense dialogue developed between them on questions of Judaism and Zionism, values and education. Their correspondence continued right up to Dov’s death in the Yom Kippur War. (Gefen)
While readying the book my mind was full of “ifs.” The main “if” obviously is: If only Dov Indig hadn’t been killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War…
Indig’s analysis and predictions as to what would happen if Israel withdrew from our Land liberated in the 1967 Six Days War or what he expected would happen to the kibbutz movement, especially the secular ones, are so on target, that it’s frightening. We, Israel and the Jewish People, lost a great and brilliant talent. There is no other way to describe him. Yes, you must read the book to fully comprehend what a terrible loss it was to all of us as a People and Nation that he isn’t with us today.
So many of the very best were killed in that terrible war in 1973. My friends and I still mourn our Betar New York friends who were killed. We get together every year at Mount Herzl to honor them. From my perspective, having made aliyah with my husband in 1970, I can easily identify with Indig’s friends who felt it vitally necessary to publish this correspondence.)). That makes me even more curious about Talia, not her real name. All that is revealed in the postscript is that after her National Service and subsequent army service, she returned to her kibbutz where she still lives. In her letters, we discover that her best friend actually became religious, Talia is too attracted by the idea. She’s infatuated with Judaism and Dov. In her last letter, which Dov most probably never read, she tells Dov that she will fast and go to a synagogue on Yom Kippur to pray for his safety. It’s too easy to imagine her disappointment even anger with God when she discovers that her prayers didn’t protect Dov from death.
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Mahmoud Abbas’ Other Peace Process
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal
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Who says there are no peace talks going on in the Middle East?
The peace process is underway in the Middle East, but not between Israel and the Palestinians. The only peace talks that are taking place these days are between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Abbas has chosen to talk to the enemies of peace who want to destroy Israel and replace it with an Iranian-backed Islamist state. On the one hand, he says he supports the two-state solution. On the other hand, however, he is seeking to form an alliance with all those who are vehemently opposed to the two-state solution.
Just last week Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, during a high-profile visit to his friends in Tehran, reiterated his wish to “liberate Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. Those who think that Hamas and Islamic Jihad would ever recognize the right of a Jewish state to exist are engaged in self-deception and are living in a world of fantasy.
Abbas spent the past few days in Egypt negotiating with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other radical Palestinian groups that are strongly opposed to any peace process with Israel. He held lengthy talks with Hamas’s Khaled Mashaal and Islamic Jihad’s Ramadan Shallah about ways of achieving “national reconciliation and unity” among Palestinians.
The peace talks between Abbas and the radicals will not bring about a two-state solution. This is a dangerous process that will facilitate Hamas’s takeover of the Palestinian Authority, whether through violence or free elections.
Abbas is working hard to convince the radical Palestinian groups to agree to the formation of a Palestinian unity government under his leadership. He seems to be naive enough to think that Hamas or Islamic Jihad or the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will change their ideologies and strategies and abandon their dream of wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
Some Westerners also appear to be naive enough to support Abbas’s peace process with radicals and terrorists. This is the same Abbas who for the past few years has refused to sit and talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas prefers to talk to Muslim fundamentalists instead of negotiating with Israel about achieving peace in the region.
But Abbas’s peace process with the radicals will only embolden Hamas and Islamic Jihad. This is a peace process that will eventually lead to the creation of a Palestinian government or state that would be controlled by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Muslim Brotherhood.
If the US and EU want peace, they should be urging Abbas to negotiate with Israel, not with those who openly call for the destruction of another state and have aligned themselves with Iran.
If Abbas truly wanted a two-state solution, he would be negotiating with Israel. By preferring to negotiate with the enemies of peace, Abbas is sending a message that he, too, does not want a two-state solution.
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Music During The Nine Days (Part I)Friday, July 20th, 2012
Question: Is it prohibited to listen to music in the privacy of one’s home (or car) during the Nine Days?
Answer: This issue has intrigued me for some time. HaGaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l (Igrot Moshe, Yoreh Deah, II:137), rules that it is indeed prohibited.
He explains that after the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, our sages enacted a number of ordinances to manifest a degree of sadness and mourning. One such decree was the prohibition to listen to music throughout the year. The Rema (Orach Chayim 560:3) contends that this prohibition applies only to people who formerly awoke in the morning and retired at night to the accompaniment of music, i.e., kings. In addition, the Rema notes that those in attendance at a beit mishteh were also included in the ban. The Mishnah Berurah (Orach Chayim 560:12) explains that this prohibition is due to the presence of wine at a beit mishteh.
All this suggests that a person who did not listen to music on a daily basis and did not attend a beit mishteh would be permitted to listen to music year-round. Rav Moshe, however, disagrees with this inference. He contends that even the Rema would prohibit Jews from attending public musical events during the year since one derives excessive simcha from such events.
If public music is thus forbidden year-round, what additional music were the rabbis prohibiting when they enacted the laws against music during the Nine Days? Perforce, they were prohibiting listening to music even in the privacy of one’s own home (or car).
(To Be Continued)
Rabbi Cohen, a Jerusalem Prize recipient, has written several works on Jewish law. His latest, “Jewish Prayer The Right Way: Resolving Halachic Dilemmas (Urim Publications), is available at Amazon.com and Judaica stores. | http://www.jewishpress.com/tag/igrot-moshe/ | 2013-05-18T10:54:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
1. Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
2. In a large frying pan, heat the oil. Add the pine nuts and almonds and sauté over medium-low heat until lightly brown. Remove to a plate.
3. Add onions to the oil and sauté until soft, about 5 minutes
4. Add rice and sauté until translucent. Stir in the reserved nuts, figs, apricots, cinnamon, saffron, stock, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil.
5. Cover the pan and place it in the oven for 20 minutes. If your pan isn’t oven-proof, transfer the pilaf to a casserole dish, cover and bake as directed.
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1 finely chopped onion
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1/4 - 1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
1 cinnamon stick
1 pinch saffron
1 3/4 cups hot chicken stock
Salt & pepper to taste
Directions
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Em that the surest means of working out the consummation of their national aspirations."1.
1Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, (NY: Schocken Books, 1966), pp. 246-247;
Howard Sachar, A History Of Israel, (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 121. | http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/weizfais.html | 2013-05-18T10:13:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
WILLOW (Heb. עֲרָבָה, aravah). The Bible describes the willow as a tree that grows rapidly near water (Isa. 44:4) and in whose shade the *Behemoth reclines (Job 40:22). The exiles from Judea hung their harps on willows by the rivers of Babylon, loath "to sing the Lord's song in a foreign land" (Ps. 137:2). The willow is one of the *Four Species and is characterized as possessing "neither taste nor fragrance," thus symbolizing those among Israel "who are neither learned nor possessed of good deeds" (Lev. R. 30:12). Although the identification of the aravah with the willow is undoubted, it should be noted that in the time of the Mishnah philological problems had already arisen in connection with this identification. The amora Ḥisda states that after the destruction of the Temple the name of the aravah (Salix) and ẓafẓafah (poplar, Populus) were interchanged (Shah. 36a), and in fact in Arabic it is the poplar which is called aʾrb (Heb. aravah) and the willow, ẓafẓaf (Heb. ẓafẓafah). The rabbis pointed out the difference between these two genera with regard to validity for the precept of the Four Species: "The willow has a red stalk, an elongated leaf and a smooth [leaf] edge. The ẓafẓafah has a white stalk and a round leaf with a serrated edge" (Suk. 34a). The conclusion finally reached is that the willow with the serrated leaf is also valid (ibid.). The willow was also used during the festival of Tabernacles, the altar being decorated with willow branches which were brought from Moẓa near Jerusalem. There is undoubtedly a connection between the willow growing by the waterside and the prayer for water on Hoshana Rabba, as well as the prayer for rain on Shemini Aẓeret (eighth day of solemn assembly), the last day of Tabernacles, when "they are judged in respect of water" (RH 1:2).
The willow is a very useful tree. Its soft branches were used for wicker work (Bik. 3:8). The wood withstands rot and was therefore used for building boats called arba, the spelling for aravah in Aramaic and Syrian. Its fruit contains soft fibers, which are the petilat ha-idan ("wick of bast"), used as wicks for lamps (Shab. 2:1). Though not a fruit tree, according to the agricultural folklore of the period fruit trees could be grafted on to it (see TJ, Or. 1:2, 61a). Two species of willow, the Salix acmophylla and Salix alba, as well as hybrids of both species, grow wild in Israel on the bank of streams and rivers. Another species, Salix babylonica, the weeping willow, originated in China.
Loew, Flora, 3 (1924), 323–37; J. Feliks, Olam ha-Ẓome'aḥ ha-Mikra'i (19682), 113–5. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feliks, Ha-Ẓome'aḥ, 115.
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By Michael BuckleyApplied Physics Laboratory
When scientists from NASA's
Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous mission took their first close-up look at 433 Eros
on Feb. 14, they had more questions than facts on their target
asteroid. Now, after eight months of examining Eros with the NEAR
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topography of the complex, oddly shaped space rock.
"This has been a very successful mission so far," says
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Applied Physics Laboratory,
which manages the NEAR mission for NASA. "We have seen all of
Eros from a variety of orbit distances, taken millions of
measurements, and we've answered the big-gest questions from when
the mission began."
Cheng and NEAR scientists from several institutions
discussed their findings with the media Oct.
also have used the laser instrument to determine that Clark Chapman, a NEAR imaging team member
from the Southwest Research Institute. "Even the rocks on Eros
are larger than those on the moon."
The elements in that surface have yielded further clues.
Using NEAR Shoemaker's X-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer, or
XGRS--which reads the unique fluorescent "colors" that Steven Squyres, an XGRS team member from Cornell.
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snapping images five times sharper than mission scientists have
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Discovery Clubs
Discovery Clubs are Bible clubs that meet in public elementary schools. Click here for a list of schools.
Volunteer Opportunities: Could You Be a Mentor?
It only takes a willing heart and an hour a week to be a Discovery Clubs volunteer. Led by a group of four volunteers, elementary-age children learn Bible verses, sing songs, and hear a Bible story during this one-hour, after-school program.
Volunteer requirements include:
- Attend an annual 3-hour training session. (Place call to reserve your spot.)
- Commit to 1.5 hours per week at a school of your choice for 23 weeks.
- Provide your own transportation to and from the school.
Click here to view or sign up for our upcoming training sessions. Question? Please call (205) 941-9852.
Donation Opportunities: We need your support!
In order to freely offer Discovery Clubs to the children, financial support is necessary. When we partner with churches for volunteers and accept donations from individuals and corporations, the impact is profound. Children are being taught the Gospel in public school buildings, which is building foundations for life, developing character and changing our communities.
Each year, Discovery Clubs of Alabama reaches children in schools in Birmingham City, Trussville City, Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County School Systems. Principals, teachers and parents continue to express gratitude for the significant changes they observe in the lives of their children.
Our work would not be possible without the generous support of our supporters. With your help, we are able to make the changes that bring brighter futures to children.
There are a few ways to help: Donate, volunteer, and most importantly, pray!
Needed in-kind donations:
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What Principals are saying
"This year, our school went through our five year accreditation and during the student interviews, the students consistently spoke about how wonderful their experience with Discovery Clubs was. I would also like to add that the Discovery Clubs staff was a good group of dedicated volunteers and these individuals have made a significant change in the lives of our students."
- Mr. Taylor W. Greene, Jr., Principal, Hill Elementary School
"Adult volunteers have shown care and concern for our students by encouraging them to always practice good behavior, have respect for others and for themselves. The activities are designed to provide life skills and positive growth and development skills. Students have shown by their actions, that they are very receptive of the services and activities provided through this organization."
- Ms. Thelma Owens, Principal, Hemphill Elementary School
"On behalf of the students and staff at Chalkville Elementary School we thank your volunteers for coming into our school. I have heard nothing but positive comments from students, parents and teachers about Discovery Clubs. I am also so thankful for the opportunity that has been provided to our children who participate in Discovery Clubs. I look forward to the expansion into other grades. Thank you again for all you do."
- Mr. Rod Johnson, Principal, Chalkville Elementary School
History of Discovery Clubs
In 1994, Mr. John Glasser founded Better Basics, an in-school, literacy tutoring program that is now available in 20 Alabama counties. As the reading program expanded to more public school children, Mr. Glasser came to realize that a large percentage of these children had never been in a church nor heard the Gospel. Mr. Glasser's personal burden for these children began to grow.
From a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing public school principals to invite organizations into their school building before and after regular school hours, Discovery Clubs of Alabama was born. In 2003, Mr. Glasser expanded his vision and founded Discovery Clubs of Alabama, Inc., with a pilot program at Gate City Elementary ministering to 40 children with 14 volunteer mentors from Covenant Presbyterian Church.
Today, Discovery Clubs has more than 400 trained volunteer mentors reaching over 1,000 children with the Gospel and life values in many public schools. Discovery Clubs is now a part of the Jimmie Hale Mission ministries and has many partnering churches of numerous denominations throughout the metropolitan Jefferson and Shelby Counties.
"In 2012, Discovery Clubs became part of the Jimmie Hale Mission ministries. After much prayer and discussion, we feel God has brought about this union so we can advance His Kingdom more effectively. The Jimmie Hale Mission brings years of ministry experience to the table, and we will benefit from their expertise in many areas. The Mission's main focus has always been to share Christ with others."
- Mrs. Sharon Ezell, Director, Discovery Clubs
"We are extremely excited about the merger with Discovery Clubs. What an awesome ministry to be able to take the Gospel message to the children at our local schools. I’m convinced that our partnership will strengthen both ministries and prove to be a preventative measure that will hopefully help keep these children from darkening the doors of the Jimmie Hale Mission later in life."
- Rev. Tony Cooper, Executive Director, Jimmie Hale Mission
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SC Caravan to the Savannah Jeep show and Poker Run [Archive] - JKowners.com : Jeep Wrangler JK Forum JKowners.com : Jeep Wrangler JK Forum > Regional Forums > USA - Southeast > SC Caravan to the Savannah Jeep show and Poker Run PDA : SC Caravan to the Savannah Jeep show and Poker Run D5Fire06-22-2010, 07:36 AMAnybody from the great state of SC planning on heading to the Savannah show and interested in a group ride down there? Obiviously Id be leaving from Columbia but I'm sure we could manage to pick up more people along the way. WRANGLERV806-22-2010, 07:47 AMI'm sure you'll have some people post up.It may not be until we get closer to the show,but there are several coming from your direction.BTW,thanks for coming. tkob106006-22-2010, 04:08 PMI'll be coming down 85 to 77 to 26 from NC, could meet up with you guys D5Fire06-22-2010, 04:41 PMThat could definitely be arranged Im still trying to figure out if I want to take the easy fast way down the interstate, or some back road cruising. ONLYSUPER06-22-2010, 04:46 PMI'm going down that way too. Maybe we can set up a meeting location. Greenfeet06-22-2010, 05:17 PMI think I'm in on this one. This is a few days from our 7th anniversary so why not make it a JEEP THANG! Lets do this.:trooper: weaver137106-22-2010, 11:14 PMDAMMIT!!!! I'm missing everything!! :pissed: Soon, very soon! :smokin: MBSCWranglerX06-24-2010, 07:00 AMI'm in Myrtle Beach....I'm sure a few of us from this neck of the woods will prob be going!!! SOUNDS LIKE FUN!!!! Let's Do It!!! Greenfeet07-17-2010, 04:28 PMRoom is booked. We will be heading down there Friday afternoon to get a head start on the festivities. Who's going Friday? ONLYSUPER07-23-2010, 04:30 AMI'M planning on going down Friday afternoon. Still haven't booked a room. Greenfeet07-23-2010, 06:18 PMI'M planning on going down Friday afternoon. Still haven't booked a room. Super, We are heading down Friday afternoon also. You might want to call the hotel ASAP because the guy I talked to last week said that all of a sudden the rooms had started filling up and they would book out soon, So I hope you get in that one. If you want to caravan just let me know and we could meet up at 95 and 26 maybe that afternoon. Greg D5Fire08-02-2010, 05:16 PMWell I finally got off my ass and booked my room. Luckily the rate was still good. Looks like Ill be headed down Sat morning. Im gonna have to make a stop in beaufort at some point cause I cannot be that close to Alvin Ords and not stop in for a sandwich. Plus I have a buddy in the area who just opened up his dive shop so Ill have to drop in and pay a visit. cntryislandboy08-06-2010, 09:57 AMthis might sound kinda odd, but when is it, i am in tx but will be in carolina next week, could defiantly maybe work something out if it's next week, anyway just thought i'd ask that's all Greenfeet08-26-2010, 06:00 PMRooms are booking up so don't be late for a good cause....... Leaving friday afternoon from Columbia, who's in? Greenfeet09-11-2010, 06:03 PMSo is this a 1 Jeep caravan or..............? tkob106009-11-2010, 06:15 PMSo is this a 1 Jeep caravan or..............? it looks like it. my jeep is down at dealer in hilton head again. hopefully i can pick it up next weekend in time for the show :shaking: D5Fire09-11-2010, 07:19 PMIm still trying to figure out if Im heading down fri or sat, you will be the 2nd person to find out my answer. Greenfeet09-15-2010, 07:27 AMThis Friday around 5pm, The bus will be leaving WRANGLERV809-15-2010, 08:05 AMThis Friday around 5pm, The bus will be leaving Way to take control! It's always easier to just give a date and time and let everyone decide if they can make it or not.It'll suck if it's just a one jeep caravan,but atleast everyone knows when and where and you'll not have to wait for someone else to decide. D5Fire09-16-2010, 06:28 AMI'm heading down fairly early Sat. morning. The plan so far is to leave Columbia sometime in the 7am range. Of course anybody wishing to meet up and head down is more than welcome. I will be making a short side trip into Beaufort on the way down to stop by and visit a buddy and his new dive shop and to grab some lunch at the only place that makes Beaufort great. Once again anybody interested in tagging along is more than welcome. enigmaverse09-16-2010, 07:27 AMI may be in. My plans for URE have slightly come apart, thinking the wife, baby and I may come down.... need to arrange a hotel nearby. vBulletin® v3.8.6, Copyright ©2000-2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. | http://www.jkowners.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-31613.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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NORFOLK, Va. – Oct. 18, 2010 – Rhodes Communications, Inc. (RCI), an international PR and marketing communications company based in Norfolk, Va., announces that Valerie Myers has joined its team as assistant account executive.
In her position at RCI, Myers will be responsible for a wide range of writing assignments for the company’s clients. In addition, she will support the account teams with the development and implementation of various marketing plans.
“Valerie is an experienced writer and public relations professional who will be a valuable addition to our company,” said Jim Rhodes, president of RCI. “With exciting new marketing programs on the horizon for our clients, we welcome her to our growing team.”
Myers previously spent eight years at Tidewater Builders Association where she served as magazines editor/coordinator for the company’s publishing subsidiary. She also held positions as public relations specialist and marketing coordinator for the association. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Old Dominion University. A published writer, her articles have appeared in several trade publications.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), along with Senators Mike Johanns (R-NE) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), continues to increase.
“As any working parent knows, finding affordable day care options can be very difficult under even the best circumstances. This bill is one way to help many American families afford daycare, whether it’s for their kids or their elderly parents,” Senator Burr said. “The cost of child care is increasing, and by increasing the amount Americans can put into an FSA and indexing it to inflation, we will help ensure that these accounts continue to be a meaningful option for families.”
“This legislation gives working families greater flexibility and allows them to stretch their hard-earned dollars further as dependent care costs continue to increase," Senator Johanns said. "I'm pleased to support families across Nebraska and our nation by sponsoring this legislation.”
“In this difficult economy, parents are having a harder and harder time affording the rising cost of child care. Despite longer hours away from home, families’ incomes are just not keeping pace,” Senator Gillibrand said. “This legislation will help ease the burden on working families, and help make child care more affordable.”
Dependent care FSAs currently allow employees to exclude $5,000 from their gross-income to help them cover the expenses associated with child care or adult dependent care. This exclusion from gross income allows families to save money on income and FICA taxes. However, since the $5,000 cap is not indexed to inflation, families are falling more and more behind to the rising costs of care. Increasing the amount that can be excluded and indexing it to inflation would allow families to stretch their hard-earned dollars even further and will ensure that this type of care remains an option for families in North Carolina and across the country.
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I recently found out how to make an HTML list start numbering somewhere other than at 1. This is handy when you have a list interrupted by some text and want to continue the original numbering without starting over. I’ve only been using HTML for 15 years. Maybe one of these days I’ll really learn it.
In the
<ol> tag, add the attribute
start="7", for example, to make the list start numbering with 7. The
start attribute can be any integer, even negative.
For example, the seven dwarfs are
- Dopey
- Grumpy
- Doc
- Happy
- Bashful
- Sneezy
and last but not least
- Sleepy.
Update: As pointed out in the comments below, the example in this post may not render correctly in your reader. See this post for a discussion of the problem.
I didn’t know about that attribute either and I’ve been using HTML for nearly as long.
Interestingly (and a little annoyingly) Google Reader seems to ignore that attribute. When I viewed this post using it Sleepy had the number 1 in front of his name.
Thanks for the tip. I didn’t know that. Sadly it didn’t work properly in my feed reader (Google reader, and I’m not sure what went wrong!). I’ve been wondering in general about styling and feed readers. On the one hand, I quite like the uniform style applied by a feed reader when I’m browsing new material: I can always visit an item I find interesting. Certainly I prefer it when authors deliver full feed content in their feeds. But there are times when, as an author, I’d like to be sure styling gets through – e.g. if I was using CSS to position objects in an animation. | http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/02/04/starting-number-for-html-lists/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEOSHO, Mo. —
A day after falling in a 68-64 shootout to Memphis Sheffield, the Webb City Cardinals struggled to score against the St. Joseph-Lafayette Fighting Irish.
Big time.
Webb City scored 13 points in the first quarter but followed with only 17 the rest of the way in a 52-30 loss on Friday in the losers’ bracket of the Neosho Holiday Classic at Neosho High School.
The Cardinals’ loss preceded Sunrise Christian’s 74-49 win over Bentonville and St. Louis Christian’s 65-30 win over Sheffield in semifinal games. Sunrise Christian and St. Louis Christian will meet in the championship at 8:30 p.m. today.
Webb City (6-3) will face Carthage, a 59-52 loser to KC Ruskin on Friday, at 5:30 p.m. today at Neosho Middle School. The Cardinals will look to bounce back after struggling against the Fighting Irish defense.
“We couldn’t score,” Webb City coach Landon Cornish said. “They were really good defensively. They play really hard. They communicate. Guys were locked in.
“They flat out came out and wanted to play. They were excited to play and got after us. We didn’t respond and match their intensity and effort, and they just got after us and whipped us.”
Things started well enough for the Cardinals as they led 13-9 when Phoenix Johnson hit two free throws at the 3:24 mark of the first quarter.
Then scoring became a problem.
Webb City didn’t score again until the 5:55 mark of the second quarter when Jalen Vaden made a pull-up jumper to end an 11-0 Lafayette run.
After Johnson’s free throws, the Fighting Irish outscored the Cardinals 18-4 the rest of the first half to take a 27-17 lead into halftime.
Johnson led Webb City with 10 points. Nate Brown scored five and Kohl Slaughter had three points a day after the two combined for 41 in the loss to Sheffield.
“I thought we were fantastic defensively,” Lafayette coach Chris Neff said. “That is a really quality club with a fantastic coach and competitive kids who have done a lot for that basketball program in the last two years. I felt really good with how we defended them.”
The Fighting Irish also were finding success on the offensive end. Lafayette made nine 3-pointers, including five from 6-foot-7 senior forward Jeff Leeson, who scored a game-high 23 points.
“Jeff Leeson is a great shooter,” Neff said. “He’s a Division II basketball player that happens to be a stretch jump shooter. Anybody who coaches basketball would love a 6-7 kid to spend a little more time around the rim, but he just has a gift and talent for shooting. And he causes a lot of matchup problems.”
Lafayette, ranked second in the latest Missouri Class 4 MBCA poll, improved to 9-1 with the victory and will play KC Ruskin at 4 p.m. today at Neosho Middle School.
Webb City, a fellow Class 4 school which was just outside the top 10 rankings, is looking for improved play against Carthage.
“We’ll see how mentally tough we are and how much we want to win,” Cornish said.
KC Ruskin 59, Carthage 52
A four-point second quarter created a hole for the Carthage Tigers that they weren’t able to recover from as they lost to the Kansas City Ruskin Eagles on Friday in the losers’ bracket.
Carthage (3-8) trailed only 21-18 after the first quarter but went into halftime with a 33-22 deficit.
Ruskin boasted a balanced attack with four players — Jamari Chalmers (15), Tayron Holden (10), Tyler Daniel (11) and Tyron Daniel (10) scoring in double figures. Deonte Collins added nine.
Nathan Reid led the Tigers with 21 points. Jaryd Coss added 13.
Sunrise Christian 74, Bentonville 49
The Buffaloes cruised past the Bentonville Tigers to earn a chance at repeating as tournament champions when they face St. Louis Christian in the title game today.
Sebastian Saiz Soto led Sunrise Christian with 18 points, while Janari Joesaar scored 14.
The game was tied at 12 at the 3:06 mark of the first quarter, but Sunrise Christian (14-0) outscored Bentonville (9-3) 34-11 the rest of the first half.
Austin Heard led the Tigers with 13 points.
ST. LOUIS CHRISTIAN 65, Memphis Sheffield 30
Javier Martinez scored 26 points and 13 rebounds to lead St. Louis Christian into the tournament championship game, setting up a rematch against Sunrise Christian.
The Buffaloes beat St. Louis Christian 66-56 in the Sunrise Tournament championship in Wichita on Dec. 10.
Broderick Davis and Toderick Davis scored 10 points each for Sheffield.
In other losers’ bracket games Friday, Van Buren beat McDonald County 63-31 and West Memphis edged Morrilton 52-48.
High School Sports
Carthage, Webb City boys matched in Neosho tourney
NEOSHO, Mo. —
A day after falling in a 68-64 shootout to Memphis Sheffield, the Webb City Cardinals struggled to score against the St. Joseph-Lafayette Fighting Irish.
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A few kinks to iron out
Before we answer, let's tell our unsuspecting audience who Joanna Rees is.
Joanna Rees (born November 14, 1961 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a venture capitalist at VSP Capital in San Francisco, California. In addition to her role as the managing director at VSP, Joanna filed campaign papers announcing her intent to run for Mayor of San Francisco in the November 2011 election.Venture capitalist running for Mayor. Sound like anyone you know?
In fact, Joanna Rees and Austin Beutner are both running for the top jobs in California's top two cities, and they both have plenty of their own money as former venture capitalists--and they both have told Ace Smith and Sean Clegg--yes, they have the same team on their side--that they want campaign contributions to come from the people and not from their own vast riches.
Ms. Rees has been making her rounds in SF for two years now. She's not afraid to go out alone, and certainly has a mind of her own, independent of her notorious strategists--as the set-up with the ironing board in Bernal Heights a couple of days ago demonstrates. Mr. Beutner, however, often leaves people scratching his head when he shows up, at, say, a Democratic picnic, which he did three weeks ago, leaving many Demos feeling oogie, wondering what the heck "Mr. Decline to State" was doing there.
There are also a few welcome differences between the two. For starters, Ms. Rees is well-known to be a progressive Democrat and she has been a tireless advocate for gay and lesbian rights, with flashy backers like a Coppola or two, and Quincy Jones. Mr. Beutner has...doddering Dick Riordan in his corner, a man seemingly hell-bent on destroying Los Angeles ever since his own Mayoralty, tinkering with schools until everyone who works for them ended up hating each other, running Peter O'Malley out of his family business, centralizing mayoral power and playing chicken little with the city's finances.
I heard a whisper that Joanna Rees is out and about so much because Ace Smith and Sean Clegg were less interested in her once she told the two salty hacks that she didn't want to spend her own money. Maybe Austin Beutner sent a similar chill down the spines of the two spinmeisters--and maybe that's why we see Mr. Beutner winging it a bit, even on his web material. | http://www.josephmailander.com/2011/05/what-do-joanna-rees-and-austin-beutner.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Help Me With My Social Media Experiment!
Peeps,
I'm doing a social experiment. YouTube has graciously allowed me to monetize my videos and this is the first one I've uploaded so far. It's not stand-up or even a sketch, but rather an adorable clip of my son trying to convince me to give him cookies for breakfast. I'm going to put 100% of the proceeds from this video toward his college fund. All you have to do is watch it, then tell your friends to watch it. That's it. I'm not asking you to donate any money, just 1 minute and 46 seconds of your time. By watching the video and letting the ad pop up, you're contributing. If enough people watch this one video, he could have his college paid for and/or his therapy from having me as a father. Click on the ads if you like, but you don't have to. Then just share the link to the video with your friends and tell them what I'm trying to do. I'm really excited to see if this works. It's not like he's old enough to build an arcade out of cardboard. At just a couple of cents per view, it's going to take a lot of people seeing it. But if it does work, well that'd just be awesome. And I'll make sure Dean thanks you once he learns how to say more words than "cookie". Thanks all!
Josh
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Mutual Fund
But for the past couple of months, I am glad that it is going up. It is still below the amount that we bought (meaning we're still losing) but I am optimistic, it can only go up. I just have this gut feel. LOLz.
To those who haven't heard about MF, here's Wikipedia's description: "A mutual fund is a professionally managed firm of collective investments that collects money from many investors and puts it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities. The fund manager, also known as portfolio manager, invests and trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing capital gains or losses and passing any proceeds to the individual investors."
We bought our shares last August 2007. We've invested it for a 5-year term. We can still withdraw the money anytime, but we'd have to pay a lot of fees if we decide to withdraw our investment before the term expires. This is what we have chosen so won't be tempted to take the money anytime we want. We have actually set aside this money for EJ's college fund.
Now that I have somewhat understood how this works, I am not sure anymore if investing it in a 5-year term is such a good idea. Maybe we should have invested it in a year's term only. But then again, we might have been tempted to use the money for something else.
I can only pray and hope that our MF's Net Asset Value goes up through the years. It goes without saying, I'll be praying for a better economy for the Philippines.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Weigh in #1
Fancy Faucets
So anyway, while looking over at the bathrom fixtures, I saw these lovely faucets. I love the bronze-colored faucet. Not too flashy. It goes with the current bathroom theme we have in mind.
Image from: Moen faucets
Hopefully we'll be able to finally furnish our condo next year. We're missing on the opportunity already.
There shall be light
But then again, this is not my house so I'll make do with what's available =)
My bests
SHOPPING
~best mall: Pavilion Mall (not too crowded)
~best shop: GAP (I can fit into their sizes)
~best bookstore: Borders (my baby and I can hang out there)
FOOD
~best bread: Auntie Ann's parmesan cheese (my weight loss bane)
~best seafood carbonara: Dome Cafe
~best pasta bolognese: Pizza Hut
~best casual dining: Chicken Rice Shop
BEAUTY
~best facial moisturiser: Olay
~best acne treatment: Just make sure the face is clean all the time
~best lip gloss: Nivea's lip gloss (strawberry flavor)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Rainy birthday
As previously mentioned in my posts, I felt nothing extraordinary. I felt it was just a usual day. I didn't have any big plans. I would have wanted a long massage but I knew that it would all depend on my baby's schedule. As it turned out, I didn't have my massage.
I had a birthday lunch at Dome cafe with hubby and EJ. It was just a usual lunch. I didn't feel like it was a birthday lunch. LOLz. Just kidding of course.
In the afternoon, Grace came over and gave me a marble chocolate cake. I was so touched. Thank you so much, girl. You brightened my day. I just feel bad you had to brave the rain going home with your little princess. I should have offered for you to stay and wait until the rain subsided. I think I lost my manners...tsk...Thank you again for the company, for the cake and for drinking wine with me. Let's do that again on your birthday? Hehehe.
We almost didn't go out for dinner because it rained. But hubby wanted to eat at Pizza Hut! I asked him "I should decide, who's birthday is it anyway?" Hehe. But I was just kidding of course. I was craving for their pasta bolognese so I gave in. We went to Pavilion while it was still drizzling.
Secretly, I wished hubby had something for me that's why he insisted on going to Pavilion. But it turned out, he was just craving for Pizza Hut's spicy wings. Hahaha!
In fairness, hubby asked me if I wanted to shop for myself as a gift. But I declined. I didn't want anything in particular. I have everything I want and more. It's true.
My only wish is good health for my family and loved ones.
PS. Actually I need a flash drive. Anybody want to give me one, as a present? =)
Hari Raya coming up
If that's true (Hubby needs to check it first with their HR) then I need to plan another holiday. It's either we go to Manila again (we have unfinished business there) or we go to Bangkok. We've been meaning to go there. But somehow, we're either out of budget or out of time.
I am sure I would love it there, what with the cheap SPA's and food (according to friends who have been there). I am not sure though, if it is a good idea to go there with a toddler. If my baby can talk, I'm sure he'd object. LOLz.
But we're going to make it up to him. We're planning to go to Hongkong Disneyland next year with some family and friends. If we have more money, I'd probably book the Orlando vacations, which include visits to Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando. EJ would have a fabulous time, I'd bet.
So yeah, we're probably going to travel again next month if indeed there's a weeklong public holiday.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Best is yet to come
I wanted to start my day by going to the gym, you know starting it right? I woke up before the alarm alright. But before I can change into my gym outfit, I curled up in the sofa and slept again. I woke up when hubby put a blanket on my body. It was 8:30AM already. There goes my early morning.
A cousin suggested that I do something special for my birthday. But I am lost what to do. Being a tightwad that I am, I don't wanna splurge just for the sake of splurging. So I am thinking, I can probably just have a Spa treat for myself later this evening (after the customary birthday dinner, of course). Intending to google the best Spa here in KL, I logged in. But guess what I am browsing just now? I am looking at this office furniture. I am so funny :)
So yeah, a Spa treatment later. But I am not really in the mood.
I am so happy and touched that a new friend here in KL is coming over this afternoon with a self-baked cake.She's such a sweetie. I've prepared my wine, just in case we'd love to sip. Only a sip because she's coming over with her baby in tow. Baka malasing pa kami pareho, hahaha!
Aside from that, I really have no more plans. I would have liked to welcome my thirty-hood with style, but I am so lazy and unimaginative. I will probably go to sleep, just like the normal days.
What am I doing here? I am just blabbing. I should just stop and make myself some coffee. I am still sleepy I guess.
Happy 20th birthday to me!!! (err...30. But they say 30 is the new 20, so...) I know that best is yet to come. Cheers!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Best physical feature
LAYER ONE:
– Name: Josiet
– Birth date: August 22
– Birthplace: Surigao City
– Current Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
– Eye Color: Brown
– Hair Color: Black
– Righty or Lefty: Righty
LAYER TWO:
– Your heritage: Filipino
– The shoes you wore today: I seldom wear shoes now, mostly it's flipflops
– Your weakness: Auntie Ann's parmesan cheese!
– Your fears: Height, and losing my loved ones
– Your perfect pizza: Nothing really, I'm not a pizza girl
– Goal you’d like to achieve in life: Financially independent and happy family life
LAYER THREE:
– Your most overused phrase on YM: Oist
– Your first waking thoughts: It depends..
– Your best physical feature: My teeth (my killer smile, nyehehehe)
– Your most missed memory: Life in the province
LAYER FOUR:
– Pepsi or Coke: Coke
– McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald’s
– Single or group dates: Single Dates
– Adidas or Nike: Nike
– Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea
– Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
– Cappuccino or coffee: Cappuccino
LAYER FIVE
– A famous person, dead or alive, would you interview: Oprah
– Movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors: Jerry Maguire
– Name two of your passions in life : My family and my family
– Least favorite time of day: Early evening, while waiting for hubby to come home
LAYER SIX
– Use hairspray or gel: No
– Your favorite meal: Sinigang na Bangus
– Color of the inside of your head when you close your eyes: White
– Listen to classical music: No
– Ever said LOL in real life without thinking about it: No
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Is it time to say goodbye?
My brother has a Macbook for sale. He got it second-hand and he's selling it to me for Php35K. He said he even got an extra Mac memory, and he's giving it for free. Quite a catch. But what will I do with my laptop? Sell it?
Hmm..I don't know. I would love to own a Macbook but I don't think it is wise to buy another laptop for now even if it is cheap. We've spent considerable amount when we were on vacation in Manila last week. I think we'll have to tame our expenses for now.
I'll think I'll just wear gloves when I am typing? LOLz
Monday, August 18, 2008
We will be Billionaires!
While browsing today, a new post caught my eye - Are you a Millionaire in the making? According to the author, these questions below will help you begin to find out if you?
8).
Even if I am a SAHM, I think I still qualify to answer. Whatever my husband is earning is mine too, right? hehehehe. Seriously, I do the budgeting in the household. Out of the first nine questions, I only answered "no" on number 9. Since our baby is still a toddler we still haven't spent anything yet on education. What we have done is set aside some money for his education. But I feel it is not enough yet.
Since I answered 8 "yes" to the first nine questions and we are working on the question number 9, I guess we are still on our way to becoming a billionaire? Maybe!:)
Check it our if you are interested to know how you will fare.
It's my birthday and I want to party....not
Not that I don't want to celebrate my birthday. I am actually looking forward to turning thirty. I heard that thirty is the new twenty but with more money. Who doesn't want that, right?
But with all the packing and unpacking these past weeks, I lost count of the days and even my whereabouts. Funny! I am glad, I checked the calendar. I can now plan what I want for my birthday :)
I think I'd have a long massage, followed by dinner and a coffee afterwards. That's it. It would be a bonus if my baby will behave so we all have a relaxing time.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Still cheaper here
My usual answer is "KL is almost the same as Manila". And it is. I feel like I am just in Makati or Ortigas. The Malays look like Filipinos too (we are often mistaken as Malays). But of course there are differences too.
They do have a nice transportation system making it easy to commute. And I feel like the traffic here in Manila is horrendous compared to KL. Having said that, I still love Manila,lol.
It is still cheaper to live here. Supermarkets are bigger. I can find everything I want in one supermarket. What I absolutely miss when I am in KL are the promotional products available in supermarkets. I am a sucker for that, lol. In SM alone, you'd get a lot of that.
We're going back to KL on Sunday. And I am missing Manila already. Sigh. I hope more budget airlines will sprout so that airfares go down and we can go home every week, hahaha!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Gap on Shangrila Mall
Yay! I don’t need to go to Makati or Trinoma Mall to check out the Gap stores. The sales clerk told me they just opened last May.
Anyway, I went inside immediately. I was so happy to see their 20% off sign sale. I went to the Gap kids first. I checked the price. Again I was surprised to see that it’s cheaper compared to Malaysia. It was only P550+ for a baby shirt and it was not even on sale (I didn’t notice I was on the new arrival area..hehehe).
I bought a pair of pants and a jeans for me. When I tried on the size 10, it was a little snug. Goodness, I’ve only been here for a few days and I’ve gained weight already? Grrr…So anyway, I bought the size 12.
But when I put it on back at the hotel, size 12 was a little big. Hahahaha! I was confused. Hubby recommended I keep the size 12. He thinks I might gain some more pounds. LOL. I hope not.
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Check out these Festina watches. I want one of them. If only I didn’t shop too much already I might be able to buy one. Oh well, maybe next time :)
Vacation homes
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
E-Ticket
It’s not my first time to book a ticket online but this is the first time I was asked to reconfirm our ticket by also giving our credit card. What’s the credit card for? We paid the e-ticket already. Hmmm…
I’ll definitely give them a call tomorrow. I might as well check if I bought the travel insurance when I made the booking. I cannot find it on our ticket itinerary.
Honesty is not always the best policy
The moment my brother saw me he immediately said “you’re as big as an elephant”. Isn’t that infuriating? I mean I know I am fat but I just don’t like people telling me how fat I am. Telling me how fat I am is just tantamount to saying, “hey ugly, go stuff yourself with "weight loss pills”. I know ugly and fat are two different things but reality bites. In a world we live in right now thin equals beautiful.
Though I should really take things lightly and shouldn't take offense too. I don't think my family meant to say I am ugly, right?:)
I was once a pimply-face
There was a time (I was still working in Maldives then) when my face was infested with pimples. I even thought it was acne. My friends in the resort were even worried for me.
When I started to work in Maldives, I only had the occasional pimple but at some point those pimples spread out and never left my face for several months. It was agonizing. Imagine facing the guests with a lot of pimples on my face. I don’t know how I survived those months. The guests must have been embarrassed for me..hehehe.
I tried a lot of things just to get rid of my pimples. I tried putting on some creams but it made the pimple worse. I tried eating a lot of ampalaya (bittergourd) and drinking its juice because I heard it healing powers but it was not effective on me. I even tried rubbing on some alcohol (only 70% isopropyl) because my other sister swears by it but it just inflamed my face.
Funnily the moment I stopped being obsessed about my pimples, it also stopped growing on my face. Eventually, my face cleared. I don’t know what really healed my pimples. But starting then, I just wash my face twice a day.
Now and then, I dab some Olay cream. It makes my skin glow. But other than that, I don’t abuse my face with a lot of chemicals anymore.
Van Business
Of food and magazines
So here’s what I put in our pushcarts:
~chippy
~nova
~dried mango
~macapuno
~corn bits
And of course, I didn’t forget to get a copy of Yes! Magazine. I am not really a fan of Pinoy Showbiz. But everytime I’m in Manila, I just can’t help but get a copy. Somehow, a visit to Manila is not complete without a dose of Pinoy Showbiz.
I was just disappointed that nothing controversial was on this month’s issue. LOL. The issue was all about Daboy’s life as an actor. Well, since I am not a fan of his, I found it boring.
Gelli and Ariel’s newly renovated home was also featured. I think this is the only topic I read from start to finish. I found out Ariel is a golf enthusiast. He even posed with his golf clubs on the pic (I wonder though if it were Callaway golf clubs?).
I am still looking for a copy of Hello magazine with Brad and Angie on the cover. They seem to be out of the racks. I need to ask the attendant next time.
Monday, August 11, 2008
My achy feet.
Lucky girl
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After the visit in Bacoor Cavite we went to MOA. The mall was jam-packed! We just went there to buy EJ's shirt and jeans for his birthday the following day. We also managed to squeeze in a visit to a Lacoste store and I bought hubby a shirt (from my blog earnings!)
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After that we went to Dampa along Macapagal Avenue and had dinner with my family. It was such a nice feeling being able to pay the bill from my own money. I just wish that there's a way I can transfer my paypal money direct into my Checking Account. It would be easier that way.
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We went home around 9PM and I was so exhausted. I am not used anymore to a hectic schedule. Now if only I can get somebody to look after EJ so I can head to the nearest SPA. That would be really wonderful!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
I keep coming back
I didn't grow up here but Manila is home to me (though of course I still am a probinsyana at heart). I gained my independence when I went to a university. I was 16 and alone and Manila was my oyster. It was such an exhilarating feeling. New friendships and memories were formed. That's why I always feel at home in Manila.
Now that were here on a short vacation, I suddenly miss everything. Even the horrendous traffic, hahahaha! Seriously, I just love being back home.
We'll be busy the whole time were here and I will definitely enjoy every moment of it.
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While having breakfast this morning at the hotel, we saw a guy being interviewed. It brought back funny memories when I was still on job search. I had a lot of silly adventures and misadventures then. But that's for another post. :)
Friday, August 8, 2008
Blessing
The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels. ~ Chinese Proverb
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Is that me?
LIFE
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
What tomorrow brings
I was browsing some cruise itineraries (not that we are going on one anytime soon..i can only wish hehehe) particularly Mediterranean cruises and I learned that it goes on the above cities. Wow!
Among other things I've always dreamed of going on a romantic gondola ride on the Grand Canal of Venice. I guess a trip to Europe or Venice for that matter will not be complete without the above itinerary.
Europe's always been for the dreamy and the romantic. Since I am one, I sure hope to visit one day.
For now these dreams are just dreams. But some dreams do come true, right?
The world has seen
I went to my favorite Border's bookstore yesterday to look for the Hello Magazine where Brangelina's twins are featured. I totally forgot that half of Border's is on renovation. But I still went ahead. The second floor might have a stash of magazine. But when I went there, only local magazines were on sale. I asked the staff if they have Hello Magazine or People magazine. He said their subscription is temporarily on hold while they are partly on renovation. Oh, ok.
So now I don't know where to get my mag! I want to see the babies, and the whole family. I've become a fan of all the kids. The girls Shiloh and Zahara are so pretty and the boys are just too cute and funky.
I might check out Sungei Wang later. If not, then I'll just get the copy in Manila. We're flying on Friday na!! Yipee!!! Hopefully it won't run out of stocks.
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Meanwhile if you're in the hunt for some classy and beautiful furnitures, do check out importadvantage.com. They do have a great selection, especially of tv furniture. I would love to have one if only our condo has been furnished already.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Spare Money
The question is, should I buy it for myself only or should I share it?
My first instinct actually was to go and visit an LV store in Manila. But I may need a blood pressure monitor if I go inside the store. Why? Because I might have a heart attack looking at the prices. Hahahaha!!
Seriously, I want to share my very first "blog earnings" with my dearest hubby. It's just right.
I'd like to buy a pair of watches for us. And maybe go to a spa and then buy EJ a train set if there's more.
But I don't think I'd be able to afford all that. Maybe just the watches?
Now I am stressed just thinking about it. Hehehe. So maybe we'll just pamper ourselves at the SPA.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Shopping spree
But last month was different.
We were RM1,000 below the budget. Wow! I couldn't believe it. I guess we managed to shy away from buying EJ lots of toys and I have been a very dutiful wife cooking dinner almost every night (well, except weekends of course).
So what do we do with the extra RM1,000? Shopping of course!
We decided to treat ourselves. And last weekend, we went to Pavilion mall with the money we saved.
We started by having lunch at Carl's Jr. Their burgers are so big but I decided to finish it off anyway. Saturday is my off day at dieting. Hehehe.
Then after lunch, we immediately went shopping. Even EJ was excited that day. He usually naps at 2pm. But he wast still hyper even at past 2pm. He even danced inside the store. He didn't mind the people watching him. Hahaha! Unfortunately I didn't see it. Only hubby did because I was busy :)
But after three hours of shopping, EJ finally slept and hubby complained he was tired already. While I was still full of energy! I didn't even notice three hours have passed by. Come to think of it, I've walked for three hours. Meaning I've exercised for three hours without me getting bored. Yay! Now I know why the fashionistas are skinny. It's because of the time they spend shopping. Shopping is even better than diet pills! Hahaha.
What did we buy?
Hubby bought 2 shirts, 1 polo shirt and 3 cargo shorts (he's addicted to cargo shorts lately!). I bought 2 blouses, 1 sleeveless, 1 jacket and 2 bangles. EJ had 1 shorts and some toys.
What a happy weekend it was!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Movies and Popcorn
And speaking of movies, this makes me crave for a popcorn!! Do you notice how cinemas smell of popcorn? Well, I love that smell. Watching a movie is not a complete experience without a popcorn in my hand. But if I am watching a really serious movie, then I don't bring a popcorn inside.
Since I am on a mission right now, I don't think I'd be bringing in a boxful of popcorn when I go inside the moviehouse. Unless there is a diet popcorn available. Hahaha!!!
Seriously though, I'd love to have one of 'em popcorn machines in our house. If only to get a constant whiff of its smell. Seriously. Hahaha, kidding.
I've digressed.
So here is the list of movies I want to watch in Manila:
Mama Mia!
Hancock
Dark Knight
I hope we have time to watch all of these. I haven't been to a cinema in six months! And for me that feels like a century already. Hahaha!!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Things to look forward to
As always, I am excited. As if we haven't been home for a while. But there's nothing like being home with family and friends.
For this trip, I am looking forward to the following:
1) EJ's second birthday. He's been practising how to blow a candle. And he's very enthusiastic about it. Last night, hubby got tired lighting the candle because after blowing it off, EJ would demand it be lighted again. Let's see if he can properly blow the candles on his birthday.
2) After six months of chemotherapy, my mother will have her last session on this month. Thanks God.
3) "Budbod" - a local delicacy. Sort of a cassava cake with a sweetened young coconut as filling and wrapped in a banana leaf. I'm drooling now, just thinking about it. My mother said they'll make it the day before they fly for Manila.
4) Seafood trip at Dampa. Whenever we're in Manila, we always go to Dampa Libis or Ortigas. Hopefully, I won't be tempted to over eat. Or else I might just bring with me a generic Phentermine to curb my appetite.
5) A new baby into the family. Our youngest sister is giving birth to their first born child. Hopefully she gives birth while we are still there so we can still see the baby.
6) Watch a movie. I'm sure somebody will be willing to look after EJ so hubby and I can go out. I miss watching a movie in a movie theater!
7) Of course, reunion with family and friends.
I am so excited!!!!
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Posted: 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012
By Lauren Pack
Staff Writer
The Butler County Board of Elections is expected to mail out more absentee ballots this year than all those cast by mail in the 2008 presidential election. But despite the increase in requests, Butler County Board of Elections are seeing a spare increase in mailing costs.
Approximately 25,000 ballots requested by voters will begin appearing in mailboxes by the middle of next week, according to Butler County Board of Elections Deputy Director Jocelyn Bucaro. In the 2008 election, 27,917 ballots were issued by mail and 24,962 were returned.
Bucaro anticipates the board of elections will issue 40,000 to 50,000 ballots by mail for the Nov. 6 election. Tuesday is the first day of early voting in Ohio.
Historically, more and more voters are taking advantage of the convenience of early and absentee voting. Election officials expect that number to grow this year due to a new program by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who announced in June that absentee applications would be mailed to every registered voter in the state
The first batch of applications were mailed Sept. 1 to all voters who registered by July 30. A second group of ballot applications will be mailed Monday to voters who updated their registrations between Aug. 1 and Sept. 30. More than 7.7 million Ohioans were registered to vote for the March primary.
“We have seen an increase,” Bucaro said, noting applications for ballots have come in at a faster pace.
State officials estimated the cost to mail applications would be between $2 million and $3 million in postage, which will be paid for by existing federal dollars as part of the Help America Vote act.
County elections boards pay for the mailing of ballots based on the applications received.
Cost of mailing each two-page ballot is 85 cents and it will cost 65 cents in return postage for the voter. Ballots can also be returned in person to the board of elections office at 1802 Princeton Road, Hamilton.
Bucaro said printing ballots on demand — rather the estimating how many will be needed — has helped keep costs down. The ballots are also printed on a lighter weight of paper and folded for mailing.
The Butler County Board of Elections will be open for early voting at 8 a.m. Tuesday at 1802 Princeton Road, Hamilton. Voters to do not have to state a reason for voting early.
Regular hours for the board of elections office are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The board will also offer the following extended hours:
Tuesday through Oct. 5: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct. 9: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Oct. 10-12: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct. 15-19: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Oct. 22-26: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Peter Greenberg, a highly regarded authority in the international travel industry, posted an article titled Is it Safe to Travel to Mexico Now? on his blog a few weeks ago in which he and Robert Reid, U.S. travel editor for Lonely Planet, discussed the current state of Mexico in regards to safety and tourism.
Both Greenberg and Reid travel to Mexico frequently and their conversation offers some great insight into the matter (you should definitely read the entire article), but I just want to point out some of the stand-out quotes I came across.
- Robert Reid: “You need to consider that Mexico is about the size of Western Europe. There’s an area that’s bigger than Britain and Ireland that is not on the travel warnings.”
- Robert Reid: “The Washington Post had an article last year that the homicide rate in our nation’s capital is four times greater than Mexico City.”
- Peter Greenberg: “Look at Cozumel. It is probably the most popular cruise ship port in the world. And yet anytime somebody hiccups the cruise ships say we’re pulling out of Mazatlan or we’re pulling out of Cozumel. Guess what happens a week later? They’re back. It’s so fickle and capricious. It’s not based on real facts. It’s based on fear.”
- Robert Reid: “During the swine flu crisis a couple of years ago, some cruise ships stopped going to places like Puerto Vallarta, where there were no reported cases of the swine flu. Instead, the ships went to places like San Francisco where there were reported cases of swine flu. It is worth listening closely to reports.”
- Peter Greenberg: .”
- Robert Reid: “I’m in this business because of Mexico. I think it is an asset to be close to such a diverse, wonderful and friendly country. I’m sad that more people don’t take advantage of it.”
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In 2004, Treiber was accused of murdering French actor Roland Giraud's daughter, Geraldine, as well as her friend Katia Lherbier. Giraud calls the escape an "avowal" of Treiber's guilt, while Treiber's lawyer says it may be an indication of his client's absence of faith in the justice system. Either way, one thing's for sure: We either need fewer cardboard boxes in European prisons or more prison guards with suspiciously narrow vision cones.
[Via Kotaku]
VIDEO: See more cardboard box stealth action in the newest Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker trailer!
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October 11, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. - The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be celebrated with a special free, public screening of the new documentary, "The American Rocketeer" at the California Institute of Technology's Beckman Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. This never-before-seen film is one installment in a three-part documentary series chronicling the early history of JPL. All three installments will air on KCET Los Angeles in November.
On Halloween day in 1936, a group of Caltech students, led by Frank Malina, conducted the first stand-up rocket engine test in a dirt gulch known to the residents of Pasadena as the Arroyo. Little did they know that this day would go down in history as the beginning of what is now JPL, the world's leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system and beyond. The 90-minute episode takes viewers on a journey through Malina's life using personal letters, video footage, drawings and paintings to reveal an extraordinary story of how JPL came to be.
"This is a very personal story about a person few even know," said Blaine Baggett, JPL's director of communications and education. "Yet Malina was a major pioneer in American rocketry. This film attempts both to shed light on his important contributions, while revealing the reasons why he has been forgotten. The time is long since past that the public should know the name Frank Malina."
The Malina story and the other two episodes in the series were produced, written and directed by Baggett, a national Emmy-award winning documentarian.
Seating at the public screening of "The American Rocketeer" is first-come, first-served. Caltech's Beckman Auditorium is located at 332 South Michigan Avenue in Pasadena (Michigan Avenue south of Del Mar Boulevard). For directions and parking information, please visit: .
The series, collectively called "Beginnings of the Space Age," will make its television premiere on KCET over three evenings, as follows: "The American Rocketeer" on Nov. 3 at 9 p.m.; "Explorer 1" on Nov. 10 at 9 p.m.; and "Destination Moon" on Nov. 17 at 9 p.m.
Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about JPL is online at: . Information on how to follow us via social media, including Facebook and Twitter, is at: .
Priscilla Vega 818-354-1357
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Man tied to ATF's stolen ammunition gets six years in prison
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But the sentence – deemed “long” by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman – had more to do with charges stemming from what happened while the 25-year-old man was in the Ozaukee County Jail, Adelman said.
According to an addendum to his plea agreement filed Friday, Markeevin Wilder agreed to pay someone to kill a witness in his case.
Wilder didn’t know the hit man and didn’t have money to pay him, so it was unlikely the plot would come to fruition, Wilder’s attorney and Adelman noted.
But Wilder wasn’t joking, Adelman said.
“The defendant seemed to be serious about it. That’s what’s really disturbing,” Adelman said before sentencing Wilder to 75 months behind bars.
Wilder read a letter to the court before his sentencing saying he doesn’t blame anyone else for the “bad choices” he has made in his life.
“I was not thinking at the time,” he said of the call he made from jail attempting to arrange the hit. “Nor was I thinking when that ATF car got broken into.”
Wilder is not charged in the theft from the vehicle but was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition. He was convicted of an armed robbery in 2006 and is forbidden from handling guns and ammuition.
An ATF agent’s car was broken into in September and boxes of ammunition as well as three guns, including a fully automatic machine gun, were stolen. The machine gun has not been recovered. No one has been charged in the theft.
A Journal Sentinel investigation has exposed the break-in was tied to a botched undercover ATF sting in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood where agents set up a fake storefront to nab criminals selling guns and drugs. Another man, Maquise Jones, sold agents at the storefront one of the guns that was stolen from the agent's SUV. Wilder provided Jones with the gun, according to a letter to the court from Wilder’s attorney, Joanna Perini.
Jones plead guilty to possessing a stolen gun and was sentenced to 18 months in prison earlier this month. According to documents filed in Jones’ case, Wilder called Jones and asked him to sell the gun - a Sig Sauer .40 caliber pistol- for him.
Wilder told Jones he wanted $300 to $350 and Jones could keep the rest. The following day, hoping to make a quick profit, Jones contacted someone he knew as "Mike," who was actually an undercover ATF agent, the documents state.
The federal sting, dubbed “Operation Fearless,” was marred by litany of problems aside from the guns being stolen.
After losing their guns, the.
In addition, agents hired a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to promote the store, encouraging him to set up gun and drug deals and then turned around and arrested him on federal charges.
The Journal Sentinel reported Friday that agents also let go a felon who had come into their store with a gun and said he needed to shoot someone.
Lawyer convicted of '09 felony given green light to practice again
Stephen Compton, a Hartland man convicted of felony heroin possession in 2009 can practice law again, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Friday.
The reinstatement of Compton, whose license was suspended for two years retroactive to March 2010, came over the objections of two Walworth County Sheriff’s deputies who were involved in his 2009 arrest and prosecution.
“Both Deputy Sgt. (Jeff) Patek and Deputy Sheriff (Daniel) Long recognize Attorney Compton’s successful rehabilitation to date, but both men believe the period of Attorney Compton’s suspension has not been sufficient, given the seriousness of his criminal conduct,” the court wrote in its order.
Police reports prepared after Compton was arrested quote the lawyer as saying he began using illegal drugs in 2006 and that “he admitted being ‘coked up’ while handling legal cases in court,” according the Supreme Court’s opinion. During Compton’s reinstatement hearing, Patek testified that “Compton’s conduct before his arrest included possession and delivery of both heroin and cocaine.”
Compton was sentenced to one year in prison for the possession of narcotic drugs, though the prison time was stayed. He was also sentenced to one year of extended supervision and three years of probation.
The Supreme Court order said the justices agreed with the recommendation of James Winiarski — the referee who investigated and conducted a hearing on Compton’s motion to be reinstated. Winiarski noted that Compton, who has been working as a landscaper, has been drug free and actively participating in rehabilitation programs.
The court noted that an expert testified in Compton’s hearing that a person who is drug and alcohol free for five years has a 14% chance of a relapse. “…the referee said when it comes to trusting a lawyer to serve the public and the legal profession; a 14% relapse rate still needs to be addressed.” So the court ordered that as a condition of his reinstatement, Compton continue to participate in the state Bar’s Wisconsin Lawyers Assistance Program for two years.
Compton’s 2010 suspension was the third disciplinary action taken against him by the court. In 2002 he was reprimanded by the court for falsely recording his time in a contingency fee case. He was suspended for 60 days in 2008 for falsely billing the state public defender’s office for work that was actually done by an inmate. Compton, 48, was first admitted to the state Bar in 1992.
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Ho-Chunk tribe betting their poker games are legal
The Ho-Chunk Nation is standing firm behind its belief that the computerized poker games it offers at its Madison casino are legal, the tribe said in a statement issued today.
The statement is in response to an suit filed Tuesday by the state Attorney General’s office asking the federal court to issue an injunction ordering the tribe to stop offering the games The state contends that according to its compact agreement with the tribe, it's the Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison casino (formerly Dejope Bingo & Entertainment) is not permitted to offer Las Vegas casino game in its Madison facility. The games, known as Class III games, are only allowed at its flagship casino near Wisconsin Dells and two others.
The tribe argues their poker games are off-limits to state regulators because the house does not bank the games. In other words, the gamblers play against each other and not against the house. Therefore, the tribe argues the games fall into the Class II category — a section of the law that covers bingo, pull tabs and similar games.
“The games are legal. They are in line with the (National Indian Gaming Commission) policies and regulatory authority and with our internal Gaming Commission, agents, inspectors and auditors,” Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer said in a statement. “The regulatory authority of Class II non-banked poker resides with the federal government and the tribe, not the state.”
Last year and arbitrator ruled that the electronic poker games were Class III Vegas-style games, which would make them illegal in the Madison gambling hall. That decision, however, was later dismissed in federal court.
“The Ho-Chunk Nation welcomes an opportunity to have this issue resolved once and for all,” Greendeer’s statement said..
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Foley lawyer joins chorus of IRS critics
Add the law firm of Foley & Lardner to the list of folks attacking the IRS in the growing scandal over the agency's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status.
Cleta Mitchell, a partner in Foley's Washington D.C. office, is quoted in the Washington Post as basically calling IRS officials liars when they said the targeting of conservative groups was done by a group of low-level employees in Ohio. Mitchell represents True the Vote, a conservative group whose application for tax exempt status was delayed.
Foley is the largest law firm based in Wisconsin. It has offices throughout the country and in Asia and Europe.
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For-profit dialysis centers used more of expensive, dangerous drugs
An analysis of for-profit kidney dialysis centers showed they used more of an expensive and dangerous class of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulation agents (ESAs) than nonprofit facilities.
The controversial drugs, such as Amgen's Epogen, help raise levels of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. However, concern about the drugs has grown over the years because they have been overused and increase blood clots and the risk of heart attacks, stroke heart failure and death.
Conflicts of interest involving doctors and guidelines issued by the National Kidney Foundation also have been linked to increased use of the drugs.
In a report published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine researchers found that for-profit dialysis centers used much higher doses of the drugs than nonprofit centers.
The use continued even after the Food and Drug Administration issued a black box warning for the drugs.
Patients who switched from a nonprofit center to a for-profit had an average increase in drug dose of 55%, compared with an average decline in dose of 51% among those who switched from a for-profit to a nonprofit facility.
"Financial considerations may have played a role in ESA dosing in for-profit facilities," the authors wrote.
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Federal sentencing guidelines called for Hampton to receive 37 to 46 months in prison, calculated off the seriousness of the crime and Hampton’s criminal history.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Lipscomb recommended 36 months. U.S. District Judge J.P Stadtmueller gave Hampton 32 months, saying the offense was serious but his criminal history was relatively minor.
Hampton was previously convicted of marijuana possession and carrying a concealed gun, according to court records. He also received municipal tickets for theft, disorderly conduct and driving offenses, including drunken driving, records show.
Stadtmueller said a prison sentence was needed to send a message.
“The community is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence that has so affected and infected the near north side and south side of Milwaukee,” the judge said.
Last year, federal agents set up a fake storefront in Riverwest called Fearless Distributing in an effort to nab violent drug dealers and felons selling guns. Most of the roughly 30 defendants, however, do not have violent records.
Nine defendants have been sentenced in state and federal court. Besides Hampton and a man who earlier received 10 years in prison, the defendants have gotten sentences between 6 and 18 months. Two received deferred prosecutions. The rest are open and a few of those face long person terms, based on their criminal records.
The ATF sting, dubbed “Operation Fearless,” resulted in the seizure of 145 guns, officials said. Some firearms, however, came directly from stores such as Gander Mountain. Defendants were able to turn a quick profit because of the high prices paid by agents. Prosecutors and the ATF have not said how many guns came from stores.
The operation was plagued by problems and questionable practices, revealed in a Journal Sentinel investigation.
Agents hired a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to promote the store, encouraging him to set up gun and drug deals, and then turned around and arrested him on federal charges.
An agent’s guns, including a machine gun, were stolen from his vehicle. ATF has not recovered the machine gun. The sting.
A bipartisan group of powerful congressional members has demanded answers and the ATF launched an internal investigation.
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Journal Sentinel series on child abuse used for reporter training
The Journal Sentinel's "Fatal Care" series is part of a new training module produced by the Journalism Center on Children and Families at the University of Maryland. "Fatal Care," published in 2009, detailed the death of Christopher Thomas and other Milwaukee County children who died despite clear warning signs to child welfare officials that they were at risk.
The web-based training module, designed to help reporters who cover children's deaths, also includes video interviews with journalists from the Dallas Morning News, Washington Post and National Public radio.
Risk of opioid dependence wider than many think, editorial says
An online editorial Thursday in JAMA questions the belief that pain patients with a history of substance abuse are the only ones to worry about when prescribing narcotic painkillers for chronic, non cancer pain.
The paper takes issue with the long-held concept that only tiny percentage of opioid users develop dependence, noting that some research indicates it might be as high as one-third of patients.
Even low-risk patients given large enough doses are at high risk of having an overdose, writes Deborah Dowell, a physician with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
"Some physicians may think that only a small fraction of their patients are put at risk by taking high doses of opioids," Dowell wrote. "However, the risk of opioids stems primarily from these drugs, not from patients."
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Indianapolis police settle civil rights suit in police brutality case
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has settled a federal civil rights case with the mother of a teen-age boy beaten by officers in 2010, the Indianapolis Star reports.
The settlement amount was not disclosed in the case filed by the mother of Brandon Johnson. The incident brought the Indianapolis police the same sort of unwanted attention that of the beating of Frank Jude, Jr. brought the Milwaukee police.
In both cases, photos of the victims' injuries outraged the community.
In the Indianapolis case, no officers were fired.
Jude's lawsuit against the city and the Milwaukee Police Department as a result of his beating outside a Bay View party in 2004 was settled for $2 million. Seven Milwaukee officers were criminally convicted in federal court.
Milwaukee crime kingpin Michael Lock loses appeal in prostitution case
Milwaukee crime boss Michael Lock, who ran a ruthless enterprise for more than a decade, on Wednesday lost his appeal to overturn his conviction on running a prostitution ring -- the latest blow in his bid to reserve several convictions.
A state appeals court rejected Lock's arguments that in the prostitution case the judge and prosecutor made mistakes, he endured a trial delay and the charges were overlapping,
Last year, Lock lost an appeal to overturn his conviction on homicide, kidnapping and drug dealing charges.
Lock was convicted in 2008 of killing two rival dealers and of kidnapping and torturing a different dealer, for which he was sentenced to life in prison. He later was convicted of running a prostitution ring, pimping women, including his future wife. In federal court, he was convicted of running a mortgage fraud scheme.
Lock's organization, called the "Body Snatchers," sold drugs, kidnapped, tortured and killed other dealers, prostituted women across the Midwest and ran a mortgage fraud scheme. Lock expanded his illicit operations even as he worked as an informant for the FBI, twisting the criminal justice system to his advantage, a Journal Sentinel investigation found.
The murders followed a style used by the Body Snatchers: Lock would begin by developing a drug-buying relationship with a targeted dealer, increasing his purchases. Meanwhile, other members of his organization would do surveillance on the target. Lock would use his flock of prostitutes to entertain the targeted dealer, dulling his sense of suspicion.
Once Lock felt as.
A member of Lock's crew said Lock paid scores of Milwaukee police officers to help in his criminal enterprise. Two officers were later indicted on charges of assisting drug dealers, but prosecutors never said whether they worked for Lock. No one else was charged.
Lock and his uncle became informants for the FBI after they were arrested for drug dealing. Lock used that role as informants to set up his competitors, continuing to expand his illicit operations in the meantime.
Lock is serving life in prison.
Investigators think there are bodies buried by Lock's operation, likely under concrete, somewhere in Milwaukee. They are looking for at least four such bodies, according to a court document.
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Lax oversight of foster care agencies allows child abuse to continue
A story in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend revealed that a troubled foster care provider had stayed in business despite a scathing report a decade ago. More children entrusted to the agency had been harmed, and officials continued to raise questions about its financial practices.
Things aren’t so different here in Milwaukee. Four years ago, the Journal Sentinel’s Fatal Care series revealed deadly mistakes with the foster care system. Our investigation showed that 22 Milwaukee County Children died from 2004 to 2008 despite clear warning signs to the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare that they were at risk.
Despite reforms, those problems continue, as evidenced by the case of Angelica Belen earlier this month. Three of her children died in a fire when she locked them in a room, alone, and went to work. The bureau had received at least seven earlier reports about potential harm to her children, yet she was allowed to keep custody of them.
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Between 2007 and 2012, more than 58% of gun dealers were not inspected, the review found. Meanwhile, from 2004 and 2011, the number of violations found by inspectors increased by 276%. The review also found that gun dealers lost track of nearly 175,000 guns between 2004 and 2011.
The inspector general’s report on ATF, the largest examination of gun dealer licensing since 2004, noted the ATF didn’t have enough inspectors to keep up with inspections. Gun dealers increased by 16 percent to about 124,000 in fiscal year 2011. The figure is now about 132,000, according to ATF’s web site.
ATF has tried to focus on “high-risk” FFLs but the auditors said the agency was not tracking well enough whether that strategy was working, the review found.
The report also found the ATF’s revocation process can drag on for years – and gun dealers are allowed to sell firearms in the meantime. The number of revocations by ATF dropped from 125 in 2004 to 71 in 2011.
A Journal Sentinel investigation on gun shop regulation, “Wiped Clean,” in 2010 found that the ATF rarely revokes gun dealer licenses across the country, and the process can drag on in the courts for years.
The agency typically wins such cases, but gun stores can easily beat the ATF’s harshest action by having a relative, friend or employee pull a fresh license, the investigation found. The move wipes away the earlier violations.
The Journal Sentinel found more than 50 cases across the country, including in Wisconsin, in which the person whose license was revoked remains close to the gun-selling operation.
ATF officials said they were aware of the loophole, coined “phoenix from the ashes,” but they need firm proof to deny a license. Congress has limited ATF's authority to gather such evidence.
A West Milwaukee gun store was an example of the loophole. Badger Guns and its predecessor, Badger Outdoors, were top sellers of crime guns recovered by Milwaukee police for more than a decade. Over two years, six Milwaukee police officers were wounded with guns sold by Badger Guns or Badger Outdoors.
In 2006, ATF investigators recommended revoking Badger Outdoors' license, but there was no revocation. That license was surrendered, and co-owner Mick Beatovic retired.
The other owner, Wally Allan, went to work for his son, Adam Allan, who pulled a new license and changed the name to Badger Guns. Beatovic moved to Arizona but remained.
Badger Guns owner Adam Allan subsequently had his license revoked in 2011 after inspectors founds numerous serious violations.
Allan’s brother, Mike Allan, then opened Brew City Shooter's Supply. The store uses a model where customers had to be members to buy guns from the operation.
The new inspector general’s report on gun dealer regulation comes weeks after the Justice Department’s inspector general issue a report critical of certain aspects of the ATF’s regulation of explosives.
The inspector general is considering an independent review of an undercover gun-buying sting by ATF in Milwaukee beset by foul-ups and failures, uncovered the Journal Sentinel’s “Backfire” investigation.
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Medical conflicts of interest better eliminated than exposed
Donald Light, a fellow at Harvard University, offered an interesting take on the concept that drug companies and doctors should be required to publicy state their financial connections: Doing so doesn't eliminate the conflict of the interest.
Light, who researches institutional corruption in the development of prescription drugs, was quoted in a blog on Kaiser Health News. The item detailed how the Affordable Care Act will require drug and medical device companies to disclose payments to doctors beginning in 2014 on a new web site of by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Light said a better solution would be to simply outlaw such payments. As an example he cited Kaiser Permanete, which does not allow the doctors it employs to receive gifts or free drug samples.
“If we agree that the goal of medicine is to help patients become healthier, then these payments corrupt our goal,” Light said.
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The briefing was with high-ranking members of the ATF, although Acting Director, B. Todd Jones, did not attend, they said.
A letter from Jones answering the more than two dozen questions legislators posed earlier this year is still forthcoming, they said. No date was provided.
ATF officials did not dispute any of the Journal Sentinel’s key findings exposing flaws and foul-ups in the undercover sting aimed at snaring criminals selling guns and drugs, the sources said.
The Department of Justice Inspector General is considering an independent investigation in the wake of the newspaper’s findings. Still no word on when he will make a decision.
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In addition, agents used a man with a mental disability to set up gun and drug deals and later referred him for criminal charges. They paid him in cigarettes, merchandise from the storefront and cash.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) said Thursday – a day after the deadline legislators set for the agency to respond – that ATF officials agreed to meet on the Hill on Monday to discuss the operation.
ATF officials declined to comment Thursday on the upcoming meeting.
Editor's note: The headline and text of this blog item were changed to make clear ATF officials are scheduled to meet with congressional staff, not with members of Congress.
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Formal Flynn reopened the internal inquiry after a Jounal Sentinel investigation prompted the medical examiner’s office to change its ruling on the manner of Williams’ death from natural to homicide. After both internal reviews, the department’s Professional Performance Division concluded the officers did nothing wrong, despite apparent violation of three department rules. One requires officers to remain aware of the condition of prisoners. Another requires police to call for help immediately “if medical treatment becomes necessary.” A third requires them to write accurate and thorough reports.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm also reopened his investigation, which yielded the same result as Flynn’s. John Franke, named special prosecutor by Chisholm, convened an inquest. But despite the inquest jury’s recommendation that he do so, Franke did not issue misdemeanor charges against three officers involved in Williams' arrest. Richard Ticcioni put a knee across Williams’ back while applying handcuffs. Jeffrey Cline and Jason Bleichwehl each spent time in the front of a squad car while Williams struggled to breathe in the back. All three refused to testify at the inquest, citing their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. arrest should be charged with federal crimes; and the other into whether the Police Department has committed a series of civil rights abuses, possibly including Williams’ death in custody.
The
Tobin said last week he planned to wait for the outcome of the federal review before taking further action.
Reached Tuesday, he said he had just received Rose’s complaint and planned to review it.
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Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan K. Baker vowed Monday to place infant mortality at the top of the city's health agenda, and Mayor Tom Barrett called for a communitywide effort to reduce the rate at which Milwaukee children die before their first birthday.
The news conference at the Southside Health Center announcing the efforts was a short drive from where a 5-month-old baby died Sunday while sleeping beside her mother in an adult bed.
Near the podium from which Barrett and Baker spoke was a poster used by the city in its Safe Sleep campaign.
It was a life-size photo of an adult bed with a gravestone for a headboard.
Engraved in the stone: "For too many babies last year, this was their final resting place."
"We will have to change," Barrett said. "But real change requires real commitment. If we are serious about turning this around, then it is going to take each and every one of us."
The purpose of the news conference was to release the city's 2010 Fetal Infant Mortality Report, which examines the 499 infant deaths that occurred in Milwaukee from 2005 to 2008.
A story in Sunday's Journal Sentinel, titled "Empty Cradles," used the report and other sources to place Milwaukee's infant mortality crisis in context.
The story found:
• Babies in Milwaukee die at rate greater than in all but six of the nation's 53 largest cities.
• Black infants die in Milwaukee at about 2.5 times the white rate.
• In some parts of Milwaukee, the infant mortality rate is higher than in the Gaza Strip.
Barrett noted from the report that complications from prematurity account for more than half of all infant deaths.
Sudden infant death syndrome, including unsafe sleep and accidental suffocation, accounted for nearly one in five deaths.
Barrett said the city would play host to a summit on premature births in May.
Baker called the city's infant mortality rate a crisis, but one that can be addressed.
"This is something we can do," he said. "This is something we must do.
"The Health Department will make this our major health issue in the years ahead," he said.
The baby who died Sunday is the second Milwaukee infant this year to die while sleeping with an adult.
The child's mother, a nursing student, told investigators that it is her custom to sleep with her daughter to facilitate breast feeding. She had recently begun feeding the girl formula and was beginning to place the child in her own crib, according to a medical examiner's report.
The mother told investigators that she was playing with her daughter late Saturday and the child fell asleep in the mother's bed, according to the medical examiner's report.
The mother covered the baby with three comforters, which she pulled up to the girl's chest, according to the report.
The mother told investigators that she does not smoke, drink heavily or use drugs.
The medical examiner's report said the mother's apartment was clean and well equipped with baby supplies. There were no signs of smoking or alcohol use.
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The separate stories of their youth are told in one voice, at Bernat Rosner's request. He is able to retrace his journey into hell, slowly, over many sessions, describing for his friend the "other life" he has resolutely put away until then. Frederic Tubach, who must confront his own years in Nazy Germany as the story unfolds, becomes the narrator of their double memoir. Their decision to open their friendship to the past brings a special poignancy to stories that are all too horrifyingly familiar. Adding a further and fascinating dimension is the counterpoint of their similar village childhoods before the Holocaust and their very different paths to personal rebirth and creative adulthood in America after the war. | http://www.judaism.com/an-uncommon-friendship/dp/FJEIJ/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ron Grigg continues to bring the Dolphins to new heights as he begins his 11th season as the director of track & field and cross country and his 14th overall at JU.
Grigg became the director of track and field and cross country at JU in 2002 after serving as the associate head coach under former head coach Becky Motley for a year. Grigg originally came to JU in 1998 before leaving to serve as an assistant coach at Kansas State from 1999 to 2001.
Grigg has made the Dolphins’ track program a beacon in the Atlantic Sun Conference by winning the A-Sun Indoor and Outdoor Championships in each of the last seven seasons – earning “Coach of the Year” in all 14 of those titles as well as earning the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association South Region Women’s “Coach of the Year” in 2008.
In 2012, the Dolphins locked down their seventh A-Sun indoor title, while JU’s seventh outdoor championship passed UCF (2000-05, 6) for the most consecutive titles in A-Sun history.
Junior Charlene Charles became JU’s fourth All-America honoree after earning second team accolades for her performance in the NCAA Championship heptathlon. Freshmen Courtney Walker and Shanique Walker also represented JU at the US Junior Championships.
Along with the A-Sun title sweep in 2011, the Dolphins secured four of the top five individual honors at both meets. Senior Ronnisha Hall earned “Most Outstanding Performer” at both meets, while junior Stacey Young (outdoor) and Charlene Charles (indoor) each received “Most Outstanding Performer” accolades. Charles also got the “Most Outstanding Field Performer” at the indoor championship and sophomore Joane Pierre (indoor) and senior Unique Singleton (outdoor) earned “Most Outstanding Track Performer” for their efforts.
In 2009-10, the Dolphins became the first A-Sun school to win the Triple Crown after securing the cross country, indoor and outdoor track championships.
The JU women’s cross country team build on its second place finish in 2008 by claiming six of the top 14 runners in the conference meet to win its first A-Sun 18 11 consecutive years (2002-12). JU earned two Academic Progress Rate (APR) Public recognition award honors in the 2012 summer as the indoor (997) and outdoor (997) teams tallied near perfect 1,000 point scores to finish in the top 10 percentile following a four-year submitted data from 2007-08 through 2010-11. Since his return in 2001, the Dolphins have had more than 200 academic all-conference selections among the cross country and track teams., a former cornerback. | http://www.judolphins.com/mcc/coaches/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Juggler's World: Vol. 43, No. 1
Festivals
1991
April 12-13
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The annual Winnipeg Juggling Festival will feature as special guests this year Mike Vondruska and Ken Schultz. The festival will be held at Kildonan East High School, 845 Concordia Rd., and registration is $12. Contact Perry Rubenfeld; 474 Enniskillen Ave.; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Canada R2V0J4. Call 204/586-5785 (h).
April 13
Moscow, Idaho
The University of Idaho Juggling Club presents its second annual jugglefest. Unicycle and juggling workshops and contests. Contact Keli Craig; Box 3840; Moscow, ID 83843-0481; 208/882-1442; or call Jason Dearian 208/885-8756; Box 842 Wallace Center; Moscow ID 83843.
April 12-14
Columbia, Missouri
The Y's Jugglers will hold their 11th annual "Jugglefest '91" at the University of Missouri. As always, there is no registration fee, and activities will include workshops, a free public stage show, parade, picnic, prize raffles, parties and open juggling. Contact Y's Jugglers; c/o University YMCA; A022 Brady Commons; Columbia MO 65211; 314/882-1550.
April 20-21
Rochester, New York
The 14th Annual Rochester Institute of Technology Spring Juggle-In will be sponsored by the Rochester Juggling Club and RIT Recreation Dept. Featured artist is Mark Nizer, who will perform at a 7 p.m. show Saturday evening. Juggling will occur Saturday from 10-10, and from 10-5 on Sunday. Events include workshops, videotapes and a juggling equipment raffle. Contact Greg Moss; 479 Manse Lane; Rochester, NY 14625; 716/475-2610 (o) or 671-1143 (h).
April 25-27
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Jugglers Anonymous will host the 11th annual Sir Isaac Newton Memorial Juggling Festival in a new place - Friday and Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church on the corner of Putnam and Short streets, and Sunday at Shoaff Park in the Conklin Pavilion. Hours are Friday 11-11; Saturday 8 a.m. - 11 p.m and Sunday 9-5. Contact Jugglers Anonymous at 1655 Wells; Fort Wayne, IN 46808-3281. Call Dave Parnin 219/482-5217 or Charlie Willer 219/426-1655.
May 17-19
Lake Forest, Illinois
The Juggler's Spring Fling will again be held at Lake Forest College near Chicago. Contact Mike Vondruska; 143 Pershing; Bensenville IL 60106; 708/766-1437 (o).
June 24-28
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Movement Theatre International presents the 10th anniversary festival June 24-28 as an international clown-theatre congress. Activities include master classes (June 17-22 and July 1-12) and performances by more than two dozen individuals and groups from around the world during the congress. Keynote speaker will be Judy Finelli, artistic director of the Pickle Family Circus. Those interested in attending or in showcasing their work should contact MTI; 3700 Chestnut St.; Philadelphia PA 19104; 215/382-0600.
June 15
Everywhere!
The IJA's Annual Juggling Day will be celebrated this Saturday. The IJA urges affiliates and clubs to hold an event in honor of the IJA's 44th birthday. Call Perry Rubenfeld, affiliates coordinator, at 204/586-5785 for details.
July 16-21
St. Louis, Missouri
The IJA holds its 44th Annual Festival on the campus of Washington University. See the information and registration forms elsewhere in this issue.
July 26-28
Gardiner, Maine
The 10th Annual New England Vaudeville Festival will be at the Quimby Recreation Field. Performers slated to appear include Avner the Eccentric. New this year is the "yo" stage for yo-yo performance, and the "globe" stage for performances relating to the ecology and world peace. Proceeds will help restore Maine's oldest theatre, the Johnson Hall Opera House, into a full-time center for education and performance of variety arts. Contact Benny Reehl; 53 Dresden Ave.; Gardiner ME 04345; 207/582-3730.
August 17-18
Benton, Pennsylvania
The Red Rock Jugglefest will be at the Red Rock campground in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. (Located at the intersection of highways 487 and 118, between Wilkes Barre and Williamsport.) Cottages, tents and campers permitted, with discount rates for IJA members. There will be open juggling and games, as well as fishing, swimming and hiking. For more information, contact Tony Maurer; Box 285; RD 2; Benton PA 17814; 717/925-6581.
Aug. 28-Sept. 1
Verona, Italy
The 14th European Juggling Convention will be in the homeland of Enrico Rastelli. Organizers Jules Howarth and Doug Orton promise more details soon.
Sept. 8-15
Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR
The first juggling festival in the Soviet Union will be held in Tbilisi, the capital of this Soviet republic bordering Turkey. The $500 estimated package price includes round-trip air fare from Berlin, accommodations, food, sightseeing and registration. To reserve a place, send a check for 50 pounds Sterling ASAP made out to "Tbilisi Juggling Festival" to Haggis McLeod, 2 St. Edmund's Cottages, Bove Town, Glastonbury; Somerset; England. Call England 0458-34484.
Sept. 20-22
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Charlotte Jugglers Association hosts the second annual Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival. For more information contact Scott McFarlane at 513-3B W. 8th St.; Charlotte, NC 28202. Call 704/342-3868.
Sept. 21
Purdue University
The Purdue Juggling Club will host its third annual juggling festival in the Purdue Armory. The armory is perfect for unicycling, fire and high-flying action. The day will be capped off with a party. Contact: Arnold Ward 317/743-7228.
Oct. 11-13
Lodi, California
The 1991 Lodi Juggling Festival will be in Micke Grove Park and Zoo. For a flier, send SASE to Andrew Conway; 289 Surrey St.; San Francisco CA 94131-2930; 415/333-7576.
Dec. 27-Dec. 31 (Tentative)
Indonesia
The first Asian Circus and Juggling Festival will take place on the idyllic island of Gili Meno, just off the coast of Lombok. Gili Meno is surrounded with white beaches and coral reefs, a paradise for snorkeling and diving. Transport from Lombok will be provided. Accommodation for 150 jugglers will be in cabins, and there are several restaurants on the island. The final day will be spent in the city of Mataram on Lombok for a public show, parade and New Year's party. Contact Klaus & Zubadiah Ballier; J1.Pelikan 16; Mataram-Lombok-NTB; Indonesia; 0062-(0)364-23447.
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[JUR. The review recommends implementing identification cards, including biometric visas [eGov backgrounder] for foreign nationals by 2008; performing border checks before residents leave their home nations; counting the number of people that enter and exit by 2014; handling 90 percent of asylum claims within 6 months; and strictly enforcing laws banning employers from hiring illegal residents. Home Secretary John Reid [official profile] told the UK House of Commons [official website] Tuesday that the planned overhaul came in response to weaknesses identified in the IND, particularly when Prime Minister Tony Blair fired former Home Secretary Charles Clarke [JURIST report] after authorities freed more than 1,000 foreign criminals [BBC timeline; JURIST report] at the end of their prison sentences without considering deportation. BBC News has more. | http://www.jurist.org/paperchase/2006/07/uk-home-office-plans-to-toughen.php | 2013-05-18T10:32:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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US: Boisset Family Estates seals Raymond Vineyard deal
By just-drinks.com editorial team | 7 September 2009
Boisset Family Estates, the US division of French wine producer Boisset, has closed a deal to acquire Raymond Vineyard & Cellar from Japan's Kirin Holdings.
Boisset Family Estates said late last week that it has completed its acquisition of Raymond Vineyard, announced last month and which represents its first winery acquisition in California's Napa Valley.
Financial details were not disclosed.
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My URL field has disappeared. What can I do to replace it? I have just downloaded and re-installed version 3.0.5, and still have the same problem. You can e-mail me at <XXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX>.
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Downloaded and re-installed Firefox, version 3.0.5 -- same problem, (very persistant!).
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Hi,Presuming you are referring to Firefox, please right-click on the menu bar in the browser, and see if the 'Navigation Toolbar' option is checked. If not, check it accordingly and you are all set. If the issue persists, let me know so that I can follow up further.Regards
Menubar DOES have "Navigation Toolbar" checked. What now?
Okay ..now, please navigate to View > Toolbars > Customize...; in the 'Customize Toolbar' window that comes up, click on the 'Restore Default Set' button, and click 'Done' thereafter ..check if the issue persists now as well.Keep me posted.Regards
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Aha! That did the trick! Many, many thanks!I now have a "complete" Firefox home-page!I don't think that I ever "unchecked" these items... but mayve a gremlin appeared in the night and did (I leave this PC running 24/7/365 so that my viruschecker, spyware checker, and MS updates can do their thing in the wee hours!Again, many thanks!-- Dave
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Need to change ink cartridge in HP deskjet 3054 printer. don't know how to remove cartridge to replace it. how eject?
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how do i get an answer? have to go to e-mail?
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When you get to the cartridges Lightly press down on the cartridge to release it, and then pull the cartridge out to remove it from its slot. See if that works.
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took it our. put new one in. but now there's a carriage jam. says i should clear it. eeeek. how?
Try turning the machine off, wait 60 seconds and turn it back on. See if that clears it. Before you do that make sure the cartridges are in tight .
Thank you Richard, but I solved it. It was surprising to me how hard it was to get the cartridge out and then to reinsert the new one. I was fearful of breaking something. I don't actually think there was a real jam. I took the paper out, reinserted it and started it over and it worked.This is a very helpful "service". | http://www.justanswer.com/printers/64z55-need-change-ink-cartridge-hp-deskjet-3054-printer-don-t.html | 2013-05-18T10:43:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hello, I have a 2001 Volkswagen Passat 1.8T... A circule with a exclamation poped on the dash and the BREAK is blinking what does this mean...When you BREAK light is blinking
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Is also the abs light lit up on the dash?
The exclamation point on the dash with the circle around it is the light to have your front brakes inspected, either because they are too low and need to be changed or the wires for the sensor have been broken.
The brake light when it flashes will normally mean either you are driving with the emergency brake pulled up or the brake system is low with fluid ( when your brake pads get low in material the brake fluid will be pushed further into to the brake caliper so the fluid will drop in the resivior)
Yes the ABS is solid and the BREAK light is blinking . Is there a diagram of the picture of the break sensor wire you could show me?
So, you may have more than one issue.
Normally when the eclamation light is on you will need to have your front brakes inspected.
However when you have the BRAKE light on and flashing and the ABS light on solid, there is normally an issue with the abs system. You will need to have the fault codes read out. However your generation passat have issue's with ABS control modules, so reading out the faults may not be possible. The only remedy is to replace the ABS control module if you cannot communicate to the ABS control module.
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DirectionsPreheat oven to 375 degrees F. & line a standard sized muffin tin with 12 foil cupcake liners. Place a Nilla Wafer, flat side down, in the bottom of each liner.In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, yogurt, sugar, vanilla extract, lemon juice & egg & beat with an electric mixer until smooth & creamy. Spoon the mixture evenly into the cupcake liners, filling each about 2/3 full.Bake for 15 minutes or until the centers are almost set. Remove from the oven & allow the cakes to cool completely, about 1 hour. The cakes will puff up while baking but will sink in the center while cooling, making a perfect pocket for cherry filling.Once the cheesecake cups are cool, spoon one tbsp cherry pie filling onto the top of each cake. Refrigerate until ready to serve. The cakes are best served cold, so refrigerating at least 2 hours is recommended.WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PLUS: 3
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Hot out of the wrapper. Great pop, nice feel.
No warranty. I have about 50-75 hits and it is all but exploded... Cracked all up, was good while it lasted, but not good enough to ever buy one again, I will stick with Miken for now and I would encourage others to do so as well!
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