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Report On Our Organisation. Founding Congress Of The KPD (Spartakus) — Hugo Eberlein
Hugo Eberlein's report on organisation presented to the founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacist league) in 1918.
Submitted by Steven. on November 9, 2010
The founding congress of the Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (Spartakusbund) / Communist Party of Germany (Spartacist league) took place in Berlin from 30. December 1918 to 1. January 1919.
Only few days later came the 'Spartacist' uprising; Luxemburg, Liebknecht and later Jogiches were murdered and the party was made illegal.
Later in the year 1919 the party published a pamphlet called "Bericht über den Gründungsparteitag der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (Spartakusbund) — Report on the founding congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacist league) — which is mainly the same reports that were printed in "Die Rote Fahne" during the congress.
The verbatim report of the congress was unknown until it was published by Hermann Weber in 1969 (Der Gründungsparteitag der KPD — Europäische Verlagsanstalt Frankfurt). The basis of Weber's text is a typed manuscript, which was found in the papers of Paul Levi, which is deposited in the 'Library of Political Studies' in New York. Weber's book is a more or less complete report of the discussions at the congress.
The main reports at the congress were:
· The crisis of the USPD — by Karl Liebknecht
· Greeting speech — by Karl Radek
· The National Assembly — by Paul Levi
· Economical Struggles — by Paul Lange
· Our Program — by Rosa Luxemburg
· Our Organization — by Hugo Eberlein
· International Conference — by Hermann Duncker
Fragments from the congress are published in English in: "The German Revolution and the debate on Soviet Power" published by Pathfinder Press 1986. The speeches of Luxemburg are published in English in several books.
All the main reports were made by members of the Central of the Spartacist league, but in the discussions also former members of the IKD (Internationale Kommunisten Deutschlands/International Communists of Germany) took part.
We have translated the report of Hugo Eberlein because we think it gives a contribution to the positions of the German communists on the organizational question. The basis of these positions was not something completely new; they can be traced back to the discussions within the Second International. Especially in the writings of Luxemburg which should be known to English speaking people, E.g. "Organizational Question of Social Democracy" (1904), "Mass strike, Party and Trade Unions" (1906), "What does the Spartacist league want" (1918), "Our Program and the political situation" (1918).
The differences between the 'Russian' and the 'German' positions on organization continued into the Third International and it is still a question of difference between the 'Leninist' position and the 'German' position.
The split between the KAPD (Kommunistische ArbeiterPartei Deutschlands/Communist Workers Party of Germany) and the 3. International was mainly over three fundamental positions; the question on taking part in elections to capitalist assemblies, the question of the trade unions, and the question of organization. The question on organization had a common basis among most German communists in 1918-19 but later the KAPD continued to defend the 'German' position whereas the KPD left this path and at least from 1924-25 after the so-called Bolshevisation of the KPD defended the 'Leninist' position.
Neither German nor English is the mother tongue of the translator. Thus errors are bound to appear. The reader just has to live with that.
Harry Fyhr
Fourth point on the agenda.
To this comrade Eberlein has the word.
Comrade Eberlein: After the interesting reports and the lively discussions of today it is most difficult now at this moment, to begin to speak about membership books and contribution stamps. But anyway, it is necessary that we occupy ourselves with these matters for a short while and I ask for your attention.
The matter as such would be very easy, if we could just take over the membership books of the old organizations, just like the independents took them over from the dependents. But conditions are different today, and the tasks of our organization are completely different from the tasks of the old organizations that we have come from. The old organizations were already in their names and in all their activity election societies. The new organization shall not become an election society but a political struggle organization, and the question is easily posed: will we be an election society as until now, or will we in the future really become what we have stated as our goal — a revolutionary struggle organization? If we agree to the latter, we must leave out from the beginning what have been the organizational foundations until now, we must begin to build up from the bottom and create a basis for the organization which will make it possible to shape the new building so that the different locals as well as the whole organization will be able to come to grips with the tasks set up for them. How did it use to be? The social democratic organizations were election societies. Their whole organization is founded on opening up and carrying through preparations for and agitation to the elections; and it was in reality so that there existed a little life in the organizations only just before and in the middle of the election campaigns. The rest of the time it was deserted and dead in the organizations. All means were searched for in order to fill up the time in-between the elections. Through the years the organizations of the social democratic party were transformed more and more into education societies, in order to have something to fill up these empty times between the different election campaigns. But we have seen, that also the educational work in the organizations have been defective, that it has in no way filled the task to educate the workers to conscious class fighters. We have experienced that what was transmitted to the workers as education in the organizations, was nothing but a sort of varnish which was washed away by the first rainstorm; and as the first rainstorm came in August 1914, we had to experience that from all the teachings of socialism to the members of the organizations damn little have remained, cheerfully they followed the banners of imperialism, the banners of the ruling classes, they had forgotten everything that had been teached and preached about socialism in the organizations.
The arrangements of the organizations were further of such an order that throughout the years a bureaucracy developed within them which let a growing intellectual life and an interest in the activity of the organization completely suffocate. The election societies were more and more transformed into control institutions, which actually had the right to criticize what the leadership and the managing committees had done — and often a very lively critique was made against what the managing committees of the old organizations had done — but the end result was always that they said: But it is all of the past, you can criticize it now, you can excite yourselves over what has happened; but now it has happened, it has been decided and executed by the managing committees and by the Central. In order to calm the comrades they have said to them: In the future we will do it better, and as a consequence it was always again the same, the decisions of the Central, the leadership had actually been accomplished when the members had the possibility to take a stand on the questions.
The apparatus of the organizations were so clumsy that it was impossible to accomplish quickly and immediately any operations, any actions of the proletariat. We all know how things happened in the old organizations: When once a new idea was brought in, when once a question was on the agenda which had to be acted fast upon, it necessarily took weeks in order to reach a result and actually do something, and usually then it was too late. Thus everything that we have experienced in the old organization we should not take over into the new organization. Neither the form nor the activity nor the contents of this organization can we just schematically transfer to the new organization, we must adapt the new organization to the actual needs, must make it elastic, must make it able for struggle, must prepare it for the actions of the future. Therefore it is necessary that we create an organizational foundation, which correspond to these pretensions.
Party comrades, the new organization of the communist party was constituted yesterday morning. You cannot demand from me, that I present to you an elaborate organizational statute today. You will not suppose that I have even only one hour to spare to present in detail the different paragraphs of the new organizational statute. Now we stand into the actions, we stand in the middle of the political struggle and there is no time for messing around with paragraphs, and nobody from the Central have had the possibility to perform and accomplish such preparatory work. You have just elected a commission, which shall discuss the program, and you have at the same time given this commission the order to discuss the organizational statute. It will have to be done, unfortunately it will have to be done. We will have to spend some time on this in order to accomplish this work, even if it will be extremely difficult to do this in these stirred times. But, party comrades, the important thing is first of all that we not only in the Central, but also in the different locals, in the different towns, are clear on how the new organization should and must be shaped in general. Thus it will be my task to give you some brief suggestions, which you shall take with you and discuss with your members; and we demand that you on the basis of these discussions, on the basis of your own considerations, make your proposals as soon as possible to this elected commission. Then the commission has the task to examine these proposals and crystallize from them what is necessary in order to find the new form of organization.
Thus I will present to you no decisive proposals. I will say you no more than what I imagine to be so to speak the foundations for the building of the new organization. I have tried briefly to describe to you that the forms of the old organizations have become impossible for us, that we not at all need to have at hand the old organizational statute in order to take out what we could transfer to us. Thus we must build up the organization in a new way, must adapt it to the present economical conditions, must adapt it to the events which in our opinion will have to happen in the nearest future.
A further question now is how we shall build our organization, and then the first thought would naturally be that we look at the earlier organizational relations of the Spartacist league and ask ourselves if we perhaps can continue to build on that foundation. But that will also soon show itself to be almost impossible. How was the organization of the Spartacist league up until now? You know that for years we had to have an illegal activity and that on the basis of this illegal activity a firm form of organization was impossible. Comrade Meyer described for you yesterday how the Spartacist league came into being at the beginning of the war. We had in these four years no time to discuss how we wanted to organize ourselves. We were in these four years simply put before facts from day to day and had to decide on the basis of these stated facts, without asking the question if an organizational statute could thereby be made.
Thus, after a small group of comrades in Berlin in 1914 had pleaded to the views of the Spartacist league, it was immediately tried to get in contact with all parts of the empire and get in touch with the comrades who shared our political views. It was possible, by and by to take up and remain in contact with comrades in approximately 140 towns and communities who had united like us in Berlin. The task of the Central, which emerged for us in those days, was to take over the political and spiritual leadership, to be at hand with agitational material for the comrades, to deliver them leaflets, pamphlets and every kind of agitational material, which is necessary in the times of illegality. But, of course, this work could not be made according to plans, because the comrades of the Central were without exceptions relieved. They came into prisons, penitentiaries, or the trenches. But as soon as anyone had liberated themselves from this involuntary holiday, they took up again their activity at once.
Then, allow me to say some words about the Central. It has not got away lightly today and yesterday, you had so much to criticize about it. How does the matter really stand? We would of course be more happy with the situation if we had become support from the comrades in the provinces, not only financial but also spiritual in the form of material etc. But during the four years only remarkably few comrades from the provinces have come to us and said: Here you have spiritual support, I now place myself at disposal, we will wage the struggle against reaction together with you. Yes, the comrades came, but they wanted to have something from us, they wanted leaflets and agitational material, they wanted to have everything but they brought us nothing. And now when the time has come when we can appear in public, when we can take up a position on every question in public, then I ask you to consider the extremely difficult work which the Central has performed in these years and the difficulties it has had to struggle with in these four years when at occasions only one or two members of the Central were at disposal and meeting with other comrades. And when these few comrades have done the work, it is easy to criticize their activity. We do not fear this critique and we are convinced that we have served the cause of the proletariat, but I would like to reject unjust attacks on the Central. When it has been demanded today that the Central must be changed, and when a young comrade said that these men of the Central must be removed, that immediately new men must be elected, then I ask these young comrades: What have you done in these four years when you demand the removal of the comrades who have fought for the cause in these four years? When we take into account what we have done it must offend us when a young comrade comes here and says: These people are incapable, they must be thrown out and others must be put at their places.
Party comrades, we are of course subject to your choice, you are in the position to remove the Central if it does not have your confidence, but do not forget the circumstances! Therefore I ask you, before the new elections, to take a close look at the comrades whom you want to elect into the Central and whom you will call your leaders in public. This is especially important in a time when we approach a lot of continuous developments and when the situation can change every day. You have heard that yesterday in the executive council it has been spoken of once more to place Berlin under martial law. What will be the consequences of this? That the comrades who have taken over the activity and the leadership here, will one day fill up the penitentiaries and prisons once more. Therefore you must look twice and three times at the comrades who you will entrust the leadership in these difficult times.
The organization of the Spartacist league could in these four years only be a particularly loose one. Everywhere we have tried to establish connections with the comrades and supported them as much as possible. The comrades had the task to establish the organization in other towns. Then it was not sufficient to insist that in the different parts of the country you attract as many members as possible, then we could not say: First see to it that you have your membership books and stamps, but that leaflets and pamphlets were brought among the comrades as fast as possible, that there were comrades who were courageous enough to distribute the material. We often experienced the comrades returning the material because they did not possess this courage. Then a membership book was of no use to us. Today it can be different. Today it is no longer that dangerous, today many will have the courage who did not have this courage half a year ago. Today we can begin to establish a firm organization and gain members for our organization, and to continue the activity among the members.
Party comrades, I will not frighten you with the martial law. We are not afraid of it; we were not afraid as it was the order of the day to fight against the capitalist class, against the bourgeoisie, and we will not be frightened away when the fight is against Scheideman & Co. who today have the power in their hands. I only mention this in order to show that also the form of organization of the Spartacist league in the way it has been until now, cannot form the basis of the new organization, which shall be made.
As we on one hand can not take the old election societies as our basis and on the other hand can not take the other forms of organization of the Spartacist league, then we must ask ourselves which form of organization is then suitable. I may then refer to one thing. It is today correctly referred to by comrade Luxemburg that since the revolution completely new creations have arisen that have taken over the power. By that I think on the workers and soldiers councils. Then it will be necessary that we consider carefully; when we support the workers councils, when we demand that they shall take in their hands all economical and political power, would it then not be useful, in connection to these workers and soldiers councils to find the form of organization which for us will be the best and most desired. We demand from the workers that they shall establish shop councils, factory councils and industrial councils, which shall occupy themselves with the total administration of the factories, which in the coming transformation of the whole state organism shall be able to take over all industry and not only that: They shall also have the political task to take the power in their hands, in order to represent the interests of the working class and carry through the demands of the working class; would it then perhaps not be useful that we direct our attention to see if it is possible to build our party organization in such a way that we no longer organize our members solely according to where they live, but also in the factories, in the workshops, perhaps introduce our party organization in the whole industry, that we elect our representatives in the factories and try to unify the representatives of the members in the factories into communities, to associations inside the factories.
In my opinion this has an enormous advantage over the earlier forms of organization because, as all workers in the factories are together it can easily be seen how everybody are organized and through the organized comrades we will have a big influence on each worker in the factory and it is easy to meet for discussions. The representatives of the factories, especially from the smaller and medium towns shall have to organize into conferences of the representatives, to which the factories of one town shall send their representatives, they constitute a committee, which shall be the executive committee of the town. It is of course evident that this form of organization shall not be made only in the big factories, but that also the party comrades of smaller workshops, of small companies, shall unite in organized groups, which shall then send their representatives to the executive committee.
We must take into consideration that also those who do not work in these factories shall have the possibility to organize themselves and join the organization of the town. It could be possible to organize special meetings of the unemployed in the bigger towns and organize them in the same manner, and the places where there are no factories, where there are pure living areas, bind the form of organization to the living areas. It is not essential if this or that comrade has the possibility to take part in the arrangements of the organization in the factories or to be active in the living areas. But in this manner it should be possible to organize the workers in the towns better and to have a survey over what can be raffled together of the organization of the towns and, what is most important, to have a form of organization which can also be able to actions. The possibility will exist at any time to reach the comrades when they are active in the factories and to get them fast out in action. Of course, this is better when it is a question of carrying out any action of the organization, than as in the old organizations to have to rely on the living areas, which must have several days' notice.
However this form of organization cannot be transferred automatically to all districts. We have in the big towns where there are both industrial areas and living areas quite different possibilities of organization. In Berlin we have districts where there are nothing but factories to which the workers travel in the morning and which they leave in the evening in order to go to their homes in other districts; and other places we have districts where enormous masses of workers live but where there are no factories. At those places, where the factories are, we can build up the factory organization; however in the districts where the workers live and don't work we can organize according to living areas.
Party comrades, that would be the basis on which we could build our organization.
It would be necessary with this form of organization to give the different districts as much freedom from the whole of the organization as possible, that from top and down it is not schematically decided: You must do so and so; and that the different factories and districts are given the possibility to find the form of organization which will be necessary under their particular conditions, and that as a basis only one thing is important: That the total apparatus of the organization is elastic, that all the workers can be called together, that the ability of action is guaranteed by the form of organization.
Further we are of the opinion that the old system of subordination of the different districts under the Central must end and that the different district organizations and factory organizations must have complete autonomy. They must be independent in their activities, they must not always wait for the directions from the top, they must have the possibility to go into action on their own, without always for the Central to have the right to say: You should do this or you shouldn't do that. However, of this form of organization damn little has materialized. The locals that have until now initiated an independent activity are very few and I can count them on the fingers of one hand. We would have been very happy when we had heard from the different locals and districts what they have done, instead of always being met with the question: What shall we do; or send us leaflets or this or that. Thus we are in no way so violent as you have today described us and that we as the Central Council want to execute autocratic power; and you must therefore not take this amiss when I have been excited because of the unfair reproaches that have been made against us. No other possibilities existed than to execute dictatorial power because the comrades in the provinces have done damn little.
We expect that our new form of organization will guarantee the autonomy of the different districts, and that the Central mainly will have the task to take over the intellectual and political leadership and to condense what is going on around in the country, to educate and support the organization around in the country insofar as it is possible with the strength which exists in the Central. We have always tried to endavour to draw the best heads to Berlin, to let the best heads of our party, the best theoreticians co-operate in our work in order to really be in the position to take over the political and intellectual leadership of the movement. And if your wishes are not satisfied in this respect, if you are of the opinion that the best heads are out there in the provinces, then send them to Berlin and elect them into the Central.
Further, we are of the opinion that the question of the press can not be settled centrally, that the local organizations everywhere must have the possibility to establish their own papers and to publish their own leaflets and pamphlets. In practice it has however shown itself that for this unfortunately not even a little understanding among the comrades is present. Some comrades have attacked us and said: You publish a paper but what use shall we have of that, we can not use it, we will publish our own paper, and as they have published a paper it has shown itself to be not a paper, but at most a leaflet; but the people wants a daily paper and not a piece of paper where a theoretical article is printed. Or when they have established a paper on their own, they then come to us: Here is the bill, now pay. Yes comrades, when we all had received the means that we should have received, then it would have been possible to put the desired amounts at disposal.
The different towns, which now will have to establish their memberships as soon as possible must unite to form districts, and these districts will in turn elect their representatives to the Central, who together with the comrades in the Central will establish the enlarged executive, which will have to meet frequently in order to be in the position to decide on the questions which concerns the general situation.
Regarding the division of the districts I neither can nor will make any definite proposals today. You have earlier, by the elections to the program commission already stated that you attach no importance to the division of the districts. That is perhaps correct in regard to the program commission. As however the program commission at the same time is an organizational commission I would have wished that my proposal, which I made earlier, had been approved. Because in the question of organization it is really important that the representatives of the districts are represented in the commission, firstly in order to find a sensible division of the districts, but then also to take into account the particular conditions of the different districts in the making of the organizational statutes in the commission. Indeed I do not conceive the organizational statutes as the former organizational statutes with perhaps 300 or 350 paragraphs, but I wish that the different locals and districts are given the greatest possible freedom, and that we are not presented with long conditions from the organizational commission which the local and district organizations will see only as an obligation and not as a liberation from fetters.
Perhaps it is correct to divide the districts by the different countries, and that perhaps Eastern and Western Prussia constitute one district, then perhaps the Costal areas with Bremen and the former Duchy of Brunswick, then Brandenburg and the province of Saxony, the former Kingdom of Saxony, then Mid-Germany, Bavaria, Württemberg and Baden all form their own districts. That is only suggestions in order to show you how the division of districts is possible. The decision is the task of the commission, but as you are assembled here today you should most likely wish to get in touch with the comrades from the districts and then my proposals might be of use.
This should be by and large what I have to present to you. Thus I imagine our organization in this way: The different districts elect their representatives, the Central has its seat in Berlin and the representatives of the different districts are elected to this Central and then together with the members of the Central they form an extended executive which meet perhaps every four weeks, and which of course must meet more frequent when necessary. The enlarged executive, the members of the Central would thus form a body which has the possibilities, at least temporarily, until we can look further ahead, until we can take a view of the political situation better that we can do now, and find other forms of organization.
I don't know if I shall undertake to give you more detailed descriptions, to describe to you the district conferences, the party congresses, the agenda for the party congresses and everything belonging to such matters. You all know that in our optimism we are of the opinion that the coming weeks and months will bring changes, which could render these discussions unnecessary. Therefore I will not take away from you more of the measured time which still is at our disposal today. I only ask you to take with you home what has been said, think through the matters and send us your proposals as soon as possible, so that the commission can start to function as soon as possible.
I have been given the task to report to you one more thing. It regards the agreements with the former International Communists; and as the comrades think it is important, I shall present the wording to you. It reads: "In regard to their publications the local groups of the Spartacist league are autonomous. The Central... to protest."
That would thus be what the comrades have wanted. You have heard that in my presentation I have gone further than the comrades themselves wanted, and in the commission ways must be found as soon as possible to create an organizational form which we need. But we must take into consideration that we in these days cannot and must not lay particular stress on these small organizational matters. We will, as far as possible, in the coming weeks and months leave these matters to your own decision in the locals. Thus you must not expect to receive decrees from the Central: You shall design the membership books in this or that manner; but go back to your home towns, gather the members together and give them membership cards and contribution lists or whatever you imagine. Comrades, at this moment that is not the main question. The important thing now — and I repeat that at the end of my presentation — is not a pretty printed membership book, the important thing is not for us to have a membership book where the stamps are nicely pasted as was the case earlier — the important thing is that we create an organization, into which we will have members who are convinced of the teachings of socialism, who are convinced supporters of our party, but who are also able and willing to stand on our side and who are prepared for the coming days of action, who direct their whole thinking to the coming actions. Then we will easily overcome the petty difficulties of organization and forms of organization.
(Lively applause)
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The Emergence of Kosher Barbecue
Replication Without Consumption
By Daniel Vaughn
Cooking barbecue like the masters is something plenty of us aspire to do. Thousands of videos and cookbooks have been published on the matter, but the best way to know the quality you're aiming for is to experience it firsthand. Take a bite of a beef rib in Taylor or snap into a sausage in Luling or savor some sliced brisket in Austin. Continued and constant examination using the sense of taste is often the first step in cracking the code to barbecue perfection.
Now, imagine replicating those flavors by just looking at all that barbecue. It might even be right in front of you, but the most you can take in is the smell. That's the challenge for barbecue cooks in the emerging realm of Kosher barbecue.
"The issue we have is that I don't know what I'm up against," is how Izzy Eidelman described it to me at his new Brooklyn restaurant, Izzy's Smokehouse. "I don't know what non-Kosher barbecue tastes like. I have to go based on what I'm seeing."
Eidelman keeps a Kosher diet, and so trying non-Kosher barbecue—even in the name of research—is out of the question. And if he can't taste the best, how did he even become interested in barbecue in the first place? Well, he was inspired by a fellow Kosher pitmaster, Ari White.
White is the owner of Gemstone Catering and the Wandering Que barbecue truck in New York. He's also a native Texan. He was born and raised in El Paso where he dated a girl who worked at the Rib Hut. "Wednesday night was $1 ribs, but Taco Cabana was the place to hang out at night." He left for a finance degree at Yeshiva University in New York, and stuck around. That world left him unfulfilled, so he started a deli, Ari's Kosher Deli. "My wife and I opened it with all of our wedding money," he said. They ran it for three and a half years and started a catering company at the same time. The catering company—especially the barbecue—became the focus.
A platter of Ari White's barbecue
Eidelman told me he was first introduced to barbecue at a pop-up event held by White. Eidelman tried the pulled beef sandwich, and it was a culinary epiphany. "I was like holy s—, that's amazing." He eventually started working with White as an unpaid intern over a summer learning the trade. "He's my inspiration," Eidelman said about White. "This guy is the pioneer of Kosher barbecue."
Ari White and Izzy Eidelman
It took Eidelman a while to get the hang of this new brisket cooking method. The first time he tried smoking his own, he used a gas grill. "It was the most disgusting thing I've tasted in my life," he said. He actually wasn't much of a cook at all. "Four or five years ago, I'd never cooked eggs in my life," he confessed. I asked if his barbecue skills have helped him with the rest of cooking skills. "No," he said, before adding, "well, I guess I can cook a prime rib."
During a recent visit to Izzy's, Eidelman peppered me with questions, as did his uncle and business partner, Jacob Baltz, and a few friends. "How does it compare to Franklin?" one asked. Another wanted to know if the beef rib was as good as Hometown Bar-B-Que's in the nearby Red Hook neighborhood. I took the interrogation in stride. They couldn't know for themselves, so they sought an honest outside opinion.
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It's not as good as either, but I don't think that was a surprise to anyone. Billy Durney's beef ribs at Hometown are masterful, and Franklin's brisket isn't going to be matched at a joint opened less than a year ago by a barbecue newcomer. But the barbecue at Izzy's was very good, and a heck of a lot better than some recent efforts in New York. There's a palpable passion in their outlook on barbecue, and Eidelman has gone to great lengths to use a wood-fired smoker from J&R Manufacturing. It's a joint I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.
A platter of barbecue from Izzy's Smokehouse
The beef rib was tender, just salty enough, with a pleasant smokiness from a literal mixed bag of hardwoods (Eidelman orders cheaper, unsorted bags containing hickory, oak, cherry, beech, and ash). It was a beef rib I'd be happy to order again, and at $32-per-pound, it better be good. The brisket is even higher, maybe the most expensive in the country at $40-per-pound (Hometown's is $28-per-pound). The brisket was impressive, but I'd give the beef rib an edge. "Tell me what I'm missing by not going to Franklin," Eidelman finally pleaded after I'd eaten a second slice of brisket. I told him that would be cruel, but assured him that his barbecue was far above average. His customers seem to agree as well since he cooks as many beef ribs as possible, and still sells out every day.
The high prices aren't entirely within Izzy's control. Of course the rent in Crown Heights is expensive, and the Kosher beef they use is astronomical. Just a couple Kosher beef companies supply the New York market, so they control the pricing and the supply. Brisket is between $7- and $8-per-pound raw. Beef ribs, even at $9-per-pound raw, are hard to get. "The top supermarkets have first dibs on everything," Izzy explained. He orders 20 cases (100 racks) of beef ribs every day. "I get five cases if I'm lucky. On a normal day I get two cases," or ten racks of ribs. His customer base is 95 percent Jewish, and they can't get enough, sometimes ordering a rack of ribs to-go in order to have something to eat over the Sabbath when cooking is forbidden for the Jewish community.
Many are probably unfamiliar with the rules of Kosher cooking. Going way back to the Old Testament, Leviticus provides some of the earliest rules for Kosher eating. In chapter 11, verse 26, Yaweh told Moses, "Every Animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean." That eliminates pork (and many other animals) from the diet, hence the focus on beef ribs instead of pork, but keeping Kosher brings with it a whole set of challenges. Kosher meat is a little different than standard fresh beef. After it's slaughtered, "you have to drain the blood and go through the salting process." Eidelman described it like a salt brine that must be accounted for when seasoning. It's why he uses a 12:3:1 pepper to paprika to salt ratio rub; the brine makes the meat already salty.
Using Kosher meat alone isn't enough. A Rabbi must bless the restaurant, the smoker, and the tools used to prepare and cut the meat. No dairy can be served on the premises, and Eidelman has to close on Saturday, the biggest potential day of business.
In my old job, my bosses would test my patience with the adage "It's not a problem; it's an opportunity." I always nodded, but rarely took it to heart. At Izzy's, it might as well be a mantra. They don't view the Kosher diet as a limiting factor. It actually helps to spur on innovations like smoked fried chicken, veal bacon, pulled beef empanadas, and something they call lamb-cetta which is lamb belly that's rolled and cured like pancetta. They even make a great dairy-free mac & cheese, and even some excellent dairy-free "cream" pies.
How did the barbecue at Izzy's get so popular so fast? There isn't much competition out there for Kosher barbecue. Uncle Milt's in Chicago opened a few years back, and JoeBob's Kosher barbecue sells is from a trailer sporadically in Austin, but it's mostly an untapped market. After all, barbecue fans are happy to pay Eidelman for the most expensive brisket in the country. But is it worth it? If it's the only way you can eat real barbecue, it's hard to argue against it.
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Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Grayslake Central's Anthony Fitzgerald (left) throws to first while trying to tag out Woodstock's Chanc McEstes during the sixth inning of Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Grayslake Central players celebrate after winning Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal against Woodstock in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Woodstock's John Kruse (left) is tagged out at first by Grayslake Central's Kyle Clark during the second inning of Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Woodstock's Mike Chonos wears some of his teammates hats while his team up for bat during Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal against Grayslake Central in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Woodstock's Alex Ferguson pitches during Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal against Grayslake Central in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Grayslake Central's Brett Yoder (left) safely slides home while Woodstock's Alex Ferguson waits for the ball during the first inning of Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Grayslake Central's Jonathan Hoffman safely slides back to first while Woodstock's Justyn Eisenmenger waits for the ball during Wednesday's Class 3A Marian Sectional baseball semifinal in Woodstock June 4, 2014. Grayslake Central won, 2-1.


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The winds of November and December take part in milkweed seed dispersal.
Recently, the evening sun spotlighted some silky seeds that were preparing for a wind dispersal event.
That picture looks a bit like a studio photo, but it's a photo from out in the milkweed patch of a milkweed seed pod and its parachute seeds, .
Milkweed's seed dispersal method is one that utilizes lots of light, fluffy seeds floating on the wind. Some of the seeds will land in unfriendly places and some of them will land on the right kind of ground with good growing conditions.
Also, when seeds are sown to the wind, some seeds are transported "far and wide", and some do not make it to the "far" or the "wide"....like the milkweed seed caught on the spruce branch on the far right of the picture below. But, hey, dropping close to the mother plant works well....the conditions are obviously good for growing a milkweed patch right here, eh? Perhaps one of the other seeds will catch a good breeze and clear sailing into some other clearing that's good for establishing another colony.
To watch their milkweed fluffies sow.
led me to mix up a verse of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"


Some of the events that have taken place on the forums of late have highlighted the need for having additional moderators on all the forums. Please recommend at least three people you feel may be suitable to fulfil this role and by the end of next week(21st Nov) I will put up a poll to run for a week to determine who you choose as moderators to assist Kay to sail this ship.
Those of you that have already make suggestions on the forums rules post, please enter the names in this post again.
I suggest Shonver and Gbyleveldt as board moderators.
I say Shaun, Greg, you and maybe Dave (DevillEars) if he's prepared to come back.
I don't really know the other mods, but Greg and Abe I've dealt with, so they get my vote - especially Greg I should have known who dingbat was the moment the first LOOOOOOL! appeared!).
Ok Shaun already said he can't, and so did Gert. Vendors and manufacturers seems out as well. I personally don't have a problem with Martin.
@ Pavel, I know this is a thankless job. But as I mentioned many times now, this is a great place to meat people and get some diverse information. The person that thinks he knows everything is a fool, and this is the place to learn more. Thanks for your dedication.
Ok Shaun already said he can't, and so did Gert.
I should have known who dingbat was the moment the first LOOOOOOL! appeared!).
In that case I really don't see any problem.
Put Gert on the list.
Have I missed any? (Shonver indicated that he's out.) Should we have one list of moderators across the board (except for AVSA Discussion) or should we stick to a couple per board as we've had up until now?
Seeing as the above are nominations by other people, these members may still choose not to be a part of the vote.
You guys have nominated me and I thank you but do you have ANY idea what you are getting yourselves into by doing so .
Will KEF and Yamaha like it?
Dingbat, oh noes! Don't tell me you've switched to valves too?
I'd like to nominate Martin (Timber_MG, should he be willing to accept the post) for the moderator of DIY discussion and DIY Resources boards which he's looked after since the start of AVForums.
Good list of nominations so far, we may be able to put the poll up earlier than expected.


I had a great time on the set of the Hallmark Channel's new show, Home and Family. I thought that I'd be sharing stories from my upcoming book, but instead they seemed so interested in learning more about the process of pawning. As a lifelong pawn broker, this is always a topic that I enjoy talking about with people. If you saw the episode or check out the video, you'll see that we had a great conversation about negotiating and establishing the value of an item, in this case an early photograph of the Beatles.
They had seen our version of the Harlem Shake and decided to film their own which was a lot of fun to watch!


These days, it has never been more difficult for consumers to qualify for the financing that they need. Banks have raised their standards and lowered their credit limits to the point that they can get turned down – even if they have good credit. You know that as a business owner, you can't take the chance of losing business just because a bank refuses to work with you. Financial Innovations Group wants to help, which is why we work with Progressive and have a lease/purchase service for customers that can't qualify for other means of financing. Our services have more than an 80% approval rate and have helped over 9,500 stores to increase their sales and customer base, and we can help you too.


Toulon is a human-sized, dynamic and attractive city, situated between the land and the sea in the Var Department, Provence on the Mediterranean coast between Marseille and Nice. It is the sunniest city in France with 2899 hours of sunshine on average per year, and is famous for opening out onto the most beautiful bay in Europe.
Articulated around the natural harbor, the Toulon Techno Park of the Sea specializes in the fields of safety, maritime security and sustainable development based on marine and submarine high technologies. Toulon hosts a university and several engineering schools.
As the main French naval base, Toulon's military harbour shelters the major part of the Navy Action Forces. About 12,000 people work for the naval dockyards. The Toulon harbour and its deepwater quays also make up privileged places of calls for cruise ships and ferries towards the "Golden Islands" (Porquerolles, Port-Cros and le Levant) or farther towards Corsica and Sardegna.
A small fishing port named Telo in the Ancien World, the city of Toulon holds a number of treasures among which some come to light when walking along the narrow streets of the lower part of the city. Most squares, shaded by plane trees or by olive trees, belong to History. The reputable provencal market named "Cours Lafayette", a combination of colours and typical Provencal scents, is also part of Toulon's heritage.
The diversity of its landscapes (beaches, inlets, islands, mountains, gorges, lakes, rivers) and seaside resorts, villages, vineyards, historic abbeys or chapels illustrate its rich history. The Var Department is famous for its wine-making, horticultural, and botanical traditions : fine wines, olive oil, honey, truffles, figs, and chestnuts.
Toulon is easy to get to with three airports nearby (Toulon-Hyères, Marseille (88km from Toulon) and Nice (143km from Toulon) and a train station in the city center.
Follow these links to find out more about Toulon, tourism in Toulon and the Golden Isles.


These sell-out events by Chef Erin Baker run every first Monday of the month where authentic world flavours are brought to you with a vegan, gluten-free and refined-sugar free approach.
Come along to enjoy the warmer weather with The Italian Job on 6th May.
Asparagasm was born in London, offering vegan, gluten-free pop-up dining extravaganzas to vegans, vegetarians, and everyone! Since these early successes, we have settled down in the Cotswolds with a state of the art Development Kitchen. We provide special event catering, including weddings, corporate lunches, festival pop-ups, together with other private events such as spa and wellness retreats. Oh, and we throw a pretty good party ourselves!


70-year-old Ken had been living off the grid for 25 years when he fell ill.
WHAT: An unlikely life-saving rescue, thanks to a Houston organization that monitors the airwaves for distress signals.
WHY IT'S SO GREAT: There are many ways to live. Ken, a Scottish retiree who chose an off-the-grid lifestyle, had spent 25 years in relative solitude a dozen or so miles outside of the small Scottish Highlands town of Fort William. Now 70 years old, Ken—his neighbors didn't know his last name—fell ill.
While he enjoyed living off the grid, Ken was apparently mindful of his safety, according to The Telegraph. He kept a personal satellite tracker called a SPOT Beacon for emergencies. Ken had been using the beacon on a weekly basis to send a "check in" to family, but last Sunday, he sent an urgent alert. The signal wasn't picked up in Fort William, though—nor was it heard in Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Aberdeen, or even London or Brussels. Rather, it was heard by the folks at the International Emergency Response Coordination Center in Houston.
That helicopter was unable to navigate the woods that Ken lived in, but a mountain rescue team that specializes in such efforts was brought in—and upon identifying the man, they recognized that he needed care in a hospital. He was retrieved from his home, brought out on a stretcher, and loaded onto a helicopter bound for Fort William. Ken was taken into the care of doctors at a local hospital, and The Telegraphreports that he's "recovering well." It was a daring rescue of a man who found a way to safely live away from our technological world—aided by a satellite signal, which was routed through Houston, back to Scotland, and to a helicopter 4,500 miles away.
When they send him the bill for all that,it will probably kill him.


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Providing accomplished journalists an intensive, sharply focused study of business, economics and finance
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The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism offers qualified journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics, finance and technology, as well as gain a strong understanding of the business of journalism itself, in a yearlong, full-time program administered by the Journalism School.
Fellows typically take courses at Columbia's graduate schools of journalism, business, law and international affairs; participate in off-the-record seminars with media, corporate and tech practitioners, and meet weekly with media CEOs, top editors, journalism entrepreneurs, taking advantage of Columbia's access to New York's media, business and tech ecosystem.
In scope and depth, it is the most comprehensive and rigorous business journalism fellowship in the world. Eligible Knight-Bagehot fellows (those with a B.A. degree from an accredited college) may also seek to qualify for a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the end of their year, if they opt to complete the course-work required for that degree.
The Fellowship runs during Columbia's academic year from mid-August through May, and accepts up to 10 Fellows each year. Each Fellow receives free tuition, plus a stipend to offset living expenses in New York City and healthcare. For the 2020-2021 academic year, a stipend of $60,000 is expected to be granted to each fellow. Housing is available in a Columbia affiliated facility.
The fellowship is named for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami, which established an endowment for the program, and Walter Bagehot, the 19th-century editor of The Economist. The Knight Foundation has been the principal sponsor of the fellowship since 1987. The program also depends on grants from a number of other charitable foundations, corporations and publishing organizations for a significant portion of its annual budget. The sponsors have no role in the selection of fellows or the curriculum, which are entirely managed by the Director of the Program and the Journalism School.
Read The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Annual Report.
The core of the Knight-Bagehot curriculum consists of courses offered by Columbia University. Beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year, Knight-Bagehot fellows will be allowed to choose from two academic tracks: a Certificate in Economics and Business Journalism, or the Master of Arts in Journalism.
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To earn this degree, fellows will need to take most of their courses at the Journalism School, including a business reporting seminar, Evidence and Inference, and M.A. Essentials, which covers data, technology and investigative techniques in journalism. Fellows can take three electives outside the Journalism School and will be required to complete a master's thesis.
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Because of the demanding nature of the curriculum, fellows are not permitted to take on any outside assignments, including at their current employer or freelance, while the school is in session.
Applications are open now through January 31, 2020. Apply now or sign up to stay connected.
The fellowship is open to full-time editorial employees of newspapers, magazines, wire services, digital media, television and radio news organizations, as well as to freelance journalists, from anywhere in the world. Applications typically open in late September and are announced in March/April. Learn about applying to the fellowship.
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Glen Park Community Centre
30 Glen Park Road, Bayswater North, Vic 3153
Phone: (03) 9720 5097 or (03) 9720 9549
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday
The Now...
The Beginning...
Mission, Vision & Purpose
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Today, Glen Park Community Centre offers a friendly, supportive and welcoming environment for all people in our community.
From humble beginnings to...
From an idea, genuine belief and humble beginnings, Glen Park Community Centre has evolved to become a leader in change, innovation and community service.
Glen Park Community Centre works to create a strong, connected community - free from poverty, isolation and injustice, where every person has access to food, housing, social and economic participation, lifelong learning and support.
We are a member of Learn Local - a network of over 300 not-for-profit organisations across Victoria offering adult community education and training to people from all walks of life.
Through innovative programs and strategic partnerships, Glen Park Community Centre has grown significantly and now provides training and programs including pre-employment pathway programs, health and well-being, handcrafts (including woodworking), painting... etc. These programs are specifically designed to promote physical and mental health, social inclusion and support while strengthening creativity and building skills.
In addition, working closely with the Australian government and the local councils, Glen Park Community Centre hosts immunisation sessions and is constantly working on expanding its ability to deliver official services to the local community. Through "Outreach", we now host a Public Housing Officer, a Centrelink Officer and worker from Eastern Community Legal Centre to answer your questions and provide official, professional guidance in all relevant matters. Glen Park Community Centre also hosts "Each Dental Van" providing dental services to the most vulnerable members of our community.
Glen Park Community Centre actively participates in community events and initiatives, such as "Jeans 4 Genes", "Pyjama Day", "Pancake Day" and "The Biggest Morning Tea" to name a few. We also hold various celebrations and LGBTQI awareness seminars to educate the public and ensure that no one is ever discriminated against based on gender, race, beliefs and/or abilities.
Glen Park Community Centre is very accessible and has provisions for those with additional needs. From thoroughly equipped facilities to specifically designed programs, we thrive on providing opportunities for safe social engagement and lifelong learning opportunities for those with additional needs.
Cafe on the Park
Glen Park Community Centre is also home to Café on the Park – one of the first social enterprises in the Eastern suburbs to become a registered Social Trader.
Café on the Park provides a space for people of all ages and abilities to learn, be part of a team and experience that social inclusion which sometimes lacks in our lives. Apart from catering services, the delicious dishes and the tasty coffee, Café on the Park provides training for people wanting to re-enter the workforce (through its "Hungry for Success" and pre-accredited hospitality program) in addition to giving people a sense of belonging and the opportunity to rebuild their confidence through social engagement. Café on the Park is also a very active participant in several community initiatives, including:
Community Pantry: This is a Café on the Park original initiative with the main objective of alleviating the financial burdens and stress associated with individuals and families struggling financially to put food on their tables. We work tirelessly to ensure your Community Pantry is stocked full of fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, non-perishable items of food and personal hygiene items; all within a safe, comfortable venue generously hosted by Glen Park Community Centre.
Community Meals: Yet another original initiative of Café on the Park whereby we provide free freshly cooked meals to those in need.
Community Fruit and vegetable collection: This service is provided free to the public Tuesday to Friday. With the generous support of Woolworths Bayswater we provide free, fresh fruit and vegetables to the community.
Food for Families: This is a long running initiative by Wesley Mission. We host their collection boxes for food that gets distributed to struggling families on an even wider scale by Wesley Mission.
No story about Glen Park Community Centre and Café on the Park can be complete without acknowledging the genuine generosity and hard work of our wonderful volunteers. They are the pillars of our work and of the community as a whole.
We strive to provide better services to our local community and effect change where needed through innovation and understanding.
We are always happy to hear from you and hope to see you soon!
Our Mission, Vision & Purpose
Glen Park Community Centre Annual Report 2018
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Glen Park Community Centre understands how important health and hygiene is. We happily provide personal care packs, shower facilities and feminine hygiene products to anyone in need.
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The Swiss love a good festival. Everywhere from hamlet to city seems to have its own feast day: In Zürich they burn straw men and the Genevans do something odd with cauldrons, but for Bern in November it's all about onions. The last Monday of the month is Onion Market day, know locally as Zibelemärit. Anything you could possibly do to an onion, and more besides, on offer. And the only tears are ones of happiness.
It starts at the ungodly hour of 5am, with special trains laid on to bring in the thousands from the surrounding countryside. And I mean thousands. The city centre is closed off and crowds fill the streets, crammed in between the rows and rows of market stalls. It really feels like a medieval trade fair, mixed with a harvest festival and Thanksgiving. Every other stall seems to have plaits of red, white and brown onions for sale, most intertwined with dried flowers, but you can also get Mr & Mrs Onion Head (onions dressed up as people), or little Red Riding Hood baskets filled with them. Onion cousins, such as garlic and shallots, are also plentiful. And not forgetting the onion soup, onion bread, onion rings and (best of all) onion tart. Yummy.
Just in case onions really aren't your thing, the market also has local handicrafts, freshly-carved woodwork, rustic bread and earthy ceramics – assuming you can get near the stalls to see them. At the Onion Market, as in most parts of Swiss life, queuing is not an option. You have to have sharp elbows and determined feet to get what you want. Scrum down, money out and go!
The other big part of Zibelemärit is confetti, and I'm not talking dainty rose-petal confetti at a wedding. I'm talking giant bags of multi-coloured dots that is on sale everywhere. Kids (and a few adults) wage running confetti battles, so that by the end of the day the streets are ankle-deep in the stuff. Unless there's snow, which then looks like a frozen rainbow. And of course, every pocket of your coat is full of it – and probably it's down inside your clothes as well. Months later, I'll find a speck of pink or green paper in a pocket and know how it got there. All jolly fun, until the kids with plastic hammers get to work. For some reason, Onion Market isn't just about onions and confetti, it's about using a big plastic hammer the squeaks when you hit strangers on the head. Mildly amusing the first time you get hit, ok the second, tiresome the third and ever more annoying after that.
Of course, this being Switzerland, the streets are all swept clean before suppertime. By the next morning you'd be hard pushed to tell anything had gone on at all. Except for the lingering smell of onions. Perhaps someone should have a stall selling air- and breath-fresheners.
4 Comments on "When Bern is one big onion"
I've known more than one expat to return to the U.S. and find a bit of confetti a year later in the odd shoe or pocket. A merry memory indeed.
Ah yes, the plastic hammers are the reason why hesitate to go (I don't mind the confetti thought).
I hated those plastic squeaky hammers! Looked like only the kids had them, and they ended up hitting me on the head three times within 5 minutes. My sister only got hit once, but i was getting hit like crazy for some reason. Not sure if it's because I look very young for my age but I didn't see the adults getting hit with that annoying hammer.


The work of this well-known Hollywood film stunt performer and special effects coordinator has appeared in such movies as The Firm, The Last Boy Scout, and Cast Away. Now, Steve Wolf (founder of Science in the Movies, and president of Special FX International) takes you inside the wonders of physics and chemistry via the magic of stunt demonstrations. Work with these stunt and special effects professionals as they create a car explosion for a film client.
Steve Wolf is a Hollywood movie stuntman and special effects expert. During his 20 years in the business, Steve has been shot, set on fire, tossed from buildings, and thrown off mountains. In addition, he's worked on movies with Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and dozens of other stars, and has also engineered effects for TV's America's Most Wanted, Law and Order, for David Letterman, and for Whitney Houston. Much of his work looks dangerous, but Wolf loves using such action to explain how he employs the basics of physics and other areas of science to make these stunts and special effects safe as they are thrilling and realistic. Wolf is president of Special FX International, and founder of Science in the Movies Inc., an organization that teaches physics and chemistry through stunt demonstrations. He also operates the wildly popular Stunt Ranch in Austin, TX where for an entire day kids and other participants get to act out movie stunts a la Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and other action heroes by jumping from buildings (using professional high fall airbags), running from fireballs and performing other safety-coordinated action scenes. Wolf, who currently lives with his wife and three children in Austin, Texas, grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, (where he took up mountain climbing at age 6 and became fluent in French) and in New York City, where he learned the meaning of "street smart." He studied Communications at Tulane University, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing and Literature with an emphasis on Shakespeare from Columbia University in New York City. He's also a graduate of Meisner Training and the Actors Movement Studio. A man of diverse interests and expertise, he readily admits that he's never been able to keep his hobbies from becoming his businesses. In addition to his professional endeavors described above, here is just a partial list of some of his other qualifications and jobs that he's held in his fascinating career: emergency medical technician (EMT), scuba instructor, firearms instructor, private investigator, pyrotechnician, film director, TV producer, actor, author and pre-school teacher. In addition, as an entrepreneur, he's owned such businesses as an ad agency, PR firm, ambulance company, trial consulting company, pre-school for dyslexic children, and film production company. The mark that he's left on Hollywood as a stunt and special effects coordinator is equally diverse and impressive. His feature film work in this capacity also includes: The Firm, Three Men and a Baby, Do the Right Thing, The Last Boy Scout, The Client, The Jungle Book, and Cast Away. He also did the special effects for James Cameron's Expedition Bismarck, and John Singleton's Hustle & Flow. Steve's TV credits include work on All My Children, Law & Order, America's Most Wanted, Rescue 911, The David Letterman Show, and Whitney Houston's music videos.


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Tashima Reese Named PIO Communications Coordinator
by Staff November 1, 2018 November 1, 2018
Leonardtown, MD –Tashima Reese has been selected as Communications Coordinator in the Public Information Office. She officially joins the PIO team on November 5.
Tashima Reese via LinkedIn
Mrs. Reese comes to the Public Information Office with a wide range of professional communications experience. Most recently she has served as Communications Manager and acting Administrative Assistant at By Faith Christian Center in Waldorf. Prior to that, she was a Communications Specialist with the Charles Crossing Homeowners Association and Communications Director for the City of Baltimore Employees and Elected Officials Retirement System. She has also served as a writer for College Lifestyles in State College, PA.
Mrs. Reese earned her Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Penn State University.
"I welcome Tashima to the PIO team," said Tony Jones, Communications Director. "Her experience will prove to be a tremendous asset as we look to take our communications and outreach efforts to new heights in 2019 and beyond."
Mrs. Reese lives in La Plata
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Q: python can sending message, receiving empty message I want to send am message with python can over a vector interface, after that i want to receive the message but no matter what i do the received message is always empty.
NEWS:
When there is a test running in the background in CANoe everything works fine. Is there a need of a configuration file?
The code is pretty simple:
import can

bus = can.Bus(interface='vector',
              app_name='CANoe',
              channel=[0],
              receive_own_messages=True)

message = can.Message(arbitration_id=123,data=[0x11, 0x22, 0x33])
print("send msg:")
print(message)
bus.send(message, timeout=0.2)

print("received msg:")
print(bus.recv())
bus.shutdown()

output:
send msg:
Timestamp:        0.000000    ID: 0000007b    X Rx                DL:  3    11 22 33
received msg:
Timestamp: 1647263400.094132        ID: 0000    S Rx E              DL:  0                                Channel: 0

Hardware:
Vector VN1630A driverversion: 10.9.12.0

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Sarah Dougher and Fin de Siecle
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Sarah Dougher
By Lisa Radon | Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Try to invent a backstory for a composer whose works for choir have included setting Orestes to music as well as poems of Robert Duncan, William Stafford, and now Leslie Scalapino. Would you guess a background in classical music, a degree in composition, and maybe a minor in literature? Or coming out of chamber vocal music as a performer perhaps to write for the ensemble? No, try albums on the Kill Rock Stars, K Records, and Mr. Lady labels, teaching Women + Rock at PSU, and of course, the Ph.D. in comparative literature.
Sarah Dougher's path to a commission to set a suite of poems by the late Leslie Scalapino to music is anything but the expected. One way of understanding it is to look at it as a watershed rather than a straight path, with a number of opportunities, projects, and circumstances feeding into the present moment. Fate has had a lot to do with it—serendipitous commissions, the beginnings and growth of the Flash Choir, and well, life in general. In 2004, Dougher was diagnosed with cancer which gave her the opportunity to reflect on her art and her life. She seriously reevaluated the indie pop path she was on. "I decided I was done with both the indie pop style and that whole milieu, touring, everything," Dougher says.
Not long after this major reevaluation, Dougher was commissioned to set Orestes to music. The Classical Greek Theater of Oregon was doing Euripedes' version with a focus on the struggle of the teenagers, and they wanted the music to rock. "I didn't know how to write music," Dougher says, "so I taught the songs to these eight women by ear, by singing the parts to them." That summer, she was asked by PICA to manage the recruitment of a horde of guitarists for John King's Extreme Guitar Orchestra which opened the 2006 TBA Festival in Pioneer Square. The next year, she was again asked to recruit volunteer performers for a large group performance for TBA. This was Rinde Eckert's On the Great Migration of Excellent Birds, and the group of performers she brought together and rehearsed would come to be called the Flash Choir. This performance required the choir members not only to sing, but to engage in coordinated and/or improvised movement so it self-selected for a certain kind of adventurous performer.
Once that performance was over, many members of the Flash Choir wanted to continue to work together. With musical director Pat Janowski, Dougher continued to work with the choir, writing a number of works for it, including the aforementioned Duncan and Stafford works, and more recently coordinating the choir as other artists like Ethan Rose have written work for the choir to perform.
Her latest commission is something different. Through a connection at her alma mater, Reed College, Dougher has been commissioned by the family of the late poet Leslie Scalapino to set suite of three of Scalapino's poem/plays into a work for five voices and acoustic instruments. She won't be working with the Flash Choir this time, but has been afforded a budget to hire and rehearse a group of professional musicians.
Scalapino (Reed '66) not only endowed three full scholarships at Reed, but left her art collection to the college as well. So Stephanie Snyder, who is the curator of the Cooley Gallery at Reed, arranged a memorial service for Scalapino for which she asked Dougher to create music. This led to Tom White, Scalapino's husband, to commission Fin de Siecle, a portion of which as a work in progress was performed at the memorial in February.
Dougher began by writing the poem out in longhand. "I start to physicalize it," she says of her process. In the case of Scalapino's Fin de Siecle, Dougher has taken Scalapino's instructions as to how the works are to be spoken with the line breaks indicating pauses. "I want to take what was unfamiliar in her work, her syntax and [ambiguous] meaning and turn it into musical forms that sound familiar," Dougher says of her overarching concept for the piece. These poems are what one might call difficult in form and content...they are not, that is, lovely little lyrics begging to be songs. They deal with hard topics in appropriately angular ways. "The content suggested the voicing, suggested the mood," Dougher says. But ultimately she admits she writes for her own voice, and so the instrumentation as well as the choir is close to the human voice with violin, cello, trumpet, trombone, piano, and percussion. An Oregon Arts Commission grant will contribute to the recording of Fin de Siecle. The full work will premiere at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's (PICA) Time-Based Art Festival on September 14 and then tour to Mills College and Bard in New York, where Scalapino taught in the summer program.
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