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Makino Sadanaga (牧野 貞長, November 21, 1733 – September 30, 1796) was a Japanese daimyo of the mid-Edo period.
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The Makino were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa clan, in contrast with the tozama or outsider clans.
The fudai Makino clan originated in 16th century Mikawa Province. Their elevation in status by Toyotomi Hideyoshi dates from 1588. They claim descent from Takechiuchi no Sukune, who was a legendary Statesman and lover of the legendary Empress Jingū.
Sadanaga was part of a cadet branch of the Makino which was created in 1680. These Makino resided successively at Sekiyado Domain in Shimōsa Province in 1683 ; at Yoshida Domain at Mikawa Province in 1705; at Nabeoka Domain in Hyūga Province in 1712; and, from 1747 through 1868 at Kasama Domain (80,000 koku) in Hitachi Province.
The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.
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TANAKH > General Tanakh > Great Biblical Commentators > Lecture #18: Ramban, Part II
Lecture #18: Ramban, Part II
Dr. Avigail Rock
In the previous lesson, we looked at the most prominent characteristic of the commentary of the Ramban on the Torah - his comprehensive approach to many topics in the category of theology and faith. This lesson is dedicated to a number of philosophical topics that recur throughout the Ramban's commentary on the Torah.
A. Ma'aseh Avot Siman Le-Vanim
An interesting issue in the commentary of the Ramban is his melding of historiography and exegesis, an idea expressed in the dictum, "Ma'aseh avot siman le-vanim," "The happening of the fathers is an omen for the children."[1]The source of this view is found in the words of the Sages:
R. Pinchas said in the name of R. Hoshaya the Great: The Holy One, Blessed be He said to our patriarch Avraham, "Go and pave the way before your children."
Thus, you find that everything that is written of Avraham is written of children as well. Of Avraham it is written, "And there was a famine in the land" (Bereishit 12:10), and of Israel it is written, "For these two years, the famine is in the midst of the land" (ibid. 45:6). Of Avraham it is written, "And Avram went down to Egypt to sojourn there" (ibid. 12:10), and of Israel it is written "And our fathers went down to Egypt" (Bamidbar 20:15). Of Avraham it is written, "To sojourn there" (Bereishit 12:10), and of Israel it is written, "To sojourn in the land we have come" (ibid. 47:4). Of Avraham it is written, "For the famine was severe in the land of Canaan" (47:4),[2]and of Israel it is written, "And the famine was severe in the land" (43:1)… (Bereishit Rabba, Vilna, Parashat Lekh Lekha 40)
R. Yehoshua of Sikhnin said: The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave an omen to Avraham: every incident which befell him befell his children.
How so? He chose Avraham from all of his father's house, as it says, "You are Lord, the God, You Who chose Avram and took him out from Ur Kasdim, and you made his name Avraham" (Nechemya 9:7), and He chose his children from seventy nations, as it says, "For a holy people are you to Lord your God, and you Lord your God chose to be a treasured people, from all the peoples upon the face of the earth" (Devarim 14:2). To Avraham it is said, "Go for yourself" (Bereishit 12:1), and to his children it says, "I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites…" (Shemot 3:17). To Avraham it is said, "And I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you" (Bereishit 12:2-3), and to his children it says, "God shall bless you" (Bamidbar 6:24). To Avraham it is said, "And I shall make you a great nation" (Bereishit 12:2), and to his children it says, "And what great nation" (Devarim 4:8)…[3](Midrash Tanchuma, Warsaw, Parashat Lekh Lekha 9)
It appears that in each of these two homilies, the nature of the link between the ancestors' actions and the experiences of their descendants it is different. According to the midrash in Bereishit Rabba, the connection between the progenitor and the seed is the connection of cause and effect. The father – in a conscious, intentional way - influences the future of his children by his acts: "Go and pave the way…" In other words, the parent has the capacity to influence the experiences of the children. The view of R. Yehoshua of Sikhnin in Midrash Tanchuma is different: we are not talking about a conscious or willful act of the father, but rather information given to the father about his seed — "an omen… that everything which happened to him happened to his children." What befalls the father is a siman, an omen, a portent. The examples cited are not those in which the ancestors are active; rather, events that happen to the ancestor are an allusion, a presage of the future which will befall his children. In other words, the Avot, the Patriarchs, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, could have learnt from what occurred to them what would happen to their descendants in the future. According to this, the ancestor does not influence history in a conscious way, but one may predict and foretell history based on the ancestor's experiences.
The Ramban relates to this idea in a number of places, generally in a way similar to that of the Midrash Tanchuma – the events of the fathers constitute an expression of prophetic transmission, the message of God to the Patriarchs (and to the readers of the stories). He even mentions, in a roundabout way, the language of "siman le-vanim."
The Ramban relates first to this topic in his commentary to Bereishit 12:7:
"And Avram passed through the land, to the place of Shekhem" — I will tell you a rule to allow you to understand all of the coming passages, the matter of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. This is a fundamental subject, mentioned by our Rabbis in a condensed way, namely that the incidents which befell our fathers is an omen for the children (siman le-vanim). Therefore, the verses will elaborate on the narrative of the journeys, digging wells, and other incidents, and one may be led to think that these things are extraneous and purposeless, but they all come to teach of the future. When a prophecy of the Patriarchs comes true through these occurrences, he must think of the matter decreed to come upon his seed as a result.
The Ramban expresses this view many more times, including later in the same chapter:
Behold, Avraham went down to Egypt because of the famine to sojourn there, in order to keep himself alive in days of famine. The Egyptians wronged him without cause by taking his wife, so God avenged him with great plagues, and He took him out from there with flocks, silver, and gold, and Pharaoh also ordered his men to escort him. He alluded to him that his children would go down to Egypt because of famine, in order to reside there in the land, and the Egyptians would treat them badly and take their women from them, as it says (Shemot 1:22), "And let live every girl." Nevertheless, God would take revenge with great plagues, taking them out with silver and gold, sheep and cattle, very great flocks; indeed [the Egyptians] would compel them, sending them out of the land. There was not one iota of the father's experience which the children did not undergo. This is explained in Bereishit Rabba… (Ramban, Bereishit 12:10)
On the other hand, as he goes on to explain Bereishit 12:6, it may be that there is a slightly different element involved:
… Know that once a decree delivered by angels emerges from the potential to the actual via symbolization, this decree will be fulfilled in all cases. Therefore, the prophets perform an act of prophecy, as Yirmiyahu ordered Barukh (Yirmiyahu 51:63-64): "When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink,'" etc. This is the issue of Elisha's putting his hand on the bow: (II Melakhim 13:17): "Then Elisha said, 'Shoot,' and he shot. And he said, 'The Lord's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!'" And it says there (v. 19): "Then the man of God was angry with him and said, 'You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Aram until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Aram only three times.'" Therefore, God strengthened Avraham in the land, causing him to perform acts which symbolized all of the future events which would befall his seed. Understand this.
Some see a mystical element in the words of the Ramban, according to which the acts of the fathers do not just teach us about the destiny of their seed, but rather create and determine the future. However, as we have seen, the Ramban in his commentary views the essence of the issue as a prophetic transmission; he directly compares these things to the symbolic acts performed by different prophets. It appears that the intent of the Ramban is to set out that there are different levels of certainty as to words of prophecy — some prophecies may not necessarily be fulfilled (for example, a prophecy dependent on human activity), while other prophecies will definitely occur. The form of the expression of the prophecy determines the level of certainty and teaches us about it.[4]The claim of the Ramban is that any prophecy which is given over not only verbally, but actively as well, is a prophecy which is immutable. In other words, since these events happened, microcosmically, to the father, the future of the prophecy, macrocosmically, is certain. In this sense, Avraham's actions pave the way for his children.
It seems that the Ramban also accomplishes another goal by developing this principle - he explains the tension in the Midrashic sources between the active language of, "'Go and pave the way before your children,'" on the one hand, and the passive formulation of, "The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave an omen to Avraham." Once we understand that there are varying levels of probability for the practical fulfillment of different prophecies, this becomes clearer. Nevertheless, this is not a simple concept, which is why the Ramban ends with the two-word imperative: "Understand this."[5]
This idea is almost explicit in his introduction to the Book of Shemot. As he explains there, the Patriarchs determine and shape the future, but in essence, it is not their actions which accomplish this; it is God's proclamation of the future, as reinforced by events, which creates and determines this future:
Thus ends the Book of Bereishit, which is the book of the creation and invention of the world and the creation of every creature; [it is also the book of] the experiences of the Avot, which are, for their seed, a matter of creation because all of their experiences are illustrations. They allude to and tell of all future events which are fated to befall them.
After completing the [story of] creation, another book begins, detailing all of the results emanating from these allusions. Thus, the Book of Shemot is dedicated to the issue of the first explicitly-decreed exile and the redemption from it.
In particular, the Ramban stresses how the generations of exile and redemption of the Jewish people are alluded to in the narratives of the Avot. As we have seen, the events of Avraham's life allude to the first exile, the Egyptian exile. The Ramban goes further and determines that the events which befall Yitzchak allude to the second exile, the Babylonian/Persian exile. This is what the Ramban writes in his commentary to Bereishit 26:1:
In my view, this issue contains an allusion to the future, because the exile of Avraham to Egypt due to famine alludes to the fact that his children will be exiled there, but his going to Avimelekh was not exile, for he settled there of his own accord.
However, Yitzchak's descent there because of the famine does allude to this exile, for he was exiled from his place against his will and went to another land; indeed, he is exiled from his place to the land of the Philistines, which was the land of his father's sojourning. This alludes to the Babylonian exile, for it is the place of their fathers' sojourns, namely Ur Kasdim…
The Ramban adds and specifies points of comparison between Yitzchak's exile and the Babylonian exile. Just as Yitzchak leaves the land due to the compulsion of famine and goes to a land which his father settled in the past, the Israelites are similarly destined to go out of their land against their will and go to the land of their fathers' sojourns, in Babylonia (indeed, we first encounter Avraham in Babylonia, in Ur Kasdim). Just as Yitzchak's settlement in Philistines is without affliction, so too, the Babylonian exile is destined to be without subjugation and affliction (the Jews prospered in Babylonia). Just as the Philistines sent Yitzchak out of their land after he had settled there, the Israelites are similarly destined to be sent out from the Babylonian exile (by the edict of Cyrus the Great).
Following this line of thought, the Ramban sees the events of Yaakov's life as alluding to the Edomite exile. To this exile, the Ramban dedicates huge swathes of his commentary, as this is the exile in which the Ramban and his contemporaries reside:
"To Esav his brother, to the land of Seir" — Because the south of the Land of Israel is next to Edom, and his father resided in the southland, one would have to pass by Edom or close to it. Thus, [Yaakov] was afraid lest Esav hear, so he sent messengers ahead of him to his land.
However, the Sages, likening him to "One who takes the dog by the ears" (Mishlei 26:17), have already criticized him. As they put it (Bereishit Rabba 75:3): "The Holy One, Blessed be He said to him: He was going along his way, and you sent to him and said (Bereishit 32:5), 'So says your servant Yaakov?'"
In my view, this also alludes to the fact that we initiated our downfall in the hand of Edom, for the kings of the Second Temple forged a covenant with the Romans (Chashmonaim 1:8), and some of them went to Rome, which was the ultimate cause of our downfall in their hands, and this is mentioned in our Rabbis' words and publicized in books (Yosippon, ch. 65).(Ramban, Bereishit 32:4)
This is how it is for us with Rome and Edom. It is our brothers who have caused our downfall in their hands, for they forged a covenant with the Romans. The latter King Agrippas of the Second Temple fled to them for assistance, and because of the famine, the Jerusalemites were captured. Now, the exile has been lengthened a great deal, without our knowing when it will end, like the other exiles. We are in it like the dead, saying (Yechezkel 37:11), "Our bones are dried up [and our hope is lost]; we are indeed cut off…" Nevertheless, they shall bring up all of us from all the nations as an offering to God (Yeshayahu 66:20), and they will have severe mourning when they see our glory. We will witness God's vengeance, for "He shall lift as us up, and we will live before Him" (Hoshea 6:2).(Ramban, Bereishit 47:28)
This historical view of the Ramban is of great significance, not just in the field of exegesis, but also because it has such a clear polemical anti-Christian aim. The Church sought to prove that Jesus and Church history were already predicted and prefigured in Tanakh. Taking into account the Christian approach, one may understand the significance of the commentaries of the Ramban, in which he stress that indeed there is an allusion to the future in the stories of the Avot, but the allusion is for Israel's future — what is decreed upon their seed — but not for others, who are not of their seed.[6]
B. The Superiority of the Land of Israel
The Ramban is known for his deep love of the Land of Israel. We may detect echoes of this in his poetry,[7] and indeed the Ramban moved to Israel. In his commentary to Bereishit 35:16, he writes: "I have merited arriving in Jerusalem myself — praise be to God, good and beneficent!" In the halakhic sphere, the Ramban is the first of the enumerators of the 613 commandments who counts living in Israel as a mitzva:
We have been commanded to settle the land… and not to leave it in the hands of other nations, nor [to leave it] desolate… And I say that the commandment which the Sages go to extremes to express is that of living in the Land of Israel… It is a positive commandment for all generations, and everyone is bound by it, even in a time of exile. (Ramban, Glosses to Sefer Ha-mitzvot, Positive 4)[8]
According to the Ramban, the superiority of the Land of Israel predates its being given to Avraham and to the People of Israel. For example, the Ramban explains that the overturning of Sedom was due to the superiority of the Land of Israel.
Know that Sedom was judged by virtue of the superiority of the Land of Israel, for it has the status of God's portion, and it does not tolerate abominable people. When it vomited out the entire nation because of its abominations, it came first and vomited this people out, for they were the most evil, towards Heaven and towards creations… For there are exceedingly evil and sinful nations whom He does not do this to, but all of this was because of the superiority of this land, for God's sanctuary is there.[9](Ramban, Bereishit 19:5)
In other words, the unique superiority of the Land of Israel is because of its status as "God's portion" and "God's sanctuary," and the unique connection of this land to God incurs a great attribute of justice more so than other lands, since God is less tolerant of sins in His portion than in other places. The issue is explained more broadly in his commentary on Parashat Acharei Mot (Vayikra 18:25), where the Ramban explains that God does not directly control the affairs of the nations of the world. Instead, He appoints angelic representatives for each and every people and land, and He directs them by way of these intermediaries.[10]The Land of Israel, in contrast, is managed by God directly:
This is the matter… God in His glory created everything, and He put control of the lower realms in the upper realms, and he put over each and every one, in their lands and by their nations… He gave them sublime angels to be princes over them… Now, God in his glory is the God of gods and the Lord of Lords, for the entire world. However, the Land of Israel, the center of the civilization, is God's portion, dedicated to His name; He does not appoint over it any angel as an officer, marshal, or governor. Instead, He gives it as a portion to the nation which unifies His name, the seed of his beloved… Thus, He gives to us the land so that He, in his blessedness, will be our God and we shall be unified for His name. Behold, the land which is the portion of God, in His glory, will vomit out anyone who defiles it, and it will not tolerate idolaters and adulterers.[11]
The Ramban goes quite far in his approach, and he declaims that the main significance of the fulfillment of commandments is specifically in the Land of Israel. Fulfilling the commandments outside the land — even those which are clearly bodily obligations, such as putting on tefillin — is designed only in order for us not to forget the commandments upon returning from exile. He cites the explanation of the Sifrei (Ekev 43):
"And you will quickly perish" (Devarim 11:17) — [God says:] "Even though I have exiled you from the land to dwell outside it, remain distinguishable by the commandments, so that when you return, they will not be new to you."
This is analogous to husband who, furious at his wife, sends her to her father's home. He said to her, "Keep wearing your jewelry, so that when you return, they will not be new to you."
Thus said Yirmiyahu (31:20): "Set markers for yourself" — these are the commandments, which make Israel remarkable…"
The Ramban concludes:
They explained that it should not be new to you when you return to the land, for the essence of all the commandments is for those who reside in the land of God.[12](Ramban, Vayikra 18:25)
It appears that the connection between the Land of Israel and the fulfillment of the commandments is an outgrowth of the special status of the Land of Israel as a land with a direct link to the Divine Presence.
Indeed, the Ramban manages to find praise for the Land of Israel even amid God's severe rebuke:
And this is what it says here (v. 32), "So that your enemies who live there will be desolated" — this is in fact good news, cheering the exiles; our land does not accept our enemies, and this is a great proof and promise for us. For you will not find in civilization a land which is as good and broad, and which was always settled, yet is so devastated… For from the time we left, it has not accepted any nation or state; though all of them try to settle it, they do not succeed…(Ramban, Vayikra 26:16)
C. Nissayon
An additional philosophical issue which appears in the Ramban's commentary is nissayon, testing or proving. In the Torah, there are a number of situations in which God tests people, and there is a basic philosophical question common to all of them: what is the point of the nissayon, when all is known and revealed to Him? What reason does Omniscient God have to "test" human beings?
The Ramban relates to this in an explicit way regarding the nissayon of the Binding of Yitzchak:
This is called a nissayon for the one being tested, but the Tester, in his blessedness, will command him to realize his potential in actuality, to earn the reward of good action and not the reward of a good heart alone. Know that "God examines the righteous" (Tehillim 11:5), when He knows full well that the righteous will do His will, but He seeks to demonstrate his righteousness, He will give him a test. However, he will not examine the wicked, who will not listen regardless. Thus, each of the tests in the Torah is for the benefit of the one being tested.(Ramban, Bereishit 22:1)
If so, in the view of the Ramban, the test is designed to serve not the Tester, God, but rather the one who is being tested. The nissayon in the Torah is an opportunity which is provided for the righteous to apply in practice their dedication to God and to earn a reward for this. In this way, they will receive a reward not only for their potential dedication, but for their actual dedication.
In a similar way, the Ramban explains the test of the manna, about which the Torah says, "So that I may test them, whether they will follow My law or not" (Shemot 16:4). The nissayon is designed to take the Israelites' dedication and readiness from the realm of the potential to the realm of the actual, realizing their reliance on God:
"So that I may test them, whether they will follow My law or not" — to test them and to provide them good in the end, that they will believe in Him forever…
Furthermore, the Ramban explains (Devarim 8:2) "And you shall recall all the way" in the following manner:
"And you shall recall all the way" — … but He subjected them to this test, for from it He knows that they will keep His commandments forever.
According to the Ramban, the aim of the test of the manna is to take the total dedication of the Israelites to God from the potential to the actual, as they will exemplify throughout their years of wandering in the desert, and the reward for withstanding the test is that they will believe in Him forever.[13]
As we have said, we have cited only some of the philosophical issues which the Ramban deals with in his commentary. Throughout his work, the reader may find dozens of analyses of philosophical topics, which continue to shape our worldview until this very day.
[1]In the Ramban, this is actually formulated: "The incidents which befell our fathers…" The term "Ma'aseh avot siman le-vanim" is mentioned by Acharonim who cite the view of the Ramban.
[2]This verse actually appears concerning Yaakov and his children; perhaps the reference is meant to be the verse, "And there was a famine in the land" (Bereishit 12:10), which appears in Avraham's narrative.
[3]Afterwards, additional homilies are cited.
[4]This is similar to what Yosef says to Pharaoh (Bereishit 41:32): "And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is proper by God, and God will shortly bring it about." (Still, the commentators argue regarding whether the term "proper" indicates inevitability or proximity.)
[5]In one place, the Ramban speaks in a clear way of the causal connection between Avraham's actions and his children's experiences. Immediately after what we have cited above from Bereishit 12:10, he goes on to say:
Know that Avraham Avinu sinned greatly, if inadvertently, by involving his righteous wife in the stumbling-block of sin… as well as leaving the land… This is the sin he committed… and for this act, it was decreed upon his seed the exile in the land of Egypt, by the hands of Pharaoh.
However, it appears that there is no link between this matter and the previous issue, the general idea of the experiences of the fathers being an omen for the children. The Ramban simply adds a new element - that in this specific instance, Avraham sinned and brought about, by his actions, a punishment for his children.
[6]See about this at length in Amos Funkenstein's comprehensive essay, "Parshanuto Ha-Typologit shel Ramban," Zion 45 (5740), pp. 35-59.
[7]"Al Chorvotayikh Yerushalayim" (see previous lesson).
[8]The same may be found in his commentary on the Torah (Bamidbar 33:53): "And you shall occupy the land and you shall reside in it:"
As I see it, this is a positive commandment, commanding them to reside in the land and settle it, for it is given to them and they must not reject God's portion. Now, they may have a thought of going and conquering the land of Sumer or the land of Assyria or others and to settle there, but this would violate God's command. Indeed, our Rabbis go to extremes to express the commandment of residing in the Land of Israel and that it is forbidden to leave it — by this, we have been bound by this commandment. For this verse is a positive command… However, Rashi explains: "'And you shall occupy the land' — you shall clear it of its inhabitants, and then 'You shall reside in it.' Only then will you be able to survive there, but if you do not do this, you will be unable to survive there." Nevertheless, what I have said is the essence.
[9]See Vayikra 18:24-28, 20:21-24.
[10]According to the Ramban, there is a hierarchy of these factors: the fates of the nations are determined directly by heavenly factors (astrology), and the heavenly factors are directed by angels (according to the Ramban, these are the "princes" and "kings" mentioned in the Book of Daniel), who are under God's control. This cosmological hierarchy matches the philosophical views that were commonly held in medieval times, and the Ramban certainly perceives it as a natural system. According to him, it is specifically the situation in the Land of Israel which constitutes a supernatural situation.
[11]See the verses which the Ramban refers to, Vayikra 18:24-28.
[12]He includes a similar point in his commentary to Devarim 4:5.
[13]However, in his commentary to Shemot 20:16, the Ramban explains the nissayon in a different manner:
…And according to my view, it is an actual test. He will say that God wanted to test you whether you will keep his commandments, for He removed all doubt from your heart, and now He shall see whether you love Him and if you desire Him and His commandments.
Indeed, any term of testing is examination. [As David says of Shaul's battle dress,] "I cannot go with these, for I have not been tested" (I Shemuel 17:39) — I have never examined my soul by going in them.
It may be that this testing is for the good, for the master will sometimes test his servant with harsh service to know if he will tolerate it out of his love, and sometimes he will do good to him to know if he will repay him for this good which he has received, to enhance his master's service and honor.
This is just as the Sages said (Shemot Rabba 31:20): "Fortunate is the man who withstands his tests, for there is no creature whom the Holy One, Blessed be He does not test: the rich one He tests to see if his hand will be open to the poor; and the poor He tests if he can accept the suffering," etc.
Therefore, the verse says that God has been good to you to show you His glory, which He did not do for any nation, to test you. Will you repay Him the good which he has bestowed upon you, as His allotted nation, as it says, "Shall you repay God with this?" (Devarim 32:6).
Moreover, it says, "Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will take account of you for your sins" (Amos 3:2); the nations are not obligated to Me as you are, for I have known you face-to-face.
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This recipe for Ginger Creme brûlée, by Emma Perron-Jansen, is from Grandma's Sweet Tooth, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
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The Reaction of N, N-Disubstituted Ketohydrazones with Lead Tetraacetate
Elisabeth Cerda, Western Michigan University
Dr. Don C. Iffland
Lillian H. Mayer
The reaction of lead tetraacetate with compounds of the following general structure (not able to enter here) was first reported by Iffland and Criner (12). In the case of ketoximes (A = oxygern), a nitrosoacetate was produced which was oxidized to the more stable acetoxy-nitrocompound as follows: (not able to enter here)
The generality of the reaction was established by preparation of a series of acetoxy-nitrocompounds from alicyclic and aliphatic ketoximes. The apparently similar reaction of cyclohexanonephenylhydrazone (A = N-¢) with lead tetraacetate was reported, but the reaction product was not identified.
Cerda, Elisabeth, "The Reaction of N, N-Disubstituted Ketohydrazones with Lead Tetraacetate" (1961). Master's Theses. 4400.
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(reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
(transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
(intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
[…] Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.
From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz.


Will the Extraschedular Rating take your VA Rating "Off-the-Charts"…& 2 more CAVC Decisions.
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is issuing between 3 and 10 new decisions….EVERY WEEKDAY.
Some are single judge decisions…..some are precedential decisions.
Regardless of the nature of the decision, every one of them holds a key to improving your VA Disability claim.
Because the Veterans Court is not a "finder-of-fact"…they can generally only adjudicate errors in law, or in some cases errors in the application of law to fact….these decisions are very unique in the law.
When the Veterans loses, Veterans Court decisions give us insight into what a Veteran could have done differently to achieve a different outcome. When a Veteran "wins" or secures a "Remand" from the CAVC, we get valuable insight into what the Veteran did at the VA Regional Office or Board of Veterans Appeals that helped his case at the CAVC.
Of course, the Court rarely comes out and says something THAT obvious.
I've not seen a Court decision that says "If other Veterans did such-and-such, they will have a different outcome".
No….they just don't write like that.
That's what the Veterans Law Blog is here to do.
I take single judge and precedential case decisions issued by the CAVC and break them down to tell you practical tips that you can use – TODAY – to make your VA Regional Office Claim or BVA Appeal better, stronger, and more likely to produce the outcome you desire.
What follows are 3 Single-Judge Decisions issued by the CAVC in September 2016. These are not the ONLY 3…I have about 2 dozen others I want to write and tell you about in the coming weeks.
These 3 decisions, however, struck me as having the potential to help more and more Veterans that use the Veterans Law Blog to cut through the fog of the VA Claims and Appeals Process.
A private medical expert issued an opinion corroborating the occurrence of a Military Sexual Trauma 'based upon a history provided by the veteran', was rejected by the BVA for that very reason.
The Court found that it was improper for the Board to reject a private examiner's opinion because it was not based on corroborative evidence of the military sexual trauma beyond the patient's recitation of the incident.
The Court pointed to 38 C.F.R. § 3.304(f)(5); see also 67 Fed. Reg. 10,330 (Mar. 7, 2002), which states only that records from physicians may be used to corroborate the stressor.
A private examiner's opinion that you experienced an in-service military sexual trauma stressor can corroborate the incident.
So, if you are having difficulty proving any of the other "markers" that the VA requires, be sure to ask your treating doctor to render an opinion that there was an MST incident based on your treatment history.
2. CAVC Case #2 – Properly Rating a Mental Health Condition.
The Veteran was granted 70% for his PTSD by the VA Regional Office, and appealed seeking a 100% rating.
The Court, in vacating the decision and remanding it to the BVA, expressed its concern that the Board did not provide adequate reasons and bases for its denial of a 100% rating.
It is notable that, for decades, the BVA continues to strictly apply what are purposefully loose and vague rating criteria to justify lowered mental health ratings.
So, when appealing a low-balled rating of a mental health condition to the BVA, it is CRUCIAL to compare the medical and lay evidence of the symptomatology and limitations of the mental health condition with the actual rating criteria in the Mental Health Diagnostic Codes and Rating Criteria in the Impairment Rating Table.
This is a fascinating case, and a harbinger for a big area of VA law that attorneys have started exploring.
That area is "extra-schedular" ratings. Literally, this area means that your ratings could be "off-the-charts"….meaning, unrestrained by the caps imposed by the VA Impairment Rating Charts.
When a Veteran's medical symptomatology presents an exceptional or unusual disability picture that is not considered by the schedular rating criteria, including such related factors as a marked interference with employment or frequent hospitalization, the Veteran may be entitled to an extra-schedular rating . 38 C.F.R. § 3.321(b) (2016).
In the Thun case, the Court made it clear that in cases where the facts raise an issue of extra-schedular consideration, the Board is required to first determine whether the evidence presents "such an exceptional disability picture that the available schedular evaluations for that service-connected disability are inadequate." Thun, 22 Vet.App. at 115.
To accomplish this, the Board must compare "the level of severity and symptomatology of the claimant's service-connected disability with the established criteria found in the rating schedule for that disability." Id.
In normal human terms, that means this: if your symptomatology is unique (and what Veteran's isn't) then you might not be limited to the rating assigned by the Impairment Rating Table.
Now that you have the background, on to the case.
The Veteran in this case was rated at 60% for "radiculopathy with partial right foot drop". He did not challenge that the schedular rating was wrong, but that he had a unique disability picture that entitled him to an extra-schedular rating.
The Court wrote that the Board's "terse conclusion" was "inadequate". Unfortunately, this is a single-judge decision, so while it is COMPLETELY BINDING on the VBA and the BVA, it can't be cited as legal precedent.
If your medical condition has symptoms and limitations that are not fully recognized by the rating criteria in the schedule of ratings for that condition, ask for a referral for an extra-schedular rating.
Little is yet known about how to best prove up an extra-schedular rating claim, as the concept is not well developed in the law.
As I see decisions where an extra-schedular rating is successfully proved, I will certainly share those tactics and tips with you.


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Spanish food is one of the most beloved in the world and for good reason. There is a wealth of seafood involved in the preparation of Spanish cuisine and this is a result of the proximity of the country to the waters surrounding it. There are literally thousands upon thousands of Spanish recipes featuring many diverse and unique flavours and ingredients. Needless to say, Spanish cuisine is absolutely delicious. See for yourself by booking a reservation at a St Louis restaurant!
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Sometimes, Spanish restaurants in St. Louis differ in the menu that they offer their guests depending on what region or town in Spain their food is based upon. For instance, in Madrid, the cocido madrilèno is a popular dish. Cocido madrilèno is Madrid's version of chickpea stew. The signature dish of Asturias is fabada asturiana which is a stew that contains saffron, large white beans, chorizo, morcilla, and pork shoulder. Faba beans with clams, rice pudding, frixuelos, and Asturian stew are also staples in the region
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Some of the most common dishes served at St. Louis Spanish restaurants include potato omelette, paella, migas, embutidos, jamon Serrano, chorizo, morcilla and a variety of cheeses. Arguably, the most famous Spanish dish in the world would have to be paella Valenciana. Spanish dishes are also often based on beans. These range from chickpeas to green beans to lentils. Some popular desserts include flan, madeleines, custard, churros, rice pudding, and torrijas. Other common dishes served in Spanish restaurants in St Louis include arroz con leche, gofio, calamares a la romana, olla podrida, sopa de marisco, tortas de aceite, cocido montanes, polvoron, chuletillas, turron, gazpacho, salmorejo, percebe, merluza, fabada asturiana, fideua, butifarra, lechazo asado, shellfish, marmite, pa amb tomaca, peladillas, pescaito frito, and tortilla de patatas.
Catalan cream or Catalan's version of crème brulee is served in some Spanish restaurants in STL. Other specialties from Catalan include pa amb tomaquet and botifarra. Cocido extremeno is Extremadura's specialty. It is a rich stew made with vegetables, bacon, meat, ham and fowl. Andalusia's contribution to Spanish cuisine includes fried fish, gazpacho, Jabugo ham, and salmorejo.
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The unexpected rains in early March have delayed rice planting in some regions, but in South Louisiana, some growers began planting as early as late February.
These growers have put in a extra work due to the rainy weather, but thankfully those who use a water-seeding system are still looking good so far.
Spring arrived earlier this year, and soil temperatures were higher than normal in early March. Much of the rice was planted ahead of the storm that was predicted to drop 8 to 10 inches of rain in those areas.
Luckily, most areas where rice was planted did not receive more than 3 inches of rain, and many areas received only 1.5 to 2 inches.
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Of course, the bonus about getting to spend the winter in Paris are mini-breaks on the European continent.
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How Much Are The Teams With The Largest Salary Commitments Actually Spending? (Or State Of Contracts In The NHL, Part 2B)
Fancy stats guru Eric T. tweeted to DrivingPlay after my State Of NHL Contracts Part 2 was posted, asking thus:
"So it matters whether you look at % of spend or % of cap, then, I guess? You'll find same % of spend, but lower % of cap?"
Decoding this question out of Twitter pidgin, he essentially asked - are teams spending as much money (proportionally) as they did in my comparison year (08-09)? And the answer is: Yes. They're actually spending more, at least the top teams are. Sussing out this sort of information is time-consuming, so rather than looking at the entire NHL, I took the top 12 teams in terms of cap hits (according to nhlnumbers.com) from this year and from 2008-09. I then looked at the total salary they paid out, counting all one-way contracts¹, and counting all call-ups proportionally to the time they were called up. Most of these were estimates based on me wanting to get through this data collection as fast as possible, so these numbers could be off by a tiny amount.
I'll spare you the individual details, but it suffices to say that the top teams are spending more, proportionally to the cap, than they did in 2008-09, while their cap spending has gone down (relative to the cap). Here's an average of the top 12 teams' actual spending as well as their total cap hits.
Year Total Paid Salary % Of Cap Total Cap Hits % Of Cap
2008-09 54.473M 102.08% 58.121M 102.84%
2011-12 70.212M 109.19% 63.92M 99.41%
It's clear, then, that among top teams, salaries have continued to rise even faster than the cap. We can see that cap hits and cap payments used to be pretty much equal, but now one has far outstripped the other. Part of that is a function of the fact that these severely front-loaded contracts are new to the NHL; I imagine there will be some settling. On the flip side, one also imagines that salaries among bottom teams would show a similar fall - as teams like the Islanders struggle to make a profit even with their team parked right at the salary floor, they are using players with significant bonuses and backloading contracts to get around paying the full $49M that is this year's salary floor.
It's also clear that something in this system has to change if the NHL wants to maintain that the salary cap increases parity, because as it is now, the top teams are all spending well over the cap in total salaries each year, and I don't see why this would change in the future.
¹ Data on one-way contracts was incomplete from 2008-09
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The Driving Play Podcast - 2012 Playoff Race Edition
Good evening, friends. We're back again with another edition of the Driving Play Podcast, this time discussing the tight playoff races in the Eastern and Western Conferences. We are happy to be joined by Corey Sznajder of the Carolina Hurricanes blog Shutdown Line. Just as a production note, we recorded this podcast yesterday before Buffalo's win over Washington, the Pens losing to the Islanders and the Rangers beating the Wild. Small sample sizes and having confidence in Dale Hunter can be cruel mistresses.
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The State Of Contracts In The NHL Today, Part 2
In Part 1, I examined how the top contracts in the league have essentially stagnated in the last 4 years, which means that relative to the salary cap, they've gone down. We know that entry level contracts have a cap on them which essentially limits how much they can pay out, and cursory examination of capgeek.com will show that the NHL essentially has a slotting system for entry-level deals.
However, one place that contracts could be exploding is for RFA forwards. Perhaps teams, wary of other teams offer sheeting their own players, or fearful of being taken to arbitration, are being more generous with their RFA players. A closer study shows that this isn't the case - once again, RFA salaries have stagnated despite the expanding cap.
To study this properly, I first sorted for RFA-age forwards who played more than 40 games with at least .4 Points Per Game (numbers courtesy of hockey-reference.com). I then looked at all the eligible forwards who signed new contracts in the summer of 2008 versus the summer of 2011. However, one cannot just sort contracts willy-nilly - I examined whether or not an RFA player was eligible for arbitration, how many years of UFA eligibility the contract he signed gave up, and how long his contract was signed for. This didn't leave me with too many contracts to directly compare, but I think it makes my point just as well. If one looks at the entire list of contracts signed, they would see that there is simply not much difference between then and now despite the nearly 15% increase in the salary cap between the two summers.
Without further ado, here's our first table; we're comparing forwards who signed 2 year contracts, who were not arbitration eligible, and who gave up none of their UFA years:
Years Total Contracts PPG Average Avg. Contract Avg. % Of Cap
2008 4 0.56 $2,629,250 4.69%
(Salary numbers courtesy of nhlnumbers.com and capgeek.com)
If we remember that 2008 was a higher scoring year than 2011, we can basically call the points per game even, and yet the players are making less money, and far less money against the cap. Perhaps that's a fluke - we are after all only looking at 8 contracts, and points per game isn't a scientific way to examine a contract's value.
Here's players who sign 5 year contracts with 1 year of UFA included who aren't eligible for arbitration:
2011 2 0.9 $5,250,000 8.16%
Again, we find a similar pattern. If we look at the percentage of the cap these contracts take up, it's higher in 2008.
Here we're looking at contracts that go for 2 years, don't have any UFA years, and are for players who are arbitration-eligible:
Once again, players who signed in 2011 got less money than players who signed in 2008. It's hard to imagine that agents aren't aware of these sorts of numbers - teams must be able to sell the fact that they don't have the same kind of money to sign these players.
In Part 3, I'll be examining possible reasons why contract amounts are stagnating and contracts are going down relative to the salary cap.
It's been ripping good fun watching teams ink their best players for periods of time that I hadn't even considered possible. By the time Ilya Kovalchuk's contract ends, people will be riding on Hoverboards, but not for leisure, as they will be using them in the fight against the deadly invasion of space aliens. Remember that you read this on Driving Play first; perhaps that will be your last thought as you enter the terrible tentacled maw of an interstellar conqueror.
I seem to have gotten off track here, but it's going to be fascinating watching teams maneuver with these contracts on board over the next 5-8 years. Some of them are time bombs, waiting to explode in a team's face. We can't say which. Others will provide the foundation for a Stanley Cup championship. And while I expect this trend to be reversed under the next CBA - even as many teams have one of these contracts on their books, they no doubt realize the enormous advantage conveyed upon teams that have multiple ultra-long-term contracts, and are going to work to remove the possibility of such a contract under the next CBA - the cat is out of the bag. Let's look at when these big contracts end.
That's a total of 28 contracts that end more than 6 years from now, and that number will no doubt increase when Ryan Suter, Zach Parise, and Shea Weber are re-signed this offseason, among others. 17 NHL teams have a contract that ends in 2018 or later.
Most of these contracts are at 'discount prices.' For instance, Marian Hossa and Ilya Kovalchuk are signed to deals that have a 5.2M and 6.6M cap hit, respectively, and that end roughly when your life's course will be fully determined and there's no extricating yourself from your fate. Their cap hits on contracts both signed after the end of the lockout, when the salary cap was 39M? 6M and 6.3M, respectively. Their cap hits have barely moved even as the salary cap itself has nearly doubled, and this was for players who were RFA when they signed their post-lockout deals, and UFA when they signed their lifetime contracts.
I decided to look at the top 20 largest cap hits in the league in 2008-09 and the biggest cap hits in the league in 2011-12. The summer of 2008 was when teams seemingly decided that the cap would never go anything but outrageously upwards - the economy was robust, NHL fans had forgotten about the lockout, and Glen Sather knew that the surge of Wade Redden jersey purchases would pay for that contract by themselves.
Year Total Top 20 Salary Salary Cap % Of Total Cap Space
2008-09 $148.248M $56.7M 8.72%
The 'Total Top 20 Salary' column refers to the summed amount of the top 20 biggest cap hits in the league. As we can see, it's barely moved despite the fact that the cap has grown by more than $7M. The '% Of Total Cap Space' refers to the top 20 salaries' total being divided by the salary cap amount times 30, for the 30 teams in the NHL. We can see that the percentage has gone down by nearly a full percent. That doesn't sound like very much, but we're talking about nearly 1% of 1.7 billion dollars. That means that cap-hit wise, the top 20 contracts are down by nearly an average of $766K relative to the cap. In total dollars, as we can see, things have remained relatively stagnant.
The deals that are super-long term don't really fit into this mold either, as only 5 contracts in the current top 20 biggest cap hits end in 2018 or after. That means these players whose big contracts end earlier will almost certainly face pressure to sign for a lower cap hit - odds are they will be out of their prime when their current deal ends.
In Part 2, I will examine RFA forwards to see if this trend also holds true among lower paid players, and in Part 3, I will give some reasons why the NHL is evolving in this way.
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Has Ilya Kovalchuk Changed For The Better?
It's a thing that gets repeated in the media all the time - Ilya Kovalchuk's making a Commitment to Defense. He Wants To Win and is now Listening To The Coaches. See here as Bobby Holik holds him up as a paragon for Alex Ovechkin to emulate. See here as Pierre Lebrun calls him a Hart Trophy candidate. One thing that's not getting talked about is how Kovalchuk's shooting percentage has gone to seed as a New Jersey Devil. Kovalchuk, as of March 8th, is shooting 11.1% as a Devil, scoring on exactly 1 out of every 9 shots. As an Atlanta Thrasher, he shot 14.95% - the difference may not sound like much, but that's scoring on more than one out of every 7 shots. For a player who shoots upwards of 3.5 times a game, it's a significant difference - assuming Kovalchuk's career shot rate and an 80 game season, it's a difference of 11 goals a year. That's going to be difficult to make up in other ways - the question is, can we account for this difference?
First, we must point out that shooting percentage for everyone should be down - league-wide goaltending has gotten slightly better over the course of Kovalchuk's career. According to quanthockey.com, the average save percentage was .908 in Kovalchuk's first season, it is now .914. In addition, there were many more power plays league-wide early in Kovalchuk's career - power plays are at a 30 year low again this season. Kovalchuk had 27 power play goals in 2005-06, the leader this year is not even on pace for 20. So we should expect some sort of drop in total shooting percentage, but his percentages have dropped both at even strength and at 5 on 4.
Here's Kovalchuk's shooting percentages since 2007-08, split into 5v5 and 5v4 (EN goals not removed, source behindthenet.ca):
Year Goals5v5 Shots5v5 S% Goals 5v4 Shots 5v4 S%
2007-08 32 148 17.78 14 102 13.72
2008-09 29 157 18.47 10 89 11.23
2010-11 20 164 12.2 6 66 9.09
2011-12 15 154 9.74 6 62 9.68
We don't have enough information to say that's a trend, but it doesn't look good. Still, a smart fan who's good at the eye test will tell me this: 'Sure, Kovalchuk's shooting percentage is down at even strength - it's because he's not cheating for breakaways like he used to. He's gotten better defensively.' And sure enough, an examination of save percentages yield some hope. I compared Kovalchuk's save percentage while on the ice 5 on 5 to when he was off (source: timeonice.com):
Year SV ON SV OFF Diff
2007-08 0.902 0.927 -0.025
2009-10 0.923 0.911 +0.012
Again, it's difficult to ascribe this to anything besides randomness, but at the very least, what appears to have been a trend is reversing. It's difficult to tell though, as Kovalchuk's teams have largely gotten below-average goaltending. However, at least this season, it's difficult to ascribe that to him or players playing like him on his line.
Here's a look at Goals For per 60 minutes at even strength and Goals Against per 60 minutes (source: behindthenet.ca):
Year GF/60 GA/60 Diff
2007-08 3.14 3.77 -0.63
2009-10 3.51 2.61 +0.90
Again, what seems to have been a high goal player on both ends has become a player much closer to the NHL average in terms of goals for and against. So let's go to the real stats, the Corsi and so forth (source: behindthenet.ca and timeonice.com):
Year Corsi Rel Corsi ON Zone Start ES +/-
2007-08 -1 -14.17 49.1 -11
2008-09 1.4 -5.21 45 -7
2009-10 -0.1 0.85 50.7 +14
2010-11 -2.4 2.56 57 -17
2011-12 5.1 2.59 55 +3
The Corsi Rel is slightly improving but it's difficult to say that's that great given the zone starts - New Jersey is slightly above 50% in total zone starts. Plus, Kovalchuk plays with Zach Parise, one of the game's best play drivers before this year. It's hard to find much of an indication here that Kovalchuk is becoming a substantially better player - we can't know for sure if his defense was responsible for his goalie's decreased save percentage, nor can we necessarily call his upswing in that department this year a 'trend', as last year he was substantially below par.
The one place where we can say for sure that Kovalchuk has 'improved' is a place where he's rarely played - the penalty kill. While Kovalchuk is getting better zone starts than just about anyone on the PK, his Corsi Rel ranks 2nd in the league among PKers with more than 1 minute per game of short-handed ice time, and he has 3 short handed goals and 2 assists. Kovalchuk has been on the ice for 5 goals for and 2 goals against while shorthanded 4 on 5, a remarkable feat in 70 minutes of PK time. As far as I can remember, New Jersey has not been shorthanded at the end of a game in which they trailed by 1 or 2, which might warp the Corsi results, as the Devils would try to pull their goalie and attempt lots of shots on the opposition's net. Kovalchuk has been a top penalty killer, and that's certainly a skill most wouldn't've thought he was capable of before this season.
In summary, while Kovalchuk's shooting percentage numbers have declined, his Corsi Rel has slightly improved. We also can't forget that Kovalchuk has moved to right wing for most of this season - perhaps that's part of why his shooting percentage has declined. Still, even though Kovalchuk has earned many plaudits for this season, Devils fans have to be concerned that the guy they got is not entirely the guy they paid for, and it remains to be seen whether that will turn out to be a positive development.
Posted by Triumph at 11:56 AM 1 comments
The Driving Play Podcast - Trade Deadline Recap
Good evening, friends. We're finally back with the final installment of our NHL trade deadline series of podcasts. This time, we're evaluating the winners, losers, and the catastrophe that was Scott Howson and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
We were also privileged to again be joined by Dirk Hoag of On the Forecheck to get his reaction to our take on Nashville's deadline dealings.
All four of us were able to get together to record this edition, so go ahead and give it a listen.
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Yet Another Reason Why Carrying 2 Enforcers Is Stupid
Discussions that bash enforcers are the lowest hanging fruit in the hockey blogosphere. If you're reading this, you either think that A: having an enforcer on your team is dumb or B: I or anyone else is dumb for suggesting otherwise (psst, it's most likely A). Regardless, it's tough to not think either A or B if you expose yourself to any talk about hockey.
I've resigned myself to being a fan of a team that's going to carry at least one 'enforcer'. The players seem to like having guys like that around, and while I'm no longer a fan of the scheduled scrap, where the commentator talks about how these guys 'know their job' or whatever while both guys decide to whale on one another for what seems like no good reason, it does still give me a vicarious thrill on those very rare occasions that a fighter from my team straightens out a pest who's been taking liberties with our non-fighters. We don't see much frontier justice on the East Coast - it's more about lingering resentments and therapy bills out here. Still, I do not understand having two enforcers on the roster when the NHL roster limit is only 23 players - the roster is simply not large enough to carry around players who, when push isn't coming to shove, quite simply hurt the team any time they step on the ice.
Two enforcers are can be worked around for most of the season if a team carries a 22 man roster and always dresses at least one enforcer. This way, a GM always has an extra spot open in case a forward gets nicked up and is day to day - he can call up an extra forward who he actually considers a hockey player. He doesn't have to use emergency recall, which is allowed only if the team falls below the 12 forwards, 6 defensemen, and 2 goalies that the NHL considers a minimum roster. Judicious use of injured reserve means his coach is never forced to play both enforcers, though he might choose to in a rivalry game, or to make an example of a real hockey player, or possibly just to throw caution to the winds. As long as he keeps 22 men on the roster, the coach's hand is rarely forced unless he's on the other side of the country from his AHL team.
This is not the case after the trade deadline, however. After the deadline, while there is no longer a limit to the number of players a team can have on their roster, a team is only allowed 4 non-emergency recalls from their AHL team from now until the end of the playoffs. So let's say our example NHL team is going with a 22 man roster and a top 9 forward gets injured after the trade deadline. A player from the 4th line is promoted into the top 9 and either the coach has to dress both enforcers, dress a defenseman as a forward, or the GM has to waste a non-emergency recall to bring up a forward who can play hockey. If the team's out of the playoff race, using a recall is no big deal, but if the team figures on making the playoffs, it's going to want the maximum number of available bodies. This is precisely what happened to the New Jersey Devils, and yesterday they lost 1-0 on a goal that was scored while their 4th line, made up of 2 enforcers and a waiver pickup, was on the ice. Would it have made a difference to have a real hockey player out there? Who knows - perhaps not. It certainly couldn't hurt to try, though.
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Zubaic, 01 Jul 2013please like how long can d battery of c7 last nd is it only 3g network dat it has.ples i need ... moreIf you connect to only 2G with moderate use, it should last you 2 days... mine has gone upto 3 days.... If you connect to only 3G then it should last you one full day. If you play games and browse or watch movies etc, expect less. The battery is quite good on the C7... Would really have been great with a 1500mAh battery.
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Anonymous, 25 Jun 2013how to connect a blue tooth wireless device with nokia c7 am not enable to connect this device... moreMy Dell over the ears bluetooth headset works like this. Turn off the bluetooth device... turn on the bluetooth on the phone... go to bluetooth menu on the phone.... go to paired devices .... Now search for a new device while at the same time turn on the bluetooth device... keep the button pressed for a couple of seconds (about 5 secs) .... the light should start blinking and then the phone discovers the device at the same time ... pair them and enjoy. If asked for a password ... input what you have been given .... mine simply works with 0000.
xtramanoz, 31 May 2013Is Skype(for video call) not compatible for Nokia C7-00?It is downloaded mine yesterday from Nokia store.Struggling to download Viber though.
atto, 14 Jun 2013can i put viper in nokia c7You mean Viber? Yes, it's free in Nokia Store.
AnonD-151857, 03 Jun 2013My Nokia C7 keeps on stalling when on internet! and sometimes when just working on it normaly ... moreYou can use Opera Mini, Opera Mobile or UC Browser. Default browser is Symbian's weak spot.
Anonymous, 22 Jul 2010You don't get it do you? Samsung's Development is far better than hhhhhmf... try to look way ... more3 years down the line i now see that you are correct samsungs development is way better than nokia's. thanks bud.
c7user, 16 Jun 2013no its not the battery i think its the main board..there is something lije an ic inside that m... moreI heard that metal bodied phones are more prone to heating as the heat from the battery can easily be transferred to the body which can thus be easily sensed. Are you using Belle?
Ashman, 13 Jun 20133G network does heat up the battery a bit ... but not quite like what you have mentioned. Many... moreno its not the battery i think its the main board..there is something lije an ic inside that makes it hot..but its not the battery..help me please i want to use 3g but my phones back part is so hot..
Anonymous, 13 Jun 2013please for how long can my battery browse am using nokia c7It should last about 4.5 - 5.5 hours if you are using WiFi.
c7user, 11 Jun 2013can anyone help me about my phone c7 is heating up when im browsing via 3g..it is not the batt... more3G network does heat up the battery a bit ... but not quite like what you have mentioned. Many phones have heating problems... my friend's Sony Xperia-Z really heated up initially as did the HTC sensation.


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