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You Said It, Mission Hill!: 2014 in Quotes
by Rebeca Oliveira • January 9, 2015 • 0 Comments
"Boston has been called a 'City upon a Hill'…but it's not just the shining light of Beacon Hill…It's Copp's Hill and Mission Hill and Eagle Hill."
Mayor Martin Walsh in his inaugural address.
"This is an important step in building the community's vision for Roxbury Crossing and Mission Hill."
Pat Flaherty of Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services on the Boston Redevelopment Authority's approval of the Parcel 24 redevelopment into a mixed-use building.
"This is an ideal opportunity to minimize the invasiveness of urban sprawl while providing housing."
Francie Hauck, who gardens at the site with her husband and son, on the redevelopment of the Art Park site between Parker and Terrace streets into 44 apartments and 58,000 square feet of green space.
"They're representing this dichotomy that seems to have developed in the basketball culture of Mission Hill."
Filmmaker Brian Culkin on the two brothers, Wayne and Baron "Tiny" Turner, highlighted in his documentary, "The Mission." Wayne was a college and pro basketball star, while Baron ended up playing in prison basketball leagues.
"I've been working with the City for a better schedule, predictive service, plus better technology."
City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who represents part of Mission Hill, on his belief that the city should expand its use of public trash compactors and recycling bins, explore the use of cutting-edge receptacles, and reevaluate litter fines to better manage litter.
"That place was a landmark…I hoped the property owner would have understood the need to talk to us."
State Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, questioning the lack of notice of the demolition of the former Burke's Tavern building at 804-810 Huntington Ave. in February.
"I was told by the City they didn't want to put it back here. It caused too much conflict, too much controversy."
Mission Hill Main Streets Executive Director Richard Rouse, on the potential return of a "parklet"—a temporary public park and sidewalk seating area—to Mission Hill.
"Why were we BRIC's targets? What is the point of any of this? How did this monitoring help the city? BRIC's silence on this speaks volumes."
Robin Jacks, one of the activists who organized the 2011 Occupy Boston camp, on documents showing that the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, a controversial spy agency based at Boston Police headquarters on Tremont Street, tracked Northeastern University students' involvement in the Occupy Boston movement, as well as academic events the spies admitted were not related to Occupy at all.
"Any crime that preys upon children, the most vulnerable and precious population, is reprehensible, but when the predator is in a position of trust, as Mr. Keller was as a pediatrician, it is particularly disturbing."
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, on the March sentencing of Richard Keller to six-and-half years in prison on child pornography charges. Keller was a Boston Children's Hospital doctor at the time of his arrest in 2012.
"The U.S. Olympic Committee was very keen on Boston."
City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who represents part of Mission Hill, on Boston's being shortlisted as one of four cities being considered as the U.S. bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic games.
"We're very in touch with our flaws and our deficiencies, and we're going to work really hard to fix them. The problems have evolved over the course of almost 60 years. It's going to take a little while to fix them."
Boston Redevelopment Authority Director Brian Golden on his plans following an audit that found the agency in need of reform.
"A giant is gone from Earth, but he lives on in our souls. He gave his life to the city in so many ways."
State Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, on the Oct. 30 death of former Mayor Thomas Menino.
"He had a people antenna that was better than anyone I ever met…He would call me in to his office and ask who I was working on a project with, and six or seven times, he would say, 'That's a bad guy.' And he was right!"
Former city Councilor John Tobin, reminiscing about Menino.
"I want to explore ways to reach out to them…I want to think about what the students need. They already have campus libraries."
New Parker Hill Branch librarian Katrina Morse on her plans for the branch.
← El gobierno requiere más funcionarios latinos dicen los líderes de Mission Hill
After council service, Ross moves to Eastie →


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New Attendance Guidance – is it any good?
On June 27, 2019 By Iain NisbetIn Additional Support Needs, Attendance and absence, Equality Act 2010, School Education
Last week the Scottish Government published revised guidance on school attendance.
The guidance is called Included, Engaged and Involved Part 1: A Positive Approach to the Promotion and Management of Attendance in Scottish Schools. As the name suggests, there is an immediate link being made here with school exclusion – Part 2 of the "Included, Engaged and Involved" is the exclusions guidance (which is, by and large, very good). Anyone who has read the Not Included, Not Engaged, Not Involved research will know the very real overlaps between non-attendance at school and informal exclusions from school for disabled pupils / pupils with additional support needs.
I come across issues of attendance and non-attendance in my capacity as a solicitor and also as a member of a local attendance council for a Scottish local authority. More often in the first capacity, the situation is that a child with additional support needs is "not coping" with school and this is manifesting itself in behaviour which makes it not safe for them to attend, or in a refusal to attend school – often expressed in very definite terms.
Note already the terminology used – it is the child who is not coping, rather than the school environment (say) or teacher practice (for example) which requires amendment.
Pupils with additional support needs have a lower rate of attendance than pupils with no additional support needs, with the difference being particularly stark in mainstream secondary schools (88.6% compared to 92.1%) 2017 stats. Given this known disparity, it is disappointing that the section on Additional Support for Learning occupies half of one page (in a fifty page document). There are four paragraphs, three of which explain what additional support needs means as a term and a little bit about Co-ordinated Support Plans.
The other paragraph, however, does sort of get to the heart of matters (in all fairness):
Providing additional support may help children and young people to engage more fully with school and promote good attendance. Schools should recognise that poor attendance can often be related to, or be an indication of, an additional support need and they should use their staged intervention processes to ensure that any barriers to learning are identified and appropriate support is provided.
My concern is that this gets lost in a document which has much more to say about the traditional means of responding to absence: work being sent home; attendance orders; references to the children's panel; and prosecution of the parents of the absent child (five pages devoted to the "Measures for compulsory compliance" appendix!). None of which is helpful or effective in relation to a child whose autism means that they are unable to function effectively (let alone learn) in the busy environment of a large mainstream school. These systems were set up decades ago to deal with truancy and are ill-suited to other purposes. Further, once you are in the enforcement process, it is difficult to get out.
Fortunately, the Tribunals – and the Court of Session, in the 2018 Inner House case of City of Edinburgh Council v. R, may take a more considered view of this type of case. The case deals with some fairly technical matters under the Equality Act 2010, but ultimately has no difficulty with the Tribunal's finding that a CSP for a disabled child refusing to attend school (for reasons arising from that disability) which basically says the school can do nothing until the child attends school – was inadequate, detrimental and discriminatory.
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Man dies in SW Sedgwick County crash
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) A man died Monday afternoon in a crash in southwest Sedgwick County.
Capt. Brad Hoch, with the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, said around 1 p.m. someone passing by the intersection of 311th St. W. and 47th St. S. noticed an SUV on the north side of the road.
Hoch said the driver appeared to have been ejected from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
He said investigators believe the driver oversteered the SUV on the roadway and ended up in the field, but it may take a while to determine exactly what caused the deadly crash.
Investigators will look into whether speed or other factors played a role in what happened.
Hoch said the driver is believed to be a man in his 60s and from southwestern Sedgwick County.
He was not sure how long the man had been there before the accident was discovered.
Man dead after crash in Rooks County
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Truck slams into Illinois Starbucks; 4 taken to hospital
Police identify motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run near downtown Wichita
Arizona woman killed in rollover crash near Sharon Springs


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To Die in Paris is a 1968 TV film directed by Charles S. Dubin and Allen Reisner and starring Louis Jourdan, Kurt Kreuger, Phillippe Fourquet, and Stuart Nesbet.

Premise
During World War Two, a French resistance leader is accused of betraying his own side.

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External links

To Die in Paris at New York Times
To Die in Paris at BFI

1968 television films
1968 films
1960s English-language films
Films directed by Charles S. Dubin

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Like everything I cook, it's a pretty simple little recipe and is a good recipe to clean out any nuts and dried fruit you've got hanging around those cupboards.
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Верхоту́рский городско́й о́круг — муниципальное образование в Свердловской области России, относится к Северному управленческому округу.

Административный центр — город Верхотурье.

С точки зрения административно-территориального устройства области, городской округ находится в границах Верхотурского района.

География
Верхотурский городской округ расположен в центральной части Свердловской области, на юге Северного округа в её составе. Площадь городского округа — 4925 км², что составляет приблизительно 2,54 % от общей площади Екатеринбуржья. Верхотурский городской округ создан в границах Верхотурского района, и их территории полностью совпадают.

С физико-географической точки зрения, Верхотурская земля расположена к востоку от цепи Уральских гор, в местности перехода горного Среднего Урала в равнинную Западную Сибирь. Городской округ вытянут с запада на восток на 140 км. Данное муниципальное образование тянется вдоль реки Туры, самой длинной в области, вдоль которой расположено абсолютное большинство населённых пунктов городского округа. В его пределах в Туру впадают притоки (от верхнего к нижнему течению): Талица, Чёрная, Шайтанка, Налим, Косолманка, Песчанка, Актай (за границей округа в Актай впадает Малый Актай), Калачик, Неромка, Чёрная, Роговка, Большая Зырянка, Горскина, Захаровка, Таволжанка, Казанка, Салда, Вогулка, Пуреговка, Меркушинка, Шайтанка, Цыганка, Прорва, Морозовка, Рогозинка, Липовка, Селенга, Еловка, Диановка, Отрадновка, Савиновка, Выдра, Копанка, Юрмыч и множество мелких рек. Бóльшая часть Верхотурского городского округа занята лесами, а к югу от Туры, в поймах и междуречьях её притоков расположено множество крупных болот. Крупнейшим притоком Туры в округе является Салда, впадающая в Туру справа у села Усть-Салда. На Салде и её правом притоке — реке Пии — расположена ещё часть населённых пунктов округа.

Окружной и районный центр — город Верхотурье — является старейшим на Урале русским городом и «духовной столицей» края. Здесь расположено множество православных храмов и самый маленький в России Верхотурский кремль. Город находится в северо-западной части городского округа. В восточной части округа находится старинное село Меркушино.

Верхотурский городской округ, которому территориально соответствует Верхотурский район, граничит:

 на северо-западе — с Новолялинским городским округом, которому соответствует Новолялинский район,
 на северо-востоке — с Сосьвинским городским округом, которому соответствует Серовский район,
 на востоке и юго-востоке — с Махнёвским муниципальным образованием, которое образовано на части Алапаевского района,
 на юге — с Верхнесалдинским городским округом, которому соответствует Верхнесалдинский район,
 на юго-западе — с городским округом Красноуральск, которому соответствует административно-территориальная единица «город Красноуральск»,
 на западе — с Нижнетуринским городским округом, которому соответствует административно-территориальная единица «город Нижняя Тура».

Часть Махнёвского муниципального образования глубоко вдаётся в земли Верхотурского городского округа, образуя здесь посёлок Таёжный.

Транспорт
Через Верхотурский городской округ на западе проходит автодорога  — Серовский тракт, которая соединяет Екатеринбург с севером области. Сама автодорога ничего в городском округе не соединяет и является всего лишь сквозной, однако за пределами округа, уже в соседнем Новолялинском городском округе, от неё есть ответвление на восток, которое соединяет с ней город Верхотурье и бóльшую часть населённых пунктов округа, которые находятся в основном по берегам Туры. Дорога проходит в основном по правому берегу реки (после Верхотурья). Её протяжённость (от Серовского тракта до села Дерябина) — 100 км.

Через Верхотурский городской округ проходят также два участка Свердловской железной дороги:

 на западе округа — вытянутый в этой местности с юго-запада на северо-восток участок ветки Гороблагодатская — Серов, на котором находятся станции, остановочные пункты и разъезды: Карелино, Косолманка, Обжиг, 101 км и Верхотурье;
 на востоке округа вытянутый с юга на север участок ветки Алапаевск — Серов, на котором находятся станции и остановочные пункты: Шайтан, Карпунино, Белая Глина.

История
27 февраля 1924 года в составе Верхотурского (Тагильского) округа Уральской области был образован Верхотурский район, в состав которого вошла часть земель бывшего Верхотурского уезда. С 1934 года район находится в составе Свердловской области.

В 1936 году Морозовский сельсовет был переименован в Кордюковский. В 1938 году селение Верхотурье получило статус рабочего посёлка. В том же году Путимковский с/с был переименован в Глазуновский. В 1939 году образован Косолманский с/с.

В 1940 году образован рабочий посёлок Привокзальный. В 1947 году рабочий посёлок Верхотурье получил статус города районного подчинения. В 1949 году из Исовского района в Верхотурский были переданы Вологинский и Новотуринский с/с.

В 1956 году Новотуринский с/с был передан из Верхотурского района в административное подчинение городу Нижняя Тура. В 1957 году образованы рабочие посёлки Восточный и Карпунинский. В 1959 году Дуранинский с/с переименован в Ступинский.

1 февраля 1963 года Верхотурский район вошёл в новый Верхотурский сельский район, который включал следующие территории:
 из Верхотурского района — Вологинский, Глазуновский, Дерябинский, Кордюковский, Красногорский, Меркушинский, Отрадновский, Пиинский, Прокопьевский и Усть-Салдинский с/с;
 из Новолялинского района — Коптяковский, Ляля-Титовский, Полуденовский, Савиновский и Салтановский с/с;
 из Серовского района — Большеивонинский, Верх-Сосьвинский, Денисовский, Еловский, Ключевской, Кошайский, Масловский, Романовский и Хмелевский с/с.

13 января 1965 года Верхотурский сельский район преобразован в Верхотурский район. В 1967 году Ступинский с/с переименован в Мостовской.

В 1971 году Вологинский с/с переименован в Карелинский.

По итогам местного референдума 17 декабря 1995 года, в рамках Верхотурского района было создано муниципальное образование Верхотурский уезд.

17 декабря 1996 года муниципальное образование было включено в областной реестр.

31 октября 2004 года Верхотурский уезд был наделён статусом городского округа. Рабочие посёлки Карпунинский и Привокзальный были преобразованы в сельские населённые пункты.

С 1 января 2006 года муниципальное образование было переименовано в Верхотурский городской округ.

В рамках административно-территориального устройства области административно-территориальная единица Верхотурский район продолжает существовать.

Население

Состав
Городской округ и район включает 44 населённых пункта. При этом район до 1 октября 2017 года делился на 11 административно-территориальных единиц: 1 город и 10 сельсоветов.

 Упразднённые населённые пункты
 27 ноября 2001 года были упразднены деревни Береговая (Глазуновского сельсовета), Ванюшина и Вологина (Карелинского сельсовета), Верхняя Баландина (Меркушинского сельсовета), Верхняя Карабаева и Новосёлова (Дерябинского сельсовета), Заплатина и Ключик и Лиханова (Прокопьевского сельсовета), Карпова и Чернова (Пиинского сельсовета), Кекур (Кордюковского сельсовета).
 3 декабря 2015 года были упразднены деревни Добрынина (Глазуновского сельсовета), Корчемкина (Красногорского сельсовета), Макарихина (Прокопьевского сельсовета), Мызникова (Меркушинского сельсовета), Тренихина (Кордюковского сельсовета), посёлок железнодорожного разъезда 99 км (до 2004 года в подчинении рабочего посёлка Привокзального, то есть в составе Привокзального поссовета; с 2004 в подчинении районного центра, согласно ОКАТО до 2020 года в подчинении администрации района), посёлок Обжиг (Косолманского сельсовета).

Информация об административно-территориальной принадлежности упразднённых населённых пунктов взята из сборника областного административно-территориального устройства на 1987 год.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт городского округа
 Информационный портал «Верхотурье-Сити»
 На сайте правительства Свердловской области
 На сайте «Геральдика Свердловской области»

Городской округ Верхотурский


Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) was a renowned Victorian explorer and prolific author. He and his wife Isabella (neé Arundell) are buried in a large stone mausoleum built to look like an Arab tent in St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, 61 Worple Way, Mortlake, SW14 8PR.
Burton was a remarkable traveler and explorer, linguist, poet, soldier, diplomat, prolific author and translator of major works of Arab literature including; The Kama Sutra, The Arabian Nights and The Perfumed Garden. After an early career serving in the Army in India (1842-1853) and later fighting in the Crimean War (1855-1856), he travelled to Mecca as well as to Africa and the Americas under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. Between 1856-1860, he journeyed to the great lakes of central Africa in search of the source of the river Nile. Co-founder of the Anthropological Society of London in 1863 and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he was appointed a KCMG (Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George) in 1886.
The tent is created from thick slabs of York Stone from the Forest of Dean, with surfaces finished to simulate the irregularities of the canvas of a tent, originally lime-washed to achieve an even closer match. The stone door at the front of the tent was originally hinged but is now sealed shut. Within the tent the floor is paved in Carrara marble (Tuscany, Italy) with black marble inserts and the underside of the roof is painted to represent the heavens. At one end there is a marble altar and tabernacle with candles along with a number of the explorer's possessions including; dried flowers, hanging lamps and camel bells.
The mausoleum, built in 1890, is a Grade II* listed building and it is of great importance both for its association with Burton and for its fusion of Christian and Muslim symbols, funerary art and artefacts. Despite its significance, by 2007 the mausoleum was in very poor condition and was listed on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register.
The Environment Trust in collaboration with Friends of Burton raised funds to restore both the interior and exterior of this magnificent building. Grants were provided by English Heritage, the Heritage of London Trust, and private donors to undertake restoration work which was completed in 2010. The Environment Trust has a 10 year responsibility to ensure that the tomb is well maintained.
Following the £3.8 million development project Transforming Orleans House, there is now a new Study Gallery at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham showcasing nearly 100 works from the Richmond Borough Art Collection. This includes the Burton collection of paintings, photographs and objects donated to the nation by his widow Isabel, as well as some later acquisitions donated by author Mary Lovell. These are displayed in specially designed pull-out drawers and cupboards and are on permanent public display. Orleans House Gallery is open Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm and admission is free. The collection is now online and can be viewed.


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Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 by Isaiah Berlin review – the ultimate insider who loved to talk
This fourth volume of the late philosopher's collected correspondence, edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle, provides much to bolster the case against Berlin
Would Isaiah Berlin's writing 'have merited such a small industry of attention had he not also known everybody who was anybody'? Photograph: Joe Partridge/Rex Features
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There must now be a risk of Berlin-fatigue setting in. This is the fourth large volume of his letters, and it comes on the back of seven collections of essays and other occasional pieces assembled by Henry Hardy before Berlin's death in 1997, plus a further seven since. Berlin recognised that it was the devoted Hardy's efforts that "have suddenly converted me from someone who has hardly written anything into an almost indecently prolific author". There have also been a biography, at least two series of interviews, several full-length studies, and two Festschriften. It seems doubtful whether his writings on liberty and on value pluralism would, by themselves, have merited such a small industry of attention had he not also known everybody who was anybody. Rare is the memoir or biography of a leading intellectual or cultural figure in Britain who flourished between the 1930s and 80s in which Berlin does not make some kind of appearance. As a result, his personality may have come to seem more important than his intellectual achievements. As he cheerfully confided when about to receive yet another honour: "I do not complain; to be overestimated is not the most painful of states."
As a historian of ideas, Berlin was wide-ranging, even learned in an eccentric way, but that way was far removed from the contemporary academic model of specialised "research". He moved easily in the company of the thinkers from the 18th and 19th centuries who most interested him – figures such as Vico, Herder and his great hero, the Russian liberal Alexander Herzen. He understood the outlook of such writers, drawing on a kind of intellectual empathy to reanimate their ideas for later generations, but he did not build up a thickly textured context of lesser minds or grub around in archives. Though he was well informed about the intellectual history of the period from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries, he found it much less congenial, regarding it as, at best, a silver age, at worst a thin epilogue to the main action. As he confessed to one correspondent: "I feel firmly tied to the values of the 19th century."
That allegiance could make the famously genial Berlin a surprisingly dyspeptic observer of the late 20th century. He was 66 at the start of this volume and 88 when he died. It is sad to see him mistaking his own declining energies for an objective cultural diagnosis and so falling into an ungenerous cultural pessimism: nobody is now doing good work, "there is mediocrity everywhere", the life of the mind is nearly finished, "part of the general decline of intellectual standards in England" and so on. This disparagement extended to the wider world. "Dear me, now I am talking like a White Russian," he smiled at the end of one tirade. It was meant as an endearing piece of self-mockery, but that didn't make it untrue.
A couple of Berlin's letters to Prince Charles are 'simply excruciating'. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
Those who are already Berlin's fans will find much to enthuse over in this final volume of his letters; those who are his settled critics will likewise not lack for further materials with which to support their indictment. All his usual topics are here – the irresolvable conflict of fundamental values, the dangers of monistic theories of history, his continuing fascination with all things Russian, his deep commitment to Israel, his passionate absorption in music. In addition to warm, funny letters to old friends, there are glimpses of his keen desire to move among the highest circles of the traditional elite. A couple of letters to Prince Charles are simply excruciating, as are some confidential assessments, for the benefit of the "senior courtier" who handled these matters, of who did or did not deserve to be awarded the Order of Merit. Reading these, with their sublime insiderish confidence in judging the comparative merits of this scientist as against that historian, or of this painter as against that musician – mostly cases where his views could be, at best, second-hand or dependent on hearsay – simply made me wish I lived in a different country.
But there is a more serious case against Berlin, which the availability of his letters both strengthens yet also partly counters. He repeatedly says exaggerated or misleading, or even downright untrue, things in private letters, and he is then left in a mess of squirming denial when some of these opinions become public. This volume contains a sobering number of illustrations of such evasiveness as the truth started to catch up with him. For a long time, he simply lied about his part, while working in the British embassy in Washington during the war, in preventing the publication of a joint British/US declaration on the future of Palestine which he feared would be prejudicial to Zionist interests, but by the 1980s a persevering journalist was beginning to unearth evidence that contradicted Berlin's account. Nonetheless, he stuck to his story: "The impression you give of some kind of double-dealing on my part is, I assure you, false."' But it wasn't false, as he had to admit at the end of his life.
Even more characteristic was the pickle he got himself into over Noam Chomsky. In 1986 the journal Index on Censorship published an article by Chomsky arguing that the ardently pro-Israel views of the bulk of the US media constituted a form of de facto censorship. Berlin, a committed if critical Zionist, wrote privately to the chair of Index, Mark Bonham-Carter (whom he knew well) to protest and to ask that his name be removed from the list of recipients of the journal. His somewhat sophistical case was that the journal should confine itself to identifying actual instances of censorship rather than discussing allegations of bias in a "free" country. This letter, which contained some distinctly unflattering characterisations of Chomsky's journalism in general, was leaked, and Berlin had to embark on a damage-limitation exercise, writing to Chomsky (with whom he had hitherto had friendly relations) to insist that the leak gave a "highly misleading and hostile account" of what Berlin had actually written. But by then Chomsky had seen the contents of Berlin's original letter, and he was understandably severe on what even Hardy terms Berlin's "underhand mode of expressing criticism", recognising its roots in Britain's too-cosy establishment culture. The two men never communicated again.
Noam Chomsky in his office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1988. Photograph: JP Laffont/JP Laffont/Sygma/Corbis
Berlin's admirers are prone to say that there is mean-spirited, reverse snobbery at work in criticisms of his constant hobnobbing with the rich, powerful and well-connected. But the justifiable charge against him here is not that he liked the company of such people: it is that his cultivated intimacy with such circles habituated him into thinking of himself as being on the inside, able to pull strings and to drop a word in the ear of those with one kind of power or another without having to mount a properly argued case in public, which might then have been open to challenge. He enjoyed his insider status and he liked his opinions to have influence, but he hated to have to acknowledge them publicly or to be drawn into controversy over them. He undeniably possessed a streak of deviousness or even cowardice, and his genuinely liberal principles were often in tension with his equally deep need to be liked and admired.
Although the items collected in this volume are, technically, private letters, in reality some of them were clearly conceived as semi-public statements. Berlin knew that his life and thought were already subject to divergent interpretations, and so in response to inquiries and critiques he devoted considerable effort to expounding and polishing his views. Part of the problem facing future intellectual historians who may write about Berlin is what evidentiary status to give to these documents. They certainly illustrate his expressiveness, his verbal ebullience and his habitual adjectival excess. Whether they always represent definitely held views, or indeed whether they are in some cases evidence of conscious duplicity, may be harder to say. He remained almost comically eloquent to the end, but he was increasingly unreliable about his memories and his judgments (Hardy, to his great credit, does not refrain from drawing attention to some of the more egregious lapses).
Perhaps the injunction he sent to a young man who had written asking for guidance about life points to a fundamental characteristic of Berlin as a letter-writer: "Do not do anything that bores you." Writing dull, cautious letters would have bored Berlin, and his exaggeratedly colourful epistolary style can be seen as part of his habitual way of making life more interesting, at least for himself. He was famously, if not altogether flatteringly, described as "the Paganini of the lecture-hall", and one can hear his much-imitated, Oxford-inflected, downhill gobble in the letters – hardly surprising, given that they were dictated.
"I love talking: I do not think of what I am saying when I am talking; I do not think beforehand of what I shall say nor after of what I have said, and once it is over I would rather not see the result. I live from moment to moment … Plauderei [chat, gossip] is my natural medium, and whatever I know or think certainly enters it quite naturally, for better or for worse."
Even this declaration, however winning, has to be treated with some caution – he often thought very carefully indeed about what he would say and certainly worried afterwards – but it should also serve as a warning. In reading these letters we are eavesdropping, and eavesdroppers have no right to complain if the Plauderei they overhear sometimes turns out to be discreditable to the gossiper as well as his subjects.
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I'm 35 Years Old And I'm Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I'm Panicking, Just a Little.
It's been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually.
Just three weeks ago life was good. Correction. It was awesome. The newest edition to our family had arrived on Christmas Eve, joining his two sisters aged 5 and 3. A month later we were on a plane home to Sydney, having spent four great years working for Google in California. My beautiful wife had been working at a startup on NASA's Moffett campus and was worried about finding something equally interesting in Australia, but she managed to land a very similar gig with an innovative logistics start-up in Sydney. We'd come back primarily to be closer to family, but also to pursue a dream of setting up a family farm in partnership with my parents — intended as a great place to bring up our three kids but also as a new sideline income stream. We'd spent every weekend scouring Sydney for areas that met our criteria (good schools, commutable, cost of land etc) and we were settling on Kurrajong in Sydney's west. I was just getting into a training routine for the CitytoSurf run having done the Monteray Bay half marathon a few months prior.
On July 19th I went for what I thought would be a routine GP visit. In my mind it was primarily to re-establish a GP relationship in case my kids needed an urgent care visit (the practice is literally around the corner from our place). I'd also noticed a bit of unusual bleeding from, well, my back passage and very recently a change in bowel habit. I wasn't alarmed by either of these symptoms but my GP was concerned enough to refer me for a colonoscopy. So began the roller coaster.
I'll skip much of the detail but in short the colonoscopy revealed a lesion which they believed to be malignant. This was confirmed by a biopsy three days later. A CT scan revealed suspicious swelling in the surrounding lymph nodes so I was booked for a PET CT scan — where radioactive sugar is injected prior to a CT scan to highlight cancer in your body. That PET scan changed the game because it not only confirmed cancer in the surrounding lymph nodes but it also found two smaller tumors in my liver, which the original scan had not identified. So, by August 2nd I was confronted with a stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis.
Stage 1 — this usually means that a cancer is relatively small and contained within the organ it started in.
Stage 2 — this usually means the cancer has not started to spread into surrounding tissue but the tumor is larger than in stage 1. Sometimes stage 2 means that cancer cells have spread into lymph nodes close to the tumor. This depends on the particular type of cancer.
Stage 3 usually means the cancer is larger. It may have started to spread into surrounding tissues and there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes in the area.
Stage 4 means the cancer has spread from where it started to another body organ. This is also called secondary or metastatic cancer.
These days having a stage 1 cancer is generally no big deal. Stage 4 however is not too good at all. Doctors use 'survival curves' — survival statistics for people with your cancer and your stage of progression — to provide some kind of prognosis. In my case, most published survival curves suggest that only 10% of people are still alive 5 years post diagnosis. Now, I've since learnt that there are many reasons not to focus too much on these statistics. My prognosis is likely better (none of my doctors will venture a guess) but it is no better than 50/50. And even if I live beyond 5 years, my life expectancy as a survivor of metastatic cancer will almost certainly be much curtailed.
Over the next 6 months I'll be doing radio therapy and chemotherapy and at some point I'll have two surgeries, one to remove a section of my colon and the other to remove two chunks from my liver. This for a guy who's never been seriously sick in his adult life, and who happens to have a major needle phobia.
I know this is so cliched, but life really can change overnight. Suddenly I can't be sure I'm going to see my new son's 5th birthday, or even his 2nd. It's now highly unlikely I'll see even my eldest daughter get married. I probably won't know what careers my children pursue. And as for my own career, it's come to a screeching halt. I'm also struggling to imagine what it might look like in future if I do manage to survive this, because my outlook on life is already so fundamentally altered I don't think I can just go back to my old world.
Life now is a weird kind of duality.
On the one hand I must be optimistic — I must believe I can beat this cancer to get through the next six months. On the other hand I need to be pragmatic and prepared for a scenario where the treatment is unsuccessful and I'm told one day that I have X months to live. As a husband and dad of three kids under five that scenario is obviously terrifying, but it also has many practical implications that I feel I need to prepare for — financial readiness, a mechanism to ensure my children remember me, legal authority for my wife over our assets, etc.
One of the things I'm struggling most with is this concept of legacy. I'm a planner. Before this diagnosis I'd been thinking of my 1st 35 years — aside from being a ton of fun and travel — as preparation. I felt like I was building a platform (savings, networks, skills, experience) that I could then use in my second act to make a real contribution, to "make my mark", to build a real legacy for my kids. Perhaps that was a mistake on my part, because I may have no time to do that now. I guess I'm panicking a little.
I feel like I have so many messages to deliver to the blissful masses from my now precarious vantage point, from the importance of early precautionary doctor visits to the merits of life insurance. But putting pragmatism aside, there is one thing I'd urge everyone to do. Stop just assuming you have a full lifetime to do whatever it is you dream of doing. I know it sounds ridiculously cliched, and of course you never think it will happen to you, but let me assure you that life really can be taken from you at any time, so live it with that reality in mind.
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Ray Chin, one of our Games Hosts from last year, will return this year as a facilitator at various Bryant Park Game Socials. In this post, Ray tells us about his favorite tabletop games available for play at the park.
International Tabletop Day is this Saturday, April 30th. We have been counting down the days and we can't be more excited to participate this year! It is a global event celebrating the board game hobby and the board game community. So whether you are looking to try and learn new games or whether you are a Catan veteran looking for new competition, we welcome all gamers for a full day of gaming at Bryant Park!
We have over 50 board games featured at the games cart, including 12 games new this year. We have classics like Jenga, Checkers, Connect 4 and Monopoly along with some great games that may not have been on your radar. Here are some of our favorite games that you will see us playing in International Tabletop Day and some games we know you will love.
"Catan," as insiders call it, is a classic Euro game and it is the perfect gateway game to the board game hobby. The conceit of the game is that players are settlers on a new island who have to fight for land and resources to build their settlements and cities first. It is a fun strategy game that is very easy to learn. Catan was one of the most popular games in Bryant Park last year. Look out for Catan socials (every Wednesday 6–8pm) this year!
Join Ray at the Settlers of Catan Socials every Wednesday.
Rolling America is a fun puzzle game that is great with 1-99 players! Players roll 6 die every round, two at a time and place those numbers on a map of the United States. The twist is that bordering states can not have numbers with a difference greater than 1. We recently got our all time low score of 8 (the lower the score the better). Can you beat it?
Set is a very simple card matching game that is fun for the whole family. Every card has a number, color, shape and shade. To get a set, players need to find 3 cards that either have all the same or all different numbers, color, shape and shade. Players need to move quickly to make sets before their opponents do!
Connect 4 is an absolute classic and Pentago puts an interesting twist to that game. Players connect five colored marbles, but the board changes every turn--so strategy and planning ahead are important. This is a challenging game for two, so grab a friend!
No Thanks is another very simple, fast, easy to learn card game and this game surprisingly requires a lot of strategy. There is a deck of cards with numbers from 3 through 35. Every turn, a card is flipped faced up--players can either take that card or spend some precious chips to say no thanks and pass that choice to the next player. The goal is to get the lowest score possible in this game so the decision to take a card that adds points or to pass can a be difficult decision.
We would love you hear what some of your favorite board games are in the comment section below or on Twitter @bryantparknyc. We hope to see you at Bryant Park for International Tabletop Day!


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BSC appoints Harrell as interim Advancement Director
Published 6:52 pm Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Lauren Harrell was named as the interim advancement director for Bainbridge State College.
By Carol Heard
Special to the Post-Searchlight
A familiar face in Bainbridge's business community and a tireless volunteer for several worthy causes has been appointed as Bainbridge State College's interim executive director of the Office of Institutional Advancement.
Bainbridge State President Richard Carvajal appointed Lauren Harrell on Friday after a concentrated search was launched to fill the vacancy left from former Executive Director Dale Fuller.
"Bainbridge State College is thrilled to welcome Lauren to our team," Dr. Carvajal said. "She has been a true difference-maker in this community for some time, and I know that she will do an excellent job leading our Office of Institutional Advancement and supporting the College's Foundation."
Harrell is a long-time resident of Bainbridge, and since 2010, she has been the president of DeHildren Realty, where she has also served as a very successful agent.
Her list of community involvement activities is extensive and includes the Friendship House, Little Black Dress, the Bainbridge Decatur County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, and the Bainbridge Rotary Club, where she was named Rotarian of the Year.
"My passion for business and helping individuals will transition well into making our students' dreams come true through higher education," Harrell said. "I am looking forward to furthering the mission of the College and the Foundation, and with the partnerships between the Foundation board and the professional team at the Office of Institutional Advancement, we will truly enhance the community."
Along with overseeing the Office of Institutional Advancement, Harrell will serve as the executive director of the College's Foundation, which recently topped more than $1 million in assets, of which more than $835,000 is secured for future scholarships.
"Having just passed $1 million in total assets for the first time, our Foundation is now poised to grow significantly in the coming years, enabling us to help many more students reach their educational goals. I know that our Foundation's leaders look forward to working with Lauren to achieve that goal," Dr. Carvajal said.
Jeff Findley, publisher of The Post-Searchlight and incoming chair of the Foundation, played a role in the search for a new executive director.
"We are excited to have Lauren coming on board to lead, not only the efforts of the Bainbridge State College Foundation, but the growth and advancement of the college as a whole," Findley said. "There are some very exciting times upcoming for the College, and Lauren's enthusiasm and know-how comes at a perfect time."
Harrell takes the helm of the Institutional Advancement office at a very pivotal time in the Foundation's history.
During a recent meeting of the College's Foundation, Dr. Carvajal introduced the results of a fund-raising feasibility study conducted over the summer. That study showed very strong support for the college's mission, and college supporters who were interviewed for the study likewise expressed a strong willingness to provide further support for scholarships, improved facilities, and academic innovation and excellence.
As a result, soon after learning about Harrell's appointment with the College, the Foundation's Board of Trustees voted unanimously at its Nov. 22 meeting to enter into a contract with the J.F. Smith Group, a renowned consulting firm with experience in conducting capital campaigns. The group will assist Harrell and the Foundation in the planning and execution of a multi-year fundraising campaign that organizers hope will net the college more than $1 million to support student success.
Charles Bowles, the present Foundation chairman, said as the College celebrates its 40th anniversary, prepares to kick off its first-ever bachelor's degree program and launches its new campaign, Harrell's addition is yet another significant development. He emphasized her ability to reach those throughout the entire region the College serves as well as the local community.
"Lauren is a dynamic person who will contribute a lot to the Foundation and to the College as it continues to grow," Bowles said.
Harrell played collegiate soccer at Wesleyan College and attended classes at the University of Montana and Bainbridge State College before earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Florida State University.
Harrell is married to Mark Harrell and they have three children, Tanner, Katie and Ella.
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Vendor lost documents of 66,500 driver's license applicants, city says
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Marquis ID Systems Vice President of Sales & Marketing Steve Purdy speaks during a press conference today at Honolulu Hale. MIDS, the vendor who provides the Hawaii driver license card issuance system to Honolulu, along with city officials, explained their ongoing efforts to retrieve documents that were scanned at driver licensing centers throughout the state between Feb. 25 and Sept. 15, 2017, but that have been found to be unrecoverable due to a multiple hard disk crash on Sept. 15.
The city said today that personal documents of 66,500 individuals scanned at driver licensing centers last year have been lost and the city will have to collect the documents again.
The city said the documents are "unrecoverable due to a multiple hard disk crash" of a contractor's computer server Sept. 15.
Marquis ID Systems is the vendor providing the Hawaii driver license card issuance system to the City and County of Honolulu, which manages driver licensing statewide under a state contract.
Personal information submitted by applicants between Feb. 25, 2017 and Sept. 15, 2017 was stored but cannot be retrieved due to the server crash, city and Marquis officials said.
Marquis and city officials said there was no security or data breach, and that encrypted storage media is still secured and in the possession of the contractor.
The city plans to notify the affected individuals to let them know that their information was lost and that they will need to resubmit documents the next time they renew or replace their license.
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Contrary to Media Spin, Public Support for Planned Parenthood Continues to Erode
By Michael J. New
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Signs at a rally against Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Getty)
On Monday, the Washington Post ran a story about public opinion toward Planned Parenthood. According to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the shocking videos released by the Center for Medical Progress have purportedly resulted in little change in attitudes toward the organization. Additionally, the poll indicates that most Americans continue to support federal funding for Planned Parenthood. This poll has been touted by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post and covered by numerous media outlets, including MSNBC, The Hill, and National Public Radio.
To the Washington Post's credit, it did seek comments from pro-life groups. And the pro-lifers interviewed in the article, including Mallory Quigley of the Susan B. Anthony List and Representative Steve King (R., Iowa), did a nice job offering encouragement to pro-lifers. After all, Planned Parenthood has developed a strong reputation over time, and mainstream media have offered only limited coverage of the Center for Medical Progress videos. Moreover, media outlets often try to raise questions about the credibility of the videos when they do cover them.
It is important to note, however, that a longer-term view of the survey data indicates that progress is being made. Ramesh Ponnuru notes that a 1989 Gallup poll found that 89 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Planned Parenthood. Most polling data today puts Planned Parenthoods' favorability rating well under 50 percent. More-recent data comes from a Monmouth University poll. Since 2012, the percentage of registered voters who viewed Planned Parenthood favorably has fallen from 55 percent to 38 percent. Additionally, the percentage of people who support cutting off federal funds to Planned Parenthood increased from 31 to 42 percent.
#share#It should also be noted that the much-touted Wall Street Journal/NBCpoll fails to mention that Planned Parenthood performs abortions. It also does not mention anything about the Center for Medical Progress videos. Interestingly, surveys that describe the videos often do see a significant reduction in support for Planned Parenthood. A Reuters poll in August found that after the Center for Medical Progress videos were described to respondents, support for Planned Parenthood funding fell from 54 to 39 percent.
#related#Overall, the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress may not have shifted public opinion as much as some pro-lifers have hoped. However, they would do well to consider a long-term perspective. When the Republicans took control of Congress in the mid 1990s, pro-lifers could not even get a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. Now, a vast majority of Republican elected officials support defunding it. Additionally, nearly every Republican presidential candidate opposes federal funding for it.
The pro-life movement should take heart. Evidence that progress is being made is plentiful.
Michael J. New is a visiting assistant professor of social research and political science at the Catholic University of America and an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute in Washington, D.C.	@Michael_J_New


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Feet on the ground – A Dvar Torah by Rabbi Elchanan Shoff
Posted by Editor | Jan 1, 2014 | Dvar Torah | 0 |
Vaera
Feet on the Ground
The sorcerers said, "It is the finger of G-d!" but Pharaoh's heart was strong and he did not hear them, as Hashem had spoken.
Shemos 8:15
The sorcerers of Pharaoh were incredibly talented. They were capable of creating things, seemingly from nothing. Moshe turned a stick into a snake, and they were able to do that, too. He turned water into blood, then later made a frog appear, and they replicated those acts, as well. It is something to stop and think about – they really could do these things! But when it came to the plague of Lice, they were stumped. They simply could not create lice on their own,[1] and thus they exclaimed, "This is the finger of G-d."[2] Rashi explains that they were using a form of sorcery involving spirits (shedim), where they could influence those spirits to create[3] (or possibly bring) things for them. But spirits have no power over anything as small as a louse, and therefore, they could not create the lice.
Chizkuni[4] and Daas Zekenim[5] offer another suggestion as to why the lice could not be created by the sorcerers. They understand that the sorcerers were doing something called kishuf.[6] Kishuf is a form of creating an illusion that appears very real. If one created a frog through kishuf, it is not a real frog, but an imitation. It looks real, but it is really a fake.[7]
There was once a wicked Jewish tax collector (who was bad to other Jews), and one day, he died. On that same day, a great man in the city died, and the entire town gathered to attend his funeral. The relatives of the tax collector also brought out the coffin of their relative, and at that time, the city was suddenly attacked, and the mourners abandoned the coffins and fled. There was one great scholar who remained behind with the coffin of his Rabbi. After some time, the people of the city came back to bury the great man, but confused his coffin with that of the tax collector! The student who had remained behind cried out to them that they had the wrong coffin, but in the confusion that reigned, they paid no attention to him. The relatives of the tax collector wound up burying the Sage, thinking that he was their relative, and this bothered the student very deeply. "What sin could he have done to deserve such a disgrace – and what great merit did this scoundrel have to merit such honor at his funeral?"
His Rabbi appeared to him in a dream and told him, "Don't worry. Come with me and I will show you the incredible honor I receive in Gan Eden, and then I will show you the man sitting at the entrance to Gehinom with the hinge to Gehinom's door piercing his head through his ears. Here is why I was punished. Once, I heard a disgraceful statement about a Torah Scholar, and I did not protest. This wicked fellow, however, once prepared a feast for a dignitary in his city, and when that nobleman did not show up, he distributed the food to the poor. This honor at his funeral was his reward."
The student asked, "How long must this man suffer such terrible judgment?" The Rabbi replied, "He will remain there until Shimon ben Shetach dies, and then Shimon ben Shetach will take this tax collector's place in the hinges of Gehinom; for, there are Jewish women in Ashkelon who are witches, and he does not administer punishment to them. The following day, this fellow recounted these things to Shimon ben Shetach. Shimon ben Shetach gathered eighty powerful young men. It was a rainy day. He gave each one an enormous jug with a clean cloak inside, and he said to them, "Be careful of the witches, for there are eighty of them. When we go in, we will lift them off of the ground and they will have no control over you, for they have no power to do kishuf when they are not standing on the ground.
He left the young men outside, and entered the witches' den. They asked him, "Who are you?" He said, I am a sorcerer, and have come to test your powers of kishuf. They asked him, "And what kishuf can you do?" He replied, "I can bring you eighty young men in fresh clean cloaks despite the rain!" They said, "Let's see." He stepped outside and motioned to them. Each one took out his cloak from his jug and wrapped himself in it. They were impressed, for it seemed that he had made these young men appear from nowhere. Each one of them then took one of the witches by surprise and lifted her up. They managed to defeat them, and they hung them.[8]
We discover that kishuf is only effective when one is standing on the ground.
Thus, since the ground was covered with lice, and the sorcerers' feet were not touching the ground, they could not perform kishuf, and could not make lice appear.
But we are left with a striking question. If the ability to create lice was only eluding the sorcerers because of the state of the ground, then why did they exclaim that the plague of lice was the "finger of G-d"? After all, had Moshe simply been a sorcerer, as they had assumed until then, he would have been able to make the lice appear, for when he made the lice appear, he was standing on the ground! What was it that impressed them so greatly?
The answer is this: Since the products of kishuf are merely illusions, explains Rabbi Moshe Aaron Friedman[9], then the lice created by kishuf would not come between a man and the ground, for they are not real. But since Moshe's lice did separate them from the ground, they were clearly not kishuf, but "the finger of G-d."
This idea – that when not touching the ground, a sorcerer cannot perform his kishuf – is one that is found in several other places as well.[10] Zeresh, the wife of Haman, suggested hanging Mordechai from a tall tree[11] rather than killing him in a fiery furnace, like Chananiah, Mishael and Azariah, or a lion's den like Daniel, for they were all saved, and yet, "we have not seen a person of their nation saved from hanging." The Midrash[12] lauds her as "far better at giving advice than any other adviser of Haman" because of her suggestion. What is so brilliant about this idea? Anaf Yosef[13] explains that they assumed that all of the times that Jews had been saved from death were the result of kishuf rather than divine miracles. Thus, she suggested trying to hang Mordechai, far above the ground, so that his kishuf would be impotent. Her knowledge of the inner workings of kishuf was a manifestation of her brilliance.
What is this all about? Why is it that kishuf can only be effective when one is touching the ground? Man is a temporary being. Life is fragile as a dream, and can fly away as quickly. As long as we feel secure, like we are in control, we cannot experience the temporal nature of our lives. After all, true meaning in life can only be created by one who sees this world as nothing more than a waiting room;[14] futility of futilities.[15]
The fellow who does kishuf creates and destroys things with incredible power. This ability is that of a fellow who relies on his own abilities rather than on G-d. The fellow who is living with Hashem never knows what will come next, but nothing can upset him because he knows that whatever happens, he is being taken care of by his Creator. The fellow with his feet on the ground, in a figurative sense, can feel in charge. But the fellow whose life is always in a state of limbo can not perform kishuf. Kishuf can only exist where there is a false feeling of security and control. Pharaoh called himself a god. He had all the power in his own imagination. Those around him felt that way about him as well, and they felt that way about themselves. Ultimately, we need to recognize that we do not have our feet on the ground. We are not secure because of our own abilities. It is Hashem Who cares for us, manages our world and controls our footsteps.[16] When we truly know how insignificant we are, we can begin to become quite significant. But we must never forget that our feet are not on the ground. We are not in control – that is what Hashem does, and He does it so well.[17]
[1] Rashi to Shemos 8:14
[2] Shemos 8:15
[3] It appears that way from Rashi 8:14, where he says that they could not "create" the lice via the shedim. There are those who have an alternative version of Rashi. See Chumash Rashi Hashalem (Ariel Institute).
[4] Ibid., in one interpretation.
[6] Whether or not the sorcerers were trying to bring about the lice through kishuf or maaseh shedim is, in fact, a discussion of the Talmud in Sanhedrin 67b. According to Rashi, ad loc., they were doing maaseh shedim, and this is the simple reading of the Gemara. But Maharsha, ad loc., quotes the Aruch, whose text reads just the opposite. According to this opinion, the sorcerers were, in fact, trying to use kishuf. This may be the opinion of Chizkuni and Daas Zekenim. However, even Rashi, who calls it maaseh shedim, which seems in line with the Gemara, makes the interesting statement in the following Rashi that "this is the finger of Elokim, and not the work of kishuf!" Tosafos Hashalem [6] explains that initially, they tried through shedim. When that did not work, then they tried kishuf. This is more likely the interpretation of Chizkuni and Daas Zekenim.
[7] See Beis Halevi to Dvarim 25:17. In other editions, this is found at the end of Beshalach.
[8] This story is told by Rashi on Sanhedrin 44b. It is found in the Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin 6:6, as well as Chagiga 2:2, but there are some differences between the versions found there and that of Rashi. R. Yaakov Ettlinger (in his Aruch Laner to Sanhedrin 45b) explains that the reason that they hung these women, despite the fact that hanging is not one of the ways that a Beis Din is permitted to kill a criminal, is because there was great danger in letting these women touch the ground. In fact, Chizkuni to Shemos 22:17 explains the passuk "A witch shall not live" to mean that you must kill her in any way that you can, because if you tarry, she will discover a way to survive by means of kishuf. However, Yad Ramah (R. Meir ben Todros Abulafiah) on Sanhedrin (ibid.) writes that they hung these women in order to publicize the sin, and so that others would fear repeating it.
[9] I subsequently found this very answer offered by the Pelaos Edosecha cited in R. Yechiel Michel Stern's Otzar Yedios Hashalem Vol. 2 p. 545.
[10] See, for example, Sefer Chasidim 474.
[11] Esther 5:14
[12] Esther Rabbah 9:2
[13] Ad loc.
[14] Avos 4:16
[15] Koheles 1:2
[16] Tehillim 37:23
[17] See Pirush Kadmon to Sefer Chasidim, ibid. (found in ed. Otzar Haposkim) for an alternative suggestion as to why kishuf can only be performed directly on the ground.
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It's always fun to look back at one of your first garments and try to work out just what the heck you were thinking. Or not thinking, as the case can be. :) It's cool to see how far you've come, looking back on those garments.
I like your ride! Much snazzier than crutches.
Beginner's mistakes will serve as a ruler for progress later on when you need it! It is the best way to learn.
Happy sewing, and I so enjoy your blog. Beautiful garments.
Hope your foot is better soon. what happened ...I missed that post?
Thank you for your kind words! I had a torn ligament, and had a surgery (Brostrom procedure) to put it back together. I just kind of wish I had left it torn. This is such a pain!


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Q: null pointer exception at onPostExcecute method in android In my project i am using AsyncTask for calling web service.i got null pointer exception when i try to call the web service by passing string values..how can i overcome this exception..below is my code
ValidateActivationCode.java
public class ValidateActivationCode extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Void>  {

    String SOAP_ACTION1 = "http://tempuri.org/ValidateActivationCode";
    String NAMESPACE = "http://tempuri.org/";
    String METHOD_NAME1 = "ValidateActivationCode";

    String URL="http://myasp.net/webservice2.asmx";

    private String TAG = "VALIDATING CODE";

    String responseString;
    String responseStatus = "SUCCESS";
    Context context;
    AsyncResponseListener responseListener;

    public interface AsyncResponseListener {
        public void onresponse(String status, String jsonData);
    }

    public ValidateActivationCode(Context c) {
        responseListener = (AsyncResponseListener) c;
        context = c;
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(String... params) {
        Log.i(TAG, "doInBackground");

        RegToServer(params[0]);
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        Log.i(TAG, "onPostExecute");
        responseListener.onresponse("status",responseString);

    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        Log.i(TAG, "onPreExecute");

    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
        Log.i(TAG, "onProgressUpdate");
    }

        private void RegToServer(String Code) {

        SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME1);

        request.addProperty("Code", Code);

        Log.i("TAG","Inside regtoserver before webservice call "+Code);

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(
                SoapEnvelope.VER11);
        envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
        envelope.dotNet = true;

        try {
            HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
            androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION1, envelope);

            Object response = (Object) envelope.getResponse();
            responseString=response.toString();

            Log.i(TAG,responseString );

            Log.i(TAG, "Websevice called");

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();

            Log.i(TAG, "FAILED");

        }

    }

    }

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A: actually please post your stacktrace.
still through a quick look of your code, a possible area of null pointer can be this:
    Object response = (Object) envelope.getResponse();
        responseString=response.toString();
please check if response if null?
i.e. use this:
Object response = (Object) envelope.getResponse();
    if(response!=null)
        responseString=response.toString();

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Q: Database gallery array So i have an idea how to implement my gallery on my website, but need help from someone experienced to see if it's OK or not.
So basically the idea is that when a moderator uploads a few images to an existing article, i would rename those images in something like [ name of the article + 8 random numbers ] just in case there are no duplicates. When i generate the new name, then the system will save it in a specific folder. And after that I append each name of an image on to an array which I later save in a database single column for that article in question. But each name is divided with a comma.
So my question is, would this be an OK solution? Never done this kind a thing so would really appreciate some sort of guidance.
EDIT 1:
Ok the idea goes like this:
Moderator wants to add images to an existing article, he chooses the images, and uploads them for this example lets say there are 5 images.
After the upload is completed the PHP code changes the names of the images uploaded to [article_name]+[random number, length 8]
after that i plan to put the new names in an array like this:
array(image1,image2,image3,image4,image5);

After that it's only a matter of saving it to the DB and when needed i have the name of the images to be used in the gallery.
EDIT 2:
For saving I intend to use the implode function.
After saving it later for the gallery I can easily use the explode function to get every name out of the string.

A: You should not implode the array and save it in one single field in the database. Instead you should create a new table like
CREATE TABLE article_images
  id int(11) PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
  article_id int(11) INDEX,
  ...
);

This table "links" back to the article-table with the column article_id so you can find out which images belong to which article.
How you save your images is up to you. You can indeed use some approach like you propose. I think I would go a different way like creating folders for every article-id and inside create the images based on their id of the corresponding row in article_images, like
/
 123/
   5.png
 456/
   6.jpg

where 123 and 456 are article-ids and 5 and 6 are ids of rows in article_images. But this is just my proposal. There exist lots of different ways, which are all more or less good and secure.


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What films have you seen lately? What did you think? Tell us about a film you've seen. But don't give away the ending!
Walther22Wolff 11 July, 2019 - 10:53
"Shazam!" It's a modern superhero plot, it could be one of the best movies of the year if it were not with so much competition. The character Billy Batson desperately searches for his mother, where in this version of the superhero, he lost her at the age of eight years old at a fair, although they tell her that she left him and he keeps looking for her. Despite being different from the comic version, and in addition to having an unoriginal argument, it shows that you do not need it to stand out and get to make a place among someone's favorite movie. Billy Batson acquires his powers when a former sorcerer seeks someone pure of heart to save the world of the 7 sins, which have been released, can he with that responsibility?
The soundtrack manages to immerse yourself in the film, adapting to the scene and creating an environment to concentrate better on what happens
The performance of each actor comes out of the everyday of the superheroes although we find common scenes, others manage to show us a film a little different from the normal ones of the subject
I would recommend "Shazam!" Especially to people who are fanatical about superheroes and who, really, will be amazed
Frangarrio 9 July, 2019 - 22:53
Godzilla King of the Monsters is an American film belonging to the genres of action, fantasy, monsters and adventures. Directed by Michael Dougherty and starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi.
Godzilla is a Japanese monster that first appeared in 1954. Since then, it has been part of the entertainment culture of the most famous monsters in cinema. Another huge monster called King Ghidorah, known as the great three-headed dragon faces Godzilla, to discover who is the true king of monsters.
Cryptozoologists from the Monarch agency try to confront a group of huge monsters. Between all they try to resist to the attacks of Mothra, Rodan or King Ghidorah. These creatures will do everything possible to survive, endangering people on the planet. This film will bring together four major threats that ensure a unique battle. The third film was created by "Legendary Pictures" and "Warner Bros." I like Godzilla movies because it has great effects, and amazing 3D models of titans with amazing moments. It is one of the most famous films of 2019.
Zholiktop 7 February, 2019 - 13:26
Avengers: Infinity war is the best action and superhero film in recent years. Released in 2018, it stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans and other actors as superheroes and Josh James Brolin as villain Thanos.
The plot involves a titan Thanos who wants to collect all of infinity stone in order to arrange genocide, but avengers want to prevent it and safe not only Earth, but all galaxy too. Infinity glove can control power of infinity stones and if Thanos collects all stone pieces, he can destroy the worlds at the click of a finger. Can they stop him before he clicks?
There is good atmosphere in the film. Every soundtrack is impressive and relevant to scene. The acting is on the highest level. There are a lot off excellent special effects.
I would recommend this film to everyone, especially if you are keen on action and superhero films and a fan of Marvel studio.
francopereira12 21 November, 2018 - 01:33
Toy Story is one of the best animation films in fifteen years. Released in 1955 and produces by Pixar. It star Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody and John Morris as Andy Davis.
The plot involves a family that moves out of the house and the toys make a meeting to prepare the last details of the move. At the end of this meeting remember that this day was Andy´s birthday and they are afraid of being replaced by others. Are they going to be replaced by others?
This movie was the most seen in the United States and Canada. In total collect more than 191 million dollars in both countries and more than 131 at the international level. The soundtrack is exciting and relaxing and includes the theme song "You have got a friend in me" performed by Randy Newman. This performance is complicated and the characters life is hard because he has to interact with toys.
I recommend this movie if you like animation films and it is very good to reflect on how people relate to each other because it is not always with people.
facu10huracan 16 November, 2018 - 23:18
Film review: real steel
Real Steel is a science fiction story released in 2011. It stars Hugh Jackman as "Charlie", an ex-boxer that participates in fights between robots, and Dakota Goyo as Max Kenton, Charlie´s son.
The plot involves a father that does not have a good relationship with his son and participates in robots´ fights to earn money. This father has the chance to meet his son again and spends some time with him because Max´s aunt who has the custody of the kid is on holiday. Max finds a little robot called Atom and trains him with the father. Will Atom become the best fighting robot? Will Charlie recover his child?
The film is set in one location, the American state of Michigan. The soundtrack is outstanding and some of the artists who participate are Eminem, Royce, Tom Morello, among others. The acting is also of a very high standard and the acting of Dakota is fantastic because he is very committed with his role.
I would highly recommend real steel, especially if you are keen on action or science fiction films. It you will not get up from your seat until it's over and I am sure you will not stop watching it.
Giuligiunti35 15 November, 2018 - 12:19
Matilda is one of the best comedy and fantasy films.Released in 1996, it stars Mara Wilson is a girl who develops extraordinary mental capacity and Pam ferris in the roll of trunchbull, is the villain in this film.
The plot involves Matilda is a lovely girl with a good temper, her parents, Harry and Zinnia are irresponsible because they do not take care of her properly. This is because they were busy in their work and in their frivolous lives, they hardly noticed that they had a daughter.Can will he get ahead?
The film is set in United States. The soundtrack is run by david newman, and the most popular son is "Little Bitty Pretty One".
his acting was impeccable despite his age.
I would highly recommend Matilda,especially if you like comedies and magic.
Pilar 14 November, 2018 - 23:50
The film ´The Duff´ is based on the book with the same name by Harry Styles. The filmed was directed by Ari Sandel and Kody keplinger. It starts Mae Whitman as Bianca and Robbie amell as Wes Ley, her neighborhood.
The film is set in the United States in 2014 but is premier in 2015. It was filmed on location the United States and is a comedy film.
The Duff is about student of high school who is in the last year and her group of friend put she a name ´the girl ugly and fat´. She realizes about that, so Bianca asks for help to her pretty and sporty neighborhood to change her look and get a date with Toby, her platonic relationship.
I strongly recommend that film because it has drama and comedy. It´s a good film for teens because it has a good message for high school students.
AGUSTINAP 13 November, 2018 - 00:41
Wall-e is one of the best Robots film. Directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. The plot follows a robot called WALL E, who was designed to clean the rubbish that covers the Earth after it was ruined by human beings. He falls in love with EVA, another robot type, which is sent to the planet to investigate if there are signs of life. Once she reaches her goal, EVA quickly goes to the ship called, Axiom. WALL E follows her to outer space.
The film was set in United Estates. The Soundtrack is from the 2008 Disney-Pixar film of the same name by Walt Disney Records on June 24, 2008.
I would higly recomend Wall-e if you like the adventures and robots. Iam sure you 'll like it a lot
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Delfi236 8 November, 2018 - 21:56
Review English Cinderella(2015)
Cinderella (2015) it's a retelling of the classic fairy tale, the classic animated movie, in live action form. Starring by Lily James and directed by Kenneth Branagh I found this movie very entertaining.
The movie follows the story of Ella whose father remarries after her mom's death. Ella welcomes her new stepmother and her daughters, Anastasia and Drisella into her home. But when her father suddenly passes away, she discovered the cruelty of her new family.
One day she meets a stranger in the woods, she didn't know the he is really a prince; Ella feels that she has met a kindred soul. It appears as if her fortunes may be change when the palace sends an open invitation for all the ladies to attend a ball.
Ella's stepmother forbids her to attend, but as all fairy tales help is near as a kindly woman…
I love this film, I doubt it can be bettered. I highly recommend it, because it is well acted and it's fun for the whole family. Finally I can say that Cate Blanchett, Lily James and Helena Bonham Carter were amazing in their roles.
JereGior 8 November, 2018 - 18:38
I think the best movie of action and science fiction was Pacific of the Rim. It was released in 2013 and it stars Charlie Hunnman as a machine's pilot or Jaeger, Raliegh Becket and Mana Ashido in the role of Mako Mori, his machine´s couple pilot.
The plots involve Kaijus who are a big beasts. They try to destroy the world and the couple of Becket and Ashido, and other Jaegers, has to prevent this from happening. There are a lot of action scenes and epic fights as the Jaegers pursues they around the world.
This film was set in Hong Kong and the soundtrack is so exciting and includes part of the song of the main theme created by Ramin Djawadi. The acting is also of computer effects and Ashido bring his life with a tragic performance.
I would highly recommend Pacific of the Rim, especially for the lover of action, robots and fights, and can be recommended for person who are interesting on the science and machines. It will you on the edge of your seat until the end and I am sure you are going to like it and see it again.
mariela 25 October, 2018 - 19:17
Artificial Inteligence is one of the best cince fiction films. Released in 2001, it stars Halley Joel Osmet as David who is a robot-boy and Brendan Gleeson in the role of Lord Johnson-Johnson, the villan in this film.
The plot involves a flood produced by the global warming. The necessity of food produce that the cybertronics's company make robots-children who can love to their adoptive families. Can these families love too?
The film is set in the location of United Estates. The soundtrack includes the music performed by John Williams who won an award. The acting is impressed and Jude Law won a golden globe for the best actor in the film because his performance is excellent.
I would higly recomend Artificial Intelligence, if you are a big fan of cience fiction films and the robots. I'm pretty sure that you won't regret of watch this film.
iglesiasjuli 13 November, 2018 - 22:26
The terminator is one of the best action and science fiction flims. Released in 1984, it stars Arnold Shwarzenegger, the villian in this film.
The plot involves a terminator is a killer cyborg sent trought time to kill Sarah Connor. Kyle Reese, a soldier also sent from the future with the mission to protect Sarah. Can he get it?
The film is set in the location of Los Angeles, California and The soundtrack includes music reformed by Brad Fiedel. The acting is very good and because of the success they become more.
I would highly recommend the terminator if you like robots and fights. Im sure you will not regret waching it.
lauti_delma 6 September, 2018 - 12:09
Review the book of life
The book of life is a movie from 2014 and is one of the best animated films.
The story begins with a group of five children punished and a museum guide, this teaches a secret room dedicated to Mexican folklore, within which is "the Book of Life." She tells them a story about the book about a relationship between the three friends Manolo, Joaquin and Maria. Manolo to know that Maria leaves for Spain to educate himself, concentrates on his career as a bullfighter, but this later will not be possible because of his sensitive heart.
the story takes place in the city of "San Angel", the world of the remembered and the world of the forgotten.
I recommend this film, because it has two teachings that caught my attention, the first is true love never dies and the second is anyone can die, but you need courage to live.
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milotoffalo 6 September, 2018 - 12:04
We are talking a book of life.
this movie is about two best friends fight for the love of a woman, one of them is a musician and other is a soldier.Different from everything that has been seen in animated films. I really liked the animation style and the story itself.It's a wonderful Mexican movie. I liked a lot.
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nmmpm2018 5 September, 2018 - 17:30
REVIEW OF "THE BOOK OF LIFE"
"The book of life" is a cartoon and rom-com film. Released in 2014 created by Jorge R. Gutierrez. The story begins with a group of five children punished and a museum guide. The museum guide showed a mistery book, the book of life. The book talking about history of Mexico.
One of the histories talking about three friends, Manolo Sanchez, Joaquin Mondragon and Maria Posadas. Manolo and Joaquin competing over the love of Maria. The tradition of the Sanchez is be a bullfighter, but Manolo wants be a musician.
The film is set in many locations: San Angel, The land of the remembered and The land of the forgotten. The soundtrack is very cool, accompanies the movie.
I recommend it because it is a movie for all ages, is very funny and emotional at the same time.
Nicolas M. and Martin P.M.
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this movie is about two best friends who fight for the love of a woman, one of them is a musician and the other is a fighter. I was impressed with its wonderful plot and excellent special effects.
durama 5 September, 2018 - 17:18
Review of "The Book of Life"
The book of Life is a film of Manolo, a youngish man who wants to fulfil the expectations of this family but also to follow his heart. He goes on an adventure It's an animated film. In this film Manolo figt with Joaquín( his friend) for the hand of María. Mateo and Nicolas
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maru 5 September, 2018 - 17:13
We are talking about "The Book of Life". The movie is the best animated film what we have ever see. This is about a legend that happens in Mexico where the world of the dead was divided into two. The world of the forgotten and the world of the remembered. This story covers different situations that the characters live. These charactes are Manolo; who descendant of bullfigthers, Maria; daughter of the mayor of the town, Joaquin; son of the hero of the town.They are friends since they were childhood. What will happen between them?
We recommend this movie because, the scenary and re special effects are very incredible! The characters are well producer and also their environment. The movie is very entertaining and funny. Anyway, the movie has some morals for the real life.
Marsol, L y. Nicolas, A
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ana9701 5 September, 2018 - 16:52
The book of life it is a story like a legend of two childrens, Manolo and Joaquín, who live in a traditional Mexican town and compete for the love of María. Behind that bet are also two spirits, La Muerte and Xibalba, who will take part for each young man, tipping the scales for some of them to know who will conquer the sweet Maria.
We would recommend it because it is a very beautiful story and has a very striking message
Lara, Analia, Carolina
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GlebGrunichev 21 June, 2018 - 12:18
"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" is a new fantasy action film. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt ) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) are going to save dinosaurs. This is a really fantastic film.
In the beginning of the plot, Eli Mills is organising an expedition to save dinosaurs. But when they save the dinosaurs, there are some problems. Also, the grand-daughter of the company's director understands a terrible thing about herself! But the dinosaurs ran away. What is going to happen next?
This film is a rebirth of the first part. It is very amazing because it is really hard to make 3D models of dinosaurs and the volcano. The actors perform well, too.
I really advise you to see this film because it is interesting and sometimes spooky, but the combination makes the best films.
Jonathan - Coor... 22 June, 2018 - 03:19
Good review, GlebGrunichev. This film is showing at the cinema now. I'll check it out :)
The last movie I watched was Pacific rim. It's an incredible movie with an intense plot and likeable characters. It's about a rift that opened in the pacific ocean and let out monsters called 'Kaiju's'. These monsters begin to destroy bigger cities that are close to the ocean and humanity is forced to fight back. They do this by creating giant robots that are called 'Jaeger's'. The control a Jaeger you need to link your brain to the machine but you can't do it alone. So you do it with a partner. The story revolves around one of these Jaeger pilots. I really liked this movie and can't wait to see the next one.
Tony2003 1 November, 2015 - 10:16
Recently,I do not go to watch any movies since 2014,but if I remember the name,that movie is''Furious 7''
I do not remember anything,so,sorry
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Analysis: Which college swimming & diving program grossed the most in Illinois
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