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Lil' P, You're Going to Drive Me to Drinkin'
Lil' P has a post. It's the kind of post that makes me want to spend all morning refuting it, except I wonder if that actually does any good.
And I'm a little jealous. I wonder what it would be like to just make blatently and patently false claims and be able to go through life convinced of their truth.
Let's start with Music City Oracle, who links approvingly to an address about the exploitation of men, that says thus:
Seeing all this, the feminists thought, wow, men dominate everything, so society is set up to favor men. It must be great to be a man.
The mistake in that way of thinking is to look only at the top. If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who's in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners? The population on Death Row has never approached 51% female. Who's homeless? Again, mostly men. Whom does society use for bad or dangerous jobs? US Department of Labor statistics report that 93% of the people killed on the job are men. Likewise, who gets killed in battle? Even in today's American army, which has made much of integrating the sexes and putting women into combat, the risks aren't equal. This year we passed the milestone of 3,000 deaths in Iraq, and of those, 2,938 were men, 62 were women.
Y'all, I am no feminist genius and we've talked regularly about how the system screws men. Second, saying that society "favors" men doesn't mean and has never necessarily meant that men as a whole all have it great. It means that men have gotten opportunities women don't have. Yes, it sucks to be stuck in prison, but we've not historically had the freedom to commit crimes at the same rate as men. Yes, it sucks to be killed battle, but we aren't allowed in combat. How hard is that to understand?
As for Adrienne and her "I'll just make up some shit about feminism and then mock it," I was going to go through and refute her points with links to feminists who are actually working on the issues she claims feminists don't care about and have some big long discussion about how feminists are deeply divided over the porn issue, but this is a woman who thinks that Cosmo is a main vehicle for the transmittal of feminist values, so, really, there's no hope.
Y'all, she actually says, "Modern feminism has destroyed what it means to be a woman."* Well, what can I say in response to that? By god, it's true. I volunteer twice a week down at the "Lady MacBeth" clinic off Charlotte where we feminists pluck women off the streets and tie them down and force them to become unsexed.
We've been found out!
*I've found out that it's bad form to actually say this in public down here, but nothing strikes me as funnier than Southern white women talking about being distraught over the destruction of "what it means to be a woman." Oh, yes, let's bring back the good ole days when women couldn't go to school and when they were kept pregnant or nursing most of their adult life and when their husbands could legally beat them and when they'd have seventeen kids and only see four of them reach adulthood and when the white ones would move straight from their fathers' houses into their husbands' houses with nary a chance to see the world, where even the rich white ones didn't have their own money, but had to depend on a father or husband to do right by them, and where the rich white ones had to live in a system where they oversaw and managed the welfare of enslaved people who hated them and were constantly looking for opportunities to escape or rise up, some of whom, the white women were well aware, were the mistresses of her own husband. What good fun that must have been to look out at your children and the children of your enslaved women and see the same facial features.
Let's not count the dirt women were forced to eat literally and metaphorically from 1865 on up until, well, shoot, look east into the mountains, even now.
Only with some heavy cultural amnesia could you come from the region that brought you "Oh, I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" and pretend like life down here was so great for women before feminism ruined it.
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Hey, thanks for the shoutout. I always enjoy being mocked.
Aunt B. says:
Yeah, I felt the same way when I read your long tirade against feminists.
The Editor says:
This puts me in my mind of a day back at UT when us more mature gals were sitting around before class. One woman (mid-30s, wife and mother returning to college) started whining about how her major (education) "forced" her to take a women's studies course and how unfair and unnecessary it was and what did that have to do with her major and on and on.
I was, to say the least, shocked.
And no matter what I said (that it was because of a feminist movement that she could pursue higher education, that here she was a wife and mother going to college, etc), she could not wrap her mind around the fact that she was at that moment benefiting from all these "unnecessary" things she was learning about in her women's study course. That she was–that her very lifestyle was–directly influenced by and indebted to the feminism movement, and that women's studies classes (and there were a lot to choose from) were necessary because they gave the student a broader perspective beyond the good ol boy academic canon.
Nope. She wouldn't here it. It was all crap. She wanted to be a "TEACHER," not some uppity feminist.
OooooooKayyyyyyyy…
bridgett says:
Adrienne's offering another verse and a chorus of "life was so much better before [fill in the blank]." Way back yonder, when I can imagine that people like me had it better…without actually doing any of the historical work to determine whether or not my thwarted sense of entitlement has any basis in historical reality…
False nostalgia, along with blaming the victim, is one of our authentic Appalachian arts. You even can buy it at the Tennessee welcome center gift shop.
So wait, I have to pay university fees to learn basic homemaking skills?
[Scratching head]
What is the credit hour cost for learning how to sew on a button?
And for the record–I do know how to sew. I was employed as a seamstress way back when–so I actually have mad sewing skills. I can also cook like a chef. If women (or their parents on their behalf) are supposed to now pay top dollar to learn basic LIVING skills, there is a real problem with the people that have raised these girls. And I suspect the sort of family that would send their daughter to this particular college are the "family values" type. Which brings on the question: why didn't your daughter learn these skills at home??!!!
And as far as US feminists not supporting Islamic and Asian feminists in their work, that indicates that the author, like L'il P, is completely out of touch with what's actually going on in US feminist activist and academic circles. That's actually an area of intense interest and there's been a ton of conferences, funding for cross-cultural activist projects, and papers/books published — for, I don't know, maybe since the Iranian Revolution started driving out feminist middle-class professionals and picking up intensity during the first Gulf War and now snowballing into its own subfield. When a little college like mine is offering a class titled "Representation/Misrepresentation: Feminist Discourse of Women and Islam" and feels like they really can't do a serious WST curriculum without coursework on Islamic feminism, you know that this is a mainstream area of interest.
Sometimes you have to rely on sources other than FoxNews for what's really going on in the world. But what puzzles me is — if feminism is so bad and has created nothing but misery for US women and is a threat to democracy and all that, why do anti-feminists care if this pernicious philosophy is exported worldwide? It would seem to me that if they believed that it was so destructive of good social and political order, they'd be happy to contain it within the WST department at UT.
To wax tangential for a moment, I think sometimes it's important to frame certain contradictory arguments and statements we hear now within the context of their forgotten origins.
I'm going to expressly say the civil rights movement for african-americans and the women's rights (and I mean singular capitol-R "Right" that everyone agrees publicly is good, the right to vote, bestowed in 1920*) movement are not one in the same, but they do have some similar characteristics in terms of adoption, resistance, and internal conflict.
Think about what years in which your grandmothers were born. In my case, that was 1919 and 1931. So I am actually only the 2nd and 3rd generation respectively of women born into the right to vote. That's really not that far–especially considering that I grew up with, and learned from, both grandmothers. (History truly breathes that way) When I get impatient with people, especially women, whose views I think are detrimental to gender equality, I think about the opinions of african-americans in say, the 1950s. Between 1865 and 1870, african-americans obtained the right to vote. Let's compare that issue generationally with ours. That means, on average, the 2nd and 3rd generations of africa-americans born into the right to vote were born in the 1920s and 1930s. Fast forward to the 1950s: you've got the stirrings of the civil rights movement, unrest in the south, and (still) Jim Crow laws. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts you could poll many african-americans of that time on the street, especially in the south, who would express dismay about "the movement" but who would eventually benefit from it.
Sometimes you've just gotta walk away from the statements that both inflame and try to move us backward (unless they're an imminent legal threat). History, in general, proves people will socially evolve.
*I also include women's right to contraception as a big-r "Right" because, frankly, even if you have the right to vote, if you have 3 infants you lack the time to learn about your politicians' views and the ability to go to a polling station. This would put me into the 1st generation of women born into all rights.
magniloquence says:
*snerk*
That's perfect. I should've used it when Brev's friend started waxing enthusiastic about how "Women's Liberation" was screwing us all.
Instead, I let Brev take him on while I pretended to fall asleep in the car, because I rather like this particular friend and had no desire to get into a shouting match with him just before we dropped him off to fly back home. I am a bit of a wuss.
(Mostly I was just flabbergasted by the depth of crazy spewing out of his normally sensical mouth. It wasn't even standard antifeminist stuff, some of which is at least understandable… it was weird stuff about generational rebellion and movement structure interspersed with more normal MRA "men have it worse" argumentation for flavor.)
I've been hearing nostalgic, "Do you ever think you were born in the wrong century" questions all my life. My answer has always been an emphatic "Good heavens no!" ever since I was a child.
This usually gets a startled "why?" in response. Sometimes I give a more substantive answer, but usually I go with: "Underarm deoderant! Not only do I get to wear it, *everyone else* does too!"
cravensworld says:
Wow, i don't think she knows any feminists. I read it, wow. I need a drink
From the comments section of Lil' P's post, she opines:
Is it more of an image problem them? (sic) The pervasive view of feminism outside of liberal intellegentsia (sic) circles is that of a feminazi. These aspects of the movement/philosophy/ideology aren't being promoted very well.
Lily. Honey. You just wrote an entire post full of egregious inaccuracies, blanket statements, and opinions presented as facts. And you wonder if the moniker "feminism" has an image problem?
[sigh]
It's folks like you who just eat up Limbaugh's feminazi message with a dessert spoon while doing absolutely nothing to verify the veracity of said message. You drank the Kool-Aid and licked your lips.
It's not the whole of the feminist movement that is giving feminism a bad name,. It's those like Limbaugh–and by extension, you–who perpetuate a false image problem, and do so without any factual data. That's not to say there aren't some extremists out there in the movement, but to hold up a few as an example for the whole is not a sound means of making an educated opinion.
The "movement" is promoting global feminine equality very well. That you did nothing but spout the pervasive view of feminism from conservative punditry is not the fault of Feminist Marketing. It's just plain laziness on the part of those who swallow the misinformation and a general unwillingness to see things differently because believing the misinformation reinforces long-held stereotypes that folks who wish to vilify feminists can hold onto with a death grip.
You are entitled to your opinion, but don't be surprised if people call you out on opinions that are based on utter falisies.
ahunt says:
Helen: Birth Control. Tampons. 'nuff said.
Editor nails it. What disturbs me the most about Adrienne's screed is that… the woman has access to the net, for God's Sake.
A most cursory googling would clear up her misconceptions about feminist endeavors and issues.
Adrienne, start with Mavis Leno or Fund for a Feminist Majority.
Correction to my comment #11:
In my ravenous feminist fury, I meant to type "Lil' P. Honey…" (third paragraph) and typed "Lily" instead. Oops.
NPR actually picked up the story of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offering the "women only" homemaking degree. (Link)
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This is for the anti-feminists. I was born in 1941. When I lived in Louisiana, women were not allowed to be called for jury duty–their sensibilities were too delicate to be subjected to that horror–but of course they could be tried by said jury. They could volunteer to serve, which I did once, but of course they were never selected by either the prosecution or the defense. When I wanted to get my tubes tied, my husband had to sign the consent form along with me. When I went to talk to the dean of the local medical school about going there, he said, and I quote, "No you're 28 and that's too old for a woman med student." When I graduated from college with a degree in English, this time in Kentucky, I went to the employment office. The man there said they had an opening for a home ec teacher. I said I didn't know anything about home ec, and of course he said, all together now, "Well you're a woman aren't you?" I could go on of course. I latched onto feminism like it was a life preserver, and helped to make the world the way it is today and you are REJECTING it? Hons, if you don't have control of when you're pregnant, you have NOTHING, and that's the way things are headed. Your daughters will pay the price. You are letting the Rush Limpbrains of the world define what a feminist is, and then arguing against it, just like he wants you to. Go to Wikipedia or somewhere and look up "Straw Man Argument."
What part of LA, ginnylavendar? My Mom was born in backwoods Winn parish in 1924, and was the first, male or female, to go to college in the clan…on scholarship… LA Polytech in Ruston …at 16.
She left the South with a business degree (unusual) and returned only for family visits…and while she never lost her ladylike lavendar and "new" lace correctness, there were times when the bitterness of her upbringing seeped through: as in when she informed her three daughters that we were lucky…we could have been born in Louisiana…and our Dad's name could have been "Dooey Jr.
I think Southern Feminists are the bravest of the brave…even now!
Well thanks. I lived in Shreveport for nine years because my husband was working for Western Electric (ATT) at the time. I kept telling myself if I could survive in Louisiana I could make it anywhere. I'm a southerner though, and am very fond of the South with all its peculiarities. We put stuff right out there that other parts of the country keep covered up. My favorite quote about southern women was by a friend of mine named Robert: "All East Texas girls can do is fuck and fry meat."
While I'm on the subject of Southern women, let me heartily recommend a fond and funny book, called "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" by Florence King.
Aunt B, I really enjoy your blog.
Indeed GL…I was born in North Carolina, where I learned to talk and use the potty, and was then transfered to Portland AFB, and cut most of my permanent teeth in the Pacific NW.
So I am southern by birth and heritage, and my very great love for my roots.
But you could not pay me to again live south of the Mason Dixon line. I give thanks every night for the mother I was given, but like my mother, I could never go back. The fight goes on… long after it has been settled in
"Blue States."
Once again, Southern Feminists are the bravest of the brave.
That's OK. We're getting too crowded as half of the country has moved here anyway.
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Arguments over software patents are highly topical at the moment (see this thread), so I couldn't resist jumping in.
Software is about ideas. The act of writing code is that of expressing an idea in a way a computer can understand. Software patents appear to be an attempt to take ideas and thoughts and say, "This thought is mine. Nobody else is allowed to think it." Its nonsense. For one there is the philosophical argument that there is no such thing as original thought (ie. every thought a person has is influenced by those they've come into contact with, and thus cannot be claimed as 'original'). For another, most software patents are based on work that has gone before, which raises the whole issue of 'prior art', and what qualifies as prior art. The current furore over O/R mapping is a case in point. Thousands of developers all over the world have written ad-hoc O/R mapping code. It is such a universal problem domain that for one company or individual to claim 'I invented O/R mapping' is laughable. Its perfectly reasonable to try and come up with the best O/R mapping product, but perfectly unreasonable to claim that your way is the only way.
The only truly fair and equitable solution is to compete solely on the basis of quality of service, and for everyone to be honest and respect each other's work, but what are the chances of that?
Your entry seems almost as if it's an attack on patents in general. All patents, in any field, are in fact to protect intellectual property (i.e. thoughts) and thus provide commercial incentives to innovate. (Well, in theory anyway.) It's also not a problem that software patents incorporate prior ideas as long as they don't duplicate them; most advancements are evolutionary not revolutionary.
However, patents are not supposed to be granted to "obvious" ideas such as online catalogs or O/R mapping and this is where the system seems to be failing lately. A particularly clever and original implementation of either of these may be patentable, but it would only narrowly protect that solution and not the whole problem it addresses.
The situation isn't quite as bad as it seems though: Getting a patent and actually enforcing it are two different things entirely. Right or wrong it seems that when the patent office is in over their heads, they tend to err on the side of approval and let the courts sort it out.


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Специальный отряд быстрого реагирования МВД Республики Беларусь создан 29 июня 1999 года приказом министра внутренних дел № 014 во внутренних войсках МВД Республики Беларусь. Костяк команды составили офицеры, прапорщики и наиболее подготовленные солдаты войсковой части 3214. Первый командир — Дмитрий Павличенко.

Первую операцию военнослужащие СОБР провели в октябре 1999 года в Орше, где ими была задержана организованная преступная группа.

В 2008 году отряд участвовал в программе подготовки и обмена опытом с венесуэльскими силовиками. В апреле члены СОБРа вместе с сотрудниками группы «Альфа» Комитета госбезопасности, службы безопасности президента и бойцами 5-й бригады спецназа посетили Венесуэлу, где, помимо всего прочего, совершили восхождение на Пик Боливара, установив флаги двух стран, а также символику силовых структур и белорусского спортивного общества «Динамо».

16 марта 2016 года министр внутренних дел Белоруссии Игорь Шуневич преобразовал СОБР в войсковую часть 3032 в составе . Решение утвердили по предложению командира СОБРа Юрия Назаренко, так как у отряда появились собственные службы.

16 декабря 2019 года Deutsche Welle опубликовала интервью с Юрием Гаравским, бывшим бойцом специального отряда быстрого реагирования (СОБР) внутренних войск МВД Беларуси. Он утверждает, что в 1999 году по приказу основателя СОБРа подполковника Дмитрия Павличенко участвовал в похищениях и убийствах противников Лукашенко: министра внутренних дел Юрия Захаренко, главы Центризбиркома Виктора Гончара и предпринимателя Анатолия Красовского, поддерживавшего . Павличенко, заявил Гаравский, лично застрелил похищенных.

Формирование
Численность формирования неизвестна, но в некоторых источниках указываются числа от 300 человек. Комплектуется офицерами, прапорщиками и сержантами. Кандидаты проходят комплексное тестирование с упором на выявление особенностей поведения в экстремальных ситуациях и сдают нормативы по физической подготовке. Все бойцы прекрасно владеют методиками рукопашного боя, некоторые из них являются мастерами и кандидатами в мастера спорта по различным единоборствам.

СОБР укомплектован автоматами АК, пистолетами ПМ и ПС, а также их модернизированные варианты для бесшумной стрельбы, и помповыми ружьями для стрельбы картечью.

Командиры
 Павличенко, Дмитрий Валерьевич
 Михаил Камеко
 Вашкевич, Владимир Владимирович
 Назаренко, Юрий Геннадьевич
 Быков, Александр Валерьевич

Примечания

Министерство внутренних дел Республики Беларусь
Полицейские спецподразделения
Статьи с эдитнотисом об осторожности при редактировании
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1999 году


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Mad Water by Nicholas C. Rossis
Yesterday's crime. Tomorrow's retribution.
This is the third installment of the exciting Pearseus epic fantasy series and the best book so far. For more on the book and my review, head over to my main blog here.
Book title: Mad Water
Author: Nicholas C. Rossis
Purchase link: http://amzn.to/1wbajhP
Ephia
Why can't things ever be easy? An exasperated sigh escaped his lips. Gella had insisted they test the cannon as thoroughly as possible before firing it. She claimed it was the only way she would accept a possibly dangerous weapon around her men, but Teo suspected it had more to do with her desperate hope Ephia would surrender before they had to try out his new toy.
He caressed the warm metal, which pulsed under his hand as if alive. It was a miserable morning, overcast and wet, with dark clouds smearing the sky, but the weapon radiated welcome heat. There was still no sight of the sun, but at least the drizzle falling for the past few days had finally stopped. He clasped his woollen coat tighter and patted the weapon. Soon, you will heat things up for me, won't you?
A slight tremor passed under the metal skin, as if the beast acknowledged his thought. A sergeant barked a command behind him and Teo stepped back. A nozzle lifted, allowing scalding steam to escape quivering safety valves. With a loud groan and a tremor, the weapon stood still, ready for the first shot.
"We should wait a few more days, they will surrender by –"
The plea in the voice behind him annoyed him. Not this again! "We've waited long enough," he snarled without looking at Gella. This was his moment, and he would not let her ruin it for him. What did Parad ever see in you? Why don't you go back to your tent – or, even better, The Capital – and let me win my war?
She said nothing, but her sullen silence annoyed him all the same. "What's taking so long?" he asked the sergeant.
"Nothing Sir, we're ready."
Teo's eyes lit up. "What are we waiting for? Fire!"
The sergeant rushed to the control panel and hit a multitude of buttons, glancing at Teo's e-lib. It had been hard enough to find someone who could read, let alone operate the ancient weapon. Sergeant Sinan was one of a handful of people who could be trusted not to blow them all up. The man swallowed hard and slammed his palm against a button.
The cannon hesitated for a moment, as if considering its options, then recoiled in anger. Ba-Thump! A thin line of smoke traced the missile. It overtook the city to disappear behind it.
"Lower!" Teo commanded, and the sergeant hastened to move various sliders. The barrel inched downwards and the sergeant cast an inquisitive look at Teo. He nodded impatiently, his attention fixed on the city. Ba-Thump!
A portion of the wall disappeared in the distance, leaving a gaping hole. The wind brought the urgent ring of bells tolling from the city.
"A bit lower, and the hole will be large enough for an attack," Gella said. Teo stole a glance at her; she now seemed excited at the ease with which the wall had been breached. A thin smile crept on his lips.
"Belay that order. Shoot higher. I want the next shot to fall inside the city itself."
"Why the city? It's the walls we want to tear down!" Gella protested.
Teo threw her a dark look. "Higher," he ordered, and the sergeant hastened to obey. Ba-Thump!
A thick column of smoke rose from the city.
"Again!" Teo ordered. Ba-Thump!
Every bell in the city now rang, but the wind also carried the howl of people being cut to pieces from shrapnel.
"That's enough," Gella said and grasped his shoulder. "We have what we need."
He pushed her hand away. "Again! Continue until I tell you to stop," he ordered.
The sergeant blinked, staring at Teo, then Gella, then back at Teo again. "Left to right. Raze the city." Sinan stared at him, bug eyed. "You have your orders," Teo snapped.
"Yes, Sir," the man murmured and turned a wheel before hitting a button. Ba-Thump! Ba-Thump!
"This is madness!" Gella rasped.
Ba-Thump! A large dome disappeared, covering the city with dust.
"Why did you become a soldier if you can't stomach a little blood?"
Ba-Thump! A minaret collapsed, the sound of its destruction reaching them as if they stood next to it. The acrid stench of fire reached their nostrils.
"Not to slaughter unarmed civilians!"
Ba-Thump! The centre of the city disintegrated into deadly debris
Teo let out a disappointed sigh. A thick cloud of smoke and dust hid away the city, so he could no longer enjoy the sight of his weapon at work.
Ba-Thump! Numerous fires now burned in the distance, choking the city. The wails could be heard more clearly now, despite the heavy smoke. Most of the bells had stopped ringing.
Gella slipped next to him. "My greatest mistake was not killing you when I had the chance," she whispered in his ear. "A mistake I will fix very soon if you don't stop right now." Ba-Thump!
Fear and rage rushed through Teo, each fighting for supremacy. Before he had a chance to put her in her place, the gun howled and screeched, stopping its relentless fire-spitting into Ephia. It started to tremble and shake, as if the weapon had a seizure. "That will do, sergeant. We don't want to tire her on her first day," Teo said in alarm.
Sergeant Sinan was already sliding various sliders and stamping switches on the control panel. "I'm trying, but she's fighting me," he said through gritted teeth, then punched a big button. With a loud screech, steam escaped valves and the gun lowered its barrel in shame. Men hurried around it, covering it in oiled blankets, as if it were an exhausted boxer. Warm vapour rose from the scalding metal. Sinan wiped his brow, a deep crease of worry on his forehead. "That was close," he murmured. "I don't think we can do that again for a while," he shouted at Teo.
Teo nodded absent-mindedly, observing the ashes that had started raining around them, like grey snow. The wind carried screams and curses from afar. That will teach them never to mess with me again.
The smell of smoke made him think of food. I'm starving! He clapped his hands and his servant rushed to his side. "I'll have my breakfast now." For the first time in weeks, something stirred in his loins as he swaggered towards his tent. "And send for some women."
Nicholas C. Rossis bio:
Author. Avid reader. Web developer. Architect by training, holder of a PhD in Digital Architecture from the University of Edinburgh.
Nicholas loves to write. Mad Water, the third book in his epic fantasy series, Pearseus, was just published, while his first children's book, Runaway Smile, is currently being illustrated. He has also published The Power of Six, a collection of short sci-fi stories.
He lives in Athens, Greece, in the middle of a forest, with his wife, dog and two very silly cats, one of whom is always sitting on his lap, so please excuse any typos in his blog posts: typing with one hand can be hard…
• Pearseus: Schism, Book 1 in his epic fantasy series is available on http://amzn.to/1aDgXDA
• Pearseus: Rise of the Prince, Book 2 in his epic fantasy series is available on http://amzn.to/1jlXLj6
• Pearseus: Mad Water, Book 3 in his epic fantasy series is available on http://amzn.to/1wbajhP
• You can also read Books 1 & 2 (special edition) on http://amzn.to/RqjNbU and
• The Power of Six: 6+1 Science Fiction Short Stories can be found on http://amzn.to/1kKVduI
• Also available: Tao Te Ching (translated into Greek) on http://amzn.to/1ovrc4n
• https://twitter.com/Nicholas_Rossis
• http://www.nicholasrossis.me
• https://www.facebook.com/NicholasCRossis
• https://plus.google.com/+NicholasRossis
• https://www.goodreads.com/nicholasrossis
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Oh how exciting! Mad Water is on top of my TBR list at the moment and I will be delving into its world as soon as I finish the book I am reading now. Your saying it's the best in the series makes me pretty enthusiastic as I can't imagine how better it can be than books 1 and 2! Thanks for sharing the good news 🙂
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The work process setting and situational contexts based on socially distributed cognition: an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis
Oriol Barranco, Carlos Lozares, Sara Moreno
Grup de Recerca Centre d'estudis sociològics sobre la vida quotidiana i el treball - Quit
Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work - QUIT
Institute for Labour Studies (IET)
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd To carry out an ethnographic study on the work process in the sterilization unit of a hospital in Catalonia (Spain), we found the socially distributed cognition approaches of Hutchins and Kirsh useful. However, these approaches lack sufficient explanation on three important issues: (a) the pragmatic criteria for identifying and delimiting a relevant unit of analysis and therefore the setting and contexts of the work process; (b) the mechanisms and results of reciprocal influences between these levels of analysis; and (c) the relation between these levels. Therefore, we added several new elements to these approaches, in addition to Layder's model of contexts with some important modifications, with the aim of offering an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis that clarifies these three issues, allowing a more exhaustive and broader empirical analysis that captures better the 'social' dimension embedded in the work processes.
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12143
David Kirsh
Edwin Hutchins
10.1111/jtsb.12143
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The work process setting and situational contexts based on socially distributed cognition: an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Barranco, O., Lozares, C., & Moreno, S. (2017). The work process setting and situational contexts based on socially distributed cognition: an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 47(4), 481-501. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12143
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Article 5 historical reads to get your kids through summer and 3 for you too!
Lucy Singer
By Lucy@HistoriCool
At HistoriCool Magazine, we are fortunate enough to be sent some fantastic kids books to review – all of which have a historical angle, we're history nerds, after all!
So after much debate, here are our top historical reads to get your kids (and you!) through the summer holidays:
Grandpa's Great Escape by David Walliams for Ages 9-12.
David Walliams is one half of Little Britain, which is enough to make anything he puts his mind to since a definite must-read/watch/see. Jack's Grandpa was a pilot during World War II and although these days he wears slippers to the supermarket and always forgets Jack's name, he can recall his wartime experiences with pinpoint accuracy (mostly because he thinks they're still happening…) Very well-researched and a great, giggly read.
I Am Malala: How One Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by (Young Readers Edition) Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick for Ages 11-17.
A very short history of Malala Yousafzai will appear in HistoriCool in 2016, but I implore everybody to read her story in its entirety. Malala was shot by the Taliban in 2012 for standing up for female education. Surely enough to stop anyone else from publically speaking their mind again, Malala refused to be broken. Now at just the age of 18 and already a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala lives in England (it is too dangerous for her to return home to Pakistan) and continues to promote equal education around the world.
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyle for Ages 9-14
From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes another story of Nazi Germany during World War II. Pierrot is a Jewish boy who lives in France. But when he becomes orphaned, his German aunty – a servant in a wealthy home atop the German mountains – takes him in. Pierrot's story sees him change his name, come face to face with Hitler himself and come to terms with the sort of person he wants to be.
YOLO Juliet by William Shakespeare & Brett Wright for Ages 12-16
OMG Srsly?! It's Shakespeare for a new generation of digital natives! Brett Wright who, going off his name alone is probably not a 14-year-old girl, somehow manages to capture the text speak of todays teens and tweens with expert precision. With some lines written completely in emojis, YOLO Juliet will change the way tweens think about Shakespeare forever… I am hanging out for the next installments in the OMG Shakespeare series that drop in January: Macbeth #killingit and A Midsummer Night #nofilter.
Going Over by Beth Kephart for Ages 12-17
It's a boy meets girl tale with a giant hurdle… Ada and Stephan live in Berlin and have known each other since they were just little kids. But seeing each other becomes impossible once the Berlin Wall cuts through their city, leaving one on either side. Though a fictional story, the emotions and struggles in Going Over surely ring true for many real-life friendships and relationships of the time that were determined to last, wall or not. And we couldn't end this list without a few no-kids-allowed reads to tuck into your own beach bag!
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Published in 2014,
All The Light We Cannot See has appeared on just about every book club list since. But on the off chance that you haven't devoured it yet, it's certainly one to add to your summer reading list. Beautifully written, it follows the stories of Marie-Laue, a blind French girl, and Werner, an orphaned member of the Hitler Youth. Their lives of course become intertwined and the result is moving, powerful and wonderful.
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
If you're like me then you'll think that Australian history is a thrilling ride of non-stop action, twists and turns. But if you're like pretty much the whole of Australia, you'll remember Australian History as that class you skipped more than any other as an attempt to save yourself from death-by-boredom. Well, I'm pretty sure David Hunt is one of the (very few) in the former category and after reading Girt, you'll be one of us… But if just the thought of reading a book about Australian history takes you right back to those dark old days of Year 9, don't fret – there's also a podcast where Hunt tells ABC's Dom Knight the best (and naughtiest) bits. It's called Rum, Rebels & Ratbags and you'll find it on iTunes.
First Lady: The Life & Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Her husband was the brute political force that led Britain through the Second World War, but by Winston Churchill's own admission "the war would have been impossible without her." An incredible woman in her own right, Clementine Churchill had a troubled beginning to life and, as a result, she would behave somewhat childlike behind closed doors in an effort to live out the childhood she never really had. And in Winston she found a life partner as unstable as herself. A great story about the power of partnership and of one of the most important yet little-known women of the twentieth century.
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I am an avid reader and will ready anything and everything.
I LOVE Little Britain, so very excited to read Grandpa's Great Escape by David Walliams. I'm sure my older 2 will enjoy it too. Great list, love getting ideas for books!
Great suggestions. My kids are a lot younger so i love the Dr.Seuss books.
That last book sounds really interesting.
I loved all the light we cannot see – beautifully written
Thank you !! This might be a nice list of books for my 11 year old girl
To keep my teen son interested in reading, it has to be something that he can absolutely relate to. Generally a sportsperson's biography. But I can't complain, he will read them. His latest is Mick Fanning's story.
Thanks for the recommendations. I also think Jackie French writes wonderful historical novels for teens.
Great listing of books – I will keep this list so I can buy Christmas gifts throughout the year for my neighbour's children.
that is a great idea! it will be a handy reference for you
Thank you for sharing the article Lucy.
taynik46 said
wow some interesting titles there, not sure if I could get my 8 year old girl into reading them, but will try
i have to get the kids reading david walliams and see what they think! lol
Thanks for the great tips. My daughter would surely love to read "Malala"'s book!
I have not heard of these books before… Definitely got me curious, I have boys who love reading so I should check these books out.
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alternative progressive rock
November 10, 2013 November 10, 2013 alternative progressive rock, Brantford ON, CD Review, Hard Rock, Indie-rock, Jade Sperry, JadedPhotography, Matt Gauthier, Quick Wicked, Rock 44 Comments #cdreview#mattgauthier#quickwickedjadedphotographyjadesperry
Review – Quick Wicked (self)
Quick Wicked are a band from Brantford ON that have high energy, focus and concentration. It's truly independent music at its finest. Categorically this band is on its own in the stadium. If you need a slot, they are progressive/hard rock/indie-rock band that have some of the best music I've heard this year. Produced by Quick Wicked and Hamilton's Matt Gauthier (who also engineered, mixed and mastered the album). Part of the album was even recorded at the Gauthier house, as well as at B Town Sound in Burlington and at The Eggplant Collective in Toronto.
The band members are Jeff Love (vocals/guitars), Kyle Love (drums), Rob Eddy (guitars/bass) and Kevin French (bass/synths). They have total "original music that doesn't have any preconceived notions" and they "have a passion for making original music". They effectively use sharp musicianship, a collective creativity and a heavy use of effects. They make each part work and you just know that so much is put behind the song emotionally. I had the opportunity to email a few questions to Rob Eddy, who had this to say about the questions asked:
1. Who writes the music/lyrics for the songs on the CD?? Do you all write together or separately and work it out in the rehearsal space? What's the process?
Well, Jeff writes all his own lyrics, and for the most part, everyone in the band is responsible for writing their own parts to the songs with only a few exceptions. Our writing process begins with one member already having 2 or 3 different ideas worked out beforehand. Then, at practice it get's dissected and we usually know very quickly if it`s something that will work for a Quick Wicked song or not. The structuring of the song and getting to the end result can sometimes take months. We always try to treat each instrument (including vocals) equally, and feel that that is an important part of what gives Quick Wicked a different sound than many other rock acts.
The only exception to this is that on the album called "Night Chaser" which is a song that I wrote and recorded everything myself. I re-recorded it with Matt to use on the album as an interlude. I couldn't be happier with the end result! I'm also pleased with how the songs "Monolith", "Night Chaser" and "King" flow into each other seamlessly. I feel that it's just one really long song. That was not planned out; we just stumbled across that when we were putting the track listing together. It ended up being one of my favourite things about the album!
2. How did the band come together as a whole as it is now?
The story of the band is as follows: Jeff and I (Rob) met each other in public school and have been friends since grade 7. We've been playing music together since we were 14 and were in many different bands in our teens. Kyle (Jeff's younger brother) was too young at first but by the time Kyle was 16 he was better than any other drummer we knew and eventually he came into the band. We were sneaking him into the bars at that point because he was the only drummer we wanted to play with.
I then took some some time off from playing in a band for about two and a half years when Jeff approached me about a new project he had in mind. He said that he had found a bass player (Kevin) who was Kyle's friend before becoming our friend, and he wanted me to hear some demos for a couple of songs that he had already done. Shortly after that we all met for the first time together at a rehearsal space in Hamilton and started jamming the songs. That was the birth of Quick Wicked. Two years later after spending a considerable amount of time getting comfortable as a band, writing songs, playing live, finding Matt, recording a demo with Matt, writing more songs and finally recording the full album with Matt again, we have our first album and a finished product that we are proud of.
3. What is the mindset of the band when it comes to social networking? How has the Music Industry changed the rules of bringing a new band on a roster or signing to a major label?
Currently, we are using social networking for almost all of our content and promotions. We feel it's a huge part of getting your music heard. In our early days, we desperately wanted to sign with a major label and have them take care of everything for us so we could just focus on the music. I think that was the story that was being told to us. After seeing what has been going on over the last 10-15 years we have re-aligned our goals and no longer have that mentality. Our main goal with this project is to give people a taste of something different when there is so much of the same happening right now in rock genre. Many bands seem to follow a "cookie cutter" approach to their songs that they end up becoming a parody of each other.
1. Dingo
2. Blix
3. The Bodyline
4. Rhum Rocket
6. Night Chaser
7. King
8. Re-awake
9. Beetleweed
10. The Docks
The CD begins with "Dingo" which is a song that has a killer melody and is played with an amazing attention to every single detail by all four members. With time signature changes that would confuse the best of musicians, and root chords in the bass work, they make it seem so easy and seamless in this one song. Vicious guitars, pounding drums and awesome vocals are just the beginning of this very impressive collection of songs. This song speaks of control and being original.
"Monolith" is the longest song at just over 6 minutes. It has a pretty guitar opening, followed by drums and bass. The melody flows easily through the song and the vocals are pained – tearing at your heartstrings with emotion. Lyrically, "I pick you over me/I've done it before/I miss you/Don't walk away" can all be attributed by choosing another over yourself which can lead to confusion, tension and loss.
"Night Chaser" is an instrumental song, played well and is easy on the ears. Similar to "Monolith", it makes a statement of quality music for the listener. The completion to this is the song "King" which gives you a trilogy of sorts. All three songs have well constructed melodies that flow into one other. The music is subtle and also tense, but "King" takes it over the goal line. "Which side of the billions do you follow?" is an interesting question to ask in a song lyric. As a listener it makes you think about what the band is asking you.
"Re-awake" is a short song (2:40) that is by far my favourite song. Time changes, choppy drums and good vocals, this song makes me want to start headbanging and pretending that I'm at a Quick Wicked concert. With my pretension to punk music, this song combines that punk spirit with hard rock and is played with intensity that equals no other band out there on the indie circuit at present. Lyrically, I hear it as a rebirth of sorts in some way, which reminds me of a snake shedding its skin and becoming new again in its own protection for survival.
Every song on this CD is solid, likeable and really can't be slotted into one category. There are many influences this band takes from other bands and make it their own by playing to their own drummers, so to speak. The recording, mixing and mastering are impeccable and speak to me of a band who found the perfect match in Matt Gauthier's ability to nail the bands' authentic sound in this 10 song CD.
You can find the band on Facebook (facebook.com/quickwicked), on Bandcamp where you can hear the CD in its entire format and buy it from there, and on the bands' website.
The band has an upcoming show at The Volume Lounge in Oshawa ON on Saturday November 16. Contact the venue for ticket prices and door times.
Quick Wicked – Video – Dingo (as recorded in studio) followed by "King"


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Roman Emperor Constantine's rule celebrated the first recorded Christmas on December 25th in the year 336.
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Roman Emperor Constantine's rule celebrated the first recorded Christmas on December 25th in the year 336. A few years later, Pope Julius I officially declared that the birth of Jesus was on that same day.
See the fact file below for more information on the History of Christmas or alternatively, you can download our 22-page History of Christmas worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.
PUTTING A DATE
The main reason for the Christmas celebration is Jesus Christ and his birth.
The New Testament Bible does not indicate the specific date of Jesus' birth, but a very early Christian tradition said that the day when Mary was told that she would have a very special baby was March 25th.
This date was chosen because it was calculated that it was the day Jesus died as an adult (the 14th of Nisan in the Jewish calendar) and they thought that Jesus was born and died on the same day of the year.
As a main celebration in the Christian liturgical calendar, it follows the season of Advent and ushers in Christmastide, or The Twelve Days of Christmas.
The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, starts on the 25th of Kislev (December). Hanukkah celebrates when the Jewish people were able to re-dedicate and worship in their Temple in Jerusalem.
Jesus was a Jew, so this could be another reason that helped the early Church choose December the 25th for the date of Christmas.
Saturnalia is the Roman celebration that preceded Christmas.
The Roman Festival of Saturnalia took place between December 17th and 23rd, and honoured the Roman god Saturn.
Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means 'birthday of the unconquered sun' and was held on December 25th and was the 'birthday' of the Pagan Sun god Mithra.
One widespread explanation for making December 25 as Jesus Christ's birth was as a way to christianize the pagans.
Christian writers frequently made the connection between the rebirth of the sun and the birth of the Son.
In the 4th century, Christian leaders were successful at converting many pagans to Christianity by allowing them to also continue the celebration of Saturnalia. This was its first connection to Jesus' birth.
YULE CELEBRATION – NORSE "CHRISTMAS"
Yule was the Norse celebration of the winter solstice. For many years Christians in Scandinavia celebrated both Yule on the solstice and Christmas some days later.
Soon, the Christian King Haakon I (920-961) of Norway decreed that the Yule celebrations should take place on Christmas Day so that the two celebrations were synchronized.
Yule traditions are still practiced today, such as the drinking of Wassail. It was a popular Yuletide drink of ale mulled with fruit and spices.
The Celtic druids say that mistletoe sprigs were cut from the oak trees after Yule and distributed as a protective charm to the faithful. Amongst its many powers, it was believed to grant fertility.
The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe comes from the Norse legend of the death of Balder. He was shot by a mistletoe arrow and when his mother cried over him, her tears became berries. He was restored to life and his mother made the plant a symbol of love in gratitude.
CONTEMPORARY CELEBRATION
To celebrate Christmas, modern practices became popular. But how did it all start?
Having a Mass at Midnight on Christmas dates back to the early church, when it was believed that Jesus was born at midnight, although there has never been any proof.
In Victorian times, it was very fashionable to go carol singing with small handbells to play the tune of the carol.
The custom of sending Christmas cards was started in the UK in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole.
Boxing Day was started in the UK during the Middle Ages. It was the day when the alms box, often kept in churches, were traditionally opened so that the contents could be distributed to poor people.
Earliest records of candles state that they were used for Christmas during the middle ages, where a large candle was used to represent the star of Bethlehem.
St. Nicholas was a bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra in Asia Minor (now called Turkey). Later on, he became known as Santa Claus.
The evergreen fir tree has traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals for thousands of years. Pagans used branches of it to decorate their homes during the winter solstice as it made them think of the spring time to come.
In Edwardian times, there would be tea in the servants' hall followed by a children's Christmas party. Rich people give gifts to children and slaves.
History of Christmas Worksheets
This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about history of Christmas across 22 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use History of Christmas worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about the History of Christmas. Roman Emperor Constantine's rule celebrated the first recorded Christmas on December 25th in the year 336. A few years later, Pope Julius I officially declared that the birth of Jesus was on that same day.
Chris-tory
Timeline to Christmas
He was Born!
A Merry Viking Christmas
Nic & Odin
Twin Holidays
Celebrating for Ages
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These recordings were made in 1985 at a colloquium given at the University of Hawaii. Prof. Arthur Roberts wrote all the music and words, except as noted.
Many thanks to Paul Banner (Prof. Roberts' brother in law) for digitizing the original recordings, and to Chris Kingsley for digital cleanup of the recordings.
Click here for a different performance of Take Away Your Billion Dollars. This is part of the American Institute of Physics historical archive.


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HomePeacemakerIs it better to be a peacemaker or a peacemaker? The first three episodes of the John Cena series are available on HBO Max sans dubbing in Spanish
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El Pacificador is now accessible on HBO Max Spain in three episodes, but only in Spanish with subtitles.
Today was going to be a very tranquil day, and John Cena, who played The Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad, was going to take care of it.
The first three episodes of James Gunn's DC series arrived in the HBO Max collection today with an optimistic outlook thanks to the great reviews it has garnered.
On what appeared to be a clear day, however, a dark cloud has risen, which people have been quick to point out.
Fans who had time this morning to begin watching the El Pacificador series have discovered that HBO Max has only posted the series in English with subtitles, with no dubbing in Spanish.
Of course, this is not an issue for individuals who prefer the original versions, but for those who are more accustomed to watching shows dubbed in their native tongue or who are bored of reading subtitles, this is a significant disadvantage.
We reached out to HBO Max, who assured us that the Spanish dubbing would be accessible as soon as possible. Although they cannot offer us a particular date, they think it will be this week.
It's not the first time HBO Max has had a similar issue with dubbing in one or more versions. One well-known example is Batman Begins, which has yet to receive Castilian dubbing on the platform since its November release in our country.
If it doesn't bother you, or if you can watch The Peacemaker with subtitles, don't miss it; the series is insane. If, on the other hand, it is too much of a disadvantage, we will notify you as soon as the Spanish version is available on HBO Max.
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The John Edwards Circus Isn't Quite Over
By Caroline Bankoff
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According to Justice Department officials, there is "no way" federal prosecutors will attempt to retry John Edwards, whose monthlong trial on charges of misuse of campaign contributions ended with a hung jury on Thursday. As one source put it, "They're not going to do this again." However, this is not the last the world will hear of the former senator and his wide variety of sordid affairs. In a move that will surprise exactly no one — especially readers of her mind-bending 2010 interview with GQ — Rielle Hunter, whose affair and subsequent love child with Edwards led to his prosecution, has written a tell-all book.
A representative from publisher BenBella Books confirmed the existence of What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me to People earlier today: "We are delighted to publish Rielle Hunter's memoir. A lot has been said. But no one has heard the truth of what really happened until now." It'll be in stores on June 26, but those who can't wait until the end of the month needn't worry: We're sure some of the crazier excerpts will be making the rounds by next week.
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Мирон Леонидович Тисменецкий (также известен как Тимор Тисменецкий, ; 6 июня 1947, Кишинёв — 13 апреля 2006, Израиль) — израильский математик и издатель.

Биография
Учился в кишинёвской средней школе № 9. В 1969 году окончил физико-математический факультет Кишинёвского университета. Преподавал в Кишинёвском сельскохозяйственном институте.

В Израиле с 22 апреля 1974 года. В 1980 году получил докторскую степень в хайфском Технионе под руководством Л. Е. Лерера, в 1981—1983 годах — в постдокторантуре под руководством Питера Ланкастера в Альбертском университете. С 1983 года преподавал в Технионе, до 1995 года также был научным сотрудником в IBM (в техническом центре IBM при хайфском Технионе, а в 1990—1993 годах — в Гейдельберге).

В 1989 году основал издательство научной литературы «Савран» (סברן), в котором среди прочего выпустил ряд написанных им совместно с братом Давидом Тисменецким (род. 1950) школьных учебников и учебных пособий по алгебре и геометрии. Основные научные труды — в области теории операторов, прикладной математики и информатики, соавтор монографии «Теория матриц» (1985). После 1993 года научных трудов по математике больше не публиковал.

Опубликовал также научные труды по пищевым добавкам из медицинских грибов («Dietary Supplements from Medicinal Mushrooms: Diversity of Types and Variety of Regulations», 2000; «Dietary Supplements from Medicinal Mushrooms: How We Are Going to Ensure Their Quality and Safety», 2001, обе — в International Journal for Medicinal Mushrooms). Последние годы жизни занимался предпринимательской деятельностью.

Семья
 Жена (с 1966 года) — Фаня Бронштейн, дочери Илана (1970) и Карин (1985), сын Амир Эйтан (1976).

Монографии
 מרון תסמנצכי. אנליזה ספקטרלית של אלומות פולינומיאליות באמצעות שורשי המשוואה המטריציאלית המתאימה (Spectral analysis of polynomial bundles by the roots of the corresponding matrix equation. Technion, 1977).
 מטריצות בזו, טייפליץ והנקל בתורה ספקטרלית של פולינומים מטריציאליים (Bezoutians, Toeplitz and Hankel matrices in the spectral theory of matrix polynomials, 1981).
 Peter Lancaster, Miron Tismenetsky. The Theory of Matrices: With Applications. Второе издание — Лондон: Academic Press, 1985. — 570 p.

Публикации IBM
 Factorizations of Hermitian Block Hankel Matrices. IBM Deutschland, Wiss. Zentrum Heidelberg, 1990.
 The Hermitian Case. IBM Deutschland, 1990.
 On Equations in Companion Matrices, Block Hankel and Block Toeplitz Matrices. IBM Deutschland, Wiss. Zentrum Heidelberg, 1990.
 Preconditioning in the Boundary Element Method for Elliptic Problems. Wissenschaftliches Zentrum: Heidelberg Scientific Center technical reports, IBM Deutschland GmbH Stuttgart. IBM Deutschland, Wiss. Zentrum Heidelberg, 1990.
 A Note on a Block Preconditioner. IBM Germany. Heidelberg Scientific Center, 1990.
 A Decomposition of Toeplitz Matrices and Optimal Circulant Preconditioning. IBM Deutschland, Wiss. Zentrum Heidelberg, 1990.

Школьные учебники
 אלגברה רמה בינונית 3 יחידות לימוד (иврит, 1987)
 אלגברה בסיסית (иврит, 1989)
 אלגברה רמה גבוהה: לכיתות י', 4-5 יחידות לימוד — מתמטיקה (иврит, 1989)
 וקטורים (иврит, 1991)
 אלגברה (иврит, 1992)
 אנליזה: 3 יחידות לימוד (иврит, 1993)
 אלגברה כיתות ח-ט (иврит, 1993)
 אלגברה כיתות ח-ט (иврит, 1993)
 ספר הכנה לבגרות מתמטיקה: 3 יחידות לימוד (иврит, 1994)
 אנליזה: 5-4 יחידות לימוד (иврит, 1995)
 מתמטיקה לכיתות ז-ח (иврит, 1996)
 מתמטיקה 3 יחידות לימוד (иврит, 1997)

Примечания

Персоналии по алфавиту
Родившиеся в 1947 году
Родившиеся 6 июня
Родившиеся в Кишинёве
Умершие в 2006 году
Умершие 13 апреля
Выпускники Государственного университета Молдовы
Математики Израиля
Издатели Израиля
Математики по алфавиту
Преподаватели Кишинёвского сельскохозяйственного института
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