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1636: The Saxon Uprising — Snippet 52
by Drak Bibliophile | Feb 2, 2011 | 1632Snippet, Snippets | 26 comments
His course of study had been general, with no particular focus. Had intended to be general, it would be better to say. He'd barely finished one semester when Gustav Adolf started this new war. (What was it about Swedes, anyway? Did the milk they drank as youngsters come from a special breed of belligerent cows?) Eric still had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with the rest of his life, assuming he survived the war. Something involving mechanics, most likely. But beyond that, he had no idea.
Blessedly, Tata did not press him on the matter. She was odd, that way. Most young women of a bossy temperament never stopped pestering their men about their goals and ambitions. But Tata never did. She seemed content with modifying Eric's daily behavior to suit her liking, and was willing to let him figure out what he'd be doing in the months and years to come.
Maybe that was because she'd been a nobleman's leman before she got involved with Eric. Tata's way of describing that relationship — quite typical of her — was to refer to Duke Eberhard as her "boyfriend," an up-time loan word that Eric found particularly grotesque. Despite the silly term, though, not even Tata had thought to inquire as to the duke of Württemberg's ambitions and goals. Perhaps she was just carrying the habit over to her relationship with Krenz.
Eric felt occasional twinges of jealousy when he thought of that former involvement, but they were only twinges and they only came once in a while. For a start, the man was dead. Hard to feel much venom toward a corpse, after all. What possible further ill could you wish upon the fellow? But leaving that aside, Krenz was not much given to jealousy anyway. Or spite, or envy. He'd admit himself that he had faults, but they were generally the faults of a cheerful man perhaps a bit too fond of his immediate pleasures.
He heard a shrill, piercing call from ahead. A shriek, almost.
He couldn't make out the word, but he didn't need to. He'd heard that same call before, more than once. Incoming.
Fortunately, they'd reached a corner. He lunged forward, seized Tata around the waist, and hauled her behind the shelter of a tall building.
"What are you –!" But she didn't resist. She didn't even finish the sentence. Tata was very far from dimwitted.
A moment later, they heard a loud crashing sound. No explosion, though. Either the Swedes had fired a round shot into the city or the exploding shell had been a dud. Judging from the sound — bricks shattering; a lot of them — Eric was pretty sure it was round shot. Something awfully heavy had to have done that.
"We'll have to move carefully from here on," he said. "Stay under cover as much as we can."
When they reached the fortifications, Eric saw that Gretchen Richter was already there. She was walking slowly down the line of soldiers manning the bastions and curtain wall, talking with each gun crew as she came to them. Doing what Eric was planning to do himself, and what other officers would be doing in other bastions and along other curtain walls. The words they'd be speaking were not really that important, taken by themselves. What mattered was an officer's relaxed and calm demeanor.
No officer could do that better than Gretchen, though. The woman had a knack for projecting confidence that, given her youth — she was only twenty-six years old — was uncanny. Friedrich Nagel was of the opinion that she'd either sold her soul to the devil or to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations.
Whatever the source of her poise, Krenz was glad to see her. Gretchen steadied his nerves the same way she did everyone else's.
The cannon fire from the Swedish lines started picking up. This would go on for weeks, in all likelihood. The army camped outside Dresden's walls numbered about fifteen thousand men. The city itself had a population of somewhere between thirty and forty thousand, but that had been greatly expanded by refugees pouring in from the countryside over the past weeks. Dresden's defenders could put three thousand able-bodied men on the walls, with at least that many available as a reserve in case Banér ordered a major frontal assault.
To make things still more difficult for Banér, he didn't have enough soldiers to really seal off the city. Especially not in wintertime, when his men would shirk their responsibility to maintain patrols at night and loads could be moved into the city by sleigh without needing to use roads. Dresden's population would be on short rations, but they wouldn't be in any danger of starving for at least a year.
Probably longer, in fact. Gretchen Richter and the CoC had clamped down their control of Dresden. The fact that Richter used a velvet glove whenever she could didn't change the fact that the grip itself was one of iron. Whatever anyone thought of the political program and policies of the CoC, one thing was indisputable: they greatly strengthened a city under siege, if they were in charge. Rations would be evenly and fairly apportioned; sanitation and medical measures would be rigorously applied and enforced; spies and traitors would be watched for vigilantly.
Those measures directly addressed the most common reasons a city fell — hunger, disease and treachery. The risks weren't eliminated, but they were significantly reduced. At a guess, Eric thought any city run by Gretchen Richter could withstand a siege half again as long as it would otherwise. Maybe even twice as long. She was one of those rare people of great notoriety whose reputations weren't overblown at all.
Odd, really, to think that she was the wife of his good friend Jeff Higgins.
"Stop daydreaming!" scolded Tata, giving his shoulder a little nudge. "Shouldn't you be ordering the men to fire a cannon or something?"
Peter	on February 2, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Raises an interesting question. What does Dresden have in terms of big guns? If the Swedes have the range on them, then they can sit back and pound the place to pieces (or until their gunpowder runs out). If Dresden's defenders can reach the Swedish guns with their own, this could be a real short artillery duel. I doubt Baner will allow his guns to be wrecked – he'll pull back and resume fire from maximum range if he can.
dave o	on February 2, 2011 at 2:28 AM
I noticed two points in this snippet:
1. Eric thinks that the Swedes may have been firing a shell. We know that Simpson's navy has guns capable of firing shell, but I don't recall anything in the canon about the armies having them. If it does, it gives Baner a better chance of breaching the walls than I thought.
2. Eric also thinks the shot was heavy, which if true. argues that Baner has somehow managed to get siege guns in addition to Dresden in addition to the 3 and 6 pounder field artillery normal in G2A's armies. Again, giving Baner a better chance. But all of Eric's direct experience was with volley guns, so perhaps he's mistaken.
I still think that Dresden's defenses are likely to have more heavy guns than Baner. Perhaps a near monopoly of them. If so, counter battery fire will destroy Baner's guns pretty quickly. Pulling his heavy guns back will reduce their breaching power a lot. Pulling field guns back will make them close to useless.
Bret Hooper	on February 2, 2011 at 2:30 AM
@1 Peter: You quite correctly "doubt Banér will allow his guns to be wrecked – he'll pull back and resume fire from maximum range if he can." But if the defenders wreck his guns right away (as I hope they will) then he won't be able to "pull back and resume fire."
BTW, it is easy to get Banér's name right; just copy and paste from Eric's text.
ET1swaw	on February 2, 2011 at 3:48 AM
Banér has 15K troops (mostly mercenaries and about 3/4 of the size of 3rd USE IIRC). Opposing him in a modern fortified position is 3-6K of mixed militia, CoC, Kresse's irregulars (if not dispersed for guerilla attacks on Banér and his supply lines), and 3rd USE regulars. Unable to complete encirclement, his only chance is treachery or a breech IMO (and with Gretchen ramrodding the CoC the chance of successful treachery seems remote).
Thank you Bret Hooper for the tip!
Banér could definately use reinforcement by Von Thurn's Swedish troops (last seen in Brandenburg) or Von Arnim's Saxon troops (who are mostly mercenaries who escaped the defeat (can't recall the battle's official name but was near Lutzen) last seen in Leipzig).
Stanley Leghorn	on February 2, 2011 at 7:08 AM
I wonder if the guns firing into the city are the ones Jeff hauled down into the mountains towards Ingolstadt in "The Bavarian Crisis".
That might explain why the defenders have not returned fire as those guns would be out of range of all but the biggest guns of the day.
Or Gretchen might be saving powder if the city is short.
George Phillies	on February 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM
THere is period and later period discussion of counter battery fire, as discussed by Nosworthy. It seems to be viewed as ineffective. Actually, close to this period, there arose the issue that the effective range of artillery firing round shot was significantly less than the effective range of rifled muskets. In any event, Banér would appear to need to drive trenches to get close enough to do anything.
Trenches in winter. How fun!. On the other hand a good single line of trenches and earth piled properly will cut off external supply.
johan	on February 2, 2011 at 9:55 AM
Wait a minute, I remember Eric saying he wanted to open a shop selling up-time Pen and Paper RPG's in The Eastern Front. And now suddenly he's attended a military academy and have no idea what he wants to do with his life?
Ian Chapman	on February 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM
#6 I am very sure they are not the same guns. Those Naval Guns were under the direct control of the USE Army on loan from the USE Navy with LtC Cantrell acting as Naval Liason. Banér would consider them to be 'unreliable' (and rightfully so) and wouldn't want to admit that he needed up-time guns anyway (look at the lengths he took to keep those guns from being used at Ingolstaadt(sp?) after all!)
Willem Meijer	on February 2, 2011 at 11:20 AM
Banér is being verry hasty. Normal procedure is to send in a polite request for surrender (or leave to enter te city), then to make sure your own encampments are secure from attack (preferably entreched), then drive forward the approaching trenches, build fortified batteries, and then move forward your siege (not seige!!) guns. If you move your guns forward an start shooting your batteries are open for counter-fire from the bastions. Bastions that are higher than the surrounding ground and therefore (if you use the same caliber etc) fire farther than the guns in the field. To fire into the city (over the earthworks surrounding it) you must also fire on a higher trajectory than the defenders need to do, and (using the same caliber) you must move nearer to the walls.
It could be a cost-saving measure. I do not know how this was done in the Swedish army, but the Dutch armies of the time used peasants and soldiers to dig trenches, work for which they were paid. Even the soldiers (already being paid as soldiers) received extra pay because this digging was not considered normal duty. Laying siege was a costly affair, and the erlier you surrendered the better the terms tended to be. Granted, this is a political attack, so Dresden must be seen to be forced to surrender, and then probably grossly humiliated (or worse) so there may be political reasons not to conform to the normal rules of warfare (as practiced around 1640).
@10 Or it is already to cold to do any digging. Are we not entering into the so-called little ice-age?
@last snippet Poisoning wells (silly idea) is not very usefull if you consider that Dresden is on a river. Perhaps frozen over, but a source of drinking water that cannot be tampered with. As long as the river is not frozen solid it is also a nice way to get supplies into the city. One barge can carry the supplies of many carts or sledges while using only a fraction of the man/horsepower.
Drak Bibliophile	on February 2, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Willem, I doubt that Eric Flint thinks the reader would want to read about those details when the reader knows that Gretchen isn't about to allow Banér in and isn't about to surrender the city.
IMO this is a case of the author leaving stuff out that doesn't add to the "story telling".
dave o	on February 2, 2011 at 3:07 PM
#13 Drak: Sorry to disagree with you. I want the details. I'm interested in what happens, but just as interested in how it happens.
Drak Bibliophile	on February 2, 2011 at 3:19 PM
No problem Dave O. [Wink]
The thing is that each of us enjoy different things in a book and the author can't satisfy everybody.
Some people dislike it when David Weber (for example) goes into the Politics of his Honorverse but others enjoy it.
In this case, Eric decided that the details didn't add to the story so some are "gripping".
In other cases, Eric added details that he thought was needed so some gripe about that.
Poor authors just can't win. [Grin]
Alex	on February 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM
It's weird that "boyfriend" would be a loan word. Those usually happen when another language doesn't have an equally convenient word. In English, a lot of those words are French. Fiance, voyeurism… There are some exceptions of course but Germans have a word for boy, a word for friend, and combining the two would be very easy.
Pul Ess	on February 2, 2011 at 5:02 PM
15: "Boyfriend" doesn't mean "Boy Friend". Modern German uses "Freund" for both, and people live with the ambiguity. To match the exact meaning of the Amerikan word, they would either borrow the word, or borrow the construction – what Alex is suggesting, something like "Jungefreund" – but that would still sound like "Boy Friend" to someone who doesn't know the Amerikan. (This is happening OTL: Google gets 4 hits for "mein Jungefreund" (all seem to be non-native), 6360 hits for "mein Boyfriend".)
Bret Hooper	on February 2, 2011 at 11:26 PM
Google also gets 137 hits for "mein Boyfreund," 8 for "mein Madchenfreund," 5 for "mein Frauleinfreund," 3 for "mein Girlfreund," and 2550 for "mein Girlfriend."
When I was a freshman in college in 1952, my German teacher said that foreign words were not readily accepted in German; e.g."Fernsprechen" was considered more respectable than "Telephonieren," but recently a German teacher told me that "Telephonieren" has almost completely replaced "Fernsprechen," which is now used only by the elderly. Interesting change in the language in less than sixty years. So Eric's 'Amideutsch' is a quite reasonable development; in Eric's timeline it is just happening about 300-350 years sooner.
@13-14 Dave O and Drak: Like Dave O I like details and political discussions, etc., and I have never found them objectionable in anything by Eric Flint or David Weber; they both know to do them without, e.g. interrupting the action so Mike can tell Becky at length things she surely already knows. Neither do David or Eric indulge, like Peter F. Hamilton and many lesser writers, in excessive description of the physical or social environment (to increase the word count?).
Bluemax	on February 3, 2011 at 4:07 AM
IMHO the words "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" dont get a firm grip on the german language.
Usually a girl calls her boyfriend just "mein Freund" and a boy refers to his girlfriend as "meine Freundin". The distinction between "friend" and "boy/girlfriend" is made by the pronoun ("mein/meine") and therefore doesn't need an alteration/addition to the noun "friend". Since people usually have more than one friend, you would call friends you are not related to in a partnership just "a friend" – "ein Freund/eine Freundin".
Today's youth is sometimes using the english terms to describe their relation to the opposite sex, however that doesn't derive from necessity but from the urge to sound "cool". Actually if a german adolescent uses the english term "boy/girlfriend" in a sentence without further anglicisms, it sounds odd.
TimC	on February 3, 2011 at 5:40 AM
@17 Off topic! when I learnt French I was told the word for radio was 'TSF' (te es ef) or telephonie sans fils, literally 'wireless'. I have never heard it. Even the French cannot keep loan words out entirely, though I notice that computers are 'ordinateurs' and they have memory in MO rather than MB! Probably the openeness of English to words links to openness to ideas and to the success of this culture!
frederic	on February 3, 2011 at 9:07 AM
@19: The domonation of English has more to do, IMO, with the occupation of France and subsequent destructions in WWII. FOr exemple, a lot of aicraft-related words before 1940 were french-derived; after 1944 none (esp wrt jets).
And despite conter-exemples and stupid politicians (e.g. Mr All-Good), french language is flexible. Sure the first reflex is to propose a french equivalent, but after a few years, the one which is used in reality by the people becomes official. It can be the frenchified english orginal (un weekend, un fast food, un mobile…) or the french translation (un ordinateur, une imprimante, un portable) depending on the case. In some cases, it could be a non-english original, though I don't know if that has happened recently (zwitterion, bistro…)
robert	on February 3, 2011 at 1:32 PM
@19 , @20 Many French words came into English centuries ago (1066 and all that), but then fell out of use in France over time. Lately, some of those words, or some variation of them, started to reappear in spoken French, having been borrowed from American English. French language purists were horrified at these American words being used by their young people. So much for language purists.
I am very curious about something mentioned here: how would Banér have moved the naval guns over the mountains given all the "impediments" he faced and the difficulty the guys had moving them in the other direction in the first place? Had he tried, I would expect that they'd be at the bottom of some ravine, not at the walls of Dresden.
Jeff Ehlers	on February 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM
All languages have to deal with loanwords. It's only the prescriptivists (language purists, which is an oversimplification but so what?) who complain about it. Furthermore, they're doomed to a constant retreat (at best holding action), since languages change based on how they're used.
Stanley Leghorn	on February 3, 2011 at 9:22 PM
Still, I do wonder where those guns are and who is in charge of them. They would make short work of most fortifications of the time due to the penetrating exploding shells. Walls splattered about are hard to fix or reinforce. Plus the morale impact.
Sean Maxwell	on February 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM
Be careful using Google with foreign-language and mixed-language phrases:
"mein Freundin" gets "About 93,500 results" and
"meine Freundin" gets "About 10,900,000 results"
Why the 116:1 ratio? Because "meine Freundin" is grammatically correct German, and old-school Germans are a whole lot pickier about correct grammar than other people are. The pages Google finds with "mein Freundin" seem to be pages created for non-Germans and/or youths.
A hasty choice of search terms will skew your results in ways you might not expect; here, it tells you more about teen-age obsessions than it does about comparative linguistics.
Willem Meijer	on February 4, 2011 at 4:28 AM
@12 The author is always right. There was just too much big gun talk in the comments on this snippet.


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Applications from supervisors are invited for a Rank Prize Nutrition Fund Post-Graduate Studentship in Human Nutrition, to start in October 2019. This should be at a UK institution. The maximum grant will be £10,000 pa for four years which can be used to fund partially a studentship with support from a Research Council, Charity or other source. Additional funds of up to £1,000 are available annually for the student to attend UK and/or overseas professional conferences. The application form can be obtained here. Any queries should be addressed to The Rank Prize Funds, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . One application to be submitted per Department, selected and approved by the Head. The closing date is midnight 6 November 2018 and the award will be announced by 14 December 2018.
Nutrition Committee Travel Awards 2018 - Further details to follow
Awards of up £7,500 each are available to assist early- and mid-career scientists to learn new techniques and/or to make and establish contacts with international counterparts by spending time in an institution outside the UK. The awards are available in the broad areas of human nutrition and crop science to members of academic and research staff at UK universities and other organisations who are defined as eligible for funding under the criteria used by research councils. The scheme is not open to PhD students. Click here to download further details and application form.
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Vacation Studentships 2018
- Nutrition Committee - Details for 2019 to follow
The Rank Prize Funds will be again be offering vacation studentships commencing in the Summer of 2018. A total grant of £2500 per student (£250 per week for 10 weeks) together with up to £500 for consumables (the proposed amount should be justified on the application form)will be available for students to assist in research projects in the fields of human nutrition, animal nutrition and crop husbandry. Topics should be within the remit of the Committee. Supervisors already actively engaged on appropriate projects can download the guidelines and application form here.
- Optoelectronics Committee
The Optoelectronics Advisory Committee of the Rank Prize Funds will support a number of awards for students in the penultimate year of undergraduate studies at UK universities which have a major commitment to teaching and research in optoelectronics, including vision and the eye. The scheme is intended to integrate students in the day-to-day activities of a research group/laboratory and will run during the summer of 2018. For Guidelines and application form click here. The deadline for applications is 28th February 2018.


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This Day in History – October 24 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight
23 October 2018 by Gary Jenneke
THIS DAY IN HISTORY… OCTOBER 24
1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
During Virginia's Secession Convention, a large number of delegates from the western portion of the state left the convention in protest. They decided to form their own state, one that would be loyal to the Union. An election was held in the west, and the vote for statehood passed 18,162 to 514. There was some question about the honesty of the election, however. There had been a Union Army victory in northwestern Virginia and Union troops occupied the region where the election took place. It has been suggested that those troops hung around polling locations and prevented Confederacy sympathizers from voting.
A dishonest election in America? What an absurd suggestion! To put your mind at ease, I did exhaustive research into the West Virginia election and found no evidence whatsoever of interference by Russia.
1954 – President Eisenhower pledges support for South Vietnam.
1956 – Russian tanks and troops invade Hungary.
The Hungarian Revolution began a day earlier with a peaceful demonstration protesting Russian influence over their government. The crowd quickly grew from 20,000 to over 200,000, and a statue of Lenin was torn down and replaced with Hungarian flags. Hungarian soldiers tore the red flags from their uniforms and joined the protest. The State Security Police (AVH) was routed and the crowd chanted a previously-banned patriotic poem. They marched to the Radio Budapest building where they intended to broadcast their demands for independence. There a rifle shot from the AVH killed a student and that marked the beginning of the bloody revolution.
As the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest on the 24th, Hungarian freedom fighters, armed only with small weapons and Molotov cocktails, fought back. There were battles throughout Hungary, but the revolution was centered in Budapest, where there was ferocious street fighting for the control of the city. Fighting from alleys, rooftops, and the sewer system, the freedom fighters fought the Soviet tanks to a stalemate for two weeks. The resistance was led to believe by broadcasts from Radio Free Europe that the United States was about to intervene on their behalf with military aid and soldiers. Eisenhower, thinking that it might lead to a nuclear showdown with Russia, decided against intervention. The revolution was eventually crushed with overwhelming military force.
Thirteen-years-old at the time, I was mesmerized by the accounts of the Budapest street fighting. Unaware of the true brutality of war, I romanticized the fight. Boys my age, armed with Molotov cocktails, were confronting Russian tanks. I imagined myself in such a heroic role. Thankfully I only had to reside in my imagination, and not reality.
I was in a writing group for years and one of our members was a man named Dennis. Dennis was a fellow writer and a friend. At the time of the Hungarian Revolution he was a paratrooper in the U.S Army. He remembered being told to "saddle up", destination unknown, but they were all pretty certain where they were going. Fortunately for Dennis, and probably the world, except for the Hungarian freedom fighters, the operation was cancelled.
So even though quite remote from it, this bit of history always seems personal to me.
1903 – Melvin Purvis.
FBI agent and lawyer. The most famous FBI agent during the crime ridden era of the 1930s, Purvis was responsible for ending the infamous careers of John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Baby Face" Nelson, and several others on the most wanted list. Known as meticulous, his attention to detail aided him in his pursuit of dangerous criminals. Modest, soft-spoken with a southern drawl, small in stature, he became a favorite of the press. Despite the fact that Purvis deflected praise and worked hard to share credit with other agents, his fame greatly annoyed FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover. In fact Hoover's petty tyranny caused Purvis to resign from the bureau in 1935. The press was outraged, and other agents resigned in protest, but Purvis refused to be critical of Hoover.
Purvis practiced law and served as a Lt. Colonel in the military during WWII. Hoover's wrath continued to pursue him, however. Hoover's secret campaign cost Purvis employment opportunities and even prevented him from becoming a federal judge. Loyal servant that he was, Purvis never fought back. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1960. It was ruled a suicide, although some thought it may have happened accidentally while he was cleaning the gun. Hoover never bothered to send any note of condolence. Purvis' widow sent Hoover a telegram after his funeral stating in part, "We are honored that you ignored Melvin's death," as she acknowledged Hoover's antagonism.
At least history recognizes what Purvis accomplished, despite Hoover's vendetta.,
1904 – Moss Hart.
Playwright. Hart first collaborated George Kauffman to write a string of Broadway hits including "You Can't Take It With You," and "The Man Who Came To Dinner." Hart's success continued after he and Kauffman decided to no longer work together. Hart also wrote the screenplay to 1954's A Star Is Born and an autobiography entitled "Act One." He died prematurely of a heart attack at age fifty-seven.
I read "Act One" a long time ago and remember it as a very entertaining book. Maybe I should go back and re-read it. That does present a dilemma, however. With so many good books I haven't yet read, is it acceptable, or prudent, to go back and re-read one? There is also a possibility I won't like it the second time, and thereby ruin a good memory.
1936 – David Nelson.
Actor, director, producer. Along with his brother Ricky, and parents Ozzie and Harriet, he was an actor on "The Ozzie and Harriet" show, a long running TV sitcom.
I watched the show a few times when I was a kid and never could get into it. I mostly found it strange.
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* Lead-In Image (Moss Hart stamp) – rook76 / Shutterstock.com – "A stamp printed by United States, shows Moss Hart, circa 2004."
* Melvin Purvis (video) – To Tell the Truth (CBS) / YouTube.com
* Moss Hart (audio) – Buzz Stephens / YouTube.com
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Home2020October
The Election from a Jewish Perspective
October 27, 2020 Rabbi Ben Herman
Many of us, myself included love politics. As a rabbi I have always been blessed to serve a "mixed" congregation, full of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents. It is a blessing to be in community with those we disagree with, as we both challenge and bolster one another's perspectives.
Often politics is eschewed by rabbis because by its very nature it polarizes us. We often lose sight of the humanity of others, believing that "everyone's entitled to MY opinion" or failing to believe that someone with diametrically opposed views is just as caring and compassionate a person as we are. Personally, I have experienced this on multiple fronts: in rabbinical school, where I was more conservative than the majority of my peers and in a previous synagogue where some felt I was a "bleeding heart liberal." I take it in good stride, believing that if I displeasing people on multiple sides, I'm doing my job 😊.
Some are worried about the implications of this election regardless of the outcome. There is fear of a civil war or of the results not being accepted no matter what they are, undermining our country's democratic foundation. As I hear these comments, I think what happened to "Mahloket L'Shem Shamayim," arguing for the sake of heaven? What happened to the days when people vehemently disagreed and (as lawyers on opposing sides still sometimes do) shook hands and broke bread together? Has one's political party really become his/her tribe or religion, a club for those who agree to be "in" and for those of opposing views being "out"? As one who strives to be an independent thinker and not succumb to peer pressure, I ask these questions frequently.
As we prepare to vote (or reflect on our previously casted vote) I want to share a poem and a prayer. May they give us personal insight and a feeling of being "at peace" regardless of the outcome of this coming election. The poem is by Israeli poet-laureate Yehuda Amichai and is titled The Place Where We Are Right:
The Place Where We Are Right
by Yehuda Amichai
From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
The prayer is A Prayer for Voting
by Rabbi David Seidenberg:
Behold, I am intending
through my vote | through my prayer
to seek peace for this country,
as it is written (Jer. 29:7):
"Seek the peace of the city
where I cause you to roam
and pray for her to YHVH (Hashem/Adonai/God),
for in her peace you all will have peace."
May it be Your will, YHVH, that votes
be counted faithfully
and may You count my vote
as if I had fulfilled this verse
with all my power.
May You give a listening heart
to whomever we elect
and may it be good in Your eyes
to raise for us a good government
to bring healing, justice and peace
to all living in this land
and to all the world, and upon Jerusalem,
a government that will honor the image of God
in all humanity and in Creation,
for rulership is Yours.
Just as I have participated in the election
so may I merit to do good works
and to repair the world through all my efforts,
and through the act of… [fill in your pledge]
which I pledge to do today
on behalf of all living creatures,
in remembrance of the covenant of Noah's waters,
to protect and to not destroy
the earth and her plenitude.
Give to all the peoples of this country
the strength and will to pursue righteousness
and to seek peace as unified force
to uproot racism and violence
and to make healing, good life and peace flourish
here and throughout the world
and fulfill for us the verse (Ps. 90:17):
"May the pleasure of Adonai our God
be upon us, and establish
the work of our hands for us,
and make the work of our hands endure."
I pray that regardless of whether your candidate(s) win that each of us acknowledge the common humanity of the other and build bridges so that we can together constructively make a difference in our community and in our country.
I've put off writing this article because of its political nature but I can do so no more.
What is negligence? According to Webster's it is "failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in life's circumstances."
When President Trump's Chief if Staff Mark Meadows bluntly said "We're not going to control the pandemic" it solidified the negligence of the Trump administration. Over 80,000 Americans and 1,000 deaths per day over the weekend from Covid and over 225,000 deaths since the pandemic began. We know Judaism's primary value is pikuah nefesh, safeguarding life. To know measures which work to curb covid, such as masking and social distancing, and deliberately not advocate, worse make fun of, people who wear them is negligence of the first degree. We know there are measures that can slow the spread yet the presidents chief of staff wants no part in them.
Thank God I live in Miami where I can spend a sufficient amount of time outdoors in the winter. I feel for those in Denver where it's currently 7 degrees or Missoula where it's 1 degree. This cold winter is not going to stop people who need to from going to work in multi story buildings or from essential business travel. Having an administration who admits they will do nothing to combat Covid, essentially advocating for the herd mentality, and which advocates for "learning to live with it," is committing negligence of the first degree.
The Torah states "You shall not place a stumbling block before the blind." An administration which purposefully withheld information in January and February so as not to "cause a panic" has placed a massive stumbling block which led many people I know to become infected with covid. The Torah also states "build a parapet for your roof" so that those in danger of harm will be protected. Where's the parapet protecting the "essential" meatpackers or our essential teachers risking their lives day after day going into work?
While in the end I became a rabbi and not a lawyer, this administration is clearly guilty of negligence. I am tired of being a guinea pig in it's futile experiment to "do nothing" and see how many get Covid.
Stop Burning Masks: Choose Life Over Death
October 9, 2020 October 9, 2020 Rabbi Ben Herman
In seeing footage of members of the Orthodox Jewish communality in Brooklyn publicly burning masks has filled me with outrage and disgust. It reminds me of when Hitler burned Jewish books in Nazi Germany. I recognize that this came in reaction to Governor Andrew Cuomo's increasing restrictions on what is largely Orthodox Jewish communities where COVID is spreading like wildfire. Yet I cannot get over how something that is life-affirming can be treated with so much anger. Wearing a mask is so important it even has a blessing, creating by my colleague Rabbi Michael Knopf בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְ‑יָ אֱ‑לֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ עַל שְּׁמִירַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ which he translates "You are bountiful, Infinite our God, majesty of space and time, who has sanctified us with divine commandments and has commanded us about protecting life." How can something that protects life, that is invaluable to our stopping COVID-19, be treated with so much derision? How can masks be burnt in the streets of Brooklyn, just as the Nazis took our holy works and publicly burnt them?
There is a larger lesson here as I see it. Leadership beings at the top. When our President steps out of a helicopter after being released from the hospital and takes off his mask, it sends a message to others. As Orthodox anti-mask activist Heshy Tischler told The Forward, "When I'm on the street, I don't have to wear a mask, just like the president." Our leaders either affirm the importance of life through the wearing of masks in this pre-vaccine era or they use the mask as a political weapon to be discarded on a whim.
Similarly, seeing ads saying "My Body, My Choice" as a way for people not to wear masks fill me with rage, especially as many of these same people don't respect a women's right to her own body. I am grateful that the President received a speedy recovery with a treatment that contained fetal tissue. In Judaism, the life of a person supersedes the life of a fetus. At the same time, I would hope that he and his followers would consider the maxim of pikuah nefesh, the safeguarding of a human life at all costs, and how wearing a mask helps us do this. Wearing a mask is not a wussy thing for the "macho man" to avoid; rather it sends a message that I value your life equally to my own and will do whatever I can to safeguard it. It sends the message that each of us is responsible for our actions towards each other.
Let us appreciate and be grateful for all our measures of safeguarding life, masks being a crucial one. May we also be appreciative of the rapid progress in vaccine development and pray that the day comes soon when we see at least one vaccine. If we are angry, stressed or frustrated with how our lives have been upended since mid-March, let us try to find a constructive way to handle that anger, rather than burning masks. In the end, creativity, resilience and constructive activity will win out over those who act destructively.


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HomeFundingHRtech scale-up Remote secures €29.4 million to transform the talent market
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HRtech scale-up Remote secures €29.4 million to transform the talent market
By Charlotte Tucker
Today Remote, an HR technology platform for international payroll, benefits and compliance, announced that it has secured approx. €29.4 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, with participation from angel investors including Aaron Levie, Zach Weinberg, and Kevin and Julia Hartz.
This funding empowers Remote to further its position as one of most compliant and competitive solutions, helping companies of all sizes employ global teams. Remote has raised around €38.7 million to date, since its founding in 2017.
Since its public launch earlier this year and its approx. €9.2 million seed funding round in April, Remote has been approached by thousands of companies seeking to take advantage of its unique employment model and global network of legal entities, including customers GitLab, Whereby and Phaidra. Remote has doubled its customer base every month since the start of the year.
Created by Portugal-based founders Job van der Voort (who as VP of product for GitLab helped grow the company from five to 450 employees across 67 countries with no offices) and Marcelo Lebre (an industry veteran who worked at several globally-distributed companies), the Remote team has grown by 650% this year, working 100% remotely. The startup recently saw new senior hires including Roderick van Vliet (previously EY) as Head of Legal, and Elisa Rossi (previously Square, Eventbrite and Apple) as Head of Growth. As part of this round, Hannah Seal, Principal at Index Ventures, and Jan Hammer, Partner at Index Ventures, will also be joining the board.
Remote is one of the only global employment providers with its own legal infrastructure in every country where it operates. This provides customers with absolute security for IP and invention rights, guarantees international compliance, and enables Remote to offer the industry's most competitive and flexible pricing. With millions of companies worldwide shifting to remote work and adapting to evolving visa requirements, Remote has become the new standard solution for organizations looking to hire and retain the best global talent.
Remote's platform includes its global employer of record services, covering international payroll, benefits, taxes, and visa and immigration services, as well as a free platform for global contractor management and payments.
Hannah Seal, Principal at Index Ventures, said: "For any business to succeed and scale, it needs two key ingredients – financial capital and human capital. In the past, many high-growth businesses were hindered by their inability to find talent within a certain radius from the office. As attitudes towards where we work have dramatically shifted this year, Remote has been on a hyper-growth trajectory, helping companies hire anyone in any country, while staying compliant with local labor laws. Whatever happens, COVID-19 has permanently altered the role of the office for employers and employees alike."
Ravi Gupta, Partner at Sequoia Capital, said: "The future of work will involve many remote employees. Remote is addressing a key area of friction in the global economy by opening up the availability of talent to all businesses and the range of opportunities to individuals. We are excited to support Remote in its drive to reshape the global talent market."
Katie Hoffman, co-founder and COO at Phaidra, said: "As a fast-growing business, we recognize that we need to be very intentional in every decision we make – and hiring is at the top of the list. Some of our best hires reside in countries where we don't currently have entities, so Remote gives us the assurance that we comply with local regulations, while ensuring we have access to excellent customer support and advice. We no longer need to grapple with the granular details of labor laws, benefits administration and taxes across multiple geographies, as Remote removes these complexities for us."
Espoo-based IQM raises €39 million to take Europe into Quantum leadership
Seedcamp closes €87.9 million seed fund to back Europe's most exceptional founders
Charlotte Tucker
Charlotte is the previous Editor at EU-Startups.com. She spends her time scouting the next big story, managing our contributor team, and getting excited about social impact ventures. She has previously worked as a Communications Consultant for number of European Commission funded startup projects.
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THE Kerry Association in Dublin's Kerry Person of the Year has been announced and it's certainly a popular choice.
Tomás Garvey, founder of the Garvey Group, businessman, hotelier, staunch supporter of charities and community initiatives and proud supporter and sponsor of Kerry GAA and basketball in Kerry, will receive the honour for 2019 from the Kerry Association in Dublin in March.
The Laochra Chiarraí award has also been announced. The Kerry Mountain Rescue Team has been selected to receive the award which recognises exemplary leadership in community activity in the county. The announcements were made on Radio Kerry this lunchtime.
The Kerry Person of the Year award, now in its fortieth year, recognises an individual who has shown leadership, brought honour to the county, and performed services for the county to such an extent that could be described as being beyond the norm of everyday life.
The awards will be presented at the Association's annual Oiche Chiarraí which will be held in the iconic Croke Park on Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Tickets for Oiche Chiarraí will be €80 although members of the Kerry Association will be able to purchase tickets for €75 and this reduced rate will also be available to early bird bookings until February 15.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web.Optimization;
using Typeset.Web.CoffeeScript.BundleTransforms;
using Typeset.Web.Less.BundleTransforms;
using Typeset.Web.Models.Configuration;
using Typeset.Web.Models.Posts;
using Typeset.Web.Sass.BundleTransforms;

namespace System.Web.Mvc
{
    public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
    {
        private static Version AssemblyVersion = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
        private static string AssemblyVersionString = string.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}", AssemblyVersion.Major, AssemblyVersion.Minor, AssemblyVersion.Build);

        public static string GetAssemblyVersion(this HtmlHelper helper)
        {
            return AssemblyVersionString;
        }

        public static UrlHelper UrlHelper(this HtmlHelper helper)
        {
            return new UrlHelper(helper.ViewContext.RequestContext);
        }

        public static HtmlString EmailLink(this HtmlHelper helper, string emailAddress, string text)
        {
            var tag = new TagBuilder("a");
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        public static string Html5DateTime(this HtmlHelper helper, DateTimeOffset dateTime)
        {
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        public static string FormatDate(this HtmlHelper helper, ConfigurationViewModel configViewModel, DateTimeOffset dateTime)
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            {
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                BundleTable.Bundles.FileSetOrderList.Clear();
                BundleTable.Bundles.FileExtensionReplacementList.Clear();

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            {
                BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;
                BundleTable.Bundles.IgnoreList.Clear();
                BundleTable.Bundles.FileSetOrderList.Clear();
                BundleTable.Bundles.FileExtensionReplacementList.Clear();

                var sitePath = helper.SitePath();
                var styles = paths.ToArray();
                var virtualPath = string.Format("~/styles/css/{0}", helper.UrlHelper().Encode(name));

                var bundle = new TypesetBundle(virtualPath);
                bundle.Transforms.Add(new SassCompile());
                bundle.Transforms.Add(new LessCompile());
                bundle.Transforms.Add(new CssMinify());
                bundle.IncludeLocalAndRemote(helper.ViewContext.HttpContext, helper.SitePath(), styles);
                BundleTable.Bundles.Add(bundle);

                var scriptTag = new TagBuilder("link");
                scriptTag.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
                scriptTag.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
                scriptTag.Attributes.Add("href", BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl(virtualPath));
                html = new HtmlString(scriptTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing));
            }

            return html;
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub