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Tag Archives: Israel
November 3, 2019 Rondi Adamson
This weekend marks the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. There is so much ignorance about it, so much unwarranted hostility and duplicity. Therefore I was delighted to find this piece from two years ago – outstanding historical research and interpretation.
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Real Courage
October 11, 2019 Rondi Adamson
Here's some real courage (as opposed to the faux courage of, say, a Greta Thunberg): a former Miss Iraq telling some truths to those who don't want to hear it. She is likely to lose her Iraqi citizenship (this already may have happened), and possibly her life, over these kinds of comments. She has also engaged in a fruitless attempt to get famed Jew-hater Ilhan Omar to listen to facts.
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Why Did we Reject This Guy?
June 17, 2019 Rondi Adamson
This is the best. Sad that it needs to be explained.
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Michel Bacos
May 31, 2019 Rondi Adamson
A hero was celebrated in France last month. Michel Bacos was the pilot of the jet hijacked at Entebbe, the man who stayed – by choice – with the Jewish hostages, though he was not Jewish. What he was, was a veteran of World War II who had obviously learned the lessons of that nightmare. Hatikva, the Israeli anthem, was played before his burial.
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The Suicide of the West
This week marks the 71st anniversary of Israeli independence and so, predictably, Hamas has to try to ruin the party. What was also predictable, sadly, was the reaction of so many in the West. Melanie Phillips has written a long blog post about it. Choice quote:
The Jews are often referred to as "the canaries in the mine." With Western civilization in existential free-fall, the symbiotically linked contagions of Israel-bashing and antisemitism are both the cause and effect of this crisis.
Subscribing to the Arabs' murderous falsehoods about Israel has destroyed the West's moral compass – leaving it open to the murderous falsehoods about the people who gave it that moral compass in the first place and further blinding it to the forces threatening its own continued survival.
Read the whole thing here.
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April 13, 2019 Rondi Adamson
Israelis went to the polls earlier this week – a propos, this wonderful commentary from David Hirsh (I stole it from his Facebook page).
Israelis are voting today and determining their own future. This fact makes the hearts of all democratic people soar. This signifies the defeat, so far anyway, of the antisemitisms, Nazism, Arab Nationalisms, Islamisms and the Communisms which tried to prevent the endurance and the self determination of Jews.
Some Israelis are people whose families never left Jerusalem, the Middle East or North Africa; people ethnically cleansed from the great cosmopolitan civilizations by Arab nationalism and Islamism, from Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Yemen, Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia…
Some were driven out of Europe at the time of the pogroms in Kishniev and elsewhere.
Some are descended from the undead of Europe, survivors of the largely successful campaign across Europe to define, seek out and kill them.
Some limped away from the ideological and physical attempt to wipe them out which was called Russian Communism.
Some trace their ancestry to the expulsions from England in 1290 or from Spain in 1492.
Some Israelis come from Africa, ancient communities of Jews, endangered by famine and by isolation.
The continued existence of Israel is a victory for democratic life, democratic thinking and democratic practice.
Young Israeli men and women fought and died to defend their freedom against annihilationist aggression, notably in 1948, 1967, 1973. Israel still has to fight for its right to exist and Israelis still have to fight for their right to be part of the global community of human kind.
If you cannot celebrate Israel's existence, if you do not feel that its survival is also your survival, there is something wrong with the way you think and the way you feel.
True, Israel and its neighbours might have done better in getting on with each other. But that thought does not constitute a *but* to this post. It is another, separate, thought.
(Emphasis mine.) That second to last paragraph represents precisely my views on what Israel means – and it represents why I have distanced myself from certain relationships. I refer not just to my anti-Semitic relatives (of whom I have written from time to time on this site) but also to some old and new friendships of mine that have gone to the wayside. (I have had an experience similar, though not identical, to this.)
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The Anti-Semitism of the Left
February 9, 2019 Rondi Adamson
And these days, so much of it is from the left. Bret Stephens, as usual, completely correct.
A few facts ought at least to stir the thinking of those who subscribe to the progressive narrative. Israel's enemies were committed to its destruction long before it occupied a single inch of Gaza or the West Bank. In proportion to its size, Israel has voluntarily relinquished more territory taken in war than any state in the world. Israeli prime ministers offered a Palestinian state in 2000 and 2008; they were refused both times. The government of Ariel Sharon removed every Israeli settlement and soldier from the Gaza Strip in 2005. The result of Israel's withdrawal allowed Hamas to seize power two years later and spark three wars, causing ordinary Israelis to think twice about the wisdom of duplicating the experience in the West Bank. Nearly 1,300 Israeli civilians have been killed in Palestinian terrorist attacks in this century: That's the proportional equivalent of about 16 Sept. 11's in the United States.
Also: If the Jewish state is really so villainous, why doesn't it behave more like Syria's Bashar al-Assad or Russia's Vladimir Putin — both of whom, curiously, continue to have prominent sympathizers and apologists on the anti-Israel left?
Read the whole column.
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…in the New York Times, of all places!
If you see only an "Israeli-Palestinian" conflict, then nothing that Israelis do makes sense. (That's why Israel's enemies prefer this framing.) …
The fault lines have little to do with Israel. They run between dictators and the people they've been oppressing for generations; between progressives and medievalists; between Sunni and Shiite; between majority populations and minorities. If our small sub-war were somehow resolved, or even if Israel vanished tonight, the Middle East would remain the same volatile place it is now.
Read the whole thing.
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"Anti-Zionism" (Cough)
December 13, 2018 Rondi Adamson
Yeah, so many of my relatives need to read this column. Here's a snippet:
Anti-Zionism is ideologically unique in insisting that one state, and one state only, doesn't just have to change. It has to go. By a coincidence that its adherents insist is entirely innocent, this happens to be the Jewish state, making anti-Zionists either the most disingenuous of ideologues or the most obtuse. When then-CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill called last month for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea" and later claimed to be ignorant of what the slogan really meant, it was hard to tell in which category he fell.
Israel at 70
I just finished Martha Gellhorn's The Face of War and am convinced she was an even better war writer than A. J. Liebling. Her essays on the Six Day War and its aftermath are not to be missed. I love this quote, and post it for the 70th anniversary of Israel's independence.
Her neighbors oblige Israel to waste resources and time on military strength. Israelis are not fond of being warriors; they have no choice. But Israel is far more than a bulwark. It produces funny wine and good books, scientists, musicians and formers of genius. It may have the highest I.Q. per capita in the world. It is brave. It is there to stay.
Note: several Israeli friends have pointed out that Israeli wine has improved a great deal over the years. (The above quote is from 1967.) At any rate, Gellhorn is insanely perceptive about the "work" of UNRWA, among other things, and rather than go over all of that I will simply link back to a piece she wrote in the Atlantic in 1961, in which we see that where the Jews are concerned, the thinly-veiled anti-Semitism that governs much reaction to them has always been around and sadly, may never disappear. Along the same plus ca change lines, please check out James Michener's letter to The New York Review of Books, written shortly after the Six Day War. (And no, Michener was not one of the anti-Semites in question, but rather, someone who, like Gellhorn, saw through such nonsense.)
I've written about this many times, of course, but it remains distressing to me that I have relatives of the "I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm just anti-Zionist" or "Zionism is racism" variety. I even have one relative who tried to calibrate by asking me to define Zionism when I pointed out that equating Zionism with racism was, in fact, anti-Semitic. It was as though she were trying to suggest there were different definitions of it and that some were indeed racist. Nonsense, of course, but to paraphrase Swift, you can't reason someone out of a belief into which they were not reasoned in the first place.
It seems to me that for a great many people, mostly on the left, Israel's most unpardonable offence is not only having survived 1967, but having triumphed. Israel will never be forgiven for this, in the same way the Jews will never truly be forgiven by those same people for having survived the Shoah.
It's a shame the anti-Semites on the left can't see Israel for what it is: the answer to millennia of systematic oppression, discrimination and state-organized mass murder. I don't see it as an anachronism and I don't believe for a second that those past horrors will stay in the past. (Please see the aforementioned paragraphs about many of my relatives.) I also believe that if the ideological left weren't leading the anti-Israel charge, aligned with Hamas and Hezbollah and so many odious others, there might by now be a two-state solution. The result of this demonization of Israel is the impossibility of fair and realistic negotiations.
I just hope Israel will never be fully abandoned, despite the attempts of ideological "progressives" to cast it as an ideological depravity or to assert that the very idea of a Jewish state is a crime or racist.
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The acclaimed civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) is brought vividly to life in this well researched and compelling biography. The daughter of an ex-slave, Terrell was considered the best-educated black woman of her time. She was the first African American member of the Washington, D.C., Board of Education, and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). But perhaps her greatest triumph was waging a successful battle—at the age of 90—to integrate Washington, D.C., restaurants, a campaign that touched off similar protests throughout the nation. Counting such noted leaders as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Ida B. Wells among her friends, Mary Church Terrell was an important and influential woman in the battle for integration.
Once again, Dennis and Judith Fradin have drawn an inspiring portrait of courage and determination in the face of intolerance and injustice. Endnotes, bibliography, index.
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Dennis Brindell Fradin is the author of many books for young readers, including the well-received SAMUEL ADAMS: THE FATHER OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE and, with coauthor and wife Judith Bloom Fradin, IDA B. WELLS: MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Judith Bloom Fradin has collaborated with Dennis Brindell Fradin on several award-winning books for young readers, includinng Fight On! Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration, selected as one of 2004's Best Books for Young Adults among other honors. The Fradins live in Evanston, Illinois
Published April 20, 2003 by Clarion Books. 192 pages
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Audrey Again Makes A Connection With The Killer In Scream Season 2, Jake Ends Up Dead, Viewers Suspect Eli!
Scream Season 2 keeps getting better and better. There seems to be a lot of focus on Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus) who happened to be well aware of Piper (Amelia Rose Blaire), the serial killer in Season 1. Emma (Willa Fitzgerald) and Audrey were best of friends. However, after what they went through, it isn't possible for them to get back to their normal friendship. Life has completely changed them and the bond they had shared.
International Business Times tried to find out what's in the cards for Scream Season 2, but Bex Taylor-Klaus said that the cast members of Scream Season 2 aren't told what is going to happen in the next episode. Bex Taylor-Klaus refused to give out any spoilers and said that she didn't have any clue about Audrey's relationship with Piper.
Willa Fitzgerald on the other hand, as reported by Movie News Guide, has revealed that Scream Season 2 is going to be darker than the previous season. The characters had matured after the traumatic experience of the last season, and they are living with the pain and mistrust that they had felt. They try to move on, but then they are unable to do so.
The episode Happy Birthday to Me was a hair-raising episode and has been aptly titled. The title was borrowed from the American thriller starring Glenn Ford and Melissa Sue Anderson. The episode showed Lakewood getting ready for a party, but then the viewers were well aware that this would be the venue that would attract the serial killer, and it was exactly so.
Audrey hasn't informed her friends that there is a new Brandon James killer roaming around in the town. She knows for a fact that Jake hasn't suddenly disappeared and that he isn't avoiding Brooke (Carlson Young), he is actually dead. Audrey had a connection with the serial killer in Scream Season 1 as well and in Scream Season 2 she again ends up developing a connection with the killer.
This will place Audrey in the uncomfortable situation of hiding secrets from her friends and taking decisions, some of which might end up being terrible for her friends. She knew that the serial killer will be heading to the surprise party that is being organized by Kieran, but she doesn't say anything and lets the plan continue. However, things get scary when Brooke ends up getting an unexpected gift from Jake right on time for the party.
The last episode of Scream Season 2 saw some of the gang trying out a bottle of tequila that was left on the porch, supposedly by Jake. Audrey immediately knows that something is off since she was aware of the fact that Jake is dead and couldn't have sent across the pricey birthday bottle from south of the border. She tries to ask the others to stay back inside the house since things do not look good, but they do not pay heed to Audrey.
The moment the viewers saw the bottle left on the porch, they knew that things were not going to fare well. The kids should have known better, but well they didn't. Right after tasting the alcohol, they knew that something wasn't right and in spite of that they kept drinking it and this made them very vulnerable. Scream Season 2 sees the six of them have a trip that takes them deep into their subconscious.
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New survey results show that managing the data and expectations of their communities is often more than government officials are ready for.
"When it comes to tools — and lacking the necessary tools needed to effectively share info — clearly there is room for improvement there," OpenGov Spokesperson Joe Roulades told StateScoop.
"We were surprised by how many city managers told us ... that they're struggling to engage their communities, and they worry it's preventing them from getting their jobs done," Roulades said.
Many said they simply didn't have the right communication tools to get the job done, with 25 percent calling for information sharing tools and 49 percent for tools that help them interpret residents' feedback.
Another reason was an overabundance of communications channels — 39 percent said they didn't know how to communicate to the public amid so many social media and digital outlets. There were also those — 38 percent — that just blamed the public for not being the kind of community typically engaged in civic issues.
To meet these challenges, OpenGov's research team recommended the use of scalable digital engagement tools, and also encouraged government to be proactive in their digital communication strategies.
Roulades said it's not necessary for cities to be on every social media platform or to leverage every civic engagement app, but he stressed that cities must invest energy into clear and consistent messaging.
"Our idea is that if you've got the right tools, and if you're telling stories effectively, then the citizen engagement part of the equation should, over time, solve itself."


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Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code
Unspooled C code could eventually lead to PC ports, new mods, and more.
Kyle Orland - Nov 29, 2021 10:14 pm UTC
Enlarge / Artist's conception of voders staring in awe at the raw C code that generates Ocarina of Time.
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Beyond emulation: The massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code
A team of volunteer coders has reportedly completed its nearly two-year-long quest to fully decompile a version of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, turning the executable ROM back into human-readable (and editable) C code.
"We thought for a time that we may never be able to match every function completely, so this is an incredibly exciting accomplishment," Zelda Reverse Engineering Team (ZRET) member Kenix wrote on the project's Discord server Sunday. "Dozens of people helped work on this project, and together we were able to achieve something amazing."
The final decompiled functions still need to be merged with the ZRET Github repository before the open source project is officially considered 100 percent complete, Kenix wrote. Once that submission is reviewed, though, the team should be able to run its tens of thousands of lines of C code through a compiler (alongside graphics and sound assets derived from a legitimate cartridge) to generate a bit-for-bit copy of the original Ocarina of Time ROM.
Enlarge / A progress graph shows the march toward 100 percent decompilation over the course of nearly two years.
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That full decompilation is the result of at least 21 months of work by a team of coders that walked me through the painstaking process last year. While automated software tools can help with that work, getting to human-readable C code means parsing each one of the game's more than 15,000 functions by hand, figuring out the purpose of each portion, and cleaning up the code to remove any obfuscation or logic errors introduced in the process.
Ports of call?
A similar decompilation project for Super Mario 64, completed in 2019, eventually led to multiple high-resolution PC ports of the game. Such ports will probably come from the Ocarina of Time decompilation as well.
But ZRET member Rozlette told Ars last year that the process of going from C code to a PC build is "not as easy as just [saying] 'compile it for Windows.' There is a lot of code that deals with talking to N64 hardware. The N64 render pipeline is very different than modern OpenGL, for example."
How "randomizers" are breathing new life into old games
In any case, Kenix told Ars that such ports are "outside of the scope of what we do" at ZRET. Instead, the team told Ars it was interested in studying the code to understand more about the game's inner workings and creation. The decompiled code could also make it easier to create new gameplay mods and randomizers that could expand appreciation of the game even further.
A hidden room from a debug version of Ocarina of Time that helped unlock some reverse-engineering secrets to the game.
"I do it because of my childhood love for the game," Rozlette told Ars last year about their decompilation work. "It feels like a big puzzle to me where each function is a piece. It's very rewarding to me when I work at an unknown function of code and then realize I recognize what this does in the game, like, 'Hey! This is the function that spawns rupees when you cut grass!'"
While the decompilation effort may have hit "100%," the team still has plenty of work to do, Kenix writes. "We have been working on decompiling the Master Quest Debug version of the game. However, Ocarina of Time has over a dozen other versions, which we plan to also decompile and support in the project."
The decompiled code also still needs additional documentation, reorganization, and variable renaming to make the underlying code easier for others to work with. And work continues on related decompilation projects for Majora's Mask and Minish Cap, which are respectively roughly 24 and 48 percent complete according to ZRET's public tracker.
Still, Sunday's announcement represents a major milestone for hobbyists working tirelessly to unravel and rebuild a game they love. Their success will hopefully serve as inspiration to those working to decompile other N64 games and other titles in a similar fashion.


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On March 20, 2019, Will will be honored with a Sphinx Medal of Excellence, an award which provides career grants to extraordinary emerging classical artists of color.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Louisville International Airport Released By FSDreamTeam
Today another major American airport received a custom rendition for Microsoft Flight Simulator: Louisville International Airport (KSDF).
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Home » News » Microsoft Flight Simulator Louisville International Airport Released By FSDreamTeam
Today another major American airport received a custom rendition for Microsoft Flight Simulator as FSDreamTeam released Louisville International Airport (KSDF).
Louisville is certainly interesting due to being a mixed-use hub for both military and civilian traffic. While it doesn't have any international airliner link, it still gets the name due to the heavy cargo traffic to and from other continents.
Perhaps even more interesting is the price, as Lousiville can be purchased for roughly $12 (plus applicable VAT) on FSDreamTeam's own store or SimMarket. That's certainly a breath of fresh air in a market that sees much smaller and simpler airports sold for over $20.
You can check out a gallery and an official description below.
"Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is a civil-military airport in Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The airport covers 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) and has three runways. Its IATA airport code, SDF, is based on the airport's former name, Standiford Field. It has no regularly-scheduled international passenger flights, but it is a port of entry, as it handles numerous international cargo flights.
Over 4.2 million passengers and over 5.7 billion pounds (2.89 million tons) of cargo passed through the airport in 2019. It is also the second-busiest in the United States in terms of cargo traffic, and fourth-busiest for such in the world. The airport is home to Worldport, the worldwide hub of UPS. The Kentucky Air National Guard's 123d Airlift Wing operates C-130 transport aircraft from the co-located Louisville Air National Guard Base. The airport was named after Muhammad Ali, a Louisville native, in 2019."
Highly detailed modeling and full PBR texturing
Custom animated Jetways
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Worldport UPS Cargo area
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Incidentally, if you're interested in Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons, you can enjoy our recent reviews of Sydney Airport, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Reggio Calabria Airport, Bastia Poretta Airport, Munich Airport, Paris Orly Airport, Newcastle International Airport, Sankt Johann Airfield, Dublin International Airport, and Seoul City Wow. You should also read our interview with the creator of the popular A32NX version of the A320neo.
If you want to learn more about the game, you can read our review that will tell you everything you need to know about Asobo Studio's game.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is already available for Windows 10 and Steam and will release in summer 2021 for Xbox Series X ad Series S.
A few weeks ago, we learned that over two million players have installed Microsoft Flight Simulator so far on their PCs, and a sizable update has been released just before Christmas.
You can also check out our guide wiki that includes more information to help you get started in the game.
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Paddling Techniques
How did you learn?
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Robin said:
I pretty much picked it up on my own as a young lad during my summers at a friend's place in Cobden, Ontario. ("young lad" is a term that always brings me back to those wonderful summers of my youth back then in Cobden)
I guess the goon stroke was my go-to stroke, later in life I picked up a book or magazine and learned to paddle somewhat better. I never had any formal instruction, no doubt I would have benefitted from it.
Goonie is a legit stroke. THE stroke for straight line river travel.
yellowcanoe said:
During one of my whitewater courses, the instructor referred to the "goonstroke" as a "River J." It's a more powerful correction, appropriate when such a powerful correction is needed. The instructor cautioned not to hold it so long that the canoe lost momentum,, which could introduce other problems. Although he didn't use it as THE stroke for whitewater, he certainly recommended it as a valuable correction stroke. Short and quick.
He asked us how often we should use it. We didn't know the answer, which was "as needed."
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Catamarans are fun. We have lashed canoes together several times on easy rivers. I have used a bed sheet as a sail.
My cousin and I hatched a plan once for a 150 mile trip down Roosevelt Lake, WA. This was in his canned ham trailer at 4 in the morning. We plan to lash 3 canoes together and build a plywood deck with a mast and a small outboard. Deck chairs on the deck. After many years at Burning Man, we decided to call it "Floating Man."
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I learned the basic strokes at a canoe camp as a kid long ago. Haven't progressed much beyond them and really don't need to for the paddling I do, but have used them enough to know which ones to use and when. My son started whitewater paddling this summer, so if he ever drags me along I might have to up my game. I can dream.
Would love to get a tandem lesson with my wife. Or maybe ask her to paddle stern some.
clemency said:
I think it's useful for paddling partners, such as husband and wife, to alternate between bow and stern, which allows both people to become more aware of the different challenges in bow and stern, particularly in moving water. It also allows the husband who usually paddles stern to become more humble. Kathleen and I used to teach introductory canoeing to new members of our club. I had a call from a new member about our lessons. I told him that we usually prefer husbands and wives not to paddle together, because sometimes their marriage dynamics get in the way. He didn't like that, but supported our fallback position that his wife should paddle in the stern half of the time. He liked that, and I quote: "That would be good, because when she's in the bow, the canoe doesn't go straight."
With our club on day trips, Kathleen and I switched positions after lunch. This gave us confidence in both bow and stern. This was often useful, as sometimes paddling partners in other boats were not doing well, or just not getting along. So Kathleen and I would volunteer to switch with them. Kathleen with one of them, me with the other. New paddlers often have strong preferences for bow or stern. I would ask my new partner what position they wanted, and I would happily take the other. Same for Kathleen.
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scoutergriz said:
my dad taught me. He was a part- time ranger doing backwoods patrols all summer, I started as a baby riding in the centre and trying to spear lily pads with my little 20" paddle, by the time I was about 4 I could do most strokes while sitting on a pack, by 5 or 6 I was occasionally in the bow seat and running white water, by 12 I had my own canoe.
What a wonderful way to grow up!
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ppine said:
Was there alcohol involved?
Erica said:
as I look back on it, it was, but it was also a lonely way to grow up- I saw zero friends between the end of school and the beginning of the new school year. we'd spend the entire summer either in tent's, ranger cabins, or crew camps and were the only kids around for miles. He quit when they stopped allowing families to travel with the rangers, I was 13 by then
PaddlingPitt said:
I think it's useful for paddling partners, such as husband and wife, to alternate between bow and stern, which allows both people to become more aware of the different challenges in bow and stern, particularly in moving water. It also allows the husband who usually paddles stern to become more humble.
My wife is wholly uninterested in learning new strokes when I try to teach her by demonstrating off the water. Doesn't even pay attention really. Hopefully seeing them in action will help her see her way clear to learning. But first I've got to get her in the stern, which is going to be problematic enough. And if I can't, that's ok too. Still my favorite paddling partner regardless, and I've at least talked her into an overnight this coming season.
I will say the last time I was in the bow, a couple of years ago with my kid in the stern, it was a little weird and discomfiting having so little boat in front of me. So I get the humble part that way as well.
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BTS's "Butter" stays on top of the Billboard Hot 100 for record-breaking 5th consecutive week
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Billboard announced that BTS's "Butter" has once again taken the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for the fifth consecutive week. "Butter" also topped the list for top-selling songs of the week.
BTS set the record for the longest-running No. 1 hit by any Asian act when it topped the Hot 100 for the fourth consecutive time last week, and this week's fifth consecutive No. 1 extends that record. Billboard's Gary Trust writes, "Only one song by a group has topped the Hot 100 for more weeks from its debut than 'Butter': Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's 'One Sweet Day,' which spent its first 16 weeks on the chart at No. 1 in 1995-96."
According to Billboard, "Butter" is just the 11th song out of the 54 songs that have debuted at No. 1 to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 in the history of the Hot 100. "Butter" also took No. 1 on Billboard's Global Excl. U.S. chart and No. 2 on the Global 200 chart again this week. The song also topped the Digital Song Sales chart again and ranked No. 18 on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 22 on the Radio Songs chart.
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The date of Hadhodrond's foundation is unclear, but it long predated the first rising of the Sun; deserted in III 1981; briefly recolonised III 2989 - III 2994
In the central regions of the Misty Mountains, to the northwest of Lórien
Founded by Durin the Deathless
Durin's Folk (Longbeards)
Dwarves of Khazad-dûm
Ruled by the House of Durin
The Mountains of Moria, known in Elvish as Caradhras, Celebdil and Fanuidhol
hatho'drond ('th' as in English 'these')
'Dwarf-cavern'
The Black Chasm, The Black Pit, Dwarrowdelf, Khazad-dûm, Mansion of the Khazâd, Moria, Phurunargian
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Hadhodrond
The Elvish rendering of 'Khazad-dûm'
The name that the Dwarves gave to their own race was Khazâd, but the Elves found this name difficult to fit to their own system of sounds, and most usually referred to the Dwarves simply as the Naugrim or 'Stunted People'. During the First Age, rumours came across Ered Luin of the greatest of all Dwarvish cities, a vast underground dwelling far to the east known as Khazad-dûm. This name the Elves did attempt to render into Elvish as closely as they could. Hence the element 'Khazâd' became 'Hadhod' (pronounced 'hathod', with a 'th' sound as in English 'these'). To this the Elves appended their own word rond, meaning 'cavern' or 'underground dwelling'.
It's unclear when the name 'Hadhodrond' first came into use, but there is some evidence of its being known in Beleriand before the end of the First Age. It seems to have been more commonly applied in Eregion, the Elvish land that grew up near Khazad-dûm during the Second Age, whose people had friendly relations with the nearby Dwarves (and this perhaps encouraged the use of the term 'Hadhod' rather than the less respectful 'Naugrim').
After the fall and desertion of Khazad-dûm in III 1981, a much better known Elvish name came into use. After this date the Dwarf-city became infested with Orcs and other creatures of Sauron, and so became known as Moria, a name derived from Elvish words meaning 'The Black Chasm'.
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Palestinian boys raise their hands in a school run by the UNRWA. Photo: UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan.
U.S. Representative Ed Royce, (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Photo: U.S. Congress.
"Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ed Royce (R-CA) lambasted the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday for adopting a resolution condemning Israel over alleged war crimes during last summer's Operation Protective Edge.
Today, the U.N. Human Rights Council kept up its record of bombarding Israel with biased and shameful resolutions. The goal of this international campaign against Israel is to question the democratic country's right to self-defense to the point of rendering it virtually meaningless,' he said.
The resolution passed on Friday was written by the Palestinians and Arab states, and welcomes the U.N. report on the 2014 Gaza war. It ignores completely Hamas' indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israeli cities, as well as alleged war crimes by Palestinian groups in Gaza, though several were indicated by the report.
The resolution passed the UNHRC with full European backing, and the U.S. was the only country to vote against it. Five countries - India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Macedonia and Paraguay - abstained..."
"I have no interest in debating the content of the Resolution. It is an anti-Israeli manifesto. I will state, however, that the Resolution distorts the intention of the authors of the Report by completely ignoring alleged violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law committed by HAMAS and other Palestinian armed groups. Hamas continues to fire rockets and terror acts against Israelis go on as I speak.
So allow me to tell you the truth about what Israel did in Gaza.
One-Israel defended its population against aggression by a terrorist organization. A terrorist organization which serially rejected every cease-fire proposed.
Two-Israel went to extraordinary length to minimize the impact of the violence on Gaza's civilian population. It went to great length to warn the civilian population on impending strikes.
Three-Israel is fully committed to investigating all alleged violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict. Israel's investigative mechanism has already filtered close to 200 cases. Over 100 of these cases have been handed over to the Military Advocate General.
Four-however, Justice must be done, first and foremost. The Chair of the Commission of Inquiry has stated in her press conference that Israel has a robust system for investigating alleged violations. It must be allowed to complete its course.
Five-Israel is carefully studying all reports on Operation Protective Edge, whatever their source, flaws or bias.
I believe these five points should satisfy any reasonable and fair demands of Israel. But we are not dealing here with fairness or moral integrity. We are dealing with a UN organ that is highly politicized, obsessive with Israel, ignoring serious situations of human rights violations across the globe and spending its scarce resources of money and manpower on reports on my country.
This Council will not succeed in de-legitimizing Israel.
This Council will not succeed in preventing Israel from defending itself and its population.
This Council has failed to be a constructive player and promote rapprochement between Israelis and Palestinians.
This Council acts as a agent provocateur feeding the flames, not extinguishing them..."
At least 150 people have been killed in an attack believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state.
According to witnesses, gunmen stormed through the village of Kukawa near Lake Chad on Wednesday, killing 97 people, including women and children, reported the BBC.
In a separate attack carried out on Tuesday, militants gunned down 48 men after they had finished prayers in two villages near the town of Monguno, a resident said. The town had recently been captured by the terrorist group.
At least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when Boko Haram launched a deadly offensive to try to impose militant Islamist rule, according to Amnesty International.
Although the United Nations claims to condemn bigotry and racism, UN meetings routinely feature antisemitic language. The UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People sponsored a two-day conference entitled "UN International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace" in Moscow on July 1-2, 2015. On day one, the representative of Morocco lamented the Jewish presence in Jerusalem and implied that authentic Jerusalemites are not Jewish. In his words: "Morocco's King ... was sponsoring field projects to help Jerusalemites preserve their religious and cultural landmarks in the face of the Judaization of the city. "
Notwithstanding this effort to rid Arab-claimed land of Jews, and create what will be "apartheid Palestine," Riad al-Maliki, Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority said: "It is either a two-State solution on the 1967 borders or an apartheid reality the world cannot tolerate," and Nabil Elaraby, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, accused Israel of being the "last outpost of apartheid in the twenty-first century. "
More accurately, one-fifth of Israel's population is Arab, with more democratic freedoms than in any Arab state.
Moscow is playing host to a two-day conference, entitled "UN International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace," and sponsored by the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
"commended all States, businesses and organizations that supported the movement to boycott Israel and called on the international community to adopt a legal position to end settlement expansion in the West Bank and the Judaization of East Jerusalem."
said the Israeli government is actively working to ensure " the Israeli apartheid became systematic."
"We [Arabs] are the rightful owners of the country, we are not guests."
Known for their barbaric punishments and repressive control over the locals, ISIS have released photographs of militants hurling four men, accused of homosexuality, off the top of a building in Iraq.
The jihadi group has previously carried out the sickening punishment in their de-facto capital, Raqqa, in Syria. Now the inhumane death sentence has been used in the Iraqi province of Fallujah.
ISIS's latest propaganda images come after a family of 12 British nationals, including two grandparents are feared to have traveled to Syria.
With their arms bound tightly behind their backs and their eyes fully covered with a makeshift blindfold, each victim is shown being led to the edge of the tall building.
At the command of a senior ISIS officer, the two militants appear to grab their victim around his wait and hoist him to the edge of the rooftop.
All four victims are then dropped from the lofty height to their deaths. Several photographers appear to have been used by ISIS's media team in order to capture the victims on the roof and on the ground.
The gruesome propaganda photos appear to be an attempt by the depraved militant group to reinforce its rule of fear.
The final photo, too graphic for publication, showed the impact of the head injuries suffered by each of the victims.
Unusually for an ISIS public execution, no local civilians or ISIS militants appear to have come out and watched the men's death.
ISIS's propaganda photos are normally filled with people watching the punishment.
The extremist group have become known for their tough punishments, with theft punished by the amputation of a hand and the consummation of wine punished by a flogging.
[T]he writers [of the rules of law] cannot know whether they will be male or female, gay or straight, white or black, handicapped or fully able, Jew or gentile, handsome or ugly, strong or weak, smart or not so smart, poor or rich, healthy or unhealthy, etc. etc, when they draft the rules that will govern their future conduct.
How then do these general principles, about which there is universal agreement in theory, apply to the subject of our discussion today? Directly!
The way Israel is being judged today is a dramatic exception to the rule of law and the principles articulated above. Under the current approach, the international community first considers Israel's actions, in isolation from the actions of other nations; it judges them to be imperfect, when evaluated against abstract rules; it then creates specific rules applicable only to the nation-state of the Jewish people, and to no other nation. This has clearly been the case with the Goldstone Report, the more recent report by Mary McGowan Davis, the decisions of the International Court of Justice, the resolutions of numerous United Nations bodies, especially the misnamed Human Rights Council, and even the reports of Israeli NGOs such as B'tselem and Breaking the Silence.
These so called applications of the rules of international law all share a common modus operandi: they begin with Israel's actions rather than with neutral principles of law designed to govern the actions of all nations and groups. They then judge Israel's actions against unrealistic, anachronistic and abstract principles that could not be, and have never been, applied to other nations or groups. They then condemn Israel, without articulating rules of general applicability..."
I expect you to condemn the terrorist attacks in Israel in an equally decisive manner. Terror is terror, no matter where it takes place, or who is harmed. The people of Israel deserve the same level of concern and empathy as any other people in the world."
It is believed to be the first time ISIS have executed a woman in Syria for crimes of 'witchcraft' and 'sorcery', the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today.
'The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,' Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Britain-based monitor said the executions took place on Sunday and Monday and involved two married couples.
In both cases, the women were executed with their husbands, with each pair accused of witchcraft and sorcery.
The Islamic State group has become infamous for gruesome executions and is reported to have stoned women to death on allegations of adultery.
But the Observatory said this was the first time it was aware of the group beheading women.
According to the monitor, IS has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria in the year since it declared its Islamic "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq.
Nearly 1,800 of them were civilians, including 74 children.
The public execution of so-called 'magicians' and 'sorcerers' have been confirmed by ISIS.
Street performers, entertaining young children and passersby have been put to death for crimes of magic and sorcerers.
Optical illusions and other basic magic tricks are considered strictly forbidden and a form of black magic, an art condemned as questioning the existence of Allah.
Last month, ISIS's Libyan franchise, released their first images of a sorcerer being beheaded in the province of Barqah.
Forced into wearing a grisly orange boiler suit, the man was forced to confess his alleged 'crimes' and accept his death sentence.
One of the images released as evidence of his guilt included a manuscript, covered in hand written Arabic in blue ink. The document is alleged to be some sort of spell or proof of black magic.
ISIS also released photos of a magician being decapitated in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin.
A close up image of the man's broken body shows a broken bag full of prayer beads lain near his body.
ISIS claim the beads are trinkets and charms, a form of black magic condemned by the jihadi group as an act of blasphemy.
British Col. Richard Kemp addresses the UN Human Rights Council, contradicting a recent report on the 2014 Gaza war.
"Increasingly, human rights organizations are attempting to make military forces operating under the purview of the Laws of Armed Conflict subject to persistent human rights claims in the civil sphere. Israeli soldiers have historically been made the mark -- much as they are being made now by the U.N. Human Rights Council. But such moves mask a broader agenda that should worry the entire West.
Western nations pursue war only after careful deliberation leading to a conclusion that war is necessary and just. Once that conclusion has been reached, however, a war must be fought to be won."
"During last year's Gaza war, Hamas did more to inflict death, suffering and destruction on its own civilian population than any other terrorist group in history, Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp said on Monday.
Kemp stressed that the IDF made 'unprecedented' efforts to save Palestinian civilian lives, including warning them to leave target zones.
It was Hamas, and not Israel as the UN says in its report, that caused thousands of civilians to be killed in Gaza, Kemp said."
This latest UNHRC inquiry and report is only as reliable as its sources of information. When these are overwhelmingly unreliable political NGOs, as well as those who support and facilitate terrorism, any true champions of human rights cannot take its findings seriously."
Thus the bottom line is the same as that emerging from the UN's Gaza inquiry: International law leaves democracies no options in the face of determined terrorists except capitulation. You can't fight them, because then you're guilty of war crimes. But you also can't arrest and jail them, because they can simply start a hunger strike, which entitles them to a get-out-of-jail-free card..."
Hamas is not the only Palestinian force that is guilty of crimes worthy of investigation. The PA has also funded terrorists and incited terror via its official media. Moreover, shining a light on the terrorism conducted by Palestinians last summer may also land Abbas and aide Jibril Rajoub in court. The Israel Law Center is preparing to send the ICC its own indictments of the PA leadership for acts of terror committed by Fatah affiliates directly under Abbas's control.
Using their formidable propaganda machine assisted by an international press that is always prepared to judge Israel affair, Palestinians have been able to demonize the Jewish state in the court of international public opinion. But any real court, even one as biased as the ICC against Israel will also have to look at the far more credible criminal charges that can be laid at the feet of both sets of Palestinian tyrants. Once investigations begin, PA is as vulnerable as Hamas no matter how much sympathy they generate in a Europe where anti-Semitism is on the rise. By going to court, they have opened a Pandora's Box with consequences that few can predict..."
Country after country attacked Israel for apartheid, occupation, violation of human rights and freedom, searches on the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, crimes and the violations of human rights. Morocco claimed that Israel is harming the 'Islamic identity' of Jerusalem..."
"Israel's representative to the United Nation's Human Rights Council on Monday blasted the international organization for being 'morally flawed,' as the findings of a UN report on the Gaza summer conflict were presented to the council.
Eviatar Manor, who represents Israel in the UNHRC, did not attend the day's session in protest and instead delivered a scathing condemnation outside the UN building in Geneva.
'I am out here and not in there because the Human Rights Council has abandoned fairness, has become morally flawed and has entirely politicized its concern for universal human rights,' Manor told reporters..."
"Nearly one-quarter of the U.S. Senate signed on to a bipartisan letter urging President Barack Obama to support Israel around the world.
Twenty-two senators signed the letter, which was written 'in response to your welcomed recent remarks at Congregation Adas Israel' on May 22 concerning his commitment to Israel's security. The letter was sponsored by Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
The signers wrote that they were 'deeply concerned by previously reported and unattributed comments by U.S. officials that the U.S. might change its approach to the peace process at the United Nations Security Council...'"
"Some 1,000 demonstrators attended a rally Monday at the Place des Nations in Geneva to express their support for the State of Israel as the United Nations Human Rights Council held its debate on Israel and the Schabas Report on last summer's counter terror operation in Gaza.
Members and supporters of more than 80 NGOs, including many Jews and Christians, travelled to the Swiss city to express their support for the Jewish state and to urge the U.N. to treat Israel fairly.
'The reason we are here today is to tell the United Nations that it needs to change. It needs to overcome its obsession with Israel," said World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer..."
But Abbas need not worry. Barack has got his back.
State Department spokesman Edgar Vasquez told Al-Monitor that while the United States doesn't believe the Palestinians were eligible to accede to the Rome Statute and join the court, it will 'continue to provide critical assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...'"
"The U.N. report on Operation Protective Edge was predictable. The harsh and one-sided criticism of Israel, the turning of a blind eye to Hamas' war crimes and the piercing remarks against Israel proved that nothing has changed in regard to the U.N.'s lack of fairness and fairness.
The Israeli government's response to the report, ranging from disregard to criticism, was legitimate, but not something that would change the balance of the relationship between Israel and the U.N. The extent of the condemnation Israel has endured from the U.N. and several of its subsidiary bodies is enough to understand the biased rules of the game the U.N. is playing.
UNRWA and UNHCR both work with displaced persons. UNHCR is responsible for integrating refugees in their host countries, while UNRWA focuses solely on refugee aid. In effect, UNRWA helps Palestinians preserve their refugee status and pass it on from generation to generation, contrary to the logic and policy of UNHCR.
Refugees living in Arab countries are ostracized, persecuted and devoid of basic human rights. This is the main harm caused to Palestinian refugees by UNRWA..."
The name 'Human Rights Committee' provides a smokescreen of bogus good intentions, declaring to the innocent that the UN is helping protect all of us. Millions of people who are unaware of its record have no doubt gathered from the latest report that Israel is as worthy of rebuke as Hamas. In treating Hamas and Israel as equivalent, Judge Davis has blackened the name of the UN and its many offshoots. This one might more accurately call itself the United Nations Committee on Defaming Israel."
"Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may sever Israel's ties with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after their inflammatory report over Israel's conduct during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, he said Monday.
Netanyahu called the UNHRC 'a hypocritical committee' during a closed session, according to Army Radio - prompting a response from former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu).
Netanyahu then responded that he will 'consider whether to stay in or leave the Human Rights Council...'"
"The United Nation's international investigation commission's report on Operation Protective Edge was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with hundreds of pro-Israel activists expected to arrive outside.
The shape of the draft resolution that will be brought to vote is still unclear, and recent days have seen behind-the-scenes efforts to forge a solid proposal. Pakistan was set to present -- in the name of the council's Islamic bloc -- a proposal to adopt the report and send it to an international body such as the UN General Assembly, the Security Council, the Secretary General, or the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
Israel believes the proposal will pass a vote and support a mechanism to monitor its application. Jerusalem and its allies have already declared their opposition to any formulation that calls for putting the report before the Security Council.
Israel has asked members of the Human Rights Council to oppose the report or least refrain from voting. Israel will not participate in the debate, but Israel's ambassador in Geneva, Eviatar Manor, will hold a press conference about it..."
"[W]hen it comes to the Middle East, moral clarity and truth are in short supply at the United Nations.
[T]he UN Human Rights Council treats Israel as a worse violator of international law than the Syrian regime. The Secretary General's Children and Armed Conflict report undercounted the number of children killed in Syria while relying in part on Hamas-supplied figures in its estimation of the number of Palestinian children killed in Gaza. And the International Criminal Court has launched a preliminary investigation of the war in Gaza while repeated requests to refer the Syrian conflict to the International Criminal Court have stalled in the Security Council.
In closing his remarks at the anniversary celebration of the UN Charter's signing, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that 'The Charter is our compass.' Too often today, the UN has lost its way, as so vividly illustrated by the moral equivalence, if not worse, it applies to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the massacres in Syria."


Fry the chopped onion and ginger in olive oil until softened. Add in the curry paste and then the tin of chopped tomatoes and coconut milk. Add a little salt. Allow to boil and simmer until slightly reduced. When the rice is just about done, add in the prawns and turn the heat off - stir around, the latent heat will warm them through enough.


This is the LITTLE BEAR BANJO BLOG (LBBB), formerly the Little Bear Banjo Hospital (LBBH) website.
My name is Lew Stern.
I never had the heart to change it.
I learned Appalachian style clawhammer or down picking the hard way: from Appalachian style down picking players.
I was swept up in the enthusiasm of the folk revival in the sixties, embraced Pete Seeger's infectious commitment to music, got myself a long neck banjo, and later came under the spell of Earl Scruggs' compelling bluegrass sound.
In the last 15 years, I have circled back around to the simple, ancient modal tunings and rhythmic core of the West Virginian tradition of clawhammer banjo music.
I have written about banjo history and 18th century British banjo makers and other banjo-focused topics for The Banjoists' Broadsheet, a British publication, and Banjo Newsletter.
My biographic research on Joseph Daniels, minstrel musician and British banjo innovator of the late 1800s, was published in The Old Time Herald (Volume 10, Number 12, September 2007).
My friend who taught me clawhammer, Bates Littlehales, engendered an interest in banjo repair and building and taught me the basics of cutting wood, caring for machines, solving banjo problems, catastrophic neck repair, and so on.
I set up an electrified workshop in the backyard of our home in Arlington, VA, stocked it with a band saw, planer, table saw, jointer, and a stock of rescued walnut, and set to work trying to shape this little business, quickly learning that if I kept at it in my spare hours, worked long and hard on weekends, I could make tens of dollars a year doing this.
In 2010, I retired from the Pentagon, and we moved to Staunton, VA, in the Shenandoah Valley. I shut down Little Bear Banjo Hospital and turned my attention to consulting, but by 2012 the fun had gone out of that and I found myself meeting new local players, offering my services to individual banjo players needing setup and repair work, and cooperating with luthiers in local music stores who were more than happy to farm out work on vintage banjos to me.
So, I set LBBH up in the utility portion of the ground floor of my home in Staunton, which I share with Maggie, our black lab rescue hound, and Roxie, her faithful companion—two good and reliable shop dogs. We got them from the county pound when we first arrived in Staunton. In fact, when Maggie was first brought into our household, she'd grab a squeaky toy and play along with the banjo with uncanny timing and a great rhythmic sense. Roxie prefers flatfooting—flatpawing, I guess.
Between 2012 and early 2016 I kept a modest four-table operating room in the basement of our cottage on Overlook Road, which indeed overlooks this great city and its surrounding mountain tops.
· I helped banjo players whose instruments have endured traumatic neck stress and dramatic peghead breaks.
· I mounted new skinheads the old fashion way.
· I refinished necks and pots using old tried and true tung and oil finishing techniques.
· I rejuvenated spun over pots and oxidized hardware, did basic setup, vintage case repair, fret repair, fretless fingerboard replacement, fretwork, customized wooden tailpiece carving, and upgrading peghead and fifth string tuners, among other things.
I always looked forward to helping musicians with vintage banjo repair and rejuvenation projects.
Throughout 2015, I found myself immersed in writing a biography about Dwight Diller. That led to several other big ticket writing projects.
On top of that, I found myself thrust back, willingly, into the world of contract work – focusing once again on Southeast Asia, the focus of my attention for ten years of college and graduate school work, thirty years of government work, and a good bunch of post-retirement work, too.
The combined work of writing and contracting occupied all my attention, kept me busy, and was in the end satisfying for me, so I decided to close the Banjo Hospital and shift all my attention to this other work.
I "converted" the LBBH website to a platform for writing about banjoing, and for expounding on themes that derived from my year of close and studied attention to Dwight Diller and eastern central West Virginia traditional music. I realize it crosses all sorts of red lines for banjo players to talk in terms of "expounding," but I'm hoping to be cut a little slack . . .
By the tail end of that consulting project, I had become engaged in planning a bunch of other biographies of old time musicians who "present at creation," in the midst of the cultural fury of the sixties and in the clutch of communities of local and like minded old time musicians who sought to carve out their niches in places like Lexington, Virginia, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and central West Virginia.
Between that work, plus translating arcane Vietnamese language documents for companies interested in doing business in Indochina, and providing advice and guidance to businesses seeking to make connections to the Vietnamese market – and readying our lives for the arrival of twins – TWINS! – who will be born to my son Ethan and his wife Kaytee in early December 2015, I think I have enough to do.
I will still teach clawhammer to newcomers looking to get started.
And hopefully I'll find more time to play out and about in Staunton, VA, and environs.
So, thanks for coming along for the ride with LBBH this far.
Hopefully, you'll stick around long enough to see what Little Bear Banjo Blog has to offer in the out years.


Thanksgiving Day printable worksheets and activities is a great (and educated) way to keep children (including preschoolers and toddlers age group) entertained and quiet during and after the Thanksgiving dinner. Such worksheet and activities includes (and not limited to), Coloring Sheets, Color by Numbers, Match Words with Pictures, Decode Thanksgiving Messages, Mazes, Counting and Word Searches.
Draw Pilgrim Faces - Here is a pilgrim girl and boy ... just have fun drawing their faces.
Free Printable Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cards - Print out this cute printable pilgrims card for a Happy Thanksgiving message to someone special.
Free Printable Thanksgiving Turkey Cards - Print out this cute turkey printable card for a Happy Thanksgiving message to someone special.
Free Thanksgiving Turkey Paper Toys Model : Make Printable Foldable Turkeys Paper - Have a free afternoon and want to make the coolest craft you have ever made? All you need are a printer, paper, scissors, glue, and patience and you will have a fun Thanksgiving arts and crafts activity to keep you busy. This printable paper turkey would also be great as a Thanksgiving dinner table decoration craft.
Make Printable Foldable Thanksgiving Pilgrims Paper - Have a free afternoon and want to make the coolest craft you have ever made? All you need are a printer, paper, scissors, glue, and patience and you will have a fun Thanksgiving arts and crafts activity to keep you busy. Find out more below.
Make Thanksgiving Games with 3D Pilgrim & Turkey Tic-Tac-Toe Game - Have a free afternoon and want to make the coolest craft you have ever made? All you need are a box, chopsticks, printer, paper, scissors, glue, and patience and you will have a fun Thanksgiving arts and crafts activity to keep you busy. This Thanksgiving game was a big hit in my house and I think your kids will love it too.
Make Thanksgiving Pilgrim Placeholder Cards - Everyone will know their place at the Thanksgiving table with these printable, foldable Thanksgiving pilgrim placecards.
Thanksgiving for Turkey Craft - This is a great lesson in what you are thankful for by placing the feathers on the turkey and each feather writing what you are thankful for.
Thanksgiving Paper Toy Model - This is a free printable first thanksgiving dinner toy model.
Autumn Flashcards : Thanksgiving Printables for Kids - 10 flashcards to teach vocabulary related to "Autumn" (Black & White version). You can color them yourself or involve the students in the creation of the material, giving them the flashcards to color.
Autumn Trees - A picture of a tree with falling leaves you can use for introducing the season to your students. You can also use it to make a wall-display: give each student a leaf and instruct them to write a word related to that season. Then each student can stick his/her leaf on the tree.
Autumn Words in English - Label the Autumn (fall) words in English, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
Autumn Worksheet - Matching - A simple worksheet where students have to match the words to the correct picture.
Color by Numbers : Thanksgiving - This is a color by numbers worksheets (like the paint by numbers kits) for Thanksgiving. The kids get to color the picture but they have to follow a color key so it helps them practice, or learn, colors.
Color Mr. Turkeys - Thanksgiving coloring pages for you to print for your children. Something to do while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to cook, perhaps, or to entertain the children while the adults enjoy a longer meal?
Corn Place Setting Coloring Pages - Thanksgiving coloring pages for you to print for your children. Something to do while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to cook, perhaps, or to entertain the children while the adults enjoy a longer meal?
Corn: Printable Read and Answer Worksheets - A printable worksheet on corn, with text to read, labeled pictures, and questions to answer.
Corn Word Ladder Puzzle Worksheets - On this printable worksheet, the student changes one word into another, one letter at a time. At each step along the way, change only one letter to make a new word. At the end, you have the final, related word. In this puzzle, morph the word corn to husk.
CrissCroses - Fit the words into the squares.
Cyrptograms - Can you figure out what the message says?
Decode the Thanksgiving Message Worksheet - This decoding puzzle makes a fun Thanksgiving activity. Kids use the key to match the Thanksgiving images with the letters and then write the appropriate letter in each space of the secret Thanksgiving message. When all the letters filled in you will find a secret Thanksgiving message!
Fall Picture to Color : Thanksgiving Printables for Kids - An autumn/fall picture with a scarecrow for students to color.
Fall Words - Match the Words to the Pictures - Match 10 Fall words to their corresponding pictures.
Fertilize the Corn - This is a great worksheet to print out for the Thanksgiving season. It will help with your child's math skills and teaches them to count. Match up the numbers on the corn with the amount of fish at the bottom of the page. Also fun to color these pages once they are finished with the math exercise. Print out the worksheet for an at home activity or for school.
Find a Thanksgiving Day Word for Each Letters - See if you can think of and write down a Thanksgiving Day word for each letter of the alphabet.
Happy Turkey Day Coloring Pages - Thanksgiving coloring pages for you to print for your children.
Knowing About Thanksgiving - Knowing about Thanksgiving - activities 1 - 2 - 3 activities like: reading story; prayers, poem, date, color the picture, pie; and all about Thanksgiving.
Many Words - Can you make lots of words using only letters in the sentence above?
Match Three Syllables: Thanksgiving Words - Match three syllables to make 10 Thanksgiving words.
Mazes : Thanksgiving Worksheets for Children - Help the pilgrim find his way to the pie!
Missing Letters in Thanksgiving Words - Find the missing letters in Thanksgiving words, and then color the picture of the word.
Phrase Unscramble - Each box has a set of letters. If you put the boxes in correct order you will have a complete sentence.
Pumpkin Pie Match Coloring Pages - There are only two pies that are exactly the same. Can you find them?
Put 10 Thanksgiving Words in Alphabetical Order - Worksheet - Put 10 Thanksgiving words in alphabetical order.
Search for Words - Find and circle the words.
Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving maze and word search.
Thanksgiving - Reading and comprehension. Students mark the sentences true (T) or false (F) according to the text and correct the false ones.
Thanksgiving - 4 skills - part1 - I prepared this last year. I hope it's useful. 4 skills included. Unfortunately I can't recall the website from which I've retrieved the reading part, so if any of you knows it, please let me know. The file was too big and I don't know how to resize the picture so it's split in 2 parts. Second part also includes an extension activity which may be interesting.
Thanksgiving Activities - A sheet which includes some symbols of Thanksgiving, a song, a rhyme, a brief history and a space for fun (a maze and a picture for coloring).
Thanksgiving Alphabetical Order Worksheet - This Thanksgiving worksheet will help kids practice putting words in alphabetical order. Kids are asked to put the Thanksgiving related words on the page in alphabetical order in the numbered boxes provided. Print this worksheet out with the rest of our Thanksgiving worksheets to do with your kids!
Thanksgiving Anagrams - Younger children will enjoy the easy template as it includes a list of the completed words which they must slot into the blanks beside the corresponding anagram (scrambled letters).
Thanksgiving-Coloring-Pages - Color the Pilgrim Turkey.
Thanksgiving Color Pages - Thanksgiving coloring pages for kids to do while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to cook, perhaps, or to entertain them while the adults enjoy a longer meal.
Thanksgiving Counting - Count the number of pumpkins and circle the number below.
Thanksgiving Counting - This Thanksgiving themed counting worksheet will help kids practice counting to the number ten. Have fun during Thanksgiving and help kids practice counting to ten with this free printable worksheet. This worksheet shows ten pieces of pie, asks children to count them and then circle or color the appropriate number (10) at the bottom of the page.
Thanksgiving Counting - This Thanksgiving themed counting worksheet will help kids practice counting to the number six. Have fun during Thanksgiving and help kids practice counting to six with this free printable worksheet. This worksheet shows six pilgrim hats and asks children to count them and then circle or color the appropriate number (6) at the bottom of the page.
Thanksgiving Counting - This Thanksgiving themed counting worksheet will help kids practice counting to the number three. Have fun during Thanksgiving and help kids practice counting to three with this free printable worksheet. This worksheet shows three turkeys, and asks children to count them and then circle or color the appropriate number (3) at the bottom of the page.
Thanksgiving Counting Worksheets - Kids will have fun while practicing their counting skills. Have kids recognize the number in each box and then circle the correct number of thanksgiving pictures in each box. The pictures are all Thanksgiving themed like turkey, pumpkins, pilgrim hats and more! Print this worksheet out with the rest of our thanksgiving worksheets to do with your kids!
Thanksgiving Counting Worksheet - Children will enjoy this printable thanksgiving themed counting worksheet. Kids practice their counting by counting the number of thanksgiving pictures in each box and writing the correct number in the space provided. Kids get to count the correct number of turkeys, pumpkins, pilgrim hats and more in the printable. Print this worksheet out with the rest of our thanksgiving worksheets to do with your kids!
Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzles - Print out the template and solve the clues to fill in the crossword. There is an easier, "picture crossword", option and a more standard type of crossword available.
Thanksgiving Crosswords - Teach your students about Thanksgiving with the help of this crossword. Answer Key included!
Thanksgiving Day in the USA - I created this worksheet because I needed something quite easy and with many visuals for my young learner students. Hope you find it useful for yours as well.
Thanksgiving Day: Printable Read and Answer Worksheet - A printable worksheet on Thanksgiving Day, with a short text, pictures to label, a route to draw, and questions to answer.
Thanksgiving Days - It is an informational worksheet about Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving Day Symbols, the Origin of Thanksgiving Day, its Traditions and Customs.
Thanksgiving Days - Celebrate Thanksgiving day with fun activities for children to enjoy.
Thanksgiving Day: Word Hunt Worksheet - How many words can you make using the letters from "Thanksgiving Day"?
Thanksgiving Day Word Searches - This worksheet activity will help the kids sharpen their concentration and in understanding different words.
Thanksgiving Day Worksheets - Print words or draw pictures that remind you of thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Fun Word Searches - A fun and simple word search about American Thanksgiving food and traditions.
Thanksgiving History - A worksheet in Portuguese language (otherwise my little students would never understand it) about the history of Thanksgiving. If you would like it in English, just leave me a message and I will be glad to translate it to you and upload it here.
Thanksgiving illustrated - Simplified History - Reading pictures and fill in with verbs in the Past Simple. Vivid and Fun.
Thanksgiving-Language-Worksheets - A Fill in the blanks activity for young children.
Thanksgiving Matching Game Coloring Page - This activity helps children in color coordination as well as give them hours of fun.
Thanksgiving Matching Letter Worksheet - Printable Thanksgiving worksheet with Thanksgiving turkey, pilgrim, corn, Indians, grapes, and letter identification.
Thanksgiving Matching Worksheet - Little kids will have a swell time matching the objects in this fun Thanksgiving worksheet activity.
Thanksgiving Maze Worksheets - Help the turkey find its way to the forest!
Thanksgiving Mazes - Print out the template and solve the maze.
Thanksgiving Preschool Concepts Worksheet - Same - Try out this printable Thanksgiving themed worksheet designed for preschool age children to help teach them the concept of same. Kids are asked to look at the first Thanksgiving themed picture in each row and identify the picture in the row that is the same. This Thanksgiving worksheet makes a great addition to any preschool lesson plan.
Thanksgiving Printable Worksheet - Matching Pictures - Kids will have fun with this printable Thanksgiving worksheet. This worksheet is a picture matching page which instructs children to draw a line from the Thanksgiving pictures on one side of the page to the pictures on the other side.
Thanksgiving Printable Worksheet - Word Matching - Children will enjoy this simple Thanksgiving word to picture matching worksheet. Kids are instructed to draw a line from the Thanksgiving word to the appropriate picture on the page. This Thanksgiving worksheet is completely free and formatted to be perfect for printing.
Thanksgiving-Quizzes - Somebody asked me to do a quiz about Thanksgiving and here it is. Some pictures look a bit out of place but once you download and open it, it'll be fine.
Thanksgiving Spelling Word Questions - Use the list of Thanksgiving spelling words to answer simple questions.
Thanksgiving Symbols - Thanksgiving is all about togetherness and merry making. The festival epitomizes peace, harmony and union. It is a time when people worldwide give thanks for all the blessings and material possessions bestowed on them. Special thanksgiving symbols prevalent world over are shown in the images given as clues for this crossword puzzle.
Thanksgiving Synonyms - Use the word bank to find synonyms of common Thanksgiving-related words.
Thanksgiving Themed Handwriting Worksheet - Kids can practice their handwriting skills with a Thanksgiving theme with this printable thanksgiving worksheet. Kids are asked to trace each of the thanksgiving picture names next to each of the pictures. This is a great addition to any preschool lesson plan for young children.
Thanksgiving: Turkey Body Parts And Food - This is a simple worksheet to teach body parts and food so that students can describe the Thanksgiving turkey made of typical Thanksgiving vegetables (Arcimboldo style): ex "The legs of the turkey are made of carrots, the feathers of the turkey are made of beans.
Thanksgiving Verbal Analogies Printable Worksheet - Think about how the first pair of words are related to each other. Then, look at the next word and find the word that is related to it in the same way. Mark the answer.
Thanksgiving Words in English - Label the Thanksgiving words in English, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucopia, and roll.
Thanksgiving Word Ladders - Lewis Carroll, the writer of Alice in Wonderland, invented this word game. It's a terrific exercise for grade school children -- fun and educational!
Thanksgiving Word Mining - Print out the template and make as many common words as you can from one of our Thanksgiving phrases.
Thanksgiving Word Search - Print out the template, find and circle the Thanksgiving words listed.
Thanksgiving Word Scramble Worksheet for Kids - Children will have fun with this printable Thanksgiving worksheet. This Thanksgiving word scramble worksheet is perfect for kids who are learning to spell and want to have some Thanksgiving fun. Looking for a printable Thanksgiving activity page? This is a good one and make sure to check out our others! View and print this free Thanksgiving word scramble worksheet and have fun with your kids!
Thanksgiving Word Worksheet for Kids - Missing Vowels - This printable Thanksgiving worksheet asks kids to fill in the missing vowels in each of the Thanksgiving words. This is a simple and fun worksheet for kids that are just learning to spell and want to have some Thanksgiving fun.
Thanksgiving Worksheet - Different - Try out this printable Thanksgiving themed worksheet designed for preschool age children to help teach them the concept of different. Kids are asked to look at the Thanksgiving themed pictures in each row and identify the picture in the row that is different from the others. This Thanksgiving worksheet makes a great addition to any preschool lesson plan.
Thanksgiving Vocabulary - A simple worksheet with pictures and words that students must match. Of course, it can be modified by adding (or removing) some items. I hope it'll be useful to some of you, maybe for younger pupils, to help them understand the basic Thanksgiving vocabulary.
Thanksgiving Word Circles - An interesting activity to work some Thanksgiving vocabulary.
Turkey Craft Coloring Page - Make Turkey Tom a friend!
Turkeys: Printable Read and Answer Worksheet - A printable worksheet on turkeys, with a short text, a labeled picture, turkey definitions to match, and questions to answer.
Word Search -Thanksgiving - Simple word search with thanksgiving related vocabulary.
Word Unscramble - Unscramble each word. Write your answer on the line.


Many Rivers to Cross: The African Canadian Experience examines the important place that people of African descent have occupied in Canada from the 17th century to the present. It addresses a range of subjects – migration, culture, the struggle for justice, and work – all in the context of the development, over the past 400 years, of a complex, vibrant community and supportive community life. The exhibit has been well-received. Launched in the Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History) at a gala opening addressed by the Prime Minister, it was on view at the museum for eight months. It then toured the country for two years. A virtual exhibit provides a glimpse of the content of this travelling exhibit.
Additional Information: The current version of the exhibit is composed of 30 framed photographs mounted on light-weight foam core. The photographs are 18″ x 24″ in both vertical and horizontal formats. Hardware is not included.


What's Your Bout Day Routine? Stay calm, pack and repack my bag, show up way too early, count down the minutes. Please don't throw up, please don't throw up.
Favorite Movie Genre: Animated with music.
Favorite Movie Quote: Help me, I'm poor.


WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global leader in secure and intelligent cloud communications, today announced that Empire Access, a leading regional telecommunications service provider in the northeastern United States, has deployed Ribbon's Kandy Business Solutions including its Smart Office Unified Communications (UC) clients to enhance its mobility and collaboration offerings. Smart Office clients enable Empire Access to deliver its business customers voice, video, IM, presence and collaboration capabilities on both desktop and mobile devices.
"Kandy's Unified Communications solution is a great addition to our portfolio, providing us with a proven hosted product that immediately expands our business services offerings," said Bob VanDelinder, Director of Marketing for Empire Access. "Smart Office's premium end-user video conferencing, collaboration and mobility experiences allows us to be a "one-stop shop" that can meet all of our customers' communications needs, regardless of whether they seek fixed, mobile or both."
VanDelinder added, "With our ability to now offer HD videoconferencing and screen sharing as part of our new UC suite, we are already working with an international customer interested in leveraging these capabilities."
"We have a very strong, longstanding partnership with Empire Access and are pleased that we continue to build on this important relationship with their deployment of our Kandy Unified Communications services," said Elizabeth Page, Director of Independent Operating Companies for Ribbon. "In today's mobile first world, businesses and consumers want the same communications capabilities whether they are at home or on the go. Our Smart Office clients provide the same rich collaboration and communications experience whether you are in the office or on the road."
Ribbon's Smart Office platform is available to both service providers and enterprises or as a Service (aaS) within Ribbon's Kandy Business Solutions and can be easily branded and resold in a multi-tiered model. Smart Office delivers mobile workers an improved user experience and offers enhanced support for native iOS and Android notification and calling services. With Smart Office, service providers and enterprises can easily and instantly add new functionalities and applications across all mobile and desktop soft clients.
Leading regional telecommunications provider Empire Access has deployed Ribbon's Kandy Business Solutions Smart Office application to enhance its mobility offerings to its business customers.
Empire Access selected Kandy because of its proven carrier-grade capabilities and Empire Access' longstanding relationship with Ribbon.
Empire Access is also leveraging Ribbon's professional services and support team for the new deployment.
Empire Access provides Fiber Optic based telecommunication services to residential and business customers in New York and Pennsylvania. Empire has delivered communication services for over 100 years, as a family owned company now thriving under the third generation. Empire offers a wide range of products and services from basic phone service to customized phone systems, scalable high-speed Internet with speeds up to 1 Gbps, digital TV service, and security system solutions to meet varied customer needs. Today, Empire supplies communication services and solutions to a variety of customers ranging from residential, retail, manufacturing, wineries, banks, and schools to law enforcement. As they continue to grow and evolve, their focus remains on exceeding customers' expectations with high quality service. Empire Access is continually expanding their Fiber Optic network to provide service to new areas. For more information on Empire Access, visit empireaccess.com.
Ribbon Communications is a company with two decades of leadership in real-time communications. Built on world-class technology and intellectual property, the company delivers intelligent, secure, embedded real-time communications for today's world. The company transforms fixed, mobile and enterprise networks from legacy environments to secure IP and cloud-based architectures, enabling highly productive communications for consumers and businesses. With a global footprint, Ribbon's innovative, market-leading portfolio empowers service providers and enterprises with rapid service creation in a fully virtualized environment. The company's Kandy real-time communications software platform delivers a comprehensive set of advanced embedded and unified (CPaaS and UCaaS) communications capabilities that enables this transformation. To learn more, visit ribboncommunications.com.
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