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How to be a Culinary Globetrotter in Queens
Julie Weil
"Jackson Heights is so much more than a Little India", explains food writer Joe DiStefano. "The food and culture here encompasses both South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tibet, Nepal, India) and South America (Colombia, Mexico, Peru). There's even a Japanese cafe. It's the most diverse section of New York City's most diverse borough. I would encourage people to blaze their own paths when it comes to culinary exploration of this neighborhood and others in Queens."
DiStefano, along with photographer Clay Williams, is the creative mind behind the best-selling guidebook 111 Places in Queens That You Must Not Miss. Last month, the duo welcomed JBF Greens members to Queens for a culinary and cultural tour of Jackson Heights. Couldn't make the tour? We asked DiStefano and Williams to share their ultimate one-day Queens itinerary so the rest of us can get in on the borough's best bites and booze. Both start the day off with a bang in Flushing with spicy Southeast Asian street food. From there, their paths diverge, showcasing the diversity of Queens's multitude of offerings, from Italian subs and a dip in a Russian banya, to Szechuan snacks, shopping, and sweet Manhattan skyline views.
Joe Distefano: There's so much to do in Queens I recommend getting a really early start, perhaps even before sunrise, with a stop at New Curry Leaves in Flushing. During the day it's a sit-down Malaysian restaurant with waiter service, but from 4 A.M. to 11 A.M., it's a pop-up serving hawker fare (a.k.a. street food). Get a bowl of kari (curry) laksa, enriched with coconut milk and humming with chile heat. You get to choose your own noodles (I prefer the springy yellow ones) and fixings, which include half a dozen varieties of fish balls, char siu, shrimp, and bok choy.
Clay Williams: I'm not quite the early riser Joe is, so I'm more likely to get to Flushing for early lunch. Golden Shopping Mall is my go-to spot for afternoon snacks. There are other, more polished food halls in the neighborhood, but you can't beat the spicy dumplings in chile oil from the Szechuan stand, Chengdu Heaven, or the lamb dumplings sold at the no-frills stand owned by Helen You, who also owns the famed Dumpling Galaxy a few blocks away. While in Flushing, I'd probably do a little shopping at the grocery stores in the area, picking up good quality noodles, dried shrimp, or maybe a fresh bottle of fish sauce to cook with at home.
Food writer Joe DiStefano (Photo: B.A. Van Sise)
JD: From downtown Flushing, I head to Flushing Meadows Corona Park's Unisphere, that timeless symbol of Queens constructed for the 1964-65 World's Fair. Head west on Roosevelt Avenue until you arrive at Citi Field—the entrance to the park is just one subway stop away across the street. Come summertime, it's great to cool off in the mist of the Unisphere's fountain. From there, head over to historic Italian deli Leo's Latticini in Corona (a.k.a. Mama's of Corona). Get a Mama's special hero—a trifecta of genoa salami, pepper ham, and creamy white housemade mozzarella. You will be asked if you want roasted peppers and marinated mushrooms. It's an offer you shouldn't refuse. Take it to-go and eat in the backyard of Mama's Cafe. No trip to Corona is complete without a visit to the Lemon Ice King. Whether you go for the classic lemon or slightly more modern creations like orange–vanilla swirl (which tastes exactly like a Creamsicle), be sure to eat it in nearby Spaghetti Park. With any luck, you'll be able to take in a game of championship bocce.
Now it's time for some old-school Russian relaxation. Make your way over to Forest Hills Spa, the only Russian banya in Queens. Take a shvitz in the Russian radiant heat room. For a real Russian-style treatment, get a platza, which consists of getting thrashed with a bundle of oak leaves. Reward yourself with a plate of fried veal pelmeni in the cafe.
CW: From Flushing, I'd hop on the 7 train to Jackson Heights, for a Mexican ceviche cup at La Esquina del Camaron Mexicano. It's filled with shrimp, octopus, avocado, and lime juice. It's delicious and light enough that you can save space for your next meal.
It's tempting to go to Elmhurst at this point, to get a big plate of spicy, funky laarb from LaMoon, which is just amazing, but that might do me in for the day. I'd need a nap. Instead, I would walk to 74th Street and shop for South Asian groceries at Patel Brothers. If my wife were with me, she'd go ogle the beautiful textiles at the various nearby sari shops while I picked up curry leaves and spices.
I can't go to Jackson Heights without having at least one plate of momos. There are so many options for those Himalayan dumplings, each place different from the last. My favorite of late has been Potala, a small storefront on 37th Avenue. The momos are great, of course, but draw for me is the huge window onto the street perfect for some people watching.
Photographer Clay Williams
CW: Back on the 7 train, I'd head to Long Island City to walk along the waterfront at Gantry Plaza State Park for a gorgeous view of the Midtown skyline. The park also has playing fields, lounge chairs, and the LIC Landing cafe that doubles as a beer garden in the evenings. It's a great spot to watch the sun set over Manhattan and bask in the glow of the Pepsi Cola sign when dusk falls.
JD: I'd also head to Long Island City, but for an extra-special Queens dinner, you have to go to M. Wells Steakhouse, where chef Hugue Dufour puts his avant-garde spin on wood-fired steaks. While the beef is great, I come for his rotating roster of signature creations like grass-fed lamb's testicles with chanterelles, chicken-fried quail, and heritage pork T-bone with sumac and pecan. Desserts range from an over-the-top beaver tail to elderflower–pistachio truffle.
After dinner, head on over to nearby Dutch Kills Bar for a killer-diller cocktail. Order from the menu, or better yet, let the guy or gal behind the stick shake or stir you a bespoke cocktail. If you're feeling peckish after a few drinks, Hendu's Sandwich Shop, which operates the bar's kitchen, has you covered. Selections include a chicken Bolognese hero and a wonderful roast beef.
CW: A block away from Gantry Plaza State Park is SweetLeaf Coffee and Cocktail, a cafe by day and cocktail bar in the evenings. It's full of comfortable couches and hidden nooks to relax over a drink or two after a long day or grazing. Or, if I was feeling like a beer, Big aLICe Brewing is a few blocks north of there. It has a small tasting room open to guests. Joe is totally right about Dutch Kills to wrap up the evening. It's definitely the top spot for custom cocktails!
111 Places in Queens That You Must Not Miss is available here. Follow Joe DiStefano is on his blog Chopsticks and Marrow, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Follow Clay Williams on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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I always talk about how great this city is, but it wouldn't be fair to omit the people living here… After all, they are the ones making Amsterdam such a beautiful place!
every time I see Amsterdam in photos I lose a piece of my hart, I love this city so much its like my second home I have been 7 times in 3 years I never get tired of what is a fantastic city that has so much to offer to all types and ages, its also a city like no other in the world.
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Arbitrator Intelligence, Arbitrators, Bias
Vienna Arbitration Days: How to Deal with Biases and Cultural Differences and Other Practical Issues
Floriane Lavaud (Debevoise & Plimpton) and Edna Sussman (Fordham University School of Law)/ April 18, 2019 April 17, 2019 /Leave a comment
In the beautiful surroundings of the Palais Niederosterreicher, the 200+ delegates at Vienna Arbitration Days (VAD) 2019 were warmly welcomed by members of the Organising Committee, representing ArbAut, VIAC, AYIA (the Austrian Yearbook of International Arbitration), ICC Austria, YAAP (Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners), and UNCITRAL. Anna Joubin-Bret, UNCITRAL's Secretary, provided an overview of UNCITRAL's work streams, including its work on ISDS procedural reforms and expedited proceedings under the UNCITRAL rules.
The keynote speech from Professor Catherine Rogers of Penn State University and Queen Mary, University of London discussed the development of Arbitrator Intelligence, which is due to launch later in 2019. Adopting an engaging presentation, Catherine considered the points of relationship between the storylines of James Bond films and the sorts of scenarios which arise in international arbitration, contrasting Bond's gadgets with the most-used gadget in arbitrator selection, i.e., the old-fashioned word-of-mouth recommendations.
Arbitrator Intelligence seeks to unlock a wider range of options for parties and appointing counsel by using an in-depth data-driven analysis of an arbitrator's track record to assist parties in making more informed selections of arbitrators. Delegates were encouraged to explore the AIQ (the Arbitrator Intelligence Questionnaire) to see the depth of information which it seeks to extract. Such information being objective and factual, there is a limit to how much a disgruntled party, for example, can affect the feedback on a particular arbitrator. The more data submitted via the AIQ, the more likely it is that the reports generated by Arbitrator Intelligence will be of high value to users.
The first panel session of the VAD featured four ArbitralWomen: Edna Sussman (independent arbitrator and mediator), chair, Philippa Charles (Stewarts, London), Giuditta Cordero-Moss (University of Oslo) and Claudia Winkler (Negotiation Academy), as well as Dr Philip Anthony from DecisionQuest (a leading mock trial/arbitration provider based in the U.S.). Within the umbrella topic of psychology and its impacts in arbitration, the four speakers each gave a short presentation on a particular psychological dynamic in arbitration, which may affect the outcome if not anticipated and managed by participants.
Edna Sussman opened the discussion on cultural differences by reference to the Hofstede Dimensions and the studies that have demonstrated that people from countries with a higher "power distance" and who accept that some people have more power than others are more likely to be persuaded by expert testimony. Philippa Charles noted that far from being cultural chameleons, arbitration practitioners are—at least, to some extent—influenced by their nationality and the approaches to society which that nationality imports. She explained Professor Hofstede's six cultural hard-wiring characteristics, where a high or low score tends to illustrate a particular national characteristic which is distinctive. She drew out the overwhelming influence, for example, in US nationals, of a preference for individualism, and how that feeds into, for example, a drive for success. Philippa also referred to high-context and low-context cultures, which can greatly impact a tribunal's understanding of evidence.
Giuditta Cordero-Moss focused her presentation on the imprinting of a decision-maker's home legal culture on their approach to legal issues. Using as an example a contractual pricing mechanism dispute, she contrasted the instinctive, textual approaches of a Norwegian-trained lawyer and a British-trained lawyer. The differing approaches led to different results in Giuditta's example: the challenge for practitioners -and especially for arbitrators- is to apply the relevant applicable law without being influenced by one's personal legal culture.
Claudia Winkler drew on her experiences training negotiators and mediators to look at framing and its effect on one's receptiveness to a proposition. In the negotiation context, the way in which an offer or proposal is framed may affect the recipient's response, engaging either the recipient's risk adversity or risk acceptance. The effect of the choice of presentation has far wider implications, including in cross-examination questioning and a tribunal's appreciation of the gulf between the parties' positions. Being aware of the other party's alternative framing and addressing it proactively, rather than being defeated in a "battle of the frames," is also key.
Closing the session with practical guidance on how counsel can counter these biases, Edna quoted Lucy Reed comment that "what mock arbitration therefore does is to change the lawyers' biases about their own cases. It allows them to see whether what they think are the most important points to make are (or are not) as good as they think, and therefore whether their clients are likely to win (or not)." Dr. Philip Anthony highlighted two particular advantages of mock arbitration: First, having the mock judge's private feedback assists the party in addressing any quasi-emotional or experientially-driven responses. Second, the effect and influence of a dominant arbitrator or judge on the rest of the panel can be explored. By matching the mock arbitrators as closely as possible to the selected panel, parties have an opportunity to assess how much a dominant arbitrator may affect the proceedings and potentially the outcome.
The second panel, consisting of Wendy MacLaughlin (GBsqd LLP), Howard Rosen (Secretariat International), and Manuel Conthe (Independent Arbitrator), was chaired by Dr. Günther Horvath (Dr. Günther J. Horvath Rechtsanwalt GmbH) and focused on the importance of mathematics and economics in arbitration. Wendy MacLaughlin explained the complexity in establishing reasons for the late completion of a project by means of forensic analysis. She emphasised that delay analysis in construction projects should not be perceived as a "black box." One of the challenges faced by arbitrators is that the use of the different methodologies can lead to different results, despite being based on the same facts (for example, relying on the actual progress records vs. using software with hypothetical calculations). Wendy explained that one methodology is not necessarily better than the other. The arbitral tribunal has to make its choice based on the available data and contractual requirements.
Howard Rosen explained the importance of the ability of counsel and arbitrators to manage economic and industry skills. Experts, in turn, should use plain language and provide practical examples that would complement an academic approach with practical market knowledge. Bringing the message across in a clear and understandable manner requires time and cannot be underestimated by counsel. Arbitrators should also approach the presentation of the quantification of damages in an efficient manner and not leave it for the end of a long hearing. Howard noted, although AI tools are very useful in the quantification of damages, they raise various ethical, practical and legal issues, such as who should be designing and maintaining the system, what should be the basis used by the system to "learn," and whether the result should be considered valid evidence.
Manuel Conthe focused on the role and impact of time warps in the assessment of risks. Manuel referred to the "curse of knowledge," a cognitive bias under which an individual assumes that others have the technical and legal expertise to understand what he/she is explaining. In arbitral proceedings, the time-lag between the events that led to a dispute and the actual time of arbitration unavoidably imposes a "curse of knowledge" upon arbitrators and causes discrepancies between the assessments of facts at the different stages of the dispute. It is important for tribunals and parties to be aware of this phenomenon as both influence the decision-making process.
Building on the preceding panels, the third panel considered—from the perspective of counsel—the myriad of ways in which unconscious bias affects arbitral proceedings. The panel featured two ArbitralWomen: Floriane Lavaud (Debevoise & Plimpton) and Cecilia Carrara (Legance), as well as Paul Oberhammer (WilmerHale), Carsten van de Sande (Hengeler Mueller), and moderator Klaus Peter Berger (Center for Transnational Law). After discussing the different types of bias that affect arbitration proceedings, the panel suggested possible solutions and mitigating measures, including through the use of technical tools.
Floriane and Cecilia discussed the effect of the arbitrators' legal background and training on their decision-making, particularly with respect to evidentiary rulings, and how to mitigate such bias. For instance, practitioners from civil law jurisdictions may undertake a more inquisitorial approach to evidence, thereby limiting party-initiated disclosures, while arbitrators from common law jurisdictions may more broadly permit such disclosures.
Next, the panel considered a range of other biases, including self-serving bias, where decision-makers resolve ambiguities in a manner favourable to themselves, and hindsight bias, where decision-makers perceive certain facts as being more predictable than they actually were at the time. The panel focused especially on the cultural biases of arbitrators vis-à-vis gender and race, in connection with how arbitrators assess the reliability of witnesses. The panellists cited numerous efforts to tackle such biases in the selection of arbitrators, including the Pledge on Equal Representation in Arbitration and the ArbitralWomen arbitrator database.
Among the technical tools for mitigating bias, Floriane mentioned the hidden bias tests and training modules, such as the Implicit Association Test and Project Implicit (Harvard University- University of Virginia). Carsten discussed the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in arbitration, but also the risk of AI tools leading to dysfunctional results, because not all relevant elements to disputes are taken into consideration when developing the original algorithms. Cecilia discussed the Council of Europe's first European Ethical Charter on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Systems. They all stressed the importance of ensuring equal access, warning that any existing procedural unfairness may be further entrenched otherwise.
To conclude, Paul raised the importance of not losing sight of the fundamental goal to ascertain the underlying truth and distinguished between "scientific" and "legal" truths and the influence of such modalities on advocacy techniques. The panel emphasized that arbitrators are often self-aware of their biases and will indeed try to look beyond the manner and style of presentation of counsel to ascertain the underlying facts.
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The Religious Life
Y. Ben–Efraim (Yechiel Hering)
Translated by Chesky Wertman
Amongst the varied associations in Tarnogrod there was the Agudah and Mizrachi, referred to as the religious organizations of the youth, they actively and vibrantly participated in the national activities of the Hapoel–HaMizrahi and in Tzeirei Agudas–Yisroel. They participated in educational work, and in the preparations of religious pioneers for aliyah to Eretz Yisroel.
Beit Yaakov School
From moment the "Beit Yaakov" movement was formed there arose amongst the young girls a yearning to engage in spiritual activities and they began to assume an important role in the lifestyle of the shtetl. Contrary to the traditional view of the Rabbis who established boundaries for young girls and forbid them to study torah, these young girls participated in activities that were productive and far reaching and in doing so they acquired for themselves the eternal mitzvah of Rabbi Shimon, son of Chalafsa, of developing a proclivity for Torah and an appreciation of the supremacy of Torah in their home, and in worldly pursuits even under difficult conditions.
[Translation of Hebrew. Paragraph is same as above in Yiddish]
Young Girls From ";Hashomer Hadati"
Young women played an enthusiastic role in the organizational activities of Mizrahi in Tarnogrod they were imbued with religious spiritual verve and idealistically sought to build a Jewish home in Eretz Yisroel.
Hapoel HaMizrachi offered evening courses in the Bible and conversational Hebrew, to help gain knowledge about the land of Israel. The Mizrahi members participated in Keren Kayemet [Jewish National Fund], Keren Hayesod [United Israel Appeal], and in distributing the shekel.
Among the young members of the religious organizations there were a group of young men known as the Villerner, they gathered in the Belzer Shtiebel [literally "little house" which served as a house of prayer], where they sat and studied Torah all day and night.
Inside the Belzer Shtiebel, were long tables and benches and along the walls were bookshelves filled with the Talmud and other scholarly works. It was there that we prayed, learned and held chassidic gatherings. The holidays were lively.
There was immense energy during the Chassidic gatherings. They danced and sang Chassidic songs that expressed intense spirituality and fusion with G–d; the songs that were sung in the Shtiebel were heard throughout the shtetl. At Chassidic Melaveh Malkahs [a meal in honor of the departure of the Sabbath], and at other events we spoke about many topics that pertained to the Shtiebel. The activists of the community listened, and provided assistance to help the destitute, or to arrange a Chassidic celebration, or to assist in the marriage of a bride, and so on.
Belzer Chasidim were infused with the ideal that every gathering strengthens the love of a fellow Jew, which in turn draws down the Divine Presence.
In the Belzer Shtiebel there were renowned eminent scholars:
Henekh Blum, Berish Itzekels, Israel–Chaim (Yechiel's son–in–law), Hersh–Meir Zichler, Avrahmele Shohet and his father R' Yankel, Teyvl Nachum Herbstman, and my father Efraim Yankel.
There were many others, many other G–d fearing scholars. Unfortunately, their names have escaped my memory.
A needy person –– a Yid, a Ben–Torah [literally, "son of Torah" who leads his life according to the Torah], who would come to the shtetl, already knew the path to the Belzer Shtiebel. There he would always encounter people young and old, who would help him in an honorable manner.
Belzer Chasidim were not only ones who davened [prayed] and learned in the Belzer Shtiebel, there were also the Chasidim of various other Chassidic Rebbes. Trisker Chasidim, Kozmerer, Sanzer and Gerrer, also davened there.
The first Chasidim in the Shtiebel were the followers of R' Yossela of Lublin. He was R' Koppel Lukower,'s brother – – a Tarnogrod native.
One of the interesting role models of the Shtiebel was R' Chaim Yecheil Shohet, an extremely pious person, who as a rule on Friday nights arranged meals for all the needy people that would go to the Shtiebel to daven. R' Chaim would not allow Friday night prayer services to start until all the needy people had a place to eat the Shabbos meals.
When he died, my father Efraim Yankel z"l [of blessed memory] took upon himself the responsibility of arranging the meals for the needy.
R' Chaim Yecheil Shohet, also had an inn that provided lodging to the needy who would come to Tarnogrod and were unable to leave quickly. A poor religious Jew who would come to town, already knew the address of R' Chaim Yecheil Shohet, and knew that was the person who would do everything possible to assist him.
Another fine role model was R' Avraham Moshe Melamud, who was a sofer [scribe]. On Shabbos he would only speak in the holy language and he wore a shtreimel [black, broad–brimmed hat]. On Tisha B' Av [the fast day commemorating the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and other calamities] he would place a sack on his head and lament the destruction of the Temple.
But, on Purim he would cheer up the entire crowd with amusing rhyming songs and until late at night he would lecture and discuss the holiday, and other Torah topics.
In the Belzer Shtiebel there also davened Misnagdim [opponents of chasidim] who did not follow any Rebbe, but they were pious, punctilious Jews, who were very learned, that is how R' Yossel Wertman and his son were, pious but not connected to any Rebbe.
It was unnoticeable that davening and learning, in the Shtiebel, were chassidim of various Rebbes, I never heard of any arguments. The Shtiebel imparted unity and friendship.
At the time of war, in this Shtiebel, was the Ghetto Hospital. The Nazis, near the Shtiebel, in this very place, used it for their murderous acts they perpetrated on the entire town.
"Yavneh" School
by Y. Ben-Efraim (Yechiel Hering)
Translated by Sara Mages
The Last Graduating Class Before the War
It was not easy to support the school. If we remember the poverty and distress that prevailed in the Jewish community - we will understand the difficulties that the school faced at that time. The school endured thanks to invaluable virtues: extraordinary dedication of a group of activists, loyalty of the teaching staff and national recognition of the parents. And indeed, the school has been very successful thanks to these factors.
The history of the youth in the small towns of Poland has not yet been written, and if this history is ever written the youth of Tarnogrod will also take its place among them. Although the goals between the youth movements were different, the common line in all of them was the revolt on the present and the desire to establish new patterns for the Jewish people.
Many were the roads that led to this goal, but the central road was the road of the Hebrew schools, although this road was more difficult than all other roads.
The road chosen by the activists, teachers and parents was always illuminated by the sacred idea of redeeming Zionism, and they had a great influence on social and public life.
The movement, which imposed on its members to speak Hebrew from early age, carried on its shoulders the Hebrew education and the study of the Hebrew language. Not only the children and the youth, but also the fathers and mothers strived to succeed in it, and in this the school gave its respectable part.
Here, children and teenagers dreamed of a more beautiful future when they will settle in Eretz Israel. An educational environment was created for the belief in the resurrection of the people and pioneering Zionism.
The regular trips out of town helped the social unification. The youth was slowly trained for independence and pioneering roles in his life.
In the Hebrew school we saw the perfect national school. We were joined by members whose souls are thirsty for freedom and human and national renewal, and they saw their future in pioneering fulfillment in Eretz Israel.
The aspiration of Mizrachi[1] for the fulfillment of the prophetic vision - &147;for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" - found an extensive area of operation also in Tarnogrod.
The men of Mizrachi said:
"With all our strong desire to revive our language and make it the language of education and life, the language alone will not give us the light in the Torah and the affection for our ancient literature. The Torah is the first source and the fertile nucleus of Judaism and should not be replaced by different streams."
The men of Mizrahi had talented speakers who lectured and taught, in simple and clear words, about Zionism, religion and work, about the nature and mission of HeHalutz HaMizrachi[2] and Hashomer Hadati[3], and the great work entrusted to them. The general feeling among the religious youth in our town was in terms of "Na'aseh V'nishma.[4]
The young and the adults knew how to organize and get along in meetings and debates, in practical work, in activities on behalf of the Jewish National Fund and for the behalf of other institutions.
At the time that Lord Balfour issued his well-known declaration, the Holy Land was drawn all at once into the arena of European-American-style cultural-political life - at the same time the observer of the Torah was placed before the sublime and difficult experience.
The gaze, full of longings of the Jews in the Diaspora in front of the Tabernacle of Testimony[5] of God, united the religious Jews and in the thousands they began to express the yearnings to revive the desolation of Jerusalem, for indeed, the desolation of Jerusalem heralded and declared that the fulfillment of God's will within life on this land, the Holy Land, is a precondition to full national life.
Hashomer Hadati
A Group of Young Women in the Last Years Before the War
A Group of Young Women from Different Streams in Tarnogrod
Roize Teicher, Ite'la Teicher, Rivka Zetzer, Chaya Apper, Malka Silberzweig, Tile Adler, Tzvia Teicher, Dvora'le Adler (lives in America), Sosha Teicher, Leah Feifer, Finkel Eisenberg- Teicher, Golde Alpenbain-Teicher (lives in Israel), Beiletche Teicher
The boys and girls of Hashomer Hadati in Tarnogrod believed that the closed gates of the countries of the Diaspora and the open gate of Eretz Israel - are not just the results of the reasons of its history - they are only guidelines and means of education on behalf the Providence to the Jewish people.
However, historical events can be understood in several forms, the order of his history depends on changes and transformations - while God's voice is concealed in his Torah, the same voice speaks to us from the commandment of the settlement of Eretz Israel.
This voice taught us the way we should go, with all our strength and spiritual and physical efforts, without deviating slightly to the right and left, without becoming dependent on the thought processes of others, without seeing in any political change a kind of destruction of our national hopes."
This is how the national religious youth in Tarnogrod thought and acted.
Translator's footnotes:
Mizrachi - a religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius. Return
HeHalutz HaMizrachi (lit. "The Mizrachi Pioneer") movement was established by Mizrachi. Return
Hashomer Hadati (lit. "The Religious Guard") is a religious Zionist youth organization. Return
The Jews standing at Mount Sinai signal their acceptance of the Torah with the words "Na'aseh V'nishma"–"We will do and we will hear/understand." Return
The term "tent of witness^#147;/"tabernacle of testimony" first appears in the Book of Numbers as a reference to the portable temple structure that the Levites were in charge of dismantling, transporting, re-erecting and camping round about it. Return
Bais Ya'akov[1]
Y. Ben-Efraim (Yechiel Hering)
Translated by Miriam Leberstein
The girls who belonged to Bais Ya'akov in Tarnogrod possessed special ethical qualities. In addition to engaging in communal activities, they were devoted to the land of Israel and contributed a great deal to the Zionist movement, bringing it to life in their homes.
Among these ordinary Jewish girls were some who understood the deeper meaning of all the principles and religious laws of the Jewish faith, how one must conduct oneself in all communal situations, the laws about Sabbath observance and other aspects of Judaism.
These girls learned a lot about the meaning and goals of Judaism. They knew that there wasn't just one interpretation but many, that Judaism contains a world of symbols that reflect the great truths of the religion, and which conceal various secrets and meanings the depths of which cannot be fully comprehended.
What did these girls think as they took their final steps to a horrific death? Did they believe that the Jewish people was the one among all the peoples of the world chosen to serve as proof of the greatness and uniqueness of the Jewish god, as they had learned? Why did God look on with such indifference as his army was annihilated? And where was the news of the coming of the Messiah, who is supposed to liberate us?
Perhaps they thought that this was what the beginning of the time of Messiah's coming was supposed to be like. Perhaps they accepted the law, the most terrible law ever promulgated against a people. After all, they had always held high the flag of Judaism, and from their education knew that everything in life is swallowed up in suffering.
Their teachers and school administrators died along with them. We note here those who were the most active: Aron David Honikman; Henekh Blum; Berish Vayser; Saul Mordkhe Frukhtman; Yisroel Levinzon; Tuvye Kroyn; and the rabbi's son, Saul Teicher.
The Nazi murderers killed the Jewish children but could not break them. As strong as oaks they fulfilled their tasks under the sword that hung over their heads until the last moments of their lives.
Piety and Beauty
Just like their mothers, the young girls in Tarnogrod practiced the rules of piety in the most refined and quiet manner. On all the lonely roads I travelled, my way was brightened by the virtuous glances of the girls in my former home.
Walking on the noisy streets of big cities I would feel a yearning for the beauty of my poor home, for which I still feel the anxious and lonely love of an orphaned generation.
Throughout my life there has remained in my heart the yearning for that piety and beauty and now I remain so sad and ashamed for these lives cut off so young. I will never relinquish my sadness over the horrific death of these dear and holy Tarnogrod girls who did not abandon their parents in their last days.
Bine and Royze Teicher
Translator's Footnote
Network of youth movements and schools for Orthodox girls. Return
Tarnogrod Between the Two World Wars
S. Chaper (Fefer)
Translated by Tina Lunson with Martin Jacobs
Tarnogrod had an exuberant Jewish life, with every charm, with all the joys and all the suffering and problems that existed in Jewish life in all the other Jewish towns in Poland. Until the year 5685 there was a Jewish community in Tarnogrod, that numbered some 500 families. They lived in the center of the town, in the market square and in the lanes around the market. Around them, on all four sides, the town was occupied by Christians.
Right upon entering the town, even from a distance, one could already tell where the Jewish houses began. The first sign was the end of the trees and fields that surrounded the Christian houses. There began the naked, poor little houses without the least adornment of a tree or a little green.
The Jewish houses cold also be recognized by the shutters on the windows, which were closed from inside with a strip of iron. But the Christian houses did not have closed shutters, not because of poverty, but because they had less to fear an attack than the Jews. The Jews in town had always lived in fear of the Christian attackers. True, in a real crisis the shutters would be of little help, the shutters were an unconditional component of a house and in a certain sense gave an illusion of security, of protecting oneself from the enemy.
The Jewish children always longed for a tree and they were drawn to the forest, to the fields. In free hours one ran outside the town, climbed up in someone's tree and tore off an apple, a pear, a bunch of currents, except that this was tied up with fear, with the terror of the Christian proprietor, for the dog, that could exact a price. We were often caught, but that did not stop us from repeating the same thing a little while later.
Jewish Livelihoods
Our town belonged to Czarist Russia up until 1914. The Austrian border was 7 kilometers from Tarnogrod. The village of Meydan already belonged to Austria. The Russian border post was on our side. We called the border soldiers "obyeshtchickes" [freeloaders / scroungers][a] and they bought everything at Jewish stores.
The horse dealers in our town used to buy up horses from the surrounding peasants and in the dark nights at the end of the month, smuggle them across the border into Austria. There were some rich people among those horse dealers, but they lived apart in a certain sense, among themselves and the butchers. They prayed with the butchers in a separate minyan.
Their trade was one of the good livelihoods in town, just as was smuggling certain linens, handkerchiefs, shawls, silks and woolens and various other goods from the Austrian side where they were much cheaper.
None of these livelihoods were easily pursued. Besides the dangers at the border there were also inspections in the warehouses, where they looked for any signs of Russian manufacture on the goods. The Jews also informed one another about such activities although that could lead to misfortunes, as in the case of Zelda Opfer who was killed by a border guard.
For each item of merchandise that Jews touched, some special permission from the government was required, and not everyone could obtain it. Yet Jews dealt in flax and linen and other agricultural products used to make clothing.
Trade in grain was well developed in Tarnogrod. There were big merchants who had warehouses in town and farmers brought grain to them. But there were also some who left home early on Sunday for the village, where they spent the whole week living on roasted potatoes and a piece of dry bread because they would not try any of the peasants' food. People called them the village runners. They bought from the peasants the various goods that they had worked on all week and returned to town with them on Friday afternoon, selling the goods to the bigger merchants after Shabbos.
The main problem was how to earn enough to make Shabbos, to pay the teacher for teaching the children. Because of that Jews labored the whole week, were exhausted and very busy.
The fairs that took place in town each Tuesday were an important source of livelihood. The peasants brought their grain, chickens, eggs and milk and for the money they got for those products, bought fuel, salt, clothes, boots and other household goods in the town.
There were others in town – rabbinic judges, elementary teachers, cantors, ritual slaughterers, match makers and plan poor folks, people who literally lived from the air.
The bakers had an honorable livelihood.
Merchandise was bound up with many difficulties. Besides the border guards there were also Russian officials in the town whom we called smotshkes [meaning unknown], who watched that the goods in the shops had Russian seals, showing that they were of Russian manufacture.
True, there was also a way around that. Little machines were made that could copy the original seals and stamp them onto products after they were in the stores.
Once it happened that Zelda Opfer was carrying such "kashered" goods from home to her shop, and met up with one of the officials who shot her as she was already on the threshold of the shop and killed her on the spot.
It is not hard to imagine the impression this incident made on the Jews in the town at that time.
Jews also dealt in flax, linen and various other agricultural products, from which all kinds of clothing articles were crafted for the peasants. Also commerce in hair was well developed.
There were also larger merchants who owned warehouses and conducted their business in the town. Others left on Sunday in the morning to go to the villages and returned only on Friday evening. Those Jews lived the whole week on roasted potatoes and a piece of dry bread.
However hungry they may have been, they did not take any other food from the peasants.
Those Jews – whom people called village-runners – bought up goods from the peasants and sold them in the town to the larger dealers.
The chief problem of chasing after livelihood was to earn enough for Shabbos and to pay the teacher to teach the children.
One of the bases of Jewish livelihood was the fairs in town, that were held every Tuesday. On that day the peasants brought into town the things that they had grown in their fields, what they had raised in their barns – chickens, cows and horses – and with the money that they earned for all those things, bought clothes, boots, kitchen utensils, tools, fuel oil, salt and other things in the town.
The greatest number of the Jewish merchants lived in poverty. Around them lived the elementary teachers, rabbinical judges, cantors, ritual slaughterers, match-makers and other religious functionaries. The hardest and poorest livelihoods were all kinds of porters and the water-carriers.
The Wealthy
Tarnogrod's rich people did not possess any big houses. Most of the houses there were built of wood. A proprietor of such a little wooden shop among the four rows of shops that stood in the middle of the market square, was considered a rich man.
Naftali Sobol did not even have that. No one knew what his wealth consisted of, but he was reckoned as the first among the town's wealthy.
He was no great Talmud scholar. He had a lovely daughter, Malkale, who was his entire hope since he expected nothing from his two sons.
When Naftali Sobol brought his son-in-law Yossele into town, it resounded through the entire village.
It appeared that this was a match made in heaven, except that the Tarnogrod match-maker had not had any part in it...
When Naftali Sobol went to shul on Shabbos to pray, we went with his son-in-law Yossele, who wore a velvet cap with a broad visor, a little different from what people wore in Tarnogrod. He wore his velvet-collared black overcoat unbuttoned so that people could see his modern silk coat inside.
Naftali Sobol was then the happiest Jew in town and knew that even the most wealthy were envious of him.
Most of the Tarnogrod Jews were followers of some rebe or another. They generally could not comprehend how one could live without a rebe. In the home, in family life, in rearing children, marrying them, especially daughters, in presenting one's self for conscription – for each thing one had to get the advice and the blessing of a rebe.
One did not necessarily travel to the rebe, whichever one the followers considered theirs, because if was often too far, so one went to the Belzer Rebe or to the Rozvadover Rebe, and they often visited the town.
On the contrary, the wealthy, like Yosef Munis or Moshe Yoynes, could indeed travel to distant rebeiyim. They wanted to be sure that the followers would not fall away from their rebeiyim and sought ways for them to visit the town more frequently.
So, the rich men used to bring in the Trisker Maggid's son, a grandson of Rabbi Motele Tshernobiler, and the joy in the town was incalculable. The rebe held the Shabbos table in the study house, a natural place that belonged equally to all the Jews. The cabinet-makers and carpenters volunteered to put together seating for one thousand. The boards for the benches were borrowed from Moshe Leibushes and Yetshe Fogel. The benches were made like steps and reached up to the ceiling. The table rituals took a full half-day, into the night, and the joy in the town was great.
The Kuzmer Rabbi and the Trisker used to come to town in a carriage drawn by four horses that had been borrowed from the Jewish magnate, Avrahaml Fabrikant.
When the rebe left the town all the splendor, the joy, went with him, and life went back to being gray and gloomy.
There were also some rebeiyim who lived on the other side of the border in Austria. But coming over was not difficult. One had only to buy a ticket in the township for 30 kopikes, with which one could cross the border freely for 30 days.
The Tarnogrod Rabbi Moshele Teicher with his son Eliezer, his daughter Itele and her husband
These were the points of light in the grey life of the town. They healed sick spirits, bringing happiness and courage and giving content and sense to life.
Hasidim
During a visit from the Trisker Rabbi, or from the Kuzmer Rabbi, who came to visit their followers in the town, they stayed at Yosef Munis or Moshe Yoynes. With the arrival of the Trisker Maggid's sons, and of Rabbi Motele Tshernobiler's grandsons, the joy in the town was immense.
Often such a visit was accompanied with difficult problems. There were no separate Hasidic prayer houses. The Hasidim prayed in various study-houses. Where would the rebe pray? Where would he host the Shabbos table? True, both Kuzmer and Trisker Hasidim prayed in the prayer house in Belz, but in order to maintain neutrality the rebe prayed in the study-house and held the Shabbos table there as well.
None of the prayers, even those who did not belong to the rebe's followers, opposed this. The Tarnogrod carpenters Simcha and Hershl took on the work of building the tables and benches and preparing seating for more than a thousand people.
The table was set up in the very center and the benches were each higher than the one before so that no one would block another. The boards for the benches were borrowed from Moshe Leibushes and Yetshe Fogel. The top row of benches reached the ceiling.
The rebe's table rituals lasted late into the night and the joy in the town was great.
Everyone in the town knew that they had Yosef Munis and Moshe Yoynes to thank for the rebe's visit, as they had taken care of the expenses and of getting him across the border.
Jewish Aristocrats
Avreml Fabrikant was a landowner and people actually called him the Jewish nobleman of Lukow.
At that time there were other Jewish aristocrats besides Avreml in the area of Tarnogrod. But for the others the property was used only for commerce. He rented it out for a certain time and for that term the property and all its inventory could be rented out by a second aristocrat for whom the property was not merchandise that went from hand to hand. Just like the gentile aristocrats he was well established on his estate in Lukow, retained a Jewish lease-holder all those years, and conducted himself like all the other Christian aristocrats who were so attached to their land.
Getting into the estate of the Lukow prince was just as difficult as getting into any Christian estate, where the dogs threw such a fit and guards kept things in order. Before every Hoshanah Rabbah [seventh day of Sukkot] Avreml came into Tarnogrod, bought an etrog [citron] from Moshele the rebe, prayed in the study-house on holidays, made the circuits with all the respectable Jews, the rabbi at the head. He then was given an aliyah to the Torah and donated wood from his forest to heat the study-house through the winter.
When his wife Tirtza died and had to be buried in the Tarnogrod Jewish cemetery, the burial society demanded the highest sum from him, with which they mended the fence around the cemetery and there was enough left over for a celebratory dinner for the members of the burial society.
The Jews of my Town
Jews in Tarnogrod did not plant any trees, but the Jewish children were very drawn to the trees – perhaps not so much the trees as to the fruit that drew them to climb a tree, pull off an apple, a pear, or something else.
Despite the fact that there was fear of the gentile proprietor and of the dog that guarded the orchard, we boys still tested fate and more than once our test ended with heavy blows and bites from the dog.
A longing for trees and vegetables lived in our hearts, and when the Tarnogrod "pioneers" took to the land their first thought was to plant trees and flowers. In that we saw the symbol of our ancestors' rootedness in in the earth.
The Elementary Teacher Reb Chaim Tzibelkale
First of all it is my debt to mention the elementary teacher with whom I studied. He was called Chaim Tzibelkale. To this day I do not know whether that was his real family name. At the time he was already in his seventies, but it did not bother him to be the teacher of three- to seven-year old children. After age seven they moved on to a Talmud teacher.
The heder consisted of one big room in which the oven was also located, and there was also something cooking in that oven. The two big beds were covered with sheets. There were other small things besides that, and there was still space for the approximately forty children who studied with him. They all sat around the big table on which there were always lying various pieces of bread that the children had brought with them from home, smeared with butter, chicken fat or jam. Flies flew around over it all.
The old teacher had a good relationship with the children. He had never traveled outside the town. Once his son Eli Meir, who even then was burdened with a large family, but was registered as being several years younger than he was, and in his later years was called before the conscription board in Bilgoraj. His elderly father went with him. That was the first time that he had traveled from the shtetl and made such a long trip of 18 kilometers.
Our elderly teacher was full of surprise from his long journey and sought someone to express his inspiration to. He knew that most of the adults in town had made such a trip more than once and would not understand his enthusiasm, so he turned to us children and began to depict how he had traveled to Bilgoraj and back and for the first time had seen what a large world God possessed, and how much beauty there was. Inspired, he told us: "You may think that over there, behind the pharmacy where the sun sets is the end of the world. I also thought that at one time. But as one travels to Bilgoraj one can see God's great world, one rides and rides, and one goes a little way by foot to show mercy for the horse who must drag a wagon with people so far, one rides for hours and God's world does not end, it becomes ever more wide and beautiful. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you cannot imagine it."
Reb Avraham-Moshe – His Poems and His Sefira Box[1]
Translated by Martin Jacobs
Reb Avrom-Moyshe was a melamed [teacher], a very poor man. When Purim came he wrote his own Purim story, including poems, to which he also fitted melodies.
On Purim night Reb Avraham-Moshe went around the town wearing a shtrayml [hat worn by pious Jews on Sabbath and holidays] and disguised as a "Purim Rabbi" [comedian parodying rabbinical ways]. With fiddle in hand he sang the song he himself had created in Hebrew, which began with the words:
Light for Mordechai, darkness for Haman,
A blessing for Mordechai, shame for Haman,
In the elevation of the righteous is joy,
In the destruction of the wicked is joyous shouting,
Haman's name will be erased
And Mordechai appointed in his place …[b]
So the song that he had written went on for a long time, according to the alphabet. If his voice held out, he sang other songs too, also of his own composition.
I remember how I went around with him to a lot of houses, when I accompanied him and a lot of other boys on Purim evening to collect money to buy and repair books for the beit midrash. His songs drew out a great deal of cheerfulness and seeing this effect, his face beamed with joy.
In the morning, Shushan Purim [15 of Adar, when Purim is celebrated in walled cities such as Jerusalem], I also went with him to the square between the Shinovar and Belzer shtibl, where both had set up tables and Reb Avraham-Moshe, a short man with a long beard and broad fur hat, danced on the tables by himself while playing his fiddle and singing the songs, his own new creations.
The audience that gathered around the tables clapped their hands, children and adults recognized the melodies and tunes to which he sung his songs of praise. It was literally happiness and joy. The joy of those days has remained in my memory all this long time.
Purim and Simchat Torah were to two happiest days for the Jews in Tarnogrod, and just as Avraham-Moshe was for Purim, so were for Simchat Torah the dozen Jews who had taken upon themselves the task of bringing joy to the town by dancing and singing in the streets.
Avraham-Moshe was also famous for his sefira-box. This was his original invention. One just had to turn the specially-constructed handle and out came the date of tomorrow's counting day and the basis for the accompanying special characteristics, according to the receipt for that day. The box was square and nicely carved. On the top is was covered with glass and inside were the counting days in the usual order with their characteristic bases.
In all probability the construction of such a box must have cost – besides money – a lot of craft and months of work.
He later gave it as a gift to the beit midrash and would not accept any payment for it.
Reb Chaimel Shohet
Among the most distinguished, eminent Jews to take on making people joyful on Simchat Torah was Chaimel Shohet. On the night before Simchat Torah he took all the children from the beit midrash and with a Torah scroll in his hands led the children through the streets, all the while shouting:
"Jewish people!"
The children answering him in one voice:
"Meeeh, meeeh".
Chaimel went through the streets like that late into the night. On the morrow, Simchat Torah in the morning, he would be drunk and no one knew where he had gotten so much whisky.
After praying the Simchat Torah service late he came over to the Belzer beit midrash and took Itchele Treger by the arm and went off with him to eat kreplach at various homes. Their first visit was to Simchale Lemel's, who lived right across from the beit midrash. Everyplace he went, he was followed by laughing children.
I recall how Simchale's wife, Tchepele, pleaded with Reb Chaimel that she had only prepared enough for her own family. But Chaimel considered himself a drunkard on that one day, who was always invited. No talking helped. He and Itchele Treger both sat down at the table that was set with the holiday dishes, and Chaimel ordered, "Itche, eat!"
And Itche ate.
And so it went in the other houses where they went, singing jolly tunes and sitting down once again to eat with the appetites of people who had not eaten anything all day.
Itchele Treger made it known to the children in the beit midrash what the Garden of Eden [heaven] was and what hell was. He described to us children how he, Itchele, would be placed after his death in the Garden of Eden in a huge ritual bath full of small farfel, cut fine, and big navy beans. Good angels would fly around singing songs and talking to him, saying "Itchele, east, eat to your heart's content!" He would sit for three full days in that bath full of farfel and beans and eat without interruption.
We children stood with open mouths and listened to his depiction of this satiated Garden of Eden. When it came to hell he was sad, because he envisioned being put into a similar bath with the same farfel and big beans that came up to his neck, but above him flew black angels with eyes that spit fire and who told him with devilish laughter to eat. He wanted to bend his head and start eating and felt that his neck was stiff, his hands and his whole body were paralyzed yet inside in his stomach and mouth he felt a great hunger, but he could not bend. His eyes would bulge out of their sockets and he felt that he would faint from hunger...
Jewish life in Tarnogrod developed and achieved a certain level in all areas. But as each rise was accompanied by a crisis, the life of the youth became one of emigration and decline.
There were times when the economic situation was difficult and there appeared to be no way out. Tarnogrod did not have any factories or big workshops. The craftsmen worked from very early to very late at night. When it seemed as though there were not enough hours, they grabbed another eight hours of work on a winter Shabbos evening. In the morning they would run to the first minyen in the beit midrash, pray quickly and hurry right back to work.
That is how it looked in the times when there was work. Then you could hear through the windows the sound of cantorial singing and various songs.
Then came the days of crisis, when it was dark in the Jewish homes, and no one hurried to pray and there was no singing.
A depression hung over the town.
But even in those days the Jewish youth was busy with cultural activities. With the greatest stubbornness and determination, with the with the limited human and financial strength, work continued in the library which was the home and center for the youth in Tarnogrod.
Almost all the youth were grouped around the library. The Library became more than a place where one got a book. It became an educational institution, where there was concern for the intellectual development of the youth, and with a watchful eye saw to it that each member or reader would read the appropriate book that would enrich and broaden his horizons.
Its ascent also began to be expressed in other cultural forms. The drama circle was created, and everything together became an integral component of the general Jewish life in Tarnogrod.
Thus were the scholars and the ordinary Jews. The scholars taught, formed and shaped the Tarnogrod boy, who was not inclined to drunkenness and hooliganism, who walked through life with the fineness and elevation that he learned in heder.
The modesty and purity that we learned in heder accompanied us all through our lives.
The community ways in the home and on the street were Jewish through and through, and the Jews in Tarnogord, various, but bright, kind, heartful and smart, not only in their minds but also smart in their hearts, with a certain wisdom that comes from vigilant senses.
This was always the particular characteristic of the Tarnogrod Jew, who did not have the opportunity to expend his energy in any big industrial undertaking, in any many-branched businesses, and so was also far from any cold calculating and brutality.
Their strength was their belief, that is deeper than all wells and clearer than the deepest human understanding, and thus the assignment of telling about their life is so huge and so holy.
Translator's footnote:
"Sefira" is the ritual counting of the forty-nine days between Passover and Shavuot. To aid in the count sometimes decorative boxes are used which contain scrolls which help keep track of the day. Return
Editor's Notes:
The editor would like to thank the following ViewMate responders for their help in translating "obyeshtchickes": Ite Doktorski, Emma Karabelnik and Martin Jacobs. Return
End of translation by Martin Jacobs. Return
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On Monday, U.S. Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas received an honor almost as prestigious as her two gold medals from the 2012 London Games — Douglas was immortalized with her very own Barbie doll. But Douglas's likeness isn't just any ordinary Barbie doll: her's is one of a select group of Barbie dolls known as "Shero" Barbies. So who are the Shero Barbies? They include an impressive line up of women from a variety of backgrounds and becoming a Shero Barbie means you're a woman of a very select few to hold the honor.
The latest iteration of the Shero Barbie featuring Douglas ties into a larger campaign from Mattel, the makers of the Barbie doll, called the You Can Be Anything campaign. The campaign was launched in October of last year and was organized in an effort to allow young girls to imagine themselves in whatever professional capacity they want to be when they grow up, from gymnast to film director to Barbie's first all-female presidential ticket.
The first Shero Barbies included six women who are, according to a statement from Mattel, "female heroes who inspire girls by breaking boundaries and expanding possibilities for women everywhere." The first six Shero Barbies were introduced in tandem with the 2015 Variety Power of Women Luncheon.
Here's a look at each seriously rad Shero Barbie.
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Sydney "Mayhem" Keiser has already made quite the name for herself — and she's barely tall enough to ride most rides. This 5-year-old fashion wonder has already designed clothing that's appeared in both Vogue and J. Crew. I have not nearly done enough with my life and I'm almost seven times older than she is.
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The 22nd of February is an important day for Scouts worldwide. On this day, we celebrate Lord Baden–Powell's (and Lady Olave's - they shared a birthday!) birthday also known as Founders Day and we also remember that the Scout Movement was founded by Lord Baden-Powell over one hundred years ago.
"..where the young citizens, male and female, in all countries are brought up to look upon their neighbours as brothers and sisters in the human family allied together with the common aim of service and sympathetic helpfulness towards each other, they will no longer think as heretofore in terms of war as against rivals, but in terms of peace and good will towards another".
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# ${extern_include_dir}   - include directories in for the extern libraries

if(NOT USE_32BIT)
  set(tri_arch "x86_64")
else()
  set(tri_arch "i386")
endif()

if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
  set(tri_compiler "clang")
elseif("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU")
  set(tri_compiler "gcc")
elseif("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "MSVC")
  if(MSVC10)
    set(tri_compiler "vs2010")
  else()
    set(tri_compiler "vs2012")
  endif()
endif()

if(APPLE)
  set(tri_platform "mac")
elseif(WIN32)
  set(tri_platform "win")
else()
  set(tri_platform "linux")
endif()

set(tri_triplet "${tri_platform}-${tri_compiler}-${tri_arch}")

if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug")
  set(tri_triplet "${tri_triplet}")
endif()

set(install_dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../install/${tri_triplet})
set(extern_source_dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../extern/${tri_triplet}/src/)
set(extern_lib_dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../extern/${tri_triplet}/lib/)
set(extern_include_dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../extern/${tri_triplet}/include)

if (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
  set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${install_dir})
endif()

message(STATUS "Building for ${tri_triplet}")
message(STATUS "Extern include dir: ${extern_include_dir}")

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The 25th of April 2015 will mark the centenary of an Australian and New Zealand attack on the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli (present day Turkey), a failed operation carried out on behalf of the British Empire. The 'ANZAC spirit' has since been presented as a founding element of Australian national identity.
However the significance of the ANZAC myth lies not so much in its assertion of youthful sacrifice, bravery and mateship, as in a loyal and unthinking obedience to the military adventures of a great power. We have generated a sense of dependent obligation to participate in the next imperial war, seemingly blind to the slaughter and misery that brings other peoples.
That is, Great Britain made the decision and Australia followed.
In 1942, after Imperial Japan evicted Imperial Britain from Singapore, we exchanged the British dummy for a North American suppository. From this time on there was barely a single aggression by Washington which Australia did not celebrate if not directly support.
In the case of the terrible American war in Vietnam, which stole more than 2 million lives, Washington fabricated a pretext for escalation (the Gulf of Tonkin incident) and Menzies (again PM, 25 years later) wrote South Vietnam's 'invitation' for Australia to participate.
Fragmentation of command was an enduring feature of a military that engaged almost exclusively in 'joint' operations. Only in the 1970s did Australia create a unified command of its own defence forces.
Every nation has its own creation myth, often some deft mixture of fact and fantasy. In the case of the USA an 'empire of freedom' was born in a republic which deployed the largest system of slavery in human history, with an economy dependent on human slavery. Washington, Jefferson and many other founders of that republic were slave owners to the day they died.
Australia's own creation myth, using the ANZAC disaster, is a 'White Australia' construction, as Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds wrote in their 2010 book What's wrong with ANZAC? It denies indigenous culture and affirms a cult of imperial dependence, celebrating nihilistic sacrifices for the great power.
The military traditions of many countries recognise sacrifices made in defence of independence nations. The ANZAC myth is something quite different.


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Q: Xcode 11 crashing on iPhone 13.1 app running I updated Xcode today (Xcode 11.0), and now it crashes every time I try running any project on my iPhone (iOS 13.1).
Already tried:

*

*Cleaning derived data

*Cleaning library cache folder

*Uninstalling xCode and downloading it again from the store

*Restarting Mac

*Restarting iPhone

*Reconnecting iPhone trough itunes

The odd thing is that the Xcode activity doesn't show the "installing app" phase, it goes straight to "Running app on device" and then crashes. Running on the simulator works without a problem.
Already searched on the Apple forums and sent the report to Apple, but maybe there is something I can do to solve te issue.
Error log:
Process:               Xcode [873]
Path:                  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Identifier:            com.apple.dt.Xcode
Version:               11.0 (14936)
Build Info:            IDEFrameworks-14936000000000000~3
App Item ID:           497799835
App External ID:       832762837
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Xcode [873]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2019-09-25 11:47:10.497 -0300
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.14.6 (18G95)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

Time Awake Since Boot: 550 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        16  Dispatch queue: Mutex to protect _hasPerformedWorkerAction

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
com.apple.main-thread
ProductBuildVersion: 11A420a
UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION (NSInternalInconsistencyException): Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil
UserInfo: (null)
Hints:
  0: Calling block provided to DVTSyncPerformBlock() here:

  0   DVTSyncPerformBlock (in DVTFoundation)
  1   -[IDEExecutionRunnableTracker executionWantsHold:withError:] (in IDEFoundation)
  2   -[IDERunOperationWorker _startWithRetrying:] (in IDEFoundation)
  3   __44-[IDERunOperationWorker _startWithRetrying:]_block_invoke_3 (in IDEFoundation)
  4   __48-[DVTDispatchLock_Recursive performLockedBlock:]_block_invoke (in DVTFoundation)
  5   _dispatch_client_callout (in libdispatch.dylib)
  6   _dispatch_lane_barrier_sync_invoke_and_complete (in libdispatch.dylib)
  7   DVTDispatchBarrierSync (in DVTFoundation)
  8   -[DVTDispatchLock performLockedBlock:] (in DVTFoundation)
  9   -[DVTDispatchLock_Recursive performLockedBlock:] (in DVTFoundation)
 10   __44-[IDERunOperationWorker _startWithRetrying:]_block_invoke_2 (in IDEFoundation)
 11   __DVT_CALLING_CLIENT_BLOCK__ (in DVTFoundation)
 12   __DVTDispatchAfter_block_invoke (in DVTFoundation)
 13   _dispatch_client_callout (in libdispatch.dylib)
 14   _dispatch_continuation_pop (in libdispatch.dylib)
 15   _dispatch_source_invoke (in libdispatch.dylib)
 16   _dispatch_continuation_pop (in libdispatch.dylib)
 17   _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke (in libdispatch.dylib)
 18   _dispatch_root_queue_drain (in libdispatch.dylib)
 19   _dispatch_worker_thread2 (in libdispatch.dylib)
 20   _pthread_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)
 21   start_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)

Backtrace:
  0   __exceptionPreprocess (in CoreFoundation)
  1   DVTFailureHintExceptionPreprocessor (in DVTFoundation)
  2   objc_exception_throw (in libobjc.A.dylib)
...
...
...
    0x7fff63005000 -     0x7fff6300affb  libunwind.dylib (35.4) <24A97A67-F017-3CFC-B0D0-6BD0224B1336> /usr/lib/system/libunwind.dylib
    0x7fff6300b000 -     0x7fff6303afff  libxpc.dylib (1336.261.2) <7DEE2300-6D8E-3C00-9C63-E3E80D56B0C4> /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 1
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 430
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 21

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=1.1G resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=1.1G(100%)
Writable regions: Total=1.2G written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=1.2G(100%)

                                VIRTUAL   REGION
REGION TYPE                        SIZE    COUNT (non-coalesced)
===========                     =======  =======
Accelerate framework               640K        5
Activity Tracing                   256K        1
CG backing stores                 1160K        2
CG image                          1296K       95
CG raster data                      56K        6
CoreAnimation                     25.8M      164
CoreGraphics                         8K        1
CoreImage                          776K       81
CoreUI image data                 3000K       34
CoreUI image file                  688K       14
Dispatch continuations            8192K        1
Foundation                         344K        5
Image IO                            80K        5
JS JIT generated code              1.0G        3
Kernel Alloc Once                 1036K        2
MALLOC                           136.4M      116
MALLOC guard page                   48K       10
Memory Tag 242                      12K        1
Memory Tag 251                      64K        3
Performance tool data             8208K        1         not counted in TOTAL below
SQLite page cache                  128K        2
STACK GUARD                       56.1M       23
Stack                             19.2M       23
VM_ALLOCATE                        360K       24
WebKit Malloc                     1144K        3
__DATA                            94.4M      755
__DATA_CONST                         8K        1
__FONT_DATA                          4K        1
__LINKEDIT                       357.4M      236
__TEXT                           723.4M      680
__UNICODE                          564K        1
libnetwork                        1152K        4
mapped file                      169.2M      230
shared memory                      676K       15
===========                     =======  =======
TOTAL                              2.6G     2547

Model: MacBookPro12,1, BootROM 186.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2,9 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.28f7
Graphics: kHW_IntelIris6100Item, Intel Iris Graphics 6100, spdisplays_builtin
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x483943434E4E4E424C54424C41522D4E5544
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x483943434E4E4E424C54424C41522D4E5544
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x133), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.61.2 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1305.8)
Bluetooth: Version 6.0.14d3, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM0512G, 500,28 GB
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: iPhone
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 27.1

A: According to @alxlives 'Deleting the folders content made Xcode download the symbols again, run prepare debug support for the device phase and reset the device connection, solving the problem.' This solution solved the problem for me. Here is a terminal command to remove all contents inside of the folder.
rm -r ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS\ DeviceSupport/

This commands remove all files that are located inside of the Device Support folderl.

A: So, I found that inside this folder:
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport

Xcode creates cache folders for all the physical devices symbols it paired.
This folder remains even if you uninstall Xcode, and the cache is reused even when you install other versions of the software.
Deleting the folders content made Xcode download the symbols again, run prepare debug support for the device phase and reset the device connection, solving the problem.

A: 1.Go to Project Folder

2.Right-click on xcodeproj

3.Click Show package Content

4.Delete xcuserdata directory

A: I was having this issue with Xcode 11.1 and an iPhone XR running iOS 13.2.3 (iPad running that OS version was fine). The accepted answer didn't work for me. Upgrading to Xcode 11.2.1 fixed it.

A: I was having the same crash on XCode 11.3 . I went on to "Show package contents" (right click on) of the ".xcworkspace" workspace directory and deleted "xcuserdata" folder. This resolved the crash for me.

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by Kevin Helms
Thailand to Pass Two New Cryptocurrency Laws
Thai regulators have reportedly agreed to enact two separate laws on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. They will regulate crypto businesses, the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies, as well as their taxation.
Also read: Japan's DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies
Two Laws Being Drafted
Mr. Apisak Tantivorawong.
The Thai Minister of Finance, Mr. Apisak Tantivorawong, said on Thursday that the government is preparing to announce the regulations for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) by the end of this month, Channel 7 news reported.
After the cabinet's meeting, the country's deputy prime minister, Mr. Somkid Jatusripitak, explained that two laws are being drafted, according to Thai Rath newspaper.
The first is the Act on Digital Asset Businesses. It requires the registration and know-your-customer (KYC) compliance of cryptocurrency operators including agents, dealers, and brokers, the news outlet detailed. It also imposes penalties and remedies for violations.
The second is the revision of the country's Revenue Code which concerns taxation related to cryptocurrencies and ICOs, the publication described.
Regulating Crypto Businesses & Taxation
According to Thai Rath, cryptocurrency and ICO businesses such as intermediaries will be required to identify themselves and the sources of crypto investment funds in order to prevent money laundering. These businesses will be obligated to provide transaction information as well as the names of buyers and sellers to the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Office. The law also puts the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) in charge of the regulations. The news outlet elaborated:
Thai private companies that have already issued an ICO must comply with the law within 6 months.
Moreover, Mr. Apisak has ordered the Thai Revenue Department to collect 7% VAT and 15% withholding tax on cryptocurrencies and ICOs, the publication noted, adding that taxpayers can combine their crypto tax liabilities with their annual income.
Central Bank Will Not Change Stance
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) said that it will not change its stance regarding cryptocurrencies and ICOs, the news outlet detailed. In February, the central bank prohibited financial institutions from five key cryptocurrency activities, which will remain in effect even after the regulations are in force.
Following the BOT's prohibition, Bangkok Bank subsequently terminated the accounts of a local cryptocurrency exchange.
Another major bank, Krungthai Bank, soon followed suit and terminated the accounts of local crypto exchanges with them. Mr. Piyong Sriwanich, the bank's president, was quoted by Thai Rath on Thursday declaring that his bank does not support and will not deal with cryptocurrencies in any way. Furthermore, he emphasized that if anyone opens "a deposit account with the bank and invests money in digital currency, the bank will close the account immediately."
What do you think of Thailand's cryptocurrency regulations? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Samsung Fascinate
Location : Nasik
Subject: Samsung Fascinate Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:59 am
Gorgeous Super AMOLED display
GPS isn't always accurate
Search is restricted to Bing
Samsung Fascinate: Another Excellent Android on Verizon
At last, a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone, the Fascinate, has come to Verizon ($200 with a two-year contract from Verizon; price as of September 8, 2010). Like the other phones in the Galaxy S series (the Epic 4G, Captivate, and Vibrant), the Fascinate sports a Super AMOLED display, a solid 5-megapixel camera, and the intuitive TouchWiz user interface. Although Verizon has already established a strong Android portfolio, the Fascinate is a solid addition to the carrier's pack of Droids.
Appearance-wise, the Fascinate looks a lot like the T-Mobile Vibrant, but it is a bit longer and the chrome detailing is slightly less noticeable. The Fascinate measures 4.9 by 2.5 by 0.4 inches and weighs a light 4.1 ounces. The Fascinate is the most sleek and elegant of the Galaxy S phones, with its soft curves, glossy piano-black face, and subtly patterned backing. Unlike the Vibrant and Captivate, the Fascinate feels solid in the hand; the others felt somewhat cheap and plasticky.
TouchWiz 3.0 Interface
Like the rest of the Android pack, the Fascinate runs Android 2.1 (Éclair) with Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 user interface running over it. Those users anxious to get on Android 2.2 (Froyo) should be relieved to know that the Galaxy S phones will receive the upgrade later this year. Overall, this version of TouchWiz is a lot better than the older iteration, which we saw on phones such as the Samsung Behold II for T-Mobile (a phone that was slow and difficult to navigate).
Despite the enhancements, I encountered some familiar issues with TouchWiz 3.0. Even though the phone has a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, the handset lagged slightly when I flipped through menus and scrolled down contact lists or Web pages. Here's hoping the Epic will get a speed boost when it receives the 2.2 upgrade.
Like HTC and its Sense offering, Samsung has its own social media aggregator. Social Hub combines streams from your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts into a single view. It is a useful feature if you need a simple way to keep track of your networks. One random feature is Mini Diary, which lets you create blog entries with photos, weather info, text messages, and more. When I first tried Mini Diary on the European Galaxy S, I couldn't figure out how to get my entries off the device. Samsung followed up with me after my original review, thankfully, and confirmed that you can indeed post entries (though only those with photos) to various social networks or send them to friends via text. After you create an entry, you press the Menu key in the bottom-left corner, and it gives you MMS and Publish options. If you choose Publish, you can send your item to Facebook or MySpace.
My biggest problem with the TouchWiz interface is that it is overdone--so much so that the result doesn't even look or feel like an Android phone. Additionally, the skin sometimes interfered with the Fascinate's speediness
Another issue I have with the Fascinate is more on Verizon's shoulders than Samsung's. Despite the obvious fact that this is a Google Android phone, the Fascinate's search function defaults to the Bing search engine. There's nothing bad about the Bing search engine, but when you buy an Android phone, you expect Google-everything. And what does Google do best? Search. Even worse, you can't change the default settings. To use Google search, you have to go to Google.com in the Web browser, and then search from there.
We put the Samsung Galaxy S, which has the same 5-megapixel camera as the Fascinate, through a modified version of our test for point-and-shoot digital cameras, along with the iPhone 4, the Motorola Droid X, and the HTC EVO 4G. Unfortunately our test was not very impressed with the photo quality of the Galaxy S, as it earned the lowest score out of the four and an overall word score of Fair. It finished ahead of the EVO 4G in exposure quality, but landed in last place in our color-accuracy, sharpness, and distortion tests.
In my own hands-on tests outdoors, I was pretty impressed with the Fascinate's image quality. Colors looked bright and natural, and details were sharp. Only a slight bit of graininess appeared in the shots; I had to look really closely on my monitor to see it.
On the other hand, the Galaxy S took second place in overall video quality. Its performance skewed heavily toward good performance in bright light.Its bright-light footage looked a bit underexposed and slightly grainy in a full-screen view, but great at smaller sizes. The autofocus searched a little before locking on to a crisp image. In low light, the footage was a touch too murky and undefined to earn a better rating. Fortunately, you can use the Fascinate's flash as a light while capturing video.
Out of all the powerful smartphone cameras I've tested lately, those of the Galaxy S phones have the cleanest, most user-friendly interface. Unlike with the iPhone 4, here you can pick from a wide variety of shooting modes (Vintage, Smile Detection, Panorama, Continuous, and many more) and easily tweak the camera's settings according to your environment and subject.
The shutter speed is a bit slow, however, so if you plan on taking pictures of fast-moving children or pets, you might be disappointed with the Fascinate's snapper.
The TouchWiz music player is touch-friendly and easy to navigate. It showcases album art nicely, too, with an iTunes Cover Flow-style user interface. Sound was clean over my own earbuds, and decent via the external speakers.
One of the most intriguing features of the Fascinate is the Samsung Media Hub, which will come with all of the Galaxy S phones. Media Hub is Samsung's answer to iTunes, a store for purchasing music and video. Unfortunately, Media Hub is not yet available to users right now;Media Hub will launch this fall. Customers will be able to download the service via an over-the-air update.
Like the other Galaxy S phones, the Fascinate is powered by a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. TouchWiz sometimes bogs down the user interface, such as when you're scrolling through a lot of pictures in the gallery or flipping through a long list of contacts. When I tested Sprint's Epic 4G, that phone crashed multiple times when I tried sending an image through the Gallery app. Thankfully, the same thing didn't happen with the Fascinate.
Search-default frustrations aside, browsing the Web on the Fascinate is a joy thanks to Verizon's speedy 3G network. Media-heavy Web pages such as CNN.com loaded in seconds.
Many users have complained that the Captivate and Vibrant are slow at locking down user location on Bing Maps. The Fascinate was faster, but it still took quite a bit of time to track down my location fully. Furthermore, my location wasn't always accurate. For example, the Fascinate showed my location on Third Street rather than on Second Street.
Call quality was quite good. I could hear my contacts loud and clear, without any static or distortion. My contacts reported similarly good quality, though a few said the background noise was a bit loud.
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