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I left the Satmar Hasidic community - 'Unorthodox' is a grossly inaccurate depiction of that world
Scene: It's Shabbes when Esty, a young Samar Hasidic woman, is about to make her escape from her repressive community to Berlin, where she has decided to start a new life as a secular woman.
So opens the new Netflix miniseries 'Unorthodox'.
She collects her valuables from her underwear drawer, pulls cash out of her styrofoam wig stand, and ties it all up in a sweater. Just as she's about to leave the dingy Williamsburg building, the lobby is in commotion and women are milling everywhere. "Esty…you can't leave," a neighbor tells her, "The eruv is broken." The eruv is a wire border encircling a public domain. If there is an eruv, Orthodox Jews are allowed to carry things on Shabbes, like Esty's shopping bag. But on this day, the eruv is broken, so Esty must turn back. She leaves her phone and everything but an envelope behind. She attempts her exodus again, and this time, she succeeds. The camera pans out to show her running away and leaving the grimy Brooklyn streets of Williamsburg behind.
According to the New York Times review, "the thin eruv wire that surrounds the Satmar Hasidic community where she lives might as well be an Iron Curtain." The broken eruv is supposed to be a powerful visual of Esty's break for freedom, of the curtain raised.
The only problem is that the scene is grossly inaccurate. Williamsburg doesn't abide by the eruv. The Satmar consensus is that the Rebbe was against building an eruv in the city, and that carrying things on Shabbes is still prohibited, whether there is a thin wire or not. While there is a minority that honors the eruv, it has received great pushback from the community leaders. To this day, those who carry publicly are liable to be harassed with cries of "Shabbes!" by community zealots.
The opening scene of Unorthodox, like the rest of the show, is problematic in various ways: It imbues fancy profundity where there actually is none. It gets a lot of small details wrong. And it does not capture that which is truly profound in the Hasidic experience.
It is easy to point out how the show stumbles on costume, ritual, customs. In the opening scene alone, I was struck by the ugly weekday clothes Esty wears on Shabbes, her unwelcoming and unsightly apartment, her atrocious as is par-for-the-course Hasidic wig (is it too hard to give the pale woman a few side-bangs). As for the women huddled in the lobby, their scarves are too low on their foreheads, their Yiddish accents are bad. These many inaccuracies might seem negligible to the outsider who doesn't think bangs or no-bangs make any difference — I simply point to these little things because these are clear-cut.
But the small things that are wrong reflect the larger thing that is wrong: That Unorthodox does not accurately capture the soul of the Hasidic community. And this – this inaccuracy in spirit – is much harder to show. I grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community; I'm now (when we are not holed up with the plague) a tour guide in Williamsburg's Hasidic community. I don't recognize the Unorthodox world where people are cold, humorless, and obsessed with following the rules. Of course, bad people exist in the Hasidic community, and I am critical of many of its practices, but that doesn't mean everyone goes about muted, serious, drawn, fulfilling the rules and mentioning the Holocaust.
I have always known Williamsburg to be a lively world of gossip, drama, peer pressure, materialism, competition, family and busybody neighbors. The people in Unorthodox are not that.
None of the characters feel real. They are incoherent; I can't conjure their world and step in to it. Esty is quiet, with a kind of hardened resolve, and seems to have difficulty connecting with anyone. Yet she is Miss Popularity in her new society, when she moves to Berlin. She has the chutzpah to go to Berlin but she needs a shiksa to get her passport for her (can't she fill out the form herself?). She says she is not like other girls, but it is hard to understand what exactly sets her apart: Is she a dreamer, is she feeling suffocated, does she feel alone? How are her social and sexual problems so easily resolved when she leaves?
Her husband, Yanky, shows no sympathy for her vaginismus, a condition of the vaginal muscles that makes sex excruciating. He is obsessed with the need to be fruitful and multiply, as if he believes he can quote rules to make the issue of her pain disappear. From everything I know (I'm a big gossip), if a couple has sexual issues they are handled as a problem that warrants medical intervention and something akin to empathy; maybe pity. But here, Yanky lays it all on her. The sex scenes look like rape. When he finally penetrates her, she writhes in agony, and yet he pants in delight. As she lies there in aguish, he almost smacks his lips with relish. He says, "Wow… that felt so… amazing." This same obtuse man is also supposedly sensitive and naïve in other moments. Many reviewers described him as a sympathetic character, but I can't feel the moments of his sensitivity, if he could be so callous to her in the most intimate moment. It's quite simple: Any man who treats his wife like that is a bad guy. But I guess the public's standards are different, for Hasidic men?
The women's relationships with each other are also nothing like the vibrant yenta world of my childhood Williamsburg. Esty's mother-in-law meddles in her marriage by showing up at her door and confronting her for not having consummated the marriage. It's implausible to me that a woman's vaginismus would be cause for her mother-in-law to show up and demand she open her womb to her son. What is the mother-in-law's motive here even? To bully Esty out of the pain? This is not believable — it just shows the limited imagination of outsiders looking in.
Real-life Hasidic shviggers [mothers-in-law] have devastating and less clunky ways to torture their daughters-in-law: backstabbing, manipulating, gossiping, gas-lighting…yes, I have a few ideas.
It's okay to show the dark side of Hasidism, but the portrayal still needs to be human. The characters in Unorthodox are othered. They are cartoonishly evil. Their kind moments seem out of character and are unconvincing. They are not like any humans I have met ever, Hasidic or otherwise.
Shtissel provides a good contrast to Unorthodox. Unlike Unorthodox, the human story in Shtissel comes to the fore, and the particulars of the culture are only the setting in which they unfold. Rituals like an eruv are not heavy-handedly emphasized. Shtissel makes the watcher feel drawn inside the world. It comes as no surprise then that so many people enjoy Shtissel, because they can connect to it. Unlike the many stereotyping film portrayals of Hasidim, where the viewer becomes a voyeur to foreign Disney-witches in odd costumes. Audiences want and can handle depictions of Orthodox Jews that are complex and realistic. Showrunners who argue that flat depictions are necessary for the unschooled outsider are just being lazy.
What good does a film like this do except to flatter secular biases against religion? It doesn't challenge the viewer. It doesn't make viewers think. It complements the viewer on being among the secular people who are the "good guys" in Berlin, not the bad Hasids in New York.
It just sinks us a bit deeper into our biases. I always get upset by this, because it reminds me too much of the way the world as it was presented to me when I was Hasidic — black and white, good and bad, only with the roles of good guy and bad guy reversed.
But in my own journey to find a world that makes sense to me I learned this: no depiction is accurate if it is dehumanizing.
https://forward.com/life/442798/i-left-the-satmar-hasidic-community-unorthodox-is-a-grossly-inaccurate/
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Hasidic Jewish community north of Montreal quarantined after COVID-19 outbreak
An Orthodox Jewish community north of Montreal is under lockdown after some of its members tested positive for COVID-19.
Public health authorities on Sunday ordered the 4,000-person Tosh community of Boisbriand, Que., to be placed under 14-day quarantine. The group's leadership has asked police to help enforce the directive.
Tosh leaders agree with authorities that strict measures need to be taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the community, even if only a small number of members have so far tested positive, the region's public health director told reporters Monday.
Dr. Eric Goyer said he did not take the decision lightly to place the community under quarantine.
"It's maybe the most difficult decision of my life ... but it's really to protect the members of the community and the members of the (larger) community living around them," Goyer said.
"Restricting individual liberties is not something I like to do, but I want to provide the best protection to the members of the community, particularly the seniors."
So far about 15 Tosh members have tested positive for COVID-19, Goyer said, adding they likely picked up the virus while travelling to New York State two weeks ago to celebrate a religious holiday. The number of positive cases is expected to rise, he said.
Boisbriand's Tosh community, located in the greater Montreal area, is composed of many large families, which often have between six and eight children, Goyer said.
Boisbriand Mayor Marlene Cordato said Monday the order extends to about 100 families that live in town but outside the official quarantined area where most of the Tosh community is located.
"The community is fully co-operating with us, they themselves are following up on the orders that were given yesterday," Goyer said.
Tosh members are manning a checkpoint leading into the community with the help of municipal police to ensure the quarantine is respected.
Francis Lanouette, chief of the Therese-de-Blainville police, said another main road leading into the area where the majority of the community lives is blocked off.
"We sat down with the community, and with them, we established a plan to do what is needed to be done so that people would be abiding by the public health order," Lanouette told reporters Monday.
There's a small grocery store and butcher within the quarantined area and Goyer said contingencies are underway to get anything else to people that need it.
Community leaders have had to translate public health directives into Yiddish as many members don't speak English or French and eschew TV and radio.
"I can tell you they are doing a lot more than other communities in attempting to stop the spread of the virus," Goyer said.
https://www.chroniclejournal.com/life/health/hasidic-jewish-community-north-of-montreal-quarantined-after-covid-/article_95f36f06-2687-5be9-a2a5-57812ebc990a.html
Jewish Online School Welcomes Children Without a School
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https://anash.org/jewish-online-school-welcomes-children-without-a-school/
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Orthodox rabbis in Bergen County, NJ, cancel all synagogue services, gatherings
Orthodox Jewish rabbis in Bergen County, New Jersey, have ordered the cancellation of all communal events, including prayer services and public celebrations, as part of a wide-ranging effort to stem the coronavirus.
The decision by the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, which represents more than two dozen synagogues, also stipulated that Orthodox schools remain closed and that kosher restaurants under the group's jurisdiction serve only takeout meals. Only the ritual bath, known as the "mikvah," may remain open.
"We must all try our best to STAY HOME with only our immediate family for now and to avoid unnecessary contact with others, and particularly with substantial groups," read the RCBC directive issued Thursday (March 12).
Leaders of the RCBC said they met with representatives of local government, including the Teaneck Department of Health and doctors from three local hospitals.
"The message from the healthcare providers was clear," the letter said. "They need our help to slow the spread of the disease before their resources are overwhelmed."
There were 23 cases of the new coronavirus in New Jersey as of Thursday morning. A 69-year-old man died, 20 people were hospitalized and two remain in self-isolation, according to news accounts.
Bergen County is among the 20 largest Jewish communities in the United States, with over 185 known Jewish organizations. Over the years it has attracted a sizable Orthodox community, especially Hasidic Jews.
The county has close to 1 million residents and, according to a spokesperson for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, an estimated 100,000 Jewish residents.
The directive does not apply to Conservative or Reform Jews, who make up the majority of the county's Jews.
In neighboring New York state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mandated a one-mile containment zone in New Rochelle after the Young Israel of New Rochelle, an Orthodox synagogue, became the epicenter for infections. On Thursday, Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York City.
It began when Lawrence Garbuz, a lawyer, attended a bat mitzvah and a funeral in February at Young Israel, and was later diagnosed with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. He is thought to have potentially exposed hundreds of congregants to the virus.
New Rochelle is in New York state's Westchester County.
The virus has already squelched community gatherings for Purim, a joyous Jewish holiday that fell on Monday and Tuesday this week.
Many other Jewish communities are moving to online services.
The Conference of Jewish Republicans has been canceled. It had previously vowed to go forward in Las Vegas with President Donald Trump appearing as the keynote speaker.
At least six people who attended last week's American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering in Washington, D.C., have tested positive for the coronavirus. The AIPAC conference typically draws an estimated 18,000 people.
https://religionnews.com/2020/03/12/orthodox-rabbis-in-bergen-county-n-j-cancel-all-synagogue-services-gatherings/
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In This Northern English Town, a Pizzeria Can Divide the Jewish Community
Boys in hoodies dance on roofs, clutching bottles of cheap wine as their tzitzit jiggle. An elderly man wearing a black coat that fans out behind him dances with nobody in particular. Gangs of young men dressed as Redcoats rampage through the streets. The biggest fox you have ever seen crosses a road clutching bags of candy.
Welcome to Gateshead during the Jewish holiday of Purim.
This postindustrial town sitting across the Tyne river from Newcastle is the last of Europe's great yeshiva towns, often referred to as the Oxbridge of Britain's Jewish community. Its 8,000 Jewish residents – almost all ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) – are concentrated in about a dozen streets in the Bensham neighborhood, huddled around Gateshead Talmudical College, aka Gateshead Yeshiva. The college is among the most prestigious in the Orthodox world, and the largest in Europe.
Gateshead Yeshiva and a host of other educational institutions have sustained and nurtured Gateshead's Jewish community for almost a century, providing a constant stream of scholars and families who have invigorated the local Jewish community. During term times, Gateshead's Jewish community swells as it welcomes some 1,500 students – many from London and other local Jewish communities, but also from across Western Europe, Latin America, South Africa, north Africa and Australia.
Gateshead is the outlier in northern England: a dynamic Jewish population that has doubled in size since 2008 as larger and more prosperous communities faded away. The Jewish community in nearby Sunderland, 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the southeast, has all but vanished, for example. At the end of the 1980s, in a sad end for a community that once saw itself as a more open and diverse intellectual peer than its local rival, the Sunderland Talmudical College (aka Sunderland Yeshiva) relocated to Gateshead – pushing that town's reputation as a center of excellence for religious study still higher. Sunderland's last synagogue, Beth Hamedrash, shuttered in 2006, and now just a handful of Jews remain in the city.
On the streets of Bensham, it is clear to see why the town has become a magnet for Haredim. An ample supply of cheap housing, often managed and purchased through communal organizations and housing associations, has encouraged ultra-Orthodox families from Manchester and London, many of whom previously studied here, to relocate to the northeast. "Sold" signs dominate row houses on the edges of the "Jewish streets" here.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-europe-s-last-great-yeshiva-town-finds-itself-at-a-crossroads-1.8660358
Families of Pittsburgh synagogue victims to get $3 million from donated funds
The three congregations housed at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue will distribute more than $5.4 million donated in the aftermath of the deadly October 2018 shooting there.
In a news release Monday, the congregations announced that they planned to distribute just over $3 million to the families of the 11 people killed in the attack by a lone gunman and two seriously injured worshippers. Another $1.2 million will be directed toward the rebuilding of the Tree of Life building.
Most of the remaining funds will go to support memorialization and honoring first responders, as well to the two congregations that rented space in the building, Congregation Dor Hadash and New Light Congregation.
The funds were donated between the attack on Oct. 27, 2018, and the end of April 2019, and are separate from those collected by the Pittsburgh Jewish Federation's Victims of Terror Fund, which were distributed by April 2019.
The distributions were based on the recommendations of an independent committee convened by the federation that delivered its report in February.
"One of the principles that guided the committee's deliberations relative to the funds received by Tree of Life was 'shalom b'bayit' — the need to arrive at recommendations that would foster healing in the congregations, among victims' families and harmony throughout the wider Jewish community," said Barbara Caplan, co-president of New Light Congregation.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/441305/families-of-pittsburgh-synagogue-victims-to-get-3-million-from-donated/
A Freilichen Purim!
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Ashdod's rabbis warn of increasing missionary activity, call for volunteers to combat them
On Friday, noticeboards in synagogues and on the streets in all the haredi areas of Ashdod prominently featured a proclamation headed "Vayikhalu Hayehudim" (And the Jews gathered together) regarding the growing menace of missionaries operating in Ashdod, signed by all the rabbis and hasidic leadersof the city. Pictures of missionary activity in Ashdod were also displayed.
The notice stated: "According to Yad L'Achim activists, missionaries operating in Ashdod are working with great determination to entice as many people as they can to join them. Every single week, hundreds of people [residents of Ashdod] arrive at their house of worship in order to receive donations of food and other forms of assistance. In this way, and also via other sly and underhand tactics, they succeed in convincing unwitting people to adopt their faith."
"Therefore, we, the rabbis and hasidic leaders of the city of Ashdod, have resolved to do whatever we can to assist those working for the good of the community ... Among the options being considered are putting more activists on the ground, to stand outside the mission's church and warn people of the nature of those who profess to help them; and establishing a charity fund to ... provide for their material and other needs, in order to put an end to missionary activities and remove this abomination from our midst.
"We hope and pray that we will be able to restore a pure spirit to our city ... and that all those who have been ensnared will return to the faith of Israel."
Highlighting the exceptional nature of the matter, all the rabbis and hasidic leaders of the city signed the proclamation, including Rabbi Refael Abuhatzeira, Rabbi Yekutiel Abuhatzeira, Rabbi Shmuel Toledano; the Admorim of Pittsburgh, Melitz, Shomrei Emunim, Chernobyl, Tolna; the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Ashdod Rabbi Yosef Sheinin; the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Ashdod Rabbi Chaim Shimon Pinto; Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Hakohen Gross of Gur; Rabbi Chaim Pesach Halevi Horovitz of Belz; Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Vizhnitzer of Belz.
In addition, shortly before Shabbat (Sabbath) dozens of haredim headed to the industrial zone just outside the city where the missionaries' church, "Beit Hillel," is located. They brought with them music and loudspeakers and began to dance, singing "And the Jews had light, happiness, joy, and honor" - a verse from the Scroll of Esther, which is read on the upcoming holiday of Purim. The verse celebrates the Jewish people's victory following the downfall of the evil Haman who sought to eradicate the Jewish nation.
A spokesman from the anti-missionary department of Yad L'Achim said that following this heartfelt appeal from the rabbis of the city, they hope that in the near future hundreds of new volunteers will sign up to help. Particularly important is ensuring a near-constant presence of volunteers outside the mission's church, to inform Jews heading there for whatever reason that those "helping" them are in fact missionaries who seek to lure them away from Judaism.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/277020
Man arrested after allegedly threatening building manager of JC Kosher Supermarket location
A Jersey City man has been arrested after he allegedly threatened the property manager of the building where the JC Kosher Supermarket was located and which was the site of the Dec. 10 mass shooting that claimed the lives of four people in what the US Attorney's Office has called a hate crime.
On March 5, members of the Jersey City Police Department working in collaboration with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, arrested and charged Jersey City resident Taylor Stackhouse, 38, with terroristic threats and related bias crimes for allegedly threatening the property manager of the MLK Drive building earlier this week.
On Tuesday, March 3, at approximately 11:50 a.m., Stackhouse allegedly approached the victim – who was dressed in traditional Hasidic Jewish clothing and was exiting a building on Martin Luther King Drive – and allegedly made multiple threats to the victim.
According to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, at this stage of the investigation, there is no indication that there is any connection between Stackhouse and the Dec. 10 attack.
Stackhouse was arrested Thursday afternoon without incident on Dwight Street and Bergen Avenue in Jersey City.
Stackhouse has been charged with two counts of second-degree Bias Intimidation and one count of fourth-degree Bias Intimidation, as well as two counts of Terroristic Threats and a Petty Disorderly Persons Harassment charge.
Prosecutor Esther Suarez credited the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office and the Jersey City Police Department for the investigation and arrest.
The above charges are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty
https://hudsonreporter.com/2020/03/05/man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-building-manager-of-jc-kosher-supermarket-location/
A Cantor, an Actor and a Zoologist Inspire Yeshivat Frisch Seniors
Amidst the excitement of Rosh Chodesh Adar festivities, three senior elective classes at Yeshivat Frisch welcomed exciting guest speakers last week. Rabbi Michael Bashist's Hasidut class was honored to welcome the world-renowned chazzan, Cantor Joseph Malovany, who spoke about his personal relationship with three late Hasidic rebbes: the Satmar Rebbe, Lubavitcher Rebbe and Bobover Rebbe. Malovany told several inspiring stories about these interactions—music-related and otherwise—that revealed the sometimes surprising overlap between the Modern Orthodox and Hasidic spheres, despite the differences. "Hasidic rebbes care about people; they care about every neshama," Malovany said. He also sang select niggunim from Bobov and other Hasidic dynasties, marveling at the Bobover Rebbe's ability to compose complex, emotive niggunim despite having no musical training.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Burry Klein's psychology class was excited to welcome Menashe Lustig, a Hasidic actor and star of the film "Menashe," about a Hasidic widower who attempts to regain custody of his child. Lustig spoke about his experiences as a Hasidic actor living in a community that largely ignores the outside world, as well as about how his personal experiences were brought to bear on his role in the film. "When you have trauma, you make something of it," he said. "You make nice jewelry of it."
Finally, Dr. Mindy Furman and Esther Ruskin's AP biology classes participated in the "Skype a Scientist" program, which enables students to video conference with scientists in various fields, and in various locations. The students got to virtually meet Alyssa Kaganer, who is about to finish her PhD in Zoology and Wildlife Conservation at Cornell/Smithsonian. Kaganer studies the impact of infectious diseases on global amphibian populations and is involved in the conservation of endangered species. She spoke to the classes about her research, how she got into this career, and about the nature of science in general. The students asked great questions and they had a wonderful conversation!
https://jewishlinknj.com/schools/36669-a-cantor-an-actor-and-a-zoologist-inspire-yeshivat-frisch-seniors
Yeshiva University closes campus, citing student infected with COVID-19
The United States' biggest Jewish educational institution, Yeshiva University, closed its main campus on Wednesday, citing confirmation that a student has been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the highly contagious coronavirus. The school expects that it will reopen on Thursday, according to an email alert.
The student is the son of a man who lives in suburban New York and who has been hospitalized with a serious case of COVID-19. The man's was the second case in New York State, after a health care worker who had been in Iran, also the site of an outbreak. The man also has a child at SAR High School, a Jewish school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Both SAR's high school and its K-8 lower school, with over 1,400 students total, closed Tuesday.
The closing of YU's upper Manhattan campus in Washington Heights, which hosts the men's undergraduate college, the men's business school, several graduate schools and a boys' high school, includes the cancellation of classes and the postponement of scheduled exams. Dormitories and food services are still operating. YU also has a law school and two women's schools in Manhattan, a medical school in the Bronx and a campus in Israel.
YU said in a press release that the student had not been on campus since February 27, though officials say that the student's father first became ill on February 22.
Tuesday, when the hospitalized man's son was showing symptoms but had not been diagnosed, YU said it would be continuing classes and campus life as usual.
The infection of the Westchester man also prompted the closing of a synagogue in New Rochelle, where the family is from. New York health officials have ordered Young Israel of New Rochelle, an Orthodox synagogue, to close temporarily, and are asking hundreds of congregants to self-quarantine.
While the man was not at synagogue over the weekend, according to the synagogue's executive director, health officials are asking anyone who attended previous services, including a bat mitzvah and a funeral last week, to self-quarantine as well, until at least March 8.
The brother of the YU student is a high school student at SAR, a prominent Modern Orthodox private school in the Bronx. The school closed Tuesday, citing concerns over spread of the coronavirus, and announced that evening that the school, which has about 1,400 students in grades K-12, would be closed Wednesday as well.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/440879/yeshiva-university-covid-19-coronavirus-quarantine/
A 4th-generation Vermont Orthodox Jew is starting the state's first Jewish day school
Draizy Junik is well acquainted with the challenges of living a Jewish life in Vermont, a state that while home to a well-known Jewish Democratic presidential candidate has a total Jewish population of about 20,000 people.
As a kid, Junik was homeschooled until the age of 13 and then sent off to a Jewish school in Montreal, 100 miles to the north, returning home only for Shabbat. Vermont is home to 14 synagogues and four centers affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement, but no Jewish educational institution for kids older than 5.
"My ultimate goal was always to have a Jewish elementary school in Burlington," said Junik, 28, who moved back to her home state with her husband in 2015 after spending time in Israel and New York to help her parents run the Chabad house there.
This fall, Junik will finally see that dream realized when the state's first Jewish day school opens. The Tamim Academy, which will be launched as part of a new network of Jewish schools, will be housed at the Burlington Chabad center and offer one combined kindergarten and first-grade class in its inaugural year. Junik hopes it will eventually expand to eighth grade.
"I love living here," she said. "I think that first of all, the pace of life here is just really calm and it's a really friendly place to live, very community oriented, family friendly, kid friendly. And it's just also very much also a beautiful place that values nature a lot."
Nature will be a big part of students' days at the school: They will travel once a week to a local farm, where they will help care for animals and learn about farming.
Susan Leff, executive director of Jewish Communities of Vermont, the only statewide Jewish umbrella group, called the opening of the school "very significant."
"I think that the establishment of a Jewish day school is without any doubt a landmark event for the community and certainly for the families who take advantage of it," she said.
Junik, who will serve as the school's executive director, hopes the new school can provide a deeper Jewish experience for kids in Vermont as well as attract more Jewish families to the state. She also has a personal reason for opening the school now — the oldest of her four children is getting ready to start first grade and will be in the initial class.
"It's really incredible that we're able to live here in Burlington, a place that's so far from large Jewish communities, and for my son to be able to have that experience of high-quality Jewish education," she said.
Junik's family history in Vermont dates back generations. Her family first moved to the state after her great-grandfather took a job as a rabbi, mohel and kosher slaughterer in the city of Barre. Her grandfather, whose parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe, was born there in 1920 and would commute to Burlington to attend Hebrew school in the afternoons after completing his secular studies.
"At that time, [Burlington] was a bustling Jewish community," Junik said.
There were synagogues, kosher butchers and a bakery in a neighborhood that became known as "Little Jerusalem." But there was no Jewish school, so Junik's grandfather ended up leaving as a teenager to attend a yeshiva. His family followed shortly after.
Decades later, in 1984, Junik's parents returned to Vermont to start the state's first Chabad center in Burlington. They opened a preschool, which today has some 50 kids and which Junik helped expand last year to include a kindergarten.
Tamim Academy will draw on the Montessori and Reggio Emilia educational styles, two progressive models that emphasize self-directed and experiential learning.
As is common in Montessori schools, Tamim students will do plenty of hands-on and immersive learning like the farm experience, which kids in the the preschool program already do. They also will receive two to three hours of Hebrew-language immersion every day.
https://www.jta.org/2020/03/02/united-states/a-4th-generation-vermont-orthodox-jew-is-starting-the-states-first-jewish-day-school
Convicted Sex Offender Rabbi Berland Charged With Fraud
A charismatic rabbi who served prison time for indecent acts and sexual assault was charged Sunday with swindling terminally ill people out of large sums by promising to heal them.
Eliezer Berland, the head of Jerusalem's Shuvu Banim yeshiva and its affiliated community, was arrested last month on allegations that he earned millions of shekels from these deceptions. Prosecutors want him detained until the end of legal proceedings. Another hearing in the case is scheduled for Thursday in the Jerusalem District Court.
The indictment states that starting in 2014, Berland and his associates defrauded desperate people who had come to him for help. It describes 16 cases in which Berland portrayed himself as a miracle worker who, in exchange for huge payments, could cure terminal illnesses and revive the dead. He also claimed he could help people to avoid prison and could find missing people.
"Berland did this knowing that he did not have the power to bring about the desired result, and that there was no truth in his claims," the indictment says. He extracted money from desperate people by "exploit[ing] his position as a spiritual and religious authority."
According to the indictment, as part of these deceptions Berland would recommend preparations and pills as "miracle drugs," even though they were no more than over the counter pain medications — and sometimes even Mentos candies.
"These deceptions were presented by the accused for years, in a planned, systematic and regular fashion, as a fraudulent initiative motivated by money," the indictment says.
Berland is also accused of engineering a violent assault, by calling on members of his community to attack a couple on grounds that they violated religious law.
Berland recorded a message in which he called for his adherents to "break their bones," and ordered it broadcast on one of the Shuvu Banim community's media outlets.
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A Jog Around the Blogosphere: Newspapers, Bobby Bowden, and Rick Neuheisel
By T Kyle King Apr 10, 2009, 10:36pm EDT
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Every now and again, circumstances call for me to pause long enough to take a look at the blogosphere and give you a brief ("brief" being a relative term where I am concerned) snapshot of what I see . . . you know, like Ferris Bueller at 40. ("Ferris Bueller at 40," by the way, would be a much worse movie than you think it would be.) A Friday night rainout is as good a time as any to share such slivers of perspective, so here, at a glance (again, these terms are relative), is what I have seen lately that was worthy of note:
Although I've linked to this before, it bears repeating because Maize 'n' Brew Dave has penned an exceptional piece on the present shift from print media to the blogosphere, which has received cogent responses from Year2 at Team Speed Kills and from donkeydawg right here at Dawg Sports.
While I continue to hold out hope that I will have time at a later date to give this topic the attention it deserves in a posting all its own, I would say, in summary, that I don't believe the newspaper industry is dying per se---print journalism will survive, albeit increasingly in an electronic medium---and the blogosphere's ability to take newspaper reporters' place is much more limited and much less desirable than we imagine. I simply could not do David Hale's job if he quit doing it; I am reliant upon him for information and he does his job substantially better than I would if we switched places. The pundit has much to fear from the blogosphere---Stewart Mandel, I'm looking at you---but the blogger and the reporter can, and should, be friends, as our respective functions are complementary rather than at cross purposes.
Beyond that, we should be careful about becoming too smug about how much more hip we are than those stodgy grizzled old dinosaurs named Duffy with "press" cards tucked inside the hatbands of their fedoras. Writers in the blogosphere can be overwhelmed by technology, too. I only recently started posting Dawg Sports pieces to my Facebook page and the SB Nation College Blogs Twitter Index does not include this weblog because I'll be damned if I can figure out how the circles of the Venn diagram of people who get information in Twitter-sized bursts and people who read what MaconDawg and I write will ever overlap. Co-authoring a sports weblog doesn't make me anything better than marginally more technologically savvy than Buzz Bissinger; I'd be lying if I told you I didn't sometimes feel like I was being as overwhelmed by the explosive innovations crowding in on this medium as old school beat reporters must feel regarding the rush of technology crowding out their medium in the form that they have known it. At the most fundamental level, I'm just giving voice to my inner Grizzard, and, as much as I value the community component that weblogs have revolutionized, I doubt seriously whether I go about producing my part of the conversation a great deal differently from the way Lewis did.
Richard Pittman has offered an interesting argument that Bobby Bowden is getting what he deserves. AuditDawg took issue with his position, but it deserves a read. For what it's worth, I think it's a moot point: I told you Oklahoma's "vacated" victories would be reinstated, and I was right. I can't imagine that Florida State's "vacated" wins won't be put back into the record book on appeal, as well.
As long as we're wandering around SB Nation, I ought to mention War Eagle Atlanta's posting on things that could stand to vanish from college football. If you're wondering whether I spotted all these articles by reading every college football weblog in the network, incidentally, I'm sorry to say I don't have that kind of time. Fortunately, SB Nation's Southeastern Conference weblog, Team Speed Kills, covers the league (and the weblogs that cover the league) comprehensively. That's where I go to keep up with the rest of the S.E.C.; I'd recommend you make it one of your daily stops if you haven't already.
What I wrote above about bloggers being unable to replace reporters? That may only be true of mere mortal bloggers like, oh, say, me. Not so on the opposite edge of the continent, though, where a pair of Bruins Nation writers interviewed Rick Neuheisel. In their conversation, Coach Neuheisel made some good points about the ways in which the Pac-10 is harmed by its television deals and bowl tie-ins, but he made that sensible argument in a bizarre way. Said Coach Neuheisel:
And they look at Oregon State and say, well, Oregon State doesn't get enough credit, and that goes back to that ESPN thing that I was talking about. Oregon State was a damn good team last year.
That strikes me as an odd example to use. Oregon State's upset of Southern California came in a nationally-televised Thursday night game that everyone in the country saw (and that most of us celebrated, right before everything went to Hell in a handbasket). While I agree that a bad television contract and weak postseason tie-ins generally cause the Pac-10 to get less credit as a league than it deserves, the Beavers got every iota of exposure imaginable out of that win over the Trojans (as, for that matter, did U.C.L.A. for its triumph over Tennessee, and for precisely the same reason). Oregon State got ample credit for that victory. The Pac-10 needs more games like that one, but O.S. didn't get sold short; the Beavers just suffered from losing to Stanford and getting blown out at Penn State.
Finally, for whatever it's worth, Dawg Sports received its 2,500,000th page view on Thursday, April 9. As always, MaconDawg and I thank you profusely for taking the time to participate in the conversation on a daily basis.
That's what I've seen going on, but, of course, neither I nor any other single human being can keep up with all of it, so, by all means, feel free to point out what I've missed, and to share your thoughts on the foregoing, in the comments below.
Go 'Dawgs!


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World Shut Your Mouth (album), an album by Julian Cope
"World Shut Your Mouth" (song), a single by Julian Cope from his album Saint Julian
World Shut Your Mouth (TV series), a 2005 television series starring Dom Joly
World Shut Your Mouth (DVD), a 2003 DVD by punk rock band The Dickies

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Calderwood is a village in Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Settlement some  south-east of Fort Beaufort and  south-west of Alice. It was named after Henry Calderwood of the London Missionary Society, author of Caffres and Caffre Missions.

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Populated places in the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality


So, instead of posting about the 20 other things I have rough drafts for, I'm gonna talk about D&D.
Right know I'm in a game that meets for most of the day on Sundays (after church for some of us. Who said Christians don't know how to party. Get it? Eh?) and this group has been meeting, changing and shifting consistently for about three or four years.
The 2 characters are twin brothers and I'm doing a blatant homage/parody of The Brothers Majere with a twist of course.
So, Caramon "El Espada" (he gave himself this honorific) is a full bore human fighter with several feat trees. He is decent in combat whether sans armor with only a dagger, or rocking full plate with his battle-ax, and although his swarthy Spanish accent and low wisdom make him out to be a rock brained meat-shield (as his brother has referred to him) he is not an idiot and some of his feats and tactics reflect this.
Rayelstin "Ray" "El Palabra" (his brother insists he use this honorific but personally disdains it) is a devout worshiper of Boccob and seeks knowledge of magic of any type. Dual class Wizard & Archivist, he will most likely prestige into Mystic Theruge after one more level of Archivist.
Common encounters include "El Espada" proclaiming that he is "Caramon! El Espada, and this is my brother, Rayelstin . . . " Caramon holds his hand towards Ray. Ray looks pained. Caramon: "say it." Ray, in a weary voice: " el palabra." Caramon: "yes! El Palabra. He is the brains and I am the brains, the brawn and the steel, if you know what I mean." Ray sighs.
It's been interesting with the caster as I was attempting to use only spells that both arcane and divines could use. I'm falling off that a bit but hope to re-align the concept. As the idea is that he was a priest of Boccob and happened to be more bookish than a normal cleric and this was the result.
As El Espada, it's just silly fun claiming to be the hero and not doing too bad a job at it. He's had a couple mishaps, such as needing to be healed profusely as well as being turned to stone recently, but he takes it all in stride as (he believes) there is nothing he and his brother can not overcome.
"Galactic Empire State of Mind"


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Dr. Drew: Los Angeles Faces Imminent Outbreak of Bubonic Plague
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Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.
Dr. Drew made his comments during a Periscope broadcast by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who has become a popular political pundit with a daily live audience of thousands of people.
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Dr. Drew told Adams that he had predicted the recent typhus outbreak in Los Angeles, which was carried by rats, transferred by fleas to pets, and from pets to humans.
Bubonic plague, Dr. Drew said, like typhus, is endemic to the region, and can spread to humans from rodents in a similar fashion.
Though commonly recognized as the medieval disease responsible for the Black Death in the fourteenth century, which killed one-third of the population of Europe, the last outbreak of bubonic plague in the U.S. was nearly a century ago, from 1924 to 1925 — also in Los Angeles. Only a "heroic effort" by doctors stopped it, Dr. Drew recalled, warning that conditions were perfect for another outbreak of the plague in the near future.
Los Angeles is one of the only cities in the country, Dr. Drew said, that has no rodent control plan. "And if you look at the pictures of Los Angeles, you will see that the homeless encampments are surrounded by dumps. People defecate there, they throw their trash there, and the rats just proliferate there."
Moreover, he said, homeless people were defecating directly into city drains, which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. "We have the sewage of 60,000 people hitting the ocean every day," he said.
Though there were adequate financial resources, Dr. Drew said, homelessness would not be solved by building more housing, because the fundamental problems were mental illness and drug addictions, which created an "attachment to this lifestyle" on the streets.
The city had been successful at absorbing hundreds of thousands of "undocumented immigrants," Dr. Drew observed, which showed that the focus on housing was a "hoax."
But changes in mental health policy — partly as a result of public reactions to films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was harshly critical of mental health institutions — had made it much more difficult to commit people to institutional care.
Dr. also said that prison reform initiatives, such as Proposition 47 of 2014– which reduced sentences, but without improvements to rehabilitation — had also played a role by letting more criminals out on the street, some of whom joined the homeless population.
And efforts at relocating the homeless — either to treatment or to prison — ran into lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whom Dr. Drew described as "do-gooders" without any idea about how to solve the underlying problem.
"How many people must die before you change your philosophy?" Dr. Drew asked, rhetorically.
Some, Dr. Drew said, said that the situation in Los Angeles was approaching a national emergency that would require the intervention of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Red Cross, and the National Guard. He said that he himself had not reached that conclusion yet, but that he was "ready to pull that trigger if we start to see the diseases that I think we are going to."
Recently, President Donald Trump threatened to intervene in California's growing homelessness crisis, prompting L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Governor Gavin Newsom to push back — without offering any solutions.
"I have a government that is ignoring the basic needs of human civilization," Dr. Drew said, exasperated.
A recent count of the homeless population revealed that it had risen 12% over the last year, to nearly 60,000 people. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who promised to end homelessness when he first ran for office in 2013, has failed to deal with the problem despite local tax hikes to provide additional revenues. He now faces a recall effort over his failure. (Click to Source)
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ITSG (Information Technology Support Group)is an in-house Technical Support Team for both Hardware and Software, which provides integrated IT-related services to College.
We have established an extensive backbone Network with Optic Fiber Cable for our whole campus. Our college web server operates in our campus itself and a separate database server is put into service for storing the staff and students data. The servers work round the clock (24x7).
We provide email ID's for all our students and staff in our domain itself. We have provided an individual user in our website for all the Staff Members to view and update their profiles, a separate Student Login for viewing there Attendance, University Marks, Online Appraisals, Online Aptitude,Previous Year Question Banks, Course Plan,Library Book Lending Status and their address for communications, a Parent Login for viewing their wards Educational Grade.
Purchase of IT Related Equipments (Server, Computer, UPS, Printers, CCTV, LCD Projector, etc.) for the college.
Installation of New Equipments, Maintenance of Existing Equipments.
Designing, Implementing for Department and Campus Networking.
Maintaining College campus Networking, Firewall, Bandwidth restriction.
Designing and Maintaining Surveillance Cameras inside the Campus.
College Automation Software Maintenance and Modifications as per the user needs.
Designing and hosting our college website.
Creating and Maintaining CollegeEmail ID's for both staff and students.
Registering and Maintaining Bio-Metric attendance for staff.
Sending SMS to the Staff, Student and Parents.
Regular Backups for the following: Automation, Biometric andWebsite Database.
Purchase of New Software and Renewal of existing Software.
Supporting in the conduct of Online Examinations.
Conducting Training programsfor both staff and Student's.
Conducting additional Certificate Courseslike IBM-WSAD, Tivoli, DB2,RAD, Lotus, EMC2, Information storage etc.
Facilitating to sign MoU with leading industries like IBM, BSNL, ORACLE, EMC2, Red hat,TCS,Sify etc.
The attendance or on-duty details of the student are sent to the parent on the next working day through SMS. Internal marks of the students are sent to the parent immediately after the valuation of answer sheets. University marks of the students are sent to the parent immediately after we receive the mark statement from the university. Other important notices, announcements, information will also be sent to the parent/student through SMS as and when need arises.
We have established an extensive Optic Fiber Network for our whole campus at an estimate of Rs. 8 Lakh. The present campus network basically comprises nearly 1.5 Kms. of Optic Fiber cable backbone with 09 manageable switches. There are nearly 600 computers connected to the network and at any time about 400 of them are connected to the Internet.
(d) Immunity to EMI/RFI, lightning strikes.
Call Register and Tracking System is developed for the use of the staff. The staff can log a call for any complaints regarding Hardware, Software, Networking, Web, Biometric and related problems. While logging a call, the user will receive a unique ID for tracking the call. By using this ID, the user can know the status of the call whether the call is viewed / pending / completed. The Administrator will assign the calls to the concerned Executives and the Executives will attend the call and close the call after giving proper details regarding the problem, what steps have been taken to rectify the problem, the service report number, etc. in the column provided. The Administrator can view various reports like the number of calls viewed, pending, completed and Executive-wise reports (i.e. number of calls completed by an Executive), and more.
To provide convenient connection of notebook computers to the campus network and to facilitate internet connectivity, both wireless LAN access points and fixed network outlets have been installed at different areas on campus including the Central Library, Conference Halls, Canteens and Hostel. The adoption of the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) Protocol, data communication over the wireless LAN is highly secure. With a notebook computer with wireless capability, the students/staff may get convenient access to the campus network at locations with wireless access points established. The Wireless LAN will also facilitate departments and student organizations in holding exhibitions, presentations and any other functions which require network access in the open areas.
We have a 1:1 Leased Line 32 Mbps connection from BSNL and 55 Mbps connection from Railtel who have given Internet connectivity through Fiber Optic Cable.
Each Module has its own Master entries and Transaction entries. For example, in Student section, first we enter all the student details like fees structure, subjects, attendance, fine, marks, etc. Likewise, in transaction entries, in staff module, for example we enter corresponding transactions like salary fixation, promotion, loans, leaves, pay bills etc. All these entries for a month can be accomplished within two hours.
Report generation is one of the most advantageous aspects of this software. The Student Section deals with nominal roll, examination hall tickets, bonafidecertificate, TC, internal mark list, letters to parents, result analysis etc. Under library section details such as borrowal and return of books, fine, journal receipts and the corresponding reports can be generated. Under Accounts, statements like fund flow, trial balance, income & expenditure, balance sheet and the corresponding reports can easily be generated in a few minutes. For Labs, we get the latest stock positions and stock transaction reports. Hostel report menu generates lists of inmates, their leave, attendance, details of mess bill and related transactions. Under transport section, vehicle and transport staff details like bus arrival, entry, trip sheet and monthly report (daily and yearly expenses for all vehicles), etc. can be generated.
Ability to access and process vital data within seconds.
Generating maximum efficiency in the College administration.
More profitable use of valuable in-house IT talent.
Improved IT performance and reliability.
Access to different skills and technology as needed.
Accelerated development and time-to-market cycles.
Reduced risk of unscheduled downtime.
Smoother, lower cost technology migration.


This painting has a non-identical twin called Five up, four down. They are shown together in the last image.
These smaller shadow paintings are based on small sections of 3D cardboard mockups that I made with the intention of developing into sculptural wall pieces. After photographing the card mockups under various different lighting, I decided to try painting the shadows that were formed by the raised squares I had made. And these small paintings represent just certain areas of the card models.
When you look at the painting up close, you can see a grid pattern, created using white paint on white, with a witness of masking tape delineating the squares. It's very subtle, but noticeable on inspection. Each square represents a change in surface height on the 3d mockup.
You can read more about the process in a blog post here.
I still might develop the 3d wall panels - I've tried it with a test piece in glazed ceramic, still needs refinement! If you look at my instagram feed and scroll right down there are images of the ceramic version, though it is not the same 3d design as this painting.


Hi there, first I would like to thank the few ladies who came along to see John Lockwood on Saturday . He did some amazing demos using the new products from Aladine and his new stamps and media plates. I would also like to say thank you for the comments we received afterwards about how good he was. Unfortunately, these Crafts experts need to be booked months in advance as they have to work around their own workshop/TV commitments. We are working on future demonstrations and workshops. Please keep an eye out for these dates , as you pick up so much advice and helpful tips to aid your crafting. Hopefully you will support us by coming along to either watch the demo or take part in their workshop. I have got some photos to share of cards John made and I will post those later this week.
Onto todays card and it's an eclipse card using the fab new Marianne alphabet die set and a Phil Martin stamp set. I used Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud Ink to colour the image once it has been stamped. Unfortunate they are not the easiest thing to photograph.


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2022 Numerical Solution of the Heat Transfer Equation Coupled with the Darcy Flow Using the Finite Element Method
Mohammed Hirpho
Mohammed Hirpho1
1Department of Mathematics, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia mohhirpho@gmail.com
Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2022: 1-9 (2022). DOI: 10.1155/2022/5108445
The finite element approach was utilized in this study to solve numerically the two-dimensional time-dependent heat transfer equation coupled with the Darcy flow. The Picard-Lindelöf Theorem was used to prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution. The prior and posterior error estimates are then derived for the numerical scheme. Numerical examples were provided to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results. The essential code development in this study was done using MATLAB computer simulation.
Mohammed Hirpho. "Numerical Solution of the Heat Transfer Equation Coupled with the Darcy Flow Using the Finite Element Method." Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2022 1 - 9, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5108445
Received: 20 January 2022; Accepted: 21 March 2022; Published: 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 28 July 2022
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1155/2022/5108445
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Oh, is it 2013 already?
Long time, no blog post. More on that some other time.
2012 is gone, the world is still here (as predicted by yours truly) and 2013 is rolling on through the neighborhood. It's about damn time I take a look at my oh so bold predictions for the year that was.
First, head on back in the way-back machine and read "2012, the first post".
First prediction: The world will not end.
Verdict: You are reading this right?
Second prediction: I will post more than I did in 2011.
Verdict: Horribly inaccurate. I posted only 36 times in 2012, less than once per week. I posted 100 times in 2011, about twice a week.
Third prediction: "the game that shall not be named" will have a tough year, but will survive. The argument to take the game Free 2 Play will begin around July.
Verdict: 100% accurate, down to the month. It was July when Star Wars: The Old Republic announced its Free 2 Play future.
Fourth prediction: Warhammer Online will be shut down this year
Verdict: I had to Google whether this game was still even running, so to me that is as good as being shutdown. However, it pulled at my heart strings to look back on WAR again as I still see the glimmer of promise that is still housed in the game.
Fifth prediction: DOTA2 will launch, but fail to make much more than a drip into the MOBA scene.
Verdict: Horribly inaccurate. DOTA2 didn't "launch" technically, but Valve is pulling a GMail beta with DOTA2 currently. Secondly, DOTA2 is immensely popular, easily reaching the most played game on Steam in it's beta form. I'm still not sold on DOTA2 long term as I feel the game still shows too many hold overs from a game restricted by a game engine that wasn't built to support the game.
Sixth prediction: League of Legends will hit 50 million players and still be flying under the radar in the online gaming market
Verdict: Close call. League of Legends hit 32 million players in 2012. LoL is the biggest game on the planet between all consoles and PC games, but you would be hard pressed to know that visiting any gaming website or reading through any gaming magazines.
Seventh prediction: A major game will "surprise launch" this year with little to no notice and possibly be Free 2 Play
Verdict: All in the eye of the beholder. Some would consider DOTA2 as having surprised launched in 2012 with its beta-thats-not-really-a-beta-because-they-are-cashing-in-on-it.
Eight prediction: Indie games will continue to creep into the spotlight and we will see another Minecraft-level indie break out this year
Verdict: Day Z
Ninth and final prediction: At least 4 of these predictions will be right
Verdict: Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
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Q: How to image resize before upload Dropzone in Reactjs? i used react-dropzone but this package doesn't support rezise.
How to rezise image and than upload it?
    const { getRootProps, getInputProps, acceptedFiles, rejectedFiles } = useDropzone({
    multiple: props.multiple,
    accept: props.acceptedFileTypes,
    maxFilesize: 100,
    onDrop: acceptedFiles => {
    if (acceptedFiles.length > 0) {
    // i uploaded images.
    upload(acceptedFiles)
     }

    }

A: Updated my answer to refer to imtool instead (which is nailit with a different API and more features). Original answer is below.
To solve this problem you can use imtool which is a spiritual successor to nailit.
Updated example:
//...other imports
import { fromImage } from 'imtool';

const [ fileURL, setFileURL ] = useState(null);

const reader = new FileReader();

reader.addEventListener("load", function () {
    setFileURL(reader.result);
}, false);

useEffect(() => {
    if (acceptedFiles[0]) {
        reader.readAsDataURL(acceptedFiles[0]);
    }
}, [ acceptedFiles ]);

useEffect(() => {
    if (fileURL) {
        // Parameters: 250 is the maximum size and false is the cover argument.
        fromImage(fileURL)
        .then(tool => tool.thumbnail(250, false).toBlob())
        .then(blob => {
            // You can add the resulting blob to a FormData element and then send that.
            const formData = new FormData();
            form.append('image', blob, 'image.jpg');
            fetch('https://example.com/image', { method: 'POST', body: formData });
        }
        .catch(e => /* Do something with the error! */);
    }
}, [ fileURL ]);

For documentation, please refer to the README in this GitHub repo.

Some time ago I've made a library to perform this exact task.
It's available on npm - nailit (I've just pushed an update, make sure you get the 2.0.1 version). And here is an example project with nailit and react-dropzone: https://github.com/mat-sz/nailit-demo
It works by creating a canvas and resizing image in the web browser.
Example:
const [ fileURL, setFileURL ] = useState(null);

const reader = new FileReader();

reader.addEventListener("load", function () {
    setFileURL(reader.result);
}, false);

useEffect(() => {
    if (acceptedFiles[0]) {
        reader.readAsDataURL(acceptedFiles[0]);
    }
}, [ acceptedFiles ]);

useEffect(() => {
    if (fileURL) {
        // Parameters: file data URI, options and should output be a blob (if you want to POST it then yes)
        nailIt(fileURL, {
            maxSize: 250,
            cover: false,
            outputType: 'image/jpeg',
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Cincinnati Bengals Have More Issues Than Just a Kicker
By Matthew Willson
Dec 24, 2016; Houston, TX, USA; Cincinnati Bengals kicker Randy Bullock (4) reacts after missing a field goal during the fourth quarter against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports /
The Cincinnati Bengals missed another field goal that would have sealed a win on Saturday night. However, it is not just the kickers fault in a very weak performance by the offense for most of the game against Houston.
The Cincinnati Bengals went to Houston on Christmas Eve and had a chance to win with :05 left on the clock. Randy Bullock, who took over for the struggling Mike Nugent, gave Bengals fans a look at what they just left, when he missed a last second field goal and 10-12 loss.
That wasn't the worst of it though. The offense was absent for a majority of the game. Andy Dalton only really found his groove in the second half with a touchdown pass to Brandon LaFell for 86 yards. Take away that pass, Andy Dalton only went for 182 yards the rest of the game and threw one interception.
The Bengals backed off of the Jeremy Hill show, but Rex Burkhead had work ahead of him with the top ranked defense standing across the line. He ran 12 times for 42 yards not to mention his four receptions for 25 yards. Jeremy Hill who saw a much reduced role went eight yards on seven carries.
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We finally saw a halftime adjustment that worked for the Bengals. However, it seems like the adjustment was just taking a game plan around A.J. Green and returning to a game plan from the past four weeks. Ken Zampese's offense however was terrible in the first half and they couldn't take advantage of the defense blanking a struggling Texans offense.
Ken Zampese was not calling any effective plays until the final two minutes of the first half when the Bengals finally struck first with a field goal. It wasn't until the second half, and even then, the third quarter was more of the same. It wasn't until Brandon LaFell ran a five yard slant and took off that the Bengals offensive numbers spiked and they took the lead back.
The Cincinnati Bengals have one more meaningless game against the Baltimore Ravens, who just lost and ended their playoff chances against the Steelers. The Bengals could at least salvage their division record to 3-3 with a win.


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Flattened by the Curve
The Internet's Top 10 Medical School Parody Videos
by Emily Silverman and Alessandra Colaianni
Division of Hospital Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Alessandra Colaianni, MD
Chief Resident in Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
This is part of our series, Flattened By the Curve, which features the voices of doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and others on the front lines against COVID-19. For information on how to submit, click here.
It's a weird time to be a medical student. This year, Match Day happened in isolation, final rotations were canceled, and some students graduated early to work on Covid19 wards. You've read all about these hardships in endless op-eds. But no one is talking about the biggest hardship of all: that the pandemic has prevented medical students from creating a fresh crop of parody videos.
We're kidding. But really, parody videos are a vital part of medical student subculture. Medical school doesn't always (ever?) reward creativity or playfulness, but each spring, the clouds of medicine's seriousness part, revealing a clear blue day of institutionally-sanctioned fun. The parody video serves as a morale booster, a celebration of goals attained, and a recruitment tool for future generations of students. But it's also an alternate reality where we dare to examine our profession, and ourselves, through the lens of satire.
Some videos are grainy and low-fi. Others have surprisingly good production value. We were shocked to learn that some schools have a legitimate funding mechanism for these (cough — Stanford — cough). The singing is pitchy, the editing choppy, and the writing heavy-handed, but the raggedy quality of these videos gives them indelible charm.
Common themes in these videos include: a desire to learn (and an education system that rewards the hypercompetitive "gunner"), a fear of incompetence, loss of hobbies and a social life, the twisted relationship to the medical student's "bible," First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 (hugging, cuddling, sleeping with, tearing, burning), the compulsive use of electronic question banks (we old fogies had to Google the word "Anki"), the crushing burden of student loans, budding surgeons who flex their biceps, and — why not? — rectal exams. Some videos are earnest, some are funny, some are surprising, but all are revealing.
In honor of medical students graduating in 2020, we have compiled our favorite medical student parody videos from the past decade.
Medical students: We love you. Be safe. And thank you for making us smile.
#10: Hello
Institution: UCLA SOM
We love this simple, unpretentious video. The writing isn't excellent. The art direction isn't excellent. Parts of it are slow. But filmed largely at dusk, this video conveys a delicious, moody longing. You can really feel how the students, who are being inculcated into medicine's culture of suffering and self-discipline, are beginning to grieve their old selves. The scene where the patient falls through the cracks makes for great political commentary. And the guitar solo at the end is virtuosic.
#9: Matchmaker
Institution: UChicago Pritzker SOM
This song from Fiddler — wholesome, before degenerating into cynicism and dread — is the perfect choice for a Match Day parody, and well-executed by this trio. The best part is the dig at the Brigham. Brutal!
#8: It's Not a Zebra!
Institution: Harvard SOM
Date: April 2017
This video shines for its tight narrative arc: When a new patient arrives at the hospital, a gaggle of Harvard medical students embarks on a diagnostic journey, ticking off numerous rare diseases until one of them realizes, in a state of panic and disappointment, that the patient actually just has the flu. It's a comical and self-aware exploration of the medical student's egocentric desire to become a "diagnostic genius" — even at the expense of truth.
#7: Hell
Institution: Albert Einstein COM
The redheaded protagonist, with her cascading locks and crystal-clear singing voice, kills it as Belle in this re-imagining of the beloved Disney classic. The library scene is on point, and the frenetic, overlapping lyrics that ensue really capture the "water from a firehose" dilemma of M2 year. And the Gaston/Lefou exchange is perfect! We only wish they'd gotten some of that Stanford $$ for a better camera.
#6: I Don't Know
On the surface, this video seems saccharine and unoriginal — do we really need another "Let it Go?" — but it's actually quite subversive for a medical student to talk about how incompetent she is, not just in 1-2 throwaway lyrics, but for an entire song. It's a promising ripple of humility in the vast, unmoving ocean of medical perfectionism. We also love the single grizzled senior faculty member, who commits to his role with aplomb.
#5: UCSF Accepted Students Weekend Video
Institution: UCSF SOM
We start with a song choice "fake out," followed by sweeping establishing shots of San Francisco (hello, drones), before settling into the main bit, where the students sing earnestly about the merits of their school. The lyrics aren't as poppin' as those of its competitors, and the students' message of optimism begs to leavened with humor or irony. But the choreography is next-level; we could watch the lead dancer all day.
#4: thank u, next
Institution: Stanford SOM
The opening credits of this video look like they're ripped right out of Hollywood, and the gauzy footage looks like it was shot on film. The snobby, red-lipped administrator from the "East Coast" is the perfect villain: focused on achievement for achievement's sake, she stokes the medical student's core fear of worthlessness. Stanford, by contrast, is portrayed as a Promised Land where the sun shines year-round, the Deans love you for YOU, and students pirouette around Spanish courtyards. Whether any of this is true is up for grabs, but it makes for great viewing.
#3: Rank List
Institution: Yale SOM
This video starts with the usual trope of the medical student being "wooed" by a residency program (see: "thank u, next"), but then takes things a step further, with an honest foreshadowing of the sad reality that lies ahead once training begins. Burned-out residents smash walls with hammers and cut holes in our protagonist's scrubs, which fall haplessly off his body, as if in an anxious nightmare. In the final frame, our mentor-turned-abuser gives us a confrontational stare, daring us to proceed to residency. Shiver.
#2: What Does the Spleen Do?
In this video, which makes excellent use of autotune, the narrator hobnobs at a masquerade ball with the body's vital organs, naming each one's biologic function with a delightful mounting of narrative tension, before admitting to confusion about the spleen. He tries out different explanations for its existence (storage for your extra teeth?), before watching it escape from a human body, and dash toward the lobby to lead the students in a lawless rave. This video packs a wapa-papa-papa-papa-powerful dose of weird into an already weird concept. A surrealist masterpiece.
#1: In Clinic | Doc
Institution: Drexel SOM
Date: February 2012 and 2013
These two videos, created in 2012 and 2013 by auteur Vanessa Prokuski, collectively occupy our #1 slot as a diptych. Her videos overflow with clever puns and double entendres (Med mobster / treat zoster / helpin all of my shingle ladies) without relying too heavily on inside jokes or faculty cameos. Prokuski's rapper alter-ego is dripping with charisma; somehow, she is able to project both the confidence of CardiB and the vulnerability of a student with much to learn (by contrast, see the abrasive "Gunner Song"). This, combined with stellar art direction, make for a transcendent viewing experience.
PS: Prokuski went on to become a hand surgeon, so imagine our delight when we discovered her alter ego resurrected in this 2019 piece, which is more phalange-centric but witty as ever. And her always-strong wig game is now off the charts.
Dr. Emily Silverman is a hospital medicine physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and creator/host of the medical storytelling podcast The Nocturnists, which is currently airing COVID-19 audio diaries from healthcare workers.
Dr. Alessandra Colaianni is a chief resident in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Harvard Medical School. She also writes.
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Sajid Javid, Brandon Lewis, Kit Malthouse and Simon Clarke have all led government efforts to build more homes but back report criticising British housebuilding.
Sajid Javid is among a number of Tories who are set to stand down at the next election. He joined other former housing secretaries and ministers in criticising Britain's housebuilding record. Image: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
Four former Tory housing ministers have backed a report criticising Britain's housebuilding record despite previously being responsible for tackling the country's housing crisis.
Sajid Javid, Brandon Lewis, Kit Malthouse and Simon Clarke have all had spells in charge as either housing secretary or housing minister since the Tories came to power in 2010.
All four have endorsed a new report from the right-leaning think tank Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which found around 1.5 million homes have been built per decade in the 2000s and 2010s. That figure is way down on the 3.6 million homes built in the 1960s despite higher population growth in recent years.
"For decades, we have simply not built enough homes," said Javid, who was housing secretary from July 2016 to April 2018 – one of nine appointments to the role in 13 years.
"This failure risks creating a generation that, without any capital of its own, becomes resentful of capitalism and capitalists. This important report presents a clear analysis of the core challenges we face, and how elected officials can and must rise to them."
The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised 300,000 homes would be built every year by the mid-2020s. The target has proven controversial – Liz Truss described housing targets as "Stalinist" on the prime ministerial campaign trail – but the Tories are yet to come close to hitting that figure.
Both Brandon Lewis and Kit Malthouse – two of the 14 housing ministers who have been in the role in the last 13 years – looked to the nation's children with their endorsement of the report.
Lewis, housing minister between July 2014 and July 2016, said: "I firmly believe that the Conservative Party has always been the party of housing, recognising the importance of home ownership, as well as the enormous contributions the construction and housebuilding industry make towards our GDP. We must keep on building.
"We owe it to our children to ensure they can have the same opportunities as previous generations."
Kit Malthouse, housing minister for the Tories between 2018 and 2019, added: "We should all be concerned about where and how our children are going to live, but more than this, we also have a duty to give them the same or a better chance at homeownership as their parents and grandparents."
Simon Clarke, who was housing secretary for just under two months during Liz Truss' ill-fated spell as prime minister, described the report as a "hugely important and timely paper".
CPS, which was founded by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s, found house-building failures have played a role in a 207 per cent house price rise over the last 50 years.
Researchers argued that prices have risen fastest where supply and demand are most imbalanced. House prices have risen by almost 130 per cent in London since 2004, compared to a rise of 50 per cent in the north-east of England over the same period.
Other countries, such as France and the Netherlands, have built more homes and have seen slower price rises, the think tank added.
A failure to build has also seen rents climb as a share of income. Renters between the 1960s and 1980s generally spent around 10 per cent of their income on housing, up to 15 per cent in London. Now renters are paying around 30 per cent of their income to cover housing costs while in London that figure is almost 40 per cent.
The report calls on politicians to stop assuming that new homes are unpopular or worry that new homes might push up house prices.
CPS researchers also take aim at housing "myths", insisting that building homes on previously developed brownfield land or existing planning permissions will not deliver enough homes.
The report found cities like London and Bristol could build just under a quarter of the homes they need over the next 15 years on currently existing brownfield sites while many rural areas have almost no brownfield.
Elizabeth Dunkley, CPS researcher and co-author of the report, said: "Our report makes clear one simple, indisputable fact: that Britain needs to build more houses, in the places where people want them. To do otherwise is to court economic, social and increasingly political disaster.
"The case for house-building is simple – without it Britain will be a less productive, less equal, less fair and less happy country. Building more homes is the clearest way to boost economic growth and rebuild our economy."


You don't have to be a famous key note speaker or a famous motivational speaker like Tony Robbins or Joel Osteen just to give a great speech. Public speaking to many people when performing such an act in front of an audience is every daunting and even more so intimidating.Fear is the biggest factor when it comes to performing a presentation in front of a sizeable audience let alone delivering a talk that you have created that you think may not be up to par for the audience.
A lot of people will take sky diving lessons then do the actual jump to face their fears. When they have completed a jump they tend to be more confident in everyday life simply because they have conquered a fear which in most cases eliminates other fears that they may have had. Public speaking in front of an audience can be of similar value in the same way. Think back to when you were a kid and you finally had to confront the neighborhood bully, once you pushed back or chased the bully away you conquered a large blockage and were then less fearful of many things. When you stand up in front of an audience to face that proverbial bully and attack that speech or presentation not thinking of how perfectly you want to deliver it but to actually perform it with you true self you will accomplish your goal of eliminating fear itself.
There are some tips that can help you be more fearless when you are speaking in front of large or even small groups. I myself actually have an easier time speaking in front of large groups for whatever reason. First of all knowing that ninety percent of your nervousness does not show to the audience is a known fact. Most people when they speak will get more nervous if they think that the audience can see some of those nervous things that go on inside or outside of your body like sweaty palms, nervous stomach or racing heart just to name a few, but the truth is that they can't. Another biggie is that a lot of people get intimated by the audience. A good way to eliminate this fear is not to imagine them naked, but to scan the audience for friendly or receptive faces. This will give you the confidence that your presentation is being well received.
So if you want to kill two birds with one stone, get out there and give that presentation or speech at work, join a toastmasters club or volunteer to speak for a cause that you have some interest in or event some type of local city government or PTA and the list is basically endless and you will kill your fear.


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Bossier City has its own Farmers' Market! Open EVERY Saturday from 9am-1pm at Pierre Bossier Mall. This is the first and only Farmers' Market of its kind in the entire area. The Bossier City Farmers' Market is open to Farmers, Growers with fresh foods, honey, soap, makers, hobbyists, entrepreneurs, artists, craftsmen/craftswomen, non-profit companies, restaurants, food trucks and other creative vendors that will emerge from this great opportunity!
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GEEK OUT! STAR WARS: RON HOWARD CONFIRMED AS DIRECTOR OF HAN SOLOGEEK OUT! STAR WARS: RON HOWARD CONFIRMED AS DIRECTOR OF HAN SOLO
Director Ron Howard has confirmed on Twitter that he will take over from the departed Phil Lord and Chris Miller to helm the Han Solo standalone movie.
GEEK OUT! STAR WARS | IS THE HAN SOLO FILM IN TROUBLE AS DIRECTORS LEAVE?GEEK OUT! STAR WARS | IS THE HAN SOLO FILM IN TROUBLE AS DIRECTORS LEAVE?
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the directors of the Star Wars standalone prequel of Han Solo – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – have left the film over 'creative differences'.
GEEK OUT! JESSICA CHASTAIN TO PLAY LILANDRA IN DARK PHOENIX?GEEK OUT! JESSICA CHASTAIN TO PLAY LILANDRA IN DARK PHOENIX?
Last time Fox attempted an adaptation of the classic X-Men "Dark Phoenix" story, they royally screwed it up in X-Men: The Last Stand.
GEEK OUT! BLACK PANTHER TEASER!!GEEK OUT! BLACK PANTHER TEASER!!
First proper look at Marvel Studios's adaptation of Jack Kirby's Black Panther as the teaser trailer is released by Marvel Entertainment.
FILM NEWS: SINGAPORE INDIE FAERYVILLE SECURES DISTRIBUTION ON ASTROFILM NEWS: SINGAPORE INDIE FAERYVILLE SECURES DISTRIBUTION ON ASTRO
INRI studio has informed us that "The Revolution Will Now Be Televised!" FAERYVILLE is on board ASTRO's A-List.
GEEK OUT! ALIEN: COVENANT – PROMETHEUS SEQUEL REVEALED AS THE FIRST PART OF AN ALIEN PREQUEL TRILOGY. OH WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?GEEK OUT! ALIEN: COVENANT – PROMETHEUS SEQUEL REVEALED AS THE FIRST PART OF AN ALIEN PREQUEL TRILOGY. OH WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
FILM NEWS: ANIMATION NATION 2016FILM NEWS: ANIMATION NATION 2016
(Press release)
Animation Nation is an festival held in Singapore featuring animation feature films, animation short, seminars, and workshops. It was founded in 2004 and is organised by the Singapore Film Society. The last edition of the festival was held in 2011.
GEEK OUT! BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (ULTIMATE EDITION) OUT NOW!GEEK OUT! BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (ULTIMATE EDITION) OUT NOW!
Review of the R-rated extended version of the controversial DC movie to come.
The Projector is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man this April with a few screenings of the iconic film along with his earlier short film Pain and a couple of talks and panels hosted by the Asian Film Archive.
FILM NEWS: INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN FOR UNBELYEEVABLE THE MUSICALFILM NEWS: INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN FOR UNBELYEEVABLE THE MUSICAL
Well, it was inevitable! A spoof on Amos Yee!!
Some background – in September 2015, the parody sketch show Chestnuts was asked to remove the entire sketch called "Amos Yee The Musical" from its programme, in order to be granted the performing arts license by the Media Development Authority.
So, the troupe decided to make a mini-movie based on the sketch and also to get crowdfunding for the production.
FILM NEWS: 24TH SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS IN LATE NOVEMBERFILM NEWS: 24TH SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS IN LATE NOVEMBER
Attending the SGIFF 2015 press conference, I was pleasantly surprised to come across many familiar faces and pleased as punch to discover that the Festival would feature a restored version of Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man (on its 20th anniversary) and a Singapore premiere of his latest opus, In The Room.
I have always wanted to me more involved in the indie film scene in Singapore and this event was deeply encouraging for me to keep at it. So expect some form of coverage here at Power of Pop.
In the meantime, check out what's happening at SGIFF2015.