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Yalla Ya Nasrallah - A Rhythmic Serenade from Israel
It was a year ago that we posted this and it took off like a rocket. So here it is again...
You will not see this video on American TV. It is quintessentially Israeli. And somehow... well just watch it.
(Hats off to the Heading for Sinai blog.)
by Tzvee Zahavy at 10:50 PM Labels: islam, israel, music, videos 32 comments:
Hey P. Diddy: Wanna Hire Tzvee.Diddy?
Remember 2007, the summer of YouTube?
First we submitted our TV debate questions to presidential candidates via YouTube.
Then we applied for a job with P. Diddy via YouTube.
Then, well what next?
Hip hop star P. Diddy has advertised for a new personal assistant - with a video on his MySpace website.
He needs an assistant...
The rapper asked hopefuls to post their applications on YouTube.
The video-sharing site has since been swamped with clips of people explaining why they would be perfect for the unique role.
Now the star - real name Sean Combs - will ask fans to help him choose a winner by voting for their favourites online.
He has warned the eventual winner that they are in for a tough job, as he tends to "scream, go crazy, keep you up late and have you sleep-deprived".
Despite the warning, 10,000 people have applied for the post.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 9:50 PM Labels: humor, videos No comments:
Shuls Crop the Holocaust out of our history
Note: I spoke to Jules Harlow at Jack Neusner's 75th birthday party today and so I am rerunning this post.
Despite the magnitude of suffering of the Jews of Europe, and how recently the events occurred, synagogue prayers and rituals for the most part ignore the Holocaust, or treat it superficially.
True, it is fitting that we commemorate Yom HaShoah in many communities in a public school auditorium or other secular gathering place with speeches and ceremonies to make the event more accessible and universal to our neighbors.
Thinking about the new museum just dedicated at Yad VaShem and about the celebration of Yom HaShoah, I raise an issue near to all our hearts: isn't it time to institutionalize properly our memorial of the Shoah in the synagogue service?
How can we go day after day to pray and not officially recognize directly and explicitly the epochal tragedy that epitomizes modern Jewish and all of contemporary human suffering?
How can we talk of the servitude in Egypt at our seders and contemplate Passover in our shuls and virtually ignore the slavery of the Holocaust?
Notably we must recall that American Conservative Judaism developed a Kaddish for death camps over 30 years ago. Based in part on the last passages of Andre Schwarz-Bart's 1960 novel, The Last of the Just, the rite was originally incorporated into the Martyrology of the Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, of the Rabbinical Assembly (1972). Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the Mahzor described the new kaddish to me as follows:
We interrupt these words [of the traditional Kaddish], this statement of faith, with the names of places where Jews were slaughtered, places which therefore cause us to raise questions, to have doubts. The tension is resolved, liturgically, by the last four lines, whose words are uninterrupted by the names which give rise to questioning, thus concluding in a framework of faith.
The original Aramaic text alternates with a register of the sites of extermination in this moving prayer as follows (cited from the Siddur Sim Shalom, ed. Jules Harlow, 1985):
Yitgadal
ve'yitkadash
Sh'mei raba
Ponar
b'alma di v'ra khir'utei,
v'yamlikh malkhutei
Maidanek
b'hayeikhon u-v'yomeikhon
u-v'hayei d'khol beit yisrael,
Kovno
ba-agala u-vi-z'man kariv,
Janowska
v'imru amen.
Y'hei sh'mei raba m'vorakh l'alam u-l'almei almaya.
Yitbarakh v'yishtabah
v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam
v'yitnasei v'yit-hadar
v'yit'aleh v'yit-halal
sh'mei d'kudsha,
brikh hu l'ela
min kol birkhata v'shirata,
tushb'hata v'nehemata
da-amiran b'alma,
v'imru amen. Y'hei sh'lama raba min sh'maya v'hayim aleinu v'al kol
yisrael, v'imru amen. Oseh shalom b-m'romav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu v'al kol
yisrael, v'imru amen.
Harlow explained to me in 1989 that there are intentionally seventeen places named, signifying that life, represented by the Hebrew Chai, numerically eighteen, "can never be complete, can never be the same, after such slaughter."
In another version, the more extensive Kaddish of the Martyrology of the Day of Atonement, this new Kaddish includes Kishinev, Hebron, Mayence, Usha and Jerusalem, places where Jews were slaughtered during other tragic historical eras.
Why have Orthodox, Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues not developed some equivalent prayer or ritual? Why are we so eloquent in prayer and piyyut and davening and sermonizing and yet so ritually mute and liturgically speechless about the Shoah?
It is long overdue that the meaningful new Kaddish of the Conservative Machzor be institutionalized in all of our weekly synagogue liturgies, long overdue that it become a widespread potent ritual.
Every congregation - Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Hasidic - ought to rise and recite this Kaddish every week. It would be fitting on Shabbat Morning to recall the darkness of the Holocaust right before the chazzan intones the Prayer for the State of Israel, the liturgy that notes the beginning of the glimmer of our redemption.
[repr. from 2005, 2006]
by Tzvee Zahavy at 4:41 PM Labels: auschwitz, Holocaust, kaddish 7 comments:
Buy the Talmud at Target
Buy Tzvee's translation of the Talmud at Target....
Right opposite the toothpaste.
Before you get to the electronics.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 8:13 PM Labels: books, talmud No comments:
New Yorker Calls Doctor Gloom Avram Burg a Zionist Apostate
I just love it when a man is so arrogant he thinks he can worry about a whole nation all at once. And not only take on that responsibility! He can also see the future!
For a person to say that Zionism is not the same today as it was in 1948 - that is not apostasy. What is Remnick talking about in this essay? What does he think Burg is saying that is so controversial? Israel faces problems?
Burg is talking nonsense - utter garbage - when he purports to represent the spirit of a nation. The State of the State address ought to be given by the president or prime minister - not a man who quit politics out of disgust or depression or both.
Hey. Every country is beset by problems, internal, external, economic and social. Jimmy Carter's malaise was his own - not mine or that of the public at large. And he was president!
This guy Burg is a quitter and his whole attitude reeks of the stench of sour grapes. He could not make it to prime minister. He ran out of gas. So he just stipulates that the country is awful.
Well let me tell you about the real Israel. Its fruit is large and sweet and giants live in the land. Wow is it strong and beautiful and one of the best countries in the world in innovation, education, culture, religion, art, science, military might.... what is it that Burg wants or expects from Israel?
Here is a choice teaser. Read the New Yorker article and see if you agree with me.
In this atmosphere of post-traumatic gloom, Avraham Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset, managed to inflame the Israeli public (left, right, and center) with little more than an interview in the liberal daily Ha'aretz, promoting his recent book, "Defeating Hitler."
That's enough for doctor gloom ....feh.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 11:05 PM Labels: israel, zionism 1 comment:
Haaretz: Rabbis Do Not Want to Rebuild the Temple
"The rabbis gave up first," writes Nadav Shragai in Haaretz concerning the question of sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
Well yes they did. For political and practical reasons. Restoring the Temple would empty the synagogues and the Yeshivas. It would transfer the center of sacrality back to the Temple. Nobody wants to put themselves out of business.
Some quotes from Shragai,
This prohibition has been convenient for Israel's governments, all of which banned Jewish prayers on the Temple Mount (with the exception of visits) for reasons of preserving public order and preventing conflict.
Even Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, the leader of the settlers movement, denied Jews entry to Temple Mount. Only recently has a group of religious-Zionist rabbis dared to change a ruling. But this is too little and perhaps too late.
Sovereignty cannot be exercised on Temple Mount when the sovereign is halakhically banned from entering the place where he wishes to exercise it. The sovereignty on Temple Mount either exists or it does not.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 9:42 PM Labels: haaretz, israel, rabbis, synagogues 2 comments:
Haaretz Op-Ed: Ben Gurion's Marriage Monopoly Mistake
Civil marriage is coming to Israel one way or another. It may take five or fifty years but it is coming. It's because of what I call rabbinic RAFU - Rabbis always foul it up. No matter how good they have it, they manage to lose it.
Ben-Gurion's mistake
By Asher Maoz
On August 23, 1953, the government discussed a proposed law that would give the rabbinate a monopoly over the marriages and divorces of Jews. A few cabinet ministers, among them justice minister Pinchas Rosen, opposed granting exclusivity over marriages to Orthodox rabbis, on the grounds that they are unnecessarily strict.
Among other things, the cabinet discussed the demand by marriage officiants that the bride bathe in a mikveh (ritual bath) before the marriage ceremony. The deputy prime minister, Moshe Sharett, related that his mother, who got married in Ukraine, his own wife, who married in London, and his daughter, who married in the United States, were not required to do so, even though they were married in Orthodox ceremonies.
Golda Meir, the minister of labor, called the demand for ritual baths "savagery, and I don't know whether they ever observed this even in the Middle Ages." And she added: "Now I want to say that there is also proteksia (favoritism) in these matters. My daughter got married and she didn't go through this procedure. The whole procedure of the rabbi who performed her marriage ceremony was humane and simple and it dignified the occasion. But there are girls who don't have a mother or a father in the government, and they have to go through this whole path, which is a shame and a disgrace." ....more
by Tzvee Zahavy at 9:34 PM Labels: haaretz, israel, rabbis, women No comments:
Teaneck Sliding to the Right
As reported previously in the Jewish Standard and now in the Bergen Record...
Teaneck synagogue divides sexes to survive
By JOHN CHADWICK
A venerable Conservative synagogue in Teaneck, aiming to attract the township's burgeoning Orthodox Jewish population, has begun using a partition to separate men and women during some of its worship services.
The Jewish Center of Teaneck's decision to use separate seating -- a staple of Orthodox Judaism -- reflects the travails of a landmark synagogue struggling to keep pace with a transformed Jewish community.
Indeed, the congregation's president said the move is necessary for the synagogue's survival.
"If we do not make this change, this place will at some point fold or fail, because the demography of this town is predominantly Orthodox," Howard Wang said. "And in order for us to get any growth and development, we need the young Orthodox families to come here."
The synagogue -- Teaneck's first -- flourished in the 1960s and 1970s with a membership of 1,400 that included prominent local leaders such as Matthew Feldman, the late mayor and state senator. ... more
by Tzvee Zahavy at 7:25 PM Labels: synagogues, teaneck 6 comments:
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by Tzvee Zahavy at 7:18 PM Labels: software No comments:
Pagan Harry Potter Launch Violates the Sabbath
Harry Potter's Israel launch pits wizard vs rabbis
Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:09PM EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Harry Potter, the world's most famous boy wizard, has fallen foul of Israel's rabbis.
Plans to launch the last installment in the best-selling children's book series in Israel over the Jewish Sabbath have drawn threats of legal action by a religious government minister.
Israeli stores have pledged to go ahead with the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" at 2 a.m. on Saturday (2300 GMT Friday), noting that it will be part of a global media event for a book expected to be the fastest-selling in history.
"We will hold the launch as planned because we are contractually bound to do so. The book will go on sale here at the same time as in other places around the world," Alona Zamir, a spokeswoman for the Steimatzky book chain, said on Wednesday.
The Sabbath runs from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, during which pious Jews shun business dealings. While most Israelis are secular, the country's shops generally close over the Sabbath out of convenience, a sense of tradition, or to avoid paying mandatory fines and overtime to staff.
Trade and Industry Minister Eli Yishai, whose ultra-Orthodox party Shas is an important member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition government, said he would dispatch inspectors to report on stores that take part in the book launch.
"It is forbidden, according to Jewish values and Jewish culture, that a thing like this should take place at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Let them do it on another day," he told Israel Radio.
"We will certainly issue fines and prosecution orders, but I hope it won't come to that," Yishai added.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is the seventh and last adventure for the boy wizard created by British author J.K. Rowling. Many religious Jews have tried to prevent their children from reading the books, citing its "pagan" content.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 11:53 PM Labels: books, israel 1 comment:
Fake Rabbi Soldiers?
Fraud by a religious organization is not a good thing.
But I don't understand the underlying premise here. Even if the degrees were real, why should soldiers get a raise for obtaining a rabbinical degree?
There is no possible professional benefit for the State to have a soldier who knows Talmud.
Justice Ministry uncovers rabbi ordination fraud
Ministry considering indicting senior member of Rabbinate, police, military, prison service officers in wide range ordinations fraud
Aviram Zino
Published: 07.18.07, 13:33 / Israel Jewish Scene
The Jerusalem district prosecutor's office announced Wednesday that it's ready to indict in what it now called the "rabbis' case".
"The Justice Ministry along with the National Fraud Unit (NFU), Military Police and the Police Investigation Unit (PIU), had conducted a comprehensive, complex, four-year investigation into the fraudulent ordination of military and police personnel as rabbis," a statement by the ministry said.
Since 1999, and as part of the Ministry of Education's wage agreement with the Teacher's Association, the ministry has acknowledged "advanced religious studies" accompanied by a rabbi's certification as grounds for additional pay benefits.
Various educational facilities aimed at training armed forces personnel as rabbis were soon established. Student at these schools were ordained by the Chief Rabbinate, making them eligible for pay benefits.
"Following a lead given to the ministry, the Department of Financial Crime in the NFU began investigating senior members at the Rabbinate as well as those attending the schools providing rabbi certifications," said the statement.
"The evidence gathered revealed that some of the suspects formed 'colleges' where armed forces personnel attended religious studies classes… with the cooperation of the Chief Rabbinate's director of ordinations, the suspects received false documents stating they graduated a five-year program in a Yeshiva licensed to ordain rabbis.
"These documents were presented to their superiors (in the armed forces), making them eligible for benefits reaching hundreds of millions of Shekels."
by Tzvee Zahavy at 8:45 AM Labels: israel, rabbis, talmud No comments:
Ellenson: Brilliant Leader
David Ellenson. Brilliant man.
Until ignorance divides us
Last Friday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received three guests in his office, all with the double-barreled title of rabbi and professor: They are well-known scholars among American Jews and fairly well-known in Israel: Rabbi David Hartman, who heads the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and is associated with liberal Orthodoxy; Rabbi Arnie Eisen, the chancellor of the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS); and Rabbi David Ellenson, the president of Hebrew Union College (HUC), the Reform Movement's rabbinic seminary.
This Reform rabbi cites my teacher in a compelling context:
Before the conference participants, Ellenson also mentioned Rabbi [Joseph] Soloveitchik and his famous essay distinguishing between "a covenant of fate" and "a covenant of destiny": "Most Jews in the world would not agree with it today, but there is a covenant of fate. Jews who are willing to immigrate to Israel and be part of the Jewish people, who pay taxes, who defend the state in the IDF, who identify themselves as Jews, what benefit would be gained by the Jewish people if we don't accept them? Rabbi Kalisher's responsa is very relevant and can guide us in our era."
by Tzvee Zahavy at 9:44 PM Labels: israel, Olmert, rabbis, soloveitchik 1 comment:
RW is Ruining Religion
The right wing led by Bush is ruining religion. When you push and bully, you get backlash.
A camp they can believe in
Ohio's Camp Quest lets young atheists enjoy summer fun with like-minded children
By Ron Grossman
Tribune staff reporter
CLARKSVILLE, Ohio -- At the same time youngsters at Bible camps across the nation are reciting, "Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep," kids at Camp Quest are climbing into their bunks, confident there is no one out there to hear those prayers.
Proudly proclaiming the motto "Beyond Belief," Camp Quest bills itself as the nation's first sleep-away summer camp for atheists. Founded in 1996, it has inspired four similar camps across the nation for children whose parents are either opposed or indifferent to religion.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 9:20 AM Labels: religion, sports 3 comments:
Tom Friedman: Let's Trade Mitzvah and Averah Credits
A yiddishe kopf. Friedman writes about carbon credit trading and makes a humorous somewhat sarcastic case for trading credits for all misdeeds, not just pollution.
Live Bad, Go Green
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Over dinner with friends in London the other night, the conversation drifted to global warming and whether anything was really being done to reverse it. One guest, Sameh El-Shahat, a furniture designer, heaped particular scorn on programs that enable people to offset their excessive carbon emissions by funding green projects elsewhere. "Who really checks that it's being done?" he asked. And how much difference does it really make?
But then he hit on an ingenious idea: If people really want to generate money to plant trees or finance green power, why not have them offset their real sins, not just their carbon excesses? We started to play with his idea: Imagine if you could offset the whole Ten Commandments.
No, really, think about it. Imagine if there were a Web site — I'd call it GreenSinai.com — where every time you thought you had violated one of the Ten Commandments, or you wanted to violate one of them but did not want to feel guilty about it, you could buy carbon credits to offset your sins.
The motto of Britain's Conservative Party today is "Vote Blue, Go Green." GreenSinai's motto could be: "Live Bad, Go Green." That would generate some income.
Here's how it would work: One day, you're out in the backyard mowing the lawn and suddenly you covet your neighbor's wife. Hey, it happens — that's why "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" is one of the Ten Commandments. No problem. You just go to GreenSinai.com and buy 100 trees in the Amazon or fund a project to capture methane from cow dung in India — and, presto, you're free and clear.
Obviously there would be a sliding scale. Taking God's name in vain or erecting an idol might cost you only a few solar water heaters for a Chinese village, whereas bearing false witness or stealing would set you back a pilot sugar ethanol plant in Louisiana.
As for adultery, well, I think that's where the big money could be made. My guess is that we could achieve a carbon-neutral world by 2020 if we just set up a system for people to offset their adultery by reversing deforestation of tropical rain forests or funding mega wind and solar power systems in China and India.
O.K., O.K., more seriously, I raise this issue of carbon offsets because they're symptomatic of the larger problem we face in confronting climate change: everyone wants it to happen, but without pain or sacrifice. On balance, I think carbon-offsetting is a good thing — my family has purchased offsets — if for no other reason than it directs resources toward clean technologies that might not have been funded and, therefore, moves us down the innovation curve faster.
But the danger, argues Michael Sandel, Harvard's noted political philosopher, "is that carbon offsets will become, at least for some, a painless mechanism to buy our way out of the more fundamental changes in habits, attitudes and way of life that are actually required to address the climate problem."
"If someone drives a Hummer and buys carbon offsets to salve his conscience, that is better than driving the Hummer and doing nothing," added Mr. Sandel, author of "The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering." "But it would be even better to trade in the Hummer for a hybrid. The risk is that carbon offsets will make Hummers seem respectable rather than irresponsible, and distract us, as a nation, from harder, bigger changes in our energy policy."
People often refer to the current climate buzz as "a green revolution," but the very term revolution suggests a fundamental break with past habits, attitudes and public policies. Yet, when you suggest a carbon tax or a higher gasoline tax — initiatives that would redirect resources and change habits at the scale actually needed to impact global warming — what is the first thing you hear in Congress? "Impossible — you can't use the T-word."
A revolution without sacrifice where everyone is a winner? There's no such thing.
Katherine Ellison wrote a wonderful piece on this topic for Salon.com in which she quoted Stephen Schneider, the Stanford University climatologist, as saying: "Volunteerism doesn't work. It's about as effective as voluntary speed limits. No cops, no judges: road carnage. No rules, no fines: greenhouse gases. We're going to triple or quadruple the CO2 in the atmosphere with no policy. I don't believe offsets are just a distraction. But we'll have failed if that's all we do."
There's a saying at the Pentagon that "a vision without resources is a hallucination." For my money, the green revolution today is still a hallucination.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 8:46 PM Labels: amazon, politics No comments:
The Great Chutzpah Race
"No - you have more chutzpah!"
When politics mimics an SNL skit...in the 90's there was a skit on SNL wherein James Woods, a ventriloquist, trades, "No, you're the dummy" back and forth with his dummy.
That was the whole skit.
Bush Spokesman: Clintons Have "Chutzpah"
Tony Snow Mocks Bill And Hillary Clinton For Criticizing Bush's Libby Decision; Libby Pays $250K Fine
Really, a pox on both your houses.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 12:00 PM Labels: politics 1 comment:
Kudos to the Forward for its Webby
Yes, I used the K-word. I hate the K-word. It is so fake.
Nothing fake about recognition by one's peers. The Forward has won such an honor from the famed Webby awards.
You could say that in total four Jewish newspapers won. In addition to the Forward, you might count as Jewish The Post, The Village Voice and maybe The Onion (just because all humor is Jewish).
Anyway, the other online newspapers to win were -
KURIER ONLINE
http://www.kurier.at Telekurier Online Medien GmbH
LANACION.com
http://www.lanacion.com LA NACION
http://www.nypost.com/ Questus
http://www.forward.com the FORWARD
The New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz Shift
http://www.theonion.com/ The Onion
http://www.villagevoice.com Village Voice Media, LLC
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You asked: Why did lever action rifles die out?
Why did they stop using lever action rifles?
What happened to lever action guns?
Are lever action rifles outdated?
Why didn't they use lever action rifles in the Civil War?
What is the most powerful lever action rifle?
Did Remington ever make a lever action rifle?
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Are lever actions good for hunting?
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How much did a Henry rifle cost in 1860?
What pistol did Custer carry?
Did the Confederates use repeating rifles?
-They're not as accurate as bolt actions. The lever lockup is less solid than a bolt, and the weight of the ammo hanging off the barrel kind of pulls on it. -They can't chamber as powerful of rounds as bolt actions.
Why weren't lever action rifles commonplace in WWI? Great question, and the most basic answer is that with the exception of the Winchester Model 1895, their actions weren't strong enough to chamber contemporary service ammunition. … And the lever is more awkward to work while prone than a bolt.
By the 1890s, lever actions had evolved into a form that would last for over a century. Both Marlin and Winchester released new model lever-action rifles in 1894. The Marlin rifle is still in production, whereas production of the Winchester 94 ceased in 2006.
Even though we are now well into the 21st century, the lever-action rifle is far from becoming obsolete. The Model 94 is back, the Marlin has never gone away and Mossberg's 464, which was introduced in 2008, seems to be a big success.
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Repeating rifles (both lever action and revolving) *were* used by both sides, but this question seems to ask why they weren't used as standard issue instead of muzzle loading rifles: simple reason is money and logistics. Muzzle loading rifles were cheaper to produce and easier to maintain.
50-110 Winchester. The . 50-110 WCF (also known as the . 50-100-450 WCF , with different loadings) in modern 1886 Winchesters with modern steel barrels is the most powerful lever-action cartridge, with up to 6,000 foot-pounds (8.1 kJ) of energy.
And I did. Remington-made Marlin lever-action rifles are the most curious beneficiaries of all this recent goodwill. … Their value has gone up quite a bit over the last few months, and an MR-prefix levergun is actually now in higher demand than the JM-stamped models that Marlin built in its New Haven, Conn., factory.
Most hunters consider traditional lever-action rifles to be less accurate than bolt-action rifles, and let it go at that. … But even though the bolt-action may have the accuracy edge, lever-actions are still plenty precise for many hunting applications.
Most lever action center fire carbines such as the Marlin 336, 30–30 cal. hold 6 rounds. Lever action 22 caliber firearms can hold up to 19 long rifle rounds or 25 22 shorts in the tube magazine.
Despite a design going back more than 150 years, the accuracy of today's New Original Henry is as good as, and sometimes better than, some more-modern lever-action rifles. It may also be the most fun to shoot. Returning to the beginning of today's Henry Repeating Arms, the . … 22 Long Rifle, 12 for the .
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But aesthetics aside, lever guns have always been a good choice for some styles of hunting in certain terrain types — in the brush country of the North, outback horseback hunts in the West, and anywhere where the action is fast and shot distances moderate, the lever has always been a solid choice.
One of the most popular rifle cartridges in America, lever-action or otherwise, the 30-30 is a great choice for whitetail and black bear. By modern standards, you might call the 30-30 a bit of an underperformer. Its range is typically limited to 200 yards.
The receiver of a lever-action rifle is not likely to get very dirty very quickly, but take a look inside and see if it needs to be cleaned. Your gun cleaning kit should come with a brush that you could use to clean the receiver if it needs it. Or just wipe it down a bit with a microfiber cloth.
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442. At the time of the Little Big Horn, Custer's command, the 7th U.S. Cavalry, was armed with what was considered by many to be the finest military revolver in the world — the Colt Single Action Army. This superb six-shooter was accurate and rugged and chambered the .
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A few were used by the Confederacy. The Civil War precursor to the Winchester repeating rifle based on early lever-action repeating rifles made by New Haven Arms Company Co. These highly prized weapons were privately purchased by those who could afford them.
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Are we only here for the interim between barbarian past and enlightened future?
Will the real or imagined possibility of being embraced and valued fragment any hopes of recognised cultural diversity?
When the barricades come down will we have anything left to say together?
But are we actually on the brink of this much hyped adventure?
And after Integration will it matter who tells our history?
Who knows? These thoughts wriggle around in my head while I stitch roots.
Have we given enough thought to what we actually do want? Before we get there, we need to have realistically explored the options; we need to have taken responsibility for our Culture and ensured it's visibility and accessibility.
There is no way forward without this: we should be the keepers and curators of our past, present and future. If one day we should morph into Them, we will need to do it on our terms.
Then again, it is possible that we are not actually heading for any kind of Integration at all; that some of us are just trying to hide amongst Them in an attempt to avoid persecution.


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The Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville was still astir when the newly elected members of the Commune assembled in the municipal council-hall.
The ballot had returned sixteen mayors, adjuncts, and Liberals of all shades,[108] a few Radicals,[109] and about sixty revolutionaries of all sorts.[110]
How came these latter to be chosen? All must be told, and virile truth at last substituted for the stale flattery of the old romantic school styling itself 'revolutionary'. There might be something more terrible than the defeat: to misconstrue or to forget its causes.
Responsibility weighs heavily enough upon the elected, but we must not charge it all to one side – the electors also have their share of it.
The Central Committee had told the people on Sunday the 19th, 'Prepare for your communal elections.' They thus had a whole week in which to frame a mandate and select their mandatories. No doubt the resistance of the mayors and the occupation of the military posts kept away many of the revolutionary electors from their arrondissements, but there still remained enough citizens to conduct the work of selection.
Never had a mandate been more indispensable, for the question at issue was to give Paris a communal constitution acceptable to all France. Never did Paris stand in such need of enlightened and practical men, capable at once of negotiating and of combating.
Yet there was never less preparatory discussion. A few men only recalled to prudence a people habitually so over-scrupulous in electoral matters, and which had just made a revolution to get rid of their representatives. The Committee of the twenty arrondissements issued a manifesto very pertinent in several points, and which might have served as an outline; the two delegates at the Home Office tried, through an article in the Officiel, to impress Paris with the importance of her vote. Not a single assembly framed the general programme of Paris; only two or three arrondissements gave some sort of mandate.
Instead of voting for a programme, they voted for names. Those who had demanded the Commune, made a mark at the Corderie or during the siege, were elected without being asked for further explanations, some even twice, like Flourens, in spite of the blunders of the 31st October. Only seven or eight, and those not the best, of the obscure men of the Central Committee were named, the latter, it is true, having decided not to present itself for election. The public meetings in many arrondissements sent up the most violent talkers, romanticists sprung up during the siege, and lacking all knowledge of practical life. Nowhere were the candidates put to any test. In the ardour of the struggle they took no thought for the morrow. One might have fancied that the object in view was a simple demonstration, not the founding of a new order of things.
Twenty-four workmen only were elected, and of these a third belonged rather to the public meetings than to the International or the working men's societies. The other delegates of the people were chosen from the middle-class and the so-called liberal professions, accountants, publicists – there were as many as twelve of these doctors and lawyers. These, save a few really studious men, whether veterans or new-comers, were as ignorant as the workmen of the political and administrative mechanism of the bourgeoisie, albeit full of their own personality. The safety of the Central Committee lay in this, that it was unadorned with great men, each one provided with a formula of his own. The Council of the Commune, on the contrary, abounded in chapels, groups, semi-celebrities, and hence endless competition and rivalry.
Thus the precipitation and heedlessness of the revolutionary electors sent up to the Hôtel-de-Ville a majority of men, most of them devoted, but chosen without discernment, and, into the bargain, abandoned them to their own inspirations, to their whims, without any determined mandate to restrain and guide them in the struggle entered upon.
Time and experience would no doubt have corrected this negligence, but time was wanting. The people never hold sway but for an hour, and woe to them if they are not then ready, armed from head to foot. The elections of the 26th March were irreparable.
Only about sixty of those elected were present at the first sitting. At its opening, the Central Committee came to congratulate the Council. The chairman by seniority, Beslay, a capitalist of a fraternizing turn of mind, made the opening speech. He very happily defined this young revolution: 'The enfranchisement of the Commune of Paris is the enfranchisement of all the communes of the Republic. Your adversaries have said that you have struck the Republic. It is as with the pile, to be driven deeper into the earth. The Republic of 1793 was a soldier, who wanted to centralize all the forces of the nation; the Republic of 1871 is a workman, who above all wants liberty to construct peace. The Commune will occupy itself with all that is local, the Department with what is regional, the Government with what is national. Let us not overstep this limit, and the country and the Government will be happy and proud to applaud this revolution.' This was the naive illusion of an old man, who, nevertheless, had had the experience of a long political life. This programme, so moderate in its form, was nothing less than the death-knell of the great bourgeoisie, as shown during this very sitting.
There were already some jarring notes. The violent and the giddy-headed launched out into random motions, and wanted the Commune to declare itself omnipotent. Tirard, elected by his arrondissement, took advantage of this occasion to withdraw, stating that his mandate was purely municipal, that he could not recognize the political character of the Commune; gave in his resignation, and ironically bade farewell to the Council: 'I leave you my sincere good wishes; may you succeed in your task,' etc.
The insolence of this dishonest man, who for eight days had been busy in fomenting civil war and now threw up the mandate solicited in his address to the electors, evoked general indignation. The more impatient wanted to have him arrested, others to declare his mandate forfeited. He escaped scot-free because he had said at the Versailles tribune, 'When you enter the Hôtel-de-Ville, you are not sure to return from it.'
This incident no doubt induced the Council to vote the secrecy of their sittings, their awkward pretext being that the Commune was not a parliament. This decision produced a very bad effect, violating the best traditions of the great Commune of 1792-93, as it gave the Council the appearance of a conspiracy, and it was found necessary to quash it two weeks after, when the newspapers abounded in fantastic reports, as a natural consequence of the secret sittings. But the publicity never consisted in anything but the insertion of curtailed reports in the Officiel. The Council never admitted the public, whose presence would have prevented many errors.
The next day the Council subdivided itself into commissions charged with the various services. A Military Commission, and others of Finance, Justice, Public Safety, Labour and Exchange, Provisions, Foreign Affairs, Public Services, and Education were named. The Executive Commission was composed of Lefrançais, Duval, Félix Pyat, Bergert, Tridon, Eudes, and Vaillant, of whom Duval, Bergeret, and Eudes also belonged to the Military Commission.
It had just been voted that all decrees should be signed The Commune – a vote too soon forgotten – when the delegates of the Central Committee were announced. After waiting half an hour they were introduced. 'Citizens,' said their spokesman, 'the Central Committee comes to hand over to you its revolutionary powers. We resume the functions defined by our statutes.'
This was the moment for the Council to affirm its authority. The only representative of the population, alone responsible, it should now have absorbed all powers, not tolerating the co-existence of a Committee which was sure always to remember the paramount position it had held and strive to recover it. In the previous sitting, the Council had done justice to the Central Committee in voting that they had deserved well of Paris and the Republic, and now taking them at their word, ought to have declared that the role of the Committee had come to an end. Instead of an authoritative decision in this sense, recriminations were resorted to.
A member of the Council recalled the promise of the Central Committee to dissolve after the elections. Unless they aimed at power, there was no necessity for the maintenance of their organization. Varlin and Beslay defended the existence of the Committee, which was combated by Jourde and Rigault. The delegates, who would have yielded to a peremptory word, held out against this weakness. 'This is,' they said, 'the Federation that has saved the Republic. The last word is not yet said. To dissolve this organization is to break your strength. The Central Committee does not pretend to share in the government. It remains the bond of union between you and the National Guard, the right hand of the Revolution. We again become what we were, the great conseil de famille of the National Guard.'
This simile made a marked impression. The debate was prolonged, and the delegates of the Committee withdrew, no conclusion having been arrived at.
Thereupon, without preamble, like a Jack-in-the-box, Félix Pyat Jumped up and proposed the abolition of the conscription.
On the 3rd March he had stolen away from the National Assembly, as he had on the 31st October deserted the Hôtel-de-Ville, and, a few days after, sneaked out of prison. On the 18th March he did not stir, while Delescluze had joined the revolution from the first day. Félix Pyat waited for the triumph, and on the eve of the elections came to beat the drum before the Committee, 'which teaches modesty to the proudest name and inspires men of genius with a feeling of inferiority.' Elected by about 12,000 votes in the tenth arrondissement, he was now forward to take his seat at the Hôtel-de-Ville.
The hour awaited for twenty years had at last struck; he was about to tread the boards. Amidst the crowd of dramatists, miracle-workers, romanticists, visionaries, and Jacobin relics, trailing since 1830 at the heels of the social revolution, his business had been that of appeals to regicide and revolutionary insurgency, of epistles, allegories, toasts, invocations, evocations, pieces of rhetoric on the events of the day, tinkering with the old Montagnard wares, and doing them up with a little humanitarian varnish. Under the Empire his rabid manifestoes had been the joy of the police and of the Bonapartist journals, excellent sops to throw to the people, who could not extract from them a practical idea or a grain of sense. This intoxication was more than half-feigned. The dishevelled madman of the stage behind the scenes turned crafty and wary to a degree. At bottom he was only a splenetic sceptic, sincere only in his self-idolatry. He came to the Commune his pockets crammed with decrees.
When he read his motion, it was lustily cheered by the romanticists and passed at once. Yet still in the morning the Council had intimated nothing of the sort, but only stated in the proclamation in which they presented themselves to Paris: 'Today the decision on house-rents, tomorrow that on the overdue bills, the public services re-established and simplified, and the National Guards reorganized, these are our first acts.' And now it abruptly encroached upon national affairs. Commune in the morning, Constituent Assembly in the evening.
If they wanted to change the revolution from a communal into a national one, they ought to have said so, boldly set forth their whole programme, and demonstrated to France the necessity of their attempt. But what signified this decree, improvised at random, without a preliminary declaration and without a sequel? This quid pro quo was not even taken up. Under pretext of avoiding parliamentarism, the matters at issue were hurried over.
Then the Council decreed the general exemption of rents due between October, 1870, and July, 1871. Versailles had offered only delays; this was contrary to equity. The Council exempted rents for the good reason that property ought to bear its share of the general sacrifices; but it did not exempt a lot of industrialists who had made scandalous profits during the siege. This was contrary to justice.
Finally, they neglected to announce themselves to the provinces, already so forsaken by the Central Committee. A commission had certainly been charged to draw up an address, but its work had not pleased, and another one had been named, so that what with one commission and another, the programme of the Commune was kept in suspense for twenty-two days, and the Council had allowed all the insurrections of the provinces to die out without giving them any advice or ideas.
These encroachments, this disorder, disturbed Paris with the thought that the new power had neither very clear ideas nor consciousness of the situation. The Liberal fraction of the Council took advantage of this pretext to withdraw. If their convention of the 20th had been sincere, if they had cared for the destinies of Paris, the mayor and adjuncts elected would have courageously stood by their mandates. Like those of the provinces, they deserted, but were still more culpable, since they had not protested against their elections. Many had never been seen at the Hôtel-de-Ville; others wrung their hands, lamenting, 'Where are we going?' Some shammed mortal illness: 'You see 1 am at my last gasp.' Those who have been most abusive since, then sought for humble evasions. Not one broke boldly.
Their resignations, [111] the double elections, left twenty-two seats vacant on the 30th, when the Council verified the credentials. Faithful to the best traditions of the French Republic, it admitted the Hungarian Frankel, one of the most intelligent members of the International, elected in the thirteenth arrondissement. Six candidates had not received the eighth part of the votes required by the law of 1849; the Council passed by this irregularity because the arrondissements of these candidates, composed of reactionary quarters, were emptying themselves from day to day.
The men of order, twice chastised, continued migrating to Versailles, which they stocked with a new store of rancour and rhodomontades. The town had assumed a warlike aspect; all announced that the struggle was near at hand. Already M. Thiers had cut off Paris from France. On the eve of the April term, the 3 1 st March, the director of the general post-office, Rampont, belying the word of honour he had given the delegate of the Central Committee, Thiesz, made off after having disorganized the postal service, and M. Thiers suppressed all the goods trains and kept back all correspondence destined for Paris.
On the 1st April he officially announced war. 'The Assembly,' he telegraphed to the prefects, 'is sitting at Versailles, where the organization of one of the finest armies that France has ever possessed is being completed. Good citizens may then take heart and hope for the end of a struggle which will be sad but short.' A cynical boast of that same bourgeoisie which had refused to organize armies against the Prussians. 'One of the finest armies,' was as yet only the rabble of the 18th March, strengthened by five or six regiments; about 35,000 men, with 3,000 horses, and 5,000 gendarmes or sergents-de-ville, the only corps that had any solidity.
Paris would not believe in the existence even of this army. The popular papers demanded a sortie, speaking of the journey to Versailles as a promenade. The most impetuous was the Vengeur, in which Félix Pyat furiously shook his cap and bells. He exhorted the Commune 'to press Versailles. Poor Versailles! it no longer remembers the 5th and 6th October, 1789, when the women of the Commune alone sufficed to catch its king.' On the morning of Sunday the 2nd April the same member of the Executive Commission announced to Paris: 'Yesterday at Versailles the soldiers, requested to vote by aye or no if they were to march on Paris, answered No!'
[108] Ad. Adam, Mane, Rochard, Barré (1st arrondissement, Louvre); Brelay, Loiseau-Pinson, Tirard, Chéon (2nd, Bourse); Ch. Murat (3rd, Temple); A. Le Roy, Robinet (6th, Luxembourg); Desmarets, E. Ferry, Nast (9th, Opéra); Marmottan, De Bouteillier (16th, Pasty).
[109] Goupil (6th, Luxembourg); E. Lefévre (7th, Palais-Bourbon); A. Ranc, U. Parent (9th, Opéra).
[110] Demay, A. Arnaud, Pindy, D. Dupont (3rd, Temple); A. Arnould, Lefrançais, Clémence, E. Gérardin (4th, Hôtel-de-Ville); Régère, Jourde, Tridon, Blanchet, Ledroit (5th, Panthéon); Beslay, Varlin (6th, Luxembourg); Parizel, Urbain, Brunel (7th, Palais-Bourbon Raoul Rigault, Vaillant, A. Arnould, Alix (8th, Champs-Elysées); Gambon, Félix, Pyat, H. Fortuné, Champy, Babick, Rastoul (110th, Enclos St. Laurent); Mortier, Delescluze, Assi, Protot, Eudes, Avrial, Verdure (11th, Popincourt); Varlin, Gresme, Theiez, Fruneau (12th, Reuilly); Léo Meillet, Duval, Chardon, Frankel (13th, Gobelins); Billioray, Martelet, Decamp (14th, Observatoire); V. Clément, J. Valles, Langevin (15th, Vaugirard); Varlin, E. Clément, Ch. Girardin, Chalain, Malon (17th, Batignolles); Blanqui, Theisz, Dereure, J. B. Clément, Ferré, VennoreI, P. Grousset (18th, Montmartre); Oudet, Puget, Delescluze, J. Miot, Ostyn, Flourens (19th, Buttes-Chaumont); Bergeret, Ranvier, Flourens, Blanqui (20th, Menilmontant). Blanqui had been arrested in the South of France, where he had gone for the sake of his health.
[111] See Appendix III.


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Beaumont Bruestle - Charles Sweir collection, 1937-1980
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the scripts for 52 plays with corresponding musical scores plus 16 musical scores without scripts. Included in the collection are autograph and typescript lyrics, correspondence, theatre programs, press cuttings, and miscellaneous. The dated scripts and their corresponding musical scores are arranged chronologically; undated scripts and scores follow in an alphabetical sequence. Any correspondence and/or press cuttings related to a play's production are inter-filed...
Ben Graf Henneke archive of the performing arts, 1760s-1980s
Scope and Contents Consists of photographs, calling cards, pamphlets, calendars, diaries, clippings, autographs, quotations, costume and scene renderings, correspondence, playbills, programs, and posters. All materials pertain to performers, American and non-American theatres, plays and other performed works, collectors, miscellaneous, and oversized materials.
Dates: approximately 1762-1981
Enid Bagnold correspondence, 1928-1954
Scope and Contents The Enid Bagnold correspondence contains 83 handwriten and typed letters and postcards from Enid Bagnold (Lady Jones) to Cynthia Asquith (Lady Diane) and date from 1928 to 1953.
Lynette Bennett theatrical costumes, 1951-1998
Scope and Contents Theatre and dance costumes, shoes and accessories.
Wayne F. Maxwell, Jr. manuscripts, 1951-1955
Scope and Contents The Wayne F. Maxwell, Jr. manuscripts consist of the typescripts and/or photocopied typescripts of five plays, two screenplays, five short stories, and several untitled poems written by Wayne F. Maxwell, Jr., a University of Tulsa speech major (Class of 1954), actor, director, and playwright. Some of Maxwell's plays were written and produced while he was a student at the university. Further information about Maxwell and his activities with the University of Tulsa theatre may be found in The...
Wystan Hugh Auden manuscripts, 1936-1960
Scope and Contents The W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden papers include a production copy of the script for The Ascent of F6 used for the 26 Feb 1937 production at the Mercury Theatre; a portion of the script written in the hand of actor Evan John who portrayed the Abbot to be used as a director's prompt copy, together with Stuart Latham's explanation of the above; a musical score for voices; a letter from Auden to Latham, press cuttings and other material relating to the play. Also included in the collection is a...
Subject: Theater -- 20th century X
University of Tulsa. Theater Department 3
Asquith, Cynthia Mary Evelyn, Lady, 1887-1960 1
Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Bennett, Lynette 1
Bruestle, Beaumont Schrader, 1905-1989 1
Henneke, Ben Graf, 1914-2009 1
John, Evan 1
Jones, Enid Bagnold, Lady, 1889-1981 1
Latham, Stuart 1
Maxwell, Wayne F., Jr., 1932-2000 1
Samples, M. David 1
Swier, Charles 1


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Q: Не работает модуль shutil Вот код
import shutil
shutil.copy('C:\56\doc0.txt','C:\45')

но после выполнения программы doc.txt остаётся в той же папке и меняется на файл с именем %:

В чём проблема?

A: Вместо
shutil.copy('C:\56\doc0.txt','C:\45')

используйте
shutil.copy(r'C:\56\doc0.txt', r'C:\45')

(r перед строкой в апострофах или кавычкая значит raw - сырой, т. е. знаки принимаются буквенно - не интерпретируются).

Объяснение:
В строке
'C:\56\doc0.txt','C:\45'

последовательности знаков \56 и\45 интерпретируются как знаки . и %.
Вы можете проверить это в консоли Питона. Напишите:
print('C:\56\doc0.txt','C:\45')

и на выводе вы получите

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Это происходит в соответствии с документацией (см. таблицы в 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals или Escape Characters) для которой они соответствуют символом с восьмеричными значениями 56 и 45, т. е. . и % (сp. с ASCII Table and Description).

A: В соседнем ответе вам уже объяснили хитрость слешей \.
Но вы можете использовать слеш /, тогда не придется экранировать или использовать "сырые строки":
import shutil
shutil.copy('C:/56/doc0.txt', 'C:/45')

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FRISCO, TEXAS – The North American Hockey League (NAHL) is auctioning off all game-worn player jerseys from the upcoming NAHL Top Prospects Tournament through eBay.
The auction, which includes all player jerseys from Team Central, Team North, Team South and Team West, opens today (Wednesday, Feb. 16) and closes on Saturday, Feb. 26, with the bid for each jersey starting at $100.
Bids can be placed at http://www.nahl.com/Auction/.
The jerseys were designed by the NAHL and manufactured by OT Sports.
The NAHL Top Prospects Tournament will be held from Feb. 20-22 at the Ice Cube in Ann Arbor, Mich. For more information on the event, visit http://www.nahltopprospects.com/.


CORONA, Calif. – August 31, 2017 - TCL®, one of the world's largest and America's fastest-growing television brand, will unveil a mobile eSports Gaming Lounge at a series of marquee matchups throughout the football season as part of the Wendy's® College Tailgate Tour. A customized 18-wheeler - with a patio, roof-top party deck, indoor lounge and 14-foot video board – will hit 12 major games, kicking off Sept. 3 when UCLA takes on Texas A&M at the Rose Bowl and ending at the University of Michigan on Nov. 25 when the school plays Ohio State. For the full schedule, please see TCL's latest blog post (http://www.tclusa.com/blog/college-football-tour).
With the gaming lounge, TCL will enhance the fan experience by featuring special athlete appearances and providing attendees a chance to play popular video games or view live college football on the flagship 55" P-Series Roku TVs. In addition, at each tour stop guests will have an opportunity to participate in a 4K HDR television giveaway and receive a limited edition TCL t-shirt.


YouTube hasn't had it easy in the copyright department as of late. In February 2016, a few well-known creators posted videos about their struggles with rights holders issuing takedown claims against their content. These creators claimed their videos were covered under fair use terms, and that YouTube's video claiming and copyright policies are so biased towards claimants that some of these creators no longer feel safe posting videos.
This is not a new argument. YouTube's ContentID system, which compares videos to references like music and movies, has never been perfect. The system has drawn its fair share of criticism in the past, the most recent round occurring in 2013. Now, with this new batch of complaints against YouTube's video claiming policy, Google's online video site is promising to make improvements. CEO Susan Wojcicki herself took to Twitter to thank the YouTube community for bringing the issue to her company's attention.
To some, YouTube's struggles with maintaining fair copyright practices might not seem like that big of a deal. After all, don't all digital video sites have to deal with things like intellectual property concerns, takedown notices, DMCA claims, and the like? You would think. But up until a few months ago, Facebook was simply floating by without really addressing any of those types of problems on its own site.
Facebook grew into an online video powerhouse in what could be considered an incredibly short amount of time. The social networking site was pulling in approximately one billion video views per day in June 2014. By April 2015, Facebook claimed to pull in roughly four billion video views a day. Only seven months later in November, the social media platform had doubled that number and reached eight billion video views a day. As of January 2016, Facebook hadn't confirmed whether or not its daily video views had increased, but it's safe to assume they have to some degree.
While at first glance these massive viewership numbers might seem impressive, there's a dark secret hiding behind them. For many months, Facebook seemed more intent on building its video strategy than it did actually protecting the video content (and the creators behind it) appearing on its platform. This lack of attention to copyright issues was brought to light as early as June 2015, when Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos called out Facebook in a Twitter rant, questioning the legitimacy of the site's video growth at the expense of content pirated from creators without proper attribution.
A month later, Hank Green, who is arguably one of the most respected and influential personalities in the entire online video industry (he co-founded VidCon, after all), took to the blogging site Medium to accuse Facebook of cheating its way into the online video realm. Like Strompolos, Green emphasized the "freebooting" (illegally-uploaded content) issue on Facebook, which in Q1 2015 reportedly saw 725 of its top 1000 videos stolen from their original creators.
Eventually, Facebook decided to address internet users' concerns about the way it was (or wasn't) dealing with pirated content. In late August 2015, the social networking site teamed up with brands like Fullscreen, video ID technology company ZEFR, and viral video licensing company Jukin Media to test its new video-matching and content management tech. At last, Facebook seemed to be caring about video copyright issues, but the move arguably came much later than it should have.
And this is why, despite all YouTube's problems with dealing with copyright claims, Google's online video site still has the upper-hand over Facebook in terms of working to provide a reasonably fair, safe place for video creators to host their work. Sure, YouTube's been around much longer than Facebook as a video hosting platform so it has more experience in dealing with these matters. And of course, the site still has some kinks to work through, but overall, YouTube's timely response to copyright complaints says a lot about its dedication to making things better for creators.
On the flipside, it took Facebook months to even acknowledge there was a freebooting issue on its site. Every time I hear someone say they love what Facebook video does for their brand, I can't help but cringe. Sure, that content might be reaching more eyes thanks to Facebook's built-in social platform, but what is that same brand to do if it finds someone has stolen its videos and re-posted to other pages? What is that brand supposed to do when those pirates rake in views which aren't rightfully theirs?
At this point, Facebook has a lot of catching up to do in terms of copyright policies compared to YouTube. The Zuckerberg-founded site is getting there, and it's promised to start taking freebooting more seriously. But Facebook is going to have to prove to video creators and brands that it's just as dedicated to protecting the rightful and legitimate content hosted on its platform as YouTube has been as of late if the social networking site wants to avoid anymore backlash (and possible legal issues, as well).
As with many things in life, we'll just have to see if Facebook makes good on its word to crack down on freebooting and piracy. If it does, then brands that use video marketing as part of their overall content marketing strategies won't have to worry quite as much about the possibility of their clips being re-used illegally and not taken down in a timely manner. And I won't have to keep cringing every time someone says Facebook is better than YouTube.


The National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is pleased to announce the release of a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeking applications for the George M. O'Brien Urology Cooperative Research Centers Program. Letters of Intent are due January 22, 2016. Application deadline is February 22 by 5:00 p.m. local time of applicant organization. This program will provide a coordinated platform for multidisciplinary interactions between basic and clinical scientists with the overall goal of understanding the etiology and development of benign urologic diseases and disorders, and providing a collaborative venue to design better treatments, diagnostics, and prevention strategies for these disease conditions within the NIDDK mission interests. This program will also serve as a national resource to the larger urological research community and provide educational enrichment opportunities to scientists electing to pursue research in benign urology. Accordingly, applications are sought from individuals willing to cooperate with the NIDDK under a cooperative centers program. The funded Centers will work with the NIDDK in facilitating research collaborations and interactions within and among centers and with the larger research community to accomplish the overall goal of improving treatment of urologic disorders through enhanced communication and research excellence. View the full announcement on the NIH website. For more information about this funding announcement, please email Dr. Deborah Hoshizaki.


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OPM APPOINTMENT
It seems beyond unbelievable that a civil servant who has been suspended twice from his position as secretary of Marine Resources, should now be appointed to run the Office of the Prime Minister.
HARD TO CONTACT
A staff member of the Cook Islands News tried to contact a senior public servant over two days recently. On the first call she was told he was in a meeting. On the second call she was told he was out in the field. He was away for the day on the third call and the fourth was that he was sick. By the fifth call he was on annual leave but, by the sixth call, he was just simply out of the office and contactable on his mobile. He was not answering his mobile however.
Time to front up on pension
In 2016 Members of Parliament (Rose Brown and George Maggie) attended a meeting of Grey Power at Sinai Hall. At that meeting the MPs pledged to support the abolition of taxation on pensioner benefits.
An unhealthy situation
The newspaper says there is lots of flu going around, and at Dr Uka's surgery, it has been standing room only, with people queuing up to see him.
History rewritten…
Local TV ad tells us that ANZ bank has been banking in the Pacific for 135 years. However, a quick look at Mr Google will tell you that ANZ was formed in 1951 from two other banks. Even if ANZ has purchased one or more banks which have indeed been operating in the Pacific since 1883, it certainly was not under the ANZ name. Management may wish to set the record straight.
SOUNDING OFF
Whoever runs the National Auditorium has about five months before UB40 plays to hire a sound technician that isn't the one that made this year's Te Maeva Nui (like last year's) a sound disaster by adjusting the bass so high that the walls shook and the voices were drowned out. And while management is at it, perhaps the exit signs, none of which have lights working, can be fixed before there is a disaster in the event of fire.
Buggies in the same basket as dodgy scooter drivers
A smoke signaller says he can't understand recurring anonymous criticism of the island's buggy tours "When I have been, I have enjoyed my time on them. Some people don't know how to drive them, and it is the same situation with visitors who hire scooters. But do we put down the scooter hire companies? I commend the buggy tour owners for trying something different on the island to give the tourists a tour that is enjoyable.
Some interesting facts about our winter weather
Deputy prime minister Mark Brown must have still been at high school when the annual Constitution celebration performances shifted from the leaking, corrugated iron-roofed old Constitution Park building to the French government-funded Are Karioi Nui. Wet weather was the cause.
No surprises that this year's Te Maeva Nui festival continues to spark conversation from the community.


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Many people have repeatedly noticed that after a long time at the computer or with hard work that requires close attention, they begin to blushor hurt your eyes, and in addition, the visual acuity may temporarily decrease. And it happens that good vision with time just begins to deteriorate.
One of the leading pharmaceutical companies has developed a unique method of solving all of the above problems. Today it is a biologically active supplement called the intensive complex "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar".It is a vitamin preparation, which includes anthocyanins berries along with antioxidants. More about what this drug is, we'll tell in this article, and also learn how customers react to it.
What is included in the "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar"?
The blueberry anthocyanins included in the preparation contribute to the synthesis, as well as the restoration of the main visual enzyme, to which rhodopsin acts. This component mainly affects the visual acuity, it increases it, contributing to the improvement of twilight function. The action of the anthocyanins of blueberries is aimed at stimulating the regeneration processes in the retina, and they also prevent eye fatigue against the backdrop of prolonged work that requires visual strain.
In combination with routine and ascorbic acid, bioflavonoids lead to a decrease in capillary fragility and permeability, improving microcirculation in the choroid of the eyes. In addition, the intraocular pressure decreases along with the risk of hemorrhages in the retina.
Zinc, in turn, is a unique natural antioxidant that protects the visual organs from the effects of free radical complexes on them. In combination with the anthocyanins of blueberries, he takes part in the synthesis of rhodopsin, protecting the most fragile part of the eye, which is the retina. Thus, protection from the destructive influence of the ultraviolet part of the spectrum occurs. Zinc, among other things, prevents detachment of the retina, as well as interferes with the formation of cataracts, improving the overall perception of the color palette.
Vitamins from group B are required to optimize the exchange processes in all structures of the visual organs. Vitami B1, it is also called thiamine, promotes the establishment of microcirculation in vascular membranes, normalizing the work of the muscular apparatus of eyeballs. This vitamin in combination with zinc takes part in protection against free radicals.
Vitamin B2 is involved in most oxidation and reduction processes in the human body. This vitamin acts as a coenzyme. If it is deficient, symptoms may appear that appear in the dryness of the eyes, the burning sensation or the sensation of sand. It is not excluded and redness.
With a deficiency in the body riboflavin is associated with the development of photophobia, and in addition, conjunctivitis, cataracts and keratitis. Vitamin B6 takes part in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, improving the signaling on the optic nerves and reducing muscle tension. This vitamin prevents the appearance of conjunctivitis.
Lutein acts as part of the synthesis of zeaxanthin, which is located in the yellow spot of the retina. This component is also found in the choroid, the ciliary body, the lens and the iris. It is required for normal visual acuity. In addition, lutein interferes with the oxidative destruction of cells, reducing the flow of the most dangerous part of the spectrum. Due to its properties, lutein prevents retinal damage and loss of vision. According to the studies, lutein has a positive effect in the presence of glaucomatous neuropathy, which is marked by an increase in intraocular pressure.
The need for prevention of age-related changes in the eye apparatus.
In the presence of myopia, cataracts, glaucoma, disturbances of twilight vision. In all these cases, "Blueberry Forte" is used as a component of complex therapy.
For preventive purposes while working on a computer for a long time.
Long stay at the wheel of the car, especially at night.
Any work that requires regular eye strain or close attention.
Is an intensive complex for the eyesight of "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar" suitable for everyone?
To whom is the drug contraindicated?
The presence of individual intolerance of certain constituents of the drug.
The period of pregnancy or breastfeeding.
It is necessary to emphasize that before using this drug, it is recommended to consult with an ophthalmologist.
Apply the "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar" inside in the mornings and evenings. As part of the reception, two 500 mg tablets are drunk. You should take the supplements after or directly during meals. Prevention with this drug can be done for a long time, which can be from two to four months. Between courses a ten-day break is allowed.
This confirms the instructions to "Blueberry Fort" from "Evalar".
One of the popular analogues of the presented drug is a remedy called "Anthocyan Forte".This analogue also acts as a complex bioadditive, which is used to maintain vision. In addition, it is used against the background of decreased sensitivity of the eyes to increased physical stress. It is also used by patients with diabetes mellitus with reduced permeability and fragility of the eye vessels.
The complex includes beta-carotene, which has antioxidant properties, similar in function to lutein. In addition, the analog contains vitamin A, which is an active natural antioxidant, and in addition, copper, whose action is aimed at improving visual acuity. In addition to the listed components, "selenium" is present in the "Antocian Forte" dietary supplement, which prevents the development of dystrophy of the optic nerves and reduces the risk of cataracts.
Thus, thanks to its composition, "Anthocyan Forte" is similar to the "Blueberry Forte" tool perfectly suited for people who regularly spend a lot of time at the computer or are subjected to increased strain on the visual apparatus. This analogue is suitable for use against a background of diseases such as cataracts, myopia or retinal detachment.
What is unique about the intensive complex for the view of "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar"?
"Blueberry Forte" is a bioadditive which is not a medicinal product.
The preparation contains natural food components.
A complex of vitamins along with trace elements and active substances that are in the composition of the drug, promotes the correctness of all biochemical processes in the eye tissues. Thanks to them, the blood supply improves, the visual acuity is increased, and besides, any age changes are prevented.
The presented bioadditive is perfectly suitable for its application as a component for complex treatment in ophthalmic practice.
"Blueberry Forte" has almost no contraindications.
Bioadditive is suitable for use in people with diabetes.
"Blueberry Forte" differs in an affordable price, having different versions of analogues. The cost of this drug ranges from one hundred to two hundred rubles.
Now find out what people think about the bio-additive?
Reviews about "Blueberry Fort" from "Evalar"
It's worth mentioning that when you get acquainted with the reviews that people leave about the bioadditive, the high rating of this drug is striking. Buyers are very pleased with this vitamin complex and say that it actually helps to cope with such problems as eye fatigue, redness and burning.
People like the natural composition of tablets, their pleasant taste. Buyers say that "Blueberry Forte" with zinc from "Evalar" perfectly removes tension from eyeballs, helping to maintain visual acuity. Buyers are also satisfied that the agent does not cause any side effects.
In addition to the pharmacological effect, many like its accessibility. In particular, it emphasizes its low price, which is an average of one hundred and fifty rubles, as well as a large number of tablets contained in one package. Also people say that these tablets can be found in any pharmacy.
Among the additional benefits reported on the overall improvement of well-being, in addition, people write that against the background of using the "Blueberry Forte" supplements with lutein from "Evalar" they have strengthened their hair and nails. Buyers also talk about the fact that they become much less tired due to the intake of these pills, which is most likely explained by the content of a number of vitamins, which have a restorative effect on the entire human body as a whole.
Thus, more often people write that the vitamin complex "Blueberry Forte" perfectly supports the eyes, feeding them with useful trace elements, and also that the pills perfectly help to cope with the overstrain of the visual organs. There are also reviews in which people say that thanks to this vitamin complex they have even improved their eyesight.
As already noted, there are mostly positive reviews of the "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar" for sight, although sometimes you can read the comments, which say that the tool simply did not help, but did not hurt. Or some report that they have a dry eye in the face of this medication. Some buyers simply do not trust this tool and do not consider it effective. In a number of cases it is reported that there is no pronounced effect even against a background of prolonged reception.
Vitamin feeding of the visual organs.
Prevention of vision as part of a long pastime at the computer.
Copes with red eyes and turbidity in them.
Weakness of the effect or its complete absence even on the background of long-term use.
In rare cases, the appearance of dryness in the eyes.
Thus, based on feedback, we can say that buyers are satisfied with the effectiveness of the drug "Blueberry Forte" and very often report that this tool helps them cope with strain in the eyes, and also serves as an excellent prophylaxis for vision. True, not everyone trusts this drug and consider its effectiveness unproven. But there are very few such comments. Most often people, on the contrary, praise the effect of the drug on the body.
We reviewed the instructions for the application of "Blueberry Forte" from "Evalar" and reviews.


I've returned to the hobby after a a decade or so and just started cycling my 50L nano tank yesterday. I got a few hitchhikers on the live rock (including a mantis shrimp that was way too quick for me to nab!) and would like to confirm this is an aiptaisa? I also found what I think to be a stone crab this morning, would you mind taking a quick look and let me know?


We will begin offering extended stays again in late September.
We offer extended stays, with monthly or weekly rates during the winter months only.
After May 1, we allow night by night camping rates and reservations only through mid September.
All extended stay sites are full hook-ups, including all power and including cable and wifi.
Extended stay guests are allowed only 1-2 persons staying in the site, 1-2 vehicles and 1 small dog (under 30 pounds) or cat. NO LARGE DOGS.
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Witness appeal after fail-to-stop collision in Christchurch
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a fail-to-stop collision in Christchurch. The incident happened at around 7.20pm on Sunday 29 May 2016 in The Grove between a motorcycle and a car. The motorcyclist...
Road closure following serious road traffic collision near Kingston Lacy
The B3082 has been closed near Kingston Lacy following a serious road traffic collision and motorists are asked to avoid the area. At 9.21am on Sunday 29 May 2016 officers were called by the ambulance service to the collision between a motorcycle and a c...
Witness appeal after fatal road traffic collision near Kingston Lacy
Following a fatal road traffic collision on the B3082 Blandford Road near Kingston Lacy officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward. At approximately 9.20am today, 29 May 2016, emergency services were notified of the collision which had taken pl...
Officers warn: 'don't open the door to doorstep crime' in day of action
Dorset Police and Trading Standards are holding a Doorstep Crime Engagement Day on Wednesday 01 June 2016, to inform the public on how to prevent themselves from falling victim to rogue traders and distraction burglars in the county. Police Community Sup...
DORSET POLICE SIGN INFORMATION SHARING AGREEMENT
On Friday 20 May, Dorset Police signed a data sharing agreement with Boscombe Business Watch to deter crime and anti-social behaviour in Boscombe town centre. As part of the Boscombe regeneration project, Dorset Police continually seek to identify opport...
Witness appeal following suspicious incident in Bournemouth
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a suspicious incident in Bournemouth which has left a man in an induced coma. At around 10.10am on Saturday 21 May 2016 a man was walking along Fir Vale Road in the town centre with two oth...
'Legal high' warning after boy found unconscious in Poole
Police are warning the public of the dangers of a drug called 'Spice' after a 15-year-old boy was found unconscious in Poole. Officers were called to the High Street at around 7.10pm on Saturday 14 May 2016 to reports that a boy had stopped breathing. T...
Witness appeal following altercation in Bournemouth
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an altercation in the town. At 12.09am on Saturday 21 May 2016 police were called to reports of a disturbance on Meyrick Road close to the Britannia Hotel. The incident inv...
Break to beach huts in Weymouth – witness appeal
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after breaks at two beach huts in Weymouth. At 8.41am on Saturday 14 May 2016, a member of public contacted Dorset Police to report that two beach huts had been broken into a...
Road closure following serious road traffic collision at Sixpenny Handley
At 10.24am today, Saturday 21 May 2016, Dorset Police was called to the incident, in which two cars had collided head on, on the B3081 near Sixpenny Handley. Two people have been taken by air ambulance to hospital in Southampton - one with life-threaten...


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DC exhibit gets a slice of rock "n" roll as Lady Gaga"s meat dress goes on display
DC exhibit gets a slice of rock 'n' roll as Lady Gaga's meat dress goes on display
17:10 GMT, 7 September 2012
Lady Gaga's famous meat dress has made its way to the U.S. capital, along with Loretta Lynn's song about The Pill and other relics from music history.
The bizarre ensemble, worn by the singer to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, which has been dried, preserved and restored to its original raw meat colour, will form part of a touring exhibit focusing on pioneering women in rock `n' roll.
It's just one of 250 artifacts included in the display, which will be unveiled at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC this Friday.
Crowd pleaser Lady Gaga's famous meat dress will be included in a new touring exhibit focusing on pioneering women in rock 'n' roll
Curator Meredith Rutledge-Borger said the show, titled Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power is inherently political, in part, as it highlights many 'first ladies of rock' who have spoken loud and clear on women's rights, gay rights and other issues through their music.
She added: 'This really is the center of our political life. Bringing this exhibit here kind of redefines what's important in our history and political life… at a time when there's talk of women being under attack in politics.'
The collection, provided by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, features items from Cher, the B-52s, Donna Summer, Stevie Nicks, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna's provocative outfit from her Blonde Ambition tour.
Other items date back to jazz singer Billie Holiday, first blues recording artists Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey and country music trailblazer Mother Maybelle Carter.
Ready to rock: Lady Gaga's dress has been dried, preserved and restored to its original raw meat colour for the touring exhibit
Lynn's country song, The Pill, was considered so controversial in 1975 that her record label delayed its release for three years. Lynn later recounted that doctors told her the tune was pivotal in rural acceptance of birth control.
'We really wanted to make sure this wasn't just a fashion show,' Rutledge-Borger said. 'We wanted to showcase these artists as musicians.'
For the National Museum of Women in the Arts, it's the first exhibit to feature women performing artists, said chief curator Kathryn Wat.
When Gaga wore the meat dress, she was accompanied by U.S. soldiers impacted by the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy to protest the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Spot of bother: Loretta Lynn's country song, The Pill, was considered so controversial in 1975 that her record label delayed its release for three years
She explained that if people don't stand up for their rights, 'pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat.'
Beyond the dress's shock value, Gaga's push for inclusion of gays or anyone else who is different helped cement her place as a pioneer, said Rutledge-Borger.
'If you dig a little deeper, there's this important message of inclusion and family,' she said. 'That to me is really why she's so powerful.'
The museum also is featuring Gaga's outfit from the 2010 Grammy Awards, where Poker Face won for best dance recording, and her childhood piano. She began taking lessons when she was four.
Women Who Rock will remain on view in Washington through January 6. It will then travel to the Durham Museum in Omaha, the EMP Museum in Seattle and the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix.
Lady Gaga swaps meat dress for Kevin the ram on Jonathan Ross Show
Lady Gaga"s doppel-Gagas: From Anne Robinson to Elton John
Rock "n" roll comedy Rock Of Ages hits a duff note after getting all the chords wrong
From a meat dress to "solar-powered" fashion: Lady Gaga"s stylist to make clothing that can charge your phone
Met Museum"s Alexander McQueen exhibit gets 500,000th visitor (and even branded pencils are selling like hotcakes)