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Gene Chague | Berkshire Woods and Waters: A most memorable fishing trip, Part II

Last week, this column followed the remarkable trip of Rex Channell and his wife, Trish Watson, across Canada. Readers might recall that they traveled in their 25-foot Coachman Freelander (aka FISHlander) and camped and fished all across Canada. Let's pick up the trip when they crossed back into the United States from British Columbia.

Passing into Idaho, they stopped to visit Matt Sawyer, former marketing director of Ski Butternut in Great Barrington, who now works at Lookout Pass Ski Area. For the next several days, they fished with Matt as their guide, visiting such famous rivers as the Coeur D'Alene, Little St. Joe and Quartz Creek.

Then, onto Montana, where on Aug. 8 they visited two different former Berkshire County ski friends in the Whitefish area — Emily Goodrich and Paul Descouteau. There was a very real wildfire threat in the Flathead area of Montana, especially in Seeley Lake, where there was active firefighting. Instead they fished Livingston, Mont. — the Little Blackfoot River, Yellowstone River and Boulder River — which offered up cutthroat, rainbow and browns of various sizes. They splurged on a float trip on the Yellowstone River with Montana Trout Anglers and had a very successful trip, catching healthy (1 to 2 pound) rainbows and browns.

They crossed into Wyoming on Aug. 18 through the very crowded Yellowstone and Great Teton National Parks at the height of the tourist season. They stopped in to see former Berkshire-ites Jonathan Gray in Jackson, Wyo., and Celeste Young in Victor, Idaho, and visited the Jackson National Fish Hatchery (Snake River cutthroat). On the recommendation of several local guides, they trekked the 15-mile dirt road up the Grey's River out of Alpine, Wyo. There, they experienced the spectacular solar eclipse on the Grey's River with only a herd of ranch cattle as company. Unfortunately, the fishing was pretty slow, with only a couple of Snake River cutties netted in the three days.

So back in Alpine, they took another guided float trip, this time on the Salt River with Pioneer Anglers Fly Shop. It was an evening float that started at 3 p.m. and lasted until dark, with continuous surface action using big hopper patterns and producing a lot of Snake River cutthroat, several in the 2-plus-pound range. On their way through central and southeastern Wyoming, they visited the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale and the Saratoga National Fish Hatchery (primarily lake trout). They saw several enticing rivers (e.g. North Platte) and alpine lakes (e.g. Lake Marie in the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow National Forest), but left them to fish another trip, as they were making their way to Colorado to meet up with relatives in a few days. At an overnight in Laramie, Wyo., they camped in the Prairies Lake region and tried fishing from shore on the Gelatt and Twin Butte Lakes, with no luck.

On Aug. 25 and 26, they traveled to Boulder and Castle Pines, Colo., to visit friends and family, sightseeing in the Garden of the Gods and the Red Rocks parks. In Salida, one of their favorite places in Colorado, they stayed near Chalk Creek for three days and fished Wright's and Chalk lakes, catching lots of rainbow trout in the 10- to 14-inch range on size 2 to 10 terrestrials. They also visited three Colorado state fish hatcheries — Mt. Shavano (kokanee salmon, Snake River cutthroat, rainbow and cutbow), Chalk Creek (rainbow) and Roaring Judy (kokanee salmon, cutthroat, rainbow).

Rex and Trish spent the next 12 days in southern Colorado, visiting transplanted friends, taking in the sights and fishing some great areas. In the Gunnison area, they fished Cement Creek, Spring Creek and Taylor Reservoir for small browns and brookies. They toured the Ross Reel factory in Montrose. They fished the San Miguel River outside of Ridgeway, catching rainbows on dries against straight red-rock cliffs. From Ouray, "the Switzerland of America," they took the Million Dollar Highway, which traverses three passes over 10,000 feet high in 57 miles, ending up in Durango where they fished the Lemon Reservoir and Florida River.

They spent the next week in Utah visiting the national parks and monuments — Arches, Canyon Lands, Capital Reef, National Bridges, Glen Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion. In Moab, they went off-roading to fish the small alpine Oowah Lake. While marveling at the landscape, they took plenty of time to fish the southern Utah area around Loa, hiring guide/owner Mike James of the Quiet Fly Fisher, who gave them a diverse sampling of river, lake and reservoir. Rex and Trish were successful, catching tiger trout in the 3-pound category with a size 16 imitation boatman fly. Some of the waters they sampled with Mike and on their own included the Fremont River, Ferris Lake, Forsyth Reservoir, Bicknell Bottoms, Boulder Mountain Reservoir, Garcane Power Plant Reservoir, Boulder Creek and Upper East Boulder Reservoir, catching tiger, rainbow and brook trout. In Bicknell, they visited the J. Perry Egan State Fish Hatchery (brook, rainbow and lake trout).

They spent four days in Arizona (Sept. 18 to 21) to see the north rim of the Grand Canyon — so awe-inspiring — and to visit an aunt and uncle in Phoenix. However, it was still very warm (highs above 100 degrees), so they decided to go back into the mountains of Colorado as soon as possible. Passing back into Colorado, they stopped at Mesa Verde National Park. On Sept. 23 to 24, they stayed at the Elk Trace B&B, a working ranch in Pagosa Springs, Colo., to celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary fishing (naturally) in the nearby Williams Creek and Reservoir.

They spent several days in Mogote, Colo., to fish the Conejos River, a river they had fished a few years ago. They stayed at the dispersed wilderness site at Elk Creek, since Colorado state campgrounds had been closed since mid-September. They took a day trip with Conejos River Anglers and landed a lot of 16- to 20-inch browns using size 20 and smaller nymph patterns with a double dropper rig. On the way east, they fished the Arkansas River at several pull-offs along U.S. 50 through Canyon City and into West Pueblo but had no luck. The last stop they made in Colorado was to the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, which houses an incredible collection of aircraft from the last 120 years.

Now in the Plains states, Rex and Trish were interested in laying down some miles. They quickly passed through Kansas and Missouri. They visited Boot Hill Museum and Front Street, Dodge City, Kan., as a fun diversion from driving. And they took a detour to Branson, Mo., to visit Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede — good, clean entertainment. They visited relatives outside of St. Louis and friends in Indianapolis, taking in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis Zoo.

On Oct. 5, they finally made it into Michigan. Their first stop was to the Richard Clay Bodine State Fish Hatchery (brood stock for steelhead). In Spring Lake, they visited Nick Petrinec, who took them out on the Muskegon River in his jet boat. They spent several days fishing, first the Pere Marquette River in Baldwin, catching big king salmon with egg patterns and grey mop flies, then the Manistee River at the Hodenpyl Dam in Mesick, Mich., netting several 10- to 12-inch rainbows using Adams nymphs and stimulator dries, and finally, the North and South Forks of the Au Sable River in Grayling, where they were skunked. They made one more stop in Michigan to visit ski friends — Cheyanne Sawyer (the daughter of Matt from Idaho) — at Boyne Mountain Ski Area. They traversed the Upper Peninsula before crossing back into Canada at Sault Saint Marie, taking in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.

They arrived home on Oct. 20,after discovering that all campgrounds and RV parks were closed in the Northeast, leaving only Walmart parking lots as places to camp.

They were gone some 164 days, of which 96 of them were spent fishing. They traveled through eight Canadian provinces and 17 states, traveling 16,708 miles. They visited seven fish hatcheries, and if you are wondering why, they have a special place in their heart for them: They were married in one.

What an amazing trip! They hope to have a video program of the trip early in 2018, with the locations and times to be determined at a later date.

But wait! You might think they would be tired of camping and fishing by then. But guess what: On Oct. 23, they did some wilderness camping on the Deerfield River in Charlemont, and Trish caught the pictured 20-plus inch brown trout!

Ice Fishing

With this serious cold snap, some hard water anglers will be heading out onto the ice to do some ice fishing. There may be enough ice, especially in the higher elevations, but be careful in the lower elevations. You might want to stay away from any stream inlets or areas where there are currents, which will have thinner ice. MassWildlife has some ice thickness guidelines; be sure to check them. Simply search "Stay Safe on Ice" on its web page.

The last weather forecast that I saw mentioned temperatures in the minus 5 area. Keep a sharp eye on the youngsters, so that they don't get frostbitten hands and feet. If you go, don't forget to bring your 2018 fishing license.

Personally, I love to ice fish, but I'm going to wait another week, just to be on the safe side.

Gene Chague can be reached at or 413-637-1818.

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Today I am showing you a card made with the Painted Harvest stamp set.  And it’s all about LOVE!  This stamp set is so versatile.  It’s supposed to be flowers, sunflowers to be exact, but it can be made with so many different colors and they all turn out beautifully!  Today, I made a card using that flower but turned it into two adorable hedgehogs in love.

Aren’t those two so cute?!  I hope you like my card today.  Come back tomorrow because I have some fantastic news to share with you about an awesome product Stampin’ Up! will have available next February during Sale-A-Bration! (But you’ve got to reserve it this month!)

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I’m having a special on the Stampin’ Blends.  If you buy the whole set of markers, I will give you the Memento Ink Pad for FREE!  You will also be entered into my drawing (on November 26th) for the Merry Patterns Stamp Set that is no longer available with any purchase of one or more Stampin’ Blends products.  Check them out in my store here.

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I’ve decided to make a fall card although today I am mostly grateful for the family and friends surrounding my dad.  My dad lost his wife (my stepmom) a couple weeks ago and so many gathered yesterday to express the love they all had for her.  It was beautiful and made my dad so happy.

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Mammograms save lives!  I am a true believer.  A few of my friends have had a mammograms and found early signs of cancer and full blown cancer.  Please get your mammogram.

The stamp set I have used was designed by a fellow demonstrator, Patty Bennett and it’s called Ribbon of Courage.  She made the stamp set in memory of her mother.  I hope you like my card.

I am excited you have joined us in this hop!  To continue to be inspired, hop on over to Candace Fields’ Blog.  Or you can skip around the hop by using the list below.  I pray you are inspired by all the gorgeous shades of pink and let’s fill Pinterest with Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness!

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When I saw this tip on Pinterest today, it totally inspired me to write this post.  I tell my brides everyday, give them a favor, they will
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  2. ACTUALLY use,
  3. or skip them!

Favors are a great way of giving your guests a little "thank you for attending" gift.  However, and I know this will be controversial, but I'm sure your guests would much rather you save the $3-5 you spent on their favor and put it towards your fabulous honeymoon, than give them a little token that they'll throw in a drawer, or even worse the trash and never think of it again!
Eeek I know some of you are cringing at me right now, I'm sorry, I'm being honest, please don't hate me :)

Now on to favors.

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Remember you can choose your favors around the theme or setting of your wedding.
  • A wedding in Hawaii would be perfectly accented with Hawaiian Sea Salts or Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nuts.
  • Maple Syrup bottles would be perfect at a Vermont wedding.
  • How about Cornbread mix at a Southern wedding.
  • Flower Seeds at a Garden wedding.
  • Sunscreen for a Beach wedding.
  • Hot Cocoa mix at a Winter wedding
I'd love to hear from you, are you doing favors and if so, what did you choose??

  1. We didn't do favors specifically, but we did a candy bar so that kind of worked!

  2. This is so true and great advice! I'm having a photo booth where groups can get pictures taken of themselves. They then get the printout as well as a frame for their favor. Hopefully people will be able to use it in their homes, offices, or wherever!

    1. Thanks Leigh! I love the photo booth favor idea! So interactive and will provide a great memory!!


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 The Bible and Interpretation - Babatha: The Ancient Jewish Woman About Whom We Know Most

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Babatha: The Ancient Jewish Woman About Whom We Know Most

Because of this archive we can say without fear of contradiction that we know more about her than we do about any other Jewish woman in antiquity.

See Also: Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold (Oxford University Press, 2017).

By Philip F. Esler
Portland Chair in New Testament Studies
Director of the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation
University of Gloucestershire
March 2017

Scene One

It is the last year of the revolt of Shim‘on ben Kosiba (also known as Bar Kokhba) against Rome (135 CE by our reckoning). A group of his Jewish supporters have taken refuge from the Romans in a cave high up the sheer face of a cliff in a wadi running into the Dead Sea a little south of En-Gedi. Among them is the woman Babatha, daughter of Shim‘on ben Menahem. But the Romans have built a camp on the plateau immediately above them and will soon have the Jews out of that cave, one way or another. So, deep inside the cave, Babatha finds a hole among the rocks and places in it many of her possessions: a pair of sandals, a bundle of balls of yarn, remains of fine fabric, two wrappers or kerchiefs, a key, two key-rings, knives, a clasp knife, a box, a number of bowls, a sickle and three waterskins (Yadin 1963: 38-39). She also hides there a legal satchel containing 35 legal documents written on papyri in Aramaic (Nabatean and Jewish) and Greek. They include contracts for the purchase of real and personal property, two wedding contracts, debts, a document for the registration of land, and documents from contested legal proceedings, both initiating process and depositions. She very carefully seals the opening of the hole with a rock. The job is done. She hopes, probably against hope, that one day she will return to collect her possessions and legal documents.

Scene Two

It is March 1961. A volunteer working with a team led by Yigael Yadin exploring this cave in Wadi Hever feels a rock move under his feet. The hole is discovered and Babatha’s possessions and papyri, most of them in very good condition, are retrieved. Later the papyri are painstakingly opened and examined. In due course they are published. The Greek ones appear in 1989 (Lewis 1989). The Aramaic ones come out in 2002 (Yadin et al. 2002). In 2002 a separate book containing excellent black and white photos of the papyri is also published (Yadin 2002). The 35 papyri come to be called P. Yadin 1-35 in honour of Yigael Yadin.

One would struggle to overstate the importance of what is now referred to as “the Babatha archive,” those 35 legal papyri Babatha has bequeathed to us. Among all the millions of Jews living in Judea and neighboring lands in the period from 100 BCE to 200 CE only a very few archives of legal documents survive and none of them, except for Babatha’s, has more than 10 documents or embraces the diversity of legal situations or the time span (94 to 132 CE) that hers does. Because of this archive we can say without fear of contradiction that we know more about her than we do about any other Jewish woman in antiquity.

The very character of legal documents allows them to reveal social worlds and individual circumstances in distinctive ways. We usually go to lawyers (or “scribes” as they are called in these papyri) when we have a significant problem or opportunity in our life. Legal documents accordingly concern issues that matter to us. Moreover, it is in the interests of all the parties to a document to ensure that the lawyer sets down the facts and legal relationships accurately. In addition, legal documents reveal data in a manner unaffected by literary genre and religious belief. They cast a bright light on people and situations and the social context in question.

You might assume, then, that the Babatha archive has been eagerly examined by scholars desirous of understanding her, the other people with whom she interacted and the realities of the society and culture in which she lived, close to the border between Judea and Nabatea. But, apart from a few short or more popular treatments of Babatha, you would be disappointed. Although the magnificent scholarly efforts to edit and publish the texts, some written in difficult Nabatean cursive script and in Aramaic heavily influenced by proto-Arabic, did involve limited exploration of contextual issues, most research has focused on the papyri’s legal dimensions, especially by relating them to Aramaic, Jewish, Greek and Roman legal principles and traditions (see Katsoff and Schaps 2005 and Oudshoorn 2007).[1]

Accordingly, using the Babatha archive, and other Dead Sea legal papyri, as windows onto an ancient social world has barely begun and yet has great potential for new understanding. The author of this essay has recently published a book that seeks to do this, by applying the new historical methodology of “archival ethnography” to the oldest four papyri (P. Yadin 1, from 94 CE, and P. Yadin 2, 3 and 4, from 99 CE) to reveal the story underlying them (Esler 2017). The story concerns how Babatha’s father, Shim‘on ben Menahem, bought a date-palm orchard in the town of Maoza on the southern shore of the Dead Sea in remarkable circumstances in 99 CE. He later gave this orchard to Babatha and she registered it among her property in the Roman census of 127 CE, the registration document being P. Yadin 16. But much research remains to be done.

So let us lift the curtain a little on Babatha’s world. Her principal locale was the town of Maoza, already mentioned, that until 106 CE lay in the kingdom of Nabatea. The Nabatean capital was the fabled city of Petra. In 106 CE the Romans took over Nabatea by force and made it the province of Arabia.

Nabatea was a very distinctive kingdom in the ancient world. It had been established by nomadic tribes moving up from north eastern Arabia during the Persian period. They had reached the trans-Jordan and Petra before the time of Alexander. There is a lively debate as to whether they spoke early Arabic or Aramaic infused with Arabic vocabulary (and the latter is what we find in their legal papyri that survive).

The ancient Greek writer Diodorus Siculus provides a vivid account of the Nabateans based on a late fourth century BCE source (Biblioteca historica, 2.48 and 19.94-100). In addition, Strabo describes them at the very end of the first century BCE (Geography, 16.4). Diodorus stresses their nomadic life-style, while Strabo presents a nomadic people that were undergoing the processes of sedentarization. Although we have no surviving history of the Nabateans written by one of their own, their coinage preserves a record of major events in that history (Esler 2017: 54-60). Moreover, first century CE Nabatean tomb inscriptions from Hegra (modern Mada’in Salih) provide valuable evidence for their political/military ranks and also the extent to which they shared a Mediterranean concern for honor (Healey 1993).

Archaeological evidence suggests that one segment of the Nabatean population was engaged in nomadism as late as the first century CE (Rosen 2007). Anthropologists such as Fredrik Barth (1964) have described nomads in ways that help us understand the Nabateans better, including in relation to the relative lack of social stratification in nomadic society. It is no surprise, therefore, to find Strabo (Geography, 16.4.26) relating that when the Nabatean king held a dinner for his subjects, he himself did the serving.

Recent analysis has revealed that the earliest four papyri in Babatha’s archive, the first drafted in 94 CE and the other three in 99 CE, and all in Nabatean Aramaic, all directly concern the purchase of a date-palm orchard in Maoza (on the shore of the Dead Sea, in fact) by Babatha’s father, Shim‘on ben Menahem in 99 CE. The full story became susceptible to re-telling with the discovery of the names of the two parties in P.Yadin 4 (Esler 2017: 176-208). One aspect of the story is the notably good relationship that must have existed between Shim‘on and Archelaus, who was a strategos, in effect, a provincial governor, and hence a member of the Nabatean elite. Archelaus had purchased much the same orchard only a month earlier but then rescinded the purchase. Yet he gave Shim‘on two documents (P. Yadin 1 and 2) to help him secure his title to the orchard. This surprising behavior by Archelaus reflects the likelihood that highly placed Nabateans, because of their nomadic tradition, were less status-fixated than, say, Roman senators.

Maoza was both a Dead Sea port, just inside Nabatea near the border with Judea, but also a flourishing center of date cultivation, which was the foundation of its economy. Date-palms required regular irrigation, in Maoza meaning a weekly inundation of the fields, and the water probably came from the river Zered, which was fed by the rains in the plateau to the east and ran down into the southern shore of the Dead Sea.

Date cultivation is a remarkable process, very accurately described by Theophrastus (around the late fourth or early third centuries BCE) in his Enquiry into Plants (2.6.5). Date palms are either male or female, so that pollen has to be transferred from the former to the latter for fertilization of the fruit to occur. This has to be done by hand, which means climbing some thirty feet up the tree. When the crops are ripe, people must again climb the trees to pick the fruit.

While date cultivation provides the economic context for the relationships between people in and near Maoza from Babatha’s first document, in 94 CE, to its last, in 132 CE, the situations and relationships between people represented in the papyri who were part of Babatha’s world were remarkably varied.

In June 110 CE a Jewish man prepared a document stating that he held on deposit on behalf of his nephew, Jesus son of Jesus, a large sum of money and other property. This document (P. Yadin 5) is the earliest in Greek in the archive, written in 110 CE, just four years after the Romans had taken over Nabatea and created the province of Arabia from it. The provincial administration, as elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, was conducted in Greek. Why did Babatha have this document? Because Jesus son of Jesus became Babatha’s first husband. They probably married around 120 CE when Babatha was likely to have been 12-15 years old. It is surprising that the contract recording Babatha’s marriage to Jesus is not in the archive, given that P. Yadin 5 is included. Babatha’s parents probably handed over a substantial dowry to Jesus on the wedding, since in social systems where dowries are provided the families of bride and groom tend to be roughly equivalent in wealth and social status (Goody 1973: 25) and, as just noted, Jesus was very wealthy.

It is likely that Babatha’s father, Shim‘on, gave her the seaside date-palm orchard in Maoza he had purchased in 99 CE on the occasion of her marriage to Jesus (Cotton and Greenfield 1994: 217). In 120 CE Shim‘on made a gift of all his property in Maoza to his wife Miriam (P. Yadin 7) and there is no mention of the orchard he had purchased in 99 CE, no doubt because he had already given it to Babatha.

For some purposes Aramaic continued to be used even after the Roman take-over in 106 CE. P. Yadin 8 (in Aramaic and from 122 CE) records the sale of a donkey from one brother, Yoseph, to another, Yehudah for a modest sum; these are likely to be Babatha’s brothers (Esler 2017: 26). One has to wonder what sort of relationship existed between the two brothers for such a sale to be recorded in writing and for Babatha to be given the document, presumably for safe-keeping!

Babatha’s first husband died within a few years of their marriage, leaving her an infant son, whom they had also named Jesus. Sometime between about 122 and 125 CE she married again, this time to Judah son of Elazar Khthousion, from En-Gedi. Judah himself drafted the document, in Aramaic (P. Yadin 10). He took her as his wife “according to the law of Moses and the Judeans.” In one of its provisions he promised to pay for her ransom if she should be captured, as well as taking her back as his wife. Babatha brought 400 denarii into this marriage by way of dowry. At this time a denarius was roughly equivalent to the payment received for one day's labor (cf. Mt. 20.2). It is not without interest that Judah’s first wife (Miriam) was alive at this time (as we learn from P. Yadin 26). Judah apparently maintained a wife and house in both En-Gedi and Maoza.

It is possible that Shim‘on also owned property in En-gedi. The reason for this is that since he gave all his remaining property in Maoza to his wife Miriam in 120 CE, having already given Babatha an orchard there, there was likely to be some property still left for Yoseph and Yehudah, who were probably his sons (see above). Perhaps such property was in En-Gedi, a center for date cultivation on the western side of the Dead Sea made possible because of the copious springs above the town from which water ran down to irrigate the fields.

At roughly the same time Babatha was marrying Judah, and between 27 February and 28 June 124, the Council of Petra, the capital of the province, appointed two guardians for Babatha’s son Jesus by her first husband, one of them Nabatean and one Jewish. The verified copy of the Council’s decree is P. Yadin 12. Incredibly, within four months after their appointment, Babatha had petitioned the Governor of the province complaining that the two denarii a month the guardians were providing for the maintenance of her son were insufficient. This document is P. Yadin 13. A year later, in October 125 and using her second husband Judah as her custos ad litem, Babatha, issued a summons to the Jewish guardian of her son to answer the same charge about provision of insufficient maintenance. This summons is supported by a fascinating deposition from Babatha (P. Yadin15) in which she offers to pool her property with the property left in trust for her son, so that with the interest on the joint amount he could be raised in splendid style.

But Babatha lost this case! The last signed and dated document in the archive (P. Yadin 27) is from 19 August 132 and records Babatha’s receipt of 18 denarii from the guardian of her infant son for his maintenance for a nine month period. This proves that the litigation that Babatha had commenced against her son’s guardians eight years before had been unsuccessful, since her son was still only receiving the two denarii per month that she had complained of at that time. Babatha’s guardian, who signed the receipt on her behalf, was one Babeli, son of Menahem, and this may well have been her paternal uncle.

The solidity of Babatha’s own financial position becomes clear with the extremely well preserved document by which she registered the real property she owned in Maoza in the Roman census of Arabia in December 127 CE (P. Yadin 16). She owned four date-palm orchards, including two called “Algiphiamma” (“by the shore”) which are probably to be identified with the orchard her father had purchased in 99 CE, but now subdivided. Alternatively, one of the two was that property (with the incomplete boundary descriptions making it difficult to decide which).

Yet there was a cloud hanging over Babatha’s financial position. This took the form of her second husband, who seems to have been disastrous in his business dealings. As early May 124 CE he had borrowed 60 denarii for a year at 12% interest (the standard Roman rate) from the Roman centurion of the detachment at En-Gedi (P. Yadin 11). The centurion was probably conducting something akin to a small bank in a way that opens up interesting new avenues for understanding the centurion in Matt 8:5-13 (Esler 2014). Why did Babatha still retain this document over ten years later? Did she supply the funds for its repayment? We can be confident that she did not keep it to curry favour with the Romans, since she included it in the satchel she hid in the cave.

In any event, this loan from a centurion proved a harbinger of things to come. On 21 February 128 Judah acknowledged (in P. Yadin 17) that he had received from Babatha a loan of 300 denarii. He may have needed this money in connection with the forthcoming marriage of his daughter, Shelamzion, since the document recording her marriage only six weeks later, on 5 April 128 (P. Yadin 18), states that Shelamzion supplied 200 denarii worth of property (as her dowry). This presumably came from Judah. On 16 April 128, pursuant to P. Yadin 19, he gave Shelamzion his property in En-Gedi, half to pass immediately and half on his death. Not too long after this gift, sometime before 19 June 130, Judah died, leaving orphan sons and his married daughter Shelamzion. We know that Judah died before 19th June 130 CE from a document of that date, P. Yadin 20. In any event Babatha was widowed for the second time in ten years. Did a sickness that Judah thought might prove terminal prompt his gift to his daughter two years earlier (or even less)?

Around or after the time of Judah’s death a dispute had arisen between Shelamzion (Babatha’s step-daughter after all) and his orphan sons as to the ownership of a courtyard in En-Gedi he had gifted to Shelamzion. The sons were represented, quite remarkably, by an elite Roman woman, Julia Crispina (Berenicianus). The relevant document (P. Yadin 20, of 19 June 130) records that the dispute was settled in favor of Shelamzion’s claim to the courtyard.

But what is this document doing in Babatha’s archive? Equally interesting is the fact that Babatha also had Shelamzion’s wedding contract in her leather satchel (P. Yadin 18). Was this just a possession of her late second husband that Babatha had kept? Or had Babatha formed a good relationship with Shelamzion and was looking after her wedding contract for her?

More interesting and far better attested in the archive is the litigation that Judah’s inability to manage his money caused for Babatha after his death. For he died owing her not only the 300 denarii mentioned above that he borrowed from her in February 128 CE, but also the 400 denarii she had brought into her marriage with him as dowry (pursuant to P. Yadin 10). We do not know when Babatha lent Judah her dowry. However, in 130 CE, to obtain repayment of both amounts, she seized control of the late Judah’s three date-palm orchards in Maoza so she could sell their date harvest. There are two documents in the archive covering these sales (P. Yadin 21 and 22, from 11 September 130). Although Babatha’s seizure of these dates was legally permissible under both her marriage contract and the deed of loan, the orphan sons of Judah, again represented by the highly placed Roman Julia Crispina Berenicianus, challenged her right to do so in the court of the provincial governor (P. Yadin 23, 24 and 25). In P. Yadin 25 we actually witness Babatha counter-summoning Julia Crispina, notwithstanding her Roman elite status, to court, and claiming, inter alia, that a false charge of violence had been made against her.

Since both Shelamzion and Babatha had crossed swords with Julia Crispina, did this bring them together in some way, or indicate that they were close for some other reason? Had Miriam favored her sons in their earlier dispute with Shelamzion, leaving her to turn to her step-mother for support?

Litigation also broke out at the same time between Babatha and Miriam, Judah’s living first wife. Miriam sought orders preventing Babatha seizing property from her husband’s house (it is not clear if it was in En-Gedi or Maoza) and then Babatha sought orders as to why Miriam had taken property from Judah’s house since she (Miriam) had no claim against his estate.

Who eventually won these two further sets of litigation is unknown. What is known is that in 132 CE the Second Jewish Revolt under Bar Kokha began. Precisely how Babatha ended up in a cave in a wadi not far from En-Gedi with other Jewish fugitives from the Romans at the end of the Revolt is not known. We may guess that she had long-standing links with people in En-Gedi and for one reason or another found her way there and to them in 135 CE, when they were all forced to take refuge in the cave.

But none of this would be known, nor anything of the complex world of Maoza that her archive opens up for us so brilliantly, if Babatha had not had the foresight to take her family legal documents with her and hide them with such care. An intriguing question is whether Shelamzion accompanied Babatha into that cave, leaving in her custody (and satchel!) her wedding contract (P. Yadin 18) and the document settling the dispute with her brothers about the courtyard in En-Gedi (P. Yadin 20). These were documents of absolute concern to Shelamzion but of much less interest to Babatha.

Millions of ancient Jewish women have disappeared without trace. But Babatha has not. She was plainly an extremely resourceful, courageous and determined woman, devoted to her son. Because of the survival of her archive, she can be honored in eternal memory.

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Cotton, Hannah and Greenfield, Jonas C. (1994) ‘Babatha’s Property and the Law of Succession in the Babatha Archive,’ ZPE 104: 211-224.

Esler, Philip F. (2017) Babatha’s Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and An Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

____(2014) “Reading Matthew by the Dead Sea: Matthew 8:5-13 in Light of P. Yadin 11, HTS Theological Studies, Volume 70.

Goody, Jack (1973) “Bridewealth and Dowry in Africa and Eurasia.” In Jack Goody and S. J. Tambiah, Bridewealth and Dowry. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973, 1-58.

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Katsoff, Ranon and Schaps, David, eds., (2005) Law in the Documents of the Judean Desert. Leiden: Brill.

Oudshoorn, Jacobine G. (2007) The Relationship between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives: General Analysis and Three Case Studies on Law of Succession, Guardianship and Marriage. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Lewis, Naphthali, ed., (1989) The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Greek Papyri. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Rosen, Steven A. (2007) “The Nabateans as Pastoral Nomads: An Archaeological Perspective.” In The World of the Nabataeans: Volume 2 of the International Conference, The World of the Herods and the Nabataeans held at the British Museum, 17-19 April 2001, ed. Konstantinos D. Politis, 345-372. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007.

Yadin, Yigael (1963) The Finds from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters. Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society.

____(2002) The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Hebrew, Aramaic and Nabatean-Aramaic Papyri. (Plates) Judean Desert Studies. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University and Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum.

Yadin, Yigael, Greenfield, Jonas C., Yardeni, Ada and Levine, Baruch A. eds., (2002) The Documents from the Bar Kochba Period in the Cave of Letters: Hebrew, Aramaic and Nabatean-Aramaic Papyri. Judean Desert Studies. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University and Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum.

[1] Hannah Cotton is the leading scholar on the legal aspects of these papyri from the Judean desert, in publications too numerous to list here (but for a selection, see: http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-STAFF_LINK?sno=9660&Save_t=)

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The Phoenix Gets it Wrong

Every time that a newspaper or magazine runs an article on laws and advice about safe bicycling, I cringe. I know that there is a good chance that they will get stuff wrong. Well The Boston Phoenix messed up big time in its “Boston Bike Bible 2010” special just in time for Bike Week. In So what are the rules, anyway? we get a lot of misinformation:

* Phoenix says: “You have the right to use . . . the sidewalks in business districts if you feel unsafe, unless posted signs say otherwise.” CORRECTION: You may never ride on sidewalks in business districts, and posted signs may prohibit sidewalk use elsewhere.

* Phoenix says: “You have the right to ride two abreast on any roads with multiple lanes in the same direction. (If there is only one lane in each direction, you must ride single file, but may pass on the right.)” CORRECTION: You may ride two abreast at any time. However, the rider on the left must move right if failing to do so prevents someone from passing where it would be otherwise safe to do so.

* Phoenix says: “You must follow all traffic laws — that means stopping at lights and crosswalks and riding on the right side of the road.” CORRECTION: You may go when the traffic signal is green, but may not enter the intersection when it is red. You only need to slow or stop at a crosswalk when it is not controlled by signals and a pedestrian is in it or within 10 feet of your half of the road. You must generally use the right half of the road, not necessarily near the curb.

* Phoenix says: “You must keep to the right when passing a car.” CORRECTION: While you may pass on the right, it is almost always safer to pass on the left. Passing on the right leaves you vulnerable to motorists turning right across your path and puts you within range of opening doors of parked cars and even sometimes of motorists stopped in a queue at a light.

* Phoenix says: “You must signal your intention to stop or turn using either hand.” CORRECTION: The law that went into effect on April 15, 2009 added, “provided, however, that signals need not be made continuously, and shall not be made when both hands are needed for the safe operation of the bicycle.” Furthermore, the general rule on giving signals says that they must be made “before stopping said vehicle or making any turning movement which would affect the operation of any other vehicle.”

* Phoenix says: “You must give pedestrians the right of way when riding on a sidewalk, and give a shout before passing any pedestrian on the right.” CORRECTION: Almost correct. The law says “A person operating a bicycle on the sidewalk shall yield the right of way to pedestrians and give an audible signal before overtaking and passing any pedestrian,” but of course it doesn’t say “on the right.”

* Phoenix says: “You must carry all items in a basket, rack, or trailer.” CORRECTION: The law says, “The [bicycle] operator shall not carry any package, bundle or article except in or on a basket, rack, trailer or other device designed for such purposes.” The phrase”other device” leaves room for backpacks, water bottle cages, paniers, and even shopping bags. The point is that your hands must be free to operate the bike, not that you must use a government-sanctioned carrying mechanism.

More importantly, the summary of “bike laws” from the MassBike website, on which this short Phoenix article is based, is fundamentally misleading, because it summarizes the special rules that apply only to bicycles. The most important rules for safety apply to bicyclists and motorists equally. These include the rules about where to ride on the road, how to pass and be passed, how to make turns, and when to yield the right of way.

And in the lead article in the same special insert, there are a number of statements that could be contested, but none more so than this one which appears without refutation:

“When it’s car versus cyclist, the car always wins,” warns [Boston] Transportation Commissioner [Tom] Tinlin. His advice: “Back off and be safe.”

We’ve heard this canard many times before. It’s absurd and dangerous. You could just as well say, “When it’s cyclist versus asphalt, the asphalt always wins. When it’s car versus 18-wheeler, the 18-wheeler always wins.” So back off and be safe. Don’t drive your car on any road where big trucks are allowed. Don’t ride your bike except on soft grass.

Too many bicyclists are already scared into riding dangerously. “Back off” means keep far to the right edge of the road, preferably on the sidewalk. Ride facing traffic so you can see the cars coming and jump out of the way to avoid them. Ride in the door zone because otherwise motorists might get mad at you. People do these dangerous things because everyone has told them riding in the road means sudden death. And thus they suffer crashes and injuries. The last thing we need in promoting bike safety is people in positions of authority such as Commissioner Tinlin repeating this stuff.

Use as much of the road as you need and be safe. Happy bike week.

P.S. The AAA gets it even more wrong, with such “bike safety” advice as “Bicycles should stay to the right along the curb” and “Walk a bike across an intersection rather than riding.” See the post on the MassBike website.

3 Responses to “The Phoenix Gets it Wrong

  • You make important distinctions and clarifications here and its great. Its amazing how there is almost a magnetic pull to define bicycle use based on fear and assumption rather then reason and actual law.

  • thanks Paul. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from this website.

  • Paul, why has it taken me this long to find your blog? Your blog posts are right on target, and you have such a gift for the right turn of phrase that I’m actually finding it difficult to stop reading – and I’m supposed to be preparing dinner!

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i love looking at the new york public library’s digital galleries. check out these fantastic portraits from their collection of images from ellis island taken between 1902 and 1914. really makes me wish we still dressed traditionally. isn’t america beautiful?

guadeloupean woman

german stowaway (!!!)

laplander children (possibly swedish)

romanian piper

italian woman

turkish man

a family of seven sons and one daughter

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  1. Pattycake on November 21, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Awesome pics.Yesterday was Mexican revolution day, and I got to enjoy watching children parade around town in traditional Mexican clothes from 100 years ago. Very cool!

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CTC at FHSU announces new student email system starting this summer

Student email at Fort Hays State University will move beginning to Google June 1.

The move from the Scatcat system in use for more than 12 years was announced by the university's Computing and Telecommunications Center.

"Several possibilities were considered, but the choice basically came down to either Microsoft’s Live@edu product, or Google Mail," said Mark Griffin, assistant director for infrastructure and support services. "Both products offered advantages over the current Scatcat webmail, but ultimately it was decided that Gmail provided the best option for FHSU. We found that Gmail had a slightly quicker response time than Live@Edu, and it seemed to us that the interface was a bit simpler to use."

Griffin also explained that other advantages of outsourcing the email system are an increase in data space for students and savings in hardware resources and technical support that are needed for other ongoing projects.

In addition to Gmail, students will also have Google calendar, Google Docs and other Google apps.

"The new Gmail system will be available through TigerTracks, much like the current Scatcat email is," said Griffin. "Additionally, students will be able to access their new FHSU Gmail account with their mobile devices, like Android phones, iPhones and iPads."

Scatcat users should receive an email with information and instructions on how to move old email to Gmail and how to set up their mobile devices. They will still have access to Scatcat email until the end of the year.

Faculty will still use Lotus Notes as their primary email for the foreseeable future, but, Griffin said, the possibility is there to move all FHSU email to Google.

"I believe this is a very positive enhancement to the FHSU student email system," he said. "Most of the comments I have received from students, so far, have been very positive."

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Civil liberties advocate opposes use of online avatars to catch sex offenders

Sweetie, the image generated by Terre Des Hommes to catch would-be sex offenders.

Terry O’Gorman speaks out after conviction of Brisbane man over interactions with a computer-generated image of Sweetie.

Australia’s leading civil liberties advocate has spoken out about the use of online avatars to catch out accused sex offenders, following the conviction of a Brisbane man over sexual interactions with a computer-generated image of a non-existent nine-year-old girl.

Terry O’Gorman, president of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, said such use of avatars by private groups was akin to vigilantism and “a step too far”.

Scott Robert Hansen was sentenced on Tuesday to imprisonment over sexual interactions with “Sweetie”, a computer-generated identity used by a Dutch charity whose parent organisation discovered a child predator in its own ranks 17 years ago.

He was the first person known to have been convicted from a worldwide net cast by Terre des Hommes operatives posing as a fake nine-year-old Filipino girl for 10 weeks last year.

The child protection group recorded his chatroom conversations and a sex act filmed on a webcam and handed them to Australian federal police.

Controversy surrounds the emergence of smaller groups in the UK describing themselves as paedophile “hunters”. Unlike Terre des Hommes, some of these groups seek to out their targets on the internet before informing police.

Last year UK police warned that “hunters” were sometimes ruining the lives of innocent men – some driven to suicide – and tainting evidence against real paedophiles.

Hansen, 38, who had a history of exposing himself to children, pleaded guilty in Brisbane district court to charges including “using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to a person under 16 years”.

Judge Ryrie ruled that Hansen’s belief the girl was real was “good enough” under the law and sentenced him to two years in prison, suspended after 260 days already served.

But O’Gorman said it was only a matter of time before similar cases were tested in court by defendants who chose to fight the charge.

Authorities should “draw a line in the sand” and not prosecute in what had become a legal and moral “grey area”, he said.

Police posing as children online are forbidden from goading people into offences.

But “a private organisation that isn’t subject to the same prohibitions, actively setting up an entrapment scenario” creates a “significant ethical dilemma”, O’Gorman said.

“It’s a really worrying and almost vigilante approach by this child protection group to set up an avatar in a manner designed to induce a belief in the person charged that he’s dealing with an actual child,” he said.

“The whole issue of child protection and paedophilia has in the last 15 years moved from dealing with an actual problem to a really worrying grey area of creating an artificial situation and then criminalising people for acting.

“It is understandable that the law would criminalise men having virtual sex dealing with the image of an actual child.

“It was never the intent of the law to deal with a fictional child, namely an avatar, let alone where the entrapment – because it is entrapment – is carried out by a child protection group.

“There must be inevitably be a case where some person will plead not guilty on this set of facts and whether a court would allow a prosecution to go ahead, and whether a jury would convict is a very real, live question for future cases.”

O’Gorman said the need to protect children “particularly overseas, from a growing market, from being abused [is] an acceptable basis for criminalising action”.

“But to then move it to the spectre of using an avatar to pretend it’s a child, I think is just a step too far,” he said.

“There has to be a limit in the involvement of the criminal law and a limit in the role of the state, and I think this exceeds both of those limits.

“One would be very concerned if the police in Australia or elsewhere conclude, well, the private child protection group has had its actions endorsed by the person being charged, we’ll move into that area.”

Terre des Hommes has reportedly offered to provide police services with the technology it used to create “Sweetie”.

In 1997, Terre des Hommes’s Swiss parent sacked its representative in Ethiopia, David Christie over an “inappropriate sexual relationship” he had with one of 300 orphans in his care.

It admitted it made mistakes by not telling Ethiopian authorities about his activities. But the charity later thwarted Christie’s bid to work again with children in Pakistan.

Hansen, who has been diagnosed with mild autism and once complained through his lawyer of not being able to afford psychological treatment, was one of 1,000 names given to police worldwide by the Dutch arm of Terre des Hommes.

According to chat logs obtained by BBC news, Hansen started by asking “Sweetie”: “hi u really 9yo”, soon adding, “I like asian chicks, are you ... for action”.

Hansen later told the operator: “i’m naked, ever see a guy naked?” before performing a sex act via webcam.

One Hommes Des Terres operative said Hansen was “very direct, at one point he asked us to get our fictional eight-year-old sister involved. It was very difficult to go to sleep at night after interacting with someone like Hansen.”

The operative said Hansen nevertheless was “not even amongst the most serious” of the child predators the group encountered during its campaign.


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Member Profile - Paul van Velthooven

I am a relative late comer to cycling and still struggle to change my rear wheel inside two minutes, let alone a puncture! I hate punctures and always ride with a 3 ply tyre. In my youth rowing was my summer sport, a way to get fitter and stronger for rugby, my then sport of choice. Eventually rowing took over and on the back of some reasonable results I was invited to a number of national trials across various age groups making a developmental Colt’s squad in 1977 as a pre-curser to the 1978 World Rowing Champs at Karapiro.

I never made the New Zealand team, but it was a great sporting time of my life. I learnt a lot about sport and the importance of proper training, preparation and socialization.Paul at Grape RidePaul at Grape Ride

Commonwealth Games MedalCommonwealth Games MedalCycling came into my family through my sons. Around 1996 I took them both on the 50km version of the Tour de Manawatu on mountain bikes. They also did the Sunday triathalons at the Lido. Long story short, the younger one, Simon really shone on the bike so we supported him and now he rides with the best.

I was elected to the Feilding Cycling Club Committee around 2003/04 and was President there for a number of years. In 2005 a few like-minded individuals started talking about the potential benefits of a single more powerful cycling club/organisation in the Manawatu. Over a period of time that seed grew and continued to grow to the point where we are today. I am very determined to see that Bike Manawatu is a success for all cyclists in our region be they recreational, competitive or somewhere in between.

I am definitely in the recreational group. I have completed one circuit of Taupo in 2005, in 5 hours 42 minutes. Since then, my favourite ride has been the Grape Ride in Blenheim which I have now completed four times.

Most of my training is done over the summer months around the rural roads of Feilding, Rongotea and Halcombe. I try to avoid the hills.

I am a director and owner, with my wife Heather, of Morgans Property Advisors, a property valuation business in the Manawatu. Heather and I have also been active in the local equestrian scene. Both our daughters have ridden competitively and Heather is involved with the Te Kawau and Rangitikei Pony clubs.

I am a past Chairman of Kopane School board of Trustees, a past President of the Manawatu Branch of the Property Institute and a Fellow on the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and Property Institute.

I aim to bring a balance to the Board from a variety of background experiences.

Cycling is a wonderful sport and great recreational activity for young and old. This region is ideally suited and through Bike Manawatu I want to see cycling here in our community become a real power house sport/activity.


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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The Hotyssey

After nearly a year of searching, two failed attempts at buying a Toyota Sienna (that is another blog post in itself), we are the proud owners of a 2004 Honda Odyssey, affectionately named "The Hotyssey." This beauty is  silver on the outside, grey on the inside, seats seven, and has a DVD player! I feel like a queen driving this thing. The sliding doors open automatically with the push of a button, it honks when it locks so I know all is clear. Loading groceries into the back is divine.
The best part is, we are safer and this car will serve us for a long time.

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bridget said...

lol! I always feel so swank and cool in our Hotyssey and then I have to remind myself: this is a minivan


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City of Binghamton, New York

Victoria's Owner Agrees To Cease Operations, City Closes Third After-Hours Club

(BINGHAMTON, N.Y.) — Mayor Richard C. David today announced the City has reached an agreement with the owner of Victoria’s Café at 153 Susquehanna St. to cease all operations on the premises, abating nuisance activity and shutting down its after-hours club.

A copy of that agreement is available here.

“By moving swiftly and focusing all City enforcement resources, we’ve successfully shut down all three known after-hours establishments in a short period of time,” said Mayor David. “We’ve worked with property owners and applied tough legal actions to stop criminal activity in our neighborhoods.”

Victoria’s at 153 Susquehanna St. had not seen after-hours activity following the City’s crackdown, including a lockdown warning letter and zoning citations issued to the property owner, who was arrested during a May 14 compliance check.

On May 14 at approximately 2:22 a.m., Binghamton Police conducted a compliance check at 153 Susquehanna St. When they were allowed inside, officers observed a strong odor of marijuana and multiple burnt marijuana cigarettes.

The owner of Victoria’s, Gloria Crowder, 52, of Binghamton, was present during the compliance check. Crowder was not cooperative with officers and attempted to block inspection of alcohol containers in the bar, according to police. Crowder was arrested for criminal nuisance 2nd, Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) violation 64b-1, harassment 2nd and resisting arrest.

This agreement that closed operations at Victoria’s follows a series of actions against two other illegal after-hours clubs in the City of Binghamton.

On May 3, the City sent a lockdown warning to the owner of an after-hours nightclub on Orton Ave. where an April 22 homicide occurred. The nightclub’s operator agreed to shut down the club one day later. The property — listed as 221 Main St. in property tax records — was also cited for violating City zoning ordinances, operating as a place of large group assembly and installing signage without required site plan approvals.

On May 25, Mayor David announced the City had condemned 124 Broad Ave., the site of an illegal nightclub known as “The Balcony,” in a series of legal actions against the property owner as part of a citywide crackdown on after-hours clubs.

These were the only three after-hours clubs known to City law enforcement officials. If residents suspect after-hours club activity in their neighborhood, they are encouraged to contact the Binghamton Police Detective Bureau at (607) 772-7080.

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Friday, September 07, 2012

How to Get Rich: Learn to Schmooze

One of the big lies in the Republican version of capitalism is that it's all about hard work. Sure, they'll say, there are people who are rich and get richer. *BUT* what about all the guys who *weren't* rich and ended up rich. And hey, even Mitt Romney started with little and built up. And yeah, lazy people are NOT going to get ahead in the world, and there are many tales of rich lazy people who squandered their fortune.

But what's the key to getting ahead in the world? Who you know. Period. You can't make it without at least a little elbow grease and usually a lot. But who you know is far more important. And there's nothing particularly corrupt about that, either. That's why the OWS crowd doesn't quite have it right. It's not rigged against the Have Nots per se; it's just that the Have Nots don't know the right people. All they know is other Have Nots, and that ain't gonna do you much good when you're looking for investors.

It's not necessarily that we have a corrupt system, though there's surely some of that. It's just that personal connections are more important than hard work or money. And you know that to be true yourself, as you're far more likely to help a friend than a stranger. And so if you want to get ahead in the world and retire young, learn how to meet the right people and how to convince them that they want to give you their money. Rich people *want* to give money to the right people, but they can't do that unless you know them.

And if you just don't have those skills, that'd help explain why you're not getting ahead. The ability to schmooze rich people is a skill like any other. Some people have it. Some don't.  And I say that as someone who doesn't have that skill, but am certainly willing to learn.

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