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Top 5 Solar Energy Jobs: The Complete Guide

Everything you need to know about getting a solar energy job is here!

The 5 top types of jobs, the solar companies that are hiring the most, and the solar trade and non-profit…

Added by Bernard Ferret on March 11, 2013 at 9:38pm — 2 Comments

Building revenue through subscriptions: advice for job boards

Pop quiz: which of the following will increase profitability the most?

  • A) Individual job postings and/or resume access
  • B) Annual or semi-annual job posting/resume access subscriptions

I’m betting that most of you answered (B).

So why do the vast majority of job sites I visit promote individual job postings and resume access  so heavily?…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 27, 2012 at 10:21am — No Comments

Why buy a job board? Why sell? These and other questions, answered.

On Friday Dice Holdings announced the purchase of, the financial job board that powers and The acquisition got me thinking: why do job boards buy other job boards? Why do they sometimes decide not to buy, but instead create their own? And what, if…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on July 3, 2012 at 9:31am — 1 Comment

What’s in a name? Job boards have a problem

Almost every week I see a blog post or tweet claiming that job boards are dead or dying.

We’re talking about the top source for hiring outside of employee referrals here. A tool that almost every employer uses to locate some or all of their job candidates. A fixture on the recruiting scene for over 15…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on April 10, 2012 at 9:37am — No Comments

How to differentiate yourself from your competitors

Depending on who you talk to, the phase of the moon, and the price of corn in Iowa, there are roughly50,000 to 100,000 job boards out there. Yes, really. Why so many? There are a lot of reasons (low barriers to entry, continued demand, margins), but what this really means is that if you run a job board, you havecompetition. Above you, below you, next to you – you could argue that the online recruiting sector reflects capitalism at its most…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on February 7, 2012 at 9:25am — No Comments

Growth is good – even if it hurts sometimes

The last several years have been full of advice for companies were struggling to survive. But what about companies that are growing? It’s been a while since I’ve written about the challenges of growth – so it’s about time.

Despite the flat overall employment market, some areas are experiencing growth…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on January 10, 2012 at 9:11am — No Comments

Only job seekers can kill job boards (not pundits)

Another week, another ‘job boards are dying’ blog post. If I had a dollar for every post like this, I’d be a (moderately) rich man. Truly.

I try to avoid the ‘job boards are dying’ discussion because (a) it’s a flamer’s game (not unlike arguing with those who disbelieve climate change), and (b) those of us in the biz know it…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 15, 2011 at 9:06am — 1 Comment

What should you do when sales go down?

The best time to think about what to do when sales go down…is when sales are up.

Consider this: when sales are up, you have better cash flow. You aren’t frantically trying to do something – anything – to generate sales. You don’t have creditors breathing down your neck (probably). And – most importantly - you’re thinking about the future, not worrying about whether or not you can make it…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on August 30, 2011 at 9:10am — 1 Comment

Disruption, chaos, and job seekers: just another week of fun!

Ever wonder how the financial markets might affect your job board? Well, wonder no more – Monster, Dice, and 51Job all experienced double-digit drops in the wake of S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. government. (And this was after reporting some very strong Q2 earnings a week ago). Kind of makes you glad you’re not a publicly held…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on August 9, 2011 at 9:05am — 1 Comment

Revenue models for job boards – revisited

The amazing success (and possible bubble) of LinkedIn’s IPO last week got me to thinking about job boards and money. Almost a year ago I wrote a post about how one makes money with job sites – interestingly enough, it has been one of the more popular posts on the site.

It occurred to me that I missed one really big way that…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on May 24, 2011 at 9:08am — 4 Comments

Indeed, customer service, and job boards: a cautionary tale

Imagine that you’re one of the thousands of job boards thatprovided Indeed with job postings from its inception. Imagine that in addition to providing those jobs (which turned Indeed into the most visited job site on the web), you also spent money promoting those same jobs – thus providing Indeed with a lucrative source of income. Imagine that, in return, Indeed provided your job board with a stream of inbound referrals (both organic and…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on April 12, 2011 at 9:13am — 6 Comments

The danger of ‘big’ – it sometimes goes away

One of the first business lessons I learned many years ago was that it is often better to havemany smaller customers than fewer large ones. At the time, I was learning the ropes from a battle-hardened magazine publisher. He said (in reference to my naive comment that I would rather have Microsoft as an advertiser than a dozen smaller ones), “Where are you when your big customer decides to ‘shift focus’? Your loss will be 100% of income, rather than 15% or 20%. How long does…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on March 29, 2011 at 9:29am — 1 Comment

Job board networks: the idea that’s never gone away

In the beginning, there was the job board, and the candidates rejoiced. So many jobs! So many locations! So much easier than paper.

The employers liked it, too.

But after a while, candidates realized that general boards were, well….general. They discovered that many (er, most) jobs were inapplicable to their interests. So they asked the job boards to make things easier. “Help us find just the jobs we want!”

Job board operators responded in a variety of…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on February 8, 2011 at 9:59am — 1 Comment

Top Job Board Doctor blog posts from 2010

Job Board Doctor topped 100 posts this year – and some were more popular than…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 27, 2010 at 9:19am — No Comments

Cool job sites - part 2

A while back I… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on August 3, 2010 at 10:47am — No Comments

How to make money - revenue models for job boards

I’ve been cataloging job boards for the past two years (for obvious reasons), and frankly, I’ve been surprised at how many sites rely on candidates for their…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on July 28, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

How branding protects against commoditization

Commoditization – it’s a big word. What does the dictionary tell us? “When a product becomes indistinguishable from others like it and consumers buy on price alone, it becomes a

commodity. ” (emphasis added)

One of the top concerns expressed in the recent job board industry survey was…

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on May 18, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

5 ways to screw up your job board

I’ve observed that approximately 90% of the music put out at any given time is just not very good. Much is mediocre, and some is simply appalling. Well, folks, this is true of many industries, and it’s true of the job board industry.

Why? Well, honestly, job boards are more complex than they seem, both in design and operation. Add to this the never-ending winds of change and competition, and you can see how a job board operator might hit a few false notes.

So in the spirit… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on March 16, 2010 at 9:06am — No Comments

What do your job board customers want?

When was the last time you asked your job board customers what they want? Not just a one-off question to a few clients – but an systematic, organized survey of everyone who uses your site? Employers and job seekers?

A recurrent theme in the ‘job boards are dying’ blog posts that I see is a feeling by recruiters, employers, and job seekers that the ‘big boards’ are out of touch. In other words, they don’t know what their customers want. Now, I’m guessing that they would argue with… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 17, 2009 at 9:09am — 2 Comments

Why job boards need branding

Branding often gets a bad rap – as if there is something inherently bad in trying to create a unique, persuasive persona for your job board. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Think about it: most of the truly successful job boards out there have built successful brands. Monster. CareerBuilder. Dice. The Ladders. RegionalHelpWanted. Of course, a brand won’t replace solid technology, good marketing, and SEO. But in combination with these, branding will help push your job board… Continue

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You are here probably by accident. But possibly you are here because you actually do want to read 600-some-odd words about “2012.” In which case, bless your heart.

Not to be confused with “2010,” the sequel to “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor with “2112,” the dippy and vaguely Ayn Rand-influenced but nonetheless ass-kicking hard rock album (and seven-part suite of the same name thereon) by Canadian power trio Rush, “2012″ is a new disaster epic from disaster-epic enthusiast Roland Emmerich, and presumably the disaster epic to end all disaster epics, at least until the next one arrives.

Did I say “disaster epic” too much just then? Hardly. I was going to call Emmerich a maven of the form, but to reflect on his directorial career is to be reminded of the important differences between ardor and adroitness, between the prosaic and the poetic. We know he is a guy who enjoys making movies about moments on calendars, like “Independence Day” or “The Day After Tomorrow” or “10,000 B.C.” or, indeed, 2012, the year in which the current millennia-long cycle of the Mayan “Long Count” calendar will conclude, possibly prompting apocalypse. And we know he has a taste for Our Worst Fears Brought to Life, having directed Godzilla in “Godzilla” and Mel Gibson in “The Patriot.”

By now we also know that the banality of Emmerich’s cataclysmal imagery is so entrenched that even the act of pointing it out has become banal. Go ahead and say you’re jaded to gaping urban earthquakes, mile-wide ash clouds, super tsunamis and other soulless digital obliterations of man-made landmarks and large groups of people. That won’t stop Emmerich and co-writer Harald Kloser from making more. To this end, they’ve gathered the charitably game actors John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Oliver Platt, Tom McCarthy, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson, and embroiled them in a chore-like parable of turbulent political progress, multicultural cooperation, unpleasant sacrifice, and, most importantly, the healing of a broken family. (The human family. Eh?)

Here, as told in 10 carefully selected lines of dialogue, is how it goes:

“Nutrinos have mutated into a new kind of nuclear particle. They’re heating up the earth’s core.”

“It’s the biggest solar climax in recorded history.”

“Don’t you see the signs?”

“California’s going down!”

“All our scientific advances, our fancy machines! The Mayans saw this coming thousands of years ago.”

“We’re gonna need a bigger plane.”

“It’s a brave new world you’re heading for, and the young scientists are gonna be worth 200 old politicians.”

“The director of the Louvre was an enemy of humanity?!”

“Everybody out there has died in vain if we start our future with an act of cruelty.”

Yes, one of those lines is a nod to “Jaws,” the original blockbuster. Thank you, “Jaws.” So is cinema officially, catastrophically extinct now, or what?

No, of course not. In fact, there probably is some genuinely awe-inspiring thing being projected on a screen somewhere, or at least being uploaded to Vimeo, right now. It’s just a matter of finding and sharing it — and allowing “2012,” meanwhile, to enjoy the expensive privilege of proving its titular distinction. You don’t need the Mayan calendar to predict an annihilative opening weekend here — after which there should be no confusion whatsoever between this movie’s maker and the great speculative fictioneer Arthur C. Clarke (not to mention Stanley Kubrick), from whom he remains so evolutionarily far removed. But every time I imagine Roland Emmerich at work in his natural habitat of postproduction, I’m still going to hear Rush frontman Geddy Lee in my head, shrieking, “Our great computers fill the hallowed halls!” I guess the take-home message is: Let’s wait and see what happens in another hundred years.


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Today’s guest post is by filmmaker Solomon Mac-Auley who contacted me to offer his opinion about a DIY Digital alternative that I have been intrigued by called Egg Up.   Egg Up offers an elegant solution for filmmakers to monetize their films via Electronic Sell Through (previously known as Download to Own) by selling a film digitally while protecting it from being copied.    I was curious as to how consumer experience was with the service – so here is Solomon’s feeling about Egg Up:

Prevent Film Piracy and Globally Monetize Instantly by Solomon Mac-Auley, QNX LTD

The Challenge:

Piracy is the biggest worldwide threat to the film industry. The internet and social media have made it easy for consumers to pirate and share movies illegally. This growing model has disrupted and destroyed the traditional distribution channels such as DVDs, theatres, video stores and pay-per-view providers. It also doesn’t help that many platforms and media channels do not have any digital-rights-management (DRM) in place to prevent piracy. This phenomenon has cost the industry a whopping $18.2 billion and the figure is growing daily and has left in its wake a growing number of frustrated filmmakers and distributors who are unable to monetize their films.

They are therefore seeking alternative routes to outsmart piracy to a reasonable extent and make money in the process. Film makers and distributors are aware that hard media such as DVDs and Blu Ray will become obsolete in the near future and everything is being transferred online to reach consumers. Society itself is going digital; a phenomenon called DPT (Digital Pack Rat). This is whereby; consumers are digitizing everything from CD – Blu-Ray so that they can archive their media on portable hard drives or devices.

Net Neutrality:

Net Neutrality has always been part of the Internet. In fact, it’s because of Net Neutrality that the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, free online speech and online video streaming. E.g. Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and

There are new government policies that will block Net Neutrality from being neutral. Now the very large telephone and cable companies that control the backbone of the internet will now be able to dictate to internet companies to pay a premium of service to have the quality of service and bandwidth to facilitate their website. If they refuse the premium service, they will be moved to a slower connection. This means that the users, when viewing their web site will not have a pleasant experience. The result will be that the user will not return to the site. This will also empower the telephone companies and or cable companies to limit the consumers’ internet usage.

We believe that telephone and cable companies are looking for ways to limit internet usage to their consumers.

The Solution:

Digital distribution will increase 128% in the next few years. World movie revenue is $60 billion dollars. 66% of consumer market revenue is outside the United States. Knowing this, Eggup developed a secured Do-it-Yourself distribution platform that allows filmmakers or distributors to upload their films, thus creating an encrypted digital download player called an “Egg”. This will enhance current consumer habits to reach a broader audience effectively while preventing piracy.

Why stop the momentum of consumer sharing? They are able to share by instant message, linking, Skype, ftp, thumb drive, and DVDs. Thus creating an indirect sales and word of mouth advertising globally. Why not therefore, embrace a platform for filmmakers to profit from consumers sharing habit while preventing piracy?

Since your film is encrypted as an “Egg”, it can be safely passed from one consumer to another.  Whenever a consumer shares an Egg to friends and family they are only accessible to the trailer of the movie. For them to see the full movie they would have to purchase the “Egg” since it’s encrypted.

If your “Egg” is in an illegal bit torrent or any other file sharing site or platform, it transforms it from a piracy tool to a marketing tool. When it’s downloaded, the consumer will still have to purchase to see the full movie in the “Egg”.

To create multiple streams of income, the encrypted film (Egg) is able to be embedded into 3rd party sites and blogs to reach a broader audience effectively. This provides the filmmaker endless possibilities of marketing strategies and alliances with various consumer and niche markets.

In addition, our solution to the filmmakers’ plight will not be affected by the new policies that will govern Net Neutrality. Since our technology does not stream over the internet, this opens up many options of how one can distribute content. The telephone and cable companies are able to put local cache servers on their networks. All of our encrypted content will reside on the local cache servers. Then when there is a request for a particular content, it will download it off of the servers.

There are several advantages to this method. It will not utilize the internet for downloading the content. It will be kept localized. Also the consumer will have a rich experience of downloading a movie without any data and bandwidth requisition.

Filmmaker Benefits of using Eggup:

• 100% control of your film

• Sell on multiple websites and blogs

• No Set up Fees

• Keep all your rights

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Peter Preston: 'What I learned covering dog shows'

Observer media columnist and former Guardian editor Peter Preston has contributed an article to Local Newspaper Week in which he looks back to his days covering funerals, dog shows and Rotary Club speeches.

“Journalism isn’t about sitting in some lofty office thinking great thoughts. It is about knowing the people you're writing for, understanding their concerns, their hopes and fears. And you can only do that if you’re out there amongst them, being part of the community you aim to serve.

“I started in journalism, long ago, doing school holiday shifts on my local paper, writing my first features about life at the university just up the road. When I went to university myself I did every job going on the twice-weekly student paper there - and then learned my trade on Liverpool’s big evening and morning papers. I did funerals, Rotary Club speeches, dog shows, council rows and rugby matches.

"And at the end of that stint, when I moved on to cover local politics for the Guardian, I think I’d learned something precious. That politics doesn’t exist in some rarefied world at Westminster. That democracy lives, breathes and reacts in the minds and the lives of the people you catch a bus to work with every morning. That the local dimension isn’t some remote step ladder on the route to the top. It’s where everything begins. It’s the foundation stone of society.

“And that’s as true today as it ever was. Your local paper, in villages, towns and cities up and down the land, is there to reflect you, yourself - your own running commentary on life. In the mazy world of the world-wide web, where nothing seems more than a click away, it is still the place where the people around you put down their roots.

“There’s been a local press in Britain for as long as there have been newspapers. There will be newspapers - in one form or another - for as long as people care about what happens around them. News is a necessity, your link to your neighbours. Prize it, relish it, support it... because, not just in Local Newspaper Week but every week of the year, it helps your world go round.”

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People Name General Nembi, Mendi, South
People Name in Country Nembi, Mendi, South
Population in Papua New Guinea 42,000
World Population 42,000
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Indigenous Yes
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People Name General Nembi, Mendi, South
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Molecular Size and Origin Do Not Influence the Harmful Side Effects of Hydroxyethyl Starch on Human Proximal Tubule Cells (HK-2) In Vitro

Bruno, Raphael R. MD*; Neuhaus, Winfried PhD*†; Roewer, Norbert MD*; Wunder, Christian MD*; Schick, Martin A. MD*

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BACKGROUND: Recently, clinical trials revealed renal impairment induced by hydroxyethyl starch (HES) in septic patients. In prior studies, we managed to demonstrate that HES accumulated in renal proximal tubule cells (PTCs). The related pathomechanism has not yet been discovered. To validate our hypothesis that the HES molecule itself is harmful, regardless of its molecule size or origin, we conducted a comprehensive study to elucidate the influences of different HES preparations on PTC viability in vitro.

METHODS: Cell viability of human PTC was measured with a cytotoxicity assay, quantifying the reduction of tetrazolium salt to colored formazan. Experiments were performed by assessing the influence of different carrier solutions of HES (balanced, nonbalanced, culture medium), different average molecular weights (70, 130, 200 kDa), different origins (potato or corn derived), and various durations of incubation (2–21 hours). Furthermore, HES 130/0.4 was fractionated by ultrafiltration, and the impact on cell viability of average single-size fractions with <3, 3 to 10, 10 to 30, 30 to 50, 50 to 100, and >100 kDa was investigated. We also tested the possible synergistic effects of inflammation induced by tumor necrosis factor-α.

RESULTS: All tested HES solutions, regardless of origin or carrier matrix, decreased cell viability in an equivalent, dose-dependent manner. Coincubation with tumor necrosis factor-α did not reduce HES-induced reduction of cell viability. Minor differences were detected comparing 70, 130, and 200 kDa preparations. Analysis of fractionated HES revealed that each fraction decreased cell viability. Even small HES molecules (10–30 kDa) were significantly deleterious.

CONCLUSIONS: For the first time, we were able to show that only the total mass of HES molecules applied is responsible for the harmful impact on renal PTC in vitro. Neither molecular size nor their origin showed any relevance.

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What resources are available to trace the connections from the Gemara to the Halachic codifications and the reverse? For example, how can someone learning Daf Yomi find the related Halachic rulings in the Shulchan Aruch that were based on that particular page of Talmud, and how would someone studying Mishneh Torah find the source in the Gemara?

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Can you clarify which direction you are looking for (if it matters)? Your question implies a desire to trace Halachah to the Talmud, but your stated goal implies the opposite. –  Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 5:43
@SethJ I see your issue, but I think given the answers that are already here that the question should just be generalized. –  Double AA Aug 3 '12 at 5:45
@doubleaa, I find it very confusing. –  Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 5:53
@SethJ my goal is to flip to the appropriate page(s) in S"A to match up with the daf, but the question is both poorly worded and better off generalized. I hope the edit resolves these issues. –  yoel Aug 3 '12 at 12:49
Actually, maybe that's too general. –  yoel Aug 3 '12 at 12:53

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The Be'er HaGolah (printed next to the Shulchan Aruch) gives all the sources as listed in Tur/BY. The Biur HaGra gives more thorough sources than the Be'er HaGolah, so you should probably use that one.

There is also, of course, the Ein Mishpat, if you want to go the other way around (Gemara to poskim). It's found at the top of the outer margin of each daf, and it's referenced by k'tav ashurit letters throughout the text of the Gemara.

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Perfect! Ein Mishpat was what I was thinking of. Thanks! –  yoel Aug 3 '12 at 1:24
I assumed he needed the latter. It'd be kind of tough to go the other direction when you're looking at a piece of Gemara and want to know how we Pasken. –  Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 4:13
@SethJ I didn't know which one hae was asking. –  b a Aug 3 '12 at 5:08
a little biographical information on the Ein Mishpat: people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/EMNM.html –  Menachem Aug 3 '12 at 5:22

If you want to learn the codified halachot that are based on the page of the Talmud you're learning, you should definitely check out the Gemara put out by The Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute.

An idea from HaRav Kook, see here:

It was the Rav's desire to publish a new edition of the Talmud, which for the first time, would combine and reunite the study of Halacha and Gemara, which over the years had become two different and independent areas of study...a Talmud which would "return" the basis of Gemara study to the summary of the Halachic conclusions in each and every sugyah, including side discussions which arise in the sugyot.

It is split into two parts, the Halacha Berura and the Biur Halacha. From here:

  • Halacha Brura: This is printed on the Gemara page and was written by Rav Kook himself. The Rav copied the Rambam's and the Shulchan Aruch's Halachic decisions for each topic discussed on that page of the Gemara. This follows the numbering of the Eyn Mishpat.

    Rav Kook also clarifies situations where the Eyn Mishpat is not pointing to the correct place, and sometimes makes notes on what Eyn Mishpat was thinking when pointing to a specific source.

  • Berur Halacha: Printed in the back of each Gemara, the Berur Halacha summarizes all the different opinions of the Rishonim and Achronim that have impact on the Halachic conclusion of each Sugya, whether they affect the main discussion, or touch only a side point.

The Halacha Berura was done by Rav Kook himself, while the Berur Halacha is done by a committee of Rabbis led by Rav Kook's son (Rav Kook passed away during the editing of the first volume).

Their website has some examples of the Berur Halacha in the original and translated into English.

I have this Gemara on Berachot and love it. The only possible complaint is that it is not one of the newer prints of the Talmud (only the Rashi is re-typeset). This doesn't bother me for the Gemara itself, but I would prefer the compilation (and retyping) of the Mefarshim found in the back of the Talmud.

@ba pointed out in the comments that hebrewbooks.org has the first Halacha Brura gemara, Beitza. The Berur Halacha starts here.

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Thanks, this looks extremely useful - I'll have to keep an eye out for it. –  yoel Aug 3 '12 at 4:31
See here for how to get a hold of it: halachabrura.org/public.htm –  Menachem Aug 3 '12 at 4:47
By the way, the volume on Beitzah is online –  b a Aug 3 '12 at 5:17

b a's answer lists the standard short references from g'mara to halacha and vice versa.

Menachem's answer lists a resource for following a g'mara through to its halachic conclusion.

So I'll do the opposite: mention a resource for following a halacha back to its talmudic source. The best I've found for this is Aruch Hashulchan, who often quotes the relevant g'mara, lists how rishonim understood it l'halacha, often discusses questions on those rishonim, and so on, until the final p'sak.

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Not the Beit Yosef? –  Double AA Aug 3 '12 at 4:56
@DoubleAA, it does the same, but less clearly IME. –  msh210 Aug 3 '12 at 4:57
It may not be as accessible but it certainly covers a wider range of opinions and topics. –  Double AA Aug 3 '12 at 5:03
Don't forget the Tur, guys. –  Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 5:40
I think the question needs to be clarified. His goal seems like this wouldn't help him, even though his question implies that this is what he's looking for. –  Seth J Aug 3 '12 at 5:44

The new Koren Talmud actually does a very good job at providing not only the Ein Mishpat, but it also gives you the complete Rambam and Shulchan Aruch relevant to particular sugyot.

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This has been in the Oz Vehadar and Vilna Chadash gemaras for years. –  Double AA Oct 17 '13 at 20:30

For the Mishneh Torah, first look at the commentaries printed in the standard editions. However, the work of these commentaries didn't exhaust all the halachos of the Rambam. Some of the gaps have been filled in by R' Chaim Kanievsky's in his Kiryat Melech, which fortunately, is available online.

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China's secret? It owes Americans nearly $1 trillion

Posted: May 23, 2012 - 12:01am

China has a secret: It owes American investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

The Chinese government doesn’t like to talk about it and the U.S. government doesn’t want to raise it. But decades ago, Beijing defaulted on debt owed to Americans, as well as investors and governments around the world. In one case, it was paid. In the rest it was not. More than 20,000 American investors own this debt. The U.S. government may also own Chinese war debt, unpaid since World War II.

With the simple stroke of an executive proclamation, President Barack Obama can begin the process of addressing this issue. A 1930s-era law has established a quasi-public agency within the Securities and Exchange Commission, known as the Corporation of Foreign Securities Holders, which can arbitrate this dispute, much as a predecessor agency did for decades. China can both afford and benefit from this solution; it will afford goodwill at a time when relations between the world’s two superpowers are strained.

The story begins nearly 100 years ago, in 1913, when the government of China began issuing bonds to foreign investors and governments for infrastructure work to modernize the country. As the country fell into civil war in 1927, paying these debts became increasingly difficult and the government fell into default. Even so, in April 1938, the Nationalist government of China began to issue U.S.-dollar denominated bonds to finance the war against Japan’s brutal invasion.

Locked in a pitched battle for survival, the government issued these bonds into 1940. As part of its wartime financial aid, the U.S. government further provided a $500 million credit to China in March 1942, shipping gold there and helping to stabilize the currency. In return, it appears that the U.S. government redeemed some of these dollar-denominated bonds. But China doesn’t appear to have repaid this debt either, according to State Department records, and the declaration of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 ended decades of political, military and financial cooperation.

While successor governments are usually bound by the debts of predecessor governments, the new Communist government refused to pay any of these claims. The issue lay dormant for decades, just as the bilateral relationship did. Then, in 1979, as part of normalizing relations, Washington released government financial claims regarding the expropriation of American property and appears to have dropped the matter of the war debt entirely.

However, individual citizens remain with claims to press. Some U.S. investors tried to sue the Chinese government in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act makes it very hard for any U.S. citizen to sue a foreign government in U.S. courts because the law generally says that U.S. courts do not have jurisdiction.

Today, the Chinese bonds held by U.S. investors may be worth as much as $750 billion.

In general, governments do inherit the debt of their predecessors just as they inherit the assets of the nation. Governments have defaulted on debts since at least the 4th century B.C., when 10 of 13 Greek cities could not pay their bills; ironic, yes. And there is a long history of settlements, too. In the last 200 years, more than 70 governments, from Austria to Vietnam, have defaulted and eventually settled for far lesser amounts, allowing them to borrow once more.

Examples abound. An international arbitration panel found that post-revolutionary Iran needed to pay the United States for military aid in 1948. Post-apartheid South Africa has not repudiated debt incurred under the previous regime. In 2006, Great Britain paid the final installment on a World War II-era loan from the United States and Canada, and even sent a thank-you note. Russia has paid debt incurred under the tzars. One exception argued by governments is that in some cases a previous regime’s debt is “odious.” That is, the debt was incurred to enrich the regime or oppress the people.

Neither seems the case in China, which may be why it has never submitted to international adjudication. China, for its part, has not exactly disavowed the debt; it simply has selectively refused to pay it.

Technically, this calls into question China’s stellar credit ratings and those of its government-owned enterprises. But specifically, the U.S. government has a legal obligation to its citizens. The 1933 Securities Act established both the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, under State and Treasury, and the Corporation of Foreign Security Holders, under the SEC, to get foreign governments to address debts owed to private U.S. investors. Housed in a Virginia suburb, the council in 47 instances settled the debts of foreign governments, including communist ones, to U.S. citizens. In 1975, the Polish government paid U.S. investors one-third the face value, or $8.5 million, of nine different series of bonds, all inherited from previous governments.

Indeed, President George W. Bush’s counsel directed the bondholders to the council in 2001 but the council did nothing, most likely to keep from rocking the bilateral U.S.-China boat. Now, the council is shuttering its doors, as it has completed dozens of cases and no administration wanted to refer the Chinese case for fear of upsetting Beijing again. However, the Corporation of Foreign Security Holders is still on the books and represents the only chance for U.S. investors to be paid.

All that has to happen is that Obama issue a proclamation to stand up the corporation, and a staff, at the SEC. The bondholders would bring their bonds in for examination and verification of the certificates and serial numbers. Then the corporation could get about settling the issue through payment, reissue of bonds, restructuring or even settling the debt. The reality is that a settlement could benefit everyone. Yes, it will be politically distasteful in Beijing. But in all likelihood, a settlement would likely be struck for a fraction of the face value of the bonds. Unlike 1949, China today has the ability to pay. It would be seen as good faith by Americans. And that, in turn, would help reassure us about China’s increasingly important place in the world. There are simply too many other questions about about China’s peculiar brand of state capitalism.

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United Way SE's town hall meeting eyes range of issues

Miscommunication, alcohol abuse surface as primary concerns

Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2005

The United Way of Southeast Alaska may find that affordable housing is the most urgent problem. But alcohol abuse and communication between Natives and non-Natives dominated the discussion of the organization's first town hall meeting.

After almost half a year of household surveys and interviews, the United Way of Southeast Alaska and the McDowell Group identified affordable housing and alcohol abuse as the top community issues.

The two groups released the survey results to a group of 40 people at Perseverance Theatre Monday evening.

Scott Miller, researcher for the McDowell Group, said poverty is a root cause of many community problems.

"Even though Juneau has the strongest economy in Southeast Alaska, many households are economically fragile," Miller said. "The cost of medical insurance and health care is a particular concern for many Juneau families."

People who attended the meeting expressed their worries on issues ranging from a lack of venue for the young people to fetal alcohol syndrome.

Greg Brown, a Native culture specialist at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School, said he has had trouble finding a place for his dance troop of 100 children to practice. He suggested the community find a place for the Natives to practice their dancing and share their cultures with non-Natives.

John Williams, chairman of a steering committee that reviewed the findings, said the Native community should let non-Natives know that they want other people to know about their culture.

Daniel Cornwall, a state librarian, said the city needs to have a job training center downtown. Cornwall said part of his daily job is to assist people who come to find jobs.

"People come to the state library to use our public Internet and look at job listings," Cornwall said. "Some of them need help to fill out applications. We try to help as much as we can."

Ben Coronell, a retired police officer, said the city needs to address the high rate of fetal alcohol syndrome among the city's population.

Jodi Kilcup, executive director of the United Way of Southeast Alaska, said the nonprofit will keep collecting resident feedback. The organization will have a radio call-in meeting at KTOO-FM at 7 p.m. and another meeting at the University of Alaska Southeast's Lake Room at 5:15 p.m. Thursday.

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[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights [official website] handed down two rulings [judgments, PDF] finding the Polish government in violation of European human rights laws based on the establishment of prison center used for illegal detainment and torture of terrorist suspects. Amnesty International (AI) [official website] on Thursday reported [AI report] that the secret prison was established by the Polish Government in an effort to contribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) [official website] extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive]. The secret prison was located near Warsaw and claimed to be operated from 2002 to 2005. Information about the illegal detention facility was exposed by two current Guantanamo detainees who filed claims with the European Court in both 2011 and 2013. The two men claim they were illegally detained, ill-treated and tortured within the Polish prison facility. AI's Julia Hall stated in regards to the two rulings:

"Today's historic rulings finally unlock the truth about a dark period of Poland's recent history and mark a milestone against impunity. Poland knowingly became part of the USA's illegal network of black sites that was used to secretly detain and torture individuals rounded up in counter-terrorism operations."

In its report, AI urged for a continued investigation into the Polish detention facility and other possible CIA backed facilities throughout Europe.

Controversy continues to surround CIA programs, which allegedly involved torture against detainees. In October 2013 the lawyer for five Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] prisoners charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks asked [JURIST report] Obama in an open letter to declassify the CIA interrogation program that allegedly subjected prisoners to torture. The letter argued that the continued classification of this program is suppressing important evidence related to the case. In 2009 the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] released [JURIST report] four top secret memos from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [official website] outlining controversial CIA interrogation techniques and their legal rationale. The previously undisclosed memos were released with redactions in response to the FOIA lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during the Bush administration. The ACLU also called for an independent investigator to probe allegations of torture during the Bush administration, but Obama said [statement] that, "[i]n releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution."

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Home alone, with Daddy

“I’m so sorry to do this to you,” my wife Kara said last week, right before she left me.

Her bags were already in the trunk of her car, and there was no talking her out of it.  Once she walked out that door, she’d be gone forever.

Well, for three days, but when you’re taking care of two small kids without any help, three days and forever are pretty much the same thing.

“Mommy, where are you going?” our son Evan asked.

“I have to take a trip for work, but I’ll be back on Thursday,” she said.

“Sunday-Monday, Tuesday-Wednesday, Thursday, Friiii-day, Saturday,” Evan sang, repeating the no-frills mnemonic jingle he’d learned at daycare.  Singling a list makes it easier to remember, apparently, which is why I’ve started setting our grocery list to Ride of the Valkyries.

“Get some CREAM CHEESE and some BROCC-LI and sliced TUR-KEY, da da da DEEEEE!”

If the list gets longer than three things, though, I have to resort to the tried-and-true method of writing down a list and then forgetting to bring it with me.

As we packed up our two cars that morning, mine headed for daycare and work, Kara’s headed for the wild paved yonder, Evan started bawling.

“Aw, hey, buddy, what’s wrong?” I asked, but I already knew.  Any kid would be distressed at the prospect of getting ditched for even a few minutes, let alone a few days.

Kara got out of her car and walked over, her lower lip pushed out in sympathy.

“My banana has stringy things on it!” Evan wailed.

“Dude, seriously?  That’s part of the banana.  You can eat those things.  Maybe you’re really upset about Mommy leaving?  She’ll be back in a few days,” I said.

“No, the banana,” he said, sniffling.

On the drive to daycare, Evan stopped projecting his separation anxiety onto his breakfast produce.

“How much time ‘til Thursday now?” he asked every five minutes, reacting with genuine surprise when he got the same answer each time.

After work, I took Evan and his baby brother Zack to the grocery store, which might sound ambitious, but grocery carts are like cages on wheels, perfect for containing children and killing time.

“Cheez Its!  We need Cheez Its!” Evan said, lunging from his perch by the cart’s handle.  He whiffed.  One of the first skills you learn as a parent is to never push the cart too close to the merchandise, lest you spend all your time wrenching Fruit Roll-Ups out of little fingers.

“Sorry, no room in the cart,” I said, which was true.  With a kid sitting by the handle and a car seat filling up the cart, you can’t actually buy anything.  You can try to balance a loaf of bread on the baby, but he’ll either chew on it through the plastic bag or mash it into matzo.  But even though you can’t purchase any food, you can kill a solid four minutes standing next to the poor man’s Camden Aquarium, also known as the lobster tank.

The next morning, for the first time in over three years, I awoke to the sound of an alarm clock, rather than to a baby screeching.  Most things can be done while wearing a baby on your back and having Dora the Explorer babysit your three-year-old, but showering is not one of those things.    If you don’t get up before the kids, I’m not sure how single parents bathe themselves without wheeling a shopping cart or other child-trapping device into the bathroom.

On Thursday afternoon, Kara texted: “Tell Evan not to brush his teeth until I get home.  I’m bringing something for him.”

Empowered by my success at handling the kids on my own, I replied, “Don’t worry – he hasn’t brushed them in three days.  A couple more hours won’t hurt.”

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Monday, February 19, 2007

We are sorry to report that Jesu are still stuck in England and will NOT be playing the Spaceland, L.A headline/release party ; work permits for Jesu have still not been cleared by U.S officials/customs and the band are not allowed into the U.S until the permits are officially cleared. The band are yet to receive a date of clearance and simply have to wait until they do so before entering the U.S, hence Jesu will not be appearing at any shows with ISIS until the permits are available and Jesu can leave England.

Please watch this space for further news ; once Jesu have their permits we will post confirmation of this and the first show that Jesu will play in the U.S.
Hopefully the band will not miss more than the first week of this tour, being the bands first tour of the U.S.

In related Jesu live line up news, Jesu bass player Diarmuid Dalton will not be playing any of the U.S dates due to being refused a work permit for the U.S for this tour.
Diarmuid has been replaced for this tour by long time collaborator (and fellow Birmingham, England native) bass player Dave Cochrane (Justin and Dave played together in Head Of David, Sweet Tooth, Ice, God and now their new project together GREY MACHINE).

Drummer Ted Parsons has also been unable to make this first Jesu U.S tour due to family commitments and has been replaced by drummer Danny Walker, a Los Angeles native who plays for many bands including Intronaut.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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Marijuana Legalization Initiative on Track to Win in Washington State

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Of the three marijuana legalization measures on the ballot this November, Initiative 502 in Washington State continues to do the best in the polls. With less than three weeks until election day and ballots already being mailed out to voters, I-502 still holds a big lead in the latest King 5/SurveyUSA poll.

According to the SurveyUSA poll, 55 percent of likely voters plan to vote for the I-502, which would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for adults and create a regulatory system for its sale. Only 36 percent of likely voters say they oppose the initiative, with an additional 8 percent still undecided.

Support for the initiative has remained mostly unchanged throughout the cycle. Early in the month the same pollster found it winning 57 percent yes to 33 percent no, which was nearly identical to the result from their September polling.

The one potential warning sign is that there is a second poll of the state out today from the University of Washington. It also shows I-502 leading but by a much smaller margin. The Washington Poll found the I-502 at 47.1 percent yes to 40.1 percent no.

If the voters of Washington approve I-502 not only would it be a remarkable development for the state, but it would likely have serious far reaching implications for the entire country. Having one or more states legalize marijuana this November could likely spark a national conversation about our current marijuana policies.

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