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Tempus fugit

via Temerl : a bobe-mayseleh / dertseylt Mosheh Broderzon…, p. 4. Provenance English: Little Tamar. Manuscript inscription and coloring by Broderzon and Chaikov. Haver Publishing, 1917. This was a 4 MB image when I downloaded it from Yale’s rare books and manuscript library website. Somehow, I don’t think it survived the journey to my laptop hard drive and back up to tumblr, as a jpg no less, without losing detail along the way.  Yiddish Book Collection of the Russian Avant-Garde General Modern Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Illustrated books depicting the flowering of Yiddish secular culture in Russia between the years 1912 to 1928. I like how the animals are gathered around Tamar as she studies. They aren’t fluffy animals. Some are serious, like the lion and vulture. But they are there to help, I think. They aren’t there to eat her, like the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood! I know that because of the image that follows on page 7, which I will post next. Tamar isn’t eaten by wild animals, but she does go on an adventure beyond Kiev, maybe even the Ukraine. My family in the Old Country I liked the subject matter, as well as the image. It was unusual for that time, about 1917. Instead of a boy studying and reading, or a stylized portrait of a princess, the main character in the story is a girl, wearing ordinary clothes. Before then, most women didn’t know how to read. My grandmother told me that, and her grandmother told her. A matchmaker arranged the marriages for my great-grandmother and her two sisters. One of the items emphasized, as an extra feature during negotiations for the bride-price (dowry?), was that their father had paid extra tuition for his daughters to learn to read AND write, in Russian and Yiddish.

via Temerl : a bobe-mayseleh / dertseylt Mosheh Broderzon…, p. 4.

Provenance

English: Little Tamar. Manuscript inscription and coloring by Broderzon and Chaikov. Haver Publishing, 1917.

This was a 4 MB image when I downloaded it from Yale’s rare books and manuscript library website. Somehow, I don’t think it survived the journey to my laptop hard drive and back up to tumblr, as a jpg no less, without losing detail along the way. 

Yiddish Book Collection of the Russian Avant-Garde

General Modern Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Illustrated books depicting the flowering of Yiddish secular culture in Russia between the years 1912 to 1928.

I like how the animals are gathered around Tamar as she studies. They aren’t fluffy animals. Some are serious, like the lion and vulture. But they are there to help, I think. They aren’t there to eat her, like the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood!

I know that because of the image that follows on page 7, which I will post next. Tamar isn’t eaten by wild animals, but she does go on an adventure beyond Kiev, maybe even the Ukraine.

My family in the Old Country

I liked the subject matter, as well as the image. It was unusual for that time, about 1917. Instead of a boy studying and reading, or a stylized portrait of a princess, the main character in the story is a girl, wearing ordinary clothes.

Before then, most women didn’t know how to read. My grandmother told me that, and her grandmother told her. A matchmaker arranged the marriages for my great-grandmother and her two sisters. One of the items emphasized, as an extra feature during negotiations for the bride-price (dowry?), was that their father had paid extra tuition for his daughters to learn to read AND write, in Russian and Yiddish.

Index of /archive/Displays/CRT

torley:

amber terminal

Ever notice ‘rent to own furniture’ is actually ‘rent to get owned furniture’?

torley:

via Torley http://on.fb.me/PXUxUe

Torley, you just noticed this NOW? It has been well-known to millions of poor Americans for decades.

Fingerhut catalogs exemplify this evil, exploitative practice. You are clearly a member of the well-to-do ruler class. Or, you were not native born in the USA, in which case, I apologize for assuming that you are a clueless elite.

You might still be one of them, wealthy super-class, that is. Just not familiar with our version of predatory business practices.

Via poppyott, this is a most elegant AP machine, recently photographed at the National Press Club.

Via poppyott, this is a most elegant AP machine, recently photographed at the National Press Club.

Blame it on Rush Limbaugh

President Obama embarked on a grueling agenda of pre-election fundraising in New York City with prominent individuals at private events today.

It began with surf-and-turf at the Waldorf Astoria. Suppertime at the home of a major film producer followed, with scant break in between. Today’s final event was a daunting get-together for appetizers with Justin Timberlake and other celebrities in the West Village.

The Associated Press provided this quote, from President Obama’s assessment of root causes for obstructive partisanship and associated legislative gridlock:

“Obama said he genuinely believes some congressional Republicans are open to compromise, but they fear the party’s conservative base and what talk show host Rush Limbaugh might say about them.”

Massive and unprecedented intrusion

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors.

U.S. government seizes AP phone records

The Justice Department didn’t give any explanation to the Associated Press. The AP received a letter last week, but the letter didn’t explain how, or why, the government seized the AP’s April - May 2012 phone records. 

Subpoenas are supposed to be a last resort, after other avenues of inquiry have been attempted. In the past, news organizations were notified of the situation, prior to issuance of any subpoenas. Then they would meet, figure out what was needed, and work together cooperatively with the government. This assured that the specific records required, and ONLY those records, would be disclosed. Even then, the Justice Department publishes detailed procedures for subpoenas of news organizations.

  1. Subpoenas must be approved by the U.S. Attorney General.
  2. A judge or grand jury must sign off on any press records subpoena. 

The AP doesn’t know if this was done though.

The Obama administration has aggressively investigated disclosures of classified information to the media and has brought six cases against people suspected of providing classified information, more than under all previous presidents combined.

How can they do this! This hasn’t ever happened before! Why now?

"Nowadays, we would have called this the Picard-Lefschetz theory. Picard, by the way, was Hermite’s son-in-law - mathematical abilities are often transferred by sons-in-law: the dynasty Hadamard - P. Levy - L. Schwarz - U. Frisch is yet another famous example in the Paris Academy of Sciences…"

—

V.I. Arnold, On teaching mathematics

There’s more. I’ll post my favorite section as text. Lobster font is striking, but better-suited to brevity.

Saqqara Tombs, Egypt by Soloegipto on Flickr.

Saqqara Tombs, Egypt by Soloegipto on Flickr.

Provenance?

Provenance?

(Source: miszuc)

What Happens in Vegas for Hedge Funds

The SALT hedge fund conference is an ideas conference, a Wall Street bacchanal and a power-networking event. It is also a place to absorb the musings of senior Wall Street money managers and Washington politicos.