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Why Are They So Angry?
"He's lying! He's lying!" the man at the back of the hall shouted, in a tone as desperate as it was angry. "He hasn't read the Geneva Conventions. You haven't read them, so you don't know he's lying."
The primary object of his rage was me. The secondary object, it seemed, was his fellow congregants, who'd allowed me to lecture at his New York-area synagogue. I'd spoken about threats to Israel's democracy, including those posed by ongoing expansion of West Bank settlements. This was the first time, I'd been told, that the congregation had hosted a speaker on Israel from outside a spectrum running from right-wing to very right-wing. During the question-and-answer period, I was asked about my statement that the legal counsel of Israel's Foreign Ministry had warned before the first West Bank settlement was established that it would violate the agreement of the Fourth Geneva Convention. That's when the man in the back came unstuck. The congregation's rabbi, who was moderating the Q&A session with the trained calm of a psychologist running group therapy for fractured families, slipped to the back of the room and talked him down.
The incident stayed with me, demanding to be decoded. True, the particular synagogue was Orthodox, and more Orthodox Jews espouse hawkish views than do members of other Jewish denominations. But I've been lecturing around North America for three weeks, and the experience fit a pattern. I've been told repeatedly that it's a breakthrough for a congregation to invite someone with my views, which back home in Israel register as well within the political mainstream. On previous trips to America, I've faced similar outbursts in non-Orthodox synagogues and on college campuses.
High-pitched as Israeli political disputes are—and as eager as the Israeli parliamentary right is to restrict dissent, an Israeli dove visiting Jewish North America can still feel that he's stumbled into a constricted, out-of-joint alternate universe. The moderate Israeli left's argument that West Bank settlements undermine democracy and peace efforts is sometimes greeted in the U.S. as treasonous, sometimes as daringly unconventional. Ideas that have gone extinct in Israel still wander the American landscape, as if it were a Jurassic Park of the mind. What's going on?
Part of the answer is that Jewish politics reflect general American politics, where conservatives hurl forged-in-Fox, counterfactual cannonballs rather than discuss ideas. And the minority of American Jews who are devoted to the single issue of defending Israeli policy, and who can dominate discussion within the Jewish community, inhabit an echo chamber that may be even better sealed than the conservative separate universe in domestic politics. Golda Meir—remembered in Israel as the prime minister who failed to see signs of oncoming war in 1973—is still regarded as a hero in America. (Imagine visiting some distant "pro-American" island where people put up busts of James Buchanan and Herbert Hoover.)
Inside the echo chamber, advocacy groups provide "facts" on key issues. Press reports or historical accounts that tell a different story are seen not only as mistaken, but as deliberately false. So, for instance, the tiny minority of scholars of international law who defend the legality of Israeli settlements—especially Reagan Democrat Eugene Rostow—are endlessly quoted on advocacy websites. This half-explains the despairing anger of the man in the back of the room when I quoted a top Israeli official saying the opposite.
Of course, there are many American Jews whose liberal views on domestic issues are matched by their support of a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Some feel constrained in speaking as clearly as they'd like about Israel for fear of being identified with another rigidly ideological contingent: Diaspora Palestinians with their own overdone nationalism, and a small coterie of Jews whose express their disappointment with Zionism through mirror-image anti-Zionism—as if denying Jewish rights to national self-determination were somehow more progressive than denying Palestinian rights. But realistic, moderate progressives always face the challenge of portraying a more complex reality than extremists recognize.
And a third factor—besides the echo-chamber effect and concern about extreme anti-Israel positions—is at work in the sudden hostility of some American Jews at criticism of Israel. It has to do with the place that Israel often fills in Jewish identity in America. An incident my son recounted after a visit to the United States as a teen alluded to the issue: He'd come to take part in an international interfaith camp, and one day the campers were brought to a nearby city to visit a church, synagogue, and mosque. At the synagogue, he was surprised to see an Israeli and an American flag in the sanctuary. He couldn't recall seeing an Israeli flag in an Israeli synagogue, and asked the executive director of the congregation why it was there. "The Holocaust is very present in our hearts," came the response.
At first glance, that's a non sequitur. Unpacked, the comment means that victimhood is part of the story that Jews tell about their past. In that story, a besieged, endangered Israel is the sequel to the Holocaust. Like most narratives, this one contains pieces of truth alongside distortions and anachronisms. The victimhood was very real. But for most Jews living today in America, the trauma is a taught memory, passed on by previous generations, out of sync with their current condition. And seeing Israel as the symbol of victimhood is discordant: Zionism was a rebellion against Jewish powerlessness, and present-day Israel testifies to the rebellion's success.
One of the first rules of conflict resolution, though, is that when you challenge a group's narrative, some members will take that as a denial of their identity. They'll get angry. They will repeat their story more loudly. They may accuse you of telling falsehoods.
This is not a reason for a journalist, historian or activist to silent. It does make sense of the fury with which people sometimes defend the old story. It explains why changing the story takes time. I needed to tell the facts as best I know them. I'm glad someone else was there to calm the guy at the back of the room.
Fri, 2011-11-25 14:28
It's easier to take a rigidly ideological position about a faraway, mythical place than about the place where you live, work, and raise your children. Similarly with casting Golda Meir as a feminist heroine (Americans) rather than as the worst prime minister in Israel's history (Israelis).
One disagreement, though. I don't think it's fair to label Jewish anti-Zionism as rigidly ideological (I guess "overdone" Palestinian nationalism is rigidly ideological by definition). There are rigid ideologues in the anti-Zionist camp, Jewish and otherwise, but that doesn't make it a rigidly ideological position.
Sat, 2011-11-26 11:55
Having become a Zionist, a quite active one I would suggest, in 1962 in New York, and living there until 1970 and being very involved, can I say that Gershom congratulates himself too much, I fear. He has trea no new path. Robust debates with opponents have always taken place even in strongly supportive congregations and organizations of the right of Jews to reside in Judea and Samaria, something they did - which usually is ignored - throughout recorded history except for the brief 19 year period of Jordanian illegal occupation between 1948-1967. Somehow, persons like Gershom rarely dissect the history as regards "rights", "legality", etc. when it comes to the reality of that period and that immediately prior, seeking to distract attention from the behavior of the local Arab nationalist movement in Mandated Palestine which engaged for 30 years in a prolonged campaign of ethnic cleansing of Jews from Hebron, Shchem/Nablus, Gaza, Jenin and Jerusalem's Old City in addition to the newer locations such as the 4 kibbutzim in Gush Etzion, at Bet HaAravah, the moshavim of Atarot and Neveh Yakov accompanied by terror, gto be continued througout the 1948-1967 period first by fedyeen and then by Fatah/PLO. Gershom & Co. always start from June 10, 1967 and a supposed "illegal occupation".
Of course, his back row intelocuter has a point. Besides that opinion, of someone who subsequently left Israel and ran away to more progressive quarters, Israel's legal minds and its Supreme Court, have awarded legal approbation to almost all of the construction of Jewish homes, factories, farms and schools in Judea and Samaria, distinguishing between that issue and that of eventual political sovereignty. In assisting the view that Jews should be banned from Judea & Samaria, prohibited from living there, Gorenberg actually serves the darkest forces of illegality, apartheid and violation of Jewish rights as guaranteed by the highest legal forum at the time which recognized the historic connection of the Jewish people with that territory as part of the land area to become the reconstituted Jewish national home (for a collection of opinions, see: http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2011/08/are-settlements-legal.html)
Mon, 2011-11-28 05:59
First a historical point about which you seem to be equivocated. There were almost no Jews living in the West Bank before Israel conquered the territory in 1967. If you think that Jews coming from anywhere in the world have the right to live in the territory that they call Judea and Samaria, do you also think that the Palestinians who were expelled or ethnic cleansed from the West Bank in 1967 (about 150,000) have the right to live in Israel? In case you accept that some Palestinians have the right to live in Israel, why don't others get this right, even ones who lived there before 1948? You might say that no Palestinians have the right to live in Israel or that only some have this right according to some criteria. Well, couldn't it also be the case that no Jew has the right to live in the West Bank, or that only some according to some criteria (like that they don't have stolen land that belong to private Palestinian owners, that they accept the laws of the legitimate owners of this territory, the Palestinains, that they have applyed for permission to live there, that they pay taxes to the Palestinian authorities?) Or do you think that Jews in Palestine have special rights that others don't have?
Second, your historical points are all of them misleading. I don't have the time to comment all of them. In any case, there was no Palestinian campaign of ethnic cleansing. It was the Jewish settlers coming from other parts of the world who had no connection to Palestine whatsoever who started expelling Palestinian peasants from their lands. Writing about Yitzhak Epstein, Benny Morris says that "he had been deeply troubled by the eviction of the Druze tenant farmers at Metulla in 1896.(...) Epstein took the Zionists severely to task for purchasing land from effendis and then pushing out the poor (Palestinian) tenants". We should add that the documents about ownership of land that the Jewish settlers used were often falsified. He also says that the Jewish colonists "forcibly denied local shepherds the use of traditionally common pasturelands." At the same time, there was a Jewish policy of not employing Palestinians.
Benny Morris and other historians tell a history of the Jewish settlement in Palestine that begins with the desire of transfer and ends with ethnic cleansing of the original Palestinian population that had always lived there for the last 3000 years. He writes: "For many Zionists, beginning with Herzl (already even before the colonisation?), the only realistic solution lay in transfer". Already early immigrants in 1883 were worried with not arousing the "rage" of the natives. Why? Because they knew what they were up to. Morris still tells how badly the colonists treated the native population, considered them "primitives". It's no surprise that the Jewish colonization of Palestine was from the beginning on a violent enterprise.
To deny the rights of the Palestinian population to live in the lands to which they have a historical connection of 3000 years you have to distort history in a systematic way, you have to treat the Palestinians as a people without rights, you have to ignore international law and humanity and at the end you justify all kinds of violence.
Try to explain why do you think that Jews from Israel have the right to live in "Judea and Samaria" but Palestinians from "Judea and Samaria" don't have the right even to go to Jerusalem freely and many of them have never been able even to go to the beach a few kms from their homes because Israel doesn't allow them to do so.
Mon, 2011-11-28 13:42
I agree with much of what you write, but I think you might take too much meaning from the presence of Israeli flags in American synagogues. Regardless of what the executive director said, I don't think the Holocaust has anything to do with it.
In the United States, flags and open displays and proclamations of patriotism are more common than in many other country. American flags are everywhere- they hang from people's houses and buildings, they're in every classroom. I've read that many Europeans are surprised and startled when they learn about how American school days start with the Pledge of Allegiance, or when they see Americans put their hands over their hearts during the national anthem at a sports game. It seems vaguely fascistic to them, even though it seems normal to us.
Many American churches have an American flag inside. If the State of Israel had never existed, it's very likely that American synagogues would have only an American flag inside, both because it seems normal to Americans to have flag within their place of worship and because Jews generally have an extra desire to affirm their loyalty and devotion to this country. So if American synagogues are going to have an American flag anyway, and since Israel does exist, wouldn't it be a little strange if they didn't also have an Israeli flag? And it's not like devotion to Israel is seen as anti-American within the broader American political culture- Israel is seen as an ally- so there generally isn't a perceived contradiction between honoring the flags of two different sovereign nations.
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Thu, 2011-12-01 01:43
"Jurassic Park of the mind" is a brilliant image; I'm sure I'll make use of it soon, plagiarism being the sincerest form of flattery. "counterfactual cannonballs" however misses the mark. What FOX news is endlessly firing or relaying are afactual cannonballs. That they strike home with so many Americans of all persuasions is a function of something very fundamental to the American Experience: Faith-based bombast tops fact, not every time nor all the time, but from time to time it haunts our history from the Great Awakening of the 1830s to the present day. TRUTH trumps the merely true. Among the reasons for the relative silence of American Jews of a progressive stripe, I don't find my own. It has always struck me as somewhat unseemly for the residents of a diaspora with no intent of emigrating to the Homeland to offer solutions to those who have. Israel has many enemies who threaten its existence and even in my view which is not unlike yours, it is clear that only a small number of them are Israeli Jews. I'm a New York actor who went to Israel to shoot a film in Jerusalem several years ago and I established as a pre-condition that I would not be asked to step foot on conquered territory outside of the the holy city itself. On the last day the bus back to the airport in Tel Aviv diverted to pick up a hard disk with the captured images from the home of the Director of Photography which, of course, turned out to be smack in the middle of the West Bank. It was an appalling and sobering experience, and convinced me once again that I was right in thinking that maintenance of the conquest was the single greatest threat to the survival of the Jewish state, but that the issues were infinitely more complicated than I knew, that the beliefs of the "settlers" were seemingly intractable, that the threats to Israel's security wouldn't magically disappear if the territories were abandoned, and that as distasteful and illegal as I believed "Greater Israel" was, the buffer it provided was deemed to have value and the 1967 borders were deemed indefensible by many people whose lives were directly at risk if my view prevailed and proved wrong.
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A FIRST-TIME dad has described the incredible moment his mum and sister delivered his baby boy – before bringing him to life.
Tyler-Jenson Mould had to be untangled from his umbilical cord by his 23-year-old aunt during a dramatic birth at mum Caroline Higgins' home in Ainslie Street, Barrow last Friday.
Having been delivered with the help of both his grandmothers, the little one subjected his family to a tense few seconds which felt like a lifetime.
Dad, Johnathan Mould, said: "He came out literally blue, there was no screaming, no noise at all.
"I was crying my eyes out and trying to calm Caroline down."
The 27-year-old, of Fenton Street, Barrow, added: "My mum rubbed him on the back, rubbed his heart and gave him a little tap and the next minute, he started crying.
"It was the happiest moment of my life."
Mum-of-three Ms Higgins, 34, was discharged from Furness General Hospital on Sunday, having been transferred by ambulance staff who arrived minutes after Tyler-Jenson was born.
Ms Higgins had already been to FGH that day, with labour pains and contractions every 10 minutes, but left after they slowed down.
But having returned home at around 9am, she gave birth at 10.53am.
Getting out of the shower, Mr Mould found his girlfriend in terrible pain, and called her mum over straight away.
At that point, he said: "She was in so much pain I thought, 'I'll have to call an ambulance' and, when I was speaking to the operator, my mum and sister showed up.
"A couple of minutes later she was screaming her head off and my mum said, 'She's not going to make it. We're going to have to deliver here'."
While Mr Mould supported his girlfriend, her mum, Angela, took the phone and began passing instructions to his mum, Julie, and sister, Zana.
At one point, Mr Mould said, his sister had to break through the amniotic sac, as it was blocking the baby's passage.
Meanwhile, his mum turned her grandson's face away to prevent the waters getting in his mouth.
It was then Miss Mould realised Tyler-Jenson was tangled in the cord.
Mr Mould said: "She had both hands in, using her fingers to unwrap it from around his face, neck and body."
Despite it being a traumatic labour, Mr Mould and his girlfriend will always treasure the way their son was born.
He said: "We worked as a team to get him out safe, and they did a great job. I'm so proud of them.
"They've never done anything like that before, they just acted instinctively.
"It's the best thing that could ever happen to someone – your mother and sister delivering your baby boy.
"Now they'll have that bond with him because they were the first faces he saw when he entered the world.
"I couldn't have asked for anything better."
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Your story made me cry! Well done all of you and may little Tyler have a long and happy life x
Well done to you all, a fantastic happy ending too. Believe FGH maternity are short staffed..Temporary midwives??
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Sickle-cell disease or sickle-cell anaemia (or anemia) is a blood disorder characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape. Sickling decreases the cells' flexibility and results in their restricted movement through blood vessels, depriving downstream tissues of oxygen. The disease is chronic and lifelong: individuals are most often well, but their lives are punctuated by periodic painful attacks and a risk of various other complications. Life expectancy is shortened, with older studies reporting an average life expectancy of 42 and 48 years for males and females, respectively.
Sickle-cell disease occurs more commonly in people (or their descendants) from parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is or was common, but it also occurs in people of other ethnicities. This is because those with one or two alleles of the sickle-cell disease are resistant to malaria since the sickle red blood cells are not conducive to the parasites - in areas where malaria is common, there is a survival value in carrying the sickle-cell genes.
The term "disease" is applied since the inherited abnormality causes a pathological condition that can lead to death and severe complications. Not all inherited variants of haemoglobin are detrimental, a concept known as genetic polymorphism.
Because of its narrow vessels and function in clearing defective red blood cells, the spleen is frequently affected. It is usually infarcted before the end of childhood in individuals suffering from sickle-cell anaemia. This autosplenectomy increases the risk of infection from encapsulated organisms; preventive antibiotics and vaccinations are recommended for those with such asplenia.
A recognised type of sickle crisis is the acute chest syndrome, a condition characterised by fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and pulmonary infiltrate on a chest X-ray. Given that pneumonia and sickling in the lung can both produce these symptoms, the patient is treated for both conditions. It can be triggered by painful crisis, respiratory infection, bone-marrow embolisation, or possibly by atelectasis, opiate administration, or surgery.
Sickling of the red blood cells, on a blood film, can be induced by the addition of sodium metabisulfite. The presence of sickle haemoglobin can also be demonstrated with the "sickle solubility test". A mixture of haemoglobin S (Hb S) in a reducing solution (such as sodium dithionite) gives a turbid appearance while normal Hb gives a clear solution.
Abnormal haemoglobin forms can be detected on haemoglobin electrophoresis, a form of gel electrophoresis on which the various types of haemoglobin move at varying speed. Sickle-cell haemoglobin (HgbS) and haemoglobin C with sickling (HgbSC)—the two most common forms—can be identified from there. The diagnosis can be confirmed with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Genetic testing is rarely performed, as other investigations are highly specific for HbS and HbC.
The loss of red blood cell elasticity is central to the pathophysiology of sickle-cell disease. Normal red blood cells are quite elastic, which allows the cells to deform to pass through capillaries. In sickle-cell disease, low oxygen tension promotes red blood cell sickling and repeated episodes of sickling damage the cell membrane and decrease the cell's elasticity. These cells fail to return to normal shape when normal oxygen tension is restored. Consequently, these rigid blood cells are unable to deform as they pass through narrow capillaries, leading to vessel occlusion and ischaemia.
Sickle cell gene mutation probably arose spontaneously in different geographic areas as suggested by restriction endonuclease analysis. These clinically important variants are known as Cameroon, Senegal, Benin, Bantu and Saudi-Asian. Their clinical importance springs from the fact that some of them are associated with higher HbF levels e.g Senegal and Saudi-Asian variants, and tend to have milder disease.
In people heterozygous for HgbS (carriers of sickling haemoglobin), the polymerisation problems are minor. In people homozygous for HgbS, the presence of long chain polymers of HbS distort the shape of the red blood cell, from a smooth donut-like shape to ragged and full of spikes, making it fragile and susceptible to breaking within capillaries. Carriers only have symptoms if they are deprived of oxygen (for example, while climbing a mountain) or while severely dehydrated. Normally these painful crises occur 0.8 times per year per patient. The sickle-cell disease occurs when the seventh amino acid (if we count the initial methionine), glutamic acid is replaced by valine to change its structure and function.
The gene defect is a known mutation of a single nucleotide (see single nucleotide polymorphism - SNP) (A to T) of the β-globin gene, which results in glutamate to be substituted by valine at position 6. Haemoglobin S with this mutation are referred to as HbS, as opposed to the normal adult HbA. The genetic disorder is due to the mutation of a single nucleotide, from a GAG to GUG codon mutation. This is normally a benign mutation, causing no apparent effects on the secondary, tertiary, or quaternary structure of haemoglobin. What it does allow for, under conditions of low oxygen concentration, is the polymerization of the HbS itself. The deoxy form of haemoglobin exposes a hydrophobic patch on the protein between the E and F helices. The hydrophobic residues of the valine at position 6 of the beta chain in haemoglobin are able to associate with the hydrophobic patch, causing haemoglobin S molecules to aggregate and form fibrous precipitates.
The allele responsible for sickle-cell anaemia is autosomal recessive and can be found on the short arm of chromosome 11. A person who receives the defective gene from both father and mother develops the disease; a person who receives one defective and one healthy allele remains healthy, but can pass on the disease and is known as a carrier. If two parents who are carriers have a child, there is a 1-in-4 chance of their child developing the disease and a 1-in-2 chance of their child just being a carrier. Since the gene is incompletely recessive, carriers have a few sickle red blood cells at all times, not enough to cause symptoms, but enough to give resistance to malaria. Because of this, heterozygotes have a higher fitness than either of the homozygotes. This is known as heterozygote advantage. Due to the evolutionary advantage of the heterozygote, the disease is still prevalent, especially among people with recent ancestry in malaria-stricken areas, such as Africa, the Mediterranean, India and the Middle East.
The Price equation is a simplified mathematical model of the genetic evolution of sickle-cell anaemia.
The malaria parasite has a complex life cycle and spends part of it in red blood cells. In a carrier, the presence of the malaria parasite causes the red blood cell to rupture, making the plasmodium unable to reproduce. Further, the polymerization of Hb affects the ability of the parasite to digest Hb in the first place. Therefore, in areas where malaria is a problem, people's chances of survival actually increase if they carry sickle-cell trait (selection for the heterozygote).
In the USA, where there is no endemic malaria, the prevalence of sickle-cell anaemia amongst African Americans is lower (about 0.25%) than in West Africa (about 4.0%) and is falling. Without endemic malaria from Africa, the condition is purely disadvantageous, and will tend to be bred out of the affected population.
Sickle-cell anaemia appears to be caused by a recessive allele. Two carrier parents have a one in four chance of having a child with the disease. The child will be homozygous recessive.
It has been argued that the allele, although appearing outwardly recessive, is in fact co-dominant, due to the resistance to a malaria which is obtained by those of the AS genotype. Since a separate phenotype from that of Normal (AA) has therefore been expressed, it is impossible to argue that the S allele is homozygous recessive.
After the mutation responsible for this disease was discovered in 1979, the U.S. Air Force required African American applicants to test for the mutation. It dismissed 143 applicants because they were carriers, even though none of them had the condition. It eventually withdrew the requirement, but only after a trainee filed a lawsuit.
The disease was named "sickle-cell anaemia" by Vernon Mason in 1922. In retrospect some elements of the disease had been recognized earlier: a paper in the Southern Journal of Medical Pharmacology in 1846 described the absence of a spleen in the autopsy of a runaway slave. The African medical literature reported this condition in the 1870s where it was known locally as ogbanjes ("children who come and go") because of the very high infant mortality rate caused by this condition. A history of the condition tracked reports back to 1670 in one Ghanaian family. Also, the practice of using tar soap to cover blemishes caused by sickle-cell sores was prevalent in the African American community.
Linus Pauling and colleagues were the first, in 1949, to demonstrate that sickle cell disease occurs as a result of an abnormality in the haemoglobin molecule. This was the first time a genetic disease was linked to a mutation of a specific protein, a milestone in the history of molecular biology.
The origin of the mutation that led to the sickle-cell gene was initially thought to be in the Arabian peninsula, spreading to Asia and Africa. It is now known, from evaluation of chromosome structures, that there have been at least four independent mutational events, three in Africa and a fourth in either Saudi Arabia or central India. These independent events occurred between 3,000 and 6,000 generations ago, approximately 70-150,000 years.


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Squash FriesOkay, yeah, I know... squash fries ain't exactly the healthiest way to eat a crookneck squash, but I've been pretty lucky so far with my squash plants {crosses fingers} and so, I'm trying to get a few different recipes up for summer squash. Maybe you shouldn't eat these every day, but I have to say, they sure are good enough to want to!
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- Dash of garlic powder
- Additional salt for sprinkling, if desired
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I haven´t written anything here for a while. It´s been summer and I have been busy with other things than the internet. Still, I check in on a daily basis just to see what you all are up to. I got myself a new tattoo last week so JD is now joined by Paul Stanley from Kiss on my right arm. It turned out great and I really love it. My tattoo of JD is still my favorite of course!
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I am a first grade teacher and my students love these! They are very easy to use and help the students to become independent learners. I like them so much that I plan to get more sets of cards.
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My 5 year old really enjoys learning and so he was really into this set! The cards included lessons to reinforce learning the alphabet, letter sounds, long and short vowel sounds, blending of sounds, digraphs, and more in an interactive and fun game format! Each card features a lesson such as find which pictures begin with the sound made of s and n blended together. Then the pictures each have a black "hot dot" below it that the child can use the Ace talking pen on to see if they selected correctly or incorrectly. Incorrect answers gently encourage your child to try again without making them discourage! It was great to have my son review and practice lessons he'd already mastered as he learned how the Hot Dots system works. Then, he was ready to move on to recognizing the difference between long and short vowels and blended sounds and it was great to be able to work with him on those concepts in a fun and easy way!Disclosure: I received this set for free to review on my website, A Mom's Take. Opinions are my own.
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I really like the wallet. However, I purchased THREE of them and only received ONE Gift Card. What gives. I need two more. One with "Merry Christmas. Love, Hugh" and another with "Merry Christmas. Love, Dad".
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Billfold was returned. It was not long enough to put a bill in without folding it. I am waiting on a credit to my account.
I was so excited to find this wallet and disappointed when I found out it will not hold bill without folding it first.
The wallet was exactly what I was looking for and the quality great. Thanks.
Beautiful leather. Didn't realize there was an additional space for bills which made it a little bulkier than what my husband was used to. He's adjusted to that and is very pleased with the purchase.
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The Vertical Bifold Wallet in Rustic Saddle is exquisite. Craftsmanship is better than any leather product I have ever seen.
Paper money does require about a 1 inch fold to place in the rear pocket. I was upset at first, until I realized the design allows for a much smaller package... which is why I purchased the wallet in the first place.
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The leather was nice and soft and there was an extra pocket for cash that I was not expecting. Their customer service was well above average and I was taken care of with the utmost professionalism. I highly recommend them to all
Like the wallet and the service.
Beautifully packaged, gift was appreciated by receiver.
I ordered it from online, and the final product exceeded the photos. The quality is great, and the company sent it to me ASAP.
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The website and customer service needs improvement. You only have two pictures up here, leaving me to spend 60 dollars on a product I may or may not like, because I can't get a good look at it. Customer service said my license and bills would fit fine. Except my bills have to be folded in half, and even then one end of them gets folded once more because it expands to the other end of the wallet.
The product is great, and I'll keep it. But I will always be hesitant to buy a wallet from you guys, if I can't get a good look at it. Put some more pictures up.
Great product well constructed and perfectly sized. Also has a lot of storage for cards. Highly recommend product.
My husband's wallet was so worn and I've wanted to get him another...but he is so particular. He loved this wallet! I didn't decide to order until the last minute and was afraid it would not get here in time for Father's Day. But, you shipped the next day as promised and it arrived in time. Thanks so much...I will recommend you to everyone!
This product is made from quality "real" leather material--not like the junk you find at most stores. Also, my order arrived in a timely manner. If you want quality and service, I recommend Leatherology for your next purchase.
Sorry. Not really satisfied. The leather seems too thin, no room to fit a bill without folding. Okay for cards and license.
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Great quality leather and beautiful design. Monogram added a nice touch to the gift. The wallet was a bit smaller than I anticipated. VERY slim line wallet, not regular size.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Wilson College will host the monthly meeting of Franklin Renewable Energy (FRE), an association dedicated to educating and informing the public about renewable energy, on Monday, March 19, in Warfield Hall's Allen Auditorium.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Wilson College will host the monthly meeting of Franklin Renewable Energy (FRE), an association dedicated to educating and informing the public about renewable energy, on Monday, March 19, in Warfield Hall's Allen Auditorium. There will be a potluck meal at 6:30 p.m. followed by the program at 7. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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Pittsford won't ban marijuana dispensariesBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | December 08,2012PITTSFORD The Select Board decided not to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in town this week, but officials said thats not quite the same as approving them.
Its a fine line between the two, Selectman Hank Pelkey, the board chairman, said Friday. It can be construed that way but at this point we voted to not (create) an ordinance to prohibit them.
The initial motion at the meeting Wednesday, made by Selectman Alan Hitchcock, sought to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries in the town.
Hitchcock and Selectman Joe Gagnon voted in favor of the motion, while Pelkey, Selectman Tom Hooker and Selectwoman Jane Cornell voted against it.
The town first heard about the proposal for a dispensary from Alexandra Ford, who heads Rutland County Organics, a nonprofit corporation certified to set one of the four dispensaries in Vermont.
According to Town Manager John Haverstock, Ford said she would follow the will of the Pittsford board. Haverstock said that during the several weeks the Select Board deliberated on the issue, Ford informed him that the location she was looking at in Pittsford fell through and she would look at other surrounding host towns.
He said the board still needed to make a decision in case any future applicants try to locate a dispensary in town.
I am certainly not against (dispensaries), maybe even in favor, Pelkey said during the discussion Wednesday. It offers another option for people who needed it. I dont think we should cut them off.
Gagnon said he has received a lot of input from residents and not one was positive about hosting a marijuana dispensary.
Personally, I see it as a possibility to have more police trouble, he said before the boards vote. Its not that I am against marijuana.
Sen. Margaret Peg Flory, R-Rutland, told town officials that it was still illegal to possess marijuana under federal law, but medical marijuana users cannot be prosecuted under Vermont state law. She said, though, the process is tightly regulated by the state Department of Public Safety.
Its very strict for anyone that wants to use marijuana for symptom relief, she told the board.
Under Vermonts law, Flory said, those who seek to use marijuana for medical reasons must get a recommendation from a physician they have worked with for at least six months. After that, they must apply to join the states medical marijuana registry.
They have to get it somewhere. They can grow it or get it on the street, Flory said. That is why we created dispensaries, so they are not putting money in a drug dealers hand.
She added that the law allows communities to ban the dispensaries, as Rutland City recently did.
The state has approved four dispensaries. So far, one in Burlington and one in Waterbury have been approved.
Pelkey said the Pittsford board will address any future applications as they come forward.
At this point, we have voted to not prohibit dispensaries, he said. The board will take action if they come before us (again).
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Just as decor in the backyard says something about your garden, interior decor can speak volumes about your personality and tastes. It of course doesn't give the entire picture but it's probably safe to say that people who use more animal garden statues have a strong appreciation for wildlife. Folks who display statues of Greek deities probably enjoy classic works of art more than contemporary pieces. If religious outdoor statues are shown in the garden, they very likely reflect the belief system of the people who live there. However, statues aren't the only types of decor that offer a glimpse into the personality of the home owner. Furniture can also be used to show who you are are and what you stand for.
Use Gothic pieces like the Effingham Gryphon Library Table and guests won't fail to be impressed by the beauty of solid, carved mahogany. Its intricately carved legs and strong, enduring look will tell them that the owner of the home may have attributes that are just as distinguished and noble.
Serve tea or coffee to your guests on the Lord Raffle Lion Tea Table and they will realize that they are dealing with someone who believes in elegance and class.
Save on these and certain other pieces of furniture today and tomorrow at Design Toscano!


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A Louis J. Horvitz Production filed as a Articles of Incorporation in the State of California on Friday, March 24, 1995 and is approximately twenty years old, according to public records filed with California Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Sunday, June 22, 2014.
Louis Horvitz serves as the President and has interests in other corporate entities including The Black Cat Corporation located in Los Angeles, CA .
The registered agent for the company is James R. Parks. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
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Louis J. Horvitz
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Simplicity to Modern Dining Room Sets
Choosing the dining room set you want is a daunting task. Well, the style and design for putting up your dining room set will highly rely on your taste, preference and budget. Decide whether you want a casual or a formal dining room.
What makes a Dining Room Set:
First, dining room furniture-seekers must have an idea what comprise a dining room set. A dining room set is usually located in a big hall way or room. In the military, they call this big hall the mess hall where cadets eat their meals. The dining table goes in tandem with dining chairs for formal and fine dining rooms. Aside from the dining table and chairs, adding accessories like buffet with hutch, table leaf, sideboard, counters and servers, among others, could add to the glamour and elegance of your dining room.
Creating Multi-Purpose Rooms for Small Spaced Dwellings:
Nowadays, abodes with smaller spaces like condominiums, apartments, lofts are now adapting the open concept designed-rooms. What does this mean? Structurally, your kitchen flows into a dining area while your dining area merges to a living room. Fantastic isnt it? Most people skip the formalities and go directly to casual dining in the kitchen. Casual dining is eating with friends and family members at a relaxing pace. This also means that you will have casual furnishings like using benches instead of chairs for your dining table.
Putting the dining room in the kitchen really makes the kitchen the centerpiece of the home, transforming cooking, serving and eating a meal as interactive and interconnected processes. This is now the ever-growing trend of building homes, that is, to have as many multi-purpose rooms as possible to be more practical, functional and aesthetic when having a multi-purpose kitchen- dining room design.
Learning About the Types of Dining Room Sets:
Is there a difference if one referred to as Traditional vs. Modern vs. Contemporary dining room sets? Yes, there are distinctions according to furniture engineers. It would be easy to distinguish the traditional dining room sets from the contemporary and modern dining room sets.
Lovers of traditional dining room sets settle for elaborate designs, bulky, very heavy pieces of hard wood furniture like a long dining table with carved legs or bases and etched designs on the side or on table tops. Traditional tastes for dining room usually adopts wooden chairs upholstered with fine fabric or leather. Old furniture put accent on the wood grain ending in medium to dark color range like cherry and mahogany.
Contemporary dining room sets would simply mean that the set of furniture all falls in the same time frame they were made or created. To better understand this on a proper perspective, use contemporary the same way on how you deal with concept of high school batches. You would be associated to this group because you all graduated in that same year, say 1990. So you become a contemporary of high school batch 1990. Apply this with the concept of contemporary furniture sets. Get the idea?
Now what characterizes contemporary dining room sets from the traditional and modern dining room furniture sets? Contemporary dining room sets appear to be sometimes boring because of its flat, clean lines and understated simple designs.
On the other hand, modern dining room set goes completely in a reverse direction, steering clear of any defined ornamentation _ adopting simplicity in its style. The modern dining room is set to be sleek but sophisticated with its geometric patterns and sharp angles.
The above are just the distinctive differences based on design. Today, technology has improved the finishes and textures by treating the wood mostly in modern dining furniture compared to traditional pieces of furniture. Modern dining sets display extremes in hues or shades either really dark, from espresso black, or really pale, with shades of white to lighter natural finishes. The use of engineered wood has intensified over the last ten to twenty years which had an effect on the physical appearance of dining room furniture. Veneers used in todays pieces of dining room sets give a sleek, shiny finish with no trace of wood grain at all.
If you would prefer modern over contemporary and traditional types of dining room sets, remember that the authentic design for modern dining set furnishings is characterized by simplicity in all aspects. Any too much ornamentation added to it will take off the balance of the dining room set. You can compare our furnishings, sales offer, discounts and free shipping privileges with that of Broyhills furniture. Thus, to learn more and have great ideas about getting your own modern dining set, learn from the experts. Go to this site: www. decorify.com.


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The Pirate Bay is back online. Its new provider turned out to be none less than one in North Korea.
This has all sorts of interesting geopolitical consequences.
People using The Pirate Bay right now will observe that it's slightly slower than usual.
Earlier today, the Norwegian Pirate Party sent a press release that they no longer supplied bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, as the party's uplink had caved to threats from the copyright industry about kicking out The Pirate Bay. (This remains a concern in itself.)
Ten minutes after that article was posted, The Pirate Bay came back online with a new provider that was as-yet unidentified. The swarm has worked and discovered the origins of the new provider: North Korea.
This has all sorts of interesting geopolitical consequences.
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Happy birthday Harrison Ford: his career through pictures
The man who has given us two of the most awesome movie characters of all-time — Han Solo and Indiana Jones — has turned 70. Can you believe it? Harrison Ford is 70 years old on today July 13, 2012. He's had one of the best acting careers and I've grown up with his movies. Even at the age of 70, the guy has a ton more left in the tank.
Since it's his birthday, let's take a little trip down memory lane. From American Graffiti to Clear and Present Danger; from Blade Runner to The Temple of Doom — Harrison Ford has been entertaining us for over 30 years. Thank you Mr. Ford! We look forward to many more years of your awesomness!
The 70s and 80s:
1973 American Graffiti - Bob Falfa
1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Han Solo
1980 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Han Solo
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indiana Jones
1982 Blade Runner - Rick Deckard
1984 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi - Han Solo
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Indiana Jones
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Indiana Jones


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Welcome to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
East Bay, California, Affiliate
NAMI East Bay is a nonprofit, self-help advocacy and support group of family members, clients and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, dedicated to the eradication of those mental illnesses and to the improvement of quality of life for those affected by these diseases.
Severe mental illnesses include the brain disorders such as
schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder,
bipolar disorder (formerly manic depressive disorder),
major depression,
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),
Tourette Syndrome and anxiety disorders.
Our office is located at the Albany Methodist Church
980 Stannage Avenue, Albany
As of Aug 2010, we are now on Facebook so check us out.
Note: The office is staffed by volunteers and thus is not open on a regular basis.
If you want to come in to talk or check out our library of books and videos, please call first so a time can be arranged.
NAMI East Bay offers the following support meetings:
Support and Share Group for Families of Adults is held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. The next meetings are
March 11, April 8, May 13, 2015
Support and Share Group for Families of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults* is held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Next meetings are
March 17, April 21, May 19, 2015
*Note: Our Tuesday meetings will now include the families of young adults in their twenties. Oftentimes this is the time of an individual's first break and the issues for their families are different in many respects from those of families whose relatives have been ill for a very long time.
Support meetings are free to members and non-members. These meetings offer a chance to talk with others who understand and can give emotional support plus share ways they have found to cope. Come in through side gate, go through multi-purpose room, come through door and go upstairs.
There is comfort in knowing you are not alone.
All meetings are held at Albany United Methodist Church, located at 980 Stannage Avenue (corner of Marin and Stannage in Albany). Meetings run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Enter the Stannage door and come upstairs.
Call (510) 524-1250 for more information.