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12/11/2012: Legislative Alert: Call the President to Protect Medicaid
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6/29/2011: Legislative Alert: Call the White House. Urge the President to protect children and families in the budget negotiations because THESE CUTS WON'T HEAL!
6/6/2011: Legislative Update: Waiver Vote Today, Budget Webcast Tomorrow
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6/30/2009: Legislative Alert: Remind Your Member of Congress to Address the Needs of Vulnerable Children and Youth as Part of Health Reform
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A state appeals court today rejected an appeal of the 11-year prison term meted out in Otsego County Court to Anthony Pacherille Jr., the teenager convicted in connection with the racially charged 2010 shooting of a classmate at the Cooperstown Village police station.
The Appellate Division, Third Department, found there was no bias against Pacherille by Otsego County Judge Brian Burns when he sentenced Pacherille. The Appellate Division affirmed the sentencing.
The lawyer who filed the appeal on behalf of Pacherille, Frank Policelli of Utica, did not return a call seeking comment.
Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl called the Appellate Divisioin ruling appropriate.
"It was a frivolous appeal that I never doubted for an instant would be denied," Muehl told The Daily Star.
Pacherille was sentenced in 2011 after pleading guilty to second-degree attempted murder for shooting Cooperstown High School classmate Wesley Lippitt two years ago. Pacherille also shot himself at the time. Both teens recovered from their wounds.
Muehl said he had responded to the appeal by reminding the court that Pacherille waived his right to appeal when he accepted a plea agreement.
"There was no way the judge could have given him youthful offender status because the agreed upon sentence was 11 years, and the maximum sentence you can give someone to be a youthful sentence is four years," Muehl said. " So it wasn't even possible."
The prosecutor added: "Secondly, under the law, if someone is convicted of an armed felony, which he was, unless there are certain exceptions, which are not applicable here, they are not entitled to be a youthful offender."
Muehl said Pacherille could still potentially ask the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, to review the sentence.
Pacherille is serving the sentence at the maximum security Wende Corrrectional Facility in Alden.


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Las Cruces, NM – A couple of fresh faces are vying for the district 37 seat in the New Mexico House of Representatives this year. As KRWG's Lacey Daniell reports, at a League of Women Voters Forum, republican Scott Witt and democratic candidate Jeff Steinborn each name health care as a top issue.


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- Event being held at Seton Hill University on Thursday, June 16th from 8:00am to 4:00pm.
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- Technology jam-packed day with 2 speakers and 3 workshops, plus a panel discussion talking about education and IT.
- Keynote speakers include Audrey Russo, CEO of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and Barbara Van Kirk, President of IQ, Inc.
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Open Doors (28/05/11–29/05/11).
For one weekend a year, here in town, over 150 buildings are opened up to the public for them to have a little look-see for the annual Doors Open Toronto. A lot of these places are not normally accessible to us mere mortals pedestrians. In order to be a part of this event the buildings must have been built before 1940 and you can look at any or all of them (if you have the time!) for free. [Early Bird note: Sounds a bit like Melbourne's Open House.)
While this may not be something that everyone gets excited about, I am in awe of old buildings and enjoy perusing the architecture and sticky-beaking inside. I set out on my own on Saturday and my first stop was the Old City Hall building: by far my favourite building in Toronto from the outside, so I was very excited to take a look inside.
The building was designed by Edward James Lennox who also designed Casa Loma, another notable Toronto landmark, and about 70 other buildings around town.
These days Old City Hall is used as the provincial court house. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take photos inside but I did get to look at the amazing foyer, complete with murals, and an example of one of the court rooms. It even had the upstairs viewing area, reminding me of the court room used in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird.
After that I was bound for a firehouse at the top of town, station 311, about an hours walk from where I was. Well, what was probably meant to be an hour turned into two, and a very sore body. I kept passing intersection after intersection, hoping the next street I would get to would be the one I was looking for. Eventually I found it and went in for a look around. It was rather dull in comparison to what my expectations were.
With no one there with me to take a photo of me behind the truck's wheel or at least hanging out the window I was a little let down.
Since most of my Saturday was filled with walking I didn't have much time and/or energy to go to any of the other buildings on offer, but luckily there were some to look at on the walk back down the hill, homeward bound.
I had made plans on Sunday to go explore The Beaches with James but I decided to squeeze in a little excursion beforehand to the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre and the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, time permitting.
When I got to the theatre there was a line down the block and I thought about just bailing. But seeing it as my only chance to look around inside, for free, I decided to just join the back of the queue and hope that I wasn't too far down the line and would actually make it inside. Turns out they had a really good system in place. We all filed into the lower level, the Elgin Theatre, and all took seats. An older gentleman welcomed us and proceeded to give us a lovely rundown of the history of the theatre, being the only double-decker theatre (that's one theatre positioned directly above another theatre), and some information about the kinds of things it had been used for.
After that we headed upstairs to the Winter Garden Theatre for yet some more history and an in depth description of the theatre's construction.
Some interesting things that I learnt were that the ceiling over the seating in the Winter Garden theatre is decorated with approximately 80% real leaves that have been through a process to preserve them in a life-like state and that the ceiling of the Elgin theatre is actually floating, suspended from the floor of the above floor.
After the informative talk and a good look around the theatres we were invited to hang around to look at some memorabilia and perhaps purchase some wares, with all of the proceeds going to keep the theatre running. I got myself a badge for my collection and picked up the book, as well, as a memento because it was full of wonderful photos and ran through the history of the building. When making my purchase, the lady who served informed me that me that the man who had compiled the book was standing right behind me! I got him to sign my copy and thanked him for his informative speech and shuffled out.
I looked at my phone and realised I actually had enough time to squeeze in a trip up to the Arts & Letters Club.
I headed further up Yonge St (which for those of you playing at home is the longest street in the world and the same street I had spent what felt like all day schlepping up the day before!) and easily found the quaint building at 14 Elm St. I snapped a photo of the historic society sign out the front and was informed on the way in that there was no photography allowed inside. It was, of course, to protect the artworks but I really just wanted to take photos of the building. Having spent a little too much time exploring, I raced to meet James for our trip to The Beaches. He decided that, since we were in the neighbourhood, he'd like to take a quick look inside Old City Hall, too. So, in one weekend I got to explore it twice!
After another sticky beak we jumped on a streetcar out east. Thanks to James' choice to sit near the front, we got semi-harassed by some crazy homeless guy who made inappropriate comments and felt up my leg. Eek!
When we jumped off the streetcar I saw another fire station, this one also open as part of Doors Open Toronto. James agreed to come take a peek with me and was very please to find an old style Pepsi vending machine where the cans were only 50 cents. Bargain!
This station, 227, was much like the one I'd already seen but I did get to enjoy a nice mini-tour with one of the fireman who filled me in on some history and the amount of call-outs they get a year. Pretty crazy!
With that, we made our way to explore The Beaches. Our journey started at the Kew Gardens where we looked at the Alex Christie gazebo and a few war monuments. We met a sweet little squirrel that a lady was trying to feed a mint. He took it, tried storing it in his mouth, then spat it out and decided to bury it. All of which I got photos of. Absolutely adorable!
Making Progress (30/05/11–04/06/11).
My fifth week in Toronto got a little bit quieter. With Sol gone (that's right, he went off to camp. Did I not mention that?!), and the others having moved into their sublet, I was on my own again in the hostel. Luckily, I had my second job interview to distract me.
Again I was left with nothing to wear so I had purchased another H&M dress. This one was a pale pink, rather modest, and somewhat fitting for a job interview.
This time my interview was with the assistant manager of the store and covered some of the same questions, just a little more specific. Being a business running inside a hospital I fielded some questions on my experience with similar environments/experiences and felt like I answered them quite well. I got to know a little bit more about the job itself and the people I'd be working with.
Again, it was over pretty quickly but I felt fairly confident in my efforts. And who can complain about getting through to a second interview for the only job you actually applied for?! I just had to wait a few days to know whether or not I had the job. Fingers crossed!
Having not much else to do and only really seeing the others at night, I was quite delighted to be asked by the bar manager to pick up where Sol had left off in painting the tables for the hostel's patio bar. So my week consisted of my touching up painting over the old flags that were on each table so they were all shiny and new again. This time they also had lacquer so I sealed them as well. It took me a few full days and a few hours here and there to get it all done to my liking. My work actually got me four free nights in the hostel, much to my surprise. Works out to be the same as being paid minimum wage here. Handy!
On the Thursday, when waiting for Sarah, as we were going to have lunch together, I got a call from the bookstore to tell me that I had been successful and that they wanted me to start work the following Monday! I was so excited to now have something to fill my days with. I shared the news with Sarah straight away. We also met up with the boys, Thomas and Declan, who congratulated me on my news.
Thanks to my new job I had to go pick myself up some new clothes to fit in with the dress code. After scouring H&M and other cheapish stores, I ended up at Sears where I found discounted black pants that fit me perfectly and a respectable collared black top to team with my black shoes. I also treated myself to a new warm jacket, since the weather was still miserable.
I had a job. Now the only thing left was to find a place to live!
Today marks my first day as an employee in a Canadian workplace! I can now officially say I work 'in a bookshop'!
I am envisioning it being something like the show Black Books. I'd like to be Bernard but I know I'll be Manny! No seriously, it's going to be fun and a little bit hard since I really have no idea about books, but I am incredibly confident in my ability to serve customers so that bit is going to be easy. The book smarts can come later.
The first thing my new boss said to me was actually that he knew when he met me that he wanted me to work in his team, that I would fit in really well. He listed a lot of things that he identified in my from my interview. Some true, some not so true. Man I'm good at that bullshitting interviewing thing!
Summer Wonderland (08/06/11).
With the weather predicted to be 31 degrees (that's Celsius, of course!), we decided it would be a good time to head to Canada's Wonderland, an elaborate water/theme park about an hour from downtown Toronto, public-transporting it.
After all meeting up on the subway, we headed off. Arriving there we discovered the water park was only open on weekends, despite it being summer holidays, a fact the Internet neglected to mention! Our crew for the day—myself, Thomas, Declan, Sarah, Yann, Peter, Tanya and new recruit Gary—decided we'd just wander around the park, clockwise it would seem, and select rides that took our fancy.
There were a few in the bunch that didn't partake in some of the rides due to their specific dislikes/fears: heights, the feeling of falling, the resulting dizziness or going upside down. I must admit to some degree I'm not okay with any of those but with the chances of anything going horribly wrong (à la Final Destination 3) very slim it was pretty irrational to be afraid of a ride. Gary pointed out all fears were irrational and, with that being a very valid point, I decided to overcome ignore my fears and go on all the rides the others suggested. Oh, and of course to preserve my dignity!
We spent the day going on pretty terrifying ride and, when we enquired about going on one again, we were told the park was closing. It was 6pm. The Internet had said the park was open until 9pm.
We had only made it about halfway through the rides and had missed the one we'd been building up to all day, the Behemoth.
Slightly morose, we headed back to collect our belongings and grab the bus home. As we were packing up it started to rain. Following that came a massive thunderstorm just as we were making our way to the bus. As we drove back to the subway station we watched the lighting crack all around us. So vivid. So close. So intense. Yann helped lighten the mood with his own rendition of Kiss From A Rose by Seal!
All it all it was a good day. I didn't let the freak weather at the end sully my memory of all the crazy fun we had riding our way around Wonderland. I only hope we can go back again soon and check out the amazing water park.
I left the park bruised and battered, with a throbbing neck and very tired eyes but a very warm feeling in my heart.
—April Bonnick.
Related: [The Early Bird Catches the Worm] Postcards from Canada: 19th May to 26th May 2011.
[The Early Bird Catches the Worm] Postcards from Canada 2nd May to 14th May 2011.
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On August 4 and 5, together with 5,500 cyclists, Murphy will ride up to 190 miles across Massachusetts in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike-a-thon. Now in its 33rd year, the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge is a pioneer of the athletic fundraising industry and today raises more money for charity than any other single athletic event in the country. This year's goal is to raise $36 million for adult and pediatric cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Jimmy Fund. The PMC is a model of fundraising efficiency as it contributes 100% of every rider-raised dollar directly to the cause. This is the ninth year that the Boston Red Sox Foundation is the presenting sponsor of the Pan-Mass Challenge. (Courtesy Photo by Holly Ladd)


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My daughter came out of the womb with the innate ability to roll her eyes heavenward to indicate the contempt with which she viewed us and the rest of humanity. Since the day she was born I have been dreading her impending teenage years.
It did not occur to me to dread the pre-adolescent years of my son. He has always been a sweet boy, a people pleaser, and convinced the world is a benevolent place. He is still a sweet boy, known to make me coffee and bring it to me in the morning while I am still fighting the age-old struggle with the snooze button, and will occasionally clean his room just because he feels like it. He is a straight-A plus student with perfect behavior at school. He is unfailingly polite (to other people, which is really what matters, isn't it?) and there are about five women out there who are vying to be his mother-in-law.
He is eleven now, and, as a result, he can't seem to complete a sentence without using the words "butt", "fart", or "burp." Occasionally, to illustrate his point, he will actually fart or burp. I suppose I should be proud that he is turning into a real guy's guy, but in the meantime it annoys the bejeebers out of me. I have begun fining him ten cents per "butt." This has become so profitable that I am considering quitting my job.
You wouldn't think there would be so many sentences that would call for those words. You'd be correct. He goes far out of his way to create occasions. For example, "Please pass the ketchup. BUUUUUTTTTTTT!" Hilarity ensues. The worst part, I suppose, is that his sister finds this all very funny and laughs at him, which encourages him more than my aggravation discourages him. I think he is more interested in making the elementary school set laugh than in entertaining an old fuddyduddy grownup lady who can't see the inherent funniness in one's posterior.
Don't get me wrong. I am not immune to bathroom humor. There is nothing funnier than a well-timed fart. Surprise, however, is an essential element in humor. If you know what is coming next, it is not funny. (The exceptions being early Mel Brooks movies like Young Frankenstein, the Producers, and Blazing Saddles -- the latter of which, not coincidentally, contains the funniest scenes involving flatulence in cinematic history; certain Monty Python sketches; anything written by Dave Barry; and the Princess Bride. None of those ever get old no matter how many times you experience them.) It is the unexpectedness of the well-timed fart that makes it funny. If you point out the obvious, it just ruins the joke. I mean seriously – imagine the men around the campfire in Blazing Saddles with some eleven year old boy yelling, "That's HILARIOUS! Fart! They're eating beans! Beans make you fart! They keep farting! HA! That's so funny! Beans, beans, the musical fruit….." If you have to tell me why something is funny, it either wasn't funny in the first place, or you have completely squashed the funny with your observation.
So what do I do? The money thing isn't working (though probably if I charged a dollar per 'butt' it might), and he's otherwise a good kid. His grades quite literally could not improve and he never ever gets in trouble at school. He says please and thank you and ma'am and sir to adults. As tempting as it may be at times, it seems woefully out of proportion to beat him with a stick for using impolite but not obscene words. I know this is perfectly normal. Dav Pilkey has probably made a zillion dollars capitalizing on this with the ubiquitous "Captain Underpants" series of books. I once read an interview with Mr. Pilkey, who said that the secret to getting young boys to read is to put the word 'underpants' on every page. If sales volume is any indicator, he is correct. And, as for me, anything that encourages a child to read is a good thing.
The point is, I know it could be a lot worse. He could be getting into fights on the playground, refusing to do his homework, or having an obsession with certain female body parts instead of his own hind end. This is merely annoying, not the least bit harmful.
As my father always says, "This, too, shall pass."
In the meantime, do you know how to spell the word headache? B-U-T-T. HA HA HA HA HA!!!


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"Faith Healer" has a fair history on the Niagara Frontier, a favorite of Buffalo's Irish Classical. Ireland's Brian Friel, Arthur Miller with a brogue, wrote the three-character, three-voice reminiscence of a hard time when a man could lay claim to curative powers and make a modest living so long as the knew the way out of town.
"It is," says the wondrously powerful Jim Mezon in the title role of Francis Hardy, "a craft without an apprenticeship."
But it has little to do with genetics, cautions the manager/agent with the delicious humor of Irish exaggeration, claiming to have once represented "a dog who could play the bagpipes. He died at the age of four… of pulmonary exhaustion." Francis Hardy became a Faith Healer, he supposes, because it suited his initials. "If he'd been Patrick Muldoon, he have been Prime Minister."
Mezon is fantastic as this convoluted character who may, or may not, have actually had the touch. His delivery blends resignation and regret into cocktail of intoxicating realism, no matter how far-fetched the star-crossed tale. His theory: That most who seek his services want actually to confirm their own incurability.
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The same can not be said for Corrine Koslo as the Faith Healer's lady. Much of her monologue dissipates into a fog of heavy drinking and heavier accent. She has the misfortune of playing the second half of Act One and by intermission, a few in the house had had enough and departed, one shedding a hearing-aid battery. She's a fine actress but in this, reality bites.
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"Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, and Nazareth are ours.
[I] Muhammad sing about the Galilee and the Golan [Heights].
Jaffa, Acre, Haifa and Nazareth are ours.
[I] Kabha sing about the Galilee and the Golan [Heights].
From Bethlehem to Jenin is Palestinian,
Ramle, Lod and Sakhnin are Palestinian.
Nowhere is more beautiful than Jerusalem;
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From Safed to Al-Badhan is Palestinian;
Tiberias and Ashkelon are Palestinian."
–A song on Palestinian Authority TV, broadcast 17 times in the West Bank in 2012, most recently on November 2nd.
(Note: Twelve of the places or cities cited in this song are Israeli.)
When an anti-tank missile struck an Israeli military jeep on November 10th — on Israel's side of its border with Gaza– it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. It was "the immediate catalyst" for the massive escalation of the Israel-Gaza conflict that occurred in the days that followed, according to an Israeli military spokesman who I spoke with this week.
The four soldiers who were inside that jeep included a 21-year-old distant relative of mine (not that Jews can ever be truly distant, given our history.) To say they're all lucky to be alive is – well, hell, – no words will make the rest of this sentence right. Instead, have a look at the video that Hamas's operational arm – the Popular Resistance Committees — made of the occasion, before they claimed responsibility for it. They set the video to jihadi music, amid their tiresome cries of "Alahu Akbar" [God is Great].
Watch it a few times.
I viewed it for the fifth time yesterday, as the United Nations – a 40-minute walk from my office in New York – was voting in favor of granting the Palestinian delegation non-member observer status. "Palestine comes today to the General Assembly because it believes in peace and because its people, as proven in past days, are in desperate need of it," said Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in his opening bromide. He then launched into the usual timeworn tirade against Israel.
For all of the rhetoric, Abbas still won't meet with Israel to negotiate that peace — preferring instead to continue letting his people suffer without their own state. But he promises to try and patch things up with Gaza's Hamas, despite the fact that the U.S., Israel, European Union and Canada classify the group as a terrorist organization. The PA is considered more "moderate" than Hamas, but as I'll be demonstrating here, that's open to debate if you consider what they are actually showing on official PA media, and teaching in PA-controlled schools, summer camps and other institutions. In short, they are indoctrinating the next generation for war with Israel, not for a peaceful statehood alongside it. And it's hard to imagine how that could change for the better after a merger with the maniacs in Gaza.
The missile that nailed my cousin and his fellow soldiers was identified in media reports as a Russian-designed or reverse-engineered "Kornet," which can penetrate up to 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) of the tank's steel skin. My information is that it was not a Kornet — but the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declines to say what type it was, in part because they are still investigating the incident.
Still, when used for their intended purpose – in other words, when fired at tanks, not jeeps – all of these laser-guided missiles employ two stages. First, they lodge themselves deep into the wall of a tank. In the second stage, they are supposed to explode, producing a jet of heat that burns through the armor. The molten armor becomes roastingly-hot fragments that annihilate the crew and detonate the tank's ammunition.
But in this case, the missile blew right through the jeep without exploding inside of it. That's probably why my cousin (he was the jeep's commander) and his buddies are still breathing. But not without serious injuries, in part because the missile went through the jeep's windshield and – before continuing its journey — struck a metal section of the jeep. That caused them all to be lacerated with glass, and lots of flying chunks of that metal.
Thanks to family members, I'm able to provide some exclusive details. My cousin escaped with the lightest injuries – which in this case meant no fewer than 35 shards of metal inside his right arm and leg, plus a blown-out eardrum. Worst hit was the driver, with serious head injuries, blindness in one eye, and still-ongoing medical operations to try and save the other eye. (As my cousin was lifting the driver from the jeep, he saw that part of his brain was exposed.) The jeep's medic suffered metal pieces in both eyes, but he is expected to be okay. The fourth soldier was an Arabian Bedouin 'tracker' who underwent one operation to remove shrapnel from his body. (The Bedouins are known as "the IDF's sharpest eyes" because of their historic ability to spot and trace even the lightest footsteps in desert terrain.)
It was this incident – the attack on a patrol jeep making a routine drive approximately 150 meters (500 feet) from the border with Gaza — that was a game-changer for Israel. For one thing, Israeli civilians are living barely a half-mile from the border. Moreover, in such attacks, IDF soldiers could more easily be kidnapped, dragged through border tunnels, and made to suffer the same fate as Gilad Shalit (also spelled as Schalit)– the soldier held for five years in wretched conditions by Hamas. "The attack on the jeep was the immediate catalyst for the escalation of this month's conflict," says an IDF spokesman, Captain Eytan Buchman.
"That kind of thing — an attack on Israeli soldiers inside Israeli territory — you can't let go unanswered," he adds. "Although from a macro perspective, the situation has been building for years." Indeed, in the period from Israel's 2005 evacuation of Gaza until the jeep attack, more than 9,000 rockets were fired into southern Israel.
We all know the rest of this month's story. By November 11, the horrific skyfall had begun – hundreds of rockets into Israel, and hundreds of attacks by the Israeli Air Force seeking out terrorist targets in Gaza. The fighting multiplied after the assassination on the 15th of Hamas's top military commander, Ahmed Jabari, who –among other accomplishments — oversaw the kidnapping of Shalit. (He had also promised more hostage-taking.)
On November 21, the ceasefire went into effect.
Although I'm related to the jeep's commander, IDF rules forbid soldiers from speaking with reporters without permission. And at the request of his immediate family, I'm keeping his name anonymous. (Let's call him "Alon" — pronounced ah-Lon — which is Hebrew for "oak tree (tall and strong)." But while I couldn't talk with him, I was able to interview his dad, Gil (his real name), and various other cousins. They helped me stitch together details of the attack, more of which I'll share further down.
And then suddenly, I got intercepted.
I was gathering some of those missile-to-jeep details from my Israeli cousin Liraz, when she alerted me that a rocket had just smashed into an apartment building in Rishon LeZion, Israel's fourth largest city. It was the first time that Hamas managed to hit a populated area in central Israel – in this case, just 20 miles from Tel-Aviv. While I have close cousins in Rishon (pop: 250,000) on another side of my family, I figured the odds were close to zero that the rocket could have landed on, or even near, them.
In fact, it hit 100 feet from the apartment of my late grandmother's nephew, Josef, and his wife Chaya –both of whom are in their late 80s. The rocket took out three floors in the building directly across their street, injuring six people — while the force of the impact blew out all of my cousins' windows. The photo below was taken from their balcony by their son, Shaul, who I've long considered a brother. Just hours after the blast, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the site to see the damage for herself.
Fortunately, my elderly cousins were uninjured, as they had sat huddled in a concrete-reinforced room in their apartment – following an air-raid siren that gives residents of Rishon a generous 90 seconds to take cover. Cousin Josef, a prominent Israeli artist, fought in Israel's 1948 war of independence. Chaya lost her entire family in Nazi death camps before coming to Israel. They are deeply emotional people, but have had to be strong their whole lives. "We worry, we don't worry," says Josef. "You know, this is not the first time they bomb Israel. What can we do? This behavior does not suit human beings."
You are saying things that must be heard. The press is almost uniformly pro-Palestinian, largely because they are easily manipulated to see the Palestinians as victims of the Israelis rather than victims of their own extremism.
Thank you.
I wish I could feel sorry for you but I simply don't. And this hand-wringing of yours is simply the latest in Hasbarian stories.
Israel would not have to explain itself if it was not stealing land and keeping Gazans in the modern equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Since Israel cannot even bring itself to stop stealing land and building illegal colonies long enough to hold talks with the Palestinians, it is clear that it is Israel that does not want peace.
You know, the pizza slice story. I'm sure you have heard it.
Israel has caused itself these problems in the region because Israel refuses to live within its international border, it refuses to stop illegally transferring its own citizens onto occupied land, and it refuses to end the inhumane and illegal blockade upon Gaza, and for that, Palestinians have every right to resist having their land and their future stolen from them by a rogue country run by rogue leaders who care not a white for UN resolutions and international law, and international human rights law.
You brought it on yourselves by not being satisfied with res 181, now you are simply reaping the obvious consequences.
People like me, and the vast majority of the world simply do not fall for the Hasbarah anymore. There is nothing to explain.
Everyone knows by now that Israel is a rogue country with as little respect for the law as Al Qaeda.
Israel has had a chance to fix things by accepting with open arms the Arab Peace Initiative. But instead Israel chose to steal more land. Bibi announced today yet more land theft as a reprisal for the Palestinians daring to go to the UN (actually because Israel is terrified about being in the dock at the International Criminal Court, because they will lose multiple times) and gain observer status.
Well they got that status with a massive vote, more even than they thought.
The world is becoming sick of hearing the same excuses and the same Hasbarah, something is going to give, and it won't be the Palestinians giving land…
So before the 1967 war, when Israel was living within their borders, everything was just fine between them and the arabs, right?
Michael – Firstly you are such an idiot its unbelievable that you even had the patience to read through the 5 page article – or maybe you dint.
Larry, Israel was not living "within their borders" prior to the 1967 war. In the 1948 war, Israel immediately expanded beyond the UN partition plan boundaries and took over 78% of the land, leaving just 22% to the Palestinians.
Considering that in the 1948 war, Israel made refugees out of roughly 750,000 Palestinians and bulldozed their villages to ensure their ethnic cleansing would be permanent, why would things be "just fine" ?
In the 1967 war Israel took over the remaining 22%.
Up until WWI, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan did not exist. After the Ottoman Turks lost to the allies, these areas were divided into mandates which were governed by France and Britain. The French created, created mind you, Lebanon and Syria out of their mandate. The British created "the Jewish homeland" out of theirs. This homeland included all of the land west of the Jordan river and the land east of the Jordan river in what is today called Jordan.
There were at that time no such thing as Palestinians. In fact, at that time, the term Palestinian referred to Jews living in Palestine. The Arabs living in Palestine were recognized as such. Yassar Arafat conjured up the "Palestinian nation" ex nihilo in order to provide legitimacy to his claims that they were the original inhabitants, descendants of the Canaanite tribes that inhabited the region thousands of years ago.
In fact, most of the Arabs who lived in Palestine in 1948 were immigrants from elsewhere.
Following WWI it never occurred to anyone that the Arabs living in the Jewish homeland had the right to self determination there. The Balfour declaration was not a controversial document in 1917 when it was written.
So first, the British reneged on their promise to give the mandate to the Jews and gave the entire area east of the Jordan River to the Hashemites to further a political agenda. The the UN partition plan divided the small remainder of the mandate once more so that Jews were left with a miniscule part of the original mandate. In a mind boggling and painful compromise the Jewish community in Palestine accepted the plan in order to have state and live in peace with the Arab inhabitants of Palestine.
The Arabs rejected it thinking that they would wipe out the Jewish community and get the entire land.
Thank God, it was not to be.
So for the sake of clarity – The Palestinian nation was created by Yassar Arafat in the 1960′s. The people who today call themselves Palestinians have no right whatsoever, legally, morally nor historically to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Jewish people have a right to this land, legally, morally and historically. As such, they have the obligation to defend this land the inhabitants thereof from intruders and all those who would seek its destruction.
The UN Partition Plan was not made law by treaty between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine, instead the Arabs rejected the plan and began their war against the Jews – starting in Aleppo and Aden right after the vote in November 1947, although ethnic cleansing of Jews by Arabs had started long before that, e.g. Hebron 1929, Kfar HaShiloach, Jaffa, Baghdad in WWII to name just a few.
The Arabs decided to put Palestine "up for grabs" and the land was divided between three states: Egypt, Israel and Jordan. No one complained about the Egyptian and Jordanian occupations or the settlements they created on Mandate land.
There were refugees on both sides, although many of the Arab refugees were actually "internally displaced" and still remain in camps even though they are under Palestinian Authority control. How can one explain that travesty, inhumanity and utter lack of national solidarity? Meanwhile 850,000 Jews fled or were expelled from Arab-majority countries where they had lived since before the Arab conquest, despite being peaceful citizens (unlike many Arab communities in Palestine). Naturally, the Jews – a wealthy class in many Arab countries – had their property and wealth "confiscated" by the respective states. Those assets alone are more than enough to compensate any Arab losses in Israel, however the Arab governments also keep Pal Arab refugees in camps, having pocketed the Jewish assets for themselves.
Oh and 78% of Mandate Palestine is under Hijazi Hashemite rule and has a majority Palestinian population. It is called "Jordan" now but that is a very recent invention and could be changed to, say "Eastern Palestine".
Israel maintains a naval blockade on Gaza because it is controlled by terrorist Hamas. Despite this we allow lots of goods into the Gaza strip, including up to 2200 calories of food per day per person. There is no starvation in the Gaza strip. Anti Israel activists claim that Gaza is like the Warsaw Ghetto that the Nazis set up for Jews before they sent them to death camps. They ignore the fact that only 220 calories per day per person was allowed into the ghetto. The Nazis knew that starvation would begin to kill the ghettoized Jews after 3 months. Again, there is no starvation in Gaza, in fact they have one of the highest obesity rates in the entire Arab world. It is also important to remember that the Jews in the Warsaw and other ghettos did not engage in terrorism against Germany or Poland. They did not start wars, shoot rockets or elect officials that declared their intent to murder other Europeans. Israel provides most of the electricity for the Gaza strip and yes when military action takes place, we warn civilians to evacuate. This of course gives the terrorists a heads up as well who as you also know use Gaza's civilians as human shields. This is the price we pay for striving to maintain our morality dealing with an immoral enemy. Even the Nazis themselves did not use their civilians as human shields.


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Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
• STRONGSVILLE PATCH: Turning lemonade stands into scrap metal
It was like stealing candy from a baby.
A child's lemonade stand was snapped up by a trash-picker when she left it unattended for a few minutes March 10.
A report said some kids on Barton Drive set up the stand during the nice weather on Sunday.
About 5:30 p.m., a girl left the metal table on the treelawn and went into the house for a minute.
When she returned, the table was gone — apparently grabbed by a "scrapper" looking for valuable items in the trash.
• CUYAHOGA FALLS PATCH: Turkeys thrown into resident's car
A resident in the 1700 block of 11th Street told police someone threw two frozen turkeys through the back window of her car, breaking the window, sometime on March 8. Damage is estimated at $200.
• STOW PATCH: Spitting is illegal
Stow Police charged a man with disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor, after he allegedly spit at another man at Wal-Mart.
The man reportedly spit in a man's face inside the store, and police gave him a summons on the disorderly conduct charge. The man became upset, so police escorted him to his car.
While on the walk out the man threatened to harm the officers' families. Police also charged him March 6 with criminal trespass, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
• WESTLAKE PATCH: Craigslist + iPod = Trouble
An 18-year-old Westlake man was mugged while trying to sell his iPod.
The teenager found a presumptive buyer — a 21-year-old woman from Cleveland — on Craigslist and agreed to meet her a few minutes before midnight on Feb. 16.
The woman arrived alone in her car and conversed with the teen. Then a man on foot jumped the victim, took his iPod, threatened to kill him and ran off, according to Westlake Police.
The woman drove away also as the teenager called police.
Westlake and Rocky River police officers stopped the woman's car at the intersection of Clague Road and Hilliard Boulevard.
When police stopped her, the woman had a passenger in her car -- a 24-year-old Cleveland man. They also had the teen's iPod, according to police.
The Cleveland man is accused of commiting robbery and aggravated menacing. The woman was charged with complicity to both of these counts.
Do not pass 'go'
Police stopped a man in the 18200 block of Detroit Avenue at around 1:30 p.m. March 6. He refused to identify himself and told police that he wanted to go to jail. Instead, police obtained his identity and released him with a citation.
Man singing too loudly
Police responded to a home in the 2100 block of McKinley Avenue to a report of a man yelling at around 3:35 a.m. March 5. Turns out, he was just singing. Police advised him of the complaint.


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From Staff Reports
Class AAA
1) Oak Hill (25) — The Red Devils (5-0) overcame a sluggish start to down Shady Spring in a runaway and stay perfect. The biggest test yet could come Friday at Point Pleasant.
2) Woodrow Wilson (19) — The offense went missing in action for the Flying Eagles (2-3) Friday in a shutout loss at Cabell Midland. Parkersburg will visit Van Meter Stadium on Friday.
3) Greenbrier East (13) — After a 3-1 start, the Spartans (3-3) have dropped back-to-back games, giving up 113 points in the process. They'll welcome Lincoln County for homecoming Friday.
4) Princeton (13) — Following a promising 2-0 start, the Tigers (2-4) have dropped four in a row, including the last two at home. They'll be at St. Albans on Friday in major need of a win.
5) Shady Spring (5) — The Tigers (1-5) are showing signs of improvement, but the schedule hasn't been easy. They'll get a bye this week before welcoming Wyoming East to town next Friday.
Class AA
1) Bluefield (24) — Three straight wins have the Beavers (4-1) playing with plenty of momentum. They're coming off a win over Richlands (Va.) and will travel to River View on Friday.
2) Summers County (20) — The Bobcats (5-1) lost for the first time all year Friday, allowing Covington (Va.) to come from behind and secure a 23-16 win. They'll host Independence on Friday.
3) Nicholas County (16) — Following the same trend as last year, the Grizzlies (4-2) seem to be putting it all together at the right time. They've won four of their last five and will be at Webster County Friday.
4) Wyoming East (10) — The Warriors (5-1) scored 14 fourth-quarter points to come from behind and beat River View 14-12. This week they'll host PikeView on Friday night.
5) River View (5) — The Raiders (3-2) are three points away from being 4-1 with the only loss on the road against a quality Man team. They'll have a big test this week when they host Bluefield.
Class A
1) Greenbrier West (25) — After the first loss of the season at Summers County two weeks ago, the Cavaliers (5-1) responded with a lopsided win at PikeView. They'll host Pocahontas County on Friday.
2) Valley (20) — A win against Meadow Bridge in a battle of Fayette County undefeateds allowed the Greyhounds (5-0) to stay unbeaten. They'll be at Tug Valley on Friday.
3) Meadow Bridge (15) — The Wildcats (5-1) lost for the first time, falling a touchdown short against Valley. Larry McClintic's team will welcome Mount View to town on Friday with a chance to get back on track.
4) Fayetteville (9) — The Pirates (2-4) dropped their third straight on Friday, falling to Man at home. All three losses have been close, though, and they'll look for better results Friday at home against Moorefield.
5) Midland Trail (6) — Coming off a two-game winning streak before a bye last Friday, the Patriots (2-3) are showing some major improvement. They'll host Clay County on Friday.
About the poll: Our panel of five voters — Cam Huffman (sports editor), Gary Fauber (assistant sports editor), Dan Stillwell (sports writer), J. Daniel Rollins (sports writer) and Rusty Udy (sports clerk) — ranked the top five area teams in each class based on their performances over the first six weeks and their potential the rest of the way. Teams received five points for a first-place vote, four for a second-place vote and on down to one for a fifth-place vote. The vote totals are listed in parentheses.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) released the following statement on the national jobs report for June 2013:
"Today's report is an encouraging sign for the working men and women who found a job last month, and those who are still looking. However, earlier this week the White House reminded us once again that its policies have held back the job growth that we should expect from an economic recovery. ObamaCare has been predicted to be a drain on employment since before its passage and that outcome was confirmed by the Obama Administration's delay of the employer mandate. The added costs and regulations to businesses across our nation mean less jobs and less economic growth. Delaying the inevitable for one year will bring no solace. We must have a permanent delay of ObamaCare before we can realize our full job creating potential."


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NORMAN — A two-vehicle, head-on collision put two people in the hospital Tuesday near 12th Avenue Northwest and Indian Hills Road.
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Both were transported by EMSStat to Norman Regional Hospital, Norman police Lt. Brent Barbour said.
Barbour said the injuries were not critical and no other passengers were in either vehicle.
A medical condition was most likely the cause of the accident, he said.
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McALESTER —
Renowned pianist Peter Simon is returning to McAlester for a special concert presentation— and he's planning on making it something memorable.
Simon is calling the performance "Love Notes, the Music and Poetry of Love."
The concert is set to begin at 7 Thursday night, Nov. 8, at Lakewood Church, 840 S. George Nigh Expwy. It's presented by the McAlester Area Arts & Humanities Council and is expected to include musical selections by composers such as Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms, as well as others.
Two of the selections Simon will likely include are "Clair du Lune" by Claude Debussy and "Liebestraum (Dream of Love)" by Litz.
Simon plans to pair the musical performances with readings from poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakepeare and others.
Simon spoke to the News-Capital by phone Wednesday shortly after arriving at Tulsa International Airport from his home in Colorado.
"It will be a pleasure coming back to McAlester," said Simon, who last performed in the city a couple of years ago with his son, Sailing, who is now in college.
Speaking of the inspiration for his performance, Simon said he's always had a love of poetry and music.
"When I was growing up, I really loved poetry," he said.
"You don't hear much of that poetry anymore. I thought I would combine beautiful, famous, love poems with beautiful, romantic piano music.
"It's really an uplifting kind of program," Simon said.
He recalled his past in academia, but said he ultimately wanted to step out more into live performance.
"I decided instead of influencing 20 or 30 kids a year, I wanted to influence thousands," he said. Simon said he had once lived in Tulsa and during that time, he performed in 80 different towns and cities across the state.
He's looking forward to his McAlester performance.
"It's a lovely church, a lovely setting, and hopefully, it will remind people of what's really important in life," he said.
Simon noted that many poets and composers have had difficult lives, but have worked very hard to create something beautiful.
Since Simon likes to meet with his audience, a reception is set immediately following his performance tonight, according to Mary Helfenbein, chairman of the McAlester Area Arts & Humanities Council.
She said the entire community is welcome to attend the concert and enjoy the evening of music. With the performance underwritten by Drs. Paul and Vickie Thomas, no admission will be charged.
"We welcome anybody to come, whether they're a fan of classical music or not," Helfenbein said.
She said that in addition to being an outstanding musician, Simon is also a great entertainer.
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