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Ten months after the collapse of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's authoritarian regime, Tunisia has produced a remarkable balancing act between the revolutionary urge for change and a pragmatic need for continuity. With elections for a constitutional assembly due to take place on October 23, the country that ignited the "Arab Awakening" is emerging as a regional paradigm for a stable democratic transition.
A number of preconditions have smoothed Tunisia's path. Whereas Egypt struggles with the need to assert civilian control over the military, the Tunisian army has stayed out of politics. And, in contrast to Libya, the Tunisian population never took up arms during the protests. The economy does not run on hydrocarbons. And, notwithstanding serious inequalities between Tunisia's littoral and inland areas, this small country of 10 million people is, according to the World Bank, an upper-middle-income economy.
Above all, civil institutions have proven to be resilient. A "Higher Council", made up of notables of different backgrounds and political orientations, has been established to steer the transition. For all of the previous regime's misdeeds, Tunisians are proud of their country's liberal institutions, such as women's rights and a progressive family code, adopted in 1956. Betraying some nostalgia, senior members of the administration speak privately of a "remarkable continuity" in the Tunisian transition.
But overall stability has not prevented cracks from emerging in more contentious areas. The security sector remains largely unreformed. The rough, transitional justice that often follows a change of regime has not taken place, at least not yet. In what is arguably the most striking change since the fall of Ben Ali, Tunisia has witnessed the swift rise of an Islamist movement that was banned from the country for decades.
The ascent of al-Nahda (Renaissance), the leading Islamist party, is less a reflection of latent ideological support among a newly liberated people than it is a testament to the party's remarkable ability to fill the post-revolutionary political vacuum. Since January, al-Nahda has opened more than 200 offices. Scores of volunteers are deployed in electoral campaigning at the grassroots, door-to-door level. The party's imposing headquarters in the suburbs of Tunis symbolise its position as the most effective political operation in the country by far.
"If there is such a thing as a Tunisian 'model' of democratic revolution, its distinctiveness consists in its evolutionary character."
While opponents ominously recall the involvement of party cadres in the deadly bombings of tourist targets in 1991, al-Nahda has gone to some lengths to appease its critics. Its electoral programme calls for constitutionalism, separation of powers, citizenship-based rights and the protection of women's rights. Adherence to such tenets would place al-Nahda in the same league of moderate Islamist parties as Turkey's Justice and Development Party and its Moroccan counterpart.
Much like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, al-Nahda will have to marginalise the more militant fringes of Islamist politics, such as the Salafis - and is likely to lose some of its supporters in the process. But al-Nahda's ambition to win over - and, ultimately, stably occupy - the mainstream of Tunisia's democratic politics requires nothing less.
There is no silver bullet to democratisation. In Algeria in 1991, it was civil-society activists who called for a military intervention against the Islamists; in Tunisia in 2011, all political actors seem to accept that the Islamists' democratic credentials must be tested through elections, and that the outcome must be respected. If Islamists are to be brought into the democratic fold and encouraged to move towards the political mainstream by getting their hands dirty in the give-and-take of day-to-day politics, then Tunisia may be the right place to try it.
Moreover, if there is such a thing as a Tunisian "model" of democratic revolution, its distinctiveness consists in its evolutionary character: the state administration has continued to function, and a cross-party consensus has emerged around basic social and economic policies. The middle class has taken charge, while a long-repressed Islamist contender has entered the fray of electoral politics.
Once a corrupt regime is removed, the road ahead often proves bumpy, as has been true in all of the countries affected by the Arab Awakening. But in Tunisia, what has also emerged is a lively nascent democracy that deserves the West's support.
Rasmus Alenius Boserup is a researcher, and Fabrizio Tassinari is a senior researcher, at the Danish Institute for International Studies.
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With nine grandchildren living throughout the country, Judith Surowiec flies often to visit them.
"I always get a window seat" the Buford artist said, "and I draw the entire way." Surowiec's acrylic painting "Big Sky," inspired by the view from an airplane, is a fitting piece for Tannery Row Artist Colony's latest art exhibit, "BIG 2," a follow-up from the October 2007 show, "BIG." Showcasing 36- by 48-inch vertically hung paintings and a 7-foot tall metal piece, as well as jewelry, various pieces of pottery and sculptures, Surowiec said guests who visit the Tannery can expect an unusual show. "I have been to many art shows but never one in which all the paintings are vertical and the same size," said Surowiec, who produced two paintings for the show. "Each artist has taken the requirements for a ride. It is fun to be pushed into something uncomfortable and then work your way out." "BIG 2" is Tonya Haswell's first show as a resident artist at Tannery Row. Using dyed fabrics, scraps of vintage fabrics and paint, the Lawrenceville resident has created three mixed media pieces for the show. One piece, titled "Promise," features a stylized representation of an oak tree that grows off Ga. Highway 124 and Sugarloaf Parkway, a visual element Haswell has used in previous pieces. "There's a meadow there and there's this beautiful oak tree that in the winter is absolutely stunning," she said. "There was a moment when I drove by and I just thought, 'That' is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.'" Two small, green leaves hang on one of the branches of the otherwise leafless tree representing the eventual transition into the following season. "I loved the idea that a lot of work is done in the winter," Haswell said, "but there is a promise of spring." Gwinnett residents will have the opportunity to meet Haswell, Surowiec and other resident artists at Tannery Row who are participating in the show, tour their personal studios and discuss their work during the opening reception for "BIG 2" from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The exhibit will be on display at the Buford artists' retreat through Dec. 1. SideBar: If you go · What: "BIG 2" · When: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday through Dec. 1 · Where: Tannery Row Artist Colony, 554 W. Main St. in Buford · Cost: Free · For more information: Visit www.tanneryrowartistcolony.comMore like this story
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The improvement is showing in the box score but not in the win column.
Sequim's Wolves went toe-to-toe with Port Townsend for three quarters but couldn't keep up in the final period on Friday night, falling 55-43 to one of their top league rivals.
Coach Stephanie Lewis said she's seen improvement from the previous season and game to game.
"(We're) tremendously improved, particularly our rebounding," said the first-year coach.
The Wolves (0-3 in league 0-5 overall) gathered 38 rebounds against the taller, bigger Redskin squad - Sequim's most in the young season.
But strong inside play from Bella Fox and shooting from Brooke Little spelled doom for the host Wolves.
Lea Hopson led Sequim with 17 points, six rebounds, five steals and four assists. Rylleigh Zbaraschuk had 12 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Freshman Haleigh Harrison garnered eight rebounds while Lindsey Soha collected seven boards.
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Sequim is looking at incorporating a new defense this week as they prepare for a Friday night match-up with Port Angeles.
The Roughriders are 3-0 and are coming off a 56-54 win at Kingston on Friday night.
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"We're expecting good size and outside shooting (from Port Angeles)," Lewis said. "We're looking primarily to challenge their guards (and) we're getting back to what we do well: pushing the ball and fast-breaking."
If the Wolves can upset Port Angeles, it'll likely get a boost from a trio of freshmen who have made a big impression on the team and their new coach. Harrison leads the team with a 10 rebounds-per-contest average while Zbaraschuk is second on the team in scoring. Taylor Balkan has picked up plenty of court time as well, helping solidify the point guard spot.
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The Wolves dropped their fourth decision in as many games to open the season - all on the road - after a 53-34 loss to North Mason in Belfair on Dec. 8.
Sadee Ingwaldson and Renee Willey scored 10 points each, but it was the Bulldog defense that produced the win, holding Sequim to just three points after one quarter and 11 points by halftime. Hopson led the Wolves with eight points while Harrison had seven points. Zbaraschuk added six points.
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Spaghetti with Sausage and Peppers Recipe
Smoked turkey sausage is a wonderful change of pace from traditional Italian sausage and ground beef sausage. And with fresh peppers and onion, this dish is not only quick, but economical.Ginger Harrell, El Dorado, Arkansas
- 12 ounces uncooked spaghetti
- 1 package (14 ounces) smoked turkey sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 2 medium green peppers, julienned
- 2 medium sweet red peppers, julienned
- 1 medium onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 6 to 8 drops hot pepper sauce
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray, cook and stir sausage until lightly browned. Add peppers and onion; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Stir in the tomatoes, garlic, pepper sauce, paprika, salt and cayenne; cook until vegetables are tender.
- Combine cornstarch and broth until smooth; add to sausage mixture. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Drain spaghetti; toss with sausage mixture. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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used recipe as a general guide and used hot sausages, it was excellent.
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Very easy and tasty. I added fresh mushrooms,basil and home canned tomatoes.Low points on Weight Watchers.
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I made this for my family of 5 and everyone loved it! The peppers and tomatoes gave it a light and fresh taste. Quick and economical, just what I was looking for!
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Nicknamed "Music City USA," Nashville is best known as the home of the Country Music industry. Countless aspiring singers, writers, and musicians head to Nashville looking for fame and fortune. But Nashville was a center for fortune seekers long before the traditional songs of Southern and Appalachian musicians began to be pressed onto shellac and vinyl. Beginning in the mid 19th century, growing numbers of Jews from Europe came to Tennessee's capital city in search of a better life. There they found opportunity and established a community that continues to thrive today.
Although Nashville was founded in 1780, it did not attract a significant Jewish presence until the 1840s. A few Jews had lived temporarily in the town that had been originally called Fort Nashborough. In 1795, Benjamin and Hannah Myers lived in the growing trading post on the Cumberland River, where Hannah gave birth to their daughter Sarah. Members of New York's Shearith Israel congregation, the Myers did not stay in Tennessee long, moving to Virginia by the following year. It would be over forty years before anything like a Jewish community would take root in Nashville.
By the 1840s, Jewish immigrants from the German states and Poland began to settle in Tennessee's capital city. During the 1850s, many Jews came and went from Nashville; 160 Jewish household heads lived in Nashville at some point in the decade, although the Jewish population was never that high at any one time. In 1851, there were 28 Jewish families in Nashville; only 12 of them were still in Nashville ten years later. Of the 105 Jewish families listed in the 1860 census as living in Nashville, only 44 still lived there in 1870. This high rate of population turnover was typical for the time, when Jewish immigrants moved around the country looking for economic opportunity. This mobility was facilitated when the railroad was built through town in the 1850s, linking Nashville to other cities around the country.
Despite this high turnover, Nashville Jews managed to establish community institutions. In 1848, they first formed a minyan, meeting in the home of Isaac Garritson. Three years later, they organized the Hebrew Benevolent Burial Association and purchased land for a cemetery. This small group of Jews contacted Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia requesting prayer books for their growing minyan. In 1854, they officially incorporated as "Kahl Kodesh Mogen David" (Holy Community of the Shield of David); some have suggested that they chose the name in honor of Davidson County.
The early history of Jewish religious life in Nashville is rife with turmoil and division. In 1859, a group of dissatisfied members of Mogen David left to form their own congregation, Ohava Emes (Lovers of Truth). Five years later, another group split from Mogen David and formed the city's first Reform congregation, B'nai Yeshurun (Sons of Righteousness). This small Jewish community now had three tiny congregations and not one permanent synagogue. Nashville gained the reputation as a particularly divisive community, receiving a rebuke from Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, who blamed "the unfortunate spirit of quarrel and small ambition" for the factionalism.
Despite these quarrels over religion, Nashville Jews did manage to establish organizations that united them in caring for those in need. In 1859, they founded the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society; a few years later, women organized the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society. In 1863, Jewish men founded a local chapter of B'nai B'rith, whose philosophy of bridging religious differences was much needed in Nashville.
In 1860, the Nashville Jewish community was largely young and foreign-born. Of the 99 Jewish household heads in Nashville, their average age was 32; most all of them were immigrants from either the German states or Poland. Most were of relatively modest economic means. Almost a quarter of them were peddlers. A large majority were business owners, with many owning small dry goods, clothing, or grocery stores.
During the Civil War, many Nashville Jews were strong supporters of the Confederacy, although only a small minority owned slaves on the eve of secession. Of the 105 Jewish households in Nashville in 1860, only seven contained slaves; each of these Jewish slaveholders only owned one slave. Rabbi Samuel Raphael of Congregation Mogen David used biblical passages to defend the peculiar institution in a letter printed in the local newspaper. Ohava Emes passed a resolution in 1861 praising the Confederacy and calling on its members to help the Southern cause. The congregation and the local Jewish relief societies raised money for sick Confederate soldiers stationed in the city.
The Union army was quickly able to capture Nashville, occupying it by February of 1862. Some Nashville Jews chafed under Northern control and the accompanying restrictions on trade. Jacob Bloomstein (left), a prominent local merchant, was accused of spying and smuggling goods to the Confederacy, and was sent to a military prison in Illinois. Held without a trial, he was finally released after his wife sent an appeal to military governor Andrew Johnson. Despite their support for the Confederacy, Nashville Jews mourned the death of Abraham Lincoln, with the local B'nai B'rith lodge draping its meeting hall in mourning for thirty days and local congregations holding special memorial services.
Nashville Jews maintained their antipathy to General Ulysses S. Grant, whose notorious wartime Order No. 11 decreed that all Jews leave the military district. Although it was soon rescinded by President Lincoln, Jews in Nashville were outraged when Grant ran for president in 1868. They organized a protest meeting, during which one speaker likened the candidate to Haman, the notorious anti-Semite from the Purim story. They issued proclamations against Grant which ran in the local newspaper and organized an Anti-Grant club that had officers and various committees. Several Jewish immigrants in Nashville became naturalized citizens just so they could vote against Grant in the 1868 election. While these efforts to defeat the Civil War hero were unsuccessful, they do show that these Jewish immigrants were not afraid to speak out on political issues as Jews. A few years later, Jews helped to organize a protest against General W.G. Harding, after he had made a local speech decrying immigrants. Nashville Jews also successfully lobbied the state legislature to allow rabbis to give the opening prayer before sessions.
Area Jews were sometimes caught up in the turmoil of the Reconstruction Era. The Ku Klux Klan, which emerged in the aftermath of the Civil War to try to reassert white supremacy, occasionally targeted Jews. In 1868, the Klan murdered a Jewish merchant, S.A. Bierfeld, in nearby Franklin along with his black employee Lawrence Bowman. At the time, other Franklin Jews asserted that Bierfeld's murder had more to do with his radical Republican politics than his religion. In another incident, a Jewish peddler named Joseph Lowenheim was threatened by hooded men armed with knives; after Lowenheim proved that he was a Mason, the gang set him free.
Lowenheim's membership in the Masons was not unusual, as Nashville Jews became active in the local economy and community. In the mid 19th century, Nashville developed into a regional trading center. By 1860, it had twelve large wholesale firms that served stores in Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, though none of these firms were Jewish-owned. At the time, Jews owned smaller retail stores in Nashville. By 1847, Louis Powers owned a clothing store. In 1860, both Louis and his older brother Michael owned clothing stores in Nashville. Jews also owned grocery stores, bakeries, liquor and tobacco stores, and a kosher boarding house, which catered to Jewish peddlers passing through town. The four Lyons brothers owned a tobacco and liquor store; Lyons and Company also made their own cigars. Showing that the path to economic success was not easy, their business suffered during the Panic of 1857. By 1859, only one of the brothers remained in the tobacco business. Ben Lyon opened a billiard hall and saloon. On the eve of the Civil War, three Nashville Jews had fortunes of over $10,000; most were small businessmen.
After the Civil War, the Jewish population in Nashville flourished as Jews became more economically established. In 1867, the Fourth National Bank of Nashville was founded by 52 men, four of whom were Jews. Julius and Max Sax, two Jewish immigrants from Prussia, founded the Nashville Savings Bank in 1863, which remained in business for three decades before failing in the Panic of 1893. In the late 19th century, the Sax brothers became leading citizens in Nashville, serving on the local reception committee when President Grover Cleveland visited the city. They were also active in the Jewish community, with Max serving as president of the local B'nai B'rith Chapter and the Vine Street Temple. His wife Hannah was the first president of the Vine Street Temple's Ladies Auxiliary and served on the board of the Women's Mission Home, which helped working women. After their bank failed, the family moved to New York.
Morris Loveman endured a series of misfortunes before setting down roots in Nashville. Born in Hungary, Loveman came over with his family to New York City in 1854. During the voyage, his infant child died. He initially settled in Owosso, Michigan, where his older brother already lived. Starting as a peddler, Morris moved into various other failing ventures. His bakery was unsuccessful and he closed his firecracker manufacturing business after a mishap cost him sight in one of his eyes and hearing in one of his ears. In 1860, the family moved to Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, where they opened a dry goods store. Once the war broke out, they sought the relative safety of the city by moving to Nashville. Morris opened a wholesale dry goods business which supplied many Jewish peddlers in the area. His son David Loveman opened a dress manufacturing business which became known for its popular line of hoop skirts in the 1860s. He later opened a dry goods store, D. Loveman's, which grew into a successful department store and Nashville institution. Morris' other son, Adolph, founded the A.M. Loveman Lumber and Box Company, which is still in business today.
Nathan Cline came to the United States from Poland in 1851. By 1857, he was living in Nashville and owned a liquor business. During the Civil War, he opened a junk business with Louis Bernheim, a German Jewish immigrant who had settled in Nashville. The partners built the Cline-Bernheim Company into a successful scrap iron business that flourished for over a century. When Cline's son Sol married Bernheim's daughter Tillie, the families' partnership was further solidified.
Young brothers Louis and George Rosenheim came to Nashville from Warsaw at the urging of their aunt, Betty Lusky, who already lived there. They opened a candy store which failed during the cholera epidemic of 1873. They later opened a dry goods store downtown with $240 they had saved. By 1890, their store had grown to become the largest department store in the city, with 100 employees and a five-story building that occupied an entire city block. The business suffered during the economic hardships of the 1890s. By 1899, the partnership had dissolved, and George left Nashville. Louis stayed and opened a women's hat store, which he ran until he died in 1924. Louis was a leader of the local business community, serving on several bank boards and investing in a street-car line and various real estate ventures.
Jews were very active in civic life in Nashville. Many were involved with non-Jewish fraternal societies like the Masons and Odd Fellows. A number joined German-speaking lodges, reflecting their strong German identity. Indeed, most of the sermons delivered in Nashville's synagogues in the latter half of the 19th century were in German. Despite their status as immigrants, several Jews became involved in local government. The Bavarian-born Benjamin Herman owned a wholesale supply business and spent two terms on the Nashville school board. He also served on the boards of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Benjamin Lindauer served on the city council and was elected council president in 1899. Jacob Levine was a magistrate of the county court for several decades until his death in 1934.
Many Nashville Jews were involved with both the Jewish and the larger community. Lee Loventhal was born in Nashville and took over the insurance business started by his father. Loventhal was extremely active in civic causes in his hometown, serving on the city park commission for 25 years and well as on the boards of Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities. He helped to raise $2 million for the war effort during World War I. In 1925, he helped to found the Community Chest, serving as its first president. Loventhal was also a leader of the Jewish community, helping to found the local Young Men's Hebrew Association. Loventhal also served on the boards of the Levi Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the Jewish Old Age Home in Memphis, and Hebrew Union College.
Nashville's Jewish population grew significantly in the late 19th century. In 1860, 325 Jews lived in Nashville; by 1870, 875 did. By the turn of the century, 1,900 Jews lived in Nashville. Most of these, 62%, were born in the United States. Seventy percent of the Jewish immigrants living in Nashville in 1900 had come in the previous twenty years, the era of the Eastern European wave of Jewish immigration. Almost 60% of foreign-born Jews in Nashville emigrated from Russia or Hungary. In 1871, a small group of Hungarian Jews founded the Hungarian Benevolent Society, and held their own high holiday services at the Masonic Temple. Hungarian Jews later founded their own Orthodox congregation, Sherith Israel (Remnant of Israel), in 1904.
The Nashville Section of the National Council of Jewish Women was founded in 1901 and soon sought to help this growing immigrant population. They began to offer classes on America for newly arriving Jewish immigrants to "teach and implant the fundamentals of true Americanism." In 1909, they opened the Bertha Fensterwald Settlement House, named for their first president. It became the Bertha Fensterwald Social Center in 1916 and offered English classes as well as health services and social programs for new immigrants to help them assimilate to life in America.
Jews joined several other local Jewish organizations. In the 1870s, Nashville Jews formed the socially oriented Concordia Club. In 1882, it was renamed the Standard Club and served the economic elite of the Nashville Jewish community. In addition to three congregations, in 1907 Nashville Jews also belonged to the Free Sons of Israel, the B'nai B'rith, the Jewish Chautauqua Society, and the Knights of Joseph. Later, there were local Zionist organizations, including Hadassah, and a chapter of the socialist Workmen's Circle.
With all of these disparate social, religious, and political organizations, some Nashville Jews saw the need for one institution that could unite the entire Jewish community. In 1902, a group of Jews founded the Young Men's Hebrew Association, with its mission to improve "the mental, moral, and physical condition of its members" and to advance "knowledge of Jewish history and religion." They initially met in rented rooms above a restaurant, but soon outgrew the space and bought land for a permanent building. In 1907, with a membership of 200, they laid the cornerstone in a ceremony that drew the mayor of Nashville and the governor of Tennessee. Dedicated in 1908, the YMHA had a gym, game room, library, and swimming pool. Women were allowed to use the facilities, as the YMHA became an important center of Jewish life in Nashville. In 1924, they built a new four-story brick facility, which they shared with the Young Women's Hebrew Association.
In 1948, the two groups merged to create the Jewish Community Center and later built a new facility in the West End of Nashville, where most Jews lived at the time. In 1984, the JCC moved once again, to its current site on Percy Warner Boulevard, which offered more space for outdoor activities and parking. The center offered social, educational, and cultural programs for the entire Nashville Jewish community, which sometimes led to dissension. One divisive point was whether to open the JCC on Saturdays. After twenty years of conflict and debate, in 1989, the center decided to be open for limited activities on the Jewish Sabbath. Those who were opposed to this decision were allowed to pay a slightly lower membership rate so they wouldn't be subsidizing its Saturday activities. Through such compromises, the JCC has continued to be a home for Nashville Jews regardless of their religious affiliation.
Gilbert Fox was born in Nashville in 1920. After marrying Lois Kuhn in 1943 and serving with the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, he joined her family's business, Kuhn's Big K Stores. In this clip from a 2009 interview, he remembers his relationships with non-Jewish peers during the 1920s and 1930s.
Successful Nashville Jews gave back to their community, especially during World War II. Meier Werthan founded the Werthan Bag and Burlap Company in the 1890s. The business grew tremendously, and during World War II, Joe Werthan, Meier's son, established the Joe Werthan Service Center, a 250-bed facility for servicemen who spent time in Nashville. Joe was appalled by the sight of young servicemen on leave sleeping outdoors in Nashville, so he created a facility where soldiers of any faith could sleep for free and find meals and recreation. Jacob May came to the United States from Germany in 1879 at the age of eighteen. After starting out as a peddler in Nashville, May soon won a state contract for prison labor and founded the Rock City Hosiery Mills at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. In 1908, he founded the May Hosiery Mill in Nashville, which soon grew into a thriving business, supplying socks to some of the finest department stores in the country. Jacob watched with horror as the Nazis came to power in his homeland, and he spent much of the late 1930s working to bring Jewish refugees to the United States. The May family sponsored about 200 Jewish refugees and found them work in the United States. Jacob encouraged other Jews to do the same, and through his efforts, about 230 families escaped Europe before the Holocaust.
A number of Jewish women in Nashville played important roles in the larger community. Anne Garfinkle (left) fought against bible readings in the Nashville public schools in 1912-13. She pressured the school board and wrote many letters to the editor of the local paper arguing her case. Though her efforts were unsuccessful, she was not afraid to take a controversial public stand on the issue. Garfinkle later became an active Zionist, serving as secretary of the B'nai Zion Society. Corinne Cohn was a longtime member of the Nashville Board of Education; Cohn High School was named in her honor in 1926. Pauline Tenzel emigrated from Romania in 1921. She attended the University of Arkansas Medical School, and became an obstetrician. She moved to Nashville in 1933, and set up a practice, becoming one of the first female ob/gyns in towns. She worked in Nashville until she retired in 1979. Annette Eskind was a casework supervisor for the Jewish Family Service for many years. She spent almost a decade on the local Board of Education and founded the Nashville Public Education Foundation. She and her husband, Irwin Eskind, endowed a biomedical library and a research chair in human development at the Vanderbilt University Medical School.
The most famous Jewish woman from Nashville was Fannye Rose Shore, who was born in Winchester, Tennessee in 1917. She and her family moved to Nashville in 1923, and Fannye started singing on local radio while she was a student at Vanderbilt. When she graduated in 1938, she moved to New York to seek fortune and fame as Dinah Shore. After getting a break singing on the Eddie Cantor Radio Show, Dinah Shore became a star. She later hosted her own television talk show, which set the model for many of the daytime talk shows today.
While Nashville Jews have enjoyed general acceptance, during times of social turmoil they have sometimes become targets for extremists. After the Supreme Court's Brown decision, Nashville was undergoing court-ordered school desegregation, and racial tensions were high. Dan May, the son of industrialist Jacob May, was chairman of the Nashville school board at the time, and led the way toward adopting a school integration plan for the city. May received death threats and had to have special police protection for a period of time. One night in March of 1958, a bomb went off at the entrance of the new JCC building on West End Avenue. Twenty minutes after the explosion, the bomber called Rabbi William Silverman of the Vine Street Temple and threatened to blow up the synagogue and other places that were sympathetic to the cause of African Americans. Silverman had been a vocal supporter of integration and some local Jews blamed his outspokenness for the attacks. The local newspaper denounced the bombing, writing that "decency stands appalled at the handiwork of some twisted mind" and an outpouring of support from government officials and church groups followed. Unbowed by the threats, Rabbi Silverman defended integration in a sermon to his congregants soon after, though he left the congregation two years later in 1960. Unfortunately, the police were never able to identify the perpetrator.
Rabbi Silverman's successor, Randall Falk, also worked toward racial justice and harmony. In 1964, he led a Human Rights March with the pastor of a local Methodist Church. The following year he helped to found the Human Relations Commission, which advocated for peaceful integration. Nashville's Reform temple remained in extremists' crosshairs. In 1981, federal authorities arrested three members of the Ku Klux Klan as they were plotting to bomb the temple.
Despite these periodic threats, the Nashville Jewish community continued to grow in the second half of the 20th century. The population had declined during the Great Depression and World War II, going from 4,000 Jews in 1927 to 2,900 in 1948. In 1948, Nashville was a Jewish community in transition. The community was still shaped by the immigrant era; 64% of Nashville Jews could speak or understand at least some Yiddish. Jews were still heavily concentrated in commercial trade. 63% of male breadwinners were business owners or managers. Another 23% were salesmen or clerks. Only 10% were professionals. Unlike earlier eras in which high population turnover was the norm, the community was now relatively settled, with 64% having lived in Nashville for over 25 years. Also, Nashville Jews were starting to go to college in increasing numbers. Of those Jews between the ages of 18 and 29, 68% had some college education; of those over 30 years old, only 39% went beyond high school. The effect of this rising rate of college education can be seen forty years later in 1988, when 48% of employed Nashville Jews were professionals.
By 1988, the Jewish community had almost doubled in size, growing to over 5400, as Nashville became a regional economic center. Nashville itself has grown from 171,000 people in 1960 to 570,000 in 2000. The 1970s and 80s saw an influx of Jews moving to Nashville. According to the 1988 survey, only 40% of Jews were born in Nashville; 38% were born outside of the South. This growth has continued unabated over the past few decades. By 2002, almost 8,000 Jews lived in the Nashville metro area. 78% had at least a college degree, while 42% had a graduate degree. The community is very highly affiliated, with 83% of Jewish families belonging to a synagogue.
As Nashville's Jewish population has grown, its Jewish community has matured, with a diversity of communal institutions. In 1936, the Nashville Jewish Welfare Fund was formed to unite the various local fundraising campaigns. In 1948, its name was changed to the Nashville Jewish Community Council. In 1969, it became the Nashville Jewish Federation. The Jewish Observer newspaper has been covering the Nashville community since its founding in 1934 by Jacques Back. Back edited the newspaper until his death in 1975. In the early 1950s, Rabbi Zalman Posner and his wife Rita of Nashville's Orthodox congregation, Sherith Israel, started the Akiva School, the city's first Jewish day school. After being housed at Sherith Israel for almost fifty years, the school moved to the JCC campus in 1999. The past few years has seen an increase in the number of congregations in Nashville. In 1992, a faction split off from the city's large Reform congregation, Ohabai Sholom, and formed Congregation Micah, which quickly flourished under the leadership of its first rabbi Ken Kanter. In 2001, the Chabad movement founded Congregation Beit Tefilah under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel.
Today, Nashville has emerged as the largest Jewish community in Tennessee, as it has continued to attract Jews from other parts of the country. Also, with its plentiful economic opportunities and growing Jewish resources, Nashville has been able to keep much of its younger generation. Jews have gained a certain prominence and respect in Nashville, as shown by a recent decision to change the date of a local election since it conflicted with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Nashville is also being increasingly recognized in the American Jewish world, hosting the large General Assembly meeting of the United Jewish Communities in 2007. Nashville is part of the new Jewish South that has flourished even as smaller southern Jewish communities have faded.


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This map from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture of rabies exposure this year. (Submitted graphic) |
A fox that bit two people in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, on March 1 has tested positive for rabies."A homeowner went outside to unlock her car in the morning," said Nicole Bucher, deputy press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. "When she pressed the remote door lock the sound alerted the fox that was under the car and it bit her leg. She was able to scare it off with her purse. The fox went to a neighbor's house where it charged the homeowner and bit him on the foot. He shot and killed it."
It isn't possible to determine if this fox infected any wild or domestic animals before it was killed, Bucher said. The Department of Agriculture recommends that people contact their veterinarian if they believe that their livestock or pets have been exposed.
"A possible exposure would consist of unexplained wounds on your livestock or pets," she said. "This is of great importance, as you need to assure that your livestock and pets are not a potential source of rabies for your family, neighbors or other pets or livestock."
Pennsylvania law requires that all dogs and non-feral cats three months of age or older be vaccinated against rabies and that booster vaccinations are administered periodically to maintain lifelong immunity. Rabies vaccines are also available for other species.
In January and February of this year, 44 animals were confirmed to be rabid in Pennsylvania. That included 28 raccoons; five skunks; two each of deer, red foxes, horses and cats; and one each of gray fox, bat and cattle. The March fox won't be added to the total until next month. None of those animals was found in Somerset County.
Bob Mitchell, editor of the Pennsylvania Game News magazine, said rabies is relatively common in raccoons and foxes, especially in the southwestern part of the state. The strain of rabies moved up from the South 20 years ago.
"You have to be cautious, to use common sense," Mitchell said. "Don't handle wild animals, especially if they are acting abnormally. If foxes or raccoons are out during the day, that is unusual. It's a warning sign."
While an animal eventually will look very ill when it has rabies, it may not appear to be sick at first.
In January a Lancaster County man was exposed to rabies while field dressing a deer, Mitchell said. The man had scratches on his hands and handled the deer without wearing gloves. The man told the Game Commission that he had concerns about the deer because of its behavior. The deer was making so much noise that at first he thought a coyote was nearby. In West Virginia a man was exposed to rabies by picking up road kill.
"If you think an animal has rabies and the animal is still there, call the police or someone to kill it," he said. "Don't destroy the head. Pack the animal on ice to send it for testing."
The website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that the rabies virus is transmitted through saliva or brain/nervous system tissue. It is a medical urgency, but not an emergency. One of the most effective ways to decrease the chance for infection is to wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water. People should see their doctor for attention for any trauma from the animal attack before considering the need for rabies vaccination. The doctor, possibly in consultation with the state Health Department, will decide if the patient needs a vaccination.
In the United States, treatment consists of a regimen of one dose of immune globulin and four doses of rabies vaccine over a 14-day period. The injections are now given in the arm and not the stomach as earlier vaccines were. Once a person begins to exhibit signs of the disease, survival is rare. To date, there are fewer than 10 documented cases of human survival from clinical rabies.


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Miss America: Year-round draw in Atlantic City?
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- With the Miss America pageant returning this September, Atlantic City is trying to make it a year-round draw rather than a two-week attraction at the end of the summer.
The Miss America Organization and Atlantic City tourism officials on Friday unveiled pageant-themed attractions designed to draw visitors all year.
They include a walking tour and window-front exhibits of pageant history, replicas of Miss America memorabilia such as crowns, gowns, sashes and scepters, a video booth to record pageant memories and places to pose for Miss America-related photos.
Still to come is a Miss America attraction on the Boardwalk.
"It was really an initiative to show people that summer is never over in Atlantic City," said Liza Cartmell, president of the Atlantic City Alliance, the new marketing arm of the casinos. "Our best weather is really in the fall. Miss America brings thousands and thousands of visitors to Atlantic City, visitors who otherwise never would have come to Atlantic City."
The goal is to keep them returning and interested in the pageant -- and all the resort's other attractions -- throughout the year.
One attraction is the Road To The Crown, a walking tour starting at the Sheraton hotel, where Miss America memorabilia, replica crowns, gowns and sashes are on display, and continuing for blocks to the Boardwalk. A downloadable app will assist the self-guided tour, but brochures are available for the digitally challenged.
The Rose Walk Journey will wind through the city's downtown outlet shopping district.
Sidewalk plaques about specific Miss America winners and the history of the pageant have been installed, and a Miss America Through The Decades windows display of pageant history is ready as well.
The nationally broadcast pageant will be held in Boardwalk Hall Sept. 15.
Mallory Hagan, the current Miss America whose reign will be cut short by four months due to the pageant returning to its traditional September date from January, said she is excited about its return to New Jersey.
"I can't wait to be here in September and walk the long runway," she said.
Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC
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Our cell phones are covered with germs
The germ - man's greatest enemy? |
One of the biggest problems, according to the research, is that cleaning the phone's screen using standard cleaning methods like alcohol, glass cleaners or even electronic cleaning wipes can cause damage to it. Things, however, get more interesting as Corning's (makers of Gorilla Glass) Boh Ruffin states that using standard cleaning products shouldn't degrade the performance of the glass. Still, it is believed that special coatings such as the oliophobic one used by some manufacturers might get damaged after repeated wiping. The device manufacturers themselves advise against using stuff like aerosol sprays or alcohol to clean their devices.
Corning's Boh Ruffin says that a normal microfiber cloth should do great at removing the germs stuck on a handset's glass. However, Dr. Schmidt from the Medical University of South Carolina claims that this method tends to remove about 99% of the buggers, which, according to him, is not really enough, because sometimes all that a person needs to get sick is to ingest as few as 10 organisms.
It turns out that most special methods for sanitizing cell phones are currently being developed. For example, a company called PhoneSoap is working on a device that will both charge and sanitize your handset by using UV-C light. Still, that device isn't expected to appear on the market until January 2013. A product that users can purchase now is some kind of a UV disinfectant wand. According to industry experts, such a device should kill the germs residing on the screen of your phone thanks to its UV light, without actually damaging the coatings of the screen, as it doesn't even need to touch it.
Are you guys worrying about the possible unhealthy effects that you smartphone may have?
source: WSJ
9 Comments
1. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1207; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
It's not like there is Fap over my phone .....oh wait
2. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Ah, I really doubt alcohol can damage the phone over the screen protector and the case.
Once the protector wears off, replace it.. no excuse for not having a clean phone
3. mercorp (Posts: 945; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
And an iphone is infected with many apple igerms???
4. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 2957; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Why is everyone only worried about the screen??
What about in between the covers? Inside the female headphone jack?? (sorry, that sounded explicit :D)
The earpiece??
8. Nadr1212 (Posts: 741; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
all i wanna know is will these germs shorten my life span cus i wanna live as long as possible
5. Stuntman (Posts: 643; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
I'm so glad I have an immune system in my body to deal with these things.
6. Hammerfest (Posts: 346; Member since: 12 May 2012)
Wipe mine down in the evening when I put it on the charger... no issues here... NEXT
7. GeekMovement (Posts: 1481; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
Getting rid of 99% of germs is not enough? Basically everything has some amount of germs on them. You can't really escape them..
washing your hands is not a bad idea.
9. Nikolas.Oliver (Posts: 1304; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
i dont care i uae acreen protector


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Kapojos, Jola J. and van den Berg, Anke and Borghuis, Theo and Banas, Bernhard and Huitema, Sippie and Poelstra, Klaas and Bakker, Winston W. (2004) Enhanced ecto-apyrase activity of stimulated endothelial or mesangial cells is downregulated by glucocorticoids in vitro. European journal of pharmacology 501 (1-3), pp. 191-198.
Kapojos, Jola J and Poelstra, Klaas and Borghuis, Theo and Banas, Bernhard and Bakker, Winston W (2004) Regulation of plasma hemopexin activity by stimulated endothelial or mesangial cells. Nephron Physiology 96 (1), P1-10.


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TPC Proteins Are Phosphoinositide- Activated Sodium-Selective Ion Channels in Endosomes and Lysosomes
TPC Proteins Are Phosphoinositide- Activated Sodium-Selective Ion Channels in Endosomes and Lysosomes
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Xiang Wang
Xiaoli Zhang
Xian-ping Dong
Mohammad Samie
Xinran Li
Xiping Cheng
Andrew Goschka
Dongbiao Shen
Yandong Zhou
Janice Harlow
Michael X. Zhu
David E. Clapham
Dejian Ren
Haoxing Xu
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 3089 Kraus Natural Science Building, 830 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Enders 1350, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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► TPC proteins are sodium-selective channels in the lysosome ► Two-pore channels are activated specifically by PI(3,5)P2 ► Two-pore channels are not NAADP receptors ► Lysosomes are high-sodium compartments
Mammalian two-pore channel proteins (TPC1, TPC2; TPCN1, TPCN2) encode ion channels in intracellular endosomes and lysosomes and were proposed to mediate endolysosomal calcium release triggered by the second messenger, nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP). By directly recording TPCs in endolysosomes from wild-type and TPC double-knockout mice, here we show that, in contrast to previous conclusions, TPCs are in fact sodium-selective channels activated by PI(3,5)P2 and are not activated by NAADP. Moreover, the primary endolysosomal ion is Na+, not K+, as had been previously assumed. These findings suggest that the organellar membrane potential may undergo large regulatory changes and may explain the specificity of PI(3,5)P2 in regulating the fusogenic potential of intracellular organelles.


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One in three participants report < 7-8 h sleep, 5 or more nights per week, and 60% would like more sleep. Almost half the participants (45%) report suffering the symptoms of insomnia at least once per week, with one in 5 meeting more stringent criteria for primary insomnia. Excessive daytime sleepiness (evident in 9% of this large, predominantly healthy sample) was associated with insomnia (odds ratio [OR] 1.75, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.50 to 2.05), depression (OR 2.01, CI 1.74 to 2.32), and sleep disordered breathing (OR 1.92, CI 1.59 to 2.32). Long work hours, alcohol dependence, and rotating work shifts also increase the risk of daytime sleepiness.
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NORMAL, Ill. — Illinois State starter Chris Razo pitched his fourth complete game of the season Friday to lead the Redbirds to a 9-2 win against Creighton.
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Razo (6-0) allowed two hits, struck out eight and walked one.
Meanwhile, Bluejays ace Tommy Strunc (6-2) struggled, allowing six runs on seven hits in two innings.
The Redbirds opened the bottom of the first with back-to-back singles by Brett Kay and Chad Hinshaw. After a groundout by Zac Johnson, which advanced the runners to second and third, Eric Aguilera grounded out to second base, scoring Kay. Kyle Stanton followed with a double to right field, scoring Hinshaw.
Illinois State scored four more runs in the second. Johnson's run-scoring triple down the right-field line was the big blast, and he scored on Aguilera's RBI single to make it 6-0 after two innings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks closed flat on Friday even though investors welcomed Spain's efforts to seek a bailout and cheered Apple's newest iPhone that went on sale today, driving its shares to a record high.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O), the world's most valuable public company in terms of market capitalization, jumped to an all-time high of $705.07 as customers lined up to buy the iPhone 5. Apple's stock ended up 0.2 percent at $700.10.
News from Spain helped lift stocks after the debt-laden country said it was considering freezing pensions and speeding up a planned rise in the retirement age as it raced to cut spending and meet conditions of an expected international sovereign aid package.
The moves, taken with the European Central Bank's efforts to spur growth in the euro zone and the Fed's recent announcement of a third round of quantitative easing, continued to underpin gains.
"The market is predominantly looking forward to the Federal Reserve and the QE infinity that the Fed promised, and the globally coordinated easing cycle," said Steve Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments in New York.
This week, though, the market's action has been muted, with the S&P 500 barely moving 0.6 percent in either direction daily.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI slipped 17.46 points, or 0.13 percent, to close at 13,579.47. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX dipped just 0.11 of a point, or 0.01 percent, to finish at 1,460.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 4.00 points, or 0.13 percent, to close at 3,179.96.
Earlier, the S&P 500 hit an intraday high of 1,467.07, while the Nasdaq reached a session high of 3,196.93.
A quick and sharp sell-off in spot gold shortly after midday, driven by a rumor that the CME may raise margin requirements on commodities, weighed on financial services stocks, according to Joseph Greco, managing director of Meridian Equity Partners in New York.
Many banks and other companies in the financial sector have high exposure to gold and other commodities, so any increase in margin requirements would affect them, Greco said.
Spot gold later recovered to trade up 0.6 percent at $1,777.19 an ounce by 1:11 p.m. EDT on Friday, after hitting a session high of $1,787.20 - close to its 2012 high of $1,790.30.
But financial shares were still lower by late afternoon on Friday. The S&P financial index .GSPF ended down 0.3 percent.
The transportation sector limited the market's advance on Friday, when the Dow Jones Transportation Average .DJT fell 1 percent. Earlier this week, two large shipping companies - FedEx Corp. (FDX.N) and Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC.N) - warned about the impact of the weakening world economy on their results.
At the close, FedEx shares slid 0.9 percent to $84.39 and Norfolk Southern shares lost 1.7 percent to $65. On Wednesday, a few brokerage firms cut their price targets on FedEx stock. On Friday, four brokers lowered their price targets on Norfolk Southern's stock.
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX has gained 5.9 percent since the start of August, mostly on expectations for new economic stimulus measures from the world's central banks. On September 13, the Federal Reserve announced a third round of stimulus or quantitative easing, known as Q3, intended to bolster the economy and reduce U.S. unemployment.
The market was more active than usual because of "quadruple witching," the quarterly settlement and expiration of four different types of September equity futures and options contracts. Expiration can lead to greater volume and volatility as players adjust or exercise their derivative positions.
"There was a little bit of a sell-off towards the close, but nothing crazy," said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at TD Ameritrade. "There is not much volatility because the market has been trading in a pretty tight range most of the day, and it looks like most of the players have already rolled their positions over the last two weeks."
Looking ahead to quarterly earnings, one bright spot came from the fashion front. Shares of Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (KORS.N) shot up 9.3 percent to close at $57.35. The fashion and accessory designer's company said it will probably earn more than it expected in the second quarter as it banks on strong global sales.
Housing shares climbed, led by KB Home (KBH.N), up 16.4 percent at $15.26, after the fifth-largest U.S. homebuilder reported a surprising quarterly profit and said its revenue backlog hit a four-year high. The PHLX housing sector index .HGX surged 1.74 percent.
Oracle Corp ORCL.O gained 0.7 percent to $32.47 a day after the software maker reported first-quarter earnings, excluding items, that met Wall Street's expectations. Oracle's hardware sales, however, are expected to drop further after tumbling 24 percent from a year ago.
Volume totaled 7.92 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the Amex.
Advancers beat decliners on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of 3 to 2. On the NYSE, there were 303 stocks hitting new highs and eight setting new lows. On the Nasdaq, 191 stocks touched new highs while 28 stocks reached new lows.
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