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Posts by Ben Liddicott
138 posts • joined 24 Mar 2010
MI6 oversight report on Lee Rigby murder: US web giants offer 'safe haven for TERRORISM'
A secret policeman in every internet chatroom
Like the pubs and bars of Europe in 1900. Say the wrong thing ("effin' government, hang them all") and you'll be spending some time awaiting trial...
The prosecution will be dropped of course. The process is the punishment.
Yes, it is interesting that they said it... The assault on free speech continues... never let a good tragedy go to waste...
YOU are the threat: True confessions of real-life sysadmins
You can't defend against your bodyguards...
Your only option is to pick trustworthy guards... and be the sort of person they are willing to be loyal to.
Attack reveals 81 percent of Tor users but admins call for calm
Re: TOR is and always has been an NSA honeypot
Prove it isn't.
It's a US Department of Defense (Navy, then DARPA) project in the first place, so the default assumption has to be that it doesn't protect you against USG. And the NSA is part of the DOD and its chief is ... an Admiral of the US Navy.
And: Yes I think most anonymity services and software packages are honeypots.
Probably they aren't *all* honeypots, but who can tell which aren't? Surely the question is not whether they are compromised by government, but by which government?
And even those which aren't pwned by the NSA (or another agency - probably more than one), are effectively honeypots to the NSA because they can de-anonymize any real-time traffic just based on their overview of network activity.
TOR is and always has been an NSA honeypot
Why not get your enemies to self-identify?
Here Enemies = Anyone who doesn't want to live in a panopticon.
HMRC dishes out tax rewards to GOV.UK... for inking deals with MEGABUCKS SIs
Re: Does this mean...
No, nothing to do with businesses. This is purely an internal government accounting thing.
This is Government refunding Government - nobody saves any money
This guidance doesn't affect businesses at all.
The article is unclear, but this is talking about whether **government departments** can get a rebate for VAT paid on various purchases. Government "services" are not VATable so they are not able to reclaim VAT on inputs against the VAT they (don't) charge in the same way as businesses. The purpose of the rebate is to ensure that outside suppliers aren't placed at an automatic 20% cost disadvantage over using internal staff for the same job. I.e. it is not so much to encourage outsourcing, as to create a level playing field for it.
As such only outsourced services which substitute for employing internal staff are supposed to be VAT-rebate-able.
Hence bespoke software = Yes, renting Cloud Servers = No. Outsourcing systems administration ought to be Yes, but I haven't read the guidance. Of course cloud servers come with a sysadmin element, so if I was a supplier I would rewrite my contract to break that out as a separate purchase so as to remove the pricing disadvantage as intended by the rules.
(Remember VAT is paid on sales, but reclaimed on VATable inputs. So in net-net it is only actually paid on NON-VATable inputs, which are: Capital costs (i.e. profits/your mums pension), Staff costs (i.e. labour/wages), and Imports (i.e. foreign capital and foreign labour)).
Yorkshire man NICKS 1,000 Orange customer records. Court issues TINY FINE
Blame the prosecutor: He could have been charged with fraud.
Making a false statement with intent to obtain an advantage (or cause harm to another) is fraud, carrying 5 years in prison.
The lesser "pretexting" offence should only be used when there is no such intent.
No need for a change in the law, just proper prosecutions.
Reg mobile man: National roaming plan? Oh UK.gov, you've GOT to be joking
What makes you think it's an accident?
So we have:
* Consumers want (or ought to want) industry to compete to improve quality.
* As any fule no, industry doesn't like competing, they would much rather cooperate which allows them to keep nice high margins for delivering a poor service
* Industry certainly doesn't really want to build loads of sites - they would rather share.
* Currently not allowed to share as it is anticompetitive.
* Now government is telling them they ***must*** share...
Government ignorance? Or do they know exactly what they are doing? Economics is one of the things taught in PPE you know, along with politics.
Look for campaign donations, relatives on Telco boards etc...
OTOH, if they are sincere, we could have the best of both worlds with mandatory roaming with a mandatory high termination charge - which they aren't allowed to pass directly to the subscriber (i.e. can only charge the same as a non-roamed call/data). That retains the incentive to build while providing covering. Indeed, the higher the roaming charge, the more incentive to build! O2 could make a nice lot of money building stations in the Highlands for Vodafone users to roam to!
Why solid-state disks are winning the argument
Long-term deep storage
SSDs require power to be connected every few months or they start to fade. Here, we are competing with tape though.
Yes, Samaritans, the law DOES apply to you. Even if you mean well
Domestic purposes
So the purpose of the processing is to enable you as an individual to be notified of certain tweets, and for you as an individual to possibly do something about them? The Samaritans are doing the processing but only on behalf of individuals who want these notifications about those they follow?
Sounds like "Domestic purposes" to me, which is an absolute exception to the DPA.
Jaguar Sportbrake: The chicken tikka masala of van-sized posh cars
Re: Nice Review
Consider the Discovery then. Everything listed above, and a lot coming second hand onto the market now.
Apple's warrant canary riddle: Cock-up, conspiracy, or anti-Google point-scoring
"Order" vs. "Requests".
To date, Apple has not received any orders for bulk data.
So they've joined the inner circle, and are now voluntarily handing bulk data over, without being ordered to do so?
If you want to tighten up the warrant canary, you don't re-word it to be more vague, you add additional clauses for the other thinks you have also not done.
This is an ex-canary.
It's a pain in the ASCII, so what can be done to make patching easier?
I think you mean the employees of IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Dell, HP, Canonical, and the Linux Foundation etc who are paid to update the kernel (and the other essential parts) as part of their (paid) job.
BBC Trust candidate defends licence fee, says evaders are CRIMINALS
Re: Licence fee to ITV and Channel 4...
Why? The BBC is full of adverts. Mostly for itself, but still.
4th Century GOBLET could REVIVE CORPSE of holographic storage
It's the storage technology of tomorrow.... and has been for twenty years
Cos, you know, it allows you to store information in the depth of the media. Unlike, say, a four-layer DVD. Wait, what?
Or, you know, an stacked-die flash chip.
Seriously, holographic storage will take off never. It's a non-story and always will be.
EU justice chief blasts Google on 'right to be forgotten'
Of course it is a free speech issue.
It is so the great and the good can hide from us that they are neither as great nor as good as they pretend.
If in doubt, it isn't for your benefit.
What's in your toolbox? Why the browser wars are so last decade
Debugging experience is better in IE
If you are using IIS and Webforms or MVC, you can set breakpoints in javascript, and use the same debugger to step between server and client side code. It really helps.
Web moguls ask YOU to stump up big money to STOP big money from winning in Washington
Re: If you could buy elections Ross Perot would have won
"To me, this speaks volumes not only of how you view the world, but how you treat others and the level to which you are capable of dehumanizing others."
Um, yes. Because I view people as being capable of making up their own minds having listened to different opinions and decided who to believe, I am dehumanising them and I am a sociopath.
"This almost always works, when the craft is employed by a skilled practitioner. This is because our species is exceptionally vulnerable to emotional and instinctual manipulation. Rational thought and logic are still relatively new evolutionary adaptations and they can be easily overridden by emotion."
You don't trust people to decide what to allow into their own heads. So you want to try to control the process. That's what dehumanising looks like.
I think as a discussion this has gone as far as it can go without degenerating into those long usenet discussions where we each respond to each counter-point with two counterpoints, and post-lengths blow up exponentially until each reply takes a whole day and we both forget where we got to. Happy days, many an hour spent etc...
But this: If we are all being manipulated so our beliefs come from omnipotent/omniscient evil social scientists we need to be protected from, then where did you get your belief that that is the case?
"I checked out the studies". Did you? Did you check the press release matched the abstract? That it matched the conclusions? That they matched the data? "Of course!" Liar. Check one out, any one (I'll wait) and you'll find that at each stage you dig down from press release to the conclusions and find the effect is only 20% (p> 0.97, sample size 23), and brush aside a tear, then dig down further as the evidence gets weaker at every stage, and when you hit the bedrock of actual data and find it is composed of compressed college students average age 21 will you ask yourself "I wonder if this generalises to 48 y/o slaughterhouse workers in the Midwest?". You will not.
People can't be trusted to make their own decisions because the media manipulates them. You know this because the media told you. "But not Murdoch media" So that's OK right? MC Escher calls. He's ready for your close up.
Re: If you could buy elections Ross Perot would have won
"everyone, from politicians to advertising companies uses decades of research into psychology, psychiatry and social dynamics to ensure that they control how people vote, even when people are aware of the means employed to manipulate them"
So while most people are too stupid to see through this, nevertheless you are immune and your own support for curtailing free speech through the use of oppressive campaign laws cannot possibly be the product of the same types of forces? If you really take your own assertion seriously you should right now be disappearing "through the looking glass"-style into an MC Escher engraving depicting the Cretan Liar paradox.
Why do I think it is a left-right issue? Because you seem to want to use that (dubious, exaggerated, hyperbolic) assertion as an excuse to make people you disagree with shut up, by preventing them using money to reach an audience. Which is typically a left-wing preoccupation. "The poor still don't all vote for us, in spite of the welfare state! They must be indoctrinated by the Fox. Let's do something about it". No, they hate you. "But we keep offering them more and more money for doing nothing!". That's why they hate you.
Nit picks:
* "Manipulate" is just a pejorative term for "persuade". Hyperbole.
* it isn't decades - it's millennia - the earliest extant academic work on the subject is 2400 years old. But pretend it is a new problem and you can pretend new measures are needed.
* control is an exaggeration. They attempt to persuade them to vote in particular ways.
* Commercial advertising however distasteful is trying to sell stuff not control the vote. Conflating two things only related by their methods not their objectives to make the problem look bigger. Hyperbole.
So that's:
"Everyone uses what they know of human nature to persuade others to do what they want, and have done since time immemorial. Advertisers try to get you to buy stuff. Politicians try to get you to vote for them. Kids try to get out of doing their homework/get you to lend them twenty to go to the cinema. This sometimes works, even though people know that is what they are doing - and they do since they do it themselves."
Not much left after the nits are picked, is there?
Re: If you could buy elections Ross Perot would have won
First, I suggest you get a tissue to wipe the foam flecks from your screen. You are basically saying:
* Candidates can tailor the message and might be lying
* And people are too stupid to make simple judgements and need to be protected from deceptive messages
I agree with the first, which reinforces my point - if they lying or tailoring the message it is because they know people won't vote for a message they hate. So it in no way contradicts what I said. I never said it would be an honest message.
But if politicians are lying who is going to point that out when everyone outside the system is effectively silenced by campaign finance rules? When the FEC and IRS investigates genuine grass roots campaigns, with the connivance of BOTH big parties, to shut them down/shut them up?
But of course they are the campaigns of Conservatives (= free as in freedom = liberal from the latin Libre) whereas I guess you are a Liberal ( = free as in beer = socialist, from the latin socius or comrade). So that's alright. Free speech is only for Liberals! No Platform!
But clearly I am an uninformed rube.
(Is this a change in comments policy? Does this mean I get to call you names too?)
Re: If you could buy elections Ross Perot would have won
The unions are doing it. In the US, the Dems get masses of money from the education unions, police unions, and lawyers.
If you could buy elections Ross Perot would have won
This will all pay for TV ads, leaflets, and annoying robo-calls to get your message across, but if the voters don't like your message no amount of repetition will win you the election.
Cisco open-sources experimental cipher
What is wrong with CTR mode?
CTR mode effectively converts a block cipher into a stream cipher, eliminating the need for padding.
CTR is the only mode you need.
Today's get-rich-quick scheme: Build your own bank
Sealing wax hasn't been used for computer systems since the late 70's.
Chewing gum is what is used now - usually Nicorette these days due to the smoking ban.
Help. Mailing blacklists...
Re: OK here is what you need to do
"As a small shop I don't have that sort of time to waste, but if I ever get rich, I'll sue the f*cking shirt off every single one of them who does this."
That's like renting a shop in a bad neighbourhood, and complaining that people don't come to your shop because they don't want to be mugged.
So you are going to sue the people who told them it was a bad neighbourhood.
Change neighbourhood - get a new ISP.
OK here is what you need to do
0. Most important. Fix the problem. It is no good trying to get de-listed if their own logs tell them you are still emitting spam. You may need to be able to tell people what happened and what you have done to fix it.
1. It is no good asking them why you are blocked, unless you have definitively determined that it is a specific decision taken by them in your case (even automatically). More likely, you are blocked because they use a reputation service.
2. So you need to check your status on ALL commonly used reputation services.
3. What is a reputation service? It is someone's opinion, based on their published policies, that your IP address or email domain meets the criteria to be listed on that service - usually the criteria can be determined automatically, but sometimes the lists are curated manually. In other words, it is an expression of opinion, not an instruction to anyone to block you. Mail operators may choose to use such lists to block outright, or as part of a scoring system, and usually in combination with a whitelist/blacklist of their own. (For example you would usually whitelist your bigger customers - you don't want to lose an order for a million widgets just because an over-enthusiastic salesperson got your customer listed on one of these lists).
4. So find out who has listed you.
Check both your IP address and email addresses against all blacklists. Robtex is a service which can do this for you:
So for example if your email domain is theregister.co.uk and your mail server is aspmx.l.google.com, then bung the IP address 220.127.116.11 into the box at the top, then hit the "blacklists" link and it will tell you if you are listed by any blacklists.
Do the same with the domain.
5. Then you need to jump through the relevant hoops with each and every blacklist which has listed you. In most cases you can get de-listed (once) by asking. But not in all cases. Some will only de-list you after a month - but these are little-used.
Generally, if you can get off all the lists, you will find you can get mail delivered again. But that's the first thing you need to do.
An alternative would be to actually move your mail domain to Google, or Outlook.com. They already do all the rate-limiting, outbound filtering of spam and other defence-in-depth measures you will need, and have developed relationships with all the other large mail providers to report abusive users.
Join MAILOP
Join the Mail Operators List, and ask there.
EBAY... You keep using that word 'ENCRYPTION' – it does not mean what you think it means
Re: Seasoning
Salt should be cryptographically random.
WHOMP! There it is: IBM demos 154TB tape
"""A follow-on thought: If tape density can more than double every 30 months then it could well outpace disk density improvements and cement its role as the archive medium."""
* Tape storage halves in price per GB every 30 months
* HDD storage halves in price per GB every 18 months.
* Flash SSD storage halves in price per GB every 12 months.
So at what point will HDD take over from tape?
At what point will SSD take over from HDD?
At what point will SSD take over from tape? (Possibly never to this one. Currently, high capacity SSD needs to be powered up every few months).
Japanese cops arrest man with five 3D printed guns at home
"Gun Deaths" include self defence. Self defence is good. Murder is bad, even if no gun is used.
As a result, Japan has some of the lowest rates of gun death in the world, with around 0.06 firearms fatalities per 100,000 people. Here in the Land of the Free, where pretty much anyone can own a gun with minimal oversight or training, that figure is 10.2 deaths per 100,000 people.
"Gun Deaths" is a false category. What is wrong with it? It focusses on the method instead of culpability.
Firstly it combines culpable homicide, self-defence, and suicide, as if they were morally equally problematic. Secondly it suggests that gun homicides make up a category of murders which would not otherwise exist. Neither of these rhetorical devices is legitimate, but both are necessary to make out that guns are a real problem.
* Suicide rates are similar in most countries, but in the USA the gun is often the method of choice. Take the guns away and there are plenty of bridges. There is no reason to think the overall level of suicide will change, since suicide is a deliberate act.
* "Domestic Gun Homicide" is much higher in the USA as the anti-gun campaigners will tell you. It is also much higher in US states with high levels of gun ownership in the home. However in this statistic "homicide" conflates self-defence and murder. And "Gun Homicide" excludes fatal stabbing and beatings. If you add back the non-gun domestic homicides, there is little difference in overall "domestic homicide" rates. But if you then separate out those into murder and self defence an interesting picture emerges. States with low levels of gun ownership have 90% murder, 10% self defence, 90% female fatalities, mostly non-gun deaths. States with high levels of gun ownership have 50% murder, 50% self defence, 50% female fatalities, 50% gun deaths. In other words the high levels of "Domestic Gun Homicide" is almost entirely accounted for by **women defending themselves**.
So there.
The USA does have a high level of murder, but if you exclude drug and gang turf wars, that vanishes too. If you are not yourself a criminal, your risk of murder is no higher in the USA than the UK.
Cameras for hacks: Idiot-proof suggestions invited
* Wide is more important than Zoom.
* Aperture is more important than megapixels
* Speed-to-shot is also very important.
Looks great, shoots fast, big sensor, big lens, wide angles, fast shutter, waterproof and shockproof:
You've seen this, right?
Snowden-inspired crypto-email service Lavaboom launches
BND is as close to NSA as GCHQ is...
"Lavaboom was founded by Felix Müller-Irion in Germany, so presumably it stands a reasonably good chance of staying as NSA proof as possible."
Germany's spy body BND has excellent links with the Americans and British. As you would expect given the number of American and British troops in Germany, and the history of the cold war, when of course the partition between east and west was the front line. Rumour has it they are particularly good at tapping fibre-optic lines.
If you want to be proof against the NSA, set up in China. Of course you will then have the Chinese authorities to deal with, so it's not like you will be better off...
Reality check: Java 8 finally catches a multi-core break
Only 6 years after C#...
It's not just a better Java.
It's a much better Java.
Oxfam, you're full of FAIL. Leave economics to sensible bods
Erm... really?
Why does a "feed the hungry" charity need to have a position on the Israel/Palestine question?
Why do they need a position on Global Warming? Or Social Justice?
I would have plenty of time for them if they stuck to feeding the hungry and clothing the naked.
But that's not glamorous enough, it seems.
Eight hour cleansing to get all the 'faggots' and 'bitches' OUT of Github
Made me laugh... :-)
UK citizens to Microsoft: Oi. We WANT ODF as our doc standard
Re: Thanks
"""My personal preference is UTF-8 done with a plain text editor """
So bold and italic are out? Hyperlinks are out? Photographs, illustrations, and embedded graphs are out? In all official documents?
Come on! Join the 1990s already.
Learn to use your tools, workman.
Edit->Paste Special-> Unformatted Text
Keyboard: Alt+E, S, U
Or in the new version,
Home->Paste Menu -> Special-> Unformatted Text
Keyboard: Alt+H, V, S, U
Learn to use your tools, workman, instead of blaming them.
Object to #YearOfCode? You're a misogynist and a snob, says the BBC
No, get a dictionary
The "liberals" abandoned freedom in favour of progressivism enforced by the state - trading free-as-in-freedom for free-as-in-beer.
The "neoliberals" are those who decided that actually freedom was not only more effective at achieving social goals, but just maybe, more important than those goals.
Freedom is worth risking our lives for. We shouldn't allow ourselves to be robbed of it on the pretext that at least that way we won't starve.
After all, if the people are prepared to fight and die for freedom, it is bizarre and wrong to take away their freedom in the name of preserving their lives.
Facebook turns 10: Big Brother isn't Mark Zuckerberg. It's YOU
We just need to man up (and woman up)
"""In short, we've become our own policemen. Zuckerberg's great empowering hides that he's helped usher in an age of conformity. One we've really created for ourselves. """
Maybe we just need to all grow a pair, and just say what we think. The illusion of unanimity would soon fall away, and with it the pressure to conform.
Mail Migration
What from? What to?
You cannot plan the migration until you know what you will be migrating from, and what to.
You should refuse to give any estimates until you know the destination platform. If they insist, say "between N weeks and 6 months depending on what the destination platform is".
Meantime if you actually want advice at least tell us what you are migrating from. Presumably you know that much, right?
How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up
Nesta had ***four*** grandiose ambitions
Ambition zero was the most important:
0. Provide a way to funnel money and/or power to parasitical government hangers-on - friends, relatives, lovers, minders and fixers, those who've done favours and those from whom you expect favours.
That's the real job most quangos do.
The real lesson is don't expect anything from the government. Sell your house. Find an investor. Find an investor who will sell his house. But don't go near the zombie hand of government "assistance".
French gov used fake Google certificate to read its workers' traffic
Re: Proxies
Exactly so.
Essentially the same as this story here:
Don't use work computers for personal use, people!
Also, don't use personal computers for work use.
Google lets users slurp own Gmail, Calendar data
Re: They only do it because they legally have to.
It's commendable that Google are obeying the law without actually having an injunction against them?
That's a pretty low bar for "commendable".
Re: They only do it because they legally have to.
Write a letter to their service address, including a cheque for £10. Await a CD in the post.
They only do it because they legally have to.
The "Data Liberation Front" stuff is just posturing - "Look we let you export your data because we are so open and friendly and definitely not evil. (And also we don't want a multi-billion pound fine)".
They have to allow users to obtain data about themselves under Data Protection Act for a maximum fee of £10.
Technically not all of it would be required because not all of it is "about" the user. But working out which bits are exempt would be a manual job which there is no way they want to do, and in any case cannot be done for £10. (The fact that you sent an email is information about you. The contents may or may not be about you. But to determine that someone would have to read it. Easier just to say "it is your data, download it if you want").
So in fact they have a legal obligation to allow export of a subset, which subset could only be determined at great cost. Therefore, in practice, they have no option whatsoever but to provide an "export everything" function.
So with a billion users, what else can they do but form a team and say "provide a self-managed export-everything function".
And also because, morally, it is the user's property. An increasingly rare example of law doing its proper job of being the enforceable legal embodiment of a moral right.
FreeBSD abandoning hardware randomness
Linux wasn't using RDRAND directly
Linux never used RDRAND directly, it used its own random number generator then XOR'd the result with RDRAND output. The effect of this is that if EITHER the Linux algorithm output is good, OR the RDRAND output is good, THEN the final output is good.
He knows what he is talking about, those criticising didn't.
Consumer disks trump enterprise platters in cloudy reliability study
Enterprise drives are not supposed to be more reliable.
They are supposed to be faster, typically spinning at 7200 rpm. In return, they sacrifice obviously more wear because of the higher speed. They are also supposed to be kept in a controlled and protected environment, and are typically deployed in RAID1/5/6 configurations where failure can be coped with.
Consumer drives on the other hand have to cope with rough handling, be it in tower cases under the desk which are regularly kicked or knocked, or laptops which suffer even worse. They are also deployed in environments where there is no redundancy and often no backup.
Of course consumer ones are going to be more reliable. Its an obvious consequence of the engineering brief.
How much should an ethical phone cost? An extra penny? Or $4bn
Re: Could you please drop the swearing?
One downvoter thinks either that the F-word is professional and serious, or that they know my mother better than I do.
Re: Could you please drop the swearing?
So you know my mother better than I do now?
I am just not going to send my mother an article which uses the F-word. It not only is coarse and unnecessary, it looks unprofessional and unserious, and detracts from the message.
She will have to remain uninformed about this important issue, which is a shame.
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Shuttle Endeavour: Prime seats
Onlookers sit on top of a roof to get a view of the the shuttle Endeavour as it moves east on Manchester Boulevard. Towed by four trailers, it inched down city streets from Los Angeles International Airport toward its new life as an exhibit at the California Science Center. It was greeted... Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times


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Got Milk? Dairy Prices May Soar in the New Year
Congress is stalling on yet another important issue that will affect Americans' pockets
The price of milk is just another symptom of the up-and-down economy.
Congress is stalling on yet another important issue that will affect Americans' pockets
The price of milk is just another symptom of the up-and-down economy.
Customers should be receiving refunds from now until March
You could be in line for a refund from your credit card company.
Home is most expensive sale in Harlem 2012
The home went for $3 million, just over the asking price of $2.85 according to…
With nearly 20 million unique visitors, the move would be a controversial one
The Washington Post could be adjusting its financial system with a digital paywall.
Liquor giant expected to look elsewhere to corner the tequila market
Who should they go after?
The IRS has programs available to help people avoid the same situation
The IRS don't play games. Here's how to play by the rules.
Borrowers finding relief from new government regulations
New regulations are supposed to make loan repayment more manageable for borrowers
Search engine giant told to pay up for not keeping its word
Y! may have to pay up.
Lending giants join in on holiday cheer
Two financial giants are giving consumers a break for the holidays.
Analysts say this is a great sign towards to a rebounding economy
How can American workers reverse the trend?
Brand President Larry Miller tells BlackEnterprise.com the brand has to "motivate young people"
Jordan releases new shoe just in time for Christmas.
Even though the jobs numbers have improved, people still rely on the government to get by
When will the unemployment tide turn?
The social networking giant and the gaming company put distance between them
Not quite a match made in Heaven, Zynga begins to reconsider.
Experts say there's no need to panic even though there's increase
What do the numbers say about the state of the economy?
Keeping the reason for the season in mind will help curb overspending
In the mood to give this season? Be careful!
Revised numbers show continued positive trending
Good news on the economy.
The oil giant is facing stiff punishment from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Oil giant BP is being held accountable.
First step towards resolution with the fiscal cliff
Solution to a long term problem could be found in paying down the deficit.
New look N.Y. Knicks take top merchandise spot
The NBA announced its bi-annual merchandise rankings report.
Marketers taking a page from Oprah's book in order to lure customers into stores
What does Oprah know that retailers are trying to adopt to boost revenus?
Will new strategy energize students to perform?
A new approach to rewarding students is in bloom in Michigan.
Study shows that people with positive dispositions will be richer than the rest
Smile. It pays.
Sommelier Kim Wood on drinking wine at Thanksgiving, his career and future
Kim Wood's at the center of a fantastic Las Vegas dining experience.
Newark mayor challenges Twitter follower to contest
Cory Booker will participate in Univ. of Bridgeport food stamp contest.
Give local and small businesses a try
Will you support small business Saturday?
Hostess brands closing after decades in the snack business
Will you miss their goods?
U of C will try to lure more local talent
The University of Chicago is making attending the school easier for local students
Xerox chief warns of stagnant economy
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|Fri, 12-07-2012 - 5:00am
Please help. My hubby and i have a very exciting and healthy sex life. But recently i ve noticed he is masturbating himself, while say, when he thinks am asleep, the other day i had a really bad migrane and came to bed first and fallen asleep. But when i woke and my back was turned back from where hubby was sitting on the chair. But i stayed that position and i could tell or hear that he was mastuurbatiing. I just stayed like that without moving cause i didint want him to know that i knew what he was doing. I was abit confused about what to do? then lieing there i felt angry and i dont know alsorts of feelings went throuhg my mind..
I then made gesture of being awake and turned, he then was acting like he was not doing anyting then came into to bed. Before, when we have sex i did ask hime if he does it himself at anytime, but he blatenly just syas, "no. why would i need to do that when your here". So why is he lying to me? I feel he is hiding things from then.
And the funny thing is it turns me on when i see him masturbating himself??? whats that about??/
OHHH i dont know what to do, shall i come straight out and ask him? Please any advice/
|Fri, 12-07-2012 - 10:02am
|Sat, 12-08-2012 - 4:36pm
Of course he is hiding it from you. Many people are very uncomfortable masturbating in front of another or admiting that they masturbate at all. The fact it is a turn on for you is even more of a reason to tred softly. While he may be open to discussing it the converse is more likely. IMO let it slide!
|Sun, 12-09-2012 - 11:58am
Yeah that is something most men do. No matter how healthy the sex life may be. It has nothing to do with you or what you guys share. Sometimes it maybe the need for a simple release without the 'work' of sex, a moment of boredom... I think quite a few women do it too... if you can, let it slide, and just use the knowlegde to enhance your relastionship... it turns you on, then bring it up some other time in a conversation that it is something you would love to see, maybe you do it mutally... but don't let it become anything more that it is...just a guy get his own release.
i once dated a lady that had a higher sex drive than i did, and had never turned me down if i wanted it, but yet there were still times that i would get myself off with her asleep in the bed next to me.. yeah i could have woken her up, and had even better sex, but i just wanted simple release. most guys are like that.
|Mon, 12-10-2012 - 9:42am
thanks guys,,,sorry for the late reply been busy with family stuff......
its reassuring, reading all of your replys. yeah i guess its the not knowing why he would do that when am there?? i felt neglected or maybe its me feeling in secure about myself????
but i suppose i know how to deal with the situation now,... am very much a trust person,,, i suppose evryone is, but one thing i cant handle in life is my hubby lieing to me,,,,, id rather he told me the thruth,,,... but with this i guess its good to know the things that you guys have said,,,,,thanks guys.....y cant things just be simple xx
|Sat, 12-29-2012 - 2:11pm
Realyl It is a guy thing...we do it cause we know what feels best to us. No reflection on you, but even the most accomplished mate in this can't do what we can do for ourselves. Immediate feedback and we have been at it ALL our lives. Don't let it bother your that he is saying a little white lie. We have been taught all our lives that you shouldn't get caught doing that...so he may have a little guilt thinking you might be secure in knowing the truth..he is right according to your statement.
Masturbation is something that happens, both men and women do it. Wouldn't you feel self conscious if he walked into the bathroom and found you masturbating. Have you done it? Have you told him you do? You should try including it in your lovemaking sessions. Tell him you want to masturbate and let him watch. Guarantee you won't be doing it alone for long...
Sounds like he knew you would not be "in the mood" so he went for personal release to keep from hurting your feelings by you rejecting his needs. BTW every guy lies about doing it...we sometimes do it just to have something to do...no reflection to you. I know when me and my SO haven't made love in a few days and she is sick, I usually don't do it to completion, but a good stroking feels good and what can it hurt? When I know she is sick and it may be several days, I will secretly do it to completion. I am 60 so I have to watch out for overdoing it, but a guy can only wait so long. Only be worried if he can't perform or is unattentive to you or your needs.
|Sun, 12-30-2012 - 6:31pm
I find it interesting that he was in the same room with you while masturbating, like he had to be near you, rather than say in the bathroom or somewhere else in the house. Kind of a compliment in my way of thinking.
I think you should tell him it turns you on, and maybe offer to "assist" him next time. Might be a great turn on for both of you :D
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Lorraine Williams Andi Lestelle and Jonathan Fawer are hard acts to follow, and I am Jennifer Zurik honored to have been asked to be JFS President for the next two years. I Jonathan Fawer look forward to working with our excellent Executive Director and staff to Immediate Past President ensure that JFS, like our Saints, fields a winning team for years to come. Deena Y. Gerber, LCSW Executive Director If you are interested in serving on the Jewish Family Service Board, please contact Deena Gerber at (504) 831-8475 or email her at email@example.com. Josh Rubenstein Page 2 | Family Ties | Spring 2010 COMPREHENSIVE LIStING OF JFS SERVICES JFS is a leading provider of social services for the entire community at all age levels. JFS provides guidance and psychotherapy for individuals and families under the supervision of our highly trained staff of experienced therapists and counselors. For more information about the listings below, please call (504) 831-8475. 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COUNSELING, SERVICES AND PROGRAMS HOLIDAY PROGRAMS o Counseling – Guidance and psychotherapy o Passover Food Baskets – Traditional for individuals of all ages, couples and holiday food selection for Jewish families in families financial need, nursing home residents and o Case Management – Planning assistance for those needing assistance in celebrating the long-term care holidays o I & R – "Information about" and "Referral o Rosh Hashanah Gift Bags – New Year's to" a variety of mental health resources and bounty for the elderly and homebound social services available in our community o Literacy and Latkes – Annual book drive for o Adoption – Home studies and post- schools and families in need placement reports o Teen Suicide Prevention – "Teen Life Counts" FINANCIAL RESOURCE CENTER is the largest Louisiana suicide awareness & o Financial Assistance - Cash grants to Jewish prevention program families and individuals in crisis o Bikur Chaverim – A volunteer-based program o Interest Free Loan Program - Up to $5000 providing home visits to adults who are interest free loans available for emergency homebound or partially homebound financial assistance, business & adoption/ o Divorce Mediation Services - Resources for fertility treatments every member of the family o Newcomer Loan Program - Assistance for newcomers to the city GROUPS o Parenting Skills Group – Enhance parenting SERVICES FOR SENIORS skills and teach effective and positive o Community Nursing- An innovative study discipline techniques designed to create a better understanding of o Stress & Coping Skills Group – Teaches the long-term effects of trauma on the elderly adults techniques to mobilize the healing o Homemaker – Home help and transportation power of the mind to enhance mood and o Lifeline –Security at home through electronic energy emergency response system o Parents of Troubled Adults – For parents of o Catch-a-Cab – Assisted transportation adult children suffering from mental illness, through taxi coupons for elderly Jewish substance abuse or other difficult situations adults o Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - Emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness are the four key areas Spring 2010 | Family Ties | Page 3 JFS CHANukAH BOOk dRIVE, LItERACY & LAtkES A SuCCESS! Over 1,000 Children's Books Distributed Thanks to the generosity of the New Orleans Jewish community, we collected and distributed over 1,000 books to children in the New Orleans area. Books were donated to NCJW's HIPPY program, the Westbank Community School in partnership with Hadassah, and Sojourner Truth Academy. At right, Ellie Zurik, Josephine Huynh, and Mia Montelibano celebrated their 3rd birthdays together at Daneel Park. Instead of presents, they requested that guests bring books for the Literacy & Latkes Chanukah Book Drive. Start saving your books for next year! 25 YEARS OF PASSOVER FOOd BASkEtS This year, Jewish Family Service is busy planning the 25th annual Passover Food Baskets Project. Passover baskets are delivered to anyone in the community who needs a little extra help fulfilling the mitzvah of commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. Recipients include—but are not limited to—the elderly, families in need, refugees from the former Soviet Union, and nursing home residents. The baskets are paid for, assembled, and delivered by volunteers and organizations throughout the New Orleans Jewish community. They are filled with traditional Kosher Seder foods and ritual objects created by local Religious school children. Volunteers are needed to help pack and deliver the food on Sunday, March 28th at the Uptown JCC. We will begin packing at 9am and delivery will begin at 11am. Breakfast will be provided. Families are welcome and encouraged! To volunteer, please contact Suzy Lazarus at 831-8475 or suzy@ jfsneworleans.org. Also, if you are aware of a family or individual who could use a Passover Food Basket, please contact Suzy at 831-8475 as soon as possible. Donations of any amount are being accepted to defray the cost of the baskets, each of which feeds two people and costs $100. Please make checks payable to Jewish Family Service and mail to: Jewish Family Service, 3330 W. Esplanade Avenue, Suite 600, Metairie, LA 70002. Page 4 | Family Ties | Spring 2010 Jewish Family Service Staff dIRECtOR'S LEttER Deena Gerber, LCSW Deena Gerber Executive Director Counseling/ Case Management Toby Bonnett, LCSW Case Management/Clinical Social Worker Kimberley Christensen, LCSW Clinical Social Worker Julie Hoffman, GSW Dear Friends of JFS, Homemaker Coordinator/Clinical Social Worker Jewish tradition teaches us that we are Sharon Kirkpatrick, LCSW responsible for each other. It is up to each person Clinical Social Worker to help meet the current needs of our community, Candice Rosenblum, LCSW Clinical Social Worker, Northshore Office and also to secure the future (as best as we can) for our children and our children's children. Suzy Lazarus, GSW Case Management/Clinical Social Worker That is why JFS has joined with Jewish Endowment Foundation Miriam Bleich, GSW in Create a Jewish Legacy. You can create a permanent legacy by Case Management/ Clinical Social Worker leaving a bequest to JFS. There's no limit on the amount you may Christina Roux, GSW Clinical Social Worker set aside from your estate--you can make a gift as large or small as Margaret Winston, LPC you'd like. Licensed Professional Counselor Leaving a legacy is an opportunity to help shape the future, it reflects Natasha Ramer Resettlement Case Worker what is important and meaningful to you. Lifeline Emergency Response System Right now clients are knocking on our communal door. The needs Marilyn Kline are growing faster than our traditional sources of funding as we all Lifeline Program Manager navigate challenging economic times. Jan Miller Lifeline Representative JFS needs the resources to secure our future, so that each and every Jane Levine person who turns to JFS will, in turn, find the help that is needed- the Lifeline Marketing Representative kind of help you wish to provide to your extended family. Community Nursing Project Paul Groch, MSW The JFS Leave a Jewish Legacy campaign is our chance to set a Community Nursing Project Director course of stability, dignity and security for years and generations to Cynthia Miranda, RN come. Program Representative, Facilitator I hope that you will consider being a part of Jewish Family Service's Family Life Education Ellie Wainer Leave a Jewish Legacy. We are all in this together. Teen Life Counts Coordinator Sincerely, Carol Schudmak, RN Social Work Student Intern Diana Winingder Administrative Staff Debra Louque Office & Finance Manager Marlis Hampton Administrative Assistant Deena Gerber Jennifer Hill Administrative Assistant Homemakers Betty Galloway Tiffany Okoree Renee Johnson Valerie Vaughn Spring 2010 | Family Ties | Page 5 Services…continued from page 1 has helped him to develop coping skills to manage anger, depression and to process the loss of his father. BY THE Through his counseling, Mark has been able to address the primary task NUMBERS: of adolescence: discovering his own In the 6 month period between values, goals, and identity. Thanks July and Dec of 2009 : in large part to JFS' counseling and • 706 individuals received intervention, Mark now is working Lifeline service - 183 pressed towards his high school diploma, their button for emergency applying for his first job, openly help discussing his thoughts and feelings with his mother, and articulating his • 67 older adults received 2723 hopes for his future. hours of weekly or bi weekly Homemaker service BIKUR CHAVERIM • 388 people were provided with Literally translated, "Bikur Chaverim" 1920 hours of psychotherapy means "Visiting Friends." This program matches up a person who is lonely, • 212 people received 763 hours isolated, in an assisted living or nursing of case management services home facility, or could use a new friend, • 23 financially strapped with a volunteer who is interested in offering his or households received $21,214 her most precious gift - the gift of time. to help with food, rent and A 92 year old woman who has precarious health, lives with and is utilities. cared for by her daughter. She worries about what her daughter, who • 2709 students in 32 high suffers with emphysema, will do when she is gone. The visitor sees her twice a month and has weekly phone contact. They have been schools participated in Teen a match for over a year and during that time they have gone from Life Counts. 250 were awkward acquaintances to dear friends - they have enriched the identified as being at risk for quality of each other's lives and have come to rely on each other for severe depression or suicidal friendship and support. Part of the success of this program is the ideation. Every single one monthly meeting of the volunteers - where under the guidance and of them saw a mental health inspiration of Toby Bonnett (a JFS social worker) volunteers deal with professional within 24 hours of the challenges and opportunities of this unique type of friendship. being identified. • Over 1000 books were JFS Professional development: distributed to 3 groups of at- The clinical staff at JFS has received the following risk students in New Orleans recent training: through the Literacy and Latkes Channukah book drive. 4 Postvention Training 4 Adolescent 4 Sensorimotor – Development This is just some of what we do. Our success relies on our highly Affect Regulation, 4 Anxiety in Children trained and dedicated staff, a Attachment & Trauma 4 Mind-Body Training committed and involved board 4 Skills Training in DBT and the financial support of the 4 Collaborative Divorce community. 4 Eating Disorders Page 6 | Family Ties | Spring 2010 tHE JFS HOMEMAkER PROGRAM Enhancing the Quality of Life of Older Adults and People with Disabilities Since 1975, The JFS Homemaker program has been at the forefront of assistance for older adults and people with disabilities. JFS homemakers help with everyday tasks, ensuring a safe and independent environment at home. A new client describes her experience with her homemaker: "I'm very happy with my homemaker. She tries to help me in every way that she can. I don't even have to ask her to do something, she just does it! She also sits down with me to laugh and talk with me which means so much to me." " She also sits down with me to Homemakers understand the varying needs of individual laugh and talk with me which clients. Ongoing training ensures the effectiveness of the means so much to me." program, thus improving the quality of life of clients. How The Homemaker Program Works Homemakers visit clients either weekly or twice a month for 3.5 hours on a regular time schedule. Services include light housekeeping, transportation, laundry, shopping, meal preparation, errands and personal care. For information about JFS Homemaker Service and how it can improve your quality of life (or that of a friend or relative) contact Julie Hoffman, MSW, GSW, at 831-8475. The homemaker program is supported through a very generous grant from The Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation, The United Way of Greater New Orleans and Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. Homemaker program fees are available on a sliding scale based on income. Spring 2010 | Family Ties | Page 7 tEEN LIFE COuNtS: Warning Signs Each year, Teen Life Counts (TLC) volunteers teach high school and middle school students about Warning Signs of Suicide. The goal of the program is to help teens identify friends who exhibit or experience these symptoms and get them to a trusted adult who can get them the professional help they may need. Some of these warning signs include: BEHAVIORAL: VERBAL: o Crying often or for no reason o Direct statements: If you notice a cluster of symptoms o Lack of energy o "I want to die" in yourself or someone else, contact o Sleeping too much or not o "I don't want to live anymore" JFS at 831-8475. enough o Indirect statements: BECOME A TLC VOLUNTEER o Increase or decrease in o "I hate my life" TODAY appetite o " I want to go to sleep and never Twice a year, JFS offers two-day o Loss of interest in and wake up" training for school professionals withdrawal from hobbies, sports, job, or school o "They'll be sorry when I'm gone" and community volunteers on o "Soon the pain will be over" suicide prevention. Volunteers o Drop in grades. Difficulty must be 21 or older and must be completing assignments or paying attention in class THOUGHTS/FEELINGS: available during school hours to o Feeling sad or hopeless all the teach the curriculum. You can make o Giving away possessions time a difference in a teen's life. Contact o Tying up loose ends: planning Ellie at (504) 831-8475. a funeral or writing an obituary o Not enjoying things enjoyed or will o Feeling confused, having a hard DO YOU KNOW A SCHOOL THAT o Impulsiveness and risky time making decisions SHOULD BE INVOLVED? behavior o Can't seem to concentrate We offer classroom curriculum for o Previous suicide attempt(s) o Feeling angry, irritable, destruc- upper and middle school students, o Suicide attempts or tive or violent educational and training workshops, completions by family or o Feeling isolated and lonely crisis intervention and more. If you friends are interested in bringing the TLC o Guilt, self-blame, sense of worth- o Increased use of drugs or lessness and low self-esteem program to a school you know, alcohol contact us at (504) 831-8475. o Feeling anxious or having panic o Neglecting personal attacks SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR cleanliness and appearance GENEROUS SUPPORTERS o Distorted thinking – hard to re- o Frequent mention of death in member ever feeling good Teen Life Counts is generously poetry, writing, or art work o Lack of interest in plans for the supported through the United o Change in sexual behavior future Way of Greater New Orleans, the o Self-harm, such as cutting, o Thinking about suicide burning or choking oneself Louisiana Children's Trust Fund, The o Feelings of despair Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown o Suddenly seeming happy after Foundation, and The Bruce J. Heim showing many of these signs for a period of time Foundation. Page 8 | Family Ties | Spring 2010 JFS HELPS YOu ACHIEVE HOuSEHOLd SECuRItY tHROuGH AN INtERESt FREE LOAN PROGRAM During these uncertain economic times, the JFS financial resource center provides a sense of security through our diverse interest free loan program. Up to $5,000 is available per household. ➡ Housing Loans ➡ Medical Loans* ➡ Educational Loans ➡ Technical/Vocational Training ➡ Advanced Degree in Social Services or Education ➡ Business Loans ➡ Adoption/Fertility Treatment Loans *Most medical emergencies are beyond the capacity of JFS, however, assistance may be available for necessities not completely covered by health insurance such as medications and medical equipment. Eligibility Requirements - Jewish residents of New Orleans ages 25+ with a history of financial independence and demonstrated ability to repay the loan - New Orleans residency for at least one year from the time of completing the application - Proof of income & credit history - Net assets cannot exceed $50,000 (exclusive of primary resi- dence and primary vehicles) - Guarantors may be required Repayment Terms - All payments must be made through automatic bank withdrawal - Repayment period not to exceed 5 years from date loan note is signed - Loans recorded in Jefferson Parish, La Spring 2010 | Family Ties | Page 9 A T C H-A-CA B MAJOR dONORS C Our grateful appreciation to these generous donors. JEWISH FEDERATION UNITED WAY GOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION JOE W & DOROTHY DORSETT BROWN FOUNDATION CAtCH-A-CAB STATE OF LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND Staying Connected to JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ADELE CAHN the Community HOLLEY PAVY Independence begins with mobility for ROSAMARY FOUNDATION many older people. Although some MARGIE BISSINGER no longer carry a driver's license, ANNE LOWENBURG Jewish residents 65 years of age NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN or older are able to stay connected ANN BRENER to the community through the JFS Catch-a-Cab program. The program MR. AND MRS. CHARLES (RUSTY) LEVY is the brainchild of Adele Cahn who MR. AND MRS. JACOB KARNO understood the connection between MR. AND MRS. KEN PAILET affordable transportation and MR. AND MRS. MARVIN JACOBS continued vitality and well being. MR. AND MRS. MITCHELL HOFFMAN Participants in the program can MR. AND MRS. RICHARD KAHN purchase $100 worth of cab coupons MR. AND MRS. ROB STEEG for $25.00. Coupons may be ordered SARA STONE every three months. Metry Cab, White Fleet Cab and Checker Yellow Cabs currently participate in the program. Taxi Cabs may be used for: GEt dOuBLE MILEAGE WHEN • Attending Synagogue YOu dONAtE YOuR CAR • Visiting friends and family Help JFS and Receive • Doctor's visits A Tax Benefit • Grocery stores, bank and shoppingmalls If you have a car or truck that you would like to get off of your hands, • Emergencies consider the benefits of donating it to JFS. We • Miscellaneous weekly and monthly receive a portion of the proceeds of the eventual sale and you receive travel needs the benefit of a charitable donation on your income taxes. In addition to Adele Cahn's generosity, Its easy. Call JFS at (504) 831-8475 or CARS at 1-877-JFS-4CARS. Tell JFS would like to thank the Cahn them that you are donating your vehicle to JFS of Greater New Orleans. Family Foundation and the Jewish A convenient pick up time will be arranged by CARS (Charitable Auto Endowment Foundation for making Resources). A tax receipt will be issued when the vehicle is picked up. Catch-a-Cab possible. Please make sure that you have a clear title to the car. Page 10 | Family Ties | Spring 2010 CONtRIButIONS tO JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE through August 31, 2009 GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS Mr. Donald and Mrs. Nathalie Johnston Sanford & Barbara Maslansky Ms. Marjorie Esman Ms. Kim Kline Dr. Bennie Nobles Cohan Family Trust Mr. Bobby Kohlmann Libbye Gordon Ferber Family of Houma Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Gregory Rich Jeffrey & Debbie Friedman Goldring Family Foundation Mr. Avran Kronsberg Lou & Susan Good Mrs. Beverly Jacobs Ms. Sara Rabin Marjorie Bissinger Ms. Mindy Lieberman Mrs. Cheryl Lampert Alexa Pulitzer Mr. Jordan Leiberman Ms. Gertrude Beerman Devin & Lauren Wakeman Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Levy Mr. and Mrs. Howard Green Rose Mendlinger Ms. Melissa Miller Mr. and Mrs. Michael Oubre, Sr. Dov & Margie Glazer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Pailet Mr. and Mrs. Dan Watsky Patricia Reardon & Richard Latner Mr. Peter Rothstein Mrs. Miriam Levine Sanford Pailet Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Braunig Celia Katz CONTRIBUTIONS IN HONOR OF Mrs. Sara Pick Brian Bain Mr. Jimmy Fried's 90th birthday Ms. Sherrill Herman Elmo Orgeron Ms. Barbara Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lazarus David & Mildred Covert Ms. Margo Garon Mr. Henry Rosenfeld JL Fischman MD Memorial Foundation Ms. Diane Africk Mr. and Mrs. Howard Green John Gilcrease Mrs. Vivian Kahn's Birthday Mrs. Eva Stricks David Radlauer & Julie Schwartz Mrs. Frances Wolff Ms. Anne Chirinos Lillian Rodos Ms. Celia Katz Mr. Jeffrey Willner Sandra Heller Ms. Mildred Covert Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wainer Jane Bories Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Liberman's Mrs. Bluma Wolfson Steven & Lee Rittvo granddaugher's Bat Mitzvah Mr. and Mrs. Thorne Harris III Temple Sinai Mrs. Judith Rattner Mrs. Fannie Yokor Beth Israel Dr. and Mrs. Harlan Pollock's Mr. Leo Laventhal JCC 50th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jewish War Veterans of America Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wainer Schorenstein New Orleans Jewish Day School Mr. Joshua Rubenstein Mr. Irving Zimmerman Jewish Federation of Greater (becoming JFS President) Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fagan New Orleans Ms. Sherri Tarr Touro Synagogue Sisterhood Ms. Madeline Schneick's birthday CONTRIBUTIONS TO JFS TEEN LIFE Gates of Prayer Sisterhood Ms. Elma Rosenfeld COUNTS Shir Chadash Dr. and Mrs. Louis Stern's In honor of Mr. and Mrs. anniversary Jeno Kalodzi ROSH HASANAH CONTRIBUTIONS Mr. and Mrs. George Rothkopf Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sands Ms. Rose Mendlinger Judge Miriam Waltzer Marrero Land and Improvement Ms. Eugenia Yuspeh Mr. and Mrs. Randal Pick Ms. Holley Pavy Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Goldman Ponchatoula High School CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEMORY OF CHANUKAH CONTRIBUTIONS Mr. Jack Berke CATCH-A-CAB CONTRIBUTIONS Mrs. Mildred Covert Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wainer Mr. Stanley Caron Mr. Jay Handelman Mr. Myron Burnstein Ms. Sandra Chass Morris Dr. Janie Beers PASSOVER CONTRIBUTIONS Mr. and Robert Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Berenson Ms. Brenda Coleman Mrs. Beverly Jacobs Ms. Janet Fagan Mr. Harry Freiberg, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kanner Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Levy JFS thanks Mrs. Revelle Gershman Mrs. Harriet Handelman Dr. Gary Reiss Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steeg its contributors. 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