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SAN JOSE, JUNE 5, 2012 – On June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious military invasion in world history was directed against the many entrenched German Army divisions spread along 50 miles of French coastline at Normandy. This crucial assault, a pivotal moment in the European struggle during World War II, was dangerous, daring, and deadly, but Operation Neptune cracked the powerful Nazi grip on occupied France.
More popularly known as "D-Day." the attack was the initial day of the Allied invasion of the German coastal fortifications in northern France. At the end of the day, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers had been killed or wounded, but "the free men of the world… marching together to victory," as Eisenhower stated, were able to secure a foothold in the French sand. The cost for the beachhead was high, but taking the beach enabled more than 100,000 soldiers to begin their march across France to take down Adolf Hitler.
It was a desperate, yet incredible and meticulously planned endeavor to begin the initial thrust of Operation Overlord, the overriding plan designed to push deep into Nazi controlled France before the end of the summer in 1944. This initial attack, officially deemed Operation Neptune, did not officially end until June 30, 1944, by which time the Allies had established complete control of the Normandy beaches. Operation Overlord did not officially end until the Allied troops managed to get across the River Seine on August 19, 1944.
Very few, locked in the frenzy of battle during those days, could predict that the German military machine would collapse in less than a year, nor could many foresee that World War II would end in less than a year with the surrender of the Japanese Imperial Military on August 15, 1945. The Allied forces had been fighting Mussolini's forces of Fascism and Hitler's Nazi's for a considerable period of time, and to believe it would end some day in the near future may have only been a dream to most. But the combined Allied effort on D-Day proved to be a decisive turning point in the war in Europe.
The invasion of Normandy was the last component of the military vise that pressed in upon Germany in the final year of the crushing of the Nazi military machine. Soviets on the Eastern Front pressed westward intent to reach Berlin while merely hours before the initiation of D-Day, the Allies liberated Rome and ultimately the rest of Italy, which exposed the underbelly of Germany to further Allied assault. Opening up a Western Front in occupied France initiated the final stage of tightening the vise to destroy future German tyranny.
Looking back one year prior, it was quite bleak in Europe. Hitler had transformed the German economy, which was one of the worst in Europe after the Great War, to one that surpassed both Britain and the Soviet Union combined, with the basic exception of the manufacture of aircraft and tanks. By mid-1943, Germany held all of the territory it seized from 1938 to 1941 in addition to the area it secured from the invasion of Russia from 1941 to 1942. The only major nations of Europe that Hitler did not completely dominate in 1943 were Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Without the commitment of the United States, the outcome of the war in Europe would have been much different. One can imagine what the stark reality of that world could have been. The Allies were not sure that D-Day would succeed. In one of his pockets, Eisenhower carried a prepared speech, that he never used, which he would have read publicly if the D-Day invasion had ended in failure. Even Franklin Roosevelt went on the radio to call upon Americans to join with him in prayer for ultimate success on June 6, 1944. In that ominous hour, our leaders could not be certain that our response to the tyranny of Hitler would be enough.
In that prayer, Roosevelt may have uttered some of the most sincere words he ever spoke:
"Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tired, by night and by day, without rest – until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violence of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home…"
And so, the brave men and boys who hit the beaches of Normandy did fight. They did what they knew was needed to be done in those days of darkness. D-Day is not a happy holiday to be celebrated as a festive occasion. But it is a day to be remembered and to be understood as a day that helped to change the course of history for the advance of freedom for the people of the world. It is unwise to forget the value of D-Day. It is proper to remember the sacrifice of our fathers who fought and offered their lives for liberty.
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Central Jackson County firefighters were called to the 600 block of West Walnut Street about 2:30 a.m.
The fire department said Blue Springs police officers helped pull two people out of a basement window. They were not hurt.
Seven people lived in the home, but only six were there when the fire started.
The family had six pets. Three dogs and one cat died. Firefighters said they were able to revive one dog after giving it oxygen.
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Want something attractive on your wall that ties in to your family history? This 4 piece set forms an elegant family tree that you will be proud to display on your wall at home or in the office. Each piece is 12" x 12" and when placed as shown will form a family tree. All you need to do is fill in the information that you have. You can add a title if you wish or decorate as you chose - either digitally or with "tangible" items [buttons, bows, scraps of lace, dried flowers - your choice - get as creative as you want]. Kit Contains: 02 Left side panels of tree [Paternal Lines] - JPEG format 02 Right side panels of tree [Maternal Lines] - JPEG format 01 Family Name place guide 01 Set of Framing samples 01 Display Idea BONUS: A set of 6" x 6" tiled letters spelling out "Family" that can be mounted on wood, tile, etc. or framed to match your tree frames. PDF contact preview [can be printed and placed in a binder for reference] included. Terms of Use included. This product will work with any program that allows use of .JPG or .JPEG formats. Shadows are on preview presentation only.
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Peoria, IL – Illinois State Police (ISP) District 08 announced the newest member of its crime fighting Team, K-9 Dax, an elite, 70 pound German Shepherd.
Having completed full service training to detect narcotics, currency, human remains and missing persons, Dax is officially assigned to District 8 Trooper Wes Matarelli. Trooper Matarelli, a trained ISP K-9 handler, was excited to receive his newest partner, who he fondly named Dax. Trooper Matarelli named Dax in honor of the late Dax Locke, a one year old boy from Washington, Illinois, who was diagnosed with AML ML7 leukemia shortly after his first birthday.
Young Dax Locke left a lasting impression on Trooper Materelli because of his strength and courage to live. Locke received treatment at St. Jude Children's Hospital for his disease until he passed away in December of 2009. Trooper Matarelli has been involved with fundraising for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for many years, including running in the St. Jude Run for the last five years.
"When I think of the struggles young Dax was confronted with on a daily basis to stay alive, there's no greater reminder for me than a canine who is trained to be a courageous and fearless protector," said D8 Trooper Wes Matarelli. "Dax and I will work side by side to keep communities and roads safe, and will always be reminded of this young boy's courageous fight for survival," he added.
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Just for fun - what do you consider "House Splurges" that you have now that you might not have paid for when you were younger?
For DH and I, we have paid for a lawn service since DD#1 was born. At the time it was simple because DH didn't want to spend a few hours each weekend dealing with the lawn when he could be playing with DD and we love it so we have kept it.
This winter for the 1st time, we hired our lawn service for the winter to remove the snow (they also do this as part of the business and we live in MN). DH has a really bad knee so its hard for him to do this and rather than replace our very old snow blower that is way to big for me to use, we are having someone else just do it for us.
We have had a house cleaning off and on (off right now) and next year, once DD#2 starts daycare and my monthly expenses go down, I plan to hire one again.
I would just rather spend my free time with the family than cleaning and doing house chores. My kids are only going to be young once (they are 4 1/2 and 6 years now).
We could really use an update to our kitchen and all 3 bath's but we chose to build a new deck this summer so that is it for the big house projects for a while.
Growing up, my mom (single parent) hired someone to do the lawn once our mower broke - I have never moved the lawn and plan to never do it. I don't know that my mom ever did it as my dad did it before he left and then my brother did it.
I did grow up having to shovel (no snow blower) a very, very long driveway (I think it could fit 10 cars or something crazy like that from street to garage at the back of our property and near the garage, it was 3 wide but only 1 wide for most of it.)
DH just built a new shed and is going to start on finishing our basement. Those are rather big IMO.
We are talking about getting a cleaning service to come every other week. We need to look into the cost.
We used to have a lawn service that would mow and do fall and spring clean-up.
If DH is going to be gone at all this winter I want to hire someone to do snow removal. Our friend that normally plows for us is in Afghanistan and won't be home for months (just got there). If DH isn't home I can't leave LO alone in the house and it would take forever to shovel (I'm afraid of the snowblower) with him outside.
Cleaning lady.
We really should have canceled when I lost my job, but I honestly can't handle cleaning the house by myself (or even with DH's help) because it is a good size and my parents' suite needs a lot of work.
Before DH lost his job, we had a lawn spraying service for our yard and MIL's. DH tends to break out from something in the yard, so this controlled it. Since then, he's had to suck it up, and takes a shower immediately after mowing the yard. We did renovate the kitchen using a contractor 3 years ago, and hired the same guy to tile our bathroom last year.
Would love a cleaning service.
We have a cleaning woman and a nanny. My friend jokes that I have "staff."
I went a bit nuts turning DH's man cave into a nursery. We did a complete renovation--flooring, painting, crown moulding. I spent way too much on furniture, art,etc. but I was so crazy excited to finally be having a baby!
My 18yo self just had a good cry that this is what excites me now. lol
This exact thought is what prompted me to post this. I have been laughing at myself for a while at the thought that I am so excited about hiring a snow removal service and how excited I get over home improvement projects (that I hire out - I am so not a do it yourself girl). How we change with age!!!!
My husband would call himself frugal.... I say cheap.
Just this summer I finally badgered him into getting a barely used electric lawnmower at a yard sale. Otherwise, we have a fairly dull rotary mower.. those old school push mowers. I won't touch the bloody thing anymore.. kills my back. Granted, we have a tiny yard, but still! I don't have the time to mow with a very active child who needs a constant eye.
Next step.. snowblower!! I am usually the one to shovel and again, my back hates it! Fortunately we have a retired neighbor who usually does all the sidewalks... I just have to do the driveway.
Other than that, we do have a 2x per year tree service to help keep our crappy maples alive.
We have a cleaning lady who comes every other week, which is fantastic.
We also just bought our first "real" house last year (we had a condo before, followed by a few rental houses) and our big splurge this year is going to be air conditioning! I am so excited. It is a splurge out here because it really only gets hot for a short time each year, but I HATE being in the house when it's like an oven, especially at night. I have been telling DH for years that when we finally have our own place I was going to get A/C, and now we're going to do it! (Most houses, and even apartments, do not have it here. I grew up in the South and this is insane to me).
I love our little house and always think about what I would do to it if we owned it.aurora1974:
Like pp, we rent our house so no big splurges, although when I think about possibly buying this house I get so excited about the renovations we would do. lol My 18yo self just had a good cry that this is what excites me now. lol
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- Year Built 2001
- Free breakfast
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- Soundproofed rooms
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- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Bathtub or shower
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cable TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Climate control
- Room service (limited hours)
- Plasma TV
Eat and drink
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Bisabis - This diner serves light fare only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD - per day (rates may vary)
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are proud to be affiliated with the Tri-County Youth Football League. The league offers youth football to kids ranging in age from 5 to 12 (4 w/a waiver). Our league has 17 organizations. Our league is divided into North and South Football Conferences. There are 2 divisions in each of these conferences and they are: Northeast Division > Hallsville Bobcats, Daingerfield Tigers, Pittsburg Pirates, & Marion County(Jefferson)BulldogsNorthwest Division > Chapel Hill Bulldogs, Kilgore Bulldogs, New Diana Eagles, & Rusk County(Henderson)TexansSoutheast Division > Bullard Panthers, East Texas(Whitehouse)Wildcats, Tyler Red Raiders, Tyler Saints, & Tyler LionsSouthwest Division (our division) > JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS, Palestine Longhorns, Rusk Eagles, & Troup TigersThe top 3 teams in each division based on winning percentage advance to playoffs : 1st place teams will receive byes.The football season begins in August and ends in November.
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Commerce Bank Triple Crown Series
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Race 1
Lancaster - criterium, 25 miles
were treated to an exciting first race of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of
Cycling as the Pro/Elite Women flew around the tight 6/10 mile criterium
course in historic downtown
the first time in its long history, a Pro/Elite Women's race was added to
the traditionally men only
As expected, attacks went from the gun but nothing was allowed to go until the halfway point of the race when a group of six got away with local favorite Laura Van Gilder (Team Lipton). They worked well together but T-Mobile and Colavita/Cooking Light started applying the pressure from the field and with three laps to go in the race the field was all back together.
the teams with strong sprinters began to scramble for positioning heading
into the final laps all eyes were on Teutenberg as her team brought her to
the front. Up the final straight she waited until 100 meters to go
before unleashing her powerful sprint and spectators were treated to a
familiar sight in professional women's racing, Ina with her arms in the
out the podium were Gina Grain (Colavita/Cooking Light) in second and the
aggressive Laura Van Gilder taking a well deserved third place.
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Colonial bed & breakfast in Mendoza (Historic Center) near Independence Square
This bed & breakfast is located in Mendoza (Historic Center), near the airport, Plaza Italia, Zaldivar Institute, and Independence Square. Also nearby are General San Martin Park and Malvinas Argentinas Stadium.
Property Features
Quinta Rufino Bed & Breakfast offers a complimentary full breakfast. Other amenities include ski storage, complimentary wireless Internet access, and a rooftop terrace.
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In addition to cable television, guestrooms include beds with pillowtop mattresses, complimentary wireless Internet access, and separate dining areas.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request), a ski shuttle, and a theme park shuttle. This Colonial bed & breakfast also offers a rooftop terrace, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Quinta Rufino Bed & Breakfast has designated areas for smoking.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 13
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Ski shuttle (surcharge)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Express check-in
- Designated smoking areas
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Number of floors - 1
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Free valet parking
- Terrace
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
- Free parking nearby
- Free self parking
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Year Built 1920
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Ski storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in lobby
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
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Park your car
Free self parking, Free valet parking, RV, bus, truck parking, RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces), Free parking nearby
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- Bidet
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Television
- Cable TV service
- Separate dining area
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Bathtub or shower
- Rainfall showerhead
- Free Wi-Fi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Individually decorated
- Pillowtop mattress
Eat and drink
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Rafting nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Complimentary bicycles nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 12:30 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is 10:30 AM
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- Airport shuttle fee: ARS 80 per vehicle (one way)
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The Glories of Yiddish
History of the Yiddish Language
Max Weinreich (1894–1969) was born in the Courland region of Latvia, then Russian, into a family of German-speaking Jews, and learned Yiddish only in his teens. His doctorate in linguistics at Marburg University (he wrote on the history of Yiddish dialects) was awarded in 1923, the year he published, in Yiddish, Shtaplen (Rungs), featuring essays on Yiddish philology. This was the beginning of a scholarly career that culminated, four years after his death, with the publication of his truly monumental Geshikhte fun der yidisher shprakh (History of the Yiddish Language). The publisher was YIVO—the Yiddish acronym for the Jewish Scientific Institute—initially housed by Weinreich in a room of his apartment in Vilna, Lithuania (the city was then part of Poland). By good fortune, Weinreich and his older son Uriel were in Denmark when Hitler's war began on September 1, 1939, and they continued on to New York City, to be joined there in 1940 by his wife Regina and their younger son. From that year on, Weinreich was director of research at YIVO in New York City and professor of Yiddish at CCNY. Uriel Weinreich, also an eminent linguist, became professor of Yiddish at Columbia but died at the age of forty.
The masterpiece of Max Weinreich, his History, was published in a curtailed translation by the University of Chicago Press in 1940, which unfortunately omitted the thousand pages of notes, now restored in the superb new Yale University Press edition. The notes, extraordinarily copious and rich, are unlike any others I know. I have been reading them for several months in a proof copy, and cannot come to an end, because every subject they discuss involves the processes by which Jewish culture was transmitted and survived. The story of Yiddish, in a sense the Jewish language, parallels and embodies the history of the Jewish people.
Like some other European languages, Yiddish evidently began around the year 1000, and sprang up in the Carolingian Rhineland. It was not at first called "Yiddish." When Jews migrated from Lombardy and France to the Rhine region of such towns as Cologne and Metz they spoke what in Hebrew was called La'az, a "foreign people's language," called "Loez" by Weinreich. This was a form of neo-Latin that was fused with the Germanic language of their Rhenish bad neighbors, and protectively was always written in Hebrew letters. In Hebrew, Germany was named Ashkenaz, in contrast to Spain, called Sepharad. Further east, Loez fused with Slavic languages, intricately yet randomly. Weinreich's phrase for the nature of Yiddish is a "fusion language," and he carefully informs us that Loez itself had earlier fused Hebrew and Aramaic elements with Old Italian and Old French. Similarly Yiddish and Middle Rhenish German are utterly distinct languages, with very different sorts of metaphor, since the culture informing Yiddish rhetoric is primarily Talmudic.
In a very useful handbook by Benjamin Harshav, The Meaning of Yiddish (1990), Weinreich's exemplary refusal to study the nostalgias many Jews felt for previous forms of Yiddish (which would have been a poor response to Hitler's murder of Yiddish) is dismissed from the perspective of twentieth-century Yiddish literature, so much of which was written in the United States. To Weinreich's fusion processes, Harshav adds that Yiddish invariably was a language open to new expressions, since it tended to be used by speakers who knew, more or less, other languages as well. Phrases always were liberally borrowed from those others, whether German or Slavic or American English. Ironically, the movement of Yiddish into Slavic lands and later to America emancipated Yiddish from its German component.
But then, irony is endemic in the very nature of Yiddish, a fusion always conscious of its otherness, whether in regard to German, Russian, or American English. Any native speaker of Yiddish (I am one) can sense that the language's curious wealth belies its apparent paucity of vocabulary, when compared to English. Harshav, an immensely sophisticated linguist (who began as a Yiddish speaker in Vilna, where his playfellow was Uriel Weinreich), shrewdly catches the aura of connotative possibilities in Yiddish:
Yiddish speakers speak not so much with individual referring words as with such clusters of relations, ready-made idioms, quotations and situational responses. Since each word may belong to several heterogeneous or contradictory knots, ironies are always at hand. It is precisely the small vocabulary of the language that makes the words more repetitive and more dependent on their habitual contexts, hence weightier in their impact (like the words in the limited vocabulary of the Bible). It is not the range of denotations that the language covers but the emotive and semantic directions of the hearer's empathy. In this mode of discourse, the overt clash, ironic or clever, between words of different stock languages in one sentence is a major source of meaning, impact, and delight.
Readers of the fiction of Chaim Grade—for example his novel The Yeshiva1—or the poetry of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, who emigrated to New York from Galicia in 1908, and of Jacob Glatshteyn, who arrived from Lublin in 1914, instantly will recognize what Harshav describes. Here is Glatshteyn's "1919," a poignantly comic vision of the poet lost in the streets of New York, yet better off than in an Eastern Europe awash with pogroms:
di letste tsayt iz keyn shpur nit mer geBLIbn
fun yankl bereb yitskhok,
nor a kleyntshik pintele a kaylekhdiks,
vos kayklt zikh tseDULterheyt iber gasn
mit aROYFgetshepete, umgeLUMperte glider.
der oyberhar hot mit dem himlbloy
di gantse erd aRUMgeringlt
un nito keyn retung.
umeTUMfaln "ekstras" fun oybn
un tsePLEtshn mayn vaserdikn kop.
un eyner mit a langer tsung
hot mit a shtik royt mayne briln oyf eybik bafLEKT
un royt, royt, royt.
ir hert:
ot di teg vet epes aZOYNSin mayn kop platsn
un mit a tempn krakh zikh ontsindn dort
un iberlozn a kupke shmutsiklekhn ash.
un ikh,
dos kaylekhdike pintele,
vel zikh dreyen in eter oyf eybikeytn
mit royte vualn aRUMgehilt.
—YIVO transcription
Lately, there's no trace left
Of Yankl, son of Yitskhok,
But for a tiny round dot
That rolls crazily through the streets
With hooked-on, clumsy limbs.
The lord-above surrounded
The whole world with heaven-blue
And there is no escape.
Everywhere "Extras!" fall from above
And squash my watery head.
And someone's long tongue
Has stained my glasses for good with a smear of red,
And red, red, red.
You see!
One of these days something will explode in my head,
Ignite there with a dull crash
And leave behind a heap of dirty ashes.
And I,
The tiny dot,
Will spin in ether for eternities,
Wrapped in red veils.
—Translated by Benjamin Harshav
Here kleyntshik pintele, "tiny round dot," refers to the proverbial Yiddish phrase dos pintele yid, the essence of Jewishness, and it puns on the dot of the letter yud, pronounced yid, which is the tiny vowel sign of the tiniest Hebrew letter. Desperately ironic and wildly gleeful, the brief lyric testifies to a mere but sufficient survival.
The quest of Max Weinreich's life's work was to aid in Jewish cultural survival, very much in question now in twenty-first-century America. Throughout History of the Yiddish Language, there is an undertone of post-Holocaust anxiety. It is particularly strong in Chapter 2, "Yiddish in the Framework of Other Jewish Languages," a kind of litany for all the tongues lost until the resurrection of spoken Hebrew and for the murder of Yiddish by the German people and their assorted European associate butchers.
Weinreich's account of the bewildering multiplicity of Jewish languages is masterly, since there were at least ten aside from Hebrew and Yiddish. Hebrew itself probably began as a fusion language: the name ivrit (Hebrew) is not biblical, but is a much later word from the Mishna, the principal rabbinic commentary on the Torah. The original Israelites spoke a kind of Semitic, which merged with Canaanite. Isaiah 19:18 refers to the language of Canaan, sefat knaan, always transcribed as Hebrew. Nehemiah 13:24 calls Hebrew yehudit.
Hebrew ceased to be the sole Jewish language with the Exile to Babylon in 586–516 BCE. Babylonian, a sort of Aramaic, gradually replaced spoken Hebrew, so that by the second century BCE the Book of Daniel was composed in (or revised into) Aramaic. After the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 65 CE the Jews of Palestine spoke three languages: Greek, Aramaic, and more rarely Hebrew. By his conquests, Alexander the Great (350–323 BCE) guaranteed that the Jews—in Syria, Egypt, and to a somewhat lesser extent in Palestine—would be Hellenized. The third major Jewish language thus became Hellenistic Greek.
Persian (Median) had joined the linguistic cosmos of the Jews when Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian Exile (for those who wished to return to Zion) in 516 BCE. It saddens me to observe that while friendship once prevailed between Persians and Jews through the centuries, this ended with the Islamic Revolution of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Followers of Zoroaster and of Moses previously had wholly benign relations. A kind of Persian language reverberates in the Babylonian Talmud. This "Parsic" presumably now is mostly extinct, but shards of it remain in Israel among "mountain Jews" of Caucasia and Jews of Bokhara (in what is now Uzbekistan).
Judeo-Persian largely ended with the onset of Arab dominance in what once had been the empire of the Medes and Persians. Weinreich noted how little scholarly knowledge existed as to Judeo-Arabic, though since his death in 1969 there has been a considerable advance in studies of Arabic Spain and its Judaic literary culture. But Judeo-Arabic was less lasting than Ladino, the language of the Jews of Christian Spain, the Sephardi tradition which was the closest rival to Yiddish and to modern Hebrew among Jewish languages.
Like Yiddish, Ladino has a strong Hebrew component, but is far closer to Old Castilian than Yiddish is to medieval German. I have known native speakers of Ladino to be consulted by scholars of Old Castilian, but no instances of specialists in Middle High German working with academics whose mother tongue was Yiddish. It is yet another irony that Israeli Hebrew adopted Sephardi rather than Ashkenazi pronunciation.
Weinreich's zest for Jewish languages was awesome; you can drown happily in his oceanic discussions of Marranos (converted Jews secretly practicing Judaism) using the Portuguese language, or of deviations from Arabic and Turkish idioms in the other varieties of Ladino. The byways lead Weinreich into folklore, which aids him in asserting that "of all Jewish languages Yiddish has…the largest degree of individuality." Literary achievement in Yiddish, even now underestimated, sustains the linguistic esteem that Weinreich conferred on a tongue that he himself had not spoken as a child.
The most eminent writers of Yiddish fiction include Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, Sholem Asch, Lamed Shapiro, I.J. Singer and his younger brother I. Bashevis Singer, David Bergelson, and Chaim Grade. Among the best of the poets have been Mani Leib, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, H. Leivick, Aaron Glants-Leyeles, Jacob Glatshteyn, and Itsik Manger. Among these, Peretz, Grade, Halpern, and Glatshteyn seem to me the strongest. There is no Proust or Kafka in this panoply; that is an impossible standard to apply.
Macmillan, 1977, translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant.↩
Macmillan, 1977, translated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant.↩


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How to make a child growth chart...
(The finished product)
Supplies Needed:
3ft x 5in x 1in piece of good quality wood
Wood letters (large or small) found at Michaels
Wood Shapes to go with your chart theme, also found at Michaels
Craft Paint – for wood and wood letters
Paint Pen for chart markings
Sawtooth Picture Hanger (small or medium) for hanging your chart
Glue Gun or Wood Glue
Here's how to make this wood craft child growth chart:
Step 1: Sand the edges and any rough spots on your piece of wood to make sure it is totally smooth.
Step 3: Coat the entire piece of wood with paint primer for best results.
It is up to you if you want to paint the back side. I do if I am giving as a gift, but for my own children I only did the front and sides.
Allow the paint to dry completely.
Step 4: Paint your piece of wood with the color of your choice, make sure everything that is seen is painted (and the back if you wish).
Allow the paint to dry completely.
Step 5: Coat your letters with primer paint as well. (it is not necessary to do the back side of the letters).
Step 6: Paint and decorate your letters as you wish. I have done every other letter different colors, all the same colors, polka dots, plain, stripes etc.
You can even buy mini shapes and apply those to the letters, let your imagination be your guide!
Step 7: With a tape measure lined up along the side you want your actual chart to be, make the chart markings (inch and feet marks) in very light pencil.
Make sure you make longer markings on the feet markings so you can see the difference between the inch and feet marks. This will help in the next step.
Step 8: Using a paint marker (color of your choice) make the markings permanent. I make a longer line on the feet markings and a smaller line on the inches, but this is totally what you feel looks good on your chart. Mark the feet numbers, start with 2 feet (you will hang your chart up 2 feet off the ground) so you will have a 2 feet, 3 feet, 4 feet and 5 feet marker on the chart)
Step 9: Turn chart over and attach the Sawtooth hook on the back, make sure this is straight and centered on your chart
Step 10: Turn chart back over to front and place your letters and wood shapes how you would like them.
Piece by piece apply glue to the backs and place back on chart. I use a hot glue gun currently but have used wood glue in the past.
I prefer a hot glue gun now because it is instant. If you do use wood glue make sure chart stays lying flat until completely dry! If you stand it up too soon everything will slide off
Step 11: Once everything is dry you can hang your chart!
Hang 2 feet off the ground and voila, a beautiful growth chart made with love.
I use a sharpie marker to mark the kiddos growth.
Here are some other growth charts to give you some additional design ideas:
These were done with the little letters available at Michaels. My rule of thumb is I use the large letters for smaller names (3 letters) and the small letters for longer names. Remember the longer the name the less shapes you need and the more creative with the letters you can be.
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Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers : Dillon Burroughs has defended the faith as a writer, speaker, and professor. But when he asked himself how he was helping a homeless guy in his city or a hungry family in Darfur, everything started to unravel. Now, with renewed vision, disarming candor, and deep respect for the church, Burroughs gently leads readers through a reassessment of hot-button topics like these:Jesus was a friend of sinners and consumed alcohol. How did that work? He also said to love neighbors, sinners, and enemies. Does loving homosexuals fit in there somewhere? Why are the odds in America stacked against the success of a traditional marriage? Burroughs provides a safe place for spiritually minded and culturally savvy people to process their questions and find a more relevant and Christlike faith.
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Jewelry has a brand new friend. The BIGkick works with our smallest dies to our big 6" wide plastic-backed treasures and embossing tools. If that wasn't big enough, this portable roller machine cuts and embosses many different materials. Create your own one-of-a-kind cards, invitations, scrapbook pages, home décor, fashion, altered art, quilting and much more! (To ensure compatibility, always check machine and accessory requirements. Machine accessories may be sold separately.)
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Included with the BIGkick are a pair of Standard Cutting Pads and the Solo Platform & Shim, which makes all Sizzix components thinner than a Bigz Die - including Sizzix DecoEtch and DecoEmboss Dies - compatible with the BIGkick Machine. Add a Solo Wafer-Thin Die Adapter (sold separately), and the BIGkick Machine can even work with Framelits as well as other brands' dies and embossing tools! The diagrams on the Solo Platform, Shim and Adapter offer easy guidelines about how to make the perfect Sizzix sandwich.
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As the only member of Louisiana's Congressional delegation who comes from an oil and gas industry background, I have been the leader in Congress fighting for more drilling and domestic oil and gas energy production. I have also urged worker safety.
I have led the fight in Congress against Obama's disasterous moratorium and permatorium in the Gulf – in fact I convinced moe than 50 other Members of Congress to join my coalition in fighting the moratorium. As a result some permits were issued but we need to do more to protect and create jobs in our region.
I have also argued for worker safety and common sense solutions. We were lucky during the spill that a larger boat was nearby to rescue those in the water. I don't want to rely on luck in the future. That is why I introduced the idea of having larger life boats near workers. Some in Congress attacked me for this – but it was the right thing to do. I will fight for our jobs, the health of our oil and gas companies and the health of our workers.
Cap and Trade, commonly called emissions trading, will have a devastating impact on the economies that depend on oil and gas. The people of South Louisiana who work hard in the oilfields and our nation running will be severely impacted by this policy.
I oppose it and any sort of emissions trading for the following reasons:
• Carbon offsets will be passed on to the consumer in an average increase in utility bills of $1600 per year. At a time when we are faced with economic uncertainty, we do not need another fee passed on to the hard working taxpayers of this country.
• Carbon trading will have little effect on overall pollution within the United States, as those that pollute less will have the opportunity to sell their carbon credits to those companies that have a greater pollution risk.
• A cap and trade system will devastate the free market here in the United States and would allow a central entity, that being the United States, to regulate the flow of commerce within the country by controlling emissions.
A more realistic approach to global independence regarding our energy issues are simple. We should allow a greater flexibility to harvest those resources that we have here in the United States while we move toward other sources of energy at the same time.
We need to drill here, drill now.
We simply cannot drop all dependence on fossil fuels… it is a unrealistic approach.
Here in Louisiana, the vast resources we have in fossil fuels, such as oil shale, can lessen our dependence on foreign sources of oil, especially to those countries that do not hold to the values and interests of our country.
South Louisiana can help fuel our nation and make us less dependent on foreign oil now, and for years to come.
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Some pictures of Harley with his friends (yes, he had them, somehow, probably because he let Girl HUG HIM DAILY, sometimes for whole minutes at a time without biting or scratching or meowing or anything sensible) for some unknown reason, and was incredibly loving and affectionate toward everyone, the simp):
I guess Harley was quite fond of Tommy. I think it was because Harley was cold, and Tommy makes an excellent lard blanket:
He started corrupting Maceo before his neck fuffa even grew in, the old queen:
Achmed, Shadow, and Harley crooked their tails at you, beckoning to you to join them in their kitty gayness:
Spooning with his boyfriend, Shadow, who will never get over this loss (since no one else in the house likes him):
Technically, Harley was actually very handsome in his younger days. Too bad he wasted himsef in an inexplicable, utter lifelong devotion to Shadow. A decade of love, pshaw! What-ever.
~DolphieRamus, trying to comfort Girl, whose moping is aggravating me, by hugging her, something I haven't done in well over a decade
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review star princess from chile to San Francisco feb 2012
first of all I must state that the service on the ship was wonderful. Ever princess employee was nice and very helpful. a few were above and beyond what anyone could expect or wish for. the check in process was efficient and very friendly. We had a wonderful Balcony cabin BB. c753 on the back end of the ship and a cabin that was wonderful with an extra large balcony. much larger balcony than standard balcony cabins or mini suites. I am a fan of Princess product based on prior 12 cruises.
the service was above average and exceptional from many princess employees. I loved princess in the past but there were many noticeable downgrades in service.
the food in the horizon court was below expect ion to poor for afternoon and evening service.
it seems as if food came out of a can and was not fresh food. I have never been disappointed with princess before and the food on this trip was the worst I have ever experienced on princess. food in the fining room was OK. the More service was wonderful but again the food was not as good as in the past.
the cruise director staff did not provide as much entertainment as in the past. less event than in the past and music that was for 65-95 set. i am 45 and found the music for someone 30+ years older.
nice ship but I will be cursing with another cruise line next time. princess is looking a lot more like that cheap name of the holding company with the "c" word. princess was a higher end product until recent time.
i use to recommend princess to friend as an exceptional modernly priced cruise line that was above average and fun. most disappointed. great staff that does everything to please-your hope for the product and bad management that cutting cost and product hoping we are to stupid to notice.
I loved my prior 12+ PRINCESS CRUISES
I have done 13 cruise on princess
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next on royal Caribbean
value for the money I can only rate 3
every other princess cruise I rate 4.5+
very disappointed in the downgrade of the product Less
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PSG new-boy Lucas Moura had agreed Man Utd switch
No longer top dogs in English football, the same can also be said of Manchester United in the transfer market after they were beaten to the signing of yet another top transfer target this summer.
And United's disappointment at missing out on Lucas Moura has only been made worse by claims from the Brazilian's agent that a deal was all but done before Paris Saint-Germain swooped at the 11th hour.
Lucas, 19, had looked set to become United's big-money signing of the summer after being identified by Sir Alex Ferguson as the man to help bring back the Premier League title next season.
But despite agreeing a reported £30million deal with Sao Paulo for the much-sought after teen their hopes of luring him to Old Trafford were scuppered when PSG launched their own charm offensive.
The Parisians, bankrolled by the petro-millions of Qatar, wasted no time in wrapping up a deal, signing Lucas in a £35m deal that will see the player stay with Sao Paulo for the time being before linking-up with his new team-mates in January.
Ferguson could not hide his disappointment at missing out on another top target having already seen Eden Hazard join Chelsea earlier this summer, and believes the game has "gone mad" given the huge sums involved.
"I find it quite amazing that a club can pay 45million euros for a 19-year-old boy," said the Scot. "You have to say the game's gone mad."
His frustration no doubt stems from the fact United were just a signature away from sealing the signing of a player who has been compared to Brazilian legend Jairzinho.
"Everything was agreed between Sao Paulo and Manchester United," Lucas' representative Wagner Ribeiro told UOL. "The contract had been written and just needed to be signed.
"But then Leonardo called me and asked to talk to Lucas. They talked. Leonardo was helped by the fact he is Brazilian. He was very gentle with Lucas."
And for the second time this summer, it appears a "project" elsewhere was more appealing than Ferguson's attempts to readdress the balance of power in Manchester let alone the Premier League with Lucas, much like Hazard had been at Chelsea, won over by PSG's future ambitions.
"The possibility of living in Paris – a much more pleasant city than Manchester – also influenced his decision," said Ribeiro. "But it was PSG's project that impressed Lucas."
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Ten years ago, a 26-year-old rapper from Chicago named Kanye West changed the game with his groundbreaking debut The College Dropout. To commemorate the historic moment, Kanye and others look back on the album's impact.
In a series of tweets, a humble Kanye reminisced on his 2004 opus, which won two Grammys and has sold over 3 million copies in the U.S.
"Ten years ago today we finally released what had been my life's work up to that point: The College Dropout," tweeted 'Ye. "I say 'finally' because it was a long road, a constant struggle, and a true labor of love to not only convince my peers and the public that I could be an artist, but to actually get that art out for the world to hear."
He continued, "I am extremely grateful to each and every person along that road who helped, lent an ear, lent their voice, gave of their heart to that project, and to all the projects that followed, and are to come."
He also thanked his fans for always being there. "I am honored and humbled by my fans, for the unwavering support and love over the past ten years," he said. "I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of."
Eight albums and 21 Grammys later, he hasn't lost his passion for music. "Ten years later I am still the same kid from Chicago, still dreaming out loud, still banging on the door," he said. "The doors may be heavier, but I promise you WE WILL BREAK THEM."
Kanye's other half, Kim Kardashian, also took a moment to salute her fiancé. "10 years ago today Kanye released his 1st album The College Dropout! This was a game changer!" she wrote. "Could only imagine what you were thinking and feeling today 10 years ago! Happy anniversary to the best producer/artist over the past decade!!!! Can't wait for the next 10 years! Gonna be listening to this album all day."
Damon Dash, who executive produced the album, recounted the challenges leading up to its release. "Love being a part of making history…you never get used to it…funny thing is everytime I do make history I have to fight my partners first to do it…you wouldn't believe the internal resistance I got trying to put this album out…good thing I don't listen to squares and proud of Kanye for staying relevant for so long…and to all that doubted…again…I told you so…again," wrote the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder.
Plus, read what some of the album's contributors including John Legend, Syleena Johnson, and No I.D. had to say about their involvement via Billboard.
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text: So how does a young alt-rock band follow up a surprise video smash? If you're the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, you subvert that success with rampaging children, a dead mammal, and a severed limb. All of the above appear in the group's Spike Jonze-directed clip for ''Y Control,'' the third single from 2003's Fever to Tell, whose success was fueled by MTV's love for the sentimental ''Maps.'' The gritty new video, which looks like it was shot on decaying film stock, depicts the trio rambling around a dank basement with a pack of violent kids. Amateurish and goofy gore ensues: One tot's hand is chopped off, another cuts his own stomach open, and yet another bites into singer Karen O's neck. ''It's meant to be disturbing and funny,'' says guitarist Nick Zinner. But is it also career sabotage? Apparently not. Despite its Children of the Corn creep-show vibe, both MTV and MTV2 will play the video with a disclaimer by Jonze and some blurring of offensive moments. (Fans can find the unexpurgated version on the band's Oct. 12 DVD, Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow.) Not that it mattered to Zinner either way. ''We think [MTV's deciding to play] 'Maps' was an extraordinary fluke. We don't see ourselves in that world.''


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Kiss Facebook Emoticon
Girl sending a kiss and a wink. Romantic and love related emoticons are very common in just about every chat service and Facebook is no exception. Many couples use Facebook as an easy way to keep in touch with each other, you can use this cute little smiley to send a virtual kiss over the Internet. This facebook chat emoticon uses an asterisk to represent the puckered lips. An additional keyboard shortcut is to add a nose: :-*. You may find it easiest to type this code by holding the left shift key and using your right hand to type the characters.
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:-* thanks for the kiss
Let's try this :-)*
Will this work? :-*
lol I love to do emotions in fb thanks for :-*
Is this a kiss?
So Kiss me Kiss me;)
Thanks for the :-*
I can send it to a girl I like!
Anonymous thanks for the symbols ...hehehe... Now I have kissing symbol so I give you my kiss :-*
:-* A kiss from me to you my love!
:-* thank you for the kiss honey!
It's cool to be the one!
:* :* :*
It's easy for the kiss but how can put a gun symbol?
:-* see ya thanks for the help
:* Love it guys
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:* :*
thank you :* I am happier now that I know how to baffle the others :)
:* hit me up boys. a girl right here ;)
ha ha ha ha
:$ what is that? please answer.
:-* :*
here is one for u :-*
why it is called Girl sending kiss?
what about the boys...;p
:* a kiss for team Sherv.net! LOL
testing mmmmmm :-*
I want to know how it works;) someone should kiss me!
testing how it works :*
It's actually this :-*
awesome, really very nice.
That was awesome. Super. I love u!
how can put a kiss symbol?
;* let's see if this works
:-* does this work? Does anyone know if there is a shortcut list so I can just type it in and get the cartoon emoticons... similar to what the smiley and wink are like?
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I need hot kiss hug naked symbols
: - * lets c if it works
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i want new one lips kiss sambol
i want kiss emotion sambol 4 my fb
how do you make a kissing icon on facebook
can we make a kiss icon on facebook ?
how do u do a blow fly kiss emoticon
(kiss) (kiss) (kiss)
I want new smileys on facebook.
:-* want to see what this looks like
How do you do a kiss?
i had a comment with a smiley that was a wink with kiss lips and a small heart in the corner of the face. How do you do that?
:* Hope it works out for you.
♥ Hope it works out for you.
[] (kiss) hope it works
(Hand Clap) hope it works
:* seeing if it works
How do u do a kiss for facebook emotions?
:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
:* ........looks like it doesn't work from everyone else's posts
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guys there are a lot of kiss faces for facebook chat and status which I found under the "text" section of this site. go there you'll find other smiley faces too. most of them are cool. Well done Sherv.net! but why did you place them somewhere that we can't see from here?? maybe placing a link from this page to the kiss page of text emoticons will do good. THANKS!!!
:-* :* testing it out
:-* trying it out
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I didn't find the one i was expecting :'(
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How to make lips kissing?
How do you make a blowing kiss?
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hi friends! how r u all?
:-* very cute. I wish there were more of these.
want to know how to send a smiley on comments since there is no emotion option.
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thank you...gr8 website.
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kiss are heavenand make me feel so happy can think of getting one now
:-* so that's how it's done.
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:-* yeah... kiss keyboard emoticon face (look sideways with your head tilted to the left)
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hey i love u so much i could kiss u
try this :*
my ex sent me a face like this but it's a smiley face kissing really hard but i don't no how to send it.
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wtf.. i love you.. lolz hahaha
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Skateboarding on a parade float is a moving target
Unusual and unexpected floats can really turn heads in the annual July 4th parade in Peachtree City, and this shredding ode to skateboarding was no exception last week. The entry from PTCSK8 was a half-pipe skateboard ramp on which jumps and tricks were performed as the float moved to the crowd's delight. The entry won the Grand Marshal's trophy. See more winning floats on pages C5-C6 in this week's print edition of The Citizen. Photo/John Munford.
Was at the beginning of the parade and saw this dude lose control of his skateboard and shoot it over into the crowd. Not sure who approves floats but they made a mistake in authorizing this one.
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23 Jan 2014
Genetic mutations in people with schizophrenia cluster in specific proteins offering a 'new window' into the disorder, according to University scientists.
In the largest genetic study of its kind, published in the journal Nature, an international team examined the occurrence of new genetic mutations in people with schizophrenia.
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