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Acquisition and storage of aversive memories is one of the basic principles of central nervous systems throughout the animal kingdom. In the absence of reinforcement, the resulting behavioural response will gradually diminish to be finally extinct. Despite the importance of extinction, its cellular mechanisms are largely unknown. The cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) and endocannabinoids are present in memory-related brain areas and modulate memory. Here we show that the endogenous cannabinoid system has a central function in extinction of aversive memories. CB1-deficient mice showed strongly impaired short-term and long-term extinction in auditory fear-conditioning tests, with unaffected memory acquisition and consolidation. Treatment of wild-type mice with the CB1 antagonist SR141716A mimicked the phenotype of CB1-deficient mice, revealing that CB1 is required at the moment of memory extinction. Consistently, tone presentation during extinction trials resulted in elevated levels of endocannabinoids in the basolateral amygdala complex, a region known to control extinction of aversive memories. In the basolateral amygdala, endocannabinoids and CB1 were crucially involved in long-term depression of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)-mediated inhibitory currents. We propose that endocannabinoids facilitate extinction of aversive memories through their selective inhibitory effects on local inhibitory networks in the amygdala.
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After "The Fox", Ylvis Goes to "Massachusetts" (NSFW)
By Dan Casey on October 22, 2013
Being from Massachusetts, I am part of a proud tradition of fierce arrogance, unwavering loyalty, and general loudmouthing when it comes to extolling the virtues of my home state. Our sports teams are better than yours (even when, mathematically, they aren't). Our witch trials are better than yours. Our gay marriage is better than yours. The list goes on. But who's going to believe a Massachusetts boy that Massachusetts is so wonderful? Enter Ylvis, the the Norwegian comedians that took our ears by storm with the batshit crazy vulpine anthem, "The Fox". They are back with a brand new follow-up video, entitled "Massachusetts", that takes us all the way from cold, gray Norway to cold, gray Massachusetts. Let me be the first to tell you that everything they say in the video is true, especially about notable civil rights activists. But don't take my word for it — watch for yourself (NSFW).
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Fuck these eurotrash douches and their homophobic bullshit.
As a resident of Plymouth Massachusetts I can say that this is right on the money. Hilarious. Wicked frigggen awesome.
Friggin' hilarious!
Homophobic? The song is actually a tribute to Massachusett for beeing the first US state to make gay marrige legal
Ylvis never puts people down when they make comedy, there is lots of love in their work
Homophobic? No way! They are celebrating the fact that Massachusetts is a great place to be gay! We were soooooooooooo ahead of the curve.
Massachusetts is wicked queer (pronounced "kware" if you're a proper Mass-hole).
Funny, yeah, and they definitely hit a lot of our landmarks here, but really, they could have done this with any state and just changed up the names of places to highlight.
No, Keith, there's no "r" in "kware." It's pronounced "kweah."
I'm still laughing at the pronunciation of Haverhill as "haver-hill" Like it was "Lexing-town" Classic not-from-round-here moment!
i don't get it. i grew up in MA and live there now. this is weird….i feel like i should be offended, but i'm not totally sure…….wtf
Oh man, this song is funny. I actually really like the whole feeling of the song…..
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As the birds in South America begin to migrate in early May, the lagoons, potholes, and rice fields throughout the country are a primary stopping point during the migration months. The provinces of Western Uruguay offer thousands of acres of pressure free resting grounds, agriculture fields, and the guidance of the Uruguay River for the masses of migrating waterfowl. The Eastern provinces of Uruguay offer food, water, and concealed roosts throughout the endless rice fields, and massive lagoons known to this region. More specifically, the Laguna Negra and Laguna de Castillos are large bodies of water that offer protection and seclusion just minutes away from the countries largest rice producing provinces. These areas of Uruguay are saturated with ducks from early May to late September, and provide a wintering grounds attractive to all dominate species of waterfowl found in South America.
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As the cold fronts begin to sweep across South America, the teal are the first to swarm the fields of Uruguay as the early migratory species. The teal population makes up a significant portion of the total waterfowl throughout the continent with (5) dominate species. The early winter months are dominated by the presence of teal, and the challenging opportunities that that provide. *Although the teal species make up the majority of the early migration, the larger species of waterfowl are also found in large numbers during this time.
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The Ringed teal is among the early migrating species of waterfowl in South America. The small bird is slightly smaller in size to the green-wing teal of North America, and is colored with a unique and vibrant feather pattern, with one white ring on each wing, giving it the name "Ringed Teal." During the migrating months, this species is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. The Ring teal is characterized by the white rings on its wings, is baby blue bill, and soft quit peeps while in flight. As the smallest species of teal throughout Uruguay, the Ring teal provides challenging entertainment with its speed and sporty flying style. While this species is highly regarding for its beauty and acrobatic flying patterns, its greatest attraction is its rarity.
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- 4 Boneless, skinless, chicken breast
- 2 cup(s) Chopped yellow onion
- 2 cup(s) Chopped celery
- 2 cup(s) Chopped carrots
- 2.5 quart(s) Water
- 2 teaspoon(s) Minced garlic
- 1 can(s) 28 ounce diced tomatos
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- Place chicken breasts, salt, pepper, and water in slow cooker and cook for 6-8 hours to make chicken broth. Then, sautee onions in butter over stove. Add celery, onions, carrots and cook on medium high for 5-10 minutes. Add vegetable mixture to crock pot. Also add garlic and tomatos (I only use 3/4 can) to crock pot. Let it cook for additional 4 hours. 1 hour before soup is done, add egg noodles.
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Clean energy in China is a rapidly growing industry. China's 12th five year plan contains China's most ambitious energy-saving, water-conserving, and emissions-reducing targets to date. This fascinating article describes how China is investing heavily in clean energy technology and how it is heading towards being the clean and green leader of the world
It appears that China has recognized the unsustainable nature of its development model to date and is taking measures to address this. The rise of China significantly increased the rate of global resource depletion and pollution production. China is the world's largest consumer of coal (burning more than United States, India and Russia combined), steel, meat and grain and the second largest consumer of oil. China's Vice Minister for Environmental Protection, Mr Zhang Lijun admitted in public in March 2011 that China was still producing more "traditional pollutants" than it could bear.
The United Nations' Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre ranks China first as the world's largest CO2 producing nation. If China's current energy mix remains unchanged, its greenhouse gas emissions will reach 17 billion tons/year by 2050 or 60% of global emissions, three times China's current emissions. This would be catastrophic for the global environment.
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In its latest Five-Year-Plan (FYP), China committed to its most ambitious measures to date to improve environmental performance. These sit alongside China's pledges made at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit (CCCS).
China's 12th FYP & CCCS commitments
China's 12th FYP contains China's most ambitious energy-saving, water-conserving, and emissions-reducing targets to date. It is also the first FYP to mention climate change. Targets set under the 12th FYP are critical steps toward implementing China's 40% to 45% carbon intensity reduction target announced at CCCS. 12th FYP Environmental Commitments
Note: The above are primarily mitigation targets. The 12th FYP essentially does not address climate adaptation. CCCS Commitments
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To realize its 12th FYP and CCCS environmental commitments, China is investing heavily in its clean technology sector. In 2010, China became the world's largest investor in clean technology by a long shot, winning it title as the best country for clean technology investment by Ernst & Young. Mr Shi Dinguan, senior adviser with China's State Council, publicly announced that by 2020, the Chinese government will have invested RMB300 trillion (approximately US$45 trillion) in clean technology.
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During the 11th FYP period, China demonstrated the determination and ability to introduce large-scale, sector wide changes to ensure that the 11th FYP targets were achieved. From 2006 to 2010, China reorganized its energy industry by closing down 70GW of inefficient power plants (equivalent to closing all power plants in UK). China also linked local government promotions, salaries and the award of honorary titles to local government's ability to achieve the energy intensity targets allotted to their respective regions. In many cases, local governments resorted to the disruptive method of randomly closing highly polluting, unsafe or energy inefficient power plants that supplied electricity to households, businesses and hospitals to achieve their targets. The Central Government publicly criticized these extreme measures and urged local governments to not repeat them. During the 12th FYP period, the same determination to achieve the 12th FYP goals without such extreme measures could be expected.
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Because the white feathers teammed up to fight Susanoo while Makiko transfer her ki to Maya and boost the Amaterasu Gate. Saga Mask only saw an illusion of Souichiro blowing his intestines out. More or less, Souichiro's tap to Saga's abdomen was like someone powering up in any shounen and the weaker characters feel paralyzed or completely shaken from it.
Still, a nice chapter. To see the Takayanagi family fight together was awesome and about time Masataka did something besides stand there, saying 'Brother, Brother, Brother" for the past ten chapters.
I agree.
But in the end it means tha Mitsuomi double lost.
1° Cuz it's was his plan to make Nagi how he is and then kill but he failed cuz everybody had to tag in the fight.
2° Cuz it's most likely his main enemy(Maya) who didn't want that to happen that's gonna save the day.
I'am still wondering about the Tournament after that.
Mitsuomi and Maya are going to graduate, while I am pretty sure that Masa is going to be the new Head of the Takayanagis.
Mitsuomi will prolly let The Jyukenbuu win on purpose.
I hope the manga won't end cuz I wanna see Nagi, Bob( and Masa) abusing their Executioners privilegges. They used to be hoodlums.
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This reminded me of Heiachi from Tekken:
So Maya wanted to kill Souichirou and gain his power so she could stop her war? How selfish is that?
Nah, she ment it like Nagi's ancestor.
Taking away all the Red Feathers powers with The Dragon Fist and then kill him(if he turned bad).
-_< wait...soooo is maya now a mix of maya and nagi's mother now...
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Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for "crowned," the trophies were presented to honorees during a gala banquet on Monday, February 27 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. More than 350 nominated customer service and sales executives from the U.S.A. and several other countries attended. The presentations were broadcast live by the Business TalkRadio Network.
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In Greek mythology, a Charis (Ancient Greek: Χάρις, pronounced [kʰáris]) is one of several Charites pron.: /ˈkærɨtiːz/ (Χάριτες, [kʰáritɛːs]; Greek: "Graces"), goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility. They ordinarily numbered three, from youngest to oldest: Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae, the "Graces". In some variants Charis was one of the Graces and was not the singular form of their name.
The Charites were usually considered the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, though they were also said to be daughters of Dionysus and Aphrodite or of Helios and the naiad Aegle. Other possible names of their mother by Zeus are Eurydome, Eurymedousa, and Euanthe.[1] Homer wrote that they were part of the retinue of Aphrodite. The Charites were also associated with the Greek underworld and the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The river Cephissus near Delphi was sacred to them.
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Although the Graces usually numbered three, according to the Spartans, Cleta, not Thalia, was the third, and other Graces are sometimes mentioned, including Auxo, Charis, Hegemone, Phaenna, and Pasithea. An ancient vase painting attests the following names: Antheia, Eudaimonia, Paidia, Pandaisia, Pannychis - all referring to the Charites as patronesses of amusement and festivities.
Pausanias interrupts his Description of Greece (book 9.xxxv.1–7) to expand upon the various conceptions of the Graces that had developed in different parts of mainland Greece and Ionia:
On the representation of the Graces, Pausanias wrote,
During the Renaissance, the Roman statue group of the three graces in the Piccolomini library in Duomo di Siena inspired most themes.
The Charites are depicted together with several other mythological figures in Sandro Botticelli's painting Primavera (above right). Raphael also pictured them in a painting now housed in Chantilly in France. Among other artistic depictions, they are the subject of famous sculptures by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen.
A group of three trees in the Calaveras Big Trees State Park are named "The Three Graces" after the Charites.[3]
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Dr. Carolyn Crosby Primary Care Provider, Belknap Family Health, Meredith
"I love family medicine because of the longitudinal relationships I get to form with patients. Many of the patients I see now have known me since I was a kid growing up here, and many were patients of my Dad before me. I am honored to be in such a trusted position, knowing that people turn to me in both good and bad times—it is tremendously rewarding. Now, I'm excited to be involved in the new palliative care program at LRGH as part of the consultative team working together to assist staff and physicians providing symptom relief and end-of-life care. So often in our society, we provide treatment because it is available. At some point, quality of life may become more important than quantity of life—but for physicians, staff, and families, it can be difficult to step back and make that change in treatment. I'm looking forward to being part of the team that will enhance the care we provide to patients and families facing end-of-life issues."
Virginia Witkin, RN Breast Health Program Coordinator
"The most rewarding part of my job is when I see people I helped through the evolution of a breast cancer diagnosis back out in the community. I see their strength, and I see how far they've come as survivors, and it gives me a great feeling to know that I might have, in some small way, contributed to that."
Dr. Paul Friend Family Practice Physician, Westside Healthcare
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"People sometimes see a Chaplain as an angel of death, but at times I am also called upon in times of greatest joy, such as offering a blessing at the birth of a baby. It is challenging and humbling to be with people during times of sadness, loss, or change, but it is also very rewarding to see the hope, encouragement, and comfort that people draw from my work as a Chaplain. It gives me great joy to be a part of the team that assists in the healing process."


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We figure if the president can mention Weiner, we can too. Unlike POTUS, we're not calling for the congressman's resignation; we're trying to help him out. We've compiled five ways to play with your wiener that both Democrats and Republicans can agree are delicious and scandal-free.
5. This hot dog octopus is made by cutting tentacles into your wiener with a knife before boiling. The hot dog tentacles will coil when cooked.
3. Roll canned croissant or dinner roll dough around a hot dog to "mummify" it, then bake to make these little mummy hot dogs.
2. Stick uncooked spaghetti into and through uncooked hot dogs and boil to make "hairy wieners."
1. Sure you can buy a gadget, but just take a knife and cut legs and arms into a hot dog, boil your little wiener, and add a tater-tot head. Voila! You have an anatomically incorrect wiener man.
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C8787-5, President Reagan signing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act with William Casey, John Warner, Strom Thurmond, John Chaffee, Bill Young, Romano Mazzoli and Jeremiah Denton at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. 6/23/82.
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Hardboil eggs and let cool. Remove shells. If your bunnies will not be presented in an egg dish, then cut a very thin slice from the bottom of the egg (lengthwise) so egg will not roll around.
Cut thin carrot slices and shape into rabbit ears with a knife, making sure one end is very pointy. Insert pointy ends into egg for ears. Cut off tip of snap pea for nose. Push the pointed end into the front end of the egg. Make a small round tail from a white piece of cabbage, once again making a pointed end to push into the back of the egg. For eyes, cut two small little circles, using a small straw as a cutter, from your slice of cheese. Make sure the egg is not wet when you set the cheese eyes in place or they may slide out of place.
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Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of Time: a "news-magazine" that would condense the week's events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after Time's unexpected success—and Hadden's early death—Luce published the first issue of Life, to which millions soon subscribed.
Brinkley shows how Luce reinvented the magazine industry in just a decade. The appeal of Life seemingly cut across the lines of race, class, and gender. Luce himself wielded influence hitherto unknown among journalists. By the early 1940s, he had come to see his magazines as vehicles to advocate for America's involvement in the escalating international crisis, in the process popularizing the phrase "World War II." In spite of Luce's great success, happiness eluded him. His second marriage—to the glamorous playwright, politician, and diplomat Clare Boothe—was a shambles. Luce spent his later years in isolation, consumed at times with conspiracy theories and peculiar vendettas.
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First the Department of Defense. Then Wal-Mart. I realize it's a little early to make year-end predictions for 2004, but I'm going to anyway. -
Samsung Strikes
One of the big stories at Comdex this week is the no-holds-barred product and channel assault being waged by Samsung Electronics. -
ShadowRAM: November 17, 2003
A word to the wise: Never take a vacation two weeks before Comdex. -
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Network Appliance has signed a $300 million agreement to acquire Spinnaker Networks, a privately held storage vendor that develops scalable system architectures, distributed file systems, and clustering and virtualization technologies. -
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You Should Be Doing More Leasing And Less Selling Of IT Equipment
At a recent meeting of my top management team I asked a question completely unrelated to our business. "How many of you lease your automobiles?" I asked. -
Avaya, Extreme Pact Leaves Cajun In Limbo
Avaya and Extreme Networks recently entered into a multimillion-dollar marketing and development alliance through which Avaya and its partners will sell -
Engage The Enterprise
In the one hand, it's been a terrible year in the enterprise. After all, IT budgets are typically a percentage of revenue, so when revenue falls, IT budgets fall. In addition, many CFOs have been shoring up their companies' bottom lines by cutting the percentage of revenue they actually spend on IT, let alone budget for it. In effect, this has created a double-whammy for IT spending in the enterprise. -
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PatchLink this month introduced a tiered channel program with new incentives. -
Wincor Adds Two VARs To Partner Menu
Wincor Nixdorf has added two more names to its list of solution provider partners. -
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Ellie Goulding has admitted that she often feels lonely, despite being in a relationship.
The 'Starry Eyed' singer, who is currently in a relationship with dubstep artist Skillrex, has said that despite being happy with him, their clashing musical careers is often the reason that they spend frequent time apart.
The 25-year-old has admitted that due to this, she regularly feels as if there's noone there to support and understand her.
Said Ellie,
''If someone asked me what emotion I felt the most it would be loneliness. My boyfriend travels around the world constantly. we see each other maybe once a month. So there's that, but there's also the loneliness of feeling you're the only person who can do things the way you want to do them.''
Continued the British songstress,
''I can be in a room with a bunch of friends and still feel pretty alone. I think I've always been like that, though.''
The singer-songwriter has also said that her new album Halcyon was a difficult experience because she felt completely isolated, even though she was working with a team.
Speaking to Culture magazine, she said: ''Making this record has definitely been the loneliest experience of my life - whether people have been there or not. I think part of me will always be like that, even during periods of happiness.''
Halcyon is the follow-up to Goulding's 2010 debut Lights and will be released on October 8.
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Wise Fridays: Where Does God Exist?
"Where does God exist?" the rebbe asked several of his followers.
"Everywhere," the surprised disciples responded.
"No," the rebbe answered. "God exists only where man lets him in."
–An exchange between the Kotzker rebbe and his disciples.
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Almost Dead: Gaza, 1988 / Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, 2002
In his last posts, Assaf Gavron wrote about hanging out in the West Bank, moonlighting as an Israeli mover in New York City and about Israeli fast food. His most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He's been blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series.
As a soldier in Gaza in the first Intifada, I unknowingly started the research to a novel I was to publish 18 years later (22 years later, this month, in English translation). Gaza hardly appears in the pages of this novel, Almost Dead, but what I saw in its refugee camps, their streets and their houses, was the main inspiration to the story of Fahmi, one of the two storytellers of the novel.
That period of a few months in 1988 was the first time I was exposed to Palestinian life. The first time I understood what "occupation" means, how it works, and how life under it looks like. How young kids behave when they are given power over other people, and how those people react to them.
Living in Tel Aviv in 2002 was the starting point for the second storyteller of Almost Dead, the Israeli 30-something hi-tech engineer Eitan "Croc" Enoch. The surreal and chaotic atmosphere, with suicide bombs going off on a daily basis in Israeli cities and people living in trauma and paranoia while trying to conduct their "normal" daily life, almost called me to deal with it through writing.
So here I was, with these two sides of the coin, two stories running parallel and at the same time bitterly colliding, so close and so apart, so similar and so different and all the other cliches (though cliches are sometimes true). I wanted to look into this point in time and to go deeper, to write about life at this time and place, as lived on both sides of the fence.
For Croc's story, I only had to look around me. The people, the jobs, the city, the sensibilities were all around me. For Fahmi's, I had to work harder. So I started with my Gaza memories for the looks, the smells, the alleys and the curfews. But my story takes place a decade and a half later, during a different, bloodier second intifada, and in the West Bank. And now it was much more difficult for me to gain access to this place. In fact, the actual refugee camp where Fahmi lives in is forbidden ground for Israelis. So I read books and magazine articles, watched the many documentaries made by Israelis as well as foreigners on suicide bombers and on the occupation, and traveled where I could — for example, to visit a friend doing a reserve army service in Ramallah.
The final part of getting Fahmi's story right was to find Palestinians who can read Hebrew and would be prepared to read the texts and give me their comments. Through internet forums and cooperation organizations I found two readers, professors of Hebrew in the Gaza University. Connecting with them and sharing my texts with them was exciting and tremendously useful — their comments on things as small as the brand of cheese my character would eat and as big as the way he would behave near a woman were crucial. Most importantly, their overall approval of Fahmi's character and reliability gave me the final courage to publish the book.
Almost Dead was just published by HarperCollins in the US. It was published in Israel in 2006, and since then has appeared in German, Italian, Dutch, and soon in French. A movie based on the novel is in production by Neu Filmproduktion from Berlin ("Goodbye Lenin", "Run Lola Run"). He has blogged all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series.
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Jobnik!: Sex, Guns, and Hot Israeli Soldiers (An Interview)
The title of artist and writer Miriam Libicki's comic series Jobnik!: An American Girl's Adventures in the Israeli Army made me wary at first. The first thing you think of when someone name-drops the Israeli army is, it's going to be fiercely political and partisan. And when you think about political comics, you can be forgiven if the image your mind conjures up is pro-Palestinian protesters or boring Israeli propaganda.
Jobnik! is decidedly more personal. After an intensely candid prologue in which Miriam is diagnosed by a military psychologist — "Overly emotional, disconnected from reality, possessed of anxieties (especially social), unable to form interpersonal bonds, sexually conflicted…sure you haven't considered suicide a little bit?" — she's introduced to her new Hebrew-speaking coworkers and her new job: secretary to an overdemanding, office-supplies-stealing sergeant.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. The Israel that Miriam (the author) portrays and that Miriam (the character) stumbles through in this "sometimes autobiographical" series is a multi-layered one filled with sex and sexism, adventures and concerts and lonely soliloquies, all punctuated by lots and lots of bus rides. The Miriam of the story is a character in flux: torn between being religious and being secular, the social pressure to date and the desire to play the field — coupled with, of course, the fact of being on an army base in the middle of nowhere with a whole platoon of sexed-up twentysomethings in peak physical condition.
Libicki's portrayal of the Israeli army includes a lot of what, in our American Western minds, we'd think of as matter-of-fact sexism. Her officers flirt with her. She embarks into hook-ups with other soldiers, relationships that aren't relationships, dangerous flirtations, bizarre social schemes. Some scenes totally confound our sensibilities, like where the female soldiers discuss whether different uniforms make a character's thighs look big. It's a different world they're living in.
And Miriam is living in an even different world than that. She is an expatriate several times over, traveling through the shidduch-dating world in New York and the underground folk-rock scene in Toronto — as well as the after-hours Israeli military social scene — without fitting seamlessly into any of them. A just-released compendium collects Jobnik!'s first six comics in a 200-page full-book format, while the newest issue follows Miriam back to Israel after a hiatus in North America and introduces a new potential storyline, and two new potential love interests.
What are you working on now?
Jobnik! is continuing. The graphic novel that I published is supposed to be the first in a trilogy of books that are about that size. It's still the idea that I always had — I served for a year and 9 months in the army, and I wanted to do a book that took me from the first month till the last month. I sat down with my old army diaries and an overview of the intifada and I basically did a very, very rough outline of everything else that's going to happen.
So you have a master plan? You know what's going to happen, say, in issue #17?
Right now I do. It could all change. There should be 18 issues altogether. If you go to my Livejournal, you can see the first page of issue 8, although I'm really really way far behind on where I should be. I wanted to have it finished by the summer, and I had the thumbnails finished by New Year, and the final pages I've done this winter. I have some commissions, and then I have everything else going on, too.
What's "everything else"?
I have a part-time day job, which I didn't have for the rest of the time I was making comic books. I always kind of planned to get a day job; I thought it was something people should do.
I've gotten to the point with my comic book where I don't lose money, where I recoup travel costs and printing costs, but I don't make enough to pay my rent. So I have a part-time job and it's working with kids, which is fun, but very tiring every day. I'm furthering my education in teaching children, but leaves less time for comic books — well, not less time, but less energy.
Do your kids know about your secret life?
Not at all — it's something I try to keep really separate, because Jobnik! is a comic book, and some of the stuff in there isn't really — well, people who aren't familiar with the history of graphic novels would expect it, but people expecting Sunday morning cartoons would find the content to be really shocking. {laughs} I really hope that the parents of the children I teach don't find out!
How long have you been away from Israel? Do you have to look at visual cues or old scrapbooks to jog your memory, or do the feelings and visual memories of Army camps and Egged buses just naturally come to you?
I was discharged in May 2002, and I left the country two weeks after. I've been back — over half my family still lives there. My parents made aliyah after I came back. I still go back often, but not as often as I like — I've got two siblings with their families there. I try to visit, but that works out to less than once a year.
I've had a couple of articles in the Israeli press. In fact — probably the article that gives me the most pleasure is the IDF international magazine that gets sent around to all the bases, they did a feature on me.
What do they think of your comic-book double life?
Well, they've always encouraged me a lot artistically. My father is somewhat of a prestigious artist, and we were always encouraged to draw — we were always critiqued more than other kids. When I went to art school, they never really pushed me into doing something more practical.
With the comics, it's not completely positive — there's dirty laundry involved — but they're very happy about the fact that I'm doing comic books and getting myself out there, and that it's had a teeny tiny amount of success. My father is very tickled whenever I send him an article or anything, and that makes him happy, but he doesn't read Jobnik! himself — which I think is a good call on his part.
In Jobnik!, you're straddling the religious divide — in the Miriam character, you identify as religious, but you're also experimenting sexually, doing things that most people would say was way not religious, and then not doing them…
It's something that's just not written about. It's not uncommon, but you don't see it written about much, people who grew up with religion but fall into it and fall out of it, whatever your life at the time seems to allow for. This isn't a book about my religious crisis. It has that, but — spoiler! — religious crises aren't what the plot is going to turn out to be about.
I'm always trying to negotiate my religiosity with the rest of my life. For me, being religious has always been more about practice than faith. I come from a Modern Orthodox practice, where faith is de-emphasized, as opposed to what you do.
Do you think you'll tell that story in your future?
I don't think so, because that isn't my story. My attitude toward religion hasn't changed a lot. Looking at theology, I'm now more aligned with Conservatism, even though I like the rituals and practices of Orthodoxy — although I don't do all of them. I guess there are those sorts of people in New York, but there aren't really any of those in Vancouver [where she lives now].
I'm also at a strange place in my Judaism now, being married to a Buddhist. I keep Shabbat to some
extent, being married to a Shabbos goy. I still keep kosher, even though I'll eat out at dairy restaurants, which is not something I did growing up in Columbus. But it's still an important part of my identity to do those things.
Is it weird to be spending so much of your life talking about a part of your life that happened so long ago?
Not really. I think it's the richest part of my life, storytelling-wise, and when I get a bit bored with it, I do a drawn essay. But it's something I can use to beat myself over the head with. I can calculate how much time it's spent writing about vs. doing it — it's taken five years to write a story that's seven months long so far. It sounds a little pathetic when I say it like that —
No way! It sounds pretty wild, actually.
It's an interesting story to tell. It's just a very drawn-out process. It's funny that even — I think if I weren't writing about this, I wouldn't have as many army dreams as I'm writing about right now.
What sort of dreams — terrorism dreams? Israel dreams?
No, not really. When there is an enemy, I'm basically running from Nazis like Indiana Jones. Not even like my grandparents. Like Indiana Jones.
I'm definitely going to get more into this in volumes two and three, because that's when the terrorism really kicks up in Israel. That's when the terrorism becomes really pervasive and affects you, but i think that, like many Israelis, it was this mind-numbing depressive thing rather than this panic thing.
It's kind of nuts to read how, together with all the army insanity and the relationship insanity, you use news reports and terrorist alerts. It's like Israel becomes an allegory for you.
That's definitely intentional. I needed to include the news and the Intifada because that's the hook of the story — "teenager making poor relationship choices" is not a great hook. When I use the news bits, it's not my memories I'm working off. Most of these, I don't have a clear memory of where I was when this bombing began or where that treaty happened. I guess it's a very intense way, but Israel is an intense place to be, back then, and even more so now.
In Vancouver, I feel like I'm in a sort of exile in a way — it's a quiet place, and a safe place. In my spare time, I have the freedom to write this book.
Miriam Libicki is the artist and writer behind Real Gone Girl Studios. The collected Jobnik!: An American Girl's Adventures in the Israeli Army is available now.
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The intern will help create and gather innovative content, develop newsletters, update a baby name database, and upload articles to the site. The ideal candidate should be eager, able to work independently, have experience writing for a blog or other feature writing experience, and have some knowledge of Jewish culture and tradition as well as familiarity with the web, web publications, and Photoshop.
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Friday Night Celine
Have you ever watched a video online, and about a minute into it, you realize that you have your hands covering your face in horror but you were too fascinated to turn away? I just had this happen to me.
I'm all for taking pop songs and putting them to the words of Jewish liturgy. I for one am never able to do Final Jeopardy because the second that theme song comes on, I'm singing Adon Olam. Same goes for Rock Around the Clock.
But this video is so freakin' weird I don't know what to do with it. The video is Eshet Hayil, sung to the tune of My Heart Will Go On, by Celine Dion. That in and of itself would be weird enough. But whoever loaded this video thought it would be appropriate to put pictures of the Titanic throughout the song (quick reminder: My Heart Will Go On was Titanic's theme song).
Quick Note #1: To my future wife: This is the tune I will be singing every Shabbat dinner. If you don't like it, don't sign the ketubah. I've also already picked out our kids nicknames. We can talk about that another time.
Quick Note #2: People at BangItOut, keep on finding the great videos.
Quick Note #3: I forgot how young Leo was in that movie. Just sayin'
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The West Bank, 2008-2009: Researching "The Outpost"
In his last posts, Assaf Gavron wrote about moonlighting as an Israeli mover in New York City and about Israeli fast food. His most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He's blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series.
The Jewish settlers in the West Bank have fascinated me for many years, and especially those living in the illegal outposts — a few mobile homes on remote hills with no running water or electricity, who are in a constant cat-and-mouse chase with the authorities. Regardless of political opinion (if such a thing is possible in our region, especially in this part of it), the extreme situation in which they live seemed like the perfect setting for a novel: the combination of lawlessness, lack of clear borders, the sense of adventure and of conquering new frontiers, as well as the breathtaking landscapes, religious fanaticism and the violent national conflict, make it feel like a modern, surreal kind of Western -– it is, in fact, the Wild West Bank.
The West Bank (often referred to as Judea and Samaria) is geographically nearby the Israelis who don't live there: from Tel Aviv, where I live, it is less than a 30-minute drive. Yet most Israelis keep as far away as possible. Seen as dangerous and controversial, some of it blocked by walls and parts forbidden, it is indeed "abroad†for many. Yet it is ever-present on the news, on political and at dinner tables discussions. So after I realized it could be a great setting for a novel, I decided to go there. For over two years I traveled, sometimes once a week, sometimes more, sometimes staying overnight, or for the day. I went all over the West Bank -– the desert lands of Judea; the greener, hillier Samaria; bigger, established settlements; and the tiniest outposts.
I wanted to see life behind the news headlines. I wanted to test the stereotype of the settlers as a crazy, secluded, fanatic, violent and racist bunch, armed with God's orders to settle the Promised Land by Jews, regardless of other inhabitants, international law, Israeli government decisions or other petty "earthly†matters. I was curious to learn about the people, their thoughts, their way of life, and the ways in which their private life converge with the larger, political story. I wanted to find out what actually happens on the ground when the president of the U.S., the most powerful man on earth, forces Israel to freeze construction in the settlements, and how it actually affects the inhabitants of the mobile homes in a tiny outpost on some neglected hill in Judea (hint: they don't care much).
In one outpost, a stunning place on the edge of the desert, I found a small hut to sit and write. The bath and toilet were outside under the sky, the floor was hard rock and the wind whistled through the cracks, but it was inspiring and authentic. I met the locals and encountered their architecture, their pets (including a camel), their organic fields and olive groves, and their Arab neighbors. Obviously, I have found a much richer and more complex world than the stereotype predetermined. The novel is still in progress…
The Outpost (working title) will be published in 2011 in Israel. Assaf Gavron's most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He's blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog.
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Drake's Bar Mitzvah
A couple months back, I mentioned how shocked I was that this blog never mentions Drake, one of the biggest rappers in the industry and a Jew.
The guy has been on my mind lately because he was featured in Young Artists for Haiti, the Canadian version of We are the World, which you should watch because it's a good song and it's always hilarious to watch my girl Avril Lavigne take herself seriously. Oh, and Bieber makes an appearance.
But I'm getting off topic. Where was I? Oh yeah, Drake being Jewish. I found this cool video from HeebMagazineFans (is this Heeb's YouTube page or a Heeb fan page? And if it's the latter, someone better be creating a MJL fan page). The video has the guy behind the camera informally interviewing Drake, when the question of his bar mitzvah comes up. The interviewer was surprised to find out that yes, Drake did the whole becoming a man thing when he turned 13. He also has gone out with Rihanna. I've done one of those things.
The video has some "language" so keep the kids away. Unless they enjoy hearing the F-word.
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Jerusalem, 1995-1996: Eating Standing Up
On Monday, Assaf Gavron wrote about moonlighting as an Israeli mover in New York City. His most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He's blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series.
My book Eating Standing Up started life as a weekly column for the Jerusalem local magazine Kol Ha'ir in 1995. The concept was simple, and is clearly evident in the title: to review each week one of Jerusalem's hundreds of fast food joints — sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, shwarmas, humus places — and the jewel in the crown: falafel.
Jerusalem prides itself, among other things, for its fast food, which derives its inspiration from the unique multicultural experience of the city: east and west, oriental and European, Arab and Jewish, ancient and new. My colleagues and friends found the idea that I should undertake such a task anywhere between disgusting and astonishing. But I -– despite a couple of undesired stomach troubles along the road -– simply loved the job, and within weeks the column became widely popular. My rave reviews were framed and hung on walls of the lucky joints, while angry reactions, threatening phone calls in the middle of the night and a handful of lawsuits were filed by the victims of my less favorable reviews.
As the column gained popularity, a story started to emerge within its pages, the ongoing story of "The Eater" – a single, frustrated Jerusalemite in his mid-20s, along with a regular cast — his faithful right-hand man "The Arab-Issues Reporter," "The Most Beautiful Girl in Jerusalem" (who was the target of The Eater's desires), "The Vegetarian Commentator" — and several other recurring characters. As much as it was their story, it was also the story of Jerusalem in the mid-90s, a city in transition from the optimistic, quiet, peace-process days, through the Rabin assassination and the following bloody suicide bombings and their depressing aftermath.
In 2009, the one hundred or so reviews that appeared between early 1995 and the end of 1996 were collected in a book by the Jerusalem publisher Uganda. Even thirteen years later, with about half of the places reviewed not existing anymore, the book was received as an authentic slice of life, a memento from the not-so-distance past of the city. And for those visiting Jerusalem, here are a couple of must-eat joints which scored high on the Eating Standing Up scale:
Shalom Falafel, 34 Bezalel St., Jerusalem
A small, falafel-only joint just outside the center, with the unique, orange-colored falafel balls and a perfect, always fresh and inexpensive portion.
Burekas Musa, 30 Jaffa St., Jerusalem
Another tiny shop not far from the old city with only one item on the menu -– a large, triangular burekas (Balkan pastry filled with salty cheese), served with a hard-boiled egg, hot tomato sauce, tahina and a divine pickled cucumber.
Eating Standing Up was published in 2009 in Israel. Assaf Gavron's most recent book, Almost Dead, is now available. He's blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog.
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The Ultimate Israeli Food
How do you show pride on Yom Ha'atzmaut? I'm really not one for going to rallies or wearing Israeli flags. And god knows that I won't be caught at a Yom Ha'atzmaut party. I hate parties.
So, like how I enjoy most other holidays, I eat to show my pride. Today, I went to the always amazing Olympic Pita to eat their schwarma on homemade laffa. You heard me, they make the laffa right in front of your eyes. Delicious. Even the non-kosher food blog Midtown Lunch agrees.
But lunch got me thinking. What are my top 5 favorite Israeli foods? Naturally, I made a list.
5) Hummus: The only reason that hummus isn't ranked higher on this list is because it is a spread that is best served with other things. When you eat hummus plain, which believe me, I have, it becomes drastically less good. Not to say that I wouldn't keep eating it plain. I'm just saying I wouldn't be proud of myself.
4) Schnitzel: The Jews response to fried chicken. Now if only a kosher restaurant would come out with their own version of KFC's Double Down sandwich. All that sandwich is missing is two pieces of bread around it.
3) Falafel: Cheap, filling goodness. Falafel goes perfectly with hummus. Probably even more than hummus goes with schwarma. If cooked incorrectly, falafel can be pretty putrid though. But if it's fresh and fluffy, there really is nothing like it. My recommendation? If you're in NYC, Taim in the West Village is wonderful.
2) Merguez: What Roberto Alomar is to 90s baseball, merguez is to my tastebuds. In other words, the underrated food of the century. I have a major love for hot dogs. A MAJOR love for hot dogs. And merguez is just a spicy hot dog. Sign me up right now. I'll take nine of them.
1) Schwarma: Was there really another choice? What other food can you get either as chicken, turkey or lamb, and have all three taste amazing? The grease might make you only want it on a special occasion, but when that time comes, believe me, you will enjoy your meal.
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Jewish Guilty Pleasures
I've been thinking about some of my favorite guilty pleasures recently. What makes something a guilty pleasure? I think it has to be something that's bad for you, something that you feel a little bit gross doing because you know just how bad for you it is, but something you do anyway because you just can't help yourself every once in a while. Often, of course, foods are guilty pleasures. But I also include lying outside in the sun without any sunscreen on, fashion-themed reality television, and gossiping about breakups in my social circle.
I have Jewish guilty pleasures, too. Some of them are foods: yerushalmi kugel, which is utterly delicious and also horrifyingly bad for you, Babka, and brisket (I'm a vegetarian, but I still sometimes dream about brisket). Other Jewish guilty pleasures include: showing up to shul on Shabbat for the second half of musaf, categorizing everyone as either a religious zealot or a heretic, and delighting in the sordid gossip of the synagogue you don't go to.
What are your Jewish guilty pleasures?
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Necessity is the mother of invention – and innovation. Drywallers in Nova Scotia, like many industries across the country, are facing a shortage of skilled labour. Thanks to some fast and flexible thinking on the part of the Nova Scotia Community College – and a little SmartBusiness – that shortage is about to become much less critical."Construction is a rapid-fire industry. In the course of a day, dozens of tradespeople will come to the site, do their job and move on. It's essential that we have skilled employees on those sites to ensure the job is done properly, effectively and safely," says Don Chisholm, owner of Tartan Drywall Ltd. in Dartmouth.
"Unfortunately," notes Gary Pinaud, president of Pinaud Drywall and Acoustical Ltd., "we're losing our skilled people. Many of them are retiring, and there are fewer and fewer apprentices in the industry."
The first step in meeting the labour challenge was recognizing there was a challenge. The Greater Halifax Partnership met with drywall companies throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality and discovered the need for skilled workers was so severe many firms were hiring new employees with no skills in the field, then taking the time, and expense, to train them in-house.
The Partnership turned to the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), which designed a customized program – from the ground up. "We talked with industry representatives – owners and union workers – and realized the problem was severe. We developed a comprehensive course that will train young people in drywall and acoustical services, and the industry endorsed that program," notes Charlie Francheville, NSCC's manager of customized training with the Akerley campus.
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Drywallers are not alone in their need for new skilled workers to replace retiring workers and to meet the increasing demand for new employees required by a growing industry. "We understood the problem," says Chisholm. "What we needed was the will – and the way – to make things happen."
The first 10 graduates of Nova Scotia's first drywall and acoustical course are graduating this spring. Many have already received job offers. Clearly, the will and the way have been found.
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