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Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
The International Olympic Committee president stood firm in his refusal to hold a minute of silence at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in memory of the Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago, the Associated Press reported.
Despite an online petition signed by more than 100,000 people and a statement by President Barack Obama saying that he supports a public remembrance of the Israeli athletes who were killed by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, IOC President Jacques Rogge told the Associated Press that, "the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident."
Rogge said the IOC would honor the athletes elsewhere and at other times, including at a reception in London during the games on Aug. 6, and a ceremony to take place in September at the military airfield in Germany where the Israeli athletes were killed.
That the IOC is participating in any remembrances of the Israeli athletes, who have come to be known as "The Munich 11," could be seen as a degree of progress, given the IOC's absence at a similar ceremony that took place in 1984, when Los Angeles hosted the games.
That year, city officials, leaders of the Jewish community and members of the Israeli Olympic delegation attended a memorial ceremony at Los Angeles's City Hall. No IOC officials attended that ceremony, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times from 1984. The commemorative plaque unveiled at that ceremony, which now hangs at the Coliseum, was initially displayed at City Hall because the IOC refused to allow it to be hung at the Coliseum while the games were going on.
For more on Los Angeles's efforts in 1984 to remember the Munich 11, click here.
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July 19, 2012 | 9:34 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
Though they may not seem like much at first glance, the copse of trees that stands at the top of a hill in Pan Pacific Park is actually a legacy of the summer Olympic games held in Los Angeles in 1984.
More specifically, the scruffy trees were one of the ways the city of Los Angeles and its Jewish community remembered the Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympic games in 1972, even as officials from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prevented that memory from being invoked during the games in Los Angeles.
The trees are a variety known in California as the purple-leafed plum, but two of them have no leaves at all. Five appear to have been planted very recently; of those, four are flanked by tall wooden posts that ensure no lawnmower or young child accidentally bumps up against a tree, which could damage their underdeveloped roots.
But the plaque embedded in the ground among the trees is as clear as the day it was affixed there:
Ignored by visitors and all but forgotten by the city's Jewish community, the trees were dedicated on June 24, 1984. The IOC did not publicly remember the murdered Israeli athletes during the Los Angeles games, and today, 28 years later, the IOC is still resisting efforts to have an official memorial at the games for the athletes who have come to be known as "The Munich 11."
An online petition requesting the IOC dedicate a minute of silence to the murdered Israeli athletes at the opening ceremony of the upcoming London Olympic games this year has garnered more than 100,000 signatures. The IOC president refused the request earlier this month, according to the New York Times.
Since then, President Barack Obama said on July 19 that he supports the request for a minute of silence to acknowledge the tragedy, which took place 40 years ago. Sportscaster Bob Costas told The Hollywood Reporter that if the IOC did not observe a minute of silence, he would dedicate a minute of silence himself, on the air.
The petition was launched by Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, two widows of Israeli athletes killed in 1972, together with the JCC Rockland in New York State. It is only the latest effort by the families of the slain athletes to have a public moment of silence in their relatives' memories at the Olympic games.
Spitzer began her efforts in advance of the 1976 games in Montreal, according to JTA, and assumed that the IOC would commemorate the murders in some way. Spitzer and Romano traveled to Montreal, where the Jewish community staged a memorial in a synagogue, which was attended by more than 5,000 people. No mention was made of the slain athletes at the Olympics, however.
"Ilana and I kept waiting for the moment when they would still do something," Spitzer told JTA. "And we were very, very disappointed."
Eight years later, when Los Angeles hosted the summer games, the IOC's stance had not changed. According to an article that appeared in The Los Angeles Times on Aug 2, 1984, Mayor Tom Bradley and the local organizers of the Olympic games held a ceremony at Los Angeles City Hall where a large bronze plaque remembering the Israeli athletes was unveiled.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who was a Los Angeles City Councilman in 1984, attended the ceremony. According to The Times, 25 Israeli athletes and officials were also present, as were members of the L.A. Jewish community.
"It was a big ceremony, and I kept asking myself why is it here?" Yaroslavsky recalled. "Why isn't it at the Coliseum?"
The IOC, Yaroslavsky said, had rejected the idea of placing the plaque in the Los Angeles Coliseum's Court of Honor during the games. It has since be placed there, alongside other commemorative plaques.
No IOC members attended the City Hall ceremony, according to the article in The Times.
Yaroslavsky said that the IOC's refusal to allow for a minute of silence to be observed at this summer's games in London is part of a pattern for the organization, going back 40 years. In Munich, after a day of mourning the Israeli athletes, the Olympic games resumed at the insistence of then-IOC President Avery Brundage.
"There's something about the IOC that has never sat well with me, going back to the 1972 terrorist action in Munich," Yaroslavsky said.
The petition for a minute of silence in London, posted on the Web site Change.org, is not the only effort being undertaken by the JCC Rockland to remember the 11 athletes. In September 2011, the JCC unveiled what it describes as "the first memorial sculpture in the United States in honor of the Munich 11."
As for the trees in Pan Pacific Park, according to the plaque, the L.A. chapter of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was responsible for their planting. JNF staff members interviewed for this article couldn't find any information about the trees in their records, but an article that appeared in The Los Angeles Times on June 21, 1984, days before the trees were planted, included a quote from Sanford Deutsch, the president of the JNF's local chapter at the time.
"Planting of trees is the symbol of continuity of life through the ages and the rebirth of the land," Deutsch told The Times. "We shall always remember these heroes for their sacrifice."
Attempts to contact Deutsch on Thursday were not successful.
Today, although there are 11 purple-leafed plum trees near the plaque, only nine of them are part of the memorial grove, according to Leon Boroditsky, a tree surgeon with the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks's forestry division. (The two oldest and largest trees—which stand apart from the others by, separated by an asphalt walking path—predate the memorial.) Though the trees can live as long as 150 years, a few of the original trees have died out, Boroditsky said. With help from volunteers associated with the nonprofit group Tree People, the department is replacing the missing trees: Three new trees were planted a few years ago, Boroditsky said, and volunteers planted another new tree last April. Still, two are missing.
"Being a tree in a park is a difficult life," Boroditsky said, "Not as difficult as a street tree, but it definitely has its challenges, with kids and dogs and soccer players."
He said he plans to replace the last two trees in the fall, when the weather is better suited for planting.
"We think groves like this are important," Boroditsky said, "and we want to maintain them to the best of our ability. But our staffing is really low."
But for now, all eyes are on London. Steve Gold, a former president of the JCC Rockland who chaired the petition campaign, didn't rule out the possibility that the IOC might change its mind about holding a minute of silence in London this year.
"I believe in miracles," he said.
Should the IOC stand firm, though, Gold said the London games would not mark the end of Spitzer and Romano's quest to have the 11 Israeli athletes remembered at the Olympics.
"If the opening ceremony comes and goes without a minute of silence, we're not stopping," he said. "We're going to continue until there's a minute of silence. There's a summer games every four years."
July 19, 2012 | 12:01 am
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
Hundreds of thousands of mourners reportedly attended the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem on July 18, and across the world, people remembered the eminent Orthodox rabbi who died on Wednedsay at the age of 102.
Rabbi Gershon Bess, the spiritual leader of Kehilas Yaakov in Los Angeles, said he would visit Elyashiv at least once a year, to consult with him on matters of Jewish jurisprudence.
"This is a person that one could ask any halachic question on any topic and get a well-researched answer based on Talmudic and later Responsa," Bess said on Wednesday. "I don't believe that there is anyone else in the world at this point now who is able to replace him."
More than one obituary likened Elyashiv's stature as a Jewish legal authority to that of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who died in 1986. Bess agreed with that analogy.
"Even the greatest rabbinical authorities in the United States would show extreme deference to anything he [Elyashiv] would say," Bess said. "Nobody but Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was considered as a final decisor on so many issues."
No plans for a Los Angeles-based memorial have been discussed, Bess said, but he speculated that some kind of public remembrance might take place in the city at some point in the coming days or weeks.
July 11, 2012 | 2:59 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
With Republican leaders predicting a massive shift of Jewish voters away from President Barack Obama this November, a new study shows just how reliably Democratic Jewish voters are.
The study, conducted by Democratic pollsters Mark Mellman and Aaron Strauss with University of Florida professor Kenneth Wald, analyzed exit poll data from 1972-2008 and found that Jews vote for Democrats in far higher numbers than the rest of the electorate. Furthermore, most Jews (57 percent in 2008) identify as Democrats, and many identify as liberals – 45 percent in 2008, far higher than the overall rate among Americans, 22 percent of whom identified as liberals in a Gallup poll taken that year.
The new study (pdf), which was released by the Solomon Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit, comes after months of speculation about the decline in Jewish support for Obama. It also found that Obama only received 74 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008, not the 78 percent that was found by a survey of only Jewish voters and that has been oft-repeated by both supporters and opponents of the President.
In what is perhaps its most significant conclusion, the study found that American Jewish voting in presidential elections can be divided into two distinct eras:
In the first period, from 1972 through 1988, Republican candidates for president attracted between 31 percent and 37 percent of the Jewish vote. In the second period, from 1992 through 2008, the GOP share of the Jewish vote dropped to between 15 percent and 23 percent.
The trend becomes starker still when votes for third-party candidates are excluded. Considering only the Jewish Americans who voted for one of the two major party's presidential candidates, Republicans got between 31 and 46 percent of Jewish votes in that first period and between 16 and 24 percent in the second one.
What changed, the pollsters conclude, is that the Republican party, "became more strongly influenced by the religious right during the early 1990s." As "Republican candidates at all levels increasingly aligned themselves with the evangelical community," they write, Jews and mainline Protestants headed elsewhere.
Will Jews buck this decades-long trend of supporting the Democratic presidential candidate support this year?
In a word: no.
The most recent Gallup poll shows Obama taking 64 percent of Jewish registered voters to Republican Mitt Romney's 29 percent, according to Politico. Obama's number is 10 points lower than the 74 percent of Jews who voted for him in 2008, but it's still in the range of Jews who have voted Democratic in the earlier era, between 1972 and 1988.
Still, as my colleague Shmuel Rosner wrote in a recent blog post, even if this tiny fraction of the American electorate (there are about 6 million Jews in America) won't have much of an impact on the presidential election in November, "Jews are news."
And as this study shows, that news happens to be of the "Dog Bites Man" variety.
July 6, 2012 | 3:00 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
In the wake of a German court's ruling in June that declared nonconsensual religious circumcision to be inflicting "bodily harm" on boys, Rabbi Marvin Hier and Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center have called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders in the Bundestag to pass legislation declaring the practice legal in Germany.
Circumcision is a central rite for both Jews and Muslims, and the court's decision provoked criticism from religious and political leaders both in Germany and beyond.
In their letter dated July 5, Hier and Cooper urged Merkel to condemn the ruling and "take immediate legislative steps to guarantee the right of Jews and Muslims to continue to practice their age-old core tradition of circumcision."
The current controversy began when the District Court of Cologne ruled in a case involving a four-year-old Muslim boy who was taken by his parents to a hospital days after his ritual circumcision. The court acquitted the doctor, but ruled that in the future, doctors who carry out circumcisions should be punished, and declared that circumcision "even when done properly by a doctor with the permission of the parents, should be considered as bodily harm if it is carried out on a boy unable to give his own consent," The Guardian reported.
The decision was met with immediate criticism from Jews and Muslims in Germany and beyond. German politicians and Christian leaders in the country also criticized the decision as infringing upon religious freedom and parental rights. The court's decision rejected such claims, however, ruling that, "the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighs the fundamental rights of the parents."
Many of the arguments on both sides of this debate will look familiar to anyone who followed the path of an anti-circumcision measure that initially qualified for inclusion on ballots in San Francisco in 2011.
In much the same way as the proposed San Francisco law would have only applied to men under age 18, a law professor involved in the debate over the legal status of religious circumcision in Germany told Reuters that the court's decision was not an effort to ban religious circumcision, but to prohibit the surgery from being performed on anyone too young to give consent.
Such declarations are unlikely to mollify the concerns of Jews, who traditionally circumcise their sons on the eighth day of life.
By urging the German government to take action legislatively, Hier and Cooper are advocating for one strategy that was employed in 2011 by American lawmakers who passed a law in Sacramento and introduced another in Washington, D.C., that would have stopped the proposed anti-circumcision ballot measure from spreading beyond San Francisco. (The 2011 ballot measure was ultimately struck from the ballot after a court decided that a preexisting California law prohibited cities from regulating such procedures.)
Pointing to news reports that the Jewish Hospital in Berlin had stopped performing circumcisions, even though the Cologne court's decision might not apply in the German capital, Cooper said that a law could put an end to the newly murky legal status of circumcision.
"One way to clarify this very important social issue is to pass a piece of legislation that specifically says circumcision is legal," Cooper told The Journal in an interview. "We turn to Chancellor Merkel, really as the most important politician in Germany, to get her to exercise political leadership."
But if the abortive attempt to outlaw underage male circumcision in a California city provoked strong reactions last year, the current controversy over the court's binding ruling is stoking passions to an particularly intense degree specifically because it is taking place in Germany.
Calling the ruling "a frontal attack on religious freedom," Cooper said that laws prohibiting circumcision, like similar legislation prohibiting ritual Jewish slaughter in certain European countries, were "an invitation for Jews to leave."
"Hell will freeze over before the Jewish people will look for moral leadership from anyone in Germany about how we should exercise our religion," Cooper said.
June 18, 2012 | 4:38 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
Most people learned Apple was unveiling a new version of its operating system, iOS 6, and abandoning the Google mapping software used in earlier versions when Apple CEO Tim Cook made the official announcement on June 11.
But for the cadre of observers who watch the world's most valuable company's every move very, very closely, those and other bits of Apple-related news were first reported as much as one month earlier, courtesy of Mark Gurman, an 18-year-old Jewish Angeleno who graduated from Milken Community High School this spring.
Gurman is senior editor for the Web site 9to5Mac.com and in the month leading up to Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), he correctly reported seven separate pieces of news that ended up being announced at that annual event, held earlier this month in San Francisco.
In addition to being first to tip readers off about the new iOS and the change in mapping software, Gurman also reported – accurately, again—that the "Retina" display screen Apple has been using in iPhones since 2010 and iPads since March 2012 would soon be coming to the company's laptops. Gurman also reported, on June 4, that Siri, the voice assistant first made available on iPhones in late 2011, would be added to iPads equipped with the new operating system. Cook also confirmed that piece of information in his keynote address at WWDC one week later.
When Gurman's prognostications proved true, Apple-watchers at other, bigger news outlets – including CNN—took notice.
Gurman, who is headed to University of Michigan in the fall, may not have written for the Milken paper while he was a student (he was on the Milken Knights robotics team in 9th and 10th grades), but he sounded like a seasoned journalist when he declined to reveal anything about where he gets his information.
"I like to stay away from discussing anything to do with information sourcing," Gurman wrote in an email to the Journal.
Gurman did mention having seen a demonstration of a siddur (prayer book) app for iPad at WWDC, created by an Orthodox developer and equipped with "novel features" that would allow it to be used without being touched on the Sabbath.
His recent success in cracking open the hermetic world of Apple notwithstanding, Gurman isn't looking to make a career in journalism. He's planning to study informatics and computer science at Michigan, and is hoping to transfer to the business school after his first year. And he said he wouldn't be averse to making the jump from reporter on the outside to Cupertino insider.
"I'd love to work at Apple," Gurman said.
June 7, 2012 | 12:04 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
Just hours after an in-depth Jewish Journal article about Alan Abrams, a rabbi-for-hire who was working as a chaplain when accused of stealing a 96-year-old's wheelchair, was posted online on June 6, Abrams announced on his blog that he was "tak[ing] leave from the Rabbinate for an unspecified time."
Abrams, whose extensive history of criminal and civil actions against him was reported by The Journal, explained on his blog that his decision to suspend his rabbinic practice was inspired by a desire to spend more time with his family.
"[F]ulfilling my lifelong dream of serving G-d and the Community as a Rabbi took me away from [my family], if not physically (which it did), but certainly spiritually and emotionally," Abrams wrote in a post on June 6. The text was also posted on Abrams' professional website, RabbiAbrams.org.
Abrams, 50, first began calling himself a rabbi in 2009, while he was living in Phoenix, Ariz. He claims to have been ordained privately in Jerusalem, but did not provide the Journal with evidence of this.
Abrams did offer evidence of a certificate of ordination from The Rabbinical Seminary International, a New York-based distance learning program for nondenominational rabbis. The head of that school said Abrams had stolen the certificate, after paying his tuition with a check for $5,000 that bounced.
In 1993, Abrams' pled no contest to charges of practicing veterinary medicine without a license in Los Angeles and was sentenced to six months in jail. A 2009 case of passing bad checks in Arizona remains open.
As of this morning, Abrams' website for Mobile Rabbinical Chaplaincy Services, the nonprofit he started in 2011 to support his work with patients and residents in hospitals, nursing homes and other locations, was still accessible online.
May 16, 2012 | 3:01 pm
Posted by Jonah Lowenfeld
A rabbi based in Southern California who is running for U.S. Senate has come under fire for anti-Islamic comments that were captured on video.
In the video, Rabbi Nachum Shifren, who is known as the "Surfing Rabbi," was seen telling a cheering audience in San Mateo, "I am an Islamophobe, and everything we need to know about Islam we learned on 9-11."
Responding to a call from an interfaith coalition led by the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), Republican leaders have since disavowed Shifren's candidacy.
"Anyone who espouses hatred, we don't have room for them in our party," San Mateo County Republican Party Chairman Chuck McDougald told the Forward.
A spokesman for the California Republican Party also disavowed Shifren's candidacy, the Forward reported.
In his bid for Senate, Shifren is one of more than 20 candidates, including 14 Republicans, attempting to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. The California Republican Party endorsed Elizabeth Emken, but under California's new "top two" system of elections, the two highest vote-getters in the open primary on June 5 will advance to the general election in November.
Shifren does not appear to be mounting much of a campaign. According to the Federal Election Commission website, Shifren's campaign has not yet declared any financial activity.
Shifren has run for public office at least twice before. He ran for California State Senate in a special election in 2009 and again in 2010.
In support of one or both of those bids, Shifren claimed to have received endorsements from well-known Republican elected officials, including two sitting congressmen and three members of the California State Senate.
On a still-active page of the website from his 2010 campaign for State Senate, Shifren claimed endorsements from Rep. Tom McClintock, Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, State Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, State Sen. Bob Huff, State Sen. Tony Strickland, Assemblyman Chuck Devore and Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovitch.
Other sections of Shifren's earlier campaign website include language similar to the remarks seen on the recent video.
In a 2009 post, Shifren urged voters to "declare a war to the death on 'multiculturalism,'" describing it as "nothing but propaganda and inculcating our youth to hate America, while yielding to the forces of Islam and radical activists whose target is middle class America and it's [sic] values."
CAIR-CA, Jewish Voice for Peace, Progressive Christians Uniting and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace released a joint statement condemning Shifren's comments.
"There should be no place for hate speech of any kind in our nation's political discourse," the statement read. "Whenever one faith or ethnicity is targeted by hate, it is our duty as Americans to challenge that hatred and to instead promote mutual understanding and tolerance."
Jason Aula, director of communications for Shifren's campaign, rejected the idea that the candidate's comments constituted hate speech.
"He's entitled to say what he wants to say," Aula said.
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Going for a futuristic badass killer redesign of Sub Zero. Less Magic, more Android, what I'd like to see in the upcoming movie. Any input is appreciated, I'm concepting all this week.
Going for a futuristic badass killer redesign of Sub Zero. Less Magic, more Android, what I'd like to see in the upcoming movie. Any input is appreciated, I'm concepting all this week.
hi there,
i like the concept, though there are some things i might change on it. Im a beginner in character creation, modeling or concept art, so u dont have to take my advice too seriously. Im just sayin.
So, I would definitly keep the hood, from the 3rd concept, and the cloth in front of his crotch from the 1st concept. Now things I would lose are the pipes, and the 3rd eye from his forehead. Other than that, it looks pretty awesome, so im waiting for an update. keep up the good work.
Succes is achieved through many failures. U just gotta keep on tryin.
Thanks Csumbi. I'm a beginner in character design myself. It needed changes and It wasn't feeling like Sub Zero. Spent some time thinking about it and here's the new design, more futuristic and robotic but a lot more Sub Zero now! I think I'm going to run with this one.
Think you got beat to the punch. Not sure if this is a concept or a playable character in the upcoming game, but maybe you can draw some inspiration from it.
When you start to think of what everything around you would look like in wireframe, does that mean you have problems?
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Thanks xDarkMessiahxX, But yea I was aware of this. I hope its a playable character in the new game! Its very cool cyber sub zero but its more along the lines of cyrax and secktor from the games, I'm going for a more android look myself, part machine, part human, not all machine.
Here's step 1: Base meshes for sculpting in ZB; I usually start these in Maya.
Step 2 - Base Sculpting and adding Mech Parts. I like doing both at the same time, when I get tired of poly modeling I sculpt and vice versa.
Loin Cloth and shoulder pads will be added later.
you are good, very good. and fast. a few days ago there only was a drawing, and bamm, now you have a fully detailed model. I wish I could be that fast.
BTW your model looks awesome. its gonna be one hell of a sub-zero. looking forward for your next post.
Succes is achieved through many failures. U just gotta keep on tryin.
Thanks for the compliments! Bad week, no time, and I just landed a big gig so even less time to come Hope to finish. Here's some more base detailing. Tweaked the proportions. Haven't even gotten to the arms yet...
15 hours straight freelancing daily doesn't leave much time or energy for personal work. Doubt I'll make the deadline.
Did some low poly tests to figure out the tubes and straps. Also deciding whether to have pants for his legs.
Well, finally finished my freelance work, but lost 2 weeks in the process. I need another week of just modeling on my Sub-Zero (my own fault cuz I keep redesigning his mech parts) so its doubtful that I'll finish by Friday.
Shame, he's really starting to come together now. I'll try to finish in the coming weeks, here's a sculpting update.
Well, the contest is over, so no rush to finish it now, so rethinking the concept and playing around.
i'm really liking the direction the last one is going, feels classic, but with your own twist to it
Nice Progress ... eager to watch more.. Keep it coming..
Thanks guys! I'm still at it making some big changes but I've got a definite direction now. Retopod the hard-surface and made arms and legs. Just got a full-time job so it's hard to get as many hours in a row but I'm going to try my best to make him portfolio worthy. I'm loving and hating going so slow with this but its only my second game character so It's a great learning experience.
great stuff, he's come along way from where you first started. But it seems sub has only been working on his upper body. his calves are too small. they had better proportion when he had the full shin guard. keep it up


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Great way to gain a good look at the touristy stuff in St Marks /Square etc. good info, well organised, good tour.
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
The Grand Canal taxi ride was informative. The day was rainy so getting out of the rain was preferable. By the time we started the walking portion of the tour, the rain had stopped. We changed tour guides and while the walking tour guide was friendly and informative after we left the basilica, we did not see the "highlights" of Venice. We visited small out-of-the-way places, not even the Rialto bridge or an explanation of St. Mark's square.
Doing what: Venice Shore Excursion: Small-Group Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Taxi Ride
Wonderful! Highly recommend "skip the line" everywhere you travel. We would have waited over two hours had we not purchased this. St. Mark's is beautiful, the water was rising as we stood and waited to go in, they had to put up little wooden bridges. Came out to children playing in the square like it was a swimming pool! Only in Venice. Great tour!
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
The best way to visit the Basilica. The guide was quite knowledgeable allowing people to ask questions as we walked across the square. Easy entrance into St. Mark's allowed us to spend our time inside this breathtaking basilica taking its special features with greater understanding. The hour flew by!
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
We had two guides, one in the Grand Canal water taxi ride and tour and one for the walking tour. The taxi/Grand Canal tour was a great way to see the city and surrounding water ways from inside a boat. We enjoyed all the features and many places we saw. After completion we broke into small groups and went on our tour of St. Mark's and the walking tour. This was wonderful and our guide was very knowledgeable and gave great insight into the history of St. Mark's and plenty of time to look around and soak up the beautiful setting. It was very hot and she did an excellent job of getting us into the rare shade for updates and we walked right in past the long line. After the wonderful tour of St. Mark's we took a back road tour of Venice. Within two or three turns she had us in cooler, less crowded but very historical squares and sights. Within the provided time she delivered us to the main bridge, with the crowds and tips for quick ways back or what to do's. Wonderful end to our 20 day adventure through the Mediterranean. Highly recommend.
Doing what: Venice Shore Excursion: Small-Group Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Taxi Ride
Maria, our tour guide, made the walk interesting and easy to follow. We were guided to St. Mark's Square and into the Basilica (without having to wait in the long line), Beautiful. We were then taken along the side streets pointing out buildings and historical facts of interest, ending the tour at the Rialto Bridge. One last comment, if you book this tour (or any other!!) during July / August, take with you a bottle of water and something to cover your head from the sun. It is really hot!!!
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
It got off to a poor start by the organiser moaning about people not reading the small print about bags - a couple of people in the group had to go to the depository to drop off bags, they made a fuss of allowing me to take my bag as it had medical supplies, but then allowed other women to take huge handbags without saying anything at all. The small print about dress code was ignored though - more than half the group were in shorts and at least a couple of the women had bare shoulders, annoying as we'd made the effort to dress according to their code. The "Highlights of St Mark's Square" bit was standing around pointing out a few bits and pieces and repeating information that anyone who's planning a trip to Venice would already know. Bit of a cheek to add an extra 3 Euros per person to see an extra bit in the Basillica (especially as the church only charges 2 Euros per person); when you book a tour, you expect it to include all costs on the itinerary. Missed out the horses gallery and balcony which was disappointing. Spent ages staring at the gold picture despite it being pretty self explanatory and then flew through the rest of the Basillica so fast that we couldn't keep up with the guide or hear what she was saying. Despite the "skip the queue" access to the Basillica, we still spent more time queueing than actually looking at the Basillica.
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
This was a wonderfully relaxing evening walking through the quiet side streets of Venice that so many tourists never see! What a shame as Venice is more than St. Marks Square and the Rialto! Tour made us look for the unusual sights of Venice and the chance to see the people of Venice going about their daily life. We had a wonderful meal the guide recommended at a local Trattoria afterwards with only the locals! What a meal!!!.
Doing what: Venice Photography Walking Tour: Twilight Sunset Tour
This was a wonderful way to explore the streets and back alleys of Venice. Do it early in your trip and you will feel more confidant to walk around and get off the beaten path. The signs are pretty good to get you back to San Marco Square, so explore! The skip the Line at the Basilica was great and it was very helpful to have a guide with audio in your ear to understand more about what we were seeing. This tour helped us understand the history and then the additional 2 days, we were more in tune with what we were seeing and how to get around Venice.
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
Walked around Venice for 2 hours dragging our heels behind everyone else, couldn't hear the tour guide through the radio, we stopped and looked at Rialto Bridge for 30 seconds but spent 10 minutes talking about a random 'well' in one of the piazzas (and these wells are situated in almost every square in Venice). Got inside the church, couldn't hear a word of what was being said, it was rushed, no real photo opportunities throughout the tour, you had to quickly take a snap whilst trying to not lose the group. Barely spent anytime in the church, at the end of the tour the guide just went off without saying bye, we previously informed the guide that we wanted to go up onto the terrace however, she still exited the church leaving us a bit confused and the tour just ended abruptly. If we had walked out of the church we would have had to re-queue, luckily a kind gentleman took our radios and gave them to the guide. By the way you have to pay extra for the terrace and it's worth it! The best part of the tour was going up onto the terrace but this wasn't even included.
Doing what: Skip the Line: Venice Walking Tour with St Mark's Basilica
We did 8 Viator tours during our trip and this one was the worst. If I could have given it zero stars I would have. It was supposed to be an hour long tour from 11:15-12:15. We didn't start till almost 11:30 and it was over at 11:55. Our guide was terrible, he spoke softly and too fast. Even with the single earbud they provided with the volume turned up full blast we could barely hear him. The description promised "The tour focuses on grandeur of St. Mark's Square in Venice with external visits of the square, Doge's Palace, the Sansovino library, the Bell Tower, the incredible legends of the Clock Tower." We did no external visits of these places and the guide didn't even mention them. He only told about the inside of St. Mark's Basilica. Very disappointing and a huge waste of money.
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
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As a first time visitor I was looking for a tour to provide me with a background and some history of Venice. This tour fitted the bill absolutely perfectly.
The tour was split in two elements, first of all an hour boat trip on a taxi boat around the north part of the island and Grand Canal. Our guide Christina, for this section was engaging and very informative.
The second part of the tour was a two hour walking section lead by Barbara; a detailed description of the square and St Marks Basilica was provided, inside the basilica we were taken upstairs to the balcony area to see the piazza in all its glory. After the basilica we were taken on a walk up to the Rialto area. Along the way were provided with a commentary on all the important and interesting buildings and how Venice has changed over the centuries.
I have joined other tours managed by Dark Rome (as this one is) and found their guides to be extremely informative, as mentioned above, both guides were excellent and really helped make this a fantastic tour.
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
This was the first tour of 3 that we scheduled and it started our trip off perfectly! Although Venice ( and St. Mark's Square) was under water the day we arrived, the next day we started the one hour tour with just some drizzle. It certainly did not stop the tour guide ( I don't remember her name but she had red hair) was knowledgeable and made the area come to life for us. Going in to the Basilica was a special treat and the guide explained everything very well. She did such a great job that we opted to continue on with her and signed up for the Doges Palace tour that followed. There was still plenty of time left over to wander around on our own. I would definitely recommend this tour !!!
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
A great tour. The first hour was with a guide in a water taxi and was very interesting. The second hour was with a different guide around St Mark's Square and inside the beautiful Basilica. The third hour was a fascinating walk through the wonderful, narrow alleys of the relatively quiet eastern part of Venice, finishing near the Fish Market and Rialto Bridge.
Doing what: Small-Group Tour: Best of Venice Walking Tour and Grand Canal Water Taxi Ride
Pauline G
United Kingdom
Had to really press our guide to explain more details about the square and explain the history of the architecture. Our guide was friendly but things felt a little rushed. That said, going back to San Marco a second time as very helpful especially after doing the walking tour. If I have one criticism it is that St Marks really deserves a tour in its own right along the lines of that to the Doges Palace. Although we could have done this on our own, we found the observations of a guide a better investment.
Doing what: Skip the Line: St Mark's Square Highlights Tour
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My question is I have 3 ps3's one for me and 2 for my kids. Is there a way to put all 3ps3 into dmz with a linksys router or is this not possible.If not possible with a linksys is it possible with any router.If not is there another way to set them up so they will have a better connection. Thanks!!
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i have an edimax router and when i go to my router page to setup the DMZ im not quite sure what to do.
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where do i fill in my ps3 IP and what do i do in the other blank box then?
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When I put my Ps3 into DMZ i went from NAT2 to NAT1. The problem is however, that now it says NAT TYPEtrict in MW2, while it said OPEN before I changed it?
Same with Fifa 11, Went from firewall: "moderat", to "restrictive". I don't understand why as NAT1 should mean that everthing is wide open.
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Evensen1 wrote:When I put my Ps3 into DMZ i went from NAT2 to NAT1. The problem is however, that now it says NAT TYPEtrict in MW2, while it said OPEN before I changed it?
Same with Fifa 11, Went from firewall: "moderat", to "restrictive". I don't understand why as NAT1 should mean that everthing is wide open.
Try turning your routers SPI firewall off in the same router management tool you used to set up the DMZ. Make sure your PC/Laptop has sufficient internal security if you do this.
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Hey ho, if it's working you're all good. It may be the game and not your router.
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I know i know.. It's just my compulsive nature. Things need to be right :-)
But, I still have problems connecting in Fifa 11, with NAT1. But if I understood it right from EA forum, that could be due to problems at the other end? If the other guy has NAT3 for instance? Fifa use peer2peer when we play, Ea servers are only there to serve as a meeting place.
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I have followed all steps upto internet connection test, which was successful, Nat 2,
question... am i finished, or do i continue to router steps afterwards?
my download speed is sitting at 3 after test.
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American Congregations hurt by Recession
The 2008 recession extended a decade-long erosion of the financial health of American congregations, with just 14 percent saying in 2010 that their financial health is excellent.
Of those who characterize their financial health as declining between 2005 and 2010, a full 80 percent reported a negative impact from the recession.
And the recession affected just about every kind of congregation equally.
These are among the conclusions drawn from a major new Faith Communities Today 2010 survey of American congregations.
The Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership (CCSP) conducted the FACT 2010 survey, and analyzed responses from 11,077 randomly sampled congregations of all faith traditions in the United States. The survey updates results from surveys taken in 2000, 2005, and 2008 and is the latest in CCSP's series of trend-tracking national surveys of U.S. congregations.
David A. Roozen, Director of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership and Professor of Religion and Society at Hartford Seminary, said that, "Although the downward trend [in financial health] has been relatively constant, there is no doubt that the recession at least temporarily set back any hope of recovery."
Still, he said, "To the extent that there is good news in the FACT 2010 findings regarding the impact of the recession, it is that one in ten congregations reported that they had already begun to recover from an initial recession-driven dip in income."
"The worst of the recession's impact on American congregations may be over," he said.
The FACT report, entitled "Holy Toll: The Impact of the 2008 Recession on American Congregations," examines the program, human and organizational toll of the recession.
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The most frequently employed mechanism when congregations encounter financial distress is digging into savings and investments, followed closely by salary freezes or reductions and postponed capital projects.
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"The good news for advocates of congregational outreach," Roozen said, "is that FACT 2010 shows virtually no difference between congregations negatively impacted by the recession and congregations spared the recession's financial toll in the likelihood of offering outreach services. Mission remains a priority even in times of financial distress."
"The absence of recession impact on either outreach or member-oriented programming resonates with the observation of one commentator who noted that American congregations are 'putting off rather than pruning'," Roozen said.
He also noted that while the program toll of the 2008 recession appears to have been minimal, the same cannot be said for the human toll.
Nine percent of congregations reported staff layoffs or furloughs because of the recession, and just over 25 percent reported salary freezes or reductions. Assuming an estimate of 350,000 congregations in the United States, employing an estimated 1.5 million staff, that equates to more than 500,000 people who lost their jobs or had their salaries reduced.
In addition, 41 percent of congregations reported that the recession had a major or moderate impact on unemployment among members. And half the congregations for which the recession had a major impact on the unemployment of their members saw a major decline in congregational income.
This stark impact led to an increase in requests for cash assistance, pastoral counseling, and emergency housing. Nearly half of all congregations experienced an increase in requests for cash assistance, underscoring the importance of American congregations as a social safety net.
"It may well be that the organizational toll of the recession on America's congregations turns out to be the most significant in the long term," Roozen said.
The negative impact of the recession on congregations that had declines in income is especially dramatic for worship attendance growth, spiritual vitality, and volunteers. It also led to increased levels of conflict.
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Will the corrosive effects of lost capacity take on a life of their own that perpetuates a downward spiral even after the immediate economic impact of the recession passes? Are there things a congregation can do that might contribute to a recovery?
The most promising, if difficult, path to recovery appears to be to grow one's way to recovery. Enhancing spiritual vitality is another possible contributor to recovery. Openness to change is also a key element.
While the 2008 recession impacted congregations, recessions do eventually pass, Roozen said. "The longer term story," he said, "is the downward trend, at least a decade old, in the financial health of American congregations."
He asks: "Can American Congregations stem the now longstanding downward trend in financial health? Anyone who thinks the foreseeable future will be anything but challenging appears to have their head in the sand (or the clouds). But anyone who has begun writing about the death of the American congregation doesn't understand or appreciate American church history."
The report was written by Roozen, director of the Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research.
Links to view the report and related material are available at: www.faithcommunitiestoday.org.
Faith Communities Today surveys and publications are products of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership, a collaborative, multifaith coalition of American faith communities affiliated with Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Researchers, consultants and program staff representing 39 denominations and faith groups contributed to the American Congregations survey.
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Improve elasticity and reduce the appearance of dark circles and wrinkles around the eyes with a proprietary blend of fruit stem cells infused into a Vitamin C, resveratrol-rich grapeseed formula, for lasting, advanced age defy results.
Who Should Use It?
Juice Beauty's Stem Cellular Eye Treatment is designed for all skin types and especially beneficial for skin showing the signs of aging including fine lines, wrinkles and sun damage.
- Increases cellular turnover around the delicate eye area with Vitamin C, E & B5.
- Firms the delicate eye area and fights free radical skin damage with a proprietary blend of apple, grape & lemon fruit stem cells infused into organic resveratrol-rich grapeseed.
- Reduces puffiness around eyes with organic essential fatty acids of evening primrose, borage & linseed.
- Delivers rich hydration around eye area with organic antioxidant-rich jojoba and shea.
Powerful Action Without
Our formulations are made without parabens, petroleum, propylene or butylene glycol, sodium lauryl sulfates, pesticides, phthalates, artificial dyes or synthetic fragrances. Our products are never tested on animals.
Clinically Validated instrument measured Stem Cellular Results
Juice Beauty's Stem Cellular resveratrol rich grapeseed, Vitamin C and Fruit Stem Cell base was instrument measured clinically validated utilizing an outside PhD run laboratory:
- 100% reported improved hydration
- 87.5% reported reduction in fine lines and wrinkles around eye area
- 87.5% reported improved skin tone and luminosity
- 75% reported improved elasticity of the skin
Organic Apple Juice (pyrus malus) | Rich in Vitamin A, B, C, K, alpha-hydroxy acid (malic acid), phytonutrients, flavonoids, phenols; protective against cell and tissue damage, powerful antioxidant activity, promotes skin rejuvenation | |
Organic White Grape Juice (vitis vinifera) | Rich in Vitamin A, B, C; potent alpha-hydroxy acid (tartaric acid), rich in resveratrol antioxidant; powerful antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory benefits, promotes skin rejuvenation | |
Organic Lemon Juice (citrus medica limonum) | Rich in Vitamin A, B, C, lycopene, phytonutrients, flavonoids, minerals, and alpha-hydroxy acid (citric acid); powerful antioxidant activity, beneficial towards photoaged skin, improves skin tone and texture, promotes skin rejuvenation | |
Organic Aloe Leaf Juice (aloe barbadensis) | Derived from the leaves of the aloe vera plant; rich in glycoproteins; anti-irritant, anti-inflammatory properties, soothes, heals, improves appearance of fine wrinkles | |
Organic Jojoba Oil (simmondsia chinensis) | Derived from the seeds of the desert shrub jojoba; antioxidant, high in essential fatty acids & nutrients, emollient | |
Organic Shea Butter (butyrospermum parkii) | Derived from the pit of the karite fruit from the African mangifolia tree; moisturizes, heals, soothes, wound healing properties | |
Proprietary Blend of Fruit Stem Cells | From organic apple buds, grape buds & lemon bark; provides ultimate cell recovery and regeneration | |
Organic Grape Seed Oil (vitis vinifera) | Resveratrol and antioxidant-rich; protective; supports collagen & elastin | |
Organic Borage Seed Oil (borago officinalis) | Emollient, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, rich in gamma linolenic acid, promote skin rejuvenation |
Juice Beauty is constantly updating our ingredients to bring you results using the safest, local, organic and natural ingredients possible.
Made with certified organic ingredients.
Current Formula Ingredients:
Juice Beauty proprietary blend of fruit stem cells: apple buds, grape buds & lemon bark.
Ingredients: Organic juices of pyrus malus (organic apple juice)*, vitis vinifera (organic white grape juice)*, citrus medica limonum (organic lemon juice)*, aloe barbadensis (organic aloe leaf juice)*, vegetable glycerin, octyl palmitate, caprylic/capric triglyceride, glyceryl stearate, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate (Vitamin C), stearic acid, cetearyl alcohol, malus sylvestris (apple buds), vitis vinifera (grape buds) & citrus limonum (lemon bark), organic plant oils of helianthus annuus (organic sunflower seed oil)*, butyrospermum parkii (organic shea butter)*, simmondsia chinensis (organic jojoba seed oil)*, organic essential fatty acids of oenothera biennis (organic evening primrose oil)*, linum usitatissimum (organic linseed oil)*, borago officinalis (organic borage seed oil)*, xanthan gum, panthenol (Vitamin B5), allantoin, tocopherol (Vitamin E), sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, ethylhexylglycerin, citrus aurantium (orange blossom) pure essential oils
* = Certified organic ingredient
Apply with applicator around the eye area to stimulate circulation.
Additional Information:
Skin Type: | Normal, Mature, Dry |
Skin Concern: | Wrinkles, General Health |
Customer ReviewsWrite a Review
Best under eye treatment I have tried - but hat...
Review By:Trisha on 11/24/13
This is the best I have tried! I had visible results in one week. It goes on smooth, reduced my lines under my eyes, provides a nice moisturizing feel. I also love the price. You can find similar claiming eye treatments for double the price - but this one really performs, and without all the chemicals. I wish they would reconsider packaging - I can't open it to see how much I have left or use the remainder that get stuck to the side.
Amazing product!
Review By:CY on 5/22/13
After using this eye treatment for two nights, in the morning when I looked into the mirror, my eyes looked so young - the upper lids that used to be hanging down were all lifted with a youthful look, The double folds are clearly shown now. The areas below the lower lids are also smooth that made the rest of the face needed more help to balance with the eye area. I will continue using this amazing eye treatment, and will soon consider what other products to buy to make the rest of my face lifted with less wrinkles.
I really love Juice Beauty as it just has something that is very pure that makes me feel sooooooo good and beautiful.
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Review By:Juana on 4/21/13
Great serum ..fast result! Traded my old eye cream for this. Perfect for daytime use. Doesn't affect my make up application. Very light! Thanks for this!
Very nice!
Review By:Chloe on 4/15/13
This eye treatment is really lovely! The packaging is innovative as well. It comes out in a gel consistency, and a little bit of it goes a long way. Perhaps it is because my skin is young (sixteen), but dry and sensitive as well, but when I apply it too close to my eyelids it stings quite a bit. However, applying it further outside the eyes is very fine. I had some lines forming on the outside of my eyes when I smiled lately, but with the eye treatment they've disappeared! Juice Beauty, I am in love.
So far so great!
Review By:Brennan on 1/31/13
Now I have only been using this product for about a week, but so far I am satisfied with how it makes my skin feel. I am excited to continue using and experience the long term benefits of it, mainly hoping to see a reduction in the dark circles around eyes. I am thrilled that everything is organic.
Love this product!
Review By:Linda on 4/3/12
My eyes were extremely dry for the longest time. This creme is amazing. My eyes are no longer dry and feels great! I even use to for other areas on my face that are dry.
love it!!
Review By:cheyrnnehal on 2/20/12
Fantastic product ! Rich and creamy.
Review By:ll76 on 2/4/12
i have tried many eye creams but this one actually did improve the skin texture and tone around the eye, and has made some change to my dark circles, they appear diminished significantly. Overall more results from this product compared to other similarly priced products.
Best eye product
Review By:Leandi on 1/10/12
I was looking for a product that keeps it promises & this one does! Dark circles are lighter & wrinkles are less visible & I have only used one bottle as yet. Fantastic texture & product!
pretty good
Review By:luvmyskin on 8/15/11
I finally received it in the mail four days ago and have been using it and have seen great results. I'm actually pretty amazed that it works so well. I'm 30 and the wrinkles around my eyes were pretty noticeable. With this product they are less noticeable so far, even when I smile.
Its light and like a gel so it goes on smoothly--very nice. Doesn't really have a scent that I can smell and I'm not sure how well the applicator works. I first use my finger to put it on, then the applicator. It's working for me and I recommend it, especially because it's organic.
Review By:Juice Beauty Fan on 6/20/11
Simply put: a GREAT product! I've been using this along with the Stem Cellular Moisturizer for a little over a week and already see an amazing difference. Finally an organic product that REALLY works! Worth every cent!


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Day Two. Craft Restaurant.
Yup that's me. It's my second day at Craft and Jenny McCoy (The Exec Pastry Chef) gave me my hat. The day started with going over all the protocol to ensure I don't violate any health code regulations. That was a good education and definitely made me want to go home and scrub my personal kitchen.
Then Jenny put four recipes in front of me and talked me through them. Then she said, "Pop Quiz. Lesson in multi-tasking: How would you approach these?" I pointed at the Rhubarb Sorbet and said I start there, then while its cooling, I'd start and finish the Passion Fruit Sorbet. Then finish the Rhubarb Sorbet and move on to the bread component recipes. Jenny said that's how she'd approach it BUT she'd take out the butter for the Hazelnut Shortbread and the Graham Cracker Crisp so its soft at the beginning.
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The Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Orchestra recently hosted the 17th Annual Exchange Concert. The Plainview students went beyond their own community to Elwood and performed with students from the John H. Glenn String Orchestra. One hundred and twenty-nine musicians took the stage to present to their communities, put aside their cross-county rivalry and share a performance of Richard Meyer's "Vanishing Point."
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A recent lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp. for groundwater contamination has the Massapequa Water District ensuring residents that its drinking water is safe for public consumption.
Bethpage Water District officials recently filed a federal lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp., claiming the company's facilities caused "irreparable harm" by creating a toxic plume that has contaminated the groundwater, costing the district millions of dollars and threatening more than 33,000 customers in Bethpage, Old Bethpage, Farmingdale, Levittown and Plainview — while coming close to Massapequa.
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For the first time in its history, the Massapequa High School Mock Trial Team was invited to hone its skills at Harvard University's High School Training Seminar. The seminar offers a range of basic and advanced classes that better position teams to win state and national competitions.
Participants — seniors Rebecca Girardin, Jenna Petrungaro, Christie Flanders, Cameron Wunderlin, Justin Jakubowski and juniors Selin Solen, Jeremy Wiss, Griffin Konen, Emily O'Leary, Nicole Feeley, Nicolle Dananberg, Taylor DelValle, Jillian Prystupa and Katie McMahon — called the experience, "amazing."
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With the Nassau County title on the line, junior kicker Zach Kolodny was the most composed player on the field. With time expiring, he booted the game-winning kick to send the Farmingdale Dalers into the Long Island Championship with a 29-26 victory over the Massapequa Chiefs.
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