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Adam Keller
Occupation magazine
'The Six Day War has already lasted forty years - it is time to end it' was the expression used by Shauki Hatib, head of the Monitoring Committee, political leadership of Israel's Arab citizens, and quoted on the Y-net news website.
He was not the only one who felt this way. Israel has now kept for forty years, by an ever more brutal exercise of naked force, the territories conquered in those swift six days of war in 1967 - a brilliant military victory turning into a moral quagmire in which the country has been floundering and sinking ever deeper for a full two-thirds of its history.
A lot of people and groups felt the urgent need to do something, not to let this date go unheeded. To shake their country 'Until she opens her eyes' - a quotation from a famous Israeli song (sometimes also used by right-wingers) which was the title for a day-long event by combined human rights groups at a converted hanger in the port of Tel-Aviv.
The horrible situation in 'Israel's backyard', which goes mostly unreported in the mainstream media (and which many Israelis don't want to hear about) was presented in comprehensive lectures by dedicated field workers, sharing some of their most disturbing findings, and some digressing into describing very emotional personal experiences undergone while collecting the data.
A through analysis of the very depressing situation was offered by a variety of sociologists, economists, political scientists, past and present diplomats and political figures, in several symposiums with impeccable academic credentials and in less formal events at tents erected in street corners and on university campus lawns.
No less than five groups of artists, independently of each other, had since early this year been working on exhibitions opening in this week at galleries around the country - of photos taken directly in the Occupied Territories by Israelis, Palestinians or both together (some of them at considerable risk to the photographers) and of paintings - by local and international painters - inspired by the situation there.
Less formally, in large-scale copies of the most shocking photos being pasted over night by activists, who also turned ad busters and changed the text of huge commercial signs at the sides of intercity highways to read 'Forty Years of State Terrorism'.
Similar signs were hung beside the enormous portrait of Zionism's Founding Father Theodore Herzl, at the entrance to the thriving city of Herzliya, and activists staged such 'direct actions' as burning garbage cans filled with tyres at the entrance to Tel-Aviv and blocking Jerusalem streets with barbed wire - complete with genuine IDF warning signs taken from West Bank roadblocks.
There were also the 'flash mobs' suddenly appearing in shopping malls and chiding shoppers for their addiction to consumer goods and indifference to oppression; and the addition of a red powder to public fountains throughout Tel-aviv, which made them resemble fountains of blood for hours; and the 'Critical Mass', dozens of bicycles decorated with black ballon and red 'stop the occupation' flags driving with deliberate slowness in the roads surrounding the compound of the Ministry of Defence and the IDF High Command…
Meanwhile, in a more formal way, for one day the entrance to the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque - where documentary films on the occupation were shown and numerous peace and reconciliation groups had set up stalls - was converted into a military checkpoint, an exact physical replica of those dotted across the West Bank, with visitors needing to shuffle slowly through a long and narrow passage hemmed in by gleaming metal bars and gruffly ordered to present their I.D.s by an actor wearing an IDF uniform and threateningly holding a (plastic) submachine gun. And the Women in Black, who had been holding unbroken regular weekly vigils since 1988, for this week increased the frequency to daily vigils - with their characteristic big black palms inscribed with 'Stop the Occupation' in Hebrew and Arabic.
Aside from trying to bring the Occupied Territories into the heart of Tel-Aviv and West Jerusalem (and to a lesser degree, of other Israeli cities and towns) there were quite a few actions in the Territories themselves. The army erected barriers and prevented Palestinians from joining the anti-settler protest at Hebron's Old City, and conversely blocked most of the Israelis who had intended to join the Palestinian peace rally at Tulkarm. But Israelis and Palestinians in quite big numbers did succeed in meeting each other and amicably mingling, mainly in and around Jerusalem: at the rally in the football stadium of Anata; the joint car cavalcade around the Old City walls and up to Mount Olive; the two days of the Peace Song Festival at Tantur on the Jerusalem-Bethlehem border; and the launching of the Jerusalem Initiative, affirming support from both sides for the Two State Solution, at the conference hall of the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center - where the Catholic Church offers a convenient neutral venue at a location which was a deserted no-man's-land between 1948 and 1967. Members of the Gay and Queer communities expressed their own opposition to the occupation, both as organized groups within the Tel-Aviv Gay Pride Parade which by coincidence fell within the same week and in some smaller specific events - picturesque and sometimes deliberately provocative. Gay militancy was increased by the massive offensive against them launched by ultra-Orthodox groups in Jerusalem - a bigotry which quite a few Gays see as another manifestation of the narrow-minded racism of the occupation.
The Golan Heights - also captured in the same 1967 war, mostly emptied of their Syrian population, settled with Israelis and formally annexed to Israel - were less highlighted. Still, a newly-founded women's group, centered in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon, held a Day of Action to collect signatures throughout the country on a petition calling upon the government to stop rejecting the peace feeler of Syrian President Assad.
Altogether, it was a more hectic and action-packed week than we have seen in quite a long time. It was physically quite impossible for a single person to attend all the events - especially on the particularly packed June 5, the precise anniversary of when it all started forty years ago.
The umbrella organization known as 'Occupation 40' gave up in advance the idea of trying to supervise and tightly coordinate all the events, as being both impossible and inherently undesirable, settling instead for the formula of 'a convergence' by numerous autonomous groups, each expressing the common rejection of the occupation and all its works by its own means and methods. The joint headquarters confined itself to compiling a comprehensive list of all activities and making it available to activists and to the Israeli, Palestinian and international media, maintaining some contact and exchange of information with similar initiatives outside the country, designing a logo with a large bleeding '40' numeral which was made into a widely-distributed poster - and with organizing a single joint action in which all groups could share, in addition to their own events.
Organizing meetings had taken place with increasing frequency at the Minshar Art Academy (which itself organized and hosted a historical 1967-2007 photo exhibition) and at the Kibbutz Movement Headquarters. When the moment came near, and considerable physical space was needed for the preparation and storage of posters and leaflets, the whole rooftop of a ramshackle, half-ruined building at a Jaffa industrial zone was placed at the campaign's disposal by a friendly entrepreneur.
Some fascinating and original ideas for the main event, raised by activists - such as constructing a giant physical maze in the form of the numbers '40' - turned out to be too expensive or otherwise impracticable.
Finally, the idea of a protest march ending with a rally - not precisely original, but still a worthy and time-honored formula in the Israeli peace movement - was settled upon. A considerable lot of negotiating, haggling and the diplomatic smoothing of ruffled feathers was needed to get many groups and individuals into harness together: Zionists, non-Zionists and Anti-Zionists; supporters of the Two States Solution and of the One State; staunch respectable upholders of legality and wild youths who felt that twitting a policeman's tail was the greatest of funs… In addition there were all kind of rivalries and old unsettled accounts between rivalling groups, on less principled grounds. Still, there was more goodwill and less obstructionism than in some past joint efforts, with everybody - whatever their differences - feeling the urgent need to make a good showing on this anniversary. Negotiating with the police on the route, too, was less difficult than in some past occasions.
The date of Saturday, June 9, was chosen - both because Saturday is the best time of the week for supporters of the Israeli peace movement to gather, and because it was the day chosen internationally for demonstrations and protests against the Israeli occupation, all around the globe.
At 6:00 pm, the appointed gathering time, there were only a few scattered people at the rendezvous point at the Rabin Square, a place which looks quite desolate when empty. But the anxiety which organisers felt was premature. Israelis, at least in this respect, are indeed a Middle Eastern people and not very punctual. By 6:15 there was already a respectable crowd, with chartered buses arriving from different parts of the country and Tel-Avivians coming on foot in increasing streams. By 6:30 it was already possible for spokespersons to phone newspaper editorial, urge those not yet present to send a reporter, and say truthfully enough: 'Thousands of demonstrators have already turned up, and thousands more are continuing to arrive'.
The time until the demonstration marshals started getting everybody into the line of march was used by various groups to distribute leaflets advertising further actions planned for the coming day: A poetry-reading evening attended by 30 Jewish and 30 Arab poets; The Victory March to Commemorate 40 Years to the War of National Erection (with a cartoon of a tank made into a very blatant phallic symbol); a planned joint donation of blood by Jewish and Arab women, to Palestinian and Israeli medical institutions; a non-satirical commemoration for the Mugrabi Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, 130 family homes demolished by Israeli bulldozers on June 11, 1967 - the occupation's first major act of brutality, in which a woman inhabitant was crushed to death under the ruins of her home. The presence of the Raelians, whose leaflets told that mankind was created by extra-terrestrial aliens via genetic engineering, aroused some debate ('What are these people doing here? This has nothing to do with them!' 'What do you care that there is at least one sect on our side').
One leaflet was a facsimile of an advertisement published in Ha'aretz on September 22, 1967: 'Our right to defend ourselves against destruction does not give the right to oppress others. Occupation entails Foreign Rule / Foreign Rule entails Resistance / Resistance entails Oppression / Oppression entails Terror and Counter-Terror / The victims of terror are usually innocent / Keeping the Occupied Territories will make us into a people of murderers and victims / Get out of the Occupied Territories immediately!' The present leaflet added just one line 'That was published 40 years ago - shall we wait another forty years before ending the occupation and rule over another people. (In 1967, the ad's signatories - just 12 in number, supporters of the Matzpen Group - had been widely condemned as 'The Most Extreme of All Extremists'; nowadays, they are almost as widely hailed and embraced as brave and far-seeing pioneers, and a memorial is planned for their recently-deceased organizer Shimon Tzabar).
The insistent rolling of drums of the Batucada Peace Drummers was an effective sign for getting the march underway, bloc after bloc and contingent after contingent, by an order carefully discussed and arranged in advance - followed by a large crowd of peace supporters without any manifest factional loyalty. The Communists carried their red flags and Meretz supporters had green ones, and there were also Anarchist black flags emblazoned with a large 'A'. Some Israeli national flags were brought by Peace Now supporters, and a few Palestinian flags - by Arabs from the Galilee, but both were greatly outnumbered by the Gush Shalom flags, featuring a circle containing the Israeli and Palestinian colors together, on a white background. And in among the flags, quite a few participants held olive branches aloft.
The organizing coalition provided a large quantity of printed signs, in two varieties - red and black - reading '40 occupation - a stain which cannot be removed!'. Many copies were held aloft of two posters - one with the 40 Occupation logo in white on black, the other with the photo of armed soldiers and a traditionally-dressed woman crying on the ruins of a demolished house.
The vans from whose loudspeakers the chanting of slogans was coordinated were decorated with the enormous banners: Stop the Occupation! Yes to Israeli-Palestinian Peace! Back to the 1967 borders - via an agreement! No more unilateralism - Yes to Immediate Negotiations for Regional Peace! No to Walls and fences on Palestinian land! Dismantle the settlements! Checkpoints strangle the Palestinians - remove them now! In Gaza and Sderot, children want to live!
But many of the marchers had prepared their own handmade signs, some with elaborate cartoons and drawings included: 'The occupation is our shame!', '40 years of occupation, 40 years of despair', 'Stop Israeli aggression, free Palestine', 'If it is possible to talk to us, it is possible to talk to them', 'The occupation 40 years balance sheet: 90 Billion Dollars wasted, 18,000 houses destroyed, 600,000 (!) Palestinians spent time behind bars - shall we continue?' 'Army support for criminal settlers - evil, stupidity, shame', 'The Wall will fall, Occupation will fall', '40 years of robbery' 'Occupation is a cancer' 'The answer to racism - Israel without Zionism'; 'Occupation is the terrorist infrastructure'; 'We all say no to the occupation!'; 'Jews and Arabs - we refuse to be enemies!'; 'The occupation corrupts,' 'The settlements – Israel's catastrophe'. The Combatants for Peace banner depicted two fighters throwing away their guns and extending their hands towards each other.
A group of Italian volunteers, engaged in helping out at threatened Palestinian villages, had their own banner with '40 anni - basta!' and the banner from the Japanese women of the Shinfojin Akiruno had a banner composed of 40 pieces sewn together, each donated by one of their activists.
As the march turned from the Ibn Gvirol Street to King Saul Boulevard, a group burst out with 'Peretz Peretz, Hey hey hey, How many kids did you kill today!' and was answered by another group's 'Dismantle the guns/ Evacuate the settlers/ Don't want to die in vain/ Now is the time to make peace!' (it all rhymes in Hebrew). 'This is the last time we call out against Peretz, by the next demonstration there will be a new Defence Minister for this slogan' remarked one of the youths. Teddy Katz' voice could be heard from the loudspeaker of the Gush Shalom inviting the many bystanders to join the protest march. Meanwhile, the people of the Smile Liberation Front - wearing a motley collection of mismatched military uniforms, and with clown makeups on their faces - were energetically crawling on the asphalt, in a credible mimicking of soldiers on field exercise. And a girl at the side was tightly clutching a diminutive brown dog whose shaking she was vainly trying to calm down. 'I must go away, I should not have brought him here. He comes with me every week to the Women in Black, and he was so brave barking at the Kahane fascists when they tried to attack us. But here the crowd and the noise are just too much for him, poor dear'.
As on earlier occasions, the steps of the Sha'ar Tzion Public Library facing the Tel Aviv Museum Plaza were used as an improvised podium - saving the demonstration's budget a considerable expense. Under the banner announcing the library's 120's birthday - a truly venerable institution by Israeli standards - the organisers had hanged their own: 'After 40 years of occupation, Gaza and Sderot are burning'.
Using the powerful loudspeakers, moderators Khulood Badawi and Yana Kanapova used the time until the crowd finished filing into the plaza to exhort and orchestrate a burst of energetic chanting:
'Peace - Yes! Occupation - No! 'Peace - Yes! The Wall - No! Negotiations - Yes! War - No! Fence and Wall - the way to Hell! Occupation breeds hate - Peace, the way out!'
'Forty years? Who could have imagined it!' said a white haired man at the edge of the crowd. 'I remember 1987, already then we said and wrote that Twenty Years of Occupation was far too long and that it could not go on like this. And now the nightmare has gone on another twenty years, and became even much worse, and who knowns how much longer it will still continue?' A remark by the woman who passed by, holding a hand-painted sign with 'Occupation is Our Shame and Disgrace', made him angry: 'Me? Despair? Not on your life! When you don't see me in such a demonstration you will know I am in my grave!'
'I am not so much counting years' said the youngster with the weird hairdo and tatoos who stood nearby. 'I was born into this dirty mess, it was here all my life. We just have to go on punching these bastards on the nose - the ministers, the generals, the settlers, the police, the whole fucking bunch of them. They will fall in the end. Look at the shape Bush the Asshole is in now, already'.
The discussion was cut short by Shauki Hatib taking the floor. 'I am speaking to you, here in Tel Aviv, in a time of danger. Forty years after the 1967 war, there is loud talking of a new war, and there is also a rising tide of racist incitement against the Arab population in Israel. Everything we say is rejected out of hand, because it is said by Arabs. A year ago we have opposed the war in Lebanon. We did not oppose it because we were agains the Jews. We opposed it because it was bad for everybody in Israel, Jews and Arabs alike. Now, a year later, everybody agrees that it was a bad war. Does that change the attitude to us? Only to the worse! But still, I am optimistic. Yes, I am optimistic! The fact that we stand here together in Tel-Aviv, thousands of Jews and thousands of Arabs together, united in the struggle against the occupation, is a good reason to be optimistic!'
The crowd burst out in a prolonged chanting of 'Jews and Arabs/Refuse to be enemies! Refuse to be/enemies! Refuse to be/enemies! Refuse to be/enemies!'
Next to speak was Naomi Hazan, former Meretz Knesset Member, who started on a somber note: 'I can't say 'good evening'. The fact that we mark forty years of occupation means this is a bad evening, an evening of pain, of shame, of anger and frustration, of realizing that our efforts in the past forty years have failed, our efforts to end the occupation and achieve a peace agreement, have failed. Which just means that we have to renew the struggle, continue it and intensify it - and this time win! We have to protest - protest against the Wall, against the settlement extension, against oppression, against the people who at this moment sit in Jerusalem and plan the next war!' (Wild clapping). 'But protest is not enough. We have to support a political solution, to push until it is implemented. There are lessons to learn from the past ten years. No more unilateral actions, no more partial steps, certainly no more 'managing the conflict', no more preconditions for negotiations and preconditions for the preliminaries to negotiations and no more obstruction tactics. No more talking of a Peace Process as a need in itself. The time has come to tackle the main problems, the fundamental problems, and to solve them. And the solution is clear and obvious: two states for two peoples, two capitals for two states in Jerusalem, dismantling of settlements, and yes - a solution for the refugees according to the UN resolutions including an Israeli admission of Israel's part in creating this problem, and an Israeli apology for that part. There is a peace coalition of Israelis and Palestinians, who think alike, who can and should work together to achieve this solution. There is a wide international backing. A Palestinian state will set Israel free, free from being an occupier(clapping).
Before passing on to the next speaker, Badawi read out the long list of cities where demonstrations against the occupation have taken place: London, Washington, Sydney, Brussels, Sao Paolo, Toronto, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Dublin, Rome, Osaka, Amsterdam, Capetown, Johannesburg, Geneva… Each name was greeted with clapping, which increased when a greeting of solidarity with the demonstrators against the G-8 summit in Germany was read out.
Bassem Aramin of Anata, a large Palestinian suburb of Jerusalem, was among the Palestinian founders of Combatants for Peace. Five months ago, he got to the headlines under tragic circumstances when his ten year old daughter Abeer was killed by Israeli 'Border Guards' (euphemism for the notorious Israeli Riot Police). He spoke in Arabic, every sentence being translated into Hebrew - though on several occasions he corrected the translator, exhibiting a fair knowledge of Hebrew himself. 'I don't seek revenge, none of us seeks revenge, revenge is useless. We who have fought have come together to make peace. Palestinians who have taken the gun in order to free our people from the occupation, and Israelis who have come to our land as soldiers with guns, as occupiers, as killers. We are now all together in one movement, we are trying to end the occupation and make peace.
Do you know why the army is not allowing Israeli citizens to enter the Palestinian territories? Do you know why? They say it is for your safety, but that is not the real reason. The reason Israelis are not allowed to enter the territories is that your politicians are afraid that the people would find out the truth about what's going on there. The truth is that your boys who were sent there have become bad boys, without any reservations or red lines left, bad boys who are making the Palestinians' life unbearable. This is what they don't want you to know!'
Nurit Peled Elhanan, who followed directy afterwards, had been billed as one of four co-equal speakers. But planned or not, hers was unquestionably the keynote speech.
'Bassam and me are both victims of the cruel occupation which is ravaging this country for forty years already. We have both come here to cry for the cruel fate of this country where my daughter Smadar and his daughter Abeer - both named for flowers - were murdered, at an interval of ten years from each other. And during these ten years, this country was filled with the spilled blood of children, and the underground Children's Kingdom, over which we step unheeding every day and every hour, has grown unbearably huge. But what unites Bassam and me is not only the death which the occupation has visited upon us. What unites us is especially the belief and determination to so raise the children which are left to us that they will never again leave their lives in the hands of corrupt, greedy, power-seeking politicians and blood-thirsty conquering generals. Never will our children allow these politicians and generals to set them at each other's throats, never will they let the prevalent racism of this country push them off their chosen road, the road of peace and fellowship! For it is only this fellowship which can bring down the wall of racism which is being built in front of us.'
Full English translation
Yoav Kapshuk of the Y-net news website, walking through the crowd and seeking the two polar ends of the spectrum represented in the demonstration, talked with Yariv Oppenheimer of Peace Now ('Continued occupation means the destruction of Zionism, now is the time to act before the opportunity for peace is lost.') and with Yonatan Pollack of 'Anarchists against the Wall' ('Israel is creating an Apartheid system in the occupied territories, the international civilian population must boycott Israel in order to force an end to the occupation.').
Meanwhile, the podium was taken by artists. Rona Klein sung one of the bitter Hanoch Levin satirical pieces which had shaken the Israeli society of 1968 and 1969, still barely out of the post-war euphoria: 'The cook prepares meat for the General/ The General prepares a sumptuous meal for the cannons/The squad follows the sergeant-major/The sergeant major also goes the way of all flesh/My brother the hero has fallen for his country/His heart is now open to the grass/His blood has flowed out/Nothing will bring him back/Not even a special decree by the Army Chief of Staff…'
The three members of the Biluyim sung a piece of their own making, full of allusions to the heroic poetry of Israel's early years, with the refrain: 'We have tried so hard, we have covered up the ruins, we have changed the names of all the streets, all we ever wanted was to sit with our fathers around the fire, as in the Good Old Days of the Palmach' [pre-1948 Jewish militia].
The final word of the evening was given to a performer in quite a different style, the rapper and hip-hop artist Sameh Zakout a.k.a. Saz, who had found the style created in black ghettos of America highly appropriate for the his own life experience in the Arab community of Ramla - a discriminated, marginalized and poverty-stricken minority in what had been an Arab city before 1948. He immediately broke into a fast-moving rap song (Hebrew with some Arabic mixed in) telling of life hemmed in with walls and fences, trapped between police and drug pushers, and with the constant refrain 'Every morning we wake up / to the same messed up reality / Every morning, every morning, every morning. / They sell you the same bullshit / Every morning, every morning, every morning.' Finally, he called upon the crowd to give 'a very very loud shout, to let all the fascists around here, all those who call us stinking Arabs and traitor leftists or the other way around, let them all hear what we think of them'. Only on the third try was he satisfied with the volume of unanimous shout of the crowd.
List of participating organizations in the Coalition Against the Occupation: Gush Shalom, Balad, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Hadash, Peace Now, Meretz Youth, Meretz Young-Our Colors, Yesh Gvul, New Profile, Combatants For Peace, The Alternative Information Center (AIC), Shministim Letter, Machsom Watch, Women In Black, The Fifth Mother, The Left Forum-Haifa University, Students' Coalition-Tel-Aviv University, Maki, Banki, Tandi, Hacampus Lo Shotek (_The Campus Will not Shut Up_), Indymedia Israel, ACTV, Ta Circle (Bereaved Family Forum), In co-operation with The Follow Up Committee For The Arab population in Israel.
Postscript: The 'Occupation 40' events had been announced in a major media campaign, and the impact of the many small and some bigger actions can be gauged by the rising howl of right-wingers that 'the leftists have hijacked the commemoration of forty years to the Six Day War Victory.'
Nadav Haetzni - lawyer, settler leader and Ma'ariv columnist - can serve as a typical example: 'This week marks forty years for our return home, home to Hebron of Our Fathers, to Ruth's Bethlehem, and of course to Jerusalem the very Fount of our National Existence. In 1967 Zionism was vindicated in Six Glorious Days. But now, instead of breaking out in a wild hora dance to commemorate this anniversary, we are the target of a massive offensive of mourning and disinformation, aimed at completely distorting history. The more the events of 40 years to the war came nearer, the more intensive the campaign of blackening everything national or zionist or patriotic. - I was invited to a discussion organized by the Bar Association in Eilat, under the seemingly neutral title 'Legal Aspects of forty years of Israeli rule in the Territories'. When I got there, I was shocked to find myself in the midst of a wild attack our so-called 'occupation' which some speakers actually characterized as 'the most barbaric in history'' (Ma'ariv, June 1).
For his part, the mainstream senior commentator Sever Plotker of Yediot Aharonot remarked: 'The anniversary of the Six Days' War is conspicuous in the complete absence of any official or public event to mark it - except for the gatherings of the organizations marking 40 years to the occupation' (Yediot Aharonot, June 5).
Finally, one can quote the left-wing song writer Dan Almagor, who was invited to moderate a public discussion on the songs and popular culture of 1967 and the years immediately following it - both those celebrating the war and the army and the beginnings of anti-war satire and protest. 'When I was asked to take responsibility for this evening, some months ago, the idea was an alternative event, with a more critical point of view to what happened in 1967. But the mainstream presentations to which this evening was supposed to be an alternative turned out to be already quite alternative themselves'. (Event at Tzavta Club, Tel Aviv, June 7).


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The husband of a Long Island special-ed teacher whose body was discovered yesterday in a ditch near a country club was busted last night and charged with killing her, police said.
William Walsh, whose wife, Leah, had planned to leave him, was arrested after investigators found inconsistencies in his alibi, police sources told The Post.
He also lied about his marital problems, the sources said.
PHOTOS: Missing Teacher's Body Found, Husband Charged
Leah, who vanished Monday, appeared to have been strangled, the sources added, but said an autopsy will determine the official cause of death.
Walsh was charged after investigators grilled him throughout the day about the mysterious disappearance of Leah, whose car, with a flat tire, was found abandoned on the side of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
A "help van" driver stopped to assist and reported seeing a man run from the abandoned car into a yellow car, the sources said; William's vehicle is that color.
Leah's body turned up less than 15 miles from her Bethpage home.
A worker at the nearby North Hills Country Club made the grim discovery about 50 feet off the Long Island Expressway's westbound service road. The body had been there for more than 24 hours.
The couple had been fighting recently, and had a big blowup Saturday after he returned from a trip to Atlantic City and "went berserk on her," said her college pal Lucas Bean.
While Leah and her husband, both 29, rode in a car that night, she secretly was sending Bean text messages from her cellphone.
"She told me the marriage is over. [She said,] 'I'll tell you why when I talk to you. It's something really, really bad,' " said Bean, her classmate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"[She said] she was definitely getting a divorce. There was no way she could stay with him after what he'd done. I never found out what it was [about]."
The couple had been married for three years.
The well-liked teacher had just received her master's degree from Molloy College in Rockville Centre and taught autistic children.
A police source said she texted her husband the morning she vanished, and her cellphone has not been found.
William – who had been questioned on Tuesday as well – told reporters hours before his arrest that he was going to put up fliers to help find his wife.
"She wouldn't leave. Something happened," he said. "I don't know what to do."
A neighbor of Leah's parents in Rockville Centre said the couple fought frequently when they lived there.
"I heard him being very abusive to her verbally, cursing," said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified. "Cursing, 'F- – – you!' screaming at the top of his lungs and she was just very distraught."
Additional reporting by Kyle Murphy


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Comedian/ Actor – Juan Villareal AKA – the Latin "Kevin Hart of Comedy" has been entertaining audiences for over 25 years. Having toured with and shared the stage with the likes of D.L. Hughley, Carlos Mencia, Cedric The Entertainer and George Lopez, to name a few, Juan Villareal has added an entire new dimension to the saying "laugh your face off"- (in English and in Spanish).
A natural born storyteller, Villareal has the ability to transport his audience right where he is- from conversations about family life to life on the road with his fellow comedians. Villareal shares his gift and gives us a perfect view from that " third eye" – that realm of comedy that only the greats, like Redd Fox and Richard Pryor can tap into.
With just a mic and a mic stand, Villareal creates comedic magic on whatever stage he sets foot on. From BET, where he holds the record of eleven appearances- the most for any comedian on the network (Comedian Lavell Crawford comes in second with nine appearances); to Comedy Central, from Telemundo to Univision, there has not been one area of the industry that has not been introduced to, or fallen in love with the comedic genius of Juan Villareal.
"Comedy is more than a career for me, " explains Villareal, " It's just who I am… a part of me. I love people and I genuinely love to make people laugh. There is so much that people have going on that can make them lose it and go crazy… but for me, I can take that same situation that they're in and I can get on a stage for an hour or two and turn that chaos into comedy."
And Juan's fans and audiences love him, right back. You never know if it is the beginning or the ending of a Juan Villareal show because there are always equally long lines for both. Long lines to enter his sold out shows and long lines at the end of his shows for merchandise, autographs and even a quick picture with their comedic hero.
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1 cup of cashews per bottle
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just a pinch of cinnamon per bottle
Cinnamon is thought to be antimicrobial and aid the body in controlling blood sugar levels by slowing the rate at which the stomach empties after meals, reducing the rise in blood sugar after eating.
4 dates per bottle
Dates are composed of simple sugars in the form of fructose and contain vitamin A, iron, potassium and fiber among other vitamins and minerals and are used as an easily digestible sweetener.


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Chanukah Recipes... YUM!
We've been on the look out for the best chanukah recipes and compiled this great collection of recipes for you!
Also on the WUJS site:
A Brief introduction to Pesach
Pesach Activities
Pesach Sources: Historical, traditional, and contemporary.
10 Haggadah Companions to Enrich and Inspire your Seder
This year's dates for Pesach can be found in our WUJS Year Mapper.


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We've discussed academic administrative bloat in this space before. It's one of the major reasons why higher education costs have skyrocketed in recent decades. It would be one thing if all the executives and administrators soaking up valuable funds were providing worthy services to their institutions. That they often don't is one of the greater travesties of our age.
According to macroeconomist (and alleged bowtie aficionado) Peter Morici, trimming staff is a major step toward holding down the cost of higher education. His recent Boston Herald editorial features an argument that the onus for making college affordable falls on colleges themselves. After all, these are (more often than not) non-profit institutions that operate under the assumption that they spend their vaults of contributed cash on educating the masses.
But higher education has gotten rich, fat, and greedy.
In recent years, when state and federal governments offered generous subsidies to help offset the cost of attendance, colleges raised tuition so that out-of-pocket costs remained consistent. The extra public money flooded university coffers and funded all sorts of wasteful luxuries and pursuits. Now that many of those subsidies are drying up, higher education has to take a good hard look in the mirror and assess its priorities. For example, what's more important: education or recreation?
Morici explains:
"Meanwhile, colleges and universities increasingly compete for students by shifting resources from educational purposes into athletic arenas, lavish student centers and other frivolous amenities, euphemistically justified as 'building community' and 'enhancing the student experience.'"
Universities aren't massive social clubs. They're meant to be institutions that cultivate knowledge and learning. They've also come to be expected as factories for the next generation of the American middle class. Wastefulness gets in the way of both those goals.
Morici's actionable solutions to this conundrum are as follows:
1. University presidents need to trim staff members who don't contribute to educating students
2. Scrap President Obama's foundling college ratings system, as there's no way it'll ever prove to be a useful tool (rather, it's just corruption/lobbying waiting to happen)
3. Punish universities who churn out exorbitant percentages of graduates who can't pay off their debts (because their degrees aren't worth what they're printed on). Colleges need to be incentivized to produce more capable professionals.
4. Faculty members should focus more on teaching, less on their own comfortable pursuits.
5. Majors such as Art History or Peace Studies should only be allowed to enroll as many students as they can expect to find jobs in those fields later. It does a disservice to students and society to educate more anthropology, visual/fine arts, and graphic design majors than could reasonably find jobs.
Read Morici's entire article at The Boston Herald and let us know what you think.
Photo credit: Calvste / Shutterstock


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Friday: April 9, 2010
- Multitasking and several other features coming to an iPhone near you.
That certainly was a whopper of an Apple presentation yesterday bringing tons of interesting features to iPhones, iPads, and iPods. I'm very curious to see how their iAds platform does once it is fully available. You can watch the entire presentation over on Apple's website.


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Youth movement takes to city's community boards
The city's community boards are about to get younger.
Under a new state law, teens as young as 16 can become part of the decision-making process on anything from small business permits to city budgets. Applications were taken last year and teens have been appointed to positions.
"These are people who seriously care about these communities," said Max Neuman, of Community Board 6. "Giving up their evenings to come in and talk about what really matters to the community. I knew I wanted to be a part of that."
Some teen community board members who spoke to News 12 say they finally have a voice and they can help build better neighborhoods.


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August 24, 2016
CNP Expo: Socially Unacceptable
May 21, 2014
All fraud is social in the sense that it affects others, but this afternoon's social fraud session focused on the role of social media in fraud and fraud prevention. Moderator Ryan Wilk of StubHub began by observing that "good consumer experience trumps all in the e-commerce world, but the challenge is to distinguish the good customers from the bad."
"You have to be able to leverage data fragments and bread crumbs you have collected about this customer to establish their identity," explained Stephen Ufford of Trulioo. "Then you can focus your energy, time and tools on those identities that aren't established. And either you have them jump through more hoops, or you stop that transaction."
Trulioo uses behavioral analytics to piece together what Ufford called a customer's "cyberidentity"—their social media behavior and behavior across other e-commerce sites. He cautions that looking at social media profiles isn't enough on its own—"you have to look at the other pieces of data you have based on this person's e-commerce data, geodata tied to email addresses. When that is all put together, it can create a context and give you a powerful tool for fraud prevention."
Jim Houlihan of Orbitz explained that they see a lot of fraudulent third-party ticket purchases, where a scammer books multiple tickets on a stolen credit card, one for the cardholder and the rest for themselves and their friends. The cardholder then just doesn't show up for the flight. To prevent this, Orbitz examines customers' social media profiles to try to verify the relationships among people who book together.
Houlihan describes their system in terms of green, yellow and red rules for different customers or devices. Green is the least stringent, for regular customers booking from known devices. Yellow is neutral, for new customers or a new device. These customers are required to sign in to verify their identity. Red is for a known bad device or card. Says Houlihan, "We don't turn red customers away; we still ask them to sign in so you can see if they have phished our customers or accessed their account, and then we can contact that customer and have a good customer service moment while shutting that fraudster down."
Dan Elvester of Experian emphasized the importance of making social fraud detection frictionless to give good customers a good experience. He also pointed out that "consumers appreciate that kind of security, because they are concerned about fraud as well."


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A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl allegedly neglected and killed by her stepmother and father had "major bruises" on her body every month, a teacher said yesterday.
Anna Wynn, Lauren Wright's former class teacher, said the youngster had smaller bruises "all the time".
Norwich Crown Court heard that Lauren had not been at William Marshall Primary School in Welney, Norfolk, during the week before her death.
Her stepmother Tracey Wright, who was a lunchtime supervisor at the school, first told teachers that a wardrobe had fallen on Lauren then said the little girl had gastroenteritis.
Lauren died at her home in Welney on May 6, 2000. Prosecutors say she was struck so hard in the stomach that her digestive system collapsed.
It is also alleged there were 60 bruises on her body and marks consistent with her being struck by a hard object, possibly a stick.
Tracey Wright, 31, and Lauren's father, Craig Wright, 38, both of Welney, deny wilful neglect and manslaughter. The prosecution says Tracey Wright "cruelly abused and spitefully treated" Lauren while Craig Wright "turned a blind eye".
Mrs Wynn said Tracey Wright would always warn her when Lauren had a "major bruise". Explanations Tracey Wright gave included descriptions of how Lauren was knocked into the washing machine by the dog, fell off a swing, and had toy bricks thrown at her by another child.
The hearing was adjourned until today.


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Santa Gertrudis Independent School District Philosophy
The philosophy and educational program at Santa Gertrudis Independent School District are founded on three core values:
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Core to our mission, we hold the unequivocal belief that all children, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or incoming academic placement can achieve at high levels when provided with the appropriate structures and supports. It is the fundamental right of all children in this country to receive a high-quality, free, public education.
2. Quality teachers, with a focus on data and reflection, drive exceptional results.
We must invest in exceptional teachers to achieve exceptional results. Though our mission, curriculum and school culture are the foundation from which our students will excel, we must recruit, support, and retain the nation's highest quality teachers. We firmly believe that this investment is critical to the success of our students.
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Re: Phebe Wade (b. 1789, MA) & Abner Alden
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Phebe Wade (b. 1789, MA) & Abner Alden
Its Cari again..you probably already saw this...but just incase I thought I would put it here...Barbara Cady put this in down the line
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If you were driving down the road, and saw someone who'd layed their motorcycle down (and the rider was still trying to get free from it), would you:
a. Stop and offer assistance.
b. Drive on by, not even slowing down. (this could be even multiple cars, all driving by)
Until it happens to you, or someone close to you, you'd be surprised at the answer. People can be A$$'s. I mean if I saw someone lay a bike down right in front of me I would stop.. not just keep on going. Maybe I'm not big enough to get the bike off of them, but I'd at least try.
OH another thing. If your driving your car/truck/whatever down the highway, don't get on the bikers tail.. give us a little room. Last thing a biker wants to know is if something should go wrong, that this AH behind us won't have the distance to stop..believe me when I say bikes have a shorter stopping distance than a car.
All right..I'll shut up now.


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Related Information
Dr. Joe Ferrandino
Community service: I analyze data and map information for the Gary Police Department (and this will become a part of the J439 capstone course in Fall 2012), and will soon do the same for the Gary Fire Department in conjunction with the V500 and V506 courses starting in Fall 2012. I have also taught responsible fatherhood courses at Westville Correctional Facility and Camp Summit Boot Camp.
Dr. Monica Solinas-Saunders
Since I joined the IUN family I have been involved in two major Community Engagement Projects:
- The Reentry of Ex–Offenders for Northwest Indiana project that includes a number of reentry programs (such as Community Corrections, Exodus Group, Positive Impact, etc) to improve the odds that ex-offenders become integrated in our society and find opportunities to conduct healthy and productive lives.
- The Juvenile Detention Alternatives to Incarceration Initiative (JDAI) with the Lake County Juvenile Justice Center; I offer data assistance to ensure that we provide consistent and reliable data to the National Project on the assessment of the US Juvenile Justice System led and conducted by the Anne E. Casey Foundation.
Dr. Susan Zinner
Member, Insitutional Review Board, Community Hospital, Munster, IN (review research projects involving patients before physicians are allowed to proceed)
Member, Bioethics Committee, Community Hospital, Munster, IN (review ethical issues at the hospital affecting patients, families or employees, create policies, etc.)
Member, Park Forest Department of Health, Park Forest, IL (serve on board of community health clinics, implement policies, plans to meet health needs of the community)


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Apartment is common residential area in city. You can find many apartments with their own facilities. Apartment with three bedrooms seems good choice for standard family. You may need to consider some matters when deciding to pick three bedroom apartments NYC for staying. The next section will help you to know more about this topic.
Knowing More about Three Bedroom Apartments NYC
Knowing factors that involve in three bedroom apartments NYC is important. As you know, the last conclusion after reading and understanding is to decide whether to rent or buy it. The price might be on the top place in your list for consideration, but apartment is more than price to put on account.
Apartment consists of three bedrooms: living room, bathroom, and small kitchen. In the center of apartment, there is a room to enjoy and relaxing called family room. This configuration is very practical for small family with one or two children. You can put in smaller bedroom than the others. In fact, three bedrooms are not in the same size, which means one bedroom is called master room.
Three bedroom apartments NYC are not just for family. It is good place to live with roommate where you still have private room to enjoy yourself. Students and young workers are common to share apartment together with friends. They share rent fee then arrange the room to suite their preference. This kind of apartment is more practical due to simple configuration. Guest area is in living room at front before inviting to cozy area in the center of apartment.
From those examples, you know that room configuration plays major role to determine whether the apartment is suitable for your preference or not. Some apartments use different configuration in order to fit building design.
Another thing to check is room size. You may already read the advertisement, but you need to check room space. Sometimes, you see that apartment with two bedrooms is larger than three bedrooms. When apartment was built, developer tried to fulfill every need, including bedroom availability. If target market is students, more bedrooms are preferable. Another target is family with small members such as father, mother, and two children. For such target, apartment is bigger and more spacious.
Bedroom does not have problem, and you should see thoroughly for furniture. Be careful before putting furniture. Limited space requires utmost delicacy to configure furniture. You cannot just put big sofa on living room. If you do not have to time to furnish, it is better to pick three bedroom apartments NYC with existing furniture.
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By Patrick Munyan, Jr., White Salmon Public Works Director/City Administrator
Everyone wants fair water rates, including the City of White Salmon's Citizens. It is important for people to recognize that the municipal water utility is a Public Utility District owned by the City of White Salmon. The Citizens of White Salmon are the Stakeholders of the Public Utility District. The Stakeholders historically funded the development of the municipal water utilities , at least in part, by property tax revenues.
As City citizens and stakeholders they alone are responsible for the financial obligations of the municipal water utilities. Municipal water users outside City limits are not financial obligated and did not pay additional taxes to develop the Public Utility District.
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- Greater distance and/or higher elevation from central facilities (i.e., water supply or treatment facilities).
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- Risk associated with utility ownership and long-term debt obligations ultimately residing with residents of the City.
- A rate of return on investment due to resident "owners" of the water system relative to outside users of the system.
- Larger horsepower pumps, additional storage, and larger water transmission lines are required to provide adequate water and water pressure to commercial and residential services in the outlying areas of the City.
- Additional expenses associated with working in County and State right-of-ways.
These costs are quantifiable and did provide for the basis for rate differentials. It is clear that a different rate structure for outside-of-City customers is justified based on quantifiable cost of service differences.
Municipal water utilities have several other user classifications to consider beyond inside vs. outside residential user. Commercial, wholesale, industrial and public facilities are all different types of user classification that must be evaluated to determine quantifiable cost of delivery of services. Each user class will have its own rate structure based on its own particular quantifiable facts as stated above.
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Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love spending my days with Emerson. She puts a smile on my face all day long and I wouldn't have it any other way. But I really miss having girlfriends to talk to. I'd love to have other moms to meet for coffee and playdates. I'd love to have someone here that I can meet at the park or the mall. I'd also love for Emerson to have more interaction with other babies.
So, you may be asking... Why don't I, after 6 months here, have many friends? I think it's a mixture of things. In the past I have always made friends through school or work or through Jesse's friends. Here I don't have any of that. All of Jesse's Marines are single and my new job (Mommy!) means there aren't a lot of chances to meet people. I have made one awesome friend here but she works full time so we don't get to see each other that often. I have also met some really sweet girls in my compound but I've never taken the initiative to see if they want to get together. Fear of rejection, much?
The truth is that the only way I'm going to meet people and make friends is to put myself out there by going to playgroups and other Mommy functions and inviting the people I have met to do stuff. I'm not a super shy person but doing things like that is surprisingly hard for me. I really don't like going to new places alone and I have a hard time reaching out to people that I've just met. I feel awkward and dorky. I'm always afraid that no one will like me or that I'll say or do the wrong things. When I walk into those playgroups I feel like I'm back in junior high again. There's nothing like being the new kid surrounded by 5 different cliques! Sounds crazy when I actually say that out loud, doesn't it?
But after our little trip to the mall today I know that I have to make some changes. We're going to be here for at least another year and I don't want to be friendless and lonely the whole time. And I don't want my face to be the only one Emerson ever sees. The poor baby would be scarred for life. If I want to get to know people, I'm going to have to stop being a scaredy cat and take some initiative. So, Operation Make Some Mommy Friends officially starts today. I think I'll kick it off by going to one of the weekly playgroups I've failed to attend for the last 6 months. Wish me luck- I know I'll need it...
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- Mrs. Mama said...
Aw Tami... why can't we live next to each other... I go through this EVERY DAY {wishing I had mommy friends close by to come over for wine.. er... i mean play dates}
seriously though, i can't wait til E starts doing "activities" and "School" so I can finally get my "mom fix" in! ha
- February 1, 2012 at 8:22 AM
I agree going to new places and meeting new friends is hard especially when you are the newbe (sort of). Just be yourself everybody will love you and if they don't like you for who you are then you don't need them in your life. No reason to fear rejection or awkward and dorky.
Good Luck Mama!
- February 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Andrea said...
aww, this posts makes me sad! I just want to get on the next plane with Gracie to come see y'all haha. Good luck girl. I'm sure once you take that first step you will make some wonderful friends!
- February 1, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Sarah said...
I can't imagine being in a strange country without girlfriends...I know that must be hard. You seem super nice though....just get out there and make some playdates...everything will go well!
- February 1, 2012 at 8:59 AM
- Lauren said...
It can be so hard and I definitely understand. I cannot imagine doing it in another country on top of that! I went through the same thing and after feeling lonely for 2 months I bit the bullet and went to playgroup and I am so happy that I did. I wish now that I'm back at work I could go more often. Good luck!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM
- Michelle said...
I feel the same way! But then I made a decision that I was going to get involved in any "moms" group that I could and really make and effort to reach out to other moms/women. I still worry sometimes that people won't like me or want to hang out etc, but then I remember that most people feel the same way and maybe they are just waiting for someone to reach out to them!! You are such a sweet person and anyone would be lucky to consider you a friend :) I'll be praying that some awesome friends come into your life this month!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM
You are too sweet to be lonely. I know there is some other woman that needs a good friend like . Praying God will send you the right opportunity to make a new friend. Love you.
- February 1, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I wish I was with you too.. We could drink coffee with a huge scoop of whip cream!
miss you... I know you will find people to hang out with!
- February 1, 2012 at 10:39 AM
- Megan said...
It is the same way here! I have one friend who's son is about 6 weeks younger than Vince but she and her husband are both active duty so its hard to hang out. I get jealous too when I am out and about and see that.
- February 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- Kelly said...
It is SO hard to make new friends as an adult. I feel like I am a pretty fun, nice person, but finding the right kind of people can be hard when you aren't forced into it like work/school. I hope you make some new mommy friends soon! They will be lucky to have you!
- February 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM
- Mateya said...
Those moms would be crazy not to like you!
I know it's hard, I have no girlfriends in our town either!
The scariest part is putting yourself out there. Good luck! :)
- February 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM
- Joeylee said...
can you, me and Becky all live right next to each other. We could be BFFs...haha. I don't really have friends either and it sucks. My best friend lives in Vegas and all the other people I use to hang out I don't since I've had kids. I've attended play groups but the moms weren't very welcoming and the kids and I ususally stayed to ourselves cause it just didn't feel right.
- February 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Gabriella said...
I'm sorry you feel this way. It is hard to put yourself out there. I know any friends you meet are going to be blessed to have you in their lives. If we lived closer I would totally have Starbucks dates with you and Emerson! :)
- February 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Lyndsey said...
Good luck girl, you can do it! I know exactly how you feel - I'm not good at putting myself out there either - but it will be worth it to get a little bit of adult time back! Have fun! :)
- February 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- The Jeffcoats said...
My sweet, sweet BFF!! You are such an amazing person and friend and anyone should be so lucky to have you as a friend! Everyone will love you as much as all of your other friends do. You can totally do it- you're more outgoing than you're giving yourself credit for! And E is so lucky to get to spend her days looking at her beautiful mommy!! I wish we lived closer....love you!
- February 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Kate @ Daffodils said...
O friend, I feel you in this post! We have been in Moneterey for 6 months and there are so many days when the boys are the only people I see. My hubs works long hours adn studies well into the night and I just havent found anyone I really connect with. I am glad I am not the only one who struggles here!
- February 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM
- ajs {of MN} said...
my two cents. i have always rcv'd the following comment from my friends "you make friends so easy" "you have some many friends" i am ok with hearing these but i seriously feel like i really dont have a TON of friends- i especially font have a friend that i can just call up and meet up with randomly once/twice a week- i would LOVE that...
i do however, go to as many events as possible and mingle... i wasn't always good at this- i too was like "i am a HUGE dork and no one will get it" BUT after taking that step of just talking... i always hear that i am funny and i am easy to talk to etc...
i think its easier for me now, b/c i dont only have ME to share with the world, i also have my husband who makes friends and can talk to anyone with GREAT ease... and now we have our other conversational piece baby!!
so you just have to gain the courage to yes join things, talk to ppl, stay longer than group lasts- linger for that extra small talk {that is KEY!} and then... keep in touch by way of quick emails, texts blog comments ;) etc....
you probably have a million girls around you thinking "i want to he tami's friend!" i actually bet money on it!
- February 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- Natalie said...
I am actually involved in some mommy groups and even though I am it's still hard to make "true" friends. Is it this wasy just b/c we are older? But I have met a few that were worth it so I'll wish you luck and hope you find some too!
- February 1, 2012 at 3:59 PM
- Anna & Kirby said...
I totally know how you feel and we've lived here for 5 years! Maybe the older you get the harder it is to make friends... haha. I feel like it sometimes... I have a few close friends from school, but other than that... no one. Kirby is very independent and doesn't "need" friends... so he says. I think women just need other women friends. I'm happy to read you're going to try and get involved. For the short amount of time I'm out of work with Kaden, I'm going to try and join some "mommy groups" and hopefully I'll meet people there.
You are such a sweet person (even if I've only met you through your blog) and I know once you put yourself out there and people get to know you, you'll be fine!
- February 1, 2012 at 5:43 PM
- The Shamblins said...
I could have written this exact same thing minus the overseas part. The funny thing I've been finding out is that I think most women feel the same way so I don't know why we hold ourselves back! Good luck momma! You make me feel like I really need to put myself out there more too!!
- February 1, 2012 at 7:35 PM
I wish we lived by each other.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:50 PM
- Mrs. Magnolia said...
I'd totally be your "real" friend if I was there. I think you're worrying way too much, I think you'd be an awesome friend and any of those other mommies would be lucky to have you as a friend!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:22 PM
- Natalie said...
I think I am the same way-I am a bit shy in the beginning and have fear of rejection. I am blessed to have lots of friends who happen to have already had or are having kids. You should totally check out the mommy groups-I started going to Mommy & Me class at the hospital when Callyn was a month old and was so scared but it was fine! Everyone was really nice and though I haven't made friends to hang out with outside of that time, I'm sure if I asked, a lot of the moms would want to get together for a coffee or walk or something :) You can do it!!!
- February 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM
- cait said...
Aw, good luck, girl! You can do it! I'm the same way about reaching out and trying to connect to people I have just met. And I'm awful about meeting new people...Justin is my confidence when it comes to that type of thing. I need to work on getting better at it by myself. I'm eager to try to find some ways to get out their with Adeline once summer hits and I'm finished teaching. I will be praying for you!
- February 2, 2012 at 5:55 PM
- Amber said...
I feel like this on many days and Im a working mom. Hope you are able to find some mommy friends while you are still there.
- February 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Mallorie said...
I totally feel you on this one...we moved when I was almost 8 months pregnant and so I didn't start teaching. Now I'm staying at home and the Hubs work schedule is crazy so we don't get out often. I am pretty shy and haven't gotten up the nerve to go to church alone, especially with a 3 month old! :-) I hope you find friends soon, keep us updated!!!
- February 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Megan said...
You can do it!!!!!! I don't have many friends where we live...and it's so heartbreaking!! All my best friends live at least 2 hours away. I need to step out of my comfort zone, too!!
- February 4, 2012 at 7:10 PM
- Darcy said...
I totally relate to this. I went from working and be an event planner to homeschooling my four kids. HUGE LIFE SHIFT. A lot of my really close friends are now working. We moved to a new city 6 years ago and I worked HARD to make new friends and it is kind of that season AGAIN. So tough. Thank goodness for online friends, huh? Best wishes to you and your daughter!
- February 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM
- Darcy said...
I totally relate to this. I went from working and be an event planner to homeschooling my four kids. HUGE LIFE SHIFT. A lot of my really close friends are now working. We moved to a new city 6 years ago and I worked HARD to make new friends and it is kind of that season AGAIN. So tough. Thank goodness for online friends, huh? Best wishes to you and your daughter!
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