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Is there sucha a thing as pectus excavatum repair?
Pectus Excavatum repair can be achieved using minimally invasive surgical technique: A detailed review of the minimally invasive technique for repair of pectus excavatum can be found at: http://emedicine.Medscape.Com/article/1970203-overview the procedure is also known as mirpe or nuss technique. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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-defect where the sternum instead of a normal appearance is sunken . If U poured water on it it would pool. It can B severe & compromise cardiac & pulmonary Fx. It is in these cases ...Read more
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Depends: It all depends on the procedure used. The ravitch is a very extensive procedure which involves a large incision and removal of many cartilaginous ribs. This destabilizes the chest wall. The nuss procedure is less invasive, shorter , and does not destabilize the chest. Both have residual postoperative pain. Most patients are back toi baseline comfort within 3-4 weeks depending on age. ...Read more
How long does it take to recover from pectus excavatum repair?
Depends: There are multiple repairs available, but in general, return to work or stressful activity will be in the 8-12 week range. Contact sports will obviously take longer before being allowed. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Anyone had pectus excavatum repair and get nice-looking results?
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What is the definition or description of: pectus excavatum repair?
The sternum bow in: The normal breast bone is fairly straight. However, in some people the breast bone can bow into the chest. Usually this does not cause any problems except for cosmetic issues. Occaisionally it can compress the heart and cause exercise intolerance. There is a surgical correction for it in those rare occaisions. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Pectus excavatum repair - any good outcomes, or you'll still look odd?
Good: Good outcomes depending on degree of excavatum and age of repair. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Pectus excavatum need to get repaired, what has to be done?
Severity: First cat scan thorax to asses cardiac compression, extent of osseous cartilaginous spine deformity. Age is important, is not the same to repair when child versus an old person in the 40's. If the 40's person has been a smoker or has co morbidities that will change workup and procedure as well as risks and outcome. ...Read more
Is there a way to do a pectus excavatum repair without surgery?
Pectus repair: Pectus excavatum repair can be achieved without surgery in patients with a mild pectus deformity. It requires the use of an external vacuum device. Here is a link with additional information: http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pubmed/21240610. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
What type of specialist do I need to meet with in order to repair a pectus excavatum (sunken chest)?
Pediatric surgeon: Pectus excavatum does not alway require surgical repair. When patients have severe deformities and have an impact on their breathing or exercise tolerance, we repair pectus deformities, many with minimally invasive techniques like the "nuss procedure". ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Pectus excavatum repair without surgery - I read something about using magnets - any news on that?
No knowledge.: Have heard about magnets, but have no personal experience. Pectus carinatum (pigeon chest) can be effected without surgery using an external brace. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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I actually like what is taught here, I just don't like the price tag that comes with it. Maybe if he lowered the price and spread it out over a couple of months, then this might be something I recommend.
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Pairing: Eventual Yullen
Rating: T/PG
Setting: AU, in which Kanda and Allen are childhood friends and neigbors
A/N: Super belated birthday giftie for my beloved Nherizu. And when I said super belated, I mean super belated, XD
Also, YULLEN WEEK 2012 anyone? The themes are up! Go to my profile for more info, because ffnet kept preventing me to give the links here (even with the spaces!)
Anyway, here goes the second installment of this ficcie :D
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There is just something in the way Cross' lips lift up to one side, and in that particular tilt of head that Allen finds rather unsettling.
"What?" Allen asks warily, frowning up at his so-called guardian and cannot help to be annoyed that even at sixteen, he still barely reaches the man's shoulder. Damn Cross for being so tall.
Cross simply hums and shifts his gaze back to Kanda who is making himself comfortable in Allen's bed with all his I-am-ignoring-you glory. "Don't tell me he moved in here while I was away?" he smirks.
Oh god, Allen groans. Someone who just came home unannounced after disappearing to god knows where has no right to be looking like—like he knows something Allen doesn't. It's bloody annoying. "Of course not, he lives next door."
Cross sneers. "And here I thought Froi was insane when he talked about matchmaking our brats all those years ago," he mumbles to himself, but doesn't bother to lower his voice.
Kanda snorts from the bed, and Cross' left eyebrow rises higher.
"What in the world are you talking about anyway?" Allen pouts at Cross, which only earns him a rough pat on the head.
"Whatever, for now you're just brats anyway," Cross concludes, and adds, "Prepare me dinner in an hour. Tiedoll's brat better be gone by then."
"But—" but Cross already leaves before either boys can say anything, muttering something about 'brats' and 'too young' and—was that 'gay' he just heard?
Kanda is not the friendliest person in existence, despite his good looks. Sure, he has fangirls. But these girls, aside from annoying the life out of him, are also the source of his haters. Being popular means some people are bound to be jealous of him.
Kanda just doesn't want to admit he'd been stupid that somehow, those bastards from his P.E. class managed to lock him up in the bloody storage room.
What the heck, he must have been so out of it. He got almost no sleep the night before. It didn't help that when he texted Allen to—god forbid—get help, the kid just laughed in his face.
Allen did come though, with that lock-picking skill Kanda doesn't even want to know where he'd learned, and came to his rescue, as the brat had put it.
"Stop. Fucking. Laughing," Kanda bites out through gritted teeth.
Allen does try to stop, but it's really kind of hard. It's not really the notion of some punks managing to kick Kanda in a room and lock him up—well, admittedly, it's kind of hilarious too. But it's Kanda's annoyed, 'I can't believe I fell into it' face that makes the whole thing that much more funny.
"I'm sorry," Allen chokes out through a fit of giggles. "Or actually, no, I'm not sorry—" he barely dodges that fist before it hits his arm, "Hey, now, you better aim that fist over there," he tilts his head to the side.
Kanda looks behind Allen and sees the group of fucktards who had locked him up earlier just walking up obliviously to their direction. The group stiffens as their blood chill, because Yuu Kanda is staring at them with murder in his eyes.
They don't have time to run before Kanda is grinning menacingly, blocking their escape.
Needless to say, Allen just watches from the sidelines as Kanda beats them up, because, really. Which idiot dares to mess with his Kanda—
Wait. Where did that come from?
"Hmmm… you see the line over here?" Daisya asks as he lightly traces a line from the area just under Kanda's index finger stretching all the way to below his pinky.
Allen stares at Kanda's palm currently in Daisya's hand, trying—and failing—to see what Daisya is seeing from the so-called heart line. He peers closer, until his breath practically caresses the skin of Kanda's palm, and all Allen can see is some small, fine lines forming a long line across his palm.
"This is the heart line, and yours says that—you have an emotional trauma…"
Allen's eyes move up to Kanda's frowning face. He looks almost, almost serious when he finally notices Allen's stare and immediately pulls his hand away from Daisya's grip. "Tch, this is a load of bull."
"Hey, it's called palmistry," Daisya tells his brother with some kind of a haughty look. "Have you never heard of it?"
"Why are you even interested in this shit? This is so gay."
"Says the one with the long, silky hair."
"You bastard—"
"Now, now, before you two start destroying Mr. Tiedoll's living room, can we get some snack instead?" Allen cuts in when the two not-blood-related brothers look ready To switch from throwing insults at each other into something more physical.
Kanda spares Allen a glance and snorts. "Glutton."
"Say Allen, do you want me to read your palm too?" Daisya offers with an enthusiastic smile, and Allen is ready to give in to his curiosity and agrees, but, "I'm still learning though, and I can only read left hand for now—"
Oh. Well.
Allen puts on a disarming smile on his face. "Well then I suppose I should wait until you learn to read right palms," he laughs a little, rising his gloved left hand and waving it dismissively. "I doubt even experts can read this."
Right. Allen had shown his hand at some point of their acquaintance, hadn't he? Allen had been certain it was not quite a pleasant sight. But, boys? They have morbid curiosity.
Realization dawns on Daisya then. "Ah…right. Uhh, Sorry, Al," he says, scratching the back of his head and laughing nervously.
Allen simply smiles. "It's okay," because while he is not offended, he'd rather the subject of his left hand isn't brought up too often. So Allen lowers his hand, but then Kanda catches it mid-air.
Allen blinks.
"We have homework," is Kanda's lame excuse before dragging Allen away and up the stairs. It is when they're halfway to Kanda's room that Allen realizes where Kanda is dragging him, and he breaks into a small chuckle. Kanda turns to face him and frowns. "What?"
Allen shakes his head. "Nothing. Homework it is," he says in a light tone, ignoring the way Kanda is looking at him as if he were stupid.
He doesn't mind when Kanda keeps dragging him to his room, because Kanda's bedroom is one of the few places, aside of his own house, inside which Allen feels safe enough to take off the darned glove.
It is customary for Allen to give that smile first thing in the morning on this particular day. Kanda doesn't quite remember when exactly this started, probably two or three years ago, but after last year, Kanda kind of gets it.
"Palms up," he commands, and when the brat obeys, Kanda drops a bag of chocolate in his hands, before walking ahead, past a blinking Allen.
Kanda can hear the rustling sounds as Allen catches up with him, eyes and hand searching the bag of chocolate. He hears a faint chuckle, before Allen finally opens his mouth and says in good humor, "These are the cheap kind for kids."
"One," Kanda starts, left eyebrow ticking with annoyance, "They're goddamn chocolates. Doesn't matter if they're expensive or not, they'll give you cavities eventually—"
"I won't get cavities—"
"And two," Kanda cuts in, turning to face Allen and pointing an accusing finger under the brat's nose, before continuing, "You're a kid."
"Hey! I'm not" Allen says indignantly.
"Are too. Who the hell uses this Valentine bullshit as a reason to get free candies?"
"Chocolates. And isn't it a tradition in Japan?"
"How the fuck should I know. I wasn't raised there."
"You're Japanese," Allen retorts easily, "or would you rather I ask for flowers instead?" he teases.
Kanda snorts and gives Allen a yeah, right and snorts. "You wouldn't. Flowers aren't edible."
"Good point," Allen nods to himself, hiding a smile. "Anyway, I was kidding. Thanks for this." And with that, he fishes a piece of chocolate from the bag and plops it into his mouth. "Mmhh, yummy~"
"Good for you," Kanda comments airily, sparing Allen a side glance and seeing the brat's happy face as he wolfs down on the poor chocolates.
Tch, he thinks, brat is so easy to please.
He wonders if next year he should he buy Allen a really expensive chocolate and see what kind of face Allen would make.
"Come on, Lenalee, make a wish!"
The small group of people cheers as Lenalee smiles widely, cheeks pinking a little with happiness. Allen cannot help but smile, and thinks it's funny how every time he attends a birthday party, when someone says 'make a wish', the whole room seems to be thinking about their own wishes. He can see it in the way they stare expectantly at the candles as if they were the ones who would low the candles and (hopefully) get their wishes granted.
Allen has his own wish, of course. It's nothing grand, really. Allen is a simple person whose wish is to live another day like this. To be allowed to keep what he has now: his little group of friends at school, an irresponsible guardian, but his guardian nonetheless, the nice family next door and his grouchy childhood friend…
Looking up, Allen peers at Kanda and wonders if he's wishing for something too. Kanda's face betrays nothing—as impassive as always—so he glances around and finds Lavi's single eye glinting with—something. He follows Lavi's gaze and sees Lenalee, and something clicks in his brain.
Oh, he thinks, of course.
Allen eyes Lenalee and smiles to himself, wondering if the girl wishes the same. It is then that he sees her eyes sparkle with hopes, and notices it is directed to the person standing next to him.
His eyes widens then, but before he can wonder if what he saw was true, the girl blows the candles and a round of applauds resound in the room.
Glancing tentatively aside, Allen is met with Kanda's gruffly curious, "What?"
Allen shakes his head and smiles.
"It's nothing."
He wonders if it's really nothing.
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President of Finland tries programming in Code School
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Published: 19-Jan-2016 12:22 pm
Publisher: Reaktor
The president of Finland, mr Sauli Niinistö, took part in a Code School for children today in Helsinki. Mr Niinistö also joined the children in trying out coding. He is one of the first presidents in the world to code.
Code School is an event where 4-9 year old children have a chance to try out computer programming together with their parents. The kids use a graphic coding tool to draw simple images.
This morning, Code School had a very special guest: the president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, joined the class. The president entered mid-lesson and took a moment to chat with his fellow coding students. He was interested in knowing their coding history and future plans in programming and the kids were eager to show the president what they'd created.
After collecting some valuable tips from the participants of Code School, the president sat down to try programming himself. Mr Niinistö was familiarized with the Turtle Roy graphical programming tool and was taught to move the cursor around with simple commands. The application visualises the code, and mr Niinistö learned to draw circles using real code.
– I'm used to applying logical reasoning to tasks of my profession. Programming reminds me of that, commented the president.
Programming will be included in the 2016 national core curriculum for basic education in Finland.
The story behind Code School
The Code School project started out as a small coding club for the offspring of Finnish creative technology company Reaktor's employees in the Fall of 2013. The lessons were so well liked among little coders that we wanted to give every child a chance to get to know the basics of programming. No experience in coding is required.
The first public coding lesson was immensely popular. The registration filled up within an hour, and over 300 children were placed on a waiting list. Other great Finnish companies have also recognized the demand for code clubs and joined the movement: Futurice, Solita, Eficode, Codento, Vincit, Vaadin and many other it companies have also hosted programming lessons.
All in all, dozens of Code Schools have been arranged since 2014 and hundreds of coders have taken their first steps in the world of programming. See a video of one of our Code Schools here: https://vimeo.com/151616274.
The photos attached can be used freely.
More information:
Ville Valtonen
+358 50 323 7203
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Digital growth is the key to staying ahead of the game. We'll help you get to the top of the ladder and stay there. Our offices are located in New York, Helsinki and Tokyo.
For more information on Reaktor, visit: www.reaktor.com.


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Warriors to Host Special Needs Family Appreciation Night March 9 Against Phoenix Suns
Portion Of Event Proceeds Will Benefit Everybody Is A Star Organization
The Golden State Warriors are hosting the team's first-ever Special Needs Family Appreciation Night on Sunday, March 9 against the Phoenix Suns at Oracle Arena (6:00 p.m.), the team announced today. A portion of event night ticket sales will benefit the Everybody is a Star organization, which provides special needs youth with opportunities to learn from and work with professionals in the music, film and live production industries.
The Warriors will recognize over 300 members in attendance from Everybody is a Star, the Special Olympics of Northern California and Support for Families of Children with Disabilities as well as highlight three special needs families and share their stories in-game. The team will also host members from Everybody is a Star to sing the national anthem pregame and invite special needs youth ages 18 and younger to shoot a post-game free throw. Special Needs Family Appreciation Night event tickets are sold out, but single-game tickets are still available. For more information visit Warriors.comor call 1-888-GSW-HOOP.
On Wednesday, March 5, in conjunction with the NBA and the Special Olympics Spread The Word to End the Word campaign to end the use of the R-word, the Warriors held their third-annual Spread the Word to End the Word basketball clinic at the Warriors Practice Facility in downtown Oakland. The team hosted over 50 athletes from the Special Olympics of Northern California, Everybody is a Star and Support for Families of Children with Disabilities to learn basketball drills and fundamentals from Warriors Youth Basketball staff and practice in an NBA practice facility. To access photos of the Spread the Word to End the Word basketball clinic, click here.


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Emily Procter, who plays CSI Miami's Calleigh Duquense, has given birth to a baby girl! The actress and her musician boyfriend Paul Bryan, welcomed their daughter, named Pippa, in early December. Procter returned to the CSI set on Monday as her costar, Adam Rodriguez made his directing debut.
Procter offered to TV Guide while on set: "I wouldn't have missed it. In a way it fits that my first day back is Adam's first time directing because I felt like he genuinely wanted me to have a healthy baby. He wanted me to be happy, and I wish the same for him. I think that's what you get after nine years together. It's that genuine want for each other to be happy." Rodriguez also gushed his mutual feelings for Procter to TV Guide with: "We're so happy for Emily. This is something I know she's wanted for a long time. She's got the right guy in her life and it was the right time for her, and it's so great when you get to see somebody be able to have it all. She's really got it all together."
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Why? Sometimes, it's because there's an unforgivable betrayal like infidelity, or a partner becomes abusive and the relationship turns destructive, or as clichéd as it sounds – people often grow apart.
When couples marry, its with the intention of remaining lifelong lovers and partners. But we all know that with the high divorce rates, this ambition isn't always realized.
How does a love that was all-consuming and wonderfully vibrant wither away and die?
Let's start by taking a look at why intimate connections have such a strong hold over us.
The allure of romantic love lies in the intimacy it creates.
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The promise of marriage is in its ability to mend our wounds. Our most intimate relationships are often therapeutic: they're able to rehabilitate us psychologically and emotionally. Marriage encourages us to expose ourselves to our partners and lay bare our weaknesses; and in so doing our lovers are agents of healing.
The Dark Magic of Intimacy: Yet, the very vulnerability that makes intimacy intensely special can be its greatest undoing.
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When our partners are neglectful or dismissive – we feel intensely hurt.
The pain induced by a partner can be unbearable. When the people we most care about become destructive and hurtful, we react. The very intimacy that can heal early life injuries can invoke those injuries once again.
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Yesterday, at a session of the Knesset Committee on Constitution, Law and Justice, the committee chairman, MK David Rotem of Likud-Beitanu stated: "The Reform movement is not Jewish… they are another religion."
The expression "another religion" was not used by MK Rotem by accident. The Israeli Law of Return uses this exact term to exclude non-Jews from making Aliyah, and therefore according to him, Reform Jews have no place in Israel.
In reply, the Israel Reform Movement's Executive Director, Rabbi Gilad Kariv said: "we were witness to this unrestrained declaration of MK Rotem about non-orthodox streams of Judaism. An assertion such as this makes it impossible for MK Rotem to continue to chair discussions on sensitive issues such as conversion, who is a Jew and other topics that are associated with Religion & State matters and the relationship between Israel and the diaspora." Rabbi Kariv further added: "Keeping in mind Proverbs 3:17, which says "its ways are the ways of pleasantness and all her paths lead to peace," we must all ask ourselves, with which religious hearitage MK Rotem identifies."
Rabbi Kariv sent letters of protest to this effect to the Knesset Chairman MK Yuli Edelstein, the Chair of the Knesset Ethics Committee and MK Rotem. We encourage you to make your opinion of this matter known to both Knesset Chair MK Edelstein and MK Rotem, himself.
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The World Union for Progressive Judaism, representing 2 million Jews in 1200 communities around the world, stands strongly with with IMPJ against the stand taken by MK David Rotem.
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The UJCL celebrates its 14th conference in San Jose, Costa Rica with a focus on Israel-Diaspora Relations
One would not generally expect San Jose, Costa Rica to be the site of an international Jewish gathering featuring top lecturers on matters related to Israel-Diaspora relations. But then one may not have heard about the UJCL (Union of Jewish Communities in Central America and the Caribbean) and its 14th Conference which took place in San Jose, Costa Rica from January 29-February 1, 2014.
Conference participants in sunny Costa Rica
The UJCL is the network of 14 Progressive and Masorti congregations in Central America and the Caribbean which every two years meets in conference to strengthen ties of Jewish solidarity and focus on issues of mutual importance. This year's conference had as its theme: Israel and the Diaspora – Strengthening Our Ties. Invited speakers from Israel were: Shai Pinto and Rabbi Joel Oseran from the World Union, Gil Hoffman, Chief Political Correspondent from the Jerusalem Post, Peggy Cidor, Board Member of Women of the Wall and member of Jerusalem Progressive congregation Kol Haneshama and Dr. David Breakstone, Vice-Chairman, World Zionist Organization.
Rabbi Joel Oseran addresses the plenary on the State of Religious Pluralism in Israel
The opening night festivities of the Conference included remarks from the Honorable Abraham Haddad, Ambassador of Israel to Costa Rica and Dr. Luis Liberman, Vice-President of Costa Rica. During the course of Ambassador Haddad's speech, the audience was moved in a most unusual way – an earthquake hit San Jose (one of many which occur during the year in Costa Rica) and the audience in the hall was literally moved by the experience. After a brief time out to receive emergency instructions regarding how to exit the room in case…, we continued on with the Ambassador's talk. A good and moving time was had by all.
Gil Hoffman from the Jerusalem Post in his keynote address gave a presentation which focused on 65 reasons to be optimistic about Israel – a talk which set a great tone for the Conference. Peggy Cidor from Women of the Wall (WOW) spoke from the heart as she described the evolution of the campaign of WOW to reach a negotiated resolution to the issue of egalitarian prayer at the Kotel. Ms. Cidor is a member of Jerusalem's Progressive congregation, Kol Haneshama, and brings the spirit of Progressive Judaism to the cause of women's rights in Israel. She described in painful detail the acts of vandalism against her home due to her leadership role in WOW. The very day of her presentation at the Conference, word reached San Jose about the vandalism and ugly graffiti painted on the walls of Congregation Ra'anan, the Progressive congregation in Ra'anana, Israel (see also WUPJ Statement on this matter). It is all too apparent that the success of Progressive Judaism and religious pluralism in Israel are creating a backlash of blind hatred by those in Israel whose intolerance and closed mindedness lead them to acts of violence and degradation of the Divine name.
Shai Pinto on panel with Enrique Burbinski, Shay Salamon, and Dr. Jane Siegel
In his presentation to the Conference, Rabbi Oseran used the opening lines of Charles Dickens's classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to describe the current situation of religious pluralism in Israel: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Rabbi Oseran cited the recent poll by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center which indicated that over 7% of Israelis self-identity as either Reform or Conservative Jews. This translates into a real number of over 400,000 Israeli Jews who define themselves as part of the non Orthodox religious camp. Yet, we are reminded that we are far from true religious pluralism in Israel which is based not only on diversity of expression but the ability of diverse groups in society to establish honest and respectful relationships with those of different beliefs and expressions.
Many Conference sessions dealt with practical ways Diaspora Jews can find personal connections to Israel. Shai Pinto stressed the important role which Zionist Youth movements and young adult organizations such as Netzer Olami and TaMaR can play in bringing Diaspora Jews closer to Israel and Israelis. He also explained how our Anita Saltz International Education Center is leading the way in terms of leadership training seminars for Diaspora congregational leaders, educators and social activists. Shai and Joel organized a most interesting session with the young adult representatives from around the region, listening to their vision for the future of young adult leadership and suggesting opportunities for the group which the World Union is prepared to provide.
Jerry Tanenbaum, Chair of the Yad B'Yad Task Force, with friends
The San Jose Conference concluded the term of Mr. Ricardo Stanley (El Salvador) as UJCL President and initiated the new Presidency of Mr. Phil Gelman (Costa Rica). The UJCL board welcomed a delegation of World Union leaders to their board meeting to bring greetings and to discuss future cooperative efforts. Jerry Tanenbaum, Chair of Yad B'Yad and Dr. Jane Siegel, Treasurer of Yad B'Yad, were joined by Shai Pinto and Rabbi Oseran to represent the World Union at the board meeting. The UJCL was most gracious in acknowledging the important role played by the World Union over the years in support and encouragement of UJCL activities. Other World Union leaders in attendance at the Conference were Steve Breslauer and Steve and Laura Olsen. The point was made that the World Union is interested in supporting the Jews in Central America and the Caribbean not to increase membership in the WUPJ but because it is the right thing to do. Jews need to help other Jews – and that is why the World Union is so involved in the UJCL region.
At the closing banquet Shai Pinto and Rabbi Oseran presented a lovely World Union mezuzah to outgoing President Ricardo Stanley and brought words of congratulations on behalf of the entire World Union family for his dedicated leadership. The UJCL is an integral part of the World Union international family and we all look forward to continued partnership efforts in the years to come.
UJCL outgoing President Ricardo Stanley flanked by WUPJ COO Shai Pinto and VP-International Development Rabbi Joel Oseran
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Netzer welcomes a new group of youth for their Gap Year in Israel program
Netzer Olami – the worldwide youth movement of the World Union for Progressive Judaism – runs a unique gap-year program in Israel for Progressive youth from around the world: Shnat Netzer. A new group of Netzer youth (called "Shnatties") arrived in Israel on January 27th to start the Southern Shnat Netzer program – Shnat Kineret. This group includes 13 members from Australia.
The Shnat Gap Year program is a ten month leadership training program for young adults in Israel that develops the skills and knowledge to enable them to assume young leadership roles in their home communities. The program's mission is to develop leadership within Netzer and the wider Jewish community and to develop participants' understanding of, engagement with and commitment to Netzer's ideology. Netzer aims for Shnat Netzer to be a Progressive Jewish and Zionist hagshama experience that hones participants' leadership and managerial skills, promotes their personal growth, and nurtures their relationship with the Land, People and State of Israel. Most participants describe the program as "one of the best years of their lives", helping them develop personal skills and lifelong friendships with other Progressive Jews from around the world.
Participants spend time on one of the movement's kibbutzim, where they can experience a communal way of life, as well as studying and volunteering in Jerusalem and other parts of the country.
Their orientation seminar opened with a ceremony on the rooftop terrace of Beit Shmuel overlooking the Old City, with Rabbi Steve Burnstein, Director of the Saltz Center leading the singing and blessings for a successful year.
Rabbi Steve Burnstein welcomes the new Shnatties with song, ruach, and snacks
After their orientation seminar which took place in Beit Shmuel, the participants will start their four-month stay in Jerusalem where they can choose between studying in Mechinat Etgar or the JAFI-run Machon Le'Madrichai Chul (Institute for group leaders from abroad) where they focus on Zionism, Judaism and Israeli history, politics and society, as well as classes and workshops in education and group dynamics, and additional seminars focused on spirituality and Reform Judaism. During the second part of the program, the Shnatties will be embarking on a 6 day Yam Le Yam (Sea to Sea) hike where they will experience Israel by foot all while bonding together as a group. After the hike they have a Jewish Identity Seminar and then they will go to Tel Aviv to take part in a Tikun Olam program with BINA (the secular yeshiva). The final stage of the program takes place on the Reform Movement's Kibbutz Lotan in the Arava (about 30 miles/50 km north of Eilat). Lotan, unlike many kibbutzim today, has remained a fully communal kibbutz. The Shnatties will work alongside members in the kibbutz's various economic activities.
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"It's All Good!" say the new Shnatties on the Beit Shmuel balcony
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Unique opportunity for Reform Jewish Educators from around the globe at the Bergman Seminar
The Anita Saltz Educational Center's Bergman Seminar for Reform Jewish Educators, that will be held in Israel from July 24 - August 3, 2014, is a unique opportunity for Reform Jewish Educators from across the globe to join together for a 10-day professional development seminar in Jerusalem. In addition to the amazing speakers and programs, the magic of the seminar is the diversity of the participants. Our last program included exceptional Jewish educators from South Africa, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Israel, Australia, Panama, France and the United States.
Crafted to having a meaningful impact on our work in formal and informal Jewish education, the program incorporates arts & culture, spirituality & liturgy, Hebrew language, history, politics, text study, Jewish values, pedagogy and more.
Previous participants experience social action with IRAC Freedom Riders
Join us as we:
• Spend 10 days with exceptional Reform Jewish educators from around the world
• Grapple with critical issues facing Israel and the Jewish People
• Use the sites of Israel to delve into issues vital to Jewish education
• Encounter top leaders in Jewish education
• Explore history, culture, spirituality, Hebrew, politics, pedagogy and more
• Only $1000 USD (including program, accommodations and most meals). 50% discount for additional faculty from the same school. First participant pays $1000. Additional participants from the same school pay only $500! Limited scholarships are available.
Previous participants "clowning around" with The Jewish-Arab Youth Circus, a project of the Galilee Foundation for Value Education, in Biene
The Faculty: The Saltz faculty includes some of the most accomplished scholars and educators in the world. Past faculty includes: Sally Klein-Katz, Rabbi Marc Rosenstein, Mark Lazar, Robbie Gringras, Anat Hoffman (chairwoman of WOW and executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center- IRAC), Rabbi Gilad Kariv (executive director of IMPJ), Rabbi Miri Gold (Kehillat Birkat Shalom, Kibbutz Gezer), Alexandra Benjaim, Steve Israel, Rabbi Benji Gruber, Rabbi Levi Weiman Kelman, and many more.
The Participants: This is a unique opportunity to experience Progressive Jewish Peoplehood while learning with leaders from around the world. The international makeup of our participants adds perspective and insight
The Location: Based at Beit Shmuel-Mercaz Shimshon, headquarters of the WUPJ, the Saltz Center overlooks the dramatic walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
From Past Participants. . .
We encountered parts of Israel and our larger Jewish story that I would never have access to on my own.
A wonderful opportunity to form community with Reform educators from around the world. I now have the tools to exchange ideas, build on relationships and bring home new, creative techniques. Knowing that we all share similar challenges gives us the ability to use the experience of others to improve the outcomes we hope to achieve. Thank you!
This course was excellent. The level of scholarship, the wide range of topics, the chevruta study, all programmes were outstanding. . . I really learned a great deal . . . Yasher Koach and Todah Rabah.
Participating in the Bergman Seminar enriched my personal and professional life and enables me to take the knowledge back home to my community and community-at-large. I'm bringing with me tools and techniques for teaching about Israel in a meaningful and realistic way, yet inspiring and magical. My hope is that more members of my community will visit Israel and continue to support it!
Although I had been to Israel several times this was the experience that allowed me to put all the puzzling pieces together. There was tremendous attention to depth, detail and knowledge - Israel's history and society is so complex - previously I felt like an outsider peeking over a Jerusalem stone wall into a mystical world - now I feel a part of this country and can relate to its challenges and accomplishments as if it is part of my own identity.
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Previous participants learn about Israel's cutting-edge ecological solutions
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School's Pledge of Allegiance 'Mistake' Sparks Debate
A controversy is brewing in one community where the school district sent out an apology over this.
As Written By Jennifer O'Neill for Yahoo Parenting:
A controversy is brewing in one community where the school district sent out an apology after the words "under God" were omitted from a reading of the Pledge of Allegiance at the high school.
"A mistake was made in the reading of the Pledge of Allegiance this morning at Prior Lake High School, and the phrase "under God" was unintentionally left out," wrote an administrator for Minnesota's Prior Lake Savage Area Schools on Facebook Jan. 5. "The reader got distracted, which resulted in the mistake. The Pledge will continue to be recited each week in its entirety, as it has been for the past several years."
But instead of pacifying, it seems the mea culpa incited irritation in many — over the fact that the school thought any apology would be needed for omitting "under God" in the first place.
More than 113 people "liked" a comment that praised leaving that phrase out of the 123-year-old recitation: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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Edward Teller, physicist: born Budapest 15 January 1908; Lecturer, London University 1934-45; Professor of Physics, George Washington University, Washington DC 1935-41; Professor of Physics, Columbia University 1941-42; Physicist, Manhattan Project 1942-46; Professor of Physics, University of Chicago 1946-52; Assistant Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1949-52; Professor of Physics, University of California 1953-60, Director, Livermore Branch, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1958-60 (Emeritus), Associate Director, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory 1954-75 (Emeritus), Chairman, Department of Applied Science 1963-66; Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley 1960-71, University Professor 1971-75 (Emeritus); Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution 1975-2003; married 1934 Augusta Harkanyi (died 2000; one son, one daughter); died Stanford, California 9 September 2003.
Edward Teller's public fame, or public infamy, had him as father of the hydrogen bomb: the Beelzebub of the 20th century. For a decade from 1942, when he was assigned as a physicist to the Manhattan Project, he was less interested in the manufacture of a "fission" or atomic bomb than in the development of a "fusion" or "super" bomb. It was as a result as much of Teller's energetic advocacy as his technical expertise that on 1 November 1952 - a year after the Russians detonated their first atomic bomb - the Americans detonated their first hydrogen bomb, at Eniwetok Island in the Pacific.
Yet when at the invitation of Eitan Abraham, another physicist of Hungarian descent, Teller came to the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in October 1994 (he was then in his late eighties), he captivated me and other critics, in public and in private, by his hypnotic charm and capacity to respond convincingly, in detail, to all the queries, some pointed in the extreme, with which he was confronted over a three-day period at the university.
A heavyweight in every sense - intellectually, and physically of Joe Bugner proportions - Teller mesmerised the American military establishment from Dwight Eisenhower to the Nato commander- in-chief Andrew Goodpaster; his particular disciple was Ronald Reagan, first as Governor of California and secondly as President of the United States. When I put it to Teller that his influence over an eight-year period on the American president has been comparable to that of his Hungarian boyhood friend Tommy Balogh over Harold Wilson, Teller grunted - "Not compaa-able, faar graa-ater!"
He had had dealings with every US President since Franklin Roosevelt, and it was Teller's repeated and considered opinion that Reagan was the most intelligent - because he listened and displayed a delicious sense of humour. The evidence that he listened to Teller on "Star Wars" and much else is unchallenged.
Teller enjoyed repeating how Reagan summoned those who had served him particularly well at the very end of his presidency for medals. "Reagan did not say that the world would be grateful, or that we had done a wonderful job. Nothing of that kind. He simply said that it was the 2,735th day of office, and that 'enough is enough'!"
Edward Teller was born in Budapest in 1908, the son of Max Teller, a lawyer. His mother, Ilona, wanted him to be a pianist. Asked why he became a mathematician and physicist, he explained that his parents inflicted on him, as a small child, the indignity of turning his bedroom light off before he was tired. So he got into the habit of retreating under the bedclothes, and working out in his mind calculations such as how many seconds there are in a year. Teller would refer to his childhood as an "affair with numbers".
High school at the Minta- Gymnasium in Budapest - the same one attended by Johnny von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Nicholas Kurti and the economists Nicholas Kaldor and Tommy Balogh - he dismissed as a total loss, since his teachers believed that mathematics and calligraphy were the same subject. However, his fond father sent him to a Professor Leopold Klug, who introduced him to Leonhard Euler's Algebra, which he understood without difficulty; Klug, whom Teller revered, also taught him a little about projective geometry, and a lot about loving one's subject. He became a polymer chemist, and one of the first researchers to become obsessed with the problems associated with the stability of atoms.
Preceded by Hungarian friends of prodigious talent - among them Leo Szilard, the first man to predict nuclear explosions, Eugene Wigner, who introduced quantum mechanics into the United States, and Johnny von Neumann, the most gifted mathematician of the age, developer of games theory and computers - Teller was welcomed in Karlsruhe, Munich, Leipzig and Göttingen, all then at the forefront of world physics.
Crucially in Leipzig, Teller met another young man, who was a ping-pong addict like himself, by the name of Werner Heisenberg. Heisenberg was at first beaten by Teller, but, since Heisenberg was intensely ambitious and did not like to be bettered at anything, he soon trained himself to beat Teller. Heisenberg was even more serious about his "Uncertainty Principles" and a limitation of the idea of causality. Well-defined uncertainty was not due to our imperfections but to unforeseeable circumstances.
In Leipzig, Teller occupied a room in the department where he both worked and slept. He had a computer - one which was operated by turning a handle on a loud, clanking wheel. Liking to work at night, Teller would wonder aloud whether or not part of the reason Heisenberg awarded him an accelerated doctorate (on research related, inter alia, to hydrogen molecules) was to rid himself of the grinding clanking of Teller's computer in the small hours. The chuckle with which Teller would speculate on such matters was a part of his charm - not least in great old age.
It was intimacy with Heisenberg that was later so to alarm Teller about the all too real prospect of German nuclear weapons, in the lands of the Nazis, and propel him to go with Leo Szilard to see Alfred Einstein on 20 August 1939; Szilard had a letter in his pocket, which he and Teller persuaded Einstein to sign, addressed to Franklin Roosevelt, outlining the danger - "The science is there," the letter said. "Nuclear explosives can be made, and the Germans were the first to know about it. They discovered it" - and urging the President, before a Nazi bomb was developed, to embark on what became known as the Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos development of the atomic bomb. This he did: the US began on their own programme in 1941.
As Teller's self-deprecating humour put it: "Leo Szilard was a wonderful and ingenious man who could do anything - except drive a motor car. I went along as his chauffeur." In truth, it was the 31-year-old Teller who galvanised Szilard to galvanise Einstein to make full use of his prestigious access to FDR.
I asked Teller in 1994 what his considered opinion was on the delicate question of Heisenberg and the German bomb. Inevitably Teller, who had a horror of simplification to the point of distortion, retorted:
It's not uncomplicated. In 1940, when the Germans overran Copenhagen, Niels Bohr, who was half-Jewish, thought he was destined for a concentration camp. Heisenberg, with some courage, as he was himself suspected of being anti-Nazi, went to Copenhagen to see Bohr, his old teacher, at his house, provided by Karlsbad, the beer manufacturers. Heisenberg, assuming there were bugging devices in Bohr's house, said, "I'm working hard for my country." His country was the Nazis. Bohr was shocked. Outside in the garden, Heisenberg said, "I'm working on nuclear experiments; I hope they do not succeed. I hope our friends in the US will not succeed either."
Heisenberg told Bohr and the German authorities that one could not use carbon, and one had to use heavy water. That was a big mistake. Heisenberg allowed the graphite used to be very impure. That was an even bigger mistake. Had Heisenberg been his own self - he never made a mistake - those blunders would not have happened!
Teller concluded that Heisenberg had deliberately sabotaged the German bomb, and both from knowing his character, and from the evidence of the secret tapes made by the British authorities at a farm in England between 6 and 10 August 1945, when interned German scientists discussed among themselves Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Teller was keen to work with former German colleagues.
His attitude to the Russians was altogether different. During his time at Leipzig, he became extremely close to Lev Landau, the Nobel prizewinning Leningrad physicist, who in the middle 1930s was an ardent Communist (constantly teasing Teller about the democratic system). The fact that Landau could be sent to Siberia, and his life endangered, made an indelible impression on Teller.
The charges made against Teller's conduct are legion. Charge and counter-defence can only be deployed in necessarily truncated form. The first charge is that he was responsible for the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact, alone among the scientists, he wanted to explode the Los Alamos device 10,000 metres above Tokyo Bay, to let the Emperor and eight million Japanese see the device before having to use it in earnest. Actually, the decision was made by Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and nobody else.
The second charge is that Teller "shopped" Robert Oppenheimer, director of the weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, when, at the time of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, the US Atomic Energy Commission held an inquiry after he was accused of being an agent of the Soviet Union. In fact, it was, as Teller understatedly described it, "a somewhat involved story". Teller regarded Oppenheimer as a very complicated man, but as a "truly excellent leader; I liked and respected him".
But, in the summer of 1945, Teller declined to sign a round-robin on the use of nuclear weapons (partly in the light of what had happened to Landau). He was called on that account to Washington. Because of the Chevalier case (involving the passing of secrets to the Soviets), he said he was in principle against giving loose clearance.
Asked in 1954 if Oppenheimer should be given clearance, Teller said that, as far as intention was concerned, he did not believe Oppenheimer wished to betray the United States; as far as his actions and talk were concerned, he did not know, and he wished that the security of the country was in hands that he understood. (He had been tipped off obliquely by Sir James Chadwick, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, that there was a security leak, before Klaus Fuchs was uncovered.)
Another charge was that Teller broke ranks among senior scientists who would otherwise have been unanimous against going ahead with the H-bomb. Teller retorted that he knew the Russian Communists better than his accusers did, since his mother and sister were suffering terribly in Hungary.
A taste of Teller's brand of sardonic humour parries this charge:
When Beria went to Stalin to tell him of the successful explosion of the Russian bomb, he asked the dictator what he should do. "Well, Comrade Laurenti," grunted Stalin, "I suppose you have a list of persons and scientists whom you would have shot, if the bomb had not gone off. You'd better give everyone on that list a Stalin Prize, First Class!"
The final charge against Teller is that he seduced President Reagan into embarking on the aborted but exceedingly costly Strategic Defense Initiative missile defence system known as Star Wars. Unapologetic, Teller responded that we should all remember Tunguska, the meteorite that landed in Siberia, the sort of event that occurs on average every 300 years or so - a danger by no means easily dismissed. As he put it to his packed Heriot-Watt hall, "If Tunguska had occurred near Edinburgh - no Edinburgh!"
At the age of 86, his cause of the moment was that the danger from meteorites could be averted for the benefit of everybody, by everybody - and that the success of such co-operation could bring countries and political systems closer to each other.
My abiding memory of Edward Teller is of a man who three times in three days had just finished spellbinding, noteless sessions of 110 minutes each, demanding a telephone to contact his childhood sweetheart of 70 years and wife of 60 years, back in California. Sweetly, he said of his Augusta ("Mici", who died in 2000), "She never agrees with me on anything - except on those matters on which I am attacked by other people!"
Two years ago, in 2001, Teller published his Memoirs, subtitled "A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics", and in July this year, at the age of 95, he was awarded the United States' highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was unable to attend the ceremony in Washington, but his daughter, Wendy, accepted the award from President George W. Bush on his behalf.
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National Commission on Farmers
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The National Commission on Farmers (NCF) is an Indian commission constituted on November 18, 2004 under the chairmanship of Professor M.S. Swaminathan.[1][2] The Terms of Reference reflected the priorities listed in the Common Minimum Programme. The NCF submitted four reports in December 2004, August 2005, December 2005 and April 2006 respectively. The fifth and final report was submitted on October 4, 2006. The reports contain suggestions to achieve the goal of "faster and more inclusive growth" as envisaged in the Approach to 11th Five Year Plan.
The composition of the reconstituted National Commission on Farmers is as under[3]
- Chairman – M.S. Swaminathan
- Full-time Members – Ram Badan Singh, Shri Y.C. Nanda
- Part-time Members – R.L. Pitale, Shri Jagadish Pradhan, Chanda Nimbkar (yet to join), Atul Kumar Anjan
- Member Secretary – Atul Sinha
Terms of Reference[edit]
- Work out a comprehensive medium-term strategy for food and nutrition security
- Propose methods of enhancing the productivity, profitability, stability and sustainability of the major farming systems
- Bring about synergy between technology and public policy
- Suggest measures to attract and retain educated youth in farming
- Suggest policy reforms designed to enhance investment in agriresearch, increase flow of rural credit to farmers
- Formulate special programmes for dryland farming
- Suggest measures for enhancing the quality and cost competitiveness of farm commodities
- Recommend measures for the credit, knowledge, skill, technological and marketing empowerment of women
- Suggest methods of empowering members of elected local bodies to discharge effectively their role in conserving and improving the ecological foundations for sustainable agriculture