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One year has passed since Hood River travel agent Sue Collins, owner of Cascade Travel, left Kay Ericksen and her daughter Sarah Keller of Hood River scrambling for Disneyland vacation airline tickets at triple the price, just hours before their flight was to take off. The family had paid for their trip months in advance.
That crisis and additional unauthorized charges to the family's credit card account led the family to file felony theft charges against Collins with the Hood River Police Department. Once Collins' dealings were investigated and made public, dozens of other former customers stepped forward to share similar tales.
With a sense of relief for many former customers, Collins' business activities in Hood River have now come to an official close. With a March 15 Hood River Circuit Court judgement, some of Collins' victims will receive monetary restitution and she has been prohibited from engaging in business activities that involve the acceptance of cash or credit cards without probation officer approval.
Through a negotiated plea deal in a sentencing hearing before Judge Paul Crowley, Collins pleaded guilty to one count of Class A misdemeanor theft in the first degree. She also agreed to pay a total of $14,188.19 in restitution to cover losses of 11 individuals.
Collins already lost a civil case in August 2012 and was ordered to pay $9,346.49 in restitution to Mark Flaming, another former customer, for unauthorized travel costs charged to his credit card account, made between February and July of 2011.
In the criminal case, Crowley also sentenced Collins to serve 160 hours of community service with the department of community corrections, and to undergo supervised probation for 16 months.
When summarizing the case against Collins, Hood River District Attorney John Sewell told Crowley, "To use the common vernacular, this was a case where Peter was getting robbed to pay Paul as Ms. Collins was attempting to keep her business afloat."
Hood River Police Detective Don Cheli investigated the Flaming and Ericksen cases and more than 35 additional complaints, many involving late or nonexistent ticket bookings, vacation package downgrades after payments for higher packages and credit card charges placed to one customer's account on behalf of a different customer.
According to Flaming, Sewell did not choose to press felony charges based on his case when it was brought to him in December 2011, citing concerns that needed witnesses from involved airline reservations and ticketing transactions would be challenging to bring in for trial.
Sewell later did charge Collins with felony theft in the Ericksen case on Aug. 6, 2012.
Expressing frustration following Collins' sentencing, Ericksen said, "I'd like to say that it has been one year since our case occurred with Ms. Collins. I never thought it would take this long. ... I'm not happy how the process went. I'll be happy if I get paid. I'll be happy I put up with the year if it means she is no longer selling tickets to someone else ... I can't say I am really satisfied. I have never spoken with anyone from the D.A.'s office except for the call I initiated to Gloria Needham."
Sewell responded to Ericksen's statements and said, "One of the reasons this did go on so long is because there were other victims and as they continued to come forward, and we received additional information, that required us to wade through that and see what was what ... and that took time."
Sewell earlier articulated the State's position with regards to Collins' fraudulent business practices in court.
"The State would like to acknowledge that the defendant ... is not the kind of person we typically prosecute on a daily basis. That being said, there were a lot of people ... who had difficulties with their travel as a result of Ms. Collins' activities.
"A reasonable person could conclude that her business began to suffer in terms of income and outgo," continued Sewell.
"She engaged in transactions with a number of clients who ... did not receive tickets that they had paid for and a there were a number of instances where customers had items charged to their account that were not for their trip and, investigation revealed, actually went to other clients."
Collins' attorney, Brian Starns, attempted to close the sentencing by making a case that Collins was not criminal in her actions but was instead conducting business poorly.
Crowley responded:
"Before I got the letters J.D. after my name I had the letters C.P.A. There is a point at which what was a civil matter becomes criminal ... I'm satisfied that we've gone beyond that with the number of individual cases here."
According to a recent post on Collins' Facebook account, she has moved from Hood River.
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fantastic muley, great job.
Nice buck! That looks like the ruger american rifle, how do you like it?
That's a good lookin buck Schoff. Congrats!
Nice buck.
Very nice buck, congrats!
Congradulations on a great buck!
I am planning a hunt for nW sd down the road once it finally works into our schedule. We have like 5 pp's already, which is a huge overkill! We are looking into unit 35-L. Just curious as to what unit you hunted.
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The problem is that A4 is *NOT* exactly 210mm*297mm.
(Further more, the 2.835016835017 is incorrect. You convert from mm to pps by dividing by 25.4 and multiplying by 72. Hence the ratio is 2.83464566929133858267).
The code that I posted in may produces correct sizes.
(Except for the "m65" format, sorry. "m65" is the same as "dl", and should return the same values).


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Atlantic City is resuming its "Do AC" ad campaign with a new urgency in light of a survey that found 41 percent of respondents wrongly believe the resort's Boardwalk was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
In fact, the historic walkway, the nation's first boardwalk, came through the storm unscathed.
Just a two-block section around the corner from the casinos was hurt by the storm, and that part was damaged by previous storms and had already been condemned.
The new ads stress the theme that Atlantic City is "open for business" with lots to do besides gambling.
They're needed as the resort continues to struggle with plunging revenue in the storm's aftermath. Analysts say it could take six months or more for the casinos to recover from the storm.
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Since November, the Ecuadorian government has been moving to auction off oil blocks on 10 million acres of still-wild, roadless tropical rain forest in the Amazon region. Ecuadoran leaders hope to attract $1 billion in investments with the tender; they want contracts to be signed by September of this year.
The area for which foreign oil companies are currently bidding borders the Yasuni National Park, one of the richest, most exquisite biopreserves in the world. Jaguars, giant anteaters, white-bellied spider monkeys, harpy eagles and grunting Hoatzins, high-crested birds with claws on the wing digits of their young, flourish there. An average 2.5 acres in Yasuni is home to 655 species of trees, more than the combined number of native species in the continental U.S. and Canada.
This part of the Amazon region is particularly valuable to humans because of its wealth of plants—a garden of genetic diversity for potential pharmaceuticals and other uses—and because it is one of the most vital areas on earth for maintaining the equilibrium of the climate.
Earlier this month, when Ecuadorian officials came to Houston for the North America Project Expo trade fair—an event hosted by the oil exploration and production industries—a coalition of activists opposing more oil drilling in the Amazon region turned up to protest the auction. Amazon Watch, Tar Sands Blockade and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services teamed up with groups of indigenous people from Ecuador and the United States to warn against the destruction of the rain forest, not only by drilling but by the building of roads through previously undisturbed areas.
Representatives of the Achuar Nationality and the Shuar Nationality, Ecuadorian communities that gained experience in the 1980s and 1990s fighting American companies like ARCO and Burlington (now Conoco Philips) in the area now up for auction, tried to intercept and deter potential investors who came to meet with Ecuadorian officials. Supporters, including members of Gulf Coast Idle No More, a group of American First Nations activists, held posters outside the Westin Galleria Hotel, where the trade fair was going forward. Police kept the protesters from going inside the hotel—a standoff that may be a harbinger of more serious things to come, since some indigenous people have vowed to defend the pristine area with their lives.
The Expo, held at one of the global centers of the oil industry, is a sign of the U.S.'s importance in the situation; other aspects of the Ecuadorian tender suggest that American interests are experiencing growing competition from emerging markets. The U.S. is still Ecuador's leading customer for crude oil, but according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Ecuador has begun to look towards the Asian market, namely China, as an alternative export market and source of investment."
At press time, the Ecuadorian government and Halliburton were in negotiations about projects in two of Ecuador's mature oilfields, but Chinese companies, together with Spanish, Italian and Chilean firms, are the major foreign interests currently involved in oil production in Ecuador. With a yield of 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day, Ecuador is the smallest producer in OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), and is one of only two OPEC members in this hemisphere (the other is Venezuela). Ecuador is the 11th largest supplier of oil to the U.S., but the second largest source of oil for the West Coast.•


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alphadogg writes "Apple's iPad 2 tablet, which became available Friday, boasts a big battery, tiny speakers, an ample 512MB of RAM and a glass front that's tricky for tinkerers to take off. That's the upshot from an initial teardown of the new Apple tablet by iFixit, which specializes in Apple product repair. IFixit warns that those who dare to peer into the insides of the iPad 2 on their own risk cracking the glass front panel, which is thinner than that from the original iPad (0.62 mm vs. 0.85 mm) and glued on rather than attached via tabs. A heat gun was needed by iFixit to disassemble the device."


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I just went into my room, and checked on Rufus, and he was gone. :( I think he's been the best hamster we ever had, and I knew something was gonna happen today. I could feel it, and it did. My computer is dying, and I lost my little boy.
Rufus you were a special boy, and I loved you very much. Play hard at the RB, and say hi to Skippy, Snowball, and Tink for me. I love you Rufus.
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As a Freshman (2012): Appeared in 10 matches for Maryland...had three digs against Miami (10/12)...made her season debut against Robert Morris (8/25) to help the Terps sweep the Colonials.
Before Maryland: Four-year letterwinner at Marymount in Los Angeles, Calif...helped the Sailors capture four-consecutive Sunshine League titles...as a senior, led the squad to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) quarterfinals and the CIF Division 1A Southern Section championship...played her club volleyball for Sunshine Volleyball Club and served as the team captain the past four seasons...also played beach volleyball and was ranked as one of the top California beach volleyball players in 2010 by the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA)...in 2010, won 2-man team titles at the CBVA Summer Classic in San Diego and USA Volleyball Sorrento Open in Santa Monica.
Personal: Daughter of John Ribisi and Lori Cross...has one older brother, Sean, who attended the University of Arizona...majors in marketing with a minor in global poverty...chose Maryland over Bucknell, Rice and Williams College...a four-year member of the California Scholarship Society...a three-year member of the National Honor Society...and volunteered 75 honors to community service during her time at Marymount.


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Zionism is more than the expression of a positive attitude to Israel and it also connotes more than Aliyah. Zionist ideology represents an all-encompassing approach to the problems of the Jewish People.
The dramatic quality of the upbuilding of the Jewish State in the face of constant attack from its Arab neighbors, the magnitude of the task of the ingathering of the exiles, have made the State the focus of attention. An understandable anxiety not to antagonize the non-Zionist circles which extend their support to Israel (in fundraising campaigns and otherwise) has caused Zionists to slur over ideological issues, and to present Zionism as little more than a safely non-controversial pro-Israelism.
With the exacerbation of the Arab Israeli conflict Zionism has increasingly become the object of a fierce onslaught from the foes of Israel and of the Jewish people. When in November 1975 a majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations, composed of the Arab and Soviet blocs and including a number of African and South American states, passed a resolution stigmatizing Zionism as "racist", Jews everywhere saw the attack on Zionism as directed against the Jewish people, against the very existence of Israel, and against the essence of their Jewish being. There was an impressive demonstration everywhere of support for Zionism. At the same time, while the word Zionism is more freely invoked than ever before, the sentiments which were aroused could be described as pro-Israel rather than as reflections of a renewed interest in Zionist ideology. Such pro-Israel sentiment is important in itself, but much of the enthusiastic support may evaporate unless it takes the more enduring form of a clear Zionist ideological commitment.
In the face of the anti-Zionist onslaught attention is being properly given to the exposition which is best when it is un-apologetic of the true nature of Zionism for those who are prepared to listen, in non-Jewish as well as Jewish circles. Our concern in this analysis is with Zionism as a specific expression of Jewish identity, with its role from the internal Jewish standpoint what contribution it can make in providing coherence and direction to contemporary Jewish life, particularly in period of stress and confusion.
Reinterpreting Zionism
The classical Zionist theories of Pinsker, Herzl, Ahad Ha'am and others were based on an analysis of the Jewish situation of their time and had special pertinence to the countries of Europe in which the bulk of Jewry was located. The developments in Jewish life have confirmed the validity of their basic theses, and much of what they wrote still applies to the Jewish condition. But cognizance has also to be taken of major transformations in that condition. While maintaining its fundamental principles, Zionism has to adapt itself to meet the changing Jewish needs. Otherwise it will become an abstract, outdated ideology unrelated to the fate and future of the Jewish people. The holocaust, the demographic shift to new centers in the West, the establishment of the State of Israel -all these render essential a continuing process of reinterpretation.
In this process of reinterpretation Zionism also cannot ignore the ideologies in the world around it which now impinge on Jewish life. In relation to some of these ideologies it will need to show how and why it differs, in relation to others it may show how it accords. Just as it should not fear to do battle where it differs, so where it accords it should not fail to indicate the peculiarly Jewish quality which enters into its own ideology. Thus, in keeping with the temper of the times, Zionism is nowadays frequently described as a movement of national self-liberation. It is such a movement, but a simplistic equation of it with other similar movements in the contemporary world is misleading if there is no reference to its special distinguishing features the persistent longings and strivings of a dispersed people across centuries to return to a homeland from which it saw itself as exiled, the way in which the relationship to a distant homeland became part of the very texture of Jewish life. It is also a movement which has to Israel a center of concern, although in a way different from that which Ahad Ha'am predicted. This process has, however, charged American Jewish life with a sense of responsibility for Israel, and has often made Israel the substance of Jewish program and activity." This statement seems to us to summarize the nature of the relationship of a large section of American Jewry to Israel. It is pro-Israelism, but not Zionism.
There is no comprehensive study of the attitudes to Israel and Zionism of a representative sample of the American Jewish community. Such empirical studies as have been conducted on specific sectors of the population show that the great majority support Israel, but only a minority designate themselves as Zionists and only a very small number are prepared to consider settlement in Israel.
David Sidorsky has expressed the position as follows: "Support of Israel in a non-ideological way, that is, without a philosophy of Jewish history or a coherent set of principles but with a sense of moral purpose and pragmatic policies, has become a major aspect of the American Jewish consensus. The obvious question to put to the thesis is whether the distinction between a pro-Israel consensus and a Zionist ideology is a distinction without a difference."
The Difference Between Zionism and Pro-lsraelism
We shall seek to elaborate the constituent elements of such a Zionist ideology on the basis of a reading of the writings of Zionist thinkers and the resolutions of the Zionist congresses, the supreme legislative body of the World Zionist Organization. The analysis of the ideological issues and of the validity of differing viewpoints will inevitably reflect the particular Zionist bias of the author. In recent years social scientists have given increased attention in their studies to the place of Israel in Jewish life, but there has been little reference to the role of Zionist ideology. And so the social-psychological analysis we undertake moves in what is largely an uncharted field.
The essential constituents of a Zionist program are contained to a large extent, although not in completeness, in the resolution of the Zionist Congress held in Jerusalem in 1968. This resolution, termed the Jerusalem Program, states the aims of Zionism as follows:
The propositions stated in this form are likely to be acceptable to a large section of the Jewish people. There is need, however, to spell out and amplify the ideological implications of these elements as part of an overall approach to contemporary Jewry. Indeed, it is necessary to stress that what characterizes Zionist ideology is not anyone of the elements in isolation but the combination of these elements integrated into a comprehensive view of Jewish life. Such elaboration and amplification would reveal that there are ideological issues in regard to which both con fusion of thought and differences of opinion exist.
The Zionist movement allows for the different religious, social, and political emphases reflected in the programs of the political parties which function within its framework. We shall seek to distil what seems to us to be the essence of a Zionist approach without entering into the various emphases, important though they be.
Elements of a Zionist Ideology
(2) Israel as the Jewish national center. Zionism has differed from other movements (such as diaspora nationalism) affirming Jewish peoplehood in that it regards Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, as the Jewish national center. It seeks equality of national status for the Jew through the establishment of Israel as the Jewish State. (The anti-Semitic part of the world denies to the Jewish collective in Israel the equality which it formerly denied the individual Jew.
(3) The precariousness of Galut. Zion ism looks at Jewish minority existence in the diaspora in terms of galut, exile. Galut has been the condition characterizing Jewish life for a large part of Jewish history and it is a term laden with many associations and meanings. Our use of it here is in accord with the following two definitions taken together: "Galut is the distance of a collective from its home land; it is marked by a lack of objective possibilities to shape the collective life of a collective unit, to the extent such a shape is humanly possible," and "Where ever Jews live as a minority, where they are not politically or socially independent, where they rely on the good graces of the non-Jewish majority and are subject to the everyday pressures of its civilization and mode of life, such a place is galut."
The Zionists who do subscribe to the conception of galut differ in regard to the policy to be followed in relation to it. One section urges a radical approach that galut should be "liquidated" as speedily as possible and all Jews be urged to proceed to Israel. Among the Zionists in this category are those who "negate" the exile shlilat hagalut) to the extent of derogating efforts to stimulate local Jewish activity d at times (much less so now than in he earlier years) expressing contempt for many of the manifestations of Jewish life n the galut. Other Zionists, while they are aware of the precariousness of the Jewish minority condition, hold the view that the galut will continue to exist for many years to come, and maintain that the encouragement of aliya and the strengthening of the Jewish identity of Jewish communities everywhere should proceed hand in hand. It would seem that the latter is now the prevailing view, and we shall later discuss its implications.
(4) Aliya. The encouragement of aliya is the primary task of a Zionist move ment; it seeks to remove from the galut and gather into Israel as large a part as is possible of the Jewish people. A goal of this kind, challengingly difficult but attain able, involving so radical a transformation in the life of an individual, is what gives Zionism its peculiar dynamic quality as a movement and this it can do even in American society where popular, self-propelling movements do not easily arise.
(5) Continuity and change. In its political expression Zionism represents the great revolution in Jewish life the liberation from the shackles of diaspora existence and the active reshaping of the Jewish condition. It is the essence of the Zionist credo that Jews themselves can and should control their destiny.
While Zionism exposes, as we have noted, the limitations of Jewish life in the galut, it has to take into account the fact that, even with an increased rate of aliya, considerable sections of the Jewish people are likely to, remain in the diaspora in the foreseeable future. Not only have they to be aided in the protection of their rights and this the Zionist movement in the Jerusalem Program explicitly undertakes to do but the communities remaining in the diaspora have to be stimulated into the active expression of their Jewishness in whatever form the circumstances permit.
The issue is clarified by focusing attention on the ultimate aim of Zionism, which may be broadly defined as the redemption, geulah, of the Jewish people. This in the Zionist view means that as many Jews as possible should settle in the Jewish homeland, and it may also entail a complete exodus of Jews from countries in which danger threatens. But in so proposing Zionism is concerned with the whole without overlooking any of the parts, and from the very nature of these aims it cannot neglect any Jewish community anywhere.
a) Cultural Distinctiveness
Zionism represents a proud, unabashed expression of a Jewish identity, a readiness to be different. In accord with its concern for the creative survival of the Jewish people, Zionism stimulates the cultural distinctiveness of the Jewish community. One of the clearest expressions of this distinctiveness is the use of Hebrew, which has become the symbol of the Jewish national revival. Quite apart from what the possession of a national tongue does to break down barriers between Jews everywhere, and what it does to provide Jews with a key to the storehouses of their history and literature, it is a bond between the Jew and the center of Jewish life which is Israel.
The absence of a common Jewish language limits the communication that should take place between all sectors of the Jewish world. Since the holocaust the role of Yiddish, at one time a major unifying language, has tragically declined; the role of Ladino is limited as well. The revival of Hebrew as a living language was a major Zionist achievement but. while it is now taught everywhere in the diaspora, only a small number of Jews acquire an adequate reading and speaking knowledge of Hebrew. American Jewry, largest of the Jewish communities, is unilingual. The closer linking together of Jews everywhere requires that Hebrew become the second language of Jews in the diaspora, and this needs to be a major goal even if one difficult to attain of a Jewish education seeking to play its part in fostering the conception of one Jewish people and of one Jewish world.
So, too, Zionists acting in terms of a Zionist approach are more likely than others to encourage the intensive forms of Jewish education. This generally means the establishment of Jewish day schools and the development of a curriculum which gives the desired attention to the teaching of Hebrew, to the role of Israel in Jewish life, and to the condition of Jewish communities in all parts of the world. Zionists will also foster the growing recognition that a Jewish education in the diaspora is in complete unless complemented by a study visit to Israel.
b) The Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Zionism looks at anti-Semitism in the perspective of Jewish history and recognizes that there can be no comprehension of the roots of this endemic hatred unless there is reference to the historical background. In terms of this perspective a Zionist approach, while not ignoring local variations, sees anti-Semitism in any community as part of a problem transcending boundaries of time and space. In contradistinction to the Zionist viewpoint non-Zionists in the free societies are more likely to regard anti-Semitism in their country as a local aberration differing in kind from anti-Semitism elsewhere and amenable to solution by appropriate measures in the field of inter-personal relations.
It is precisely because of their under standing of the deeper roots of anti-Semitism that Zionists are less prone than non-Zionists to make the refutation of any and every anti-Semitic allegation a main item in the agenda of Jewish life. When they engage in the fight against anti-Semitism or other forms of prejudice, they are more likely than non-Zionists to boldly assert their role as members of the Jewish group and will be readier to cooperate as a Jewish group with other groups on the basis of the common interests involved. Their stance in the fight against anti-Semitism is upstanding and unapologetic, and they are less likely than non-Zionists to attribute anti-Semitism to Jewish behavior or characteristics.
Psychologically Zionism adds a dimension to the Jewish self which enables Jews to meet the non-Jew on a basis of equality. There was unevenness in the encounter as long as the Jewish group was a home Jess entity unequal among peoples. It was to this change in the stature of the Jew that a Zionist leader referred when he observed to a non-Jewish colleague, "Zion ism is that which enables me, a Jew, to speak to you, a non-Jew, as man to man"1 In recent years there has been confusion about how the establishment of a Jewish state has affected anti-Semitism, and in the reinterpretation of Zionism this issue needs to be clarified. The establishment of the Jewish State did not, as some had hoped, put an end to anti-Semitism; it may have changed the stereotype, the perception, of the Jew in some Gentile minds, but it did not eradicate the feeling component, their hatred of the Jew. Indeed, anti-Semitism has found a new focus an attack on the collective existence of the Jew in Israel. Physical dangers still confront the Jew in Israel; what the Jewish state has accomplished is to radically alter the condition in which the Jew faces up to any attack. He is not a member of a dependent minority subject to the whims and caprices of a non-Jewish majority, but is part of a Jewish majority actively determining its own mode of life and shaping its own destiny.
Facing up to Conflict
A Zionism of the sort we have outlined, boldly facing up to the issues in Jewish life, is bound to sharpen opposition in certain quarters. There is no merit in stirring up unnecessary controversy, but at crucial points Zionism dare not avoid taking a stand. Such ideological conflict is not dysfunctional; on the contrary, it clarifies the issues, defines the lines of battle, and strengthens the dedication of adherents to a cause. Developing a series of propositions originally propounded by the sociologist, Georg Simmel, Lewis Coser has drawn attention to the social functions of conflict. "Internal social conflicts which concern goals, values, or interests that do not contradict the basic assumptions upon which the relationship is founded tend to be positively functional for social structure. Such conflicts tend to make possible the readjustment of norms and power relations within groups in accordance with the felt needs of its individual members or sub-groups. In addition, conflict within a group frequently helps to revitalize existent norms; or it contributes to the emergence of new norms. In this sense, social conflict is a mechanism for adjustment of norms adequate to new conditions."
While nothing is gained from an unduly vociferous, strident militancy, a silence on the crucial Jewish issues, because of fear lest they become sources of conflict, is distinctly harmful. Such an approach drains Zionism of its vitality, and is a disservice to Jewish life. Assimilation in its many insidious guises is all the more dangerous in our days because there is often no head on collision between it and Zionism.
Un-Zionist Trends
Un-Zionist trends of thought which have developed among Jewish communities, particularly in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War, make imperative the clear enunciation of fundamental Zionist principles. These un-Zionist attitudes often appear in circles which are genuinely pro Israel.
Since the Yom Kippur War many Jews have become perturbed by the apparent vulnerability of Israel and its dependence on the U.S.A. There is a tendency to think of Israel as "another Jewish community in need of aid." While Israel does indeed require support in the task which it has undertaken on behalf of the entire Jewish people, it is necessary to stress the differences between the situation of the sovereign Jewish state beset with grave difficulties but shaping its own future and between the situation of dependence in which a Jewish minority finds itself in the diaspora.
The term "holocaust" (in Hebrew, Sho'ah) is increasingly extended to apply to a contingency which could develop in Israel. Here again, while the apprehension of Jews is understandable, it is important to avoid the confusion of thought which such an extension of the term "holocaust" reflects. There is a clear distinction between the danger confronting Israel and the position in which European Jewry found itself or the position in which a defenseless Jewish minority threatened with destruction might again find itself. The Jewish state faces grave perils and it has no illusions about the intentions of its enemies. It is not, however, in the position of being helplessly subject to' the male violence of a non-Jewish majority; it is precisely such a situation which the Jewish state was set up to avoid.
While the consciousness of interdependence brings with it a sense of mutual responsibility among Jews throughout the. world, these responsibilities need to be more clearly defined. The failure to understand the extent of the responsibility is evidenced by the form in which some Jews in the diaspora criticize "the quality of life" in Israel. Israel aspires to develop a just, liberal, democratic Jewish society but it still falls far short of being a society of this kind. Many deficiencies are to a large extent reflections of the social ailments which the various groups who comprise Israel's population have brought with them from their countries of origin just as some of the meritorious qualities reflect the contributions of those groups. It is in deed something of a miracle that an Israel composed of these variegated strands has been able to achieve as much as it has. For Jews to say, as some do, "we would like to settle in Israel but are deterred by the quality of life in Israel" reflects a fundamentally un-Zionist approach and a failure to understand that the quality of life in Israel is the responsibility of all Jews wherever they be. And so, if American Jewry or any other western Jewry would wish the country to be built more fully in their own image, they can only hope this to be so if they come in larger numbers. In deed, these Jewries gave expression to the sense of mutual responsibility by extending their unreserved aid. But this expression did not go beyond a certain point it did not express itself in a large-scale aliya which would have made so significant a difference to the position of a beleaguered Israel and to the future of the Jewish people as a whole.
Israel, in its turn, has responsibilities which need to be more effectively implemented. The well-being of Jewish communities wherever they be must be regarded as a primary concern. As a Jewish state it has the possibility of serving as the spiritual and cultural powerhouse of the Jewish world. If Hebrew is to become the second language of the diaspora, Israel will have to fulfill its share in the development of such a program.
In a period when many Jews tend to be overly pessimistic a Zionist approach can make an important contribution to morale. It provides an historical perspective in which the present difficult situation may be viewed as part of a continuing, and as yet uncompleted, struggle moving for ward from stage to stage through a series of trials and tribulations. The burdens and the obstacles ahead can be more readily faced if they are perceived as challenges to be overcome by dint of steadfast effort and perseverance as have the difficulties of the past. A Zionist conception infuses the strivings of the present with a sense of the worthwhileness of the goal to be attained in the future.
On Becoming a Zionist
Zionism derives from Judaism and cannot be separated from it. It finds its fullest expression in the individual for whom it represents the culmination of a sound Jewish education. A leading Zionist thinker, Hayim Greenberg, has summed it up as follows: "Without such education, Zion ism may be a doctrine, a convincing theory, a program, a plan, an undertaking of desperate urgency, an appeal to sentiment, a noble humanitarian enterprise, but not a profound creative experience." "Jewish education "is not necessarily limited to formal schooling or to a systematic course of studies. It may be, and often is, obtained through a variety of informal channels.
While Zionism flows most readily from a Jewish education, many individuals who were minimally Jewish and located on the outskirts of their group have in the past moved in a Zionist direction as the result, for example, of a traumatic event in the life of the Jewish people such as the holocaust or the attack on Zionism in the international sphere, or as a result of a revealing incident in their own personal experience such as the shock of an unexpected encounter with anti-Semitism. Their Jewish education in such instances began after they entered a Zionist frame work. As wrote one such Jew (the French Jewish writer, Bernard Lazare), who became a dedicated Zionist after the Dreyfus affair: 'I awoke to find myself a Jew and I did not know what it was to be a Jew."
In the presentation of a Zionist program account has to be taken of the developmental level of the community to which it is addressed. In any given sector of a diaspora community a certain balance or equilibrium exists between the forces making for greater conformity to the norms of the Jewish minority sub-culture and the forces making for greater conformity to the norms of the general culture. This equilibrium is likely to be established at different levels for different sectors of the Jewish community. The more the balance of forces moves to the Jewish side of the scale, the easier it is to influence the Jews in question in a Zionist direction. The approach to any sector or individual has to be attuned to their place on the scale.
Becoming a Zionist means more than the acquisition of a body of knowledge of Jewish history, of Hebrew, of developments in Israel. Such knowledge is indeed indispensable if Zionist convictions are to have deep roots; moreover, a Zionist attitude may be, and often is, an outgrowth of such knowledge. But the knowledge it self is not sufficient. And, indeed, there are very knowledgeable Jews, and sometimes fluent Hebraists, who are not Zionists. Becoming a Zionist means adopting an action-oriented ideology a way of perceiving the Jewish people and its problems, a way of eva luating the solutions proposed for these problems, and, in addition, a way of action in regard to their solution. A change from a non-Zionist to a Zionist position involves a change in (a) perception, (b) values and valences (attractions, aversions), and (c) action. There are problems specific to the change in each of these components. Moreover, although a change affected in one component sometimes leads to changes in the others, this does not necessarily always happen.
If we examine Zionist education in terms of these three components, we can appreciate the fallacy in the commonly-held view that by simply disseminating appropriate information we make people Zionists. It is true that the provision of new facts where previously there was ignorance or misconception may sometimes set in motion a process leading to a Zionist viewpoint. The path of Zionist education would be relatively smooth if this were always so. But we know how often the most rational of arguments in favor of Zionism falls on deaf ears.
The facts may not be accepted as "facts," and, even if they are accepted as such, they are frequently distorted by the perceiver to fit an existing viewpoint. And even when the change in perception takes place, it does not necessarily lead to a change in likes or dislikes. (A visitor to Israel may acknowledge the achievements of the country, but may still persist in his unfavorable attitude to it.) And when values and valences do change, the appropriate action does not always follow.
The process of educating towards an action-oriented ideology is therefore complex; it often requires a total change, i.e., in all three components we have discussed. Such total change is generally achieved by a person's acceptance of a group with the appropriate ideology as his source of reference.
The Group as Agent of Change
In a study of the attitudes of American Jewish youth to Zionism we found that the Zionists among them did not have Zionist convictions at the time they entered Zionist groups. The joined because they had been approached by a friend or acquaintance to do so; they remained because they found the activities or the company of the other members congenial. They may have been predisposed to join such a group by virtue of home influence or of Jewish education. But at the time of joining they were not Zionists. Gradually they accepted the norms and standards of the group, and these being Zionist norms, they became Zionists.
Similarly in the study we conducted in the United States on a Zionist youth camp, to which both Zionist and non-Zionist. Similarly in the study we conducted in the United States on a Zionist youth camp, to which both Zionist and non-Zionist campers came, it was found that by the end of their stay the non-Zionists were moving towards a Zionist standpoint. The, camp constituted a "cultural island" with Zionist norms, and the campers who were its inhabitants were influenced by the quality of its social climate. It was not sufficient to be physically present in the camp; the question was rather Whether the cam per accepted the group with which he was associated as his reference point. Even then it was necessary to enroll the campers on their departure from the camp in Zionist groups so that their newly-acquired attitudes would be buttressed against countervailing influences in the environment.
The roots of Zionism are deeper when they are an outgrowth of early socialization processes. A home with an intensive Jewish atmosphere may create a predisposition favorable to later Zionist development; if both parents are Zionists, and are so in more than a merely formal sense, they may exercise a formative influence on Zionist attitudes. Similarly, the Jewish school may provide the foundations of the kind of Jewish education on which, as we have observed, Zionism can most effectively build. But if these influences are to persist and to be extended, the young Jew has to become a member of an organized Zionist group and this will most appropriately be a group composed of his peers.
There are, of course, cases of individuals who become and remain Zionists without social support. (Even here, the lack of social support is usually more apparent than real -such individuals generally have some source of reference.) The general rule, however, is that Zionist education requires Zionist groups. Becoming a Zionist is, in fact, a process of growing into a group which is Zionist.
While general Jewish organizations may introduce Zionist elements into their programs, they cannot fulfill the functions served by a Zionist organization with clearly defined Zionist norms. Moreover, the very act of joining a group designated as Zionist implies a psychological commitment. Even if the Zionism of the individual has limited content, the commitment is important, in that it indicates an identification with certain forces in Jewish life, rather than with others.
This does not mean that no Zionist educational effort should be directed towards the members of general Jewish organizations. But this effort will have only limited outcomes unless the organization itself becomes Zionist or the members join Zion its units.
There are Zionists who can be said to have grown up as such, and they almost automatically react in terms of a Zionist orientation in many phases of Jewish life of Weizmann and Herzl have often been contrasted on this score. Weizmann had his roots deep in the Jewish life of East Europe and his Zionism was an organic growth, with cultural and spiritual dimensions to it. Herzl came late onto the Jewish scene and his Zionism had more of a purely political character. Weizmann sought to develop a Zionism which would synthesize the practical work of settlement, cultural activities and the political effort. Indeed, Weizmann writes critically in the early years of the century of some of the Zionists in West Europe whose Zionism he describes as being "completely devoid of Jewish content, unstable, wavering and hollow."
A program for the development of a Zionist ideology need not, as some fear, disrupt the broad consensus which exists around support for Israel. The presence of nuclei of dedicated Zionists in the community may serve to move this consensus to a higher level, even if it still then falls short of the fuller ideological commitment.
The Zionism of Israel's Youth
Just as in the diaspora no clear distinction is drawn between Zionism and support for Israel, so in Israel the term Zionism is often used to include all that relates to the upbuilding of the country. The Zionist outlook of the founders of the State bore the imprint of the ideologies they had brought with them from the countries of their origin and the immigration from East Europe in particular had a formative influence on the Zionism which developed in Israel. The years following the establishment of the state were years of immersion in the tasks of immigrant absorption, land settlement and defense, and little attention was given to the ideological implications of Zionism. The Zionism of the generation born in Israel still has a vague, amorphous character, and it becomes necessary to consider what elements enter into it.
It was natural that a people returning to a homeland from which it had been exiled for centuries should in the education of the younger generation place the emphasis on the love of the land. A popular form of such education were the tiyulim, the excursions into the countryside, exploring every nook and cranny, often with Bible in hand. There is, however, a growing recognition that it is necessary to foster a love not only for the land but for the Jewish people in the countries of the dispersion. The Hebrew literature which had negated the galut had also impaired for the young generation the image of the Jew who remained in what was regarded as a degrading condition. Eloquent expression was given to this problem by the third president of the State of Israel, Zalman Shazar, on the occasion of his inauguration. In the diaspora, he observed, a people yearned through the centuries for its distant homeland; the young generation of Israelis who have grown up in that homeland are now required to define their relationship to a people in the far-flung lands of the diaspora.
The feeling of Jewish interdependence which exists among a large section of Israeli youth provides a foundation on rich the school, the youth movements d other educational agencies can proceed to build further. The Ministry of Education is indeed revising curricula to low for a fuller attention to the study of Zionism and of contemporary Jewry. The extensive educational services of the Israel army are placing special emphasis on the subject of Zionism; their publications, their training courses, their seminars for soldiers of all ranks now have Zionism as key topic. The climate of opinion that presently prevails in Israel -further stimulated by the reaction to the U.N. resolution of November 1975 stigmatizing Zionism constitutes a favorable background for these educational efforts.
Correlates of the Self-Definition as Zionist
The great majority of Israelis regard themselves as Zionists. In a survey conducted luring July-September 1973 by the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, 82 percent of the urban population over the age of twenty declared themselves Zionists. When the survey was replicated in October, after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 90 per cent so declared themselves.
In our 1974 study of a country-wide sample of 1,875 eleventh graders (16-17 year olds) in the state school system 80 per cent declared themselves Zionists. It may be assumed that if the study had been carried out after the U.N. resolution of November 1975, the percentage defining themselves as Zionists would have been even higher.
Our study shows that the percentage of Zionists is higher among the datiim, the religiously observant (93 per cent) than among the non-religious (72 per cent), with the mesoratiim, the traditionalists, (80 per cent) occupying an intermediate position. Significant differences appear between students declaring themselves Zionists and their non-Zionist peers in each of the three categories. The Zionists rank higher than non-Zionists on all criteria of Jewish and Israeli identity. There is, indeed, a close correlation between Jewishness, Israeliness, and Zionism.
The valence, or attractiveness, of being Jewish and of being Israeli is higher for the Zionists. They, more than the non-Zionists, regard their Jewishness and Israeliness as interrelated, feel themselves to be in the position of the survivors of the holocaust, are interested in a large-scale aliya from the United States, and are opposed to yerida, emigration from Israel. Zionists, more than non-Zionists, regard themselves as an inseparable part of the Jewish people, although it should be noted that on this as on other questions a small minority do not subscribe to what is a basic Zionist proposition despite their self-definition as Zionists.
Of particular importance is the substantial difference in the strength of the Jewish and Israeli identity of the Zionist students as compared with their non-Zionist fellow-students in the non-religious category. On some of the scales the Zionists in the non-religious category outrank not only the non-Zionists in their own category but also the non-Zionists in the traditionalist category.
The students have been impressed by the support extended so spontaneously and unwaveringly to Israel by Jewish communities throughout the world at the time of both the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. While this has resulted in a more favorable attitude to those communities, our interviews with the students indicate that they still lack an understanding of the nature of the diaspora of today. Their view of this diaspora is based largely on what they have heard from their parents about the communities from which they came (mainly Europe, the Middle East, North Africa) and what they have read in the Hebrew literature which they have studied in school and which relates mostly to the communities of East Europe. There are serious lacunae even in their knowledge of these communities. They do, however, empathize with the plight of Jews subject to persecution or gross discrimination (as in the U.S.S.R. and in the Arab countries) and they feel themselves closer to such Jews. What they do not comprehend are the subtler dilemmas, the peculiar unease and the Jewish strivings of the communities in the western democracies. American students visiting Israel sorrowfully reported in the inter views we conducted with them that the Israeli students whom they met did not understand the problematics of Jewish life in the United States.
The Zionist Perspective
The popular impression existed some years ago that Zionism had become a term of derision among Israel's youth. While this impression was an exaggeration of the situation, it did derive from the fact that a number of young Israelis tended to label as "Zionist" any excessively declamatory statement about patriotic intention. There is little trace of this derision at the present time. Zionism has a variety of meanings for Israeli youth but the connotation is generally positive. At times, indeed, the connotation is too broad, it embraces all that is idealistic and patriotic and deprives Zionism of its particular meaning.
While significance attaches to the declaration of the majority of the young Israelis that they are Zionists, their Zionism gene rally lacks, as we have indicated, a clearly defined content and a proper orientation to the Jewish people in the diaspora. What distinguishes a Zionist from a non-Zionist in Israel is the perspective in which the Zionist views the Jewish state. He sees it as part of the Jewish historical continuity, as the homeland of the entire Jewish people, and as having as its primary function the redemption of that people. Nathan Rotenstreich has expressed this view of Zionism as follows: "Zionism is not the state itself nor even what is done inside its borders, but the historic meaning the state has for Jews."
In recent years Israel's foes have launched a vehement propaganda campaign disputing the right of the Jewish people to its land. By way of reaction, increased attention is being given in the education of the young Israeli to the exposition of the Jewish historical association with the land of Israel. But this has to be seen as only one item in a Zionist education and not as its full substance.
Inside Israel an intense debate is proceeding, as to what parts of the land presently under Israel's control should constitute its inalienable possession and what parts, if any, may be ceded as part of a future peace settlement. Without detracting from the importance of this issue or entering into the merits of the arguments advanced by the contending parties, we would state that it does not appear to us to relate, some maintain, to the essence of the Zionist perspective. Zionists may and do range themselves on either side of the debate for reasons which are not incompatible with the Zionist perspective.
What has been said in this paper about the elements of a Zionist ideology in the diaspora applies mutatis mutandis to Zionism in Israel. Zionism in Israel, like Zionism in the diaspora, has to be based on a recognition of the unity of the Jewish people and of the central role of Israel as the Jewish state in the life of all sections of that people. The propositions which follow are a restatement of what is in essence contained in the Jerusalem Program as it would apply to the Zionism of a Jew located in Israel.
(a) The Jews of Israel and the Jews of all countries of the diaspora belong to one interdependent Jewish people and share the responsibility for their common future.
(b) Israel is the homeland not only of the Jews already resident in it but of the entire Jewish people, and the right inherent in every Jew to come to settle in this homeland.
(c) A primary responsibility of Israel as the Jewish state is "the ingathering of the exiles" (kibbutz galuyot).
(d) Israel represents the continuity in the present and into the future of the Jewish historical tradition and is called upon to develop a Jewish culture which is in accord with that tradition and which should be a source of inspiration to Jews throughout the world.
(e) It is Israel's duty to aid in the preservation of the Jewish identity of communities everywhere and to extend them whatever assistance it can in the development of Jewish education and cultural life.
(f) Israel represents not only its own citizens but the Jewish people in the councils of nations. A threat to the security and welfare of any community is a matter of direct concern to it.
The test of a Zionist in Israel would be the acceptance of, and action in accordance with, these propositions.
Zionist Thought and Action
There is a heightened awareness in educational circles about the importance of developing the teaching of contemporary Jewish life in Israel's schools, and it is to be hoped that the teachers who will be required for this task will in increasing numbers avail themselves of the facilities provided by the Institute's broad-based program of contemporary Jewish studies into which the study of Zionism is integrated.
There is an urgent need in Israel, as in the diaspora, to undertake the reinterpretation of Zionism which can meet the needs of the changing Jewish condition. A constant interaction between Zionist nuclei in the diaspora and parallel groups in Israel around the common unifying theme which their Zionism provides would be to the benefit of both. It should be the task of these groups to restore to Zionist thought the intellectual ferment, the sense of zest and challenge, which is necessary to make it the stimulating, directing force which it could be in Jewish life.
The Aversion to Ideology
We have in this paper placed the emphasis on Zionism as an ideology. In his essay on "Ideology as a Cultural System", Clifford Geertz has properly criticized the tendency of some social scientists to adopt an a priori pejorative view of "ideology". It should be the task of the social scientist to subject to scientific examination the function of ideologies as "maps of problematic social reality and matrices for the creation of collective conscience". In stead of projecting a blanket aversion to all ideologies, he should eva luate each ideology on its merits. He may then find in the light of the value premises which underlie his examination that while there are some ideologies which are morally repugnant, there are others deserving his commendation.
Zionism is an ideology based on liberal, humanistic principles. Its analysis of the Jewish condition and the course of action it proposed have, moreover, stood the test of historic experience. Geertz has referred to the attempt of ideologies "to render otherwise incomprehensible social situations meaningful, to so construe them as to make it possible to act purposefully within them". We have sought in this chapter to sketch the contours of a Zionist ideology which we believe can provide this purposeful direction in the complex, changing situations which face a Jewish people located in a world in turmoil.


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Two years as a defensive midfielder and man-down specialist has been beneficial for both Jeffrey's development and for the Brown defense. He has been a pillar as the short stick defender on our man down units, keeping our opponents below 24% for the past two years. Now, we are focusing Jeff on the offensive end of the field. His stick has always been his strength, whether with savvy feeds or ground balls. And he has demonstrated a good feel for the offensive schemes, potentially making him very complimentary to a good midfield line. 2009: Played in all 16 games for the Bears...Scored a goal vs. Delaware...Registered three ground balls for the season...2008: Saw action in seven games for the Bears...Scored a goal vs. Lehigh...Also picked-up five ground balls...Secondary School Background: A graduate of Western Reserve Academy where he lettered in lacrosse (4), soccer (4) and ice hockey (4)...Team captain in lacrosse and ice hockey (2 years)...Second team All-MSLA in 2006 and 2007...All-time leading hockey point scorer in school history...Academic All-American...First team All-County League in soccer...Personal: The son of Jeffrey and Betsy Foote of Hudson...Has a brother, Andrew, and a sister, Julie...Enjoys photography...American History and Economics concentrator.


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Meyer, a lefty, threw a four-hit, complete-game shutout against Erskine College last week. He scattered four hits while striking out seven to earn his fifth win. The victory locked up the No. 2 seed for the Cobras in the Conference Carolinas postseason tournament. Meyer also appeared in a win over St. Andrews, tossing one scoreless inning.
In addition to the NCWBA honor, Meyer was the Conference Carolinas pitcher of the week for his efforts against Erskine and St. Andrews.
For the season, Meyer is 5-3 with a 3.42 ERA. He has 64 strikeouts – good for fourth-best in the conference – over a team-high 76 1-3 innings.
A senior from Seaford, N.Y., Meyer is a physical education and sport studies major with a concentration in exercise science. He is the son of Carl and Eileen Meyer.
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This week's poem is written as a tribute to a very well known and inspiring woman who passed away at the end of May. I had to look up the difference between an elegy and a eulogy to refresh my memory, so here it is for you.
This week's poem is written as a tribute to a very well known and inspiring woman who passed away at the end of May. I had to look up the difference between an elegy and a eulogy to refresh my memory, so here it is for you.
a poem composed in elegiac distiches (two line rhyming couplet)
a sad, melancholy, mournful or plaintive poem;
especially a poem composed to lament one who is dead
or: a sad or mournful musical composition
a public speech or written tribute in praise of, or extolling,
the virtues or achievements of a person or thing;
especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person
praise greatly, extol, bless, laud, commend
I decided to write my poem more as a eulogy so as to trace the life of this woman. I was astonished when I learned of all the jobs she had held in her lifetime. And even more astonished when I learned of all the hardships she had to overcome – not the least of which was being sexually abused at a very young age by her mom's boyfriend who was then later murdered by her uncles in retribution. All of this traumatized her, and she felt somehow responsible and guilty and so remained silent (mute) for the next seven years of her life. Ironic, that afterwards her voice would become so widely heard and respected.
Eulogy for Miss Calypso
Sexually abused
self proclaimed
as gapped tooth
big footed
nappy haired
Southern negro girl
once speechless
the caged bird –
first black female
street car conductor
Hollywood director
waitress, madam
cook, composer
dancer, singer
feminist, friend
essayist, author
actress, activist
playwright, poet
who knew
the wisdom of the rock
the song of the river
the speech of the tree
A mastodon who felt
the phenomenal pulse
of mourning
Professor Angelou
clad in peace
dared to love
with a tough, funny
lyrical courage -
voicing her glorious hymn
of human endurance.
Upon the death of Maya Angelou
May 28, 2014, at age 86
About the poem
I used a structure of six-line stanzas followed by a single-line stanza. The singleness of the line is to reveal a more significant aspect of her life. I deliberately used a homonym of the word morning (mourning) to capture her difficult childhood and its memories. Morning was a key word in the title of her famous poem "On the Pulse of Morning" which she read at President Bill Clinton's inauguration as poet laureate of the United States of America's Library of Congress.
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Pierria Henry scored 17 points and led Charlotte to a 71-67 upset victory over 11th-ranked Butler on Wednesday.
Willie Clayton and Chris Braswell scored 11 points apiece, while Darion Clark recorded 10 points and nine rebounds for the 49ers (18-6, 6-4 A-10), who came into the contest on a two-game losing streak.
Rotnei Clarke had a game-high 18 points for Butler (20-5, 7-3), which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Roosevelt Jones registered 17 points and nine rebounds.
With 3 1/2 minutes remaining in regulation, Charlotte held a 60-50 advantage.
However, Butler would then outscore the 49ers by a 17-8 margin, capped off by a three-pointer by Clarke that closed the deficit to 68-67 with just eight seconds remaining. Clarke scored 13 points during the swing.
Butler's Khyle Marshall then fouled Henry, who made his first free throw to give Charlotte a 69-67 edge. However, he missed the second and Butler's Chase Stigall grabbed the defensive rebound, allowing the Bulldogs to call a timeout with just three seconds left.
Stigall attempted to pass, but Victor Nickerson stole the ball and subsequently drew a foul with one second remaining. Nickerson made both of his free throws to put the game out of reach.
Charlotte held a 29-27 margin at halftime.
Game Notes
Butler was 10-of-29 from three-point range ... The Bulldogs had a 12-game home winning streak snapped.


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As an avid nature lover, Eve has recently assumed a new "position" -- that of resident "zoo keeper". We live on a large, treed lot with a creek running through and are fortunate to have many birds, squirrels and chipmunks visit regularly. Of course, having a steady supply of peanuts on hand helps the cause.
Eve loves to be on the back deck "supervising" the menagerie. Here are some photos of her new friend Chipper - let's just say, it is a budding relationship, for now.
Enjoy our little buddy; he's so sweet.


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The Future of Shopping 163
Hugh Pickens writes "The WSJ reports that a new device, now in use at about half of Ahold USA's Stop & Shop and Giant supermarkets in the Northeast, is making supermarket shoppers — and stores — happier. Looking like a smartphone, perched on the handle of your shopping cart, it scans grocery items as you add them to your cart. And while shoppers like it because it helps avoid an interminable wait at the cashier, retailers like it because the device encourages shoppers to buy more, probably because of targeted coupons and the control felt by consumers while using the device. Retail experts predict that before long most of these mobile shopping gadgets will be supplanted by customers' own smartphones. As more customers load their smartphones with debit, credit and loyalty card information, more stores will adopt streamlined checkout technology."


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A "journey" involving running in place in the deep end. Quite possibly I've gone off the deep end.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
If not now, when?
Two of mine are based in popular culture, and pretty darn cheesy. When I feel the temptation to drop out of a race or cut a workout short, for no reason other than that it's hard, I hear Sark from Tron ordering me to Finish the game! (7:18 of the link). And when I hit an unexpected hill, or my stomach seizes up, or my chest starts to tighten, or the headwind picks up, I hear Tim Gunn from Project Runway ordering me to Make it work!
The third, however, is all my own.
If not now, when?
To explain this one -- I generally try to run my workouts at about 90% of race effort (well, closer to 85% now that I'm working with my coach). Thus, when I find myself getting too close to that all out race effort, I back off. A routine workout is not the appropriate time for that level of effort (if I push too hard I'll need more time to recover, but won't get any additional training stimulus).
Thus, when I race, there comes a point where I hit that same level of effort, and reflexively think, for a second, that I should back off. It's at that point that I ask myself if not now, when? This is what I train for, this is the time when 100% is appropriate. The time is now.
When injured, I've always gone through a bargaining stage, dialoging with the powers that be (essentially myself, because I'm not religious), that if I can only heal up and return to running, I will back off at the first sign of incipient injury. I won't make the same mistakes again. I'll be better next time. Promise.
Of course, then I return to running, and as my confidence grows, my caution wilts. I grow greedy, and once again each missed workout or race is an opportunity lost. It's so easy to forget pooltime promises; and to convince yourself that twinges are minor things to be ignored.
This past week, I tweaked my plantar fascia. I think the cause was the few minutes of barefoot running I did on the infield post track workout. It was minor. No real pain, just tightness and a distinct feeling like a stone bruise underfoot. The exact sort of thing that I would have taped up last year and not given a second thought. And I had a race this weekend, and was feeling sharp and ready to run fast.
And then I remembered -- if not now, when? With every injury, I've promised myself that next time would be different -- I'd back off immediately. And then I've failed to follow through. Sometimes I've gotten away with it, sometimes I haven't.
If not now, when? It's easy to make promises when you're not in the situation that will call them due. But eventually, you do face the question. And here, my foot ached and was stiff, in a way that indicated that racing on it risked making it worse, not better.
Hard decisions are hardest in the immediate moment. You can promise yourself again and again while behind the computer that you'll run your heart out in the last mile of your next race, but it's another thing to push even harder in the moment when you're gasping and your legs are slowing and everything is screaming at you to STOP. And you can promise yourself again and again during your convalescence that you'll take care next time, and skip a day or three rather than risk a month or three. But that promise is easily ignored.
If not now, when? When will you finally deliver on the commitments you've made to yourself? When will you finally have the discipline and guts to break your bad habits? This is the time to make that decision. Don't wimp out again.
And so I skipped the race. Cheered for others and then did my "long run" in the pool. And doing so was frankly more agonizing than the last miles of a race.
But, if not now, when?
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I love this post, and the sentiment. I'm going to keep the "if not now, when?" mantra in mind!ReplyDelete
Great Mantra. Mine is similar: "It DOES matter." Sorry you missed the race but you have the bigger picture in mind, which is what matters!ReplyDelete
It is embarrassing, that we love this sport we have to continually convince ourselves to keep doing, isn't it? but I love this post!ReplyDelete
Yep, I know all too well about those bargains we make with ourselves as runners. So hard to stick to it when actually faced with the situation. Way to pay attention to what your body was telling you-it's hard to break that habit and do something other than full speed ahead as a runner.ReplyDelete
Great post, exactly right, the older I get the more important it is to give it all I have!ReplyDelete


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(By Delegates Hatfield, Guthrie, Poore, Wells,
Brown, Skaff and Moore)
[Introduced January 12, 2011; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §9-10-1, §9-10-2, §9-10-3 and §9-10-4, all relating to creating a commission to develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in West Virginia; creation of commission; composition of the commission; powers and duties of the commission; outcome recommendations for pilot program; goals of the pilot program; and operation of the pilot program.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §9-10-1, §9-10-2, §9-10-3 and §9-10-4, all to read as follows:
§9-10-1. Legislative findings and definitions.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares:
(1) That fourteen percent of pregnant women do receive adequate prenatal care;
(2) That nearly twenty percent of pregnant women abuse alcohol, prescription or illegal drugs;
(3) That West Virginia has the highest rate of women who smoke during pregnancy;
(4) West Virginia has one of the nation's highest rates of child abuse and neglect;
(5) Over one thousand children are in-state or home placement;
(6) Nearly four hundred children are in out-of-state placement;
(7) Over two thousand children are in Department of Health and Human Resources custody;
(8) Over three thousand children are in the West Virginia foster care system;
(9) Over four hundred minority youth are in Division of Juvenile Services custody;
(10) Almost seven thousand children drop out of school each year;
(11) Almost seven thousand children appear before the Juvenile Court each year;
(12) West Virginia has been cited by the United States Justice Department for having the highest over-representation of minority youth in its juvenile justice system;
(A) These negative outcomes for many of West Virginia's youth drains financial resources, depletes the workforce and lowers the tax base; and
(B) The cost of housing a youth in the Division of Juvenile Services in West Virginia is over $90,000 a year;
(13) West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rate in the country at fifty-five percent and the workforce participation rate for young adults age sixteen to twenty-four has dropped significantly over the last few years;
(14) According to the West Virginia Picture Funding Report for Children and Families there are more than two hundred fifty different state and federal funding streams that provide over $5.2 billion dollars for services that benefit children, directly support families or strengthen communities;
(A) These services lack coordination and there is no comprehensive planning process that would provide adequate and appropriate resources when they are most needed;
(B) There is not an effective delivery system at the local community level to deliver these services.
(15) Many youth aging out of the juvenile justice and foster-care system graduate into the adult criminal justice system and therefore contributes to and exacerbates the overcrowded prison population and costs the state money; and
(16) There is a growing need to help at-risk youth, that have entered the juvenile justice system, reform their lifestyle through educational tutoring and mentoring, to help them on a path where crime is no longer necessary in their life and therefore avoid the adult criminal justice system.
(b) As used in this article:
(1) "At-risk youth" means all children between birth and seventeen and young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one who are low income still receiving benefits from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, legally under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Resources in custody of the West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services or the selected counties Juvenile Court/Probation Department, or the selected counties school system;
(2) "Commission" means The Governor's Commission on Improving Outcomes for At-Risk Youth; and
(3) "Status offenders" means youth guilty of behavior that would not be a crime if they were an adult.
§9-10-2. Creation and composition of the commission.
(a) Effective July 1, 2011, there is created the Governor's Commission on Improving Outcomes for At-Risk Youth.
(b) The commission is composed of fourteen members: Governor of the State of West Virginia, or his or her designee; Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, or his or her designee; two members from the West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; one member from the West Virginia Board of Education, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; the West Virginia State School Superintendent's Director of Institutional Education; one representative from the Governor's Workforce Investment Division, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; three community representatives from the county that houses the state's largest juvenile delinquency population, one of which will be from the local Workforce Investment Board Youth Council, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; the Chief Juvenile Probation Officer, from the county with the most court involved youth; a member from the private mental health profession, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; a member of local law-enforcement whose county has the highest number of juvenile arrests, appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate; and the county school superintendent or his or her designee whose county has the highest number of students drop out of school.
(c) The Governor shall appoint a chairperson for the commission that will determine meeting agendas and preside over those meetings.
(d) The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall appoint a member of the House of Delegates and the President of the Senate shall appoint a member of the Senate to serve as advisors to the commission.
(e) Members of the commission are not entitled to compensation for services performed as members but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred for each day engaged in the performance of their official commission duties in a manner consistent with the guidelines of the Travel Management Office of the Department of Administration.
§9-10-3. Commission powers and duties.
The commission shall:
(1) Identify a county with the most at-risk youth, that also has adequate facilities and community leadership, to run a community based pilot program that brings together both state and local organizations, to work collaboratively to provide comprehensive, intense wrap-around services to at-risk youth and their families in a seamless coordinated system; and
(2) Identify the challenges confronting the most at-risk youth and their families and make specific recommendations to the pilot program administrators to improve the outcomes for these youths; specifically, to reduce the number of abuse and neglect cases, to reduce high school drop-out rates, to reduce substance abuse among youth including smoking, to reduce teen pregnancies, to reduce juvenile delinquency and to reduce the number of juvenile delinquents and youth aging out of foster-care that eventually enter into the adult criminal justice system.
§9-10-4. Organization and goals of the pilot program.
(a) The pilot program shall be operated by a local community-based organization in partnership with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services, Prestera Center for Mental Health Services, West Virginia State School Superintendent, county superintendent's office, local juvenile probation department and with other partner agencies to serve as a clearing house to coordinate comprehensive youth and family services. The pilot program shall be housed within the community and will be directed by a local community-based nonprofit organization.
(b) The pilot program shall operate out of a centrally located building to coordinate service to youth and their families in the selected county from birth to twenty-one years of age who are referred by Department of Health and Human Resources, the counties juvenile court and probation department, West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services, the selected counties school system, social service agencies, churches, community based organizations and parents.
(c) The goal of the pilot program is to improve outcomes for at-risk youth as measured by the following objectives:
(1) Coordinate services for at-risk youth and their families in the county chosen for the pilot program;
(2) Reduce the number of youth in out-of-home placement;
(3) Reduce the number of youth in out-of-state placement;
(4) Reduce the number of status offenders referred to Department of Health and Human Resources;
(5) Reduce the number of status offenders that progress to being adjudicated delinquent;
(6) To reduce the number of youth that appear before the courts within the selected county;
(7) Enroll, at least, one hundred of the most at-risk youth in a program where they receive intensive tutoring and mentoring;
(8) Increase the academic performance of youth enrolled in the tutoring and mentoring program; and
(9) Reduce the dropout rate for youth enrolled in the program.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a commission that will develop a pilot program to help at-risk youth in a selected county in West Virginia by introducing prevention strategies for children through early intervention and diversion strategies.
This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.


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Watkins ousts Collins in 5th
A year and a half ago, there weren't many people who knew who Patricia Van Pelt Watkins was. When she decided to get into the race to replace Mayor Richard M. Daley, she was an also-ran, an afterthought.
She was running mostly to bring issues to the forefront, but she knew she didn't have much of a chance of winning. Then something serendipitous happened: She was accused of being a crack addict by former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.
"After Carol did that, I knew people would know who I was," she said. "I don't think it was me running that got me there. I think it was her comment that got my name in people's mouths."
That incident catapulted her from also-ran status to a viable candidate for the 5th District state senate seat, which she wrested from incumbent Annazette Collins on Tuesday night after a long, bitter campaign. She won 54 percent to 46 percent.
"This is the dawning of a new day for people to hope and dream that things can be better than they are now," Watkins told a crowd of supporters gathered at the Billy Goat, 1535 W. Madison St. "We started this race back in September 2010 and never stopped. ... Somebody needs to carry the voice of the people back into government."
Meanwhile, Collins was a no-show at her election night headquarters. A small contingent of supporters gathered at Sawtooth restaurant, 1350 W. Randolph St. The mood was subdued as supporters watched election results trickle in on their smartphones. At 10 p.m., Collins was stuck at 46 percent of the votes cast when Van Pelt Watkins claimed victory.
Collins' husband, Keith Langston, spoke on her behalf and offered congratulations to Van Pelt Watkins.
"We would like to say congratulations to her and her camp," Langston said.
When asked if losing Secretary of State Jesse White's support contributed to the election outcome, Langston said he didn't think so. Instead Langston, blamed low-voter turnout. According to the Chicago Board of Elections, only 308,063Êregistered city voters out of 1.2 million went to the polls Tuesday.
Collins has been dogged by questions surrounding her residency - she claimed a homeowner's tax exemption for a Woodlawn condo. She also faced criticism over concerns that she allegedly awarded legislative scholarships to students outside of her district. Those concerns caused White, a longtime supporter of Collins, to back Watkins. White was instrumental in appointing Collins to replace state Sen. Rickey Hendon when he quit the 5th District post last year.
White's criticism of Collins prompted her to threaten to file a libel suit against the secretary of state. White, in a Chicago Sun Times article compared Collins' ethical lapses in judgment to that of jailed former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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| This talk page is for discussing the Pistol article.
This includes commenting on the article, questioning whether it is correct, or adding suggestions for improvements
Questions about GTA games, not about the wiki page itself, should be asked at Community:Questions.Remember to always add your signature to the end of your comments/replies using four tildes:
There are far to many pictures on this page. I suggest a gallery be created. --Chimpso 04:15, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. Plus, 3 of the pictures don't even have captions. --Montybrady 04:17, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone think that the Gta IV weakest pistol could be a USP.Andrew nicholson 17:49, June 28, 2010 (UTC)
- No.
This is the GTA IV pistol:
This is a Glock 21.
For comparison purposes, this is an H&K USP.
The GTA IV pistol is clearly a Glock. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 02:10, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
- That looks like a Glock, if I remember correctly (which I usually don't) the USP has a wider barrel. Chimpso (Talk) 02:22, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Ok the weakest pistol is a Glock 21 and the photos helped. end of discussionAndrew nicholson 16:19, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the .357 Magnum bullets from the Desert Eagle be weaker than the .40 S&W from the Glock 21? If so, how come the Desert Eagele is stronger than the Glock?
- Short answer: No.
- Long answer: It's not as simple as "larger number = more powerful". .40 S&W is a middle-ground between 9x19mm and .45 ACP, almost always used in semi-auto pistols. .357 Magnum is usually used in large-frame revolvers and generates more pressure than any of the above. I don't have firsthand experience in these matters but I'm quite certain that .357 Magnum is more powerful than .45 ACP but less so than .44 Magnum and .50 Action Express. So yeah, it does make sense that the .357 Mag Desert Eagle is more powerful than the .40 S&W Glock.
- Side note: It's the Glock 22 that is .40 S&W. The 21 is .45 ACP, I only used a picture of it because it was the most suitable one for the comparison. The Glock model in GTA IV is a 22 because you can see it written on the slide. --MattyDienhoff «talk» 21:33, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Triangle pistol
In the triangle club you won't get a star for getting to the area with the pistol unless possibly you use it to shoot at the people. Plus only one guard I have ever encountered there uses a pistol the others use there fists and the patrons just run out the door. --Irelandcool 23:03, 10 July 2011 (BST)
GTA IV magazine capacity
The G22 in GTA IV doesn't have a 17-round magazine (otherwise you would see it protruding from the grip like this), Rockstar just either goofed the mag cap or intended it to be a G17 and modeled the wrong pistol. Ghost Leader (talk|edits) 22:36, 3 September 2013 (BST)