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If you've visited France and spoken to a few locals, you will notice that there are certain "words" your French teacher didn't tell you about: all those weird and funny French words that don't sound that they are actual words.
You won't find them in any dictionary or grammar book, but no French language education would be complete without a few shoulder shrugs, eye rolls, and exasperated sighs. (Bonus points if you are holding a baguette at the same time.)
So loosen your jaw muscles, it's time to learn a few funny french words, sounds, and expressions. Allons-y!
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Funny French words and sounds
1. Allez hop! – There you go!
So "hop" is not actually a word that means anything French. Nevertheless, if you're serving up pancakes (or crêpes!) and you spatula over a crêpe into a friend's plate. You can add a little "Allez hop!" as you go.
2. Ben, Oui! – Duh, yeah!
I don't know why kids love this expression, both of mine adopted this around the age of two. Note: The N at the end is not pronounced, it is more like "Beh", than "Ben".
- Me: "Do you want some milk?, Kid: Ben, Oui!"
- Kid: "Is the sky blue?", Me: Ben, Oui!"
Either way, I would recommend that you not say this to a person of authority, like your boss, or a customs TSA officer.
3. Houp là! – Oops!
Almost slip on a toy car while carrying that big birthday cake with all the candles on? "Houp là!" If you watch the British series Peppa Pig, Daddy Pig regularly says "Houp Là" in both the English and in the French versions. Some things do cross the La Manche (the English channel), I guess.
4. Ooh la la! – Oh dear!
"Ooh la la, is it really possible that French people say Ooh la la!?" In a word yes. It is not a stereotype, French people actually use Ooh la la in all sorts of situations to express:
- Surprise – "Ooh la la, what have you done!?"
- Wow – "Ooh la la, that's amazing!"
- Negative reaction – "Ooh la la, you're starting to annoy me!"
There are bonus points if you can "ooh la la la la la la", with as many extra la's as possible.
5. Pfff! – (sigh, with eyeroll)
"And then she came over to my place for a drink and didn't even bring any macarons! Pffff!" I recommend rolling your eyes and gazing at the ceiling as you say this to your French family.
6. Oula! – Wow!
"Oula, isn't that just the biggest engagement ring you've ever seen!" (Actually, French people wouldn't say this, large engagement rings are not the trend in France.)
Along with "wow", it is also an expression of alarm, as in "whoa there!". For instance "Oula, qu'est-ce qui s'est passé!? Le lait est partout!" This would translate as "Omg, what happened!? The milk is everywhere!"
7. Ouah – Yeah
Just like Yeah in English is slang for Yes, Ouah is slang for Oui.
- Friend: "Wanna go for happy hour?", Me: Ouah!"
If you are wondering, the French word for "Happy Hour" is "Apéro", or you can just use "happy hour", without pronouncing the H's.
8. Aïe, Aïe, Aïe – Yikes!
"Aïe, aïe, aïe, I just stepped in some dog pooh!"
The stereotype of the Parisian not picking up after his/her dog is still true, but it is getting better. A bit.
9. Hein? – Huh?
Tourist in a restaurant: "Can I have some ketchup for my Confit au canard?, Waiter: Hein?"
Yes, that is exactly the look that the waiter will give you if you ask for ketchup. (Read more French dining do's and don'ts here.)
10. Bof – (dislike)
Me: "How was the new gym?, French friend: "Bof, nothing to write home about!"
Weird French Words
1. Abracadabrantesque
English Translation: Abra-ca-dabra-esque
Meaning: Magically
An example of this very long word would be politicians arguring about "Une politique abracadabrantesque", meaning a "rather farfetched politics", except in not so polite terms. (All politicians are a bit abracadabrantesque, no?)
2. Cartonner
English Translation: Packing cartons
Meaning: Highly successful
If you remember the song "We're movin' on up", from the hit TV show The Jeffersons, this would be "cartonner". Packing up the boxes, because you've hit the big time and can move on up.
3. Crapoter
English Translation: Puffing, smoking without inhaling
Meaning: Pretending
"I smoked but I didn't inhale!" Crapoter literally translates into not inhaling, but more broadly means pretending to do something.
4. Hurluberlu
English Translation: Hurly Burly
Meaning: eccentric or weird person
This is an older expression and means a bit scatter-brained or strange. For Mr. Bean fans, he might be considered a hurluberlu.
5. Déjanter
English Translation: Popping a car tire off its rim
Meaning: Become a bit crazy
"The wheels are coming off his campaign!" Or in other words, "il est déjanté!", meaning he is a bit off his head."
6. Dépaysant
English Translation: De-Countryfy-ing
Meaning: Disorienting, letting go of habits
Pays means "country" and Paysanne means "person who lives in the countryside". So dépaysant, means to de-country-fy, but it actually means disorienting, or changing and letting go of old habits.
For example, "oui, j'ai adoré, mes vacances en Espagne étaient trés dépaysant!", meaning "yes, I loved it, my holidays in Spain were very refreshing."
7. Machin
English Translation: Thing
Meaning: What-cha-ma-call-it
"Il demande ce machin ou la, tout le temps!" meaning "he is asking for this random thing or that, all the time".
8. Prout
English Translation: the sound "Toot"
Meaning: the sound of flatulence
A polite way to say that someone farted! No additional explanation needed 😉
9. Monsieur Untel/ Madame Unetelle
English Translation: Mr and Mrs Untel
Meaning: Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So
Untel is not really a word, but a sound to say Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So. "Et en suite, j'ai parlé avec M. et Mme Untel, avant aller au déjeuner", meaning "and then I spoke with so-and-so, before going to lunch".
10. Saperlipopette
English Translation: Another way to say "Sacre bleu!"
Meaning: A polite way of swearing
There is no actual meaning to the word "saperlipopette", it is a polite way of swearing, without actually saying the words.
It is rather old-fashioned and cute, and actually has recently been used as a brand name for restaurants and other ventures.
11. Ras le bol
English Translation: Pocket bowl
Meaning: Fed Up!
Ras is not really a word in French by itself, it could mean pocket, or it could mean to reassemble. And bol means bowl. However, when you put "ras le bol" together, it is an expression of deep frustration. "Ugh, j'ai ras le bol de mon taf", meaning "I'm fed up of my work"!
12. Pantouflard
English Translation: Someone who loves wearing pantoufs (which means "house slippers" in French)
Meaning: Someone who likes to stay home all day
If you enjoy hanging around in those cute and fluffy slippers (that may or may not have bunny years on them") you may be a pantouflard.
13. Vachement
English Translation: Like a cow
Meaning: So much, a lot
A vache is a cow in French, so at first glance, the French word "vachement" doesn't make any sense. "Il a pris vachement longtemps", meaning he took a really long time.
14. Pomme de Terre
English Translation: Apple of the ground
Meaning: Potato
I don't know why potatoes have turned into "apples of the ground", but there you have it. See here for more funny French food expressions.
15. Yaourter
English Translation: Making yogurt
Meaning: singing badly off-key
You know when you are humming along to a song, without actually knowing all the lyrics? That would be "Yaourter" or "Chanter en yaourt".
It is often used to describe small children singing along to nursery rhymes or songs that they don't quite master. That person who is terrible at karoke? He/she is yaourt-ing!
16. Farfelou
Meaning: Farfetched, Ridiculous
I just like the sound of this word, which is is not actually a word a proper word with conjugation, but a series of sound. Farfelou, indeed.
French children's funny words
Young kids say a lot of funny things. And it adds a whole different level when those kids are born-and-bred little Frenchies.
Things that we are used to hearing in North America, are slightly different in France. It stands to reason I suppose, the language is not the same, but even after living in France for several years, I was surprised when my children started school and began coming home with different words that I hadn't heard of.
Here is a collection of funny sayings, sounds, and phrases that you will mostly hear from French children.
1. "Berk" instead of "Yuck"
The correct pronunciation of "Berk" includes a throwing up reflex if you can manage that. I don't know the linguistic origins of "Yuck", so who is to say our common latin ancestors didn't say "Berk" instead?
2. "Aiee" instead of "Ow!"
Drop a hammer on your foot? Aieeee!
The aieeeeee can go quite long, so prepare your vocal cords!
3. Oh la la!
On top of any french list of funny things kids say has to be when your 2-year old first comes home saying Oh la la. My kids can even do the extra inflections of the "la's" with "oh la la la la la la!"
4. Caca Boudin
The first "gros mot" or swear word on the list. Every French child comes home from school saying this, it is as inevitable as the sun coming up in the morning. Caca is obviously caca and boudin is a type of sausage. So you can see where they are going with this.
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5. Bébé Cadum!
This is an odd one because it is actually a famous brand name of a baby hydrating cream. The ad has adorably chubby babies in it, which adults can lovingly coo over.
And there in lies the problem, at least in the minds of your young French Child. To them, bébé cadum is an insult, because of course he/she is no longer a baby! How dare you call them a baby!?
6. Speederman
Hello Spiderman, meet the French accent. Every anglophone parent in France just sighs and desperately tries to correct this "speederman" business before the North American side of the family hears your little one say this. But there seems to be no help for it, at least as far as I can tell.
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7. Ca casse les oreilles
To translate literally, this means "that is breaking my ears!". Obviously a phrase uttered by a very exhausted and exasperated teacher, which has been picked up by those little monsters. I feel for the teacher.
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8. J'ai le droit de faire ça!
Translation: "I have the right to do this!"
Alright, this one wouldn't really be funny, except I promise you it really is when it is a 3-year-old saying it to you.
Because you are never too young to start protesting for your rights, your little French Revolutionary will throw this around as he is insisting he has the right to keep playing instead of having a bath tonight. What is it with kids and baths, I ask you??
9. Pan pon
If you were not sure what "pan pon" is, in the head of your little French child, it is the sound that a fire truck makes. With the nasally n at the end of course.
French kids are experts at the nasal n at the end, because of course it is also in the word "Maman".
French Animal Sounds
And now on to animal sounds. Who knew that even the animals make speak a different language? I could do a whole separate post on this, but anyway here goes:
1. Cocorico! – Cock
It is the national symbol of France, so who is willing to argue with the French that the sound cocks make is not "Cock-a-doddle-do" but Co-co-ri-co? I'm not sure you are going to win that argument.
2. Coin coin – Duck
No, that french duck is not saying quack, but rather "coin coin" with a nasally "n" at the end. Now you know.
3. Hi Han – Donkey
More nasally n's here with the donkey, instead of the anglophone "hee-haw". You also write the first part as "hi" instead of "hee" but they are both pronounced the same, since in French there are not really any words with "ee" in them.
4. Meuh – Cow
That sweet little cow is not saying "mooo", but rather more of a curt "meuh" with the h at the end. I suppose it could be different species of cows, but the milk still tastes as sweet, doesn't it? (Unless you are lactose intolerant, of course!)
Once you find yourself throwing out "bofs" and "bens" all over the place, congratulations, you are well on your way to becoming French! If you enjoyed that article, you may want to read about more funny French phrases and idioms here as well as other useful phrases.
I also have a small selection of funny french words that you can download below in flashcard format. A bientôt!


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The 18 European Union member states which use the euro currency saw no growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of this year, according to official figures released today (14 August) by Eurostat, the EU's official statistics office. Germany saw its economy contract.
The news has alarmed economists who are still reeling from the news that industrial production in Europe fell in June, and that the Italian economy has slipped back into recession for the third time since 2008.
Germany's GDP fell by 0.2% between April and June. A spokesman for the European Commission said that adverse weather that affected the construction sector was to blame. "Exports increased less than imports, so foreign trade had a negative effect on growth," he added.
France experienced zero growth in the second quarter. The two countries together make up two-thirds of GDP output in the eurozone. The weaknesses in these economies undercut the 0.6% growth seen in Portugal and Spain.
François Hollande, France's president, has called on the European Central Bank to take action to stop deflation and make the euro more competitive against other currencies. "With zero growth in the second quarter, thereby extending the stagnation we saw in the first, our country is slowing down and will not achieve the 1% growth observers were predicting three months ago," he told French newspaper Le Monde.
Eurostat also reported today that eurozone inflation was 0.4% in July, down from 0.5% in June. This is the lowest annual inflation rate since October 2009.
The French government has cut its growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015 and said it will not meet its 2014 obligation to cut the deficit. The government has asked the EU to relax its deficit rules in response to the weakening economy.
The GDP across the EU as a whole rose by 0.2% in the second quarter, while it increased by 1% in the United States.

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For this campaign, Obviously and T-fal allowed influencers to get creative with their videos. We wanted to them to think outside of the box with what type of food they could cook in their T-fal cookware or air fryer and how they can incorporate the T-fal flip.
This campaign resulted in a huge number of views, garnering a total of 1,050,392 views from the 12 TikTok videos created. With the total reach of 6.2M, this campaign had an above average Views to Followers ratio of 16.6%.


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A body found on a rural road in northwest Iowa has been taken to the State Medical Examiner's office. A motorist called 9-1-1 in Plymouth County Wednesday afternoon to report she'd seen someone lying on a gravel road near a vehicle about nine miles east of Hinton. Plymouth County Sheriff Mike Van Otterloo says deputies found the body of a male and a vehicle.
The rural area was searched by law enforcement and an Iowa State Patrol plane. Van Otterloo says his office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are concentrating on identifying the dead man and determining how he died.
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The EU referendum campaign officially starts on Friday, which means for the first time the official Remain and Leave campaign groups can start using public funds and will spend the next 10 weeks trying to convince British voters to back their side of the Brexit debate.
The polls show that the public is pretty much split 50/50, so there is everything for both sides to play for.
The electoral commission appointed Britain Stronger in Europe as the official Remain organisation and Vote Leave as the official Leave organisation earlier this week. Both organisations will be given £600,000 of public money, free mailshots to every British household, TV broadcast slots, and will be allowed to spend £7 million of their own money.
There were worries that the entire campaign could be delayed by a legal challenge from Leave.EU, a rival Brexit organisation to Vote Leave who were unhappy that they weren't made the official Leave campaign. Their confirmation on Thursday that they wouldn't be pursuing legal action meant that the EU referendum campaign could go ahead and guarantees that the vote will be held on June 23.
Both official campaign groups contain a mix of politicians from all the main parties, so we are going to see politicians who usually oppose each other sharing the same platforms and campaigning together. On Thursday, the Remain campaign organised a phone bank session that Prime Minister David Cameron, former Labour Leader Neil Kinnock, former Liberal Democrat Leader Paddy Ashdown, former Labour minister Tessa Jowell and Green Party politician Darren Johnson appeared at together.
Vote Leave's chairwoman is Labour MP Gisela Stuart and their most recognisable spokesperson is Mayor of London Boris Johnson. He will give a speech on Friday in Manchester arguing that it would be better to spend the fees Britain has to pay to be a member of the EU on the National Health Service.
Britain Stronger in Europe's first big event on Friday will feature former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling who will warn that it's "simply not a risk worth taking" of leaving the EU.


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PM Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to bar US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering Israel was sound policy.
Rashida Tlaib is a Muslim Democrat from Michigan of Palestinian origin. She is now in her first term in the US House of Representatives. Tlaib has declared that she opposes US aid to "Netanyahu's Israel" and supports the "right of return" for Palestinians as well as a one-state solution – the standard Palestinian/Arab euphemisms for Israel's destruction through demographic subversion. She also backs BDS, which works for the same ultimate objective, and voted in July against a House resolution condemning BDS.
Ilhan Omar is a Muslim Democrat from Minnesota and a native of Somalia. She, too, is in her first term in Washington. She often criticizes Israel and the influence of the "Jewish lobby" (AIPAC) on the US. She is also a BDS supporter, and like Tlaib voted against the House resolution that denounced the movement. In February of this year, during a debate about AIPAC, she tweeted that "It's all about the Benjamins" (a slang term for money). She was castigated for doing so by her own party and by Jewish organizations, which rightly saw the tweet as antisemitic.
The pair referred to their intended trip as a "delegation to Palestine." They had planned to tour Palestinian cities in the West Bank as well as East Jerusalem and meet with Palestinian figures and international "human rights organizations." The trip, which would have been covered intensively by the international media, would have been an anti-Israel circus.
It was precisely to avoid situations of this kind that the Knesset passed a law more than two years ago prohibiting entry visas for foreign citizens who call for boycotting Israel. These two BDS-supporting congresswomen certainly fall in that category. But was preventing their entry wise? Many claim its damage exceeded its benefit. But is that the case?
A few weeks ago, the Israeli ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, a close confidant of Netanyahu, announced that the two Congresswomen would be granted visas. But pressure from President Trump, who declared that granting them entry to Israel would indicate weakness (the ultimate sin in his world), prompted a reversal. Ultimately the drama turned farcical: Tlaib said she only wanted to visit her grandmother, permission to do so was granted, and she said she still wasn't coming.
The accusation now being hurled at Netanyahu is that he harmed Israel's interests by giving in to Trump. Haaretz commentator Chemi Shalev (who harshly criticized Netanyahu for defying the previous occupant of the White House) even compared the PM to a borrower on the grey market whose debts to Trump have grown to the point that he can no longer say no to him.
Indeed, Netanyahu had no choice but to say amen. Israel needs the US president, whoever he may be, and generally accedes to requests from the White House. A notable case was during the Gulf War (1991), when President George H.W. Bush asked PM Shamir not to respond to 39 missiles that Saddam Hussein had launched at Israel. Although the entire defense establishment, fearing a loss of deterrent power, pushed for a massive response, Shamir opted to go along with the president's demand. Israel did not respond.
The reversal in favor of barring the entry of the two US legislators predictably upset some members of the Democratic Party, a factor that was probably taken into account when the decision was made. But the Democratic Congressional leadership is worried about the shift toward the radical left that the "squad" represents (which, in addition to Tlaib and Omar, includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). The leadership fears that if the party moves along with the squad, it will cost them the White House next year.
Israel's quarrel with the Democrats will likely be brief – not only because the Democratic leadership is not entirely behind the squad, but because it understands Israel's need to stay on the good side of the American president. That is how it has always been, and it will remain that way if and when a Democratic president is elected. The recent visit to Israel by 41 Democratic members of the House, most of them newcomers to Washington, was much more indicative of Israel's relations with the Democratic Party than the visit that did not materialize.
(Amb. Arye Mekel, a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, served as Israel's envoy to Greece from 2010 to 2014. He was also deputy Israeli ambassador to the UN, diplomatic advisor to Prime Minister Shamir, consul general in New York and Atlanta, and spokesman and deputy director general of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)


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Monday, after getting his head handed to him by the Indians, Cincinnati's Mat Latos complained that Tribesters on second base had stolen signs. And as The Baseball Code's Jason Turbow writes, Latos might have been right. However,
↵↵↵Either way, it doesn't much matter. A team's primary recourse in such a situation is to change signs, and that's exactly what Cincinnati did; the following day, the Reds held Cleveland to three runs over 10 innings.
I don't think this is stealing signs. I think it's taking them, when freely offered.


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Alan was the primary contributor and editor on a free book for small businesses, created and distributed by the non-profit, Securing Our eCITY Foundation in San Diego. The book, Bringing IT Home – Critical Infrastructure for Small Businesses: Prepare, Prevent, Respond, and Recover, provides real-world examples of threats to small businesses for each of the 18 critical infrastructure sectors. He has also co-authored published articles on using competency-based learning toward having a more capable cybersecurity workforce, as well as the use of hands-on labs for students.
Alan is a former member of InfraGard San Diego and was a founding member of the San Diego CISO Roundtable.
Why I chose Cybersecurity as my field: My dad is the one who planted the "technology bug" in my head when I was a teenager. He was an electronics engineer and he took me to an IBM facility so he could work on their mainframe. The "computer" was actually two floors of processing units, probably around 10,000 square feet. Fast forward to my 12-year law enforcement career, where I wanted to be able to look up and report on crime trends, serious injury accidents, and permits for using public facilities. There were no databases at that time, so in 1980 I created what I needed. When I changed careers into an administrative position, I became known as "the IT guy," and for the next 24 years working in the public sector, I had many roles supervising and managing IT staff and systems, increasingly involving security. When I started private consulting, I took what I had learned about crime prevention as a police officer and used that methodology to provide cybersecurity awareness seminars, to help the public and small businesses be safe online.
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Emotions are important. We should listen to them… most of the time at least. However, investing is one case when it is best to let rational thought take priority over emotions. By all means, listen to emotions, but do not be led by them.
Here is a slightly shocking fact: In 2018, the S&P 500 generated an average return of 9.85%. However, research by Dalbar found that the average investor earned roughly half of that: 5.19%.
Why? Humans are emotional creatures and investing is an emotional experience, therefore investors are tempted to make rash decisions like rapidly selling during a market downturn.
When investing, a patient, logical approach is usually the most effective over the years. This means prioritising long-term investments over the impulse to buy and sell based on emotions or short-term goals.
We will admit that it is hard to avoid becoming entangled in media hype or fear, something that can lead to buying at the peak and selling at the bottom of the market, so you need to be self-aware enough to recognise when this is happening.
The cycle of investor emotions
It is common for investors' emotions to move in something of a cycle, similar to the one shown in the diagram below. The point of maximum financial risk lies at the top of the market curve. Here, there is the potential to make a decision motivated by short term gains, when it is likely that the best gains have already passed. Investors who wait until this point are often at risk of ploughing their cash into a market that might soon crash.
On the other hand, during times of rising market volatility, investors should remember the importance of looking beyond short-term market fluctuations and remember that although markets take time to recover, they usually do. If you sell during a downturn due to fear, you risk selling at the point where markets are lowest.
You are essentially at much greater risk of being harmed by the adverse effects of 'bad timing' if you let your emotions get the better of you.
A better perspective
Resisting emotional impulses is not easy while in the grip of a savage bear market or a raging bull. Because of the risk of long term goals being overtaken by emotionally motivated decisions, a mindset shift is necessary.
You should try to avoid thinking of your investments as immediate assets and stop dwelling on the daily fluctuations to your net worth. Rather than thinking "I lost £15,000 today" on the day of a large market fall, try to think in terms of your averages and your long term financial goals. You might have lost £15,000 on a single, awful day, such as some we saw in the 'Covid Crash' earlier this year. However, your portfolio might have gained £300,000 in overall value.
A balanced, long term investment strategy generally has a couple of features:
Firstly, it takes into account that stock markets are not rational. You cannot rely on predicting the future of stock markets – billions have been lost on global markets to testify this.
When looking back at stocks, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking "I wish I had invested at this time". Unfortunately, it is impossible to actually work out when the perfect time to buy or sell is when it is actually happening.
For instance, when markets fall, they often have small rises that form part of an overall downward slope. An investor might think that they are being smart by investing heavily in one of these 'mini-troughs', following the much lauded 'buy low and sell high' investment strategy. However, there is no way of knowing for certain that this is actually the lowest point on the stock market. It might just be a momentary trough as part of a much steeper decline.
Secondly, stronger investment portfolios tend to be diversified. There is that old saying about not putting your eggs in one basket. Investing all your money in one place makes you far more financially vulnerable if those stocks crash.
A stronger investment strategy would spread your money through different asset classes and different assets within each asset class.
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In the months since U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have taken office, there has been lots of noise made about the relationship between the two men and their respective countries.
But all that has just been speculation, fueled by subtle back-and-forth exchanges in the media by key figures in both counties' governments. The first real test of diplomacy between the two leaders is set for Monday in Washington, when Netanyahu comes to town for a summit.
One of the most nuanced parts of the two countries' so-called "special relationship" is the connection of the people of one country to the government of the other.
The strong U.S. support for Israel over many decades has derived from and been strengthened by a core group of Jewish and other traditionally "pro-Israel" lobby groups. The groups, collectively dubbed "the Israel lobby," hold tremendous sway, especially on Capitol Hill, and are considered among Washington's strongest and most effective special interest groups.
For this reason, Netanyahu must work to keep U.S. Jews and activists on Israel-related issues in his corner. But he has another political consideration to worry about: his relationship with Obama has the potential to affect politics at home.
"For an Israeli prime minister, those relationships are a matter of political survival, because his opponents at home will quickly jump on any perceived gap with Washington," wrote Elliott Abrams, a neoconservative fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the Wall Street Journal.
Netanyahu will know this all too well. During his first round as prime minister in the late 1990s, Netanyahu's rocky relationship with President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) is widely seen as having contributed to his fall from power.
But most observers with an interest in Israel have been treading delicately leading up to the summit, probably because none can be sure what exactly will come of it.
"Seldom are things so much in flux and I was struck, attending this morning's very smart panel at the New America Foundation how uncertain even the best informed people are about what is going to happen going forward," wrote Scott McConnell on MondoWeiss, a U.S. Jewish blog critical of Israeli policy and the U.S. relationship with the Jewish state.
Indeed, the weeks leading up to the summit have seen a flurry of activity from various organisations and actors drumming up support for their preferred outcomes from the meeting. As Abrams put it: "First impressions matter."
In the U.S., the divide in thinking has manifested itself in the battle of ideas being waged between several Jewish and Israeli-interested groups.
Most recently, the two most prominent lobbies the massively powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the year-old upstart J Street have been circulating competing letters to Obama in Congress, hoping to enlist support for pushing Obama's Mideast policy in one direction or the other.
AIPAC is considered to be the more hawkish of the two and J Street the more dovish, formed to offer a "pro-peace" alternative while retaining the "pro-Israel" claim.
The J Street letter encourages the White House to take a robust role in furthering peace agreements between Israel and the Arab world and especially the Palestinians. J Street encouraged members to contact their congresspersons and urge them to sign.
"Israelis and Palestinians have not been able to achieve peace on their own, and we therefore share your belief that American leadership is essential to achieving meaningful progress," said the letter promoted by J Street. "Left to themselves, the parties have been unable to make the necessary progress toward ending the conflict, and an American helping hand is now needed to bridge those gaps."
The letter has been signed by three members of Congress, and appears to be in line with the view of the administration.
"The United States is at its best when it's directly involved," said Obama's National Security Council chief, Gen. Jim Jones, last week. "If we want to get momentum, we have to be involved directly."
The AIPAC letter, signed and promoted by both House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, calls instead for the U.S. to stay out of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
"[T]he parties themselves must negotiate the details of any agreement," it said.
If the visit does end up precipitating a clash between U.S. and Israeli policy, the crucial outcome is seen to lie with U.S. Jews. Their opinion is important to Netanyahu because Israel relies so heavily of U.S. aid and support, which is seen as a fruit of the Israel lobby.
Obama, on the other hand, considers Jewish voters a key bloc, having won 78 percent of their support in last November's election.
To that end, various groups have been conducting polling to try to show U.S. Jewish opinion on their side of policy debates.
In one independent Gallup tracking poll over Obama's first hundred days, released two weeks ago, 79 percent of Jews approved of Obama's overall job performance.
But lobby groups' polls reveal a more fractured picture on specific policy areas.
A J Street poll released in March found that 75 percent of U.S. Jews supported a two-state solution. But a poll released in late April by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a hawkish group, found that only 61 percent of U.S. Jews supported the creation of a Palestinian state.
Still, that number still does not suggest a break between U.S. Jews and the Obama administration.
In his Wall Street Journal opinion article, Abrams says it's not outlandish for a Democrat to lose the support of U.S. Jews: "It can happen," he says, citing President Jimmy Carter's (19771981) reelection bid, when his Jewish support dropped from 71 percent to 45 percent.
Abrams hinges his opinion on the issue of what to do about Iran's alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons, which has emerged as one of the likeliest points of contention between Obama and Netanyahu: The U.S. is laying the groundwork for engagement with Iran and Israel has hinted that further nuclear development may lead to a unilateral Israeli attack.
"[I]f Mr. Obama is tougher on Mr. Netanyahu than [Iranian leaders], it won't take long for nerves to fray [among U.S. Jews]," Abrams wrote.
But M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum, a pro-peace group that recently sent its own letter, signed by four former U.S. ambassadors, calling for the "immediate renewal of U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian negotiations toward the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel" and a freeze on West Bank construction, disagrees.
"It should be noted that despite what some may think, American Jews are Americans and, it must be said, overwhelmingly Democratic," he wrote last Friday. "They will back their president if he pushes hard for Middle East peace."
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San Gabriel's Human Equity, Access, and Relations (HEAR) Commission invites families and community members to participate in the free Mental Wellness Expo on Sunday, October 1 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mission District.
Representing a day of empowerment and education, the event will shed light on how to manage mental wellness through a series of workshops; offer resources and valuable knowledge from various community groups; provide complimentary relaxation and mindfulness activities; and help connect those interested in various mental health topics with services available in San Gabriel Valley and beyond.
The expo will feature free mindfulness sessions where attendees can drop in and experience self-care and relaxation techniques, such as yoga, sound baths and Tai Chi.
Workshops led by mental health experts will be offered in English and translated live to Spanish and Mandarin at the Mission District's Grapevine Arbor (324 S Mission Drive):
Additionally, Brandon Tsay, known for his pivotal role in preventing further loss of life during the Monterey Park shooting incident earlier this year, will share his inspiring journey as the event's guest speaker. Tsay will share how he coped with mental health challenges since the incident and his strategies for recovery.
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DNG Brady are delighted to bring to the market this modern spacious 2nd floor two bedroom apartment in a gated development extending to C. 130 sq. metres i.e. 1400 sq.ft . The property boosts an panoramic view over the Boyne River and has a private balcony. This apartment is in a great location with minutes walk of Drogheda town centre and all its amenities. Accommodation comprises, Entrance hallway, Open plan Kitchen/living/dining area, Main bathroom, 2 Bedrooms (master en suite), there is one secure parking space available with this property and designated visitor parking spaces. Management fee approx. €1000 per annum.
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Kohima,23 July : Minister for Soil & Water Conservation and Land Resources, Nagaland, P. Longon inaugurated a five day 'Field Functionaries and Extension Officers Training Programme on Organic Farming' at the State Soil & Water Conservation Research, Training & Demonstration Centre and Model Organic Farm, Sechü, on 22nd July 2008.
Stressing the importance of agriculture P. Longon said that the state has about 80% of the population as farmers and most villagers are sustaining with farming activities. He said that the traditional form of shifting cultivation, widely practiced across Nagaland, has been devised over generations through practical experiences and knowledge gained by local people over the land, labour, environment, resources available and the cropping requirements. He pointed out that farmers do not use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides and make adjustments with the environment to get the harvest. 'Thus, we can say that the products from Jhum are completely organic food products', he added.
Citing the initiative taken by the state government in adopting the State Policy for Organic Cultivation last year, Longon said that the state is in a unique position to take advantage of higher market value for organic products in the context of globalisation. However, he pointed out that the critical elements in exploring this market opportunity will include estimation of the collective production capacity of the organic produce. He said that organic produce can be obtained only when an organic management strategy is made in the farmers' field.
Director, Soil & Water Conservation, R.T. Asang Jamir, in his welcome address said that there has been a growing awareness abut the importance of organic farming in recent years and an increasing concern for soil and water management on it, pests and nutrient management, organic farm input production, bio control agents and the management formula to make farm products acceptable to world communities.
Those who spoke during the programme included Commissioner & Secretary, Soil & Water Conservation Department, Dr. Chuba, IAS; Dinesh Pareek, Director, Yashowanti Earthworms & Microbes Research Institute, Tinsukia and representative from Regional Centre of Organic farming, Imphal, Manipur. The training will conclude on 26th July 2008.


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Obituary of Gloria Jean Bergeron
Gloria Jean Hubbard was born at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan on October 4, 1951. She was one of two daughters born from the union of William Hubbard and Betty (Beebe) Hubbard. When she was twelve her father William passed away and she was then raised by her stepfather: Louis Balogh. She also would then be blessed with two more sisters. Gloria attended River Rouge High School graduating with the Class of 1969. She continued her education at Eastern Michigan University where she studied Medical Terminology.
She married David Charles Bergeron at the City of Wyandotte Courthouse on September 25, 1976. In 1994 the couple moved to Monroe County making their home in Newport, Michigan. Gloria was very easy-going which probably contributed to the couple never having a fight in forty-six years of marriage.
Gloria was employed in Medical Billing at the Delray Hospital and at the Wayne Center in Downtown Detroit on the City's Eastside. However, a majority of her more than forty year working career was spent self-employed working from home.
Gloria truly cherished the time that she spent with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She enjoyed visiting the casinos with trips to Hollywood Casino in Toledo and Detroit quite common. The past few years she had enjoyed visiting family in Florida and staying at length with her sister: Judee Montry.
Gloria Jean Bergeron, age 71, of Newport passed away at 1:40am on Friday; October 7, 2022, at Physicians Regional Hospital in Naples, Florida. Although her passing was unexpected, she had been in declining health for several years. Her passing was preceded by her parents: William and Betty Hubbard and stepfather: Louis Balogh.
To cherish her memory, she leaves her husband David Bergeron of Newport; two sons: Paul McGrath of Wixom and Robert "Bobby" (Michelle) Bergeron of St. Clair Shores; stepmother Helga Balogh; three sisters: Judith Montry of Naples, Florida, Patricia (David) Boghosian of Carleton, Michigan, and Luanne (Jerry) Fudge of Woodhaven; five grandchildren including: Felicia, Jake, and Jordan whom she raised as her own and David and Ryan; and three great grandchildren: Kaydin, Sofiya, and Marcus.
Her care has been entrusted to Merkle Funeral Service, North Monroe; 2442 North Monroe Street, Monroe, Michigan 48162 (734) 384-5185. Cremation will take place through Covenant Cremation in Erie, Michigan. A memorial service will be held at her sister's home at a later date for family.
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Well, it's that time of the year for #DC! Their FANDOME event is here and they ahve put out some pretty cool things. I'm going to go over some of them and I will post the entire stream at the end of this post if you all want to see the entire thing! So, here we go!
This movie has been in the talks for a LONG time. Finally, The Rock has come back to being a superhero! Or a villain. I'm not sure. I don't know the lore behind Black Adam--heck, most of DC is lost to me but this might be fun. Got some characters they are introducing that seems more interesting than the usuals so lets go!
I'm not sure if I am down for another Batman iteration. I've been burnt out on Batman for some time now and honestly, I'm more interested in other DC characters. Also, please give Catwoman her full outfit. But hey, make this movie good and I'm all for it.
I'm interested in this one for Michael Keaton's Batman. Other than that, this is definitely not high priority for me. But, again, I'm curious.
The first Aquaman was fun so this might have some potential. We shall see. And, Mera looks damn good I won't lie.
While I'm really into the current game I'm playing (#FFXIV, of course), I'm still down to see what other games will catch my attention in the near/far future. Here are the games that Fandome offered.
Now this game is set in the Arkham-Universe; which is good because I enjoyed those games--a lot. They've mostly shown cut scenes and the such and really gave a base idea of what is going on. I'm definitely not opposed with that. Not TOTALLY digging Harley's look but I'm sure there are alternate outfits. At least, should be if they are smart.
This game does look pretty interesting. This trailer was a bit more in the story; prior to this it was about the gameplay. Good to have a mix of the two now and I'm glad for it. It's gotta good premise for a story and definitely looks like it could be fun. I'll keep an eyes on it.
The Entire Stream(?)
Again, this isn't everything, but these are the ones that really caught my interest. DC has been improving things since their initial run on the #DCEU and their video games had always one upped Marvel (with the exception of the new Spider-Man and fighting games, of course since Marvel teamed up with Capcom). So good on them for putting out this stuff and catching some of my attention. Will definitely keep updating the page for more info.
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Yesterday, the NCAA announced that its rules committee has proposed a change to two rules - the targeting rule and regulations regarding defensive substitution. The former proposed change would overturn the 15-yard targeting penalty if the ejection is also overturned due to video evidence. This is hardly controversial change, and would surprise few of us if it were to be implemented.
The latter proposed rule change, however, would not be particularly well received, especially among Ole Miss Rebel fans. Per the SB Nation mothership:
The second, and more controversial rule, addresses defensive substitutions and hurry-up offenses. Under this proposal, offenses would not be able to snap the ball in the first 10 seconds of the playclock, to allow defenses to make the proper substitutions. If an offense attempts to snap the ball in this time, a five-yard delay-of-game penalty would be assessed.
So, yes, if you snap the ball too quickly, you'll be charged with a delay of game penalty under this proposed rule. That adds up.
This proposed rule change comes on the heel of coaches criticizing the hurry-up, no-huddle offenses run by coaches such as Hugh Freeze and Auburn's Gus Malzhan. Last offseason, Alabama's Nick Saban notoriously suggested that such offenses are not safe for players, and Arkansas' Bret Bielema famously remarked that his pro-style offense is both "normal" and "American" - suggesting that those which deviate from his (losing) formula are both abnormal and un-American.
Their greatest concern is that defenses need time to subsitute, spelling tired players and swapping players in who are more suited to match up against the offensive personnel on the field. The counter argument to this is, obviously, that the whole point of the hurry up offense is to create mismatches which result from the defense's inability to adequately anticipate the offense's next move.
A question I have is that, if this rule were to be implemented, would it not undermine of the very idea of the play clock? As it stands now, teams have 35 seconds from when the ball is set to snap the ball. Both teams have the time from when the play ends to when the play begins to substitute, if necessary. Being as how the offense does control fully when the play begins, this element of the game does tilt in favor of the offense, but is that the case to the extent that a leveling of the playing field for the defense is necessary? Even with hurry-up offenses, it's not exactly easy to move a football ten yards over four attempts consistently enough to score at will, something we've seen first hand.


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While attention has been given to the harm COVID-19 has done to males – higher rates of death and serious illness from the virus – we haven't focused much on what it does to females, especially adolescent girls. A survey of more than 1,200 fifth through twelfth grade girls found that 80 percent feel more lonely since the pandemic began. More than 50 percent are unsure or scared of the future. These findings emphasize that parents, teachers, and coaches should offer support to girls working through feelings of disconnect and isolation. Girls, too, should talk to their friends about what they're feeling.
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Hello again. So, I sent a card kit to my nephew in early December, and with the Post office being in the state it was, it did not arrive till after Christmas. We decided to do the cards together on zoom anyhow, and these are what we made.
These are mostly iterations of other cards I made last year, in a form that I thought he would enjoy. The bird card was the easiest, and I am not sure how much he enjoyed coloring the others. It was hard to teach a child how much adhesive to use, and so on, over zoom, but I think it was a good COVID activity anyhow.
So these are my first 3 Christmas cards of 2020. I need to increase my monthly goal this year, but I haven't quite decided by how much.
I am entering the Rudolph Days January challenge.
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I'm on board, about to sail,
Suddenly, I hear singing on the shore.
Peach Blossom Pool may be a thousand fathoms deep,
Yet not as deep as Wang Lun's feelings for me.
As I, Li Bai, was about to leave by boat
Alas, I heard singing on the shore
Peach Blossom Lake may be a thousand feet deep
It's not so deep Wang Lun, as the love you gave to me
Parting is Sweet Sorrow
On this occasion, parting was a time of singing and dancing as the residents of Taohuatan wished Li Bai a grand send-off.
During the reign of Tang Emperor Xuanzong (712-756), Wang Lun, the local magistrate of Jingxian County, Anhui Province, long been an admirer of Li Bai's poetry, heard that Li Bai was traveling about southern China. Excited, Wang Lun wrote, asking "Are you fond of beautiful scenery, because we have ten miles of peach blossoms? And are you fond of drinking, because we have ten thousand taverns?"
Li Bai took the bait and showed up in Jingxian. Then, Wang Lun confessed the truth – "Ten miles of peach blossoms" referred to the ferry called "Ferry of Peach Blossom" (十里桃花者,桃花渡也), and "ten thousand taverns" was only one pub whose owner's first name was "Wan". Figuratively true since, the Chinese family name, "wan" has the same pronunciation as "ten thousand" (万 Wàn).
The good natured Li Bai had a good time, and wrote this lovely poem as he was about to leave. He also managed to get a dig in at Wang Lun with a play on words, 水深, shuǐshēn, figuratively means "shoddy dealings". Furthermore, 我 wǒ, the me in the last line is subtly suggestive. Folk etymology considers it to be an ideograph of a hand (手) holding a weapon (戈), in other words, one should protect oneself from such friendships.
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Sensing a business opportunity, the city named the ferry the Ancient Ferry for Farewell Song and Dance (踏歌古岸), and later a pavilion by the ferry. Taohua (Peach Blossom) Pool is now a cultural and historically scenic site.
Pinyin and Chinese
lǐ bái chéng zhōu jiāng yù xíng,
hū wén ànshàng tà gēshēng.
Táohuā tán shuǐshēn qiān chǐ,
bùjí wāng lún sòng wǒ qíng.


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Vermont's forest are facing an unprecedented threat. The demographics of our woodland owners is changing in important ways, with significant implications for the size and integrity of our forests. The number of landowners is increasing, the size of the parcels is decreasing, and the age of owners is increasing. As a result, for the first time in our land use history, we are losing forest. Not to conversion for agricultural, as we experienced in the 1800's, but to development and parcelization. Conservation offers one tool to help keep Vermont's forests forested. Whether you are interested in protecting your forest through succession planning or in protecting forestland owned by a municipality, there are resource available to assist you.
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Liberal Arts (2012)
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Liberal Arts (2012)
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Liberal Arts (2012) Synopsis
Thirty-five-year-old Jesse Fisher, an admissions officer at a New York City post-secondary institution he who loves English and literature, has somewhat lost his passion in life, which includes recently being unceremoniously dumped by his latest girlfriend, who could no longer be the person to prop him up emotionally. He has a chance to find that passion again when he is invited to the retirement dinner of his second-favorite Ohio University college professor, Peter Hoberg, as his time there was when his life held the most passion. Jesse's encounters with five people there may determine if he does find that passion again. They are: Hoberg, who is resisting the notion of retirement; Judith Fairfield, Jesse's favorite professor, although for a different reason than his like of Hoberg; Nat, a free spirit who navigates life at the institution on his own terms; undergraduate student Dean, who Jesse sees as a younger more destructive version of himself; and nineteen-year-old undergraduate student Zibby, who is seemingly wise beyond her years and with who Jesse embarks on a relationship despite their sixteen-year-age difference.—Huggo
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It will provide tax credits for businesses which invest and create jobs in that area..
Frederick, Md (KM). The Golden Mile will become an enterprise zone. The Maryland Department of Commerce recently approved the City of Frederick's application to so designate the area along West Patrick Street from Route 15 to Old Camp Road.
"It certainly shows that the state has full faith and confidence that this area has the potential to yield a lot of new investment and jobs for the both the community and the state," says Richard Griffin, Frederick City's Director of Economic Development.
As an enterprise zone, Griffin says existing businesses or those that want to set up shop along the Golden Mile are eligible for income and real property tax credits for hiring new employees, and making investments along that corridor. "Statewide, the enterprise zone program has helped attract millions of dollars in investment. And we hope that the incentives that are part of this program will help developers, businesses and investors want to invest in the Golden Mile," says Griffin.
In end, he says, the goal is to create more jobs.
The enterprise zone covers about 530-acres along Route 40, which is home to 350 businesses.
The Golden Mile has suffered some setbacks in recent years, including the closures of the Furniture and Rug Gallery, and Toys-R-Us, which shut its doors for good on Friday, June 29th. The biggest concern has been the vacant Frederick Town Mall. But Griffin says the area has potential. "The Golden Mile still has incredibly positive retail demographics, both in terms of vehicle traffic that comes up and down the Golden Mile, and also the neighborhoods around it; obviously, lots of disposable income for folks to shop and buy," he says.
The City of Brunswick's application for an enterprise zone designation was approved in 2016. As of December, 2017, there are currently 36 enterprise zones in Maryland.
In addition to Frederick's designation, the Maryland Department of Commerce also announced it has re-designated and expanded the enterprise zone in the Olde Towne area of Gaithersburg to include the Lakeforest Mall property.
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I've been a professional marketer for over 7 years now. honestly, it's very rare to find true brilliance in my field. Pelle Hjortblad, is one of those unique marketing experts that can really open your eyes to the subtle nuances that separate the good from the brilliant.
Impressed with his work and company "Moonlight Management AB", I requested to conduct a short interview with him.
The results, you will enjoy here:
Interview with Pelle Hjortblad CEO at Moonlight Management AB
Please tell us a bit about yourself and what made you choose your line of work?
I have been in telco and internet since 1992. The last 12 years as a CEO in cloud based internet services. I love the subscription based business model and since I'm a sales and marketing person these parameters are out most important in SaaS-companies. This is why I have such pleasure in this line of work.
In your opinion, what are the main challenges for SaaS providers over classic business models?
You have to think B2C, even when you provide B2B solutions, when it comes to marketing, lead generation, prospecting, web sales, web flow, sales organization. And in very few cases there is a possibility to succeed, using partners for sales. There is also a constrain in the cash flow since sales and marketing cost occur upfront while in most cases revenue is recognized on a monthly basis over the contract period.
What in your opinion is the most important marketing aspect for SaaS based companies?
See above but also, use limited channels at the same time, measure and fine tune the message constantly and keep on believing that your marketing will have the expected effect. It will if you stick to your plan even if it sometimes take longer then you expect.
What are your top 2 recommendations for new SaaS providers looking to penetrate their target market?
Focus on a few verticals
Keep on penetrating these verticals until you get the wanted effect. It will come!
And 3 🙂 In SaaS business the best sales and marketing organization wins over the best product in 9 out of 10 cases.


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After more than five years of planning, design and coordination, the project is close to construction. A ceremonial groundbreaking is set for 3:30 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, east of Washougal at the entrance to the Columbia River Gorge.
The 1,049-acre Steigerwald refuge is teeming with life. More than 200 of Clark County's 300 bird species have been spotted at the refuge, along with 15 types of reptiles and amphibians, and more than 20 species of mammals, including deer, bats, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels and even an occasional cougar.
The collaborative project involves nearly a dozen public agencies and private groups, including the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, the Bonneville Power Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Port of Camas-Washougal, the city of Washougal and Friends of the Columbia River Gorge, plus private landowners.
"I've got over 25 years in the refuge system," said Chris Lapp, project leader for Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge complex, which includes Ridgefield, Steigerwald and two wildlife refuges, Franz Lake and Pierce, with no public access. "I cannot tell you of any project that has come up to the level of collaboration, the diversity of partnership and the ability for everyone to get on the same page."
Fish, wildlife habitat
Upcoming construction is aimed at restoring habitat and controlling flooding. The existing levee along the Columbia River exacerbates flooding from Gibbons Creek and prevents the creek from naturally draining into the Columbia River.
About 2 1/4 miles of the levee will be removed, reconnecting the West's greatest river to 960 acres of flood plain, which were blocked when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the levee in 1966.
The BPA faces legal requirements to offset the negative effects federal hydroelectric dams have on fish survival in the Columbia River and its tributaries. Habitat restoration is a critical component of meeting those requirements.
The project will attempt to turn back the clock and return the site to more of a natural state, allowing water from Gibbons Creek to inundate portions of the refuge and water from the Columbia to spill in when the river reaches different seasonal levels, creating rich habitat for fish and wildlife.
"The reconnection of the flood plain, the water levels within the refuge, will be undulating depending on the time of year," Lapp said.
Jason Karnezis, estuary lead for the BPA, is confident that juvenile salmon will find their way into the restored flood plain.
"There's a lot of good evidence in the scientific literature that says, 'When you build it, they will come,' " he said.
Juvenile salmon, Collins said, tend to swim in shallow water near the shore to avoid predators, such as smallmouth bass and assorted birds.
Karnezis said nutrients will flow out of the flood plain into the Columbia's main stem.
"Any fish that don't go in will benefit as well," he said.
Once the Columbia River and Gibbons Creek are reconnected to the wildlife refuge, water inundation will deter reed canary grass and other invasive species that out-compete native vegetation and degrade overall habitat value.
"This project basically resets the habitat to a more dynamic system," Lapp said. "If you have diverse habitat, you will have diverse wildlife."
Flood control
To improve or maintain flood control, two setback levees will be built perpendicular to the Columbia River to protect the Port of Camas-Washougal's industrial park, the city of Washougal's wastewater treatment plant and private homes. Some 125 acres will be removed from a federally designated flood zone, including the sewage plant that serves 15,000 residents.
According to the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, the project also will: re-establish 200 acres of native riparian forest; remove Gibbons Creek's diversion structure, elevated channel and fish ladder, along with 2,500 feet of riprap from the Columbia River's shoreline; and reduce the Port of Camas-Washougal's flood management costs and eliminate the need for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to replace the failing diversion structure.
Collins said the project will improve hiking, wildlife watching and other recreation at the Steigerwald refuge, which attracts 90,000 visitors a year.
"We're basically going to rebuild the trail system," he said. "It will be a mile longer. But more importantly, it will be more diverse."
The project also will raise about 1,200 feet of state Highway 14, Collins said. The average gain will be less than a foot but that will be enough to take the highway to the 500-year flood elevation, or a level with a 0.2 percent chance of flooding in any year.
The work is not expected to have a major effect on Highway 14 traffic, with two-way traffic maintained the majority of the time, Collins said.
Budget, schedule
The project's overall budget likely will exceed $25 million. The BPA already has spent $5 million to $6 million on design and other pre-construction costs, Karnezis said.
Construction and reforestation are expected to cost about $20 million. The Washington State Department of Ecology will provide $4.5 million, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contributing $1 million. The BPA will cover the project's remaining cost.
Collins said preliminary work already has started to control reed canary grass and other invasive species. Next up will be environmental enhancement, including adding logs for fish habitat, on 53 acres near the refuge's parking lot.
Full-scale construction will begin in 2020 when work starts to build the two setback levies, along with raising Highway 14.
The biggest year for construction will be 2021. Portions of the existing levee will be removed. Major regrading, moving 1 million cubic yards of earth, will be done in 2021, along with rebuilding the trail system.
The project will officially wrap up in 2022 with monitoring and checking for erosion and other problems.
Access restrictions
One downside to the project is public access will be restricted during construction.
The main entrance to Steigerwald refuge and Gibbons Creek Wildlife Art Trail will be closed on weekdays, from Tuesday through Oct. 15, along with the refuge's parking lot and restrooms.
The refuge will remain accessible via the Columbia River Dike Trail to the west, with parking and restrooms at Capt. William Clark Regional Park. The refuge's trail north of the cottonwood tree stand also will be closed.
Next year, the parking lot will be closed for the entire year, but people will be able to access the refuge from the west. In 2021, the big year for construction, the entire refuge will be closed to the public.
"It's going to be impactful," Lapp said. "There's no way around that."
Refuge managers have worked closely with volunteer stewards and other supporters to get the word out about the upcoming closures, he said. Information will be posted online at refuge2020.info.
Lapp predicted the revamped refuge will provide "world-class wildlife viewing."
"It's going to be such an improvement I would say that a user of the refuge will look back and say, 'That was worth the inconvenience,' " he said.


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AHRQ Plans to Develop Consumer Adverse Event Reporting System
September 28, 2012 | Aging Services Risk Management
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has requested that the Office of Management and Budget approve its proposal for the development of a prototype consumer reporting system to capture adverse events and near misses. Currently, there is no mechanism for consumers to report information about events that are defined as an incident or near miss by the AHRQ Common Formats. AHRQ believes that collecting this data is necessary to inform research on how to improve the quality of healthcare, promote safety, and reduce errors. As the information collected from consumers may differ from that collected from providers, examining the data from both sources will allow the project to determine to what extent patients or residents are able to provide more complete or more detailed information.


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22.S: Carbonyl Alpha-Substitution Reactions (Summary)
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Concepts & Vocabulary
- Four common types of reactions involving carbonyl reactions: 1) nucleophilic addition; 2) nucleophilic acyl substitution; 3) alpha substitution; 4) carbonyl condensations. The first two were previously discussed and the second two involve the properties of the carbon directly adjacent to the carbonyls, α carbons.
- Alpha-substitution reactions results in the replacement of an H attached to the alpha carbon with an electrophile.
- The nucleophile in these reactions are new and called enols and enolates.
- In this chapter, the focus is on α substitutions reactions with aldehydes and ketones.
22.1 Keto-Enol Tautomerization
- Greek letters are used to denote the carbon atoms near carbonyls.
- The carbon in the carbonyl is the reference point and the alpha carbon is adjacent to the carbonyl carbon.
- Hydrogen atoms attached the these carbons denoted with Greek letters will have the same designation, so an alpha hydrogen is attached to an alpha carbon.
- Aldehyde hydrogens not given Greek leters.
- α hydrogens display unusual acidity, due to the resonance stabilization of the carbanion conjugate base, called an enolate.
- Tautomers are readily interconverted constitutional isomers, usually distinguished by a different location for an atom or a group, which is different than resonance.
- The tautomerization in this chapter focuses on the carbonyl group with alpha hydrogen, which undergo keto-enol tautomerism.
- Keto refers to the tautomer containing the carbonyl while enol implies a double bond and a hydroxyl group present in the tautomer.
- The keto-enol tautomerization equilibrium is dependent on stabilization factors of both the keto tautomer and the enol tautomer, though the keto form is typically favored for simple carbonyl compounds.
- The 1,3 arrangement of two carbonyl groups can work synergistically to stabilize the enol tautomer, increasing the amount present at equilibrium.
- The positioning of the carbonyl groups in the 1,3 arrangement allows for the formation of a stabilizing intramolecular hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl group of the enol and the carbonyl oxygen as well as the alkene group of the enol tautomer is also conjugated with the carbonyl double bond which provides additional stabilization.
- Aromaticity can also stabilize the enol tautomer over the keto tautomer.
- Under neutral conditions, the tautomerization is slow, but both acid and base catalysts can be utilized to speed the reaction up.
- Biological enol forming reactions use isomerase enzymes to catalyze the shifting of a carbonyl group in sugar molecules, often converting between a ketose and an aldose in a process called carbonyl isomerization.
22.2 Reactivity of Enols: The Mechanism of Alpha-Substitution Reactions
- The oxygen of the enol donates electron density to the double bond making it more electron rich and thus more reactive than a typical alkene.
- The mechanism starts with an acid-catalyzed tautomerization to form an enol.
- The double bond is then able to act as a nucleophile and attack an electrophile.
- The final product is an alpha-substituted carbonyl after the deprotonation of the carbonyl to also regenerate the acid-catalyst.
- The enol formed has planar geometry, which means the electrophile can attach on the top or bottom of the alpha-carbon.
- A racemic mixture can result if a sterocenter is created at the site of substitution.
22.3 Alpha Halogenation of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Aldehydes and ketons can undergo a substitution of an alpha hydrogen to a halogen.
- An acid-catalyzed tautomerization starts the mechanism followed by the enol attacking molecular halogens.
- The nucleophile in this reaction is the enol and the electrophile is the halogen.
- Mechanistic studies showed that the reaction was a first-order in the ketone.
- The halogen is part of a fast step after the rate-determing step.
- The formation of an enol intermediate was provided using a reaction called deuterium exchange.
- Due to the acidic nature of α hydrogens they can be exchanged with deuterium by reaction with the isotopic form of water, D2O.
- The mechanism for deuterium exchange is virtually the same as that of keto-enol tautomerism under acidic conditions, the difference being a deuterium is placed in the α-position.
- Both alpha halogenation and deuterium exhange reactions were found to have a common intermediate involved in the rate determining step of their mechanism, an enol.
22.4 Alpha Bromination of Carboxylic Acids
- The α-bromination of some carbonyl compounds, such as aldehydes and ketones, can be accomplished with Br2 under acidic conditions, but the reaction will generally not occur with more stable carboxylic acid derivatives.
- Carboxylic acids do not enolize to a sufficient extent since the carboxylic acid proton is preferably removed before an α-hydrogen.
- Carboxylic acids, can be brominated in the α position with a mixture of Br2 and phosphorus tribromide (PBr3) in what is called the Hell-Volhard-Zelinskii reaction.
- α-Bromo carboxylic acids are extremely useful synthetic intermediates because the halogen is highly reactive towards SN2 reaction.
- Reaction of a α-bromo carboxylic acids with an excess of ammonia provides α-amination, which is a possible route to amino acids.
22.5 Acidity of Alpha Hydrogen Atoms: Enolate Ion Formation
- α hydrogens are weakly acidic because the conjugate base, called an enolate, is stabilized though conjugation with the π orbitals of the adjacent carbonyl.
- The enolate has two resonance structures to contribute to the resonance hybrid.
- While α-hydrogens are weakly acidic, typical strong bases such as hydroxide or alkoxide are only capable of forming the enolate ion in very low concentrations.
- To achieve complete deprotonation of aldehyde or ketone reactants to their enolate conjugate bases, a very strong base such as LDA (lithium diisopropylamide) must be used.
- Hydrogen atoms with two or more adjacent carbonyl groups are more acidic than typical α hydrogens, such as β-diketones, β-keto-esters, and β-diesters, which create enolates that are stabilized through additional resonance forms which share the negative charge with multiple carbonyl carbons.
- The acidity of these compounds is increased to the point where typical strong bases such as hydroxide and alkoxide can be used to form the enolate.
22.6 Reactivity of Enolate Ions
- Enolates are better nucleophlies than enols.
- α-hydrogen containing compounds can be completely converted to an enolate by reaction with a strong base whereas enols can only be created in small amounts through manipulating their equilibrium.
- Either the C of the O reactive site in an enolate may act as a nucleophile depending on the reaction conditions, but reactions involving the nucleophilic α-carbon are more common, partially due to the thermodynamic stability of the C=O bonds in the final products.
- An enolate reacts rapidly with a halogen to produce α-halogenated carbonyl products.
- The α-hydrogens of halogenated carbonyl products are usually more acidic than the corresponding non-halogenated compounds, which promotes polyhalogenated products.
- The Haloform reaction represents a method for the conversion of methyl ketones to carboxylic acids.
- This reaction is considered a base promoted and not base catalyzed because an entire equivalent of base is required for each α-halogenation.
- Deprotonation of an α-hydrogen with hydroxide produces the nucleophilic enolate ion which subsequently reacts with the halogen.
- The increasing acidity of α-halogenated ketone causes this reaction to occur two more times.
- Once formed, the CX3 group attached to the carbonyl can act as a leaving group, eventually produces a haloform (CHCl3, CHBr3, CHI3) and a carboxylate anion.
22.7 Alkylation of Enolate Ions
- Enolates can be alkylated in the alpha position through an SN2 reaction with alkyl halides.
- An α hydrogen is replaced with an alkyl group and a new C-C bond is formed.
- Very strong bases like LDA are often used to fully deprotonate the carbonyl and completely form the enolate.
- Direct alkylations, like all enolate-based reactions, will form a racemic mixture if the alkylated alpha carbon is chiral.
- When an unsymmetrical ketone with two sets of nonequivalent alpha hydrogens is treated with a base, two possible enolates can form.
- The main determinant for which enolate is formed is whether the reaction is under kinetic control (rate) or thermodynamic (equilibrium) control.
- The thermodynamic enolate is formed when the more substituted alpha hydrogen is removed, yielding the more alkyl substituted, therefore the most stable, enolate.
- Formation of the thermodynamic enolate is sterically hindered and is kinetically slow, especially with a bulky base like LDA.
- Kinetic enolates are formed when the less substituted alpha hydrogen is deprotonated, being less sterically hindered allows this alpha hydrogen to be deprotonated faster even though it forms a less thermodynamically stable enolate.
- The malonic ester synthesis is a series of reactions which converts an alkyl halide to a carboxylic acid with two additional carbons.
- The importance of this synthesis pathways is that it allows for the creation of alpha alkylated carboxylic acids which cannot be created by direct alkylation.
- The acetoacetic ester synthesis is a series of reaction which converts alkyl halides into a methyl ketone with three additional carbons.
- This reaction creates an alpha substituted methyl ketone without side-products.
- In retrosynthetic analysis, a C-C bond is broken between the alpha carbon and the beta carbon away from this functionality.
Skills to Master
- Skill 22.1 Determine alpha carbons and alpha hydrogens.
- Skill 22.2 Draw the enols formed from carbonyl derivatives.
- Skill 22.3 Provide the mechanism for the keto-enol tautomerization under neutral, acidic and basic conditions.
- Skill 22.4 Provide the mechanism for the enol-keto tautomerization under neutral, acidic and basic conditions.
- Skill 22.5 Draw the products of halogenation reactions.
- Skill 22.6 Provide the mechanism for halogenation reactions.
- Skill 22.7 Write an equation to illustrate the Hell‑Volhard‑Zelinskii reaction.
- Skill 22.8 Identify the product formed from the reaction of a given carboxylic acid with bromine and phosphorus tribromide.
- Skill 22.9 Explain why the alpha hydrogen of carbonyl compounds are more acidic than a typical hydrogen.
- Skill 22.10 Explain why dicarbonyl protons are more acidic than compounds that contain a single carbonyl.
- Skill 22.11 Provide a mechanism for the haloform reaction.
- Skill 22.12 Provide a mechanism for an alkylation reaction with an enolate.
- Skill 22.13 Provide a mechanism for malonic ester synthesis.
- Skill 22.14 Propose synthesis for alkylated carboxylic acids.
- Skill 22.15 Provide a mechanism for acetoacetic acid synthesis.
- Skill 22.16 Propose a synthesis for alkylated methyl ketones.
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Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Settlement Act of 2008
Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians
Soboba Water Rights Settlement
Soboba Indian Reservation
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Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians v. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, No. 00–04208 GAF
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Federal Legislation: Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Settlement Act, PL 110-297, 122 Stat. 2975 (July 31, 2008). The Act ratifies the Settlement Agreement dated June 7, 2006, between the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, US, Eastern Municipal Water District, Lake Hemet Municipal Water District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern CA. The Tribe will receive an adequate and secure future water supply (9,000 acre-feet per year); $18 million from Eastern and Lake Hemet water districts for economic development; $11 million from the federal government for water development; and 128 acres of land near Diamond Valley Lake for commercial development. The surrounding communities will receive final resolution of Soboba's water rights and damage claims by terminating a lawsuit; 7,500 acre-feet of new imported water until at least 2035; $10 million in federal funds to help recharge the aquifer with the imported water; up to 100 acres of Soboba reservation land for endangered species habitat; up to 4,900 acre-feet of Soboba water for 50 years for basin restoration; and new jobs and economic stimulus from Soboba commercial development.
Act establishes in the Treasury: (1) the San Jacinto Basin Restoration Fund to pay costs associated with the construction/maintenance of the basin recharge project and (2) the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Water Development Fund for costs associated with constructing and maintaining water-related development projects. It provides for waivers and releases of specified claims made by the Tribe and declares that the USA consents to jurisdiction in Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians v. Metropolitan Water District of Southern CA, No. 001-04208. The Tribe may use water made available to it under the Settlement Agreement for any use it deems advisable on the Reservation. [Source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ297/pdf/PLAW-110publ297.pdf]
Federal Legislation: 10 pages.
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