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How to Assassinate a Sephardi: The Calumnies of Meyrav Wurmser
Hey now what you doing
Don't go down the road to ruin
Look back at where you came from
Count to ten before you go wrong.
You've got to hold your head up high
You know it's not too late to try
You've got to lift that heavy load
You've got to get back in control.
New Order, "Hey Now What You Doing" (2005)
Many critiques of Sephardim are filled with an overt viciousness. In Avi Picard's recent attack on Ella Shohat in the right wing Zionist journal Azure he slammed Shohat for her ostensible irreligiosity and the ways in which her Sephardi critique of Zionism does not fit into the larger social patterns of Sephardi self-perception in Israel at present. The writings of Norman Stillman and Bernard Lewis combine a radical critique of Arab society as a backward and reactionary civilization that served to eviscerate the Jewish presence in its midst with a clear demeaning of Sephardim.
Even worse is when Sephardim are set off to the side and ignored. A reactionary like Daniel Pipes rarely if ever speaks about Sephardim at all - his gaze is completely fixated on the degenerate Arabs whose very existence is so repugnant to the Jewish state. The focus thus goes on the Arabs and not on those Jews who were once their neighbors. Once assimilated into the Jewish mindset, this position not only removes Sephardim from the discourse, it turns the Sephardim themselves blank to their own concerns as a community.
Meyrav Wurmser, a member of the Pipes group, is a very intelligent writer who does something that we have yet to see from her fellow travelers: In her article that we print below, Wurmser lays out fairly accurately the case being made by Sephardi activists in Israel with regard to the destructive transformation of Sephardi life in Israel since 1948. Wurmser thus takes a new and a different tack than the overt anti-Sephardism like Stillman and Lewis and the silent apathy of Pipes.
In the first half of the piece - after letting us know that, just like Golda Meir once said, these Sephardim are "not nice" - she slyly lays out her case by setting out the Sephardi critique in a cogent manner. We see that issues such as the Yemenite babies, the DDT, the social humiliation and all the rest are confirmed and explicitly acknowledged - a rarity among Zionist partisans who have continued to battle with Sephardi activists and deny the coherence of their critique.
Wurmser is therefore much smarter than her colleagues on the Right because she accepts the premises of the Sephardi critique before she tries to assassinate the messengers of Sephardi integrity.
After enumerating the wrongs that the state of Israel has perpetrated against the Sephardim - none of which are in dispute, though she does not mention the matter of the Ringworm Children which is still being contested by the Ashkenazim - she fixes her sights on the Sephardi activists and accuses them of treason.
First, there is the question of whether these Sephardi activists want to destroy the state of Israel. Such a canard slips through the cracks of the article practically unnoticed because rhetorically Wurmser has verified the Sephardi critique. By so doing, Wurmser sneaks in this slander against the Sephardi activists and does not utilize one single footnote to do so. Indeed, it might be seen that Wurmser, in keeping with the radical Right Wing provenance of the group that she is a part of, tries to argue not that these writers wish to destroy the state of Israel - but to destroy the version of the state that she and her cohorts believe in. There is absolutely no evidence that any of these writers have ever called for the destruction of the state of Israel - but such slanders are common to writers like Wurmser who traffic in such partisan name calling.
By labeling these Sephardim as Post-Zionists, Wurmser is using some loaded code-words that are meant to communicate to her readers - those who share her worldview - that these Sephardim are pinko agitators and malcontents that do not belong in the civilized world of political discourse.
The means by which she disarms and ultimately tries to kill off the Sephardi critique of Zionism and the state of Israel is on the one hand by acknowledging the truth claims of Sephardi oppression and then on the other hand to decry as illegitimate any attempt to articulate those claims in a free and open manner.
Israel is purportedly a democracy, but it does seem rather strange that those who espouse the most virulent and racist forms of Zionism are constantly berating and de-legitimizing the rights of others - in this case the Sephardim - from freely criticizing those who have wronged them. It should be remembered that by vilifying these Sephardim as traitors that Wurmser is subtly trying to remove their voices from the discourse.
How and under what circumstances would Wurmser permit the Sephardim to air their grievances?
What mechanisms would Wurmser put into place to redress these grievances?
We hear Wurmser go on about the ways in which Sephardim have "integrated" into the state of Israel and have become Likud-niks and have rejected the approach of these Sephardi activists. What we do not hear is how Sephardi self-perception has been, as the Sephardi activists have stated so eloquently, reduced to a cipher in Israel and consequently in the Diaspora where an Ashkenazi-centric form of Jewish self-perception has permeated the entire Jewish community - including the Sephardim.
It is quite true that Sephardim in Israeli and by default in the Diaspora have not by and large signed on to the program of the so-called Sephardi radicals. The institutional logjam that has been created, and is firmly implanted and affirmed by Wurmser in her article, is one that demands an Ashkenazi self-identification for Jews. Wurmser is effectively silent on the issue of Sephardi history and education in Israel and the Diaspora. As we see with the very omnipresence of Holocaust Day, all Jewish children are taught about the tragedy of the Camps, but these same children are taught nothing about the world of Arab Jews.
As Wurmser points out, the very connections between Jews who were native to the Middle East and their Arab Muslim neighbors have been torn asunder. The Ashkenazi Zionist version of Arab Jewish history where the Arabs persecuted Jews for many centuries has been adopted in a blanket fashion by all institutions of Jewish learning - secular and religious, Israeli and American. The very interconnectedness between Jews and their Arab Muslim neighbors has been rewritten and the sources of this history from Wolfson to Goitein to Beinin have all been occluded and made absent from the present discourse.
So as you read the Wurmser article you must understand that her mode of argument is highly sophisticated yet it leads to the same end as those of her predecessors like Norman Stillman, Bernard Lewis and the others - the Sephardim need to shut up and get with the program. Suck it up and forget about it.
That discrimination still exists - BIG DEAL - be happy that you are in Israel and do not even try to criticize it or we will call you all sorts of names like TRAITOR and POST-ZIONIST!
That your history has become invisible and your culture has been eviscerated - DON'T WORRY - we are all ONE PEOPLE - just become ASHKENAZI and everything will be fine!
Meyrav Wurmser has understood that if the Sharon plan succeeds and there is - God should let it happen - peace between Israelis and Palestinians that the social inequalities in Israel and the maltreatment of the Sephardim will finally come to be heard. There are great fears in Ashkenazi Zionist circles that a day of reckoning will one day come and that the Sephardim will eventually wake up from their stupor. Indeed, one thing that Wurmser is completely correct about is that the Sephardim have been narcoleptic when it comes to what the radicals have been saying.
For this, Judaism has an apt model. The Biblical prophet Jeremiah ranted and railed against the Jews of his time and preached Exile and Calamity for them and their state.
I suppose that Jeremiah was also a POST-ZIONIST!
The tradition of critique is a Jewish legacy that has been actively utilized for many centuries. In the Sephardi world disputes were handled in a fair and equitable manner through a system of rabbinical courts. In the Ashkenazi world critique was handled through the agency of the HEREM, the rabbinical ban and anathema that cut a Jew off from his or her community. In the Ashkenazi world new sects and communities would be created when the HEREM was utilized. The inner unity of the community was torn asunder - unlike in the Sephardi world where community togetherness, SHALOM BAYIT, was of prime importance.
As Wurmser correctly states, the Sephardim have been oppressed and continue to be oppressed, by the Ashkenazim. We need to develop mechanisms to address these problems - mechanisms that the Sephardi activists - who Wurmser seeks to assassinate by de-legitimizing them and slandering them - are trying to create.
The crimes of the Ashkenazim have been swept under the rug for decades now. A number of Sephardi writers in Israel and America have been trying to have the grievances of the Sephardim heard and redressed. Writers like Meyrav Wurmser, cannily trying to co-opt the critique, are working through their institutional bases to prevent these very activists from even being heard. The net aim of her pathetic article is to silence the voices of Sephardim who dare to stand up to their Ashkenazi oppressors.
The idea is to innoculate Zionist readers with an antidote that will have them see Ella Shohat, Sami Chetrit, Yehuda Shenhav and the others as hateful lunatics whose work has no legitimate purpose.
One should not underestimate the power of institutions like The Hudson Institute and The Middle East Forum, read by many policy-makers world-wide, to set the agenda and mark the way that the debate is to function.
Tragically, there are many Sephardim who will adopt Meyrav Wurmser's perspective, as she herself states, and anathematize their own community activists - those Sephardim whose love and allegiance for their own community is far more significant than that of Sephardim whose institutional role has been to decimate their own culture and history while scratching their heads when they see that their culture is being completely lost.
We owe a debt of gratitude to those Sephardim who, like Jeremiah, are unafraid to speak truth to power and work diligently - no matter the political cost - to protect the dignity of their fellow Sephardim. We must stand by their side against the despicable and vicious onslaught of writers and Sephardi-haters like Meyrav Wurmser who would simply have us lay down and die.
David Shasha
Post-Zionism and the Sephardi Question
By: Meyrav Wurmser
A growing group of Jewish Israeli professors is challenging the legitimacy of the Israeli state from within. Many are Mizrahim, as the Sephardi Jews from the Middle East and North Africa are increasingly called, and do so from a distinctly Mizrahi outlook. In July 2004, for example, a poem appeared online entitled, "I Am an Arab Refugee":
When I hear Fayruz[1] singing,
"I shall never forget thee, Palestine,"
I swear to you with my right hand
that at once I am a Palestinian.
All of a sudden I know:
I am an Arab refugee
and, if not,
let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.[2]
The author is not a Palestinian refugee but rather an Israeli Jew. His name is Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Mizrahi professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem who, along with Mizrahi academics like Ella Shohat, Eli Avraham, Oren Yiftachel, Yehouda Shenhav, Pnina Motzafi-Haller and others has developed a radical critique of ethnic relations in Israel. True to post-Zionism, an intellectual movement that believes that Zionism lacks moral validity, post-Zionist Mizrahi writers believe that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. According to Mizrahi post-Zionism, the Mizrahim, about half of Israel's Jewish population, are "Arab-Jews," who like the Palestinians are victims of Zionism. While this new school of intellectual radicalism remains so far contained within the halls of academia and without broad support among the broader Mizrahi population, it, nevertheless, represents a new and worrisome twist on the post-Zionist phenomenon that continues to dominate Israel's academia and media.
The Mizrahi Rejection of Zionism
At the center of the radical, post-Zionist Mizrahi critique is a deep feeling of victimization. The post-Zionist Mizrahi writers continue to live their parents' insults and humiliations at the hands of the European Ashkenazi Jewish establishment that absorbed them in Israel after immigration. Discriminatory policies created a continuing social and economic gap between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. These academics promote the view held by many young Mizrahim that discrimination did not end with their parents' generation. The children—who, in large part, were born in Israel—continue to face discrimination and cope with social and economic handicaps.
The radical Mizrahim who turned to post-Zionism tap into anger beyond the well-known complaints of past ill-treatment, including the maabarot, the squalid tent cities into which Mizrahim were placed upon arrival in Israel; the humiliation of Moroccan and other Mizrahi Jews when Israeli immigration authorities shaved their heads and sprayed their bodies with the pesticide DDT[3]; the socialist elite's enforced secularization; the destruction of traditional family structure, and the reduced status of the patriarch by years of poverty and sporadic unemployment. These Mizrahi intellectuals' fury extends beyond even the state-sponsored kidnapping of Yemeni infants for adoption by Ashkenazi families who lost their children in the Holocaust.[4] The real anger Sephardim feel nowadays, and upon which these Mizrahi post-Zionists seize, comes from the extent to which, in their view, the Zionist narrative denied, erased, and excluded their historical identity.
Some of the adherents of this new Israeli school of thought now equate Mizrahi grievances with those of Palestinians. In an article, "Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims," a takeoff on Edward Said's famous "Zionism from the Standpoint of its [Palestinian] Victims,"[5] Ella Habiba-Shohat, an Iraqi-Israeli woman and one of the principal Mizrahi post-Zionist leaders, claims that, alongside the Palestinians, Mizrahi Jews are Zionism's "other" victims.[6] According to Shohat, Zionism is a white, Ashkenazi phenomenon, based on the denial of the Orient and the rights of both Mizrahi Jews and the Palestinians. Indeed, she argues, the conflict of East versus West, Arab versus Jew, and Palestinian versus Israeli exists not only between Israelis and Arabs but also within Israel between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews.
This view contradicts the mainstream Zionist narrative, which maintains that Zionism saved Mizrahi Jews.[7] According to this view, the Mizrahi Jews were devout Zionists who deeply wished to leave the Diaspora and return to Zion.[8] Zionism saved these Mizrahim when persecution in their Arab and Iranian homelands intensified after Israel's independence. It also rescued them from the backwardness of Arab society and introduced them to the technology and culture of the civilized world. Zionism helped them to overcome the disadvantages of the illiterate, despotic societies from which they came.
In contrast, post-Zionist Mizrahi writers believe that this official Zionist account is false and needs to be de-constructed. They maintain that the Mizrahim did not come from backward or primitive societies. Cities like Alexandria, Baghdad, and Istanbul were great metropolises of wealth and culture. Most Mizrahim had been exposed to Western culture and ideas since they came from countries once subject to British or French rule. The Mizrahim were also largely literate, if not highly educated. Most men and even some women could read the Torah.
The post-Zionist writers also attack the claim that the Mizrahi Jews longed to immigrate to Israel. In reality, they argue, as loyal residents of the Arab world, Zionism played a relatively minor role in the Mizrahi world-view. Despite the role that the longing for Zion played in their religious lives, they did not share the European-Zionist desire to leave the Diaspora. Even after the Holocaust, post-Zionist writers maintain, Mizrahi Jews remained largely opposed to Zionism and lived peacefully with their Arab neighbors. Yehouda Shenhav, professor of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, writes in his study of the Jews of Iraq that the Mizrahim were never really Zionists. Instead, he argues that the Ashkenazi establishment encouraged their immigration less to protect the Mizrahim and more to address its own need for cheap labor.[9] Instead of saving the Mizrahi Jews, Zionism only ruthlessly displaced an entire community, Shenhav maintains, and removed its members' right to determine their own future. Pursuing this logic to its end, he argues that Zionism cannot be considered a liberation movement for all Jews. It liberated European Jews but enslaved the Mizrahim who, like the Palestinians, are an abused Third World people suffering under the yoke of first world Ashkenazi oppressors.
One of the main complaints of this radical intellectual school is the belief that Zionism destroyed the Mizrahi sense of community and culture by forcing the adoption of new "Zionist" and "Israeli" identities so as to eradicate any threat of a Mizrahi-Arab alliance. This action not only destroyed the natural Arab-Jewish identity of the Mizrahim, these post-Zionists argue, but also sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict. Shiko Behar, a Mizrahi post-Zionist writer, asserts that identity in the Middle East today is shaped around post-colonial nationalism, not the religious division between Muslim and non-Muslim Arabs.[10]
Before the rise of modern Jewish and Arab nationalism, Mizrahim and Arabs could coexist without conflict because they all shared an Arab identity and only differed in their religious beliefs.[11] In Zionist Israel, continues Behar, the Mizrahim could not be considered Arab-Jews even if their historical identity was more closely aligned with the Arab rather than Israeli identity. The Arab-Israeli conflict meant that the Mizrahim were forced to choose: either they were Jews, or they were Arabs. Mizrahim suffered communal schizophrenia because, for the first time since perhaps the time of the Caliph Harun ar-Rashid (763-809) when the Islamic caliph forced Jews to wear yellow patches, Arabism and Judaism were in conflict. Yet for this very reason, argues Behar, the Mizrahim—victimized by both Ashkenazi Zionism and the rise of Arab nationalism—are the key factor in solving the Arab-Israeli conflict. They alone can serve as the bridgehead into the Arab world since they, like the Palestinians, are refugees whose identity was destroyed.[12]
Zionism and the Mizrahim: What Went Wrong?
The Mizrahi academic embrace of post-Zionism is an attempt to address a broader, genuine problem. Post-Zionist Mizrahi writers present a compelling account of the systematic economic and ethnic discrimination that they personally, their families, and Mizrahi Jews in general have faced since the establishment of Israel to the present day. They provide evidence of discrimination and racist attitudes beginning with the early years of statehood. For example, in 1949, Ashkenazi journalist Aryeh Gelblum wrote the following about the arriving Mizrahi immigrants:
This is the immigration of a race we have not yet known in the country. We are dealing with people whose primitivism is at a peak, whose level of knowledge is one of virtually absolute ignorance and, worse, who have little talent for understanding anything intellectual. Generally, they are only slightly better than the general level of the Arabs, Negroes, and Berbers in the same regions. In any case, they are at an even lower level than what we know with regard to the former Arabs of Israel. These Jews also lack roots in Judaism, as they are totally subordinated to savage and primitive instincts. As with Africans you will find among them gambling, drunkenness, and prostitution ... chronic laziness and hatred for work; there is nothing safe about this asocial element. [Even] the kibbutzim will not hear of their absorption.[13]
Gelblum was not alone. Post-Zionist Mizrahim quote one of Israel's leading intellectuals in the 1950s, Karl Frankenstein, a celebrated professor at Hebrew University and the man considered the father of the Israeli education system. Frankenstein expressed outright racist attitudes towards Mizrahim, writing, "We have to recognize the primitive mentality of many of the immigrants from backward countries."[14] He further suggested that Mizrahi Jews have the mentality of primitive people who are somewhat mentally disturbed.[15] Israeli sociologist Yosef Gross argued in the early 1950s that Mizrahi immigrants suffered from "mental regression."[16] One of the worst examples of the anti-Mizrahi discrimination involves The Ashkenazi Revolution published in 1964 by writer Kalman Katzenelson in which the author argues that the Mizrahim suffer from irreversible genetic inferiority that endangers the superiority of the Ashkenazi-Zionist state. He called for the establishment of an apartheid regime that, among other limitations, would abolish their political rights. He also objected to mixed marriages and demanded the prohibition of the Hebrew language because it resembled Arabic too greatly. Instead he demanded that Yiddish become the national language because of its supreme Germanic origins. His book was a bestseller until Ben-Gurion banned it.[17]
The sentiments expressed by these intellectuals, the Mizrahi post-Zionists argue, were not uncommon. There were racist attitudes toward the Mizrahi Jews even among the highest political levels. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion described the Mizrahi immigrants as lacking even "the most elementary knowledge" or "a trace of Jewish or human education."[18] Furthermore, he said, "We do not want Israelis to become Arabs. We are bound by duty to fight against the spirit of the Levant that corrupts individuals and society."[19] Likewise, Abba Eban, one of Israel's most eloquent diplomats, noted that "one of the great apprehensions which afflict us is the danger of the predominance of immigrants of Oriental origin forcing Israel to equalize its cultural level with that of the neighboring world."[20] In 1949, Shoshana Frasitz, a member of the Knesset, said of the Mizrahim, "You know that we have no common language with them. Our cultural level does not fit with their level; their lifestyle is the lifestyle of the middle ages."[21] Nachum Goldman, chairman of the Jewish Agency and president of the World Zionist Organization in the late 1940s and 1950s, said, "A Jew from Eastern Europe is worth twice as much as a Jew from Kurdistan," and continued, "We should return a hundred thousand of the Jews of the East to their countries of origin."[22] Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once asked, "Shall we be able to elevate these immigrants to a suitable level of civilization?"[23]
The current clique of radical post-Zionist Mizrahim argues that such attitudes have not disappeared from Israel. Even as late as 1983, for example, the left-wing liberal and Palestinian-rights advocate, Shulamit Aloni, who headed the Citizens' Rights party and served as a member of the Knesset, denounced the Mizrahim as "barbarous tribal forces" who were "driven like a flock to the sound of tom-toms … chanting like a savage tribe."[24] In the same year, the celebrated Ashkenazi columnist Amnon Dankner raised the possibility of an Ashkenazi-Mizrahi cultural war in Ha'aretz:
This will not be a war among brothers … [because] these are not my brothers … The sticky blanket of "Jewish love and brotherhood" is thrown on my head and I am asked to be considerate of the [Mizrahi] cultural deficit and the authentic feelings of discrimination. My blood boils when I hear those hypocritical calls. They put me in a cage with a baboon running amok and then they tell me: "Okay, now you are together and begin a dialogue.…" Now I want to tell you that I am tired of empathizing and understanding. I have heard all the stories about discrimination, the social-economic gap, the feelings of frustration, the DDT and the maabarot. [I am told that] we [the Ashkenazim] have Heine, Freud, Einstein, and the wonderful synthesis between Judaism and Western culture, but the [Mizrahim] also have some wonderful things: hospitality, respect for mother and father, and a wonderful patriarchal tradition. … For me, however, they are not among the traits that I wish to see in the society that my spiritual fathers and I dreamed about establishing here: an exemplary and modern society laced with the most beautiful visions of humanistic liberalism. [Still] the advocates of Jewish love and brotherhood say, "Do not call them [the Mizrahim] Khomeini-like or primitive. It makes them even angrier.'[25]
These anti-Mizrahi attitudes, argue the post-Zionist Mizrahim, exist in the depiction of Mizrahim in movies, literary works, and especially, the media. They quote the findings of researcher Eli Avraham who investigated the media portrayal of the Mizrahim in the 1980s and 1990s. He found a number of recurring themes were associated with the Mizrahim. Those included violence, crime, and social unrest; unseemliness and neglect; limited future prospects; a herd mentality, and ethnically-determined political identity; an inability to be "like us [Ashkenazim]; and a syndrome of 'primitivism.'"[26]
While anti-Mizrahi attitudes are a legitimate concern, for radical post-Zionist writers, the problem does not end with the racism of some of Israel's founding fathers, politicians, and intellectuals. For them, the core issue is economic and social discrimination. In the 1970s, the Mizrahi Black Panther movement emerged to address economic and social discrimination through violent protests. Prime Minister Golda Meir ordered a brutal crackdown on the movement, which took its revolutionary outlook from the African American struggle in the United States and Marxist movements in Latin America. Radical post-Zionists believe that socioeconomic discrimination continues to exist, and they see it as the key factor that has led the Mizrahim to vote in droves since 1988 for the religious Mizrahi party Shas.
The Persistent Social Gap
According to the radical Mizrahi critique, one of the great recent myths about Israel is that the social, economic, and educational gap between the Ashkenazim and the Mizrahim—which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s—finally closed in the 1990s. According to this myth, after years of Ashkenazi state-run and personal discrimination, the Mizrahim, who until the Russian immigration of the 1990s represented the majority of Israelis, were able to finally catch up to the standards of Ashkenazi Israel.
There were many reasons to believe that the great social and economic gap between the Mizrahim and Ashkenazis had closed and that discrimination had become a thing of the past. Since the 1980s, a growing number of Mizrahim have held key positions in the Israeli government and military establishments. Moshe Katzav won the presidency in August 2000, while David Levi, Meir Schitrit, Aryeh Der'i, Shaul Mofaz, and Shlomo Ben-Ami have held top ministerial portfolios in a number of governments. The Israeli military is a tool of social mobility, and several of its high-ranking officers and chiefs-of-staff have been Mizrahim. Moreover, Israel underwent somewhat of a cultural revolution starting in the 1980s and 1990s; much popular culture today is dominated by Mizrahi music, traditions, and customs. Sometimes this translates into the politicization of Mizrahi traditions. For example, attending the Moroccan-Jewish celebration of the Mimuna, which marks the end of Passover, is now a must for every Ashkenazi prime minister and aspiring politician. On that day, the media is full of reports of top politicians visiting Mizrahi homes and tasting the traditional bread (mofleta) baked by the women of the house.
But despite the appearance of change and of a closing Ashkenazi-Mizrahi gap, studies show that during the 1990s the disparity between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in Israel grew. Even in the late 1990s, 88 percent of upper-income Israelis were Ashkenazim while 60 percent of lower-income families were Mizrahim.[27] In spite of the general increase in standard of living in Israel, the gap between Israeli-born Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, especially in housing, remains comparable to their parents' generation. In other areas such as income, the gap has only become wider. In fact, as Yoav Peled, a Tel Aviv University political scientist, demonstrated, a "cultural division of labor" characterized Israel in the 1990s when, within the Jewish population, the vast majority of the low income and impoverished families were of Mizrahi origin. The lower-middle class consisted of both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi families, with a small Ashkenazi majority, while the upper-middle and upper classes were almost exclusively Ashkenazi.
Even though the Mizrahim account for almost half of Israel's population, even as late as 2000, there was still only one Mizrahi for every four college-educated Ashkenazim. Sami Shalom Chetrit's works focus largely on the gap in education between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. He argues that the gap has resulted from state policies that have not changed significantly since the 1950s.[28] In areas more densely populated by Ashkenazi Jews, high schools focused on college preparation. But, in mostly Mizrahi areas, the state built special high schools (called makif and amal), which offer mostly vocational training. While in theory these schools included a single class of approximately 30 students who could aspire to higher education, my own experience growing up in the almost completely Mizrahi town of Ramle, Israel, was that far fewer succeeded. I attended a school of 700 students; only 37 students per grade were allowed to engage in full academic study. Of these, only three of us actually graduated high school and went onto higher education. The existence of separate education systems has meant that the disparity in higher education has continued. Naturally, differences in levels of education lead to differences in occupation and income.
As researcher Ya'akov Nahon has noted, since the 1980s, the socioeconomic gap divides Israeli society into two ethnic groups even among the second-generation population. He suggested that despite intermarriages and the process of socialization of the Mizrahim into Ashkenazi society, the gaps between the two groups did not close and even grew. Part of the problem stems from basic unequal conditions between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim: the Mizrahim tend to have larger families, their economic situation was worse from the start, and their negative image in society has made them less able to catch up to the Ashkenazim.[29]
Is Post Zionism the Answer?
The Mizrahi post-Zionist allegations about the systemic ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic discrimination that marked much of Israeli society in its early years are truthful. The claim that Mizrahim continue to live the consequences of this type of discrimination is not a distortion. The examples they point to are neither fabricated nor taken out of context. They represent a dark chapter in Israeli history that remains open even today. They also reflect genuine feelings of fury and insult against the Ashkenazi establishment that exist among many second- and third-generation Mizrahim. Although intermarriage between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi families takes place in growing numbers and might eventually lead to the end of the discrimination, two distinct ethnic identities and subcultures still exist today. The socioeconomic differences between the impoverished, predominantly Mizrahi development towns along Israel's borders and the wealthy, mostly Ashkenazi urban neighborhoods of Israel's large cities are striking. So, too, are the economic and cultural differences between those who are popularly known in Hebrew as the tzfonim—literally, those who reside in the north, a reference to the wealthy and mostly Ashkenazi Herzliya and northern Tel-Aviv neighborhoods—and the dromim, the residents of the south, the Mizrahim who reside in the poor areas of south Tel-Aviv and its southern suburbs.
With this in mind, the post-Zionist Mizrahi radical rejection of Zionism and the Israeli state is the wrong medicine for the disease. Rejecting Zionism is opting for a solution that is outside the Israeli political system. Such a solution will contribute little to solving the existing problems of Israeli society and its Mizrahi population. Destroying the state of Israel will not make the Mizrahim more equal or accepted by either Jewish or Arab societies.
Taking a radical stand against the state of Israel means that the post-Zionists undermine the achievements and accomplishments of Mizrahim in Israel. Years of Mizrahi history in the Jewish state are dismissed by the post-Zionists as atypical or unimportant. Their many successes are ignored and belittled. In so doing, the post-Zionist Mizrahi writers portray the members of their community as the passive object of history. They are forever the victims, too weak to rebel and too naive to fight the system. Although some Mizrahi writers, such as Chetrit, emphasize in their works the story of the Mizrahi uprising against the state at different points of time, this remains a story of a small minority even within the Mizrahi community. It does not offset the general tone of the post-Zionist writers, which remains one of helplessness and weakness.
Moreover, much of the post-Zionist Mizrahi outlook is based on nostalgic reminiscences of the Arab world rather than an unsentimental view of what it was then and now. Even if the post-Zionist point of view were adopted by scores of Mizrahim, it is hard to believe that they could safely go back to residing as "Arab-Jews" in countries like Iraq, Syria, or Libya. Long years of Arab-Israeli conflict exposed Arab society to so much anti-Semitism and hatred toward Israel that the safety and security of Mizrahim who might desire to be a part of the Arab world again would be threatened. This exposes yet another weakness in the post-Zionist argument: the assumption that the Arab-Israeli conflict is one-sided and is only the result of the manipulations of Zionism. The post-Zionists Mizrahi writers forget that the Arab world continues to play a role in the conflict. The Arab world's version of Arab nationalism was inspired since its creation by both fascism and Islamic fundamentalism—two movements which have by no means been kind to Jews. Modern Arab nationalism—and not "Ashkenazi" Zionism—is no less responsible for the conflict between Arabs and Israelis.
In their attempt to end what they view as the oppression of the Mizrahi Jews, the post-Zionist Mizrahi academics claim to speak in the name of liberty, justice, and equality. Their argument is that the Mizrahim need to break the chains of enslavement in Israel and declare themselves as Arab Jews in order to liberate themselves and revive their self-definition and self-respect. But the post-Zionists once again ignore Middle Eastern reality: what they advocate would put half the Jewish population of Israel under the rule of Arab tyrants since there is as yet no democracy in the Arab world. The so-called liberation of the Mizrahi Jews will only expose them to new forms of oppression.
The Future of Mizrahi Post-Zionism
Perhaps the greatest difficulty with the post-Zionist agenda stems from the fact that its proponents lack a substantial following among the Mizrahim in Israel.
Mizrahim tend not only to view themselves as ardent Zionists, but they also tend to hold religious and nationalist views that lead them to support the Israeli Right in national elections. Perhaps rooted in their families' past experiences, most hold an antagonistic view of the Arab world and find the attempt to define them as Arab Jews rather than as Israelis insulting.
Post-Zionist Mizrahi writers seem to be aware of this problem, and some of them complain about their Mizrahi brethren who cannot understand what is in their own best interest. Other post-Zionist writers, such as Ella Shohat, explain the political behavior of the Mizrahim as the result of years of Ashkenazi oppression. In her view, Mizrahim have internalized the condescending Ashkenazi attitude toward them to such an extent that they have turned into self-hating Mizrahim. In other words, the East came to view itself through the West's distorting mirror. Shohat quotes Malcolm X who said that the white man's worst crime was to make the black man hate himself.[30] She maintains that Mizrahi hatred toward the Arabs is no more than self-hatred caused by long exposure to Ashkenazi ill treatment.[31] But in their argument, Shohat and her colleagues once again belittle their Mizrahi brothers and sisters whose political behavior they explain not as a matter of independent, mature political choice but rather as yet another unintended consequence of Ashkenazi action. In so doing, they present the Mizrahim as childlike people who cannot understand their own best interests and cannot manage to vote "correctly." This is hardly an argument that can contribute to Mizrahi pride or liberation.
Furthermore, to claim that the Mizrahim cannot express themselves within the Israeli political system, as the post-Zionists argue, is to ignore reality. The electoral victories of the Likud party in 1977 and 1981 were the outcome of the Mizrahi ethnic vote protesting the Ashkenazi elite's failure in the 1973 war, its corruption, and its condescending attitude toward non-Ashkenazi Israelis. Likewise, the rise to power of the ultra-orthodox Mizrahi Shas party as the third largest political force in Israel in the 1999 elections demonstrates the Mizrahi ability not only to influence Israeli politics but also to master the political system and determine Israel's political future. Regardless of the politics of Likud or Shas, the Mizrahi ability to understand that they can determine and change their country's future by using democratic means shows not only a high degree of political maturity but also the aptitude to internalize the democratic process and rules.
The Mizrahi ability to master the democratic game might arguably be where their greatest contribution to Israeli society can be found. Until the Likud victory in 1977, Israeli politics were characterized by single-party rule. The left-wing Labor party (or its splinter, Mapai) had dominated Israeli politics since Israel's 1948 independence. Only the Mizrahi vote in support of Likud in 1977 turned the Israeli political system for the first time into a full multiple-party, liberal-democracy. Ultimately, Mizrahi power remains its most effective when it continues as an integral part of the democratic Zionist process.
Meyrav Wurmser is the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Hudson Institute.
[1] A famous Arab singer born in Lebanon.
[2] Sami Shalom Chetrit, "Ani Palit Aravi," 2004.
[3] Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, a toxic chemical banned in the United States in 1972 due to health and environmental risks.
[4] See, for example, Yael Tzadok, "Yaldi Timan: Hakonflict Shemerov Pahad Mechanim Oto Shed Vemachnisim Oto Lebakbuk," Kedma, Dec. 2000.
[5] Edward Said, "Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims," in Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds., The Edward Said Reader (New York: Random House Inc., 2000), pp. 114-68.
[6] Ella Shohat, "Mizrahim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims," Social Text, Fall 1988, pp. 1-35.
[7] On Zionism as an Ashkenazi phenomenon, see, Pnina Motzafi-Haller, "A Mizrahi Call for a More Democratic Israel—Israel at 50," Tikkun, Mar.-Apr. 1988.
[8] Yehuda Shenhav, Hayehudim-Aravim: Leumiyut, Dat, ve'Etniyut (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2003), pp. 24-55.
[9] Yitzhak Dahan, "Waters of Babylon," review of Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab-Jews: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2003), in Azure, Winter 5765/2005, p. 127.
[10] Shiko Behar, "Is the Mizrahi Question Relevant to the Future of the Entire Middle East?" Kedma, Jan. 1997.
[11] Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979) p. 157.
[12] Behar, "Is the Mizrahi Question Relevant to the Future of the Entire Middle East?"
[13] Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv), Apr. 22, 1949.
[14] Quoted in Sami Shalom Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, Bein Dikui Leshihrur, Bein Hizdahut Lealternativa, 1948-2003 (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004), pp. 76-8.
[15]. Quoted in ibid., p. 77
[16] Quoted in Ella Shohat, "Rupture and Return: A Mizrahi Perspective on the Zionist Discourse," The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2001, pp. 58-71.
[17] Kalman Katzenelson, HaMahapecha HaAshkenazit (Tel-Aviv: Anach, 1964). Quoted in Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, p. 133.
[18] Quoted in Shohat, "Mizrahim in Israel," p. 3.
[19] Quoted in Sami Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978) p. 88.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Quoted in Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, p. 65.
[22] Quoted in ibid.
[23] Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict, pp. 8-89.
[24] Shohat, "Mizrahim in Israel," p. 4.
[25] Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, pp. 221-2.
[26] Eli Avraham, Hatikshoret Beyisrael: Merkaz vePeriferia: Sikuran shel Ayarot Hapituah (Tel Aviv: Breyrot, 1993), p. 32.
[27] Shlomo Swirski and Etty Konor-Attias, Israel: A Social Report (Tel-Aviv: Adva Center, 2003), p. 10; Chetrit, Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael, p. 218.
[28] Sami Shalom Chetrit, "Hahinuch Beyisrael: Bikoret VeAlternativa," lecture at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Nov. 27, 2000.
[29] Ya'akov Nahon, "Pe'arim Adatiyim—Tmunat Matav Leorech Zman," in Kivunim Hadashim BeHeker Haba'aya Ha'adatit: Rav Siah (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Research of Israel, 1984), no. 8, p. 43.
[30] Ella Shohat, "The Invention of the Mizrahim," Journal of Palestine Studies, Autumn, 1999, pp. 5-20.
[31] Shohat, "Mizrahim in Israel," p. 14.


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While in the Rappahannock area, we realized that we had not been to Rappahannock Cellars in quite a while. In fact, the last time we were there for a tasting, two tasting options were available—the oakier, fuller-bodied menu and the less/no oak, lighter-bodied menu. With fond memories of our last experience at Rappahannock Cellars in mind, we decided to follow the grape sign markers along Hwy 211 to see what the winery currently has to offer.
On a cold winter's day, the tasting room was not too busy, and we noticed that the two-menu option was also not available. That was fine with us as it gave us the opportunity to focus on fewer wines. Seven wines were available to sample, and of course the white wines were poured first. My own gold star was awarded to the 2007 Viognier with its honeysuckle nose and stone fruit flavors and a nice acidity to boot. Paul tended to favor the 2007 Noblesse Blanc which I thought was a dead-ringer for a Riesling. This blend of Vidal Blanc, Seyval Blanc, Viognier and Chardonnay is packed with fruity aromas and flavors. A versatile pour, the Noblesse Blanc could grace a dinner table that featured veal, pork or fish; however, it would also be a perfect patio or picnic sipper (in warmer weather, of course).
The red wines were next on the menu, and my double gold award of the day was presented to the 2006 Cabernet Franc. Tart raspberry and spicy flavors best describe this medium-bodied wine. A deep garnet color coupled with a seductive berry and herby nose confirmed that the 2006 Cabernet Franc was my winner. It should be noted that the 2006 Cabernet Franc is indeed a blend of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and a splash of Petit Verdot. Paul's gold star was placed next to the 2007 Headwaters Norton. Paul noted a jammy nose with hints of toast with a mouthful of black cherry and black berry flavors. He described the color as "inky". Some blending of this Norton with 12.5% Cabernet Sauvignon smooths out the Norton characteristics while adding some complexity.
With our tasting done, we decided to share a glass of the outstanding 2006 Cabernet Franc. We also made note that a Claret will soon be released, and we will certainly return to give it a try. If you get to sample the Claret before we do, let us know about it; be sure to mention to the tasting associate that Virginia Wine Time sent you.

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Clarksville TN – The SSF Submission Academy is holding open try-outs for their MMA Team.� SSF head coach and owner Ron Dayley said he is looking for Pro and high level amateur fighters to train and manage.
"We've trained fighters at every lever of competition, said Daily.� Looking to add talented fighters to our already highly regarded roster of Pro athletes."
Try-outs will be held at SSF Submission Academy at 812 College Street in downtown Clarksville on Monday and Wednesday nights at 8:00pm throughout the month of March.� Fighters should show up early to sign the required waivers.Selectees chosen for the SSF's Pro Tem will receive free training and management.
"SSF has placed fighters in the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, XFC, OneFC and other major pro MMA promotions," according to Dayley.
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Three men are facing numerous weapons charges after someone was threatened with a gun Saturday night at the Dartmouth bus terminal near the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge.
Halifax Regional Police say they were called to the terminal around 9 p.m. after a security guard witnessed a man threatening another man with a firearm.
Police said the suspect and two other people fled the scene in a taxi. Officers began searching for the cab and found it on Grove Street in Dartmouth.
Police conducted a "high-risk vehicle stop" and arrested the three men.
Police said the men are from the Dartmouth area and are 19, 20 and 25 years old, respectively. The trio are being held in custody and are scheduled to be in Dartmouth provincial court on Monday.


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Makes 8
Carne asada (roasted meat) is a Northern Mexican dish of tough, flavorful beef, which is marinated, charred on the grill, sliced thinly, and heaped onto tacos or burritos. Carne asada is usually served simply on top of soft corn tortillas. Salsas, guacamole, and hot sauces are self-serve. At home, make a rustic and colorful salad of chopped tomatoes, avocado, onion, cilantro, and lime juice. Start with skirt or flank steak. For flavor, and maybe some tenderizing, soak the beef in lime juice and cayenne pepper for 30 minutes. Broil the beef and slice it thinly, warm the tortillas, top with the salsa, and serve with lime wedges and plenty of cold Mexican beer. A taqueria in your kitchen.
|pound flank steak
|Juice of 4 limes
|teaspoons cayenne pepper
|tablespoons vegetable oil
|avocados, chopped
|tomatoes, chopped
|onion, chopped
|sprigs fresh cilantro, chopped
|soft corn tortillas, wrapped in foil
|Hot sauce, to taste
|lime, cut into 8 wedges
2. In a large bowl combine the lime juice, cayenne pepper, and vegetable oil. Add the beef and toss it in the mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 30 to 60 minutes.
3. In a medium bowl combine the avocados, tomatoes, onion, and cilantro; set aside.
4. Turn on the broiler. Set a rack on a roasting pan; set the steak on the rack. Slide the steaks under the broiler. Broil the steaks for 3 minutes on a side or until cooked through. Transfer the steaks to a board and set aside for 5 minutes. Turn the oven down to 375 degrees. Put the tortilla packet in the oven and cook for 8 minutes, turning the packet once.
5. Slice the steaks against the grain into thin strips. Place beef on each tortilla. Top with salsa and hot sauce. Serve with lime wedges. Jonathan Levitt


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Their #3 stunt: Track Hoe Boarding
They set up a track hoe in a shallow part of Utah Lake. This video makes this stunt look extremely fun and also extremely painful. If you thought belly smacking into a lake off of a regular wake is harsh, tumbling off the wake of a track hoe looks...
Just a little....
In the "Behind The Scenes" video, those participating were advised to "tuck and roll with it so you don't hit the bottom" because the stunt was set up in shallow water. Aside from wiping out, this trick looked like it was tons of fun to test out. And the rest of the video shows people partying around the Track Hoe, some even dressed in costumes. Let's hope they weren't under the influence...Operating heavy machinery all jacked up on Mountain Dew can be very dangerous!


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|Can't you see it?
|~ Shido to Kotori about Kerubiel
Kerubiel, know as Cerubiel or The Flames Which Dance Around the Throne of God, is the main antagonist of the 2015 (2016 in West) japanese animation film Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment. Kerubiel is the most powerful, dark and extremely misanthropic Angel of Date A Live series, as well as an agent of the God and is the renegade Angel of the Spirit, Mayuri.
Kerubiel is called the "prince of the gates of heaven and the everlasting doors," "overseer of the guardians of the gates of hell," "knower of the portals of all in-betweens," including those portals through which spiritual forces cross to and from other universes and dimensions, and the portals, gates, of the Great Abyss; and it has been said that it is this Great Kerub who taught the masters of the tradition how to create Portals of Calling. In other words, this Great Angel holds the knowledge of all gates or portals in creation, and how to pass through them, and joined with this, so this angel of God has deep knowledge of the Netivot, "secret paths" of the Tree of Life and how to sojourn in them.
- Name: Kerubiel
- Gender: Asexual
- Classification: Non-Human/Angel
- Age: 3,402,193,822,311 according to Judaism
- Powers and Abilities: Fly, durability, immortality (type 1), can survive in space, can survive between realities, eye laser, regeneration, can nullify others' powers, illness infliction, perception manipulation, transformation, cross dimensional, light powers, can use Divine powers, Level 3 - Standard Angel level
- Weaknesses: Core
- Destructive Capacity: City level+ - able to destroy the entire nations
- Range: Global
- Speed: 90 kilometer per hour
- Durability: At least multi city block level+
- Lifting Strength: Class K via powerscaling
- Striking Strength: Class G via powerscaling
- Stamina: Infinite
- Standard Equipment: Mayuri herself
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- "He is Free!" - Kotori
- "Stop it! Kerubiel!" - Mayuri
- "He will destroy the entire world..." - Shido
"I am Kerubiel of the Kerubim I stand within the gates of light, crowned in rays I hold aloft a sword, so that its shining beams go in all directions.
My robe is of white light, without seams or buttons
My wings shield others from the light, the barriers that keep them from being burned.
We of the Kerubim dance in rings, leaving trails of sparkling star dust in our paths
We radiate out in singing and movement, spreading joy among the children
We call forth peace and light among them, for any pride that remains
Is lit with the torch of humility, and crumbles before the torch, ever-burning. We are the flames which dance around
The golden rings of the throne of God
We hold within ourselves the secrets of the divine
And may see into each world, of matter or spirit. To the spiritual seeker, we say: The life you live now is not different from the life you live in the hereafter
Sins do not dissolve at death, but remain
Burn out all impurities, or the light of God Will appears as fierce fire most terrible and violent to behold
Love of earth hides love of heaven, and love of heaven destroys love of earth
Take in the glory sword within you
That the mind may discern the clear light from the smoky
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Pro Day Tracker: 2012 NFL Draft News from Georgia and Minnesota's Pro DayMarch 6, 2012
Today's pro day tour stops in Athens, Georgia, with a side trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota and Carson, California.
The top headline from the University of Georgia pro day was a disappointing 40 time anywhere from 4.7 to 4.9 for TE Orson Charles, who is considered to be in the mix to be the No. 1 TE off the board. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that high winds affected his time and Charles agreed:
"Running against the wind was kind of discouraging," Charles said. "I heard a couple of my times and I feel like I can do a little better. If I had to take anything back, I'd like to take that 40 back and prove that I am like a 4.5 or 4.6 guy."
Charles' agent and trainer recommended that he not run at the combine, and his stock is paying the price now as his chances of being a top 50 pick are slipping away. At least, SI.com writer Tony Pauline reported that Charles did a great job catching the ball in position drills despite the winds. Charles does have a workout scheduled with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Second-day CB prospect Brandon Boykin is still mending a broken fibula suffered in the Senior Bowl, which he put at 85 percent healed. He did not run, but did bench press 16 reps, which is impressive for a small (180 lb) corner. He will hold an individual pro day in early April.
Offensive lineman Cordy Glenn solidified his first-round grade with an impressive set of drills, and Pauline had an interesting report on his possible destination
There's a feeling in the scouting community Glenn is headed into the top half of round one, possibly to the Dallas Cowboys.
This is higher than where most of the media expects Glenn to go, so expect him to move up in mock drafts in the next few weeks.
Two more unheralded Bulldogs made an impression. Backup TE Aron White had 22 bench press reps, with a 4.63 40 and 33 3/4" vertical in a 6'4" 238 lb frame. Massive offensive lineman Justin Anderson moved well and showed power in drills, according to Pauline, putting him firmly in the late round sleeper category.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Anthony Jacobs posted a 35 1/2" vertical and 40 in the 4.7-4.8 range, which doesn't sound that impressive until you find out he is a 291 lb defensive tackle. Hawaii held their pro day on the mainland in Carson, California, but the star there was Cal Poly corner Asa Jackson who improved on his combine numbers with a 4.46 40 and 37 1/2" vertical. He's a strong third-day corner prospect.


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Hi all kewleys I am looking for any relations to robert william kewley )butcher) lancashire born 1834 I beleive his parents to be william kewley and Jane ???? they had 10 children . Robert married hannah greaves 1858 and had 10 children james, william, thomas, jane, ada, arthur (my gg grandfather) walter, agnes, john and frank.I beleive roberts siblings to be Mary 1842, samuel 1846, Jane catherine 1852, james 1841 all christened in cathedral manchester. I am trying to trace back to the iom and i beleive my ancestors lived near tremode in iom any help would be appreciated.


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George started his day like any other. As he headed to work, the events of the previous night whirled in his head. He had finally had a date with the girl of his dreams and it had gone terribly wrong. Feelings of sadness and anger coursed through his veins. He had no Idea that these emotions would lead to the death of so many.
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"Gripping and atmospheric psychological chiller"
I haven't read the print version, as this is the kind of story I personally love to have read to me. The narrator did a wonderful job of getting me into all the characters, and she ramped up the chill factor just perfectly as the story progressed.
The first meeting of George and Dr Williams. I felt gripped and intrigued right from the start at the interplay between these two characters.
Without giving too much away, there's a scene where George frightens some people who are trying to bully and intimidate him. I very much enjoyed the way this was presented. But there were lots of other memorable scenes too.
I thought the whole relationship between George and Dr Williams was very moving.... I'll leave other readers to decide whether that was a good thing or not!
Yes, this a very subtle, spooky, intriguing novel. I could almost have imagined someone like Stephen King writing it, though the style is quite unique. I finished reading it several hours ago and I'm still thinking about it. I think both the author and the narrator are very talented and I'll be listening to more from both of them.
"The Interview"
This is a short novel about a man being questioned about a murder.As you go on there are twists and turns and it is like a 'Tales from the Crypt' type of story.I loved the creepiness! Jaicie Kilpatrick was ok at narrating.I think a male narrator would have been better.I was gifted this book for an honest review.
"Couldn't Close the Deal"
I received this as a free Audible download in return for an honest review. This is a book that I thought started out strong. It created a real atmosphere, but it kind of lost its way as the story went on. The ending seemed disconnected from the story. The narration was good and fit the story.
"Fascinating thriller!"
I liked the story and found the whole premise really interesting, and scary. The reader was a little slow for me so I turned up the speed and it worked better for my listening fun. Story starts a tad slow and builds to an incredible ending twist. More for the Hichcock type horror fan.
"The Interview"
No, this was my first.
The narrator had a nice voice, but needs a bit more practice. Sometimes she did not speak clearly.
It could go either way!
I received a copy of this audio book for free in exchange for an honest review. The story was good, but it needs a good editor. I felt that the language could be a bit more concise. I would definitely listen to, or read more book by this author.
"Great story, creepy, unique, surprising ending"
This book was fun. The Interwies is a story about George, a 20-something typical guy with a few ocd tendencies who is arrested when a girl he is interested in is found murdered. The "interview" part, and the bulk of the story, is George's interaction during his interrogation, with female psychiatrist Dr. Williams. Along the way, details reveal a crazy twisted ending.
I really like Christopher McDonald's stories They are unique and creepy,
I loved Dr. Williams. Creepy soft-spoken voice.
Duplicity. Hapless George is maniulated by sweet Dr. Williams. Or is she manipulated by him?
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This is a very unusuall shortish (4 hours 20 mins) story , rather in the style and feel of "Tales of the unexpected"
This captured my interest right from the start ,but had no idea where the story would lead, I very much enjoyed the twists in the plot, and felt it had an ending that suited the story.
good interesting characters .
really good narration by Jaicie Kirkpatrick
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I decided to keep those shoes from my last post - I think they go quite nicely with this new (well, new to me) dress. I got it off Etsy during one of my exam-stress induced shopping binges
You'll have to forgive my poker-straight hair; I was in a rush in the morning (as evidenced by my mascara fail!) and couldn't find a hair tie. I should probably get around to making an appointment to have my hair cut... it's embarrassing to admit but I haven't been for 12 months! I don't get many split ends because I don't use any heat treatments on my hair or brush it a lot (I find my natural curls just become a frizzy mess if I brush it between washes). This time last year my hair was this long:
That's a good few inches of growth! I don't think I want to get it cut that short again, it was too much work having to pincurl it every night. I want the option of a lazy ponytail or last minute up-do for my super early lectures. I suppose I will have to go scouring the web for inspiration - suggestions from you lovely readers are always welcome!
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UNETHICAL REPUBLICAN HOUSE -- (House of Representatives - October 08, 2004)
(Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, it is now clear that the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives condones the direct linkage of political donations to legislation. It is clear the Republican leadership will not hesitate to use political donations to influence Members of their own caucus who plan to vote against them on legislation.
This weekend, former Republican Congressman Tom Coburn admitted on national television that Republican leaders had essentially offered him a bribe. Coburn said, "I don't believe that is the kind of government we want. That is what we are seeing in Congress now with some of the ethical problems that are there."
Mr. Coburn, I could not agree with you more. Unfortunately, even the Speaker excused such actions yesterday when he said he was "profoundly disappointed" by those who do not think bribes, threats and payoffs are acceptable behavior. An ethical cloud is indeed hanging over this House, and it will not be removed until a Democratic House is installed this November.


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Dan Lauzon debuted in the UFC at eighteen years old, making him the youngest fighter to ever appear in the Octagon. After losing his first two fights, Dan sought to develop his skills outside the UFC. Now riding an eight fight winning streak, Lauzon returns to the UFC this Saturday night against Cole Miller. I caught up with Dan to talk about growing up with older brother Joe, his favorite WWE characters and his return to the UFC limelight.
Brawl Sports: How was your Christmas vacation?
Dan Lauzon: It was a pretty different Christmas. I'm always fighting year-round, so I'm always training. But this year my weight was down a little bit, so I was actually able to eat. I didn't have to watch what I was eating too much, so that was pretty nice. But I trained pretty much every day except for Christmas. I took Christmas off. It was a ten or twelve week camp, and it was a good camp. I'm ready to go.
Brawl Sports: Tell me about growing up with your brother. What kind of hobbies did you enjoy?
Dan Lauzon: Joe and I are pretty much complete opposites. I played football growing up and he played baseball in high school. I think the only thing we ever really did together was watch WWE wrestling. We were really into that and thought that was cool. Then we saw UFC, and we started to get into that. We saw that it was the real stuff and that it was way better. So Joe started training two years before me, and I started training when I was fourteen. We've been training together ever since.
Brawl Sports: Who was your favorite WWE character?
Dan Lauzon: Doink! (laughs) Doink the Clown.
Brawl Sports: I expected you to say Steve Austin.
Dan Lauzon: Oh yeah. Stone Cold was a bad ass, but Doink the Clown was the man.
Brawl Sports: Did you spend a lot of time fighting each other when you were kids?
Dan Lauzon: Yeah. I mean, growing up we were always wrestling and fighting. When we first started really training, Joe had already been training two years longer than me. So we were really into fighting then, once I started training. Everything was about fighting. We trained together so much, so any time we had a dispute about anything, it was "okay, let's go. Let's do this. Let's do this right now." So we would end up fighting.
I remember one time he punched me right in the face after dinner because I ate his mashed potatoes. So we got into a huge fight over that. Any little thing, any little reason to fight, and we would fight. But now we're getting older and we just train together. We train together nearly every day, so we don't fight as much as we did a few years ago.
Brawl Sports: Would the two of you ever consider fighting each other in the UFC?
Dan Lauzon: Yeah. If the money were right and the circumstances were right, I'd have no problem fighting Joe in the UFC. I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem fighting me, either. We train together and we spar with each other every day, so I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have a problem doing it for real.
Brawl Sports: What was Joe like while recovering from his injury?
Dan Lauzon: He was a little restless, just kind of laying around all the time. He'd rather be in the gym training. But he had to stay home and heal his knee, so he lounged around and played a lot of video games like he does.
Brawl Sports: Were you tentative at all while sparring with Joe because of his injury?
Dan Lauzon: No, not at all. When he first came back from the surgery and he started training again, we didn't really train together for the first couple of weeks. He was just hitting it real light, you know? But when we started training together again, I think he was trying to push it too hard for someone who was coming off an ACL knee surgery. He ended up hurting his knee again almost immediately. I think he was trying to push me up and push me away, and he really didn't have the strength in his knee to push me away. So I said "we really need to slow down. You need to chill out, rehab your knee and make sure you take good care of it."
After that, he focused on stretching it out, healing it and just making it stronger. And his knee is great now.
Brawl Sports: You were the youngest fighter to ever appear in the UFC. Do you think that hitting the big stage that early in your life was a hindrance? And if you had to do it all over again, would you try to develop outside the UFC before stepping onto the big stage?
Dan Lauzon: No, I think it worked out perfectly. I mean, I was eighteen and it was my sixth fight, but it got my foot in the door. I wouldn't go back and change anything. I took the fight on short notice, but it was the opportunity of a lifetime. I couldn't let that slip away, you know? I think it worked out pretty well. Right after that fight, I told the UFC I wanted to take some time off and get some more experience. I've gone 8-1 since then and I'm riding an eight fight win streak right now. I'm 21 years old and I'm back in the UFC, so I think it worked out perfectly.
Brawl Sports: How has your game changed since the Spencer Fisher loss?
Dan Lauzon: When I fight Spencer, I was pretty much only a submission guy. I would just go to the ground and look to submit people. But since that fight, I've really focused on my standup and my wrestling. If I want to keep the fight standing, I'll keep it standing. If I want to take it to the ground, I'll take it to the ground. My hands have improved so much since that fight, and you can just look at my record and see that.
My first four fights, I won by submission. I lost a couple of fights and decided to take five months off to really focus on my stand up game. I think I've won the last six or eight fights by TKO or knockout. So I want people to know, to respect my hands, and to know that I will use them.
Brawl Sports: Has Joe given you any tips about Cole Miller?
Dan Lauzon: Yeah, of course. We just spent twelve weeks training together, and he's already fought Cole. So he's definitely been giving me tips on how to fight him.


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In a make-up game, the Indian Land Warriors came out looking good.
IL, in a Region IV-AA game reset from Friday night to Jan. 25 due to the winter weather, swept the host Cheraw Braves in the CHS gym.
The Lady Warriors opened with a 43-39 win and the IL boys capped the hoops broom job with an exciting 67-66 victory.
Shamon Alston's trey in the closing seconds gave the Warriors a one-point lead and they held on for the narrow win.
The NFC Champion and Super Bowl 50-bound Carolina Panthers insist they will follow the same game plan, which has been a fine formula for their success this season.
The Cats say they will use the two-week preparation plan they followed at the end of the regular season to the divisional playoff game with Seattle. Following the Carolina Blue-print for success has set the Panthers as the "cat's meow," with a distinct roar across the NFL.
One tweak for the Panthers is their attire for Super Bowl L.
Indian Land High School freshman kicker Brandon Dickerson is taking his game to the international level to play in an elite football setting.
Dickerson, the Junior Warriors Special Teams Award winner last season, will play in the International Bowl on Feb. 5 at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Dickerson, at 5-8, 150 pounds, will leave Jan. 31 for a week of preparation for the game, which will pit his U16 USA football team against an U16 Canadian team. The game will air on ESPN at 1 p.m. Feb. 5.
Lancaster High School's home basketball games with Broome, set for Jan. 26 in the LHS gym, have been moved to Jan. 27.
The girls' game tips off at 6:15, with the boys' game at 7:30 Wednesday. The move was due to the impact of the winter storm in the Spartanburg area over the weekend.
The junior varsity basketball games with Broome, set for Jan. 25, will be played Jan. 27 at Broome.
The Bruins' home wrestling match with Chester, set for the LHS gym Jan. 25, was moved to Tuesday in Chester.
The Lancaster Bruins went 1-2 in a quad wrestling match at North Central, posting their first mat win of the 2015-16 season Jan. 21.
The Bruins notched a 42-36 win over W.J. Keenan High School of Columbia in the Knights gym.
The Bruins' winners against Keenan included Tyree Brown-Washington, Jamari Hubbard, Matt Duffell-Hoffman, Chris Gonzalez, Martin Alexander, Anthony Stephens and Brysaan Jowers.
LHS wrestling coach Rob Hill noted Alexander, at 126, posted a second-period pin against the KHS Raiders to seal the six-point win in the match.
The winter storm, which closed Lancaster County schools on Jan. 22, also put a freeze on the prep high school basketball schedules.
Hoops games scheduled for Friday night were postponed to a future date.
Lancaster High School was slated to visit South Pointe of Rock Hill for a Region III-AAA varsity basketball doubleheader on Friday night, but the game was reset to Feb. 11, a Thursday.
The girls' game will tip off at 6 p.m. and the boys play at 7:30.
For the Carolina Panthers, it's "keep pounding."
For Lancaster resident Ken Hudson, a veteran member of the Panthers' game day chain crew, it's keep marking.
Hudson, who has handled the down box in the chain crew at Carolina home games since the Panthers' inception 21 years ago, said the sideline work is a labor of love.
Lancaster was a tough host as the Bruins' teams stayed undefeated in Region III-AAA play with a home hoops sweep of Union County on Jan. 19.
The Lady Bruins, in the first of two varsity routs, swatted the Lady Yellow Jackets, 63-28.
The LHS boys followed suit, shelling Union County, 62-37.
In the nightcap, the Bruins, 9-5, 4-0, actually trailed 9-7 after one, but Lancaster took control in a pivotal second period to build a 30-17 lead at the half on the way to the 25-point win.
INDIAN LAND – Andrew Jackson, in much the same fashion in both games, used clutch play against rival Indian Land to keep the Vols squads unbeaten in region play with a sweep of the Warriors Jan. 19.
In both games, the Vols held the edge for the most part, and saw their leads sliced to four late in the games, but AJ stayed in control for the wins.
In the boys game, the host Warriors rallied late and sliced the margin to four, 58-54, on a Mark Morton bucket, but the Vols finished on a 9-4 run to take the 67-58 win.
The Indian Land High School wrestling team improved its record to 13-7, 3-1 in Region IV-AA mat action, with a pair of mat wins in Columbia on Jan. 20.
The Warriors topped Columbia, 48-12 and posted a 54-18 victory over Brookland-Cayce. Dyllon McCord and Will Van Hoose each posted two pins in the Warriors' sweep at Columbia High School.
The Warriors went 1-2 in the Battery Creek Duals on Jan. 15-16, posting a 39-36 win over Bluffton.
IL fell to Battery Creek, 57-21 and West Oak, 57-15.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Dresser-Rand (DRC) shares are up 13.9% to $68.84 on Thursday following reports that German engineering firm Siemens (SIEGY) is preparing an offer for the custom-engineered rotating equipment manufacturer.
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser has mandated that asset management firm Lazard put together a deal for the company, sources told German Magazine Manager Magazin.
STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more.
TheStreet Ratings team rates DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC (DRC) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 232.21% to $59.10 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 49.24%.
- DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC's earnings per share declined by 48.8% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has suffered a declining pattern of earnings per share over the past year. However, we anticipate this trend reversing over the coming year. During the past fiscal year, DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC reported lower earnings of $2.19 versus $2.35 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.64 versus $2.19).
- DRC, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 10.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 8.8%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- DRC's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Regardless of the somewhat mixed results with the debt-to-equity ratio, the company's quick ratio of 0.86 is weak.
- Current return on equity is lower than its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of weakness within the company. When compared to other companies in the Energy Equipment & Services industry and the overall market, DRESSER-RAND GROUP INC's return on equity is below that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
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Here's what Shawn Drover writes about Ronnie James Dio death:
"I am at an absolute loss right now upon hearing that Ronnie has passed away. I had the pleasure of touring both Canada and America in 2007 when MEGADETH toured with HEAVEN & HELL (BLACK SABBATH in my eyes) and I swear to you he is one of the nicest human beings I have ever met, period. Many a night on that tour, Glen [Drover, then-MEGADETH guitarist] and myself would have amazing conversations with Ronnie about his career, etc. fully knowing he had probably told these stories 10,000 times to people and yet he answered every question I had with a big smile. I can recall so many times making eye contact with Glen sharing the exact same thought: 'Dude, I can't believe we are hanging with RONNIE JAMES DIO!!!!!'
"If you are lucky enough in your lifetime to actually meet one of your idols (let alone tour with them) and they turn out to be even nicer than you could have envisioned, that is something you would truly treasure. Lucky for me, I will cherish those memories forever."


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Handmade felt monkey mask with elastic, ready to wear. Made from layered felt with realistic yarn hair. Great for parties, pretend games or dress-ups. $23 from Ummu Handmade.
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Fun felt play food just perfect for your child's next tea party. This set includes four teabags with pretty matching fabric tags, two gingerbread men with white and pink hearts, two jam biscuits and two heart sugar cookies with sprinkles. All are lightly stuffed with
Hand cut, hand sewn and stuffed for a 3D effect, the game pieces are easy to hold and made from wool felt. Comes with a bag to hold all the pieces when you're done playing. $64 from Twins and Crafts.
Take five moustached swimmers, some flying seagulls and floating clouds and you have a beautifully crafted and original nursery mobile. Watch as your baby is mesmerised by the spinning characters, made from felted wool. $210 by Ooly Wooly.
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Jumping jelly fish! Would you just look at the delightful sea creatures that make up this baby mobile. From happy whales to jolly crabs and starfish, it's just right for a sea-themed nursery. $117 from Felt N Joy.
Little girls can tote their treasures wherever they go with this darling grey bag made from industrial wool felt and decorated with a cheery flower in on-trend yellow. $28 from Lukipuki.
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Even pretend lunches for dolls and teddies can be healthy with this handmade four-piece felt sushi set. $27 from Shhbaby.
Sometimes your house can feel like it's overrun with kiddie clutter (I know mine is – I have the bruises from tripping to prove it) so it's nice when you find a practical fix that doubles as a stylish adult item too. These gorgeous felt
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Duke Fabian Victorious in West Kingdom Crown Tourney
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-10-04 18:56
Catherine Lorraine reports that Duke Fabian Arnett von Schwetzingen was the winner of the recent West Kingdom Crown Tournament. He was inspired by Eliška z Jihlavy.
Pirates Raid the Shores of Ealdormere
Submitted by ColyneStewart on Tue, 2005-10-04 11:28
The infamous pirate captains, Bloodfox and Willow, once again raided the coasts of Ealdormere! "Cap'n" Colyne Stewart was aboard one o' yer Jolly Roger ships, an' lived to tell the tale. Arrrr!
Manuscripta Conference at Saint Louis University
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-10-04 09:14
On October 14-15, 2005, Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, will host a two-day medieval manuscript conference featuring speakers from all over the world.
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Fort Belvior Local Area Information:
Few areas in the world can match
the diversity of the Fort Belvoir
area. The installation is minutes
from Mount Vernon, Old Town
Alexandria, the nation's capital as
well as so much more of America's
heritage. Alexandria's Town Crier
can usually be seen calling out
special events and happenings in
the historic port city of
Few areas in the world can
match the diversity of the
area surrounding the
nation's capital, which is a
short trip from Fort
Belvoir. In metropolitan
Washington, D.C., there
are hundreds of historic
sites and places to experience
history and watch
history in the making.
Residents and tourists
from around the world
over can visit the White
House, the U.S. Congress
and Capitol, the headquarters
of 14 federal cabinet
departments and other federal
agencies and bureaus.
Almost every nation in the
world has an embassy or diplomatic
representative here. The
nation's capital also is one of the
worl'd most beautiful cities. Maj.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a member
of Gen. George Washington's
Continental Army staff, laid out the
District of Columbia in 1791, with
broad avenues and traffic circles, allowing
for monuments, memorials, pools and
parks. There's a world-class zoo, shopping
for every taste and budget, hotels, theaters and
restaurants featuring some of the world's finest
cuisine. Cultural activities from John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts to local jazz clubs and
dinner theatres cater to every taste. Recreation at Atlantic
Ocean beaches in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New
Jersey are only a few hours away, as are the snow-covered
slopes, campgrounds and lakes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the
Appalachian chain in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
For more informaiton on Ft. Belvoir, please see the Fort Belvoir Post Guide Book 2010 (9 MB file size).
BRAC and Fort Belvoir:
The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure legislation was
signed into law on Nov. 9, 2005. Under BRAC law, Fort
Belvoir will have a net gain of approximately 19,300 military
and civilian employees - the largest net gain of any DoD
BRAC 2005 will nearly double the size of Fort Belvoir's
workforce to a total population of 43,000 by September 15,
2011 - the federally mandated date by which BRAC must be
The cost of construction for new facilities, renovated facilities,
and infrastructure projects related to the implementation
of BRAC at Fort Belvoir is forecasted to cost more than $4
With all of the BRAC projects now fully under construction,
the future appearance of Fort Belvoir is beginning to
take shape. The post will expand to include a total of three
non-contiguous sites or substations in the region. Non-contiguous Fort Belvoir property includes Rivanna Station in
Charlottesville, Va, the Fort Belvoir North Area in
Springfield, Va., and a portion of the Mark Center in
Alexandria, Va., that are now home to three BRAC realigned
organizations at Fort Belvoir. They are the Defense
Intelligence Agency's Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility,
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's New Campus
East, and the multiple Defense Department agencies formerly
in leased space in the National Capital Region, respectively.
To support the increased workforce and mission requirements,
the installation will invest $157 million into roads,
utilities, communications and base support facilities while
renovating existing space, building new buildings for incoming
tenants, reconfiguring the installation, and implementing
increased traffic demand management practices to mitigate
traffic concerns. During 2010-2011, Gunston, Belvoir, and
Pohick Roads will be expanded to four lanes to accommodate
Belvoir's growth.
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Child care centers.
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Garment cleaning establishments.
ealth clubs, spas, sauna and steam baths, swimming pools, tennis courts and other such similar facilities.
Personal service establishments.
Prescription establishments and the selling of pharmaceutical supplies.
Quick-service food stores, limited to the C-3, C-4 and I-4 Districts.
A dwelling unit for a watchman, custodian, proprietor or owner and his/her family whose employment or business is directly related to the principal use.
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Retail sales establishments selling convenience merchandise.
Drive-in financial institutions.
Fast food restaurants.
Quick-service food stores.
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3. Churches, chapels, temples, synagogues and other such places of worship.
4. Contractor's offices and shops.
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6. Establishments for printing of any size, production, processing, assembly, manufacturing, compounding, preparation, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products, and associated retail sales.
7. Establishments for scientific research, development and training.
8. Financial institutions.
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10. Heavy equipment and specialized vehicle sale, rental and service establishments.
11. Kennels.
12. Light public utility uses, all uses except radio or television broadcasting tower facilities, microwave facilities, satellite earth stations, and mobile and land based telecommunication facilities.
13. Lumber yards and building material yards to include rock, sand and gravel.
14. Mobile and land based telecommunication facilities.
15. Motor freight terminals.
16. Motor vehicle storage and impoundment yards.
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20. Private schools of special education.
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23. Recycling centers.
24. Storage yards.
25. Truck rental establishments.
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28. Vehicle transportation service establishments.
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JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday he has asked his attorney general to advise him on whether implementing and enforcing the federal health care overhaul would put Parnell in violation of his oath of office.
A federal judge in Florida this week struck down the law as unconstitutional in a case joined by 26 states, including Alaska. A major point of contention is a provision requiring citizens to buy health insurance.
Parnell told reporters that he took an oath to support and defend the constitutions of the United States and Alaska. While the Republican governor concedes the issue is expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, he said he has a duty to uphold the law and wants Attorney General John J. Burns to advise on what that duty is after the Florida ruling.
"I'm caught between a federal government that says, 'You must pursue this, you must pursue this,' and I have the duty to uphold the rule of law," he said.
Parnell gave no timetable for receiving Burns' opinion.
Two federal judges have upheld the law, and another ruled the insurance mandate unconstitutional but did not strike down the rest of it. Parnell said the bottom line is: "The state is a party to an action where that law was declared unconstitutional. That's the difference right now."
Before the judge's ruling, Parnell said he didn't "out of hand" reject all provisions of the law. He said he had pledged to review each aspect and deadline individually.
But he said he did not pursue "anything" related to the individual insurance mandate, which he said would have undermined the state's position in the lawsuit and his belief that the provision is unconstitutional.
"And now, of course, the judge has said that that individual mandate is so closely tied with almost every provision," he said. "So, again, I'm asking, I need some clarification on what the effect of the lower court's ruling is."
The mandate would take effect in 2014.
State Sen. Hollis French, an outspoken supporter of the health care law, said Parnell is "overreacting to a ruling of just one of 600 federal judges."
French, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor last year, said provisions such as allowing for children to remain on their parents' policies until they're 26 years of age, or not letting insurance companies drop people because they get sick, are threatened if the law is disrupted.
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Entering Tuesday's game against the Phillies, Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond was hitless in his last seven at bats. He grounded into a double play in the first inning Tuesday off Cole Hamels and decided he needed a change. He didn't pick a different bat or pair of batting gloves. It was his chin hair's fault. Some time between the top of the first and top of the third inning (presumably during the top of the second), Desmond went back into the Nationals' clubhouse and pulled out a razor. Thus far, he it hasn't worked. Desmond flew out and grounded out in his next two at bats. As the great Michael Scott once said, "I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious." I would say Desmond is kind of stitious. via @recordsANDradio [via @acomak]
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