So, you've ended up with a home full of houseplants, but how do you display them to make the most of their best features? I talk to North London-based interior designer and houseplant enthusiast Emilie Fournet about statement plants, why the fiddle leaf fig is the plant of the moment, how to match pots with plants, and when it's absolutely OK to use fake plants (yes really!).


At My Tidy Lawn, we take great pride in producing healthy lawns that our customers can be proud of.
Spring fertiliser applied to encourage strong growth of the plant after winter. Weed control carried out to aid grass growth by reducing competition.
Summer scorch-free fertiliser applied to keep growth strong and help reduce the effects of dry conditions. Weed control carried out to aid grass growth by reducing competition.
Late summer fertiliser applied to enable the grass to take ful advantage of late summer rain and help it recover from the summer. Difficult to control weeds are targeted with specialised weedkillers.
Winter fertiliser applied to help strengthen the grass plant for the winter months, aiming for less growth but with a healthy stucture. Moss control is targeted at this time when the moss is most susceptible.


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Picturesque and Sublime
Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance
Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Sophie Lynford, Jennifer Raab, and Nicholas Robbins
120 color illus.
PB-with Flaps
Published in association with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable raised landscape painting to new heights and their work reached global audiences through the circulation of engravings. Thomas Cole, born in England, emigrated to the United States in 1818, and first absorbed the picturesque and sublime through print media. Cole transformed British and continental European traditions to create a distinctive American form of landscape painting. The authors here explore the role of prints as agents of artistic transmission and look closely at how Cole's own creative process was driven by works on paper such as drawings, notebooks, letters, and manuscripts. Also considered is the importance of the parallel works of William Guy Wall, best known for his pioneering Hudson River Portfolio. Beautifully illustrated with works on paper ranging from watercolors to etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, engravings, and lithographs, as well as notable paintings, this book offers important insights into Cole's formulation of a profound new category in art—the American sublime.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art at Yale University. Gillian Forrester is senior curator of historic fine art at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Jennifer Raab is assistant professor in the history of art at Yale University. Sophie Lynford and Nicholas Robbins are doctoral candidates in the history of art at Yale University.
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
(05/01/18–11/04/18)
"This fine publication, produced to the high standards of reproduction and design for which Yale University Press art books have long being known mark a significant development in Cole scholarship and will surely help to establish him internationally as a major artistic figure with a message still relevant for today." —William Vaughan, The Art Newspaper
Eccentric Objects
Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
Jo Applin
Figures and Landscapes 1908–1913: The Complete Paintings, Volume VIII
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray
Marsden Hartley and the West
The Search for an American Modernism
Heather Hole; With a preface by Barbara Buhler Lynes
Art for Every Home
Associated American Artists, 1934–2000
Edited by Elizabeth G.
Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899: The Complete Paintings, Volume V
Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe
Works 1970–2011
Klaus Ottmann, Terrie Sultan, and Jennifer Bartlett
Art and Labour in Victorian Britain
Tim Barringer
Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity
Edited by Tim Barringer and Elizabeth Prettejohn
Rebecca Salter
Into the Light of Things
Edited by Gillian Forrester; With essays by Achim Borchardt
Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia
The Manton Collection of British Art
Edited by Jay A.
Frederic Church
The Art and Science of Detail
Jennifer Raab
Art and Architecture > British
History > New York

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Ford has been a cornerstone for automotives in not only the entire world, but in Canada as well. Ford is the longest-established automaker in Canada and only intends to push things further, as we maintain a top position as an innovative vehicle manufacturer. Ford Canada has a storied history which created a unique company heritage fostering the core ideals we retain today. At Zender Ford, we're proud to represent the Ford legacy and supply our customers with the very best.
Ford's have been proudly built in Canada for over 100 years now. The first car built by Ford Canada was the Model C in 1904. Following that landmark event in Canada's automotive history, 117 total cars were made that year. This vehicle, and other similar models, would eventually fall away in 1908 when the Model T debuted. Starting this year, Ford Canada started producing trucks which would lead into the creation of military vehicles, followed by the creation of the classic Mercury trucks after World War II. The decades that fell in line behind the war years saw postwar looks embodied by the Meteor, Monarch and Edsel vehicles among a plethora of other unique options. For the most part Canadian-produced Fords were the same as American-produced versions, besides some cases where specific engine parts couldn't be attained in Canada or when local Canadian parts were used over the American variants. Even still, Ford Canada forged its own unique history, building awe-inspiring vehicles for over a century.
Ford is all about working together to create a better world with all of the high quality vehicles we produce. We focus on our top tier vehicles first, which we strive to make better each year to fully satisfy our customer's needs. This includes engineering new safety technologies, environmentally-friendly options, and connectivity features to match the demands of the changing world. As a forward-leading business, Ford is constantly expanding and growing without sacrificing anything for our customers. Employee benefits are always front of mind in our growth, making sure the people who work for us are treated properly and enjoy contributing to Ford on both a local and global level.
Ford isn't just content with the world we currently live, we're always looking to craft an even better future for both our customers and vehicles. Innovation is a core tenant of our Ford beliefs because we believe in always learning new ways of doing and developing smarter technologies to improve our way of life. Ford is always advancing new ideas to push the limits on what is currently accepted. Electric vehicles are a prime focus for Ford going forward as we head towards 2020. Features like Blind Spot Information and Pedestrian Detection were innovative safety introductions that have helped our drivers feel more secure than ever before. Projects such as the Chariot shuttle service and urban mobility research for bicycle transport are just some of the examples of forward-thinking projects Ford has been involved in. Ford won't spare any corner when looking for new innovative techniques for our vehicles and how they impact the surrounding world.
From the past, present and future, Ford Canada has remained a thoughtful innovator when building vehicles and attending to the needs of our customers. At Zender Ford we believe in the Ford history and current vision to serve us well in growing towards the future, and remaining one of the top choices for Canadians to go for their vehicles.


After the buzz that it has created overseas and after much speculation, Yamaha Philippines has finally brought here the Yamaha TFX-150 – a sporty naked-styled street sports bike that is sure to give bikes in its range a fierce competition.
We tested the bike a couple of weeks ago in an almost empty Batangas Racing Circuit and we enjoyed every twist of the throttle while riding the then confidential Yamaha TFX-150. This article is an initial first ride description and we would want to test this street bike in a more comprehensive manner, hopefully very soon in the environment where it truly belongs – the streets. The bike is equally powered by the same engine as the beautiful YZF-R15. The 149.8cc liquid-cooled, 4-stroke, 4-valve, single cylinder engine is mated with a smooth 6-speed constant mesh transmission and a fuel-injected system. As a street bike, the TFX-150 yields 14.3 Nm of Torque @ 7,500 rpm and a maximum horsepower of 12.0 Kw @ 8,500 rpm. This bike is performance-oriented but at the same time will yield an approximate 45 kilometers per liter.
Provides a bright view up front and maximum visibility from behind.
The bike rides very stable on twists, turns and straights thanks to the 37mm inverted forks for its front suspension and the aluminum swing arm and monoshock for its rear. Like its brother, the YZF-R15, this bike is built on a delta box frame. The bike is equipped with 110/70-17 front and 130/70×17 rear IRC Exato tubeless tires on 10-spoke alloy wheels which guarantee you a combination of good mileage and adequate grip for your travels.
Equipped with a Linked Type Monocross Suspension and comfortable cushioning.
World-class frame type with rigidity and im[roves handling stability.
This is a good choice in equipping this bike with wider tires as compared to its other counterparts in the 150cc segments, as most of the bikes in that class still offer almost underbone-like narrow tires. Actually, upon checking the swing arm, the space allows for a slight increase in the tire width. The 10.2-liter fuel tank will give you a mileage range of close to 400 kilometers per full tank of gas so constant gas ups like in underbones and scooters will be a thing of the past in case you will be upgrading to this bike. The curvy fuel tank also adds to how the bike projects itself. Although the bike is sporty and aggressive, the handle- bar position is a bit upright. With other riders looking for more stability and safety in their rides, this bike will be one of the choices definitely. With its 135 kg curb weight, the added weight should not surprise those who have recently upgraded. The bike offers stability on straight roads and great handling on corners as well.
Clearly displays riding instruments with adjustable backlight settings.
Signature MT switch for easy starting.
Fierce indeed as the bike we tested suggested ferociousness in the street not only with its performance but also with the Matte Yellowish Gray color scheme. It's almost a guarantee for people to give you a second (or maybe even a third) look once you pass by them, so either you ride fast or slow on this bike it doesn't matter. The bike also features an all LED setup with its full LED headlight and LED taillight which both give out bright illumination. The fully inverted LCD is also a thing of beauty and only adds styling points to this bike as well. The instrument panel gives you everything you need for your ride – digital speedometer, bar graph type tachometer, a couple of trip meters, digital odometer, clock, fuel gauge, and a bunch load of warning lights on top. Even the electric starter is unique because instead of pressing a button like in other bikes, the TFX-150 electric starter needs to be pulled down to start the bike. The bike's overall look is aggressive. One look at the headlamp and you could see fierceness in it. The main headlight is positioned lower with a separate headlamp. Even the alloy wheels give the bike an edgier look. The shape of the fuel tank complements the bike's overall muscular look. The golden USD forks more than complement the bike's image.
Build to absorb shock better and instantly responds to all road conditions.
Some of those who would want to purchase this would be those who finally want to get out of the underbone and small scooter segment and are looking for a worthy upgrade. This bike has everything you need when looking for a modest upgrade as your next step in motorcycling. Yamaha put it best when it said that the TFX-150 was developed for the city with its versatile design allowing it to easily traverse through busy streets and the maze of traffic. The riding feeling is also taken into account with the active riding position that places the rider always engaged on the motorcycle. This look and feel, beams with attitude and precision that showcases the character of the motorcycle without sacrificing its function of being a highly reliable mode of transport.
Design for outstanding aerodynamics, and cooling effect and mud splatter protection.
Complete with world-class quality that is provided by Yamaha, this motorcycle will create an action-packed journey in the city. Because of its overall size, it is easy to ride in traffic and through the tight streets of the Philippines. If you would ride this around town, there is no doubt that you will get a lot of stares, and for all the right reasons, and will definitely elicit 2nd or even 3rd looks. To say that this will be a headturner would be an absolute understatement. It will be one of the premiere bikes of the last quarter of 2016 and will capitalize on that momentum to have a strong start in the next year.
It has the same modern aggressive street fighter looks and comfortable sit-up ergonomics giving it a youthful but serious character.


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Nonlinear Dynamics in Multimode Optical Fibers
Mohammad Amin Eftekhar, University of Central Florida
Multimode optical fibers have recently reemerged as a viable platform for addressing a number of long-standing issues associated with information bandwidth requirements and power-handling capabilities. The complex nature of heavily multimoded systems can be effectively exploited to observe altogether novel physical effects arising from spatiotemporal and intermodal linear and nonlinear processes. Here, we have studied nonlinear dynamics in multimode optical fibers (MMFs) in both the normal and anomalous dispersion regimes. In the anomalous dispersion regime, the nonlinearity leads to a formation of spatiotemporal 3-D solitons. Unlike in single-mode fibers, these solitons are not unique and their properties can be modified through the additional degrees of freedom offered by these multimoded settings. In addition, soliton related processes such as soliton fission and dispersive wave generation will be also drastically altered in such multimode systems. Our theoretical work unravels some of the complexities of the underlying dynamics and helps us better understand these effects. The nonlinear dynamics in such multimode systems can be accelerated through a judicious fiber design. A cancelation of Raman self-frequency shifts and Blue-shifting multimode solitons were observed in such settings as a result of an acceleration of intermodal oscillations. Spatiotemporal instabilities in parabolic-index multimode fibers will also be discussed. In the normal dispersion regime, this effect can be exploited to generate an ultrabroad and uniform supercontinuum that extends more than 2.5 octaves. To do so, the unstable spectral regions are pushed away from the pump, thus sweeping the entire spectrum. Multimode parabolic pulses were also predicted and observed in passive normally dispersive tapered MMFs. These setting can obviate the harsh bandwidth limitation present in single-mode system imposed by gain medium and be effectively used for realizing high power multimode fiber lasers. Finally, an instant and efficient second-harmonic generation was observed in the multimode optical fibers. Through a modification of initial conditions, the efficiency of this process could be enhanced to a record high of %6.5.
Christodoulides, Demetrios
College of Optics and Photonics
Optics and Photonics
Eftekhar, Mohammad Amin, "Nonlinear Dynamics in Multimode Optical Fibers" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019. 6215.
Electromagnetics and Photonics Commons, Optics Commons


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NPR's Saeed Ahmed Pushes Anti-Gun Agenda by Avoiding Context, Journalism
NPR lists out every so-called 'mass shooting' so far in 2021, giving zero context to the story, facts presented, or individual stories
Part of a partisan and ideological effort to undermine public support for gun rights
News without context is meant to play on emotions, to pump fear and anxiety to get a crass political agenda advanced
OUR RATING: Trash Journalism, aka the Daily Beast.
Indicted Outlet: Saeed Ahmed | National Public Radio | Link | Archive
NPR's Saeed Ahmed writes about 'mass shootings' by just giving the basic details about the bare statistics. It's not hard to discern what he's trying to do: push an anti-gun agenda by removing any context or clues as to the reasons for these shootings or their actual causes: he has removed context so that we only see the common denominator of the firearms involved.
This is manipulative and cheap, and while it may suit the ethics of National Public Radio, it should be condemned in journalism as effectively ideological advocacy at the expense of news, of conveying information in any reasoned, objective way, that provides balance and informs rather than indoctrinates.
By listing out all the gun violence this week, readers are effectively denied any reasonable details, and the victims discussed are treated very impersonally rather than given any respect.
Missing Context
Statistics Abuse
Guilty Grouping
Here's the headline Ahmed's article uses:
There Have Been, On Average, 10 Mass Shootings In The U.S. Each Week This Year
A "mass shooting" is defined as one where four or more people were shot, regardless of whether they died or not. This is not a standard definition, and you can note here that another left-wing outlet, Mother Jones, defined it as four or more deaths back in 2012. [1] It's hard to imagine what information is relevant or common to that group of victims regardless how you define it as four or more wounded or four or more dead. The United States has 332,000,000 people in it. [2] There are roughly 86,000 people each year who are shot in one form or another each year, excluding suicides. [3] By comparison, one non-profit claims there are 735,000 rapes or attempted rapes of some sort each year. [4] The FBI claims 1,200,000 violent crimes happened in America in 2019. [5]
Imagine a similar story using those crimes and victim profiles. A story that just says there are 23,076 violent assaults this week in America, and here are the locations and numbers of victims. You would naturally ask whether this was relevant, whether it was perhaps missing context, and whether it's journalistic value was near-zero.
It is a common left-wing narrative device to depersonalize crime, so that only inanimate objects and historical forces are crashing into one another. Instead of a criminal defendant killing a victim, it is another 'instance' of 'gun violence' where the gun chose a victim and 'gun rights' subsequently tragically happened.
This is a weird and insane way to look at crime and violence.
Ahmed even tells us where he's getting his perspective on the topic: from predictable left-wing organizations. He is pushing the press releases of ideological pressure groups:
The tally comes from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. The full list can be found here.
Ahmed even admits this story is barely newsworthy:
While a rise in gun sales and divergence of some public health funding could be linked to the spike in gun violence in recent months, experts say it can be a challenge to isolate any single cause.
If there are more than a 'single cause' then it deserves a longer article. If there are multiple causes, you would think Ahmed could at least offer two or three that might be most prominent. If gun violence has a cause, surely the experts could give us a few highlights as to why it happens.
But modern reporting is often less about informing than it is about preaching and politicking, and in the next sentence Ahmed admits his advocate role pushing for specific legislation. We call this legislative lobbying and it's really inappropriate for a journalist to be pushing a story solely toa advance a specific bill, since that means his role is almost indistinguishable from that of a paid lobbyist.
And advocates against gun violence lament the limited legislative response from Washington so far.While a rise in gun sales and divergence of some public health funding could be linked to the spike in gun violence in recent months, experts say it can be a challenge to isolate any single cause. And advocates against gun violence lament the limited legislative response from Washington so far.
All lobbying is usually about restricting someone's rights, and often simultaneously begging the government to give a special interest money they couldn't get legally. Here, Ahmed manages to do both in one paragraph, and still try to pretend to be objective.
Here's the basic story structure for trash journalism like this:
Badthing is happening
Evil conservatives think badthing is not so bad
Badthing makes urbanite sad
Badthing needs money to stop
Badthing needs law changes to neverhappen
Not enough being done to stop badthing
It's designed to give the reader anxiety and an urge to join the identified special interest and pressure group in their moral crusade to stop the identified policy position.
As you might have imagined, this isn't really 'journalism' because there aren't facts and information being conveyed, it's simply a manipulation of the emotive chemicals in one's brain that the writer desires to provoke in readers. There is no greater understanding of the issue. There are no new facts, perspectives, or challenging opinions.
It's the height of irony and arrogance merged that this outlet hosts a radio program called "All Things Considered" when their publication steadfastly refuses to consider any viewpoint to the right of Chairman Mao.
The rest of the article is every 'mass shooting' that happened the past week.
The writer, Ahmed, then goes city by city providing almost no context or narrative for the individual stories. There is no unifying narrative except that guns are bad and people are being hurt. This is of course meant to convey in the reader that the common denominator is guns, and 'something needs to be done' in order to stop this violence, as if gun control were prima facie the only way to stop violence.
Here's an example of the city-by-city rundown:
Four people were shot in an alley behind a building early Saturday morning. Their injuries were non-life threatening.
Ahmed provides a link to the situation he's describing. Here is the linked article. [6] As you can see, the details are non-existent and there isn't even a suspect involved. So again, what's the point of this collection of facts? What can a reader take away from such non-existent facts?
And there are facts that would compete with this basic narrative, specifically about the instances of defensive uses of a gun. None of those facts are included, none of that context provided.
An important and critical omission in this reporting is how many defensive uses of a gun were used in the same time period. Experts disagree on the number of defensive uses, but the range in those estimates is, at the low end, 60,000, [7] and some estimates say that number is up to 2.4 million per year. The CDC later validated the work of criminologist Gary Kleck by coming up with the same number range as he did for the number of 'Defensive Gun Uses' per year. Roughly 24% of defensive uses involved the discharge of a firearm.
Even NPR, when trying to debunk the idea of defensive uses of guns, admits by citing to the Washington Post, that the number is at least 100,000 defensive uses per year. [8]
The Post notes that "a more reasonable estimate" of self-defense gun uses equals about 100,000 annually, according to the NCVS data.
That means, of course, that a gun was defensively used 1923 times each week. That powerful statistic and counterpoint appears nowhere in the NPR story.
And there's also no accounting for whether there were cases in which a person with a gun, using it defensively, was able to stop a mass shooting by stopping it after three murders or less.
There's quite a bit wrong with this story and its underlying frame and agenda.
If you look through Ahmed's biography, he doesn't hide his left-wing racially-based advocacy and certainly embraces a wider reputation than just merely his bylines and articles. [9] Reporters like him aren't concerned with appearing neutral to all sides, but of showcasing their office virtue as more important than their alleged journalism.
This is what he says in his own self-written biography:
"But more than anything, I like to believe I'm a matchmaker of sorts for minority journalists. I have made it my mandate to identify, nurture and place BIPOC and LGBTQ writers and reporter in newsrooms across America."
It's good to be inclusive, but his specificity here seems as though he's posturing more than he's reporting. And when reporters are compelled to virtue signal like this in their own biographies, it should likely signal they're willing to signal through their reporting and by being similarly biased in their reporting.
If 'more than anything' he is promoting and placing people in newsrooms based on their sexuality and race, more than even his attachment to journalism or his readers, then this person shouldn't be treated as a serious journalist, ever.
1 ] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map/
2 ] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
3 ] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/23/facebook-posts/do-people-get-shot-every-year-facebook-post-says/
4 ] https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
5 ] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime
6 ] https://www.miheadlines.com/2021/05/08/gunman-injures-four-in-shooting-on-detroits-westside/
7 ] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.html
8 ] https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense
9 ] https://www.saeedahmed.com/
National Public RadioSaaed Ahmed
Newsweek's Meghan Roos Quotes Idiot Maxine Waters Uncritically, Misrepresents and Lies about January 6th Capitol Protest


Since I shy away from controversial topics, I've danced around the Israel issue for a long time. Well, that's about to end.
It seems that Neshama Carlebach has changed the lyrics to the Israeli national anthem, Hatikva, to broaden its meaning and include Israeli Arabs.
In the land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Part of what stymies American Jews in trying to figure out what in tarnation is going on in Israel is the core issue of separation of church and state. Now whether that precept is good for the Jews or bad for the Jews depends on a lot of factors, but bottom line, it's what us US Jews are used to.
Israel, though, was founded as joint church (pardon the expression) and state. The state IS the church, see? It was formed as a Jewish nation. Now we have a move to widen that definition – make it Israeli instead of Jewish.
Falafel? Nosy taxi drivers? Searing heat in the southern deserts? Drought? War? Teva pharmaceuticals? Naot sandals? Soldiers? What?
If Israel is not Jewish, what is it?
And if it is Jewish, must it be so politically?
For reasons I cannot fully explain, this change, following the whole controversy of Jerusalem not being listed as the capital of Israel on birth certificates, makes me so, so weary. Sad. Tired. Help me understand.
It was formed as a jewish state . . . and yet Jews cannot fully agree even on what 'Jewish' means with regard to INDIVIDUALS, much less whether "denominations" of Judaism are "truly Jewish", so of course it's going to be a problem to try and create a Jewish political entity. And the land actually already held people who weren't Jews, not a small issue.
A state's anthem should in my view try to be as inclusive as possible to the people who belong to that state. Meanwhile, non-Jewish Israelis are also part of the population, so why should the anthem exclude them?
So is Israel a Jewish State or not?
In the US, Christmas is a legal holiday. I am a Jew in this country, so I get that when everyone says "merry Christmas" I am not included. That's cool with me. I don't live in a Jewish country. This, despite separation of church and state here.
Similarly, shouldn't Arabs who live in Israel get that they are a minority in a Jewish state? Especially a state where there is no separation of church and state?
The term 'nation' is really a problem, because sometimes it means "state" and sometimes it means "ethnicity" or something like that (as you show that Wikipedia shows) but perhaps with less 'biological' connotations (cf. our discussion of 'race' on the other thread).
The way that "national anthems" work (and aren't they a modern phenomenon? the way that the modern state is a modern phenomenon?) is that they are connected to a political state. Belgium has a "national anthem" but its population is Flemish and Walloon.
The idea that political entities should correspond to "nationalities" or "races" or "ethnicities" has been problematic all over the place: Serbia, Pakistan, Rwanda. I feel like Jews should not ignore the consequences of trying to impose "ethnic statehood" in those other situations when considering what it means to call Israel a Jewish state.
Hmm okay I don't know what I think about this… but if I was say, I don't know… Russian and NOT of Jewish descent but for some reason or another my family settled in Israel for business or the like, and many generations we lived there and took on citizenship, we'd be Israeli not Jewish, right? should they not be proud of where they live despite not being jewish? B/c it is my understanding that Israel is available to all people who want to abide by Israeli/Jewish law.
You said that a nation comes from a nationality. But wouldn't it be the opposite? That a nation comes from a group of people who adhere to the same rules and under the same law and then with time together become a nationality?
I'd love to hear more thoughts… I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing.
Shver Zu Zein Ein Yid It's hard to be a Jew.
I applaud Neshama, though, for bringing this issue forward because it definitely raises the problem of national inclusivity with a national anthem that is particularistic.
Wow, I am surprised you are raising the "Israel question" after all the intensity of the Jewish/Jew-ish post, which still hasn't died down.
Just goes to show you can't please everyone!
Hence my tongue-in-cheek opening… 🙂 Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.
I cannot envision Israel as anything but a Jewish state. I understand the concern for tolerance but the history of Israel is tied inextricably to the religion. I am also concerned that if you separate "church" and state that Israel's enemies may argue that the reason for Israel is diminished.
Ruchi explained in an earlier thread how there are different O opinions on Israel, which I found helpful.
For those O Jews on the blog who think a Jewish state should exist in the political sense, and exist now and not in some God-determined future, what are the views about how to handle Israel's non-Jewish population?
The injunctions about non-Jews in the Torah are fairly simple and only mildly controversial (from today's "enlightened" perspective).
As long as they are not practicing idolatry we must be nice to them and take care of them. If they are poor – they should be allowed to benefit from welfare and (probably) healthcare.
That said, IMHO, non-Jews are a bigger problem to the secular Israelis. The rest are Messianic (National Religious believe they are already living the Redemption and Haredim are waiting for the Messiah to show up any day now and fix things). The secular Jews who wanted to build a typical country modeled on European nation-states and now would like to evolve it into a liberal democracy have a serious problem. The country cannot be both Jewish and Democratic with a large (close to 25% as of last counting) number of non-Jews.
Israel is an unusual country; it is considered to be a religious by most major religions. So, I don't think there can ever be a complete separation of "church" and state. That being said I believe that "when in Rome do as the Romans". Visitors to Vatican City follow certain rules, and it would be nice to see the same in Israel (lhavdil) at least in regards to moral issues.
Who would be the Romans in this analogy?
That would be a whole 'nother issue. With Judaism being a religion that is has so many types, finding one standard for the whole country, can be a challenge.
Am I being to hardline about this, a part of me feels that we are in exile now and having a non religious country is just the way it is. on the other hand it is a land with such inherent holiness and deserves to be lived in, in a holy manner.
Anonymous (#1): Bingo. You've just articulated why Israel is so torn. If it is a "Jewish" country, then you've got a million opinions about what kind of Jewish. Haredi? National-religious? Secular? Sephardi/traditional? Reform? Eeps.
But if it's not definitively Jewish (per Neshama Carlebach), what's special about it, for us?
Some of this is linguistic ambiguity and some is 'real world' ambiguity, I think. A country can't "be Jewish" the same way a person is Jewish. It can "be Jewish", for instance, if a lot of Jewish people live there–like a "Jewish store" can be where a lot of Jewish people shop, and a "Jewish food" is a food that Jewish people (usually some subset, e.g. Ashkenazi) eat (but of course anyone could and even does eat it too). A person can "be Jewish" in a more defined, contained way–Sephardi, secular, etc. But a country with lots of people who are Jewish in different ways in my view should not cherrypick which ways are "more Jewish" among different groups of people who consider their own ways "Jewish".
In my view part of the difficulty with O-C-R politics in Israel is that there is a desire to make the country Jewish like some people are Jewish, i.e. make the country follow laws (Torah) that are meant for people. Religious laws that people follow should in my view not be strictly transposed into a political-legal context for a country.
Israel is special to me for many reasons, one of which is historical. This is where a lot of those Torah events happened. The land is not, in my view, Jewish, because land cannot BE Jewish in the way people are Jewish. So if we call it a "Jewish land" we're already working with metonymy (figure of speech by association). Which is fine, we use a lot of figures of speech all the time, but then we should not at the same time take the figural expression "Jewish land" too literally and really think that LAND is Jewish.
Gosh, I have so many ideas to try out about this.
WELL. I guess it depends on if you consider Israel to be "Jewish" or "Jew-ish." Heh.
Me, I consider it "Jewish." Like a Jew is Jewish. In the same starkly technical terms. Anyone can live there or may wield political power, but I believe that the land itself holds spiritual, Jewish, quality.
There are technical, halachic differences between being in the Land and outside of it. Not based on its current political borders, but based on its Biblical borders.
Say more sometime about the land itself being Jewish.
Thanks for the link. Lots of information and interesting material here. The parts about the organs and the 'exile from the homeland' just don't speak to me much. There's a romanticism there that I can't embrace. I guess I really am the 'post-modern' Jew because for me the diasporic story is more compelling than the 'homeland' story. We would have a lot to talk about here. I wonder if there is an O position that is more diaspora-positive.
Can you explain what you mean about the "diasporic story"? And I don't know that there is an "O-positive" (my blood type btw) position on the diaspora per se. I mean, we're here, let's make the best of it, but that's it.
So I guess to me Jewish history and identity even are stories, beautiful ones, but not with the metaphysical bedrock truth you believe in. The idea of the race and homeland are to me stories, and honestly I sometimes find those kinds of stories dangerous (Nazism) and romanticized. the more dispersed, chaotic, multifarious diaspora feels less romantic and more 'true' in its lack of unity. I believe in historical contingency, happenstance, and that 'big narratives' are interesting but not compelling. so the diasporic 'story' is shorthand for all that multiplicity and happenstance in Jewish lives . Too bad I am trying to say this all with my phone, not as easy as computer.
Actually, I believe your thoughts mirror those of the original Reformers. I think that's why Reform temples are called "temples" (and Conservative and Orthodox ones never are) – to indicate that we don't need to hope and dream for a return to Jerusalem with a rebuilt Holy Temple. We can create our own temples in the Diaspora which replace that Temple. Hence, the "diasporic story" being more compelling.
But even that movement has turned around to embrace Zionism. Without tho Torah stories, etc etc, why embrace Israel at all?
I'm still here, liking this thread.
Interesting that 'my own' ideas on diaspora vs. romanticized Jewish 'nationalism' mirror Reform thought. Also I didn't know that is the reason that we called it 'temple' growing up. That's a pretty good reason in my view, although I can see why it might offend O sensibilities regarding the unique status of the Temple in Jerusalem.
1. Response to the Holocaust, i.e. Jews need a safe haven, whether in Uganda or wherever.
2. An overlap of European socialist-utopian vision–which I'm guessing stems from the same German Enlightenment elements as Reform Judaism–with the socialist-utopian aspects of early- and mid-century Israel.
Your great insight about how Reform takes the "Israel" in the motto "God, Torah, Israel" to mean the modern Israeli state instead of the Jewish people also fits in here.
In my world the Reform embrace of Zionism is a source of some big conflict. Some Reform-ish types don't want to attend a synagogue that includes a viewpoint of unconditional support for Israel. There are for this reason some oddball 'denominations/affiliations' that have developed that include stronger-than-Reform spirituality and observance with political positions critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians. And some of the Reform congregations have carefully worked over their readings and so forth to avoid appearing Zionist. Which in turn offends some of the Zionist members of the congregations. It's maybe the biggest issue I know of in my small sphere of Reform-ish types.
In a 2007 study by sociologists Stephen Cohen and Ari Kelman, over half of non-Orthodox American Jews under 35 responded that they would not view the destruction of the state of Israel as a "personal tragedy." Almost 60% of American Jews have never visited Israel, according to a recent American Jewish Committee study. Well under 10% of American Jews say that policy towards Israel or the Iranian nuclear program will be the most important issue in determining whom to vote for in November.
By contrast, 80% of Orthodox Jews have visited Israel, and more than half of those have done so three or more times.
Interesting essay, problematic for me on many levels.
He also writes, "Yet without a belief in Sinai, it is hard to fashion a coherent account of the Jewish historical mission or even to articulate why the continued existence of the Jewish people, and by extension the State of Israel, matters." I totally agree with the idea that without a LITERAL belief in Sinai these are difficult tasks. But then the point would seem for Rosenblum to be "so everyone has to believe literal O interpretation here for all of Judaism and Israel to hang together". Which is NOT Jewish unity in my view, because Jews believe lots of different things and have different views about what hangs together.
Re: Jewish unity – did he say that, or are you assuming that? Because as far as I have learned, Jewish unity is not contingent on us agreeing. In fact, the greatest achievement of unity is precisely when we do not agree, but resolve to play nice anyway.
I think there are at least 2 different definitions of Zionism. One is that the Jewish people is entitled to a homeland of their own, in their historic boundaries (i.e., not Uganda). The other is that all Jews should live in the land of Israel. I think you can support position 1 without a belief in Torah MiSinai, especially now that there is such a state in existence.
Do you mean "historic boundaries" or "Biblical boundaries"?
I don't believe we have a right to a country stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. It is ironic that we seem to be occupying Philistia while the contemporary Palestinians hold Judea and Shomron. But personally I'd say close enough.
Ruchi: I understood the goal of the article to be to show that Orthodox Jews are very much about helping other Jews and the unity of the Jewish people. That logic made total sense. I also found the descriptions of Orthodox chesed illuminating and I could see what perspective he was arguing against with his examples of Orthodox Jewish charity and so forth.
I learned a lot, but found myself put off by what I learned, when I read things like, "Chareidim inhabit a Judeocentric universe, in what Jews do and what happens to them is the prime moving force of human history. Every chareidi child learns from an early age that the fate of the entire universe hinged on whether the Jews would accept the Torah on the sixth day of Sivan (Rashi to Genesis 1:31). Had they refused, the world would have returned to its original tohu ve'vohu." Rosenblum does not himself explicitly embrace this belief, and I don't know his other work so I don't know, but he does seem to approve of how this belief solidifies Jewish identity ["Such ideas are foreign, even anathema to most Jews today . . . . But they do lead to a greater identification with one's fellow Jews and greater concern over what happens to them."]–which to me is a matter of cart-before-the-horse logic.
When Rosenblum writes about how Oren laments the huge divide between Orthodox Jews and non-Orthodox Jews, he concludes that "Until the importance of Sinai is appreciated, Ambassador Oren is merely identifying symptoms, not addressing their causes or providing cures," which to me seems to mean that all Jews have to accept the literal truth of the giving of Torah at Sinai. That last item would be for me a big obstacle to Jewish unity.
Even more, though, I was wondering about the 'playing nice' question and Jewish unity. I think that "agreeing to play nice" would also require acknowledging other 'branches' or whatever we want to call them as Jewish, which the Reform/Orthodox thread dealt with extensively, and now I understand the problems there much better–but I still don't think it is ok for O Jews to not acknowledge other branches. You must have read the news story about the Israeli gov't now paying some salary to non-Orthodox rabbis. That to me is a move toward Jewish unity, but I gather that to a lot of Orthodox Jews it is a bad idea.
"Agreeing to disagree" is for me, like you, one way to have unity, but when one Jewish 'branch' has the political power to freeze out another 'branch' (and I recognize that Orthodox Judaism can't see C or R Judaism as a true branch of Judaism) then that is not very unifying.
Here is another point about Israel that just occurred to me, but I bet it's not new to you: the fact of the state of Israel actually works *against* Jewish unity insofar as it provides those 'branch' conflicts a concrete, financial, political arena where 'agreeing to disagree' is not really a possibility because there is a concrete 'bottom line' of real power, money and decision-making at stake.
Larry: So does that entitlement of the Jews to a homeland in/around the biblical-area boundaries come from God, or from the political reality of Israel's existence, or from the debt the world owes to the Jews because of the Holocaust?
At a minimum, that entitlement comes from the same place as the entitlement of Americans to occupy America, and more likely from the place that allows Englishmen to occupy England(*). During the 1991 Gulf War a friend of mine used to post on Usenet with the byline ", American Occupied New York". I'm happy to use the sologan "Israel is real" and move forward from there.
(*) These issues never get settled for all time – England out of Cornwall!.
Larry, so that entitlement is based on 'facts on the ground', you are not tying it to God or Torah per se, but rather the contingencies of history?
SBW: all your observations about Rosenblums' piece, especially your final one, point to the same thing: that the political establishment of the state of Israel is pretty much the main arena of all these conflicts. No one is legislating Judaism in Cleveland, or LA, right?
The way I look at this, which might both comfort you and freak you out, is that when the Messiah comes, all Jews will view Judaism and God with clarity, and be ready for and understand the rules by which the world will run. More, they will crave those guidelines.
Yet another unintended consequence of the political establishment of the State of Israel: a political entity legislating a Judaism that much of the nation is not on board with; thus, a never-ending battle-grounds of Jew vs. Jew.
Larry, I'm not sure what you mean by your final statement, but say more about the Jews' claim to Israel being similar to the American claim on America.
Ie, if Mexico would invade and win Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, would that be the same as Jordan swallowing up Jerusalem in war?
Yes, your formulation about the unintended consequence of the establishment of the State of Israel is precisely what I meant in that last point.
The other two points are not as much about Israel as about Orthodoxy. The 'Judeocentrism' Rosenblum describes as being a useful ingredient for Jewish unity and a central part of Haredi life de facto excludes, or produces self-exclusion [i.e. disidentification with Orthodoxy], of Jews who reject that Judeocentrism. That's an irony in its own right–Judeocentrism that alienates a big proportion of Jews.
Also Rosenblum suggests that the cure to the divide between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews is the acceptance of (the Orthodox belief about) Sinai. So again the "solution" by definition excludes the Jews who don't accept that Orthodox belief.
And I notice that some of the posters here have in other threads talked about when the Messiah comes. As if it might be any day now. I look forward to a post about that Messianism (although yes, it is far out for me).
Larry: So would you give the Jews any God-given or Torah-given entitlement to that land? Or is it just based on historical contingency (which I think is Ruchi's question).
So would you give the Jews any God-given or Torah-given entitlement to that land?
I don't think I get to do that. Either we have it or we don't but it isn't up to me. Seriously this is the sort of question I prefer not to answer, or even bother to think about much. If it is true. I don't see a way to prove it to a skeptic, and if it isn't true then our right to Israel is the same as any other nation's right to their land, and I don't see why we should be held to a higher standard in this case.
I get what you are saying. But in other places you seem fine with trying to 'prove to skeptics' other things. That is why I enjoy your posts, I learn a lot from those 'proofs'. But I guess that might be more a theological passion of yours than the Israel/political/concrete issue.
Larry, I, too am intrigued by your approach on this issue. "Why is this issue different than all the other issues?" Or isn't it?
Ruchi. There's an old joke about a man talking about how his marriage works. He says "I take care of all the important things – war and peace, the nature of God, what the Federal reserve should be doing, and my wife takes care of the small stuff – where we live, who we are friends with, the children's education, and so forth."
This issue isn't that different. A coworker asked me yesterday whether I believed in an afterlife and I said I was willing to wait a long time to find out. I divide things into the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. I don't spend a lot of time on the third category. Maybe I'm deluding myself – let me know if you get a different impression of me.
Hehehe, that's a great answer to the afterlife question.
So I get the impression that science/empiricism belong in your scheme to the category of "known". What I don't get is where Judaism for you fits in that tripartite scheme–the known or the unknown? Is it too invasive or personal to ask that? You don't seem to be someone who gets easily offended, but please ignore the question if you prefer.
I am fascinated by the silence on this post. Are people more worried about getting into conflicts over this than they were about Orthodox/Reform? I can say that I have been more worried about talking about Israel than about belief. It just seems much hotter all around. With Reform/O/belief issues, there is a sort of conflict-avoidant way out of the difficulties, because everyone can retreat to their 'corners' and just let the fact of the 'denominations' continue to speak for itself. And it seemed everyone who posted had a fairly secure identity within their own sphere of Judaism.
When it comes to talking about Israel, perhaps it is harder because some of us on the blog don't live there, so it's not like speaking for "our own" the same way R-/C-/O- discussions might feel like we speak for our own lives and circles. Also the different beliefs regarding how to deal with Palestinians is less easily DIRECTLy referrable to doctrine–or maybe I'm wrong about that. Ben-Y above would seem to have an easier answer.
And maybe O-Jews have gotten more reticent to discuss these things because of public opinion around the Palestinians?
I'm disappointed that the thread is rather quiet, because I really did want to learn about how others view this. I have my own opinions, some expressed in my previous posts on this thread, but gently butting heads with different opinions is always a fruitful learning experience.
SBW, I too am stymied. It's so hard to predict what will spark a discussion and what won't. I do think your hypothesis is correct. It's not real life for most of my readers. I do know I was scared to post anything about Israel because of Palestinian wrath (as though they are reading my blog??). And I share your disappointment for the same reason. You and I should do coffee and discuss! I wish!
I almost never find Israel a productive discussion topic. In the early 90s I used to express my opinions and was told they were worthless because I didn't live in Israel. Then I lived in Israel and was told my opinions were worthless because I lived inside the Green Line.
In the O/C/R discussions I feel I can make a difference – I can inform people who honestly don't know about the movements. In Israel discussions pretty much everyone has made up their minds. I just don't see the point – it is all pain and no gain.
Exactly, Larry. I always enjoy discussing religion and beliefs with people. I avoid discussing politics, particularly Israeli politics, partially because my opinions are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. As much as I love Israel,I am not a citizen, I am not voting in their elections, and I have no grand solution to offer.
Plus, it isn't a topic that can be addressed "al regel achat" – standing on one leg.
SBW I can assure you there is no reticence in my O community about discussing Israel. The range of discourse is narrow, but the volume is high. (And yes, I do see a relationship between the two features).
Larry, LOL! What do you mean "these two features"? Which two?
SBW, do you find in more liberal communities there'd be a more brisk debate?
I see a casual relationship between the high volume and the narrow range of opinions.
"Narcissism of small differences" applies again, right? 🙂 I love that.
Ruchi: I don't know about R- and C- in general. I think it might be more a matter of subculture and 'local' views than 'overall' liberal views.
My own problem among some of my Jewish peers and co-workers is that there is an assumption that everyone has the same view. And Jews who fall outside that stance enjoy very low regard. And I am conflicted and ambivalent, so I don't have the solid stance of some of those peers, and I pretty much have to keep to myself. So it's hard to consider that 'liberal'. This has been one of the bigger conflicts in my psyche in the last few years, believe it or not.
OMG, you took the comment right out of my mouth!! I can't tell you how much I've been thinking about that.
I had to read the rest of your comment three times before I got what you are talking about. I actually have been surprised at how many "liberal" Jews are so "conservative" or "right" or whatever you want to call it, on the Israel issue. (Can I say pleasantly surprised…?) And I actually understand your position better, in your context – it's consistent within its own system.
When you say "conflicts in your psyche" do you mean figuring out where you stand on Israel, or figuring out where you stand among your liberal Jewish peers on the issue?
Now I'm not sure what YOU mean in your second paragraph! 🙂 I guess I meant that there is some "orthodoxy" (small o) in one faction of my small peer-world about where 'we' are presumed to stand on Israel. But in fact I feel conflicted, I'm sympathetic to that stance but also not sure and have moments of different feelings. But I don't mention my ambivalence with these peers, some of whom are friends and professional mentors. I know that if I did, their overall opinion of me might suffer.
My psychic conflict over this is about where I stand on Israel. In fact among my Jewish peers–all of whom would probably seem liberal to you, but a few of them even count themselves as Orthodox or Mod Orthodox–there ARE a range of opinions, some more Zionist, some very critical of Israel, some beyond that, and the views criss-cross in ways I find surprising sometimes. Friendships sometimes line up along these opinion-lines as well. So my ambivalence and conflictedness means that with most of these factions I'm reserved when it comes to discussing Israel.
You might find it funny that at one point I said to my husband that the two biggest questions of my life were whether to have another child and what I should think about Israel.
1. To baldly and not very politically-correctly rephrase my second paragraph: I've been pleasantly surprised at how many liberal Jews are stauchly pro-Israel. It's almost the only issue we agree on sometimes!
2. I actually understand exactly what you mean, because it's what makes sense to me, that a "Reform" or "liberal" Jew WOULD see the Israel issue both ways. I mean, on the one hand, the Reform movement is Zionistic (more on this soon) but on the other hand, tikkun olam etc. demands looking out the for the underdog, which the Palestinians are perceived as being here.
3. I not only find your final paragraph funny, but mysteriously touching. You care, that much, about Israel. See? We have more in common than some might have thought.
1. Ok, I'll 'go bald' here as well. I'm talking way further 'left' than your average 'liberal' Zionist-ish Reform types (which is how I grew up). That is, many of my Jewish peers in my current world are strongly anti-Israel and assume that 'we all' share these views. I do share some of those views, and have learned a lot from these peers, but I am not fully in agreement either, or don't really know where I stand. So I'm saying that while on this blog I come across as far-out Israel-critical, in my local peer group I'm under wraps as what they would see as startlingly sympathetic to Israel.
3. I love your response in #3. I wish it were as unselfish as you paint it. Really I feel conflicted about Israel because I am conflicted about what position I should take, what position is most ethical, and how I can decide that. Well, then maybe it's not so selfish, because I want Israel to do what is right so that I can feel proud and comfortable identifying with it. As it is now, I can't.
The question of another baby is more easily settled. We got a puppy. I still waver sometimes.
I missed this until now. HA on the 'young and dumb'. You look very young, and write very smart.
🙂 I'm 37. And thank you. I shall return the compliment to you.
In the words of Dr. Luchins – "there are those (Jews from Diaspora) who are willing to fight to the last Israeli and those who are willing to negotiate to the last Israeli." IMHO, both positions are problematic.
That said, after witnessing the failure of Oslo and the dissolution of the 2-state dream, I am more into the Jabotinsky position – which was basically a liberal democracy, a Jewish majority, full rights for minorities, separation of religion from state (that should include socialism as well).
However, since we don't have Jewish majority at this time, I believe status-quo (with the Arabs) should be maintained and Jewish immigration encouraged. Specifically, by improving economic conditions and cutting down on bureaucracy, corruption and red-tape. That (in my view) includes increased settlement – to prevent any more territorial concessions. Today, ~10% of Israel's Jews are settlers – we need that number to double.
Speaking of Jabotinsky, some of his articles are near prophetic. I would recommend The Iron Wall. It nicely foreshadows many of the stumbling blocks the Zionists placed in front of themselves, including the pointlessness of the peace process.
Interesting, Larry and Miriam. BY, sounds like America, except Jewish majority instead of Christian majority. It's amazing to me that a country full of Jews is so successful at survivial, tech, medical development, and export, but can't figure out how to make it work internally.
Internally they work incredibly well if you consider who they are.
The reality is that Israeli society is a confederation of small groups, each numbering 10 to 150 thousand people. The fault-lines cut across ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic, political, economic, &c. definitions. Each group has its own interests.
On the positive side, internal assimilation and intermarriage is at least blurring the ethnic and cultural differences.
So why does it feel so different from the USA?
I always wonder if Israelis developed that "Sabra" personality from having to push and shove and hustle in a small land with many opponents.
Thought I had posted a comment here, maybe it got interrupted. I said that I thought it was actually a conscious program on the part of early Zionists to make a "new, strong" Jew, in light of the victimizations of the Holocaust. New, strong, tough will translate to pushy in social realms.
Why does it feel so different from the USA? REally good question. Part of this is a middle-East-ness, I think, where people are more ebullient in some ways and less afraid of expressing negativity. Part of it is density, the cities densely populated and dense cities make tough people. Although Tokyo is said to be so polite, so who knows. Where's the blog's urban studies person??
Well, not all of Israel is urban. That might explain Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. What about all the kibbutzim and moshavim?
Do O-Jews have objections to the (if I have the story right) development of the 'new Jew' and the Sabra personality, as you call it? Is this part of the conflict between the O-Jews who study and the Jews who go to military service?
The "ghetto-Jew" was an icon to be buried. However, there were some beautiful things about the ghetto-Jew that were buried too. Whether by design or by accident, I will not comment.
IMHO, these are far more dangerous waters than anything I've broached hence, as it basically splits Modern Orthodoxy and other-Orthodoxy straight down the middle. How much to leave behind and move on, and how much to retain the old traditional values? Trust me when I tell you that the debate has never abated – not in Israel and not at all.
And yes, in part, it affects the controversy on military service. My reticence (as you have probably perceived) is intentional. I try not to blog about things that are very divisive, that people get very emotional about, and that have very little chance of effecting a difference.
This is one of them. Homosexuality is another.
And I meant originally to comment on the Jerusalem/passport/birthplace issue that was otherwise without mention in the responses (which are dwindling down to the diehards!). That is rather different than the changing of the lyrics to the Israeli anthem by a pop singer. The passport issue seems to me to be a U.S. diplomatic issue, the changed lyrics in contrast seem an intra-Israeli pop star's attempt to make a political/social commentary on her own country.
About the passport: The U.S. does not want to foreclose, I am guessing, some solution whereby Jerusalem would not belong solely or completely to Israel. Or at least the U.S. gov't does not want to take a position on this that would then alienate other countries in the Middle East and commit the U.S. to further positions about Israel. Not clear of course whether this is out of principle or diplomatic maneuvering, but I'm certain it's the latter. (Wasn't there a 1940s solution proposed where Jerusalem would be internationally 'governed'? Not sure if this is related to that.) So in my view this passport matter is about the U.S.'s official stance toward Israel, which has not been dealt with in this thread. Any other diehards want to go there?


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"The progress of the last 50 years, particularly in Europe, has made it easy to buy into the idea that the forces of nationalism, xenophobia and prejudice are mere irrationalities, market distortions that will naturally fade away in the long arc of history.
This perceptive analysis teaches us that only allowing migrants to participate in political debates could stem the flow of fantasies and stereotypes which feed the populist fears – just as only women's participation in political debates stemmed the flow of sexist prejudice over time – and offer mainstream politicians the space and tools to create a pro-migration, pro-mobility and pro-diversity discourse which would sound convincing during electoral campaign.
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Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Joanne Yoo, Australian Catholic UniversityFollow
Don Carter, University of Technology SydneyFollow
Teacher Emotion and Learning as Praxis: Professional Development that Matters
10.14221/ajte.2017v42n3.3
This ethnographic study analyses the diverse emotions emerging within one teacher professional development workshop that engaged teachers as creative writers. Participating teachers revealed a vibrant range of positive and negative emotions as they worked within institutional discourses that conflicted with their intrinsic beliefs about effective teaching. They revealed their emotional investment in their roles and their desires for meaningful practice in spite of pressures to abide by managerial practices. Researchers documented high levels of vulnerability, engagement and hope as participants engaged in writing as 'praxis' to experience their beliefs about effective pedagogy firsthand. These findings suggest that since teaching and learning is inherently an emotional experience, professional development needs to acknowledge a teacher's complex emotional identity and to cultivate positive emotional growth. This study is relevant to teacher educators, preservice and practising teachers as it explores meaningful learning opportunities as a basis for effective teaching practice.
Yoo, J., & Carter, D. (2017). Teacher Emotion and Learning as Praxis: Professional Development that Matters. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 42(3).
http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2017v42n3.3
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Hi Kids ! Here are the correction sheets created by Jean Michel Leon foun Lin about the characters of the novel. Enjoy!
A man asks people in the streets of NY what songs they are listening to. They give their answers and then you can hear the songs they are talking about . Possible Xblogtation: May be funny to make pupils guess the music they are listening to thanks to their physical appearances.
Lottie Davies' photographs - TFC illustrations?


As work progressed -- and as our overgrown landscape was cleared -- we excavated an almost never-ending supply of boulders and rocks, many of which would have cost hundred of bucks a pop had we flexed our wallets in the local aggregate yard.
Colin and Justin's Landscaping: You gotta dig deep if you wanna find buried treasure. Yup, that's what we did whilst landscaping our lakeside property to prep' for our "lift," showcased in these virtual pages some two weeks past. As work progressed -- and as our overgrown landscape was cleared -- we excavated an almost never-ending supply of boulders and rocks, many of which would have cost hundred of bucks a pop had we flexed our wallets in the local aggregate yard.
The even better news about reusing our rocky bounty? No removal costs and instant "provenance": the landscape detailing, after all, actually "belongs" -- and indeed has always been -- on site. Albeit hidden from view by the passage of time, fallen trees and the associated organic debris that builds up over centuries.
During last season's Cabin Pressure we worked with Greg Brown Construction and they made a stellar job of re crafting the space that surrounds Grey Gardens. This year our brief was similar: our cottage landscape should 'whisper' rather than 'scream' as viewed from the road or indeed the lake. In the first instance, the team at GBC suggested we contact Arbor View, a certified firm of tree surgeons and arborists with whom they often work.
Arriving on site, the sympathetic team at Arbor View suggested it would be far 'seemlier' to gently limb the branches of some of the larger trees (they called this a 'vista prune') rather than over fell healthy tree stock. We were certainly on board for this process. And at the same time they'd clear the dense undergrowth and shrubbery that was effectively obscuring all sightlines to the twinkling waters of Drag Lake.
With a system of pulleys and ropes interwoven through the tree stock, the Arbor View boys sawed and clipped until sightlines were radically improved. We learned that this trimming and pruning process can actually be good for remaining tree stock which can better 'breath' as a consequence of freeing up soil and light space. Sure, we lost a few skinny trees in the process, but the arborists made what can best be described as a thoroughly sensitive job.
With the landscape pruned, the Browns set to work. Using an armory of landscaping machinery and large diggers they prepared the terrain and cleared a pathway between the cottage and our new dock. This done, a perimeter either side of this pathway was formed (using our boulder bounty) into which were bedded hemlock beams, chopped to size, to form chunky steps. Tune in to see all the action unravel during the groundbreaking episode!
The team also created a wonderful fire pit zone using a section of redundant concrete drain which we'd found, discarded, below water level near our shoreline. Bedded into the ground, and circled with a gravel border, it's the perfect place for a cluster of outdoor foldable chairs. Throughout Cabin Pressure we've remained keen to shop Canadian wherever possible and with West Guilford's Cottage Country Log Cabin just a short drive away we didn't need to search far for the eye-popping seats.
One hundred per cent weather proof, and produced by CRP Plastic Products, we toyed with various colour combos (they come in a multitude of jaunty tones) before settling on this snappy red hue, a warm allusion to the Canadian flag. There's something just so 'right' about red chairs at the cottage -- they seem perfectly at one with the landscape and they're a lovely nod to the country that's become our second home.
Higher up on our property we elected to indulge the project with an outdoor spa. In precisely the spot where it's now positioned once stood a dilapidated woodshed and we figured that, being that the nook remains shaded for most of the day, it made the ideal location.
Demarcated around its perimeter with beautiful grey pavers formed into a pathway using Best Way Stone product, the spa corner makes a real statement as viewed from any angle. We were delighted with these grey scale pavers, and indeed by the company's complimentary range of slabs installed at several other points around the cabin (and on the floor in our carport) all of which we'll showcase to you in subsequent weeks. The clean-cut "visual order" imbued by the outdoor garden tile is an attractive compliment to the organic nature of the rest of our landscape.
Next up, it was time to turn our attentions to 'bells and whistles' and, this in mind, we installed a dreamy bubbling dip pond by Canadian Hot Tubs. Powered and heated by electricity -- and featuring a range of bubbling speeds and jets -- it's a brilliant asset which can be left on all year round. Hey, even in the winter, with thick snow everywhere, it's perfectly serviceable and tempting.
We also added an outdoor shower (perfect for cleaning off after a dip in the lake) and a glorious barrel sauna by Canadian manufacturers Dundalk Leisure Craft To be honest the sauna is an addition with which everyone who visits has fallen in love. One of our friends, Katie, literally burst into tears when she saw it for the first time as it reminded her of the one built by her late father when she was a child growing up in Muskoka.
Several of our outdoors areas -- deck, dock, spa, roof, siding etc -- attended to, it's nearly time to go indoors for the next few weeks of our lakeside series. Next week, on Cabin Pressure, it's all out Colin versus Justin war! Propositioned by our director to work independently (nay, 'secretly') on two very different guest rooms, we came up with entirely distinct visions. One is the very measure of mid century modern, whilst the other is a rustic space with brick veneer walls, chunky rustic shelving, splashes of rusty orange and a low slung wooden bed. But which bedroom will YOU prefer? Option one? Or option two? Tune in to make your choice!
Colin and Justin's Cabin Pressure airs on Cottage Life each Sunday at 9 p.m. The network is now in FREE preview.


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November 22, 1997 broadcast with John Filipczak & The Classics, Alpenfest, and Skalmusic
Live from the Gibbon Ballroom in Gibbon, Minnesota, it's our Polka Show with Minnesota polka bands John Filipczak & the Classics, Alpenfest, and Skålmusic.
November 15, 1997 rebroadcast with the Hopeful Gospel Quartet, Butch Thompson, Laura Sewell, Roy Blount, Jr., and the Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series
Repeat of November 11, 1995, with the Hopeful Gospel Quartet, Butch Thompson & Laura Sewell, Roy Blount Jr., and the Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series telling the true story of Handel, who really wrote a THANKSGIVING ORATORIO, recently found in a chicken coop. Comic sketches about sibling rivalry, Dusty and Lefty contemplating marriage, and sound-effects man Tom Keith singing Scottish songs.
November 8, 1997 broadcast with Sharon Isbin, John Filipczak, and Steve Ross
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Sharon Isbin, John Filipczak, and Steve Ross.
November 1, 1997 broadcast with the Fairfield Four, Robin & Linda Williams, and Kate MacKenzie
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with The Fairfield Four, Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group and Kate MacKenzie.
October 25, 1997 broadcast with Muzsikas, Marta Sebestyen, and the Tannahill Weavers
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Muzsikás, Martá Sebestyén, and The Tannahill Weavers.
October 18, 1997 broadcast with the Del McCoury Band and Leo Kottke
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with The Del McCoury Band and Leo Kottke.
October 11, 1997 broadcast with Ole Edvard Antonsen, Rosaleen Linehan, Laura Sewell, and Butch Thompson
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Ole Edvard Antonsen, Rosaleen Linehan, Laura Sewell and Butch Thompson.
October 4, 1997 broadcast with Benny Andersen, Kate MacKenzie, and The Nashville Bluegrass Band
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Benny Andersen, Kate MacKenzie and The Nashville Bluegrass Band.
September 27, 1997 broadcast with Sue Scott, Jack Knife & The Sharps, Kate MacKenzie, and Butch Thompson
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Sue Scott, Jack Knife and the Sharps, Kate MacKenzie and Butch Thompson.
September 20, 1997 rebroadcast with Jack Knife & The Sharps, Louis Jenkins, Evan Marshall, Bill Hinkley, and Judy Larson
A repeat of PHC's November 4, 1995, broadcast, done at the Fitzgerald Theater with rockabilly band Jack Knife & The Sharps, prose poet Louis Jenkins, mandolin virtuoso Evan Marshall, and Bill Hinkley & Judy Larson. Plus a cameo by Irish flutist James Galway, who was in town from Belfast to perform with the Minnesota Orchestra.
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Woman given 10 years in prison in boyfriend's death
Aug 22, 2019 @ 8:32am
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A Sioux Falls woman accused of driving away after her boyfriend fell off the hood of her vehicle and later died has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Forty-four-year-old Jayme Knudson earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Erik Lunstra. The 46-year-old Lunstra died of his injuries on Sept. 10, 2018, two days after he fell from Knudson's vehicle.
Second Circuit Court Judge Susan Sabers told Knudson she would have given her additional time in prison if she were able. Ten years is the maximum for manslaughter.
Defense attorney Lyndee Kamrath asked for probation for Knudson, who she said had a clean record and good job history. Kamrath says Knudson recognizes she should have called police that night, but was in fear.


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National Information Sources
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education
Cybersecurity & Infrastrcuture Security Agency (CISA)
Cybersecurity Canon - Books for Cybersecutity Practictioners and Researchers
Industrial Control Systems Computer Emergency Response Team
National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center
Software Assurance Program
Stop. Think. Connect.
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
United States Secret Service
Cyber Cop Portal
Infragard
OnGuard Online
Small Biz Cyber Planner
FCC's Cybersecurity Hub
Cybersecurity Roundtable: Protecting Small Businesses
Computer Security Resource Center
Small Business Community
Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals Report
Guide to Selecting Information Technology Security Products
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Resources Center (http://csrc.nist.gov)
National Security Agency
National Security Agency's Academic Outreach, including CAEIAE Program (https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Students-Educators/)
Professional Security and Computing Organizations
Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org)
ASIS International (www.asisonline.org) – formerly American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)
ISACA (www.isaca.org) formerly the Information Systems Auditing and Controls Association
IT Governance Institute (http://www.itgi.org/)
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) (www.issa.org).
OWASP (https://owasp.org/)
Security Industry Professional Certifications
International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 (https://www.isc2.org)
ISACA (https://www.isaca.org) formerly the Information Systems Auditing and Controls Association
EC-Council (https://www.eccouncil.org/)
The CMMC Accreditation Body (https://cmmcab.org/)
You can also reference a wiki list of computer security certifications here.
Other Academic Institutions
Listing of CAEIAE universities (http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/institutions.shtml)
Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute – CERT Center (http://www.cert.org/)
Georgia Tech Information Security Center (http://cyber.gatech.edu/)
National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (www.niatec.info)
Rankings of Security Programs
Cybersecurity Guide (https://cybersecurityguide.org/online/cybersecurity-bachelors-degree/) 2020-KSU #1
Best Colleges.com (https://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-online-information-assurance-degree-programs/)
2020-KSU #4
Learn.org (https://learn.org/articles/best_online_schools_for_cyber_security.html)
2020-KSU #18
Cyber Degrees.org (https://www.cyberdegrees.org/listings/best-online-cyber-security-bachelors-degrees/)
Cyber Security Degrees.org - (https://cybersecuritydegrees.org/schools/georgia/)
KSU Resources
CISO's web site This site includes campus security policies, guidelines and standards (link).
Undergraduate Student Policies in KSU Catalog - Select Academic Policies in the menu on the right
Graduate Student Policies in KSU Catalog - Select Graduate Catalog from the pull-down at the top, then select Academic Policies in the menu on the right
The KSU Offensive Security Research (OffSec) Club
The members page is on OwlLife – the URL to join is http://bit.ly/ksu_offsec
OffSec Club meetings are on the 4th Tuesday each month from 6:30-7:45pm via Zoom.
The URL to join is http://bit.ly/OffSecMeeting and the password is "Offsec1" without the quotes
OffSec Discord – Very active, lots of things happening there.
The URL to join is http://bit.ly/offsec-discord
KSU Infosec Security Slack – Broader audience, open to anyone n the general KSU community interested in security. The URL to join is http://bit.ly/ksu-infosec-community
Atlanta Cybersecurity Engineers Discord – Lots of activity here, some great resources for security students. The URL to join is http://bit.ly/atlseceng