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Blog · December 1, 2022
'Good Morning America' Hosts Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes' Romance Exposed After PDA Pics Surface
Good Morning America co-anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach's relationship has turned romantic. In new photos taken this month and obtained by the Daily Mail, Holmes, 45, and Robach, 49, are snapped on numerous occasions showing PDA. Both have been married to their spouses since 2010 — Holmes to attorney Marilee Fiebig and Robach to actor Andrew Shue — but sources tells ET that both had split from their spouses before news of their relationship became public.
Robach stopped wearing her wedding ring in photos she posted to her Instagram in October.
"Amy and T.J. had always had a warm supportive friendship and they bonded over their love of running," one source tells ET. "There have been whispers at ABC about a possible relationship between them for the last several months."
Sources also ET that the two have been close friends for years, but their relationship evolved.
"They've recently grown even closer due to their cohosting GMA3, and traveling for special remote assignments, like going to London for the Queen's funeral," one source says. "The two have a special bond that has been evident to staff for years, so it's not surprising a relationship has formed, but it is shocking that it has come to light in this way."
Another source tells ET, "their relationship has been going on in secret for quite some time, but how long is truly unknown, as they did their best to keep things professional and private. Whenever they worked on set everything was fun, sometimes flirty, but always professional."
In one set of photos published by the Daily Mail, which were reportedly snapped on Nov. 10, the two are spotted inside a New York City bar sitting next to each other while having drinks. In one picture, Robach playfully puts her head on the bar, as Holmes leans over her, seemingly telling her something in her ear. Outside of the Times Square location, the pair follow each other and get into the same black SUV.
Holmes and Robach have not spoken out about the pictures published on Wednesday. ET has reached out to Good Morning America for comment.
Holmes and Robach are the hosts of GMA 3, which is the lunchtime hour of the program. The duo has sat beside each other at the anchor desk daily on weekdays since 2020. On Wednesday, Holmes anchored GMA 3 alone.
"Robach is not here, Dr Ashton not here," he said at the top of the hour. "Stuck with me folks. Those two are on assignment they are working today."
In the wake of the pictures surfacing, Holmes has taken down his Twitter and Instagram accounts while Fiebig's Instagram has gone private. Robach also took down her Instagram account.
Robach recently shared a series of pictures from the New York City Marathon, which Holmes also ran. In the photo set, she and Holmes rock their medals as they pose with more friends who ran the race. The two are part of a group, who often run marathons around the NYC area together. Robach has also shared pictures featuring Holmes and her husband posing together during group outings.
In July, Robach shared a cheeky picture of her and Holmes at the GMA desk, both rocking pink.
"T.J. just loves it when we match 👯♀," Robach wrote. In the photo, Holmes wears a black suit with a pink tie, while Robach wears a black dress with pink flowers printed on it.
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Feng, Min; Xu, Min; Wang, Kaishun
On the metric dimension of line graphs. (English) Zbl 1262.05069
Discrete Appl. Math. 161, No. 6, 802-805 (2013).
Summary: Let \(G\) be a (di)graph. A set \(W\) of vertices in \(G\) is a resolving set of \(G\) if every vertex \(u\) of \(G\) is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to all the vertices in \(W\). The metric dimension \(\mu (G)\) of \(G\) is the minimum cardinality of all the resolving sets of \(G\). In this paper we study the metric dimension of the line graph \(L(G)\) of \(G\). In particular, we show that \(\mu (L(G))=|E(G)|-|V(G)|\) for a strongly connected digraph \(G\) which is not a directed cycle, where \(V(G)\) is the vertex set and \(E(G)\) is the edge set of \(G\). As a corollary, the metric dimension of de Bruijn digraphs and Kautz digraphs is given. Moreover, we prove that \(\lceil \log 2\Delta (G)\rceil \leq \mu (L(G))\leq |V(G)|-2\) for a simple connected graph \(G\) with at least five vertices, where \(\Delta (G)\) is the maximum degree of \(G\). Finally, we obtain the metric dimension of the line graph of a tree in terms of its parameters.
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05C20 Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments
05C35 Extremal problems in graph theory
05C76 Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.)
metric dimension; resolving set; line graph; De Bruijn digraph; Kautz digraph
\textit{M. Feng} et al., Discrete Appl. Math. 161, No. 6, 802--805 (2013; Zbl 1262.05069)
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Douglas Rosner
www.FamilyDivorceSolutions.com
drosnerlaw@sbcglobal.net
State Bar No. 094466
2625 Townsgate Road | Suite 330 | Westlake Village, CA 91361
Mr. Rosner has been involved in the Collaborative Practice since 2004. Mr. Rosner is a founding member of Civil Collaborative Professionals (CCP). A multiple discipline practice group with members in California, Hawaii and Arizona, offering support, education and team building to provide a Collaborative team approach to the resolution of conflicts in the substantive areas of Civil and Trust and Estates. Mr. Rosner serves on the Board of Directors of CP CAL and helped start and now serves as co-chair of the Civil/Estates and Trust Committee of CP CAL, a statewide organization of collaborative practice groups, a founding member of Civil Collaborative Solution (www.familydivorcesolutions.com/civil-collaborative-solutions).
Mr. Rosner also serves as West Coast Chapter Chair of Global Collaborative Law Council ([http://www.collaborativelaw.us) an organization involved in international practice of civil collaborative law. Mr. Rosner has handled matters involving financial elder abuse and trusts disputes. Mr. Rosner believes that disputes involving Trust and Estates, Business, Real Estate, Employment and other Civil disputes can successfully be resolved through the Collaborative Process. Mr. Rosner has presented at California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) 2015 annual conference, the 2016 annual conference of Global Collaborative Law Council and has made numerous presentations for other organizations. Mr. Rosner is an adjunct law professor.


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U.S. Politics What was the Saturday Night Massacre? A look at the Nixon controversy Wilson-Raybould mentioned in her SNC testimony
What was the Saturday Night Massacre? A look at the Nixon controversy Wilson-Raybould mentioned in her SNC testimony
Adrian Morrow U.S. Correspondent
Published February 27, 2019 Updated February 28, 2019
Jody Wilson-Raybould leaves a Justice committee meeting in Ottawa, Feb. 27, 2019.
Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
On the evening of Oct. 20, 1973, Richard Nixon had the prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal fired, and forced out his attorney-general along the way. The episode, nicknamed the "Saturday Night Massacre," became a notorious example of executive interference in the judiciary and marked the beginning of the end of Mr. Nixon's presidency.
Former Canadian attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould evoked the infamous incident in her testimony to a legislative committee on Wednesday, as she recounted pressure on her from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his top advisers to stop the corruption prosecution of SNC Lavalin.
"I said that I was having thoughts of the Saturday Night Massacre, but that I was confident that I had given the Prime Minister my best advice to protect him and to protect the constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence," Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she told chief civil servant Michael Wernick in a telephone conversation in December of last year.
Read the full text of Ms. Wilson-Raybould's opening statement
The former attorney-general explains how she was asked to help SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution, raising the spectre of job losses in Quebec during an election. The Canadian Press
The following month, Ms. Wilson-Raybould's prediction came true: After she continued to refuse demands from Mr. Trudeau and his office to go easy on SNC, Mr. Trudeau demoted her to veterans-affairs minister.
The two situations do not exactly parallel one another, but there are some similarities. Both involved attorneys-general who lost their jobs for refusing their boss's demands that they interfere in politically sensitive judicial files.
During the Saturday Night Massacre, Mr. Nixon told attorney-general Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr. Cox was investigating the Watergate scandal, during which a group of political operatives broke into Democratic Party headquarters. Mr. Cox was seeking Oval Office tapes that implicated Mr. Nixon in efforts to cover up the operatives' connection to a larger "dirty tricks" operation funded by the president's re-election committee.
Mr. Richardson refused Mr. Nixon's demand and resigned. Mr. Richardson's deputy, William Ruckelshaus, also refused to fire Mr. Cox and resigned as well. Finally, solicitor-general Robert Bork agreed to carry out the order and turfed Mr. Cox.
In a statement on his ouster, Mr. Cox seemed to immediately grasp the moment's historical importance. "Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people," he said.
The move abruptly backfired: A court ruled it illegal, and Mr. Bork appointed another special prosecutor to take Mr. Cox's place. After refusing for several more months to release the Oval Office tapes, Mr. Nixon was finally forced to give in by the Supreme Court. As Congress prepared to impeach him the following summer, Mr. Nixon resigned.
A former Canadian cabinet minister comparing the sitting Prime Minister's actions to those of Mr. Nixon is extraordinary enough in the hyper-disciplined, message-tracked world of Ottawa. But the Saturday Night Massacre analogy is particularly stinging, not only for its implication that Mr. Trudeau is engaging in a serious violation of constitutional norms, but for the dire consequences it evokes.
The incident itself is frequently discussed in Washington, particularly in the age of President Donald Trump: His firing of FBI director James Comey over the investigation into alleged collusion between the Russian government and Mr. Trump's campaign to tip the election drew comparisons to Mr. Nixon's actions.
And just last month, Walter Shaub, a former U.S. federal government ethics chief, evoked the incident to describe how Mr. Trump is angling to keep a lid on the potential fallout from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election hacking: Mr. Trump pushed out former attorney-general Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from overseeing the probe, and appointed William Barr, who has previously written that he believes Mr. Mueller's investigation is too expansive.
"The Senate is about to ratify President Trump's slow-motion sequel to the Saturday Night Massacre," Mr. Shaub wrote on CNN of Mr. Barr's confirmation.
Read more: Wilson-Raybould alleges 'consistent and sustained' effort by Trudeau, officials to 'politically interfere' in SNC-Lavalin case
Globe editorial: Jody Wilson-Raybould's accusation goes to the very heart of Canadian justice
When Jody Wilson-Raybould's truth finally came, it was quiet – and devastating Subscriber content
Read Jody Wilson-Raybould's opening statement on SNC-Lavalin affair
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Q: Seleção de colunas no Rstudio vamos supor que eu tenha uma tabela contendo muitas colunas com os seguintes nomes:
foto com a as colunas
como eu faço para selecionar todas as colunas de uma vez só, sem precisar digitar o nome de uma por uma, sem usar a função select dessa forma:
data.df<- data%% select(coluna1,coluna2,coluna3...colunaN)

A: Se você tem um dataframe chamado data e s[o deseja simplesmente criar uma cópia com todas as colunas pode simplesmente fazer:
data.df <- data

Agora, se data.df é um dataframe parcial de data é possível selecionar colunas de formas distintas:
Por posição
data.df <-
  data %>%
  select(1:10,15:20)

No caso acima data.df terias colunas de 1 a 10 e de 15 a 20 do dataframe data.
Por nome
data.df <-
  data %>%
  select(coluna1:coluna18)

No caso acima data.df terias colunas de 1 a 18 do dataframe data, porém utilizado os nomes como referência.
Funções auxiliares
Agora caso seja uma seleção mais complexa, em que suas colunas possuam algum tipo de padrão no nome ou ainda deseje usar os tipos das variáveis, recomendo usar funções auxiliares para seleção, fica o comando para a documentação destas funções:
?tidyselect::select_helpers

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Rep. Kevin Christie
kevinchristie.org
KevinCoachChristie
District: Windsor-4-2
682 Christian St, White River Jct., VT 05001, United States
[email protected] and [email protected]
[email protected] (Springfield Reporter)
Christie - YES
Christie - NO
Christie - ABSENT
$5.77 Billion FY17 Budget (H.875). Passed 94-40 on March 24, 2016. Those voting YES on this bill approved a total $5.77 billion state budget for FY17. This represents a total increase of 2.7 percent over FY16 (not accounting for adjustments that will occur in the next legislative session.) The $1.47 billion general fund portion of the budget, however, increases by 4.8 percent, while revenue is projected to grow at just 2.2%. This budget also leaves an estimated $30 million hole for the FY18 budget. Those voting NO argued that continuing the trend of spending taxpayer dollars faster than revenue comes into the treasury is unsustainable and irresponsible.
Adjust 2016 Budget Upward by $91.8 Million (H.611). Passed 90-54 on January 26, 2016. Those voting YES voted in favor of increasing spending for FY16 by a total of $91.8 million (raising the previously accepted state budget to $5.6 billion, a 2.5% increase over FY15), $12.3 million of which is represents increases in General Fund spending (raising total General Fund Spending to $1.48 billion, a 5% increase over FY15). Those voting NO opposed these spending increases on the grounds that the state cannot continue to spend money faster than revenue is coming in, and that continuing to do so is causing a structural deficit.
$37 Million in New Miscellaneous Taxes (H.873) Passed 86-59 on March 23, 2016. Those voting YES approved $37 million worth of new taxes. These include stringent enforcement of the 9% rooms and meals tax on private, short term rentals such as those contracted through AirBnB, raising the assessment on employers who do not offer health insurance to their employees to $151.12 per employee for businesses with 19 or fewer employees, $210.00 for businesses with 20-99 employees, and $249.00 for businesses with over 100 or more employees. The bill also puts a 3.3 percent assessment on ambulance agencies' annual net patient revenues for services. And increases by 0.25% the fuel gross receipts on heating oil, propane, kerosene, dyed diesel, natural gas and coal to 0.75%. And, a $2.4 million a year increase in the bank franchise tax. Those voting NO opposed these tax increases.
$11 Million Motor Vehicle Fee Increases (H.877). Passed 104-40 on March 30, 2016. Those voting YES on this bill supported $11 million in new or higher motor vehicle related fees. Increased costs include: higher motor vehicle registration fees, higher transfer of ownership fees, higher fees for driver's licenses, learner's permits and non-driver ID cards, higher fees for vehicle inspections, an increase the annual motor vehicle emission ("clean air") fee, and a higher cost for choosing a "vanity" license plate. There is also a new $80 fee for reinstating a suspended registration. Those voting NO opposed these fee increases.
$7.9 Million Property Tax Increase (H.853). Passed 98-45 on March 30, 2016. The primary function of this bill is to set the property tax rates for FY17, as well as to take care of some miscellaneous educational items. Those voting YES supported what amounts to a 0.2¢ increase for residential property tax payers, and in total, a $7.9 million proper tax increase ($4 million coming from residential and $3.9 million from non-residential taxpayers). Those voting NO opposed the tax increase, noting that if the spending thresholds in Act 46 had been left in place Vermont homeowners would have experienced a cut in property taxes.
$24 Million in Fee Hikes (H.872). Passed 98-46 on March 23, 2016. Those voting YES supported increasing the net fees paid in Vermont by $24 million – the highest increase on record. The 2015 fee increases, in comparison, amounted to $2.7 million. Those voting NO opposed not just the fee increases but the precedents set by raising fees to fund general revenue projects. The legal definition of a fee is that it is used to pay the costs of regulating or servicing the entity paying the fee, and no more.
Mandate Paid Sick Leave (H.187). Passed 81-64 on February 3, 2016. Those voting YES supported a de facto tax on mostly small/micro businesses of $14.3 million dollars annually when fully implemented." The bill would allow an employee to accrue "not less than one hour of earned sick time for every 52 hours worked," with a maximum number of hours accrued set at 24 hours in a 12-month period from January 1, 2017 until December 31, 2018 and then a maximum of 40 hours in a 12-month period after December 31, 2018. Those voting NO opposed adding another burden to struggling Vermont businesses.
92% Tax on E-Cigarettes (H.879). Passed 83-54 on March 30, 2016. Those voting YES supported putting a 92% on e-cigarettes and related products for a total tax increase of an estimated $500,000. Those voting NO opposed raising the tax, noting that e-cigarettes are not tobacco, but rather a tobacco substitute that many people use as a way to quit smoking.
Strike $1.6 Million Telephone Tax Increase (H.870, Turner Amendment). Failed 48-97 on April 13, 2016. The Turner Amendment sought to strike a $1.6 million tax increase from the telecom bill. Those voting NO wanted to keep the tax increase in place, citing the need to pay for expanding broadband service. Those voting YES wanted to eliminate the tax increase, stating that the money could have and should have been found in the already passed general fund budget, and that Vermonters cannot afford any more taxes.
Raise Smoking Age/$900,000 Tobacco Tax Increase (H.93). Passed 84-61on April 5, 2016. Those voting YES supported raising the smoking age from 18 to 21 over a three year period ending in 2019, and raising the tax on cigarettes by 39¢ (to a total of $3.47) and on other tobacco products by 32¢ — an estimated $900,000 tax increase. Those voting NO opposed the higher age limit and tax increase.
Block Legalization of Marijuana (H.858, Conquest Amendment). Passed 121-28), 2016, May 3, 2016. This amendment killed legislation that would have legalized, regulated and taxed marijuana in Vermont. Those voting YES on this amendment DID NOT support the legalization of marijuana. Those voting NO on this amendment DID support the legalization of marijuana.
$16 Million Property Tax Increase, Mandates for School District Consolidation (H.361). Passed 88-55, April 1, 2015. Those voting YES on this bill approved a $16 million increase in school property taxes, setting the statewide homestead property tax rate at $0.98 (flat), and raising the nonresidential property tax rate to $1.525. The bill also placed mandates on school districts to consolidate into Pre-K- 12 districts of no fewer than 1100 students and put in place a complicated formula for capping school budgets, which could not be triggered until 2018. Those voting NO on H.361 saw this as a failure to answer the pleas of citizens for meaningful tax relief, while launching a serious assault on local control and the democratic process.
$1.48 Billion General Fund Budget (4.8% Spending Increase) for FY16 (H.490). Passed 96-46, March 26, 2015. Those voting YES on H.490 approved a $1.48 billion general fund budget. This is a $68 million spending increase (4.8%) over the FY15 budget (adopted in 2014) and grows spending at 3 times the average rate of inflation (1.6% in 2014). Those voting NO did so on the grounds that increasing spending by 4.8% while revenue is only projected to grow at 2.4% is unsustainable and irresponsible. They also objected to using $24 million in one-time funds to achieve "balance," and that this budget sets up a projected budget gap of $50-$70 million for FY17/FY18.
$12 Million In New Taxes on Candy, Sweetened Beverages, Vending Machines & Tobacco (S.139, COMMITTEE OF WAYS & MEANS AMENDMENT). Passed 78-62, April 30, 2015. Those voting YES on this amendment supported extending Vermont's 6% sales tax to candy (not containing flour) and sweetened beverages (not milk based), applying Vermont's 9% rooms and meals tax to vending machine purchases, and increasing the tax on cigarettes by 33¢ over two years. The total tax increase on Vermonters amounts to roughly $12 million. Those voting NO opposed these tax increases.
$33.2 Million in Income Tax Increases (H.489). Passed 76-67, March 27, 2015. Analysis: Those voting YES on this bill approved a tax increase on Vermonters of $33.2 million, raised primarily from capping itemized deductions on the state income tax at $15,000 for individuals and $31,000 for couples, and disallowing deductions for state and local income taxes from the previous year. Some of those voting NO argued that Vermont has "a spending problem, not a revenue problem," and that taxes are already too high in Vermont. Others voting NO believed H.489 did not raise enough revenue. (See H.489, O'Sullivan Amendment Roll Call to cross-reference.)
Additional $12 Million Income Taxes (H.489). Failed 43-98, March 26, 2015. Those voting YES on this amendment supported: "Beginning in tax year 2015 and after, the rates assigned to the individual income tax brackets under 32 V.S.A. § 5822(a), from lowest to highest, shall be 3.55 percent, 6.8percent, 7.8 percent,9.5percent,and 9.55percent," in the belief that the underlying bill did not raise enough revenue ($33.2 million) on its own. Those voting NO opposed this.
Lake Clean Up With Existing Funds (No New Taxes) (H.35, DICKINSON AMENDMENT). Failed 40-100, April 1, 2015. The underlying bill, H.35, raised $8 million in new taxes for cleaning up Lake Champlain and Vermont's other waterways. The Dickinson Amendment eliminated the need for new taxes by reallocating roughly $9 million of existing revenue for the same purpose. Those voting YES on the Dickinson Amendment believed that no new taxes were needed to fund the Lake Clean Up policies outlined in H.35, and that the financial obligations could be met by reallocating existing revenues from the property transfer tax. Those voting NO on the Dickinson Amendment supporting raising new taxes ($5.7 million from a 0.2 percent surcharge to the property transfer tax) and various fees ($2.3 million).
46% Excise Tax on E-Cigarettes (H.40). (Passed 121-24, March 10, 2015. H.40 had many facets to it. It repealed the SPEED program and replaced it with a new RESET program, enabling Vermont utilities' to continue to sell some Renewable Energy Credits. It also mandated that utilities have 75% of their electricity portfolio come from renewable sources by 2032. This, of course, is a mandate on customers to buy the more expensive renewables, and a requirement that more renewable electricity projects be built (25 megawatts per year). This many wind towers and solar facilities will have a negative impact on Vermont's scenic landscape.
46% Excise Tax on E-Cigarettes (H.187). Passed 76-66, April 22, 2015. Those voting YES approved an unfunded mandate, estimated to be a much as $14 million annually, requiring employers to provide at least three days of paid sick leave to employees. Those voting NO opposed this mandate, citing the fact that most Vermont businesses already provide such benefits voluntarily, and those that don't can least afford to do so. This unfunded mandate represents another burden on Vermont employers, making Vermont a less competitive place to run a business.
Ban on Teachers Strikes (H.76, LALONDE AMENDMENT) Failed 70-73, April 8, 2015). The LaLonde amendment would have banned both teachers' ability to strike and school boards' ability to impose contract terms. It would also have set up a task force to study less disruptive means of resolving contract disputes. Those voting YES favored banning teachers' strikes and imposed contracts. Those voting NO supported teachers' strikes.
Prevent Green Mountain Care Board from Controlling Medicare Funding (S.139). Failed 54-85, April 30, 2015. In the 2014 election, the strategic plan enacted in Act 48 of 2011 became a major issue. This amendment would have removed all references to Medicare from Act 48, thus making it clear that the state's promised single payer health care plan could not incorporate Medicare payments for Vermont seniors. Those voting YES wanted to keep the state's hands off the Medicare payment stream. Those voting NO reaffirmed their support for having the Green Mountain Care Board gain control over Medicare payments under a single payer or "all payer" plan.
Same Day Voter Registration (S.29) Passed 87-54, May 11, 2015. Those voting YES on S.29 would allow an individual to register to vote and to vote on election day. Those voting NO believed this to be an invitation to voter fraud as there is not adequate opportunity for either the Town Clerk or other election monitors to verify that the persons registering to vote on election day are who they say they are, or are legal residents of where they claim to live. This also creates a logistical challenge for Town Clerks, who will have to both run the elections in their districts and, with this law, register new voters simultaneously.
New Gun Control Regulations on Felons, Mentally Ill (S. 141) Passed 80-62, April 17, 2015. Those voting YES would make it a state crime for many convicted felons to possess firearms (already a crime under federal law). The bill also required the state report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System any time someone has been found by a court to be mentally ill and a danger to himself or others. Those voting NO believed this is a "solution in search of a problem."
5.5% STATE SPENDING INCREASE FOR 2015 (H. 885). Passed 91-46, March 27, 2014. Those voting YES on H.885 supported general fund spending for FY2015 of $1.438 billion. This represents a 5.5% increase ($88 million) over the original FY2014 budget of $1.362 billion as passed in 2013, and a 3.8% increase over the FY2014 budget as adjusted (upward) in 2014.The 5.5% spending increase is five times the current rate of inflation (1.1%), and nearly double Vermonters' average rate of personal income growth (2.88% for 2013).
$12.6 MILLION INCREASE TO 2014 SPENDING (H.655). Passed 110-33, January 24, 2014. The "Budget Adjustment Act," is designed to "tweak" spending levels passed into law by the legislature in the previous year before in response to changes in fiscal conditions. Those voting YES on this 2014 Budget Adjustment, H.655, voted for a net increase of $12.63 million in new spending to the FY2014 General Fund budget bringing total FY2014 General Fund spending up to $1.37 billion.
$56.2 MILLION PROPERTY TAX INCREASE (H. 889). Passed 89-51, April 4, 2014. Those voting YES on H.889 voted in favor of a $56.2 million property tax increase. Residential property tax rates rise 4¢ (4%) from 94¢ to 98¢ per $100 of assessed value. Nonresidential tax rates rise 7.5¢ (5%) from $1.44 to $1.515 per $100 of value.
$1.2 MILLION MISCELLANEOUS TAX INCREASE (H. 884). Passed 103-42, March 27, 2014. The Miscellaneous Tax bill is an annual adjustment of tax provisions needed to match revenues with spending. Those voting YES on H.884 voted in favor of increasing the tax on tobacco snuff from $2.24 to $2.62, which is projected to raise $700,000, and to implement a 92% wholesale tax on electronic cigarettes, which was projected to raise $500,000.
OVER $800,000 INCREASE IN MISCELANEOUS FEES (H.735). Passed 87-48, May 9, 2014. The "Fee Bill" sets the fees for business and professional licensing and a number of state services. This year's bill was made controversial by a provision requiring $200 fee for storage of firearms confiscated by law enforcement following domestic disturbances. Those voting YES on H.735 supported over $800,000 in fee increases.
INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE 16% TO $10.10 PER HOUR (H. 552) Passed 87-57, April 8, 2014. Those voting YES supported raising the minimum wage from $8.73 to $10.10 effective January 2015. This is a 16% increase and was estimated to cost Vermont businesses $30 million. State economist Tom Kavet testified that a rise in the minimum wage to $10 would result in the loss of 250 jobs or the equivalent in hours. Vermont already has the third highest minimum wage in the United States.
MANDATORY SCHOOL DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION (H.883). Passed 76-60, April 30, 2014. Those voting YES on the bill supported the mandate, "This bill proposes to require…[that] as of July 1, 2020, supervisory unions shall cease to exist and current school districts shall be realigned into expanded prekindergarten–grade 12 school districts (Expanded Districts) that are responsible for the education of all resident students in prekindergarten–grade 12." This would eliminate local school boards and erode local control over education. This bill would not reduce the cost of education, and would probably, in the short term, increase costs in order to pay for the transition.
ALLOW CHILDCARE BUSINESSES TO UNIONIZE/COLLECTIVLEY BARGAIN FOR SUBSIDIES (S. 316) Passed 78-59, May 6, 2014. This bill would allow early childcare businesses to form a union to collectively bargain for taxpayer-funded subsidies. The legislature is essentially giving a union taxpayer money to lobby the legislature about something for which the legislature is already aware it is responsible, and forces hundreds of small business people in Vermont to pay "agency fees" (85% of union dues) to a union that they do not want to join.
EXEMPT NON-UNIONIZED CHILDCARE WORKERS FROM PAYING "AGENCY FEES" TO A UNION (BOUCHARD AMENDMENT to S.316). Failed 53-86 on May 6, 2014. The underlying bill (S.316) allows early childcare businesses to form a union to collectively bargain with the state for subsidies. The Bouchard amendment would have exempted those early childcare providers who choose not to join a union from having to pay "agency fees" (85% of union dues) to that union.
REPEAL AND REPLACE EDUCATION FINANCING SYSTEM (ACT 60/68) (Scheuermann Amendment to H. 889) Failed 49-83, April 3, 2014. The "Repeal & Replace amendment" proposed to repeal Vermont's current education funding laws (Act 60/68) effective July 1, 2016 with a replacement to take effect for the 2016-2017 Academic Year. The Scheuermann Amendment comes in the wake of 37 Vermont towns voting down their school budgets. 43 towns lowered school spending, but, under the current financing system, still saw property taxes increase. Those voting NO voted to leave the status quo in place. Those voting YES voted for reform.
IMPOSE STRICTER CENTRAL PLANNING FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT (H. 823). Passed 92-44, March 13, 2014. This bill was designed to funnel development into "approved, designated centers" (urban) and discourage development in other areas (rural) by making allowances for, and in some cases subsidies to, the former, and creating legal barriers to the latter. H.823 places strict regulations on the "conditions and criteria" for obtaining development permits. In the words of House Energy & Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Tony Klein, this bill turns Act 250 into a "living document."
REQUIRE "MAY CONTAIN GMO" LABEL ON SOME FOOD PRODUCTS (H. 112). Passed 114-30, April 23, 2014. The GMO labeling bill is popular with Vermonters because people quite logically want to know what is in the food they eat. Therefore, superficially this bill makes sense. However, there are two major concerns with H.112 in practice. 1) It opens Vermont taxpayers up to an estimated $1.5 to $8 million in legal liabilities if the law is challenged in court and the state loses – certain and likely scenarios respectively. 2) Given the number of exemptions to the labeling codified within the bill, it really doesn't achieve the ostensible goal of enlightening consumers as to whether or not they are eating GMOs.
4.7% STATE SPENDING INCREASE (H.530). Passed 91-49, March 29, 2013. Those members voting YES on the "Omnibus Appropriations Bill" voted to increase state spending by 4.7%. This is nearly 2 and a half times the rate of inflation.
$50 MILLION PROPERTY TAX INCREASE (H.265). Passed 96-45, Feb. 19, 2013. Those who voted YES on this bill voted to increase the residential property tax rate by $.05 per $100.00 of assessed value, and $.06 on non-residential property to $.94 and $1.44 respectively. The total tax increase on Vermont property taxpayers as a result of this bill is estimated at over $50 million.
$21.8 MILLION GAS TAX INCREASE (H.510). Passed 105-37, March 20, 2013. Legislators who voted YES on this bill supported a $21.8 million tax increase on gasoline – a roughly 7.5 cent per gallon increase by 2014. This represents the largest gas tax increase in Vermont history.
$27 MILLION MISCELLANEOUS TAX INCREASE (H.528). Passed 85-55, March 27, 2013. Those members voting YES voted to expand the Vermont state sales tax (6%) to bottled water, clothing (including shoes) over $110, candy, soft drinks, and dietary supplements, and to increase the tax on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco by $0.50 (total: $3.12) and $0.88 (total: $3.12) respectively. They voted to increase the Rooms & Meals tax from 9% to 9.5% for 2014, and they voted to apply the Meals tax to food sold out of vending machines. They voted to cap all itemized tax deductions at 2.5 times standard deduction, eliminated Vermont's 8.8% tax bracket, moving those earning $178,651 and more into the top 8.95% tax bracket, formerly reserved for those earning $388,351 and above. The total estimated cost to Vermont taxpayers: $27 million in 2014 and $32.3 million in 2015.
STOP 'RAIDS' ON THE TRANSPORTATION FUND (Koch Amendment to H.510). Failed 49-88, March 21, 2013. Those voting YES on voted to assure that no transportation funds will be appropriated for the support of government other than for true transportation purposes. This would have reduced or negated the need for a gas tax increase.
STATE OVERRIDES LOCAL CONTROL, MANDATES PRE-K (H.270). Passed 95-43, May 1, 2013. Those voting YES on H.270 voted to saddle Vermonters with an estimated $10 million cost/tax increase over the next five years, and to take away local control regarding the decision of whether or not to offer publicly funded pre-kindergarten. When the legislature established publicly funded pre-k in 2007, it did so with the assurance to communities that funding pre-k would remain voluntary. This bill reneges on that deal.
FORCE NON-UNION WORKER TO PAY FEES TO UNIONS (S.14). Passed 85-43, April 26, 2013. Those voting YES on S.14 voted in favor of forcing non-union workers to pay a fee equal to 85% of the dues unionized workers pay to the union, effectively using government power to require citizens to make payments to a private organization that they want nothing to do with. S.14 affects roughly 2,600 education, state and municipal employees, mostly low-wage support staff who can least afford the payment.
LIMIT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (S.82). Passed 96-49, May 8, 2013. Those voting YES on S.82 voted in favor of capping donations to independent political committees that do not coordinate with candidates or parties, despite Supreme Court precedents that are pretty clear that this constitutes a violation of the First Amendment. If the bill is challenged in court, which it likely will be, the state would most likely lose, leaving taxpayers on the hook for an estimated $5 million.


As spring approaches, us Brits are heading to their gardens to cut grass, root out weeds, and plant fruit, veg, and flowers.
The joys of flora and fauna often come with a heavy toll to the human body. Stiff, sore shoulders and aching lower backs are almost par for the course for gardeners.
As much as horticulture is a wonderful pastime, it's better to know how to till the soil without pulling a tendon. Here are some suggestions to make gardening a pain free experience.
Before you head to the lawn, do a warm up.
Spend a few minutes warming up your body and increasing the blood flow to your muscles by doing some quick marching on the spot or brisk walking, arm circles and some squats, these movements will get your muscles ready for the strenuous tasks ahead. When you are done for the day, do some gentle stretching. This helps to reduce muscle tension and lessen the impact of the heavy work involved in keeping the garden ship shape.
As far as possible, try to keep your back straight as bending for a long time will almost certainly lead to lower back pain. Try to maintain a good posture when mowing the lawn and consider using tools like post hole diggers and bulb planters to reduce the need to bend.
On your next trip to the nursery, look for tools that take away the need to kneel and bend. It's easy to forget that gardening is a form of manual labour much like construction. Try to think with the mindset of a labourer and look for tools that reduce body stress and strain.
Break Up Your Gardening Tasks And Take Frequent Breaks.
Take regular breaks. By doing so, the body has more time to recover, particularly from gruelling tasks like weeding and digging.
Don't spend too long on one task. Dig for 10 minutes, take a break, have a cold glass of water, then do a bit of raking. The important thing is to avoid spending a long time in one posture.
Dig Without Doing Your Back In.
Stand with your back straight and either your right or left leg forward. Keep your arms close by your sides.
When moving soil from one place to another, turn your body in that direction.
Use The Proper Stance For Weeding And Planting.
Invest in a good quality kneeling pad and kneel down for weeding and planting.
Switch hands regularly so one hand is supporting your back and the other weeding and planting.
Avoid Strain When Bending And Carrying.
First of all, don't work alone! Ask a friend or a family member to help out.
Like a labourer, use the squat position to lift heavy items. Always start squatting, bend your hips and knees, and keep your back straight.
Lift items in front of you, not to your left or right. Turning while lifting can lead to back disc injuries.
Keep your hand tools on a belt so you don't need to bend down to pick them up.
Don't stand stretching your arms above your head. Get a ladder and move it around to work on different areas.
Telescopic pruners and loppers are also a god send in this respect!
Once again, bend your hips and knees, not your back.
Turn your body when you need to rake to your left or right.
Reposition yourself regularly so you are close to your rake.
Gardening is good exercise. It can be considered a workout. It's certainly tiring and a cause of pain if not done properly.
Before going for a run, or a workout in the gym, a warm-up is necessary. It's also necessary to do some post-exercise stretching.
Before you head to the lawn, do a warm up. Spend a few minutes stretching and getting your muscles ready for the strenuous tasks ahead.
When you're done for the day, do some more stretching. This helps to reduce muscle tension and lessen the impact of the heavy work involved in keeping the garden shipshape.
What To Do If You're In Pain.
First and foremost, if the pain is unbearable and doesn't stop, head straight to your nearest hospital.
If the pain is moderate, ice or heat treatment should be enough to relieve the pain.
An ice pack is generally considered better for inflammation. For sore arms, shoulders, or a painful lower back, try applying an ice pack. Over the counter anti inflammatory gel can also be useful tool too.
Gardening is a pleasurable and rewarding pastime. It's even more enjoyable without pain!
Remember, do your best not to bend your back while working in the garden. The bottom line is to work smart and be careful.
Use the right tools and don't overwork yourself, if you find you've overdone it and you know where to find us!


This is what we're really here for right? As you'd expect, our Tasting Rooms are London's heaven on earth for craft beer lovers. We have all of our beers on draught, as well as brewery fresh tanks installed – so basically straight from the maturation tank to your pint glass.
You can taste throughout the day and our friendly bar staff can chat for hours about the golden stuff. In the likely instance you still find yourself wanting more, we even have a cold store room where you can pick up a case or two to savour later or share with mates. The bar in our Tasting Rooms is far from your average local watering hole, you're in the guts of a working brewery, watching the brewers work their magic just metres away.
Meantime's Brewery Fresh London Lager is dispensed direct from specially engineered tanks installed in outlets. The beer is delivered by Meantime's tankers direct from the maturation tanks at the brewery, creating a unique way of serving beer with the results being immediately obvious: A well rounded smoother lager, with enhanced aromas and flavours.
Because the beer remains unpasteurised and unfiltered, it continues to mature in tank and therefore improve even while it's in the pub. The process also means the beer has no contact with the air until it hits the glass (Compressed air used in traditional dispense can adversely affect the taste and ultimately the quality of the beer). The process means that a pint of Meantime Brewery Fresh is like drinking a beer direct from the brewery itself, as fresh as the day it was made.


What Age Can Early Menopause Begin?
Menopause is a major life transition for women, and is in many ways the opposite of puberty. While puberty incited periods and fertility, menopause causes periods to cease, and ends your ability to have children. Often, the menopause transition is accompanied by a variety of symptoms, such as vaginal dryness, hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, and more.
Early menopause is when menopause starts before the age of 40, but it can strike as early as your twenties. Read on to learn more about early menopause.
Why Does Early Menopause Occur?
Early menopause has a variety of different causes and factors. It can be completely natural, many people have a genetic predisposition for it. If your mother or grandmother went through menopause early, there is a reasonable chance that you will too.
Early menopause can also be caused by certain types of surgeries and medical procedures. Hysterectomies and oophorectomies, for example, both involve surgical procedures that remove part of the reproductive system. This often leads to early menopause.
Early menopause can also be caused by certain types of cancers and diseases. You should always talk to your doctor if you are experiencing early menopause so that he or she can rule out these options.
Menopause usually occurs in the mid-forties to late fifties. Menopause is considered early when it strikes before the mid-forties, but menopause has been known to strike as young as twenty, it is called premature menopause.
Eat healthy. Make sure you are getting all the necessary vitamins your body needs. Hormonal imbalance is the primary cause of many symptoms, and a lack of essential vitamins can worsen this imbalance. It can also reduce hair loss and thinning, another symptom of menopause.
Exercise. This helps balance hormone levels, releases serotonin that improves mood and alleviates mood swing symptoms, and reduces stress levels, which can trigger other symptoms. This is also important for lessening weight gain and bloating brought on by menopause.
Drink enough water. This is partly about balancing your body, and partly because many menopause symptoms (e.g.,night sweats, hot flashes, etc.) leave you dehydrated.
Avoid triggers. There are a number of substances that can worsen menopause symptoms, such as caffeine, alcohol, and smoking.
Look into treatments for your specific symptoms. Menopause has a lot of symptoms, and each one has a different treatment. For those suffering vaginal dryness, there are creams available. Hot flashes and night sweats can be alleviated by changing your wardrobe. Hair loss can be curtailed by changing your hair style.
Click here to learn specific lifestyle changes you can make to combat your early menopause.


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Language Counts
-by Jay Burney
It often seems that humanity is dissolving into a boiling melting pot of greed, hatred, and violence. War has existed unceasingly for decades and generations and has effected every living thing on the planet. War is unsustainable form a social and environmental point of view, and yet it seems to be one of the prime strategies of economic development strategies.
There is a rigorously defended definition of this term that demands that a war profiteer is any individual or organization including a personcorporation that "improperly" benefits by selling weapons, services or other goods to parties at war." That begs the question, "what is improper"? Legally that has been defined in a variety of ways. However, in these days of escalating privatization, increasingly virulent mushroom clouds of secrecy, and the rise of declining accountability we are going to go out on a limb here and call it what it is. Is there ever a justification to profit from war making? I say no. If there is profit, it is inappropriate and damned the lawyers, it is profiteering. Let the pejorative fall where it may. I will boldly stake out the position that profits gained from war are unethical. Language counts.
Private profiteering from war is a long established wealth creator. In fact, it is probably the prime wealth creator in the history of the planet. The Rothschild's, the Fords, the Bush's are just a few of the family's whose names and wealth runs through the successful continuation and prosecution of war.
It must not come as news to you that war has economic benefits for certain portions of the private sector. Conservative estimates of the cost of the Iraq war, which began a decade ago, are 3 trillion American taxpayer dollars. Others have estimated that the cost of that war will exceed $6 trillion. A trillion is a lot. One trillion is a thousand billion, or a million million.
Some of our best-known corporations were built on the backs of war profiteering. These include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrup Gruman, General Dynamics, General Electric, CCAI, Triton, Bechtel, Aegis, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and an open ended no bid contract awarded to Dick Cheney's Halliburton.
During the past two decades, the growth of private contracting has increased at the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of Homeland Security.
American World War II General George C. Marshall was famously quoted as saying "A democracy cannot fight a Seven Year War." Has democracy changed?
Since World War II most of the Fortune 500 have engaged in defense contracts or have otherwise benefited from taxpayer funded Defense appropriations. President Eisenhower in his farewell Presidential speech warned us against the growth of the "Military Industrial" establishment. For the first time in our history he said, "we have now created a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions", and "its influence is felt in every city, every State House, and in every office of the Federal Government".
To borrow a phrase, some we know, some we do not know, and some we know we don't know.
Oddly enough the United States does not even have a functioning system to track war costs and expenditures. The GAO, Congressional Research Service, the Congressional Budget Office, Pentagon Inspector General, and others, have complained loudly that the US lacks even a basic method to account for where the m I am shocked, just shocked.
Some, including the increasingly important and relevant Occupy movements think that much of this social disintegration benefits the 1% at the top of the economic food chain, while discarding the remaining 99%. It is really hard to ignore that argument. The occupy movements around the world, which include among other things the wiki leaks movements, expose on an almost hourly basis the hidden power and manipulation of the plutarchs that sit increasingly less comfortable in that 1%. What are plutarch's you might be asking. Interesting question.
Plutocracy comes from a greek word: Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos and it means wealth. It implies a ruling class of wealth. A Plutocracy is a government run by the wealthy class.
Another word that we hear a lot more of lately is "Oligarch". Again a word of Greek Origins. It is a form of power structure in which the power rests with the elite class distinguished by a ruling class of royalty, wealth, family, commercial and or military strength.
Let us then come to know that when we hear the term economic growth it is often thrown together with sustainable development.
This latter term is an oxymoron. Especially as it is coupled with a political economic system that is so fundamentally distorted by wealth gained by war profits. You may think that any growth is better than no growth but lets see how you feel when that war machine sets you and your family in its sites. Because, given the ethics of war and the ethics of profit, it surely will be finding you. Language counts. And so does our ability to think through a seemingly impossible situation. Do it while you still have time.


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Zionism and Neurosis
The Dialectic of Negation
Tribalism and universalism are like oil and water, they don't mix well. Jews who are subject to this schizophrenic ideology find themselves bouncing between two conflicting promises. As much as they insist on loving themselves for who they think they are, they hate themselves for what they happen to be. Such circumstances may be seen as the ultimate tragedy, a metaphysical limbo; nevertheless, it can be a powerful position. pp.78-79
Here are some quotes that reveal what early Zionist ideologists thought of their brothers, the Diaspora Jews, those for whom they were developing a nationalist project based on a philosophy of racial ethnic identity:
'The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline.' (Our Shomer 'Weltanschauung' Hashomer Hatzair, December 1936, p.26. As cited by Lenni Brenner36)
'The fact is undeniable that the Jews, collectively, are unhealthy and neurotic. Those professional Jews who, wounded to the quick, indignantly deny this truth are the greatest enemies of their race, for they thereby lead them to search for false solutions, or at most palliatives.' (Ben Frommer, The Significance of a Jewish State, Jewish Call, Shanghai, May 1935, p.10. As cited by Lenni Brenner37)
'The enterprising spirit of the Jew is irrepressible. He refuses to remain a proletarian. He will grab at the first opportunity to advance to a higher rung in the social ladder.' (The Economic Development of the Jewish People, Ber Borochov, 191638)
'The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends. His best powers are exhausted in the suppression, or at least in the difficult concealment of his own real character. For he fears that this character might be recognised as Jewish, and he has never the satisfaction of showing himself as he is, in all his thoughts and sentiments. He becomes an inner cripple, and externally unreal, and thereby always ridiculous and hateful to all higher-feeling men, as is everything that is unreal. All the better Jews in Western Europe groan under this, or seek for alleviation. They no longer possess the belief which gives the patience necessary to bear sufferings, because it sees in them the will of a punishing but not loving God.' (Address at the First Zionist Congress, Max Nordau, 189739)
Early Zionist ideologists were pretty outspoken when it came to the 'Diaspora' Jewry. Ber Borochov eloquently diagnosed the inherent Jewish non-proletarian tendencies. Max Nordau didn't spare words when confronting the intrinsic post-emancipated Jewish social incompetence. In the eyes of Hashomer Hatzair, the Diaspora Jew is nothing but a caricature and, for Ben Frommer, it is nothing less than neurosis we are dealing with. Yet, they were optimistic, they somehow believed that a 'new beginning' would cure the emancipated Jew of what seemed to some as a 'disgraceful' fate. They believed in a global Jewish 'homecoming', they were convinced that such an endeavour would heal the Jews of their inherent symptoms.
In an article published just after the first Zionist Congress (1897) Ahad Ha'Am, the most prominent Jewish polemist at the time, wrote '...the Congress meant this: that in order to escape from all these troubles [the Jewish anti-social symptoms as described by Nordau] it is necessary to establish a Jewish State.'40
Being inspired by 19th century ideologies such as Nationalism, Marxism, Early Romanticism, Darwinism and Life Philosophy (Leben Philosophie), early Zionists preached for the emerging of the bond between the Jew and 'his' soil. Naively, they believed that the love of farming, agriculture and nature would turn the emancipated Jew into an ordinary, civilized human being. Early Zionists predicted that Zionism would create a new authentic form of Jewish-ness, in which Jews would be entitled to love themselves for who they are rather than who they claim to be. While the socialists amongst them were talking about a new commitment to working class ideology (Berl Kazanelson, Borochov, A.D. Gordon), those on the right wing (Jabotinski, Frommer) dreamed of a master race that would emerge and rule the land.
Both Right and Left truly believed that, due to their homecoming, Jews would be able to replace their 'traditional traits' with aspirations towards sameness. They genuinely believed that Zionism would turn Jews into 'people like all people.' Failing to understand that the premise was categorically flawed for 'other people' do not wish to be 'like other people.' In other words, as long as Jews insisted on being like 'all people' they would always fail to be themselves.
Just as early Zionists had never tried to disguise the extent of their prophetic dream, they also didn't make any efforts to conceal their contempt towards their 'Diaspora' Jewish brothers. In their emerging fantasy of national awakening, Jews would divorce from greed and money-seeking as well as cosmopolitan tendencies. In their vision, Zion was there to transform the Jew into an ordinary organic human being. The move to Zion was there to fill the chasm created by emancipation. The settlement in Zion was there to give birth to a new man. A Jew who looks at himself with pride, a Jew who fills Jewish-ness with meaning. A Jew who is defined by positive qualities rather than by mere negation.
Emancipated, Assimilated and Zionist
When it comes to secular Jews, things get complicated. While observant Jews can easily list a few measurable qualities they identify with, for instance they follow Judaism, they observe Jewish laws, they follow the Talmud, they follow Kosher dietary restrictions, etc., emancipated secular Jews have very little to offer in terms of positive characteristics to identify with. Once you ask a secular Jew what makes him into a Jew you may hear the following: 'I am not a Christian nor am I a Muslim.' OK then, but what is it that makes you into a Jew in particular? He may say, 'l am not just American, French or British. I am somehow different.' In fact, the so-called emancipated, assimilated or secular Jews would find it hard to list any particular positive quality that may identify them as Jews. Emancipated Jews are identified by negation — they are defined by the many things they are not.
This is exactly where Zionism interfered. It was there to set the Jews up in a project that aimed towards an authentic identification. Zionism was there to let the Jew think in terms of 'belonging.' Within the Zionist phantasmic reality, the generations of home-comers were there to declare: 'We are the new Jews, we are Israelis, we are human beings like all other human beings, we live on our land, the land of our forefathers. We speak Hebrew, the language of our ancestors, we eat the fruit and vegetables that we ourselves farmed on our soil.'
Zionism has failed for various reasons. Zionism could never have prevailed. It has been entangled with an endless list of sins from day one. Yet, as much as Zionism quickly established itself as a criminal practice, some of its criticism of the emancipated Diaspora Jewish identity is worth looking into. At the end of the day, the so-called emancipated Diaspora Jew is still defined by negation and this fact alone has very many grave implications.
The fact that emancipated Jewish identity is defined by negation may also help us to realise why it is that emancipated Jews are so often part of political campaigns and revolutionary movements: those who are defined by negation are always against something. p.65
Frequent changes of this sort in the mood of the Israeli public are another outcome of Zionist collective neurosis. p.80
They have never become 'people like all people.' To repeat: the more they insist on loving themselves for who they think they are, the more they loathe themselves for what they have become. p.86
Excerpts from Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics , Zero Books, Winchester, UK, 2011.


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The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 61, No. 300, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 17, 1953
Description: Daily newspaper from El Reno, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Creator: Dyer, Ray J.
The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 17, 1953
The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1953
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