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The defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks lost its entire starting five; Texas lost their 1st team All-American; Texas A&M lost their best players, Kansas State lost the best freshman to come through college basketball in recent memory. Sounds like a down year for the Big 12? Think again.
Blake Griffin is ready to put Oklahoma on his back in his pursuit of going #1 in 2009; Texas will show that they were a lot more than DJ Augustin last year; Kansas has retooled with a stellar recruiting class; and Baylor has enough talent to do some damage in one of the best conferences in the country. They may not have as many quality teams as does the Big East, but the Big 12 is right there.
Talent-wise, this conference is very interesting. It is stacked in the frontcourt (including the best NBA prospect in the country) and weak in the backcourt (although a few honorable mentions could be poised for breakout seasons).
Top 5 Prospects:
Blake Griffin (Oklahoma) – Griffin would have been a top 5 pick had he come out last year. This year, he's the favorite to be the #1 pick. He's got the body: strong, long, and super athletic, helping him match up against bigger power forwards. He's got the attitude and work ethic, the result of being a coach's son. He can face up and take his man off the dribble on offense, and he's a relentless rebounder (9.1 per game) on defense. The scary part? He still has a ton of room to grow. He needs to do more defensively (less than 1 block per game) and expand his range (only attempted 2 threes). Most importantly, he needs to improve his mid-range game to become the match up nightmare scouts expect him to be at the next level. He's shown the ability to take huge strides in his game, and he's nowhere near a finished product. His ceiling is as high as anyone's. The fight for the #1 spot will likely be a yearlong battle between Griffin and BJ Mullens. Griffin is clearly the favorite. If he can take Oklahoma deep into the tournament while exhibiting improved mid-range and defensive skills, he'll be too good to pass up.
Damion James (Texas) – James quietly had a great season last year playing in the shadow of DJ Augustin, averaging 13 points and 10 rebounds per game in the rugged Big 12. The biggest concern for pro scouts is his ability to play small forward in the NBA; at 6'7, he is too small to play power forward. He shot 41% from 3 last year, which is a good sign, but his ball-handling skills at this point aren't good enough to make plays from the perimeter. He can't take his man one-on-one, getting most of his points on rebounds, open shots, and moving without the ball. He's strong enough to guard bigger guys and quick enough to defend guards. He's an interesting prospect and will most likely be a lottery pick in the upcoming draft despite lacking great skills for the small forward position. Showing NBA scouts that he can play outside will help him secure a spot in the upper half of the lottery.
Connor Atchley (Texas) – Atchley possesses many of the tools that James needs. At 6'10, Atchley fits the mold of the modern power forward in the NBA: he can play close to the basket but also has the ability to step out and shoot from the perimeter. He shot 54% from the field and 41% from 3 last year; he scored almost 10 points per game (up from 5 as a sophomore) as the 4th option behind Augustin, James, and AJ Abrams; and he blocked more than two shots per game, showing aggressive play in the paint. He's lacks a power game, visible in the fact that he shot almost twice as many threes (104) as free throws (58). Adding muscle would help him in this area. With a good year as a legitimate #2 option, Atchley will be a nice pick for a team looking to add size and shooting in the first round.
Craig Brackens (Iowa State) – Speaking of the modern power forward, Brackins is it. Still relatively unknown, he had a solid freshman season, averaging 11 points per game and showing off a wide range of skills. At 6'10, he can step out and shoot, put the ball on the floor against slower bigs, and score in the post using turnaround jumpers and hooks with either hand. Not yet ready for the draft, Brackins has a lot to improve on. His shot selection is poor, resulting in bad percentages (43% from the field, 28% from 3). His defense leaves much to be desired; 5 rebounds and 1 block per game are not enough from a player possessing the physical tools that Brackins does. He'd likely be wise to stay for his junior season, a potential lottery pick in 2010.
Cole Aldrich (Kansas) – Playing time was scarce last year for Aldrich playing behind Sasha Kaun, Darrell Arthur, and Darnell Jackson, but they're gone; Cole's time is now. When he got time, he showed flashes of brilliance: In March, he had a double-double against Texas Tech in only seventeen minutes of playing time. Then, against North Carolina in the Final Four, he scored 8 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and blocked 4 shots to help the Jayhawks knock off the Tar Heels. The former McDonald's All-American has a soft touch and does a great job of getting post position, which is good considering his skills outside of ten feet aren't there yet. Although Bill Self was able to bring in a great recruiting class, Aldrich will be the focal point, and after a year of riding the bench, you can bet he'll be ready to take advantage of his increased playing time.
Others receiving consideration: Curtis Jerrells (Baylor), LaceDarius Dunn (Baylor), Henry Dugat (Baylor), James Anderson (Oklahoma State) , Sherron Collins (Kansas)
Top Newcomer: Willie Warren (Oklahoma) - Blake Griffin needs help. Enter Willie Warren. One of the top guards in the class of 2008, Warren is a highly explosive, big-time player who can score in every way possible. He's got a beautiful jump shot with NBA range, the quickness to get by his man, and the length, strength, and athleticism to finish at the basket. Last year's high school Player of the Year in Texas, Warren is more than just a scorer; he has the vision and passing to make those around him better. Unlike a lot of young players, he knows when to take the shot and when to be unselfish. He's got a great attitude and doesn't shy away from stepping up in big moments or taking shots in the clutch. He'll be one of the leaders of this team from Day 1 and should take a lot of pressure off Griffin; defenses will not be able to collapse on the big man with Warren on the perimeter. At 6'3, Warren will need to show that he has the ability to run a team and become a full-time point guard at the next level. He should be a first-round pick come 2010.
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2010 Annual Assessment
Major Developments and Policy Directions1
The Geopolitical Plane
The Jewish People Plane
Selected Indicators on World Jewry – 2010
A System of Indicators for Measuring the Well-Being of the Jewish People
Significant Global Developments & Challenges 2009-2010: Possible Implications for the Jewish People
Developments in the Geopolitical Arena and their Possible Implications for Israel and the Jewish People
A. The Global Complex: Changes in the International Arena are Eroding the US 's Relative Power
B. The Regional Complex
C. The Israeli-Arab Conflict Complex
D. The Dynamics of the Triangle: Jerusalem-Washington-US Jewish Community
2010 – The Triangular Relationships between Washington, Jerusalem and the Jewish People
Global Economics Changes: Implications for Israel and the Jewish People
1. Introduction – A General Description of the Financial Crisis
2. The Crisis in the United States3
3. The Israeli Economy
4. The Strategic Risks Facing the Israeli Economy and its Structural Problems
Discussion and Summary
Asia's Rise: Implications for Israel and the Jewish People
Latin American Jewry Today
In Depth Chapter – De-legitimization of Israel and Israel Attachments Among Jewish Young Adults in North America and Europe
Part I: De-legitimization on University Campuses in North America and Europe
Part II – Jewish identity, Attachment to Israel and De-legitimization Among Young Jews
Developments to Watch 2010
Religious Issues and Israel-Diaspora Relations
The Jewish Free School Case in London and the Hebrew Charter Schools in the US
New Findings Concerning the Genome1 Structure of the Jewish People
JPPI Main Publications
While both the global economic crisis and Jewish identity in the Diaspora (in connection with de-legitimization of Israel on North American campuses) are examined in other parts of this year's annual assessment, two developments which resonate with these themes in Jewish education at the primary and secondary levels are worth noting and watching. One concerns JFS—formerly Jews' Free School, established in 1732– the oldest and most venerable Jewish school in the United Kingdom, and the other, the Hebrew Language Academy (HLA), a charter school in Brooklyn which opened in September 2009. Both navigate the borderlands between religious and state authorities, and between particularistic and pluralistic inclinations within Judaism. Both schools are free of charge, a fact that, in these trying economic times, has profound financial ramifications for some Jewish families.
In December 2009, JFS lost a legal challenge to its admissions policy in a narrowly split decision (5-4) rendered by Britain's Supreme Court. The suit was brought against JFS on behalf of "M," 12 years old at the time, who was declined a place among the school's approximately 1,700 students based on the refusal of the Office of the Chief Rabbi (OCR), Dr. Jonathan Sacks, to recognize the non-Orthodox conversion of his Italian, Roman Catholic-born mother, and by extension M's own status as a Jew. M's father, who is divorced from his mother, is both a Briton and a Jew by birth, and belongs to a Masorti synagogue he regularly attends with his son. Attorneys representing M argued that JFS had determined his ineligibility for admissions on the basis of ethnicity, in violation of Britain's 1976 Race Relations Act, because it had based its decision on his mother's ethnic origins.
Although M lost the first legal round in a lower court, which found JFS's admission policy to be "entirely legitimate," he prevailed on appeal, a ruling sustained by the Supreme Court justices. The Court of Appeal in its verdict stated: "the requirement that if a pupil is to qualify for admission his mother must be Jewish, whether by descent or conversion, is a test of ethnicity which contravenes the Race Relations Act… Such a practice is even more unacceptable in the case of a comprehensive school funded by the taxpayer."
"the requirement that if a pupil is to qualify for admission his mother must be Jewish is a test of ethnicity… such a practice is even more unacceptable in the case of a school funded by the taxpayer"
The Appeal Court's ruling called for JFS to adopt an admissions standard based on "outward manifestations of religious practise," a test that would include, among other factors, synagogue attendance. JFS was instructed to implement such a calculus for the 2010-11 school year and complied with the order. Supreme Court jurist Lord Brown, who is Jewish, remarked in his dissenting opinion that such a test amounted to a "non-Jewish definition of who is Jewish."
For some, including Rabbi Sacks, the decision is an intrusion and indicates at least a modicum of state directed and enforced, intra-Judaic policy,court ordered pluralism in this case. For others, like the chief executive of Britain's Liberal Judaism, Rabbi Danny Rich, the ruling was welcome because it addresses the objection of non-Orthodox streams to "standard-setting by just one section of the community to the detriment of the rest."
One cannot help but hear the harmonies this case strikes with the broader ongoing "conversion crisis," inside Israel and between Israeli rabbinic authorities and Diaspora rabbis, which has at its heart the daunting identificational questions of who is a Jew and who has the authority to make such determinations.
The basic model for Hebrew charter schools includes a segregation of Jewish and Israeli culture, which is allowed, from religious and biblical studies which are not
In the United States, where there is a constitutionally erected separation barrier between church and state, Hebrew language charter schools, and a full-fledged, well-funded movement championing them, began to sprout up in 2007. At this writing, four charter elementary schools are in operation: two Ben Gamla Schools in southern Florida – Ben Gamla will open the first Hebrew language high school in September 2011 – the Hebrew Language Academy in Brooklyn, and the Hatikvah International Academy in East Brunswick, New Jersey. A new charter, Shalom Academy, serving the communities of Englewood and Teaneck is set to open next fall. Several more, throughout the country, are in the process of applying for charter status. In addition Jewish day schools are also planning to transform themselves into charter schools.
Broadly speaking, charter schools are self-selecting – students and families choose to enroll for a specific reason — niche schools, hybrids of public and private education that introduce, according to their advocates, an element of school choice and innovation into state-funded primary and secondary education systems. 40 states plus the District of Columbia currently have statutory provisions to accommodate charters within their public school systems. That isn't to say that the process of applying for charter status is an easy one, and, more often than not, state school licensing authorities reject charter applications the first time around.
The basic model for Hebrew charter schools includes dual-language instruction integrated into all subjects, and a careful segregation of Jewish and Israeli culture, which is allowed, from religious and biblical studies, which are not. Supplemental, privately funded Jewish religious education programs are readily available to Jewish students either on or off site after school hours.
It is interesting to note that in much of the media coverage of Hebrew charters comparisons are drawn with the Kahlil Gibran International Academy of Brooklyn, founded in 2007 as the first English-Arabic charter school to offer a curriculum of Arabic language and culture. Just as some critics of the Kahlil Gibran International Academy have expressed the concern that, in violation of the church-state divide, Islamic religious study could find its way into the school's curriculum, some critics of Hebrew charter schools, including the ACLU, make a similar claim: that it will not be possible to keep Jewish religious study from intruding on the secular school day.
Although the first Hebrew language charter school to open was Hollywood, Florida's Ben Gamla Charter School in 2007, the establishment of the Hebrew Language Academy (HLA) in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2009 was the first in New York and is the flagship school of a Hebrew language charter movement supported by the formidable clout and capital of Taglit (Birthright) philanthropist, Michael Steinhardt. HLA, which currently serves approximately 150 racially diverse students (55% are white), will increase its capacity yearly until it reaches its goal of the full spectrum of grades from kindergarten through 12th grade. Formerly an official in the New York City Department of Education's charter school, Aaron Listhaus was recently hired as the executive director of the Hebrew Charter School Center and in a March 2011 interview in Tablet Magazine said, "Our goal is to really uncouple Hebrew from Judaism. Contemporary Israeli society is the result of 120 years of secularization and modernization of the Hebrew language. So, there is a whole culture out there in which Hebrew does not necessarily mean religion."
The difficulty of balancing on the tightrope between religion and state is just one issue in a complex set of problematics animating the Hebrew charter school discourse. Diane Ravitch, a professor at the New York University School of Education and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in a New York Daily News op-ed from early in 2009, takes the view that Hebrew charter schools are anathema to the American liberal multi-cultural enterprise: "It is the job of family, the community and religious institutions to teach children about their heritage. The job of public schools is to teach children a common civic culture and a shared commitment to democracy…In a city with hundreds of different ethnic and cultural groups, we should not be encouraging the creation of schools that are specific to a single non-American culture. That way lies separation, segregation and the fraying bonds that hold us together as Americans."
Contemporary Israeli society is the result 0f 120 years of secularization and modernization of the Hebrew language, so there's a whole culture in which Hebrew does not necessarily mean religion
One of the thorniest areas in the Hebrew charter school discourse concerns the impact Hebrew charters may have on already financially strapped Jewish day schools. The anxiety Hebrew charters cause in the day school community has added fresh energy to the call for school vouchers among some Jewish educators. At the same time, with day school tuition at around $20,000 per child per year, and the country still in the grip of a persistent financial crisis, others say that charter schools have the potential to save and revitalize Jewish education in the US. And, as mentioned above, it is a safe bet that more and more day schools will seek to convert to charters.
Rabbi Paul Plotkin, spiritual leader of the Conservative Temple Beth Am in Margate, Florida, recently wrote that Hebrew charters might offer the Conservative movement the opportunity of a badly needed infusion of revenue and cultural relevance:
"As wonderful as our Solomon Schechter schools have been, they still only attract a small percentage of Conservative students. While cost is not the only reason, it certainly has been a major contributing factor.
But a "near" Jewish day school education might be available for a few thousand dollars a year [the estimated price of afterschool Jewish study programs]. And the delivery of this education could reinvigorate older Conservative synagogues, creating a significant new revenue stream and putting many new children on campus. The plan also could provide employment opportunities for Conservative rabbis, teachers, and youth workers, as well as the resources to pay them".


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By Stephen Edelstein	 June 28, 2017
The Maserati GranTurismo has been in production for 10 years, making it positively ancient by industry standards. The GranTurismo has gone so long without major updates that you'd be forgiven for forgetting this big luxury coupe even existed.
So it's probably a good thing that Maserati chose to unveil the 2018 GranTurismo at a location where many of its customers already congregate: the New York Stock Exchange. Despite being billed as an updated model, the 2018 GranTurismo is not dramatically different from the 2017 model. It will solider on as Maserati continues to wallow in indecision over a replacement.
The GranTurismo probably wouldn't have lasted this long if it didn't look this good. A decade on, the muscular bodywork, sculpted by Italian design house Pininfarina, is still eye catching. For 2018, the GranTurismo gets a new grille inspired by the well-received Maserati Alfieri concept. It lowers aerodynamic drag slightly, but doesn't really change the look of the car.
Maserati's infotainment upgrades are a bit more substantial. The 2018 GranTurismo gets an updated system based around an 8.4-inch touchscreen, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. Likely the same system used in numerous other Fiat Chrysler Automobiles models, it should help bring the GranTurismo up to speed. Maserati also added an aluminum rotary knob to control infotainment functions, as well as a new Harman Kardon audio system.
In the U.S., the 2018 GranTurismo will be offered in Sport and MC (Maserati Corse) guises, both with a 4.7-liter V8 Ferrari-built V8 that carries over unchanged from the 2017 model. It sends 460 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission.
The GranTurismo Sport will do 0 to 62 mph in 4.8 seconds, and reach a top speed of 186 mph, according to Maserati. Thanks to its lighter weight, the GranTurismo MC can do 0 to 62 mph in 4.7 seconds, and tops out at 187 mph. All performance figures represent slight improvements over the 2017 model, Maserati claims.
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In early 2008 my brother Stuart took his own life. He was a talented documentary film maker (professionally known as Pip Starr), but he was going through a rough patch.
Stuart's death was terrible, but not terribly unusual. It's well known that LGBTIQ people have higher suicide rates than the broader population. Just a couple of days ago Australia's peak mental health bodies joined forces to confirm that a "yes" vote could prevent around 3000 suicide attempts each year in this group. This is a truly enormous number of people adversely affected by being unable to feel equal in the eyes of the law.
But as well as being made to feel "less than" straight people during their lives, gay people are also discriminated against in death. I can confirm this from personal experience.
Although Stuart and his partner Gurny had been living together for three years when Stuart died (so should legally have been regarded as a de facto couple) that's not how it played out. Repeatedly, my mother, my siblings and I were given more rights over Stuart's affairs than Gurny was.
This started an hour after Stuart died. When my husband and I turned up at their apartment, everything was in confusion. We spent time trying to calm Gurny (who'd found Stuart's body an hour earlier) and then the police arrived.
Immediately, they wanted to talk to me as Stuart's sister, rather than Gurny. At the time I didn't really notice the injustice of this, but as time went on and the police continued to communicate with my mother and I rather than Gurny, the penny dropped. In the absence of a marriage certificate or a female partner, some police officers (though not all) behaved as if Stuart was single when he died.
Jennie Hill (right) with her late brother Stuart and son Sam in 2003.
Because Stuart's death was suicide, his body was taken to the morgue at the Coroner's Office. This office named my mother as next-of-kin and communicated with her. Gurny wasn't even allowed to view Stuart's body without my mother's permission.
They sent paperwork and autopsy results to her, even though she'd confirmed to them that Gurny was Stuart's partner. And when a Death Certificate was issued, it was sent to her.
Stuart's employer also communicated with mum to tie up his affairs, and invited our family (but not Gurny) to a memorial service.
Like many people, Stuart didn't leave a will. My mother gave his assets to Gurny, but this was her decision, not a legal requirement. Stuart's superannuation was also paid to Gurny, but only because he was specifically nominated. Otherwise this, too, would probably have been paid to my mother.
There are endless possibilities for a family to punish a gay partner after the death of their child or sibling, should they choose to do so.
After any sudden death, confusion adds to the natural grief. And when the rights of those left behind are also in confusion, this adds massively to the stress. As well as grieving the loss of her beloved baby boy, my mother had to negotiate complex legal issues with various authorities; negotiations that simply would not have arisen had Stuart been legally married or in a straight partnership.
The emotional burden involved was a lot heavier than it needed to be. I'd like to say my mother was generous to Gurny, but she merely did what any ethical person would do, which was to accept Gurny as Stuart's partner and force others to do so too.
To his credit, Gurny also behaved generously, although he was not obligated to. I'm not sure, though, that he felt he had a choice.
He was a foreign national and although he'd lived in Australia for years and his English was fine, he was not as at-home with Australian authority as an Australian citizen would have been. In fact, some weeks after Stuart's death, he admitted he'd been terrified the day we met with the funeral director to plan Stuart's service, believing he'd be erased from the ceremony and perhaps even barred from attending.
He knew we had no problem with him, but he wondered if we'd be swayed by other relatives or convention when push came to shove. When this didn't happen he was grateful, but gratitude shouldn't have been required. I was mortified he'd even been thinking like this, and it occurred to me again how bitterly unfair the situation was.
I shudder to think of how this would have played out had my family not done the right thing. We would have had fights, regret and perhaps legal action to add to the already-fraught aftermath of suicide.
This behaviour does occur in families where the person's sexuality isn't accepted. There are endless possibilities for a family to punish a gay partner after the death of their child or sibling, should they choose to do so.
Yet nobody would dare treat a traditionally married couple this way. And in partnerships where the person who has died isn't even "out", these problems are compounded; as would be relationships with children involved.
People get sick, and people die. When they do, the responsibility of authorities and communities is to deal with what needs to be done as compassionately as possible. In Australia now, this doesn't happen, and the equality many believe is there doesn't exist and can't be easily legislated for.
Sometimes it works out, as it did for us, but generally only according to the grace and favour of families and those making decisions at various authorities, instead of based solely on the rights of those involved.
This is a disgrace. I feel anyone who'd vote "no" after reading what I've written here is something of a disgrace, too. Empathy is a small word but a big concept. We could all use more of it.
The only way to solve this problem is to vote "yes". I sincerely hope people do.
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