Why Did the Eastern and Western Churches Split?
The eastern and western churches split over differences in theology, practice, politics and culture. As Constantinople became an important center of government in the eastern half of the Roman Empire, the church there began to challenge the supremacy of Rome. Without a common language and culture, the two halves of the Christian Church drifted apart in the face of their disagreements.
The split between the eastern and western churches was largely politically motivated. The Bishop of Rome held considerable authority from the early days of the church. Rome, Alexandria and Antioch were the three power centers of Christianity. Once Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium, the church there enjoyed increased ecclesiastical influence equal to the city's bolstered political importance. After Alexandria and Antioch fell to the Muslims, Rome and Constantinople remained the two strongest churches, creating a rivalry that fueled their eventual separation.
The churches of the east and west disagreed on key points of doctrine and ritual. The western church believed that the Holy Ghost emanates from the Son as well as the Father. The clergy of the western church angered the church in Constantinople when it inserted this doctrine into the Nicene creed. The western church adopted the use of unleavened bread for the Eucharist to the chagrin of the eastern church. The eastern church disagreed with the western tradition of unmarried priests. The Roman church disdained the eastern church's subservience to the Byzantine Emperor.
These tensions came to a climax when Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius ordered the closure of all Latin churches in his city. When the leadership of the western church excommunicated him, Cerularius excommunicated them in turn.


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Q: Code First - Mapping when the Discriminator IS NULL or NOT NULL I want to use TPH Inheritance in EF5 Code First. I want to base it on whether a column in the database is null or not.
I found this link indicating it was not possible in EF4. Entity Framework 4 - TPH Inheritance in Features CTP5 (code first) with "IS NULL" discriminator
Has this been fixed in EF5? If so, what is the syntax?

A: see the discussion and answer at:
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Do the Ontario Liberals want an election?
An interesting game of poker is taking place in Ontario and it seems that the Liberals may have the best hand. Who has the most to lose? At the moment it's the NDP. No one wants an election and I suspect that if one is called you can kiss all of those NDP seats goodbye. Both the NDP and the Tories cannot afford an election at the moment. In a funny sense if the NDP votes against the budget I am sure the Tories will end up having to support it. The Liberals be in the best position if an election is called. So who will blink first?
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday. The Liberals have had a lot of issues since the election; the power plant, Deb Matthews and ORNGE, custs to OHIP but neither the Tories or the NDP have come out looking like a better alternate. If there is an election I can see what happened federally happen here – resulting in anotehr Liberal majority. But the election after there is no way they'll be kept in power… Ontarians need more time before they break-up with their love affair with the Liberal party.
I think you are correct, but my guess is that Dalton maybe betting if an election is called Ontario voters may opt to give the Liberals a majority. I don't think voters are ready to put the NDP in the drivers seat yet. I feel sorry for the Tories because they cannot seem to get any traction.


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On Friday, July 13, 2018, HMRC released additional information regarding the Making Tax Digital initiative, which is currently set to go into effect in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2019. This new information, contained in VAT Notice 700/22, includes further details on the requirements of digital records and digital links where data transfer is made between software programs, products, or applications, as well as what constitutes functionally compatible software. In addition, HMRC published a Communications Pack, which is intended to help business stakeholders with the Making Tax Digital Initiative. This Communication Pack can be found here, and offers background information, timeline dates, as well as key messages from HMRC for businesses that will be impacted.


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Avoid a Walk Down The Shopping Aisle
Kelly K. SporsStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated Feb. 15, 2004 12:01 am ET
Most people know that online shopping offers conveniences. But for wedding-gift shoppers, the Web offers particular advantages.
With a few clicks, you can track down where the couple is registered without having to ask them directly, and it saves trips to the mall to find the requested items. And an added bonus for couples: Creating registries at multiple stores has never been easier, since your guests can often find your registries all in one place on sites like these.
WeddingChannel.com
This site lets you simultaneously search for registries at over a dozen national retailers, including J.C. Penney, Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Crate & Barrel.
When you get on the site, go to the "guests & gifts" box at the right. Type in either the bride's or groom's first and last name, and it will pop up a list of possible weddings, their dates and links to stores where they've registered. Click on the one you want to check out, and it'll bring you directly to the couple's registry at that store.
Most online retailers offer gift-wrapping for a few dollars and you can get the gifts shipped to you or to the couple directly. If you feel limited by the couple's gift choices, the site offers advice on other gifts to purchase in your price range.
Felicite.com
You probably won't find the couple's registry on this site unless they told you about it first. The site, which caters to all sorts of gift-giving occasions including baby showers and graduations, lets couples create their own registries, and often supplies nontraditional gift requests -- for example, cash donations to the "honeymoon fund" or a favorite charity.
All the requested gifts, regardless of where they're sold, are listed in one full list. A nice option for guests: You can give as much as you want and contribute partially or fully to gifts. So even if you can't afford the $20,000 speedboat the couple yearns to get, you can give $50 or $100 toward the boat's purchase. However, on cash gifts, the site says it charges a 4.9% transaction fee. The site also lets couples build their registries from an unlimited number of stores. Couples can leave descriptions, explaining to guests why they're requesting certain gifts.
This comprehensive wedding planner's site includes a database for guests that links to online registries at over 30 national retailers including Kohl's, Marshall Field's, Target, and Linens 'n Things.
When you get to the home page, click on the "gifts & registries" button near the top. Then, under "wedding guests," it lets you type in a bride's or groom's name, wedding date and location -- though you often need only a name. It will then list retailers and couples who are registered at those stores. You click on the link and it redirects you to their registry at that store. The site also offers extras such as linking to personal wedding sites that have photos, information about the ceremony and reception and a way for guests to R.S.V.P. online.
Write to Kelly K. Spors at kelly.spors@wsj.com
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The policies at the School of Liberal Arts and at IUPUI will help you stay in good academic standing, understand requirements (like how to graduate with distinction), and know what to do in key situations (like when you want to petition for a grade change, or pursue a double major or dual degree).
See the IU School of Liberal Arts Bulletin.
See the IU Graduate School Bulletin.
IUPUI's academic calendar has all the dates you need to know, like when you'll register for classes, deadlines to drop and add classes, and when you'll have final exams.
The Code protects your rights and outlines your responsibilities as an IUPUI student. IUPUI also has an Office of Student Conduct.


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Library and Archives Canada Blog
François-Hyacinthe Séguin's storytelling: a Co-Lab challenge
Posted on February 20, 2020 by Library and Archives Canada Blog
Terrebonne, 1810 (e000756681)
Genealogy serves many purposes; it can be a hobby or a way to connect with those who came before you. It can help to strengthen your identity within your community asyou learn about your ancestors and where they came from. Be warned, it can be addictive!
As enjoyable and meaningful as researching your family history can be, it can also be very frustrating. One of the challenges I encountered when answering inquiries from the public during my time with the Library and Archives Canada Genealogy team was that it is sometimes difficult to find contextual information about people in the past. It is reasonably easy to learn basic information about ancestors, such as their dates and places of birth or the names of the witnesses who signed the marriage record, but this does not tell you much about their day-to-day lives or what their communities were like.
For example, birth, marriage and death records usually contain information such as full name, year and place of birth, and name of parents. Census records contain a little more information, such as religious denomination, ethnic origin and occupation. This information is useful, but it does not complete the picture. An occupation title, such as labourer or domestic, is helpful, but does not tell you where the person worked, how long the days were, and what kind of life that person came home to in the evening. In my own research, I found that to understand why ancestors made the decisions they did, you need to see the bigger picture. This is why notary François-Hyacinthe Séguin's journal of the Terrebonne area in Quebec was so valuable as a non-traditional genealogy resource in understanding Canadian history in the early to mid-1800s.
François-Hyacinthe Séguin received his notary commission on October 15, 1808, and he opened an office in Terrebonne, where he served the community for all of his life. Not only did he keep detailed notes of births, marriages and deaths in the small town, but he also recorded details of social, political and environmental activities in the area. The journal, written in French, spans February 7, 1831, to March 2, 1834, and is a fascinating account of religious and social life in Terrebonne. Séguin writes about a variety of subjects, such as charivaris after local weddings, the cholera epidemic in the community, a solar eclipse and the first thunderstorm of the year.
A page from Séguin's journal, where he states that, as Antoine Collard and Louis Turgeon have died, even the doubters must now admit that there is a cholera outbreak in the community. He also gives a short—and judgmental—biography of the two men, which genealogists may find helpful. (e004158805)
Another important subject in Séguin's journal is his account of the Patriote movement. He diligently chronicles the history and politics of the day. His entries describe local politicians who were elected but not admitted into the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. He also writes about tensions during recent elections and the violence that people experienced while trying to vote.
Séguin's journal also delves into local lives. He freely expresses his feelings about friends, neighbours and relatives in terms that are not always flattering. In one of the entries, he writes about how one of his students was recently arrested and that although he knew he should feel sympathy, he did not. In his entry noting the death of a local widow, he criticizes her frugal tendencies and her lack of social interactions. While noting the death of the priest from a neighbouring town, Séguin sneaks in a critique about the clergyman's appearance.
A page from Séguin's journal, where topics range from a winter thunderstorm to the deaths of local residents. (e004158841)
Do you want to know more about the good, the bad and the ugly in 1831 Terrebonne? Our Co-Lab challenge is dedicated to François-Hyacinthe Séguin's fascinating French-language journal. Each page is filled with captivating and often critical observations, which help us to deepen our understanding of what it was like to live in a small town in Quebec in the mid-1800s. You can help to transcribe Séguin's journal in the original French, or help to translate this no-holds-barred journal into English, so Anglophones can relish Séguin's storytelling.
Interested in learning about your own ancestors? Visit our Genealogy and family history pages.
Sara Chatfield is a project manager in the Exhibitions and Online Content Division at Library and Archives Canada.
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Talk given by John Keating, O.Carm., at the launch of the booklet for Ministers of the Word, Cloyne Diocese, 23 January 2006.
I would like to begin by thanking Bishop Magee and the members of the Theological Forum for Liturgical Ministry for the invitation to speak at the launch of this diocesan booklet. Proclaiming the Word has been a subject very close to my heart for many, many years. Over the years every time I proclaim the Word in the liturgy I find myself both humbled and honoured by the task.
My interest began over 30 years ago, hearing the great biblical and liturgical scholar Lucien Deiss speaking on this topic. I cannot recall his exact words, but the sense of them has continued to resonate with me down through the years. They went something like this: "Without proper proclamation how can we receive the Word with gratitude and be moved to give thanks?" His sentiments remain fresh. How can we become a people of thanksgiving, a Eucharistic people, unless the seed of the Word is planted in us? I believe this happens when there is good proclamation, in the power of the Spirit, to human hearts; when the Word is revealed in a type of preaching that speaks to the men and women of the twenty-first century; when a contemplative approach to proclamation leads to prayer and action. Prayerful preparation in order to speak God's word in faith is not an end in itself, but just a beginning.
Good proclamation of the Word by any minister is not only a task or a tool of evangelization, it is a continuous process and invitation to renewal for the community of believers. Were the recommendations presented in this booklet to be implemented, not just practically, but linked to "a prayer pondering the word of God", then there could be real fruit, a true renewal for the people of this diocese.
Within the past 100 years, and especially since the Second Vatican Council the proximity and availability of the Word of God has become something new. We have been blessed because, without doubt, we are the heirs of both the liturgical movement and the scripture movement. My generation and that of my parents were not raised in a Scripture culture. We associated the Bible mainly with the communities worshipping in the spirit of the Reformation. Now most homes would have a bible, and with the daily use of scripture in the liturgy, we are familiar with the great events of the Old and New Testament. By the very fact of being a minister of the Word (a "lector" as the booklet text points out) many have learnt that pondering and proclamation of the scriptures are an engagement with the "self-communication of God to creation." Our simple task of reading in church is in continuity with the great Judeo/Christian tradition. What seems like something new to us is in fact a ministry that is very ancient.
The great dignity of proclamation, compared to mere reading, is rooted in ancient practice. God is speaking to us in the assembly of the faithful.
Quality proclamation, which this booklet sets out to achieve, means that we allow the unfolding of the great mystery through the gift of good communication. It requires of the "lector" entry into the text and the release of the Verbum Domini for the gathered people of God.
In the years when I taught homiletics in the Milltown Institute I used an image of the home pizza delivery service. I may order the ham and mushroom event, it may even be made, but until it is delivered to my door nothing happens. The art of communication is about delivery. All the practical elements come into place. Then that Word can engage and lead to dialogue. What is happening out there in the congregation only God knows. If we reflect on the Hebrew word, dabar (word), it is not merely a spoken or written word but a happening, an active or enlivened deed. Something is happening out there in the congregation. Scripture itself reminds us that God spoke and it came to be..... The Jewish heart could not forget that God's dabar is a creative and regenerative word. It is not spoken without achieving what it was sent to do and will not return empty to God.
We have come a long way in the last twenty years or so. Once upon a time it was difficult to get someone to read in public. Now I am delighted to see the confidence and ability not just of church readers, but of many of our young school children both in reading and speaking. This is a positive side to the new Ireland. This booklet can improve on existing practice, achieving "best practice" – a real method of renewal for the people of this diocese and beyond.
What I particularly liked about this booklet is that it handles the notion of diction, sense, punctuation and pace in a concise and very practical way. There is a wonderful mixture of lectio divina, prayer, practical advice and information. This production comes out of experience – a process that involved the people involved in liturgical formation and moved from there into the hands of the Diocesan Theology Forum.
The bible we open is not just a book of poetry, or of historical events and fables, or of tradition, but of our lives, providing us with a way of direction for Christian life. Some months ago on a BBC radio interview I heard a leader of the Islamic community in Britain speaking about street violence in their community. He used the phrase, with reference to some of his young people, "they have lost the inner moral compass of their lives." Without the guidance of the Word we too may be danger of loosing our inner moral compass. The liturgical assembly is "a school of the Word." The role of lector is not just a function but ministering in love – God giving us our food in due season. As someone once said, regarding the Rule of St. Benedict, it is more a manual to be lived than a spiritual or legal document to be read. Rather than reading in, let it read you. How much more could we speak about hearing the Word and then quickly forgetting it! It is to be lived.
I congratulate all who worked on this beautifully produced little booklet. It will be used, I hope, further afield than this diocese. Would I use it, I asked myself, and the answer was definitely – Yes.
 Ciferni, A., "Word and Sacrament", NDSW, 1318.
 Magrassi, M., Praying the Bible: An Introduction to Lectio Divina, (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998) 3.
 see Augustine, In Johannem 80,3.


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This week we will be reading the history article, Westward Bound!, by Michael J. Noble.
Reading comprehension skills for the week are: cause and effect and learn to visualize.
The U6W1 reading comprehension test will be on Monday, April 2nd.
This week's writing assignment will be to research ghost towns. This is the prompt: The local historical society is showcasing ghost towns. They want you to take on the role of a former resident of a ghost town and give a presentation at their next meeting. To prepare, research ghost towns. Find out what happens to create one. Then choose a specific ghost town to be "your town". Tell what happened to it, and to you, as it went to from boom to bust.
This assignment is due on Monday, April 9th.
This week we will be working on spelling words with r-controlled vowels and using commonly misspelled words correctly.
The words are: alert, archery, assertive, assortment, depart, durable, forfeit, fortress, hardship, lantern, marshal, minerals, organize, stirrups, surly.
The spelling test will be on Monday, April 2nd.
Students will be working on using pronouns.
The Unit 5 grammar test will be on Monday, April 2nd.
Students will be placed into leveled small groups based on the results of the Unit 5 assessments.
Students will be finishing the following books this week: Go West!, Children of the Trail West, The California Gold Rush, Children of the Wild West.
We will complete lessons 11.5-11.7 this week.
On Tuesday, students will be taking the Chapter 11 mid-chapter checkpoint quiz.
Our next book will be Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale.
We will be working on an inquiry investigation called: Using the Scientific Method.
Unit 5 is entitled Every Drop. Students will be working to answer the question: Why is water so important? This unit will focus on social studies and science concepts as well so some of the assignments during this unit will count toward students' social studies and science grades.
This week we will be reading the legend, Juan del Oso and the Water of Life, retold by Enrique R. Lamadrid.
Reading comprehension skills for the week are: analyze characters' responses, compare characters, make connections, explain sayings, compare themes, determine theme, analyze approach to theme, and compare approaches to theme.
The Unit 5 reading comprehension test will be on Wednesday, March 7th.
This week's writing assignment will be to write a magazine article. This is the prompt: Write a magazine article that explains something about the importance of water. Add it to a class magazine.
This assignment is due on Thursday, March 8th.
This week we will be working on spelling words long i: ie, igh, and using commonly misspelled words correctly.
The words are: bleary, chairperson, cheerful, despair, earache, eerie, endear, hearsay, impair, nearby, overhear, peerless, searing, sheer, wearable, oar, or, ore..
The spelling test will be on Wednesday, March 7th.
Students will be working on using possessive nouns and adjectives.
The Unit 5 grammar test will be on Wednesday, March 7th.
Students will be placed into leveled small groups based on the results of the Unit 4 assessments.
Students will be finishing the following books this week: Drylongso, Escaping the Giant Wave, Hannah West in Deep Water, Flood.
Students will also be completing learning stations during our small group reading time. All of these activities go along with our Unit 5 theme of the importance of water. Students will turn in a packet of their work which will also count toward their and science grades.
Chapter 10: Convert Units of Measure..
The Chapter 10 test will be on Monday, March 5th.
We will complete lessons 11.1-11.3 this week.
We will begin Chapter 6: Earth and Space.
The Chapter 6 test will be on Wednesday, March 7th.
Week 14: The Road to Independence.


Sadly we say goodbye to our mother, wife and nana – Marion Phoebe Roberts (Mamie to many), who passed away suddenly on Monday, April 6, 2015. Born in Nanaimo on May 2, 1921, Marion moved to a small Alberta farm when she married Don (Dec 1943). They moved back to the Sooke District in 1948 where they raised four daughters and were active members of the community for over 50 years. They moved to Colwood in 2001. To quote Don, "She was a good wife" for over 71 years. Mom lived her life with passion, vitality, and curiosity. A poster child for continuous learning, she never considered age a barrier. Her life was a testament to her philosophy that if you wanted something badly enough you could make it happen.
She became a swimming instructor at 42, had her last baby at 45, and accomplished a life goal to graduate from high school at 68 (EMSS). Marion never looked to others to fill her time and she was never bored in her own company. One of the dear loves of her life was square dancing with Don. Avid square dancers for over 50 years they knew most square dance halls on the Island intimately – and many others across the US and Canada – thus combined two loves, travel and dancing. Mom will be lovingly remembered by her husband Donald Roberts, daughters Lynn Allaire (Michel), Shari Walker (George), Ardis Myette (Larry) and Paula Barclay; 12 grandchildren and nearly 20 great-grandchildren who will continue to celebrate her legacy.
To those of us who loved her she was a joy, a challenge and a role model of a strong and courageous woman. Mom, you will be deeply missed – we wish you peace and joy as you organize heaven and get things under control until we can be together again! A celebration of Mamie's life will be held at the Colwood Community Hall, 2219 Sooke Road on Saturday, April 18, 2015 from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, mom's request was for donations to go to the Humane Society, the Children's Hospital, or Santa's Anonymous.


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When Greater Russia Meets Greater Israel
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If there's one thing that all democratic countries and institutions appear to agree on it is that Russia ought to be comprehensively sanctioned for its invasion of Ukraine; that Putin and his housetrained oligarchs should be hit where it hurts – in their pockets, their businesses, their luxury travel, their numerous homes away from home, their football clubs, their floating palaces and so on.
All democratic countries except for one, that is.
Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based Holocaust memorial and research institute, is currently lobbying the US Administration to make an exception for one, pet oligarch, Chelsea Football Club owner and general oligarch-about-town Roman Abramovich, who just last week donated what has been described as "tens of millions of shekels" to the museum.
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How Yitzhak Rabin Rates on the De Klerk Scale
Several readers of my previous column have asked why I made no mention of Yitzhak Rabin when writing about Israel's need for a redemptive figure like South Africa's F.W. de Klerk. The short answer is that it didn't occur to me. The longer answer is given below.
In order to compare the motivations and actions of Rabin with those of De Klerk, I have identified five factors which, I believe, were essential to De Klerk's dramatic reversal of direction in 1990 – the qualities that defined his decisive role in history.
Firstly, he came from the heart of the Afrikaner people and, for most of his life, he shared its ideological commitment to white racial domination. Had he been an Afrikaner pariah, like Breyten Breytenbach, say, his transformation would have been less dramatic and a lot less potent.
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F.W. de Klerk's Message for Israelis
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Theunis Christiaan de Klerk, an ancestor of former South African president F.W. De Klerk, was hanged by the British in 1815 for his role in the so-called Slagtersnek Rebellion. Another ancestor, Lourens de Klerk, was killed by the impis of Zulu king Dingaan in 1838, one of about 100 people to die in a brutal massacre.
The former president's grandfather fought against the British in the Boer War, one of his uncles was J.G. Strijdom, South Africa's fifth prime minister, and his father Johannes de Klerk, was a senator representing the apartheid National Party who served as a cabinet minister for fifteen years under three prime ministers.
One of his earliest memories, F.W. wrote in his biography, was sitting on his father's shoulders during the emotional cornerstone laying ceremony for the Vootrekker Monument (arguably South Africa's Wailing Wall) outside Pretoria in 1938. He was three at the time.
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Between Witch-Burners & Identity Zealots: The Liberal Dilemma
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With witch-burners and flat-earthers on the one side and dour identity absolutists on the other, it is becoming difficult to maintain one's moral equilibrium. Concepts and designations that I once thought immutable – left-wing, progressive, humanist – have now become porous and threatening.
The conservatives, whose myth-based self-images, fears and prejudices have led them to knowledge-denial and irrational flights of fancy, are not my concern here. Not that I doubt the danger they pose – their idiocy could well lead us to climate catastrophe and other nightmarish scenarios – but there is nothing about them that causes me to question my own values.
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The Apocalyptic Peter Wilhelm
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Many of us, I suspect, have been flirting with apocalyptic anxiety over the past 18 months, in the face of both the Covid pandemic and the contemporaneous worsening of the global climate. For my generation, that dual whammy has been the first real wake-up call after decades of post-WWII stability, growth and relative peace. All of a sudden, in our old age, we are having to contemplate the possibility of the end of the world.
One person who didn't need an epidemic poke-in-the-ribs to begin concerning himself with the Apocalypse was the journalist, author and poet Peter Wilhelm – my mentor and friend – who spent the past three decades conjuring up extraordinary visions of a dystopian future and the post-apocalyptic world that might follow.
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EXCLUSIVE: New Government Caps Successful Clinical Trial
The creation of a new government in Israel was the successful outcome of a clinical trial conducted over the past few months, The Kibbitzer has learned.
The trial, conducted by a wide spectrum of mental health experts, tested the efficacy and safety of social interaction methodologies and group emotional support sessions in treating patients suffering from PBSD, a rare syndrome found only in Israel.
"We weren't certain that it would work," Prof. Yair Lapid, the trial's convenor, told The Kibbitzer.
"Post-Bibi Stress Disorder is a mental disorder provoked by exposure to severe Bibi trauma. Normal treatment methods have had only limited success. But I had an inkling that if PBSD sufferers spent enough time with each other, sparks would begin to fly."
The Kibbitzer understands that the initial trial group comprised a number of severe PBSD cases – among them a former general, a former settlement leader and high-tech whizz and a former Moldovan bouncer – with others who were not suffering from PBSD but were able to empathize.
There was also a control group convened by Dr. R. Rivlin, which used the same clinical methodologies but was unsuccessful in forming a government.
"I don't want to give the impression that PBSD has been cured," Prof Lapid cautioned. "Many people are still vulnerable to the trauma. But I think we can say we've come up with a successful treatment."
Gaza and Warsaw: The Iron Fist in Action
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On a visit Tuesday to the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Acre, where Palestinian rioters had torched Jewish property the previous day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the incidents reminded him of "sights from our people's past, and we cannot accept that."
I understand him. When I see TV clips of Gaza going up in flames from Israeli bombardment – foreign news clips, to be clear; Israeli TV is entirely focused on Jewish suffering – I am also reminded of sights from the Jewish past.
I see the burning buildings and wailing children of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Jewish revolt of April-May 1943 – the savage, sadistic German response to a futile rebellion by desperate people who had no future and were prepared to sacrifice their lives to preserve whatever scraps remained of their own dignity.
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Israel's Political Pyromaniac Strikes Again
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With Gaza under sustained attack and Hamas rockets targeting wide swathes of southern and central Israel, it is perhaps too early to draw conclusions about what precisely caused the latest round of blood-letting in the Middle East. That said, there are three factors that are already clear at this stage.
The first is that Bibi Netanyahu never intended to leave office quietly. In the days before yesterday's descent into open warfare, his opponents appeared set to announce a new government – one with the single, overriding objective of getting rid of the prime minister. Netanyahu, who faces doing prison time without the shield of office, was never going to let that happen.
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The Dark Side of Israel's Vaccination Miracle
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I had my second Covid vaccination yesterday. Within the next week or so, I should achieve above 90% percent immunity. That doesn't mean that I won't catch the virus or transmit it, according to my understanding. It simply means that I will be spared the symptoms. That in itself is a huge relief.
While thankful to have come this far so quickly – hardly anyone I know outside Israel has received the vaccine – my satisfaction is tempered by the awareness that my good fortune is the result of something I have lamented and criticized for my entire adult life.
Israel's uncanny stranglehold on sentiment in the West has again enabled it to profit over most other countries, without any real justification and despite the human rights abuses that should – and probably would, in the case of virtually any other country – condemn it to international pariahdom.
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Ode to Phil Spector
So Phil Spector is dead, then,
crazy fuck, musical magician,
engineer of walls
that Trump could never build.
To know him was to love him,
before he became an unhinged melody.
He was the Wagner of electric excess, the
little corporal of the recording studio.
Inducing hard-ons in teen jeans
and nipples standing to attention under polyester blouses.
But stoned and sodden,
flailing,
demented,
he played god one time too many.
Farewell, then, spectral Phil.
For a while all your stars were shining bright
and then you killed us.
Roy Isacowitz (with thanks to EJ Gordin, 12 ½)


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