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- The LI Group is working toward a campaign on water issues, including planning and securing funding for a clean water campaign. Part of our local group’s activity means working with the national Sierra Club clean water committee. Phone conferences are held every few months, and the committee is developing resources, starting with a new website: www.stopsewage.org. This brand new resource contains (or will contain) factsheets and toolkits for improving water. We are working to become certified under the Sierra Club's Water Sentinels program.
- To develop regional water testing programs for implementation by middle and high school students and teachers, community groups, local governments, and individuals.
- To develop an accessable database with these water samples.
- To integrate this database with existing geographic and geologic databases.
- Start with pilot programs along the Peconic and south eastern Long Island watersheds.
- Existing programs with minor/no overlaps
- US EPA adopt a watershed partners for LI Sound -mainly disparate efforts
- Riverkeeper has a private monitoring program with tie-ins to schools that request (but not the water quality sampling we are proposing)
- Soundwaters- one time monitoring program. Great example of curriculum conscious grant writing for ct. :::http://www.soundwaters.org/education/middle/coastal/
- Clearwater www.clearwater.org in-classroom education and onboard (sloop) and resource center- water monitoring onboard,
- Community Resource Inventory (CRI) Online- sponsored by the Connecticut NEMO program, the site provides comprehensive environmental, cultural, and economic resource data of Connecticut communities. Want to know the amount of tidal wetlands, or the water quality of streams and lakes, in your community? CRI has it.
- NY Sea Grant (LI SOUND) is NEMO project for NY (and LI info) but no CRI. Supposedly CRI is being expanded to other states but NY is not on the schedule.
- Long Island overlaps
- Adopt-A-School Program - The Long Island Chapter of the New York Water Environment Association expanded its Adopt-A-School Program to the middle schools in the drainage areas of Long Island Sound. The program involved the purchase of videos with workshop manuals and teacher guides from the Water Environment Federation for distribution to middle schools. The videos covered water conservation and wastewater treatment and were distributed to the schools by a chapter member for presentation and discussion. Seventeen schools in Nassau and Suffolk County were adopted.
- Contact: Ben Wright, Chief Engineer, Division of Sanitation, LI Chapter of the New York Environment Association, c/o Suffolk County Department of Public Works, 335 Yaphank Avenue, Yaphank, NY 11980.
- Very Similar Programs
- Cornell CCE
- NY State Education resources - drinking water testing
- NJ High School Educational Water Monitoring Program -this is the closest to what we are proposing- the info may be public domain
- Hudson Basin Riverwatch - volunteer and school monitoring for entire hudson river basin, database etc.
- MySound UConn, USEPA and NOAA
- Has monitoring buoys http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/stationstat.html
- Project Watershed - volunteer water monitoring for central new york
- Good Resources
- EPA enviro mapper
- HOW TO on developing water testing programs
- NYS DEC water monitoring info
- Project watershed - list of some similar resources as ours and testing materials.
- NY state epa registered water monitoring groups
- NY State epa registered watershed groups
- Evaluation of Hudson Bap program that has applications to project design
- List of funding sources for watersheds
Here on GreenWikia, more information is available at Monitoring_Water_Quality.
- To work on water issues on LI, contact Jessica: firstname.lastname@example.org


First No Call sign up stop here Tuesday
Published 5:00 am Monday, June 30, 2003
Lincoln County residents will be among the first to sign up forMississippi’s new No Call list for telemarketers, said PublicService Commissioner Michael Callahan.
Callahan and members of his staff will kick off the southerndistrict sign-up process in Brookhaven Tuesday when the state’s newNo Call list law takes effect. Citizens can sign up at theBrookhaven-Lincoln County Government Complex from 2-4 p.m. or atHudson’s from 5-7 p.m.
Information on the No Call Law will be available and questionswill be answered.
“I would like to thank the members of the MississippiLegislature for working with the Commission and making this lawpossible. It will not stop all the calls consumers are receiving,but it will certainly give us a break,” Callahan said.
The law does several things, Callahan explained.
First, it directs the commission to form a “No Call” database.Consumers wishing to be on the “no call” list can give theirtelephone number, name and address to the commission.
Second, the law requires telemarketers, who are going to dobusiness in Mississippi, to register with the Public ServiceCommission, post a bond and purchase the “no call” list from thecommission. The list will cost telemarketers $800 if downloadedfrom the Internet, or $1,000 if the telemarketer wants a hardcopy.
“I don’t want consumers to think we are going to give thesetelemarketers their names and addresses. All they will get is alist of 10-digit telephone numbers. It will then be up to thetelemarketer to make sure they don’t call these consumers,” saidCallahan.
Third, the law limits the time when telemarketers can callconsumers. Telemarketing calls can only be made Monday throughSaturday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Fourth, the law prohibits telemarketers from blocking the callerID function on your telephone.
“You should not be getting anymore ‘unknown caller’ or ‘IDunavailable’ messages anymore,” Callahan said.
Callahan said signing up has been as simple as possible.
“In addition to calling and e-mailing us, we plan to go to all27 counties in the southern district and personally be available tosign up consumers,” he said.
Callahan pointed out that all calls will not be stopped by theNo Call list.
He said the law only stops callers who are making a ‘TelephoneSolicitation’ which is defined in the law as ” … any voicecommunications over the telephone line of a consumer for thepurpose of encouraging the purchase or rental of or investment in,property or soliciting a sale of any consumer goods or services, oran extension of credit for consumer good or service.”
“It is very important for consumers to understand what calls areactually prohibited,” added Callahan.
The law contains several exemptions:
* Most religious/charitable organizations
* Mississippi licensed realtors
* Mississippi licensed car dealers
* Mississippi licensed insurance agents
* Funeral homes
* Stock brokers
* Banks with locations in Mississippi, and
* Companies you have an established business relationship withor had a relationship with during the past six months
“Many folks have asked me why there are any exemptions. Well,without some of these exemptions, the law would never have passed,”Callahan said. “After several years of trying, the commission justthought that getting something passed was better than nothing.”
Callahan said the commission the plans to use July and August asa sign-up period for the original list, which will be shut downaround Sept. 1.
“The Commission will take about two weeks to verify numbers andthen we are going to give the telemarketers two weeks to purgetheir databases,” Callahan said.
The commission will actually start enforcement and receivingcomplaints on October 1, he said.
“The list will be updated every quarter. So, if you miss thefirst sign up period, you would not be on the next list until Jan.1, 2004,” said Callahan.
All ‘No Call’ complaints to the commission will have to be inwriting.
“When you sign up, the commission will mail you a confirmationletter and enclose some complaint forms for you to use,” Callahansaid. “You can also download a complaint form from our Web site orcall our office and we can send you one.”


Casual brand Dockers will release a limited-edition Pride 2018 T-shirt on June 9 in celebration and support of LGBTQ rights and equality and make a donation to support the Harvey Milk Foundation: a non-profit global organization that empowers local, regional, national, and global organizations and governments to celebrate the rich and universally empowering diversity of humanity.
The Docker Pride 2018 and will be available in slim fit, sizes x-Small to x-Large. It will be available on Dockers.com and at Docker Premium Outlets and will retail for $28.
Since its introduction 32 years ago, Dockers has shared the progressive and inclusive values of its parent company, Levi Strauss & Co, which continues to advocate for non-discrimination policies in support of equality for all.
“Equality is part of our brand’s soul and we could not be prouder to support the Harvey Milk Foundation and its fight for a more diverse and inclusive world,” said Karen Riley-Grant, vice president of global marketing for Dockers.


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A Quantitative Approach for Analyzing the Relationship between Urban Heat Islands and Land Cover
AbstractWith more than 80% of Brazilians living in cities, urbanization has had an important impact on climatic variations. São José dos Campos is located in a region experiencing rapid urbanization, which has produced a remarkable Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This effect influences the climate, environment and socio-economic development on a regional scale. In this study, the brightness temperatures and land cover types from Landsat TM images of São José dos Campos from 1986, 2001 and 2010 were analyzed for the spatial distribution of changes in temperature and land cover. A quantitative approach was used to explore the relationships among temperature, land cover areas and several indices, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI). The results showed that urban and bare areas correlated positively with high temperatures. Conversely, areas covered in vegetation and water correlated positively with low temperatures. The indices showed that correlations between the NDVI and NDWI and temperature were low (<0.5); however, a moderate correlation was found between the NDBI and temperature. View Full-Text
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September 13 through September 20 marks Global Cleveland's National Welcoming Week.
The week-long series of events is designed to welcome and showcase immigrants and newcomers to the area.
On Tuesday, author, lawyer and immigrant Khizr Khan held a book signing for his book, “ This is our Constitution: What is it and Why it matters.”
The event was held at the main branch of the Cleveland Public Library from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m.Channel 3 was a proud media sponsor of the event.
However, this was no ordinary book signing, because Khar is much more than an author. He’s also a constitutional lawyer, immigrant and Goldstar father.

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A karmic relationship is defined by the reunion of two souls who know each other. Our soul incarnates from life to life, from body to body. With each reincarnation, we meet other souls and we create and experience relationships that can be powerful, disturbing, exciting, plural. Our soul then decides on the encounters and determines the soul contracts that it establishes with each of them.
Thanks to this poetic and powerful oracle illustrated by the talented Natacha Birds, you will be able to identify the karmic links that punctuate your life, but also connect to yourself and the beauty of your energies.
Each of the 42 cards, with a striking dreamlike quality, reveals 3 messages explained in the accompanying book: Guidance to help you understand the karmic link you have with a person.
Self-love to connect you to your own love. Self-awakening, an exercise proposal to connect to yourself. The Oracle of twin flames and other karmic relationships will allow you to have a new look and concrete lines of thought to better understand the relationship you have with yourself, but also with your soul mates, double souls, twin souls. .. and, who knows, maybe even with your twin flame!


I thought the only Windows Phone 7 device going to offer a microSD slot is the Samsung Focus. But there is a real possibility many of the currently announced WP7 smartphones sport an expansion slot, it just may be hidden.
As it turns out, the HTC HD7 has a sealed microSD slot right next to its SIM bed. And it’s not empty at all – there is an 8GB microSD card in it.
The 8 gig card acts as an internal storage for the handset but the OS system files are not stored on it so perhaps the HD7 storage can possibly be upgraded just by swapping it with a 16GB card.
The guys from Unwired swapped the available 8GB microSD card with another card of the same capacity and after several hard resets, the handset accepted the card and booted just fine.
So one thing’s for sure – the handsets is not locked to the card it ships with via some hardware ID or whatever. Whether upgrades are possible however, still remains unclear.


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By our way of counting, this is Day 130 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first USA case was identified in Washington State on Day 21 of the pandemic. In those next 109 days (15.5 weeks) the United States, as of 5/08/20, had 1,292,623 known COVID-19 PCR positive infected patients and 76,928 deaths, giving us a still rising death rate of 5.95%. We have 1,035,768 more COVID-19 positive infected patients than any other country in the world. The total number of COVID-19 positive infected patients in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom is 1,023,649 or 268,974 fewer infected patients than in the United States. Two new rapidly expanding “hot spot” countries are Russia with 177,160 infections and 11,231 new infections on 5/8/20 and Brazil with 135,693 infections and 9,082 new infections on 5/8/20.
As of 4/28/20:
57,812 deaths 215,461 deaths
1,004,908 infections 3,094,829 infections
Death rate: 5.75% Death Rate: 6.96%
As of 5/08/20:
76,928 deaths 270,426 deaths
1,292,623 infections 3,913,644 infections
Death Rate: 5.95% Death Rate: 6.91%
The University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics (IHME) said on 4/28/20 that we would have a total of 74,000 deaths in the USA by August 5, 2020. In contrast to this, we analyzed the case and death data using our two methods again on 5/08/20. We now estimate that we will reach 2,000,000 infected patients in 25 days (601 hours or 3.5 weeks) and have between 42,088 and 45,200 new daily deaths for a total number of deaths between 119,017 and 122,128.
Our predictions from 4/28/20, 5/03/20 and 5/08/20 for time to reach 2,000,000 infections and the estimate of the number of deaths are listed in the following chart:
Recently the University of Washington re-projected the number of deaths by August 4, 2020 to be 134,475.
We don’t usually project out 3 months for total infections and deaths, but if we did, using our methodology, we would predict that by August 4, 2020 in the United States we will have 3,807,104 COVID-19 infected patients and a total of between 207,895 and 231,101 deaths. If the death rate (now 5.95%) continues to increase, these estimates of the number of deaths will be too low.
The FDA finally approved Gilead’s Remdesivir for intravenous treatment of COVID-19 infected patients (5/01/20). Since we initially recommended approval of this drug, another 66,500 Americans have died. Gilead is donating a large amount of drug for free. Unfortunately, it now appears that the government will be involved in the distribution of the drug, which means that rural counties and clinics like ours will probably not have the opportunity to treat our patients with Remdesivir. If it were up to us, this drug would be sold through normal drug distribution channels. Hopefully use of Remdesivir and/or plasma therapy will alter reported deaths in the next four months. I’m not optimistic based on the United States government’s performance during the first 130 days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please think globally and act locally.
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Salon.com: Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Gartner was a contributor to the 2017 bestseller “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.”
In this conversation, Gartner argues that it is actually Donald Trump and not President Biden who is showing diminished mental acuity and dangerous behavior related to aging. Gartner explains that Donald Trump’s escalating dangerousness is connected to what he believes is a diseased mind that will only get worse. Gartner warns that given Trump’s dangerous personality and emotional state, (Gartner describes this as “hypomanic” behavior) he is almost certainly plotting revenge and how to make his “enemies” suffer as revenge for finally being held accountable by the courts and the rule of law. At the end of this conversation, Gartner explains how even on his worst day as an older person, President Biden is a far superior leader and decision-maker (and human being) than Donald Trump.

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The five - day - long annual literary extravaganza reached its culmination in this Pink City on Monday evening with a debate on "#MeToo: Do Men Still Have It Easy".
It's a conclusion that this literature festival has seldom reached in recent years as it managed to rally around over two hundred sessions without any controversies - - thanks to a timely decision by CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi to stay away.
For the past many years, the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival had become almost synonymous with controversies.
From Ashish Nandy to Salman Rushdie to Taslima Nasrin and to many other little known episodes that had gnawed at the very existence of the festival in the past, the 11th edition of the stood contrary to all such memories.
And yet when the festival began - - just five days ago - - it seemed that another turmoil awaited it.
With the Shri Rajput Karni Sena, in gross defiance of the law, going on a rampage in many parts of the country after the censor board cleared Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmaavat" for release, it was but clear that another controversy awaited the festival as CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi was scheduled to attend a session here.
The fringe group had already issued numerous threats to Joshi and had made it clear that it would not allow him to attend the festival.
But silence and absence are sometimes greater tools of communication than words and presence at a given event.
Joshi's announcement that he will not be attending not only saved the annual event from being caught up in protests but, just like he wanted, ensured that the festival focussed on "creativity and not controversy" in the longer run.
"Will not be attending JLF this year and must say will miss sharing great moments with literature and poetry lovers, " Joshi had earlier said in a statement, before highlighting that the reason he was "doing this" was to protect "the dignity of the event" and to ensure that the annual literary gathering "does not get compromised".
Joshi had also said that his absence will protect "the organisers, fellow writers or the attendees" from any "discomfort caused" to them.
"And also so that the lovers of literature get to focus on creativity and not controversy, " he had said.
And that, indeed happened.
More than 200 sessions on diverse literary topics, addressed by literary stalwarts marked the happenings over he past five days.
Before the festival formally ended, its co - producer, Sanjoy Roy thanked the Rajasthan government, Jaipur police and other local authorities for enusring that the event reached its logical conclusion without any disturbances or protests.


Try contacting Krico here: http://www.krico.de/index_wir.htm The site is in German but to locate their email addresses click on 'Kontact'.
The maker, gun shops, gun shows, want ads, for sale ads, estate sales, garage sales, pawn shops, etc..
Krico is no longer in business and very few spare parts are available in the U.S. Spare magazines and firing pins are especially difficult to come by. In the U.S. you should do continuous searches on eBay, guns international, yahoo and google, etc. (but note that google places restrictions on sellers of firearms and firearm related products, so you will not get the same search results as you would on the non-biased yahoo search engine). You'll need to search through gun shows and perhaps bring your rifle to ensure proper fit and function or bring your current magazine for comparison. You should expect to pay $85 or more for a used 5 or 10 round magazine. Once you come across one you should not hesitate to buy it right then as many, many others are looking for the same part. My search over the past three years has netted me only three spare magazines ranging in price from $85 to $165. Another option would be to try to find used Krico rifle that is the same model as yours to use as a spare parts gun. If the seller has additional magazines, then your problem is solved. However, keep in mind that since the firing pin is the weak spot on Krico rifles you should try to find and purchase as many of these as possible. Never dry fire your Krico without having either a spent casing in the chamber or a snap cap. Dry firing a Krico with an empty chamber will cause the firing pin to break at approximately its mid point. The firing pin can be repaired by a competent gunsmith by welding it together and refitting it for function. The final alternative for finding Krico spare magazines, firing pins or other parts is to do a worldwide search for online retailers. Germany, Great Britain, Australia, Finland, and New Zealand would be the primary countries to search for online firearms/parts sellers for your Krico rifle. Unfortunately, your search will likely take a lot of time and a lot of patience, but will be a continued necessity if you are serious about finding spare parts for your Krico.
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17HMRMAG.com sells a 10 round magazine for the Savage 93r17 Try numrich guns part corp.They can be found on the web.
check cabelas that's where i found a spare clip for my rifle
Please contact the magazine publisher or the local distributer.
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why the hell would you bleach your anus? did your subscription to "spare time" magazine run out?
You can usually find spare magazines at gun shows, where i got mine, but maybe you can order spares from mossberg directly.... Oh and The hole in the rear of the buut stock is actually a storage compartment for a spare magazine, but on some models it's drilled somewhat smaller, so the magazine has to be inserted into it bottom first, otherwise the bottom of the magazine can become caught on the hinge.
Spare auto body parts can either be sold on by advertising them in a auto magazine depending on the condition or can be scrapped, which will bring you less money but recycling is a good thing.


Cologne – With the 2015/16 Bundesliga season just around the corner, we figured it prime time to take a closer look at some of the German top flight's most talked about summer signings.
Next on the list is the latest Japanese addition to the Bundesliga, 1. FSV Mainz 05's Yoshinori Muto, signed from FC Tokyo.
A record that adds up
"We've got some missiles down our wings now," said Mainz coach Martin Schmidt, referring, among others, to Muto, who showed already at his unveiling that he is quick on the draw, impressing with a few sentences in German. If that is a sign of things to come, Mainz might well have struck it rich with the diligent forward.
Indeed, before moving to Mainz, Muto was completing a degree in economics at one of Japan's most prestigious universities, but there was certainly no economising when it came to scoring goals – 13 of them in his debut season for FC Tokyo, a new league record for a rookie who played predominantly as a centre-forward in the Japanese capital.
Muto's strengths: determined dribbler
The 23-year-old followed that with a further ten goals in the first half of the current Japanese season, earning the award of player of the month for March, as he took his total tally to 23 goals in 51 games. He will soon become the 26th Japanese player to strut his stuff in the Bundesliga, and the indications are very strong that he will also be the 16th player from the Land of the Rising Sun to score in Germany's top flight.
"I want to play, help the team and score goals," said Muto, answering all of Schmidt's prayers after he lost another key Japanese player in Shinji Okazaki to Leicester City FC in the Premier League this summer. "My strengths are my determination and my dribbling, and I want to show this in Germany." If he succeeds in matching the 12 goals Okazaki netted in the Bundesliga last season, it will be the perfect start to life in his compatriot's boots.


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Bill Morrow, founder of the Angels Den based in the UK connects startups with investors from around the world everyday. The Angels Den can help great startups get funding no matter what country they are in. This is BIG. So, basically, the startup completes the Angels Den’s business plan, pays approx. $800, and starts connecting with investors. Bill says they are busier now than ever and that investors *need* a place to invest their money versus collecting next to nothing with respect to interest income from banks.
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The process of finding business funding doesn’t have to be as complicated as it’s made out to be. All that most people searching for investment need is a little divine inspiration from an Angel to provide the funding needed to help their businesses grow and flourish.
TV programmes like Dragon’s Den have promoted the concept recently, but it doesn’t have to hurt! We’re not sadists. The process is painless and you will not be mauled by Dragons or made to feel small by stuffy bank managers. We will guide you through a simple and jargon-free online process that puts your idea in front of a wealth of experienced successful business people in complete confidence. There is no red tape and no pressure. Angels Den is not authorised to and does not offer investment advice or make any recommendation regarding investment. Our structured formats and powerful search criteria enable a potential investor to find out exactly what they need to know quickly and accurately. Everyone gets a fair chance and the decision is up to the Angel.
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Thank you Anne for the items I won on your 'Pretty' Blog Giveaway recently. There were loads of things in the package when it arrived including an acetate photo-wrap with 'dream BIG' printed onto it. That item inspired this page.
My younger daughter, Karen, recently won an award from her college in Brighton. Unfortunately the only record of the event I have is a blurred photo of her with the award. This was one time when I had to use a single photo on a 12x12 layout! Also I needed a busy page to draw the eye away from studying the photo in too much detail!! Blue and brown are two of Karen's favourite colours, hence the choice of colour-scheme. I have hidden some journaling in the file folder beneath the photo, which says: 'You've applied to Bournemouth University to do a Media degree. Remember, the future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. Dream big.' I love including quotations and just had to use an appropriate one here as well.
This year has been an eventful one for Karen. She turned eighteen in February and a few days later took her first ever aeroplane flight -- to Los Angeles, USA -- on a college media trip (they never had school trips like that in my day).
Then in July she spent ten days at the Giffoni Film Festival near Salerno in Italy. She came back last week with 4 kilos of pasta in her suitcase, a gift from the host family she stayed with! Very much appreciated as we love Italian food.
I'm not quite so jealous of her Italian trip as I went there myself years ago before I married. I visited Salerno, Rome and Pompeii. It is my ambition to return to Rome someday. It is truly a beautiful city, full of colour and history, and friendly Italians.

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THE worst packaged bank accounts for offering poor savings and limited insurance cover have been named and shamed in a damning new report.
Consumer champion Which? has rated and slated 13 accounts by high street banks and revealed how thousands of customers might not be getting as good of a deal as they’d like to think.
At the bottom end of the table, one packaged account only offers customers £16 a year savings on perks compared to the best which has potential savings of an impressive £180.
Which? also found a number of providers are increasing the fee for packaged accounts without offering additional or upgraded benefits.
Experts are now warning customers to look at exactly what is on offer to make sure they would make use of all the benefits available to get the most for their money.
A packaged bank account consists of additional goods and services, usually for a monthly or annual fee.
The optional extras typically include at least one insurance product and a variety of other services like car breakdown cover.
Which? compared the quality of core elements usually found in packaged accounts – travel insurance, car breakdown cover and mobile phone insurance - to see if they were really worth the fee.
Based on the value and quality of each benefit included, Barclays’ Tech Pack finished last in the survey with a score of 20 per cent.
Customers pay an annual fee of £174 for the Tech Pack but Which? found the account could only save someone £16 a year as it offered no travel insurance or car breakdown cover.
However, it was lauded for offering comprehensive mobile phone and gadget cover worth around £190 a year.
The next worst of the bunch was the NatWest/RBS Reward Silver account which came in with a score of 46 per cent for providing no car breakdown cover and only limited travel and mobile phone insurance cover.
TSB’s Silver and Platinum accounts finished joint third from bottom with a score of 58 percent, after it announced both accounts will be raising monthly fees by up to £3 in September without any improvement to perks for customers.
Rated best value for money was the Nationwide Flexplus account with the top score of 87 per cent and saving customers £180 a year once fees are deducted if they use all the benefits.
Which? estimated the products in this account are worth more than £300 including worldwide travel insurance with winter sports covered as standard, as well as comprehensive car breakdown and mobile cover.
It is also £18 cheaper than the Barclays Tech Pack.
First Direct’s First Directory account finished in second place with the potential to save customers £156 a year after fees.
The package includes insurance cover worth more than £300.
Jenny Ross, Which? money editor, said: “Packaged accounts can offer a cheaper and more convenient way for people to get insurance, however our analysis shows that not all are created equal.
“Some offer lower quality cover and limited value for money.
“Customers should scrutinise the fees and benefits of packaged accounts before signing up – they’ll only save you money if you make use of the benefits.”
James Daley, consumer champion and managing director of Fairer Finance, said it is also important customers are confident they will make use of all the perks being offered.
He told Sun Money: “Packaged bank accounts are carefully designed to look like great value - but it’s often very difficult to make use of all the advertised features.
“Many of the insurances are inflexible, and can’t be amended - so if they don’t fit your needs exactly, then they’re not really worth the paper they’re written on.”
Sun Money has contacted Nationwide, First Direct, The Co-Operative Bank, Clydesdale Bank, Lloyds, TSB and Halifax for comment and we will update this story as more responses come through.
Barclays and NatWest defended their package accounts and said they offer comprehensive insurance covers.
Barclays said their account includes extensive offer for mobile protection and NatWest highlighted the savings benefits that are included with their such as cinema discounts.
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This week it was revealed how Nationwide is set to hike overdraft charges by up to £73 a year for millions of customers.
While there was better news for customers looking to borrow money as Tesco Bank slashed the rate of its loans for those borrowing £7,500 or more.
And if you're travelling abroad, Barclays customers will soon be able to avoid overseas card fees by using its new "travel wallet" app.
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Summary: An unforgettable epic romantic thriller about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world… if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.
Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.
Review: I particularly loved the first half of this book. While time travel is at the heart of this text, I think it would be a great book to give to readers who love dystopian fiction. Prenna’s memory of her futuristic world was fascinating to me. At times, I found Brashares to be a bit didactic, but overall, the book is very well-written and will entice readers from the first page. I always enjoy reading books about time travel because my mind spins as I try to grapple with the paradox time travel provides. If we change the past, will we exist in the future? And how can this work, if we are living in this previous time? Ah! My brain hurts. I enjoyed this book because it made me think.
Teacher’s Tools for Navigation: Similar to my review of All Our Yesterdays, I think students would have a lot of fun selecting a time period to travel to, and perhaps, picking one event in history they would change and how it might impact the future. This could develop into a research project, and I can imagine there would be fantastic interdisciplinary connections with the subject of history. Alternatively (or additionally), teachers could link this text with the subject of science–where students research ways we are destroying our planet.
Discussion Questions: How are we destroying our planet? Do you think Ann Brashares’ prediction of the future is accurate? What is Brashares’ tone in this text?; If you could travel in time, what is one event in history that you would change and why? How might it change events in the future?
We Flagged: “People here act like the great things have already been lost, but they are wrong. They have so much still to lose” (Chapter Three).
“I guess memory is a deep well, and you don’t know what’s down there until you lower the bucket and start hauling it up” (Chapter Fifteen).
Please note: The above quotes are from the advanced reader copy. The quotes may have changed with publication.
Read This If You Loved: All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Legend by Marie Lu, Divergent by Veronica Roth


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Science Matters | November 11, 2015
The outlook for the coming flu season and a look at the work being done at St. Louis University Medical School to develop a universal flu shot.
The story of the extreme measures St. Louis took -- including closing schools and churches -- to limit the spread of the deadly Spanish Flu in 1918.
Archaeologists have found a stone pathway built by early Native Americans that now lies below the waters of Lake Huron.
An expert on space architecture and engineering discusses ideas for building human settlements on the moon and Mars.
Neurosurgeons probe the inner workings of a Parkinson’s disease patient’s brain to bring extreme tremors under control.

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It’s been another long, hot week. Not only that, but it was a busy week in the world of craft beer. GABF tickets went on sale, we celebrated National IPA Day and one of this country’s oldest craft breweries was bought by Sapporo. As the weekend creeps towards us, we all need to sit back, take a deep breath and enjoy a delicious beer. While you do that, feel free to peruse this week’s edition of The Weekly Buzz.


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I spent this week adding tons more content to Homage. The game now has a full blown experience and levelling system, this allows players to unlock new space ships and actually get the joy of progressing in the game.
The new unlockable ships grant additional experience modifiers, this means that even though the player will need more experience to level up as they progress, they can still do so with relative ease.
Ship health and speed is also configurable, so some of the ships will take more hits and others are more agile to better out maneuver debris.
I will continue to add a few more spaceships, maybe enough to take the player up to Level 20, but I probably won’t go any higher than that. It currently takes approximately an hour of constant gameplay to get to that stage and I would prefer that it was easier to unlock the ships than have players grind for ages only to be disappointed that the ship is not what they expected.

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Impact-based forecasts that inform the public of what the weather will do rather than what weather will be are vital to save lives and livelihoods. Yet one in three people are still not adequately covered by early warning systems. Being prepared and able to act at the right time, in the right place, can save many lives and protect the livelihoods of communities everywhere, both now and in the future. As such, the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) welcomes its newest Partner, the Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative.
The collaboration between CREWS and REAP will enhance common efforts on the improvement of early warning systems and the strengthening of early action, including early action financing. It will contribute to the recent call by the UN Secretary-General for all countries to be covered by early warning systems within the next five years. These efforts will save lives, protect livelihoods and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of response.
CREWS commits to contribute to the partnership with REAP by:
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Medical Malpractice occurs when a health care provider causes injury or death to a patient due to negligent treatment that falls below accepted standard of practice within the medical community, often a result of a variety of medical errors. Victims of medical malpractice often suffer from physical pain, mental anguish, additional medical bills, and lost work and lost earning capacity.
Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse
Neglect and abuse in nursing homes can take on many different forms. Recognizing symptoms of neglect or abuse can often be tricky, especially if the elderly victim is unable to communicate or afraid of the consequences of blowing the whistle. Type of abuse include physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or abandonment, and financial exploitation.
Wrongful Death lawsuits are filed on behalf of survivors of someone who dies due to legal fault of another person. These types of claims can be filed against a person or persons, government agencies, companies, corporations, and employees. A wrongful death lawsuit is a civil action separate from criminal prosecution where damage awards are sought for both economic and non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering.
What makes trucking accidents and collisions so severe is the fact that the average tractor-trailer can weigh between 12,000 to 80,000 pounds. Victims of trucking accidents are often traumatized with severe injuries, exorbitant medical bills, and lifelong side-effects. Insurance compensation often falls well short of what is needed to recover from a trucking accident and personal lawsuits are generally the only way to recover full and fair compensation.
Due to their size, motorcycles are more maneuverable and faster than other vehicles. Their size also makes them harder to see when drivers of other vehicles are merging or changing lanes. Injuries to motorcyclists are often severe and can be life-threatening, even when they are wearing a helmet. Although, collisions with automobiles are the most frequent type of motorcycle accident, other situations can occur as well like obstacles in the road, faulty motorcycle design, and even inclement weather. It’s important that motorcycle accident victims due to others negligence contact an attorney immediately to gather witnesses and help prove their case.
Premises Liability for Injuries
Failure to keep a property safe for visitors to the property can result in “premises liability.” Some of the more common causes of premises liability are swimming pool accidents, animal and dog bites, inadequate maintenance, slip and fall accidents, retail store and retail liability, inadequate security, and dangerous property.
Prescription and Medication Errors
Prescription and medication errors occur more often than you might imagine. NOLO.com states, “According to a 2006 study, medication errors harm approximately 1.5 million people in the United States every year.” Errors happen in a variety of ways such as doctors prescribing the wrong dosage, nurses administering a different amount than what was prescribed, or doctors prescribing the wrong drug because of a misdiagnosed condition.
If unwanted sexual activity happens because a perpetrator uses force, makes threats against or takes advantage of victims not able to give consent, it is considered sexual abuse. Unfortunately this type of abuse to often goes unreported, especially when the victim and perpetrator know each other. Sexual abuse is considered a serious crime not only because of the physical effects, but the long-term emotional and mental effects as well.
In general, a brain injury is defined as physical trauma to the brain or head, but is often much more complicated than that. Brain Injuries can range from a mild concussion to rendering a person completely incapacitated and unable to function. Adding to the complicated nature is the fact that brain injuries can be delayed and symptoms may not appear for weeks or even years. Victims of brain injuries are eligible for damages if the injury was a result of someone else’s negligence.
Injuries resulting from a bicycle accident can be severe due bicyclists having very little protection when riding. The most common bicycle accident is being hit by a car although other factors can come into play such as poorly maintained roads, unleashed pets, or pedestrians not using crosswalks. Defense lawyers often try to prove that the bicyclist was at least partially at fault for the accident. It’s important for bicyclists that are involved in accidents to contact police and have a full detailed report submitted.
Insurance Bad Faith
Having insurance is not always an arrangement where both parties have equal footing. Although you get to choose your insurance provider, the insurance company makes all the decisions when it comes to paying claims. This often left policy holders at a distinct disadvantage and vulnerable to being taken advantage of by insurance companies. Fortunately, many courts evened the stakes implying a duty of good faith and fair dealing in every insurance policy. Basically this determines that insurance policies are not for commercial advantage, but that they are there for protection against calamity. If an insurance company is found to violate their duty of good faith and fair dealing, the may be liable for bad faith insurance and force to compensate victims of unpaid claims.

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I agree that students should get their well-deserved rest during the school holidays (Let students enjoy their well-deserved school holidays, by Mr Sean Lim Wei Xin; March 16).
During the March holidays, students are expected to complete a plethora of holiday assignments, use the holidays to prepare for assessments in the new term, as well as undertake the topics which teachers cannot complete during the school term.
There are also compulsory co-curricular activity (CCA) sessions during the holidays.
The school holidays are for students to unwind and get more prepared for the next term.
However, if students are inundated with school assignments and activities during the one-week break, is it possible to get that rest, let alone have any personal time?
The high levels of stress students are facing can be detrimental to their emotional and physical well-being.
Teachers also do not get their rest during holidays as they may be involved in CCA sessions or other school activities with students.
They also need to spend time with their families, as do students with their families.
Perhaps it is time to review the purpose of holidays.
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- NBC's The Voice coaches Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani performed their single "Nobody But You" for the first time at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
- Gwen shared plenty of behind-the-scenes footage of the couple on her Instagram.
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton performed together at the 2020 Grammys, and Gwen treated her Instagram followers to a behind-the-scenes look at the night's festivities.
Per usual, the couple looked amazing on the red carpet. The 43-year-old country music superstar wore an all-black suit, while the 50-year-old former No Doubt singer wore a custom white mini dress by Dolce & Gabbana paired with over-the-knee cream boots.
On her Instagram story, Gwen joked that she wore the shell-covered dress in honor of her boyfriend. "I am at the Grammys right now with Blake Shelton," she told her followers. "SHEL-ton, so that's why I wore the shell dress."
The couple of five years took the stage later in the night to debut their song, “Nobody But You.” After a romantic rendition of the ballad, Gwen shared some snaps on Instagram that made the couple seem just as loved-up backstage as they were during the performance.
Blake was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for his song, “God’s Country,” but ended up losing out to Willie Nelson for "Ride Me Back Home." Even so, he had the sweetest thing to say about Gwen in her Instagram story.
While the pair was strolling hand-in-hand backstage after their killer performance, Blake said "...even though I'm a loser as a Grammy nominee, I'm a winner as a performer because I performed with you."
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NASCAR unveils Next Gen Rules Package for 2022by Jack Gaffney October 15, 2021 4 comments
NASCAR earlier this week wrapped up a two-day testing session with the Next Gen Cup Series Car. Well over a dozen drivers took to the Charlotte Roval over the course of these sessions on Monday and Tuesday. Including some cameo appearances from IndyCar/F1 champ Jacques Villeneuve, former 24 Hours of Daytona winner Joey Hand, and F1/K1 Boston icon Kaz Grala. During these tests, NASCAR gave out some crucial information for the rules packages next year. This can be considered either good or bad news depending on what kind of racing you like. In any case, however, here is how things will look for next year.
Be sure to keep up with all of our NASCAR Racing and DFS coverage.
Next-Gen Car Spec Notes
As a refresher for those not up to speed, here is some new features coming with the seventh generation NASCAR Cup Car. Up first is spec chassis, being made by Technique, owned by former IndyCar driver Ronnie Johncox. Next up is the inclusion of an independent rear suspension, after a lifetime of using only solid rear axels.
One of the more polarizing changes has to do with the wheels. While the jump from 15-inch steel to 18-inch aluminum wheels hasn’t created much uproar, single center-lock lugnuts have. A big byproduct of this change will be much faster pitstops, making what you see next year in NASCAR be similar to present-day IndyCar. The wheels for those interested are being manufactured by BBS. Another pit stop-related change has to do with fueling. Out are the days of the crew guy carrying around a giant fuel can. In are the days of clamp hoses, as seen in IndyCar, IMSA, etc.
Rear diffusers are another brand new addition to the Cup Series car. The hope is this can help offset cars literally and metaphorically, smacking a wall of air going behind another car, which has been a problem in recent years. Sequential shifting with a five-speed gearbox is also brand new, up from a four-speed H-pattern shifter. The last major note is composite bodies, which have been used in the Xfinity Series full time as of 2019. These are much easier to assemble (interlocking panels), and more importantly, fix than sheet metal bodies used now. They also weigh less to boot. Now for what the engine packages look like.
Intermediate Package (1.5 Mile Tracks)
In a move that has been received with mixed reactions at best, the package for intermediates (excluding Darlington and Nashville) is as follows. Cars will be running a V8 550 horsepower engines across the board, along with an eight-inch spoiler. To put this into context, the NASCAR Xfinity and Trucks Series currently run engines between 650 and 700 horsepower across the board. The current Cup Series cars have usually used 500hp engines in years past in intermediates in select events, but never the full tilt. For better or worse, expect racing more akin to the old IROC series as opposed to the Xfinity Series.
Short Track and Road Course Package (Includes all other tracks under 1.5 miles)
For just about everything else on the Cup Series schedule, horsepower dropoff is not as severe. Engines will be at 670 horsepower, accompanied by four-inch spoilers at every race. This should not hurt the current short track product much hopefully which is good news. It would be hard to argue that NASCAR short-track racing is not the best on-track product the series has. Right behind it would likely be Road Courses, which also will likely be good, and best-case scenario get better.
Superspeedway Package (Daytona and Talledega)
As of the time of writing, the 2022 Superspeedway package has yet to be finalized. With that said, however, NASCAR did have a test session with the Next Gen cars at Daytona in early September with over a half dozen cars. Drivers there included Joey Logano, Austin Dillon, Chris Buescher, William Byron, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. On day two, engines ended up being reduced to 510 horsepower via the taped spacer. One of the big complaints from drivers was heat in the car, which is notable. Would imagine that NASCAR has been in the lab to make the cars cooler for the drivers, as that could become a gigantic problem in the summer months.
On the plus side of things, multiple drivers, including Byron and Stenhouse, seemed to think the test went well.
“I thought [the testing] went really well. We got really aggressive there in that second drafting session. I feel like we were all pushing each other to make moves, and everyone was pretty comfortable with it, so that was really good to see.”- William Byron
“All in all [the car] drove really good and felt comfortable. Just trying to figure out how we’re going to make better racing. Making sure that we can pass, get good runs, create good racing. I was really happy, I thought we all did a good job getting out there and working the lanes, working the bottom, top, pushing each other. Really tried to simulate as much as we could a real race and everybody did a good job of that.” – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
A big plus for these cars as well is that they sound phenomenal. Take a listen.
Despite some skepticism from fans, the top brass in NASCAR still feels good about where they are and can be going into 2022 with this Next Gen car. So much so that President Steve Phelps went as far as saying this at the Sports Business Journal World Congress of Sports.
— Adam Stern (@A_S12) October 13, 2021
A bold proclamation, one that could likely be brought up down the line if this does not come to pass. At the same time, it’s better for Phelps to say this than not be happy with where the Next Gen car is at. In any event, next year’s Coliseum Clash is getting closer by the day, a monumental day for this new car, and the sport as a whole.
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Over the objections of the chamber’s Republicans, Senate Democrats voted in November 2013 to alter its rules to let a simple majority advance nominees for appointment to courts and federal agencies. It ended a practice that effectively required a supermajority of 60 votes to cut off debate and approve presidential picks. For the time being, Republicans who took control of the chamber in January are keeping this rules change. The Senate takes history seriously and tends to change its rules by consensus. That’s why senators dubbed the 2013 filibuster vote “the nuclear option.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, had warned for months that the increasing use of the tactic was harming the government’s ability to function. Supreme Court nominees can still be filibustered, as can legislation: Last spring, Republicans blocked Democratic bills to change how the military investigates sexual assaults and to raise the minimum wage; in August, Democrats stopped a Republican-backed resolution to disapprove the Iran nuclear deal. Some cloture votes, like these, are designed to score political points. Many more bills simply never make it to the floor if leaders don’t see 60 votes in favor.
A visit to the Senate public gallery can dispel a few popular notions about how Washington operates. Most senators don’t even show up to hear their colleagues debate a bill. Another myth is that vote-blocking requires senators to talk to the point of exhaustion, as Jimmy Stewart did in the film “Mr. Smith Comes to Washington.” Though Hollywood portrayed the filibuster as democracy in action, it has often been deployed to frustrate majority rule, or simply to rally supporters, as when Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina stood on the floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 in an unsuccessful bid to stop a civil rights bill. He has been followed more recently by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who held the floor for 12 hours and 52 minutes in 2013 to slow the vote appointing John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency to protest the use of drones. (Texas Republican Ted Cruz’s 21-hour-and-19-minute philippic against Obamacare in 2013 wasn’t technically a filibuster because it didn’t block Senate business.) Since the 1970s, the mere threat to filibuster has been enough to bring things to a halt. The notion of requiring a supermajority of senators to proceed to a vote, the so-called cloture rule, dates to President Woodrow Wilson in 1917. Since then there have been more than 1,600 filibusters, half of them taking place since 2000. Before the change in rules, Reid said that half of the 168 nominees delayed in the Senate since the nation’s founding were chosen by President Barack Obama.
Obama applauded Reid’s move to change the voting rules, repeating the Senator’s charge by saying that Republicans had engaged in an “unprecedented pattern of obstruction” in the upper chamber. The blocking mechanism isn’t part of the Constitution’s provision requiring the Senate’s “advice and consent” on nominations, as it says in Article II. Republicans said that Reid’s 2013 action set a dangerous precedent, allowing the majority party to run roughshod over the minority. Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, who is among the less partisan Republicans, called the curbing of the filibuster the biggest change in Senate rules since Thomas Jefferson wrote them more than two centuries ago. In 2015, with the Senate back in Republican control, the filibuster no longer seemed so sacrosanct to some Republican senators, who urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to use the same voting rules change to stop Democratic filibusters.
The Reference Shelf
- A report from the Congressional Research Service on filibusters and cloture.
- The Senate’s page on the history of the filibuster.
- A report from the Brennan Center for Justice examines what it calls “Filibuster Abuse.”
- Sara Binder of the Brookings Institution looks at the history of filibuster fights.
- Video of a Heritage Foundation talk with the co-authors of “Defending the Filibuster.”
- A 2005 Harvard law journal article gives a detailed account of the filibuster’s evolution as well as methods of reining it in.
- A New York Times article from 1891 compared cloture rules in the U.S. Senate and the British Parliament.


I have quite a few engagement shoots coming up over the next weeks. October seems to be a favorite, with the changing colors of Autumn, the crisper air, football season. Everyone seems to be more upbeat.
This past Sunday, I had an Engagement shoot get rained out, I was bummed, it was supposed to be beautiful , I don’t know what happened. Anyways, we are going to wait and reschedule in a week or two and hopefully the trees will be even more beautiful! (Just hopes it stays pleasantly cool, and doesn’t get cold!)
On a more personal note, I was reading a great note by a friend, David Cramer. He was discussing politics and religion and the dangerous mix that this can be. Most notably he was all to well, defying the conservative movement of republicans claiming God is on their side on all issues. His arguments were spot on. The Jesus that we base our lives upon, that we take our name, Christian, from is a far cry from any political party of today. He went on to talk of how Jesus stayed away from any political ties, and chose instead to set forth an example of how we ought to live as humans, as followers of Christ.
Compelling stuff that really goes against the modern conservative political regime.
Since I am a photographer, I certainly should not blog twice in a row without posting a single photo, so here are two from last month’s shooting at Bethel College.
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As of July 2019, Frolichstein-Appel’s LinkedIn page said was an Engineering student at Brown University (Brown), slated to graduate in 2019. He has been employed at Brown as a lab assistant and a Peer Mentor since August 2016.
BDS ActivismOn March 20, 2019, Frolichstein-Appel co-wrote an article for the Brown Daily Herald, titled: “A Jewish case for Brown Divest." Brown Divest was “a divestment campaign organized by a coalition of undergraduate students who call upon Brown University to divest from companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine."
The authors dismissed arguments that Israel has a right to defend itself from aggression and argued that one should “resist cynical, zero-sum calculations of Jewish safety that lead to isolation."
The authors referred to Israel as “a nation-state whose policies too often rest on dispossession, displacement and violence against Palestinian people." They insisted that calls for divestment and critiques of Israel and its policies are not inherently anti-Semitic" and felt equipped to say this “As Jewish students."
Frolichstein-Appel and his co-authors referred to a divestment resolution that was to be presented to the student body the next day. The authors denied that the resolution shut down dialogue and that it unfairly singled out Israel for condemnation, claiming economic cooperation with Israel would “reveal complicity in violence perpetrated against Palestinians."
On March 21, 2019 Brown Divest activists put forward a pro-BDS referendum to the student body and the referendum was passed. The activists promised to “hold the administration accountable to the outcome of this referendum."
Brown President Christina Paxson responded to the referendum’s passage, stating: “I have been steadfast in my view that Brown should not embrace any of the planks of the BDS...I made it clear that Brown would not support academic boycotts of Israel or any other country, since doing so would inhibit the open scholarly exchange that is critical for the advancement of knowledge."
Frolichstein-Appel and his co-authors denied that the resolution shut down dialogue and that it unfairly singled out Israel for condemnation, claiming economic cooperation with Israel would “reveal complicity in violence perpetrated against Palestinians."
On March 13, 2019, Frolichstein-Appel put a banner on a Facebook photo posted to his page that read: “I Support Brown Divest!
His Facebook post said: “Vote #YesOnDivest on the annual UCS-UFB ballot! Brown undergraduates will receive a link to their brown.edu emails on Tuesday the 19th at noon. They will be able to vote until Thursday the 21st at noon. Learn more at browndivest.org."
On November 3, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel tweeted: “.@SenBooker Supporting unconstitutional Gag Bill (“Israel anti-Boycott Act") is a mistake. Advocacy for Palestinian human rights is not anti-Semitic. Please don’t use our grief to criminalize support for Palestinian rights."
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.720/H.R. 1697) declared that U.S. policy opposed a March 24, 2016 UN Human Rights Council Resolution which called to boycott and divest from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Opposing the Anti-Semitism Awareness ActIn December of 2016, Frolichstein-Appel signed a JVP-launched petition opposing the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (AAA), which was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate on December 1, 2016.
The AAA directed the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to use the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism when evaluating hostile environment complaints.
JVP’s petition asserted that the bill used “a problematic definition of anti-Semitism never intended for use on college campuses" and purported that “real anti-Semitism" came from the “white supremacist movements in this country."
The petition also claimed BDS was “not inherently anti semitic," and that the bill did “little to protect us, as Jewish students, from the appointment of “real anti-Semites" to powerful positions in the U.S. government.
JVP’s petition asserted that the bill “serves to limit our freedom of expression around the vital issues of our time." The petition also lamented the AAA “conflates legitimate criticism of the policies of the Israeli government with antisemitism."
The petition urged the U.S. Senate to reject the bill and “instead to take meaningful action to combat anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, and other forms of bigotry."
Anti-Israel ActivismOn May 14, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel indicated on Facebook that he went to an event called: “Moment of Silence for Gaza." The event description said participants would join “to mourn the deaths of the 52 … Gazan protesters killed today, and all those who have been killed and injured over the course of the past six weeks."
The “right of return" is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.
Agitators threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.
On April 6, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel organized an event called “We Say Enough! RI Jews Demand Justice for Gaza." The event description claimed that at the same time Jews worldwide were having their Passover Seder, “Israeli Defense Forces were firing openly on Palestinian protesters in Gaza."
The event was a protest demanding the Jewish Alliance release a statement condemning Israel’s actions and to “cancel or otherwise modify their Israel programming to accurately reflect the violence of the occupation."
Frolichstein-Appel wrote on Facebook|: “Thank you to everyone who came out! Neither rain nor snow nor a**hole cops could stop us today!"
Frohlichstein-Appel then added: “IfNotNow is hosting a campaign call on Sunday, if you want to be involved in planning more actions or learn about IfNotNow, a movement of young Jews working to end American Jewish institutional support of the occupation, check out this link or talk to me!"
On May 7, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel indicated on Facebook that he went to an event called: “Commemorating the Nakba: Film Screening and Discussion."
The event was co-hosted by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and was the inaugural event for the new Brown chapter of JVP. The event description invited students to join SJP and JVP in preparing to mark Nakba Day by screening a series of films that deal with the topic of the Nakba.
Nakba is generally translated as “catastrophe" in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Condemning Jewish Heritage TourOn April 15, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel participated in a Return the Birthright protest outside the Taglit Birthright Gala in New York City. Frolichstein-Appel held a sign that read “Young Jews Stand With Gaza."
He spoke [00:00:12] in a video posted on JVP’s Facebook page, saying: “We stand with Gaza and don’t believe Birthright is just. We believe it’s unfair for Jews to be given a free trip to stolen land."
JVP members from across the United States chanted [00:16:13] anti-Birthright slogans outside the Birthright offices.
On April 7, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel shared on Facebook a letter he signed, written by “young American Jews" demanding the the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island to condemn the actions of the Israeli government and “divest from Birthright and cease any support for their programs."
The letter also demanded the Alliance “discontinue or heavily modify its Shaliach Israel Emissary program to accurately reflect the violence of the occupation."
Return the Birthright CampaignIn September of 2017, JVP issued its #ReturntheBirthright campaign manifesto, calling on American Jews to boycott the Birthright Israel (Birthright) program. Birthright was founded by Jewish philanthropists “in 1999 to address the growing divide between young Diaspora Jewish adults and the land and people of Israel."
After decades of demographic decline in the American Jewish community, Birthright set out “to strengthen Jewish identity, build a lasting bond with the land and people of Israel, and reinforce the solidarity of Jewish people worldwide." The program offers “the gift of a life-changing, 10-day trip to Israel to young Jewish adults between the ages of 18 and 26."
JVP’s anti-Birthright campaign was launched precisely to coincide with “the very moment that college students across America are returning to campus and registration for Birthright winter visits are underway."
The #returnthebirthright manifesto accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing" and alleged “the modern state of Israel is predicated on the ongoing erasure of Palestinians."
The text claimed: “We reject the offer of a free trip to a state that does not represent us, a trip that is only ‘free’ because it has been paid for by the dispossession of Palestinians."
The manifesto concluded: “And as we reject this, we commit to promoting the right to return of Palestinian refugees… Israel is not our Birthright… Return the Birthright."
On June 22, 2017, just prior to the launch of JVP’s #returnthebirthright campaign, JVP received a $140,00 two-year grant for general support for its operations from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF).
Since 2015, JVP has received $280,000 from RBF, which has a history of supporting anti-Jewish causes, including BDS campaigns and various organizations that promote BDS campaigns throughout the United States.
Supporting BDSOn November 3, 2018, Frolichstein-Appel tweeted: “.@SenBooker Supporting unconstitutional Gag Bill (“Israel anti-Boycott Act") is a mistake. Advocacy for Palestinian human rights is not anti-Semitic. Please don’t use our grief to criminalize support for Palestinian rights."
The bill, Resolution H.R.1697 (The “Israel Anti-Boycott Act"), reportedly “prohibits U.S. companies from participating in boycotts promoted by international organizations, like the U.N., that target U.S. partners, like Israel."
The bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress with Republican and Democratic co-sponsorship on March 23, 2017.
JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition" of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies" highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing."
JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood" and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP."
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States," and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish value."
The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah."
According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility."
INN claims to be “young Jews angered by the overwhelmingly hawkish response of American Jewish institutions" to OPE. INN presents three demands on its website: “Stop the War on Gaza, End the Occupation, and Freedom and Dignity for All."
INN defines “the Occupation as the military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza," which is land Israel has controlled for nearly 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War. However, INN leaders have made [00:34:32] the claim [00:13:49] at protests that the occupation is 70 years long, referring to Israel’s founding in 1948.
INN actions have aimed to demonize [00:38:13] Israel, harass [00:05:44] mainstream American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and decrease support for Israel among American Jews.
INN has used “public action and imaginative ritual" to achieve its goals, including disruptions where activists were arrested.
One of the high-profile arrests occurred at a May 2018 disruption at a U.S. Senator’s office in Washington, D.C. to protest legislation against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
At the same incident, INN used [00:07:17] the Jewish ritual of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer to mourn [00:09:10] protesters who were killed during the Hamas-organized and funded Great March of Return riots on the Israel-Gaza border.
INN activists have also staged and promoted walk-offs from Birthright Israel trips, a heritage trip to Israel for young Jewish adults from across the world.
INN claims to take no position on the BDS movement and that it is “open to any who seek to shift the American Jewish public away from the status quo that upholds the Occupation." However, INN organizes with pro-BDS, anti-Israel organizations including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 as an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement" to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism."
In 2015, Barghouti was quoted saying that “BDS aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was, and to isolate its regime of oppression in order to achieve our UN-stipulated rights."
The dominant organization in the BDS Movement is the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC), founded by Barghouti in 2007, during the First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions." In these cases, student governments, backed by anti-Israel affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of — or divestment from — Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
These boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. In 2013, when the student government of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats and the spitting on a student wearing a Star of David necklace.
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