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Goodbye and so long.. 2008
Now that is a really cute idea!!POPOPOP
How was the holiday for everyone?
What's everyone doing for New Years?
THE YIDDISHE KOP
An observant Jew who lived on Park Avenue, built
a Sukkah on his balcony.
Some of his 'high society' non-Jewish neighbors
brought him to court.
They claimed that the Sukkah on his balcony
was an eyesore and was having a negative impact
on the value of their homes in this posh neighborhood.
In court, the man was very worried about the outcome.
It was the eve of the eight-day holiday,
leaving him no time to make alternative arrangements,
in case the judge ordered him to take down the Sukkah.
He prayed for help. And Hashem listened.
Judge Ginsburg, who was Jewish himself,
had a reputation of being a very wise man.
After hearing both sides, he turned around to the observant
Jew and scolded him:
"Don't you realize that you live on Park Avenue, and not in Brooklyn? There is a certain decorum which is
expected on Park Avenue.
You have no right to be putting up an ugly hut on
this lovely street without a building permit
authorizing it.
I hereby rule that either you remove the hut,
or I will fine you one thousand dollars.
You have exactly eight days to do so! Next case!"
I know that too well
Hi
Sioux Nation people.
What a surprise to find this board.
I had lived for many years in the land of the Anazai.
I miss the land, people, open spaces.I would like
to bless the Sioux Nation and say hi.
Life
And it's fun...
I guess we keep learning and morphing
to adapt to this cerebral world>
That is sad Merry,
and here in Fla. the retires' are golfing and riding their
electric carts all over. They get written up for
letting the grandkids drive.. oh pleasse
RoTFLOL
I just saw that wonderful
sad video. What a true
love the dog has.
lol... tht's true
Apollo 8 offers holiday greeting
"Remember this??"
By Peter Lipscomb
Forty years ago, NASA began a mission of firsts leaving an indelible mark on history and reminding us all of our fragile existence. The early morning launch on Dec. 21, 1968, lofted Apollo 8 and crew on a journey that mixed technological prowess with a healthy dose of wonder and discovery.
Planned as a command and lunar module systems check with rendezvous and docking practice in low-Earth orbit, Apollo 8's mission original mission objectives were scrapped in August 1968 when flight planners got word the lunar module would not be ready in time for liftoff. This change meant that crew members Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders had only a few months to train and prepare for their new task — the first journey to the moon.
That no one had been to the moon before was one thing, but the Saturn V rocket had been plagued with problems. Earlier unmanned Apollo launches showed the multistage Saturn V suffered engine failures and oscillations that could potentially subject astronauts to high G-forces. Engineers and contractors went back to the drawing board to find solutions. They made corrections by adding a dampening system and changing out leak-prone fuel lines and faulty igniters. Final testing of the Saturn V modifications didn't happen until just three days before the actual launch date.
Flight commander Borman reported minor problems with the first and second stage performance following liftoff, but the crew was able to safely reach Earth orbit at an altitude of about 115 miles. The third stage remained attached to the command module to boost the crew into the proper lunar trajectory. After firing and separating from the third stage, Apollo 8 was on its way.
Leaving the safety of Earth's orbit, the crew became the first humans to pass through the protective shield of the Van Allen radiation belts and to view the entire Earth at once. The cruise stage of the flight lasted a little over two days. Adapting to space and the confines of the command module presented some challenges, but just before they entered the moon's gravitational pull, the crew managed to broadcast the first televised images of Earth from space. The broadcast feed was in black and white with the crew providing narration to describe the details and colors they could see.
During their journey, the lunar surface remained completely hidden from the astronauts until they rounded the far side of moon on their first orbit. One of the most important items on the mission checklist was to survey possible landing sites for Apollo 11 especially within the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 8's launch was timed to give the best possible Sun angle to illuminate features in that area.
On their fourth orbit, the crew caught sight of the Earth rising over the limb of the moon. This never-before-seen moment was captured in a iconic photograph by William Anders. Its depiction of our planet contrasted with the desolate and inhospitable lunar surface allowed us to collectively grasp the idea that Earth is an oasis in the vastness of space. As Anders eloquently put it: "We came all this way explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."
The Apollo 8 crew made its second TV broadcast on Christmas Eve. After Commander Borman's introduced the crew, each astronaut shared his impression and descriptions of the lunar surface. Next, Anders kicked off the crew's Christmas message, and each astronaut took turns reading verses from the book of Genesis. Frank Borman closed the transmission with a parting comment: "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a Merry Christmas to all of you, all of you on the good Earth."
Peter Lipscomb is director of the Night Sky Program for the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance. Contact him at plipscomb@nmheritage.org.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Apollo-8-offers-holiday-greeting
Airport security: Device knows what's inside
Children can get very loud when parents take away favorite things, like that one specific kind of juice box they just can't seem to live without.
But when the government snatches those same things away from parents in an airport, the parents aren't allowed to scream, fuss or roll around on the floor kicking their legs at everybody.
It's all in the interest of national security, after all.
And a few terrorists who tried to carry bomb-making liquids on some airline flights in 2006 have ruined it for the rest of us. That plot spurred a law in fall 2006 that banned airplane passengers in the U.S. from taking any container of liquid larger than 3 ounces onto a plane — essentially banning the juice box.
But Los Alamos National Laboratory thinks it's onto a solution that will place those juice boxes back where they belong — in the suddenly occupied mouths of once-screaming children.
Lab scientists demonstrated a prototype of a new kind of security scanner at Albuquerque International Sunport on Tuesday.
The device uses a kind of magnetism to detect dangerous liquids. And if it gets commercialized, that means water bottles, hand lotion and juice boxes, among other things, will be back among the carry-on items — and terrorists who try to bring dangerous liquids onboard will still be caught.
"It tells right away if the substance is a threat or not," said Vadim Zotev, a scientist on the project. "After that, it can be removed from the stream for analysis."
One liquid of concern is hydrogen peroxide. On Tuesday, the scientists showed how the machine can see hydrogen peroxide, even when it's hidden inside an otherwise innocent-looking milk container.
"Hydrogen peroxide should not be on a plane — that means something is very wrong," said Andrei Matlashov, another scientist on the project.
Putting a normal milk container and one full of hydrogen peroxide next to each other in a bowl, then running it through the machine, you instantly can see the difference between them on a monitor.
One container appears greenish, and the one with the hydrogen peroxide is bright red.
"Red means bad stuff," Matlashov said. "Yellow, we don't know. It might be bad stuff."
The prototype device cost about $5 million and took about two years to create. But there's no reason why a company couldn't commercialize it and sell it for the same price as a normal X-ray machine, Zotev said.
"The system can be relatively inexpensive," Zotev said. "And it can really make this country safer."
Eventually it could take the form of a circular hole, where TSA screeners could plop a water bottle or juice box in and know in about five seconds whether the liquid was dangerous, Matlashov said.
"With this system, a TSA officer doesn't have to ask what's inside; we know what's inside," Matlashov said. "If you scanned something and everything's green, you can go through. You could even go through with 100 bottles if you wanted to."
The device, called MagViz, uses magnetism to line up protons inside the liquid in a single direction. After that, it releases the protons and watches as they spin back into place, Matlashov said.
"How each liquid behaves in this spinning process is different for each chemical," he added.
It's hard to tell when exactly the device could be available in airports nationwide, although a lab news release suggested if the development process continues to be successful, the machines could be widely available by 2012.
The decision on whether to add them goes back to the Department of Homeland Security, however, said Michelle Espy, the LANL team leader.
"That's up to DHS to decide," Espy said. "The hope is with this we can relax the 3-ounce limit on liquids, but that has yet to be determined. It all depends on how far we can take the technology."
As a mom, though, Espy said she's hopeful the device will be available soon. "I'd love to be able to bring drinks for my kids — milk and juice boxes — on a plane again," Espy said. "I think I lot of parents would really like that."
She'd also be happy to not have to chug hot coffee before going through the security screeners anymore, she added.
Robert Kraus, the lab's deputy director for Laboratory Directed Research and Development, said one of his family members recently had an expensive bottle of perfume taken away by an airport screener — and that's another thing he'd like for people to be able to keep.
"The last thing I had taken away was a juice bottle because I just forgot," Kraus said. "It feels like you're being punished when you've done nothing wrong. They treat you like you did it on purpose."
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Airport-security-Device-knows-what-s-inside
Midas,
I love that sentence,
"every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat."
So true
LOL that's great Santa,
It is a cute game. glad you enjoyed
great story thanks
Got Wind?
TIME
November 20, 2008
By Saverio Truglia
www.time.com
Doug Morrell had already installed solar panels on his house in Coopersville, Mich., but he was eager to get a little bit greener. So the 52-year-old Navy veteran bought something that might seem more at home on the Dutch countryside than in a small town in western Michigan: his own personal wind turbine. The 33-ft.-high (10 m) machine, whose blades span 7 ft. (2 m) in diameter, sits next to the pole barn 100 yd. (90 m) from Morrell's home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills are geared for mechanical power, like pulling water from a well.) On days with decent wind--which occur frequently enough, since he can feel the breeze from Lake Michigan--the $16,000 Swift wind turbine can generate 1.5 kilowatts (kW) an hour, i.e., enough to power the average lightbulb for 15 hours. Together with his solar array, that's enough to take care of much of his electricity bill. "It's clean energy we don't have to dig for. It just comes right to us," says Morrell. And best of all, he says, "it's fun watching our meter run backward instead of forward."
Thanks in part to a new tax credit put into place by Congress in October, owning your own wind turbine could be the next green trend. While it's true that wind power has taken off in the U.S.--adding more in new capacity to the electrical grid last year than any other power source--most of that increase comes from utility wind farms, vast fields of turbines more than 300 ft. (90 m) tall. For homeowners seeking renewable-energy sources, however, better-known solar power has always dominated. Home solar power currently generates 12 times as much energy as small-wind power, which is defined as turbines that have a capacity of 100 kW or less (though most household turbines will produce 10 kW at most). That's partly due to the fact that residential wind turbines require space and sky--at least half an acre of open land--to get access to consistent winds. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), some 15 million homes in the U.S. fit that definition--and small turbines, unlike large wind farms, can be productive in weaker breezes, which puts more of the country in play, though the best areas are still windy spots like the Midwest or West Texas.
What's really held back residential wind power has been the lack of federal subsidies, which have fed the growth of other renewables like solar and large-scale wind. "We've had zero federal assistance," says Ron Stimmel, AWEA's small-wind expert.
But when Congress passed the bailout bill this fall, it added a 30% tax credit for small-wind projects, which Stimmel believes will enable the industry to grow 40% next year, even in a down market.
In other words, small wind may not be small potatoes for much longer. And that could be a boost for domestic green businesses as well: U.S. firms control 98% of the small-wind market, in contrast to large-scale wind and solar, in which foreign manufacturers dominate. "Since the tax credit, our phone has been ringing off the hook," says Andy Kruse, a co-founder of Southwest Windpower, a major small-scale turbine producer in Flagstaff, Ariz. "It's really exciting to see the market coming to us."
More than 20 states offer separate subsidies, including ever green California and Vermont. "The federal and state subsidies can make it feasible to get a quicker payback," says Mike Bergey, president of Bergey Windpower, a small-wind producer in Norman, Okla.
Even so, buying your own windmill isn't cheap. A turbine that could produce most of your family's electricity might cost as much as $80,000 and take as long as two decades to pay back, depending on wind strength and state subsidies. (The 30% federal tax credit is currently capped at $4,000.)
Then there's the height factor. Residential wind turbines are tall enough to potentially irritate neighbors and require reams of paperwork, especially for the 60 million Americans who belong to a community association. And even though many of the assumptions about small wind turbines aren't true--they don't make much noise, and the AWEA notes that sliding glass doors are a bigger risk to birds than residential wind turbines are--not everyone wants to fight the bureaucratic battles. "It can take a lot of court cases for a turbine owner just to be sure he can put one in," says Stimmel.
But watt per watt, small wind is cheaper than residential solar, and for those willing to make the up-front investment, it can provide freedom from the electrical grid. Plus, in the eyes of some, there's nothing more beautiful than a wind turbine spinning in the backyard. "It looks like a giant pinwheel and sounds like a plane off in the distance," says Morrell. "I'd definitely recommend it."
http://www.windenergy.com/news/news_Time_11-20-08.html
Yes it would.
I sometimes wonder about the height of
wind farms. I didn't think about the noise or
vibration sound. That might drive me crazy.
Solar home owners oppose wind farm
"this is from Taos, NM"
TAOS — Living off the grid doesn't necessarily mean you want to live next to a wind farm, even if it is designed to generate electrical power from a renewable energy source.
A well-known Taos attorney's proposal to develop a wind farm has angered some residents near the site, including people in the Cielito Lindo subdivision, where homes rely primarily on solar energy.
Eliu Romero is scheduled to ask Taos County commissioners Tuesday to approve land-use code variances to allow a 40-turbine wind farm on private land west of Taos owned by his sons.
Romero said he and his partner in Taos Wind Power, Bill Lockwood, have stopped pursuing approval of a second wind farm in the area for the time being.
Residents in the off-the-grid subdivision near the proposed Taos Wind Farm site began resisting it the minute they learned of the project. They are concerned about health impacts of noise and low-frequency vibrations from wind turbines, flashing strobe lights changing the night sky, turbine blades killing birds and giant structures forever changing the open plateau's landscape.
Members of the group started a Web site — www.talkingwind.com — to post their latest findings on the impacts of wind farms.
Several of the residents, including Pamela Rosenberg, an officer in the subdivision's homeowners association, chipped in money to hire a noise specialist and other experts to review the Taos Wind Power proposals. Among them was Nina Pierpont, a pediatrician trained at John Hopkins School of Medicine, whose book about the health impacts of wind turbine noise is due out early next year.
The group became increasingly convinced the wind farm was a bad idea. They bristle at the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) label. "I am a great proponent for renewables, but not so as to sacrifice the health and well-being of life so that a few can cash in," Rosenberg wrote in a recent e-mail.
In an opinion piece published in The Taos News a couple of months ago, Romero's sister, Fabi Romero, long a proponent of good planning, which sometimes put her at odds with her brother in the past, was highly supportive of the wind farm. She was disparaging of the Cielito Lindo residents who opposed it.
"The proponents claim to live in a 'sustainable community'; a community of houses on 10-20 acre lots. They drive over 20 miles to work, get groceries and take their children to school," Romero said. "That is absolutely not sustainable."
But Charlee Myers, a 17-year resident of Tres Piedras, said there's "a smelly fish" with the wind project. To start with, he doesn't think there's enough wind to power the turbines. For another, he said, the almost 400-foot height of the towers plus turbines would totally change the rural sagebrush landscape.
"No one would care if it was a bunch of 20-foot wind turbines," said Meyers, owner of Mesa and Mountain Construction. "But these are 20 or 30 stories high. They're massive."
Eliu Romero said the plan calls for placing one wind turbine for each 40 to 50 acres. He said the closest turbine to a Cielito Lindo house would be 1,000 feet away.
He said the company is still gathering wind data. "No one is going to put up $2 million for a turbine if they're not convinced there is enough wind," he said.
Eliu Romero said the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish had approved the wind farm.
But Rachel Jankowitz, a state Department of Game and Fish habitat specialist, said the agency doesn't approve or disprove of wind projects. It has no authority to do so. All it can do is list potential impacts of wind farms on wildlife and make recommendations on how to reduce those impacts.
She said Taos County planners and some of the residents near the proposed sites, but not the developers, had contacted her about the projects.
Eliu Romero said the wind farm could pump $1 million a year into Taos County coffers from taxes on energy produced. Moreover, he said wind is an important, homegrown way for the country to reduce its dependence on foreign oil.
He said Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which serves Taos County, is interested in purchasing some of the power.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Solar-home-owners-oppose-wind-farm
Hi everyone,
here is a new? dreidel song to enjoy.
Not I, said the life warrior
I think it was the
Dahli Lama
Ploni,
I remember it was the thrird forward.
I have to go out let me look later K?
Shabbat Shalom
let me see
When we can't get along with someone,
we like to blame it on that person's faults: Stupidity, incompetence, outrageous actions, aggression or some other evil.
The real reason is none of these.
It is that the world is broken, and we are the shattered fragments.
And all that stops us from coming back together is that we each imagine ourselves to be whole.
pretty sig Merry
I can see those tankers with those really big war type blasters!! lol
Hi Merry,
or is it Christmas?? LOL
What an airplane whosh
i almost believe that one Uncle
LOL
OMG--- I am so sorry
I had no idea that was a forgery.
Someone emailed me that information.
Thank you for correcting the post.
Santa Fe minimum wage to rise by 42 cents in January
New Mexico
Santa Fe's mandated minimum wage will rise on Jan. 1 to $9.92 an hour — an increase of 42 cents — Mayor David Coss announced Monday.
Coss said the 4.457 percent boost, based on the regional Consumer Price Index, is particularly important for lower-wage workers in the face of a national economic recession.
"In times of hardship like these," he said, "the living wage is needed the most."
Some members of the business community, however, have said they would like the City Council to delay a hike in the local wage floor until the economy improves. Many of the affected workers have jobs in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Simon Brackley, president and CEO of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, said Monday that business owners he represents were displeased that City Hall would consider temporarily freezing wages for its own employees because of economic conditions but is unwilling to let private businesses do the same.
Brackley said he had been contacted by "dozens and dozens" of employers, both for-profit and not-for-profit, concerned about the higher wage.
"Everyone is having to look at the bottom line," he said. "They're all having a difficult time budgeting for 2009."
One small-business owner, Dan Hogan, whose business is P.D. Bean, a coffeehouse on Cerrillos Road, said the current minimum wage "is too high for the kind of work involved" at his business. "This isn't skilled labor."
Hogan also noted the ripple effect of a higher minimum wage. If the starting wage soon becomes $9.92 an hour, he said, hiring a new employee will require increasing the pay for a current worker. Keeping the wage the same for the existing employee, he said, "is not fair."
The city last year put off a scheduled hike to $10.50 per hour under a deal that linked future adjustments to the Consumer Price Index and expanded the ordinance to include smaller businesses. The first such adjustment will begin Jan. 1, 2009.
At $9.92 per hour, the wage floor for employers in the city would remain well above the statewide minimum, which is set to rise Jan. 1 to $7.50 an hour, up $1 from the current level.
Under an amendment to the city's wage ordinance adopted late last year, the local minimum wage will be adjusted upward annually by an amount corresponding to the previous year's increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for the Western region of the U.S. for urban wage earners and clerical workers.
"The City of Santa Fe used the 12-month average from October to October as the figure for the previous year in order to give businesses and employees the most stable, up-to-date number while also providing enough time to plan for the coming year," a City Hall statement said.
The statement also said minimum-wage laws promote the general welfare, health, safety and prosperity of Santa Fe by ensuring workers can better care for their families through their own efforts and without government financial assistance.
However, if a period of price deflation results in a drop in the CPI, the city wouldn't lower the minimum wage.
City spokeswoman Laura Banish said the wording of the city ordinance only addresses an increase based on annual CPI data, and cannot result in a decrease even if that indicator is negative.
"The living wage can never go down," she said. "But it could potentially stay flat."
The mayor, who announced the wage adjustment data at a noon news conference outside City Hall, was joined at the microphone by City Councilor Rosemary Romero and Santa Fe Alliance executive director Vicki Pozzebon.
"I wasn't part of enacting (the mandated minimum wage)," said Romero, who was elected to the city governing body in March. "But I'm happy to support it."
Pozzebon, whose group represents some locally owned businesses, also was supportive of the cost-of-living increase, saying the measure will "help keep families together" and will "instill confidence in our community."
In other remarks, Coss said the fear that the higher mandated wage would result in the loss of jobs among Santa Fe businesses was unfounded.
A study by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of New Mexico indicated there was no negative impact on business or employment following the city's implementation of a mandated wage in 2002.
"Santa Fe unemployment is up this year," Coss said, "but not because of the living wage. That's the result of national economic conditions."
Carol Oppenheimer of the Living Wage Network, a nonprofit that helped push for the city's wage law, welcomed the pending increase.
A study by an economist who testified in a court case in 2004 has shown the pending increase would amount to only a 1 percent cost increase for restaurants, Oppenheimer said, which she said is a negligible amount.
The same study indicated the current $9.50 minimum wage has declined in purchasing power and, to keep up with inflation, the minimum wage should actually increase to $10.15, she said.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Santa-Fe-minimum-wage-to-rise-to--9-92
That is an awful story..
I haven't heard of that syndrome.I hope he pulls through,
Hi,
remember when we worried aboutJapan?
Get this
http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189
I thought this was an interesting compilation of the history of the Presidency and Jews.
Subject: Jews and the Presidency
GEORGE WASHINGTON was the first President to write to a synagogue. In 1790 he addressed separate letters to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI, to Mikveh Israel Congregation in Savannah, GA, and a joint letter to Congregation Beth Shalom, Richmond, VA , Mikveh Israel Philadelphia, Beth Elohim, Charleston, S. C., and Shearith
Israel, New York. His letters are an eloquent expression and hope for religious harmony and endure as indelible statements of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy.
THOMAS JEFFERSON was the first President to appoint a Jew to a Federal post. In 1801 he named Reuben Etting of Baltimore as US Marshall for Maryland.
JAMES MADISON was the first President to appoint a Jew to a diplomatic post. He sent Mordecai M. Noah to Tunis from 1813 to 1816.
MARTIN VAN BUREN was the first President to order an American consul to intervene on behalf of Jews abroad. In
1840 he instructed the U.S. consul in Alexandria, Egypt to
use his good offices to protect the Jews of Damascus who were under attack because of a false blood ritual accusation.
JOHN TYLER was the first President to nominate a U.S. consul to Palestine. Warder Cresson, a Quaker convert to Judaism who established a pioneer Zionist colony, received the appointment in 1844 .
FRANKLIN PIERCE was the first and probably the only President whose name appears on the charter of a synagogue. Pierce signed the an Act of Congress in 1857 that amended the laws of the District of Columbia to enable the incorporation of the city's first synagogue, the Washington Hebrew Congregation.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the first President to make it possible for rabbis to serve as military chaplains. He did this by signing the 1862 Act of Congress which changed the law that had previously barred all but Christian clergymen from the captaincy. Lincoln was also the first, and happily the only President who was called upon to revoke an official act of anti-Semitism by the U.S. government. It was Lincoln who canceled General Ulysses S. Grant's 'Order No. 11' expelling all Jews from Tennessee from the district controlled by his armies during the Civil War. Grant always denied personal responsibility for this act attributing it to his subordinate.
ULYSSES S. GR ANT was the first President to attend a synagogue service while in office. When Adas Israel Congregation in Washington D.C. was dedicated in 1874, Grant and all members of his Cabinet were present.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES was the first President to designate a Jewish ambassador for the stated purpose of fighting anti-Semitism. In 1870, he named Benjamin Peixotto Consul-General to Romania. Hays also was the first President to assure a civil service employee her right to work for the Federal government and yet observe the Sabbath. He ordered the employment of a Jewish woman who had been denied a position in the Department of the Interior because of her refusal to work on Saturday.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was the first President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he named Oscar S. Strauss Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was also the first President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In 1919, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to settle the Russo-Japanese War Roosevelt contributed part of his prize to the National Jewish Welfare Board.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT was the first President to attend a Seder while in office. In 1912, when he visited Providence, RI, he participated in the family Seder of Colonel Harry Cutler, first president of the National Jewish Welfare Board, in the Cutler home on Glenham
20Street.
WOODROW WILSON was the first President to nominate a Jew, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, to the United States Supreme Court. Standing firm against great pressure to withdraw the nomina tion, Wilson insisted that he knew no one better qualified by judicial temperament as well as legal and social understanding, con confirmation was finally voted by the Senate on June 1, 1916. Wilson was also the first President to publicly endorse a national Jewish philanthropic campaign. In a letter to Jacob Schiff, on November 22, 1917, Wilson called for wide support of the United Jewish Relief Campaign which was raising funds for European War relief.
WARREN HARDING was the first President to sign a Joint Congressional Resolution endorsing the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate supporting the establishment in Palestine of a national Jewish home for the Jewish people. The resolution was signed September 22, 1922.
CALVIN COOLIDGE was the first President to participate in the dedication of a Jewish community institution that was not a house of worship. On May 3, 1925, he helped dedicate the cornerstone of the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community center.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was the first President to be given a Torah as a gift. He received a miniature Torah from Young Israel and another that had been rescued from a burning synagogue in Czechoslovakia. Both are now in the Roosevelt Memorial Library in Hyde Park . The Roosevelt administration's failure to expand the existing refuge quota system, ensured that large numbers of Jews would ultimately become some of the Holocaust's six million victims. Fifty-six years after Roosevelt's death, the arguments continue over Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, on May 14, 1948, just eleven minutes after Israel's proclamation of independence, was the first head of a government to announce to the press that 'the United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new state of Israel. Truman was also the first U.S President to receive a president of Israel at the White House, Chaim Weizman, in 1948 and an Ambassador from Israel, Eliahu Elat in 1948. With Israel staggering under the burdens of mass immigration in 1951-1952, President Truman obtained from Congress close to $140 million in loans and grants.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER was the first President to participate in a coast-to-coast TV program sponsored by a Jewish organization. It was a network show in 1954 celebrating the 300th anniversary of the American Jewish community. On this occasion he said that it was one of the enduring satisfactions of his life that he was privileged to lead the forces of the free world which finally crushed the brutal regime in Germany, freeing the remnant of Jews for a new life and hope in Israel .
JOHN F. KENNEDY named two Jews to his cabinet -- Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Arthur Goldberg as Secretary of Labor. Kennedy was the only President for whom a national Jewish Award was named The annual peace award of the Synagogue Council of America was renamed the John F. Kennedy Peace Award after his assassination in 1963.
JIMMY CARTER in a number of impassioned speeches, stated his concern for human rights and stressed the right of Russian Jews to emigrate. He is credited with being the person responsible for the Camp David Accords.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH in 1985 as Vice President had played a personal role in 'Operation Joshua,' the airlift which brought 1 0,000 Jews out of Ethiopia directly to resettlement in Israel. Then, again in 1991, when B ush was President, American help played a critical role in 'Operation Solomon,' the escape of 14,000 more Ethiopian Jews. Most dramatically, Bush got to the U.N. to revoke its 1975 'Zionism is Racism' resolution.
And now: Consider the last two officeholders
BILL CLINTON appointed more Jews to his cabinet than all of the previous presidents combined and put Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both 1st appointed to the federal bench by Jimmy Carter, on the Supreme Court.
GEORGE W. BUSH is the first president since Herbert Hoover who has no Jews in his cabinet at all and has appointed no Jews to the Federal bench.
compiled by: Professor Sherman L. Cohn, Georgetown University Law Center
Now, this
is a link to another kind of heaven...
Looks like heaven for
this Floridian... lol
I just found out about
where the Dem supporters went...
What do we know about
regeneration cell therapy
Pretty good photos,
Are you near the Vampire town of Forks???
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Asia worsen global warming
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/HealthandScience/UN--Brown-clouds-over-Asia-worsen-global-warming
11/13/2008
BEIJING — A thick brown cloud of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies in the world , the U.N. reported Thursday, citing what it called the newest threat from global warming.
The regional haze, known as atmospheric brown clouds, contributes to the melting of Himalayan glaciers, reduces sunlight, and helps create extreme weather conditions that impact agricultural production, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Environment Program.
These so-called "brown clouds," caused by the burning of fossil fuels, wood and plants, play a significant role in exacerbating the effects of greenhouse gases in warming up the earth's atmosphere, the report said.
"Imagine for a moment a three-kilometer-thick (1.8-mile-thick) band of soot, particles, a cocktail of chemicals that stretches from the Arabic Peninsula to Asia," said Achim Steiner, U.N. undersecretary general and executive director of the UN program during a news conference on the findings.
"All of this points to an even greater and urgent need to look at emissions across the planet because this is where the stories are linked in terms of greenhouse emissions and particle emissions and the impact that they're having on our global climate," he said.
The phenomenon complicates the climate change scenario globally because the brown clouds also help cool the earth's surface and "masks" the impact of global warming by an average of 40 percent, the study said.
Though it has been studied closely in Asia, the latest findings, conducted by an international collaboration of scientists, reveal that the brown cloud phenomenon is not unique to Asia, with pollution hotspots seen in North America, Europe, South Africa and South America.
The enormous cloud masses can move across continents within three to four days, said lead scientist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego.
"The main message is that it's a global problem. Everyone is in someone else's backyard," said Ramanathan.
The report also noted that health problems associated with particulate pollution, which include cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, are linked to nearly 350,000 premature deaths in China and India every year, said Henning
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