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Bulgarian Police Orders An AW109 Power

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:00 +0000

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the Bulgarian Police has signed a contract for one AW109 Power light twin helicopter that will be delivered in 2010. This aircraft will be used for law enforcement and border patrol missions.

This contract marks the entrance of the AW109 Power in the Bulgarian helicopter market and adds to the large number of operator who have selected the AW109 Power for law enforcement, homeland security and public service duties worldwide.

The AW109 Power law enforcement can be equipped with an impressive range of state-of-the-art avionics and mission-dedicated equipment for all-weather operations. The Bulgarian Police’s AW109 Power will feature a tailored radio communication system, NVG, video down link, search light, mission console and FLIR camera. The ability to change the interior configuration provides exceptional versatility to support the different law enforcement roles.

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Missing

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:51:05 +0000

While in China this summer, I read as much as I could about the country’s “orphan problem.” I particularly loved The Lost Daughters of China, written by Karin Evans, an American adoptive mom of a Chinese baby girl.

Evans’ book overflows with perspectives personal, academic, and literary. She talks about how the complete unprecedented-ness of this international exchange that brings babies from poor, rural families on one side of the earth to grow up with upper-middle-class families, usually of a different race and culture, on the other side of the earth (30,000 in America alone); shares an adoption researcher’s belief that adoption does important work stretching the notion of “family”; quotes a poet who addresses “these women of the world’s first international female diaspora”; and discusses the hundreds of thousands of women “missing,” scientifically speaking, from the world’s population.

What this means is that in lots of countries, especially in East and South Asia and the Middle East, there are not as lots of women in the population as are biologically expected: in nature, a birth rate of about 105 males to every 100 females and a better survival rate for females yield a nearly 1:1 ratio.

I had heard of China’s “gender gap” before, and I knew about female infanticide in China and of gender-selective abortions there and elsewhere (India especially), but I had never thought of the women missing as just that…real, individual people, people of all ages, across the world, who aren’t where they should be.

In China, old women, who were killed as infants in the 1930s and 40s, are “missing”; middle-aged women are “missing,” whose brothers were more likely to get their family’s last bits of food during the famine of 1958-61; girls and young women are “missing” from the advent of sex-determining ultrasound (since outlawed); and females of all ages who have been the victims of poorer health care, nutrition, and basic care than those received by their male counterparts are “missing.”

This is so haunting. I was glad Evans educated me about these women so I could think about them, honor their memory. In hindsight, the idea of not knowing about them made me sick.

I didn’t think until much later that this haunting presence had surely echoed, for me, our phantom population after the Holocaust: the millions, and the millions upon millions that their descendants would now be. They are in our peripheral vision when we look at our own community; to the left and right of us we know, eerily, the invisible branches on our family trees. I think, at our core, we are simply horrified knowing of so lots of people for whom no one was even alive to say kaddish

Fifteen months ago, a government-sponsored survey in China showed more than 12% of that country’s baby girls missing, or more than one and a half 000 000 babies yearly. In all, about 30 000 000 females are missing there, and worldwide, 100 000 000.

If we as Jews are the primary remembers of lost Jews, then we as women should – and will – be the primary remembers of lost women. They are an enormous and greatly diverse group that has amassed over the centuries right up to today. How can we memorialize them?

Info about infanticide on Gendercide Watch:
www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html

An appropriately angry blog post on the subject with an interesting slant (those articles about how hard it is for men in China to find wives):
http://www.anglofille.com/2007/01/13/the-chinese-holocaust/

–Anna Schnur-Fishman

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Youre Invited to View My Photos!!!

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:36:26 +0000

I’m invited to view your photos!!!

Your swaddled new infant, in pink cap or blue cap
In mom’s arms, then dad’s arms, then still, fast asleep.
I’ve seen it before, far too a lot of times over
First smile! First bottle! First eyes open wide—
Well I can’t be wide-eyed! Your blah blah baby bores me.
I can’t ooh and ahh when you cry “He adores me.”
So thanks for the photos, and sorry to Snap-
Fish around for another to view the whole slide show.
Though I’m sad to miss out on what Baby just did now,
Delete! To the trash! He’s a garbage pail kid now.
The phone rings. It’s you: “Did you look at my beauty?”
I grimace. I pause. I squeal: “Oh what a cutie!”

–Chavatzelet Herzliya

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G4S Events wins SportsBusiness Sports Event Management Award

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:50:31 +0000

G4S Events, the specialist events division of G4S Security Services (UK), has won a SportBusiness Sports Event Management Award for its security and stewarding services for The Derby Festival at Epsom Downs Racecourse, and The Championships, Wimbledon. The award was presented to Mark Hamilton, Managing Director of G4S Events, at the awards ceremony that was held at the St Pancras, Novotel hotel in London on Wednesday the 12th of November.

Mark Hamilton states, “It is an honour to receive this award for two such iconic events in Britain’s summer calendar. By working closely with our customers, the police and local authorities, we are proud to have been involved in the development of security procedures that have raised the bar for the rest of the industry.”

In 2008, working closely with Epsom Downs Racecourse and Surrey Police, G4S delivered a solution that effectively reduced the number of police officers required to attend the festival, that in turn significantly reduced the cost of securing the event for the customer. As the first company permitted to restrain and detain members of the public on land that has unrestricted public access, the proven credentials of G4S have resulted in a major landmark in the field of event security.

The Championships, Wimbledon

As official security suppliers to The Championships, Wimbledon, G4S oversees the safety and security of all competitors, over 6,000 people working at the grounds and around 45,000 visitors across the 42 acre site. More information about G4S securing The Championships, Wimbledon can be found at www.g4s.com/uk-wimbledon

G4S has worked with Epsom Downs Racecourse and the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) for over 20 months.

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Maritime Safety Committee - 85th session: 26 November - 5 December 2008

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:53:36 +0000

IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee to meet for 85th session

IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) is to meet at the Organization’s London Headquarters for its 85th session, from 26 November to 5 December 2008.

The packed agenda includes discussion on the Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) System, the development of goal-based standards for new ship construction and the adoption of amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).

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I already have a domain.What is hosting? Why do I need it?

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:48:19 +0000

Most people know what an domain name is, but a lot of don’t have a clue what web hosting is or how important it is. A domain name is the actual web address for your website, (e.g. www.mybusiness.com). Hosting is the space on a server/computer that stores all the files, data, web pages, emails etc. for your website.

Consider this:

When you register a business name, its just a name, but that business would need a place, office, building, to store the info for that business…e.g. to store files, client data, equipment, information etc….this is just like an domain name and hosting…..having an domain name just means that you own the rights to the name, but in order to have a website you would need some type of hosting in order to ’store’ the info, files, images etc for that website….

simple enough?

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Out with the Sarah Palin, in with the Marie Antoinette?

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:34:31 +0000

The most recent garment-related decree of Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, of modesty courts fame, has given us an great new marketing idea for Orthodox women’s fashions. In a recent talk, R. Elyashiv announced that contemporary sheitels, as wigs worn by married Orthodox women are often called, are not an acceptable way to cover one’s hair in accordance with the tradition for married women. A woman who wears one, R. Elyashiv said, is considered as if she is going bareheaded, reports Yeshiva World News. Given that wearing sheitels — often pricey, designer models — is common practice amongst married women in lots of Orthodox communities, this pronouncement is a big deal.

It’s not the concept of wearing a wig that R. Elyashiv considers problematic, though (indeed, a Talmudic discussion deems them acceptable as a kind of head covering); rather, it’s that today’s wigs, “contemporary” sheitels, look too much like real hair.
(Rabbi Elyashiv’s talk (in Yiddish) can be viewed online here

Not everyone agrees with the controversial ruling. Hirhurim’s Gil Student, for one, explains some of the relevant halacha and why he disagrees with R. Elyashiv. For once, though, we can see R. Elyashiv’s point — that “covering” your real hair with even nicer looking hair misses the point of the matter — and we appreciate that in this instance he blames both women and their husbands equally for allowing the offending practice (after all, one reason the Gemara says wigs are okay is because they make women more attractive to their husbands.)

But sheitel-machers and wearers need not fear. In forbidding only “contemporary” sheitels, R. Elyashiv has left open a huge and untapped niche in the sheitel industry, and we smell a huge opportunity here for the fashion-forward Orthodox woman: vintage and vintage-style sheitels.

If “contemporary” is the problem, go for old. If real-looking is the problem, go for over-the-top. No one said sheitels can’t be pretty or interesting, just that they can’t look to much like your real hair. (I’m reminded that an unmarried friend once suggested she might cover her hair with a clown wig when she gets married. One wonders if that would pass muster…)

R. Elyashiv did not specify when exactly the “contemporary period” of sheitel-making began, but we figure if you stick to pre-Victorian styles, you can’t go wrong. And looking to high fashion from previous centuries and other countries would be an great source of inspiration. After all, Marie Antoinette was a style icon of 18th century French fashion, and she had some of the biggest wigs around. (”Let them eat sponge cake!”) By comparison, the Sarah Palin wig that made a splash last days is plain and school-marmish. Even with the matching Kawasaki 704 glasses.

Come to think of it, men wore wigs back then, too. Maybe we could start thinking about replacing kippot with, say, an English barrister’s wig. It wouldn’t look any more out of place than a streimel.

–Rebecca Honig Friedman

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Entry #6: On Gratitude

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:19:14 +0000

Needless to say, it’s been a long time since I’ve written. The fall months have swirled up and overhead, dried leaves rushing away from me, ungraspable. These months have been a whirlwind of academic rigor in my doctorate program, while the real conquest has been unspoken for. These months my mother has slipped quietly into doctor’s office, the obligatory testings. They count her blood cells and tap out her heartbeat, make sure one is multiplying slowly enough while another beats quick-tempo enough. I remember months ago now, when the doctor explained to us why my mother was subject to constant echocardiograms. Chemotherapy isn’t localized but attacks the whole body, depressing the heart, he had said. At the time, I swore my heart slowed too, depressed by the news. I pictured her strong beating heart then like an tired dog. I pictured the heart that had once brought life to mine. Back then I asked myself the most universal question—how do we cut out those damaging pieces in our life while protecting and not forsaking those most essential life-giving parts? Back then it was a funny puzzle for us to work out, how to keep the best parts of her.

These months we walk unsaddled by the immediate fears that cancer brings. These months there is no screech in the record player, we glide through the hum drum of busy daily monotony, in a premature victory.

It’s funny how quickly gratitude melts into the unchecked privilege of the daily grind. It’s unchecked because we just go, just do. We just fall into our deadlines, our paychecks, our minutiae of life stressors. We just consume, our daily meals our daily news, we are consumed. And through this I try so hard to ask mindfully, what is gratitude, how do I engage my thankfulness? Do I think of cancer often and daily, do I hum a silent morning ohm for motherhood and life? Do I let myself drive full throttle through the streets of daily life, full engagement as the ultimate act of gratefulness? How shall I be grateful for my hushed non-newsy existence these past months, for my mother prattling off Thanksgiving recipes and movies I ought to see and the blessed nag she has honed and crafted in her elder months? I still await the answer.

–I. Kramer

Source: Entry #6: On Gratitude

Nature to Nurture

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:07:20 +0000

(First of all.
Last night.

Okay.)

Last year I left school for a semester to be a nanny for the baby of very close family friends. I moved in when she was four and a half months old, and fell deeply in love.

There were a lot of experiences I had there that I felt I shouldn’t be having yet. Walking up and down the hills of Oakland in August facilitating Amira’s hours-long naps was blissful. Dangling a stuffed animal from one raised hand throughout diaper changes, to stave off the tiniest whimper of boredom or discomfort, was imperative. Construction men, cellphone talkers, loud-car drivers, and people in noisy high heels during naptime were horrid. Sponging spit-up from the living room carpet was an act of love.

When I left, I was utterly bereft, and for weeks I was dabbing my eyes at least twice a day over the seven-minute home video that Amira’s parents had sympathetically provided for me. It was like Nicorette. (Spending a couple weeks on night duty with my first cousin’s newborns was like much better Nicorette.) And I knew that, but I felt clueless as to what my precise addiction was.

Just as I might have gotten around to figuring it out (or so I like to imagine), my attentions turned elsewhere: to my beloved grandmother, under whose roof I saw out middle school, who had a terrible stroke while traveling in London. I flew to London. Grandmom needed to be spoken slowly with, have her hand held, her arms and legs rubbed down with moisturizing lotion, her paralyzed arm, forever slipping, elevated, her glasses and hearing aids fetched from the empty hotel room. I flew back, eight hours later, the night before my spring semester began, and I was able to keep visiting my grandmother two or three times a week when she arrived by air-hospital to Boston, where she spent six weeks.

When she finally moved back to New Jersey, from whence cometh all grandmothers, I was not happy, not until the summer, when I found myself in China with no other responsibility than to tend to a roomful of babies all day.

I worry that there’s something pathological about being so gratified by nurturing. What if I’m doing it in a weird, codependent, need-to-be-a-“rescuer” kind of way? What if I’m doing it in a creepy projection of wanting to be nurtured myself? What if I’m doing it for attention? Out of egotism? You know, when hours pass and your primary pastime is gently sending little humans to sleep, you have a lot of time to think up reasons why liking it is strange.

My mother mentioned the other day that a lot of of her friends say the little-kid months were their happiest. “Why?,” I asked. She said, “Oh, well caretaking can be very gratifying. It’s hard to find something that competes with that.”

Did I stumble upon it too early? Was I not supposed to know how great this was until I was a mother? Maybe nurturing without any of the grave responsibility and time investment of a primary caretaker would make anyone giddy. Then again, I guess a parent never has to admit she’s addicted, because if she keeps going back for more, that just makes her, well, a good parent.

Thoughts?

–Anna Schnur-Fishman

Source: Nature to Nurture

Go and Find

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:55:37 +0000

Well.

I triple-checked the non-profit guidelines section of the IRS website, so it is without fear that I am endangering anyone here that I say: OH MY GOSH, WE WON WE WON WE WON*.

That’s a pretty nice feeling. And an unbelievable fit with this week’s parsha of Lech L’cha. Going to a new and unexplored land is an great metaphor for what this new administration will feel like. (And it’s a nifty vox populi, vox dei moment, too.) This may be more true for some of us than others: I was sixteen months old when George W. Bush was elected. His is not the only Presidency I can remember, but is the backdrop to my young adulthood and my political consciousness, so you can see that this would be not only a big deal to my cohort—as to everyone—but an real sense of beginning something new and utterly, utterly unknown. I’m not even sure how to have a non-oppositional relationship to the leader of my nation. But I’m ready to set off and find out, you know?

Sure, it’s a little hubristic to even implicitly connect Obama to Moses—especially since we apparently think he’s Jesus or something—but we’re still flying high on election victory, and it takes my mind off the thousands and thousands of files being shredded at the White House as I type. And I think of Abraham and the wells, and the way this patient man dealt with those out to make his life difficult, and I think…we could do worse for a comparison.

The Talking Heads That Be have spent almost a week now repeating over and over that this was not a victory for the left, not a victory for progressivism, just a victory for this certain man that may or may not be traceable to the bottom falling out of our economy. To this I say…whatever. We won, and while some of us may be savoring this strange and powerful elation, there’s much to come. While I’m looking forward to knowing that all my friends and family have healthcare they can afford, and to knowing that a long and bloody war will come to an end and that those fighting it will have the support they deserve, I think I am, somewhat dorkily, looking forward to the President’s expectations of me. I’m ready to be asked to serve, and I am way not alone in that.

Voluntarism—the idea that participation in certain spheres is entirely one’s choice—is a dicey thing. We must respect people’s personal freedoms, of course, but doing away with all expectations is rarely salubrious. I’m knee deep in an overview of American Jewish history right now, and the main theme may well be “voluntarism tripped us up.” The marketplace of ideas is a wonderful thing, but when you let people loose in it, they don’t always come back. In fact, it often takes a raising of expectations to get people to engage at all. Expectations and opportunity, combined with new ways of thinking and including people, get people invested. (Wait, this is sounding familiar
And that’s what I’m looking forward to most.

So we set off now on a grand journey. The great work begins. I can’t wait.

–Mel Weiss

*I’m speaking here of the electoral triumph of President-elect Barack Obama. In case you hadn’t heard, or in case you were judging the success of this election on the basis of how lots of states denied gay folks their civil rights. We’re getting back to that sometime soon, don’t worry.

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