tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84295700724410232962024-03-13T12:05:33.026-04:00The Virtual Philosophy ClubFor <b><i>courteous</i></b> online discussion of <b><i>serious</i></b> topics.Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.comBlogger492125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-29753612168689349342022-11-27T16:36:00.007-05:002022-11-27T18:08:30.379-05:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGIRLdsGnS_6x7ojk5FSJ40YhNM6i0vO6NJpbcbUVVKb0BeR6q1I2LqNw1TGUiar65qZ56wlkMfjAgkB1ZGUpmlkrGN4rbPLsJuwnx_sOAEObO09w0BMGRxAejzDh4sa-e68v_JZBGShN5pgeyMoYs86FDx5-RWSbq3ir3wwe3biddJJnMVGeRbLu5Q/s3947/20221016_123439_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="3947" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGIRLdsGnS_6x7ojk5FSJ40YhNM6i0vO6NJpbcbUVVKb0BeR6q1I2LqNw1TGUiar65qZ56wlkMfjAgkB1ZGUpmlkrGN4rbPLsJuwnx_sOAEObO09w0BMGRxAejzDh4sa-e68v_JZBGShN5pgeyMoYs86FDx5-RWSbq3ir3wwe3biddJJnMVGeRbLu5Q/w668-h313/20221016_123439_2.jpg" width="668" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">Today Sunday, November 27, 2022, marks one year since the sad passing, on Saturday November 27, 2021, of my beloved wife of 57 years, Violet (Stark) Glickstein, age 79. </span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">This year has slipped by so fast! Almost as if I went to sleep on Saturday, had a nightmare, and woke Sunday morning to realize ... it really happened!</span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">I'm living in the same apartment we shared for the last 10 years of her life (Freedom Pointe Independent Living, The Villages, FL). Nearly everything I do here triggers flashbacks to those "good old days" when Violet was here to do it with me. </span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"><b>For example, meals in the Dining Room.</b> When she was here, we'd go down together and usually find other residents, usually couples, who'd join us at the table. If no one was there, we'd eat alone (but together with each other). Now, I have to schedule my meals with friends, or do take-outs. </span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"><b>Another example, talking.</b> You all know Violet had strong opinions on nearly everything, and our political views were somewhat orthogonal. We each had large TV screens and separate control boxes to record programs we liked. Each of us could see the other's recording lists and watch their programs.</span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">Violet was not happy with the political slant of some of the stuff I recorded, and vice-versa. However, almost every evening we'd get together and watch either the ABC or NBC national news, or both, which I record daily. I've continued to record both ABC and NBC and I watch at least one of them every day. </span></p><p><b style="color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">Another example, </b><span style="color: #19447e;"><span style="font-size: 26px;"><b>driving</b></span></span><b style="color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #19447e;"><span style="font-size: 26px;">When we moved to Florida from Upstate New York about 20 years ago, we made a "command decision" to learn to live with only ONE car. After decades of having two cars, we made it work. (In 2016, when our daughter Rena was quite ill, Violet took that car to Atlanta, GA and helped care for her. So, for weeks at a time, I had no car, and had to make do with my bicycle and golf cart, and friends. (One week, when a friend flew down from NY, I did rent a car.)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #19447e;"><span style="font-size: 26px;">LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION</span></span></span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">This posting is a summary of how much I miss her, and how family and friends have gone out of their way to help me get along during this difficult time.</span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">In addition to being a special blessing to me as my wife, Violet was also a devoted mother to our three children, Lisa, Rena, and Sara; and a loving grandmother to Lisa's children (Alex, Michela, and Samantha) and Sara's (Isaac and Emerson). Violet was also a great friend to many others.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"> </span></p><p><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">WE CONTINUE TO REMEMBER AND HONOR VIOLET</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgu3k0JpvSs/YaglDHpn7JI/AAAAAAAAJFg/GYOl4gXOCo04zQ1mjV3TOnfBe4KprgRxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/Violet%2Bobituary%2Bphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="604" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgu3k0JpvSs/YaglDHpn7JI/AAAAAAAAJFg/GYOl4gXOCo04zQ1mjV3TOnfBe4KprgRxwCLcBGAsYHQ/w573-h429/Violet%2Bobituary%2Bphoto.jpg" width="573" /></a></div><br /><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">We, as a family, will remember Violet for all the great times we had together. Education was important to her, and she delighted in family events at our children's and grandchildren's elementary and high schools. </span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advanced education, at the College and Post-Graduate levels, was particularly significant. Violet and I "kvelled" (Yiddish word meaning "burst with pride") as our children were awarded the degrees they had earned (PhDs for Lisa and Sara, a Masters for Rena, and Bachelors for Lisa's children, who are working and/or pursuing graduate studies). </span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of degrees, Violet earned her Bachelors in Chemistry in 1963 (not the norm for females in the 1960's). Once our children were out of elementary school, Violet went back to college to earn her Masters in Computer Science (1983), when in her 40's! (With all those advanced degrees flying around in our immediate family, I felt "obligated" to get my Masters and PhD while in my very ripe 50's!)</span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition to delighting in education, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: large;">Violet loved to travel with me, family members, and friends. At or near the top of her list of favorite places in the world were destinations with "Disney" in their titles: Disneyland (California), Disney World (Florida), and even Shanghai Disney Resort (China). We visited the latter in 2017, when our Grandchild Michaela, a Hospitality Major at Purdue, was doing an internship at a Chinese resort, see </span></span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/09/beyond-communism-emergence-of-newly.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Beyond Communism - the Emergence of a Newly Prosperous and Increasingly Capitalist CHINA! (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">and </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/08/china-way-beyond-communism.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: CHINA - WAY BEYOND COMMUNISM (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;">We also travelled to England when our Grandchild Alex was interning at Oxford. We would have visited our third Grandchild Samantha when she was interning, however, she was in Australia, so far off the grid that a visit was not possible. </span></p><img alt="" border="0" height="540" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488066622829090306" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/TCmHhDVn1gI/AAAAAAAABMA/7S0pkTyiHlI/w383-h540/vi+zips+x.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #53d5ff; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; width: 284px;" width="383" /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Other family vacations included our Alaska cruise in 2010, where Violet showed she still had lots of "zip" in her as we flew between trees riding the zipline in Ketchican, see </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2010/06/plenty-of-zip-as-we-mature.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Plenty of ZIP as We Mature (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm8BElCVk3c/V9cLwXCDUBI/AAAAAAAAETA/hVzBDpSVRvYxjYBoBQjXOgzdMHSiU_ZmACLcB/s1600/6-RenaAlaskaCruise.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm8BElCVk3c/V9cLwXCDUBI/AAAAAAAAETA/hVzBDpSVRvYxjYBoBQjXOgzdMHSiU_ZmACLcB/s640/6-RenaAlaskaCruise.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />From left to right sitting around the table: Michaela Hagler, Jerry Hagler, Alex Hagler, David Moyers, Rena Moyers, Lisa Glickstein, Samantha Hagler, Violet Glickstein. I (Ira) am standing in the rear with Lou who lives on the cruise ship.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">In 2014 we took the family on a Baltic cruise that included a brief stop in St. Petersberg, Russia, </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">see: </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/07/our-brief-visit-to-russia.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Our Brief Visit to Russia (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p51T7XtNbKQ/U8Q5nZWpYOI/AAAAAAAAB-M/3HJeQV8Lp5U/s1600/St+Petersburg+Pushkin.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p51T7XtNbKQ/U8Q5nZWpYOI/AAAAAAAAB-M/3HJeQV8Lp5U/s1600/St+Petersburg+Pushkin.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">As we waited in the St. Petersburg park, along with our Grandchild Alex, I noticed the pigeons had an unusual fondness for the famous Russian writer, see photos above. I tested my ability to sound out Cyrillic characters by reading the inscription on the Pushkin statue, "Алекса́ндр Серге́евич </span><span class="hps" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">ПУШК" [ALEKSANDER SERGEVITCH PUSHKIN].</span></span></p><p><span class="hps" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><b style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIOLET'S OBITUARY</span></b><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #19447e;">Our daughter Lisa composed a marvelous obituary that captures the essence of Violet.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlZyXbCmZpcobEBmjEw-wxEuPJ53ytRevFQEDxBiRxhiDtbpIJOwvYNHEff5Q6koVk2ZE5UQdT-uC-zh3MgKqdFGQO_wItADnyFoQu53uAybFls5eH3_xG8_Uo-SAT4GW9aFqBSDcKRJGxR9p9MKLlN8ZN01QonmhPCLD8U5TnwYUxWfCfCi2dzNNfSg=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlZyXbCmZpcobEBmjEw-wxEuPJ53ytRevFQEDxBiRxhiDtbpIJOwvYNHEff5Q6koVk2ZE5UQdT-uC-zh3MgKqdFGQO_wItADnyFoQu53uAybFls5eH3_xG8_Uo-SAT4GW9aFqBSDcKRJGxR9p9MKLlN8ZN01QonmhPCLD8U5TnwYUxWfCfCi2dzNNfSg=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">VIRTUALLY "SITTING SHIVA" FOR VIOLET</span></b></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">According to</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Wikipedia</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">,</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Shiva</b><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">:</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span dir="rtl" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" lang="he" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" xml:lang="he">שבעה</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">, literally "seven") is the week-long mourning period for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva". According to Jewish law, we assume the status of "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">avel</i><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">:</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span class="nowrap" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">אבל</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">; "mourner"). This state lasts for seven days, during which family members traditionally gather and receive visitors.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In our modern times, when families live all over the US and the World, and where </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><b>literal</b></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> belief is scarce, it isn't really practical for first-degree relations to sit around on couches in the living room for a week wearing slippers.</span></div><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Although I lack any real <i><b>literal</b></i> belief in Jewish ritual, IMHO, it does make sense for those closest to the deceased to make a special effort to remember her (at least) during the weeks and months following her departure.<br /><br />For reasons I can't defend rationally, I'm very pleased that our daughters Lisa, Rena, and Sara, and Lisa's children, Alex, Michaela, and Samantha attended Hebrew school, learned to read that ancient language, and went through the formal <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Bat Mitzvah</a> process. I don't think any of them had then or have now any real <i><b>literal</b></i> belief, which, in a way, makes it a sort of minor <i><b>miracle</b></i> that they did so. (This last sentence brings tears to my eyes as </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I read it. How about you?)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kd6k8ozIPXQ/U_DdidyefjI/AAAAAAAACBc/jHwJgUg5JdgUOLW7PKzlmXUM16UA11EBQCPcB/s1600/05Passing%2Bthe%2BTorch.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kd6k8ozIPXQ/U_DdidyefjI/AAAAAAAACBc/jHwJgUg5JdgUOLW7PKzlmXUM16UA11EBQCPcB/s400/05Passing%2Bthe%2BTorch.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="600" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On Friday, November 26, 2021, </span>Rabbi Zev of Temple Shalom (where Violet and I are founding members) met and comforted me at Hospice, He spoke to Violet and said the appropriate prayers. I went to Friday services that evening at Temple Shalom. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we expected, but still too soon, Violet passed away peacefully at Hospice on the evening of Saturday, November 27, 2021.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our good friends, Bunny and Bob Adler drove me to the beautiful, tree-shaded Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, in nearby Leesburg, to select the plot where Violet was to be buried, with the adjacent plot reserved for me. [The photo at the head of this posting shows the granite headstone marking our final resting places,]</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our plots are in the Jewish "Garden of David" area near the Temple Shalom Memorial Garden.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqJdBlwj_BO7OffxbNnEcP2FQWwBHniW_fJekkC2VgAJT4ndVTP8EhbLvg1azli2u7mctJi_e4rO3h82BaHRMZL9QfjddjWw_9vNc26ck8s0pYICiDu3Q6HvBe9cfSZcJahZYYSvtFogyq0MUpTaPxlkPQwUcwBoPXscLIZ5T_UfX67btPRRDaJUmXQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="800" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqJdBlwj_BO7OffxbNnEcP2FQWwBHniW_fJekkC2VgAJT4ndVTP8EhbLvg1azli2u7mctJi_e4rO3h82BaHRMZL9QfjddjWw_9vNc26ck8s0pYICiDu3Q6HvBe9cfSZcJahZYYSvtFogyq0MUpTaPxlkPQwUcwBoPXscLIZ5T_UfX67btPRRDaJUmXQ=w640-h461" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Violet was interred on December 2, 2021in a private ceremony conducted by Rabbi Zev. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" tears="" to="" when="" you=""><span>So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. </span></this></span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;">Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,</span></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">Links for more detailed information </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">on Violet & Ira Glickstein's wonder-filled lives!</span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-heroic-struggle-and-passing.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for FINAL</span></a></span></span><a href="http://https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-immigrant-family-and-her.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;"> "SHIVA" posting</span></a></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-immigrant-family-and-her.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for NEXT "SHIVA' posting</span></a> </span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></p><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><br /></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-77136898926733688272022-05-27T08:03:00.005-04:002022-05-28T16:40:52.033-04:00The Sad Song of Love ... and The Fantasy of The Crystal Bridge to The Heavens Above ...<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This week, at the ripe old age of 83, and for the first time in my adult life, I've experienced inklings of what might be considered a smattering of <i><b>literal</b></i> belief in some elements of <i>religious dogma.</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To what do I owe this <i>battlefield conversion</i>? </span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As a professional system engineer, I pride myself on a record of leading complex projects with a steady, logical, non-emotional hand. When uncertainty strikes and ordinary mortals run hither and yon casting blame, my self-image is of the strong, mostly silent guy who saves the day with a series of bold, ingenious, selfless strokes. At the moment of crisis, when my</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">totally unexpected </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">solution is first revealed, it may appear unusual, even dangerous. However, looking back after the event, my fix appears to be the only logical response.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Emotional Roller-Coaster</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span>This past year has assaulted my emotional balance like no other.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks </span>ago,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Friday the 13th of May 2022) I took a tumble and fractured my right femur near the ball-and-socket joint where it attaches to the hip. I'm currently at Freedom Pointe Rehab recovering from the surgery that replaced the ball.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All has gone well medically. Family and friends have come thru with flying colors. However, I'm not used to being so dependent on others for permission and help in performing basic bodily functions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm also in considerable pain and feeling some unusual emotions, possibly as a side-effect of pain medications.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, I've been working on this Blog posting for a few days, which is longer than usual for me. During that time, some of the stories and observations that struck me as unusually profound when I first thought of them and typed the words into the computer, seem to have lost much of their power and punch.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">My hip fracture is but a bit of punctuation on a very difficult year. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span>About a year ago, my wife Violet and I were distressed to discover she </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">could no longer get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">from our apartment at Freedom Pointe Independent Living to the Dining Room</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">in a reasonable time using her walker. This was due to complications of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: x-large;">serious liver disease (not from drinking but from her diabetes).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I had to buy a transport chair and wheel her around the building. Soon thereafter, she was unable to leave our apartment without that chair. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Last September, she underwent a "TIPS" surgery to place a shunt on her liver. That operation failed due to occlusions in her veins. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Within a week, she fell in our apartment and could not get up. The staff called 911, EMTs came and took her to the Hospital Emergency Room (ER). After about a week of treatment at the Hospital, she was released to Freedom Pointe Rehab (the very facility currently caring for me). Alas, during her second week at Rehab, she fell, could not get up, and was back at the ER. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This </span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">vicious</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> cycle repeated until, after </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">her fourth stint at Rehab, she was released back to our apartment.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"> We had a nice week together with our good friends, including a visit to Fenney Springs Nature Trail, where she enjoyed the sight of birds, turtles, and a sleepy gator, followed by a much-appreciated fast-food chicken sandwich and fries.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBomwCwcpxhoW7BMSmRrhAwKRh_BNiOmEwjN-jJw5qTf9f1ppqmnQDqkQKLe3l5QC761i4rf48VgpwVMSkKWpQRj7o7GFlkj-whuNf2CY3zW_vlKsUoyWEnDfI71e32F61Jy1lQi2SspZwVqMr38o7HKO45W3hoKJGifuWNfdKuXtDsmktJEo994ZpRA/s4032/20211121_124957%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBomwCwcpxhoW7BMSmRrhAwKRh_BNiOmEwjN-jJw5qTf9f1ppqmnQDqkQKLe3l5QC761i4rf48VgpwVMSkKWpQRj7o7GFlkj-whuNf2CY3zW_vlKsUoyWEnDfI71e32F61Jy1lQi2SspZwVqMr38o7HKO45W3hoKJGifuWNfdKuXtDsmktJEo994ZpRA/s320/20211121_124957%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LxtGB9A0LME0GZb0ZiOwa-qghhCPtzQJXWjT4oSVb5i3fhsrtgWq1WQ57kln0842QBhLebmSFiVL9FGIFJF54t2nguBdnluk-RaL9jtsLvivt_fhnoEi_rSA9eW0Ik4PWsfaYXocfdXVRASvk-V7GRQdLumUPzu3CumX49YF0GsbNLxiUEuUoWY7BA/s4032/20211121_124842%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LxtGB9A0LME0GZb0ZiOwa-qghhCPtzQJXWjT4oSVb5i3fhsrtgWq1WQ57kln0842QBhLebmSFiVL9FGIFJF54t2nguBdnluk-RaL9jtsLvivt_fhnoEi_rSA9eW0Ik4PWsfaYXocfdXVRASvk-V7GRQdLumUPzu3CumX49YF0GsbNLxiUEuUoWY7BA/s320/20211121_124842%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">A few days after that adventure, I found her in her bed, responsive but confused. The Freedom Pointe nurse came, checked her vitals (which were way off) and called 911. The Hospital is just across the street from where we live, but, by the time the super-efficient EMTs got her to the ER, she was non-responsive. She was transferred to the ICU. There, after examination, the medical staff suggested she should be put into DNR status, in accordance with our Health Care Directive. Our daughter Lisa, via cellphone, spoke to the nurse and doctor, and confirmed our decision. She was transferred to Cornerstone Hospice care where</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, six months ago November 27, 2021, my wife of 57 years passed away.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cKRHGiyWEoXSROjHQtygW-JJftv8s5voJSdZCzBkfGGK8MLBAMzGrfj8PRFeofcqV13HgS0xj4CApvSR3hY_UUwiL7YXzmc7pisaCcWlNxqyjzOt2iwymM0_sWahNnTVtc8bpdnMmzyNc8Uy4D2nRzqVqK0mWZS6CW6miLMUTXhmLp0FvSPbuWW0SQ/s476/25Nov2021CLOSEIraViAtICU.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cKRHGiyWEoXSROjHQtygW-JJftv8s5voJSdZCzBkfGGK8MLBAMzGrfj8PRFeofcqV13HgS0xj4CApvSR3hY_UUwiL7YXzmc7pisaCcWlNxqyjzOt2iwymM0_sWahNnTVtc8bpdnMmzyNc8Uy4D2nRzqVqK0mWZS6CW6miLMUTXhmLp0FvSPbuWW0SQ/s320/25Nov2021CLOSEIraViAtICU.jpg" width="278" /></a></p><p><br /></p><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Current Situation</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, here I am confined to Room 117 at the Freedom Pointe Rehab Facility,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... in pain with a newly repaired hip fracture, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... unable to tend to the basic needs of life without assistance, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... and tortured by a persist "earworm" that won't give me a moment of peace: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj5Pz0uyLUg" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Leslie Caron - "Hi, Lili, hi lo" </a></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... </span><span face=""arial unicode ms", "lucida sans unicode", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">♫</span></span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">The Song of Love</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> is a song of woe (for I have loved, and I know),</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... </span><span face=""arial unicode ms", "lucida sans unicode", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">♫ </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I look out the window and watch the rain, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">... </span><span face=""arial unicode ms", "lucida sans unicode", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">♫ </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow I'll probably love again, (hi lili, hi lili, hi lo)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Why is Love, ultimately, and seemingly inevitably, tinged with sorrow? No matter how positively motivated, well-matched, and attractive the couple, we are human and will have "bad days". </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If a loving marriage survives the less than optimum periods without break</span><span style="font-size: large;">ing up, one or the other partner is going to pass way, leaving the surviving partner alone, and sad (like me).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our oldest daughter, Lisa, loves to tell how, in discussing death with her mother (Violet), she expected to be reunited in Heaven with Rena, our second daughter who passed away too early, at the age of 49. Violet also expected to see our wonderful Golden Retriever, Toffee!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, here are two of the stories that, a few days ago, struck me as particularly meaningful. These are examples of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he fantasy stories we tell ourselves as we try to make sense of the "rat race" we endure. The endless cycles of Life and Death, Pain and Pleasure, Innocence and Guilt, War and Peace, Good and Evil...</span></span></p><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crystal Bridge Story</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many variants to this story. Here is my favorite.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Where do Beloved Pets go when they pass away?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There is a beautiful pet park just outside the gates of Heaven. When a Beloved Pet dies, it is restored to its condition at its prime of life and placed in the pet park. The Beloved Pets enjoy their time playing with each other.<br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c;" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you watch closely, you may notice, on occasion, one Beloved Pet pause, and stop playing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That Pet stands very still, thrusts its nose up in the air, and sniffs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sniff! Sniff Sniff !! SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF !!! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then the Beloved Pet turns and runs to greet their Beloved Master. Together, they pass over the Crystal Bridge to spend eternity in Heaven. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll leave unspecified some logistics issues. What if a Master has more than one Beloved Pet? What if a Pet has more than one Beloved Master? I think it is always 1:1. Thus, a given Master may have only one Absolute Beloved Pet, and a given Pet may have only one Absolute Beloved Master.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or, since we are talking about Pets restored to their prime conditions, perhaps there are as many simulated images of each as may be needed to pair them off. (This simulation solution also addresses the question of the Pets eating, drinking, peeing, and pooping.)</span></p><p><br /></p><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Footprints In the Sands of Time Story</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When a worthy person passes on, they are shown an overview of the life they lived, each scene or critical event accompanied by a depiction of the footprints they would have left had they been walking on the beach. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The first thing you notice is that there are two sets of footprints running along the image. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Q: Whose footprints are depicted by the extra set? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A: They are the footprints of God who accompanies worthy people throughout their lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then you notice that there are some stretches of your life in which only one set of footprints are depicted. Indeed, the sections with only one set of footprints correspond to the most difficult and painful stretches of your life. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Q: Why do some periods of life have only one set of footprints? </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Are those periods when you displeased God or your belief in God faded? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">A: Oh no! Those were the times of your life, when I (God) carried you!</span></span></p><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">X-Ray of New Ball and Two Dozen Staples Removed</span></span></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Friday May 27th (two weeks since my Friday the 13th fall). Quick visit to Dr. Phillips' office in nearby Santa Fe shopping strip for examination and removal of a couple dozen staples. Visible progress. Thanks to John Griffin for accompanying me and taking the photos. And to Freedom Pointe drivers Robert and Dollar Bill for your efficient service.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG9uX40Pt1JTf_mw-Gn20_QBPkah00SnPf1MHINyKAIB8T2GQw1Hzaw9fgZ0kvAfhCpcGZtxUuziS_1SQSlsfSgiS9l-NC85p2uDaAaP0181UDNNudxXkzQNadhNANQxwdXH9MAX1SzxTNWntY9eQeQBBj0Ji73Gd2XrEcHthjL-WP5pQOiFBr6-eRg/s1712/20220527_104405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1511" data-original-width="1712" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG9uX40Pt1JTf_mw-Gn20_QBPkah00SnPf1MHINyKAIB8T2GQw1Hzaw9fgZ0kvAfhCpcGZtxUuziS_1SQSlsfSgiS9l-NC85p2uDaAaP0181UDNNudxXkzQNadhNANQxwdXH9MAX1SzxTNWntY9eQeQBBj0Ji73Gd2XrEcHthjL-WP5pQOiFBr6-eRg/s320/20220527_104405.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguaGrSN27R1zwnjQ2vRHOTP8ZDZ-Xf0C_RuPTtvCgwk1qEabIaEpbwHQgcue7KqS3TN2odJUXXaFsWjiYQB-PruvMJnOaExVljpGMrMgzCv82FpFb9hksdorWjDm0FoMVBNIKp4J-Fc-uPNhNe86wr2WsJe1LmjloTSpIsPe4hHsSJSoqKn5fQkvdy1w/s2193/20220527_104205(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2193" data-original-width="1546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguaGrSN27R1zwnjQ2vRHOTP8ZDZ-Xf0C_RuPTtvCgwk1qEabIaEpbwHQgcue7KqS3TN2odJUXXaFsWjiYQB-PruvMJnOaExVljpGMrMgzCv82FpFb9hksdorWjDm0FoMVBNIKp4J-Fc-uPNhNe86wr2WsJe1LmjloTSpIsPe4hHsSJSoqKn5fQkvdy1w/s320/20220527_104205(3).jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moses, Spinoza, and Einstein</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Albert Einstein was a famous scientist for over a decade when he came to the US in 1933. Accused of being an Atheist, he replied that he was not an Atheist but believed in the (Pantheistic) God of Baruch Spinoza. "<span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 18px;">I believe in </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;">Spinoza</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 18px;">'s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.</span>"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spinoza is regarded as an Atheist by some humanists who reject his Pantheism as being devoid of a worship of the Universe. As a major character in my free online novel (</span><a href="https://2052hp.blogspot.com/2009/01/chapter-1-stephanie-goldenrod.html">2052 - The Hawking Plan: Chapter 1 -- Stephanie Goldenrod (2052hp.blogspot.com)</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;">states "Spinoza is the most God-infused person the Jewish community has ever produced."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“As Einstein said when he was accused of being an atheist,” replied Izzy with great earnestness, “I believe in the God of Spinoza.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“But, Spinoza was an </span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">atheist</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">,” said Preench.</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“Oh - heavens - no,” said Izzy, “Spinoza was the most God-infused man our people produced since Moses. Moses had a glimpse of the back of God’s head, Spinoza glimpsed His brain!”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“But,” interjected Preench, “Spinoza was excommunicated by his fellow Jews! How do you explain that?”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“Like all peoples,” replied Izzy, “We sometimes make mistakes. Our mistakes tend to be big ones! Historic ones even! </span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">Our mistakes have contributed more to the knowledge of human civilization than the non-mistakes of everyone else combined!</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> For instance when Einstein said his suggestion of a ‘cosmological constant’ was his ‘greatest blunder’. That turned out to be the key that unlocked our current understanding of the unified field theory! Our excommunication of Spinoza was indeed a blunder but it turned out to be the key that unlocked all of modern philosophy. Had we kept him to ourselves, modern western thought might be quite different.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“So?” asked Preench, studiously ignoring Izzy’s unsupportable hyperbole. “Who or what is this ‘God of Spinoza’? This ‘Meta-Power in the physical Universe’ you say is ‘Conscious’? If this ‘God’ is physical and in this Universe, show Him to me!”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“If it was daytime, I would ask you to look at the Sun.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“You can’t look directly at the Sun,” said Preench, “It would burn out your eyes! But we can look at the Sun through a dark glass.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“Or we can take a photograph,” added Stephanie. “Izzy, show me a photograph of your God! Of Spinoza and Einstein’s God!”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“Excellent,” replied Izzy. “If you can’t look directly at the Sun without going blind, and the Sun is a tiny speck in the whole of the Universe, how do you expect to see or comprehend the God of Spinoza, which </span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">is</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> the whole Universe? Just as your view of the Sun through a dark glass or a photo is a tiny fraction of the brilliance of that star, every image you have ever seen directly with your eyes is a tiny fraction of the true image of God. Every beautiful vista, every view of the stars, every microscopic image of bacteria – all of these are small parts of God. Spinoza’s God</span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> is</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> the physical Universe.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“OK,” I said, assuming my professorial demeanor, “Spinoza and Einstein and you are ‘Pantheists’, as am I. But how can you prove that the physical Universe is Conscious and ‘guides the events of the world in a generally positive direction’ as you claim?”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“I believe,” said Izzy, quite slowly and with a very serious expression on his face, “That the Earth is a developing </span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">organism</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> that may have evolved something like Consciousness at a level above that of any of us humans here on Earth. That is something I can't prove, but which I would </span><em style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">like</em><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;"> to believe. The reason I would like to believe it is, absent an external Creator God who I can't reasonably believe in, if the Earth is not Conscious, we will certainly wipe ourselves out with nuclear or genetic or some other technology and destroy human life and civilization sooner or later.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">Izzy shook his head left and right. “I cannot prove it, but I have faith! I believe it with all my heart and mind. Can you prove that you are conscious? You would say you experience consciousness and you have faith that Stephanie and Preench and Tsar, as normal human beings, also feel consciousness as you do. But, can you prove it? No!</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“You could tear their brains open. All you would find is a complex network of electro-chemical machines we call neurons, a type of living eukaryotic biological cell. We say Tsar has a ‘mind’ but where is it? Show me a photo of Tsar’s mind! You cannot! Stephanie has a mind and is conscious and understands English and Japanese and many other things as a result of the interaction of billions of these neurons. However, do any of the neurons understand English or Japanese? Are they conscious at the human level? No!”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“How in hell do you know I understand Japanese? ...”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“This is all atheistic sophistry,” cried Tsar, speaking over Stephanie. “Sound and fury signifying nothing! ...”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">“No, no, no!” replied Preench, firmly contradicting his father. “We humans are conscious and understand languages and think as a result of the interaction of a complex network of neurons – relatively simple electro-chemical machines. Why couldn’t the Earth, or some parts of it, be conscious as the result of international trade routes and communications networks between people? Complex networks of telephones and radios and computers and the WIN and so on have expanded over the past several decades. They link all parts of the Earth together like the nervous system of a developing human being.”</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">Izzy said something to Stephanie in Japanese. “Oh, yes, my official TABB resume says I understand Japanese!” she replied.</span><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><br style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: wheat; color: #4c4c4c; font-size: 18.46px;">Izzy smiled and cast his glance to Preench. “You are correct. Your father should be proud of you!” Tsar stared at his son and then Izzy. He shook his head left and right. After a moment, he looked back at his son and smiled brightly for the first time that evening.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p>Last month, we Celebrated <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100006051391660/videos/396022965748928/" target="_blank">the Amazing Life of Violet Glickstein</a> and this week marks the half-year anniversary of her passing on November 27th, 2021 (<a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html">Rest in Peace Violet Glickstein, My Dear Wife of 57 Years</a>)</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-75494004819245140712022-04-20T03:43:00.001-04:002022-04-20T03:43:55.413-04:00My Mom Ruth (Leibowitz) Glickstein and Relative Issues[Note: Written in 2020, I forgot to publish it then. Published in 2022]<div><br /></div><div>I've recently taken a new look at the 1929 Junior High Autograph album and 1932 High School Yearbook that belonged to my Mother, Ruth Leibowitz Glickstein (photos below). Among other things, this closer look at my mother and our family origins has enriched my understanding of "where I am coming from" as well as refreshing my memories of my first exposure to racial discrimination.<br />
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Among the autographs are pages by Ruth's older sibs, my Aunt Blanche and Uncle Harry, and Ruth's Cousin Diane. (My cousins, and current Facebook friends, Fran Levine and Phillip Levine, may get a kick out of how their Mother, whom I knew as Aunt Diane, mischievously signed her page.)<br />
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RUTH LEIBOWITZ - 1929 Junior High Autograph Book and 1932 High School Yearbook<br />
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BLANCHE LEIBOWITZ - Moved from New York City to Washington, DC, and changed her last name to "Lee" to disguise her Jewish origins. When I was about 8 years old, our family took a Greyhound bus to visit her, and, as we approached the Maryland State line, I experienced a feeling of horrible helplessness as non-White passengers on our bus were required to move to the back.<br />
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HARRY LEIBOWITZ - My favorite Uncle was always ready with a joke (usually dirty). The "ironing board" is our favorite.<br />
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1) Let me apologize in advance for this over-long, disconnected posting, which is the second version of an unpublished post originally titled "Thoughts While Urinating". (I just thought of a better title - "Thinking While Tinkling".)<br />
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2) A running joke on the old TV sitcom Barney Miller is that Detective Fish (played by Abe Vigoda) always has to run to the toilet. He says you can estimate a guy's age by multiplying his height, in feet, by the number of times he pees every day. Well, I've been tracking my restroom visits over the past few weeks and, at my age of 81, I'd have to be 8 or 9 feet tall to get Detective Fish's formula to work. Of course, over-statement is part of much comedy, as my father told me a million times, "Ira, Don't exaggerate!"<br />
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3) So, to use the Yiddish word for inefficiently messing around, I've been <a href="https://jel.jewish-languages.org/words/430">pot-she-ink-ing</a> with this posting too long, so, ready or not, it is time to publish it!)<br />
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4) My grandparents on both sides were immigrants, Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe that shared the same first names, Louis and Lena, but little else. My father's parents, Louis and Lena Glickstein, were Galitsianers from Austria and Louis and Lena Leibowitz were Litvaks from Ukraine . <u><span style="color: #000120;"><a href="https://www.torahmusings.com/2012/04/litvaks-and-galitzyaners/">They differed in several ways</a></span></u>: "<span face="Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color: #001000;"><span style="background-color: white;">T<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">he </span></span></span></span>Litvak<span face="Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> was smart, analytical, learned, worldly, skeptical, proud, stubborn, dynamic, and energetic. He was also dry, rational, and unemotional. By contrast, the </span>Galitsianer<span face="Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, was warmhearted, sly, witty, sharp, stingy, c</span><span face="Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">rafty, and something of a trickster. He had a peculiar mix of shrewdness and heartiness.</span>" <br />
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RUTH LEIBOWITZ GLICKSTEIN - MY MOTHER<br />
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As I noted above, my recent <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">look at the 1929 Junior High Autograph album and 1932 High School Yearbook that belonged to my Mother, Ruth Leibowitz Glickstein, has, among other things, helped me understand "where I am coming from".</span><br />
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The image above shows part of the page where my Mother's photo appears. I'm struck by the one-line description of her as "Courteous to all, intimate with few." Yes! My Mom was always civil and nice to everyone, but hardly ever revealed her inner thoughts and motivations. (Quite a contrast to Vi, my wife of 56 years!) Compare the descriptive line about Ruth with the lines about her classmates in the above image.<br />
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I habitually look for is "Jewish names". (Vi always looks for and comments on "Hungarian Jewish" names while watching the news on TV.) Three of the names above may be "Jewish".<br />
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I searched among the photos for a Black face and could find only one, Hilda K. Parker "A moral, sensible and well-bred person." (see above). There were Black fellow students in every schools I attended, but they were always a small minority. <br />
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For example, the above photo of my 1952 8th-grade class at PS209 shows three Black faces. One, Michael Borden (second from the left in the second row), is seated to my right. I remember his name only because he is listed among my four favorite classmates in my Autograph album. (The others are Frank Forentino, and two with Jewish names: Stanley Marks and Harvey Cohen. I cannot positively identify them in the photo, but Frank may be the boy sitting to Michael's right).<br />
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Around 1980, a co-worker and <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I went to a Brooklyn Technical High School reunion. He </span>and I were pleased to see a substantial number of girls among the volunteer student guides. On a whim, we decided to walk up the Down Staircase, something we never dared to due as students. Sure enough, we were confronted by a guide who instructed us in no uncertain terms to use to the Up Staircase. Not only was this guide a girl, but she was Black! How reassuring strict Brooklyn Tech standards are still being enforced!<br />
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BLANCH LEIBOWITZ - MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH RACIAL DISCRIMINATION<br />
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Racial discrimination is real, and remains a stain on our American Republic, our great experiment in representative democracy.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">I WITNESSED GENUINE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LATE 1940'S</span></b></div>
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As our Greyhound bus approached the Maryland State line, the driver pulled over and calmly told the non-White* passengers they had to move to seats in the back of the bus lest state Troopers pull us over, and delay our trip by an hour or more. I felt horribly helpless as they silently complied.</div>
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This was in the late 1940's and I was just a young kid from Brooklyn. My parents and I were headed to Washington, DC to visit my mother's older sister, my maiden Aunt, Blanch Lee (she had changed her last name from Leibowitz to hide her Jewish origins.)</div>
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Aunt Blanche lived in a tiny apartment in a lower-class White neighborhood off Quackenbos Street in the Northwest quadrant. It was in the "third alphabet" **, far from the White House. I was amazed that her toilet was an outhouse in the tiny backyard ***.</div>
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Aunt Blanch worked in the office at B and B Caterers, where all the other employees I met were Black.</div>
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She took us for a meal at the lunch counter at a <a href="https://boundarystones.weta.org/2014/06/22/sit-ins-come-arlington">Peoples Drug Store</a>. Although the employees were Black, my Aunt explained that Blacks were not permitted to sit at the counter, but they could stand at one end and order take-out.</div>
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*"Negroes" is what the bus driver called them. They were not called "Blacks" at the time. The Black man who was the janitor at our Brooklyn synagogue was called a <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schvartze">schvartze</a> which, in Yiddish (and German) means "Black", so, perhaps, we were ahead of our time.</div>
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I spent most of my professional career at IBM Federal Systems, Owego, NY, and remember only a few fellow employees who were Black. I was closest to Lou Adams, a Human Factors expert who was also a fellow member of the Toastmasters Club. He was a very good speaker and, in the early 70's, he defeated me in an election for President of that club (but I did win that office in a subsequent year). I also remember Elliot Lee (a radar and electronic countermeasures engineer) and John Sims, (a very smart software engineer who was promoted to a second-level management slot).</div>
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**"Third Alphabet". Washington DC is arranged with streets in concentric circles. Those closest to the Capitol are A Street through Z Street, next come single-syllable names with initial letters A through Z, then two-syllable names, and so on. My Aunt Blanche lived in the NW quadrant, near Quackenbos Street, in the "Third Alphabet"!</div>
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***<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At the time, my parents and I lived in a one-bedroom walkup apartment. We shared a single bathroom, but at least it was inside! When my brother, Lee, came along, he and I shared the single bedroom and my parents slept on a convertible sofa in the living room. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Racial discrimination is quite real now, and, given the "tribal" Nature we inherited from over 100,000 years of Evolution and Natural Selection of our species Homo Sapiens, will always be with us. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">However, the idea that racial discrimination is worse now than ever in American history is an unsupported hyperbole. Yes, hateful Confederate flags are seen at public events, and even one is too many, but NASCAR has banned them from any official use on racecars. Yes George Floyd was murdered by a White policeman, and police are much tougher on young Black males than any other demographic. Racist cops still turn off their body cameras and lie to cover their brutal treatment. However, with nearly everyone now carrying a smartphone, more and more police departments are using body cameras and The list of </span></span></span></div>
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HARRY LEIBOWITZ - THE "IRONING BOARD" JOKE<br />
<br />Harry was my mother's brother. Always good for a joke, usually with a bit of a sexual slant.] A young immigrant couple lived in a tenement in Brooklyn. They noticed some of their neighbors were having babies but were too shy to inquire how to get one. A visit from a man with a black satchel seemed to be associated with the arrival of babies. (Those were the days when doctors still made house calls.) So, they got up their courage and followed him to his office. After a short discussion, the doctor realized they knew nothing about sex or reproduction, so he decided to take matters into his own hands, so to speak.<br />
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He took the young couple into his examining room, told her to pull her dress up and panties down, and lay on her back on his examining table. The doctor took off his own trousers and underpants. As he climbed atop the woman, he told her husband to stand close by and watch carefully. Indeed, to assure an unobstructed view, the doctor told the young man to grab his balls and hold them up.<br />
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I don't have to tell you the doctor had a good time. When he was done, he instructed the young couple to go home and do exactly what they had observed and, God willing, in about a year they would get a baby.<br />
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That evening, as he was home reading the newspaper, and chuckling about his good deed that day, the doctor received a phone call from the hospital. One of his patients, a young immigrant man, was in critical condition, and his wife was saying it was all the doctor's fault.<br />
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Of course, the doctor rushed to he hospital where he was greeted by the young woman.<br />
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"What happened?" asked the doctor.<br />
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"Well," replied the woman, "When we got home I told my husband we had to do <b>exactly</b> what you showed us. He replied we couldn't because we don't have no examining table like the one you have in your office.<br />
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"So, I thought about it for a while and remembered we had an ironing board, which is kind of like an examining table. My husband got it out of the closet and set it up in the middle of the living room. I pulled my dress up and panties down and laid on my back, <b>exactly</b> like you told us.<br />
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"My husband took off his trousers and underpants and was about to climb up on me when I remembered you made him hold up your balls. You said we had to do <b>exactly</b> what you showed us. But, my husband said he was too embarrassed to ask a neighbor to come to our apartment and hold up his balls.<br />
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"What could we do? Lying there on the ironing board, I looked up and saw the chain coming down from the light fixture in the center of the living room. (In those days they didn't have switches on the wall.) I told him to tie the chain around his balls to hold them up. As soon as he did that, the ironing board collapsed!"<br />
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"Ah ha!" said the doctor, "That explains what they ambulance crew told me - your husband was found hanging by his balls in the middle of your living room!"</div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-11619934509470666112022-03-26T14:48:01.652-04:002022-04-01T19:51:57.347-04:00Putin's Criminal Invasion of Ukraine<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLDAsOKFXLVwFEnbgRIFvu3pjPs5q4TuobkeCyswP2FaNiz2ZUm82kRUmBk-j8xGJYso5Cr_9mE6g-UokuFfm1vKT6j0e6N-X3x4nMArRuKCpD3kVXR4g1n1dzcuEo2fTjhbbO1vlIKgfQzj8z0FsVwwzhRo-YD9MPqy5Set1q7s5sUsp7ZlghAttMQ/s1280/Slide1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLDAsOKFXLVwFEnbgRIFvu3pjPs5q4TuobkeCyswP2FaNiz2ZUm82kRUmBk-j8xGJYso5Cr_9mE6g-UokuFfm1vKT6j0e6N-X3x4nMArRuKCpD3kVXR4g1n1dzcuEo2fTjhbbO1vlIKgfQzj8z0FsVwwzhRo-YD9MPqy5Set1q7s5sUsp7ZlghAttMQ/w640-h360/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>A month and a day after Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine, I presented this topic to a highly interactive audience of nearly 100 people at the Philosophy Club of The Villages, FL. This Blog posting outlines some of the highlights of my talk.</p><p><br /></p><h2>Philosophy Club Announcement</h2><p>A few hundred people are on the Philosophy Club email list. They received the following description of my talk: </p><p>"<b>Friday, 3/25 Ira Glickstein
Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine</b> </p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p>"The unprovoked attack on the people of Ukraine by Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin is a serious threat to the United States and our European allies.</p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p>"The US/NATO response needs to be finely tuned. Overly aggressive action
could result in direct confrontation between American and Russian forces,
escalating to World War Three. Insufficient action, allowing the forceful
incorporation of Ukraine into the Russian Federation, could embolden China to
military action against the independence of Taiwan.<o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><p>"My interest in this topic is based on my European heritage. My parents and I
were born in the United States, but my grandparents immigrated from Europe. Of
my four grandparents, I was closest to my mom’s dad, Louis Leibowitz. He came
from a city called Ekaterinoslav (named after Empress “Catherine the Great”).
That city (renamed Dnipropetrovsk and now called Dnipro) is in the
Russian-speaking part of Ukraine. It also happens to be the area where the
current heroic leader of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy, was
born! (See <a href="https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/HT_j-iVNZgg/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fleib-owitz.blogspot.com%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-killing-our-cousins-in-ukraine.html">Leib-owitz:
Putin Killing Our Cousins in Ukraine</a> for more.)"<o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">This is PERSONAL for me!</h2><p>As noted above, my maternal Grandfather, Louis Leibowitz, immigrated to the US from Ukraine in the early 1900s. (He said he came from "Ekaterinoslav, RUSSIA", but that city, now renamed Dnipro, is in the Russian-speaking part of UKRAINE.) "Ekaterinoslav" translates to "Catherine City" named to honor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great">Catherine_the_Great</a> who ruled the Russian Empire from 1762-1796.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW64AuTsn84QuNHFK1GkLYTws4wzFXKh3CTM_-639LDRYRk5rhgyRCwoY_V_mqpAfZAmHXI8Kwvl9niIE1jEqzXw63a4OgN7cfmYxGMgrgBQUytjIq14vfGzz1IWrbzeCJBf4HiCWMdpjESVSJThlvoYyl74ljR6_lka9RBIc2xwFZNQAaUdflYUONrA/s1280/Slide2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW64AuTsn84QuNHFK1GkLYTws4wzFXKh3CTM_-639LDRYRk5rhgyRCwoY_V_mqpAfZAmHXI8Kwvl9niIE1jEqzXw63a4OgN7cfmYxGMgrgBQUytjIq14vfGzz1IWrbzeCJBf4HiCWMdpjESVSJThlvoYyl74ljR6_lka9RBIc2xwFZNQAaUdflYUONrA/w640-h360/Slide2.JPG" width="640" /></a> </p><p>Louis was one of 13 siblings born to Dina and Isaac Leibowitz. He, and four of his siblings (Fanny, Dora, Max, and Zelda) were fortunate enough to make it to the US. The other eight brothers and sisters remained in "the old country". </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwwZ92d9b6Iq2EL-fPJO0SyyMn46EuZoMTi32mI1Dy_4ytYedhKzdEFq-7uOH_m6O0w3EAez3D48ub2PNOyKavNVk8qyJ0EWxqSVtBZ0RoCWvjxEZYu2GvfXlpQwYC-D1c1z2cI6Zq-FzFoHdxz8qufayDlf5BKKDcmXqRVgoac2W94Z0FjjXyxHvfw/s1280/Slide3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwwZ92d9b6Iq2EL-fPJO0SyyMn46EuZoMTi32mI1Dy_4ytYedhKzdEFq-7uOH_m6O0w3EAez3D48ub2PNOyKavNVk8qyJ0EWxqSVtBZ0RoCWvjxEZYu2GvfXlpQwYC-D1c1z2cI6Zq-FzFoHdxz8qufayDlf5BKKDcmXqRVgoac2W94Z0FjjXyxHvfw/w640-h360/Slide3.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>Louis worked as an upholsterer in the US and did well enough that he could afford to take his wife, Lena, and his youngest daughter, Ruth (my future mother), to visit relatives in Ukraine and Azerbaijan. That visit took place in 1929. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkPj6TUX-G1bxmd-YjSXZwcTNhrzMvDZE3Xd1KFSHmRDpkt-CQDTxsSjId-j6xQHLbqdtYgLyywZFmEi-UyQpMlg_p5Ufi2bP0fjP3AODTIzKfVjzVeLzEg2QxxrHpkgSwD9819rG3UJikUro6Sfko95tRP9vwkWk_EWURhSgEZef6QRmjBj7ak0j5w/s1280/Slide4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkPj6TUX-G1bxmd-YjSXZwcTNhrzMvDZE3Xd1KFSHmRDpkt-CQDTxsSjId-j6xQHLbqdtYgLyywZFmEi-UyQpMlg_p5Ufi2bP0fjP3AODTIzKfVjzVeLzEg2QxxrHpkgSwD9819rG3UJikUro6Sfko95tRP9vwkWk_EWURhSgEZef6QRmjBj7ak0j5w/w640-h360/Slide4.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMg_OOcuIRjBhawIOaQ6F54_kU-VgtmqY4Z9Cj8mBtVGBGHwCGV84ktbn57CoV_D_APp4NhLRmuA-ARqb0mz0NRvY6MLg6RIZIQUFscugui0PdxIWsT8afnA3rrKatsnyqsUbO0Oz2XvdJsAmllWt6z_uUBR6DTaWvI5K8DIRmRAgnyUbwSloKfc618w/s1280/Slide5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMg_OOcuIRjBhawIOaQ6F54_kU-VgtmqY4Z9Cj8mBtVGBGHwCGV84ktbn57CoV_D_APp4NhLRmuA-ARqb0mz0NRvY6MLg6RIZIQUFscugui0PdxIWsT8afnA3rrKatsnyqsUbO0Oz2XvdJsAmllWt6z_uUBR6DTaWvI5K8DIRmRAgnyUbwSloKfc618w/w640-h360/Slide5.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>Louis sent packages of clothing and exchanged letters and photos with family members there up till his death in the 1970s. (I remember my father wearing the shoes, shirts, and pants for a few days so they would qualify as "used" and spare our foreign relatives the punishing tariffs that would have been due if the items were brand new.) </p><p>According to my <a href="https://www.23andme.com/" target="_blank">23andme</a> DNA test, I have DNA relatives who have indicated that they have Ancestors from the following countries: </p><p><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">United States</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (328) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Poland</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (277) </span><b><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Russia</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (209) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Ukraine</span></b><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"><b> (186)</b> </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Romania</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (89) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Belarus</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (78) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Germany</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (70) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Austria</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (69) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Hungary</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (67) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Lithuania</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (59) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">United Kingdom</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (38) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Canada</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (28) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Latvia</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (26) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Moldova</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (19) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Slovakia</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (16) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Israel</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (11) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Czech Republic</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (10) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Argentina</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (7) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">South Africa</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (7) </span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">France</span><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"> (6). Please note that Russia and Ukraine rank 3rd and 4th. </span></p><p><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;">Thus, it is very likely that I have cousins who have been directly involved in Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine. I believe that Putin has killed (or at least seriously threatened) a number of my cousins.</span></p><p><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333435; font-size: 1rem;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">What are Putin's Motivations?</h2><p>I'm not a psychiatrist (nor any kind of mental health expert), and my knowledge of Russian/Ukranian history is relatively superficial. Therefore, the following is simply my opinion based on reading and viewing Internet and press reports.</p><p>Putin, now in his fourth four-year term as President of the Russian Federation, has been the top leader of Russia since 1999. It seems he cannot get over the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the breakup of the Soviet Union, which, although it started a few years before he took national office, continued during his terms as President. (Putin was the top leader of the Russian Federation from 1999 to the present. The decline of Russia started about 1985, in the middle of President Ronald Reagan's two terms in office. It continued through the Presidencies of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.)</p><p>It seems as if Putin is determined to go down in history as some weird amalgam of Catherine the Great and Joseph Stalin! Catherine, in the late 1700s, conquered Ukraine, and raised the Russian Empire to a pinnacle of power and glory. Stalin, following WWII, expanded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and, via the Warsaw Pact, dominated Eastern Europe.</p><p>Putin could take credit for the amazingly successful growth of the Russian energy sector during his years as President. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Russia#:~:text=Russia%27s%20oil%20and%20gas%20companies%20The%20biggest%20Russian,are%20owned%20and%20operated%20by%20its%20subsidiary%20Transnefteproduct.">Wikipedia</a> the petroleum industry in Russia <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">has grown to be "one of the largest in the world. Russia has the largest reserves and is the largest exporter of</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">It has the second largest coal reserves, the</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Russia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oil reserves in Russia">sixth largest oil reserves</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, and is one of the largest producers of oil.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">It is the fourth largest energy user. ... </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Russia is by far the world's largest </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_exporter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Natural gas exporter">natural gas exporter</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">. Most, but not all, authorities believe that Russia has the world's largest proven reserves of natural gas. ..."</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">The Nord Stream pipeline, from Russia through the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine to Germany, has been operational since 2012. Nord Stream 2 is now essentially complete. It could have added further to the Russian economy.</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><h2>Putin's Threats and Aggressive Actions Against Ukraine </h2><p>In 2014, during President Barack Obama's second term of office, Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine. Apologists for this violation of International Law point out that Crimea had been gifted to Ukraine (by Nikita Khrushchev in 1954), that the vast majority of Crimean residents are native speakers of Russian, and that Russia has major military installations in Crimea. NATO, and the US voiced their opposition to Putin's actions and imposed some weak financial sanctions.</p><p>Things were pretty quiet on the Russia/Ukraine front during President Donald Trump's term of office (2017-2021). However, upon the election of President Joseph Biden, Putin, sensing weakness, massed weapon systems and troops on their border with Ukraine. </p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">According to this</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>: </p><p>"<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Shortly before 06:00 Moscow Time (UTC+3) on 24 February, Putin</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_conducting_a_special_military_operation" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="On conducting a special military operation">announced</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">that he had made the decision to launch a 'special military operation' in eastern Ukraine.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">In his address, Putin claimed there were no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory and that he supported the right of the peoples of Ukraine to</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Self-determination">self-determination</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Putin also stated that Russia sought the 'demilitarisation and denazification' of Ukraine.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">He said that 'all responsibility for possible bloodshed will be entirely on the conscience of the regime ruling on the territory of Ukraine.'</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> ... </span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Within minutes of Putin's announcement, explosions were reported in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Odessa">Odessa</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbas" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Donbas">Donbas</a>. Ukrainian officials said that Russian troops had landed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mariupol">Mariupol</a> and Odessa, and had launched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cruise missile">cruise</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ballistic missile">ballistic missiles</a> at airfields, military headquarters, and military depots in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnipro" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a>. Military vehicles entered Ukraine through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkivka_(border_checkpoint)" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Senkivka (border checkpoint)">Senkivka</a>, at the point where Ukraine meets Belarus and Russia, at around 6:48 am local time.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">A video captured Russian troops entering Ukraine from Russian-annexed Crimea.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b>Amazingly Effective Response by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US/NATO</b></span><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">As I wrote back on March 1, 2022, (see </span><a href="https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/HT_j-iVNZgg/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fleib-owitz.blogspot.com%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-killing-our-cousins-in-ukraine.html">Leib-owitz: Putin Killing Our Cousins in Ukraine</a>):</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">During the </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">last week in February 2022, Russian Dick-tator
Vladimir "Putz-Punim" Putin unleashed hordes of barbaric killers in a
brutal, unprovoked, criminal attack on neighboring Ukraine. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">Virtually everyone
thought it would all be over in a matter of days.<br /></span></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">Yet, under the amazingly skillful leadership of Ukrainian President</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Volodymyr </b></a><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">Zelenskyy</a><u>,</u></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">the brave citizen soldiers of Ukraine have, so far, effectively resisted the invasion, shooting down several Russian aircraft and killing thousands of hapless Russian invaders.</span></span></div><p style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To his credit, US President Joe Biden provided lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine and moved American forces to NATO countries in Eastern Europe. However, he said <span style="color: #222222;">“Our forces are not and will not be engaged in a conflict with Russia in Ukraine.” He explained, “Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but to defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies in the East.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My parents and I are “Americans by birth” having been born in the USA. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">My grandparents are “Americans by choice” having immigrated to the USA from Austria (on my father’s side) and</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> </span><strike style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Russia</strike><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"> </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;">Ukraine (on my mother’s side).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h2>The Brighton Beach Connection </h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">My "hometown" is Brooklyn, NY --- more specifically Brighton Beach, which is on the bottom of Brooklyn between Coney Island and Sheeps</span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">head Bay. (See </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-brooklyn-bungalow.html">The Brooklyn Bungalow</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">During my elementary school years, I lived with my parents in a three-room apartment on the second floor (rear) at 283 Neptune Avenue. My brother and I slept in the single bedroom and my parents slept on a fold-out couch in the living room. My father was a letter carrier, but he was also handy with tools and did odd jobs around the neighborhood. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">My grandparents lived nearby in a basement apartment at 3058 Brighton Sixth Street, close to the main commercial street. Brighton Beach Avenue. My grandfather worked as an upholsterer and my grandmother ran a Knitting Store out of the first room of their apartment. My mother worked as a knitting instructor at that store. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">When I was about 11 years old, my father, with some financial help from my grandfather, paid $5,000 for a bungalow at 21 Brighton 5th Lane. It needed a lot of work. The building was 30' x 30'. It sat on a 40' x 45' lot. It had a full basement.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">There were three small bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a single restroom crammed into less than 900 square feet of living space on the first floor. (Up to 1800 square feet if you include the basement laundry room, recreation room and woodshop.) S</span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">ix people lived there: my grandparents, parents, and my brother and me. </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">(By comparison, my apartment at Freedom Pointe Independent Living is over 1100 square feet. It has two bedrooms, two restrooms, a living room and a kitchen.)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">I remember the first time I entered the bungalow and experienced the 6" hump in the floor of the centrally located living room. Fortunately, my father knew an Italian guy who knew about floor beams and joists and posts and such. He also had floor jacks to lend us. My father, with some help from me, installed new floor beams and jacked them into place, supported by wood posts on the concrete floor. That flattened the Living Room floor, but also cracked much of the plaster drywall, which had to be repaired and/or covered by wood panels. We also learned a lot about plumbing and electrical work as we got that house in shape.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">I was fortunate enough to qualify for admission to Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the four special high schools in New York City at the time. (The others being Stuyvesant, Bronx High School of Science, and the High School of Performing Arts.) </span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">So, instead of walking to nearby Abraham Lincoln High School, I got to ride the BMT (Brooklyn Manhattan Transit) train about six miles to the top of Brooklyn, within sight of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;">When I reached college age, I qualified for admission to the City College of New York. So, I got to ride the BMT train all the way into Manhattan! If my first class was at the North Campus, I'd change for the Interboro Rapid Transit (IRT) at 42nd Street and get off at 137th Street. If my class was at the south campus, I'd get off at 34th Street and take the Independent Transit (IND) to 125th Street (the "Main Street' of Harlem). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">When I reached the age of 13 (in 1942) I could get "working papers" and a job selling Good Humor Ice Cream and Orange Drink on the beach. (Of course, I worked prior to that age, helping my father at his odd jobs, my fraternal grandfather at his news stand, as well as at a neighborhood shoe store.) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">The photo below shows the boardwalk at Brighton Beach as it exists today. Facing towards the water, it appears very much as it did when I was a kid.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3SHDm2G36cbSTd49d9oeHpN_niHrsh0x0209FJQ8-03QF4QQhfHxE0cDJCMqYxOzg-DN9tjjl8JGc5UhTa00kib4tJunOMbZF_qcyjAJukClXwjzmmqPqV0V9j278y2M10FOBpL4vXSn2Yo-oJPFM_kSYBbx6qSsDUSGKbbXuxxwdp-Rl37iKgevm6A/s1280/Slide6.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3SHDm2G36cbSTd49d9oeHpN_niHrsh0x0209FJQ8-03QF4QQhfHxE0cDJCMqYxOzg-DN9tjjl8JGc5UhTa00kib4tJunOMbZF_qcyjAJukClXwjzmmqPqV0V9j278y2M10FOBpL4vXSn2Yo-oJPFM_kSYBbx6qSsDUSGKbbXuxxwdp-Rl37iKgevm6A/w640-h360/Slide6.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>However, facing away from the water, it is quite different. The first thing I notice is that there are more high-rise apartment houses than there were when I was a kid. The second thing I see is that some of the signs are in Russian!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm0f5LnPrsBZQCWYc0qwBANThfxaqemmwli13sinKM343hgyr3JUbMH8-C6qZ47vVZXeTXoe_RbGWl5vi5BhkPWekSr_dqTptKEvIX6w3CyRBjIiKerJRAzpTSpd75mqHjRnx4ylzsCgQRLjb3uI2LpjJ1m2OuYx7NOYXQIoYqJUW5vzsdky9d2j4P_g/s1280/Slide7.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm0f5LnPrsBZQCWYc0qwBANThfxaqemmwli13sinKM343hgyr3JUbMH8-C6qZ47vVZXeTXoe_RbGWl5vi5BhkPWekSr_dqTptKEvIX6w3CyRBjIiKerJRAzpTSpd75mqHjRnx4ylzsCgQRLjb3uI2LpjJ1m2OuYx7NOYXQIoYqJUW5vzsdky9d2j4P_g/w640-h360/Slide7.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>Here, close to Brighton Beach Avenue, is a more startling example! </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyhoPkSm3wseCt9OKxHB7T4FrUujYm94rMEI4iKEgTCmjj80DT_dQGfS3E14cQrMfoZTIHCQUIp98UaLM2_H1VQTb5tRVs6nhWEZsDxjWI2FzdZQaRCfyKcVToEIBvW5AY9-HO2RuHy46ajNyL4A6LtFVPXBd8y0S8M0dsuRq6SK4meRB2bR3FdZnug/s1280/Slide8.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVyhoPkSm3wseCt9OKxHB7T4FrUujYm94rMEI4iKEgTCmjj80DT_dQGfS3E14cQrMfoZTIHCQUIp98UaLM2_H1VQTb5tRVs6nhWEZsDxjWI2FzdZQaRCfyKcVToEIBvW5AY9-HO2RuHy46ajNyL4A6LtFVPXBd8y0S8M0dsuRq6SK4meRB2bR3FdZnug/w640-h360/Slide8.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>And below, a recently published news account from The Times of Israel. Brighton Beach is now called "Little Odesa" after the city in Crimea. And Brighton Beach has been overrun by Russian-speaking immigrants. "NY's Brighton Beach seaside neighborhood is a thriving enclave of Jews who moved to the United States in the 1970s, '80s and '90s as refugees from the former Soviet Union."</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZWJ_U48g-rDmhqZhnzpsX3QEDbELesZiMkqlazIoPbMpn1r-qnfLVf82-NGfgZEMqOsel-U4nXWZMncVISdS6P_6ah0M0uGDAK-sY5854ZhrlVPHU1lDbu9JaeKE2LP_NaeXC5ZKyu-88nQ0hd3bENrdXPZYkDICVhEU_jOp6BvGG97RU66eThGX9qw/s1280/Slide9.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZWJ_U48g-rDmhqZhnzpsX3QEDbELesZiMkqlazIoPbMpn1r-qnfLVf82-NGfgZEMqOsel-U4nXWZMncVISdS6P_6ah0M0uGDAK-sY5854ZhrlVPHU1lDbu9JaeKE2LP_NaeXC5ZKyu-88nQ0hd3bENrdXPZYkDICVhEU_jOp6BvGG97RU66eThGX9qw/w640-h360/Slide9.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>Oh, and that Brighton Beach bungalow my father bought for $5,000 back in the early 1950s? I checked Zillow and it is currently valued at $540,000 !!! </p><p>What does that bungalow have to do with the topic at hand: Putin? Russia? Ukraine? Why did I mention what it is worth now?</p><p>Well, it is because of the Russian-speaking Jewish refugees from Ukraine noted above. Over the past few decades, they have flooded into Brighton Beach, sparking a demand for luxury apartments. The old buildings are worthless, but the land they sit on, when converted to apartment buildings, is worth over half a million dollars for a 40' x 45' foot lot!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, my parents sold the bungalow in the early1980s, when they moved out to San Francisco, so they missed most of the increase in land value. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;">How Does This Tragedy End?</h1><div>Many different endings may be imagined. </div><div><br /></div><div>The best would be a return to the status quo anti-bellum. A scenario where some combination of Russian oligarchs and rational military leaders depose Putin or force him to call off the offensive military action and return Russian troops to their bases. Perhaps, this would include the return of Crimea to Ukraine as well as a requirement that Russia pay for the destruction wrought on Ukraine. </div><div><br /></div><div>The worst would be for Putin to continue this awful war, and using some combination of inhumane military tactics and, perhaps, tactical nuclear or chemical/biological weapons, take complete control of Ukraine. Putin would s<span style="text-indent: -24px;">et up a Puppet Government. </span></div><div><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-indent: -24px;">A further terrible consequence of this type of success for Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine would be to encourage other evil players on the world stage to follow suit. China’s Xe Jin Ping, watching closely, might </span><span style="text-indent: -24px;">emulate Putin’s tough stance that worked against Ukraine. Xe might forcibly challenge the independence of Taiwan.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Most likely, some compromise will be struck, returning Ukraine to a status that will end the active fighting for some number of years. </div><div><br /></div><div>Any such compromise will have to take the follow "ground truth" into account, namely the percentage of the population which speaks Russian natively in each area of Ukraine, see the map below. Furthermore, all sides would have to agree to an internationally supervised r<span style="text-indent: -24px;">eferendum in each Oblast (district) on whether to remain in Ukraine or become independent.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAw6JYlCL6L8XsWIflv63VGLPYh9Qt5wVwAEKNS9Dg8Q108BY3e6bORpMRGleSNGcV2R7FgWwDTwCUl4irz9Q_QQCtnmvzcmMvjZsY1l5j5SiJUXTwyk50k4aJABBLzHrNqzKUgQpLXm4f5g3WdBTFCV52Rfk24ZhCR4-kS288DuDHnbGMvcwPE1EmMA/s1280/Slide10.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAw6JYlCL6L8XsWIflv63VGLPYh9Qt5wVwAEKNS9Dg8Q108BY3e6bORpMRGleSNGcV2R7FgWwDTwCUl4irz9Q_QQCtnmvzcmMvjZsY1l5j5SiJUXTwyk50k4aJABBLzHrNqzKUgQpLXm4f5g3WdBTFCV52Rfk24ZhCR4-kS288DuDHnbGMvcwPE1EmMA/w640-h360/Slide10.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">One possible "compromise" that Putin might accept is depicted in the following map. Russia would get to keep Crimea plus all (or the major part) of the Donbass, as well as a "land bridge" between that part of Ukraine and Crimea. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vC-9IGQWnGTKPu3LmCZaSycNpaKnto7XEGZZiqDn8yfIrJQ9Z4qjv51ENsjdq1xwDrVik3O89pnI97jXoZHYOGX2XeTAvd5GoH_jhNsEB6IZjnZwkJnlvj83dA1KTJX3_-qYumVDr-Kho8sk6oFgA-J2dLNVXIt-QFyDdgGi2pVigo-qMaTQNjfGfQ/s1280/Slide11.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vC-9IGQWnGTKPu3LmCZaSycNpaKnto7XEGZZiqDn8yfIrJQ9Z4qjv51ENsjdq1xwDrVik3O89pnI97jXoZHYOGX2XeTAvd5GoH_jhNsEB6IZjnZwkJnlvj83dA1KTJX3_-qYumVDr-Kho8sk6oFgA-J2dLNVXIt-QFyDdgGi2pVigo-qMaTQNjfGfQ/w640-h360/Slide11.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">President Zelenskyy has pleaded for a "No Fly Zone” to prevent Russian aircraft from continuing their airborne attacks on Ukraine, He would also like to have the MIGs offered by Poland.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Much as I would like the NATO/US to provide this type of aid, I'm concerned that if any US or NATO aircraft shot down a Russian airplane, that could trigger WWIII.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p><h1>A Final Word From 19-year-old Ira in 1958</h1><div>During the Discussion period following my talk at the Philosophy Club, I put the following image on the screen. It is a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times (the self-proclaimed "Newspaper of record") dated September 5, 1958, from Brooklyn (actually typed by me in our Brighton Beach bungalow).</div><div><br /></div><div>The only thing I would change is to replace "Formosa" (meaning "beautiful island" in Portuguese) with the more current "Taiwan".</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoI9wrj-v6Xb2bF4N6RsXMq7mvf_3oEix8ztoxyGSOjw4QATFv_PQ_joWvqu9D_AAWl2VK7vw_i7Bhdcy3KuitdUh-3wLpu6bsIbWpBRVtQImaemryyLe2DoYbPAiGIuuf3cagmKCBaelyWOhNkb1EVOzlTEsm4gm75zE_ctMz1DTpi8hySvoVnAxEfA/s1280/Slide12.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoI9wrj-v6Xb2bF4N6RsXMq7mvf_3oEix8ztoxyGSOjw4QATFv_PQ_joWvqu9D_AAWl2VK7vw_i7Bhdcy3KuitdUh-3wLpu6bsIbWpBRVtQImaemryyLe2DoYbPAiGIuuf3cagmKCBaelyWOhNkb1EVOzlTEsm4gm75zE_ctMz1DTpi8hySvoVnAxEfA/w640-h360/Slide12.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-65960795518822931642022-02-09T01:37:00.002-05:002022-02-09T01:37:52.510-05:00Can Mail-In Voting Be As Secure As In-Person? There COULD BE An App For That!<p>Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of Americans chose to vote by mail in the 2020 election, Why expose yourself to this awful disease by waiting on line to crowd into your voting location when Mail-In Voting is so much more convenient and safer?</p><p>In previous years, my wife, who was helping to care for our daughter in a different state, had good experiences with Absentee Ballots. So, for the 2020 election, we both applied for Mail-In Ballots and, for the first time in my life (at the age of 82!) I voted that way. </p><p>The ballots showed up in our mailbox weeks before Election Day, giving us plenty of time to mark them in the comfort and privacy of our home, and seal them in the provided envelopes. I was pleased the envelopes included a security shield to prevent anyone from seeing how we voted without opening the envelope. There was a place, on the outside of the envelope, for my signature. </p><p>We could have mailed our ballots, but we chose to drive to the County Office and hand them in in-person. The voting official who took our ballots checked that the envelope had been properly "signed, sealed, and delivered". I believe I saw her slide the envelope into a machine that applied a time-stamp, and then she slipped it into a secure ballot box.</p><p><u>Security of In-Person Voting</u></p><p>My experience with In-Person Voting, both in my original home state (New York) as well as where I live now (Florida), was that I had to be registered in that voting precinct, show a government-issued ID, and sign the voting roll, where my signature could be compared with previous examples. The registration process was quite secure.</p><p>In recent years here in Florida, voter registration has required a drivers license (or the equivalent government-issued document for non-drivers or persons who have given up driving) that meets the requirements of the REAL ID Act passed by Congress in 2005 (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act">Real ID Act - Wikipedia</a>). </p><p>My wife and I moved here from New York almost 20 years ago. She ran into a bit of a problem getting a Florida drivers license because the first name on her birth certificate ("Viola") did not match the one she has used since she was a school-girl ("Violet"). She used a recent US passport to prove she was a US citizen under her current name. </p><p>Thus, In-Person Voting in Florida is pretty secure! It requires Proof of Identity (and citizenship):</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Possession of a government-issued REAL ID card,</li><li>A face that matches to photo on the REAL ID card, and</li><li>A mailing address that matches the one on the REAL ID card.</li></ul><p></p><p><u>Security of Mail-In Voting</u></p><p>To get a Mail-In Ballot for the 2020 vote, I had to be a registered voter, fill out and sign an application form, and receive the ballot at the registered mailing address. </p>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-77324408297583107292022-01-15T13:58:00.016-05:002022-04-20T04:27:39.949-04:00Violet's Heroic Struggle and Passing<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">This is the seventh in my "</span><i>Virtual </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Sitting Shiva" series of Blog postings of memories of Violet (Stark) Glickstein, my dear wife of 57 years, who sadly passed away November 27, 2021. [The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">]. </span></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #20124d;">Our Political Views</span></span></h1><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The photo below was taken </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">the day Violet and I were married at a synagogue in Brooklyn, NY, </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">on </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">June 14</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">1964.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"> It s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">hows us at our rented apartment in Scotch Plains, NJ. Amazingly, the "JUST MARRIED" sign, fashioned and firmly attached to my car by my brother, Lee, was still intact after crossing state lines at full speed! [NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></div><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp8aYHP9MyN9OlCTQqjPvyye7HU9eqCApuUDgzV6wMrtcuyqDoG_VovJymdjdmE6PuOmSgDu47kAa6Ja_0LPURG5iFTOFvhGlLgwR7zRfOYN33XyrJV5NbXBwcXkNDQ71CkSZ8E6nyP4CPZZmYlNB-D8ef3LGc6SAKEu0zWTfD7tA1J9ZHMlvwMn_XQg=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjp8aYHP9MyN9OlCTQqjPvyye7HU9eqCApuUDgzV6wMrtcuyqDoG_VovJymdjdmE6PuOmSgDu47kAa6Ja_0LPURG5iFTOFvhGlLgwR7zRfOYN33XyrJV5NbXBwcXkNDQ71CkSZ8E6nyP4CPZZmYlNB-D8ef3LGc6SAKEu0zWTfD7tA1J9ZHMlvwMn_XQg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">Please notice the "AuH</span><sub style="color: #6f6f6f;">2</sub><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">O" in the left corner of the rear window. You probably recognize "</span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">H</span><sub style="color: #6f6f6f;">2</sub><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">O" as the chemical formula for "water" (two Hydrogen atoms connected to a single Oxygen atom). You may not recognize "Au" as the symbol for an atom of Gold (from Latin "Aurum"). </span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">So, taken together, </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">"AuH</span><sub style="color: #6f6f6f;">2</sub><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">O" stands for "Gold Water," a not-so-subtle indication that I supported (Republican) Senator Barry Goldwater in his 1964 effort to unseat incumbent (Democratic) President Lyndon Johnson.</span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">Of course, Violet, who had recently earned her Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Chemistry, knew the chemical symbology of </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">"AuH</span><sub style="color: #6f6f6f;">2</sub><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">O". She was also well aware of </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">my political leanings which had been fully disclosed during the year we dated. Violet generally agreed with my politics through the first two decades of our marriage. </span><span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">Indeed, in the 2008 Presidential election video linked below, she says (at the </span>49-second<span style="color: #6f6f6f;"> mark) "I was a Republican </span></span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">until</span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"> 1992, a Conservative Republican." </span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">Please click </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4RYwx38-E">HERE</a><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"> to view a short video that highlights Violet's support for Senator Barack Obama with mine for Senator John McCain during the 2008 election. </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"> </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4RYwx38-E" style="background-color: transparent;">Loving marriage overcomes political differences - YouTube</a> </div></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyJaBwEyMPVyU5TpgPnvwxl8g1dkXsZRchkRdN4ssjT0YOmwXrcHWgWuFeR37i_rb5rpULdRlUBTL8oZm7-_wc2mQtDGxfSpAZLVuByq4xbCjsviqBuqMKxwlFweMuVW2KABZ5kfO_3zeKQdySG9F-DPvnrTqqilf735gc0qIZecv7S27-BEeOnRYN2Q=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyJaBwEyMPVyU5TpgPnvwxl8g1dkXsZRchkRdN4ssjT0YOmwXrcHWgWuFeR37i_rb5rpULdRlUBTL8oZm7-_wc2mQtDGxfSpAZLVuByq4xbCjsviqBuqMKxwlFweMuVW2KABZ5kfO_3zeKQdySG9F-DPvnrTqqilf735gc0qIZecv7S27-BEeOnRYN2Q=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>[How does a Jewish boy from Brooklyn come to have right-leaning political views? See <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html">HERE</a> for details of how my political views were shaped as a reaction to the ultra-leftish atmosphere of my alma-matter, the City College of New York (CCNY). I<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";">'ve always considered myself a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism" style="background-color: white; color: #0066cc; font-family: "times new roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Classical Liberal</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">, advocating </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">for </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Civil liberties">civil liberties</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> under the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> with an emphasis on </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_freedom" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Economic freedom">economic freedom</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";">on the order of John Locke and others of his era. In today's political environment, a Classical Liberal would tend towards the "Conservative" side in most areas.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";">That is in contrast to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: "times new roman"; text-decoration-line: none;">Social Liberals</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";">who</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">endorse a </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Regulation">regulated</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Market economy">market economy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> and race-conscious "affirmative action" to expand the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Civil and political rights">civil and political rights</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"> of "under-represented minority groups." </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell">Colin Powell</a>, a Bronx boy whose years at <span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman";">CCNY overlapped mine, also became a Republican. He earned his degree in Geology a couple years before I got mine in Electrical Engineering. Following a distinguished record as an Army officer, he served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as Secretary of State. Had he heeded calls to run for President, I would have supported him, not because he happened to be Black, but because of his superior qualifications.]</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 28.248px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Our Final Year Together</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">2021 turned out to be an especially difficult
year for us. Violet’s fatty liver disease progressed to cirrhosis of the liver.
(Not from drinking alcohol – Violet drank even less that I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">but from her
diabetes).</span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">She had what is called</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a;"> </span><a href="https://www.emedicinehealth.com/ascites/article_em.htm" style="background-color: transparent;">Ascites</a>. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Violet's liver was leaking fluid into her body cavity. That fluid</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">caused her abdomen to expand and her ankles and feet to swell, making it
difficult for her to walk. </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">The treatment for Ascites is paracentesis, which is poking a hole
in her abdomen and draining fluid (around 3-4 liters or approximately 6-9 pounds
each time). I drove her to a medical facility for paracentesis every week, and to physical therapy a couple times a week to strengthen her muscles
and help reduce the swelling.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpWnRzcl8cBsXiiRJug0wuv0h6rzh-tyQu99541gRl6josQssrlt8uvnPF-AU_lrDqON_9cLjn_p_oQ2pplFleOTZlXy-strbaMufmonQBUEbECIjc0g12329Vmbc5hp4bXIGHkI2lLnJ4DxFULPZh9-xpd78iDmc23yWiDRPe4mj73Z239p5zDY3Zmg=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpWnRzcl8cBsXiiRJug0wuv0h6rzh-tyQu99541gRl6josQssrlt8uvnPF-AU_lrDqON_9cLjn_p_oQ2pplFleOTZlXy-strbaMufmonQBUEbECIjc0g12329Vmbc5hp4bXIGHkI2lLnJ4DxFULPZh9-xpd78iDmc23yWiDRPe4mj73Z239p5zDY3Zmg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each container holds a liter of fluid (about 2.2 pounds) that was removed from Violet's abdominal cavity, by a procedure called "paracentesis". </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">In May, Violet lost her ability to walk any
significant distance. I purchased a folding transport chair (like a wheelchair,
but with small wheels). Violet was strong enough to be able, with some help, to
get from a couch into that chair, and out of the chair into a car seat. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">A potential treatment for her condition is
called “TIPS” surgery (see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjugular_intrahepatic_portosystemic_shunt">Transjugular
intrahepatic portosystemic shunt</a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">). This involves placing a shunt in the
portal vein near the liver. I watched as Dr. Eric Schwartzberg examined the
situation via sonic imaging during a paracentesis. He told us he had done
several dozen TIPS procedures successfully. However, he added, Violet had
“occlusions” {blockages} in her veins, and, of the half-dozen TIPS patients
with occlusions, only two had been successful. “So,” she replied brightly,
“I’ll be the third”. Alas, it was not to be. The odds were against her. Sadly,
her TIPS procedure, at Leesburg Hospital on 14 September, was not successful.
</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">On 16 September, two days after her failed
TIPS procedure, Violet slid out of bed in the middle of the night and landed on
the floor in our Freedom Pointe (FP) apartment. With my help, she attempted
to get back on her feet, but we were unsuccessful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Fortunately, FP Independent Living provides 24/7 security
with at least two employees on duty. At least
one person is at the Concierge desk in the FP lobby, and at least one additional
security person is on duty to help. In response to my call for help, a wonderful night
security woman came up to our apartment and, very skillfully, helped Violet get
back on her feet.</span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Our Final Weeks Together</span></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Less than a week later, on 20 September,
Violet got out of bed around 2am to get a snack for herself. On the way back to
the bedroom, holding the snack in one hand and a foam cup with soda in the
other, Violet’s foot slipped out from under </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">her,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and she landed on the floor of
the living room, waking me. We were unable to get her on her feet. So, I laid
the couch cushions on the living room floor, and Violet slept atop them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">We knew she had an early morning appointment
for a paracentesis procedure at Lake Sumter Imaging, and I was worried she would
miss it. Happily, by morning, Violet had recovered sufficient strength such
that I was able to help her back up on her feet and transport her in time for
her appointment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The following day, 21 September, I had an early
morning appointment for a medical procedure with my urologist. I got home a bit
after 11am and found Violet on her butt in our Guest Bedroom. I could not get
her up on her feet. She called for help and a couple of workers from the Maintenance
Department came quickly. They called the FP nurse who checked Violet’s vitals. Her
blood pressure was very </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">low,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> so the nurse called 911. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">The EMTs arrived very quickly, put Violet on
a stretcher, and transported her to the Emergency Department at The Villages
Hospital, just across the street from FP. Our good friends and fellow FP residents, Bunny and Bob Adler, accompanied me to the Emergency Department. (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Adler’s are retired from medical careers, he an eye surgeon and she a maternity nurse-practitioner).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"> However, due to Covid restrictions, only I was allowed into her room, ED11. Her blood pressure was in the 70/45 range, lower than "normal" 120/80.</span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">That evening, I updated our daughter Lisa, who lives in Andover, MA. I also alerted our good friends and fellow FP residents John and Diane Griffin. Using the "Color Note" app on my cellphone, I began documenting Violet's interactions with the nurses and doctors, a project that resulted in many pages of quite specific information. Bottom line, Violet had serious liver and kidney problems and needed the services of good doctors in those areas.</span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">The following morning, 22 September, Violet was admitted to the hospital and moved to room 3604, where I visited her. Parking a car at the hospital can be a problem, with either a long walk from the parking lot to the entrance, or a long wait for the shuttle service. I noticed there was a golfcart parking area quite close to the entrance, so I began using our golf cart for my twice daily visits. </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">The doctors told me she had either septic shock or hypovolemic shock. Lisa's reaction to that news was that it seemed to be treatable. Violet </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;">was cared for at the Hospital until 2 October, when she was well enough to continue recovery at the skilled nursing Healthcare Center on the FP campus that we call "Rehab". </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">I'll leave out many specific details, but the following days and weeks were rough for Violet. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1YvV0Vq55hNUIY5EZUAmL4EzT18GCI0Gmu4eK_3M7LrNZc2FzuggepsMmJ4dAosfqZ2Vwktc3MFvo9R1u75UCo2zb10dqElwtcDlI9Dow_9VEcQBuVJ3O73Dqwni160fttgcYelxOJKx5fAG7BFAngIY8qic-VvYxQATJ51b8inyjxuKAwNIEDLV5Eg=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1YvV0Vq55hNUIY5EZUAmL4EzT18GCI0Gmu4eK_3M7LrNZc2FzuggepsMmJ4dAosfqZ2Vwktc3MFvo9R1u75UCo2zb10dqElwtcDlI9Dow_9VEcQBuVJ3O73Dqwni160fttgcYelxOJKx5fAG7BFAngIY8qic-VvYxQATJ51b8inyjxuKAwNIEDLV5Eg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisa and Ira in "Full-PPE" (Personal Protective Equipment) as we visit Violet at FP Rehab. On the right is my collection of stickers, confirming that I passed the Covid temperature screening at the Hospital (strip with date) or at FP Rehab (sticker with name).</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><u>Brief Summary of Hospital to Rehab and Cycle Back Again</u></b></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Cycle #1 -- 9/21/21. 911 call. Hospital ER room 11, 9/27/21 Hospital room 3604, 10/02/21 FP Rehab room 122.</span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Cycle #2 -- 10/06/21. Hospital room 2212. 10/14/21 FP Rehab room 133. [Lisa visit 10/14/21-10/17/21] Violet's cellphone and Libre blood sugar sensor were somehow lost during the move from Hospital to Rehab. Thank goodness Lisa was able to get them replaced relatively quickly. Violet seems much improved. She is moved to nicer room 154. </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Cycle #3 -- 10/20/21. Hospital room 2408. 10/27/21 FP Rehab room 133 again. 11/04/21 Moved to nicer room 151. 11/09/21 We treat Rehab nurses with 3 dozen bagels, cream cheese, and lox! [Michaela visit 11/13/21-11/14/21] </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCvGbQe4MG-8sg6NwA6TnYwg9dgncgbjdviMFTpBotU72rUiXNBoSOo07u3Vizc-nXCSbbRBUWBlbXfn1D-DXxel5d2xCw9qQ_dfjkS3kal_wYHP7MCwEE3F1tLw0S6kVIOKIu6a6WGEXzZGUa7cgngWoYmk0dozvtLI2gjbK7OiflzHXu-SORiP84eA=s2315" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2315" data-original-width="1398" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCvGbQe4MG-8sg6NwA6TnYwg9dgncgbjdviMFTpBotU72rUiXNBoSOo07u3Vizc-nXCSbbRBUWBlbXfn1D-DXxel5d2xCw9qQ_dfjkS3kal_wYHP7MCwEE3F1tLw0S6kVIOKIu6a6WGEXzZGUa7cgngWoYmk0dozvtLI2gjbK7OiflzHXu-SORiP84eA=w386-h640" width="386" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our good friends and fellow FP residents, Bob and Bunny Adler and John and Diane Griffin, visit Violet at FP Rehab through the window of room 151. (Individual visits were limited due to Covid restrictions, so Violet and her visitors communicated by cellphone and saw each other through the window of her room.) The building in the background is The Villages Hospital, just across the street from FP Rehab.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Our Final Week at Home</span></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Tuesday, 11/16/21, Violet was released from FP Rehab to FP Independent Living! Home in our own apartment! </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">Our friends at FP are mostly married couples who have been very generous with their time and emotional support for me in the trying months of Violet’s critical illness. They helped me retain my sanity as she was admitted to The Villages Hospital, discharged to skilled nursing at the FP Rehab facility, and then cycled thru Hospital and Rehab three times until she returned to our apartment in the Independent Living building.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Looking back, what turned out to be her final week at home was a glorious time. Violet was warmly greeted by fellow residents and staff as we ate our big meal of the day in the Dining Room, and as we passed through other public areas.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;">We hoped the doctors had come up with the proper mix of medications that, along with weekly paracentesis, would enable Violet to live a more-or-less normal life at FP for some number of years. We scheduled regular visits to our apartment by physical therapists to help Violet get stronger. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18.6667px;">On Friday, 11/19/21, Violet fell in our apartment. I could not get her up. If we called FP staff for help, they would have been required to call 911 and Violet would have been sent off to the Hospital Emergency Department again. So, as pre-arranged, we called our good friends, the Griffins, and they helped Violet get back on her feet!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On Sunday, 11/21/21, which turned out one of the last days of that most wonderful week, the Adlers drove us to the Fenney Springs Nature Trail. Violet sat comfortably in her wheeled transport chair as we pushed her along the paved trail, enjoying the birds, turtles, fish, and a sleepy alligator. Earlier, we had stopped by a fast-food place and picked up the Chicken Sandwich Violet had begged for all through her Hospital/Rehab confinement. We consumed our chicken and fries in the shade of tall trees. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiaX3S-cRRONnngP3rA_ArsJEXspm1u8n-vK5f8Y-XumeYE4WugwoD1F8VffPVjy9vk0l_PoAspWG63Gp5buZnnvkLisuS5bR67zRdy0o-U-BLdi2E4B4o01z6vUbzCfUl3L7Zu-BR4bU861XlrhaNLI-3f1eZwu8qURSkndwbcgoS78CYSZdj5ECEgQ=s4032" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiaX3S-cRRONnngP3rA_ArsJEXspm1u8n-vK5f8Y-XumeYE4WugwoD1F8VffPVjy9vk0l_PoAspWG63Gp5buZnnvkLisuS5bR67zRdy0o-U-BLdi2E4B4o01z6vUbzCfUl3L7Zu-BR4bU861XlrhaNLI-3f1eZwu8qURSkndwbcgoS78CYSZdj5ECEgQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #20124d; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Our Final Day at Home</span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Alas, in the mid-morning of Wednesday, 11/24/21, Violet
was confused as I tried to communicate with her. I called the FP nurse who came
quickly, checked her vitals, and called 911. The EMTs did their thing and took
her to the Hospital ER. </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Violet's Last Days</span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Violet was getting
a CT-scan when I arrived at the Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">When I was allowed into her room in the ER
area, she was completely non-communicative. Her eyes were about ¼ open. Her
pupils were rolling side to side. She did not respond to my request that she to
move her tongue. Squeezing her hand yielded no response. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">She was admitted to the Hospital Intensive
Care Unit. They told me her liver and kidneys were failing. Ammonia and
creatinine were high, blood pressure low. At her age, she was not a candidate
for liver or kidney transplant. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">The nurse and doctor suggested she should be put
in “comfort care”. Should her heart or breathing stop, they would not
resuscitate her. I reviewed the “Living Will” document we recently updated. It
called for comfort care in these circumstances. I called our daughter Lisa in
Massachusetts and she spoke directly to the nurse and doctor. She agreed, and I
signed the papers. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">Lisa and our son-in-law Jerry live in Andover.
Their children, our triplet grandchildren, are 23-year-old college grads, each
employed in a different state. Via cellphones, each of us “talked” to Violet.
We hoped that, somewhere beyond the non-responsive exterior, there was still
some “Violet” there who heard us in some way. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span> </span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cm6PJYgsE2M/YeMUfZ64ojI/AAAAAAAAJUc/OEZHOJc5rnQVJ2CEHiPw8fy0jNGSvbPgACNcBGAsYHQ/25Nov2021CLOSEIraViAtICU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="414" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Cm6PJYgsE2M/YeMUfZ64ojI/AAAAAAAAJUc/OEZHOJc5rnQVJ2CEHiPw8fy0jNGSvbPgACNcBGAsYHQ/w557-h640/25Nov2021CLOSEIraViAtICU.jpg" width="557" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">On Thursday, 11/25/21, Violet was moved to Cornerstone
Hospice, about four miles from FP. I had sent an email to the President of
Temple Shalom, the Jewish Reform synagogue of which we are founding members. He contacted Rabbi Zev and we arranged for him to meet me in Violet’s room at Hospice. </span></span><p></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt;">Rabbi Zev “talked” to her and said the
appropriate prayers. He was wonderful! I had last seen him some two years
prior, but, due to Covid, we had not been going to services. Throughout this
ordeal, through the funeral and beyond, Rabbi Zev and our Jewish congregation
has done very well by us. </span></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">I visited Violet at the Hospice a couple of times. Violet
passed away there on Saturday, 11/27/21. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Violet's Interment</span></span></p><p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">On Thursday, 12/02/21, in a private service conducted by Rabbi Zev and attended
by family (our daughter Lisa and son-in-Law Jerry and their children Alex, Michaela, and Samantha, as well as our son-in-law David) and a few close friends, Violet was buried in the “Garden of David”
Jewish section of Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, a tranquil, tree-shaded cemetery
in Leesburg, FL, about a half-hour south of Freedom Point. May she
rest in peace.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1728512389msonormal3" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;">We plan to have a “Celebration of Life” for Violet at Freedom Pointe in a few months. Tentatively, it is set for Wednesday, 04/27/22 which would have been Violet's 80th birthday. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Three Purchases Mark Milestones</span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Finally, here are three items I purchased for Violet, in the last months of her life, that brought her comfort, joy, --even delight-- way out of proportion to their cost. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioBSOQd1V8fOPIzeJiZsBjSHJSkYT27U2lgt7-6uMBF039aZCcceiMyeDhMfrWmipAHRDByIncLoQPfgzIOHfb7iOisoXskF11mVoZUSyFRQzWltm_K3nxl6JsivYKYaZDPkV2KQy9GHckyMD2STj8PCW7aX0VkoPf0Dq-6Q_IigkuiML9M_GjTtBfxQ=s1280" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioBSOQd1V8fOPIzeJiZsBjSHJSkYT27U2lgt7-6uMBF039aZCcceiMyeDhMfrWmipAHRDByIncLoQPfgzIOHfb7iOisoXskF11mVoZUSyFRQzWltm_K3nxl6JsivYKYaZDPkV2KQy9GHckyMD2STj8PCW7aX0VkoPf0Dq-6Q_IigkuiML9M_GjTtBfxQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b>Bright Red Transport Chair:</b> <i>May 3, 2021 Active Home Medical, $270.</i> Six months prior to her passing, Violet was using her walker and having greater and greater trouble moving any distance on her swollen feet. She struggled to go from our apartment to the elevator, and from the elevator to the </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Dining room or to the closest place I could pick her up with our car. I did a bit of research and purchased this folding transport chair (like a wheelchair, but with smaller wheels). It was an instant success! For the first time in our marriage, I got to "push Vi around"! She was able to get from her bed or our couch to the transport chair, and from the transport chair to her seat in our car, and vice-versa. She could sit on this chair in our apartment and use her feet to go from room to room with ease. </span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b>Simple Gray Slippers:</b> <i>Walmart, $11.</i> Violet's feet were so swollen that she could no longer squeeze them into her shoes. She had to use flip-flops! On a trip with her to Walmart, I found these simple gray slippers (Large Wide Width size 11-12) that she was able to squeeze her feet into. I kept them because they are the right size for me. Wearing them around our apartment make me feel closer to her.</span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b>Fast Food Chicken Sandwich:</b> <i>Burger King (KFC wasn't open due to a Covid-related staff shortage.) $6.</i> Throughout her cycles of hospitalization and rehab, Violet continually asked me to bring her a KFC Chicken Sandwich! Finally (as it turned out) she got her wish!</span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="text-align: center;">On </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; text-align: center;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; text-align: center;">, November 22, 2021 (five days before her passing), on the way to the Fenney Springs Nature Trail with Bunny and Bob, we purchased chicken and fries.</span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">Putting them all together! This photo, capturing that wonderful day with</span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"> Violet in her Transport chair. She is wearing those simple gray slippers. S</span><span style="color: #1d2129;">oon after this photo was taken, she ate that delicious chicken sandwich! </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; text-align: left;">[NOTE: To make photo larger. tap it and turn cellphone sideways.] </span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAm2VcfGDSCTwpiDmDZ00An8g44zWQ6tAh9V516d2eOLpEz8x8Faw87bHjoh5Qan9QDFFU1U2C_HmQ9gutQwcvu-9bKzVdggEyC7EZ5G_Zm5-oI-EFUHNVPEIocA08xKNbZzn-Ek-aImAZt78FNpxUnnIuPtlx2Ojj5WyGZjwE6eq8T2YshS1bWwesOw=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAm2VcfGDSCTwpiDmDZ00An8g44zWQ6tAh9V516d2eOLpEz8x8Faw87bHjoh5Qan9QDFFU1U2C_HmQ9gutQwcvu-9bKzVdggEyC7EZ5G_Zm5-oI-EFUHNVPEIocA08xKNbZzn-Ek-aImAZt78FNpxUnnIuPtlx2Ojj5WyGZjwE6eq8T2YshS1bWwesOw=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>*********************</span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><p style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Here is a list of the seven postings of this <i>Virtual</i> Sitting Shiva series. </span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html">#1 Rest in Peace Violet Glickstein, My Dear Wife of 57 Years (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-immigrant-family-and-her.html">#2 Violet's Immigrant Family and Her Brooklyn Childhood thru College (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violet-and-ira-meet-marry-and-multiply.html">#3 Violet and Ira Meet, Marry, and Multiply (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-return-to-college-and-her.html">#4 Violet's Return to College and Her Amazing Career at IBM/Loral/Lockheed-Owego (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-retirement-to-villages-florida.html">#5 Violet's Retirement to The Villages, Florida (with Ira, of course) (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-independent-living-at-freedom.html">#6 Violet's Independent Living at Freedom Pointe (with Ira, of course) (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-heroic-struggle-and-passing.html">#7 Violet's Heroic Struggle and Passing (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.</span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" tears="" to="" when="" you=""><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,</span></div></this></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></div><p style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-retirement-to-villages-florida.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for LAST posting</span></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for FIRST posting</span></a> <br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 24px;">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a> </p></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-39988261271240255682022-01-05T21:19:00.003-05:002022-04-20T04:26:16.693-04:00Violet's Independent Living at Freedom Pointe (with Ira, of course)<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">This is the sixth in my "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Virtual </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">Sitting Shiva" series of Blog postings of memories of Violet (Stark) Glickstein, my dear wife of 57 years, who sadly passed away November 27, 2021. [The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">]</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><span style="background-color: white;">Near the end of 2013, Violet and I decided to up-grade from our private home in The Villages, Florida, to a two-</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">bedroom, two-bath condominium apartment at Freedom Pointe Independent Living. Another excellent decision, made at the right time and place. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: medium;">As people age, they generally need a bit of extra care each year. We wanted to remain in The Villages, with access to the wonderful friends and amenities we had become used to, including recreation centers, sports pools, entertainment and shopping, plus additional services and assistance, as needed.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggIHEZt4WFHc4V-OZ3c2VmiMWzm88xZcpRdWyvI0aBveaBOiavgOEVeXtg4H3y-jAZ5GLv14tje9vIwhrbPB8sg6ucoWL8Jr46dUtEDhXv8lX_mESX0Gh83XQ9zSZnYigIQRFg8QQ0RgihQ83v2liLzwCposg7QEOImd81GG1MiR962zp4rouLeHsCvg=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggIHEZt4WFHc4V-OZ3c2VmiMWzm88xZcpRdWyvI0aBveaBOiavgOEVeXtg4H3y-jAZ5GLv14tje9vIwhrbPB8sg6ucoWL8Jr46dUtEDhXv8lX_mESX0Gh83XQ9zSZnYigIQRFg8QQ0RgihQ83v2liLzwCposg7QEOImd81GG1MiR962zp4rouLeHsCvg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></p><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large;">We had a wide choice of apartment size and location because the recently constructed Independent Living building was only about half-full. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">We chose an apartment on the fourth floor, facing east-northeast, so we get a sliver of the rising Sun in the morning, and avoid the afternoon glare of the setting Sun. </span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">We have access to a large, common area balcony </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">facing west-southwest,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">with a great view of the pond and one of the golf courses. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large;">The balcony offers three options: 1) An air-conditioned section, 2) a screened section, and 3) an open section. I spend most Sunday mornings reading the newspaper, alone in the open section. The other sections are used when we have a fourth-floor party, or when several neighbors get together to play cards or share a take-out meal. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">The apartment is an easy walk from the covered garage where we have a parking spot for our car adjacent to a spot for our golf cart, along with a 4' x 8' locked storage shed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">In addition to two bedrooms and baths, we have a living room, a kitchen, a washer/dryer, and a master closet. At 1144 square feet, it is half the area of our most recent home, but we have access to lots of public areas. These include: 1) a good sized balcony (described above), 2) the Library, 3) the Studio, 4) the Meditation Room, 5) the Woodshop, 6) the Dining room, 8) the Pub, 9) the Town Center auditorium, 10) the Pool, 11) the Barbershop, 12) the Lobby, 13) the fully-equipped Exercise and Rehab facility, 14) outdoor picnic area, and 15) pitch and putt golf,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">One restaurant-style meal, in the Dining Room or Pub, is included daily. Weekly light housekeeping is also included. They are responsible for all maintenance of the appliances in our condo.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">When the time comes that we cannot drive our car or golf cart, they offer free transport to doctor's appointments and shopping. They also have weekly free entertainment and movies, free internet building wide, over 90 free channels of TV (plus premium TV channels and HD-DVR service we pay for) and lots of scheduled activities, trips, and who knows what. And, we still have access with full resident rights to all amenities of The Villages.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Freedom Pointe is a "Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) that offers different levels of care on a common campus, where, if necessary as we age, one or both of us may move to higher levels, including Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Skilled Nursing. Click <a href="https://freedompointefl.com/">HERE Senior Living in The Villages, Florida | Freedom Pointe (freedompointefl.com)</a> for a neat video. At about the one-minute mark, look for me (Ira) leading my fellow residents in Water Aerobics.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxwgX49-LGJ4oXJmyVTRvOC5VmefZ6KQs6GjJ5hFXTQ4tQwqB6HhNiXIDQC2uD4qhkWnFw-VM3abWuNo1yUiFOvae_2y_zTmqARciRgXjVeSeowlYdGDfBmFJcdhFsNNQtyTulYq7Jo2gHIXxiC4OU0F3bhoOhBRRU0GF0I2v07lrwTwI_QeQw9bfweA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxwgX49-LGJ4oXJmyVTRvOC5VmefZ6KQs6GjJ5hFXTQ4tQwqB6HhNiXIDQC2uD4qhkWnFw-VM3abWuNo1yUiFOvae_2y_zTmqARciRgXjVeSeowlYdGDfBmFJcdhFsNNQtyTulYq7Jo2gHIXxiC4OU0F3bhoOhBRRU0GF0I2v07lrwTwI_QeQw9bfweA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"><b>See photomontage below:</b></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">LEFT: After years of rural life in New York and a priv</span><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 20px;">ate home in Florida, </span><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">we moved to an apartment house, reminiscent of our roots back in Brooklyn, over 70 years ago! Our fourth floor location provides a view of a major road intersection, a shopping plaza, The Villages Hospital, and the sight and sounds of ambulances, helicopters, and fire engines. Of course, our current digs are a major "mov'in on-up" in lifestyle, see</span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2012/03/movin-on-up-to-independent-living.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2012/03/movin-on-up-to-independent-living.html</a><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">. We enjoy monthly parties at Freedom Point, a daily restaurant-style meal, and other amenities.</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">MIDDLE: We are still in The Villages, thus have access to all amenities, remain close to most of our old friends, be it for dinner or water aerobics. Photo shows Violet on a zip-line in Ketchikan, Alaska, on a cruise we shared with most of our children and grands. Up till 2013, we both taught online grad courses for the University of Maryland (Vi-Software Requirements, Ira-System Engineering). </span></span><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;">RIGHT: I (Ira) remain intellectually and physically active, giving talks at the Philosophy Club, Science-Tech Club, and others.</span><span face="Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"> In preparation for kayaking with my granddaughter and son-in-law during our Baltic cruise, I took a few friends from Freedom Pointe on an 8-mile kayak paddle on the Rainbow River, near Dunellon, FL. </span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2oMrKSHBuus/U_EnAichoMI/AAAAAAAACC0/2HNx_cv6j_A/s1600/16MoveToFP.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="484" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2oMrKSHBuus/U_EnAichoMI/AAAAAAAACC0/2HNx_cv6j_A/s1600/16MoveToFP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: medium;"><b>Violet and I enjoyed regularly scheduled themed dinners and parties that gave us a wide variety of food and entertainment choices, right in the building where we lived!</b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8J4h6g-YonjhUn_mxQUd230jbl7lJW4IiTfN1tK9Dzc1RIoB1pomgRUyQDJ-e-VZldgEnDemJ4WHdgWZ-X_m5kZDSMu21Rw-vStMC9nSCuuNUdPisovXcNqDoSsX_eUkUXOARQ5JqDhCYcfOy3uuvMhHH1rpTW0K98Zqb6deokIg6DLVg8zzCDraexA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8J4h6g-YonjhUn_mxQUd230jbl7lJW4IiTfN1tK9Dzc1RIoB1pomgRUyQDJ-e-VZldgEnDemJ4WHdgWZ-X_m5kZDSMu21Rw-vStMC9nSCuuNUdPisovXcNqDoSsX_eUkUXOARQ5JqDhCYcfOy3uuvMhHH1rpTW0K98Zqb6deokIg6DLVg8zzCDraexA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">French-Themed Party at Freedom Pointe. July 2014. French was Violet's favorite language (after English and Hungarian).</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dO6VNBjP3q9D9UMalErEtyXp8bVY3V_ydPEueIgmRQ-6iASio6ILwozBVuPrLkvDSWHtZCE-2HIf-gMTlVBj2R5lgwJ_XjHQxdo1A8AE0_dG5Gu00d61zoUToxjdvZkqJQG7tGV6jl-7j1zsHsUea9m5Okx0XE2shk3Mr1_0clYVNWBI1OI54HopLA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dO6VNBjP3q9D9UMalErEtyXp8bVY3V_ydPEueIgmRQ-6iASio6ILwozBVuPrLkvDSWHtZCE-2HIf-gMTlVBj2R5lgwJ_XjHQxdo1A8AE0_dG5Gu00d61zoUToxjdvZkqJQG7tGV6jl-7j1zsHsUea9m5Okx0XE2shk3Mr1_0clYVNWBI1OI54HopLA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Violet and me 2014 New Year's Party at Freedom Pointe Independent Living. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">They set the clock two hours ahead. We celebrate midnight at 10 PM! (Then, an easy walk to the elevator and our apartment, and we get to sleep at a rational hour.) </span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">The New Year Celebration for 2022, was my first without Violet. Very poignant. Very sad.</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: medium; line-height: 28.248px;">*********************</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><div style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Read subsequent postings on this Blog about events I remember. If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" tears="" to="" when="" you=""><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></this><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-size: 14.85px;"></p><div style="color: #1d2129; 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font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span></span><p style="font-size: 14.85px;"></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black;">NOTE: </span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> This is the sixth of our "V</span><i><span style="color: black;">irtual</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sitting Shiva</span></a><span style="color: black;">", the traditional Jewish custom of relatives and friends devoting seven days to specially remembering the deceased.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></p></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-3806133403409851622022-01-01T20:21:00.010-05:002022-04-20T04:33:33.408-04:00Violet's Retirement to The Villages, Florida (with Ira, of course)<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">This is the f<span>ifth</span> in my "</span><i style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Virtual </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Sitting Shiva" series of Blog postings of memories of Violet (Stark) Glickstein, my dear wife of 57 years, who sadly passed away November 27, 2021. [The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">]</span></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>NOTE: If you are reading this on a cellphone, some of the text may extend over the edge of your screen. If that happens, turn your cellphone sideways, and all should fit. Also, if photos are too small, double click (or tap) and they should expand. Sorry for these issues, but my Facebook and Blogspot apps seems to have minds of their own. Ira</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">VIOLET'S RETIREMENT TO THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA</b></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9168881843516829445" itemprop="description articleBody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; text-align: left; width: 670.72px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><p style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="color: black; font-size: large;">Violet and I have made many momentous decisions while raising our children and in our professional lives. Nearly all of them turned out very good, as if someone was watching over us and nudging us in the "right" direction.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="color: black; font-size: large;">In 2003, a couple years after retirement, we <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sold our home in Apalachin, NY and moved to The Villages, Florida. This turned out to be exactly the right thing to do at that time.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: large;">The Villages is known as "America's Favorite Retirement Hometown". There must be something in the water or the air, because, like almost all of our neighbors, we can't help saying "It's a beautiful day in The Villages" every chance we get. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: large;">The photo montage below depicts our active retirement.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">OUR HOUSE IN THE VILLAGE OF CHATHAM</span></b></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""&quot" , serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">RIGHT: We built a house in a wonderful location on a golf course pond. We installed a hot tub for our grandchildren and other visitors to enjoy.</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">TOP LEFT and MIDDLE: I (Ira) joined the excellent bicycle club and participated in weekly rides. I also went on two bike/barge trips, the first to the Loire River area of France and the second from Brussels to Bruges in Belgium. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">TOP: Vi was active in photography, giving talks about the then-new topic of digital photography to the photography and computer clubs. She also joined a knitting group.</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">BOTTOM LEFT: We were founding members of Temple Shalom, a Reform congregation.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">We both enjoy other activities in The Villages, such as water aerobics and visiting the town centers, dining at restaurants, and going to the movies. </span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></div><div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">VIOLET HELPS FOUND A KNITTING CLUB</b></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large;"> </span></div><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 19.36px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2RS0yjlHQVIiZcSAU0YnXBMa2K2KkWYKmI4ip-5J1vv6v38Ycj91MZY6LUr5Y8dFixe3zOObDSuuz52WNHeVIuii2MNfzHBF5hw0Z_ETLZiTIBW7xwvmE8Vn1Hsr5TqoocglgotQzuXxL-hxLCSkA5IcI3tvxENp68zWfrg_qO6Wx6N7K5YV9N-WxRQ=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2RS0yjlHQVIiZcSAU0YnXBMa2K2KkWYKmI4ip-5J1vv6v38Ycj91MZY6LUr5Y8dFixe3zOObDSuuz52WNHeVIuii2MNfzHBF5hw0Z_ETLZiTIBW7xwvmE8Vn1Hsr5TqoocglgotQzuXxL-hxLCSkA5IcI3tvxENp68zWfrg_qO6Wx6N7K5YV9N-WxRQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 19.36px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Violet met several fellow knitters, and they founded a very active knitting Club. The image above appeared in our local newspaper, The Daily Sun, on October 22, 2003.</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 19.36px;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"> LOVE TO VISIT!</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">As our daughter Lisa suggested, choosing a retirement location near Disney would encourage visits by our children and grands. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">During their first visit, in 2004, Alex, Samantha, and Michaela posed with their "Uncle Toffee"</span> (</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">our Golden Retriever) </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">by our golf cart, a photo that wa</span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">s published in the Daily Sun, our local newspaper. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">To the right is the ceramic dish Violet made for "Uncle Toffee". (After all these years it still exists!) Behind the dish is Violet's opinion of Toffee, which has adorned our refrigerator for many years, "My Golden Retriever is Smarter than Your Honor Student."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPNYP8dsiWo0RNO-nTTpsmfoHO9mKsfGTds2pvjmRFrDeQ0ENrLethBU5dHs6HOBAkYl4bIR_gmZWnucsi2Z7mWvtYqlbDB5DWGJMQwQzfh56TJb3m2-D0VrhKcvbbjWYqUAAHoLvvgbI4jWbQjKYrKftJw-H9jD3eCsDrlLkrJFcFQyv03pYvkcPm4A=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; 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display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>ACTIVE JEWISH COMMUNITY </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">One of the first groups we joined was "The New Jewish Congregation," a Reform Jewish group then meeting in various locations, particularly the Oxford United Methodist Church. Soon after we arrived, plans were under way to purchase land easily accessible by both road and </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;">The Villages </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;">golf cart paths.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;">The new building was ready for occupancy in November 2006. Violet and I participated in walking the Torah from the Oxford Church to our new "Temple Shalom". The local authorities provided horse-mounted police as well as squad cars to block road traffic and ensure our security. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: x-large;">The Temple Shalom lobby features a large plaque listing the Founding Members, including ours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8FGa4Kg233LSV1q8mbd9w12xyUXaPmxiFw39sR9YZKFwDvSc9WYlP_Ztn-fmntpBxzps1rcGOKzWikB0EHG--hEq-rnLQ0nwpjyRdfCQou88GVlEWxlsPhJF8Wz_AaJGJZuHmyTAuKsX7_JOwfSEiY4rSzPkGlAbqUvtPLpA8ptMUOM88Gni7V6u9dg=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8FGa4Kg233LSV1q8mbd9w12xyUXaPmxiFw39sR9YZKFwDvSc9WYlP_Ztn-fmntpBxzps1rcGOKzWikB0EHG--hEq-rnLQ0nwpjyRdfCQou88GVlEWxlsPhJF8Wz_AaJGJZuHmyTAuKsX7_JOwfSEiY4rSzPkGlAbqUvtPLpA8ptMUOM88Gni7V6u9dg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: xx-large; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We have sponsored a number of Onegs (refreshments following the Friday Evening service) at Temple Shalom. The image below shows the Oneg to honor Violet on her 65th birthday. Our daughter Lisa and our triplet grands (Alex, Michaela, and Samantha) participated with Violet and me during that memorable Friday evening service.</span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: xx-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7kdg1pQDrT5vj_XA6hiZOLIVtyfNqBpyc7rdhxIARsDSJvPgrp5WUHqIwvysFFfZMPpDlf4LV4uQHfkdV1PriGpvC2vWW4wD13AgUYFus-So2kPX9h2sqEbCAQP0mr3F4oRingyvOFrQX6JveKAaoK_QkPkdTCZQ3BAgurTxdRXT8txqg9V38NtQhVw=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7kdg1pQDrT5vj_XA6hiZOLIVtyfNqBpyc7rdhxIARsDSJvPgrp5WUHqIwvysFFfZMPpDlf4LV4uQHfkdV1PriGpvC2vWW4wD13AgUYFus-So2kPX9h2sqEbCAQP0mr3F4oRingyvOFrQX6JveKAaoK_QkPkdTCZQ3BAgurTxdRXT8txqg9V38NtQhVw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; text-align: left;">VIOLET PADDLING WITH ME</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Our good friends in The Villages (as well as those in New York) know I enjoy outdoor adventure quite a bit. Violet, not so much!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">So, here is Violet on the beautiful Rainbow River (in Florida, August 2005) paddling with me in my kayak! (THANKS Joi for talking her into it! Also Joi's husband Tom, and our good friends who moved away to Georgia, Nancy and Bill, for joining us.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFaUCsvqpuReMfFjyADbrcY2NmE2MUc1bdpDBxw9wkpLZNuzlPETXQCeooUOEnTQ_0aXdFZJOfmKc8tMHeLGNrF3m_IB5iMSoj0H49K0a4PnonuMkmGaiKmgQCVJdEs4pL-UC1qHRjR9vvPK-qHqaEa7MZh1zLiMxb5_JiJK4DAS5c2WLvJrK3_WJFmw=s1280" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 17.6px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFaUCsvqpuReMfFjyADbrcY2NmE2MUc1bdpDBxw9wkpLZNuzlPETXQCeooUOEnTQ_0aXdFZJOfmKc8tMHeLGNrF3m_IB5iMSoj0H49K0a4PnonuMkmGaiKmgQCVJdEs4pL-UC1qHRjR9vvPK-qHqaEa7MZh1zLiMxb5_JiJK4DAS5c2WLvJrK3_WJFmw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></span></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; text-align: left;">SOME OF VIOLET'S ACTIVE NATURE PHOTOS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Most of Violet's photography tended towards impressively beautiful flowers. Nice, but not that exciting to me!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">However, the following photos, taken right behind our home, are quite exciting to me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every year we got to see a family of Sand Hill Cranes behind our home. A male and female and their offspring walking and squawking around the golf course pond. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had a real treat in November 2009 when a pair did their mating dance for us immediately behind our house. Fortunately, Violet was photographing them as they got into the dancing mood.</strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fuWLgNIkrTs/YdD01U0gyBI/AAAAAAAAJQI/ChzcxCU3F7gZRSZbxifguXiBDftt4wa1gCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1600" height="436" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fuWLgNIkrTs/YdD01U0gyBI/AAAAAAAAJQI/ChzcxCU3F7gZRSZbxifguXiBDftt4wa1gCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h436/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f;"><br /></span></div></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;">These are good sized birds, three to four feet tall with wingspans of five to seven feet! (For comparison, my height is five feet ten inches and, in the above photo, I'm further away from Violet's camera than they are.) These birds </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;">seem unconcerned as they walk around, often coming quite close. </span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you walk towards them, they will back away or fly off. Several minutes after we went out to see them and take some photos, they began weaving their bills towards each other and jumping and charging in a very impressive mating dance! (Or perhaps it was merely a domestic dispute? :^) Quite exciting as well as impressive! 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float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none;"><p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Read subsequent postings on this Blog about events I remember. If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.</span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" tears="" to="" when="" you=""><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></this><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div></span><p></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-return-to-college-and-her.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for LAST posting</span></a></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; 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text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for NEXT posting</span></a> </span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 28.248px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none;"><p style="margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Verdana;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></span><p></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: black;">NOTE: </span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> This is the fifth of our "V</span><i><span style="color: black;">irtual</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sitting Shiva</span></a><span style="color: black;">", the traditional Jewish custom of relatives and friends devoting seven days to specially remembering the deceased.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; 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display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 26.4px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: 28.248px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19.866px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 26.4px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: 28.248px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-65830510295249368432021-12-30T20:27:00.008-05:002022-04-20T04:32:32.169-04:00Violet's Return to College and Her Amazing Career at IBM/Loral/Lockheed-Owego<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">This is the fourth in my "</span><i style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Virtual </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Sitting Shiva" series of Blog postings of memories of Violet (Stark) Glickstein, my dear wife of 57 years, who sadly passed away November 27, 2021. [The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">]</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">VIOLET'S REMARKABLE CAREER AT THIS OWEGO IBM/LORAL/LOCKHEED-MARTIN FACILITY</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_77cRpjJX25F-u-NDf5-1e8h_0nRcXPHitXzjLbQBGWZeo9FrHKTzrpZn9hBRhVyRm42mse5vvYrksbXeZXtdkpc1GgWnf008lFh13ehVA7_Y_vD8BOxRCtBdrv3rERWJYY_e1aE8Ng2tUvdF5AH4pFZdI9sQZmj39v6IJ-9bg3fZicANfyUaIxNJCg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_77cRpjJX25F-u-NDf5-1e8h_0nRcXPHitXzjLbQBGWZeo9FrHKTzrpZn9hBRhVyRm42mse5vvYrksbXeZXtdkpc1GgWnf008lFh13ehVA7_Y_vD8BOxRCtBdrv3rERWJYY_e1aE8Ng2tUvdF5AH4pFZdI9sQZmj39v6IJ-9bg3fZicANfyUaIxNJCg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">When Violet retired, in 1999, from her position as Lead Software Engineer for the HH-60D Night Stalker Helicopter project, she left behind a remarkable record of 16 years of amazing accomplishments at this Owego, NY facility.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">However, let us start at the begining, when ...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">WE BOUGHT ONE OF THE FIRST APPLE II COMPUTERS</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">In February 1978, we purchased one of the first 3000 Apple II home computers, a momentous </span></span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">decision fully supported by Violet. She and I, and our three girls, quickly learned to use the Apple II.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">Thus, in 1980, when the Owego Free Academy (our local public<span> </span>high school) purchased their first Apple II computers, it was natural for the teacher to turn to our oldest daughter, Lisa, for help in demonstrating it to other students. </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">The Binghamton (NY) newspaper ran a story in May 1980 titled "Computer age arrives in Owego", featuring a photo of Lisa doing just that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">A follow-up story, in June 1980, titled "Computer has family plugged in" featured a photo of our younger daughters, Rena and Sara, using our Apple II, along with Violet's positive comments fully justifying the expense. At the time, Violet was taking programming courses at Broome Community College, </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">LEFT: Lisa demonstrates a computer at her school in Owego, NY.</div></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">RIGHT: Rena and Sara demonstrate our Apple II at home.</div></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">BOTTOM: Violet, Rena, and Sara were interviewed about our computer.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9T78dDqGy0/U_Dib39kC3I/AAAAAAAACBs/3xCcKSPZ56M/s1600/08ComputersRus.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #4799c1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="488" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9T78dDqGy0/U_Dib39kC3I/AAAAAAAACBs/3xCcKSPZ56M/s1600/08ComputersRus.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br style="text-align: start;" /><b style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">I (Ira) was using our Apple II at home, experimenting with simulations of Artificial Intelligence. It wasn't long before I started lugging our Apple II into the IBM facility to teach a course on that topic. </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">Thus, in 1981 when IBM (finally!) came out with the PC-1, I was assigned the job of teaching engineers how to use this new tool and was the first person at the facility to have a PC in his office. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WE BOUGHT AN IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">We also purchased one of the first IBM PCs for home use.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Meanwhile, Violet switched from Broome Community College to Binghamton University for graduate courses that led to her earning her 1983 Master's degree in Computer Science (20 yeas after earning her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry undergraduate degree).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">1983 was also the year that I earned membership in the IBM Federal Systems Division "Golden Circle" for my innovative use of the IBM PC to develop the Rational Cockpit and Multi-Purpose Display Concepts, as well as being the Lead Systems Engineer on the HH-60 D Special Operations Helicopter Technical Proposal.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">TOP LEFT: Ira used the PC to develop and demonstrate Advanced Visionics concepts for helicopter pilots.</div></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">RIGHT: Ira's innovative use of the IBM PC to develop and demonstrate Multi-Puirpose Computer Display concepts, and his role as the Lead Engineer for IBM's HH-60 Technical Proposal, resulted in an IBM Federal Systems Division Golden Circle Award that included a trip for Violet and Ira to Hawaii.</div></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">BOTTOM LEFT: In 1984, an issue of the IBM Federal Systems Division "Technical Directions" magazine was devoted to "The Rational Cockpit and Advanced Automation" based partly on Ira's work.</div></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VXmBm84vcBY/U_DpUXSLwEI/AAAAAAAACCQ/8Qv4O0Xperg/s1600/09Golden%2BCircle%2B1983.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="475" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VXmBm84vcBY/U_DpUXSLwEI/AAAAAAAACCQ/8Qv4O0Xperg/s1600/09Golden%2BCircle%2B1983.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">VIOLET STARTS HER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CAREER AT IBM-OWEGO</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">Violet's Master's Degree in Computer Science qualified her for a Software Engineering job at IBM-Owego in 1984.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">TOP LEFT: As a result of our getting an Apple II home computer, Violet earned her Master's in Computer Science from Binghamton University, taught there, and then got a job at IBM Owego. (Keeping up with Violet, Ira earned his Master's in System Science in 1990 and his PhD in System Science from Binghamton University in 1996.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">BOTTOM LEFT: IBM Marketing award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">MIDDLE: Violet was the Lead Software Engineer for the Army Special Operations Project and received an Appreciation Award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">TOP RIGHT: Ira and Violet on vacation in Tahiti.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;">BOTTOM RIGHT: Lockheed-Martin Recognition Award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kYhTsCCO1yk/U_Dk9DRtW_I/AAAAAAAACCE/64y2o5Vt8m0/s1600/11ViCareer.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kYhTsCCO1yk/U_Dk9DRtW_I/AAAAAAAACCE/64y2o5Vt8m0/s1600/11ViCareer.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">LEFT; Violet and Ira in the Owego Artificial Intelligence laboratory in 1986.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">TOP RIGHT: An issue of IBM FSD's "Technical Directions" included an article by Ira about "AI Aids for the Pilot".</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;">BOTTOM RIGHT: Ira taught a course on "Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life" at the Brandeis University (Boston) "Summer Odyssey" in 2000 and 2001.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ReV-Qq8DIg/U_Dtsx0igAI/AAAAAAAACCc/ZWopFDP30Dg/s1600/10AI%2BLab.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="490" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ReV-Qq8DIg/U_Dtsx0igAI/AAAAAAAACCc/ZWopFDP30Dg/s1600/10AI%2BLab.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;">While working and after retirement, we each taught online graduate courses for the University of Maryland University College up until 2013. (Ira in System Engineering and Violet in Software Engineering).</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: start;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO WORKED WITH VIOLET AT OWEGO RESPECTED HER. 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line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">POST RETIREMENT ADVENTURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Violet retired in 1999 while I continued to 2001. In 2002, with both of us retired, we were able to have a wonderful 8-day raft adventure through the Grand Canyon. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We were on a 15-passenger raft with a crew of three and camped along the Colorado River, <a href="https://raftarizona.com/trips/8-day-motor/">like this</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; 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display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><br style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;" /><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 18.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Of course, everything brought into the canyon had to be brought out, including all garbage from food service and even our poop! At each stop, the crew set up two poop stations, one in a tent and the other in the open. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"></span><br style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;" /><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 18.06px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The photo on the left shows me on the "scenic" poop station, which I preferred because it had fewer flies and smelled better. Violet (no surprise) preferred the tent poop station. However, like all of us, she peed and bathed in the cold (48 degree) river (women upstream and men downstream). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-weight: 400;"> </div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">The more I think about my wonderful life with Violet, including her willingness to step outside her normal lifestyle (that we might call "civilized"), as she did on this Grand Canyon adventure, the more I miss her.</div><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" tears="" to="" when="" you="">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Read subsequent postings on this Blog about events I remember. If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.<br /><br />Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,<br /><br /><br /></this><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violet-and-ira-meet-marry-and-multiply.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for LAST posting</span></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-align: right;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-retirement-to-villages-florida.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for NEXT posting</span></a> </span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><i><span style="color: black;">NOTE: </span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> This is the fourth of our "V</span><i><span style="color: black;">irtual</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sitting Shiva</span></a><span style="color: black;">", the traditional Jewish custom of relatives and friends devoting seven days to specially remembering the deceased.</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></p></span></span></div></b></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-41117205085122042942021-12-30T03:00:00.008-05:002022-04-20T04:31:43.634-04:00Violet and Ira Meet, Marry, and Multiply<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">This is the third in my "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Virtual </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">Sitting Shiva" series of Blog postings of memories of Violet (Stark) Glickstein, my dear wife of 57 years, who sadly passed away November 27, 2021. [The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">]</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">THE BROOKLYN POST OFFICE DELIVERS!</b></div><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f;">The photo below shows the <i>miraculously delivered</i> letter I mailed to Violet, back in June 1963, in what turned out to be a successful attempt to contact her. The address I had was off by over a mile! Yet, some dedicated Post Office employee went out of his or her way to correct the address and deliver it! (I'm proud to be the son of a Brooklyn Letter Carrier who walked miles each day, in all kinds of weather, with a mail sack on his back. My Dad taught me </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">to respect every person who earns his or her keep in a lawful occupation.)</span></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0fiAMpKvgBbtkDG5rMyAdfGrx3hoghsZJILxs1h1LMBn-OQ2rXb-hgEdZN1dhszXc3DDukq0qwd7qvmXRfjU1edu4nDRmvmSMb7AN-NRBLkF0c4-LQOymCPyFyG3D0YyaN3rFTvOZJ1dY8o6Y7ZWxhlZPSMPWqoeEyB_Mk5tI-wfd9RDO3YlxjboLEw=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="731" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0fiAMpKvgBbtkDG5rMyAdfGrx3hoghsZJILxs1h1LMBn-OQ2rXb-hgEdZN1dhszXc3DDukq0qwd7qvmXRfjU1edu4nDRmvmSMb7AN-NRBLkF0c4-LQOymCPyFyG3D0YyaN3rFTvOZJ1dY8o6Y7ZWxhlZPSMPWqoeEyB_Mk5tI-wfd9RDO3YlxjboLEw=w447-h731" width="447" /></a></p><p>Violet wrote the following letter in reply.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPUwhVZ7RWVpMrysMcS8OJiiqhv8ayigHKbhvyTnRkmPJhH9G5EqKgWNT_yzb5BiuLuDSaa4yLOtczK0rGWwFOZ0TY5u46NjS6pyHAMGtRfnvgC3omqjoPBo1MlmoIaldV4HPWyKGW7W3xTnrZkBvsrjhAjCGvxXA8YaxTRpkqseqB7KhAPkevNwMKQ=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPUwhVZ7RWVpMrysMcS8OJiiqhv8ayigHKbhvyTnRkmPJhH9G5EqKgWNT_yzb5BiuLuDSaa4yLOtczK0rGWwFOZ0TY5u46NjS6pyHAMGtRfnvgC3omqjoPBo1MlmoIaldV4HPWyKGW7W3xTnrZkBvsrjhAjCGvxXA8YaxTRpkqseqB7KhAPkevNwMKQ=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></p><p>THAT WAS IN JUNE 1963. </p><p>ONCE I HAD HER CORRECT PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS, I TURNED ON THE CHARM.</p><p>AND -- LONG STORY SHORT, -- WE WERE MARRIED A YEAR LATER!</p><p>Some necessary context is called for here. After graduating from the City College of New York, in January 1961, with an Electrical Engineering degree, I was working in North Plainfield, New Jersey and renting a room in nearby Westfield. On weekends, I'd stay at my parent's home in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY, where I pursued my social life.</p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WAS IT MY POETRY THAT WON HER OVER?</b></p><p>Starting in June 1963, we'd date on most weekends. Starting on July 22, 1963, and each month thereafter, I composed a love poem for Violet. This continued until we got engaged on Thanksgiving Day, November 1963.</p><p>Here we go! </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskCzPU9aaTNyMpr8URcOtd8pwbdJKj0Mm1o6MJpoZoBlX_xDgVQBQcA24kO2Izua0rdEvZBbJzOXhImoWONDD7rtWX8WUIzb8dUEDGnkYhkw-XFCN0VoWcuXXdXre1qHw1cv8sXwd0aVjVM7WOijb2wuCddyVCzTCK2oQQrWPsjpt8giBxtmKubYXfw=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskCzPU9aaTNyMpr8URcOtd8pwbdJKj0Mm1o6MJpoZoBlX_xDgVQBQcA24kO2Izua0rdEvZBbJzOXhImoWONDD7rtWX8WUIzb8dUEDGnkYhkw-XFCN0VoWcuXXdXre1qHw1cv8sXwd0aVjVM7WOijb2wuCddyVCzTCK2oQQrWPsjpt8giBxtmKubYXfw=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What do you think so far? Pretty good poetry considering that I'm an Engineer?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">NOTE: In previous Blog postings, I've stated that I have no <i>literal </i>belief in Judaism, or any other religious system based on a Superior Being external to the Universe. For me, "God" or "Lord" or "Cupid" and similar names are merely short-cuts that refer to an essential <i>NATURAL</i> (not in any way Super-Natural) self-organizing feature inherent in the Universe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That is what the Founders of our great experiment in free people governing themselves were referring to when they wrote about "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" in our Declaration of Independence. [Note capitalization. Do not put your trust in any source that pretends to quote the Declaration yet fails to capitalize these words.]</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPzwPeoLmeHS3CZQ1Oz8Tkzdbb7ju5giXf5uSemvl4T9Nh7t_WSIBvAULFCpMnSxLlzBbywIu8X_6aIqjovXk5mW-pNwasaal_MBkJ3oZzELTJ4cIOk8nBHItcXqGLRflZd4-LuEsNlpX4b1oXTQWiIj0BhYR3-zwxZ_3479k5nqKTVkRBJsAub-gzng=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPzwPeoLmeHS3CZQ1Oz8Tkzdbb7ju5giXf5uSemvl4T9Nh7t_WSIBvAULFCpMnSxLlzBbywIu8X_6aIqjovXk5mW-pNwasaal_MBkJ3oZzELTJ4cIOk8nBHItcXqGLRflZd4-LuEsNlpX4b1oXTQWiIj0BhYR3-zwxZ_3479k5nqKTVkRBJsAub-gzng=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The poem below refers to the "Parachute Jump" in Coney Island, an easy boardwalk stroll from where I grew up in Brighton Beach. I've searched for the first photograph of Violet and me together, and I believe it was taken at this location in September 1963. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhudRP5Tx27qrI_id7LPrgxtEndLfLFzY344PIvryCvgHv2S8_RmicKcPOIogKQG2_O2mPrwk4YINdiXRSYvxCU3KPGGN-UbJTjPvMsHNTcBQ8xf7nHnTlySHp2P9WjBS7Z06O2Yhu2ZJ6-HffOcho7nby8qqBkAdwsiGEzsGBbZCpnWkhESG5EazO3YQ=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhudRP5Tx27qrI_id7LPrgxtEndLfLFzY344PIvryCvgHv2S8_RmicKcPOIogKQG2_O2mPrwk4YINdiXRSYvxCU3KPGGN-UbJTjPvMsHNTcBQ8xf7nHnTlySHp2P9WjBS7Z06O2Yhu2ZJ6-HffOcho7nby8qqBkAdwsiGEzsGBbZCpnWkhESG5EazO3YQ=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0OnKc1Gfq5J7YsnwvmmPaLa_MA3MVfGa49wIIfvSKSI79nN0e7aM0FV928lhAjuh7CMvGgJPphgvekXUWkPEgefcRWgwBbb3h4-fD9cEuSU72o-C3fWl1K9WrXxAcJaU4sP-WYcoPXdyjwyxFnvkXbCLLAZM4bzcgNGB6TmcPX4FOd6GKMKtPUZSgUw=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0OnKc1Gfq5J7YsnwvmmPaLa_MA3MVfGa49wIIfvSKSI79nN0e7aM0FV928lhAjuh7CMvGgJPphgvekXUWkPEgefcRWgwBbb3h4-fD9cEuSU72o-C3fWl1K9WrXxAcJaU4sP-WYcoPXdyjwyxFnvkXbCLLAZM4bzcgNGB6TmcPX4FOd6GKMKtPUZSgUw=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">OK, here it is! Thanksgiving, November 1963, when I formally asked Violet to be my wife.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvJupabm8p_BEO2zZDlaCU3k_tde8ZIqfEOI7FOOIycyLZy24-UAIemw0SHnDg54UpBX9aGS4o9eI0gljAkKfyQ0bScGsEShdZ-htTNx3YZuulgsLy0-z4Hj7AJThdAzKKJCcT91ULYwMT5N8R6cbM7RsyfZuAGdB50sTPLBKUYPriLsfPcnMipC3Vyg=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvJupabm8p_BEO2zZDlaCU3k_tde8ZIqfEOI7FOOIycyLZy24-UAIemw0SHnDg54UpBX9aGS4o9eI0gljAkKfyQ0bScGsEShdZ-htTNx3YZuulgsLy0-z4Hj7AJThdAzKKJCcT91ULYwMT5N8R6cbM7RsyfZuAGdB50sTPLBKUYPriLsfPcnMipC3Vyg=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Readers familiar with the poetry and prose of Lewis Carroll, particularly "Through the Looking-Glass", a sequel to his "Alice in Wonderland", will remember <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter">The Walrus and the Carpenter</a>, who trick a bunch of fat Oysters to trot along to a beach party, only to discover they are to serve as the main course! (click for <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9">lyrics</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The photos below may be the earliest surviving pictures of Violet and me in the same place (just not in the same snapshot). We are with my first "Toffee", a very smart and streetwise dog who was some kind of a terrier mix. We got him when I was still living with my parents in Brooklyn and attending City College in Manhattan. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwXHDA_QenUvGysbnCq64B1aW_8pD2ec96jsZwI0E_nQQJ3Avvm2_baqXF5PhpDAc9lHMp6HP0QGjWp9h6GK96WH0FaeHJFmSQ3YT9RNvz9F6_wGqevGG8gvTMvGkdRHW8QpSgl78ibZUaPfRHzGffpjZ2lKHv9uvmlKJ16kS3-afP1YM5oIA_0VnfSA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwXHDA_QenUvGysbnCq64B1aW_8pD2ec96jsZwI0E_nQQJ3Avvm2_baqXF5PhpDAc9lHMp6HP0QGjWp9h6GK96WH0FaeHJFmSQ3YT9RNvz9F6_wGqevGG8gvTMvGkdRHW8QpSgl78ibZUaPfRHzGffpjZ2lKHv9uvmlKJ16kS3-afP1YM5oIA_0VnfSA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Years later, when Violet and I lived in Apalachin, NY, I purchased my second "Toffee", a purebred Golden Retriever who had much better papers than me, see <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/search?q=toffee">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Search results for toffee (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Toffee was (at least in my opinion, and Violet's) the world's best and nicest dog. We went through obedience training, tracking, and agility together.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">He knew lots of tricks. In the morning he would fetch his collar, my pool shoes, and the newspaper. He would follow hand signals or voice signals and stay, come, sit, roll over, and so on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/R9nXpalL9rI/AAAAAAAAAQU/bacoC5oSyA8/s1600-h/tofnose.bmp" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177406353148999346" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/R9nXpalL9rI/AAAAAAAAAQU/bacoC5oSyA8/s200/tofnose.bmp" style="border: none; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; position: relative;" /></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">One of his best tricks was balancing a dog biscuit (or four, see photo) on his nose until you snapped your fingers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/R9nZJqlL9sI/AAAAAAAAAQc/PRfhPD4jgn8/s1600-h/ToffeeWithGirlsInHotTubAndSign.bmp" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177408006711408322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/R9nZJqlL9sI/AAAAAAAAAQc/PRfhPD4jgn8/s320/ToffeeWithGirlsInHotTubAndSign.bmp" style="border: none; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; position: relative;" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">I wrote to our daughter that "Toffee was so smart he must be partly Jewish!" She wrote back that she thought Toffee was telling his dog friends that his master "Ira was so smart he must be partly golden retriever."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Our granddaughters loved him and called him "uncle Toffee". Vi made him a food dish with that appellation. We were "mommy" and "daddy" to him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Although I am not a </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">literal</em><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"> believer, I have no doubt Toffee is now in a beautiful park just outside of Heaven, restored to his youthful vigor and playing with all the other dogs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">Every once in a while, one of the dogs stops playing, sniffs the air and perks up his ears ... and then runs to greet his master. Together, they cross the crystal bridge into Heaven.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em>God be with you Tof - See you on the other side</em></strong></span></div><div><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></div><div><span style="color: #993300;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">HOW TIME FLIES WHEN YOU ARE HAVING FUN!</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #993300;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></span></div></div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>50 YEARS OF MARRIAGE - FLAG DAY, JUNE 14th 1964 to 2014</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">TOP: We were young and foolish when we got married on June 14th 1964. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">BOTTOM: But look at what 50 years together has done! Lower middle photos are distorted using iPad "twisted" camera feature, but that is how we really feel! Ira (and Vi)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c43PV3vOMTE/U-opv4RDyMI/AAAAAAAACAU/5ZlxMbniM9U/s1600/01What%2B50%2Byears%2Bdoes!.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c43PV3vOMTE/U-opv4RDyMI/AAAAAAAACAU/5ZlxMbniM9U/s1600/01What%2B50%2Byears%2Bdoes!.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b>PILOT AND CO-PILOT FOR LIFE</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"></span><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Fifty years ago, a few days after our wedding, I rented a Cessna 152 and flew my new wife from Chatham Airport in NJ up to Niagara Falls, NY, stopping in Binghamton, NY for fuel. (Little did we know that less than two years later I would ac</span><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">cept a job at IBM Owego, in the Binghamton area, and we would live and work there for nearly 40 years!)<br /><br />TOP LEFT: Vi and Ira, Co-Pilot and Pilot for life, prepare to depart from Chatham Airport in Morristown, NJ. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">MIDDLE: We stopped in Binghamton, NY to refuel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">TOP RIGHT: Inflight on our "Honeymoon Special" adventure! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">BOTTOM: We rented a car and spent the night at the aptly named "Honeymoon Motel"on the Canadian side. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />We flew home the following day but the weather got bad so we had to spend the night at a hotel in Binghamton, returning the rented airplane in NJ the following morning.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXveo23DEDs/U-oqSiGhH0I/AAAAAAAACAc/rHXu7PX1ns8/s1600/02Honeymoon%2Bflight%2Bcollage.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="483" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXveo23DEDs/U-oqSiGhH0I/AAAAAAAACAc/rHXu7PX1ns8/s1600/02Honeymoon%2Bflight%2Bcollage.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><b>OUR "GREEN ACRES" FARM DAYS</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Early in our marriage, I took a job at IBM Federal Systems, Owego, NY, not far from Binghamton!</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">We purchased an old farm house with three barns and 88 acres of land in Newark Valley, NY, about 12 miles north of Owego.</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">TOP LEFT: Vi's parents, Gilbert and Clara Stark, visit our farm where we raised sheep. We had a kerosene heater in the kitchen and propane heaters in two other rooms. Our bedroom lacked any heater at all. I can still imagine what they were thinking "What have you done to our daughter?"</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">BOTTOM LEFT: Ira's parents, Morris and Ruth Glickstein, visit our farm. With the help of the New York State Agricultural Extension Service, we built a 1/4 acre pond on our land above the house and barns. We sometimes camped there.</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">RIGHT: Vi and Lisa get close and personal with one of our Angus beef cattle.</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bi_tOZcQyf0/U-oq9XU7yJI/AAAAAAAACAk/PDfWLfV-CTg/s1600/03Farm1.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bi_tOZcQyf0/U-oq9XU7yJI/AAAAAAAACAk/PDfWLfV-CTg/s1600/03Farm1.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Some more views of our "Green Acres" FARM DAYS (1965-1973). </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><br style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">TOP: In addition to the very old house and barns, the purchase included Trixie, our loyal dog. We built a dirt road up to the pond we put on the land above the house and barns.</span></div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">B<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">OTTOM LEFT: Me with my Dad Morris on road overlooking house and barns. Dad enclosed the front porch and made major improvements inside the house.</span></span></div><span face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: justify;"><span class="text_exposed_show" face="Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">BOTTOM RIGHT: I'm in the middle, shoveling the chicken manure left over from the hens raised for eggs by the previous owners. Steamy and pungent, but great fertilizer!</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-08JTBjBB4og/U-orLIeW9HI/AAAAAAAACAs/bKUsIRdR-t4/s1600/04Farm2.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-08JTBjBB4og/U-orLIeW9HI/AAAAAAAACAs/bKUsIRdR-t4/s1600/04Farm2.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">ALSO SEE:</div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" tears="" to="" when="" you="">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. 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[The first posting in this series is </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html">Here</a>]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The photo below shows Violet, as a child, with her younger brother Sam, and their mother, Clara Stark. </span><span>(I</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">n the early 1950's, when </span><span style="font-size: large;">his photo was taken, none of us knew Violet and I would marry, and Clara would become my Mother-in-Law!)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj144VB6rKve03k9ODt8JTv03Gwu6RNliEN8frxoBJ7WzlVLtkJPGrCjdiMO-EgehBJep-0IWQES0_DPgPqJUGlwvI2GCKFmAYlvTMlapPSSAjZ59AfeAGoWyg1zvOg4E0WBPU1dgV1C7_AcT2ftUGwEdOeZ7Jwg8cvC4zM4-BkXSSP2eysJ5bv7Fixkw=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="464" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj144VB6rKve03k9ODt8JTv03Gwu6RNliEN8frxoBJ7WzlVLtkJPGrCjdiMO-EgehBJep-0IWQES0_DPgPqJUGlwvI2GCKFmAYlvTMlapPSSAjZ59AfeAGoWyg1zvOg4E0WBPU1dgV1C7_AcT2ftUGwEdOeZ7Jwg8cvC4zM4-BkXSSP2eysJ5bv7Fixkw=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">A CHILD OF IMMIGRANTS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Violet was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She was proud of her Hungarian heritage and membership in the Jewish community. Both of her parents were born in Hungary. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1938, recognizing the existential threat to the Jewish community posed by the growing Nazi menace, her parents-to-be separately immigrated to the United States. The following year, in September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The image below is of the Hungarian passport issued to Violet's father, Geza Stark, in 1938. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_ZytBkR7v_pFM2xcKjOsb2SI4-PhcyAlMOQTprs-SaJ64Bn3zkyuOqZ10CfjQymQBK4sOZmkhfJRPuLlMlZfhwb0hnXyhpey6Q0eNIqUHo5nxqW1e7FViZDD4XNcnZG4EQVWZxVsf8otT1r_ImqPUKq18f7tgDJ30WbOT4GiFuzfSe3ufbD4ZNDIVYg=s387" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="387" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_ZytBkR7v_pFM2xcKjOsb2SI4-PhcyAlMOQTprs-SaJ64Bn3zkyuOqZ10CfjQymQBK4sOZmkhfJRPuLlMlZfhwb0hnXyhpey6Q0eNIqUHo5nxqW1e7FViZDD4XNcnZG4EQVWZxVsf8otT1r_ImqPUKq18f7tgDJ30WbOT4GiFuzfSe3ufbD4ZNDIVYg=w640-h552" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The "Declaration of Intention" document pictured below was filed in New York in 1940. It gives Geza's birthplace as "Pazab", Hungary. [I could not find "Pazab" on a current map of Hungary. "Pazab" may be a typographical error, or an alternate spelling. Google found a town in north-eastern Hungary called "Paszab".]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Geza's date of birth is given as January 9, 1914. His height is 5 feet 4 inches, and he weighs in at 125 pounds. He came to the US on the vessel Washington on April 1, 1938. He pledges to "renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty". </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipbgI_oJk8yvQK8-72SVYB8RNIyCjrGevPquENvW1KAny5x955SsQNpsowVAJ9CZwyEBYyYxW7iyJxG8KSWn0T0NqatgphwGxmLYoj4WK3nkx7iXMJDVyT_Uw2YFETO5zBiFqzU500oL8ZpKNzmI44CTbM84xh9_Hbcim6n57wNhtZRGSUtle4WgiObQ=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="464" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipbgI_oJk8yvQK8-72SVYB8RNIyCjrGevPquENvW1KAny5x955SsQNpsowVAJ9CZwyEBYyYxW7iyJxG8KSWn0T0NqatgphwGxmLYoj4WK3nkx7iXMJDVyT_Uw2YFETO5zBiFqzU500oL8ZpKNzmI44CTbM84xh9_Hbcim6n57wNhtZRGSUtle4WgiObQ=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Geza's occupation is simply listed as "Tailor". That is a bit of an understatement because, in the 1960's, he went on to become a well-known custom tailor with a shop on Broadway in Manhattan, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;">Americanized his given name, "Geza", to "Gilbert".</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;">His famous customers included a fellow-Hungarian, Edward Teller, </span><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; text-align: justify;">the well-known </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Theoretical physics">theoretical physicist</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> who is colloquially referred to as "the father of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bomb" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hydrogen bomb">hydrogen bomb</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">". See </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller" style="text-align: center;">Edward Teller - Wikipedia</a>. <span>When Teller came to New York to be measured and fitted for his custom-tailored suits, he enjoyed relaxing and conversing in his native language with a fellow Hungarian Jew. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When Violet grew up and heard about her dad's friendship with the famous physicist, she asked if Gilbert had ever requested and received an autograph. "The only autograph I needed from him," answered Gilbert, "was on his check paying for the suits."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">CLARA AND GILBERT MARRY</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1940, Gilbert met and married a fellow Hungarian Jewish immigrant named Clara Schwartz, who had come to the US with her mother, Julia Schwartz. Although Clara and Gilbert arrived in the same year, 1938, they travelled on separate ships. They did not know each other until they met in New York. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clara and Gilbert's wedding photo, below, shows them with Clara's mother, Julia, and her second husband, Samuel Schwartz. (Julia's first husband, whose last name was Katz, was killed in Hungary before she and Clara immigrated to the US in 1938.) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJNUwL0Y5It9gpDkgZ-T9QYYyymj9V2x62_F3ZY1fQwmUVQlJBJ817rp14weo4oA67A5lA78G9ae8NhPLMqO33hlsFxK_l5GIjOn4A42w1RmkSsMRuA1IukDWUs84sXSylWwZSxXgA2jrW7WMXBRJeVuxOTw29Vzvn7LCWpAa5R_rFSwFYDw20vFxXRg=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="464" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJNUwL0Y5It9gpDkgZ-T9QYYyymj9V2x62_F3ZY1fQwmUVQlJBJ817rp14weo4oA67A5lA78G9ae8NhPLMqO33hlsFxK_l5GIjOn4A42w1RmkSsMRuA1IukDWUs84sXSylWwZSxXgA2jrW7WMXBRJeVuxOTw29Vzvn7LCWpAa5R_rFSwFYDw20vFxXRg=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violet was born on April 27, 1942, five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Gilbert joined the US Army. He was sent to England, where he trained for the eventual allied invasion of Europe that started in June of 1944. He did not talk much about his wartime experiences, but we know he rose to the rank of Seargent. The photo below shows Gilbert in uniform with Clara and Violet. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGhYSJ5n3daAuWNb2lOuslcERmC2CLZo4v8eCTIyp-xLbqN6d0qlNgn2TRd8kQSwtIZqiHCDKG5gM6WYdaMPQwjCogzPyOtW7pC_qsrzJ7Z8t9S1ZgVsaBjv-QC9t6CooZOspATem7cSvS8h0vKVo-2LCEt8YtkZ7b4R9jpgvsQqgNUTTZd4wkr03v3A=s652" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="652" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGhYSJ5n3daAuWNb2lOuslcERmC2CLZo4v8eCTIyp-xLbqN6d0qlNgn2TRd8kQSwtIZqiHCDKG5gM6WYdaMPQwjCogzPyOtW7pC_qsrzJ7Z8t9S1ZgVsaBjv-QC9t6CooZOspATem7cSvS8h0vKVo-2LCEt8YtkZ7b4R9jpgvsQqgNUTTZd4wkr03v3A=w640-h454" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">VIOLET'S EDUCATION IN BROOKLYN, NY</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Violet's family were observant, Orthodox Jews. At an early age, her grandmother, Julia, taught her to recite the Hebrew prayers. They were serious about attended Saturday services nearly every week. Violet often recounted t</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">he fun she had as a young child </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">at synagogue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">My family, also ostensibly Orthodox Jewish, had nearly zero <i>literal </i>religious belief and was almost totally non-observant. We considered Jewish religious services to be a boring waste of time. Sure, if the 13-year-old son of a relative or neighbor was being Bar Mitzvah, and we were invited, we would attend. But mainly as a matter of duty and obligation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">We considered ourselves to be loyal, red-blooded Americans. We had no desire to leave the US and move to the newly established Jewish State of Israel. </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Yet, we wanted Israel to be strong economically and militarily. We contributed to Jewish charities that helped Israel. We voted for candidates who favored continued American support for Israel. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">As you may know, in an Orthodox synagogue, men sit in the front, women in the rear, behind a partition called the "Mechitzah". (As it was explained to me, this seating arrangement is not degrading to the honor and dignity of women. It is necessary to allow men to give their full attention and concentration to their prayers, which is possible only if their eyes are shielded from seeing women's bodies. Apparently, this is not a problem for women looking at men's bodies.) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span>Observant Jews, like Violet's grandmother, actually enjoy the hours they devote to Saturday religious services. Violet repeatedly told me how much fun she had as a small child attending services most Saturday mornings with her grandmother. Young girls, and boys, would generally </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span>sit in the women's section with their mothers and grandmothers. We all know that there is a limit to a small child's "sitzfleisch</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span>" (Yiddish word meaning something like "sitting on your butt flesh".) Therefore, according to Violet's happy memories, she and other kids would get out of their seats and run from the woman's section out the back door, around to the front of the synagogue, and back in through the men's section! </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">When an Orthodox Jewish boy reaches the age of 13, he is eligible to be Bar Mitzvah, the precept or commandment, and associated r<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">eligious initiation ceremony, confirming he is ready to observe religious precepts and take part in public worship. Even though my family was not particularly religiously observant, I, as a male, was expected to learn to read Hebrew well enough to recite the major prayers and be Bar Mitzvah. Therefore, starting a few years before I turned 13, I attended Hebrew School for a couple hours on Sunday, and for an hour on two weekdays. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: xx-large;">after elementary school let out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">Obedient to a fault, I did my part. I learned to recite the prayers and chant my Haftorah in Hebrew. (A Haftorah is a reading, from the book of Prophets, which is different every week.) On my appointed Bar Mitzvah Saturday, a couple dozen members of my proud family (mostly from </span><span style="color: #111111;">Brooklyn but</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> including at least two relatives from the Bronx) joined over 100 regular Sabbath attendees at the Hebrew Alliance Synagogue in Brighton Beach to witness </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">my performance</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">Near the end of the service, in my </span><span style="color: #111111;">squeaky</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">, not-yet-fully-mature voice, I gave the expected </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">"Today I am a man"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"> speech to the crowd. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Later that day, my parents hosted a grand reception and dinner party for invited family and friends at a nearby catering hall. There was lots of food, an open bar with (mostly) responsible drinking, and loud music and dancing. Midway through the event, I was asked to get up and repeat my speech. A family friend who had access to a movie camera captured highlights of the event on film and audiotape. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">VIOLET'S FACILITY WITH LANGUAGE</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Violet has always been better than me at reading Hebrew. She also seems to have a knack for learning words and phrases from other languages that we've encountered on our travels, including Arabic, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and even Chinese. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Like many immigrant families, Violet's parents, Clara and Gilbert, and her grandparents, Julia and Samuel, spoke their native language at home, to the near exclusion of English. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">One of Violet's favorite stories is how, when she started attending the neighborhood public elementary school, her mother was called in by her teacher. The teacher suggested that they speak English at home because "it will</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> be good for both of you." I don't know how that type of frank (and in my opinion good) advice would go over in today's political climate, but they accepted and followed it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">VIOLET'S HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE YEARS</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Violet graduated from Lafayette High School in June 1959, intending to "major in science and math [at] Brooklyn College."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJiWwVcBSYXXhtp71TWF7om1-BL8HCDXE-OK-OL1fplkYjquiXbtk-TGO46cwZBWJzVSgLOxXDJn698L7nTvD_N2i5I8Ycqx1XkCVBfGgQ7y21Lxx7t1_dn567xTBLsaClyzKDYTjqpxIoPAX-o6HnxHOboGsp-l19w8oLerXenpgoT4mepcJJWQ2kkA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJiWwVcBSYXXhtp71TWF7om1-BL8HCDXE-OK-OL1fplkYjquiXbtk-TGO46cwZBWJzVSgLOxXDJn698L7nTvD_N2i5I8Ycqx1XkCVBfGgQ7y21Lxx7t1_dn567xTBLsaClyzKDYTjqpxIoPAX-o6HnxHOboGsp-l19w8oLerXenpgoT4mepcJJWQ2kkA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No surprise! In 1963, Violet graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor's degree in Science. She was a member of the Chemistry Society, Lowell House, and the Yiddish Club.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBN4JS6pzX99GH8uyOsEQyQfCKxfgWyw9BxJbLYBRJC3lbQKS9n2Uv7kuHUW5SKGzmEY0zKn8aHGwRwSuwZ60W5v7cygmjrozmpq4g2F4ne01z_LrxBkKpxngaHVQz550-wU9Pd-st3xHRrtApHng8v_vcn3DHYdoD4MnFmUoUXB9sw1Tyr16ymhOM6Q=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBN4JS6pzX99GH8uyOsEQyQfCKxfgWyw9BxJbLYBRJC3lbQKS9n2Uv7kuHUW5SKGzmEY0zKn8aHGwRwSuwZ60W5v7cygmjrozmpq4g2F4ne01z_LrxBkKpxngaHVQz550-wU9Pd-st3xHRrtApHng8v_vcn3DHYdoD4MnFmUoUXB9sw1Tyr16ymhOM6Q=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjshxx_0k2TlXJf96_9B7pOhLPvFUCIMCoXaj7U8gt4kckQ1Hg3dnWXLP5QQzIgV1XpCwEyKAVCMGjizzpQPoB5JVfc5h3FhjkvPtHDu6Xg80WRDXL1JMvBrh8xcuU3aRs8aQ5UISGlYkQ9i8lTxPM-ZozUUcDZleFJBMUS0XiNYa9ivfYCA_fTWk207w=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjshxx_0k2TlXJf96_9B7pOhLPvFUCIMCoXaj7U8gt4kckQ1Hg3dnWXLP5QQzIgV1XpCwEyKAVCMGjizzpQPoB5JVfc5h3FhjkvPtHDu6Xg80WRDXL1JMvBrh8xcuU3aRs8aQ5UISGlYkQ9i8lTxPM-ZozUUcDZleFJBMUS0XiNYa9ivfYCA_fTWk207w=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" tears="" to="" when="" you="">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Read subsequent postings on this Blog about events I remember. If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.<br /><br />Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,<br /><br /><br /></this><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/rest-in-peace-violet-glickstein-my-dear.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for LAST posting</span></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violet-and-ira-meet-marry-and-multiply.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for NEXT posting</span></a> </span></span></div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><i><span style="color: black;">NOTE: </span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> This is the second of our "V</span><i><span style="color: black;">irtual</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sitting Shiva</span></a><span style="color: black;">", the traditional Jewish custom of relatives and friends devoting seven days to specially remembering the deceased.</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-62805507047672017582021-12-27T03:28:00.012-05:002022-11-27T16:43:08.224-05:00One Year Ago Today My Dear Wife Violet Passed Away<p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3WPl8-sm0JuiGvVFGhNl0DpbTQkjzq9icGKQSS3HE1DPSRK8o4EqNdTGq4phLzK8IEmyJeLZr2CVj6cvOAIR3EHshBK2-A3bMKuzmWpiv13Yf0dkwmr0DUuInqvXVkivic6Rc473p0RW5HVic06Vr_3t9ooZS1q_qcC-teklg4VEskibrWnM3wBAfA/s3947/20221016_123439_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="3947" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3WPl8-sm0JuiGvVFGhNl0DpbTQkjzq9icGKQSS3HE1DPSRK8o4EqNdTGq4phLzK8IEmyJeLZr2CVj6cvOAIR3EHshBK2-A3bMKuzmWpiv13Yf0dkwmr0DUuInqvXVkivic6Rc473p0RW5HVic06Vr_3t9ooZS1q_qcC-teklg4VEskibrWnM3wBAfA/w494-h232/20221016_123439_2.jpg" width="494" /></a></span></div><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"><br />Today marks one month since the sad passing, late Saturday evening, November 27, 2021, of my beloved wife of 57 years, Violet (Stark) Glickstein, age 79. </span><p></p><p><span face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;">In addition to being a special blessing to me as my wife, Violet was also a devoted mother to our three children, Lisa, Rena, and Sara; and a loving grandmother to Lisa's children (Alex, Michela, and Samantha) and Sara's (Isaac and Emerson). Violet was also a great friend to many others.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-size: 26px;"> </span></p><p><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">HOW WE WILL REMEMBER AND HONOR VIOLET</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgu3k0JpvSs/YaglDHpn7JI/AAAAAAAAJFg/GYOl4gXOCo04zQ1mjV3TOnfBe4KprgRxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/Violet%2Bobituary%2Bphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="604" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgu3k0JpvSs/YaglDHpn7JI/AAAAAAAAJFg/GYOl4gXOCo04zQ1mjV3TOnfBe4KprgRxwCLcBGAsYHQ/w573-h429/Violet%2Bobituary%2Bphoto.jpg" width="573" /></a></div><br /><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">We, as a family, will remember Violet for all the great times we had together. Education was important to her, and she delighted in family events at our children's and grandchildren's elementary and high schools. </span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advanced education, at the College and Post-Graduate levels, was particularly significant. Violet and I "kvelled" (Yiddish word meaning "burst with pride") as our children were awarded the degrees they had earned (PhDs for Lisa and Sara, a Masters for Rena, and Bachelors for Lisa's children). </span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of degrees, Violet earned her Bachelors in Chemistry in 1963 (not the norm for females in the 1960's). Once our children were out of elementary school, Violet went back to college to earn her Masters in Computer Science (1983), when in her 40's! (With all those advanced degrees flying around in our immediate family, I felt "obligated" to get my Masters and PhD while in my very ripe 50's!)</span></span></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition to delighting in education, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: large;">Violet loved to travel with me, family members, and friends. At or near the top of her list of favorite places in the world were destinations with "Disney" in their titles: Disneyland (California), Disney World (Florida), and even Shanghai Disney Resort (China). We visited the latter in 2017, when our Grandchild Michaela, a Hospitality Major at Purdue, was doing an internship at a Chinese resort, see </span></span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/09/beyond-communism-emergence-of-newly.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Beyond Communism - the Emergence of a Newly Prosperous and Increasingly Capitalist CHINA! (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">and </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/08/china-way-beyond-communism.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: CHINA - WAY BEYOND COMMUNISM (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></p><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;">We also travelled to England when our Grandchild Alex was interning at Oxford. We would have visited our third Grandchild Samantha when she was interning, however, she was in Australia, so far off the grid that a visit was not possible. </span></p><img alt="" border="0" height="540" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488066622829090306" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZroioKRjYM/TCmHhDVn1gI/AAAAAAAABMA/7S0pkTyiHlI/w383-h540/vi+zips+x.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #53d5ff; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; width: 284px;" width="383" /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Other family vacations included our Alaska cruise in 2010, where Violet showed she still had lots of "zip" in her as we flew between trees riding the zipline in Ketchican, see </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2010/06/plenty-of-zip-as-we-mature.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Plenty of ZIP as We Mature (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #19447e; font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm8BElCVk3c/V9cLwXCDUBI/AAAAAAAAETA/hVzBDpSVRvYxjYBoBQjXOgzdMHSiU_ZmACLcB/s1600/6-RenaAlaskaCruise.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm8BElCVk3c/V9cLwXCDUBI/AAAAAAAAETA/hVzBDpSVRvYxjYBoBQjXOgzdMHSiU_ZmACLcB/s640/6-RenaAlaskaCruise.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />From left to right sitting around the table: Michaela Hagler, Jerry Hagler, Alex Hagler, David Moyers, Rena Moyers, Lisa Glickstein, Samantha Hagler, Violet Glickstein. I (Ira) am standing in the rear with Lou who lives on the cruise ship.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">In 2014 we took the family on a Baltic cruise that included a brief stop in St. Petersberg, Russia, </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">see: </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/07/our-brief-visit-to-russia.html">The Virtual Philosophy Club: Our Brief Visit to Russia (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p51T7XtNbKQ/U8Q5nZWpYOI/AAAAAAAAB-M/3HJeQV8Lp5U/s1600/St+Petersburg+Pushkin.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p51T7XtNbKQ/U8Q5nZWpYOI/AAAAAAAAB-M/3HJeQV8Lp5U/s1600/St+Petersburg+Pushkin.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">As we waited in the St. Petersburg park, along with our Grandchild Alex, I noticed the pigeons had an unusual fondness for the famous Russian writer, see photos above. I tested my ability to sound out Cyrillic characters by reading the inscription on the Pushkin statue, "Алекса́ндр Серге́евич </span><span class="hps" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f;">ПУШК" [ALEKSANDER SERGEVITCH PUSHKIN].</span></span></p><p><span class="hps" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><b style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIOLET'S OBITUARY</span></b><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #19447e;">Our daughter Lisa composed a marvelous obituary that captures the essence of Violet. </span><a href="https://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/classifieds/obituaries/violet-glickstein/ad_0a937937-500f-549b-ad26-fd9d8c68047c.html">Violet Glickstein | Obituaries | thevillagesdailysun.com</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlZyXbCmZpcobEBmjEw-wxEuPJ53ytRevFQEDxBiRxhiDtbpIJOwvYNHEff5Q6koVk2ZE5UQdT-uC-zh3MgKqdFGQO_wItADnyFoQu53uAybFls5eH3_xG8_Uo-SAT4GW9aFqBSDcKRJGxR9p9MKLlN8ZN01QonmhPCLD8U5TnwYUxWfCfCi2dzNNfSg=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlZyXbCmZpcobEBmjEw-wxEuPJ53ytRevFQEDxBiRxhiDtbpIJOwvYNHEff5Q6koVk2ZE5UQdT-uC-zh3MgKqdFGQO_wItADnyFoQu53uAybFls5eH3_xG8_Uo-SAT4GW9aFqBSDcKRJGxR9p9MKLlN8ZN01QonmhPCLD8U5TnwYUxWfCfCi2dzNNfSg=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">VIRTUALLY "SITTING SHIVA" FOR VIOLET</span></b></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">According to</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Wikipedia</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">,</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Shiva</b><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">:</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span dir="rtl" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" lang="he" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" xml:lang="he">שבעה</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">, literally "seven") is the week-long mourning period for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva". According to Jewish law, we assume the status of "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">avel</i><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-color: white; color: #4799c1; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">:</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span class="nowrap" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">אבל</span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">; "mourner"). This state lasts for seven days, during which family members traditionally gather and receive visitors.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In our modern times, when families live all over the US and the World, and where </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><b>literal</b></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> belief is scarce, it isn't really practical for first-degree relations to sit around on couches in the living room for a week wearing slippers.</span></div><p><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Although I lack any real <i><b>literal</b></i> belief in Jewish ritual, IMHO, it does make sense for those closest to the deceased to make a special effort to remember her (at least) during the weeks and months following her departure.<br /><br />For reasons I can't defend rationally, I'm very pleased that our daughters Lisa, Rena, and Sara, and Lisa's children, Alex, Michaela, and Samantha attended Hebrew school, learned to read that ancient language, and went through the formal <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;">Bat Mitzvah</a> process. I don't think any of them had then or have now any real <i><b>literal</b></i> belief, which, in a way, makes it a sort of minor <i><b>miracle</b></i> that they did so. (This last sentence brings tears to my eyes as </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I read it. How about you?)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kd6k8ozIPXQ/U_DdidyefjI/AAAAAAAACBc/jHwJgUg5JdgUOLW7PKzlmXUM16UA11EBQCPcB/s1600/05Passing%2Bthe%2BTorch.jpg" style="color: #4799c1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kd6k8ozIPXQ/U_DdidyefjI/AAAAAAAACBc/jHwJgUg5JdgUOLW7PKzlmXUM16UA11EBQCPcB/s400/05Passing%2Bthe%2BTorch.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="600" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">VIOLET'S HEROIC STRUGGLE WITH LIVER DISEASE</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>For several months prior to her passing, Violet and I were concerned about the damage diabetes had wrought on her liver. Several months ago, on September 14, 2021, Dr. Eric Schwartzberg attempted to perform a TIPS procedure at the Leesburg Hospital (see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjugular_intrahepatic_portosystemic_shunt" style="background-color: transparent;">Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt - Wikipedia</a><span>) to place a shunt near her liver, and his attempt failed due to "occlusions" in the portal vein. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Prior to the surgery, the doctor was quite frank with us. He said he had done dozens of successful TIPS procedures where there were no occlusions. Unfortunatey, he said, he has attempted six with occlusions, and only two of them were successful. <b>"So, I'll be number three!"</b> said Violet confidently. Sadly, the odds were against her, and they won.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A week after the failed TIPS procedure, Violet fell in our apartment, and I could not get her back up on her feet. The staff at Freedom Pointe Independent Living called 911 and the very prompt and efficient EMTs showed up and took her to the Emergency Room at The Villages Hospital. After two weeks of treatment at the hospital, s</span><span style="font-size: large;">he was released to the skilled nursing "Rehab" facility on the Freedom Pointe campus. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--lzG1oaA0fs/YcjiDvVIiiI/AAAAAAAAJH0/vC6CoPenTR076uJh9EQsuyT8lCqbM9IkQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="900" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--lzG1oaA0fs/YcjiDvVIiiI/AAAAAAAAJH0/vC6CoPenTR076uJh9EQsuyT8lCqbM9IkQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="231" /></a></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Unfortunately, after a few days at Rehab, she falls there, perhaps due to low blood pressure, and is readmitted to the hospital. She cycled from hospital to Rehab and back again three times as the doctors tried to find a mixture of drugs and treatments to balance her body chemistry against the buildup of toxins caused by her liver failure. </span><span>Due to Covid restrictions, each time Violet was admitted to FP Rehab, she had to be isolated, and visitors were required to wear full Personal Protective Equipment. The photo shows Lisa and me in full-PPE. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">VIOLET COMES HOME FOR HER FINAL WEEK</span></b></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, on Tuesday, November 16, Violet was returned to our Independent Living apartment and was able to eat in our Dining Room. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><p class="yiv3838020568msonormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18pt;"><b>Looking back, what turned out to be her final week at home (November 16th thru 23rd) was a glorious time!</b> </span></p><p class="yiv3838020568msonormal"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18pt;">Vi was warmly greeted by everyone each day that we ate
our big meal of the day in the Dining Room, and as we passed through other
public areas.</span></p><p class="yiv3838020568msonormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18pt;">Freedom Pointe has been proactive in the Covid-19 crisis. They scheduled on-site clinics in January and February where both Vi and I were fully vaccinated with
Pfizer shots. They had an on-site clinic in October, where I got my booster
shot. Vi missed that clinic because she was off-site, but, when she was back home on November 18th, I drove her to our Publix pharmacy, and she was boosted.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv3838020568msonormal">On Sunday, November 21, <span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 24px;">one of the last days of that most wonderful week, </span>our good friends Bunny and Bob Adler took us on a tour of the Fenney Springs Nature Trail in The Villages. </p><p class="yiv3838020568msonormal"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18pt;">Vi sat comfortably in her wheeled
transport chair as we pushed her along the paved trail, enjoying the birds,
turtles, fish, and a sleepy alligator. Earlier, we had stopped by a fast-food
place and picked up the Chicken Sandwich Vi had begged for all through her
Hospital/Rehab confinement. We consumed our chicken and fries in the shade of
tall trees.</span></p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YKUwWquNTxI/YahEcdc5W7I/AAAAAAAAJFs/oY9yMUOz-UoYwceUAaiG1CqzhovuHgY2gCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20211121_124957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YKUwWquNTxI/YahEcdc5W7I/AAAAAAAAJFs/oY9yMUOz-UoYwceUAaiG1CqzhovuHgY2gCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/20211121_124957.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3TImDlOUWjg/YahEcek-TPI/AAAAAAAAJFw/w-7ICd3EJjItWhTab3srUAx1hDynI-OMACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20211121_124842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3TImDlOUWjg/YahEcek-TPI/AAAAAAAAJFw/w-7ICd3EJjItWhTab3srUAx1hDynI-OMACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/20211121_124842.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">VIOLET'S FINAL DAYS</span></b></p></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A few days later, Wednesday, November 24, Violet and I were scheduled for an early morning visit to the nearby LabCorp to give fasting-blood samples. She woke me about 5am, and, using her walker with a bit of help from me, was able to make a successful visit to the toilet. She woke me again around 6am and puked up a bit of the Blackened Catfish she had consumed at the Freedom Pointe Dining Room the evening before. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As 7am departure time for our LabCorp journey approached, Violet was unable to stand up, so I went myself. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I returned, she was sleeping atop the covers on her bed. She woke-up and was communicative, but lethargic and a bit confused, I called the Freedom Pointe nurse who came right away. She examined Violet and took her Blood Pressure which was low. We used her Libre Blood Sugar sensor and got a moderately high reading. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The nurse called 911. Those dependable EMTs showed up, checked her vitals, and asked a series of questions, which Violet answered in a confused manner. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I got to the Emergency Room (ER) Violet was getting her CT-Scan. When she was wheeled back into her ER room, her eyes were partially open, but she was non-communicative. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ER nurses and doctors informed me that Violet was in critical condition, with multiple system failures, including not only her liver, but kidneys as well. They suggested she should be given only "comfort care". She was transferred from the ER to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I checked the "Living Will" documents that she and I had updated in recent months, and, after Lisa spoke directly to the nurse and the doctor, and we all agreed, I signed the papers necessary to place her in "Comfort care" status.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violet remained unresponsive to spoken requests from me that she move her tongue or move her hand when it is being squeezed. Her eyes remained partially open, pupils slowly scanning side to side, as Lisa, via speakerphone "talked" to her, as did our son-in-law Jerry and one of our grandchildren, Alex. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The following day, friends Bunny and Bob drove me to visit Violet in the ICU and we set up her transfer to the Cornerstone Hospice. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ0loIX5fHa2AdCQpZu-TWybTsfUZ6-rOzfj9WJiTWBAUdKsOM2ioiIRhC6t-Io-iM4dab-7fbPsXvivCavMn9oyg9NJrJeZuDRzwASs3OY5FdBUs2GFu9kbQTS6MPwJaHysIKQRHA5xxIYlCCvxx3wU8-k02CEApCPvgbnyUdKh5PQkTtUmlULSFGXg=s476" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ0loIX5fHa2AdCQpZu-TWybTsfUZ6-rOzfj9WJiTWBAUdKsOM2ioiIRhC6t-Io-iM4dab-7fbPsXvivCavMn9oyg9NJrJeZuDRzwASs3OY5FdBUs2GFu9kbQTS6MPwJaHysIKQRHA5xxIYlCCvxx3wU8-k02CEApCPvgbnyUdKh5PQkTtUmlULSFGXg=w556-h640" width="556" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The image above, taken on Wednesday, November 24th by our good friend Bunny Adler in The Villages Hospital ICU, is the last photo of Violet and me together. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violet was admitted to Cornerstone Hospice the following day, November 25th.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On Friday, November 26, </span>Rabbi Zev of Temple Shalom (where Violet and I are founding members) met and comforted me at Hospice, He spoke to Violet and said the appropriate prayers. I went to Friday services that evening at Temple Shalom. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Saturday, November 27, Bunny and Bob drove me to the beautiful, tree-shaded Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, in nearby Leesburg, to select the plot where Violet was to be buried, and the adjacent plot reserved for me. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our plots are in the Jewish "Garden of David" area near the Temple Shalom Memorial Garden.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqJdBlwj_BO7OffxbNnEcP2FQWwBHniW_fJekkC2VgAJT4ndVTP8EhbLvg1azli2u7mctJi_e4rO3h82BaHRMZL9QfjddjWw_9vNc26ck8s0pYICiDu3Q6HvBe9cfSZcJahZYYSvtFogyq0MUpTaPxlkPQwUcwBoPXscLIZ5T_UfX67btPRRDaJUmXQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="800" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqJdBlwj_BO7OffxbNnEcP2FQWwBHniW_fJekkC2VgAJT4ndVTP8EhbLvg1azli2u7mctJi_e4rO3h82BaHRMZL9QfjddjWw_9vNc26ck8s0pYICiDu3Q6HvBe9cfSZcJahZYYSvtFogyq0MUpTaPxlkPQwUcwBoPXscLIZ5T_UfX67btPRRDaJUmXQ=w640-h461" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The photo below shows the plots reserved for Violet and me (green flags).</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvW6kUKOSTyTpGqvfDshInREZdJdaMAzp4bw9z9AD9OhzmqqxFZ4Zu58Xsr6QPnEvMBNIMhx5OFyTft66kJOQT_ignUqBI0MArCrJHOjqANVgumislLY-A4l23VIy0zym96yGOx4EaAJMyCJydl0CT3mIUER7cn14qEZZJElz-4NsIe7_a4qlIocvoDA=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="800" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvW6kUKOSTyTpGqvfDshInREZdJdaMAzp4bw9z9AD9OhzmqqxFZ4Zu58Xsr6QPnEvMBNIMhx5OFyTft66kJOQT_ignUqBI0MArCrJHOjqANVgumislLY-A4l23VIy0zym96yGOx4EaAJMyCJydl0CT3mIUER7cn14qEZZJElz-4NsIe7_a4qlIocvoDA=w640-h354" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-large;">Violet was interred on December 2, in a private ceremony conducted by Rabbi Zev. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">AFTERWORD</span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Earlier this week, after a pleasant dinner in the Freedom Pointe Pub with good friends, I picked up my mail and got in the elevator to go back up to my apartment. A couple of fellow residents, who I don’t happen to know very well, popped into the elevator just as the doors were about to close. “Sorry for your loss” they said, in a sincere effort to acknowledge Vi’s passing and comfort me.</span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">“This will be my first New Years without her,” I replied. Tears came to my eyes. I had difficulty completing that sentence. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">I think of myself as a relatively non-emotional man who treats the difficulties of life and human interaction with the same cold logic and precise engineering I devoted to the solution of System Engineering issues!</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">Not so!</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">Vi’s critical illness and relatively sudden departure from this world have been extremely difficult for me. Yes, friends and relatives have come through for me with sincere kindness and have been extremely generous with their time. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">Rabbi Zev and leaders and members of Temple Shalom have been wonderful. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">The staff and medical professionals at Freedom Pointe Independent Living and Rehab and The Villages Hospital have been warm and gracious. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">Our daughter Lisa, sons-in-law Jerry and David, and our triplet grands Alex, Michaela, and Samantha disrupted their very active working lives to come here in person to comfort and help me, and, to clean up the clutter in our apartment. They each continue to support me via cellphone and internet.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">CELEBRATING CHANUKAH 2021 FOR VIOLET</span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Vi's passing coincided with our celebration of Chanukah in the Freedom Pointe lobby. The photo below shows some of our fellow residents, along with visiting family members, kindling the Chanukah lights for the fourth day.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNyRQvKETuQHi0hXyJHO6HExZDqiTdMx_KH84tHtcY9g_g00uZylZOUjF3_Q-G8eFzmqZFJQhoNtO7DIh0lBbS5G-um9f5LL2Fc4VkmzBQ9EtGf8-b8t_xhYS6x1LQRiCT6mxvJfsu94hoK_yL4l1qz8yp6Oc-R3zJBVZVBi25hslKwnrjRYLOU8cmNw=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNyRQvKETuQHi0hXyJHO6HExZDqiTdMx_KH84tHtcY9g_g00uZylZOUjF3_Q-G8eFzmqZFJQhoNtO7DIh0lBbS5G-um9f5LL2Fc4VkmzBQ9EtGf8-b8t_xhYS6x1LQRiCT6mxvJfsu94hoK_yL4l1qz8yp6Oc-R3zJBVZVBi25hslKwnrjRYLOU8cmNw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">They are (left to right): </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">[Fellow Residents] Lynn Belford, Roy Belford, Roben Gaftman, Bob Adler, Marty Rothbard, Bunny Adler,</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">[Family] Samantha Hagler (Grandchild), Jerry Hagler (Son-in-law), Alex Hagler (Grandchild), Michaela Hagler (Grandchild), David Moyers (Son-in-law), Lisa Glickstein (Daughter), and, in the Chanukah-themed "I LATKE, MOVE IT, MOVE IT" shirt, me, Ira Glickstein.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><this about="" brings="" eyes="" how="" i="" it.="" my="" p="" read="" sentence="" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" tears="" to="" when="" you="">So, please join me in thinking about your good and eventful times with Violet. Read subsequent postings on this Blog about events I remember. If you'd like, you could put on some slippers, sit on your couch, and join me and others in a "virtual" Shiva for Violet.<br /><br />Love to all, and specially elevated kisses and hugs to Violet, from her husband,<br /><br /><br /></this><br style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ira Glickstein</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2022/01/violets-heroic-struggle-and-passing.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for FINAL</span></a></span></span><a href="http://https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-immigrant-family-and-her.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: large;"> posting</span></a></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2021/12/violets-immigrant-family-and-her.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: large;">Click for NEXT posting</span></a> </span></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></p><div style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Violet and Ira Glickstein were married in 1964. See our 50th Anniversary memories in the following postings include highlights of our life together.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 14.85px;">CLICK THE HYPERTEXT BELOW TO JUMP TO YOUR TOPIC OF CHOICE</span></span></p><ol style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-1-wedding-and-farm-days.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Wedding and Farm Days</a> </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-2-passing-genes-and-memes.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Passing the Genes and Memes</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-3-computers-r-us-ira-and-vis.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Computers R Us (Ira and Vi's careers)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-4-retirement-in-villages-fl.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Retirement in The Villages, FL</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-5-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Air Travel and Shipboard activities)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-6-our-50th-anniversary-baltic.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Our 50th Anniversary Baltic Cruise (Land-Tours)</a></li></ol><p style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/50th-0-celebrating-our-50th-wedding.html">50th-0 CELEBRATING OUR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><br /></p><div style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="color: black;">NOTE: </span></i><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> This is the first of our "V</span><i><span style="color: black;">irtual</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_%28Judaism%29" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sitting Shiva</span></a><span style="color: black;">", the traditional Jewish custom of relatives and friends devoting seven days to specially remembering the deceased.</span></span></div></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-23960279026060005952021-08-08T17:50:00.714-04:002022-04-20T03:26:07.195-04:00CHINA - WAY BEYOND COMMUNISM<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WQrATmyZYcY/YQ7W084CPqI/AAAAAAAAJAg/86a2yAJJGWMWovgoEADdLC9xHzk5fUexQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WQrATmyZYcY/YQ7W084CPqI/AAAAAAAAJAg/86a2yAJJGWMWovgoEADdLC9xHzk5fUexQCLcBGAsYHQ/w683-h384/COVER.jpg" width="683" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: Ira at Shanghai Disney with four of my favorite women, my wife Vi, oldest daughter Lisa, and one of our triplet grands, Michaela, a Hospitality major at Purdue University, who was doing a six-month internship at a Chinese resort. Right: Vi in Tiananmen Square under the portrait of Mao Tse Tung, whose visage appears on Chinese currency.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I presented "<i>CHINA <u>WAY </u>BEYOND COMMUNISM</i>" to an interactive audience at The Villages (Florida) Philosophy Club on August 6th 2021. My talk is <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">an updated version of the one I gave nearly four-years ago to both the Philosophy Club and the S.K.I.L.L. Club (CIA retirees). See:
</span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/09/beyond-communism-emergence-of-newly.html">Beyond
Communism - the Emergence of a Newly Prosperous and Increasingly Capitalist
CHINA! (tvpclub.blogspot.com)</a><p></p>
<h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b>Much has
changed since our China visit four years ago</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">.</span> </h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Chinese
leader Xí Jìnpíng is more firmly in control. The two-term limit on the
presidency has been removed so he may remain the Chinese leader for life.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">China's
one-child policy has been revised to allow -even encourage- two children (or
even three). This is in response to an ageing of the Chinese population and a growing
gender imbalance. When limited to only a single child, Chinese parents favored
male children by disproportionally aborting females.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Hong Kong
and Taiwan are under increasing pressure to unify with the mainland. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Chinese
military and economic control of the South China Sea area is progressing faster
than ever.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Also, the
COVID-19 pandemic, which spread world-wide since it originated in China in
2019, seems most likely to have been an accidental leak from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, rather than from Wuhan's "wet markets".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><h2 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Key Question</span></h2>
<p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Might the
Chinese model of a </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Single Political Party <i><u>Ruling over a
nearly Uniform population </u></i>(92% ethnic Han Chinese)</b></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">eventually
prove to be superior to the Western-Democratic model of </span></p><p><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two (or more)
Political Parties <i><u>Dueling over a Diverse population</u></i> (which
celebrates ethnic and racial differences)</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">?</span></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Flash-Back to 1958 and 19-year-old Ira</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Way back in 1958, when I was 19-years old and a sophomore engineering student at City College of New York, I had a Letter to the Editor published in "the newspaper of record", the New York Times. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As you may recall, the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung, had established the People's Republic of China on the mainland, and chased the Nationalists, under the leadership of Chiang Kai Shek, to off-shore islands, mainly the island of Taiwan and the city of Hong Kong.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My letter was a response to the opinions expressed by <b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">JAMES WARBURG (</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1896-1969), a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">German-born American Banker, former financial adviser
to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who h</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">elped to found the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Washington</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">-based </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Policy_Studies" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Institute for
Policy Studies</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. Warburg was a member of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Council on
Foreign Relations</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Warburg had called for the United States to evacuate the Nationalist leadership from Taiwan to avoid further conflict with the People's Republic of China. The US President at that time was Dwight D. Eisenhower. We continued our support for the Chinese Nationalists. Warburg wrote that the actions of President Eisenhower in both the Far East and Middle East were "almost inconceivable" and "irresponsible".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Here is my letter as it appeared in The New York Times on September 10, 1958. NOTE: I used the Portuguese name "Formosa" (meaning "Beautiful Island"). That usage fell out of favor in the 1960's. when reading my letter, please substitute "Taiwan" for "Formosa".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRb-q4wa9cU/YQ8sAlWqvlI/AAAAAAAAJA4/b-5mfQspvdITtbjmqvCv__ll_DTU2DIXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s706/TimesLetter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="437" height="951" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dRb-q4wa9cU/YQ8sAlWqvlI/AAAAAAAAJA4/b-5mfQspvdITtbjmqvCv__ll_DTU2DIXwCLcBGAsYHQ/w589-h951/TimesLetter.jpg" width="589" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">I'm particularly proud of the final sentence in my letter:</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">"The United States is the greatest country in the world and it is time we started acting that way."</span></h2><div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Looking </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Warburg" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">James Warburg</a> <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">up in Wikipedia, I found this quote from him favoring World Government: </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest." </b></div><div><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Well, if you favor world government, presumably on a "one person, one vote" basis, you have to understand that both China and India currently have populations more than four times that of the US.</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </b></div><div><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">The Key Question</h2><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Might the Chinese model of a </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Single Political Party <i><u>Ruling over a nearly Uniform population </u></i>(92% ethnic Han Chinese)</b></div><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">eventually prove to be superior to the Western-Democratic model of </span></p><p><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two (or more) Political Parties <i><u>Dueling over a Diverse population</u></i> (which celebrates ethnic and racial differences)</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmtKby5HSpc/YQ8uT0Vl-kI/AAAAAAAAJBI/1hXg-nTK2ZQgZxr8yO38f3TqB34qTArXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/duel%2Bvs%2Brule.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmtKby5HSpc/YQ8uT0Vl-kI/AAAAAAAAJBI/1hXg-nTK2ZQgZxr8yO38f3TqB34qTArXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w661-h372/duel%2Bvs%2Brule.jpg" width="661" /></a></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>China's population is UNIFORM and UNITED - 92% ETHNIC HAN CHINESE. Their political system is MONOLITHIC - ONE PARTY RULES! </p><p>The US population is DIVERSE and SPLIT along officially designated ethnic, racial, and national origin classifications.</p><p>(Read how, in the mid-1970's, I was sent on a recruitment trip to the University of Michigan by my employer, IBM Federal Systems, and was required to classify the engineering students I interviewed according to their gender, race, and national origin. <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/11/why-politically-correct-racism-and.html">Why Politically Correct Racism and Sexism is Evil</a>. I was not allowed to ask the students who applied for possible employment by IBM what their gender, race, and national origin was, nor was I allowed to inform them that a computer record was going to be made of my classification. Furthermore, I was told I could invite students for an expense-paid trip to our facility in Owego, NY only if they had a specific GPA or more, unless they were a "minority" or female, in which case I could invite them if they appeared qualified, even if their GPA was below the specified number. I also discovered, on that recruiting trip, that some manager at IBM had classified <b>me</b> - and presumably all my fellow employees - by race, national origin, and gender, without informing us!) </p><p>The US is officially about 60% "White - non-Hispanic". Of course, this 60% includes people who identify with many different countries of national origin (Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, France, Poland, Holland, Scotland, ... and so, on and on) but the government has singled-out only those with "Hispanic Surnames" for special treatment. </p><p>Our population is about 19% "Brown - Hispanic Surname". It is about 13% "Black" or "African", and about 6% "Asian". </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">THE PLACES IN CHINA WE VISITED - AND THOSE WE DIDN'T VISIT</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JYQVn59ALpU/YQ8vmQDGJdI/AAAAAAAAJBQ/nqp7M6PIF7IGte3oUpOQ_ZuKWwrlGRc2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/china%2Btrip%2Bmap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="365" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JYQVn59ALpU/YQ8vmQDGJdI/AAAAAAAAJBQ/nqp7M6PIF7IGte3oUpOQ_ZuKWwrlGRc2wCLcBGAsYHQ/w649-h365/china%2Btrip%2Bmap.jpg" width="649" /></a></div><br /><p>As the above map indicates, we flew from the USA to Hong Kong in September 2017. Never leaving the Hong Kong airport, we boarded a plane to Beijing. (The total trip, from our home in Florida to the Orlando airport, changing planes in San Francisco, again in Hong Kong, and the trip from Beijing airport to our hotel, took 36 hours! The time in China is exactly 12 hours different from that in Florida! So, 12 Noon in China is 12 Midnight in Florida!</p><p>We took what has become a more-or-less standard tour, spending a few days in each of a few business and tourist cities: Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai. Since our granddaughter <span style="text-align: center;">Michaela, a Hospitality major at Purdue University, was doing a six-month internship at a Chinese resort in Suzhou, we added a couple of days to our trip to spend time with her, and with her mother (our daughter Lisa) who was on a separate trip to China.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">We did not visit three areas: The city of Wuhan, the province of Xinjang, and the nation of Taiwan:</span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">WUHAN: Looking at the above map, you may see the now-infamous Chinese city of Wuhan at the very center of the four cities we visited. Indeed, we flew near Wuhan twice! Of course we had no idea that Wuhan, in late 2019, would become the point of origin for the COVID-19 pandemic. </span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">XINJANG: Note the warning on the map that the far west provinces shown in yellow, including Xinjang, were places where visitors should "Exercise a high degree of caution". That area is where a racial minority, the Uyghurs, a Turkic people, live, and are not treated well by Chinese authorities. </span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">TAIWAN: The subject of my 1958 Letter to the Editor of The New York Times was not visited. Perhaps we'll get there on some future trip. Of course, I am pleased that Taiwan is not under control of mainland China. Both China and Taiwan agree that they will -eventually- be reunited under the </span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">"One country, two systems for Hong Kong and
Macau, with a future of complete national reunification, (one-China policy)
with Taiwan." </b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">I hope that happens, but only after the mainland Chinese adopt a political and economic system more like that of the Western Democracies. </span></p><p><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">CHINA POSES AN ECONOMIC THREAT TO THE US AND OTHER "WESTERN DEMOCRACIES"</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--jCvSRIjsBQ/YQ8y3jCupDI/AAAAAAAAJBg/ee1D8vvpxlc38tVfXYH6wTYF1phGcxilACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/ppp%2Bgdp%2Bper%2Bcapita.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="370" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--jCvSRIjsBQ/YQ8y3jCupDI/AAAAAAAAJBg/ee1D8vvpxlc38tVfXYH6wTYF1phGcxilACLcBGAsYHQ/w658-h370/ppp%2Bgdp%2Bper%2Bcapita.jpg" width="658" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The above graphic shows that China, as of 2021, has developed an economic lead over the United States in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There are several ways to compute GDP and China is still a bit behind the US when "nominal" GDP is calculated using official exchange rates. However, considering the "Purchasing Power Parity" (PPP) method, based on the actual relative cost of local goods, they are ahead. </div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, with a total population that is over four times that of the US, so the PER-CAPITA PPP-GDP (shown in RED in the above graphic) of the US is still more than three times that of China.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">What Does the Future Hold?</h2><div>I am a optimist - but, now at the age of 82, also a realist. </div><div><br /></div><div>I wish the best for China - our tour guides and everyone we met there were kind and capable and helpful to two elderly visitors (75 and 78 at that time). </div><div><br /></div><div>I hope they will continue their remarkable development of emergent prosperity and increasingly Capitalistic economics. On the other hand, I'm worried that their increasingly hostile attitude towards Hong Kong and Taiwan may lead them to use military force to impose their "one-China policy".</div><div><br /></div><div>Furthermore, their treatment of the Uyghur minorities may turn out to be a model for possible imposition of Chinese sovereignty over much of Southeast Asia. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 2017, they added <b>“Xi Jinping Thought on </b><b>Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” </b>to their constitution. The following three items caught my attention: </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>“Socialism with Chinese characteristics"
</b>with "people as the masters of the country".<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Governing China with the rule of law.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Socialist core values", Marxism, Communism
… <b>“Socialism with Chinese characteristics".</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> Note the repeated phrase </o:p><b>“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>What is that, actually? I think it might be summarized in one word: "CAPITALISM!"</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Let us review Chinese history on this issue. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->1978 – Mao Tse Tung died and Deng Xiaoping introduced
"market socialism." <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->"Four Modernizations", agriculture,
industry, science-technology, military. <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">"A planned economy is not the definition of socialism, because
there is planning under capitalism; the market economy happens under socialism,
too. Planning and market forces are both ways of controlling economic
activity".<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China"> </a></sup></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->1982 Constitution - Civil rights: free speech,
press, worship, the right to trial, and the <b>right to own private property</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Rights NOT widely followed in practice, but
people with connections to the socialist economy have been able to “own”
apartments (70-year lease)<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Widespread Computer, Internet, Cellphone usage -
BUT serious issues with censorship, …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, Classical Marxists will Object to “Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics” as it begins to look more and more like Capitalism. They will say:</p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->A "socialist market economy" is
contradictory!<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->True Marxists say what China has amounts to a full-blown capitalist economic
system. [Not YET ‘full-blown” but getting there :^)]<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Although many enterprises are nominally publicly
owned, the profits are retained by the enterprises and used to pay managers
excessively high salaries rather than being distributed amongst the population.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->But, never mind, China (and former USSR) are in
a “preliminary stage of socialism”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">•<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">True Marxism will come when production increases
to</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">the point that resources are
virtually unlimited, then true Communism will emerge!</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">CONCLUSION</h2><div>I have great hopes that our children and grandchildren will live in a United States that continues to be economically prosperous and successful in a world with serious ECONOMIC competition, but highly restrained MILITARY competition. However, if it comes to the later, I expect the United States to continue our leadership. As I wrote 63 years ago, when I was 19 years old, in my Letter to the Editor of The New York Times:</div><div><h2><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">"The United States is the greatest country in the world and it is time we started acting that way."</span></h2></div><div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Love to all, Ira Glickstein</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-43532062107984754742020-06-14T20:19:00.000-04:002020-07-27T17:43:21.790-04:00Celebrating Flag Day 2020 <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p6HBJZxjHlg/XuZMUqJzkAI/AAAAAAAAIrI/BOgov5nmmG83bLK2wlxWsZP0JkzZzLIGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200614_105318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></a>Flag Day 2020 marks our 56th Wedding Anniversary. Vi and I were married on June 14th 1964, so each Flag Day celebration has special meaning for us.<br />
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The serious part of this posting is in three parts: 1) Three current crises, 2) Three patriotic songs, and 3) Three positive hopeful predictions.<br />
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But first, before we get to the serious part, let's have a look at:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">MY FLAG DAY NEEDLEPOINT</span></b><br />
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44 years ago, in 1976, I designed and made a needlepoint replica of the then-current United States 13c postage stamp (see the graphic below).<br />
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My intent was to honor the American Revolution Bicentennial, marking the 200th year of the American Republic, our great experiment in Representative Democracy.<br />
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My replica is true to the postage stamp and the original 13-star flag, except for the arrangement of the stars. Instead of a circle of 13 stars, I substituted 13 stars in a "Star of David" arrangement. This is like the 13 stars in the Great Seal of the United States that you have seen on the back of the US dollar bill.</div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p6HBJZxjHlg/XuZMUqJzkAI/AAAAAAAAIrI/BOgov5nmmG83bLK2wlxWsZP0JkzZzLIGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/20200614_105318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; float: right; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></a>On the postage stamp shown above, Independence Hall is depicted in front of the flag, That also has meaning to Vi and me because we drove from Brooklyn to Philadelphia on the day I presented our engagement ring to her.<br />
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That was 56 years ago! We're doing OK as residents at Freedom Pointe Independent Living in The Villages, FL, but we are certainly showing our ages!<br />
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The first Flag Day was, of course, in 1776, when representatives of the 13 Colonies met at Independence Hall and declared their independence from British rule.<br />
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The first Centennial, celebrating 100 years of Independence, was Flag Day 1876.<br />
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The second, called the Bi-Centennial, was 100 years later, in 1976, 44 years ago, which is when I made my needlepoint.<br />
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The third, called the Tri-Centennial, is scheduled to be celebrated in 2076, 100 years from the second, and 56 years from today, which is our 56th Wedding Anniversary. (Do the math: 44 + 56 = 100).<br />
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By 2076, Vi and I, and our daughters and sons-in-law, are certain to be in our graves. However, I hope and expect our grandchildren, who will be in their 70's by then, will still be alive and enjoying the 3<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">00th year of the American Republic, our great experiment in Representative Democracy. And, I hope and expect there will be some great-grandchildren and great-great-grands to bring joy to their lives, as they have to ours!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">THREE GREAT PATRIOTIC SONGS</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner">The Star-Spangled Banner ("Oh Say Can You See ...")</a>. Lyrics were written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. A congressional resolution made it our National Anthem in 1931.<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.acflagandbanner.com/resources/our-national-anthem/#:~:text=Star%20Spangled%20Banner%20By%20Isaac,an%20American%20citizen%20in%201928.">Isaac Asimov, the famed science fiction writer, explains the lyrics of all four stanzas</a></span></span></span></span>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXulnF3twtQ">Bravely sings them in this YouTube</a> recording!<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(My_Country,_%27Tis_of_Thee)">America ("My Country, Tis of Thee, ...")</a>. Lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831 when he was a student at Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, MA. I'm familiar with the building where this song was written. It is now called "America House" and is a Boy's Dorm at Phillips Academy. My son-in-law, Jerry Hagler, PhD, is a Biology Professor at that Academy, and, for several years, lived there with our daughter and our grandchildren.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful">America the Beautiful ("Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies ...")</a>. Lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895. She was an English Professor at Wellesley College. Her inspiration was a trip to Pike's Peak in Colorado.<br />
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<b>1) A safe and effective vaccine for the novel corona virus</b> will be developed and available in sufficient quantity by next year (2021), possibly even sooner, by December of this year. As we continue to open up our economy even as we continue "social distancing", wearing of face coverings, temperature checks, and contact tracing, we will see breakouts of "hot spots". I hope and we'll extinguish these breakouts without seriously impeding economic recovery.<br />
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<b>2) There will be an economic recovery.</b> However, we will probably not see the Dow Jones Industrials rise to the 29,000 level this year, nor will we see unemployment fall as low as 3.5%,. However, I hope we'll see continued improvement throughout the end of this year. I'd love to see a very strong recovery by some time in 2021.<br />
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<b>3) The Presidential election contest will be resolved peaceably. </b>Later this month, President Trump will hold the first of a planned series of large Republican rallies. Former VP Joe Biden will complete the Democratic primary process, become their officially designated Presidential candidate and pick a female running mate. This will be a very divisive election, with expected and unexpected charges and counter-charges, election shenanigans, and so on. However, when the dust settles on the days following November 3rd, I expect both sides to agree on which is the winning ticket, and for them to assume office peaceably on my 82nd birthday, January 20, 2021.<br />
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Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-37232970039238502782020-02-10T22:03:00.014-05:002021-12-05T21:44:07.962-05:00The MIRACULOUS Return of My "Darwin's Cathedral" Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is religion a useful biological "adaptation", as claimed by biologist David Sloan Wilson, author of the 2002 book <i><b>Darwin's Cathedral - Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society</b></i>, or is religion a "delusion" and a "mind virus", as claimed by biologist Richard Dawkins, author of the 2006 book <b><i>The God Delusion</i></b> ? Or, as I claim, is religion BOTH a delusion and an adaptation?</span><br />
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This posting is about these two important books, but first, I must tell you the "miraculous" story of how,<b><span style="color: #660000;"> against all odds</span></b>, I happened to get my copy of <i><b>Darwin's Cathedral</b></i> in the first place, how I stupidly lost that book, and the amazing story of how I got it back.<br /><a name='more'></a>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"suggesting a miracle, marvelous".</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE'S GOD</span></b><br />
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I believe there are a fixed set of <b>Laws of Nature</b> that apply to:<b>
Every thing (Energy/Matter)
Every where and Every time. (Space/Time – Past/Present/Future)</b><br />
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Therefore, NOTHING is Super-Natural.
So, for me,<b><span style="color: #660000;"> “Miraculous” implies a favorable outcome <u>that is against the odds</u>, and therefore remarkable.</span></b><br />
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When you look at the Declaration of Independence (July 4th 1776), you'll see the following immortal words:<br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">“WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the <b>Laws of Nature</b> and of <b>Nature’s God</b> entitle them, …”</span></blockquote>
Note the initial capitalization of "<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Laws of Nature</b> and of <b>Nature’s God</b>" </span>in the original Declaration. (In some reference books and online sources they have changed the upper-case "N" to a lower-case, "n", distorting the intended meaning of the founders of the historic American experiment in self-governance.)<br />
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The "Laws of Nature" are Universal. They are the basis upon which <b>every thing</b> in our Universe operates, Naturally, at <b>every time</b> and <b>every place</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">MY <i>DARWIN'S CATHEDRAL</i> BOOK</span></b><br />
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The beat-up book in the image below is my copy of <b><i>Darwin's Cathedral</i></b>. It is nothing short of "MIRACULOUS" that I got it in the first place, and that I got it back after stupidly leaving it on top of my car and driving away!<br />
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My friend and colleague at <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Villages Philosophy Club</span>, Robert Altobello, sent me an email recommending the book after he heard one of my talks where I mentioned "useful myths". Robert is a Professor Emeritus at Empire State College (SUNY) and used <i><b>Darwin's Cathedral</b></i> in a course he taught.<br />
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I ordered a copy and thanked him for the recommendation, adding that I personally knew the author, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sloan_Wilson">David Sloan Wilson</a>, from my graduate studies at Binghamton University (SUNY) - and he knew me!<br />
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I earned my Masters and PhD degrees in Systems Science when I was in my 50s, decades after my Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. <span style="color: #660000;"><b>What are the odds of that?</b></span><br />
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On the basis of that Bachelors degree, I had a successful career at IBM, having risen to the level of Senior Systems Engineer. However, when my wife and daughters earned graduate degrees <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I was "forced" to go back to college, part-time, and get my Masters and PhD in Systems Science. </span>(My wife added a Masters in Computer Science to her Bachelors in Chemistry, our middle daughter got her MBA in Marketing, and our oldest and youngest got their PhDs in Immunology and Neuroscience) ,<br />
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I was studying Systems Science in the Watson School of Engineering. David Sloan Wilson was a Biology professor in the School of Arts and Science. How did we meet?<br />
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Well, my PhD Advisor was <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Pattee">Howard Pattee</a>, a physicist with great interest in Complex Biological Systems (Origin of Life, Artificial Life, Biosemiotics, Hierarchy Theory, Game Theory…) and David came over to the School of Engineering to join Howard's seminars.<br />
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As a result, I became interested in David's use of Game Theory to explore the survival advantages of altruism, so I began attending David's Biology lectures. At that time, I was working on a computer simulation of Evolution and Natural Selection. David became interested in my model and invited me to present it to students at his seminars. <span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">What are the odds of that?</span><br />
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The graphic below shows David's 1998 book,<i><b> Unto Others</b></i>, that was responsible for his being designated "the American apostle of group selection" by famed British Biologist Richard Dawkins, a self-described Atheist, and author of <b><i>The God Delusion</i></b>. David's argument in favor of altruism and the importance of Natural Selection at the <u>group level</u>, may be summarized by the slogan in the graphic below:<div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Selfishness beats altruism <u>within groups</u>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>altruistic groups</u> beat <u>selfish groups</u>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">everything else is commentary"</span>.</div>
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The graphic also shows the "Darwin Fish" (like a Jesus Fish but with feet) that David gave me when my wife and I attended one of his annual Darwin's Birthday parties at his home in Binghamton. That Darwin Fish has an honored position on the side of a bookcase in our apartment.<br />
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David and I had several great discussions about altruism, with me taking the side that self-sacrifice is mainly due to kin-selection and reciprocal benefit selection, while he supports the view that pure altruism actually occurs. </div>
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My wife and I live at Freedom Pointe, an Independent Living facility in The Villages, FL. We use a folding cart to carry stuff between our car and our apartment. So, around noon on a beautiful Thursday afternoon, I rolled the cart to the car, and, to free my hands to fold the cart, I "temporarily" put the book on the roof of the car. We got into the car and I drove to our hairdressers.<br />
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When we got there, I couldn't find the book and quickly realized I had forgotten to take it off the car roof and place it inside the car. When we returned to Freedom Pointe, I carefully searched the parking lot, and, not finding the book there, I checked with the concierge hoping someone had found it and turned it in. No luck.<br />
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The next day was a drizzly Friday, and John Griffin, my friend and fellow-resident at Freedom Pointe, was scheduled to drive our carpool to the Lake Miona Recreation Center for our weekly Philosophy Club meeting. As we got into his car at 3:30PM, I told him the sad story about losing my copy of <i><b>Darwin's Cathedral</b></i>.<br />
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When I drive to the Philosophy Club meetings, I turn <b>right</b> out of the Freedom Pointe parking lot onto El Camino Real, drive southeast to Morse Blvd which goes south to Sumter Landing, then Stillwater west to Buena Vista, and south to Lake Miona. John usually turns <b>left</b> onto El Camino Real, northwest to Buena Vista, and then south to Lake Miona.<br />
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Fortunately for me and <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">my copy of </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Darwin's Cathedral</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, it was John's turn to drive. He took the Buenos Aires exit from the Freedom Pointe parking lot across El Camino and turned<b> left</b>. About a half-block later he saw something on the roadway that he thought might be my book! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">He made a U-turn on El Camino, back to Buenos Aires, and another U-turn for a second pass. John confirmed that something <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">that might be my book </span>was definitely there, rest<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ing on the dashed line that divides the two lanes of traffic! H</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">e pulled into a medical office parking lot on the right side of El Camino and drove back to near where he had seen the book. I got out, and when there was a break in the heavy traffic, dashed out into the roadway and picked up the wet, battered mess that was my book! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So, it had been more than 24 hours since I stupidly left the book on the roof of my car. The book had stubbornly clung to the roof as I drove through the parking lot, turned right onto Buenos Aires and left onto El Camino. It only flew off when I accelerated to normal speed on El Camino Real. Tire marks on several pages indicated that it had been run over multiple times. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Had it been my turn to drive, we would have gone the other way (<b>right</b> instead of <b>left</b>) and never seen the book. Had I not told John about losing it, he wouldn't have made the connection between the road mess and my book. Had the book been further to the left or right of the dashed line, even eagle-eyed John might have missed it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">However, the book was found! <span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">What are the odds of that?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">When we got home that afternoon, I flattened the pages as best I could, piled several heavy books atop the wet mess, and waited a week for it to dry out. The image above shows the result. A "relic" of a "miraculous" event. If a new Religion based on my unique contributions to Human Civilization is ever founded and if it successfully replicates over an extended period of time for a long time, that beat up copy of <b><i>Darwin's Cathedral</i></b> will be a treasured item! Of course, for another $20 I could have obtained a new copy from Amazon. A new copy, with flat, un-tire-marked pages, would have been easier to read. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;"><b>However, this beat-up copy, with its remarkable history of survival and return, against all odds, is invaluable to me.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000;"></span><b></b><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">OVERVIEW OF <i>DARWIN'S CATHEDRAL</i></span></b></span><br />
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The main points I get from David Sloan Wilson from this book are:<br />
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<li>AT THE GROUP LEVEL, HUMAN SOCIETIES MAY BE CONSIDERED ORGANISMS </li>
<li>RELIGION IS A USEFUL BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION.</li>
<li>TRUE ALTRUISM IS REAL (AND NOT SIMPLY KIN-SELECTION AND RECIPROCAL-BENEFIT SELECTION)</li>
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Darwin himself believed in Group-Level Adaptation.<br />
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“There can be no doubt that a tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good would be victorious over most other tribes, and this would be natural selection.” [Darwin 1871] </blockquote>
Prior to the 1960’s Group-Level Adaptation was generally accepted as valid.<br />
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Adaptation in the Context of Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection </h3>
The “Darwin Machine”:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>[Repeat] </b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">⇛</span><b><u>Variation ⇛ Survival <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">⇛</span> Reproduction</u> [Forever] </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Variation:</span> “Random” changes to the Genotype (gene-level copying errors and crossover combinations of genes from mother and father) as well as changing behavioral norms (memes) of groups of animals, inculcated early in life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Survival: </span>Differential “fitness” to the Environment of the Phenotype (individual organism), and the Extended-Phenotype (Society). Natural climate variation and evolution of other organisms causes continual changes to the Environment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reproduction:</span> Conception, nourishment and protection of succeeding generations, passing the ‘fittest” genes and memes to the next generation.<br />
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An Adaptation is a change that promotes Survival and Reproduction. <span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b></span><br />
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Is Altruism an Adaptation? </h3>
Situation: A Predator approaches a Group of animals.
An Individual member of the group spots the Predator. Does that Individual:<br />
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<li>ALTRUISTICALLY - Shout out a warning to the others, thereby exposing him- or her-self to the Predator, or </li>
<li>SELFISHLY - Run and hide (Freeloader or Free Rider). <span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b></span></li>
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BETWEEN-GROUP SURVIVAL. Groups with many Altruistic Members have a SURVIVAL advantage over Groups with many Freeloader members.<br />
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WITHIN-GROUP SURVIVAL. Individuals who are Freeloaders have a SURVIVAL advantage over Individuals who are Altruistic.
Therefore, Groups that penalize Freeloaders and indoctrinate members to Altruistically shout out, have a Survival advantage over groups that do not.<br />
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The above raises these questions:<br />
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<li>If your Group severely penalizes Freeloaders is your self-sacrifice really Altruistic? </li>
<li>If your Group uses Religious Indoctrination to make you behave unselfishly to gain some advantage in a (fictional) “Afterlife”, is your self-sacrifice really Altruistic? <span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><u><sub><sup><strike><br /></strike></sup></sub></u></i></b></span></li>
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The answer to the above questions depends upon your definition or view of REALITY:<br />
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<li>FACTUAL REALITY Rational “Truth” is the “religion” or “gold standard” of SCIENCE. Whether or not it enhances society and civilization. </li>
<li>PRACTICAL BEHAVIORAL ADAPTEDNESS Adaptation that enhances survival and reproduction in the real world is the “gold standard” of RELIGION. Whether or not it is “factual” or literally true. </li>
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My Take on the Message of <i>Darwin's Cathedral</i></h3>
“Scientists” scorn the “other-worldly” focus of the second view of reality. They ask "How can intelligent people believe this 'delusional Bible-thumping'?”<br />
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Well, a religious person may reply: “'Factual truth' Implies faith in human rationality! Based on history, including recent political events, how can anyone, much less a scientist, believe in human rationality?<br />
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David Sloan Wilson is still actively pursuing his life work. Robert Altobello sent me a link to a wonderful video of David with the Dalai Lama in India just four months ago! Please click this link: <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/11/david-sloan-wilson-and-dalai-lamas-den.html">David and the Lama's Den</a> to read my Blog posting about this historic meeting. A link in my Blog posting will take you to the video which is well worth the two hours to watch it fully.<br />
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The above graphic shows the different paths taken in development of:<br />
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<li>Religion (top-row of graphic). From the earliest Primitive period of human tribal societies, it was "Our God vs Yours". If we were successful in a conflict, our God was superior to yours. That evolved into:</li>
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<li> A Polytheistic Situation, such as that developed by the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman civilizations, with a panoply of Gods atop Mt. Olympus, cooperating and competing with each other as they each ruled their domains of influence on Earth. </li>
<li>A Monotheistic Situation, such as that attributed to Abraham (ca 2000 BC) the Patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to this account, there is a Universal God.</li>
<li>(I hesitate to say "One God" because that implies that God may be numbered, and there may be two or more who might disagree with each other, or that God might have Heavenly Agents, such as Angels, some of whom may, like Lucifer (Satan) oppose God and be "fallen angels", or that the "Godhead" may have separate aspects, such as "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit". Kind of a "one God at least" situation). </li>
<li>Moses (ca 1300 BC) is credited with leading the Hebrews out of Egyptian slavery and into the Holy Land of Israel. </li>
<li>NOTE: If I have time, I'll recount the "true" story of how Moses actually got the Ten Commandments, as related to me by a Jewish friend far more Religious than I am. </li>
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<li>Science (bottom row of graphic). Careful observation and study of the natural world utilizing telescopes, microscopes and other specialized scientific instrumentation. </li>
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<li>That evolved into a hierarchy of domains of science: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Evolution and Natural Selection, Atomic Physics, and other specialties. </li>
<li>Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is perhaps the most influential person whose lifetime overlaps mine. He is responsible for key initial work in the areas of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. When Einstein came to the United States, he was accused of being an Atheist. He denied the charge and said: "I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. (1929)
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<li>It is fitting that Benedict [or as Jews call him "Baruch", Hebrew for "Blessed"] Spinoza (1632-77) was a lens grinder. It is said that he is the last of the ancient philosophers and the first of the modern philosophers. All modern philosophers look through the philosophical "lens" he crafted. Although some may consider Spinoza an Atheist, it is clear to me that, as a Pantheist, Spinoza was the most God-Infused person we Jews ever produced. </li>
<li>NOTE: We all know that the Jewish community in Holland, in which Spinoza lived, found it necessary to excommunicate him. In my free online novel, see <a href="http://2052hp.blogspot.com/2009/01/chapter-7-charade-and-confrontation.html">here</a>, the excommunication of Spinoza is described as a mistake. However -according to Izzy, an important Jewish character in my novel- “Like all peoples, we sometimes make mistakes. Our mistakes tend to be big ones! Historic ones even! Our mistakes have contributed more to the knowledge of human civilization than the non-mistakes of everyone else combined! For instance when Einstein said his suggestion of a ‘cosmological constant’ was his ‘greatest blunder’. That turned out to be the key that unlocked our current understanding of the unified field theory! Our excommunication of Spinoza was indeed a blunder but it turned out to be the key that unlocked all of modern philosophy. Had we kept him to ourselves, modern western thought might be quite different.” </li>
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<li>Potential Modern Merger (right side of graphic). Perhaps the first line of our Declaration of Independence provides a clue into how the tension between Religion and Science might be relaxed. Our founders cite <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the "</span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Laws of Nature</b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and of </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Nature’s God</b>". For me this implies <span style="background-color: white;">that<span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. far from being a Creator separate from and above the Universe, <span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Nature IS God", fully internal and inherent in the Universe.</span> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I like to contrast the "One God at Least" focus of the great Abrahamic religions with the "One God at Most" focus of my Unitarian friends, whom I find to have a wonderful sense of humor. When I lived in the Binghamton area of Upstate New York, I spent a fair amount of time in the Unitarian Church where, they say "Atheists go to pray", and, of course, they pray 'to Whom it may concern". Here is a great Unitarian riddle: What does the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac do all night?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis">Gaia Hypothesis</a> "... or <b>Gaia theory</b> or <b>Gaia principle</b>, proposes that living <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Organism">organisms</a> interact with their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_compound" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Inorganic compound">inorganic</a> surroundings on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Earth">Earth</a> to form a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Synergy">synergistic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Homeostasis">self-regulating</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Complex system">complex system</a> that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Life">life</a> on the planet. The hypothesis was formulated by the chemist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="James Lovelock">James Lovelock</a> and co-developed by the microbiologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Lynn Margulis">Lynn Margulis</a> in the 1970s. Lovelock named the idea after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Gaia">Gaia</a>, the primordial goddess who personified the Earth in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>. …"</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">In the marvelous 1979 book,<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach">Gödel,_Escher,_Bach</a>, by Douglas Hofstadter, "Aunt Hillary" IS the PERSONIFICATION (or perhaps the "spirit") of a well-organized and coordinated Anthill. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When we look at an anthill we see swarms of individual ants scurrying hither and yon, with no obvious purpose, direction, or General Director. Closer study reveals a well-organized army of ants who built and maintain the anthill, obtain food and other supplies from the vicinity, remove refuse, protect from attackers, and other necessary tasks. Inside the anthill we observe the Queen Ant laying eggs, served by a bunch of worker ants, and, when required, serviced by drone ants who impregnate her.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Important as she is, the Queen ant is clearly not the General Director, but merely a replaceable part of the machine that is the Anthill! For example, when the Anteater comes, individual ants scurry away, frightened that they may be eaten. However, "Aunt Hillary", welcomes the regular visits of "Doctor Anteater", whom she regards as a mutually beneficial gourmet who improves anthills.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Why have anteaters, as a species, evolved to perform beneficial cleaning services to anthills? To answer that obvious question, imagine that a particularly voracious type of anteater arose from the Darwinian process of Evolution and Natural Selection. At first, voracious anteaters might have a survival and reproduction advantage over less selfish anteaters. However, as the population of voracious anteaters grew, their activities would severely stress and eventually destroy their source of food - anthills! Therefore, the voracious variation of anteater would, over time, starve itself to extinction. Then, ants and well-behaved anteaters from nearby valleys would invade and re-populate the valley with "fitter" (in the Darwinian sense) residents.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">An anthill and an anteater, or even the multiple anthills and anteaters of a given valley ecology, are but a small part of the flora and fauna of the totality of competing and cooperating species. Just as Hofstadter imagines Aunt Hillary as the PERSONIFICATION (or Gaia) of the well-run anthill, we might imagine "Valerie" as the Gaia of a well-balanced valley ecology. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Of course, a valley ecology is but a small part of the ecology of an island or a peninsula, or a continent, ... or Earth. We may personify the Organizing Process or Principle or General Director, at any level, as the Gaia of that domain. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Thus, living organisms have the ability to form a Self-Regulating, Synergistic System. If, at any level, they fail to do so, life will falter in that domain, and be invaded and replaced by better balanced alternative ecologies. To me, that is the description of the Nature and Purpose and Function of "Nature's God". </span></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">OVERVIEW OF <i>THE GOD DELUSION</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The main points I get from Richard Dawkins in this book are:</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">DAWKINS IS A RESPECTED BIOLOGIST AND SELF-DESCRIBED ATHEIST</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HE CALLS RELIGION A "DELUSION" AND A "MIND VIRUS"</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HE SAYS THERE IS A "GENERALIZED PROCESS FOR OPTIMIZING BIOLOGICAL SPECIES"</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">HE NOTICES THAT "NO KNOWN CULTURE LACKS SOME VERSION OF [WASTEFUL RELIGION]</span></li>
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Dawkins on "Brain Virus"<br />
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“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival… </blockquote>
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“But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses. … </blockquote>
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“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”</blockquote>
Dawkins Acknowledgement that Darwinian Selection Tolerates Wasteful Religion<br />
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About half-way through the book, Dawkins finally acknowledges, however grudgingly, the facts. He writes: </blockquote>
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“[W]e should ask what pressure or pressures exerted by natural selection originally favoured the impulse toward religion. … </blockquote>
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“Religion is so wasteful, so extravagant; and Darwinian selection habitually targets and eliminates waste. … </blockquote>
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“no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth-consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion." </blockquote>
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[pg 163 …166]</blockquote>
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A Generalized Process for Optimizing Biological Species</h3>
Dawkins is even more specific when he writes the following that could be interpreted as implying a "Nature's God" that we might call the "General Optimizing Director" inherent in the "Laws of Nature" that is Omnipresent = Everywhere, Omnipotent = all-powerful, and Omniscient = All-knowing!<br />
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“It is clear that here on Earth we are dealing with a
generalized process for optimizing biological species,
a process that
works all over the planet, on all continents and islands, and at all times. … [Omnipresent]</blockquote>
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"if we wait another ten million years,
a whole new set of species
will be
as well adapted to their ways of life as today’s species are to theirs. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">[</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Omnipotent]</span> </blockquote>
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"This is a recurrent, predictable, multiple phenomenon, not a piece of statistical luck recognized with hindsight.” <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">[Omniscient] </span> </blockquote>
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[Dawkins, p139, "Omnipresent", "Omnipotent", and "Omniscient" added by me.] </blockquote>
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My Take on the Message of <i>The God Delusion</i></h3>
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Dawkins is correct in denying factual reality to the Super-Natural claims of any and all religions.<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">However, as I've pointed out in the two Dawkins quotes above, he is totally with me on the reality of an absolutely NATURAL force inherent in the Laws of Nature that accomplishes much of what established religions attribute to a Super-Natural God. (Namely, being <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Omnipresent = Everywhere, Omnipotent = All-powerful, and Omniscient = All-knowing!<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">)</span></span></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It seems that Dawkins is particularly harsh when any recognized scientist makes positive comments regarding God. For example, he knocks Stephen Hawking for ending his 1988 <b><i>A Brief History of Time</i></b> with a reference to God. Hawking wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">… if we discover a complete theory [of physics], it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be <b>the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God. </b>[p13 <b>emphasis </b>added]</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Dawkins also quotes and criticizes Einstein for some of his comments related to his belief in the existence of a kind of "God" that approximates what I take "Nature's God" to mean. I quoted this one above, but it bears repeating. Einstein said:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>
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<blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. (1929)</span></blockquote>
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<h3>
Dare We Name "Nature's God"?</h3>
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In Judaism there is a tradition that we do not pronounce the Holy Name of God. The Name was only pronounced once a year by the Chief Rabbi in the Jerusalem Temple. Indeed, it is said we no longer know how to pronounce that Name and those who pronounce it as <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yahweh">Yahweh</a> are incorrect. <br />
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"After the Babylonian Exile (6th century bce), and especially from the 3rd century bce on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal rather than merely local religion, the more common noun Elohim, meaning 'God,' tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel’s God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai ('My Lord'), which was translated as Kyrios ('Lord') in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures." </blockquote>
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As I've also noted above, I believe the "Darwin's Machine" IS "Nature's God":</div>
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and in the light of my last two quotes from Dawkins regarding a <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.73px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Generalized Process for Optimizing Biological Species</span>, we might call it the Generalized Process for Optimizing (GPO), or <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">one of the following:</span><br />
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<li>the Director-General of Optimizing (DGO)</li>
<li>the Optimization Director-General (ODG)</li>
<li>the Optimization General Director (OGD)</li>
<li>the Director of Optimization, in General (DOG) ⇚ I like this one</li>
<li>the General Optimization Director (GOD) <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">⇚ But this one is more traditional!</span></li>
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #009900; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>An Actual Example of Determinism With (and Without) Perfect Predictability</strong></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #001000;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">M<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">y 1995 <b><i>HexLife</i></b> computer simulation of evolution of life forms is a very well-controlled situation and the model for my concept of causal determinism. It is run within a PC and is therefore both </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>finite</em></strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>discrete</em></strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I make use of the PC "random number generator" to determine when and where genetic mutations and crossovers occur, how much of the "sunlight energy" falls on any given location, and so on. However, I allow the user to select one of a number of pre-set "initial random seeds" (or make up his or her own). Thus, if something interesting happens during a given run, that run can be repeated and will proceed bit-for-bit in the exact sequence to allow the user to analyze and exactly recreate that interesting event. In that sense, <b><i>HexLife</i></b> is perfectly predictable, so long as the PC does not malfunction.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
In any case, I was quite pleased when my <b><i>HexLife</i></b> program turned out to exhibit a logarithmic "power spectrum" of extinctions (many small extinctions, a lesser frequency of moderate extinctions, and few large extinctions) just as Stephen J. Gould ("punctuated equilibrium") says characterizes the evolutionary history of life on earth!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I did not specifically program <i><b>HexLife</b></i> to have extinctions. Each simulated organism lives its own life in accordance with the behaviors and asexuality or sexuality set in its genetic code and its interactions with other organisms. It absorbs energy and matter (which are conserved in the total simulation), and reproduces asexually (if it gains enough mass and energy) or sexually (if it gains enough mass and energy and happens to meet a suitable sized mate). It dies when it gets eaten by another organism, or has an accident, or of old age.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Although not specifically programmed to do so, the total living biomass increases as new organisms evolve and become more effective at exploiting the environment and other organisms. The biomass stabilizes as a balance is reached between resources (dead matter and energy available in each location). Then, as yet other organisms evolve, there are extinctions, which are noted as significant reductions in the living biomass. Extinctions are characterized on a logarithmic scale and, amazingly, each increment of the scale eventually gets about the same number of extinctions. That result indicated to me that I had captured, on a very small scale and under controlled conditions, some "true" aspect of evolutionary life. </span><br />
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With respect to <b><i>HexLife</i></b>, I am "God" -- having made up all the rules for DNA codes and reproduction and energy and mass distribution and so on, and having written every line of Pascal code. (Therefore, *I* am the closest thing to "God" you may ever meet on Earth, so pay attention! :^)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When I start with a different set of initial conditions and/or a different initial random seed, I cannot predict in detail what will occur. Based on prior runs with different conditions, I can predict the general results: if the simulation is started with randomly-generated genetic codes, and if it does not die out early in the run, genetic diversity (number of different genomes in live organisms at any given time) will decrease and morphologic complexity (size and variability of genetic code string) will increase. After a while, these measures will stabilize. Then, there will be an extinction during which genetic diversity will increase a bit and morphologic complexity will decrease a bit. This will go on and on in sequence and there will be a power spectrum of extinctions.</span></span><br />
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Therefore, for a new run, only the general results are more or less perfectly predictable by me, but the details are not. However, if I have run the same initial conditions before, and kept the data, I know exactly, bit-for-bit, what the detailed results will be. Assuming there is a God of the Universe separate from Creation (which, as a Pantheist I do not accept), if the Earth has not been "run" before but other biological runs have been done, God only knows the general results. On the other hand, if the Universe has been run before with the same initial conditions, God can perfectly predict each and every event that will happen in full detail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">With <b><i>HexLife</i></b> I can intervene during a run, increasing or decreasing the strength of the "Sun". I can also stop the run or revert it to a previous data point and add or subtract organisms and/or change the genetic codes of any organisms. During the development cycle, I rewrote the Pascal code to change the "Laws of Nature" within the simulation. However, when I did these things with a situation that had been run before, any specific data I had about future events became more or less moot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Thus, if there is a God separate from Creation, and They perform a "miracle", God cannot predict the long-term consequences perfectly. Of course, if God has access to multiple Universes, They could put our Universe on hold while testing out a "miracle" on a doppelganger Universe and then come back and start our Universe up again with perfect predictability!</span></span></div>
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The random number generator that comes with the PC is pretty good and would pass most statistical tests of "randomness". However, even the best computer random number generators are not "truly random". Digital computers are "finite automata" and have a finite number of possible states. Thus, the random number sequence will, at some point, repeat itself. How often? Well, depending upon the design, it might not repeat for days or years or decades or longer -- but it *will* repeat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Therefore, any digital computer random number generator has a sequence that is FULLY DETERMINED and ENUMERABLE. Given any initial state, it is possible to determine the exact sequence of "random" numbers that will follow and you could store each and every "random" number in that sequence on a CD or other storage medium.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Do you ever get the impression that TV programs repeat? Well, it is true. Even if you have digital HDTV "1080p" (1920 x 1080 pixels, each with 12 bits for color), that is "only" about 8 billion different FULLY PRE-DETERMINED and ENUMERABLE instantaneous pictures, most of which would look like confetti and are therefore unlikely to be broadcast. Thus, there is a much smaller number of instantaneous pictures actually broadcast. Of course, there are 50 individual pictures each second and they are presented in different orders, so the number of TV programs is enormously large, but still FULLY PRE-DETERMINED and ENUMERABLE.</span></span><br />
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It is possible, at least in principle, to enumerate all 30-minute TV programs that could be broadcast in HDTV. That enumeration would include all videos broadcast by Osama bin Laden and all future Terrorist diatribes that will be presented in the future. Of course, it would also include many Terrorist videos that will never occur in actuality, including the one in which they apologize for 9/11 and convert to Judiasm :^)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This reminds me of the old thought experiment of the "million monkeys randomly typing on a million typewriters for a million years". They will eventually "randomly" type out all the great literature of the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Of course, you would have to get a million language professors to paw through all this stuff to find the gems. Imagine one professor, after years of reading gobbledygook, picking up a sheet that starts: "To be or not to be ..." (But then, it continues: "that is the gribnick? Michan&83( jkjhs nnnneo ...")</span></span></div>
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Although I am not sure if philosophers have made this point, I believe causal determinism depends upon the Universe being both </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>finite</em></strong><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>discrete</em></strong><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (and I believe it is).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Here is my reasoning: According to chaos theory, a tiny difference in initial conditions can result in a major difference over the long-term. The example usually given is the "butterfly effect". Imagine an experiment in which the Universe is run twice with absolutely identical conditions, except, in the first run one particular butterfly flaps its wings slightly to the right and in the second slightly to the left. Well, in the first run, six months after that butterfly flap, hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, while in the second run, it strikes Miami. </span></span><br />
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If the Universe is continuous, that tiny difference could be 1/infinity, which, for all practical purposes, is zero. Therefore, with a difference approaching zero, all long-term determinism goes out the window. On the other hand, if the Universe is discrete, the difference must be at least one quanta of energy or matter or space or time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There is an old thought experiment where a donkey is placed exactly midway between some food and some water and it is exactly as hungry as it is thirsty. The donkey will be exactly equally attracted in each direction and will therefore die of thirst and hunger. Of course, that experiment depends upon a level of exactness and constancy that is unlikely in the animal world. The donkey would probably sense the water before the food (or vice-versa) or, after standing motionless, would become thirsty before becoming hungry, etc.</span></span><br />
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Let's do that thought experiment a bit differently. Take a common plastic straw and stand it upright on a flat table. If there are no strong breezes or gusts, it will remain stationary, falling neither to the left or right, front or back. Now try it with a toothpick! Unless the toothpick has a flattened end, or is poked into a hole in the table, it will fall over no matter how carefully you place it. The slightest waft of air or vibration of the table will knock it over. The difference between a straw and a toothpick? One has an end with a discrete diameter, the other an end with a near-zero diameter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #001000;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">W<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">e know that energy comes in discrete quanta. Since we also know energy and matter are interchangeable, that would mean matter is also quantized. That leaves only space/time, and I believe they may also come in quanta. Thus, I think it is a good guess that the Universe is </span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>discrete</em></strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
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The second requirement, a </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em>finite</em></strong><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Universe, is, I believe fairly obvious. I think the current scientific consensus is that we can look back only to the time, some 14 billion years ago, when the Universe was in a hot, dense state, and began an expansion, popularly called the "big bang". That may have been the start of the Universe - or not. (The alternative -- watch your daily newspaper -- is that the consensus will change to "continuous creation" of matter which I believe also entails continuous recycling of matter to keep the balance.) In either case, there is only a limited amount of energy/matter in the Universe.</span></span><br />
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Furthermore, the Universe is curved in some or all dimensions, which would entail space/time being finite as well. (The surface of a sphere, for 2D "flatlanders" appears infinite in that they can go forever in a given direction without reaching the "end". However, we 3D-ers recognize the sphere as finite, and we explain the delusion of the 2D-ers as being the curvature of their 2D space.) Thus, to us 3D-ers, what appears to be infinite time and space may actually be finite (and would appear so to a 4D-er or higher).</span></span></div>
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The graphic below shows the situation after 19 million cycles of <b><i>HexLife</i></b>.<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> With <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Evolution and Natural Selection having done their magic, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">he organisms are larger and more complex. They c</span>ompete with each other for limited resources, and the "fittest" survive and reproduce more of their kind.</span> </div>
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Closeup view of the playing field. Primary feeders (Plants) are Green. Secondary feeders (Herbivores) are Red. Tertiary feeders (Carnivores) are Pink. The size of the symbol indicates the relative size of the given organism. Organisms are Fixed in place (cannot move out of its cell) unless they have an "M" in its Phenotype. Plants may only eat dead EnMass in nearby cells. Herbivores eat Plants in nearby cells. Carnivores eat Herbivores in nearby cells. Organisms reproduce Asexually unless they have a "$" in their Phenotype. Asexual reproduction occurs if the organism gains sufficient EnMass and involves duplication of the Genotype, with the possibility of copying errors. Sexual reproduction occurs if the organism, and a suitable nearby partner, between themselves, gains sufficient EnMass, and involves "random" selection of Genes from each of the partners.</div>
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Initial state with 128 "random" Plants. The top line indicates the total number of organisms alive at the moment, broken down into counts of Plants, Herbivores, and Carnivores of four different size classes of each type. The number of different GenoTypes alive at the moment is also given. At the left, bar graphs indicate the: EX (Extinctions) PS (Shown logarithmically to highlight the expected Power Spectrum of extinctions); MC (Morphological Complexity); Info (Information level), and the Total Mass and Energy of organisms. The White "{ }" symbol indicates the current position of the "Sun" which continually sprinkles energy "randomly" onto nearby cells. The "Sun" moves at a moderate pace from left to right during the simulation indicating the passage of a "Day", and slowly from near the top to near the bottom indicating passage of a "Year".<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--v7BO_VJ7Yw/Xj8rpIhuPUI/AAAAAAAAIgc/VZZqgrojWQs_1Q-M3jisnVhF95kWMRXWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HexLife%2B8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--v7BO_VJ7Yw/Xj8rpIhuPUI/AAAAAAAAIgc/VZZqgrojWQs_1Q-M3jisnVhF95kWMRXWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/HexLife%2B8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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After 11,926 cycles, Evolution and Natural Selection has had an impact. Only 56 organisms are alive, compared to the 128 we started with. However the organisms that are still alive have passed some tests of viability and are, on average, better "fit" to their Environment. At this point, the original 47 different GenoTypes have been reduced to only 20, and 1 of them is a Herbivore. 2 have been Born Sexually and 154 Born Asexually. Meanwhile, 0 have passed away due to being Eaten, 2 have Starved, 227 have Aged, 0 have been Killed, and 1 has had a fatal Accident.</div>
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Graph of original organisms. Note most of the 64 types of codons have nearly equal representations. This is expected prior to Evolution and Natural Selection having their effect. <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-webaQLbKhz4/Xj8rkCwYVMI/AAAAAAAAIfo/2ovMCZ9_R4oOa9_u3XnuFitLKaKuyC11wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HexLife%2B11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-webaQLbKhz4/Xj8rkCwYVMI/AAAAAAAAIfo/2ovMCZ9_R4oOa9_u3XnuFitLKaKuyC11wCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/HexLife%2B11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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Graph of organisms after 2.5 million cycles. Note that Evolution and Natural Selection has changed the prevalence of certain codons. Average Morphological Complexity (length of Phenotype) of living organisms has increased from the original 3 to 26. Component Diversity (kinds of living organisms) has decreased from 0.227 to 0.061.<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wvgPMXWhiOs/Xj8rkV9PzxI/AAAAAAAAIf0/P12GIHptIuIvqgeygCcbpTSYl9u1BrJhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/HexLife%2B12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wvgPMXWhiOs/Xj8rkV9PzxI/AAAAAAAAIf0/P12GIHptIuIvqgeygCcbpTSYl9u1BrJhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/HexLife%2B12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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What does the Agnostic, Dyslexic, Insomniac do all night?<br />
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Answer: She tosses and turns all night, wondering whether or not there is a DOG!<br />
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I knew a dyslexic woman who mixed up her bra and sox. It turned out OK - her feet didn't sag but she could touch her toes without bending over.<br />
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When you get old, everything gets "bass-ackwards" - I lost my sense of smell due to Parkinson's Disease, so now, my nose runs and my feet smell.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">HOW THE HEBREWS GOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS</span></b><br />
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NOTE: I heard this humorous account from a friend who is more religious than I am, but I cannot vouch for any relationship it may have with the truth.<br />
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It was around 1300 BC when God sent the Angel of Justice to check on the status of life on Earth. The report was not good. The people on Earth were behaving horribly, killing each other, stealing, lying, and all other kinds of evil behavior.<br />
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The Angel of Justice recommended that God destroy the Earth and start over.<br />
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The Angel of Mercy intervened and suggested that God should make up some rules -- call them commandments -- that might help people on Earth behave better. God made up a long list, gave them to the Angel of Mercy, and asked her to convey them to the people of Earth.<br />
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She looked around the Earth for the largest and most influential society, which, at the time, was China, and went to the Emperor to offer him the commandments. He asked for an example and she replied "Thou shall not kill."<br />
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"Not kill?" he replied, "We do that all the time. Take your commandments and go away!"<br />
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So, the Angel of Mercy went to the Greeks, and offered the commandments. The King asked for an example and she replied, "Thou shall have no other God but me."<br />
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"Only one God? he replied, "We have dozens of Gods, hundreds. We don't want your commandments!"<br />
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The Angel of Mercy went to the Persians, the Egyptians, the Incas, and all other large societies, with the same result. Each time the person in charge asked for an example, rejected it, and sent the Angel away.<br />
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The Angel of Mercy reported the results to God. On the basis of her report, the Angel of Justice restated his original suggestion, that God immediately destroy life on Earth and start over again. "Justice shall be done!" he shouted, glaring at the Angel of Mercy.<br />
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At that moment, the Angel of Mercy caught a glimpse of a rag-tag bunch of people struggling across the Sinai Desert. She begged God to give her one more chance to convey the commandments to the people of Earth. Over the objections of the Angel of Justice, God agreed, adding, "This is your last chance!"<br />
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The Angel of Mercy approached one of the people struggling across the desert and asked, "Who are you people?"<br />
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"We are the Hebrews," replied the man, "We were slaves in Egypt and we escaped and have been schlepping across the desert for years and years. Let me tell you, slavery in Egypt was no picnic, but, at least we had hovels to live in and a bit of food to eat and water to drink. Here we have nothing!"<br />
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"Do you have a leader?" asked the Angel.<br />
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"A leader?", he replied. "Moses is his name. Some leader he is, dragging us through the desert for years and years with no goal in sight. And, he won't even stop and ask for directions! See that tall guy over there? That's Moses, our leader."<br />
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The Angel approached and asked, "Are you Moses, the leader of these Hebrews?"<br />
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"Yeah," Moses replied, "What can I do for you?"<br />
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"I've got the commandments for you, will you take them?"<br />
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Moses looked her with a skeptical frown. "How much do they cost?" he asked.<br />
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<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sloan_Wilson">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sloan_Wilson</a><br />
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(July 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> for the quote, <b>"Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary"</b>. This quotation appeared in their paper, "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology".
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background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; background: none 0% 0% / auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box transparent; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> where he extensively discusses and defends both the theory of evolution and his multilevel selection model. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">THE EVOLUTION INSTITUTE</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://evolution-institute.org/profile/david-sloan-wilson/">https://evolution-institute.org/profile/david-sloan-wilson/</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://evolution-institute.org/what-brett-weinstein-gets-wrong-about-group-selection/">https://evolution-institute.org/what-brett-weinstein-gets-wrong-about-group-selection/</a><br />
Key to group-selection is that, while free riders within a group have enhanced individual fitness, groups with free riders have reduced between-group fitness versus groups without free riders. Therefore, in between-group competition, groups with fewer free riders expand and gain resources by defeating groups with free riders. Thus, when more altruistic groups expand faster, the absolute population of altruistic individuals increases. Gives example of Jewish offshoot (Christianity) that opened up membership to Gentiles, as well as a Heavenly afterlife, and thus expanded more rapidly than its source Judaism. (Other examples: Beavers in ponds, where more altruistic beaver groups take over ponds of less altruistic beaver groups. Chimps who are aggressive to other chimp bands, while suffering in-group reduced fitness, never-the-less, by increasing between-group fitness of their band, take over territory of their less altruistic neighbors.)<br />
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<a href="https://evolution-institute.org/master-class-a-conversation-with-jonathan-birch-about-the-equivalence-of-theories-of-social-evolution/">https://evolution-institute.org/master-class-a-conversation-with-jonathan-birch-about-the-equivalence-of-theories-of-social-evolution/</a><br />
Pro-social individuals (i.e., altruistic) vs self-oriented individuals (i.e., non-altruistic)</blockquote>
</div>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-86840567520997721372019-11-17T23:36:00.000-05:002020-01-02T09:48:45.742-05:00Why Politically Correct Racism and Sexism is Evil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In his famous 1963 speech, Martin Luther King said:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“<u>I have a dream</u> that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will <u>not be judged by the color of their skin</u>, but by the <u>content of their character</u>.” </span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“all persons must be treated equally <u>without regard</u> to their race, color, or national origin.” </span></b></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> In recent times, these noble American ideals (judge by <b><u>character not skin color</u></b>, and <b><u>without regard to race</u></b>, color, or national origin) have been perverted by <b><u>excessive regard</u></b> for race, sex, nationality, gender, and other characteristics that have absolutely no bearing on the ability of any person to do any job. (An I have a DNA test that indicates I’m (hashtag) #NativeAmericanToo).</span><br />
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Racism and Sexism Are Evil</h2>
Discrimination <b>AGAINST</b> an INDIVIDUAL due to their RACE, SEX, ETHICITY or GENDER Is WRONG. [PERIOD]<br />
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Therefore, “Reverse Discrimination” <b>FOR</b> an Individual because they happen to be a member of a statistically under-represented RACE, SEX, ETHNICITY or GENDER group is also WRONG. [PERIOD]<br />
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The correct focus is on EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, not EQUAL OUTCOMES!<br />
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Pitting the "WOKE" against the "DEPLORABLES" is tearing America apart!<br />
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“Politically Correct” = Slavishly “Follow the Party Line” </h2>
According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness">Wikipedia</a>, Political Correctness "was originally used disparagingly by Socialists against Communists" (who dogmatically defended the “party line” set by their Russian Commissar masters).<br />
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The pre-WWII US Communist “party line” oscillated wildly:<br />
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<li>1935: Opposition to President Roosevelt as a harbinger of American fascism </li>
<li>1936: Support for President Roosevelt’s call for democratic alliance against Hitler </li>
<li>1939: Immediately after the Nazi-Soviet (Molotov-Ribbentrop) Pact, where the Nazis and Soviets jointly agreed to invade and divide Poland, US Communists denounced President Roosevelt as a warmonger for Lend-Lease Aid to Britain </li>
<li>1941: Immediately after the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, US Communists called for President Roosevelt to aid the Allies in every way possible! </li>
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In 1991 President George H.W. Bush used the term at the University of Michigan:<br />
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"The notion of <b>political correctness</b> has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the <b>laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism</b> and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expression off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits.</blockquote>
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Chopsticks</h2>
I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940's and 1950's. My Dad was a letter carrier and we lived in a second-floor walk-up three-room apartment. I shared the single bedroom with my younger brother and my parents slept on a fold-out convertible couch. We didn't have a lot of money, however, every month or two Dad would take us to a Chinese restaurant for a special treat - a meal with waiter service, a tablecloth, and reasonable price. We did not use chopsticks.<br />
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In 1971, when I was married and we had kids of our own, then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made his famous secret trip to Communist China. A year later, President Nixon opened relations by travelling to Beijing himself.<br />
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Thanks to Kissinger, Our Family Became "Expert" With Chopsticks</h4>
To celebrate the event (and make some money no doubt) the Chung King Corporation, purveyor of canned Chinese food, provided chopsticks and coupons to students at the elementary school our kids attended. Of course, we used those coupons and chopsticks! We purchased chopsticks for the whole family and became “expert” at their use.<br />
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The Chinese-American Engineer </h4>
In 1973: IBM Federal Systems Division (FSD) hired a Chinese-American engineer. I originally met him when he was in the Air Force and I was working for FSD (Owego, NY) on the AC-130 "Pave Spectre" Gunship project. He was a very good engineer and I was happy we hired him. After he joined our company we worked in the same department and my wife and I invited him and his wife to our home and they invited us to theirs.<br />
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When his parents came to Owego from their home in Hawaii, we were introduced to them and they gave me a nice bag of macadamia nuts. Delightful people! It turned out they were quite wealthy and he had a privileged upbringing in Honolulu, where he had attended a private high school.<br />
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On a business trip to Philadelphia – I showed him how to use public transportation and Chopsticks!<br />
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Being in Philadelphia, I wanted to visit the historic area near Independence Hall, where the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written. Of course, we had a rental car, but I knew it would be much more convenient to use public transportation because we would not have to maneuver in the crowded downtown area and park the car.<br />
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He was somewhat hesitant about public transit but I convinced him I was something of an expert, having grown up in Brooklyn when our family did not have a car. Trolleys, buses, elevated trains, and subways were the only option we had to get around. (I pride myself on being able to figure out any public transit system because I used the subway to get to Brooklyn Technical High School and the City College of New York. I've used public transit in Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, London, Paris, and, most recently, Shanghai!)<br />
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After a nice tour of Independence Hall, I suggested we have dinner at a Chinese restaurant in that area. Of course, I used chopsticks. He seemed hesitant. However, given my expert instruction, he was soon using them with considerable skill. (In these "politically correct" times I guess what I did might be considered “cultural appropriation”. However, at the time, I was blind to that concept, and, even now, I can't understand why any person who respectfully and positively makes use of aspects of a nationality different from their own should be ashamed.)<br />
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Recruiting Trip for IBM</h4>
In the mid-1970's, IBM sent me on a recruiting trip to the University of Michigan to interview soon-to-graduate engineering students. There were about a half-dozen IBM engineers in our group, including the Chinese-American engineer I've been writing about, plus a guy from the IBM Human Resources Department.<br />
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To start us off, the HR guy told us we would each interview about a dozen applicants, and we could invite one or two of them for an expense-paid trip to New York if they were very good and had at least a certain GPA.<br />
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We had to fill out a form for each applicant. The HR guy pointed out a blank area at the top of the form where we were required to enter a RACE CODE for each applicant, along with a code for their NATIONALITY as well as their SEX!<br />
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The HR guy provided the following CODE numbers: 1) American Indian, 2) Asian, 3) African, and 4) White. We had to note whether or not the applicant had a Hispanic surname, and if they were Male or Female. He told us NOT to let the applicants know we were coding them or ask them for help in any way.<br />
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The only additional instruction he provided was: “Eskimos are Indians, Indians from India are White. Use your best judgement on Sex [Laughter].”<br />
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Then, he added that the minimum GPA did not apply to "females and minorities" who could be invited to a New York interview if they has a GPA lower than that specified for White males!<br />
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I was surprised and a bit upset they were asking a bunch of engineers to classify applicants on their race and national origin. I have no idea what an American Indian looks like (much less an Eskimo :^), nor am I confident of my ability to distinguish a Hispanic surname from Italian or Romanian. I also did not like the idea of treating "females and minorities" differently from White Males. However, I'm the kind of employee who "goes along to get along" and I didn't make a fuss.<br />
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It turned out all the applicants I interviewed looked like White males, and that is how I coded them.<br />
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I Discover That IBM Secretly Coded ME and Other Employees!</h4>
As we prepared to leave, I looked through all the paperwork Human Resources had provided. One sheet was a list of our group of recruiters and it included my name, the names of the other recruiters, and the name of the HR guy.<br />
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I noticed code number next to my name, classifying me as a White, non-Hispanic Male! I checked next to the name of my Chinese-American colleague, and he was classified as an Asian, non-Hispanic Male!<br />
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It dawned on me that IBM had classified me and <b>all </b>other employees by RACE, NATIONALITY, and SEX, and had done so secretly, without notice or permission.<br />
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I make no secret of the fact I'm Jewish, but I'd be furious if that fact was coded into my employment record at IBM! The idea that some IBM executive could enter a computer request and get a list of all Jewish employees, and possibly use that list for special treatment of Jews concerns me greatly.<br />
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Race, National Origin and Sex As Factors For Promotion To Management</h4>
When I returned to our New York work location I noticed that IBM was doing exactly that with computer records. Anytime a management job came available, HR would run a computer search to discover any "female or minority" who had worked in any department close to that management opening. They would interview each person so identified and, if there was any possibility that person was even minimally qualified, they would offer them a management assignment!<br />
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IBM FSD was dependent upon government contracts and had to regularly report how we were doing in promoting employees from "under-represented" race, nationality, and sex groups. I believe management was under pressure to meet certain quotas and that getting the right "diversity" numbers was a factor used by the government in awarding competitive contracts.<br />
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Throughout my remaining years at the Owego location, I noticed “females and minorities” preferentially promoted to management. Some of those preferentially promoted to management, including the Chinese-American I've written about above, as well as a female engineer whose work I respected, turned out to be pretty good managers and rapidly moved up the ranks to higher positions as second- and third-level managers, and higher executive positions. Some did excellent work, but others were not very good at management.<br />
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Preference for certain members of "under-represented" race, ethnicity, and sex groups was an open secret. I have to admit that any time I was introduced to a "female or minority" engineer or manager, I wondered if they were <i>really</i> qualified.<br />
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Early in my IBM career I was given technical leadership assignments, such as Principal Investigator on several Independent Research and Development projects, and having responsibility for the Technical Volume of some Contract Proposals. I was promoted from Associate Engineer to Staff Engineer and, finally, Senior Engineer which was the highest a non-manager could go. I gave up on any possibility I might be promoted to Management.<br />
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Chinese Buses and Blacks Using Chopsticks! </h4>
I want to end this "Chopsticks" section on a positive note, so let us consider the wonderful "Chinese Buses" and how those vehicles, along with Kissinger, Nixon, and me, may be responsible if you happen to be in a Chinese restaurant and see a young Black family using chopsticks! (Say what???)<br />
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A few years after the awful "9-11" attacks on the World Trade Center my wife and I were visiting our oldest daughter and her family in Andover, MA. I told her I wanted to do a day-trip to New York City and pay my respects to the 3,000 victims of that tragic event. My daughter recommended that I use the Chinese Buses!<br />
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It turns out that the Chinese run inexpensive buses between Chinatowns all along the eastern seaboard, from Boston to New York to Philadelphia to Washington DC! They keep costs down by stopping at Chinese groceries and restaurants along the way, avoiding the costs imposed by major, city- and state-owned bus terminals. (Who knew??? Well, my daughter for one!)<br />
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So, early one morning my daughter drove me to a Chinese grocery in a neighboring town. I bought my ticket and, sure enough, right on schedule a very large, modern, and extraordinarily clean bus pulled up. The driver and about half the passengers were Asian.<br />
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After a couple more pick-up stops, the bus got on the highway and speeded us towards New York City's Chinatown, making one rest stop at a McDonalds along the way, where I grabbed my lunch.<br />
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As you may know, Chinatown is in an area of narrow and congested streets near the tip of Manhattan. As we approached the Big City I heard the driver speaking, in Chinese, to other drivers about the best route to our destination.<br />
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The bus dropped us off at a Chinese store near Canal Street, a pretty easy walk to the World Trade Center site, which, at the time, was still a gaping hole in the ground. After paying my respects, I took the subway to my old alma matter, City College. I took an IND subway train up to the 125th Street station. (I say the "IND" because, for me, the New York subway system will always be the BMT, IND, and IRT. The IND and BMT systems have been combined and the routes are now designated by letters. The IRT system, which uses a narrower track gauge, uses numbers to designate routes.)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">125th Street is the "Main Street" of Harlem. <span style="background-color: transparent;">As I had done so often during my student years, </span></span>I walked up Amsterdam Avenue and looked at the buildings, some old and familiar, others new, and I entered some to look around. I was surprised that all building entrances were manned by uniformed guards who checked my driver's license before letting me in. The other surprise was that the lobby of Shepard Hall seemed quite a bit smaller than I remembered.<br />
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My last stop was the Student Union at which I purchased a CCNY cap and a sweat shirt with a hoodie in our school colors (Lavender). Then, I walked to the 137th Street station of the IRT subway and took a train to the 42nd Street station, and walked around the Times Square area and Broadway.<br />
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I took a BMT train from there down to the Canal Street station near Chinatown and was an hour early for my bus. Great! Time to catch a Chinese meal. The restaurant I chose was a buffet where you load your plate and pay according to how much it weighs.<br />
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My food weighed and paid, I looked for a place to sit, but all the tables were occupied! No problem. I found a two-top with an available seat and asked the woman sitting there if it was OK for me to join her. She said "yes"!<br />
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It turned out she worked for the New York City Transit Authority and her job was to gather passenger statistics. That week, she had been assigned to the Canal Street station and was on her dinner break from collecting evening data.<br />
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She noticed I was using chopsticks and asked about them. I grabbed a pair for her and, in short order, showed her how to use them. Since I'm an "expert" at chopsticks instruction, she was soon using them like a pro. As she left, she grabbed three more pairs of chopsticks and told me she intended to give them to her children and show them how to use them.<br />
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This was about a dozen years ago, so her kids are probably grown up by now and may have children of their own. So, if you happen to be in a Chinese restaurant and see a young Black family eating with chopsticks, you can credit Kissinger, Nixon, me, and the Chinese Buses!<br />
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<h4>
Darwin’s Theory “Survival of the Fittest” </h4>
A short summary of Darwin's Theory is that it is based on:<br />
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EVOLUTION<br />
and NATURAL SELECTION<br />
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of the FITTEST GENES and MEMES<br />
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for SURVIVAL and REPRODUCTION<br />
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in the CHANGING ENVIRONMENT.<br />
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A short explanation is that the process involves:<br />
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Continual variation and<br />
Competitive choice<br />
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of the
Best adapted
Units of Biological and Social organization<br />
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that
Promote successive generations<br />
in the
Continually evolving world<br />
of competitive organisms and societies, … agriculture, industry, technology, climate ...<br />
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<h4>
Racism: We are TRIBAL by NATURE </h4>
Tribalism has been “baked into” our Genes and Memes for ages. Hominids with human-sized brains have been on Earth for about 200,000 years.<br />
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When we were Hunter-Gatherers, Hostile humans were a greater threat and more dangerous than wild animals. When a band of Hunter-Gatherers ran into another band, they had mere seconds to recognize small differences in appearance, dress, and language/accent as keys to whether they were friend or foe.<br />
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When humans invented agriculture, we moved into more or less stable Agricultural Settlements. Adjacent Tribes had to fight against other Tribes for resources. One Tribe would dominate another or adjacent Tribes would come to an agreement on mutually-beneficial trade and sharing. Groups of aligned Tribes would trade with each other and compete with other Tribal Groups in adjacent valleys or across the river, etc. Again, the ability to instantly identify friend or foe by appearance, dress, and language/accent was a life or death matter.<br />
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With the advent of Nation States, alliances and conflicts grew larger in scale, with more complex structures of government over wider areas within a Nation State. Again, Nation States would dominate their neighbors or form cooperative Alliances of Nation States for mutually-beneficial trade and to protect against or dominate other Alliances. This lead to mutually-beneficial trade over larger areas, including International and Inter-Continental trade. Nation States extended their power by invading or colonizing far-off areas and reaping the rewards of World-wide Trade and the danger and destruction of World Wars. Masses of people immigrated to far-away Nations.<br />
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In modern times, we see Racial and Ethnic neighborhoods in cities, “Red” and “Blue” Counties, “Purple” States and 24-hour News.<br />
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<h2>
SEX: “There once was a man from Racine …” </h2>
Remember this ditty?<br />
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There once was a man from Racine / Who invented a screwing machine.<br />
Both concave and convex / It could serve either sex. / Enjoying itself in-between!<br />
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<h4>
“Sex” = “Birth Sex” = “Plumbing” </h4>
<u>FEMALE SEX – Concave plumbing: seat-down in rest rooms.</u><br />
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This leads to a preference for PRIVATE toilets, showers and dressing rooms.<br />
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Females have a LARGE INVESTMENT per child, supplying the eggs, nutrition, and infant care. They may have no more than 1 pregnancy per year. That leads their “Selfish Genes” to seek SELECTIVE sexuality
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY<br />
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<u>MALE SEX – Convex plumbing: seat-up and seat-down in rest rooms (But mostly up!).</u><br />
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This leads to a preference for GROUP urinals, showers and dressing rooms where they may “let it all hang out”.<br />
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Males have a SMALL INVESTMENT per child, with millions of sperm cells per ejaculation. They may have a nearly unlimited number of pregnancies per year. That leads their “Selfish Genes” to seek AGGRESSIVE sexuality
QUANTITY OVER QUALITY<br />
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<h2>
The Average MALE is TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS TALLER than the Average FEMALE.</h2>
This is a fact that has consequences! The graphic below shows what mathematicians call a "Normal" Curve (also known as a "Bell Curve" due to its shape). This type of curve is typical for measurements such as height and IQ. A key element is what is called the "STANDARD DEVIATION" denoted by the Greek letter "<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ" (sigma). </span></span>For human height, <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ</span></span> = 2.5".<br />
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As the graphic below indicates, 68.2% (a bit over 2/3) of the adult Male or Female population fits within +1<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;">σ and -1<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limits for that sex. Thus, Males between the height of 5'6.5" and 5'11.5" are considered to be of "NORMAL MALE" height, and Females between 5'1" and 5'6.5" <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">are considered to be of "NORMAL FEMALE" height.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Males taller than the +<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limit (5'11.5") are considered to be "TALL", and those shorter than the -<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limit (5'6.5") are considered to be "SHORT". </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Females taller than the +</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limit (5'6.5") are considered to be "TALL", and those shorter than the -<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limit (5'1.5") are considered to be "SHORT". </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Thus, a Female that is the same height as a "NORMAL MALE" would be considered a "TALL FEMALE". A<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Male that is the same height as a "NORMAL FEMALE" would be considered a "SHORT MALE".</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Those outside the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">+</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ and <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limits are considered "VERY TALL" or "VERY SHORT", and t<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">hose outside the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">+2</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ and <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">-2</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">σ <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">limits are considered "EXTREMELY TALL" or "EXTREMELY SHORT". </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It is very rare for anyone to be outside the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">+3</span><span style="color: black; 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In a crowd of 1000 Males, there would most likely be only one taller than 6'4.5" and only one shorter than 5'1.5". <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In a crowd of 1000 Females, there would most likely be only one taller than 5'11.5" and only one shorter than 4'8.5". </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r4SH71lve2Y/XdNGrCBnqDI/AAAAAAAAIcE/4iKpEDIwJgIveJ8OU38R4MfR6uPHTn0sACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/2019-10PHILO%2BFemaleMaleNormal.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r4SH71lve2Y/XdNGrCBnqDI/AAAAAAAAIcE/4iKpEDIwJgIveJ8OU38R4MfR6uPHTn0sACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/2019-10PHILO%2BFemaleMaleNormal.gif" width="640" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The average Male is about 5'9" tall, which is only 5" taller than the average Female, who is about 5'4" tall. Although the AVERAGE sex-related difference is only about 7.5%, at the margins, when grouped by height, Males may outnumber Females by 2/1, 5/1, 16//1 and even 158/1, and vice versa.</span><br />
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Imagine a gathering of 2000 adults (1000 Males and 1000 Females) in an auditorium (see graphic below). We ask them to arrange themselves in size-place order, with the shorter ones in front and the taller in back.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If we divide the auditorium in half, there will be about 842 Females and 158 Males in the front half (5/1), and about 842 Males and 158 Females in the back half. Thus, a mere 7.5% AVERAGE difference between Males and Females will be multiplied to over 83%!</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The graphic shows the auditorium divided into six sections. The front section contains those between 4'8.5" and 5'1.5", in which we will most likely find 158 Females and only one male! <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Thus, a mere 7.5% AVERAGE difference between Males and Females will be multiplied to over 99% !</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
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What Do We Mean by “Gender” (As distinguished from “Sex”) ? </h4>
“SEX” = PLUMBING – BINARY: FEMALE or MALE
[Pronouns are “she, her, hers” vs “he, him, his”].<br />
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"Gender" is harder to define. It refers to an individual's “gender role” in society.<br />
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”Gender” = PERSONAL IDENTITY which <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">may or may not correspond to Birth Sex. </span>“Gender” may be NON-BINARY:<br />
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<li>Male</li>
<li>Female</li>
<li>CIS-Gender, where gender matches sex </li>
<li>TRANS-Gender, where gender is opposite to sex</li>
<li>A-Gender, where there is no clear relationship between gender and sex [Pronouns are the singular “they, them, their”]…</li>
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“Trans-Sexual” Gender Reassignment Surgery and Hormone Therapy may change birth-sex organs to a different gender. However, this process will not significantly alter the male birth-sex height advantage. This creates an issue when an individual whose birth sex is male becomes a trans-sexual female and seeks to compete in female sports leagues. Competitors with a female birth-sex body may object on the basis that the trans-sexual female has the advantage of a male birth-sex body which is likely to be taller and stronger than a female birth-sex body.<br />
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Practical System Solutions for Restrooms, Showers, Dressing Rooms </h4>
Private (1-person) rest rooms (Home, Doctor's office, Airplane ...) – As a matter of Male courtesy – PUT THE SEAT DOWN!<br />
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You can estimate: <b><span style="font-size: large;">Man’s Age = 10 x (Seat-Up + Urinals) / Seat-Down</span></b><br />
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MENS FACILITIES – Designed for convex Male plumbing. Allow Females with concave plumbing to share facilities if they are OK with Males “letting it all hang out”.<br />
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LADIES FACILITIES – Designed for concave Female plumbing. Others keep out! (Privacy and safety against aggressive male sexuality.)<br />
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The highest level of each sport should be SEX and GENDER-NEUTRAL.<br />
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Lower levels should be SEX-SPECIFIC if TALLNESS (or SHORTNESS) is significant in that sport.<br />
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When Did Your Most Recent "Full-Blooded" East Asian or Native American Ancestor Live?</h2>
I took a "23andme" DNA test in 2017 and it indicated 0.1% "East Asian & Native American" (EA/NA) ancestry along with my overwhelmingly "European" heritage.<br />
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So, the question is, for anyone of European heritage who is alive today, and like me (and at least one Presidential hopeful :^) has a 0.1% (1 part in 1024) EA/NA DNA, when did our most recent "Full-Blooded" EA/NA ancestor live? [DNA testing is not exact, nor is anyone "pure", so I define "Full-Blooded" as being 98% or more of a given heritage.]<br />
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So, taking me, Ira, as an example, but applicable to anyone else with 0.1% EA/NA DNA, let us analyze the situation.<br />
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I was born in 1939. My DNA indicates 0.1% EA/NA<br />
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My parents were born in the US in 1911 and 1914, but never took a DNA test. My DNA is the AVERAGE of that of my parents. Therefore it is possible both my Father and Mother had 0.1% EA/NA. Or, my Father could have been as high as 0.2% with my Mother at 0.0%, or vice-versa. Or, it could have been 0.05% and 0.15%, etc. The point is that, for the AVERAGE of two people to be 0.1% EA/NA, the MAXIMUM either one may have is 0.2%.<br />
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My grandparents were born in Europe (Austria and Russia) in about 1884. F<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">or the AVERAGE of four people to be 0.1% EA/NA, the MAXIMUM any one of them may have is 0.4%.</span><br />
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Using that analysis, and assuming each generation is about 27 years, we can trace down to about 1776, the time of the American Revolution, and calculate that I (and anyone alive in 2019) had 64 Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandparents. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">F</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">or the AVERAGE of 64 people to be 0.1% EA/NA, the MAXIMUM any one of them may have is 6.4%.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> Therefore, the most recent "Full-Blooded" EA/NA ancestor of mine (or any</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Presidential candidate) must have lived well before the American revolution!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Indeed, we'd have to go back more that 100 years before the American Revolution, to about 1641, to find the most <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">recent "Full-Blooded" EA/NA ancestor of mine or yours (or anyone alive in 2019 who has 0.1% EA/NA DNA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">).</span></span></span><br />
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How did Native American DNA Enter European Gene Pool?</h2>
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The first American Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth, MA, in 1621 with 90 Native Americans and 56 European Pilgrims. Colonists and Native Americans most likely exchanged DNA in both directions. Travelers back to Europe brought mixed DNA to the European gene pool.</div>
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Pocahontas was born in <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> in Tsenacommacah (Tidewater Virginia) in </span>1596.
She was the daughter of Chief Powhattan. In 1607, the Jamestown settlement was founded by James Smith. Pocahontas reportedly saved his life when he ran afoul of her father's tribe.<br />
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Pocahontas married an Englishman named John Rolfe and they had a son, Thomas. In 1607 the Rolfe family visited England and Pocahntas died and is buried there. Perhaps Thomas Rolfe and others with mixed European and Native American DNA contributed their Native American DNA to the European gene pool.<br />
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In 1587 an English colony was founded on Roanoke Island, NC. Three years later, in 1590, a resupply mission found the colony abandoned, and Roanoke Island is called "the Lost Colony". Residents may have assimilated with local Native Americans, adding European DNA to that of the Native Americans. Thus, according to the only Historial's Joke I know, "a European colony was LOST, but soon others were FOUNDED."<br />
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Is “Jewish Pride” Analogous to Tribalism? </h2>
My Jewish family and friends are ultra-sensitive to famous members of what we call “our Tribe”. Any triumph by a Jewish-American is celebrated as further proof that we contribute greatly to the advancement of society.<br />
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We are even more sensitive to the infamous, such as Bernard Madoff, and the Ponzi scheme he created, due to such events casting a cloud over Jewish morality and putting our Tribe in a bad light as viewed by non-Jews.<br />
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Yet, despite this Tribal (dare I say "racial?) focus, most Jews are Social-Liberals. (Some of the "flaming" variety.)<br />
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When we meet people, or see them in the news, we ask “are they Jewish?” and we Google them!
We learn to identify “Ashkenazi” Surnames. Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi's, is related to German, so surnames from that origin may be Jewish.<br />
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This is particularly true if their pronunciation varies from the German.
Germans are quite strict about pronouncing “ei” as “I” and “ie” as “E”. Thus a surname including “Stein” (German for “stone”) is correctly pronounced as “StINE”.<br />
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Anyone who pronounces their “Stein” surname as “StEEN” (as in Epstein, Glickstein, Rosenstein, or Weinstein) are likely Jewish.
Two of the above are “א שאַנדאַ פאר די גויים”.
(Yiddish) “A SHANDA fur die goyim”.
Meaning “A shame or a disgrace in view of the Gentiles.”<br />
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My wife brags about Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax because he was Jewish and he attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn years before her.<br />
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We also brag that we are only 0.2% of the World Population, yet win 20% of the Nobel Prizes.
The Entertainment industry (Broadway, Hollywood, Television) is largely Jewish (founders, producers, writers, entertainers).
We are also over-represented in much of print and social media, as well as many “learned” professions.<br />
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However, I do not hear much pride from my fellow Jews in the fact that Donald Trump is the first US President with Jewish grandkids. (His daughter Ivanka converted, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner is Orthodox.) Nor does Trump get much Jewish credit for fulfilling the promises of previous Presidents to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel and moving US embassy to Jerusalem.
Or recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.<br />
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Members of the “Tribe” Make the Best Sitcoms </h4>
Norman Lear created sitcoms that broke political and racial barriers: <i>All in The Family</i>, and <i>The Jeffersons</i>. Carl Reiner was one of the stars in the comedy/variety program <i>Your Show of Shows.</i> He also did <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i>. Larry David did <i>Seinfeld</i> and <i>Curb Your Enthusiasm</i>. Chuck Lorre did <i>The Big Bang Theory</i>, and is currently doing <i>Young Sheldon</i>, and <i>Bob Hearts Abishola, </i>which is about Bob, a white guy who owns a factory in Detroit that employs some Nigerian immigrants, and how he falls in love with Abishola, a Nigerian nurse. (All these Jewish sitcom creators are Flaming Social-Liberals:^)<br />
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Perhaps the zenith of TV sitcom writing comes from <i>All In The Family</i> with this effort by Archie Bunker, a right-leaning working man, to explain a balanced political ticket to his son-in-law, a flaming social liberal whom he calls "the Meathead":<br />
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<em style="font-style: italic;">Archie</em>: What’s the matter with this? I call this representative government. You’ve got Salvatori, Feldman, O’Reilly, Nelson–that’s an Italian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American there. That’s what I call a balanced ticket.</div>
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<em style="font-style: italic;">Archie</em>: ‘Cause, how else are you going to get the right man for the right job? For instance, take Feldman there. He’s up for treasurer. Well, that’s perfect. All them people know how to handle money. Know what I mean?</div>
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<em style="font-style: italic;">Meathead</em>: No, I don’t.</div>
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<em style="font-style: italic;">Archie</em>: Well, then you got Salvatori running for D.A. He can keep an eye on Feldman. You know, I want to tell you something about the Italians. When you do get an honest one, you really got something there.</div>
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<i>Archie: Well, then here you got O’Reilly, the mick. He can see that the graft is equally spread around, you know. </i></div>
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Zenith of English Literature </h4>
As far as we know, William Shakespeare, whose writings are considered the<b> zenith</b> of English literature, was not a member of our Tribe. In researching one of his most famous works, <i>Othello</i>, I was surprised to find an American (and later British) actor and playwright named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Aldridge">Ira Aldridge</a> who, in addition to sharing my somewhat unusual first name and, like me, having been born in New York City, was one of the first African-Americans to play the part of <i>Othello</i> (about 1830). Others include Paul Robeson and James Earl Jones.<br />
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Perhaps the most memorable line ever written by <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">William Shakespeare is spoken by Othello when he says he "</span>Loved not wisely but too well".<br />
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Nadir of the Politically Correct "Echo Chamber"</h4>
The 2017 firing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber">James Damore</a>, an American Google software engineer, due to an internal email that went viral, is perhaps the nadir of Politically Correct Racism and Sexism.<br />
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Paraphrasing Shakespeare, Damore (who happens to be a member of our Tribe) wrote "NOT WISELY but TOO TRUTHFULLY!"<br />
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Opponents label his email as an<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/google-reportedly-fires-author-of-anti-diversity-screed-1797619007">"Anti-Diversity
Screed</a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/google-reportedly-fires-author-of-anti-diversity-screed-1797619007">"</a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">. ABSOLUTELY FALSE! <span style="color: black;">Read it yourself </span><a href="https://www.quotev.com/story/9922506/James-Damores-Diversity-Memo">Google's Ideological Echo Chamber</a>.</span><br />
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Damore notes that, despite Google’s strong "diversity" commitment, males outnumber females 4/1 in High Tech jobs. (They are about equal in non-High Tech jobs.) He writes that the difference could be due to biological differences. Read <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-google-software-engineer-who-wrote.html">my reaction to Damore's Memo</a>.<br />
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As I pointed out above in my discussion of Male and Female heights, a small difference of 7.5% in the AVERAGE results in large differences at the margins. Thus a small AVERAGE biological difference between Male and Female mental processes can result in larger disparities at the margins, such as highly-competitive High Tech jobs.<br />
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As with height differences, where a very tall woman may be taller than 80 or 90 percent of all men, in Science and High-Tech mental processes, a very capable woman may be superior to over 95 percent of all men.<br />
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For example, my wife and our daughters excel in Science and High Tech. My wife's under-grad degree is in Chemistry. When our youngest daughter started Middle school, my wife went back to college, got her Master's Degree in Computer Science and a job at IBM Federal Systems Division. She eventually worked her way up to Lead Software Engineer on the Army Special Forces Helicopter project. (Those helicopters later were used to get Osama Bin Laden as well as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.)<br />
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Our daughters also have advanced degrees in science and technology areas. Our middle daughter has a Masters in Business Administration in Marketing and our oldest and youngest have PhDs in Immunology and Neuroscience. Indeed, I had to go back to college in my 50’s to keep up, earning my Masters (1990) and PhD (1996) in System Science.<br />
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Chopsticks Redux</h2>
Just this year, 2019, Asian-Americans demonstrated at Harvard, carrying signs that read "I am ASIAN-AMERICAN and I HAVE A DREAM TOO". Earlier in this posting, I pointed out that Asian-Americans received race-based preferences in hiring and promotion to management. Well, it seems they have now exceeded expectations and are over-represented in college admissions!<br />
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At Harvard (and other selective colleges) they use RACE and NATIONALITY as a factor in admissions.
ASIANS need 140 more SAT points (9%) than WHITES.
WHITES need 130 to 310 more SAT points than non-ASIAN “Minorities”.<br />
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My East Asian and Native American Heritage Redux</h2>
Earlier in this posting, I claimed 0.1% East Asian and Native American (EA/NA) DNA, based on a 2017 test by 23and me. Well, it seems they have updated their algorithms and have more finely divided their racial categories. East Asian and Native American are no longer united.<br />
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As a result (see graphic below), my 0.1% EA/NA has become 0.1% "Unassigned". Sadly, I can no longer use the [hashtag] #NativeAmericanToo and my association with the "Wannabe" tribe has been revoked.<br />
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On the positive side, I'm still 99.9% European and my ASHKENAZI JEWISH rating has gone up from 98.2% to a whopping 99.5% !<br />
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Baseball is called our "National Pastime". We are all familiar with the lyrics of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" that tends with "<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1</b></span>, <b>2</b>,<b><span style="font-size: large;"> 3</span></b> Strikes YER OUT!" As America's National Pastime, you should agree it must be "Equal Opportunity". Right?</div>
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Well, that Baseball rule is unfair to Jewish-Americans! Of the hundreds of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, only two are Jewish (Sandy Koufax, mentioned earlier, and the other one is Hank Greenberg). Of the 750 current Major League Baseball players you can count the Jewish ones on the fingers of your hands with a couple fingers to spare. </div>
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Therefore, we need "Affirmative Action" for Jewish Baseball players and I suggest "4 Strikes YER OUT!" for them. That will equalize opportunity by equalizing outcomes.</div>
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If Jewish-Americans get "4 Strikes YER OUT", Asian-Americans, who are even more under-represented, should get <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"5 Strikes YER OUT"!</span></div>
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I see we have left a major "under-represented" group out - FEMALE-Americans! <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Of course, to have completely equal outcomes, we need to account for under- and over-represented racial and ethnic groups:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">African- and Hispanic-Female</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">-Americans </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6</b></span> Strikes YER OUT"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> White-Female</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">-Americans </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"<span style="font-size: large;"><b>12</b></span> Strikes YER OUT"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></li>
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The above numbers are based on an extensive COMPUTER analysis of RACE, SEX, ETHNIC, and GENDER factors I have done. However, I do not claim this to be the final word.</div>
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At the start of the next baseball season, on April First ("April Fools Day"):</div>
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<li>The Baseball Commissioner should put these "X Strikes YER OUT" rules into effect. </li>
<li>All players should be classified as to their <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">RACE, SEX, ETHNIC, and GENDER group(s).</span> </li>
<li>Experts should gather complete statistics on strike-outs, walks, hits, and runs and calculate their agreement with the statistical representation of each group in the general population. </li>
<li>Then, each year, a revised set of numbers should be calculated and put into effect.</li>
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We cannot rest easy until our NATIONAL PASTIME is TRUELY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY with EQUAL OUTCOMES for every <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">RACE, SEX, ETHNIC, and GENDER group. (:^)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>David Sloan Wilson</b></u>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">State University New York, was one of the most influential professors I met as a grad student going for my PhD in System Science (1996). </span></span></span><br />
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I first met David in the mid-1990's, when he became interested in System Science and attended meetings organized by Howard Pattee, Chairman of my PhD committee. I found his knowledge and attitude extremely appealing and attended many of his lectures and seminars. David, in turn, invited me to present my "HexLife" computer simulation of biological life, evolution, and natural selection to his Biology seminars.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Last month, my colleague at The Villages Philosophy Club, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Robert Altobello, </span>provided a video link to Wilson's discussion with the world-renown Dalai Lama. I was happy to view it, and, ultimately devote an interesting 2 hours to watching it! (Here is the link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcgcFbPTwys">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcgcFbPTwys</a>)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Famed Biologist Richard Dawkins, in his popular 2006 book "The GOD Delusion" (page 170), credits David Sloan Wilson with being <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">“the American group-selection apostle”</span>. </span>(See my discussion and mostly favorable review of Dawkin's book at <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2008/03/god-delusion.html">https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2008/03/god-delusion.html</a>).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the video, David acquits himself extraordinarily well, showing great humility and respect for "His Holiness" the Dalai Lama, as a guest in his "den", "His Holiness's" home territory. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I found this reminiscent of the Biblical story of "Daniel in the Lion's Den" (Chapter 6 of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Book of Daniel">Book of Daniel</a></span><span style="color: #004000; font-family: inherit;">). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Throughout the video, David stays true to Biological science, and his own view of multi-level "group" selection. He never directly challenges the Dalai Lama's sometimes simplified or misapplied level of understanding, and he copes well with the Dalai Lama's interruptions and his limited ability to understand and speak English. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>The "Dalai Lama"</u></b>, according to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama">Wikipedia</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 0px;">"is a title given by the Tibetan people for the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or 'Yellow Hat' school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism." The <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">current Dalai Lama is </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, who lives as a refugee in India<span style="color: #0b0120;">.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />In the linked video, he comes across as a surprisingly approachable fellow. He appears totally genuine and worthy to be called "His Holiness" by his followers and guests at his "Mind and Life Institute" in Dharamsala, India.<br /><br />The Dalai Lama speaks and understands English at a level sufficient to support most of the conversation between him and David Sloan Wilson without need of translation. Indeed, he often interrupts David with comments and questions in English. However, it is obvious that he is not fully fluent in English, nor in Biology.<br /><br />Fortunately, there is a <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Translator, who, in addition to being fluent in both English and the Dalai Lama's language (Tibetan or Hindi), seemed to be quite knowledgeable about Biological Sciences as well as David's academic work in this area.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br />I got the impression that "His Holiness" is fully aware that many of his supporters accept what he says as infallible, similar to when the Pope speaks ex cathedra. Indeed, when you are famous many members of the general public "think you really know" (paraphrasing the line from <i>Fiddler On The Roof </i>that<i> </i>"when you're rich they think you really know").<br /><br />I believe "His Holiness" is aware that his personal knowledge of the Biological Sciences is limited. Yet, to meet the expectations of his "true believers" he must speak with absolute conviction, as if the Buddha (or Whoever or Whatever is the Source of True Knowledge in his version of Buddhism) is speaking through him. After watching the full two hours of the video, I think he does this quite well, and with good humor.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: #004000;"></span><br /></span></span></span>
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</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>Basic Biology</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David summarizes Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection in three words: 1) Variation, 2) Selection, and 3) Replication. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #006600; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Evolution of Altruism and Compassion</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evolution is not blind. We can control it to some extent because Groups of individual Organisms that Evolve beneficial levels of Altruism and Compassion can out-compete Groups that do not.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David cites a series of experiments undertaken to optimize egg production. As I understand his brief description, there were a number of cages, each housing a number of egg-laying hens. Since a given hen has a limited lifetime of high production, the farmer must select eggs for the next generation of hens. Two different strategies were compared:</span></span></span><br />
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Strategy #1 (INDIVIDUAL selection) had poorer results because the best producing hens tended to be more aggressive and they disrupted the egg production of the other hens in their cage. Successive generations of high-producing HENS amplified aggressiveness and, ultimately, overall production declined.</div>
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Strategy #2 (GROUP selection) had better results because it tended to select hens with better cooperative skills, which encouraged egg production by the other hens in their cage. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Successive generations of high-producing CAGES amplified cooperativeness and, ultimately, overall production increased.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #001000; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Prior to his 2006</span><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #001000; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> "The GOD Delusion", Richard Dawkins wrote "The Selfish Gene" (1976) where he introduced the word "meme" (from "mimeme" derived from the Greek "mimeisthai" which means "to imitate"). The word "mneme" was used by others in a similar way as early as 1927 (from the Greek mimneskesthai" which means "to remember").</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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A meme is the cultural analog of a gene. Dawkins wrote: "DNA is a self-replicating piece of hardware. Each piece has a particular structure, which is different from rival pieces of DNA. If memes in brains are analogous to genes they must be self-replicating brain structures, actual patterns of neuronal wiring-up that reconstitute themselves in one brain after another."</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The etymology of the word "meme" itself is an excellent example of the evolution of the cultural equivalent of genes. “Meme” is one letter shorter than “mneme” and far easier to pronounce. A challenge arose in 1980 when E.O. Wilson introduced a new word, "culturgen" for the same concept. That word has all but died out as “meme” survived and replicated in the natural human selection process. Clearly, the word “meme” is the “fittest” (best fits into the human cultural environment and brain structure).</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Although I agree with Dawkins that the concept of a personal God, external to the Universe, is, strictly speaking, a delusion, I am surprised by the vehemence with which he attacks it. </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">About half-way through the book, he finally acknowledges, however grudgingly, the facts. He writes [pg 163 …166]:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">[W]e should ask what pressure or pressures exerted by natural selection originally favoured the impulse toward religion. … Religion is so wasteful, so extravagant; and Darwinian selection habitually targets and eliminates waste. …no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth-consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.</span></span></blockquote>
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Dawkins searches, in vain, for rational explanations for the survival of the God delusion. He mentions David Wilson [pg 170] who he rightly calls “the American group-selection apostle”.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Group selection makes the claim that groups, including religious associations, which promote cooperative, altruistic behaviors, survive at the expense of less religious groups. While I accept multi-level selection (gene level and meme level), I am not sure that true, pure altruism exists and have gone round and round discussing this with Wilson. </span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I agree with Dawkins that what appears to be altruism is actually kin selection (favoring those with common genes) or reciprocal altruism (helping others of the same or different species in return for a benefit). </span></span></span></div>
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Dawkins ultimately rejects group selection and is left with the only remaining alternative, that religion is an unintended byproduct of something else. What is this “something else”? Well, he concludes [pg 174-176] it is “obey the tribal elders … For excellent reasons related to Darwinian survival, child brains need to trust parents, and elders whom parents tell them to trust.”</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Religion, Dawkins asserts, is a mind virus that feeds on the need for a child to obey elders without question, just as computer viruses are based on the need for a computer to follow instructions. The implication is that all societies of the past have had the mentality of children. With the advent of the age of reason we have the opportunity to grow up and reject religion once and for all. I find that “logic” kind of haughty and simple-minded.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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</span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #006600;">Scientists who Invoke "God" - Is such Belief Genuine Religious Feeling?</span></strong><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Dawkins knocks Stephen Hawking [pg 13] for ending his</span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> A Brief History of Time</em><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> with a reference to God. Hawking wrote:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">However, if we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- <em><strong>for then we should know the mind of God</strong></em>.” [<em><strong>Emphasis</strong></em> added]</span></span></blockquote>
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Dawkins, quoting only the phrase I have highlighted, criticizes Hawking for being "dramatic (or was it mischievous?)".</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Dawkins includes Einstein’s famous references to religion and God [pg 15]:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists ….</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">God is subtle, but not malicious … God does not play dice …</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Did God have a choice in creating the Universe?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.</span></span><br />
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Dawkins, in a statement worthy of Anne Coulter, dismisses [pg 19] the metaphorical use of the word “God” by scientists as “intellectual high treason” because it deliberately confuses the distinction between the personal God of “supernatural religion” with the Pantheistic God of “Einsteinian religion”.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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It is amazing to me that the originator of the idea that memes evolve in a way similar to genes can be so blind to what is happening! Memes evolve by building upon previous memes. The pagan “rebirth of the Sun” winter solstice meme evolved into Christmas when early Christian authorities co-opted that time period for the birth of Jesus, and, later, when Jewish authorities glommed onto that same time period and elevated Chanukah to a higher significance than it originally claimed. Similarly, IMHO, the traditional supernatural God meme is evolving into a more naturalistic Pantheistic meme. Perhaps the Gaia idea that the Earth biosphere has developed some sort of Global Consciousness will ease the transition. Perhaps it is even true!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe [note upper case “U”] as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.</span></span></blockquote>
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On the positive side, Dawkins [pg 119] realizes that, given those first primitive biological cells, subsequent evolution was anything but a random process.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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He goes on his apparently subconscious defense of pantheism [pg 139]:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font: 400 110% / 1.4 "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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It is clear that here <em><strong>on Earth we are dealing with a generalized process for optimizing biological species, a process that works all over the planet, on all continents and islands, and at all times</strong></em>. … if we wait another ten million years, a whole new set of species will be as well adapted to their ways of life as today’s species are to theirs. This is a recurrent, predictable, multiple phenomenon, not a piece of statistical luck recognized with hindsight. [<em><strong>Emphasis</strong></em> added]</blockquote>
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Dawkin’s “generalized process for optimizing” is Omnipresent (“all continents and islands … all times”), Omnipotent (“whole new set of species”) and Omniscient (“as well adapted to their ways of life as today’s species”). Change it to “Generalized Optimizing Device” and we have our familiar Pantheistic “GOD”. QED :^)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">[Update 17 December 2019] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">By a fortunate accident, I was scheduled to speak about this topic at The Villages S.K.I.L.L. Club (CIA Retirees) on 12 December 2019 so I updated the talk I presented on 4 October 2019 at The Villages Philosophy Club with the new material.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">[UPDATE: 9 December 2019]</span> The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ IG) has just released a redacted, unclassified version of the third IG Report related to the 2016 FBI Investigation of the Trump Campaign. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/09/ig-report-review-fbis-fisa-warrant-russia-probe-released/1499906001/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">CLICK HERE</a> to read the USA Today account of the latest IG Report.<br />
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The three publicly-released IG Reports are as follows (Most recent first):</div>
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Mishandling of Certain Memoranda.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>July 2018 </u></i></b>“A Review
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I read the full Executive Summary of the latest IG Report as well as selected detailed chapters.<br />
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Referring to the graphic at the top of this Blog posting, there are four groups of documents, as follows:<br />
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DOSSIER </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">2015-2016</span></h3>
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Fusion GPS is a political research company originally funded by anti-Trump Republicans to conduct opposition research. When Trump became presumptive GOP nominee, the DNC/Clinton Campaign funded it.<br />
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In June 2016, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 operative associated with the Russia Desk. Steele wrote some 16 memos prior to the 2016 Presidential Election, and one afterwards. These memos became known as the "Steele Dossier".<br />
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By August 2016, the FBI had some of these memos.<br />
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By September 2016, some of them were shown to various US media, but none published this material. My speculation is that they were sure the Democratic candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton was going to defeat the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, and they did not want to muddy the waters. Some of this information was noted, in October 2016, by the publication <i>Mother Jones</i>, but no details were given.<br />
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In November 2016, of course, Trump was elected and became President-Elect.<br />
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The following month, December 2016, Sen. John McCain gave a copy of the Steele memos to FBI Director James Comey. However, as I noted above, the FBI already had most -perhaps all- of the memos prior to McCain's action.<br />
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In January 2017 – President Obama and President-Elect Trump were briefed about the Steele Dossier by the FBI. News of the FBI briefing lead a rather obscure website, <i>Buzzfeed</i>, to publish the memos, which I read through at the time. (None of the major media published this uncorroborated material. At the time, I thought 70-80% true. Now, I believe that at least 70-80% of the supposed "facts" are likely false!)<br />
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Renewals 1, 2, 3 - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">2016-2017</span></h3>
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Carter Page was a Petroleum consultant who j<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">oined the Trump campaign in March 2016 as a Foreign Policy advisor. He left the campaign in September 2016.</span><br />
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Carter Page was educated at the US Naval Academy and received his BS degree in 1993. He served as an Intelligence Officer US Navy for five years, including some overseas deployments. He attended Georgetown University, where he received his MA; New York University, where he received his MBA; and the University of London, where he received his PhD in Asian Economics.<br />
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He consulted in Russia, and was said to be Pro-Putin. However, for some of his time in Russia, the latest IG Report confirms that he was an asset of a US Government Agency (probably the CIA) and his opinion of Putin may have been part of his cover as a CIA asset.<br />
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In August 2016, the FBI considered applying for a FISA to permit them to surveil Page. However, according to the latest IG Report, the information they had at the time was not sufficient to justify the FISA.<br />
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In September 2016, based on materials from the Steele Dossier, the FBI applied for and obtained the FISA. This confirms that, absent the Steele Dossier, surveillance of Carter Page may never have happened, and perhaps the Russia Collusion story would never have gotten off the ground.<br />
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The FISA application needs to be renewed every 90 days, and the Page FISA was renewed 3 times.<br />
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<b>According to the latest IG Report, there were seven serious errors in the original FISA application, including the apparently purposeful alteration of an email by an FBI lawyer. This email was from another Agency (CIA?) and confirmed that Carter Page had been accepted by them as a source for information about Russia. The FBI lawyer added the words "not a source" to that email. </b><br />
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Again, according to the latest IG Report, those seven serious <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">errors were repeated in each of the three FISA renewals, and, an additional ten new serious errors were added!</span><br />
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<b>FISA Application Makes supposedly FACTUAL STATEMENT but FAILS TO CITE ANY SOURCE</b> (33 instances, including repeats of the same error. It blows my mind that no one in the FBI chain of command or staff at the time, nor anyone at the secret FISA Court, checked for the source of serious and supposedly factual information about Carter Page. Thus, the same errors were repeated up to three times!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FISA Application Makes supposedly FACTUAL STATEMENT and DOES CITE SOURCE ---BUT SOURCE DOES NOT SUPPORT statement !! </b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(8 instances, including repeats of the same error. It blows my mind that no one in the FBI chain of command or staff at the time, nor anyone at the secret FISA Court, checked the given source of serious and supposedly factual information about Carter Page. This type of error is worse than the first type because a <b>SOURCE IS IDENTIFIED, adding credibility to the claimed fact, BUT ANYONE WHO CHECKED THE CITED SOURCE WOULD SEE THAT IT DID NOT SUPPORT THE STATEMENT !! </b>Again, the same errors were repeated up to three times!)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">FISA Application Makes supposedly FACTUAL STATEMENT and DOES CITE SOURCE --- BUT SOURCE CONTRADICTS STATEMENT !!!</span>
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James Comey’s Distinguished Career:<br />
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The latest IG Report released to the public 9 December 2019.<br />
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The DOJ IG is Michael Horowitz, appointed by Pres. Obama in 2012.<br />
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<b>MY BOTTOM LINE ON THE NEW MATERIAL FROM IG REPORT #3</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my original talk and Blog posting about Comey's <i>A Higher Loyalty</i> book, I said and wrote:</span><br />
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"In September 2013, when President Barack Obama appointed James Comey to a 10-year term as Director of the FBI, (and Comey was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate 93 to 1) Obama said: <span style="color: red;">'Jim is a natural leader of unquestioned integrity.'</span> </b></span></span></span><br />
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BUT – (IMHO - In My Humble Opinion) <span style="color: red;">He is the closest to that ideal we will ever see at the highest levels of the U. S. Government!</span> "</b></span></span></span><br />
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The FISA application and one of the renewals were filed under James Comey's watch as FBI Director. He has recently admitted there was "real sloppiness" in the Carter Page FISA warrants. Although it is unlikely that he personally checked the sources cited (and not cited :^) in those FISA materials, he bears some responsibility for organizing and directing an FBI leadership staff that failed so badly in living up to the ideals of the FBI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, my respect for Comey -which was never unconditional- has suffered some diminution.</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Blog posting is based on the presentation I gave to The Villages Philosophy Club on 4 October 2019 about the August 2019 report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz. It is about former FBI Director James Comey's actions related to one memo he wrote in January 2017 documenting his interactions with President-Elect Donald Trump, and six more memos he wrote from January through April 2017 documenting his interactions with President Donald Trump.</span></b></div>
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James Comey was appointed to a ten-year term as FBI Director by President Barack Obama in 2013, and confirmed by the Senate 93-1. His actions during the 2016 Presidential Election period with regard to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private server for CLASSIFIED email have been widely criticized and cited: (1) By Cl</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">inton as a principal reason for her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 election (along with Russian meddling in the election), (2) </span><span style="font-size: large;">By Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in a 2017 letter used by President Trump to justify his firing of Comey (although it has become apparent that Trump's main motivation for his firing had to do with the way the FBI Director was handling the investigation into possible collusion by the Trump campaign with Russians), and (3) </span><span style="font-size: large;">By the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the report issued 14 June 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Blog posting you are now reading is an update that considers material from the August 2019 IG <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“Report of Investigation of
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Mishandling of Certain Memoranda.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How and why has the reputation of James Comey declined so much in just a few years, and on both sides of the political aisle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AND, how has the most recently released IG report modified my generally supportive opinion of Comey?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recall that, in 2013, when he was appointed by Democrat Barack Obama and confirmed by all but one Senator (Republican Rand Paul, over surveillance policy) Comey had an absolutely sterling reputation! Obama said "Jim is a natural leader of unquestioned integrity".</span></div>
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JAMES COMEY'S DISTINGUISHED CAREER</h2>
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District of NY, Deputy Attorney General, Acting Attorney General</b></span></div>
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Sector</u></b></span></div>
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Martin</b></span></div>
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Classified Email controversy</b></span></div>
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IG REPORTS REGARDING JAMES COMEY</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are three reports issued by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>July 2018 </u></i></b>“A Review
of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of
Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election”. The report concluded that, i</span><span style="font-size: large;">n the Clinton CLASSIFIED email investigation, Comey and other top officials did not
follow standard procedures and hurt the FBI's reputation for impartiality, but there was no evidence of political bias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>August 2019 </u></i></b>“Report of Investigation of
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s Disclosure of
Sensitive Investigative Information and
Mishandling of Certain Memoranda.” <<< THE BLOG POSTING YOU ARE NOW READING IS MAINLY ABOUT THIS IG REPORT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>September 2019</u> </i></b> Draft Report on Alleged Abuses of FISA during
Russia Investigation – Under review by AG Barr. A redacted version will probably be released later this year.</span></div>
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There are THREE Color-Coded Tracks for this TIMELINE:</h2>
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<b><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><span style="font-size: large;">BLUE -
CLASSIFIED Emails on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s non-secure server</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #c00000;">RED - Fusion GPS </span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">opposition research against Donald Trump centered on
Russian Interference in 2016 election (<i>Steele Dossier</i>)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-size: large;">GREEN - FBI Lovebirds:</span></span></i></b><span style="color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #548235; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-size: large;">FBI Lawyer Lisa Page and FBI Deputy Assistant Director of
Counter-Intelligence Division Peter Strzok (who lead both the Clinton Email and
Trump Russia probes). [They were both married, but not to each other, and apparently used the FBI messaging system to conceal their relationship from their spouses. An FBI review of the thousands of messages they exchanged revealed their apparent political bias in favor of one Presidential Candidate (Former Secretary of State Hillary Cinton) and against the other (Donald Trump). </span></span></i></b><br />
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<h2>
Timeline – 2013-2017 COMEY in OBAMA Administration</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>16 June 2015 </i>–
Donald Trump announces Presidential run.</span></b></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>July 2015 </i>–<span style="color: blue;"> FBI
opens “Midyear Exam” Investigation </span></b><span style="color: blue;">of CLASSIFIED emails on former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton’s non-secure server.
[Lead by Strzok] </span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>16 August 2015 </i>– <i><span style="color: #38761d;">Strzok:
“[Bernie Sanders is] an idiot like Trump. Figure they cancel each other out.” </span></i></b><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>August 2015 </i>– <span style="color: blue;"><i>Washington
Post </i>reports FBI is investigating whether CLASSIFIED information was kept
on Clinton's private server.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>October 2015 – <span style="color: #990000;">Fusion GPS </span></i><span style="color: #990000;">contracted by conservative
political website </span></b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Washington Free Beacon </i>to provide general
opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>3 March 2016 – <span style="color: #38761d;">Page:
“God trump is a loathsome human.” </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>Strzok: “Omg
[Trump’s] an idiot. </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>Page: “He’s awful.” </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>Strzok: “God Hillary
should win 100,000,000-0.” </i></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>Strzok: “Also did you
hear [Trump] make a comment about the size of his d*ck earlier? This man cannot
be president.” </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>3 May 2016 </i>–
Donald Trump becomes presumptive GOP candidate for President. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: #990000;">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="color: #990000;">(<i>Washington Free Beacon</i>
stops its backing of opposition research against Trump by <b><i>Fusion GPS</i></b>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>April 2016 – <span style="color: #990000;">Attorney
for Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC hire Fusion GPS </span></i></b><span style="color: #990000;">to investigate
Trump.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>June 2016 – <span style="color: #990000;">Fusion
GPS subcontracted </span></i></b><span style="color: #990000;">Christopher Steele, former head of the Russia Desk
for British Intelligence (MI6), to compile 16 memos (from June to November,
prior to the election, plus one in December 2016) that came to be called the <b><i>Steele
Dossier</i></b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Reports were sent to the
FBI-NY in July and FBI-DC in September. </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier">Russia_</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier">dossier</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>June 2016 </i>– <span style="color: blue;">The
Democratic National Committee announces that Russian hackers have broken into
the party's servers. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">(WikiLeaks)</span> </span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>June 2016 </i>– <span style="color: blue;">Just
weeks before Attorney General Loretta Lynch is to decide if Hillary Clinton
will be prosecuted for CLASSIFIED emails on an un-secure server, her husband,
and former President, Bill Clinton meets with Lynch. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">(Lynch announced she would accept recommendations from career prosecutors and the FBI Director regarding the investigations into Hillary Clinton, although both Lynch and
Bill Clinton deny discussing the case during the Phoenix tarmac meeting.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>2 July 2016 – </i><span style="color: blue;">Clinton
interviewed by FBI. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">“Her lack of technological sophistication evident in
her memoir <i>What Happened</i>. [She assumed] Her server was protected from
hacking [because it was] in a home guarded by the Secret Service.” [p182 of
Comey’s <i>Higher Loyalty</i> book]</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>July 2016 – NYTimes
reports: </i></b>“Among the [hacked DNC]
emails … were several embarrassing messages that suggest the committee’s
chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, and other
officials favored Hillary Clinton over Mr. [Bernie] Sanders …” (Schultz resigns
as DNC chairwoman 24 July 2016)</span></div>
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COMEY'S UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June 2017, when the FBI investigation discovered over 100 CLASSIFIED emails on Hillary Clinton's non-secure server, FBI Director James Comey was placed in an impossible situation. <b>A mere four months before the November 2016 election</b>, the Democratic Party candidate for President, and her staff, was discovered to have mishandled CLASSIFIED information, up to and including TOP SECRET. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Normally, the FBI would report their finding to the Attorney General who would decide whether or not to make it public. The AG would decide whether or not to prosecute Clinton for this breach of security. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>However, Attorney General Loretta Lynch had compromized herself from the email investigation when her Phoenix airport tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton became public! Therefore, Comey would have to report the issue to the Deputy Attorney General and it was unclear what would happen at that juncture.</b> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Comey knew that, unless he took immediate action, the FBI finding would (almost) certainly leak and be published. That would have put the FBI and the Justice Department in a very bad position. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">If a decision was made to prosecute Hillary Clinton, that would have totally disrupted the 2016 Presidential election. Whether Clinton decided to step aside and let the Democratic Party put her Vice-Presidential running mate or someone else up for President, or if she decided to continue running for that office, it would have torn our Country apart.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, Comey, without informing his superior at the Justice Department (AG Lynch) or hardly anyone else, decided to hold a news conference, make the FBI findings public, and express his view that no prosecutor would charge Clinton for what she and her staff had done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>5 July 2016 </i>– <span style="color: blue;">Comey
holds a press conference saying:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>FBI investigation found
110 CLASSIFIED emails (TOP SECRET, SECRET, and CONFIDENTIAL) on her non-secure
server, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Clinton was “extremely
careless”<sup>1,2,3</sup> but did not commit any criminal wrongdoing. FBI will
not recommend charges be brought against Clinton.</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Earlier draft of Comey's statement said “grossly negligent”, it was changed to “extremely careless” </b></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Statement that the sheer volume of information classified as Secret supported an inference of gross negligence was removed. </b></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Statement that it was “reasonably likely” that hostile actors gained access to Clinton’s private email server was changed to “possible”. </b></span></li>
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WHAT DOES "CLASSIFIED INFORMATION" MEAN ?</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my career as a System Engineer working on military systems, I've had a security clearance and have worked with this type of material. My office was in a secure, guarded building, and I had a safe in my office where I could store CLASSIFIED documents at the CONFIDENTIAL and SECRET levels. I was allowed to read these documents in my office, and discuss the material with others who were working on the project, had appropriate clearance, and had a "need to know" this material to do their jobs. I was NOT allowed to enter any CLASSIFIED information into my office PC nor discuss it on my office telephone. When I needed to create a document including CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET information, I was required to do so in a separate office where the PCs were isolated from the Internet or any external connenction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Information at the CONFIDENTIAL and SECRET level is defined as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(CONFIDENTIAL) Info whose unauthorized disclosure would cause lowest level of damage. </b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">[Stored in a locked safe in my
office, in a secure, guarded building. NO CLASSIFIED INFO ON MY PC or phone.]</span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(SECRET) Info whose unauthorized disclosure would cause “serious damage”. [Stored in a locked safe in my
office, in a secure, guarded building. NO CLASSIFIED INFO ON MY PC or phone.]</b></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I worked on a few projects at the TOP SECRET / SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information), I was NOT allowed to have documents at that level in my office, and was NOT allowed to discuss this information in my office. I had to do all work involving information at the TS level in a special set of offices, with special electronic shielding and isolation, called a "SCIF" (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility)</span></div>
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OFFICE – ONLY IN SCIF.]</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>THUS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION REQUIRES A SPECIAL LEVEL OF CARE AND PROTECTION FROM UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE, AND TOP SECRET INFORMATION REUIRES AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE PROTECTION.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>In my experience, all
projects have SECURITY GUIDELINES specifying what TYPES of information are
classified, and at what LEVEL.</b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Information is NOT
classified because it is marked as such, it is marked BECAUSE it is classified.</b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>If I saw information
that SHOULD have been classified was mishandled or not marked, I would have
corrected the situation. </b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>If I had entered
CLASSIFIED information into the PC in my office (in a secure, guarded building)
I would have gone to jail – or at least, would have lost my security clearance,
and therefore my job.</i></b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>If I had stored TOP
SECRET / SCI information in my locked safe in my office, I would have gone to
jail – or at least, would have lost my security clearance, and therefore my
job.</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">THEREFORE, I WAS APPLALLED TO HEAR THAT A LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, AND HER STAFF, HAD TREATED CLASSIFIIED INFORMATION IN SUCH A CAVIALIER MANNER. NEVER-THE-LESS, II ACCEPTED COMEY'S CONTROVERSIAL DECISION TO MAKE THE FBI INVESTIGATION INFORMATION PUBLIC, AND NOT TEAR OUR CONTRY APART BY PROSECUTING CLINTON. </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>31 July 2016 </i>– <span style="color: #990000;">FBI
begins an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. [Lead by
Strzok]</span></span></b></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>6 August 2016 – <span style="color: #38761d;">Page:
“…Trump should go f himself.” Strzok:
“And F Trump.” Page: “And maybe you’re
meant to stay where you are because <u>you’re meant to protect the country from
that menace</u>.” Strzok: “<u>I can protect our country at many levels</u>”</span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>8 August 2016 </i>– <i>Page:
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Strzok: “No. No he’s not. <u>We’ll stop
it</u>.” </i></b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>15 August 2016 </i>– <i>Strzok:
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s [FBI
Deputy Director McCabe’s] office — that there’s no way he [Trump] gets elected
— but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an <u>insurance policy </u>in
the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”</i></b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>26 August 2016 – Strzok:
“Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support....”
</i></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>2 September 2016 </i>–
<i>Page: “potus [President Obama] wants to know <u>everything</u> we are doing”
[My <u>underlines</u>]</i></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>September 2016 – </i><span style="color: blue;">AG
Loretta Lynch told Comey to call FBI INVESTIGATION of Clinton’s CLASSIFIED
emails a "MATTER". </span></b><b>“Federal Bureau of MATTERS” (Inside FBI joke :^) </b>[p169 of Comey’s <i>Higher
Loyalty</i> book]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><i>7 October 2016</i> –
NBC <i>Access Hollywood </i>tape (from 2005) released, reported by MSNBC and
others. Trump brags that liberated women allow Rich Celebrities like himself to
grab their private parts. Voters are well aware of Trump’s disgusting personal
morality. Public knowledge that each of Trump’s three wives were cheated on.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>28 October 2016</i> –
<span style="color: blue;">Comey letter informs Congress new emails have been found that are relevant to
the investigation into Hillary Clinton. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">Aide Huma Abedin gave laptop with
Clinton emails to husband, Anthony Weiner, himself the subject of an unrelated
FBI investigation of sexting with a 15-year-old girl. ”<b><u>Weinergate.</u></b>”</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>31 October 2016 </i></b>–
<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Mother Jones </i>reports “Russian Operation to Cultivate Trump”, but did not
relate it to what came to be called the <i>Steele Dossier</i>. Other
journalists were aware of related info, but did not publish it.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>3 November 2016 – <span style="color: #38761d;">Page:
“The nyt [New York Times] probability numbers are dropping every day. I’m
scared for our organization.” </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #38761d;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Strzok: “[Jill] Stein
and moron [Gary] Johnson are F’ing everything up, too.”</span> </i></b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>7 November 2016 </i>–
<span style="color: blue;">Comey clears Hillary Clinton once again. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">He says the new Weiner emails do
not point to any wrongdoing by Clinton.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>7 November 2016
– <span style="color: #38761d;">Strzok: [Referencing an article
entitled “A victory by Mr. Trump remains possible,”] “OMG THIS IS F*CKING
TERRIFYING.” </span></i></b><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>9 November 2016 </i>–
Donald Trump wins the presidential election, based on Electoral Vote (but
Hillary Clinton wins Popular Vote).</b></span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>ELECTION RESULTS: </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> TRUMP CLINTON MARGIN</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Popular Vote: </b>46.1% <b><u>48.2% </u></b> 2.1%
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Electoral College:</b> <b><u>306 (-2*)</u></b> 232
(-5*) 13.8% </span>*”Faithless
Electors”</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Sports Analogies: </b>Runs/Points/Baskets
vs Hits/Yards/Throws. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Baseball, the team that gets the most Hits usually also gets the most Runs. However, sometimes the team with the most Hits gets fewer Runs, but they accept the loss, knowing that, according to the rules, the only thing that counts is runners actually getting around all the bases and touching Home Plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, in Football, the team that makes the most Yardage when they control the ball also gets the most Points for Field Goals and Touchdowns. <span style="background-color: white;">H<span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">owever, sometimes the team with the most Yardage gets fewer Points, but they accept the loss, knowing that, according to the rules, the only thing that counts is the football going over the crossbar between the uprights for a Field Goal, or being carried into the end zone for a Touchdown.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet another example, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">in Basketball, the team that makes the most Throws where the ball hits the hoop also gets the most Baskets. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">H<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">owever, sometimes the team with the most Throws gets fewer Baskets, but they accept the loss, knowing that, according to the rules, the only thing that counts is the basketbal going through the hoop.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite obviously,
If rules changed, team strategy would also change. If the winner of US Presidential Elections was determined by National Popular Vote, Trump would have campaigned more in California and New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>9 November 2016 </i>–
<i><span style="color: #38761d;">Page: “Are you even going to give out your calendars? [‘funny and snarky’
calendars of Russian President Vladimir Putin] Seems kind of depressing. Maybe
it should just be the first meeting of the <u>secret society</u>.” [My <u>underline</u>]
</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>13 November 2016 – <span style="color: #38761d;">Page:
“I bought all the president’s men. Figure I needed to brush up on <u>watergate</u>.”</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>COMEY Looks Back at the 2016 Election </b>[p204 of
Comey’s <i>Higher Loyalty</i> book]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“Like many others I was
surprised when Donald Trump was
elected president. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“I had assumed from media polling that Hillary
Clinton was going to win.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“I have asked myself
many times if I was influenced by that assumption. I don’t know. …</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“I was making decisions
in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my
concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted
investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared
closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in the polls.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>December 2016 </i>– US
Intel agencies say "high confidence" that Russia hacked Democratic
Party servers. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>9 December 2016 – <span style="color: #990000;">Steele
and <i>Fusion GPS </i>agree to pass 16 <i>Steele Dossier</i> memos to Sen. John
McCain who personally passes them to FBI Director Comey. </span></b><span style="color: #990000;">[But recall that <i>Steele
Dossier </i>reports had been sent to the FBI <u>before</u> the election. To FBI-NY
in July and FBI-DC in September.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>6 January 2017 – <span style="color: #990000;">Comey
informs President-Elect Trump of <i>Steele Dossier</i>. Comey did not tell
Trump it was partially funded by DNC and Hillary campaign. </span></b><span style="color: #990000;">[Memo #1 of
seven that are reproduced in the August 2019 IG Report on pages 64 through 77, and described below.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #1</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>January 6, 2017
Intelligence Community Directors, including Comey, meet with President-elect
Trump and his national security team at Trump Tower to discuss the Intelligence
Community Assessment; Comey then meets with the President-elect one-on-one to
alert Trump to “salacious and unverified” allegations about his 2013 trip to
Moscow that the media may soon publish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>January 7, 2017 Comey
finishes drafting Memo 1 on the FBI's secure computer system about the Trump
Tower briefing and marks Memo 1 with the classification “SECRET//NOFORN/ORCON.”
Comey emails Memo 1 to his Chief of Staff, the FBI Deputy Director, and the FBI
General Counsel using the FBI's secure computer system. Comey does not take a
copy of Memo 1 home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>10 January 2017 – <span style="color: #990000;"><i>CNN</i>
reports essence of <i>Steele Dossier </i>and <i>Buzzfeed</i> publishes 35 pages
of it. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>According to COMEY: </b>[p188
of his <i>Higher Loyalty</i> book]:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="color: #990000;">The Russians: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b> “… sought to undermine confidence in the
American democratic enterprise – to dirty us up … wanted to hurt Hillary Clinton. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“Putin hated her,
blaming her personally for large street demonstrations in Moscow in 2011 …</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>“Putin wanted to help
Donald Trump win. … appreciation of business leaders who cut deals rather than
stand on principle …” </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #2</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>January 27, 2017 Comey has
dinner with President Trump at the White House. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>January 28, 2017 Comey
finishes writing Memo 2 on his personal laptop about his dinner the night
before with President Trump. It states that during dinner, among other things,
Trump told Comey he needed and expected “loyalty.” </span></div>
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<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l16 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Memo 2 also describes an
unrelated comment by the President about the relative importance of returning
telephone calls from three different countries, one of which the Memo notes the
President mentioned twice. Comey does not mark Memo 2 as classified. Comey
places a signed printout of Memo 2 in his personal safe at home and gives a
second signed printout to his Chief of Staff to keep at the FBI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>During a classification
review in June 2017 (by Page and Strzok !), the FBI determines that six words
in the Memo recounting the President's comment about returning telephone calls
are classified “CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN” because of the potential impact on
foreign relations. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Lisa Page and Peter Strzok CLASSIFIED Comey Memo #2 and
#7 ! [IG p42]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></span></b>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #3</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>February 8, 2017 Comey
writes Memo 3 on a classified FBI computer system because he believes Memo 3
contains classified FISA information. Memo 3 summarizes Comey's interactions
that afternoon with Trump's then-Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, then-National
Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and President Trump. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Comey does not mark the
printout of Memo 3 as classified before sharing it with others at the FBI.
Comey does not take a copy of Memo 3 home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>The FBI determines in June
2017 that Memo 3 contains information classified as “SECRET//NOFORN.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #4</span><br />
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<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>February 14, 2017 Comey
writes Memo 4 on his personal laptop describing, among other things, a
one-on-one meeting that day with President Trump. According to Memo 4, Trump
stated that he hoped Comey could “see [his] way clear...to letting [Michael]
Flynn go.” At the time, Flynn was the subject of a non-public FBI
investigation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Comey does not mark Memo 4
as classified. Comey places one signed printout of Memo 4 in his personal safe
at home and gives a second signed printout to his Chief of Staff to keep at the
FBI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>The FBI determines in June
2017 that Memo 4 does not contain classified information, but marks it as
“FOUO.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #5</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>March 1, 2017 Comey drafts
Memo 5, a 4-line email to his Chief of Staff, on his unclassified FBI mobile
device to summarize a non-substantive telephone call that day with President
Trump. Comey does not mark Memo 5 as classified, and does not take a copy of
Memo 5 home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>In June 2017, the FBI
determines it is not classified, but marks it as “FOUO.” </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
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<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l19 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><i>20 March 2017 </i>– <span style="color: #990000;">Testifying
before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey confirms the FBI is
investigating any connections between Russia and Mr. Trump's associates and
whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia's
meddling.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #6</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>March 20, 2017 Comey
testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
at a hearing titled the Russian Active Measures Investigation. Comey acknowledges the FBI’s open
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, but
repeatedly refuses to answer questions about the scope of the investigation or
specify who was under investigation, referencing the need to protect the
integrity of the investigation and the privacy rights of those under
investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>March 30, 2017 Comey writes
Memo 6 on the unclassified FBI system in his office to describe a 10-minute
telephone call with President Trump that morning. According to the Memo, Trump
asked what Comey “could do to lift the cloud” of the FBI's Russia
investigation. Comey gives a signed printout of Memo 6 to his Chief of Staff to
keep at the FBI, and takes a second signed printout home to store in his
personal safe. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Comey does not mark Memo 6
as classified. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>In June 2017, the FBI
determines that Memo 6 is not classified, but marks it as “FOUO.”</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l23 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>April 2017 </i>– <span style="color: #990000;">Rod
Rosenstein confirmed as Deputy Attorney General. </span></b><span style="color: #990000;">(To oversee the DOJ Russia
Collusion investigation, because AG Sessions recused himself due to not
informing the Senate about a meeting with the Russian ambassador prior to
Election Day.)</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l23 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>May 2017 – <span style="color: blue;">Comey testifies
before the Senate Judiciary Committee. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">(He says that he has no regrets
about how he conducted the investigation into Clinton, although it makes him
"mildly nauseous" to think that the FBI could have affected the
outcome of the election.)</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l23 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>May 2017 – <span style="color: blue;">Clinton says
Comey's October 28th letter contributed to her defeat. </span></b><span style="color: blue;">"If the
election had been on October 27, I would be your president," Clinton said
during an interview. "I was on the way to winning until the combination of
Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the
minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off — and the
evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling [and] persuasive.“</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l23 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>May 2017 – <span style="color: #990000;">DAG
Rosenstein appoints Special Counsel, Robert Mueller III, to investigate Russian
meddling in 2016 election, and possible collusion by the Trump team.</span></b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">IG Report on Memo #7</span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>April 11, 2017 Comey drafts
Memo 7, a 2-paragraph memo, on the unclassified FBI system in his office to
summarize a brief telephone call with President Trump that morning. According
to the Memo, Trump said he was “following up to see if [Comey] did what [Trump]
had asked last time— getting out that [Trump] is not personally under
investigation.” Paragraph 2 of Memo 7 summarizes an unrelated foreign policy
discussion. Comey signs two printouts of Memo 7. Comey gives one to his Chief
of Staff to keep at the FBI, and he stores the other in his personal safe at
his house. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Comey does not mark Memo 7
classified, but as described below, redacts the second paragraph of Memo 7
before sending it to his attorneys on May 14. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>The FBI determined in June
2017 that the second paragraph of Memo 2 contained Presidential comments about
foreign affairs that are classified “CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN.” </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l12 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>May 9, 2017 President Trump
removes Comey as FBI Director and orders that Comey be barred from entering FBI
Headquarters. May 11, 2017 The New York Times publishes an article regarding
the January 27 dinner meeting described in Memo 2, stating that Trump asked for
Comey's “loyalty.” Richman acknowledged that he was a source for the article,
and that Comey had described to him what Comey said was President Trump's
request for loyalty at the dinner. At that time, Richman had not yet seen Memo
2. </span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><i><u><span style="font-size: large;">Timeline – 2017
COMEY Out of TRUMP Administration</span></u></i></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo19; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>9 May 2017 – <span style="color: blue;">Trump fires
Comey, SUPPOSEDLY over his missteps in the Clinton email case </span></b><span style="color: blue;">(Letters from
Rosenstein and Sessions make the case that Comey should be dismissed for
mishandling the Clinton case.)</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo19; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: #990000;">
</span></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="color: #990000;">… but significantly due
to Russian Collusi</span><span style="color: #990000;">on investigation. </span></b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Both COMEY and CLINTON </span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Mishandled CLASSIFIED
Information </span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Secretary CLINTON Director COMEY</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<br />
<b><u><br /></u></b>
<b><u>Quantity</u> over 60,000 7 </b><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u>Deleted</u> over 30,000 0 (all in FBI system)</b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b> <i>(BleachBit) </i></b></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u>Classified</u> 110 4</b></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5in; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><u></u></b></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5in; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
-<span style="font-family: "quot"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>22 TOP SECRET 0 TOP SECRET</b></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5in; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
-<span style="font-family: "quot"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>65 SECRET 2 SECRET</b></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5in; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
-<span style="font-family: "quot"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>23 CONFIDENTIAL 2 CONFIDENTIAL</b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><u></u><u></u><br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u>Properly marked when
written</u> 0 1 SECRET</b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b> 1 CONFIDENTIAL</b></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span>-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u>Classified later</u> 110 2 CONFIDENTIAL</b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> (by Page and Strzok!)</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style="color: black;">- <u>CLASSIFIED Items</u> 110 in non-secure 2 in Comey's locked desk,</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style="color: black;"><u>Improperly Stored</u> </span></b><b><span style="color: black;"> server, Anthony 1 in his lawyer's office.</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style="color: black;"> Weiner's laptop, ...</span></b></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l17 level1 lfo20; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"><u></u><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo21; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">4 May 2018 – <span style="color: #38761d;">Lisa
Page resigns from FBI. Peter Strzok is demoted to FBI Human Resources
Department.</span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l14 level1 lfo21; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>18 April 2019 –
Mueller Report issued. Comey had violated FBI policy and exceeded his authority
in making Clinton CLASSIFIED email information public. </b></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l14 level2 lfo21; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: #990000;">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Russian Collusion</i>:
The investigation did not find sufficient evidence the Trump campaign
"coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its
election-interference activities“.</span></b></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l14 level2 lfo21; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i>Obstruction of
Justice</i>: The investigation "does not conclude that the
President committed a crime"; however, "it also does not exonerate
him“. </b></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Actions Taken Due to June 2018 IG Report:<br />
NO PROSECUTION OF COMEY</h2>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: large;">In June 2018, DOJ inspector
general <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Horowitz">Michael
Horowitz</a> told the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Judiciary_Committee">Senate
Judiciary Committee</a> that he had received a referral from the FBI regarding
Comey's release of his Trump meeting memos to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Richman">Daniel Richman</a>, parts
of which were classified "confidential" after the fact.<sup><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">[202]</a></sup> </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>The DOJ decided in July
2019 to not prosecute Comey, with Fox News quoting one official saying,
"Everyone at the DOJ involved in the decision said it wasn’t a close call.
</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l18 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">•<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>They all thought this could
not be prosecuted."<sup><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">[203</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">https</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">Comey</a></span> </div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
August 2019 IG Report <br />
Specific Charges Against Comey</h2>
<br />
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="A">
<li style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The
Memos were FBI Records<sup> [IG p52]</sup> </span></b></li>
<li style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Comey
Violated Department and FBI Policies Pertaining to the Retention, Handling,
and Dissemination of FBI Records and Information<sup>[IG p54]</sup></span></b></li>
</ol>
<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">1 - Comey Failed to Return Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 after Being Removed as FBI
Director Comey violated Department and FBI policies, and the terms of his FBI
Employment Agreement, by retaining copies of Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 after he was
removed as Director, regardless of each Memo's classification level.<sup>[IG
p55]</sup></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2 - Comey Improperly Disclosed FBI Documents and
Information. Comey violated FBI policies and the requirements of his FBI
Employment Agreement when he sent a copy of Memo 4 to Richman with instructions
to provide the contents to a reporter, and when he transmitted copies of Memos
2, 4, 6, and a redacted version of 7 to his three attorneys.<sup>[IG p56 thru
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Comey Failed to Immediately Alert the FBI to the Unauthorized Disclosure of
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Actions Taken Due to August 2019 IG Report:<br />
NO PROSECUTION OF COMEY</h2>
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August 29, 2019, IG Horowitz found that Comey violated agency policies when he
retained a set of memos he wrote documenting meetings with President Donald
Trump early in 2017, and caused one of them to be leaked to the press.<sup><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">[22]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">[204]</a></sup> </span></div>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Though Comey is said by the
report to have set a "dangerous example" for FBI employees in an
attempt to "achieve a personally desired outcome," the Inspector
General has found "no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of
the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">COMEY wrote that his
book title “came out of a bizarre dinner meeting at the White House, where
[newly-elected President Trump] demanded my loyalty – to him, personally – over
my duties as FBI director to the American people. …</span></b></div>
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sense, the title is the culmination of four decades in law … I learned from
those around me … that there is a higher loyalty in all of our lives – not to a
person, not to a party, not to a group. The higher loyalty is to lasting
values, most important the truth.” </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> IS THERE A LESSON HERE ?</span></b><br />
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On 19 July, I spoke to the Philosophy Club and noted ten "Lessons" I had learned in life (see <span style="color: black; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -24px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html">PART 1</a> - <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html">PART </a><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html">2</a> - <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-3.html">PART </a><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-3.html">3</a> - <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html">PART </a><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html">4</a> - <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-5.html">PART </a><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-5.html">5</a> - <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-6.html">PART </a><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-6.html">6</a>). </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lesson #7: IT IS EASIER TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AFTER THE EVENT THAN FOR PERMISSION BEFOREHAND</b></span><br />
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CONCLUSIONS</h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Assuming (as I do) that all the facts in the reports on Comey by Inspector General Michael Horowitz are true, and James Comey, while FBI Director, violated multiple FBI policies during his service there, <b><u>why did the Justice Department decline to prosecute</u></b>? (And why do I agree with their "no prosecute" decision?)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Clearly, because we (Horowitz and I) accept that there is, in Comey's words, a "Higher Loyalty" that trumps FBI policies!</span></b><br />
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Clinton CLASSIFIED email investigation</h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">It is clear to me that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff repeatedly placed TOP SECRET and SECRET information on a non-secure server and transmitted sensitive National Security information over the open Internet. I think it is almost certain that the sensitive information in those emails is now in the hands of Russia, China and possibly other foreign government agencies, and that that has caused GRAVE and SERIOUS DAMAGE to US interests around the world by revealing critical US intelligence sources and methods to our enemies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the sometimes heated discussion that followed my talk, some audience members, who have dealt with this level of sensitive information in their professional careers, insisted that Clinton should have been prosecuted. They said they would be in jail had they even done a tenth of what she did! I agree with them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, what would have happened to our Country had Comey recommended that? With the election mere months away, the Presidential Candidate for a major party should be prosecuted? I think the resultant turmoil and political infighting would have torn our Country apart!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, what if Comey had followed FBI policies and reported his findings, in confidence, to Attorney General Loretta Lynch? As a political appointee, I have no doubt she would have ordered Comey to keep the MATTER :') quiet and continue the investigation, running out the clock to the November election. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had that happened, I have no doubt someone at the FBI would have leaked the information. It would have come out in a form and manner that would have been even more damaging to Candidate Clinton, and would have torn our Country apart!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By taking the middle Road, violating FBI policies and announcing his findings directly to the public as he did in his news conference, I think Comey did the right thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The public had the information and could weigh it over the coming few months to the election, and possibly change their vote, or not, given the new information. Both major parties had the time to spin the new information. The Democrats had the time to soften the impact with excuses, cross-charges, and other political tactics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, in her book "What Happened" Hillary Clinton wrote that, had the election been on October 27th, she would have won. If she is right about that, and based on polling at the time, I think she is, the Democrats would have spun the story down to nearly nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that was not to be! a former Democratic Congressman (with the perfect name of "Weiner") had been caught sexting with a 15-year-old girl, and, in an unrelated FBI investigation in New York, his laptop computer had been seized. It turned out that computer had belonged to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, a key aide to Clinton, and it was loaded with thousands of emails from Clinton's time as Secretary of State. OY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Were any of the over 30,000 emails Clinton's staff had deleted on Weiner's laptop? Were any CLASSIFIED Clinton emails there? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once more, Comey had to violate FBI policies and write a letter to Congress informing them that his earlier testimony about Clinton's CLASSIFIED emails was now in question. I say he had no choice because, had he not made the new information public, it would certainly have leaked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, on October 28th, Comey sent his letter to Congress, which, of course, rapidly leaked to the media. With the election less than ten days away, November 9th, the Democrats had no time to spin this new news away. On November 7th, Comey stated that the FBI had examined the emails on Weiner's laptop and found nothing new. But, it was too late. Clinton lost her bid to be President.</span><br />
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Comey Memos Investigation</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Comey wrote a memo in January 2017 documenting his troubling private meeting with President-Elect Trump, and six more from January to April 2017 documenting additional interactions with President Trump. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He classified two of them as SECRET and properly initialed and entered copies of all of them into the FBI data system. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After he was fired by Trump, he properly turned over all copies of the classified memos but retained four unclassified memos in his locked desk drawer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He conveyed information to his friend (<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">from Memo #2, regarding Trump's request for "loyalty"</span>) and asked him to inform the New York Times, which he did. Comey later emailed copies of those four memos to his lawyers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the subsequent FBI investigation, two of those four memos were classified CONFIDENTIAL (by Page and Strzok !?!) because they revealed negative comments by President Trump about the leaders of some European and African countries. </span><br />
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BOTTOM LINE</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The latest IG Report does not change my opinion that James Comey, while NOT the PERFECT, FEARLESS, FLAWLESS, STERLING PUBLIC SERVANT we once thought he was, is as close to that ideal as we are likely to find at the highest levels of the US government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look forward to reading the next IG Report on the FISA controversy to see if that diminishes Comey's reputation. </span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Prof Irahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251101984753209501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-6616504717346297672019-10-02T22:05:00.001-04:002020-01-02T10:03:04.462-05:00Economic making of an old, white male !<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">[FROM BILL LIFKA - Lightly edited and published based on Bill's prior blanket approval. Bill is about nine years my senior. I too was trained to appreciate real productive labor, helping my dad with woodworking, plumbing and electrical work. I credit my several summers selling ice cream on the beach in Brooklyn, carrying dry ice coolers on my shoulders and shouting, "Hey! Ice Cream Here! Good Humor Ice Cream and Orange Drink!" with helping me develop a strong speaking voice. My final two summers of college were spent gaining incredibly valuable knowledge working as a technical writer. </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ira Glickstein</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">]</span><br />
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TO MY ADULT GRANDCHILDREN</h3>
This is another tale of how I became an old, white male and, therefore, became hated by political leftists. In this story, I recall how business experiences, starting at age 9, shaped my adult economic views. It’s likely that other old, white men had similar experiences. !<br />
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On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and America entered the Great Depression. Nineteen days later, I was born into a world vastly different from what my parents had expected it to be. The prices of stocks recovered somewhat, but the bad economic times lasted until 1939 and some argue 1941.<br />
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Economists are still disagreeing over what caused the collapse, so it’s clear the financiers and politicians of the time were wasting their time in applying what they guessed were corrective measures. Since then, banking and government gurus have developed techniques of predicting economic trends much better and applying remedies that may soften the fall but these are more like taking an aspirin than getting a shot of penicillin. !<br />
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DINNERS OF HOT DOGS OR CHEESE AND MACARONI</h3>
The Depression accounted for many dinners of hot dogs or cheese and macaroni which made no impression on me at the time since kids like that kind of food. I’m approaching ninety years of age, so I guess inexpensive food wasn’t all bad. Now I look back and understand how the mothers/wives of that time handled hard times. When I entered the business world big time, I already knew good times are followed by bad times and it’s wise to save something in the good years to soften the coming blow. I knew the way to deal with a fixed or lowered income was to spend less, eliminate waste and recognize most “needs” were really only “wants”. !<br />
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WORKING IN THE BUSINESS WORLD</h3>
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I entered the business world at my ninth birthday by delivering newspapers: Chicago Daily News after school on weekdays and Chicago Tribune on Sunday mornings. It was a business because newsboys purchased the papers at a discount and received earnings only after they collected the full price from customers. Delinquent account receivables were the biggest challenge: some people have no conscience problems, even if the person they’re cheating is only nine years old. That irritated me but was good to learn at an early age.<br />
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Before I could go into the newspaper business, I needed a bicycle with an oversize front basket. If I would pay back the loan with earnings, my mother provided the money which gave her the idea our family needed my earnings after the loan was repaid. Therefore, my personal income was only the five or ten cent tips, less uncollectible accounts receivable, of course. I learned the use of business loans and bargained harder with bankers after that. Also, I became a bit hardnosed in collecting unpaid bills. !<br />
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Through High School and College, I had summer jobs and jobs on most weekends during the school years. All these required a back stronger than a brain but, from all jobs combined, I learned more about business from them than I did in school even though I had many business courses with my engineering degree and my MBA was all business. (You may have noticed I titled this letter with the word “economics” and I repeatedly use the word “business”. I know there is a difference in the dictionary, but not in my mind.) !<br />
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For two summers, I was a day laborer on the truck farms surrounding the greater Chicago area. In the first year I worked mostly for the worst boss of the lot. It was a miserable experience but taught me much of how to be a good boss. In the second year, I worked mostly for the best boss which <br />
confirmed what I’d learned from the bad guy. I worked with day laborers of identity groups other then mine (young, white male) and shared the insecurity and frustrations of being a day laborer. The next two summers, having reached adult size, I was a railroad section hand, replacing worn ties, rails and switches. Close teamwork was required to perform work that was fundamentally dangerous if one of the team members had poor timing, poor accuracy or paid poor attention. More than farming, this impressed me with the skills required to succeed at a lowly job. The foreman became my model in later years when I was selecting foremen. !<br />
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FACTORY JOBS</h3>
For two summers I worked in a large factory that fabricated steel casement windows and doors and steel roof trusses for industrial and commercial buildings. I was a material handler, welder and quality inspector in this factory crowded with noisy machines, acrid smells and overhead cranes trundling by with dangling loads. I loved it. Like all my summer jobs, this exposed me to a different kind of worker but that’s in another letter. More than my other jobs, this showed me how the various operations and departments in a factory must relate to each other to produce products profitably.<br />
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Years later, I could walk through a factory and instinctively avoid hazards while pointing them out to foremen who had lived with them for years; this was another thing I learned in my first factory experience. !<br />
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My final summer was spent in a brewery in the bottle shop. Here, all work was machine paced. The fillers, crowners and canners determined the rate at which we had to hand-load them into crates or boxes and then stack the containers after their long conveyor belt ride to the shipping area. One man had the sole job of replenishing the cold quart of beer besides each worker. I mention the drinking because this enhanced the hazards of working close to moving machines, exploding quarts after they left the pasteurizer and the need to scramble up a narrow ladder and across a shaky catwalk if the conveyor feeding cans jammed and was spewing them over the floor 16 feet below. It was a grand introduction to assembly line production techniques, the beginnings of automation, near disregard for safety measures and how workers felt working in those conditions. A short explanation is that the job paid well. !<br />
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PROFESSIONAL JOBS</h3>
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As an adult, I worked in four companies practicing marketing, engineering and manufacturing disciplines and then led twenty eight companies of which twenty were troubled. These were in eight countries in the Western Hemisphere and five in Europe. I had five manufacturing relationships in Asia. My companies’ products were used in dozens of different industries. Obviously, I had broad exposure to many different business cultures and different governments. !<br />
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THE PARTY THAT HATES OLD, WHITE MEN</h3>
The party that hates old, white men is led by folks who aim to change business. Two are 77 and 78 years old who’ve been politicians all their life. Another is 50 and a lifelong politician. One is 70 and she’s been a law professor all her life except being in politics for the last seven years. My least favorite is 1/3rd my age, spent her life in NYC and Boston and worked as a waitress and bartender until becoming a politician 2 years ago. None have had any experience in business but they’re out to change it because they think they know it better than old, white men like me who learned from the bottom up and practiced it successfully for a long time. These pretenders are like those who screwed up businesses in their ignorance and then made it worse by trying to cover up, often illegally. I cleaned up after these frauds and recognize the species, which is one reason to be hated, I guess. !<br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Prof Irahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251101984753209501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-1944757020382245852019-09-12T00:20:00.000-04:002020-01-02T10:04:13.296-05:00 Political making of an old, white male ![FROM BILL LIFKA - Lightly edited and published based on Bill's prior blanket approval. Bill is about nine years my senior. I too was born into a family that voted solid Democrat. FDR's photo hung with honor in my grandparent's kitchen. My Dad (but not my Mom) voted for Eisenhower, probably the first in my childhood family to make the switch. <i>Ira Glickstein</i>]<br />
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To my (adult) grandchildren: </h2>
Political making of an old, white male ! I’ll preface my forthcoming letters on the 2020 election with a few tales of how I became an old, white male, an identity hated by Democrats. Ironically, once I was young and a Democrat.<br />
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It was a fine time and a good thing to be. My friends and relatives were Democrats. Most are now dead but I have new friends and relatives who are Democrats, although not so many!<br />
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I was a Democrat for less time than I was Independent or Republican. I wasn’t registered as a Democrat which may be like Bill Clinton’s having smoked pot but not inhaling. Barack Obama inhaled with pleasure, which may explain a lot about his politics.<br />
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Born a Democrat</h2>
My credentials as a past Democrat might be questioned but current Democrats of my age would recognize me as a kindred spirit. I was born as a Democrat like I was born as an American and a Catholic, all being compatible at the time.<br />
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I chose to be a paper boy and a Cub Scout at the age of nine. Those were the first observable signs I had started to think on my own although there’d been covert outbreaks of latent Libertarianism from the age of three!<br />
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FDR</h2>
I never thought much about why I was a Democrat other than as a blessing of birth. When FDR ran for his second term as president, my mother explained that all should vote for Roosevelt because, “He was for the poor people, like us.” Being six years old, I always accepted what my mother told me as long as it didn’t interfere with my plans for that day. Even so, I thought it was a strange argument since I didn’t feel particularly poor. Starting with my being a paper boy, it seemed even stranger since all I needed to do to have money in my pocket was to do a little work and just doing the work made me feel good about myself, also.<br />
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Then too, I found it hard to understand why FDR was so great if he was for losers. I was for the Chicago Cubs because, in those days, the Cubs had won two pennants. If my mother had said FDR was going to turn losers into winners I would have understood it was like hiring a new manager for the White Sox!<br />
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Despite my youthful confusion, I did come to understand why people would vote for FDR even if they weren’t born Democrats. In fact, I think I would have voted for him if I were over twenty one at the time because he did talk a good story and engaged the federal government in a lot of activity, especially for a guy who needed to operate out of a wheelchair. Now I know that activity shouldn’t be mistaken for progress, but in those days it caused most people to feel better even though the depression just went on and on until the war.<br />
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When it came to the war, FDR was one of the better presidents because of his ability to convince Americans all would turn out well in the end. It also helped that he picked an outstanding leader for the military forces and was convinced, mostly by his wife, to let businessmen lead industrial mobilization.<br />
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Like his cousin, an earlier president, FDR wasn’t comfortable with the private sector and distrusted all who were in it because they wouldn’t kowtow to his economic ideas and lack of experience in their field!<br />
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Harry Truman</h2>
By the time Harry Truman came along, I was learning things that caused doubts about FDR but, still a born Democrat, I would have voted for Harry if I were twenty one because Tom Dewey’s mustache made him look sneaky to my eyes. On the other hand, it seemed clear that Harry was straightforward and outspoken and I liked the sign on his desk, “The buck stops here!” He was a guy who took responsibility for his actions and had made tough decisions without flinching over what people might say about him. Even then, I knew those were important traits for a leader. He made some mistakes but <br />
if I were transported back in time with my present knowledge, I’m sure I would vote for him and not because I was born a Democrat!<br />
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My family never got anything from the Democrat Party, even though FDR was for poor people. Mostly, the Party functioned in the large cities, like Chicago, and they got people work. This was a good thing that people had to work for their money, like being a garbage man. It was true that higher ups might be building inspectors and depended on bribes for extra money but they had to support their families and, come election time, they had to work hard for no pay in “getting out the vote” which meant getting people out to vote. This was harder than it might seem, especially when some voters resided in cemeteries.<br />
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On a national level, FDR did find work for many in the CCC where they built forest preserve shelters and other needed public works. My relatives found work for each other like when my father introduced his brother and two brothers-in-law to his boss. That didn’t stop them from being good Democrats even if they made a living on their own!<br />
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Ike</h2>
Even though I was a born Democrat, Ike seemed to be an obvious choice over Adlai Stevenson. Adlai was a very bright guy and witty speaker but had the real world depth of a driveway puddle. With Eisenhower, I drifted away from my Democrat birthright but only to that place in between called Independent. I don’t blame Independents for giving up on both Political Parties. Both have earned that treatment. On the other hand it’s sort of like the idea of Purgatory, a place neither heaven nor hell. I can understand why one might choose hell for all the fun that comes before or heaven for all the fun that comes later.<br />
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John Kennedy</h2>
Choosing the in-between is hard to fathom. Nevertheless, I felt comfortable there and then John Kennedy came along! In retrospect, I should have suspected all wasn’t right about Kennedy. But he looked so good, had such an endearing family and talked so convincingly, it was easy to succumb to his charm. By that time, I had forgotten I was born a Democrat, but not that I was born a Catholic and was offended that the presidency had eluded Catholics and the previous one who had tried had been rejected primarily because of his religion. JFK was assassinated and, therefore, deserves to be an “American Saint.” If he had served a full two terms, he might well be remembered differently!<br />
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Ronald Reagan</h2>
Ronald Reagan came upon the scene, running against a president who had failed miserably. Nevertheless, Reagan was dismissed for being an actor, forgetting his success as Governor of California and as President of the Actor’s Guild, a working job.<br />
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Converted to the Republican Party</h2>
I converted to the Republican Party during his time in office while retaining the right of occasional dissent over peripheral items of dogma. I had learned how to judge an effective leader of my country based on his past performance in responsible jobs and his character traits as displayed in those positions. I listened to what a candidate said he would do and discounted what others said he would do, especially those who had reason to lie about him.<br />
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I gave no thought to whether we shared a political party, religion, ethnicity or the many peripheral social preferences some politicians, intellectuals or media moguls believe to be of great consequence. Most of all, I imagined how this blessed country of ours might fare under his leadership! I believe I’m wiser as an elector than ever and wonder why a political party that pretends to care for old people and racial and sexual equality hates me for my age, race and gender.<br />
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after retirement, we <span style="background: white;">sold our home in Apalachin,
NY and moved to The Villages, Florida. This turned out to be exactly the right
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Villages is known as "America's Favorite Retirement Home Town". There
must be something in the water or the air, because, like almost all of our
neighbors, we can't help saying "It's a beautiful day in The
Villages" every chance we get. The photo montage below depicts our active
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They say everyone has the makings of a novel in themselves.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What better way or day to introduce my science-based, near-future novel to the world than here and now!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2052hp.blogspot.com/" style="color: #7eb8d4; text-decoration: none;"><strong><em>2052 - The Hawking Plan</em></strong></a> is my free online novel. Please read it and pass it on!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Stephanie Goldenrod strives to save human life and civilization for an infinite future. Amorality, <em>amore</em> and deep ethical and philosophical issues.</strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><em>A post global warming world where humanity has been decimated by genetic engineering disasters.</em></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A brilliant plan to spread human life and civilization far and wide into space as insurance against further disasters here on Earth. <a href="http://2052hp.blogspot.com/" style="color: #7eb8d4; text-decoration: none;"><em><strong>2052 - The Hawking Plan</strong></em></a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, The Villages Science Technology Club hosted a debate on "Human-Caused Global Warming" between me and Don Fogg.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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LEFT: At Shanghai China Disney World, my "Chairman Mao" hat attracted a software engineer who works for Alibaba (Chinese version of Amazon) for an interesting discussion. MIDDLE: At Disney with three of my favorite women, my Wife Vi, Daughter Lisa, and Granddaughter Michaela. RIGHT: Brooklyn T-Shirt atop the Great Wall of China</div>
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A visit of fewer than a dozen days to four popular business and tourist areas in China certainly does not make me any kind of expert on this topic. Therefore, please accept my <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/09/beyond-communism-emergence-of-newly.html">Blog posting</a> on our trip as the questionable opinions of a rather casual observer.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">I began this "To See Ourselves as Others See Us" series of Blog postings with the first appearance of my "Public Image" in the late 1950's newspapers and magazines when I was a college student. In subsequent postings I cited further public appearances of my ideas and writings. Here is a list with links:</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">May 1959, Stories in CCNY College Newspaper regarding my <u><span style="color: #000120;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html#N2">Run for President of Student Government</a></span></u>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">May 1965, Letter to Editor of the <i>NY Times</i> regarding <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html#T2">Abortion</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">November 1969, Article in <i>Toastmasters</i> magazine regarding <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-3.html#M2">Robert's Rules of Order</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">July 1977, Article in <i>Popular Science</i> magazine regarding <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-3.html#M3">Van Bench Bed - Clears away for cargo</a>. Read more <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2010/03/fond-memories-of-popular-science.html?m=1">CLICK HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">July 1978, Letter to Editor of the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">NY Times</i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> regarding </span><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html#T3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Reverse Discrimination</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (Bakke case).</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">May 1980 and June 1980, Stories in our local <i>Binghamton Press</i> newspaper regarding <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#L1">Our daughters Lisa, Rena, and Sara demonstrating the (then groundbreaking) Apple II computers at elementary school and our home, along with Vi's perceptive comments</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">1982 - 1986 IBM <i>Technical Directions</i> magazines promoting some of my advanced avionics system concepts, <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#I1">Multi-Purpose Displays and Dual Mission Computers</a> (Summer 1982), <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#I2">Rational Cockpit and Advanced Automation</a> (Fall 1984), and <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#I3">Artificial Intelligence</a> (Fall 1986).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">1992 Book Chapter <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#B1">"Will Computers Really THINK in the 21st Century" in <i>Visions of the Future</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">1995 Book Chapter <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html#B2">"'Handmade' Patch Quilt Generated by L-System" in "Pattern Book, Fractals, Art and Nature"</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">August 1991, Story in our local <i>Binghamton Press</i> newspaper regarding my recumbent bike trip to Ireland <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-5.html#L4">Special bike offers special view of Ireland</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">July 2003 Photo in <i>Orlando Sentinel</i> regarding my <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-5.html#L5">Visit to The Villages library</a> (just after we moved to The Villages) and July 2011 Photo in <i>The Villages Daily Sun</i> regarding my <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-5.html#L5">Kayak paddle down the Ocklawaha River</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">2008 My Novel <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-6.html#Novel">"<i>2072 The Hawking Plan</i>"</a> is made available free online.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">April 2017, Story in <i>The Villages Daily Sun</i> regarding <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-6.html#L6">Engineer and Public Speaker Learns the Value of Listening</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In August 2008 I wrote about press freedom, and the rise of non-traditional news sources, on my <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2008/08/guardians-at-gates-are-gone-freedom-of.html">Blog</a> and spoke to The Villages Philosophy Club in December 2016. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked <b><i>"WHAT IF ALMOST EVERYONE HAD A PRINTING PRESS AND COULD DISTRIBUTE WRITINGS FREELY TO ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD?"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we do! IT IS <b>THE INTERNET!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My main point is that </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There have always been "guardians at the gates" preventing free access to the "press" - until now! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While some of the stuff published by non-traditional Internet sources is false, I think, "pound-for-pound", it is as valid as traditional news sources.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">n 1956, when I was in high school, my Uncle Harry, who worked at Macy's, arranged the purchase of a Raleigh "English Racer". We took it home on the subway because my Dad didn't have a car. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">I rode that bicycle all around our Brighton Beach neighborhood and along the Boardwalk and the Sheepshead bay trail during my high school and college days. (I lived with my parents and younger brother in Brighton Beach and commuted to Brooklyn Technical High School and the City College of New York by subway.) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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In 1987 I purchased this mountain bike. I joined the wonderful Southern Tier Bicycle Club (THANK YOU AUGIE MUELLER!) and rode with them most Saturdays. I also rode it to and from work a few days a week.</span><br style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Carpal tunnel effects caused my fingers to become numb, so, in 1990, I purchased a LONG-wheelbase Recumbent bicycle. The steering is under the seat, with a multi-link connection to the front wheel, which makes for a bit of a lag between moving the bar and the wheel actually turning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surgery on both hands fixed my carpal tunnel problem, and I was able to ride an upright bicycle again.</span><br />
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At one point, to get off the heavily traveled main street, I strayed into a lower-class residential area with dirt streets. I was wearing a hat that had "NY" on it and children called out to me, in English, and said "hello" and "welcome".</span></span></div>
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In September 2011, Bernie Stopper and I (along with Jerry Bauer and other members of the Village Bicycle Club) did a wonderful Belgian Bicycle Barge trip from Brussels to Bruges.</span></span></div>
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Here, Bernie stands alongside our barge, the "Magnifique". There were about 20 of us, all from our club, plus an attentive crew of four, one of whom guided on our daily cycling trips.</span></span></div>
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Here is me doing a bit of "surfing" on my <b><i>Bike Friday</i></b> on the hard-packed sand at Daytona Beach, back in 2008. <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(I had Carpal Tunnel surgery on both wrists which is how I was able to go back to an upright bicycle, my Bike Friday.) </span>Read more about it <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2008/09/goldilocks-market-competition-on-edge.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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Us "Old Dogs" can't raise our legs as high as we used to, so, a few years ago, I switched to a GIRL'S BIKE (images above and below), which is much easier to mount! I purchased it new from WalMart for around $150. Read about it </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-new-wheels-yes-it-is-girls-bike.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. Notice the laundry basket for my water aerobics stuff on both my Girl's bike and its predecessor, my fold-up Bike Friday.</span><br />
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I had the great pleasure of riding on my Girl's bike with our granddaughters Samantha and Michaela when they visited in 2015 (image below).</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">MY BALANCE PROBLEM DUE TO PARKINSONS DISEASE</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made the decision to quit <i><b>Bicycling</b></i> due to a tumble in January 2016 and a second fall in February. Actually, my <i><b>Bicycle</b></i> falls started back in 2011, when I fell <i>four </i>times, twice during an otherwise wonderful bike-barge trip in Belgium from Brussels to Bruges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following year, 2012, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which is due to insufficient production of Dopamine in the brain. My symptoms include poor balance, tremors, and loss of the sense of smell. I've been taking a medication (Carbidopa/Levodopa) that helps with the tremors, but my balance has declined a bit year by year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, from 2012 through 2016, I've fallen from my bike once or twice a year, usually when making slow right turns. This despite taking extraordinary care, such as walking intersections and not cycling with large groups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, until 2016, I continued to <i><b>Bicycle</b></i> 30-40 miles per week, accompanied by close friends who put up with my antics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my younger years, I just hopped aboard and off I went. However, after my second fall in 2016, I found it increasingly hard to get the bike going. I'd adjust myself on the bike seat, keeping the bike upright with my left foot. Then, I'd put my foot on the right pedal, push it hard to get the bike moving forward, balancing as I tried to raise my left to it's proper place on the left pedal. However, my left foot seemingly "did not want" to leave the ground, and that foot had a heck of a time "finding it's position on the left pedal". It usually took me two or more tries to get going. Very frustrating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After many years, and thousands of miles of <i><b>BI-cycling</b></i>, I switched to <i><b>TRI-cycling</b></i>! </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">MY "CATRIKE" 27-SPEED "VILLAGER" RECUMBENT TRICYCLE</span></b><br />
I purchased a used 27-speed recumbent trike from a nice couple in The Villages, had the local Village Cycle shop install a luggage rack, and mounted my laundry basket (for my water aerobics stuff) to the trike with bungee cords. The brand name is <b><i>Catrike</i></b>, and, quite fittingly, the model name is <i><b>Villager</b></i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, perhaps best of all, my <b><i>Catrike</i></b> is MADE IN THE USA (actually right here in Florida!)</span><br />
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Despite the ravages of aging (I turned 80 in January 2019), I've continued to cycle.</div>
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<a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/search?q=bike" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Look at my progression of bicycles!</a> As noted above, first bike I owned was a 1956 Raleigh 3-Speed. In 1987 I got a Mountain Bike. That was replaced in 1990 by a Long-Wheelbase Recumbent, then a 1996 Folding Bike Friday. By 2014 it became difficult to lift my leg high, so I switched to a <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-new-wheels-yes-it-is-girls-bike.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; text-decoration: none;">Schwinn Girl's Bike</a>.<br />
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In 2014, after several falls due to balance issues from Parkinson's disease, I had to go to 3-wheels, a <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2017/03/are-three-wheels-better-that-two-my.html" style="color: #4799c1; text-decoration: none;">Catrike Recumbent Tricycle</a>. Then, in 2018, to help me keep up with my bicycling buddies, I've gone to an Electric Assist Motor on my Catrike! <br />
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Our local Villages Cycles did a fine job installing an </span><a href="https://electricbikereview.com/electric-bike-outfitters/48v-burly-kit/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #4799c1; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Electric Bike Outfitters (EBO) Burly kit</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. As shown above, the Controls and Display Units are on my right handlebar, the Rechargeable Battery hangs from the left rear strut, and the Electric Motor is in the rear wheel hub. </span><br />
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Shown above is a close-up of the Battery and Motor. The Battery may be recharged either on the trike, or, with a key, released from the vehicle for charging. The Battery has a capacity of 11 Ampere-Hours which is about 500 watt-hours; The Motor is rated at 350 watts (around 1/2 HP) for continual use, and 800 watts (over 1 HP) peak. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Using Pedal Assist System (PAS) Level 1, I can keep up with my bike buddies. Thus, I can ride for 70 to 80 miles and still have 20% charge to spare! See <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2018/08/cycling-with-electric-assist.html">for more detail</a>.</span></span><br />
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Bernie Stopper took this photo of me very close to what we originally thought was a fake plastic 8-foor gator.</span></span></span></div>
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Read about it here: </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2011/04/florida-gator-time.html" style="color: #4799c1; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HERE!</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've done hiking and cross-country skiing in New York.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here in Florida, my outdoor activities (other than cycling) consists of Water Aerobics and a bit off walking.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vi and I had a wonderful 8-day raft adventure through the Grand Canyon in 2002. We were on a 15-passenger raft with a crew of three and camped along the Colorado River, <a href="https://raftarizona.com/trips/8-day-motor/">like this</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">GO BACK TO <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; text-decoration: none;">PART 4</a></span></span></span> OR FORWARD to <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.06px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-6.html">PART 6</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PART 1</a> </b>- MY MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY TAKE SHAPE IN MY COLLEGE DAYS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PART 2</a> </b>- MY CAREER, MARRIAGE, FLYING, AND OUR "GREEN ACRES" DAYS<span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My wife and I paid almost $5,000 for this Apple II and two disk drives (the equivalent of around $20,000 in today's dollars). That purchase has paid off many times over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following month, June 1980, the Binghamton Press again featured the Apple II, this time using a photo of our home computer with our second daughter, Rena, and our youngest, Sara. (Photo above). They also quoted my wife, Vi, as saying "It was for the kids. It's the kids who will be living in the computer age. The sooner they feel comfortable with it the better." They also mentioned that Vi had been taking computer programming classes at Broome Community College.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As shown in the above photo, I used the IBM PC to simulate Multi-Purpose Displays (MPD) for military avionics systems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We emphasized our Reliable, Survivable, and Functionally Redundant System Architecture in our winning bid. In addition to dual MCs, we had two Display Generators driving the four MPDs. If either Display Generator should fail, the other one could drive all four MPDs. We also had multiple Remote Terminal Units (RTU) to convert back and forth between our digital signals to and from the analog signals still utilized by older avionics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the above graphic, the 1982 issue of the IBM Federal Systems <i>Technical Directions</i> magazine featured "The Evolution of Avionics to HH-60D".</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">MY THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT BOEING 737 MAX FAILURES</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When I presented this talk to our Philosophy Club, I took a minute to comment on what seems to me to be some level of malpractice by Boeing in their System Design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During my IBM career, I visited Boeing in Seattle a couple of times and believed that Boeing was a high-quality aircraft company. I still believe they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, it is incredible to me that they failed to include "reasonableness" tests on the signals their Flight Control Computers were receiving from the airspeed and angle-of-attack sensors, and, as a result, their system decided the aircraft was in danger of stalling. The pilot and co-pilot tried to pull the nose up, but their computer over-rode their attempt, resulting in two fatal crashes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, the pilots could have turned off the Flight Control System and flown manually, but, apparently, that choice was not properly presented in their training manuals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As far back as the A-7 avionics system, our digital computer did "reasonableness" tests on sensor data. For example, we had a radar altimeter. If, while in flight, that sensor indicated an unchanging altitude, the computer assumed it had failed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 727 MAX computers should have recognized the sensors were not working properly. For example, airspeed can be estimated by using GPS-speed plus or minus wind speed. Angle-of-attack may be estimated using pitch angle and speed, etc. If the sensor signals do not meet "reasonableness" tests, back-up means should automatically be utilized.</span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In subsequent years, I lead further research on what I called "The Rational Cockpit and Advanced Automation", featured in the 1984 issue of IBM's Technical Directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our daughters earned their Bachelors in Science and went on to Graduate Schools (PhD in Immunology, Masters in Business Administration, PhD in Neurology).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I had only a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To keep up, I took Graduate courses at Binghamton University, part-time, and earned my Masters in Advanced Technology (1990) and PhD in System Science (1996). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vi and I were part-time Adjunct Professors at Binghamton University and then taught online Graduate courses at University of Maryland until a few years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were invited to experience a low-altitude night mission! I found it very exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The inside of the helicopter was like a medium size bus, with seats along the walls and vertical poles spaced about 8-feet apart. We were free to walk around during the flight. However, the large side doors and rear ramp were totally open. Therefore, for safety, we each wore a harness and had a ten-foot chain we could connect to any pole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flight was in a rural area, so, as night fell, it was quite dark. We each had Night-Vision Goggles that amplified the moonlight. It was a wonderful experience to view the fields and see cows via those goggles. I also walked up to the cockpit to observe the pilots and their cockpit displays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When our flight was over, the very friendly and highly competent aircrew told us that they would be doing in-air nighttime refueling the following evening - and we were invited! WOW! Of course, we accepted the invitation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I had to be in California for business the morning after our nighttime in-air refueling flight. So, I scheduled myself for the last flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The nighttime refueling flight was even more spectacular than the previous night training mission. We flew as fast as a helicopter could go and met up with a C-130 tanker aircraft that was flying as slowly as a fixed-wing aircraft could go. Standing at the wide-open side door and looking through my Night Vision Goggles, I watched as the C-130 deployed a fuel hose with an aerodynamic basket at the end. Our helicopter had a probe attached at the right front and our pilot maneuvered that probe and inserted it into the fueling basket. Thus connected, we refueled in the air, at night and low altitude. What a sight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flight test ended later than expected and I had to catch that flight to California! So, still wearing my flight suit, I ran to my rented car and drove as fast as I could to the Atlanta airport, amazed I had not been stopped for speeding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once in the almost deserted terminal, I ran up to the Delta counter and asked the one guy still on duty if I had time to catch my flight. He looked at me in my flight suit and said "You better get steppin'!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are familiar with the Atlanta airport, they have a subway system connecting the main terminal to the buildings where the aircraft are boarded. So, I ran as fast as I could through the almost deserted building and arrived at my gate as quickly as I could.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flight attendants were happy to see me as they slammed the doors closed behind me and the plane taxied away. The passengers stared at me in my flight suit as I made my way to my seat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think the "You better get steppin'!" guy at the Delta counter, noticing my flight suit, thought I was somehow important and that he had called the gate to ask them to hold the airplane for me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">In my talk to the Philosophy Club I told a couple of AI-related jokes. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">I was at a military conference and, during lunch, happened to sit at a table with some Air Force pilots. They asked what I was working on and I told them I was considering monitoring the brain waves of Army helicopter pilots to determine if they were becoming mentally overloaded, in which case, the AI portion of the Avionics System would take on more responsibility during the mission.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">"That can't work!" said the pilots.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">I responded with technical details on how it might work but they still objected.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">"It is a well-known fact," one of the Air Force pilots said with confidence, "That Army helicopter pilots DON'T HAVE BRAIN WAVES!" </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">The second joke has to do with a vision of future aircraft given AI, and I heard it from a colleague who was also working in this area of research:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photo above shows a view of our AI Lab as it was featured in the 1986 issue of IBM's <i>Technical Directions</i> magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1994, when IBM commercial was experiencing revenue issues, our Division was sold to another company (Loral) and, a few years later, we were sold yet again to Lockheed-Martin Aircraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Throughout these disruptions, my wife and I continued to work at our very satisfying careers at Owego. I was 55 and eligible to retire from IBM in 1994 and begin receiving a (slightly reduced) retirement income, so I did. I was immediately hired by the new company. When I retired from Lockheed-Martin in 2001, I began receiving retirement income from them, based on my seven years with the new company. In 1994, Vi was not old enough to retire from IBM, so her IBM years were folded into the new company and when she retired in 1999, she began receiving retirement income based on her 15 total years at Owego.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1995, I wrote a chapter in a subsequent book by Pickover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/PATTERN-BOOK-FRACTALS-ART-NATURE/dp/981021426X">PATTERN-BOOK - FRACTALS, ART, and NATURE</a>. Using "Lindenmeyer systems" that, like fractals, make use of repeatedly nested self-similar structures, I designed a simple program to create a "Handmade" Patch Quilt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When two critical variables are set to exact values of 90 and 0 degrees, the quilt looks "machine-made". However, a small change to 90.002 and 4 degrees change the appearance to "human-made", see the graphic below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The above graphic shows me with the summer 2000 class. The Hebrew characters on my shirt (ברנדייס) Spell out "Brandeis". (Brandeis accepts students without regard to their religion -or lack thereof- but it is a Jewish university and has kosher dining service available.)</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We had classes Monday thru Friday mornings, but afternoons and weekends were devoted to recreation activities and field trips. In the upper left, I am shown on a New Hampshire beach with four of the RAs who supervised the recreation activities.</span><br />
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Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-71662119548686703452019-08-03T18:48:00.001-04:002020-11-26T21:49:31.009-05:00To See Ourselves As Others See Us (Part 3)<div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought my first visit to LTV as an IBM engineer went pretty well. However, I did notice that the Texas engineers did NOT interrupt me while I was speaking, and, when they did speak, it was in a slow drawl!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, where I grew up (in Brooklyn), if someone does NOT interrupt while you are speaking, that is an indication they are not listening, or not interested. If they speak slowly, that is an indicator of mental limitations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I returned to New York, my manager told me he had received a memo from our representative at LTV. According to the memo, the LTV engineers said I was disruptive at the meetings and that I needed to change my manners or be replaced by someone else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read the memo and prepared a written reply, refuting each and every criticism in detail. Indeed, I had worked with our representative at LTV when he was working in New York and I thought he respected me and my engineering knowledge. I liked him and I thought he liked me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before submitting my written reply to my manager, I showed it to a fellow engineer, Noel Seebe, a Brit who was working on the HUD project because of his expertise with optics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noel read the complaint memo, and my written reply, and said that he was sure everything I had written was true. But, he added, "When the King doesn't call you, don't go to the King!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I realized Noel was right! I folded my written reply and put in in my desk drawer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That turned out to be excellent advice! On subsequent trips to LTV I was careful not to disrupt meetings. I listened to what those Texas engineers had to say, thought about it, and replied in a restrained manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It did not take me long to realize that some of them were as smart as me, perhaps even smarter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we got to know each other better, I told them about my farming hobby. One of them was raising horses on his farm and he invited me to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps the best piece of character evidence that I was an OK guy was that photo of me shoveling steaming, stinking chicken manure! (See <a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html#FarmDays">Farm Days</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When flying level, the horizon bar on the HUD display is supposed to be stable, however, it would jump up or down a noticeable amount every few seconds. As soon as they showed it to me, I understood the problem. The raw Pitch angle, supplied by the Inertial Platform, had insufficient resolution. The HUD was magnifying the small changes in Pitch angle that occur when flying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The solution was what, in the analog world, would be called a "low pass filter". We had to take the raw Pitch angle, as supplied by the Inertial Platform, and filter it such that any change would be sent to the HUD in tiny increments rather than all at once. Of course, if the aircraft was Pitching up or down at a high rate, the "low pass filter" had to be removed or the horizon bar would lag the actual changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I knew there was a formal process for requesting software changes. I would have to write the problem up and submit a formal Engineering Change Request, which would be reviewed by a committee. If approved, an analyst and a programmer would be assigned and the change would be made and tested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, to me, that seemed like an overly complex and slow way to make things happen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I spent some time in the Avionics Integration Laboratory watching the test engineers and test programmers do their jobs. The program for the Avionics Computer was written in a "higher-level" language and compiled every week or so. The resultant code, in low-level "machine language" was printed out in a multi-page "listing".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the test engineers detected a problem, they would get the test programmers to write out what they called a "patch" - a machine-language change to a portion of the program. The patch would be entered into the computer in 32-bit "words" by flipping toggle switches for each bit. If the patch fixed the problem, the programmer would write it in the higher-level language and it would be included in next week's compiled version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, so I got a copy of the current listing and found where I needed to insert the "low-pass filter" code I had written in machine language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I was ready, I waited for the test engineers and test programmers to go to lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Using the toggle switches, I manually entered a GOTO instruction at the proper place, instructing the program to jump to an area of computer memory that was currently empty. Then, word by word, I entered my machine language code (less that 50 words), followed by another GOTO to direct the computer back to where it was supposed to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It worked! In level flight the horizon bar slowly drifted a bit up and down with no perceptible jumps. I used the manual control for the simulated Inertial Platform to rapidly change Pitch angle, and I was pleased to see that my "low-pass filter" recognized the rapid changes and allowed the raw signal through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SWEET SUCCESS !!! (OR NOT?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the test engineers and test programmers returned from lunch I showed them what I had done. Instead of thanking me, they were angry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Initially, I thought they were angry because I had "stepped on their toes" by doing work that was in their domain of responsibility. I'm sure that was part of it, but, as they angrily explained, I had compromised the integrity of the computer program. All of the changes they had painstakingly made and tested since the last program compile were now in limbo. How could they tell if, in my clumsy way, I had inadvertently changed some of their patches, or some existing code?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In any case, my solution worked and they accepted it. I learned a key lesson!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">We had a serious problem during flight test! O</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">ur Avionics System would be working perfectly well, and then, suddenly, things would go wrong. The pilot would turn the computer off and then back on again, but the system would not recover and the flight test had to be terminated, wasting time and money.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Computer hardware was not in my purview, but, being nosy, I tried to learn as much about the problem as I could. It turned out that, o</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">nce on the ground, technicians would run the "checksum" which is the sum of all the 16-bit half words in the part of computer memory that stored the program and the constants. They would compare this checksum with the correct value computed prior to the flight. The correct, 16-bit checksum always had one bit different from the newly computed checksum, indicating that one bit in memory had changed from a "0" to a "1".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large;">Analysis of the computer memory showed that the failed computer would have a single bit (out of a quarter million bits) set incorrectly. It was always a bit that was supposed to be a "0" that was set to "1"! So they called it the "bit pick" problem.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">They would then reload the computer program and the system would work again. It would work fine on the ground, but, the next time the<span style="display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 110%; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">y flew, there was a good chance the system would fail at some point, so they had to land and reload again.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE RIDDLE: The King had ten Goldsmiths and one of them was making gold bars that were one gram too light. Of course, the King could have weighed a sample from each goldsmith to detect the thief, but, if he did so, there wouldn't be any riddle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The King announced he would detect the rogue goldsmith with ONE weighing. How did he do it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, he summoned all ten goldsmiths and ordered them to bring samples of their gold bars. Then, he said, pointing to the goldsmith furthest to his left, you are goldsmith number one, give me one of your gold bars. He pointed to the next goldsmith and said, you are number two, give me two bars, and so on to the tenth goldsmith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He put all the gold bars on a scale, noted the total weight, and instantly knew who was the cheater!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How? Well, if the gold bars were supposed to weigh 1000 grams, the total weight should have been 55,000 grams. If the total was one gram less than that, goldsmith number one was the thief, if two grams short, goldsmith number two was the chief, and so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">HOW DID I USE THIS RIDDLE TO HELP SOLVE THE "BIT PICK" PROBLEM? Well, we had a quarter-million "goldsmiths" (bits in computer memory) and one of them was giving us a "1" when it should have given us a "0".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I came up with a scheme I called a "weighted checksum" in which each 16-bit half-word was weighted according to its place in memory. For example, the first half-word would be counted once, the second half-word counted twice, and so on. Thus, each bit in memory was multiplied by a different amount according to which half-word it happened to be in and what position in that half-word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By subtracting the correct weighted checksum from the newly calculated weighted checksum, we could identify which bit in memory had been "picked", assuming, as was the case, that only a single bit out of the quarter-million had been "picked". (NOTE: Actually, it was a bit more complicated than I indicated above. If I recall correctly, we had to multiply the first word by 4096 +1, the second by 4096 +2, and so on.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They assigned a programmer to write to code for my "weighted checksum" routine. It worked as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) While running, if the computer detected a "write-protection error" (an attempt to write in the area of memory reserved for constants and the program itself - which should never change) or a "time out" (the program got into an "infinite loop" and failed signal a hardware counter every tenth of a second), the system would trigger my subroutine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) The subroutine would re-calculate the weighted checksum and compare it to the correct value (which was stored in multiple locations in memory). The difference between those values would identify the "picked" bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) The subroutine would temporarily suspend the "write-protection" feature, would change the "picked" bit to the correct value, namely "0", and record the time of the event, the address of the "picked" bit, and other information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) The subroutine would restart the program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of the above took less than a minute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, whenever a bit got "picked" during flight test, it was quickly repaired so flight test could continue without any need to land the aircraft and reload the program. That saved lots of time and money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My fix also made a record of when this happened, and what the aircraft was doing at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This helped to determine that the bit "picking" was occurring the first time a given computer memory module flew to high altitude. That fact helped the hardware engineers determine the cause and how to solve it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It turned out that our computer memory utilized magnetic-cores. These are tiny donut-shaped devices that may be magnetized in one of two directions, signifying a "1" or a "0".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bit is "read" by forcing it to the '0" state. If it was in the "1" state, forcing it to "0" would generate a magnetic pulse that was sensed and reported to the computer program as a "1" in that location. If it was already in the "0" state no pulse was generated so the computer program knew it was a "0".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, reading a half-word in memory forced all of its bits to be "0", so the computer program had to restore each bit that was supposed to be a "1".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, it turned out that the tiny magnetic cores had a thin plastic coating. Some air could be trapped within that coating. During flight test, depending upon the altitude, the temperature, the thickness of the plastic coating, how much air was trapped, and other factors, any given core could "pop". If a given core happened to "pop" exactly at the time it was being read, the "pop" could generate a magnetic pulse that could indicate it was a "1" rather than a "0". Thus, the computer program would restore that bit incorrectly as a "1" rather than a "0". Wala, bit "pick".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The solution was to "bake" the computers in a high-altitude (low pressure) chamber for a number of hours to assure that all the magnetic cores would "pop". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In September 1969 I received an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for my "Weighted Checksum Routine to Restore Altered Bits". That award included a cash payment, a trip to Washington, DC for my wife and myself where we stayed at the Watergate Hotel (before it became famous). At the awards dinner we met famed newsman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sevareid">Eric Sevareid</a>, who, in his wonderful talk, reminded us of the "good old days, when the water was clean and sex was dirty".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">As I noted earlier, my Technical Writing abilities from being Editor of my college engineering magazine and summer internships with ITT Federal had helped my career at IBM. I needed to add public speaking to my "kit of tricks" and that happened when I was invited join the Owego Toastmasters Club. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our Toastmasters club met once a week for dinner. Our training included short, impromptu talks that gave almost everyone a chance to speak at each meeting for a tightly time-controlled "Table Topic" as well as a few scheduled speakers to give longer, prepared talks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorite features was the "Ah Counter", where one member used a bicycle horn to sound a "beep" when anyone said "Ah" or "Err" or had a too long pause in their Table Topic or Prepared Talk. (All Ahs were counted, and totals were reported at the end of the meeting, but the horn sounded only for the first five.) That training eliminate all of my Ahs and, even to this day, my talks very seldom include those types of pauses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ahs still bother me and, when I listen to speakers - including some professionals - I notice their bothersome Ahs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each Prepared Talk was critiqued by one of the more experienced members, and many of the others would submit short written comments. My Brooklyn accent and pronunciation was squared away by these critiques. For example, I used to pronounce the T in "metal", and was trained to pronounce it as "D".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our critiques, we were expected to stick to speaking technique rather than arguing with the speaker's opinions. In other words, we were to accept whatever opinion the speaker was supporting, and suggest how they might express it better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found it refreshing (as well as instructive) to listen to speakers with different opinions from that point of view. For example, when I watched the recent debates between potential Democratic Presidential Candidates, I did not instantly argue with their opinions, but rather thought about how I, if I shared their views, would present their arguments more forcefully. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Toastmasters had speaking contests at the Club level, the Area, level, Statewide, and so on. These talks were of the type that might be given after a formal dinner. At the time, it was (almost) a requirement to start your talk with a joke - preferably one with some sexual or otherwise controversial edge. In the process, I learned several great Toastmasters jokes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I presented this Topic to the Philosophy Club, I told two of those jokes during the discussion period after my talk. I noted that I was telling these jokes as if these situations actually happened to me, even though they did not. Here they are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SEX AND SAILING:</b> In the 1960's and early 1970's, Toastmasters was male-only as were most other clubs. My wife, Vi, belonged to a female-only club that was having their annual banquet. She had purchased a ticket for $10 or $15, quite a bit of money at that time. However, because one of our children was ill, she could not go. (In those days, if a child was sufficiently sick, the husband was not considered capable of managing the situation.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I'm a cheapskate and didn't want to see that money go to waste, so I decided to go! Vi tried to dissuade me, wondering if they would even allow me into a woman-only venue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, not only did they let me in, but the woman in charge enthusiastically rushed over and said: "You're Vi Glickstein's husband, right? You're a Toastmaster who gives talks?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Yes, I'm Ira, Vi's husband."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well," she continued, "I'm so relieved you're here. Our main after dinner speaker can't make it and I wonder if you could give the talk? Vi always tells us wonderful things about your speeches!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Thanks," I replied, "I'm scheduled to give a Toastmasters talk later this week, but I don't think the topic is appropriate for your group."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What's the topic?" she inquired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It's about Sex," I replied, "and I'm not sure it would be appropriate for me to talk about Sex to a group of women, especially without my wife being here."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Oh," she replied enthusiastically, "I'm sure it will be fine!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, after the dinner, I gave the talk and it was very well received.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I got home, Vi asked me how I liked her woman's group meeting, how was the food, etc. I told her the meeting was good, they served chicken, of course, but it was good, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, I realized I had to tell her about my presenting the after-dinner speech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A funny thing happened, the scheduled speaker cancelled I had to give the after dinner speech."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"How'd your talk go?" she asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Pretty good" I replied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course "no good deed goes unpunished" so that wasn't the end of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What did you speak about?" Vi asked. (Pause for laughter.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I spoke about Sss..." I began, stopping in the middle of the word when I realized this was definitely not a good time to tell my wife I had spoken about Sex to a group of women without her being there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"... I spoke about Sailing." (Pause for laughter)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She looked at me quizzically, and that was the end of our conversation. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, it was not the end of my problems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple days later, Vi was in the super market and ran into the woman who had been in charge of the banquet. The woman ran to Vi, and gave her an especially strong hug. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"You know your husband Ira gave the main after dinner speech at my banquet?" she asked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Yes, Ira told me." my wife nodded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He's is a wonderful speaker," the woman continued enthusiastically.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I know," Vi replied, "Ira gives those Toastmasters talks all the time." She was used to hearing complements about my public speaking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"AND," continued the woman, "Your husband is such an EXPERT on that SUBJECT!" (Pause for laughter)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vi looked at her quizzically. "Ira is NO EXPERT on that SUBJECT!" (Pause for laughter.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"... He's only done it TWO times." <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Pause for laughter.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"... And the first time, he got seasick." <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Pause for laughter.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"... And the second time, his hat blew off."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"LIKE-EE SOUP-EE" (SEEMS RACIST, BUT IT ENDS OK)</b>: I belonged to a men's group that had an annual banquet and I happened to arrive a bit late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I'm sorry Ira," said the guy in charge, "But we messed up on the reservations, and we don't have any more seats available at the tables. The only seat we have is at the end of the head table."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I went up to the head table and sat in the end seat. The guy next to me was Asian, Chinese or Japanese, I thought. He had some index cards in his hands and was going over them and making marks on them that looked like Chinese. He did not acknowledge my arrival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple times, I tried to strike up a conversation, but he only grunted and continued working on those damned index cards. Perhaps, I thought, he doesn't speak English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, dinner service began. The Chinese guy finally put his cards down and started to eat his soup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I leaned over to him and said "Like-ee soup-ee?" As soon as I heard myself say that, I felt ashamed. The guy turned towards me, and gave me a dirty look. We finished the meal in silence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, it was time for the after-dinner speaker. To my amazement, it turned out to be this Chinese guy, and he gave a terrific speech - in perfect English. When he was done he received a prolonged period of enthusiastic applause. Every one at the head table stood to shake his hand as he made his way back to his seat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he got to where I was standing, we shook hands, and he said to me, "Like-ee speech-ee?"</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">NOTE: This is PART 3. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #b00000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(To go back, Click for </span><a href="http://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PART 1</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #b00000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> or <a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html">PART 2</a>)</span><br />
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CLICK TO CONTINUE TO <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/08/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-4.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; text-decoration: none;">PART 4</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(OR BACK TO <span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.86px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://tvpclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-see-ourselves-as-others-see-us-part-2.html" style="color: #7eb8d4; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">PART 2</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span>Ira Glicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800080810596424897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429570072441023296.post-83139454696490561532019-07-28T21:47:00.000-04:002020-01-02T10:09:56.498-05:00To See Ourselves As Others See Us (Part 2)<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p260IDjcS6A/XTMr8Q7RiFI/AAAAAAAAIKE/I--NvnUPh2QGPOL648aVhHpFP7N6197VACLcBGAs/s1600/Slide2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4799c1; float: right; font-family: "arial","tahoma","helvetica","freesans",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="font-size: large;">This posting is based on a talk I gave to The Villages Philosophy Club on 19 July 2019. plus supporting stuff from my Blogs and other sources.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the year prior to our marriage, I had been pursuing my Private Pilot's License at Chatham Airport in NJ. Indeed, Vi's very first flight in an airplane was when she came along on one of my training flights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I earned my Pilot's License early in 1964, so, the day after our wedding, it was natural for me to rent a Cessna 152 and fly us to Niagara Falls, NY. There, we rented a car and drove to Niagara Falls, Canada, where we enjoyed the sights and stayed the night at their aptly named "Honeymoon Hotel".</span><br />
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The photos above capture key events of that trip. including a view of our startling flight over the falls.<br />
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We headed back to NJ the following morning, taking our scheduled refueling stop at the Binghamton, NY airport. Reviewing our flight plan, the Control Tower notified us that there were some serious storm conditions at our destination in New Jersey and strongly recommending that we spend the night in Binghamton. We rented a car, got a hotel in Binghamton, did some touring in that city, and had a wonderful dinner there.<br />
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Very early the following morning we flew out of Binghamton and arrived safely in New Jersey.<br />
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But that was not the end of our honeymoon. A few days later we flew to San Francisco (on a commercial airline) and spent most of the week in Palo Alto, California, including a visit to some of Vi's relatives in San Francisco. We also rented a Cessna 152 at the Palo Alto airport and flew for a couple of hours over San Francisco, including a period when we were above the clouds and could not see the ground.<br />
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Some months after we married, Vi got a job at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, NJ - an easier commute. For her new job, Vi had to learn to draw the blood she was going to test. She had many amazing adventures in that aspect of her job, including drawing blood from a man we <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">said he saw snakes crawling up his hand. (He was </span>in his DTs - delirium tremens from alcohol abuse. Vi told him her needle would get rid of the snakes.) She also drew blood from the heel of a baby who had been born prematurely.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For our third daughter, Dr. Corner made special arrangements. He had me wear a surgical gown and stand at Vi's head when Sara was born. The Delivery Room was packed with a half-dozen nurses who watched what, at that time and place, was quite unusual and even revolutionary. As always, <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Vi was WONDERFUL!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For all the months of Vi's pregnancy, no one ever asked her "how's your fetus?" or "when is the fetus due?" It was always "is your baby kicking yet" or "when is the baby due?" The Times story never used the word "baby", but "fetus" was mentioned nearly a dozen times.</span></span></span></div>
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August 1965<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> - I took a job with IBM Federal Systems in Owego (upstate New York) and we purchased an 88-acre farm with a very old house and a few barns! <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Why a farm? </span>Why upstate NY? Why IBM?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, while Vi and I were working in New Jersey, one of my fellow employees, who had purchased a farm, invited us out to see it. He had a small tractor and a hay wagon, and he gave us a hay ride up and down the hills on his farmland. I loved it!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Although I was relatively happy with my job at Lockheed Electronics, and especially with my boss <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=sherman+mullin+lockheed&form=EDGTCT&qs=SC&cvid=a2379d4817e0486f983f1c9c43a7569b&cc=US&setlang=en-US&plvar=0&PC=MSE1">Sherman Mullin</a> (who later was promoted to high executive positions at Lockheed Aircraft), I regularly scanned the Sunday New York Times for job Engineering opportunities. Whenever I found a job that looked interesting, I'd check the Strout Catalog for that area of the country to see what kinds of farm properties might be available.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So it was that I came upon a job of interest at IBM Federal Systems in Owego, NY. The Strout Catalog listed several very attractive rural properties in that area of Upstate NY. Also, Owego was about 200 miles from Brooklyn, convenient driving distance for us to visit our families and for them to visit us. So, I applied, visited Owego for an interview, and got the job! </span></span></span><br />
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As you can see from the photo above, the property included a house and a few barns. The oldest part of the house (at the left in this photo) was over 100 years old and the newer part at least 50 years old. A wood-burning stove ("Kalamazoo" brand) and a kerosene-burning heater warmed the old part, and, the newer part had propane-burning heaters in the living room and one of the bedrooms. The single bathroom was in the old part of the house.<br />
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I hired a local guy to install an oil furnace in the dirt-floor cellar located under the old part of the house, and run baseboard hot water throughout the entire house. My Dad came up from Brooklyn and we extended and enclosed the front porch. We also installed a small bathroom on the second floor of the newer part of the house. Our neighbors, who were struggling dairy and beef farmers, welcomed us quite warmly and gave us lots of excellent advice and help.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photos above capture some highlights of what we call our "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Acres">Green Acres</a>" days (named after the sitcom of that era starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor). He played a formerly city-dwelling Lawyer who got the idea to have a farm and she played his long-suffering Hungarian wife. I was a Brash Brooklyn Engineer with a similar call to experience farming and my wife (of Hungarian extraction) went along with my plan. My wife says "we eventually had everything they had, except Arnold the Pig!")</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photo on the upper left shows Clara and Gilbert Stark, Vi's parents, on one of their visits to our farm. They never said anything, but I had the feeling they were thinking "what have you done to our daughter?" The lower left shows my parents, Morris and Ruth (center) camping on the part of our farm that overlooks our house and barns. We built a quarter-acre pond up there as a water-conservation project, with technical help and $450 from the U. S. Government Agriculture Department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photo on the right shows me (in the center) shoveling steaming chicken manure in our main barn, which had been used for raising chickens and eggs by the previous owners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, how did we get the sheep and Angus beef cattle shown in the photos? Well, s<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ome of our neighbor's children were members of the Future Farmers of America, and were raising sheep as one of their projects. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I spent $50 to buy three ewes (female sheep), and they let us join their project. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I named our ewes after female relatives, "Annie" for Vi's cousin, "Blanche" for my Aunt, and "Clara" for my mother-in-law. Another neighbor sold me two Black Angus beef cattle that we did not name because we planned to flatten them up and consume them. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ewes need to be shorn of their wool in early spring. I had to load the ewes onto a small trailer and haul them to another farmer's barn where they were sheared. My job was to lift the 150-pound ewe into shearing position (sitting on her butt with front legs up). The wool from each ewe was worth $5, plus a U. S. Government farm subsidy of $5 each. Apparently, there may have been a shortage of wool for sleeping bags during WWII and this subsidy was still in effect. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The ewes also had to be "settled" (impregnated) in early fall. I had to transport them to a neighbor's farmyard where a ram did that job. Ewes will allow themselves to be settled only when in the proper part of their cycle. How to know a ewe has been settled? Well, the ram wears a bag strapped to his lower chest, and that bag is filled with colored chalk. For the first three weeks that chalk is red, so any ewe settled during that peri</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">od will have a red mark on the wool on her butt. For the next three weeks the ram's chalk is blue. If a ewe with a red butt does not get settled again (does not get blue chalk on her butt), that is evidence that the first settling was effective. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We kept the female lambs for breeding, so I named them after female relatives. However, male lambs were for consumption, so they were not named. Three weeks after birth, male lambs need to be <a href="http://www.sheep101.info/201/dockcastrate.html">castrated</a>. This is done to prevent them from settling the ewes. I'll spare you a detailed description except to say I had to hold each lamb while a neighbor farmer did the deed. For the rest of the day, I would walk with my legs apart as I "felt their pain". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We did have two lambs that had to be bottle fed because they were orphaned. We took them into our house and fed them from a bottle. They happened to be male lambs who were destined to be consumed, but we broke our rule about naming them. We called them "Lamb chop" and "Leg-a". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photo above shows Vi, Lisa, and me with our two Angus Beef and some of our ewes and lambs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I look back at this scene from so many years ago, I see two college-educated (Jewish) kids from Brooklyn with the crazy idea of running a farm. I have a lovely warm feeling for our neighbors, themselves struggling farmers, who took pity on us and recognized how much we needed their help. They never looked down on us or demeaned us in any way. They simply accepted us as we were, and unselfishly helped us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An example of this is the time I got our van stuck sideways on the icy ramp leading up to the barn where I parked it. I called my neighbor and expected him to come over with his tractor and pull my van down the ramp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What he did amazed me! He looked at the situation and told me where to stand. We both pushed and the van slid around to the proper direction. I doubt this farmer ever took a course in Physics, yet he knew how to solve a practical problem that I, a graduate Engineer, couldn't solve! I knew all about gravity and friction and forces and equations, and so on. He knew that I got the van turned sideways because the ramp was slippery. He knew how to use that slippery situation to solve my problem!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Lesson #4</span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: </span>GIVEN
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<span style="color: magenta;">WANT TO HELP YOU – AND THEY WILL ! </span></h2>
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<span style="color: magenta;">(OR PILOT/MECHANIC/ELECTRICIAN/PLUMBER/…) </span></h2>
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<span style="color: magenta;">HAS NEVER TAKEN A COURSE IN PHYSICS THEY</span></h2>
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<span style="color: magenta;"> KNOW MORE ABOUT REAL PHYSICAL
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<span style="color: magenta;">YOU DO!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both Vi and I grew up in solidly Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. However, for our entire married lives<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">, we've lived and worked as members of a tiny Jewish minority in Christian communities. We never hid our Judaism, and only once do I remember any negative aspects of being Jewish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">I joined the local Volunteer Fire Company in Weltonville, about three miles from our farm. There were no fire hydrants in our area, so our "fire truck" was an oil tanker, converted to haul water. We also had a water pump and several hundred feet of fire hose we could use to pump water out of a pond or the creek. Fortunately, during my time as a member, we had nothing more than a couple of grass fires, which were put out by members wearing "Indian tanks" on their backs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">The nearest real fire truck was located at the nearby Newark Valley Volunteer Fire Company which is where we trained. I actually got to drive their fire truck a short distance one time. They were our main back-up if we ever had a major fire. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Our main source of funding was our annual Ham Dinner, at the Flemingville Grange Hall. This was an all-you-can-eat feast served family-style on long tables. I helped serve the food and clear the tables. There was no set charge for the meal. On the way out, people were expected to make a "free will" donation of as much (or as little) as they chose. Most were quite generous.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">We met once a month at our Fire Station. At one meeting, a member suggested we could raise money by raffling a TV set. The discussion quickly focused on how we might get a new TV set for the least amount of money. One member suggested we wait for a sale at Sears, another said he knew the owner of a TV sales and service shop in Owego, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b>In the midst of all this talk about getting the TV for the least amount of money, the guy in charge, who happened to be the owner of the Weltonville General Store, said "We're NOT JEWS!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">That ended the discussion and we went on to other matters. However, after the meeting, several members congratulated me on my reaction. We never had that raffle.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">As kids, both Vi and I learned to read Hebrew and I received an Orthodox Bar Mitzvah. (In those days girls were not Bat Mitzvah in Orthodox Judaism). My brother, five years my junior, was also Bar Mitzvah.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Our three daughters also learned to read Hebrew and were Bat Mitzvah in the Conservative/Reconstructionist congregation in Endicott,, NY, to which we belonged. Similarly, our three grand-daughters learned to read Hebrew and were Bat Mitzvah in the Reform congregation in Andover, MA, to which they belonged.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">All of the above happened even though neither my parents, nor Vi, nor I, nor our daughters, nor our grands have any <i>literal</i> belief in Judaism.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">Does that fact qualify as some kind of <i>miracle</i>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">(Perhaps "Jewish solidarity" goes a lot deeper than any of us suspect?)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">I'm going to jump ahead a bit to 1978, when my third letter was published in the New York Times. It had to do with the Supreme Court's tortured decision on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v._Bakke">Bakke</a> case, where a highly qualified applicant to medical school was denied admission, while members of other racial and ethnic groups, with significantly lower qualifications, were admitted under a quota system. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">While Bakke was not Jewish, he was denied admission because, being "white", he was a member of an "over-represented" racial/ethnic/surname group. As we know, Jews (and Asians) in the United States are even more "over-represented" in college admissions as well as professions that require high academic capabilities. I was concerned that our daughters, through no fault of their own, as members of an "over-represented" group, would similarly be affected by this type of "reverse discrimination". </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">Justice Powell was joined by a group of four justices in part of the decision, and a different group of four justices in the other part of the decision! Basically, the Bakke decision upheld the use of race in college admissions, so long as it was muddled into a "good faith" multi-factor calculation, and there was no <i>obvious</i> quota system. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">I pointed out that:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">The Supreme Court ordered the medical school to admit Bakke. It is said that "justice delayed is justice denied." Bakke was 42 years old when he graduated from medical school. He went on to be an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly before the Bakke decision, IBM sent me to the University of Michigan to interview some engineering students who were about to graduate. I was required to classify the applicants, using code numbers according to their race, ethnicity, and gender, and I was ordered not to inform them they were being so classified. Also, I was allowed to invite highly qualified students to an expense-paid trip to Owego, NY, but only if their GPA was 4 or higher - unless they were "minority" in which case 2.5 was acceptable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, to my horror, when I compared the code numbers to a list that included my name, along with the names of other interviewers, one of whom was Asian, that the IBM Personnel System had me classified as "white" without telling me! So, the IBM computer system had me classified by race. Did they also have me classified by religion? I hope not, but we may never know.</span></div>
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