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July 2017

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President’s Message

And the 2017 President's Charity is...

Meet Beverly Samuel: USDA NIFA National Program Leader for Housing and Environmental Health

Partners in Association Management Receives Governor’s Business Ambassador Award

Did You Get The Email?

Relationships, Relevance, Results Highlights in 2017 PILD 1st Timer’s Scholarship Recipient Reflections

2017 Silent Auction

The Myth Is Busted!

In-Depth Sessions Will Challenge Your Thinking!

Culturally-Sensitive Nutrition Education

Meet the Board – Treasurer

Important Dates

Society for Nutrition Education & Behavior
July 20-24, 2017
Washington, DC

NEAFCS 2017 Annual Session Early-Bird Deadline
August 31, 2017

Hilton Omaha Hotel Deadline
September 12, 2017

NEAFCS 2017 Annual Session
Oct 15-19
Omaha, NE

NEAFCS 2018 Annual Session
Sept 24-27
San Antonio, TX

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NEAFCS Has Moved!

NEAFCS acquired a new management company, Partners in Association Management. Please forward all future requests to their office. Contact information can be found below.

National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Science

325 John Knox Rd. Suite L103
Tallahassee, FL 32303
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President's Message
Theresa Mayhew (NY)Terri Mayhew

I traveled to Dallas, TX, last month to attend the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) 108th Annual Conference and Expo. This year’s theme was “Financial Fitness:  Trends, Innovations and Impacts.” The festivities kicked off June 24 with a Boots, Buck$ & BBQ that featured some delicious cuisine and a wide variety of western attire. Over the course of the next three days I chatted with dozens and dozens of AAFCS students, active and LIFE members as well as some NEAFCS members who belong to both associations -- all the while promoting NEAFCS – our membership categories, our Omaha Annual Session, and our 2017 Impact Statements. I encouraged those not familiar with their local extension educators to get in touch so they can “cash in” on our timely, exciting and extensive program offerings.

Some BIG Dallas highlights – keynote speaker Dr. Susan Newcomb’s “Rethinking Financial Health” presentation was dynamic and thought provoking – she challenged us to reexamine how we teach money management to folks with limited and moderate incomes. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray was an inspirational capstone speaker -- dedicated to serving the consumer – just what we need at this juncture.  In between those two offerings, I took part in the Expo where I interacted with the other 23 vendors including NEAFCS Partner Members the American Cleaning Institute, Learning ZoneXpress, NASCO and NEFE. I also attended a Community of Extension sponsored breakfast, several interesting concurrent sessions and took part in a fun accessory swap. My last official function was attending the Alliance for FCS meeting which was led by Dr. Caroline Crocoll and which proved to be most interesting. All in all, I left Dallas feeling very excited about our profession and the critical work we do across the country and the globe.

The winners of last month’s Hidden Ear of Corn Icon Contest are also excited to be entered into the drawing for a free registration to Omaha. They are Liz Gardner-McBee (Oklahoma State); Kelly Kunkel (University of Minnesota) and Nancy Nelson (Kansas State). To those of you who’ve entered but haven’t been the first three to report where the ear of corn is imbedded in the Network -- you still have this month’s issue plus August and September’s to get in the running. Good luck and thanks to those of you who are already in the drawing.

We’re busy finalizing details for Omaha, as you can imagine. If you haven’t already registered, do so today! I’m off to Texas later this month for our on-site San Antonio visit for AS 2018. More on that later!

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And the 2017 President's Charity is...
Theresa Mayhew (NY), President

With this year’s Annual Session theme being “Harvesting Opportunities,” I knew my choice of President’s Charity would most definitely reflect that principle. After consulting with our terrific tri-liaisons, I’ve made my choice – the Food Bank for the Heartland -- which serves the entire state of Nebraska and western Iowa. I’m a huge supporter of several food banks in my local community. The need is great wherever one goes and while we gather to celebrate our accomplishments and achievements, I’m hoping that you will be financially generous and support the fine work that this hard-working organization does. I’ll share more details in the coming months. In the meantime, I encourage you to learn more about their mission, vision and values at www.foodbankheartland.org. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

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Meet Beverly Samuel: USDA NIFA National Program Leader for Housing and Environmental Health
Caroline E. Crocoll, Ph.D., CFCS, Director, USDA NIFA DFCS, Washington, DC

Beverly C. Samuel, CFCS provides National Program Leadership for Housing and Environmental Health,  contributing to quality of life through sustainable housing initiatives that support healthy, safe and affordable housing; energy efficiency; disaster preparedness, response and recovery; and community living/engagement. She serves as the team-leader for Family Well-Being in the Division of Family & Consumer Sciences, focusing on financial capability, healthy family development, and home and community living.

As a NPL, Beverly Co-Chairs the State Energy Extension Partnership to promote the adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy in the United States.  She serves as the NIFA Liaison to the eXtension Home Energy Community of Practice (CoP) and the eXtension CoP on Volunteer Administration.  She serves on the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks to Children, Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality, Federal Healthy Homes Work Group, Coalition of Organizations for Disaster Education, and Extension Disaster Education Network Executive Board (EDEN).  Beverly also oversees the Master Family and Consumer Sciences Volunteer Program.

Prior to her career at USDA, she was a Senior Extension Educator with Virginia Cooperative Extension for over 25 years.  She also taught at State University College at Buffalo, New York. She received the Distinguished Service Award and Continuing Excellence Award from NEAFCS, and Commendation from the Senate of Virginia and recognition from the Governor of VA for outstanding community programming addressing critical issues.  She received an M.S. in Housing, Interior Design and Resource Management from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. in Home Economics Education from Georgia College.

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Partners in Association Management Receives Governor’s Business Ambassador Award
Danielle Jessup (FL), Executive Director

Pictured from left to right are Adam Putnam, Agriculture Commissioner, Pam Bondi, Attorney General, Eric Thorn, General Counsel, Partners in Association Management, Rick Scott, Governor, Bennett Napier, CAE, President/CEO, Partners in Association Management, Amy Bean Napier, Vice President and CIO, Partners in Association Management, Rachael Luoma, CAE, Vice President, Partners in Association Management, John Ricco, CAE, Vice President, Partners in Association Management, and Jeff Atwater, Chief Financial Officer.

At the June 14, 2017 meeting of the Florida Cabinet, Partners in Association Management was recognized by Governor Rick Scott with the Governor’s Business Ambassador Award. The Governor’s Business Ambassador Award is given to individuals for their efforts in creating jobs and opportunities for Florida families.

“It is an honor to have our firm recognized for its role as an employer. Our wonderful staff should be proud of this recognition as they are the people that allow us to fulfill our corporate mission. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with numerous state, regional, and national nonprofit organizations and assist their volunteer leaders in achieving their strategic and operational objectives’ says Bennett Napier, CAE, President/CEO.

Partners in Association Management, an accredited association management company will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2018.

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Did You Get The Email?
Danielle Jessup (FL), Executive Director

Here at NEAFCS, we’ve been working to fine tune the emails you receive from us. In an effort to bring you emails that are easier to display in a variety of email programs, we are starting to include the email system Constant Contact. You will still receive all the automated emails from our current system when you do things like register for Annual Session, submit a form online, or renew your membership. Those emails come from [email protected].

New emails will start arriving from Constant Contact using the email address [email protected]. We strongly suggest adding both of these email addresses to your “safe sender” or “white list” lists to ensure they are not directed to your junk or spam filters. For those of you accessing your email through a work email server, you may wish to share this information with your IT person and ask for their help in ensuring the email addresses are added to your safe sender lists.

As always, we are dedicated to bringing you the information you want to hear about and not filling your inbox with junk. This is just another step to help us achieve that goal. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected]

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Relationships, Relevance, Results Highlights in 2017 PILD 1st Timer’s Scholarship Recipient Reflections
Edited by Glenda Hyde (OR), Vice President Public Affairs

The PILD Conference experience was enlightening and surprisingly exciting. Public/Governmental Affairs is a bit out of my comfort zone, so I was anxious about attending the conference and especially going to the Hill to share my story. The Keynote and concurrent sessions, however, put me somewhat at ease by concretely explaining the process, giving excellent examples and advice, and offering time to practice our pitches. By Wednesday afternoon, I had a much greater understanding and appreciation of the importance of sharing our stories with elected officials. What a terrific professional development opportunity. Tonya Johnson (OR)

In the session, “Critical Conversations with Public Officials: Methods and Messages,” presenters from Ohio shared their “tool kit” that they use to communicate their message and ultimately build relationships. Building relationships will help create results and then relevance for our programs, something we are always striving to achieve. Tracy Trumper (CO)

Attending the PILD Conference was a great experience, and it was exciting to see how all of the pieces fit together. I attended the breakout session on moving beyond the hours and dollar value of volunteer work; we learned new ways to look at and recognize volunteer value. The second breakout looked at how we can provide leadership in energy conservation on the local level. My favorite part was the national program leader panel. They talked about FCS national programs that we are working with on the local level. I learned more about the political process and Extension in general.  Susan Haws (UT)

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2017 Silent Auction
Elizabeth Gardner-McBee (OK), Chair, Awards and Training Sponsorship Committee

One of the highlights of the Annual Session is the Silent Auction.  An exciting change is that we will have bidder numbers this year!

Bidding for the Silent Auction will be held only one day – Wednesday, October 18, from 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM.  The auction will be conveniently located in the CenturyLink Convention Center EXHIBIT HALL. So while visiting the venders, come back to our tables often to make sure you are the successful bidder!

We hope each member will consider contributing an item or two to make this year’s auction fun and successful!  Below is a list of items that are often very popular at the auction:

  • Items from your state (nuts, fruit, jelly, etc.)
  • handmade items
  • jewelry
  • quilted items
  • wines
  • baskets

We hope each affiliate will help support the fund by bringing an item or two for the auction too.  Large donated items can be shipped directly to Nebraska. The address and shipping information can be found here:  https://neafcs.memberclicks.net/2017-shipping. All the money raised goes to the NEAFCS Awards Fund.

Check the conference schedule online for drop-off times and locations. If you have any questions about the silent auction, please contact Liz Gardner-McBee, 580-625-3464, or email: [email protected]

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The Myth Is Busted!
Jeanette Friesen (NE), Tri-Liaison

Myth: Nebraska is a fly-over state with nothing interesting to see.

Fact: There are many unique adventures found only in Nebraska. Think about adding some of these to your Annual Session trip to Omaha. Here are just a few:

Bob the Bridge – A 3,000 foot pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River connects Nebraska and Iowa. It starts at an easy walking distance from the convention center, 705 Riverfront Dr.  Check out “Bob with a Vlog” at: https://www.visitomaha.com/bob/vlog/

Arbor Lodge  - The picturesque home of Arbor Day is located in Nebraska City, only about an hour’s drive south of Omaha.

TD Ameritrade Park – The home of the College World Series is just across the street from the Convention Center.

Old Market – Just a short distance from the Convention Center, this historic area of Omaha has been restored with unique shops and restaurants along cobblestone streets.

Runza – If you have never eaten a Runza, here is your chance to experience a unique fast food restaurant found only in Nebraska!

International Quilt Study Center & Museum – The home of the largest known public collection of quilts in the world is located on the University of Nebraska campus in Lincoln. Beginning with1000 quilts from the Ardis and Robert James collection, it is now the home of quilts representing over 30 countries from around the world.

Joslyn Castle – A beautiful, historic castle nestled in the middle of Omaha was the home of George and Sarah Joslyn, early settlers of Omaha. Their love for art and generosity left an indelible imprint on the city. This 35-room Scottish Baronial mansion was built in 1903. Open on the 3rd Sunday each month (October 15).

For more events during October, go to https://www.visitomaha.com/events/.

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In-Depth Sessions Will Challenge Your Thinking!
Jeanette Friesen (NE), Tri-Liaison

Don’t overlook great opportunities to expand your effectiveness as an Extension professional!  Take note of several in-depth sessions that will certainly expand your thinking and increase your impact as an educator.

Creative Ways to Work with Millennials- Are you puzzled how to relate to millennial clientele or co-workers? Experience the creative culture of Archrival’s workplace in Lincoln’s Haymarket and learn from the experts on how to relate to Millennials and GenZ consumers.

Investing In Ages 0 – 5- Have you heard of Educare? This new early childhood education model is an innovative partnership between the public and private sectors creating a more efficient and effective early learning program for at-risk infants, preschoolers and families. You will certainly see the value of investing in the first five years and go home with many ideas you can use.

What are Makerspaces?- Makerspaces are places where people gather to create, share, network and make things. These are unique collaborative spaces that encourage inventing, tinkering and exploring.  When visiting Nebraska's Premier Makerspace – Innovation Studio, you will learn how this entrepreneurial concept is sweeping America and adding value to communities.

Food Innovation & Entrepreneurship Nebraska Style- How are new food products developed and marketed? At UNL's Food Innovation Center you will see a state-of-the-art facility which aids entrepreneurs from across the country develop an idea into a product ready to market. You will gain insight into the entire process and go home with tools you can use in your classroom.

Successful Youth at Risk Program- Everyone has heard of Boys Town. Now is your opportunity to visit the national headquarters where 400 boys and girls receive care and guidance for behavioral, emotional and academic issues. While touring Boys Town, you will learn proven parenting skills used with at-risk youth.

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Culturally-Sensitive Nutrition Education
Ines Beltran (GA), Diversity Subcommittee

Immigrants and refugees go through a process of adjustment affected by language and cultural barriers making difficult the practice of healthy behaviors and increasing the incidence of chronic disease. Dietary differences of populations can be considered a strength of social and cultural capital that Extension nutrition educators can adapt to and build upon. As Extension educators learn more about the dietary preferences and perspectives of newcomers they can be more effective in influencing the knowledge and behaviors about health within diverse audiences.

Food is one of the cornerstones of any culture, and immigrants use food to maintain a connection to home and to identify themselves within a diverse community.  Newcomers will have access to new foods and will, therefore, experience new consumption patterns. Food choices will be wider and dietary habits will change, often resulting in poor eating habits.   Extension nutrition educators have the capacity to intervene as they strive to improve dietary behaviors and the health status among immigrants.

Studies have shown that translation of existing nutrition educational programs into other languages is not sufficient to meet the needs of the immigrants. Programs and the people who deliver them must be culturally aware or culturally-sensitive to be effective.

To facilitate culturally-sensitive nutrition education, Extension nutrition educators can teach newcomers how to preserve the healthful dietary practices they have and minimize the negative health aspects of acculturation to the "American diet”. Immigrants can maintain their traditional eating habits, while adopting the healthful aspects of eating in this country.

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Meet the Board – Treasurer
Nancy Stehulak (OH), Treasurer

This is Nancy Stehulak’s second board appointment, having served as the Central Regional Director 2013-2015.  Nancy retired from her position as County Extension Director and Educator in Henry County Ohio early in 2017.  Her specialization in Ohio was financial education and leadership development.  You might have met up with Nancy in a financial concurrent session at one of our annual sessions. Nancy and her husband, Carl, are the parents of three sons and six beautiful grandchildren.

Why did she put her name up for a national officer?  It was really time to give back to the organization, as NEAFCS has allowed her to meet up with very dedicated people across the nation.  As well, these connections have led to greater programming and very interesting discussions about Extension and the changing role of Family and Consumer Sciences.  It appears the need today is great to encourage families toward success…financially…emotionally…and healthfully.

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Sex differences in innate immune function in neonates

Presented at the Neonatal Society 2018 Summer Meeting.

McGovern M1, Coyne S2, Flynn L2, Melo AM3, Moreno-Oliveria A3, Doherty DG3, Greene C4, Molloy EJ1,2,3,5,6

1 Trinity College, the University of Dublin
2 Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital Dublin
3 Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI), Trinity College Dublin
4 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin
5 Tallaght Hospital, Dublin
6 Neonatology, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin

Background: Neonatal sepsis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality and research suggests that male neonates are at higher risk of sepsis than females and have poorer outcomes following episodes of sepsis. Females neonates are known to have a more robust immune response to infective stimuli than males (1) and steroid hormones such as estrogen are thought to affect the innate immune response (2). We hypothesise that males and female infants have differing innate immune responses and that these responses may be altered by the effect of steroid hormones. This study compared the expression of CD11b and TLR2 on the surface of granulocytes in male and female infants at term before and after endotoxin (LPS) and estrogen exposure.

Methods: Peripheral blood was taken from healthy neonates on the postnatal wards during routine phlebotomy (5 female, 7 male). Samples were treated with endotoxin (LPS; 10ng/mL) and 17-β estradiol (E2; 10-8M), alone and in combination. Samples were then stained with monoclonal antibodies specific for CD11b and TLR2 and analysed by flow cytometry. Granulocytes were identified based on light scattering properties and CD66b expression. Granulocyte activation was quantified by analysis of CD11b and TLR2 expression. Results were analysed using GraphPad Prism. Ethical approval was provided by the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital and this project is funded by the National Children’s Research Centre, Dublin.

Results: No significant differences were noted in CD11b or TLR2 expression between male and female neonates at baseline. Male infants were found to be more responsive to endotoxin than females as they had a significant increase in CD11b following LPS exposure (p 0.0156), a difference not present in the female population (p >0.05). CD11b and TLR2 expression did not vary following E2 treatment.

Conclusion: CD11b and TLR2 expression did not differ between males and females at baseline. CD11b expression increased significantly following endotoxin exposure in males but not in females. Our findings support the theory that innate immune response differs by gender and this may have important implications for future research and should be considered in study design.

Corresponding author: elesean@hotmail.com

1. O’Driscoll DN, Greene CM, Molloy EJ. Expert review of clinical immunology. 2017;13(11):1061-71.
2. Giannoni E, Guignard L, Knaup Reymond M, et al. Infection and immunity. 2011;79(7):2690-8.

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Humble Indie Bundle interview with Richard Esguerra

We are lucky to have the chance to converse with Richard Esguerra. He is a core part of the Humble Indie Bundle crew and was a Senior Activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We want to thank him for his time, and now on to the questions:

Nerd Age’s Scholar: The Humble Indie Bundle has been a staple in the industry for some time now, but who came up with it in the first place?

Richard Esguerra of Humble Indie Bundle: John Graham and Jeffrey Rosen were at Wolfire Games, looking for a way to promote Lugaru, their studio’s first indie game.

They basically took inspiration from every kind of successful online sale — promoting awesome games together, pay-what-you-want pricing, cross-platform compatibility, helping charity, and honest dealings with customers — and put them all together for the first Humble Indie Bundle.

NA: The Humble Indie Bundle is starting to get similar competition. What do you want your fanbase to know that sets the Humble Indie Bundle apart from its competitors?

Richard: Humble Indie Bundles put everything together — totally pay-what-you-want, cross-platform, DRM-free, helps charities, with customizable sliders. Also, we have exceedingly helpful and deadly support ninjas.

 Humble Indie Bundle Electronic Frontier Foundation

NA: Many people buy the bundle without fully knowing what they are supporting. Tell us about the EFF and what it does.

Richard: The Electronic Frontier Foundation works to protect digital civil liberties — like online free speech, privacy, and other rights. For example, the EFF fought to make it legal to jailbreak your smartphone. And they went after Sony for including rootkits in music CDs that compromised consumers’ computers.

EFF is pretty vital in a world where it can be very profitable for companies to prevent individuals from doing what they want to do with technology.

NA: Voxatron is extremely impressive, but came out of nowhere. Does the bundle get a lot of submissions like this?

Richard: Thanks — we’ll pass the compliment on to Lexaloffle! Voxatron is rather unique. We do get a lot of submissions for games.

NA: Have you ever considered offering DLC for free in any future bundles?

Richard: It’s mostly up to the developer, but we’d definitely consider it. Some of the bundle games have included brand new content updates, like Binding of Isaac and Blocks That Matter. And customers of the Humble Voxatron Bundle will receive future Voxatron updates, though in some ways that’s not the same as DLC.

NA: On the same note, you’ve even had cancelled games in your lineup. Could we one day see a bundle that includes alpha games, cancelled games and soundtracks together?

Richard: Perhaps, but probably not! Offering high-quality games is really important to us, and Jack Claw was kind of a special case. But we wouldn’t rule it out if there’s some really compelling stuff out there that makes sense to bundle.

NA: We’ve seen bundles start at multiple games, and we’ve seen them jump from one game to several. Can you tell us anything about how the Humble Indie Bundle crew decides to choose and release bundles?

Richard: Yeah, it’s a real mix of factors. We care a lot about cross-platform gaming, so one thing that might be kind of unexpected is that the timing for bundles is affected by looking for games that are ported to Linux and figuring out Linux porting in general. But mostly, it’s kind of a blend of gut feelings about what games work well together, and straight-up logistics.

Also, we think of ourselves as a pretty new operation, so we’re still experimenting with ideas. Doing some bundles with a few games means that we can offer more cross-platform, pay-what-you-want promotions more often, which benefits developers and customers.

A few concerned users seem to be afraid that we’re settling on a single kind of promotion, but behind-the-scenes we’re working on bundles of all shapes and sizes.

NA: Charity and gaming have become deeply intertwined, with everything from the bundle to literally making games for charity like some companies.  How do you see this process evolving over time?

Richard: I’m not really sure where it will go, but I can definitively say that the charities and non-profits really do appreciate the attention and the support. I think it might all come from a broader recognition that gamers care about the world, and including charities is a way to connect to other issues we care about.

NA: Can you give any advice to developers who want their game chosen?

Richard: We don’t have an ironclad rubric or anything, so it’s hard to say. But I think any developer that really focuses on gameplay and developing an authentic voice stands to win in this environment.

NA: Can you give any general advice, perhaps about forming relationships, to developers who want to succeed in the industry?

Richard: Flexibility feels like an exceedingly important trait for business and otherwise. Set some meaningful standards and work honestly with other people in the space.

We once again want to thank the Humble Bundle crew for their time. Be sure to check out the bundle and remember that your donations help fellow developers and those in need. Not to mention getting to play the overworld map from Super Mario Bros 3 in Voxatron.

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Dick & Noel are both committed to their own healing through Chiropractic, NSA, SRI, Ho’oponopono, Matrix Energetics, Quantum Entrainment, a number of spiritual practices, and many other means that they integrate into their healing and teaching style. They participate in healing events and chiropractic intensives in the United States, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Italy and Brazil.

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Castle in the Clouds

When we come here with the kids we spend most of the day on the property. The house itself has breathtaking views of Lake Winnipesaukee and the hills and mountains beyond. There are miles of hiking trails on the site as well. We usually eat a light lunch in the old horse barn, were the tables are set up in the stalls. You can also take a tour of Castle Springs bottling plant and see the actual spring that produces the water for bottling.

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Springfield's Great Burrito Debate: The final four

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Over the last 24 hours, more than one thousand votes helped narrow down our burrito bracket to four, with one early favorite knocked out in the second round.

Round 3 of the burrito bracket.

It's not the top seed that's been upset, as No. 1 Purple Burrito secured about 58 percent of the vote in its second round match-up against No. 8 The Wheelhouse.

There was a similar margin of victory for No. 5 Tortilleria Perches, which took down No. 14 Amigos, the first round's Cinderella story.

That leaves our first final four match-up as Purple Burrito vs. Tortilleria Perches. Both featured burritos are both delicious and have great names. We of course chose Purple Burrito's Purple Burrito, and from Tortilleria Perches, we put up the burrito a la bandera.

No. 3 Mexican Villa, representing Springfield's culinary roots, survived a close match-up with No. 11 Maria's Mexican Restaurant. Only 11 total votes separated the two.

If you recall our foreshadowing at the beginning, you know that No. 2 Big Fat Burrito and the lime chile chicken burrito has been defeated by No. 7 Cesar's Old Mexico and the burrito carnitas.

That sets up a showdown between the cagey veteran, Mexican Villa, and a rather new kid on the block, Cesar's. Twice now, Villa has squeaked out a victory. Can it make it three in a row?

Our method: The News-Leader sought nominations for “Springfield’s Great Burrito Debate” on Facebook and Twitter in December. We compiled the nominations and selected the 16 with the most votes. We know somebody’s favorite burrito is not on this list. We would be sorry about this, but we’re voting on burritos, for crying out loud. This is supposed to be fun.

Those 16 burritos were seeded based on the number of nominations they received. Each round will last 24 hours. Readers can vote once each hour, and if we catch folks exceeding the limits, we'll delete votes.


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Man charged with assaulting Greene County corrections officer

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A Springfield man has been charged in connection with a weekend assault that officials say left a Greene County corrections officer with multiple fractured bones in his face.

Jesus Araiza, 24, was charged Tuesday with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer after authorities say he carried out a "surprise attack" on the corrections officer on Saturday, according to a news release from the Greene County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff Jim Arnott said the injured corrections officer, Tyler Dodson, suffered serious injuries that required medical attention.

By Tuesday afternoon, Dodson had been released from the hospital and was eager to get back to work, according to the sheriff.

The release says some inmates told staff members at the Greene County Jail on Saturday that Araiza was making them feel unsafe.

Dodson went to talk with Araiza and, the sheriff's office says, Araiza attacked the deputy. Araiza allegedly took the handcuffs from Dodson's belt and struck the deputy until the handcuffs broke.

Sheriff Arnott said at a news conference on Tuesday that in his 28 years in law enforcement he has never seen handcuffs break.

Arnott said in the Greene County Jail there are usually two corrections officer in each of the jail pods, which house about 120 inmates.

"It’s a dangerous job, just as dangerous as the deputy on the street," Arnott said. "We have not talked much about assaults that occur in the jail, but they are on the increase and they are getting more serious."

Arnott said Tuesday afternoon he did not have numbers handy for how many assaults on law enforcement occur in the jail.

Araiza was serving a sentence in the Greene County Jail and had been there since December, according to online records.


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Emergency eye surgery will keep Steckel from coaching Bears on Saturday

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Missouri State football coach Dave Steckel will miss the Bears’ game at Youngstown State on Saturday after undergoing emergency eye surgery on Thursday morning in Springfield.

Steckel underwent a retina procedure and is expected to recover in time to be on the sidelines for the Bears’ home finale on Nov. 14 against Northern Iowa, according to a news release from Missouri State University.

Offensive coordinator Mario Verduzco and defensive coordinator Marcus Yokeley will combine for the interim head coaching duties on Saturday.

"He feels really bad because he wants to be there with the kids," Missouri State AD Kyle Moats said Thursday afternoon. "My comment was that you’ve got to help yourself before you can help the kids. We have to make sure he’s ready to go, and his health is paramount."

Still, it's the latest curveball in a season that has been full of them this fall. The Bears are 1-7 overall, with their only victory coming over Division II Chadron State. In the seven losses, MSU has been outscored by an average of 54-11.

The offense hasn't scored a touchdown in the last three games-plus, and now the team will hit the road to face 19th-ranked Youngstown State without its head coach.

"His health is the most important thing," Moats said. "We’re frustrated as fans and as administrators, because of our record. It’s not the end of the world. The health part of it is the No. 1 thing. We need to get him back so he can be around the kids and we’re OK with that, with how things are going and with his leadership.

"We’re not happy with the record, and nobody is happy with the record. It’s just one of those things."


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Father's Day is this weekend... and I am reminded about being  so grateful for my dad!!

 The greatest gift my dad has given me was unconditional love and support.  We grew up riding horses ... and my dad always told me if I wanted to win the barrell racing competitions.. then I needed to get out there and practice.  That advice has carried with me through my life.  I know if I am going to be successful at something.. then I have to get out there and put the effort into it.

My father is retired from the military and civil service.. (double dipper) On the outside is this tough military  man...but on the inside is the most generous man I have ever known.   He always brought fun and excitement into our home.. never met a stranger... and even in the middle of one wintery night...woke me up to go play in the snow by throwing a snowball at me while I was sleeping in my bed. (talk about a memory maker:)

My dad will not want much fuss in the form of a gift for Father's Day.. He is 72.  I plan to send him a card and call and tell him how much he means to me.  (even if the card is late.. he will understand:)   But the call I will make will be right on time.

The best gift you can give your dad... is a word of thankfulness.. for all he has done for you.  Let him know how much he means to you... That affirmation doesn't cost a dime... and will stay with your dad for a long time.

I always feel I get the best of me... from my dad... and his personality.. and on Sunday .. Father's Day... I will be sure to tell him.

If your dad is not here.. or you don't have a way to talk to him for Dad's Day... Thank the Lord above for the gift of your father.


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Queen ‘delighted’ by Captain Tom Moore’s fundraising effort which shows true patriotism

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Captain Tom Moore have impressed the Queen together with his fundraising efforts, a royal professional mentioned. And, very similar to the Queen, he has confirmed the impression the aged proceed to have on the British society, royal professional Richard Fitzwilliams added.

Speaking about Captain Tom and the birthday needs the Queen despatched him, Mr Fitzwilliams mentioned: “The Queen, at 94, is the most famous example of how those who are older can make important contributions to society, and will undoubtedly be delighted at Captain Tom Moore’s remarkable efforts.”

The Queen has agreed on selling Captain Tom to Honorary Colonel at this time to mark the inspirational veteran’s 100th birthday.

On prime of this honour, the monarch has additionally despatched a telegram to the veteran, who in lower than three weeks raised £30million for NHS employees and volunteers.

The message was delivered by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, the monarch’s consultant within the county the place Captain Tom lives.

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Its content material was unveiled by the veteran himself, who proudly posed with the playing cards opened on his lap.

It learn: “I’m so happy to know that you’re celebrating your one hundredth birthday on 30th April, 2020.

“I used to be additionally most to listen to of your latest fundraising efforts for NHS Charities Together at this troublesome time.

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“I send my congratulations and best wishes to you on such a special occasion. – Elizabeth R”

Several members of the Royal Family have publicly expressed their admiration for Captain Tom over the previous few days.

In a uncommon interview with the BBC, Prince William known as Captain Tom an “absolute legend”, including: It’s unimaginable, I did see him on the information the opposite evening and I believed, ‘good on him.’ It’s wonderful.

“What I love also is he’s a 99-year-old war vet, he’s been around a long time, knows everything and it’s wonderful everyone has been inspired by his story and his determination.”

Kensington Palace later added the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had donated an undisclosed sum of cash to the veteran’s fundraising marketing campaign.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is believed to have penned a private letter to Captain Tom over the previous few days.

And in a latest video chat with Dame Darcey Bussell and broadcaster Angela Rippon, Camilla known as the veteran a beautiful man.

She added: “That sort of thing makes you proud to be British.”

And Sarah Ferguson wrote on Twitter this morning: “Colonel Thomas, Happy birthday and to Pamela in your heart, 100 years and together you are so strong”.

Captain Tom began his fundraising marketing campaign on April 9, when he pledged to finish 100 laps of his 25-metre yard by his 100th birthday, at this time.

His preliminary purpose to boost £1000 was smashed in lower than 24 hours.

Donations proceed to pour into this present day, with virtually 1.5 million individuals contributing to Captain Tom’s effort.

Today, Captain Tom has been honoured with an RAF flypast which left him delighted.

A hurricane and a spitfire flew over his Marston Moretaine dwelling after travelling to Bedfordshire from RAF Coningsby.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister reveals whom he expects to win the US election

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Trump is taking up Democratic nominee Joe Biden in November. Mohammad Javad Zarif did, nonetheless, acknowledge, the incumbent appeared to have seen his assist decline in current months. In a stay interview with an Iranian journalist on Instagram, Mr Zarif defined: “The greatest mistake in human sciences is to predict, particularly in fluid and grave circumstances.

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“But enable me to enterprise a prediction that Mr Trump’s re-election likelihood is nonetheless greater than 50%.

“But Mr Trump has a 30-35% base that has not moved and, as long as this base does not move, there is still a chance of his re-election.”

In current weeks, Trump has been overtaken by Mr Biden in a number of polls and the former vice-President is now the bookies favorite.

Last 12 months, Trump pulled the US out of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.

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Washington reimposed sanctions on the Iranian economic system, while Tehran started scaling again commitments made in the settlement.

Earlier this month, Trump instructed Iranian leaders they have been improper in the event that they thought he was going to lose the election.

He tweeted: “Don’t wait till after U.S. Election to make the Big deal.

“I’m going to win.

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“You’ll make a better deal now!”

The different signatories to the settlement have been the European Union, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN watchdog lately wrote a report accusing Tehran of blocking entry to two websites the place nuclear exercise might have occurred in the previous.

The IAEA famous “with serious concern that, for over four months, Iran has denied access to the agency to two locations”

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Iran has claimed the requests are based mostly on “fabricated information”.

They additionally accused the United States and Israel of making an attempt “exert pressure on the agency”.

The Democrats are additionally the favourites to win a majority in the House of Representatives in November.

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The Republicans misplaced management of the decrease chamber in the 2018 elections.

According to Oddschecker, the Republicans stay the favorite to win the Senate elections, however their odds are shortening.

Elections to the higher home are staggered with a 3rd of Senators standing for reelection each two years.

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Political commentators have advised Mitch McConnell may face a battle for his Senate seat (Image: GETTY)

In addition to 33 seats up for election as common elections, two Republican senators are standing in particular elections to end the time period of Senators they have been appointed to substitute by State Governors.

Thus, a complete of 23 Republican seats are for re-election and 12 Democrat seats.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican is taken into account to have a secure seat however due to his low approval scores and the Democratic candidate Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, elevating a considerable quantity of funds, some commentators have advised it could possibly be a race to watch.

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Super Bowl Monday could cost companies roughly $4 billion

Don’t be surprised if your coworker calls out “sick” Monday, as a record number of U.S. adults are expected to be sidelined Monday, Jan. 4, after the New England Patriots face off against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII.

Companies can count on an estimated 17.2 million employees missing work the day after the Super Bowl — resulting in the loss of roughly $4 billion in productivity, according to the “Super Bowl Fever Survey” commissioned by workforce-services company Kronos Inc.

This year’s estimate marks a record high — surpassing 2016’s high estimate of 16.5 million absent workers, Kronos reported. Legal betting markets are pointing to a particularly close game, with New England favored over L.A. by a mere 2.5 points, and experts say 103.4 million Americans are expected to tune into the game — 61% of them employed.

“This year marks the largest anticipated day of Super Bowl-related absenteeism we’ve seen since … Kronos began tracking this phenomenon in 2005. Both employees and their bosses continue to play hooky the day after the Big Game,” said Joyce Maroney of Kronos.

No-show employees are expected to cost employers more than $2.5 billion in lost productivity according to the Challenger Gray & Christmas, Inc.’s “Super Bowl Productivity Loss Report.” That number could be even higher this year as the firm’s estimate is based on 13.9 million Americans playing hooky or requesting the day off Monday.

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Distractions at work, late arrivals and early departures from the office will also put a damper on output Monday, with employees who do report to work turning in subpar performances after the big game, costing more billions through non-productivity.

“If all of the workers who watch the Super Bowl spend just one hour of their work day discussing the game or come in one hour late, the productivity losses could hit $1.7 billion,” said Andrew Challenger, Vice President of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

Businesses in the Los Angeles and New England areas are expected to see the most absences, according to Challenger.

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Despite failing to secure a decisive victory in three elections and being on trial for corruption charges, Netanyahu remains Israel’s prime minister. How has he held on for so long?

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On 20 April, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium for his annual address at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. But this year was not like any other. Netanyahu was speaking to a nation suffering a prolonged constitutional crisis that had led to three general elections in less than a year. His message was recorded in advance, due to the restrictions imposed by the global Covid-19 pandemic. And, unlike in 2019, Netanyahu had a date had set for his trial, where he would face criminal charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.

“Unlike during the Holocaust,” Netanyahu told a nation in lockdown, “we saw the danger in time”. Israel had, he said, “made important decisions such as closing the country’s borders, while harnessing the entirety of the country’s systems to the cause.”

The crass juxtaposition of the Holocaust and the pandemic, the insinuation that Jews would have been safer had Israel’s leader been around during the Second World War — this is classic Netanyahu. His political pitch is to highlight existential threats to the Jewish state, such as Iran, a hostile EU or a novel coronavirus, to present himself as the safe pair of hands, and a leader not only of Israelis but of all the world’s Jews. This strategy has brought Netanyahu — or “Bibi”, as he is nicknamed in Israel — five terms in office, and made him the country’s longest-serving prime minister. Four of those have happened concurrently since 2009. His first term ended a decade earlier in 1999.

The threats that the 70-year-old Netanyahu has on his radar have never been limited to those external to the state, however. As the leader of the right-wing Likud Party, Netanyahu has long warned his supporters of the existential dangers of a political left that would, in cahoots with “terror-supporting” Arab counterparts, stop at nothing to bring down Israel’s government. Twenty per cent of the Israeli population are Arab citizens.

Over the past year, as criminal proceedings against him have edged closer to trial, Netanyahu has also railed against Israel’s judicial system, which he claims is rigged and an arm of the deep state. The prime minister and his family are the perpetual victims of a hostile left-wing media.

But as he stood on the podium that evening, his trial looming like a grey cloud on the horizon, Netanyahu could breathe a certain sigh of relief. The same day, he had reached an agreement to form an emergency unity government with his main rival, the former Israeli army chief of staff Benny Gantz. Under the rotation deal, Netanyahu will stay put for another 18 months before standing aside for a man who pitched himself to the electorate as “just not Bibi”.

Gantz, who is now the country’s alternate prime minister and defence minister, had previously declared that he would never sit with Netanyahu in government. But on 17 May, the largest government in Israel’s history was sworn in. The new administration bears the signs of extensive wrangling and compromise, with 25 new positions added. The bloated list of 35 ministerial positions and 16 deputies includes a minister for “higher education and water resources”. But Netanyahu wanted to conclude the political crisis quickly. And his trial, which had been due to start in mid-March but was postponed amid coronavirus lockdown, was now just a week away.

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It was not, then, the victory Netanyahu might have dreamed of. But despite the challenge from a credible opposition movement, which hadn’t existed before that first election all the way back in April 2019, and despite the fact that a small majority had voted against him, Netanyahu clung to power.

The new government also shows signs of Netanyahu’s gift for horsetrading. The process of forming the unity government split two of his key rivals — Gantz’s Blue and White liberal centrists, and Yamina, the hard-right coalition — while the centre-left Labour party was hoovered up into the unity government. Naftali Bennett, once Netanyahu’s chief of staff but now a personal rival, was relegated to the opposition.

This ability to navigate Israel’s fractious system of proportional representation has been a crucial part of Netanyahu’s story. Dozens of parties and alliances compete for influence in the Knesset. In this environment of constant negotiation, alliances are fragile and instability is inevitable. In the first of the three general elections, a lifetime ago in April 2019, it was another of Netanyahu’s friends-turned-enemies, Avigdor Lieberman, who triggered the political crisis by refusing to join a coalition government. With Netanyahu unwilling to accept defeat, a Likud lawmaker introduced a bill to dissolve the Knesset, and a second election was called. Speaking to the press after that vote, a visibly chagrined Netanyahu denounced Lieberman, a hard-right conservative who has previously advocated population transfer of Arab citizens, as a leftist, to the amusement of the reporters present.

The next election in September 2019 also yielded an impasse. Though the centre-left parties together had secured more seats altogether, it was Netanyahu who got the 61 recommendations he needed from lawmakers for President Reuven Rivlin to hand him the mandate to form a government. But with negotiations failing, the mandate went to Gantz, the first time since 2009 that someone other than Netanyahu was given the task. When he didn't manage to form a government either, the baton was passed back to the Knesset. The impasse remained, however, as no other candidate received the backing of 61 MKs. The Knesset dissolved and the country yet again went to elections. After election number two, Netanyahu twice asked parties in the right-wing and religious bloc to sign a pledge committing not to join a Blue and White-led minority government supported by Arab parties.

The third round of elections in March 2020 was hardly more decisive. This time Likud won 36 seats to Blue and White's  33, but Gantz got the mandate because Netanyahu could not secure the crucial backing of 61 lawmakers.  When he didn't manage to form a government, either, the mandate went again to Netanyahu. Both after the September and March votes, President Reuven Rivlin called on Gantz and Netanyahu, as the leaders of the two largest parties, to form a national unity government. When Gantz ultimately agreed after the third election many voters were furious. He cited the Covid-19 crisis as a reason for going back on his pledge not to serve in a government with a prime minister under indictment. Gantz had also been subjected to vicious negative campaigning from Likud, which cast aspersions on this mental health and personal life, alongside the incitement against Arabs which Gantz and his party did little to counter.

My father, who has lived in England since 1987, flew back to Israel three times to vote for Gantz. He is one of those bitterly disappointed by the unity government outcome. “The more I think about it, the angrier it makes me,” he told me recently. “Bibi symbolises everything that is bad in politics. There was an opportunity for someone fresh who hasn’t been in politics all his life to take over.” Netanyahu became a Knesset member in 1988. “Bibi is clearly a very talented politician,” my father added. “The problem is – just as we saw in the coronavirus crisis, he uses his talent not for the good of Israel but for the Netanyahu family.”

Others think Gantz did the right thing, even a brave thing, by ending the political turmoil and preventing yet another election. By the time the cabinet was sworn in at the end of May, the country had been under interim government for nearly 18 months. It is not only the cracked political landscape that Netanyahu knows how to navigate, but Israel’s deeply divided society. He has stoked divisions between right and left — a common refrain is to describe the left as “traitors” — and between Arabs and Jews. In 2015, Netanyahu uploaded a video to Facebook on election day warning that “the Arabs are going to the polls in droves”. After September’s vote, he railed against the option of Blue and White forming a minority government with “terror-supporting” Arab lawmakers, saying this was an existential threat. In a video on social media he appealed to the party, “Are you out of your mind? There’s still time to stop this insanity”. In response Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Joint List, an alliance of Arab-majority parties, tweeted a photograph of himself reading a story to his children. He captioned it: "After a long day I have to put these three existential threats to bed!"

Netanyahu’s party went further still. In April’s election, Likud sent monitors with body cameras to a number of polling stations in towns with majority Arab populations, in what was seen as an attempt to intimidate voters. Ahead of September’s vote, the party tried – and failed – to pass a bill to allow cameras at polling stations, ostensibly to prevent voter fraud but with almost certainly the same intent.

Amid such incitement, the chances of Jewish-Arab political co-operation were slim. Blue and White did meet with Joint List, the alliance of Arab-majority parties, during coalition negotiations after the second election, posing for a potentially paradigm-shifting picture together. Lawmakers on that slate were even prepared to recommend Gantz as prime minister to the president as part of the “just not Bibi” camp. But Blue and White was apparently unprepared to put off the voters it might have attracted from Netanyahu’s base by condemning the race-baiting rhetoric, and a Jewish-Arab coalition remains a sadly impossible proposition.

Now, days after his trial started on Sunday 24 May, Netanyahu is still the prime minister – despite his indictment, despite the small majority against him, despite the racist and divisive rhetoric and the reports of voter intimidation, despite the huge gaps between rich and poor in the start-up nation, the moribund peace process, ongoing occupation and moves towards unilateral annexation, and — perhaps most maddening, to his detractors — the fact that he just doesn’t seem to want to budge.

What keeps him in power? Perhaps it is the fact that, like everything else in Israeli politics, there is little consensus on any of this. To his supporters he is the ultimate leader, dismantling political rivals, standing up to the US on Iran, building Israel’s international ties despite the pesky conflict with the Palestinians, and counting the world’s buoyant autocrats as his friends. Election campaign posters last year showed him alongside Putin and Trump with the tagline, “Netanyahu: In a league of his own”. On his 70th birthday last year, Trump wrote “You’re Great!” at the bottom of a letter to Netanyahu. To his supporters, it is thanks to his leadership that Israel is a small state punching well above its weight on the world stage.

“I think he is undoubtedly one of the great leaders the State of Israel and the Jewish people have had,” Ariel Kahana, diplomatic correspondent of the pro-settler weekly Makor Rishon told me. “If you just look at the coronavirus crisis, which Israel came out of more or less okay under his leadership, he is a great leader — with a lot of rivals”. Kahana describes the criminal charges and criticism of Netanyahu’s socially corrosive politics as “delegitimisation” that, he says, has only ever strengthened the prime minister’s resolve. He has been underestimated. And, Kahana adds, he does not believe that Netanyahu has ever really tried to pass legislation granting him immunity from trial.

Raviv Drucker, the Channel 13 journalist long on Netanyahu’s tail, said Bibi has “managed to create the image among his supporters that you have just repeated perfectly,” when I relayed this analysis to him. “He created the idea that all leaders try to create, that there is no replacement, there is no one else. David Ben-Gurion felt like this, and [Ariel] Sharon — many of our leaders feel that after them, there is a terrible abyss and no one else will be able to lead.”

Netanyahu’s life is one of mythologies: the influence of his father, the historian and Revisionist Zionist outsider Benzion Netanyahu, the memory of his brother Yonatan, the fallen war hero. The first Israeli leader to have been born after the founding of the state; the youngest to take office. He went to school in the US but returned home to join the army, where he served in the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal. Back in the US he studied at MIT and Harvard, with a break to fight in the Yom Kippur War. He later worked at the Boston Consulting Group and as a diplomat. Along the way he made new friends — Mitt Romney, with whom he worked, and the property developer Fred Trump.

It was in the US, too, that he developed his perfect English and the rhetorical flourish that is so effective in his aggressive social media presence and in his divisive speeches. What other leader has had the audacity to whip out props on the podium at the United Nations General Assembly?

In one well-known incident, which angered many in Israel, Netanyahu addressed a meeting of the Likud Party in 1999 wearing a bullet-proof jacket, as mandated by the security services. “Is there someone here who is not a Likud member?” he asked. When no hands were raised, he removed the jacket and dropped it to the floor. The stunt took place four years after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.

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In 1998, during his first term in office, a New Yorker profile pitched him as “The Outsider”, a man railing against left-wing elites and the media who was little liked by those around him. By 2012, three years into his second term in office, TIME crowned him on its cover as “King Bibi”, a seemingly immovable leader. In the intervening period, Netanyahu had built up a base as leader of Likud that brought together the right-wing and religious settler movement and Mizrahi Jews in poorer peripheral towns. He had cast himself, despite his own elite and Ashkenazi background, as a man still railing against elites, and as an opponent to the Oslo process. Many Israelis on the left believe Netanyahu bears some responsibility for inciting the violent atmosphere in which Rabin, who signed the Oslo Accords with Yasser Arafat, was assassinated by the Jewish Israeli Yigal Amir in November 1995.

Observers note a change in Netanyahu after the 2015 election, when Likud won 30 seats to the Zionist Union’s 24. “This victory brought Netanyahu and his family to another place. To a place where they started to believe, like Louis 14th, that they are the state,” wrote Limor Livnat, a former Likud minister who led Netanyahu’s campaign in 1999, in a searing column this week. “Netanyahu before 2015 and after 2015 are different people, not in the way they think, but in the way they behave,” agrees Drucker. “Until 2015 he always tried to keep some eye contact with his opponents — the High Court, the media, human rights organisations, with Europe and the EU. From 2015…these positions have become more extreme”.

“I first met him when I went on a visit to Washington as a member of Knesset,” the former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, recalled when we spoke recently over Zoom. They had dinner at Netanyahu’s residence, with his second wife, Fleur Cates. “The impression he made on me then, and since then, was of being an actor, a poser...I thought he was quite a hollow and shallow man, and I must say I haven’t changed my mind since.”

Olmert, who was mayor of Jerusalem during Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister, was in power immediately before Netanyahu, from 2006-09. He led Kadima, the centrist party set up by Ariel Sharon when Israel disengaged from Gaza, after Sharon had a stroke and went into a coma. Olmert was pressured to resign when he faced his own corruption allegations, for which he later spent time in prison.  There is little love lost between the two; Olmert has blamed Netanyahu for being involved in pushing the criminal proceedings against him.

“There is nothing with him [Netanyahu] that is ‘not done’ if it serves his political needs,” Olmert told me. “All the last three elections came from the constraints he was under, following the judicial proceedings developing against him. And these are things that I refused to do.” Olmert resigned, he says, because “I understood that the actors in the legal system – whether I thought they were wrong, or right or whether I thought they acted unfairly, it's irrelevant – but from a certain moment, when you are prime minister, fighting them drags you into a process where in the end you are fighting the police, the State Attorney’s Office, you fight the courts. You reach a low point that can unsettle the stability of the entire democratic and governance structure of the state.” His successor apparently has no such concerns.

Olmert and Netanyahu hail from the same political home — from Likud, and from the Revisionist stream of Zionism, whose figurehead was Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Unlike the Labour Zionism of David Ben-Gurion, Jabotinsky’s vision was defensive and liberal. He advocated the “iron wall” approach and Jewish sovereignty over a Greater Israel. Olmert took a turn to the centre when Sharon disengaged from Gaza and formed Kadima. He continues to bang the drum for a two-state solution.

“I don’t think that Bibi follows in the footsteps of Begin, or Shamir or any of the old Revisionist leaders,” Olmert told me in an email after our interview. “His father was an outsider to the Revisionist hard core and if at all he was a bitter man who felt rejected by them. Bibi inherited that bitter attitude and his positions and attitudes are different on most crucial issues.”

Netanyahu voted for disengagement under Sharon, though he resigned days before the Gaza pullout. Throughout his career he has stayed firmly on the right. Israel’s right has made peace, and left has waged war – Menachem Begin signed the peace deal with Egypt. But under Netanyahu the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has hardly moved. Since the formation of the new government at the end of May, Netanyahu has repeated his pledges on West Bank annexation, citing Trump’s peace plan as the basis for moving forward. The Palestinians have declared they will end security co-operation with Israel and the US in protest.

Netanyahu’s gestures towards annexation do not necessarily mean that he is ideologically committed to the vision of a Greater Israel. As a pragmatist and an ideologue, he understands the need to play to his base. This week, Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers that he intends to apply sovereignty to areas of the West Bank on 1 July. His base may not be so easy to please, however. The settler’s Yesha Council has raised concerns over the plan, saying it will leave a number of settlements isolated and surrounded by a Palestinian state. Still, whether he goes through with annexation will depend on the political price. “If he thinks it will cost another intifada, violence, the peace treaty with Jordan, I don’t think he will go through with it,” says Drucker, “but if he gets the feeling he can do it without too heavy a political upheaval, he will see it as a way of securing his legacy.”

On Sunday 24 May, the first day of his trial, Prime Minister Netanyahu once again addressed the nation from a podium in Jerusalem. This time he was at the courthouse. Flanked by ministers in medical masks, the prime minister repeated the mantras honed over three election campaigns. "The objective is to depose a strong, right-wing prime minister,” Netanyahu said of the trial, “and thus remove the nationalist camp from the leadership of the country for many years… while the media continues to deal with nonsense, with these false, trumped-up cases, I will continue to lead Israel.” Aside from seeing to the economic crisis, he said he would continue saving “the lives of thousands of Israelis ahead of the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus." He repeated a demand for the trial to be shown live on TV to guarantee transparency.

The world has, of course, changed since Netanyahu first entered politics in the late eighties. Like Donald Trump, he shows an instinctive understanding of social media, and an ability to manipulate its short-form arguments. As the speech on Sunday exemplified, he is also a populist archetype, employing division and hysteria for political ends. Ahead of the March election, Gantz’s party warned that Netanyahu was in danger of becoming an “Israeli Erdogan”, and raised the possibility that Netanyahu would try to pass legislation granting himself immunity from prosecution.

Anshel Pfeffer, whose biography Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu came out in a new edition in March, says if Netanyahu can be compared to British prime minister, it is Tony Blair: “they both have this incredible way of manipulating the feelings of voters.” But in his dealings with the democratic institutions of the state, Pfeffer says he is closer to Silvio Berlusconi than Erdogan.

“You can't really break down the democratic institutions like the Knesset. But — if you are ruthless, if you have no sense of shame, like Netanyahu has, and if you are very popular as well — you can try and work around it, and sort of bypass the democratic institutions.” This says Pfeffer, was Berlusconi’s aim, and his undoing; “he failed, and I think Netanyahu is coming up against a similar kind of dynamic now”.

It would be simplistic to paint the Israeli public as simply a victim of Netanyahu’s manipulative populism. Though that small majority voted against him, Likud remains of the largest parties in the Knesset. His bloc of right-wing and religious parties largely stood behind him through three elections. He is still a relatively popular leader; in a poll at the end of February, ahead of the March vote, 45 per cent of respondents said Netanyahu was most suited to be prime minister, 10 per cent more than Gantz. According to a poll published by 103FM days after his trial began, Likud would win 41 Knesset seats if a fourth election were held now. Gantz’s Blue and White, now in coalition, was down to 12 seats, the fourth-largest party.

While some voters might believe Netanyahu when he alleges the cases against him are a stitch-up, some, aware that he may be corrupt, think it matters less than the ability and experience he projects, or his position on the political map. He is, after all, not the first Israeli politician to stand trial, and he wouldn’t be the first to go to prison.

“Many people in Israel don’t believe in the rule of law, or if they believe in it they think it matters less than other things,” says Drucker. “They prefer other values that Netanyahu expresses.” Netanyahu has signalled further to the right on annexation, for instance. In 2018, his government passed the Nation State Law, which declared that the right to exercise self-determination in Israel “is unique to the Jewish people”, as well as downgrading Arabic from an official language to one with “special status”. As such, Netanyahu’s base has “a very good reason to leave him [in power], despite how problematic he is".

And this plays into another issue. If the parties in the “just not Bibi” camp had been able to unite, they might have been able to form a government. The fact that Blue and White ruled out partnership with the Arab majority parties, the fact that a Jewish-Arab coalition is still so far from the realms of Israel’s political possibilities, is a function of the racism against Arabs in the country. The 103FM poll had the Joint List as the second-largest party in Knesset if elections were to take place now. Netanyahu has played on these divisions, but he didn’t invent them. When he warned of Arab voters exercising their democratic rights in 2015, he knew — like any effective populist — that he could profit by appealing to a suspicion, jealousy and aggression many voters would be ashamed to voice. Netanyahu remains standing because of his willingness to cross that line.

Then again, perhaps he doesn’t see it that way. After more than a decade in power, perhaps he has come to believe his own pitch, that everyone, even the state that he leads, is out to get him. Because without all those enemies, without the constant fight, would Israel still see any need for Bibi?

Alona Ferber is Special Projects Editor at the New Statesman.


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In the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, the burden of carrying the ring of power weighs more heavily on Frodo the closer he comes to his final destination. No doubt Peter Jackson, the director who took on the monster task of adapting Rings, knows how that feels by now. Released one per year for the last three years, Jackson’s films have taken on more weight and created greater anticipation with each installment.

The Fellowship Of The Ring proved that Jackson and his co-screenwriters, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, were more than capable of bringing Tolkien to the screen with an eye toward large-scale spectacle as well as a respect for the original story, characters, and themes.

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This is an outrageously misleading start to a film which otherwise has little time for anything much smaller than a rhinoceros, and which builds up to the most flamboyantly apocalyptic spectacle ever filmed.

The Return of the King climaxes with a quasi-nuclear blast, the earth cracking open, rivers of gushing lava and the triumph of good over evil – all this after nearly three-and-a-half hours. One thing you can say with relief is that – unless producers New Line dare to play fast and loose with Tolkien’s cosmology – we won’t have to suffer a sequel.

Two years ago, Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring disarmed criticism, for it genuinely looked like nothing ever seen. Far more extravagant, more painstakingly artisan-like than previous digital epics, it created a self-contained universe that felt entirely true to the spirit of Tolkien’s books, even refusing to skimp on all that saccharine elf business.

Whether or not Tolkien meant anything to you, you had to admire Jackson’s evangelistic fervour and staunch refusal to cut corners. But now the trilogy is in its final stretch, it’s much harder for non-believers to be objective: the question with part three is how much we can stand to see more of the same, albeit on a bigger scale.

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In the final instalment, Elijah Wood’s plucky ring-bearing Hobbit, his loyal pal Sam (the excellent Sean Astin) and the duplicitous Gollum (Andy Serkis) are nearing their awesome goal.

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Wise wizard Gandalf (McKellen) handles the tricky negotiations as he tries to persuade Gondor’s steward Denethor (John Noble) to step down while talking Bernard Hill’s Rohan leader, Theoden, into joining the fray.

All the time, the most formidable Orc army yet – augmented by vicious flying vipers and thundering siege machines – is massing on the plains below Gondor.

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