Something Extra NOTEBOOK . . • . . . . . . . - . It's Torture! ater dripping on one's fore- head, one slow drop at .a time. 1111 Being shut in an Iran Maiden. Having one's limbs strapped to the Rack. No, I'm not going to regale you with tales left over from Edgar Allen Poe. All of the above are forms of torture used from early days of "civilization." Not all torture directly impacts the body, but it's torture nonetheless. For your considera- tion: • The squealing of chalk on a black- board. I must admit to having'used this as a management device in my teaching days. Now, however, white boards and markers are in use. - • Reverberations of "music" felt . Defending Zionism every 10 minutes, especially through the roadway and closed when they destroy any mood car windows from those sharing that may have been created by the road. And is it any wonder the TV movie. that our young people do not • Having to be seated near a hear as well as they might? child in a restaurant whose par- • A co-worker's chair badly in ent is completely oblivious to need of a spray to rid itself of the the repeated, whiny, "Mom, squeak. Mom, Mom!" • Traveling through an Sy M anello • Bearing Witness to an abuse Orlando, Fla., park ride and Edit ori al of the latest body piercing fad. never being able to shake the Assi stant Can't a statement be made with sounds of "It's a small world mutilation of the person? after all." And we-thought the Iron Maiden was --Sitting in blistering heat while stuck cruel? in road construction zones. This "trap" • The ringing of the phone at dinner- does not bode well in frigid temperatures time. We know full well that there is a either. telemarketer's pitch waiting to be • Being bombarded by inane TV ads - CAMERA, the Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, has published a detailed rebuttal to Imam Mohammad Ali Elihai's commentary that ran in the Detroit News on Nov. 5 ("Place Anti-Israel Remarks In Context"). The rebuttal debunks and deconstructs what the imam, of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, presented as fact in defending the keynote address at the "World Without Zionism" conference delivered by President Moumoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Iranian president called for the Jewish state, "this stain of dis- grace to "vanish from the center of the Islamic world." "Unfortunately, Imam Elahi's column is laced with outright false- hoods and unsubstantiated accusations and even tries to justify the Iranian president's words by comparing it to a passage from•the American Declaration of Independence!" writes CAMER.Ns Steve Stotsky. Stotsky's enlightening response appears on the front page of CAMERAs Web site, www.CAMERA.org . The link to the response is: www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=28a_outlet=1698a_article • =1023 — Robert A. Sklar, editor unleashed. • The cracking of knuckles, especially from someone near you at a concert. • The sour notes at a violin recital. This torture, however, is to be endured with a smiling face; after all, your kid is a bud- ding genius, no? •You are about to sneeze; it is building. Just before the big "Katchoo," someone says, "Bless you:' The sneeze deflates. • Trying to sleep in a room with an insomniac hamster in a squeaky wheel. The worst torture is possibly to hear a really corny joke. For instance: Teacher: Who in our babysitters class can tell me the best way to drive a baby buggy? Student: Tickle its feet. I I New On Web A Gift Of Clips Ever find yourself hunting for a recipe for something specific, then not find it in your favorite cook- books? Or hive you ever wished you knew the secret to that yummy dessert orsucculent main dish at that special restaurant? - Hunt no more. JNonline's new Recipe Exchange can help you find the recipes you're searching for. All you have to do is ask. With the Recipe Exchange, other online users come to your rescue with favorite recipes of their own for dishes you are seek- ing. This free-flow of recipes will build into we have an online cook- book — conveniently divided by • categories — at your fingertips. Sounds tempting? Check it out. - When Mayville'Community Schools teacher Debbie Rohlfs bought a book about the Tennessee 6 million paper clip project for her sick father, she mentioned it to her 8th grade Holocaust class. • The students took it on as their own project, asking their parents for paper clips from work, writing letters to busi- nesses and organizations around the country. • Wendy Werner, 13, and Mitch A letter even found its way into the office of New York gov- Dingus, 13, of Mayville ernor George Pataki, who sent some paperclips from his desk, and an official proclamation . • thanking the students for their thoughtfulness. • . So far, the students have collected over 148,000 paper clips, and on Nov. 23, about 50 students presented the clips and the procla- mation to Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, founder and executive iiirec- tor of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. "We're trying to teach tolerance Rohlfs said. Teaching cultural diversity was important in their small commu- nity located in Michigan's thumb region. The school has made about four trips to the Center, but this in the first visit to the new HMC, she said. Rabbi Rosenzveig as surprised and delighted at the gift. The history.of the Holocaust, "finally pene- trates people that we never expected.to be affected by it." This project is the beginning, he said. . Rosenzveig would like other schools to add to the paper clip exhibit located in the Auschwitz exhibit. —Keri Guten Cohen, story =development editor nurnEr 'cha Don't Know Which African country whose population is over 90 percent Muslim has full diplomatic relations with Israel? Goldfein lebaues :Jamsuv . Alica Beckrow, 13, Cayla Austin, 13, and Megan - Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer Johnson, 14, all of Mayville December 8 • 2005 15