Source: This review appeared in SPME* Reviews and Recommendations, July 11, 2010.
OFIRA SELIKTAR, DOOMED TO FAILURE? THE POLITICS AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE OSLO PEACE PROCESS.
The famed French historian of the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel, posited that history moves at different speeds, "the permanent and the ephemeral, the slow-moving and the fast …what changes and what endures."  Ofira Seliktar's book shows how Israeli, Western, and to a vastly smaller extent, Palestinian idea-setting and decision-making elites influenced one another and various publics to create the fabric of the Oslo process. This played out on different levels. For example, diplomats and intellectuals would coolly speak in secret meetings and public conferences, while at the same time riots and shootings were taking place. Then, buses began to explode and burn. Interacting at first mostly out of the public eye, these elites convinced themselves that the time to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians had come. The only ones who weren't convinced were Palestinian leaders, above all Arafat and his Islamist rivals, and, to an unknown extent, the Palestinian people.
Misreading the intentions of adversaries is as old as human politics. Democracies are far from immune, but the question is why, in an information age, such serious misreadings of the facts could happen. Seliktar opens with a discussion of how political elites perceive the world around them, create paradigms to frame evidence and structure action, and then deal with change. Is 'Reality' painfully flexible; is it constructed by our ideas and actions, or discovered by acute perception? What is deception and what is self-deception?  Seliktar notes that the 'conflict resolution' (CR) and 'peace studies' approach so explicitly embraced by the "architects of Oslo" implied a series of clear assumptions that rejected the presumably outmoded 'conflict management' approach. Paramount were the ideas that politics did not have to be a zero sum game; that international diplomacy is a form of intersocietal therapy; that leaders could and would bring their societies into line; and that, somehow, these unique premises were mutually understood and accepted by both Israelis and Palestinians.
For most political scientists, leaders, too, seem to matter little. Many share - as Seliktar does not - an implicit assumption that all leaders want what is 'best,' in the sense of optimizing and maximizing their own societies' fortune, if only as means to their own ends. Instead, sowing fear and chaos and then managing the resulting crisis remains the essential Middle Eastern leadership style. In the case of Arafat, confident predictions that he had changed his spots defied both history and reality. The same could be said about Kim Jong Il, Robert Mugabe and others. Variations on the title 'President for Life' or 'Maximum Leader' may be more reliable indicators a leader's real purpose than academic theories.
Seliktar adopts a top-down approach, because the "Oslo Process" comprised a series of intellectual constructs that originated in the academic, political, and defense/intelligence communities (all deeply intertwined in Israel), which in turn were sold to various publics. She provides an intensely detailed accounting of the various players, their backgrounds and institutional settings, and the evolution of ideas, all set against the political realities of the Intifadas. She shows, for example, how Harvard social psychologist Herbert Kelman's 'conflict resolution' concepts were put into use at joint Israeli-Palestinian workshops, and then extended by his student Stephen P. Cohen's Institute for Middle East Peace and Development, which had the backing of Carter era Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and mogul S. Daniel Abraham. This body of thought fed Track II diplomacy initiated by Norwegian and Swedish socialist politicians who had access to the Israeli Labor Party. Shimon Peres was the most influential convert to this approach and he leveraged his personal charisma and popularity to the cause of the "New Middle East," and Yossi Beilin, who leveraged his influence within the Labor Party. Simultaneously, the PLO was being 'rebranded' with the aid of a Washington, D.C. public relations firm. The train had left the station, and it was given greater momentum by the unexpected outbreak of the First Intifada of 1987 and the incapable Israeli response to it. But urgency meant different things to different parties. Pummeled by the Intifada and by condemnation and demonization from both external and internal sources, Track II became the primary hope for Israeli leaders. Thus, as a result of a combination of political circumstances and considerations of political expedience, they returned Arafat to center stage.
Self-deception regarding Arafat was legion. At every turn the 'peace industry' and its external facilitators seized upon random ambiguities and contradictions as evidence of his moderation. Alas, despite fawning biographies (at least one of which paid for by Rita Hauser, who later helped fund the 'Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies' at Columbia University) and his mastery of doubletalk, even Arafat's supporters could not explain away his support of Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. But time heals all wounds and dispels all misgivings, and the Madrid Conference (combined with the incentive of American loan guarantees) provided the opportunity for renewed pressure on Israel and ultimately for the rehabilitation of a presumably chastened and 'mature' Arafat. In the seemingly eternal Israeli good cop-bad cop routine, the George H.W. Bush administration portrayed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir as uniquely intransigent, while Peres was presented as a positive force. Yitzhak Rabin won the 1992 election, and the die was cast. At the same time that attacks on Israelis began, the machinations of secret diplomacy shifted into high gear. Seliktar takes the story from Rabin to Netanyahu, from Oslo and the staged ceremony on the White House lawn 13 September 1993, to the Hebron Memorandum and the Wye agreement, through to Barak and Taba. And she does not fail to note the involvement of Iran, dating back to 1990 and 1991, which patiently built support for Islamist movements, even across the Shia-Sunni divide.
Flailing and contradictory, the Israeli and international responses to Palestinian violations and the growing death toll were the disheartening counterpart to the enthusiastic beginning of the Oslo Process. The general outline of the story is well known, but Seliktar's examination is remarkably detailed. Indeed, working from her compendious footnotes it is possible to reconstruct a monthly and in some cases daily chronology of idea-spinning and political events. Counter-posing events against debates and decisions brings into high relief the failures of perception and imagination that characterized virtually all levels of the Israeli intelligence, defense and policy establishments. And as an examination of Dennis Ross' The Missing Peace shows, whatever the American understanding of the process and Arafat himself, the train had departed, and the participants felt obliged to stay on board.
'Peace' was in everyone's 'interest,' but cui bono? The 'peace industry' that developed to theorize and implement Oslo, and which was heavily funded by the U.S. and Europe, profited greatly and expanded the reach of its paradigm through conferences, research projects and other therapeutic means to a predetermined end. Who could be against peace, and what researcher could swim against the tide? The United States Institute for Peace, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the German-Israel Foundation, and many others funded a plethora of projects at the Van Leer Institute, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, the Tami Steinmetz Center, the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for Peace, and elsewhere. The advocates of the cause enlisted social science as a tool of social engineering which targeted Israeli society primarily. How else could one explain the creation of such a transparently partial device as the 'Israel Siege Mentality Scale' which purported to measure the 'Dread of the 'Other'? School curricula were rewritten to reflect 'post-Zionist' values, and revisionist "New Historians" chipped away at national "myths" and consensus. Writers such as David Grossman disparaged Israeli society's fears and "narratives" while carefully ignoring the realities of Palestinian society, such as rampant corruption and lawlessness. For their part, Palestinian researchers touted the "democratic ethos" of the Palestinians, their new "realism" and willingness to "coordinate." They similarly downplayed the rise of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
But the state-building exercise that became the Palestinian Authority collided with the reality of what Seliktar terms Arafat's "neopatrimonialism." The rais oversaw all, pitted one against all, took a cut from everyone, hid from all and lied to all. A vast "security" infrastructure was built as a tool of repression, "coup proofing,"  patronage and dependence. The Palestinian Authority crushed dissent through media censorship and personal intimidation. Finally, faced with the Islamist challenge, Arafat himself 'found religion.'  Kleptocrats enriched themselves, and individual Israelis, not a few of whom had been security officials or involved with negotiations, profited handsomely. None of this was supposed to happen, and Seliktar is unsparing in her examination of the analysts who looked for excuses or looked away entirely.
Another notable feature of Seliktar's prodigious research is her understanding that alternative interpretations were indeed present throughout Oslo, including from well-known figures. At the institutional level, for example, the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar Ilan University took a far harder line on the process than the Jaffee Center at the University of Tel Aviv. Individuals such as Ehud Ya'ari, Martin Kramer, Barry Rubin, Yehezkel Dror, Reuven Paz, Yigal Carmon, and Boaz Ganor were not shy about expressing misgivings about Arafat, warning about Hamas, and pointing out the technical shortcomings of the Oslo agreements themselves.  On the one hand, these researchers were derided as Cassandras by dominant participants who proclaimed that all was well, even as the Israeli man in the street frantically telephoned friends and family to make sure they hadn't been blown up in a bus or a pizza parlor. On the other hand, they were also discredited by boorish and hysterical behavior on the political right in Israel. Older influential figures, such as Zeev Schiff and Yehoshefat Harkabi, who had previously taken a hard line on Arab intentions, became converts to Oslo, and their voices also carried weight.  But the murder of Rabin discredited the right profoundly, in addition to removing the one leader whom many presumed capable of making real demands on the Palestinians. Only with the launch of the second Intifada in September 2000 and the failure of the Taba summit could Arafat, himself, derail the train permanently.
Although Seliktar does not pursue the question in detail, a preliminary accounting shows Oslo was comprised of an avalanche of cognitive biases, as defined by behavioral psychologists Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and others. Among these were a self-serving bias (where more responsibility is claimed for successes but not for failures), the false consensus effect (the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people agree), herd instinct, projection bias (the unconscious assumption that others share similar beliefs, values or positions), and the illusion of asymmetric insight (the perception that one side knows the other better than the other ). These misperceptions led to decision-making biases such as the interloper effect (where third parties are elevated above participants), normalcy bias (refusal to plan for disasters that have never happened before), illusion of control, post purchase rationalization, confirmation bias, the bandwagon effect, wishful thinking, and many more. Seliktar also notes that the Israeli intelligence process is prone to conflating analysis with advocacy. It is tempting to suggest other arrangements, such as the National Security Council established in 1999 by Netanyahu. But if the American experience here and if the example of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is any guide, these merely become additional bureaucratic competitors in an already crowded field.
In the broader sense of creating "peace," a number of conclusions may be derived from Seliktar's exhaustive book. Most are, in retrospect, quite obvious. Easily the first is that diplomacy is not therapy. Peace-making is a two-way, bottom up phenomenon, and actions observed are better predictors than words spoken. Constructive ambiguity and back channels may be mechanisms for elites to speak to one another, but these maximize opportunities for confusion, ambiguity, misinformation and blackmail. Participants become believers and then captive to the process and its "success." Another lesson is that public and private discourse must be in sync; local-political concerns are real, but duplicity and deception are intolerable. Incitement matters. Have any of these conclusions been internalized by participants? How much far away is a two-way, bottom up peace? The return of the conflict management paradigm, perhaps best exemplified by the successful separation barrier, is hard to deny. But the conflict, too, has moved on.
But, most of all, the same impulses persist, seeking to detect signs - mostly imagined -- of a Palestinian willingness to compromise, coexist and cooperate with Israel. Analysts still look for meanings and realities hidden beneath those which stare them in the face. Hamas was elected in Gaza but this, for example, was merely a "reaction" to Fatah's corruption. The Hamas charter remains unchanged, but the scent of its "moderation" is forever in the air. Despite its denials, separation between Hezbollah's "military" and "political" wings is still assumed to provide an opening for "pragmatism." "Root causes" are still pursued and power held by tyrants is persistently assumed to foster responsibility and hence moderation. And, in the absence of peace, the peace industry lives on. Conflict resolution seminars, polls, conferences and declarations continue, but are now set against the backdrop of the growing "one state" movement and "lawfare" against Israel by NGOs and the UN. As if by design, conflict resolution looks like the good cop.
In the end, there is also the question of historical inevitability. Could the participants have taken different paths? Freud famously defined overdetermination as the ways in which the "residues of the day" penetrated into dreams, while in philosophy the concept is defined as events with multiple causes, any one of which would be causally sufficient. Were events thus doubly overdetermined such that, as if in a Greek tragedy, the creation of the Oslo agreement and its eventual collapse could be the only outcome? If Rabin had not been murdered, if Arafat had possessed the slightest bit of integrity, if there had not been despair and yearning on both sides, would things have turned out differently? The intermingling of dreams and waking states makes for inadequate analyses and policy-making. And as Isaiah Berlin once put it, the claim of inevitability "is one of the great alibis, pleaded by those who cannot or do not wish to face the fact of human responsibility."  Seliktar shows admirably which decisions were made and by whom. For this, and for a penetrating analysis of how experts went wrong, her book deserves wide attention.
 Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philippe II, tr. Sian Reynolds, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,1995) I: 353.
 See Joel Fishman, "Perception Failure and Self-Deception; Israel's Quest for Peace in the Context of Related Historical Cases," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs: Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 450, 15 March 2001. http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp450.htm.
 See particularly, Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, eds. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, (New York: Perseus, 2000). Cf. Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, (New York, Columbia University Press, 1996).
 See James T. Quinlivan, "Coup-Proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East," International Security, Vol. 24, No. 2. (1999), pp. 131-165.
 See Hillel Frisch, "Nationalizing a Universal Text: The Quran in Arafat's Rhetoric," Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 41, No. 3 (2005): 321 - 336.
 Adda B. Bozeman, The Future of Law in a Multicultural World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 166.
 See for example Reuven Paz, The Islamic Covenant and its Meaning (Tel Aviv: The Dayan Center, 1988 in Hebrew), Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). For further literature directly related to the present subject, see Ephraim Karsh and Joel Fishman, La Guerre d'Oslo, (Paris: Editions de Passy, 2005); Joel Fishman, "The Broken Promise of the Democratic Peace: Israel and the Palestinian Authority," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 477, 1 May 2002. http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp477.htm ; ibid., "Ten Years Since Oslo: The PLO's 'People's War' Strategy and Israel's Inadequate Response," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 503, 1 September 2003. www.jcpa.org/jl/vp503.htm. Since this book does not include a bibliography, it is not clear whether the author made use of Golan Lahat, HaPitui Ha-Meshichi [The Messianic Temptation] (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2004 in Hebrew) which documented the government's efforts to manipulate Israeli public opinion by spreading messianic hopes.
 See for example Yehoshafat Harkabi's interview with Pinhas Ginossar and Zaki Shalom published as "The Last Reminiscence, January 14, 1994," Israel Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (1999), pp. 171-195.
 Isaiah Berlin, "Historical Inevitability," in I. Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. 116-117.


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Biografia
Figlio di un tassista, Dexter è stato educato alla St. John's Infants School, Bluecoat Junior School, dalla quale ha ottenuto una borsa di studio per la Stamford School, una scuola privata per ragazzi, dove uno dei suoi coetanei era il capitano del cricket internazionale e il giocatore di rugby MJK Smith. Dopo aver lasciato la scuola, Dexter completò il suo servizio nazionale con il Royal Corps of Signals e poi si iscrisse alla facoltà di Lettere classiche del Christ's College di Cambridge, laureandosi nel 1953 e conseguendo un master nel 1958.

Dexter è stato uno dei massimi specialisti britannici di enigmistica e soprattutto di parole crociate, dote che utilizzò spesso nelle complicate trame dei suoi libri e che volle trasmettere al suo investigatore Endeavour Morse.

Nel 1954 Dexter iniziò la sua carriera di insegnante nelle East Midlands, diventando assistente di lingue classiche (greco e latino) alla Wyggeston School, Leicester. Fino al 1966 Dexter ha lavorato come insegnante, ma il progredire della sordità, che lo affliggeva fin da giovane, lo ha costretto a lasciare la cattedra e a dedicarsi a compiti amministrativi all'Università di Oxford. Nel 1988 andò in pensione.

Nel 1999, per ulteriori problemi di salute (soffriva di diabete), Dexter decise di concludere la serie dell'ispettore Morse e ritirarsi dall'attività letteraria, fatta eccezione per qualche successivo racconto sparso. Solo nel penultimo romanzo di Dexter, La morte mi è vicina, viene rivelato il nome di battesimo di Morse, tenuto segreto - esclusa la lettera iniziale - per l'intero ciclo. Nel 2000 dichiarò di condividere le stesse opinioni sulla politica e la religione dell'ispettore Morse, che fu ritratto come ateo nel romanzo finale Il giorno del rimorso. Nello stesso anno venne insignito del titolo di Ufficiale dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (OBE).

È morto il 21 marzo 2017 ad Oxford all'età di 86 anni.

Carriera di scrittore
I libri iniziali scritti da Dexter erano libri di testo di studi generali. Ha iniziato a scrivere mistery nel 1972, durante una vacanza in famiglia. Last Bus to Woodstock è stato pubblicato nel 1975 e ha introdotto il personaggio dell'ispettore Morse, l'investigatore irascibile i cui prediletti sono le parole crociate criptiche, la letteratura inglese, la birra inglese e la musica di Wagner (temi che riflettono gli entusiasmi di Dexter). I romanzi di Dexter sono caratterizzati da una robusta miscela di ironia tipicamente britannica e di smisurata erudizione letteraria e musicale: Morse è un grande appassionato di Richard Wagner, fa largo sfoggio di citazioni, alcune delle quali inventate di sana pianta dall'autore e da lui attribuite al fittizio lessicografo "Diogenes Small", del quale Dexter ha anche costruito una fasulla bio-bibliografia.

Col romanzo Questione di metodo (The Wench Is Dead) Dexter volle rendere omaggio a una celebre esponente del giallo classico inglese, Josephine Tey; come nel romanzo della Tey La figlia del tempo (The Daughter of Time), scritto nel 1951, il protagonista, l'ispettore Alan Grant, è costretto a letto da una malattia e, per passare il tempo, ripercorre e risolve un famoso mistero storico, così nel libro di Dexter l'ispettore Morse - in un'analoga situazione - risolve un caso del passato.

I romanzi di Dexter sono stati tradotti in italiano da Longanesi e successivamente da Gialli Mondadori, restando infine a lungo fuori catalogo. Dal 2010 al 2019 l'Editore Sellerio ha ritradotto e pubblicato tutti i titoli della serie dell'ispettore Morse.

Serie televisive
L'Ispettore capo della Thames Valley Police Endeavour Morse divenne popolarissimo in Gran Bretagna anche grazie a una fortunata serie televisiva di 33 episodi, intitolata Inspector Morse, interpretata da John Thaw e Kevin Whately e trasmessa ininterrottamente dal 1987 al 2000, nella quale lo stesso Dexter - alla maniera di Alfred Hitchcock - è apparso quasi in ogni episodio in un cameo. Dopo la morte di Thaw, nel 2002, è stata varata - sempre con la supervisione di Dexter - una nuova serie televisiva, lo spin-off Lewis, il cui protagonista è l'ex sergente e spalla di Morse, Robbie Lewis (ancora interpretato da Kevin Whately), promosso ispettore dopo la scomparsa del suo vecchio capo. In questa nuova serie l'assistente di Lewis è il giovane sergente James Hathaway, interpretato da Laurence Fox. Di Lewis sono state realizzate e trasmesse 9 stagioni, l'ultima andata in onda nel 2015. A differenza della serie Morse, la Thames Valley Police non ha qui consentito l'utilizzo del proprio nome e la produzione è stata costretta a inventarsi una fittizia Oxfordshire Police, un corpo di polizia non esistente nella realtà. Nel 2012 è stato girato e trasmesso il pilota di una nuova serie, Endeavour: The Origins of Inspector Morse, ambientata nel 1965 e in cui Shaun Evans interpreta il giovane Morse ai suoi esordi investigativi. Il successo di questo prequel ha spinto la produzione ad allestire altri episodi: nel 2023 la serie è giunta alla nona stagione con 33 episodi complessivi (lo stesso numero del suo prequel Ispettore Morse).

Opere

Serie Ispettore Morse
L'ultima corsa per Woodstock (Last Bus to Woodstock, 1975) Milano, Longanesi, 1988
L'ispettore Morse e la ragazza scomparsa (Last Seen Wearing, 1976) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2221, Milano 1991; con il titolo Al momento della scomparsa la ragazza indossava, Palermo, Sellerio, 2011
Un puzzle per l'ispettore Morse (The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn, 1977) Milano, Longanesi 1988; con il titolo Il mondo silenzioso di Nicholas Quinn, Palermo, Sellerio 2012
Delitti nella cattedrale (Service of All the Dead, 1979) Milano, Longanesi 1988; con il titolo Niente vacanze per l'ispettore Morse, Palermo, Sellerio 2012
I morti di Jericho (The Dead of Jericho, 1981) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2576, 1998; con il titolo L'ispettore Morse e le morti di Jericho, Palermo, Sellerio 2013
Il mistero del terzo miglio (The Riddle of the Third Mile, 1983) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2260, 1992;
Il mistero della stanza n. 3 (The Secret of Annexe 3, 1986) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2288, 1992; con il titolo Il segreto della camera 3, Palermo, Sellerio 2014
Questione di metodo (The Wench Is Dead, 1989) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2173, 1990; con il titolo La fanciulla è morta, Palermo, Sellerio 2015
Il gioiello per l'ispettore Morse (The Jewel That Was Ours, 1991) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2427, 1995; con il titolo Il gioiello che era nostro, Palermo, Sellerio 2016
La strada nel bosco (The Way Through the Woods, 1992) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2459, 1996; Palermo, Sellerio 2016
L'enigma dei coltelli (The Daughters of Cain, 1994) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2496, 1996; con il titolo Le figlie di Caino, Palermo, Sellerio 2017
Il passo falso, (Death Is Now My Neighbour, 1996) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2534, 1997; La morte mi è vicina, Palermo, Sellerio 2018
Sipario per l'ispettore Morse (The Remorseful Day, 1999) Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2708, 2000; con il titolo Il giorno del rimorso, con una nota di Giulio Giorello, Palermo, Sellerio 2019

Novelle e raccolte di racconti

 The Inside Story (1993)
 Neighbourhood Watch (1993)
 Morse's Greatest Mystery (1993); anche pubblicato con il titolo As Good as Gold

 "As Good as Gold" (Morse)
 "Morse's Greatest Mystery" (Morse)
 "Evans Tries an O-Level"
 "Dead as a Dodo" (Morse)
 "At the Lulu-Bar Motel"
 "Neighbourhood Watch" (Morse)
 "A Case of Mis-Identity" (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche)
 "The Inside Story" (Morse)
 "Monty's Revolver"
 "The Carpet-Bagger"
 "Last Call" (Morse)

Premi Letterari
 Nel 1979 vince il Silver Dagger Award con il romanzo Service of All the Dead.
 Nel 1981 vince il Silver Dagger Award con il romanzo The Dead of Jericho.
 Nel 1989 vince il Gold Dagger Award con il romanzo The Wench is Dead.
 Nel 1992 vince il Gold Dagger Award con il romanzo The Way Through the Woods.
 Nel 1996 vince il Premio Macavity con il romanzo Evans Tries an O-Level.
 Nel 1997 ottiene il premio Cartier Diamond Dagger alla carriera.

Onorificenze

Note

Voci correlate
Endeavour (serie televisiva)
Ispettore Morse
Il Giallo Mondadori
Longanesi
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Collegamenti esterni
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092379/episodes (lista episodi serie tv Ispettore Morse)
http://epguides.com/InspectorMorse/ (lista episodi serie tv Ispettore Morse)

Autori di gialli britannici
Ufficiali dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico

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During Edward's reign, Cramner is far more Protestant.1549 the Book of Common Prayer.
John Knox: the book of common prayer did not go far enough. 1552. Knox is the Royal Chaplain. MLJ says that Knox is the first true Puritan, because he is the first to try to thoroughly reform the Church of England from the inside. Knox in particular balked at kneeling when receive the host.. Cranmer in response to the protest inserts the Black Rubric into the Book of Common Prayer which specifies that kneeling is veneration of the elements.
Edward names his first cousin once removed Lady Jane Grey as the heir of the throne and excluded his half sisters Mary and Elizabeth. Lady Jane Grey.
Mary manages to get the Privy Council to favor her. Jane Grey spends 19 months in prison and then called.
Bloody Mary 1553 Crowned. Daughter of Catherine.
1553-1558: during her reign 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake: including Ridley, Rogers, Latimer, Cranmer.
During this time, many Protestants flee to Geneva and are taught by Calvin.
Cranmer's wavering, recantation, and recants recantation.This must be burned first.
Puritanism begins in earnest at this time. Elizabeth holds a compromise position. She tries to tolerate everyone.
The 42 Articles becomes the 39 Articles.
The rub is with how worship is done and how we worship — not the stated doctrine of the Church.
Those who had fled England return; they are coming back very Reformed — more Reformed than they left (Calvin does not die until 1564).
James VI of Scotland crowned 1567. Mary, Queen of Scots abdicates after many confrontations with John Knox. James VI is crowned at 13 months old. He will eventually become James I of England.
James is crowned king of England, Scotland & Ireland — until 1625.
The Puritans at first believed that James would be a friend. They make a presentation to James at Hampton Court.
James has the Bible retranslated as a counter against the Puritans — to avoid the Geneva Bible notes.
The Book of Sports: every pastor must announce the sporting events for this Sunday afternoon.
Those who can't take it come to the colonies: the Pilgrims.
Rather than bishops appointing pastors, local assemblies appoint pastors.
Fight with James over the bishops who were appointed.
Charles I sends 20,000 soliders to Scottish border. A truce. He then sends a second war in 1640, which the Scottish win.
1640: Short parliament called. King asks for taxes to pay for war. Parliament rejects call for taxes. 3 weeks.
1640 the Long Parliament (will be in place for 8 years). This group is Puritan, presbyterian.
1643-1647: Westminster Assembly called by the Parliament.
1644: Rutherford writes Lex Rex. Defends for rule of law; constitutionalism, limited government.
Cromwell becomes leader of the New Model Army. This war concludes with Battle of Preston.
Charles is tried for treason against the English people. Parliament pronounces death penalty. Charles executed at Whitehall palace.
John Owen called to preach to parliament day after execution. Owen calls for national humiliation. New form of government is established without King over church.
Cromwell fights the pro-catholic forces in Ireland. Owen goes as Cromwell's chaplain.
1650: fights in Scotland because Scotland declares Charles II King. Cromwell wins at Battle of Dunbar. Charles II flees to France.
Cromwell returns and urges Parliament to set dates for new Parliamentary election.
Cromwell continues to fight battles involving various battles.
Richard Cromwell can't follow his father.
1661: Sedition Act treason to call the king a papist or heretic, to incite any opposition to the king.
1661 Corporation Act: restricts of all who hold public office to be a member of the Church of England. No nonconformist is permitted any preferment. Puritans are restricted from Oxford or Cambridge.
All Puritans are stripped of ordination. August 24, 1662: On that very same day was the St. Bartholomew massacre.
1680 Sanquhar Declaration: In Scotland read by Richard Cameron. Essentially a declaration of war against Charles.
Mary, James II daughter who is married to William of Orange lead an invasion of England. (College of William and Mary named after them).
Princeton's main hall is called is Nassau Hall because William was from Nassau.
1689: Toleration Act, which permits Noncomformist to minister. This permits Matthew Henry to pastor his first public church. Permitted to obtain license, have their own ministers.
1701: Act of Settlement: Roman Catholics and foreigners forbidden to hold office in England.


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As you can see, I'm wearing a little top underneath - the neckline plunges just a little more than I thought it would but I think it looks nice with this underneath. I'm also wearing my own belt that does not come with the dress.
I think I didn't realise it was quite so plunging as I'd only seen it on bodies less full in the bust than mine so hopefully seeing the dress on a different body shape will be helpful for some (well, a larger body, if not a completely different shape).
Still in love with the buttons and trimmings that Lady K Loves chose! And, remember, the fabric and trimmings, etc. are all vintage.
I'm kind of glad I waited to take photos as, ever since I dyed my hair red, I've had this urge to wear orange! It isn't even a colour I usually like but the orange of this fabric is so lovely.
Ha! The expression on my face in this one is priceless.
For more information please see my original post on this dress. You can still buy your own here at the Lady K Loves website - there are 5 left. And you can see the creator, herself, wearing her own at her blog here.
That dress is really lovely, what a fabulous shade of red.
It looks lovely on you.....I also didn't realise it was going to plunge so much! But it is something I've become more aware of...cutting dress as some one who's definitely small in the bust makes it really hard to judge how they'll look on someone a little larger in the bust!
I love it!! Such an awesome shape!!
Looks great! And perfectly nice with a top underneath. It's a lovely color on you!
This dress is gorgeous, and looks great on you!
The dress looks lovely on you and I love how you coordinated it with the white top underneath and the white belt.
Wonderfully pretty dress! I really like that rich, becoming shade of dark orangey-red, and think it looks marvelous with your crimson locks.
Wishing you a fabulous Friday & week ahead, sweet gal!
I like the dress and your hair is getting long!
Cool dress! Your hair looks so long! Lovely!
What a beautiful dress, I love the design!
By golly! That looks amazing!! And until I read that you had a shirt under, I thought it was part of the dress!
Freakin LOVE this colour on you, girl!! This look is gold, solid gold.


Wizkid – Fever, Versatile Nigerian Singer Ayo Balogun popularly called Wizkid comes up with a new solo single titled Fever, If this is Yellow Fever Or Blue Fever you won't know yet until you listen to the new Wizkid Banger. It seems Wizkid is dropping lots of banger this year as Fever drops on Nigeria's Independent Day, He tagged Fever as 1/10. That means we should expect Wizkid most anticipated EP Made In Lagos this year.
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EU and Asean seek stronger partnership
By Danial Norjidi
MADRID (dpa) - The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Wednesday pledged to upgrade their cooperation in order to support each other's integration efforts and to recover from the global crisis.
"We are both evolving very quickly," HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah said as foreign ministers from the two blocs marked the 30th anniversary of their official relations at a Madrid meeting.
"Europe and Southeast Asia need each other maybe more than ever before," HRH said.
HRH was referring to the two blocs' reforms to step up regional integration - the EU's Lisbon Treaty and the new Asean charter - and the economic crisis.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos - whose country holds the rotating EU presidency - called on Asean to help the EU dismantle trade barriers, boost investments and reform the global financial system.
The meeting was bringing together foreign ministers from seven of the 10 Asean countries, with Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia sending lower-level representatives.
Ministers from about 10 of the 27 EU countries were also attending, as well as EU foreign policy director Catherine Ashton.
The agenda of the meeting included this year's elections in Myanmar, the date of which has not yet been set.
The EU is hoping to send a mission to Myanmar to discuss the poll, a Spanish senior diplomat said, explaining that the EU would even be willing to send observers to the elections if they respected democratic standards.
Ashton was expected to stress to Myanmar the need to allow the opposition to contest the elections and to free political prisoners, including opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the source explained.
The EU would maintain sanctions against Myanmar while stepping up a dialogue with the regime, because "purely and simply isolating" the country had brought "very few results", the source said.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented on the rising tension between South and North Korea, describing the March sinking of a South Korean warship as an "aggressive military act that cannot be justified in any way".
"Of course South Korea has our solidarity," the minister said, calling for an "appropriate and well thought-out" reaction from the international community.
The political turmoil in Thailand was not officially on the agenda, because it was considered an internal Thai matter. However, Bangkok was expected to inform the EU about the situation in the country.
The ministers were due to discuss a large number of issues, among them climate change, terrorism, piracy, nuclear non-proliferation, natural disasters, and EU and Asean relations with China.
Asean and the EU are each other's third-largest trade partners, according to figures given by Moratinos. - Borneo Bulletin (27th May 2010)

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Discoloration Uneven patches of pigmented skin on your bikini line have a few potential causes, says. Illustration by Rolando Robinson. When you treat an embedded hair, try to control the inflammation in the area while the hair grows out until it breaks through the skin. These deep ingrown hairs have grown through the wall of the hair follicle, also sometimes referred to as embedded hairs. These medicines can cause dry skin.
A mud mask will not only soothe the inflammation, but will also change your overall complexion. The process itself can cause swelling, which may irritate your skin and lead to pimples and resulting cysts. Plus, it helps relieve itching by exfoliating the skin and also reduces redness caused by ingrown hairs. However, if the skin condition doesn't show any signs of improvement with the help of the above-mentioned remedies, then it is better to get yourself examined and treated under the supervision of a health expert. If it is possible, avoid removing pubic hair by shaving it.
If any1 has result or wich workd best, post back. The hair trapped within the bump is usually visible up close, so if you look carefully you can see it. Magnesium sulfate is also used as a treatment. But when infected, they become painful pus-filled sores. Such a cyst is also called a trichilemmal cyst. In a report, it was revealed that women with excess weight are more likely to develop ingrown hairs in their legs and pubic area. You can also contact your doctor for a stronger antibiotic, if needed.
It can cause inflammation, pain and tiny bumps in the area where the hair was removed. I dont know why it happens though. According to studies, it has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. At first, you might notice a small pimple-like bump that has a hair at its surface. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Thus, they are more prone to developing the ingrown hairs in bikini area.


SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. -- The Simmons University field hockey team held host Mount Holyoke College scoreless through the first half of play, but the home team scored a pair of goals in the second period to come away with a 2-0 victory this evening at MHC Turf Field in South Hadley, Mass. The Sharks fall to 4-9 on the season, while the Lyons improve to 7-6.
Mount Holyoke controlled possession for the night, owning a commanding 18-1 shot advantage, while holding an 8-1 count on penalty corners.
Sophomore goalie Lucy McNamara (Brewster, Mass.) stopped all four shots she faced in the opening period of play. The Lyons broke through with a pair of markers in the second stanza, while outshooting Simmons, 12-1, in the period.
As the ball was carried into the Lyons' offensive zone, rookie midfielder Abby Baldwin (Florence, Mass.) sent a cross from the right into the front middle of the crease. Senior midfielder Liz Delorme (Florence, Mass.) was there to bang home the ball into the left corner post and give Mount Holyoke the 1-0 advantage. The Lyons added an insurance goal after back-to-back shots from first year forward Kylie Brooks (Oceanside, Calif.) and Delorme were kick-saved away by McNamara. Unable to send the rebound out of the crease, senior forward Kristina Ramsden (Florence, Mass. found the loose ball, burying it through for the 2-0 score and her team-high ninth goal of the year with 9:56 to go in the match. First year midfielder Emily Plummer (San Diego, Calif.) attempted the only shot of the night for the Sharks.
McNamara finished the match with a season-high 12 saves for Simmons, while junior goalie Morgan Turner (Chester, N.J. got the starting nod for the Lyons and was untested in the first 65:32 of action, before sophomore Gianna Molinari (Windsor Locks, Conn.) played the final 4:28 of action to combine on the shutout.
The Sharks will be in action again on Saturday, October 13 when they travel to Dudley, Mass. to take on Nichols College at 11:00 a.m., while Mount Holyoke heads to Norton, Mass. on the same day to play Wheaton College at 12:00 p.m.


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Guys just don't like girls in wheelchairs. Or with any sort of disability, it seems.
It read back to me like some sort of socially agreed-upon law like the sort that easily rolls off your tongue (First Amendment, anyone?). It was, or at least in my eyes, the sort of social code everyone had memorized, and I probably (OK, I'm certain) didn't think twice when I wrote those words.
But hasn't that always been my whole problem? For most of my life, I've been living out that law in some form or another: I have trouble talking to guys because I know all they're looking at is my wheelchair. I think a guy will think I'm the craziest girl for having the audacity to flirt - or even ask him out on a date. I sometimes wonder if any man would ever, could ever love me. The fact is, quite sadly, I've never questioned it. Any of it. I've even become so concerned with how men can't seem to look past my disability that I've completely neglected that other equally important question: WHY? Isn't explaining the possible reasons behind something even more important than the actual something, whatever it may be?
They're ill-informed: No, I don't have cooties and no you can't catch it by being around me. I have a physical disability called Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome (Google it – I dare you). It's basically a bone and muscular disorder (I think walking and running is highly overrated anyway....). There actually aren't that many of us, so it's probably best to scoop us up now while supplies last. I've had 26 surgeries to correct bone and muscle deformities, and I just celebrated my 10-year-anniversary of NO SURGERIES; though, I've always fancied the idea of a guy sitting by my hospital bed and holding my hand. A teardrop for added effect is optional, of course.
They're intimidated: Even I'll admit that I can be a lot to take in at first, so maybe that's sort of scary for guys. I think a lot of times, people expect me, a pint-sized person to have a personality that matches: diminutive, reserved and soft-spoken. When - HELLO! - they realize that I'm the exact opposite, it may throw them off balance for a bit. And of course, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like my wheelchair is invisible. Trust me, I wish it were invisible and not me who's invisible. I won't pretend like my wheelchair doesn't make them uncomfortable, at least at first. Maybe they don't know what to say or maybe they're afraid they'll say the wrong thing. But FYI, men, JUST PLEASE SAY SOMETHING! ANYTHING! I promise I won't break or bite. Really.
They assume I'm not interested: Maybe they see me, a girl who has been through her fair share of medical escapades, and figure I have bigger fish to fry. When your life is at stake, I admit, guys are about the last thing on your mind. And when I was younger and going through all those procedures, guys weren't even on my radar (well, except for a certain boy, but that's a whole different story). So why is it that now I'm ready to get out there on the single's scene, all the guys have ducked for cover? Sometimes all I want in life is the simple, medical-free, adventures.
They don't know me: Maybe they don't see that I'm just like every other woman. Some of my favorite things include, but are not limited to: Columnist, journalist/writer, blogger, Looking for Mr. Right (or his cute twin), collecting Chiquita banana stickers, breaking loose on the dance floor (and oh yes, it can be done from my wheelchair), glossy magazines, keen observer, sassy, sarcasm, oogling the CW's Supernatural boys, obsessively reciting Frasier quotes, alphabetizing my CD collection, sipping a sweet soda pop, swimming, laughing, dreaming of life in the big city, leaving a hint of mystery behind me, being an absolute dork, perfecting my British accent, dreaming of my own reality show, daydreaming, smiling, being fierce.
Oh, and I also love to laugh. I play a mean game of Yahtzee. I can make small talk stretch for hours. I could just be the love of their life....I'm just saying.
So in case you've forgotten today's lesson by now: WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES DO DATE. IN FACT, WE'RE PRETTY GREAT AT IT.
The next time you see me, just come up and say hello. You never know where that might lead….
Melissa Blake is a writer and blogger from the Midwest. She writes about her physical disability on her lifestyle blog, So About What I Said, and even though she's only 4-feet tall, she's never been afraid to squash those gigantic stereotypes that cross her path. She loves to smile and has also been known to overshare.


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Will Brexit Affect StorageCraft's Cloud Products?
By Brett Johnson
As we continue to follow the developments and decisions around Brexit in the U.K., we want to address questions about the flow of personal data between the U.K. and EEA that some U.K.-based users of StorageCraft Cloud Products, including StorageCraft Cloud Services (SCS) and StorageCraft Cloud Backup, may have. Generally, StorageCraft believes that concern about such transfers is largely unwarranted. This is because the data centers used by StorageCraft in delivering these services are located in the EEA. As a result, personal data flows from U.K. data "controllers"—namely, our Cloud Customers—to an EEA-based data "processor"—namely, StorageCraft. There is no question that personal data flowing from the U.K. to the EEA will be able to continue post Brexit.
The U.K. government has explained that, for data headed from the U.K. to the remainder of the EEA, it will be business as usual in the post-Brexit world. This will be true regardless of whether Brexit happens on a "deal" or "no-deal" basis. If a "deal" is reached, a lengthy transition period will occur in which the U.K. will be treated as an EU member state. Data flows would therefore continue as normal. If no deal is reached, the U.K. government has already decided that changes to the personal-data transfer regime will be minimised. Specifically, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be saved and converted into U.K. national law. The Data Protection Act 2018 will also be retained.
Indeed, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has vocally assuaged concerns about data flows following the U.K. departure from the EU. The ICO has noted the government's statements that "on the U.K.'s exit from the EU, transfers of data from the U.K. to the EEA will be permitted" and such transfers will continue without any additional measures, even in a "no-deal" situation. Jonathan Bamford, the ICO's Director of Domestic Policy, views the government's position in this regard as "absolutely clear."
While largely irrelevant to the use of StorageCraft Cloud Products, unfortunately, the treatment of data flowing from the EEA to the U.K. is less clear. This is because once the U.K. leaves the EU, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) must decide whether the U.K.'s data-protection guarantees are sufficient that transfers to the U.K. can proceed as they did pre-Brexit. If a deal occurs, the above-noted transition period would take effect, GDPR would continue to apply between the U.K. and the EEA, and the parties would seek to conclude the EDPB adequacy process during the transition period. This means that once the transition period ends, an adequacy decision may issue and data would be able to continue to flow freely from the EEA to the U.K. If a no-deal Brexit occurs, however, there will be a regulatory gap—perhaps a substantial one—between the U.K.'s departure from the EU and an adequacy determination by the EDPB.
Because of this, some U.K.-based customers have expressed concern that, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, once personal data is transferred from the U.K. to the EEA, the GDPR may technically prevent that data from being returned to the U.K. In this scenario, the law of the U.K. would be perfectly fine with a controller transferring personal data from the U.K. to the EEA for processing, the EEA would be perfectly fine accepting that data for processing, but the EEA could theoretically prohibit the processor from sending the data back from whence it came! This technical regulatory gap exists because the GDPR lacks provisions addressing data transfers from processors back to controllers. This gap may exist because logically, a processor—in this case, StorageCraft—is just an agent of the controller—in this case, our customer. So talking about a processor, which is the agent of the controller, "transferring" the controller's own data to the controller, is a bit like saying the controller is transferring its data to itself. Thus, the processor (StorageCraft) arguably isn't "transferring" the data at all. If all of this makes your head spin, you are not alone! Regulators are aware of this statutory hole and will hopefully plug it in the near future.
In the meantime, StorageCraft's view is that the backup data we hold in our data centers belongs solely to our customers. If you are a U.K.-based customer and need to virtualize or restore, or you simply want your data back, we intend to ensure that happens. While we cannot guarantee an EEA regulator will not raise a concern, the experts we have consulted believe the possibility of that happening are virtually unthinkable, particularly given the origins of this technical regulatory gap in the GDPR.
THIS DOCUMENT IS PREPARED BY STORAGECRAFT TECHNOLOGY AND IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE COMPANY'S OPINIONS ON THE MATTERS DISCUSSED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE. PLEASE SEEK YOUR OWN LEGAL COUNSEL CONCERNING THE ISSUES RAISED HEREIN.
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Edsel Packages Patrice Rushen Albums to Help You to Remember
September 25, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment
Looking for a primer on jazz-turned R&B singer Patrice Rushen's most commercial recordings for Elektra Records? Edsel will send U.K. audiences and beyond a pair of "Forget Me Nots" in the form of two double-disc sets that collect all five of her albums for the label, plus a clutch of choice bonus material.
After a trio of acclaimed (but modest-selling) fusion-influenced albums for Prestige Records in the mid-1970s, Rushen, an accomplished pianist/vocalist, joined the Elektra roster in 1978. Working with her Prestige producer Reggie Andrews, Rushen also bought in producer Charles Mims, Jr., who would be credited on all her albums for the label. All of her albums charted on Billboard's Top 100, and her singles began to cross over into the R&B charts, as well.
While "Hang It Up," "Haven't You Heart" and "Look It Up" were all respectable hits in the late '70s and early '80s, it was Straight from the Heart, released in 1982, that served up her biggest hit, the funky "Forget Me Nots." That single peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 2 on the dance charts, and remains a staple of late-period disco. ("Forget Me Nots" enjoyed a second life in 1997, when it was sampled in the worldwide hit theme song to the sci-fi comedy Men in Black, as performed by the film's star, actor-rapper Will Smith.)
All five of Rushen's Elektra albums have been reissued on CD; Straight from the Heart got an expanded remaster from Rhino in 1996 while the others were released by Wounded Bird in 2003. But these double-disc sets - combining her first three albums (Patrice (1978), Pizzazz (1979) and Posh (1980) one one set and Straight from the Heart and Now (1984) on another - feature between them 13 bonus tracks, including just about all the rare 12" mixes released by the label. (Rhino's version of Straight from the Heart had one track this reissue does not - the single edit of "Breakdown" - but lacked the dance version of "I Was Tired of Being Alone," mixed by F. Byron Clark.)
Both sets feature full lyrics, albums credits and new annotations by Tony Rounce, producer/compiler for Ace Records. (With any luck, they'll avoid the intense audio scrutiny that's befallen Edsel's Robert Palmer Island-era two-fers.) They're out this Monday, September 30 in the U.K. and will ship to the U.S. within a week or so. Hit the jump for full track lists and Amazon U.K. links.
Patrice + Pizzazz + Posh (Edsel (U.K.), 2013)
Music of the Earth
When I Found You
Changes (in Your Life)
Let's Sing a Song of Love
Hang It Up
Cha-Cha
It's Just a Natural Thing
Didn't You Know?
Hang It Up (12" Version)
Play! (12" Version)
Let the Music Take Me
Keepin' Faith in Love
Settle for My Love
Message in the Music
Haven't You Heard
Givin' It Up is Givin' Up
Call on Me
Reprise (Message in the Music)
Never Gonna Give You Up (Won't You Let Go)
Don't Blame Me
I Need Your Love
The Funk Won't Let You Down
This is All I Really Know
Look Up! (Long Version)
Never Gonna Give You Up (Short Version)
Disc 1, Tracks 1-10 released as Patrice (Elektra 6E-160, 1978)
Disc 1, Tracks 11-12 released as Elektra 12" single AS-11404, 1978
Disc 1, Tracks 13-16 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-4 released as Pizzazz (Elektra 6E-243, 1979)
DIsc 2, Tracks 5-12 released as Posh (Elektra 6E-302, 1980)
Disc 2, Track 13 released as Elektra 12" A-side AS-11469, 1980
Disc 2, Track 14 released as Elektra single A-side E-47113, 1980
Straight from the Heart + Now (Edsel (U.K.), 2013)
Disc 1: Straight from the Heart (released as Elektra E1-60015, 1982) and bonus tracks
I Was Tired of Being Alone
All We Need
Where There is Love
Breakout!
(She Will) Take You Down to Love
Forget Me Nots (Special Dance Mix) (12" A-side - Elektra AS-11555, 1982)
Breakout! (12" Version) (12" A-side - Elektra 0-67999, 1982)
Number One (12" Version) (12" B-side - Elektra 0-67999, 1982)
Forget Me Nots (Single Version) (single A-side - Elektra E-47427, 1982)
I Was Tired of Being Alone (Byron Clark Remix) (12" promo A-side - Elektra 0-67959, 1982)
Disc 2: Now (released as Elektra 60360, 1984) and bonus tracks
Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)
Gone with the Night
Gotta Find It
Heartache Heartbreak
Get Off (You Fascinate Me)
My Love's Not Going Anywhere
High in Me
To Each His Own
Get Off (You Fascinate Me) (Dance Mix) (12" promo A-side - Elektra ED 5003, 1984)
Get Off (You Fascinate Me) (Instrumental) (12" B-side - Elektra E 9702T (U.K.), 1984)
Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (Instrumental) (12" B-side - Elektra E 9742T (U.K.), 1984)
Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) (Dub Version) (12" B-side - Elektra 0-66970, 1984)
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Charles Klaus says
Even though I'm not a huge Patrice fan, I really did love "Forget Me Nots," "Feels So Real" and a few others from their club play in the early '80's. The fans will love this stuff, and I love that you guys are here to tell them about it! If the youngsters want to know how it all got real, look to ladies like this, so creatively talented!


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New York State and Local Sales and Use Tax
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The purchase I am making is exempt from state and local sales and use taxes because the property
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Name of seller
Name of purchaser
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Please read the instructions on pages 3 and 4 for more information on each exemption, and mark an X in the applicable box(es) next to the exemption(s) you are claiming.
Part 1 -- Exemptions related to production
Purchases described in items A through F are exempt from all state and local sales and use taxes. Except as described in item C, you must have a Certificate of Authority to claim the exemptions listed in Part 1.
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for sale. Enter Certificate of Authority number here
Purchases of the following used or consumed in the production of tangible personal property (or a film, regardless as to the means by which the film is conveyed) for sale (mark an X in one or more boxes):
B. Tangible personal property used or consumed in
the production of a film for sale. Enter Certificate of
Authority number here
gas, electric, refrigeration, or steam service
C. Tangible personal property used or consumed in providing telecommunications or Internet access services for sale. Enter Certificate of Authority
number here If you are engaged exclusively in providing Internet access services for sale, a Certificate of Authority is not required when claiming this exemption; however, if you have a Certificate of Authority, enter the number in the space provided.
D. Machinery, equipment, or other tangible personal property (including parts, tools, and supplies) used or consumed by television or radio broadcasters in the production or transmission of live or recorded programs which are used by the broadcaster for specified purposes. Enter Certificate of Authority number here
E. Purchases of gas or electricity or gas or electric service used to provide gas or electric service consisting of operating a gas pipeline, an electric transmission line, or a gas or electric distribution line. Enter Certificate of Authority number here
Enter Certificate of Authority number here
Purchases described in item G are exempt from all state and local sales and use taxes when delivered or used outside New York City, but subject to New York City local sales and use tax when delivered or used in New York City.
G. Purchases of the following used or consumed in the production of gas, electricity, refrigeration, or steam for sale (mark an X in one or more boxes):
Note: This certificate is not valid unless the purchaser completes the certification on page 2.
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Part 2 -- Services exempt from tax (exempt from all state and local sales and use taxes)
Enter Certificate of Authority number here (if applicable)
H. Installing, repairing, maintaining, or servicing qualifying property listed in Part 1, items A through D. Please
indicate the type of qualifying property being serviced by marking an X in the applicable box(es):
I. Producing, fabricating, processing, printing, and imprinting, including editing, dubbing, and mixing, qualifying
property listed in Part 1, items B and D. Please indicate the type of qualifying property being serviced by marking an
X in the applicable box(es):
J. Removal of waste material from a facility regulated by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as either a transfer station or as a construction and demolition debris processing facility.
Part 3 -- Other exemptions
A Certificate of Authority is not required when claiming the exemptions described below. However, if you have a Certificate of Authority, enter the number here
K. Tangible personal property used in research and development.
Q. Commercial fishing vessels (including certain property).
L. Purchases of the following used in research and development (mark an X in one or more boxes):
M. Cartons, containers, and other wrapping and packaging materials and supplies that are actually transferred to the purchaser.
N. Certified enhanced emissions inspection equipment for testing and inspecting motor vehicles. Enter your inspection station license number here
O. Commercial vessels (including certain property and services).
R. Pollution control equipment.
S. Tangible personal property (including lubricants) used in the services of maintenance, service, repair, or installation performed on any aircraft by such person providing such service.
Purchases described in item T are subject to New York City local sales tax.
T. Machinery and equipment used directly and predominantly in loading, unloading, and handling cargo at a qualified marine terminal facility in New York City.
U. Other -- Describe exempt use and identify the section of the Tax Law covering this exemption (see instructions).
P. Commercial aircraft (including certain machinery and equipment) and flight simulators purchased by commercial airlines.
Certification: I certify that the above statements are true, complete, and correct, and that no material information has been omitted. I make these statements and issue this exemption certificate with the knowledge that this document provides evidence that state and local sales or use taxes do not apply to a transaction or transactions for which I tendered this document and that willfully issuing this document with the intent to evade any such tax may constitute a felony or other crime under New York State Law, punishable by a substantial fine and a possible jail sentence. I understand that this document is required to be filed with, and delivered to, the vendor as agent for the Tax Department for the purposes of Tax Law section 1838 and is deemed a document required to be filed with the Tax Department for the purpose of prosecution of offenses. I also understand that the Tax Department is authorized to investigate the validity of tax exclusions or exemptions claimed and the accuracy of any information entered on this document.
Type or print name and title of owner, partner, or authorized person of purchaser
Signature of owner, partner, or authorized person of purchaser
Date prepared
ST-121 (1/11) Page 3 of 4
To the purchaser
If you have a valid Certificate of Authority, you may use FormST-121 to purchase, rent, or lease tangible personal property or services exempt from tax to the extent indicated in these instructions. Complete all required entries on the form and give it to the seller.
You may use FormST-121 as a blanket certificate covering the first and subsequent purchases of the same general type of property or service. However, each subsequent sales slip or purchase invoice (excluding utility bills) based on this blanket certificate must show your name, address, and Certificate of Authority identification number.
If you make further purchases from the seller that do not qualify for the exemption, you must pay the appropriate sales tax at the time of purchase.
As used in this document, the term predominantly means that the property or service(s) is used more than 50% of the time directly for the purpose stated in the particular section. The term exclusively means that the property or service(s) is used 100% of the time directly for the purpose stated in the particular section. The term primarily means that the property or service(s) is used 50% or more of the time directly for the purpose stated in the particular section.
Except as described in item C, you must have a Certificate of Authority to claim the exemptions listed in Part 1.
A -- You may purchase, exempt from tax, machinery and equipment, including parts, tools, and supplies, used or consumed directly and predominantly in the production of tangible personal property, gas, electricity, refrigeration, or steam for sale by manufacturing, processing, generating, assembling, refining, mining, or extracting. For more information on these various production exemptions, see Publication 852, Sales Tax Information for: Manufacturers, Processors, Generators, Assemblers, Refiners, Miners and Extractors, and Other Producers of Goods and Merchandise.
B -- You may purchase, exempt from tax, tangible personal property used directly and predominantly in the production (including editing, dubbing, and mixing) of a film for sale regardless of the medium by which the film is conveyed to the purchaser. (For purposes of this exemption, the term film means feature films, documentary films, shorts, television films, television commercials, and similar productions.)
C -- You may purchase, exempt from tax, tangible personal property used directly and predominantly in the receiving, initiating, amplifying, processing, transmitting, retransmitting, switching, or monitoring of switching of telecommunications services for sale, or Internet access services for sale, or any combination of the two services. If you are engaged exclusively in providing Internet access services for sale, a Certificate of Authority is not required when claiming this exemption; however, if you have a Certificate of Authority, enter the number in the space provided on page 1.
gas or electric service of whatever nature consisting of operating a gas pipeline, a gas distribution line, or an electric transmission or distribution line or to ensure the necessary working pressure in an underground gas storage facility.
F --You may purchase, exempt from tax, fuel, gas, electricity, refrigeration, and steam and gas, electric, refrigeration, and steam service used or consumed directly and exclusively in the production of tangible personal property (or a film, regardless as to the means by which the film is conveyed) for sale, by manufacturing, processing, assembling, generating, refining, mining, or extracting. You must pay any state and local taxes due on any part of any fuel or utility service not used directly and exclusively for an exempt purpose. For example, electricity purchased solely to light a factory must be purchased tax paid, but electricity used for both an exempt purpose and a taxable purpose may be purchased exempt from tax. However, you must report the tax due on the electricity used for the taxable purpose on your sales and use tax return as a purchase subject to tax.
G --You may purchase, exempt from tax (except for the local tax imposed on sales and uses in New York City), fuel, gas, electricity, refrigeration, and steam and gas, electric, refrigeration, and steam service used or consumed directly and exclusively in the production of gas, electricity, refrigeration, and steam for sale by manufacturing, processing, assembling, generating, refining, mining, or extracting. You must pay any state and local taxes due on any part of any fuel or utility service not used directly and exclusively for an exempt purpose.
Part 2 -- Services exempt from tax
H -- You may purchase the services of installing, repairing, maintaining, and servicing qualifying property listed in Part 1, items A through D, exempt from tax.
I -- You may purchase the services of producing, fabricating, processing, printing, and imprinting, including editing, dubbing, and mixing, qualifying property listed in Part 1, items B and D, exempt from tax.
J -- If you are a facility regulated by the DEC as either a transfer station or construction and demolition debris processing facility, you may purchase the service of waste removal exempt from tax, provided that the waste is not generated by your facility. Under the DEC regulations, a transfer station is defined generally as a solid waste management facility other than a recyclables handling and recovery facility, used oil facility, or a construction and demolition debris processing facility, where solid waste is received for the purpose of subsequent transfer to another solid waste management facility for further processing, treating, transfer, or disposal. A construction and demolition debris processing facility is a processing facility that receives and processes construction and demolition debris by any means.
A Certificate of Authority is not required when claiming the exemptions described in Part 3 on page 2. However, if you have a Certificate of Authority, enter the number in the space provided on page 2.
D -- You may purchase, exempt from tax, machinery, equipment, or other tangible personal property (including parts, tools, and supplies) used or consumed by television or radio broadcasters directly and predominantly in the production (including post-production) of live or recorded programs which are used or consumed by a broadcaster predominantly for the purpose of broadcast over the air by the broadcaster or for transmission through a cable television or direct-broadcast satellite system by the broadcaster. You may also purchase, exempt from tax, machinery, equipment, and other tangible personal property (including parts, tools, and supplies) used or consumed directly and predominantly in the transmission of live or recorded programs over the air or through a cable television or direct-broadcast satellite system by the broadcaster. Tangible personal property purchased by a broadcaster (lessor) for lease to another person (lessee) for that person's use or consumption directly and predominantly in the production (including post production) of live or recorded programs by the person will be deemed to be used or consumed by the lessor broadcaster for purposes of determining whether the lessor broadcaster has met the direct and predominant use requirement of the exemption described in the above sentence. (For more information concerning this exemption, see TSB-M-00(6)S, Summary of the 2000 Sales and Compensating Use Tax Budget Legislation.)
E -- You may purchase, exempt from tax, gas or electricity or gas or electric service used or consumed directly and exclusively to provide
K -- Tangible personal property used or consumed directly and predominantly in research and development in the experimental or laboratory sense is exempt from tax.
L -- Gas, electricity, refrigeration, and steam, and gas, electric, refrigeration, and steam service used or consumed directly and exclusively in research and development in the experimental or laboratory sense may be purchased exempt from tax.
Research and development does not include the ordinary testing or inspection of materials or products for quality control, efficiency surveys, management studies, consumer surveys, advertising, promotions, or research in connection with literary, historical, or similar projects.
M--Vendors may purchase, exempt from tax, cartons, containers, and other wrapping and packaging materials and supplies and components thereof used to package tangible personal property for sale if the property is actually transferred by the vendor to the purchaser of the property.
N -- Enhanced emissions inspection equipment certified by the DEC for use in testing and inspecting motor vehicles as part of the enhanced emissions inspection and maintenance program required by the Federal Clean Air Act and the NewYork State Clean Air Compliance Act may be purchased without payment of tax. To qualify for the exemption, the equipment must be purchased and used by an official inspection station which is licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles and authorized to conduct enhanced emissions inspections. (For more
information about enhanced emissions inspection equipment, see TSB-M-97(8)S, Enhanced Emissions Inspection Equipment.)
O -- Commercial vessels, including property used by or purchased for the use of these vessels for fuel, provisions, supplies, maintenance, and repairs, and the services of installing, maintaining, servicing, or repairing these vessels or property, may be purchased exempt from tax. To qualify for the exemption, the commercial vessel must be primarily engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. The exemption does not apply to property purchased for or used in the original equipping of a new ship, or to the services of installing this property in the equipping of a new ship. (For the definition of commercial vessels and other information concerning this exemption, see TSB-M-96(14)S, Tax Law Defines Commercial Vessels and Commercial Aircraft.)
P -- Commercial aircraft and machinery or equipment to be installed on this aircraft, property used for maintenance or repair of this aircraft, and flight simulators purchased by commercial airlines may be purchased exempt from tax. To qualify for the exemption, the commercial aircraft must be primarily engaged in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce. (For the definition of commercial aircraft and other information concerning this exemption, see TSB-M-96(14)S.)
Q -- Commercial fishing vessels used directly and predominantly in the harvesting of fish for sale (other than sport fishing vessels), including property used by or purchased for the use of these vessels for fuel, provisions, supplies, maintenance, and repairs may be purchased exempt from tax. (For the definition of commercial fishing vessels and other information concerning this exemption, see TSB-M-85(17)S, 1985 Legislation - Chapter 799 Sales Tax Exemption for Commercial Fishing Vessels.)
R -- If not otherwise exempt, machinery and equipment used directly and predominantly in the control, prevention, or abatement of pollution or contaminants from manufacturing or industrial facilities may be purchased exempt from tax.
S -- Tangible personal property purchased and used in the services of maintenance, service, repair or installation performed on any aircraft, where such property is purchased by the person providing such services and it becomes a physical component part of the aircraft or is a lubricant applied to the aircraft, is exempt from tax.
T -- Machinery and equipment used at qualified marine terminal facilities located in New York City. The machinery and equipment must be used directly and predominantly in loading, unloading, and handling cargo at marine terminal facilities located in New York City which handled more than 350,000 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2003. For purposes of this exemption, the term TEU means a unit of volume equivalent to the volume of a twenty-foot container. This exemption does not apply to the local tax in New York City.
U -- Use this line to claim exemption from all sales and use taxes on qualified tangible personal property or services not otherwise specified in this certificate. Describe the exempt use of the tangible personal property or service being purchased, and identify the applicable section of the Tax Law under which you claim exemption.
If you are purchasing motor fuel or diesel motor fuel eligible to be taxed on a cents-per-gallon basis, write Tax Law section 1111(m) qualified fuel taxed using the cents-per-gallon method in the space provided. See TSB-M-06(8)S, New Guidelines on the Sales of Motor Fuel and Diesel Motor Fuel Subject to the Cents-Per-Gallon Sales Tax, for additional information.
Line access services purchased by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and used for transmission between the ISP point of presence and the public Internet for the purpose of connecting the ISP's customers to the Internet are purchases of interstate or international telephony and thus are not subject to sales tax. If you are an ISP purchasing line access services to use in this manner, write telecommunications services used by an ISP to provide Internet access originating with the ISP point of presence (Tax Law section 1105 (b)(1)) in the space provided. See TSB-M-07(2)S, Sales Tax Treatment of Telecommunications Services Purchased By an Internet Service Provider, for additional information.
Certain military decorations, including ribbons, medals, mini-medals, and lapel pins, are exempt from sales tax when sold to an active member or a veteran of the United States military. If you are purchasing tax-exempt military decorations, write military decoration ? Tax Law section 1115 (a)(11-a) in the space provided. The Tax Law provides
that you must also show the vendor your military identification or other documentation (such as discharge papers) as proof of current military service or veteran status. However, the vendor is not required to retain a copy of this proof.
To the seller
The purchaser must give you Form ST-121 with all entries completed no later than 90 days after delivery of the property, or the sale will be deemed to have been taxable at the time of the transaction. If you receive the certificate after the 90day period, both you and the purchaser assume the burden of proving the sale was exempt, and additional substantiation may be required.
In addition, if you fail to collect tax as a result of accepting an improperly completed exemption certificate, you become personally liable for the tax plus any penalty and interest charges due, unless the certificate is corrected within a reasonable period of time or you otherwise prove that the transaction was not subject to tax. You must keep any exemption certificate you receive for at least three years after the due date of the last return to which it relates, or the date the return is filed, if later. You must also maintain a method of associating an exempt sale made to a particular customer with the exemption certificate you have on file for that customer.
If the Blanket certificate box is marked on page 1, you may consider this certificate part of any order received from the purchaser during the period that the blanket certificate remains in effect. However, each subsequent sales slip or purchase invoice based on this blanket certificate must show the purchaser's name and address. A blanket certificate remains in effect until the purchaser gives you written notice of revocation, or you have knowledge that the certificate is false or was fraudulently presented, or until the Tax Department notifies you that the purchaser may not make exempt purchases.
Misuse of this certificate
Misuse of this exemption certificate may subject you to serious civil and criminal sanctions in addition to the payment of any tax and interest due. These include:
? A penalty equal to 100% of the tax due;
? A $50 penalty for each fraudulent exemption certificate issued;
? Criminal felony prosecution, punishable by a substantial fine and a possible jail sentence; and
? Revocation of your Certificate of Authority, if you are required to be registered as a vendor. See TSB-M-09(17)S, Amendments that Encourage Compliance with the Tax Law and Enhance the Tax Department's Enforcement Ability, for more information.
Privacy notification The Commissioner of Taxation and Finance may collect and maintain personal information pursuant to the New York State Tax Law, including but not limited to, sections 5-a, 171, 171-a, 287, 308, 429, 475, 505, 697, 1096, 1142, and 1415 of that Law; and may require disclosure of social security numbers pursuant to 42 USC 405(c)(2)(C)(i).
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All an outfit needs to graduate to a Look is one defining accessory — the change of a shoelace or the addition of a bracelet. And, no one knows this better than the pro-dressers of New York Fashion Week. The mastery, of course, isn't just in walking in those shoes, but it's finding them in the first place. So, we snapped as much and as fast as we could to see just how it's done. Better yet, we zoomed those lenses way, way in to find the best odds and ends, bits and baubles, the week had to offer. It's arm candy. It's foot candy. It's eye candy. Feast up.
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Q: Generate unique short slug for post entries (like 9gag) 9gag has :
http://9gag.com/gag/amXB20o
I want the same, something like:
http://mysite.com/post/{shortslug}
How can I generate short (8-10 chars ?)  unique slugs for each post when I save them ?
Thanks a lot for your help.
EDIT : I though about using md5 of the Id but the hash is way too long.

A: $key = substr(md5(rand(1,999999)), 0, 10);
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Then check if that exists, if it doesn't just generate another one
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Expelled American Diplomats Leave US Embassy in Moscow
There has been a flurry of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions since the March 4 poisoning on UK soil of Sergei Skripal, which Britain says was carried out with a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union.
Updated:April 5, 2018, 10:40 AM IST
Embassy staff and children leave Russia's Embassy in London, Britain, on March 20, 2018. (File Photo: Reuters)
Moscow: The first of a group of 60 US diplomats who have been expelled from Russia in the wake of the poisoned spy row departed from Washington's embassy in Moscow early on Thursday, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
Dozens of US diplomats and their families left the embassy compound on three buses and a minibus at 6.30am (0330 GMT) and headed towards the airport, after Moscow set a Thursday deadline for the envoys to leave the country.
The former double agent, who defected to Britain, was found slumped on a park bench in the English town of Salisbury alongside his daughter Yulia who was also critically injured.
London has said it is "highly likely" Moscow was behind the botched assassination, a charge the Kremlin has angrily denied.
Relations between Moscow and the West have since plummeted to a new lows.
More than 150 Russian diplomats were ordered out of the US, EU members, NATO countries and other nations as punishment, a move that was met in kind by Russia.
At the end of March Moscow ordered 60 US diplomats to leave, as well as the closure of the St Petersburg consulate.
There was a stream of vehicles driving in and out of the embassy ahead of the departure, many carrying luggage and the pets of the expelled diplomats.
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The UFDC convention starts today and I'm not there. One of the most wonderful aspects of convention is the fantastic shopping opportunities.
The UFDC showroom is legendary and Rowbear's National Doll Festival, which runs concurrently, always inspires. I go back again and again during convention and find something new each time.
I need a shopping fix and I have no where to go! Shopping online just isn't the same.
There used to be independent stores around every corner that featured varied and unique treasures to discover (not just clothing, housewares or electronics). They are gone, at least in my area of the country. I miss going shopping for nothing, just to shop, and finding something wonderful to bring home. It filled a need.
It's not about the great big purchases for me. It's the little stuff. On opening night of convention, I usually take a cruise around the showroom to see the wonders before someone snatches them up. But, the rest of the time, I love to wander and search for small treasures.
There are vendors from around the world who have all sorts of sewing stuff, from new and antique fabrics, to trims, laces, buttons, and threads.
One year, I found this amazingly fine and beautiful, handmade petitpoint trim. It will eventually garnish a skirt for my Huret.
And this silk print and the coordinating BLUE silk velvet inspired this 1920's outfit for my modern Ellowyne Wilde doll.
Many dealers prefer that you do not take photos in their booths, so I always take a sketchpad and pencil with me because costume inspiration abounds. I'm a lousy sketch artist (no, I'm not going to share any of my sketches), but I add lots of notes about all the details I see.
As a collector of small dolls, it is often hard to see them on opening night when the showroom is crowded. They hide in display cases, waiting for me to search them out.
I found this gem (who still needs me to finish her clothes), in a display case on the last day of convention one year. I don't know if she had been there all week or if the dealer just added her that day. But I felt like I had discovered gold!
Do you miss shopping just to shop?


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On March 4, 1902, delegates from 19 American cities met in New York to form a federation of emerging Alliances Françaises in the United States.
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The 2018 Nissan Frontier Diesel gets a new exterior color, Satin Metal Gray Metallic. Moreover, hatchback fashions are now obtainable with the diesel engine. The 2018 Nissan Frontier Diesel obtained a 5-star general safety ranking from the NHTSA (out of a doable five stars). In IIHS evaluations, the 2018 Nissan Frontier Diesel New Review has solely been examined in aspect and moderate front overlap affect tests where it obtained a Good ranking (Good is the very best doable score). It also acquired a Primary rating on the IIHS' entrance crash prevention take a look at for having an obtainable ahead collision warning system (Superior is the very best rating for the front crash prevention check).
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Aur Revoir. Stucco demons. Auf Wiedersehen. Brick angels.
Every stone. Knows me too well. Dotting the J's with smudged fingersprints. Crossing the T's. Like empty parking lots in the winter. The snow taller than us. The salt chewing through the soles of our shoes. Until every footprint is invisible. A manic alarm for every night the world remains mute. A coin toss to determine how hard it is.
The pandemonium of hope like fireworks. Exploding.
You cup your last eyelash in your hand and ponder how long it's been since you've lost.