California is redefining the method it uses to evaluate its public schools as the state looks to make the system more transparent for parents and more precise than it has been with only test scores being used.
The Academic Performance Index has (API) been set aside as the state strives to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, which is the federal government's replacement for No Child Left Behind.
The State Board of Education presented in Sacramento its latest proposal for "the California Model." The measure was exhibited in a display of 17 colored boxes. The graph, reports Joy Resmovits for the Los Angeles Times, summarizes how a school is performing in certain categories such as math or career readiness. The chart will show the current status of schools across the state and their progress over time.
The criteria for performance include standards set by federal and state law and those assessed under California's new school funding formula. Officials explained that the models and their content were preliminary, but those in attendance debated the graphics used in the model.
The color red applied to graduation and represented too many drop outs. The blue ranking designated the best ranking. Each color used is explained in a "lookup table" made up of a grid of 25 colored boxes that interpret what each color represents.
The mock-up of the new ranking system was designed by Eric Crane of the nonprofit consulting company WestEd. A slideshow was used to show how year-to-year progress does not necessarily improve a school's color ranking.
The new federal law requires that states "meaningfully differentiate" between schools' rankings. But the new color coding does not include an overall rating for each state school. The board agreed to mail a letter to federal officials asking for their reaction to the new system.
Status is the measure of the current year's performance. Change is the difference in performance between the prior school year and the current year.
The new plan will be taking the place of the former evaluation model which gave state schools a number from 200 to 1,000 based in large part on test scores, writes Alma Fausto for The Orange County Register.
Fausto points out additional factors that will be rated by the California Model, including student attendance, English proficiency, and the availability of college-level classes to high school students.
"Improving school accountability is a priority set by the governor and Legislature under the new school-funding formula," said Michael Kirst, president of the California Board of Education, in a statement.


EReCaptchaValidator is a validator which uses reCAPTCHA to validate a CAPTCHA rendered by the EReCaptcha widget.
The view remains the same.
1.3 - Updated to support SSL. Some clean-up.
1.1 - Updated to fix BC broken with new CClientScript methods.
Please remove it from code since this will cause the theme to not work in IE.
in order to do so just rewrote two lines in both php files of this extension and replace $this->public/private with Yii::app()->params['reCaptcha']['publicKey'] and Yii::app()->params['reCaptcha']['privateKey'].
It works like a charm now.
Thanks for the extension. I'd like to use it in a little bit different way.
Here's the reason the last bit is important: The call to the reCaptcha server is only valid ONCE. However, this controller ends up calling it twice, once at line 34 ($model->validate()) and then again at line 45 ($model->save()) because the save() actually calls the validate() again.
Passing false as a parameter to save() will bypass the validation, which is okay because we just did it a few lines earlier.
That is, put the keys in the config. Mind the case sensitivity as the two linked comments have different cases.
I use this extension for a project, a website which runs over SSL.
I know that reCaptcha has support for HTTPS requests so users will not get warnings in browser (like "this page has some resources that are not sent via a secured connection") when loading a page that has reCaptcha.
And, finally, I updated the reCAPTCHA/recaptchalib.php file. The latest one can be downloaded from here.
Then you can put your custom language or set it dynamically by application.
And update setTheme() method too to put your custom theme.
The form was successfully submitting as if the reCaptcha was not there at all. Even if it was left blank. I had to set enableAjaxValidation to FALSE and replaced the ajax validation code in my controller action, with the $model->validate() to get it work.
Just want to say thank you for this extension. Good work!
P.S. If someone knows how to make this work with ajax validation it would be good to share with the rest of us.
Extension works like a charm, so many thanks to the creator.
Remember, that you can customize look & feel of your captcha -- look into documentation for more info.
Take into consideration, that you should not add your recaptcha field to required validator, as this will fail.
below your recaptcha field works only for server-side validation. Even, if you have client-side validation enabled, it will not work this way.
The problem with the AJAX validation is the the recaptcha API only validates a code once - and when AJAX validation is enabled in Yii the model is usually validated once for the AJAX validation and a second time on the actual form submit action. This second validation will fail, even if it's correct.
To get the AJAX validation working I am caching the captcha API validation response from the AJAX request, so we don't need to re-validate the captcha on the 2nd request.
The trick to making this work securely (to prevent a bot from being able to re-submit the form with the same recaptcha values) is to delete the cached captcha from the user session. I included the code for this at the end of my comment.
Here is the new validateAttribute() method for the EReCaptchaValidator class to cache the recaptcha validation. You can make these modifications as well, or make your own validator that extends EReCaptchaValidator.
Then, add this code after the form model has been successfully saved, to prevent a bot from re-submitting the captcha value.
* @var array  custom translations of reCAPTCHA strings.


The material on this page is from Air Force Handbook 1, dated 1 Oct 2017. All sections are testable except Section A, the overview. Section F is only applicable for those studying for E-7, E-8, and E-9. Please see Chapter 7 notes for additional information.


If you haven't seen a major flood, it can be hard to imagine that the rivers that we cross over and walk beside every day can be dangerous. In 1975, the last major flood in Lansing, water was more than eight feet deep in some places. The 1975 flood was not the worst possible flood, or even the worst likely flood that could happen here.
Never drive through flood water. Two feet of water can float a car or cause a vehicle to stall, leaving you stranded. Floods can hide a damaged road. You can't tell how deep water is by looking.
Never walk through flood water. Even a few inches of fast moving water can knock you off your feet. The water may also be hiding dangers like downed power lines or debris. It can be contaminated with chemicals and sewage.
If you are told to evacuate because of flooding, follow emergency instructions. Nothing you own is worth risking your own life, or the life of a first responder.
Take pets with you when you evacuate, if you can do so safely. A pet shelter will be opened to look after pets if needed.
Flash floods can come rapidly and unexpectedly. They can occur within a few minutes or hours of excessive rainfall, or when a dam or levee fails and even a sudden release of water held by an ice or debris jam. Be cautious during storm seasons, or any time that flooding is common in your area.
You may not have warning that a flash flood is approaching.
Do not drive unless absolutely necessary.
Even if the water appears shallow enough to cross, don't try it. Water hides dips in the road. Worse yet, there may be no road at all under the water.
Flooding can scour away the entire road surface and a significant amount of ground beneath.
Two feet of rushing water can sweep away most vehicles - including SUVs and pick-ups.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used to consider recess appointments "an end run around the Senate and the Constitution" — so much so that he kept the chamber open during breaks to prevent President George W. Bush from making any more of them.
But with a Democrat in the White House, and Republicans blocking executive branch nominees, Reid and his allies are starting to sing a different tune.
Reid said last week that he's "tried hard" to avoid the need for President Barack Obama to make recess appointments, but he added: "What alternative do we have? . . .
While Obama has so far shied away from using recess appointments, the Constitution gives presidents the power to install appointees to vacant positions when the Senate is on a recess.
Such appointments last only until the beginning of a new session of the Senate, meaning any Obama recess appointment would hold their posts until next year — when Republicans are likely to have more seats in the chamber.
Bush made 179 recess appointments, and President Bill Clinton made 139, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research ServiceSen.
Reid's change of heart appears motivated, in part, by Senator Richard Shelby's blanket hold on some 70 pending nominees. Yet as Politico also reports, Sen. Reid imposed a blanket hold of his own in 2004 to get a federal appointment one of his advisors.
The Constitution authorizes recess appointments, even if modern use of the power is more expansive than the Constitution may have contemplated. As I see it, recess appointments are an appropriate response to the Senate's persistent refusal to confirm nominees with strong majority support, particularly if that support is bipartisan. As a practical matter, recess appointments risk political backlash, particularly if they are overused. In this regard it is notable that President Bush made only four recess appointments after Democrats retook the Senate in 2006, after having made 175 during his first six years.
UPDATE: The NYT reports Senator Shelby has lifted his holds on all but three nominees whose positions are related to the Defense projects he's seeking to advance.
"Birther" claim about Obama and the Bush National Guard hoax: Fruit of the same poisonous tree?


A night at the bar with friends does not typically end with someone wielding a tomahawk, but as you will see below, the facts of the Supreme Court of Florida's decision in Dorsey v. Reider are not like those of a typical personal injury case.
In Dorsey, the plaintiff was injured at the conclusion of a night of imbibing with the defendant and another man with whom the defendant was acquainted at a bar in Pinecrest, Florida. On that night, the defendant, who was the friend of the plaintiff in this case, became increasingly belligerent and was threatening to fight others. In light of his friend's conduct, the plaintiff used a few choice words to tell the defendant his behavior was obnoxious and proceeded to leave. The defendant and his friend followed. As the plaintiff walked through the parking lot, his path took him between the defendant's truck and an adjacent vehicle. The defendant ran to the other side while the plaintiff was passing between the vehicles and blocked the plaintiff's path as the acquaintance blocked him in on the other side. An argument ensued, which lasted for several minutes before the plaintiff heard the truck door open and turned to find that the acquaintance had procured a tomahawk from the truck. The plaintiff then asked the defendant, "What is this?" The defendant did not respond, and the plaintiff then attempted to push the defendant aside in order to escape. After about 15 seconds of struggle, the plaintiff was struck in the head with the tomahawk, which rendered him unconscious. The defendant and the acquaintance then fled. Sometime thereafter, the plaintiff awoke and drove himself to the hospital. As a result of the attack, the plaintiff suffered a variety of serious injuries and continues to suffer from blurred vision, dizziness, and chronic headaches.
Unsurprisingly, the plaintiff brought suit for his injuries. Following a jury trial, the plaintiff was awarded over 1.5 million dollars in damages. On appeal, the Florida Third Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the trial court decision. The Court of Appeal determined that the defendant, who did not actually strike the victim with the tomahawk, did not owe a duty of care to the plaintiff in this case, since there was "no evidence [the defendant] "colluded with [the acquaintance] or knew that [the acquaintance] had the tomahawk and would strike." Reider v. Dorsey, 98 So.3d 1228 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012). The Supreme Court of Florida, however, determined that this holding was in error.


New Zealand is on track to become the first Western country to clinch a free trade agreement with China after the leaders of both countries set a goal to secure such a deal within one to two years.
Negotiations will now be stepped up to reach the target, while the leadership of both countries will make bi-lateral talks on general matters an annual fixture, Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today after holding talks in the Beehive.
Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Wen told a news conference of mainly Chinese media at Parliament that the negotiations had reached a crucial stage.
The two governments would now be paying greater attention and give more support to the process, he said, with the negotiations to be handled by more senior officials.
"And if the two of us work harder I believe it is possible it will be wrapped up in less than two years' time," he said.
The negotiations had encountered some difficulties in the agricultural and service areas but these were not insurmountable.
"There are difficulties but they might be a blessing in disguise," he said, adding that as long as the two sides acted in the spirit of equality and mutual trust and accommodation they could overcome the difficulties.
Miss Clark said Mr Wen had come with a positive message for New Zealand.
"We have confirmed in our discussion that we are both looking for a comprehensive, high-quality agreement acceptable to both sides," she said.
They could see their way to moving towards conclusion of FTA talks in one to two years, she said.


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What the Charlotte's Web Plant Variety Patent Means for the Legal Hemp Industry
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Charlotte's Web holds an iconic status in the emergent cannabis industry. Not only is it a popular CBD-dominant strain that has helped countless young patients as an epilepsy treatment, but this plant variety became a figurehead, in a way, for the legalization of medical cannabis after its appearance in CNN's Weed series.
In 2014, one year after the debut of Weed, the Stanley brothers committed to keeping Charlotte's Web beneath the 0.3-percent THC threshold—effectively developing it into a hemp cultivar. This was around the same time that the 2014 Farm Bill legalized hemp cultivation in a limited scope, paving the way for its full federal legalization four years later.
And here we are, with a legal U.S. hemp industry and the first patented hemp plant variety—a plant called "CW2A."
According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Joel Stanley filed the patent application in May 2018 on behalf of his company, also named Charlotte's Web. In the public documents, Stanley described a plant type capable of producing 6.24-percent CBD content and 0.27-percent THC content.
"The new cultivar of 'CW2A' was asexually reproduced via stem cuttings from vegetative and/or flowering plants, and cloning by the inventor at the inventor's greenhouses, nurseries, fields and/or facilities in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Wray, Colo.," according to the patent. "Asexual clones from the original source have been tested in greenhouses, nurseries, and/or fields. The properties of each clone from this cultivar were found to be transmissible by such asexual reproduction. The cultivar is stable and reproduces true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction."
The patent was approved in July 2019.
So, what does that mean for the hemp industry?
On one hand, we'd eventually see the first hemp plant variety patent issued by the federal government. Now that the industry is legal in the U.S., it stands to reason that some form of intellectual property protection—even by the simple act of staking a claim on a single plant variety—is a part of the overall market maturity process. Charlotte's Web has been a visible presence in the hemp market for years now; much like the company has developed best practices followed by other hemp businesses, this patent may guide other businesses in their own IP endeavors.
And as we're seeing with the 2019 harvest season, "hot" crops are a major problem in the industry. Crops that test above that 0.3-percent THC limit must be destroyed, according to most state statutes, and so one of the important educational trends in the business right now is to identify reliable hemp varieties that won't leap past that threshold when it comes time to test and cut the crop. As the industry matures over these next few years, it may come to pass that clone stock becomes a more vital part of a grower's arsenal.
Because of the nature of plant variety patents, intellectual property protection isn't necessarily the main goal. Any infringement claims could only come about through unapproved cloning—which is to say outright theft of the plant's genetic material. But could Charlotte's Web sell clones on the open market, as Front Range Biosciences does through its Clean Stock program?
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"While a plant patent covering a commercially valuable strain for cloning purposes certainly has value, its scope is bounded to the genetics of the patented plant and leaves room for sexual reproduction (e.g., seed farming)," Sterne Kessler attorneys Pauline Pelletier and Deborah Sterling wrote in a recent blog post. "By contrast, a utility patent covering a non-naturally occurring strain, where the claim is defined in terms of the plant's novel characteristics could make the avoidance of infringement more difficult and thus serve as stronger patent protection."
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Paying Off Our Real Debt
Older Americans are the deepest source of wisdom, values, and character we have as a nation. We owe them a debt of gratitude more profound than any other. And we have a responsibility to care for them as they spent their lives caring for us.
Ai-jen Poo, Contributor
Ai-jen Poo is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Co-Director of Caring Across Generations, and Co-Founder of Make It Work.
Kimi Lee's mother did everything right. She saved all her life, had two health insurance policies, was a member of a union. Then, during a trip to see her newborn granddaughter, she suffered a stroke. Her family did their best to cope: Kimi and her family moved to Los Angeles to help care for her. But bills and long-term care costs still threatened to rob the family of what Kimi's mom had worked her whole life for, including her house.
"For us it was definitely a shock," Kimi said. "When there are these long-term situations that happen to people, there's just no safety net for that."
Henry Perry considers himself lucky. He is 96 years old, and is able to live an active, dignified life thanks to the care of Dabphne Hughes, a longtime friend from his church who came to care work after she lost her previous job. Henry can afford to pay for long-term care, but sees that many in the African American community he lives in cannot. While younger people in the community used to be able to care for their elders, job and health struggles often leave them unable to -- and older people are left to struggle at the time they care the most.
"It says a lot about the American Dream," Henry said, "that you work all your life, pay your taxes and all that sort of thing. Then you get to your Golden Years and find out they're not as golden as they're supposed to be."
Marlene Champion came to domestic care work after decades of work at a poultry processing plant. For six and a half years, she cared for an older man who at first was home-bound and did little but watch television.
"Over the years, I coaxed him out of his shell. He began to go to birthdays and weddings and bar mitzvahs -- he became a different man," Marlene said. "I learned a lot from him in those years about the struggle for dignity and respect. Someday, I hope someone will care for me that way."
These are the voices of America's Care Crisis. The relationship between care providers and care recipients is full of love, intimacy, and interdependence. And yet millions of older Americans and people with disabilities struggle to live with dignity because they don't have the quality care they need. Their families struggle to provide for them.
Meanwhile, caregivers suffer burn-out from poor working conditions, low wages, lack of training, and benefits. And the many immigrant care workers who are currently caring for our loved ones are locked outs of the American Dream, without a path to citizenship.
The crisis is growing by the day. Every eight seconds, another American turns 65. By 2050, there will be 27 million Americans with long-term care needs -- more than twice the number in 2000.
These older Americans are the deepest source of wisdom, values, and character we have as a nation. We owe them a debt of gratitude more profound than any other. And we have a responsibility to care for them as they spent their lives caring for us.
That's why on July 12, nearly 800 community, faith, and labor leaders gathered in Washington, DC, to launch Caring Across Generations, a national movement to solve America's Care Crisis. Caring Across Generations aims to preserve what we have -- the vital safety net of Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security -- while creating what we need: two million new care jobs, training and protection for workers, new paths to citizenship for immigrant workers, and measures to make care more affordable for struggling families.
White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett was with us at the event, a day-long town hall-style event we called a Care Congress. "Our economy will depend on the creation of millions of home care jobs. You are the economic engine of our country," Jarrett said. "It is up to us to ensure that these jobs come with the right benefits, what all Americans deserve: good working conditions, clear labor standards, and the ability to form a union."
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was with us as well. "Thanks to your work -- workers and families coming together -- we're standing up today for a rightful place in society," she said. "That's what this is about: dignity and respect."
The July 12 Care Congress was just the beginning. Over the next 12 months, Caring Across Generations will hold Care Congresses in at least 15 U.S. cities. These events will bring together tens of thousands of Americans who are touched by the "care crisis," particularly older adults, people with disabilities, care workers and their families. Together, we will transform public policy so that we can be a nation that takes care of one another, across generations.
It won't be easy -- especially in a political moment where short-sighted and destructive budget cuts are the order of the day. But the Caring Across Generations campaign is built on love: the love of Kimi and her mother, of Dabphne and Henry, of Marlene and the man she cared for. Whatever the obstacles, love is still the most powerful force for change in the world.
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Q: Create pdf file of Activity screen in Android Recently i have learned about Android PdfDocument and i can create a pdf file of a activity screen that looks like the same as screen. Now i need to create pdf file from multiple screen. Suppose i have a activity for displaying one user profile information. From this Activity i can create pdf file of this screen which is for one user but i need a pdf file of all user screen. That means when i press a button from that Activity, for all the user the UI should be updated and create a Page for each UI.The first page of pdf for 1st user screen 2nd page for 2nd user screen and so on.
I have tried to update the UI for each user and create Page for pdf file but i am missing some text. Another problem arise when i setVisibility of a view to GONE/VISIABLE then some view are missing in pdf file . I have to setVisibility because some information is blank for some user. From first user to end user a view may be several times visibility changed.
Step:
for each user
   // start a page
   Page page = document.startPage(pageInfo);
   updateUI()   // this function may change text and visibility of a view
   contentView.draw(page.getCanvas());

   // finish the page
   document.finishPage(page);

But from this upper code  sometime i am missing some text and view
I also tried to inflate the views from xml and added to the activity so that i can keep separate reference of View for all user UI.
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*I inflate view

*Remove previous child of parent view

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*then make a page of pdf
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for each user
  // start a page
  Page page = document.startPage(pageInfo);
  create inflateView
  add information to inflatedView
  remove child of the parentView
  add inflatedView to the parentView
  // draw something on the page
  parentView.draw(page.getCanvas());
  // finish the page
  document.finishPage(page);

From this code the updated view(parentView) is blank in the created pdf . I think the views are not drawn intime.
How can i solve this problem. As Android PdfDocument is new i can't find any solution of this.

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Some psychologists believe that human beings manifest some level of insanity. That is very true, because every individual experiences strong emotions, which usually precipitate irrational behaviour. Persistent existential deprivations that characterise the human condition in Nigeria right now is particularly conducive to insanity. Human beings rarely act sanely and rationally most of the time when society approaches the Hobbesian state of nature, as has been the case since 1985.
Last week, on a lovely Monday morning, I went to buy some pre-recorded compact disks at Yaba. It was difficult to find somewhere to park my vehicle because virtually all the parking lots around were full. After driving for about fifteen minutes, I was able to squeeze my jeep behind another vehicle along Montgomery Street. When I came out of the vehicle, I noticed that it extended beyond the white line on the ground.
However, before leaving I made sure it did not obstruct traffic in any way. After purchasing the CDs I wanted, I went back to my vehicle. As I entered, I discovered that the driver's door would not open properly. I tried to free it from the obstruction by driving backwards a little bit. Moments after, with the engine still running, I tested the CDs one after another to ensure they are okay before leaving.
I looked up when I heard a knock on my window. A man wearing a reddish-brown or maroon coloured uniform (let us call him Mr. A) signalled me to wind down the driver's window and I complied. He said I have committed an offense by packing my vehicle beyond the white mark on the ground. Politely, I told Mr. A that the engine was running and that my jeep did not obstruct the road at all. As we were arguing, his colleague (Mr. B) joined him, and after a brief exchange between three of us, both men decided that my alleged offence deserved punishment.
Meanwhile Mr. A brought a camera and took a photograph of my jeep. He threatened that if I refuse to comply with their directives, he would bring a tow van to remove the vehicle to their office in Adekunle. To cut a long sad story short, they tricked me into driving to their office. As I drove through the gate and entered a compound that looks like a makeshift garage, a man who called himself Hon. Muyiwa who claimed to be Chairman House Committee on Works approached me. He entered my vehicle and insisted that I must pay a fine of twenty-five thousand naira. I tried to reach an amicable settlement with him because I thought that as a legislator, Muyiwa is likely to be more reasonable than the others are.
I felt humiliated and angry. How could a purported member of Lagos State House of Assembly who, judging by the low intellectual quality he displayed while we were arguing, is not even qualified to sit in my Master's class, be the one to recommend me for psychiatric evaluation? Even after explaining that lecturers are on strike and that it is necessary to conserve funds because the federal government might stop our salaries, Muyiwa "the oga at the top" remained adamant.
At this stage, there was a hot exchange of words between him and me. Muyiwa angrily accused me of disobeying the law, and boasted that he is the leader of a task force established by the state government to apprehend and punish offenders. He ordered a vulcaniser to deflate my front tyres. I was thinking of what to do and wondering why Lagos State government created another outfit to deal with traffic issues when LASTMA is still functioning – then it occurred to me to call Ade Ipaye, a colleague and current Logos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice.
Luckily, he picked my call and his timely intervention saved me from further embarrassment. The entire horrible episode lasted for over one hour. Afterwards, a few friends and colleagues I told my ordeal narrated their own ugly encounters with the same people. It is quite distressing, I must admit. For quite some time now, Lagosians have been complaining bitterly about unwarranted incessant harassment by KAI and LASTMA officials and all sorts of miscreants-in-uniform. But the government has not done anything concrete to address the complaints.
The level of intimidation and embarrassment is unacceptable. People are now afraid to drive their cars because different officials claiming to work for government fabricate excuses to extort money from them. Concerted efforts of the state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, and his lieutenants to increase the internally generated revenue base of Lagos State are commendable. Nevertheless, must ordinary citizens be harassed, intimated, and oppressed just because government is trying to raise additional funds? Officials of LASTMA, KAI and others constantly cajole, insult, bully, and threaten people in order to extort money from them.
Of course, some of them are nice and reasonable: only the bad ones, the "animals in uniform," enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on Lagosians. Their uniforms intoxicate them to the extent of megalomania. Given the crude and uncouth manner of KAI and LASTMA officials, qualifications for employing staff for these outfits should be strengthened. In other words, the qualifications must be tightened to minimise the influx of miscreants and undesirable elements into the system.
I believe that politicians create most of these outfits to resettle and create jobs for thugs they used during elections to capture power. But this approach usually boomerangs, with devastating effects on the society, as is evident in the emergence of Niger Delta militant groups and Boko Haram. To repeat; there is an urgent need for thorough overhaul of the employment procedure of KAI, LASTMA and so on.
The reform must include adequate training for those employed to improve their emotional intelligence, appreciation of civilised conduct, and respect for human dignity. It is extremely important that government officials dealing with the public in whatever capacity must learn to treat people with respect, and exercise discretion whenever it is necessary to do so.
The stress of living in Lagos is already very high and health threatening. It is not the business of government under any guise to increase it by empowering all manner of insane people to intimidate and extort money from law-abiding citizens. The insane audacity of miscreants masquerading either as LASTMA, KAI, and task force officials is going out of bounds. We are supposed to be operating a democratic system which requires that government officials no matter the situation must respect the citizens.
I suggest that Governor Fashola should take a hard or critical look at his internal revenue generation strategy and come up with appropriate and effective ways of eliminating the jarring highhandedness of government officials running the system. I hereby express my sincere gratitude to Ade Ipaye for rescuing me from predators-in-uniform. He is a good man indeed! CONCLUDED.


An execerpt from the book The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship by Dixon Wecter, a look at how heros developed in the United States.
THE HERO IN AMERICA: A CHRONICLE OF HERO-WORSHIP. By Dixon Wecter. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
About the book: What made Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Abe Lincoln, Buffalo Bill, and General Grant household words? Dixon Wecter tells all about the lives (and, moreover, the myths surrounding those lives) of America's "great men." The style of this thick volume is at the same time one of warmth and irony.
From the book: The ageing Boone--so crippled by rheumatism that his wife had to go hunting with him to hold his gun--fared less well at home. Bankrupt in Kentucky, he moved on to Missouri, impelled by hope and restlessness, rather than by the legendary sense of claustrophobia. To the last, he protested that he loved friends and neighbors. Congress was slow in confirming his title to a Spanish land grant, and even his countrymen began to forget the man whose fame overseas grew mightily. Chester Harding, who traveled 100 mi. to paint the old man shortly before Boone's death in 1820, reported: "I found that the nearer I got to his dwelling, the less was known of him. When within 2 mi. of his house, I asked a man to tell me where Colonel Boone lived. He said he did not know any such man. 'Why, yes, you do,' said his wife. 'It is that white-headed old man who lives on the bottom, near the river. . . .' I found the object of my search engaged in cooking his dinner. He was laying in his bunk near the fire, and had a long strip of venison wound around his ramrod, and was busy turning it before a brisk blaze, and using salt and pepper to season his meat. I at once told him the object of my visit. I found that he hardly knew what I meant. I explained the matter to him, and he agreed to sit. He was 90 years old, and rather infirm."
When it was broadcast that Daniel Boone had died, the world remembered. In his honor the legislature of Missouri adjourned, and his funeral was the largest the West had ever known. Boone was buried in the cherrywood coffin which he had kept under his bed for many years, in the manner of John Donne.
Meanwhile the lore of Boone was built by the passing years. Stories were told of how he nearly shot his future wife, by mistake, on a panther hunt at night; how he owned a cow, Old Spot, who learned to give Indian alarms, and was wounded in the siege of Boonesborough, where the good Lord had miraculously sent a heavy rain to put out the burning stockade; how Boone ran backwards in his tracks and swung on grapevines for intervals of many yards, to baffle the redskins; how he led a party to rescue young Jemima Boone and her playmates from Indian kidnappers. In 1818 Boone was amused by the story, published in the East and abroad, that he had been found dead, kneeling by a stump, rifle in hand, and a deer dead some hundred yards away.


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Progressives' situational, self-serving, love of transparency
May 29, 2018 By Jon Coupal 3 Comments
We've all heard of "situational ethics." This column is about "situational transparency," a phenomenon among progressives who love transparency in matters of public policy, except when they hate it.
Let's review the areas in which progressives support transparency: the salaries of CEOs, the race and gender of employees, the details of business supply chains and, of course, extensive disclosures about campaign finance.
But in other matters, particularly relating to their own interests, the same people are flatly opposed to transparency. For example, progressives claim to desire disclosure of who pays for political advertising, and they backed legislation such as Assembly Bill 249, a burdensome mandate to add confusing content to political ads. It was so burdensome, in fact, that an exception was made for ads paid for by labor unions, major backers of progressive politicians.
Progressives also campaigned hard against Proposition 54, the California Legislative Transparency Act, which voters approved despite liberals' complaints. Prop. 54 requires that bills must be posted online in their final form for at least three days before lawmakers can cast a final vote on them. Proposition 54, which the voters approved in 2016, also requires the Legislature to make video recordings of all public hearings, and it allows any member of the public to record a legislative hearing.
Another example of how those in power resist having the public see what they are doing involves public employee compensation. For years, government agencies and departments have resisted disclosing how much their managers and employees are paid in both salaries and benefits. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association had to file numerous lawsuits — or threaten lawsuits — to get local governments to disgorge the data. After prevailing in all those actions, compensation data is now available for public inspections — a healthy development in countering government entities that constantly plead poverty and demand higher taxes.
Perhaps the most glaring example of progressive hypocrisy when it comes to transparency is revealed by the defeat of Senate Bill 1074, authored by state Sen. John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, which would have provided California's millions of motorists with valuable information about the price of gasoline. Titled "Motor Vehicle Fuel: Disclosure of Government-Imposed Costs," SB1074 would have required gas stations to post near each pump a breakdown of all the different costs that go into the price per gallon of fuel, such as federal, state and local taxes and costs associated with environmental rules and regulations, including California's hidden tax, the permit fees that fuel producers have to pay under the state's infamous cap-and-trade law.
As you might expect, the progressives who control the state Legislature refused to provide the public with the true cost of government when it comes to driving our cars. The same folks who rail against the oil companies and who are quick to allege deep conspiracies about corporate profits have no interest in informing the public about government-imposed costs that dwarf the oil companies' profit margin on a gallon of gas.
We can also expect them to oppose the government transparency that would be required by an initiative that recently met the signature requirement to qualify for the November ballot.
The Tax Fairness, Transparency and Accountability Act of 2018 would require that any law creating a new, increased or extended tax must contain "a specific and legally binding and enforceable limitation on how the revenue from the tax can be spent."
Even if the tax revenue will be spent for "unrestricted general revenue purposes," the law must say so.
California politicians often complain about "ballot-box budgeting" and requirements for voter approval before taxes can be raised. But progressives have earned a reputation for hiding the cost of their policies, and voters can't be blamed for playing an aggressive defense.
Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
This article was originally published by the Orange County Register
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: California Legislative Transparency Act, HJTA, John Moorlach, Progressive, Proposition 54, transparency
The relentless battle for legislative transparency
June 13, 2017 By Jon Coupal 1 Comment
For decades, it has been nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to pierce the veil of legislative secrecy in our state capital.
Of course, California is not unique — legislative bodies have sought to conceal their activity for millennia. This is inherent in the differences between rulers and subjects. But we all know too well that mischief feeds on secrecy. The Roman poet Virgil wrote more than 2,000 years ago, "Evil is nourished and grows by concealment."
In California, the citizens have tried repeatedly to force legislative activity into the sunlight. So last year, to counter the common practice in the Legislature of introducing new bills and passing them within hours, often in the dead of night, voters approved Proposition 54. That important reform requires legislation be in print and available for public review for at least three days prior to final passage.
Passed as a constitutional amendment, Proposition 54 is not stated in discretionary language — its provisions are mandatory. And complying with its terms hardly places an onerous burden on lawmakers. Honestly crafted legislation should easily withstand a few days of public scrutiny.
The state Senate has complied with the will of the people, and even if some of the legislation this body has passed, like the gas tax increase, is repellent to many Californians, senators cannot be accused of keeping their lawmaking a secret.
The Assembly, on the other hand, has arrogantly continued business as usual by approving around 100 bills without the required time for members of the public to examine laws that they will be expected to obey. Assembly leaders say that the people cannot use the initiative process to mandate their conduct, making the lower house the poster child for the view that California government has become a militant special interest, more concerned with its own welfare and longevity, than that of the citizens it claims to serve.
In their pursuit of perks, pay and power, Assembly members are thumbing their collective noses at voters who, by approving Proposition 54, demanded greater transparency in the lawmaking process.
The initiative process in California dates back to 1911 and was a counter blow against the Legislature, most of whose members were beholden to the Southern Pacific Railroad. This form of direct democracy was intended to allow voters to become the lawmakers of last resort when their representatives proved to be indolent, incompetent or corrupt. The state's most famous initiative, Proposition 13, came about when the Legislature proved to be both lazy and incapable of dealing with a property tax crisis that was forcing thousands of Californians from their homes.
Today, many state representatives are beholden to public employee unions and other special interests. Measures like Proposition 54 are valuable to prod lawmakers to behave in the best interests of all Californians, not just the Sacramento insiders.
If lawmakers continue to refuse to comply with Proposition 54's reasonable, voter-approved mandate for transparency in their official conduct, there can be no doubt that resolution of this benchmark issue and the Assembly's misconduct will end up before the courts.
Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. www.hjta.org
This piece was originally published by the Orange County Register.
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Anthony Rendon, Kevin de Leon, Proposition 54, transparency
Legislature Tries to Dodge Prop. 54 Transparency Requirements
December 17, 2016 By Joel Fox 1 Comment
The voters speak, the legislature interprets — and sometimes the translation is not faithful to the original meaning. We saw that last week with resolutions and rules changes that seem to fly in the face of the newly passed Proposition 54 demanding a waiting period before any measure is passed and last session with Senate Bill 1107, which ignores the clear language contained in 1988's Proposition 73. Now there is a lawsuit on the senate bill charging the new law is out of bounds and a violation of Prop. 73. Perhaps a legal challenge will follow on the Proposition 54 issue.
SB1107 set up public financing of campaigns claiming that the bill was furthering the purposes of the political reform initiative, Proposition 73, passed by voters nearly thirty years ago. One major problem with the reasoning — Prop. 73 banned public financing. How can you further the purposes of a law when a bill takes the law in the exact opposite direction?
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association teamed with former state senator and judge, Quentin Kopp, a co-author of Proposition 73, to file suit against SB1107. In a release, HJTA president Jon Coupal said, "California voters decided to prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used as political slush funds. If politicians want to change that, they have to take the issue back to the voters."
I signed the ballot argument on behalf of Proposition 73. At the time SB1107 was being considered I wrote in this space that the bill was a back door way to avoid the voters wishes on public financing. Only a vote of the people can change the dictates of Prop. 73.
I expect the courts to see the law the same way. That could lead to a test on the newly passed Proposition 54.
Prop. 54 requires that bills be in print for three days before a final vote can be taken. The idea is that due deliberation occur before legislators pass judgment. Yet, when the legislature was sworn in last week, resolutions were immediately passed calling on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and calling on the president-elect not to seek deportation of undocumented immigrants. In addition, the legislature set a rule that a bill passed in its original house did not have to submit to the three day rule under a theory that the bill would come back to that house with amendments from the second house.
The legislative majority made a rhetorical defense of their action on the resolutions justifying the procedure by declaring that Prop 54 only covered bills not resolutions or constitutional amendments.
One wonders if the voters made that distinction when voting on the ballot measure.
The proponent of Proposition 54, Charles Munger Jr., told Capitol Public Radio, "It is unfortunate that they would choose to pass their own rules and a resolution without giving their members and the public 72 hours to think about it."
Perhaps Munger will go to court or wait to see how the Jarvis/Kopp lawsuit plays out.
One odd feature dealing with these two measures is that the Common Cause organization supported both Proposition 54 and SB1107. In fact, Common Cause sent out an email fundraising appeal preparing for a legal defense on SB1107. So here they support the legislature's interpretation of the law. Will they be so willing to take the same course on Proposition 54?
The goal of the lawsuit is simple: When it comes to the initiative process the people's verdict is final unless the voters themselves choose to change it.
This piece was originally published by Fox and Hounds Daily
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: California legislature, HJTA, Jon Coupal, Proposition 54, transparency
Can California's Taxpayers Be Thankful for 2016?
November 23, 2016 By Jon Coupal 2 Comments
If taxpayers focus on the results of the recent election, there may not seem to be much to celebrate. While the rest of America took a big step toward fiscal sanity, the same cannot be said of California. At the state level, all three taxes, one on marijuana users, one on smokers and another on higher income taxpayers, passed. Fueled by massive special interest campaign spending, tax hike proponents convinced voters that they were simply raising taxes on "other people" which made them more palatable.
The bright spot among the 17 statewide measures was the approval of Proposition 54, which will provide much needed transparency over the California Legislature. For years taxpayers have wanted legislative bills to be available for public review prior to being voted on. Prop. 54 makes that happen.
At the local level, it looks like 80 percent of the local taxes and bonds were approved. The good news is that, largely due to the requirements of Jarvis initiatives Proposition 13 and Proposition 218, the Right to Vote on Taxes Act, these measures were decided by voters rather than being imposed by out of touch public officials.
However, what encourages and inspires taxpayers greatly, is the ongoing efforts of tenacious individuals around the state who continue, against long odds, to challenge the powerful political class to advance the cause of average citizens.
Howard Jarvis used to say the reason for the success of the campaign to pass Proposition 13 could be encapsulated in three words, "and then some." Those working to pass tax reform did what was required, "and then some."
Here are just three examples of those who personify the Jarvis ideal.
Dino Cortopassi is a successful farmer and businessman. He and his wife Joan now focus on responsible philanthropy, using the family foundation to fund a wide array of programs for the benefit of the disadvantaged and the environment. Dino is also deeply concerned about California's runaway debt that is placing an ever-growing burden on our children and grandchildren.
This is why they funded the qualification of Proposition 53, the Stop Blank Checks initiative, that would have required voter approval of state construction bonds of $2 billion or more.
Of course, those who benefit from unrestricted debt, the deep pocketed "Sacramento gang," outspent the Yes campaign by 20 to one, focusing their money on a dishonest television campaign. Although Proposition 53 fell just short, Dino and Joan provided a major public service by exposing how government funds its programs, often out of sight and without the approval of the taxpayers.
Knowing this effort fell just short, Howard Jarvis would likely have smiled and offered encouragement. He would point out that before the success of Proposition 13, he had mounted three failed ballot campaigns over a period of 15 years.
Another bright light for taxpayers is Andrea Seastrand, who serves as President of the Central Coast Taxpayers Association (CCTA). The organization works to inform and educate voters on important tax issues at all levels of government. Andrea is constantly advocating for the protection of Proposition 13 and fighting for the forgotten taxpayer. Although Andrea is a former member of the Assembly and House of Representatives, she never voted for a tax increase and always focused on the interests of those who are compelled to pay government's bills. In the 20 years since leaving office, Andrea has been a tireless taxpayer advocate.
A third example is Richard Rider, Chairman of the San Diego Tax Fighters. With a sharp wit and willingness to do his homework, he has been the outspoken bane of San Diego area politicians who attempt to misuse taxpayer dollars or impose unnecessary taxes. Rider is a former client of HJTA's legal team who has been unrelenting in his efforts to protect Propositions 13 and 218, the Right to Vote on Taxes Act. Rider, like Andrea Seastrand, is a former recipient of HJTA's Taxfighter of the Year Award.
There are so many more that deserve mention, and we are grateful for each. With thousands of folks willing to make sacrifices to defend the interests of average taxpayers, if we work together, there is still hope for a brighter future for California.
This piece was originally published by the HJTA.org
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Central Coast Taxpayers Association, Dino Cortopassi, Proposition 13, Proposition 54


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Fatherhood explored in one-man show at Seamus Heaney HomePlace
Belfast actor, writer, director and comedian Stephen Beggs will be bringing his celebrated one-man show about one of life's most important experiences – fatherhood – to Seamus Heaney HomePlace for two shows on Saturday 4 November.
My Father's Chair is a funny and moving performance for families about the nature of fatherhood. What does it mean to have a Dad? What does it mean to be a Dad? What makes the relationship between Dads and kids unique and special? How does society view the role of fathers in children's lives? As a theatre maker and a father himself, Stephen Beggs explores all these questions, creating a funny, challenging and emotional journey for audiences along the way.
The show was partly inspired by Stephen's relationship with his late father and his own experience of having a child. As an audience member commented on the show: "You told your story and by doing so evoked memories good and sad for the adults, while showing children how their parents were once so like them".
Stephen is a regular visitor to Seamus Heaney HomePlace and directed local school students in a performance for Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall during their visit to the centre earlier this year. On bringing My Father's Chair to Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Stephen says:
"Family and the relationship between father and son are major themes in Seamus Heaney's poetry so I am delighted to be bringing My Father's Chair to his spiritual home."
Tickets for My Father's Chair at Seamus Heaney HomePlace on Saturday 4 November at 11am and 2pm are £5/£3 concession and can be booked online at www.seamusheaneyhome.com


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From the Archives – SHOULD BETA-BLOCKERS BE USED IN THE SETTING OF COCAINE-RELATED CHEST PAIN?
A 50-year-old male presents to the emergency department with severe chest pain. His past medical history is significant for congestive heart failure and stent placement. His vitals are significant for a blood pressure of 220/110 and a heart rate of 170. On physical exam he appears to be profusely sweating, and his pupils are markedly dilated. Troponin I is within normal limits and EKG shows normal sinus rhythm. When prompted, the patient admits to snorting cocaine just a few hours prior to presentation. Which of the following should NOT be used in the management of this patient's symptoms?
If you said D, you would most likely receive full credit, for the classic teaching is that beta-blockers are contraindicated in the setting of chest pain related to cocaine use. Beta-blockers are also frequently withheld from patients with significant heart disease who happen to be active users of cocaine. As medical students we learn not to use beta-blockers in such a setting on many occasions, from test questions like the one above, to mannequin simulations, to interactions with patients on the hospital wards.
However, one should question the reasoning behind the practice of not giving beta-blockers to patients who use cocaine. After all, if as clinicians we choose not to prescribe cocaine users a drug that has a significant mortality benefit in the setting of coronary artery disease [1,2], one might presume that there would be some good evidence to support this practice. Recently the debate on the use of beta-blockers in the setting of cocaine related chest pain has been reopened. When taking an evidence-based approach to this subject, we see that beta-blockers may not be harmful, and may actually be beneficial in the setting of cocaine-related chest pain.
Cocaine may induce myocardial ischemia through various mechanisms, including coronary vasospasm, platelet aggregation within the coronary arteries, as well as rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. At the molecular level, cocaine induces coronary vasospasm via inhibition of norepinephrine reuptake by presynaptic neurons. This enables increased binding of norepinephrine to alpha-1 adrenergic receptors within the smooth muscle of the coronary arteries, thereby inducing coronary vasospasm, leading to myocardial ischemia. It has long been postulated that the use of beta-blockers may exacerbate the vasospasm induced by cocaine due to an "unopposed alpha effect" in which a beta-2 receptor blockade may lead to the inhibition of concurrent vasodilatation, which would normally mitigate the actions of cocaine . Furthermore, systemic inhibition of vasodilatation by a beta-2 receptor blockade leading to an "unopposed alpha effect" may also cause a significantly elevated systemic blood pressure. In support of this vasospasm theory, a few decades ago a randomized controlled trial took place in which 10 patients who were given beta-blockers in the setting of cocaine-induced vasospasm exhibited further exacerbation of coronary vasoconstriction .
As noted by a recent review on the treatment of cocaine-related chest pain , there is surprisingly limited evidence for avoiding beta-blockers. In addition to the aforementioned study involving only 10 patients , there is only one other prospective human study that provides the evidence for avoiding beta-blockers in the setting of cocaine use. This study demonstrated low efficacy of beta-blockers in mitigating cocaine-induced adverse coronary vascular events in 9 patients with coronary artery disease . These small studies, in addition to theoretical concern, animal studies, and anecdotal evidence  have led to the recommendation to avoid beta-blockers in those who use cocaine.
Proponents of the use of beta-blockers in the setting of myocardial ischemia related to cocaine use point to more recent studies demonstrating that beta-blockers may not lead to increased risk of adverse events, and may even decrease such events. A retrospective cohort study published in 2010 compared outcomes in patients who had chest pain in the setting of cocaine use who presented to the emergency department, in which one group was treated with beta-blockers, and one was not . The study found that patients who received beta-blockers in the emergency department and who were discharged on such a regimen demonstrated a significant reduction in mortality from cardiovascular causes over a mean follow-up period of 972 days . Furthermore, those given beta-blockers in the emergency department did not have significant differences in troponin levels, length of stay, arrhythmias, or death compared to those who did not receive beta-blockers . A 2008 retrospective cohort study found that beta-blockers were associated with a statistically significant reduction in the incidence of myocardial infarction in patients who had been using cocaine . While this evidence is promising, it should be noted that these studies have significant limitations. For example, these studies used detection of cocaine on toxicology screen to determine "recent use." Since screening studies will remain positive for days after use, there remains uncertainty about exactly how much time passed between when the patient last used cocaine and when he or she presented to the emergency department . As such, we cannot determine whether the time between cocaine use and beta-blocker administration would affect patient outcomes. For instance, it is possible that a patient receiving beta-blockers one hour after cocaine use might have a different, and potentially worse, outcome than a patient presenting with chest pain one day after cocaine use.
With respect to specific beta-blockers whose use might be justified in the setting of cocaine-related chest pain, some advocate for the use of beta-blockers with additional alpha-blocking activity . One small 2010 prospective study found that when labetalol was given to patients who presented to the emergency department with a urine drug screen positive for cocaine, they had a decrease in heart rate and blood pressure measured after 48 hours, without adverse effect .
In conclusion, given the controversy of whether or not beta-blockers should be used in the setting of cocaine-related chest pain, clinicians who treat such patients should consider the evidence behind withholding or giving patients beta-blockers as part of their medical management. The evidence against the use of beta-blockers in users of cocaine might not be strong enough to withhold this class of drugs from all such patients, especially those most likely to benefit, such as patients with ventricular arrhythmias or left ventricular systolic dysfunction. More studies are needed to evaluate the use of this class of medications in the setting of patients who abuse cocaine. Future studies could also help to elucidate the importance, if any, of the type of beta-blocker used and/or the timing of administration in relation to cocaine use. Perhaps in the near future, the answer to the previously discussed "classic medical school test question" will be modified from "D – Labetalol" to "E – All of the above are acceptable to use in the setting of cocaine related chest pain," including labetalol and the other beta-blockers.


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Trails /
Cycle tour from Ram Lake to Banias River
Region: North, Trail Duration: 2-4 Hours, Starting Point: Ram Lake, Ending Point: Banias River, Trail Type: Cycling
Source: Ministry of Tourism
Region: North
The cross-Israel trail separated from the Golan Heights at Lake Ram, crosses over amazing lookouts of the Hula Valley, continues the length of the steep decline of Nachal Sa'ar, and is full of adrenaline and excitement. The trail passes between huge basalt rocks, green spaces, cherry, plum and peach orchards, and ends on the banks of the raging Banias waterfall.
Get on route 99, which ascends from Kiryat Shemona to the Golan Heights. The road ends at a Druze Village Mas'ade. Turn left with the signage to Lake Ram. After 800 meters turn right and follow the signs to the right, to Mas'ade above Lake Ram. Here is where you park.
The Family Trail
This trail is completely "family friendly", it is rated at medium difficulty. Please take into consideration that much of the decline is steep and there are also a few inclines as well.
Israel Trail
[0.00] [1] Left (southwest): From the parking lot in Mas'ade at Lake Ram to the road, after 30 meters turn left to the narrow road, without signs, but marked with the Golan Trail mark (White, Blue and Green). The trail goes over the
"blue-eye" of Lake Ram.
[0.40] 0.40 right (southwest): Continue onto dirt road from main road. Turn and ride with the Golan Trail markers.
[0.60] 1.60 left (west): Turn at T intersection and continue to ascend with the Golan Trail.
A- Nabi Elya
[0.80] 2.40 [2] right (northwest]:a-Nabi Elya tomb structure. Before continuing on the path it is recommend to veer to the left if the tomb and ascend the 100 meter incline to the top of the hill. From this point there is an amazing vantage point of the Hula Valley and the Ramat Naftali ridge that is in Israeli territory, and across – on the Ali Tihar ridge and Hatzbiah Valley in Lebanon. Take in the beautiful view and get back on the trail.
Ein Qiniyye
[0.10] 2.50 straight (north): A marked intersection, from this point continue on the trail marked in red. The road descends and winds sharply towards the Druze village of Ein Qiniyye. The trail turns into a narrow asphalt road, and the sharp winding road gets even harsher. Be sure to use you brakes! Stop and let them cool down. After a kilometer you will enter Ein Qiniyye and you will continue to descend with the road into the village center.
[1.70] 4.20 left (south): T intersection in the center of Ein Qiniyye. Descend with the road in the direction of the Nachal Sa'ar.
Hadidot Bridge
[0.90] 5.10 [3] right (west): continue on to dirt path from the road, prior to the bridge on Nachal Sa'ar. During the Six Day War the Syrian Army destroyed the bride in order to stall the Israeli troops. At the end of the war, Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan ordered that the bridge be repaired in an attempt to build a relationship with between the State of Israel and the Druze in the Golan, which is where it gets its name – Hadidot Bridge (Friendship Bridge). Ride down the road, on the left Nachal Sa'ar will flow and on the right are primarily plantations. Upon each fork in the road, continue to the left, near the channel of the river (nachal).
[2.20] 7.30 left (west): join road 989, which leads from Sa'ar Waterfall to Neve Ativ. Ride down the road.
Sa'ar Waterfall
[1.00] 8.30 right (north): continue to dirt path from road, prior to the bridge on Nachal Sa'ar. From this point you can cross the bridge on the south bank and make your way to the Risisim (shrapnel) Waterfall lookout, one of the most impressive of the Golan Heights. In the winter, the waters fall with immense force and fires "shrapnel" everywhere. After the lookout, make your way back to the northern shore and descend the dirt path. After 300 meters, you will go through a gate into plantation land and you will ride down the main train between plantations. After 800 meters, you will arrive at a gate and leave the plantation area.
[1.50] 9.80 right (north): meet with road, across from the abandoned church at Panias. Follow the road down and after 300 meters you will see the entrance to the Banias Nature Reserve on the right. This is the perfect opportunity to take a dip in the cold water, with a cool Popsicle from the kiosk nearby. At the end of the visit, or if you have chosen to continue on and skip it, continue west on road 99.
The Banias Excavations and Tel Faher
[0.40] 10.20 [4] left (south): road 99. Turn and ride on the road. On both sides you will see archeologic excavations of the Banias. "Caesarea Philippi", or known by its Hebrew name Banias, (from the name Panias) – is located on the shortest road connecting Damascus with Tyre and Sidon. It is among an area rich with vegetation and water, and it is well-known due to its fresh water springs and the cave in the mountain with its decorated walls and entrance. It seems that already in the 2nd century BCE the cave at the front of the cliff was dedicated to the Greek God Pan. Pan was half man and half goat, he was a scribe and a shepherd. He live in caves and is represented in art holding a flute made from cane. Before Pan Cave, at the foot of the cliff, the most important ritual area of the Banias is revealed: a westerly wall of the temple, identified with Herod's temple to Augustus. The wall, built of ashlars and marble slabs, was decorated with alternating oblong niches and arches.
After 350 meters turn right (southwest) with signage of Tel Al Faher, and ride down the bumpy road. Tel Al Faher was a link in the chain of outposts established by the Syrian army over the Hula Valley settlements. On the fifth day of the Six Day War, the outpost was overtaken by the Golan Brigade. During this difficult battle, 34 Golani troops were killed. All of the commanding officers were either wounded or killed. The resourcefulness of the soldiers, their courage, their initiative and the dedication to the goal has made it one of the main memorial sites of the Golani Brigade.
Battle Legacy
[0.80] 11.00 straight (southwest): at the intersection. Continue straight on the dirt road marked with red. After 2km, you will see a small ascension surrounded by eucalyptus trees. This is Givat A'zaz (Tel Azziat) – a Syrian outpost that waged terror on residents of Jewish communities in the valley in the 1960's, and was conquered by the IDF in 1967. It is recommended to veer of the trail for a visit to the outpost and its viewpoint. Continue on the trail marked with red, which was a Syrian patrol route. The trail ascends and descends alternately.
[4.00] 15.00 [5] right (west): intersection. Continue on the trail marked with red and ride on the fast rolling basalt rocks.
[1.00] 16.00 right (northwest)
An intersection prior to Giv'at Ha'Em. Ride downhill on a wide, unmarked hill towards Nabi Huda.
Nabi Huda
[1.10] 17.10 [6] right (north): Intersection next to Nabi Huda. At this Druze Holy Site, you can stop and sit in the shade of the Eucalyptus Trees. From the intersection to Nabi Huda you will cross a gate that is closed to vehicles and through various plantations.
[1.20] 18.30 left (west): intersection at the banks of the Banias. Ride with the trail marked in black. On the left side there are plantations, on the right – the raging river channel, wherein on its banks are willow and sycamore trees that provide shade. You should stop your descent on the slope, go down one of the pathways leading to the ravine and look for wonderful cool spots on the edge of the river. Continue riding on the road marked with black to the left of the Banias.
[0.90] 19.20 [7] She'ar Yashuv Bridge on the Banias. Here the Israel Bike Trail ends. This point is represented as point 5 for the next trail
Region North
Trail Type Cycling
Starting Point Ram Lake
Ending Point Banias River
Difficulty Level Medium
Suitable for Children No
Interest Areas Water in Nature, Archeology / History, Nature and Landscape
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The Diva asked us to go big, and I used an apprentice tile (11.5 x 11.5 cm) I cut myself. It was made from Paint-on paper by Clairefontaine, and it has a bit rougher texture than the Bristol paper I usually use, but not too bad. I used micron pen, pencil, and Polychromos colored pencils for this tile.
Tangles used are Dewd, the new tangle from the Headquarter, plus Mooka (also HQ) and Peek-a-boo Daisy (by Tricia Long).
If you want to share your art with me and others, please come to my facebook group Tangling Practice. This group is fairly open to any art form containing either tangling or doodling, also in form of canvasses and mixed media, not only drawings of tiles etc.
Love the combination of tangles that you used. Fun color too!
This is lovely and has a fun feeling.


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Filched First Folios
Eric Rasmussen. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios. (Palgrave / Macmillan, London 2011) £16.99. Bibliomania, as anyone who is familiar with the literature on book thieves will know can drive normally respectable people to crime. It can also make scholars and journalists into literary detectives. Allison Hoover Bartlett, the journalist who tracked down John Gilkey in The Man who Loved Books too Much encountered a motley crew of bibliomaniacs along the way, including at least one murderer, while American Shakespeare scholar, Eric Rasmussen, whose The Shakespeare Thefts has just been sent to me, combed the globe to compile a definitive scholarly list of First Folios and decided found that the stories attached to so many of the 232 extant copies, were too amazing to be ignored.
Just as Bartlett constantly asked herself why people become mentally unbalanced in their pursuit of certain books—even to extent of killing to obtain them—Rasmussen begins his account with a similar question. What is it about Shakespeare's First Folio that so fascinates both thieves and collectors. It can't be because the world's greatest writer had much to do with what is, after all, a posthumous volume; Shakespeare never saw it appear. He never read it; others compiled it from printed sources, notably the quartos, which having been published in the writer's own lifetime, are undoubtably closer to the man. Are some collectors more obsessed with owning a quarto ? Rasmussen doesn't say.
We have to accept, I suppose, that to those who know little or nothing of the genesis of the First Folio , it alone has become Shakespeare's ' book '. To the man in the street it remains the fountain from which have flowed, subsequent editions, including all the texts children and undergraduates have pored over around the world for centuries.
But murder someone for a Folio ? This seems very likely in the case of the Fiske Harris copy, which ended up in the hands of an unscrupulous bookseller following the unexplained death in 1883 of a well-known American collector and his wife in a boating accident. But acquiring a copy in such a ruthless way is thankfully rare. Throughout the centuries, most copies have been stolen from libraries, only to end up centuries later in other libraries. One king was relieved of his copy. While escaping by boat to the Isle of Wight in 1647 Charles I took his own First Folio with him only to have it confiscated by the island's governor when he embarked. The book passed through the hands of several collectors before it landed up in royal hands again, when George III acquired it for the Library at Windsor in 1800.
Libraries seem particularly unable to keep their First Folios safe from thieves. One of the funniest stories concerns a copy in William College Library in Massachusetts. In 1940 a gang member wearing the 'uniform ' of an academic , that is ' an ill-fitting suit and a pair of old-fashioned eye-glasses ' managed to convince staff that he was bona fide. Left alone with several folios, it was even easier for this bogus professor to fish around in his brief case for a practically worthless copy of Goethe's Reynard the Fox (1872) which had been smuggled in to replace the Folio. The thief then left hurriedly with his prize on some pretext or other. After much negotiation the book was recovered, thanks to good detective work. However, it might easily have been lost for ever.
Seventy years on, book detection has come a long way, and thieves today need to be much more au fait with the workings of the book trade, book history, bibliography and textual criticism to succeed. We know how even supposedly ' clever 'criminals like William 'Tome raider' Jacques and Dr Simon Heighes, come a-cropper, but Raymond Scott, a Walter Mitty-like character from a council house in County Durham, who was sentenced to 6 years in 2010 for stealing a First Folio from Durham University Library, was hopelessly out of his depth from the start. His big mistake was to believe that if he removed the first and last pages of his copy, it wouldn't be recognised. Alas, for the unemployed carer, who was living the high life in the Caribbean on the expectation of selling his book for a cool million, the curse of the First Folio triumphed.
But not all Rasmussen's excellent stories revolve around thieves. There are some pretty eccentric collectors out there. One American gave his copy up because it had begun to smell horribly !!. Another, who lived off Big Macs and cheeseburgers, bought a copy of the Folio comparatively cheaply because the corners of many pages had been chewed off by rodents. This defect, however, proved no problem for our amateur book conservator. He bought loose leaves from a disbound copy of a Folio and instead of replacing the damaged leaves of his copy with the loose ones, actually cut off the corners of the latter and pasted them deftly onto the ones in his own Folio. For all its dottiness, there is a sort of warped logic in this solution, especially if the loose leaves themselves had imperfections. [R. M. Healey]
For this review much thanks Robin. Bit of a first for us - being sent a book to review. If the trend continues we will have a pile of books to sell and will have to call in a dealer! Hang on a mo, don't we buy review copies? Might make a low offer however...Pic of the Mitty-like Scott above.
Posted by Bookride at 11/11/2011
Labels: shakespeare
Tim Mayer said...
In 1976, while attending Ohio State University, I had the opportunity to hold an first edition of a Poe publication in the rare book library. I noticed the librarian never took his eyes off me; notfor a moment.
But, oh, that feeling of power to hold the original in my hands.
Many thanks indeed for this Robin fab piece - have had to order the Rasmussen book now!
Nigel dinna know if you noticed but you have a mention again in JC's page on back of TLS - he says 'to which we will return' so presumably more this week.
Lapinbizarre said...
Not forgetting the collecting mania of Henry Clay Folger - the Folger Library owns 82 copies of the First Folio. Didn't Bodley pay a great deal of money to re-acquire the First Folio it had discarded as a duplicate centuries before, when it received a later 17th c folio?
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The critically acclaimed Ricky Ian Gordon gives us a work for solo baritone voice with string quartet : Green Sneakers.
Grown from a cycle of poems dedicated to the composer's departed love, Green Sneakers is a raw and touching ode to the life he shared and the process of grief. The string quartet narrates the story as much as the baritone voice, creating a mini-opera, complete with an empty chair, employed as a prop, and a piano played by the singer at the conclusion.
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RECOMMENDED READING: "Libya's Muslim Brotherhood Faces The Future"
By gmbwatch on	 March 18, 2012 Recommended Reading
Brooking's fellow Omar Ashour has published an article titled "Libya's Muslim Brotherhood Faces the Future" in which among other things, he makes the interesting claim that the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood was born in the United States in 1980. The article begins:
"The Muslim Brothers established this party. We are a national civil party with an Islamic reference…we have Islamists and nationalists," said Al-Amin Belhajj, the head of the founding committee for the newly announced Justice and Construction Party. With the March 3 announcement, Libya seems set to follow the electoral path of Islamist success seen in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Arab countries. After decades of fierce repression of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) by the regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi, the formation of a political party in Libya is a heady experience. What does it mean for Libya's future? The Muslim Brotherhood's presence in Libya goes back to 1949. But their first clear organizational structure was developed in 1968 and quickly froze in 1969 after the coup of Colonel Qaddafi. The Brotherhood was never allowed to operate openly, and suffered extreme repression. Indeed, when State TV did broadcast something about them, it was the bodies of their leaders hung from street lampposts in the mid 1980s. Qaddafi's media called them "deviant heretics" and "stray dogs." Fleeing repression, the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood was reborn in the United States, where members established the "Islamic Group – Libya" in 1980 and issued their magazine The Muslim. In 1982, many of the MB figures who were studying in the United States returned to Libya to reestablish the organization in the country but ended up in prison or were executed. The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood made a comeback in 1999, and entered into a novel dialogue with the regime. Its rebirth was bolstered in 2005 and 2006 by Saif al-Islam Qaddafi's initiatives, which aimed to coopt and neutralize opposition groups, particularly Islamist ones. This led to doubts about their motivations during the 2011 revolution, charges which Brotherhood leaders reject. "No, we did not plan the revolution and we weren't playing a double game with the regime," says Fawzi Abu Kitef, the head of the Revolutionary Brigades Coalition in Eastern Libya and the former deputy defense minister in the National Transitional Council (NTC). Abu Kitef was a leading figure in the Brotherhood who spent more than 18 years in Qaddafi's jails, including Abu Selim. Indeed, from the outset, the Brotherhood was supportive of the NTC, with some of its icons joining it, such as Dr. Abdullah Shamia, who was in charge of the economy file in the NTC. The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood modeled its new party after Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). It is much smaller than its Egyptian counterpart, however. In 2009, Soliman Abd al-Qadr, the former General Observer of the Libyan MB, estimated the numbers of MB figures in exile to be around 200 and inside Libya to be a few thousands, mainly concentrated in the professional and student sectors. While those cadres will be critical for the movement and its party, they can hardly compare to the hundreds of thousands of the Egyptian Brotherhood.
A previous post recommended Israeli analyst Jonathan D. Halev's article titled "Did The Libyan Leadership Deceive the West" in which he writes:
Qatari involvement is likely to produce a regime in Libya that follows the political orientation of Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, thereby giving the Muslim Brotherhood an open door in the new Libya. The political debate in Libya will be within an essentially Islamist universe, with different leaders distinguished by the degree to which they seek to implement their Islamism. It seems that the strategy of the democratic states that trusted the promises of the rebel forces to adopt and implement the principles of democracy has collapsed, and that Western aid to overthrow Gaddafi's tyrannical regime prepared the groundwork for the establishment of an Islamic state, which eventually may become hostile to the West.
A post from December 2011 reported that a delegation of Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi's International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), headed by Qaradawi himself, was on a four-day visit to Libya at the invitation of the Transitional Council. The post also reported that two individuals tied to the U.K. and European Muslim Brotherhood were part of the delegation. Another previous post recommended Israeli analyst Jonathan D. Halev's article titled "Did The Libyan Leadership Deceive the West" in which he writes:
A post from September 2011 reported on what the New York times called the "growing influence of Islamists in Libya", identifying Qatari Muslim Brotherhood figure Ali Sallabi (aka Ali Salabi), already known to be the Revolution's "spiritual leader and a close associate of Qaradawi, as well as for the first time Abel al-Rajazk Abu Hajar who is said to lead the Tripoli Municipal Governing Council and is described as a "Muslim Brotherhood figure." An earlier post had reported on Ali Sallabi and his association with Qaradawi.
U.S. Muslim Brotherhood To Release Mosque Survey - 12:00 AM
RECOMMENDED READING: "A Bosnian Plea: 'Italians, Don't Give Peace Prize To Ceric" - 12:00 AM
Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Forms Political Party - 01:09 AM Hamas Prime Minister Speaks At Al-Azhar; Says Hamas Will Drive "Zionists" From All Palestinian Land - 01:32 AM BREAKING NEWS: Dubai Threatens Youssef Qaradawi With Arrest Over Criticism Of UAE - 01:36 AM
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Number Two In Qatar For Talks - 11:12 PM Qaradawi Associate Calls For Destruction Of U.S. And Israel - 11:30 PM CAIR Announces New National Board Chairman - 12:00 AM
Canada Revokes WAMY Charitable Status - 11:00 PM CAIR-Chicago Banquet Features Chicago Police Superintendent - 11:27 PM
Dubai Police Chief Says Muslim Brotherhood Attacking UAE Through Social Media - 11:05 PM Hamas Leaders Say No Attacks On Israel During War With Iran - 11:21 PM
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Says Entire Muslim World Will Act Against UAE If Qaradawi Arrested - 09:07 PM Pentagon Official Apologized To U.S. Muslim Brotherhood For Afghanistan Koran Burning - 09:07 PM CSID Hosts Rachid Gannouchi In Tunisia - 10:00 PM
ICNA Launches New Shari'ah Educational Campaign - 10:00 PM Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood Leader Weighs In On UAE/MB Conflict - 10:30 PM
Global Muslim Brotherhood EU Lobby Group Condems Israel Actions In Gaza - 10:10 PM
Rachid Ghannouchi Says Israel Is "Aging" - 10:00 PM Former CAIR Official Running For Egyptian President; Calls For Islamic Law In Egypt - 10:03 PM
U.K. Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Threatens Israel With Destruction - 10:03 AM Qaradawi Candiate For Egyptian President Threats To Cut-Off U.S. Interests in Egypt; Says He Will Never Recognize Israel - 10:00 PM Imprisoned U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Leader Testifies That Muslim American Society Is Muslim Brotherhood - 10:10 PM
RECOMMENDED READING: "Libya's Muslim Brotherhood Faces The Future" - 10:00 PM RECOMMENDED READING: "The Global March to Jerusalem: Part Of The International Campaign To Delegitimize Israel" - 10:03 PM
RECOMMENDED READING: "The UAE Brotherhood: Loyal To Whom?" - 10:00 PM Obama Faith Advisor Says Syrian President Cannot "Deliver Resistance To Israel" - 10:03 PM
Wagdi Ghoneim Celebrates Death of Coptic Pope - 10:00 AM Tunisian President Will "Patronize" 10th Palestinians in Europe Conference - 10:03 PM
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Ken Livingston Promises U.K. Muslim Brotherhood Mosque He Will Make London "A Beacon For The Words Of Islam" - 09:00 PM Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Dominates Constitutional Panel - 09:25 PM
BREAKING NEWS: France Bars Qaradawi From Attending French Muslim Brotherhood Conference - 02:25 PM European Muslim Brotherhood Calls On All European Muslims To Support Global March to Jerusalem - 09:00 PM Grand Mufti Ceric Awarded Italian Foundation Peace Prize - 09:19 PM
French Muslim Brotherhood Says Qaradawi Is Man of Peace - 09:00 PM Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood Says Constitution Will Not Refer To Islamic Law - 09:07 PM Qaradawi News Portal Reports That Qaradawi Organization Criticizes French Ban On Qaradawi - 09:14 PM
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RECOMMENDED READING: Meet The Brotherhood's Enforcer: Khairat El-Shater" - 09:00 PM Tariq Ramadan Says Religion Had Nothing To Do With Toulouse Shootings - 09:03 PM
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