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These 4 ATM Trends Should Be on Your Radar
March 8, 2017 Co-op Solutions
This article previously ran on CUInsight.com.
If you're in charge of the ATM fleet at your credit union, you've had a very busy past few years, upgrading machines to comply with new regulatory and software mandates. Requirements like Windows 7 compatibility and EMV compliance were so extensive, many credit unions purchased new, upgraded ATM machines, said CO-OP Financial Services Senior Product Manager Terry Pierce.
But as technology evolves and consumer expectations for self-service technology grow, those new machines may only have a shelf life of five years.
That means credit unions should start planning now to activate and upgrade hardware and software capability to add features that will serve members in the not-so-near future. If your credit union didn't upgrade its ATM fleet recently, Pierce suggested looking to the future instead of current requirements before making the capital expenditure.
Here are four ATM features credit unions should start planning for now.
Big banks are already offering cardless ATM transactions, using near field communication technology that uses NFC to link with a mobile app, just like payments at point of sale. Bank of America currently offers customers the option to use NFC at 8,000 ATMs, and Wells Fargo has activated 5,000. Chase is also upgrading in-branch machines to NFC and said it would increase cash withdrawal limits to $3,000 at those ATMs during branch hours.
Crone Consulting estimated about 95,000 ATMs currently support cardless cash service. Pierce said even more big bank ATMs are equipped with NFC reader hardware and will activate them all over the next couple of years.
Windows 10 was released in July 2015, and Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 in 2020. If they haven't already, ATM operators must upgrade to the Windows 10 OS to ensure compliance with PCI security standards. Since that's only three years from now, all ATM purchases must ensure the machines can be upgraded to Windows 10.
The ATM Industry Association said Windows 10 includes important cybersecurity benefits for ATM operators; most importantly, advanced malware protection. While some credit unions may choose to put off the upgrade as long as possible, the malware protection presents a compelling business case to make the Windows 10 upgrade a priority.
Windows 10 also accommodates Microsoft's "a single Windows for everything" philosophy, which aims to improve system-wide compatibility.
As credit unions increase the percentage of transactions that are performed using self-service technology, and ATMs are configured to perform more transactions using a variety of user interface methods, ATM performance will become even more important. As a result, the ability to remotely track when machines go offline or run low on cash is crucial. ATM fleet monitoring software can also remotely fix the machine without relying upon relatively slow and expensive "feet on the street" technical support. If a technician is needed to repair the machine in person, the software can provide valuable information regarding the problem, which can assist the technician and minimize downtime.
Improved user interface
In addition to NFC access, Pierce said ATM interface design is increasingly utilizing tile-based or card-based design, which is more pleasing for users, instead of traditional screens that present menu choices as a column or row of buttons. Now that touch screen technology is mainstream, buttons on electronic devices are passé, and likewise, vertical button interfaces are, too. Card-based design relies heavily on visuals rather than text. Studies have shown that images draw the user's eye more efficiently, thus improving the user experience.
Personalized user interface layout is also growing in popularity, as more financial institutions use customers' user history data to determine which menu buttons appear at the top of the tile layout, or are color coded to attract attention.
"When it comes to ATMs, there's always something that requires forward thinking," Pierce said. "In the near future, most ATM planning involves features that enhance the user experience.
To learn more, download our how-to guide, "5 Ways to Maximize Your Self-Service Investment."
The original article These 4 ATM Trends Should Be on Your Radar can be found on Insight Vault.
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Dec. 18, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Last year, law enforcement used civil asset forfeiture laws to take more money from citizens of this country than burglars did by stealing. Hard to tell who is the cop and who is the robber. In Richland County, South Carolina, Sheriff Leon Lott says the forfeiture laws are fine. Kind of like how the fox calls the henhouse the safest place on the farm.
The Institute for Justice is a non-profit libertarian law firm with a purpose. Its goal is to limit both the size and scope of government power over the lives of the little people. Civil asset forfeiture is in the Institute's crosshairs and the beneficiaries of these laws don't like it.
Civil asset forfeiture was born from the war on drugs. In addition to putting drug kingpins away for life, the government figured out a way to take all of their ill-gotten profits and return them to a better use. Or at least that was the idea. It probably sounded good at the beginning.
In reality, police and prosecutors quickly figured out the program was the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket. Instead of just taking money from convicted criminals, it was easy to target anybody carrying more cash than the government thought was appropriate. The police take your money, sue you to keep it, prove by a hair that you didn't have any good excuse for having it, and you lose. A procedure any prosecutor could win, combined with incredible profits, was hard to pass up. And no one passed it up. Fancy new toys, margarita machines, student loan debt. All that extra money was addictive.
South Carolina, like most states, gets a "D" on the Institute's forfeiture law grading scale. The Institute assigned its grades based on three factors: the burden of proof, the availability and process for an innocent owner to claim property, and the financial incentive to the agency seizing the funds.
Sheriff Lott, the head law enforcement officer in the largest county in South Carolina, took issue this week with South Carolina's grade.
A media release highlighting data for South Carolina gave the state a report card grade of a D-, saying law enforcement can seize property on a "mere suspicion" of criminal activity. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that description is not true.
"I give the writer an F," Lott said.
Lott's problem with the report? He and Dave Wilson, his deputy chief of investigations, claim they need "meticulous evidence" of criminal activity before seizing anything. Not quite.
South Carolina civil asset forfeiture statutes allow the government to keep seized assets as long as they can show by a preponderance of the evidence that the property was related in some way to criminal activity. There is no need to file charges against anyone, much less actually prove they committed a crime.
Under South Carolina statutes, the money belongs to the police the second they take it with probable cause to believe it was related to criminal activity. Seizure and forfeiture proceedings simply confirm that transfer.
Who initiates those proceedings? The police, of course. They file a petition to keep the money and serve the actual owner with the petition. There is no right to sue for the return of the money. It stays with the police until they file their action "within a reasonable time." What is a reasonable time? Whatever the police think is reasonable.
The burden of proof in court is "preponderance of the evidence." In lay terms, that means "more likely than not." And "barely" more likely than not is perfectly acceptable. The police say the money was for drugs, from drugs, or near drugs. You say it was for something else, like rent. You lose.
And in forfeiture cases, you lose long before you ever get to court. The police already have your money. If you somehow win your case, you don't get back your attorney's fees, at least in South Carolina. You need to hire a lawyer out of your own pocket to get your money back, which means even if you win, you don't win all of your money.
If you are an "innocent owner," which means your property got taken but you had nothing to do with any crime, you have the burden of proof. It's your responsibility to convince a court you knew nothing about the criminal activity the cops are claiming. That court you are in is the same one that rarely every questions the cops.
The Institute for Justice pointed out the inherent conflict with allowing law enforcement to profit from enforcement activity. Wilson says they are wrong.
The report also criticized state law for giving law enforcement a strong financial incentive to take property, saying agencies keep 95 percent of the proceeds. That's inaccurate, Wilson said. When property is seized by civil forfeiture, 5 percent of proceeds go to the state, 20 percent to the solicitor's office, and 75 percent to the agency seizing it.
Let's do the math. The solicitor's office (that is what South Carolina calls its county prosecuting attorneys) gets 20% of the forfeited money. The seizing agency gets 75%. Cops get 75%, prosecutors who work with those cops (and handle the legal side of the forfeitures) get 20%. 75% + 20% = 95%. Just like the Institute for Justice said. Wilson approaches math the same way he approaches forfeiture laws. Ignoring the obvious.
Most states, and the federal government, get failing grades on asset forfeiture laws. And they should. The laws allow the government to take money and property based on criminal activity. But they don't have to actually prove the criminal activity, just suspect it. And they take the money before they have to start the process of barely proving it was used in a crime, which is all they need to do.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department is fine with this system. Which is not surprising. It is the agency that receives most of the profits. These laws create an easy way to buy all the toys needed for effective policing. Like armored assault vehicles.
But after working with civil forfeitures for 20 years, Wilson isn't worried by the criticism.
"We have pretty good laws in the state of South Carolina," he said.
He added that property seizure can be a useful tool and make a positive impact.
Hard to argue with Wilson. Who's going to deny the children?
The problem with these laws is apparent. They are a way around the presumption of innocence. They are severely slanted against the citizen. They create a huge profit incentive for police and prosecutors.
There is almost nothing in South Carolina law, or federal law for that matter, that protects the innocent from having their money taken by the police. In the event they do get it back, it's rarely going to be all of it.
These laws don't just apply to the drug dealer in the fancy car with the big wads of cash. They aren't just used against the villain selling drugs to the children. If you believe that, Sheriff Lott and his band of merry forfeiters would love to sit down and share some Kool-Aid with you.
It is known that a drug dog will alert on virtually all cash every time. Considering this, what stops the Sheriff from obtaining a search warrant for money laundering, going to the named bank, then let the dog "alert" on the cash and seize it?
Institute of Justice has been at the forefront of educating the public about civiil forfeiture abuse among their many issues they address.
If it were me I would give them the Nobel Peace price for their courage and their fearless advocacy.
Thank you so much to all the contributors of this site, as a non-lawyer type I find what you do as lawyers fascinating and compelling. You shed light on issues only the courageous would dare to do.


I was tweaking the layout and accidentally collapsed the folders panel all the way to the left side of the browser. Now I can't seem to get it back. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and deleting the left over file in the app settings in the profile, but I think I'm missing one more area to deleting in order to reset the layout to the default one. Clicking the layout button doesn't bring back the default layout either.
One more thing, I'm a frequent LiveJournal user and I respond to comments through the post box available via email. I've noticed that the backspace button deletes the entire email rather than what I just typed. Some what frustrating when I mistype something and then have to go back to my email client, retrieve the email, and reply through that. Anyway to set up our own shortcut keys or disable that function?
Thanks. I love the add-on immensely except for those two issues.
Try double-clicking the middle of the collapsed scrollbar. Double-click is needed if you restarted Firefox after collapsing. I don't know why, but it's how collapsed scrollbars behave in Firefox.
If that doesn't help, close Firefox, find Firefox profile folder and delete file localstore.rdf. This will reset layout settings.
Or send me an example of the message you have to "telega gmail com" and I will try to fix that issue.
Well, double clicking didn't restore the panel, but uninstaling it and removing that file, along with the info in the extensions folder did the trick. Thanks. As for the other issue, commenting out those lines worked great and now backspace doesn't delete the email when I'm typing into the textarea of the form.


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The NFL Just Took the Next Step in Determining Colin Kaepernick's Future
by Jake Elman on May 26, 2020
Over three years after his most recent NFL game, the Colin Kaepernick saga recently reached a new low. Although he has not officially retired, the league's official website listed Kaepernick, a former star on the 49ers, as a player who hung up his cleats.
Whether or not the error was intentional, it is one the NFL needs to address. The error also served as a reminder of what's next for Colin Kaepernick's playing career.
Colin Kaepernick hasn't played in the NFL since January 2017
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Even the most casual NFL fans are familiar with the Colin Kaepernick saga. A record-setting quarterback at Nevada, Kaepernick — a second-round pick of the San Francisco 49ers in 2011 — rose to prominence when he led the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance after the 2012 season.
Kaepernick led the 49ers to another NFC title game in 2013, although he lost to the rival Seattle Seahawks. A dangerous dual-threat quarterback, Kaepernick eventually earned a lengthy extension from the 49ers.
Regime changes and a down 2015 season, though, set the stage for Kaepernick's possible departure. Those plans were accelerated in August 2016 when Kaepernick kneeled for the national anthem in protest of racial injustice.
Kaepernick also created controversy when he wore socks featuring pigs in police uniforms. The veteran quarterback also defended Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Although Kaepernick threw 16 touchdowns to four interceptions in 2016, he completed just 59.2% of his passes and the 49ers cut him after the season.
The NFL and its 32 teams have tried distancing themselves from Colin Kaepernick, who held an open tryout last season. Kaepernick has not played even a practice down for any NFL team since January 2017.
The league's official website listed Kaepernick as retired
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick hasn't played in the NFL since January 2017. The league recently called Kaepernick 'retired' on its official website. | Tom Pennington/Getty Images
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Colin Kaepernick recently re-entered the news cycle when the NFL's official website listed him as retired. The website recently underwent a redesign.
Kaepernick's girlfriend, Nessa, pointed out the gaffe in a strong Twitter message. She said the NFL, the NFL Players Association, and Commissioner Roger Goodell intentionally lied by listing Kaepernick as retired.
The NFL changed Kaepernick's status to UFA, or unrestricted free agent, after Nessa's tweet went viral.
The NFL has not issued a public statement explaining the situation, as of May 23.
Intentionally or unintentionally, the NFL made its feelings on Kaepernick clear
Thank you to everyone who held the @NFL accountable for falsely reporting that Colin "retired" on their website. They heard you loud & clear bc the NFL put the accurate description that @Kaepernick7 is a Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA). Tell them to stop denying him employment. pic.twitter.com/klK7a6qRTY
— NESSA (@nessnitty) May 23, 2020
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It is worth noting the NFL may not have intended to list Colin Kaepernick as retired. A coding algorithm may have seen he hasn't played since 2016 and isn't currently on a team before it automatically listed him as retired.
The website, for example, listed former Dallas Cowboys receiver Lucky Whitehead as retired. Whitehead, like Kaepernick, hasn't played in an NFL game since 2016.
Whitehead, though, is still active in the Canadian Football League.
That excuse only goes so far, though, given Kaepernick's stature and relationship with the NFL.
The league and its coders could have avoided this issue by flagging Colin Kaepernick's name during the re-design and making sure the site showed him as a free agent. Anything otherwise would have, and did, led to controversy.
Even if the NFL issued a statement apologizing for the gaffe, it doesn't change the reality of Kaepernick's professional football future. The 32-year-old was already considered a long shot to ever play in the NFL again.
Now, the NFL's algorithm, unintentionally or not, said the hard part out loud: Barring an unexpected change of plans, Colin Kaepernick has played his final NFL down.
All stats courtesy of Pro-Football-Reference
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Zack Snyder Confirms 'Justice League' Reshoots Have Begun
Claire Epting Published: October 29, 2020
Additional filming for the Snyder Cut of Justice League is officially underway, as confirmed by Zack Snyder on Twitter Tuesday morning. The director posted a picture of the official Justice League slate, meaning that he and the rest of the cast and crew are getting down to business.
Check out the post below:
The first trailer for the Snyder Cut was released back in August as a part of DC FanDome. More recently, TikTok users were treated to a Snyder Cut teaser trailer that revealed the new-and-improved Steppenwolf. We've also heard news that Ben Affleck would be returning for reshoots as Batman, and Joe Manganiello would reprise his role of Deathstroke. Jared Leto will also be joining the cast as the Joker, who he previously played in Suicide Squad.
Due to the unpredictable nature of Covid-19, it was hard to tell exactly when these added shoots would happen. Now, it's confirmed that production is back in action. Remember, Snyder won't be using any of the scenes captured by Joss Whedon after he stepped down from the original production. So there's quite a few gaps to fill.
The Snyder Cut of Justice League will run about four hours in length, but you won't have to experience it all at once. Rather, it will be released as four hour-long installments, giving it more of a limited series feel. Although it won't be a traditional movie release per se, it's definitely something to look forward to next year. Zack Snyder's Justice League premieres on HBO Max in 2021.
Source: Zack Snyder Confirms 'Justice League' Reshoots Have Begun
Filed Under: DC Comics, HBO Max, Justice League, Snyder Cut, Zack Snyder
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Most of the neighborhood seems to stop in once my garage doors go up and I start working; there's been a LOT of curiosity about what I do in a garage that's obviously no longer a garage. I love the sense of community, although there are times I feel as if I'm working in a goldfish bowl.
Just to be on the safe side, the doors are open ONLY when I'm in the garage–when I go inside the doors come down, which will hopefully keep any youthful rulebreakers from getting hurt. But the restriction frequently results in a kid standing about 10 feet down the driveway, shouting up questions until I come out and show him what I'm working on.
Those doors have connected me to the neighborhood. I've heard some amazing conversations as kids reason out their world which now, apparently, includes me. A couple of them stopped under my cherry trees, out of sight but not out of hearing.
Humans aren't the only visitors. The other day I bent over my wax, intent on finishing, when an odd whirring startled me into looking up. A hummingbird hovered about a foot from my head. He was an iridescent emerald and apparently upset about something, enough to come inside the garage to discuss it. He vibrated and chittered for maybe 15 minutes while I watched, transfixed. Then he zoomed away.
Kim waves from across the street sometimes, but she's pretty much kept to herself. She's got a father in a nursing home needing daily visits, and horrific work schedules, so I wasn't surprised that she never popped in…until Friday.
Turns out Kim has studied quite a bit at Pilchuck, does boro and soda-lime sculpting, but put her torch away when her father became ill. Now that things have settled down with her dad, she's thought about taking it up again, but an elderly aunt will soon come live with them, and…once again: No time.
I gave her a calendar, which includes two tickets to the tour, and she promised to come. So that's at least ONE person who will show up. Whew.
I nodded, and we kept talking about glass. When she's not so swamped, she promised, she'll bring out her portfolio and let me see her work. And after seven years, I suddenly have a kindred spirit living across the street.
Uhm, gosh. I thought everybody was sick of me talking about it. Yep, I'm doing Portland Open Studios, October 10-11 and October 17-18, 10 to 5 all four days. You visit the Portland Open Studios website and buy a tour guide (which entitles you to two tour admissions) or go to New Seasons and pick one up. Then you figure out what you want to see, use the map to develop a route, and go visit. There are some absolutely amazing artists this year, one of whom sculpts in chocolate (not sure if she's giving out samples).
So…y'all come. And thanks for the kind words, all.
Ellen…I can't bring myself to say "I'm an artist" and I can't decide if it's because everybody seems to be one and I figure I need to stand out from the crowd…or because I don't know what to say if someone contradicts me. I suppose that makes me a self-conscious, angst-free artist. Or, I dunno, does self-doubt count as angst? If it does, I'm home free…sigh.
I know what you mean about feeling like an impostor when you tell someone you are an artist (or sculptor). I felt that way because to me 'artist' is full of vision and angst, which I am most certainly not, as well as 'content'.
All that aside, I think I might switch to sculptor. I like the way that sounds.
Well, how cool is that? another kindred spirit living across the street! Yay!
I would definitely come on the studio tour to meet you in person and see your studio if I lived in the area. I hope you'll share pictures of the tour of your studio.
I think you are a sculptor.
so when were you going to tell us you were part of the open studio tour?


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Amazo Bistro is an all day café and restaurant on the edge of Ahmedabad. The restaurant space occupies the corner ground floor of a building, with an adjacent area for outdoor seating. The building sits on the north side of a busy road that connects SG Highway to SP Ring Road, two major thoroughfares in the city. While the adjacent seating area could be a fantastic addition to the restaurant, and a great opportunity to bring the ambience outside, its drawbacks were that it perches on the edge of a busy road, and it is soaked in sun all afternoon. For us the challenge was to create an enclosure structure that extended the character of the interior space outside, but which also protected the exterior from noise and sun, all while feeling open and engaging.
For this we came up with a custom made vertical garden, formed from interlocked bent pipe mild steel frames, and anchored with a floating foundation of exposed concrete planters. The system had to be simple to construct and simpler to maintain, with robust plants to withstand the southwest sun. Each vertical frame stands on its own feet, weighted by its concrete planter. Neighbouring frames are interlocked with smaller, alternating mild steel pipes. These were welded together on site and tilted up into place. Then the concrete planters were placed inside and filled. The same interlocking pipes support a mild steel rod basket for ceramic pots which each hold a combination of upward growing and hanging plants that climb out of their perch to eventually camouflage the frame that supports them. The pots step back as they rise, pushing the overall centre of gravity toward the centre of the planter, and helping to stabilize the structure, even in high winds. A drip irrigation system runs along each pot, irrigating the plants while at the same time turning the whole screen into a wet, porous mesh whose evaporation cools the hot prevailing south-westerly winds that pass through it.
The planted frame both shades and buffers the outdoor space from sun and road, but this containment also draws the space into conversation with the restaurant inside. The language of the garden is reiterated in the stripped down, open interior, split with lightly framed shelving units that form intimate dining areas connected through a blur of lightweight wood, jars and glasses.


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Ireland Rugby Head Coach, Joe Schmidt, will join a host of world leaders in the area of High Performance Sport in the speaker line-up for the High Performance Knowledge Exchange (HPX) Conference, which will take place in the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena on October 6th and 7th.
Having coached Ireland to back-to-back Six Nations titles and Leinster to two Heineken Cup wins, Joe is well versed in what it takes to succeed at the highest level. Joe's talk on 'The Role of Lessons Learned in Driving Excellence' will look to highlight the importance of developing and maintaining a strong learning culture and practice in order to achieve excellence in sport.
Joe joins a line-up of speakers which already includes 2016 World Boxing Coach of the Year Billy Walsh, Dublin Football Manager Jim Gavin, former Tipperary Manager Liam Sheedy, Irish racewalker and World Championship Gold Medallist Olive Loughnane and Paralympian and Cross Bench Peer Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson.
Speaking about the conference, Joe said: "The HPX 2017 Conference has an impressive collection of well qualified and successful sporting professionals covering a range of key aspects of high performance sport. I'm looking forward to hearing from the presenters at the conference as well as sharing some of my beliefs regarding the importance of having a strong learning ethos in the quest to achieve excellence in the very competitive world of sport."
Sport Ireland Chief Executive, John Treacy, added: "We are delighted that Joe will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2017 HPX Conference. Joe's experience in both his career as a school teacher and in international sport at the highest level puts him in the ideal position to impart his knowledge on how learning from past performances is part of what it takes to succeed. I am delighted that the HPX Conference is being embraced by coaches, support personnel and athletes both here in Ireland and overseas and I'm looking forward to what is shaping up to be an insightful and informative two days."
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The World Is Knocking on Israel's Door
Sam Bahour The Electronic Intifada al-Bireh 20 July 2004
When The Hague speaks, the world listens, especially when a threat to international peace is involved. At least this was the case until the International Court of Justice took aim at Israel. At issue was the Israeli government's building of a separation wall on occupied Palestinian lands in the West Bank, which, in essence, has caged Palestinian communities into ghettos reminiscent of the Jewish ghettos in Europe during World War II. The now infamous separation wall is center stage of an international campaign aimed to end the illegal Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem - all areas occupied by force in 1967 when Israel's military assumed control, the same way the US entered Iraq and assumed control of everyday life there.
The United Nations General Assembly was faced with complaints that the separation wall that Israel is building had nothing to do with Israel's security and everything to do with Israel grabbing more Palestinian lands by force and creating impossible living conditions for Palestinians. Israel's real intention is to continue the strangulation of the Palestinians in hopes that this would lead to their subjugation and force Palestinians to dismiss their international right to statehood, self-determination and right to return. The separation wall is Israel's final solution for all those Palestinian families that were displaced by Israel's creation in 1948 and subsequent military aggression in 1967 and afterwards.
On 8 December 2003, the United Nations General Assembly requested what is called an "Advisory Opinion" from its legal arm, the International Court of Justice. Immediately, Israel and the United States claimed that the International Court of Justice did not have jurisdiction to rule in the case. Israel and the US lost this argument when the judges unanimously, all 15, including one American judge, decided that the Court does have the full right and jurisdiction over the case.
The outcome of hearing the case against the Israeli separation wall was expected by all. All involved knew that the wall, in and of itself, could not be discussed in a vacuum, but rather the entire 37-years of Israeli military occupation would be put on trail, including the decades long Israeli policy of illegally building Jewish-only settlements and moving Israeli squatters to live in these military compounds that are located in the midst of Palestinian population centers and spread throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
On 9 July 2004, the International Court of Justice issued its Advisory Opinion, as requested by the UN General Assembly. The Court's opinion stated the following, with American Justice Thomas Buergenthal being the constant dissenting vote,
By fourteen votes to one,
"The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated
régime, are contrary to international law"
"Israel is under an obligation to terminate its breaches of international law; it is under an obligation to cease forthwith the works of construction of the wall being built in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, to dismantle forthwith the structure therein situated, and to repeal or render ineffective forthwith all legislative and regulatory acts relating thereto."
"Israel is under an obligation to make reparation for all damage caused by the construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem"
By thirteen votes to two,
"All States are under an obligation not to recognize the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such construction; all States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 have in addition the obligation, while respecting the United Nations Charter and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention"
"The United Nations, and especially the General Assembly and the Security Council, should consider what further action is required to bring to an end the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall and the associated régime, taking due account of the present Advisory Opinion."
These decisions are part of the 59-page Advisory Opinion that has now been submitted to the requesting party, the United Nations General Assembly. Israel has already stated, even prior to the Advisory Opinion being issued, that it will not abide by the Court's findings. The US is towing the same Israeli line. This being the case, the question that begs an answer is what can an entire community of nations do if the violating party, Israel in this case, and the world's sole superpower shun an International Court opinion? Also, what can the UN General Assembly do given that usually its decisions are non-binding, unlike the UN Security Council where any of its members can use their veto power to stop any action? When Israel is involved, the parallelization of any Security Council action is real since the US historically and systematically exercises its veto power to safeguard Israel from international actions which aim to force it to an end its illegal occupation.
The next steps in this landmark Advisory Opinion are currently high on the agenda of the Palestinians as well as many countries of the world – all seeking to find a non-violent way to end the military occupation that has drained the region and the world, let alone taken tens of thousands of lives, both Palestinian and Israeli.
Under a United Nations procedure called "Uniting for Peace," the UN General Assembly can demand an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Israel from the Occupied Palestinians lands. The General Assembly may also call for a United Nations Peacekeeping Force to be sent to Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the occupying power. The "Uniting for Peace" procedure has been used before, by none other than the United States. As explained by historian and author Jeremy Brecher,
"When Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt and began advancing on the Suez Canal. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded that the invasion stop. Resolutions in the UN Security Council called for a cease-fire—but Britain and France vetoed them. Then the United States appealed to the General Assembly and proposed a resolution calling for a cease-fire and a withdrawal of forces. The General Assembly held an emergency session and passed the resolution. Britain and France withdrew from Egypt within a week."
"The appeal to the General Assembly was made under a procedure called "Uniting for Peace." This procedure was adopted by the Security Council so that the UN can act even if the Security Council is stalemated by vetoes. Resolution 377 provides that, if there is a "threat to peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and the permanent members of the Security Council do not agree on action, the General Assembly can meet immediately and recommend collective measures to U.N. members to "maintain or restore international peace and security." The "Uniting for Peace" mechanism has been used ten times, most frequently on the initiative of the United States." (CounterPunch, March 5, 2003)
Dr. Richard Cummings, an international law professor with degrees from Columbia Law School and Princeton who has a Ph.D. from Cambridge and taught international law at the Haile Sellassie I University and formerly was the Attorney-Advisor with the Office of General Counsel of the Near East South Asia region of USAID, where he was responsible for the legal work pertaining to the aid program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan has made similar observations regarding the UN and Israel in his essay, Human Rights, International Law and Peace in the Middle East (Tikkun, Jan 2004). Dr. Cummings notes,
"At this juncture, we are faced with a choice. Do we lapse back into the primitive balance of power approach that has always broken down and led to wider wars, or do we accept the legitimacy of Woodrow Wilson's vision of a just international order under the rule of international law? I would suggest that it is time to revive Wilson's legacy and turn to the International Court of Justice, which was brought into existence at the birth of the United Nations."
"Failure by a United Nations member or entity with observer status to adhere to the advisory opinion on any matter of law could specifically give rise to a suspension by the General Assembly of its voting rights…" Such an example is when South Africa was in violation of an advisory opinion of the World Court and lost its voting rights.
"An opinion from the Court would be sufficient to override such a [Security Council] veto, under the provisions of Article 14, which provides that "the General Assembly may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the general welfare or friendly relations among nations, including situations resulting from a violation of the provisions of the present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations."
"Indeed, the United States would be hard-pressed to object to this strategy. When, during the Korean war, the Soviet Union ceased its boycott of the Security Council and vetoed resolutions that would have continued United Nations support for the multinational force, the United States successfully obtained a "Uniting for Peace" resolution in the General Assembly to support the force, under Article 14 (UN General Assembly Resolution 377A, November 3, 1950). In this case, because the initial action had been authorized by the Security Council in the Soviet Union's absence, the subsequent Uniting for Peace Resolution had sufficient force in law. As the United States would continue to veto any peace keeping force in the Security Council, the advisory opinion would remedy the deficiency of a previous Security Council resolution, which, unlike General Assembly resolutions, have a quasi-legislative nature."
"Armed with an International Court of Justice advisory opinion, the General Assembly could once and for all move to make its opinions binding on the parties involved, thus bypassing the Security Council that is perpetually blocked by the veto of the United States, which it invokes in pursuance of its own agenda unrelated to the needs of the rest of the world."
International Law must be defined by the world institutions that were established for the purpose, and not by the existing superpower or the party to the conflict that can hire the better public relations firms. The clear and unequivocal end to Israeli occupation, in all its forms, has the power to bring justice, security and stability to a region on the verge of self-destruction.
The International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion could be the ladder that world leaders, including Israeli and US, use to climb down the tree of oppression and occupation. If this opportunity is ignored, the result will only be more bloodshed and killing. The US and our Israeli neighbors must come to the realization that military occupation and security can never peacefully coexist.
Furthermore, time is past due for the Palestinian leadership to take professional legal advice and assume responsibility and act legally to channel, not only last week's International Court Decision, but also the millions around the world that stand in unwavering solidarity with the just Palestinian cause. Atty. Francis A. Boyle, a renowned expert in international law and author of an indispensable, fact-packed new book titled, Palestine, Palestinians and International Law (Clarity Press, Inc, 2003), sheds a glaring light on how the Palestinian leadership has repeatedly ignored professional legal advice, even when it was commissioned by them. This includes dismissing the strategy of invoking the UN General Assembly's Uniting for Peace Resolution from as far back as 1988. The Palestinian people can no longer accept this incompetence in dealing with ending the Israeli occupation. The last four years of continuous Israeli aggression, which left each and every Palestinian living in open air prisons, leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that Israel's intentions for over the last five decades have absolutely nothing to do with peace or coexistence.
Israel, your time is up — enough terror, killings, assassinations, bombings, home demolitions, arbitrary arrests, and violations of Palestinians' human rights. Israel must tear down this illegal Apartheid Wall and bring its military occupation of Palestine to an end so it may finally join the community of nations.
BY TOPIC: Israel's Apartheid Wall
Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West Bank and can be reached at sbahour@palnet.com.
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Ian Williams 13 July 2004


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Just sad since few days thinking of how they were killed
Originally Posted by Muhler
Only to some extent.
I don't think it's appropriate to characterize all Russians for something a few, and desperate extremists ordered 100 years ago.
The children were killed to make sure there would but no pretender in the future to to rally around. It's brutal logic.
The imperial succession included the male linage only. Thus Nicholas' heir was Alexis. The four daughters could not inherit. Thus could not the four Grand Duchesses have been spared?
Serene Highness
Location: USA, United States
Russia had female empresses previously so it was not a foreign concept. Also I don't know how credible it was but I recall reading that it was likely that Nicholas was going to decree that females could inherit the Russian throne, so that in the event Alexei predeceased him or died childless then Olga would become Empress of All Russia.
Iluvbertie
Location: Bathurst, Australia
The law was that females could inherit IF there were no male heirs. It wasn't full salic which didn't allow female inheritance at all.
In the case where the monarch had been overthrown the rules could easily have been changed if one of the daughters survived so that she could be the focus of anti-regime forces. Her descent from the Tsar would be enough in a post-revolutionary attempt to restore the monarchy.
Frelinghighness
Location: New England, United States
If you read any of the Shakespeare's history plays, or in fact, read, any of history, it is always a kill the children! Because they are next in line for the throne.if someone wanted the throne of England who was farther down the line, which happened many times in history, they would kill the ruler and then have to to also kill his children, who were all next in line, to assure clearance.
Although I have great empathy for Alix as I do for Marie Antoinette of France, I do feel that they aided in their own and their countries destruction however unwittingly
Location: Eastern Jutland, Denmark
Originally Posted by CyrilVladisla
That would have made absolutely no difference.
From an ice cold perspective the children were destined to die because:
A) The ruling family should be exterminated. There was no room for them anyway in the Communist Russia.
2) Female empresses was far from anything new in Russia.
3) The daughters could deliver a male heir at some point.
4) The daughters were living political symbols for the anti-communists to rally around and fight for.
5) One of the daughters could marry "a strong man", who in his own right could be a dangerous threat. His claim to power would now be legitimized by his and the Imperial bloodline being mixed.
Okay, could they have left the daughters alive? Were there alternatives?
A) Prison, indefinitely. - No, the daughters would still be living symbols, who should be freed.
B) Making the daughters "renounce the world", take a wow and enter an cloister. - The Communists didn't trust and didn't want the church around. It was too big a competitor. And the whole thing about religion goes against Communism as a concept. - And they could eventually leave the cloister. Wows can be overruled if it's "Gods will" and it would be...
C) Exile the girls abroad. - See A, except that you no longer have control over them.
D) Letting them disappear somewhere. - They could still be recognized and there would be endless questions and as long anyone are in doubt as to their deaths, they would be symbols.
E) "Ruining the royal bloodline" by force marrying them to a commoner. - That would be the equivalent of rape and would cause a huge uproar, probably even among the Communists. Also, Communists too have daughters...
F) Sterilizing them. An unsafe procedure at the time. And it wouldn't make that big a difference. Ekaterina the Great wasn't even in the bloodline, yet she became empress. As political symbols that method wouldn't make any difference either.
- They had to die. The only question was how.
"Sickness", "accident", "suicide", "trying to escape" and so on would be a nice solution. But snuffing them out one by one over a period is risky. They would inevitably try to escape, probably with inside help, and perhaps succeed.
So the logic solution was the one taken: Gunning and bayoneting the whole family down at the same time.
That is, how they rolled...
Imho the murder of the Romanovs should not be seen as an isolated incident! To rob all people blind and to murder everybody, who could put up resistance - that was, how the Bolshewiki acted. That was their doctrine! The Red Terror!
The Communists were not the only ones who used terror and oppression.
There was a Russian saying from the latter half of the 1800's, which translated goes something like this: We can sleep safely in prison, because that's the only place where we are safe from the White Terror. (The secret police.)
Revolutionaries make poor politicians, because revolutionaries are unwilling to compromise and they tend to be extremists.
A wise political move could have been to reunite Russia under a totally powerless Tzar, under control of the Communists. A kind of Shogunate, if you will. Where the Communists would have ruled through the Tzar. (Who would be under house-arrest, basically with his family as hostages.)
That would have been an interesting alternative.
But it would have been impossible to sell that solution to the extremists who were taking over at the time. To extremists only extreme solutions are possible. Not acceptable, possible!
Which is why most extremists end up being shot...
It was Stalin who around this time said about one of the extremist revolutionaries (can't remember who): On the day of the revolution he is absolutely indispensable, on the second day he should be shot.
- You can't build a stable government and a stable society on extremists, so...
What are you implying? That the rule of the Romanovs was in any way whatsoever like Communism?
Originally Posted by victor1319
Well, it wasn't the Communists who came up with the idea of deporting political opponents (as well as criminals) to Siberia.
The omnipresent and much feared secret police (White Terror) with it's network of informants and Commissars with extremely wide-ranging power, was something that was in place centuries before NKVD, KGB and FSB - their first symbol BTW was a broom.
The vast majority of Russians, peasants, were serfs with very limited rights and whose conditions in life were only a notch or two above being slaves. That was under the Romanovs. Serfdom was only abolished in the second half of the 1800's, without a system in place to replace it, which led to disaster in quite few places.
Also, Russia was an expansionist empire, especially in the Caucasus, through Transoxania towards Afghanistan and towards what is today western China were vast areas conquered by Russia, under the Romanovs. And people living in these areas objecting against being a part of the empire were not treated leniently!
The brutal oppression and political castration of a whole class in the society, the Boyars, was not something the Communist came up with either. They finished the job though, that's for sure!
The forced resettlements of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people at a time, for whatever purpose, was not the Communists idea either.
The frequent pogroms against Jews happened under the Romanovs, without the authorities doing much about, or for that matter caring much about it.
What the Communists did was to continue this kind of oppression against their opponents on an order of magnitude higher and in a much more organized way.
I find it much easier to sympathize with Louis XVI, he was by all accounts a genuinely kind man, who with his limited abilities, and even more limited help from the nobility wished to improve the conditions in life for his subjects rather than just maintaining a status quo and who hesitated from using oppressive means to stay in power.
It cost him, and his family, their lives.
How many sleepless nights, I wonder, did Tzar Nicholas spend thinking about those of his subjects at the bottom of the society? Also before he became a Tzar.
Nicholas and Alexandra remained devoted to each other until the day they died. They were loving parents and completely loyal to their friends and to their members of staff. Unfortunately neither Nicholas nor Alexandra were anything near to be suited for ruling an empire.
Nicholas might've been a better monarch with a more savy and competent wife, Alexandra might've remained more grounded had she had a healthy son earlier, but we will never know. What we do know is that it was a happy family where the parents were willingly resorting to violence and oppression to try to save their empire something that in the end led to them all being brutally murdered. We also know that their deaths was only the start of 30 years of terror, oppression and the brutal deaths of millions of their fellow countrymen.
How ever oppressive the tsarist regime was, and it was guilty of horrible crimes, it pales in comparison with the crimes of Lenin and Stalin.
Al_bina
Location: City, Kazakhstan
The frequent pogroms against Jews happened under the Romanovs, without the authorities doing much about, or for that caring much about it. ...
Based on your post, one might conclude the following. The Russian Empire had no right to expand or do anything else a classic empire would do, but you would understand and excuse the British Empire's expansionist moves in Caucasus and the Central Asia. At the same time, it is worth noting that your point of view is common.
Originally Posted by Al_bina
Based on your post, one might conclude the following. The Russian Empire had no right to expand or do anything else a classic empire would do, but you would understand and excuse the British Empire's expansionist moves in Caucasus and the Central Asia.
And you would be wrong to conclude that.
Every empire is by its very nature oppressive.
That doesn't mean that every empire is necessarily an evil through and through.
The more successful empires stay on because they somehow incorporate those whom they subjugate into the empire and maintain a stable rule that is good for business. Leading to a higher living standard and increased opportunities for the population as a whole. - Like the Roman empire. And no one will accuse the Romans for being great humanists...
To look at the Russian, Roman, British empires with modern eyes, is IMO silly.
We have to, the best of our abilities, look at them with contemporary eyes.
The Romanovs were not toppled by an external uprising, leading to an invasion of Russia, with the ultimate purpose of freeing the conquered territories.
The Romanovs were toppled by an internal uprising, that had been brewing for many years - and that's the context we have to study this, not execution, but lynching of the Imperial family.
So let's look at Russia anno 1900.
The vast majority of Russians had no political influence whatsoever.
The vast number of Russians lived in, even for the time, deep poverty. With little prospect of improving their life through hard work or even initiative, not even for their children. (The American dream.)
The vast majority had few rights and even less opportunity to exercise those rights.
Peasants were by now able to move freely around selling their work to the highest bidder, not that it meant much. They went from serf-like condition in the countryside to serf-life condition in the urban factories.
The vast majority received little or no schooling whatsoever. And what education they were taught can very much be boiled down to: Do as you are told, don't complain, endure and get your reward in Heaven.
There was nothing remotely resembling a social system in place. Such systems were being introduced elsewhere, but not in Russia.
That's just to mention some of the major problems.
What is worse is: There was no genuine wish from the top to implement major reforms, not until forced to do so.
That's a problem in an absolute monarchy!
Instead it's my clear impression that Tzar Nicholas was scared of the oppressed masses, and genuinely resented reformers, blaming reforms for the tragedies in his own family.
At the same time there was even less will among what you can call the peers of the Imperial family. I.e. the noble, ultra rich top class of society.
Instead they continued living their absurdly rich lives, closing their eyes for the fact that they had become anachronisms and were destined to go extinct.
Their behavior is typical of society based on slaves, they are indifferent to the plight of their slaves, while living in fear of the slaves, which means they oppress their slaves more and more.
That's how the Romanovs and those around them IMO saw their world. It was a Dance Macabre and the dance ended in a cellar...
If you are not willing to adapt and to conform to new condition, you will go extinct, it's only a question of when.
The Romanovs were neither willing, nor able to adapt.
I will even go so far as to say that people living in the Russian colonies were better off than the Russians themselves. They manly continued living more or less like they always had, with whatever flaws and advantages their societies offered.
Don't get me started on Victorian Britain!
It was a super capitalist society, where human suffering mattered much less than profit. (The Irish Potato Famine and the conditions of factory workers.)
It was also a society where not only the physical, but also the psychological distance between top and bottom increased.
However, at least the common man in Britain had long established rights and knew his rights. He could, albeit with considerable difficulty, rise by merit.
He could, and he knew he could, seek a better life for himself in the colonies or by immigrating.
There was a growing middle class, instilled with typical Christian values, like charity, moral norms and concern for your fellow human beings, even if that concern only went so far. - There was little of that in Russia.
In my unscientific opinion it was the growing middle class, and the growing wealth and influence of the middle class that saved Britain from a revolution during the 1800's, not the monarchy.
I see you added a sentence, which I don't quite understand. Are you saying my opinion expressed in my previous post is shared by many? Or...?
In many respects, it wasn't all that different....
Duc_et_Pair
Location: City, Netherlands
No need to feel more sad about the tragic deaths of the Tsarevitch and the Grand-Princesses than about the tragic deaths of millions and millions of innocent men and women because there was an absurd World War which saw royal cousins' realms fighting against each other.
The more successful empires stay on because they somehow incorporate those whom they subjugate into the empire and maintain a stable rule that is good for business. Leading to a higher living standard and increased opportunities for the population as a whole. - Like the Roman empire. And no one will accuse the Romans for being great humanists... [snipped]
Several teachers from USA and UK shared your point of view about the Russian Empire and the USSR. Such benevolent empires as France and the UK atoned their atrocities by surrendering their empires. Being Byzantine by nature, Russia remained/remains defiant/unapologetic.
Based on the current events, one can conclude that "American Dream" and the western middle class in question are coming to an end ... and Russia marks "an end to its "repeated fruitless attempts to become a part of Western civilization" over four centuries".
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-advise.../29155700.html
http://www.globalaffairs.ru/global-p...rovki-14-19477
I wouldn't discount the western middle class just yet, nor "the American dream".
The middle class is growing in Continental Europe, China, India, Brazil and so on. The places where the middle class has gone back or stagnated in recent years are USA and Britain.
The "American Dream" is very much alive in countries like China, India and Russia.
The consequences of the middle class breaking down as you predict, would be chaos. A chaos that would also very much affect Russia!
The larger the middle class is the more prosperous a nation is as a society, and also the more politically stable it is.
Look at 20th century history, when the middle class suffers or diminish in number, the societies become politically more unstable. And the wealth in the society become more unevenly distributed.
Russia is reverting to it's more traditional stance: On the outskirts of Europe. A part of Europe and yet distant from Europe.
The Western world made a huge mistake back in the 90's. In hindsight a kind of Marshall help to Russia would have been the best solution and the current situation where the west and Russia is facing off again would likely IMO have been avoided.
Instead we are now having a semi-paranoid Russia.
An interesting question is: Could Russia, that has always had a Tzar, no matter what they called themselves, be ready to reinstate the monarchy again? The monarchy also being a symbol of Russias past and greatness - while being a conveniently politically neutral figurehead.
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I think your answer to that question would be a firm no. Russia is a country that has too much corruption and is paranoid to the bone. The legacy of the Tsars has made sure that no family will ever inherit a throne again. Unless you want to count Putin, but that's a different story.
To the point of reinstating monarchies, I don't think it's ever a good idea. Monarchies in general are a dying breed and in many ways, rightfully so. If anything, we will see a decrease of constitutional monarchies over the coming decades/centuries.
Hmm, I think you are right that some monarchies will fall, but I also believe there is a very good chance that some monarchies will be reinstated.
We live in a time with increasing nationalism and with a nostalgic look at "a golden age."
A monarchy is a potent national and nationalistic symbol. Especially as there is also an increasing loathing of the politicians and certainly in regards to EU an increasing sense of distance between those in power in EU, and the population in the individual countries.
So it might be palatable to reinstate an institution that will serve as a national rallying point, rather than some president who comes from "the system."
- And I don't say that because I'm a monarchist. I'm a monarchist because I believe it works in my country. Had I lived in another country I might have been a republican, if I though that was best for that country.
I get where you´re going with this, but in this day and age, no citizen will ever just accept a figurehead family, with zero qualifications, as their head of state. What you see globally is the rise of fascism. That does not serve as a good starting point for any new monarchy. That might have worked in times when those more poweful could beat the ´´plebs´´ in obedience, but that is precisely what got the Romanovs killed.
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July 15, 2012 By Mike B
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Director:Oliver Stone
Genres:Action, Crime, Drama
Release Date:6 July 2012
Screenwriter:Don Winslow, Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno
Starring:Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Taylor Kitsch
Oliver Stone is past his prime, let's get that out of the way first. His new film, Savages, about two highly successful drug dealers that peacefully share the same love interest and end up clashing heads with the cartel, is yet another film that showcases the fading director that cemented his name in cinema with films like Platoon and JFK. Despite this film being in the "miss" side in Stone's book, there are still a few aspects of the film that keep Savages from being clocked cold.
Stone's visual style is still very entertaining to watch, as well as it is effective. The movie switches between filters to distinguish certain levels of intensity, going from saturated, to grainy, to soft and back again. The editing is also sharp, with the scenes being laced with cuts of isolated visuals; like a time lapse of a marijuana plant growing. Another thing that Stone hasn't lost his touch in is the action. While the action in Savages is few and far between, when it happens it's admirably raw and lives up to the movie title. The film is injected with enough intensity and action to keep most viewers awake and slightly interested, and then there's the acting…
Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch and Blake Lively, the drug dealing love trio, are the main characters in the film. It's a shame that they don't stand out. The acting that stands out comes from the veterans. Salma Hayek, playing Elena the Queen B of the drug world, does a terrific job with her character. She's ruthless because she has to be, but we also get to see her yearning for a connection with her daughter that is disgusted by her. Then there's the always reliable Benicio Del Toro, playing Lado, a horrific enforcer. He brings his A-game, as usual, and grabs your attention with every tick and mannerism, making you fear what he's going to do next even if you can predict it.
Savages can be taken as a reminder that Oliver Stone still has something left in the tank, fueling the hope that one day he may get back into form.
The three main leads, Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch and Blake Lively, are boring. There's no real opportunity for the audience to become invested in the three main characters because they're not that interesting and the simply feel false. Blake Lively plays a dumb blonde, and almost everything she says makes you want to cringe. On top of that, Lively does the narration for the film so if you weren't annoyed with her character already, the narration should do the trick.
The script wasn't anything to brag about either. It was plain messy, and there's nothing real to care about in the plot. I suppose it's interesting to have a love trio that's mutual, but there's no weight to it and the actors aren't convincing enough to sell it. The ending is also terrible, as Stone utilizes a false ending quite horribly. Overall, the film has it's moments, but by the end it just falls flat.
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My husband was skeptical on how well it would clean the stains and mask the scratches, but he was pleasantly surprised at how shiny and clean it came out! The process is super easy and you probably already have the supplies on hand.
Sprinkle 1/4 cup of baking soda into the sink and add 1/4 cup of vinegar. Let the bubbles do their thing for about 10 mins.
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Rinse well and wipe thoroughly with a clean rag or the baking soda will leave a white film behind.
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I know! I was pleasantly surprised..and without bleach!
I tried and perhaps because I had a regular scotch sponge, I had to scrub harder, but it seems to work. I will go and buy the scrub dots and clean my porcelain tub and let you know the results.
I can't believe how well that worked! Amazing!!! It is like the sink is new! I hate using harsh chemicals, too!
I know! My hubby didn't think it would work, but it shined it up like new!
Ha, I do not...you could try this!
It is surprising how yucky-looking they get so easily, but now i found out how to easily clean them!
Any ideas on how to clean those ridiculous plastic bathtubs that have the bumpy bottoms. Nothing that I have tried has worked.
I would try this, but I have not had to clean those type before.
You know I am really surprised to know that baking soda has so many benefits, it can used to clean, it can be used to whiten the teeth and many more things, thanks for sharing such amazing tips!
It really is a miracle product!


"This is because sufficient damage was done to Bismark to make it so that rather than continuing on to the Atlantic, she turned and headed for Breast for repairs, which gave Force 'H' the chance to find and damage her further, leading to her eventual demise."
Sent to the Bottom, in fact.
You don't have to cheat to produce amazing benchmark results. Back in the 80s we were benchmarking a couple of systems for our university using FOPR12 from the Whetstone suite. One of them was slower than the other until it was allowed the highest level of optimisation, when it was (if I remember correctly) about twice as fast. The manufacturer was very helpful and gave me the assembly listings of the compiler output at the relevant levels of optimisation, from which it emerged that there was a subroutine whose execution formed a significant part of the computation required, but changed only variables local to itself; the compiler spotted this and simply optimised its execution out of existence. It was a tribute to the compiler, but rather unhelpful for comparison purposes.
Instead of pandering to those who have moved into the sticks to pursue the simple life or the fox, or to get away from the sweaty masses, why not do something about the much greater number of people living in quite ordinary towns and suburbs who can't get decent broadband service? I bet the ROI would be much higher -- and I don't see disappointed and disgruntled members of the Countryside Alliance switching to Labour so the Government has nothing to lose.
I am no expert, but surely to say "Linus Torvalds announced his project of writing an open-source clone of Unix from scratch in 1991" is a bit misleading? A kernel, yes. But a great deal of the rest was GNU -- notably the C-compiler. I can see that Stallman has not made any friends in the past week, but that doesn't justify airbrushing GNU out of Unix history like Trotsky.
The one you get for £89 is non-touch: you navigate an on-screen keyboard image using the 5-way controller. Pre VAT that's £74. The equivalent non-touch version is $79 in the USA. Takes me back to the good old days of Cisco pricing.
Rover did a gas turbine car more than 60 years ago.
No escape from Power Point.
At a wedding reception a few years ago I swear that when the first speaker got up the eyes of 70% of those present flicked to the wall behind him to see the first slide.
"Maybe if BT did something like what Virgin did all them years ago they wouldn't have half the trouble with crap speed's."
Do you mean buy up the cable TV companies, which had lost enormous amounts of money installing the cables and ducts? Which is what Virgin did.
How much difference between 69p and free?
They may have ignored the free Kindle books, but if you look at the top 10 paid-for ones on Amazon's UK site only four cost more than £1, and three of those are the sort of price you pay in remaindered bookshops. I bet they won't be prepared to compare the formats on the basis of gross revenue, even in percentage terms (i.e. Kindle book revenue is X% of print book revenue).
Railway Porter (to Old Lady travelling with a Menagerie of Pets). "'STATION MASTER SAY, MUM, AS CATS IS 'DOGS,' AND RABBITS IS 'DOGS,' AND SO'S PARROTS; BUT THIS 'ERE 'TORTIS' IS A INSECT, SO THERE AIN'T NO CHARGE FOR IT!"
I think this is a precedent to class ponies as dogs.
It's not necessarily inertia and idleness that stop people updating. I am running 3.5 because its the last one that the -- now unsupported -- Google Notebook plugin will work on. And the plugin wasn't available for any other browser, to the best of my knowledge.
More Work for the Debugger.
Campion, having heavily-hinted royal connections, would have nothing to do with anything less than Multics (which ran happily on multi-processor -- and extremely expensive -- hardware).
I hope the tinge of Wodehouse is a sign that the Author isn't going to become embarrassingly enamoured of her subject like her elder sisters in crime did.


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By The Order Of A Telegram Channel, Azerbaijanis Are Trying To Spread Panic In Armenia
Today, November 16, the Azerbaijani Telegram Channel "Без Масок ЧИВ" urged its followers to call random Armenian phone numbers or send them voice messages urging them to leave the communities bordering Azerbaijan.
"Please start a telephone terror campaign against Armenians," the statement reads. "We are spreading maximum PANIC."
"Please be informed that the cities of Syunik, Meghri, Kapan, Kajaran, Tatev, Goris, Tegh, Sisian, Jermuk, Angeghakot (of your choice) will be occupied by Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani troops and that these lands have already been handed over to Azerbaijan," the statement reads.
Taking a look at the comments, we noticed that the followers have already started calling Armenian numbers.
The mentioned number really belongs to the Syunik Diana hotel complex. The hotel administration informed Media.am that today they received a call from an unknown number. The caller called in Russian, urging to escape from the hotel, as the Azerbaijani side had carried out an attack. The hotel employee has already contacted the police and provided the phone number, although during our call he still doubted whether the threatening call was true or not.
It should be noted that "Без Масок ЧИВ" presents itself as a channel "guarding the borders" of Azerbaijan in Telegram. The channel has a pronounced anti-Armenian content and it is not the first time that it makes such requests and shares information containing falsifications.
On May 21, 2021, "Без Масок ЧИВ" published a false document on the dissolution of the Armenian Armed Forces, which was widely spread in the media. Media.am covered this topic in detail.
Thus, the Azerbaijani Telegram Channel urges making calls to Armenian numbers and intimidating the residents of the border communities. There is already a recipient of such a call. The information provided by the channel's followers is aimed at spreading panic among the Armenian population.