Newsflash: Bamford caught in new lies on NPR's The Connection.
In a just-published book, author James Bamford once again charges that Israel intentionally and knowingly attacked a US spy ship, the USS Liberty, during the 1967 Six Day War. Though he claims to have uncovered new evidence, the charges in Body of Secrets (Doubleday) directly parallel demonstrably false charges Bamford leveled in his earlier book, The Puzzle Palace. For this reason, neither Bamford's charges nor his "new evidence" deserve much credibility.
There is a devastating flaw in Bamford's logic – the "true extent" of Israeli victories was well known before the Liberty was attacked on June 8, 1967. Thus, on June 7th the New York Times featured a large three-column front-page story by James Reston headlined "Israelis Think the War Has Been Won." And on the very day the Liberty was attacked, banner headlines in the New York Times literally screamed the news: Israelis Rout the Arabs, Approach Suez, Break Blockade, Occupy Old Jerusalem; Agree to U.N. Cease-Fire; U.A.R. Rejects It (New York Times, June 8, 1967).
Perhaps Mr. Bamford will someday explain just how those clever Israelis managed to prevent the President and his advisers from noticing these headlines.
Also, as the headline indicates, and further contradicting Bamford's reckless allegations, Israel accepted the U.N. cease-fire while Egypt (ie, the U.A.R. ) rejected it. Why would Israel attack the Liberty to prevent a cease-fire which Israel had already accepted?
Actually, hiding "behind a carefully constructed curtain of lies" is about as self-descriptive a phrase as Bamford could have written. And the crux of Bamford's new curtain is an explosive charge sure to grab headlines and drive book sales, especially in certain circles. For, according to Bamford, among the secrets the Israelis were desperate to hide from the prying eyes of the USS Liberty were alleged war crimes against Egyptian POWs near the coastal town of El Arish, not far from the ship's position on June 8th. Bamford charges that Israel turned El Arish into a "slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners" (p 202), and attacked the Liberty to prevent these crimes from being discovered.
Again, there is a devastating flaw in Bamford's logic – the "slaughter" never occurred. But even if it had, the reports Bamford cites offer no support for his claim that Israel attacked the Liberty and murdered US soldiers to cover-up its murder of Egyptian soldiers.
That said, there were press reports in 1995 alleging that Egyptian POWs were murdered during the 1967 Six Day War, and Bamford cites some of these to support his charges. However, a number of the reports cited by Bamford also note that Israeli eyewitnesses denied any such thing occurred. Bamford keeps this from his readers. These same reports also indicate that Israeli POWs were killed by their Arab captors. Again, Bamford never mentions this, intent on painting a one-sided portrait of bloodthirsty Israelis. Finally, Bamford also ignores the fact that later investigations refuted the claim that the alleged massacres of Egyptian POWs ever took place.
1. By June 8, three days after Israel launched the war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become nuisances. There was no place to house them, not enough Israelis to watch them and few vehicles to transport them to prison camps. But there was another way to deal with them.
2. As the Liberty sat within eyeshot of El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners. In the shadow of the El Arish mosque, they lined up about sixty unarmed Egyptian prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, and then opened up with machine guns until the pale desert sand turned red. Then they forced other prisoners to bury the victims in mass graves. "I saw a line of prisoners, civilians and military," said Abdelsalam Moussa, one of those who dug the graves, "and they opened fire at them all at once. When they were done, they told us to bury them." Nearby, another group of Israelis gunned down thirty more prisoners and then ordered some Bedouins to cover them with sand.
Bamford cites two sources for the second paragraph, an article from the New York Times and one from Newsday, which according to Newsday's archives was actually an AP story. Neither article mentions anything at all about the "El Arish mosque," neither mentions anything at all about prisoners with their "hands tied behind their backs," and neither mentions anything at all about how the "pale desert sand turned red." All this is apparently straight from Mr. Bamford's overheated imagination, making one wonder what else he made up.
The New York Times story, by Youseff Ibrahim and dated September 21, 1995, does contain the quote from Abdelsalam Moussa, who claimed to be an eyewitness to the killing of 30 to 60 POWs. But – and this is crucial – the report does not indicate when the killings described by Moussa took place, before the Liberty arrived, or while it was on station off El Arish. However, a Reuters dispatch published in the Jerusalem Post (September 21, 1995), reports Moussa as saying that the killings he claims to have seen took place on June 7, which was before the Liberty arrived! Thus, contrary to Bamford's charge, the attack on the Liberty could not have been to prevent the ship from discovering the Israeli slaughter alleged by Moussa.
Mr. Bamford also takes from Ibrahim's report the story of the Israelis supposedly gunning down 30 more prisoners and then ordering some Bedouins to bury them. According to Ibrahim however, these episodes took place on June 6 and June 7, two days and one day before the Liberty even arrived off El Arish. So, again, Bamford deceptively cites this episode even though it clearly offers no support for his thesis.
Ibrahim also notes the curious fact that Moussa had not come forward sooner, attributing this to the Egyptian government's supposed desire not to delve into such issues after it recovered the Sinai from Israel in the early 1980's, but this certainly does not explain why the Egyptians would not have trumpeted Moussa's claims in the twelve years between the war and the peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Deceptively, Bamford keeps this too from his readers.
Was Aryeh Yitzhaki an "Israeli military historian," and did he collect evidence that "Israeli troops killed, in cold blood, as many as 1,000 Egyptian prisoners?" Perhaps because Yitzhaki's claims are so incendiary, Bamford cites two sources, both dated August 17, 1995: an article from the Washington Post, and the already cited article from Newsday. That these articles are from the same date, however, is no accident – they are, with cuts, the same AP article (datelined August 16)! If this was not an honest mistake, then it was only the beginning of Bamford's deceptions concerning Yitzhaki.
For the AP article of the next day, August 17, revealed that Yitzhaki, a member of a far-right political party in Israel, admitted he came out with his charges to protect the leader of his party, who had just been indirectly implicated in some genuine killings of Egyptian POWs in the 1956 Middle-East war. According to the AP, Yitzhaki "acknowledged that he spoke out mainly to shift attention … from Tzomet leader Raphael Eitan … to leading government officials, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin." That Yitzhaki's credibility was therefore shaky at best is another fact kept from readers by Bamford.
He was a clerk in the department's archive. In 1968, he was an assistant of mine when I conducted a comparative study of the conquests of Sinai in 1948, 1956, and 1967. Had he stumbled on these devastating so-called facts, he would have said so then. The fact is he didn't.
… several hundred armed Palestinian soldiers, in Egyptian Army uniforms, were trying to escape from the Gaza Strip towards Port Said – not knowing that the area was already under IDF control – on the last day of the war [with Egypt]. They exchanged fire with Nahal soldiers and most were later killed by soldiers from the Shaked reconnaissance unit.
The army base here was also in Israeli hands yesterday evening after a three hour battle. Heavy casualties were inflicted, more than a thousand prisoners surrendered and some Egyptian soldiers fled into the desert.
At dawn today an Egyptian commando company struck back. An officer told reporters that the enemy had stormed the camp at daybreak with submachine guns blazing. They inflicted casualties, but were gunned down.
Later this morning, when a battalion commander went toward the home of the governor to arrange for a formal surrender, fire was opened from several houses in the town. The Israelis withdrew, and orders were given to subdue the enemy by shelling.
July 31, 1967: After Israeli treatment wounded Egyptian POWs are carried to a Red Cross ambulance plane for the trip to Cairo. July 31, 1967: In Red Cross ambulance plane a wounded Egyptian POW says goodbye to an Israeli.
Many passages in Body of Secrets and Puzzle Palace display Bamford's fanatical animus towards Israel and its American – especially Jewish-American – supporters, which perhaps explains why he would publish such nonsense. There are also numerous apparently careless errors which further undermine Bamford's believability.
But the bottom line is that merely consulting old newspapers and old photographs is enough to demolish Bamford's new conspiracy theories. Case closed.
Confronted on the NPR program The Connection with the fact that contemporaneous press reports, including New York Times accounts from June 1967, contradict his anti-Israel conspiracy theories, Bamford tried to confuse listeners by acting as if the issue were a recent Times review of Body of Secrets. In the process, Bamford also grossly misrepresented the review, which raised serious questions about his Liberty allegations and his ability to write credibly on Israel. Indeed, the reviewer, Joseph Finder, called the chapter on the Liberty the "weakest" part of the book and speculates that perhaps Bamford's "palpable distaste for the Israeli state" had clouded his judgement.
tacked by Israeli forces; 34 Americans were killed, 171 wounded. Was it, as Israel maintained, a "tragic accident"? Or was it, as conspiracy theorists and some of the ship's survivors insist, a coldblooded and deliberate action by the Israelis in order to eliminate evidence of damaging information the Liberty had intercepted?
Rather too credulously, Bamford sides with the conspiracy theorists. He argues that the Israelis were attempting to cover up a gruesome mass murder by Israeli soldiers of some 400 Egyptian P.O.W.'s at the Sinai town of El Arish. Israel, Bamford claims, acted because it was convinced that the N.S.A. ship was recording intelligence on this massacre. "Israeli soldiers were butchering civilians and bound prisoners by the hundreds," he writes, "a fact that the entire Israeli Army leadership knew about and condoned." He charges, too, that the White House and Congress "covered up" the facts of the attack. But is it really possible that such an explosive secret could have been kept under wraps for so long by the Johnson administration, the United States Congress and all of the famously fractious Israeli Army leadership?
And what serious evidence is there that a massacre of 400 Egyptians really took place? Bamford's own proof seems rather slender. He cites, for instance, the eyewitness testimony of an Israeli journalist, Gabi Bron. Bamford writes: "Bron saw about 150 Egyptian P.O.W.'s sitting on the ground, crowded together with their hands held at the backs of their necks. 'The Egyptian prisoners of war were ordered to dig pits and then army police shot them to death,' Bron said." The implication here is that 150 Egyptians were slaughtered. Yet the journalist's full account actually states, "I saw five prisoners killed this way" — a brutal war crime if true, yes, but of quite a different magnitude.
This, according to Bamford, is an endorsement of his credibility and his allegations concerning Israel. In other words, not only can't Bamford be trusted about what happened in 1967, he can't even be trusted about what happened a week ago.


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New Rule: Matt Harman Talks About Employer Interest in Biosimilar Promotion
Matt Harman talks about employer interest in biosimilar promotion and how the FDA's new biologics pathway change will affect interest levels, during the World Biosimilar Congress USA 2020 at the Festival of Biologics USA in San Diego, California.
Matt Harman is the senior director of pharmacy at Employers Health.
Please discuss the interest level among employers in promoting biosimilar adoption.
There's a large interest in biosimilars for employers, because when you look at [what] employers spend, about 40 to 50% of costs are on specialty medications, and that's why we think of biosimilars as maybe the saviors of specialities, since they can really help reduce the cost to those employers. You look at a client's top 25 drugs, roughly half of them have potential for biosimilars. Some are already approved but not yet on the market. And then, when you think about insulins or growth hormones, with the new rule changes for potential biosimilars, for those products, there's a lot of interest. We really need these type of products to create competition to reduce the specialty trends that have been going up and up and up each year. So, I think there's a very high interest.
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A new narrative for Egypt
Question: Egypt's unfolding political crisis raises a broader question: Can an entrenched, powerful leader, one who has resisted change, successfully lead a country or an organization in a different direction if circumstances suddenly demand it? Or is it necessary to bring in new leadership?
In order to dramatically shift a country or organization's direction, the presence of new leaders is necessary for cohesive, long-lasting change to take root. The first factor to consider when implementing change is the symbolism that communicates that change from the leadership to the people below. An entrenched leader who has consistently resisted change represents the old way of doing things. Even if he has the capacity to lead the country in a new direction, one has to wonder whether he can successfully distance himself from his previous image of being resistant to change.
According to renowned psychologist Howard Gardner, leaders communicate with their followers by creating a narrative that consists of their actions, history and present agenda. This narrative is the key to forming the public image of a leader, and once it has been identified, it cannot easily be altered. A leader whose narrative shows that he is resistant to change will find it very hard to disassociate himself from this image in order to pursue a new direction. However, a new leader starting afresh can form his own narrative quite distinct from the previous leadership, one that better supports the idea of change without being associated with past wrongdoings and false promises.
This new paradigm of power is especially important if the people have been disenchanted with the previous power structure, as in the case of Egypt, and if they are already determined to seek a complete and thorough transformation. President Mubarak is a symbol of Egypt's old, repressive government--one that the people want to do away with entirely. His narrative of autocratic and unquestioned rule has been found wanting by the people and, thus, must be replaced by a new leader with a new narrative.
Inspiring confidence and building the trust of the people is also critical to leading successful change. Keeping the old leadership in power brings the risk that the change will only be temporary and superficial, and that the leaders will return to their old ways as soon as possible. In Saudi Arabia, for example, the ruling regime has promised popular elections for decades but has yet to substantively fulfill this pledge. There is little hope among the Saudi people that real change will unfold under current conditions. The more centralized the power structure is, the greater the need is for new leaders to take over and restore widespread confidence in the decision-makers.
Especially in Egypt, where Mubarak has set a record of not understanding or providing for the needs and interests of his people, only a new leader will be able to persuade the people that their voices will be heard and their interests looked after. Reputation is key in building mutual trust and thus creating unity within an entity, and once a leader's reputation is tarnished, it is very difficult to change the minds of the public.
Iran is the quintessential example of this truth. The 2008 protests over the presidential election in that country demonstrated the nation's unraveled unity due to broken trust and lack of confidence in President Ahmadinejad. His government cannot, as evidenced by its perpetual public disapproval, reclaim the people's trust, which is requisite to establishing successful leadership. In order for a country or organization to implement sweeping reform, the leadership must show firm commitment and thorough comprehension of the changes, as well as build trust and gain the support of their followers.
New leadership is essential when circumstances demand major change and the incumbent has previously shown himself to resist new direction. This is true especially in the case of Egypt, where an autocratic ruler's tired narrative of authoritative leadership has broken the trust of the people and lost their confidence. If the people can no longer trust or respect the old leadership, the best option is to bring in a new administration. A new leader will be able to start fresh and establish a relationship of trust and understanding with his followers, as well as craft a new public image and paradigm for his power. Only this new narrative of power and renewed trust of the people can forge sustainable and significant reforms.
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Crises test a person's leadership. Even if Mubarak took advantage of this time of conflict by modifying his behavior to appease his followers, I doubt he will ever successfully lead his country. Instead, it is vital to Egypt's future and stand in the global community that it brings in, not just new leadership, but a new image. A new symbol for the country. The citizens of Egypt are looking for an end to the hardships they have faced during the past months. They are looking for a new start. This new beginning cannot be achieved with the world looking at it and still seeing Mubarak as the face. Instead, they need a new symbol of what Egypt stands for. They need an Obama. Political views and inclinations put aside, when President Obama came into office, the world looked at him and saw change. When President Obama came into office, the world looked at him and saw change. Despite whatever plans he had for the country, he stood for a new start, and compelled the American people to believe the hard times are over. Egypt needs this new face. A leader who not only takes the country to a different direction but embodies hope. This can also be said for any country or organization that has faced extended hardships and wants a new image.
Posted by: NneomaElendu | February 11, 2011 2:41 AM
While it is true that many countries find strength in new leaders, one cannot state that "a new leader will be able to start fresh". Changing the power-holder will not automatically bring peace to the nation. Egypt has gone through so much struggle already and the country is in such great turmoil that simply bringing in a new leader is not sufficient for change. When someone steps down from a position during a state of unrest, it often happens that matters get worse before they improve. President Mubarak has been ruling in a way that is hurting the nation, and it may be best to remove him from power in exchange for a leader with sights towards the future (as opposed to continuing with the old rule): but it is not a simple switch. There is a process of change that must occur for Egypt to remain stable. There is much hope for the nation, but it is very important for the leaders there, as well as the masses, to understand that while new leadership is on the horizon, there are many obstacles that will get in the way of peace along the way. A new leader will not erase the past. There is much that cannot be undone. President Mubarak should work to better his reputation with the people and while this is occurring new leadership should be arranged.
Posted by: kelseypedersen | February 4, 2011 2:58 PM
I personally also agree with this essay's perspective on the distinction between what represents "new leadership" and "old leadership;" from a symbolic stance, President Mubarak represents almost all that has been despised by the Egyptian people - his leadership remains centered on oppression, autocratic rule, and resistance to change. As the public has demonstrated throughout these recent days, it has become clear that Egypt yearns for a very different form of leadership and power and wishes for a new start.
Additionally, I believe that the situation in Egypt indicates that the public is no longer willing to respond to their current government - they have shown that they do not want to be led by the people who lead them. A new representative government and an onslaught of reform would now be in the best interests of the country as a whole; such changes might possibly be the only way that the country can move forward.
Posted by: AngelaGuo | February 4, 2011 2:55 PM
I agree with the group that new leadership is important when change is demanded but the leader has a reputation for being resistant to change. However, we must be careful about making generalizations with an extreme case in mind. A change in leadership is not always necessary or practical. The Egypt case is a little extreme and obvious because the protestors are specifically calling for a change in leadership. To make matters worse, the authorities' actions against the protesters have shown that the government is in a battle against the people. There is no doubt that a change in leadership is necessary in this case.
To show that a change in leadership is not always necessary or practical, consider the case of an institution that is a leader in school reform in the United States, teachers' unions. To many people, teachers' unions have created an image of being resistant to change. However, both reformers and teachers' unions agree on the ends of their work, improving schools in the United States. Some reformers have called for the elimination of teachers' unions but this is impractical because teachers' unions have support of followers and have a role to play in achieving the goal of improving education in the United States. They are also capable of reforms that are necessary even if a portion of the public sees them as entrenched, powerful, and resistant to change. When change is demanded, the necessity to bring in new leadership to replace leadership that has been resistant to change should be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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As the group from this morning's intelligence briefing filters out of the Oval Office, President Thomas Aldridge arches his back, trying to alleviate the pain that has taken up residence along his lower spine. The world's escalating problems are reflected in the length of the briefings, this one lasting more than an hour. Not only are they dealing with the usual problems—North Korea, Syria, Putin—but a growing trend that's threatening every major computer system, both civilian and government: hacking. And it's gone well beyond a few private e-mails leaked to the press.
The Russian and Chinese governments have hacked their way onto the nation's power grids and there's a growing concern it's only the tip of the iceberg. Aldridge knows from his daily briefings that the United States bears some responsibility for the enemy's computer infiltrations. The computer jocks at the National Security Agency (NSA) were the first to burrow into the power grid computer code in both China and Russia, as well as in many other countries. Aldridge can live with a power grid détente. It's the constant worry about infiltrations into the country's most sensitive networks that keep him up at night.
Aldridge sighs and arches his back a final time before walking over to his desk. A tall man, it doesn't take him long to cover the distance. He circles behind the desk and drops into his seat, reaching for his smartphone. Rail thin, Aldridge runs five miles on the treadmill every morning before most people are out of bed. And at fifty-six, he has the usual aches and pains but he's remarkably healthy for a man who has spent the past three years lugging around the mountain of problems that come with his office. He slips on his reading glasses and pulls up the favorites list on his phone. He sends a text to his son Jacob, a high school senior, about his first-hour calculus test.
The fact that President Aldridge has a smartphone is a long-simmering issue between him and the Secret Service. The battle raged until Inauguration Day, when the service relented and presented him with a phone that had been specially programmed by the computer whizzes at the NSA. Now the phone is always within reach no matter where he is in the world.
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"What's wrong, sir?" Isabella asks, striding across the room.
The President turns the phone her way. On the screen are three words—VENGEANCE IS OURS. The white letters are in stark contrast to the scarlet background.
"I thought your phone was supposed to be unhackable," Isabella says.
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"Colonel, I don't care if they're from Mars. Send me the best we have." The general replaces the handset, stands, and begins pacing the perimeter of his office while his mind clicks through the list of probable suspects.
Located approximately forty miles northwest of the White House on the edge of Fort Meade, the National Security Agency occupies a sprawling office complex dominated by two large buildings sheathed in dark glass. The black glass creates a mysterious aura, befitting the secret work that goes on inside.
Created in 2009, USCYBERCOM started at the back of the pack and remains in catch-up mode as they attempt to thwart the daily assaults on the nation's defense networks. The man charged with the mission, Vickers, is a four-star who rocketed up the army ranks. A broad-shouldered man of average height whose salt-and-pepper hair is cut high and tight, Vickers has two advanced degrees from an Ivy League university. Unfortunately, neither is computer related, and the general is also playing catch-up, learning on the fly.
Vickers stops pacing when there's a knock at his door. "Enter," he shouts. That's the other thing about Vickers—he's not big on gatekeepers. If you want to see him, you knock and enter, if so instructed.
The door opens revealing a woman, early thirties, dressed in ripped jeans, flip-flops, and a T-shirt—all in black. Standing beside her is a man, approximately the same age, tall and broad, outfitted in khakis, a blue blazer, and a button-down shirt. Vickers waves a hand at the two chairs fronting his desk and works his way back to his chair. The woman saunters over, plops down, and crosses her leg, letting a flip-flop dangle from the edge of her big toe. The man straightens his blazer and sits, his posture ramrod straight.
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Treatment for anorexia nervosa is possible and the first line of treatment is usually focused on immediate weight gain. Especially for those whose illness has caused them to develop other medical conditions and require hospitalization. In a lot of cases, people with anorexia are treated as outpatients, with input from physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. It's important to stress that while treatment may sometimes be difficult, because many people with anorexia don't believe there is anything wrong with them, it is possible to recover from anorexia. For some, anorexia is relatively short-lived, while for others it can become a chronic illness. For successful treatment, patients must want to change and it is very important to have family and friends for support.
Treatment usually involves a team of doctors, therapists and nutritionists. A variety of approaches are used, but it is generally accepted that psychotherapy is needed to deal with the underlying emotional issues that helped cause the anorexia. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is sometimes used to change unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. Group therapy is often helpful so that people can share their experiences with others. Family therapy is particularly advised if the individual is living at home and is a child or young adolescent. A physician is needed to prescribe medications that may be useful in treating the depression or anxiety that often accompanies the anorexia. A nutritionist advises the patient about proper diet and eating regimens. Support groups are often very beneficial to both patients and families and will help patients cope with their thoughts and feelings about gaining weight. For those who require outpatient care, the patient receives treatment by visits with members of their health care team. Some patients may need partial hospitalization, which means they go to the hospital during the day for treatment, but they go home at night. Other patients who have serious anorexia go to a hospital and stay there for extended treatment. They usually stay in a special unit for people with eating disorders. After leaving the hospital, the patient continues to get help from her or his health care team.
To summarize, treatment for anorexia nervosa involves changing a person's eating habits, but perhaps more importantly, changing their feelings about their weight, self-esteem and other problems. People with anorexia often need counseling for a year or more to work on changing the feelings that caused their eating problems in the first place. Medication is available to help patients feel less depressed and anxious. These medications are prescribed by a physician and are used along with the counseling. Support from family and friends helps the patient feel accepted and secure, but any person with anorexia should never feel alone. Help is available and treatment is possible. Extreme cases of anorexia require hospitalization, but others may require partial hospitalization or treatment as out-patients.


With the future so destroyed by garbage pollution, Wall-E has traveled back in time to rid the world of the trash dumping past. He first pursues Shelby Forthright, who destroys the planet with toxic waste in the future. He pulls Shelby into him and turns him into a cube. He then turns his tables onto some of the worst greatest producers of trash. Oscar the Grouch, Flint Lockwood, and the offices of MAD, who he considers the "Biggest producers of garbage". As he crushes a cubes the writers of the MAD offices, he finds love in the station Xerox printer, weds it, and gives up on the cubing of the trash producing world.
Between Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Space Alien, one of these is different. The answer is Miley, because her name does not start with an S.
Kids follow Happy the Lucky Charms leprechaun into a cave to get his Lucky Charms only to find his brother Bertram. Bertram is the maker of the brown parts in the cereal. Bertram is bitter and angry due to not being appreciated as much as Happy. Without Bertram, the cereal would be nothing but marshmallows, and not allowed. The kids, nervous being around Bertram, leave the cave, because like everyone, no one is ever after Bertram's brown parts.
The presenter for the Nix Kids Pix Awards for best scrunchies is slimmed. Unfortunately the slime contains radioactive and changes the presenter into a monster that begins to devour the audience.
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Pantightus (Pyan-tie-tusss): The fear that you won't be able to get out of your skinny jeans.
Snowglophobia (Sxo-glo-fobbiyahk): The fear that when you shake a snowglobe, you're ruining the lives of tiny people.
Voltronitis (Voal-TrOhntt-eye(tu)tu$): The fear that the guy that pilots your leg won't show up today.
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A spatula must pick from a group of other spatula's on who is his one and only spatula. But what the other spatula's don't know is that he is a plastic model, that flips, but he is shown because when he does choose the spatula he wants to give his bacon to, she refuses it, and he is found with egg on his flipper.
A police officer tells everyone that a killer is in the same room they are in, and it is one of them. It's probably the guy whose in the electric chair.
The Black Spy shoots a missile from his battleship to hit the White Spy's battleship. The White Spy stretches his out by a spring so the missile will go through it, but the missile splits in half too and hits both parts of the ship.
Lady Gaga has chosen to visit an Amusement Park, but where is she? Is she by the cotton candy? By the water fountain? In the bunny suit? Behind the cardboard cut out, as the clown, knocking over pins at one of the game stations? Nope, she's dressed up as one of the bear prizes.
A toad now has to hop home after his car is towed.
Usher wants to give everyone the feeling he had when he created world pop sensation Justin Bieber. So he created Build-A-Bieber, a place where you can build your own Bieber, who says things like "I'm from Canada", "I love you too", and "I'm from Canada". This Bieber won't make as much money as the real Bieber, but it is cute.
A man on the bus changes the sign "Press Yellow Tape to Request Stop" to "Yell ape to Request Stop". When the passenger next to him yells it, an ape unfortunately grabs the other man and beats him for changing the sign. It is clear that this must have been done before.
Ty Pennington is going to renovate the palace of one of histories greatest heroes. Superman's Fortress of Solitude. After sending Superman off to Disneyland on the misconception that something is wrong, the team renovates his fortress. He gets back from the false alarm only to find that the walls with his fathers influential recording has been replaced by a recording on a big screen tv, his chamber that harasses the suns rays has been replaced by bunk beds, and his phantom zone closet has been opened, much to Superman's displeasure.
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Every year, natural hazards cause significant loss of life and erode gains in economic development. Nine in ten of the most commonly reported disasters are directly or indirectly related to weather or climate. Vulnerability to disasters is increasing as more people inhabit high risk areas. Since 1970, the world's population has grown by 87%. At the same time, the proportion of people living in flood-prone river basins increased by 114% and on cyclone-exposed coastlines by 192%. Rapid urbanization and the growth of megacities will increase exposure to natural hazards. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of the most severe weather-related hazards in the decades to come.
Equipped with quantitative risk information, countries can develop risk management strategies using early warning systems to reduce casualties; medium and long-term sectoral planning (such as land zoning, infrastructure development, water resource management, and agricultural planning) to reduce economic losses and build livelihood resilience; and weather-indexed insurance and risk financing mechanisms to transfer the financial impact of disasters.


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Q: Why does this attempt to customize a type constraint error message fail? The following construct creates a type constraint that functions as expected (checks for the "Roles::Thing" role when an attribute is set)  When an attribute is rejected due to not passing the constraint I would expect the custom error message "Not a thing" to appear; however the default error message is still being given.  What am I doing wrong?
role_type 'DoesThing', {
   role => 'Roles::Thing',
   message => sub { "Not a thing." }
};

Update: I did not provide enough context in the original post.  The way I am trying to use the new type is:
has things => (
  isa => 'ArrayRef[DoesThing]'
);

The type validation does work as expected; however I still get the default error message.  My custom "Not a thing" error message is not propagated as I would have expected it to be.

A: The error message is what you get for an ArrayRef type, regardless of what you're expecting inside it.
To get a custom error message you'll need to incorporate ArrayRef into your type declaration:
subtype 'ArrayOfThings',
    as 'ArrayRef[Roles::Thing]',
    message { 'Not an array of things' };

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TV: MasterChef Season 5, Episode 7 recap
By Ace -
Last week on MasterChef, Tyler was sent home for accidentally serving panna cotta that was not his own; Courtney took the win.
Tonight she begins the competition with a serious advantage. First, she doesn't have to cook. Chef Ramsay tells her she can ascend to the balcony in her "glamorous heels" to watch. Second, tonight's cheftestants will compete in pairs, and she gets to assign the duos.
She pairs Christian and Francis B; Jaimee and Elizabeth; Victoria and Christine; Cutter with Dan Wu; Willie with Daniel; Ahran and her mortal enemy, Leslie; Francis L and Elise.
The challenge: one hour to team up on surf and turf.
Cutter and Dan Wu immediately clash in the pantry. Cutter thinks their two proteins won't marry well. Christian says, "to be honest wit' you, Francis B is awesome, the dude is great, he can cook his ass off," so they're off to a love fest.
Ramsay asks Cutter if he and his partner are ok and Cutter says they are definitely not, it's turned into a "wild tangent" mystery box. "I am so pissed off at Dan Wu; he does not listen to anything; I know I'm probably going into a pressure test because I have an idiot as a partner who just wouldn't listen to me."
Wu tells the camera, "Cutter, under pressure, when things aren't going well, he flips out."
Leslie and Ahran, the oldest competitor and the youngest, are making a pork belly tostada (layered with pork belly, crab guacamole and kimchi fried rice). Ramsay tells Ahran, "Leslie's your bitch." Ahran has developed a newfound respect for Leslie, and Bastianich calls their dish "harmonious…a true marriage." The two hug it out and the hatchet is buried, for the moment, and not in each other's heads.
Dan Wu and Cutter's plate is greeted with "what the f___ is that?" from Ramsay. Cutter says they "ran out of time in the pantry," and it's all Wu's fault. Ramsay points out the obvious: they could've each grabbed a basket and filled it up and then worked it out at the workstation. Their dish, a seared venison loin over a puree of cauliflower and parsnips, and seared ahi tuna marinated over a three-radish salad." Ramsay says it's "possibly one of the worst dishes in this competition so far." Cutter tells Bastianich, "you don't have to eat it." Restaurant Joe responds, "I'm a judge here, I know how to do my job." He theatrically drags a trash can over to their work station and tells Cutter to "do the honors." Dan Wu says he refuses "to play the blame game," and describes what Cutter did as "a cowardly thing."
Francis L and Elise are next up with rack of lamb with crab risotto, yogurt and caviar, topped by blood orange foam. Ramsay likes "the quirkiness" but is unimpressed. "The lamb looks like a dog chew; the caviar looks like frog spawn."
Jaimee and Elizabeth serve lamb and red snapper with carrots and kale. Bastianich says it's a "concept on a plate," that captured exactly the spirit of what they were looking for when they said surf and turf.
Willie and Daniel have prepared seared ahi tuna with buttermilk miso fried chicken. "The flavors are there and it has character," Ramsay says.
Christine and Victoria make pork belly and monkfish with green apple risotto. "Labor intensive and creative," the team shines.
Christian and Francis B have put together moroccan spiced rib eye with king crab and roasted red potatoes. Ramsay is "underwhelmed," by what he characterizes as "bland" "school dinners." He tells them they each have one foot out the door.
The winning dish belonged to Victoria and Christine — up to the gallery — easily safe. Also safe are Leslie and Ahran; Willie and Daniel; Jaimee and Elizabeth. Barely safe are Elise and Francis L, though they're at the bottom.
The four worst must face off in the pressure test: Dan Wu, Christian, Francis B, and Cutter must cook spring rolls with a delicious dipping sauce. Christian loves them but he's never made them before; neither has Cutter. "Thanks for the softball toss to Dan Wu who screwed me," Cutter says bitterly. They are all provided with the exact same ingredients, only limited by their imaginations. Wu uses the pasta maker to roll out his wrapper. Bastianich tells Christian ominously that they could send more than one home. One of Cutter's spring rolls falls apart in the fryer and he has to scramble to make an extra.
Christian serves a vegetable medley with a spicy sweet sauce, with good flavors, "better than average."
Francis B's filling is out of proportion and his spring rolls are greasy. Bastianich wrings his out on a napkin.
Dan Wu includes water chestnuts, oyster mushrooms, snap peas, scallions and red pepper, with a sriracha, soy, ponzu, and plum sauce. Ramsay expected it to be a "master class" but says it was not Wu's best work.
Cutter's are all dough with hardly any filling, and he only provides a teaspoon of unbalanced sauce. Clearly he blames Wu, telling Bastianich, "sometimes people don't work that well together." Bastianich tells him, "sometimes you don't work that well on your own."
Christian is sent to the balcony for the best spring roll of the night. Dan Wu did not meet expectations, but the saving grace was his sauce, and that sends him to the safety of the balcony. Cutter and Francis B are both "in big trouble." Cutter makes it to the balcony; Francis B is sent home for his greasy spring rolls and "gloopy" sauce.
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Columnist unloads on Kennedy Center chief who sacked orchestra after bailout
By World Tribune on March 30, 2020
by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2020
Included in the federal government's coronavirus relief package is $25 million for the Kennedy Center. On the same day the center got news it was getting the emergency funds, the center's president, Deborah Rutter, essentially fired the National Symphony Orchestra's 96 musicians, a columnist noted.
"She gave them a one-week notice," Ralph Z. Hallow wrote for The Washington Times on Monday. "After April 3, the musicians won't see a paycheck till the Wuhan virus emergency ends and the Kennedy Center reopens for business."
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The musicians' health benefits will run out in two months, Hallow noted.
Meanwhile, "the gem of Columbia to Washingtonians, out-of-town and foreign visitors is sitting on an endowment of nearly $100 million," Hallow wrote.
Kennedy Center lists its total assets at $557 million.
"Seems like a lot of buffer for an emergency," Hallow wrote. "What's right with this picture? Nothing."
Rutter is waiving her $1.2 million salary until the coronavirus crisis is over, which Hallow said "is commendable and exemplary." But, Hallow added, "to get some perspectives on this, you should know that the average National Symphony musician's pay is $52,448 a year — or $4,370 a month. That's less than one-twentieth Ms. Rutter's salary."
The total weekly payroll for the center's 96 musicians combined is $400,000. That adds up to $1.6 million every month. Or $19 million a year.
"That eats up most of the $25 million in virus-relief money the U.S. Treasury is borrowing from you — and from Xi Jinping's China — to pay for the $2 trillion Wuhan-virus relief act of 2020," Hallow wrote.
So what if the money was earmarked for maintenance, not salaries?
"Instead of leaving the musicians penniless for God knows how long, why not cut their average pay to, say, $25,000 from $52,448 a year. Or more drastically to $15,000 a year?" Hallow noted. "That's only $1 million a year, as opposed to $19 million, until the virus runs its course?"
"This is not to brush aside the real financial hole into which this and other performing arts centers have plunged," Hallow wrote. "The money crunch has the arts world in general by the throat. The nearly global sheltering at home is choking the world's most prosperous economy. It was roaring ahead until this the new virus strain stopped it dead."
Hallow continued: "Suddenly without ticket revenue, Kennedy Center still had to pay the 3,000 technicians, maintenance, food prospers, servers and other people on its total payroll. Its solution: It'll start paying them zilch in a week, presumably.
Local musicians' union president Ed Malaga slammed the decision to stop paying musicians within a week's time.
Not only does the furloughing decision come "after the musicians had expressed their willingness to discuss ways to accommodate the Kennedy Center during this challenging time…," Malaga said in a statement, "it also comes "from an organization with an endowment of nearly $100 million. …"
Besides, Malaga said, it "is also blatantly illegal under the parties' collective bargaining agreement."
Malaga's assertion of legality aside, Hallow said that what happened to the musicians seems "unfair, unjust and imperious. Unless and until, that is, the Kennedy Center's leadership descends from its imperial perch and deigns to explain otherwise."
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VICE-CHAIRPERSON of the NAM Parliamentary Network
Mr. Ali Ahmed Faysal
Mr. Ali Ahmed Faysal was born in Tarshiha, north of Palestine in 1948.
He studied at UNRWA schools in south Lebanon (Qana), He get a teaching diploma at UNRWA's Siblin Institute in 1971 and joined the Lebanese University in Beirut between 1972 and 1973. He worked for 13 years as a teacher at the UNRWA's School (1971-1984).
Mr. Ali Ahmed Faysal participated in the establishment of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1969 as a member of the DFLP political bureau.
He was elected Vice-President of the Palestinian National Council during the 31st session of the Central Council in February 2022
Mr. Ali Ahmed Faysal is a founding member of a number of Arab frameworks, including Member of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Arab Parties since 2004, Member of the Arab National Conference since 2017, Member of the Arab Coordination Against Normalization since 2021, Member of the Preparatory Committee. He is a member of the Justice Forum for Palestine.
He has published a number of books: Palestinian Refugees and the UNRWA (1996), Refugees and the Right of Return (2000), Sharm El Sheikh Refugees. Permanent Solution (2000), The Disengagement Plan (2005), and the Palestinian issue between annexation and normalization (2021). In addition to a number of studies and articles published in the Palestinian and Arab press.


We call on ECVC's member organizations, allied groups, grassroots networks, and the whole peasant and food sovereignty movement in Europe to mobilize this 25 March – on the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome – for another Europe, for one that cares for its population and not that protects corporate interests, for an agricultural policy that provides quality food, decent income for producers, decent work and protects the environment.
The objectives promised by the Treaty of Rome and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have been kicked down the road for the last decades. Instead we have witnessed the implementation of a series of measures by European institutions that have only benefited a trade agenda controlled by big corporate interests.
Despite being mentioned in the 1957 founding agreement, major objectives such as ensuring a just and dignified life for the agricultural population, stabilizing markets, and ensuring Europe's food supply at prices that are accessible to all consumers, have been largely ignored in the agricultural policies of the last sixty years.
Considering the still outstanding debt to the peasant world, the rural regions of the European Union, and the rest of the European population, ECVC along with a vast coalition of civil society organizations – alliances resulting from the outstanding work carried out by our Italian member and host of this meeting, ARI (Associazione Rurale Italiana) – will carry out a series of actions to recover the initial food security objectives of this agreement, and, at the same time, to reject its productivist dimension, currently obsolete.
Instead, we want the consolidation of a vision adapted to the current challenges of our society, in terms of public health, the environment and social justice. A more detailed program for this day of actions will be shared shortly.
Our key points for a new CAP can be found here.
All together this 25 MARCH for a CAP that serves the Peoples!
60 years of destructive policies is enough!
For the Land, work, health and dignity!


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I'm pretty much addicted to treats. Whenever Bob and Jillian say something like "Food is fuel! If you eat for any reason other than to power your body, you are using it as a crutch in your life and it will destroy you!", I cry a little. And then I say NO. And then I eat more bags of m&m's while I fast-forward through the boring parts of the weigh in.
I'm cool with using chocolate as a reward for a hard day. And I'm pretty sure if Jillian had a two-year-old she would do it too.
Sometimes though, I do try to eat healthy... healthier. Nowhere to go but up really. I pretty much have a dessert after every meal so... yeah.
And I'm proud to say that I did a good job yesterday! Well, I did have coco puffs for breakfast and pizza for lunch, but I ate zero desserts! And I barely even noticed until the headache and cold sweats started. But by then it was after 9 and I don't typically eat that late. A girl's got to have some standards.
Anyway, I wish I could say that this fruit challenge inspired me to change my life but I can assure you it did not.
Looks almost pretty enough to eat though, doesn't it?
We have had an abundance of tomatoes in our garden, and if you know me at all, you know I hate them. A cruel joke to have our tomatoes flourish with almost no help from me while a lindor truffle/money tree, a crop I would weed daily for, still ceases to exist.
Okay then, I think I've derailed the blog long enough.
i'm addicted to desserts too.


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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using Thrift;
using Thrift.Collections;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using Thrift.Protocol;
using Thrift.Transport;

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  {
    private string _name;
    private string _strategy_class;
    private Dictionary<string, string> _strategy_options;
    private int _replication_factor;
    private List<CfDef> _cf_defs;
    private bool _durable_writes;

    public string Name
    {
      get
      {
        return _name;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.name = true;
        this._name = value;
      }
    }

    public string Strategy_class
    {
      get
      {
        return _strategy_class;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.strategy_class = true;
        this._strategy_class = value;
      }
    }

    public Dictionary<string, string> Strategy_options
    {
      get
      {
        return _strategy_options;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.strategy_options = true;
        this._strategy_options = value;
      }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// @deprecated ignored
    /// </summary>
    public int Replication_factor
    {
      get
      {
        return _replication_factor;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.replication_factor = true;
        this._replication_factor = value;
      }
    }

    public List<CfDef> Cf_defs
    {
      get
      {
        return _cf_defs;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.cf_defs = true;
        this._cf_defs = value;
      }
    }

    public bool Durable_writes
    {
      get
      {
        return _durable_writes;
      }
      set
      {
        __isset.durable_writes = true;
        this._durable_writes = value;
      }
    }

    public Isset __isset;
    #if !SILVERLIGHT
    [Serializable]
    #endif
    public struct Isset {
      public bool name;
      public bool strategy_class;
      public bool strategy_options;
      public bool replication_factor;
      public bool cf_defs;
      public bool durable_writes;
    }

    public KsDef() {
      this._durable_writes = true;
    }

    public void Read (TProtocol iprot)
    {
      TField field;
      iprot.ReadStructBegin();
      while (true)
      {
        field = iprot.ReadFieldBegin();
        if (field.Type == TType.Stop) {
          break;
        }
        switch (field.ID)
        {
          case 1:
            if (field.Type == TType.String) {
              Name = iprot.ReadString();
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          case 2:
            if (field.Type == TType.String) {
              Strategy_class = iprot.ReadString();
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          case 3:
            if (field.Type == TType.Map) {
              {
                Strategy_options = new Dictionary<string, string>();
                TMap _map60 = iprot.ReadMapBegin();
                for( int _i61 = 0; _i61 < _map60.Count; ++_i61)
                {
                  string _key62;
                  string _val63;
                  _key62 = iprot.ReadString();
                  _val63 = iprot.ReadString();
                  Strategy_options[_key62] = _val63;
                }
                iprot.ReadMapEnd();
              }
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          case 4:
            if (field.Type == TType.I32) {
              Replication_factor = iprot.ReadI32();
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          case 5:
            if (field.Type == TType.List) {
              {
                Cf_defs = new List<CfDef>();
                TList _list64 = iprot.ReadListBegin();
                for( int _i65 = 0; _i65 < _list64.Count; ++_i65)
                {
                  CfDef _elem66 = new CfDef();
                  _elem66 = new CfDef();
                  _elem66.Read(iprot);
                  Cf_defs.Add(_elem66);
                }
                iprot.ReadListEnd();
              }
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          case 6:
            if (field.Type == TType.Bool) {
              Durable_writes = iprot.ReadBool();
            } else {
              TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            }
            break;
          default:
            TProtocolUtil.Skip(iprot, field.Type);
            break;
        }
        iprot.ReadFieldEnd();
      }
      iprot.ReadStructEnd();
    }

    public void Write(TProtocol oprot) {
      TStruct struc = new TStruct("KsDef");
      oprot.WriteStructBegin(struc);
      TField field = new TField();
      if (Name != null && __isset.name) {
        field.Name = "name";
        field.Type = TType.String;
        field.ID = 1;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        oprot.WriteString(Name);
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      if (Strategy_class != null && __isset.strategy_class) {
        field.Name = "strategy_class";
        field.Type = TType.String;
        field.ID = 2;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        oprot.WriteString(Strategy_class);
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      if (Strategy_options != null && __isset.strategy_options) {
        field.Name = "strategy_options";
        field.Type = TType.Map;
        field.ID = 3;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        {
          oprot.WriteMapBegin(new TMap(TType.String, TType.String, Strategy_options.Count));
          foreach (string _iter67 in Strategy_options.Keys)
          {
            oprot.WriteString(_iter67);
            oprot.WriteString(Strategy_options[_iter67]);
          }
          oprot.WriteMapEnd();
        }
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      if (__isset.replication_factor) {
        field.Name = "replication_factor";
        field.Type = TType.I32;
        field.ID = 4;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        oprot.WriteI32(Replication_factor);
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      if (Cf_defs != null && __isset.cf_defs) {
        field.Name = "cf_defs";
        field.Type = TType.List;
        field.ID = 5;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        {
          oprot.WriteListBegin(new TList(TType.Struct, Cf_defs.Count));
          foreach (CfDef _iter68 in Cf_defs)
          {
            _iter68.Write(oprot);
          }
          oprot.WriteListEnd();
        }
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      if (__isset.durable_writes) {
        field.Name = "durable_writes";
        field.Type = TType.Bool;
        field.ID = 6;
        oprot.WriteFieldBegin(field);
        oprot.WriteBool(Durable_writes);
        oprot.WriteFieldEnd();
      }
      oprot.WriteFieldStop();
      oprot.WriteStructEnd();
    }

    public override string ToString() {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("KsDef(");
      sb.Append("Name: ");
      sb.Append(Name);
      sb.Append(",Strategy_class: ");
      sb.Append(Strategy_class);
      sb.Append(",Strategy_options: ");
      sb.Append(Strategy_options);
      sb.Append(",Replication_factor: ");
      sb.Append(Replication_factor);
      sb.Append(",Cf_defs: ");
      sb.Append(Cf_defs);
      sb.Append(",Durable_writes: ");
      sb.Append(Durable_writes);
      sb.Append(")");
      return sb.ToString();
    }

  }

}

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