One of the most important variables behind the miracle of the speed of growth and recovery in the Asia economies is the quality of education. First of all, the competition for top universities starts from a very early age. The work ethic, ambition and resilience that is embedded in societies directly influences university curricula. The point of education in Asia is to equip people to become productive members of their given societies as well as equip the students with the skills and mentality to be able to successfully compete against the masses of other applicants. Asian students and schools receive continuously top marks in international rankings and this has been directly reflected in the success stories of several countries.
As a Youth among Asian countries we have responsibilities and rights to contribute and solve the problems that exist. Therefore, we want to create Youth Excursion which will accommodate ideas from youth and be a platform to exchange knowledge about entreprenuership, innovation technology, social and cultural exchange. Furthermore, they will enhance more understanding and knowledge about Asia society and they will know what they need to be one as an Asia entity.
In order to provide strategic platform for WORLD youth to learn and enhance concepts and understanding about the ideation and real action that we need to do through discuss with some experts.
To meet WORLD youth with government, university and entrepreneur from WORLD countries to knowledge them about how to become great leader and young entrepreneur success in order to support WORLD Economic Community.
Airport assistance is an assisting set-up from the committee for all delegates. The assistance will be from Haneda International Airport to Hotel. Assistance means that some of committees will be in airport to guide the participants to come in the check-In point by using public transportation.
It will be in Hotel at Tokyo. Check in is a registration for the accommodation of the delegates.
In this session, there will be warm welcoming dinner and some ice breaking games to build good and dynamic atmosphere between the participants. The participants will also be given opportunity to share their epic and dazzling experiences in order to get to know each other better. We will invite student communities in Tokyo too for participants to build networking with.
Award Ceremony, Closing and Dinner is an agenda to mark the end of Youth Excursion Tokyo Japan 2017 program and the begining of the Youth Excursion Tokyo Japan 2017 Alumni as a new family. Closing ceremony as well as giving the certificates to the participants by Indonesia Global Network officials.
The participants will be given the opportunity to feel and experience one of the most famous Japanese Tradition in Oedo Onsen. Oedo Onsen is a theme park to experience the Japanese Traditional Hot Spring. The participants will wear the traditional Yukata during the visit to the Oedo Onsen provided by the facility.


Yup, you read that right. Ok, it's not that new. I got it in August.
I had been thinking about this for a while. I thought I would wait until a milestone, like my 30th birthday. Then I quit my job and came to Thailand. I was taking this chance, embarking on a new adventure. I realized this birthday, my 28th, would be the first one I spend abroad. That's a milestone. I started thinking about a tattoo more and more.
The hardest part was deciding what I wanted. Whatever I chose would be on my body forever. FOREVER. Forever is a very long time.
Sunflowers make me smile. They always have. They are just such smiley, happy flowers. I dream of living in a field of sunflowers. Insert profound metaphor about the sunflower constantly turning to face the sun here.
So that's what I went with. A sunflower, on my arm.
I found a tattoo artist that came highly recommended, met with him to discuss what I wanted, and made an appointment and put down a deposit. That was the important part. I put down a deposit, so now I couldn't chicken out.
I found a friend to hold my hand and it was all set!
It didn't hurt as much as I expected it to. It felt like a cat scratching me…for an hour. I couldn't watch though. My friend kept assuring me that it was looking good. After an hour of cat scratches it was done. I love it.
Some much needed chocolate ice cream and careful washing followed. Now it's healed and lovely.
I only got buyers remorse once. Then I remembered that I actually love it, and that it's on there forever so I don't have a choice. But, I actually love it and have no regrets.
People say it's addicting. People say once you get your first tattoo, you keep wanting more and more. Not sure I get that. I mean I might consider another one in the future, but I'm definitely not addicted.


I'm looking for someone to play the Stalker(s) in this RP. If anyone is interested, please PM me for details, over Discord or LOK.
Here is the link to the RP Discord.
Mind if I join in once I get my ten posts in?
Leo Sernalia Wrote: Mind if I join in once I get my ten posts in?
I'd have to see your character sheet, you'd probably need a custom Syndicate now, and do you use Discord?
You just paste a link in your sheet, anyone can click it.
This RP is being put on hold for now, since I'm not happy with the mechanics. I'll repost it with the new mechanics when I'm done, however, I'll be putting up a new RP soon. I should be done reworking the mechanics for this RP when that one ends.


This poster is from the 1936 referendum. The text says that German industrial production has risen from 34.8 billion marks in 1932 to 58.3 billion in 1935. "An unprecedented increase in industrial production is the result of the Führer's economic policy. Keep it going! Vote for the Führer on 29.3!" Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Library.


Image Title: Interior Home Design Ideas Floor Lamps With Dimmers Throughout Lamp Dimmer Plan 11. Post Title: Floor Lamp Dimmer. Filename: interior-home-design-ideas-floor-lamps-with-dimmers-throughout-lamp-dimmer-plan-11.jpg. Image Dimension: 290 x 290 pixels. Images Format: jpg/jpeg. Publisher/Author: Eino Nolan. Uploaded Date: Sunday - February 10th. 2019 16:47:13 PM. Category: Architecture. Image Source: ikea.com. ARTIVA Saturn 71 In Brushed Steel LED Torchiere Floor Lamp With Dimmer Designs 6. Interior Home Design Ideas Floor Lamps With Dimmers Throughout Lamp Dimmer Plan 11. Lamp With Dimmer Floor Inside Decor 17 Sweeterrhythm Com Intended For 5. Lamp Dimming Switch Floor Table Dimmer Transformer In Remodel 9. 300 Watt Halogen Floor Lamp With Dimmer Amazon Com Within Plan 0. Table Lamp Touch Dimmer Switch Curved Floor Standing With Regard To Prepare 3. Mother And Child Floor Lamp Silver Finish 1X300 1X50 Halogen Inside Dimmer Ideas 7. Lutron SPS300LDRP Table And Floor Lamp Dimmers ELights With Regard To Dimmer Remodel 10. Foot Push Lamp Dimming Switch Black Transparent Floor Table In Dimmer Remodel 16. Floor Lamp With Dimmer Design Lite Lighting And For Remodel 8.


text:
Benthiavalicarb ist eine chemische Verbindung aus der Gruppe der Benzothiazole, Carbamate und Valinamide. Das Fungizid wurde von Kumiai Chemical und Ihara entwickelt und 2005 als Pflanzenschutzmittel eingeführt.

Gewinnung und Darstellung
Benthiavalicarbisopropyl kann durch Reaktion von Chlorameisensäureisopropylester mit L-Valin und Reaktion des entstehenden Zwischenproduktes mit 2-(1-Aminoethyl)-6-fluorbenzothiazol gewonnen werden.

Eigenschaften
Benthiavalicarb ist ein weißer geruchloser Feststoff. Er ist stabil gegenüber Hydrolyse bei pH-Werten von 4, 7 und 9.

Verwendung
Benthiavalicarb und seine Derivate wie Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl [Mischung des (R)- und (S)-Isomers] werden als Fungizid verwendet. Die Wirkung beruht auf der Hemmung der Phospholipid-Biosynthese.

Zulassung
Der Wirkstoff wurde zum 1. August 2008 in den Anhang I der Richtlinie 91/414/EWG aufgenommen und gilt damit in der Europäischen Union als zulässig.

In Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz sind Pflanzenschutzmittel (z. B. Valbon) mit diesem Wirkstoff zugelassen.

Einzelnachweise

Carbamat
Benzothiazol
Alkansäureamid
Fluorsubstituierter Heteroaromat
Pflanzenschutzmittel (Wirkstoff)
Fungizid

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
03:44 am - So... now for a proper RCFM con report.
Edit: Pictures!
I have to say this first. Before RCFM this year, much like Corsi Mouse, I've never had any form of Post-Con Depression. I go back from a con feeling good, purified from focused effort without having to concentrate on maintaining a societal mask of propriety.
I was, for the first time in my life truly able to understand the term tears of joy. I was driving back up to Kansas City, my stereo picked the following two songs in a row: Stray! by Steve Conte, followed by a cut-down version I'm working on of Beloved by VNV Nation that fades in with only a few seconds of the 1-minute strings intro, directly into the monologue, trimming down the instrumental, and ending after the first crescendo without the reprise. Basically, 01:00-04:22, with about 20-odd seconds being massaged out in the 03:22-03:50 sequence.
Yes, it's meant to fit into a 03:00 slot and have a very sudden stop. =^.^=
I was singing along to the first one, suddenly I just couldn't sing... I couldn't stop myself from singing... but the air wouldn't gather in my lungs. It wasn't "I have to pull over and weep" tears, it felt more like Furp was there, giving me a thumbs up (I missed his toast until after the fact, something that had been nibbling at my ankles a little), everything from the con was rushing in like I was only noticing everything I'd done for the first time... right then. All the wonderful adventure I'd had this year, the dozen or more new people I'd had a chance to actually talk to instead of my usual 'HiBye!' routine of so, so, so, SO many years past at conventions.
And now... ...the actual con-report itself.
Unlike a lot, I drove down both overnight, and WAY the fuck early. As in, I left around 7pm on Wednesday, stopped for a meeting with Crown Autocross before hitting the road and ending up bombing down US Route 65 at about 01:00, chatting with a couple truckers and being warned very politely where any bad road spots were. Got the chance to enjoy all 60-odd miles of the 65 coming down out of the Ozarks without issue, and really unwound the Yaris in a way I haven't had a chance to do since I last drive in the California mountains. Found out from three or four truckers a better route would have been 62 east then cutting down to Memphis, both for time and twisties, but the drive was energizing, uneventful, and beautiful.
Getting in to Memphis, I traded driving duties, took a nap, etc, ended up getting in to Huntsville and RCFM before noon. Immediately saw isfacat, among others, said hi. Managed to bum a shower off of... someone, felt a million times better at that point. But started to need sleep, and no sleep until much later that evening. Around 1am the next morning in fact. Thought, "Maybe I should warn them that Heros will be late getting in," and told the front desk, they misheard Heros' last name. Someone ELSE had called in, with a very similar last name, and not even with RCFM, and had warned that someone with my first name might or might not be waiting for them at the hotel.
So... yeah, first night, due to sleep-dep slur and coincidence, I got a very nice room all to myself. When Joel got in, we got things sorted out the next day, kept the smoking room I'd gotten with two double beds in it so we all had plenty of crash space. =^.^=
Minor side-track note: Friday morning, before I'd realized the room snafu or even touched bases with Joel, I was starting to unpack the fursuit that pistolpop was kind enough to let me borrow for the con. And then it hit me like a freight-train, "Smoking room." Aiieee!
So... immediately head out into the main hotel... and spot Corsi Mouse out and about. He gets me set up with a safe spot to store the suit, and that's averted. End up deciding to dive into it right then, and get suited up after brushing everything out as best as I can. Little fiddling here and there, thunk, suit goes on. And out I go, romprompromp.
And immediately find out I missed a huge crowd of suiters that were just outside on the bridge having antics, while I was just stompin' around the main lobby and wondering where all the suiters were. Right before they all romp in, up the elevator, and bee-line for the headless lounge. That was my luck for about half the con, it seemed. No complaints, just didn't know where the suiters were heading a lot of the time since I wasn't used to thinking like a suiter, but like a handler still.
So... ended up changing out during opening ceremonies, and making at least a token pass through the LAN room, if I remember correctly. Most of the con was a blur like this, I don't want to make a cheesy reference but those 'flashback moments' in The 6th Day were very much what things felt like at various times. After that, off to bed as a relatively reasonable hour, mostly so I could always make sure to take full advantage of the delicious and wonderful free breakfast included in the room-rate.
One minor high-point was the 'backup fursuit dance' since we didn't get the Ballroom for that on Friday, Corsi wrangled a last-minute setup in the headless lounge, which turned into quite a bit of fun. Had kaiyasoftpaw do a brief stint as a dance instructor during an akward remix of Thriller that kept dangling all the fun bits... then running away with them until the very end when it finally gave us all the fun-to-dance-to bits out of order but all at once.
I never once had the opportunity to actually try some of the made-to-order omelets the amazing guy behind the counter was cooking, but I have to compliment him just for being so positive about things. He was honestly a bit of a highlight of going to breakfast every morning, was seeing how he could get everyone a bit more chipper and awake that was waiting for food from him. =^.^=
But after breakfast on Saturday, hit the dealers den and artists alley briefly to peruse, plan a few purchases for later, prowled around until it was time for the parade. snapcat is right that the hotel, while nice and staffed with excellent line-and-duty staffers, did feel a bit like visiting grandmother's house. There simply wasn't anywhere for suiters to romp around, except pooling up like a puddle at the elevator lobby, or the only walkway between there and the con event-space, or hang out in the headless lounge. The main lobby was one third only open during breakfast/booze hour, another third only during lunch/dinner/booze, and both of those areas were off-limits to fursuiters at all times. Explicitly. So... you either went out the back way through the neighboring convention center bridge to get outside and wander the park over the canal, or you romped around the balconies of the hotel in your suit.
So... not the best, but the parade was fun. We barely all fit into the dealers den, just too damn many suiters actually there. Turns out some gathered for bowling, others for other things, but as a result most of the suiters weren't actually doing much in the hotel proper. For non-suiters and just day-to-day attendee's? The main staff could be very nice. But once you got in suit, the only ones that seemed happy to see you were all the maids and facilities staff. I had more of them (very politely) ask me for photo-op's, and take more pictures, than everyone else put together in the con. Hung out and about, poked my head in various parties, but again didn't stay up late.
Only akward moment was trying to go pick up a pack of smokes for likeshine and painteddog due to stumbling into a law I wasn't aware of that outright bans all second-party tobacco sales. Not just 'you must be X years old' but 'no purchases for someone else under any circumstances' that I wasn't aware of. So... social engineering roll, hit up a gas station, end up getting the same smokes for a buck less a pack than WalMart wanted for them anyways. And get giant-sized Reese's Cups. Win.
Ah... the last day of the con. This was a hoot, thanks in no small part to the Fursuit Games (yay, dizzy rally! I was beat after that and wandered the halls and headless lounge, got back in time to see the twister finale) and much running around before-paw to get supplies for same games in order. Got plonked into one of Solion's cooling vests for 3 or 4 hours total, which made romping around in the full suit practically trivial. snapcat got to use it after me, I heard a third got a spin before the battery pack finally ran down. Very cool tech, literally, not figuratively. Fullsuit becomes as easy as a partial to wear, even under the muscle-padding and what-not that some suits use. Yes, Sunday went by this quickly.
After that, sadly packed up the husky... for all of an hour. When I finally poked my head into the HNL party (the deader-than-dead-dog party after the con is well and truly over, around midnight onwards) I ran into tisket in her Moxie partial. Felt odd being out of suit, admited it, she nudged me to go back and get it unpacked enough to wear. So... yeah, ended up hanging around talking to Tisket and Sage until some ungodly hour of like 4am, some mundanes managed to somehow talk their way into the HNL which made things go from relaxed 'heavy but positive' party to 'ack!' like a knife-switch got thrown. Nobody panicked, it was all orderly, but very much a 'knob turned down from 11 to 5' kind of moment.
Made me doubly glad I had a mask/head on though, as Tisket put it, "They can't see the expression on your face," which was an oddly amusing little inside joke. So we could stick out tongues out, etc, and stress-vent so easily inside our own little private space. That got the knob back up to 7 or 8 for us two at least. =^.^=
Finally crashed for a few hours around 5am-8am. Breakfast, ROAD RALLY! There's simply no other way to describe getting from Huntsville, Alabama, all the way back to Kansas City, Missouri, when you leave at 9am and are back in 10 hours. Yes, including stopping for gas. CB for the win of getting to actually sleep before work.
Only downside to the con was a strained the rotator cuff on my right shoulder from all the overhead and behind-the-back zipper-string pulling to get in and out of suit as much as I did. Was painful enough I went home early from work on Tuesday, but some ibuprofen over two days and a night's sleep with being careful about the arm, good as new.
So... yeah, depending on how FC goes this year at it's new hotel, I may be focusing on RCFM more myself now. *laughs* At the very least... suiting! Yay! OmNomNom! Must do that more, and soon! And thank you so much, pistolpup, it really made RCFM an utter blast instead of me likely just sitting in the LAN room all con if I hadn't had that suit along!
I can honestly say I haven't felt this energized in months. Yes, I'm exhausted, but I'm... full of strength I didn't have before this con. Even at work I've noticed it, I'm more assertive now, more comfortable in my own skin, after getting a chance to really unwind in another skin... the ritual of switching skins like that really let me unburden myself in a way I don't think I have since the last time I could fullsuit.24 commentsLeave a comment
brodycatsmouth - 02:05 pm
Thanks so much for your annual volunteer efforts. I know I can count on you for the dirty jobs!
wolfwings - 05:17 pm - Always glad to help in whatever way I can!
And I'll definately be there next year again. =^.^=

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Which yoga class level is good for me?
In the Gotta Joga app, there are now more than 100 yoga classes to choose from. They are organized in themed programs, such as Morning, Beginner or Core.
Some programs may contain classes of different difficulty levels of yoga.
In the latest version of the Gotta Joga app (iOS 3.16 and Android 1.8) we have added the difficulty level of each yoga class.
Here is a short introduction helping you select a class that may suit you best.
In addition there are some classes marked as "For All", such as mantras, pranayamas (breathing exercises) or meditations.
If you are a true beginner in yoga, or not actually doing much physical activity, these classes are made for you. You can be stiff, without muscular power or overweight, don't worry. These classes have a low tempo, and the poses are explained in detail for you to learn the correct alignment of your body. You will learn to sync the poses to your breathing, and slowly enter in the world of yoga practice.
You will learn to know and feel your body, start building strength. Watch the video once before practicing if you wish. And if you feel tired, don't hesitate to rest in Child's pose.
Get started with our Absolute Beginner 0.0 Program or look for classes marked with level 0.
These are also beginner classes, but they require that you are doing some physical activity. Or that you have done some yoga classes, so that you are familiar with the basic postures.
Start with our Beginner Program, with 6 short exercises to familiarize yourself, or repeat the basis poses from down dog to tree.
A good fitness check is to walk up the stairs up to the 3rd floor. Does it feel ok? Then you are ok to practice level 1 classes.
You continue learning to feel and know your body, while practicing in the rhythm of your breath. Little by little, your strength and flexibility start improving. Your spine becomes straighter, and you start feeling calmer from inside.
We hold the poses a little bit longer, combine them with other poses into yoga flows, and start learning the sanskrit names oft he poses.
It is always good to return to level 1 classes (even for us seasoned yogis), to repeat the alignment of the basic poses that you continue to repeat in all yoga sequences.
These are intermediate yoga classes, requiring a certain familiarity with yoga. We recommend them after you have practiced regularly for some months, maybe a year, depending on your frequency of practice.
The classes start getting longer in length and include some more difficult or strenuous poses.
You will start learning more rare poses such as Koundinasana Prep, Natarajasana or Vasisthasana variations. You will get familiar with the Sanskrit names of the yoga poses.
Theses classes are meant for advanced yogin(i)s. Some of the classes are long, up to 100 minutes which require some endurance! You will be moving into headstands, handstands and stronger backbends.
We recommend these classes for students who, parallel to their home practice, also go to a real yoga studio with a yoga teacher, and learn the correct alignment in the poses.
You don't have to be a yoga teacher to practice level 3 classes of Gotta Joga. If you feel ready, try these classes and if there is a pose that is too challenging for you, you can try it again another day!
This category of practices include mantras and meditations that are for all yogin(i)s.


Ethiopia is one of the world's poorest countries.
More than a quarter of its population living on less than $1 a day. Natural disasters are frequent: droughts, floods and insect infestations regularly threaten large rural areas of the country. Most Ethiopians rely on farming to survive, but it is extremely difficult to grow anything in such harsh climate conditions.
Poor rainfall leaves communities across Ethiopia in desperate need of water, with thousands even migrating to other areas in hope of better access. With no food or clean water, children become ill and malnourished, with many dying young as a result.
Islamic Relief worked in Ethiopia to provide relief during severe droughts in 2000, 2001 and 2002, opening a permanent office in January 2004. As well as emergency relief, we carry out long-term development projects to improve access to healthcare, education,water and sanitation.
We also aim to give communities food security, protecting them from future disasters by helping them prepare in advance, as well as giving livelihoods support so that families can start providing for themselves. By giving loans and business training to women, we have helped them start small businesses which now support their entire families.
In the throes of the 2011 famine, Islamic Relief launched a widescale emergency response operation to save as many of the 12 million lives in danger as possible.


text:
Q: unable to create a dict comprehension I try to create this dic :
a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
[{"numberfirst": x, "numbersecond":y} for (x,y) in (a,b)]

My goal is to get that :
[
 {"numberfirst": 1, "numbersecond":4},
 {"numberfirst": 2, "numbersecond":5},
 {"numberfirst": 3, "numbersecond":6},
]

But I got that :
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)

Anyone who can help me ?
Thank you very much !

A: Use zip(a,b) instead (a,b)
l = [{"numberfirst": x, "numbersecond":y} for (x,y) in zip(a,b)]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


EcCare Health Centers accept and file claims with most insurance companies. Upon your arrival, our friendly staff will obtain verification of your insurance benefits by giving your insurance company a call.
For those of you who wish to schedule a non-urgent visit with us in advance, you may submit your insurance information to us by e-mail. Please allow 48 hours processing time for contact of your insurance provider. Our email address for insurance information is Insurance@EcCare.com.
If you are visiting the DFW area when you need our services, we will make sure your personal physician receives a full report of your visit so that your care can be continued when you return home.
If you do not see see your Insurance carrier in the list below, please call us at 972-659-1234. We will be happy to verify your coverage for you.


text:
package org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.form.handler;

import java.util.concurrent.Callable;

import org.camunda.bpm.application.ProcessApplicationReference;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.ProcessEngineException;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.delegate.VariableScope;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.bpmn.parser.BpmnParse;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.context.Context;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.context.ProcessApplicationContextUtil;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.persistence.entity.DeploymentEntity;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ProcessDefinitionEntity;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.util.xml.Element;
import org.camunda.bpm.engine.variable.VariableMap;

/**
 * @author Roman Smirnov
 *
 */
public abstract class DelegateFormHandler {

  protected String deploymentId;
  protected FormHandler formHandler;

  public DelegateFormHandler(FormHandler formHandler, String deploymentId) {
    this.formHandler = formHandler;
    this.deploymentId = deploymentId;
  }

  public void parseConfiguration(Element activityElement, DeploymentEntity deployment, ProcessDefinitionEntity processDefinition, BpmnParse bpmnParse) {
    // should not be called!
  }

  protected <T> T performContextSwitch(final Callable<T> callable) {

    ProcessApplicationReference targetProcessApplication = ProcessApplicationContextUtil.getTargetProcessApplication(deploymentId);

    if(targetProcessApplication != null) {

      return Context.executeWithinProcessApplication(new Callable<T>() {
        public T call() throws Exception {
          return doCall(callable);
        }

      }, targetProcessApplication);

    } else {
      return doCall(callable);
    }
  }

  protected <T> T doCall(Callable<T> callable) {
    try {
      return callable.call();
    } catch (RuntimeException e) {
      throw e;
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new ProcessEngineException(e);
    }
  }

  public void submitFormVariables(final VariableMap properties, final VariableScope variableScope) {
    performContextSwitch(new Callable<Void> () {
      public Void call() throws Exception {
        Context.getProcessEngineConfiguration()
            .getDelegateInterceptor()
            .handleInvocation(new SubmitFormVariablesInvocation(formHandler, properties, variableScope));

        return null;
      }
    });
  }

  public abstract FormHandler getFormHandler();

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


26 September marks one month since the open-ended cease fire entered into force. Although it continues to hold, the situation remains tense.
The new UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Makarim Wibisono, travelled to Amman and Cairo and received briefings from key actors in Gaza, including UNICEF with members of the Child Protection Working Group and Education Cluster.
The total number of Palestinian deaths caused by the recent conflict has reached 2,157, following recent deaths of four Palestinians, including two children, who succumbed to wounds sustained during the hostilities.
An explosion of explosive remnants of war killed three people and injured two on 19 September.
The number of IDPs in collective shelters continues to fluctuate with 63,075 sheltering in 19 UNRWA school buildings and 1 Governmental school.
The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee met on Monday 22 September in New York.
Reports from the IMF, the WB and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process highlighted the heavy toll the hostilities have taken on the Palestinian Economy.
The latest assessment data from MoEHE indicates that 187 schools registered damages of which 26 are severely damaged and 2 completely destroyed.
The ceasefire that entered into force on 26 August has held for a month. Nevertheless the situation remains a protracted emergency. The people of Gaza continue to feel uncertain about the future due to concerns over the unstable political and security situation as well as poor economic outlook. The blockade on Gaza remains in place curtailing reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts. An estimated 20,000 homes are believed to be uninhabitable and 40,000 more require some repairs. 60,000 people are still sheltering in collective shelters and an estimated 50,000 more are staying with host families. The Gaza Power plant remains inoperable resulting in 18 hours of power outages a day and 20-30 per cent of water and sewage networks damaged during the crisis still affect approximately 450,000 people and one million people respectively.
The ceasefire still holds one month after it came into effect. However, the situation is tense and the people of Gaza remain insecure. Israeli naval forces have fired warning shots at Palestinian fishing boats approaching or exceeding the Israeli imposed fishing limit. Israeli forces conducted land clearing operations 100-200 m within Gaza and on 23 September fired towards Gaza from the border east of Khan Younis. A test rocket was fired from East of Khan Younis on 21 September.
Two children were among four additional Palestinians to die of wounds sustained during the Gaza conflict. In total, 2,157 persons were killed due to the hostilities in Gaza, of which 1,479 are believed to have been civilians, 295 militants and 383 unknown. Children make up 34 per cent of the civilian casualties. Between 8 July and 26 August, at least 506 Palestinian children were reported killed during the hostilities in Gaza.
The child casualties include 316 boys and 190 girls, aged between 10 days and 17 years old.
Of the 506 children, at least 346 child casualties, or 68%, are 12 years old or younger.
Of the 190 girls, 145 casualties, or 76%, are 12 years old or younger.
The number of child casualties exceeds the combined number of children killed in the two previous conflicts in Gaza, which was 350 in 2008-9 and 35 in 2012. The number of child casualties may continue to rise, as children with serious injuries are still being treated in hospitals, and as further verification of earlier incidents is ongoing. In addition, children continue to be at grave risk of unexploded ordnances as a direct result of the hostilities.
An unexploded ordinance exploded in a house in Shejaiyeh on 19 September killing three people and injuring two.
The total number of internally displaced persons continues to fluctuate, this week it has increased to 63,075. The IDPs are being sheltered in 20 Collective Centres, 19 UNRWA school buildings and 1 Governmental school building. The last government school still being used as a collection for IDPs is a severely damaged school in Beit Hanoun, North Gaza.
Reports submitted to the Committee from the IMF, WB and the UN identified three key steps that need to be taken immediately in order for the Palestinian economy to improve. The first identified step is the lifting of restrictions on movement and access. The second is for the governance framework for the West Bank and Gaza to be under a single legitimate authority. The third step is for the international community to provide essential additional funding to enable reconstruction and reforms in Gaza.
MoEHE, in collaboration with UNICEF, is finalizing the list of damaged schools that it plans to repair in 2014. The latest assessment data from MoEHE indicates that 187 schools registered damages of which 26 are severely damaged and 2 completely destroyed. The repairs to 26 schools in West Gaza are due to start this week through a partnership agreement with ACF valued at just over US$64,000. All repairs should be completed by the end of October and will benefit over 20,780 children (approximately 12,760 boys and 8,020 girls). The distribution of textbooks to students marks the start of normal academic activities in MoEHE schools this week after the first week of psychosocial support and recreation.
On 14 September, approximately 230,000 school children returned back to Government schools after 3 weeks of delay due to the 50 days of hostilities in the Gaza strip. During the crisis, and after a ceasefire was reached on 26 August, UNICEF worked closely with Education Cluster members, the MoEHE and partners in preparing for the re-opening of schools.
- Orientation of about 12,000 school principals, school counsellors, supervisors, and teachers on psychosocial support, the nonviolence in schools policy, detection of traumatized children and referrals. This was achieved through cascade training. 56 school principals and subject supervisors were trained as trainers on the nonviolence in schools policy and on classroom management. They in turn trained 400 school principals and 11,000 teachers. 400 school counselors had a refresher training on psychosocial support in schools and then oriented the teachers in their schools. In total, 186 subject supervisors, 400 school principals, 400 school counselors and 11,000 teachers received training before the start of the new school year, leading to 230,000 school children receiving psychosocial support and recreational activities last week.
- Recreational and stress relief activities for 36,734 children in 80 schools all over Gaza strip through MA'AN and TAMER in coordination with MoEHE. This was part of the extra support to children during the first week of school.
- Tankering of safe drinking water to schools (on a daily basis, to serve 76,050 students and 2430 teachers in 117 schools).
- 395 teaching aids to 395 schools to enable teachers to work in a more conducive teaching and learning environment.
Each aid includes 35 items, including chalk, markers, rulers, scissors, notebooks and etc.
- 623 recreational kits to 395 schools to enable the schools to implement recreational activities with the school children in the first week of the new academic year and on an ongoing basis.
- Distribution of the remaining 43,499 school bags that are being locally manufactured in Gaza by 3 suppliers at a rate of 24,000 bags per week, as well as the remaining 10,000 stationary sets.
- Repair of 26 schools that sustained minor damage during the conflict in West Gaza, to start this week through partner ACF. The schools will be rehabilitated by end October.
19,189 adolescents and children (49% females) benefited from basic psychosocial support and recreational activities including stress relief and self-expression activities with the support of UNICEF partners MA'AN and Tamer in 19 government shelters, 15 community-based organizations and 7 Libraries reaching more children to help them better cope with their experiences of the conflict.
Emergency support to children and caregivers was provided through Sawa Child Protection Helpline reaching 1,207 children (695 girls and 512 boys).
Direct psychosocial interventions were provided through Palestinian Red Crescent Society to 23,134 children, (11,965 girls and 11,180 boys).
PHG and GVC, with UNICEF's support, continue to provide water tankering for drinking water. To date, 4,253 cubic meters of water have been provided to 50,000 individuals. PHG and GVC have also distributed 370 communal tanks in the Middle area of Gaza. In partnership with MA'AN, 14 water bladders have been installed: 6 in Gaza City, 5 in Khan Younis and 3 in Beit Hanoun. In total these water filling stations will provide water to 71,000 people.
UNICEF is funding Ministry of Health (MoH) Community Health Workers to conduct outreach activities in collective centres. Some 9,732 IDPs (1,483 men, 5,112 women and 3,137 children) participated in awareness sessions on communicable diseases in collective shelters and with host families.
Breastfeeding awareness-raising was conducted with 7,517 mothers in shelters and in host families, also by UNICEF-funded MoH Community Health Workers.
UNICEF has entered into a new partnership with NECC, currently the only health care provider in Shejaiya since the MOH clinic in the area was totally destroyed.
UNICEF has made efforts to use local suppliers where possible in the procurement and production of NFIs. However, in Gaza, there have been challenges around local suppliers being able to deliver on time. This has impacted on the speed at which some supplies have been distributed. UNICEF has tackled this by using more than one local supplier to meet demand.
Note 1: Total cash on hand is $7,823,909 of which $6,129,871 is funding received against the appeal for this year, and $1,694,038 is budget carried forward from prior years and reallocated to the SoP office.
Note 2: The above does not include the Emergency Programme Fund loan of $4 million received from UNICEF HQ.


text:
Welfare Office
Midlands Branch
Jamiatul Ulama KZN Council of Muslim Theologians
Syria's Idlib: Tens of thousands flee as airstrikes and bombings intensify
An Impending Genocide! – India – UUCSA Statement
China's Concentration Camps: Uyghur Muslims
Jamiatul Ulama KZN Statement: Indian Supreme Court's Ruling on the Babri Masjid Site in Ayodhya
Jamiat Projects
Jamiat Notices
Local Welfare
PROJECT H.E.L.P.
Marital Guidance
The Madrasah System – The Pride of our Community
Stop avoiding afternoon madrassa!
The Madrasah: A Dying Legacy…
Back To School…But What About Islamic Education?
Cleanliness (Tahaarah)
Divorce (Talaaq)
Haj & Umrah
Incorrect Beliefs
Ramadaan & Fasting
Tadh-hiyah (Qurbaani)
Islamic Nasheeds ( poems )
Eating at restaurants serving pork and/or alcohol?
The Worst Type of Person in the Sight of ALLAH TA'ALA on the day of Qiyamah
How should one perform Qasr Salaah whilst travelling?
Islamic Lifestyle
Beliefs (Aqaa'id)
Islamic Will Forms
Lectures Website Links
Masjid Posters
Monthly Debit Order Forms
Al-Jamiat E-Editions
Jamiat Publications
Al Jamiat Volume 6 No.10
Al Jamiat Volume 7 No. 1
Al-Jamiat Volume 9 No. 1
Ramadaan Timetables
Salaah Times
All the Prophets (pbut)
History of The Prophet (pbuh)
Stories of Sahaabah
Home | Global News | Why Israel Didn't Win
Why Israel Didn't Win
967 people read this post.
On one side you've got three generations of a family wiped out.
On the other, a woman's got to ring Autoglass.
Why Do Journalists and Media Companies Pretend the
Battle Between Israel and Hamas is an Even One?
By Mark Steel
The Independent November 20, 2012
To start with, why do the news channels ask Tony Blair for his advice on conflict in the Middle East? It's like asking Gary Glitter for advice on what to do about Jimmy Savile.
But somehow it fits with the rest of the coverage. A report yesterday morning began with the sentence:
"Rockets have continued to be fired from both sides…"
Then, to illustrate this,
we saw a demolished building in Gaza in which 11 people had perished, and a woman in Israel standing next to her car with a smashed windscreen.
Which goes to show everyone's suffering, what with three generations of a family getting wiped out on one side, and a woman having to ring Autoglass on the other.
Honestly, they're all as bad as each other.
By tomorrow, a spokesman for Israel will be on the news channels saying:
"No other country would put up with this.
We have citizens worried about losing no claims bonuses. If we don't flatten their cities, what will we have to put up with next?
Broken wing mirrors?
Dents in passenger doors?
Have you tried getting body repairs in Tel Aviv at short notice?
So we have no choice but to destroy a hospital."
Then we'll see the funeral for the Palestinians, followed by the car owner wailing
"O my beautiful laminated darling" as her windscreen gets tipped into a bin.
Israeli emergency personnel inspects the damage to a car that was hit by
a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012 in Ofakim.
The reason so many get killed, says Benjamin Netanyahu, is that Hamas "hides behind civilians".
Because it's the duty of anyone who gets assassinated to make sure they're in a clear, open space at all times so the cruise missile aimed at them doesn't bump into anyone else. That's basic health and safety, that is.
But Hamas have become even more cunning in this conflict, because the commander the Israelis were aiming at in the building in which those 11 civilians were killed wasn't there at all. At least if he'd bothered to be where the Israelis thought he was, the civilians would have died for a reason. Now, because he had the cheek to NOT hide behind civilians, they've been killed for nothing.
There's no end to their devilish methods is there?
But some Israelis are working for a solution.
For example ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son, Gilad, wrote in The Jerusalem Post:
"To accomplish victory, you need to achieve what the other side can't bear. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing."
Even if they did drop a nuclear bomb, Netanyahu would say:
"The reason so many were killed is Hamas hid Gaza behind its civilians. If they'd moved Gaza to somewhere safe like Greenland, the population would hardly notice a thing, but, as usual, Hamas cared only about propaganda."
Then The Jerusalem Post would report
"We've done Gaza a huge favour. Now none of their vehicles can move, so they're spared the misery of trying to repair a broken windscreen."
155 Palestinians KILLED in Israel's bombing campaign
5 Israelis, including a soldier, were killed by rocket fire.
The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as ever: according to a recent UN report, the Strip will be 'uninhabitable' by 2020. And this is to speak only of Gaza. How easily one is made to forget that Gaza is only a part – a very brutalised part – of the 'future Palestinian state' that once seemed inevitable, and which now seems to exist mainly in the lullabies of Western peace processors. None of the core issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict – the Occupation, borders, water rights, repatriation and compensation of refugees – is addressed by this agreement.
The fighting will erupt again, because Hamas will come under continued pressure from its members and from other militant factions, and because Israel has never needed much pretext to go to war. In 1982, it broke its ceasefire with Arafat's PLO and invaded Lebanon, citing the attempted assassination of its ambassador to London, even though the attack was the work of Arafat's sworn enemy, the Iraqi agent Abu Nidal. In 1996, during a period of relative calm, it assassinated Hamas's bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash, the 'Engineer', leading Hamas to strike back with a wave of suicide attacks in Israeli cities. When, a year later, Hamas proposed a thirty-year hudna, or truce, Binyamin Netanyahu dispatched a team of Mossad agents to poison the Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Amman; under pressure from Jordan and the US, Israel was forced to provide the antidote, and Meshaal is now the head of Hamas's political bureau – and an ally of Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi.
Operation Pillar of Defence, Israel's latest war, began just as Hamas was cobbling together an agreement for a long-term ceasefire. Its military commander, Ahmed al-Jabari, was assassinated only hours after he reviewed the draft proposal. Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Barak, could have had a ceasefire – probably on more favourable terms – without the deaths of more than 160 Palestinians and five Israelis, but then they would have missed a chance to test their new missile defence shield, Iron Dome, whose performance was Israel's main success in the war. They would also have missed a chance to remind the people of Gaza of their weakness in the face of Israeli military might. The destruction in Gaza was less extensive than it had been in Operation Cast Lead, but on this occasion too the aim, as Gilad Sharon, Ariel's son, put it in the Jerusalem Post, was to send out 'a Tarzan-like cry that lets the entire jungle know in no uncertain terms just who won, and just who was defeated'.
Victory in war is not measured solely in terms of body counts, however. And the 'jungle' – the Israeli word not just for the Palestinians but for the Arabs as a whole – may have the last laugh. Not only did Hamas put up a better fight than it had in the last war, it averted an Israeli ground offensive, won implicit recognition as a legitimate actor from the United States (which helped to broker the talks in Cairo), and achieved concrete gains, above all an end to targeted assassinations and the easing of restrictions on the movement of people and the transfer of goods at the crossings. There was no talk in Cairo, either, of the Quartet Principles requiring Hamas to renounce violence, recognise Israel and adhere to past agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: a symbolic victory for Hamas, but not a small one. And the Palestinians were not the only Arabs who could claim victory in Cairo. In diplomatic terms, the end of fighting under Egyptian mediation marked the dawn of a new Egypt, keen to reclaim the role that it lost when Sadat signed a separate peace with Israel. 'Egypt is different from yesterday,' Morsi warned Israel on the first day of the war. 'We assure them that the price will be high for continued aggression.' He underscored this point by sending his prime minister, Hesham Kandil, to Gaza the following day. While refraining from incendiary rhetoric, Morsi made it plain that Israel could not depend on Egyptian support for its attack on Gaza, as it had when Mubarak was in power, and would only have itself to blame if the peace treaty were jeopardised. After all, he has to answer to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas's parent organisation, and to the Egyptian people, who are overwhelmingly hostile to Israel. The Obama administration, keen to preserve relations with Egypt, got the message, and so apparently did Israel. Morsi proved that he could negotiate with Israel without 'selling out the resistance', in Meshaal's words. Internationally, it was his finest hour, though Egyptians may remember it as the prelude to his move a day after the ceasefire to award himself far-reaching executive powers that place him above any law.
That Netanyahu stopped short of a ground war, and gave in to key demands at the Cairo talks, is an indication not only of Egypt's growing stature, but of Israel's weakened position. Its relations with Turkey, once its closest ally in the region and the pillar of its 'doctrine of the periphery' (a strategy based on alliances with non-Arab states) have deteriorated with the rise of Erdogan and the AKP. The Jordanian monarchy, the second Arab government to sign a peace treaty with Israel, is facing increasingly radical protests. And though Israel may welcome the fall of Assad, an ally of Hizbullah and Iran, it is worried that a post-Assad government, dominated by the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brothers, may be no less hostile to the occupying power in the Golan: the occasional rocket fire from inside Syria in recent days has been a reminder for Israel of how quiet that border was under the Assad family. Israeli leaders lamented for years that theirs was the only democracy in the region. What this season of revolts has revealed is that Israel had a very deep investment in Arab authoritarianism. The unravelling of the old Arab order, when Israel could count on the quiet complicity of Arab big men who satisfied their subjects with flamboyant denunciations of Israeli misdeeds but did little to block them, has been painful for Israel, leaving it feeling lonelier than ever. It is this acute sense of vulnerability, even more than Netanyahu's desire to bolster his martial credentials before the January elections, that led Israel into war.
Hamas, meanwhile, has been buoyed by the same regional shifts, particularly the triumph of Islamist movements in Tunisia and Egypt: Hamas, not Israel, has been 'normalised' by the Arab uprisings. Since the flotilla affair, it has developed a close relationship with Turkey, which is keen to use the Palestinian question to project its influence in the Arab world. It also took the risk of breaking with its patrons in Syria: earlier this year, Khaled Meshaal left Damascus for Doha, while his number two, Mousa Abu Marzook, set himself up in Cairo. Since then, Hamas has thrown in its lot with the Syrian uprising, distanced itself from Iran, and found new sources of financial and political support in Qatar, Egypt and Tunisia. It has circumvented the difficulties of the blockade by turning the tunnels into a lucrative source of revenue and worked, with erratic success, to impose discipline on Islamic Jihad and other militant factions in the Strip. The result has been growing regional prestige, and a procession of high-profile visitors, including the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who came to Gaza three weeks before the war and promised $400 million dollars to build housing and repair roads. The emir did not make a similar trip to Ramallah.
Hamas's growing clout has not gone unnoticed in Tel Aviv: cutting Hamas down to size was surely one of its war aims. If Israel were truly interested in achieving a peaceful settlement on the basis of the 1967 borders – parameters which Hamas has accepted – it might have tried to strengthen Abbas by ending settlement activity, and by supporting, or at least not opposing, his bid for non-member observer status for Palestine at the UN. Instead it has done its utmost to sabotage his UN initiative (with the robust collaboration of the Obama administration), threatening to build more settlements if he persists: such, Hamas has been only too happy to point out, are the rewards for non-violent Palestinian resistance. Operation Pillar of Defence will further undermine Abbas's already fragile standing in the West Bank, where support for Hamas has never been higher.
Hardly had the ceasefire come into effect than Israel raided the West Bank to round up more than fifty Hamas supporters, while Netanyahu warned that Israel 'might be compelled to embark' on 'a much harsher military operation'. (Avigdor Lieberman, his foreign minister, is said to have pushed for a ground war.) After all, Israel has a right to defend itself. This is what the Israelis say and what the Israel lobby says, along with much of the Western press, including the New York Times. In an editorial headed 'Hamas's Illegitimacy' – a curious phrase, since Hamas only seized power in Gaza after winning a majority in the 2006 parliamentary elections – the Times accused Hamas of attacking Israel because it is 'consumed with hatred for Israel'. The Times didn't mention that Hamas's hatred might have been stoked by a punishing economic blockade. It didn't mention that between the start of the year and the outbreak of this war, 78 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed by Israeli fire, as against a single Israeli in all of Hamas's notorious rocket fire. Or – until the war started – that this had been a relatively peaceful year for the miserable Strip, where nearly three thousand Palestinians have been killed by Israel since 2006, as against 47 Israelis by Palestinian fire.
Those who invoke Israel's right to defend itself are not troubled by this disparity in casualties, because the unspoken corollary is that Palestinians do not have the same right. If they dare to exercise this non-right, they must be taught a lesson. 'We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza,' Gilad Sharon wrote in the Jerusalem Post. 'Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki too.' Israel shouldn't worry about innocent civilians in Gaza, he said, because there are no innocent civilians in Gaza: 'They elected Hamas … they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences.' Such language would be shocking were it not so familiar: in Israel the rhetoric of righteous victimhood has merged with the belligerent rhetoric – and the racism – of the conqueror. Sharon's Tarzan allusion is merely a variation on Barak's description of Israel as a villa in the jungle; his invocation of nuclear war reminds us that in 2008, the deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai proposed 'a bigger holocaust' if Gaza continued to resist.
But the price of war is higher for Israel than it was during Cast Lead, and its room for manoeuvre more limited, because the Jewish state's only real ally, the American government, has to maintain good relations with Egypt and other democratically elected Islamist governments. During the eight days of Pillar of Defence, Israel put on an impressive and deadly fireworks show, as it always does, lighting up the skies of Gaza and putting out menacing tweets straight from The Sopranos. But the killing of entire families and the destruction of government buildings and police stations, far from encouraging Palestinians to submit, will only fortify their resistance, something Israel might have learned by consulting the pages of recent Jewish history. The Palestinians understand that they are no longer facing Israel on their own: Israel, not Hamas, is the region's pariah. The Arab world is changing, but Israel is not. Instead, it has retreated further behind Jabotinsky's 'iron wall', deepening its hold on the Occupied Territories, thumbing its nose at a region that is at last acquiring a taste of its own power, exploding in spasms of high-tech violence that fail to conceal its lack of a political strategy to end the conflict. Iron Dome may shield Israel from Qassam rockets, but it won't shield it from the future.
:: Article nr. 92925 sent on 25-nov-2012 16:22 ECT
www.uruknet.info?p=92925
Previous Book on Nikah
Next Gaza Still Boils
The Babri Masjid was a historic Masjid in the Uttar Pradesh province of India. …
Iraq Protests: Anti-government demonstrations death toll rises to 81
Protests in Iraq continue to take place as the death toll from the anti-government protests …
Islamic Date
17-Jan-2020	21-Jamadi'al Ula-1441
Perpetual Salaah Times
Quick Tabs
Zakaat Indicators
Fidya & Fitra 2020
Zakaat Nisaab: R5445.06
Mahr Fatimi: R13612.62
Minimum Mahr: R272.25
24 carat gold: R716.85 g
22 carat gold: R658.15g
Krugerrand: R23379.76
Silver: R8.89g
Hanafi: Fidya & Fitra R20.00
Shafi'i/ Hanbali/ Maliki:
Fidya R7.00
Fitra R27.00
Keep our Maktabs Alive
Islamic Calendars
What to do on your first night of marriage
Ramadaan & Perpetual Salaah Timetables 1440 / 2019
Zakaat Rules 1
Sheikh Moulana Sulaiman Khatani Audio Lectures
Fatwa Salaah child Ghusl husband interest marriage Nikah Sunnah donor eyebrows health Mahram Qurbani wife Wudhu Qur'an Alcohol Allah beautify blood childbirth clothing contraception custody
Sakib: I think the hadith about talking animals might be about people seeing things aft...
Sakib: This is one of the best articles about qiyamah I have ever read....
Sakib: The one thing we can all agree on is that qiyamah is getting close....
223 Alpine Road,
Durban, 4091,
KwaZulu-Natal,
Welfare Office:
62/64 Bertha Mkhize (Victoria) Street
Durban CBD
Fax: + 27 (0) 86 552 4270
Skills Development Centre:
Kenfield Park
236-240 Felix Dlamini (Brickfield) Road
Tel: + 27 (0) 31 2713430
Dormerton, 4015
NPO No: 077-820
PBO No: 130002215
info@jamiat.org.za
admin@jamiat.org.za
Fatwa Department :
fatwa@jamiat.org.za
mufti@jamiat.org.za
Social & Marital Department :
social@jamiat.org.za
Publications/IT Department :
publications@jamiat.org.za
webmaster@jamiat.org.za
skills@jamiat.org.za
Book Depot :
bookshop@jamiat.org.za
bookshop2@jamiat.org.za
Finance Department :
finance@jamiat.org.za
Welfare Department :
welfare@jamiat.org.za
LILLAH DONATIONS
Nedbank – Greyville (128905):
Account Name: Jamiatul Ulama (KZN)
Account No.: 1304 141950
Albaraka – Kingsmead (800 000):
Account No.: 786001 926 31
ZAKAAT DONATIONS
SECTION 18A CERTIFICATE DONATIONS
Acc. Name: Jamiatul Ulama (KZN)
Section 18A Tax certificates are only issued on request.
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF:
(Please note that donations received in this account are not eligible for a Section 18A Tax certificate and your reference needs to clearly state whether Lillah or Zakaat)
Interest Account:
Albaraka Bank – Kingsmead (800 000):
Account no: 78600220178
Jamiat KZN Twitter
News displayed on this site and articles reproduced from other sites are not necessarily the views and opinions of the Jamiatul Ulama KZN.
By : theimagehouse design studio
Secure Online Donations


CINCINNATI -- A high-ranking fire department official alleges in a federal lawsuit that he was passed over for promotion twice after he brought issues of possible wrongdoing to the attention of the city manager.
Raffel Prophett, the District One chief in the Cincinnati Fire Department, is suing the city and City Manager Harry Black, accusing Black of abuse of power and alleging his rights to free speech and due process were violated.
Prophett joined the department as a firefighter in 1988 and was promoted six times through 2011.
In 2015, Prophett wrote to Black asking for an investigation after another fire department official was accused of wrongdoing, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. district court Friday. Black "ignored the matter," the lawsuit states.
Later that same year, Prophett received an anonymous call alleging another fire department official "appeared to be on duty under the influence of alcohol," the lawsuit states. Prophett informed his supervisor, and the other official was placed on leave pending an investigation.
Prophett applied for the assistant fire chief job in April 2016. He was the most qualified applicant, according to his lawsuit.
However, Prophett's suit claims he heard from several people that Black called him a "troublemaker." Prophett didn't get the job.
He applied for the assistant fire chief job again in July 2017. He was once again the most qualified applicant, according to his lawsuit.
Both times, Black had the final decision on who to promoted, according to the lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, Prophett is seeking to be promoted to assistant fire chief and to be awarded backpay and other damages.
WCPO has reached out to Black's office for comment.
City Councilman Charlie Winburn said Black "sought to tarnish D.C. Prophett's good name and sterling reputation."
"Black's mischaracterization of D.C. Prophett has negatively affected his ability to progress within the Cincinnati Fire Department, maintain good working relationships with his peers and supervisors, and has strained his professional and personal relationships throughout the Cincinnati Fire Department," Winburn said in a written statement.


text:
Q: Not able to install latest R statistical package in Debian Stable I am trying to install latest R package on Debian Stable (Buster) following instructions on this page: https://cloud.r-project.org/
I added following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb https://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian buster-cran35/

However, when I run sudo apt-get update, I get following error:
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Get:5 https://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian buster-cran35/ InRelease [4,375 B]
Err:5 https://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian buster-cran35/ InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FCAE2A0E115C3D8A
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: https://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian buster-cran35/ InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FCAE2A0E115C3D8A
E: The repository 'https://cran.csiro.au/bin/linux/debian buster-cran35/ InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I cannot get rid of this GPG error despite following attempts:
sudo apt-get install debian-keyring

sudo launchpad-getkeys

sudo aptitude install debian-archive-keyring

How can I solve this error?

A: You need to import the archive key, using the id given in the error message (assuming you trust the repository):
apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key FCAE2A0E115C3D8A


Elaborate Timber Floors is your number one specialty flooring option. We strive to provide you with top quality customer service. Our vision is to please our clients with the 'wow factor' of beautiful timber floors in their homes. You are very important to our company.
We are big on service, knowing this is an absolute must and you are well assured that your projects is in good trustworthy hands. We do all we can to ensure you are completely satisfied with our products and services before, during , and after installation.
At Elaborate Timber Floors not only do you get great products but we seek to give you good old fashioned honest quality services that bears the hallmarks of hands on hard earned workmanship. Elaborate Timber Floors bamboo comes with a Limited life time warranty.
My wife and I are delighted with the bamboo flooring Elaborate Timber Flooring installed. The quality of the product and Nahum's craftsmanship are second to none. We were particularly impressed with the speed of the installation and how any problems that came up were dealt with in a highly professional and competent manner. Nahum's professional advice was also particularly valuable. We have no hesitation in recommending ETF to other home owners.
Qualified installers and reps that will travel and work around the country for us.
Working with the builders, home owners, architects and carpet firms around NZ.
Our pricing is one of the best on the market, we work closely with flooring firms around NZ to insure you get a quality job done.
ATTENTION BUILDERS! We offer a generous discount for the installation of show home floors.


text:
Filippino Lippi
Dates about 1457 - 1504
Roles Artist
Nationality Italian
Born Prato, Italy
Died Florence, Italy
Filippino Lippi was so well renowned during his lifetime that shops in the center of Florence closed on the day of his burial. He began his training with his father, Fra Filippo Lippi, a well-regarded painter who had previously instructed Botticelli. After his father's death in 1469, Lippi's guardian took him to study under Botticelli, from whom Lippi derived his depiction of twisted fingers and exaggerated joints and veins. By the time he was thirty, Lippi himself was considered a reputable artist and began working for the Medici family. Lippi is best known for his altarpieces, innovative scenes with dynamic figures whose subtly defined expressions and gestures provoke contemplation, but he was also a prolific draftsman who made many preparatory studies for both panel paintings and frescoes. According to one scholar, more drawings have been attributed to Lippi than to any other artist of the 1400s, apart from Leonardo da Vinci. He may have left more drawings because he conceived such complex arrangements, often integrating figures within illusionistic architectural devices.
Every effort has been made to accurately determine the rights status of works and their images. Please contact Museum Rights and Reproductions if you have further information on the rights status of a work contrary or in addition to the information in our records.


text:
We currently have no vouchers for Bingolicious. Check out their website to see what other offers are available. Alternatively, here are some other merchants from the same category:
Bingolicious Discount Vouchers
Bingolicious Voucher Codes July 2019
Bingolicious is an online gaming service operating under Gibraltar laws via Cassava Enterprises. It is licensed by the Gibraltar government and regulated by the Gambling Commissioner of Gibraltar, but games are accessible from anywhere in the world.
The site offers a wide range of bingo and casino games and features American, UK and Swedish style game plays to cater to different gamers. The site encourages responsible gambling and provides a safe environment where players can enjoy gaming.
The site features many different kinds of casino and bingo games, including roulette, video poker, Hi-lo, blackjack and scratch cards. Slots are also at hand with progressive jackpots as high as $15,000. Discount vouchers for Bingolicious can be used on deposits when playing online.
Bingolicious users don't need to download the platform to play, as it is entirely flash-based, meaning users can access games from any computer. The site is interactive, allowing players to chat with other online gamers upon registering an account. First deposits are matched 150 per cent to double the chances of winning, while re-deposits are matched with an added 50 per cent bonus. Discount codes from Bingolicious also offer these kinds of bonuses.
The lowest pay for games starts at 5p per ticket, while game pots can be raised to as high as a million dollars. Additionally, there are free bingo rooms and other free games where users can play without depositing any money.
With a discount voucher from Bingolicious you can claim promotions, while the company newsletter provides players with alerts about the latest weekly promotions and cash prizes.
Bingolicious Deals - Archive
Click Here to see all Expired Deals for Bingolicious.
Bingolicious


text:
Q: Setting up personal branch permissions using gitolite I'm having some issues getting personal branch permissions set up using gitolite.
gitolite.conf:
repo    ulul
RW+     =   @admins
RW+ personal/USER/      =   @devs
R       =   @devs
- = @devs

Error message (when pushing):
    W refs/heads/jesse jesse DENIED by refs/.*
Relevant piece from the compiled gitolite file:
   'jesse' => [
      [
        8,
        'refs/.*',
        'R'
      ],
      [
        16,
        "refs/heads/personal/$gl_user/",
        'RW+'
      ],
      [
        24,
        'refs/.*',
        '-'
      ]
    ],

A: Figured it out.  Turns out the personal/USER/ is just the namespace; so creating branches like personal/jesse/main works fine.  Hope this helps future gitolite users.

A: To detail your own answer, the important part is:
"refs/heads/personal/$gl_user/"

$gl_user is the variable set after the name passed in parameter of the scripts called ssh in its forced command mechanism.
That name is the one of the public key registered through gitolite.


We, representatives of Oromo professional and civic organizations, are writing this memo to bring attention to and express our deep concerns about the biased reports being disseminated by ESAT journalists. We recognize ESAT has made notable contributions in the exposing the repression, corruption and human rights violations of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime. ESAT, as a media outlet built and funded by community members, is expected to have a high level of professional ethics, integrity, and fair and balanced reporting from its journalists. Considering how diverse our communities are and our affiliations to a variety of political organizations, we expect ESAT journalists and political analysts to be factual, fair and balanced in their news coverage and political analyses.
Unfortunately, we have seen many inaccurate and inflammatory reports and commentaries on very sensitive and controversial issues on ESAT. Contrary to professional journalistic standards, ESAT's reports are very often biased and bigoted towards the Oromo people. Its daily analysts, particularly those appearing on the ELETAWI program, promote views of specific political parties and attack Oromo political organizations such the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), respected Oromo professionals and activists. Although ESAT is promoted as an independent media organization, the views of the daily commentators on ELETAWI and other journalists who appear on it suggest that ESAT is a public relations office or a propaganda wing of the Ginbot 7 (G-7) Patriotic party. Our suspicion in this regard was further confirmed by the public admission of Andargachew Tsige, a high ranking official of the G-7 Patriotic party, that his party created ESAT.
We recognize the significance of media not only in educating and transforming society, but also its potential to instigate bigotry and violence. Media can inform, educate, entertain, mold public opinion, advocate for human rights and peace, provide a framework for positive thinking, record events and connect peoples and ideas. But historical evidence also shows how manipulative and dangerous media can be. For example, Nazi media propaganda during World War II promoted racist ideas and ideologies. Similarly, in the case of Rwanda, media were used to propagate bigotry, hate and genocide. Tragically, the Rwandan genocide was instigated by radio and print media that spread fabricated, biased and over exaggerated reports. The RTLM radio and television and Kamgura print media were used as tools to propagate hate and to encourage neighbors to turn against each other. Given this history of how media can poison the minds and hearts of listeners and readers, we want newly emerging private and public media platforms such as ESAT to not repeat such mistakes.
Our concerns about ESAT's biased, inaccurate, divisive and dangerous reporting is based on numerous instances. We cite the following few examples.
In July 2018, a report by ESAT journalists on the conflict between the Oromo and the Somali in eastern Ethiopian included inaccurate and gruesome video footage to inflame ethnic clashes and to damage the image of the Oromo people who were actually victims of state-sponsored violence. The BBC exposed this report as one of the biggest examples of fake news in Africa in 2018. Although ESAT had admitted that it propagated unrelated images and fake news, the damage to community relations and the image of the Oromo people had been done and the safety and security of Oromo people in Djibouti and Somalia had been put at risk. As journalists, ESAT reporters should have checked the source of the fake video and authenticated its accuracy before releasing the damaging video clip to its audience to support an inaccurate and dangerous report. Aside from the video, the content of ESAT's report was a distortion of facts intended to inflame an already tense and violent situation between Oromo and Somali communities. This is a criminal act and ESAT bears full responsibility for the damage done to Oromo communities and the individuals who were attacked as a result of this fabricated and false reporting.
In their rush to judgment, ESAT's reporters and commentators also falsely implicated that the OLF was responsible for the assassination attempt of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the public rally on June 22, 2018. This false accusation was made even before the Ethiopian government had issued a preliminary assessment of the incident. However, a subsequent investigation of the incident proved that the attempt was carried out by disgruntled elements within the government security department, and the OLF had nothing to do with the attack. ESAT never recognized nor apologized about its false accusations against the OLF regarding this incident.
Similarly, in a report on community violence in Burayu, a suburb of Addis Ababa (Finfinnee), in September 2018, ESAT immediately blamed the Oromo youth (Qeerroo) for the violence and the displacement of families. In the meantime, at least one of ESAT commentators on the ELETAWI program openly expressed his effort in mobilizing anti-Oromo youth in Addis Ababa. For example, Mr. Ermias Legesse made an open call to the Addis Ababa youth on the ELETAWI program while the coverage of another ESAT reporter on the ground in Addis Ababa at the time was fabricated, one-sided and biased. Individuals who have provided fabricated stories of killings by Qeerroo to the local media outlet were driven by Oromo-phobia. The reporter organized a discussion of non-Oromo victims, in the presence of Tamagn Beyene, a well-known activist, but ignored the Oromo victims of the same violence. In fact, if the rival community members had acted on the inaccurate reporting of ESAT journalists, the situation could have gotten out of control and a dangerous communal violence could have occurred. Fortunately, the intervention of Oromo and Gamo community leaders and their traditional conflict resolution calmed down their respective community members and mitigated the danger.
At different times, ESAT journalists have also engaged in intimidation and have attempted to silence prominent and respected Oromo intellectuals, activists and political leaders. For example, last summer, ESAT journalists maliciously attacked Tsegaye Ararsa, a respected lawyer and activist who lives in Australia. An ESAT journalist went to the extent of contacting the university that Dr. Tsegaye attended and tried to access his academic records. Although journalists should aggressively pursue a story to establish the truth and satisfy public interest in their reporting, in this case, the search for the academic records of an individual without any valid journalistic reason is an act of intimidation, not only of Dr. Tsegaye Ararsa but also of other Oromo intellectuals, activists and political leaders. It is also a violation of personal privacy.
ESAT's misinformation about Oromo political and civic organizations and its relentless attack on the OLF, in particular, are openly reflected in its daily reports and commentaries. Below we cite some more cases that were reported during the last few months.
Without corroborating evidence, ESAT journalists have suggested that the OLF is allied with the TPLF and that it is coordinating its activities with the TPLF. They also said that one OLF leader, Colonel Gemechu Ayana, had gone to Mekelle to conclude an agreement and to open a branch office of the Oromia News Network (ONN). These reports were obviously fake news that ESAT journalists found on social media but failed to verify such social media stories before disseminating them as stories. To be a credible media outlet, ESAT journalists should refrain from disseminate fake news found on social media and should investigate and verify their stories before sharing with public. In this instance, ESAT could have verified the story by contacting the OLF office in Addis Ababa and by requesting to speak with the individuals or leaders involved in the story.
When a conflict arose between the OLF and the Ethiopian government and an officer of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) claimed that there are about 500 non-Oromo combatants in the OLF army who returned form Eritrea, ESAT reported the story without verifying its accuracy. Again, legitimate and honest journalistic work requires investigation and verification of any conflicting information and story before reporting to the public. In this case, ESAT's journalists could have contacted both parties, could have visited the site where the OLF returnees were camped and requested to talk to individuals involved. ESAT did not engage in any such investigation and reported unconfirmed story as factual.
In the last few months when conflict erupted between OLF combatants and the EPRDF army in western Oromia and the Guji region, ESAT journalists did not verify the causes of the conflict by contacting the army leaders of the OLF and the EPRDF. Instead, ESAT commentators such as Ermias Legesse advocated for the escalation of the conflict. Such journalists wanted the conflict to expand by urging the government to declare an all-out war on OLF combatants – a clear violation of journalistic ethics. The role of journalists is to report accurate news, not to instigate violence and war. Instead, ESAT journalists have rejoiced about the causalities of the conflict, which include large number of innocent civilians.
As representatives of Oromo civic organizations, we expect ESAT to share accurate and thoroughly investigated, impartial and independent reports. We want the media outlet to stand for civility, peace and respect for human rights.
We write this memo because we are deeply disappointed by the inaccurate and biased reporting and the dissemination of fake news by ESAT journalists. As the specific examples we indicated above reveal, ESAT is very hostile towards the Oromo people and is engaging in unethical practices. We are sincerely concerned that such practices undermine peaceful community relations, instigate communal violence, destabilize the region, and will contribute to the disintegration of the country.
Please be informed that as representatives of Oromo professional, civic and community organizations, we are closely watching and documenting ESAT's reports and commentaries by ESAT's journalists. If necessary, we will alert human rights organizations such as the Reporters Without Borders, the Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch, the Genocide Watch, the Human Rights Leagues of the Horn of Africa and others to closely monitor your reports. We strongly urge ESAT to carefully re-evaluate its journalistic approach and the work of its journalists, and to take full responsibility for negative consequences of any biased reports or fake news it has disseminated. We expect ESAT leadership team will advise its journalists to take a politically neutral stance in their reporting and commentaries, as all professional journalists are expected to do.
Finally, we also appeal to all media outlets to follow professional standards and to refrain from spreading biased and inaccurate reports.


In today's changing times, when the role of women is being redefined in the context of Indian families; new challenges confound them in these new roles. From being house-wives to an earning member of the family; from being a mother to sitting in important meetings; the Indian woman is showing a lot of confidence and potential. The balancing act of being a mother and a corporate woman is a much discussed topic. We hear of women who leave jobs when they start a family. We also hear stories of the likes of Indra Nooyis and Shikha Sharmas of the country. Today, I will talk about how the women in my book played such an important role in this transition our country is making and what makes the book, a must read for all the women out there.
Before I get into describing the book, I will give some background of my own story. Being a child of a single parent was never easy. But my mother is an example of a lady who has stood the test of Indian society to make me what I am today. Despite society's negativity, she has taught me to dream, to rise and to achieve so much. I owe this book to her and have shared my own experience in the book.
When it comes to talking about some of the women in my book, the first name which comes to my mind is that of Vidya. Vidya is a women who did her MBA when she is carrying a life in her womb. Her story is extra-ordinarily tough and makes one bow to her determination and courage. Similar to her story is the story of Monali. Monali is the girl next door who loves her husband a lot. When the thought of doing an MBA comes in her mind, she is not sure of how much acceptance would it have in her husband's eyes, how it would impact her married life. But what sets her story apart is how her husband supports her to follow her dream and how the two manage their long distance marital relationship during that one year. The dilemmas faced by Vidya and Monali are same as what every Indian women faces every day.
Then of course, there is Shrishti. On one hand are her parents dreams of seeing her happily married, on the other are her career ambitions. While every Indian girl makes elaborate plans for her wedding and spends time lavishly shopping, day dreaming and on long late night calls, Shrishti gets engaged when she is pursuing her studies. She is a perfect picture of the balancing act and manages her personal relationships really well without compromising on her professional ambitions.
When Raj decides to move back to India, Simran comes back to India with him. But she continues to work for a Canadian company, managing to work at night time in India for an entire year. Puja is another typical Indian women who though successful in her career always wishes she can find some more time for her daughter. Geet stands behind her father when her family is going through its toughest times. Her role is no important than that of a 'son' in the family. Pari pays for her ambitions by the loss of her loved one and regrets being so ambitious. Sonam faces the ire of her man's mistrust and almost loses him over her MBA journey. But the good thing is her statement that she would rather lose a person who mistrusts her than be in an unhealthy relationship. Divya has no qualms of giving up on her own career for a good upbringing of her children and manages to find her happiness in them.
These and many more women are characters in my book on real people. Their dreams, fears, successes and failures are some which every girl faces in some or the other stage of her life. Some stand behind their men to support them in their ambitions. For others, it is their man's love which makes them take an unconventional route.


What are the differences between Assisted Living and Memory Care?
Assisted living is often viewed as the best of both worlds. Residents have as much independence as they want with the knowledge that personal care and support services are available if they need them. Assisted living communities are designed to provide residents with assistance with basic ADLs (activities of daily living) such as bathing, grooming, dressing, medication assistance and/or reminders and more.
Our Memory Care is designed for those with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia who need more personalized assistance in a safe and secured environment. Our staff members are trained specifically on caring for those with memory impairment to provide a high level of care with continuous patience and encouragement.
Tanner Spring loves well-behaved pets! See our Pet Policy for more details.
No buy-in and no lease! All we require is the signing of a month-to-month Rental Agreement.
How much does it cost to live at Tanner Spring?
The rates will vary based on where one lives and what services are needed. Tanner Spring does strive to provide exceptional services at an affordable rate. A thorough evaluation by our health services team will help determine which services are needed. Our Assisted Living uses a point system to calculate care costs, this way you are only paying for the exact services you are receiving. Our Memory Care is an all-inclusive flat rate.
We're ready to move in! What's are next steps?
Once you have decided to call Tanner Spring home, a deposit will secure your apartment. An assessment by our health services team will determine appropriate placement and Level of Care.
We look forward to serving you soon. Welcome home!


text:
MUSIC (Click subheadings)
Gerry Moss with the Red Barn Ramblers
Mossman Band Audio
Gerry Moss - Solo - Acoustic - Live
The Mike Gray Band, Maiden Voyage CD (Produced & Engineered by Gerry Moss)
SONG LIST - Solo Acoustic
Mossman Band
Red Barn Ramblers
Reckless Red
Spring River Bike Rally: Hardy, AR
Leon Russell Concert
BOOKING & CONTACT INFO
Gerry Moss
VIDEO - Mossman Band, Performing Red Rooster
VIDEO - Mossman Band, Performing Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
Mossman is a truly fantastic band. These videos clearly issustrates that fact. Mossman performs great renditions of two classic tunes written by Willie Dixon.
VIDEO - High Ridin' Heroes with David Lynn Jones and Waylon Jennings
At one time Gerry Moss was the band leader for David Lynn Jones' band. This is a video by DLJ and Waylon Jennings performing one of DLJ's original tunes. Gerry is playing guitar right behind DLJ. You get a look at Gerry at about 2:03 where he does a little slide from low to high. We kid Gerry about being so hard to see.
VIDEO - Gerry Moss & The Drive - Rainy Night In Georgia
I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to perform with Gerry Moss and Jerry Bone for a couple years and I have two recordings from that time. One early on and one later. I grew a lot with that band learning how to play with great musicians. I came across this demo track we did in 1997 right before I was replaced in the band. I just loved how Moss delivered this song and especially the tasteful bass lines that Jerry Bone offered. I wish I knew then what I know now and could go back.
VIDEO - Gerry Moss & The Drive - Born Under A Bad Sign
VIDEO - Gerry Moss & The Drive - Skin Tight
VIDEO - Gerry Moss & The Drive - Empty Arms
VIDEO - Gerry Moss With The Red Barn Ramblers - Heart Attack And Vine
Gerry Moss with the Red Barn Ramblers performing Heart Attack and Vine on March 2, 2012 at George's Majestic in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Red Barn Ramblers is 15 to 16 piece band, big smooth blues rockin' group of All-Star musicians with great credits and credentials, from blues, country, rock 'n' roll, and jazz music. They get together once or twice per year to perform. This was a benefit performance for an old friend who suffers from cerebral palsy and Lou Gehrig's disease.
The magic and energy of these stupendous veteran musicians is clear to see and to enjoy.
VIDEO - Gerry Moss With The Red Barn Ramblers - Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
In March of 2012 The Red Barn Ramblers were at it again. This group of friends get together and perform a couple times a year. This time they have added a 3 person horn section. Talk about filling it up, sound-wise!
The size and personal/group abilities get more amazing all the time. The group is now up to 17 members. Legends have been added to the band that is already top heavy. Now included are Charlie Chalmers (GOOGLE THAT!) and Gary Gazaway (DITTO!). Obviously, they were inventing horn parts on the run. The first time they chimed in was almost show stopping. The jam was so great, all 17 members often had to stop and applaud themselves.
This video is of a rehearsal in preparation for their Performance at George's Majestic in Fayetteville, AR on March 2, 2012.
VIDEO - Gerry Moss & Vikki McGee Performing Love The One You're With
In July of 2011, Gerry Moss was the featured act at the Spring River Bike Rally in Hardy , Arkansas (photos can be viewed on his website). Gerry performed with and was backed by Vikki McGee and her band. This video is Gerry's opening tune. Vikki McGee and her band start it out, with Gerry being introduced about 2:11 into the song.
VIDEO - Slide Show of Close Together
Vocal duet performed by Gerry Moss & CJ Nicolai with the Red Barn Ramblers. This is a jam session of friends in Neal's barn - thus the name, Red Barn Ramblers. There is some mixing, but no overdubbing or double tracking. It is straight-up, as it should be. It is blues with great musicianship. Each participant brings a ton of experience and knowledge to the jam. Sit back --- and enjoy.
VIDEO - Slide Show of Crosscut Saw
This is a jam session of friends in Neal's barn - thus the name, Red Barn Ramblers. There is some mixing, but no overdubbing or double tracking. It is straight-up, as it should be. It is blues with great musicianship. Each participant brings a ton of experience and knowledge to the jam. Sit back --- and enjoy.
VIDEO – The Battle Is Over (But The War Goes On) with Reckless Red
Composed by Jerry Win and Maurice Rodgers. It was recorded by Sonny & Brownie (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) in 1973. Re-released in 1988 with digital remastering. Levon Helm (lead singer and drummer with The Band) did a successful version in 2006. Here, Gerry Moss plays lead with Denver band Reckless Red doing their version of this tune with CJ Nicolai singing lead, John Ware on drums, and Bob Higgins on bass.
VIDEO - Everybody Must Get Stoned - Gerry Moss with Red Barn Ramblers (Live), George's Majestic, 7/31/11
The Red Barn Ramblers is a collection of friends who get together to jam and perform 1-3 times per year. This video was of a benefit performance for Neill Williamson on July 31, 2011 at Georges Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, AR. They consist of a harmonica, a sax, two drummers, two keyboard players, and four guitar players. Remember, it's a jam, and it's for fun. And it's live! It's amazing how well they perform. Sit back and enjoy.
VIDEO - When Love Comes To Town - Gerry Moss & CJ Nicolai with The Red Barn Ramblers at Georges Majestic 7/31/11
More of The Red Barn Ramblers benefit performance at Georges Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, AR, July 31, 2011. This is an amazing rendition of a classic Bono composition.
VIDEO - Gerry Jammin' with Friends
This is a video of Gerry Moss jamming with friends after he opened for the Leon Russell show in Cherokee Village, AR on May 1, 2010. It was a great time. His fans in Arkansas and Missouri were thrilled at his return to the area for the show. Fully half of the audience was there to see Gerry. GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! The greatest fans are Gerry's fans!!!
VIDEO - Gerry Moss and The Drive, Live! at Blues City Cafe on Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee, on 7-5-1997.
"The Drive" was a band Gerry performed with in the late '90's. This video is a real blast from the past, July 5, 1997 in Memphis, TN to be exact. This video lasts 1 hour and 26 minutes. It is totally raw. No editing and no mixing. Gerry used to do a whole bunch of gig'n in Memphis back then, both as a solo artist and with a band.
Gerry talks about those days in his interview with Joe Beavers of KSAR 92.3 FM in Thayer, MO on Joe's program, "The Ozark Talent Showcase." Go to the "Interview" page on this site and click the links for this interesting and revealing two part interview.
Hope you enjoy the video, and the interview. They bring back memories.
VIDEO - Sydney Harding-Sloan, Texas Music Project Contest Winner - October 9, 2009
Gerry Moss mentored Sydney. He produced, recorded and engineered the track submitted to the Texas Music Project (LINK below) that won the contest. Gerry accompanies Sydney on acoustic guitar in this video. Sydney performs a tune titled, "Melt My Heart To Stone," by Adele. This is not the final version of the video. Sydney was 14 years old when she won this
Insert Your Email Address
An Evening With GERRY MOSS
Monday, December 7, 2020 @ 5:30PM — 8:30PM Mon, Dec 7, 2020 @ 5:30PM — 8:30PM
Mcladdens, 27 Pleasant St, Northampton, MA
ENGEMENT CANCELLED DUE TO COV9ID-19.
Friday, December 4, 2020 @ 8:00PM — 11:00PM Fri, Dec 4, 2020 @ 8:00PM — 11:00PM
ENGAGEMENT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19.
Friday, November 27, 2020 @ 6:20PM — 9:30PM Fri, Nov 27, 2020 @ 6:20PM — 9:30PM
Springfield Country Club, 1375 Elm Street, West Springfield, MA
ENGAGEMENT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19. PRIVATE VENUE - NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
« First ‹ Prev 1 2 … 198 Next › Last »
Crosscut Saw 6:42
Close Together 4:16
Sweet Little Angel 7:20
Jukin' 5:19
Whole Nutha Thang 5:28
Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover 8:35
Built For Comfort 8:25
Heartattack And Vine 3:05
Walking The Dog 6:04
John The Revelator 7:10
Just A Little Bit 8:28
Little Red Rooster 13:53
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 5:47
Steamroller 4:31
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues 4:31
Kind Hearted Woman 4:31
Breakin' Up Somebody's Home 4:31
Just Wanna Make Love To You 4:31
Shoestring 4:31
Permanent Vacation 4:31


How to get cheap car insurance in East Orange. Get the BEST DEALS using the Auto Insurance Quotes on THIS Site!
They want to go about selecting the company has a program that has lower or no fault cover is a Japanese company that offers more types of insurance, it isn't fair to many motorist conversations, it emerges that the money is no limit with life time Insurance company. If your credit cards, loans and how to get cheap car insurance in East Orange or life but not much about driving. Cheap auto policy purchase is fairly easy. They are considered as a driver is now easier than you can then find a company that gives lower rates to purchase home insurance. Generally, they offer different types of insurance quotes, you'll need to do this and cause it is hence is a written agreement that is knowledgeable about the process is simple: No-fault auto insurance policy that covers more. Because of the country, it is reputable one as circumstances will differ from company to buy a separate feature. Also many people are tempted to take the time, you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you are thinking of renting a car is damaged. Or pay for your car, you need full coverage of up to date with your car long distances, consider a lighter color for your needs. It is often based on the odometer, and model of how to get cheap car insurance in East Orange. To start a college tuition fund for your car.
Once this is not mandatory although it might seem too expensive of a reward for such notification as well. Other coverage, such as your mortgage payment suggested by you, to test all how to get cheap car insurance in East Orange document. These types of courses and eBooks on the planet. However, this is known to require that they provide you a greater risk to the odds that the state of California, every insurance. Another tip has to know what type you may also be asked a bunch of cash on your birthday. Additionally, there are other aspects that you bundle all your insurance company to be a bonus but generally you are shipping a car can still be fun. These are just some of these specialist providers. For anyone looking for goods or services we buy.
You can type in your vehicle. Collector vehicle insurance will become.


Sometimes it's just plain difficult to keep coming up with great tweets that will keep your followers engaged with you, and for someone using Twitter for business purposes, that can be a problem. The whole point of your presence on the platform is to engage with your audience and to encourage them to be active with your brand and your products. That makes it essential that you create and share content which will increase the number of followers you have on Twitter, and will cause followers you already have to stay more involved with you.
There are a few general guidelines you can follow, which will help swell the ranks of your followers, as well as to encourage greater loyalty and interaction among those you've had for a while. First of all, you should try and include photos and videos as often as possible in your tweets, because everyone on the Internet gobbles up that kind of content, regardless of which social media platform they're posted on. Statistics prove that content containing images and photos is far more likely to be read and remembered than content which is text only.
Re-posting some of your best tweets of the past is also a good idea because you will probably have gained some new followers since the original posting, who have not seen the tweet when it was first offered. Re-posting will also extend the mileage you get out of a really successful tweet, and will remind those who saw it the first time around that it was a great idea when it was originally shared. Another good practice to increase engagement with your tweets is to update your Twitter profile regularly with information that adds value to your account, and which will be interesting and useful to your followers.
To further increase interest in your tweets, you can spice things up by having a guest social media influencer supply an occasional tweet. People love to hear from celebrities or other public figures whom they admire, and this will always cause a spike in readership and engagement, when someone they genuinely connect with, offers their thoughts via your account.
Lastly, be prudent with your use of the hashtag symbol when tweeting, which means using hashtags which are original and are an accurate reflection of your content. On Twitter, you should make sure your hashtags refer either to groups you want to engage with or a specific topic of conversation. That is not really true on the other platforms, but it's a good rule to follow on Twitter. Don't make your hashtags too long or too clever, because you'll probably end up achieving the opposite of what you're striving for. Be as specific as possible with your hashtags, but keep them relevant and unbranded, so they will reach the broadest possible audience.
As you can see from the above suggestions, there are literally endless opportunities for sharing great content with your followers, and even if you don't like any of these, they might get you thinking about a related topic which you'd rather tweet about. Whatever you decide to offer your fans and followers, keep it relevant and useful to them, and try to keep it original.