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Ford scores double top in our exclusive poll of UK car dealers
FORD has taken the top two places in the definitive list of the cars Britain's motor traders most like to sell.
The Ford Focus (1st) and Fiesta (2nd) – two of the nation's biggest-selling models – topped the poll, which was carried out by Car Dealer Magazine to celebrate its centenary issue.
The ever-popular Volkswagen Golf was third in the list of the 100 cars of all-time the nation's dealers loved to have in their showrooms.
BMW had the most models on the list (nine), while Audi were close behind with eight. Ford, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz all had six.
Kevin Griffin, Ford of Britain sales director, said: 'The Ford Focus and Fiesta broke the medium and small car moulds when they were launched 18 and 40 years ago respectively.
'Both have been the UK's best-selling car, with Fiesta at number one for its 40th celebrations this year. Whether being sold new or used, Focus and Fiesta have a huge following – not least among the dealer body delivering hundreds of thousands of them to new owners every year."
Dermot Rafferty, General Manager of TrustFord Northern Ireland, explained why so many of his fellow car dealers voted for the Focus.
He said: Focus was, and is, the benchmark for everything else in its segment.
Ford's Fiesta took second place
"When it was first launched, the key selling factors were its striking looks – it really did set the standards – and also its driveability, which is what really sold it. No-one ever test-drove a Focus and didn't say 'wow!'"
While it is perhaps no surprise to find hugely popular high-volume models like the Focus, Fiesta and Golf at the top of the list, further down the poll of more than 1,000 UK car dealers, there are plenty of surprises.
The world of classics is represented by the likes of the Jaguar E-Type (29th), Subaru Impreza (30th) and Saab 900 (37th); while luxury models like the Mercedes S-Class (14th), Audi R8 (13th) and Bentley Continental GT (65th) also make the cut.
Meanwhile, changing attitudes in the industry are reflected in the inclusion of the all-electric BMW i3 (94th), and plug-in hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (33rd).
The bulk of the list, however, is made up of more everyday models that represent 'bread and butter' sales for dealers.
James Baggott, founder and publisher of Car Dealer Magazine, said: 'We cast the net far and wide with this poll and gave dealers complete freedom to tell us their favourite ever cars to sell.
'You wouldn't have got long odds on the models at the top of the list as they sell in such big volumes but elsewhere there are some real surprises.'
He added: 'Car Dealer magazine has come a long, long way since I produced the first issue in my conservatory six years ago and we're immensely proud of the 100th issue and all we've achieved along the way.
'We're now the UK's biggest motor trade publication and it's fitting that our centenary issue is much larger and packed full of more exciting content than ever before.'
The bumper centenary issue of Car Dealer magazine – the biggest in the title's history – will arrive with dealers across the country from this Friday.
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Previous Will I Need Chemotherapy?
What type of hormonal therapy do you recommend?
Will I also benefit from chemotherapy?
Will I need 5 or 10 years of these medications?
Would the genomic assay Oncotype DX be helpful?
Anti-estrogen (estrogen-blocking) medications, prescribed as pills, are incredibly effective at treating certain types of breast cancer. Hormonal therapy is given to about 70 to 80% of women with breast cancer. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, is a more intense cancer treatment that is generally administered intravenously. Most patients will not need chemotherapy. Many women that do need chemotherapy will also benefit from hormonal therapy. These treatment decisions are complex ones with your medical oncologist. You will make better choices when you are well informed before meeting with your medical oncologist.
Do my "Receptors" suggest Hormonal Therapy?
When the estrogen circulating in your blood stream interacts with a breast cancer that has "Estrogen Receptors" (ER) present on its surface, it tends to flip the ER switch to the "on" or "grow" position for ER Positive tumors. The same can be said to a lesser extent for the "Progesterone Receptor," if your cancer is found to also be PR positive. Patients with ER+ breast cancers almost always benefit from the anti-estrogen effects of hormonal therapy. These medications can make cancer cells die, or slow down their growth. If a few cancer cells have already spread to other parts of the body, these medications are incredibly effective at preventing these cells from growing and threatening your life in the future. In other words, those who take hormonal therapy for ER+ tumors have a more successful chance at long-term survival when compared to those who do not. This has been proven again and again by hormone therapy clinical trials. Learn the essentials about receptors with our "My Tumor Receptors" (here).
About 80% of all breast cancers are ER+. Even if your medical oncologist recommends chemotherapy for you, if your tumor is ER+ you will also benefit from up to 10 years of hormonal therapy after chemotherapy. Hormonal therapy is never given during chemotherapy nor during radiation therapy. It is always started afterwards for a number of reasons beyond the scope of this course.
Tamoxifen is an anti-estrogen medication (pills) that has been used with great success with ER+ cancers for three decades. It is now the primary hormonal therapy for younger, pre-menopausal women. It is also the primary drug for men with breast cancer. It is used for some post-menopausal women.
Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a class of anti-estrogen medications (pills) that have proven to be slightly more effective than Tamoxifen for post-menopausal women. It is not recommended for younger, pre-menopausal women, except in certain circumstances. The three most common versions are Anastrozole (Arimidex), Letrozole (Femara), and Exemestane (Aromasin).
Side effects vary greatly from one person to the next for both types of hormonal medications. Some have no symptoms at all. Most have very tolerable side effects. Some patients will need to change hormonal therapy medications to find the best balance of cancer benefit versus side effects. Several side effects that are rather common for both tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors are hot flashes, night sweats, joint pain, and vaginal dryness. Below, we list some of the other specific side effects for both drugs.
Can temporarily induce menopause in pre-menopausal women.
Would an "Oncotype DX" assay help me?
Patients who have a small, estrogen receptor positive, HER2 receptor negative tumor, and no evidence of cancer in their lymph nodes may benefit from an Oncotype DX genomic assay. This cutting-edge test looks deeper into your cancer cells to better identify people who may also benefit from chemotherapy with ER+ breast cancers. The decision to undergo chemotherapy, in addition to hormonal therapy, is a complicated one. Your medical oncologist uses many factors to help decide if you will benefit from chemotherapy. An Oncotype DX analysis of a portion of your breast cancer tissue can be instrumental in this decision. Review our video lesson on "Genomic Testing" (here) to learn more about these "cutting-edge" advances in breast cancer treatment.
Would a "Breast Cancer Index" assay help me?
Recent clinical trials have shown that extending hormonal therapy from 5 years to 10 years can reduce risk of recurrence/death by about 3 to 5%. Ten years of hormonal therapy is becoming the new standard of care.
A new genomic test called the "Breast Cancer Index" attempts to predict the chance of breast cancer recurrence during this extended hormone therapy period between 5 to 10 years. It can help women determine if there is benefit from this extended period of hormonal medications. It is not currently FDA approved, but may be available to you and your medical oncologist to help decide if you can avoid the extra five years of hormonal therapy.
An excellent overview "Hormonal Therapy for Early-Stage Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer" is located (here). The American Society of Clinical Oncologists is a leading organization of clinicians who care for people living with cancer.
You will find well-organized guides (here) on breast cancer treatment by stage. Follow the prompts to breast cancer and then "stage" in the dropdown menus. The NCCN is a consortium of organizations and governmental agencies to promote quality breast cancer care.
A good overview of "Hormonal Therapy" is located (here). This site is created for patients by the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
This "Patient Page" (here) outlines "Hormone Therapy-Related Hot Flashes and Their Management" and is written for patients. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA Oncology) is a publication of the largest physicians association in the United States.
To estimate the risk of cancer recurring in other parts of the body (distant recurrence) after 5 years of hormonal therapy, try this calculator tool. This information can be helpful in consultation with your medical oncologist as to the benefits and risks of taking hormonal therapy beyond 5 years. The Clinical Treatment Score Post–5 Years (CTS5) was developed from an analysis of data of more than 11,000 women from two major clinical trials, using readily available disease measures. The patients had received hormonal therapy for 5 years. It was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in August 2018.


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Q: Read from NSDictionary to NSMutableArray Crash when there's only one element I have a NSDictionary that I get data from a xml file.
The xml file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<root>
<customer>
    <areas>
        <area>
            <company>ABC</company>
            <state>OO</state>
            <area_name>Somename</area_name>
            <count>123</count>
            <total_custs>123123</total_custs>
        </area>
       <area>
            <company>BCD</company>
            <state>EE</state>
            <area_name>Somename2</area_name>
            <count>1233</count>
            <total_custs>11233</total_custs>
        </area>
    </areas>
</customer>
</root>

I read this xml into a NSDictionary, say myDict, then I want to store it in a NSMutableArray, say myArray, I use:
myArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:[[[[myDict objectForKey:@"root"] objectForKey:@""customer"] objectForKey:@"areas"] objectForKey:@"area"]] autorelease];

This works fine if I have zero, or two or more <area>, but it crash if I have only one, just like what I showed above.
Here are some information that I think might be helpful,
2011-08-12 09:04:40.343 TEST[28595:ef03] -[__NSCFDictionary getObjects:range:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x588af50
2011-08-12 09:04:40.345 TEST[28595:ef03] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFDictionary getObjects:range:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x588af50'

Part of the call stack:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x011fc5a9 __exceptionPreprocess + 185
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x01350313 objc_exception_throw + 44
2   CoreFoundation                      0x011fe0bb -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 187
3   CoreFoundation                      0x0116d966 ___forwarding___ + 966
4   CoreFoundation                      0x0116d522 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
5   CoreFoundation                      0x011f7fc5 -[NSArray initWithArray:range:copyItems:] + 245
6   CoreFoundation                      0x0115fdc0 -[NSArray initWithArray:] + 96

EDIT:
I think I might just have a clue what's going on, so I add a if-else statement like that:
if ([[[[[myDict objectForKey:@"root"] objectForKey:@""customer"] objectForKey:@"areas"] objectForKey:@"area"] isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
    ALog(@"is array!");
}
else
{
    ALog(@"not array!");
}

When there's only one element, it gives me "no array", but I'm still using initWithArray to crate my NSMutableArray.
So I can check if a object is or isn't a type using isKindOfClass, is there a way for it to just tell me what kind of object it is?

A: You don't say how you've translated the XML to a dictionary, but both from the structure of your XML and from the error, area appears to be an dictionary, not an array, so you can't use it as the argument to initWithArray:. Presumably your mapping from XML to objects is turning it into an array of dictionaries when there are many area elements but not when there's only one.

A: Try breaking up your calls into different lines to see where the error is happening.
Instead of this:
myArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:[[[[myDict objectForKey:@"root"] objectForKey:@""customer"] objectForKey:@"areas"] objectForKey:@"area"]] autorelease];

Try this:
NSDictionary *root = [mydict objectForKey:@"root"];
NSDictionary *customer = [root objectForKey:@"customer"];
NSDictionary *areas = [customer objectForKey:@"areas"];
NSDictionary *area = [areas objectForKey:@"area"];
myArray = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray: area] autorelease];

A: I'm actually a little surprised that it works for 2 or more <area> nodes. When you have more than one area, wouldn't your code put all the individual <area> nodes in an array? So when you try to call [areas objectForKey:@"area"] it should crash because areas is an NSArray, not an NSDictionary. It wouldn't make sense that it is a dictionary because it can't have duplicate keys. So if it is, then it is overwriting the value stored in the area key if there is more than one.
I have a suspicion that your code is reversed somewhere - it is putting the <area> nodes in a dictionary if there is 2 or more (causing some overwriting) and putting them in an array if there is only 1 (causing the crash for calling a method that NSArray doesn't hvave), but it is supposed to do the opposite.

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M. Anton, author of The Suit, recently wrote an interesting post at StyleForum about how to properly wear a white dress shirt. His argument is that white dress shirts are commonly misused, mostly because people buy into the myth that white works everything.
On the contrary, he writes, white dress shirts are citified, business, "upper class" shirts. They show dirt easily, are hard to clean, and used to be the mark of money. They shouldn't be worn under tweeds or country clothing. They also shouldn't be thought of as a "blank canvas" for just any tie. Yellow and purple, for example, look terrible against white, and many colors, such as burgundy, generally look better when paired with light blue.
So what does work with a white dress shirt? Suits in blue or gray, mostly, but in certain contexts, brown can also be used if done masterfully. Ties should be kept to navy, black, grey, silver, or combinations thereof. A dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie make for a nice formal evening look. For the day, if the suit is dark, the tie should be a shade lighter; if the suit is light, the tie should be kept dark. This keeps things in balance and makes things a bit more visually interesting.
The rest of the thread's discussion goes into a level of intricacy I won't bother reposting here. However, I will say that while I initially read the argument with some skepticism, I became somewhat convinced after flipping through a number of images and illustrations of well dressed men from about the 1930s to present. I struggled to find counter examples, and the few I did find were actually already given exceptions in Anton's original posts.
For example, a navy jacket with grey trousers, white shirt, and repp stripe tie is an unassailable Old Money look. Even if it's a bit boring, one can hardly call it incorrect. White shirts also work well under blue seersucker or certain shades of blue tweed. This gives a necessary level of contrast between the jacket and the shirt. There are also white oxford cloth button downs and linen shirts, both of which can be worn with a variety of casual ensembles.
Still, without having to catalog every combination where a white shirt does and doesn't work, I think the lesson is worth stressing: white dress-shirts are perhaps a bit overrated, and 90% of the time, particularly for men who don't wear suits, a blue shirt – either solid or striped – is likely to be the optimal choice. When using white, one should consider the texture of the shirt, the contrast it lends, and whether it simply looks too formal.
By the way, shown above is the ever-elegant Michael Alden, who happened to be photographed twice one day in the same outfit. Due to the lighting, one of the photos makes him look like he's wearing a white shirt, even though he's actually wearing blue. I think the blue looks much more natural under his brown checked tweed, and perhaps this demonstrates Anton's point.


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There is a mass genocide taking place but you would never know about it simply from reading or listening to the "news."
The official story is that everyone getting injected for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) is doing just fine, even though the reality is that people everywhere are getting sick or dying from the jabs at astounding rates.
To ensure that people have access to the truth, a website called Covid-19 Vaccine Reactions was set up to track adverse events as they occur. The site aggregates what does occasionally get reported in the news along with firsthand stories about people who suffered after getting one of the shots.
One of the latest headlines on the site is from the New York Post documenting a 42-year-old cybersecurity expert who died after getting injected. Below that is a Twitter thread from writer Alex Berenson about the mainstream media's endless Chinese virus propaganda.
"I'm watching baseball tonight and out of nowhere the announcers start talking about the vaccine, how easy getting it was, how great it is … and the stadium signage says, 'Take one for the team. Get vaccinated,'" Berenson tweeted.
"Two tiny tendrils of this overwhelming campaign, not just nationally but internationally coordinated on so many fronts – get vaccinated and fly to Europe or go to college or get free donuts," he added. "And help me out here. I cannot think of another example remotely like this."
Below that are screenshots taken directly from Pfizer's mRNA vaccine trial documentation admitting that Wuhan flu shots do, in fact, shed onto other people, including the unvaccinated.
Section 8.3.5.1 of the document explains that humans can inhale spike proteins as well as pick them up from others via skin contact. This means that those who get injected for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) are potentially spreading DNA-modifying poisons to every person with whom they come into contact.
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Further down on the page from this past week is a photo of an empty parking lot with a few white tents along with the caption, "First weekend vaccines are available to the general public in Colorado." Apparently very few people in Colorado want to get injected for Chinese germs.
Other noteworthy items right on the front page as of this writing include a story about a man who veered off the road and crashed while driving due to seizures he suffered suddenly after getting injected.
Then there is yet another tweet by Alex Berenson about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which the vaccine death cult is now trying to claim is "untrustworthy" because it is showing high numbers of vaccine-induced injuries and deaths.
"The vaccine church likes to pretend VAERS is untrustworthy," Berenson notes. "In fact VAERS is the only reason we know about the @jnjnews (Johnson & Johnson) clots; the more active @cdcgov v-safe system didn't find them and the clinical trial was worse – JNJ bluffed @us_fda into ignoring a case of thrombocytopenia."
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Be sure to browse all the news available at CovidVaccineReactions.com and tell your friends and family about it. The more people learn the truth about these deadly jabs, the less likely we all are to be tyrannized by vaccine "passports" and other flavors of medical fascism.
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In 2011, the iconic Argentine soccer team River Plate was downgraded to the B division, an unthinkable crisis for a team that had enjoyed over 100 years in the spotlight. In Radio Ambulante's "The Fall of River", Cristian Alarcón interviews sports commentator Atilio Costa Febre, who was tasked with broadcasting the catastrophe and decided to sidestep convention and denounce on air the managerial corruption that led to River's fall.
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Unlike the majority of protesters in the Arab Spring, protesters in Kuwait have rallied against their government on issues anchored in basic human rights rather than on material needs. Instead of trying to topple the government, the focus has been on checking the authority of the ruling family and holding it accountable to its citizens. Arising from these efforts is the plight of the "Bedoon" – the stateless - of Kuwait, who despite living there for decades, hold no nationality. The Arab Spring protests of 2011 invigorated their demands for citizenship but after months of rallying and campaigning, what progress have they achieved?


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between 1972 and 1975 he visited the Harvard Business School of Harvard University, where he acquired the title (MBA), a master OF Business administration.1977 he married Laura what. - The twin daughters Jenna and Barbara Anita were born 1981.
Its entrepreneur activity began Bush 1978 in the oil promotion industry with the establishment of Arbusto Energy, later in Bush exploration renamed. As beginning of the eightiesthe oil prices broke in, turned out the enterprise in difficulties and had 1984 with the oil enterprise Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. fuse. Bush became a chairman of the enterprise. When 1986 broke in the oil prices again, it became however insolvent and by rakes Energy Corp.bought up.Bush became thereby one of the directors with rakes.
1986 were also the year of a drastic change in of Bush private lives. At the age of 40 years it converted from the Anglikanern to the Methodists, the faith direction, to which its wife belongs, overto do from now on as a again-born Christian completely without alcohol. Its problems in handling alcohol had become already 1976 on record, as it in Maine because of drunkennessness to tax, together with its advisor at that time Raphael rose branch, limit the driving licence extractedwas and he a strict withdrawal to carry out had, which fell him very heavily. Confronted in very unpleasant way Bush also today still with the problem of the alcoholism, there its daughter Jenna repeated remarkably became drunk and an automobilesteered.
1988 were George W. Bush member of the election campaign team of its father with (then won) the presidency election. Subsequently, it, together with close friends of its father, acquired the baseball team Texas Ranger, (its portion amounted to 5%). It was up to its choiceto the governor von Texas 1994 the Managing partner of the team. With the sales of its portion to Texas Ranger 1998 Bush earned 15 million dollar. Also this had called critics on the plan, those the doubtful circumstances of this increase in valueanprangerten.
the texanische governor choice to 8. November 1994 could decide Bush against the democratic office owner Ann Richards for itself; this generally evaluated as surprise, there for Texas as safe bastion of the democrats applied and AnnRichards still in the choice evening as safe Siegerin saw itself. In order to strengthen its position also under from house from democratic voters, Bush set in its first term of office on large co-operation with the political opponent; thus he appointed a democratto his deputy and strengthened this then also the back, by supporting law projects of the opposing parliamentary group in the texanischen parliament.
1998 was it the first texanische governor at all, to who a re-election succeeded. In addition both its Christian faith carried,the economic improvements, the school politics and particularly its decided endorsement of the death penalty: 152 to death condemned refused it during its term of office the pardon - a circumstance, that with the opponents of the death penalty repeats at home and abroad toosharp criticism led.
in the year 2000 he was nominated to the presidency candidate of the republicans and stepped under the slogan "along-feeling Konservatismus "(compassionate conservatism) against the candidate of the democrats and vice-president at that time aluminium would ferment, as well as of thatThe Greens nominated (internationally as a consumer protection lawyer admitted) Ralph Nader on. The decision became a hard head on head running between the two main candidates Bush and would ferment, so that the decision finally depended only on the result in the Federal State Florida.
The results of the State of Florida were in their counting however extremely disputed, which led the USA to to the edge of a state crisis. Only a judgement of the constitutional court finally terminated the current countings. At this time leading George W. Bush became the winner in this Federal Stateand thus as the president of the USA explains. For a revision of this judgement numerous citizens discussion themselves, however not one senator supported the request. Bush received US far altogether fewer voices as if would ferment, but it knew more elector voices upunite, which with the indirect Präsidentenwahl in the USA is decisive.
To 20. January 2001 was sworn in Bush and was thus a second president in the history of the USA, whose father had likewise been a president - this constellation metbefore only on sixth president, John Quincy Adam, too, whose father John Adam had been a second president. George W. Bush is also a first president with a MBA - titles.
as in its time as more texanischerGovernor quit George W. Bush at the beginning of its first term of office if possible concerted, or at least co-ordinated, acting with the political opponent on. As emphasis it designated an improvement of the training system, reductions of taxes, accountabilities of political participants opposite the people, stabilization of the militaryand creation of possibilities for workers of investing parts of the social insurance contributions privately. Important partner when operating the senate became for Bush the democrat Edward Kennedy.
The clay/tone between both parties was intensified however in the summer 2001 throughthe change of a republican senator to the democrats, which led to a loss of the republican senate majority and was regarded of numerous republicans as breach of trust.
Most important law projects up to the 11. September 2001 (the day of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the WorldTrade of center, admits as 9/11) was a program for the substantial lowering of the taxes and the reform of the training system - both were accepted by the congress. The NO Child Left Behind act (no child is to stay), that the quality of the public public educationand the access of the military to particulars of the pupils for the purpose of recruiting to improve is, came into force in January 2002.
In March 2001 the final door of the USA from the Kyoto agreement was announced to that for reduction greenhouse gases. Bush becomesbut and for his also otherwise not pollution free policy of opponents criticizes again and again sharply. Proponents argue that minutes were signed by of Bush predecessor Clinton, although also this would have never gotten an appropriate law by the senate: giving preference toChinese industry opposite the US-American is too strong. In August 2001 modified George W. Bush its attitude in the bio ethics debate, by deciding for - although reduced - the support of the embryonalen main cell research.
In firstMonths of its presidency Bush was altogether relatively inconspicuous and spent very much time on its Ranch in Texas, why he was insulted as a partial time president.
with the terrorist attacks of the 11. September 2001 experiencedthe policy by George W. Bush a deeply seizing cut. In view of the high victim number and the strongly symbolic effect of the notices he proclaimed a war against the terrorism .
With broad international support (also the German Federal Government and many more MuslimStates) and the agreement of the UN security council led the USA and Great Britain first starting from that 7. October war in Afghanistan, where responsible for the notices the terrorist organization aluminium-Kaida made had its basis.
An additional goal was, the Islamic regime that To fall Taliban. The number of killed civilians in this war, with which also so-called Daisy Cutter, cluster bombs and uranium ammunition was used, became estimated from the Frankfurt conference of the European exile Afghans in December 2001 on approximately 18,000.
In 15. June 2002 regarded president Bush a Middle East speech, those apart from the demand after a new Palestinian guidance also the foundation-stone as the later common peace timetable of the USA, Russia, the European Union and the UN, the Roadmap,contained. This was its first commitment in the conflict, which he had ignored before.
In August 2002 tried Bush to weaken the again established international criminal court; bilateral agreements with other states should distribution of US citizens after the Hague, that, Permitted the Servicemen Protection act prevents seat of the Court of Justice the president to arrange the release by force from US citizens.
In the course of the yearly 2002 Bush manufactured a direct connection between the war against the terrorism and Saddam Hussein . Bush threw to that Iraq besides forwards, it possesses weapon of mass destruction - a reproach, which was sceptically taken up already at that time and which proved later than untrue. Its constantly growing pressure on the Iraq culminated finally in March 2003 in the Iraq war with the invasion ofBritish and US troops into the Iraq.
Since because of the strong opposition in the UN security council the actually wished express UN mandate was not to be gotten, it relied finally only on a coalition in such a way specified that consenting with Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Poland, Australia and about 30 other states. The opponents of the Iraq war, under it the governments of France, Russia, Germany and Austria, saw a provisionally sufficient means for a disarmament in a continuation of the weapon inspections by the IAEA of theIraq.
Also in the international public it had come to fruitless mass protests against the militarily dominated foreign policy of the USA and their allied one. World-wide 2003 million of humans took part in anti-war demonstrations of the peace movement in February; also in the countries,their governments had placed themselves behind Bush. Among other things Bush was accused that the more important reason for war was less the fight against the terrorism, but rather the politico-economic (access to the Iraqi Erdölquellen) and geostrategic interests of the USA.
During the warin Afghanistan generally by the right to self-defense as covered, was from the outset disputed the international-law authentication of the Iraq war applies strongly.
The war opponents see themselves in the meantime confirmed by the fact that no weapon of mass destruction could be found and the terrorism throughthe war one did not weaken. The Iraq, and with it also increasingly nearly the entire Arab world, actually remained itself after the official end of war an unrest stove, into notices against the occupation troops, other foreigners and with themco-operating, in addition, completely indifferent Iraqi and Arab civilians increasingly accumulate up. Also internationally it came to further terrorist attacks of aluminium-Kaida and their intimate organizations, among them into Istanbul and at the 11. March 2004 in Madrid.
A further setback had Bushin the spring 2004 as consequence of the choice victory of the PSOE (socialists) with the Spanish parliamentary elections accept: few days before the choice had died with a bomb attack on Madrider of Vorortzüge 191 humans. The acting government Aznar tried first, those presumedfrom aluminum dock since terrorists notices committed to attribute against better knowledge, the baskischen Separatistenorganisation ETA. The public indignation about this procedure led to the surprising choice victory of the socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. As announced in the election campaign, the new Prime Minister arranged briefly according to itsSwearing-in the retreat in of the Spanish troops from the Iraq on, since it cannot recognize "signs for it that the troops, as by it demanded, up to 30. June of the UN were subordinated ". Thus jokes so far as reliably classified partnersfrom "the coalition that consenting "out.
relating to domestic affairs could rely Bush first on a broad support in the fight against the terrorism: Measures like stricter security checks and entry conditions and restrictionsthe civil rights by the Patriot act I and George W. could be discharged briskly Bush could register the highest agreement values, which were ever measured in the USA. Criticism became only later, mainly at the plans a Patriot actII, loud. Likewise various institutions were summarized like the tariff, the coast guard and the disaster control authority Federal Emergency management Agency in Ministry for preservation of regional tradition with 180.000 coworkers.
Meanwhile it became admits that itself the FBI and national the Security Agency(NSA) in one at the presidents gerichteteten memorandum in August 2001 with the terror threat concerned; it came into it however to the conclusion that it gives "suspicious activities ", rumors over a planned plane hi-jacking however "is not confirmed "left. This tothere secret document was published by the government on pressure of the commission of inquiry used by congress of US in April 2004. However the warnings and reference were very general, why concrete preventive measures were not possible.
In the year 2002 the republican party won thoseAnd developed senatorial elections their majority in the congress , against the normal trend that the government party loses Elections voices into the avoiding term.
A legislative initiative of the president, which was to set the economic situation in motion by tax exemptions, won in May 2003 legal power. In November 2003it succeeded to president Bush to win a majority for an extensive health reform with introduction of national subsidies for medicines in the context of the Medicare insurance. In January 2004 president Bush announced, NASA means for a manned station on the moon to the space authorityto make available, which as station and test laboratory for later flights is to serve for Mars.
2002 president Bush decided other events to raise Einfuhrzölle on steel products in order to protect US firms against foreign competition. In the consequence those imposed European union, approved of of the World Trade Organization, penalty duties against the USA.
In July 2002 president Bush, one of the congress granted financial assistance decided at a value of 34 millions USD for the fund of population of world of the United Nations (UNFPA) restrainable, there theseits opinion after in the People's Republic of China obligation abortions and - sterilizations finance.
In May 2004 increasingly information about cruel and entwürdigende torture and abusing practices penetrates from US-American military in Iraqi prisoners in the Bagdader Abu Ghuraib prison to the public. Tortures become throughPhotos and videos occupies. With the abusing it had already given several victims. Soon similar incidents become also in other military prisons in the Iraq, led by Americans, and in Afghanistan admit. Already before was the Bush government because of the inhuman treatmentturn out for the prisoner on the US base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba under criticism. With the becoming known of the incidents in Abu Ghuraib the affair expands fast to a scandal, which clearly weakens also the moral reliability of the Bush government.
At the beginning of of June2004 come it with a European journey of Bush on the occasion of the 60ten of anniversary of the invasion of the allied ones in normandy with the state visit into Italy to substantial road protests against Bush into Rome. There the president became also of Pope Johannes Paul II.receive to an audience. The Pope, likewise a decided opponent of the Iraq war, criticized of Bush Iraq politics with unusually clear words and requested him to a change of its appropriate policy.
In December 2004 Time magazines selects it to the person of theYearly 2004 "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality ton match his Design, for gambling his fortunes - and ours - on his faith into the power OF leadership ".
in the cabinetBushs der zweiten Amtsperiode wurde etwa die Hälfte der Minister ausgetauscht. Minister of foreign affairs Colin Powell, which had already explained its resignation in November, was replaced by Condoleezza Rice.
at the beginning of of 2005 interspersed Bush,that the before times deputy Secretary of Defense of the USA Paul Wolfowitz president of the World Bank became.
At the 1. August 2005 it determined the UN critic John Bolton by decree to the new UN Ambassador of the USA. (The occupation of this post is actually obligated for agreement by the senate, in the summer break the president this can go around under certain conditions.) Bolton by the democratic opposition and parts of the republicans had been rejected.
put, for the reinforcement of the dykes ignored: Bush had the boss for the dyke constructionresponsible authority 2002 dismisses, after this had submitted to the congress of plans for 188 million a dollar expensive flow project at the lower Mississippi. In interviews at the beginning of of Septembers stated Bush:Nobody could foresee the break of the dykes.
To of Bush more important successes relating to domestic affairs innew occupations of two seats at the powerful highest Court of Justice belong to the second term of office. To 5. September 2005 he nominated John Robert Jr. to the successor as Chief Justice for the deceased William H. Rehnquist. After its confirmation by the senatenominated Bush at the 3. October 2005 its Rechtsberaterin Harriet Miers as a successor of the withdrawn Sandra Day O'Connor as Richterin at the highest Court of Justice of the United States, pulled this however after unusually strong criticism from all political camps to 27. October2005 on Miers' request back and nominated instead Samuel Alito, to 31. January 2006 with limited majority was confirmed by the senate.
the policy of the US administration under George W. Of Bush presidency led, both inthe USA as also in other countries, to a strong polarization between proponents and critics.
Beyond that personality and characteristics of the person become George W. Bush von Anhängern and Gegnern usually very oppositely estimated. While its faith onGod and the guide roller of the USA estimate, refer the others to its contradictory biography - with earlier alcohol problems, its defined "Wiedergeburt "than Christian and anti-alcoholics - and linguistic uncertainties (see also Bushism).
While a large number of the Mainstream - media in the course of the assassination attempts of the 11. Septembers 2001 the government line represented and into their reporting as far as possible the defaults from Washington took over, alsoover the concept of the embedded journalism as correspondents in the following Iraq war, called the events in the course of the disputed choice came up to a large extent 2000, still more however in the consequence of the aggravation of the university-lateralistic policy of the USA in the consequence of the terrorist attacksat the 11. September 2001 in the USA numerous critics on the plan. The documentary film producer Michael of moorlands attained thereby with his books Stupid White Men and full covering, Mr. Bush as well as with its film Fahrenheit 9/11 a considerable admitting heating degree as Bush critics,also outside of the USA.
George W. Bush is the first US president, its acting the production and publication of a large motion picture film (Fahrenheit 9/11), the start of an entire broadcast net (air America radio) and the premiere of a TV serial(The aluminium Franconia show) caused, a whose common goal was it to prevent its re-election.
In addition Bush is a first president, one nominating (to 26. February 2005) and afterwards the film price golden raspberry that golden Raspberry AwardFoundation as worst leading actors received. Naturally it did not play in Fahrenheit a 9/11 purely technically seen role, but only in archives photographs was shown. It is to be accepted that the award of the price in this case as political statement of the jury tooregard is.
The Freedom OF information act was cut strong in the USA since its assumption of office. With the note "secret "or also simply only through "only for the official use "are provided ever more government documents.
There's at old saying in threshing floor lake - I know it's in Texas, it's probably in threshing floor lake - that says, fool ME once, is ashamedon - be ashamed of on you. You fool ME, you can't GET fooled again.
To German in approximately: There is an old proverb in threshing floor lake - I white, it is (well-known) in Texas, perhaps (also) [here] in threshing floor lake - which means,put me once purely, to dishonor over dishonor over you. If you put me on the cross, then you can do no more over the ear gehauen to become.
ALTERNATIVE NAME Bush, George June.


jin har har nām n chētiō mērī jindurīē tē manamukh mūr iānē rām .
jō mōh māiā chit lāidē mērī jindurīē sē ant gaē pashutānē rām .
har daragah dhōī nā lahanh mērī jindurīē jō manamukh pāp lubhānē rām .
jan nānak gur mil ubarē mērī jindurīē har jap har nām samānē rām .1.
sabh jāi milah satigurū kau mērī jindurīē jō har har nām drirāvai rām .
har japadiā khin dhil n kījaī mērī jindurīē mat k jāpai sāh āvai k n āvai rām .
sā vēlā sō mūrat sā gharī sō muhat saphal hai mērī jindurīē jit har mērā chit āvai rām .
jan nānak nām dhiāiā mērī jindurīē jamakankar nēr n āvai rām .2.
har vēkhai sunai nit sabh kish mērī jindurīē sō darai jin pāp kamatē rām .
jis antar hiradā sudh hai mērī jindurīē tin jan sabh dar sut ghatē rām .
har nirabhau nām patījiā mērī jindurīē sabh jhakh māran dusat kupatē rām .
gur pūrā nānak sēviā mērī jindurīē jin pairī ān sabh ghatē rām .3.
sō aisā har nit sēvīai mērī jindurīē jō sabh dū sāhib vadā rām .
jinhī ik man ik arādhiā mērī jindurīē tinā nāhī kisai dī kish chadā rām .
gur sēviai har mahal pāiā mērī jindurīē jhakh māran sabh nindak ghandā rām .
jan nānak nām dhiāiā mērī jindurīē dhur masatak har likh shadā rām .4.5.
They, who remember not the Name of the Lord Master, O my soul, are perverse, stupid and ignorant.
They who attach their mind to temporal love and worldly valuables, O my soul, regretfully depart in the end.
The perverse persons, who are deluded by sin, O my soul, find no place of rest in God's court.
Says slave Nanak, they who meet the Guru and meditate over God, are saved, O my soul, and are absorbed in God's Name.
Go ye all and meet the True Guru, O my soul, who fixes the Lord God's Name in the heart.
Make not a moment's delay in contemplating over God, O my soul, as who knows whether mortal shall draw or draw not another breath?
That time, that instant, that moment and that trice are profitable, O my soul, when my God comes into my mind.
Attendant Nanak has meditated on the Lord's name, O my soul and now, the death's myrmidon draws not near him.
God ever beholds and hears everything, O my soul and he alone is afraid who commits sins.
The man, whose heart is pure from within him, O my soul, casts off all his fears.
All the villains and contendents prate in vain against him, O my soul, who has faith in the Lord's fearless Name.
Nanak has served his Perfect Guru O my soul, who has made all men to fall at his feet.
Ever serve thou such God, O my soul! who is the great Lord so all.
They who single-mindedly meditate on one God, O my soul, bear not subservience to anyone.
By serving the Guru, God's mansion I have attained, O my soul, and all the slanderers and mischief-makers bark but in vain.
Slave Nanak has meditated on the Name, O my soul, which the Lord had writ on his fore-head since the very beginning.
Those who do not remember the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my soul those selfwilled manmukhs are foolish and ignorant.
They find no place of rest in the Court of the Lord, O my soul; those selfwilled manmukhs are deluded by sin.
Do not hesitate for an instant meditate on the Lord, O my soul; who knows whether he shall draw another breath?
One who has faith in the Fearless Name of the Lord, O my soul all his enemies and attackers speak against him in vain.
Those who singlemindedly worship Him in adoration, O my soul, are not subservient to anyone.
Serving the Guru, I have obtained the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, O my soul; all the slanderers and troublemakers bark in vain.


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How many lightbulb jokes does it take to save the world?
Updated Wednesday 14th May 2008
Humour has a part to play in getting the message about climate change across.
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Few academics and policy specialists can see the joke in climate change and that's a shame, because when societies have big questions to address, some of the best work is done through the 'cultural work' of comedy and drama. With reference to my posting of 14th January it was a relief recently to come across Robert Butler's blog entry on climate change comedy. There has been a healthy offering of lightbulb jokes about climate change deniers in response to his invitation. I think his own (the first) is the best.
Q: How many climate sceptics does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. It's too early to say if the lightbulb needs changing.
A: None. It's more cost-effective to live in the dark.
A: None. We only know how to screw the planet.
A: None. Eventually the lightbulbs will right themselves.
It has been assumed in the science and policy community that the only way to 'beat the sceptics' is to shout ever more loudly that the 'science is finished' and that the nay-sayers are 'outside the consensus'. The most shrill voices have drawn on the most extreme comparisons to hand, including holocaust denial, to describe the mixed bag of libertarians and right wing retired politicians and advisers (Lawson; Monckton) and academic entrepreneurs (Lomborg) who dispute the IPCC and UNFCCC account of climate science and policy.
The tendency to paint 'climate change deniers' in such dark terms has greatly inflated the value of their stock in the eyes of the media. In this sense the Lomborg franchise (and a very profitable one it is too) is a creation of the environmental NGO and science community's own making. These contrarians have enjoyed a degree of media attention out of all proportion with the quality of their science or policy arguments, and hence had a much larger impact on the public conversation than their arguments deserve.
It also does a disservice to the vital intellectual tool of scepticism to tag these doggedly contrarian commentators as 'climate sceptics'. Scepticism should be one of the more prominent virtues of all journalists, researchers and students. Climate science is an unfinished – indeed unfinishable project. The attempt to make sense of how atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and anthroposphere (us) work together is one of the great intellectual projects of our time, and we are working with best guesses. There will be the odd cold spell; quiet hurricane season, and badly deployed biofuels policy. However none of these need weaken the case for action on climate change if we recognise that we are working to reduce the risk of danger rather than acting on a body of certain, urgent, solid facts.
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We all need to get comfortable with the fact that climate science and politics is a work in progress. This means we need to keep asking questions and welcoming well-considered challenges. These should include left-field thinking and yes, the odd gag. And in addition to laughing at the worst excesses of our contrarian friends we might sometimes choose to laugh with them. This simple act would help bring them down to their proper (modest but useful) size.
Professor Joe Smith
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Algeria frees first democracy activists after presidential pardons
Algeria frees first democracy activists after presidential pardons /node/1812391/middle-east
Algerians gather outside the Kolea prison near the city of Tipasa, some 70km west of the capital Algiers on Friday. (AFP)
https://arab.news/cwbb8
Algeria is facing political and economic crises, with the coronavirus pandemic adding to the woes of an oil-dependent economy
ALGIERS: Algeria on Friday released a dozen pro-democracy activists from jail, the first batch freed under presidential pardons issued ahead of the second anniversary of a popular uprising.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in a long-awaited speech to the nation late on Thursday, declared dozens of pardons in a gesture of appeasement as the Hirak protest movement gathers momentum once again.
The Hirak mass protests, meaning "movement" in Arabic, swept former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power in 2019, but continued after his fall.
Tebboune's initiative comes on the eve of the Hirak's second anniversary on Feb. 22, with calls on social media for demonstrations Monday to mark the day.
Algeria is facing political and economic crises, with the coronavirus pandemic adding to the woes of an oil-dependent economy.
The National Committee for the Liberation of Prisoners (CNLD), a rights group, announced the release on Friday, with more detainees expected to be released soon.
Relatives of prisoners and journalists gathered on Friday outside the Kolea prison, west of Algiers.
Among the prisoners in Kolea is journalist Khaled Drareni, sentenced to two years in prison in September, and who has become a symbol of the fight for press freedom in Algeria.
FASTFACT
"Behind the fence, we are waiting for Khaled," said fellow journalist Mohamed Sidoummou. "We are all optimistic."
It is not confirmed if Drareni, a correspondent for French-language TV5 Monde and press watchdog Reporters Without Borders, will be included in the pardon.
Around 70 people are currently in prison over their links with the Hirak movement or other peaceful opposition political activity, according to the CNLD.
Tebboune said that around 55 to 60 Hirak members would benefit from the amnesty, with their release to start immediately.
However, Drareni is waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on his appeal on February 25, and the pardon applies only to those whose cases are settled entirely, lawyer and rights activist Mostefa Bouchachi said.
Releasing activists whose cases are ongoing "poses a legal problem for the government, unless it is recognized that justice has worked badly," wrote Abed Charef, on the Middle East Eye website.
The unprecedented protest movement, demanding a sweeping overhaul of the ruling system in place since Algeria's independence from France in 1962, only suspended its rallies in March last year amid coronavirus restrictions.
On Tuesday, thousands of Algerians rallied in the northern town of Kherrata, where the first major protest erupted in 2019 against Bouteflika's bid for a fifth presidential term.
Protesters demanded "the fall of the regime" and "the release of prisoners of conscience."
On Friday, usually the day of Hirak marches, police deployed in large numbers in central Algiers.
"Algerians will continue to demonstrate peacefully to put pressure on the system so that it really changes," Bouchachi said.
Tebboune on Thursday also announced early elections, calling for the dissolution of parliament and declaring a government reshuffle within 48 hours.
Legislative elections had been scheduled to be held in 2022, but Tebboune wants early polls to take place before year's end.
But activists said Algeria needed bigger change than an election alone.
"Democracy is not limited to elections but to the exercise of democratic freedoms," said Said Salhi, from the Algerian League for Human Rights.
"The Hirak calls for a change of the system through an authentic and open democratic process."
Topics: Algeria
Algeria's president calls for dissolution of parliament, elections
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Palestinian foreign minister says US moving too slow on pushing peace /node/2008851/middle-east
Palestinian foreign minister says US moving too slow on pushing peace
The US "has yet to ensure the current Israeli government renounces its colonial policies and abandons its rejection of the two-state solution and peace negotiations," Malki says
NEW YORK: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki criticized US President Joe Biden on Thursday for moving too slowly to reverse all of former President Donald Trump administration's adverse policies against the Palestinians and not using Washington's special relationship to pressure Israel to abandon "its rejection of a two-state solution and peace negotiations."
Malki told the UN Security Council there were hopes that the end of Donald Trump's administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government "would be enough to pave the way for renewed momentum for peace."
But while the Biden administration reversed several "unlawful and ill-advised" Trump policies, he said it has been slow to act, especially on the US commitment to reopen the US consulate in east Jerusalem which would restore Washington's main diplomatic mission for the Palestinians in the contested city.
After Biden took office a year ago, the Palestinians thought the US "could try to move the Israeli position toward us," Malki told reporters later.
"But we have seen that the Israeli position has been able to move the American position a little bit toward them — and this is really what troubles us very much."
The US "has yet to ensure the current Israeli government renounces its colonial policies and abandons its rejection of the two-state solution and peace negotiations," Malki said.
"This is an unacceptable stance that should neither be tolerated nor excused and must be reversed."
Malki said he had "a very open, frank discussion" earlier on Wednesday with US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, including on US-Palestinian relations, the peace process, Palestinian expectations from the US and "what they are trying to do in the near future in order to see things moving forward in the right direction."
He said the Palestinians are engaging with the US administration about possible ways to eliminate restrictions imposed by Congress on reopening the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington.
Tor Wennesland, the UN Mideast envoy, told the council that six Palestinian men were killed by Israeli security forces, another died in unclear circumstances, and 249 Palestinians were injured, including 46 children, in the West Bank in he past month.
He said 15 Israelis were injured in attacks by Palestinians.
Malki called on the Security Council to take urgent action to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and save the two-state solution, pointing to Israel's accelerated settlement construction, demolition of Palestinian homes, confiscation of Palestinian land "and even annexing Palestinian land."
"Absent this sense of urgency, prepare yourself then to attend the funeral of this solution, with all the consequences of such a death for the lives of millions of people, Palestinians and others," Malki warned.
"The Palestinian people will survive, but the two-state solution may not," he said.
"What happens then? Will you convert to advocates of the one-state solution of freedom and equal rights for all between the river and the sea? These would be the only options available then."
Malki urged support for an international peace conference and echoed Russia's call for a ministerial meeting of the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the US, UN, EU and Russia — "as soon as possible to mobilize efforts to get out from the current impasse."
He said the UN, EU and Russia have agreed to a ministerial meeting but "we're still waiting for the approval of the American side."
He said the three other Quartet members should convince the US about the importance of a ministerial meeting to move the Middle East peace process forward.
Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador, made no mention of the meeting with Malki or the Quartet in her briefing to the council, but she reaffirmed the Biden administration's "strong support for a two-state solution" and said "this year offers an opportunity to recommit to reaching a political solution to the conflict."
The US envoy, who visited Israel and the West Bank in November, reiterated that Israel and the Palestinians "are locked in a spiral of distrust."
"Israelis don't believe they have a partner for peace, while Palestinians are trapped in despair born of the complete absence of a political horizon," she said.
To make progress, Thomas-Greenfield said both sides must refrain from unilateral steps that increase tensions and undercut efforts toward a two-state solution.
That means Israel should refrain from annexing territory, settlement activity, demolitions and evictions "like what we saw in Sheikh Jarrah," the Jerusalem neighborhood where Israel on Wednesday evicted Palestinian residents from a disputed property and demolished it, and Palestinians should stop inciting violence and compensating individuals imprisoned "for acts of terrorism," Thomas-Greenfield said.
Topics: Palestine US
Human rights commission calls for end to Israeli occupation of Palestine
Israel releases Palestinians held after eviction /node/2008841/middle-east
Israel releases Palestinians held after eviction
Police had accused several Salhiya family members of "violating a court order" and public disturbance
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JERUSALEM: Five members of a Palestinian family arrested after Israeli police demolished their house in East Jerusalem have been released, their lawyer said on Thursday.
The arrest of several members of the Salhiya family came as they were evicted from their house in the sensitive neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by Israeli authorities before dawn on Wednesday. Walid Abu Tayeh, the family's lawyer, confirmed "the release of the five people detained since Wednesday, including Mahmoud Salhiya and his sons."
Police had accused several Salhiya family members of "violating a court order" and public disturbance.
Abu Tayeh said the release of the five on Thursday was conditional on payment of a 1,000 Israeli shekel ($320) fine, and that the group was forbidden from entering Sheikh Jarrah for one month.
The looming eviction of other Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah in May last year partly fueled an 11-day war between Israel and armed Palestinian factions in Gaza.
In those cases, Palestinians risked having to surrender plots of land to Jewish settlers who had mounted legal claims to the land.
But Jerusalem authorities have stressed the Salhiya family eviction is a different case and that the city intends to build a special needs school on the land, benefitting Arab residents of east Jerusalem.
The city has said it purchased the land from previous Arab owners and that the Salhiya's had lived there illegally for years, but failed to agree to a compromise on an eviction order first issued in 2017. The foreign ministries of France, Germany, Italy and Spain urged Israeli authorities to stop the construction of new housing units in East Jerusalem.
In a statement, the European countries said that the hundreds of new buildings would "constitute an additional obstacle to the two-state solution," referring to international peace efforts to create a state for Palestinians.
Israeli authorities recently approved plans for the construction of around 3,500 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, nearly half of which are to be built in the controversial areas of Givat Hamatos and Har Homa.
The foreign ministries said that building in this area would further disconnect the West Bank from East Jerusalem and that these settlements are a violation of international law.
The four countries also expressed concern about the evictions and demolitions in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Israel captured East Jerusalem including the Old City in a 1967 war and later annexed it, a move not recognized internationally.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem for the capital of a state they seek in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which abuts the city, and the Gaza Strip. Israel views the entire city as its indivisible capital.
Most world powers deem the Israeli settlements illegal for taking in territory where Palestinians seek statehood.
Topics: Israel Palestinians
European countries urge Israel to stop construction in East Jerusalem
Tunisia says 50,000 joined consultation ahead of new constitution /node/2008836/middle-east
Tunisia says 50,000 joined consultation ahead of new constitution
The consultation will last until March 20. Topics include political, economic, financial, social, health, educational and cultural affairs
TUNIS: More than 50,000 people have participated in Tunisia's national consultation that will feed into the drafting of a new constitution, authorities said.
President Kais Saied had announced the consultation in December when he extended a suspension of parliament, a move which fueled concerns for the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings a decade ago.
The consultation will last until March 20. Topics include political, economic, financial, social, health, educational and cultural affairs.
"We are at the fifth day and the number of participants has reached 52,000 — that's good," Technology Minister Nizar Ben Neji said. "We will intensify our awareness campaign."
The electronic platform for the consultations was fully launched on Saturday after it partially opened on Jan. 1.
Tunisians abroad are also able to participate, using their identify card to access the platform and register their remarks.
Authorities say more than three quarters of Tunisia's 12 million population has internet access, while those without will be able to use computers in youth centers across the country.
A constitutional referendum is planned for July 25, 2022 — exactly a year after Saied sacked the government, suspended parliament and said he would assume executive powers.
The president later took steps to rule by decree, and in early December vowed to press on with reforms to the political system.
His intervention was initially supported by many Tunisians frustrated over repeated deadlocks within the fractious legislature.
On Dec. 13, Saied laid out a roadmap for drafting a new constitution, which is set to grant more powers to the executive branch at the expense of the legislature in the North African nation, before elections at the end of this year. Saied won elections in 2019 with a landslide 73 percent of votes.
Topics: Tunisia
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Tunisian police killed man in first death of protests, activists say
Shelling on northern Syrian city kills six civilians /node/2008831/middle-east
Shelling on northern Syrian city kills six civilians
On Thursday, Kurdish forces marked four years since Turkey launched it's push into Afrin in an operation that triggered a wave of mass displacement
BEIRUT: Shelling on the Turkish-held city of Afrin in northern Syria killed six civilians on Thursday, the latest in a spate of attacks, a war monitor said.
It was not immediately clear who fired the artillery shells but the attack came from a region where Kurdish fighters and Syrian regime forces are present, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Six people, including two children, where killed," said the Britain-based monitor which relies on sources inside Syria for its reports.
Nearly 30 others were wounded, it added.
The shelling came a week after a suicide bomber launched an attack near a military base run by Turkey-backed fighters in Afrin, according to the Observatory.
Turkey and its proxies have seized control of territory inside Syria over several military operations launched since 2016 against Daesh and the Kurdish YPG militia.
In March 2018, they seized Afrin after pushing the Syrian Kurdish forces out.
On Thursday, Kurdish forces marked four years since Turkey launched its push into Afrin in an operation that triggered a wave of mass displacement.
"Recovering Afrin and (securing) the safe return of it's inhabitants ... is our main priority," Mazlum Abdi, the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, tweeted.
The war in Syria has killed close to half a million people and spurred the largest conflict-induced displacement since World War II, since it broke out in 2011.
Meanwhile, five Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during the conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018.
The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman second and third centuries AD were returned at the initiative of a private Lebanese collector, Syrian antiquities chief Mohamed Nazir Awad said at a handover ceremony hosted by Lebanon's National Museum in Beirut.
The collector, Jawad Adra, acquired them from European auction houses before Syria's war began in 2011, Awad said, describing his actions as "a generous initiative."
The pieces, which had been on display at the Nabu Museum in northern Lebanon, were returning to "their original homeland," the Syrian regime official added.
During the Syrian conflict, the site of Palmyra, one of the most important cultural centers in the ancient world, fell under the control of Daesh, which blew up some of its major monuments, including the Arch of Triumph.
Syria's ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul Karim, said talks were underway to arrange the return of other artifacts from the National Museum in Beirut to Syria.
Topics: shelling Syria Afrin
Syrian army shelling kills at least 11 civilians
Regime shelling kills four children in northwest Syria: monitor
Daesh attacks Syrian prison, frees extremists: Monitor /node/2008821/middle-east
A car bomb hit the entrance of Ghwayran prison and a second blast went off in the vicinity before Daesh militants attacked Kurdish security forces manning the facility
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces blamed the attack on 'Daesh sleeper cells, who infiltrated from the surrounding neighborhoods and clashed with the internal Security Forces'
BEIRUT: Daesh attacked a Kurdish-run jail in northeast Syria on Thursday, freeing fellow militants, a war monitor reported without specifying how many escaped.
A car bomb hit the entrance of Ghwayran prison and a second blast went off in the vicinity before Daesh extremists attacked Kurdish security forces manning the facility, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"A number of prisoners managed to escape," said the Observatory which relies on a network of sources inside Syria. It did not specify how they managed to break out.
Ghwayran is one of the largest facilities housing Daesh fighters in northeast Syria, Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman told AFP.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces confirmed the rare attack in a statement but did not mention any prisoners fleeing.
"A new insurgence and attempted escape by Daesh terrorists detained in Ghwayran prison in Al-Hasaka in conjunction with an explosion of a car bomb," it said.
It blamed the attack on "Daesh sleeper cells, who infiltrated from the surrounding neighborhoods and clashed with the internal Security Forces."
The Observatory said the SDF has dispatched reinforcements to the prison and cordoned off the area.
Aircraft belonging to the US-led international coalition battling Daesh hovered over the facility and dropped flares in its vicinity, the monitor added.
The coalition was not immediately available for comment.
Daesh's self-declared caliphate, established from 2014, once stretched across vast parts of Syria and Iraq and administered millions of inhabitants.
A long and deadly military fightback led by Syrian and Iraqi forces with backing from the United States and other powers eventually defeated the extremist proto-state in March 2019.
The remnants of Daesh mostly went back to their desert hideouts from which they continue to harass Syrian government and allied forces.
Topics: Syria Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Daesh Ghwayran prison
Daesh attack kills seven Syrian troops: Monitor
Daesh attack on Iraqi village kills 10 soldiers, Kurdish government says
Mangroves: Saudi efforts to protect nature's guardians of the ecosystem


Maybe Naomi is still listed in the credits because her sister is a twin and she is playing both characters.
And Hurley will jump his Camaro over a shark tank containing twin Dharma sharks!
So with the title... I'm thinking it's a play on one of two things (if not both), 1) Noami confirmed dead, and 2) the Losties are supposed to be "confirmed dead" because their plane was apparently found at the bottom of the Pacific.
Happy Lost Day! See ya on the boards later!
For once I think someone on Lost is dead. Naomi has to appear in a flashback. We still need to see how everyone is connected. We even got how Nikki and Paolo were "connected".
A new episode of Lost is better than anything else on TV.
If 'Confirmed Dead' is about Naomi, there will be a general mass hysteria of complaint -- FROM ME PERSONALLY!!! They have to pick up the pace of the narrative. I'm with Michael Emerson who has said that he doesn't know how they're going to fit in all the story they have left to tell! I don't think we're going to get the "strung along" feeling that killed us all in Season Two. 'Confirmed Dead' is about the Losties.
I just had the scare of my 'Lost' life. My online TV Guide listing shows a repeat of last week's show at 8:00 and the new Eli show at 9:00 with no mention of a new Lost. It was only after I clicked on the Eli show that I saw it was listed as 10:00 and for some reason the 9:00 Lost isn't loading into the guide! For a second I thought we were getting a re-run only! Aaaaaaagh!
Okay, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out. You might lie down until the blood comes back into your head. That was a real scare!!
5 1/2 hours for me.
As long as this isn't a Bernard flashback, I'll be ok with it about anyone else.
aaaaaaagghhhhhhhh "Open wide...no cavities...got to call the wife to see what she wants from the store."


The Royal College of Music on Prince Consort Road, London, was founded by royal charter in 1883, and was officially opened on May 7th of that year, as a replacement for the failing and unpopular National Training School For Music. The purpose of the College, as stated by the Prince Consort, was to offer free musical teaching and development to those British musicians who were talented enough to win a scholarship.
For the duration of its life, The Royal College of Music has been heavily linked and associated with the Royal family and monarchy, the Queen Mother being the previous president of the College (a position now filled by the Prince of Wales), and Queen Elizabeth II being the College's current patron. It has also produced many highly successful and famous musicians, composers and conductors, including Gustav Holst, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Grammy award winning classical guitarist John Williams.
These days, the College teaches a wide range of subjects on Western Classical Music, from undergraduate level to a full doctoral, and even holds 'junior classes' every Saturday, where children between the ages of 8 and 18 can learn the joys of music. The Royal College of Music also boasts a particularly impressive collection of instruments in its museum - over 800 instruments, dating all the way from 1480 to the current day, including the world's oldest surviving keyboard!
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Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831
This volume, published in 2013, inaugurates the core series of The Joseph Smith Papers, the Documents series. It includes the first three years of what survives of Joseph Smith's papers, including letters he sent and received, revelations, minutes of meetings he participated in, deeds and other financial papers, and records of ecclesiastical administration such as priesthood licenses. This collection of documents covers key events from Latter-day Saint history, including the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon, the establishment of a church, and the mission by Oliver Cowdery and others to preach to American Indians on the western frontier of the United States. ISBN-13: 978-1-60907-577-4
Volume Editors
Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat are historians for the Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grant Underwood is a professor of history at Brigham Young University. Robert J. Woodford is a retired instructor at the Latter-day Saint Institute of Religion at the University of Utah. William G. Hartley is an emeritus associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.
Table of Contents (HTML) (PDF)
Joseph Smith's Residences (map)
Mission to the Indians, 1830–1831 (map)
Roles and Ecclesiastical Offices, June 1829–June 1831 (chart)
Volume Maps
Eastern United States, 1828–1831
Finger Lakes Region and Upper Susquehanna Valley, 1828–1831
Palmyra, New York, and Vicinity, 1828–1830
Western Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 1828–1830
Ohio, 1831
Northwestern Kirtland Township, Ohio, 1831
About This Volume
This volume marks the beginning of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers. While other series of the Papers include the large, multiple-entry documents—such as journals and the Book of Mormon manuscripts—that are not assignable to a single date, the Documents series presents in chronological order the core of Joseph Smith's documentary record.
When complete, the Documents series will publish more than a thousand documents created, authorized, or owned by Joseph Smith, including each of his revelations in its earliest form, reports of his discourses, and correspondence. Also found in the series are articles and editorials he wrote for newspapers, minutes of meetings in which he participated, and records of his ecclesiastical administration. The series begins with a revelation dictated in July 1828 in response to the loss of dozens of manuscript pages of the translation made from the gold plates and ends with a letter Joseph Smith wrote to Illinois lawyer Orville Browning just hours before he was killed on June 27, 1844.
This first volume of the Documents series consists of documents written from July 1828 to June 1831. The records transcribed here provide the reader with the earliest textual insights into Joseph Smith and the founding of what was then called the Church of Christ. Though disparate in nature and sometimes separated from one another by months for which no documents have survived, these texts offer glimpses into the religious leader's thoughts, concerns, and initiatives in a crucial early period of the religious movement he started. This book allows the reader not only to study Joseph Smith but also to gain a greater understanding of his followers and the millenarian movement they participated in during the Second Great Awakening.
Many of Joseph Smith's sacred texts appear among the contents of this volume. Found here are more than five dozen revelations, or communications presented in the first-person voice of Jesus Christ. Included are texts later published in the Doctrine and Covenants, the expansive "visions of Moses" (now found in the Pearl of Great Price), and revelations never canonized. These revelations treat mundane matters like farming and financial transactions alongside sweeping theological expositions.
Several documents trace the process of translating and printing the Book of Mormon, as well as early efforts to evangelize using the book and its message. Foremost among these activities was an 1830–1831 mission by Oliver Cowdery and others to preach to American Indians. That mission laid the groundwork for two major milestones of early Latter-day Saint history—the church's migration to Ohio and an effort to establish the New Jerusalem in western Missouri, in expectation of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Appendixes to the volume present important documents such as Oliver Cowdery's "Articles of the Church of Christ" and several copies of characters said to be taken from the gold plates. Also included is extensive reference material—biographical and geographical directories, a chronology of important events, and a "calendar" listing all known Joseph Smith documents for this period, including those no longer extant.
Revelation to the Three Witnesses of Gold Plates, June 1829 [D&C 17]
Behold I say unto you that you must rely upon my word which if you do with full purpose of heart you shall have a view of the plate[s] and also the brestplate the sword of Laban the Urim and Thumim which was given to the brother of Jared upon the mount when he talked with the Lord face to face and the marveelus directors which was given to Lehi while in the wilderness on the borders of the red sea and it is by your faith that you shall obtain a view of them even by that faith which was had by the prophets of old and after that you have obtained faith and have seen them with your eyes you shall testify of them by the power of God and this you shall do that my servant Joseph Smith Jr may not be distroyed that I may bring about my righteous purposes unto the children of men in this work and ye shall testify that ye have seen them even as my servant Joseph Smith jr has seen them for it is by my power that he has seen them and it is because he had faith and he has translated them even that part which I have commanded him.
Letter on Gathering to Ohio, Joseph Smith to Hyrum Smith, 3–4 March 1831
We arived here [Kirtland, Ohio] safe and are all well I hav[e] been ingageed in regulating the Churches here as the deciples are numerous and the devil had made many attempts to over throw them it has been a Serious job but the Lord is with us and we have overcome and have all things regular the work is brakeing forth on the right hand and on the left and there is a great Call for Elders in this place. . . . I have had much Concirn about you but I always remember you in my prayers Calling upon god to keep you Safe in spite of men or devils I think you had better Come into this Country immediately for the Lord has Commanded us that we Should Call the Elders of this Chursh to gether unto this plase as soon as possable[.]
"Well researched, scrupulously proofread, and expertly annotated, these volumes, and this edition, will surely stand as the definitive one for many generations."
—Kenneth P. Minkema, Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow; Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831, ed. by Michael Hubbard McKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley; and Documents, Volume 2: July 1831–January 1833, ed. by Matthew C. Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 1 (Spring 2015), 157–159.
"The volumes [of the Joseph Smith Papers] published thus far represent the high-water mark for LDS documentary editing. . . . The editors should be commended for their painstaking attention to detail and the overall quality of the publications."
—Thomas A. Wayment, "Review: The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volumes 1–2," Religious Educator 15, no. 3 (2014): 129–131.
"The Project in general and the editors of D1, in particular, have marshaled an unparalleled effort to ferret out even the most obscure references to people, places, and chronology and critically assess them. As a result D1 offers sometimes surprisingly novel insights into the documents which it contains, and in several cases radically alters our understanding. D1 is the starting point for any serious study of early Mormonism."
—J. Stapley, "Review: Documents, Volume 1, 1829–1831 of the JSPP," By Common Consent (blog), 16 June 2014, http://bycommonconsent.com/2014/06/16/review-documents-volume-1-1829-1831-of-the-joseph-smith-papers-project.
"This [Documents] series is where the 'trickle down' effect of the Papers in the hands of future historians and biographers will probably be most powerful. As has come to be expected, these volumes feature painstaking precision and a primary source focus. A fine achievement and a welcome addition to any library, either for a researcher or interested reader."
—Bryan Buchanan, "Review: The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, vol. 1: July 1828–June 1831 and The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, vol. 2: July 1831–January 1833," Association for Mormon Letters Discussion Board, 25 January 2014.