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Belles hold ground for 6th place finish at conference
The Angelo State women's golf team wasn't able to make a move but held its ground for a sixth-place finish Tuesday at the Lone Star Conference Championships at Frisco Lakes Golf Club.
Belles hold ground for 6th place finish at conference The Angelo State women's golf team wasn't able to make a move but held its ground for a sixth-place finish Tuesday at the Lone Star Conference Championships at Frisco Lakes Golf Club. Check out this story on gosanangelo.com: http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/sports/college/angelo-state/2017/04/25/belles-hold-ground-6th-place-finish-conference/100904132/
Paul Harris, San Angelo Standard-Times Published 5:29 p.m. CT April 25, 2017
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The Rambelles followed a 312 in Monday's opening round with a 320 Tuesday for a total score of 632.
ASU was only five shots behind fifth-place Midwestern (627) and eights shot back of fourth-place Cameron (624).
Tarleton State was outstanding again with a two-day total of 299-296--595. The TexAnns were 11 shots ahead of West Texas A&M (606). Texas A&M-Commerce was third (613).
Western New Mexico was seventh (639), Texas A&M-Kingsville was eighth (667) and UT Permian Basin was ninth (707).
The Belles weren't able to make much noise in the individual standings either. Their best chance was Leah Meza, who was tied for fifth after an opening-round 75.
But Meza faltered a bit in the final round with an 80 and finished in a tie for 12th.
Courtney Ward was 23rd at 80-79--159, while Kamryn Cummings (79-81--160) and Alicia Lehane (80-80--160) tied for 24th. Morgan Rogers was 34th with a 78-87--165.
Tarleton's Casey Wild entered the day with a two-shot lead and closed strong for a score of 72-71--143 that was good enough to hold off Texas A&M-Commerce's Anya Anders, whose 77-68--145 nearly rallied her into first place.
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Trump is parroting Zionist doctrine: U.S. Jews must be loyal to Israel
Philip Weiss on August 23, 2019 37 Comments
Bari Weiss
The Jewish community has good reason to be disturbed by Trump's assertion that the Jews who vote Democratic and not for him (the vast majority) are "disloyal." We can only imagine how his comments will affect nationalist wingnuts who already think Jews are "replacing" them.
But the allegation by many Jewish organizations and individuals that Trump is echoing an antisemitic European trope of the disloyal, transnational Jew, rings hollow. Trump has no idea about that history. Trump has heard that Jews who criticize Israel are disloyal from his own dear Jewish friends, rightwing Zionists, everyone from Sheldon Adelson to David Friedman to Elliott Abrams to Alan Dershowitz.
If there's a trope here, it's the Zionist claim that Jews must be loyal to Israel, no matter where they live.
Bari Weiss says so directly in the NY Times: "If you're pro-Trump or Trump-curious," she allows, "you'll generously hear an assertion that Jews should be loyal to Israel." She hastens to add, "If you're anything like me, you can't help but hear echoes of the sinister charge of dual loyalty."
But Weiss has just made my point for me, generously: It's a good thing to say that American Jews should be loyal to Israel.
Weiss stated the same principle in a forum after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre last year. We are all one, Am Yisrael, the people of Israel– from leftwing Jews to rightwing Israeli Jews.
Our values are other things than civil rights… Our values are also the fact that we are alive for the Jewish return to political sovereignty– the idea that we would celebrate that! … Even among the Jews who were showing up [in Pittsburgh] for [leftwing groups] IfNotNow and Bend the Arc and protesting Trump– you better believe they liked the fact that Ron Dermer and Naftali Bennett showed up… It's sending a message that we are all one, Am Yisrael.
The young Jews of IfNotNow promptly scoffed at Weiss's claim; they felt no affinity to rightwing Israelis Dermer and Bennett. But Weiss just laid out a central tenet of Zionism. There is a Jewish nation. We are loyal to the countries that we live in but we have a higher loyalty to the Jewish one. And by the way, the center of Jewish life is Israel, where the Jewish nation regained sovereignty in the 20th century.
Elliott Abrams, a Trump foreign policy aide, laid out the same principle in 1996:
Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart–except in Israel–from the rest of the population.
Melvin Urofsky laid out the same idea– American Jews must be loyal to the Jewish state– in his Zionist history, "We Are One! American Jewry and Israel" (1978).
An old Hebrew maxim holds that Klal Yisrael arevim zeh lazeh–All of Israel are responsible for one another– a statement which affirms the unity of the Jewish people, a sense of historical oneness transcending temporal or spatial differences of nationality, language and customs. In the United States, this old saying has taken on a new form: "We Are One!" … [I]t celebrates those ties that bind, those patterns which have emerged not only out of four thousand years of Jewish history and culture and tradition, but also out of the twentieth-century struggle for Jewish survival and for the re-creation of a Jewish state in its ancient homeland.
Let me inject that all these Zionists extol Zionism because it will keep Jews from marrying non-Jews. Urofsky:
There has been and continues to be hope that Israel will provide the ballast keeping Judaism in America stable, an anchor holding fast against the strong currents of assimilation…
Bari Weiss calls assimilation "self-mutilation":
We are increasingly a people apart. Which self-mutilation, so many of us wonder, is worse? Abandon the universal values our community has always championed? Or abandon the particularism without which we cease to be Jews at all?
The main thrust of this ideology, though, is what Trump is saying: American Jews need to support Israel in the United States, because Israel depends on the U.S. as a lifeline.
And if you don't support Israel, you're a self-hating Jew, or a bad Jew. As I noted yesterday, Alan Dershowitz smeared an eminent South African Judge, Richard Goldstone, as an "evil, evil man" and a "moser" — a traitor– because he had accused Israel of war crimes. Goldstone was then pressured not to attend his own grandson's bar mitzvah, because his community in South Africa was so angry.
Zionist ideologue Ben Shapiro makes Trump's point:
Ben Shapiro on what it means to be a good Jew
Batya Ungar-Sargon of the Forward put it well last year: "Trump was saying the messaging that we have been telegraphing for 50 years."
Ungar-Sargon was responding to that occasion in 2017 that Trump was asked by a Jewish reporter about the government's failure to respond to an uptick in threats against Jewish institutions. Trump got angry. I love Israel! "So here's the story, folks. No. 1, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life…. I hate even the question because people that know me — and you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu, did you hear him, Bibi? He said, 'I've known Donald Trump for a long time…"
Ungar-Sargon said Trump was echoing a Jewish idea of what it means to be Jewish.
For fifty years the Jewish-American community has outsourced its identity to Israel…What does it mean to be a Jew? It means to be uncritical of Israel and to give unconditional support to Israel.
She hastened to assure her synagogue audience, We are all Zionists! But now we can criticize Israel, a little bit anyway.
I think 95 percent of the American Jewish community is pro Israel. We are all still pro Israel. What we are not is willing to give it unconditional support… You can be pro Israel and criticize Israel, that is what it means to be an American Jew. We are no longer willing to give unconditional support.
All this indoctrination has worked. Here's Bret Stephens of the New York Times saying a lot of American Jews are bad Jews because they're not supporting Israel:
Thank God I was born a Jew because otherwise I'd be a raging anti-Semite… [be]cause I tear my hair out all the time at my fellow Jews… it is a scandal, it seems to me, if we fail to live up to the promise of our American citizenship to do all we can to assure the survival of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
Sheldon Adelson, Trump's biggest donor, has called himself an Israeli citizen and said that he wished he had fought in the Israeli army, not the American one.
Another of Trump's biggest donors, Bernie Marcus says American Jews need to support Israel unconditionally because it's the center of Jewish life.
We're so proud of the fact that Israel is here and Israel is now THE place for Jews and the place that we have to look for, and I now do everything in my power to help the state of Israel. And anything I can do I will do because it's good for Jews all over the world.
While rightwing Zionist Irving Kristol anticipated Trump more than 40 years ago when he called on Jews to stop voting Democratic, because there was now a Jewish "interest" in having big U.S. defense budgets to keep the "knife" from the "heart of Israel."
Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel… Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States… American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.
All of this indoctrination has worked out in some bad ways. Kristol's son Bill has said he won't criticize Israel because he has a desk job while those Jews are on the front lines.
Bernard Marcus says that Israeli Jews are superior to American Jews.
The state of Israel was formed and they weren't like the other Jews, they fought, they didn't walk into the ghettos and the concentration camp… into the ovens. Israelis would have killed every soldier that was guarding them…I heard [Holocaust] stories about 15 soldiers guarding 1000 people… Now the Israelis have said we will never… allow that again, we will fight to the last man. That's why Israel is so strong…
Even liberal Zionist Batya Ungar-Sargon says she is "grateful" to those militaristic Israeli Jews for restoring American Jewish pride in 1967.
Jews… were still sort of like a hated minority in America and saw themselves that way, as sort of like this weak, stooped– you know they could still see that image reflected at them from WASPs, and there was the Six Day War, and suddenly it was like, Oh my gosh, we had this like, really really strong cool cousin. You know and it was like, If you beat me up, my cousin is going to come over here and mess you up! You know, and it was like, it gave us back something we didn't have for millennia, which is national pride.
So it won't surprise you to hear what happened to liberal Zionist journalist Leonard Fein when he dared to say in the 1970s that rightwing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was lying about settlements:
The reporter from the Post [asked] "are you calling Begin a liar?" I said, "Use whatever word you want, that's all I have to say." The next day, front page, Jerusalem Post, "American Professor calls Begin a liar." And my roof fell in. I depended on wealthy liberal Jews to support Moment magazine. Money was withdrawn right and left from its support…
Benjamin Netanyahu called on that same loyalty to a rightwing Israeli prime minister in 2015 when he urged American Jews, left and right, to rally against Barack Obama's Iran deal. We are one people, he said, and after the Holocaust we got our shit together thanks to Israel:
It wasn't long ago, certainly not that long ago, that the Jewish people were either incapable or unwilling to speak out in the face of mortal threats, and this had devastating consequences. I've been very clear – the days when the Jewish people could not or would not speak up for themselves, those days are over. Today we can speak out. Today we must speak out. And we must do so together.
Senator Chuck Schumer then voted against the deal and told a Jewish audience that he did so because of the "threat to Israel." P.S. Schumer ends his speeches at the Israel lobby group AIPAC by proclaiming, ala Bari Weiss, Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live!
Jeffrey Goldberg heard Netanyahu and said that J Street was stabbing Israel in the back by supporting the Iran deal.
And Trump's good friend and bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman called J Street "kapos" — Nazi collaborators. He's now the ambassador to Israel. Friedman's voice is in Trump's ear.
Sorry to go on so long. But this is an inherent problem in Zionism. The Jewish state asserts that all Jews are members of the Jewish nation no matter where they live, that nation was reborn in Israel in 1948, and Jews in other nations have a duty to support Israel– especially in the U.S., because U.S. support is an existential issue for Israel. So you're a self-hating Jew if you don't support Israel.
Donald Trump has heard that doctrine from his rightwing Zionist friends, and he's parroted it.
Thanks to Scott Roth, Yakov Hirsch, Donald Johnson, and James North.
Philip Weiss is senior editor of Mondoweiss.net and founded the site in 2005-06.
Other posts by Philip Weiss.
edwardm on August 23, 2019, 10:43 am
…if we fail to live up to the promise of our American citizenship to do all we can to assure the survival of the Jewish state and the Jewish people…
this is the promise of American citizenship? some arrogance.
Misterioso on August 24, 2019, 10:07 am
https://www.juancole.com/2019/08/supremacist-american-democrats.html
"Trump Mimics Israeli Supremacist Right, Accuses Jewish American Democrats of Treason to Israel" Informed Comment, By Juan Cole, August 21/19
"Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – "Trump on Tuesday attacked American Jews who vote for the Democratic Party (as 70%-80% of them do) as demonstrating 'a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.'
"What Trump meant has been widely debated and, in my view, misinterpreted. He wasn't bringing up dual loyalty or accusing Jewish Democrats of being unpatriotic Americans. As Debra Sushan rightly observed, he was accusing Jewish American Democrats of being disloyal to Israel. He was simply stating the position of far right wing Israeli parties such as the ruling Likud of PM Binyamin Netanyahu.
"The position is that for Israel to colonize the Palestinian West Bank and find a way to neutralize the Palestinians of Gaza, and to forestall forever any Palestinian state, is necessary to its long-term survival.
"Therefore, if one is loyal to the Israeli cause, one will support the Apartheid colonization of the Palestinians.
"Israel can only exist as an ethnically supremacist Jewish-majority state.
"To be Jewish is to be a loyal supporter of Israel-as-colonizer.
"Without Israel-as-colonizer, all Jews would be in danger of being deprived of their basic human rights.
"The Democratic Party either supports a two-state solution involving Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and cancellation of the blockade on Gaza, or its left wing supports a single binational state giving Palestinians rights of citizenship in Israel.
"Therefore, the Democratic Party supports positions that endanger Israel-as-colonizer and in turn necessarily endanger world Jewry.
"Therefore, you'd have to either be an ignoramus to vote Democratic if you are a Jewish American, or you must be a traitor to Israel (read as Greater Israel with its non-voting Palestinian subjects.)
"Again, this is the far right wing Israeli position, typical of the Likud and its allies. This concatenation of essentially fascist premises also lies behind the charges launched against anyone who criticizes the Israeli colonization of the Palestinians as 'anti-Semitic,' since the colonization is allegedly necessary to Israel and Israel is key to Jewish well-being. Actually, the colonization benefits a narrow band of Israeli corporations and billionaires and their American counterparts, in what Rashid Khalidi has called the 'settler-industrial complex.' But it is also driven by extremist Jewish nationalism.
"It is like saying that criticizing Mexican policy toward its indios or Native Americans means that you are an anti-Latino bigot and partially responsible for the El Paso massacre.
"Why this farrago of self-serving illogic and the misuse of human rights discourse (anti-Semitism) to justify human rights abuses is taken so seriously in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's great political mysteries.
"It isn't only in the United States that the far-right Iron Wall Zionists try to discipline public discourse. I've seen fair numbers of my Israeli academic friends hounded out of the country for their critiques of Israel's policies on Palestinians. They're accused of being traitors, blackballed, shouted at, and threatened with being fired. That is, they are accused of being disloyal. Sound familiar?
"Moreover, these premises, which the Zionist Right wing attempts to impose on us all, are rejected by most Jewish Americans, according to a 2018 AJC poll.
"Some 57% of Jewish Americans favor a two-state solution, which means relinquishing the Palestinian West Bank and removing at least a lot of Israeli squatters there or swapping territory with Palestine. Another 10% have no opinion. So only a third of Jewish Americans oppose a two-state solution, and only 18% strongly oppose it.
"Some 59% of Jewish Americans believe Israel should be willing to dismantle some or all of the Israeli settlements
"Even in Israel, a plurality, 44%, favor a two-state solution. And 8% don't care. So there is not even an Israeli majority for the premise that holding onto the West Bank and Gaza is necessary for Israel to be Israel or for Israel to survive or however the far right wants to put it.
"Many Jewish Americans do not agree with the other premises of the Likud Line, either. Some 17% do not agree that a thriving state of Israel is essential to the long-term future of the Jewish people.
"Fully one-third of Jewish Americans do not consider Israelis 'part of their family,' and 15% will only admit to being first cousins (could you get a $10,000 loan from your first cousin?) Perilously close to half of Jewish Americans don't seem to feel a really close kinship to Israelis. This alienation is accelerating in the under-40 generation of Jewish Americans, since the racism and authoritarianism of Netanyahu are rather unappealing to them.
"Trump is just repeating whatever his ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, or maybe his son-in-law Jared Kushner, or perhaps his buddy Netanyahu have told him about Judaism and Zionism and the appropriation of 'Judea and Samaria.' Trump doesn't read books or know anything about the history of Israel or Palestine or American Jewry.
"By ventriloquizing Netanyahu, however, he has inadvertently laid bare the actual view of Jewish Americans held by the Likud and similar ideological streams."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=28TgSs_IerI
"Trump: 'Jewish people who vote Democrat show 'total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.'"
Mooser on August 24, 2019, 4:30 pm
"this is the promise of American citizenship?"
As goes the Right, so goes the all-rightnik.
Donald on August 23, 2019, 11:53 am
Here's another example—
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/trumps-israel-ambassador-likens-left-wing-jews-to-kapos.html
philweiss on August 23, 2019, 12:46 pm
annie on August 23, 2019, 2:36 pm
This gloom and doom worry theme echoed by those who fret over not enough support for israel, those people are raised up and nurtured. a recent example of this is Ari Hoffman, the stanford student who went berserk over eli valley coming to stanford, made posters insinuating he was a nazi and more. not sure MW cover it, but it was a big affair.
apparently this put him on the map and now rumor has it he has a column at the forward. today batya published this tweet to one of his article that's not only getting thrashed in the comment section but many people are thrashing it on RT's w/comments. here's the tweet w/link to the most doomy gloomy article ever https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1164896187532677120
titled "Thus Ends the Greatest Jewish Diaspora" the drama! failing upwards seems to be the name of the game. anyway, i highly recommend.
amigo on August 23, 2019, 4:05 pm
Annie et al , off topic but worth checking.
JVP is e mailing a request for donations to send Alan Dershowitch a gift for his 81st birthday .
Each donation made in dershowich.s name will result in a message ,(snail mail) to the dersh thanking him for inspiring the donation .
JVP has a goal of 40,000 dollars and a donor who will match dollar for dollar.The money will be given to pro Palestinian causes.
Happy birthday Alan and keep up the good work.
Couldn,t get a link as I got the request via e mail.
Will post if I get something.
annie on August 23, 2019, 11:36 pm
thanks amigo! what a great idea.
Donald on August 23, 2019, 4:04 pm
Here is the NYT background of where Trump's notion that American Jews should be loyal to Israel comes from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/jews-disloyal-trump.html?login=email&auth=login-email
Somehow they missed the fact that Trump's personal bankruptcy lawyer and America's ambassador to Israel said that JStreet was far worse than kapos ( Phil understates it in tge post).
Rusty Pipes on August 23, 2019, 4:06 pm
Thank you for this, Phil. I was appalled to hear Alissa Weiss of JVP on NPR the other day saying this exact same trope: "the allegation by many Jewish organizations and individuals that Trump is echoing an antisemitic European trope of the disloyal, transnational Jew." But then, it's very rare to hear someone from JVP on NPR anyway and even if a JVP spokes questioned one of central tenets of Zionism, the network wouldn't likely air that bit.
Keith on August 23, 2019, 6:57 pm
PHIL- "We are loyal to the countries that we live in but we have a higher loyalty to the Jewish one."
The very essence of sectarianism.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS- "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart–except in Israel–from the rest of the population."
This is the ideology of Classical (medieval) Judaism secularized and racialized to redefine Jews from followers of the Judaic religion and a religion based peoplehood into a racialized concept of Jewish peoplehood as an unalterable condition of birth. An attempt to at least partially recreate a kind of Jewish economic niche within the concept of multiculturalism.
JWalters on August 23, 2019, 7:30 pm
The Jewish community at large has been duped, according to Israel-born, Jewish therapist Avigail Abarbanel.
"It's time for American Jews to recognize they have been duped"
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/american-recognize-duped
This swindle has also taken in the American public at large, and recent reporting has found overwhelming evidence of a deep, wide network of raw corruption behind this duplicity.
"Whitney Webb in-depth history of Jeffrey Epstein"
"Our values are other things than civil rights … the Jewish return to political sovereignty" – Bari Weiss
An emotion-based fantasy about Jews having a special place in the cosmos trumps civil rights for Bari Weiss. Thus she justifies (and ignores) decades of terrorism, mass murder, mass land thefts, and torturing children. Fortunately, there are other Jews, like Phil Weiss (and some of my Jewish friends), who escaped that terrible childhood indoctrination.
eljay on August 23, 2019, 9:34 pm
… Bari Weiss calls that self-mutilation:
It is truly sad and disturbing that Zionists have to create a false choice (be part of the human race or be Jews) in order to justify:
– abandoning universal values (which presumably include equality and human rights) and morality; and
– upholding Jewish / "Jewish State" supremacism and the "right" of people who choose to embrace the religion-based identity of Jewish to do unto others acts of "necessary evil" they would not have others do unto them.
Mooser on August 24, 2019, 12:27 pm
"Which self-mutilation, so many of us wonder, is worse?"
Gee, I don't remember having any choice in the matter.
RoHa on August 24, 2019, 1:06 am
"Our values are other things than civil rights… Our values are also the fact that we are alive for the Jewish return to political sovereignty…"
"It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart…"
And so forth?
Are these the famous Jewish principles that I failed to acquire along with the bagels?
Gosh, must be some awful mixed-marriages out there. I wonder why we keep doing it?
JaapBo on August 24, 2019, 1:44 am
I'd place Trump's words in a wider perspective or view, namely that people should be loyal to their people, Jews to Jews, and whites to whites. Closely related ideas are that Jews belong in Israel, and Israel belongs to the Jewish people (and not to the Palestinians) and that similarly the USA belongs to whites (and not to Jews). These ideas are dripping of racism!
Actually the above idea (Jews belong in Israel, and Israel belongs to the Jewish people) is very Zionist (e.g. Netanyahu recently called on French Jews to migrate to Israel), but it is also an antisemitic idea. It says that Jews do not belong in other countries.
In 1917 non-Zionist Jews protested the proposed Balfour Delaration just for this reason. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration#Rights_and_political_status_of_Jews_in_other_countries
In 1895 Herzl expressed the same idea when he wrote in his diary that antisemites could be partners in getting Jews to migrate to a Jewish state: "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" See http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=12794&viewmode=fullscreen&scale=3.33&rotate=&page=100
The relation of Zionism to antisemitism has a lot of sides, and one side of it is that it shares the idea that Trump was referring to with antisemites. It's an anisemitic idea in non-Jewish states, it's an anti-Palestinian racist idea in the Jewish state.
"people should be loyal to their people"
But how do you know which people are "your people"?
By strict genetic testing (although I've heard poppy-seed bagels can produce false positives).
JaapBo on August 24, 2019, 7:01 pm
"your people" means "your nation" i.e. people should be loyal to their nation, e.g. Germans to the German people, Jews to the Jewish people, white Americans to the white American nation, etc.
RoHa on August 24, 2019, 8:00 pm
So "my people" are the people with whom I have a close genetic or poppy seed relationship?
My son, my nieces, and my grand-niece count as my people. My wife and sister-in-law (nieces' mother) don't.
Is there a list of "nations" somewhere, and a list of accredited members of each "nation"?
Is a German Jew a member of the German "nation" or the Jewish "nation" or both? And, for each possibility, why?
And what is the position of someone whose father is a white American and whose mother is yellow Chinese? To which "nation" does he owe his loyalty?
echinococcus on August 25, 2019, 1:04 am
Jaap,
… car to carnation, tar to tarnation?
Talkback on August 25, 2019, 4:15 am
Jaapbo: "your people" means "your nation" i.e. Germans to the German people, Jews to the Jewish people."
First of all Jews are not a nation in the same sense that Germans or Americans or French are. The latter are a constitutive people and nationality AS citizenship. Jews are not, but the most a "nationality WITHIN citizenship". Nobody can become Jewish by acquiring a citizenship/nationality of any country.
But what you are saying is that German Jews shouldn't be loyal to Germany. Wasn't it Hitlers's accusation that they weren't? And if Jews should be loyal to the Jewish people why is the accusation of dual loyality considered to be antisemitic?
It's easy, just listen…
RoHa on August 25, 2019, 10:47 pm
That was cruel, Mooser. I ask a straightforward question, and you try to trick me into listening to Barbara Streisand.
Mooser on August 26, 2019, 11:50 am
"That was cruel, Mooser."
Early Barbara, from the OBC "Funny Girl" album is allright.
@Talkback: "But what you are saying is that German Jews shouldn't be loyal to Germany."
Please read what I wrote. It's about Trumps view, not mine!
"And if Jews should be loyal to the Jewish people why is the accusation of dual loyality considered to be antisemitic?"
The view that Jews should be loyal to the Jewish people can be part of a more general view that Jews belong in a Jewish state, and not in their Diaspora state. That's antisemitic.
Gah! I'd rather listen to Thatcher's 1989 speech to the UN.
(That's the one about the giant mutant space goat.)
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… except if used for Zionists, who by definition are loyal to the "Jewish state" only!
Jaapbo: "Please read what I wrote. It's about Trumps view, not mine!"
Sorry. I didn't read your initial comment, but only your follow up.
RobertHenryEller on August 24, 2019, 10:15 am
One comment I submitted to Bari Weiss' piece, "Donald Trump and 'Disloyal' Jews:"
Ms. Weiss:
You cannot bring yourself to say "Trump is an anti-Semite."
So, let me say it for you: "Trump is an anti-Semite."
Now that we've got over that hump, I have a question:
If Benjamin Netanyahu supports Trump, and seeks his support. Likud, Netanyahu's party, supports Trump; if AIPAC, despite its protests, supports Trump, and Trump's Republican Party; if Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Trump's biggest financial backers, clearly support Trump; if 19% of Jewish Americans vote Republican, and support Trump;
Then: With all these self-defined Zionists in bed with an anti-Semite, exactly what loyalty, if any, do these Zionists owe to the majority of Jewish Americans?
Second comment I submitted to Bari Weiss' piece, "Donald Trump and 'Disloyal' Jews:"
"Vote for a party whose base seems increasingly in thrall with newbie politicians who are unapologetic supporters of the B.D.S. movement, a new face of old anti-Semitism, even as the party's leadership remains pro-Israel."
Really, Ms. Weiss?
Your characterization of the choice facing Jews of voting for Democrats is just as loaded as Trump's characterization of the choice facing Jewish voters.
Whether one is pro- or anti-BDS, why should anyone apologize? Neither is anything but a legitimate political opinion. They do not translate to pro-Israel or anti-Israel. Boycotting South African apartheid was never anti South African. It was never anti White South African.
Whether one is pro- or anti-BDS, here is why I support Ilhan Oman and Rashida Tlaib as valid Congressional representatives:
1) Omar and Tlaib honor their oaths of office;
2) Omar and Tlaib do not vote for anti-First Amendment legislation;
3) Omar and Tlaib do not vote for un-Constitutional legislation;
4) Omar and Tlaib question how the United States disburses our foreign policy dollars;
5) Omar and Tlaib ask that our foreign aid recipients be held accountable for performance.
Ms. Weiss, you and your fellow apologists would never question Omar and Tlaib, if they were doing exactly they are doing if it involved any other country in the world. Why do you demand we treat Israel differently?
You, Ms. Weiss, are the one demanding a Loyalty Oath. You're in no position to criticize Trump. You're just like Trump.
Donald on August 24, 2019, 12:40 pm
Good comment. Did they publish it?
oldgeezer on August 24, 2019, 9:19 pm
She wouldn't be able to answer that in any straight forward manner. It would either be eye opening to her, one would hope, or she would go through extreme mental gymnastics to justify it. Sadly I think she would do the latter and even do it willingly knowing it was not a moral response but a response which achieves what she wants.
genesto on August 24, 2019, 3:56 pm
My Jewish life has been on both sides, i.e. a Zionist early on and an avowed anti Zionist now, since she has seen the light from her 20-year relationship with me, an American if Arab descent. I can vouch for her preferring the 'self-mutilation' of being with me and free of the yolk of Zionism over the narrow-minded tribalism she embraced early in her life.
As she tells her other enlightened Jewish friends, once you know the truth there's no going back!


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Greg William Edward Fleming (born 27 September 1986) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Annan Athletic.

He has previously played for Livingston, Gretna, Oldham Athletic, Dunfermline Athletic, Galway United, Chesterfield, Grimsby Town, Carlisle United, Celtic Nation, Stenhousemuir, Ayr United, Peterhead and Stranraer.

Club career
Fleming was born on 27 September 1986, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. He attended Dunfermline High School where Craig Wilson was in the same year group. Fleming started his career with Livingston as part of the youth system, but he did not make a first-team appearance. He signed for Gretna in the summer of 2005. Fleming started to become a first-team regular during Gretna's only season in the Scottish Premier League. During October 2007, Fleming's contract was extended by Gretna and he was selected by the Scotland Under-21 side.

On 19 May 2008, however, Fleming was part of the remaining 40 staff members who were released by Gretna due to their severe financial problems. He was not out of work long as Oldham Athletic signed him to a three-year contract on 21 May. He joined Dunfermline Athletic on a one-year loan deal in July 2009.

In July 2010 he was transfer-listed by the club, along with five other first team players.

On 31 January 2011, Fleming was released by Oldham Athletic.

Fleming found a new club, signing for Galway United on a deal until the end of the season.

On 29 July 2011 he signed a 12-month contract to be Tommy Lee's understudy at Chesterfield. He was released by the club in May 2012 after not being offered a new deal.

On 21 July 2012 Fleming joined Grimsby Town on trial and played in the club's 0–0 draw with Hull City. On 24 July 2012 he accepted an offer from Grimsby and signed a one-year contract to compete with the club's first choice keeper James McKeown. Despite being handed the number 1 shirt for the season Fleming become the second choice at Blundell Park and didn't make his league debut until 22 January 2013 in a 2–0 victory over Hyde United. Fleming was released by Grimsby on 3 May 2013.

In July 2013 Fleming joined Workington on trial. Having played against Carlisle United for Workington he earned a trial with Carlisle United. On 2 August 2013, he signed a short-term deal with the club before being released at the end of the season. On 17 June 2014, Fleming signed for Carlisle's Northern League side Celtic Nation.

Fleming signed for Scottish League One club Stenhousemuir on 15 August 2014, having been released by Celtic Nation following their financial problems. He made his debut the following day, in a 1–0 defeat against Brechin City. After just one season with The Warriors, Fleming transferred to Scottish League One rivals Ayr United. Since signing for Ayr United, Fleming has saved 12 out of the 14 penalties he has faced, including 3 from 4 in the 2015–16 Scottish Championship play off win over Stranraer.

Following Ayr's relegation back to Scottish League One, and their decision to become a full-time club from the beginning of 2017–18 season, Fleming departed Somerset Park in June 2017 due to work commitments that meant he would be unable to train and play with the club on a full-time basis. Fleming subsequently signed with Scottish League Two side Peterhead.

After leaving Peterhead, Fleming signed for Stranraer. He made 31 appearances for the club in all competitions.

At the start of the 2021–22 season, Fleming signed for Scottish League Two club Annan Athletic. In April 2022, he signed a new contract with the club to take him through to the 2022–23 season.

International career
In 2007, he was selected by the Scotland under-21 side.

Honours
Chesterfield
 Football League Trophy: 2011–12

Stenhousemuir
 Scottish League One play-offs: 2014–15

Ayr United
 Scottish Championship play-offs: 2015–16

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Living people
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Scottish footballers
Scotland under-21 international footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Livingston F.C. players
Gretna F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Galway United F.C. (1937–2011) players
Chesterfield F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Celtic Nation F.C. players
Stenhousemuir F.C. players
Ayr United F.C. players
Peterhead F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
English Football League players
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Q: "Exit code: 1" in anaconda navigator after reinstalling anaconda After reinstalling Anaconda, I get the error message "Exit code: 1" when I start apps using the Anaconda Navigator. e.g. "jupyter notebook" or "CMD.exe"

When I use the CMD (base) via Env. or start from the windows start bar, it works.
Jupyter also runs when I start it directly from the start bar.

I only get the error message in the Anaconda navigator.
I uninstalled Visual Studio. Still does not work.

A: Spent a few hours on this :
You need to run this in command prompt --> conda install ipykernel --update-deps --force-reinstall
There are 2 Errors popped for me for you it may be something else:

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*Wrong System-path[in my case -->  C:/Windows/System32 and C:/Windows/System] PATH in Env. variables

*If you get chcp error in command prompt then add [ Value : chcp 1252 Name : Autorun ] for Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor in regedit.

A: This issue arises in Windows when you reinstall the Anaconda, Miniconda, or even Miniforge. Because some registry keys remain after the first installation, you need to wipe them from Windows Registry after uninstallation and then reinstall the Anaconda.
The suspected key in your situation is the AutoRun that is added to the "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor"; thus, just remove the key from the registry after uninstallation, and then reinstall:
C:\Windows\System32\reg.exe DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /v AutoRun /f

A: Go to Environment Variables under System variables.
Under PATH , click Edit and add NEW:
C:\Windows\System32
Save and exit.
All Credit to : Original solution posted under @BAIZ1D
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/12735

A: After lot of fiddling around, I found out a solution for the issue in local machine. Somehow system path variables were deleted. I added following entries for system path variables and reinstalled anaconda and everything works fine! C:\Windows\System32;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
Refer : 'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. on a Windows PC

A: I was getting the same error.
I added below under Environment Variables ,
C:/Windows/System32
C:/Python310 (Python installed here in my case)
Also I checked the Registry and I don't find any Autorun which is recommended to delete.
It didn't worked for me after adding the above. Then I restarted the machine it worked without any issues.

A: Add C:/Windows/System32 and C:/Windows/System as PATH in Environment variables
and delete other entries of Anaconda applications (I had pycharm deleted) from env. variables. It worked for me.

A: I was facing with the same problem too..
I tried to uninstall and reinstall the Anaconda but it was a waste of time. I just did these steps and I solve the problem!:
Go to Environment Variables under System variables.
Click to "Advanced".
Under "Path", click "Edit" and add "New":
C:\Windows\System32
Save and exit.
Credit to : Original solution posted under @BAIZ1D

A: I faced the same issue after I tried to reinstall the Anaconda Navigator.
Many suggested deleting the Autorun file or editing the value but I did not have "autorun"  files ... finally noticed that I'm missing a file under Command Processor and adding the file as well as adding the path fixed the error "Exit Code: 1".
Having said that: This solution is specifically for those who CAN NOT find THE "Command Processor" Or can not delete the autorun and/or don't have an autorun.
1- Go to the registry editor
(run>regedit)
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
looks for "PathCompletionChar" and put the same value as "CompletionChar" REG_DOWRD.
If you missing the file then Create a new REG_DWORD and name it "PathCompletionChar" and put the same value as "CompletionChar".
In my case, it was 40.

2- Adding C:\Windows\System32 as PATH to the Environment Variables.

Control panel > system > Advanced System settings > Environment Variables >New > add PATH as name and C:\Windows\System32 as value
save and close it. Make sure to restart the computer.
I hope that help.

A: Updating to the latest powershell solved the problem for me.  I uninstalled Anaconda, then installed the latest powershell from the microsoft store, then reinstalled anaconda.
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Home Article WHAT AL-QAEDA WANTS....
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WHAT AL-QAEDA WANTS. Peter Bergen, who probably knows more about al-Qaeda than just about anyone else alive, argues in today's New York Times that withdrawal from Iraq would, indeed, be giving the terrorist group what they want. Al-Qaeda's aim, he argues, is to acquire a slice of territory that they can control. The likeliest spot is in the Sunni-dominated areas of central and western Iraq. To pull out would be essentially ceding those spots to al-Qaeda, and would fit the group's master narrative of American weakness. It's worth noting that this is just one more way in which Bush's ill-fated invasion of Iraq was manna from heaven for bin Laden. Had Zawahiri mastered Manchurian technology and installed his controllable surrogate in the White House, he could hardly have done a better job. Not to engage in nostalgia for tyrants, but Saddam Hussein, for all his crimes, neither had WMDs nor any interest in ceding portions of his country to jihadists. That said, the situation is what it is, and Peter Bergen is a guy worth taking seriously. But I'd like to hear our own experts weigh in. Spence? Rob? Blake? What say you?
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PITTSBURGH -- The U.S. Coast Guard wants to allow barges filled with fracking wastewater to ply the nation's rivers on their way toward disposal. Many environmentalists are horrified, but industry groups say barge transport has its advantages.
Now, the wastewater is usually disposed of by truck or rail, which poses more risk for accidents than shipping by barge, according to a government report. And one barge can carry about the same amount of waste as 100 exhaust-spewing trucks.
The disagreements go to the core of the fight over shale gas drilling. Environmentalists say the chemicals in fracking waste are a tragedy in the making, but the industry says far greater amounts of toxic chemicals are already being moved by barge, including waste from oil drilling.
In 2010, U.S. barges carried 2,000 tons of radioactive waste, almost 1.6 million tons of sulfuric acid and 315 million tons of petroleum products, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"We expect that shale gas wastewater can be transported just as safely," said Jennifer Carpenter, of American Waterways Operators, a trade group based in Washington, D.C.
Environment America, a federation of 29 state-based groups, strongly disagrees. The group said in a statement that it gathered 29,000 comments opposed to the proposal from people around the country. Courtney Abrams, the clean water program director for the group, urged the Coast Guard to "reject this outrageous proposal."
Extracting natural gas trapped in shale formations requires pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and free the gas. Some of that water, along with large quantities of existing underground water, returns to the surface, and it can contain high levels of salt, drilling chemicals, heavy metals and naturally occurring low-level radiation.
The Marcellus Shale formation, underlying large parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and some neighboring states, is the nation's most productive natural gas field. Thousands of new wells have been drilled there since 2008, and hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater needs to be disposed of each year.
Some states, such as Texas and Ohio, have many underground waste disposal wells. But Pennsylvania has only a few, meaning the leftovers have to be shipped elsewhere.
The Coast Guard proposal says barge companies want to move waste from the Marcellus region "via inland waterways to storage or reprocessing centers and final disposal sites in Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana." That means large quantities of waste could be shipped on major rivers such as the Ohio; one of its main tributaries, the Monongahela; and the Mississippi.
Critics say that if there were an accident, it could threaten the drinking water supply of millions of people. They also cite the uncertainty around what's in that toxic mix. The Coast Guard is proposing to address that by requiring chemical testing of each barge load before shipment; test results would also be kept on file for two years.
A Marcellus wastewater spill wouldn't be any different from other threats, said Jerry Schulte, the emergency response manager for the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, which has members in eight states. Occasional spills and other pollution are "a part of life" on industrialized waterways such as the Ohio, he said.
"Things happen, whether it's naturally occurring, or spills," he said.
Municipal water suppliers also monitor river water, and if there's a spill nearby, they shut intake valves until the problem has passed downriver.
One of the largest river spills in the region's history took place in 1988, when an on-shore storage tank ruptured in Pittsburgh, spilling about a million gallons of fuel oil into the river. The sludge flowed down the Ohio River, forcing many water suppliers to shut intakes for a week.
But according to a 2011 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the fatality, injury and air pollution rates for barge transportation are far lower than truck or rail transport.
The Coast Guard is reviewing the comments from both sides, and it has the authority to approve or modify the rule. But there is no timeline for a decision, spokesman Carlos Diaz said.
A leading industry group supports using barges for the waste but isn't happy with the details of the Coast Guard proposal. In a Dec. 6 letter, the Marcellus Shale Coalition hailed the potential to reduce the waste being transported by highway but complained the proposal set the threshold too low for naturally occurring radiation, which would effectively prevent wastewater from being shipped by barge.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency couldn't immediately say Friday whether they have a position on the barge wastewater issue.


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"Like" this post if you are tired of telling you what to like.
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When I deleted my Facebook account, friend thought that I died.
Facebook - even more ways to stay connected to people you don't really like.
"Face" your problems, not "Facebook" them!
Then somebody unlikes you on FB, it means that the garbage took itself out!
I changed Facebook name to "Nobody". When i press "Like it", everybody can read "Nobody Likes This".
My Facebook is probably broken. Nobody liked my new status!
I don't suppose I really know you very well, but Facebook told me it's your birthday, so ... happy birthday!
I like Facebook because it is like sunglasses. I can stare at other people without getting caught!
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Spicy pickled green beans are a fantastic way to save your bumper crop of fresh veggie produce. Plus, spicy pickled green beans are just a great snack! They're a load of flavor for minimal effort, meaning you'll want to make them all the time. With that in mind, we've got not just one but five spicy pickled green beans recipe ideas for you below. Check them all out and find the one that will fire up your taste buds best!
Go gaga over this pickled green beans recipe with an Asian twist. All you Sriracha lovers out there, you just can't miss this pickled green beans recipe!
Cooking Instructions: Peel an inch thick piece of fresh ginger roots. Cut into long, thin slices and set aside. Slice a medium-sized yellow onion thinly and then mince four cloves of garlic. In a bowl, mix ginger and onion slices with minced garlic. Add two tablespoons each of peppercorns and mustard seeds. Fill two pint-sized jars with the mixture. Then pack as many green beans as you can into each jar.
Next, heat a cup and a half each of water and vinegar in a medium saucepan. Add a tablespoon of salt and three tablespoons of sugar. Dissolve the sugar and salt by stirring constantly then turn off the heat. Stir in two tablespoons of Sriracha and pour into the jars immediately until filled. Cover the jars tightly and leave at room temperature to cool. You can refrigerate and store your spicy pickled green beans for up to a month.
What are spicy pickled green beans without some hot jalapeño? You'll say hot, hot, hot to this pepper-laced pickled beans recipe with some natural Mexican spice!
Cooking Instructions: Clean and sterilize two to three pint-sized jars. Prepare 1 pound each of green beans and jalapeños. Wash veggies thoroughly and snip ends of green beans. You can cut the green beans in half if the whole length doesn't fit the jar.
Bring water to a boil in a large saucepan. Blanch green beans and jalapeños for two minutes. Take the vegetables out and drop in ice-cold water to stop the cooking process. Fill the jars with equally divided green beans, jalapeños, and garlic.
In the same saucepan, bring to boil a mixture of 2 1/2 cup of water and vinegar. Add two tablespoons each of salt and sugar. Stir the mixture constantly until the sugar dissolves. Continue to boil for two minutes and then turn off the heat. Finally, pour the brine into the jars until the vegetables are completely submerged. Cover the jar tightly and let it sit on the countertop to cool. Refrigerate the pickles once cool and keep chilled for at least 24 hours. You can also store your pickled green beans for a month.
For those who like their spice with a hint of sweetness, this pickled green beans recipe is perfect. So let's get pickling with green beans, sugar, spice, and everything nice!
Cooking Instructions: Clean and sterilize six pint-sized pickling jars. Clean 2 1/2 pounds of green beans thoroughly and cut the ends. You can also cut the beans in half if they won't fit. Slice a medium-sized red bell pepper into long, thin slices. Peel six fresh garlic cloves and slice thinly. Divide the green beans, red bell pepper, garlic, and 1 1/2 teaspoons each of red pepper flakes and yellow mustard seeds in the pickling jars. You can also add some dill sprigs in the jars.
Now, mix three and 3/4 parts each of apple cider vinegar and water. Add a cup of sugar and six tablespoons of sea salt and then bring to a boil. Turn off the heat after two minutes. Slowly fill each jar with the brine. Wipe around each top of the jars then cover tightly. Follow the boiling water bath process of pickling. You can keep these pickled green beans for a year with this process.
Cooking Tip: Use a sterilized chopstick to move the vegetables and spices around and to run along the sides of the jars to remove air bubbles.
Whether you're from the South or not, you'll love these Cajun-style pickled beans. These pickled green beans feature cayenne pepper — one hot spice Cajun seasoning is never without.
Cooking Instructions: First, prepare the pickling solution or brine by mixing a cup of white vinegar and 1/2 cup of water. Add a teaspoon each of white sugar and pickling or kosher salt. Next, prepare the vegetables. Wash the green beans well and snip off the edges. Slice carrots into long, thin slices.
Now, arrange the vegetables inside clean pickling jars. Distribute into each jar 300 grams of green beans, a bay leaf, six black peppercorns, 1/2 teaspoon each of celery seeds and yellow mustard seeds, 1/4 teaspoon each of cayenne pepper and dried thyme, and one dried Arbol chili.
Now, fill each jar with the pickling solution. Cover the jar with a sealing lid and screw a finger-tight ring into the jar. Do the usual boiling water bath process for 10 minutes. This process, although complicated, will let you keep the pickles for one year on your shelf.
Most of us imagine pickling to be a long and complicated process. Well, not this recipe! In fact, it's so easy, you'll ask why you didn't do it sooner.
Cooking Instructions: Wash two cups of green beans thoroughly and then snip the ends. Divide green beans, four thinly sliced garlic cloves, and one tablespoon of peppercorns evenly in two quart-sized jars. In a medium saucepan, bring white wine vinegar with two added teaspoons of sugar and salt each to a boil. Add two dried chili peppers. Remove from heat. Pour the brine into the jars until the beans are submerged. Place in the fridge for at least a day before you enjoy. This also keeps for a month.
There you have it, foodies! Different pickled green beans recipes for different tastes. While spicy pickled green beans are delicious right out of the jar, imagine spicy pickled green beans for Bloody Marys and for barbecues! Perfect! Homemade picked beans are simply superior to any store-bought kind, so start making yours today.
Will you give any of these spicy pickled green beans a try? Share your preference in comments below!


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Freddie Stewart crowns Antic Dispo success with Henry V
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A combined cast of British and French actors will perform Shakespeare's epic clash-of-nations drama, Henry V in London's ancient Temple Church from August 24.
Recent RADA graduate Freddie Stewart has been cast in the title role in a site specific production that marks award-winning Antic Disposition's 10th anniversary.
Antic Disposition has won critical acclaim for staging visually striking productions in spectacular historic buildings, including Middle Temple Hall.
Freddie Stewart already has several theatre, television and film credits to his name, most recently playing Cassio in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.
The rest of the joint British/French cast are: Floriane Andersen, Maurice Byrne, Marius Hesper, Andrew Hodges, Alex Hooper, Victor Klein, Mark Middleton, James Murfitt, Dean Riley, Louise Templeton, Geoffrey Towers.
Set in a French military hospital in 1915, Henry V marks both the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt and the ongoing centenary of the First World War.
Using fast-paced storytelling, original songs and live music, the uplifting production celebrates the rich and turbulent relationship between Britain and France, from the Hundred Years War to the Entente Cordiale.
Before arriving in London, Henry V will also be performed in 10 open-air locations in France – one of only a handful of productions of the play ever to be performed in the country.
Antic Disposition, founded 10 years ago by director Ben Horslen and director/designer John Risebero, triumphed last year at the Peter Brook / Empty Space Awards, winning the Peter Brook / Equity Ensemble Award.
Located in the secluded and tranquil heart of London's legal quarter between Fleet Street and the River Thames, Temple Church was built by the Knights Templar in the 12th-century and is one of London's most beautiful and historic buildings.
Best known for its unusual round form and stone effigies of medieval knights, Temple Church became famous more recently as a key location in Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code.
Henry V will be staged in London's ancient Temple Church from August 24–September 5.
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You searched for subject:(Silicide fuels). Showing records 1 – 2 of 2 total matches.
1. Prewitt, Benjamin Joseph. Analysis and implementation of accident tolerant nuclear fuels.
"To improve the reliability and robustness of LWR, accident tolerant nuclear fuels and cladding materials are being developed to possibly replace the current UO2/zirconium system. This research highlights UN and U3Si2, two of the most favorable accident tolerant fuels being developed. To evaluate the commercial feasiblilty of these fuels, two areas of research were conducted. Chemical fabrication routes for both fuels were investigated in detail, considering UO2 and UF6 as potential starting materials. Potential pathways for industrial scale fabrication using these methods were discussed. Neutronic performance of 70%UN-30%U3Si2 composite was evaluated in MNCP using PWR assembly and core models. The results showed comparable performance to an identical UO2 fueled simulation with the same configuration. The parameters simulated for composite and oxide fuel include the following: fuel to moderator ratio curves; energy dependent flux spectra; temperature coefficients for fuel and moderator; delayed neutron fractions; power peaking factors; axial and radial flux profiles in 2D and 3D; burnup; critical boron concentration; and shutdown margin. Overall, the neutronic parameters suggest that the transition from UO2 to composite in existing nuclear systems will not require significant changes in operating procedures or modifications to standards and regulations" – Abstract, page iii.
Prewitt, Benjamin Joseph. "Analysis and implementation of accident tolerant nuclear fuels." Masters Thesis, Missouri University of Science and Technology. Accessed April 21, 2019. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/7657.
Prewitt, Benjamin Joseph. "Analysis and implementation of accident tolerant nuclear fuels." Web. 21 Apr 2019.
Prewitt BJ. Analysis and implementation of accident tolerant nuclear fuels. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Missouri University of Science and Technology; [cited 2019 Apr 21]. Available from: http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/7657.
2. Marquez, Matias G. Silicide fuel swelling behavior and its performance in I2S-LWR.
The swelling mechanisms of U3Si2 under neutron irradiation in reactor conditions are not unequivocally known. The limited experimental evidence that is available suggests that the main driver of the swelling in this material would be fission gases accumulation at crystalline grain boundaries. The steps that lead to the accumulation of fission gases at these locations are multiple and complex. However, gradually, the gaseous fission products migrate by diffusion. Upon reaching a grain boundary, which acts as a trap, the gaseous fission products start to accumulate, thus leading to formation of bubbles and hence to swelling. Therefore, a quantitative model of swelling requires the incorporation of phenomena that increase the presence of grain boundaries and decrease grain sizes, thus creating sites for bubble formation and growth. It is assumed that grain boundary formation results from the conversion of stored energy from accumulated dislocations into energy for the formation of new grain boundaries.This thesis attempts to develop a quantitative model for grain subdivision in U3Si2 based on the above mentioned phenomena to verify the presence of this mechanism and to use in conjunction with swelling codes to evaluate the total swelling of the pellet in the reactor during its lifetime. Advisors/Committee Members: Petrovic, Bojan (advisor), Ougouag, Abderrafi (advisor), Deo, Chaitanya (committee member).
Marquez, Matias G. "Silicide fuel swelling behavior and its performance in I2S-LWR." 2015. Masters Thesis, Georgia Tech. Accessed April 21, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53970.
Marquez, Matias G. "Silicide fuel swelling behavior and its performance in I2S-LWR." 2015. Web. 21 Apr 2019.
Marquez MG. Silicide fuel swelling behavior and its performance in I2S-LWR. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Georgia Tech; 2015. [cited 2019 Apr 21]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53970.


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Very true, but it's never as black and white as that. To use your crayon cat analogy. Yes, you can draw a cat with these crayons. But can they?
Yes, they can. If it's a shitty looking cat that's their own fault. Just because you can hold a crayon doesn't mean you can hang with Rembrandt. You gotta get some learnin in you first.
I submit that on the very first start the Ghost Shooter tut should be loaded.
You could also add a link to the cap that would open up a html version of the tut, along with bla, bla, please take the tut first, and if you have any questions please refer to the faq, and forum.
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> Very true, but it's never as black and white as that. To use your crayon cat analogy. Yes, you can draw a cat with these crayons. But can they?
lol! Sorry, that just gave me the funniest mental image of Rembrandt "hangin" with his homies on some Amsterdam street corner.
That's a really good idea.
Could make it so you can't get rid of it until you take a test asking basic questions.. Ok my idea isn't so good and would never happen, but wouldn't we all secretly like it, lol.
[quote:18ittyav]That's a really good idea.
No but you could put some test type questions on the forum's "are you human" test.
Also given the html object, and download plugs we could... (in theory) make a really nice interactive tutorial, that new users would want to take.
nobody who uses programs like these, are programmers, there's no programming involved and you're not a programmer by using them, it's like a modder calling himself a developer, or a college student with no real world experience, claiming they know better, it's a bit of a joke, haha
I have to disagree. I don't think a person needs to use a programming language to program. An if/then statement is the same basic concept in a language as in construct. I can't program in any sort of programming language at all, and yet after learning construct, not only can I talk game programming with professional game programmers, they can and have suggested things to me, without having used construct - and their suggestions work. I can understand what they're talking about most of the time because construct uses so many of the same functions. While construct simplifies the process enormously, it's still essentially the same thing, using a lot of the same concepts.
Also, as I think you know, you don't need to be at a major company or use a programming language to be a game developer. Honestly, I don't like how you seem to consider us 'bottom of the barrel' developers in your tone with parts of this post. I've been working on my RPG for 10 months, and let me tell you, it is a LOT of work. Construct may not be coding completely from scratch, but really, how different is it from using an engine of some sort that does a lot of the work for you? Engines take years to develop, and if your goal is to make games, I hear even from pro developers, you might as well use some other engine and get to the game.
[quote:1q8qt7m3]Especially when people run around claiming construct can do everything, when the reality of it is, it can't.
With the exception of online/gamepad use, I don't think I've found any 2d games that couldn't be made in construct (there are obviously a lot of 2d games I haven't played, though). The only games that I've found that you couldn't remake in their entirety are ones that rely on the speed of code (which is obviously faster than interpreting events), but even those games could be made with a few thousand less spaceships in them, for example.
Even if there are games out there that you couldn't make in construct, it can still be said that construct can make any TYPE of 2D game.
[quote:1q8qt7m3]Programmers (e.g. Ashley, David and the plugin creators)
Developers (people with real commercial experience)
Modders (people who mod game engines or create TC's)
Game Makers <-- this is where construct and other apps like it are, along with us, the users.
I don't think any group should be listed as 'below' or 'above' any other. We're all doing the same thing. Making games. The more I talk to people about it, the more I find people, and developers, most of the time don't care what you make a game with. They care that the game is awesome.
I disagree about loading the tutorial automatically, but perhaps asking if the user would like a tutorial once would work.
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actually opening up a tutorial .cap on first run sounds like a very good idea to me.
though perhaps a new one should be made? Dunno.
About hating on newbies no, just hating on people that don't even attempt to learn before asking stuff (me, at least. Software is free, there's wiki, there's forum, there's tutorials... and yet people skip all those? grumble)
About WALL OF TEXT: tl;dr
Understanding someone and being able to do it yourself are two different things though. I, like a lot of people, can understand most spoken languages to a point. I'll recognize words, phrases, take the situation in context and most of the time understand the general gist of what's being said. But if you asked me to speak German etc. I'd just look at you with a blank stare and be unable to. Does that make me a linguist? No. Same applies to programming, I understand it enough to know how it works, can follow it (to a point), make small changes and know the limitations etc. But I couldn't sit down and program. I certainly wouldn't call myself a programmer.
[quote:3govchlr]With the exception of online/gamepad use, I don't think I've found any 2d games that couldn't be made in construct (there are obviously a lot of 2d games I haven't played, though). The only games that I've found that you couldn't remake in their entirety are ones that rely on the speed of code (which is obviously faster than interpreting events), but even those games could be made with a few thousand less spaceships in them, for example.
Well I admit I probably didn't word it so well when I wrote that originally, my bad. The point I was trying to get across as was explained better using deadeye's crayon cat. Is people don't really care IF something is possible, it's can THEY do it. That's what I believe is the question they really want, the question we all really want. They hear construct and others are easy to use, and that's what they look for, a tool to make life easier and more their level of experience. But that leads to another problem. How the heck will anyone else know if something is possible for another person or not? Hence the butting of heads.
Same, plus newts suggestion for the are you human questions (I've seen that done on some other forum once, and at the very least it will make you search for the answer if you don't know it).
I think a forced tutorial WILL annoy some people, but will be better for all in the long run. Plus, don't most games actually force a tutorial on you the first time around, with few allowing it to be skipped. So I suppose really it's not that bad of a thing, and it would be there to help people, and who knows, even the pro's might learn the odd thing or two from it?
[quote:3govchlr]About hating on newbies no, just hating on people that don't even attempt to learn before asking stuff (me, at least. Software is free, there's wiki, there's forum, there's tutorials... and yet people skip all those? grumble)
That just seems to be the way it is these days, the majority won't read documentation and will instead ask on forums, because it's less work than researching the answer yourself. Happens with everything, everywhere, and I don't see it changing.
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Bah lol
Wow, I missed a lot of stuff in LmK's original post because... well, tl;dr
The more I talk to people about it, the more I find people, and developers, most of the time don't care what you make a game with. They care that the game is awesome.
Agreed. Go to TIGSource. It's a community where a good deal of the indie game crowd hangs out. Stuff gets made there from all kinds of people, from "real coders" to folks who use MMF. Try bashing on GameMaker there and see how far it gets you. It's not what you use, or how much time you spent learning it... it's what you make. That's all that matters. And when it comes to making games, being able to call yourself a programmer isn't anywhere near as useful as being able to call yourself a game designer.
But if you asked me to speak German etc. I'd just look at you with a blank stare and be unable to.
That's nobody's fault but your own. It's certainly not mine, or the Germans. You can learn to speak German if you want. You can learn to draw a cat if you want. You can learn to design a game if you want... even if the game involves backflipping. Even if the game is about drawing German cats with infrared crayons while backflipping into the sun.
Ah, I'm getting off the point.
...people don't really care IF something is possible, it's can THEY do it. That's what I believe is the question they really want, the question we all really want.
Can it be done? Yes. Can anyone do it? Dunno. That's a question you need to ask yourself. If you try, and stick with it, the answer will probably be yes. A better question might be "how do I do it?" An even better one might be "will I do it?"
An even better question is "Do I feel lucky".
Well do ya? PUNK?
toralord
Joined 28 Apr, 2009
No, I don't sorry.
Please don't shoot me with that big ass gun!
Mipey
Joined 16 Jan, 2009
Lately I have been learning Ruby because I felt limited by Construct and other game making engines. I am familiar with some programming concepts and game design, however I couldn't program past "Hello world!" before. Now I'm developing a would-be-roguelike and learning a great deal about game development as well. Granted, there were many snags on the way, but I've had professional help to nudge me into the right direction. Also the Computer Science classes many a year ago may have helped with the foundation, but well, that was in Oberon and programs were pretty much about typing text or outputting results of some math stuff.
You, too, can learn to program or, more accurately, script if you devote some of your time and mind to it. Sometimes I still wake up in middle of a night with an epiphany regarding to my little project.
The only limit is your own will and commitment. I've read stories about people who finally acquired driving licence after hundreds of failed tests. I'm sure I, too, will eventually succeed if I keep climbing back into the saddle.
Bottom line: It all depends on how much effort you are willing to put in.
DaviX
Sorry for my ignorance
But e been looking for programs to raise my game and just wanted to know if Scirra Construct would be a good candidate
The truth, I really like the program, but I'm still a rookie
Yesterday publish the program on my forum and was successful, so that a user decided to translate it into Spanish, I hope that you will not amount
Ashley: thanks for the tutorials, I have been very helpful.
PD: I'm Spanish, sorry for my bad English =P
Nah, please don't feel like that. This thread just went a little out of control for a moment. We're nice folks, really
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