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Nobel Prize: Milosevic 'apologist' award serves as a reminder that reform of the academy runs slowly
16 October 2019 by particularkev
Kaley Kramer, Sheffield Hallam University
Fresh from the controversy of having to "postpone" awarding the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, due to a series of scandals that left the prize committee in disarray, the Swedish Academy – which gives out the literature prize – courted controversy again, naming Austrian novelist Peter Handke, as its laureate for 2019.
Over the past two decades, Handke has come in for savage criticism for his support for Serbia in the Balkans War in the 1990s and for delivering a eulogy at the funeral of convicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic in 2006. In the same year, he withdrew his nomination for the Heinrich Heine prize before it could be revoked by politicians. There were also protests in Oslo after he was awarded the Ibsen Prize in 2014.
Less controversial, is the decision to award the delayed 2018 prize to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk. She is the 16th woman and the fifth Polish writer to be named as a literature laureate. The judges described her as "a writer preoccupied by local life … but looking at earth from above … her work is full of wit and cunning."
The pair receive 9m Swedish krona (£746,678), which – the judges confirmed – represents the full amount for each year's prize money.
Scandal strikes
The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been mired in controversy for two years after several members of the committee resigned in 2018 following allegations of financial and sexual misconduct. French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault – whose wife, the poet Katarina Frostenson, was a committee member, was accused of rape in 2017 and was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 2018. His wife left the academy earlier this year after allegations of conflict of interest and the leaking of Nobel winners' names.
Nobel Prize crisis: flurry of withdrawals rocking Swedish Academy's showpiece literature award
At the time, the executive director of the Nobel Foundation, Lars Heikensten, said is was important the Swedish Academy "quickly solves their problems. If they manage to do that in a way that restores confidence, they will be able to continue to award the Nobel Prize in Literature".
Whether or not the academy has heeded the implied threat in Heikensten's words, it seems quite ambitious to demand a "quick" solution. Over the year, several additional points of needed reform have been suggested, from revising the statutes to reconsidering the eligibility criteria for the award.
Lofty ideals and purity of spirit
The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of the more mysterious awards. According to the will of the founder, Alfred Nobel, the prize is awarded to writers who "have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
This has been interpreted since in different ways. French poet Sully Prudhomme, who won the first literature Nobel in 1901, was awarded for his poetry's "lofty idealism", while Norwegian poet Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson won in 1903 for "the rare purity of [his poetry's] spirit". The following year, French writer Frédéric Mistral was awarded for "fresh originality and true inspiration". The first female literature laureate, Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1909), was given the prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterise her writings".
Quite what Nobel meant by an "ideal direction" has never been decisively stated and the academy has, over time, selected and discounted work depending on a very fluid consensus on how the term might be understood and applied.
Most recently, Tokarczuk was awarded for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". Meanwhile, the judges said Handke won "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".
An 'ideal direction'
The "ideal direction" that the prize should take, particularly after 2018, has been less ambiguous. As of yesterday, only 15 of 116 literature laureates have been women. And the desire for a "global distribution" of prize winners is equally out of step with the actual awards – winners from the global North overwhelmingly dominate the list of laureates, as do white writers. Works written in English have also been dominant – 29 laureates published their work in English and the next most awarded language is French at 14.
Things have changed, slowly, since the 1980s. Laureates have become more diverse in nationality and language, while eight of the 15 female laureates were awarded between 1991 and 2015.
The need for reform of the academy and Nobel prize judging had been building for some time. The Swedish Academy, founded in 1786 by Gustav III, is comprised of 18 members who were until 2018 elected for life and were not permitted to resign their position. There had, however, been a number of withdrawals – in 1989, two members quit the academy after it refused to condemn Iran after it issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses. In 2005, academy member Knut Ahnlund quit in protest at the decision to give the 2004 prize to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek whose work, he said, was "static and completely engulfed in cliché".
Academy members can now voluntarily resign, which means that the seats of those who have withdrawn can be filled with new members. This will at least ensure regular injections of fresh blood and new energy. But real reform in the literary prize industry, if this year's selection for the Nobel Prize is any indication, remains slow – and what is meant by "reform" is as vague as Nobel's "ideal direction".
Kaley Kramer, Deputy Head of English/Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
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Australian tech start-ups stand to lose out in proposed copyright reforms
10 December 2017 by particularkev
YouTube and Facebook are protected from Australia's copyright laws, since they already operate within the US safe harbours.
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Kylie Pappalardo, Queensland University of Technology
The Australian government quietly introduced the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 to the Senate on Wednesday. If enacted, the bill will extend the scope of Australia's copyright safe harbours – very slightly.
Safe harbours protect internet hosts and platform providers from monetary liability for copyright-infringing content posted or shared by their users. For example, if you post the latest Thor movie to YouTube, YouTube won't be responsible for copyright infringement if it takes down that video. In Australia, we only extend this protection to internet services providers, not general purpose websites.
This matters because technology firms rely on limits to liability to manage their risks. Companies like Facebook or YouTube, which host millions of pieces of user content, would face serious difficulty starting in Australia because our laws on copyright infringement are so strict.
Read more: It's time to future-proof Australia's copyright laws for the 21st century
The new legislation is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough to create an environment that fosters Australian innovation.
Excluding platforms from safe harbours doesn't make much difference to tech giants like YouTube and Facebook, since they already operate within the United States safe harbours. But it does discourage Australian tech start-ups from the chance to experiment in a reduced-risk environment.
It is not just the US with broader copyright safe harbours than Australia – jurisdictions around the world extend safe harbours to internet intermediaries beyond ISPs.
The European Union, for example, provides that member states must ensure that any hosting provider will not be liable for unlawful content posted by users, provided it acts quickly to remove the content upon notice.
Low hanging fruit
It's the second time this year that the government has amended Australia's copyright laws. The first was the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Act 2017, passed in June, which provides greater access to copyrighted content for people with disabilities such as vision impairment.
Both measures are low hanging fruit for the government. They improve our existing copyright law, but they don't advance us far from the status quo.
The government is staying well clear of the more contentious, though far more impactful, potential reforms to the Copyright Act recommended by bodies such as the Australian Law Reform Commission and the Productivity Commission.
What are the copyright safe harbours?
The copyright safe harbours came about as a result of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998. The DMCA represented an important bargain struck between the established content industry, such as big film and TV studios, and the burgeoning tech industry.
The content industry got a "notice-and-takedown" regime that required online service providers to remove material that infringes copyright. In exchange, the tech industry got copyright safe harbours.
Under this system, the service provider must quickly and efficiently remove infringing content if they are informed about it by the copyright owner. This notice-and-takedown scheme has become fundamentally important to the way the internet works today.
Why are Australian safe harbours so limited?
In the 2005 Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia agreed to adopt these provisions into Australian domestic law.
But in enacting the copyright safe harbours, parliament made a drafting error. Instead of extending protection to "service providers", as the US law does, we gave protection to "carriage service providers" as defined in the Telecommunications Act.
Essentially, Australia only gave protection to internet service providers like Telstra, Optus and TPG, and not to platform providers like Whirlpool, RedBubble, YouTube or Facebook. For more than a decade, this has been a critical difference between US and Australian copyright law.
What's changing?
The new bill appears to close the glaring gap between US and Australian law by replacing the term "carriage service provider" with, simply, "service provider".
But the bill defines "service provider" to be either a carriage service provider; an organisation assisting persons with a disability; or a body administering a library, archives, cultural institution or educational institution.
It does not extend the safe harbour to those who actually need it the most – Australia's internet hosts and platform providers.
This is a seriously missed opportunity for Australian innovators. There is a real risk for businesses, both large and small, who want to provide online spaces for people to communicate.
Read more: Australian copyright laws have questionable benefits
Our copyright laws potentially make hosts liable for much of the copyright infringing content that users may upload or share. But it can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to pre-screen all content before it is uploaded.
This is one of the reasons why many large social media platforms don't base their operations in countries like Australia, and why Australian businesses are at a major competitive disadvantage compared to those in other countries.
Why not extend the safe harbour to Australian innovators?
There were early indications that the Australian government intended to extend the safe harbours to all online service providers, but these amendments were shelved.
Entertainment industry groups have been lobbying hard in recent years for measures that go beyond the notice-and-takedown scheme that the safe harbours provide. They want what they call notice-and-staydown: proactive filtering of unlicensed copyright content by service providers.
Read more: Explainer: what is 'fair dealing' and when can you copy without permission?
At the same time, copyright owners want higher payments. They use the term "value gap" to describe what they see as the difference between sites like Spotify that pay hefty licence fees to make content available to users and sites like YouTube that do not.
Content owners are no longer happy with the bargain they struck in the DMCA – they allege that sites like YouTube are gaming the system of the safe harbours.
There is a false equivalency at work here. Spotify is not a site for user-generated content and does not purport to be; sites like YouTube have everyday users at their core. If we believe that creative discourse, engagement and play matters then there is a cogent reason why sites that facilitate user-generated content might need some legal latitude.
However, this debate misses a more fundamental point. Limited safe harbour provisions hurt Australian creators and innovators. They increase the risk to innovators developing new technology products and platforms.
And, importantly, Australian creators miss the opportunity to exercise greater control over their creations through notice-and-takedown mechanisms that are easy to use and far cheaper than copyright lawsuits.
Kylie Pappalardo, Lecturer, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
26 March 2017 by particularkev
Rule change should make it easier for more copyright works to be made available in Braille.
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Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology
Proposed changes to Australia's copyright law should make it easier for people to create and distribute versions of copyrighted works that are accessible to people with disabilities.
The Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and other Measures) Bill was introduced to Parliament on Wednesday.
If passed, it would enable people with disabilities to access and enjoy books and other material in formats they can use, such as braille, large print or DAISY audio.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has long been calling for action to end the "world book famine" – only 5% of books produced in Australia are available in accessible formats. This means that people with vision impairment and other reading disabilities are excluded from a massive proportion of the world's knowledge and culture.
Under the current law, educational institutions and other organisations can produce accessible copies of books, but the system is slow and expensive. Only a small number of popular books are available, and technical books that people need for work are often out of reach.
Technology should make accessibility much easier, but publishers have been slow to enable assistive technologies.
People with disabilities have long complained that they are not able to take advantage of new technologies such as inbuilt screen reading software on computers and smartphones.
Amazon's Kindle, for example, used to allow text-to-speech to help blind people read books, but Amazon gave in to publishers' fears and allowed them to disable the feature. Apple's electronic books are much better, but there are still major gaps.
Our research looked at books available through electronic academic databases, and found that most ebook libraries have some features that frustrate full accessibility.
The Copyright Act in its current form does grant statutory licences for copying by institutions that assist people with disabilities, but there are no comprehensive exceptions for individuals. Research shows that even students in resourced universities have trouble accessing the materials they need to study.
A fair right for people with disabilities
The new Bill aims to create a clear right for individuals to copy materials into accessible formats. Critically, this new "fair dealing" exception also allows other people to help out by creating and sharing accessible versions of books and other materials.
This is a major milestone in making copyright law more fair. It implements Australia's obligations under the Marrakesh Treaty, a landmark international agreement designed to stop copyright getting in the way of accessibility.
The Marrakesh Treaty, once implemented around the world, will enable organisations to share accessible books to the people who need them in other countries. This is an extremely important change as the costs of scanning and making a book accessible are so high that most blind people are denied access to most works.
Once the laws are clarified, the accessibility of books will increase dramatically. Google has been busy digitising the world's books, and it has given those books to a charity called Hathi Trust. Soon, Hathi Trust will be able to share those books with blind people around the world.
Google's partnership with Hathi Trust means that blind people will soon be able to access more than 14 million volumes almost overnight. This figure may grow quickly as Google has already digitised more than 30 million books. Very soon, the proportion of accessible books might jump from 5-10% to closer to 30%.
A missed opportunity
The Bill also proposes a number of other long awaited updates to Australian copyright law. But one thing the Bill does not do is fix a drafting error that has plagued Australian copyright law for the past decade.
When Australia signed the Australia – US Free Trade Agreement, we introduced a system of "notice-and-takedown" that would protect copyright owners. The system provides a way for people to ask online service providers to remove content that infringes copyright.
But the law was poorly drafted. It applied only to a small number of Internet Service Providers (such as Telstra, Optus and iiNet) but not the larger category of search engines and content hosts.
This means it does not apply to giants such as Google and Facebook. It also means that other organisations that host content uploaded by users, such as The Conversation, are also excluded.
These safe harbours provide a shield in case people – outside of the service provider's control – use their networks to upload content that infringes any copyright laws.
The reason they are so critical is that it is often prohibitively expensive for the companies that host internet content to check all content before a user uploads it.
But the safe harbours aren't free. The quid pro quo is that the ISP must introduce a notice and takedown scheme. This is one of the few effective mechanisms to get content removed from the internet, and has been a crucial part of protecting the rights of publishers and authors online.
Professor Kim Weatherall explains the drafting error in Australia's copyright safe harbours.
When the new Bill was first drafted, it was set to fix the drafting error that excludes content hosts, search engines, universities and other organisations from the scheme. But the Bill introduced this week contains no such fix.
The extension of these safe harbours has become highly politicised, with major rightsholders warning that it looked like a win for Google and Facebook.
The past two decades of the internet in the United States have shown how critical the safe harbours are to all developers, both large and small. They reduce uncertainty and allow innovation in the ways that people access content.
So while this new Bill is important, it is also a missed opportunity. The drafting error in Australia's copyright safe harbours means that neither tech companies or authors and publishers are well protected.
Tess Van Geelen, a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, contributed to this article.
Nicolas Suzor, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Australian copyright reform stuck in an infinite loop
19 January 2016 by particularkev
Kathy Bowrey, UNSW Australia
Copyright matters. It is a body of law that affects what we know, how we experience and understand the world, and what we are allowed to do with the knowledge we gain. But for most of us copyright is more of a snarl. We only know of it as a restriction that complicates how we interact with each other. It is not often experienced as regulation that helps make good new things happen.
Malcolm Turnbull's "ideas boom", his innovation and science agenda, is supposed to make innovation happen by spending A$1.1 billion over four years. The policy papers don't include any mention of copyright. But copyright rules and regulations sit behind all the agendas found in the innovation statement.
So what is happening with the rules that will affect our capacity to "leap, connect, sparkle and guide" others? There is a copyright agenda underway. And in short, under Attorney-General George Brandis, there has been a lot of twitching and jerking.
Brandis did not have a clean slate. When he took his place in the Abbott ministry there was already an extensive and much needed review of copyright underway, established by the former Labor government.
Headed up by UTS Professor Jill McKeough, the Australian Law Reform Commission's Copyright and the Digital Economy Inquiry undertook an exhaustive process to produce this final report.
Brandis sat on the final report for some time, tabling it in Parliament on February 13, 2014. The day after he gave a speech where he agreed with the problems highlighted in the report:
"The Copyright Act is overly long, unnecessarily complex, often comically outdated and all too often in its administration, pointlessly bureaucratic."
But rather than engage with the recommendations of the report, he raised the furphy of piracy — an issue specifically excluded from the ALRC terms of reference, reserved for trade discussions conducted without public input — and then in August 2015 the Abbott government established yet another review.
The Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia's intellectual property system looks beyond copyright. Ostensibly there is a wide-ranging inquiry into IP laws and "incentives for innovation and investment, including freedom to build on existing innovation".
However successive governments have negotiated away many areas of Australian IP policy in international agreements, beginning with Chapter 17 of the 2005 the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and more recently the 2015 Trans-Pacific Partnership. These agreements, negotiated without public scrutiny or evidence about impact, limit our capacity to determine the national interest in fashioning the balance of our IP laws.
In terms of copyright, the Productivity Commission inquiry covers much of the same ground as the ALRC: efficiency and balance, adaptability for the future and evidence based reform. In response to the issues paper 115 submissions were received. There will be another round of public submissions when the discussion paper is released in March/April 2016. So many rounds of public consultation going on, but to what end?
Among the raft of government business hidden in the Christmas break an Exposure Draft was released by the Department of the Communication and Arts (DOCA) on December 23, 2015. There is a public invitation for comment until February 12, 2016.
The background paper to the Exposure Draft notes:
"It is appropriate to proceed with the amendments contained in the Bill before the [Productivity] Commission reports as those amendments simplify the operation of the Act and are likely to be consistent with the recommendations (if any) made by the Commission."
However the draft provisions are far from simple to follow. They completely fail to address basic issues affecting those who legally access material held in public collections. The bill is based on fantasies about how institutions work in practice and ignores the public's experience of them altogether. Mere oversight or part of the government's design?
For example, section 113M allows libraries and archives to make "preservation copies" of original material that is of historical or cultural significance to Australia, but they are not allowed to make these copies available to patrons except through a terminal on site. As a researcher I am not allowed to make an electronic copy of the material so I can use it in writing up my research. As is common practice in libraries I would probably be allowed to transcribe a document by hand.
However transcribing by hand is, as a matter by law, no different to a digital reproduction. Why does this law require me to spend public research money to physically attend the institution, perhaps also requiring an airfare and accommodation expenses, so I can take out my quill?
The bill sets out excessively complicated rules that allow institutions to provide material that might or might not be in copyright to researchers. The rules only apply to a limited number of institutions. The ability to comply with them is based on the incorrect assumption that collections are catalogued to the Nth degree where it is easy to determine who the author was, the date of making the work, the date of publication of the work, the date of the author's death, relevant details of the current estate holder.
These collections have little commercial, educational or cultural value if left dead, buried and forgotten because of lousy copyright laws. Institutional purpose and the value of the collection is generated when the material is utilised, repurposed, and made to bloom again, by users of the collection.
If the "ideas boom" is to move from mediocre slogan to stimulate real "leaps" and progress so that the "brightest" can shine, there is a need for more than a redistribution of public funds to starving public institutions. Copyright law reform needs to be taken seriously as a political concern, not left as a plaything shunted from inquiry to inquiry, while other games are carried on behind the scenes.
Kathy Bowrey, Professor in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, UNSW, UNSW Australia
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'The Reformers and Their Stepchildren,' by Leonard Verduin
27 November 2009 by particularkev
As readers of this Blog would know, I have been reading 'The Reformers and Their Stepchildren,' by Leonard Verduin. I have now completed this book and maintain that this is a book that should be read by all Reformed believers. It is a brilliant treatment of both the Reformers and those who sought a more 'radical' reform, in order to bring the church back to that which was modelled on the New Testament example.
Verduin deals with many of the disputed areas between the Reformers and the Stepchildren, and in so doing shows how the Reformers chose to go only so far in their work of reformation and indeed how some chose to back peddle in some areas. As much as I respect many of the Reformers (if not all), I have always been saddened by their refusal to fully reform the church/separate from it, and to set up a church based on the New Testament model, which was something the stepchildren also sought. The Reformers treatment of the stepchildren will always be a blight on their legacy also.
Read this book without being biased either way and allow the truth of the Scriptures to determine the path on which you walk. There is much food for thought in this book and a real challenge for Reformed believers throughout.
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'Reformers and Their Stepchildren,' by Leonard Verduin – An Update
As visitors to 'At the BookShelf' would know, I have been reading 'Reformers and Their Stepchildren,' by Leonard Verduin. I have now started chapter four and progress through the book may appear slow and you may think this is a reflection on the quality of the book. That would be a mistaken assumption however.
In reality I am finding the book a brilliant treatment of the differences between the 'partial reformers' (such as Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, etc) and the more 'radical reformer' who sought a complete transformation of the church to that which more accurately reflected the New Testament model.
The 'slowness' of my reading is more a reflection of my reading half a dozen or so books at the same time. Reading so many books at any given time is fairly normal for me – in fact, I would call normal (for me) reading far more books at any given time, but I am trying to reign myself in a little here. I just love reading – I am a bibliophile and bookworm remember 🙂
The third chapter of Verduin's work has to do with the lack of true church discipline in the churches of the Reformers and their indifference (generally speaking) to ungodliness in the church (remembering that their churches basically included all in a given location or region).
The third chapter presents a very clear case of the real time contradiction of the Reformers and the reform they were bringing to bear on such places as Geneva, Zurich, etc. To a large extent their work of reform didn't go anywhere near far enough to satisfy their 'stepchildren,' who when they tried to go further were branded as heretics, with their efforts at a more thorough reform being identified by the reformers as evidence of their heresy.
It is a very engaging chapter I believe and one that is helpful for shedding light on Christianity even to this day.
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8 November 2009 by particularkev
I have been reading 'The Reformers and Their Stepchildren,' by Leonard Verduin, in the last week or so. It is not the first time that I have read this book, having read it some time ago – probably 10 years ago now I would say.
This is a book that I would recommend to any believer, but particularly to a Reformed believer, whether he be Paedobaptist or Baptist. Verduin seeks to analyse the Reformation and the relationship between the Reformers and their 'stepchildren' from a Biblical standpoint, rather than any particular denominational standpoint. Though he does defend the stepchildren, he does so only when they are in line with Scriptural teaching on the point being discussed within that particular chapter.
Who are the stepchildren? The stepchildren or the 'second front,' as Verduin also describes them, are those believers who sought a complete reforming of the church. In fact, it may be fair to say that these believers sought a complete break from the Romish church, and a new church built on the teachings of Scripture and modelled on the New Testament church alone.
The frustration for these nonconformist believers was that the reform movement only went so far and did not result in the complete renewal that they desired and that the situation required.
Thus far I have read only the first two chapters of the book and once again I am finding it a very worthwhile read. I find myself in substantial agreement with the position of many of the stepchildren and with Verduin. With as much respect as I have for the Reformers, such as John Calvin, Martin Luther and John Knox, I too would have found myself frustrated at the level of reform achieved by them (though they were better men than I). A complete break and renewal would have been the way forward I believe.
The first two chapters deal with the joint secular-religious church-state that was set up at both the time of Constantine and then at the Reformation in the various Protestant nations that embraced the Reformation. They deal with the all-embracing religion that was constructed in such centres as Geneva and the 'unified' approach to it, as well as the reaction of the stepchildren and their withdrawal from it.
This book is as close to a must read for believers as there is I think – especially of the Reformed persuasion.
My copy of the book (paperback) is by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and was printed in 1964.
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RAFAH, Egypt (AP) - In its first public criticism of Gaza�s Hamas rulers, Egypt complained yesterday of "provocations" during the Gaza-Egypt border crisis and said more than three dozen members of its security forces were hospitalized as a result.
The border, which was initially breached by Hamas militants, remained open for a fourth day, but Egyptian security forces blocked Gazans from driving beyond the border town of Rafah itself.
Egyptian border guards were now authorized to return fire if attacked, said a security official speaking on customary condition of anonymity on the Egyptian side of Rafah. Over the past two days, 38 Egyptian security forces have been wounded - some seriously - after Palestinians hurled stones and shot at them at the border, Egypt�s foreign minister said.
"These provocations cause us concern, and our Palestinian brothers should note that the Egyptian decision to host them and ease their suffering should not result in threats to the lives of our sons in the Egyptian forces," Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told reporters after an emergency meeting in Cairo.
Israel, meanwhile, has expressed growing concern about the possible influx of Palestinian militants into areas of Egypt that border Israel. The Israeli military announced yesterday that its troops were on heightened alert along the border with Egypt and that an Israeli road and tourism sites in the area are temporarily closed.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were to meet in Jerusalem today, and the border crisis was sure to be discussed.
Egyptian troops have tried several times to stem the flow of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians through the breached border wall. On Friday, there were reports of Palestinians throwing stones and even shooting at the border guards and riot police.
Aboul Gheit said the decision to keep the border open stands, but Egyptian forces stopped Palestinian cars from proceeding any further into the Sinai Peninsula after Rafah, forcing thousands to walk to the coast town of El-Arish, located about 20 miles away from the border.
Armored personnel carriers blocking the roads out of Rafah turned traffic in the divided city into a honking gridlock as cars carrying Palestinians continued to drive over the border to visit relatives and buy food and livestock.


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Pride of Baltimore II cooling her heels, her crew cooling their hands.
Ahead of schedule for her appearance in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Pride of Baltimore II is once more swinging on her Port Bower, and once more sharing a Canadian anchorage with her sister Privateer Lynx. With Queen Elizabeth's Way, one of Ontario's major thoroughfares, running along the shore, this anchorage isn't quite as quiet as La Malbaie, but we're getting accustomed to the steady thrum of highway noise.
In case you're starting to think all this anchoring makes Pride II's port hook the most exercised thing on the ship, allow me to detail the recent schedule the ship and crew have had. After a jam packed festival in Toronto where our 6,657 visitors were boarding and marveling at the ship right up until an hour before departure, we got underway and immediately assembled to take up our station in a five-mile parade of sail through Toronto Harbor. Once finished, we were off to the races, literally, along with the Norwegian Ship Sorlandet, the Barkentine Peacemaker, and the Schooners Lynx and Unicorn.
At 1930 Sunday evening, the first race of the 2013 Great Lakes Tall Ships Challenge started just east of Toronto. Pride II is always eager for the challenge of maximizing performance against the world's finest traditional vessels, but on Sunday we might have been even more primed – five of us had seen a disappointing Orioles loss live at Rodgers Center on Saturday, and just as we started the parade we heard that the O's had lost 9-0 to the Blue Jays. It was up to us to keep Baltimore proud this weekend.
All our pre-start strategies were literally rained on by squall that swept out from the heat of Toronto. With a perfect bead on the start line and the timing worked out to cross it right at the gun, we had to shorten sail for the squall, and lagged behind our timing in the lull that followed. The seven minute delay still had us across eight minutes before anyone else in the fleet. We cracked on our kites – the stuns'ls and t'gallant – and bore off toward the first mark off Pickering, Ontario.
Typically, Tall Ships races follow the rhumb line, the shortest distance between two ports. This time, however, the fleet was splitting up for their next port appearances, the overall distance to either port was less than 30 nautical miles, and our appearances were five days away. So, to jazz things up, Tall Ships America sent us around the buoys. The first leg was 14 miles dead down wind, and the next 38 miles nearly dead to weather, and the final mile a close reach.
With her nose first over the start line, Pride II established a lead she never lost. After 13 hours 20 minutes and 3 seconds, we finished ahead of the rest of the fleet. And we need to if there's any hope of winning. Under the rating system used for Tall Ships Races, Pride II has the least favorable time correction factor in the fleet, and "owes" time to all the other ships.
After finishing a race that included ten sail changes, two wares and eight tacks in less than 14 hours, we stripped Pride II down to easy sail and took communications from the rest of the fleet. Lynx crossed around 1625, and we sailed to the anchorage with her. With the race over it was time for the next phase – the 2013 Great Lakes Five Lake Swim Call Challenge! Having missed Lake Ontario in 2011, we wasted no time washing the sweat and grime of the race off of us. One lake down, four to go!
After ten days in the mighty St. Lawrence River, and a week in the impossibly picturesque Thousand Islands region, Pride of Baltimore II has reached the open expanse of her first Great Lake in 2013. For the past week, Pride II has been engulfed in the craggy beauty, impressive architecture, and endless array of water craft this region boasts. From a logistic stop in charming Clayton – home to the elaborate small craft collection of the Antique Boat Museum – to a busy festival in Brockville, or "Brock-Vegas," the region's largest city, Pride II has seen a good bit of what the Thousand Islands have to offer.
In our stay, we have felt both warmly welcomed and quite at home. Summer time in this region is firmly guided by what Ratty said to Mole in Kenneth Grahame's beloved classic, The Wind in the Willows, "there is NOTHING — absolute nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." That's a philosophy we at Pride II can jump into with both feet. From classic runabouts seemingly soaked in varnish, to the elegant St. Lawrence River rowing skiff, to stand-up paddle boards, the St. Lawrence teems with vessels. Pride II was thrilled to be one of the 11 Tall Ships adding deep sea flair to the stage in both Clayton and Brockville.
But "The River" is behind us now. So is half of Lake Ontario, thanks to an uncharacteristic northeast breeze we've been riding since last night. At 2016, we cleared the end of the St. Lawrence and were able to take a slant on the breeze that had been teasing us from dead astern through the confined afternoon of river navigation. By sunset, we'd cracked on everything but the stuns'l and were surging along at eight knots, drawn westward by a setting first quarter moon. A brace of wares had us around the shallows of Psyche Shoal and on the rhumb line for Toronto, our next port and home to Ontario's, indeed Canada's, largest Tall Ship Festival this year.
each other and all depend on the ship, no matter what weather may come or ports await.
Anchored in the considerable current of the St. Lawrence River, Pride of Baltimore II awaits a routine inspection by the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, the corporation which governs the waterway and the seven locks connecting Montreal to Lake Ontario – 159 nautical miles horizontally and 236 feet vertically. Without these locks, the rocky slough of the Lachine Rapids would mark the end of the line for Pride II. In fact, it was these very rapids that kept the vast British Navy out of the Great Lakes in 1812, putting England and America on equally unequipped footing for the coming conflicts on Lake Ontario and, of course, the significant US victory on Lake Erie.
Setting aside the impassable Lachine, getting a sailing ship as far as Montrealin 1812 would have been an excruciating affair. Even today it is no simple task, and for the 20 hours or so before we anchored in small hours of this morning, Pride II was treading narrow channels along pastoral scenes, bustling factories, and scores of church spires. For all that way, she stemmed a steady current, a river current – a sure sign we'd bid adieu to the sea and were truly inland.
Below Quebec City on Saturday, however, the river proved itself a long reaching tendril of the ocean. Under frequent showers and through thick fog, strong Northeast breezes conflicted with ebbing tides and honed the waters of the St. Lawrence to sharpness. Pride II managed seven hours of pure sailing up the river in rollicking conditions, from l'Ile aux Lievres until the fittingly named Chenal des Grands Volliers – the Channel of Tall Ships. It wasn't just sailing – still ocean owned, the lower St. Lawrence runs a decent flood. We hitched a ride, making over ten knots for a stretch under fore tops'l, stays'l, and fores'l.
But the St. Lawrence flood is nothing when compared to its ebb, and by midnight Sunday we were slogging against its full strength off Quebec, eagerly trying to pinpoint the right time to arrive at the river's most treacherous spot, the Richelieu Rapides. As ruthless as the 17th century French Cardinal who shares their name, the Rapides are almost never still, feature a maximum ebb current of eight knots, and are marked by drying rocks on either side of the narrow channel that comprises them. Passing through in a moment of relative calm is, in a word, vital.
For all the numerous navigation tools and technology Pride II possesses, one book towered high for negotiating these disobedient, mercurial waters of the St. Lawrence – The Atlas of Tidal currents of the St. Lawrence Estuary from Cap de Bon-Desir to Trois-Rivieres. Published by Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 1997, this reference divides the most challenging section of river into nine digestible geographic zones, and dissects the movement of water within each of them into hourly bytes. Bold, primary colors show strength and nearly cartoonish arrows mark the racing ebbs, the driving floods and the swirling eddies. It is a marvelously simple book to use, and allowed Pride II to exploit both a detour through Chenal du Sud and a bolstering flood along the southern shore. For 24 hours, it was indispensable for navigation.
Even now, in my mind, it serves as an indelible reminder that simple tools are often best. That is, after all, why we sail these Grand Volliers, isn't it?
The St. Lawrence River is a mill pond this morning. Maybe only for this morning, as strong, favorable breezes are forecast to fill later, but for now there's scarcely a ripple and no remnant of yesterday's heaping sea. We're also bucking a two-knot current – that much moving water will subdue nearly any left over sea. Last night, Pride of Baltimore II officially entered the St. Lawrence River, as defined in the Royal Proclamation of 1763. From a line between Cape des Rosiers and Pointe de l'Ouest on Anticosti Island, the river stretches 662 nautical miles to Cape Vincent and Lake Ontario. Pride II's current latitude is roughly as far north as she's been in seven years. Shortly, we'll pass sixty-six degrees west longitude, the first Call-in Point (CIP) for Escoumins Traffic.
For the next 600 miles or so, we'll be part of some such vessel traffic service, reporting at dozens of such CIPs while negotiating intense currents, massive passing ships, and seven tall locks until we reach Lake Ontario. The backdrop will be some of the continent's most pleasant scenery – foggy mountains steep against the shore, rolling farm lands, the imposing Citadel of Quebec, the urban chic of Montreal, the quaint summertime lake cottages of Ontario and New York, and the elaborate castles of the rocky Thousand Islands.
To start this leg of the passage, we escaped La Malbaie just after lunch yesterday. True to form, the bay tried to keep us ensnared. As we started heaving up the anchor the breeze came in force five east-northeast. Pinned on a lee shore, the crew raced through evolutions to get Pride II clawing her way back to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. With the mains'l to keep her head toward the weather, we walked the narrow path of breaking the anchor and backing the jib simultaneously in order to cast the ship onto port tack and toward the Gulf. Then a fury of setting fores'l, then stays'l while the watch working the anchor catted and fished the hook, securing it for sea, and Pride II happily defying the bay's entrapments under her four lowers. Once clear of the outer reaches, we tacked to starboard and set a reefed foretops'l to help drive her along. Then, as suddenly as it sprang up, the embaying breeze faded as we passed La Malbaie's northern limit at Pointe Ste Pierre. We'd escaped, but were left with curse of motoring.
As curses go, it's not that bad. After 40 hours of waiting for weather to subside, we certainly aren't going to dawdle in the outer river, waiting for the next gale to come bowling along. At any rate, the sky seemed to celebrate our escape from La Malbaie. Last night Aurora Borealis consumed the northern heavens, flashing and stretching up from the horizon far enough to obscure Polaris and even the Big Dipper in their spectacle. Dreamlike and tireless, they flaunted throughout the short, near-summer night, reveling in the flawlessly clear sky, fading only when the orange hint of dawn upstaged them.
The current weather around Gaspe is relentless: 20-30 from the West to North West, violent seas six to nine feet, nothing to go charging into. The worst of it is in the Strait of Honguedo, between mainland Quebec and Anticosti Island, precisely in our route. Pride of Baltimore II is waiting it out in La Malbaie, Quebec along with her sister, Lynx. I imagine this is the first time two Baltimore Clippers have shared this anchorage, perhaps the first time one has ever anchored here. In any case, it's probably the first time in 200 years.
La Malbaie is French for Bad Bay, but we can't find a single fault with it. Aside from its convenient location within easy striking distance of the St. Lawrence River mouth, the surrounding shoreline is nothing short of stunning. In the long stretch of northern afternoon yesterday, we finally started motoring after the wind faded and shifted for the 10th time, and set off for La Malbaie through the narrow passage between Perce Rocher and Ile de Bonaventure. Grumpy as we might have been about the weather, this diversion was worth every moment of frustration.
Ile de Bonaventure stands a mile and a half off the town of Perce, Quebec. Sheer red cliffs rise like castle walls from the gulf to mark the island. A few houses speckle a grassy streak near the west face and tall pines crown the island's cap. As we approached, thin, cool sunlight streaked through a cloud shot sky to gleam against the rock walls. On the near shore, the ragged rock arch of Perce Rocher glowed a near purple in the shade. Beyond, the town of Perce crammed itself into the gaps and hollows of ragged coastal mountains. As we rounded the corner into La Malbaie itself, farms and roads climbed rolling hills into the interior of the Gaspisie. The sunset offered incredible drama. The scene, taken whole, was spellbinding. In myths or storybooks, our schooner might be waylaid here for centuries, all our obligations, adventures, and memories dissolved into the greens, blues, and soft purples of the land and seascapes.
In reality, however, we're due into Clayton, New York in a week to clear US customs, re-supply the ship, and handle a dozen other logistic details before launching into the twelve Tall Ship festivals that fill the summer of 2013. We're wind bound, not spellbound. But if the wind doesn't let up, we'll continue to enjoy staring at this captivating scenery.
This weather is for the birds, literally. Since a brief rain squall at 0300, Pride of Baltimore II has been host to an ever increasing population of finches. Probably blown out to sea in the fresh to strong southwest breeze we sailed under, they found our hundred feet of deck as a refuge in an otherwise inhospitable salt water world – so we've got that much in common. In the 12 or so hours since then, they have frolicked, fought, and occasionally agreed to be held by some of us sailors. Too far from shore to make it back to land, they occasionally dare a sortie, but usually never get out of sight before struggling back to the shrouds, the rail, or the transom. They've cleaned us out of bugs, and don't seem too fond of crackers, so some trial and error is ongoing to keep them fed.
They're likely pretty dizzy by now, as the Gulf of St. Lawrence has offered a stunning series of wind shifts, all associated with a weak low pressure that is almost directly overhead. There are forecasts that can chill a sailor's bones, and ones that can make a seafaring heart leap for joy, but none can so infuriate as the dreaded "variable winds 10-20 knots." That's what Pride II – and our sister privateer, Lynx, about three miles to the east of us – have been dealing with since pre-dawn. After a busy weekend in Miramichi, where nearly 7,000 visitors stepped over the rail, the four American vessels (the two privateers, along with Unicorn and Peacemaker) all departed together in a miniature parade of sail. Once out the river, we took advantage of a favorable breeze and were quickly on our way toward Cape Gaspe and the entrance to the St. Lawrence River.
Now we are spinning circles at the mouth of Chaleur Bay. There's no rush to turn the corner at Gaspe, as the forecasts for tonight and tomorrow up there are for 20-30 knots out of the west and an associated two to three meter sea. So Pride II is chasing the breeze, and between the sometimes frantic evolutions required by the shifting winds, the crew are chasing finches around the deck, occasionally getting one to settle in their hand, or even, as happened to Chief Mate Jill Hughes, find one hungry enough to pick the remnants of lunch out of their teeth.
Pride II is currently looking to fill the position of cook! The ship is in the beginning stages of Tall Ships America's 2013 Great Lakes Challenge, spanning all five great lakes visiting ports on both sides of the Lakes. Prior experience is important. American citizenship or working privileges is required. If interested in applying, please email cover letter, resume, and list of references to Captain Jan Miles (jan@pride2.org) and Captain Jamie Trost (jamie@pride2.org). Please include in your cover letter what you feel you will bring to the ship and her mission, as well as what you hope to gain from your experience working aboard Pride II.
Pride of Baltimore II is swinging on her port bower off the fishing village of Escuminac, New Brunswick, population 263 in 1986, according to the sailing directions. The village stands solitary on the broad sandy beaches of Miramichi Bay. To the northeast the Gulf of St. Lawrence stretches out under a leaden sky marbled with sunlight. Hovering between the light breeze and a flood current, the ship rocks nearly constantly to the wakes of lobster boats.
We anchored here yesterday at 1910, two hours before the lavishly late sunset. From our last posting in St. Georges Bay, Pride II has had a mix of nearly everything. Approaching the Northumberland Straits south of Prince Edward Island, the coastal hills of Nova Scotia shown emerald under the warmest sun we'd seen in a week. The breeze freshened and veered as we rounded Cape George and headed toward Pictou Island. We swapped the stuns'l in exchange for the fores'l as we came on the wind. Thought about the mains'l, but held off. Pride II was just fine without it, sailing close hauled fifty degrees off the true wind, making eight to nine knots – impersonating a sloop by carrying everything she owned on the foremast and dragging around a bare stick of mainmast.
There are calculations and studies done that scientifically explain the hows and whys of sailing ships, explanations as to why Pride II moves as well as she does. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) has been observing and cataloging data from Pride II for the better part of a decade. We've been teaching some of the basics to eighth graders all spring. I, myself, have studied stability for the battery of tests required to obtain a license as a Merchant Marine Officer. But when Pride II takes off like she did on Wednesday afternoon, I say scrap all the data, ignore the empirical. I claim magic.
Magic. Because going to weather with no mains'l must be magic; because screaming along close to ten knots, the ship was steering herself, the helmsman was there only to adjust when the wind shifted, and could then step away to let the ship do her thing. Magic. Because the ship, this design born in and bred for the Chesapeake Bay was proving she was at home, in her true element, anywhere there was wind and water. Magic, because, like a horse on a track, like a bloodhound on a trail, the ship knew where she was going and what she was doing. She didn't need us. We were just along for the ride, the incredible, magic ride.
My extremely limited experience with magic has taught me this much – it never lasts long. It can't, else it would cease being magic, become the accepted norm, and give us far fewer reasons to marvel. Rain, it seems, is a common harbinger that the magic is over. This was the case around midnight Wednesday turning Thursday. The breeze got shifty and fickle with the added moisture and by noon was gone altogether. We motored for a stretch to position ourselves near the Miramichi River mouth, had a quite night at anchor.
This morning, just before the impossibly early sunrise, we awoke to the sound of a vessel maneuvering close by. Coming to deck, I saw a lobster boat, out from Escuminac, holding alongside the port main chains, and the lobstermen talking to Engineer Seth Page. They'd already asked Seth how many crew we had aboard, and Seth, following their instructions had fetched a bucket. I got there just in time to thank them as they handed the bucket back over the rail, teeming with 17 live lobsters. Generosity, it seems, is a kind of magic that will endure rain and cold and early mornings. In my limited experience, it seems most prevalent when you arrive in a port after a long voyage across the water.


(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The remainer side of the great Brexit divide might be tempted to feel a little smug right now. Things are finally looking up. It's what lies around the corner that should scare them.
There is almost no prospect of Britain leaving the European Union without a deal after last week's dramatic parliamentary vote. Instead, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn are talking – to each other. Her people and his are trying to find a compromise, that dirtiest of words in British political life.
If parliament can agree on a deal before the elections to the European Parliament on May 23, Britain will very likely end up with a much closer relationship with the EU than leavers want – perhaps in the form of a customs union or staying in the single market itself. If not, Britain's exit date will face a prolonged delay, or even a referendum that could see Brexit reversed.
All of that sounds copacetic to remainer ears. But here's a friendly warning: Be careful what you wish for. Europe looks increasingly weak, divided and rudderless. If that persists, the argument from Brexiters that Britain's EU compromise was unnecessary and damaging will gain fresh ammunition.
It's now clearly impossible for any member state to leave the EU without a crisis. And the EU has no plans for reform. And so the logical deduction is that the EU will face in future a growing series of crises, economic, social and political, to which there is no visible solution.
There is something to this case. There was a moment – call it Peak Europe – around the time when the EU's Brexit negotiating mandate was established, when European officials declared in solidarity that we're all Irish now, the German economy looked invincible, and French President Emmanuel Macron seemed the apotheosis of homo politicus. That has now passed.
The euro zone isn't in recession yet – but the data look bad. Germany's manufacturing base is reeling from the slowdown in China's economy and U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionism. The consumer remains stalwart; but if that confidence wavers, the impact around the euro zone would be substantial. Industrial production is falling in states such as Italy and business confidence is down too. In Spain, youth unemployment is still running at more than 30 percent. France is hitting its deficit limits just as Macron's big restructuring plans have been delayed or scaled back.
And then there is the euro zone itself, a currency union designed with a potentially fatal hole in its heart – the lack of a fiscal union to address its major imbalances. The EU has patched this up as best it could after the financial crisis. But its more ambitious reform plans have stalled.
Politically, Europe looks more fractious too. Nationalist, populist parties are on the rise and may be well-represented in the European Parliament after May's elections. Poland and Hungary continue to thumb their noses at EU institutions and basic principles of democracy.
All of this is grist for the Brexiter mill. If Europe were to suffer a serious crisis – an economic crisis in one member state that metastasizes – the finger-wagging and fist-shaking will be visible from across the channel.
Remainers have some reasonable arguments to make in return: They will note that they never said Europe was perfect – some even claimed that it is deeply and irretrievably flawed – but membership offered benefits that simply can't be matched by any of those that come from being outside the bloc in our hyper-connected world.
They will also note that the U.K. always played a moderating and often hugely important role inside Europe before Brexit; the bloc's problems may well be even worse now than they would have been with full-throated British input. And if Europe sneezes, Britain will still catch a cold; that is just how geographic proximity works.
The bad news for remainers is that opponents of the May-Corbyn deal (or extension) will weaponize the EU no matter what. Even if there is no big crisis that tears Europe apart but, as is more likely, a prolonged sclerosis, euroskepticism will return on steroids.
Leavers will regard the limbo of an extension or a soft Brexit as a frontal attack on Britain's identity and a sacrifice of what could have been. It would mark the death of a vision, and they will never move on to the acceptance stage of grieving. They will be parked in anger and denial.
The betrayal narrative has already started. Nigel Farage, the former head of the U.K. Independence Party, has set up a Brexit Party to run in the European elections. One Brexiter warned that it will "rise like a phoenix," sucking voters away from the Conservative Party.
Or hear one of Brexit's biggest proponents, Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg: "If a long extension leaves us stuck in the EU we should be as difficult as possible. We could veto any increase in the budget, obstruct the putative EU army and block Mr Macron's integrationist schemes," he tweeted. These are not the words of calm, reasoned political debate.
Not only will this feud continue to rip at the fabric of the Conservative Party, it will be a major disrupting force in British politics. Far more Britons now identify themselves by how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum than by party. The betting markets think an election will come well before 2022, because how can any prime minister manage with these divisions?
The author Michael Morpurgo notes that Brexit isn't one divorce, but two. The second, between the two opposing sides in the referendum, will be bitter and fester for years.


Jitsing Somboon was born in Bangkok in 1962. He graduated from college of Fine Arts and has a Bachelor Degree in Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University in Bangkok. Although he initially struggled to get into the art school, his style was later recognized as a valuable addition to the art scene and he won multiple accolades, including designer of the year award. He started an effective, creative new way of design in various circles and especially had success with fashion brands due to a mix between art and fashion that appeals to new generations. Mr. Somboon resides and works in Bangkok, Thailand, and his credo is to continually strive at new challenges.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure requiring utilities to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, overcame a legislative hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted down an amendment offered by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions that would have removed the renewable electricity standard from the energy package the panel is currently debating.
The proposed committee bill would mandate that power plants meet targets to gradually produce more renewable power, beginning with 3 percent of their output between 2011 and 2013 and rising to 15 percent between 2021 and 2039.
Utilities could meet about a quarter of their renewable requirements through energy efficiency gains.
"The renewable electricity standard would put us on the track to becoming less dependent on greenhouse gas-emitting resources. It would also move us in the direction of being more secure as to price and supply, as well as less dependent for foreign sources," committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman said.
This legislation is weaker than Bingaman's original proposal, which would have required 20 percent of electricity to come from renewable energy in 2021-2039.
Despite the changes, Sessions and other lawmakers argued the bill would harm certain regions of the country where significantly increasing the use of resources like solar and wind power may not be feasible.
"I don't think this makes sense. In the Southeast, this will be a disproportionate cost to us," said Sessions, who is from Alabama.
States that do not meet the energy and efficiency standards would have the option to buy renewable power, or renewable energy and efficiency credits from other entities, or pay 2.1 cents per kilowatt hour.
Lawmakers also complained that the legislation did not allow states to count nuclear power and some hydropower as renewable energy.
The panel will continue to debate the renewable mandate when Congress returns from its Memorial Day holiday recess.
The panel also debated amendments for a measure that would require the Energy Department to create an emergency reserve of 30 million barrels of petroleum product supplies, including gasoline and diesel fuel.
The bill would move authority to release oil supplies from the separate Strategic Petroleum Reserve from the president to the energy secretary.


What Are the Best Restaurants in Chinatown That Locals Frequent?
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For visitors to San Francisco, taking a walk through Chinatown is a definite must. The Chinese architecture in the neighborhood is evident in many of the buildings. Chinatown's alleys are lined with different businesses to see, including the famed Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. There are also several restaurants in Chinatown that are local favorites, including the following.
This Sichuan-style restaurant spices things up for its customers. Most of the dishes consist of noodles with a variety of meats and zesty sauces. The noodles are similar to spaghetti noodles and are served in both hot and cold dishes. Many people who frequent the restaurant like the wontons that are glazed with a spicy chili sauce. Another tasty favorite is the cold noodles with spicy Sichuan peppercorn and fiery beef tendon.
The Golden Gate Bakery is one of the most visited neighborhood food joints in town. The bakery is frequented for its moon cakes and pastries filled with velvety custard. Unlike many restaurants that offer customers regular hours, the bakery operates to the beat of its own drum. It's hit or miss on catching the establishment's doors open, but the neighborhood knows when it is by the line that goes down the block. Visitors should also be prepared with cash in their pocket, as the bakery only accepts cash for sales transactions.
For Chinatown visitors who are looking for something a little different, Begoni Bistro offers Chinese cuisine with a French touch. There are Vietnamese dishes to choose from, too. Guests at the restaurant can enjoy the upbeat, modern ambience. Begoni Bistro stands out in Chinatown because it's much fancier than most restaurants that line the streets here. Some favorites among the locals include the Peking duck with mushu pancakes and smoky-sweet hoisin sauce.This hidden gem is a great place to take a date, too, thanks to the romantic, upscale aura.
First-time guests should be forewarned that the menu is extensive and extra time should be allowed for ordering if under a time crunch here. The casual atmosphere makes it a good place to stop in and get a bite when out sightseeing in the Chinatown neighborhood. The Empress Clam is the restaurant's showy menu item. The steamed clam is combined with vermicelli seasoned with scallion oil and served in the clam's shell. Some other must-try menu items include the chicken wings, and for vegetarians, the egg tofu with a sweet and sour sauce is the way to go.


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My husband and I enjoyed a really wonderful afternoon and evening today, starting with a drive to The Grove in Los Angeles, where we ate at Wood Ranch.
The sunset over L.A. and the Grove tonight:
We then drove the short distance to the New Beverly Cinema on Beverly Boulevard.
I had been to the Beverly half a dozen times in the late '70s or early '80s, but I don't believe I'd been there in at least 30 years!
The theater came back to my attention when I read articles about director Quentin Tarantino taking over programming at the theater this fall. He's owned the theater for the past several years.
The double bill which convinced us we had to check out the theater sooner rather than later was a pair of Western noir titles starring favorites Joel McCrea and Dick Powell: RAMROD (1947), which I reviewed in 2010, and STATION WEST (1948), reviewed here in 2011.
We both liked the theater; it had a friendly staff, and while the lobby was the size of a postage stamp, the theater was quite a nice size, with comfortable chairs which seem to be of relatively recent vintage.
The evening's program included some very "retro" "Prevue of Coming Attractions" reels, several trailers for upcoming movies, and a Merrie Melodies cartoon. Add in two movies and you've got a very good entertainment bargain for an $8 ticket.
The 35mm print of RAMROD was fantastic, showing off Russell Harlan's moody black and white photography and the Utah locations to perfection. I was even more impressed with this film than I've been in the past, and I've always liked it; it has a dense, meaty script which moves like lightning, and it's filled with a deep cast giving rich characterizations, including Veronica Lake, Don DeFore (never better), Arleen Whelan, Donald Crisp, Preston Foster, Charlie Ruggles, and Lloyd Bridges.
Kudos also to the stuntmen; the scene where Bridges is shot and falls down a hill wows me every time I see it!
The 35mm print of STATION WEST was not in as good a shape; although for the most part the picture looked quite good, there were some lines in the picture and, most annoyingly, there were several brief dialogue skips which also had the effect of killing a couple of funny lines. Hopefully someplace like UCLA will work on restoring this wonderful film if a better print doesn't already exist.
That said, the glitches were minimal enough that they didn't detract from my overall enjoyment of seeing this terrific film on a big screen. Powell's noir persona goes west, complete with his trademark sarcastic dialogue, as he plays an undercover government agent solving the murder of two soldiers.
Like RAMROD, STATION WEST has a marvelous cast including Jane Greer, Raymond Burr, Agnes Moorehead, Regis Toomey, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Steve Brodie, and Burl Ives, whose singing gives the film a haunting musical touch. The movie was shot in Sedona by Harry J. Wild. This film needs to be on DVD already!
The biggest drawback to attending movies at the New Beverly is that it does not have a parking lot and it can be quite a walk through nearby residential neighborhoods to find a spot which doesn't require feeding a meter. The lack of relatively secure nearby parking means I'll be unlikely to attend movies there alone and thus won't be able to visit as often as I might like. I'm fortunate that other theaters, including UCLA, have safer attended parking right next to the theater, which gives me the option of going alone if no one is free to go with me.
Please note that there will be no Around the Blogosphere This Week column this weekend due to an unusually busy weekend schedule, which also included attending the 5th Annual Trombone Christmas in Anaheim. If you missed it, last week's link roundup may be found here.
Jerry E said...
Fabulous cinema experience, Laura, just like I remember it from my younger days! Wish I could have been there.
"STATION WEST" is a surprise in some ways - a darn good western and I only say surprise as Dick Powell is not an obvious choice for a western. He is just fine it though.
As for "RAMROD", this is one of my favourite westerns. A Harry Sherman production, story by Luke Short, directed by Andre De Toth and starring Joel McCrea with a sterling support cast. How could it not be great?!
BTW, may I take the opportunity to draw everyone's attention to John Knight's terrific selection of "Underrated Thrillers" over at Rupert Pupkin Speaks. Well worth the visit.
What a night at the movies!
It was really a special evening -- if only both of you could have been there!
They are both such good movies, and I especially like RAMROD more each time I see it. There's a lot there to appreciate on repeat viewings.
Thanks for the tip on John's list!!
KC said...
Thanks for sharing this. I've been so curious about the New Beverly. Did you see the documentary that former theater employee made about it? I can't remember the name, but I saw it free on /Film. It was fascinating to see how much that place has meant to people over the years. If you haven't seen it and are interested, I can try to dig it up for you!
Hi KC, I'm glad you enjoyed reading it! Haven't seen the documentary at this point, I'll take a look for it.
The Beverly was where I first saw THE MORE THE MERRIER on a big screen, as well as CAROUSEL, THE SEARCHERS, and more.


ARSENAL have agreed the most expensive kit sponsorship deal in English football with Puma set to replace Nike on a £30m-a-year five-year contract.
Puma's agreement with Arsenal is set to commence at the end of next season, bringing in £30m each campaign to the Gunners coffers for five years.
The deal trumps Liverpool's recently announced a £25m-a-year contract with American sports company Warrior for next season - that incidentally featured banned star Luis Suarez.
Manchester United have a whopping 15-year plan in place with Nike, but at £287m that falls short of both Arsenal and Liverpool each season pro rata.
The North London outfit's move will end their 20-year relationship with the American sports giant having worn Nike kits since 1994.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger could dip into some of these vast resources next season with a £70m summer transfer budget widely reported.
£25m-rated forward Stevan Jovetic could be the first arrival from Fiorentina, but the French tactician is targeting an overhaul of his Emirates squad.
Swansea defender Ashley Williams is a £10m target while Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes and QPR shot-stopper Julio Cesar have also been linked.


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On their wedding day, Kelly and Scott became their own team in Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Filled with excitement, the couple could not wait to get married in their favorite team's home field. The sporty couple had their beautiful ceremony in the Phillies' Hall of Fame.
Before their big day, the two met in middle school and have known each other for sixteen years. They met as children and grew up together and into a wonderful couple. Kelly held back tears as she read her heartfelt vows to Scott, while Scott reminisced on their first meeting. As soon as they were announced husband and wife, their guests cheered and waved Phillies rally towels to celebrate.
After the ceremony, the party relocated to the Diamond Club for the reception. The baseball theme went into every detail of their wedding. Guests signed notes to the bride and groom on a replica of home plate and a baseball bat adorned the top of the wedding cake. The Phillie Phanatic even joined in on the fun to dance with guests and help Kelly and Scott celebrate their special day.
Allure Films was able to film the unique ceremony and reception. We were even able to get some exclusive clips in the Phillies' locker room.
We wish the best of luck for the new team! Congratulations Kelly and Scott!
Your wedding is one brief day in time, and although your vows are spoken in a matter of minutes, they are promises that will last a lifetime.
This moment is the anchor that holds your past and your future together. Since it represents your public declaration of your love and marriage promises, it is important to be emotionally prepared.
Throughout your relationship, you have been many things to one another – acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, and even teacher. And now, you get to add "spouse" to this ever-growing list.
During your time together, you have both learned that good company and friendship count for more than wealth, looks, power, or position. You have realized that the journey of marriage is a path that is best gone through with a great companion.
The symbolic vows that you make are a way of acknowledging every promise you have made and and every hope or dream you've shared, and those you will make and share together for years to come.
It is always a nice touch when couples write their own vows. It's the best way to bring personality into your wedding ceremony, and a great way to engage the audience. Expressing your love on paper may seem daunting, but it's easier than you'd think.
Take the time to consider the things you love about your partner and write down a few memories that come to mind. Think about the promises that you've made and include them in the vows. At the end, remember to include your goals, aspirations, and qualities you want to embrace as a couple in the future.
Check Lauren and Tony's unique custom vow exchange for some inspiration!
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If you find yourself renting out your home, getting the hire paid each month is a serious consideration or you will end up making a home payment and having a home to fix up when you get it back. It is likely to be helpful to contemplate a property supervisor to examine credit, prepare documents, and deal with the collection of rents and documentation you will want to protect your pursuits.
If the seller says at closing or just earlier than that he or she needs to remain within the property longer, it's usually advisable to push back closing till the vendor can move out or sufficient authorized paperwork has been written and agreed upon.
BD's Mongolian Grill must be one in every of my all time favorite restaurants to go to. The great thing about being a property finder is that, as a beginner, you do not really need any begin up capital and you are learning on a regular basis about the right way to analyse and put deals together. Mortgage lenders think about the timeliness of payments to be extremely important.
Phoenix, Arizona real property properties on the market are listed and positioned by the licensed brokers of the town. Lease to Personal houses, additionally know as Lease Choices, have gotten an increasing number of extensively accessible throughout the United States. It also needs to convey the truth that you might be very fascinated in the property since you prefer it. It also needs to let the seller know that you have examined related properties and have preferred a few of them.
Once such methodology is the lease choice and lease purchase. One factor the client does not wish to do is take the word of the vendor that the repairs are complete. Ownership of a rental property or vacation house that has not been used as a major residence does not disqualify a purchaser from being "first-time" for the needs of this credit score.
It took awhile for the bureaucrats to understand that like the clunker incentive, there are individuals sitting on the sidelines that might purchase massive ticket objects, with the fitting incentive. Some owners is perhaps caught in homes that they could rent out and instead they are ending up within the foreclosures piles.
The word "foreclosures" is one word that a homeowner does not need to hear because they'll lose their dwelling. If you're a mortgage officer that focuses on mortgages then promote in locations that folks searching for a house will look similar to a home finder or online at the actual property websites. For instance, in the event you purchase a house for $515,000 with a $15,000 lease credit score, when it comes time to shut on your mortgage, you'd solely owe the vendor $500,000.
The lender files a grievance and proves to the court that a mortgage was made and that the borrower, also referred to as the mortgagee, is failing to repay the mortgage. A superb real estate covering letter will need to have a friendly tone but in addition subtly level out that the market is down and costs are falling in every single place.
The ideal debt ratio is about 1.3, that means that the applicant has about 30% more earnings than is required to pay for his current debt and expenses. This glut of unsold foreclosures and new built homes is inflicting the market values to stay low, which is hurting everybody.
However remember that, simply because the figures don't add up on a Purchase to Let basis, does not imply that they will not add up for a developer that just desires to buy a property do it up and promote straight on. So do not write off the world you live in right away, as a result of, regardless of where you live, there are bound to be a couple of actually good fast flip (purchase, do up and sell straight on) alternatives that come up on occasion.
There are some differences between the rental market in the UK and in France. Many enterprise folks have seen their partner of decades go away after which control of their portion of the real property goes over to somebody who has no want to have anything to do with the property, or has no understanding of the nature of the business.
The seller should perceive that sure – you wish to buy his property however that if for some cause the deal falls by way of, you do produce other choices. All they must know is methods to discover the properties in the MLS, determine the prevailing property worth on them and perceive how the quick gross sales course of works or perceive what the banks are looking for once they sell their REO's.
Step one is to repay any present collections and pay down your credit cards. Past credit score and income, there are other factors that may play into a loan approval.
Possession is the last motion in the process of shopping for actual property, the place the client gets management of the home that has been purchased. Whereas completely different lenders have completely different precise formulas for figuring out an applicant's debt ratio, the general rule is that the lender desires the applicant to have about 30% extra internet revenue than his total debt and bills. Yes, there are numerous real property brokers in your area, or use to be, but discovering the suitable one who makes a speciality of REO's and Quick Sales generally is a time consuming.
To be able to receive the complete credit score, a new home buyer has to make less than $75,000 per 12 months, or be lower than $a hundred and fifty,000 for couples submitting collectively. The potential purchaser who wants your property cannot presently get a loan. The Phoenix space housing options includes of resale houses and condos featuring city setup.
Nevertheless, if the individual owing the money pays off the quantity due (with any extra penalties, fees, and interest), a lien launch could be obtained which turns the matter into certainly one of credit history as opposed to current outstanding debt.
The previous credit basically amounted to an interest-free mortgage as a result of reimbursement was required. So, simply before closing, the seller asks the buyer for additional time in order to care for clearing out the home, or to wash up unfastened ends on the sale. As an instance you've got $250,000 in cash, and you have a choice of placing 10% down and carrying a 90% mortgage, or simply paying cash for a $250,000 dwelling.
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In right now's tightening lending surroundings, chances are you'll be like many people who are unable to qualify for a mortgage. With the mortgagee having no fairness to talk of constructed up within the property, the property reverts immediately to the lender and the debt is canceled. This article is aimed toward exhibiting why people fail in terms of a lease option and the issues you can do to over come it and make sure you are successful.
Estate brokers in France tend to deal with rental property and gross sales, this is good should you find a home to buy but it is not in a liveable situation as chances are you'll find the same agent can discover you a rental property if required.
When you're on the brink of promote your house, having the property in top condition has received to be your highest precedence. Ought to the mortgage turn unhealthy and end in foreclosures, it is essential to the lender that the resell value of the property be sufficient to cover the amount initially lent out. There are many ways to search these listings out of the MLS and an excellent real property agent could have his residence finder computer systems programmed to locate and ship these listings to you in a timely method.
An agreement or contract addendum outlining the small print of the publish-closing possession by the vendor might be drawn up by the actual property attorney or, in states where attorneys are usually not concerned in actual property transactions, often by the escrow officer and included within the escrow settlement.
Everyone has either seen tv shows or heard about flipping homes for sale. As these loans are no longer available, many are electing to do Lease Buy transactions for two years to give them the time to doc their earnings. As a result of they both personal equal shares of the true estate, they are both equally responsible for the administration of that property.