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The Autorité clears the takeover of 128 La Halle stores by Chaussea, subject to the divestiture of 4 stores
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On 17 June 2020, Chaussea notified the Autorité de la concurrence of its plan to acquire 128 stores operating under the La Halle brand. The acquisition is in the context of the opening of a judicial reorganisation proceedings before the Commercial Court of Paris on behalf of the La Halle Group. On 26 June 2020, the Autorité de la concurrence exceptionally granted a derogation (see box), allowing Chaussea to proceed with the acquisition, without waiting for the final decision, which has now been issued by the Autorité.
Chaussea operates stores which sell entry-level footwear for men, women and children, primarily in France. The 128 stores of La Halle acquired in the context of this transaction are also active in the retail distribution of entry-level footwear for men, women and children.
Unlike for other products (consumer electronics1, toys2, books3, etc.), the Autorité deemed it appropriate to analyse the in-store sales and online sales separately, among other things in view of the relatively small proportion of sales of footwear made online.
At the national level, before any acquisition, Chaussea and La Halle are two important players in the market for the retail distribution of entry-level footwear, on which not only the major national footwear retailers operate (Besson, Chauss'Expo, Gémo and Kiabi), but also the major food retailers. Following the acquisition, their market shares will be between 20% and 30%, even if only formal footwear is taken into account.
At the local level, the Autorité examined whether the acquisition of this large number of footwear retail stores (La Halle) by Chaussea was likely to distort competition in the catchment areas where the stores of both chains are simultaneously present.
The Autorité found that in almost all areas, consumers will continue to benefit from alternative offerings to those of the new entity, which are equivalent in terms of price and product range. These competing stores - which include the Besson, Chauss'Expo, Gémo and Kiabi chains mentioned above, but also major food stores and regional chains specialising in the sale of entry-level footwear, such as Chauss34 in the Hérault department and Pointure Plus in the Gironde department - are still sufficient in number to prevent the new entity from being inclined to increase the price of the products sold or to lower the quality of the products sold in its stores.
The risks to competition identified in 4 catchment areas
Following its analysis, the Autorité nevertheless identified risks to competition in the catchment areas of the La Halle stores located in Dole (39), Lure (70), Manosque (04) and Saint-Memmie (51).
In these areas, the acquisition was likely to reduce competitive pressure and could lead to price rises or a reduction in the diversity of the offering, to the detriment of consumers, in particular in view of the high combined market share of the parties.
Chaussea has undertaken to sell 4 stores to resolve the identified competition-related concerns
To address these competition-related concerns, Chaussea has undertaken to sell one Chaussea or La Halle store in each of these areas, to one or more competitors. These commitments will ensure that a sufficient level of competition is maintained, and that the interests of consumers are safeguarded in the relevant markets.
The acquiring party presented will need to be approved by the Autorité, which will ensure that they are able to provide a credible alternative in footwear retail distribution in each of the areas in question.
The stores affected by the divestiture are the following:
Area in question
Dole Intermarché La Halle* 22 rue Léon Bel 39 100 Dole
Lure La Halle* 2 rue de Froideterre 70 200 Lure
Manosque Chaussea ZAC Saint-Joseph, allée Nicéphore Niépce 04 100 Manosque
Saint-Memmie La Halle* ZAC Mercuria, 59 avenue du Président Roosevelt 51 470 Saint-Memmie
* Became Chaussea following a ruling by the Commercial Court of Paris on 8 July 2020.
Divestiture of stores does not mean closure of stores, but takeover with change of store name
The divestitures of the stores that are the subject of the commitments is intended to safeguard adequate local competitive dynamism.
The aim is to allow a competitor to take over the stores and its activities in order to safeguard competition in the area in question, thereby ensuring that consumers have a diversified offering in terms of prices and products. For the divestitures in question, it must be ensured that the stores are taken over under proper conditions of viability, in order to be approved by the Autorité.
What is a derogation from the suspensive effect?
If the effective conclusion of a merger is subject to approval from the Autorité de la concurrence, in certain exceptional circumstances, duly argued by the parties, the Autorité may issue a derogation enabling them to finalise part or all of the transaction without waiting for the approval decision, in order to allow the business activities to continue.
By definition, the granting of such a derogation is exceptional. In particular, a derogation may be granted where takeover bids have been submitted for companies in liquidation or in insolvency proceedings, as in the present case.
However, the granting of a derogation by the Autorité is without prejudice to the final decision taken at the end of the investigation.
Previous decisions recently issued in the clothing and footwear sector
This is the 7th decision issued by the Autorité in the clothing and footwear sector since 2020:
Acquisition of the Cyrillus group by the company MGA Paris (Des Petits Hauts and Harris Wilson) / 21-DCC-77 of 5 May 2021
Acquisition of 366 La Halle stores by the Beaumanoir group (Cache Cache, Morgan, Bonobo) / 21-DCC-43 of 24 March 2021
Acquisition of the ready-to-wear clothing chain JOTT by L Catterton Europe (BA&SH) / 21-DCC-09 of 19 January 2021
Acquisition of 511 Camaïeu stores by Financière Immobilière Bordelaise / 20-DCC-172 of 8 December 2020
Acquisition of the ready-to-wear clothing chain Burton by Thierry Le Guenic (Habitat) / 20-DCC-158 of 17 November 2020
Merger of the groups Oosterdam (Pimkie, Grain de Malice) and Happychic (Jules, Brice, Bizzbee) / 20-DCC-63 of 30 April 2020
[1] See Decision 16-DCC-111 of 27 July 2016 regarding the acquisition of sole control of Darty by Fnac/ see press release of 18 July 2016.
[2] See Decision 19-DCC-65 of 17 April 2019 regarding the acquisition of joint control of the company Luderix International by Jellej Jouets alongside the undivided ownership resulting from the estate of Mr Stéphane Mulliez/ see press release of 19 April 2019.
[3] See Decision 17-DCC-186 of 10 November 2017 regarding the acquisition of sole control of Gibert Jeune by Gibert Joseph/ see press release of 15 November 2017.
Decision 21-DCC-73
of 20 May 2021 will soon be available on the Autorité's website
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Bertille Gauthier
Communication officer


Whittier Councilman Owen Newcomer obtained 500 signatures to help place a ballot measure that would amend the state Constitution to bar California from borrowing or taking money from cities and counties.
Now that it's on the ballot, Newcomer, who also is president of the Los Angeles County division of the League of California Cities, is ready to campaign for the cause.
While voters in 2004 had approved an initiative restricting the taking of local funds, it has loopholes, allowing the state to borrow local property tax funds and to take redevelopment money, he said.
The measure will be one of at least 10 measures on the November ballot.
Newcomer said he's not sure what his role in the campaign will be because strategy is still being developed but he definitely plans to be in the thick of it.
NEW CHAIRMAN: Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, who represents portions of the Whittier area, has been elected as the next chairman of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, effective July 1.
BILL SIGNING: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Republican Diamond Bar state Sen. Bob Huff's legislation that corrects a drafting error in his last year's law that shortened the suspension period for repeat driving-under-the-influence offenders to get a restricted license if they install an ignition interlock device on their vehicle.
The law still required the person to serve their entire 12-month Department of Motor Vehicle suspensions even if it went went beyond the post-conviction suspension time in SB 598.
SB 895 corrects that error by saying the administrative suspension will end when the requirements of SB 598 are met.
AWARD: Members of the National Association of School Psychologists have presented Rep. Linda S nchez, D-Lakewood, with the "Government and Professional Relations Special Friend of Children Award" for her leadership on legislation positively affecting the lives of children.
"The selection committee was impressed with S nchez's awareness of the importance of student support personnel in assisting students at-risk and how the work of school psychologists, social workers and counselors helps students overcome barriers to learning," said Stacy Skalski, director of public policy at the National Association of School Psychologists.
SALE: The Pio Pico Progressive Democratic Club will hold a white elephant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at 12200 E. Washington Blvd., Unit D, Whittier.
OIL TALK: Daniel Duran, president of Whittier Hills Oil Watch, will speak at the 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting of the Mark Twain Democratic Club at Mimi's Cafe, 15436 Whittier Blvd., Whittier.
For information call Lillian Gonzalez at 562-692-6836.


It's tough: you spend time carefully crafting marketing emails only to have the majority of your recipients totally ignore them. And yet…email can generate $44 in revenue for every dollar you spend.
What are you doing wrong? Possibly nothing. Consumers are getting, on average, 100 emails a day, so in some cases, it's simply an issue of email overload. It takes a lot for your email to rise above 99 others to catch your subscriber's attention. But with a few easy tips and tricks, you can see a higher open and clickthrough rate for your marketing emails.
You may see nothing wrong with using a Gmail or Hotmail email address for your business, but look at it from the customer's perspective: using a free email address can communicate that you don't take your business seriously enough to invest the tiny amount it may cost to set up a business email address.
Using a professional email address associated with your domain name not only looks more businesslike, but it also helps your recipients instantly know who they're getting emails from. You're working to brand yourself, and the more professional and consistent you are with your business name and website, the easier it is for people to recognize you.
Instead, also include your company name. "Ted at Baker's Company" helps them connect the dots between your brand (who they want to get emails from) and you as the face of the company.
Save 30% on Women's Jeans. 18 Hours ONLY!
$10 Reward! Thanks for Being Loyal.
It should be absolutely obvious what the recipient will gain by opening your email…and no bait and switch! Use urgent words to get them to open the email asap, and numbers in the subject line can also up your open rates.
Sure, you may want to tell your subscribers about your current sale…and your expansion plans…and share a photo of the company dog. But too many announcements will overwhelm your audience.
Instead, keep it simple: one point per email. If you have a promotion going on, that's one email. You can save the company announcements for a separate email, or share them on social media or your blog.
Also, keep your email copy short. People will skim your content and they shouldn't have to scroll down too far to get to the good stuff.
One of the top reasons people unsubscribe from emails is that they get them too frequently. Avoid overwhelming your subscribers by sending too many emails each month. It may take some testing to find what cadence works. A retail brand might see success sending weekly emails, while a B2B company might find that once a month gets best results. Monitor open and unsubscribe rates to figure out how often your audience wants to hear from you.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Spend some time sifting through the emails piled up in your own inbox and see which ones resonate with you. What images, layouts, or wording catches your eye? Which subject lines got you to open the emails?
Take notes on the things that work for you and try to incorporate a few of these in future campaigns.
You can read all the advice online about how to send effective emails, but the truth is: your audience is unique. Your customers will communicate through their actions, and you must listen if you want to improve your email marketing strategy.
With each campaign, look at how many people opened your email. A low open rate could indicate that the subject line was uninspiring, you're sending it at a less effective time of day, or that you're sending too many emails.
Next, look at how many people clicked the link in the email. If you don't see as many clicks as you'd like, it may be that the offer was less compelling or that the link was hard to find.
These are all things that you should modify in your next campaign. But just change one thing per campaign so you know which factor led to an improvement in results.
Email marketing can be highly effective, but you have to put in the effort to ensure that you're delivering what your customers want right to their inboxes.


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Incomprehensible Word, Uncomprehending World: The Puzzle of Christmas
By N.T. Wright
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/
Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo - Adoration of the Shepherds (1668)
One of the greatest journalists of the last generation, Bernard Levin, described how, when he was a small boy, a great celebrity came to visit his school. The headmaster, perhaps wanting to impress, called the young Levin to the platform in front of the whole school.
The celebrity, perhaps wanting to be kind, asked the little boy what he'd had for breakfast. "Matzobrei," replied Levin.
A typical central European Jewish dish, Matzobrei is made of eggs fried with matzo wafers, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Levin's immigrant mother had continued to make it even after years of living in London. To him, it was a perfectly ordinary word for a perfectly ordinary meal.
But the celebrity, ignorant of such cuisine, thought he'd misheard. He repeated his question. Levin, now puzzled and anxious, gave the same answer. The celebrity looked concerned and glanced at the headmaster: What is this word he's saying?
The headmaster, adopting a "there-there-little-man" tone, asked Levin once more what he had had for breakfast. Dismayed, not knowing what he'd done wrong, and wanting to burst into tears, the boy said once more the only answer he could honestly give: "Matzobrei."
After an exchange of incredulous glances on the platform, the terrified little boy was sent back to his place. The incident was never referred to again, but to him it was a horrible ordeal.
A Jewish word spoken to an uncomprehending world; a child's word spoken to uncomprehending adults; a word for a food of which others were unaware - it all feels very Johannine. "In the beginning was the Word ... and the Word was made flesh" (John 1:1, 14). We are so used to that passage, the great cadences, the solemn but glad message of the Incarnation, that we risk skipping over the incomprehensibility, the oddness, the almost embarrassing strangeness of the Word:
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness didn't comprehend it; the world was made through him and the world didn't know him; he came to his own, and his own didn't receive him." (John 1:5, 10-11)
John is saying two things simultaneously in his prologue (two hundred things, actually, but I'll concentrate on two): first, that the Incarnation of the eternal Word was the event for which the whole of creation had been waiting all along; second, that creation and even the people God were quite unready for this event. Jew and Gentile alike, upon hearing of this strange Word, cast anxious glances at one another, like the celebrity and the headmaster hearing a little boy telling the truth in a language they didn't understand.
That is the puzzle of Christmas. John's prologue is designed to stay in the mind and heart throughout the subsequent story. Never again in the Gospel of John is Jesus referred to as "the Word," but we are meant to look at each scene - the call of the first disciples, the changing of water into wine, the confrontation with Pilate, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection - and think to ourselves: This is what it looks like when the Word becomes flesh. Or, if you like: Look at this man of flesh and learn to see the living God.
But watch what happens as it all plays out. He comes to his own, and his own don't receive him. The light shines in the darkness, and though the darkness can't overcome it, the darkness sure tries. He speaks the truth, the plain and simple words, like the little boy saying what he had for breakfast, and Caiaphas and Pilate, uncomprehending, can't decide whether he's mad or wicked or both.
Though Jesus is never again referred to as the Word of God, we find the theme transposed throughout the Gospel with endless variations. The Living Word speaks living words, and the reaction is the same. "This is a hard word," say his followers when he tells them that he is the bread come down from heaven (John 6:60). "What is this word?" asks the puzzled crowd in Jerusalem (John 7:36). "My word finds no place in you," says Jesus, "because you can't hear it" (John 8:37, 43). "The word I spoke will be their judge on the last day," he insists (John 12:48), as the crowds reject him.
When Pilate hears the word, says John, he is afraid, since the word in question is Jesus' reported claim to be the Son of God (John 19:8). Unless we recognize this strange, dark strand running through the Gospel, we will domesticate John's masterpiece (just as we're always in danger of domesticating Christmas) and think it's only about comfort and joy. In truth, it's also about incomprehension, rejection, darkness, denial, stopped ears and judgment.
Christmas is not about the living God coming to tell us everything's all right. John's Gospel isn't about Jesus speaking the truth and everyone saying "Of course! Why didn't we realize it before?" It is about God shining his clear, bright torch into the darkness of our world, our lives, our hearts, our imaginations - and the darkness not comprehending it. It's about God, God as a little child, speaking words of truth, and nobody knowing what he's talking about.
You may be aware of that puzzlement, that incomprehension, that sense of a word being spoken which seems like it ought to mean something but which remains opaque to you. If that's the point you are at, the Good News is that along with this theme of incomprehension and rejection is a parallel theme of people hearing and receiving Jesus's words, believing them and discovering, as he says, that they are spirit and life (John 6:63). "As many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, who were born not of human will or flesh, but of God" (John 1:12). "If you abide in my words, you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free" (John 8:32). "If anyone keeps my words, that person will never see death" (John 8:51). "You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you" (John 15:3).
Don't imagine that the world divides naturally into those who can understand what Jesus is saying and those who can't. By ourselves, none of us can. Jesus was born into a world where everyone was deaf and blind to him. But some, in fear and trembling, have allowed his words to challenge, rescue, heal and transform them. That is what's offered at Christmas, not a better-focused religion for those who already like that sort of thing, but a Word which is incomprehensible in our language but which, when we learn to hear, understand and believe it, will transform our whole selves with its judgment and mercy.
Out of the thousands of things that follow directly from this reading of John, I choose three as particularly urgent.
First, John's view of the Incarnation, of the Word becoming flesh, strikes at the very root of the liberal denial which characterized mainstream theology thirty years ago and whose long-term effects are still with us. I grew up hearing lectures and sermons declaring that the idea of God becoming human was a categorical error. No human being could be divine; Jesus must therefore have been simply a human being, albeit (here the headmaster pats the little boy on the head) a very brilliant one. Jesus points to God, but he isn't actually God.
A generation later, growing straight out of that school of thought, a clergyman wrote to me saying that the church doesn't know anything for certain. Remove the enfleshed and speaking Word from the centre of your theology, and gradually the whole thing unravels, until all you're left with is the theological equivalent of the grin on the Cheshire Cat: a relativism whose only moral principle is that there are no moral principles, no words of judgment (because nothing is really wrong, except saying that things are wrong), no words of mercy (because you're all right as you are, so all you need is affirmation).
That's where our society stands right now, and John's Christmas message issues a sharp and timely reminder to relearn the difference between mercy and affirmation, between a Jesus who both embodies and speaks God's word of judgment and grace and a homemade Jesus who gives us good advice about discovering who we really are. No wonder John's Gospel has been so unfashionable in many circles.
There is a fad in some quarters about a "theology of incarnation," meaning that our task is to discern what God is doing in the world and to do it with him. But that is only half the truth, and the wrong half to start with. John's theology of the Incarnation is about God's Word coming as light into darkness, as a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces, as a fresh word of judgment and mercy.
You might as well say that an incarnational missiology is about discovering what God is saying No to today and finding out how to say it with him. That was the lesson Barth and Bonhoeffer had to teach in Germany in the 1930s, and it's all too relevant as today's world becomes simultaneously more liberal and more totalitarian. This Christmas, get real, get Johannine, and listen again to the strange words spoken by the Word made flesh.
Second, John's prologue by its structure reaffirms the order of Creation at the point where it is being challenged today. John consciously echoes the first chapter of Genesis: "In the beginning God made heaven and earth; in the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1). When the Word becomes flesh, heaven and earth are joined together at last, as God always intended.
But the Creation story, which begins with the duality of heaven and earth, reaches its climax in the duality of male and female. When heaven and earth are joined together in Jesus Christ, the glorious intention for the whole of Creation is unveiled, reaffirming the creation of male and female in God's image. There is something about the enfleshment of the Word in John 1 that stands parallel to Genesis 1 and speaks of Creation fulfilled. We see what's going on: Jesus Christ has come as the Bridegroom, the one for whom the Bride has been waiting.
Not for nothing is Jesus's first sign to transform a wedding from disaster to triumph. Not for nothing do we find a man and a woman at the foot of the Cross. The same incipient gnosticism which says that true religion is about "discovering who we really are" is all too ready to say that who we really are may have nothing to do with being physically created as male or female. But the Christmas message is about the redemption of God's good world, his wonderful Creation, so that it can be the glorious thing it was made to be. This word is strange, even incomprehensible, in today's culture. But if you have ears to hear, then hear it.
Third, we return to the meal, the food whose name is strange, forbidding, even incomprehensible to those outside, but the most natural thing to those who know it. The little child comes and speaks to us of food that he offers: himself, his own body and blood. It is a hard saying, and those of us who know it well may need to remind ourselves just how hard it is, in case we have been dulled by familiarity into supposing that it's easy and undemanding. It isn't. It is the Word which judges the world and saves the world, the Word now turned into flesh, into matzo, Passover bread, the bread which is the flesh of the Christ child, given for the life of the world.
Listen, because the incomprehensible Word, the child, speaks to you. Don't patronize him; don't reject him; don't sentimentalize him. Learn the language within which he makes sense. And come to the table to enjoy the breakfast, the breakfast which is he himself, the Word made flesh, the Life which is our life, our light, our glory.
N.T. Wright is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is one of the world's most distinguished and influential New Testament scholars. His most recent book is The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion.
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/12/19/4594929.htm
Labels: Christianity
Obama's Betrayal of Israel Is a Black Day for American Diplomacy
It is Islamist-leftist dogma that Israel's millennia of attachment to its homeland count for nothing.
By Andrew C. McCarthy — December 24, 2016
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power attends the UN Security Council meeting on December 23, 2016, where the US voted to abstain on a UN Security Council resolution that demands Israel stop settlement activities on Palestinian territories.
Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Adding a final shameful chapter to a foreign-policy record that already runneth over with them, Barack Obama on Friday abandoned America's commitment to Israel's security, and to the vindication of democracy over sharia-supremacist aggression. In an act of cowardly venom, the president had the United States abstain from — and thereby effectively enact — a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activity.
At least, that's what the resolution ostensibly does. The reality is much more than that. The resolution undertakes to render our ally indefensible.
It was a black day in modern American diplomatic history, a flurry of sinister wheeling and dealing while the nation — exhausted by the election, anticipating a weekend of Christmas and Hanukkah celebration — was looking the other way.
To his great credit, Donald Trump was not. The president-elect asserted himself on Israel's behalf, backing up his campaign promise that "America First" meant restoration of America's reputation as a dependable friend and an enemy not to be trifled with. Under the pressure he generated, Egypt backed down, withdrawing its sponsorship of the resolution.
But such is the disdain in which Israel is openly held after eight Obama years of empowering Islamists that four other countries — Malaysia, Venezuela, Senegal, and, of all places, New Zealand — revived the resolution, knowing they had the State Department's backing. With the U.S. abstention, it was easily approved.
It is a disgraceful legacy of Barack Obama that his obsession over settlements and antipathy toward Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — traits he shares with his old radical comrade, Rashid Khalidi — have made the already dim prospects for peace far more remote. At the root of the settlements controversy is the fiction that the territory at issue is "occupied Palestinian" land. In point of stubborn fact, no matter how tirelessly the vaunted "international community" evokes the scurrilous image of occupation, the territory is righteously disputed.
It is Islamist-leftist dogma that Israel's millennia of attachment to its homeland count for nothing, and that the Jewish state owes its existence to a fit of remorse over Nazi barbarism — one of the reasons Holocaust denial is an Islamist pastime. Still, even under this skewed version of history, the occupation crowd has no case.
Israel's foes claim that the settlements are illegitimate because Israel's only lawful boundaries are the 1948 armistice lines. This is the so-called Green Line that was in effect right before Arab nations (including their Palestinian component, mainly in Jordan) commenced the invasion that began the 1967 Six-Day War.
I italicize "armistice lines" to highlight that the demarcations, even back in 1967, were not national boundaries. They were disputed even before the Arab war of aggression. The armistice lines merely reflect the position of Israeli and Arab forces when the cease-fire went into effect. They were not accepted as final boundaries by the affected countries. As we shall see, they could not be accepted as final boundaries by Israel.
Nevertheless, Israel did not set out to conquer the disputed territory. The Jewish state took it fair and square when they won the defensive war against enemies that sought Israel's destruction. Thus the unending pattern that the United States and Western European powers cravenly refuse to address: Islamic factions and nations are free to reserve the right to eradicate Israel, but Israel must pretend the aggression never happened and the continuing threat does not exist.
Regardless of how many resolutions the rabidly anti-Semitic U.N. rolls out, territorial sovereignty, like other disputed issues, will not be settled unless the parties directly affected by it, Israel and the Palestinians, arrive at an understanding. Obama, however, has schemed to impose an outcome unilaterally by rendering as illegitimate Israel's side of the argument — which, to the contrary, is as justifiable legally as it is essential for Israel's security.
That, alas, is Obama's real legacy: There are no good-faith disputes with him; you either agree with him or you are an outlaw.
The resolution adopted on Friday does so much more than merely condemn "settlement activities." It says such activities must cease in "occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." For good measure, it adds that the construction of settlements on territory that Palestinians covet — and that Israel righteously controls — has "no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law."
See? The true purpose of the resolution is not to stop settlement construction. It is to dictate a final disposition. It puts the imprimatur of the Security Council — which, for transnational progressives, is our ultimate global ruler — on a decree that says: The disputed territory is actually Palestinian territory, and that this Palestinian territory includes East Jerusalem (i.e., the most sacred portion of the city Israel regards as its eternal capital — again, for millennia of valid historic reasons). For good measure, this patently political decree masquerades as objective legal analysis, pronouncing that its thumb on the scale is somehow dictated by international law.
Outrageous as this legal razzle-dazzle is, it is secondary to the resolution's assault on Israeli security.
First, by giving the Palestinians everything and then some, the resolution removes any Palestinian incentive to negotiate for lasting peace. Indeed, by requiring no Palestinian concessions, it tells the Islamists and leftists who run Palestinian affairs that their jihadist campaign will continue to be rewarded and that the Security Council accepts — and effectively abets — their objective of eradicating the Jewish state (whether by terrorism, "democracy" activism, or both).
Second, it would make that eradication more probable. The 1948 armistice lines cannot be viable national borders for Israel because, as Obama, the Security Council, and Israel's hostile neighbors well know, they are not defensible. Put aside that Israel is no larger than New Jersey and surrounded by existential threats. In the area just north of Tel Aviv, the center of the country is just nine miles wide (running east to west from the Green Line to the Mediterranean coastal town of Netanya).
As IDF Major General Yaakov Amidror explained in a 2005 study on the security requirements for lasting peace, the 1967 boundaries do not provide "defensive depth," a longstanding principle of military doctrine holding that there must be an area sufficient for a defensive force to redeploy after being attacked, and for reserves to enter or counterattack — the territorial space between the battlefront and the strategic interior that any army must have in order to function. The boundaries the Security Council seeks to impose would be inadequate even if Palestinian leadership — including the Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist branch, Hamas — were not committed to Israel's destruction.
Obama knows all of this. He also knows that the campaign to destroy Israel is politically waged with U.N. resolutions every bit as much as Hamas wages it with rockets. It is therefore essential that our nation, as a reliable ally, uses our veto power to protect Israel's security. That is why Obama would not have dared abstain from the vote on such a resolution before Election Day.
The only glimmer of hope on this dark day is President-elect Trump's willingness to use what limited leverage he had in Israel's defense. Perhaps more important was his vow, after the resolution was adopted, that things will be different come January 20 "as to the U.N."
It seems the incoming president has identified the real problem.
— Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.
EDITORIAL: Obama's Shameful Parting Shot at Israel
Labels: Andrew C. McCarthy, Barack Obama, Middle East
The Abolition Of Man (No, Really)
By ROD DREHER
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-abolition-of-man-no-really/
My libertarian friend Conor Friedersdorf has stared into the abyss, and has been jolted by what stared back. He writes about it in a must-read essay with the deceptively anodyne title "The Limits of Diversity".
Conor begins by laying out his own openness to diverse experience. Then he imagines, as an intellectual exercise, someone who is totally closed to experiencing different things. He says that his "bubble may be thickest" precisely here: in trying to see the world through the eyes of those who are highly closed to diversity.
(Nota bene: the standard narrative in our culture is to stigmatized those who are closed to diversity, but that is the normative human experience. Besides which, as we often talk about on this blog, progressives who take pride in their supposed openness to diversity can be some of the most closed-minded people you'll ever meet. They just draw their lines in different places.)
Conor says that listening to a recent podcast, he came hard up against the borders of what he would consider acceptable diversity. He writes:
Its main subject, bio-artist Adam Zaretsky, is not one of these authoritarians. Rather, he is a member of my tribe, a "libertarian," Stenner's term for those who prize individualism, diversity, and difference. And he is the first person to evoke in me a gut desire for enforced sameness and suppressed diversity––a visceral reaction I cannot recall having before.
That's pretty strong. But read on, and it's very easy to see why:
At the edge of science, researchers are using a newfound ability to edit any gene to work toward wonders: sustainable biofuels, ridding the world of malaria, seeking cures for genetic diseases. Trans-genesis, the process of taking a gene from one organism, cutting it out, and pasting it into another, has advanced radically, with new precision that will revolutionize medicine. It could give rise to genetically enhanced soldiers or astronauts; it may allow whole nations to increase their IQs.
Its aesthetic ramifications are less discussed. Consider the embryos that Adam Zaretsky has tweaked in the course of his bio-art projects and the art classes he teaches. "To call a developing embryo that's been altered a sculpture is meant to cause a kind of double-bind in people's minds," he said. "They're like, 'It's not a sculpture, it's a being, or growing to be a being.' What I'm trying to get across is that the making of transgenic humans, or non-humans, is a somewhat invasive act, but also based on a particular aesthetic, at a particular time, in a particular state of mind."
Never mind curing Alzheimer's or understanding the universe.
"I'm not here to cure anything or make knowledge. I'm here to make enigma," he said. "I'm trying to problematize the concept and de-science it so people can see it for what it is."
Let that sink in. He is not bringing new forms of human life into existence for aesthetic reasons; he's working on animal embryos. But if you read the transcript of the podcast you'll see that he's looking forward to working on humans. Excerpt:
Transgenesis is taking one gene from one organism, cutting it out and pasting it into another organism. Now, we are reaching a point where we're getting better at the potential for making transgenic humans, genetically modified humans, humans that are GMOs.
First of all, let me just say this – transgenic human embryos are already being made. They're not necessarily being grown full-term, but this is something that's possible. It's been possible to do this since the '70s, but people have been saying "I don't know… No one would actually do that! That would be psychotic" because the technique that was how to target the genes into the human genome without them falling anywhere or everywhere, so it lands willy-nilly in the genome and can cause all kinds of problems, like cancer or death. But there's a new way to get genes into the human genome that isn't as disruptive as before. CRISPR/Cas9 has made the news as a technique that's more refined, it's more targeted, exactly where your gene is gonna land, so we could just use it to knock in or knock out problematic genes or ad genes, and so it won't harm the rest of the organism.
It's a fairly easy to use technology, and it's available in do-it-yourself CRISPR kits already for yeast, for worms, but not necessarily on human cells. It's not perfected yet, but on the world scene there are different laws in different nations, and I have to say this is one of those standard Pandora things – if you can do it and it's been 50 years, it's about to be released that people ARE doing it because they HAVE been doing it.
Later, he says:
It's been a goal of mine for more than ten years to make transgenic humans. I do have problems with the process, I do have problems with the results, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't do it if I could.
Just so you know what kind of sick monster Adam Zaretsky is, here he is describing himself and his background:
I think I wanted to be a banker, a pornographer and a communist. It's hard to mix all those three, but I'm on my way. I'm already a pornographer and a communist, so I think I just have to go to business school.
Somewhere between science fiction and sado-masochism is an aesthetic based on prurient interest. It's alright. It's alright. Sexuality shouldn't just be about flowers and a glass of wine and some smooth music and some loving sex. I actually love dropping cotton balls on someone who's tied up – that's fine, but there's something raw and rancorous, and there's something camp, and there's something trans, and there's something transvestism, and there's something transgenic. They're all sort of flowing together under the aegis of basically queerness.
Let's just face it, okay? I'm a child of Rocky Horror, I'm a child of Soft Cell. I really like luring disco dollies to a life of vice.
You guys are just uncovering every little thing about me, this is so nice. It's nice to study myself like a specimen!
"All sort of flowing together under the aegis of basically queerness." Do you understand what's being said here, reader? He reminisces about being in New York as a young man, and seeing the performance artist Karen Finley do her infamous routine where she shoved yams up her rear end. He remembers being enthralled by Robert Mapplethorpe's self-portrait shoving a whip handle up his butt. More Zaretsky:
And some people refer to shock art in a way to dismiss it, when actually art that shocks is achieving an aesthetic goal. The goal is to make you revulsed; the goal is to make you dismiss or repress the art, but also the goal is to crack through your resistance, your screen, and show you what's underneath. It's not always pretty, but this idea that you're allowed to bullshit-detect rational culture and go ahead and be honest without it being like a situation comedy that ends in a moral, happy ending… I felt a little freer, to go ahead and do the work of the negative. It actually matters.
Desensitizing people to the perverted, the radically abnormal, the … evil. This is what he's into. More:
To call a developing embryo that's been altered a sculpture is meant to cause a kind of double bind in people's minds, where they're like "Oh, it's not a sculpture, it's a being" or "It's growing to be a being." What I'm trying to get across is that the making of transgenic humans or transgenic non-humans is a somewhat invasive act, but is also based on a particular aesthetic at a particular state of time in a particular state of mind. I'm trying to problematize the process, and sort of de-science it a little bit so that people can see it for what it is.
He believes in creating mutants for the sake of art. Just because he can. As an expression of the artist's will. Here's the world Adam Zaretsky foresees:
I think that it's important to make versions of transgenic human anatomy that are not based on idealism. I wanna make sure that there's plaid kids, all the other queer anatomy out there to compete with the other add-ons that parents are gonna be paying for. To get bio-queer transgenic humans is going to save a lot of difference on the planet. It's gonna stop us from monoculturing ourselves and it's gonna also offer a real and possibly unacceptable face of the democratization of the human genome.
The idea is that you take a gene, say for pig noses, or ostrich anuses, or aardvark tongue, and you paste that into a human sperm, a human egg, a human zygote. A baby starts to form. Developmentally, the baby is mostly human, but it has an aardvark tongue, a pig nose and an ostrich anus. That makes for bodily difference and surely metabolic differences etc, but it also makes for a version of ourselves that's based on collage. It's literally gene collage.
What's weird about it is that once you get that started, if it stabilizes, if you can find partners, if you're still fertile, if you're still into it, you go ahead and reproduce and you'll have children born with ostrich anuses and aardvark tongues and pig noses.
Children born with ostrich anuses. That's what this man dreams of. A sane society would forbid his work and throw him in prison if he got anywhere near a lab. But this mad scientist-artist is on the faculty at MIT, and teaches at has taught or been affiliated with other prestigious universities.
Adam Zaretsky freaked Conor Friedersdorf out. Drawing on the insights of Jonathan Haidt and Karen Stenner, he says:
The point here is not to evaluate sanctity as a moral intuition, never mind to defend every application of it. The point, rather, is to remember that sanctity is a powerful driver of moral intuition for many, and that lots of Americans who aren't particularly prone to disgust would, when confronted with antlered, aardvark-tongued babies, agree with Leon Kass.
"Repugnance," he once wrote, "revolts against the excesses of human willfulness, warning us not to transgress what is unspeakably profound. Indeed, in this age in which everything is held to be permissible so long as it is freely done, in which our given human nature no longer commands respect, in which our bodies are regarded as mere instruments of our autonomous rational wills, repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks up to defend the central core of our humanity."
Insofar as the power of those intuitions is forgotten or dismissed by liberals, or libertarians, or difference loving peoples, or transgressive artists understandably alarmed by the prospect of "perfect" designer babies, the result is as likely to be a horrific backlash against diversity and neophilia as a future in which they face no limits.
I will tell you this. I would eagerly vote for a leader who promised to put Adam Zaretsky and his kind in prison, and close their labs. These are lines that must not be crossed.
But I also tell you this: our society will never do this. If it is okay to manipulate human genes to protect someone from disease, why not to provide them with enhanced abilities? And, having established that there is nothing sacred about human genes, who's to put a limit on what the Adam Zaretskys of the world choose to do with them?
If you convince people that we must tolerate Adam Zaretsky's children with ostrich anuses for the sake of curing childhood disease, or helping them to have their dream baby, they'll accept it. That's how we are. We Americans figure out what we want, then come up with the rationalization later. Zaretsky is right that if the technology exists, people somewhere are going to do whatever they want to with it. I can't argue with that. But if this evil is going to come into the world, let it not be through my country. That's my belief. I would accept severe restrictions on liberty to stop that evil.
Also, notice how Zaretsky accurately points out the role transgressive art plays in desensitizing us and making us willing to accept ever more transgressive acts as normative. It's true not just of transgressive art, but transgression itself. Look at this image of the two covers National Geographic ran this month:
The one on the left, featuring a nine-year-old transgender boy-girl, went to subscribers. The other was for newsstands. Apparently the magazine's editors realize that there are still plenty of people who find the idea of a prepubescent child presenting as the opposite sex disturbing. The editor of the magazine described this child as "brave," which gives you an idea of the editorial slant of its presentation of transgenderism.
You can hardly get more establishmentarian than National Geographic. This is the future. Adam Zaretsky is right: "everything is sort of flowing together under the aegis of basic queerness" (and by "queerness" he means most broadly the overturning of all values and distinctions). Many of the most intelligent and powerful people in this culture are deliberately destroying the categories of man and woman, and calling it virtue.
When I call the Benedict Option "a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation" (the subtitle of my forthcoming book), I'm not talking about preserving our political views. I'm talking most fundamentally about preserving basic humanity and sanity through this coming darkness.
I shake my head at my fellow conservative Christians who think the danger has passed because Donald Trump is president. One of Trump's big backers is the Silicon Valley transhumanist Peter Thiel. If you think there's anything within Donald Trump that will stand against the technological exploitation of human life, you're dreaming. The Democratic Party won't oppose it because they see Science as sacrosanct. Plus, the philosophical principles they accept to justify abortion lays the basic groundwork.
As for the Republicans, if you think the sanctity of life will cause them to stand against transhumanism, ask yourself how far a proposal to outlaw IVF would get in Congress. It's a procedure which has created and continues to create millions of human embryos that have been, or will have to be, destroyed (here are the numbers for the UK; ours are certainly worse, given our larger population). Isn't it wrong to compare IVF to Zaretsky's evil folly? No. Once the principle is established that human life can be deliberately created, knowing it will be destroyed in embryo, we're only talking about details.
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Aleppo and American decline
By Charles Krauthammer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/
Residents look for survivors at a damaged site after what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 17, 2015.ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/REUTERS
The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama's abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year news conference, Obama defended U.S. inaction with his familiar false choice: It was either stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground invasion.
This is a transparent fiction designed to stifle debate. At the beginning of the civil war, the popular uprising was ascendant. What kept a rough equilibrium was regime control of the skies. At that point, the United States, at little risk and cost, could have declared Syria a no-fly zone, much as it did Iraqi Kurdistan for a dozen years after the Gulf War of 1991.
The U.S. could easily have destroyed the regime's planes and helicopters on the ground and so cratered its airfields as to make them unusable. That would have altered the strategic equation for the rest of the war.
And would have deterred the Russians from injecting their own air force — they would have had to challenge ours for air superiority. Facing no U.S. deterrent, Russia stepped in and decisively altered the balance, pounding the rebels in Aleppo to oblivion. The Russians were particularly adept at hitting hospitals and other civilian targets, leaving the rebels with the choice between annihilation and surrender.
They surrendered.
Obama has never appreciated that the role of a superpower in a local conflict is not necessarily to intervene on the ground, but to deter a rival global power from stepping in and altering the course of the war. That's what we did during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow threatened to send troops to support Egypt and President Nixon countered by raising America's nuclear alert status to Defcon 3. Russia stood down.
Less dramatically but just as effectively, American threats of retaliation are what kept West Germany, South Korea and Taiwan free and independent through half a century of Cold War.
It's called deterrence. Yet Obama never had the credibility to deter anything or anyone. In the end, the world's greatest power was reduced to bitter speeches at the United Nations. "Are you truly incapable of shame?" thundered U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power at the butchers of Aleppo. As if we don't know the answer. Indeed the shame is on us for terminal naivete, sending our secretary of state chasing the Russians to negotiate one humiliating pretend cease-fire after another.
Even now, however, the Syria debate is not encouraging. The tone is anguished and emotional, portrayed exclusively in moral terms. Much less appreciated is the cold strategic cost.
Assad was never a friend. But today he's not even a free agent. He's been effectively restored to his throne, but as the puppet of Iran and Russia. Syria is now a platform, a forward base, from which both these revisionist regimes can project power in the region.
Iran will use Syria to advance its drive to dominate the Arab Middle East. Russia will use its naval and air bases to bully the Sunni Arab states, and to shut out American influence.
It's already happening. The foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey convened in Moscow this week to begin settling the fate of Syria. Notice who wasn't there. For the first time in four decades, the United States, the once dominant power in the region, is an irrelevance.
With Aleppo gone and the rebels scattered, we have a long road ahead to rebuild the influence squandered over the past eight years. President-elect Donald Trump is talking about creating safe zones. He should tread carefully. It does no good to try to do now what we should have done five years ago. Conditions are much worse. Russia and Iran rule. Maintaining the safety of safe zones will be expensive and dangerous. It will require extensive ground deployments, and it risks military confrontation with Russia.
And why? Guilty conscience is not a good reason. Interventions that are purely humanitarian — from Somalia to Libya — tend to end badly. We may proclaim a "responsibility to protect," but when no American interests are at stake, the engagement becomes impossible to sustain. At the first losses, we go home.
In Aleppo, the damage is done, the city destroyed, the inhabitants ethnically cleansed. For us, there is no post-facto option. If we are to regain the honor lost in Aleppo, it will have to be on a very different battlefield.
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Mopping-Up Operation
By Mark Steyn
http://www.steynonline.com/
Despite an unfolding international manhunt the first pictures of Anis Amri released in Germany have his eyes deliberately covered, thought to be because of strict privacy laws there. (Via DailyMail.UK)
Following my column on the Christmas market slaughter, a reader writes:
Spot on. It reminds me of the old joke about the procedure for separating the sane from the insane, back when there were "mental asylums" and society tried to keep crazy people inside them instead of running the country.
The intake assessment involved giving each patient a mop and bucket, then locking them in a room and slowly flooding it with water.
As the water level rose, the insane went to work with the mop and bucket.
The sane located the valve and turned off the water.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Rick Darby
In fact, the lunatics running the asylum have effortlessly surpassed the old joke - in that even the droplets their mops pick up they manage to lose. Thus Berlin's mass murderer:
'Armed and dangerous' Christmas truck suspect is still at large as it's revealed he had been under surveillance for months and was arrested three times
And that's just the headline.
The 23-year-old, who has a 100,000 euro reward on his head, was under close surveillance of German intelligence for several months following his arrival in the country last year.
He was arrested three times this year and his asylum application was rejected, but deportation papers were never served and he disappeared.
The Tunisian radical was known to be a supporter of Islamic State and to have received weapons training.
He tried to recruit an accomplice for a terror plot – which the authorities knew about – but still remained at large.
Today his own father claimed he had served four years in an Italian jail after he set fire to a school. Tunisian security officials also revealed he was convicted in absentia for aggravated theft with violence in his home country...
Meanwhile a European arrest warrant issued for Amri reveals the fugitive has used at least six different aliases under three different nationalities.
Wait, it gets better:
Anis arrived in Germany in July 2015 and was put on a danger list shortly after arriving - a sign authorities considered him prone to extreme violence. He was placed under surveillance but details remains unclear.
In April this year he was given an immigration hearing and denied the right to asylum. He was due to be deported before the end of the year.
But under a peculiarity of the German asylum system he was granted a 'Duldung' - or toleration papers - which allowed him to stay for unknown reasons.
That's not a joke, incidentally: "Duldung" really does mean "toleration". There's not enough trees in Germany for all the "toleration papers" Mutti Merkel wants to issue.
But don't worry, they were monitoring his phone. So that's great. Unless, under some other "peculiarity", they turned off the monitoring for a few hours a day - just like, with the Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray jihadist, they switched off his electronic anklet each morning, round about Mass time, to give him a bit of privacy to decapitate Catholic priests. They take their privacy rights seriously in Europe:
Despite an unfolding international manhunt the first pictures of him released in Germany have his eyes deliberately covered, thought to be because of strict privacy laws there.
Heaven forbid that slaughtering a dozen people should infringe on one's privacy rights anymore than the court convictions, deportation order and intelligence surveillance appear to have done.
So, as I always say, the "lone wolf" turns out to be a known wolf. A few SteynOnline readers have complained about the way I always say "as I always say". But, as my friend Douglas Murray complains in The Spectator, it isn't easy writing the same column every week for 15 years because nothing ever changes: #JeSuisParis, #JeSuisBruxelles, #JeSuisNice, #JeSuisOrlando, #JeSuisBerlin, #JeSuis[YourTownHere]...
As recently as a quarter-century ago, Her Britannic Majesty's Government, in order to contain a domestic emergency, was willing to impose internal travel restrictions within the United Kingdom on those suspected of terrorist associations, in order to prevent some fellows from Newry or West Belfast flying to Manchester or Birmingham and blowing stuff up. Just to underline my point, that was adomestic emergency: the bombers were already within the nation's borders, and full citizens, so you're stuck with them. But today it would apparently be unreasonable to expect western governments to cease importing large numbers of foreigners who wish to murder the natives. Indeed, in an exquisite touch, the depraved Mrs Merkel was attending a self-flattering love-in called the "International Day of Migrants" at the precise moment the known wolf hit the gas and ploughed into his victims.
As I noted yesterday, my sometime warm-up act Jonathan Kay deplores all this "Mark Steyn-esque hysteria" about Islam. So it's important to emphasize that not every "refugee" wants to kill all the infidels. For example, this fellow just wants to make the Nativity play a wee bit more diverse and vibrant:
The Somali asylum seeker suddenly leapt on stage during the traditional depiction of the Christian story in the Austrian town of Oberndorf near Schwanenstadt in the state of Upper Austria, causing horror and upset amongst the children and parents.
At first, no one had reacted when the asylum seeker came to the venue and stood next to the stage where children of nursery school age were performing.
The asylum seeker suddenly leapt on stage, took out a copy of the Koran from his rucksack and started preaching.
The 24-year-old, who was wearing a white robe, was eventually overpowered by a number of men, including two brothers, while he was shouting "Allahu Akbar".
See? "Allahu Akbar" isn't necessarily the last words you'll ever hear just before the powder keg goes up. Sometimes it's just Arabic for "Happy Holidays!", a cheery greeting from one people of the book to another - as our youngsters will understand once we start teaching it in nursery school:
A witness said: "The children are totally anxious and petrified, we were terribly afraid for our children."
Oh, c'mon. Nobody died or was even injured, did they? So what's with the Steynesque hysteria?
As long as they keep issuing "toleration papers", the lunatics running the asylum are gonna need a lot more mops and buckets. Which means they'll need a lot more mop factories and bucket factories. Which means they'll need to import millions more refugees who can be trained to work in them. Except for the ones who can be hired to work in the department that issues "toleration papers". Mop, rinse and repeat...
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package io.reactivex.netty.protocol.http.server;

import io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderResult;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMessage;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.cookie.Cookie;
import io.reactivex.netty.channel.ContentSource;
import io.reactivex.netty.protocol.http.internal.HttpMessageFormatter;
import rx.Observable;
import rx.Observable.Transformer;
import rx.Subscriber;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;

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"E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"

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I'm Basically Obsessed with these Irresistible Me Hair Extensions!
I didn't grow up on Clinique products but they have certainly grown on me over the years. Since finding my absolute favorite moisturizer in their brand I've started branching out through their skincare & into makeup. Slowly but surely I knew I would make my way to the cult favorite shade Black Honey in some form…& today I'm sharing with you quite a few! After reading a bit about the history of the specific shade I thought a linkup with other beauty lovers would be amazing- different looks & different ages all showing how we wear Clinique's Black Honey. Since this shade is supposed to be flattering on everyone I thought we would put it to the test!


Pneumatic device atomizing paint onto a surface, giving it a smooth uniform finish.
Reservoir for the paint, which is connected to the gun by a tube; here a low-pressure zone is created causing the liquid to be sucked in.
Opening through which the air enters the container to maintain the atmospheric pressure.
Device that controls the supply of both air and paint.
Part directing the compressed air toward the nozzle; here the air comes in contact with the paint jet, which is atomized.
Opening through which the paint flows; its size depends on the position of a conical part (pointer).
Threaded part receiving a flexible tube; it is connected to a compressor that allows the compressed air into the body of the gun.
Movable part whose opening is regulated by the trigger; it lets compressed air into the gun.
Screw for controlling the maximum size of a pointer, thereby determining the amount of paint emitted by the nozzle.
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Morning Notes
ARLnow.com July 9, 2018 at 9:15am
Police Searching for I-66 Wrong-Way Driver — Police are still looking for the driver who crashed into another vehicle while driving the wrong way on I-66 near Rosslyn early Sunday morning, after being chased by a uniformed Secret Service officer who spotted the car driving the wrong way in D.C. [Fox 5, WTOP, Twitter]
Vehicle Crashes into House in Barcroft — A vehicle that was driven into the side of a house in the Barcroft neighborhood Sunday morning caused only minor damage to the building, according to the fire department. [Twitter]
Truck Brings Down Power Lines in Long Branch Creek — "Downed power lines caused around 1,000 customers to lose power in Arlington County on Saturday. Dominion Power said a truck 'snagged' the lines and broke two of the power poles around 8:15 a.m. It also damaged some vehicles in the area." [WJLA]
Runner Struck By Car Hopes to Run Marathon — A local runner who was struck by a car while running recently hopes to run the Marine Corps Marathon in the fall despite suffering two broken bones in her foot. [Twitter]
Projects to Transform Crystal City — Six major transportation projects "will play a significant role in transforming the Crystal City area in the coming years." [Bisnow]
Arlington Teens Arrested in Ocean City — Three teens from Arlington were arrested in Ocean City, Maryland after they pulled over to ask police officers about parking in the area and the officers "immediately recognized the strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle." They searched the car and found "roughly a half a pound of marijuana along with prescription drugs, methamphetamine, brass knuckles, an assisted opening knife and several items of drug paraphernalia," plus "a full face mask in the vehicle [and] a .25 caliber handgun." [The Dispatch]
Dems Still Distributing Print Newsletter — Print may be waning as a medium, but the Arlington County Democratic Committee is still going all-in on its printed campaign newsletter, "The Messenger." The party is recruiting more than 400 volunteers to distribute the newsletter to homes throughout the county. [InsideNova]
Arlington Democrats arrest Barcroft car vs. building crash Crystal City I-66 marijuana Marine Corps Marathon pedestrian struck power lines power outage teens wires down wrong-way driver
ARLnow Weekend Discussion
Arlington's Car Decal Program Could Soon End, Though Its Fees Would Stick Around


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Wildfire camo Rescue Pocket Knife. TMC logo laser engraved on blade. Features unique Wildfire Camo handle with 420 stainless steel black oxide coated blade. Knife measures 4 ½" closed with a 3.2" tanto piercing blade. End of knife offers a razor sharp seatbelt cutter with window knock out tool. Foldaway, wire shackle clip and belt clip offer choice for carrying in one's pocket or snap clip.


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Mark Knopfler | Booking | Live show | Private party
Official Page // Booking Stars Ltd.
Mark Knopfler was born on August 12, 1949, in Scotland. He is a singer, songwriter, producer, and composer. Knopfler is mostly famous for such hits as "Darling Pretty", "What It Is", and "True Love Will Never Fail". He holds numerous awards, including 4 Grammies.
Mark Knopfler's father was a Hungarian Jew immigrant and his mother was British. He was born in Glasgow. Mark was a big fan of music ever since he was a kid and always dreamed of becoming a guitarist. His idols were Jimmy Hendrix, James Burton, Hank Marvin, and Scotty Moore.
When Mark was a teenager, he played in various school bands. However, after finishing school, he decided to become a reporter. Mark worked as a reporter for Yorkshire Evening Post and studied at the Leeds University. At that time, Mark met a bluesman Steve Phillips, who helped him found a project Duolian String Pickers. That's when Mark, who was left-handed, started creating his own style.
While living in Leeds, Knopfler recorded his first song "Summer Is Coming My Way". When he graduated, Mark went to London, where he started working with a blues band Brewer's Droop. However, the band didn't have enough funds to survive and Mark had to leave. He started earning money by giving lectures.
In 1970's Knopfler and his younger brother David formed a band called Dire Straits. The band received worldwide recognition. However, by the beginning of 1980's, Knopfler decided to pursue a solo career. His first solo project was the soundtrack to the movie Local Hero. Later, Mark worked on the music for Cal, Comfort and Joy, and The Princess Bride.
In 1989, together with the old friends Steve Phillips and Brendan Cocker, Mark formed a band Notting Hillbillies. They released a famous country and blues album Missing..Presumed Having a Good Time. After the group disbanded, Mark continued to pursue a solo career.
In 1996, he released his first solo album Golden Heart, which was moderately successful. Four years later, Mark released his most successful album Sailing to Philadelphia. It received numerous platinum certifications and high spots on the charts.
Overall, Mark recorded 7 studio albums, each one of which made it into various charts and got to the highest spots on the British Albums Chart. Each one of his albums received at least a silver certification. Many went platinum. Knopfler continues to work on new music and performs live.
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Rock stars are highly demanded entertainers all over the world. Such celebrities as Bon Jovi, Tori Amos, and Coldplay get thousands of appearance requests every day. Numerous booking agents for musicians struggle with trying to hire these rock stars for private events. Only a special approach can help you enjoy the performance of your favorite artist at your birthday party, an anniversary or a business event.
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While you are looking for new ways to get the attention of a celebrity, music agents have already mastered all the right approaches. If you need help with entertainment booking, at Booking Stars Ltd, we are always ready to use our expertise. We have experience booking talent all over the world for a variety of events.
We know how to work with rock artists to ensure their timely appearance at your events. We've arranged numerous celebrations with European and American artists.
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We work hard to keep our clients' effort to the very minimum. Our experts help with booking artists online from the comfort of your own home. Booking music stars has never been easier. If you are a fan of rock music, we invite you to browse our catalog and select the rock star you would like to see at your next event. We will do the rest.


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Beacon to host Adidas tournament
Foundation of Light has teamed up with sportswear giants Adidas to host a youth football tournament at the Beacon of Light later this month.
The FREE 5-a-side competition will be staged at the world-class sports venue for the first time, bringing together under 17 and under 18 teams (for the 2018-19 season) from across the North East.
Adidas will also be giving one lucky player the chance to WIN a boot deal for the coming season* at the tournament on Saturday 28th July 2018 (10.30am-12.30pm).
SAFCFoL Community Club U17s were named 2017 winners, overcoming seven other teams to lift the inaugural title.
We are delighted to be hosting the Adidas Foundation Fives Tournament for the second year running.
Last year was a resounding success with over 60 players competing. The tournament is a fantastic opportunity for players to show off their skills, learn more about our Football Scholarship and, of course, win a boot deal with Adidas.
We look forward to welcoming all players and their clubs in what should be another very successful tournament.
Michael Havelock, Foundation of Light's Scholarship Manager
Teams will be placed into group stages with matches played on the Beacon's outdoor pitches with the top two from each progressing to the knockout stages in the facility's state-of-the-art 4G rooftop football barn.
*The winning player will be entitled to three pairs of Adidas boots throughout the season.
Teams interested in signing up can call Michael Havelock on 0775 1687051 or email michael.havelock@foundationoflight.co.uk to register.
Beacon receives Premier League and FA funding boost
Beacon Strength and Conditioning supports radio star Tim


F8 of the Furious Tr4il3r.
Pacific Rim and Godzilla sequels get lacklustre title changes.
King's Revival gets a Crowe.
The next Pirates movie gets Knight(ley)ed.
Incredibles 2 starts recording so we talk for too long about other Pixar movies.
The most TV reboots imaginable. Single White Female, Taken, Star Trek, The Honeymooners, How I Met Your Father, Riverdale, Foxy Brown, Ducktales etc.
Marco….Polo….Marco…Polo… I can't find the $200m you lost. You're Cancelled.
Amazon gets Sneaky with Pete.
Julia Roberts heads to TV while Taran Killam heads to Broadway.
Hugh Jackman gets paid less to make something more for Logan.
All of that plus the Weekend Watched and all of the usual tangents.


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» Person dies after fair ride malfunctions
Person dies after fair ride malfunctions
On Behalf of Isenberg & Hewitt, PC | Aug 1, 2017 | Premises Liability
Georgia residents that enjoy fairs might have heard a pendulum ride at a state fair in Ohio stopped working correctly, and some riders were flung from the ride. An 18-year-old man was killed in the July 26 accident. Seven other victims were injured in the accident, and three were in critical condition.
The governor of the state announced that an investigation of the accident was underway. Nonetheless, the chief safety inspector for the Department of Agriculture claimed that the ride had been inspected up to four times before the accident occurred. The inspector went on to say that he and his team do not speed through their inspections, and that the ride had been signed off on.
Video of the accident shows that some seats on the ride detached and broke away from the mechanism. It also showed that people separated from their seats and flew high in the air. Hospital staff who reviewed the video stated that the victims were likely up to 30 feet high in the air when they were flung at high speeds and with high energy from the ride. A witness reported that as the seats and people began separating from the ride, the operator of the machine pressed a button that stopped the ride immediately, which led to more people separating from the ride.
People who are injured because a ride or activity was not properly maintained or inspected might seek compensation for their medical expenses and other losses through a lawsuit filed with the assistance of an attorney. Property owners generally have a duty to their guests to keep their premises free from hazards.


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To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776
From Brigadier General Nathanael Greene
Camp on Long Island Augt 4[1776]
Col. Hand Reports 21 Sail seen off last Evening, Eight arrivd at the Hook this morning and thirteen coming in.1
The Enemies Guard Boats pattroled much higher up the Bay than usual last Night.
I apprehend a couple of Guard Boats are necessary to Pattrole from Red to Yellow Hook across the Bay leading to Rappelyeas Mills, providing there are Boats to spare.2
Inclosd is a return of the Officers of Col. Hands Riffle Regiment.3 as the return made me by Col. Hand is not as intelligible as I could wish I shall send and get another as soon as may be. I must beg your Excellencys Pardon for suffering the return to escape my memory, and neglecting makeing it agreeable to your Orders some days past.
I shall send in a list of the Names in a few hours of the persons proper to be takeen up on this Island. I am with respect Your Excellencys Most Obedient Servant
1. Ambrose Serle, who was on Lord Howe's flagship Eagle off Staten Island, writes in his journal entry for this date: "In the Afternoon the Renown of 50 Guns and the Flora of 32 Guns, with 22 Sail of Convoy, came into the Harbor. We have had so many Arivals of late, that the Rebel Commanders, we learn, give out to their People, that we send Ships down in the Night, which come up in the Course of the next Day, as a manoeuvre to intimidate them" (Tatum, Serle's Journal description begins Edward H. Tatum, Jr., ed. The American Journal of Ambrose Serle: Secretary to Lord Howe, 1776–1778. San Marino, Calif., 1940. description ends , 54). The transports in the convoy carried mostly Highlanders of the 42d and 71st regiments but included some Hessians (see Marriot Arbuthnot to Lord George Germain, 8 July 1776, in Clark and Morgan, Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 5:966–68; see also GW's second letter to Hancock of 7 Aug.).
2. Gowanus Bay, a cove on the eastern shore of Long Island, is flanked on the north by Red Hook and on the south by Yellow Hook (now called Owl Head). Yellow Hook lay directly across the Narrows from the Watering Place on Staten Island where most of the British fleet was anchored.
3. This return has not been identified.
"To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-05-02-0424. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 5, 16 June 1776 – 12 August 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 559.]
From Greene to Washington [2 August 1776]
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The next generation: Engaging young Canadians in the Habitat mission
Volunteers Oct. 29, 2018
Habitat for Humanity Canada has enjoyed a rich history of success since it was first established in 1985. Volunteers and donors, along with welcoming communities, have built safe, accessible, and affordable homes for hundreds of Canadian families. While it's easy to point to Habitat's 'years of experience', Habitat Canada's President and CEO Mark Rodgers says it's important that we acknowledge the energy and enthusiasm that young Canadians contribute to Habitat Canada.
"There are youth across this country who recognize that affordable housing is a serious social issue for Canada and they are standing up and making a tangible change. They're not just picking up a hammer. They're raising funds. They're raising their voice to say that this must change," says Rodgers. "I think the future's very bright for Habitat because of the number of youth across this country who are getting engaged at a national and an international level."
In this episode of The Podcast, we meet three young Canadians who are leaders and examples of the Habitat mission in action.
Josh Morrison (above) was 12 years old when he walked into a local ReStore and he decided there and then that he needed to raise $100,000 to build a Habitat home, in pennies! As his campaign gained momentum, a number of donors came forward with cash, cheques, and matching donations. And five years later, Josh raised $120,000 to build a Habitat home in Durham.
Peter Oliviera (pictured above) and Alison Kong-Foon (pictured below) are both engineers who caught the Habitat bug while studying at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
Peter and Alison say their Habitat experience just goes to show that young people can make a significant difference in their communities and in the lives of others who need help.
Listen to this week's podcast and hear from Josh, Peter and Alison on how they've made a difference at habitat.ca/thepodcast.
April 24-30, 2022 is National Volunteer Week!
It's National Volunteer Week and this year's theme, Volunteering Is Empathy In Action, affirms the strong connection between volunteerism and empathy, which our volunteers have in spades!
We are grateful for the opportunity to highlight the efforts of some of the thousands of volunteers who make our work possible.


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