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package mapeditor.editortabs;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashMap;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import mapeditor.A4MapEditor;
import mapeditor.maps.A4Map;
import mapeditor.maps.A4Object;
import mapeditor.maps.A4ObjectClass;
import mapeditor.maps.ObjectLayer;
import mapeditor.maps.TileLayer;
import mapeditor.maps.TileSet;
import org.jdom.Element;

/**
 *
 * @author santi
 */
public class MapVizPanel extends EditorTab {

    A4Map m_currentMap = null;
    HashMap<String,TileSet> m_additionalTilesets = new HashMap<>();

    public MapVizPanel(A4MapEditor editor) {
        super(editor);

        MapVizListener l = new MapVizListener(m_editor, this);

        addMouseListener(l);
        addMouseMotionListener(l);

        updateFromMap();
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
        A4Map map = m_editor.getMap();

        // clear and draw map limits:
        g2d.setColor(Color.GRAY);
        g2d.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(), getHeight());
        g2d.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g2d.fillRect(0,0,map.getWidth()*map.getTileWidth(), map.getHeight()*map.getTileHeight());

        // draw tile layers:
        for(TileLayer l:map.getTileLayers()) {
            if (l.getShow()) {
                int y = 0;
                for(int i = 0;i<l.getHeight();i++, y+=map.getTileHeight()) {
                    int x = 0;
                    for(int j = 0;j<l.getWidth();j++, x+=map.getTileWidth()) {
                        int gid = l.getTile(j, i);
                        drawTile(gid, x, y, g2d);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        // draw the object layers:
        A4Object selectedObject = m_editor.getSelectedObject();
        for(ObjectLayer l:map.getObjectLayers()) {
            if (l.getShow()) {
                for(A4Object mo:l.getObjects()) {
                    Element animation = mo.getDefaultAnimation();
                    if (animation!=null) {
                        if (!drawAnimation(animation, mo.getX(), mo.getY(), g2d)) {
                            animation = null;
                        }
                    }
                    if (animation==null) {
                        g2d.setColor(Color.white);
                        g2d.drawRect(mo.getX(), mo.getY(), mo.getWidth(), mo.getHeight());
                    }

                    if (mo == selectedObject) {
                        g2d.setColor(Color.cyan);
                        g2d.drawRect(mo.getX(), mo.getY(), mo.getWidth(), mo.getHeight());
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public void drawTile(int gid, int x, int y, Graphics2D g2d)
    {
        if (gid==0) return;
        gid--;
        for(TileSet ts:m_editor.getMap().getTileSets()) {
            int n_tiles = ts.getNTiles();
            if (gid<n_tiles) {
                ts.drawTile(gid, x, y, g2d);
                return;
            }
            gid-=n_tiles;
        }
    }

    public boolean drawAnimation(Element animation, int x, int y, Graphics2D g2d)
    {
        try {
            String tileSetName = animation.getAttributeValue("file");
            TileSet ts = m_additionalTilesets.get(tileSetName);
            if (ts==null) {
                String filename = m_currentMap.getPath() + File.separator + tileSetName;
                ts = new TileSet(filename, m_currentMap);
                m_additionalTilesets.put(tileSetName, ts);
            }
            int width = Integer.parseInt(animation.getAttributeValue("dx"));
            int height = Integer.parseInt(animation.getAttributeValue("dy"));
            int starting_tile = Integer.parseInt(animation.getValue());
            for(int i = 0;i<height;i++) {
                for(int j = 0;j<width;j++) {
                   int tile = starting_tile + j + i*ts.getWidthInTiles();
                   ts.drawTile(tile, x + ts.getTileWidth()*j, y + ts.getTileHeight()*i, g2d);
                }
            }
        } catch(Exception e) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    public void updateFromMap() {
        A4Map map = m_editor.getMap();
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(map.getWidth()*map.getTileWidth(),
                                        map.getHeight()*map.getTileHeight()));
        m_currentMap = map;
        if (m_currentMap!=map) {
            m_additionalTilesets.clear();
        }
    }

    public void addTile(int x, int y) {
        TileLayer tl = m_editor.getSelectedTileLayer();
        int tile = m_editor.getSelectedTile();

        if (tl!=null && tile>0) {
            if (x>=0 && x<tl.getWidth() &&
                y>=0 && y<tl.getHeight()) {
                tl.setTile(x, y, tile);
                m_editor.refreshAllPanes();
            }
        }
    }

    public void removeTile(int x, int y) {
        TileLayer tl = m_editor.getSelectedTileLayer();

        if (tl!=null) {
            if (x>=0 && x<tl.getWidth() &&
                y>=0 && y<tl.getHeight()) {
                tl.setTile(x, y, 0);
                m_editor.refreshAllPanes();
            }
        }
    }

    public void addObject(int x, int y) {
        ObjectLayer ol = m_editor.getSelectedObjectLayer();
        if (ol!=null) {
            A4ObjectClass object_class = m_editor.getSelectedObjectType();
            Element e = new Element("object");
            e.setAttribute("class","item");
            if (object_class!=null) {
                e.setAttribute("class",object_class.getName());
            }
            e.setAttribute("x",""+x);
            e.setAttribute("y",""+y);
            e.setAttribute("width",""+m_currentMap.getTileWidth());
            e.setAttribute("height",""+m_currentMap.getTileHeight());

            A4Object mo = new A4Object(e);
            ol.addObject(mo);
            m_editor.refreshAllPanes();
        } else {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Select an object layer first.");
        }
    }

    public void selectObject(int x, int y) {
        for(ObjectLayer ol:m_editor.getMap().getObjectLayers()) {
            for(A4Object mo:ol.getObjects()) {
                if (mo.getX()<=x && mo.getX()+mo.getWidth()>x &&
                    mo.getY()<=y && mo.getY()+mo.getHeight()>y) {
                    m_editor.selectObject(ol, mo);
                    return;
                }
            }
        }
        m_editor.selectObject(null, null);
    }
}

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Padres' plan for Trea Turner fails as Phillies nab superstar SS
By Mike Luciano
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 11: Trea Turner #6 of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /
The San Diego Padres might be plotting something big in the 2022-23 MLB offseason, as they have been linked to superstars like Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner. With the championship window very much open, the Padres are going all-in on their young core.
Despite the fact that they have a very crowded infield and the disadvantage of some of the worst taxes in the country, San Diego was trying their hardest to sell their former top prospect of the idea of joining a young, fun team who could be a team to watch for the next decade.
Unfortunately, Turner has not been as receptive to San Diego's overtures. Not only did decide to leave the NL West, but he's joining a rival contender who may have the most destructive lineup in the National League from top to bottom. He left the Dodgers, yes, but where he landed still stings.
Turner has agreed to a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, giving them three big names at the top of their lineup alongside Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. The deal is an 11-year, $300 million whopper with a full no-trade clause. Turner is likely going to be a Phillie for the remainder of his MLB career.
The NL champs are loading up.
Trea Turner, Phillies reportedly agree to an 11-year deal, per @feinsand. pic.twitter.com/mr3i3zYTuF
— MLB (@MLB) December 5, 2022
The San Diego Padres missed out on Trea Turner.
Turner was picked 13th overall by the Padres in the 2014 MLB Draft before being traded to the Nationals in the multi-faceted Wil Myers move. Since then, Turner has hit .302 while showing double-digit home run power and standing out as arguably the fastest player in the game.
Turner always seemed like a long shot for San Diego, as Fernando Tatis Jr. is going to return to the Padres lineup and Ha-Seong Kim figures to have some sort of role. Moving one of them to the outfield could have made sense, as bats like this are very rarely available on the open market.
While the Padres are trying everything they can to overtake the now depleted Dodgers in the NL West, the reigning league champions in Philly may move into favorite status after adding Turner. With Turner and Harper locked in long-term, that contender isn't going anywhere.
Breaking: Shortstop Trea Turner and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a contract, a source tells @JeffPassan. pic.twitter.com/w3ZEFNAnvq
— ESPN (@espn) December 5, 2022
While the Padres are still very much in on Xander Bogaerts and one of many veterans from the reigning champion Astros, seeing Turner move to a contender like this has to worry A.J. Preller. The gauntlet known as the NL just got even more difficult after poaching Turner.
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All of the children know that Ms. Alison will be getting married over the summer holidays. All year it has been a hot topic of discussion in our classroom. Lots of theories have been discussed and demonstrated over lunchtimes and in play about what is important for weddings and being married. Mr. Nathan recorded some of these theories on video during one of our outside playtimes.
Our year has come to an end and it's time to say goodbye. We had so much fun exploring, wondering and discovering all year long and made some great friends along the way.
Special goodbyes go to our friends Caileigh, Cailynne, Max and Dillon who will be moving to new countries and schools. Good luck on your new adventures! We will miss you, but hope to talk to you through letters, emails and maybe even Skype!
This week we said goodbye to friends and Kindergarten 1 with a couple of special activities. On Thursday we had a picnic with our families. All week, we spent time writing letters to our friends and shared some of them at our final Afternoon Meeting on Friday.
Children growing up in Singapore are used to seeing new construction sites pop up around the city. While this change in our environment can be exciting and certainly has a purpose, it often means destruction to the natural environment. This year, the Early Years children have been very observant about the construction site across from our school and the resulting changes.
In an effort to reconnect the children to our natural environment – as well as make connections between nature and the written and taught curriculum – the Early Years teachers proposed a long-term project to the children, which would see them engaging in different ways with the big banyan tree on our school grounds.
K1 and K2 classes all participated in different ways, following student suggestions and pursuing planned connections to class inquiries.
In Kindergarten 1.2, we have photographed the tree from different viewpoints, practiced our gross motor skills by balancing on the roots, and drew and wrote what we saw and noticed. We used the photographs of the tree to create a clay representation of the tree, which we added animals and other items to. This inspired us to create a story about the tree, which we wrote under the tree so we could continue to be inspired by it. We continued our storytelling with the tree through our play in the classroom.
Throughout our unit of inquiry How We Express Ourselves (Stories are share and responded to in different ways), we have been conducting a big investigation. After viewing the Billy Goats Gruff musical play at the theatre, someone in our class explained that it was a fairy tale. Immediately a question emerged from other students: "What is a fairy tale?" First we collected our ideas and current knowledge. Through that discussion, some other stories were mentioned, like Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
To see if any other theories would emerge about fairy tales, we had another discussion the next day. Ms. Alison asked us: "Is the Billy Goats Gruff a fairy tale?"
Through this discussion, we started to think about what a story needs to have in it to be a fairy tale. Near the end of our discussion, AJ said: "It has to have more good guys than bad guys". Most people were very enthusiastic about this theory and agreed. Not everyone was in agreement though, so we decided to test the theory.
First we made a big list of all the stories we thought were probably fairy tales. Then we wrote a letter to Mrs. Grant, our librarian, to collect her ideas so we could add even more stories to our list.
Over several weeks, we read and explored different versions of the stories, always thinking about the good and bad characters, which there were more of, and whether the story fit our theory about fairy tales.
We made a chart to keep track of the stories we had read and how many good and bad characters there were in each story. Once we'd added the story and characters to the chart, we then put a tick mark or X on our big list of stories to represent whether the story fit our theory and was in fact a fairy tale.
As we continued to explore, analyze, and question, the excitement continued to grow. Most children independently talked to their families about fairy tales and searched their homes for books, puppets, and artifacts that would support our investigation. In fact, our inquiry was almost entirely supported by the items children brought from home!
All of the stories are fairy tales, except for The Ugly Duckling and Pinocchio because those stories have more bad guys than good guys. We're still not sure about Jack and the Beanstalk though because we couldn't agree on which characters were good and bad (principled or not principled). What do you think?
At the beginning of Kindergarten 1 we read the book We All Went on Safari and went on our own number safari around the school to show our number and counting skills. Throughout the year this was a favourite book of our class that helped us to develop our one-to-one correspondence (saying only one number for every object counted). This week we went on another number safari to show how our number knowledge has developed. We recorded our findings using the PicCollage app.
Lately we've been talking a lot about the upcoming changes in our lives. We only have 6 days left in Kindergarten 1! Some of us will be moving to Kindergarten 2 at our school and some of us will be moving to different schools or countries. Today we visited a Kindergarten 2 class to do some learning and exploring about the changes we might expect.
Before leaving our classroom we thought of some questions for K2 students and completed a Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routine called Compass Points. This thinking routine helped us to think about our needs, excitements, worries, and suggestions.
Through the discussion, we realized that we had a lot of similar excitements and worries to each other. Mostly we were curious about what would be the same and different between Kindergarten 1 and Kindergarten 2.
Thank you to Kindergarten 2.1 who helped to answer our questions and calm our worries. They also showed us some of their favourite areas, activities, and games in their classroom to help us understand the types of things that happen in K2. Thank you for your help K2.1! We are excited to move to Kindergarten 2!
As part of our inquiry into how 'Stories are shared and responded to in many ways', we've been exploring the line of inquiry 'How stories relate to our world.
For the last few weeks we've invited lots of mummies and daddies into our classroom to tell or read stories that relate to their worlds. We've heard stories that relate to home countries, history and culture. We've also heard stories read in different languages like Swedish, Japanese, Mongolian, Swiss German and Scottish dialect. Many of us now understand how stories relate to our cultures and experiences. We also know that our favourite stories and the storybooks we own are usually told in our native languages.
Earlier this semester Grade 3 worked on creating sets, puppets, and scripts to retell The Three Little Pigs. Today they showed this work to our class. What a great opportunity for us to practice our listening and viewing skills. We have read lots of versions of The Three Little Pigs and Grade 3 exposed us to some more creative versions. Some of us also got to thinking about how we can make our own puppets and story sets!


Everyone knows about the crowded tourist attractions in San Francisco's eastern neighborhoods. The next time you head to San Francisco, consider exploring its best-kept secret: the western neighborhoods.
The western neighborhoods in San Francisco are split into two districts: The Sunset District and the Richmond District. Both the Sunset District and Richmond District were originally covered in sand dunes in the 1800s. Now, both districts boast a variety of attractions and delicious dining spots in the lesser-known western neighborhoods of San Francisco.
This district is the neighbor of the Sunset District and offers visitors convenient access to many of San Francisco's urban parks. The Richmond District also hosts a thriving Chinese-American community and offers some of the most delicious and authentic Chinese restaurants in all of San Francisco.
Located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Lands End offers beautiful hikingtrails and stunning views of the Northern California coast. Adventurers can also check out the iconic ruins of the Sutro Baths and explore a labyrinth that's also located inside of the park.
If you're looking for the best view of the Golden Gate Bridge, most believe Lands End provides that ideal view.
Chili House SF: For the best Beijing-style Dim Sum in San Francisco, you'll want to head to Chili House SF to enjoy delicious Dim Sum dishes.
Cliff House: Enjoy striking views of the Pacific Ocean while savoring delicious, California cuisine.
As you can see, the Sunset District is a beautiful neighborhood in San Francisco that boasts one of the more interesting microclimates in the city. The district has become well-known for the blanket of fog that rolls into the area each evening to offer an incredible aesthetic.
The Sunset District offers the most affordable and diverse dining in the entire city. Also, the neighborhood is actually the largest district in all of San Francisco. The district is divided into three different sections: Inner Sunset, Central Sunset, and Outer Sunset.
This district in western San Francisco offers visitors convenient access to the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Park, and is perfect for families visiting their childwho goes to school at the University of San Francisco.
Tourists heading to the Sunset District have to visit Golden Gate Park and go to the Hamon Observation Tower which is located at the De Young Museum.
The observation tower offers guests breathtaking 360-degree views of San Francisco and is free admission. From the tower, guests are offered a unique vantage point to view the Pacific Ocean, downtown San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, and more.
Whether you choose to explore the Sunset District, Richmond District, or both, you're sure to enjoy the best of San Francisco's lesser-known western neighborhoods.


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Toronto's Rogers Centre Not Being Torn Down, At Least For Now, Owner Says
A news report said the stadium formerly known as the SkyDome would be torn down and replaced by a smaller arena and condos.
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Toronto CN Tower Rogers Centre illuminated skyscraper panorama night
TORONTO ― Rogers Communications Inc. says it was exploring the future of its Toronto stadium prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the virus has caused it to put those plans on hold.
The telecommunications company and owner of the Blue Jays baseball team says its primary focus this year is keeping staff safe and maintaining operations, and it has no update on the status of the Rogers Centre stadium.
The statement comes after the Globe and Mail reported Friday that Rogers and Brookfield Asset Management Inc., were looking to tear down the stadium as part of a larger development project.
Watch: The 7 oldest parks in baseball. Story continues below.
Citing unnamed sources, the Globe says the two companies would build a new stadium half the size on the southern part of the current site and use the remaining land for residential towers, office buildings, stores and public space.
Brookfield declined to comment on the matter.
The Rogers Centre, formerly known as the SkyDome, opened in 1989 and seats more than 53,000.
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Posted on December 9, 2019 by editor
Revival of Lev Tolstoy
In recent years, classic British literary works have been frequently adapted into movies or TV series, and have been active on the screen or screen. In contrast, Russia, which has a large number of classic writers and classics, is inevitably amazed.
In 2012, Lev Tolstoy's 19th-century classic novel "Anna Kalenina" was brought to the screen again by British director Joe Wright. The film made a splash after it was released and won multiple awards.
In 2016, Tolstoy's other classic novel "War and Peace" was filmed on the BBC as a six-episode miniseries and appeared on the screen.
Critics Joselle asked after a closer look at Tolstoy's life and works: Should Tolstoy be the pioneer to lead the revival of Russian literature?
Will we usher in a new wave of literary work? The "Last Stop", released in 2009, tells how Tolstoy struggled with illness in his later years and how he managed to control his legacy. In 2012 "Anna Kalenina" starring Keira Knightley was released. A six-episode mini-series "War and Peace" filmed by the BBC in 2016 appeared on the screen. Can we consider this to be the beginning of a new trend and a signal of the revival of Russian literature?
In recent years, Charles Dickens' "Great Prospect" and "Desolate Villa" have been adapted into many stage plays and film and television works, as well as Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the Deber House" and Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and more. Under the background of the adaptation of British literature, film and television, will the classic works of the golden age of Russian literature of the 19th century also join this boom? The next one will be Dostoyevsky's Idiot, Turgenev's Father and Son, or Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Perhaps Tolstoy is a special case?
In 2003, the BBC conducted a large readership survey. Of the great writers of the Russian Golden Age, only Tolstoy was ranked in the top 200 for "War and Peace" and "Anna Kalenina" . If the style of film and television adaptation of Russian literature will not rise, is it just an appreciation of the work of a model writer-many of the most recognized writers from Virginia Woolf to Thomas Mann?
Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, known as Lev Tolstoy, was born in Yasnaya Polyana in 1828. He was a novelist, critic, and playwright. In his later years, he became a well-known moral philosopher and social reformer. He was also an army captain and founder of the school during the Crimean War, and the father of at least 13 children. His work has affected everyone from Mahatma Gandhi to Hemingway.
"Childhood", "Juvenile" and "Youth" are Tolstoy's popular trilogy of autobiographical novels, fully showing Tolstoy's growth and spiritual journey. The first was written in 1852, at which time Tolstoy had joined the army, dropped out of Kazan University, and joined the Caucasus army where his brother was. This military career is reflected in his early works, such as the short story collection "The Chronicles of Sevastopol" (1855), "Cossack" (1863). "Cossack" is very popular, especially praised by Tolstoy contemporary writer Ivan Turgenev, but the foundation of the most famous "War and Peace" is the "Sevastopol Chronicle" .
Before writing War and Peace, Tolstoy traveled to Europe twice, the first time in 1857, and the second time between 1860 and 1861. The impact of the two travels on him was also huge and far-reaching. On his first trip, Tolstoy witnessed a public execution in Paris, which caused a great distrust of the country, and even believed that the existence of the country was to exploit people. After this tour, he vowed to no longer be loyal to any government. On his second trip to Europe, Tolstoy became acquainted with Victor Hugo and praised his novel, The Tragic World. Some people even compared the war scenes in War and Peace to The Tragic World to find out the influence of the latter on the former. During his second trip to Europe, Tolstoy also met Pierre Joseph Proudhon, a French anarchist exiled to Belgium. The title of "War and Peace" is borrowed from Proudhon's article of the same name.
Tolstoy was encouraged by the return of Europe. He married Andreyev Bales, a 16-year-old girl. He founded an independent school in his hometown and started writing War and Peace. The Cossack, which was written ten years ago to pay off gambling debts, was finally completed. War and Peace, which has been praised by many as the best novel to date, was first published serially in the Russian Courier magazine under the name "1805" and was not published until 1869. The novel soon gained readers' favor, although some left-wing literary critics also criticized its lack of social criticism. However, Tolstoy never considered "War and Peace" as a novel. He thought that the work was more like a prose epic, and "Anna Kalenina" was the first real work In the sense.
Many people consider Anna Karenina to be Tolstoy's finest novel. Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov considered it "perfect", and William Faulkner called it "the best work ever written." Throughout the novel is the life of the heroine of the same name, and the life of Levin, inspired by the semi-autobiographical novel, but whose fate is completely different, but the novel also explores many other topics, such as jealousy, vanity, marriage, society, and the agriculture of the land Associated. This work is the first step in the transition from realism to modernism. Together with James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, it contains some writing styles of stream of consciousness.
How did War and Peace and Anna Karenina affect Tolstoy's contemporaries? This is also something we should think about. When the first quarter of War and Peace was published serially, Feodor Dostoyevsky, considered by many to be Tolstoy's real opponent, had published The Poor (1846) and Dead Room Notes (1860), and just finished "Basement Notes". But Dostoyevsky's most acclaimed work always came out after Tolstoy's masterpiece, which is no coincidence-first, "Sin and Punishment" (1865-1866), and then his collection. The official work, the Brother Karamazov (1880), which is often regarded as a masterpiece of Dostoevsky. Like later modernist or collapsed writers, each literary movement has great works that inspire other artists to challenge and transcend. The value of "War and Peace" and "Anna Kalenina" is exactly what inspires and inspires other artists. Their value is not only for the golden age of Russia, but also for the art as a whole.
Can we imagine that Anna Karenina will lead to film and television adaptations of many other literary works? Comments on Joe Wright's films have been mixed. Keira Knightley's heroine also received mixed comments. But compared to the film itself, the costume design of the film has received more praise. Joe Wright's film reimagines the novel in a fantasy theater space. Since Wright has previously adapted "Pride and Prejudice" and "The Duchess", and both are starring Keira Knightley as the heroine, he may think it necessary to try this adaptation of Anna Karenina A new way. Try new ways, and it worked when Bernard Rose adapted Tolstoy's "Krutzer Sonata" and "Ivan Ilyich's Death" into contemporary films. Ross also adapted Anna Karenina, but it was not very successful. The reason critics criticize Wright's film is simple: the film only cares about style, but lacks content. This is a common problem in literary and film adaptations. Some people even worry that this problem may also affect the six episodes of the mini-series "War and Peace". This adaptation attempts to downplay the historical dimension of the novel and focuses more on the family. Considering the importance of history in this novel, as well as the insignificant point of view of individuals in history, I don't know what the audience will think after reading it. These Russian masterpieces are huge stories, which may be why people dare not adapt them to film and television. However, the radical deletion of the original works will undoubtedly lose the essence of these great works.
We should also consider Tolstoy's later works. After Anna Karenina, Tolstoy became a prolific critic and non-fiction writer. Many of his later works were read by Schopenhauer, "As Will and Representation," by German philosopher Schopenhauer. Epiphany after World. Tolstoy eventually became a devout Christian anarchist and anarchist pacifist. Of Tolstoy's subsequent series, only the novella "The Death of Ivan Ilych" is comparable to his earlier works. Like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy's later novels mostly relied on religious symbolism. It was Tolstoy's non-fictional creations, such as "Heaven in Your Heart" (1894), published in Germany to escape the Russian censorship, and became the most inspiring work in his later life, especially for Mahatma Gandhi. influences. Therefore, no matter whether we can use the Dongfeng shown in "Anna Kalenina" to drive the film and television adaptations of other literary works, we still hope that new and old readers will reread the classics of Russian masters so that Tolstoy will no longer be forgotten.
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Why Bombing Ashkelon is the Most Tragic Irony
Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don't come from Gaza.
But watching the news shows, you'd think that history began yesterday, that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamist lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza – a rubbish dump of destitute people of no origin – and began firing missiles into peace-loving, democratic Israel, only to meet with the righteous vengeance of the Israeli air force. The fact that the five sisters killed in Jabalya camp had grandparents who came from the very land whose more recent owners have now bombed them to death simply does not appear in the story.
Both Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres said back in the 1990s that they wished Gaza would just go away, drop into the sea, and you can see why. The existence of Gaza is a permanent reminder of those hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who lost their homes to Israel, who fled or were driven out through fear or Israeli ethnic cleansing 60 years ago, when tidal waves of refugees had washed over Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War and when a bunch of Arabs kicked out of their property didn't worry the world ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-bombing-ashkelon-is-the-most-tragic-irony-1216228.html
Also related, from Mondoweiss:
Skyredoubt translated portions of a piece in Hebrew by Benny Tziper, in Haaretz, only Haaretz, and posted it on his flickr site.
[...]A nice man was there at the entrance to the museum, an invalid of IDF from the Yom Kippur War, who was born and lived all his life in Ashkelon. From his knowledge and enthusiasm one could tell that he loves the city very much. He had no problem telling me how in 1953 the Arabs were expelled, and the long process of looking for a new name for the place started (the Arab name was Majdl), till it was decided to call the place Ashkelon. The entire communications between the authorities regarding the cleansing of the city of Arabs and Hebrewisation of the name is exhibited in the museum. I think that nobody makes the connection today between the fact that the Qassams land on Ashkelon and the fact that poor Arabs who did nothing wrong to anybody were put on trucks and expelled from their city to Gaza fifty five years ago, and since then they are there and Ashkelon is here. And this did not happen in wartime or as a result of hostilities, but from a cold calculation that the area must be cleansed of Arabs. There is a picture in the museum that shows the Arabs sitting and waiting in front of the of Israeli military government building. It sends shivers down my spine because it happens in the year I was born. And it is really, really hard for me to realize that at the time that my parents were happy with my birth, other people were put on trucks and expelled from their homes.[...]
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"No One Accuses Us"
Israel is not to be accused of pederasty. (Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 82a)
In 2002 Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, slaps ABC reporter Brian Ross when asked about pederast founder of the Legionaries "of Christ" Marcial Maciel
Benedict to Bless Counterfeit Israel in May
The politicians and rabbis of counterfeit Israel have issued repeated invitations to Benedict XVI for a visit to that evil state since his election in 2005. Benedict and his spokesmen repeatedly replied that the conditions in "Israel" weren't right for a papal visit. The gullible may have taken this to mean that the pope opposed the humanitarian disaster taking place in the occupied territories, but now we know for certain that this wasn't even a consideration for the pope. He was merely holding out due to Israeli financial chicanery related to Vatican properties which he apparently has been led to believe will soon be settled after 14 years.
Note that days after the Vatican confirmed that it was planning for a papal visit to counterfeit Israel that the Israelis began showering the people of Gaza with U.S.-supplied bombs from their U.S.-supplied F-16's. And yes, these are the same people of Gaza whom the Israelis had prepared for these atrocities by confining them to a ghetto and depriving them of all basic life necessities for many months beforehand, cruelty which the Vatican has been quite mute about as far as I am aware. Benedict, in a grotesque mockery of papal diplomacy, has responded to these Israeli bombings with fake neutrality, equally condemning "violence" on both sides as if there were some parity between Gaza and "Israel" in these events and the conditions that preceded them. Benedict's response in essence would be somewhat similar to telling the Warsaw ghetto-confined "Jews" and the Nazis to stop fighting with each other (imagine the Judaic shrieking if that had happened!), and this from a man who is so often praised for his keen intellect. What a boost Benedict has given the Israelis who desire so much to exterminate the Palestinian people from Palestinian land and to accomplish this with the world thinking well of them for it.
There will be a Benedict XVI papal visit to that pit of evil which he calls the "Holy Land" and it seems that, now that their real estate issues may be close to a settlement, no war crimes or humanitarian disaster could stop it.
Pope trip to Holy Land still possible despite Gaza
By Phil Stewart
VATICAN CITY, Dec 28 (Reuters) - A possible trip by Pope Benedict to the Holy Land should not be written off because of the escalating conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Vatican's chief spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.
A papal trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, expected in the spring, would be significant for political and religious relations in the Middle East. It would also be the pope's first trip to the Holy Land since his election in 2005.
Rev. Federico Lombardi said that speculation in the Italian media that the Vatican was rethinking the trip because of the violence was "premature", even as the death toll neared 290 from the two-day Israeli offensive in Gaza.
"It's clear that (the Vatican) is following the situation, but it seems premature to say this incident is a determining or definitive factor," Lombardi said.
He added that the idea of a papal trip to the region had always been addressed "with a certain understanding that the situation is still a risky situation".
"The pope wants to make this trip. There have been contacts to prepare a draft programme and now we must wait to learn if there is a decision" to go ahead with it, he said, adding the final decision was up to the pontiff himself.
Benedict has repeatedly called for an end to the fighting in recent days, including during a high-profile appeal at Christmas. On Sunday, he pressed for all sides to abandon the "perverse logic of conflict and violence".
"The native land of Jesus cannot continue to be witness to so much bloodshed, repeating itself without end. I implore an end to that violence ... and for a renewal of the truce in the Gaza Strip," he told crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square.
The Vatican supports Israel's right to exist within secure borders alongside an independent Palestinian state and hopes a papal trip can help political and religious dialogue aimed at Middle East peace.
Two of Benedict's predecessors in modern times, John Paul II and Paul VI, also visited the Holy Land.
A trip by the pope to Israel could also help improve Catholic-Jewish relations, strained recently over wartime Pope Pius XII, accused by some Jews of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.
The Vatican says that while Pius did not speak out against the Holocaust, he worked behind the scenes to help Jews because direct intervention would have worsened the situation by prompting retaliation from Hitler. (Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLS338318.html
Israel, Vatican eager to finalize talks before papal visit
By Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Israeli and Vatican negotiators appear eager to finalize negotiations on fiscal and property matters prior to the pope's visit to the Holy Land, a source close to the negotiations said.
"Both the state of Israel and the representatives of the Holy See are very interested to finalize this," he said, adding that though he was unaware of any official policy, the pope's visit, reportedly in May, might be acting as an impetus for both sides to finish up negotiations.
In a statement following a plenary session at the Vatican Dec. 18, the negotiators said they have scheduled another plenary session for April 23 and four meetings of their working group which will take place starting in January with "the intent on both sides of accelerating the process and reaching an agreement as soon as possible."
The statement called the December meeting "significant and useful."
"Everybody is tired," said the source, who wished to remain anonymous. "The visit by the pope may be the time to finalize it."
Liars and thieves
What Does Christmas Have To Do With The Hanging Of Saddam Hussein?
According to Benedict's elder brothers in the faith, quite a lot. More arcana of the hateful rabbinic desecration of Christmas eve "Nitel Nacht" (Nativity Night of the Hanged One) is revealed here amidst many pious rationalizations for this extreme hatred based in delusional allegations of "not rivers, but oceans" of "Klal Yisael's blood" spilled by "Yeshu's" followers over the centuries "just because they were 'Jews'" ("Yeshu" being the hateful acronym for "may his [Jesus'] name be blotted out"). The depth and intensity of the rabbis' hatred for Jesus Christ strains credulity. What a solid basis for religious relations! What a fraud Benedict and the bishops are involved in.
Teves And Saddam
BY RAV ARYEHZ. GINZBERG
CHOFETZ CHAIM TORAH CENTER
Timing is everything. As Torah Jews, we accept certain beliefs of ours as the ultimate truth. One of these is that everything that happens in the world happens for Klal Yisrael—"ha'kol bishvil Yisrael." Another truth is that every-thing that happens is all for the good of Klal Yisrael—"kol d'avad Shemaya, le'tav avad." While at times it's hard to see the "good," especially in painful times, we know and believe in the depths of our collective neshamos that it is truly and completely good (and we will surely one day soon merit to finally understand all these painful events).
What is not that well known is that everything that happens to Klal Yisrael, for the good of Klal Yisrael, happens at a specific moment in time that also has great significance for us. A prominent example of just such timing is the selection of the month of Adar by the evil Haman to carry out his plan for the "final solution" of Klal Yisrael. But the choice of Adar, a significant month for the good mazal of Klal Yisrael, actually worked against him and helped turn around his plan "from yagon to simcha."
The hanging several days ago of Saddam Hussein, a decades-old enemy of Klal Yisrael, was not only an event of great significance, but its very timing was significant, as well.
We should never forget even for a moment the depth of this rasha's hatred for Klal Yisrael. Recall the raining down of Scud missiles on Eretz Yisrael more than a decade ago during the first Gulf War and the terrible fear that every Jew in Eretz Yisrael lived with day in and day out for weeks at end. Then there was the reward of $20,000 paid to every family of a suicide bomber after their murderous acts were performed, as an incentive for others to follow. The largest construction project for a new mosque built in one of the Arab villages in years was financed by this rasha as a reward for their having provided the most suicide bombers from one town (yemach shemam).
And so while we can take a deep sigh of relief (at least for the moment) at his death, it is important for us to focus briefly on the timing of his death. The Ramban writes that we can learn more about HaKadosh Baruch Hu's plans for Klal Yisrael from the timing of events than from the events themselves.
My son Dovid Simcha came home on Asarah B'Teves, a day when Klal Yisrael remembers the day when a siege was laid upon the Beis HaMikdash by Nevuchadnetzar's army, which finally destroyed the Beis HaMikdash three and a half years later, on Tishah B'Av.
This rasha, Saddam Hussein, made the very arrogant and frightful claim years ago that he is a reincarnation of his ancestor Nevuchadnetzar and will complete the job of removing Klal Yisrael from the face of the earth. How from yeshiva on Asarah B'Teves and shared with us an insight from his wonderful rebbi (Rav Shimon Finkelman), the sixth-grade rebbi at the wonderful Yeshiva Darchei Torah. The rebbi commented on the timing of Saddam's burial befitting to have his burial on the very day that we remember the evil of his infamous ancestor of more than two thousand years ago!
Allow me to share an insight of my own. The actual day of Saddam's hanging was an auspicious day, as well, for Klal Yisrael. The pre-dawn hanging took place on the day of the Jewish calendar known as tes Teves, the ninth day of Teves. The Mishnah in Maseches Ta'anis mentions three consecutive days of ta'anis, the only days of the year of consecutive fast days: the 8th, 9th, and 10th days of Teves. Today we only fast on the third of these days, which is Asarah B'Teves.
The Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 580:2) in describing the difficult fast days of the year makes reference to these three days, and when it comes to the 9th day of Teves, the mechaber writes "it's not known which terrible events took place on that day to warrant a fast day." (The same language is to be found in the Tur and in the Behag). The Mishnah Berurah, in quoting from the Magen Avraham, comments that we find in the Selichos which we recite on Asarah B'Teves that Ezra HaSofer died that day. (As to why the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch did not make reference to this fact of Ezra HaSofer's death, see Derashos Chasam Sofer and Sefer Ohr Gedalyah on Asarah B'Teves for an insightful explanation).
However, there is another explanation found in rishonim as to what the tragic events of the 9th day of Teves were, that makes it easier to understand why the Shulchan Aruch chose to write the words "we do not know what tragic event took place on that day."
The Tosfeos Chadashim (on Maseches Ta'anis) explains that the birth of "Yeshu HaNatzri" took place on tekufas Teves, which on the year of his birth fell out on the 9th day of Teves. Our Chachamim decreed a ta'anis on that very day for all the pain and suffering that Klal Yisrael would go through at the hands of his followers over the millennia. Not rivers, but oceans of blood have been spilled by the followers of the church in every corner of the world—through blood libels, pogroms, crusades, inquisitions, and forced conversions. Taking all of this suffering into account, the fast of the ninth day of Teves has that much more significance to us.
We can now understand why the Tur and Shulchan Aruch wrote that the tragic events of this day are not known, for it would be instant death at the hands of the Christian censors to write such "blasphemy," and so they instead chose to write that the events of that day are not known to us.
While there is no direct source for this being the date of Yeshu's birth, the sefarim ha'kedoshim reveal it to us in the acronym of his description itself. He is referred to in sifrei rishonim (see Terumas HaDeshen, Meiri in his introduction to Avos, and Tosefos HaRosh in Sotah 47a) as the "Nitel one" (meaning the one who was hanged). The four letters of the Hebrew spelling of "nitel" spell out the words "Nolad Yeshu Tes LeTeves" ("Yeshu was born on the 9th day of Teves").
As to the specific year of his birth, there is much discussion in the rishonim, as well. Some rishonim claim that he was a student of Rabbi Yehoshuaben Perachia, who lived about 180 years before the churban Bayis Sheini (see Raavad in Sefer Kabballah, Sefer Eshkol, Tosefos Chachmei Angliah on Sanhedrin 77a), and others claim he lived in the days of Hilni Hamalkah around 70 years before the churban (see Tosefos HaRosh Sotah 47a; Hagahos HaYaivetz, Avodah Zara 17a) (A more detailed explanation of Yesha's life and death in the words of Chazal are beyond the purview of our discussion, and will iy'H be discussed in greater detail in a subsequent article.)
So tekufas Teves is a period in the Jewish calendar that not only ushers in the winter season but brings along a dark period where the world is filled with what the Chachmei Kabbalah refer to as "Klipas HaTumah." It is during this period that the negative forces of spiritual impurity are allowed to penetrate even the atmosphere of
kedushah in Klal Yisrael, hence the ancient minhag of Chassidim of not learning Torah on nitel nacht. And it is only in such a period of Tekufas Teves, of spiritual impurity, that such a powerful force of tumah could be created that would wreak havoc and destruction on Klal Yisrael for 2,000 years.
There are various minhagim as to when nitel nacht actually is. Some hold it's December 25; others hold January 6 (some, like the Minchas Elazar, hold both); however, the early mekubalim actually hold it's on tekufas Teves itself, which has been identified by the date of the 9th day of Teves.
And so I wondered, what is the message to us that the Nevuchadnetzar of our day—that evil, Jew-hating rasha, Saddam Hussein—was hanged on the very day of tes Teves, the day recorded in sefarim as the birth of the Nitel one (the one who was hanged)!
While Hashem's ways are hidden from us, I see a possible message of chizuk to us. Over the generations, as our forefathers were murdered and butchered just for being Jews, what did we do? We davened the words "dam avadav yikom," retribution shall be exacted by Him, by HaKadosh Baruch Hu himself.
Over the last 20 or so years, we suffered Scud attacks and suicide bombers financed by that evil person, and we were unable to respond. Our only response was taking siddur in hand and crying out in unison, "dam avodov yikom." And what has happened?
In just a few years, without our firing a shot, HaKadosh Baruch Hu has placed one of the chasidei umos ha'olam in the highest position in this country, and that rasha in Iraq has been brought to his knees, humiliated, and finally hanged on the gallows—not just at any time, but on tes Teves, the day of the birth of the "Nitel one."
Just maybe the hopeful message to us is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will continue to be yikom, to exact retribution on all the evil forces that have caused us so much suffering over so many years. The navi promises us that the very day of Asarah B'Teves, which is referred to as the day of "aschalta deperunsia" (the beginning of our punishment) will one day be turned into a day of yagon, sasson, and simcha for all eternity. May it happen speedily in our day!
http://www.5tjt.com/pdfs/20060105_Issue.pdf.pdf
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St. John The Baptist Contra Benedict XVI
"And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, [John the Baptist] said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire" (Matthew 3:7-10; Luke 3:7-9).
St. John the Baptist said these words to people who were true physical descendants of Abraham. He chastised them for their racial pride telling them that their descent from Abraham profits them nothing without repentance and good fruits and that God can raise up anyone--even stones--to be Israel if it pleases Him to do so.
Now, let us turn to Benedict XVI seeing many Pharisees of counterfeit Israel coming to him who claim to have Abraham for their father but do not, who produce rotten fruits in abundance and who are notoriously unrepentant. Benedict revels with them in their delusion telling them:
Dear friends, it is with great pleasure that I meet with you this evening ... we share a relationship that should be strengthened and lived ... we know that these fraternal bonds constitute a continual invitation to know and to respect one another better ... the Catholic Church ... respects the children of the Promise, the children of the Covenant, as her beloved brothers and sisters in the faith ...
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080912_parigi-juive_en.html
Learn how many of Benedict XVI's beloved elder brothers and sisters in the rabbinic faith who he calls "children of the Promise," and "children of the Covenant," secretly express their hatred towards Jesus Christ and His followers on Christmas Eve:
How Benedict's Elder Brothers Observe Christmas Eve
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Black Hats Impose Their Metal and PVC Eyesores 2008
To the "goyim" the black hats say these ugly structures that they put up in front of U.S. official buildings are symbols of "light" and "unity" of "the nations." But, among themselves they say:
"It's a brazen mark of influence, especially as the menorah lighting claims to speak for an American Jewish community that traditionally has been uncomfortable with displays of belief on public land." ("Chabad's man makes mark in D.C.," Ron Kampeas, Washington Jewish Week, December 12, 2005)
Yes, and it's also a brazen mark of chutzpah and hypocrisy, given that the "displays of belief" that the "American Jewish Community" is most "uncomfortable" with, based upon the incessant shrieking and litigation, are Christian symbols. I haven't witnessed discomfort with these ridiculous 20 and 30 foot-tall metal and PVC menorahs in front of court buildings, the White House, etc., on the part of the "American Jewish Community."
White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten second from left, Rabbis Abraham Shemtov, left, Levi Shemtov and Nachman Holtzberg, right, light the so-called National Hanukkah Menorah, at the Ellipse, near the White House during a lighting ceremony marking the beginning of the celebration of the Hanukkah, Sunday Dec. 21, 2008. Associated Press.
Orthodox Judaic Attorney General Mukasey to Light 30' tall Menorah on White House Lawn
Who Will Call for the Separation of the Synagogue of Satan and State?
Perpetual Purim, Reversal/Hippuch
Iraq: A Judaic Conquest
Everything's Kosher in Washington D.C.
How Wisconsin Bishop Listecki and His Flock Observe Advent
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Rama Coomaraswamy and the Great Game
Carrie Tomko has written on a topic I've been researching for a while but haven't mentioned so far due to a few research difficulties.
Rama Coomaraswamy, son of alleged Aleister Crowley associate Ananda Coomaraswamy, was at the center of the splintering of the traditional Catholic movement into warring factions at the time when it's leverage was the strongest. He was quite similar to his friend Malachi Martin in the depth of his deception and subversion, his skill as a masquerader, the damage he caused, and how he was able to pull it off with many of the victims of his swindle regarding him as a saint. He was a true "Kim:" Freemason Rudyard Kipling's character in his book by the same name. Please read Carrie Tomko's blog posting and especially the comments section which I've added to here:
http://carrietomko.blogspot.com/2008/12/dangers-of-far-right-some-of-you-may.html
Anyone who can help fill in some of the blanks in this story please email me:
mauricepinay@yahoo.com
I'm particularly interested in Rama's grandfather Muthu Coomaraswamy who was a politician in Columbo Sri Lanka, knighted by Queen Victoria (as were two of Ananda Coomaraswamy's cousins). Also of interest is Jose Ramon Lopez-Gaston who presided over the strange ordination ritual involving Rama Coomaraswamy and Malachi Martin documented here:
http://www.the-pope.com/validity.html
Also of interest is Rama Coomaraswamy's 38 yr. affiliation with Yeshiva University where he was an assistant professor of cardiology and psychology. This is not too remarkable given that his mother was of Judaic descent (Luisa Runstein) which would qualify him in the eyes of the yidden as a "Jew" (Malachi Martin also claimed Judaic descent):
Rama P. Coomaraswamy, born in 1929, received his early education in an orthodox Hindu school in India. He then lived in England (where he obtained his Oxford Matriculation) and in the USA (where he graduated in geology from Harvard University). Then he studied medicine, graduating in 1959, and spent eight years in medical training, and then thirty years as a heart surgeon and assistant professor at the Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Because of his own heart ailment, he retired from surgery but retained his position as assistant professor in psychiatry in the same college.
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102008/394.pdf
In the audio interview with fellow Sophia Perennis traveller, William Kennedy, linked to below, Rama Coomaraswamy speaks of his association with Malachi Martin. He also randomly offers a tale about Aleister Crowley calling for a Catholic priest on his deathbed(!?!) There are many tales circulating regarding strange phenomenon related to Crowley's death; that he cursed his doctor for withholding heroin and caused his death, etc., but this is the wildest I've heard--Aleister Crowley died repentant in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church! (and was subsequently cremated). Rama Coomaraswamy has said it! Rama also describes the change of the words of consecration in the new Mass with the curious phrase, "chutzpah." He has described the change in the same way in other interviews:
http://www.lulu.com/content/180832
Like Malachi Martin, Rama Coomaraswamy was a prankster who preyed on the credulous.
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News From the Occupied Pennsylvania Diocese
If some wealthy Catholics were to donate millions of dollars (yeah, right!) to Yeshiva University earmarked for the construction of a center for remembrance of the Bolshevik/Soviet Holocaust against Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Armenian and other Christian ethnic groups and how the rabbis' genocidal, racist teachings paved the road to that Holocaust via Moses Hess and Freemasonry, they would surely build it in the spirit of reciprocity and fairness ... wouldn't they?
In truth, even that wouldn't bring parity which isn't even desirable to begin with. 'Jewish'-Catholic relations is completely irredeemable. A total fraud.
"Tikkun Olam" indeed.
A Brief Study in Judeo-Masonic Double Standards
Cherished friends
Seton Hill President JoAnne Boyle calls Ethel LeFrak and her family "cherished friends" of the university.
Cherished, indeed.
Mrs. LeFrak, of New York City, has donated $750,000 to Seton Hill's National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education.
The money will go toward endowing the Greensburg center's Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference and creating The Ethel LeFrak Student Scholars of the Holocaust Fund.
The conference, held every three years, is for teachers and faculty members, mainly at Catholic schools. The intent is to enhance Catholic-Jewish understanding.
The fund will provide annual scholarships for students studying the Holocaust and related subjects.
The National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education is the only center of its kind. It was established in 1987.
One of the founders was Sister Gemma Del Duca, a Greensburg native and a Sister of Charity who now lives in Israel. She said in a statement from the university: "Ethel LeFrak's generosity will help with the challenge that remains before us -- to join our Jewish sisters and brothers in the great task of 'Tikkun Olam,' the mending of the world through reconciliation, understanding and education."
Mrs. LeFrak and her family are involved in a number of philanthropic endeavors. Seton Hill granted her an honorary doctorate in 1996. ("Good Morning: East," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 04, 2008)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08339/932513-56.stm
... Year-round, Catholic and Jewish high schools in the [Western Pennsylvania] region have an exchange program in which rabbis visit Catholic schools and priests visit Jewish schools to educate students about their religious differences and similarities. They've shared in holiday traditions, such as the Catholic students taking part in a Passover Seder meal.
"Because we share a common history with Judaism, it was thought that we should try to honor that by getting together," said Don Teti, assistant superintendent for secondary schools in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Near the holidays, Linda Pricer, principal and teacher at St. Bartholomew Catholic School in Penn Hills, incorporates a lesson about the Holocaust into her eighth-grade literature class.
"It's mostly for tolerance," she said. "To teach the students that we have to step up and that if there's ever going to be a change in this world, we have to do it. When better to teach that lesson than now, during the holidays, when there is so much love and giving?" ("Season gives teachers chance to teach cultural differences," Allison M. Heinrichs, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 4, 2008)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/east/s_601057.html
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The Rabbis' Anti-Black Teachings of Hatred in Practice
News from "Israel:"
Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent report rising number of racially motivated verbal attacks from Hebron youths; Druze officers also suffer racist remarks ... "Niggers don't expel Jews! This isn't what we brought you to Israel for!" are just some of the degrading slurs Border Guard officers reported hearing from masked settlers.
Judaic apologists for these reports are leading "goys" down a dead end, hairsplitting over the translation and etymology of the term "Cush" and whether this would directly translate to English as "nigger." This is besides the fact that a large percentage of Hebron settlers are from the U.S., speak English as their first language and have as clear an understanding of the meaning and use of the term "nigger" as any American.
Many settlers came from America, believing they were ordained by God to take back the whole of their biblical land, and if they cede ground in Hebron, then Jews could lose all of Israel. "We are the head of the spear," says Nomi Horovitz, "guarding not only Hebron but all of our country." ("Over Their dead Bodies," Time, Nov. 04, 1996)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985411-2,00.html
There is no biblical basis for the anti-black racism demonstrated by these Israeli "settlers." The foundations of this racism is with the sages of rabbinic Judaism and their racist writings.
see: Judaism Discovered, pp. 499-501; 505-513
Dr. Tony Martin: African slave trade
What we have here is a fine example of the dispensational, situation "ethics" aspect of Judaism at work. The Israeli "settlers" who today smear African people as "niggers" wouldn't dare use that term openly against African-Americans when they lived in Long Island, or Los Angeles. The Israeli dispensation is different than the "diaspora" U.S. dispensation. In the U.S. where Judaics are a small minority they form golems out of the many "tribes" and pit them against each other thereby strengthening their "tribe" and weakening the others. This is why in the U.S., African-Americans can often be seen with a rabbi's arm around them, kosher-approving them and empowering them, granting them nearly the same P.C. protected status that Judaics themselves enjoy.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (2nd from r.) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (4th from r.) in the Selma to Montgomery "Civil Rights" March in 1965.
See: Kabbalist Vatican II, "Civil Rights" Change Agent Honored
But in Hebron, where Judaics are an empowered majority and the other tribes are already weakened and disadvantaged, the traditions and mandates of Judaism, which might otherwise cause a backlash if practiced openly where Judaics are a minority, come to the fore.
This dispensational system is clearly laid out by Moses Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah Avodat Kochavim where he mandates that Judaic doctors are forbidden from offering medical attention to dying non-Judaics, even for pay, plain and simple. But what is a Judaic doctor to do if following this crazy, racist mandate were to cause him difficulty or cause "The Jews" to be viewed negatively, say in a nation of empowered "Gentiles" where Judaics are a minority? Maimonides has accounted for this: ' ... but if you fear him or his hostility, cure him for payment, though you are forbidden to do so without payment' (cf Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion) and see:
New York Times Reveals Talmudic Basis for Legalistic Murder of Goys, Fake Benevolence.
Such base tribalism, insane situation ethics and deception from these "covenant people," "eternally persecuted," "elder brothers in the faith" is unfathomable to most non-Judaics, particularly Christians. Today, the Vatican and most western authorities are complicit in perpetuating this confusion.
Settlers to Ethiopian troops: Niggers don't expel Jews
Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent report rising number of racially motivated verbal attacks from Hebron youths; Druze officers also suffer racist remarks
Danny Adino Ababa - Israel News
Not only do they serve long and tiring hours in the reserve forces, and not only are they forced to deal with violent clashes with settlers, but now, Border Guard officers of Ethiopian descent are also faced with rising racism.
"Niggers don't expel Jews! This isn't what we brought you to Israel for!" are just some of the degrading slurs Border Guard officers reported hearing from masked settlers.
During the violent clashes between Israeli forces and settlers in Hebron on Tuesday "a bunch of veiled people started yelling at us: Who are you to expel us from our home? An Ethiopian does not expel a Jew! A nigger does not expel a Jew!" one Border Guard officer of Ethiopian descent recounted.
"I just didn't know what to do with myself," he said.
Officers 'deeply offended' by remarks
And it turns out this was not the only such incident to take place. Another officer reported that while arriving to make an arrest about a week and-a-half ago, a group of youths verbally attacked him saying, "Who told you to come and evacuate us? You Ethiopians. What are you, this State's niggers? Olmert's niggers?"
The officers said they were deeply offended by these remarks, but stressed that the ones making them were settler youths coming from outside of Hebron, and not the residents of the Jewish settlement or Kiryat Arba, who have treated them with respect.
Border Guard sources reported that racist remarks were also made against Druze soldiers. "We knew that this would happen so we instructed our officers in advance," said a source.
"We harshly condemn those extremists that bring a bad name to an entire public by using racial slurs against Border Guard fighters that spend night and day protecting residents of the West Bank.
"As part of the preparations for the mission the fighters were instructed to ignore such comments and carry out their mission with the utmost professionalism."
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Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel: Dr Jim West: Maybe They Would Like to be Spit On Too…
This links to a brief article on a topic which thankfully is getting a bit more exposure, that being the practice of spitting at Christians and crosses worn around their necks common among Orthodox Judaics in the Zionist state.
For more on this and similar centuries-old traditions of Orthodox Judaism intended to humiliate Christians and desecrate and curse Christian churches and symbols see: Reckless Rites, by Elliot Horowitz, Jewish History Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak and Judaism Discovered, by Michael A. Hoffman.
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Trump labor pick in 2011 on his fast-food workers: We hire 'the best of the worst'
by Andrew Kaczynski @CNNMoney January 23, 2017: 5:03 PM ET
Andrew Puzder in 60 seconds
In two speeches in 2011, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor, fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, described the employees hired at his restaurants as the "best of the worst" available in the employment pool.
Puzder, who is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the company that operates the fast-food chains Hardee's and Carl's Jr., is scheduled to appear before a Senate committee on Feb. 2 for his confirmation hearing. Puzder has drawn criticism from Democrats and organized labor for his opposition to several of their key policy priorities, including a $15 federal minimum wage and the Labor department's overtime rule.
Speaking to a students of Westmont College in February 2011, Puzder discussed the changes he made at CKE when he initially took over as its chief executive.
"Our turnover was about 300% a year. Which means everybody quit. There were some people that stayed that were lifers at Hardee's," Puzder can be heard saying in an audio recording of the speech archived on iTunes and reviewed by CNN's KFile. "But most people were coming and working three months and then going somewhere else. It's not like if you run a fast food company you're hiring graduates of MIT or people that were gonna go work for Microsoft, you know.
"In the employment pool, you're hiring the best of the worst. You know, it's kind of the bottom of the pool. And at Hardee's it was so bad, we were hiring the worst of the worst and hoping they would stay."
Puzder echoed these comments later that year in a speech to California State University, a recording of which is available on UStream.
"In fast food, you sort of compete for the best of the worst," Puzder said. "In other words, you're not getting the Microsoft guys. At Hardee's we were getting the worst of the worst. Nobody wanted to work at Hardee's. It was complicated to work there, we had to change our network systems, our menu was too complicated we had to simplify it."
A Trump administration official pointed CNN's KFile to CKE for comment. A request for comment from the restaurant group has not been returned.
As Labor secretary, Puzder would oversee workplace issues and enforce current laws and regulations related to employer-employee relations. Democrats have voiced their opposition to Puzder, who has been critical of regulations passed under President Obama, including provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
Puzder's blunt assessment of his workforce differs from other, more aspirational comments he has made in public on the same subject.
In a May 2011 radio interview, Puzder described the jobs at his restaurant as meaningful and important. He also noted that he was able to hire college graduates in California because of the state's high unemployment rate.
"In California, 86% of our employees are minorities and 63% are female. You talk about McJobs, you kind of don't hear that anymore," he said. "These are very, very meaningful jobs and important jobs, and we're now getting college grads applying for some of these jobs, particularly in California, where the unemployment is so high. I can actually now hire people where English is a first language, a few years ago that wasn't the case."
In testimony before the Senate in 2014, Puzder described the pride and fulfillment he saw in CKE workers.
"As CEO, I've watched young men and women enter the labor force in our restaurants for over 14 years," he said. "I've seen the pride and determination that leads to success in their careers and lives. Some move on to other jobs and challenges equipped with the experience you can only get from a paying job. Others stay, aspiring to move up to managerial positions. There's nothing more fulfilling than seeing new and unskilled employees work their way up to managing a restaurant."
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EXPLAINED | More Air Defence, More Sanctions: A Look At Ukraine's Asks
Last Updated: March 17, 2022, 19:01 IST
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a virtual address to Congress by video at the Capitol in Washington, on March 16, 2022. (AP Photo)
US has worked with other Western and Western-allied nations to already impose what are jointly some of the toughest sanctions ever leveled against a country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Congress on Wednesday he was grateful for US help against invading Russian forces but pressed for more — more military aid to combat Russian warplanes, more blowback for Russia's politicians and economy.
Already, the United States has worked with other Western and Western-allied nations to impose what are jointly some of the toughest sanctions ever leveled against a country. That includes sanctions against Russia's financial institutions and systems, bans on much of its international trade, and individual sanctions targeting many of the defense officials, civilian leaders and oligarchs in Russia's power structure.
Here's a look at Zelenskyy's other asks of the United States on Wednesday.
A NO-FLY ZONE — OR AN ALTERNATIVE
As expected, Zelenskyy in his appeal to the world's superpower Wednesday renewed a request he has made repeatedly throughout the 3-week-old invasion: Western creation of a no-fly zone to block the Russian warplanes now attacking Ukraine's cities and other civilian targets.
"Is this too much to ask," so that "Russia would not be able to terrorize our cities?" the Ukrainian leader asked US lawmakers listening, rapt, by video.
The US has joined NATO in flatly rejecting creating a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which is not a member of the NATO bloc and is not protected by its defense pact.
Setting up such a zone would likely entail Western air forces directly engaging with Russia's military. That would greatly increase the chances of a broader war between Russia and NATO members, something Biden says he's not willing to risk for Ukraine. So would providing Ukraine with MiG fighter jets and a US or NATO base to fly them out of, something else that the US and NATO have said no to.
Notably, however, Zelenskyy also presented another option to the no-fly zone.
"If this is too much to ask, we offer you an alternative," Zelenskyy said, leveraging the tougher ask to push for an easier one. He then asked for the Soviet-era S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, or "similar systems."
The S-300s use long-range missiles that are capable of flying hundreds of miles and knocking down cruise missiles as well as warplanes. The Soviet-era anti-air defense systems could be valuable in Ukraine continuing to defy Russia control of its skies, and in thwarting Russian air attacks on cities and other targets.
NATO members Bulgaria, Slovakia and Greece have the S-300s. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to discuss a possible deal that would get some of those S-300s to Ukraine when he visits Bulgaria and Slovakia this week.
Slovakia has no objections to providing its S-300s to Ukraine, Slovak Defense Ministry spokesperson Martina Koval Kakascikova told The Associated Press. "But we can't get rid of a system that protects our airspace if we don't have any replacement."
Any such transfer could be a three-country swap, with the US or other NATO country providing Patriots or other air defense system to make up for any S-300s passed on to Ukraine.
Ukraine already has a few S-300s. And Ukrainian fighters already are using simpler anti-aircraft systems like Stingers, a simple shoulder-mounted missile that uses an infrared sensor to blow up low-flying aircraft, effectively against Russian aircraft, denying Russian forces control over Ukraine's skies, US military officials say.
Russia has a history of relying on warplanes and missiles to level cities and crush resistance in offensives in Chechnya and Syria.
Ukraine's resistance to Russian forces, the horrifying toll on Ukraine's people, and its charismatic president's appeals, have Biden and lawmakers of both parties in Congress rushing to provide military and humanitarian support, within the limits Biden is setting in hopes of avoiding a broader war. The support includes a more than $13 billion legislative package Biden signed Tuesday.
MORE SANCTIONS
Zelenskyy also appealed to the US to intensify its already punishing package of financial sanctions against Russia, including hitting all the sitting members of Russia's Duma and every other politician in office in Russia.
"In the darkest time for our country we call on you," he said, speaking to lawmakers who rose to their feet repeatedly to applaud the Ukrainian leader. "New packages of sanctions are needed every week until the Russian military stops."
The US, European nations and other world allies from the first days of Russia's invasion enacted some of the toughest financial penalties in history. US officials said the measures would cut Russia off from much of the world's financial systems and trade, starve it of high tech and other imports, send the value of the Russian ruble plunging, and eventually plunge Russia into recession.
A steady stream of individual sanctions have also targeted powerful businesspeople and senior military and civilian officials in Russian President Vladimir Putin's power structure, as well as their family members.
The status of any consideration of sweeping US sanctions against Russian lawmakers wasn't immediately known Wednesday. Notably, however, Biden pointed out in first announcing the start of sanctions over Putin's invasion last month that the Russian leader was acting with the approval of Russia's Duma.
'MAKE SURE THE RUSSIANS DO NOT RECEIVE A SINGLE PENNY'
Zelenskyy urged US companies still doing business in Russia to leave. He asked lawmakers to pressure any holdout businesses in their districts to get out.
"American companies must leave Russia's market because it is flooded with our blood," he said.
"Make sure that the Russians do not receive a single penny that they use to destroy our people in Ukraine" and for the "destruction of our country and the destruction of Europe."
According to a list kept by Yale's School of Management, 147 US corporations have announced since Russia launched its invasion that they are pulling out of that country entirely.
Another 173 US companies have said they are suspending operations.
With support in the West strong for Ukraine, and threats of boycotts of companies still doing business there, another roughly 70 American companies have said they are scaling back operations or holding off on new investment, but remaining.
Steady public pressure has helped winnow the total of companies that have made no announced change to their operations in Russia to fewer than 40, according to a list maintained by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management.
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Q: IPTables - 2 Nics - Private - Public - Private route I have a CentOS 7 with 2 NICs (enp1s0 - private LAN 192.168.0.0/24 and enp0s29u1u1 - public) that I use as a gateway / router via iptables. All PCs on the private LAN connect to the internet via the gateway. Also, I have some services on the private LAN that I can access from anywhere, I use port forwarding for these services. For example, I have a web server on 192.168.0.77 port 80 that I can also access from anywhere via the public IP given by my ISP, the rule to to this is:
-A PREROUTING -d my_public_ip -i enp0s29u1u1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.77:80

The problem with this rule is that I can access the site: www.mysite.com when I am not at my local network, but when I am using the local network, it only works through the private IP: 192.168.0.77.
The complete rule I have right now is:

What other rule should I add to be able to access the web server from my local network using the public IP?

A: You have bound the port forwarding rule to the external interface
but your traffic from the local network arrives at the internal interface of the gateway. Therefore this traffic is not forwarded to the web server.
Simply making the port forwarding available for all interfaces is just a part of the solution.
Then your connection attempts to the external address would be forwarded to the web server
but the return packets from the web server would go directly to your client in the lan and the addresses would not match (the client sends to the external address and gets an answer from the internal address).
To make the web server accessible with the external address from within the local network,
you have to:

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*make port forwarding available for all interfaces

*masquerade traffic destined for the web server and coming from the local network to the local address of the gateway.

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Irish studies flourish in Quebec - Macleans.ca
Irish studies flourish in Quebec
Concordia's new area studies course is the only one of its kind in Canada
by Josh Dehaas
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Only a tenth of Canada's 4.4 million Canadians of Irish ancestry call Quebec home. And yet, it's the epicentre of research on the Emerald Isle.
Concordia University's School of Canadian Irish Studies—the only one of its kind in Canada—will have more than 700 students enrolled this fall, studying everything from the Great Famine to James Joyce. The first ever bachelor of arts in Canadian Irish studies will begin in January. "The success of Irish studies at Concordia is quite striking," says Will Straw, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, "particularly since these kinds of 'area' studies programs are having difficulty in other universities."
Interest in Ireland is especially high in Quebec, says Michael Kenneally, principal of the Concordia school. "Here in Quebec, if you're interested in cultural nationalism, colonialism, post-imperial identities, partition and decolonization, rebellion and independence, Ireland is a case study for all of that." And, he adds, "preserving the Irish language has a lot of resonance in Quebec."
And, it seems, for the government of Jean Charest, who claims Irish ancestry through his late mother; it gave $2.5 million to the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, which gives all of its money to Concordia. Brian Gallery, former Westmount mayor, helped add nearly $7 million to the foundation's pot of gold.
While no one knows why exactly La Belle Province is so enthusiastic about Ireland, surely their shared history tells part of the story. Both Quebec and Ireland have had secession movements, a history of Catholic-Protestant tensions, and share the same former colonial master.
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While we can still get answers by typing into a search box, voice is proving to be a more powerful tool. Voice-activated assistants are helping us write, shop, find answers, and provide suggestions. And they can even (quite literally) save our lives—as evidenced in how the American Heart Association is taking advantage of voice-activated services to help reduce delays in medical care response for heart attack and stroke patients.
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With this growing battle for space on the kitchen counter and a world where ad-blocking has become a significant issue, marketers need to understand voice AI mechanisms and how voice-activated companions are driving a host of new behaviors. Too often, marketers don't spend enough time trying to understand their audience and if the content will resonate with the interests of the target market. Make sure you understand your consumers—their intent, interests, and interactions—so that you can provide the best customer experience.
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If you've watched HBO's Westworld series (or almost any science fiction movie, where robots overpower humans), you can see that the "machines" are quick learners. The hosts (or personal assistants) are extremely human-like but don't feel exactly like we do. However, they are capable of understanding our emotions, reacting to expressive cues, solving our problems, and personalizing responses. One interaction between Bernard and Dolores demonstrates that science fiction can imitate real life, with the statement: "You're growing and learning so quickly. I'm frightened of what you might become — what path you might take." Of course, there is nothing to fear on this course to this new AI-first world (yet), except to be left behind on this journey.


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This incredible video from the Gardner Institute's Coal Country Strike Team was shown before the keynote talk. It tells the story really well.
"As a society, we face an economic, environmental, and moral imperative to combat global climate change. The benefits are widespread but the costs are concentrated. Nowhere is this more evident than in America's coal country. Changes must be made. But let's not leave behind the people who have made the greatest sacrifice. Coal helped build this country. And America's coal transition belongs to all of us. This is why Utah's coal country supports an innovative roadmap to help our community prosper once again."


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