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Lockdown leads Londoners to seek out Scottish schools
The Scottish Council of Independent Schools has reported a rise in inquiries from London and city-based families since the first lockdown. Why are so many Londoners now eyeing up schools north of the border?
Simon Flemington moved his three teenage children, Tom, Cecily and Hope from state schools in Kensington to Gordonstoun just before lockdown. Wild swimming, camping in the hills and sailing around the West Coast of Scotland are a far cry from Portobello Road.
Simon Flemington with his three children at Gordonstoun.
(Credit: Chris Watt )
"At the start of this week my 14 year old daughter was on an eight-mile hike; last week my 18 year old son was hiking across mountains for three days with a guide at least a kilometre away from him at all times," he says. "It would be very hard to replicate these experiences anywhere else."
Like all students, London children also are immersed in Scottish culture: they are encouraged to play the drums or bagpipes, dance a reel in a ceilidh and recite Rabbie Burns, all to help develop an emotional connection to the school community and its location.
"There is an authentic, more identifiable culture that Scottishness has over Englishness that is wrapped up in history, habits and proximity to sky and rugged landscape," explains Mr Flemington, who has now also swapped London for the Highlands and is living a short distance from the school. Despite being less selective than English schools, hefty numbers of children at Scottish boarding schools still make it to Oxbridge and to Scottish universities, which also attract huge numbers of English students
For his London-centric children, Gordonstoun may have been a culture shock at first, but it's also been the making of them, he says; they still love city life but they now also appreciate hills and wildlife and can navigate a sailing boat in a choppy sea. "They're more resilient all round," he says. "And they've had a great time teaching their boarding school friends their London street patois."
You can read more about this story in the Daily Telegraph

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It's time for liberal Jewish bodies to take a stand
Robert Cohen on July 23, 2014 43 Comments
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, senior rabbi to UK's Reform Jewish community
A letter to Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to the UK Movement for Reform Judaism, first posted at Robert Cohen's site.
Dear Rabbi Laura,
I listened to the Gaza conflict debate on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme on Tuesday 22 July. I was grateful that you were willing to take part in a discussion, alongside journalist Mira Bar-Hillel, that demonstrated to listeners that there are a variety of views within the UK Jewish community when it comes to Israel, and in particular what's happening right now.
It was good to hear you stay well clear of the Israeli government lines that are being used to justify the killing of so many civilians, including at least 132 children (so far).
Most of the UK pro-Israel comments I have read in the last two weeks have avoided any attempt at historical context – the decades of occupation, the seven year siege of Gaza, and the economic and social collapse this has led to. They certainly avoid referring to the immediate timeline that led to the renewed violence – Israeli missile attacks on Gaza following the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers and the arrest of hundreds of Hamas supporters on the West Bank.
Instead this is what we get:
"What country could tolerate rockets rained down on its people?"
"They use their children as human shields."
"We are acting in self-defence."
"We value human life…they celebrate death."
"What would any other country do?"
"We warn them to move out before we strike."
"We only target known Hamas operatives."
"They choose the telegenic dead to gain world sympathy."
In contrast, Rabbi Laura, you showed common humanity and reflected how emotionally torn many in the Jewish UK community must be feeling right now. These were your comments that I noted down from the radio discussion yesterday:
"People feel absolutely frightened by what's happening…There is empathy for people on both sides…I have seen people in front of me weeping for civilians on both sides…They understand how complicated it is…We are Pro-Israeli and Pro-Palestinian."
Having grown-up in the UK Reform movement, I recognise your more nuanced understanding of the situation and the desire to uphold Jewish ethical values. Unlike many Jewish/Israeli voices I hear, you are not attempting to dehumanise the Palestinian people nor claim that they all hate Jews and only want the "destruction of the State of Israel".
I very much welcome your stand because it is so much better than most of what I am hearing.
But at the end of the day it fails to address the real situation that Judaism and the Jewish Diaspora community is facing. Our treatment of the Palestinians is the greatest challenge to us today. Right now we are failing that challenge with horrific consequences.
There is clearly a line that you, and your fellow Reform and Liberal rabbis, are unwilling to cross – at least in public. It is a line that, in crossing, would put you in direct opposition to the current government of the State of Israel.
Prayers for both Israelis and Palestinians, and acknowledgement of the deaths and suffering happening on both sides of the conflict, may look like good morality and feel like ethical responsibility.
But it's not.
In the end it's a moral cop-out.
At the end of the day you have to make a stand. You have to cross the line.
You have to decide, which side has the real the power? Which side has the real weaponry?
You have to decide, who are the oppressed and who are the oppressors?
We are taught to seek justice and speak truth unto power. As the Hebrew prophets discovered, this can quickly put you at odds with your own community and its leadership. But what else should Judaism stand for? The Reform and Liberal movements have upheld the tradition of prophetic Judaism for more than two centuries. But that tradition needs to be acted upon to be truly honoured.
If Israel is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation, then it will have to sit down and talk to Hamas. It will have to end its blockade of Gaza and allow its people to rebuild their economy.
If Israel really wants 'peace' rather than merely 'quiet', it will have to acknowledge Hamas as legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people, along with Fatah. It will have to negotiate with a Palestinian Unity government, rather than attempt to destroy it.
If you, and your rabbinical colleagues, want to make a real difference in the name of Jewish values then this is what you need to be talking about, very clearly and very loudly.
It will take great courage and conviction and you will need to draw deep into the well of Jewish ethics.
The time is over when expressing sorrow for both sides and insisting on the 'complexity' of the situation is enough…if it ever was.
At the end of the day, you have to make a stand. You have to cross the line. I hope you will feel able to do this before it is too late for the Palestinians and for Israel.
With all best wishes and encouragement for your work.
Robert Cohen, author Micah's Paradigm Shift
Robert Cohen
Cohen is a British writer. He blogs at Micah's Paradigm Shift. http://micahsparadigmshift.blogspot.co.uk/
Other posts by Robert Cohen.
seafoid on July 23, 2014, 2:16 pm
Give us a break talking about liberal Judaism- come back when you have neutralized people like the Dersh and Adelson. Something like the von Stauffenberg attempt of July 1944 is required. The extremists are walking all over you.
A lot of liberal Jewish bodies are taking a stand at airline counters in Turkey wondering when they are going to be able to get home and presumably whining about how Khamas is ruining their holidays and business trips, as if Israel should somehow be immune from the contingency of life, in the country that runs the 47 year old occupation and has suddenly started paying for it.
" If Israel is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation" and my aunt grows a pair of elf ears .
Israel was never democratic.
Chu on July 23, 2014, 2:54 pm
" If Israel is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation" I reread this
section also. What a farce…
Their problem is the world sees their continued encampment for
six decades and has rotted the concept of a Jewish homeland.
We're looking a a giant melon covered in blight, everyone sees
the rot on the outside, but those on the inside see it as still sweet
within.
MRW on July 23, 2014, 3:21 pm
Substitute what Netanyahu wants in this phrase, and the logic becomes laughable.
If Israel is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation
===>>
If the Jewish State is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation
@ Chu
All they do is talk. Don't want to upset anyone
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/23/british-jews-gaza-conflict-jewish-community
"For example, on the BBC's Today programme yesterday, leading the leader of the Reform Judaism movement in Britain Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner said she was "completely heartbroken" by what is going on and that she feels "empathy for both sides", yet she did not go so far as to say that Israel's actions are wrong."
Total waste of space. The UN is investigating war crimes and the leader of the grooviest sect in UK Judaism can't even go so far as to say what Israel is doing may not be prudent.
Janner Klausner's US homologue is Rick Jacobs, he man the bots sent to the Presbyterians to urge them to prefer dialogue with Israel over divestment
http://blogs.rj.org/blog/2014/07/20/an-update-on-stop-the-sirens/
"As you know, the conflict in Gaza has intensified. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the Israeli soldiers killed in action, with our brothers and sisters in Israeli, and with all who are in danger.
When the conflict began, the Reform Movement made a decision to join Stop the Sirens, a community-wide campaign, coordinated by Jewish Federations of North American (JFNA), to provide relief and support to the most heavily impacted Israeli communities. We did this rather than creating our own campaign to support our Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) congregations and the vital work the IMPJ itself is doing because we thought it was important to show support for the larger communal effort.
We encourage all members of Reform congregations to continue to provide funds and donations to their local Jewish Federations to assure that continued funding will be available in the coming weeks as it is likely that the current crisis will not end in the next few days. Our ongoing support for Israel and its citizens will continue to be desperately needed. "
Another complete waste of time.
Liberal Tribalism won't do anything .
Walt put it very well a while ago
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/25/empty_words
"For realists like me, in short, halting a colonial enterprise that has been underway for over forty years will require a lot more than wise and well-intentioned words. Instead, it would require the exercise of power."
I wouldn't bother calling liberal Judaism
Boomer on July 23, 2014, 4:14 pm
Thanks for the link to Walt's analysis from last year. He was so right, and so depressing. A shame that Obama hasn't surprised us. There is much he could have done, and chose not to do.
on July 23, 2014, 5:36 pm
"For example, on the BBC's Today programme yesterday, leading the leader of the Reform Judaism movement in Britain Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner said she was "completely heartbroken:…
This is the talking point of the day.
W.Jones on July 23, 2014, 8:05 pm
Seafoid,
A friend who defended the community's stance said that when the Gazan rockets happened now it closed down Israeli summer camps, so the American community decided to send "care packages". She said that people in the community asked "What about the Palestinians?", so they sent care packages to Palestinians too.
Is this for real? Maybe that was a nice sounding way of saying that the packages went to Israeli citizens at large, some of whom are naturally Palestinian Israeli citizens?
I was OK with the article up to "If Israel is to survive as a liberal, democratic nation". What about the 50 laws discriminating against Palestinians? Palestinian Israeli citizens have an extremely hard time even buying new land or founding a new town, not to mention reclaiming the towns they were kicked out of.
Mooser on July 23, 2014, 4:12 pm
Dersh and Adelson are Reform Jews? Who knew?
I think he's saying stop talking amongst yourselves and take the fight to you zionist henchmen. but what do I know…
James Canning on July 23, 2014, 2:22 pm
Israel clearly saw an opening to wreck the Unity deal between Hamas and Fatah.
John Douglas on July 23, 2014, 2:34 pm
This is an issue where people should not hide behind a false moral equivalency. Jon Stewart's recent piece got headlines for focusing on how difficult it is to talk about Israel but ended with (paraphrasing) "… and it's the same for Palestinians." It's not the same. Media reporters don't get sacked for being pro Israel, indeed it seems to be their job.
can of worms on July 23, 2014, 2:45 pm
Just spoke to some highly educated liberal jewish zionists living in a demographically engineered jewish-only protected and fenced area in the heart of the galilee. Said their fear for the next few weeks was that the war theater could move into their own residential area, because (truly I quote) "then it will be worse than Gaza." –Worse than Gaza? —
Kathleen on July 23, 2014, 3:21 pm
It's time…yes indeed. Past time..and better late than never
It's time to bury Zionism and start over
just on July 23, 2014, 4:37 pm
Zionism must be buried and never allowed to resurface.
Denazification would be a good prototype
I appreciate this, but……….
It's time for all HUMAN BEINGS to take a stand. Liberal or Conservative, Jew or Muslim or Christian or Atheist etc., Black or White or Brown or Purple!
Israel is a place now inhabited by people doing horrific things to and against an indigenous population– it is a massacre and a genocide done by terrorists.
Anyone who is not against it will rue the day, and should be deeply ashamed and shunned.
joer on July 23, 2014, 3:53 pm
Speaking of liberal Jews, here is a debate from Democracy Now between JJ Goldberg and Ali Abunimah…JJ is glib and his usual witty self, his comment about "the monotony of massacres"(explaining the lack of coverage of the Gaza massacre) was a real knee slapper. Ali wasn't laughing though….just because his country is being destroyed is no reason he can't enjoy a good chuckle.
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/23/a_debate_on_gaza_ali_abunimah
Most of those ethics, however solemn, were developed in the absence of political power. And as soon as the Jewish State emerged they were dumped.
Now they are tortured daily across Israel.
And who wants to" draw deep into the well of Jewish ethics" to face the Goldstone treatment ? Who wants the full Max Blumenthal ostracisation package ?
http://virtualmethodist.blogspot.ch/2009/09/coasters.html
"You coasted along
To larger houses, gadgets, more machines
To golf and weekend bungalows,
Caravans when the children were small,
the Mediterranean, later, with the wife.
You did not go to Church often,
Weddings were special;
But you kept your name on the books
Against eventualities;
And the parson called, or the curate.
You showed a sense of responsibility,
With subscriptions to worthwhile causes
And service in voluntary organisations;
And, anyhow, this did the business no harm,
No harm at all.
Relations were improving. A good
useful life. You coasted along.
You even had a friend of two of the other sort,
Coasting too: your ways ran parallel.
Their children and yours seldom met, though,
Being at different schools.
You visited each other, decent folk with a sense
Of humour. Introduced, even, to
One of their clergy. And then you smiled
In the looking-glass, admiring, a
Little moved by, your broadmindedness.
Your father would never have known
One of them. Come to think of it,
When you were young, your own home was never
Visited by one of the other sort.
Relations were improving. The annual processions
began to look rather like folk-festivals.
When that noisy preacher started,
he seemed old-fashioned, a survival.
Later you remarked on his vehemence,
a bit on the rough side.
But you said, admit, you said in the club,
'You know, there's something in what he says'.
And you who seldom had time to read a book,
what with reports and the colour-supplements,
denounced censorship.
And you who never had an adventurous thought
were positive that the church of the other sort
vetoes thought.
And you who simply put up with marriage
for the children's sake, deplored
the attitude of the other sort
to divorce.
You coasted along.
And all the time, though you never noticed,
The old lies festered;
the ignorant became more thoroughly infected;
there were gains, of course;
you never saw any go barefoot.
The government permanent, sustained
by the regular plebiscites of loyalty.
You always voted but never
put a sticker on your car;
a card in the window
would not have been seen from the street.
Faces changed on posters, names too, often,
but the same families, the same class of people.
A Minister once called you by your first name.
and the sores supperated and spread.
Now the fever is high and raging;
Who would have guessed it, coasting along?
The ignorant-sick thresh about in delirium
And tear at the scabs with dirty finger-nails.
The cloud of infection hangs over the city,
A quick change of wind and it
Might spill over the leafy suburbs.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/iphone-article/.premium-1.603116
"The toughest talk at the service was made by Israeli consul-general to New England Yehuda Yakov, who reminded his audience of the fact that "Israel still lives in the jungle. As much as we want to wish it away, the jungle is still there." The threats that surround the country mean that "along with start-up Israel and the multicultural mosaic, we also have to be Fortress Israel, and I don't say that with any glee, that's a fact." His rallying cry to the American Jews in the sanctuary: "We still need you desperately, we need you to understand, we need you to identify and we still need you to explain." Shrage struck a similar theme, saying that the Jewish state "is in the midst of a dangerous neighborhood – and we can't expect the state of Israel to behave like the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We live in a blessed place. They live in an extremely dangerous place. " "I urge you, I beg you – I pray that you will remember what your responsibility is tomorrow … only we can stand up for Israel, we are in the catbird seat." He entreated them to "not be silent if someone says something about Israel that is negative, jarring, or offensive" because "we are what stands between Israel and destruction in many ways" and that without U.S. support, Israel would be in "triple and quadruple amount of danger" and "it is incumbent upon us to speak up so that blood will not be, god forbid, on our hands." "
Colonial kitsch galore. "Israel still lives in the jungle. As much as we want to wish it away, the jungle is still there." A common refrain, used whenever the reverse, the "villa in the jungle" refrain of Ehud Barak, fails. Thus hasbara appeals to colonial nostalgia, the old glory.
michelle on July 23, 2014, 4:43 pm
there are now enough children
to fill five class rooms gone forever
shame on the hatefilled people who
blame them for their own murders
there are no good reasons
there is no excuse
people are dying
while you're being obtuse
you have the power to stop this
and we all know you would
if it were your loved one
facing death
for the 'greater good'
stop the killing of citizens
right here and now G-d pound you
NormanF on July 23, 2014, 4:44 pm
Robert Cohen is an uber -dhimmi. He has never read the Hamas charter or followed its bloody record of terrorism.
Or its rejection of peace and exaltation of jihad and death. He wants Israel to talk to folks whose grievance is the existence of the Jewish State itself.
There can be no compromise with or meeting of the minds with jihadists. The only thing that can be done is to destroy them.
pjdude on July 23, 2014, 8:42 pm
and the likud charter? funny how for the palestinians once a terrorist always a terrorist but were supposed to ignore Israel's terrorist roots
Oy look who's a big shot, a macher! It's Norman, all dressed in his battle gear, and ready to fight terrorism, if his Mom lets him cross the street.
Norman, Norman, A lung un leber oyf der noz!
Nevada Ned on July 23, 2014, 4:48 pm
The Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) has a good piece on Jewish Criticism of Israel.
lysias on July 23, 2014, 4:50 pm
Some brave Israeli reservists are taking a stand. Israeli Reservists Refusing To Fight In Operation Protective Edge Start Petition Drive.
Now, that IS taking a stand.
Let's see what happens to these reservists. Will there be more to join the ranks? Will these guys/gals be vilified?
lysias on July 24, 2014, 11:31 am
One of these reservists appeared on Democracy Now! this morning.
Kay24 on July 23, 2014, 5:22 pm
– the country that hold people under a brutal occupation and blockade for decades,
have to tolerate those rockets, and anything else that comes there way as
– so do Israeli soldiers, pictures on google, twitter and social media.
Israeli soldiers also kidnap and kill Palestinian children.
"We are acting in self-defense."
– going into Gaza is not self defense, it is a massacre against civilians
the Palestinian people depend on Hamas for their self defense.
The victims of Israel's brutality and ethnic cleansing have every right to defend
– that is a load of zionist Bull.
700 Palestinians killed by Israel who celebrates
Palestinian deaths mounting by the day. The side that inflicts more casualties
seem to be celebrating those deaths.
– any other country would not wield power over indigenous people, steal their land,
and occupy them for nearly 50 years. Moot point.
– the world now knows all about those bloody warnings. Get real.
– yeah? Then how come 700 Palestinians are killed, EIGHTY PERCENT WERE
CIVILIANS. It is HELL of a pinpoint operation.
– Perhaps if you had bigger numbers you would have chosen your telegenic dead too
for world sympathy, you have pretended to be victims in all this for world
sympathy too, along with the holocaust.
Aren't you lucky only 2 civilians have been killed.
RoHa on July 23, 2014, 7:39 pm
What, now? You sure? Maybe better to wait another 117 years before you show signs of a conscience.
thetumta on July 23, 2014, 8:43 pm
"liberal Jewish bodies "
Has to be the Oxymoron of all Oxymorons?
Or at least a bunch of the most recent ones?
Hej! Tumta
eljay on July 24, 2014, 7:15 am
Hey, Tumta! Welcome back. It's been a while since you posted.
Oy Gevalt it's not an oxymoron, it's a euphemism! This PC talk really gets to me. "Liberal Jewish bodies"? Feh! In my day we just called them zoftig and nobody got their feelings hurt. It could even be a compliment.
seafoid on July 24, 2014, 4:39 am
Liberal Jews should walk away now. Israel is set on YESHA, set on apartheid, set on regular massacres
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/045dca8a-6725-11e3-a5f9-00144feabdc0.html
"As Israel's political relations fray with the EU – and some question its relationship with the US – Mr Netanyahu's government is seeking to diversify its economic relations by strengthening ties with faster-growing countries."The lesson we learnt from the recent experience negotiating with the EU over Horizon 2020 was that Israel cannot put all of its eggs in one basket," says Naftali Bennett, Israel's economy minister and head of the rightwing, pro-settler Jewish Home party. "We need to scatter them."
Another government official, reflecting on a recent visit by Chinese politicians to Israel, put matters more bluntly: "They don't care about the [Palestinian] issue," the official said. "They want to talk about three things: Israeli technology, Israeli technology and Israeli technology."
Israel's economic pivot to the east and south is a welcome development for the majority of Israelis who reject Europe's growing drive to isolate their country economically over its Palestinian policies.
However, defence minister Moshe Ya'alon, a leading rightwinger in the ruling Likud party and a sceptic of the peace talks, said he preferred "EU boycotts over rockets on Tel Aviv". His comments reflected a steelier view within government that Israel is ready to weather economic isolation.
Mr Bennett, a former businessman who co-founded and sold a successful software company before entering politics, is a principal architect of Israel's push into new markets. Among leftwing Israelis, he is an object of scorn for his categorical rejection of a Palestinian state. He once compared Israel's ability to live with the conflict to a man he knew who was able to adjust to life with a piece of shrapnel in his rear end.
While remarks such as these have made headlines, Mr Bennett has – more quietly – led economic delegations to China and India. His ministry is closing Israeli trade missions in Sweden and Finland and opening missions in China, India and Brazil."
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"The main issue Israel faces is that in contrast to the US, emerging powers like China won't help Israel pursue its political agenda. They don't give a damn about the Palestinians but they don't give a damn about Israel and European Jewish history either. They will buy technology from Israel, buy oil from Iran and then sell second-rate copies of Israeli technology to Iran and watch them fight each other from a safe distance.
Israel will never have as sympathetic a global hegemon to support it as the present-day United States. Maybe they should cash in their chips now and look for detente with regional powers like Iran and peace with the Palestinians instead of living with the shrapnel in their butt.
But that would involve giving up that piece of land East of the Wailing Wall and West of the River Jordan and guys like Naftali Bennett think God promised it to him. I'm waiting for someone rational in Israel to call bulls**t on Bennett and other settlers. "
Mia on July 24, 2014, 4:53 am
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_Member_States_of_the_United_Nations_Demand_sanctions_and_an_arms_embargo_on_Israel_to_save_Palestine/?nXzJYhb
DICKERSON3870 on July 24, 2014, 8:03 am
RE: "What country could tolerate rockets rained down on its
people?" ~ Bibi NuttyYahoo (from above)
MY ANSWER TO NETANYAHU: To the extent Palestine is a country from the perspective of the UN (certainly not thanks to the U.S. and/or Israel), the Palestinians unfortunately have little choice but to tolerate (or, at least, endure) not only "rockets rained down", but also the following (among many others): cluster munitions, Hellfire missiles (fired from Apache Helicopter Gunships), Tomahawk Cruise missiles, Patriot missiles, flechettes, white phosphorus, Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) munitions and, likely coming soon, "Bunker Busters" (a/k/a, Massive Ordnance Penetrators – and I suspect that just the mere thought of using one of these Massive Penetrators probably gets Netanyahu really 'hot and bothered').
P.S. Knowing full well that a ceasefire was imminent, "The World's Most Moral Army℠" spent the final 48 hours of Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon raining out-of-date cluster munitions onto a large part of Lebanon. As a consequence, (and partly due to the very high rate of failure of the old munitions to detonate), the IDF left about one million live, unexploded cluster bomblets covering the southern part of Lebanon. The icing on the cake was that for years afterward Israel refused to provide Lebanon with any information as to the locations targeted by the IDF. Consequently, ordinance disposal teams have been working for the last eight years (partly paid for by Iran) to defuse and clear the million bomblets. Not to mention that Lebanese citizens (mostly children) are regularly injured or killed by the remaining bomblets occasionally detonating, as one did last year when an 18-year-old shepherd unwittingly stepped on it, dying instantly.
I suppose Ghandi must have had in mind something like Israel's gratuitous use of cluster munitions in Lebanon back in the last two days of the 2006 war when, pursuant to his having been asked what he thought of modern civilization, Gandhi is said to have told news reporters: "That would be a good idea."
That Mahatma was such a farceur!
P.P.S. ALSO SEE: "18-year-old Lebanese killed by Israeli cluster bomb", By Mohammed Zaatari, The Daily
Star, 8/10/13
SIDON, Lebanon: An 18-year-old was killed Saturday when an Israeli cluster bomb exploded in Hasbaya, south Lebanon. Hisham Abdel-Al, a young shepherd, was working on a farm in the Hallat village when he stepped on a cluster bomb, dying instantly.
Israel dropped some 4 million cluster bombs in Lebanon during the July-August 2006 war, most during the last 48 hours of the conflict, according to the United Nations. Hundreds have been wounded in cluster-bomb related incidents since 2000 and 2006.
The Army's Lebanon Mine Action Center along with the U.N. and other international organizations have been working since 2006 to remove the deadly ordinance from the south.
SOURCE – http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Aug-10/226887-18-year-old-lebanese-killed-by-israeli-cluster-bomb.ashx#axzz2dray05RT
P.P.P.S. AND SEE: "How Many Violations of US Arms Laws are Too Many?" ~ by Franklin Lamb, Counterpunch, 3/16/12
[EXCERPTS] . . . Alarm centered on whether or not Israel had used U.S.-supplied antipersonnel cluster bombs against civilian targets during its carpet bombing West Beirut during the nearly three month siege.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held hearings on this issue in July and August 1982. On July 19, 1982, the Reagan Administration announced that it would prohibit new exports of cluster bombs to Israel. . .
. . . During a late June 1982 meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Begin, Reagan was handed a note from George Shultz. Based on the information he had in hand, Reagan directly told Begin that the US had reliable information than Israel was using American weapons against civilians in Lebanon. At this point according to Reagan, Begin became very agitated. He lowered his glasses and while glaring at Reagan and shaking his index finger said, "Mr. President, Israel has never and would never use American weapons against civilians and to claim otherwise is a blood libel against every Jew, everywhere." Following their meeting Reagan told Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, as reported by Weinberger and by various biographers of Reagan that "I did not know what the term "blood libel" meant, but I know that the man looked me straight in the eyes and lied to me." . . .
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/16/how-many-violations-of-us-arms-laws-are-too-m
piotr on July 24, 2014, 11:34 am
I disagree. I pondered what does it mean "liberal"? The term originated from political divisions in Spain and France ca. 200 years ago, and clearly, its meaning was changing over time. Now the best explanation is "sounding nice but not standing up for anything".
Thus it is preposterous to demand that "liberal bodies to take a stand". They are good in joining the herd of not-so-liberal bodies in stands of "full solidarity", but the ability to make a separate stand is simply not there. It is like recommending a bungee jump to an acrophobic person.
Perhaps "striving to get more nuanced understanding" is the max of what they can do. Does it sound nice? A bit strange aesthetic, if you ask me, and confusing if you mean it literally. But I guess it is kind of mellifluous.
eGuard on July 24, 2014, 12:45 pm
Not precise enough, mr Cohen. It's time for liberal Zionists to take a stand. A pity you turn this into a Jewish thing. It's politics, not religion.
But alas, we know enough. Every so called "liberal" outing in the future will be checked against: what did you say in July 2014, when it mattered? (And being silent does not help you).


Sunday, I had the privilege of preaching through Isaiah 40:27-31. A key point from the sermon (and I believe, the text!) was that when we go through seasons when it seems like God has abandoned us, the way to endure is to wait. I said that I believe healing comes when we really do wait on the Lord (see verse 31).
I unpacked 5 ways waiting on the Lord brings healing to our souls.
Waiting on the Lord realigns your allegiance.
Isaiah is clear - God's children wait on THE LORD. What do you do to a Lord? Submit. Give in. Surrender. Though you may not like it, healing comes when you finally give in and tell the Lord, "Okay - this is what you want. I submit."
Waiting on the Lord resets you to relax.
If we really believe God is sovereign and good and majestic and omnipotent (see Isaiah 40:10-26), and if we really believe He loves and cares for His children (see verse 11) - there is never EVER any need to worry. Every time we fret or panic or freak or worry, we are communicating to the Lord that we don't like the way He is running the universe and, were we in control, we would do a better job. Insane. Healing comes when we wait - reminding our souls who really is running the universe.
Waiting on the Lord restores your expectations.
Not only is there not any room for worry in God's family, there is no rrom for pessimism. The child of God cannot lose. Healing comes when we recall what we know to be true about God and expect the best case scenario, not the worst.
Waiting on the Lord fuels endurance.
Isaiah says that those who wait will soar, then run, then walk. Seems anti-climactic. However, the walking is where the every day "stuff" of life happens. Soaring is wonderful. Camps and conferences are awesome. Running is great. A good worship service at church is always refreshing. I recommend both. But there is always Monday morning. There is always another doctor's visit. There is always another funeral to attend. Waiting on the Lord produces healing that allows you not to faint or grow weary when the Monday morning alarm goes off and the email from the boss comes through.
Waiting on the Lord refreshes the relational terms.
So, wait on the Lord. That's where/how strength is renewed.


A two volume set of the fifth edition of this legal work.
Two of three volumes, lacking volume I.
In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of property from on person to another. This comprehensive work was revised and reprinted in several editions.
Revised and corrected by John Joseph Powell, a British barrister and Member of Parliament .


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A Parntership: NVIDIA and VMware | VMware
NVIDIA and VMware: Opening the Doors to AI for Every Enterprise
VMware and NVIDIA Partner to Make It Easier to Develop and Deploy AI Workloads for Hybrid Cloud
NVIDIA is the recognized leader in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across every industry. It is also a Strategic partner of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program and an Advanced partner of the VMware Partner Connect Program.
With the majority of data centers running VMware vSphere®, NVIDIA and VMware are well positioned to partner to develop solutions. Today, the two companies work together to deliver solutions for high-performance computing, supercomputing, and more recently, AI.
A History of Partnership
The two tech leaders have a history of collaboration. Don Bradley leads NVIDIA's strategic alliance team that works with VMware. He says, "The partnership originated from our work with VMware in accelerating their VDI desktop solutions with our virtual GPU technology. Now we've evolved our partnership with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, offered exclusively on VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu™." This new offering removes barriers for enterprises to get in on the AI game and represents a first-of-its-kind partnership between NVIDIA and VMware.
The two companies work closely together, with joint engineering, product management and product marketing teams meeting regularly to develop, deliver and market the joint products. Bradley says, "We're connected from our CEO to VMware's CEO and down to engineering in terms of alignment."
NVIDIA also partners with VMware on NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise, a platform enabled by vSphere that supports 3D design collaboration with real-time, physically accurate simulation for creators, designers, researchers and engineers. At VMworld 2021, BMW Group showcased a digital twin factory in a virtual environment using Omniverse Enterprise.
NVIDIA is one of a select few partners working with VMware on Project Monterey, VMware's vision for a data center built to support the modern and cloud-native applications that businesses want to run. Tony Kuo, NVIDIA Alliance Director for VMware notes, "It's a radically different way for customers to run and manage their data centers that's optimized for these innovative applications."
Making AI Accessible to the Enterprise
Many organizations are trying to determine how to best leverage AI, inspired by use cases already widely employed. As Anne Hecht, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise at NVIDIA says, "AI is making everything better and smarter. We're seeing AI used for personalized product recommendations on retail sites, chatbots for customer service, bubbling up the best applicants for HR departments, predictive maintenance for more reliable operations, and better cybersecurity and fraud detection."
But setting up the infrastructure for AI is complex, and solutions must solve the pain points of two key audiences—AI practitioners and IT administrators. AI practitioners want to work in a cloud-native environment that uses Kubernetes containers but don't understand how to set up that environment. IT administrators need to build out that infrastructure but may lack Kubernetes expertise.
The NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite running on vSphere with VMware Tanzu removes complexity and makes it much easier for enterprise organizations to develop and deploy AI workloads for the hybrid cloud. It's cloud-native, includes the tools that AI practitioners use every day, and is built on the vSphere environment that IT administrators already know. Because the solution can be run on-premises, in hybrid cloud environments, or private cloud environments, companies can keep cloud costs under control and address issues specific to highly regulated industries.
Improving Patient Care and Consolidating Data Centers
NVIDIA AI Enterprise on vSphere enables organizations to explore innovative use cases for AI. For example, this blog post discusses how the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the world's top-rated cancer research and treatment centers, can use high-resolution images to train its AI model to detect the size and location of cancerous tumors. That allows clinicians to better target tumors during patient treatment.
Many customers are using the joint AI-ready platform to consolidate and better utilize resources. Companies often have on-premises infrastructure purchased by one team that can't be provisioned to others. By virtualizing all infrastructure, an organization can consolidate its resources into a virtual pool and then provision virtual machines (VM) and tools based on what an AI practitioner needs and the amount of available resources. Nothing sits idle.
A large healthcare organization employed NVIDIA AI Enterprise for this consolidation and utilization use case. The organization had research institutes associated with its hospitals and clinics, but each was investing in its own technology and buildout to develop and run AI applications. The organization used the AI Enterprise software suite to consolidate several data centers into a single deployment. It's now getting higher utilization, and because it's not servicing multiple data centers, upgrades can be performed quickly to get new features and software.
As the University of Pisa discovered, performance on the infrastructure running the joint solution virtualized with VMware technology was almost the same as running on bare metal infrastructure.
Taking AI for a Test Spin has Never been Easier
NVIDIA makes it easy to try out the AI Enterprise software suite in the VMware environment with NVIDIA LaunchPad, a hosted trial environment. LaunchPad offers four curated labs with common AI use cases for AI practitioners and IT administrators. Users can build a chatbot, develop a recommendations engine, perform image classification, and even classify IT tickets. Each lab takes approximately eight hours, and participants have two weeks to complete them.
Learn More About NVIDIA
Learn more about the VMware partnership with NVIDIA and the value that our joint solutions like NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite on VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu can deliver customers.
Insight Modernizes Applications, Maintains Business Continuity, and Shores up Defenses, All at a Lower Cost
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Too many plants in the house to allow cool temperatures, plus DW gets cold easily... so we keep the winter temp at a constant 68 F. most of the time. When it gets below zero, we set the night temp to 65 F. In summer, we try to keep the house below 72 F., because of all the seed we are storing indoors.
Personally, I like to sleep in cooler temps... but I get out voted.
Temp in our house depends upon which room. Even with central heat/air old house has zones.
I like a cool bed room. In summer, I can take heat as I enjoy a fan-reminds me of childhood.
Despite central heating, our house daytime temperatures vary by room as with Seedcorn. This helps with the budget. We do not spend time equally in all parts of the house despite its small size.
In the living room, the thermostat is set at 68-69° through the day. The kitchen is probably warmer but the master bedroom is about the same unless it's colder weather and I close it off through the day. There is a thermometer in there.
Nighttime temperature is consistent throughout the house because all inside doors are open. The thermostat is set at 61-62°. Parts of the house stay that temperature through winter days.
I'm trying to cut utilities as much as possible right now so I've had the heat set somewhere between 60 and 65.
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In Arkansas it was 78 in the summer and 72 in the winter. Down here it's 72 year around. The lower summer temp helps with the humidity inside the house.
It's been a little weird, good - but weird. I realized that I've never actually lived in this house alone. So EVERYTHING is getting re-assessed. I spent the entire weekend - from the time I got home Friday until almost bed time Sunday - rearranging the den & decorating, cleaning out cabinets in the kitchen, cleaning my (now) spare bedroom and moving furniture in there to make a study, moving things out of my over-stuffed, over-crowded bedroom - just making breathing room.
So it's good that I'm keeping the house cool with all that work going on.
I have a Bluetooth speaker in the den and play audio books or music while I work. If the TV is on I'm too tempted to take a break and sit down to watch a little... which becomes an hour..
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Here you go, @canesisters .
We talkin summertime temperatures?? I kept the living room and one bedroom 74° and below even through one of the hottest days of my life, 107° in summer, 2018. It was cooler through the night although the air conditioner is turned off. DW likes the fan, I don't ... at least, I don't like it blowing on me ... nose gets all stuffy.


'TRUSTY, LOYAL, helpful, sisterly, courteous, kind, obedient, smiling and witty, pure as the rustling wind." When I was about 11 years old, I made a promise to be all of the above. It was, after all, the Guide law, and if I wanted to get myself a dashing blue uniform, complete with yellow neckerchief, I had to promise to abide by it.
Of course, if you took it seriously, you had to spend the whole time drying dishes and cracking jokes, but the upside was weekends away toasting marshmallows and making fires, not to mention a chance to win some of the coveted Guide badges, like Knotter or Needlecraft, and the favour of Brown Owl.
These days, Girl Guides don't know how lucky they have it. Not only are they no longer required to be "pure as the rustling wind" but the badge-potential has new and infinitely cooler options like a cultural awareness badge, a beautician badge and one even I, who had a hard time remembering whether the reef knot started right over left or vice versa, might have snagged: the chocolate badge.
It's all part of the Irish Girl Guide rebranding to coincide with the World Girl Guide Association's centenary celebrations, which kick off tomorrow. The Irish Girl Guides are a year younger but although 99 years old now, they're still going strong and set to prove that Irish Girl Guides do more than make biscuits and tie knots.
There are, however, other skills that the Irish Girl Guides can offer to the young girls, who range from the five- to seven-year-old Ladybirds through Brownies, Girl Guides right up to the Senior Branch.
"I worked in radio for a few years and, to this day, I would say that I would never have got into that without Guiding, because we learned about talking to strangers and self esteem, about being able to stand up in front of people and talk," says Fitzgerald.
Confidence, self-esteem, friendship and fun: as the Girl Guides I speak to tell me all the things they've garnered from their long-term membership, I'm beginning to regret having chucked in my Girl Guide promise by the time puberty hit – along with the snazzy blue uniform that was never worn again.
To ensure that they get a little more wear these days, a new Guide uniform has been designed along with a new logo, as part of the organisation's rebranding.
Yet how do they go about combating the perception that Girl Guides are worthy do-gooders who sit around campfires singing Kumbaya?
"I think we all went through stages where we came out of our meetings, took off our neckerchiefs and put them into the bag," admits Fitzgerald, who says that part of the rebranding is to combat that image, and point to the range of activities that come with joining the Irish Girl Guides.
And while some might still be unaware of what being a Girl Guide actually means – "Even now, at 30, when I tell people I work for the Irish Girl Guides they say 'Oh! Do you meet Roy Keane a lot?'" says Catherine O'Connor, outreach development officer – the organisation is hoping to use this Saturday's celebrations as a chance to highlight the numerous initiatives in which they involve their young members. These include road safety awareness, fundraising for developing countries, and even visits to the local Garda and fire stations.
And although membership has dipped from the high of 20,000 in the 1980s to closer to 10,500 today, Roisin says it's on the rise again, with members attending weekly meetings all over the country including at Crumlin Children's Hospital.
"We go around the wards and find out if there are any girls well enough to attend Guides that evening, and we offer parents a chance of a break and do fun activities and crafts with the girls," says O'Connor.
There's clearly more to this Girl Guide business than my own hazy recollections of toasted marshmallows and Taps (a Guides song). After all, past members include Sonia O'Sullivan and RTÉ presenter Kathryn Thomas, not to mention the Lord Mayor of Dublin Emer Costello. "I do think that for a young girl's CV, employers will recognise the qualities the girls have developed," says president Dilys Lindsay.
But beyond the fact that a stint in Brownies could put you on a path to the Mansion House, you get the feeling that there's something more to this Girl Guide business, which keeps people signing up.
"It's a real community thing," says guiding development officer Maeve O'Reilly, who goes on camp weekends to the same cottages she visited as a Brownie. Recalling the sensation of melted marshmallow, the smell of campfires and the pleasure of a parent-free chase through a forest with a host of new-found friends, I am suddenly reminded about why I ever promised all that courtesy and obedience in the first place. "It just feels really magical," says O'Reilly.
The new Irish Girl Guides logo and uniforms will be launched tomorrow in Thurles where Guides will take part in 100 challenges and a fashion show of uniforms down through the last 99 years.
CERTAIN THINGS are anathema to sartorial success: Ugg boots, legwarmers, 99 per cent of clothing that lists Lycra among its components. . . and the uniform.
Where fabric and skin meet, fashion dies a small death. With uniforms come myriad rules about one's presentation, above and beyond the monstrosity itself. No make-up, no jewellery, no self-expression of any kind. This is where the Girl Guides always stood out; in a uniformed sea of androgyny and 1980s' utilitarian chic. The neatly tailored dresses were a balm to the uniform-hating mind. In the heady days of the early 1990s, there was nothing more chic than a Girl Guide uniform – with it came the promise of boarding school and midnight feasts. Well, we may draw the curtain on that particular fantasy with the reinvention of the Girl Guide uniform.
Now, instead of conforming to an idea of olde Ireland, we must conform to the Ireland of today: fleecy sweatshirts, navy bootcut trousers and shoulder bags. The sad fact is, the older uniforms implied an elite club, where members learned to tie knots like sailors, bake like Rachel Allen and climb trees like their brothers. Today's uniform suggests nothing of the sort: in these fleecy tops and neon T-shirts, you shall roam the shopping centres of Ireland, chewing gum and talking on your mobile phone. Vive la difference.


Lashings of butter and cream give this dal the X-factor. The beans need time to soak, but once it's in the oven it looks after itself.
Toast the spices for the spice mix in a dry frying pan until they start to smell fragrant. Cool then grind in a spice- or coffee grinder.
Drain the beans and rinse well, then put in a pan and cover with enough cold water to come about 3cm above the beans.
Bring to a simmer then cook for 20 minutes, skimming the surface now and then. Drain.
Heat the oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Heat 50g of the butter in an ovenproof pot with a lid.
Add the onion, garlic and ginger and cook for 3-4 minutes until softened. Stir in the spices and cook for a couple of minutes.
Add the tomato purée, beans and 850ml water and bring to a simmer. Put a sheet of foil under the lid to create a seal, then put in the oven for 2 hours.
Tip the rest of the sugar, flour and salt into a bowl. Pour in the yeast mixture, yogurt, 4 tbsp water and 2 tbsp oil, and mix to a dough.
Knead until the dough is smooth, adding a little water if it feels too stiff, or flour if it's too sticky. It should be really soft when you've finished kneading.
Leave in an oiled bowl, covered, for about an hour, or until it has doubled in size.
Mix the chilli, cumin and paneer and season well. Divide the dough into 8 balls. Roll each one out to a circle about half a cm thick, sprinkle over 1/8 of the cheese mixture and spread it out a bit.
Fold over the dough and seal the edges. Roll it out again to a teardrop shape – it should be quite thin. Repeat with the remaining naans.
Heat a large frying pan to hot, put a naan in and cook it until the top starts to puff and the underside browns. Turn over and brown the other side.
Brush with butter or ghee, sprinkle with black onion seeds, then put in a low oven to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining naans.
To finish the dal, stir in the rest of the butter and the cream and season well with salt. Serve with the naan.


President Trump tweeted at Varney after his appearance on Fox & Friends.
President Donald Trump tweeted at the FOX Business Network's Stuart Varney Tuesday morning after his appearance on Fox & Friends.
It is the second time President Trump has mentioned Varney on Twitter in less than two weeks.
This comes as the Dow nears a record 22,000 points and before Friday's jobs report.


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The Murder of Harriet Monckton – Elizabeth Haynes
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder and marking the author's breakthrough into historical fiction.
About the Book: The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation.
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, was found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community was appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the autopsy revealed that Harriet was six months pregnant.
Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, the novel unfolds from the viewpoints of each of the main characters, each of whom have a reason to want her dead. Harriet Monckton had at least three lovers and several people were suspected of her murder, including her close companion and fellow teacher, Miss Frances Williams. The scandal ripped through the community, the murderer was never found and for years the inhabitants of Bromley slept less soundly.
This rich, robust novel is full of suggestion and suspicion, with the innocent looking guilty and the guilty hiding behind their piety. It is also a novel that exposes the perilous position of unmarried women, the scandal of sex out of wedlock and the hypocrisy of upstanding, church-going folk.
About the Author: Elizabeth Haynes worked for many years as a police analyst. Her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels.
Elizabeth grew up in Sussex and studied English, German and Art History at Leicester University. She is currently taking a career break having worked for the past seven years as a police intelligence analyst. Elizabeth now lives in Kent with her husband and son, and writes in coffee shops and a shed-office which takes up most of the garden. She is a regular participant in, and a Municipal Liaison for, National Novel Writing Month – an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November.
My Review: If you follow my reviews or are a member of THE Book Club then you will know that Elizabeth Haynes is one of my all time favourite authors and her debut book INTO THE DARKEST CORNER is, in my humble opinion, the BEST psychological thriller EVER. So you can imagine my surprise, delight and excitement to receive one of the first advanced copy proofs of her new book THE MURDER OF HARRIET MONCKTON, especially as I didn't even know she had written a new book!
I will admit to feeling slightly less excited when I realised this book was a "dramatic fictionalisation based on a true story from 1843", as it's not one of my preferred genres and was concerned I wouldn't enjoy the story because of the genre.
How silly am I? (Don't answer that!). The Murder of Harriet Monckton is absolutely BRILLIANT. Firstly, you need to know that this book is based on a true story as the author chanced upon two documents whilst researching another book at the National Archives in London. These documents were the correspondence between the coroner and the Home Secretary from December 1844 and from this Elizabeth Haynes interest was piqued and her research into what happened to Harriet Monckton has resulted in this fascinating story.
When you read the authors "Afterword" you realise how incredible this book really is, Elizabeth Haynes has created a story based on 2 documents and brought to life a wonderful array of characters, recreated a truly authentic Bromley and given a voice to an intriguing mystery surrounding the death of a young woman.
The story is narrated through several characters all connected to Harriet Monckton and each voice is plausible and authentic. It was so easy to be drawn into their lives, feel their emotions and care about them. I was transported instantly to a different era where women were struggling to be heard, men were respected regardless of their behaviour and religion was paramount to the well being of the community.


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Another Queensland fruit fly is found in Auckland – situation update
Further biosecurity restrictions on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburb of Northcote are being put in place, following the find of a third Queensland fruit fly in the area.
The male fly was found in a surveillance trap just outside the A Zone controlled area, but within Zone B, and was around 270 metres away from the last detection in Northcote.
Biosecurity officials say it is disappointing they have found another fly, but the detection is showing the effectiveness of their surveillance programme.
Importantly, they still have no evidence of an established breeding population.
All 5,243 fruit fly traps in the greater Auckland area have now been checked. That includes 629 traps combined in the three controlled areas, which are being checked every day or every third day depending on the controlled area they are in.
Managing fruit and vegetable waste has also been a priority.
By February 28, Biosecurity New Zealand had disposed of more than five tonnes of waste that communities in the controlled zones have put in the disposal bins.
The detection means the restrictions on movement of fruit and vegetables in Zone A in Northcote, the 200m radius area around the original detection, will be extended towards the south-east to take account of the latest find. A detailed map of the controlled area and a full description of the new boundaries and movement controls is at biosecurity.govt.nz/fruitfly .
Biosecurity moreover is taking further measures to ensure it is doing everything it can sensibly do to find any other fruit flies in the area.
Because of the new find in Northcote, the response in Devonport will continue for another week rather than be closed at the weekend, which would be standard practice after no new finds in the suburb for a fortnight.
Biosecurity New Zealand will be establishing further enhanced fruit fly trapping between the Devonport and Northcote detections as a precautionary measure.
There will be no restrictions on the movement of fruit in these areas. This in-fill trapping is precautionary.
Biosecurity New Zealand is working with industry partners to put in place appropriate controls on the movement of fruit destined for export through or near Northcote.
This is designed to strengthen trading partner confidence in New Zealand's response and risk management.
The measures being taken mean any fruit or vegetables that can host Queensland fruit fly, and which is destined for export, cannot come within a 3.2 kilometre radius of the Northcote detections, unless it is suitably pest-proofed – for example by shrink-wrapping pallets.
The volume of fruit impacted by this is expected to be very small at this time of the year and exporters can avoid these restrictions entirely by trucking produce along the more western routes 18 and 16.
Biosecurity New Zealand has put in place additional measures at the border to increase vigilance for the remainder of the Queensland fruit fly high-risk season, which is due to end at the end of April, and will be reviewed at that time. These include additional x-ray screening and baggage searches of arriving air passengers and further checks of cruise ships at regional ports after intensive inspections at the first port of arrival.
Meanwhile, Rob Delane, the Australian specialist who is undertaking the independent assurance review of the air passenger, cruise and mail pathways, has completed the first week of his review.
There have been no further detections of the facialis fruit fly in Ōtara.
Source: Ministry for Primary Industries
Author: Bob Edlin
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The 2012 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as 2012 Centrobasket, was the regional championship of FIBA Americas for Central America and Caribbean subzone, played June 18–24, 2012. The top four teams qualified for the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship.

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Suspension of Panama
In 2013, FIBA suspended the Panamanian Basketball Federation "for many problems that Panama has been going through for several years due to conflicts of interest between two Directives that manifest hold the same authority," as announced by FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann. This means Panama's "national teams and clubs and referees, cannot participate in any international competition."

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Arrived in Rayne Lousiana a week ago for a rally. Tried to plug our 30amp cord in for power to the trailer and the 30 amp plug disintegrated in Jim's hand. We replaced the oem plug four years ago with a hard plastic one and it seemed okay although it was really difficult to unplug from adapters sometimes. Now it became unusable and unrepairable. Fortunately Herb and Lois, full timer friends, were waiting for us and had an adapter we could borrow.
We used our 20amp cord (an old 12-3 heavy duty 3-wire tool cord) to power the trailer for the duration of the rally. Today, driving east on I-10, we stopped in Camping World and found a great looking replacement 30a plug. Jim spent fifteen minutes replacing the plug and we're back in business.
The 20a cord works fine for everything we used during the past week. Our voltage remained above 120 volts even when using the 1,500 watt space heater. The weather stayed cool enough that we didn't even consider turning on the air conditioning.
The weather was very cool last Tuesday, 16 degrees overnight. Finally today we saw temperatures above 71 degrees as we towed east. We're headed for Florida, with a side-trip to NC for some exciting developments we'll talk about next.
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In May 2017, MPI detected the flat oyster parasite Bonamia ostreae on flat oyster farms in Stewart Island. Find out about the parasite and what we're doing to try to control its spread.
Bonamia ostreae is a parasite that can be fatal for flat oysters. It has been in New Zealand since 2015 in the Marlborough Sounds and Nelson. In May 2017, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) detected the parasite on flat oyster farms in Stewart Island. This was the first time it had been found in another area of New Zealand.
As a result of the detection of Bonamia ostreae on Stewart Island, MPI has reissued a Controlled Area Notice. This legally restricts movements of some shellfish species, including their spat, into and out of Nelson, Marlborough Sounds, and Stewart Island. It also legally restricts movements of farm equipment and vessels out of Stewart Island to limit further spread. On 12 June 2017 MPI delivered a Notice of Direction to flat oyster farmers in Big Glory Bay in Stewart Island and Marlborough requiring the removal of all flat oyster stocks.
Note that the Notices of Direction are subject to change, and are to be used as examples only. People in receipt of a Notice of Direction from MPI in relation to removal of oysters from Big Glory Bay and Marlborough should refer to the Notices issued directly to them by MPI.
If you're moving shellfish stock within the requirements of the Controlled Area Notice, you may need to get a permit by completing the application form.
Extensive sampling to date has not found Bonamia ostreae in wild (Bluff) oysters in Foveaux Strait. However, MPI is continuing its sampling and is increasing its surveillance.
Don't throw shellfish, their waste or shells overboard.
The risk of Bonamia ostreae spreading to flat oysters increases if any shellfish, or their discarded shells and waste, are moved from one area to another in the water. This risk is particularly high in Big Glory Bay and Paterson Inlet.
Don't throw shells or shellfish waste overboard.
Return undersized or excess shellfish back to where you collected them.
Dispose of shells and shellfish waste at home or in a landfill.
Clean your fishing gear after you've finished collecting.
Keep your boat hull clean.
yellow discolouration of the gills and mantle.
Flat oyster farmers and harvesters who see these signs in oysters, or mass mortality, should call our Exotic Pest and Disease Hotline – 0800 80 99 66.
There are provisions for compensation under the Biosecurity Act 1993. If you can prove financial losses arising from MPI's exercise of powers under the Biosecurity Act, and your loss resulted from damage or destruction of property, or from restrictions placed on the movement or disposal of your goods – you can claim compensation for those losses.
Compensation is funded from a special appropriation from Parliament requiring, in some cases, Crown Law endorsement and Cabinet approval.
The Act gives clear grounds for compensation but the losses must have actually occurred and can be verified, and you have been unable to mitigate the losses by taking every step that is reasonable in the circumstances.
Affected parties have to apply for compensation.
The amount paid depends on what verifiable losses have incurred as the result of any direction by MPI. Each situation will be different and every claim has to be assessed on a case-by-case basis. MPI's compensation team will assess claims under section 162A of the Biosecurity Act.
The welfare of people affected by the response is important to us. We understand that many people may be worried about the activities and impacts associated with the Bonamia ostreae response. Stress and anxiety affect people differently – ask for help early.
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Madrid Protocol in India - International Trademark Registration
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The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks, briefly termed as the "Madrid System", is a globally famous system for registration of trademarks and service marks in 90+ countries worldwide, just through filing a single application with one set of fees, replacing completely their individual registration requirements and separate fees. This system of the international registration of marks got developed from the combination of the Madrid Agreement of 1891 and the Madrid Protocol of 1989, and became fully operative from April 01, 1996. As of June 20, 2015, this Madrid System or Madrid Protocol had 94 countries as its members, including India. India became its 90th member on July 08, 2013. This well-drafted webpage offers exclusive and hugely informative information about the madrid protocol in india, to help Indian people and companies in extending their respective businesses to countries worldwide. The International Bureau of WIPO, located in Geneva (Switzerland), administers this magnificent international registration system of trademarks and service marks pertaining to all 45 classes of the Nice classification.
With help of this madrid system, both registration and maintenance of marks in the countries members to it, have become rather easy, convenient, and cheap. The registration and protection of marks in several or all contracting countries to this madrid protocol are accessible just through filing a single application with the domestic trademark office in a single language (English), and with a single set of reasonable fees. Again, the owner of a trademark/service mark registered under this international registration system just has to renew only one registration in every ten-year period to continue trademark rights in these all countries, or is required to perform just a single procedure to make any changes in the mark listed in the International Register.
The Chapter IV A (created as per the Amendment to the Act in 2010) of the Indian Trade Marks Act of 1999, deals exclusively with the provisions and requirements for international registration of trademarks and service marks under the Madrid system, in its Sections ranging from 36A to 36G. For detailed information, readers may visit: http://www.ipindia.nic.in/tmr_new/tmr_act_rules/TM_Amendment_Act_2010.pdf
International Registrations Under Madrid Protocol
Now, Indian entrepreneurs and companies are well-facilitated to obtain international registrations under madrid protocol, in order to extend their respective businesses to many or all contracting countries of this madrid system, just through filing a single International Application with any concerned zonal Trade Mark Office of India. The entire procedure for obtaining registration and protection of one's trademark/service-mark in several or all contracting countries to the madrid system of international trademark registrations, may broadly be divided into the following three phases or stages:
Phase I: Basic Application/Registration in India
Presence of a previously filed or registered trademark/service-mark with the relevant zonal trademark office of India, is pre-requisite for filing the international application under the madrid protocol. After receiving any such international application, the domestic Indian trademark office will then verify the contents of the application with help of the previously filed or registered basic application or basic registration of the specified trademark. Then, after getting satisfied with the perfectness and suitability of the specified trademark for Indian and international registrations under madrid system, the Indian trademark office will then forward the international application to the International Bureau of WIPO located in Geneva, for further processing.
Phase II: Examination and Approval by WIPO
After receiving the forwarded international application from the Indian trademark office, the International Bureau of WIPO examines the formal requirements and suitability for the international registration of the application. In case of perfectness and full suitability of the application, the bureau records the application in the International Register, and publishes the same in the WIPO Gazette of International Marks, along with notifying about the application to the targeted contracting countries by the applicant. But, in case, there are some flaws or irregularities in the application, these are promptly informed to the applicant, giving him a period of Three Months for remedies to satisfaction to the bureau. The targeted foreign countries by the applicant are then requested to conduct thorough and critical examination of the forwarded application as per their respective trademark rules and regulations, and then submit their individual report within 12 to 18 months to the international bureau of WIPO.
Phase III: Subsequent Examination and Approval of the Trademark Office of each Targeted Contracting Country
In the final stage, the application will then pass through substantive and critical examination at the trademark office of each designated country, as if the application were filed directly with the relevant office for registration. Then, these designated countries notify their respective acceptance or refusal to the WIPO with the prescribed time limit (12-18 months). If the application got acceptance of all designated countries, then, the same would be registered under the madrid system for 10 years, issuing a statement of grant. But, in case of refusal from any designated contracting country, all processes subsequent to the refusal (responses, hearing, appeal, prosecution, etc.), are to be carried out directly between the applicant and the concerned member country to madrid system, without any involvement of WIPO.
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Whichever shed or garden building you choose, it's going to have been construction in one of two ways, shiplap or overlap. The benefits of shiplap board shed construction are that it's been slow grown for increased stability, it's also been kiln dried to reduce warping and shrinkage and the planed profile is ideal if you want a smooth finish. The tongue and groove, interlocking shed construction is great for stability and extra strength.
The benefits of overlap shed construction are, the boards are square cut which gives a lovely rustic look, they're also made from British soft wood and because the boards are overlapping and not interlocked, it allows the building to move and the timber to breathe.
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If you need move living space and the thought of getting the builders in fills you with dread how about your own beautiful log cabin in the garden, this model is 4m x 3m but there are over 20 different sizes and styles to suit your particular needs. Now when you're buying log cabins, I reckon there are a couple of things you really need to look closely at. The first is this, have you seen it? Double tongue and groove interlock boards, that gives this structure incredible agility and the other thing, slow grown Scandinavian softwood and when it's manufactured it gives it a lovely smooth and tactile finish, but for me the dream really starts when you get inside.
This is a fabulous space, can you imagine the little ones playing so safely on the floor, the boards are smooth with no problems with splinters, can you imagine the teenagers in these log cabins, using it as a bit of a den, a bit of a hang out area, and we're all told we've all got an unwritten book in all of us, what a great place to start that blockbuster novel and log cabins are perfect for that at home gym, a music room, and artists studio but whatever you do in here in winter you're going to be cosy and in summer its going to be light and airy, must be because of these fantastic windows.
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For a lot of people a 6ft x 4ft sheds adequate, you then kind of get into the most popular garden shed size which is 8x6 but if you put the two together and add a bit more, you get something like this.
And the first thing that strikes me is the quality of workmanship; the doors are vital in any workshop or shed, look at this, proper locks with great security and that isn't just bracing, that is solid, that door isn't going anywhere.
And the front end of this garden shed is 8x6 and the eaves are high, so it's a light airy feel. Now you can use it for storage if you want to but I reckon that's a bit of a waste, because we've got next door to look at, here, get your work table here, your worktop here, you've got your windows which are toughened glass, joinery made, so its all feeling absolutely solid. Absolutely quality workmanship.
Now the wood itself, its kiln dried, it's slow grown and its all pressure treated with 15 year guarantee against rot. This means you could save at least £150.00 in treatment costs for the garden shed as you don't to paint or stain it, it can save you a whole lot of time as well.
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These garden sheds really are multifunctional, you could use them all as a storage space but I think that's a bit of a waste with the quality windows and doors at the front, id use that as a workshop or even an office in there and use this section for storage. These really are the ultimate garden sheds.
I love this little shed, it's so dinky and beautifully made as well but what I really like about it is that its pressure treated now what that means is you've got a 15 year against rotting.
By upgrading to a pressure treated shed you could save over £150.00 on treatment and of course, a whole lot of time.
15 years where you don't have to paint it, or stain it you can spend that time doing nicer things in your garden. Our overlap pressure treated pent sheds are really well made, the overlapping timbers are handy when the water hits it, the rain, it just runs off easily keeping everything dry inside.
The door is slightly different, it has got interlocking shiplap boards with extra bracing for strength but once you get in the shed, it really comes into its own. And because its very simple and clever sloping roof, the useable space is at the front so there lots of head room yet there's still plenty of space within the shed, and the bags of space you can get bikes in here, mowers, spades, whatever you want and what is 7ft x 5ft quite a small space, a dinky you can get a lot in there.
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When you're buying a shed for your garden it's got to do two things, it's got to look good and it's got to be practical and this shed has got both things going for it. This overlap dip treated apex shed has got double doors, now that is fantastic for getting all your bikes, lawn mowers, every bit of gardening tool you've got can go in here. And once you're in here, there's bags of space, you're not going to knock your heard anywhere, and there's a few nice little extras you can do as well, windows are nice because that lets some light in, you could actually pot up some seedlings in there, you can work in here if you wanted, the other good thing about it its solid, it takes two people, couple of hours with the right tools, the tools you just have in your tool kit, nothing special, you can get this knocked up really quickly. The whole shed has been dip treated and that gives it a 10 year guarantee, but every couple of years and it could go with garden trend, you could change its colour, you could go blue, green, yellow, what ever you want to suit your garden and what ever you're planting at the time.
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