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Emre Can shows why he deserves more respect, after display vs Hertha Berlin
Borussia Dortmund boast a plethora of attacking riches, but there are a few key players who remain unsung figures within their squad. The versatile Emre Can again proved why he deserves more respect and credit for his performances after netting the winner in an excellent overall showing vs. Hertha Berlin this evening.
Lucien Favre's Dortmund side kept their slim Bundesliga title hopes alive after a narrow 1-0 victory over Euro-chasing Hertha, as Can showed composure and precision to finish a well-worked move in the second-half, scoring his second goal of the campaign.
With Mats Hummels suspended, the 26-year-old slotted in seamlessly as their right-sided centre-back as part of a 3-4-2-1 formation alongside Manuel Akanji and Lukasz Piszczek.
Having played there regularly during the 2014-15 campaign with Liverpool, it's a position that allows him to showcase his adaptability and distribution from deep.
He was kept busy but didn't flinch under pressure: making a game-high seven clearances along with three interceptions, 95.2% pass completion and importantly, their winner.
The thing with Can is, he's almost always doing this. The exclamation point on his performance in this instance is, obviously scoring their winner, but he relishes the dirty work in midfield which allows their more creative-minded players to flourish.
It's an overused cliche but you only have to watch ten minutes of a Dortmund game to understand his importance. Last weekend against a plucky Paderborn, he was doing the same in a midfield duo alongside Thomas Delaney – harrying players out of possession, asserting himself on a game that for large periods, could have swung either way.
Axel Witsel is widely seen as a better midfield partner for Can than Delaney, who prides himself more on his playmaking than defensive capabilities, but the point stands.
Can and Witsel have combined to develop a sturdy, reliable midfield pairing in recent months
He feels more important at Dortmund than perhaps anywhere in his career to date and his assertive displays have echoed that, because he's already a mainstay.
Confident as ever in possession, his ball-winning skills and tenacity have helped them become a tougher team to break down. But he's unafraid to venture forward, as evidenced by his knack for getting into dangerous scoring positions more often than not.
Can proving an ever-present figure for Dortmund
Despite joining BVB on an initial loan deal on deadline day, the Germany international has already played three times the amount of minutes Juventus afforded him this term.
Unsurprisingly, they have since exercised an option to buy in the loan agreement, for a reported £20.8m. He's been ever-present since scoring a screamer against former club Bayer Leverkusen on his return to Germany's top-flight and not looked back since.
After being controversially left out of Juve's Champions League squad by Maurizio Sarri last autumn, he was eligible to play for his new employers and featured during their two-legged defeat by Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain before the enforced break.
Despite failing to progress beyond the UCL last-16 for the third consecutive season, Can and his ambitious BVB teammates have responded defiantly since play resumed in May.
It's why Owen Hargreaves and many critics suggested Dortmund would, at the very least, have had a better chance to beat Bayern Munich with a fully fit Can and Jadon Sancho.
The pair, both recovering from minor injuries, came on against Hansi Flick's side in a double substitution after half-time for Delaney and Julian Brandt.
Joshua Kimmich's sumptuous chip had already broken the deadlock just before the interval, so by this point, the damage was done and Bayern soaked up pressure expertly.
Sancho's close shave and what's next for Dortmund?
Can has taken Sancho under his wing since joining, regularing talking about the winger's ability
On another day, Sancho would have earned a second-half brace against Hertha.
Instead, he flashed wide from close-range after another well-worked move before Rune Jarstein denied him too after an intricate play which saw him twist and turn his way into the box after exchanging passes with fullbacks Achraf Hakimi and Raphael Guerreiro:
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Dortmund remain seven points behind leaders Bayern, after their 4-2 comeback win over Euro-chasing Bayer Leverkusen in one of the day's 2.30pm KOs.
With four league games left to play, it's unlikely the title race will go down to the wire like last season, but Can's arrival has helped improve them and should prove some welcome encouragement ahead of an uncertain summer transfer window.
Can spoke to Sky (via AFP) after their 1-0 win, discussing Sancho's conduct after his reported €10,000 fine this week.
Sancho and teammate Manuel Akanji were fined by the German Football Association (DFL) on Friday after the pair had "apparently violated general hygiene and infection protection standards" put in place amid the COVID-19 outbreak by getting haircuts without masks at home. He was quoted as saying:
"Jadon is a great guy, but he needs to be a bit cleverer with certain things. Obviously everyone needs to get their hair cut sometimes, but he needs to be a bit more grown up. We need to guide Jadon a bit – he can't afford to make mistakes like that in the future.
It doesn't annoy us, but we know he has to be more disciplined with some things. I don't think he does it on purpose to cause a scandal – maybe he just trusts people too much sometimes."
Dortmund's final four Bundesliga fixtures:
June 13: Fortuna Dusseldorf (16th)
June 17: Mainz (15th)
June 20: RB Leipzig (3rd)
June 27: Hoffenheim (6th)
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Native Survivors Of Foster Care Return Home
By Laura Sullivan,
Amy Walters
Published October 27, 2011 at 2:00 AM PDT

When Dwayne Stenstrom was 8 years old a state worker told him that he and his brother were going to a special camp for the summer. Instead, he spent 12 years in foster care.

Part 3 of a three-part investigation
Dwayne Stenstrom is a professor of American history. His office is lined with towers of obscure books and poetry on the walls. There's even a copy of the Declaration of Independence in a binder.
He teaches this document like many other professors, beginning with, "We hold these truths to be self evident." But he stops on another phrase — "the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages."
"What [is] significant to me," Stenstrom says, "is the impact that it has on a lot of our Native American kids when it still regards Indians as merciless Indian savages."
Stenstrom teaches at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He grew up in a white foster care home, married his wife 31 years ago and raised six children. He's as passionate about history as he is his community.
Most social services departments would look at him and say he's a success story.
"The problem," Stenstrom says, "is that that's a fallacy."
He says he didn't make a life for himself "until I came back to the reservation."
Losing Native Traditions
The Indian Child Welfare Act says that except in the rarest of cases, Native American children who have to be removed from their homes must be placed with relatives, their tribes or other Native Americans. Yet 32 states are failing in some way to abide by the law, according to 2005 government audit. These children are also more likely to end up in foster care than other races, even in similar circumstances, according to the National Indian Child Welfare Association.
John Poole / Courtesy of Dwayne Stenstrom

Dwayne Stenstrom, in the striped shirt, is shown in a family photo as a young boy. He is pictured with one of his brothers who went to Vietnam and another brother who was also placed in foster care.

The result is generations of children growing up without a connection to their culture, traditions and tribes — as Stenstrom did.
He grew up on the Nebraska plains, on the Winnebago Reservation. He and his brother spent the summers outside on the prairie with their grandfather.
But when he was 8 years old, in the spring of 1968, a van pulled up outside his house. The driver, a woman, told him he and his brother were going away for the summer. Stenstrom recalls his grandfather looking worried.
"He told me never to forget where I come from and to embrace it," Stenstrom remembers.
That was the last time he saw him.
Stenstrom spent the summer in several foster homes. One day the van took him to Ainsworth, Neb., to a house where an older couple lived. Their own children were grown and no longer living at home. There, he and his brother waited for fall so they could go home.
"I'm thinking when the summer's over, the little van [is] going to come and get me," Stenstrom says. "It still hasn't come and got me. I'm still sitting there emotionally waiting for the little van to come. And I don't expect it's coming."
Years later, he was told by a state worker that his mother drank too much. But he doesn't recall any bad memories. He knows she loved him. When he closed his eyes, he could see it in her face.
He says he doesn't understand why he wasn't sent to live with one of his relatives. He had hundreds of them. Instead he was sent to a white foster home.
"I grew up in a teepee, for Pete's sake," he says. "This isn't a cliche. Go to bed in a circular teepee tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with four walls. And when you open your eyes, you don't recognize anybody in the room. And sit there for 12 years. Because that's what I did."
Sometimes he dreamed about Native American ceremonies. But when he woke up, the details were gone. For a while, he hoped his two older brothers would come get him. But they had both been drafted and sent to Vietnam.
"I'm sitting here feeling sorry for me because I lost my mom," he says. "Imagine what she went through."
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Dwayne Stenstrom and his wife, Rose, live on South Dakota's Rosebud reservation, where they raised six children. Also pictured is their granddaughter.

Stenstrom liked his foster parents. He says they treated him well, but he does not refer to them as his own mother or father.
"I learned to appreciate that family," he says. "I stayed with them until both of them passed away. When the mother passed, I went back to her funeral and one of her kids asked, 'Why's he here?' "
After that, something snapped. And like more than half of children who leave foster care, he got in trouble with the law and drank too much.
"The only thing I had going for me was my memory," he says. "I looked in four directions and there was nobody."
That's when he returned to the reservation, he says, to see what he had missed and find his identity. He says it saved him.
Finding Tiospaye
On the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, former foster care children walk into Juanita Scherich's office every week. They want to be saved too. Scherich knows the feeling. She was taken from her parents when she was 9.
Scherich says like those who visit her, she lost her language and her sense of tiospaye — tribal family.
"A lot of times it's real painful for me to think about it because my brother and I went through a lot," she says. "I have never forgotten it. I think that's why I work so hard in this job."
Scherich is now the tribe's social worker. The most difficult mornings are when young children are waiting at her door. They're runaways from foster care.
Asked what she does with them, she says: "I don't give them back to the state of South Dakota, that's for damn sure."
That feeling is common on South Dakota's reservations. Officials from three separate tribes said they are actively hiding children from state caseworkers.
Scherich says she finds a relative to take them in — something she says the state should have done in the first place.
"They are so happy to see Grandma," she says. "They just cry. It makes you cry. Those are the times it's all worth it."
After Stenstrom found his way home, he says he connected with the spirit of his grandfather and made peace with the years he spent in foster care. Eventually he even found his mother. She told him she had searched for him for years. He spent six months with her before she died of cancer.
"That was my mom," he says. "That meant the world to me."
'They'll Always Come Home'
Not too long ago a boy, about 6 years old, found his way to the pay phone at the minimart on the Cheyenne River reservation.
"He ran away from a foster home in Lemmon," says Diane Garreau, the tribe's social worker. "He was looking through the phone book because he had remembered names of his family.
"They try to come home," she says. "They'll always come home.They should have never left here."
Garreau and dozens of other tribal officials say the only difference between running away and running home is whether or not you're running in the direction you belong.
Laura Sullivan
Laura Sullivan is an NPR News investigative correspondent whose work has cast a light on some of the country's most significant issues.
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Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.
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The January 20, 2016 Special Board of Supervisors' Meeting was called to order by Chairman Jim Janssen at 1:05PM at the Crane Lake Chapel Fellowship Hall with the Pledge of Allegiance recited by those in attendance including: Guest Speaker Kathy Vesely of MnDOT Aeronautics; Supervisors Arthur Eggen, Jim Janssen, and Jerry Pohlman; Clerk Jo Ann Pohlman and 5 members of the community. Treasurer Traci Bak arrived at approximately 1:15PM.
Purpose of Meeting: Chairman Jim explained the purpose of the meeting being to discuss Township involvement in airport aviation gas tax collection and use in the community. He then introduced guest speaker, Kathy Vesely of MnDOT Aeronautics.
Kathy distributed the following items to the Board and community members: 2015 Airport Directory and Travel Guide, Aeronautical Chart, Simple Example of Airport Zoning, Capital Improvement Program Report, and So… You want to Build a New Airport?
By statute, any municipality can be an airport.
Community support would be needed.
Master planning: Community involvement, airport layout plan, property map, zoning map, history.
Zoning: May not be needed because airport is water based only.
Construction & Financing: Qualification approval would be provided by National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) for federal funding and is usually approved for larger airports with a 90% FAA + 5% State + 10% Local funding plan. If NPIAS does not approve, there is a 90% State + 10% Local funding plan that may be adjustable.
Maintenance & Operation: Limited funds may be available with local match.
Crane Lake is already known as a high demand and busy airport due to local and international travel, and customs. This would be the first community with a water based only airport.
What is Township's legal liability? It may be possible to add to current liability insurance.
If the Township owned the airport, who would manage it? The Town could contract with present owners or someone else.
If the present owners sold the property, how would that affect the community? That would depend on the purchaser and their interest in continuing the airport.
If the Township purchased the property with the 90%/10% funding plan, they would receive 10% of sale proceeds when and if airport was sold by the Township. The Township would be required to retain ownership for 99 years. This timespan could be overcome by holding a study, hearings, etc.
Town would need to contact other airports for operation and budget statistics. Present owners would also need to provide income and expense information to the Town.
The Master Plan would need to be signed by a registered engineer.
Surface access to the airport would need to be considered – fee ownership of access would be required.
Where would the Township get the 10% match? Levy and/or grants would be an option. The Remote Airport Foundation and Seaplane Pilots Association could be contacted for donations.
Should a purchase be decided upon, the appraisal process would include separate appraisals by the owner, the purchaser and MnDOT Aeronautics.
The current airport, owned by Scott's, was licensed in 1942, began fueling in 1948 and customs was added in 1953.
The concept of the Township becoming an airport owner was presented to the Township by Darrell and Carole Scott after they had received questions from their customers about future plans for a continued airport in Crane Lake.
There were no further questions or discussion. Chairman Jim thanked Kathy for her presentation, as did the rest of the community members present.
This draft of the Crane Lake Township minutes has been posted solely for preliminary informational purposes. Minutes are unofficial and subject to change until they have been approved.


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The People's Party () is an Icelandic political party, which was founded in 2016 by Inga Sæland. The party defines itself as "based on a message of love", its articles of associating stating its goals as [fighting] with thought, word and will for Icelanders who have suffered injustices, differences, lawlessness and poverty."

In the 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election, the party received 8.8% of the votes and got 6 seats in the Althing.

Policies
The party's electoral priorities in the 2021 election where the following:

 A minimum subsistence level should be ISK 350,000 tax- and deduction-free. A new social security system that ensures a minimum subsistence level and the abolition of deduction of state support because of income. Interactive austerity rules should not lock people in a poverty trap.
 Allow disabled people who can to try their skills in the labor market for two years without deduction in state support and without their disability being reassessed. Encourage disabled individuals to be self-sufficient and never punish them or reduce the state support income of those who want and can help themselves.
 Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
 Increase the free income limit for old-age pensions of state´s pension income from ISK 25,000 up to ISK 100,000. Abolish deduction to state´s old-age pensions due to employment income.
 Fully secure the funding of the Icelandic health care system.
 A fishery policy based on that the fishing grounds around Iceland are a common property of the nation, not private property. The state should get a full price for access to the marine resources and for the fishing quotas. Ensure that inhabitants of coastal villages enjoy an increased right to utilize the marine resource. Boost coastal fishing by make handline fishing free.
 In housing, abolish inflation indexation of mortgages. Abolish the sky-high prepayment fees on loan agreements. Fight against housing shortages by creating incentives for increased construction of new housing.

Icelandic parliamentary elections
 The party ran in the 2016 Icelandic parliamentary election. It received 3.5% of the votes, and thus failed to pass the 5% threshold required to enter the legislature.
 In the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election, the party received 6.88% of the votes, and gained four seats in the Althing.
 In the 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election, the party received 8.8% of the votes, and got six seats in the Althing out of sixty-three seats.

Electoral priorities in the 2021 parliamentary elections
In the 2021 parliamentary election, the party´s electoral priorities were:

Welfare and the fight against poverty
 The minimum subsistence level will be ISK 350,000, tax- and deduction-free!
 Introduce a new social security system that ensures a minimum subsistence level and the abolition of deduction of state support because of income. Let not interactive austerity rules lock people in a poverty trap.

The disabled
 Allow all disabled people who can to try their skills in the labor market for two years without any deduction in state support and without their disability being reassessed.
 Encourage the individual to be self-sufficient and never punish them or reduce the income of those who want and can save themselves in some way.
 All aids equipment should be exempt from VAT.
 Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Senior citizens
 Increase the free income limit for old-age pensions of state´s pension income from ISK 25,000 up to ISK 100,000.
 Abolish deduction to state´s old-age pensions due to employment income.
 Ensure the safety of the elderly in residential and nursing accommodation.

Pension funds
 Ensure increased democracy and transparency in pension funds.
 Ensure that pension rights are inherited upon death.

Health Care
 Fully secure the funding of the health care system.
 Eliminate waiting lists for necessary health care.
 Ensure that people born with blemishes receive reimbursement for medical procedures from the Icelandic Health Insurance.
 Never accept that children have to wait for urgent medical attention.

Housing market
 Abolish inflation indexation of mortgages.
 Able people to refinance inflation indexed loans with non-indexed loans without being subject to a credit rating and payment assessment.
 Abolish the sky-high prepayment fees on loan agreements that the Housing Financing Fund made at the time.
 Fight against housing shortages by creating incentives for increased construction of new housing.

Fisheries
 Full price for access to the marine resource and the fishing quota.
 A new fishery policy based on that the fishing grounds around Iceland are a common property of the nation and not private property.
 Ensure that the inhabitants of coastal villages enjoy an increased right to utilize the marine resource with a positive effect on the fishing grounds across the country.
 Boost coastal fishing by make handline fishing free.
 The nation should receive full price for access to its resources.
 Enactment of a provision on national ownership of natural resources in the constitution.

Students' loans
 Give students freedom to earn extra income - without cuts in students loans.

The Environment and Climate Change
 The People's Party views man-made climate change as a grave global environmental problem. Pollution respects no borders.
 Iceland should to take an active part in the fight against climate change in international co-operation.
 Wetland restoration, the electrification of the car fleet, environmentally friendly energy for ships, the production of renewable energy and increased forestry are the countermeasures Iceland should emphasize on.
 Iceland should take responsibility in the fight against climate change without environmental protection measures affecting the public who have little financial means.
 Against green taxes that increase inequality and poverty. They should pay the most who pollute the most.
 Iceland´s clean energy sources should be wisely used to reduce pollution, while at the same time consider nature conservation.

The Highlands
 We do not support restrictions on the public freedom of movement within the country to enjoy their own nature. The Highlands cannot be institutionalized in the form of a national park with associated ministerial powers at the expense of public access. We trust the locals in the surrounding municipalities to take care of the Highlands.
 It is extremely important that the public has easy access to the refreshing paradise of the Icelandic Highlands free of charge. Not everyone can afford to travel abroad. Icelanders have enjoyed it for a long time, for example within the framework of outdoor clubs, and have generally been successful. We trust these people to enjoy the highlands, and to respect and protect them at the same time.

Funding of the campaign promises
 Abolish the pension fund exemption to withhold taxes upon deposit to the pension funds. Thus, the cash payment will be taken immediately upon deposit, but not when the funds are paid out as currently. To give the Treasury "tens of billions of dollars annually" in increased revenues without compromising the people's pension rights.
 Transfer the personal tax credit from the rich to the poorer.
 Full price will be charged for access to the marine resource.
 Implementation of the bank tax again, as there is no real competition as the banks' profits prove.
 Clean up the system and reduce any unnecessary government spending.

Controversies and expulsions
At the end of November 2018, the party expelled two of its parliamentarians, Karl Gauti Hjaltason and Ólafur Ísleifsson, after a meeting of these with members of the Centre Party where Karl Gauti and Ólafur did not object to derogatory remarks of Centre Party members against the People's Party's leader, Inga Sæland.

Electoral results

Parliament

References

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Biden administration raised concerns with Beijing over Chinese companies non-lethal aid in Russian war effort
The Biden administration has recently raised concerns with China about evidence it has suggesting that Chinese companies have sold non-lethal equipment to Russia for use in Ukraine, in an effort to ascertain how much Beijing knows about the transactions, according to two US officials.
That equipment includes items like flak jackets and helmets, multiple sources familiar with US and European intelligence told CNN, but stops short of the more robust military assistance that Russia has requested.
The equipment transfers are "concerning," one of the US officials said, but at this stage, it's not clear to Washington whether the central government is aware of it. Although state-owned enterprises dominate China's economy, not all are subject to day-to-day oversight.
Some US officials believe that the Chinese government knows about the equipment transfers and should take steps to upend them, the second official said.
While the Biden administration is still weighing the impact and overall significance of the support, it is a matter of increasing concern among US officials.
The US officials declined to offer details on the communications between the Biden administration and Beijing.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken travels to China in the coming weeks, and the transfers are expected to be a topic of discussion, the second official said.
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If the Biden administration does determine that the central government of China is intentionally providing assistance to Russia's invasion – or knowingly allowing that assistance – the administration would have to decide how forcefully to respond. Dating back to the very early days of the war, top aides to President Joe Biden have issued warnings to China of the potential consequences should China choose to support Russia in the conflict.
Such direct material aid from the Chinese government would also represent an apparent deepening of China's self-proclaimed partnership with Moscow, which up until now has appeared carefully calibrated.
China and Russia publicly declared a "friendship without limits" at the outset of the conflict. But as Russia's progress on the battlefield has spluttered and the international community has rallied around Ukraine, China has stopped short of offering much of the financial and military support Moscow has requested. Beijing — deeply intertwined economically with the West in ways Russia is not — has wanted to avoid angering the global community, sources with familiar with US intelligence said.
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Still, China has avoided publicly criticizing Russia's war efforts and the two countries have repeatedly emphasized their partnership.
In December, after a virtual meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the two countries would strengthen cooperation between their armed forces and pointed to a growth in trade.
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Q: Ruby on Rails 3 - Reload lib directory for each request I'm creating a new engine for a rails 3 application. As you can guess, this engine is in the lib directory of my application.
However, i have some problems developing it. Indeed, I need to restart my server each time I change something in the engine.
Is there a way to avoid this ?
Can I force rails to completely reload the lib directory or a specific file and his requirements for each request ?
Thanks for your help :)

A: I couldn't get any of the above to work for me so I dug in the Rails code a bit and came up with this:
New file: config/initializers/reload_lib.rb
if Rails.env == "development"
  lib_reloader = ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker.new(Dir["lib/**/*"]) do
    Rails.application.reload_routes! # or do something better here
  end

  # For Rails 5.1+
  ActiveSupport::Reloader.to_prepare do
    lib_reloader.execute_if_updated
  end

  # For Rails pre-5.1
  ActionDispatch::Callbacks.to_prepare do
    lib_reloader.execute_if_updated
  end

end

Yes, I know it's disgusting but it's a hack. There might be a better way to trigger a full reload, but this works for me. My specific use case was a Rack app mounted to a Rails route so I needed it to reload as I worked on it in development.
Basically what it does is it checks if any files in /lib have changed (modified timestamp) since last loaded and then triggers a reload if they change.
I might also mention I have this in my config/application.rb
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)
config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/lib/**/"]

Which just by default makes sure everything in my lib directory gets loaded.
Yays!

A: TL;DR

*

*put this in config/application.rb
config.eager_load_paths += ["#{Rails.root}/lib"]

*remove require statements for your lib files
Go!

Let me explain in detail.
I don't know why this answer is accepted, since it doesn't help with reloading lib folder on each request. First I thought that it works for Rails 2, but the question clearly states that it was for Rails 3 and the release date of 3.0.0 is before the date of the answer.
Other answers seem over-complicated or don't provide a real solution.
I decided to investigate things a little, because it was bothering me and I've even found out that people have a workaround for this and it involves saving lib files inside app/models in development and then moving it to /lib when done. We can do better, right?

My solution is tested against:

*

*Rails 3.0.20

*Rails 3.1.12

*Rails 3.2.13

*Rails 4.0.0.rc1

Put this into your config/application.rb:
# in config/application.rb
config.eager_load_paths += ["#{Rails.root}/lib"]

That's it!™
Make sure you put it here since it will not work if you put it in config/environments/development.rb, for example.
Make sure your remove all the require statements for your /lib code since require statements will also cause this solution to not work.

This code implicitly requires your code, so if you do environment checks (which are unnecessary) and instead of the above code, you decide to write something like this:
# in config/application.rb
config.eager_load_paths += ["#{Rails.root}/lib"] if Rails.env.development?

you should watch out on the old require statements, since they are still required on all the non-development environments, in this scenario.
So if you still decide to do environment checks, make sure you do inverse checks for require statements. Otherwise you'll get bitten!
require "beer_creator" unless Rails.env.development?

You might think that writing entire paragraph about something that's unnecessary is also unnecessary, but I think that warning people about something that's necessary when doing something unnecessary is also necessary.
If you would like to know more about this topic, check out this little tutorial.

A: In RAILS 3, here's the secret sauce to auto-reload lib files. The code below's a bit overkill, for the example, but it's what I did to make it work. You can change the message in YoYo#gogo and see it on the screen each page load. Remove out the initializer and it stays the same.
/config/initializers/lib_reload.rb (new file)
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.explicitly_unloadable_constants << 'YoYo'
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.autoload_once_paths.delete(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))+'/lib')

/lib/yo_yo.rb
class YoYo
  def gogo
    "OH HAI THERE"
  end
end

/app/controllers/home_controller
require 'yo_yo'
class HomeController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @message = YoYo.new.gogo
  end
end

A: Here is my version inspired from @pbhogan's answer that reloads all the ruby files in your rails /lib directory when any of those files is changed.
It also silences warnings to avoid messages regarding already initialized constants.
Works as of Rails 3.2.8
if Rails.env.development?

  lib_ruby_files = Dir.glob(File.join("lib/**", "*.rb"))
  lib_reloader ||= ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker.new(lib_ruby_files) do
    lib_ruby_files.each do |lib_file|
      silence_warnings { require_dependency(lib_file) }
    end
  end

  ActionDispatch::Callbacks.to_prepare do
    lib_reloader.execute_if_updated
  end

end

A: Since we are talking Rails, the easiest way is to 'require' your lib/* .rb files using 'require_dependency'. So long as the controller/helper/etc (.rb files under app/) uses require_dependency instead of just require reloading works, without the need to do anything funky.
Before I went down that track, the only solution that worked was the one on hemju.com, but I really did not want to have to hack the ApplicationController for Dev speed.

A: Add to application_controller.rb or your base controller:
  before_filter :dev_reload if Rails.env.eql? 'development'

  def dev_reload
    # add lib files here
    ["rest_client.rb"].each do |lib_file|
      ActiveSupport::Dependencies.load_file lib_file
    end
  end

Worked for me.

A: You have to add
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)

to your Application class in config/application.rb
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/5218-rails-3-rc-does-not-autoload-from-lib

A: Updated answer
I sum up all my findings on my blog, you better look there:

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*http://lsd4coders.muheimwebdesign.ch/2012/09/how-to-develop-rails-3-1-engines-with-ease-part-i-the-engine/

*http://lsd4coders.muheimwebdesign.ch/2012/09/how-to-develop-rails-3-1-engines-with-ease-part-ii-the-gem/
Old answer
I looked around for a solution for this too, and (for completeness' sake and also to point others into this direction) here is what I found.
As of Rails3.1, engines can easily be generated through the command rails plugin new my_plugin --full. This generates the skeleton for an engine.
--full means that the engine will be "merged" right into the including application, so that for example controllers should be directly accessible as if they were defined in the including app. This lets you e.g. have a helper file in my_engine/app/helpers/my_helper.rb that will be merged right into your including app's app/helpers/my_helper.rb helper.
There's another option --mountable which creates a namespace for the engine so that its controllers etc. will never collide with the including application's ones. This results in e.g. a helper being in my_engine/app/helpers/my_engine/my_helper.rb which won't collide with a helper app/helpers/my_helper.rb in your including app.
Now the more interesting part:
Within the generated engine's test folder, there's a dummy folder which holds a complete Rails application! What's it for?
When you develop an engine, its functionalities are meant to work completely on their own, and it should also be tested completely on its own. So it's the "wrong" way to develop an engine "within" another Rails app (though this intuitively often will feel right when extracting existing functionalities from a Rails app into an engine), and so theoretically it is also not needed to reload an engine's code with every request to the including application.
The "right" way seems to be this: develop and test your engine, as if it were a full Rails app using the dummy app! Therein you can do everything you can do in any "normal" Rails app, e.g. create controllers, models, views, etc. which use the functionalities the engine should provide. You also can normally start a server using rails s in your test/dummy directory and access the dummy app on localhost:3000, and when running your tests, the dummy app is automatically used for integration tests. Quite nice! :-)
You have to be careful where to put your stuff:

*

*Any functionality that is meant to be used within another Rails app goes into my_engine/app, while any functionality that is only needed to test the engine's functionality goes into test/dummy/app.

Then afterwards you can easily load your engine in your main app's Gemfile like this: gem 'my_engine', :path => 'path/to/my_engine' or publish it to GitHub as a gem.
(One interesting thing (and to come back to this topic's subject) is that when I start the dummy's server, then all changes in the engine seem to be reflected within it! So somehow it seems to be possible to include an engine within a Rails app without caching it...? I don't know how this happens.)
So to sum up: an engine provides functionality that can stand completely on its own, so it should also be developed and tested on its own. Then, when it has reached a stable state, it can be included by any other app that needs its functionality.
Here's some resources I find useful:

*

*Developing a RubyGem using Bundler

*Mountable Engines RailsCast

*Book "Rails 3 in Action"
I hope you find this answer useful. I'm still very new to engines in general, so if there's any wrong information, please tell me, and I'll correct it.

A: note that in Rails 3 "load_once_paths" becomes "autoload_once_paths."
Also, it appears that it should be empty unless you explicitly put something in it.

A: Also, make sure that you comment out the following line in application.rb (in addition to @dishod's solution), and make sure that your module name is the same as your file name (otherwise, rails won't be able to find it)
#Dir.glob("./lib/*.{rb}").each { |file| require file } # require each file from lib directory

A: Worked for Rails 3.2.13 for reloading lib inside of gem of an app:
require_dependency 'the_class'
AND
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/../fantasy/lib)

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"Make Turkey Great Again" Collides With The U.S.
By Burak Bekdil/Gatestone Institute February 25, 2019
The summer peak of the crisis between Turkey and the United States, two NATO allies in theory, has been replaced by cautious pessimism. Few Turks today remember the days of massive Turkish protests against President Donald Trump and his administration, often exhibited in childish ways such as groups gathering to burn fake U.S. dollars or smashing iPhones in front of cameras. This is, however, an extremely fragile tranquility.
On February 15, after keeping the position vacant since October 2017, Washington nominated David Satterfield, a career diplomat, as new ambassador to Ankara, an appointment that still needs to be confirmed by the Senate. In Ankara, a complex puzzle awaits Ambassador Satterfield.
There are no signs that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may rethink -- or even recalibrate -- his assertive neo-Ottoman foreign policy calculus. As the country awaits its critical local elections on March 31, his popularity is augmented by supportive masses who want to "Make Turkey great again." A surprise defeat at the ballot box could be the beginning of the end of Erdoğan's 17-year-old rule.
One of Erdoğan's regional policy priorities, as U.S. troops in neighboring northern Syria prepare to leave, is to prevent Turkey's south from witnessing the emergence of "a Kurdish belt". The U.S. troop pullout could expose Syrian Kurds, U.S. allies in the multinational fight against Islamic State, to the risk of a Turkish military incursion.
While the U.S. supports the idea of a buffer zone in northern Syria to keep Kurdish militants and Turkish troops at a safe distance from each other, Erdoğan insists on sole Turkish control over the planned 20-mile-deep strip. The Turkish strongman also rejects a plan by the United States for a multinational force to police the area.
Part of the Turkish-American puzzle is about a rigid plan by Erdoğan to make Turkey the first NATO ally to deploy the Russian-made S-400 air and anti-missile defense system. Turkish authorities, including Erdoğan, have repeatedly refused requests by Turkey's Western allies to drop the Russian deal and go for a Western-made defense architecture. Most recently, on February 20, Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries in charge of military procurements, Ismail Demir, said that the S-400 system would become operational in October.
The S-400 issue is potentially another source of crisis between Washington and Ankara. Demir's remarks looked very much like an official Turkish reply to Vice President Mike Pence who just days ago had repeated warnings to Turkey not to proceed with the S-400 purchase.
Pence, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, told attendees "we will not stand idly by while NATO allies purchase weapons from our adversaries. We cannot ensure the defense of the West if our allies grow dependent on the East".
Pence's "we will not stand idly by" warning also involves another Turkish plan to purchase military gear, this time from the West. Turkey is part of a U.S.-led, multinational consortium that builds the F-35 next-generation fighter jet, and has committed to buy at least 100 aircraft.
On February 19, Trump signed a spending bill that blocks the transfer of F-35s to Turkey. According to the spending bill, delivery of the jets to Turkey will be blocked until the U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense submit an update to the report regarding Turkey's S-400 purchase.
If Turkey goes ahead with purchasing Russia's S-400 systems, the Congressional bill requires the U.S. departments to include a detailed description of plans for the imposition of sanctions, pursuant to section 231 of the Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-44).
Turkey's systematic efforts to support various Islamist groups in the nearby Middle East, as well as in the less-nearby corners of the Mediterranean basin, are a cause of concern for Western countries, including the United States, that have a "stabilizing agenda" for the region.
As a result of Erdoğan's ideological kinship with groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey is already in a cold war with a long list of regional countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel. New tensions were recently added to the list when Libya and Algeria slammed Turkish arms shipments to Islamist militants.
In December, Algerian authorities announced the discovery of an arms shipment from Turkey at the Algerian-Libyan border, including rockets and 48 million rounds of ammunition. An Algerian official told the newspaper al-Watan that "the purpose of such [Turkish] activity is to not only destabilize Libya, but send such an arsenal to unstable regions, including Algeria".
Erdoğan's anti-Western ideology often makes strange bedfellows for Turkey. The most recent is Venezuela, after Turkey joined Russia, China and Iran in backing the battered regime of Nicolas Maduro. When, in November, Trump signed an executive order authorizing sanctions on Venezuelan gold -- after sending an envoy to warn Turkey off the trade -- a mysterious Turkish company, Sardes, with just $1 million in capital, had already shuttled $900 million worth of the precious metal out of Venezuela.
With or without an American ambassador residing in Ankara, there is more than enough evidence to expect a badly bumpy road ahead for the former strategic allies that are now allies only in theory or, in a more realistic lexicon, ideological adversaries.
Originally published at Gatestone Institute - reposted with permission.


BondLink was thrilled to be in attendance at NFMA's 35th Annual Conference, and was blown away by the quality of the speakers and panels.
Given our mission of driving improved disclosure in the muni market, the Municipal Industry Roundtable was something we were particularly excited about. Unfortunately, we came away slightly downtrodden as clear answers from this esteemed panel on disclosure, materiality and investor outreach were simply elusive.
Moderated by NFMA Chair Mary Francoeur, the panelists made numerous attempts to answer attendee questions about materiality and selective disclosure, but instead they left the crowd more confused than before. GFOA representative Jonas Biery said he didn't believe, and suggested there is no evidence, that better disclosure leads to better pricing – or whether issuers should even need to do more than the bare minimum to comply. His contention was that disclosure is expensive, and every dollar spent on disclosure is a dollar not spent on infrastructure, public safety or other governmental priorities. But if we've learned anything since BondLink was launched, it's that Issuers who truly care about disclosure and their investors realize that the ROI for proper disclosure and investor outreach is worth every penny.
MSRB Executive Director Lynette Kelly explained that it's her organization's responsibility to investors, as the sole repository and source of all municipal disclosures, to make its sites usable. She discussed all of the changes they have made to EMMA and how voluntary disclosure is slowly rising, though she didn't touch on what specifically was being voluntarily disclosed.
A survey during the conference showed that nearly 60 percent of responders felt that recent upgrades to EMMA did little or nothing to make it better. MSRB wishes they had more money to spend on developing EMMA but they didn't, she said. In my opinion, the information provided to EMMA by issuers is vital to an efficient municipal marketplace, but it is the bare minimum and they should not spend time or money developing tools that investors don't want or need. Let the market develop the tools.
With BondLink now on my NFMA name badge, I was absolutely tickled when Kelly acknowledged that some issuers are using outside services to make sure they have better disclosure and investor communications.
Rebecca Olsen, Director of the SEC Office on Municipal Securities, provided great examples of how the SEC regulates disclosure of corporations via Reg-FD. She also explained that the SEC does not regulate munis and that there are simply too many different types of municipal issuers, which is why a one-size-fits-all approach probably won't work. She noted that the SEC's proposal to change 15c2-12 (disclosure rule) to be more robust.
This is annually one of the most-anticipated panels of the conference, and this year certainly lived up to the billing – based on the interest and involvement of the attendees. It was unfortunate though that none of the panelists could actually give clear guidance on the definition of "materiality." Even after 30 years in munis as both a trader and analyst, I keep asking: Why do municipal investors continue accept these answers?
Still, I think that if the ultimate goal is a better and more efficient municipal bond market, then discussion will be the path get there. Perhaps more than any event I get to attend, NFMA is a paradigm of participation. We're all committed to this industry and continually seeking out ways to make it better.
I'm looking forward to participating in our next Advance Seminar on ESG and Impact Investing.


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Hollins, Roanoke College Welcome Nominations for the 2017 Perry F. Kendig Awards
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Perry F. Kendig Arts and Culture Awards, which recognize individuals, businesses, and organizations in the Roanoke Valley that provide exemplary leadership in or support for the arts.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, July 28. Nomination forms and other information are available at https://kendig.press.hollins.edu/.
Hollins University and Roanoke College have cosponsored the awards since 2013. Roanoke College will host the 2017 Kendig Awards presentation on Thursday, September 28, 5:30 p.m. in Olin Hall Galleries.
Three Kendig Awards will be presented this year, one in each of the following categories:
Individual Artist (in all disciplines – dance, literature, music, media arts, visual arts, and theatre)
Arts and/or Cultural Organization
Individual or Business Supporter
Individuals, businesses, and organizations from the Roanoke region (which includes the counties of Botetourt, Franklin, and Roanoke, the cities of Roanoke and Salem, and the town of Vinton) are eligible, as are past Kendig Award recipients from 1985 – 2012.
Named for the late Perry F. Kendig, who served as president of Roanoke College and was an avid supporter and patron of the arts, the awards were presented by the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge for 27 years.
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Bye Bye Psy — Bravo's now in Kuthu mode
Everybody knows that Dwayne Bravo rocks a mean Gangnam style. Turns out, the all-rounder isn't bad when it comes to Madras-style koothu as well.
By Janane Venkatraman | ENS
Everybody knows that Dwayne Bravo rocks a mean Gangnam style. Turns out, the all-rounder isn't bad when it comes to Madras-style koothu as well. The proof — a brief demonstration on stage with the crew of the film Ula here on Sunday. The charismatic CSK player, who will be putting on his dancing shoes for a promotional song for Ula on his birthday today, wants to dance to fellow cricketer Brett Lee's tunes someday. City Express caught up with the West Indian for a chat.
So you really want to work with Brett Lee, outside of cricket?
Yes! Brett and I spoke about it when we played for the Syndey Sixers in Australia two years ago. But nothing came out of it. I don't think it's too late though. Hopefully he can sing and I can dance, because, well, he has the voice!
Are you going to be bringing your on-field moves before camera as well?
Yeah definitely! That's my trademark and I think that's what my fans love and want to see as well. I guess I've got to be myself and do some moves.
So you're going to be spending your birthday dancing in Chennai?
Yes, it's a very special day for me because I'm doing what I love. I think it's great that I can spend my birthday in India.
Do the boys in the CSK dressing room know?
Initially, I wanted to keep it to myself, keep it quiet. (I) didn't want any of the boys to know. Ashwin found out first. After that it was Vijay. I guess the news will always travel fast.
Will you take this up seriously once you're done with cricket?
Maybe. A sportsman's careet is always shortlived and who knows what will life after cricket will be? Right now cricket is my priority and will always be. But I also love to entertain and I really look forward to this song. And I think I can dance better than I can act, so why not?
Have you watched any Tamil films?
I'm not the type to go out and watch movies, especially when I'm on cricket duty. I tend to stay in. But now that I'm doing this, I should probably go out and catch some movies, yeah.
Have you learnt any Tamil?
Well, I know Vanakkam. (Laughs). This is a great opportunity to pick up some Tamil and I'm going to do my best


SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Monday that it has taken a dispute to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States for imposing tariffs on washing machines and solar panels as the measure was deemed to be in violation of the WTO agreement.
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement that it has delivered its request for bilateral consultation to the U.S. side to start a dispute settlement process.
The move is a set of measures that the South Korean government had taken after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped a steep tariff on imported washing machines and solar panels in February to protect American manufacturers.
In April, South Korea said it notified its plan to suspend tariff concessions on imported U.S. goods worth $480 million following U.S. tariff measures against South Korean imports.
The ministry said it will respond to unfair import restrictions taken by the country's major trading partners against South Korean companies.


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Hellas und der Orient: Phasen wechselseitiger Rezeption. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung 2
Albrecht Dihle, Reinhard Feldmeier, Hellas und der Orient: Phasen wechselseitiger Rezeption. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung 2. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 60. ISBN 9783110219562 $23.00 (pb).
Nassos Papalexandrou, The University of Texas at Austin. papalex@mail.utexas.edu
This slim but pithy book is the annotated text of a prestigious lecture its author delivered at the University of Göttingen a few years ago. The readers of BMCR are familiar with the author and the gravitas of his fecund scholarship which encompasses a wide gamut of literary, philosophical, religious and historical facets. His contribution is nicely but all too briefly delineated by Reinhard Feldmeier in the short introduction. As the title of this booklet indicates, Dihle has thought deeply and widely about the mutual encounters or interactions of Greek culture with the Orient, understood here as a very broad area in terms of chronological and geographical range. Dihle is no less adept thinking and writing about Mycenaean Greece than immersing himself in the traffic of Buddhist ideas west of India or the mutual fertilization of Christianity and Judaism. Dense and thought provoking, his well-crafted text is rewarding and insightful in many respects although one senses throughout that Dihle only skims through the surface of this iceberg of a topic. In his text, Dihle does not put forth a new argument or a new methodology. Based on his long and unparalleled expertise, he provides an overview of key aspects of the intellectual and cultural cross-fertilization between the Greek world and the variegated cultures of the Near East and South Asia. Dihle's research and understanding are based on textual sources: this is why his major focus is on the realm of ideas and phenomena best illustrated in texts shaped in varying social and political circumstances. Material culture receives little attention in his analysis, although one senses that Dihle is fully cognizant of its importance and agency.
Dihle's starts his overview in the 8th century BCE, but he acknowledges that the epic tradition is replete with elements (e.g. vocabulary) borrowed already in the Late Bronze Age. He explains the limitations of epic for the historical reconstruction of interconnections with the Near East. He also persuasively argues against Raoul Schrott's attempt to recognize Homer as a Greek from Cilicia in the service of an Assyrian court (14-15).1 Following M. L. West and W. Burkert, Dihle discusses the presence in Hesiod and Homer of oriental cosmological ideas and influences from Near Eastern wisdom literature. For example, Dihle states that the divinely-based concept of justice must have originated from various sources in the ancient Orient after the beginning of the first millennium BCE. Dihle goes on to outline the where and how of intercultural interaction, stressing the role of Greek colonies (e.g. Naukratis in Egypt) and examining the presence of non-Greeks (e.g. Phoenician) in the Aegean or in other areas of Greek presence. In the east the Greeks would often encounter paradoxical situations, like the capacity of Egyptians to document their ancestry backwards to periods much earlier than those of the origins of Greek mythological genealogies. In the wake of Alexander's expedition, the new sociopolitical order facilitated the cultural assimilation of the upper strata of indigenous populations. These conquests resulted in the dissemination of the Greek civic ideal, whereas Greek intellectuals gradually came to acknowledge, respect, and appreciate the values and temporal primacy of non-Greek philosophical and religious ideas: "Es war aber di Philosophie im Sinne theoretisch lehrbarer Lebenskult, die man in den Überlieferungen exotischer, vornehmlich orientalischer Völker vermutete, deren wirkliches oder angenommenes Alter die Griechen stets mit Respekt erfüllt hatte" (38).
In Dihle's analysis the recurrent metaphor of "student and teacher" articulates his understanding of phenomena between the Greeks and their eastern neighbors. Until the Classical period the Greeks were "…eifrige, unvoreingenommene Schüler ihrer näheren und entfernten Nachbarn inm Osten und Süden" (27), whereas in the wake of Alexander's conquest they themselves became "…in technischer, militärtechnisher, administrativer und ökonomischer Hinsicht…Lehrmeistern ihrer östlichen Nachbarn" (29). Likewise, in the early Hellenistic period intellectuals had no desire "von der Barbaren zu lernen" (34) mainly because of the Greek intellectuals' indifference toward languages other than Greek, a fact that impeded their acquaintance with the treasures and contributions of non-Greek thought. A notable exception is, however, Judaism, whose texts were translated in Greek (e.g. the translation of the Pentateuch commissioned by Ptolemaios Philadelphos) or the works of Jewish authors that, as Dihle succinctly explains, decisively fertilized Hellenistic philosophy and early Christianity. One wonders what the effect of Buddhism in Greek and Roman thought would have been, if treatises like the Questions of Milinda ( Milindapanha, a dialogue about Buddhism between the Indo-Greek king Menander [Milinda, 155-130 BCE] and the Buddhist sage Nagasena) had been translated and read further west.
Dihle also discusses at length the significance of religious developments, especially the syncretic phenomena that ensued in the global koine of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. Already before Alexander's conquests non-Greek gods and cults had made their appearance in Greece. In the Hellenistic period, the Greek religious system was reconfigured by the arrival of Isis, Savazios, Mithras, Kybele, among others – divine personae naturalized in Greek-type mystery cults that fulfilled the psychological needs of often displaced individuals in a significantly expanded but unpredictable world.
The value of this booklet lies in its wide scope and the evident erudition of its author. There are 121 footnotes and in many of them Dihle cites his numerous articles and books. In this respect this booklet also has historiographical value and one regrets that the introduction did not contextualize more broadly Dihle's oeuvre and the development of his thought.
1. R. Schrott, Homers Heimat (München 2008).


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By Natasha Roth
|Published January 6, 2017
WATCH: Palestinian women prevent West Bank home demolition
Israeli forces who turned up to demolish a home in the West Bank village of Budrus were met with an unexpected obstacle: dozens of Palestinian women protecting the house with their bodies.
The women of Budrus, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, sent a powerful message on Wednesday when they physically blocked Israeli forces from carrying out a home demolition. Video of the incident, shot by photojournalist Issam Rimawi, shows dozens of Palestinian women standing on the porch and roof of the home, as Israeli army jeeps and Border Police officers idle out front. To the side stands a group of men from the village, observing the proceedings.
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The women of Budrus are not new to such exploits. In 2011, the village's struggle to resist the occupation won international attention following the release of a documentary, "Budrus," which covered local activists' and organizers' attempts to reroute the planned path of the Israeli separation barrier. The fight to stop the fence from cutting the village off from huge swaths of its land, while destroying thousands of its olive trees, turned a corner after Budrus' women became actively involved. Images of women physically confronting Israeli bulldozers and jeeps are some of the most inspiring in the film. In a rare victory for anti-occupation activism, the path of the barrier was rerouted — leaving the village with 95 percent of its land. (Full disclosure: +972 partnered with Just Vision, the organization that produced 'Budrus,' to launch and operate Local Call, our Hebrew-language sister site.)
Members of Israeli security forces takes position during clashes with Palestinian protesters after attempting to demolish a house which Israeli authorities said was built without permission. Dozens of women can be seen lining the house in the background, Budrus, West Bank, January 4, 2017. (Flash90)
That moment of grace did not spell the end of Budrus' troubles, of course: Israeli violence against the village has continued, whether structural — by the very fact of the occupation's continued existence — or physical. Violent arrests blight the community, as they do in countless Palestinian villages in the West Bank. The gravest incident of all came in January 2013, when IDF soldiers shot and killed Samir Awad, a 16-year-old village resident. The trial of the soldiers responsible finally concluded last November, with the accused set to receive no more than a slap on the wrist.
Just two months later, Budrus' women faced off against the same uniforms and the same guns, and held their ground. As a result, someone's home is still standing. It's the kind of perseverance that constitutes daily life under occupation.
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Natasha Roth
After spending several years as a writer, editor and translator in Israel-Palestine, I am now based in Charlottesville, where I am a doctoral student in history at the University of Virginia. My work has appeared in The London Review of Books Blog, Haaretz, The Forward, The Daily Beast and The Fair Observer. I write under my family's true last name in memory of my grandfather, Kurt, who was forced to change his name to 'Rowland' when seeking refuge in the UK during WW2.
I also write over at www.natasharoth.com.
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