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Introduction to Common Ground
Our Mission: One Secular Democratic State in Palestine/Israel with Equal Rights for All
Building American Support for One Secular Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Intercultural Partnerships
Intercultural/Interfaith Partnerships
Faith and Community Partnerships
Student Partnerships
Youth Partnerships
The Freedom Theatre
One Democratic State
Activist Quotes on One Secular Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Palestinian-Israeli "Co-Resistance"
Palestinian-Israeli "Co-Resistance" to Occupation and Oppression Aid
Palestinian Human Rights NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza
Israeli Human Rights NGOs "Co-Resisting" Israel's Colonization, Occupation and Apartheid
The BDS Movement
Our Common Religious & Humanist Teaching
Divesting from Apartheid… Investing in Equal Rights… Building One Secular Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Palestinian and Israeli activists repudiate "political Zionism," "settler-colonialism," Israel as a "Jewish State," support Palestinian-Israeli nonviolent "co-resistance" to Israeli colonization, occupation, apartheid and discrimination, and promote one secular democratic state with equal rights for all
"President Trump has delivered a message to the Palestinian people: the two-state solution is over. Now is the time to transform the struggle for one-state with equal rights for everyone living in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea." — Saeb Erekat, 2017, "Two State Solution is Over," Top Palestinian Diplomat Says After Trump's Jerusalem Speech
"We have not settled Palestine together with the Arabs but alongside them. Settlement 'alongside' (neben), when two nations inhabit the same country, which fails to become settlement 'together with' (mit) must necessarily become a state of 'against.' This is bound to happen here — and there will be no return to a mere 'alongside.' But despite the obstacles in our path, the way is still open to reaching a settlement 'together with.' ….If we do not attain such a relationship with the Arabs of Palestine, we will never realize the aims of Zionism." — Martin Buber, The National Home and National Policy in Palestine, 1929, A Land of Two Peoples, page 91
"I finally had to admit to myself what I had known for a long time but was too scared to acknowledge: political Zionism, at its core, is a discriminatory ethno-nationalism that privileges the rights of Jews over non-Jews. As such political Zionism violates everything I believe about Judaism…. As a Jew I believe in the inherent dignity of every human being. As a Jew I believe that justice is the core commandment of our tradition. As a Jew I believe that we are commanded to be advocates for the poor, the oppressed, the marginalized. Zionism and the daily reality in Israel violated each of these core values. And, I could no longer be a Zionist…. I came to understand that the democratic Jewish state is an illusion. There is no democratic Jewish state nor will there ever be. Israel will either be a Jewish state or a democratic state. A Jewish state by definition privileges Jews and cannot be democratic. Israel is a democratic state for Jews and a Jewish state for Arabs. It is true that Palestinians who live within Israel have the franchise but they do not have equal rights in many different ways, nor could they ever be full and equal citizens of a Jewish state." — Rabbi Brian Walt, 2012, Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism
"The very idea of Israel, the notion, the concept that you can have a Jewish state that privileges some of its people at the expense of other people, which is racist and which has been at the core of the Zionist enterprise and Israel's foundation, and which has been hidden from Western eyes for decades, is now on full view. This concept is simply not acceptable in the 21st Century." — Nadia Hijab, Executive Director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, 2015, (quote @ 17:00 min., discussion begins @ 16:00 min.) The-Challenges-Posed-by-the-Vacuum-in-Palestinian-Political-Leadership
" In an April 27 op-ed, Rabbi Doug Kahn accurately quoted me as having written that 'ending the occupation doesn't mean anything if it doesn't mean upending the Jewish State itself.' He did not take the line out of context, nor did he misrepresent what I intended to say; democracy in Palestine/Israel and the realization of full human and political rights there for Palestinians means the end of Jewish privilege in my birth country. The conversation around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is wrapped in a myth: That the Palestinians will one day have a viable state of their own in the West Bank and Gaza. The reality is that there will be no viable Palestinian state, ever…. And since we Palestinians do not accept the argument that it was necessary to ethnically cleanse Palestine to establish a Jewish state, we are inconveniently calling for our rights. The late Tony Judt described the Jewish state as an anachronism…. Many of us in Palestine/Israel, including many non-Zionist Jews, are working toward real democracy in the country. I am confident that we will succeed in creating a race-blind society. Perhaps Rabbi Kahn will help us achieve our humanist goal. — Ahmed Moor, 2011, This Is Israel's Future
"Because of these deeply-rooted conceptions, which stem from the very definition of the state as the state of the Jewish people , there is no chance of achieving equality in the State of Israel…. This is not just about what people want, it is a question of whether it is even possible . The State of Israel, with its self-definition, its mission, the way it was established, its priorities, its symbols, name and national anthem, cannot — even if it wanted to — bring about equality between Jews and non-Jews …. The state of the Jews is by necessity a racist state. It cannot be anything else. This is structured and rooted in its very definition. It was founded on Jewish privilege, supremacy and sovereignty, and many of its laws were legislated and many of its goals were formulated on the basis of giving preference to its Jewish citizens. Equality in the state of the Jews is unattainable, and the struggle to achieve such equality is a futile one. Even if you will it, it will remain a dream. It's an illusion…. To eliminate discrimination and change the power relations between Jews and Arabs toward real equality, it is necessary to give up on the ideology that produces inequality. Those who carry the banner of the struggle need to change direction and to demand the establishment of a truly democratic political framework — one that will not give preference to one race over another. This will pave the way for a struggle that has a chance of implementing the principle of equality. Full equality, not as a gesture or nicety on the part of the majority – regardless of who the majority is — and not as a prize for good behavior on the part of the minority, regardless of who the minority is. Equality without reservations, which eliminates the equation of rulers and ruled, occupiers and occupied, expellers and expelled. That is where the struggle has to go." — Umar al-Ghubari, 2016, In the Jewish state, equality for Arabs is impossible by definition
"Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas may have affirmed that they want a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but it may be more promising to return to a much older idea… a one-state bi-national solution." — Leila Farsakh, 2007, Time for a Bi-national State
"Once we accept that a division into two states is no longer realistically possible, the calculus is sobering, to put it mildly: We will be forced to choose between a patently undemocratic apartheid Jewish state, in which a minority rules over a majority or a civil democracy in which all citizens have equal rights under the law. For many liberal Zionists, this unbearably painful decision will represent a profound moment of truth. If forced to choose, which will it be? A Jewish state that parcels out its citizens' rights according to their ethnicity – or a democratic state in which equal rights are enjoyed by all its citizens? I truly believe this is more than an academic question. Perhaps it's time to stop talking about mythic 'windows of opportunity' and open a new discussion: what will it take for us to admit that it is finally closed? And what will our options be then?" — 2012, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Coexistence/Rav Shalom
"I think the one thing that we're overlooking in this whole discussion about the logistics of whether the two-state solution is practical or possible is whether it's actually desirable from the Palestinian point of view. I think the problem that people need to bear in mind is that the Palestinian problem that needs a solution isn't confined to those Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. We need a solution that achieves rights for the Palestinian Diaspora, the refugees, and for those who are discriminated against in Israel, and the two-state solution patently doesn't do that! It's unfair because it only awards the Palestinians 20% of their historic homeland, and it doesn't actually address the wider issues that affect the Palestinian population, so it's not right in principle and it's not workable…. If you spent any time on the ground in Palestine or in the Diaspora Palestinian communities, this issue would be obvious to you…. If you ask Palestinians about the reality that they actually want, it's in accordance with the one-state idea, and if you presented them with a strategy to achieve it, they would absolutely support it!" — Salma Karmi-Ayyoub (in company with Jeff Halper, Co-founder of ICAHD) debating Norman Finklestein, 2014, Head to Head – Time to boycott Israel?
"Palestinians were never really motivated by a desire for their own state, as such. That might sound odd to many, especially given all of the discussion of Palestinian statehood over the past two decades. But it is the truth. What Palestinians want, and deserve, are freedom and equal rights…. If Palestinians wanted a state at all, it was as a means to an end, a vehicle toward realizing their rights…. New polling data of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (show)… a majority of Palestinian respondents, 51%, oppose a two-state solution… because, as the same poll notes, 65% believe that the two-state solution is no longer practical because of Israeli settlement expansion…. Somewhere along the way, statehood went from being a means to an end to being an end in itself. Now, with a right-wing Israeli government firmly in power and no serious engagement from the international community to rein in Israel's expansionist ambitions, Palestinians understand that the statehood project is at best a failure, and at worst a cover for continued Israeli colonialism in Palestinian territory. With this reality in mind, the focus of Palestinian national strategy should not be statehood but rather on reclaiming rights. This means officially declaring the two-state solution dead, with the cause of death being asphyxiation because of settlement expansion. As part of a new direction, Palestinian leaders should support coexistence over nationalism, integration over exclusion and equality over separatism." — Yousef Munayyer, 2015, What Palestinians Really Want
"What is Israel to do?" Israel is to free all Palestinian prisoners, repeal all the laws that give Jewish people exclusive rights in Palestine, repeal the law the prohibits Palestinians from returning to their land and allocate the billions of dollars that will be needed for paying reparations to the refugees and their descendants. Then, Israel is to call for free, one-person one-vote elections where all people who live in mandatory Palestine vote as equals. That is what Israel should do." — Miko Peled, 2015, What-Is-Israel-Supposed-To-Do?
"One state must become the rally cry for equality and freedom. There is no need or time for despair. In fact, the opposite is true. The more empowered and racist Israel becomes, and the deeper it digs into the roots of its Apartheid and racist institutions and walls, the more obvious the answer becomes: a state for two peoples with equal rights." — Ramzy Baroud, 2015, Eight Urgent 'Musts' Needed for Palestinians to Defeat Apartheid
"Due to Israel's expansionist identity, the Israeli 'matrix of control' in the West Bank cannot be reversed, but its racist, discriminating dimensions can be undone by granting equal rights and freedom for all." — Jeff Halper, Co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, MA, 2002
"My eyes have been opened! I don't believe Palestinians will ever gain self-determination in an independent state, therefore the solution is for us to live together with Israeli Jews in one secular, democratic state." — Raed Abubadawia, Emeritus UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Democracy at An-Najah Univ., Nablus, West Bank and Co-founder of Common Ground, Jenin refugee camp, 2003
"The Israelis killed the two-state solution. The only way (to justice) is for us all to live together in one democratic state." — Iyad Burnat, leader of the Popular Struggle non-violent resistance in Bil'in, West Bank, Tufts University, Boston MA 2015, @ IyadBurnat
"The path to peace is not served by the creation of more states or unjust 'fixes' to perceived 'demographic' problems. It has to do with justice and the implementation of international law. It requires grass-roots action to accelerate its arrival but it is the only solution possible in the long term. We can either remain locked in our old mythological and tribal ways, or we can envision a better future and work for it. The choice is obvious." — Mazin Qumsiyeh, 2004, Sharing the Land of Canaan
"Once it is widely recognized that the two-state solution is dead and Greater Israel is a reality, the 'righteous Jews' will have two choices: support apartheid or work to help create a democratic, binational state." — John Mearsheimer, The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners, 2012, Inevitability of the One-State Solution
With… the doubling of the population of Jewish-Israeli colonial settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory, the latest Israeli slow genocide in Gaza and the fast disintegration of the last vestiges of Israeli "democracy," the two-state "solution" for the Palestinian-Israeli colonial conflict is finally dead. Good riddance! This was never a moral or practical solution to start with, as its main objective has always been to win official Palestinian legitimization of Israel's colonial and apartheid existence on top of most of the area of historic Palestine. It is high time to move on to the most just, morally sound and sustainable solution: the secular, democratic unitary state." — Omar Barghouti, 2009, Re-imagining Palestine: Self-determination, Ethical De-colonization and Equality
"Support for one state is hardly a radical idea; it is simply the recognition of the uncomfortable reality that Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories already function as a single state. They share the same aquifers, the same highway network, the same electricity grid and the same international borders… The one-state solution… neither destroys the Jewish character of the Holy Land nor negates the Jewish historical and religious attachment (although it would destroy the superior status of Jews in that state). Rather, it affirms that the Holy Land has an equal Christian and Muslim character. For those who believe in equality, this is a good thing." — Michael Tarazi, 2004, Two Peoples, One State – The New York Times
"We have to seek an alternative model. I believe we have found that, thanks to the fertile imagination of a group of Jewish and Palestinian intellectuals and activists: a unitary secular and democratic state for all the population residing west of the Jordan River based on full equality and respect for the internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian refugees. Badil, the Palestinian organization for the right of return, has joined Zochrot, the Israeli Jewish-Arab organization advocating for peace and reconciliation, in tackling the many thorny issues involved in imagining such a just end to the near seven-decade status quo." — Katim Kanaaneh, 2015, A Pessoptimistic View of Israeli Elections
"What is paramount is the preservation, both of culture and individual rights. Palestinians do not want to lose sense of what it is to be Palestinian, I am confident that Jewish Israelis do want to preserve something about their culture. As individuals, however, we need to focus on civil liberties for everyone in the country. Federalism, in my mind, provides a good framework as to how to do that. — Ahmed Moor, 2012, After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
"We want democracy, not demography…. The one-state discourse is important because it challenges the type of thinking that surrounds demography, and because we are actually offering something for the future, so we are sowing the seeds for a brighter future." — Ronnie Barkan, Co-founder of Boycott from Within, 2015, UN-CUT FOR PALESTINE
"Any occasion that celebrates the idea of one democratic state is an exciting moment, an encouraging and hopeful moment…. We are gathering momentum on the ground and around the world and many more people than before are speaking about one democratic state as the only viable solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. This is an important juncture in history, with the obvious collapse of the two-state solution being acknowledged as a fact by the powers that be, and not just by activists on the margin…. It is important to push forward one democratic state as a vision for the future." — Ilan Pappe 2014, One Democratic State Conference
"The road is long and hard, but the debate must begin to shift now…. (We) must stop proclaiming "two states" and "Jewish state," and begin talking reality. And the reality is that the binational state has been here for a long time. The task now is to make it just." — Gideon Levy, 2015, Israel is Already a Binational State, and Has Been for a Long Time
"If Zionism means the right of the Jewish people to seize territory and deny the Palestinian people the right to self-determination, we condemn it…. We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." — Nelson Mandela, 1996, www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/12/08/nelson-mandela-spoke-forcefully-on-palestine-and-israel
"A lot of Jews who were born with Israeli citizenship have realized that Zionism and the Israeli regime is their enemy. It's our common enemy. Thus, the trend of co-resistance has been evolving for years in Palestine. Jews carrying Israeli citizenship have been part of the popular resistance taking place in Palestine." — Maath Musleh, 2011, Co – Resistance vs. Co-Existence
"Under conditions of colonial oppression, genuine coexistence between the communities of oppressors and oppressed should entail co-resistance (that is Israeli alongside Palestinian resistance) to oppression." — Omar Barghouti, 2012, Lighting a Torch Within
"There is an urgent need to support nonviolent resistance to oppression on the part of Palestinian and Israeli civil society and to continue to build the growing international grassroots movement that will break the current political logjam." 2011 — www.kairosusa.org
"Why can't Africans, Arabs and white folks, Jews, Christians, Muslims, animists, atheists all live in the same society? Because the consensus assumption among Zionists is that the country must have a permanent Jewish super-majority. Even liberal Zionists will only accept non-Jewish immigrants as a temporary exception that must be expelled at the earliest opportunity. The various forms of extreme violence that occurred (recently) – whether directed at Palestinians or African asylum seekers – are deeply rooted in a greater context of normalized racism (in Israeli society). The symptoms will continue as long as the cause is not treated." — Dan Cohen, 2015, The deep roots of vigilante violence in Israeli society
"The arson attack should be seen within (the) context of the Zionist state's history of negating Palestinians and relentless attacks against our very existence…. It is absolutely representative (of the Zionist state's history) and should be received with outrage, not against setters' violence, but against their host regime that has been built and lives on terror, yet continues to be celebrated in the West's political and cultural discourse, feeding its impunity. We should demand not just denunciation of this atrocious attack against 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, but delegitimization of Israel and its Zionist ideology that produces and endorses such violence, and has long justified it morally and politically." — Shahd Abusalama, 2015, The buning of Palestinian toddler: not an exception, but a result of Zionism
"While Jewish Voice for Peace takes no position on the issue of the One State Solution, we very much support… creation of a free and open academic space to discuss the difficult issues that confront anyone who cares about justice, democracy, and human rights in Palestine/Israel. While anti-Semitism must be combated in all forms, too often fears of anti-Semitism lead to unjust quelling of legitimate debate, and academic bullying…Like (Rabbi Martin) Buber and the many Jewish leaders before us who were ostracized for questioning the majority opinion, we strongly believe freedom to raise new ideas is what is best for the Jewish people and for all peoples." 2012 — JVP-Boston supports One State Conference being held at Harvard
"A leading Israeli journalist — writing in Haaretz , Israel's oldest and most-prestigious daily newspaper — says ' It's Time to Admit It. Israeli Policy Is What It Is: Apartheid '…. Like many liberal Zionists, (Bradley) Burston is beginning to see more and more signs that the liberal Zionist dream has transmogrified into a nightmare…. As examples of Israeli apartheid, the Haaretz editor writes: ' What does apartheid mean, in Israeli terms? Apartheid means fundamentalist clergy spearheading the deepening of segregation, inequality, supremacism, and subjugation. Apartheid means Likud lawmaker and former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter calling (recently) for separate, segregated roads and highways for Jews and Arabs in the West Bank. Apartheid means hundreds of attacks by settlers targeting Palestinian property, livelihoods, and lives, without convictions, charges, or even suspects. Apartheid means uncounted Palestinians jailed without trial, shot dead without trial, shot dead in the back while fleeing and without just cause. Apartheid means Israeli officials using the army, police, military courts, and draconian administrative detentions, not only to head off terrorism, but to curtail nearly every avenue of non-violent protest available to Palestinians. Late last month, over the explicit protest of the head of the Israeli Medical Association and human rights groups combatting torture, Israel enacted the government's Law to Prevent Harm Caused by Hunger Strikes." The law allows force-feeding of prisoners, even if the prisoner refuses, if the striker's life is deemed in danger. Netanyahu's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who pushed hard for passage of the bill, has called hunger strikes by Palestinian security prisoners jailed for months without charge or trial "a new type of suicide terrorist attack through which they will threaten the State of Israel". Only under a system as warped as apartheid, does a government need to label and treat non-violence as terrorism.'" — Ben Norton, 2015, Leading Israeli journalist says Israel is an Apartheid state
"The story of Susiya demonstrates that the settler-colonial process is alive and well. Israel continues to erase Palestinian villages and towns in order to spread itself further, continue to conquer and replace the indigenous people with its own…. How can Israel behave 'morally' when it is a settler-colonial state? When have any settler-colonial societies behaved morally? It is an oxymoron. Settler-colonialism is a crime against humanity…. When (Western Jews) read a story like Susiya they don't see that it is a symptom of the wider context of settler-colonialism. They think it's a symptom of how Israel suddenly got worse and became immoral. Still steeped in Israel's Zionist mythology fueled by generations of Israeli Hasbara efforts, Western Jews truly believe that Israel used to be better but that it has gotten worse, moved to the right. Israel has always been right-wing, if right-wing in this context means committing and then whitewashing Zionist settler-colonialism and its obvious and characteristic evils." — Avigail Abarbanel, 2015, It's time for American Jews to recognize they have been duped
"Israel's goal is to make life a living hell for all Palestinians, ethnically cleansing as many as it can and subduing those who remain. The peace process is a sham. It has led to Israel's seizure of more than half the land on the West Bank, including the aquifers, and the herding of Palestinians into squalid, ringed ghettos or Bantustans while turning Palestinian land and homes over to Jewish settlers. Israel is expanding settlements, especially in East Jerusalem. Racial laws, once championed by the right-wing demagogue Meir Kahane , openly discriminate against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. Ilan Pappe calls the decades-long assault against the Palestinian people "incremental genocide." In Gaza, Israel practices an even more extreme form of cruelty. It employs a mathematical formula to limit outside food deliveries to Gaza to keep the caloric levels of the 1.8 million Palestinians just above starvation. This has left 80 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza dependent on Islamic charities and outside aid to survive. And the periodic military assaults on Gaza, euphemistically called "mowing the lawn," are carried out every few years to ensure that the Palestinians remain broken, terrified and destitute. There have been three Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2008. Each is more violent and indiscriminate than the last. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that a fourth attack on Gaza is "inevitable." — Chris Hedges, 2015, Why I_Support_the_BDS_Movement_Against_Israel
"After the horror of the holocaust my family strongly supported the Jewish people with regard to their aspirations to build a national home. Over more than six decades I have however slowly come to realize that the Zionist project had from its beginning a racist element in it in aspiring to build a state exculsively for Jews. As a consequence, ethnic cleansing took place at the time of the establishment of (Israel) and (Israel) continues to suppress Palestinian people of the West Bank and in Gaza who live under Israeli occupation since 1967…. The only way out of the quagmire the Jewish people of Israel have gotten themselves into is by granting all living under the control of the State of Israel the same political rights and social and economic rights and opportunities. Although this will result in a state no longer exclusively Jewish it will be a state with a level of righteousness." — Henk Zanoli, returning a Righteous Among the Nations medal bestowed upon him by the State of Israel for saving a Jewish boy from the Holocaust in 1943, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/16/world/middleeast/16dutchman-letter.html
"The biggest impediment to both the reform of Islam and peace in the Middle East that Americans have the ability to remove is our support for a militant Jewish ideology that few Arabs and Muslims have ever accepted…. I call on all American Jews to examine how much of their support or tolerance of a Jewish state has a religious character– in the vision of Jewish agency as a redemptive historical force and answer to the Holocaust and the Jewish question in Europe. Secular Jews who prize their freedom in the United States must come to grips with the ideas of Jewish superiority and uniqueness that have propelled Zionist landgrabs and Jim Crow across Palestine to this day…. What can we do to end the religious element of the conflicts in the Middle East? The answer is that Jews must end their support for Zionism, which has turned out to be religious, fascistic and militant, and is fueling rage across the Middle East and further." — Philip Weiss, 2015, The-way-for-Americans-to-take-on-the-Islamic-State-is-to-end-support-for-Jewish-nationalism
"The US will never be able to build a credible coalition in the Middle East against ISIL, al-Qaeda or others as long as it continues its open and unconditional support for Israel…. Public support for the fight against ISIL will be difficult to obtain…. It is the people who represent the main recruitment pool for extremist groups who are able to neutralise extremism, and this happens only when their hearts and minds are opposed to it. It is the people, not the governments, who can make any campaign against extremism legitimate. In the case of the Arab world, the people are against the US and its complete bias in favour of Israel. It is very difficult to trust the US while it pours excessive support to Israel and prevents Palestinians from achieving their national aspiration of a state of their own. (People in the Arab world are) opposed to ISIL but also… against partnering with the US government, which is viewed as the guarantor of a Zionist project in Palestine. This image of the US… foments distrust among Arabs and hampers the formation of a partnership to counter extremism…. Washington must understand that every time it vetoes a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements or Palestinian statehood, it is sabotaging its own efforts to counter extremism." — Ibrahim Fraihat, 2016, Palestine: Still key to stability in the Middle East
"Israel has a very clearly right-wing political system… that says that the creation of a Greater Israel, an ethnic state, is more important than having a democracy in Israel. It's even more important than having a good relationship with the rest of the world. They also are intent on getting rid of the Palestinians…. It is what they want. So it's up to the rest of the world to change the situation. Because today's Israel is an apartheid state which will continue violating Palestinian rights. This situation is not temporary, it is the future. The United States and Europe have to ask themselves what they want, especially because Israel is clearer about its policies than ever before." — Ilan Pappe, 2016, Emran Feroz interview-with-israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-situation-is-not-temporary-it-is-the-future
"I suggest talking about decolonisation not peace. I suggest talking about changing the legal regime that governs the life of Israelis and Palestinians. I think we should talk about an apartheid state. We should talk about ethnic cleansing. We should find what replaces apartheid. And we have a good example in South Africa. The only way to replace apartheid is with a democratic system. One person, one vote or at least a bi-national state. I think these are the kind of words we should begin to use, because if we continue to use the old words, we continue to waste time and effort and we won't change the reality on the ground." — Ilan Pappe, 2017, INTERVIEW: Ilan Pappe: How Israel turned Palestine into the biggest prison on earth
One year after the '08/'09 Israeli invasion of Gaza -- Operation Cast Lead -- An Interfaith Response: Not by Might, Nor By Power But By My Spirit..." Zechariah 4:6, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Boston, MA, December 2009
Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, Imam of Masjid Al-Humdulillah, Roxbury MA, member of the Islamic Council of New England
Reverend Ann Franklin, Pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown, MA
Dr. Nancy Murray, ACLU, MA Coordinator of the Gaza Freedom March
Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal, President Emeritus of the Islamic Council of New England
S. Rainsford Rouner, MSW, Co-founder and President of Common Ground, International Solidarity Movement and Rabbis for Human Rights activist in the West Bank, moderator & host
Jeff Halper, Ayman Nijim and Boston-area activists, First Baptist Church, JP, MA, March 2016
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Perez Hilton releases photos of new baby
By Dana Guthrie on March 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Hollywood gossip blogger Perez Hilton has released some adorable shots of his new baby, Mario Armando Lavandeira, III, who was born in February. The child was born via surrogate to Hilton, real name Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., who is openly gay and single.
He also has a new interview out in the Los Angeles Times today, in which he talks about how becoming a new dad has inspired him to turn over a new leaf. ""I don't have to give people nasty nicknames anymore," he told the newspaper. "I don't have to say people are stupid, or people are fat, or people are ugly. I don't need to draw inappropriate things on photos or out people. I can still be sassy and fun and do my job."
Parents, what do you think? Is Perez Hilton really a new man? Did becoming a parent change the way you see yourself?
Perez Hilton on Thursday released these photos of his new baby, Mario Armando Lavandeira III. (Courtesy perezhilton.com)
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The newest debate in America's culture war is over the egg spoon.
It's a great example of how Americans are driving themselves insane by insisting that even their smallest consumer actions have bigger moral implications.
Do you ever feel as though people have become incredibly annoying and you just want everyone to shut up for a second? I feel like that a lot lately.
In related news, The New York Times reports that people are fighting about egg spoons.
What's an egg spoon? You're going to be sorry you asked.
The egg spoon isn't really a spoon at all – it's a small iron pan with a long handle that you can use to cook a single egg over an open fire.
And the fight over the egg spoon – and whether its users are pretentious elitists and/or its detractors are sexist – is a great example of how Americans are driving themselves insane by insisting that even their smallest consumer actions have grand moral implications.
If we believe we show the world how good we are through our consumption choices – an increasingly common view that companies are finding more and more ways to exploit – then it's inevitable we're going to end up having nasty fights over $US250 egg spoons.
This is your future, America.
The egg spoon first came into broad public view in 2009, when Alice Waters used it on "60 Minutes" to cook an egg for Lesley Stahl.
Waters, the chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, is one of the leaders of the "slow food" movement, built around ideas like buying local, supporting family-owned and organic farms, and preserving local food traditions.
What people find annoying about slow food is the implicit (and in some cases explicit) contention that slow food is an ethical obligation – and therefore, that proponents and practitioners of slow food have not just better taste, but better values, than those who eat mass-market, factory-farmed food.
This claim of moral superiority is ripe for backlash, and we can see it in the response to the egg spoon. But it's not good enough for the egg-spoon detractors to say that cooking a single egg over an open fire seems silly.
No, the response has to be that the egg-spoon buyers are a bunch of rich people play-acting as poor for fun, spending absurd sums on esoteric tools like the egg spoon so they can cook in a manner that's viable only if you have a great deal of leisure time. How can they possibly be ethically superior when the activity that's supposed to show such ethical superiority is out of reach for so many Americans without space for an open fire in their kitchen or $US250 to spend on an egg spoon?
With this argument, non-slow-fooders don't just get to reject the notion that their food values are inferior – they get to claim the moral high ground for themselves, as the slow-fooders have shown themselves to be out of touch and elitist.
And then there is the backlash to the backlash, with the pro-spoon side saying we see this reaction only because Waters is a woman, and that nobody balks when male chefs want to spend $US300 on an immersion circulator so they can do something equally precious, like cook a single egg sous vide.
And now nobody can just enjoy their damned eggs because we're so busy fighting over what our eggs say about us – which is a shame, because the food at Chez Panisse is very, very good.
As the NFL is learning the hard way, it's becoming harder to disentangle questions of product preference and taste from those of values and politics. And this is causing people to lose things they used to enjoy.
Conservatives have to stop flying Delta. Liberals can't eat Chick-fil-A anymore.
I am not especially concerned about the effect these trends will have on the economy or public policy. In fact, there may be a policy benefit to the increasing political polarization of products and services: If it becomes harder for companies to work both sides of the aisle, it will be harder for them to extract corporate welfare from officials in both parties.
But I do worry about the effect this trend is having on individual consumers. Because at the same time our politics are becoming nastier and stupider, everything else in our lives is becoming less separable from politics.
Something that helps hold society together is that people who are separated by their political and moral views can bond over other things. But as there are fewer "other things" to bond over – partly because we're sorting into brands patronized by people who already share our values, and partly because it's harder to discuss our leisure activities without getting into political disputes – people are forced to increasingly devote mental space to exhausting fights over politics and values.
It becomes impossible to discuss even something as trivial as the egg spoon in terms that do not relate to the grand cultural divides that define our current political moment. And therefore, it becomes safer to have conversations only with people who agree with us in the first place.
Plus, many people have felt the need to give up products and services that used to make them happy so they can sort into the right side of these fights, and they're grumpy about it.
What I'm going to say is obviously antithetical to the slow-food movement, but I think it would serve a lot of us well to be less mindful of some of the things we buy and eat.
Just eat the eggs. Taste them. Enjoy them. Don't think too hard about what they say about you. Cook them however makes you happy. Buy an egg spoon, or don't. And then repeat this mental simplification process with as many products and services as you can manage.
And if you think Alice Waters is ridiculous for using such an expensive device to cook her eggs in such a labour-intensive way, remember that your hobbies are probably kind of stupid too. That doesn't mean we have to judge each other.
And even if you suspect she does think the way she eats makes her morally superior, that doesn't mean you have to have a fight about it, even if you disagree.
Just eat your eggs and smile.


Bandolier ammo straps are all about crazy amounts of patina. Holes, scrapes, blemishes, this is the what a piece of history on your wrist is ALL about. Made with a historic loose sewn-in keeper, Bandolier is handcrafted from the belts of ammo pouches and brings with it all the history and style you could want from an ammo strap.
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Localrootz Project: Spring projections and kitten reflections.
Spring projections and kitten reflections.
Spring is creeping in, the grass is greening, buds are splitting and we have some new residents here at the Localrootz Homestead !
Welcome Oak (brother) and Maple (sister) !
We recently adopted these adorable siblings from the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society.
They are full of kitten mischief and never leave each others side.
Its a bit difficult to see in these pictures as they are both tiger striped but Oak the boy has a couple white paws along with a patch of white on his neck, the girl Maple has no white spots. We are so lucky to have such great kittens after a few months of empty house syndrome since our old girl Merrimac passed on. We are so happy to have the pitter patter of playful paws scurrying through the house and they aren't afraid to get a good lap nap in on occasion as well !
The other spring project other than raising kittens has been the preparation for our first beehive. We spent the winter reading some books on the subject as well as scouring the interwebs for good resources on the subject. One thing we found was there are lots of different methods and opinions on the right and wrong way to do things. After absorbing a handful of these opinions we were ready to give it a shot and start the hands on learning process. Step one was visiting the Portland Honey Exchange where we were able to source all the equipment needed. We chose an 8 frame and with some nudging by the wife we splurged a little and got the copper hive top to add a little pizzaz to the homestead.
Assembly was pretty straight forward and required some weatherproof woodglue and galvanized nails to hold up to the elements.
After assembling the hive bodies and honey supers, bee talk for the large and small boxes the frames are held in, it was time to assemble the frames. These are the bases or "foundations" for the hive to build their comb for raising brood and making honey ! Inside these frames I laid a base layer of thin embossed beeswax to guide the bees on their journey to produce honey and raise a hopefully healthy and thriving colony.
Its projects like assembling the hive that make me glad I spent the time this winter constructing a proper workbench. I still have plans for some extra shelving and a better light fixture but for around $60 in lumber this is sturdy and at a good height for working.
The finished hive, as you can see, we decided to use an outdoor stain on the exterior of the box to help protect it from the Maine weather, but still retain its rustic appeal. I cleared the area around it and plan on possibly propping it up even a little higher with a few extra cement blocks before adding the bees this coming weekend. Much more information and stories to tell as our beekeeping experiment gets going !
Another early Spring project that we tackled last weekend was establishing a proper asparagus bed. Asparagus is one of our favorite spring vegetables and also one that cost a pretty penny when sourcing it locally and organically. I choose a nice sunny spot located next to last years sunflower raised bed and decided to dig a 18" hole that measured just about 8' x 4'. I realized I had made the right decision going with raised beds last Spring because there was a lot of rocks... did I say rocks, maybe I should use the term boulders. Luckily I used a bit of restraint and managed to not break one of my shovels !
Here you can see the finished hole, I snipped any large roots that were encroaching and lightly aerated the base to allow for decent drainage, though I found the soil actually more sandy and less claylike than I expected. In fact I added a wheelbarrow full to the raised bed next to it and decided that would make for a good potato bed to plant some fingerlings this year... more on that in another post.
Following some guidelines in a few of our gardening books, I blended some woodchip compost that was leftover from the previous owners goats and blend it with the organic surf and turf compost blend I purchased from Benson's last year.
I then grabbed the Purple Passion Asparagus crowns that I purchased locally from Pinetree Garden Seeds in New Gloucester a few weeks before. I keep them in a dark cool corner of the basement and pulled them out and let them warm to room temperature overnight.
Then we filled our compost bucket with warm water and diluted a few tablespoons of Alaska Fish Fertilizer into the warm water and gave it a good stir.
Spreading out and gently untangling the 10 crowns I arranged them from big to small.
From there I soaked the crowns in the warm nutrient enriched water for a half hour.
And finally in the warm spring afternoon sun I spread the crowns evenly throughout the bed and covered the crowns with another 2-3 inches of compost, watered liberally with the enriched water bucket and then a couple fresh pails full too!
Well that was a successful weekend to get things going for another growing season and to make sure my back remembers how much it enjoys moving dirt by the shovel full !
And one more shot of the cute new kitten additions !


This article will explain how water ingress behind tiles can occur, why you should care about it & why its better to do things right 1st time (until a quantum accelerator is invented at least).
…..and the substrate (wall) behind the tiles is not waterproof, then it can fail resulting in tiles falling off walls and major remedial work to put everything right.
Stopping water ingress behind tiles is best done at the initial installation stage as anyone knows who has repeatedly tried to fix a leaking shower tray or bath to no avail due to underlying installation deficiencies e.g. not fitting a primary silicon seal to the bath as shown below which can lead to water running down the wall and into the room below.
There are many ways to limit water penetration through correct installation techniques regarding shower trays and baths and these are covered in different articles.
However, even when baths, shower trays & tiles are correctly installed, water can still penetrate behind tiles, so tanking is highly recommended.
This case study shows you the steps that may be required to rectify problems with water penetration in a shower enclosure that was not tanked.
This showers tiles were falling off the wall and missing grout had lead to water penetration getting in behind the tiles and making them loose, as well as causing the wall to rot.
All the loose tiles and rotten / blown wall material was removed to start again from a solid base. A horizontal grout line was scraped out with a stanley knife at waist height so there would be a clean break.
The walls were then primed and bonded up to give a level surface.
These flat walls then allowed tile backer boards to be fitted, which would provide a suitable surface to tile onto.
The surface of these boards was fitted plumb and set back from the surface of the tiles above by a suitable distance to allow the new tiling to be level with the old tiling.
This cement based backer board was then primed & tanked with an all in one tanking kit to provide a fully watertight surface behind the tiles.
This would mean that if any water got in behind the tiles again, the wall would not rot and become mouldy, and the installation would not be compromised.
Joints in the board and the internal vertical corner were reinforced with a mesh tape pressed into the waterproof membrane to ensure that no gaps in the membrane formed, and then the rest of the area was covered with the liquid membrane.
Once the tanking membrane had dried (minimum 3 hours if weather is warm), the enclosure was retiled using a cementious flexible adhesive (tubbed adhesives are not recommended for tanked or otherwise impervious walls.
Once the adhesive had set, the enclosure was grouted.
The internal corner was sealed with silicone rather than grout so that any slight movement between the 2 walls would not open up any gaps that could lead to water penetration behind the tiles.
These are essential for getting neat silicone results every time, without the faff of taping everything off. I swear by them and these ones from Screwfix (see link above) are great because the rectangular shape means they can be used on their short edge as well as their long edge so it makes it easier to get in behind basin taps etc. There's others available too.
The Mapei range of silicone is excellent (though not the cheapest) but it has the added benefit of co ordinating with a large variety of Mapei coloured grouts.


I have volunteered for and supported animal shelters across the country for over two decades. I love animals - I have an assortment of animals including pets, fosters, ferals, and wildlife. To connect people to shelters, shelters to each other, rescue groups, and their communities, I founded askMrFrisky.com - named after our first rescue cat!
I became involved with Chuffed when looking at ways to raise funds for AskMrFrisky.com so the organisation can provide even more support to shelters and the people owned by shelter pets worldwide.
Word of mouth and lots of Google searches - I was looking for a way of funding that was community based. I strongly believe in a culture that teaches families, friends, and children that a caring community is important - and collecting small donations from around the globe is a way for people to come together to do something that improves local communities. Crowdfunding works for me because I am looking to make small improvements worldwide with a network of shelters.
The welfare of animals shelters, shelter animals, shelter staff and volunteers, fosterers and adopters. These dedicated people are a wonderful community to be part of - and together make a huge difference to each other's lives.
I have done fundraising at a grassroots level for AskMrFrisky.com, and have planned and hosted annual fundraisers and other events for the shelters for which I volunteered. I also have learnt to network within the global community while developing the shelter directory.
Funds raised will support the varied needs of AskMrFrisky - veterinary care, shelter repair and general supplies. We are also looking to hire a new staff member part time so we can hasten the development of the worldwide directory of shelters. I am currently working on a book to self publish for which the funds will help sustain the funding!


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Aug 17, 2021; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper (3) hits a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
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Phillies: ARod says Shohei Ohtani has 'Bryce Harper power' in Time profile
by Gabrielle Starr 4 months ago Follow @gfstarr1
Alex Rodriguez compares Shohei Ohtani and Bryce Harper in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People profile
Shohei Ohtani was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential people of 2021 this week, and his profile was written by former MLB star-turned-ESPN on-air talent Alex Rodriguez.
The short piece was complimentary and effusive, as with most things ARod says and does nowadays, but wholly accurate.
When it was announced that Ohtani would leave Japan to enter MLB, many were skeptical that he could be a true two-way player long-term. I was one of those skeptics.
After all, even the great Babe Ruth did not truly do both at the same time. It was only after he put his pitching days behind him that he became the true Sultan of Swat that we've all grown up hearing about, the one who led MLB in home runs almost every season from 1918-1931, one of many standout statistics.
Rodriguez describes Ohtani as a Frankenstein's monster of sorts (in a complimentary way). He uses Frankenstein as a verb to explain how Ohtani is an amalgamation of some of the other great talents in the game:
"If you were to Frankenstein every unique talent into one player, you'd get Shohei Ohtani. He has the power of Bryce Harper, the pitching of Max Scherzer and the speed of Trea Turner."
While I'm more inclined to say that Ohtani is unlike anyone else, ARod evokes these other players as a means to highlight just how talented the young star is in every facet of the game.
Ohtani can throw 100 mph. His 44 home runs are second-most in MLB, his 94 RBI are tied for eighth, and his .965 OPS is fourth. He's stolen 23 bases. Not only is he doing everything, he's doing it all excellently.
Bryce Harper is having an MVP season for the struggling Phillies
Ohtani is the likely American League MVP and has been for months. The National League accolade is more up-for-grabs; ironic, since it's the league where pitchers actually are supposed to hit.
Harper leads all of MLB in OPS, is tied for sixth in batting average, and is second in on-base percentage and slugging. He is having an MVP-caliber season of his own, though no one is in the same class as Ohtani. How could they be? MLB barely knew his class existed.
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The day was started on a strong note as Coal Front continued his perfect record by winning the G2 Amsterdam by 1 ½ lengths. BSW Bloodstock purchased an interest in Coal Front on behalf of client Head of Plains Partners after an impressive win in a $90,000 Allowance race at Belmont in his second career start. The 3 year-old son of Stay Thirsty has yet to be beaten. View the Race Replay and read the TDN Article here.
Only two races later, Ack Naughty won an $85,000 Allowance in impressive fashion. She raced keenly in the early phases of the race from the back of the pack, but once she found an opening down the lane, she strided away to win by 1 ¾ lengths. Ack Naughty was a BSW private purchase for clients Sheep Pond Partners in 2014 after running 2nd in the Chelsea Flower Stakes at Belmont. View the Race Replay.
As if the day hadn't been good enough, it was topped off in a huge way as first-time dirt starter Good Samaritan upset the field by making a huge stretch run to win the G2 Jim Dandy by 4 ¾ lengths. Good Samaritan was part of a lease deal that was put together by BSW Bloodstock for client Head of Plains Partners at the beginning of 2017. View the Race Replay and read the TDN Article here.
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Man City blame coronavirus for $175 million loss | Inquirer Sports
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Man City blame coronavirus for $175 million loss
Agence France-Presse / 08:33 PM April 07, 2021
Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne (3R) celebrates scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter-final football match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on April 6, 2021. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
Premier League leaders Manchester City blamed a £126 million ($175 million) net loss last season on a series of factors caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
City's revenue for the year to the end of June 2020 fell 11 percent to £478.4 million, with the Premier League and Champions League finishing after the accounting period.
Delayed income from the postponed fixtures, including broadcast earnings, and player sales will show up in next year's figures.
"Clearly, the 2019/20 accounts in isolation are not the best representation of the reality of the season with delayed player trading and numerous games being played after 30th June 2020, the revenues from which will be accounted in the 2020/21 period," said City CEO Ferran Soriano.
"A better financial picture of the Covid years will be provided at the end of the 2020/21 season, when the two seasons are combined and normalized."
Despite playing an entire season behind closed doors, City said the "club expects to immediately return to profitability in 2020/21, as a result of a less Covid-impacted season and deferred 2019/20 revenues".
A drop of £13.3 million in matchday revenue was more than offset by an increase of nearly £20 million in commercial income thanks in large part to a new kit sponsorship deal with Puma. Wage costs across the club rose to £351 million.
"Our long-term approach has meant that we are now not wholly dependent on income streams that have been most vulnerable to the ongoing impact of Covid-19," said chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
"(We have) a business that is fundamentally strong, with committed shareholders and with significant assets, built carefully over a decade and upon more than a century of history."
On the field, City remains on course for a historic quadruple.
Pep Guardiola's men are 14 points clear at the top of the Premier League, host Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie on Tuesday, face Tottenham in the League Cup final later this month and will take on Chelsea in the last four of the FA Cup.
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TAGS: English Premier League, EPL, Manchester City


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Dylan is a Kokatha (Gugada) Aboriginal/Greek woman from the far west coast of South Australia. She is a Lecturer in Yaitya Purruna, the Indigenous Health Unit at the University of Adelaide and teaches Indigenous Health to medical, dentistry and health science students. In 2011, Dylan completed her doctorate at the University of Adelaide's English Department, exploring the Indigenous narrative process and its capacity to recreate stories of trauma and loss into ones of survival and liberation. In 2011, Dylan's Mazin Grace (based on her mother's childhood growing up on Koonibba Mission), won the Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award as part of the Queensland Premiers Literary Awards and was subsequently published in 2012. Dylan's has also worked in community engagement within various Indigenous communities throughout Australia, and in South Australia in the area of public health, Her research Interests include embedding Indigenous Knoweldges into Health Sciences curriculum, as well as the intersections between creative media and psychological trauma recovery. She is currently working on the follow up to Mazin Grace, which is based on her Greek father's story.
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It's summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime. Three glorious months without school—which means it's up to you to keep the kids occupied. Fortunately, there are ways to keep them entertained for not a lot of money.
Catch popular kid's movies all summer long for an extremely low price.
Watch 10 films for $5 when you join the Cinemark Summer Movie Clubhouse.
Enjoy flicks like Rio and Parental Guidance for $1 on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at participating Regal Cinemas.
See 10 movies including Ice Age 4 and Rise of the Guardians for less than $1 each this summer at Harkins Theatres.
Look for retailers offering free or low-priced kids' workshops.
Home Depot offers free workshops on the first Saturday of every month.
Build a wooden project at Lowe's Build & Grow workshops and go home with a free apron, goggles, and patch.
Michael's hosts $2 craft workshops where kids can paint planters, string necklaces, and more.
Kids can get two free games of bowling every day this summer when their parents register at KidsBowlFree.com.
Factory tours are a surprisingly great and inexpensive way to keep kids occupied or break up a road trip. Factory Tours USA lists 571 to choose from including some very kid-friendly tours like the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield, California or the Stuffington Bear Factory in Phoenix, Arizona.
One more tip: Towns across the country are hosting summer music series, so check your city's website for free concerts in the park.


Cochukattil Varghese MD Family Award is part of ICON Excellence Award (IEA). It is an yearly educational assistance program for smart students who are from financially disadvantaged families. It is a partial financial assistance to continue and complete their current course.
Award No: 280 started in 2017. Total money awarded(Rs):45,000 for 4 students.


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Статичний рівень свердловини (; ; ) – рівень рідини у свердловині, яка тривало простоює, коли після припинення відбору (закачування) зміна його уже не спостерігається. Р.с. визначає величину пластового тиску в околиці свердловини. Визначається висотою (від вибою) і глибиною (від гирла) розміщення.

Статичний рівень свердловини – рівень рідини, що встановлюється у свердловині, яка не переливає і сполучена з пластом, після тривалого її простоювання. Вибійний тиск при цьому повинен відновлюватися до пластового, а в стовбурі свердловини тепловий режим повинен відповідати природному. У цьому випадку вага стовпа рідини від положення С.р. до інтервалу розкриття пласта, віднесена до площі поперечного перерізу вертикальної свердловини, буде дорівнювати пластовому тиску у свердловині. Величина С.р. визначається або висотою від середини інтервалу перфорації, або глибиною від гирла свердловини до положення рівня рідини в її стовбурі і вимірюється рівнемірами. Величини С.р., які вираховуються від гирла, можуть бути зведені до інших горизонтальних поверхонь, напр., до рівня моря, до положення водонафтового контакту і т.д. Розрізняють початковий С.р., який фіксується у свердловині до початку відбирання рідини з пласта, і поточний С.р., що фіксується у свердловині, що довго простоює, якщо з оточуючих свердловин проводиться відбирання. Коливання С.р. відбувається не тільки в результаті роботи навколишніх свердловин, але і від різних природних явищ, напр., коливань атмосферного тиску, місячних припливів тощо.

Див. також

 Динамічний рівень свердловини
 Гідростатичний рівень

Література
 Бойко В.С., Бойко Р.В. Тлумачно-термінологічний словник-довідник з нафти і газу. Тт. 1-2, 2004-2006 рр.  560 + 800 с.

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South-West-London drugs crime statistics in maps and graphs.
Annual crime rate in South West London postcode area is 3.9, i.e. 3.9 crimes committed per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, South West London's crime rate is at 156%. Drugs crime makes up 3.2% of all crimes committed in the postcode area. The total number of "drugs crime" is 3.6k, and this number has decreased by 5.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019.
Drugs crime rate is 3.9 crimes committed per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 9. highest crime rate out of 104 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "drugs crime" is 3.6k, and this number has decreased by 5.6% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2018 - February 2019 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes committed. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes committed in the postcode area.


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Extracted from skikit-learn to ensure basic compatibility
without creating an explicit dependency.

For the original code see
    http://scikit-learn.org/
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    https://github.com/scikit-learn
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Parameter estimation tools
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
# Author: Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort@inria.fr>,
#         Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org>
#         Andreas Mueller <amueller@ais.uni-bonn.de>
#         Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org>
# License: BSD 3 clause

from collections import Mapping
from functools import partial
from itertools import product
from functools import reduce
import operator
from six.moves import zip

class ParameterGrid(object):
    """Grid of parameters with a discrete number of values for each.
    Can be used to iterate over parameter value combinations with the
    Python built-in function iter.
    Parameters
    ----------
    param_grid : dict of string to sequence, or sequence of such
        The parameter grid to explore, as a dictionary mapping estimator
        parameters to sequences of allowed values.
        An empty dict signifies default parameters.
        A sequence of dicts signifies a sequence of grids to search, and is
        useful to avoid exploring parameter combinations that make no sense
        or have no effect. See the examples below.
    Examples
    --------
    >>> from sklearn.grid_search import ParameterGrid
    >>> param_grid = {'a': [1, 2], 'b': [True, False]}
    >>> list(ParameterGrid(param_grid)) == (
    ...    [{'a': 1, 'b': True}, {'a': 1, 'b': False},
    ...     {'a': 2, 'b': True}, {'a': 2, 'b': False}])
    True
    >>> grid = [{'kernel': ['linear']}, {'kernel': ['rbf'], 'gamma': [1, 10]}]
    >>> list(ParameterGrid(grid)) == [{'kernel': 'linear'},
    ...                               {'kernel': 'rbf', 'gamma': 1},
    ...                               {'kernel': 'rbf', 'gamma': 10}]
    True
    See also
    --------
    :class:`GridSearchCV`:
        uses ``ParameterGrid`` to perform a full parallelized parameter search.
    """

    def __init__(self, param_grid):
        if isinstance(param_grid, Mapping):
            # wrap dictionary in a singleton list to support either dict
            # or list of dicts
            param_grid = [param_grid]
        self.param_grid = param_grid

    def __iter__(self):
        """Iterate over the points in the grid.
        Returns
        -------
        params : iterator over dict of string to any
            Yields dictionaries mapping each estimator parameter to one of its
            allowed values.
        """
        for p in self.param_grid:
            # Always sort the keys of a dictionary, for reproducibility
            items = sorted(p.items())
            if not items:
                yield {}
            else:
                keys, values = list(zip(*items))
                for v in product(*values):
                    params = dict(list(zip(keys, v)))
                    yield params

    def __len__(self):
        """Number of points on the grid."""
        # Product function that can handle iterables (np.product can't).
        product = partial(reduce, operator.mul)
        return sum(product(len(v) for v in list(p.values())) if p else 1
                   for p in self.param_grid)

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Q: Most efficient way to parse URL's with handling errors and extracting required values I have the Problem framed in the below Program i am trying to extract values from URL strings like the values that come after a=, symbol=, uid=, cid=, o=.
What is the best way to extract these values for the sample URLS shown in the array declared in the program.
I want to keep the time taken to parse  shown in the output statement of program to have a minimal possible value.
package com.xyz.urlagent;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Random;

public class UrlExtract {

public static String[] urlArray = {"https://example.com/grid/p/login?cid=testcidcombo4&uid=testuidcombo4&a=testadcodecombo4&o=testoffercodecombo4",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://research-example.com/grid/wwws/research/stocks/earnings?c_name=hvfkhfk_VENDOR&symbol=IBM",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/login?a=testadcode3",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://research-example.com/grid/wwws/fixedIncome/bondTicker.asp?c_name=_jhcjhfhyjkh_VENDOR&Extra=",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://example.com/grid/wwws/ideas/overview/overview.asp?YYY600_4TasO+9+jFhYnkq2U5YXohiZ9qsMKu/jUh6HR8N5EWKAOlRWVhC18/dapBTvnqGaqgNGUMvWP3EfysyWRfCNYsqUFBc1pxuB8/ho+4G2BBo=&c_name=khhfjkuk_VENDOR",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://research-example.com/grid/wwws/research/stocks/earnings?symbol=AAPL&c_name=jkvkjgljlj_VENDOR",
                    "https://example.com/grid/p/login?CID=testcid1"};
public static int numurl = 2000;
public static Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date StartDate= new Date();
    for(int i=0; i<numurl;i++){
           String SampleURL = urlArray[rand.nextInt(urlArray.length)];

           ////////////############ CODE To Extract symbol Values from URL(value after symbol=)

           ////////////############ CODE To Extract UID Values from URL(value after uid=)

           ////////////############ CODE To Extract CID Values from URL(value after cid=)

           ////////////############ CODE To Extract O Values from URL(value after o=)

           ////////////############ CODE To Extract A Values from URL(value after a=)

           System.out.println("Values extracted from Sample URL: "+ "(Extracted Values are printed HERE)");
        }
    Date EndDate= new Date();
    long diff = (EndDate.getTime()-StartDate.getTime())/(1000%60);
    System.out.println("Time taken to parse "+numurl+ " url's is: "+diff+ " seconds.");
    }

}

A: The URI class and URLDecoder class are designed to do what you want:
URI uri = URI.create(sampleURL);
String query = uri.getRawQuery();
String[] nameValuePairs = query.split("&");
for (String nameValuePair : nameValuePairs) {
    String nameAndValue = nameValuePair.split("=", 2);
    String name = URLDecoder.decode(nameAndValue[0], "UTF-8");
    String value = URLDecoder.decode(nameAndValue[1], "UTF-8");

    System.out.printf("Found query parameter \"%s\" with value \"%s\"%n",
        name, value);
}

Be aware that some of your example Strings are not valid URLs at all, because the #r comes before the query separator, ?.  The structure of a URI is documented in the URI class documentation and in the RFC that defines the structure of a URI, RFC 3986.

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