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William Sebastian Cohen, né le  à Bangor (Maine), est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est sénateur fédéral du Maine entre 1979 à 1997 après avoir été représentant du même État, puis secrétaire à la Défense dans l'administration du président Bill Clinton entre 1997 et 2001.

Biographie

Jeunesse
William Cohen est né à Bangor (Maine). Son père était un immigrant juif originaire de Russie et sa mère était d'origine irlandaise et de confession protestante. Il est lui-même unitarien.

Diplômé d'un B.A. de latin (1962), il poursuit des études de droit à l'université de Boston.

Carrière professionnelle
Après ses études, il est partenaire dans un cabinet d'avocats puis assistant du procureur de comté de Penobscot (1968–1970). Il est d'abord enseignant au Husson College puis enseignant en business administration à l'université du Maine (1968–1972).

Vice-président de l'association des avocats à la cour du Maine (1970–1972) et membre de l'école du barreau de Bangor (1971–1972), il est aussi conseiller municipal de Bangor (1969–1972) puis maire de la ville (1971–1972).

Carrière politique

Membre du Congrès des États-Unis (1973-1997)
En 1972, il est élu comme républicain à la Chambre des représentants pour la  du Maine.
Durant son premier mandat, il est membre du comité d'enquête sur le scandale du Watergate. Il fut l'un des premiers républicains à se prononcer pour limpeachment du président Richard Nixon.

Après trois mandats à la chambre, William Cohen est élu en 1978 au Sénat des États-Unis. Il est réélu en 1984 et 1990. Il est alors membre de la commission des forces armées et de celle sur la sécurité intérieure (1979-1997) ainsi que de celle sur les services secrets (1983-1991 et 1995-1997). Il participa à l'origine de nombreuses lois relatives aux questions de défense nationale.

En 1996, il ne se représente pas et aide l'une de ses collaboratrices, Susan Collins, à lui succéder.

Secrétaire à la Défense (1997-2001)

Fin connaisseur des arcanes fédérales et bien que républicain, il est nommé secrétaire à la Défense après l'élection présidentielle américaine de 1996 par le président démocrate Bill Clinton. Celui-ci veut s'appuyer, pour son second mandat, sur un consensus national dans le domaine de la défense dans un climat international agité.

En tant que secrétaire à la Défense, il géra des actions militaires comme l'opération Desert Fox en Irak, celles des forces de l'OTAN au Kosovo ainsi que le licenciement de Wesley Clark de son poste de commandant des forces américaines de l'OTAN. C'est durant ses fonctions que l'organisation terroriste Al-Qaïda revendiqua les attentats à la bombe contre les ambassades américaines à Dar es Salam en Tanzanie et à Nairobi au Kenya en 1998.

En janvier 2001, le nouveau président, George W. Bush, le remplace par Donald Rumsfeld.

Carrière post politique
William Cohen, aujourd'hui dans le secteur privé, travaille pour une firme américaine de relations publiques représentant des clients européens qui sont intéressés par la construction en sous-traitance de ce type de bâtiment amphibie dont les États-Unis ont récemment arrêté la production sur leur sol.

Il fit également partie du comité d'études sur l'Irak, présidé par James Baker et Lee Hamilton. Ce comité (composé de républicains et de démocrates) créé par le président Bush était chargé d'étudier la situation en Irak et de proposer des solutions.

Vie privée
Divorcé de sa première épouse en 1987, William Cohen est marié depuis 1996 avec Janet Langhart, ancienne mannequin et personnalité de télévision devenue écrivain.

Liens externes

Membre du cabinet du président Bill Clinton
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent russe
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent irlandais
Personnalité politique américaine du XXe siècle
Représentant des États-Unis pour le Maine
Sénateur des États-Unis pour le Maine
Secrétaire à la Défense des États-Unis
Étudiant de l'université de Boston
Professeur à l'université du Maine (États-Unis)
Naissance en août 1940
Naissance à Bangor (Maine)
Étudiant du Bowdoin College
Personnalité du Parti républicain au Maine


First of all, let me THANK YOU ALL for all the thoughts, sympathy, and love that you have sent our way as we face the disasters that have been hitting us hard here in Japan, particularly the north and east parts of the country. Your words, prayers and helping hands have touched to my core as we struggle to get through a tide of problems as more are mounting up.
And THANK YOU also for your support to my little campaign to raise fund for disaster relief efforts in Japan by making a donation or spreading a word, when I haven't even given full details on the little giveaway I say I am doing as a part of the campaign. So without further ado, let's get down to the business: it's a sakura (cherry blossom) baking ingredients giveaway that I would like to offer in appreciation for your generosity.
* UPDATE 3/22: the giveaway is now closed - thank you everyone! Donation is still accepted and very much appreciated.
As I have already mentioned in my last, quick post here, I had been thinking for a while about doing a little giveaway, as over the past year I have had quite a few inquiries as to where and how they might be able to find some of sakura-flavored baking supplies, especially cherry blossom extract (flavoring), among other things I used when I baked a bunch of things in cherry blossom flavors.
Many of these sakura things are available only for a limited time of the year, i.e. in early spring - before the real blossoms come to full bloom. They usually come around at the end of February or early March. So I started my shopping, mostly online, at the beginning of this month, and things had started arriving... when the earthquake hit.
As an ominously long quake we felt here in Nagano turned out to have been a humongous earthquake that struck the coastline in Tohoku hundreds of miles away and devastated hundreds of thousands of our people, I became less and less sure if this was the time for me to be doing such a lighthearted thing as a baking supplies giveaway. But since I had already bought far more of the stuff than I'd use up before the end of this spring, I wanted to put it in a good use - and thought it would make indeed a good use if I used it as a part of fundraising for the relief efforts.
A few selected, small-portion packs of various cherry blossom (and leaf)-based products, a tiny bottle of cherry blossom flavoring, and a cherry blossom-shaped cookie cutter.
This tiny 10-ml (1/3 oz) bottle seemed to have been some sort of most sought-after item among some of food bloggers for the past year or so. A few drops of this cherry blossom flavoring adds a subtle, sweet scent slightly reminiscent (perhaps naturally) of cherries. The flavoring will not give your desserts astrong flavor, and it is not supposed to - what you'd want is a just waft of light floral scent. Note that this is not a so-called flower water, like rose water or orange flower water. So use sparingly or it can give an unpleasant flavor to your dessert.
As I wrote a bit about it last spring, sakura in traditional Japanese baking (and cooking) mostly takes forms of salt-cured blossoms and leaves - flowers particularly for their visual attractiveness, and leaves mostly for flavor. Both have potent flavor and are very salty, so they need to be rinsed first to remove excess salt. And unless you are using them for garnish (such as when you make sakura-mochi), you'll most likely to do a bit of preparation before using flowers or leaves in baking. That is when these pre-chopped/dried/flaked/sweetened sakura products come handy.
Perhaps the easiest to use of all is sakura sugar, or granulated sugar blended with salt-cured cherry blossoms and leaves, dried and flaked. With the flavors of both the flower and leaf, this flavored sugar is sweet and salty all in one with a hint of vinegar from the cured blossoms. The back of the package suggests that you can sprinkle it on toast, yogurt, ice-cream, or shaved ice, or use it in baking.
Cherry blossom flakes are freeze-dried and flaked salt-cured blossoms, pretty in pink and good for topping for cappuccino, ice cream, chocolate truffles, and cakes, as it suggested by the manufacturer. Sweetened cherry blossom paste is also made from salt-cured blossoms, pureed and sweetened, making it suitable to mix into mousse, ice cream, and whipped cream.
Cherry leaf powder, meanwhile, is salted cherry leaves that have been dried and ground to powder. It makes a nice contrast to pink hues of blossoms, and totally has its own thing going. You can use it in baking by adding it to a batter/dough, or else mixing it with sugar to sprinkle on toast.
...And might as well, the real stuff too; salt-cured cherry blossoms.
These pretty blossoms are prepared by first pickling them in salt, then in umezu, or ume plum "vinegar" (which is not really a vinegar but a sort of brine you get when you make umeboshi); they are then semi-dried, and packed in salt for preservation. Umezu brings out the bright pink and adds its characteristic vinegary flavor, which some love, others don't. To be completely honest, I'm not very partial to this peculiar flavor. But I have trained myself to enjoy it, though in very small amounts. This is definitely an acquired taste, mind you.
Then again, they certainly look pretty, and makes an excellent topping for anything. Just make sure you rinse them first, and soak in a small bowl of water for a few minutes to remove excess salt. They are also praised as a "tea", thus called "sakura-cha (cherry blossom tea)", to be served traditionally at engagement ceremony; it is not a "tea" really, but the way how a blossom "bloom" in a teacup is certainly graceful.
Like I also mentioned in my last year's sakura baking post, you can "bloom" the blossoms by popping them in the microwave: rinse, and gently pat dry blossoms, place them on top of a sheet of paper towel, and heat in microwave until they dry a bit and pop open. Cooking time will depend on the microwave you use, but it should not take more than a minute; some may bloom in less than half a minute, some may take a little longer. So keep an eye on them as they cook, or they might get too dry - or burned, even.
Here I used a blooming blossom to top sakura panna cotta with stewed rhubarb and strawberries. Er, I could probably have made a little more effort to make it look prettier, but I'm sure you'd be more successful than I was here if you ever tried it. But even without the blossom perched on top, there was anther sakura factor; both pannna cotta and stewed fruits had a few drops of cherry blossom flavoring, though you could do just either. It's a nice way to make something really simple a bit special.
That said, this panna cotta may actually have been the most complex thing I've made this time with all the sakura ingredients; other things were all very simple, and would have been quite plain, even a bit dull, had they not been sakura-ed up.
Take this good old strawberries and cream; I folded some sweetened cherry blossom paste into lightly whipped heavy cream, and served a few dollops of it with fresh strawberries. Topped with a shake of cherry blossom flakes, strawberries and cream with sakura looked simple yet pretty - with hint of sakura. The paste, I thought, was rather salty than sweet, and I might like to try it in baking - madeleines, financiers, or other simple tea cakes.
And the simplest of all?
sakura toast; toast some white bread, butter and then sprinkle with sakura sugar. That's it. I really think it's best to use the sugar in a simple way to enjoy the flavor. The only thing you should note is to use unsalted butter, as the sugar has a bit of salt in it.
We have sakura-shaped cookie cutters in a few different sizes, and here I have a one with 51-mm (2-inch) diameter for you (larger ones in the picture; the small one is mine (35 mm/1.4 inch)). You can use it to cut out sakuras from anything you like other than cookies, up to about 10-mm (0.4-inch) thickness.
I made these a number of times last spring, and I've been baking them again; in addition to looking pretty, they taste really good as sweet and salty, thin and crunchy. Other than the use of cherry leaf powder, these also have melted white chocolate in the dough, adding a sweet milkiness to the cookies. The pink flecks are sakura petals removed from salt-cured cherry blossoms, rinsed and dried a little in the microwave (not "bloomed").
The recipe is in Japanese, but you can try and google translate it (here in English) to get a general idea; you use only a small amount of cherry leaf powder (1/2 tsp) nut it's enough to give the cookies a pleasant hint of leafy flavor and just a right saltiness.
Now, perhaps you might like to try slightly different sakura cookies, as well?
Um, if you wondered like where are sakura cookies?, you are not alone; my own mother did, too. Anyways, these are supposed to be sakura meringue cookies, flavored and tinted with freeze-dried strawberry powder and a bit of cherry blossom powder (dried and grounded salt-cured cherry blossoms). You don't have to do the topping, but I like the pretty shade of pink and a very subtle sakura flavor.
I tried and made something similar last spring, using only cherry blossom powder - and ended up with flattened blobs of salty meringue. So this time I followed this recipe (in Japanese) that use freeze-dried strawberry powder, and added a bit of cherry blossom powder. This produced a most dainty morsels in a delicate shade of pink that were airy and crisp. Like the other sakura cookie, you'd want to use only a bit of sakura powder (1/4 - 1/2 tsp) as a little amount goes a long way.
Sakura pastry tips also come in several different sizes, but here I have a small one (about 6-mm (1/4-inch) opening). I may not have done a very good job of showing how you can use the tip to pipe cherry blossoms, but you can see other bakers taking a better shot at it; many use it to ice cakes and make cookies (even macarons! ... though I guess they'd used a larger tip).
Now I am planning to include one small sakura pastry tip in my sakura set and have already ordered a few for the giveaway, but I have not received my purchase yet. Due to obvious reasons, there are major disruptions in Japan's postal and package delivery services in some part of the country at the moment, but I am currently in an unaffected (or minimally affected) area. So I expect to receive my purchase sometime soon, but if it doesn't turn up soon enough, I might have to leave it out of my set for the giveaway.
The same goes to another thing that I plant to include in the set: matcha (green tea) powder from Uji, Kyoto. Bright green in color and burst with flavor, it's a good-quality matcha recommended for baking and dessert recipes, though you can also use it to prepare a traditional cup of matcha tea. I know this in itself has got nothing to do with cherry blossoms, but matcha pairs beautifully with sakura in cakes, desserts and the like, so I thought I'd throw it into the mix. So let's hope I'll receive it soon!
* 3/18 update: I have now got both pastry tips and matcha! So they are definitely in.
In contrast to its shade of shockingly bright fuchsia pink, this pouch of cherry blossoms in syrup has a surprisingly delicate flavor - when used in moderation, that is. This, too, is basically salt-cured cherry blossoms, rinsed and steeped in sugar syrup; it has some umezu also added to it, and is tinted with red cabbage color. And no, you don't smell or taste cabbage but the same distinct smell of cherry blossoms.
Don't you just love this shade pale of fuchsia? Pink really isn't my kind of thing in general, but this still put a smile on my face. I was surprised to find it taste quite nice, too - just a bit of saltiness, a hint of vinegary umezu, and a subtle flavor of sakura. In fact, this might have been my favorite among all the sakura products. Some of other products such as sakura jelly and sakura sauce (and the sakura-honey syrup I tried last year) seem to be made using this - syrup and/or blossoms.
* Not shown in the picture above.
Plus, each set will also include a pack of kaishi, which is a type of paper napkin traditionally used in tea ceremony. I have packs of them in a few different sakura patterns (like the ones you can see in some of the pictures in this post), and winners will find which one they got when they received their package.
I have 3 sets to offer you. For your chance to win one of the three sets, please visit my fundraising campaign page and make a donation for the disaster relief efforts in Japan.
- All donation by anyone from anywhere in the world will be welcome, and mostly appreciated. However, only those who live outside of Japan are invited to enter the giveaway. This is based on my original intention in doing this giveaway, which was to offer a chance to give people outside of Japan a chance to get a hold of some of cherry blossom ingredients that are really hard to find for them. Thank you for your understanding about this.
- The set contains food items. I tried to pick items that should be relatively safe for international shipping and customs clearance, yet different rules and procedures apply in different countries. If you are unsure whether or not you are allowed to receive certain food items sent from abroad, I suggest you consult relevant sources before you enter the giveaway.
- Giveaway will be closed on Monday, March 21, 2011. Three winners will then be selected randomly, and announced here on this blog within a day or two. The campaign page may be kept open for non-giveaway donations - details will be decided and announced in due course.
- Your donation will be made to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Now, the situations in Japan have changed since I wrote my last post to announce this project and the campaign page. Chances are that you've seen numbers, read stories, watched footage, and even heard rumors. So I will not repeat any of it here. Moreover, we are in middle of a fluid situation, and anything I say here may not be true in a matter of days, or hours, even.
- I planned to send out packages to winners by regular airmail, for them to reach their destinations by the end of March or beginning of April, in time for cherry blossoms. However, Japan's postal service is partially disrupted in some parts of the country, which may cause delay in delivery of my packages. I already have most of the items that go into my sakura set and am waiting for the last few things (i.e. pastry tips and matcha) to arrive, but if I don't receive them by mid next week, I will send out my packages without the two items.
As of March 16, a central part of the prefecture of Nagano where I am has so far seen little disturbance or confusion in public service or transportation. But it can change at any moment, and it is not unlikely. All of my families and relatives were safe immediately after the deadly quake and tsunami last Friday, but so much has happened since then, and now nobody really knows if we will be.
- Considering this, if something happens to me in the coming week or so, I may not be able to put my words here into action. More specifically, there is a chance that I may not be able to ship out my packages, or even choose winners. I fervently hope that we can let this pass as a bad joke, but as it stands now, we really don't know. So please keep this possibility in your mind when making a donation and entering the giveaway here.
Good news is that no matter what happens to me, your donation will still go straight to the IRC, and will sure be put to good use.
So far, over 3,000 dollars have been raised - I feel extremely grateful, a little overwhelmed, and very encouraged. Thank you very much again to each and every one of you who have made a donation, and/or passed the information along. Please take a look at my campaign page - I have updated a few details.
I have also heard that Pim of Chez Pim and Keiko of Nordljus were planning a special Menu for Hope for Japan, so let's wait for their announcement to come.
Lastly, may I ask you one great favor: please give what you can give to help. Make a donation, spread a word, or perhaps give us something that makes us smile. Many people who have survived the disastrous earthquake and tsunami and those are now threatened by the ongoing nuclear crisis are in desperate need of food, water, heat, and safe shelter. We try to help each other and stay strong. As we do so, we also need something that makes us smile, uplifted, or maybe relax, now that everything is ever so bleak and gloomy and gravely subdued (for good reason, of course, but still). I feel that we could do with something funny, beautiful, and/or delicious in our life now more than ever.
There is this old saying in Japanese, "winter always turns to spring". Even when the life is hard, we will not give up hope and hold out until it gets warm and things ease up. That's exactly where we stand now, except we must make every efforts to make winter turn to spring.
Thank you so much for your prayers and support for Japan in this difficult time.
Glad to have helped. Your safety is the most important thing, don't worry about the rest of it!
I hope everything will be okay. Will continue to pray for Japan. Please take care.
Glad that you took the effort to set this up for the cause Chika. We hope what little we are able to give will help.
We keep praying for you and for Japan.
Much, much love from Italy.
I think what you are doing is amazing. It's been heartbreaking watching what has been happening in Japan and we all want to help in some way.
With all that's happening in Japan right now, your beautiful photos take my breath away and make my heart ache at the same time. Beauty is fleeting, is it not? Just like these fragile cherry blossoms.
Thinking about you -- please do take care.
In Barcelona it start many solidarity actions for Japan!! We wish you the best and every day we follow the news about Japan, we have some friends in Toquio and Osaka too....take a lot! GAMBATE!!!!!
I have just done a post about your beautiful gesture on my own blog. So I hope that will bring you some more prayers and more support.
Your lovely images and gesture are quite heart-breaking!
Keep safe. With warm hugs from Australia.
Hope for Sakura is a lovely gesture. I am posting this on the The Spirit of Pistoulet Facebook page since it is all about giving from the heart.
Living in California, we are familiar with earthquakes. But, I can't imagine the terror you and your countrymen must be going through. Please know that the whole world is watching and wanting to help. On a cooking note, I would love to purchase one of those baking sets. Totally serious. You really did a marvelous job putting everything together. I have never heard of or eaten Japanese desserts and I think I'm in love! Again, your whole country is in our thoughts and prayers.
Our thoughts are for you and your country.
Dear Chika - I found your beautiful blog and very heartbreaking post via my dear friend over at 'BlueFruit'.
I have watched the nightmare situation evolve since the day of the earthquake last week, and my thoughts are wrapping you in warm embrace.
To fully grasp what has and is happening is impossible. We see the cruel aftermath of devastation, pain, loss and destruction on the news. The stories that come through go straight to our hearts and our prayers go to those affected.
There has been a big movement to support 'ShelterBox' for Japan. So far over $20 000 has been raised. I hope that you feel the well intent, love and support from all corners of the world - the tangible world as well as the virtual one.
Thank you for your post and for even finding strength to write to us at this gruesome time.
Warm regards and big hugs from Sydney.
On a lighter, sweeter note, I don't know what to do with all my sakura ingredients... I think I over bought them a few months ago and some will expire soon.... I did the macaron thing..etc, etc.... cupcake...I need some ideas?
How kind of you to offer an incentive/giveaway at a time when donations need to be made with or without material reward. I'm so glad for the response Hope for Sakura is getting! (and I'm so excited to have discovered your blog through it - I'll be back regularly!) With my many friends in Japan, the country and its people are heavy on my heart and filling my prayers. Much safety wished on you and your family.
Chika-san, kono post doumo arigatou! Belgium no hou kara mainichi u-stream ya facebook de news o follow shitemasu.
watashi mo cupcakes toka tsukutte, sore o utte, sukoshi dake donate dekiru koto ga dekimashita.
demo Chika-san no giveaway saikou da to omoi masu.
watashi mo Kobe ni shinseki ga nokotte masu, 16-nen mae no great Hanshin earthquake omoidashinagara, Tohoku no hinansha, nakunatta hito, mada yukuefumei no hito no tame ni inotte masu.
sending lots of positive thoughts!
Am I too late to contribute & enter the giveaway?
I am organising a Japanese afternoon on Sunday with Japanese tea and food, cloths/books/etc swap to raise money and an origami session. I don't think we will raise that much as it is only a few of us unfortunately but hopefully still something. Is the IRD a good and efficient organisation or would you use the Red Cross?
once again, thanks so much for all your thoughts and prayers - and thanks, too, to those of you who are raising fund on your end. i'm in awe of the support we are getting from many corners of the world in these difficult times.
elle marie - you can add a sakura flavor to pretty much anything... cakes, cookies, mousse, ice-cream, even bread.
Francesca - thanks for doing a fundraiser... the red cross and the IRC should both be good, so should a lot of others. it's up to you.
a manufacturer details as email/adress.. would be much appreciated.
A year have passed and I'm still thinking about Japan. We did a memorial in the town I live in honor of all our friends and family we lost there. I have a question though, if I want to buy to sakura goodies in tokyo, where should I go?? It's almost sakura season, can I found them in any conbini or depato?? Take good care of you!


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Following specific requirements, our company specialists developed a modern construction portal with a wide functionality and user-friendly navigation. It took more than a year of intensive work to fully develop this important project.
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The First Annual Southern Harford County Symposium will be held at the EPICENTER at Edgewood on Thursday, February 20 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Reservations are required by February 18; contact Lydia Brennan at lrbrennan@harfordcountymd.gov or 410-638-3521.
This free meeting is hosted by County Councilman Dion Guthrie to update and discuss Aberdeen Proving Ground growth, future planning and southern Harford County economic development in support of the APG mission.
The EPICENTER is located at 1918 Pulaski Hwy, Edgewood, MD – behind Walgreens.


The South African Military Ombud's office and the Office of the Public Protector have signed a five year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide a framework for co-operation and collaboration between the two institutions.
It is aimed a sharing information and enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of both Military Ombud head of communication Nthombikayise Mdluli Jacha said.
The Military Ombud was established in 2012 to investigate written complaints made by serving and former members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) about problems with conditions of service. The office also investigates complaints made by the public against unseemly or untoward conduct by soldiers in public.
Jacha said the concept of South Africa having a Military Ombud was partly triggered by the Public Protector six year ago when military personnel "inundated" the Office of the Public Protector with complaints about the plight of retired soldiers and military veterans. "Grievances of this nature highlighted the need for a speedier mechanism with the necessary expertise to resolve the complaints expeditiously," she said.
Part of the just announced Ombud/Public Protector MoU reads "where a party receives a complaint, which falls within purview of the other party's mandate, the receiving Party shall refer the complaint to the other Party for consideration or may refer the complainant to the said Party for further assistance".
Where allegations fall into the purview of both the Military Ombud and the Public Protector, decision will be taken as to which party is best suited for investigation or if a joint investigation is warranted.
Military Ombud retired lieutenant general Temba Matanzima said the agreement was important.
"The Public Protector is an important strategic partner and I am optimistic this agreement will benefit the soldiers who are our most important stakeholders," he said adding soldiers who received assistance from the Public Protector before the Military Ombud came into being was proof of that institution's ability to work with and for soldiers.


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Attacks on Israel: Rep. Omar accuses Biden of 'siding with an oppressive occupation'
After days of attacks on Israel from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the White House announced President Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday to condemn the rocket attacks, but Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said the call is proof that Biden is "siding with an oppressive occupation."
No mention of Sheikh Jarra.
No mention of the al-Aqsa raid.
No mention of the 13 innocent children killed in air strikes.
No mention of the ongoing occupation of millions in an open air prison.
You aren't prioritizing human rights. You're siding with an oppressive occupation. pic.twitter.com/B0DG1IHbaD
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 12, 2021
According to the White House statement, Biden reportedly "conveyed his unwavering support for Israel's security and for Israel's legitimate right to defend itself and its people, while protecting civilians. He also conveyed the United States' encouragement of a pathway toward restoring a sustainable calm."
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Omar wasn't happy with the statement, because it didn't convey any sympathy for the Palestinians. "No mention of Sheikh Jarra. No mention of the al-Aqsa raid. No mention of the 13 innocent children killed in air strikes. No mention of the ongoing occupation of millions in an open air prison," Omar tweeted.
But, the statement did mention that Biden has contacted Palestinian leaders too, claiming "He updated the Prime Minister on the United States' diplomatic engagement with regional countries, including Egypt, Jordan, and Qatar, as well as with Palestinian officials."
RELATED: Trump blames Palestinian rocket attacks on Biden's 'lack of support for Israel'
Yet that wasn't enough for the Minnesota representative. "You aren't prioritizing human rights," she tweeted to the administration. "You're siding with an oppressive occupation."
You can follow Jenny Goldsberry on Twitter @jennyjournalism.
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Temple Mount Outcry Denies Jewish Rights in Jerusalem
Steve Postal
Earlier this month, Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir peacefully visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for 15 minutes in the morning. Only 24 hours later, the United Nations Security Council convened a meeting to discuss the issue. So was Ben-Gvir's reactions worthy of such an outcry?
The "Jews Storming al-Aqsa" Canard
Arab governments were swift to condemn Ben-Gvir. Representatives from the governments of Egypt and Jordan accused Ben-Gvir of "storming" the Al Aqsa mosque while the UAE and Saudi Arabia condemned Ben-Gvir for "storming" the Al Aqsa "courtyard" or "compound," respectively. Ben-Gvir was never in the mosque, and observing the footage of his leisurely walk, he clearly wasn't "storming" anything either.
But Secretary of State Ned Price enabled this false narrative by not correcting a reporter who made a parallel to Ariel Sharon's 2000 visit to the Temple Mount, stating that "Ariel Sharon stormed Haram Sharif and launched one of the most violent episodes in Palestinian-Israeli history that went on for a very, very long time." In this reporter's bizzarro world, Sharon stormed the Temple Mount, and used this to launch violence against the Palestinians. But in reality, Sharon's visit had been greenlighted by the Palestinian Preventative Security Service chief Jibril Rajoub and Yasser Arafat had planned the Second Intifada months ahead of time.
The "storming" libel echoes Palestinian propaganda that Jews are invading, defiling, and destroying the al Aqsa mosque, canards which have been shown to persuade terrorists to kill Jews. So Arab governments using such rhetoric, and even calling Ben-Gvir's visit a "provocation" or a "provocative" act as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar did, has potentially deadly consequences.
Arab Desecration of Jewish Heritage Sites
Rather, Arab leadership and terrorists were the ones that often did the invading, defiling and destroying of Jewish heritage sites. These include on the Temple Mount when the Wakf removed "roughly 400 truckloads" of dirt from the Temple Mount in the late 1990s using heavy machinery. Subsequent sifting of said dirt by the Temple Mount Sifting Project yielded several Jewish archeological finds.
Additional desecrations included the Palestinian Authority's promise of and failure to protect Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, destroyed by a Palestinian mob in 2000, and multiple terror attacks on Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and many others. Back when the Jordanians controlled Jerusalem's Old City from 1948-1967, Jordanian soldiers and everyday folk destroyed 56 synagogues in the Jewish Quarter and almost completely destroyed the 2,000 year old Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Temple Denial
Libels of the Jews provoking violence on the Temple Mount is related to Palestinian propaganda that Jews have no rightful claim to the Temple Mount, and that Solomon's Temple never existed. Such "Temple Denial" existed in Palestinian nationalism at least as early as 1998, when Ikrima Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time, denied that Solomon's Temple was in Jerusalem, and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat repeated a similar claim in 2000. Palestinian propaganda also claims the Western Wall is a Muslim site, and exclusively so.
Such Temple Denial proliferated amongst Palestinian nationalism, despite an old Arabic term for Jerusalem, "Bayt al-Maqdis," which comes from the Hebrew "Beit Hamikdash," meaning "the Holy Temple." (The modern Arabic term for Jerusalem, "al-Quds," is in turn a derivative of Bayt al-Maqdis.)
Ironically, Muslims have identified the Temple Mount with the site of Solomon's Temple since Umar ibn al-Khattab, the Arab conqueror of Jerusalem. Versions of a tour guide for the Temple Mount written in 1924, 1925, 1929 and 1932 by the Supreme Moslem Council all recognize that the Temple Mount has a connection with Solomon's Temple, with all four versions stating that the Temple Mount's "identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute." Following Israel's re-establishment in 1948, the Wakf removed references to Solomon's Temple from its guidebooks.
What is the "Status Quo?"
The Biden administration supports the "status quo" of the holy sites in Jerusalem, as recently stated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of State Spokesman Ned Price and US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood. When elaborating on the status quo, Price struggled to offer specifics, stating that "it's not for me to define…what the historic status quo is." But Israel and Jordan's Armistice Agreement (1949), Israel's Protection of Holy Places Law(1967), Article 9 of Israel's Peace with Jordan (1994) and the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1995) all recognize the right of Jews to access holy sites in Jerusalem.
The heart of the matter is that the United Nations, the Arab states, and unfortunately the Biden administration do not recognize Jewish rights in the Temple Mount. Supporting the "status quo" is supporting the continued denial of Jews to those rights. True, enduring peace in the Middle East can only be achieved when all parties recognize and respect Jewish rights to peacefully access the Temple Mount.
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The Montclair school district's spring break occurred in the first full week of April for 2018, which meant the Board of School Estimate (BoSE) would have to begin its annual school budget review later than usual. On April 9, the BoSE finally met at the George Inness Annex of the Montclair High School to begin that process for the 2018-19 budget. Mayor Robert Jackson chaired, with Councilors William Hurlock (First Ward) and Rich McMahon (At-Large) in attendance. Board of Education President Laura Hertzog was the only school board member present; BOE member Joe Kavesh did not attend (per the district website, business to take place at a Special BOE Meeting on Wednesday, April 11, includes the appointment of a Board of School Estimate member).
The Montclair Board of School Estimate
Interim Schools Superintendent Barbara Pinsak went over the main priorities of the budget, explaining the emphasis was on building and recruiting a strong staff of teachers to support the students and offering an improved curriculum, with the latest technology to support instruction and with tools to assess students and help teachers understand what the students need for success. She was quick to point out that 81 percent of the $125 million budget goes to salaries and benefits, the better to recruit and maintain top talent. Pinsak also placed top priority on repairing and updating school buildings, taking pride in the district's many older buildings for their architecture, but also highlighting the great responsibility in keeping them modernized. She also said improving security at the schools was a top concern.
Business Administrator Emidio D'Andrea tried to break down the particulars for BoSE. He said the overall budget looked to balance out the staff by reducing six teachers, 10 paraprofessionals, one administrator, and two central-office secretaries. The budget also seeks take advantage of breakage from retirements. The current amount of breakage is $315,000, according to all of the retirements reported up to March 12; that amount has thus been cut from the budget. D'Andrea informed the board that the budget also factors in $537,000 in state aid from the new Murphy administration, adding that while it is a small amount, every bit helps.
D'Andrea also addressed health insurance, an ongoing concern for the district. He said the request or proposal for a health insurance plan was put out by the district's consultant and the plans are being evaluated. D'Andrea expressed the need for caution in looking at the offers, noting the disruption that can be caused when switching plans and determining how many doctors and health providers are covered by the old plan that are also replaced by the new one. Ideally, he explained, there should be as many health practitioners as possible covered by both plans to avoid as much inconvenience as possible. He said he was hopeful that the disruption report would suggest a percentage in the high eighties into the nineties because "that tells us that the disruption to the staff is at least at a minimal proportion that is something reasonable."
"We just don't want to make a change in carriers because of dollars," he added "Sometimes the numbers that come out are [for] one year, and then you flip it back and forth."
Councilor Hurlock noted that health benefits have become unsustainable, and he asked for the time frame on how much the costs were likely to be for health insurance. D'Andrea said he'd try to reach out to the consultants, and he has been looking at various offers, but he still sought to minimize the disruption. Councilor Hurlock agreed it was imperative not to burden members with increased costs from switching carriers.
D'Andrea also cited the emphasis on repairing infrastructure and amenities in the capital ordinance request for the next school year, with various improvements totaling $4.37 million with an additional 486,650 in hiring architects, engineers soil investigations, and legal assistance necessary in getting the projects going, resulting in a grand total of $4.86 million. A good deal of the work would be on masonry, repairs to athletic fields and pedestrian and parking areas, and waterproofing, with $550,000 to be spent on security – improving the key entry systems to the buildings, minimizing points of entry to prevent intruders from gaining access to the schools, and digital upgrades to school security systems. The $500,000 would be a down payment on what is needed. D'Andrea also advocated an $86,000 set-aside for a state School Development Authority (SDA) assessment grant application. The grants for SDA assessments usually add up to $5 million, which makes the $86,000 fee, usually a back-charge from the state, cost-effective. D'Andrea also said the seemingly modest $6.4 million line item for textbooks and classroom supplies is the biggest single item after salaries and benefits, jibing with Superintendent Pinsak's emphasis on giving teachers the necessary instruments for teaching.
Montclair Education Association President Petal Robertson addressed the various line items in the budget, expressing gratitude to D'Andrea and Superintendent Pinsak for involving the union in the discussion. But she still had some concerns. She said she was concerned about the loss of six teachers, lamenting that losing any teachers before scheduling was completed could ultimately cost the district because of the possibility of needing more classes and having to enlarge existing classes. Robertson said the reduced number of secretaries would increase the workload on the remaining secretaries, which she feared could be a violation of central-office employee contracts. The reduction of paraprofessionals, she said, could be unsustainable and force the district to call back some paraprofessionals; not every paraprofessional can easily return to work, she explained, and many of them would lose their benefits over the summer months and possible go into debt. Robertson also added that adding the special-ed budget to the general budget and cutting the general budget across the board could have a negative impact on school supplies. She said it made greater sense to cut items in the budget that don't have any impact on students.
Superintendent Pinsak insisted that the budget is proactive, not reactive as Robertson suggested, and she said they needed to find money to ensure more special-ed positions. She said that, based on new programs that were developed to try to serve the students in the district, they were able to do that. She added that the district has money targeted for special-ed contingencies and she hopes to move some people around and not have to replace any retiring teachers. She said the whole idea behind the budget is to make sure the district has what the students need.
Montclair Interim Schools Superintendent Barbara Pinsak
The Board of School Estimate takes up the school budget again on Thursday, April 12.
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Writers on the Craft of Writing
Stephanie Bishop and Michelle de Kretser will be talking to each other about the craft of writing, with special reference to their most recent novels, Man Out of Time and The Life to Come. This free-wheeling conversation about writers' practice will range over subjects such as reading, revision, the creation of interiority, the crafting of sentences and narrative time.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Sydney. She went to university in Melbourne and Paris, and is an honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney. Michelle's fiction has won numerous awards, including the Miles Franklin. Her longform essay On Shirley Hazzard will be published in October 2019. Michelle was writer in residence in the English Department at UNSW from February-May 2019.
Stephanie Bishop's novels are The Singing, The Other Side of the World and, most recently, Man Out of Time. She is the recipient of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction, and the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year Award. Her work has been published in The London Review of Books, The Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Meanjin and elsewhere.
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What is EBPC
Established in December 2017, the Evidence-Based Policing Centre is a joint partnership between New Zealand Police, the University of Waikato, ESR (the Institute of Environmental Science and Research), and New Zealand Police's strategic partner, Vodafone New Zealand.
We use practitioner-based research, information, crime-science, theory, and problem-solving methods to inform practice, implement measures to prevent crime and improve the allocation of police resources to better protect the public.
Police bring with them considerable practical knowledge and collect vast amounts of data – from burglary events and car crashes to incidents of domestic violence – this is shared with expert researcher collaborators to build a deeper understanding of crime.
The work we produce provides police with a better understanding of what works, what doesn't and what guides officers on the frontline. It will lead to better, smarter and faster ways of working, and contribute toward meeting Police's targets of:
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Пиментели () — испанский благородный род португальского происхождения, глава которого с 1398 года носил титул графа, а с 1473 года — герцога Бенавенте. Угас в XVIII веке. В годы «золотого века» Пиментели были крупнейшими землевладельцами провинции Вальядолид.

История титула
Португальский придворный Жуан Афонсу Пиментель, будучи женат на сводной сестре королевы Леоноры, во время споров за португальское престолонаследие поддерживал её дочь Беатрису с супругом, Хуаном Кастильским. Противоположную партию возглавлял его кузен Альвареш Перейра. Когда кастильская партия потерпела поражение, Пиментель бежал ко двору Беатрисы в Кастилии, где в 1398 г. удостоился титула графа Бенавенте.

Титул герцога Бенавенте впервые был создан кастильским королём Энрике II для внебрачного сына Фадрике в 1370 г. После того, как тот поднял мятеж против своего брата и был заточен в темницу, титул был объявлен выморочным. В 1473 г. титул возрождён для графа Бенавенте из рода Пиментелей, который был женат на дочери всемогущего королевского фаворита Хуана Пачеко. Одна из дочерей первого герцога Бенавенте стала матерью знаменитого полководца, 3-го герцога Альбы.

Благодаря удачным брачным альянсам с наследницами XVII—XVIII вв. герцоги Бенавенте собрали целую россыпь герцогских (Бехар, Аркос, Гандия, Пласенсия, Медина-де-Риосеко, Мандас и Вильянуэва) и княжеских (Англона и Скуиллаче) титулов. Среди прочего, к ним перешло наследие аристократических кланов Энрикес, Суньига и Борджа.

После угасания рода единственной наследницей всех его богатств осталась Мария Хосефа Пиментель (1750—1834), 12-я герцогиня Бенавенте, известная за пределами Испании по парадному портрету Гойи. Она создала в окрестностях Мадрида парк Эль-Капричо, который служит местом отдыха жителей столицы. В 1771 г. супругом этой богатейшей наследницы был выбран её кузен — герцог де Осуна (из того же рода, к какому принадлежал Хуан Пачеко). С тех пор герцогские титулы Осуна и Бенавенте носит старший из их потомков.

Герцоги де Беневенте

Ссылки
 Родословие герцогов Бенавенте

Бенавенте
Дворянские роды, на гербах которых изображены коронованные львы

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