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Aiyana Cain Kitchen design ideas, 2018-09-03 06:06:14. Designers now use a zone design that accounts for more than one person in the kitchen at a time. This creates multiple cooking areas. Separate cook tops & ovens and sometimes they will install two sinks, one for prep and the other for clean-up.
Astrid Burgess Kitchen design ideas, 2018-07-25 00:27:18. How does one design with a country theme kitchen? One of the most important factors is the colors used in the kitchen. Those that bring in warmth and a fresh and clean look and feel are often recommended. Softer hues of green, yellow and brown may be preferred as well as other earthly colors. To help achieve this effect, kitchen owners will often flower and plant details into the area through wallpapers, frames or the real thins in vases and pots.


Oregon is an amazingly beautiful place to visit. Another amazing adventure was our day trip to Ecola State Park, Cannon Beach, and Crescent Beach from our base camp at LL Stub Stewart State Park, about an hour away from the Oregon coast.
We stumbled upon the Crescent Beach Trail inside Ecola State Park and hiked it down to Crescent Beach, it was AMAZING. It blew us away! Wow! The 2 miles out and back trail took us about an hour each way. Although I was wearing flip flops it was worth every uncomfortable step. After all, I did show up to walk on the beach not realizing we would have to hike an hour to get to the said beach. I have since put my hiking boots in the truck so I'll be prepared next time; flip flops are not recommended for this trail. ????
We had the entire beach to ourselves and had a blast running around with Maggie and looking at interesting shells/sea life. There were quite a few shells, broken sand dollars, crab parts and small jellyfish strewn about the beach. Maggie had never seen a beach like this, let alone to the ocean. She had a blast and slept very well that night.
If you are ever near the Oregon Coast you have to check out Ecola State Park, Crescent and Cannon Beaches. You won't be disappointed.
Well, we're off to Washington State to explore Mount Rainier and so much more! We will be coming back to explore more of the Oregon coast in a few weeks and I cannot wait! We are excited to explore Seattle and the Puget Sound area before heading on to Vancouver Island, BC. Let the adventure continue……!
Don't forget to see all the photos we took in our Photo Gallery.


Does the tour operate in wet weather?
The glow worms actually love wet weather and glow brighter in the rain. A rainy night is the best time to see the glow worms.
Do I need to take wet weather gear if it rains?
You are welcome to bring along your own waterproof jacket, but if you don't have one, knee length rain ponchos can give you on the tour for free of charge.
Can I see the glow worms during the day time?
The glow worm tour is a night tour. The glow worms are found in a cave that has a large opening allowing too much light during daylight hours to see the glow of the glow worms.
Do you provide a pick-up service for the tour?
We pick up from all major hotels between Main Beach & Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. Whilst we do not pick up from all accommodation in this area, we should be able to get you to a location that is within walking distance of your accommodation.
Can I join the tour at the National Park?
The National Park is 45 minutes drive from Surfers Paradise on roads that are not well lit or well signposted and we do not recommend people trying to drive there at night. Our tour includes a pick up and drop off service from the Gold Coast. We are also trying to minimise our carbon emissions so it is better for us to take you there in our bus rather than everyone driving their own individual cars.
Do I need to confirm my tour booking?
It is best that you confirm your booking at least 48 hours in advance. This allows us to make changes if there are any irregularities with the booking.
Please wear casual clothes and comfortable walking shoes. Please bring a light jacket in cooler months.
Can I photograph the glow worms?
It is not possible to photograph the glow worms using a flash. You may photograph the glow worms as long as your flash is turned off.
How do infants travel on the bus?
Infants must travel on the knee of a parent, and once they reach the age of 4 years, must be seated in their own seat and wear a seat belt.
Please see the Important Info page for each tour to see the cancellation policy for that tour.
Can I take a wheelchair or a stroller on the Glow Worm Tour?
There are a number of locations along the National Park track that have stairs. It is not suitable for either wheelchairs or strollers.
We require a minimum of 2 adults to operate at tour.
Infants can participate for free, but there is a requirement to report the number of participants to the administrating authority.
Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a light jacket in cooler months.
It is a 500 meter walk to the glow worm cave, and 500 meters return. Please consider carefully if you should join the tour if you have walking difficulties.
Daily excluding ANZAC Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, & Australia Day.
However, there may be some days when the tour may not operate due to extreme weather conditions.
If you have booked the tour through a travel agent , local tour desk or concierge, please see your booking agent regarding cancellation charges.
*100% charge if cancelled after 11:00 on tour date.
Pick up service is provided from major hotels between Main Beach, Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. If you are not staying at the hotels listed, your pickup will be from the nearest of the listed hotels.


Are "we" ? Don't speak for anyone except yourself in future. I already stated that I am assuming they are all fake until proven otherwise. So either prove they existed or kindly STFU.
The final Grenfell Tower fire toll will not be known until at least the end of the year, with 80 people currently presumed dead, police say.
The vast majority of those who died were said to be in 23 of the North Kensington building's 129 flats.
The 14 June fire destroyed 151 homes, most in the tower block, but also a number of surrounding properties.
Det Supt Fiona McCormack said the full toll will only be known when the search and recovery operation is over.
For sure it will be an occult number.
Prescient wrote: Are "we" ? Don't speak for anyone except yourself in future. I already stated that I am assuming they are all fake until proven otherwise. So either prove they existed or kindly STFU.
"We are talking about..." is merely a turn of phrase. If you have doubts about what fellow CF members mean, why not ask them for clarification before you move on to "STFU"?
Assume what you like, but share it as a contribution, not as a straitjacket.
Our member "Thisisunreal" (here is his handshake intro) asked me, via personal e-mail, if the (below-quoted) thoughts of his regarding the Grenfell Tower 'incident' were of any relevance, and asked me to post them myself at my discretion (because he's had problems logging in to the forum lately - as he had forgotten his password).
In his e-mail, he said that "I leave it to you (if I may) as to whether to post it. I felt it may seem slightly awkward or irrelevant sat in the middle of the thread, given what had gone before and the discussion already achieved. I was quite pleased with it because the quotes were taken from the news as it broke and it seemed pretty 'incredible' as the morning broke and the day wore on. I also became slightly unsure whether this is the kind of thing you are looking for. It is my first post and didn't want to miss the point and cause annoyance."
thisisunreal wrote: Apologies for the late post, I have had login issues and have been travelling in between times.
Below are selected quotes from a BBC web page, that was updated every few minutes with no attributed journalist or sources for quotes, which strikes me as incredible. I watched the story develop from 7.30 am onwards throughout the day taking quotes as they became more intriguing, fanciful and reminiscent of a certain other tower related catastrophe.
"fears the building might collapse"!
"The whole building is crumbling"
"Now, honestly I don't know for certain if people jumped off the building to get away from the fire, but the main thing for me with this incident is the fact that the fire alarms didn't go off in the building,"
"I watched one person falling out, I watched another woman holding her baby out the window... hearing screams, I was yelling everyone to get down and they were saying 'We can't leave our apartments, the smoke is too bad on the corridors'."
"I've been watching people in their windows, flashing with their phones, and then slowly watching those apartments get engulfed in flames and smoke."
"Residents point to plastic cladding as the problem"
"They were trapped. They couldn't come downstairs, especially from the top floor … people have been burned".
"screaming for help, and shouting for their children to be saved".
"Appeals are being made on social media for news of missing friends and relatives, who might have been caught in the blaze".
"it was like a horror movie"
- The story had turned into a pre-packaged, already sewn up 'whodunit' by 7.55 AM UK time instead of a focus on the humanitarian loss of life.
- There was already a firm agenda of what was responsible and why by 7.55 AM. Even the main early witnesses, used the word "cladding" as if this is common parlance or indeed anybody might have any inkling whatsoever that cladding may enhance a building's ability to burn or indeed what cladding is.
- References and images of the website for the Grenfell Action Group were already circulating 7.55 AM before offices opened in the UK. How is this possible?
The quotes above and narrative solidify the notion that people were trapped inside. This proposition is reinforced by the fanciful story of a baby being dropped and caught from the 9th or 10th floor.
The story has developed into an all encompassing political football used to bring Theresa May closer to the edge or end of her tenure. The media circus around the event makes it clear that the media play the tune whilst the lowly politicians have to dance to the music.
The cladding is repeatedly pointed to as being the key issue in the story. Building cladding and its performance is the remit of the construction industry and nothing else. I do not understand this mock political edge or responsibility. I do not understand why politicians feel the need to court this outrage and indulge this indignation. If the cladding was poor then heads must roll in the construction industry. In terms of a story it does not make logical sense.
Grenfell tower has been in the media every day since the fire. I have become very suspicious about what the fire is covering in the way of genuine news. Perhaps the extremely shocking Qatar story that goes largely unremarked on as the USA extend their influence again using the catch all excuse of fighting global terror.
Dear Thisiunreal, please do not fear posting your thoughts on Cluesforum in the future. You seem to be blessed with some quite sharp & functional brain matter.
I guess if you were unsure of this hoax then this should help you decide.
It's wrong of me to generalise as this is actually aimed at myself and not others [though it may be worth taking note, hopefully...] but there tends to be a sense of apathy creeping in with the quantity of these "sigh"-ops and the amount of garbage they spew out therein long after the event.
I am referring in this instance to the following article, which I was initially going to skip over having audibly groaned a few times.
Of course stories like this keep the issue "alive" and imply that people still died even though the person in question is quite categorically showing that [at least as far as the gen-pop are concerned] some didn't die at all and were never present - almost a joke within a joke by TPTB.
Note that I am not implying that this "Anh Nhu Nguyen" is real, in fact I can't help but think his name [if said by English country-folk] is almost a homophone for "I knew him lying"
Nguyen, who has lived in the UK since the 1980s, had 17 aliases.
He then described deciding to leave with his wife and son, "stepping over bodies" as the family descended the stairs. When he reached the 11th floor, he said, his wife and son were no longer with him.
Anyway, as a footnote [and without trying to be "preachy" albeit mainly to myself] we should strive to attempt to record these instances and categorise them to some degree so that "newbies", or those who may be willing to contemplate other scenarios than the ones peddled by TPTB, can at least see that issues such as "numbers' or other such elements in these stories, are not scattered intermittently/wildly, but actually prevail throughout all of the different "sigh"-ops constantly.
It is only tenuous/circumstantial evidence but I am sure in the "real world" people have actually been convicted on less.


Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition Preloads Now Available!
The Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition preloads are now open since the game will launch on March 6 which is just a couple of days from now. Getting to preload the game at an earlier time allows players to instantly play the game on the launch date.
It will be a great idea to preload the game since it is quite huge at around 100 GB to 155 GB. Downloading will also vary with your internet speed so some would take longer than others.
Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition is already complete with all the previously released DLC in the console version of the game. It will also include the themed expansions of your party members.
On the same day of the Window Edition release is the Royal Edition for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This has the same inclusions with the Windows Edition.
Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition Costume Is Iconic Gordon Freeman A new Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition will be having a new costume which is that of Half-Life's Gordon Freeman.


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@import Flutter;
@import XCTest;
@import webview_flutter_wkwebview;

#import <OCMock/OCMock.h>

@interface FWFUserContentControllerHostApiTests : XCTestCase
@end

@implementation FWFUserContentControllerHostApiTests
- (void)testCreateFromWebViewConfigurationWithIdentifier {
  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:[[WKWebViewConfiguration alloc] init] withIdentifier:0];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI createFromWebViewConfigurationWithIdentifier:@1 configurationIdentifier:@0 error:&error];
  WKUserContentController *userContentController =
      (WKUserContentController *)[instanceManager instanceForIdentifier:1];
  XCTAssertTrue([userContentController isKindOfClass:[WKUserContentController class]]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}

- (void)testAddScriptMessageHandler {
  WKUserContentController *mockUserContentController =
      OCMClassMock([WKUserContentController class]);

  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockUserContentController withIdentifier:0];

  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  id<WKScriptMessageHandler> mockMessageHandler =
      OCMProtocolMock(@protocol(WKScriptMessageHandler));
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockMessageHandler withIdentifier:1];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI addScriptMessageHandlerForControllerWithIdentifier:@0
                                            handlerIdentifier:@1
                                                       ofName:@"apple"
                                                        error:&error];
  OCMVerify([mockUserContentController addScriptMessageHandler:mockMessageHandler name:@"apple"]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}

- (void)testRemoveScriptMessageHandler {
  WKUserContentController *mockUserContentController =
      OCMClassMock([WKUserContentController class]);

  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockUserContentController withIdentifier:0];

  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI removeScriptMessageHandlerForControllerWithIdentifier:@0 name:@"apple" error:&error];
  OCMVerify([mockUserContentController removeScriptMessageHandlerForName:@"apple"]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}

- (void)testRemoveAllScriptMessageHandlers API_AVAILABLE(ios(14.0)) {
  WKUserContentController *mockUserContentController =
      OCMClassMock([WKUserContentController class]);

  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockUserContentController withIdentifier:0];

  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI removeAllScriptMessageHandlersForControllerWithIdentifier:@0 error:&error];
  OCMVerify([mockUserContentController removeAllScriptMessageHandlers]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}

- (void)testAddUserScript {
  WKUserContentController *mockUserContentController =
      OCMClassMock([WKUserContentController class]);

  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockUserContentController withIdentifier:0];

  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI
      addUserScriptForControllerWithIdentifier:@0
                                    userScript:
                                        [FWFWKUserScriptData
                                             makeWithSource:@"runAScript"
                                              injectionTime:
                                                  [FWFWKUserScriptInjectionTimeEnumData
                                                      makeWithValue:
                                                          FWFWKUserScriptInjectionTimeEnumAtDocumentEnd]
                                            isMainFrameOnly:@YES]
                                         error:&error];

  OCMVerify([mockUserContentController addUserScript:[OCMArg isKindOfClass:[WKUserScript class]]]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}

- (void)testRemoveAllUserScripts {
  WKUserContentController *mockUserContentController =
      OCMClassMock([WKUserContentController class]);

  FWFInstanceManager *instanceManager = [[FWFInstanceManager alloc] init];
  [instanceManager addDartCreatedInstance:mockUserContentController withIdentifier:0];

  FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl *hostAPI =
      [[FWFUserContentControllerHostApiImpl alloc] initWithInstanceManager:instanceManager];

  FlutterError *error;
  [hostAPI removeAllUserScriptsForControllerWithIdentifier:@0 error:&error];
  OCMVerify([mockUserContentController removeAllUserScripts]);
  XCTAssertNil(error);
}
@end

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The Women of World War One
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To be a woman in 1914 in Britain,
your life was defined more by what you couldn't do than what you could.
You couldn't read the lesson, you couldn't preach in church,
certainly not in the pulpit.
Indeed, you couldn't hand out the hymnbooks, take the collection,
or even ring the bells.
Away from church, if you spoke about women's rights in public,
you were likely to be jeered, or have stones thrown at you
not for what you said,
but for having the temerity to speak in public.
If you were arrested, it would be by a man -
all police officers were male.
Into court, the lawyers, the jury, the judge, all were men.
It remained very much a man's world.
For over a decade, women's suffrage campaigners
had battled to overturn this man's world.
They argued nothing could change in women's lives
until they were given the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
Women engaged in campaigns of protest and violence.
They endured imprisonment and hunger strikes
to force the men in government to back down.
Nothing, it seemed, would stop the suffragettes
until women had the vote.
But then, Germany invaded Belgium.
When war was declared in August 1914,
the suffrage campaigners were faced with a quandary.
Should they support the men in government, their sworn enemy,
and suspend their campaign for the vote?
Something which a few months earlier would've seemed unthinkable.
The Militant Suffragette Organisation
was the women's social and political union
led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Cristabel.
Its motto - "Deeds not Words."
They saw violent action as a necessity
and they resorted to bombings and arson to get their case heard.
Many spent time in prison
and were subjected to brutal treatment and force feeding
in response to their angry demands for a vote.
Then the declaration of war intervened.
Emmeline Pankhurst wasted no time coming to a decision.
Within days of war being declared,
she suspended their campaign of militancy with immediate effect.
The suffrage campaigners showed their new patriotic commitment
by renaming their newspaper -
The Suffragette became Britannia and it bore a new motto.
Instead of "Deeds not Words," it was now -
"For King, For Country, For Freedom."
"What is the point of fighting for the vote," asked Mrs Pankhurst,
"if we have not got a country to vote in?"
She was a pragmatist.
Her message to her supporters was clear -
it was time to transfer their energies to the national cause.
In December 1914, war came to the Home Front.
German warships attacked the north-east coast of England,
targeting Hartlepool and the fashionable resort of Scarborough.
Scores of civilians were killed, including women and children.
With women now victims of enemy action,
like the soldiers in France,
the rallying cry became "Remember Scarborough!,"
as scores of upper and middle-class women
rushed to don uniform in the voluntary organisations.
or them, it was an unrivalled opportunity
to get out of the house, to do something useful,
to gain independence.
Squad!
Squad, attention!
First into action on the Home Front was the aristocracy -
society ladies, used to using their social clout.
Their young girls joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.
Formed before the war, and still going today,
it now came into its own,
sending women as ambulance drivers to France.
Hundreds of other volunteer organisations sprang up,
such as the Women's Volunteer Reserve, ready to do their bit,
adopting military-style uniforms to command attention and respect.
Some did skilled training in the Lady Instructors Signals Company.
Most, though, were cooking, cleaning and running errands.
Keeping a watchful eye
was their Honorary Colonel, Evelina Haverfield.
Evelina, the daughter of a baron,
was a determined suffragette veteran -
in 1910, she was arrested for punching a policeman in the face.
When charged, she replied, "It was not hard enough.
"Next time I will bring a revolver".
Women like her were full of ideas, ready for action.
The Women's Volunteer Reserve remained resolutely middle-class,
largely because they had to buy their own uniform,
which cost more than £2 - a small fortune in 1914.
Even though there was no suggestion that a woman would ever fight,
the image of a woman in military-style uniform
was troubling for many.
Yet the Women's Volunteer Reserve relished the authority it gave them,
despite the catcalls and jeers.
It was distinctive, purposeful
and very publicly part of the war effort.
Squad, stand at ease.
The war brought working class women to the public attention
in paid, often industrial work,
that men had left for the front line in France.
# There came John Bull with his ship so grey
# And his army fighting far away
# All the boys have gone
# So the girls today
# Carry on with the work in the morning
# The conductorettes without much fuss
# Just do their level best for us
# But they don't push people off the bus
# When it's raining hard in the morning. #
Over one million were engaged in war work across Britain.
# The girls have shown surprising gifts
# On the railways now they work the lifts
# If they'd only do the work in shifts
# They would get such a crowd in the morning. #
Beautifully illustrated cigarette cards
celebrated the variety of their work.
They were doing what had previously been considered solely men's work.
Getting paid the same as men was out of the question.
Skilled men feared that their prized status
would be threatened by unskilled women working alongside them
doing the same job and being paid less.
Entrenched attitudes and prejudice were at play.
Men were expected to be the breadwinners, supporting a family.
Women were thought to have more modest running costs.
"Tea and toast are cheaper than beer and beefsteaks,"
said one factory foreman.
A strong conviction remained that people should be paid
not for what they did, but for who they were.
During the First World War,
many women worked on factory production lines
assembling planes, tanks and making ammunition for the war effort.
Crowded together in factories,
they discovered a new sense of team spirit
and it worked as well on the football pitch
as it did on the shop floor.
Women's football was a novelty, rather shocking.
Teams from the shipyards, engineering works and munitions
donned mobcaps and shorts to general amazement.
Even more than today, many thought, "Women? Playing football?"
Many men were keen to point out why the women should not play.
The British Medical Journal was worried about the danger to women's
"organs which the common experience of women
"had in every way led them to protect."
But in 1915, the men's professional game was suspended -
the trenches had taken both players and officials
and the women's game flowered.
Most of the women's games
were to raise funds for soldiers and their families,
a Christmas Day Match in 1917, watched by a crowd of 10,000,
raised £600 for wounded soldiers -
the equivalent of more than £25,000 today.
One occasion, the women played men
who had their hands tied behind their backs as a handicap.
The keeper was allowed one hand free.
But usually, the women's teams played each other,
sometimes with bruising intensity.
The most successful team in the north-east of England was
Blyth Spartans Munitions Girls.
In their first game,
17-year-old centre-forward Bella Reay scored six goals.
Bella was the daughter of a local pitman.
She quickly became the star of the team,
scoring 133 goals in one season.
And Blyth Spartans Munitions Girls remained unbeaten
for the two years they were together.
She worked in the munitions factory, you know, when she was 17.
And they decided then that they wanted to do something
more for the war effort.
All of the games that they ever did were all for the wounded soldiers -
all the money they ever made, it was all done for charity.
Did lots of people come to see them?
Yes, she played anywhere from crowds of 1,000 up to 20,000 people.
When your grandmother talked to you about football, what did she say?
Just how good she was. That was the main thing, you know.
She said, "I was good, but I knew I was good."
We will never forget her saying that to us, "Oh, I knew I was good."
She played in the Munition Girls Cup Final, didn't she?
-Yes, she did, yes.
-That must have been a big match.
Yes, it was. That was when she got her gold medal.
Which, would you like to have a look at the medal she got?
Beautiful medal, it is.
How did she do in the final?
Very well. I think she was the best goal scorer in the final.
People are surprised now to hear
that girls played football at that time.
Well when because when they go on about it,
I say, "Well, my grandma played nearly 100 years ago,"
and we're very, very proud that we are part of history, really,
you know because she was very, very well-known in her time.
Everybody knew her -
"Whoa, Bella", that was what they used to shout, "Away, Bella!"
You know that that's the thing, and it's lovely really to think
that we are part of a little bit of history.
By 1921 the Football Association had had enough
and it banned the women from playing on their grounds,
saying, "The game of football is quite unsuitable for females
"and ought not to be encouraged."
Women's football, like so much else,
was only tolerable for the duration of the war.
many working class women had their first taste of social freedom.
Instead of being at home under father's watchful eye,
they discovered the forerunner of girl's night out.
The press went into overdrive, with stories of
"giddy factory girls" frittering money in pubs with men.
The Aberdeen Journal reported that they had
"more money in their hands than usual, and there were only too many
"ready to help them to spend it in the wrong way."
The munitionettes were experiencing a liberation they hadn't expected.
They were aping their betters -
out and about, with a little money to spend.
Traditionalists were outraged.
Not for the first time in the war, there was a bout of moral panic.
Women were getting out of control.
More worldy-wise women, such as Margaret Damer Dawson,
set out to protect women, as well as cautioning their behaviour.
Dawson approached the Commissioner of Police in London for permission
to create a voluntary body of trained and uniformed police women.
He declared himself "not at all averse to the idea,"
as long as they remained separate from his force.
The result was the foundation
of Britain's first Women's Police Service, the WPS.
Margaret Damer Dawson was a tough character.
Her friends called her "Fighting Dawson."
Her first recruits were mainly educated middle-class women,
trained in first aid and a little jujitsu.
But they faced a battle to be taken seriously by the men.
One male police officer,
when asked if women would ever be police constables,
laughed and said "No, not if the war lasts 50 years".
The WPS were not granted the power of arrest
and were expected to deal solely with women and children.
Most male constables thought that Dawson's "Copperettes,"
as the Sussex Times called them, should be deployed only
to protect Britain's men from the temptations of women.
Dawson's patrols were not popular with the women they policed.
One 14-year-old girl said she'd been told off for crimping her hair,
and "dressing up and walking about
"in order to attract the attention of men."
Many men disliked having to deal with women,
especially in the factories,
where huge numbers now worked making munitions.
Many of the women were rowdy and tough.
When disputes arose,
managers, more used to obedient wives and daughters,
had no idea what to do.
The Prime Minister, David Lloyd George,
turned to Margaret Damer Dawson's women police.
He deployed nearly 1,000 of them
to keep order in the munitions factories.
Policewoman Gabrielle West kept a diary describing her experiences.
Her initial impressions of the workers
at the Pembrey Munitions Factory in South Wales were not favourable.
"They are full of socialistic theory
"and very great on getting up strikes.
"But they are easily influenced by a little oratory,
"and go back to work like lambs when you shout at them long enough."
Rather than being a social leveller, as it's often portrayed,
life in the munitions factories
relied on the class system to maintain law and order.
Within weeks of the war ending,
the Metropolitan Police announced plans to train women
to become paid constables for the first time.
What followed was humiliation for Margaret Damer Dawson.
Her well-trained and capable volunteers
were rejected as candidates -
resented by male constables as too well educated and confident.
As a final blow, Dawson was ordered to wind down the WPS.
Margaret Damer Dawson died in 1920, aged 45
of a heart attack, it was said, brought on by the hostility
she faced from the male police establishment.
She'd tried so hard to gain acceptance.
Just before she died,
she got to the heart of the problem of policing women.
"In the realm of morals,"
she said, "we have not advanced beyond Adam and Eve."
Machine guns and artillery in the First World War
caused terrible injuries.
Wounded men were coming home in overwhelming numbers
in urgent need of medical attention.
Britain's small band of professional nurses were joined by
nursing assistants from the Voluntary Aid Detachment - the VADs.
Across the country, public buildings and private residences were
offered up or commandeered for use as auxiliary hospitals.
In 1917, Lady Stamford offered Dunham Massey to the Red Cross.
Her daughter, Lady Jane Grey, worked here as a VAD.
It could be grisly work,
with the operating table tucked in next to the grand staircase.
Lady Jane remembered helping remove a bullet from a soldier's brain.
"I was given the job of shining a torch into the hole
"once they'd made the hole in the brain,
"and so I held the torch in front
"and saw the bullet being extracted by the surgeon.
"It was very interesting."
By 1918, more than 70,000 VADs
had played a crucial part in the war effort.
In a man's world, they were the perfect women -
volunteers, not wanting equal pay and not demanding a new kind of job.
Theirs was the traditional caring role -
they were non-threatening - plucky, but lovable.
Women doctors, on the other hand,
evoked a very different kind of response.
Before the war,
qualified female doctors treated only women and children.
But the war gave two pioneering women the chance to change that -
Flora Murray, and Louisa Garrett Anderson,
the daughter of the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain.
Together, they now founded the Women's Hospital Corps.
After watching them successfully run hospitals in France,
the British War Office gritted its teeth
and offered them a large military hospital with over 500 beds
in Endell Street, London.
They accepted immediately, and revealed their growing confidence
by insisting it must be entirely staffed by women.
New staff were told that skill levels acceptable from a man
would not be accepted from a woman.
They had to do better.
They laid special emphasis on getting the men recovered psychologically
from the traumas they'd seen.
And every effort was made
to make the atmosphere of these rather grim buildings congenial.
The courtyard had flowers regularly tended by the gardeners,
the wards had fresh flowers in them,
changed regularly by a team of volunteers.
There were sports days, there were demonstrations by champion boxers.
It was a very varied programme of entertainment.
The hospital did have the word suffragette attached to it?
Yes, it did, because Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson
had been very prominent in Mrs Pankhurst's organisation.
Flora Murray was actually Mrs Pankhurst's personal physician
and Anderson had spent time in Holloway,
having thrown a brick through a window.
So they were well-known and many, many of their staff
were also supporters of the suffrage movement.
But these women had shown themselves capable of running a hospital,
a large military hospital,
they'd shown themselves to be capable of treating
really very serious medical and surgical problems,
and of successfully treating male patients,
and this was something that had not been proved before.
And what is more,
they had shown that it would happen without civilisation collapsing.
More than 26,000 men were treated at Endell Street Military Hospital.
Many needed major surgery.
In 1917, in recognition of their pioneering work,
both Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson were awarded CBEs.
The legacy of Endell Street
is that men could be treated by women doctors.
Only one patient ever said he wouldn't be treated by a female.
And after a few days, he changed his mind,
and asked his mother if he'd be allowed to stay a little longer.
"The whole hospital is a triumph for women,"
wrote another patient home.
"Incidentally, it is a triumph for suffragettes."
As the First World War neared its end,
women were involved in almost every area of life on the Home Front.
But Britain's women were still denied the right to vote -
the very issue that sat at the heart of the suffragettes' campaigning.
Deep within the all-male Parliament,
there existed a place which
epitomised the status of women in public life -
the Ladies' Gallery.
The original Ladies' Gallery
was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War,
but today's press gallery occupies a similar position.
It was a cramped space, hot and stuffy.
And there was a metal lattice grille which obstructed the view
of the House of Commons below.
Though it was originally installed
so that the men below would not be distracted by the ladies above.
The suffragettes regarded it as a symbolic cage
which separated them from the business of politics.
In 1908, suffrage campaigners padlocked themselves to the
gallery's grille in protest at their exclusion from Parliament.
The grille was removed with the women still attached.
After their release, it was immediately reinstalled
and there it remained, physically and symbolically excluding women
from the world of politics.
Before the war, Winston Churchill argued that
"women are well represented by their fathers, brothers and husbands."
But many of those men were overseas now
and potentially ineligible to vote.
The Government contemplated changing the law on voting qualifications.
And the suffrage campaigners scented a chance
to press their case to include women.
The new Prime Minister was David Lloyd George.
He offered a more sympathetic ear to the campaigners -
no-one knew better what invaluable work they'd done in the factories.
Emmeline Pankhurst was pragmatic.
She urged him to speed the legislation and said,
"Whatever can be passed in war circumstances,
"we are ready to accept."
On the 19th of June 1917,
the Ladies' Gallery was packed with women
eager to hear the Commons debating a new bill -
The Representation of the People.
Even the most optimistic couldn't have predicted
the outcome of the vote.
55 against...
385 in favour.
The tide had finally turned.
The Representation of the People Act became law in 1918.
It granted the vote to women over 30 who were householders
or the wives of householders, or graduates.
The First World War had delivered a partial victory for Britain's women.
There's no escaping the fact that MPs saw
the vote for women as a prize rather than as a right.
As one woman put it,
"rather like a biscuit given to a performing dog
"that has just done its tricks particularly well".
The majority of the women who worked in the factories
were under 30 and not householders, so they remained without a vote.
One reminder of that tumultuous time is hidden away
in the basement of the Houses of Parliament.
A few weeks after the vote, the notorious grille
which had caged in women in the Ladies' Gallery was quietly removed.
Here's a section of it -
a symbol of the struggle by women to achieve their rights.
BELLS PEAL
Fighting officially ended across Western Europe
on 11th of November 1918.
For many women war workers, the celebrations were short-lived.
The government encouraged them to return to their traditional roles
as mothers and wives, relinquishing the independence tolerated
during the war.
A Ministry of Labour leaflet made clear the Government's position.
"A call comes again to the women of Britain,
"a call happily not to make shells
"but to help renew the homes of England, to sew and to mend,
"to cook and to clean
"and to rear babies in health and happiness."
But now women from all backgrounds had experienced
a taste of public life and held their own in the workplace.
Their own lives had become entwined with national events.
Having proved what they could do for the duration of the war,
they emerged to press the case that they always should do it
and continue the struggle for fairness and equality.
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Name Change For Cleveland Pressures Kansas City Chiefs Rebrand
There's no denying a progressive cultural shift across the U.S. and a very real change in what is acceptable for the mainstream American public discourse.
Like it or not, the legacy of the Kansas City Chiefs is now living on borrowed time and sooner or later the team will have to change names.
For the moment the team has stalled the decision by recruiting a litany of desperate tribes and po'folk willing to take cash in order to offer a tacit endorsement.
To be fair, policy changes at Arrowhead that discouraged fans from wearing mock native American garb represent REAL PROGRESS and most decent people, upon learning that the practice was offensive, complied graciously.
However . . .
Kansas City remains mired in the ridiculous debate over "the chop" wherein the newspaper attempts to garner the moral high ground against thousands of football fans who don't read.
It's easy to argue against mob mentality from a safe distance but the fact is that there is no ignoring the the chop or the intolerant legacy of the team's iconography as long as the team's moniker persists. Most objective corporate marketing experts would agree that, the old school Chiefs brand is a politically incorrect loser that will continue to depreciate over time.
Save this post and mark the date . . .
TKC PREDICTS THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS WILL CHANGE THEIR NAME SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!!!
Check the blog every hour on the hour to see if we're correct over the next decade.
Here's an apropos sign of the times to prove the point and a glimpse at inevitability . . .
Cleveland announces name change to Guardians
Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will next be called the Guardians. The ballclub announced the name change Friday with a video on Twitter narrated by actor Tom Hanks, ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos and names considered racist.


Wharfedale Dev XV 19 – 20 Keighley 2nd XV.
Wharfedale Development XV 74 -19 Bradford & Bingley 2nds.
The Foresters travelled to West Park Leeds on Saturday with a few squad changes due to first team call ups and other players returning from long term injury.
In what was a dry but testing afternoon due to a blustery cross wind, the Foresters started brightly with Jake Parkinson and the returning Anthony Oxley making good yards into the WPL defence. Despite this, the first score was around a quarter of an hour in coming. A good break by Ben Booth down the left hand side put Andrew Foulds in space to run in. 0-5.
The next score followed shortly afterwards from a scrum in the Foresters 22. Tommy Whyte picked from the base of the scrum, fed Ottolowski at scrum half, who in turn passed to Marcus Farnsworth. The full back then put Ben Parkinson away down the right, who beat the last defender and doubled the score 0-10.
Next a strong midfield break by J Parkinson and good handling skills offered enough space for a bullocking Simon Crabtree to touch down under the posts. This time Farnsworth was successful with the conversion, 0-17.
WPL then decided to start playing some rugby of their own. A period of sustained pressure in the Wharfedale 22 eventually saw the hosts crash over near the posts. The conversion was successful, 7-17.
The Foresters quickly responded. A good break by Foulds unfortunately ended with some loose handling and the scrambling WPL defence managed to clear their lines, but only as far as their 22. From the ensuing lineout a well organised rolling maul saw the Foresters pack rumble over the home line. Tom Baines was credited with the touchdown. Conversion successful, 7-24.
B Parkinson then became the beneficiary of some slick handling through the midfield enabling the winger to score his second out on the right. Again the tricky conversion was missed, 7-29.
The second half started and the game continued in a similar fashion. Foulds scoring the first try of the half, 7-34. Then the home side enjoyed their best period of the afternoon, threatening the Wharfedale line on several occasions with a sustained period of pressure, which if not for some good defensive work would have yielded more than the 1 try for WPL, 12-34.
Wharfedale responded with a great break by substitute winger Stevie Pearson which resulted in a penalty for the visitors. A quick tap was taken and crashing runs by J Parkinson and Jake Starkey then saw Baines cross the line for his second of the afternoon, 12-39.
Next, Booth broke clear of the WPL midfield and managed to evade the remaining defenders to finish off a fine individual try. Farnsworth successfully added the extras, 12-46. The Foresters now really had their tails up and were exploiting holes in the tiring WPL defence. Another break down the wing by Pearson who, under pressure, managed to offload to Whyte. The number 8 just having the legs to run clear of the remaining defenders and score under the posts, 12-53.
The final score of the afternoon was scored by Anthony Oxley who was put through a gap by Joel Bradley and charged over, scoring under the posts. Farnsworth then added his 5th conversion of the afternoon.
Tries: Foulds 2, B Parkinson 2, Baines 2, Crabtree, Booth, Whyte, Oxley.


European Union President Donald Tusk echoed rocker John Lennon's "Imagine" Thursday as he said he hoped Britain might still stay in the bloc.
Speaking ahead of an EU summit in Brussels where Prime Minister Theresa May was due to brief leaders on her Brexit plans, Tusk suggested the process could still be reversed.
"Some of my British friends have asked me whether Brexit could be reversed, and whether I could imagine an outcome where the UK stays part of the European Union," Tusk told reporters.
"I told them that in fact the European Union was built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve, so who knows?" the former Polish premier added.
Tusk's last line was a quote from "Imagine", the iconic 1971 ode to world peace by late former Beatle Lennon.
Britain stunned the EU when it voted to end its four-decade membership of the 28-nation bloc in a referendum a year ago on Friday.
But May's disastrous showing in elections on June 8 in which she lost her majority has sparked speculation that her Brexit plans may be watered down, or even reversed.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble both said last week that the "door was open" for Britain to remain in the EU.
At the summit May is due to unveil a "generous offer" to resolve EU concerns about the rights of three million European expats living in Britain after Brexit.
Tusk meanwhile insisted the remaining 27 members had a renewed sense of optimism about the bloc's future after years of crisis and mounting anti-EU sentiment culminating in the Brexit vote.
Despite it being his 80th summit as premier or EU head, "never before have I had such a strong belief that things are going in a better direction," he said.


text:
<?php
Class C_service extends CI_controller{

		public function service_register(){
			$html = base_url()."image_profile/".$_POST['username'].".png";
			$degrees = $_POST['rotate'];
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			$profile = $_POST['profile'];
		    $path = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/natkaset/image_profile/".$_POST['username'].".png";
			file_put_contents($path,base64_decode($profile));
			$this->rotate($path,$degrees);
			$data = array(
				'mem_first_name' => $_POST['firstname'],
				'mem_last_name' => $_POST['lastname'],
				'mem_user_name' => $_POST['username'],
				'mem_password' => $_POST['password'],
				'mem_email' => $_POST['email'],
				'mem_pic' => $html
			);
			$this->service->insert_register($data);
			$result_android['result'] = "true";
			echo json_encode($result_android);

		}//echo "true";

		public function check_username(){
			$username = $_POST['username'];
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			if($this->service->check_register($username)){
				$result_android['result'] = "false";
				echo json_encode($result_android);
			}
			else{
				$result_android['result'] = "true";
				echo json_encode($result_android);
			}
		}
		public function login(){
			$username = $_POST['username'];
			$password = $_POST['password'];
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			if($this->service->check_login($username,$password)){
				$result_android['result'] = "true";
				echo json_encode($result_android);
			}
			else{
				$result_android['result'] = "false";
				echo json_encode($result_android);
			}

		}

		public function load_profile(){
			$username = $_POST['username'];
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			$result_android['result'] = $this->service->load_profile_pic($username);
			echo json_encode($result_android);
		}

		public function rotate($path,$degrees){
			header('Content-type: image/png');
			$source = imagecreatefrompng($path);
			$rotate = imagerotate($source,$degrees,0);
			imagepng($rotate,$path);
		}

		public function create_topic(){
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');

			$lagitude = $_POST['latitude'];
			$longitude = $_POST['longitude'];
			$name_topic = $_POST['name_topic'];
			$detail_item  = $_POST['detail_item'];
			$price = $_POST['price'];
			$category_item = $_POST['category_item'];
			$promotion = $_POST['promotion'];
			$category_sell = $_POST['category_sell'];
			$cover_topic = $_POST['cover_topic'];
			$pic_topic = $_POST['pic_topic'];
			$username = $_POST['username'];

			$username = $this->service->query_pkuser($username);
			if(!$promotion == " "){
				$promotion = null;
			}//ในกรณีที่เป็นค่าวาง ให้เปลี่ยน null
			$create_topic = array(
				'sel_topic' => $name_topic,
				'sel_explain' => $detail_item,
				'sel_time_create' => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),
				'sel_price'=> $price,
				'sel_promotion' => $promotion,
				'sel_longitude' => $longitude,
				'sel_lagitude' => $lagitude,
				'sel_pic' => $this->write_pic($pic_topic[$cover_topic - 1],$username[0]['mem_id']),
				'mem_id' => $username[0]['mem_id']
			); //ใส่ค่าทั้งหมดลงแล้ว insert DB
			$sel_id = $this->service->insert_create_topic($create_topic,$username[0]['mem_id']);
			$cover_topic = $cover_topic - 1 ;
			for($i = 0;$i<count($pic_topic);++$i){
				if($i != $cover_topic){
					$this->write_pic($pic_topic[$i],$username[0]['mem_id']);
				}
			}
			$result_android['result'] = "true";
			echo json_encode($result_android);
		}

		public function write_pic($pic_topic,$username){
			$path = "image_topic/".date("Ymd")."_".uniqid(date("Hms"))."_".$username.".png";
			file_put_contents($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/natkaset/".$path,base64_decode($pic_topic));
			return  base_url()."/".$path;
		}//ไว้อัพโหลดรูป

		public function sell(){
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			if($this->service->query_sell()){
				$result_android['result'] = $this->service->query_sell();
				echo json_encode($result_android);
				echo count($result_android);
			}else{
				$result_android['result'] = "false";
				echo json_encode($result_android);
			}
		}//เอารายการขายที่ใหม่ที่สุดขึ้นก่อน
		public function direction(){
			$this->load->model('M_service','service');
			$lagitude = 14.0779242 ;//$_POST['latitude'];
			$longitude = 100.6014648; //$_POST['longitude'];
			$result_android['result'] = $this->service->query_sell();
			for($i=0;$i<count($result_android['result']);$i++){
				$url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=".$lagitude.",".$longitude.
				"&destinations=".$result_android['result'][$i]['sel_lagitude'].",".$result_android['result'][$i]['sel_longitude']."&mode=driving&language=th";
				$jsonfile = file_get_contents($url);
				$jsondata = json_decode($jsonfile);
				$result_android['direction'][$i] =  $jsondata->rows[0]->elements[0]->distance->text ."<br>";
			}

			/*$url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins='".$lagitude."','".$longitude."'&destinations=19.9164122,99.7994852&mode=driving&language=th";
			$jsonfile = file_get_contents($url);
			$jsondata = json_decode($jsonfile);*/
			/*echo "<pre>";
			print_r($jsondata);
			echo $jsondata->rows[0]->elements[0]->distance->text;*/
		}// เอาระยะทางที่ใกล้ที่สุดขึ้นก่อน

	}
?>


text:
module Normalizr
  class Configuration
    attr_accessor :default_normalizers

    def normalizers
      @normalizers ||= {}
    end

    def normalizer_names
      normalizers.keys
    end

    def default(*normalizers)
      self.default_normalizers = normalizers
    end

    def add(name, &block)
      unless block_given?
        raise ArgumentError, '#add must be called with a block'
      end

      normalizers[name] = block
    end
  end
end


As the Joomla! project has already announced the Joomla! 2.5 release branch is becoming end-of-life with the final release of Joomla! 2.5.28 on December 10th, 2014. After that date Joomla! 2.5 will no longer receive any updates. This means that no bugs or security issues will be fixed. Joomla! 2.5 will be unfit for use on live sites.
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If you have a version of our software released before June 2014 or if you're reading this article after January 10th, 2015 you will need to take some steps to disable our software before upgrading your site.
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Take a backup of your old site (e.g. Joomla! 1.x, 2.5, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2) using Akeeba Backup.
Download the backup archive to your computer using FTP in binary transfer mode. Keep additional copies of the backup archive in separate locations such as USB flash drive, network attached storage (NAS), an on-line storage service (e.g. Dropbox, Box, SugarSync, ...), optical media (CD/DVD) etc. Keep multiple copies. It's best to be safe than sorry.
Restore your backup archive on your local server, using Kickstart to extract it.
Perform the migration to Joomla! 3 per the documentation of the third party Joomla! migration component you chose to use.
Make sure your migrated site performs correctly.
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Triple check that you DO have copies of the backups of your site, before and after the migration. Then check again. If things go awry you'll definitely need those backups!
Remove all files and folders and database tables from your live server.
Restore the backup of the migrated Joomla! 3 site to your live server.
Make sure your site works properly.
If the site doesn't work properly, repeat steps 8 through 10 using the backup of your original site (before the migration). Now you see why we're so paranoid on having multiple copies of your backups.
We have used this process multiple times in the past when migrating our own site from Joomla! 1.5 to 2.5, from 2.5 to 3.2 (upgrading it to 3.3 was a mere one-click update!) and when transferring our site between hosts. Please remember that the more time you spend planning your steps the less time your site will be off-line.


A "peoples" tribunal, modeled after an examination of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam, is exploring Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians. Meeting in New York City, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine sometimes was legalistic but addressed frequently ignored issues, says Danny Schechter.
The needs and concerns of the Palestinian people are not in the news much in the United States, even though the issues have been around for decades in New York City, which hosts the United Nations.
There have been many detailed studies of media coverage that prove that the U.S. media rarely covers Palestinian concerns or features Palestinian perspectives in talk shows or news programs unless and until violence erupts.
Criticisms of Israeli behavior raised by foreign leaders are also largely ignored unless they are cast as controversies about noisy and sometimes invented allegations of anti-Semitism, rather than any exploration of the underlying issues of international law violations and apartheid-like abuses in the territories occupied by Israel.
Advocates of Palestinian rights and critics of violations of international law seek, often without much success, to call attention to oppressive realities on the ground but not just in an ideological debate. They want to change a U.S. policy that often marches in lockstep with Israel, in part, because of the power of the Israeli Lobby and regional military calculations.
One of the more visible organizations trying to fill the gap is the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an "international peoples" tribunal modeled on the initiative by the late British philosopher, Lord Bertrand Russell, an esteemed lecturer, author and moral leader who first created the Tribunal concept in the 1960s to feature well-known intellectuals to expose war crimes in Vietnam.
I covered that event when it took place in Stockholm with a jury made up of the likes of Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Swedish playwright Peter Weiss and American anti-war activist David Dellinger among other cultural and political luminaries.
It drew global attention and denunciations by the U.S. government and media when Vietnamese witnesses testified about the chemical defoliation of their country, and systematic and often deadly human rights abuses.
I remember American TV correspondent Morley Safer doing a "stand-up" after one session when the audience had left denouncing the Tribunal's allegations of U.S. war crimes and dismissing the Tribunal as nothing but communist propaganda.
Thirty years later, his own news magazine, "60 Minutes," carried reports confirming that there were indeed brutal atrocities being committed in places like My Lai where American soldiers slaughtered innocent civilians including many children. Had Safer not been so eager to discredit Vietnamese experiences back then, something might have been done about the abuses or at least made them known.
It met this past weekend in The Great Hall of Cooper Union where President Abraham Lincoln debated his political adversary in 1860 just as the momentum toward the Civil War was building steam.
The packed event in New York followed earlier sessions in Barcelona (focused on EU complicity), London (on corporate complicity), and in Cape Town likening Israeli policies to apartheid-era crimes in South Africa.
South African supporters of Israel mounted an angry protest that drew major media attention. Perhaps that's why the often vociferous pro-Israel lobby in New York stayed away this time, hoping the Tribunal and its findings would be ignored. Perhaps, their members were exhausted by days of screaming at the United Nations.
The jury this time included former South African Intelligence Minister and Liberation movement leader Ronnie Kasrils; South African lawyer John Dugard; writer Alice Walker, activist Angela Davis and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney as well as luminaries from Europe like 94-year-old peace proponent Stephane Hessel and Native American leader Dennis Banks.
On the first day of the two-day session, the jury heard testimony from Israeli historian Ilan Pappe on the origins of Zionism and its commitment to expel Palestinians before the State of Israel was even born.
There were many legal experts on the role of the UN in providing help to Palestinian refugees but rarely defending Palestinian rights. Speaker after speaker denounced the UN for going through the motions and abandoning its mandate because of Israeli and US pressure.
One speaker said the UN had become a "cruel joke" when it came to fulfilling its obligations to Palestinians over the decades.
The audience was cautioned not to applaud and so the whole event tended to be passionless, academic and legalistic. There were long lectures on legal precedents that the lawyers in the room might have appreciated but put some people around me to sleep.
On Sunday, there were more details of Israel's history of subjugating Palestinians, evicting them from their villages and then destroying their houses, as if to wipe out any evidence of their existence.
There were presentations on crimes like "ethnic cleansing" and blatant discrimination, a denial of rights and illegal restrictions to criminalize the population and wipe out its identity as a majority group which was turned into a minority in a colonized environment.
In the afternoon, there was what was described as a "library of anguish," droning presentations by international lawyers making a case of the need for the international community to oppose a disgraceful military occupation, which finally culminated in a lively debate.
The lone Palestinian "witness," Saleh Hamayel, argued that the situation has to be reframed because it is unique, not quite genocide nor an analogue of apartheid because the whole of Palestinian society is being destroyed intentionally. He offered the concept of "sociocide" as worthy of being considered a crime.
Others disagreed, noting that apartheid is already considered a crime against humanity that can be used as a basis for international action. There was a heated back and forth with most agreeing that both concepts could be invoked even though only one enjoys the support of international law.
One issue I missed: The corruption and collusion of the Palestine Authority with U.S. and Israeli negotiators. See Clayon E. Swisher's revealing book, The Palestine Papers for documentation of the story he broke on AlJazeera.
Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, flew in to express solidarity with Palestinians and criticize the silence of American unions on the issue. Citing Martin Luther King Jr., Vavi blasted the "roaring silence" of U.S. trade unions.
South Africa has an active BDS movement regarding Israel calling for Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions which is spreading worldwide. This past week, BDS billboards went up alongside South African highways. Leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have endorsed the campaign.
What was impressive was that many young people from activist groups and college campuses, many of Middle East backgrounds, turned up. They seemed to appreciate the "teach-in" orientation of the speakers who crammed their presentations with facts and context turning the event into more of a course than a political rally.
Personally I would have liked a more colorful and energetic style to inspire the public to get more involved on the issues. More interaction between the jurors and the audience would have been helpful to challenge what, at times, felt like a one-way old-fashioned format.
There were many cameras from alternative media, groups like Deep Dish TV, but not the mainstream media, although I did run into one cocky journalist from Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal who was clearly there to "expose" the Tribunal.
I had a short exchange with him. He criticized the event for only having one point of view although the speakers varied in their approaches. He introduced himself as an Iranian-American after denouncing Iran as anti-Semitic for criticizing Israel.
"It's so one-sided," he said repeatedly about the Tribunal, which was strange coming from a member of the Journal's opinion page, known for being overwhelmingly on the Right and as one-sided as they come.
At the Tribunal, there was a lot revealed about Palestine and the $4.5 billion in U.S. support annually for Israel. It is information the American people need to know. Yet, American politicians and media continue to ignore one of the most pressing moral issues of our times. Increasingly, they are not even paying lip service.
So The Russell Tribunal should hustle to create hearing for an event that has been going on for about a year just as it has assembled a hearing for something that has been ongoing to over 60 years?
And you Israel apologists preach about "moral equivalence" LOL….
So Borat, what does this have to do with the Palestinians? Surely you cannot be such a bigot that you think every Moslem everywhere is guilty of the crimes committed by any Moslem anywhere? Or would you LOL….
Borat has no facts to refute the arguments presented so he spews hate.
Asskissers do not like to be invited by a boron like you to tell them what they should read.
You don't even have diplomacy. You need to control your temper and make sense, if you can. Otherwise you will not get your point across. Can't you tell that your audience is not listening to you vecause of the way you represent yourself?
Anytime your "people" are critizised you whine: "antisesmetic", not even understanding what it means. You are ONE with ARABS… dont't you understand? You are the same!YOU and THEY are SEMITES!Same race. Don't fool yourself, but you have strayed from the straight path.
You certainly don't further your cause by you whining. I thought it was required that you educate yourself to represent the opinions of your folks. But I hear nothing but silly opinions from you. Demonstrate why you think the criticism is undeserved, and tell us what good people you are base on your good deeds or inventions??
The whole world dislikes you and your "people" because you are vultures,… but you don't realize it because you think you are special.
You are nobodies, because all your "knowledge" originated in other countries.
I am not reading your comments again, ever.
Seems you are "at it" again. Why don't you go somewhere else? This site is not for you, boring rat.
You are not contributing anything except BS.
You are always on the lookout to discredit anything legitimitely critizing Israel. You are a bore. good name for you "borat _Boring rat".
Good to see Consortiumnews reporting this even. I believe the MSM have been ordered to ignore it, unless it's to ridicule it.
No one on these boards believes all Muslims are angels, but individual killings do not correlate with Israel's national policy, which has an inhumane impact on an entire people. A significant percentage of Israelis, who clearly are not anti-semitic, want to make peace with the Palestinians. The US could work things out if it had the courage or foresight, but it does not. Everyone knows what has to be done. Israel back to the 67 borders, and If it took American troops on Israeli soil to be peace keepers and put those in Israel with a Massada complex at ease, so be it. And no, they would not be there to convert Jews to Christianity. Soldiers are not evangelists. I am all for Israel within the legal limits set by the UN and agreed to by every other nation on earth. As of now, Israel is marching toward eventual collapse, and a Romney presidency may have the opposite effect of his stated support of Israel. I am not a Christian zionist nut using the Jews for the return of Christ. In fact, I find it most ironic that our persecution of Jews led to the creation of the Jewish nation in the first place. Had we treated you with decency, you would have been happy in the diaspora. Certainly, Jews in America are not streaming to Israel.
Please consortium remove this boring lying rat from your interesting comments by humans.
I am not defending crime.
However the tribunal appears to be completely one sided.
but tribunals should not be one sided.
I see nowhere in the article a where the tribunal offered a rebuttal or defense of Israeli policy vis a vis the Palestinians.
Whenever an apologist acuses somebody of beeing atisemite , You can bet he ran out of inteligent remarks.
Really important point, you boron.
I remember being an Appalachian poor kid thrown, by virtue of fate, into a school system full of city-slicker kids. One day, a "science" discussion came up about differences between male and female animals. Some kid said, "Bulls have horns, but cows don't, because they're female". Having milked more than one cow with horns, I tried to point out that this student was incorrect. Not only did the rest of the class make fun of me, but the teacher sided with the kid who was wrong. This is typical of our society. We are a moronic, brainwashed, illiterate, pompous, opinionated bunch of dolts with beliefs entirely controlled by the corporate machine. I learned at an early age that the "truth" in this society is a matter of consensus. It is manufactured, and nobody thinks. We endure the fundamental flaw of Democracy: the tyranny of a misinformed, willfully ignorant majority. Sooner or later, every society that chooses rhetoric over reality pays the price. Those who support Israeli apartheid will eventually be regarded as what they are: racist ideologues who promote bronze-age mythology over reason and rationality. The same is true of the terrorists who resort to violence in support of the Palestinian cause. Both sides are archaic, despicable and unworthy of membership in modern society. But as one of the few American citizens alive today who actually knows how to milk a cow by hand, I can't help but think that the far more evil and insidious side of this dispute is represented by the city-slicker Israelis.
I agree with all your posts.
Wonderful post and so true !
Great examples of mass ignorance at its malevolent best can be found in Michael Lewis' books on the recent (latest) Wall Street fiasco ("Liar's Poker" and "The Big Short"). Tells the inside story of how the world's economy came to the point of complete destruction because of the mass idiocy of the big Wall Street financial firms. Reading these books you cannot help but be impressed at how extraordinarily stupid these people were.


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Report: Packers, C Saturday agree to deal
gmjones2001
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=sportsxchange-000618031_report-packers-c-saturday-agree-to-deal
mray
Bummer....
BrOnCoMaNiAc53
not great news... but now we get more money to throw at young players who will be here longer than a year... not very disappointed by this
^^ Thnx CHARGER$ for the awesome sig.
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Wow, .. damn this REALLY stings ...Walton sucks bad and I can see PM hating him quickly after he messes up a lot
What the hell Jeff?
jonathanrivers
Maybe Jeff is still mad over Peyton's rant a few years ago.
badaxe
Saturday....long in the tooth & wants to compete in the Super Bowl again.
Selects GB over DEN after we sign Manning.
Very interesting. I'm ok with it though. I prefer the youth movement anyway.
japfaff
USMCgrunt
This sucks.....walton has no idea what call to make....but i think that Manning will handle the line calls.....
Thanx Blondie79 for the sweet Sig....Love it and I will rock it with pridesigpic
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Jeff Saturday's two-year deal in Green Bay is worth $7.75 million, including $4 million this season.
Seems rich for his last couple of years doesn't it?
Probably why we skipped him.
Where is this season going?
LABroncosFan18
I really thought we were gonna get him. Business is business.
I'm glad we didn't. The OL is very young and have tons of potential. We could be looking at the best OL in the NFL this season. I have faith that Walton and Manning will work very well, Clady will return to his All-Pro form, Beadles and Cooper will be as solid as ever and Franklin will play like a man possessed. We can always add depth, but that starting 5 is as good as any OL in the NFL. No need to break the great chemistry those guys have.
Chillez
Bummer. Walton is backup center at best not a starter. Would love have Jeff Saturday oh well....
MarkB
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Once Jeff Saturday agreed to a deal with the Green Bay Packers last week, he knew the next thing on his to-do list was to make a possibly uncomfortable phone call.
Peyton Manning, his teammate in Indianapolis for the entirety of his NFL career, pushed hard for Saturday to join him on the Denver Broncos, and Saturday knew a displeased Manning would be waiting for him on the other end of that phone call.
"Peyton is a close friend and I loved playing with him," Saturday told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I loved the time we spent together. It was the most difficult call I've ever made. I told him before anyone else that I was going to Green Bay.
"I told him I don't think the Broncos wanted me as much as he did. They've got things going on that they're happy with and are moving forward with and I didn't think it was an exact fit. I always felt like in Green Bay I was their very first choice."
Saturday, 36, has started 188 regular-season games in 13 NFL seasons, all with the Colts, and he told the Journal Sentinel that he feels he can provide the Packers with a veteran presence on the offensive line.
"They have a great offensive line and some really good, young players," said Saturday, whose two-year deal reportedly is worth several millions of dollars less per year than the four-year, $26-million deal ex-Packers center Scott Wells signed with the St. Louis Rams. "They won 15 games last year; it's not like I have to add a lot to it. But I think I can offer leadership, and being a veteran I can help the offensive line blossom into players they want to be."
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Jeff Saturday says he "felt more wanted by the Packers". Translation: more guaranteed money. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Way to try n already get in between the broncos n manning Jeff
You suck, peace...
Unfortunately Walton is even worse...
What could possibly give you that inclination? ...Walton sucks bad ...really bad, tips the snap count ..is tiny for a lineman, soft ...doesn't move the DT's off the line at all
Walton flat out sucks....almost as bad a pick as Knowshon by McGoofy


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The Playoffs Are In View; Beat the Lakers
By David_A_Arnott Mar 31, 2009, 11:51am EDT
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The Official Girlfriend of Rufus on Fire really likes Adam Morrison. Really likes him. To the point that I'm a little afraid to remind her that he'll be back in town on the Lakers bench tonight.
Her basketball IQ isn't what we'd call genius level, but she knows enough to talk fluently about which guys are generally better than others, and she knew Morrison wasn't playing well enough to warrant regular playing time.
But that doesn't matter. To play amateur psychologist, she's a grade school teacher, so I think those caring instincts kicked in when it came to AmMo. He was appealing, the way he grew his hair into an ugly long mess. The way he buzzed it down like a teenager eager to please. The way he tried his damndest, and then wore a wounded expression when the game got away from him.
It all came to a peak for the Official GF when we sat behind the scorer's table for a game back in the early part of the season. The Bobcats throw t-shirts into the crowd when they run out onto the floor for pregame layup lines, and she mentioned that it would be uber-kewl if Adam Morrison threw a t-shirt to her. So, of course, out come the Cats, and she stands up, screaming "Adam! Adam! Adaaaaaaaaaaaaam!" He looks up, a little bemused, a little frightened, points to her, and tosses the balled up shirt.
I'm sure if you're reading this, you're likely at least somewhat invested in the Charlotte Bobcats making the playoffs. But your reason for wanting that outcome is not the only one. Maybe you see NBA games as a big costume party. Maybe you don't care for the Bobcats, particularly, but you like seeing high quality basketball. Maybe you're in this thing for Charlotte pride, and somewhere deep inside you believe that making the NBA Finals would be another step to making the city Big League, after the Carolina Panthers playing in the Super Bowl.
The Official GF is in it partly because it's something for us to share, but mainly because it's a concrete example of people working, striving, and succeeding or failing. Adam Morrison was a cog in that machine, and he was failing. It was painful for me because he was making the machine sputter, but it was painful for her mostly because a clearly bright young dude was, himself, in pain.
There isn't much I can add about the Lakers that hasn't been said already. They're a devastating group of guys who can cut apart their opponents in a variety of ways. The Cavaliers will be able to match their sheer skill and breadth of abilities, but they're probably the only team in the league that can do that.
At least Charlotte matches up reasonably well. Kobe and Raja are old nemeses.
They still haven't handed the keys to Jordan Farmar, so Derek Fisher is starting. He's not much of a penetrator, so he won't cause too much of an issue for Raymond. Ariza starts at the three and is wildly athletic, but isn't that exactly how we describe Gerald? Odom, at the four, is a souped up version of Diaw. And Emeka might have trouble with Pau to the extent that Gasol draws Okafor off the block and runs the floor. Okafor's a great banger, but he's made huge strides to develop a fifteen foot game this year and has also gotten a lot better at defending farther from the basket.
The Bobcats' biggest challenge will be dealing with the Lakers' reserves. Farmar, Luke Walton, Sasha Vujacic, Josh Powell, and even DJ Mbenga, provide a deep well of reserves for Phil Jackson to draw upon. And if the Zen Master wants to push the tempo even higher, he's got old friend Shannon Brown to strap on the flubber shoes.
Really, AmMo's the odd man out, the guy who's role in the rotation is "Lets Vujacic have a blow".
I mean, we could play the starters 45 minutes each and take our chances with a gassed roster tomorrow night against a hobbling Celtics squad. If you play every game in a vaccuum without regard for tomorrow, that's the strategy, with Augustin subbed in a bit more liberally for Felton.
In practice, though, we'll likely see the same tight eight man rotation we've seen the past few weeks: Augustin and RadMan will get their set minutes, Diop will spell Okafor, with opportunity for more burn if he plays well on D. No one else will sniff the floor, unless it's garbage time and the crowd can cheer Sean May--half of them sarcastically in response to two wasted seasons, half of them sincerely in the belief that every Tar Heel deserves cheers.
Cartier Martin, Juwan Howard, and Nazr Mohammed? Get ready for the Celtics. We'll need you for spot duty tomorrow.
When will Dontell Jefferson play? Isn't this a prime opportunity to activate him? We're not going to need Mohammed against a team that's relatively thin at center, so activate the guy with a reputation for excellent on ball perimeter defense.
Hornets are expected to be sellers at the trade deadline Terry Rozier and Kelly Oubre are garnering the most interest across the league.
2023 NBA Draft prospects for Hornets fans to keep an eye on Draft season is upon us!