I've spent my entire life hearing stories about Jerusalem and the beauty of my homeland from my mother and grandparents. I had always dreamed of one day being able to visit, and in the summer of 2012 it seemed that I would finally have that opportunity. In September of that year I started my travels with 30 peers on a student diplomatic trip through the Middle East. I knew that I would likely face some trouble at the Israeli borders due to my Palestinian background, however what I experienced turned out to be far more than just a little "trouble".
"The Olive Tree Initiative" in Amman, Jordan with His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan bin Talaal of Jordan.
On September 13th, 30 of my peers and myself, made our way from Amman, Jordan to the Jordan River Crossing, the international border between Israel and Jordan. We lined up single file to go through baggage check, and have our passports checked by a young soldier who couldn't be over the age of 25. I watched as several of my peers handed their bags and passports over and were quickly moved along. There seemed to be no trouble. As I approached the soldier and handed him my own passport, he read my name and automatically asked me to step aside. I obliged, wondering and worrying why I hadn't been let through as easily as my friends who I could now see collecting their luggage and heading back to the bus. I waited patiently as I watched my passport be handed around from soldier to soldier, each reading my name out loud then conversing among each other in Hebrew.
Eventually one of the soldiers took my passport to the back and handed it to a young lady behind a glass window. I watched her inspect the passport and vigorously type my information into the computer screen in front of her. After about 35 minutes of her "research" on me, she called me over to her window, and proceeded to question me.
"My father is Egyptian, and my mother is Palestinian" I noticed her smirk when I said the word Palestinian.
In just a few simple words it seemed that she had stripped me of my entire identity, erased my history, and labeled me as less than. I had never felt such anger in my life.
Devastated that I might not be able to continue my travels with my peers, it was decided that I would take a taxi an hour away to the Allenby Border Crossing and attempt to enter Israel from there. All 30 of my peers, all American citizen, UC students, just like me, had all gotten through already, but because my mother possesses a Palestinian ID, I was being denied entry into my own homeland. I was beginning to see the blatant racism that my mother had tried to warn me about unravel in front of me. Israel's goal is for every Palestinian to denounce their Palestinian ID, therefore giving up their right to ever return to live in Palestine. I felt a surge of pride that my mother had refused to do so, despite the fact that it was hindering not only her own, but also, my ability to see my homeland. I knew that it was one of the strongest forms of resistance she could take.
I headed to the waiting area, and spent the next 3 hours sitting and watching my passport be handed back and forth between soldiers and employees. Every so often I would be called aside and questioned about the reasoning for my visit and my family. Finally another young female soldier holding my passport, called out my name, and I replied. She asked me to follow her, so I did. I assumed I would be questioned for what seemed like the 100th time that day. She led me through the building and out sliding glass doors in the back. As we kept walking, I wondered where she was taking me, but again assumed I was simply being led to another building for further questioning. Finally, she stopped in front of a bus, and simply handed the bus driver my passport and said, "Return her". I automatically panicked.
I sprinted back to where I had left the 3 members from my group that were with me and that is where I ultimately broke down. Here I was a mere minutes from the cities where my mother spent her youth, the land that I have always considered home, and a series of young men and women barely older than me were in control of whether I was to be allowed entry or not. The only difference between myself and my 30 peers, who had already gained entry, was that I was born to a Palestinian mother, and because of this, Israel would continue to deny me entry to my homeland until my mother has denounced her ID.
Between sobbing, I quickly explained what had happened to the 3 members I was with, as I saw the young female soldier walk back into the building behind me. She didn't dare say anything to me in front of my group. She knew that her intimidation attempts would stand no chance now that she didn't have me secluded. I had now been attempting entry into Israel for ten hours, and I was exhausted. I couldn't stand one more soldier who was practically my age telling me that I was not allowed entry into Israel. Just the idea that these youth were controlling these borders made me sick, I could see the perpetuation of this brutal occupation first hand and I was disgusted.
I watched the female take my passport and place a huge stamp on an inside page. I now had a mark on my passport that would let everyone know I was of Palestinian descent. This stamp was only made up of 9 digits, the 9 digits of my mother's Palestinian ID. It no longer mattered that I was an American citizen, UC student on a student diplomatic trip with 30 of my peers. Instead, these 9 digits were the only thing that defined me in Israel. These 9 digits had become my only identity.
I finally had my passport handed back to me and was once again told that I would not be allowed entry into Israel. Despite all my efforts, my background was going to keep me visiting my homeland. Somehow the same young men and women who I could have been in school with had my mother stayed in Jerusalem and raised me there, were the ones to deny me entry. The saddest part to me is that I know my experience is only a very minor example of the challenges that Palestinians face on a daily basis. When their identity and culture is not being actively erased from history and denied, it's being used against them perpetuating the inequality and injustice that the occupation brings about.
Finally, after many more hours of pleading and reaching out to as many connections as possible, I was eventually able to gain entry into the West Bank. However I was still denied entry into Israel, and the 9 digit stamp in my passport would make sure of this at every checkpoint.
My only hope from all of this is that my story will encourage people to ask questions and to learn more about the Palestinian struggle. We need to start by educating ourselves and as many people around us as possible.
Yara Karmalawy has a B.A. in Political Science and Legal Studies with a focus on the Middle East from UC Santa Cruz. She is currently pursuing an international law degree.
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So eventually she was allowed entry into the west bank.
Which can be argued as ok since it is not sovereign Israel even though the borders are.
Regarding entry in to Israel proper she has no rights to it and the state does not have to explain anything to her just like Us border control can deny me entry at will without stating a reason.
I would like to hear more of this how did we come from gun pointing an telling you to get on a bus to ok lets let you in anyway.
I would looe to hear how did that happen.
Because right now it sounds like lots of words about nothing.
could you link to a source for those sovereign israeli borders please.
@ OlegR "…the west bank.
Why do you keep ignoring facts while continuing to post absolute nonsense?
When it comes time to pay the debt that Israel owes to the Palestinians, I hope that you are treated a lot better than Palestinians are currently treated by Israel. Because even though you are an ethno-religious supremacist, even you don't deserve to be treated like you treat them.
Then try talking to people of Palestinian background who try to enter. Or many non Palestinians whom Israel suspects of being sympathetic to the Palestinian people. It's very common. A friend of mine, Australian born to Palestinian parents, attempts to visit the WB every few years in order to work with a well known international charity. Sometimes he is denied entry, sometimes he is granted entry with relative ease and others after long periods of delay, intimidation, interrogation and yes harrasment and abuse from gun toting children in Israeli uniforms. The only constant is the harassment, the actual rules and decisions change by the minute and depend on the whims of whichever official you speak to at any given point.
My own experience, as a white girl with UK/Australian passports hasn't been too dissimilar. During the endless hours spent at both Allenby and Erez I have been questioned and re-questioned, been told I'm refused and then approved in the space of minutes, been told to leave my passport with officials and go and get food because the wait will be long and then screamed at because I left, been ordered to wait in a specific place then had guns pointed at me because I shouldn't be standing there.
As a Jewish citizen of Israel with no history of supporting Palestinian rights in any way, I've no doubt your experience crossing borders controlled by Israel is a breeze. Speak to anyone outside your delusional zio-bubble and you'll hear plenty of stories like Yara's.
A No Comment button should be next to the Post Comment one.
It would take all my strength not to knock that douchebag out right then and there.
You are welcome to try Cliff.
Though i wouldn't reccomend it, might be unhealthy.
I'm sure I'd be fine, Oleg.
You're welcome to visit me in the States. Try acting like an IDF soldier here and see where that gets you.
So the nation of Palestine *has* been annihilated, according to these young IOF mob goons. And we are left with Israel playing the negotiation game until it can get this fait accompli internationally recognized, and the remaining "foreign infiltrators" walled up in bantustans.
It's still there. The bureaucracy is a response to their fear of what they did in 1948.
And a young American whose Mom has a Palestinian ID is denied her personhood, her heritage, her right of a simple visit.
And the Israeli female tells her that she doesn't exist, but denies her entry anyway. And then a gun is pointed at her, and the "goon" behind it tells her to "get back on the bus".
It was a "student diplomatic trip" — anyone need reminders that Israel has no respect for diplomacy??
Palestine isn't your homeland – it's your mother's and grandparents' homeland.
That said, the way you were treated by Zio-supremacists during your attempted visit to the supremacist "Jewish State" is utterly shameful but, unfortunately, not surprising.
ejay, I too reject the racist idea that blood creates someone's homeland. If it did I, for example, would have three or four more than the one that is mine. But neither does birthplace. The U. S. is my homeland because I choose to live here, identify myself the way I do and take part in its life. If Yara Karmalawy wishes to consider Palestine her homeland, and she doesn't violate anyone's rights by doing so, then there is no reason to claim that Palestine is not her homeland.
>> If Yara Karmalawy wishes to consider Palestine her homeland, and she doesn't violate anyone's rights by doing so, then there is no reason to claim that Palestine is not her homeland.
I agree that as long as she doesn't violate anyone's rights OR expect to be granted any of the rights or privileges enjoyed by people whose actual homeland is Palestine, she can pretend all she wants that Palestine is her homeland.
And while that doesn't and won't make it her homeland, it does strike me as a bit of a slap to the face to her actual homeland – the country in which she was born and raised and in which she continues to reside.
But given the appalling treatment she has just been subjected to, it will probably take a little while for her regain clarity about the subject.
I was going to say the same thing, John. It isn't up to Eljay what someone considers his or her homeland. What counts is behavior — whether you violate anyone else's rights to claim that homeland. All she's trying to do is claim the rights that are afforded to her and her family under international law, but are denied her by a lawless regime that takes what it wants by force.
>> It isn't up to Eljay what someone considers his or her homeland.
She's completely free to consider Palestine as her homeland, just as Jewish American citizens are completely free to consider Israel as their homeland, and just as I – a first-generation Canadian – am completely free to consider Italy and Croatia as my homelands.
The fact remains that Palestine isn't her homeland any more than Israel is theirs or Italy and Croatia are mine.
And the reason that Palestine isn't her homeland (using the narrow sense of homeland as where she was born) is because her mother was ethnically cleansed from Palestine by the Israeli government and not allowed to return.
Ironically, the Israeli government admits that Palestine is her homeland by citing the fact that they have given her a Palestinian ID. Israel controls the Palestinian ID registry. If they considered her simply an American, they would have let her enter Israel just as they allowed all the other UC students on the tour. She was denied permission exactly because Palestine was her homeland.
>> And the reason that Palestine isn't her homeland … is because her mother was ethnically cleansed from Palestine by the Israeli government and not allowed to return.
I agree. And that's unfortunate. But it doesn't change any facts.
>> She was denied permission exactly because Palestine was her homeland.
– of Palestinian descent and from some other country (which she is).
And just to be clear, I did and do condemn Israel's policy and the fact that it rendered her unable to visit Israel and occupied Jerusalem.
Exactly, tree. Well said. The "irony" is irrefutable and damning. It's unclear from the article, but the phrasing suggests that Ms. Karmalawy too had a number. If she didn't then, she does now. Just wow!
And that's unfortunate. But it doesn't change any facts.
Yes, it does. Her mother was ethnically cleansed from I/P. Because of that Yara has been denied the right to choose to live in her (and her mother's and her grandparents) homeland and where she would have most likely been born if not for Israel's ethnic cleansing. To deny her the right to consider Palestine her homeland when neither she nor her mother chose of their own accord, without outside pressure, to leave there, is tantamount to condoning and justifying a virtual expulsion.
>> To deny her the right to consider Palestine her homeland … is tantamount to condoning and justifying a virtual expulsion.
I did not deny her the right to consider Palestine her homeland. (It's not a right I have any power either to grant or deny.) I just pointed out that it's not her homeland. That was a statement of fact, not a statement condoning ethnic cleansing.
I just pointed out that it's not her homeland.
She was denied the right, by Israel, as was her mother, to chose Palestine as her homeland. Until she is granted the right to chose, if she wishes, the homeland she is currently denied, and chooses freely to live elsewhere, then it is condoning Israel's actions to insist that it is "not her homeland". At this point it is only "not her homeland" because Israel denies her the choice to live there, and you are agreeing with that.
I'm not really sure what a "homeland" is supposed to be, but if it isn't the land of the home you live in, what can it be?
I was born in Britain, but my home is in Australia. That makes Australia my homeland.
And it would seem that Ms. Karmalawy's home is in the USA.
>> She was denied the right, by Israel, as was her mother, to chose Palestine as her homeland.
>> Until she is granted the right to chose, if she wishes, the homeland she is currently denied, and chooses freely to live elsewhere, then it is condoning Israel's actions to insist that it is "not her homeland".
No, it's not. Until she is granted the right to choose, the fact remains that her homeland is not the place she would like it to be. It's the place she was born and raised in, and in which she resides.
>> At this point it is only "not her homeland" because Israel denies her the choice to live there, and you are agreeing with that.
Well, sure. It can't be her homeland if she wasn't born there and doesn't reside there.
But you seem to be confusing this statement of fact with some sort of approval for how Israel operates. I don't approve of it at all.
And if at some point she is permitted to immigrate to and settle in Israel or Palestine and she chooses to do so, Israel or Palestine can become her homeland. No argument from me.
I adhere to the looser definition, best summarised as 'home is where the heart is', especially for refugees and their family. Obviously you don't condone ethnic cleansing!!!
To me it means country of birth or country of residence/citizenship.
>> I adhere to the looser definition, best summarised as 'home is where the heart is', especially for refugees and their family.
>> Obviously you don't condone ethnic cleansing!!!
Automatically, perhaps not. But if Israel is the homeland of "the Jewish people", then the "Jewish State" of Israel is within its right to extend special immigration privileges to any Jew anywhere in the world who applies for citizenship to the "homeland" he is not from and in which he has never resided.
I don't accept the validity of that premise.
It's normal for a country to set it's own immigration policy though, and privilege certain people over others.
Israel's Law of Return wouldn't be nearly so offensive if they weren't simultaneously preventing the return of indigenous Palestinians, if the whole country wasn't based on stolen land and looted property and resources.
Eljay's hilarious. People with no connection to the land, other than going to shul, or simply based on their last name, make a "brand" of the place being their homeland. Someone who is first generation Palestinian diaspora is told "Palestine isn't your homeland." Pretty weird comment considering how most diaspora Palestinians wound up outside of Palestine. Without Zionist pressure Yara probably would have been born in Palestine. Context baby, context.
>> People with no connection to the land, other than going to shul, or simply based on their last name, make a "brand" of the place being their homeland.
And I do not accept this claim.
Rightly so. She was born and raised in the U.S. and has lived there all her life.
>> Pretty weird comment considering how most diaspora Palestinians wound up outside of Palestine.
It's a fact that her mother was immorally and unjustly expelled from Palestine. But that fact does not change the fact that Yara was born and raised in the U.S., is a U.S. citizen, and has lived in the U.S. all her life.
>> Without Zionist pressure Yara probably would have been born in Palestine. Context baby, context.
She would have been, but she wasn't. Context, baby, context.
It was sickening when the US adopted it, but then again the Homeland Security Act was largely written by Zionists (ie. Chertoff). This act also assured the inability to sue Israeli firms who work on contracts for the US "Homeland" security.
'homeland' is a word i don't remember hearing hardly at all (if ever) growing up in america, now it's everywhere.
The first time I ever heard it used was in reference to Israel. Wolf Blitzer used it in debates when he was working for AIPAC.
Then came 9/11. Then came the expression "Homeland" to refer to the USA. It was sickening.
It is a translation from the German, "Heimatland," or just Heimat or the NZ-Whermacht term, "Heimatschutz," which means Homeland Security or Homeland Protection.
Americans have adopted this strange Zio language after their own government did. I think it was Chertoff who suggested the name of the agency. Go figure.
A disturbing trend, in my view.
thanks ellen. yes, quite disturbing james. and now, one presumes, we're all supposed to develop emotions over the homelands.
I have sympathy with eljay: I don't really want to oppose Zionism with its own rhetorical weapons. Mind you, the contradiction in the attitudes of the gun-toting young border guards is worse, especially because they have all the power on their side. Palestine doesn't exist yet defines the person they're dealing with.
Yara, what a horrible story. Please send a copy of this and follow up with a phone call (or have your friends help with the calling) to every co-signer of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013 which has provisions to waive visas for Israeli citizens.
You were within your rights to immediately contact the US Embassy when first denied entry into a country with whom the US has friendly relations. The Embassy is obligated to assist you in such a situation in Israel.
All 54 of those Congresspeople are insane on this issue– an issue that is disgraceful and dishonest and hypocritical.
I wish this horrible narrative would make it to the MSM.
Thanks Yara for sharing it, and I fervently hope that you and your Mom freely visit Jerusalem soon without any cruel, abusive, and discriminatory treatment. Jerusalem belongs to you and yours, too.
They may well be "obligated" in theory – but they probably wont be of much help in practice. Standards differ in Israel from any other country in the world. US embassy and consulate in Israel usually are unable – and possibly even unwilling – to provide any assistance to Americans who are being refused entry.
Yara, I hope that you and the other 30 UC students on your trip will contact Senators Boxer and Feinstein about your experience. Either send a letter to their California offices or post a constituent comment to their Senate websites.
Maybe I'm naive, yet I wonder what it could have been the outcome of a call to the US Consulate.
I wonder what it could have been the outcome of a call to the US Consulate.
They would probebly tell her to read the restriction posted on the US State Department website.
Israelis cannot enter the US without a visa or permission.
If an Israeli dose not read those restrictions, come to the US and is not aloud to enter and calls the Israeli Embassy, they will tel them the same thing.
Israeli authorities consider anyone who was born in the West Bank or Gaza or who has parents or grandparents who were born or lived in the West Bank or Gaza as having a claim to a PA ID.
it's still racist. everyone knows what that means.
Speaking of what does or does not constitute this or that sort of person, why do you continue to cower from my request that you answer five simple questions? Please don't shy away – please have the courage to reply. Thank you.
FYI, here are hophmi's answers. And, below, for your convenience I have posted the questions yet again.
1. What are the criteria for considering a person to be a Jew? Please don't omit any.
2. Is being a Jew the same as being Jewish?
3. Under what circumstances – if any – can a Jew be stripped of his Jewish identity and rendered not a Jew?
4. Can a person be a Jew and not belong to "the Jewish people"?
5. Can a person belong to "the Jewish people" and not be a Jew?
What's racist about that, Are you not American and got your ID because your Parents are American?
If The Lady would have read and followed all those regulation she would not have to go over this case.
It's like an Idiot Israeli coming to the US without a visa and telling a horrible story of the Immigration that did not let him in.
I would tell him, you deserve it Idiot.
Sure I was naive, now I'm also a bit more disgusted.
Says the occupying power. Amazing that this can exist.
yes, and Yara Karmalawy is also american and got her american ID because both her parents are american and she was born in the US just like me. but israel doesn't recognize that american ID, because it chooses not to. it chooses to give her, and every other person of palestinian descent, a palestinian i.d AS IF she lived in the west bank or gaza, based solely on her palestinian ethnicity. this is not rocket science yrn. you just do not want to see it or see the racism inherent in this policy.
and if you still do not see it consider that israel does not do that to me, they do not consider my american id as if it did not exist and assign me an id of my europen anscestors as if i was born in some european country. iow, all american passports are not equal in the eyes of israel. arab americans are treated differently, it's racist.
and for your information the american political representatives of Yara and her parents are the same as mine. Yara and her parents pay taxes to the same american government,hold the same citizenship and should be represented in the same way as all americans. america, unlike israel, is a civic national state and government. that means the laws apply in the same way for all of us regardless of ethnicity. whereas israel, being an ethnic national state applies their discriminatory policies to us too. it divides us into ethnic categories for the purpose of discrimination.
Well point out where is it mentioned.
If Yara as every American and every person in the world, read the regulation coming out from here own state department, she would not have to go all this process she chose too.
Any person in the world reads his state department regulation and will not go to a country he knows will not let him in.
If He chooses to play those games, he is the one to take responsibility for his decision.
Nothing more to this story.
Did Israel get visa free agreements?
How would the Israelis know she has a Palestinian mother?
Was she in the area before?
Well, we just learned that the US has an agreement to turn over intercepts made on US citizens to Israel, so you can add that to their bag of tricks.
Mike, Israel controls the Palestinian population registry. They simply look it up in their own records, which is what the woman "behind the glass" was doing when she entered the information into her computer.
@tree Yeah that was amazing. The Israelis would have to track all Palestinians, globally, to do that. And assign them all numbers… Fugly.
go see the gatekeepers. israel's been keeping meticulous records of palestinians for years. and read pappe's ethnic cleansing of palestine. they were keeping meticulous records of individuals in all the villages for years before israel became a state.
and not only that, israel likely has files and files of psychological profiles of individual palestinians which includes how they (and their relatives) respond under pressure, including torture. what their political affiliations are etc. the palestinians people likely have been subject to psychological profiling like no other people on earth. they are experimented upon and profiled like no other people. why? because israel treats them like lab rats. remember "40% of the male population, had been imprisoned by Israel at one point in time." http://mondoweiss.net/2013/11/love-under-apartheid.html#comment-610127 it's disgusting. in gaza, they even count their calories.
Thant's not all, Israel has files of what you eat, the color you like your flowers, your favorite movies and much more.
and the length of my toenails no doubt.
all joking aside i do find it 'special,' the implication you would have us speculate over whether israel keeps records of their administrative detention/torture/demographics or surveillance programs regarding israel. little benign israel would not do anything like that….of course they're much too busy studying…me!
Great story. Should be on the front page of a few American newspapers.
This is a hard lesson for people. Olive Tree Initiative is a normalization project and should be boycotted, and as far as I can tell, they've neglected to mention this person's catastrophic experience on their site.
I agree. Palestinian Americans need to be wary of involvement with normalization projects. And also church-sponsored tours of the Holy Land. You're likely to get parked in a neighboring country while the rest of your church group tours the Biblical sites. When they finally meet up with you they'll wonder what terrorist threat you made to deserve this.
OMFG! Well if Ms. Karmalawy's experience doesn't tie normalization efforts, Boxer's genuflection to Israel (but not, apparently, to her own [US/CA] constituents), and Israel's global and meticulous tracking of Palestinians in order to, ironically, deny their heritage, I don't know what does. What explosive exposure.
The Olive Tree Initiative is a university-based organization that promotes conflict analysis and resolution through rigorous academic preparation, experiential education and leadership development. OTI provides students, faculty and community participants with the education, training and experiences needed to better understand, negotiate and resolve conflicts.
I hope that you all at EI and here at MW follow up on this. What a glaring example of the truth of the situation. Who funds OTI, anyway?
Thanks for pointing this out. If Ms. Karmalawy did this in order to expose this normalization subterfuge, well done, and more power to her and others.
'Palestinian' means 'from Palestine'. Palestine does not exist, therefore there can be no Palestinian IDs or Palestinians. So she can't be Palestinian, and should be allowed to enter.
She's an American citizen, born in the USA. Palestine is not her homeland.
Renounce. And, yes, that's it. Just more of the ethnic cleansing.
How does she get an ID through her mother if she has not applied for it?
israel assigns id's to people of palestinian descent , for the purpose of keeping them out, whether they apply for them or not.
So they have compiled a list of all the Palestinians and check anyone with a vaguely Palestinian looking name to see if they are on the list. A lot of work to keep out people who don't exist from a place that doesn't exist.
What do they do about Atlanteans and Ruritanians?
What is really disgusting about these types of events is that if the US government had a spine and used one one hundredth of the potential leverage it has it could snap its fingers and make this stop in a heartbeat. Instead, our politicians are now considering giving Israelis across the board free access to the USA.
I hope Yara will do a follow-up piece and share her experiences in the West Bank.
Also, assuming the 2013 itinerary was similar to that of 2012 posted here http://www.olivetreeinitiative.org/middle_east_travel, it seems Yara's peers in the Olive Tree Initiative group may have also visited the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. What did they discover? Was Yara able to meet up with them there and compare notes, so to speak?
Thanks for sharing this encounter–looking forward to hearing more.
80% of the Jordanians are Palestinians.
You mean whatever % of Jordanians were ethnically cleansed from Palestine by Jewish terrorists.
You guys are laughable. One part tries to deny the sheer existence of 'Palestinans' at large, the other claims that Jordan is full of them.
You know what? Israël is full of Europeans that were not even related to each other or their 'Jewish homeland'. Their homelands are here, in Europe, not the Middle East.
James, is that a question?
Dutch – – I was obliquely suggesting that Israelis who descend from 19th Century emigrants from the Russian Empire, may not have a "homeland" in Ukraine, or Russia, or Lithuania, or Poland (etc etc etc). More recent immigrants to Israel, may be different matter.
The sheer level of denial is mind-boggling.
It feels to me as if political pressure is worthless with this Congress, but a loud, very public, and successful law suit – preferably some kind of collective "class" law suit — might make Israel sit up and take notice.
This is an outrage on so many different levels….


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Field Study #007, The Extinction Event
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Field Study #007, The Extinction salon On August 13, 2015, we traversed to the edge of the San Francisco Bay to "The Commons for Art and Social Change" in Fort Mason, to conduct Field Study #007 in search of words to express feelings, thoughts and experiences around the current extinction event for which we do not yet have language….
Here is what we found:
Chief Onomastician Anthony Shore drilled right in bringing "Stieg" for his pre-existing term. Stieg is a Proto Indo European root meaning to prick or push through, from this word eventually came to "extinguish" and after that "extinction". Drawing a lexical link between the act of extinguishing a flame and the dying out of a species. This lead to a brief conversation about the western world's history with its understanding of extinction. It was not that long ago that the west dismissed outright the idea that a species on God's great earth could ever go extinct. When in the late 1700s early 1800s, large fossils of large megafauna were discovered in the New World could not be found in the wild— no matter how hard we looked, the slow dawning that it was possible that great animals might have gone extinct was a revolution in Judeo Christianity's understanding of the natural world around us.
To this Michael McElligott of The Long Now Foundation introduced a theory that the "loss of biodiversity often follows the loss of language diversity", to which Chris Dresser concurred adding her wealth of understanding about the things that are going extinct in diverse human cultures and how this cultural loss impacts the health of ecosystems and the planet. If we don't have a word to point to something it's hard for us to care for or steward it.
Ethan Estess, who works with endangered great white sharks, and blue fin tuna, also brought with him a feeling of a sort of anticipated remorse that he gets right before he kills a fish when he is out fishing, even though he is fishing at an incredibly sustainable level. He expressed that this feeling encapsulated a discord between knowing what he knows about the global impacts of industrial scale fishing yet at the same time knowing that in order to survive as a homo sapien he must eat to live. He described this as a "remorse over the thing you put in your mouth to survive which simultaneously leads to the further diminishment of another, sometimes threatened species". The group, seeking to aid Ethan in creating a new word to express this remorse, suggested existing words such as umami, autonomic, primal, cognition, apex, omniscience.
We jammed on pregret or premorse, for the feeling of cerebral regret in anticipation of something that you will consume which your body will enjoy yet which might lead to less joy as your cognizant of the overall biological impact of your consumption.
Meta predator and apex guilt were new terms generated, both riffing off the idea of ones contemplation of a deep understanding that humans are the apex predator on our planet and what that feels like to be very in-tune and self aware of this; how this knowledge impacts our decisions or enjoyment; the implications, responsibilities, and deep and real concerns that has for our own species and those we consume or kill for our own existence.
koyaanisumami (derived from koyannis or Hopi for "out of balance", as in koyaanisqatsi and umami implying a primal attraction to the taste of meat or fish) came from an idea that ones love of the taste of fish or meat is both deeply biological and autonomic but in the context of the word we were looking for is paired with a cerebral understanding of the responsibilities, concerns and consequences of eating it, especially as it relates to those who fish and who respect and love the sea and its creatures, but also want to take from it.
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Artist and Professor, Mike Arcega brought with him a feeling that because we are surrounded by fast media, and Hollywood depictions of "the apocalypse" as fast and dramatic, maybe we can't actually see it for what it is, perhaps we are actually living through the apocalypse, and that rather than being a fast experience, it's actually happening very slowly (on a contemporary human time scale). Perhaps the apocalypse is boring. Perhaps, in part, because we have surrounded ourselves with fast dramatic distractions combined with the fact that many humans are disconnected from the nature we need to survive, the majority of urban dwelling humans are actually experiencing the apocalypse right now (though at what feels like a slow and falsely imperceptible rate.) He and the group went further to explore that perhaps we actually seek out these very dramatic media distractions and electronic toys as a way to avert our attention from what we sense is occurring at a rate that is terrifyingly and painfully slow to us.
For this instance myopia or nearsightedness was introduced by Jenny Odell, the Current Artist in Residence at San Francisco Recology, as a springboard for creating the new word:
Myopecene (a time or epoch marked by short sighted-ness) to express this perceived experience of the Apocalypse.
Slowpocalypse was then coined, and people thought this might be an important word to add to global lexicons but also felt it lacked the boredom component, so ennuipocalypse (derived from ennui or a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement) was created by the group.
That helped but did not encapsulate the idea that what we see as occurring sooooo sloooowly on a human time scale is actually happening at breakneck speed on a geologic time scale. So the beehive of creativity suggested perhaps Slow Ennuipocalypse.
Slow Ennuipocalypse.
Heidi suggested we might somehow incorporate a musical term that includes a fast moving slow pace, (we're still digging for this exact word).
Apocanetflix or Apocaflix (apocolypse + netflix) were also coined. To best discuss the distractions we are creating for ourselves in the United States as a way to not look at the apocalypse we are in. This was informed by a brief conversation of Freud's "Death Drive". Egosystem (ego + ecosystem) was also coined.
Slowpocalypse
Jenny Odell also shared her feeling of disorientation that she feels while conducting her immersive research into the production of discarded consumer goods as an Artist in Residence at the SF Dump. She noted that when she walks through the world she looks at objects and they cease to be "a beach towel" or a "couch" or a "pillow", instead she automatically also sees the production line for the materials, the factory they were assembled on, the human suffering in creating these objects, the resources extracted, the shipping containers they were carried to and fro in, ex cetra. She describes this as a disorientation of scale, where "a discrete object becomes a node on a network". In other words, the experience of seeing or touching something small and discrete and then having it open up a figurative black hole of information in her mind, and then return to being a regular object, causes her disorientation.
Tralfamidorification
Existing words the group thought might inspire a new neologism included: paralysis, fetish, social relations, meta, micro vs macro. Context Collapse was coined. From the word refuse we got Refusal. From disorientation and deconstruction we got disconstruction. The idea that we should have a word that expresses the disorientating oscillation that used the terms micro and macro was brought up, but this word has not yet been coined. Anthony introduced Jenny to Kurt Vonnegut's fictional alien race of Tralfamadorians (who can look at an object and know its past and future. Tralfamidorification was then coined. Even without a word being coined, Jenny expressed a feeling of great relief in learning that this thing she was experiencing which felt isolating and weird, which she did not have the words to talk about, was something that others in the room could relate to and which Vonnegut had written about extensively. This fulfilled one of the missions of the Bureau: just as important as coining new words, the Bureau is equally passionate about creating and facilitating a new space where people from diverse backgrounds can connect over mutual feelings, thoughts and experiences related to the Anthropocene to realize they are not alone in experiencing these new sensations and feelings. And that others deeply sense things that are amiss and changing.
Context Collapse
Jason Groves, a current fellow at the Exploratorium, brought with him a desire to name a human phenomena where we can't accept that a species has gone extinct. Citing reports of people claiming to see Tasmanian Tigers or other extinct species still roaming. He likened this to a psychological inability to accept the extinction because it is just too difficult for us to accept . Borrowing from the idea of a phantom limb, something that was a part of us but is gone now but that we still can feel viscerally— hauntingly at times, the word Phantom Species was termed. This word was later amended to Phantom Species Syndrome to better encapsulate and represent the phenomena which is really about OUR inability to accept the loss of a species because perhaps we as humans, appreciate on some deep biological level, this species is in some way a limb, a part of our ecosystem that essential to maintaining balance, but that has tragically been removed.
Phantom Species Syndrome
This dovetailed well into Mikl McElligott's wordless emotion or experience. This feeling that in some 50 years he will be talking wistfully about animals that will be then extinct, but which are still on the earth right now. This encapsulates a sort of "wistful dread". And when he focuses his attention on this he thinks, "why don't I go see them now?". But of course the day to day responsibilities prevent him from stopping what he is doing to go see them, but he wonders if he will look back and regret that. pre-postPartum depression was coned and a reference was made to pre-traumatic Stress disorder. This feeling was similar to many that have come up in multiple Field Studies, expressing what Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl, PhD expressed as "an unknown anticipated regret." Jenny Kendler and Alicia Escott are currently working on a similar word to discuss a child's strait faced acceptance that, for example, they should study ocean biology so that they will have a chance to see and understand the coral reefs before they are gone.
The Bureau is still looking for words to describe this experience of a projection into the future where one is looking at the future— watching their future self looking back nostalgically at the current present. Reflecting on what we still had at that time, knowing all the while that we still have it now.
Please contact us if you find this word!
Field Study #007 Participants Included:
Mike Arcega
Interdisciplinary Artist, Professor of Art at S.F. State
Chris Desser
Artist & Creator of "A Catalog of Extinct Experiences"
Ethan Estess
Artist with Master of Science from Stanford University now working with Sharks & Art
Jenny Odell
Interdisciplinary Artist & Designer, Currently Artist in Residence at ReEcology
Jason Groves PhD
Writer, Professor of Germanic Languages & Urban Fellow at the Exploratorium
Mikl McElligott
Curator, The Long Now Foundation
Anthony Shore
Professional Word Maker and our Chief Onomastician
This completes The Bureau Of Linguistical Reality Field Study Report Back #007: The Extinction Event.
Please check back for Field Study Report back #008 Science Fiction
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality was established in 2014 for the purpose of collecting, translating and creating a new vocabulary for the Anthropocene. Please note all neologisms have been copyrighted using Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND Blog at WordPress.com.

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The press secretary said that her offer had already inspired other top Administration figures to lie for free during the shutdown, including Vice-President Mike Pence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and White House doctor Ronny Jackson.
After making her announcement, Sanders moved on to a broad range of other topics, including her assertion that the government had not shut down.


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Maintaining a social media presence on multiple platforms – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. – lets your rural business engage more potential customers online. For high volume networks like Twitter, however, it's easy to end up putting more into maintaining your account than you are actually get out of it.
Regardless of the risks, every rural business stands to benefit from implementing, at least, a low maintenance Twitter marketing strategy. Building a simple strategy and using a user-friendly social media management tool to actualize it will give your rural business all the benefits of Twitter marketing, without the unrealistic time commitment.
In rural areas, social media use has increased tenfold between 2005 and 2015. While those who live in rural areas are still less likely to use social media than those in suburban and urban areas, a Pew study found that 58% of rural residents use social media [1]. Social media marketing, then, is an up and coming advertising technique.
The Potential and the Limits of Twitter Marketing
Because it mobilizes people like no other network, Twitter is both Hollywood and Gaza's favorite social network. Its 290 million active accounts include many celebrities, politicians, activists, public figures, and (yes) businesses that engage with the public over the microblogging platform.
In fact, Donald Trump; the GOP leading presidential candidate uses Twitter to not only to mobilize his followers, but to spread his messaging of "Making America Great Again" and attacking other candidates. And apparently it has been working for Mr. Trump.
An example of a Donald J. Trump Tweet:
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The American people are sick and tired of not being able to lead normal lives and to constantly be on the lookout for terror and terrorists!
On Twitter, users may share short text, photo messages, or links of up to 140 characters. The concise format makes Twitter an ideal platform for live tweeting from business or industry events. Hashtags let multiple accounts comment on the same event, facilitating public discourse and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns.
According to a Sprout Social study, 17% of adults (18 and older) living in rural areas use Twitter. This number is significantly less than the 25% of adults in urban areas who use Twitter. It could be that the network's role as a town crier is not as relevant in sparsely populated areas [2].
Twitter is a high volume, low quality social media network. Unfortunately, this model has its limits. The number of active Twitter users declined in the last quarter of 2015 [3]. In rural Saskatchewan, for example, one in three Twitter users are inactive [4]. Users, in general, have little patience for low quality content. A high volume of boring or irrelevant tweets could easily have contributed to Twitter's recent stagnation.
An in-depth Social Bakers study concluded that businesses should aim to put out approximately three tweets per day. This number maximizes engagement: any less and your followers might overlook you, any more and you might bore them [5]. Of course, still only tweet when you have something interesting to say. Nobody likes spam.
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There are management systems – Tweepi, SocialBro, TweetDeck, ManageFlitter, etc. – dedicated to Twitter. Because they're meant to juggle multiple Twitter accounts, however, they're not especially useful for small businesses. Try an integrated system, like freemium Hootsuite, to manage your business accounts on multiple networks at once.
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Back for an 8th Edition, Wild Gourmet Spree is THE event devoted to satisfying all your senses!
Tourisme Îles de la Madeleine, in collaboration with Bon goût frais des Îles de la Madeleine and Arrimage, is proud to reveal the Wild Gourmet Spree's quirky 2018 programme!
From June 10 to 30, nine restaurants, local producers and artists are combining their creative vision to highlight the best the archipelago has to offer during a series of unique thematic events.
Festivities for the 2018 Wild Gourmet Spree started June 10 at Resto Bistro Accents with the Elaine, "seal" our fate Evening — a dinner celebrating seal meat and the tall tales of colourful storyteller Élaine Richard.
The 8th Edition will end next June 30, when Auberge la Salicorne hosts its "Break out of your shell" Evening with a tasting menu featuring the beloved mussel, in collaboration with pottery Maison du Potier.
Given the great success of previous editions, restaurants invite visitors to quickly reserve with them directly since seating is limited and will be going... like hot cakes!
To the delight of food lovers everywhere, every early summer, local restaurants join with producers and artists in a burst of creativity to celebrate the best our Islands have to offer during one-of-a-kind, themed culinary events. This Gourmet Spree is more than a fortuitous occasion: it follows the earlier initiative "Artisans à table/Artisans at the table", the brainchild of potter Patrick Leblond who brought together a dozen or so artisans tasked with designing utilitarian objects inspired by, and destined for, terroir products. Over the years, La Folle Virée Gourmande has become the Islands' must-attend gourmet happening.


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Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade?


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Fed pitches a new effort to streamline Volcker rule
By Joe Mont2018-05-31T16:15:00+01:00
Don't call it a rollback. A slate of reforms for the always controversial Volcker rule that were proposed this week doesn't retreat from the Dodd-Frank Act rules as much as some in the banking sector might wish for.
Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles referred to the effort as "an important milestone in comprehensive Volcker rule reform," albeit "not the completion of our work."
Continuing recent efforts to chip away at the Dodd-Frank Act, the Federal Reserve Board voted unanimously on May 30 to seek public comment on a proposal to simplify and tailor compliance requirements relating to the rule.
Enacted as a response to the financial crisis, the Volcker rule declares that proprietary trading—the practice of a financial institution engaging in trading activities with its own money—is generally not an appropriate line of business for a federally insured commercial bank.
The rule prohibits covered banking entities from engaging in proprietary trading and from retaining an ownership interest in hedge funds or private equity funds.
Exempted from the prohibition, and subject to conditions, are certain activities: trading in U.S. government, agency, and municipal obligations; underwriting and market-making-related activities; risk-mitigating hedging activities; trading on behalf of customers; trading for the general account of insurance companies; and foreign trading by non-U.S. banking entities.
Since regulations implementing the Volcker rule were finalized in December 2013, spreading oversight among five federal agencies, critics say the complexity of the rule has created compliance uncertainty for banks.
"The agencies responsible for implementing the rule see many opportunities to simplify it and improve it in ways that will allow firms to conduct appropriate activities without undue burden and without sacrificing safety and soundness," Chairman Jerome Powell said. "The proposal will address some of the uncertainty and complexity that now make it difficult for firms to know how best to comply and for supervisors to know that they are in compliance."
Powell, prior to the vote, added that the proposal "is faithful to both the text and the spirit of the law."
"We have had almost five years of experience in applying the Volcker rule," he added. "The agencies responsible for implementing the rule see many opportunities to simplify and improve it in ways that will allow firms to conduct appropriate activities without undue burden and without sacrificing safety and soundness."
"Our goal is to replace overly complex and inefficient requirements with a more streamlined set of requirements. This proposed rule will tailor the Volcker rule's requirements by focusing the most comprehensive compliance regime on the firms that do the most trading. Firms that do more modest amounts of trading will face fewer requirements."
"Quarles is certainly using his bully pulpit to put forward the issues that he and his staff at the Fed are interested in, including Volcker."
Doug Landy, Financial Services Regulation Attorney, Milbank
The proposed changes were jointly developed by all five agencies responsible for administration of the Volcker rule—the Federal Reserve Board, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Specifically, the proposed changes would:
Tailor the rule's compliance requirements based on the size of a firm's trading assets and liabilities, with the most stringent requirements applied to firms with the most trading activity;
Provide more clarity by revising the definition of "trading account" in the rule, in part by relying on commonly used accounting definitions;
Clarify that firms that trade within appropriately developed internal risk limits are engaged in permissible market making or underwriting activity;
Streamline the criteria that apply when a bank seeks to rely on the hedging exemption from the proprietary trading prohibition;
Limit the impact of the Volcker rule on the foreign activity of foreign banks; and
Simplify the trading activity information that banks are required to provide to the agencies.
Other changes include:
Creating categories of banking entities based on the size of their trading assets and liabilities that would be used to tailor certain requirements of the rule;
Revising and better defining terms relevant to proprietary trading activity; and
Amending the rule's annual CEO attestation requirement.
The proposal would also focus "on quantitative, bright-line rules where possible to provide clarity regarding prohibited and permissible activities."
Comment will be accepted for 60 days after the proposal's publication in the Federal Register.
"By focusing the application of the rule on those firms with the highest levels of activity covered by the statue, and by clarifying and simplifying the compliance regime, we can promote safety and soundness while reducing unnecessary burdens," Quarles said prior to the vote.
During a debate on the rule proposal, Powell pointed out that roughly 95 percent of the trading assets in the U.S. financial system are held by a handful of institutions with more than $10 billion in assets under their control (the actual number is 18). They are, therefore, the institutions that do, and will, face the most stringent requirements of the Volcker rule.
"That provides a good, sound basis for understanding why we think it is so important to tailor application for the very large number of firms who have quite small levels of trading assets," he said.
Powell's overarching question: "If you work at a trading desk at one of those larger firms, how does this proposal affect you? How does your life change from the standpoint of this proposal?"
"The goal of the proposal is not to restructure how banking entities conduct their trading operation, but to clarify which activities, exactly, are permitted on the trading desk and which activities are prohibited," answered Kevin Tran, supervisory financial analyst for the Fed. "In that sense, the proposal would help banks operate their trading desks in a more efficient manner."
Another question from Powell: "We are going to let the banking entities set their own position limits for underwriting and market-making activities. How do we get comfortable with the idea of letting the banks set these position limits themselves?"
"Staff believes that the existing requirements for underwriting and market making have been very prescriptive and, as a result, could inhibit otherwise permissible trading activities," answered Greg Frischmann, counsel for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "This proposal would provide these firms with greater flexibility to engage in these permissible activities in ways that are consistent with the statute. The agencies, however, will closely review these limits and the process by which they are established on an ongoing basis."
"The proposal provides that you are only eligible for this presumption that trading within risk limits is permissible if you have set your limits appropriately," he added. "The firms will have a strong incentive to set these limits in an appropriate manner when they know that the agencies will be reviewing those limits on an ongoing basis."
The proposed rule would recognize that small asset size is not the only indicator of reduced proprietary trading risk, Quarles explained. It would group firms that remain subject to the rule based on the risk arising from their trading activity.
Specifically, the proposal includes three tiers of firms based on trading activity levels, with the resulting compliance requirements tailored based on level of trading activity. Firms with "limited trading activity," defined as less than $1 billion of trading assets and liabilities, would be presumed to comply with the Volcker rule.
Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors, also supported the proposal.
"The premise of the Volcker rule is compelling," she said. "Banks should not engage in speculative trading activity for which the federal safety net was never intended. Since the Volcker rule was enacted, banks have closed their stand-alone proprietary trading desks and substantially reduced the overall market and liquidity risk profile of their trading books. It is hard to see compelling evidence that the Volcker rule has materially disrupted liquidity provisions in key markets."
Nevertheless, experience with its implementation "suggests that the interagency rule has turned out to be needlessly cumbersome in practice," she added. "The application of the Volcker rule to firms with little trading activity results in compliance costs without a commensurate benefit to financial stability."
The compliance mechanism developed by the agencies to distinguish between proprietary trading, on the one hand, and underwriting and market making, on the other hand, has been difficult to implement and supervise in practice, Brainard added.
"Rather than requiring banking institutions to undertake specific quantitative analyses prescribed by the regulators, the proposed revisions would require banking institutions to establish internal risk limits to achieve the principle of not exceeding the reasonably expected near-term demands of customers, subject to supervisory review," she said, adding that "the requirement of CEO attestation is critical for this to work."
Subsequent to the Fed's vote, there were both cheers and jeers for the initiative.
"Let's call it like it is," said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a co-author of the Volcker rule. "This is a massive giveaway to the biggest banks. Our small, local community banks don't want to run hedge funds with their customers' money. This is a brazen attempt by big bank CEOs and their Trump-appointed allies to reopen the Wall Street casino, less than 10 years after the passage of financial reform."
"These are not small, technical changes," he added. "These are massive rewrites to make it easier for Wall Street banks to engage in the same types of risky bets that brought down our economy in 2008. This is a backdoor attempt to roll back financial reform laws without going through Congress, and every American who wants to hold Wall Street accountable and avoid a repeat financial crisis should be deeply alarmed."
A more positive review comes from John Berlau, a senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which supports free market solutions. He blamed the Volcker rule for worsening the steep decline in initial public offerings and number of companies on U.S. stock exchanges.
"It is another impediment to growing companies going public because it creates uncertainty about banks' ability to buy shares to engage in 'market making' for these firms," he says. "If regulators clarify that a bank's buying of shares to create a market for publicly traded firms is exempt from the law's ban on 'proprietary trading,' that would help entrepreneurs access capital and middle-class investors access wealth."
Along with the current reform proposal, other efforts to scale back or eliminate the Volcker rule and similar regulations will undoubtedly continue.
Late last month, for example, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Reform, and Consumer Protection Act became law. The legislation included measures to exempt banks with less than $10 billion in assets and small trading books from the Volcker rule.
"As a result, the proposal before us today, and the regulation more broadly, quite appropriately no longer applies to those firms," Quarles said of how that law connects to the Fed's proposal.
Expect more of this to come.
"Quarles is certainly using his bully pulpit to put forward the issues that he and his staff at the Fed are interested in, including Volcker," says Doug Landy, a financial services regulation attorney at the Milbank law firm.
On the agenda for those with a focus on bank regulations, he says, are stress test transparency and frequency, having more narrowly calculated liquidity rules, providing relief for small- and medium-sized banks on current liquidity rules, and making "living will" rules and resolution plans simpler and less frequent.
"There is a theme running through them, which is they provide targeted relief, especially in complying with a set of complex and overlapping rules," Landy says. "They do not roll them back to provide substantive relief, instead they are saying, 'Let's make the rules work better and be easier to comply with; let's make reporting easier.' "
In essence, regulators and legislators are saying, "let's run a regulatory cost benefit analysis using the evidence we have from the close to eight years since Dodd-Frank has passed and decide where can we target changes," he adds.
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Rules & Proposals
Volcker rule
Agencies exclude community banks from the Volcker Rule
Five federal financial regulatory agencies announced this week they have adopted a final rule to exclude community banks from the Volcker Rule.
Critics scrutinize plans for revised Volcker Rule
Proposed rulemaking to ease the compliance burden of the Dodd-Frank Act's controversial Volcker Rule might not be enough to appease everyone.
Big changes may be on the horizon for CRA and Bank Secrecy Act compliance
Testifying in both chambers of Congress last week, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting discussed plans to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act, and streamline requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act.


Donald Trump chose to count down the final moments of his presidential run in a surprisingly modest location: the New York Hilton, in Midtown Manhattan, less than half a mile away from Trump Tower, where the billionaire real-estate mogul launched his unlikely campaign. Trump, according to one source, was too superstitious to plan a large victory party in his own namesake skyscraper. Vanity Fair was on the scene at both locations.


The 2008 Danish embassy bombing was an attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on 2 June 2008. The suspected suicide car bombing in the parking lot of the embassy took place at around 12:10 pm (UTC+5), killing at least six and wounding many more. The Danish national security intelligence agency PET concluded that al-Qaeda was behind the attack. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack on 5 June 2008. The attack was confirmed to be an answer to the reprinting of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's Muhammed cartoons in February 2006, as well as the presence of Danish troops in Afghanistan.
At least six people were believed to be dead and 24 wounded. According to the chargé d'affaires of the embassy in Islamabad, Michael Hjortsø, none of those killed were Danish employees of the embassy, though two victims were reported to be locals employed at the embassy, and the Danish foreign ministry announced that one victim was a Danish citizen of Pakistani origin not working at the embassy. Damage was also reported at the residence of the Indian High Commissioner.
According to sources close to the Danish government and PET, the main suspects behind the attack were, until the proclamation made by Al-Qaeda, the Taliban. However, the Taliban denied having any role in the attack. If they had been those responsible for the attack, that would have made the second terrorist attack carried out by Taliban targeting Scandinavians; the first being the attack on Serena Hotel in Kabul on 14 January, where a Norwegian delegation under Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, which resided at the time of the attack, was allegedly the target. Nevertheless, this is the second terrorist attack where Scandinavians had been the target.
Al Qaeda's chief of operations for Pakistan, Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam was believed to have masterminded the attack. He was killed in a drone strike along with his lieutenant, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, on 1 January 2009.
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Events from the year 2010 in Pakistan.
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis) (Danish: Muhammedkrisen) began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhammad, a principal figure of the religion of Islam. The newspaper announced that this was an attempt to contribute to the debate about criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Muslim groups in Denmark complained, and the issue eventually led to protests around the world, including violent demonstrations and riots in some Muslim countries.Islam has a strong tradition of aniconism, and it is considered highly blasphemous in most Islamic traditions to visually depict Muhammad. This, compounded with a sense that the cartoons insulted Muhammad and Islam, offended many Muslims. Danish Muslim organisations that objected to the depictions responded by petitioning the embassies of Islamic countries and the Danish government to take action in response, and filed a judicial complaint against the newspaper, which was dismissed in January 2006. After the Danish government refused to meet with diplomatic representatives of the Muslim countries and would not intervene in the case, a number of Danish imams visited the Middle East in late 2005 to raise awareness of the issue. They presented a dossier containing the twelve cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten, and other information some of which was found to be falsified.As a result, the issue received prominent media attention in some Muslim-majority countries, leading to protests across the world in late January and early February 2006. Some escalated into violence resulting in more than 200 reported deaths, attacks on Danish and other European diplomatic missions, attacks on churches and Christians, and a major international boycott. Some groups responded to the outpouring of protest by endorsing the Danish policies, launching "Buy Danish" campaigns and other displays of support. The cartoons were reprinted in newspapers around the world both in a sense of journalistic solidarity and as an illustration in what became a major news story.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the controversy as Denmark's worst international relations incident since the Second World War. The incident came at a time of heightened political and social tensions between Muslim majority countries and Western countries, following several, high-profile Islamic terrorist attacks in the West—including the September 11 attacks—and Western military interventions in Muslim countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The cartoons and the reaction to them aggravated already-strained relations. The relationship between Muslims in Denmark and the broader society was similarly at a low-point, and the conflict came to symbolize the misunderstandings between the Islamic community and the rest of society. In the years since, terrorist plots claiming to be in retaliation for the cartoons have been planned, and some executed, against targets affiliated with newspapers that published the cartoons or Denmark.
Supporters said that the publication of the cartoons was a legitimate exercise of free speech regardless of the validity of the expression, that it was important to openly discuss Islam without fear or that the cartoons made important points about topical issues. The Danish tradition of relatively high tolerance for freedom of speech became a focus of some attention. The controversy ignited a debate about the limits of freedom of expression in all societies, religious tolerance and the relationship of Muslim minorities with their broader societies in the West, and relations between the Islamic World in general and the West.
The following is a list of attacks on diplomatic buildings (embassies, consulates) anywhere in the world. The list does not include attacks on individuals outside or inside an embassy, such as assassinations of ambassadors, or incidents such as letter bombs to individuals, as occurred at the embassy of Israel in London in 1972.
Qaeda al-Jihad (Arabic: Base of Jihad) is the formal name of al-Qaeda.
Statements were first issued under that name on 9 April 2002.In 2008, a statement signed by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed that a member of Qaedat al-Jihad was responsible for the 2008 Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad.


I was reviewing the low-quality posts queue, and came across this answer. It's a hint answer that very closely resembles a comment made a minute prior under the question. Should I recommend deletion?
It's worth pointing out too that another answer, one that answers the question completely, and was posted two minutes prior to the hint answer.
I have no qualms with giving hint answers; such answers can be the most helpful to the asker. I also see the value in answers drawn from discussion in comments, so that the question actually has an answer (though community wiki seems appropriate). And, I don't mind when two similar answers appear, only minutes between them, as expecting someone to delete their answer minutes after somebody else completes their answer fosters the "race" mentality that is harmful for a number of reasons.
But, somehow, the combination of all three makes me want to recommend deletion. It's such a simple, short answer too, so there's not a lot of effort being wasted, and a full answer was given prior.
So, the answer seems to add nothing new to question, but at the same time, I can't fault the person who wrote it for writing it. Is it reasonable to recommend deletion in such circumstances? What about voting down? When is it appropriate to recommend deletion, instead of just voting down?
The bad guy here is the comment. Comments are not supposed to be used for answers. It is very common to see answers in comments on this site and, as opposed to most other SE siblings, moderators here don't seem to care (in other SE sites you regularly see moderators telling members not to post answers as comments).
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Rule about excessive (up and down) voting.
System wouldn't let me choose "not an answer" while reviewing… what is going on??
Can we make it impossible for the asker to delete a question which has at least one answer (no matter the upvotes)?
Found the answer while elaborating the question. Is that usual?


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Continuous Architecture: Turning the Database Inside-Out to Improve Transformation Decision-Making
July 18, 2018 /0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Innovation, Lean Management, Roadmapping /by Nick Reed
In today's business landscape, effective transformation is critical for enterprises to stay competitive. By definition, transformation happens over time.
Enterprises (or some subsection thereof) have a current state which needs to change for the better. That change – however small or large – results in a different future state. With the widespread adoption of Agile working practices and DevOps-based continuous delivery, these changes can be very small and very frequent.
-Nick Reed and Bart Molenkamp
With ever-accelerating changes in the market and the imperative for enterprises to become more adaptive, the desired future state changes more frequently too. In other words, as soon as you start travelling from current state A to desired future state B, B has already change to a new desired future state C.
On top of that, A, B, and C are probably not enterprise-wide either. This means there are multiple future states at different levels of detail and scope, which are all constantly evolving in parallel. There are also interdependencies between these future states.
To add to the complexity, digitization of the enterprise allows for real-time operational data and KPIs to inform architectural decision-making. For example, the number of incidents of a service, the capacity of an API, and the vulnerability of a technology component may all contribute to architectural decision-making.
Creating and managing stateful architecture
Putting all this together, it's not hard to see why traditional architecture methods no longer suffice. The days of "boiling the ocean" (modeling the entire enterprise in the hopes of answering any question that arises) are long gone. Modeling all current and future states, as well as roadmaps, and manually keeping them all up to date with all the small, frequent changes is simply too much overhead. This is especially true if you need to keep a disparate community of stakeholders informed of the bits in which they are interested in a timely manner.
The challenge for modern architecture, therefore, is how to manage a "stateful" architecture, where you can reliably keep track of the current and future states of the architecture with all this change going on in multiple parallel streams.
A lean approach to architecture – often described as "Just Enough, Just in Time" – is essential to minimize time-to-value and to deliver frequent, iterative return on investment in EA.
Architecture frameworks have traditionally focused on sets of stakeholders and the viewpoints they need at different levels of detail, covering all of the (traditional) architectural domains. With more modern lean approaches to architecture, we don't want to cover all the domains across the entire organization ("boiling the ocean"), but rather take an adaptive approach that enables specific stakeholders to get the specific views they need in real time. These organizations also need an architecture solution that is flexible enough to accommodate new stakeholders and new views as they are needed.
Fortunately, the world of social media has been grappling with similar challenges for some time and has come up with some pretty cool technology to deal with it.
Unbundling the architecture
LinkedIn needed to deal with a huge number of incoming user updates ("writes") and a huge number of users consuming updates about connections and topics they follow ("reads"). The problem of maintaining a current state of all the data that was valid for everyone forced LinkedIn to think differently about how to keep things in sync.
They came up with two key innovations that solved their problem and enabled a whole new approach to system architecture:
Record all changes in the data as a stream of 'facts' that do not change over time. In other words, all changes are logged as an "immutable event stream." The big advantage of this approach is that it preserves the history of all data. There is a distinct notion of time (an entity has multiple values over time), as opposed to a database, where you typically only have the latest value. When you need to query the data (or, more likely, a particular subset of the data), you derive a 'view' from the data set by processing all the changes that have occurred up to the current moment (or you can similarly derive a view for a historical snapshot by only processing changes up to a certain moment in time). We call these 'materialized views' of the data. Usually these materialized views are persistent and they are easily kept in sync, by incrementally applying new facts that are written to the stream.
Use the event stream log as a buffer between systems. A producer can write data without knowing who consumes the data. This could be one consumer, no consumer, or multiple consumers. The producer does not know those systems, it knows only the log. It decouples systems in both time and space. If a consumer system crashes, or runs slowly, it does not affect the producer.
In changing the focus from the current state of the data set to focusing on all the immutable changes in the data set, the very concept of change becomes became central to the system.
You can build as many views as you like for as many purposes as you need, using any technology that best fits the purpose, such as a document-oriented database for search, a graph database for network analysis, or a good old relational database for reporting and pivot table analysis. Think of it as unbundling the database or, in EA terms, unbundling the architecture.
This is why we are taking a radical new approach to the architecture of architecture management.
What this means for the BiZZdesign platform
At BiZZdesign, we have built our new-generation product around the event stream in order to enable an adaptive, flexible, and powerful platform that can adapt faster than traditional systems.
This approach, based on modern, cutting-edge technology, allows us to turn the database inside-out and change our rate of innovation in new functionality by orders of magnitude. The concept of event streams has wide applicability, from integration with external data sources to personalization of news feeds. The paradigm shift is from request-response to subscribe-notify. This is a mind-shift, and has radically changed our application development approach.
This offers a number of benefits to our customers, including:
'Forward compatibility' of our platform: we can add new materialized views in the future, using any subset of the event stream. Materialized views that we add in the future will take all the historical data into account.
Full audit trail data that can be used for multiple purposes.
Flexibility to use new technologies for new use cases as they emerge: we are already using a range of database technologies to support different use cases, such as search, business intelligence reporting, and our API, with more to come.
A modern and flexible approach to integration: BiZZdesign consumes event streams from external data sources and provides event streams for consumption by external systems, allowing flexibility in how data is produced and consumed across the IT ecosystem.
This is why you will continue to see new functionality added to the BiZZdesign platform at an ever-increasing rate. Stay tuned…
https://www.confluent.io/blog/leveraging-power-database-unbundled/
https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/
https://www.confluent.io/blog/stream-data-platform-1/
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We're back today with three interesting online articles on fly fishing that we think you'll enjoy.
Bull Moose Sportsmen's Alliance. Angling Trade writes about our industry chiming in on Capitol Hill.
Chasing Kings with Ed Ward. Tom Larimer covers fishing with a legend at Alaska West.
How to Fillet a Salmon. Alaska Fly Fishing Goods tells us how to do it right.
Well, you're back to doing the three interesting articles… Good! I think its a great idea. If you want, I see interesting articles and threads in passing, I can shoot them your way if you're not finding too many good ones.
Thanks Mark. Heck yeah, feel free to send suggestions our way!
Thanks for the link to Olive!
You're welcome – great stuff to share!


This gingerbread cake has a great balance of spice and sweet and can be baked in a 9" pan or in these cute little gingerbread house molds.
It's time for another cake slice cake!! As usual, all four choices look great. But it is December and there is a gingerbread cake in the mix, so I just had to go that way. Other than gingerbread cookies, I really hadn't make much gingerbread before joining the group last year. I believe this is now my third version in a little over a year. It is amazing how many different version there are and how different the flavor profile of each is.
If you didn't check out World Class Cakes after last month's bake, you are really missing out. The book is gorgeous and filled with the most beautiful cakes and sweets. This gingerbread was no exception. It was baked in a 9" square pan and had the most beautiful royal icing design on top.
I love doing royal icing on my gingerbread cookies, but I am certainly no artist. The idea of trying to do something that looked like anything on top of a plain cake was way to daunting for me.
So I broke out some help, in the form of my Nordic Ware Gingerbread House Duet Pan. The whole recipe didn't fit in the pan, so if you have the same, you could really get 3 or possibly 4 houses from the recipe. I decided to just throw the rest in a 9" round and got a thin cake in addition to the houses.
This recipe does make a nice, mild gingerbread. My three year old and I made it together and we found it a bit messy to add the warm milk at the end... though that could certainly be blamed on us. We tend to be a bit messy when we bake together. It would certainly be worth making again, but I personally preferred the stronger flavor of the Pumpkin Gingerbread Loaf I made last year. But frankly either would be a perfectly festive addition to your holiday dessert table!
Preheat oven to 325 F and prepare your cake pan (a 9x9" square pan, 9" round or fun gingerbread molds) with butter and flour or spray with flour in it.
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in eggs one at a time.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger. Mix the dry ingredients into the creamed butter.
In a small pan warm the milk slightly and stir in the molasses and corn syrup until dissolved. Beat into the batter with lemon zest.
Pour into prepared pans and bake for about 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, the turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorate with powdered sugar, royal icing or lemon buttercream.
Oh my goodness, these are almost too cute to eat!!! But I know they are delicious so I'd have to gobble them!! LOVE these!!
Luckily they are easy enough to make more! Thanks, Andrea!
These are so cute. My grandkids would like to have their own house to eat! Merry Christmas, Carlee. I enjoy your sweet comments and delicious dishes.
Isn't the pan cool? I wish it would have been a set of 4 instead of 2! Thanks, Linda!
Wow those a beautiful, I agree with Andrea, they look too cute to eat!!!
I'll have to make a whole village next year! Thanks, Sam!
What cute little tins. Gingerbread is one of my favourite cakes.
Thank you! I thought they were perfect for this cake! Thank you!
It certainly is a mellow gingerbread and that pan is perfect for little holiday gingerbread houses. Messy is a fine thing in the kitchen! Baking with three year olds can be even messier, but such great memories you are making!
I like minis and your cute little houses are adorable and I am sure your little helper enjoyed the baking (memories-making-moments) session! Looks lovely with the 'snow' on top!
Thank you! We have a lot of fun baking together!
Yours is so pretty too! Thanks and merry Christmas, Laura!
I love the little gingerbread houses! I enjoyed the mild flavor myself!
Beautiful gingerbread houses! Your cake turned out fabulous! I thought the taste of the ginger is quite mild, but nevertheless, we enjoyed it too!
Thank you! They were pretty tasty and fun to make! Have a merry Christmas!
Oh my goodness - how cute! Happy holidays!
Oh my gosh, Carlee, I'm having a momentary fit of jealousy! Those cakes are adorable and I love those little cake molds! And now it's too late to ask Santa for one *or maybe two!* That sprinkling of powdered sugar is just the right touch!
Merry Christmas, Sweetie, to you and all your family! I've felt like I've gotten to know you all over the time we shared Throwback Thursday, so be sure to "visit" often and I'll do the same!
Thanks, Mollie! It has been fun getting to know you too, and you aren't getting rid of me that easily! ;-) I'll definitely still be checking out what you are up to over there. Have a merry Christmas!
Your Gingerbread Cakes look fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome recipe with us at Full Plate Thursday! Hope you are having a wonderful week and hope to see you soon!
Your gingerbread turned out so cute. I love the smell of gingerbread as it bakes.


Stand on one leg trying to maintain your balance. To make more difficult try this with your arms crossed across your chest. Now try with eyes closed.
Stand in a corner with your back to the corner if unsteady.
Stand on one leg maintaining your balance. Imagine a clock on the floor (your stance leg is in the centre). Lightly touch position 1 with your non-stance foot. Then return that leg to the starting position. Next, touch position 2 and return. Continue this to position 6.
Stand on one leg and maintain your balance.
Next, reach forward and across your body with your opposite arm as far as you can without losing your balance. Return to original position. Maintain a slightly bent knee on the stance side.
Stand on one leg maintaining your balance.
Easier - double leg balance. More difficult - arms crossed across chest / eyes closed.
Now try moving your non-stance leg out to the side / forward / backward and across the body. Variation - reach forward and return.
Maintain your balance while standing with one foot on bosu ball. Now move your other leg out to the side, in front of the body, behind, and across the body in front and behind.
Make easier - both feet on bosu ball.
Increase difficulty - eyes closed / arms crossed.
Stand with your big toe touching your heel. Alternate feet. Now try walking forward / backward heel-to-toe.
While standing on one leg, bend forward touching the ground as you extend your leg behind you, then return to the original position. Keep your legs straight and maintaining your balance through the movement.
More difficult - single leg / eyes closed.
Maintain your balance while standing on top of an inverted Bosu Ball with both legs.
Increase difficulty - rock the edges forward / backward / to left and right. Try with eyes closed / single leg.


BLASTOFF by Jonathan Gilliam is the #1 read for 2015.
I have known Jonathan Gilliam for years and we met on a direct selling project in Miami Florida. At the time I had moved back to Southern California following a four year start-up tour in Jupiter Florida.
BLASTOFF is Jonathan's second formal publication and it can be his last. It's that good. Why did I not recommend his first book? He needed to get it right and the first book was his attempt at getting it right and BLASTOFF got it right.
The subtitle mentions the Direct Selling Community and it would be a travesty if only the Direct Selling community was to draw from the wisdom in this book. It is a lesson plan for branding, product launch, product development, mistake management (Ok that includes the world), and corporate momentum.
Jonathan founded and runs Momentum Factor, www.momofactor.com out of Austin Texas. I have met every one of his staff and recommend his business acumen to many of my clients as a business management consultant emphasizing wellness. ISBN 978-1497482425 Blastoff! Get real and get IT!