Why Has the Muslim World Not Liberalised?
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This week marks the five year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. When the uprising started, just as in Egypt and Tunisia, the overwhelming feeling amongst Muslims in Britain was sympathy for the Syrian people. Showing a measure of their concern, UK Muslims sent millions of pounds in charity. The protests were recognized as a legitimate response to the genuine grievances the people of Syria had. Five years later, the reasons for the calls to remove the Assad regime have been muddied and the overwhelming feeling appears to be one of confusion.
British politicians and media portray Isis as the greatest threat, Assad as the lesser of two evils and themselves as struggling to find a solution. Muslim support for the opposition to Assad is portrayed as support for Isis, 'terrorism' and a marker for 'extremism'. With such a muddied landscape, it is hardly surprising that the average onlooker is confused.
However, in this chaos, there are two things that we all need reminding of.
Firstly, the Syrian people are deserving of our du'as and thoughts. They have been victims of the Assad regime – from the earliest days when their children were killed and mutilated, after which the Shabiha terrorised the population and the regime committed mass murder of civilian populations.
But they are also victims of others 'claim' to be engaged in putting out the fire, while actually throwing petrol on the flames.
Local powers like Saudi and Turkey – who have the military capability to defend them, remove the oppressor and end the exodus – did not do what could have been done. External powers, like the US, UK, UN and Russia, all claimed to want to find a solution but have seemed to work to secure Assad's position when he was at his weakest. And within the conflict zone, you have ISIS, who spent more effort targeting the opponents of Assad rather than the regime itself, while wearing the false label of Khilafah in the process.
They are those who raised their voices and stood steadfast for Allah; who gave their protests Islamic names.
Till now, they have seen through every international conspiracy to subvert their aims, and attempts to manufacture a leadership that is compliant with western aims.
No one should doubt the need to stand with them as they face tests on all sides.
The second point to remember is that, far from being the problem, Islam offers the only solution. There is a myth that first, before any talk of Islamic governance, Khilafah Rashidah e.t.c., there needs to be a stable situation and perhaps an interim caretaker government. Then, perhaps, there could be a discussion about the role of Islam in future.
This is to both misunderstand the nature of the problems and the role Islam has in solving problems.
Only the Khilafah Rashidah would have the legitimacy to unite the various rival factions that oppose Assad. Only the Khilafah Rashidah could unite the various sects and minorities with the majority as citizens, whose affairs were looked after by Islam. Only such a state could overcome the false Sykes-Picot borders pencilled in a century ago – and be independent of external influence, providing security to the region and unifying it with other lands. It is the political system that is consistent with the peoples' beliefs and values and rooted in their history.
The idea that there is some stepping stone or interim overlooks the obvious solution – and the Islamic solution – which the international powers have conspired against and have done all they can to subvert.
Once upon a time, the warring state of Yathrib, plagued by tribal conflict, became Al Madinah Al Munawwarah because of Islam. It is a reminder that everyone would do well to heed. Tribes that warred with one another became united as brothers. Non-Muslims were brought in by the Islamic constitution to be citizens with rights to be protected by the Muslims. The Ansar aided refugees who migrated from Makkah, the Muhajiroon, like brothers. The state rapidly became the leading light in the Arabian Peninsula, then embarked upon carrying Islam to the world.
The naysayers and pessimists would have us think that such a thing is impossible. They clearly have not studied their Islam, or indeed other history. The leading nation in the world today, the United States of America was born out of a bitter war of independence – followed by an even more bitter Civil War.
It is absurd that people give legitimacy to external powers who are trying to impose a secular solution onto the Middle East when 'Plan A' (i.e. Sykes Picot) is unravelling. Yet, they cannot see that the Islamic system will be what offers hope of a real solution to a region that has been plagued since that Islamic system was removed from political life decades ago.
Dr Abdul Wahid is a regular contributor to New Civilisation. He is currently the Chairman of the UK-Executive Committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain. He has been published in The Times Higher Educational Supplement and on the websites of Foreign Affairs, Open Democracy and the Prospect Magazine.
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Current: Is Israel a Colonial State? The Political Psychology of Palestinian Nomenclature
Is Israel a Colonial State? The Political Psychology of Palestinian Nomenclature
Dr. Irwin J. Mansdorf, March 7, 2010
Dr. Irwin J. Mansdorf
Filed under: Europe and Israel, International Law, Palestinians, The Middle East
Arab world, Colonialism, international law, Israel, Jewish homeland, middle east, Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Palestinians
Publication: Jerusalem Viewpoints
No. 576 March-April 2010
Israel's creation, far from being a foreign colonial transplant, can actually be seen as the vanguard of and impetus for decolonialization of the entire Middle East, including a significant part of the Arab world, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
What is not popularly recognized is how the Arab world benefited from the Balfour Declaration and how it served the Arab world in their nationalist goals and helped advance their own independence from the colonial powers of England and France.
Despite the essentially parallel processes of independence from colonial and protectorate influence over the first half of the twentieth century, only one of the national movements at the time and only one of the resulting states, namely Israel, is accused of being "colonial," with the term "settler-colonialist" applied to the Zionist enterprise
This term, however, can assume validity only if it is assumed that the "settlers" have no indigenous roots and rights in the area. As such, this is yet another example of psychological manipulation for political purposes. The notion of "settler" dismisses any historical or biblical connection of Jews to the area. Hence, the importance of denial of Jewish rights, history, and claims to the area.
Lest there be any confusion about what a "settler" is, those who use the terminology "settler-colonialist" against Israel clearly mean the entire Zionist enterprise, including the original territory of the State of Israel in 1948. The "colonial Israel" charge is thus rooted in an ideological denial of any Jewish connection to the ancient Land of Israel.
Psychological factors often play a role in the development of political views. In the Israel-Arab conflict, one of the ways in which psychological factors operate is in the formation of "mantras" that do not necessarily reflect either the historical record or applicable international law.1 Examples include the use of descriptions of occupation as "illegal"2 and the determination that there is a "right" of resistance3 or a "right" of return.4 When used over and over again, these descriptions, despite their questionable legitimacy, can alter perceptions. Once perceptions change, attitudes and behavior change as well, leading to partial and ultimately biased views of historical and political reality.
Language thus becomes an important psychological tool both in correctly describing events and in perpetuating beliefs based on narratives that do not accurately reflect history. Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad is among those that have portrayed Israel as a colonial entity based on an illegitimate and racist movement, namely Zionism.5 In the eyes of many, it is a foreign element implanted into the Middle East where organizations such as the United Nations6 and political activists such as Chomsky7 describe Arabs as "indigenous" and Jews as "immigrants." The charge of colonialism has become a major theme in criticizing Israel throughout the academic world and is part of the language of the discourse.8 The language of "colonialism" and its related terms (e.g., ethnic cleansing) have been incorporated into academic coursework even in Israel.9 An examination of the actual history and events related to the Middle East, in general, and Palestine, in particular, however, fails to confirm the reality behind the "colonial Israel" moniker. Israel's creation, far from being a foreign colonial transplant, can actually be seen as the vanguard of and impetus for decolonialization of the entire area, including a significant part of the Arab world, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Beginning of the End of Colonialism in the Middle East: The Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration is historically viewed as the document that first recognized the rights of Jews to a national home and independence in Palestine. Accordingly, it is perceived in the Arab world as a document that began what was seen as an illegitimate process of dispossessing Arabs from their lands. What is not popularly recognized, however, is how the Arab world benefited from the Balfour Declaration and how it helped advance their own independence from the colonial powers of England and France. Nowhere is this made clearer than in the Peel Commission Report of 1937, which stated:
The fact that the Balfour Declaration was issued in order to enlist Jewish support for the Allies and the fact that this support was forthcoming are not sufficiently appreciated in Palestine. The Arabs do not appear to realize in the first place that the present position of the Arab world as a whole is mainly due to the great sacrifices made by the Allied and Associated Powers in the War and, secondly, that, insofar as the Balfour Declaration helped to bring about the Allies' victory, it helped to bring about the emancipation of all the Arab countries from Turkish rule. If the Turks and their German allies had won the War, it is improbable that all the Arab countries, except Palestine, would now have become or be about to become independent states.10
The Balfour Declaration, thus, not only served as the stimulus for Jewish independence, but, curiously enough, served the Arab world in their nationalist goals as well. This was largely seen outside of Palestine, but insofar as Palestine is concerned, there was initially an absence of nationalism with a distinct "Palestinian" identity. The Peel Report notes, "The Arabs had always regarded Palestine as included in Syria."11 The plan, under an agreement between Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann (the Feisal-Weizmann agreement), was that the Arabs would recognize Jewish rights and independence over Western Palestine as called for in the Balfour Declaration, while Feisal's family would retain control of Syria and the area known as Trans-Jordan. The failure of this agreement, and the resultant conflict that ensued, was a result of the French refusal to relinquish their colonial control and recognize the rights of Emir Feisal in Syria.12
Arab Denial of Jewish Rights and History in Palestine
The breakdown of the Feisal-Weizmann agreement and the reversal on Arab acceptance of the Balfour Declaration launched a period of Arab nationalism accompanied by violence between Jews and Arabs. Today, despite the documented history of the Jewish people in the area that was known as Palestine and Feisal's acceptance of the Jewish presence there, the Arab world continues to deny this history, both in official policy and in popular media. The U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report of 2009 notes that Palestinian Authority textbooks "often ignored historical Jewish connections to Israel and Jerusalem."13
This thinking is reflected in the charters of both leading Palestinian movements. The Palestinian National Charter of 1968 declared the Balfour Declaration null and void and said: "Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood."14 The issue of recognizing Jewish as opposed to Israeli rights remains a sticking point between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.15 The Hamas Covenant makes several statements expressing Islamic hegemony over the area known as Palestine, along with several references to the Jews usurping Palestine and challenging Islam.16
Academic circles in Palestinian Arab society also subscribe to these notions. Al-Quds University posts a "History of Jerusalem"17 that repeatedly implies that the Jewish "narrative" is a "myth"; that King David, whose very existence is questioned, was probably part of an "idealized" community of "Israelites" that had no connection to Jerusalem; that those "Israelites" never experienced an exodus from Egypt (Al-Quds claims this "story" was "appropriated" from a Canaanite legend); that Joshua's conquest never took place; that Solomon's Temple was actually a center of pagan worship; and that the Western Wall was probably just part of a Roman fortress. In the Al-Quds rendition of the "conquests" of Palestine, Jews are not even mentioned, although ancient Egyptians, Hittites, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Muslim Arabs, Mamlukes, Ottomans and British are. Jews are nowhere to be found in the history of the land and have nothing to do with its past.
In popular Palestinian media, the notion of lack of historical connection between the Jews and Palestine has also been promoted, such as with television broadcasts denying any Jewish connection to the Western Wall.18 This belief is so pervasive that even Israeli-funded institutions have been exposed to it. In Jerusalem, the Tower of David Museum's head Arabic-speaking guide was dismissed19 after implying that there were no Jewish roots in Jerusalem, stating, in a Palestinian television interview, that the museum's documentary film was "full of historical lies and historical deceptions."20
The Connection between the Charge of Colonial Israel and Denial of Rights
The concerted effort in Arab circles to deny Jewish roots in Palestine/Israel is critical to claims of Jewish colonialism in Palestine. Palestinian spokespersons claim that since Jews are members of a religion and not a nation, any nationalistic aspirations based on a specific territory are invalid.21 The notion of Jews as a foreign entity in Palestine was advanced and popularized through the work of the late Edward Said in his seminal work, Orientalism,22 which continues to be seen as a foundation for post-colonial thinking in academia today.
The historical reality is quite different from what the Arab narrative, which has been adopted by many in academic and intellectual circles, presents.
The Colonial Background of the Entire Middle East
As a result of their colonial conquests, much of the Middle East area was under the control of the Ottoman Turks from 1516 through 1917. British colonial history includes their gaining control of the Gulf area between 1861 and 1899, turning the area into what one source called "a British lake."23 British officials would decide which of the prominent tribal families in the Gulf region would eventually become the rulers of the states that would eventually emerge. French colonialists took over Algeria in 1830, conquered Tunisia in 1881, and took control of Morocco in 1912.
Neither Jews nor Arabs enjoyed any modern independence in the area, which, by the end of World War I, had been under colonial control for many years. As a result of the mandate system that developed after the war and the secret Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916, British and French colonial interests were drawn and defined.
Decolonialization Following the Ottoman Defeat
Starting around the period of World War I, the entire Middle East underwent a process of decolonialization with the emergence of national movements. Jewish nationalism was consistent with the Balfour Declaration, which, after being incorporated into the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, uniquely called for settlement of Jews in Palestine as part of the Jewish National Home, without reference to their place of origin. Just as the British supported the Jewish national claims to Palestine, a number of source documents show that they also encouraged Arab nationalism as a tool in their own conflict against the Ottomans.24
The mechanism for the transformation from colonial independence for the majority of new states was the mandate system. Both the British and French mandates eventually yielded sovereignty to the populations of the Middle East as multiple independent states came into being. With Israel, the Jewish state was reconstituted, while the various tribal Arab populations that stemmed from the invasion of the seventh century25 now began carving out areas of influence and sovereignty. The Jews, far from being colonialists, were the beneficiaries of a national movement that aimed to renew Jewish sovereignty, but also which, along with Arab national movements, ended colonial control by forces that had no historical or indigenous roots in the region.
Indeed, it is an error to assume that Britain, as the mandatory power, gave the Jewish people their rights to claim Palestine. The 1922 Palestine Mandate specifically refers to the "historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine." Rather than creating a new right, the Mandate recognized a pre-existing right that clearly pre-dated the colonial powers.
The Mandate also calls for the Jewish people to begin "reconstituting of their national home," essentially stating that they were going to rebuild a national home that had been there before. Many of the Arab states, in contrast, were modern fabrications of the British and the French.
The Process of Independence
A look at a map of the Middle East will show that national movements eventually became national entities, with tribal factors largely accounting for the division of the area into independent countries. North Yemen became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The Hashemite monarchy in Iraq was granted independence in 1932 from England. Saudi Arabia (originally Hejaz and Nejd), although never colonized after World War I, became an independent kingdom in 1932 as well. Egypt, occupied by England since 1882, gained full independence in 1952. Lebanon and Syria became independent from the French Mandate in 1943 and 1946, respectively. Another Hashemite family in Jordan was granted independence in 1946 in territory originally a part of the Palestine Mandate. Independence also was eventually achieved by the British protectorates of Oman (1951), Kuwait (1961), South Yemen (1967), the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar (1971).
In addition to the formation of the various Arab states noted above, Jewish national self-determination was obtained in Palestine with the independence of Israel in 1948. While the dispute with the Arab residents of Palestine continues, the colonial entity, namely Britain, relinquished control in 1948. Prior to Israel's legal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza following the hostilities of 1967, Jordan illegally occupied the West Bank, while Gaza was administered by Egypt.
The fact of the matter was that in 1948, during its war of independence, Israel acted as an anti-colonial force. The troops of the Arab Legion of Transjordan fought under a British commander, and had British as well as Arab officers.26 The British, clearly a colonial power, had treaty obligations to both Egypt and Jordan. At one point Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, threatened to "defend Aqaba if necessary."27 British units were stationed in Egypt near the Suez Canal, the British were suspected of supplying sensitive intelligence information to Egypt, and the Israeli Air Force even clashed with a RAF squadron based in Egypt, downing five planes in 1949.28 While Israeli weapons came mostly by way of Czechoslovakia, the Arab states were equipped with weapons from the old colonial powers, Britain and France.29
Indeed, at the United Nations in 1949, when Britain and Italy submitted a draft resolution to put Libya under UN trusteeship, and deny it independence, Israel refused to go along with the colonial powers. By Israel abstaining, the British-Italian resolution did not get the required two-thirds support and was defeated.30 In short, both militarily and diplomatically, Israel served as an anti-colonial force during its early years.
Language and Perception: "Settler-Colonialism"
Despite the essentially parallel processes of independence from colonial and protectorate influence over the first half of the twentieth century, only one of the national movements at the time and only one of the resulting states, namely Israel, is accused of being "colonial." The accusation of colonialism against Israel is not without difficulty. Since the traditional definition of colonialists exploiting the native population and resources does not broadly apply to Jews and Zionism, how then, to continue the narrative of Israeli colonialism? The answer was the application of another type of colonialism, that of the "settler-colonialist," to the Zionist enterprise.31
This term, however, can assume validity only if it is assumed that the "settlers" have no indigenous roots and rights in the area. As such, this is yet another use of language to shape perceptions and another example of psychological manipulation for political purposes. Unlike any other "settler-colonial" state in history, Israel stands alone in that there is no identifiable foreign power that can be identified as the colonial entity. It goes without saying that the notion of "settler" also dismisses any historical or biblical connection of Jews to the area. Hence, the importance of denial of Jewish rights, history, and claims to the area.
The notion of Israeli colonialism, however, is so established in certain academic and political circles that its colonial identity is never questioned, and "settlers" are automatically considered agents of a colonial effort.32
Lest there be any confusion about what a "settler" is, despite the impression of some that the term applies only to those Israelis who have established communities in disputed territory after 1967, those who use the terminology "settler-colonialist" against Israel clearly mean the entire Zionist enterprise, including the original territory of the State of Israel in 1948.33 In fact, many contemporary Palestinian activists blithely and routinely assume, in their writing, that all Israelis are colonialists and all of "historic" Palestine has been occupied (e.g., Qumsiyeh,34 Abunimah35).
Reestablishing Accuracy: Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias
The "colonial Israel" charge is thus rooted in an ideological and cognitive denial of any Jewish connection to Palestine and the ancient Land of Israel. This can be either through a belief that the connection is weak because of the passage of time,36 or, as has been the case in Arab circles and in some revisionist Israeli ones,37 by flatly denying Jewish roots in the area.
Cognitive dissonance is the phenomenon whereby established beliefs are challenged by new, conflicting information that arouses a challenge to those core beliefs. Confirmation bias, on the other hand, is the term applied to seeking evidence that validates prior attitudes and beliefs. When confronted with dissonance, some may alter their beliefs to conform to the new information, but many, especially those that are ideologically invested with and committed to a particular view, continue in their established attitudes by adding justifications or interpretations that support or "confirm" the original cognition.
Just as committed Zionists would not accept a colonial narrative, presenting facts and arguments in response to accusations against Israel would not change attitudes for anti-Zionists, even when their core beliefs or attitudes feeding that position are challenged. In practice, ideologues seem to respond to challenges through "confirmation bias," seeking information consistent with their ideology that supports their core beliefs when dissonance is aroused.38 Attempting to change attitudes, thus, would appear to have a chance for success only when these attempts target those who are not predispositioned or biased towards particular political ideologies and when the information is accurate, not tendentious, and based on solid data.
The mechanism of dissonance reduction that is most central to the "settler-colonialist" argument is the notion that Jews do not constitute a national entity and thus cannot possibly have legitimate rights to what was known as Palestine. For those who are familiar with Jewish history and traditions, such as the specifics of the Jewish legal system applicable only in Israel or the role of the "Land of Israel" in Jewish liturgy, the speciousness of these notions is self-evident. For many others, however, this is either not recognized or not relevant.39 Challenging these beliefs involves two overlapping mechanisms: First, a firm recognition of the reality of Jewish roots and historical sovereignty in the area, and second, an acknowledgment that the modern reconstitution of Jewish nationalism was achieved through a legitimate process consistent with international law and the right to self-determination. Both tenets are taboo and are not even subject to discussion for many anti-Zionist ideologues.
Ideology, when unyielding and unbending, will be resistant to any cognitive dissonance.40 That is why, despite the historical record, the core notion of Israel as a "settler-colonialist" nation will continue to resonate in circles where nationalism is frowned upon, where religious history is irrelevant, where post-modern ideologies are entrenched and philosophically embraced, and where the notion of Jews as a people is not recognized.
1. I.J. Mansdorf, "The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Ideology in the Arab World: An Analysis of 'Occupation' and the 'Right of Return'," Israel Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (October 2007):899-915.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/opinion/annan-s-careless-language.html?scp=5&sq=George%20P%20Fletcher&st=cse
3. http://www.nysun.com/editorials/right-of-resistance/10510/
4. R. Lapidoth, "Legal Aspects of the Palestinian Refugee Question, Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints, no. 485, September 1, 2002.
5. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6679.shtml
6. Minority Rights Group International, World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Israel: Overview, 2007, http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4954ce50c.html
7. http://www.chomsky.info/books/dissent01.htm
8. R. Aharonson, "Settlement in Eretz Israel – A Colonialist Enterprise? 'Critical' Scholarship and Historical Geography," Israel Studies, 1(2) (Fall 1996):214-229.
9. http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/mapmes/uploadDocs/Syllabus-_Yftachel_-_Cohen_2008-9.doc
10. http://unispal.un.org/pdfs/Cmd5479.pdf (ch. II, para. 19, p. 24).
11. Op. cit., para. 23, p. 2.5
12. Op. cit., para. 25-28, pp. 26-28.
13. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127349.htm
14. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
15. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1099520.html
16. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
17. http://www.alquds.edu/gen_info/index.php?page=jerusalem_history
18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVJviDcVBc
19. P. Cidor, "Obliterated in Translation," Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2010.
20. PA TV (Fatah), November 13, 2009.
21. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-11-16/news/0711160197_1_islamic-erekat-jewish-state
22. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979).
23. Y. Tareq, J.S. Ismael, and K.A.J. Ismael, Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa (University Press of Florida, 1991), p. 453.
24. "British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement," in G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley, eds., The Last Years of Peace – British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914, Vol. X, Part II (1938), pp. 824-838.
25. W.I. Saadeh, "The Three Phases of Arab History, Excerpt from 'History of Arab Thought'," Arab-American Affairs, vol. 32, no. 211 (June-July 2004), http://www.arab-american-affairs.net/archives/arab-history.htm
26. T.N. Dupuy, Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 (New York: Harper Collins, 1978), p. 121.
27. N. Aridan, Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-1957 (London: Taylor and Francis, 2004), p. 8.
28. Z. Tzahor, "The 1949 Air Clash between the Israeli Air Force and the RAF," Journal of Contemporary History, 28 (1)(1993):75-101.
29. Zach Levey, "Arms and Armaments in the Middle East," Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2004, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3424600327.html.
30. Gideon Rafael, Destination Peace: Three Decades of Israeli Foreign Policy (New York: Stein and Day, 1981), pp. 21-22.
31. M. Rodinson, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? (Pathfinder Press, 1973). http://www.alternativenews.org/michael-warschawski/2187-israel-colonial-states-and-racism-.html
32. http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no2_2007/veracini_settler.htm
33. Op. cit., 20, 21.
34. http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/projo_20050821_21gaza.31eacd0.html
35. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7012.shtml
36. http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/41215
37. S. Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2009).
38. C.S. Taber and M. Lodge, "Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs," American Journal of Political Science, 50(3) (2006):755-769.
39. F.M. Perko, "Contemporary American Christian Attitudes to Israel Based on the Scriptures," Israel Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, (Summer 2003):1-17, http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/israel_studies/v008/8.2perko.html
40. B. Nyhan and J. Reifler, "When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions, in Political Behavior, in press. J. Bullock, "The Enduring Importance of False Political Beliefs," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 17, 2006.
Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD, is an Israeli psychologist who has published widely on the subject of political psychology as it relates to the Israel-Arab conflict. He also directs the SWU leadership program in Israel-Arab studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem.
Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, PhD., is a clinical psychologist and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He directs the Center's Israel-Arab studies program for university students.
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Q: Change length of JTextPane array I want to create an array of JTextPane that it's size and values change through out the execution of my program, such as arrayList.
Is it possible to do it similar to an arrayList?
I've two JFrames. In the first frame I have a JList with about 100 items.
After selecting any of the items I want to paste them per Drag&Drop to the second frame.
The second frame has a GridBagLayout, hence I want to paste each selected item to an
array of JTextPane after dropping the items.
I want to use JTextPane because I want to format the selected text.

A: now I found a solution and my code seems to work:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class RefreshPanel {

private JFrame frame = new JFrame();
private JPanel panel = new JPanel();
private JTextPane [] textPane;
private JScrollPane scrollbar;
private ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList();
private JButton newItem = new JButton("new");
private int counter=0;
private GridBagLayout gbl = new GridBagLayout();

RefreshPanel() {
    panel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
    panel.setLayout(gbl);
    panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,50));

    scrollbar = new JScrollPane(panel);

    addButtonListener();

    createFrame();
} //constructor

public void addButtonListener() {
    newItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
            arrayList.add("data");
            textPane = new JTextPane[arrayList.size()];
            for(int i=0;i<arrayList.size();i++) {
                textPane[i]=new JTextPane();
                textPane[i].setText((String) arrayList.get(i));
                addComponent(panel, gbl, textPane[i], 1, counter, 1, 1,1,1);
                counter++;
            }
        }
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    gbc.gridwidth = width; gbc.gridheight = height;
    gbc.weightx = weightx; gbc.weighty = weighty;
    gbl.setConstraints( c, gbc );
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    frame.add(scrollbar);
    frame.add(newItem);
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    frame.setSize(new Dimension(300,300));
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But there is a little something which won't work: the items appears when I change the size of the frame, but I don't know why... any ideas?
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Bonbon Chocolate Workshop in Amsterdam, by Mokum Events.
You will be welcomed in the old city centre where we will first enjoy a drink. We will start making sweets with cacao, sugar, moulds etc under the competent supervision of a professional.
Make your own sweets, shapes, chocolate drops or any other chocolate fantasy you wish to produce. Impress your classmates and don't forget to take home your best creations!
The workshops of Mokum Events can be offered in Dutch, as well as in English.


The latest Google Analytics and Adwords updates have a focus on multi-channel attribution and providing marketers with better clarity on what's driving conversions. These features and the increasing emphasis on both cross-channel and multi-channel marketing strategies highlight the increasing complexity of getting the attention of customers.
Of course if you want to hear directly from the ISPs themselves and pepper them with questions, there's always our all star ISP panel at Interact 2013 – The Digital Messaging Industry Conference. If you have a burning question on deliverability in your mind, register today!
Or is it? The DMA recently tested two different email designs in a split test and found that the skinny design had 61% more clicks. But wait – there's more to the story. While on the surface the mobile optimized version seemed like a clear winner, it seemed that the copy and call-to-action from one particular link was driving the increase since the copy was not standardized between the 2 versions. In a second test where the copy was the same, there was no discernable click rate response difference.
How do you define engagement? Goals need to be clearly stated and the difference between an engaged and disengaged subscriber should be clear.
How do you measure engagement? Define metrics such as those from social, user-generated feedback and those from surveys as well.
How do your engagement metrics compare with the competition?
What is your strategy for improving engagement?
Find out more about cross-channel banking and how to make shifting customer behavior work for your bank in our webinar!


As you know, SEO is very big ocean but some of best free online link building tools which I've found for you. Your site can't perform well in the search engine without having good link building strategy. You can also increase domain authority of your website. This is the most important element which you can't ignore it.
There is a lot of confusion as a blogger what should do or what shouldn't do?
Brain dean said that there are more than 200 factors which Google's consider a website for ranking. One of them is link building.
You can see in above image link building 22.33% dominate in ranking. So, you should practice for making good links to your sites from an authoritative website.
Link building is a part of Off-page SEO. For ranking, a site always needs to be good in off-page or on-page SEO as well. Here, I'm only talking about best 15 Link Building Tools that you can use to win SEO game.
There are three different pricing plans including a free plan. In the free plan, you can see inbound link, external link, referring domain, Anchor text backlink etc.
This is offered by MozSEO where you can see the detailed insight of your competitor's site. You can use only three times in a day for free if you want more site to analyze then you have to upgrade to a trial version.
It allows you to create a complete analysis of your site and your competitor's website. Just enter the site link and what opportunities you can use for link building.
Raven SEO tools provide you an extensive option for competitive analysis as well as comprehensive marketing tool. You can check where is lacking your website that you can solve your weakness quickly. This is a perfect solution for your link building strategy with extra features to level up your SEO. You can use for 14 days trial version after that you can upgrade if you want to continue using it.
This is my favorite link building tools for researching about competitors website. You can analyze from where they are building links and track them by following same to beat them in search results. Ahref tool gives you power that you can easily do keyword research, content research, backlink research etc. You can see what your competitors are hiding, which keyword their content are ranking and outrank them.
This is not just about link building it's a complete All-in-one SEO tool. They offer everything that you can use for performance, ranking and comprehensive reports for analyzing the competitor's website data.
You can get 30 days free trial of Moz Pro. Later you can upgrade with 99$ per month which is similar to Raven and Ahref). With Moz Pro, you can track rankings, monitor for onsite issues, improve your onsite SEO, monitor social growth, see exactly how traffic is performing, benchmark against your competitor, steal their best backlinks and much more!
We have already reviewed about Semrush-SEO tools. It helps you in-depth analysis of the website to find and fix On page/Off page SEO issues. This is also known as keyword research tools. With the help of Semrush, you can check competitors profile links and use to build the link to own website.
You can get SEMRUSH 30 day free trial from here.
Buzzstream is a software for link building tools and a comprehensive link management system. It allows you to Send personalized, efficient, relationship-based outreach that gets great results. It is highly recommended for link research, backlink tracking, and analysis. You can save time to speed up the research process. There are three different pricing plans starting from 99$ per month.
Ninja outreach is a no-brainer link building tools for anyone that deals with list building or blogger outreach. I can say this is a phenomenal tool for different link building campaigns and then automating the necessary outreach. It helps to reach key influencers on your content with over 5 million influencers in their database.
Buzzsumo is the most important tool for content marketing and SEO campaign. It allows you to find latest trends and their outreach that you can create most linkable and sharing content to get more links on your website.
You have to upgrade then you can find your competitors backlinks and social shares. This tools that every content marketing expert or blogger are using for making good shareable content on planets.
This is a very helpful tool and easy to use that provides link data, extensive report of your competitors. You can easily monitor their success and keep eyes on what they are doing. This way you can optimize your link building strategy to find links that point to their websites. Their premium plan starting from 40$ per month to get full accessibility.
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New South Wales - Publications Details
Report 81 (1997) - Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW)
Law Reform Commission New South Wales, 1997
http://www.lawreform.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/Publications/Reports/Report-81.pdf
Glossary Terms
Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (1987 - )
Adoption of Children Act 1965 (1965 - 2003)
Discussion Paper 34 (1994) - Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW), Law Reform Commission New South Wales, April 1994, http://web.archive.org/web/20110408153244/http://lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/DP34TOC. Details
Issues Paper 9 (1993) - Review of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 (NSW), Law Reform Commission New South Wales, May 1993, http://web.archive.org/web/20110605164433/http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/IP9TOC. Details
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/nsw/bib/NP0000196.htm


BBC Worldwide confirms details of the forthcoming Doctor Who live tour.
BBC Worldwide has confirmed that Nigel Planer has joined the forthcoming Doctor Who live tour.
The Young Ones star will play "intergalactic showman" Vorgenson, a character created exclusively for the event by writer Steven Moffat. The role is described as "The Doctor's biggest fan".
"I'm incredibly excited to be joining Doctor Who Live and this role is something of a boyhood dream come true," said Planer. "My character Vorgenson... is the Greatest Showman in the Galaxy and using his incredible invention, 'The Minimiser', he can make any Doctor Who character appear on stage as part of his travelling show dedicated to his hero."
The show will follow Vorgenson's journey as he summons famous monsters from the series on stage. Matt Smith will also appear as The Doctor in pre-filmed sequences.
Tour producer Craig Stanley added: "This show has something for everyone - Doctor Who fans, of course - but also anyone with a love of incredible illusions, immersive storytelling, magical music, scary monsters and intergalactic heroes."
It has also been confirmed that Nicholas Briggs, who provides the voices for the Daleks and the Cybermen, will feature on the tour as Winston Churchill. Briggs previously played Rick Yates in Torchwood: Children of Earth.
The Doctor Who live tour begins in London at Wembley Arena on October 8, and will visit Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Cardiff and Liverpool before culminating in Belfast on November 7.


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92: Andrew head-on crashed his snowmobile
I've lived in places where the winter is really cold. Personally, I can say I prefer to live here in Florida, where it's usually relatively warm.
I don't miss shoveling snow, or driving on roads that are icy, and it's been a long time since my fingers and toes felt numb from the cold temperatures. I know some people prefer a colder climate, and I'm fine with that. The world is more interesting because we are all different.
But when you live in an area where there's cold weather and lots of snow, one of the things that makes it more bearable, and even fun, is to ride on a snowmobile. These things are a blast. For an avid snowmobiler, there is nothing better than a sunny day and a wide open field of fresh snow.
And my guest today, Andrew, definitely falls into that category – he is a huge fan of snowmobiles. He goes out riding every time he gets a chance. And he's one of those guys that sees a hill, and he knows that with enough speed, he can get his machine to go airborne. That's his thrill, and he's been doing it for years.
But there was this one day, he went flying up a hill and caught air, without realizing that there was someone on the other side of that hill. Someone on a snowmobile, coming TOWARD Andrew, who also was about to fly through the air, at the exact same time.
And in that split second, while they were both in the air, Andrew realized that the other driver was someone he knew very well.
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Toyota Yaris | What Car?
Disproving the theory that all superminis are much of a muchness from a mechanical perspective is the Toyota Yaris.
It's the only car here with a six-speed manual gearbox and an engine stop-start system; and if you question the benefits of either, a few figures should help. It averages 55.4mpg and its CO2 emissions are rated at just 120g/km, which means you'll pay only 35 road tax.
Chuck in a list price of 11,515 (easily discounted by 1100) and the potential to retain 42% of its original asking price after three years, and it's enough to put a smile on the face of a miser.
The stop-start system demands no contortions or feats of memory just put the car into neutral with your foot off the clutch when you pull up at the lights and the 99bhp 1.33-litre engine cuts out. Dip the clutch and it coughs politely back into life.
The Yaris is different in other ways, too, focusing on delivering practicality without spreading its size into the neighbouring postal area, unlike some. It's less than 3.8 metres long, yet only fractionally taller than the loftiest of the rest (the Jazz) to compensate.
Instead, it gets its internal space by having two sliding rear seat sections that allow passenger and luggage space to be varied minutely.
The only drawback is that, to create any worthwhile rear legroom, the seats have to be so far back that the boot is hardly worth mentioning.
The Yaris has the best selection of in-car storage spaces, too. In keeping with Toyota's we'll-do-it-our-own-way approach, though, its digital instrument pod is in the centre of the dashboard and there's a lidded box above the steering wheel. Wrong way round, surely?
Sadly, that's as far as the fun and games go. Toyota appears to be unconcerned about letting the driver derive some enjoyment. The Yaris is a joyless thing to drive, so utterly ordinary (at best) as to leave you lost for words.
At least it has the light and simple controls typical of a Toyota, and that will probably be enough to satisfy most owners. It's a shame, though. There's potentially a really clever car here, but Toyota has fluffed the chance.


Abilene police arrested an intoxicated man Saturday who was being held at gunpoint by two men for scaring one man's daughter and her friends.
Police reported that when they arrived in the 2500 block of South 28th Street at about 9 p.m., they instructed the two neighbors to put away their guns. Witnesses reported that the 36-year-old suspect initially had wandered into one of the men's yards, police said.
When the man's daughter and her friends went out, the man allegedly approached them while talking to himself and inanimate objects in the man's carport. The girls felt threatened and returned inside the house, police said.
The daughter's father came outside holding a gun and told the man to leave. The suspect then threw something at the man, which turned out to be a ring. The suspect stated he was returning it, police said.
As the suspect was being taken into custody, he resisted arrest. He later resisted being placed in a patrol vehicle. The man told police he had methamphetamine in pocket. The narcotic weighed 0.07 grams.
The man was charged with resisting arrest, public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance and taken to Taylor County Jail. His bonds total $8,605.
A witness reported that a woman was walking barefoot in traffic and then walked to a yard where she removed her shirt. Police said that the woman took a crack pipe out of her back pocket, stated she had methamphetamine in her bra and had smoked meth earlier in the day. She was taken to jail.
A vehicle was stolen from outside a convenience store.
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A hotel clerk reported being robbed. A suspect could not be identified at the time, police said.
A 25-year-old Breckenridge woman was arrested for concealing in her clothing several craft store items totaling $51.93 and walking past all points of sale. She had a warrant for public nuisance and a previous theft conviction, enhancing the theft charge for this arrest.
A husband and wife got into a verbal argument after playing drinking games. The man allegedly pinned his wife against the washing machine and threatened her. She ran into the house, locked the door and then left the residence and drove away. Police arrived at the house to find the man in yelling in the front yard. He was arrested.
Someone used a fake $100 bill to buy four boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
A 25-year-old woman was arrested in the early morning after allegedly hitting her mother on the arm. The two had been arguing after the daughter came out of the shower naked and complained about hearing people on the roof and in the backyard. When police arrived, the daughter was still arguing with the mother. In searching the daughter's purse for her identification, police said they found tablets of citalopram hydrobromide and clonazepam, for which she did not have a prescription. She was arrested, and her bonds total $6,000.
At about 10:15 a.m., a 43-year-old woman was arrested after arguing with family members and hitting her mother. The suspect was upset because there was no Cream of Wheat for breakfast, police reported. Because of a previous assault conviction, the charge was enhanced to a state-jail felony. The suspect's bond was set at $3,500.
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Double Fine's heavy metal opus Brutal Legend is now backward compatible on Xbox One • Eurogamer.net
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Double Fine's heavy metal action adventure Brutal Legend is the latest game to receive backward compatibility support on Xbox One, arriving alongside the perhaps marginally less well-known Greg Hastings Paintball 2.
Brutal Legend, for those unfamiliar, was Double Fine's follow-up to the cult classic brain-probing platformer Psychonauts, and launched on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC in 2009. It was pitched as an open-world action-adventure, and told the tale of Eddie Riggs (played by Jack Black), a roadie transported to a strange fantasy land where heavy metal reigned supreme.
As you might expect, the music influences run deep; not only is the entire world designed to resemble the classic rock album covers of the 70s and 80s, it features a massive soundtrack, featuring 107 songs from the likes of Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, and Cradle of Filth. Furthermore, its cast list sees voice acting stalwarts such as Jennifer Hale and Tim Curry joined by rock legends including Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzy Osbourne.
Where Brutal Legend takes a funny turn, however, is in its other influence, with a surprisingly large chunk of the game taking the form of an unexpectedly involved real-time strategy game, where players must acquire "fans" in order to build and control an army of unlikely units in order to defend their stage from the forces of evil. Both halves of the game somehow work, but mileage may vary for players hoping for more of the raucous adventure brawling that defines Brutal Legend's opening few hours. Eurogamer's Christian Donlan liked the whole thing well enough on release, giving it an 8/10 in his review.
Moving on, Xbox One's other newly backward-compatible experience, Greg Hastings Paintball 2, is not a game I'm personally familiar with. However, a quick jaunt over to Wikipedia tells me that it's a first-person paintball game from back in 2010. I honestly have no idea if it's any good, and a look into Eurogamer's musty archives reveals no illuminating articles to share. However, if anyone has anything to add about its merits, please do so the comments.
If you've an original Xbox 360 disc copy of either Brutal Legend or Greg Hastings Paintball 2, you just need to pop it in your Xbox One for the console's backward-compatibility magic to unfold. Alternatively, Brutal Legend is available to purchase digitally via the Xbox Store, priced at 11.99/$14.99 USD. Greg Hastings Paintball 2, alas, is not.
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Q: Product shipping banner I'm using this to display if a product is available for next day delivery
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But instead of text I would like to display a banner image,
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A: As far as I understand and using this image only as an example

you can just add the URL with the img tag.

It would be something like this.
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        case 'next-day':
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If it is not working, please show what error display as more info about where you are displaying this or on what hook of WC.


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Summer holidays are almost here and it's a great time to engage in some open-ended art activities that support your children in creating, experimenting and exploring ideas and materials in fun, creative, and meaningful ways.
Making and creating doesn't require investment in expensive art materials. Make the most of summer and explore and find materials from the beach, your garden and your recycle bin, and start creating. When we create our installations and creative projects at Capital E, we always endeavour to work in sustainable ways by re-purposing and use recycled and natural materials. They are free and fun to find or make, and are much better for the environment.
Below are some tried and tested suggestions for fun, sensory, and practical art activity ideas you and your child (4+) could try out this summer. If you don't have any paint available you could try making your own homemade and non-toxic paint out of household staples. Blend 1/2 cup of flour with 1/2 cup of salt and add 1/2 cup of water. Divide it up into several sealable sandwich bags and add a few drops of liquid food colouring to each bag and mix it. This is also a great opportunity to experiment with colour mixing!
Stones are fun to collect on the beach, and great for drawing on and creating with. You could create a stone family stone animal farm, a beach sculpture or make up a fun game!


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Corinne Antignac est pédiatre, néphrologue, généticienne, professeur de médecine et spécialiste de génétique moléculaire en pédiatrie à l'hôpital Necker-Enfants malades.  Elle étudie les maladies génétiques et plus particulièrement les maladies des rénales héréditaires. Elle est professeur de génétique à l'université de Paris et directrice du laboratoire IMAGINE de l'INSERM.

Corinne Antignac s'est consacrée à l'identification des gènes impliqués dans les maladies rénales héréditaires et rares comme la cystinose ou le syndrome d'Alport.

Elle est membre de l'Académie des sciences section : biologie humaine et sciences médicales élue membre le 17 décembre 2019.

Corinne Antignac est PU-PH université Paris-Descartes/Université de Paris, praticienne hospitalière AP-HP, chercheuse dans l'unité U1163 du laboratoire de l'Inserm / Imagine.

Biographie
En 1994, Corinne Antignac soutient une thèse à Paris-VI sous la direction du Dr Junien sur les néphropathies héréditaires avec anomalies des membranes basales : syndrome d'alport et néphronophthise.

En 1999, Corinne Antignac elle est recrutée comme chercheuse à  l'INSERM. Elle y dirige actuellement le laboratoire Imagine.

Le professeur Corinne Antignac exerce à l'hôpital Necker Enfants malades en tant que pédiatre, néphrologue. Son domaine de recherche s'étend sur les pathologies génétiques sur les enfants malades et particulièrement sur les maladies rénales héréditaires.

Publications

Elle est l'autrice de nombreuses publications.

 Pathologies néphrologiques
En 2006, Elle a travaillé sur les Mutations des gènes du système rénine-angiotensine et dysgénésie tubulaire rénale .

En juin 2020, le défaut de pseudouridylation dû aux mutations DKC1 et NOP10 provoque un syndrome néphrotique avec cataractes, déficience auditive et entérocolite.

En 2020, génération d'une lignée de cellules souches pluripotentes induites (iPSC) (IMAGINi007) à partir d'un patient atteint d'un syndrome néphrotique résistant aux stéroïdes portant la mutation homozygote p.R138Q dans le gène NPHS2 codant la .

En février 2021, Elle a étudié les variations pathogènes bi-alléliques de l'ADNJB11 provoquent le syndrome d'Ivemark II, une dysplasie rénale-hépatique-pancréatique .

 Pathologies neurologiques

En mars 2021, sur l'origine du syndrome neurologique Galloway-Mowat .

Responsabilités académiques
En 2019, elle fait partie de la commission spéciale chargée d'examiner le projet de loi relatif à la bioéthique.

En 2021, elle a dirigé 10 thèses, a été présidente de jury pour 2 thèses et a été rapporteuse pour 2 thèses.

Honneurs et récompenses

 Prix Eloie Collery de l'Académie nationale de médecine, 2001
 Prix international Lillian Jean Kaplan, 2009
 Élection à l'Académie des sciences, 2019

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Académie des sciences Corinne Antignac

Femme biologiste
Membre de l'Académie des sciences (France)
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Biologiste français
Pédiatre français
Néphrologue français
Recherche en France
Interne des hôpitaux de Paris
Généticien français
Médecin généticien

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Rush's Morning Update: Games? October 4, 2010
Rush's Morning Update: Games?
A 23-year-old student in Germany has created a firestormover a video game he produced,due to be released on the 20th anniversary of German reunification.
The game is called "1378," for the length in kilometers of the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. Players have the option of assuming the role of an East German border guardand are awarded points for shooting fugitives attempting to flee East Germany. But later in the game, guards are transported to the year 2000and face trial for killing on behalf of the communist regime. The other option is for players to take the role of the fugitives. If caught, they're either shotor imprisoned.
Jens Stober, who developed the game as part of his university degree program, defends its educational value. "Becoming an East German escapee or border guard enables players to identify with these figures," he says. "It's a novel way of encouraging young people to take an interest in coming to terms with recent German history." Really?
Families of the thousand or so real human beings who died trying to escape East Germany are outraged;they say the game "makes a mockery" of the victims' lives.
So if you think disdain for the sacrifice of innocents is a cultural norm for just American liberals– think again. What's next for this young gamer? Graduate work producing a 9/11 game, in which players can pretend to fly planes into the World Trade Center? Imagine how much novel "fun" and "education" that would be.


This A-line backless dress features a spaghetti halter neckline. The tiered chiffon top with a floor-length chiffon skirt adds a flavour of elegance to the dress.
Shocked would be the word used to describe my feelings towards this dress. The quality is absolutely fantastic.


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Laviai Nielsen (born 13 March 1996) is a British sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She won several medals as a member of the Great Britain 4x400 metres relay teams, including silver at the 2017 World Championships and bronze at the 2022 World Championships.

In 2015, she took gold medal in the 400 m at the European Junior Championships

Nielsen has an identical twin sister, Lina Nielsen, who is also an international athlete in the same events.

In August 2022, Laviai disclosed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the summer of 2021. Her twin sister, Lina, had revealed that she was suffering from the same condition two weeks earlier, having been diagnosed in 2013, when she was 17. As MS has a genetic element, Lavaia was considered to be at higher risk of the illness following Lina's diagnosis.

Early life
Nielsen grew up in Leytonstone, East London. At 16, she was a bag carrier for British heptathlete Jessica Ennis at the 2012 London Olympics, a pivotal experience in her development as an athlete. "I stood behind Jessica Ennis and when she came out the crowd cheering was the loudest thing I've heard in my life," she later recalled. "I thought, 'I want that'."

, she was taking a year out from her geography degree at King's College London. Nielsen is an Athlete Ambassador for sport for development charity, Right to Play..

Career

2011-19
Nielsen was initially a middle distance runner, but in 2013 she and her twin sister were approached at an event and persuaded to change specialism to the 400 metres. Laviai proceeded to reduce her 400m personal best by 2 seconds within 2 months, and a further four seconds by the following season.

Nielsen's breakthrough year came in 2015, when she won gold in the 400 metres at the 2015 European Junior Championships in Sweden. She topped this off by running the final leg for the winning 4 x 400 metres relay team, with her sister Lina running the second leg. Nielsen also lowered her personal best to 52.25s, the British junior's third-fastest performance of all time and the fastest time since 33 years. She finished the season ranked number 2 in the UK. This success earned Nielsen a place on the Jaguar Land Rover Academy of Sport programme, which offers financial support and mentoring.

In February 2017, she recorded a personal best of 51.90s at an indoor meet in Birmingham. In the summer, she reached the final of the 400 metres at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, finishing fourth to miss out on a bronze medal by just 0.27 seconds. On the final day of the championships, she ran the anchor leg of the 4 x 400 metre relay, winning the silver medal behind a strong Polish team.

2020-present
She became a double British champion when successfully defending her 400 metres title at the 2020 British Athletics Championships in a time of 51.72 secs.

In December 2021, Nielsen had her lottery funding removed by UK Athletics after she refused to stop working directly with coach Rana Reider, with UK Athletics saying: "any athlete working directly with Rana Reider, given the confirmed complaints of sexual misconduct against him from US Safe Sport, will not be able to be supported through the World Class Programme." Nielsen returned to the Olympic relay funding stream at the end of 2022.

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1996 births
Living people
People from Leytonstone
Athletes from London
British female sprinters
English female sprinters
British identical twins
World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
World Athletics Championships medalists
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Black British sportswomen
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Great Britain
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One of my favorite categories of books is without a doubt biography. There's just something about learning what makes a person tick and what made them get to where they are today that is intriguing. This marks the first time that I have read an "unauthorized" biography, but "Fighter The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St-Pierre" does not fail to deliver on several points.
Before we divulge into what the book gets into, a bit of a background on myself. My first UFC PPV was UFC 56. Prior to watching "Boiling Point" I had never watched a single minute of mma. But UFC 56 was my launching point and there has yet to be an event that I have missed.
Being the fanatic that I am, I knew most of the history of the UFC and several of its high profile fighters. But finding information about a fighter outside of the UFC can and is difficult. That's where "Fighter The Unauthorized Biography of GSP" comes into play with the current UFC welterweight champion.
The book starts out with a history lesson on the UFC and how it came about. While some people may already know the story, there are arguably more fans who do not know a thing about that very first historical event. Considering how many fighters will mention seeing UFC 1 and what Royce Gracie was able to do is their inspiration, the fans should know and understand this.
The book then chronicles the career path of GSP from his amateur fights all the way through his fight against Josh Koscheck at UFC 124. The details of each fight make those who remember the fight relive it, and those who hadn't seen it, be able to picture it crystal clear.
Where the book lacks compared to other biographies I have read of fighters is due in part to the fact that this is an unauthorized biography where as the others were autobiographies. And by that I mean we do not get to understand what was going through GSP's head. Where this would be most interesting would be after his losses to Hughes and Serra. Both of which provided to be a turning point in his career.
Other insights that would be great to learn about include the changing of his diet, changes in training camps, if he really was partying before the Serra fight just to name a few.
For fans of GSP, this is a must read. Even if you have personally watched every single fight of his, this will be a great trip down memory lane. Normally when I read a fighter's autobiography I can say that I respect a fighter a lot more due to learning what makes him tick. With this unauthorized version I can honestly say that I am even more impressed with what he has accomplished in his career.


This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor desiring collectivity on May 20, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
Ok, so I have been working on a project with a friend and I am thinking about ways to get heavier on purpose, un-interface my need for collectivity, and to settle endless desiring and the pursuing precariousness.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor debt creative life on May 13, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
I appreciated that this conference had plenty of artists leading the workshops….and I trust that they were all paid, well. I know how much work it is to prepare for these workshops. I appreciated and enjoyed that Cassie Thornton used her persona for parts of our workshop, Big Soft (BS) Contract, and I think it gave people some space to get in touch with their feelings about debt.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor Bay Area Art Workers Alliance on May 6, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
I wanted to send along some information about a group, an allied project, I am a part of that is in line with conversations, content, initiatives, movements, and questions related to the weekends events.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor Present Group compensation on May 2, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
This post is by Eleanor Hanson, co-founder of The Present Group, a creative studio working at the intersection of art and technology. Much of her creative practice has been focused on developing proposals-in-practice for new funding models in the arts. Projects of The Present Group include an art subscription service, a web hosting service that funds an intermittent arts prize, Art Micro Patronage – an experimental exhibition platform showcasing and funding artwork online, The People's E-book – a free online tool to build e-books, and Compensation Foundation – an online database for gathering and displaying how cultural producers are compensated.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor Labor Awareness artistic contributions on May 2, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
Well, it is a sunny May Day today and I sit here at my computer and I am filled with thoughts and excitement for the possibilities for the future of labor and the arts. It is especially appropriate to think of these issues today, as May 1st…is the international day for Labor Awareness. I have always considered the delicate dance between Art and Commerce to be a fine art in itself.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor fee exposure on May 1, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
I attended Lise Soskolne's session on "Defining Value, Labor and the Arts". W.A.G.E. was founded 2008 in New York to research artists fees, or lack thereof, and to create a minimum fee schedule for artistic services provided to non-profit organizations. The whole area is so complex that I found the restricted scope very useful.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor risk validity on April 30, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
I came home thinking about was risk and the number of ways that we as artists deciding (or being pushed) to take on risk with our work. All kinds of work include risk, and I relish some kinds of risk in my creative work. Artists work play many roles, some of its purposes are that our world is interpreted and re-interpreted to create newness , it bring attention to things unseen, it offers and enacts space where intersections are possible in previously unimagined or forgotten ways.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor dance exposure choreographer on April 24, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
As a cross-sector dance maker and scholar who writes about dance makers and institutional dependency, I appreciate how Helena and Lauren's slippery "Grey Matter" quiz resists tidy "yes-no" answers. The very structure of a quiz mandates self-reflection. By hailing artists who attempt to fashion careers through the nomadic practice of "gig dependency", the Grey Matter quiz should constantly be retaken.
This entry was posted in Blog Valuing Labor in the Arts - April 2014 and tagged Valuing Labor Created Commons Performing Arts Network professional leverage on April 24, 2014 by arc_berkeley.
Thank you for a delightful and energizing conference; the positive effects of considering common difficulties in community should not be underestimated, and I wonder how to translate some of the exercises into accessible, ongoing form. Where could I find a dozen practitioners to reflect together on professional dilemmas? How often, in a year, in a career, would such a gathering be useful? Who are my ideal respondents?


SOUTH BEND - Vivian M. Â?MaxineÂ? Redd, 74, of South Bend, IN, passed away after a brief illness at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, October 13, 2007, in her home. She was born on March 14, 1933, in Mulberry, AR, to Claude and Lucille (Bowers) Ming. On March 24, 1949, in Marked Tree, AR, she married James Earl Redd, who survives. Along with her husband Mark of 58 years, she is also survived by a daughter, Shirley Ann (Max) Crane of Dover, TN; four sisters, Hazel F. Rocole of South Bend, IN, Robbie Jean Davis, Peggy Finley and Carolyn Truman, all of California; three brothers, Verlin Ming of Nashville, TN, Douglas Ming of Missouri and Ralph Ming of California. Three sisters and two brothers preceded Mrs. Redd in death. Mrs. Redd moved to South Bend in 1953. She retired from Koontz-Wagner Electric after 45 years of service. Mrs. Redd was a member of The Believers Church of God in Christ and was a former member of the Christian Center. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007, in the Palmer Funeral Home-Guisinger Chapel, 3718 S. Michigan St., South Bend. Pastor Samuel L. Diggins Sr. will officiate. Burial will follow at Riverview Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may visit with the family one hour prior to the services on Wednesday. Contributions may be made to The Believers Church of God in Christ, P.O. Box 3122, South Bend, IN 46619.


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Red Meat Exports Reach More Than $870 Million In January As Sector Demonstrates Resilience – Scoop.co.nz
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Friday, 6 March 2020, 12:56 pm
Press Release: Meat Industry Association
New Zealand exported red meat and co-products worth $873.2 million in January 2020, an increase of 26 per cent compared to January 2019, according to an analysis by the Meat Industry Association (MIA).
Despite global market instability as a result of the Coronavirus, the market prices achieved in January were still stronger than the same month last year. The value of beef exports was up by 50 per cent sheepmeat was up by 18 per cent and co-products were up two per cent.
While the average value of sheepmeat exports to China declined from $8.87/kg in December 2019 to $7.63/kg in January, it was still significantly higher than in January 2019 ($6.57/kg).
There was also a drop in the average value of beef exports to China over the same period, down from $9.17/kg in December 2019 to $8.67/kg in January 2020, but this was also higher than in January 2019 ($7.28/kg).
The New Zealand red met sector also demonstrated its agility by rapidly diverting product into other markets as the Coronavirus-related slowdown became apparent.
Overall, exports of sheepmeat and beef increased 10 per cent in January by volume, compared to December 2019. Although beef exports to China, Japan and Korea fell, a similar volume was still exported globally.
The volume of beef exports to the US increased by 38 per cent and to Canada by 48 per cent month-on-month. Sheepmeat export volumes to China grew four per cent on December and increased 23 per cent globally, including to the UK (+22%), US (+16%) and Saudi Arabia (+250%).
China remained the highest value red meat and co-products market in January, totalling 40 per cent of NZ exports, worth $351 million. The US was next with $156.5 million, followed by the UK with $48.7 million. Values increased in almost all markets, with significant growth in Germany ($34.8 million) and Japan ($33.8 million).
Tim Ritchie, chief executive of the Meat Industry Association, says the latest figures underlines the resilience of New Zealand's red meat sector and its global networks .
"Despite disruptions to the supply chain cause by the Coronavirus, the underlying global demand for protein remains strong.
"New Zealand's red meat sector exports to 120 countries around the world and that international network of customers has enabled the industry to respond quickly and divert product to other markets.
"But New Zealand cannot take this resilience for granted. The red meat sector is a key driver of prosperity for the New Zealand economy and underpins countless regional communities. We need policy settings which recognise this contribution."
The Meat Industry Association of New Zealand (Incorporated) ('MIA') is the voluntary trade association representing processors, marketers, and exporters of New Zealand red meat, rendered products, and hides and skins. MIA members represent 99 percent of domestic red meat production and export. The red meat industry is a critical part of New Zealand's economy, and the second largest goods exporter with exports of $9.3 billion. It is New Zealand's largest manufacturing industry employing some 25,000 people in about 60 processing plants, mainly in the regions.
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Oracle Patents Declared Invalid in Android Dispute?
According to a report, the Patent Office have declared 24 Oracle claims invalid.
According to a report by H Online, the US Patent Office and Trademark Office has provisionally declared 24 of Oracle's claims against Google's Android, as being invalid based on 'prior art.' The USPTO based this decision on a patent described as 'Computer system security method and apparatus for creating and using program authorization information data structures,' which was granted in 1994, before Sun filed its Java patent application. The patent office also cited two 1996 publications as evidence that Sun's method for protecting applications, was anticipated by prior art. This decision means that five of the seven patents Oracle claims the Android OS infringed upon, have been either partially or fully invalidated, although Oracle do now have the option of appealing.
The H Online report claims that this may cause the lawsuit against Google to be postponed, allowing all the patents to be fully examined.


For a relaxed casual style, Kendall managed to look okay with skinny jeans torn T-shirt paired with black band and high boots. All will surely look okay with button-down shirt, skinny jeans, and a pair of boots are entitled. When the weather is getting hot, so the clothes are getting shorter. Kendall replace his pants with jeans skirt, sleeveless turtleneck, and combined with boots. Show a little skin without too much will make you look cute without bother.
Unfortunately, most of us certainly can not spend thousands of dollars just for shopping branded clothes like Kendall Jenner. The good news however, styled but classy style of Miss Jenner was not as difficult as we thought earlier. Without her underwear too expensive, you can really stylish a la Kendall. Here is a guide to look chic on every occasion like Kendall Jenner.


The evidence of the importance of housing for people's lives is overwhelming. The 90-plus studies now available through How Housing Matters are only a segment of the extensive body of research that shows that housing, indeed, matters. When families cannot find affordable housing, they make tradeoffs that affect medical care, children's health, child enrichment activities, food security, and retirement savings. Low-income households that want to avoid these damaging tradeoffs have few options.
The evidence is also strong that the neighborhoods where we live matter. Yet, little affordable housing exists in safe neighborhoods that have strong schools. One in three families getting federal rental assistance through public housing lives near schools ranked in the bottom tenth percentile for their state. The situation is not much better for families assisted through vouchers or the Low Income Housing Tax Credit; one in four lives near schools ranked in the bottom tenth. A study of low-income Latinos in the Bronx found that those in public housing had worse cardiovascular health than those with housing vouchers or without any housing assistance, perhaps reflecting the higher rates of poverty, crime, and housing code violations in their neighborhoods.
The Family Options Study showed that children in homeless families who received permanent housing subsidies (instead of rapid rehousing or transitional housing) were less likely to move, experienced less economic stress, and had better access to food—with fewer child separations and less exposure to domestic violence—all for a cost comparable to that for standard homeless services.
The federal Jobs-Plus demonstration effectively created a culture of work and increased incomes in targeted developments by applying a three-pronged approach involving peer support, on-site employment services, and changes to income-based rent calculations.
Ongoing research on the impacts of small-area fair-market rents in the Dallas metro area has found that defining the payment standard for a voucher based on rents in each ZIP Code rather than on an entire metropolitan area allows families to move to higher-quality neighborhoods, as measured by factors that include violent crime, test scores, and poverty rates.
Adding affordable housing in affluent suburbs through fair share requirements can improve the mental health of low-income families, strengthen their children's schooling, and reduce exposure to violent crime, all with no impact on local property values, tax burdens, or crime rates.
Residents of the typical affordable housing unit created by inclusionary zoning have a better-ranked neighborhood school than do other low-income families in the jurisdiction.
Service-enriched housing can reduce unnecessary use of health care services by older adults, and needs assessments can help property managers add the right services for their population.
And it is not just boutique programs that need scaling up to serve more people. Traditional housing affordability efforts, including housing counseling, preservation initiatives, fair housing enforcement, and the landscape of current housing subsidy programs—all are underresourced and able to support better outcomes for low-income Americans.
How can the nation improve health, child well-being, and equity? How can the nation help families exit generational poverty and become self-sufficient? And how can the nation support the changing needs of an aging population? The evidence is in. At least a piece of the solution for all these issues can be found in housing.


Saturn Wagon? Do they fold totally flat?
Anybody tried sleeping in one? Enough room to stretch out, or cramped?
>Saturn Wagon? Do they fold totally flat?
>Anybody tried sleeping in one? Enough room to stretch out, or cramped?
be a bit cramped (I'm 6' even) unless you curl up a bit.
> Saturn Wagon? Do they fold totally flat?
> Anybody tried sleeping in one? Enough room to stretch out, or cramped?
garage and only seldom bother to put it in the car and only when required.
back has been raised more than 3 % of the time.
hear the Honda Fit is good too.


Education has started to shift from a teacher-centered environment to a student one. And with this change, we have started to search for tools that allow our students to create and collaborate in a more powerful way. No matter how uncomfortable it might be for us, the educators, it is time to embrace the future. It is time we allowed our students to explore, to build, and to demonstrate their abilities.
When I first learned about CoSpaces, the first thing I did was hand it to my 7-year-old and said, "Play with this and let me know what you think." He instantly fell in love. It was user-friendly. It was exciting. It was open-ended, much like his beloved Minecraft. But CoSpaces isn't just for littles. Because it is so open-ended, students of all ages can create a project as unique as they are!
If you are looking for ways to use this in your classroom, you can check out CoSpaces Exercises area or Gallery on their homepage or join the CoSpaces Classroom Facebook group.
CoSpaces is free and is available online, on iTunes and on Google Play. Students are able to create online and on Apple Devices. At this time, Google Play app is only for virtual reality viewing.
Check out one of my favorite projects!
Give it a try! Create a project!
Try out the the tools!
Navigating in your world online can take some getting used to (especially for adults). To help get you where you're going, use the arrows, the spacebar, AND the touchpad.
After you have added an object, personalize it!
Want to add your own images?
As always, use Web Image search with caution!
Give Coding a try! Activate your Pro Account!
Don't forget to share your creation!
Students are able to share their creation through QR codes or links. These worlds can be accessed online as a 360 image or an all immersive virtual reality experience using the CoSpaces app (iTunes or Google Play) and virtual reality headset. Also, new to CoSpaces is the ability to export your 360 image!
The first step is to give it a try! Don't be afraid to let your students teach you and to learn together! Good luck!