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BBC Radio 4 religious show airs anodyne report on Palestinian Christians
h/t MD
The December 22nd edition of the BBC Radio 4 religious affairs programme 'Sunday' included a report from the BBC world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan whose highly problematic video purporting to explain Judaism to BBC journalists still remains on the BBC Academy website.
Presenter Edward Stourton opened the item (from 14:34 here) with a reference to the Banksy agitprop unveiled hours earlier. [emphasis in italics in the original]
Stourton: "Well Christian Christmas has been marked in Bethlehem by a new Banksy installation framing the manger scene with Israel's separation wall. This time last year Israel allowed some 700 Palestinians living in Gaza to travel to Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem over the Christmas period. Earlier this month the Israeli authorities announced they won't be doing the same this year. They say many Gazans who are allowed to visit the West Bank outstay their permits. The episode illustrates the kind of pressures faced by the Christian minority in Gaza and the West Bank. My colleague Emily Buchanan was in Bethlehem not long before the recent announcement."
That initial announcement was actually amended on the same day as this programme was aired but that fact is not reflected on its web page.
If listeners thought that they were about to hear some in-depth reporting on why Christians from the Gaza Strip "outstay their permits" (none of whom have been interviewed by the BBC in the past year) and what exactly the "pressures faced by the Christian minority in Gaza and the West Bank" are, they would have been disappointed. Emily Buchanan began by describing the scene at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and then spoke to a priest.
Buchanan: "And how is it now? How difficult is it? I mean you're in charge of the Church of the Nativity which is the big church, the church over the site where Jesus Christ was born. What are the changes that you're seeing in the Christian community here?"
Priest: "Actually we are having the big problems that the people emigrated from Bethlehem to go around over around the world and the problem is lack of money, the problem lack of freedom. That's why we are losing people, not gaining more people, getting more."
The priest went on to state that the Christian Orthodox community in Bethlehem amounts to about three thousand people and commented "but day by day I see less people".
Buchanan then went to visit a souvenir shop.
Buchanan: "Outside the church is bustling Manger Square with its shops selling olive wood nativity scenes, mother of pearl crosses and colourful ceramics. Tourism is vital to these Christian businesses and a major part of Bethlehem's economy. One business is run by a couple called, appropriately, Joseph and Mary. Joseph Jacaman is a carpenter and I went to visit him in his workshop."
After a discussion with the carpenter about his carvings, Buchanan told listeners that:
Buchanan: "Business fluctuates with every outbreak of violence in the region and many Christians have opted to emigrate."
Listeners were not of course told who is responsible for those 'outbreaks' of violence before Buchanan went on to speak with the shop owner's son.
Buchanan: "I asked him what pressures they're facing."
Jacaman: "Palestinian are suffering always in the holy land. Either Christians or Muslims, they are suffering the same way. I mean political situation is not good. Don't have long-term plans. The war would start in this region any time. Intifada will start any minute. Business goes up and down. Things keep changing and it's the holy land. You want to live in the holy land? You have to get used to this. It was never peace here. Go with the history, hundred years ago, it's the same always."
Buchanan: "How do you live day to day here when it's so hard to plan ahead and to know what's going to happen?"
Jacaman: "You have two options. Option one is to do like many people; just keep saying situation are not good, situation is not good, we can't invest, we can't do anything and you stay where you are. At the end you will just leave this country and go live abroad and I don't know what kind of life you can have. I'm sure 10% of the people who went outside they lived good life. But 90% are still poor because they couldn't do anything in their country they can do it outside."
Buchanan: "What sort of message would you like to send to the audience who might be listening to this programme in England?"
Jacaman: "What we have been asking for years and years: just pray for peace. Pray for peace in the holy land, even now in the Middle East."
The item ended there and while one cannot blame either of Buchanan's interviewees for skirting the real issues or promoting the notion that both "Christians or Muslims, they are suffering in the same way", it is abundantly clear that Emily Buchanan – like so many BBC journalists before her – had no interest in producing a report which provided BBC audiences with the full range of information which would genuinely enhance their understanding of the "pressures" faced by Palestinian Christians.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, Omission, Public Purposes	• Tagged 'Sunday', Banksy, BBC, BBC Academy, BBC Radio 4, Bethlehem, Christmas, Edward Stourton, Emily Buchanan, Gaza Strip, Israel, Palestinian Christians
BBC amends 'Newsround' Christmas feature which breached style guide
Earlier this week we noted that a December 5th BBC 'Newsround' photo feature aimed at children aged 6 to 12 presented a photograph of a Christmas tree in Ramallah as having been taken "in Palestine".
As we observed, the use of that terminology breaches the BBC Academy's guide for journalists reporting on 'Israel and the Palestinians' and a complaint was submitted by BBC Watch on December 14th.
BBC's 'Newsround' breaches BBC Academy style guide
On December 17th we received an email from BBC Complaints claiming that they were "unable to reply".
"Thank you for contacting us about the BBC News website.
We regret that at present we're unable to reply, unless we receive the URL to the article mentioned in your complaint.
Please contact us as you did before and include the above case reference number so we can pick up where we've left off."
The relevant URL was in fact included in our complaint, as shown in the screenshot below:
However by the time that superfluous email from BBC Complaints was sent, the photo feature concerned had been amended and it now carries the date stamp December 16th.
Instead of the original seven photographs – three (42.8%) of which portrayed Christmas trees in areas ruled by either the Palestinian Authority or Hamas – the feature now carries eleven images: the original seven as well as additions from Belarus, Manchester, Moscow and El Salvador.
The caption to the photograph from Ramallah has been changed, with the word "Palestine" replaced by "the Middle East".
However no footnote has been added to advise BBC audiences of the amendment.
By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC	• Tagged BBC Academy, BBC Complaints, BBC corrections, BBC Style Guide, Christmas, complaints, Corrections, Ramallah
On December 5th the BBC's 'Newsround' website – which is aimed at children aged 6 to 12 – published a photo feature titled "Christmas trees from around the world":
"It's December so that means it's almost Christmas! And of course it also means festive firs are being put up all over the world. Here are some of the best ones from 2019 so far."
The item features seven captioned photographs taken in various locations: Lithuania, New York, Gaza, Prague, Ramallah, California and Bethlehem. In other words, three out of the seven images (42.8%) portray Christmas trees in areas ruled by either the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.
Moreover, the caption to the fifth image reads:
"Another great display in Palestine! Fireworks lit up the sky as Ramallah switched on the lights for their giant Christmas tree."
That wording obviously suggests to readers that both Gaza (referring to a previous photo) and Ramallah are located in a country called Palestine.
The BBC Academy's guide for journalists reporting on 'Israel and the Palestinians' states:
"…in day-to-day coverage of the Middle East you should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank – rather, it is still an aspiration or an historical entity."
BBC Watch has submitted a complaint concerning that use of terminology which misleads the BBC's younger audiences.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC	• Tagged 'Newsround', BBC, BBC Academy, BBC Complaints, BBC Online, BBC Style Guide, Christmas, complaints, Gaza Strip, Ramallah
BBC Arabic radio promotes Israel-free map of 'Palestine' for children
A post by CAMERA Arabic.
h/t: YCD
The October 24th episode of BBC Arabic's radio show "Dardasha Layliya" ('Nightly Chat') included an interview with an Israeli Arab environmental engineer called Omar Asi who identified himself as being a resident of "the interior of Palestine" and who was described by the BBC presenter as calling from "Palestine".
In that interview – presented by BBC Arabic's Heba Abd al-Baqi – listeners were acquainted with Asi's project: a child-friendly map of "Palestine" from the river to the sea. The map and a link to the programme were also promoted on the BBC News Arabic Facebook page.
(all translations, emphasis and in-bracket remarks by CAMERA Arabic):
"(26:55) What distinguishes this map is that we see a lot of diversity, a lot of colours in it, and the colours […], indeed, aren't coincidental, I mean, Palestine is always characterized by [this], it is said that during certain times [of the year], it has four seasons on the same day, in the Negev you'd see summer, in the North you'd see winter, and there's a lot of diversity in Palestine, in terms of climate, even in terms of biodiversity, I mean, if we look at the map we'll see that in Jaffa there are oranges, in Hebron there are grapes, in Nablus there's kenafeh [a type of dessert], and in Jerusalem there are bagels, all of this diversity, it would be impossible for the child to get it from maps he sees in schools, the traditional maps. That is if he [even] sees maps of Palestine, I mean, many children like me, who went to schools which are called 'Arab-Israeli schools', children from the interior of Palestine, they don't see maps of Palestine, they see maps of Israel…".
The map promoted by BBC Arabic is devoid of anything Israeli or Jewish including population (all the people portrayed are visibly Arab and/or Muslim), landmarks (the sole Jewish landmark shown is the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron – see below), or cities (Jaffa is surrounded by orchards with no indication that Tel Aviv ever existed or that Jews make up a majority in the mixed cities such as Haifa and Acre which appear on the map). This is obviously intentional since Asi himself mentioned later in the interview (30:27) that he lived and studied in Tel Aviv and came in contact with Jewish students at the beginning of his adult life.
In response to further questions by Abd al-Baqi, Asi elaborated on the role of the map in shaping young Palestinian minds and educating them about what both he (30:06) and his interviewer (32:48) referred to as "the Palestinian cause" (Arabic: al-Qadiya al-Filastiniya). The activist expressed his conviction (32:59) that the illustrations of places on the map would prompt children to find out more about stories behind them which relate to the Palestinian national struggle.
"(33:43) If he goes and visits Hebron, he will see that the Abrahamic Compound [i.e. Cave of the Patriarchs] today is divided between Jews and Muslims, I mean, they [the Jews] took control over a large portion of it. He will also see the military barriers"
Providing another example, Asi also revealed (32:17) that the seemingly innocent illustration of "Jerusalem bagels" is actually a reference to "the Prince of Shadows" – an autobiography of Hamas' mass-murderer Abdullah Barghouthi in which he expressed his love of this local food. Barghouthi is a bomb-maker who was given 67 consecutive life sentences for his part in the murder of 66 Israelis in numerous suicide bombings during the early 2000s. Notably, in an blogpost that Asi wrote in 2017 for Hamas-related Gaza news agency "Shehab" he admitted that the arch-terrorist's book had "impressed" him.
The interview concluded with Abd al-'Baqi wishing (36:35) Asi and his team of illustrators "good luck to you all". This was after she already heard him make the following statement in the introduction to the item:
"(0:40) My dream is that every Palestinian child would hang the map [in] his bedroom, so that he will be able to view at the characteristics of the Land of Palestine and love them the same way they love him".
Asi's project is of the "greater Palestine" genre that Israelis have become accustomed to see from some radical activists, including (as in this case) fellow citizens of their own country. However, this form of hate speech is rarely amplified by media outlets in the West; certainly not in such an unreserved manner.
Nevertheless, at no point during the interview did the BBC's Abd al-Baqi challenge, criticize or even contextualize Asi's ideas about indoctrinating young children using a map of an imagined "Palestine" which erases Israel. Nor did the BBC Arabic journalist ask him how "the Palestinian cause" which he promotes relates to the millions of Israeli Jews who are native to the land no less than him. Rather, she herself described the item as coming from "Palestine" (0:38), as did the BBC News Arabic facebook page.
By promoting this item BBC Arabic normalises the negation of Israel's right to exist within any borders and the denial of the right of Israeli Jews to live peacefully in their homeland. Asi's mention of Abdullah Barghouthi also mainstreams implied support for terrorism against Israeli civilians.
The BBC Academy's 'style guide' states that BBC journalists "should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank" but apparently its writers had not taken into consideration that BBC content might promote the use of the term 'Palestine' instead of Israel.
Similarly, neither BBC nor OFCOM guidelines on 'harm and offence' relate to content promoting the negation of a sovereign country's existence and the right to self-determination for people of a specific ethnicity – presumably because their authors did not consider such a scenario likely in 'enlightened' 21st century Britain.
BBC editorial guidelines on 'controversial subjects' (4.3.6) state that:
"When dealing with 'controversial subjects', we must ensure a wide range of significant views and perspectives are given due weight and prominence, particularly when the controversy is active."
Obviously no alternative perspective was given to this item's negation of the State of Israel and the BBC Arabic journalist clearly disregarded the editorial guideline (4.3.11) stating that:
"Presenters, reporters and correspondents are the public face and voice of the BBC – they can have a significant impact on perceptions of whether due impartiality has been achieved. Our audiences should not be able to tell from BBC output the personal opinions of our journalists or news and current affairs presenters on matters of public policy, political or industrial controversy, or on 'controversial subjects' in any other area."
Once again we see that the BBC's Arabic language content fails to meet the standards of journalism which the publicly-funded corporation claims to embrace.
By Hadar Sela • Posted in BBC, Impartiality	• Tagged BBC Academy, BBC Arabic, BBC editorial guidelines, BBC News, BBC News style guide, BBC World Service, CAMERA Arabic, delegitimisation, Israel, terrorism
Sunday morning political propaganda on BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio Scotland has a programme called "Sunday Morning with…" which is described as providing listeners with "Two hours of music and stimulating conversation from a faith and ethical perspective".
The August 11th edition of that programme included an item billed in its synopsis thus:
"Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson live in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. They're both writers and campaign for Palestinian civil and political rights. They talk to Sally about their writing and their life together."
The hook for that item was the couple's participation in the Edinburgh International Book Festival, with links to a site selling tickets provided on the programme's webpage and those links promoted by presenter Sally Magnusson at the end of the item.
However what listeners mostly heard throughout the twelve-minute item (from 1:08:30 here) was political propaganda which went totally unchallenged by the presenter even though – as the synopsis and her introduction showed – the BBC is well aware of the fact that both interviewees are political campaigners.
Although the BBC Academy's style guide on Israel and the Palestinians clearly states that "[t]here is no independent state of Palestine today" and "you should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank" because "it is still an aspiration or an historical entity", listeners heard both Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson repeatedly refer to "Palestine" with no comment from Magnusson.
"You know in Palestine we don't get rain from April until November…"
"Well we met in Palestine…"
"I came to Palestine…"
Having asked Johnson about what she termed their "intifada wedding" – because it took place in 1988 – Magnusson went on:
Magnusson: "And just remind us; the, you know, the intifada – of which there have been more than one of course – tell us…tell us about…about that."
Unsurprisingly, listeners heard whitewashed and romanticised accounts of those two periods of intense Palestinian violence.
Johnson: "Well the first intifada which was mass civil resistance, pretty much led by the young but involving everybody. The second intifada was violence-racked: a very difficult period and a very difficult time, a very difficult kind of struggle. So if it's the first intifada we probably go back to, sometimes perhaps with maybe too much nostalgia but also with all the lessons we learned."
Shehadeh: "There was so much hope during the first intifada that we were building a new society, that we were coming to an end of the conflict through negotiations and indeed the first intifada did lead to the negotiations. But unfortunately the outcome of these negotiations was not good and we're still suffering that terrible outcome."
With no clarification of the fact that the premeditated second intifada put paid to any positive outcome to those negotiations, listeners next heard Magnusson claim that Ramallah – which has been under the control of the Palestinian Authority since 1995 – is "occupied".
Magnusson: "And indeed your latest book, Raja, 'Going Home', is a kind of homage to Ramallah after fifty years of Israeli occupation and a reflection on what it's meant."
The nineteen-year-long Jordanian occupation of Ramallah was of course not mentioned in the conversation but listeners did hear that the scarcity of gardens in the city can be blamed on Israel, despite the city having been under PA control for nearly a quarter of a century.
Shehadeh: "…Ramallah used to be very attractive with houses with gardens. Almost every house had a garden around it and now having a garden is a great luxury and there are no open spaces because of the restrictions that the Israelis have put. It's very crowded and people build high up – high rises – rather than having houses that are surrounded by open space and a garden."
Listeners later heard Magnusson opine that "home of course has been a complicated and agonising matter for you, as for every Palestinian, over the years…" before going on to ask Johnson about her book's claim that "the lives of animals help us to understand what's happening to the humans in the West Bank".
Johnson: "…we used to walk in the valleys near Ramallah and one of the heart-lifting sights was always a mountain gazelle picking her way up the olive groves. Those gazelles are largely gone and they are now endangered; on the red list of endangered species. But what I think we share is both a common life and a common fate. We share a frightening loss of habitat because in the 61% of the West Bank that is Area C and under Israeli control and the home of a hundred settlements, the shepherds and their flocks and the villages that they live in are not…it's not their own development. It's not Palestinian development. It is restrictions because of a land grab. Of a grab of water, grab of grazing land. And a desire to get the Palestinians out."
The mountain gazelle (which suffered from reduced numbers in the mid-1980s due to foot and mouth disease) is not on the WWF 2019 list of endangered species but it does appear on a "red list" drawn up by an organisation called the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The factors cited by the scientist who recommended the gazelle's inclusion on that list four years ago include construction, paving of roads and erection of fences as well as growth in the number of predators and feral dogs. Those factors are of course not limited to what the three participants in this item call the West Bank: the gazelle's numbers have also fallen elsewhere.
Magnusson made no effort to challenge her interviewee's equally tendentious claims of "a land grab", "grab of water" and "a desire to get the Palestinians out".
Listeners next heard Shehadeh complain about rising urbanisation during the past two and a half decades.
Shehadeh: "We were so fortunate until the mid-90s to be able to leave our home and just immediately be walking in the hills away from the noise of cars and people and take long walks as we like without encountering any difficulties and any settlements. And this is mainly gone now. If we want to walk we have to take the car to a distant place to start a walk and then we often encounter settlers and settlements and problems and it's not the same as it used to be so we had a golden period in the 70s and 80s that we often reminisce about…"
In fact the Israeli communities in the vicinity of Ramallah – for example Beit El, Psagot and Kochav Ya'akov – were established during that "golden period" of the 70s and 80s and – as the BBC well knows – construction of new communities did not take place after the Oslo Accords were signed.
Magnusson then gave the cue for some overt political comment:
Magnusson: "What's your sense of the political situation now and where might it be heading next?"
Shehadeh: "It's a very difficult time now because of, you know, the American government is giving Israel a carte blanche to do whatever it wants and the Israeli government, which is dominated by settlers, is taking that licence to grab as much land as it can and destroy as much of the landscape and the beauty of the landscape by building more and more settlements."
Not only is the currently inactive cabinet not "dominated by settlers" but Shehadeh's allegations of 'land grabs' and "building more and more settlements" – along with a subsequent claim that Israel makes "attempts at making [Palestinian] people leave" – are patently false.
Magnusson however again failed to make any effort whatsoever to challenge those blatant falsehoods and closed the item shortly afterwards with yet another misleading reference to "fifty years of occupation".
In short, BBC Radio Scotland audiences heard twelve minutes of entirely predictable yet totally unquestioned political propaganda which not only failed to "help people understand" the subject matter but actively hindered that BBC obligation.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, Impartiality	• Tagged 'settlements', 'Sunday Morning with...', BBC Academy, BBC Radio Scotland, First Intifada, Raja Shehadeh, Ramallah, Sally Magnusson, Second Intifada
PLO terminology returns in BBC Jerusalem Day report
As we have had cause to note in the past, the BBC Academy's style guide includes instruction for the corporation's producers and journalists on the correct terminology to be used when reporting on Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
That guidance was generally followed in the past but in late 2014, audiences began to see the employment of different terminology by some BBC journalists. The term 'al Aqsa Mosque compound' – or even just 'al Aqsa Mosque' – was employed to describe what the BBC previously called Haram al Sharif with increasing frequency from November 2014 onward.
So how and why did that deviation from the BBC's recommended terminology come about? The change in language first appeared in November 2014. At the beginning of that month – on November 5th – the PLO put out a "media advisory" document (since removed from its website) informing foreign journalists of its "[c]oncern over the use of the inaccurate term "Temple Mount" to refer to Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem". That directive is of course part and parcel of the tactic of negation of Jewish history in Jerusalem used by the PLO and others.
On June 3rd visitors to the BBC News website saw yet another example of that BBC adoption of PLO terminology in the synopsis to a filmed report by the Jerusalem bureau's Tom Bateman titled "Clashes break out at Jerusalem holy site".
"Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers broke out at Al Aqsa mosque compound, the holy site also known to Jews as Temple Mount." [emphasis added]
What that synopsis describes as "clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers" [sic] was actually violent rioting initiated by people who certainly were not 'worshipping' at the time.
"Following the report that Jews will be allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day, riots broke out on the Temple Mount on Sunday, according to the Police Spokesperson's Unit.
The commander of the Jerusalem district, Maj.-Gen. Doron Yedid, ordered the police to enter the Temple Mount and take care of the rioters.
As the police attempted to enter the place, Arab worshipers began throwing stones, chairs and other objects at the forces. The forces responded with riot dispersal means."
The report itself opens with similar terminology promoting the notion that the violence 'broke out' all by itself and with no account of what the rioters actually did. [emphasis in italics in the original, emphasis in bold added]
"Clashes broke out at one of Jerusalem's holiest sites between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers. The site is holy to both Jews and Muslims. Palestinians were angered by this Jewish visit to the compound. It came on a day of high tensions."
Audiences were not told that Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism or that under existing agreements, while non-Muslims have the right to visit the site, they do not have equal prayer rights there. The report continued:
"Later in the day, outside the walls of the Old City…
Bateman: "This is a pretty potent mix of religion and nationalism for these Israelis. They're just passing through Damascus Gate into the Muslim quarter of the Old City, populated with Palestinian shops and homes. The message from these people is that the whole of Jerusalem belongs to Israel. Of course the Palestinians they're about to walk past think very differently."
Man [voiceover] "What's happening in Jerusalem today is a robbery of Jerusalem. If this is the capital of Isreal [sic], why do you need all these forces to show everyone that this is your undivided capital."
The use of the term 'Isreal' in the subtitles is either a grave spelling error or promotion of a term which is frequently used by anti-Israel activists to negate the country. The report went on:
"The parade is known to Israelis as the 'March of Flags'. It celebrates Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in the war of 1967."
Bateman then showcased one of the participants who presumably gave him the answer he was looking for.
Bateman: "What do you think of these Palestinians here watching people go past?"
Woman: "We don't have this country, Palestine. Only Israel. The Palestinians can live with us. It's good but it's [us] who own the country."
Bateman's own retort to the woman was not shown in the subtitles.
Bateman: "You get a real sense of the confrontation at a moment like this. The Israelis dance with flags and the Palestinians are being stopped behind lines of police."
The report ends:
"The march ends at the Western Wall…the holiest site at which Jews can pray. Israelis couldn't access it for two decades before the war of 1967."
Remarkably, this report on the topic of Jerusalem Day – the day marking the reunion of Jerusalem – avoided telling BBC audiences that the reason Israelis couldn't "access" the Western Wall "for two decades" was because Jordan had belligerently invaded and occupied the area, ethnically cleansing Jews from the Old City in the process.
By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, BBC Jerusalem Bureau, Impartiality, Omission, Public Purposes	• Tagged BBC, BBC Academy, BBC Jerusalem Bureau, BBC News, BBC Online, BBC Style Guide, Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, Old City Jewish Quarter, PLO, Ramadan, Temple Mount, Tom Bateman, Yom Yerushalayim
BBC R4 newsreader refers to a state the BBC knows does not exist
As we all too frequently have cause to note here, the BBC Academy's "journalists' guide to facts and terminology" (published in the wake of the 2006 Thomas Report on the impartiality of BBC coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) states:
"There is no independent state of Palestine today, although the stated goal of the peace process is to establish a state of Palestine alongside a state of Israel.
In November 2012 the PLO secured a vote at the UN General Assembly, upgrading its previous status as an "entity" so that the UN now recognises the territories as "non-member observer state".
The change allows the Palestinians to participate in UN General Assembly debates. It also improves the Palestinians' chances of joining UN agencies.
But the UN vote has not created a state of Palestine (rather, it failed in its bid to join the UN as a full member state in 2011 because of a lack of support in the Security Council).
So, in day-to-day coverage of the Middle East you should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank – rather, it is still an aspiration or an historical entity.
But clearly BBC journalists should reflect the changed circumstances when reporting on the UN itself and at the Olympics, where the International Olympics Committee recognises Palestine as a competing nation.
Best practice is to use the term Palestine firmly and only in the context of the organisation in which it is applicable, just as the BBC did at the Olympics – for example: "At the UN, representatives of Palestine, which has non-member observer status…"" [emphasis added]
Listeners to BBC Radio 4's 'The World Tonight' on the evening of March 25th heard an item (from 02:24 here) presented as follows by newsreader Zeb Soanes:
Soanes: "President Trump has signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights – a strategically important plateau which was seized from Syria in 1967. Syria's government has described Mr Trump's action as a blatant attack on its integrity. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu witnessed the signing at a ceremony in the White House. He said it was important for his country's security."
Following a recording of Netanyahu speaking at that ceremony, Soanes went on:
Soanes: "Mr Netanyahu cut short his visit to Washington because of escalating violence between Israel and Palestine. Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a long-range rocket attack which injured 7 people near Tel Aviv. The targets included the office of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Hamas says a ceasefire has been agreed but there's been no confirmation from Israel." [emphasis added]
There is of course no point in having a style guide if journalists, presenters and producers – particularly it would seem at BBC Radio 4 – ignore its guidance. Given that the style guide correctly states "there is no independent state of Palestine today", there is obviously no reason whatsoever for BBC staff to be promoting the inaccurate impression that such a state exists – and even more so when they are in fact referring to a terror organisation that violently seized power from the representatives of the Palestinians recognised by the international community.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC	• Tagged 'The World Tonight', BBC Academy, BBC News style guide, BBC Radio 4, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, terrorism, Zeb Soanes
BBC double standards on disputed territory in evidence again
An article published on the BBC News website's 'Europe' page on February 13th under the title "Debt misery hits students as dream turns sour in northern Cyprus" provides another example of a double standard in BBC reporting which has been documented here in the past.
Readers saw the location at the centre of the article described as follows:
"…Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus, a self-declared republic recognised only by Turkey."
"Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the north, in response to a military coup backed by nationalists ruling Greece at the time.
Since declaring independence in 1983, the north has been under international embargo, so it is propped up by Turkey and its currency, the lira."
"…northern Cyprus is not recognised internationally…"
Readers were also provided with a map:
As has been the case in past BBC reporting on Cyprus (see 'related articles' below), the words 'occupied' and 'occupation' did not appear at all in the report: readers were merely told that northern Cyprus is "Turkish-controlled". As usual there was no reference in the report to "illegal settlements" or "international law" despite the fact that it was Turkish state policy to facilitate and encourage the immigration of Turkish nationals to the island during the latter half of the 1970s.
In contrast to BBC coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, readers did not find any pronouncements allocating disputed territory to one side or the other in the style of the frequently seen terminology "occupied Palestinian land" and "Palestinian territory" and no mention was made of the presence of Turkish troops in northern Cyprus.
As we have seen in the past, the BBC is able to report on the enduring territorial dispute in Cyprus in a manner which refrains from promoting a particular political narrative. Unfortunately for the corporation's audiences the same editorial standards are not evident in BBC reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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By Hadar Sela • Posted in BBC, Impartiality	• Tagged 'occupation', 'settlements', BBC, BBC Academy, BBC News, BBC Online, BBC Style Guide, Cyprus, Gaza Strip, International Law, Israel, Judea & Samaria, Turkey
Back in January 2018 BBC Watch prompted an amendment to the synopsis of a Radio 4 programme which breached the corporation's own style guide.
The BBC Academy's "journalists' guide to facts and terminology" – published on the recommendation of the BBC Governors' independent panel report on the impartiality of BBC coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2006 – instructs the corporation's staff not to use the term Palestine (as was originally the case in that synopsis) except in very specific circumstances.
In November 2012 the PLO secured a vote at the UN General Assembly, upgrading its previous status as an "entity" so that the UN now recognises the territories as "non-member observer state". […]
So, in day-to-day coverage of the Middle East you should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank – rather, it is still an aspiration or an historical entity." [emphasis added]
Nevertheless, throughout 2018 we saw increased cross-platform employment of the term 'Palestine' by BBC journalists and presenters as well as by contributors. Some of the examples we documented appear below. [emphasis in bold added]
January 2018:
Radio 5 live item promotes apartheid analogy, breaches style guide
Adrian Goldberg: "Whether or not people agree with it will be down to their personal view of the State of Israel and its occupation of Palestine."
Hamas 'Hardtalk' interview rebuts BBC messaging, perpetuates inaccuracies – part one
Stephen Sackur: "Is the resistance in Palestine now in the hands of ordinary people – young people particularly – not with veteran leaders like you?"
BBC R4 airs partisan portrayal of Jenin masked as 'entertainment'
Mark Thomas (contributor): "Well what happened was I went to Palestine in 2009 and I walked the length of the Israeli wall in the West Bank."
Thomas: "I look at it very, very simply that people confuse Israel and Palestine as a conflict and it's not a conflict. It's a military occupation.
Thomas: "What I want to do is confound people's ideas of what refugees are and to make people challenge their own ideas about how their relationship is with places like Palestine, with people who are refugees…"
BBC R4 FOOC report on Palestinian music promotes one-sided politics
Robin Denselow: "Promoting culture in Palestine is absolutely crucial, he told me. It's a form of resistance, protecting the national heritage. The minister, who enthused about the years he spent studying at Cardiff University, gave us a personal tour of an uncompleted but palatial new building on a Ramallah hilltop. Originally intended as a grand guest-house for visiting dignitaries, it's to be Palestine's new national library and cultural hub. […] He claimed that what is happening on the cultural front in Palestine is a miracle it's exceptionally hard to achieve under occupation."
Inaccuracy, omission and oddity in a BBC Radio Ulster item on Israel – part one
Roisin McAuley: "International attention is once again focused on the Israel-Palestine conflict."
Inaccuracy, omission and oddity in a BBC Radio Ulster item on Israel – part two
Roisin McAuley: "You mentioned a youth bulge. There is a youth bulge in Palestine as well."
Paul Henley: "Do you think he was disappointed that his vision for peace between Israel and Palestine was not achieved in his lifetime?"
BBC R4's 'Today' highlights Quaker hypocrisy but still fails listeners
Justin Webb: "Are you saying that you would not invest in other places where governments are, in your view, oppressing people or is it just in Palestine?"
That trend appears to be continuing:
One to watch out for on BBC Two
"…will international signing be a bridge for them to meet in the middle and discuss the issue of Israel and Palestine?"
There is of course little point in having a style guide if journalists, presenters and producers – particularly it would seem at BBC Radio 4 – ignore its guidance. Obviously given that the style guide correctly states "there is no independent state of Palestine today", there is no reason whatsoever for BBC journalists to be promoting the inaccurate impression that such a state exists.
Accuracy and impartiality fails in Welsh language show on BBC iPlayer – part one
By Hadar Sela • Posted in Accuracy, BBC, Impartiality	• Tagged BBC, BBC Academy, BBC News style guide, BBC Style Guide
BBC Two has a programme called 'See Hear' which is described as a "Magazine for the deaf community highlighting the issues affecting the community". The programme has in the past included a series called "On Tour" in which a deaf presenter has visited foreign cities in order to "explore deaf culture in other countries" and to ask:
"What is life like for the local deaf community and what are the highlights for deaf travellers seeking out a short city break?"
The current "On Tour" series – now presented by deaf British actor Nadeem Islam – has already visited Reykjavik:
"Nadeem Islam visits Reykjavik in Iceland, the land of ice and fire. The birthplace of the legendary Vikings, who pillaged and plundered their way around the world, today's Icelandic people are more laid back – but there are still living, breathing deaf Vikings around – and Nadeem is going to meet one.
Nadeem experiences a dip in one of the hot springs that are dotted around Iceland's mountainous landscape, watches a geyser erupt, tries on a few animal furs, enjoys a spot of knitting, does some whale watching and tastes one of the most revolting foods ever – fermented shark fat!
Oh, and let's not forget to mention Nadeem's trip to the world-famous penis museum!"
And Rome:
"Nadeem Islam visits Rome in Italy, also known as the Eternal City, to see what sights there are for deaf people to see. Starting with a guided scooter tour, Nadeem also meets the deaf signing guides who work at the Colosseum, and imagines being a deaf gladiator thousands of years ago.
Nadeem then has the opportunity to spend some time with one of the most powerful deaf men in Rome – Roberto Wirth, the proprietor of the five-star Hotel Hassler. Rome is a city where the inhabitants express themselves freely through gesture and body language – but do deaf people get equal status? With the campaign for legal recognition of Italian Sign Language still ongoing, it is a big issue.
Nadeem then rounds off his trip with a visit to One Sense, a deaf-owned restaurant, and gets to try his hand at a spot of Italian cuisine!"
The episode scheduled to be aired on the morning of January 16th is titled "On Tour: Tel Aviv" and its synopsis suggests that viewers may see a departure from the disabilities and travel genre.
"Nadeem Islam visits the city of Tel Aviv in Israel, also known as The Miami of the Middle East. Wandering the sunny boulevards and beaches with his deaf Israeli guide Omer, they take in the beautiful Bauhaus architecture and a show at the famous Nalaga'at theatre of the deafblind. Nadeem has a Muslim background, and Omer is Israeli – will international signing be a bridge for them to meet in the middle and discuss the issue of Israel and Palestine?
Nadeem also takes on a couple of deaf volleyball champions, meets a deaf Holocaust survivor, learns the Israeli fingerspelling alphabet, and joins Tel Aviv's Pride march – one of the largest in the world!" [emphasis added]
The BBC Academy's 'style guide' of course tells BBC journalists that "in day-to-day coverage of the Middle East you should not affix the name 'Palestine' to Gaza or the West Bank – rather, it is still an aspiration or an historical entity".
Remarkably BBC Two appears to believe that this particular episode of its half-hour travel show should include a political discussion simply because its British presenter "has a Muslim background".
Now there's a stereotype for you.
BBC Travel Show inaccurate on Jaffa demography
By Hadar Sela • Posted in BBC	• Tagged 'See Hear', Arab-Israeli conflict, BBC, BBC Academy, BBC Style Guide, BBC Two, Israel, Nadeem Islam, Tel Aviv


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author: simon.jonassen@gmail.com
comments: true
date: 2016-05-04 23:05:00+01:00
layout: post
title: Running Apache Spark from a JAR
tags: [java, programming, spark, maven]
share: true
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[Apache Spark](http://spark.apache.org/) is an open source cluster computing framework, which is becoming extremely popular these days. By now it has taken over the role of many previously used MapReduce and Machine Learning frameworks. So far there exists [plenty of recepies](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/) on how to launch a cluster and get the examples and shell running from there. Nevertheless, assume that for an educational purpose or any other odd reason we would like to build a single JAR, with all dependencies included, which then runs some Spark related code on its own. In that case, here is a simple four-step recipe to get started from scratch.<!--more-->

### Create a new Maven Java project

The easiest way to do this is from the command line (look [here](https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/maven-in-five-minutes.html) for an explanation):

{% highlight sh %}
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.simonj.demo -DartifactId=spark-fun -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false
{% endhighlight %}

### Edit the POM file

In [my example](https://github.com/s-j/spark-fun/blob/master/pom.xml), I first explicitly state the Java version, 1.8. Then, I remove the junit dependency and add dependencies to spark-core_2.10, testng and guava (note the version 16.0 to avoid conflicts with the current version of spark-core). Finally, I use the Maven shade plugin to include the dependencies, with additional filters and transformers to get  this stuff working.

### Import the project into an IDE and edit the files

In the next step, I import the project into [Eclipse](https://eclipse.org/) and edit [App.java](https://github.com/s-j/spark-fun/blob/master/src/main/java/com/simonj/demo/App.java) and [AppTest.java](https://github.com/s-j/spark-fun/blob/master/src/test/java/com/simonj/demo/AppTest.java). The code illustrates a simple word counting in Spark, but the important part here is using something like the following (where I launch a new Spark context with a local master):

{% highlight java %}
try (JavaSparkContext context = new JavaSparkContext("local[2]", "Spark fun!")) {
    ...
    context.stop();
}
{% endhighlight %}

### Build the project and run

In the final step, I first build the project:

{% highlight sh %}
mvn clean package
{% endhighlight %}

Then create a [test file](https://github.com/s-j/spark-fun/blob/master/test.txt), and run the App.java from the command line (note that here I use the allinone.jar, which is the one with all dependencies included):

{% highlight sh %}
java -cp target/spark-fun-1.0-SNAPSHOT-allinone.jar com.simonj.demo.App test.txt
{% endhighlight %}

Finally, after a short time the example program spits out something like this:

{% highlight sh %}{took=1, lorem=4, but=1, text=2, is=1, standard=1, been=1, sheets=1, including=1, electronic=1, of=4, not=1, software=1, type=2, survived=1, book=1, only=1, s=1, desktop=1, to=1, passages=1, containing=1, and=3, versions=1, more=1, typesetting=2, essentially=1, recently=1, ipsum=4, a=2, galley=1, aldus=1, 1960s=1, simply=1, when=1, ever=1, dummy=2, with=2, 1500s=1, in=1, publishing=1, like=1, printing=1, five=1, industry=2, letraset=1, pagemaker=1, since=1, was=1, an=1, into=1, the=6, make=1, has=2, it=3, remaining=1, unknown=1, popularised=1, leap=1, unchanged=1, centuries=1, specimen=1, also=1, printer=1, release=1, scrambled=1}{% endhighlight %}

So it works – what a lovely evening and good night folks!

PS. [here is the complete project created through these steps](https://github.com/s-j/spark-fun).

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Now each time I start the PC it ask me to access with
hotmail account: it needs pwd email and I find all the settings before (desktop , browser settings, etc. )
"admin" account : no pwd and no default settings
How can I go back to the previous situation with no hotmail account and original settings?

A: Go to Settings then Account info. Select Sign in with Local account instead.
Type in your current account password meaning your Hotmail account.
Next fill out a username and password and hit sign out and finish.
Now you can log into your account and it will be how you want it.

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package br.com.liveo.mvp.base;

import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import java.util.List;

import io.reactivex.Observable;
import io.reactivex.subjects.PublishSubject;

/**
 * Created by rudsonlima on 9/16/17.
 */

public abstract class BaseAdapter<T> extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {

    protected List<T> dataList;

    private OnItemClick<T> mOnItemClick;

    public interface OnItemClick<T> {
        void onClick(T item, int position);
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        return onCreateViewHolderBase(parent, viewType);
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    public abstract RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolderBase(ViewGroup parent, int viewType);

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        this.onBindViewHolderBase(holder, position);

        holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(v -> {
            if (mOnItemClick != null) {
                mOnItemClick.onClick(getItem(holder.getAdapterPosition()),
                        holder.getAdapterPosition());
            }
        });
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    public abstract void onBindViewHolderBase(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position);

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        return super.getItemViewType(position);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return dataList != null && dataList.size() > 0 ? dataList.size() : 0;
    }

    public void itemClick(OnItemClick<T> onItemClick) {
        this.mOnItemClick = onItemClick;
    }

    private T getItem(int index) {
        if (dataList != null && dataList.get(index) != null) {
            return dataList.get(index);
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Item with index " + index + " doesn't exist, dataSet is " + dataList);
        }
    }
}


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Continue increasing in this way to day 14, whereupon youare up to seven capsules. You take the capsules all in asingle dose (you may take a few at a time until they areall gone). Then you do 2 more days of 7 capsules each.After this, you take 7 capsules once a week forever, as itstates in the Maintenance Parasite Program. Try not toget interrupted before the 6th day, so you know the adultintestinal flukes are dead. After this, you may proceedmore slowly if you wish. Many persons with sensitivestomachs prefer to stay longer on each dose instead ofincreasing according to this schedule. You may choosethe pace after the sixth day.
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The Italian parliament has named a cross-party committee set up to tackle intolerance and hate crime after Jo Cox.
Commons Speaker John Bercow told MPs he received a letter from the President of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldrini telling him that the group will be called the Cox Committee.
Ms Cox, the late MP for Batley and Spen, died on June 16 after being shot and stabbed outside a library in Birstall.
Mr Bercow paid tribute to the victims of the terror attack in Nice, France before informing the House of the letter from Ms Boldrini.
Speaking before the start of Communities Questions he said: ``I should also like to inform the House that I have received a letter from the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy telling me that her chamber has established a cross-party committee on intolerance, xenophobia, racism and hate crime and have decided to name it the Cox Committee after our colleague Jo Cox.
The Italian Parliament consists of two houses: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic.


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Clippers fall short against Heat, 104-101, in their late Rally
Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 17:26
Written by Jarred Davis
By Jarred Davis
For the first time this season, the Clippers hosted back-to-back matinee games over the weekend at Staples Center, overcoming a 25-point deficit in the fourth quarter, where they took the lead with under three minutes to play, only to surrender it right back, as L.A. lost a 104-101 thriller to the Miami Heat Sunday afternoon.
"We've got to carry this over," guard Austin Rivers said. "That feeling that we had as a team that last quarter, we've got to feel that. And understand that if we play like that, we give ourselves a good chance every night."
L.A. started the fourth quarter on a 16-0 run, holding Miami scoreless until the seven minute mark, swinging momentum the Clippers way entirely.
Having no other options, Miami sent Austin Rivers to the free throw line with 17.1 seconds to play, as the Clippers were up one, having a shot to push their lead to three.
Under immense pressure, Rivers missed both free throws giving the Heat possession, as James Johnson was then sent to the charity stripe, by a costly Blake Griffin foul with 8.7 seconds to play.
''It's just really disappointing and frustrating, "said Rivers. "I feel like it's my fault we lost the game.''
By no means did the Clippers and Blake Griffin mean to foul Johnson, as it was an unfortunate event that led the Heat taking back a one-point lead, with Johnson converting on both of his shot attempts.
L.A. had one final chance, as the ball was in the hands of Blake Griffin, while he was guarded on a switch by Miami's Hassan Whiteside.
Griffin pump faked once, pumped faked twice but ultimately did not matter, as the Defensive Player of the Year candidate Whiteside caused Griffin to miss the 15-foot fade-away jumper.
"We got what we wanted," said Griffin who finished with a game-high 23 points. "I thought I had a good look, I thought it felt good actually, but it just didn't go in."
"We got some work to do, we gotta be better, we'll look at the film and just figure some stuff out."
Miami forward Josh Richardson calmly hit two final three throws for the Heat, ending the game and the madness that followed, as L.A. outscored Miami 35-15 in the quarter, nonetheless, still not being enough to change their win column, but enough to see they didn't give up.
"It shows you you're never out of a game," coach Doc Rivers said. "We didn't make any changes as far as our schemes or anything like that. We just started getting stops. We started playing. We started playing together."
Clippers got a great spark off the bench from Lou Williams, as he finished with 22 points, 13 coming in the fourth quarter when he led L.A. on their late run.
"The second unit saved us," added Rivers. "They were spectacular."
The battle between the seven-footers was a fun sighting to watch as well, where both centers finished with double-doubles.
Hassan Whiteside stuffed the stat sheet with 21 points and 17 rebounds, while DeAndre Jordan had 10 points and 19 rebounds.
Clippers starting forward Danilo Gallinari left in the first half with a left hip contusion and did not return, as he is now expected to miss some games.
"I've been having pain the last two or three games and now it's getting to the point where I'm having problems walking," he said. "I've got to take care of it."
It does not get any easier for the Clippers as they prepare for more fierce competition, now being even more shorthanded without Gallinari and Teodosic still, going a three-game road trip to San Antonio, Oklahoma City and New Orleans.

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Cosmos » Automation » Otto Rohwedder and the greatest thing
15 August 2021 /
Jeff Glorfeld
Otto Rohwedder and the greatest thing
The man that made the thing that made it possible to say the thing.
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How does one describe greatness and its many orders of magnitude? We can say something is simply great, or add a definitive-article time factor and say it is the greatest. Or we can include a comparison such as, American Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast since Romania's Nadia Comaneci. If we want to be less specific we can fall back on a cliché and say it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Except that there is nothing vague or uncertain about that otherwise seemingly trite saying. The first loaf of pre-sliced bread to be offered for sale to customers emerged from a machine conceived by Otto Rohwedder on 7 July 1928, in the small mid-west American town of Chillicothe, Missouri, in a bakery owned by Frank Bench.
Rohwedder's machine "and its conveyor system are electric in operation, being driven by a small motor," says the EDN engineering website. It cut loaves into 29 even slices and could process 1,000 loaves an hour.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder was born on 6 July 1880, in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa.
An article on the Lemelson-MIT website, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains that Rohwedder entered the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology in Chicago, and received a degree in optics in 1900.
Instead of pursuing a career in medicine or science, however, Rohwedder went to work as a jeweller, eventually owning three jewellery stores in St Joseph, Missouri.
In 1916 he sold his stores to raise capital, "convinced that he'd had a brilliant idea", and moved back to Davenport, Iowa.
The Lemelson-MIT article says Rohwedder had been working on his idea since around 1912, "a bread slicer that would automatically cut loaves of bread into slices for consumers".
"He worked on several prototypes, including one that held a sliced loaf together with metal pins. This model and several others would prove unsuccessful, but his biggest challenge came in late 1917 when a fire destroyed Rohwedder's design blueprints at a factory that had agreed to build his first slicing devices."
Despite the loss of his work, and the enormous financial setback, Rohwedder continued to refine his design. One of the main criticisms of his product came from bakers who complained, rightly, that sliced bread would go stale more quickly than whole loaves.
By 1927 he came up with a solution: his machine would slice the bread loaves and also enclose them in heat-sealed wax-paper wrappers.
An article published by the Smithsonian Institution says that after about "six months of heavy use" at Bench's Bakery, Rohwedder's bread slicer fell apart.
The Smithsonian has in its collection Rohwedder's second machine, which was used "to slice loaves of fresh bakery bread at Korn's Bakery, in Rohwedder's home town of Davenport, Iowa, beginning in late 1928".
Bread-slicing machine. Credit: National Museum of American History
The flow-on effects of Rohwedder's machine were many. EDN says that "within five years of the bread slicer's invention, American bakeries were selling more sliced than unsliced bread". Lemelson-MIT says another recent creation, the pop-up toaster, was a beneficiary.
A 2002 paper published by the North American Agricultural Biotechnology Council says "the Peter Pan peanut butter company observed that the introduction of sliced bread greatly increased the consumption of peanut butter".
In 1932 Rohwedder was granted a patent for a "Machine for Slicing an Entire Load of Bread at a Single Operation".
The following year, however, with the country in the grip of the Great Depression, he sold his rights to his invention to an Iowa-based company, Micro-Westco, and went to work as an executive in its newly formed bakery machine division.
Lemelson-MIT says he became known as "the father of sliced bread", and was "invited to speak to groups around the country".
Otto Rohwedder retired from Micro-Westco in 1951 and moved with his wife, Carrie, to Albion, Michigan. He died in Concord, Michigan on 8 November 1960.
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Q: parsing xml containing default namespace to get an element value using lxml I have a xml string like this
str1 = """<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
    <loc>
        http://www.example.org/sitemap_1.xml.gz
    </loc>
    <lastmod>2015-07-01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex> """

I want to extract all the urls present inside <loc> node
i.e http://www.example.org/sitemap_1.xml.gz
I tried this code but it didn't word
from lxml import etree
root = etree.fromstring(str1)
urls = root.xpath("//loc/text()")
print urls
[]

I tried to check if my root node is formed correctly. I tried this and get back the same string as str1
etree.tostring(root)

'<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">\n<sitemap>\n<loc>http://www.example.org/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>\n<lastmod>2015-07-01</lastmod>\n</sitemap>\n</sitemapindex>'

A: This is a common error when dealing with XML having default namespace. Your XML has default namespace, a namespace declared without prefix, here :
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

Note that not only element where default namespace declared is in that namespace, but all descendant elements inherit ancestor default namespace implicitly, unless otherwise specified (using explicit namespace prefix or local default namespace that point to different namespace uri). That means, in this case, all elements including loc are in default namespace.
To select element in namespace, you'll need to define prefix to namespace mapping and use the prefix properly in the XPath :
from lxml import etree
str1 = '''<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
    <loc>
        http://www.example.org/sitemap_1.xml.gz
    </loc>
    <lastmod>2015-07-01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>'''
root = etree.fromstring(str1)

ns = {"d" : "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"}
url = root.xpath("//d:loc", namespaces=ns)[0]
print etree.tostring(url)

output :
<loc xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
        http://www.example.org/sitemap_1.xml.gz
    </loc>


Google has launched a new program for its wearable computer, Glass, called Glass at Work. It wants to hear from Glass app developers who are writing apps for businesses.
"If you're a developer who is creating software for U.S. based enterprises, we'd love your help in building the future of Glass at Work."
"Today, there are thousands of consumers out there enjoying Glass in ways that are both practical and inspirational. At the same time, we've also seen many in the enterprise world -- from pro sports teams, to hospitals -- begin experimenting with Glass. We wanted to create a program that made it easier for them to get started on implementing Glass in their businesses."
Businesses could actually be the biggest initial market for Glass, even more than consumers, market research analysts say. While Glass appeals to a certain set of consumers, a lot of people aren't going to voluntarily wear a pair of glasses, even if the glasses are a cool, voice-controlled computer.
But using Glass for your job is something else. Hands-free access to the Internet, cameras, conferencing, phone calls, your calendar and apps that project images in front of your eyes would help lots of workers in jobs like technical repair, retail, health care and manufacturing.
Market research firm Gartner even boldy predicted that companies using Glass could save $1 billion a year, mostly thanks to improved productivity.
A case in point is Schlumberger, a company that makes products for the oilfield industry. It partnered with Wearable Intelligence for a Glass app to increase safety and efficiency for their employees in the field, Google says.
Other companies who are experimenting with Glass include Virgin Airlines, Westpac Bank in Australia, Beth Israel Deaconess medical center, Forrester Research vice president J.P. Gownder says.
"While enterprises can't easily buy Glass on the open market, Google has increased the Explorer program to roughly 10,000+ Explorers," Gownder tells Business Insider. "And companies can afford the $1,500 price tag more easily than consumers. So you see numerous trials of Glass among companies."
Even though the Glass for Work program is a step in the right direction, Google will eventually need to do more, Gownder adds.
"Enterprises are looking for support in navigating regulatory impediments -- for example, in healthcare, patients must currently sign tons of waivers for their doctors to use Glass in their treatment because the device isn't HIPAA compliant," he points out.
Plus, most enterprise security software can't be used with Glass yet, though some mobile security vendors, such as IBM's Fiberlink, do support Glass.
Still, Google is starting to step up and that's good for everyone.
As Gownder points out, "Google is finally explicitly addressing the enterprise wearables opportunity because developers and enterprises demand it."


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module Insomnia.Main.Command where

import System.Environment (getArgs)

data Command =
  Typecheck !FilePath
  | Gamble !FilePath
  | HelpUsage

processArguments :: IO Command
processArguments = do
  args <- getArgs
  case args of
    [arg] | arg == "--help" -> return HelpUsage
          | otherwise -> return $ Typecheck arg
    ["-c", arg] -> return $ Gamble arg
    _ -> return HelpUsage

printUsage :: IO ()
printUsage = putStrLn "Usage: insomnia [[-c] FILE | --help]"


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The menu screen and such is working like a charm, but when I'm at the battle field, the screen goes rapidly from normal to a black screen like 10 times in 1 sec, it's very irritating to play like this. How can this be? What setting should I adjust?
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Leaving more troops than planned is probably the right move for now.
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I wrote about it several times on this forum, but I think this might be a good opportunity to mention it again. There was also a suggestion that people should brag about the stuff they build. I totally agree.
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So I am sending a patch to Lincol Stein to have a better error message, but it would be nice if I could included the names of the correct packages from other Linux distributions.
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Some years ago ... then Prime Minister Harper was strongly criticized in Parliament and in the press for giving advice to the Governor General to prorogue the national parliament. He did this to delay a vote of confidence. Most academics took strong exception to Harper's conduct. I did not. This is why.
.... That said, let me tell you my key criticism of your article. I am doing this from memory; so don't hold me to anything or show this e-mail to third parties. It is quite possible that in writing on the fly I might misstate the position you took in your article.
It seems to me that you need some normative model or guidance or test from which you could determine when a Prime Minister [here Prime Minister Harper] is acting in his own self-interest or that of his party as opposed to his best determination of the public good. There has to be some give here. A Prime Minister is not supposed to be a neutral bystander and he should be able to see the continuance of his Government in office as part (not the whole) of the public good. The next test ought to be—as you indicate—was Parliament granted a full, [fair,] timely, meaningful, and free vote to determine whether a Prime Minister and his cabinet should continue in office, but a full, fair, timely, meaningful, and free vote requires a normative basis to make that judgment. It is not the Westminster tradition that a timely vote means whenever the opposition can muster sufficient votes to bring down the Government. Just as the Government can set the election date, it can, consistent with practice, set the time for confidence votes. Such votes should not be delayed indefinitely, i.e., until the next election. But they need not be tomorrow or on one day's notice either. As I understand it, what Harper did was delay that vote. There was no allegation of offering opposition members personal benefits to get their votes. If the delay was used to go out to the people to explain the Government's position (i.e., meaning that the Government put forward its view of what an all-opposition cabinet would mean for the country), then that seems consistent with democratic norms. Indeed, that is consistent with what I believe to be the highest aspirational norms of the Anglo-American tradition. In doing so, a Prime Minister isn't bringing Parliament to "heel"—I think that was your expression. Rather, such a Prime Minister is making Parliament, including the opposition, accountable. It is true that a delay gives a Prime Minister [and his Government] some benefits—a lack of accountability during the time Parliament is prorogued. But it comes with substantial costs too. During that time, the Government loses the opportunity to move its legislation forward and the delay is seen as weakness on the floor of the House [and across the country at large].
For Harper to have violated a convention of the Constitution or to have given illegal advice to the Governor General [in regard to prorogation], you need to show (or so I believe) some sort of overreach beyond the norms of the [Canadian] Constitution. Such overreach might involve intentional actions by Harper out of self-interest, beyond merely seeking to extend the life of his Government. Such overreach would also include indefinite delay of a confidence vote. Finally, overreach would include seeking to check parliament through grants of lucrative office** to opposition members (or bribes paid by third-parties). [On the other hand], where the time of the delay is used to actively engage in politics, i.e. talking to constituents and the press, that isn't abuse, that is virtue. You arrive at the opposite conclusion (as I understand your position) because your vision of Parliament is one of its having unchecked supremacy between elections—in that situation, the floor members are entitled to a free vote without notice [to the Government] and they should not be made to explain their positions to constituents outside of an [active] election contest. But if that is your position (and I could be wrong on that), then what is wrong (or so I believe) is your normative vision, not Harper's conduct.
Finally, don't the two recent Canadian by-elections, particularly BQ losing a seat to the Tories, indicate that Harper had sound prudential reasons for believing that the voters did not want an all opposition government?
**I overstated the normative force of the convention in this particular sentence.


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