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". . . one of the Chosen selected her heart for his anointed lead . . ." (Reja-e Busailah*)
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Palestinian farmer from Qaryut village inspects destroyed olive trees. (Photo by AFP, Published Fri Aug 17, 2018 by PressTV)
SELECTED NEWS OF THE DAY. . .
| ISRAEL RAZES LANDS, UPROOTS OLIVE TREES IN AL-KHADER VILLAGE
Israeli military bulldozers razed Palestinian agricultural lands and uprooted olive trees in the al-Khader village, south of the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, on Thursday. ___Locals said that Israeli bulldozers razed 5 dunams (1.2 acres) of agricultural lands, located between two illegal Israeli settlements of Elazar and Neve Daniel, both built on lands of the al-Khader village, and uprooted olive trees. ___Sources confirmed that the razed and leveled lands belonged to Muhammad Moussa. ___Locals added that razing of Palestinian lands and uprooting of trees is part of an Israeli plan to expand nearby illegal settlements. More . . .
. . . . Related Israeli forces demolish housing structures in Jordan Valley
. . . . Related PA cabinet to form investigation committee into Jerusalem properties issue
. . . . Related Salfit: Israel to confiscate 8 dunums of land for military purposes
| WHO: 14 GAZANS KILLED, INCLUDING 4 CHILDREN, IN TWO WEEKS
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a special situation report, on Wednesday, in which the latest figures showed that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 were injured by the Israeli forces in the past two weeks in the besieged Gaza Strip. ___According to the WHO report, from March 30th, the start of "The Great March of Return" protests along the Gaza borders with Israel, until the 6th of October, 205 Palestinians were killed. ___Out of the total killed, 190 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during the mass protests, while 15 others were killed during various Israeli attacks. More . . .
. . . . Related Gaza's unemployment doubled since start of Israeli blockade – labor
| UNESCO ADOPTS BY CONSENSUS DECISIONS ON PALESTINE
. . . . (UNESCO) adopted on Wednesday by consensus two resolutions on Occupied Palestine in the framework of its 205th plenary meeting. [. . . .] One resolution stated that, "The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, a site inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger, is the sacred city of the three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. . . all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel . . . are null and void and must be rescinded forthwith." [. . . .] It also deplored "the ongoing Israeli excavations, works, construction of private roads for settlers and of a Wall inside the Old City of Al-Khalil/Hebron which are illegal under international law and harmfully affect the authenticity and integrity of the site, and the subsequent denial of freedom of movement and freedom of access to places of worship." More . . .
COMMENTARY AND OPINION. . . .
| WHAT THE CLOSURE OF THE PLO OFFICE IN WASHINGTON REALLY MEANS
Dorgham Abusalim
There have been attempts to shutter the PLO presence in the U.S. ever since it opened a Washington, DC-based Information Office in 1978. But it wasn't until 1987 that such attempts began to gain steam when Congress adopted the Anti-Terrorism Act, in which it proclaimed the PLO a terrorist organization—this law is in effect to this day . . . In all the commentary on the closure of the PLO office in Washington, little has been said about what it actually means . . . [. . . .] Thirty-six years later, the closure of the PLO office in Washington . . . echoes [Edward] Said's sobering analysis: "To reduce Palestinian existence as much as possible." Indeed, the closure of the PLO office is yet another reminder of the long assault by Israel and the U.S., its chief ally, on those elements that constitute the Palestinian narrative: institutions, culture, history, law, and language, to name a few. More . . .
NOTICES FROM ORGANIZATIONS. . . .
| KINDER USA PRESENTS DR. MADS GILBERT: A RETURN VISIT TO GAZA (Dallas, Texas, October 21; Anaheim, California, October 26) For over thirsty years, Dr. Mads Gilbert has worked in conflict zones including volunteering in hospitals under siege in West Beirut, Lebanon during the 80s and Gaza for the last two decades. His perspective as a doctor and activist in such a conflicted time and area makes him the ideal person for our upcoming speaking events. Tickets and Information . . .
POEM FOR THE DAY. . . .
"IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLY HEIGHTS" BY REJA-E BUSAILAH
for Haniya Suleiman Zarawneh, killed by the Israelis
at the age of 25, near Jerusalem, January 4, 1988
The sun came out that day from the depth of winter
like the rare orphan of good luck —
what else can the light of heaven be
on a day rising from the dead of winter?
And she had risen before the sun that day
and like her mother and grandmother before her
she washed by hand and wrung by hand
the linen for spouse and child,
and like mother and grandmother
she walked up the wooden ladder
with the pail onto the roof
into the shadow of the Holy Heights —
so clear was the sky
it almost recalled the sight and the scent of the sea down west.
Faithfully she hung her labors on the rope
article by article
that the good sun might dry them for her,
she clasped each with a wooden pin
as safeguard against the prankish wind —
it was no senseless nature that did it when she was done
just about to come down for other chores,
it was no fiendish Nazi,
it was one of the Chosen
selected her heart for his anointed lead
so that limp went the spring in the covenant
which joined soul and limb —
and the good sun shines
and the sheets and the skirts and the nightgowns
and the small socks
and the outfit for the wooden doll
they toss in the wind
and smell like linen hand-washed and sun-dried
they swing lighthearted on the rope
waiting for mother to collect them
* Reja-e Busailah has been blind since infancy. At age 7, he and his family were forced marched by Zionist forces from their home in Lydda into exile. He was educated in Cairo and earned a PhD in English from New York University. He is the author of a collection of poetry, "We Are Human," (1985). He taught at Indiana University for 30 years and is now retired. He recently published his memoir "In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood."
From BEFORE THERE IS NOWHERE TO STAND: PALESTINE ISRAEL POETS RESPOND TO THE STRUGGLE. Ed. By Joan Dobbie and Grace Beeler. Sandpoint ID: Lost Horse Press, 2012. Available from B&N.
". . . my aim was to declare that the day . . ." (Ahmad Dahbour)
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SELECTED NEWS OF THE DAY
[Note: "See also" indicates a related story rather than additions to the linked story.]
ISRAELI SETTLERS RAID, VANDALIZE PROPERTY IN NABLUS
A group of Israeli settlers raided a number of Palestinian homes and vandalized vehicles, on Thursday, in the Urif village in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus. ___Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar stormed the Urif village and raided several Palestinian homes in the eastern part of the village. More. . . See also. . .
ISRAELI FORCES TO DEMOLISH PALESTINIAN HOUSE SOUTH OF BETHLEHEM Israeli forces Wednesday delivered a demolition order for a Palestinian house in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, said a local activist. ___Hassan Breijah, Coordinator of Anti-Wall and Settlement Committee, said that Israeli forces raided the town and handed Sameeh Ahmad Salah an order to demolish his house. . . under the pretense of unlicensed building. . . . in the southern section of the town, known as Khirbet 'Alya. . . ___He pointed out that the planned demolition is connected with an Israeli plan to construct a settler-only bypass road that would serve as a northern entrance to Efrat settlement. More. . .
ISRAEL ALLOWS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SETTLERS TO CARRY GUNS Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan stated that Israel has eased the criteria for the obtainment of personal gun permits, Israel Hayom reported. ___The move is expected to lead to hundreds of thousands of Israelis applying for a license. ___The law is for new license applicants and holders of existing licenses, according to the sources. More. . .
ONE OF PALESTINE'S MOST POPULAR JOURNALISTS IS IN JAIL FOR INCITEMENT
Oren Ziv
Ali Dar Ali was arrested for two posts he published on Facebook. But the prosecution and the judge are far more concerned with his large following than the content of the posts. ___Israeli forces arrested Ali Dar Ali, one of the most renowned Palestinian journalists in the West Bank, at his home near Ramallah last week, for incitement to violence. . . . ___Ali, who has been working for Palestinian television since 2007, is known for broadcasting live from demonstrations in the occupied territories, where he routinely documents clashes between young Palestinians and the army, as well as IDF raids on villages. Often times, he is the only journalist that covers these events as they unfold, and thus is able to document daily life under occupation from up close. More. . .
EMBATTLED TRUMP STARTLES ISRAEL BY DEMANDING 'HIGHER PRICE' FOR HIS DELUSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS ON JERUSALEM The president's claim that the future of the city was off the table is a mix of balderdash and poppycock wrapped in pure rubbish
Donald Trump starred in the main headlines in Israel on Wednesday morning, just as he did in the United States, but for completely different reasons. Americans were reeling. . . Israelis, on the other hand, were more flabbergasted by a few sentences that Trump uttered, intentionally or inadvertently, in his campaign-style rally in West Virginia. ___The term that grabbed people was "higher price." Israel would have to pay a "higher price," Trump said, in return for his decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. It's the Palestinians' turn, he said in his typical third-grade lingo, "to get something good." More. . .
IN RESPONSE TO TRUMP STATEMENT : EREKAT SAYS THERE IS NO PRICE FOR JERUSALEM
Secretary of the Executive Committee for Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Dr. Saeb Erekat, responded to US President Donald Trump and his National Security Advisor John Bolton statements about the removal of Jerusalem from the negotiating table in the future by saying that there is no price for Jerusalem". ___Erekat added in his respons PNN received by Email that without East Jerusalem including Holy Haram, Church of the Holy Sepulcher, its old town and its walls as Palestaine capital there will be no meaning of Palestinian state". ___He added that Trump, Bolton and Netanyahu must understand that there will no peace without East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders. More. . .
ISRAELI RESTRICTIONS STRANGLE GAZA'S CANCER PATIENTS
Ahmad Kabariti
For the fourth time in two months, Nevin Abu El-Jidian failed to cross the Erez checkpoint, which separates the Gaza Strip from Israel and the West Bank. Israeli authorities asked her to come back again with an updated radiograph of her breast cancer. "The officer told me I have to go back to Gaza and take an updated one." But, even then, passage into Israel is not guaranteed, the officer told her. ___[. . . .] According to testimony collected by the Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, officers at the Erez crossing often exploit vulnerable patients to obtain information, forcing them to inform on friends and family. Refusal to collaborate results in denying passage to these patients. More. . . See also. . .
THE LANGUAGE OF PALESTINIAN FREEDOM
Steven Salaita
Ash Sarkar, of "I'm literally a communist" fame, recently set Palestine Twitter ablaze with an unusual pronouncement: ". . . I'm making a decision to try and speak of Palestinians' right to protection and self-defence rather than resistance." ___ Reaction against this message was swift. . . Palestinian critics, many of whom patiently explained the importance of terms like "resistance." ___[. . . .] "Resistance" doesn't simply denote obstinacy; it connotes political and economic self-realization. "Fighting" isn't an irrational desire to inflict harm; it is a necessary survival mechanism. The colony cannot maintain its endurance without antagonism. More. . .
NOTICES FROM ORGANIZATIONS
SABEEL ECUMENICAL LIBERATION THEOLOGY CENTER (JERUSALEM)
Fall Witness Visit: October 30th – November 7th
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center invites you to join us for 9 nights to experience the reality of life in today's Holy Land. . . ___Meet and reflect with Palestinian Christians and Muslims as well as with Jewish Israelis and internationals who partner with Sabeel in non-violent resistance against the violation of international and humanitarian law More. . .
AUGUST 24TH REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES: USPCN'S DELEGATION TO PALESTINE (CHICAGO)
Attend this report back of the first USPCN delegation in eight years! Muhammad Sankari, Bassem Kawar, and Danya Zituni are the featured presenters. More. . .
"OUR COUNTRY," BY AHMAD DAHBOUR
Who is it calls like this?
Who are you, Sir?
It was as if I had heard a voice that knew me, and perhaps for
you it was the same? Or am I mistaken? If I am, I ask your
forgiveness, Sir. For what reason do you think I would contrive
this dialogue? Believe me, I have no ulterior motive. But
let us assume I have faked this dialogue; my aim was to
declare that the day . . . Please listen, and don't go away.
On our land exists a wall which we would like to have converted
into a room, only we weren't granted building permission.
What can I say? Are these utensils sold in the market place?
Do you think that I am in the secret police? Then why are you
afraid of me? I'm only interested in words. So let it go if
I expressed myself badly. It is my country.
Don't we have the right here to shake hands?
To form a friendship of sorts?
An adversary? A pal who forgives?
Or a passer-by who calls our name?
Don't we have that right?
Isn't it our country?
Did you hear a voice? Who is it that calls like this?
Who is it who calls our name?
—Trans. Lena Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed
—From Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Columbia University Press, 1992.
". . . Will you become . . . an ordinary country? . . ." (Samih Al-Qasim)
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A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo: Times of Israel)
❶ Bethlehem: Settlers Raze Lands in Al-Khader
❷ 1,000 civilian structures demolished by Israeli authorities in Negev
❸ Israeli police to ban burial of Jerusalemite martyrs in their areas
❹ Opinion/Analysis: AFTER TEL AVIV ATTACK, WHAT IS GOING BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL?
❺ POETRY by Samih Al-Qasim
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International Middle East Media Center – IMEMC
Israeli settlers, Wednesday, razed Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Khader, to the south of occupied Bethlehem, according to local sources.
___Hasan Burajeya, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Bethlehem, told WAFA that a group of illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by a military escort, proceeded to raze about 15 dunams of land near al-Khader. The razed land belongs to local Palestinians from the village.
___Burajeya asserted that the razing of said lands comes as part of Israeli plan to construct a yeshiva (Jewish school) at the site. MORE . . .
LATE THIS past June [2012], a group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank defaced and burned a mosque in the small West Bank village of Jabaa. Graffiti sprayed by the vandals warned of a "war" over the planned evacuation, ordered by the Israeli Supreme Court, of a handful of houses illegally built on private Palestinian land near the Israeli settlement of Beit El. The torching of the mosque was the fourth such attack in 18 months and part of a wider trend of routine violence committed by radical settlers against innocent Palestinians, Israeli security personnel, and mainstream settler leaders — all aimed at intimidating perceived enemies of the settlement project.
___This violence has not always plagued the settler community. Although many paint all Israeli settlers as extremists, conflating them with the often-justified criticism of Israeli government policy in the West Bank, the vast majority of them oppose attacks against Palestinian civilians or the Israeli state. In the past, Israeli authorities and the settler leadership often worked together to prevent such assaults and keep radicalism at bay. Yet in recent years, the settler movement has experienced a profound breakdown in discipline, with extremists now beyond the reach of either Israeli law enforcement or the discipline of settler leaders.
Byman, Daniel, and Natan Sachs. "The Rise Of Settler Terrorism." Foreign Affairs 91.5 (2012): 73-86. Complete Article.
The Palestinian Information Center
The Israeli authorities demolished 1,041 Bedouin structures in Negev between 2013 and 2015, with a further 1,711 structures being destroyed by their owners after receiving demolition orders. According to a new report by the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF), in 2015 alone, nearly 1,000 structures were demolished in Negev — 365 by the Israeli authorities, and 617 by the homeowners themselves.
___The waves of demolitions have displaced thousands of Bedouins over the past three years, according to Michal Rotem, the author of the report. MORE . . .
The Negev/Naqab region in southern Israel is a socially segregated landscape rent by clashes between Bedouin and Jewish residents and government bodies over access to land for farming and homes and over the status of Bedouin villages. Though Bedouin residents once migrated within the region and bordering grazing areas, they have been struggling for the past half-century to gain a firm and recognised place within the Israeli state. Approximately half of the Negev's 180,000 Bedouin Arab residents live in villages and family clusters that the government deems illegal. The other half live in government-planned townships, which hold legal legitimacy as residences.
[. . . .]
However . . . formal citizenship does not guarantee the equal distribution of political rights and economic resources. Rather, 'differentiated citizenship' means that social goods are distributed unequally along racial or class-based social divisions. Such is the case for a Jewish–Arab differentiation in Israel. Whereas Israel's Basic Laws promise equal rights to all citizens . . . rights are systematically denied to non-Jews (e.g., land purchases and the benefits accruing to military service).
___How does this differentiation happen? Of critical importance for the case of land rights, socially privileged citizens have more influence in defining legitimate and illegitimate land uses. An examination of the media campaigns, protests, court cases and Knesset debates involved in Negev struggles against eviction reveals the importance of leveraging cultural recognition. Residents in both these cases lived dispersed, agro-pastoral lifestyles that were initially prohibited by the Israeli government. Jewish residents were able to gain legal recognition for their land-use practices, while Bedouin residents were not.
McKee, Emily. "Demolitions And Amendments: Coping With Cultural Recognition And Its Denial In Southern Israel." Nomadic Peoples 19.1 (2015): 95-119. Available.
The Israeli occupation police on Wednesday decided not to allow funerals and burials for Palestinian martyrs from east Jerusalem in their neighborhoods or town and to choose the Muslim cemeteries they would be buried in.
___Yedioth Ahronoth website said this decision was taken following the funeral of martyr Alaa Abu Jamal several weeks when about 200 persons gathered at the Jabel Mukaber cemetery and chanted incitement slogans against Israel and support for the deceased, whom it described as a "terrorist".
___After reporting what happened at that funeral, minister of public security Gilad Erdan ordered a freeze on returning the bodies of "terrorists" to their families until the incident could be investigated and new conditions could be imposed to ensure funerals would not contain incitement. MORE . . .
Reporter's notebook: Scenes from the Tel Aviv terror attack – Arab-Israeli Conflict – (Photo: Jerusalem Post)
Mairav Zonszein
I was out last night in Tel Aviv at a poetry book launch for a good friend when the news flashed on my phone that there was a shooting in the Sarona Market . . . .
___Life does go on here despite the violence. That's just the reality. But when I read the statement by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai that Israelis cannot let such terror "disrupt our lives" and that we should "return to business as usual" tomorrow, I become enraged. Why shouldn't this disrupt our lives? [. . . .]
___The word "disruption" here also dismisses the fact that the lives of so many Palestinians are "disrupted" all the time. The entire city of Yatta, where the two murderers are from — a population of about 65,000 people in the occupied West Bank — is now under military lockdown. This is collective punishment, a mass "disruption."
"IF ONLY," BY SAMIH AL-QASIM
My homeland, an earring dangling
from the ear of the earth;
my homeland . . . a woman
whose thighs are opened by the western wind;
my homeland, the oars of the boat;
my homeland, the absent son:
Will you one day rouse what is in me?
Will you become . . . an ordinary country?
From Al-Qasim, Samih. SADDER THAN WATER. New and Selected Poems. Trans. Nazih Kasis and Adina Hoffman. Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2008.
Samih Al-Qasim Obituary, August 20, 2014
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". . . tired of minds that have become hotels . . ." (Rashid Hussein)
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Father Ramiz Baker, with Muntaser [left] and Sayid [right] (Photo, The Middle East Monitor)
❶ From THE MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
ISRAEL APPROVES 800 NEW SETTLEMENT UNITS IN BETHLEHEM
Israeli Public Prosecution has revealed an Israeli settlement plan consisting of 800 new settlement units in Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported yesterday.
____The plan was approved by the Israeli Housing and Construction Minister Ori Ariel, during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's previous government at the end of last year.
(More. . .)
❷ From INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST MEDIA CENTER (IMEMC)
ISRAELI EXTREMISTS UPROOT VEGETABLE CROPS IN BETHLEHEM
Several fanatic Israeli settlers invaded, on Saturday evening, Palestinian farmlands in the town of al-Khader, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and uprooted hundreds of tomato and cauliflower plants and seedlings, in addition to destroying an entire field planted with Okra.
____Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, said the Israeli extremists came from the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, built on stolen Palestinian lands.
(Background)
Israeli settlers uprooted hundreds of olive trees from the lands of al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, March 20, 2013 (Photo flotillahyves.com).
❸ From THE PALESTINIAN INFORMATION CENTER
ISRAELI VANDALS ATTACK PALESTINIANS IN AL-KHALIL
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A horde of Israeli extremist settlers, residing in the illegal Ma'un settlement, attacked on Saturday Palestinian passers-by and shepherds in al-Khalil's town of Yatta, in the southern West Bank.
____ . . . the Israeli settlers, ESCORTED BY ARMY OFFICERS, attacked shepherds and unarmed citizens.
(More . . .)
❹ From AL-MONITOR: THE PULSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
WEST BANK COMMUNITY WELCOMES KHADER ADNAN HOME FROM ISRAELI PRISON
Aziza Nofal
JENIN, West Bank — Cries of joy were heard at the home of administrative detainee Sheikh Khader Adnan after he was released and carried on the shoulders of supporters into his town of Arraba, near Jenin . . . .
____After his release July 12, Adnan stepped out to the rostrum in front of his house and addressed hundreds of people who came from the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem to welcome him. He said Israel made a mistake by detaining him and has paid a high price.
❺ From MA'AN NEWS AGENCY
PALESTINIAN YOUTHS STUCK AT CAIRO AIRPORT
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) — Several Palestinian youths from the Gaza Strip heading to Saudi Arabia and European countries have been stuck at the Cairo International Airport for a month.
_____Three young men and two young women were reportedly taken by Egyptian authorities from the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to the airport where they were prevented from travelling due to expired residency permits for their destination countries.
❻ OPINION
From THE MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
ONE YEAR ON FROM THE ISRAELI OFFENSIVE, GAZA'S CHILDREN ARE UNABLE TO FORGET
Motasem A Dalloul
During the 51-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip . . . a group of Palestinian children fled to the beach to escape from the harsh and extensive bombing of houses, hospitals, healthcare centres and playgrounds; they went there to play football.
____They thought that the beach, an open area, was a safe place because it has never been used by the Palestinian resistance. Although the seven of them arrived on the beach safely, minutes later, four had been killed and three were wounded after being targeted by shells apparently fired from an Israeli warship.
"WITHOUT A PASSPORT," BY RASHID HUSSEIN (1936-1977)
I was born without a passport
I grew up
and saw my country
become prisons
without a passport
So I raised a country
and wheat
in every house
I tended to the trees therein
I learned how to write poetry
to make the people of my village happy
I learned that he whose land is stolen
does not like the rain
If he were ever to return to it, he will
But I am tired of minds
that have become hotels
for wishes that never give birth
except with a passport
I came to you
and revolted against you
so slaughter me
perhaps I will then feel that I am dying
From Rashid Hussein, Al-A`mal al-Shi`riyya (al-Taybe: Markaz Ihya' al-Turath al-`Arabi, 1990), Translated by Sinan Antoon.
Rashid Hussein (1936-1977) was born in Musmus, Palestine. He published his first collection in 1957 and established himself as a major Palestinian poet and orator. He was the first celebrity poet to appear on the Arab-Israeli stage; other poets called him "the star". He showed them it was possible to write about "human things" – bread, hunger, anger.
(Another poem by Rashid Hussein)
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SpainMan held over shooting that wounded four in Securitas office in Catalonia
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Man held over shooting that wounded four in Securitas office in Catalonia
A security guard shot three ex-colleagues in his old company's workplace and then locked himself in
CRISTIAN REINO Friday, 17 December 2021, 14:33
A man has been arrested near Tarragona, northern Spain, after entering the local offices of security-firm Securitas and opening fire. Four people were wounded, one seriously. The former employee was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying more than one weapon. Police managed to corner the 45-year-old assailant of Rumanian origin in a disused farmhouse 20 kilometres away. Sources said he was seeking revenge for being dismissed.

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Tilt shift lenses are kind of mysterious to many folks. They're expensive, they're excruciatingly manual, and what's with all the knobs on them? Here's an example, my Canon 17mm T/S (Amazon affiliate link) which I purchased used from a buddy. I also have the Canon 24mm T/S, which is one of my favorite lenses ever.
Tilt shift lenses are used for a variety of disciplines but most often you'll see them used in architectural and food photography. They allow you to control perspective while adjusting your composition in a way that a wide angle lens just cannot. To help you understand what I mean, I put together a quick 10-minute overview of how tilt-shift lenses are used and take you into the field with me for some test shots!
I've even used some of the images taken with the tilt shift lenses as some previous pictures of the week, like this one from that same bridge in Dallas.
I hope you enjoyed the video, let me know if you have any questions about tilt shift lenses!


The ship of fools. Today, 28 June 2010, we meet a year after receiving a military coup in Honduras. Doing a thorough review of what has happened, everything points to reiterate that coup affluent classes, rode onstage moralist and satirical poem the ship of fools or the ship of fools published in Basel in 1494 and written by the theologian, jurist and humanist Sebastian Brant (or Brand). The central issue of this literary gem lies in that a group of madmen decided a trip in boat towards the land of fools. If we assume that the ship of fools is commanded by the coup leaders who planned and executed the rupture of the constitutional order of a country then, is easy to think that it is towards the land of fools, the Honduran people where wished to reach, as they tick of unfamiliar alien illiterate ignaro.
However the same people, gives the big surprise when you mostly reject the issue of presidential succession. Official site: Andrew Cuomo. Therefore, to be a witness of a sequence of inconsistent facts, such as the alleged resignation of President Manuel Zelaya and the forged letter, which indeed we still don't know who did it. And hours later chain of international press from Costa Rica, we hear in the voice of the deposed President give his version and say I took out in pajamas and force was then, we knew that the journey had begun. This poem, strongly criticises the fact, lacking a structure, because the author materialized only to present a succession of isolated pictures, and that the unit is given only by language and versification, as well as the figure of the DIMWITTED central character of the play. Somewhat disturbed, unbalanced mental, crew decided to go on this adventure under the command of a fool, doubly: alienated, nutty, obsessive and majareta. Was it to case of the self-discovery of the self? Enter a chifladura to then move to a State of lunatic at what cost? In this ship, according to Brant, the concept of madness that handles the author is extremely broad and includes the alienated, the immoral and sinners.
Cabe doubts that the crew on board, were not portrayed even in the box who painted El Bosco: the ship of fools in where the masts of the ship are leaning trees that still retains the foliage and the rudder is not anything other than a huge ladle that blithely manages one of the participants on this trip. More info: Hamdi Ulukaya. The ship of fools continues advanced, the tides are high, gusty winds, Thunder and lightning are strong and eyes national and international are waiting for a solution, that has to come from the people. Getting Meanwhile abordo's still drunk, they still believe that they did things well, while people still crying to their dead. One year of the military coup, here nobody surrenders!
In that order, today the governmental beings have the doors abiertas to the era of the civilization and the development, allowing them by law so that they promote the establishment of special economic zones of export ZEEEX which are an economic laboratory 4, reason why I consider that in this debate one is due to be useful so that this new sub-r3egional governmental being, in the same law approves that it is high to this category like special economic zone of production and export, in order to stimulate the establishment of companies, it trains and investment in macro projects that can and that are going to be developed in the zone profiteer the wealth sources that are latent. In this zone they jump at sight potentials of wealth that can be studied the feasibility of projects for the integral advantage of the natural resources that would give an impact social, sub-r3egional, regional and as much national, until the point of to create a great commercial company of the state that I would call company of the right commerce it stops Oriented Colombia to democratise the prices of the land, the water, the fish (within reach of all the town) and of all those products that they take place in all the zone: VIABLE PROJECTS FOR THE ZONE? To create the transport center aquatic industrialist and aerial port FOB, which can serve like export and import window, so what comes happening with the ports from Santa Marta, Barranquilla, Cartagena and of the Pacific. To declare the zone like road Runner aquatic and tourist of Colombia, from which tourist projects will be able to be implemented ecological, as long walks and visits for the investigation and knowledge of the flora and fauna, to promote it deports aquatic in all modalities and to develop environmentalist projects. To mount the water company and on watch I publish but great and complete from Colombia at regional level, of irrigation, industrial use and human consumption to serve its of aqueduct (potable water) of quality in any region of the coast and others of the interior, they are to departments, municipalities, groups of judges, paths, property, small villages, agricultural projects, etc.).
OASYS certified PoINT Archiver for file archiving IBC 2011, booth 8.B38d – Aylesbury, England, September 7, 2011. OASYS and the PoINT Software & Systems GmbH today announced that OASYS has certified the PoINT Archiver collaboration software with its software-based, automated playout solution for file archiving on tape and optical media. If you are not convinced, visit Hikmet Ersek. In the video and broadcasting industry, data storage is increasingly an essential element of any complete workflow solution. Additional hard disk space, which must be powerful and highly available for playout solutions, can be very expensive. The required capacity of this extremely expensive high – performance drive systems can be reduced through the use of the software PoINT Archiver because such as large video files on low-cost storage media such as LTO-5 can be archived.
According to defined playlists the OASYS solution can then call directly advance the needed files from tape, to ensure a continuous transmit mode. The also for the PoINT Archiver available software development kit integration also allows a multi-tiered storage management functionality. The combination of OASYS software with the PoINT Archiver solution lets customers capacity increase at the same time reduced storage costs without sacrificing speed or quality", says Mark Errington, CEO, OASYS. "" This is a significant addition to our workflow, and we are very pleased to work together with the team of PoINT Software & Systems GmbH."Dateibasierte archiving and HSM (hierarchical storage management) offer huge potential savings, particularly in the area of digital broadcast", explains Bernd Klee, CEO of PoINT Software & Systems GmbH. and the seamless workflow that is created in conjunction with our PoINT Archiver by OASYS, simplifies the management of extremely large video archive." The combined solution will be available from September 2011. About OASYS OASYS is a leader for over 20 years in the transition to software-based playout solutions. We have to recognise the benefits of using IT and the latest video card technology and implement powerful playout software solutions that are easily scalable, maintainable and flexible. Our latest software innovation benefits from our extensive experience to provide reliable on-air operation using computer-aided radio technology.
Our solutions are used worldwide. Of our customers, we know that our software and our support will mean a substantial difference in the day-to-day operations. More information, see point the PoINT Software & Systems GmbH, Siegen, is specialized in the development of software products and system solutions for the storage and management of data on all available mass storage devices, such as hard disks, magnetic tapes and optical media. A close cooperation enables the early with leading hardware manufacturers Support for new storage technologies. In addition to complete solutions PoINT offers its expertise in the form of toolkits, which can easily be integrated into other applications with their programming interface. In addition, projected PoINT complete storage solutions and stands with his long and varied experience available. The home PoINT products are sold by about 50 partners in over 25 countries worldwide and have proven so far more than two million installations.
If you do not want everyone to see a note saying "do not waste time on the Internet", make up a code phrase that is easy to remember. You can put something like "look at the account X" as a way to make him think about how you spend your time. You should always have a schedule. As your list, keep you organized schedules, but also will let you know when you have a little "free time". Please visit Andrew Cuomo if you seek more information. Remember that we are not trying to eliminate wasted time, that's impossible. What we're trying to do is to reduce the most blatant forms where you lose time and minimize the time you spend in activities that distract you. A well-kept programming will be easier for you to plan your day, which means that you will not be wasting time during the day determining what to do next. Over time, programming, along with its list, it becomes a habit and soon you can finish up with minimal distractions.
You can also determine periods of time in which it is possible to lose some time. This can happen between meetings or appointments and your schedule if you order properly, which can control the lost time and make your day progress smoothly. Once a schedule becomes a routine, their ability to plan your day will be easier and the distractions that used to cost you time will be easier to avoid. Be disciplined The essence of time management comes down to having the discipline to make sure not to waste time and be productive. If it is difficult discipline, use the tools mentioned above to control those times when you are most likely to lose time. The key thing is that up to you. Like many things in life, you have the ability to maximize productivity and reduce wasted time. You may be the most organized person in the world, but if not disciplined, you will lose time. Ultimately have to decide on the essentials of time management, organization and discipline, and commit to making changes that will allow you to greatly reduce the loss of time.
The German chancellor says that to new conjunctural initiatives " it would cause that the countries sunk in the crisis stopped doing deberes". For other opinions and approaches, find out what Hikmet Ersek has to say. For Merkel, a union of the debt would affect to the credit credibility of the countries of the zone Euro and to one worse valuation of those of qualification. Merkel and Papandreu maintained a key meeting for the umbrella of European rescue. Obama: " The situation of Europe is scaring to mundo" . The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, rejected east Tuesday the elaboration of new conjunctural programs in the European Union (the EU) like instrument to do against the crisis of the debt and to guarantee the stability of the Euro. " We are not dispuestos" for new initiatives in that sense, Merkel in a speech said before the German enterprise cupola in the Day of the German Industry and in the presence of Greek prime minister, Yorgos Papandreu. The German chancellor reiterated his rejection to a colectivizacin of the debt, since " that would cause that they stopped doing deberes" who are themselves sunk in the budgetary crisis and no it would lead to a stability union, that described as high-priority objective. A union of the debt would affect to the credit credibility of the countries of the zone Euro and to one worse valuation of those of qualification, with the risk of " to begin in AAA and to finish in CCC" , it indicated the chancellor, that its rejection to the emission of euro-bonds has also repeated time and time again. The German chancellor was sorry that one has not been reached " suficiente" regulation of the banking sector and the markets and mentioned specifically to Spain at the time of celebrating the success of the initiative German-finery to include the limit to the new indebtedness in the constitution of the countries of the EU.
To put down on this plane dimensions – length, width of the room, area, identify openings of doors, heating pipes, etc. This plan is useful to us in the next step. 2. BUY carpeting and baseboards. Best buy in a specialty store, where there is normal vendors who can help and advice to help pick up furniture. When buying, note the length of the nap. Of course, cover with a long nap softer and more pleasant to the touch.
However, it is much faster than collecting dust. And even if you several times a week to vacuum, it is still a couple of years there is a risk to get a floor that will smell like dust and irritate the nostrils. When you purchase should take into account the width of the cover sold. Contact information is here: Western Union Company. Typically, buying a piece of a 3 or 4 meters, we get the carpet, which covers the entire width of a room. We can only spread out a little pruning. For greater certainty show your measurements (Plan Room) to the seller and ask them to pick up cover the required size. In good shops may also be cut out and cover for your size. When buying carpet immediately buy and moldings.
Let the store you will deliver everything at once, and you will save on shipping. I recommend plastic plinth with cable channel. In this channel you can hide the phone or antenna wire. More expensive, but convenient to the plinth is not hard, but soft. That is his edge made of soft plastic. Such better plinth adjacent to the rough walls, leaving no gaps. WHAT NEEDS TO BE MORE TO Plinth? – Corners, end caps on the edges and connections – all the plastic fittings that are selected by color moldings. Ask to participate in the selection of Seller, showing him the plan of your room.
Andreas mumber, GF M & A:, it is but a principle of equality of arms. Chobani Refugees follows long-standing procedures to achieve this success. The "polluter pays" has the insurer together with the legal department behind him and the victim must wait may fear. Our clients have usually no knowledge of the law in cases of damage, so it is only fair, if also a claimant a counsel to help take. Even if it is regarded only as a precaution and the cases are simply stored! "otherwise as in the representation of the person who caused the damage, the injured party with regard to the fee are likely to enjoy. The Kassel District Court decided in a single decision on 30 June 2009, a polluter's liability insurer have to pay the fees of legal assistance of the victim, even if the cases are not disputed and easy! The District Court of Mannheim ruled in a similar case in 2007 already in favour of an injured party. Insurance consultants include lawyers and expert full lawyer the same fee schedule as General. An insurance consultant expertise corresponds to an expert full lawyer in the area of insurance law. Andreas mumber, GF M & A:, we Welcome to the current judgment of the District Court of Kassel and regard this as a positive signal for the victims.
Such judgments will create greater legal certainty for the victims! "the mumber & Associates clarifies in advance whether the cost of the insurer to take over. The fee of the mumber & Associates is quite cheap in comparison, so the fees of M & A for the injured party or a client is affordable. In addition, the company offered a part payment of the final fee, if not accept the fee the liability insurer. So the company wants to avoid that the clients get afraid of high and unaffordable fees. The M & A represents that setting must be the a good advice is not expensive and sets it to successfully! Mumber & Associates offers also the examination of statutory health insurance premium repayment on the current occasion.
He is required of a new Executive Secretary, more adapted to the needs of the demands of the present, Secretaries with other organizational culture, more forward-looking spirit of belonging, trained according to the requierimentos of language, the present organizational communication. Changes that have been generated restructuring of organizations for its operation, a new structural architecture that allows the challenges, give way to the transformations that lead to productivity, operability, which guarantees benefits, participation in markets, growth management leadership proactive, democratic, motivator, capable of developing strategic plans, actions that enable the company to participate effectively in the current scenarios, be competitive, conquer and remain in the markets, meet the challenges, risks and uncertainty. New technology that guarantee competitiveness, innovation, product development, quality and productivity, costs. The newspapers mentioned Rob Daley not as a source, but as a related topic. Agreements to functions more trained professionals to develop, professionals with well defined belonging spirit, innovative, creative, contributors, responsible, productive. New openings, product of a more open foreign trade policy, which has given way to alliances, agreements, conventions, favouring the country, to the companies in their participation and integration with the Government's economic programs.
New knowledge, skills, skills of the administrative function according to the competitive demands of the present, skills that have given way to new styles of training, learning more dynamic, more positive based on the performance. The Executive Secretary of the present according to the above, this has entailed that management has in the present with an Executive Secretariat efficient, capable of entering into their programmes, plans, providing all those actions that favor him in their interrelations of work that provide namespaces, tools that favours him in the its management. The Executive Secretary of the present required to become a professional with vision, dynamic, ready to occupy his post with the support of all the necessary knowledge that would facilitate its exercise, properly handle the terms, scope of the modern managerial topics, negotiation interrelations human knowledge if same, optimistic, pleasant, with personality, presentable, good conduct, values, ethics, behavior that generates a positive organizational climate in your workout, domain languages, especially English, the basic aspects of the technological tools of computer science. Be a secretariat with the knowledge and application of basic tools for personal growth that guarantees conflict management, from step to an organizational climate where its role is very positive for the performance of the functions of management. You need a Secretary where the management trust, collaborate you on the minimization of problems with the help of your feedback, participation in everything that will benefit the performance of the Manager. A secretariat tolerant to the uncertainty with which the business moves. With the ability to create, innovate and implement with overview of the business of the company, assertive and high self-esteem. To know planning your time and that of his boss, prepare and treat information appropriately, arrange, host and attend visits, prepare presentations of products or services, organize the business trips, inter alia conclusions definitely modern management should hire a Secretary who meet all those features that help you to play their role effectively, secretariats well-trained, creative, capable of contributing their knowledge skills that will help to achieve an organizational climate positive and conducive to his assistant to identify fully with their functions, responsibilities.


Cottonwood High School swim coach Ron Lockwood was just named the West Coach of the Year for Boys Swimming & Diving by the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Coach Lockwood was nominated by the UHSAA as the most deserving recipient for this honor amongst coaches of the sport in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah.
Last year Coach Lockwood led the Cottonwood girls team to the school's third state swimming championship (last one being in 1981), and the Cottonwood boys team to a second place finish at the 5A state finals.


It was just after sunrise when Veronique the Island Xweetok finally landed on the beach. The salty ocean breeze was warm and comforting, and the soft sway and rustle of the palm trees reminded her she was home, a notion that was more foreign to her than she expected.
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The Payroll "feature" of QuickBooks for Mac is not actually part of QuickBooks. It requires an external monthly subscription. While payroll can be complex, most small businesses have only a handful of employees and simple needs, in which case payroll services are extreme overkill and can cost hundreds of dollars per year.
To write your own payroll checks in QuickBooks, you simply set up several accounts and allocate funds to them as line items when you write the check. This is discussed in detail at Intuit and in one of our posts to the QuickBooks forums. While it appears daunting at first, it is really quite easy, and the scripts below will do it all for you once you've set up the accounts!
You might have other Payroll expenses to add, or you might have multiple state payroll taxes (which we have in NJ, but we just lump them as one as we don't care to see the subdivisions). This is just a non-exhaustive example that you can use to learn how to add those yourself.
The big sell of payroll services is that they automatically update when the tax rates and thresholds change. That's a definite advantage, but those change once a year or less in most cases. If you actually read the mailings that your state and the Feds send you, you'll know when the changes are coming.
First, a few comments about the calculator. You can use it on-line, of course, but we want you to save a copy of it to your hard drive so you can use a text editor to change the default settings to reflect the thresholds/rates in your state. Once you've done that, you can open the copy on your hard drive in your web browser when it's time to do payroll. Each calculation only requires four pieces of data, and you can hard code in three of them, so it will take you maybe 15 seconds to enter everything you need for the simple case we've set up.
Finally, note that we have only run and tested the calculator and AppleScript with the Safari web browser. If you want to figure out how to script other browsers, fine, but please don't ask us to do it.
Note: We do not show the import of local payroll taxes in this example as we don't have any (yeah, but you should see our property taxes).
-- This script assumes you have your calculated results open in a Safari Window and configured the accounts we specified.
-- We'll import the elements from the Safari page's output table and strip out non-numeric characters on the way in.
-- Input is complete! Now tell QuickBooks to open a check. We will assume you use an account named "Checking Account"
-- Fill in a memo then advance to line items.
-- You can change the order of the following, of course.
We haven't scripted hitting the OK button on the check input screen. With 14 lines entered in the check, we figured that you'd want to manually review things at least until you're sure that this script works reliably for you.
display dialog "Enter a new value for YTD Gross Pay" default answer "425,000"
display dialog "Change the Social Security Withholding amount to: " default answer "Way too much"
display dialog "Press the Calculate button on the form" default answer "Do it!"
That's all the examples we have for now. We may add others as time permits, but can't guarantee that.


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She hits for power, has a rifle arm and is an Olympic Softball Champion. But, trying out and making the U.S. Olympic Team was the last thing in Crystal Bustos' mind when she lived with relatives in Venice, California. Street life was her focus and game. However, this was going to change because the softball diamond would reclaim her from the streets and set her on a path of athletic success and recognition. Since the revelation, the renaissance Crystal has achieved stardom in all levels of Women's amateur and professional softball. She was a twice junior College Champion, All American and NJCAA Player of the Year, while at Palm Beach Community College in Florida. She then turned pro and played for the Akron Racers of the Women's Professional Softball League (WPSL) in 1998, and holds the league's record for Batting Average (.400) and Homeruns (10). However, the timing was right for Crystal to interrupt her pro career after being persuaded by U.S. Olympic coach Ralph Raymond to Join the invitational Team in 1999. She immediately became a starter, replacing Olympian Dot Richardson at shortstop and adding more power to the lineup. Her international accolades are numerous and include the 1999 C.S. Olympic Cup, Pan American Games, Canada Cup Gold Medals and the grand daddy of them all, the Olympic Gold medal in Sydney It was a Cinderella story for the Canyon Country. California born Latina, who found salvation in softball and took the love of the game to its' highest level ever. At shortstop she is wonder and marvel to watch. Pitchers can't pitch around her and watch out if she has to slide into a base. She has come a long way m such a short one and women's softball will never be the same again.
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Day 14 of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Amid the earsplitting shrieks of 12,000 short-track speedskating-obsessed South Koreans, Japanese, Chinese and Dutch, the man 15 times named NASCAR's most popular driver slipped into Gangneung Ice Arena on Thursday night and took a seat without drawing a passing glance.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew a thing or two about turning left as a two-time Daytona 500 winner. But he was no Hwang Daeheon or Lim Hyojun whipping around on the ice, arms and legs furiously pumping in a four-skater cyclone, with South Korea's gold medal hopes riding on their razor-thin blades.
The anonymity was welcome. It was fitting, too, as Earnhardt, at 43, is embarking on his second act in life after retiring from stock-car racing at the end of last season, his 19th in NASCAR's top ranks.
He is in South Korea, as his navy parka suggested, as a member of NBC's Olympic broadcast team. Hired initially to provide stock-car racing analysis when NBC takes over the second half of the 2018 NASCAR season, he got a surprising jump on the job when network officials announced in January that he'd make his debut as a special contributor for their most high-profile properties: Super Bowl LII and the 2018 Winter Olympics.
A third-generation racer who was born in North Carolina and weaned on motor oil, Earnhardt had little firsthand experience with winter sports. He skated once as a child. In January, he skied for the first time and loved it, taking a lesson in Aspen, Colo., from a buddy of fellow racer Jimmie Johnson. But his role in PyeongChang is that of an Everyman, of sorts — relaying the Games through the lens of a first-time Olympic-goer who just happens to know a lot about speed.
"Shhh!" the race announcer instructs the crowd after the four skaters line up for the first semifinal in the men's 500 meters — short-track speedskating's marquee event of pedal-to-the-metal madness. The starting gun fires, and Earnhardt's paranormal ability to process information at 200 mph (all great racecar drivers have it) kicks in.
"Watch the Canadian! He's in second!" Earnhardt blurts out as the skaters round the tight corner. "Two laps to go! He's in good position . . .
The Canadian, Samuel Girard, advances nonetheless.
Earnhardt is even more geeked for the next semifinal because it includes two South Koreans. He has been studying the sport for weeks in advance of this assignment, poring over races of the top skaters on YouTube, getting up at 5 a.m. to watch speedskating on TV. He understands the sport's prominence in South Korea and knows which competitors are likely to dictate events.
"This place is about to go crazy!" he predicts. And the crowd erupts at the sound of the gun.
"He's gonna pass him! Gonna pass . . . there he goes, inside!" he says as Hwang passes on the inside lane. "Ooh, now he's back by him!" The South Koreans finish 1-2 and advance.
During a break for ice resurfacing, Earnhardt joins NBC play-by-play announcer Ted Robinson and analyst Apolo Ohno, the United States' most decorated speedskater, for a quick chat in the booth overlooking the rink. They ask his impressions of the Winter Olympics' "NASCAR on ice," as the sport is often described.
He has more to say as he heads back to his seat to watch more, with the women's 1,000-meter heats alternating with the men's 500. The parallels with NASCAR jump out — a hybrid of the bumping and banging of a short track such as Bristol Motor Speedway and the high-stakes roulette of restrictor-plate racing at Talladega Superspeedway.
Earnhardt grew up watching his father race on TV, and announcers such as Benny Parsons, Ken Squier and Barney Hall painted words to the late Dale Earnhardt's stock-car mastery.
A bad crash in 2016 gave Earnhardt the opportunity. He'd had at least two concussions prior, and the impact of this collision left symptoms so debilitating that he opted to sit out the second half of the season to recover. During the break in competition, he had a trial run in the broadcast booth and loved it.
"It was way more fun than I even thought!" he said. So he told NBC that if it had interest, he'd love to try broadcasting once he gave up racing. He knew that time was coming. He worried about additional head injuries; he and his wife, Amy, also were eager to start a family.
Afterward, he flew home to North Carolina and stayed up all night so he'd be sleepy for the 15-hour flight to Seoul the next day. During a three-hour layover in Atlanta, he and Mike Davis, managing director for Earnhardt's self-named company, recorded their weekly podcast, "Dale Jr. Download," forecasting their trip to the Olympics.
He also studied the "line" each racer chose on the course, struck by the unforgiving margin for error.
Thursday's itinerary was an Olympic fan's dream.
From there, he went to bobsled training at the Olympic Sliding Centre, where he met three-time Olympian Nick Cunningham, with whom he'd struck up a friendship via social media two years ago. Earnhardt's questions tumbled out. As a racecar driver, he explained, he could easily tell if he was doing well: He was either leading or had the leaders in sight. But how did a bobsled pilot, competing alone on a timed course, know if he was having a great run? Was it something he could feel? Then he wanted to know more about the sled itself, fascinated to learn that, under the rules, it could be fine-tuned by mechanics, much like a stock car, until the day of competition.
At each opportunity, Earnhardt turned his status as an all-access Olympic spectator into on-the-job broadcasting training.
After extracting a promise of a future bobsled ride at the Lake Placid, N.Y., training center, he and Davis sped to the U.S.-Canada gold medal women's hockey game, arriving shortly before the 2-2 deadlock led to an American triumph in a shootout that was 20 years in the making.
Earnhardt's night ended at short track, where the Olympic fish out of water was again on more familiar, solid ground — even though it was ice. There was furious lane-changing. There were pileups that sent competitors skidding into the padded barriers. There were passionate, screaming fans.
And soaking it all in was a champion in his own right, only too happy to disappear in the crowd.


Please join us Sunday, December 23rd at 10:30am for worship (no 9:15am Bible studies that morning). Then, at 5pm on Christmas Eve, December 24th come help us declare the birth of Jesus as the perfect gift of God to cover our sins as we celebrate together with Christmas music, the Christmas story, and candlelight service.
We have invite cards available at the church to share with neighbors, teachers, friends, family, baristas, servers, bankers, and even that police officer that didn't give you a warning. Yep… invite them all!
Let's make this Christmas the most Jesus-centered ever!


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Who Will Preview the Previewers?
By T Kyle King Jun 1, 2006, 11:45pm EDT
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One of the many things a man learns between the time he gets engaged and the time he gets married is that you can invite 40 people to your wedding, you can invite 125 people to your wedding, or you can invite 5,000 people to your wedding. No other numbers are possible. If you're going to invite one second cousin, one sorority sister, or one junior high classmate, you have to invite them all.
It's just going to be a small ceremony with a few family members and close friends. Right . . . and everybody who ever got stopped for a D.U.I. just had a couple of beers and everybody who comes in for an estate planning consultation just needs a simple will.
The same thing goes for preseason college football publications. You can pick one as your favorite (as, for instance, College Football Resource has done) and just buy that one. You can buy each of the four traditional preseason preview magazines (Athlon, Lindy's, Street & Smith's, and Sporting News) and stop there. However, if you buy any such magazines and you neither stop at one nor stop at four, you have to buy them all.
I fall in the "buy them all" category. Yes, it's obsessive. Yes, it's excessive. However, I just happen to be a 100 per cent sort of person.
So far, I have found three such publications on the magazine racks of local newsstands: Athlon, Lindy's, and Sporting News. I picked up the Southeastern Conference editions of each and I have summarized the salient details below for your ease of reference.
Image courtesy Athlon Sports.
Cover Photograph: Thomas Brown, Kregg Lumpkin, and Danny Ware.
Cover Blurb: "Dawgs Boast Nation's Best Backfield."
Overblown Cover Claim: "America's Premier Sports Annuals."
Edition: 40th
Pages and Paper Type: 256; slick.
National Champion Pick: Oklahoma.
Southeastern Conference Champion Pick: Florida.
S.E.C. East Champion Pick: Florida.
Georgia Ranking: No. 15; 2nd in S.E.C. East.
Interesting Factoid: "Georgia has been ranked in the Associated Press poll for 78 straight weeks. Only Miami and Texas have longer active streaks."
Annoying Tic: It's bad enough that my S.E.C. annual contains 25 pages devoted to Conference U.S.A., nine more devoted to the Sun Belt, and an additional 10 taken up by "regional teams" Louisiana Tech, Louisville, and South Florida. However, the four pages expended upon the Notre Dame Fighting Irish---also characterized as a "regional team" in S.E.C./Conference U.S.A./Sun Belt country, despite the fact that the school is located in Indiana---appear before the table of contents for the Southeastern Conference section . . . of the Southeastern Conference annual! If they want to include a few pages about the Golden Domers in the back of the magazine for the subway alumni, fine, but putting the Irish ahead of the S.E.C. in the S.E.C. preseason magazine is preposterous.
Image courtesy Lindy's Sports Annuals.
Lindy's
Cover Photograph: Mohamed Massaquoi (with Jenn Sterger inset).
Cover Blurb: "New Dawgs, Same Bite."
Overblown Cover Claim: "America's Leading Football Authority."
National Champion Pick: Notre Dame.
Interesting Factoid: "The Dawgs have four consecutive Top 10 AP finishes (only USC can also make that claim)."
Annoying Tic: On pages 92 and 93, the football annual provides its position-by-position rankings and lists the Red and Black as having the league's ninth-best Q.B. corps and eighth-best secondary. Clearly, the yutz who wrote that looked at the depth chart, didn't recognize the names, and didn't bother to do any digging. There may be fresh faces in the lineup in September, but, by November, no one will claim that there are eight better quarterbacks and seven better defensive backfields in the S.E.C. In fact, I'm pretty sure that, by the end of the season, no one will claim that there are eight better quarterbacks and seven better defensive backfields in the N.C.A.A. Also, could they have posted a dinkier picture of the magazine cover on their website?
Image courtesy The Sporting News.
Cover Photograph: Auburn's Kenny Irons (with Alabama's Kenneth Darby inset).
Cover Blurb: "Ole Miss will go bowling."
Overblown Cover Claim: "Your Ultimate Guide to the nation's best league."
Edition: None noted.
Pages and Paper Type: 128; thick newspaper.
Southeastern Conference Champion Pick: Auburn.
Georgia Ranking: No. 12; tied for 1st in S.E.C. East but losing the tiebreaker to the Gators.
Interesting Factoid: "The Dawgs have won 52 games in [Mark Richt's] five seasons, the most by a coach in his first five seasons in the school's storied history. More than Wally Butts or Harry Mehre or even---hushed tones, please---Vince Dooley. Fourteen more than Dooley."
Annoying Tic: Page 38 features three cheap shots at Ray Goff. On two occasions, he is referred to as "Goof" and, in another instance, the writer cracks, "Now, someone have Ray Goff go get Uga a bone." I was calling for Coach Goff to be fired five games into the 1993 season, so I have been as critical of Coach Dooley's successor as anyone, but Ray was a good guy, he's a Georgia man, and he's been gone for a decade. There's no excuse for making smart-aleck jokes at his expense at this stage of the game.
You can rag on Jim Donnan all you like, but leave poor Ray Goff alone.
I know Gator fans like the ones at Swamp Ball and Every Day Should Be Saturday are all over the preseason magazines, but surely I'm not the only loyal citizen of Bulldog Nation to have bought at least one of them.
Which ones have you purchased? What is your assessment of the best and worst of each? Let me know in the comments below.
Go 'Dawgs!


Now Social Media has a lot of influence on what the world looks like these days, but does Social Media mean the end of a gender? Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center, Johanna Blakley makes this statement in this TED Talk.
As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media.
Google Project Glass: Does It Really Work?


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Halsey – clementine
Saskia Postema·
· October 1, 2019
Halsey's been on a roll since releasing "Without Me" in late 2018, producing hit after hit. Now, more than a year later, she continues to create quality music as she's gearing up for the release of new album Manic. In fact, her latest single "clementine" also feels refreshing and stands in sharp contrast to her previous songs. You'd think that a subdued and sweet single can't be a statement song too, yet "clementine" delivers just that.
Halsey is best known for her alt-leaning pop songs that hit hard, with big productions that have a tinge of R&B to them even. Yet 'clementine' is none of that. The song's playful and innocent due to the staccato, stripped-down background track. Her vocals are soft and small and wondrous – like it could've been the soundtrack to Alice in Wonderland. The lyrics carry the same off-kilter, fantastical feeling, as she sings of breakthroughs that might as well be breakdowns – the dichotomy between not wanting to need anyone, yet needing 'everyone and then some' all at the same time.
The song's velvety and smooth with a hint of pixie dust that shows you how paradoxical and contradictory our own minds can be. "I'd like to tell you that my sky's not blue, it's violent rain. And in my world, the people on the street don't know my name. In my world, I'm seven feet tall." There's something euphoric and comforting about celebrating non-conformity and people's own perceptions of reality. Oddly enough, it can give you a feeling of having more control when you are inconveniently, unapologetically yourself in such a complex world.
But it's nice to have a partner in crime in the process – as Halsey does as well in her brother-assisted music video for "clementine". In a way, the song and visuals almost feel self-indulgent. It's a pet project, one that's well-loved and cherished – without once losing the spirit of Halsey even if it takes on such a different shape. And that's true art.
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Q: How to exceed ram limit? I recently bought a used MacBook (a1181, early 2009) for extremely cheap and I was curious to ask if there was a way to exceed the 4gb ram limit. I was actually trying to get 8gb in it. I know, kind of a dumb question.
It currently has 4gb in it.
I also patched it so it could run OS X High Sierra if that helps any.
Thank you!

A: According to Mactracker, your MacBook 13-inch, Early 2009 (A1181, early 2009) can handle 6 GB RAM, or 2 GB more than Apple's 4 GB spec. You'd need to use a combination of a 4 GB and 2 GB 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM.
See also: Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 13" (White-09) Specs at EveryMac.com

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When Jane was five, her parents told her that a book she'd written, Padre the Mexican Mouse, was a literary masterpiece. When she found out that rodents really didn't have nationalities, she was crushed.
Later, she earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in Professional Writing, but several years passed before she pursued publication. She experimented in various genres for several months, trying to decide exactly what she wanted to write. About that time, a friend handed her five romances from her keeper shelf. Jane read them all, and she was hooked. From that point on, there was no doubt about it—she wanted to write romance novels!
In 1999, Jane became a finalist for Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award, which led to her first sale. Because she always looks at life from a humorous perspective, she's delighted to have her first two books published by Harlequin Duets, which feature the funnier side of falling in love.
Jane lives in a cozy little neighborhood in Richardson, Texas, with her husband—who she says is the most wonderful man alive—and her 16-year-old daughter, who can talk on the phone, chat online, play her stereo, and watch TV all at the same time. Rounding out the household is a cat named Jessica, who's lucky to be beautiful because she certainly isn't smart. Jane's goal is to become successful enough as a writer that she can afford to buy her husband a halo, her daughter a sensory deprivation chamber, and her cat a brain.


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Worth Reading 2: Economics v. Culture in IP, at Chicago
The Faculty Blog at the University of Chicago Law School is hosting another in its occasional series of online roundtables (a/k/a mobblogs), this one titled "Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need For Social and Cultural Theory?" and framed by the work of Madhavi Sunder, currently visiting at Chicago.
I will try to post a comment or two over there if I have time, but for now I'll clip and post some provocative points from the initial posts, and make one brief observation:
Conversations about the normative foundations of intellectual property law are numbingly repetitive. From the economic contingent, there is the claim that IP is justified solely on consequentialist grounds (usually specified as utilitarian grounds), and that economic analysis is either the only way to measure its success, or the best way among imperfect solutions, or both. Economic analysts of broader mind are more inclusive in their measurements, but they are reluctant to see economics dislodged from a privileged position. From the social/cultural theory contingent, there is the claim that economic analysis is simply too narrow to do all the work that it is asked to do. This is an appealing narrative claim, even to many economists. But the economic analysis under attack is sometimes a straw man, which weakens the critique. And social/cultural analysts have struggled so far to put forward a positive account of IP; they are reluctant to acknowledge that economics offers real power when its limitations are acknowledged. Everyone ends up falling back on Jefferson, or Locke, or Kant, or (in some more recent work) Sen. There is little new under the sun.
To most IP scholars, this is re-stating the obvious (at least, I hope that it's restating the obvious). To many scholars in other fields, I suspect that this summary would come as a surprise. Are there other legal domains whose normative foundations are still so unsettled?
What IP needs — what all bodies of law dealing with information and knowledge need — is a normative account that doesn't simply track the economics/culture divide and trace it back to the 18th century. We need a persuasive account that integrates the two perspectives.
Anyway, on to the mobblog:
From Madhavi Sunder's initial post:
In this opening post I pose two specific critiques of the narrow economic approach to intellectual property. First, I argue that the approach is premised on an outmoded understanding of culture itself. Law's goal is to promote the invention of more machines, from Blackberry to iPod, and more intellectual products, from Mickey Mouse to R2D2. But the object of intellectual property law's desire — culture — is profoundly changing. Culture is no longer understood simply as incontestable tradition handed down by recognized cultural authorities, or as canned commodity. Increasingly, culture is participatory community. We are moving away from culture as Mickey Mouse to bespoke culture empowered by a computer mouse. The narrow economic account, focused on the production of more goods, does not ask who makes the goods, and whether there is equal capacity to participate in making our culture.
Second, the current approach pays insufficient attention to the interrelationship between culture and development. A 21st century theory of culture worth its salt cannot ignore the important issues of development and global justice. Culture plays a critical role in development, and in meeting the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which include the eradication of extreme poverty, universal education, gender equality, child and maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, and achieving environmental sustainability. Intellectual property laws bear profoundly on what Martha Nussbaum calls central human capabilities, from the capability to live "a human life of normal length," to "being able to use the senses, to imagine, think, and reason — in a "truly human" way — cultivated by adequate education." Morever, cultural production is increasingly important to economic development in a Knowledge Age. That is, cultural democracy is not only an end, but also a means to promote economic development.
And from the first mobblog reply, by Rob Merges:
What I find interesting, however, is how the old features appear on Professor Sunder's map. Older varieties of cultural artifact are now a jumping off point for new forms of participation; they are no longer just "incontestable tradition or canned commodity." A lot could be said about this idea that traditional cultural artifacts can be described as instances of incontestable tradition or canned commodities; it is really very interesting. But I will limit myself here to two points: (1) this sounds a good deal like it is treating items of "traditional" culture as an "input" into a transformative, participatory process — which runs into the objection that Professor Sunder herself raises earlier, about treating the products of intellectual creativity instrumentally, in the manner of an economist; and (2) it tends to take the existence of cultural artifacts as given ("tradition") or at least trivial ("canned commodity"), thereby "flattening" them into a bland background that serves primarily to emphasize the dynamic "foreground" of the products of today's participatory culture.
Both points are a matter of narrative emphasis, in a way. In Professor Sunder's account, the dynamic movement happens when people interact with or participate in culture. The cultural artifacts themselves are bracketed in this account; they appear as static starting points for the real action in the story. The story I would emphasize — the way I would re-orient the map, so to speak — places these artifacts front and center. I would treat them as important entities in their own right, and not mere "inputs" into others' creative process. I would not want to completely bracket consumers, users, viewers, audience members. But I would not want to feature them only, either. Put simply, when I see a book desribed as an "input," I imagine the author (who sweated over every chapter, even every sentence if it is a good book) saying "that's no 'input,' it's not a bushel of wheat or bag of potatoes — that's *my story* you are talking about!"
Put another way, I do not take high-quality cultural artifacts — books, films, plays, videos, paintings, etc., etc. — in any sense for granted. They come from somewhere; people make them. The conditions under which these creators operate matter to me, which is again why I do not just assume they will appear, in high-quality finished form, ready for me and others to consume, learn from, participate in, or the like. I would also not assume that the only way to argue with or supersede or transcend or otherwise "contest" a high-quality work of tradition depends on faithfully replicating all or part of it first. Some ways of contesting artifacts might involve this step; but not all I do not think.
Again, there is much more to say here. But let me make one final point, which I will try to elaborate in a subsequent post. I think IP policy has as one of its central functions to attend to the care and feeding of creators of original works. I believe also in participatory culture; and I think many wonderful experiments along these lines are being run as I write this. I am concerned (maybe more concerned than Professor Sunder, though it is hard to tell because the conditions for creating "traditional" and "commodity" culture are somewhat outside the map she is working from) that an over-emphasis on the conditions of participation may significantly worsen the conditions for original creativity.
Mahdavi Sunder has a reply to this, and there is more to come, both in posts and in comments.


Feminist theory has viewed violence against women as being a result of a male-dominated society; however, traditional counselling approaches to helping battered women have neither addressed this view nor encouraged social change. The author of this challenging volume seeks to bridge this gap by incorporating feminist theory with counselling practice.
Whalen argues that a counsellor working with an abused woman should not aim merely to empower the client to change a situation that is intolerable for that particular woman: the counsellor should also aim to change the social conditions that foster abuse. The author's model focuses on women collectively seizing power and ending violence against all women.


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By this time Shrek has moved forward and the guards have fled.
S: Oh, really? (looking behind the captain) You and what army?
The captains sees he is alone and runs away.
D: Can I say something to you? Listen, you was really, really great back there. Incredible!
S: Are you talking to me?
D: Yes, I was talking to you. Can I just tell you that you was really great back there? Those guards? I thought it was all over and then you showed up and bang! They were like babies in the woods! That really made me feel good, you see that?
S: Oh, that's great! Really!
D: Men, it's good to be free!
S: Now, why don't you go celebrate your freedom with your own friends?
D: But, I don't have any friends. And I'm not going there by myself. Wait a minute- I've got a great idea! I'll stay with you!
Shrek doesn't find it a great idea and he screams at Donkey to scare him.
D: Oh, that was really scary! And if you don't mind me saying, if that doesn't work, your breath will certainly get the job done, you definitely need some tictacs or some, 'cause your breath stinks!


Please feel free to scroll through past events and see what the Mothers' Club has been up to in the past.
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Scots Gaelic for "One Hundred Thousand Welcomes" to the Clan Wallace Society.
The Clan Wallace Society was founded and chartered in Texas in 1966 as a 501(c)(3) organization, promoting the history of and education about Scotland. In particular, Scotland's Great Patriot, Sir William Wallace, who suffered martyrdom for his country in 1305; its Clans and Families, and the heritage and achievements of those claiming Scottish descent. Our current Chief is Andrew Wallace of that Ilk, 36th Chief of the Clan and Name of Wallace, and Honorary President of the Society. We have the pleasure of more than 1,400 members in the United States, Canada, Scotland, England, France, and as far off as Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
Clan Wallace Society is represented at many Scottish Games and Celtic Festivals each year by Conveners who put up tents throughout the United States and Canada. Conveners representing Clan Wallace Society are volunteers who work individually with assistance from our, each of whom acts to further the goals of Clan Wallace Society's Charter. In many areas across the United States and Canada, members get together as groups to support other local Scottish, Irish and Celtic historical events. To contact a convener in your region, take a moment to view our Convener List.
We welcome anyone wishing to participate in Clan Wallace Society activities. If you wish to join the Society, please visit the Membership Info page.
The Clan Wallace Society is the only organization acknowledged by the Chief of Clan Wallace, who is recognized by the Court of the Lord Lyon, as representing the interests of the Chief, the Clan as a whole and the Society.
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A great beginning for Forza Racing in the WSK Champions Cup.
Forza Racing's 2019 season starts in right proper fashion at the WSK Champions Cup in Adria, Italy, where the team snatched a 1-2 in OKJ.
Authors of the result were Alex Dunne and Arvid Lindblad, Alex having already made his mark in Junior in 2018, while for Arvid it was the latter's first official exit with the colors of Forza Racing. An encouraging debut also for Jonathan Weywadt, at his very first experience in OKJ.
In OK, instead, a good first race for Dilano van T'Hoff, while Gilles Stadsbader had to deal with a complicated qualifying session that forced him to make that extra effort for the rest of the event.
Alex Dunne - After the 8th place in qualifying, the Irish driver's weekend took the right turn during the heats where he finished in 4th position, also thanks to a victory. In the Final, starting from the 2nd row, Dunne took first position and subsequently distanced his opponents with icy determination.
Arvid Lindblad - The British driver's adventure started immediately in a positive way with the 5th position in qualifying. After the 8th place in the heats and the 4th of the Prefinal, Lindblad put in a great job in the Final, passing 5 opponents and taking 2nd place to complete the Forza 1-2.
Jonathan Weywadt - Forza Racing's newcomer, after gaining confidence with his Exprit/TM by GFR Engines in the early stages of the weekend, was the author of a remarkable comeback in the Final: he started in P29 and finished in P19 - 10 positions gained!
Dilano van T'Hoff - The process of adaptation to the Senior class for the Dutch driver proceeds without hindrance. In fact, Van t'Hoff confirmed the good impressions that he had aroused in the last part of 2018, archiving the season's first weekend with his 5th place finish, after scoring P3 in qualifying and P4 at the end of heats and Prefinal.
Gilles Stadsbader - After the 16th place in qualifying, the Belgian finished the heats in 20th position. A good Prefinal, then, saw him rise from the 20th to the 12th position; a result that boded well for the Final; alas, some inconvenience prevented him from going beyond P 17.
The Forza Racing season will continue with the first round of the WSK Super Master Series scheduled this weekend in Adria.


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Omphalocele and gastroschisis in Europe: a survey of 3 million births 1980-1990. EUROCAT Working Group
Am J Med Genet. 1995 Aug 28;58(2):187-94. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320580218.
E Calzolari 1 , F Bianchi, H Dolk, M Milan
1 Istituto di Genetica Medica, Ferrara, Italy.
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320580218
A total of 732 cases of omphalocele and 274 cases of gastroschisis was registered in 21 regional registers in Europe (EUROCAT registers) during the period 1980-1990. The total prevalence rates were 2.52 per 10,000 for omphalocele and 0.94 per 10,000 for gastroschisis. There was significant heterogeneity in total prevalence rates among regions for omphalocele. Consistently higher than average total prevalence rates of omphalocele were found in the five centers of the British Isles. This was in large part linked to the association between omphalocele and neural tube defects. A significant female excess among the cases of omphalocele associated with neural tube defects, in comparison with an insignificant male excess for other cases of omphalocele, was observed. Geographical differences in the total prevalence of gastroschisis are partly explained by differences in maternal age distributions in the populations surveyed. Omphalocele was an isolated malformation in 46% of cases; gastroschisis was isolated in 79% of cases. The average birthweight and gestational age of both isolated and multiply malformed cases of both omphalocele and gastroschisis were low, especially for multiply malformed cases, and to a greater extent for isolated gastroschisis than for isolated omphalocele. Prenatal diagnosis leading to termination of pregnancy was reported in 33.2% of omphalocele and in 26.5% of gastroschisis cases, demonstrating the considerable impact of current prenatal screening programs. On the basis of clinical manifestations, epidemiologic characteristics, and the presence and type of additional malformations, omphalocele and gastroschisis can be considered heterogeneous conditions.
Abdominal Muscles / abnormalities*
Congenital Abnormalities / epidemiology*
Europe / epidemiology
Hernia, Umbilical / epidemiology*
Limb Deformities, Congenital
Neural Tube Defects / epidemiology
Prenatal Diagnosis / statistics & numerical data