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Danger is safety.
It sounds like a slogan from George Orwell's "1984." It's not.
This contrarian syllogism sums up the philosophy of urban traffic engineers who are replacing traditional traffic signals with roundabouts. The trend has taken hold in Europe and spread to the United States, and yes, to greater Sarasota.
The city, alone, has three roundabouts downtown, 12 in the pipeline and four more under discussion. And that does not include the county's inventory of six roundabouts on Honore Avenue, one on Cattlemen Road, and one in Venice. Immediate plans call for two more on Honore and four on Bee Ridge Road east of Interstate 75.
That adds up to as many as 30 roundabouts when only a few years ago there were none.
Why the shift?
Several reasons: Roundabouts are generally cheaper, they move traffic as well or better than a light, they have a greater capacity, their lower speed limits and angled entry points cut down the number of serious accidents, and they work just fine during power outages, certainly a consideration in storm-prone Southwest Florida.
They also appeal to the better side of human nature. This is where "danger is safety" comes into play.
Perhaps nothing exemplifies that concept more than the work of Hans Monderman, a Dutch traffic engineer, who, until his death in 2008, designed intersections in Europe and influenced much of the roundabout movement there.
Monderman defined urban intersections as shared spaces, in which drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists have equal rights and the obligation to treat each other with courtesy.
A Monderman intersection would have few signs, very few signs. In an interview published in 2008 by the Wilson Quarterly, he bemoaned a "bridge ahead" sign in his native Friesland. "Do you really think no one would perceive there's a bridge over there?" he asked. "Why explain it? When you treat people like idiots, they'll behave like idiots."
Instead of trying to instruct drivers and pedestrians about what to do, he preferred to throw them together at intersections and force them to use their common sense. In the chaos of convergence they have to watch each other and coordinate their movements. Danger makes everyone proceed cautiously, which in turn makes them safer.
Monderman used to demonstrate his faith in human nature by conducting interviews in the middle of an intersection or by walking backward into the street as cars parted around him.
There's a whole study in psychology behind this approach. Somehow, he made it work in areas where cars are already moving slowly. It still does work, in Europe at least.
Whether those principles can govern intersection design in the United States remains open to debate. Or, perhaps pedestrians and drivers on this side of the pond are just idiots who have to be told when to stop and start.
"Americans really don't know what yield means. Every other country in the world understands it," Michael Wallwork says.
Wallwork's observation carries some weight. He is one of the most prolific designers of roundabouts in the country. He designed the intersections on Honore and the Venice roundabout, and he is working with the city on a chain of roundabouts along U.S. 41 from the airport to the bayfront.
Wallwork and his team have already acknowledged the unyielding nature of American drivers by including pedestrian lights and bicycle ramps in their Sarasota designs. They did not want to take chances.
The Metropolitan Planning Organization, which coordinates the spending of federal funds on roads in Sarasota and Manatee counties, has prioritized the U.S. 41 improvements. The section of roadway from 10th Street to 14th Street, including roundabouts at both intersections, is scheduled for construction in 2017 at an estimated cost of $20 million. The rest will presumably make their way into future five-year plans of the Florida Department of Transportation.
Earlier Thursday, the U.S. 41 Momentum Team sent a letter to City Manager Tom Barwin, requesting that the city expedite the construction of roundabouts at Fruitville Road, Gulfstream Boulevard, 10th and 14th streets. The organization, representing a number of civic and business groups, suggested that the city could front the money until it's reimbursed in 2016 or 2017.
If not, the construction could clash with the international rowing competition at Benderson Park.
The logistics could be daunting, if not impossible to execute. But do not bet against the roundabouts, which seem to display one counterintuitive characteristic after another.
In 2009, the Longboat Key city commission, fearful that the prospective roundabouts would create congestion for the key's residents, commissioned a study projecting traffic flow in 2021 under two scenarios: signalized intersections or roundabouts.
The engineers concluded there would be no difference, despite the fact that drivers have to slow down to navigate roundabouts.
Other studies have shown that drivers think they are spending more time than they actually are when they have to wait at a red light, not knowing how long the light will remain red.
Roundabouts eliminate that uncertainty.
Danger is safety.
Slower is faster.
Go figure.
Eric Ernst's column runs Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or (941) 486-3073
Philosophy of chaos in convergence promotes their use
Danger is safety.

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The process of investigating a company's accounts receivable according to how long individual invoices have been outstanding. Analysts can use aging to identify bad debt and/or problems with the company's credit policy.
A technique for evaluating the composition of a firm's accounts receivables to determine whether irregularities exist. It is carried out by grouping a firm's accounts receivables according to the length of time accounts have been outstanding. For example, a financial analyst may use aging to determine whether a firm carries many overdue debtors that may never pay their bills.


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Published on 22 November 2012 in Business Daily by Immaculate Wairimu
The growth of Nairobi towards Thika is unstoppable," Housing minister Soita Shitanda said on August 25 during the ground-breaking ceremony of a new housing project in Juja.
Mr Shitanda said the Ministry of Housing would like to see a situation where this growth goes hand in hand with related infrastructure development and appealed to the Thika Municipal Council to be proactive in assisting developers to get connected to the sewer lines and the water system.
But to many observers, Nairobi's "unstoppable growth" towards Thika is becoming a source of concern. The completion of the ultra-modern 42-kilometre Thika Superhighway, which was officially inaugurated recently by President Kibaki, has brought with it a property boom that has seen an influx of private developers around the highway.
Many areas along the stretch of the superhighway have now opened up for new developments, thanks to their accessibility.
As new housing developments come up, the number of people moving to live in areas around the superhighway has also been on the rise.
These are people who want to take advantage of the fact that it is now easier and faster to reach Nairobi's city centre since there is no longer the terrible traffic jams that characterised Thika Road barely three years ago.
The easy flow of traffic has encouraged people who work in Nairobi to commute from surrounding towns like Ruiru. Those who have built homes in those places have also decided to settle there, buoyed by the fact that Nairobi is only a few minutes' drive away.
Several firms that were located in Nairobi have moved to Ruiru and Thika, thanks to the ease with which they can ferry raw materials and goods to the market.
Indeed, this was to be expected, given that the primary purpose of highway expansion is to improve and enhance quality of service delivery by reducing travel time, vehicle operating costs, and frequency and severity of road accidents.
But the question many are asking is: Is the growth of the estates around the superhighway sustainable? More importantly, will the local authorities under which these areas fall — Thika Municipal Council and the Municipal Council of Ruiru — be able to cope with the increased population in terms of service provision?
"It is a fact that since the highway expansion project commenced, there has been a gradual increase in property demand and thus an unsustainable property market. This has compromised the standard of service provision," says Stephen Magembe Mairura.
In a study titled An Analytical Study of the Effects on Highway Improvement Projects on the Property Market and Values: The Nairobi-Thika Highway, Mr Mairura says highways are generally credited with opening up new areas to residential development and make land that previously was "too far out from the urban centre more suitable for residential development", leading to increased population and, ultimately, congestion.
However, he says, population growth in such areas increases demand on local community services such as schools, utilities, and emergency protection.
"Municipalities in growing areas can be hard-pressed to keep up with the demand for more and better public services," he says, noting that the imbalance between infrastructural development and tandem service provision could ultimately lead to reduction in residential property values.
Those observations were made in 2010, when Mr Mairura submitted his study to the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya. Elizabeth Kinyanjui, who has been a resident of Thika's Kabati area since 2008, when construction of the superhighway started, bears him out.
She says that the Municipal Council of Thika has never been able to manage water distribution in the area and wonders whether it will be able to cope with the growing population the area has been experiencing "since even prior to the construction of the Thika superhighway, the municipal council was incapable of supplying services to a sparse population."
"The only people who are able to access water and sewerage services are those living in Thika town and the perimeter around the town. Residents living on the outskirts are left to their own devices as the council water is never regularly available," says Ms Kinyanjui, adding that even the most populous estate in Thika, Makongeni, goes for days without water and that street lighting "is a luxury only enjoyed by Thika Town residents".
In another study on the impact of the Thika Highway expansion on real estate property values, Erastus Oyoo interviewed the Municipal Council of Ruiru resident engineer, who revealed that Ruiru town was yet to have a master plan for effective planning.
Mr Oyoo, a land economist, found that areas along the highway that had good water supply, sewerage and drainage systems, electricity and other facilities were commanding higher housing demands than areas in the interior "because of the influx of people from other towns".
However, he noted, development approvals for industries and residential and commercial properties had been overstretching the existing services, resulting in shortage of essential services and some tenants were already complaining of water rationing, "something that never used to be the norm".
Recent research has shown that in the Ruiru Municipality, which covers 526.6 square kilometres and has a population of 150,710 people, all other services, apart from roads that are maintained by the municipal council, are virtually non-existent.
Water is sold or collected from boreholes owned by businesspeople and waste disposal is done mainly through septic tanks or pit latrines.
"Due to the increase in population occasioned by the superhighway, the local authority service delivery action plan should come into action because the bigger population will require more services than the municipal council can handle," advised one researcher.
Early this month, Ruiru Municipality town clerk L.A. Khayadi called on land owners to pay land rates to help the local authority provide better facilities and services to match the rapid development and growing population of Ruiru town.
She said that although the development of the Thika Superhighway and the Eastern and Northern by-passes were accelerating the municipality's growth, it had also brought with it a number of challenges, like handling of storm waters.
Charles Wanjohi Ndoria, also a practising land economist, recently noted that numerous commercial, residential, and institutional developments are coming up within Thika town and surrounding areas.
The areas with the highest construction activity, according to him, include Ruiru, Juja, Ndarugu, Witeithie, Njomoko, Mangu's White Sisters Road, Ngoiwa Estate, Garissa Road's Landless, and Muguga estates and Gatanga Road's Maki and Maporomoko estates.
Notable developments include Thika Greens along the superhighway and condominiums such as Flame Tree Park, Bahati Ridge, and Kivulini Apartments along Gatanga Road.
Martin K. Gitau, the sales and marketing manager at Harvey Engineering, believes that there is still a lot to be done by the Thika Municipal Council as the area is growing exponentially.
He says that the areas around the superhighway could grow to become a "modern slum" if left at the mercy of the council. He notes that security, water and sewerage services, and security lighting along the streets will be a major concern. That is why developers are seeking the services of private providers, even though they are more expensive.
"Private service providers are more professional, reliable, and accountable," he says. He would prefer privatisation of services offered by the council even if they would be more expensive, and believes that since private firms provide professionalism, their services are a notch higher than those of the council, which he deems unprofessional, unreliable, and unaccountable.
"I think professionalism in the council and in the Ministry of Local Government is necessary if infrastructural development is to be achieved," he notes.
However, Naureen Ali, the marketing manager of Elegant Properties Limited, believes that the local authorities in those areas will adapt to the area's growth with time.
"We have to have faith in the planning of councils in regard to the management of the growth. Just like any other council, this may be a new phenomenon that they will have to plan and adapt to," she says, noting that it may be hard for them to cope at first, but given time, they would be able to adapt to the growth.
In his study of the likely impact of the expansion of Thika Road, Mr Mairura recommended that local authorities and the central government join forces to avoid "eventual congestion, which will have a deafening impact, leading to subsequent decline in property value appreciation".
"The government should ensure that social amenities — hospitals, churches and schools — are simultaneously provided or expanded to cater for the increased population. Local authorities should, on the other hand, ensure that the upcoming new buildings in the estate have approved building plans and that the said plans are followed to the letter during construction," he said.
Ruiru mayor Geoffrey M. Kaarah announced recently that the municipality has been receiving financial support from the central government to construct various facilities to support the town's rapid growth.
He said the Nairobi Metropolitan Development Ministry, for instance, had committed Sh1.2 billion for the construction of a water plant.
The ministry and Athi Water have also committed Sh2.2 billion for the construction of a water treatment plant in the municipality.
"With adequate water and sewerage facilities, Ruiru will become a green city," the mayor was recently quoted as saying.
But whether such projects will keep pace with the rapid growth of the municipality is anyone's guess.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Texas Rangers opening day starter Matt Harrison is going on the disabled list after trying to pitch with soreness in his lower back.
The Rangers said Wednesday that Harrison will be put on the 15-day DL after an MRI revealed an inflamed nerve in his back. The left-hander will remain in Texas for treatment instead of going with the team to Seattle, where he was scheduled to start Thursday night.
"It's about trying to get Harry right. We can't have him going out there and he's having issues," manager Ron Washington said. "We're going to get those issues taken care of by giving him time down, get it right, and when he comes back we've got him for the rest of the year."
Justin Grimm, who was a candidate for the No. 5 spot in spring training, will be recalled from Triple-A Round Rock and start in Harrison's spot against the Mainers.
Harrison (0-2, 8.44 ERA) has been dealing with stiffness in his back causing weakness in his left leg since late in spring training.
The DL move will be retroactive to Saturday, the last day he pitched. He gave up a pair of two-run home runs in the first inning and allowed five runs in five innings against the Los Angeles Angels.
Harrison had an epidural injection Sunday, and said his back has felt better each day. Even though he didn't throw his scheduled bullpen session Tuesday, Harrison is still able to play catch and keep his arm loose.
"It's better to miss two starts than miss 15 or 20 because I made it worse," Harrison said. "Hopefully this shot's starting to work, get that inflammation off that nerve, and that way I can just maintain it from there and manage it."
The 27-year-old Harrison, in the first year of a $55 million, five-year contract, has never had any back issues before. He was an 18-game winner and an All-Star last season.
"I've got to get this time to heal up and get better so I don't further any injury or overcompensate anywhere else and end up having arm issues," Harrison said.
Yu Darvish, who has been bothered by a blister on the ring finger of his right hand, is scheduled to pitch Friday in the second game of the series against the Mariners.
Darvish (2-0, 1.98) said Wednesday that he felt fine and that all was good in his bullpen session.
"I was able to command my pitches and I was able to throw most of my pitches," Darvish said through his translator. "I think it went well."
Asked if he was going to have to make any adjustments, Darvish said he wouldn't.
"Everything is still good, still on schedule," Washington said of Darvish. "I looked at his hand, (the blister) is even smaller. It's amazing how skin heals. So just hope he doesn't have any issues with it."
Grimm won his Triple-A opener, allowing one run and four hits over 5 2-3 innings. He made his major league debut with the Rangers last season, when he went 1-1 in five games (two starts) and allowed 14 earned runs in 14 innings.
"I just expect him to come and keep us in a ball game, that's it," Washington said. "He's a strike thrower and I think he understands how he's supposed to use those strikes. And if he come up here and does that, I think he'll be fine."


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Interview: Dr. Oren Ben-Dor discusses "Why Israel has no 'Right to Exist' as a Jewish State"
Written by Peter Miller
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Now Available on the web:
From KBOO's ONE LAND, MANY VOICES, Friday, November 23, hosted by Hala Gores and William Seaman:
www.pdxjustice.org (click on the link at the top of the page, or scroll down past the videos to get to the KBOO audio programs).
Dr. Oren Ben-Dor discusses his recent article, "Why Israel has no 'Right to
Exist' as a Jewish State". Dr. Ben-Dor is a legal and political
philosopher at the University of Southampton in the UK. Dr. Ben-Dor grew up in Nahariya in northern Israel, but left Israel as a young man and has been living in England for the last twenty years. His latest book, "Thinking about Law: In Silence with Heidegger" has just been published with Hart Publishing Oxford.
His articles on Palestine/Israel have been appearing regularly in
CounterPunch, on the Z-Magazine website, and in the Independent newspaper in UK.
Links to several of Dr. Ben-Dor's articles are included on the
www.pdxjustice.org webpage
Overcoming Zionism — by Dr. Oren Ben-Dor; November 20, 2007
Joel Kovel's book written by a well-known American Jewish scholar and
humanist is one of the most thought-provoking, multi-layered and
consistent analysis of the situation in Palestine I came across. Its spirit is that of egalitarian inclusion and moderation and it is
precisely this spirit that compliments the serious scholarship
undertaken to back up his arguments. In this history-transforming book, scholarly authority combines with uncompromising moral conviction to expose the roots of a tragic chronicle that is constantly unfolding in historic Palestine.
Despite its title the book's argument does not merely touch Zionism or
Israel. The saying of the book is aimed at Jewish people wherever they are, encouraging them to look critically at themselves and thus with restored pride and dignity. Kovel traces the deep origins of Zionism, as well as the wide worldly support it gets with the aid the
self-conscripted world Jewry, to tribal inclinations that constantly seeks to set the Jewish people as "people apart". Both Jewish survival and their troubled history with other nations owe much to their tribal tendency. The settler colonisation of Palestine was a tribal
'home-coming'. However secular Zionism originally was, it had already internalised tribal justification. Victim mentality and choseness conceal hidden aggressive tendencies towards non-Jews.
Kovel shows how Zionists ideologues from the most militarised to the
mildest harboured tribal phobia and aggression which could spare no empathy to the people who lived in historical Palestine. The result was that the indigenous population in Palestine was gradually
dispossessed, ethnically cleansed in 1948 and has never been allowed to return. The separatist mentality of tribalism has been effectuating systematic racial discrimination against Arabs through racial basic laws and policies, using every opportunity to portray them as a
'demographic threat' despite them being, at least on paper, 'equal' citizens of the State of Israel. In the Jewish state, any notion of democracy is structurally and legally constrained for the enhancement and protection of the tribe.
Kovel argues that the many shades of Israeli identity constantly unite
behind the ultimate tribal-identification despite the apparent
secularism of many Israelis and despite Israel's multi-ethnic nature. The process of mirroring in which identity can overcome identification in self interpretation and contestation is highly constrained to a member of the tribe. It is tribal consciousness that prevents
so-called Israeli 'humanists' to confront the deep contradictions that underline their positions and go all the way to criticise the racist foundations of their state. It is this tribal hold of the mind that abuses Holocaust memory and does its utmost to erase other memories. It is tribal mentality that conscripts all the world to ensure that the denial of injustices that happens in, and a result of, the colonisation of Palestine, as well as current inequality within Israel, remain
untouched. All the world become hooked in this tribal mentality by letting Israel off the hook of so many International legal
pronouncement pending against it. A world that is captive of the Jewish tribe and blackmailed to protect it, entrenches the ambit of the moral wrong in the 1967 occupation of the West Bank Gaza and East
Jerusalem rather then extending this wrong to the whole of historic Palestine. It is the despicable protection of tribalism that bestows on the statement that "Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state" a higher and extremist status rather than the statement that hails the fundamental interests of the people who are constantly dispossessed and oppressed by the premise that grounds Israel's existence and actions.
Thus, the oppression, dispossession of, and discrimination against,
Palestinians, is a world problem. Tribal-based coordinates of
'pragmatism' and the 'never again the Holocaust' rhetoric blocks any reflection and serious discussion about the possibility of
de-colonisation towards and the establishment of civic and egalitarian constitution all over historic Palestine. Tribe trumps equality. It is that seemingly reasonable but in fact callous world endorsement of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state and to commit crimes that makes this colonisation so unique and ruthless.
Kovel discusses the origin of anti-Semitism as a lie regarding the
origin of Christianity crudely implicating Jewish part in the death of Christ - a lie that has been tragically put to the very service of continuous resurrection of tribal Judaism. The deep forces that shape history and historians are exposed with ruthless honesty. Kovel's argument of how anti-Semitism and Zionist nationalism nourish one
another is enlightening. Kovel shows that rather than fulfilling its aim as a spiritual home and a haven for Jews, the State of Israel is sure to take the entire world on a violent route, inter alia violence against Jews, with its obsession with its tribal crave of maintaining its Jewish majority and character. One of Kovel's insights is that tribal thinking has the tendency to produce and utilise the very
anti-Semitism that it seem to try eliminating. The implication of Kovel's arguments is that Israel is a state whose tribal core pushes it to commit suicide, metaphorically speaking, suicide that, like the biblical suicide bomber Samson, is fated to take the whole world with it.
Kovel is at pains to show us that this tribal thinking that
characterises the legalism of Talmudic Judaism is not a characteristic of Judaic thinking. He does not want to essentialise Judaism into tribalism.
Kovel argues that tribalism and the anti-Semitism it both fights against
and nourishes could not be in sharper contrast to the prophetic tradition of Judaism, a tradition that uses the creative force of Jewish existence as the forces of radical social criticisms and reform, a one which produced the likes of Marx, a one which is capable of forming the ground of, and providing the impetus to,
universal ethics, morality and Human Rights.
Deep down Zionism has a tribal psyche, one that constantly needs to
maintain the conditions to define itself by radical separation, through the instigation of violence if necessary, namely through creating the conditions for the demonisation and gangsterisation of the people who are Other to it and against it. The notion of separation (apartheid)
originates in tribal thinking. Guilt and bad conscience are just the faחade of the inability of thinking to relinquish its tribal separatist core.
Kovel masterfully connects many frameworks of analysis to show that the
self-preservation of Zionism unleashes the tribal warfare of controlling the accumulation and movement of Capital in order to hinder the
historical momentum of social changes. Tribalism champions ecological destruction, pushing Palestine beyond its limits by excessive
urbanisation and population and by destroying the desert for the use of Jewish people (action masqueraded as "making the desert bloom"). Last but not least, tribal mentality makes super-powers dance to its flute. Kovel reminds us just how lobbying world powers to fight the Zionist wars on behalf of the Jewish tribe has been masterfully carried out in the United States by the Israeli Lobby. The account of the alliances between Christians fundamentalists who see Zionism as the vehicle for eventual return of Christ is equally disturbing.
Kovel then turns his gaze to the state of Israel, that state which
could only be created by massive expulsion, whose education for tribal and militarised rationality can only be maintained by a set of racial laws that govern property rights, educational curricula, economic
rights, movement rights, immigration rights and of course political stakes while presenting itself and indeed hailed as a paragon of
democracy. The incompatibility between Zionism and democracy hints at the deeper ontological actuality that tribalism can never develop
egalitarian sentiments towards the fundamental interest towards all others can not develop constitutional guarantees of their deep
interests. Tribalism must end up preserving the most ruthless and stubborn form of ethno-nationalism or Ethnocracy in which the tribal identity is sure to find thousand violent ways to reinvent its
self-imposed ghetto.
Kovel holds the mirror to the face of world Jewry for lending themselves
to protect that state thereby becoming themselves complicit in the constant generation of hatred against Jews, hatred that in turn continue to fuel the tribal survival. Kovel demands nothing short of soul searching on behalf of Jews of that surplus which is left of their Jewishness once tribal tendencies have been overcome. No doubt that many Jews in the world will try to talk down this pearl of humanistic account.
The tribe can not sustain self criticism. The hatred to the tribe to all
others is projected onto those who criticise it from within – being dubbed Self Hating Jews.
Kovel scholarly exploration and moral intuition led him to the
conclusion that it is not merely Zionism that needs to be deconstructed.
It is not merely showing that Jewish and democratic state is an
oxymoron like so many people did before. It is very easy to deconstruct Zionism as a political ideology but the social and political voice needs to find a connective tissue to the ontological tribal origins of which Zionism is a conclusion and a symptom.
Kovel's range of research perspectives is impressive and his analysis
is razor-sharp. His thesis relies on primary historical scholarship and combines it with thoughtful philosophical reflections and novel
connections. This book is a truly thinking text that has the form of argument backed up by wide range knowledge. As such it traverses many intellectual frameworks. Kovel's ability to bring together historical scholarship, philosophy, theology, Marxist analysis, ecological
critique, statistical data and link all those to current everyday
stories is truly agile and breathtaking.
The book ends with a proposal for a single democratic state for all
people Jews and Arabs, who live in Palestine thus ending colonial rule there and establishing an egalitarian and free constitution over a clear demos. It is important to note that he is not alone in proposing that. In July 2007, a group of leading ex Israeli and Palestinians Academics and Activists met in El Escorial Madrid to discuss the urgent reasons and possibilities for a one state solution in Palestine. In complete resonance with Kovel the group in El Escorial was not merely claiming that a partition of Palestine is not viable but that it is fundamentally unjust playing to the hand of Zionism by entrenching that right of Israeli Jews to occupy, dispossess and discriminate those who lived and now live in what is now the State of Israel.
It is evident that this book brings together a lifetime of intellectual
pursuits, wisdom and personal struggle to save what Kovel sees a gem Judaic being gave to humanity and save this gem from the tribal
aberrations. Pluto Press should be praised for its courage in
providing the platform for a very important intellectual, perhaps
crucial, call for all the world to wake up from the sedation and
blackmail of Zionism and tribalism. The University of Michigan should be praised for shouldering this most important service to humanity by distributing Pluto books in the United States.
Kovel's main achievement is that he advances a thesis that reconnects
Zionism to the Jewish Question. He shows an internal tension within Jewish thinking and does not succumb to simplistic severance of the Zionist question and the Jewish question. Inspired by books like
Kovel, the Jewish Question needs to be dwelled upon even more than Kovel was able to do in this book. There are many ways in which his courageous lead is sure to be further dwelled upon and canvassed. On the one hand, it can be claimed that he was wrong to open up any link between the debate on Zionism and the one on Judaism/anti-Semitism. By contrast, it can be claimed that his linkage did not go far enough because some Jewish universal accounts can still shows echoes of
tribalism. For example, Emmanuel Levinas' claim that the Jewish
heritage constitutes universal ethics of radical alterity and that this ethics is different to the Greek's notion that otherness is
already an attribute of thinking-Being, smacks of tribalism. Any claim to Jewish exclusive prophecy that is dressed as universal is highly
problematic to say the least. Jewish constant marginality and
separation coupled with assimilation is not free of problems. . Kovel is highly aware of how the historicity of the inherent separateness of "people apart" has lead to half-hearted and tension-bound
assimilation, anti-Semitism and persecution, period of relative
equilibrium, theoretical developments of a rootless theoretical
umbrella for cosmopolitanism and of course, ethnonationalism. (pp. 19-20)
What is important, though, that no argument that link Jewish thinking
and Zionism should be silenced ab initio ridiculing it as anti-Semitic.
Big issues that touch all humanity hang here in the balance and they
must be debated openly. Freedom of Speech should reign as Voltaire reminded us.
A critique of tribalism can also be criticism of the West's calculative,
representational, methodology-bound, legalistic and technical thinking. The fact that the world joins the tribe and thus becomes itself a tribe, the actuality of it being assimilated into the tribe, forming the
apartheid implicated in the axis of evil, is something that requires serious contemplation and debate. Deep inside Palestine is the locale that threatens unleashing those skeletons of humanity out of the
What Kovel's book did me is to awaken the possibility and importance of
exploring the most of controversial of questions. This question would explore the role and the power of various manifestations of tribal mentality in leading up to the Holocaust. In this respect, could it be that world tribalism and its child, Zionism, constitute the most
sinister form of Holocaust denial and forgetfulness?. The supremacist monopoly to Holocaust memory in Israel can be argued to be a hint at this yet deeper denial of this colossal attempt at extermination. The denial of the Holocaust is not an argument of numbers and facts. Such arguments by the well-known Holocaust revisionists are themselves form of denial of primordial ontological processes. We must not let the issue of tribalism off the hook by arguing about facts and numbers. The Holocaust did happen and humanity should never never forget its Being. And yet, so tragically, it does. A deep philosophical critique of tribalism must also make us brave enough to look at the ontological unfolding that lead to the Holocaust, listening to what the undisputed horrors of the Holocaust tell us in a deepest and most mysterious of ways. Doing this will indeed be to remember and to contemplate it. Deep understanding is more primordial than the legalism and moral
abhorrence in the coordinates of which the Holocaust is currently
It is important that a free platform is given to those who go develop
this link in many directions. It is important to allow for a serious debate and disagreements. The tendency of not merely construing Zionism as a cause but merely as a symptom is very urgent. Silencing by treating Zionism just as another political conflict would normalise deep denial that casts its shadow over humanity, a shadow that will ultimately serve Israel's domination and oppression.
Growing up in Israel, so many times did I come across so charming
people that when push comes to shove align themselves behind the racist statehood of the state. Many celebration of love and coexistence are conditional upon unconditional acceptance of the premise of a Jewish state. It is tribalism that prevents people to see that national self determination does not require a Jewish state. Joel Kovel set us all, as humans, a challenge of justice and love. To find a path to tribal
mentality is sure to be torturous. The book is written in such a
spirit intending to start the ball rolling towards a peaceful
revolution that will replace the Jewish state with a single state which will enshrine equality and liberty of all its citizens as its main goal. A state that will not cause our ethical reflection drop dead upon hearing the word 'Holocaust'. We must start not only to utter but to shout with conviction, as humans, that Israel has no moral right to preserve the premise of its statehood that has been inflicting so much misery. Kovel demonstrates just how urgent it is to generate new thinking about the idle and disastrous chatter 'two states solution' of and the 'peace process' which is based on it.
Oren Ben-Dor was born in Haifa and grew up in Nahariya, Israel. He lived there until the age of 25. He teaches legal and political philosophy at the School of Law University of Southampton. His books Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere (2000) and Thinking About Law: In Silence with Heidegger (2007) are published by Hart Publishing, Oxford.
November 20, 2007
Thus Spoke Equality
Why Israel Has No "Right to Exist" as a Jewish State
By OREN BEN-DOR
Yet again, the Annapolis meeting between Olmert and Abbas is
preconditioned upon the recognition by the Palestinian side of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Indeed the "road map" should lead to, and legitimate, once and for all, the right of such a Jewish state to exist in definitive borders and in peace with its neighbours. The vision of justice, both past and future, simply has to be that of two states, one Palestinian, one Jewish, which would coexist side by side in peace and stability. Finding a formula for a reasonably just partition and
separation is still the essence of what is considered to be moderate, pragmatic and fair ethos.
Thus, the really deep issues--the "core"--are conceived as the status of Jerusalem, the fate and future of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories and the viability of the future Palestinian state beside the Jewish one. The fate of the descendants of those 750000 Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed in 1948 from what is now, and would continue to be under a two-state solutions, the State of Israel, constitutes a "problem" but never an "issue" because, God forbid, to make it an issue on the table would be to threaten the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. The existence of Israel as a Jewish state must never become a core issue. That premise unites political opinion in the Jewish state, left and right and also persists as a pragmatic view of many Palestinians who would prefer some improvement to no improvement at all.Only "extremists" such as Hamas, anti-Semites, and Self-Hating Jews--terribly disturbed, misguided and detached lot--can make Israel's existence into a core problem and in turn into a necessary issue to be debated and addressed.
The Jewish state, a supposedly potential haven for all the Jews in the world in the case a second Holocaust comes about, should be recognised as a fact on the ground blackmailed into the "never again" rhetoric. All considerations of pragmatism and reasonableness in envisioning a "peace process" to settle the 'Israeli/Palestinian' conflict must never
destabilise the sacred status of that premise that a Jewish state has a right to exist.
Notice, however, that Palestinian are not asked merely to recognise the perfectly true fact and with it, the absolutely feasible moral claim, that millions of Jewish people are now living in the State of Israel and that their physical existence, liberty and equality should be protected in any future settlement. They are not asked merely to recognise the assurance that any future arrangement would recognise historic Palestine as a home for the Jewish People.What Palestinians are asked to subscribe to
recognition the right of an ideology that informs the make-up of a state to exist as Jewish one. They are asked to recognise that
ethno-nationalistic premise of statehood.
The fallacy is clear: the recognition of the right of Jews who are there--however unjustly many of their Parents or Grandparents came to acquire what they own--to remain there under liberty and equality in a post-colonial political settlement, is perfectly compatible with the non-recognition of the state whose constitution gives those Jews a preferential stake in the polity.
It is an abuse of the notion of pragmatism to conceive its effort as putting the very notion of Jewish state beyond the possible and desirable implementation of egalitarian moral scrutiny. To so abuse pragmatism would be to put it at the service of the continuation of colonialism. A
pragmatic and reasonable solution ought to centre on the problem of how to address past, present, and future injustices to non-Jew-Arabs without thereby cause other injustices to Jews. This would be a very complex pragmatic issue which would call for much imagination and generosity. But reasonableness and pragmatism should not determine whether the cause for such injustices be included or excluded from debates or negotiations. To pragmatically exclude moral claims and to pragmatically protect immoral assertions by fiat must in fact hide some form of extremism. The causes of colonial injustice and the causes that constitutionally prevent their full articulation and address should not be excluded from the debate.
Pragmatism can not become the very tool that legitimate constitutional structures that hinder de-colonisation and the establishment of
egalitarian constitution.
So let us boldly ask: What exactly is entailed by the requirement to recognise Israel as a Jewish state? What do we recognise and support when we purchase a delightful avocado or a date from Israel or when we invite Israel to take part in an international football event? What does it mean to be a friend of Israel? What precisely is that Jewish state whose status as such would be once and for all legitimised by such a two-state
A Jewish state is a state which exists more for the sake of whoever is considered Jewish according to various ethnic, tribal, religious,
criteria, than for the sake of those who do not pass this test. What precisely are the criteria of the test for Jewishness is not important and at any rate the feeble consensus around them is constantly reinvented in Israel. Instigating violence provides them with the impetus for doing that. What is significant, thought, is that a test of Jewishness is being used in order to constitutionally protect differential stakes in, that is the differential ownership of, a polity. A recognition of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is a recognition of the Jews special
entitlement, as eternal victims, to have a Jewish state. Such a test of supreme stake for Jews is the supreme criterion not only for racist policy making by the legislature but also for a racist constitutional
interpretation by the Supreme Court.The idea of a state that is first and foremost for the sake of Jews trumps even that basic law of Human Freedom and Dignity to which the Israeli Supreme Court pays so much lip service. Such constitutional interpretation would have to make the egalitarian principle equality of citizenship compatible with, and thus subservient to, the need to maintain the Jewish majority and character of the state. This of course constitutes a serious compromise of equality, translated into many individual manifestations of oppression and domination of those victims of such compromise--non-Jews-Arabs citizens of Israel.
In our world, a world that resisted Apartheid South Africa so
impressively, recognition of the right of the Jewish state to exist is a litmus test for moderation and pragmatism. The demand is that Palestinians recognise Israel's entitlement to constitutionally entrench a system of racist basic laws and policies, differential immigration criteria for Jews and non-Jews, differential ownership and settlements rights, differential capital investments, differential investment in education, formal rules and informal conventions that differentiate the potential stakes of political participation, lame-duck academic freedom and debate.
In the Jewish state of Israel non-Jews-Arabs citizens are just "bad luck" and are considered an ticking demographic bomb of "enemy within". They can be given the right to vote--indeed one member one vote--but the potential of their political power, even their birth rate, should be kept at bay by visible and invisible, instrumental and symbolic, discrimination. But now they are asked to put up with their inferior stake and recognise the right of Israel to continue to legitimate the non-egalitarian premise of its statehood.
We must not forget that the two state "solution" would open a further possibility to non-Jew-Arabs citizens of Israel: "put up and shut up or go to a viable neighbouring Palestinian state where you can have your full equality of stake".Such an option, we must never forget, is just a part of a pragmatic and reasonable package.
The Jewish state could only come into being in May 1948 by ethnically cleansing most of the indigenous population--750000 of them. The
judaisation of the state could only be effectively implemented by
constantly internally displacing the population of many villages within the Israel state.
It would be unbearable and unreasonable to demand Jews to allow for the Right of Return of those descendants of the expelled. Presumably, those descendants too could go to a viable Palestinian state rather than, for example, rebuild their ruined village in the Galilee. On the other hand, a Jewish young couple from Toronto who never set their foot in Palestine has a right to settle in the Galilee. Jews and their descendants hold this right in perpetuity. You see, that right "liberates" them as people. Jews must never be put under the pressure to live as a substantial minority in the Holy Land under egalitarian arrangement. Their past justifies their preferential stake and the preservation of their numerical majority in Palestine.
So the non-egalitarian hits us again. It is clear that part of the realisation of that right of return would not only be a just the actual return, but also the assurance of equal stake and citizenship of all, Jews and non-Jews-Arabs after the return. A return would make the egalitarian claim by those who return even more difficult to conceal than currently with regard to Israel Arab second class citizens. What unites Israelis and many world Jews behind the call for the recognition of the right of a Jewish state to exist is their aversion for the possibility of living, as a minority, under conditions of equality of stake to all. But if Jews enjoys this equality in Canada why can not they support such equality in Palestine through giving full effect to the right of Return of
Let us look precisely at what the pragmatic challenge consists of: not pragmatism that entrenches inequality but pragmatism that responds to the challenge of equality.
The Right of Return of Palestinians means that Israel acknowledges and apologises for what it did in 1948. It does mean that Palestinian memory of the 1948 catastrophe, the Nakbah, is publicly revived in the Geography and collective memory of the polity. It does mean that Palestinians descendants would be allowed to come back to their villages. If this is not possible because there is a Jewish settlement there, they should be given the choice to found an alternative settlement nearby. This may mean some painful compulsory state purchase of agricultural lands that should be handed back to those who return. In cases when this is impossible they ought to be allowed the choice to settle in another place in the larger area or if not possible in another area in Palestine. Compensation would be the last resort and would always be offered as a choice. This kind of moral claim of return would encompass all Palestine including Tel Aviv.
At no time, however, it would be on the cards to throw Israeli Jews from their land.An egalitarian and pragmatic realisation of the Right of Return constitutes an egalitarian legal revolution. As such it would be paramount to address Jews' worries about security and equality in any future arrangement in which they, or any other group, may become a minority. Jews national symbols and importance would be preserved. Equality of stake involves equality of symbolic ownership.
But it is important to emphasis that the Palestinian Right of Return would mean that what would cease to exist is the premise of a Jewish as well as indeed a Muslim state. A return without the removal of the
constitutionally enshrined preferential stake is return to serfdom.
The upshot is that only by individuating cases of injustice, by extending claims for injustice to all historic Palestine, by fair address of them without creating another injustice for Jews and finally by ensuring the elimination of all racist laws that stems from the Jewish nature of the state including that nature itself, would justice be, and with it peace, possible. What we need is a spirit of generosity that is pragmatic but also morally uncompromising in terms of geographic ambit of the moral claims for repatriation and equality. This vision would propel the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. But for all this to happen we must start by ceasing to recognize the right Israel to exist as a Jewish state. No spirit of generosity would be established without an egalitarian call for jettisoning the ethno-nationalistic notion upon which the Jewish state is based.
The path of two states is the path of separation.Its realisation would mean the entrenchment of exclusionary nationalism for many years. It would mean that the return of the dispossessed and the equality of those who return and those non-Jew-Arabs who are now there would have to be deferred indefinitely consigned to the dusty shelved of historical injustices.Such a scenario is sure to provoke more violence as it would establish the realisation and legitimisation of Zionist racism and imperialism.
Also, any bi-national arrangement ought to be subjected to a principle of equality of citizenship and not vice versa. The notion of separation and partition that can infect bi-nationalism, should be done away with and should not be tinkered with or rationalised in any way. Both spiritually and materially Jews and non-Jews can find national expression in a single egalitarian and non-sectarian state.
The non-recognition of the Jewish state is an egalitarian imperative that looks both at the past and to the future. It is the uncritical recognition of the right of Israel to exist at a Jewish state which is the core hindrance for this egalitarian premise to shape the ethical challenge that Palestine poses. A recognition of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state means the silencing that would breed more and more violence and bloodshed.
The same moral intuition that brought so many people to condemn and sanction Apartheid South Africa ought also to prompt them to stop seeing a threat to existence of the Jewish state as the effect caused by the refugee 'problem" or by the "demographic threat" from the non-Jew-Arabs within it. It is rather the other way round. It is the non-egalitarian premise of a Jewish state and the lack of empathy and corruption of all those who make us uncritically accept the right of such a state to exist that is both the cause of the refugee problem and cause for the inability to implement their return and treating them as equals thereafter.
We must see that the uncritically accepted recognition of Israel right to exist is, as Joseph Massad so well puts it in Al-Ahram, to accept Israel claim to have the right to be racist or, to develop Massad's brilliant formulation, Israel's claim to have the right to occupy to dispossess and to discriminate. What is it, I wonder, that prevent Israelis and so many of world Jews to respond to the egalitarian challenge? What is it, I wonder, that oppresses the whole world to sing the song of a "peace process" that is destined to legitimise racism in Palestine?
To claim such a right to be racist must come from a being whose victim's face must hide very dark primordial aggression and hatred of all others.How can we find a connective tissue to that mentality that claims the legitimate right to harm other human beings? How can this aggression that is embedded in victim mentality be perturbed?
The Annapolis meeting is a con. As an egalitarian argument we should say loud and clear that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
Oren Ben-Dor grew up in Israel. He teaches Legal and Political Philosophy at the School of Law, University of Southampton, UK. He can be reached at: email@example.com


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Sources: Bellone was often absent, unreachable in his 1st year
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was absent from the office for days at a time or longer during his first year on the job and often was difficult to reach, said four high-level sources with direct knowledge of his schedule.
Bellone, 43, a Democrat and former Babylon Town supervisor who took office in January 2012, would spend hours at a time during workdays at restaurants, and aides who were searching for him even monitored Twitter users for reported sightings, two of the sources said.
Also, for more than a month last summer, as Suffolk wrestled with a projected three-year budget deficit of as much as $530 million, Bellone met only infrequently with staff at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge, said all of the sources.
"He would not return phone calls, sometimes, for five days; it was very challenging," said one person, who like the others declined to be identified.
In an interview Wednesday, Bellone said he "was in the Dennison Building a significant amount of time" last year. "But I also took a lot of meetings outside of the office, which I like to do, because particularly here it's very isolated and the public doesn't come in."
He continued, "I reject the notion that I wasn't in the building. It's absurd." He called the people who spoke about his management style "anonymous political insiders who either have an ax to grind or are upset that I didn't spend more time with them."
Supporters, including some of the sources who spoke about his management style, noted accomplishments, including an eight-year contract with Suffolk police officers that set lower pay for new hires, as evidence that Bellone's time out of the office didn't impact his performance.
But the executive varied from "laser focus" on issues such as the police contract and the midyear layoffs of 263 employees to little day-to-day involvement in preparing the county's $2.7 billion budget for 2013, three sources said.
Bellone's management style sits in contrast with former County Executive Steve Levy, a Republican, who used to monitor legislative debates from his office and feed his aides responses via text message.
Beginning late last year with the response to superstorm Sandy, and continuing this year, Bellone has been far more engaged in daily operations, sources said. He was active in responding to the recent blizzard, and made personal appeals to many county legislators to secure emergency approval for a plan to intensely monitor convicted sex offenders. The measure passed unanimously earlier this month.
Bellone said he is "not doing anything differently than what I did when I negotiated the [police] contract . . . or reducing the layoffs by 100 people," last year, and that he's always been a hands-on manager. ". . . There's nothing going on that is of any significance that I am not aware of."
Last year, however, Bellone spent hours at a time during the week at restaurants, primarily Panera Bread in North Babylon, not far from his home, all of the sources said. At least four social media users reported sightings of him at the chain, with one saying she "always" saw Bellone there.
"He'd meet people there," one source said of Panera. "It was just unusual."
Bellone said that, "if people have seen me working at a diner or a Panera, they've seen me there late at night, seen me there on weekends, working, having meetings. Have I had meetings during the week at places? Sure. But people have seen me at night, on weekends, because I am working seven days a week, literally."
The county executive's frequent absences from the office last spring and summer came as his administration was developing the 2013 budget, which Bellone said closed nearly all of the deficit. But aides didn't regularly discuss budget particulars with Bellone, the sources said.
"You'd have to take risks, and hope that they were the right ones," said a source.
However, Bellone was involved heavily in the post-Sandy response last fall, particularly in pressuring the Long Island Power Authority to restore power faster. One source also said Bellone's style didn't hurt the county because he knew the right times to get involved: "He'd focus incessantly on a project, and when he focuses on a project, he drops off a lot of the extraneous stuff."
The legislature's Deputy Presiding Officer, Wayne Horsley (D-Babylon), said Bellone "shouldn't be judged by how often he's in a building; his office is across the county." Horsley acknowledged that he also met Bellone at Panera, saying, "He has a definite management style, where he's focused heavily on one thing and lets the other issues go to the staff. It's no different from when he was supervisor. He's still doing a lot of work."
Legislative Minority Leader John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset) said that with his style, Bellone needs seasoned aides, but that most of them had little previous county government experience. "These are complex issues, and if you're not going to be around, you need depth around you," Kennedy said.
Bellone's calendar for 2012, obtained through Freedom of Information Law requests, shows his staff set aside four to five hours each week for "private" appointments. Numerous times, he met lawmakers and officials at the Palace Diner in Hauppauge or the South Bay Diner in Lindenhurst.
On May 11, he scheduled an appointment with former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi and others at the South Bay Diner to discuss a proposal to seize and resell underwater home mortgages, the schedule shows.
And twice in May and June, according to the calendar, Bellone's office set meetings with top aides at Panera locations.
A record of Bellone's security card entries into the Dennison Building, also obtained through a FOIL request, shows that Bellone's card logged only seven entries in 2012 -- four in January and three in December. However, the county noted in its FOIL response that Bellone "would rarely be required to show or use his access card."
Public policy experts said elected leaders who are often out of the office must rely more on their staffs, and while they can be more effective than micromanagers, they are also at greater risk of not catching mistakes before they happen.
"They tend to act more like a CEO or chairman of the board -- their real work gets done on strategic issues," said Angie McGuire, an assistant professor of public administration at Rutgers University and director of the school's Center for Executive Leadership in Government. "You might be much further removed if you have a strong team . . . but if you don't [have competent aides], morale could suffer."
Douglas Muzzio, a professor of political science and public affairs at Baruch College, said voters want a leader who is hands-on and effective, but that they'll accept "hands-off and effective." He said Bellone's "style certainly opens him up to attack. You can see an opponent pointing out, 'Where was he?' or ads about 'the disappearing county executive.' He may have done the big stuff, but what about the little stuff?"
Those who are familiar with Bellone's schedule emphasized that he has become far more involved in day-to-day matters this year. He has spent significantly more time in the office, said two of the sources, since the January departure of chief deputy Regina Calcaterra, an intense, hands-on manager who now is executive director of the state's Moreland Commission investigating utilities' storm responses.
Calcaterra was replaced by Dennis Cohen, Bellone's childhood friend, who was Babylon and Suffolk County attorney.
"I have to tell you, it's such a dramatic change, it's mind-boggling," the source said of Bellone's presence at the office.


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Go ahead and choose the ratty-looking organic veggies over their pesticide-treated brethren if you must, but don't think buying your food from back-to-the-earth hipsters is going to boost your own shelf life.
A new study says organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, Reuters reported. Apparently, all those chemicals used to keep bugs away won't kill you after all.
"Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority," said Alan Dangour, one of the researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who authored the study.
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The revelation could be a big blow to shoppers who have been feeling good about buying organic for years, not to mention the $50 billion-per-year industry. The study was based on an exhaustive review of 162 scientific papers published over the last 50 years. It was commissioned by the British government's Food Standards Agency, and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Dangour did toss a free-range bone to true believers.
"A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance," he said.
Meanwhile, some markets report sales of the usually more expensive organic foods have dropped some amid the worldwide recession. So if you have been opting for the oddly shiny apples or skipping the eggs that come in a carton made of hemp, consider yourself absolved of guilt.


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Information systems and technology
In a fast-changing world, information systems and technology are vital for L'Oréal's performance.
Nowadays L'Oréal has to cope with a rapidly changing world and the group's Information Systems department is our front line in addressing this challenge. Every day L'Oréal's 68,900 employees use the group's IT systems. Information Systems teams are present in all the group's business sectors. They develop projects for the brands and the group's more than 40+ plants and its Research and Innovation centers. Their contributions and expertise are vital for L'Oréal's operational and strategic performance.
The chief missions of these teams consist in designing and building the group's IT solutions so that they ensure the performance and continuity of the various business sectors, as well as streamline the company's operational excellence by introducing new technologies. Our Information Systems teams are also genuine innovation facilitators whose job includes providing support in coping with the digital revolution.
Some functions
IT Project Manager You take overall responsibility for a project. Your main mission is to design, manage and coordinate projects and monitor their deployment while likewise controlling the financial aspects. You will be responsible for a wide range of projects including infrastructure and supply chain business applications, sales, Research and Innovation, finance and production.
IT Functional Consultant As a real internal consultant, you identify entities' needs in close collaboration with main business owners. You design new solutions and identify improvements for the existing applications. You can either work on solutions for L'Oréal's core system or on specific solutions, developed in order to answer the local markets needs. You take part in rolling out these solutions in countries.
Digital Project Manager It will be your mission to provide support for the digital revolution inside L'Oréal. This will include fields such as e-commerce, e-marketing sites and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). You need to know how to convert the needs of operational staff into technical specifications, monitor the progress of projects and suggest innovative solutions. To do this you will need competitive intelligence about technologies and trends.


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Discover a place you'll never want to leave.
The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River is a paradise of lakes, natural areas, and outdoor adventure. Home to Alberta's inland sea, Lesser Slave Lake, it is a popular destination for tourists and travelers, especially those who love water sports such as boating and fishing. The area offers boundless recreational adventures including sandy beaches stretching for many kilometers, numerous campgrounds, and trails for biking and off-road vehicles, as well as sport fishing, hunting, hiking, horseback riding, cross country skiing, snowmobiling, and recreational boating.
The MD is full of recreational opportunities
Camping is a favourite outdoor recreational activity enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. Immerse yourself in the great outdoors, get away from civilization, and enjoy nature on a relaxing camping trip. From full service lakefront campsites to ATV friendly campsites, the region boasts a large number of camping facilities to suit any outdoor recreationalist.
Canoeing and kayaking allows people of all ages and varied abilities to experience paddling the serenity of calm water or the challenge of maneuvering whitewater. A trip to Lesser Slave River can offer multiple opportunities for canoeing and kayaking. The Athabasca River is also a great place for some river boating. Stop to visit unique sites and islands on your paddling trip or do some shoreline exploring; you are bound to experience eye-catching geology, abundant bird life, or perhaps even catch a glimpse of a Boreal Bison.
Winter recreates the Lesser Slave River region's forests, mountains, and frozen lakes and rivers, offering up nature's finest work of art — a white canvas. Discover a stunning landscape, blanketed by snow and ice, as you glide through boreal forests on cross-country skis, skim along a sparkling landscape on a snowmobile, or snowshoe on frozen lakes under a twinkling canopy of brilliant stars. Nine Mile Creek Cross Country Ski Trail provides an extensive trail system for those who want to enjoy the crisp winter air and take in the spectacular sights that these winter sports have to offer.
Lesser Slave Lake offers world-class fishing for walleye, jack, and northern pike. In total, sixteen species of fish inhabit the lake, from the fathead minnow to the eagerly-sought-after walleye. Lily Lake is a wonderful place to catch Brook Trout and there are numerous other hidden fishing holes to be explored. Boat launches and boat rentals are also available at Lesser Slave Lake, Cross Lake, Lawrence Lake, and Fawcett Lake.
The northern boreal forest and sparkling blue lake provide a gorgeous backdrop for a relaxing round of golf. Courses in and around Lesser Slave River are a challenge for players of every skill level. Visit one of the three in our community: Gilwood Golf and Country Club, Flatbush River Valley Golf Club, or the Hidden Valley Golf Club in Fawcett.
Stay at one of the local cabin rentals, then take a guided tour or hike on your own to one of our many forest trails or shorelines. Visit the Lesser Slave River Provincial Park or pack a lunch and enjoy one of our day use areas at Lily Creek or Marten River. Trails include the Trans-Canada, Lily Lake, Walk Through Time, Jack Pine, Whispering Sands, Peace, and Songbird. Other activities to enjoy while hiking may include bird watching and wildlife photography, berry picking, and shoreline fishing.
For more information about recreational activities in and around Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park, visit the Government of Alberta's Tourism, Parks, and Recreation website by clicking here.
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The technical information about my board is:
Kernel: Linux-3.18.0
board: EDM1+some hardware extensions: EDM1 is an extension of wandboard, imx6q, HannStar display, HSD100pxn1, arm, it is a tablet
I am trying to change imx6qdl.dtsi file to drive LVDS display besides HDMI monitor. HDMI monitor works fine and linux-3.18.0 that is a mainline kernel boots correctly. But lvds panel is completely off and dark. I only see /dev/fb0 and if i force to load imx_ldb.ko no new device will be added!
I wonder what is wrong with my setup? Does LVDS bridge not being driven correctly? or my dts file has a problem?
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Credit Cards Not a Game
To children, credit and debit cards aren't as real as money they can see and feel. To learn basic money skills, they need to get their hands on cold hard cash.
Later this year Hasbro will introduce a new version of its classic Game of Life that replaces play money with a Visa-branded card (see A Skewed Take on Life).
That's too bad. Not only does the new "Twists & Turns" edition ($35) advertise a company logo to kids as young as 9, but it also cancels out the hands-on value of the original game: Kids could feel the pleasure of collecting a salary, or the pain of paying for college, by piling up or depleting stacks of money.
Children don't draw a distinction among credit, debit and prepaid cards. To them, plastic is plastic and none of it is as real as cash. That's why I believe so strongly that kids need to deal in hard currency. And there's plenty of research to back me up.
For example, James Roberts, associate professor of marketing at Baylor University, has done extensive research on credit-card use among adolescents. His conclusion: "When you remove actual money from the exchange, it's easier to spend and more difficult to keep track of your spending."
When researchers stood outside a college bookstore and asked departing students how much they had spent, students who had paid by cash or check could pinpoint their bill to the penny. But students who had paid by credit card offered estimates that were all over the map.
Brain-imaging studies done by George Lowenstein, professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, show that the parts of the brain that register pleasure and pain are also involved when people make purchases. Buying something stimulates a pleasurable response, and paying for it elicits pain.
Paying with plastic, says Lowenstein, has the potential to anesthetize the pain. "Swiping a card isn't like giving something up," he says.
Credit is fine as long as cardholders are mature enough to handle it. But because the brain continues to develop until young people are in their early twenties, 'tweens and teens are "susceptible to the lesson that you can finance a purchase through debt and the future will take care of itself," says Lowenstein.
Look, I'm no Scrooge. I can see how kids could find Twists & Turns to be cool and fun to play. To appeal to parents the game will include a booklet based on Visa's financial-literacy curriculum.
Hasbro says it has also enhanced the game by changing the rules: The winner will no longer be the player who accumulates the most money but the one who earns the most "life points" -- a combination of wealth and experience. And, says a Hasbro spokesperson, "If you don't manage your finances well, you can't win."
But as a way of teaching financial literacy, the classic Game of Life is hard to beat. Fortunately, it's still available -- for about half the price of Twists & Turns. Show me the money any day.


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State championship a learning experience for Pine Island Crew
Although the member of the Pine Island Crew did not do as well as they hoped at the First Tech Challenge state championship March 2, they took away valuable information that will help them succeed next year.
The Pine Island Crew placed 23rd out of 24 teams in the state championship, which invited the top 24 teams in the state of Florida. The Marinerds, another name for the Pine Island Crew, placed 14th statewide before heading to Embry Riddle University at Daytona Beach for the competition.
The students had to design and create a robot that could grab ahold of rings and place them on different levels of pegs to earn points for the competition.
Junior Jasmine Singh said they made it to state and they know they did their best at the competition. She said the team handled rough scenarios during the competition and was accommodating when different situations arose.
Team captain Gerilynn Rossman, a junior, said the team is proud of the victories they had leading up to the competition because it was much more difficult to be one of the 24 teams to make it to the state championship.
"It was a very good season," she said.
A lesson the team took away from this year's championship games is be prepared for the games different leagues play throughout the state of Florida.
The March 2 games were played a little rougher then what the Pine Island Crew is used to competing in with the SWFL FTC League. The team said robots were running into each other causing parts to break, which led to new obstacles.
The Pine Island Crew brought spare parts along, which helped, as well as The WolfTracks, the robotics team from South Fort Myers High School, also, a member of the SW Florida FTC League.
Rossman said there are differences once you get into the bigger communities during a state championship. She said they learned that there are different ideas, styles and interpretations of the rules in the state league.
"The strategy is a lot more intense," Rossman said. "Everyone is there to win."
Sophomore Michael Schulte said the competition was just another learning experience for them.
"Hopefully we will be better every year," he said.
Coach Bill Schulte said the First Tech Challenge would not be what it is without the participation of the students.
"The kids do all the work," he said. "Without them it doesn't happen."
Hel said because of the journey the Pine Island Crew has taken this past year, other schools have contacted it to do robot demonstrations for the students.
Rossman said when the season started they were friends; now that it has come to a close, they are a family.
"It is a huge bonding experience for everyone," she said. "We are more of a family than a team."
The team, which is comprised of Singh, Schulte, Rossman, junior Megan Tedlie, sophomore Zach Scribner and sophomore Garrett Bryan, is already thinking of new designs they can use for their robot next year, once the season starts in August.
One of the improvements they want to make to their robot is to have at least six-wheel drive, if not eight-wheel drive.
"We learned that four wheel drive is not enough," Rossman said.
Throughout the rest of the year and during the summer, the Pine Island Crew will continue to do outreach programs in the community.


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like the colours with this scene, reminds me of somewhere like capri in the 50's, i call this sort of colour Agfa circa 1950, in any case.
the grain is good too for this as it was for the rose.
did you get my email, it might have got spammed?
looking forward to tommorow's picture.
- Braesikalla [ 01/05/2007, 08:16 ]
I like the muted colors and the vintage look.
Is this crossprocessed film or a digital effect?
- objectif-plume [ 01/05/2007, 09:03 ]
un côté rétro qui m'amuse
- Jesus [ 01/05/2007, 09:32 ]
NIce image Puntina, i like this kind of retro tones, looks like an image of the '70
- Noor Hazmee [ 01/05/2007, 12:52 ]
That's a very retro looking car. The colors goes along together as well. Cheers!
- puntina [ 01/05/2007, 18:15 ]
Thank you, everyone :)
Alek: I got your e-mail, hope you've received my reply :)
Eike: This is a digital image, I don't work with film (yet). The colors were enhanced in Photoshop, graininess and blur are the effect of shooting at dusk.
- .:CushmoK:. [ 01/05/2007, 23:27 ]
I like the color tone... But the car :( !
A nice oldschool look..
- thomas mueller [ 02/05/2007, 15:17 ]
i like the postprocessing very much. it works well as a holiday shot of the 70ies. :)


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One of the three domains of living organisms: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota. While Archaea are single-celled, they are unlike bacteria given their independent evolutionary history. Archaea differ from Eukaryota in their ribosomal structure and the presence—in some—of introns in the genome, as well as other features (e.g., different membrane composition).
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****The official NEW new conference realignment thread.****
the second thread has been pronounced dead.
It blew up when it broke in half over Topeka.
And can we make a Syracuse logo for this thread instead of Missouri.
Syracuse is by far the most significant program to move this time around.
Rumor has it that the Big XII is trying to get teams from the ACC.
Va Tech makes a nice target, but I know they still dream of the SEC.
KK says Clemson wants in the Big 12.
If the ACC starts fracturing, UNC and VA Tech could round out the SEC. UNC doesn't want to move without Duke, and the SEC isn't going to accept Duke, but UNC might be willing to jump if the alternative is watching the ACC turn into the Big East.
I love this shit, especially now that Mizzou has the best seat in the house. It's great theater.
16 teams is just too many in one conference. It's been that way from the beginning.
I like 12 personally. But don't like the idea of Florida St. or Clemson mostly because of regional ridiculousness.
The problem with the ACC is they don't give a shit about football.
If two of the football powers leave, Miami would have to look hard at their options as well. It could easily bring down the conference.
16 teams is a good number if there are 4 of them. You would have 4 pods of 4 teams, and this would lend itself perfectly to a football playoff.
Article from yesterday about a committee Clemson has to long into their options.
CLEMSON, SC - Clemson Athletic Director, Dr. Terry Don Phillips, has announced the formation of an Athletic Advisory Committee. The committee is composed of 10 successful business leaders with strong ties to Clemson who will provide advice to the department from a strategic planning standpoint. The committee had a two-day meeting earlier this week.
"The nature of college athletics is changing in every area," said Phillips who has been Clemson's Athletic Director for nearly 10 years. "These changes are effecting how Clemson Athletics does business. It is a blessing to have access to successful business leaders who have and are facing similar issues in their industries.
"I have asked these Clemson loyalists to advise us as we strive to take our program to the next level. The candid and productive conversations we had and will have focus on key issues and strategies that will make Clemson athletics as good as it can be."
The Athletic Advisory Committee is composed of:
-discussion leader Harry Frampton, Vail, Colorado
-Steve Bond, Georgetown
-Jim Bostic, Atlanta
-Jim Brown, Florence
-Ray Cash, Seneca
-Tom Chapman, Atlanta
-Charles Dalton, Pickens
-Rich Davies, Charlotte
-Helen Hill, Charleston
-Rodney Williams, Greenville.
"Clemson is one of the top athletic programs in the nation," said Frampton. "We have only one agenda - how to help Clemson Athletics go to the next level.
"Every area of major college sports is being challenged - competition, academic success, student/athlete welfare, compliance, finances, brand marketing and conference structure. Clemson needs to lead change, not react to it.
"This Athletic Advisory Committee is not a decision making body, we are advisory. Clemson has very capable administrators and Boards to make decisions. We commend Terry Don and his staff for involving motivated business leaders in their strategic planning."
The next meeting of the Athletic Advisory Committee is scheduled for June 18 and 19."
What does this committee mean? Well this quote from Clemson AD accurately describes it
"The nature of college athletics is changing in every area," said Phillips who has been Clemson's Athletic Director for nearly 10 years. "These changes are effecting how Clemson Athletics does business."
This scratches the surface or eludes to what our opinion is- College football is now an arms race; get "all the way in" the game or keep out. Kind of like say, Syracuse, Pitt, Duke or UNC. They are in a game; the difference is their game is basektball. Their game will never fully showcase ACC football so it's a respected national brand. Syracuse and Pitt's 848 football fans they will bring to Death Valley don't excite Clemson fans.
For ACC commissioner John Swofford and his gang their game is basketball plain and simple. Their motivations keep the ACC one dimensional, dumb down the competition in football and keep the prize football horses Clemson, VT, FSU and Miami off the race trac. Hire the worse college football officials money can buy and let the SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 and Big 10 stomp a mud hole in the ACC on national stages.
Some say the knock on Clemson and FSU is they "play down to their comeptition" They're more right than they know. This crowd thinks it's because the team isn't focused. My view is they only get challenged properly 1/4 of the year.
For instance Clemson; these are the games that raise your heart beat when you see the schedule
-South Carolina
The rest of the scehdule Clemson should win 8-9 times out of 10. Wake, Duke, NCST etc. It's my belief a Clemson team playing tougher teams week in and week out would bring the best out in our Tigers. Getting clipped at the ankles by a Jack Russell terrier playing Wake Forest won't make you better. They aren't the standard for Clemson in football. What happened when the SEC got "all the way in"? Their football product got better. Then the Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12 etc all are trying to duplicate their success. If the SEC ran their conference like Swofford they would have no national championships in a row. Instead they are piling them up.
How does the ACC get better in football?
Two choices-
A- Fire John Swofford and his "baby blue mafia" and get them out of control.
B- Bring in Notre Dame and Penn St to round out the ACC with 16 teams.
I won't waste another word neither of those will happen.
The real answer-
Clemson and Florida State pack their bags and tell Swofford "good luck with your basketball football teams"
The committee Clemson formed has a release to say what it is. The very fact that they have formed one could also be a sign they are taking a close look at everything. Rumors of the Big 12 expanding east billow in more smoke by the day.
This is the prize. This is from nine months ago and now is a done deal-
"The Big 12 plans to announce a 13-year/1.17 billion deal with Fox Sports in a teleconference today, according to John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal.
That figure would pay the league $90 million a year and, combined with a current deal with ESPN that pays the Big 12 $60 million per year, should be plenty to satisfy the league's powers, especially once additional conference revenue from basketball and football BCS berths are factored in. "
15,216,064 reasons for the Big 12 to want Clemson and Florida St and 15,216,064 reason they should want the Big 12.
Conferences are expanding literally. Regional add on teams aren't attractive any more. These conferences want new areas and new eyeballs to watch their product like say Texas A&M and Mizzou to the SEC. The money those two footprints brought was a no brainer.
15,216,064 is the number of "households" in the states of South Carolina, Florida and Georgia; the prevailing TV viewing states Clemson and Florida State fans watch their football. These numbers indicate a huge opportunity for the Big 12 to garner TV money and tier TV $$$.
As long as Texas and Oklahoma have a say they won't look to crappy teams to make their conference better. Clemson and FSU bring football money, eyeballs and fans that love their schools. Rumors of WVU AD Oliver Luck being the guy to take the Big 12 commissioner job make things even more interesting. Luck is a mover and shaker and there are whispers he wants Clemson and FSU.
Before you quickly dismiss Clemson and FSU and their likelihood to jump off the All Carolina Conference think about how much this make sense. Before you start in on travel remember that conference expansion will involve new areas to their footprint and the tv money will out weigh fans traveling for an away game.
A Big 12 network means big money for each team in it. If say NBC/Comcast were to get back in the college football business Big 12 teams could have an exclusive network to broadcast their games. If a guy like Oliver Luck were in charge of the Big 12 you can guarantee relevance and big time TV money will job #1.
For Clemson and Florida St they can hope John Swofford brings in Notre Dame and Penn St or just say good bye and let him pick up the pieces while he sees how an all baskeball conference works out for him. We aren't saying this happens but with the day of the super conference coming soon it's time to listen.
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