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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 27, 2012) – All the news about U.S. men's volleyball players in the U.S. and around the world.
It was a battle of brothers on Nov. 24 as U.S. setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii) and his German league team Berlin Recycling Volleys defeated his brother, U.S. libero Erik Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), and CV Mitteldeutschland, 25-21, 25-19, 25-21 on Nov. 24. But the Shojis were not the only Stanford graduates from Honolulu on the floor as their former Cardinal teammate, U.S. outside hitter Brad Lawson (Honolulu, Hawaii), also plays for Mitteldeutschland. Kawika Shoji started all three sets for Berlin and scored two points on one kill and one ace. He set the team to a 52.6 kill percent and a .461 hitting efficiency. U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.), a 2008 Olympian who also plays for Berlin, played as a substitute but did not score. Lawson led his team with 11 points on eight attacks and three aces. He was also credited with 25 receptions, 48 percent positive. Erik Shoji was credited with 13 receptions, 69 percent positive. "Of course, it is ultimately a game like any other," Kawika Shoji said in a translated article on Berlin's webs site. "But for me personally, it's been a highlight here in Germany playing against my brother. I am delighted that he has received an offer from the Bundesliga and is thus again near me." To view a photo gallery of the match, click here.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and Asseco Resovia Rzeszów defeated AZS Politechnika Warszawska, 25-17, 25-19, 25-16 on Nov. 24. Lotman started all three sets and scored 11 points on seven kills, two blocks and two aces.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Jastrzębski Węgiel defeated Delecta Bydgoszcz, 25-21, 29-31, 25-23, 14-25, 15-9 on Nov. 24. Holmes started all five sets and scored nine points on six kills and three blocks.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and his French league team Tours, are now 8-0 after defeating Paris, 25-21, 25-21, 25-16 on Nov. 24. Smith started all three sets and scored seven points on six attacks and one ace.
AS Cannes, the French league team of U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and middle blocker Matt Rawson (Los Angeles) defeated Toulouse, the team of middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.), 25-22, 29-27, 25-11 on Nov. 24.
U.S. opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led his French league team Montpellier with 19 points, but it still fell to Beauvais, 25-20, 19-25, 27-25, 25-19 on Nov. 24. Clark scored on 19 attacks.
In France's B league, AS Orange Nassau, including U.S. libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitters Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) fell to St. Nazaire, 27-25, 25-23, 25-20 on Nov. 24. Vance led his team with 18 points on 14 attacks (60.9 kill percent, .609 hitting efficiency), two blocks and two aces. Scott started the third set and scored one point on one kill. Watten was credited with 18 receptions, 89 percent excellent.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a 2012 Olympian, and his Russian Super League team Zenit Kazan suffered its first league loss of the season on Nov. 25 when they fell to Gazprom Yurga Surgut, 25-19, 25-19, 25-18. Anderson started the first and third sets and scored 12 points on 11 kills (52.4 kill percent, .476 hitting efficiency) and one ace. To view a translated interview with Anderson, click here.
U.S. opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.), a 2008 Olympian, led all scorers as his Puerto Rican team Patriotas de Lares improved to 15-5 with a 25-21, 25-18, 25-20 victory over Maratonistas de Coamo on Nov. 24. McKienzie finished the match with 16 points on 14 kills and two aces.
U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) and his team Plataneros de Corozal defeated Mets de Guaynabo, 25-23, 25-19, 25-22 on Nov. 20. Patak led all scorers with 19 points on 15 attacks, two blocks and two aces. On Nov. 24, Corozal fell to Cariduros de Fajardo, 23-25, 21-25, 25-19, 25-20, 23-21. Patak led his team with 25 points on 22 kills, two blocks and one ace.
To view photos from Puerto Rico league matches, click here.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), a 2004 and '12 Olympian, and his Argentina league team Drean Bolivar won two matches over the last week. On Nov. 24, Bolivar defeated Olímpo de Bahia Blanca, 24-26, 25-22, 25-12, 25-20. Suxho started all four sets and scored two points on one kill and one ace. He also set the team to a 57.1 kill percent and a .473 hitting efficiency. On Nov. 26, Bolivar defeated Gigantes del Sur, 26-24, 25-22, 25-15. Suxho scored five points on one kill and a match-high four blocks. He also set the team to a 56.0 kill percent and a .505 hitting efficiency.
In Italy's Serie A league, U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Copra Elior Piacenza defeated Sir Safety Perugia, 25-20, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21 on Nov. 25. Holt started all four sets and scored 13 points on nine attacks (81.8 kill percent, .727 hitting efficiency), two blocks and two aces. U.S. outside hitter Futi Tavana (Saipipi, Samoa) is also on the roster for Piacenza, but did not play.
BCC-NEV Castellana Grotte, the team of U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.), fell to Itas Diatec Trentino, 25-22, 25-18, 27-25 on Nov. 25. Menzel played as a substitute and scored one point on one kill.
In Italy's Serie B league, U.S. outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) and Sieco Service Ortona fell to 7-2 as it lost to Gherardi SVI Citta di Castello, 25-21, 25-18, 25-19 on Nov. 25. Muagututia started all three sets and led his team with 12 points on 10 attacks, one block and one ace. He was also credited with 17 receptions, 94 percent positive.
U.S. outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky and ACH Volley Ljubljana remained undefeated at 8-0 after beating Hungary's Fino Kaposvar, 25-16, 25-18, 25-16 on Nov. 24. Jablonsky started all three sets and scored 14 points on 13 kills and one block.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.), a 2004 Olympian, and Istanbul BBSK beat Bursa Yenisehir Bld S, 23-25, 25-12, 25-11, 25-14 on Nov. 25. Billings scored 17 points on 12 kills, three blocks and two aces.
U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), a 2004, '08 and '12 Olympian, and Halkbank Ankara beat Sivas Dort Eylul Bld, 27-25, 25-14, 25-20 on Nov. 25. Priddy started all three sets and scored 14 points on 11 kills (64.7 kill percent, .588 hitting efficiency). He was also credited with 19 receptions, 74 percent positive.
In Pool A, Matt Anderson and Zenit Kazan defeated host Hypo Tirol Innsbruck on Nov. 21, 25-23, 25-21, 25-17. Anderson started all three sets and scored nine points on five kills, one block and a match-high three aces. Kazan will host Germany's VfB Friedrichshafen, including U.S. middle blocker Matt Denmark (Edmond, Okla.), in the next round of pool play on Dec. 5.
In Pool B, the Berlin Recycling Volleys, including Scott Touzinsky and Kawika Shoji defeated Budvanska Rivijera Budva in Croatia, 23-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 15-13 on Nov. 21. Touzinsky started all five sets and scored nine points on nine kills (47.4 kill percent, .474 hitting efficiency). He was also credited with 34 receptions, 68 percent excellent. Shoji started the first three sets and scored two points on one kill and one block. He helped set the team to a 43.8 kill percent and a .355 hitting efficiency. Berlin will host Russia's Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in the next round on Dec. 4.
In Pool C, David Smith and Tours defeated visiting Crvena Zvezda Beograd of Serbia, 25-18, 25-15, 25-22 on Nov. 22. Smith started all three sets and scored seven points on four attacks (80.0 kill percent, .800 hitting efficiency), a match-high two blocks and one ace. Tours will visit Italy's Trentino Diatec in the next round on Dec. 5.
In Pool D, Jayson Jablonsky and ACH Volley Ljubljana defeated Belgium's Euphony Asse-Lennik, 25-14, 25-19, 25-17 on Nov. 21. Ljubljana will host Italy's Lube Banca Marche Macerata on Dec. 5.
In Pool F, visiting Kevin Hansen and Arkas Izmir Spor fell to Belgium's Noliko Maaseik, 21-25, 25-23, 25-18, 26-28, 15-13 on Nov. 20. Hansen started all five sets and set the team to a 35.1 kill percent and a .269 hitting efficiency. Izmir will host Spain's CAI Teruel on Dec. 4.
In Pool G, Paul Lotman and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow lost to Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo, 25-19, 14-25, 25-16, 29-27 on Nov. 20. Lotman started all four sets and scored 15 points on 10 kills (62.5 kill percent, .625 hitting efficiency), three blocks and two aces. He was also credited with 21 receptions, 57 percent positive. Resovia Rzeszow will visit Romania's Remat Zalau in the next round on Dec. 4.
To view photo galleries from Champions League matches, click here.
Matches can be viewed live and on demand at laola1.tv.
In the round of 16, Reid Priddy and Halkbank Ankara defeated host Landstede Zwolle of Netherlands, 25-17, 25-14, 25-18 on Nov. 20. With two victories over Zwolle, Ankara will advance to the quarterfinals where it will play Russia's Iskra Odintsovo at home on Dec. 5 and away on Dec. 12
Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina defeated Finland's VaLePa Sastamala, 25-17, 26-24, 25-15 on Nov. 21. After losing the first match between the two teams, Latina won the golden set to break the tie (15-11) to move Latina on to the quarterfinals. It will play Austria's Posojilnica AICH/DOB at home on Dec. 6 and away on Dec. 123.
Russell Holmes and visiting Jastrzebski Wegiel lost to Turkey's Maliye Milli Piyango Ankara, 15-25, 28-26, 25-21, 25-21 on Nov. 21. Wegiel lost the golden set to break the tie, 15-8 and will not advance.
Robert Tarr, Matt Rawson and AS Cannes fell to Russia's Lokomotiv Kharkiv, 21-25, 25-19, 25-19, 25-21 on Nov. 21. Cannes will not advance to the quarterfinals.
To view photos from CEV Cup matches, click here.
Max Holt and Italy's Copra Elior Piacenza defeated Brook Billings and visiting Istanbul BBSK of Turkey, 27-25, 25-19, 25-18 on Nov. 22. Billings led his team with 11 points while Holt scored nine for Piacenza. Piacenza advances to the next round where it will play Estonia's Selver Tallinn on Dec. 6.


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Money at root of all city politics
If the U.S. attorney is correct, Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) tried to grease the way to a Republican mayoral nomination by paying off officials of a party in which he never enrolled.
At first glance, the case might feel like a departure from political custom. Here's a public official charged with offering cash to other people to gain another job. You might think of the traditional model as confined to an elected official selling favors in exchange for a benefit.
But in New York City, in 2013, favors and money flow different ways.
Under billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city's top official used his self-made fortune -- legally -- to fill GOP coffers, fund his campaigns and corner the market on political consultants and television airtime. Part of his appeal was that he lacked motive to be on the take.
His political investments, governing record and palpable popularity meant five straight terms in which two ex-Democrats, running on the Republican line, held the mayoralty. Even after an embarrassing episode -- in which one of his Queens operatives was convicted of bilking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds -- Bloomberg may in the end have increased the market value of the GOP mayoral brand. That's no mean feat in a city where the party's enrollment totals less than 11 percent of registered voters.
Smith had to be fantastically optimistic in the first place to think he could pin down a Republican mayoral nomination after the chaos-wracked two years he served as Democratic Senate majority leader in Albany. One top GOP leader said Tuesday that Smith never would have been the mayoral nominee given his history, and certainly without a deeper commitment to switching parties.
In the mayoral race, the splatter patterns quickly emerged from this latest scandal.
One co-defendant, Queens GOP vice chairman Vincent Tabone, was not only a campaign consultant to mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis when the indictment hit, but general counsel to the supermarket magnate's Red Apple Group. Yet Tabone allegedly arranged to help Smith for money. Catsimatidis said Tuesday that, since learning of the probe, "my campaign and my business have fully cooperated with law enforcement."
Two other co-defendants in the alleged scheme -- Bronx GOP chairman Jay Savino and Councilman Daniel Halloran (R-Bayside) -- recently came out for Joseph Lhota, the former MTA chairman. If they'd ever truly backed Smith, it would be hard to tell from their most recent actions.
On the Democratic side, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former Comptroller Bill Thompson sought to direct some of the splatter to rival City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) by calling for a new probe of member-item funding, the focus of charges against Halloran.
Halloran in some ways is a more traditional defendant. In this indictment issued by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Halloran is accused of soliciting cash for doling out a City Council pork-barrel expenditure to a nonprofit organization.
Halloran is caught on tape saying: "That's politics. That's politics. It's all about how much. Not about whether or will, it's about how much. And that's our politicians in New York, they're all like that . . ."

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70 Years Anniversary Terms and Conditions
Share your Trafalgar Memories, for a chance to win a dream Trafalgar trip.
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The following Terms and Conditions apply to the '70 Years Anniversary' sweepstake. By entering our sweepstake, you accept these Terms and Conditions. If you do not wish to abide by these Terms and Conditions, please do not enter the sweepstake.
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www.trafalgar.com website. It is your responsibility as a sweepstake entrant to certify that you fully read and evaluate these Terms and Conditions frequently to familiarize yourself with any amendments that take place over the course of the sweepstake. We advise strongly that you save a copy of the following Terms and Conditions for your personal future reference.
The Promoter in all jurisdictions is Trafalgar Tours (Aust.) Pty Ltd (ABN 73 000 717 715) of Level 6, 35 Grafton Street, Bondi Junction, NSW, Australia 2022, telephone: (+61) (02) 9028 5011 (collectively "the Promoter" and/or "Trafalgar").
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2.1 Winner Selection: All entries received in accordance with these Terms and Conditions will be added into a random draw. The random draw will take place at Anisimoff Legal, Suite 5/210 Central Coast Hwy, Erina NSW 2250 (Australia) at 12pm (noon) Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time ("AEDST") on 6 October 2016. The winner will be notified in writing within two (2) business days of the draw and will be contacted via their email address. The winner's first initial, surname and postcode will also be published at www.facebook.com/trafalgartravel from 13 October 2016.
2.2 The first valid entry drawn in the random draw will win the Grand Prize, a Trafalgar trip for the winner and one travel companion. The trip selected, cannot be more than ten (10) days long and needs to be under the value of USD$5,000 per person. The trip includes round-trip economy airfare for the winner and one travel companion (with a Trafalgar designated airline) with flight supplements and surcharges, taxes and fees included. The trip provided by Trafalgar will also include hotel accommodations (based on double occupancy), airport transfers, selected sightseeing activities and some meals, as outlined in the day-by-day itinerary at www.trafalgar.com for the chosen trip. Any expense over and above the latter stipulated items and beyond the allocated budget will need to be covered by the winner and their selected travel companion. In the event that the winner's chosen trip is valued at less than $5,000 per person, the remainder of the budget will be forfeited and will not be awarded as cash. Trafalgar's trips are subject to availability. Trafalgar will do its best to accommodate the desired travel date and destination of the winner. Trip must be taken before 1 December 2017. Additional travel expenses, including but not limited to, visas, spending money, additional meals, optional excursions, insurance, transport to and from departure point, additional transfers (if applicable), items of a personal nature, in-room charges and all other ancillary costs are not included. The winner and their travel companion must take all elements of the prize at the same time. The prize is supplied by Trafalgar. Odds of winning the prize are dependent on the number of eligible entries received during the sweepstake. Total prize pool value is up to USD$10,000, depending on the holiday chosen (which is equivalent to up to AUD$13,133.63, based on a conversion rate of $1USD equalling $1.31336 as at 24 August 2016).
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2.6 As a condition of accepting the prize, the winner (and their travel companion) must sign any legal documentation as and in the form required by the Promoter and/or prize suppliers in their absolute discretion, including but not limited to a legal release and indemnity form.
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2.9 If the winner does not claim their prize three (3) months after the original draw, the winner forfeits the prize and the Promoter has the right to award the prize to a new winner via a re-draw. Any such re-draw for the prize, if unclaimed, will take place at the same time and place as the original draw on 13 January 2017, subject to any directions of the relevant regulatory authorities. Potential unclaimed prize draw winner will be notified in writing within two (2) business days after the draw. If the prize is awarded in the unclaimed prize draw, the winner will be contacted via email. Any winner will be published at www.facebook.com/trafalgartravel from 20 January 2017.
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4.3 To the extent permitted by law, the Promoter does not accept responsibility for any fault, malfunction, damage, loss or disappointment suffered by any entrant which could arise from participating in the sweepstake or of accepting any prize whether due to any error, omission or other cause by the Promoter, its employees, agents or others.
4.4 To the extent permitted by law, the Promoter is not responsible for any damage or loss caused to an entrant where such damage or loss is not reasonably foreseeable to the entrant or to the Promoter at the time the entrant agrees to these Terms and Conditions (which occurs automatically when entrants enter the sweepstake), including where the damage or loss results from the Promoter's breach of these Terms and Conditions.
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by Clark Groome
The 2010-2011 academic year marks a major milestone in Chestnut Hill Academy's history: the school's 150th anniversary.
To celebrate CHA's sesquicentennial, a history has been commissioned, special events have been planned, a new musical piece has been composed, and a special ice cream flavor has been created by the students that will be produced this spring.
Co-chairperson Melen Boothby, former CHA parent and wife of alumnus Richard Boothby '66, said, "It's a celebration of all the history, all the people who've been involved – how we've changed from a small little school to [where] we are now."
"It's entwined in the life of Chestnut Hill [which also] has changed over the years," she added.
Boothby's co-chairperson is Laine Jacoby, a CHA parent and Springside's interim head of Lower School.
"To have a school be in existence for 150 years and to do so well is impressive," Jacoby said. "Our focus is to make it a community-wide celebration. That includes the boys' experience as well as family, alums, faculty – past and present."
The first anniversary project undertaken was the commissioning of a new CHA history. (Full disclosure: this author was engaged to write the school's story.) The first five chapters of the eight-chapter project have already appeared in the school's alumni and parent publication, CHAnnels, and are available on the school's website HYPERLINK "http://www.chestnuthillacademy.org" www.chestnuthillacademy.org.
The final three installments will be published in December, March and July. When the history is complete, all eight chapters will be collected into a book. The history began when a Presbyterian minister named Roger Owen founded a school named Chestnut Hill Academy in 1851. That institution disappeared after a few years. The CHA we know today was incorporated in 1861.
CHA moved into its current home, the Wissahickon Inn, in 1898. The first couple of years there the school shared the building with the inn, taking it over for good in 1900.
The Houston family built the inn and created the neighborhood surrounding it. This building, now on the national historic register, is one of the focuses of the school's sesquicentennial celebration.
When CHA students returned from summer vacation this past September, they were greeted by an exhibition in the school's main entrance, known as The Exchange. It features pictures of the old school, a CHA timeline that includes dates of major historical events and a series of architectural drawings – prepared by architects Courtney Kapp and Jeff Krieger – showing how the school's campus has changed over the years. The exhibit, open to the public during school hours, will be used to help students relate CHA's history to what was going on in the rest of the world.
On Oct. 12 the entire CHA community gathered on the school's baseball field (the oldest in continuous use in the Philadelphia area) to form the number 150. CHA alumnus Duncan Pearson '97 took an aerial photo of the formation.
The Exchange exhibit was the central focus of a tour led by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society for the Chestnut Hill community and CHA alumni returning to the school for Homecoming on Oct. 30. The tour included the Wissahickon Inn as well as parts of the St. Martin's neighborhood.
The night before Homecoming, CHA celebrated its athletic history with the induction of the Chestnut Hill Academy Athletic Hall of Fame's fourth class. The inductees included two teams and seven individuals, bringing the total membership in the hall since it was founded a decade ago to eight teams and 47 individuals, ranging from Olympians to professional athletes, and coaches.
As a Thanksgiving contribution to the community, students collected turkeys and canned goods for the Germantown Avenue Crisis. The goal was to collect 150 turkeys. Thanks to the generosity of so many CHA families, the school was able to donate 291 turkeys and a van full of canned goods for local families in need.
CHA's drama group, the Players, is also celebrating an anniversary this year, its 75th. The Players' fall production, which ran from Dec. 9 to 11, was Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon. This show was the first musical the Players ever produced. It was mounted in 1961 during the school's centennial observance.
On Jan. 17, 2011, as part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service to the Community, the entire student body, Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade, will perform a day of service as a 150th birthday present from CHA.
Music has always been a huge part of CHA's history. The school's choral group (variously known over the years as a choir, chorus, or glee club and originally founded in 1903) will take part in the celebration on April 26 when it sings CHA Music Department Chairman Roland Woehr's setting of the 150th Psalm, Laudate Dominum.
Blue and Blue Day, the school's annual field day and color war, will be held on April 29. In addition to the regular student competition, there will be a special alumni and faculty light blue/dark blue tug of war.
On Blue and Blue Day, students will also get their first taste of the ice cream they created this fall with the help of CHA alumnus Michael Strange '76, president of Bassetts Ice Cream, whose family business is, coincidentally, celebrating its 150th anniversary. In September, teams of CHA students came up with suggested names and ingredients for a 150th anniversary flavor. The proposed names included "CHAcolate Devils Food Swirl," "Devil Berry Swirl," "Blue Devil CHA CHA," "Chocolate Hill," "Super Duper Blue Devil Monstrous Blast Supreme," "Devil Mint Gummy Deluxe," and "Bleeding Blue."
And the winner was: "Devil's Delight," made up of vanilla ice cream, caramel swirl, chocolate fudge, and light and dark blue M&Ms. Strange will return to CHA on Blue and Blue Day with gallons of the ice cream to share with the school community.
The largest single event of the yearlong celebration will take place during the school's spring Reunions Weekend, May 13 and 14. On Saturday night there will be a gala, chaired by tireless CHA parent Kim Banks. Its theme is "Visions and Dreams," based on the words inscribed in the school chapel: "Your Old Men Shall Dream Dreams and Your Young Men Shall See Visions."
All CHA headmasters, board chairmen, trustees, current and former faculty members, parents and former parents, alumni, members of the Springside family, and friends of the school will be invited to the party. A dinner, dancing, and fireworks will make up the evening.
Six days following the gala, students will celebrate the 150th day of this special school year that ends with the Class of 2011's commencement on June 14.
Sesquicentennial co-chairpersons Boothby and Jacoby describe the entire yearlong anniversary as an opportunity "to celebrate the past while looking forward to an exciting future."
For more information about CHA and its sesquicentennial call Diane Drinker at 215-247-4700, ext. 1113.


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Monotype Garamond is a family of two roman weights with complementary italic designs. The family also offers small capitals, old style figures, and a suite of swash alternate characters. While intended primarily for text composition, Monotype Garamond is distinctive, lively, and remarkably versatile in large sizes.
Monotype Garamond is a design of remarkable sophistication, and is certainly one of the most elegant interpretations of the Garamond type style. With its distinct contrast in stroke weights, open counters and delicate serifs, Monotype Garamond is exceptionally legible and can be set at virtually any size. The contrast between the Roman and Bold weights is nothing short of ideal.
Such an exemplary type revival is, of course, a tribute to the excellence of the model. As it turns out, the model in this case was inspired – but not designed – by Claude Garamond.
It was under Stanley Morison's leadership, in the third decade of the twentieth century, that Monotype undertook the most aggressive program of typeface development ever attempted in Europe up to that time. The program encompassed original typefaces and interpretations of old designs. It would ultimately produce such faces as Centaur, Gill Sans, Perpetua, and Ehrhardt, as well as Monotype's versions of Bembo, Baskerville, Fournier and of course, Garamond.
Cut in 1922, Monotype Garamond was the first of Morison's celebrated typeface revivals. It was patterned after type from the archives of the French Imprimerie Nationale, the centuries-old office of French government printing (broadly equivalent to the US Government Printing Office, or Her Majesty's Stationery Office in the UK).
The Imprimerie type was long believed to be the early-16th-century work of Claude Garamond. It was only in 1926, after "Garamond" fonts from Monotype and many other foundries had been released, that type historian Beatrice Warde discovered the type was the work of Jean Jannon, of Sedan, France. Jannon was a later designer who produced his work some eighty years after the fonts of Garamond. (In an added twist to this mistaken-identity plot, Warde published her discovery under the pseudonym "Paul Beaujon.")
Jannon's goal, much like Monotype's three centuries later, was to imitate the style of the great masters of roman type and make their designs available to printers of his own day. Obviously, he succeeded. The French Imprimerie purchased his types and, over time, as the name of Jean Jannon faded, came to believe they were indeed fonts from the earlier master punch cutter.
In Monotype Garamond, as with other interpretations of the face, character stroke-weight stress is canted, with the heaviest parts at approximately the two and eight o'clock positions. Head serifs (those at the top of character strokes) look like little banners, and baseline serifs tend to be long and slightly cupped, with soft, rounded terminals.


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Clooney recently announced plans to direct the post-apocalyptic drama, in which he will play a lonely scientist stationed in the Arctic, and now The Theory of Everything star Jones has signed on to the film, too.
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MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3-7.4 Reference Guide
MEMORY storage engine (formerly known as
HEAP) creates special-purpose tables with
contents that are stored in memory. Because the data is vulnerable
to crashes, hardware issues, or power outages, only use these tables
as temporary work areas or read-only caches for data pulled from
other tables.
Table 15.4 MEMORY Storage Engine Features
|B-tree indexes
|Backup/point-in-time recovery (Implemented in the server, rather than in the storage engine.)
|Cluster database support
|Clustered indexes
|Compressed data
|Data caches
|Encrypted data
|Yes (Implemented in the server via encryption functions.)
|Foreign key support
|Full-text search indexes
|Geospatial data type support
|Geospatial indexing support
|Hash indexes
|Index caches
|Locking granularity
|Replication support (Implemented in the server, rather than in the storage engine.)
|Limited (See the discussion later in this section.)
|Storage limits
|T-tree indexes
|Update statistics for data dictionary
Developers looking to deploy applications that use the
MEMORY storage engine for important, highly
available, or frequently updated data should consider whether NDB
Cluster is a better choice. A typical use case for the
MEMORY engine involves these characteristics:
Operations involving transient, non-critical data such as
session management or caching. When the MySQL server halts or
restarts, the data in
MEMORY tables is
In-memory storage for fast access and low latency. Data volume can fit entirely in memory without causing the operating system to swap out virtual memory pages.
A read-only or read-mostly data access pattern (limited updates).
NDB Cluster offers the same features as the
MEMORY engine with higher performance levels,
and provides additional features not available with
Row-level locking and multiple-thread operation for low contention between clients.
Scalability even with statement mixes that include writes.
Optional disk-backed operation for data durability.
Shared-nothing architecture and multiple-host operation with no single point of failure, enabling 99.999% availability.
Automatic data distribution across nodes; application developers need not craft custom sharding or partitioning solutions.
Support for variable-length data types (including
BLOB and
TEXT) not supported by
MEMORY performance is constrained by contention
resulting from single-thread execution and table lock overhead
when processing updates. This limits scalability when load
increases, particularly for statement mixes that include writes.
Despite the in-memory processing for
tables, they are not necessarily faster than
InnoDB tables on a busy server, for
general-purpose queries, or under a read/write workload. In
particular, the table locking involved with performing updates can
slow down concurrent usage of
MEMORY tables
from multiple sessions.
Depending on the kinds of queries performed on a
MEMORY table, you might create indexes as
either the default hash data structure (for looking up single
values based on a unique key), or a general-purpose B-tree data
structure (for all kinds of queries involving equality,
inequality, or range operators such as less than or greater than).
The following sections illustrate the syntax for creating both
kinds of indexes. A common performance issue is using the default
hash indexes in workloads where B-tree indexes are more efficient.
MEMORY storage engine associates each table
with one disk file, which stores the table definition (not the
data). The file name begins with the table name and has an
extension of
MEMORY tables have the following
Space for
MEMORY tables is allocated in
small blocks. Tables use 100% dynamic hashing for inserts. No
overflow area or extra key space is needed. No extra space is
needed for free lists. Deleted rows are put in a linked list
and are reused when you insert new data into the table.
MEMORY tables also have none of the
problems commonly associated with deletes plus inserts in
hashed tables.
MEMORY tables use a fixed-length
row-storage format. Variable-length types such as
VARCHAR are stored using a
fixed length.
MEMORY includes support for
AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
tables are shared among all clients, just like any other
TEMPORARY table.
To create a
MEMORY table, specify the clause
ENGINE=MEMORY on the
CREATE TABLE statement.
CREATE TABLE t (i INT) ENGINE = MEMORY;
As indicated by the engine name,
MEMORY tables
are stored in memory. They use hash indexes by default, which
makes them very fast for single-value lookups, and very useful for
creating temporary tables. However, when the server shuts down,
all rows stored in
MEMORY tables are lost. The
tables themselves continue to exist because their definitions are
stored in
.frm files on disk, but they are
empty when the server restarts.
This example shows how you might create, use, and remove a
MEMORY table:
CREATE TABLE test ENGINE=MEMORY
SELECT ip,SUM(downloads) AS down
FROM log_table GROUP BY ip;mysql>
SELECT COUNT(ip),AVG(down) FROM test;mysql>
DROP TABLE test;
The maximum size of
MEMORY tables is limited by
max_heap_table_size system
variable, which has a default value of 16MB. To enforce different
size limits for
MEMORY tables, change the value
of this variable. The value in effect for
CREATE TABLE, or a subsequent
ALTER TABLE or
TRUNCATE TABLE, is the value used
for the life of the table. A server restart also sets the maximum
size of existing
MEMORY tables to the global
max_heap_table_size value. You
can set the size for individual tables as described later in this
MEMORY storage engine supports both
HASH and
BTREE indexes. You
can specify one or the other for a given index by adding a
USING clause as shown here:
CREATE TABLE lookup (id INT, INDEX USING HASH (id)) ENGINE = MEMORY; CREATE TABLE lookup (id INT, INDEX USING BTREE (id)) ENGINE = MEMORY;
For general characteristics of B-tree and hash indexes, see Section 8.3.1, "How MySQL Uses Indexes".
MEMORY tables can have up to 64 indexes per
table, 16 columns per index and a maximum key length of 3072
If a
MEMORY table hash index has a high degree
of key duplication (many index entries containing the same value),
updates to the table that affect key values and all deletes are
significantly slower. The degree of this slowdown is proportional
to the degree of duplication (or, inversely proportional to the
index cardinality). You can use a
BTREE index
to avoid this problem.
MEMORY tables can have nonunique keys. (This is
an uncommon feature for implementations of hash indexes.)
Columns that are indexed can contain
MEMORY table contents are stored in memory,
which is a property that
MEMORY tables share
with internal temporary tables that the server creates on the fly
while processing queries. However, the two types of tables differ
in that
MEMORY tables are not subject to
storage conversion, whereas internal temporary tables are:
If an internal temporary table becomes too large, the server automatically converts it to on-disk storage, as described in Section 8.4.4, "Internal Temporary Table Use in MySQL".
MEMORY tables are never
converted to disk tables.
To populate a
MEMORY table when the MySQL
server starts, you can use the
init_file system variable. For
example, you can put statements such as
SELECT or
LOAD DATA into
a file to load the table from a persistent data source, and use
init_file to name the file. See
Section 5.1.7, "Server System Variables", and
Section 13.2.6, "LOAD DATA Statement".
For loading data into
MEMORY tables accessed by
other sessions concurrently,
MEMORY supports
INSERT DELAYED. See
Section 220.127.116.11, "INSERT DELAYED Statement".
A server's
MEMORY tables become empty when it
is shut down and restarted. If the server is a replication master,
its slaves are not aware that these tables have become empty, so
you see out-of-date content if you select data from the tables on
the slaves. To synchronize master and slave
MEMORY tables, when a
table is used on a master for the first time since it was started,
DELETE statement is written to
the master's binary log, to empty the table on the slaves also.
The slave still has outdated data in the table during the interval
between the master's restart and its first use of the table. To
avoid this interval when a direct query to the slave could return
stale data, use the
system variable set to name a file containing statements that
populate the
MEMORY table on the master at
The server needs sufficient memory to maintain all
MEMORY tables that are in use at the same time.
Memory is not reclaimed if you delete individual rows from a
MEMORY table. Memory is reclaimed only when the
entire table is deleted. Memory that was previously used for
deleted rows is re-used for new rows within the same table. To
free all the memory used by a
MEMORY table when
you no longer require its contents, execute
DELETE or
TRUNCATE TABLE to remove all rows,
or remove the table altogether using
TABLE. To free up the memory used by deleted rows, use
ALTER TABLE ENGINE=MEMORY to force a table
The memory needed for one row in a
MEMORY table
is calculated using the following expression:
max_length_of_key+ sizeof(char*) * 4) + SUM_OVER_ALL_HASH_KEYS(sizeof(char*) * 2) + ALIGN(
length_of_row+1, sizeof(char*))
ALIGN() represents a round-up factor to cause
the row length to be an exact multiple of the
char pointer size.
sizeof(char*) is 4 on 32-bit machines and 8 on
64-bit machines.
As mentioned earlier, the
max_heap_table_size system
variable sets the limit on the maximum size of
MEMORY tables. To control the maximum size for
individual tables, set the session value of this variable before
creating each table. (Do not change the global
max_heap_table_size value unless
you intend the value to be used for
tables created by all clients.) The following example creates two
MEMORY tables, with a maximum size of 1MB and
2MB, respectively:
SET max_heap_table_size = 1024*1024;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, UNIQUE(id)) ENGINE = MEMORY;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql>
SET max_heap_table_size = 1024*1024*2;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
CREATE TABLE t2 (id INT, UNIQUE(id)) ENGINE = MEMORY;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Both tables revert to the server's global
max_heap_table_size value if the
server restarts.
You can also specify a
MAX_ROWS table option in
CREATE TABLE statements for
MEMORY tables to provide a hint about the
number of rows you plan to store in them. This does not enable the
table to grow beyond the
max_heap_table_size value, which
still acts as a constraint on maximum table size. For maximum
flexibility in being able to use
MAX_ROWS, set
max_heap_table_size at least as
high as the value to which you want each
table to be able to grow.
A forum dedicated to the
MEMORY storage engine
is available at https://forums.mysql.com/list.php?92.


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It's OK, Crusader Kings II isn't for everyone. I get that. But I'd like to think we can all at least find common ground and enjoy the game's patch notes, which continue to be the very best.
Having earlier fixed such glaring errors as "If married, women now fool their husbands about the parentage of children born from the bastard birth event", the latest update repairs and updates some of the following (as spotted by PC Gamer):
- Characters of a religion where priests are not allowed to marry will now divorce their wives if ordained
- Fixed some bugs with how dead spouses are handled
- Changes to the bastard children of Antso IV of Navarra
- AI: Will no longer accept giving away women as concubines to characters whose religion they will not intermarry with
- Modding: Added "evil_god_names" to religions, to be used in event texts.
- Modding: Added trigger 'any_spouse_even_if_dead'
Good to see they got around to fixing how dead spouses are handled. They way they kept coming back as ghosts and rattling the bedpost was game-breaking.
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Friday, 16 May 2008
Baked Chicken with Cashew Nut Rice
Cashew Nut Rice
2 tbsp olive oil (I only use 1 tbsp)
1 medium onion, chopped finely
1 medium red (bell) pepper, chopped finely
2 garlic cloves, crushed
125g/1/2 cup basmati rice
350ml/1 1/2 cups hot chicken stock
grated rind of 1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 ground coriander
pinch of cayenne pepper
90g/1/2 cup salted cashew nuts
Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion, red pepper and garlic and cook gently for 4-5 minutes. Add the rice and stir to coat in the oil. Add the stock, bring to the boil, then simmer for 15 minutes until all the liquid is absorbed.
Transfer to a bowl and add the remaining ingredients to the rice. Season well. Spoon the rice into a greased ovenproof dish and cover with foil.
Bake in a preheated oven 190oC/375oF/Gas mark 5, for 30 minutes and serve.
16 comments:
- Kelly-Jane said...
Cashews are my favourite nuts, we would really enjoy this rice, yum!
- 16 May 2008 at 22:55
- Ruth Strong said...
This is my kind of dish! Loving it!
- 17 May 2008 at 00:25
- Nickki said...
That looks so good Maria, I love dishes that you can just pop in the oven, giving you time to catch up on stuff! Cashews are my favourite nuts. xx
- 17 May 2008 at 10:04
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone. You should all try this dish, it's really yummy!
- 17 May 2008 at 10:42
- JillyB said...
That rice looks lovely Maria!
- 17 May 2008 at 18:19
- Ms O said...
That looks incredibly delicious, Maria. :)
Lea x
- 17 May 2008 at 21:57
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
Maria it looks and sounds delicious! I shall try this.
- 18 May 2008 at 22:05
- Anna's kitchen table said...
Maria, that looks sooo good!
- 18 May 2008 at 23:29
- Rosie said...
Oh my Maria what a gorgeous looking dish, a must try :)
Hugs Rosie x
- 19 May 2008 at 21:36
- Dee said...
This looks like my mum's 'yellow rice' from when we were kids. Yummy!
- 20 May 2008 at 03:02
- Mama Mia said...
I looove cashews! What a wonderful dish idea! Ive never had cashews in my rice before.
- 20 May 2008 at 04:20
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks for the lovely comments ;o)
- 20 May 2008 at 16:09
That looks so good Maria. I love cashews but I bet the rice would work really well with other nuts too :)
- 20 May 2008 at 17:14
- Thinking About Food said...
I love the look of that rice Maria, I am going to have to try it!
- 23 May 2008 at 05:26
- Ivy said...
Maria this sounds so easy and healthy. It's been bookmarked as I am trying to cook healthier.
BTW, Ben and I are hosting a Food Event on "eating healthy stuff" so would be glad to see you participating with similar recipes, as well as your readers.
- 24 May 2008 at 07:58
Looks yum, have copied recipe and will try this myself very soon. buntybear
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville wants to host the 2016 Olympic swimming trials and has put in a bid to do so.
City officials are awaiting word soon from USA Swimming to see if the River City is being considered.
The event would not be held at Jacksonville's regular swim venues like Cecil Aquatic Center or The Bolles School's training site, but at Veterans Memorial Arena, where there is no water.
The arena has been known to house a basketball court, big stages for concerts and the circus. But how can it be made into a swimming pool? Can it be done?
The city says yes, and points to Omaha, Neb., which built a temporary pool inside its arena that was used in 2008 and again in 2012 for the Olympic trials.
Jacksonville wants to do the same thing and should find out soon if it is in the running.
"It's a taste of the Olympics," said Alan Verlander, the city's director of sports and entertainment. "You are bringing part of the Olympics to Jacksonville, and it's a major event and puts us on an international stratosphere."
Right now, no one is saying how much it would cost to host the event and build a temporary pool. The bid calls for a partnership with USA Swimming.
Charlie Houchin won a gold medal in the Olympics last summer. He now lives in Jacksonville and is training for the 2016 games. He says Jacksonville and Olympic swimming would be a great fit.
"I would not be surprised if they brought it here," Houchin said. "I know the families and everybody involved in the swimming community always shows up for olympic trials every four years, so you are at least going to get that base. And I think Jacksonville is a great town to draw even more people."
As for a temporary pool, Houchin says it's becoming the norm.
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We've designed our website to provide a broad range of comprehensive and systematic Bible teaching in audio, video and written formats that you can access in a modern yet organised and intuitive way. We hope that you'll be blessed by the teaching.
We are really excited to have audio messages of all Roger Price's Basic Bible Studies and a commentary on the whole Bible by Pastor Lloyd Pulley.
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In the first collection in the series, Roger explains the nature of our Salvation before exploring the areas of Judgement and Prophecy over the next three collections. The series continues with the Characer of God, before finishing with an exploration of the Word of God and looking at the Essentials for Growth in our spiritual lives.
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Last week on the Facebook group wall I saw mention of a Meetup event that had been created: The Atlanta Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response event. This event was created by Roz, a community member, for residents or people who live near the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA to meet up and I would suppose go for coffee, chat to each other, that sort of thing.
I tweeted about it and posted it on our Facebook page a few days ago, but I've only just had the time now to put together a little write-up here on the blog.
It's a closed event so only those who register and join the group can actually see most of what's going on. A bit of basic information is displayed in the sidebar. Members who join are referred to as "euphorians", which I kind of like, to be honest. So much so that I've added it to our ASMR glossary of terms!
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Hi guys! I am super excited to share with you my bag, a little nervous also. I am Stacey, and I blog over at Stacey's Place. This is my 3rd bake shop recipe. This bag is is small, but super cute, and really sturdy! I hope you enjoy it!
1 layer cake Vintage Modern by Bonnie and Camille
1 yard Pebble Polka dot fabric
Magnetic Clasp
For exterior bag pieces:
20- 2 ½" x 2 ½" print
20- 1 ½" x 4 ½" print
2- 1 ½" x 10 ½" gray polka dot
For lining pieces:
2- 9 1/8" x 9 ¾" (exterior)
2- 7 1/8" x 9 ¾" (interior)
For straps:
9- 2 ½" x 2 ½" print
8- 1 ½" x 4 ½" print
1- 2 ½" x 33 ½" gray polka dot
Interfacing (use whatever type you want, lightweight up to heavyweight. I used a mediumweight thin interfacing.)
1. Sew 5 of your 2 ½" x 2 ½" squares together as shown above. Repeat 3 more times so you have 4 total.
2. Sew two of your strips from step 1 together as shown, repeat with the remaining two pieces.
3. Sew 10 of your 1 ½" x 4 ½" strips together as shown. Repeat once more with the remaining 10 pieces.
4. Take one of your pieces from step 2, one of your 1 ½" x 10 ½" gray polka dot, and one of your pieces from step 3 and attach them together with your piece from step 2 on top, your 1 ½" x 10 ½" gray polka dot piece in the middle, and your piece from step 3 on the bottom. This is one completed panel for the outside of your bag. Repeat once more.
5. Cut out a piece of interfacing and depending if you have fusible or sew in, attach to the wrong side of your exterior bag piece.
6. Pin your two exterior pieces together right sides together and sew a ¼" seam down from the top right all the way around the bottom, and up the left side. Make sure you leave the top open.
7. Take your corner and press the lower corner down, so that the side seam is centered on top of the bottom seam. I used my ruler to line up an inch and a half, draw a line across. This is your stitching line.
8. Sew together one each of the lining pieces along the 9 ¾" side. Press open. Repeat with the remaining two lining pieces.
9. Pin your cording on the right side of the 7 1/8" side, lining up the raw edge of the cording with the fabric piece. Sew as close as you can to the cording without actually sewing the cord piece itself. Then I flip my piece over and pin my other lining piece from step 6, making sure to pin your 7 1/8" side right side facing with your other 7 1/8" piece from earlier in this step. Your cording is going to be sandwiched in between both lining pieces. This is where flipping your piece comes in handy. You can use your stitched seam from earlier in this step as your guide to sew these two pieces together.
Turn these pieces right side out, and press.
10. Sew a ¼" seam across, this just makes it look pretty while keeping both sides attached together.
11. Now you are going to lay this flat as it looks in a bag, with right sides facing together, and the wrong side is on the outside. This bag has two interior sides, and the piece you just sewed with the cording is your center divider. Now you need to pin one side of the exterior lining piece to the interior lining piece right sides together. Sew your ¼" seam up to where the two pieces end at the cording piece. Then repeat this with your other 3 sides. This is sewing together the sides of your bag interior. When all sides are sewed, then pin together the top side right sides together the rest of the way up. Repeat this for the other side. Now you have your lining of your bag assembled.
12. Now you need to add your magnetic clasp where you want it, per manufacturer's instructions.
13. Pin a piece of cording to your exterior bag piece on the right side. Sew. Fold over as close to the cording as you can.
14. Insert your lining into the exterior bag piece, wrong sides facing. You are going to need to fold over the lining piece at the top for the seam towards the wrong side of the lining piece. Start pinning at your side seam (I pinned both sides at the seams, then worked my way around), so they line up, and make sure the lining gets pinned to the outer bag piece close to the cording. I made my bag have a crease on the front and back sides right around where the magnetic clasps are.
15. Sew all the way around the bag close to cording.
The strap:
Take your 9- 2 ½" squares and sew them together in a strip. Then take your 1 ½" x 4 ½" rectangles and sew them two together along the 4 ½" side. You will have 4 of these total. Sew two sets together along the 2 ½" side. Repeat. Add one to each side of your 2 ½" squares strip. This makes your strap.
Take your 2 interfacing pieces (2" x 33") and fuse it to the wrong side of both strap pieces, your one you just made, and your gray polka dot strap piece.
Fold and Iron your ¼" seam to the wrong side. This just helps for when you pin these two pieces together. Pin your two strap pieces wrong sides together. Sew close to the edge.
Pin your strap to the outside of your bag, I lined up up on the 2" square on the side seam, and centered it. Make sure you fold over your raw edge of the strap so when you sew your strap to the bag it will be hidden inside your seam. Sew. Repeat for the other side.
You are finished, now enjoy your beautiful bag!
1 beautiful Vintage Modern Bag!
Stacey Carey
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A few years ago I was driving down I-95 from DC to Florida when I entered North Carolina. It was the first time I'd ever been in the state and I was struck by the billboards I saw from the highway declaring North Carolina to be "The most military-friendly state in the union."
Those signs could be the model for how Ireland would like to be known when it comes to its Middle East policy: 'The most Palestinian friendly state in the union.' The European Union, of course.
That Israeli official was commenting following Ireland's recent decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian delegation to Ireland to a mission. Israel views this decision negatively and fears that other EU states will follow, providing a disincentive for the Palestinians to engage in negotiations.
As was pointed out on Twitter on Wednesday (@jonihle) it took "Ireland 45 yrs to allow UN-recognized Israel to open an embassy in Dublin." Yet the Palestinians will have theirs before they even have any form of UN-recognized state. And I fully expect that before it's appropriate to provide full recognition to any future Palestinian state, Ireland will have already done so.
This week's move is more symbolic than anything else. The most substantive change is that the head of the Palestinian delegation will be known as an Ambassador. He will present his credentials to the President, as all other ambassadors to.
So, it's symbolic, but it's also indicative. At a time when there are "heartening trends" in the always dispiriting Middle East, the Irish government has plunged into the situation to change the balance. Yes Ireland's a small nation, but it is also a member of the European Union, which makes this small nation's actions and words on the situation more weighty than if we were outside one of the key blocs in global politics.
This wasn't just clumsy either. Irking Israel and siding with the Palestinians is part of a long-established pattern for the Irish government.
Last summer when Irish and other pro-Palestinian activists were trying to run Israel's blockade of Gaza, the Irish government abandoned all pretense of its cherished "neutrality" to side with those who consider Israeli sovereignty and security a non-issue. Foreign Minister Micheál Martin was particularly strident in his demands that Israel cave in to the flotilla's blackmail.
That same government that was so smug in its condemnation of Israel last June is now at death's door, although their current troubles have nothing to do with foreign policy. The new government coming at the end of February will not mean change in Ireland's attitude to Israel, which it rates just below North Korea in rogue status.
I'd like to say that the government is out of step with the people on this matter, but I don't think they are. The usual protest groups and activists {Photo} are more strident, but probably reflecting a majority view. There is a great sympathy with the Palestinian people, which I can understand to a great extent. They have it very hard.
Yet the prevailing view - among the people, the media and the government - of 'Israelis bad, Palestinians good' is too simplistic and far from accurate. The Israelis would dearly love to live in peace with all their neighbors. Israel would like peace, trust, cooperation and trade with all the neighbors.
Yet some of those neighbors are still hell bent on seeing Israel destroyed. Many Palestinians would like to see Israel destroyed. Yet in Ireland there seems to be almost no understanding of the Israelis' predicament, their fears and their demand that they be treated as every other UN member state is treated.
For the Irish, unfortunately, being the Palestinians' best friend is more important than taking seriously the rights of a fellow small member of the United Nations.


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South Carolina's Chalmers Carr needs Congress to pass immigration reform that includes a workable program for farmers and ranchers.
If it doesn't happen, he'll continue having problems getting his peaches to market.
Carr brings in more than 500 Mexican workers through the onerous H-2A program. They trim peach trees and pick and pack about 2 million boxes of peaches annually on his Saluda County, S.C.-based Titan Farms.
"You cannot thin, harvest or pack peaches without manually having hands," Carr explained. "There's no other way to do this."
That applies to the bell peppers and broccoli Carr grows, too.
Participating in H-2A is not a simple process.
According to Carr, it can take up to 60 days to get workers on his farm, and that's if things go as smoothly as possible. Among the many steps he has to take are proving there are no U.S. workers interested in the job, dealing with both the state and federal labor departments to get certified to host the laborers, and going through the U.S. Homeland Security and U.S. State departments to secure the workers' visas.
Accounting for 40 percent of his production costs, labor is Carr's No. 1 expense. He takes an additional hit when there are hiccups in the process.
"We've had delays with workers about every other year," Carr said. "And when you're dealing with time-sensitive, perishable crops, that's the difference in making money and not making money."
Carr is far from the only grower with this problem. A national survey of H-2A employers shows that on average workers arrive 22 days after they're needed because of administrative delays, resulting in an economic loss of nearly $320 million.
As much as he would like to avoid H-2A's costs and headaches, Carr is left with no other option. In the last two years he's advertised in the U.S. for more than 2,000 jobs.
"We've had about 600 U.S. workers apply for the jobs-about one-third of what I need-but we've had only 15 take the job and stay all the way through," he said. "How can I pick these crops with 15 workers?"
Emphasizing the urgent need for reform, Carr encouraged Americans to consider the alternative.
"Your fruit is going to be harvested one way or another by a foreign national," he said. "Do you want it harvested here in this country with our food safety regulations versus having that foreign national harvest them in another country where you don't have the same food safety protocols?"