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Q: A few owners in our townhouse condominiums want to install awnings.
These will provide us with shade and shouldn't detract from the appearance of our condo. Some owners have concerns that the cost, maintenance or replacement of the awnings would become a common expense shared by all owners. We have assured the other owners that our awnings would not become their responsibility. How do we proceed with the installation as we are willing to install the awnings at our own expense?
A: Before any owner considers making an addition, alteration or improvement to their condo they must refer to Section 98 of the Condominium Act of Ontario. You should write a letter to the board of directors outlining the size, colour and material of the awning you have in mind, including a photo.
Also include the name of the insured company or individual who would be completing the installation.
The board is responsible to carefully review your request before granting any written permission. It is very important to decide whether or not the appearance of a few awnings would have a negative or positive effect on the overall appearance of the rest of the condominium townhouses. The manner in which the awnings are attached to the outside of the building must also be taken into consideration.
If written approval is granted, then an agreement between the owner and the board must be signed. This agreement will specify the cost to insure, maintain and repair the awning, which is the individual owner's responsibility. In addition, the unit owner must pay the cost of the preparation and registration of the agreement.
Once the agreement is registered against title of the owner's unit, this agreement will be a binding contract on future buyers of the unit.
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Douglass USD 396 BOE met Monday evening to discuss technology matters, resignations and employment
The school board from USD 396 (Douglass) met Monday evening to discuss matters running the gamut from technology to resignations and employment.
First on the agenda, Kim Hamilton, district technology director, talked about the difficulties presented by all the Windows XP machines no longer being supported. These machines are complicating the everyday life of teachers and students in the school district by making the simple process of printing nearly impossible
The solution may be in replacing some or all of these laptops with iPads.
New upgrades and technological advances have made it possible for students to take their Accelerated Reading tests on iPads. This new information coupled with the possibility of saving the district money in the process seems to be sweetening the deal for a product switch as early as spring.
No vote has been held on this topic at this time.
Hamilton also shared the annual report stating upgrades and changes made including:
• Increased bandwidth on the districts wi-fi
• Changed wireless access to prevent excessive and unauthorized usage
• Upgraded 2 of 4 servers
• Upgraded firewall
• Adobe certification now available for students
In addition, the district received a lamination machine and there was a donation of $980 to the Terry Kaylor Scholarship Fund.
The next item on the agenda was an update to the Teacher Evaluation Procedure. The state requires certain parameters to be met but allows each school to choose the procedure program that suits their school best. At this time the board is reviewing a new program that has more scientific evidence attesting to its accuracy and fairness. The program, called CUES, stands for claims to take a more involved and proactive approach to successful teaching. The board plans to have a decision by spring and, if approved, have the new program fully implemented by the beginning of the 2014 school year.
Lastly, a new teacher, Jasmine Bredette, has been extended a contract to be a second grade teacher for the second semester. The only resignation at this time was accepted yesterday from former bus driver Joe Peterson. Peterson was the driver of the bus swept off the road and into a river on Halloween as he tried to cross a bridge covered with 18-24 inches of water with 10 students on board.
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His list is made, he's checked it twice. The sleigh is loaded and ready to go. Santa was nice enough to take a few minutes to answer a few questions from the Rolla Daily News staff before making his annual trip around the world.
Q: No one wants a lump of coal for Christmas. What advice do you have for kids on how to stay on the nice list?
Santa: The first thing I like to tell them is to be good all year, listen to their moms and dads, and try their best in school. If they can manage to do those two things, they'll probably end up on the nice list.
Q: What do you do on Christmas Day and the day after Christmas?
Santa: Christmas Day I like to sleep in late and get back some of the energy I lost while delivering all those presents to the good little boys and girls out there. Then I get up, open presents and enjoy a large Christmas feast with my wife and the elves. Mrs. Claus is a wonderful cook. Then we go caroling. Sometimes we even take the sleigh out to look at some of the best Christmas displays from around the world.
Q: What kinds of toys are kids asking for this Christmas?
Santa: The top toys would be a lot of gaming systems, a lot of Gameboys, PlayStations, a lot of dolls, trucks, and believe it or not, airplanes.
Q: Mrs. Claus, what are some of your duties? What do you help Santa Claus with?
Mrs. Claus: I help keep track of all of Santa Claus' lists that kids give me and I make sure he gets them so that we make sure that they get what they want.
Q: Many children put out milk and cookies for Christmas, what is your favorite kind of cookie?
Santa: Chocolate Chip! I've got to go with Chocolate chip, but Mrs. Claus has me on a diet this year. I really appreciate the milk too!
Q:How do you really do it? How do you make it to all those houses in just one night?
Santa: It's all magic and it's top secret.
Q:Anything else you want to add?
Santa: Be good and leave me a lot of milk and um, I mean... carrot sticks!


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Goodbye warmth, hello wintry weather
Unseasonable warmth is giving way to something that looks more like winter, for some parts of the region anyway.
The first lake-effect snow advisory of the season was issued Friday by the National Weather Service in Buffalo, which is calling for up to 9 inches of snow in "ski country" this weekend.
The advisory took effect at 6 p.m. Friday and continues through midnight tonight. It applies to southern Erie, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
"It does not include Buffalo," said meteorologist Jon Hitchcock, who defines ski country as the Boston Hills and points south, where the ski areas are located.
Fellow forecaster Sean Reynolds said the metro area could see a dusting of snow, with rain showers turning into snow showers early today.
The heavier incoming snow could briefly affect the Southtowns before moving farther south, Hitchcock said. Between 2 and 4 inches of snow was forecast for Friday, with another 3 to 5 inches today.
"It's going to be much colder than it has been – and that's for everywhere," Hitchcock said.
Just two days after temperatures closed in on 60 in the metro area, the highs today are not expected to escape the 30s, while temperatures in ski country will remain below freezing, Hitchcock said.
"It's going to be a pretty abrupt change from the mild weather we've had," Hitchcock said of the warm Thanksgiving day weather.
Forecasters said they're also keeping an eye on a possible storm system developing that has the potential to bring more snow later next week.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Ready to Play in the Snow
Today I went sledding for the first time. I was smiling as Mommy, Daddy, and I went down the hill. But boy was it cold!
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Remember that he is, first of all, my child.
Let me see him smiling in his sleep and let me think about how handsome he is
and not about how delayed that smile was in coming.
Help me not lose sight of my son in the shadow of his limitations
I know that you care for my child and that you work hard with him.
I need your expertise to help him become all that he is capable of being.
You need my help in understanding who he really is
and in following through at home with things that are important.
Remember, though, that you send him home at night and have weekends off and paid vacations.
Let me have the luxury of having a vacation, sometimes physically,
sometimes just emotionally, for a day, a week, a month, without your judging me.
I will be there for him when you are long gone.
I love my child with an intensity that you can only imagine.
If on a given day I am tired or cross with him, listen to me,
lighten my burden, but do not judge me.
Celebrate with me, rejoice in who he is and who he will become
but forgive me if from time to time I shed a tear for who he might have been.
- Author Unknown
There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.
The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.
Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.
The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.
Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.
As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.
And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?
One man greeted her and said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?"
She shrugged her shoulders and said, "It wasn't your baby."
Shake It Off And Step Up
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying' - or - whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back...HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did, blow after blow.
"Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up!" he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!
You're right! It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL! What seemed like it would bury him, actually blessed him...all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
THAT'S LIFE! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity...THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE WITHIN THEM THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT AND BLESS US! Remember that FORGIVENESS--FAITH--PRAYER-- PRAISE and HOPE...all are excellent ways to "SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP" out of the wells in which we find ourselves!
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Walk Of Shame: Photographer Captures Berliners As They Leave The Club In The Morning Sun
Anyone who's ever closed down a club or party knows how harsh re-entering the outside world, already on with its day, can be. But imagine leaving the club to greet the morning sun and finding a world-class photographer outside, ready to take your picture for an international series. Lucky for the voyeur in us, many marathon clubbers from Berlin's famous Berghain nightclub were up to starring in London-based photog Oliver Eglin's Berghain/Panorama series. A few of our favorites from the collection are below, but head here for the full exhibit.
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Hell yeah,club space. Haha. Been there a few times while living in miami. But any Alegria event and Black Party in NYC(both of which r this weekend) blow it out the water. Tho I havent been to Alegria in a while,I never miss a black party and I ALWAYS remember to bring sunglasses. For a party that goes for 14 hrs,u need them for sure. Cant wait for this weekend.


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Michael Savage: Roberts affected by medication
Swing vote in Obamacare case suffered epileptic seizures
Talk radio host Michael Savage told his listeners today that the use of mind-altering drugs to treat seizures could explain why Bush-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts upheld Obamacare today along with four liberal colleagues.
Roberts shocked most analysts by siding with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in a 5-4 decision upholding the lynchpin provision of the president's signature legislation, the so-called individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.
Savage told his "Savage Nation" listeners that on the way to the studio for his program tonight he visited a world famous neurologist he knows, and they talked about Obamacare.
The physician urged Savage to check out Roberts' history with epilepsy, referring him to a New York Times report in August 2007. The article said that after Roberts suffered a seizure, doctors were weighing whether to treat him with powerful drugs with "troubling side effects," including mental slowing and forgetfulness.
Roberts had suffered a seizure 14 years earlier. The seizures meet the criteria for epilepsy, the Times report said, because they were "unprovoked," meaning that they were not caused by a head injury, a drug reaction or another known factor.
The neurologist told Savage that Roberts' cognition could be affected by taking epilepsy medicine.
"I'm going to tell you something that you're not going to hear anywhere else, that you must pay attention to," Savage said.
"It's well known that Roberts, unfortunately for him, has suffered from epileptic seizures. Therefore he has been on medication."
Savage said that "if you look at Roberts' writings you can see the cognitive disassociation in what he is saying."
"Roberts has no logic in what he said," Savage asserted.
"He said the law is a tax, but if the law wasn't written as a tax, how can he say it's taxation?"
Savage was referring to the fact that the Obama administration had argued that the law's mandate for individuals to buy health insurance was based on the power given to Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate trade. The administration, including President Obama himself, had vehemently argued that the mandate was not a tax.
Tipping point
Savage noted that while most pundits had believed the Supreme Court would strike down the mandate, Savage predicted on his show Tuesday that Roberts would uphold Obamacare. He based his prediction on the fact that Roberts read the majority opinion in the Arizona immigration law case, which backed the Obama administration in striking down most of the law.
Savage opened his show today declaring that "a tipping point has been reached" in the "dawning of red America."
"We are now becoming Venezuela and on the way to becoming Castro's Cuba," he said.
Many conservatives, he said, have been "misled into believe that if only you elect a Republican, things will change."
"Let me remind you, Roberts is the spawn of George W. Bush," Savage said. "Roberts is a compromised Supreme Court justice."
He predicted Obamacare will bankrupt America.
"Who is going to pay for the fraud, waste and corruption called Obamacare?" he asked.
Savage argued that the same people who are failing to control Medicare and Medicaid are in charge of trying to control Obamacare.
"America is over as you know it," he said.
A plan to get rid of Obamacare
Citing his book "Trickle Up Poverty," Savage contended Obamacare could have been overturned by citing the Schechter brothers U.S. Supreme Court case decided during the Franklin Roosevelt administration in 1935.
Under FDR's socialist-style "New Deal" regulations, customers could buy a whole or half coop of chickens but could not select particular birds. The policy conflicted with the religious beliefs and practices of the Jewish Schechter brothers. Under kosher laws, unhealthy animals must be removed from the stock.
A lower court found the four brothers guilty of allowing their customers to buy individual chickens, and they served jail time.
Ultimately, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the brothers, holding that FDR's regulations exceeded congressional power under the Commerce Clause.
Justice Louis Brandeis remarked at the time: "This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we're not going to let this government centralize everything."
Savage said the "same message should be sent to Obama."
Savage reasoned that the Schechters' lawyers could have taken another tack and won on the ground that their religious freedom was being violated. Under Obamacare, he noted, there were exemptions for various religious groups, such as the Amish and Christian Scientists.
So he urges other religious groups to find their own grounds for exemption until there are so many exempted from the system, it won't be able to sustain itself.


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Unexpected Breeze Launches 2013 Audi Melges 20 US National Championship Presented By Audi Muskegon Into High Gear
24 August 2013
* Winds up to 15 knots allow three picture-perfect races less than a mile from Michigan shore
* Three-time National Champ and Macatawa local Michael Kiss jumps out to 3 point lead aboard Bacio
* Class newcomer Dick DeVos in second position as a substitute for young Ryan Devos, who returns to drive Volpe on Saturday
* 20 year-old Morgan Kiss on Baciami leads Grosse Pointe, MI's Ian Hollerbach on Fuku for youth supremacy
Holland, MI - A long, quiet morning with winds out of the East at 5 knots was a bad sign, according to local sailors. "It will just peter out to nothing and that will be that," some said; a foreboding beginning to the 2013 Audi Melges 20 US National Championship presented by Audi Muskegon.
But to Race Office Bruce Golison, patience is sometimes everything, and after a long postponement ashore, the wind shifted. "The AP Flag will come down in 10 minutes at 12:55" his voice crackled over the VHF. "Your warning will be one hour after that."
Despite a terrible forecast for sailing, by 1:55 PM, a solid thermal breeze of 5-8 knots had blown in from the West, building to 10 knots by the second race. With the breeze continuing to build after two races, Golison said what the fleet was thinking. "Let's get another one in while conditions allow," he announced. The fleet reveled in a solid 12-15 knots of wind planing conditions for the final race of the day, with Cesar Gomes' Brazilian/Miami-based Portobello running away with a victory in the stronger pressure.
Regatta leader Michael Kiss's Bacio is used to the top of the Audi Melges 20 fleet - he's won three National Championships, one of them here at Macatawa Bay Yacht Club - and third-placeskipper Jason Carroll had his share of success in various sportboats named Argo. But the standout of the day was Dick DeVos in his first-ever outing in the Audi Melges 20. Onboard with DeVos was Volvo Ocean Race vet and America's Cup helmsman Cameron Dunn, who said none of the team had ever raced an Audi Melges 20 Melges 20 before, and the Volpe team are 'on a massive learning curve'. "This is the smallest boat I've sailed on in probably ten years, and we definitely need to give thanks for our luck out there," said Dunn. Hopefully Ryan DeVos can continue Dick's winning ways when he takes the helm tomorrow, replacing his father.
While one Michigan has to give up the helm, two other Michigan dads wouldn't let it go, instead donating their old boats to their children for this regatta. Marc Hollerbach may have regretted that decision when son Ian gybed just ahead of him on the final leg to the finish, pipping his dad for the finish by less than a meter. Michael Kiss was too far ahead for daughter Morgan to impact his day much, and while she spent plenty of time ahead of him on the race course, the elder Kiss's experience won out at the end of the day. "Dad's seriously fast, but we're getting there," Morgan said.
Longtime Class stalwart and local eye surgeon John Arendshorst (20/20 Racing) started with a strong 4,12 scoreline until disaster struck at the final start of the day. "We hit the pin boat, then we went back and hit the anchor line, then we somehow extricated ourselves and tried to go racing," Arendshorst said. "We could have dropped our sails and gone home, but instead we pulled ourselves up and went racing." Despite giving the fleet a nearly 4 minute head-start, Arendshorst passed 8 boats before the finish and lies mid-fleet. "It was like some kind of miracle," he said. "Imagine if we had a good start!"
Saturday's conditions remain a mystery, though race officials will attempt to start 3 more races. After 6 total races, each team discards their worst result, making the next three races crucial.
Racing begins at 11.00 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow, and fans of sportboat racing can follow the Audi Melges 20 Facebook Page for up-to-the-minute updates from the course. The Class media staff will also post photos, videos, finish orders, and more as it happens.
For the first time ever, the U.S. National Championship Opening Ceremony was streamed live on the internet. It's available for viewing or embedding at the Audi Melges 20 Ustream Channel.
Friday night, six Audi Melges 20 racers got together with SailingAnarchy.com's Alan Block for a live, 30 minute talk show about tuning the Melges 20, the winter schedule and Worlds, the new mast, just how open the class is with information and tips, tips for newbie helmspersons, and much more. The video can be found at the Audi Melges 20 Ustream Channel.
TOP TEN RESULTS (After Three Races)
1.) Michael Kiss, Bacio; 1-4-7 = 12
2.) Ryan DeVos, Volpe; 3-6-6 = 15
3.) Jason Carroll, Argo; 7-1-8 = 16
4.) John Kilroy, Samba Pa Ti; 2-13-4 = 19
5.) Rob Wilber, Cinghiale; 18-3-2 = 23
6.) Morgan Kiss, Baciami; 11-5-9 = 25
7.) Cesar Gomes Neto, Portobello; 17-9-1 = 27
8.) Paul Reilly, Red Sky Sailing Team; 16-2-10 = 28
9.) Richard Davies, Section 16; 15-8-5 = 28
10.) Brian Hill, Atlas (Corinthian); 6-11-13 = 30
View Full Results
View Official Event Website
Photo Gallery - Meredith Block
Photo Gallery - JOY
View Video Preview - 2013 Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Championship presented by Audi Muskegon


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John the Baptist was a wild man. He felt drawn to the wilderness. He was himself there. "I am a voice crying in the wilderness.' It was where he felt at home, with his locusts and wild honey, rather than in the best restaurants and hotels.
Yet the people flocked to him and he exerted a phenomenal influence over the people of power. Free of attachments and undisturbed by the temptations of security that most people succumb to, he had a passion for the truth and for telling it as it is. In the end, falling foul of the king, he paid the ultimate price that many prophets have had to pay, his own life.
Advent is not only about waiting for something to happen. It is about waiting in hope and living in the truth of the moment, with every breath breathing the truth. It is about being uncompromising about the small compromises and the politically motivated exceptions with the truth that chip away at our integrity.
Meditation is a kind of wilderness, where only the truth can exist. Our practice teaches us to live there happily, to make it our home with all its simplicity and no necessary furniture. Then it blooms with the love that truth serves and we find we are solitary but not alone, ourselves but not merely isolated egos trying to survive and defend. We flourish with the brave freedom of the Baptist who knew he was in service of something greater than himself. If we know that, then no price is too great to pay.
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Ugly Israeli Realities Emerge
By Stephen Lendman
On December 16, Haaretz writer Barak Ravid headlined, "Secret EU paper aims to tackle Israel's treatment of Arab minority," saying:
Haaretz obtained parts of "a classified working paper produced by European embassies in Israel...."
The "unprecedented document" addresses internal Israeli issues. It was written without Israel's knowledge. It also covers Israeli peace process intransigency, its self-characterization as a Jewish, democratic state, and how it treats its Arab population.
Removed from its final version were suggestions for EU action measures, including: filing official protests each time discriminatory Arab bills pass second Knesset readings; and ensuring all Arab towns have completed urban plans, "with each member state potentially 'adopting' a municipality to this end."
Developed over the past year, it was written for EU foreign ministers to debate, advise, consent, or object.
After failed efforts to achieve consensus, it was softened and designated a "food for thought" document, not a report.
Among other concerns, repressive occupation and failure to advance peace talks equitably leave Israeli Arabs especially marginalized and at risk. According to the document:
"The stalemate in the peace process, and the continuing occupation, inevitably has an impact on the identification of Israeli Arabs with Israel. It will be more difficult for (them) to be wholly at ease with their identity while the conflict with the Palestinians continues."
The document also urges EU member states discuss Jewish-Arab relations with Israel, stressing its obligation to resolve inequality issues.
"We do not believe that recognition of Israel as a Jewish State should detract in any way from the vision of equality for all its citizens enshrined in its founding documents."
"It is in the interests of all Israelis to demonstrate that Israel is not only Jewish and democratic (sic), but tolerant and inclusive, and that these are patriotic values. We believe in common with most Israelis that Israeli nationality is an inclusive concept which can accommodate equally those of other faiths and ethnic origins."</blockquote>
In other words, democratic credentials demand equality for all citizens, regardless of their faith, ethnicity, political views, or economic status. EU states know Israel fails on all counts.
More Evidence From Addameer
A December 15 Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association report provides more evidence. Headlined, "Addameer Concerned About Wave of Arrests since First Phase of Prisoner Exchange," it states:
Since releasing 477 Palestinian political prisoners on October 18 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a near identical number have been imprisoned.
It "reveals that the exchange deal has not deterred Israel's policy of" detaining Palestinians. Moreover, even released prisoners aren't safe. They're being harassed and threatened with rearrest for the slightest provocation or none at all.
Regularly, their homes are raided. They're summoned for interrogations, and their movements and activities are closely monitored. In many respects, they remain imprisoned without being behind bars or in forced isolation.
In addition, Israeli security forces pursue brutal arrest methods, including through musta'arabeen (undercover operatives) in Palestinian dress to ambush and arrest Palestinians from homes and workplaces.
In addition, joint middle-of-the-night army/intelligence raids occur, at which time Israeli forces deliberately destroy contents of homes raided.
Notably, human rights activists, PLC members, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and other occupation resistance figures are targeted.
"The arrests of human rights defenders, use of violence against peaceful protesters, and threats to family members of activists are in clear violation of Palestinians' right to freedom of expression and assembly."
As a result, Addameer expressed grave concerns for what's coming after the second prisoner release. Israel's Prison Service (IPS) said about 550 prisoners will be released on December 18, completing the agreed swap.
Addammer urged world leaders "to intervene rapidly to prevent Israel from its continued practice of brutal and arbitrary detention" very likely to follow in subsequent weeks.
Settler Violence Persists with Impunity
So is regular settler violence committed with impunity. On December 16, Haaretz writer Gili Cohen headlined, "IDF soldiers: Problem in West Bank isn't Palestinians, it's Jews," saying:
Regular and reserve soldiers, including junior officers, are speaking publicly about "having to protect the settlers while at the same time being attacked by them."
According to discharged soldier Nadav Bigelman:
"Our purpose there is to protect the Jews, but they generate many of the problems. It's very confusing. You understand pretty quickly what is going on, but it's not so clear what you are supposed to do about it."
"We never received an order telling us what to do when a Jewish boy throws stones at a Palestinian. Are we allowed to detain him or not? There's a gap between the battalion commander's instructions and what happens on the ground."
"It's the same people who bring you cake when you're going on guard at 2AM. What, are you going to arrest their kid when he throws stones the next day," or commits other forms of violence against Palestinians?
So-called "new instructions" dealing with settler rioters exist on paper but aren't enforced. What matters are personal relations between commanders and settler leaders.
A reserve platoon leader discussed possible settler/Palestinian friction with his commanders months back. However, he wasn't prepared for the Mitzpeh Eshtamoa outpost confrontation where settlers and Palestinians faced-off over grazing issues.
"We stood as a buffer between (them), and they (settlers) started arguing with us. They said awful things to me: '(Ariel) Sharon evacuated Gaza. He got what was coming to him. Don't worry. God will see to you, too. Why do you come for reserve duty? You're a disgrace as soldiers.' "
They kept ranting and raving. Soldiers weren't sure what to do. They were trained to think Palestinians are the problems. They learned it's Jews.
"There were 15 settlers swearing at us....This is an entire community whose agenda is to treat soldiers like that. Even the chief security officers told us, 'listen, that's the way it is. In a few days, they'll puncture my car tires.' "
Settlers "are out of control. I guard them. I'm responsible for protecting them, and I know one day they'll sabotage my car. That's what's going on here."
A West Bank junior officer said clashes occur mainly at checkpoints. Settlers come there often. They won't wait like Palestinians, "so they break through and drive on. Not many harass us, but when the moment comes to inspect them, they humiliate us."
Clashes with Jews are "much worse" than with Palestinians. "We used to have a code for Palestinians throwing stones. Today it's been reversed to indicate Jews are throwing stones at Palestinians."
Settlers even attack commanders with impunity. "You hate it. You hate being there. You know whom you're protecting but you don't understand why you have to pay such a price for it."
If Israeli soldiers face settler violence and other abuse, imagine what Palestinians endure daily with no one providing protection or support.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com.
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Woodrow Wilson Fellow Brings Issues to Lifeby Jim Amidon • April 2, 2004 Share:
Dr. Marcia Grant and Professor David Blix
I'm aware that we have on the Wabash campus a scholar of the Middle East, someone who has "been there and done that" and has real experience as a woman trying to bring about change in a part of the world that resists change.
So I decided to invite myself to a class where the talented Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Dr. Marcia Grant, would be spending some time helping students work through some very difficult issues.
Dr. Grant founded the first women's college in Saudi Arabia in 1999 and currently is dean of a graduate school in Paris. I was more than curious to eavesdrop on her talk with students in Professor David Blix's class on religious dialogues—one of several classes she attended during her stay at Wabash.
Marcus Ellison makes a point while Terry Archambeault listens
Grant got their attention (and mine) by bringing the theoretical concepts to life. She did so by describing her work in Saudi Arabia, a nation that does not acknowledge Christianity and strictly adheres to Islam. As a Christian, Grant said she knew what she was getting into when she went, and knew that she would not be able to worship publicly while in country.
It was an intellectually curious, but slightly awkward moment, to witness a strong-willed woman talk pointedly about serving in a man's role in Saudi Arabia—a country dominated by men and one that does not tolerate religious difference. She almost seemed pained that the students were unable to grasp reality of the concepts they were studying.
The students tackled the thorny issues of secularism, fundamentalism, and modernization, and what role, if any, dialogue plays in the understanding of religious cultures.
Grant pulled no punches. She said she believes the only way a nation can ensure dialogue among many religions is if it is governed by secular leaders.
Ahmed Paarlberg defines fundamentalism
Blix had each student write a short definition of fundamentalism; Grant was the last to articulate hers, which was essentially a strict interpretation of religious texts based on the fear of—or threat of—change.
I'm not sure I ever thought of religious fundamentalists as those who fear change or feel threatened by the world around them, but it did make sense. Actually, I hadn't thought deeply about the subject in a very long time. And it led to a fascinating conversation about how to balance that notion in a world that is constantly changing, moving swiftly through modernization. The balance seems impossible to strike when dialogue does not happen, and in so many cases, cannot happen.
Grant summarized the conversation with the personal story of the death of the 17 year-old daughter of her best Saudi Arabian friend and colleague. During the three days of mourning and visitation, Grant struggled in her mind and emotions with the child's death. "How could it happen to her?" she wondered.
On each of the three days when she attended the visitation, different Muslim women approached her and comforted her with statements like, "It's Allah's (God's) plan." "She was taken by Allah to prepare the way for her parents." "She was a gift from Allah and He has taken her back."
Grant admitted she struggled to see the untimely death in those terms, but acknowledged how important the dialogue was and how meaningful it was for her in understanding Islamic beliefs on death. For Grant, the death of a friend's young daughter led to an understanding that whether known as "God" or "Allah" there is a place of common ground—and perhaps the beginning of dialogue.
All of my questions weren't answered during that 75-minute class in a 140-year-old building in a small town in Indiana. But listening to a woman who defied the odds as an American Christian who built a women's college in Muslim Saudi Arabia convinced me that just about anything is possible, even dialogue between people as different as Christians and Muslims.


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Impact of Terror
Aired September 19, 2004 - 20:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was a routine day, a lunch break. ANAT AMAR, BOMBING VICTIM: He said to me, "Mom, let's go into Sbarro Pizza." UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But one moment changed their lives forever. The frantic victims. MIRIAM SHUSHAN, BOMBING VICTIM: I can't move. I can't see. I can't breathe. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A family's fear. AVIVAH RAZIEL, MOTHER OF BOMBING VICTIM: All along, I knew something had happened to her. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And the lingering aftermath. ANAT AMAR: The 9th of August is the day that stopped my life. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Beyond the headlines, beyond the politics, this is the "Impact of Terror." (END VIDEOTAPE) AARON BROWN, HOST: The images are chilling -- a bus shattered, a restaurant in ruins. Everywhere lie victims and survivors in the aftermath of a bombing. Welcome to CNN PRESENTS. I'm Aaron Brown. In the war-torn Middle East, suicide bombings are frequent, even familiar. But for those involved, each one presents a unique and personal horror. Tonight's program is not a story about blame or claims of responsibility. This is a personal look at the people who have survived a life-changing event. It is about the moments, the months and the years after a terror attack. It is about loss, recovery, health and the struggle for happiness. Tonight, CNN PRESENTS "Impact of Terror." (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAVID SHACHAM, EXPLOSIVES EXPERT: The uniqueness for me was the guitar. Nobody was thinking that inside there is a bomb. He put inside the guitar something like four or five kilogram of explosives, four kilogram or five kilogram of nuts and nails. That's enough. That's enough to kill tens of people. NARRATOR: On the morning of August 9, 2001, Israeli intelligence learned that a Palestinian suicide bomber was somewhere in the heart of Jerusalem. Around 1:30 p.m., unbeknownst to their parents, best friends Malki Roth and Michal Raziel decided to stop for a pizza en route to a youth meeting. Moments later, Dutch-Israeli Mordechai Schijveschuurder decided to treat his wife and five of his children to a family outing at Sbarro Pizzeria. Five minutes later, 15-year-old Miriam Shushan, her two sisters and her mother entered the restaurant. MIRIAM SHUSHAN, BOMBING VICTIM: It was really, really crowded, lots of people and long lines. Lots of girls and, I don't know, teenagers screaming and laughing and the noise of life. NARRATOR: Just before 2:00 p.m., Jerusalem firefighter Michel Amar learned that a suicide bomber was loose somewhere on the streets of Jerusalem. He immediately called his wife, who was shopping downtown. ANAT AMAR, BOMBING VICTIM (through translator): I was a little apprehensive when he said that there's a terrorist in our city. Of course, I told him that everything is going to be fine. And I promised him that I would call as soon as I got home. Around 2:00 p.m., Eliad, my oldest son, said he was very hungry and that all the children wanted to eat. He said to me, "Mom, let's go into Sbarro Pizza." NARRATOR: As Anat Amar and her four children entered the restaurant, Miriam Shushan and her 10-year-old sister Yocheved made it to the head of the line. SHUSHAN: I remember I hugged her and I told her like, well, I love you so much. And she told me also, yes, I love you so much. And she told me, where would I be without you? I'm like, don't worry. We're together always. What's wrong? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A Palestinian bomber detonated explosives in a crowded Jerusalem restaurant. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A lunch hour massacre, carried out by a Palestinian suicide bomber. At least 15 people were killed, almost 90 others wounded. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A bomb went off in a packed pizza restaurant, one of the busiest areas of the city. You may find some images disturbing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was standing at the traffic light, and I suddenly see all of Sbarro exploding right in front me. Fire, smoke, people flying out. ANAT AMAR (through translator): From the corner of my eye, I see Gafnit, who is only two years and 10 months old, flying with the window out into the street. ELIAD AMAR, BOMBING VICTIM (through translator): The moment of the bombing, I knew where I was. I knew that I was in the restaurant. All of a sudden, I saw that I was outside of the restaurant. And then I saw my little sister lying on the ground with the table and chair burning on top of her. ANAT AMAR (through translator): Everything was standing still and there was quiet all around. Quiet. Quiet like a ghost town. SHUSHAN: I was looking around me and like, where am I? What happened to me? And then, like, everybody screaming, "It's a bomb!" UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I ran inside and I saw terrible things -- bodies that were still burning, and there was smoke coming out of them. And I couldn't even touch them. I took table cloths and used them to put out fires on people who were burning. ANAT AMAR (through translator): The phone was left hanging from my hand, and I immediately dialed this number. MICHEL AMAR, FATHER OF BOMBING VICTIMS (through translator): My wife screamed on the phone, "We got hurt in a bombing! We got hurt in a bombing!" And then the call was disconnected. I didn't understand exactly whether they were alive or no longer among the living. I said to myself, "Michel, stand up and run to the vehicle." ANAT AMAR (through translator): It started to get really messy. Yelling from every direction. The sound of ambulance sirens, police, people running. NARRATOR: Canadian volunteer Orley Pinchuk was one of the first paramedics on the scene. ORLEY PINCHUK, CANADIAN VOLUNTEER PARAMEDIC: I opened the door to the ambulance and stepped out. The first thing that I saw were many strollers, maybe four or five, on their sides -- no babies in them. It was my first real mass casualty incident. I thought I would be able to prepare for something like this. And there was no way. There was overturned tables and chairs. And I'm not even talking about inside the restaurant. I'm talking about in the intersection. NARRATOR: Another person who arrived quickly on the scene was photojournalist Nati Shohat. NATI SHOHAT, PHOTOJOURNALIST (through translator): I can still remember running to the place. There was smoke in the street. People lying all over the place. I shoot a few frames, I run on. The picture that's etched in my mind from Sbarro happened when I got to that place. I stood about a meter away from the shattered window. And there was a woman lying there, and a man is lying on top of her. He was already dead. And on top of him there's another woman. And over her there's a doctor who came from a nearby hospital, from an operating room. And he's trying to save her, and he realizes that he actually can't save her and he yells for help. Simply terrifying. A dreadful scene. The most awful thing I experienced at Sbarro was the children. I saw little children there, children about my daughter's age. You see a child with a face full of blood, whose face can no longer be recognized. And you, as a father, as someone who lives in this country, you look and you see your own family, your children, your friends' children. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NARRATOR: Twenty minutes after the bombing, firefighter Michel Amar arrived at the scene in search of his family. MICHEL AMAR (through translator): I reached the restaurant. I looked down and I saw my daughter's stroller. It was all burnt, and I went into shock. Although I've seen many, many things in the past, I couldn't go inside. I thought, "That's it. I have no children." I saw children scattered there. I saw hands, heads of children. I saw things I'm used to seeing, but I was never involved like that. Never. SHUSHAN: I wanted to believe that it was a dream. Everything changed. I can't move. I can't see. I can't breathe almost. And I'm looking for somebody to help me. I want to scream. I want to get up to help myself. PINCHUK: There were two girls in an ambulance. And the older girl, she was screaming in pain. NARRATOR: Paramedic Orley Pinchuk was standing in front of 15- year-old Miriam Shushan. Lying unconscious beside Miriam was her 10-year-old sister, Yocheved. PINCHUK: The older one of the two was sitting upright, completely burnt, her body black. Her skin was peeled off. Her legs, both of them, broken. SHUSHAN: I remember it, like, she was talking to me. And I just wanted to close my eyes and forget everything. PINCHUK: She could lose her life within seconds. In the ambulance, I asked her her name. She told me her name -- Miriam. I asked her again, when it looked like she was kind of fading out, I asked her again to remember my name. And she did. And she said, "It's Orley." And I said, "OK, good. Good." SHUSHAN: Something in me, within me, told me, do -- do what she said. And really, I think this kept me conscious. NARRATOR: Chaim Foxman was not only an eye witness to the attack, he is a ZAKA volunteer. ZAKAs have the grizzly responsibility of collecting body parts and tending to the dead. CHAIM FOXMAN, ZAKA VOLUNTEER AND EYEWITNESS (through translator): When we finish evacuating the wounded, we proceed to evacuate the slain. Also, after we finish removing the bodies, we clean the blood, tissues and other things that remain around. It's important, because according to Jewish custom, every piece of flesh, every bit of flesh, every tissue, every drop of blood has to make it to a proper burial. NARRATOR: Unbeknownst to Arnold Roth, his daughter Malki was in the restaurant when the blast occurred. Desperate attempts to reach her cell phone were unsuccessful. ARNOLD ROTH, FATHER OF BOMBING VICTIM: No one could track her. No one knew where she was. And then, we got a call from the people whose meeting she was supposed to be at, saying she hadn't turned up. By this time we were really beside ourselves. NARRATOR: In the restaurant with Malki Roth was her 16-year-old best friend, Michal Raziel. When Michal's mother learned of the attack, she also tried to contact her daughter. Her repeated calls went unanswered. AVIVAH RAZIEL, MOTHER OF BOMBING VICTIM: You have to understand something about Michal and her cell phone. She was connected to that cell phone like my ear is connected to me. And if by then she didn't answer, then something was wrong. NARRATOR: Michal Raziel's aunt was on duty as a trauma nurse at a Jerusalem hospital when the critically injured began arriving. SHLOMITH FISHER-HARRIS, TRAUMA NURSE, HADASSAH HOSPITAL: The nurse who was in charge that day comes running into the room and screeches, there's been a terrorist attack. It's very tense, because beyond the preparations, everybody's already starting thinking. Where was it? Who's there? Will I know anybody? Where's my family? Can I get to a phone to call everybody to see where they are? MICHEL AMAR (through translator): I had a very bad feeling, but I still had some hope that perhaps they were only injured. Perhaps they were outside the restaurant. I walked from ambulance to ambulance. I didn't see anything. And one of the policeman came up to me and said, you won't find anything here. Run to the hospital, and there you'll get some answers. PINCHUK: We got to the hospital, and the doctors and the orderlies opened the back doors. And I told them, this one on the bench is much more severe. DR. ARIEH ELDAD, MIRIAM SHUSHAN'S SURGEON: Miriam was moments away from death. Maybe if she would be delayed two or three minutes, she wouldn't be alive today, because she had penetrating, severe penetrating injuries in her lungs, due to all the bolts and screws and nails that were added to the explosives in this bomb. Some of the wound were deep enough that I could put my hand into it down to my wrist. And there were tens of them. NARRATOR: As Miriam struggled to stay alive, medical staff, including Michal Raziel's aunt, rushed 14-year-old Dutch-Israeli Ria Schijveschuurder into surgery. FISHER-HARRIS: To all accounts she was dead already. That she had a pulse of about 40, 39, was just because she was a young girl. She was strong, and her blood vessels were still working. And after about half an hour, she didn't have a pulse anymore. All through this time, I had called Avivah's house to see where the girls were. And I knew where three of them were. I didn't know where Michal was. I tried to get on her cell phone, and I got the -- her message all the time. I left the room, and somebody shoved into my hand blood packs -- I don't know how many there were -- and said, take them to room five. There were tons of people there. They didn't need me. I just gave the blood packs to whoever was in the room and left. NARRATOR: Nurse Harris had no idea that beyond the wall of surgeons, in room five, lay her 16-year-old niece, Michal Raziel. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NARRATOR: Unable to locate her daughter Michal, Avivah Raziel arrived at her sister's hospital, hoping for answers. AVIVAH RAZIEL, MOTHER OF BOMBING VICTIM: By then it was about 6:15. And I remember saying to the social worker, you know what, it's 6:15 now. If you haven't heard anything from her till now, it's not very good, is it. And she just went like this. FISHER-HARRIS: We were talking to people. I'm looking for my niece, and she wasn't on any list. She wasn't anywhere. And Avivah said she has to go somewhere for a moment. And I said to myself, I'm going down to the morgue to see if she's there. All along, I knew something had happened to her. I think, doing work, I didn't even think about the person in room, in operating room five. I said, I'm looking for my niece. And I know you've got one girl and another person who hasn't been identified. I want to know who she is. And he opened the first drawer, and I looked inside and I said, no, that's the girl I looked after. She's from the Dutch family. That's not her. So they opened the other drawer, and -- and I looked at her. And I said, "It's her." And I had taken -- she had a sheet over her face. So, I put it back over her face, and I took it off her face and put it back over her face. And it was just as though, in the moment you put it back on her, you've -- that's it. She's not there anymore. She's gone. So I left it off. AVIVAH RAZIEL: And the most difficult point of my life was leaving her. It was just, as I was -- you know, while I was still sitting by her, holding her, I still had her. If I left her, then I didn't have her anymore. It was -- that was very difficult. NARRATOR: Firefighter Michel Amar finally discovered the fate of his four children. MICHEL AMAR (through translator): And then I saw my wife. All her hair was burnt. I saw my daughter with burnt hair. It was difficult for me to see her that way. She was full of people's hair and blood. She had blood on her, and she wouldn't let any of the staff touch her. When she saw me, she broke into tears. There's no knowing whose blood that was, and there were chunks of flesh on her. I remember, I bathed her for an hour-and-a-half. And I started to wash off what was left of the pieces of people's flesh that were stuck in her hair. And I removed one piece at a time and scrubbed the blood off her. She wouldn't stop crying. She kept saying, "Daddy, why weren't you with me? Why weren't you with us?" NARRATOR: For Arnold Roth, the search for his daughter Malki was becoming desperate. More than 10 hours after the deadly explosion, local hospitals had no information on Malki's whereabouts. ARNOLD ROTH, FATHER OF MALKI ROTH: One of the social workers there took me aside and said, you know, you're really wasting your time here. At this hour, you should be at the morgue. I'll arrange it. Linny (ph) and I couldn't do it, but my two oldest boys took a taxi. And at two in the morning, we got a call from the boys saying that, unfortunately, our worst fears were true, and they found Malki there. SHUSHAN: When I woke up, it was like Friday afternoon, like 24 hours later. I asked like what was going on with Yocheved? And they told me -- they told me, the situation is going to be fine. And then I asked the second question. I asked, like, what's going on with my legs? NARRATOR: Ten days after the bombing and several operations later, Miriam's condition was still grave. Fearing she may not survive the shock, Miriam's family and doctors withheld the truth about her sister Yocheved. Two weeks after the bombing, Miriam's father finally broke the news. SHUSHAN: And they looked me in my eyes, and he told me, yes. She's not with us. And I felt like -- now I felt like I really want to die, and that's it. Why? Why did I survive all this? Why -- why am I getting stronger? Why? What about her? I thought everything is OK. She was so special. And she's -- I'm missing her so much. And I don't know when it's going to be, but I hope I'm going to see her again. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Carol Lin at the CNN Center and here are some stories making news right now. Family members of three Western men being held hostage in Iraq are waiting to hear any news about them. Insurgents have threatened to kill them if female prisoners in Iraq are not released. Now, the U.S. military says it isn't holding any women prisoners. I'm going to speak to the brother of one of the American hostages coming up at 10 p.m. Eastern. And John Edwards is slamming a suggestion by a top Republican that terrorists want John Kerry to win the presidency. Edwards says House Speaker Dennis Hastert has joined the choir of fear-mongers. Tomorrow John Kerry is going to make what he calls a major address on Iraq. And President Bush is promising to speed up federal aid to states hit by Hurricane Ivan. Today he surveyed damage in Alabama and Florida. Mr. Bush told residents, quote, "We are praying for you." Coming up at 10 o'clock Eastern on CNN SUNDAY NIGHT, we're going to have our rap sheet. Plus, you remember him as the soup guy on "Seinfeld." Well, I'm going to tell you what he's cooking up now. But right now, back to "Impact of Terror." ANNOUNCER: We now return to CNN PRESENTS "Impact of Terror." NARRATOR: Best friends Malki Roth and Michal Raziel are buried in the same Jerusalem cemetery, one beside the other. Exactly two years to the day after the Sbarro bombing, friends and family struggle to cope with their loss. AVIVAH RAZIEL: When you think of Michal, first you see her smile. She was such a sweet little girl and she was always smiling, always happy. Michal was a little sixteen year old, she wanted to get married, she wanted to have children, and it was my dream, as well, that she could get married and have children and I would be at her wedding. It wasn't to be. How do I cope with the loss? I just pick myself up and carry on living. But it was very difficult for me to get back into life. It took me ages to go back to work. NARRATOR: One year after the tragedy that claimed her daughter's life, Avivah Raziel returned to work as a nurse caring for premature babies at Hadassah Hospital. AVIVAH RAZIEL: Sometimes I think it would be very easy for me just, you know, to lay in bed and not to get up and face the world today. What would happen? But that's not the way I do things. ARNOLD ROTH, MALKI'S FATHER: The striking thing about Malki to everyone who knew her was that she was full of love and giving. That had a very practical side to it because our youngest child is profoundly disabled. She's blind and she has no communication with the world at all and Malki was totally given over to the needs of her own sister. So what can you say about a child like that? She's obviously a special soul. NARRATOR: Only one possession of Malki Roth's was recovered from the bomb site and returned to her father. It was the very cell phone that he repeatedly called that day. ROTH: As I took it out of the bag, nails fell all over the table. Ugly little black nails. And here you can see the words (HEBREW) in her handwriting. Just a kind of a constant reminder, don't get carried away with your chatty conversations with your friends because talking ill of people can cause great little pains, so she was sensitive to that, she was very careful about this and this is Malki. Little pictures of beetles and happy things. She was a very happy girl. There are beetles all over this. Ladybirds. So what do you say to somebody who can blow up a child who is holding onto one of these things? Not much. NARRATOR: When the explosion occurred, firefighter Michel Amar's children were only meters from the bomber. At the table beside them, five members of Dutch-Israeli family the Schijveschuurders were killed. Somehow, the Amars escaped with only burns and cuts. But the impact of the bombing reverberates to this day. ANAT AMAR (through translator): The 9th of August is the day that closed, that stopped my life. I left my studies, I left work, everything I loved. I cut off. Today the relationship between Michel and I is strange, I would say. I stopped sharing with him. There is no more 50/50 at home. He does a lot more than me. You do the groceries, you go to the parent-teacher meetings. You'll do many other things that before I used to take off your hands. The first few months after the bombing my son Eliad acted as the father of the house when Michel was working. He helped in every way. In the beginning I thought, "Oh, how nice. What a clean and tidy room." Every mother wants her child to clean and tidy his room, but then I saw that it was starting to become extreme, meaning he cleans his clothes all the time. He cleans his suit with his brush. If there is a tiny seam on his clothes, he puts them in the laundry right away. ELIAD AMAR (through translator): From the bombing I had a lot of bits of flesh on my shirt from bodies, so I had to clean myself up. Now it's also in my room. I have to clean my room, my clothes, and all of that. But if I don't clean up, then I start to get all stressed in the head and worried. I get a headache. ANAT AMAR: Gradually I started to learn from him that the kids as school don't really accept it. He doesn't play soccer with them anymore because he doesn't want to get dirty. He doesn't sit on the floor and play with his friends because he doesn't want to get dirty. So gradually he started to lose friends. That's something that hurts me very, very much. Today I not only regret this, but if I could give everything-- everything in order to turn back time, I would do it. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NARRATOR: In a country where security is paramount and metal detectors are a part of everyday life, 17 year old Sbarro bombing survivor Miriam Shushan faces a daily irony. Every time she walks through a metal detector, she sets it off. Miriam still has over half a kilo of bomb shrapnel inside her body. Today she has traveled to Hadassah Hospital to visit Dr. Arieh Eldad, the surgeon responsible for saving her life. Miriam is on a courageous personal mission. She is determined to see for the first time Dr. Eldad's photos of the terrible injuries she sustained that day almost two years ago. ELDAD: That's the first picture. This is how you looked at... SHUSHAN: Oh my Lord. ELDAD: ...when you first arrived this is how I first remember you. This is how we took you to the operating room on Thursday. You see your hands are already covered with dressings because they had burned. SHUSHAN: I didn't see myself for like two months in a mirror. ELDAD: You had superficial burns on your face, that's why you are very beautiful now. They weren't deep burns. You see, this is the nail that we put in-the orthopedic surgeon, just to repair the fracture that is here. And these are all the bolts and fragments that the suicide bomber just left in. I must admit, ours are much nicer. Miriam was a great fighter. Miriam was very optimistic. She could smile and she could even laugh very, very early in her course of healing. And when we saw this, we knew that she would be OK eventually. SHUSHAN: My hopes. Everyone, like, wants to get married and build a family and to get somebody you love as you are. And I don't know, to have a normal life that I could live like everybody else. NARRATOR: That day that you went to the restaurant, Sbarro, do you remember? What do you remember? GAFNIT AMAR, BOMBING VICTIM (through translator): I remember that I flew through the window. And also that my brother was burned. And also that my brother Eliad picked me up from the window. MICHEL AMAR: Usually when you think of children you think of joyfulness. Gafnit at the age of three matured and became like a woman. I mean she doesn't care about children. She doesn't care about much. It's hard to stimulate her, to bring her back to the stage of childhood. At the kindergarten she's having a lot of difficulties. When she's alone she plays, but when she's with the kids in the kindergarten she disconnects, she's afraid of everything. NARRATOR: Does it scare you or not to go play outside? GAFNIT AMAR: Yes, because there are also terror attacks. NARRATOR: What is scary about terror attacks? GAFNIT AMAR: That people get killed. NARRATOR: And if your mom and dad are with you, do you like to go to the city? GAFNIT AMAR: No, I'm scared. NARRATOR: Mom and Dad can't protect you? GAFNIT AMAR: They can but I'm scared anyway. NARRATOR: Why? GAFNIT AMAR: Because I'm always (ph), I'm at home and there's bombings all the time. MICHEL AMAR: We live in the city center and we can here every terrorist attack. During a terrorist attack we hear the noise of a powerful explosion and I can give you dozens of examples of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. We hear every single terrorist attack and every terrorist attack triggers the anxiety all over again. ANAT AMAR: Basically, I don't go outside because I am scared to. It's got to a point where Michel even hid my passport because he was very scared that I would do something very drastic. If it was up to me and I could, I would simply pick up and leave. Not only would I leave this house, but I would also leave Jerusalem. I wouldn't even give it a second thought. MICHEL AMAR: I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not a person who's scared. But I am afraid for my family, for my children. Yes, my wife wants to leave this city and the children want to leave and I guess what's stopping them is me. For me it's difficult to leave this city. I love this city. I have always loved Jerusalem. I was born here. I can't leave. I've had many offers. I've even had job offers in the U.S. with whatever I wanted and I didn't leave. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ANNOUNCER: We now return to CNN PRESENTS "Impact of Terror." NARRATOR: After the horror of that summer day, Canadian volunteer paramedic Orley Pinchuk is returning to Israel. Two years after helping keep Miriam Shushan conscious on that desperate journey to the hospital, Orley and Miriam will be meeting for the first time. PINCHUK: For the past two years I've really-I've thought about her so much and just I really wonder where she is today, what she's doing and... SHUSHAN: It would be nice to see her in good times, because she saw me only half-dead, so it would be nice. PINCHUK: Hi. I'm so happy to see you walking. I had no idea, honestly. I had no idea if you'd ever be able to walk and I had no idea... SHUSHAN: I owe you so much. RAZIEL: I try not to think of where I live as a battlefield, but if you think about it, then going to the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread is going out to the battlefield. ROTH: It's hard for me to think about us in a different environment. We've been raising our children here for 15 years. I have to say it makes you go prematurely gray and you worry a lot, but you deal with it. You deal with the reality that you're given. RAZIEL: When you walk around Israel, you walk around restaurants, you walk around shopping malls, you walk in the center of town, you see security guys everywhere. You can't go into a restaurant without being checked. You can't go into a shopping mall without being checked. You walk downtown, you go to the marketplace, you see security guys all over the place. And I go downtown only if I really have to. If I go to a restaurant I'll go not into the center of town but somewhere in the periphery and always make sure that there's a guard there and never sit close to the guard, always sit further inside. ROTH: Our younger kids, who still go to school, are given pretty strict instructions. First of all, no public buses. Never. They do travel on school buses but those are buses that only carry school kids. My wife and I spend a lot of time ferrying our children around the town because we'd much rather do that than have them go on the bus. You never take your mind off the security issue. I know when I'm on a bus, and I'm on a bus most days, I scan around, I look at the floor to see if there are any packages lying there. However, at a certain point you switch off and you say, "OK, I've done my bit. It's not in my control. You hope for the best. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem killed at least 20 people. The bomber blew himself up on a bus packed with people going home to an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The attack here tonight was on a soft target. The bus was full of civilians. The youngest were not spared. Many of those maimed and killed here tonight are children. After the relative quiet of recent times, people here had been feeling a bit safer, a bit more relaxed. But that's over now. ROTH: We're part of a circle which now consists of several thousand families who have lost a child or a parent or a spouse to an act of murder. Up until the tragedy of my daughter's murder, I was really like, I think, most people outside of Israel. These were events that were framed by a television screen. These were things that occurred and then were overtaken by normal life. Now I've learned that for the people who are touched by an act of terror in a personal way, it isn't an event which you then work your way past and, as the expression goes, life goes on. 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Relationships in 2014: Ours Is A Society That Could Use A Hug
By Robert E. Hall
"She would be better off to start smoking again because the interaction with other smokers in the designated break area would do her more good than the smoking would do her harm." -Doctor to the son of an 85 year-old resident at an Alzheimer facility.
In this New Year, ours is a society that could use a hug. After all, when smoking is a prescription for better health – it is hard to deny the importance of relationships. By any objective measure, the most compelling priority for this New Year is human relationships. According to an AARP survey, more than one third of adults over 45 report being chronically lonely, up 65 percent in the past decade. Loneliness now carries the same mortality risk as smoking and twice that of obesity. Our whole concept of relationships is changing and not just for the older crowd. Catherine Steiner-Adair, author of The Big Disconnect, laments this is "the first generation to grow up in a culture where being sexually intimate is understood to be disconnected from the context of a relationship." So much for the relational term, "making love." Replaced by the insistently mechanical "hook-up."
Not only are we more alone but we are more separated by our distrust. According to the General Social Survey data just released, only a third of us say "Most people can be trusted" compared to half in1972. Similarly Gallup reports that 70 percent of workers are disengaged at work.
Distrusted, disengaged, lonely – it is what you would expect from a society increasingly going it alone. We keep finding new ways to bypass human interaction, communicating and transacting more by email, text, and tweets. On-line sales Cyber Monday – following Thanksgiving – were up 36 percent while in-person retail shopping was down 2.9 percent. We increasingly take our information and transactions a la carte – hold the personal interactions.
Studies jar us with how important relationships are to our health, wealth and happiness. We are all in the relationship business and by any standard, business is not good – ours is a relationship recession if not depression.
Relationship is our single richest source of value. According to Gallup, engaged customers yield businesses a premium of 23 percent in revenue growth and profits while disengaged customers suffer a 13 percent discount. Matt Lieberman's new book Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, reports that economists correlating financial and happiness data found that seeing a friend most days has the same impact on our happiness as earning a $100,000 more each year and simply seeing your neighbors on a regular basis is like getting $60,000. Volunteering at least once a month is like moving from a yearly income of $20,000 to $75,000. Conversely, getting a divorce is like suffering a $90,000 per year decrease in salary.
It makes sense. Research has shown that never being married reduces wealth by 75 percent and being married and then divorced reduces wealth by 73 percent compared to the continuously married. Building and retaining productive relationships yields a higher and more predictable ROI (return on investment) than most any business or personal initiative.
And "giving" relationships are even more powerful. The University of Chicago's General Social Survey shows charitable givers are 43 percent likelier to say they are "very happy" than nongivers. Nongivers are 3.5 times more likely than givers to say they are "not happy at all."
Yet our attitudes and behavior trend counter to this relationship reality. The American Freshman survey reports that in 1965 college freshman said that "starting a family" and "helping others" were more important life goals than being "very well off financially." By the 1980s the priority had reversed and in 2012, freshmen prioritizing "being very well-off financially" reached a record high of 81 percent. Lieberman concludes: "The more individuals endorse materialism as a positive life value, the less happy they are with their lives." Our relationship with money seems similar to our relationship with dieting – the more we talk about it and glamorize thinness, the fatter we as a nation become.
If health, wealth and happiness are not enough – how about being better looking? Dutch and British researchers report that women found men who were purported to give money to the poor more attractive – and the more they gave the more attractive they became.
We have not intended relationships atrophy. It has been the unintended consequence of advancements like technology where new-found control and convenience enables relational laziness and neglect. Relationships are the engine of health, wealth and happiness. Their absence disables. As Mother Teresa famously said, "The world's great disease is not poverty, it is loneliness."
Relationships necessitate sustained intention. Among family, friends, colleagues, customers, neighbors, and in faith, who are your "go to" relationships – that warrant renewed and sustained initiative in 2014? Where will you target relationship turnaround: replace neglect with attention, electronic messages with face-to-face interaction, denial with caring confrontation, costly avoidance with relational investment? The cashier's tee-shirt at the Potbelly Sandwich shop near me captured the urgency of our relational interdependence: "Get in here before we both starve."
Robert Hall is a noted author, consultant, and speaker on relationships. He is the author of This Land of Strangers: The Relationship Crisis That Imperils Home, Work, Politics and Faith. www.RobertEHall.com.


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Quentin Tarantino had been shooting "Django Unchained" for two solid weeks at a plantation outside New Orleans, but a pall of uncertainty hung over the cast and crew: Just what kind of slavery movie was this going to be?
After all, this was a white writer-director with a blaxploitation fixation whose previous film, "Inglourious Basterds," was a wisecracking Holocaust revenge farce. Now it was February in Louisiana, and he had scores of African American extras on set playing field hands, house servants and "ponies" (pretty black girls who served as companions to slave owners), and some racially tinged tension was bubbling up.
Tarantino set up a key scene: Jamie Foxx, playing slave-turned-bounty-hunter Django Freeman, would confront a white overseer who had tortured and punished him and his wife before selling them off to different owners. On cue, Foxx began mercilessly whipping the man. As the realistic lashes intensified, Tarantino quietly began gathering the extras behind his leading man, giving the cast its first direct look at the movie's revenge theme.
"I yell 'Cut!' and they all burst into applause. That's when Jamie turned around and realized that he had an audience: 40 black folk, all dressed as slaves, rooting him on," Tarantino recalled. "That's when everyone saw the movie we were making."


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The No. 22 Birmingham-Southern baseball team moved to 23-6 today with two SCAC wins at home against Centre College.
The Panthers won 11-2 and 9-3 at Striplin Field, remaining undefeated in conference play at 8-0 and sitting atop the East Division standings.
BSC recorded 27 hits over the two games today, with 12 in game one, led by freshman Trey Chambers who was 3-4 at the plate. Junior Stephen Denton led with three RBI.
The game-winning RBI came off a home run from junior Bruce Maxwell - his eighth of the season - in the bottom of the fourth inning to put BSC up 3-2.
Freshman right-hander Blake Stevens started on the mound and got the win, moving to 5-1 on the season after recording six strikeouts and giving up four hits in six innings. Sophomore right-hander Ralls Pennington pitched the final inning and struck out two batters.
In the nightcap, Centre kept it closer for longer, trailing only 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh when senior Jon Walker hit his fourth home run of the season, good for three RBI, to put BSC up 7-3. The Colonels never recovered and BSC won 9-3.
Sophomore Evan Grovenstein was 3-4 at the plate and Maxwell was 3-5. Walker and freshman designated hitter Zach Wagner both led with three RBI.
Senior right-hander Jesse Meier was the starter and pitcher of record, moving to 4-1 on the season after striking out three and giving up five hits in six innings. Sophomore right-hander Miles Nordgren came in for the final three innings and got the save, his fourth of the year, after allowing four hits with one strikeout.
The Panthers and the Colonels wrap up the three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Striplin Field.