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hakone & osaka.
after our time in tokyo, we did a day each in hakone and osaka. with travel, we really didn't really get to have a full day in either city, but we still made the best of it!
Open Air Museum
the hakone open air museum is a must-see! it's a stop on the hakone tozan railway stretch of the hakone loop. it was a beautiful day for strolling around the beautiful landscape, surrounded by amazing sculptures and installations. they also have a huge picasso collection (no pictures allowed).
Lake Ashi & Surrounding
we continued on the rest of the hakone loop after a couple hours at the open air museum. on a clear day, you can see mt. fuji, but we were not so lucky. the views of lake ashi at sunset, from both a gondola and a pirate ship more than made up for it though.
Kitanokaze Saryou
we stayed the night at a fancy ryokan, kitanokze saryou. it was the most expensive overnight stay on this japan trip, but it was totally worth it! it included a kaiseki dinner, a private outdoor onsen (hot spring) surrounded by bamboo, and a huge breakfast. getting to soak in a natural hot spring before bed, and first thing in the morning, is pretty glorious.
being further south, osaka had way more cherry blossoms in bloom than we saw during our first leg in tokyo. the tree-lined rivers and parks were breathtaking.
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
we didn't get into osaka until mid-afternoon, so we really didn't have much time there. luckily, the one place i really wanted to go - the aquarium - was open til 8pm. it's a really impressive place, and seeing whale sharks here kinda sorta made up for the fact that we didn't see any in the maldives.
Dotonbori Area
after the aquarium, we wandered the tourist-y and packed dotonbori area, full of restaurants and shops and teenagers. it was super busy and packed, even on a tuesday night!
Osaka Castle
we decided to see how close we could get to osaka castle at night, assuming the grounds themselves were closed. luckily for us, the grounds were open and we got to walk right up to it, and it wasn't hot or full of tourists like it would have been during the day. i've been to osaka castle several times before, but never at night.
well, that's about it. after osaka we headed to kyoto for a few days! it was lovely, and i can't wait to share it - especially our first three-star michelin dining experience!


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NEW YORK - Don Garber announced Monday that he would be instituting the ideals of promotion and relegation among the press corps that covers Major League Soccer.
"We feel like the time has come for promotion and relegation as it pertains to our reporters. Having said that we should acknowledge the hard work of fans the entire nation over, including our 51st state of Canada, that made this happen." said Garber before a sparsely attended press conference at the Red Lobster in Times Square.
"Starting next year in January, all the people who report on our league will be arranged into four different divisions. Access to teams and to the league front office will be granted based on the number of ass-kissing, obtuse articles that you write where you challenge nothing about the league structure and instead just toe the company line repeatedly. If you perform this job well enough at your local level you will be given the beat for your region. Perform well enough with your region and you will be promoted to national. Perform well enough with the national beat and you could see yourself promoted to the Premier league of MLS level reporting. That is doing commentary on US Soccer Federation games, international friendlies, and any Major League Soccer game that you want to cover while writing pithy twitter commentary on airplanes to desperate fans who just want to see their name mentioned in your twitter feed."
Garber stated that reporters who fulfill their end of the bargain in promoting the league without asking too many questions about the league structure or the finances within will be promoted and relegated between these divisions.
"We aren't looking for the next Bob Woodward, we are looking for the next Bill O'Reilly. We want someone who can shape the debate about the league in a way that flatters us and minimizes fan complaints to the description of a noisy minority."
The Nutmeg News will have as much news on this as Major League Soccer releases, which is likely going to be a press release that is already invalidated by an internal meeting that was held but not reported on until July of 2016 where we find that all of this wasn't actually true.

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CAIRO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign currency reserves fell to $42.551 billion in December from $44.513 billion in November, the central bank said on Monday.
The reserves had been climbing since Egypt signed a $12 billion, three-year International Monetary Fund loan in November 2016 as part of efforts to attract foreign investors who fled during the 2011 uprising. (Reporting by Lena Masri; Editing by Toby Chopra)


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This topic is so awesome! I can't wait to start this one, although it might be a quick post.
As you guys know, I've just finished the second YA novel from this incredible author and adored it so much, it's made me want to re-read this heartbreaking one!
I read this book years ago as a pre-teen, and I've re-read it a couple of times since. I think there was one time when I literally just turned the book over and started again.
I've also re-read this one! I loved this trilogy so much, and I'd love to read it in Paris.
I adored this book, and when the movie finally comes out I'll definitely want to re-read!
This is the same as Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – I just loved it so much that I'd love to read it again!
I could go on and on about this – I'd probably re-read my whole library if I had the time.
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Media outlets across the country have been reporting on the slowdown of the national real estate market. In the same breath they mention the downturn of the economy, and the relationship between the two. The word recession is tossed around, even though we are not currently in one. This creates fear on a national level. People are afraid that the economy is going to continue to slide, and see this as a dangerous time to buy or sell property. The result is that people are afraid to enter the real estate market. The industry then comes to a grinding halt. The economy is affected as a result, and all the media's doomsday predictions come true. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It is important to keep in mind that news makers are just that news makers. They need a story that will grab the nation's attention. Ever since the start of the recent housing boom, the media has been waiting for any sign of a slowing market. They have now jumped on it. While it is true that some areas of the country are seeing a distinct slowdown of the market, others are continuing to be stable. Greenville South Carolina is just such a place.
Compared to last year, the average price of sold properties is up by 2% over last year, when the real estate explosion was at its peak. Also, there continues to be a boom in terms of inventory on the market. There are over 1500 new homes on the market that have never been lived in, and around 4,000 existing homes on the market as well. Buyers have a great deal of choice in the Greenville area, and prices are reasonable.
For sellers, it is still a good time to sell your home. The average number of days that a home is on the market is comparable to last year's numbers. While there has been a slight decrease in the number of home sales, the market is still moving ahead at a stable pace.
Certainly Greenville is fairing much better than the national market. Homes are selling at a consistent rate, and hundreds of new homes are continuing to enter the market, making this a great place for buyers and sellers alike.
Don't let the headlines scare you, this is a great time to invest in Greenville real estate.


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Please note that from September 2017, the majority of offers are only be available for the NW8-mums Loyalty Card holders. Since the membership scheme was launched in May 2017, all new offers go into the pool for paying members. Kent & Sons Butchers, Igloo Kids, Huggle, 3 House Club, Tiddlywinks @ Ben's, Crocker's Folly and Lords At Home are just a few of many local companies that have signed up to support the NW8-mums Loyalty Card Scheme.
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It's great to be an NW8-mum!
Hair & Beauty
- The lovely Sara comes to cut my hair as well as my children's hair too, at my home. She is super talented! She can be reached at 07477 008 355 and charges £65.
I have my hair coloured in the comfort of my own home with the amazing Steve Curran who has done the hair of many celebrities including Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and many more. Steve was Nicky Clarke's Head Colourist during his ten year tenure there, and he has since worked for other top hairdressers. He currently works at a salon in Knightsbridge and spends the rest of his time colouring the hair of people at the top of their game in the comfort of their own homes. Steve's experience and proficiencies were enhanced alongside some of the world's top designers, leading fashion magazines and A-List Celebrities such as Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Vogue, Elle, Grazia to name but a few. He is giving NW8-mums an exclusive deal (prices starting at £140 instead of £180 depending on what you need doing), so if you are looking for someone to give you a real boost, book him. You won't be disappointed!
- It is with great pleasure that I can share the news that Joshua Altback Haircare & Beauty has a great offer for us. They have been located on St John's Wood High street for over 50 years. They do cuts, colouring, kid's haircuts, Brazilian hair straightening, hair extensions, hairdos for events, parties and bridal hair, as well as beauty. There are two beauty rooms offering everything from Guinot facials, to waxing and manicures all done in a personal and friendly atmosphere. They are offering NW8-Mums a 10% discount off all their hair and beauty services. Loyalty card holders have an even better discount. Just mention NW8-mums when you book and enjoy some pampering!
- Studio Hair & Beauty on 66 St John's Wood High Street offers 10% off to NW8-mums for women's and children's haircuts. Phone number: 020 7449 0000 They have an area downstairs for those who are covered or for those who would like more privacy.
- I am very happy to let you know that Trend Hair & Beauty which is situated on St John's Wood High Street, is offering NW8-mums 25% off on all colour services and cuts on Mondays only. So, if you are in need of treating yourself to a new haircut or colour ahead of summer, try them out. Many of the mums go and are very happy. I have also had good experiences there.
- Bubble is a service that several NW8-mums use. Use the code CBHBJ to get £10 off on the first booking with them.
- The gorgeous jewellery designer Mihaela Christou is an NW8-mum and I have treated myself to several of her beautiful pieces. I always wear them for special occasions. She has 10% off for NW8-mums and another offer for loyalty card holders.
- One of the NW8-mums, has a jewellery business called Shirel. They sometimes have offers for us so do check with them.
- Unico Caffe & Gelato on the High Street are offering 10% off to NW8-mums and they have an even better offer for those with loyalty cards.
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So-called smart meters can give false readings that overstate energy consumption by a factor of six, according to a new study by the University of Twente.
Researchers attached nine different electronic meters to power-consuming appliances, including light bulbs, heaters, Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and dimmers, and compared the actual power consumption to smart meter readings.
They found smart meters often gave false readings, reporting appliances were using up to 582 percent more energy than in reality. That's nearly six times higher than reality.
Policymakers want households and businesses to install smart meters to reduce energy use. Smart meters, in theory, allow utilities to more efficiently manage energy flows in the grid, possibly making wind and solar power work more effectively.
Wind and solar power only generate electricity when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining, so operating them requires a far more accurate measurement of power usage than conventional coal, natural gas or nuclear power.
But Twente researchers found there were still big problems with meters on the market.
"These were laboratory tests, but we deliberately avoided using exceptional conditions," Cees Keyer, a doctoral student in electrical engineering involved in the research, said in a press statement. "For example, [we used] a dimmer and 50 bulbs, while an average household has 47 bulbs."
The largest meter inaccuracies occurred when energy saving light bulbs and LEDs were used. Scientists think inaccuracies ironically occurred due to attempts to make the meters themselves more energy efficient.
Researchers estimate these potentially inaccurate meters have been installed in at least 750,000 households in just the Netherlands. The study was conducted to confirm numerous rumors in the country that electronic energy meters gave excessively high readings.
Despite these high and inaccurate readings, the Dutch government still wants smart meters in every household by 2020.
Smart meter were intended to reduce energy use by communicate directly with utlities and electricity providers to make wind and solar power work more effectively. Since wind and solar power only generate electricity when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining, operating them requires a far more accurate measurement of power usage than conventional coal, natural gas or nuclear power.
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SAN DIEGO -- The Union-Tribune reported Tuesday that developer Doug Manchester contacted the National Football League about building a new facility.
Columnist Kevin Acee wrote that Manchester, former owner of the newspaper, told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that he has lined up a group of associates that could replace Qualcomm Stadium with a privately funded 70,000-seat stadium.
The stadium would be made available to the Chargers if they return, the Raiders if their planned move to Las Vegas falls through, or another team.
Manchester told FOX 5 Wednesday that he was not expecting the NFL to release the letter and that was too early to comment on the matter.
FOX 5 asked San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer about Manchester's offer and he said he had not been approached by him.
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SASKATOON – The University of Saskatchewan Huskies picked up a statement victory in a match between two programs that are destined for the postseason, as they defeated the visiting Mount Royal Cougars 3-1 (25-20, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21) on Ron & Jane Graham Centre Court inside the PAC on Friday, Feb. 19.
Despite the looss, it was a big day for the Cougars as Tyler Schmidt as he breaks the career points record previously held by Brad Gunter.
Schmidt had a game-high 22 kills for the Cougars. Ty Moline and Luis Lange each recorded two service-aces and combined for 16 kills.
The one-two punch of Dylan Mortenson and Colin Fraser paced the Huskies in the victory, as the pair of outside hitters combined for 27 kills on the night. Evan Parchomchuk had a game-high ten digs for Saskatchewan, while CJ Gavlas chalked 38 assists.
With the win, Saskatchewan moved to 11-10 and ahead of Thompson Rivers for fifth-place in the standings. The Wolfpack have a match in hand will take the floor later on tonight in Kelowna against UBC Okanagan. Meanwhile, Mount Royal, who entered the afternoon tied with Alberta for third, falls to 15-6.
After a back-and-forth opening set, the Huskies began to pull away late in the frame. Gavlas beautifully executed a dump that caught the Cougars off guard to make it 21-16 in favor of the home side. After Moline's service error led to set point for Saskatchewan, another Mount Royal service error sealed the set win for the hosts. The Huskies were extremely efficient in the frame, as they finished with a .565 hitting percentage. Mortenson and Schmidt paced their respective clubs with four kills in the set.
After getting out to a quick start in the second frame, Mount Royal took a 12-8 lead thanks a monster block from Moline and Saskatchewan was never able to get themselves back into the set. Moline provided a kill and followed that up with a service ace to make it 23-19 in favor of the visitors. The Cougars were provided set point after a kill from Schmidt, and the fifth-year outside hitter closed out the frame in style with a service ace to tie the match up at one set apiece. Schmidt provided seven of his teams 13 kills in the frame, with the visitors finishing with a .290 hitting percentage in the set. The Huskies red-hot start cooled off in the second, as the team finished with a .182 hitting percentage.
Three-straight kills from the Huskies, with two coming from Fraser and another from Cody Caldwell helped give the home side a 10-8 lead early in the third set. Saskatchewan was able to maintain a comfortable lead until late in the frame when Mount Royal closed the gap. After Fraser's kill made it 23-19 in favor of the Huskies, the Cougars rallied off four consecutive points to knot the match at 23-23. However, after Mason Scott gave the hosts the lead with the kill, an attacking error by Schmidt sealed the set for Saskatchewan. After an inefficient second frame, the Huskies bounced back with a .435 hitting percentage in the third.
Mount Royal and Saskatchewan exchanged points throughout the entirety of the fourth frame, with neither team able to pull away until late. Fraser, who is playing in his final regular season action at the PAC this weekend, helped the Huskies pull away. Fraser recorded a kill and a service ace to give the hosts a 20-18 lead. Two consecutive errors from Mount Royal made the score 25-21, as Saskatchewan sealed the win in four sets.
The Huskies and the Cougars will conclude their regular season campaigns tomorrow afternoon in the team's final opportunity to fine-tune their squads before Canada West postseason action beginning next weekend.


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The 2001 Annual Scholarship Awards Brunch - held on Sunday, June 10, 2001 at One Front Street in Bethel - was another sell-out event! Following a delightful afternoon brunch, the Nino Vaghi Good Sportsmanship Award and the Bernard J. Dolan, Sr. and Arthur J. Mannion, Sr. memorial scholarships were presented to this year's recipients. The event offered the opportunity to renew acquaintances with the 1998, 1999, and 2000 recipients of these scholarships who attended as Pavia Council guests.
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By TDR on Tuesday, February 13, 2018If you are looking for a three row SUV look no further that the Volvo XC-90. We had decided to check out a few different brands and models (Lexus, Mercedes, Cadillac, Infinity, Acura) but when we checked this one out we knew there was no need to look any further. We found out you get more standard equipment for your money and even loaded it cost less than almost everything else in the category that we looked at. Did I say the safety equipment is second to none compared to anything else on the highway. Volvos goal is no serious injuries or deaths while driving or riding in any of their vehicles by 2025. We have a 2018 T6 Inscription and really are glad we bought it. We are coming from a 2017 Audi Q7 Prestige and just kept having little problems with it until one day while making a left turn across two oncoming lanes of traffic it decided to completely brake. That was it, so we decided it was time to move on after two years. The only thing the Q7 had over this vehicle is it had a little more power, 333 hp vs 316 hp but really is not that noticeable. If you are looking for a new SUV, mid size or larger, this vehicle is at least worth a test drive.
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After extended debate, the 44th General Assembly erected an ad interim committee to study the role of women in ministry in the PCA. Overture 3 from Westminster Presbytery calls for the 45th General Assembly to reverse that action. Specifically, it calls for the Assembly to declare that the 44th Assembly erred in forming it, not to receive any report from it, and to dismiss the committee with apology.
The Overture reiterates many of the arguments advanced at the last Assembly against forming the committee: that the proposal to form it came before the Assembly in an improper manner (originating with the Cooperative Ministries Committee); that the proposal anticipated the adoption of changes in the BCO; and that women were placed on the committee, potentially exercising authority over the men on the committee and the members and churches of the denomination. In addition, the Overture argues that the creation of the committee is disturbing the peace of the church and causing "considerable unrest" in Westminster Presbytery.
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Is there any potential Glucomannan supplement side effect? The reviews will show the answer of taking glucomannan supplement.
In recent decades, glucomannan has been introduced to the United States and European markets as a food additive and dietary supplement. What is glucomannan? It is a beneficial, soluble and fermentable dietary fiber derived from the root of the konjac plant, which is native to Asia.
Fast-forward to present day and scientific studies have revealed that supplementing with konjac glucomannan can significantly lower plasma cholesterol, improve carbohydrate metabolism, encourage bowel movements and promote a healthy colon.
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Studying mechanisms is always interesting, but what we really want to know is if this stuff leads to actual pounds being lost.
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Day 21 — ate a lot, compared with what I usually eat. All in all during the day: a choco candy, 2 little sausage rolls, a plate of soup (just water, not meat or vegetables), 2 slices of cheese and a plate of mushed potatoes plus tea-tea-tea. Thought I could allow myself all this because next day I'm having practice at the pool, an hour of nonstop swimming in the pool is sure to burn odd cals.
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I cooked two bunches of prepped* kale in 4T olive oil and a half-cup of water with three lightly crushed garlic cloves and salt and pepper in a covered sauté pan for probably less than ten minutes.
The kale was drained then put in a salad bowl. I added a bit more olive oil, one of the garlic cloves, minced, some grapefruit, feta cheese, toasted pecans and some passionfruit vinegar (a gift from a friend). Salad-wise that's a fail-safe recipe. I had never made kale before though. I will make it again.
Also, the secret ingredient in spicy asian soup is chili paste. Or else it's ginger or kaffir lime leaves or lemongrass. One of those. Or dried mushrooms.
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The one and only, Sean Price returns. No matter what you know his as, Ruck, Sean P, Decepticon Sean, Bigger Sean, Kimbo Price, and many others, today he returns as we get to check out his posthumous new project, 'Imperius Rex.' The new project is out now, and today we get to check out a full stream of it.
The new album features sixteen brand new tracks, loaded with features and contributions, including Prodigy, Styles P., Method Man, Raekwon, DOOM, Inspectah Deck and more. Sean's wife, Bernadette Price also makes a couple of appearances on the project as well. This is certainly nothing to sleep on. Check out the full stream below and head over to iTunes or Duck Down records to cop the project immediately.


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FX Markets Bracing For Major Market Event
The foreign exchange markets are brace for impact after OandA announced they will shut-down currency trading on Sunday ahead of the market-moving events
Last night we noted that OandA will shut-down trading on Sunday ahead of the market-moving events surrounding the Greek election (as it seems they are unwilling to take the agency risk and potentially counterparty risk on a large gap). Nowhere is this more clearly priced into the market than the short-dated FX option market. EURUSD 1 week implied vol is at its greatest premium to realized vol ahead of this weekend than at any time in the last three-and-a-half years. The last time the level of short-dated vol was near this high (in absolute and relative terms) was December 9th 2011 and EURUSD fell 400 pips in the next few days.
Upper pane is 1 week EURUSD implied vol (black) vs realized vol (orange); middle pane is the spread between the two; lower pane is EURUSD spot. Blue dashed vertical line is the last time we were close to these absolute and relative levels of vol premium…
At 16.5% implied for 1 week vol – this is the highest since before the last Grand Plan in early November and was followed shortly thereafter by global synchronized central bank intervention.
In the meantime, EURUSD has dropped to more than 2 sigma cheap to its swap-spread-implied fair-value (though as we have seen in the late summer and fall of last year this can remain for longer periods) as the 'chaos' premium hits the Euro.


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Yitzhak Kadman,
Executive Director,
Israel National Council for the Child
Until a few years ago, Israeli society tended to ignore the very existence of the social fact and problem of child abuse within the family. The lack of awareness, perhaps even the refusal to recognize the issue, can be attributed to a number of causes. One must remember that in every society in the world the acknowledgement of child abuse is relatively recent. Perhaps, because of the threat inherent in its very acknowledgement, it is difficult to grasp that the place in which a child should enjoy the greatest protection his own home may pose the greatest danger.
Israeli society was (and to a large extent still is) susceptible to several myths, which severely hampered its transition from the "pre- problem" denial stage to the stage of awareness and conviction that a problem exists. The myth of the wonderful Jewish family, the myth of the model society being created and built in a renewed Israel, the myth of the sanctified and inviolate family unit these three myths made it virtually inconceivable that children could be abused in the Jewish, Israeli family, children who were, moreover, the generation of the future and the cynosure of family and society.
There were of course professionals, especially social workers treating children, who came face to face with the facts and attempted to deal with them with the limited resources at their disposal. But, as a rule, Israeli society simply ignored and denied the existence and prevalence of child abuse.
When cases came before the courts the judges saw no need to mete out deterrent punishments as there was no one to deter. Child abuse was not even registered in law as a separate crime.
The Turning Point
It is difficult to determine the event or the date that saw the turning point in this tendency, since doubtless the process of perception change was gradual and cumulative. Yet, if one incident may be singled out, it would be the death of a small girl in Tiberias.
In October 1988, three-year-old Moran was brought to a hospital in Haifa. She arrived unconscious and it soon turned out that she had been prey to protracted abuse by her uncle, who had caused serious injuries to all parts of her body, including burns and sexual abuse. Her hospitalization raised no outcry nor did it make the front pages. On February 9th, 1989, Moran died in hospital after five months in a coma.
The death seemed to burst the floodgates. It received blanket coverage in all the media; experts and professionals were interviewed over and over again; organizations and public figures gave their reactions from every available podium; politicians raised the alarm; self-criticism came from all quarters Where have we been? How did we not see? Are there more such cases? It was not the first case of a child killed by family abuse but this tragedy seemed to catch the public at a ripe moment. Perhaps it was one stage in an unfolding process but it brought about significant change, at least as far as concerned the awareness and recognition of the problem of child abuse.
Within a few days, far-reaching parliamentary action had been set in motion. Four Knesset members, from four factions, tabled urgent motions for the agenda and very soon after (February 19th, 1989), the Knesset debated the question and referred it to committee. The matter was deemed so important that the Knesset resorted to the extraordinary measure of setting up a Special Committee on Child Abuse which was to submit conclusions and recommendations.
This Special Committee comprised six Members of Knesset and for six months probed intensively into the subject, summoning numerous witnesses, experts, ministry officials, professionals from the fields of welfare, health, police, justice and education, and representatives of the relevant voluntary organizations. In recognition of the role that the National Council for the Child played in the matter of children's rights in general and child abuse in particular, the Committee requested that the NCC serve as permanent advisor to it, be present at all its discussions and assist in the preparation of its conclusions and recommendations.
The National Council for the Child
The NCC is an independent, public service organization dedicated to the advancement of the rights and welfare of children in Israel. It was set up in 1979, the year proclaimed by the United Nations as the "Year of the Child". Re- established in 1986, it has become the foremost advocate in Israel for the needs of children, monitoring, advocating, representing, researching, disseminating information and promoting public education on the issue.
Over the years, the organization has achieved high visibility and established itself as an authority on matters of children's rights and welfare. It is the sole agency dealing with the entire spectrum of children's rights issues, all children, Jewish, Arab and Druze. Positioned to achieve maximum social and political leverage, the NCC simultaneously seeks changes in legislation, policy and practice. It monitors the quality of services for children, gathers data on children at risk, acts to raise public awareness of children's rights and initiates innovative projects. It actively searches out situations in which children's rights and welfare require improvement. It presses for stricter enforcement of existing laws, and for new legislation which it frequently drafts itself. It advocates and initiates better national and local, child-oriented policies and it wages a continuous struggle against cutbacks in child-oriented programs. It works to get children's interests higher priority on national and local agendas. It establishes and carries out research studies and conducts information campaigns. It operates outreach projects for professional personnel in the fields of education, social welfare, health care, law and law enforcement.
A crucial component of the NCC is the Center for the Child and the Law which we set up in 1989 to examine the legal situation regarding the protection of children and children's rights and to formulate proposals for legislation in these areas.
The Legal Status of Child Abuse Before 1989
Until 1989, Israel's code of law did not include a separate felony of child abuse, no doubt reflecting the widespread feeling that such a problem did not exist and that it was therefore unnecessary to devote special legislation to it. This does not mean that parents who abused their children before that date (and a few such cases did come to notice) could not face criminal charges: they were charged under general clauses in the code and the matter was handled as any crime of violence between two adults. Not only was there no separate or more severe provision for child abuse within the family, but the recourse to general clauses often prevented the aggressor from being brought to trial and caused the abuse to be dealt with as a relatively minor crime, since such clauses rank the severity of the crime by the consequences of the injury. Even where children had been subjected to long-term and humiliating abuse, the crime was treated as grave and punished harshly only if extensive and obvious physical damage could be demonstrated. As anyone involved in the field knows, the physical results of the injury are not the only, or even the major, aspect by which to assess the harm done to the child. Moreover, the perpetrator could not be charged with any mental or emotional harm since such injury was not provided for in the general clauses on violence.
Neither did sexual abuse within the family receive adequate treatment. For some reason, the Penal Code defined as a crime only incest and, at that, only full intercourse between father and daughter. Other sexual offenses or acts of indecency were not deemed incestuous, even when involving father and daughter, and more serious crimes such as rape did not fall into the category of incest when they involved other family members two siblings, father and son, uncle and niece (although some of the cases could be dealt with in the same way as such a crime between strangers).
Another grave shortcoming of the then legislation concerned the critical aspect of the citizen's obligation to report a crime. Again, as anyone familiar with the matter knows, one of the trickiest obstacles encountered is the conspiracy of silence. The victim keeps quiet, whether from fear or guilt, from threats, enticements or helplessness. Other members of the family also have an interest in maintaining silence and in ensuring that no one else talks and the same is true of the extended family, the immediate surroundings, the neighbors and even professionals.
Some obligation to report was included in Israeli law before 1989 but its scope was very limited and its form ineffective. It was part of the Youth Law, Treatment and Supervision, rather than the criminal code or a separate law and it applied only to a short list of professionals. Psychologists and other related professionals, for example, were excluded; so were relatives, let alone ordinary citizens. Nor did the failure to report entail any criminal sanctions: it's status was more declarative than a defined, punishable offense. (Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, not one person was ever tried for failing to report child abuse.)
On the whole, it is difficult to obtain outside evidence on child abuse within the family. Frequently, the only testimony we have to go on, when there is any at all, is that of the child-victim himself or herself. Even when one can get a child to talk it is difficult to see him or her being brought to court to face a cross- examination that may not be gentle, to say the least, while opposite, on the defendant's bench, sits the abusive parent whom his/her child must look straight in the eyes. The double trauma that this procedure can engender can be imagined. From fear of subjecting a child to it, criminal charges were often not pressed at all or brought to a halt by plea bargains.
Interestingly enough, Israel has long boasted a law, unique in the world, which allows a child who has suffered a sexual offense (whether inside or outside the family) to be questioned by a special Child/Youth Investigator
(a therapist who is not a police official) and who is then authorized to present the child's testimony in court on his/her behalf. However, this law (Law of Evidence, Revision – Protection of Children, 1955) applied only to sexual offenses; its logic was not extended to other forms of child abuse, including those within the family.(See separate article on this legislation by T. Morag.)
Finally, the restricted legislation (which, as said, related to violence in general and not to child abuse in particular) did not provide for culpability on the part of the aggressor's spouse. Child abuse is frequently done with the knowledge of the abusing parent's spouse (or other family member) and sometimes with his/her agreement or even encouragement, even if only passive. In effect, the "passive" parent, who knew of the harm being done to his/her child, made no effort to stop it and maybe even contributed to it (albeit not by deed), was in the eyes of the law neither injurious nor abusing, even though their role at times fell little short of the active perpetrator's.
All these problems and omissions had to be dealt with by the Knesset's Legislative Committee once the bill had been referred to it.
The Legislative Process
The Knesset Special Legislative Committee sought to estimate the extent of child abuse in Israel, its aspects and its consequences, but most of all how to deal with it. Completing its investigation in August 1989, it submitted a detailed report containing 36 recommendations for legislation, treatment, education, information, detection and organizational needs. At the same time, two Members of Knesset asked the NCC whether it was necessary to amend existing legislation. Among the areas identified by the Center for the Child and the Law as requiring new legislation was the legal status of child abuse itself. As for other issues, the Center had a proposal for legislation already prepared, together with a detailed information campaign promoting its importance, both only awaiting the opportune moment to be put into action. That opportunity had now arrived.
Intensive lobbying was required to overcome all the objections and reservations put to the Committee by various experts and Committee members and keep the legislation moving forward. The NCC played a double role. It both served as official advisor to the Committee, helping to prepare documents, testimony and a great deal of oral and written background material and, at the same time, managed an intensive lobbying campaign, resorting to a range of overt and behind the scenes tactics.
For every Committee member, the NCC had compiled a kit containing, inter alia, examples of similar legislation in other countries. To overcome resistance on the obligation to report issue, for instance, Committee members received a comparative table on how this obligation was handled in all American States and in other countries, listing who was bound to report, to whom and in what circumstances. These existing precedents were instrumental in defeating the opposition on this issue.
To some who at first objected to punishment on the grounds that the matter was a cultural or intrafamily one, case histories were presented, with slides, describing the severe types of injury to children. Here, too, a picture proved to be worth a thousand words.
To sustain the momentum on the issue among the general public, measures were taken to attract broad media coverage. Professionals from different disciplines were enlisted (e.g. psychologists who agreed that the duty to report should apply to psychologists) and public figures worked behind the scenes meeting individually with Members of Knesset on the Committee.
During the Committee's deliberations, judgement was handed down in the case of Moran's uncle, whose maltreatment had caused her death. It described in horrible detail the abuse the child had suffered and the astonishing fact that despite its protractedness, no one had reported it, neither relatives nor neighbors nor professionals. The detailed judgement gave extra impetus to the legislative process through the Committee, the Chairman repeatedly citing it, particularly in moments of crisis.
The NCC's importance in all things related to public information and education was very obvious. Public awareness and public opinion are not self-generating. It was necessary to publicize material, to explain the issue verbally and in print and to feed the media with "stories" and examples from among the many cases handled by the NCC, all in order to keep the subject on the public agenda. The NCC's vast experience in public information and education and its contacts in the media materially assisted the work of creating a supportive climate among the public at large and specifically among legislators.
The 28th November, 1989, had been designated by the NCC and the Presidency of the Knesset as "Children's Rights Day in the Knesset". This date, set long in advance, was to climax the activities on behalf of Children's Rights Year in Israel. Knowing this, the Legislative Committee set the goal of concluding its work and presenting the Law for final approval on that day. It succeeded and the Law was in fact brought for its second and third readings on Children's Rights Day in the Knesset, November 28th, 1989. As Members spoke in debate of the Law's importance, a large number of children and youths, as well as professionals and representatives of the NCC, were in the visitors' gallery to hear them. The Law passed its final reading by a vote of thirty-six for to none against and none abstaining.
The New Law
Some of the Law's key principles, both declarative and practical, are worth noting:
* Child abuse within the family is very positively not an internal family matter but a bane that society will not tolerate and concerning which it sees cause to intervene;
* Child abuse is a grave criminal offense;
* It is the clear moral and legal duty of the public in general and family members and professionals in particular to break the conspiracy of silence surrounding the subject. It is no longer permissible to say, "It is not my business; it is not for me to interfere."
* Child abuse is not restricted to visible, physical injury but comprehends a wide range of forms of abuse including neglect, physical injury, sexual maltreatment and emotional or mental harm.
* Also deserving mention are the chief practical principles and innovations:
* Abuse of children or the helpless is a crime separately specified by the Penal Code. It is an especially grave felony when committed by a parent, family member or person responsible for the child;
* Those responsible for the child include not only parents but also other adults under whose care or influence the child may be;
* "Abuse" includes not only physical injury but a variety of injuries, including sexual offenses and emotional abuse;
* The parent or responsible person has the duty to ensure the child's health and needs and prevent injury or abuse to him/her. Beyond abuse itself, the failure to stop abuse is also an offense;
* It is the duty of anyone with reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused by the person responsible for him to report the matter to the authorities. The duty to report is binding on family members and professionals. Anyone who knows of an incident of child abuse and fails to report it as required by law faces punishment and even imprisonment;
* The duty to report is binding on educational institutions in every instance of abuse or severe injury to children, even if the perpetrator is not responsible for the child, for example another child or group of children;
* A child who has been abused by his/her parent shall not be required to testify against the parent in court; rather, a Special Children's Investigator (not a policeman) shall be allowed to testify on behalf of the child.
It is also noteworthy that, although the Law comes under the criminal code, it specifies elements of treatment and even maps out patterns of communication and coordination between the authorities charged with its enforcement, particularly between the police and social workers (defined by the Youth Law as Welfare Officers).
To round off the picture, within months of the Law's ratification, the Knesset supplemented its legislative action with two statutes. One was an amendment to the Penal Code regarding sexual offenses within the family
(incest) which extended the definition of "family member" and the list of sexual offenses and increased the penalties for these offenses.
The amendment stressed that a sexual offense against a minor within the family is to be viewed more harshly than a similar offense outside the family context. In so doing, the legislature sought to counteract an attitude, which to some extent still obtains, even in the courts, that the fact that the offense occurred within the family somehow mitigates it. Like the previous legislation, this amendment too had been drawn up by the Center for the Child and the Law at the NCC. It was the result of the work of a multidisciplinary expert committee on the subject of incest, who had recommended, inter alia, that the existing law on the subject be amended to broaden its applicability.
The second statute enacted was the Law on the Prevention of Violence within the Family. This is a more general measure and does not refer necessarily to children. Initiated by women's organizations in response to the frequency of wife battering, it is nevertheless of much significance for children too as, for the first time, it allows the aggressor to be removed from the family home. He or she may be removed even before the conclusion of, possibly protracted, due process. This replaces the more common and unfortunate solution whereby it is the child- victim that is removed from home and family.
Results of the Legislation
Four years have passed since the Law came into effect, but it may still be too early to assess its full impact and long-term ramifications. Nonetheless, certain recent developments are attributable to its adoption and some results are already clear, even quantifiable.
There is no question but that the passing of the Law did a great deal to raise public awareness of child abuse. Its enactment has certainly helped Israeli society progress from the "problem" denial stage to open confrontation of the phenomenon and its frequency and gravity. The topic remains on the public agenda to this day.
One must bear in mind that the Law, like every law, also serves a declarative purpose. By laying down intentions and policy and setting norms as to what is allowed and what forbidden, what is slight and what serious, what is desirable and what unacceptable, legislation is the most blatant way for society to express its attitude to a feature of social behavior. This is especially true for topics and issues clouded by ambiguity, obscurity and ambivalence. In this respect the Law has already achieved clear results. Its message that child abuse is a grave and prohibited offense, against which society has a right to interfere, is penetrating more and more sections of the population. The Law itself has become common currency, disseminated in print and by word of mouth and forming the basis for performance guidelines and professional training in the spheres of education, welfare, justice, police, health and others. Over and above its practical consequences for offenders, it has proved an invaluable tool of social education.
Another effect of the Law has been to stimulate the rate of reporting of child abuse. In a single year the nationwide reporting rate at least doubled, in some locations the increase was fivefold. Doubtless, the public's accumulating awareness of the problem was also a factor but the passage of the Law certainly contributed significantly. The courts' attitude is also slowly changing. Punishments are becoming harsher, partly because the Law provides for this, partly because judges are also susceptible, to some degree, to public trends.
NCC Activities
Naturally, the NCC took advantage of the new Law to intensify its dissemination of information both to the general public and to professionals. The organization's lawyers prepared a synopsis of the Law in plain, understandable language and hundreds of copies were distributed, primarily to professionals in education, health, law, psychology and social work. At the same time a wide-ranging campaign was begun to educate the general public in their duty to report child abuse. Posters were designed and distributed in thousands (in Hebrew and in Arabic). Giant billboards carrying the message where placed in central locations and attracted much attention. The NCC opened its hotline to the general public to make reporting all the easier.
Monitoring Court Cases
The NCC has also taken the initiative in the matter of court judgements. The courts still give out surprising decisions and sentences in child abuse cases, a tendency attributed by some observers to the justice system's conservatism and slow adaptation to social change. Nevertheless, change can be detected not only in sentencing but in the comments made and the causes cited in the rulings. For some three years, the NCC has methodically monitored and recorded court decisions in every case of child abuse. When the sentence is inappropriately lenient, the NCC demands from the relevant bodies that they appeal it. Most of the appeals submitted in consequence have been allowed by the Supreme Court, which has emphasized the gravity of the offense and the necessity to deal severely with it.
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Slighter, less evident changes are to be found in the social and therapeutic services dealing with the child abuse. The Law established a fait accompli and directed the welfare system to expand and upgrade its facilities with respect to both its intake of reportings and its response to them. The system received some supplement of resources and manpower to meet the new demands on it but much too little and, to some extent, irrelevant. This is the Achilles heel of the national response to child abuse. Welfare professionals are neither unwilling nor indifferent but legislative advance has left treatment resources far in arrears.
The resources Israel has committed to the problem lag far behind those of other industrial democracies and, more importantly, behind the scale of the need in Israel, which is only now coming to light. It is interesting to note that of thirty-six recommendations submitted to the Knesset's Special Committee on Child Abuse only eight have been put into effect and most of these were matters of legislation and amendments to existing law. Material requirements shelters for battered children, a national database, accessible reporting centers and a base for interdisciplinary work, manpower increments, expansion of training facilities, research and knowledge gathering these have remained on paper.
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Tourists don't know where they've been,
travelers don't know where they're going.
- Paul Theroux
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux
You define a good flight by negatives:
you didn't get hijacked,
you didn't crash, you didn't throw up,
you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food.
So you are grateful.
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that
it can make us love life and value it with such passion
that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you
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rock star in a cowboy hat,
but I can't think of one at the moment.
- Paul Theroux
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
- Paul Theroux
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation,
and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
- Paul Theroux
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
- Paul Theroux
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them
indistinguishable from rudeness.
- Paul Theroux
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
- Paul Theroux
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
- Paul Theroux
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
- Anatole Broyard
The tourist may complain of other tourists,
but he would be lost without them.
- Agnes Repplier
Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox,
and there was weird mail, death threats.
- Henry Thomas
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
- Sam Ewing
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists
for its economic survival.
We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
- Corrine Brown
After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist,
I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem -
which is usually off limits for tourists.
- Dorothy Dunnett
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie,
based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
- Brian De Palma
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion,
whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
- Robert Runcie
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now.
There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
- John Lithgow
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious
destination for tourists,
as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
- Jon Porter
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate,
melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order
to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
- Alan Coren
I quit flying years ago.
I don't want to die with tourists.
- Billy Bob Thornton
I am leaving the town to the invaders:
increasingly numerous,
mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
- Brigitte Bardot
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of
the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts
of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
- William Howard Taft
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other
tourists recognize you as a tourist.
- Russell Baker
But the Spain which emerged around 1960,
beginning with its economic miracle,
created by the invasion of tourists,
can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the
part of its intellectuals,
and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
- Juan Goytisolo
To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense...
you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out
to tourists on the weekend.
They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
- Sam Worthington
There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was.
I think it will have half the population.
They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists.
The rest I don't know.
- Geraldo Rivera
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife,
actually, was an effort to put something on the mall
in Washington so American tourists could walk through America,
and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
We are each other's seventh largest trading partner,
we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise,
we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders,
businessmen, tourists and school children too.
- Sellapan Ramanathan
It's tourists in New York.
Everything is geared towards that.
It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there.
They have to compete with so many other entertainments,
so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
- Delta Burke
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico.
They helped attract industry and tourists to a country
which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
- David Ogilvy
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues.
The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it,
with what they have, where they are.
- Robert Fulghum
How many people have a family grave in the backyard?
I'm sure I'll end up there,
or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room.
I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
- Lisa Marie Presley
Prayer for many is like a foreign land.
When we go there, we go as tourists.
Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place.
Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too
long and go somewhere else.
- Robert McAfee Brown
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached
the military might of the Soviet Empire.
It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid,
loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
- Barbara Amiel
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
It's a very good historical book about history.
- Dan Quayle
History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins
History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford
Human history becomes more and more a race between
education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
- James A. Baldwin
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are
few originals and many copies.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened
told by people who weren't there.
- George Santayana
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
- Augustine Birrell
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
- Ted Koppel
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes,
follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive
positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
- Dan Quayle
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
- Henry James
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
- Jean Chretien
Never doubt that you can change history.
You already have.
- Marge Piercy
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show
the world that when one has the will one can succeed
in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
- A. Whitney Brown
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
History is an account, mostly false,
of events,
mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers,
mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce
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