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Aug. 1, 2014
Leyla Yunus, prominent human rights activist in Azerbaijan, is charged with with treason, tax evasion, running an illegal business and other crimes and jailed for three months pending trial. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Diplomatic Memo; landmark gathering of nearly 50 African leaders will take place in Washington and centerpiece of four-day meeting with Obama administration will be conference to stimulate trade and investment; with such a heavy emphasis on commerce, some activists say chance to press African leaders on human rights abuses could be missed. MORE
Jul. 25, 2014
European Court of Human Rights rules that Poland violated rights of terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by allowing their transfer to secret Central Intelligence Agency in Poland, where they were tortured. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
Bahrain orders Tom Malinowski, senior United States official on human rights, to cut short his visit and leave the country after he meets with al-Wefaq, country's main Shiite opposition group. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Pakistan's lawmakers approve Protection of Pakistan Bill 2014 which allows country's security forces to shoot suspects on sight, arrest suspects without a warrant and withhold information about where detainees are being held; say measure is needed to fight Taliban but rights activists warn of human-rights violations. MORE
Jun. 14, 2014
Chinese authorities announce arrest of Pu Zhiqiang, well-known rights defender who took part in private seminar in May, in which participants discussed army's violent suppression of1989 protests in Tiananmen Square; decision to prosecute Pu is further evidence of government's determination to silence even moderate reform advocates. MORE
Jun. 5, 2014
Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column criticizes democracy advocate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Pres Obama for their silence regarding apartheid being carried out against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority; holds situation is especially lamentable given that both figures have past records of speaking out in favor of human rights; warns fate of Myanmar itself is at stake in conflict, noting the effect violence has on economy, education and fueling of ethnic hatred. MORE
Jun. 1, 2014
Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column underscores plight of Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar, which is being persecuted by the government; laments inaction on part of international community; urges Pres Obama, who has hailed progress in the country as a success, to address the issue. MORE
May. 29, 2014
Venezuelan government charges that Kevin Whitaker, United States ambassador to Colombia, is involved in a plot to kill Pres Nicolas Maduro, but offers no convincing proof; accusation comes after House passed bill calling on Obama administration to freeze assets of Venezuelan officials responsible for human rights abuses during government's response to several weeks of widespread protests. MORE
May. 29, 2014
Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column decries crimes being committed by Myanmar government against country's Muslim Rohingya minority; says government has confined thousands of Rohingya to internment camps or villages and stripped them of their citizenship since clashes between Buddhists and Muslims began in 2012; asserts that situation has grown worse in 2014, as government has blocked humanitarian intervention, including health care; calls for intervention from international community and Pres Obama. MORE
May. 21, 2014
Obama administration imposes sanctions on 12 Russians for human rights abuses, including the detention and death of celebrated lawyer Sergei L Magnitsky who died in custody in 2009; sanctions include a freeze on any assets the named individuals might have in the United States and a ban on travel visas. MORE
May. 19, 2014
Workers who built New York University's new campus in Abu Dhabi say they were subjected to grim conditions, crackdowns and violence; labor exploitation is common in United Arab Emirates, where strikes are illegal, but NYU issued 'statement of labor values' in 2009 that was intended to protect the workers; revelations undermine university's vision of creating a zone of cultural freedom in the Arab world. MORE
May. 13, 2014
Accusation by parents of Hazrat Ali that police in Kandahar, Afghanistan, tortured and killed their son while he was in custody has again focused attention on a wave of disappearances and deaths in the southern province; province's governor promises full investigation of case but human rights advocates call for a completely independent inquiry. MORE
May. 10, 2014
Hollywood is boycotting Beverly Hills Hotel since word spread of Brunei's embrace of harsh form of Islamic law, which allows stoning of gays and adulterers, by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose Brunei Investment Agency owns hotel as part of its Dorchester collection of properties; escalating boycott of Dorchester properties has decreased company's revenue by about $2 million, and cancellations at Beverly Hills Hotel accounts for almost all of the dropoff. MORE
Apr. 18, 2014
United Nations appears to move step closer to holding North Korea's government accountable for what an investigative panel has called history of crimes against humanity and egregious human rights abuses; Security Council convenes special session to hear panel's views on what should be done. MORE
Apr. 12, 2014
Immigration judge in Miami finds that Gen Jose Guillermo Garcia, former defense minister in El Salvador, should be deported because of his involvement in number of human rights violations; is accused of participating in assassination of an archbishop and massacre of more than 1,000 peasants in El Salvador in 1980s, at time when United States was supporting country's civil war. MORE
Apr. 8, 2014
Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission says it has found that security agents were responsible for unlawful killings of eight civilians in Sept 2013 raid in Abuja on Boko Haram terrorist network. MORE
Mar. 30, 2014
Pres Obama ends weeklong trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia with brief private ceremony in which he presents an International Women of Courage award to Saudi woman Maha Al Muneef, who works to prevent domestic violence in the kingdom; ceremony comes after Obama chose not to broach issue of human rights during discussions with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
United Nations Human Rights Council votes to extend by one year the term of Ahmed Shaheed, special monitor appointed to oversee Iran; vote, which passes amid surprising coalitions, frustrates Iran's effort to portray a kinder and gentler image under Pres Hassan Rouhani. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
Op-Ed article by Prof Andrew Ross condemns labor companies, whose work force is almost entirely made up of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi Sri Lankan and Nepalese migrant laborers, that are building sleekly designed development on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi; cites low wages, harsh conditions and recruitment fees that immigrant laborers are expected to pay back; urges art and academic institutions under construction there to insist on practices that protect basic human rights. MORE
Mar. 28, 2014
United Nations Human Rights Council votes to open international investigation into possible war crimes by both Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels in final stages of 26-year civil war that ended in 2009; vote comes amidst fierce opposition from Sri Lanka. MORE
Mar. 26, 2014
Michelle Obama's weeklong trip to China has turned out to include far more substance and politics than she often displays in the United States; Obama has spoken openly about free expression and minority rights, messages that resonate in a society where the Internet is censored and the government ruthlessly represses ethnic minorities. MORE
Mar. 26, 2014
United Nations human rights office expresses alarm after Egyptian court sentences 529 people, supporters of Muslim Brotherhood to death; condemns judgement as violation of international law. MORE
Mar. 25, 2014
Human rights advocates question the Obama administration's support for advancing civil liberties after its decision to increase military aid to government of Uganda Pres Yoweri Museveni to help hunt down rebel commander Joseph Kony; administration had said that it would reconsider its relationship with Uganda after it passed a law criminalizing homosexuality. MORE
Mar. 14, 2014
Obama administration declares that global Bill of Rights-style treaty, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, imposes no human rights obligations on American military and intelligence forces when they operate abroad; declaration rejects interpretation by United Nations and State Department during Pres Obama's first term. MORE
Mar. 14, 2014
Chinese human rights advocate and blogger Huang Qi is taken from his home in Chengdu by police officers and his computer equipment confiscated. MORE
Mar. 8, 2014
Border Patrol instructs its agents to show restraint when people on the border throw rocks or flee in cars; series of fatal shootings by agents have provoked outrage from human rights activists and Mexican government; critics of the Border Patrol question how much practical change will result from the instructions, calling them, at best, a positive first step. MORE
Mar. 7, 2014
Officials in Geneva have long disagreed with United States position that it has no obligations under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights when operating abroad; human rights advocates have urged US to reverse its position on treaty when it appears before panel in March; Obama administration, however, has indicated that it is unlikely to do so. MORE
Mar. 7, 2014
United Nations human rights experts voice concern over reports of excessive use of force against Venezuelan protesters and journalists during wave of antigovernment demonstrations across country; statement comes as a soldier and a civilian are shot and killed in Caracas in confrontation between residents, government supporters and troops, bringing death toll to 21 since mid-February. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Issue of gay rights has come to forefront of international diplomacy since United Nations Human Rights Council's 2011 resolution to extend human rights principles to homosexuals; United States and other donor countries face challenges as they try to influence governments that discriminate. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Documentary The Act of Killing, about 500,000 or so Indonesians killed during state-sponsored purges of suspected Communists and their sympathizers in 1965 and 1966, has won dozens of awards but has not accomplished director Joshua Oppenheimer's greater goal; film has failed to provoke debate in Indonesia that could lead to formal government inquiry into murders. MORE
Feb. 28, 2014
State Department reports that increasing number of governments are suppressing political opponents and restricting freedom of assembly; notes abuses in Egypt, Iran, Russia and elsewhere; report represents sobering assessment of prospects for spread of democracy. MORE
Feb. 26, 2014
Sri Lanka's government rejects call for international war crimes investigation into country's bloody civil war, raising tensions with United Nations' human rights body. MORE
Feb. 19, 2014
Chinese officials criticize United Nations report that serves notice to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un; report says he might be personally held liable in court for crimes against humanity committed by state institutions and officials under his direct control. MORE
Feb. 8, 2014
Joe Nocera Op-Ed column praises members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, recently released from prison, for immediately using their liberty and celebrity to continue promoting the cause of freedom worldwide; holds if Russian Pres Vladimir Putin intended to quiet criticism of his country's repressive laws by freeing them, his plan has backfired. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
Guatemalan's highest court rules that Atty Gen Claudia Paz y Paz must step down in May, seven months before her four-year term ends; ruling is condemned by local and international human rights organizations, who call it victory for groups that opposed Paz y Paz's prosecutions of organized crime and retired military officers accused of rights violations. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
Editorial contends the Russia led by Pres Vladimir V Putin conflicts starkly with Olympic ideals and fundamental human rights; underscores the importance of the world speaking out against the excesses of the Russian government while it is at the center of the world's attention. MORE
Jan. 15, 2014
Supreme Court makes it harder to sue foreign companies in American courts; justices unanimously ruled that residents of Argentina could not sue Daimler in California in connection with abuses during Argentina's Dirty War; in second decision, court unanimously rules that antitrust case brought by Mississippi's attorney general cannot be moved from state court to federal court. MORE
Dec. 20, 2013
Egyptian security agents storm offices of Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, prominent human rights organization, detaining and beating staff members during nine-hour ordeal; action is sign that the military-backed government has expanded its crackdown beyond the Islamist supporters of deposed Pres Mohamed Morsi. MORE
Dec. 19, 2013
Op-Ed article by Prof Martin Ruhs cites failure of United Nations' 1990 convention that set down civil, political, economic and social rights for migrants, including those living or working abroad illegally; points out news of mistreatment of such workers seems to arrive continually; calls for approach that considers the creation of shorter list of universal 'core rights' that would have a higher chance of acceptance by greater number of countries. MORE
Dec. 12, 2013
Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column holds Americans can uphold spirit of Nelson Mandela by advocating for political prisoners and human rights around the world; calls on Pres Obama to make a stronger push to close prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to further honor Mandela's legacy. MORE
Nov. 14, 2013
Editorial calls on leaders who are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka to insist that the country's government show meaningful progress in addressing human rights abuses; notes Pres Mahinda Rajapaksa has had a record of serious human rights violations and has failed to provide accountability for abuses during the country's civil war. MORE
Nov. 13, 2013
United Nations General Assembly elects China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Cuba and nine others to fill 14 seats for three-year terms on the 47-member Human Rights Council, body that evaluates and investigates rights records of UN member states; Western rights groups are particularly offended by elections of China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. MORE
Oct. 29, 2013
Israel will participate in a review of its human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council, decision announced after Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu ended the country's 18-month boycott of the council. MORE
Oct. 27, 2013
China arrests several members of New Citizens Movement, which has pressed Communist Party leadership to embrace democratic change, on charges of illegal assembly; coming trials of detained activists Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and Li Sihua offer first court test of how far the government will go to extinguish group. MORE
Oct. 22, 2013
Police in Beijing have formally arrested Wang Gongquan, prominent Chinese businessman who turned his energies and wealth to supporting human rights causes; arrest is seen as another step in the Communist Party's drive to deter dissent. MORE
Oct. 18, 2013
Iranian judge orders convicted drug felon who survived hanging to be hospitalized until he is well enough to be hanged again; human rights advocates argue that he should be spared. MORE
Sep. 29, 2013
South Sudan faces many problems but most pressing may be large-scale violence of civilians by its Sudan People's Liberation Army, claiming thousands of lives in recent years; witnesses describe seeing soldiers indiscriminately firing on busy market squares, fatally beating noncombatants and raping women. MORE
Sep. 24, 2013
Four protesters for gay rights disrupt Russian-themed Metropolitan Opera gala at Lincoln Center to celebrate Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin; at issue is new antigay laws Pres Vladimir V Putin signed into law in June, drawing worldwide attention to the difficulties gay people face in Russia. MORE
Sep. 18, 2013
European Parliament nominates Edward Snowden for Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, considered Europe's top human rights award, dealing rebuke to Washington. MORE
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Lessons From Poland's Past
It has fallen to a legend of Solidarity to stand up to the political class and track the issue of secret C.I.A. prisons.
August 1, 2014, Friday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Prisons and Prisoners , Poland , Central Intelligence Agency , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations
Prominent Activist Charged With Treason in Azerbaijan
The government charged the human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband with a variety of crimes and ordered Ms. Yunus to be detained for three months before her trial.
August 1, 2014, Friday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Aliyev, Ilham H , Yunus, Leyla , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Azerbaijan
African Leaders Coming to Talk Business May Also Be Pressed on Rights
The Obama administration said it would seek to build deeper relationships with African leaders, though some advocates worry that human-rights issues will take a back seat.
August 1, 2014, Friday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Human Rights Watch , United States International Relations , Obama, Barack , Africa , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , United States
Giving Birth in Shackles
The director of a Women in Prison Project condemns both shackling and the overuse of incarceration.
August 1, 2014, Friday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Prisons and Prisoners , Pregnancy and Childbirth , Women and Girls
Banned Munitions Still in Use, Report Says
There is evidence of the deployment of cluster bombs in Syria and eastern Ukraine, a leading disarmament advocacy groups said.
July 31, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: South Sudan , Syria , Bombs and Explosives , Mines, Explosive , Cluster Munitions , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Human Rights Watch , Ukraine
Officials Pull Back From Crash Site as the Army Puts Pressure on Rebels
Fighting between rebels and the Ukrainian military forced an investigative team to retreat before it could secure the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and begin an investigation into the circumstances of the crash.
July 29, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Malaysia Airlines , Pillay, Navi , Aviation Accidents and Safety , Ukraine , Russia , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , United Nations , Geneva (Switzerland)
In Labor, in Chains
Many states forbid the shackling of pregnant inmates. But the laws are often disregarded.
July 27, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , New York State , Department of Corrections (NYS) , Prisons and Prisoners , Pregnancy and Childbirth , Women and Girls
Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that by allowing the transfer of two terrorism suspects to a secret C.I.A. site in Poland, the country violated the men's rights.
July 25, 2014, Friday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Extraordinary Rendition , Interrogations , Poland , Central Intelligence Agency , European Court of Human Rights
As Much of the World Frowns on Israel, Americans Hold Out Support
The failures of the Arab Spring to spread democracy in the Middle East have left many in America more inclined to side with Israel, which has lost backing elsewhere, analysts say.
July 24, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND: Muslims and Islam , Hamas , Great Britain , Germany , United Nations Human Rights Council , War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity , Pew Research Center , France , Jews and Judaism , Israel , Deaths (Fatalities) , Gaza Strip , Polls and Public Opinion , China , International Relations , Palestinians , Middle East , Civilian Casualties , Europe , United States , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations
Iraq's Imperiled Minorities
The brutal crackdown by Sunni extremists deserves the strongest possible international condemnation.
July 24, 2014, Thursday
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Myanmar's Persecuted Minority
A collection of stories from a recent trip focusing on a Muslim minority who are confined to camps and villages. UPDATED June 20: Nicholas Kristof responds to readers' questions.
Tiananmen Vigils in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Outside mainland China, tens of thousands of people gathered to mark the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 25 years ago in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Times Minute | Clippers Against Racism
A fashion and political statement from the Los Angeles Clippers. Also on the Minute, two months of violence in Venezuela, and justices weigh if police can search your cellphone without a warrant.
Obama's Comments in South Korea
President Obama discussed North Korea's nuclear threat and offered condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the South Korean ferry incident.
The Ruling on Gen. José Guillermo García
The decision by a Miami judge, issued on Feb. 26, said that the former Salvadoran defense minister should be deported because of his involvement in a number of human rights violations.
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Posing as elderly people calling in to 22 online and store-front retailers, the GAO report describes 10 instances of questionable marketing practices, including store associates advising people to take dietary supplements in place of their prescription medications. The GAO also identified multiple instances of suspect labeling practices, including claims that a dietary supplement can cure or prevent diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, or high cholesterol.
It is unquestionably unethical to overpromise supplement effects (especially to people managing serious diseases) or to encourage anyone to discontinue using medication or adding a new supplement to a treatment regimen without consulting their healthcare provider. Fortunately, the report does not demonstrate a pattern that gives reason to believe that the transgressions are widespread. It describes the sample of retailers investigated as "non-representative," which presumably means that they did not look objectively across the thousands of supplement retailers nationwide and select a group that somehow represents the industry. The names of the retailers were not included in the report, nor was it clear whether the instances of illegal marketing were discovered by a single retailer or across the group.
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(GAO Testimony Before the Special Committee on Aging, US Senate; Herbal Dietary Supplements, Examples of Deceptive or Questionable Marketing Practices and Potentially Dangerous Advice; http://aging.senate.gov/minority/_files/hr221gk.pdf)Kimberly Beauchamp, ND, earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA. She cofounded South County Naturopaths in Wakefield, RI, and now sees patients in East Greenwich and Wakefield. Inspired by her passion for healthful eating and her own young daughters, Dr. Beauchamp is currently writing a book about optimizing children's health through better nutrition.
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How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
I do not want to recreate my Ubuntu installation in a virtual machine.
How can I take a screenshot of the login screen?
I do not want to recreate my Ubuntu installation in a virtual machine.
This blog might be helpful: http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-create-screen-shot-of-gdm-login.html
Install ImageMagick for the image file format conversion below:
Create a helper script:
Make sure your login screen is active (log out or reboot the machine, and wait until you see the login screen). Log in in text mode (by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1), or using SSH. Create the screen shot by running
You can log in now (by pressing Ctrl-AltF7 first to get back to the GDM login screen). Convert the screen shot to JPEG and/or PNG:
View the screen shot in your favourite image viewer.
For 11.10 and Lightdm and later
You can try running
Just wanted to note that I had a bunch of problems doing this on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with this - here's my solution:
I'm on machine A, and I log on to machine B via ssh:
Then, I proceed with several attempts to grab screenshot, which all failed. The problem can be reduced down to
Well, it turns out that for some reason, the correct invocation for targeting X-windows via ssh is
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Release: 11/27/2012
Cross Country Top Times: 5K – 21:12.92 (10/18/13) / 6K – 26:03.47 (11/2/13)
Indoor Track & Field Top Times: 200m - 27.86 (2/2/13) / 400m - 1:02.04 (2/15/13) / 600m Run - 1:42.09 (1/31/14) / 800m Run - 2:21.28 (2/21/14)
Outdoor Track & Field Top Times: 100m hurdles – 16:09 (3/23/13) / 400m hurdles – 1:04.58 (4/26/13)
2013 CROSS COUNTRY (Fr.): Competed in five meets … crossed the finish line with a career-fast 5K time of 21:12.92 at the #JennaStrong Fall Classic (Oct. 18) … posted a career-fast 6K time of 26:03.47 two weeks later at the Mid-American Conference Championships (Nov. 2).
2013 OUTDOOR TRACK &FIELD (Fr.): Competed in seven meets … ran a career-fast time of 1:04.58 in the 400m hurdles at the GINA Relays (April 26-27) … placed first in the 400m hurdles at the Indiana Wesleyan Polar Bear Invitational with a time of 1:08.63 … also placed second in the 100m hurdles at the meet with a career-fast time of 16.09 … won both the 100m hurdles (16.10) and the 400m hurdles (1:08.37) at the Ball State Invitational (April 12) … also a member of the first-place 4x400m relay which posted a time of 4:07.94 at the Ball State Invitational … was a member of the 10th-place 4x100m relay (48.46) and the 12th-place 4x400m relay (3:58.40) at the Mid-American Conference Championships (May 9-11).
2013 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Fr.): Competed in seven meets … turned in a career-fast 400m dash time of 1:02.44 at the Ball State Quadrangular (Feb. 15) … her clocking of 27.86 in the 200m dash at the Tom Hathaway Challenge was also a career-best effort … member of the 10th-place distance medley relay (12:21.73) at the MAC Championships (Feb. 22-23).
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner in track & field at Fairfield ... two-time all-state honoree in the 300m hurdlers ... placed fourth at the state meet in the 300m hurdles as a senior with a time of 44.44 ... holds school records in the 100m dash (12.8), 200m dash (26.3), 100m hurdles (15.4) and 300m hurdles (44.3) ... was a member of the school's record-setting 4x100m relay and on the NECC record-holding 4x400m relay ... scored a personal best long jump of 16'-4" ... four-time team most valuable performer and two-time team captain ... also earned one letter in cross country and four in basketball at Fairfield ... in basketball, she was the 2012 team MVP, as well as the 2011 Defensive Award Winner and the 2010 Coaches Award winner.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Deluryn and Lisa Kropf ... full name is Rebecca Ellen Kropf ... has three brothers, Nate, Zac and Joel ... born Dec. 14, 1993 in Goshen, Ind. ... majoring in dietetics.


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The Palestinian Treaty Problem
Israel has reason to doubt that any treaty with the Palestinians would be honored.
Palestinian women show their IDs at an Israeli checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
From the beginning, the state of nations has been the state of nature. Always, states and empires are poised for war. Normally, in order to secure themselves within this condition of protracted peril, they have fashioned assorted written agreements under international law. These formal codifications, expressed as treaties, have sought to smooth over the dreadfully harsh realities of anarchic world politics.
Still, on a fragmenting planet, law insistently follows power politics. Throughout history, more or less grievous problems have arisen whenever particular signatories had determined that lawful compliance is no longer in the "national interest." The overriding takeaway here is that treaties can be useful whenever there is a conspicuous mutuality of interest, but they can also become worthless whenever such mutuality is expected to disappear.
For the moment, Israel's 1979 Peace Treaty with Egypt – Muslim Brotherhood rule in Cairo notwithstanding – remains in place. But, at literally any moment, should President Mohamed Morsi decide to shore up his popularity with important Islamist constituencies, this could change. While any willful abrogation of treaty obligations by the Egyptian side would almost certainly be in violation of The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), there is little that the United Nations or the wider "international community" could actually do about it.
For Israel, this prospect should raise a critical warning about certain related issues of Palestinian statehood. Already, in June 2009, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to the creation of a Palestinian state. Yet, with an apparent nod to presumptively prudent diplomacy, he also conditioned this acceptance upon Palestinian "demilitarization." More specifically, said the prime minister, "In any peace agreement, the territory under Palestinian control must be disarmed, with solid security guarantees for Israel."
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Middle East.]
This was a very daunting condition. On the surface, of course, such a contingent agreement seemed to represent a manifestly "smart" concession, but only if there were also certain reasonable expectations of Palestinian compliance. In fact, such expectations were implausible. This is not only because virtually all treaties and treaty-like agreements can easily be broken – an incontestable historical conclusion - but also because, more particularly, any post-independence Palestinian insistence upon militarization would likely be lawful.
Neither Hamas nor Fatah would ever accept anything less than full sovereignty. And why should they?
Consider this. International lawyers seeking to discover "Palestine-friendly" sources of legal confirmation could conveniently cherry-pick pertinent provisions of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1934), the treaty on statehood. Moreover, they could apply the very same strategy of selective interpretation to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
Israel has a "peremptory" or incontrovertible right to remain "alive." Originally, therefore, it was altogether reasonable for Netanyahu to have strenuously opposed a Palestinian state in any form, militarized or demilitarized. After all, the leaders of both Hamas and Fatah still regard all of Israel as "occupied Palestine." Moreover, they say this routinely, almost as an incantation, and without any reservation or obfuscation.
[Read the U.S. News Debate: Should the U.S. Discourage Israel From Attacking Iran?]
International law would not necessarily support Netanyahu's insistence upon Palestinian demilitarization. These binding rules would not automatically expect Palestinian compliance with any pre-state agreements concerning armed force. This sobering statement remains correct even if these agreements were to include certain explicit U.S. guarantees to Israel.
There is more. Because authentic treaties can only be binding upon states, a non-treaty agreement between the Palestinians and Israel could quickly prove to be of little or no real authority or effectiveness. And this is to say nothing of the prominent and potentially synergistic connections between Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, and the newly-strengthened Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.


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A Bayville man is being held in jail on $100,000 bail with no 10 percent option after Toms River police responded to a shoplifting call at the Ocean County Mall Sunday and allegedly found him in possession of heroin.
Police were called at about 5 p.m. to the Sears at the mall where loss prevention officers at the store were holding 27-year-old Christopher Wells on suspicion of stealing power tools valued at $500, according to Police Chief Michael G. Mastronardy.
An investigation by Officers Brent Mundy and Robert Burczyk found that Wells allegedly left the store with the tools and began to assault store security, Mastronardy said. Those officers were not injured.
After being placed under arrest, police allegedly found 44 wax envelopes containing a white powder suspected to be heroin, Mastronardy said.
Wells was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and robbery. Superior Court Judge James Blaney set his bail, according to the chief.
Other activity reported by Toms River police on Sunday includes:
Police charged two Ocean County men with drug possession after a Sunday evening incident during which they attempted to cross a closed checkpoint at the Tunney Bridge.
The men, Brice Montgomery, 41, of Island Heights and Donald Ullery, 31, of Berkeley, approached the checkpoint at the bridge heading to the barrier island which had closed at 5 p.m.
"The suspects approached the officers detailed to the Tunney Bridge checkpoint on foot and seemed under the influence and were denied access," Mastronardy said.
Montgomery then entered a vehicle and turned around on Douglas Avenue, which meant that he was traveling the wrong way on the street. Toms River Officer Nicholas Franco and a Seaside Heights officer stopped Montgomery and charged him with driving while intoxicated, the chief said.
After being placed under arrest, officers found what they suspected to be heroin in the man's socks while being processed at police headquarters. Montgomery was then charged with possession of narcotics in addition to DWI and other motor vehicle charges before being released with a summons, Mastronardy said.
Ullery was charged with drug possession and released with a summons, the chief said.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bridgestone Arena has been ranked ninth in the US and 31st in the world for concert attendance.
The rankings are from international trade publication Pollstar's third quarter ticket sales report.
The concerts during that time included Carrie Underwood, Jason Mraz, Kiss and Motley Crue, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks, Def Leppard and Poison, James Taylor, and WWE Raw.
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Poor Law Schools were provided and maintained by the Guardians of the Poor, either attached to workhouses or as separate schools. In 1904 the inspection of the educational and industrial work of these schools was transferred to the Board of Education from the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board, later the Ministry of Health, continued to be responsible for the institutional side.
The Local Government Act, 1929, transferred the functions of the Poor Law Authorities to the councils of counties and county boroughs. The remaining Poor Law Schools were administered under Section 53 of the Poor Law Act, 1930 and were statutorily subject to inspection by H.M. Inspectors.
The Poor Law was superseded by the National Assistance Act, 1948, and by virtue of paragraph 8 of the Second Schedule of the Childrens Act, 1948, the remaining Poor Law Schools passed to the Childrens Authorities. The provision of education was not included under the Childrens Act and the schools were either closed or became recognised maintained schools.
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PORTLAND - On a warm summer day in Portland, Emily Finch and her kids ride across the Steel Bridge. Plenty of people turn to look. They're hard to miss, loaded into her Bakfiets cargo bike.
Emily's noticed the strangers who stare.
"Usually they're doing this, one, two, three, four, five, six, ha, ha, ha," she said, pretending to count children. Emily has six. They range in age from 11-years-old to 2-years-old. Five of the six ride in the cargo bike.
The oldest, Nathan, rides his own bike, following behind his mom. Emily Finch says she's done this for the past three years. Why?
"Because I'm a little crazy, but in a good way," she said with a big smile.
Finch sold her suburban and now the bike is her main form of transportation. A stay-at-home mom with six kids is always busy. Emily said the bike riding is the easiest part. Getting the kids ready?
"That is a tough part. Finding 12 pairs of shoes when you want to go somewhere and six helmets you know and then remembering to pack diapers and other important things," she said.
Her husband is a surgeon who still drives his car. She'd rather ride.
"It's like my head space, just like if you're driving a car and they're strapped in and sleeping? You know? It's like 'me' time. It's the same on my bike," Finch said.
Emily moved into the public spotlight through a chance encounter with Jonathan Maus, publisher of bikeportland.org.
"Our kids actually went to a summer camp together so she'd come to pick up her kids," he said.
And she'd pick them up riding her cargo bike. He knew Emily represented an important safety milestone for the city.
"Women are, you know, the canary in the coal mine. If you have a lot of women riding bikes in your city, you are doing a good job to make the facilities efficient and comfortable for everybody to ride on," Maus said.
Maus wrote a story and his readers shared it around the world. He believes Emily is part of an exciting trend.
"It's like a positive feedback loop. And the more people like Emily that get on the road with their kids, the safer it gets, so the more people do it and the safer it gets and more people do it," he said.


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RALEIGH — One of the city's oldest black cemeteries is the newest addition to the list of Raleigh Historic Landmarks.
The Raleigh City Council approved the designation for the 140-year-old Oberlin Cemetery, just north of Cameron Village, on Tuesday.
Before Cameron Village, the area was known as Oberlin Village, Wake County's largest settlement of free blacks after the Civil War. A businessman sold plots of land to former slaves, and before long the area had its own school and businesses.
Few of those homes remain today. Former residents of Oberlin Village and others in the modern neighborhood want to see the cemetery – and the history it represents – recognized. They'd also like to get a historic marker for the site, which is tucked away behind the InterAct building on Oberlin Road.
A group called the Friends of Oberlin Cemetery hopes to form a non-profit organization to help maintain the site, which is in disrepair.


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GRAPEVINE, Texas - A Florida prisoner being flown to Nevada has escaped in the Dallas area after stabbing one of his police escorts.
Grapevine police Lt. Barry Bowling (BOHL'-ing) says officers Tuesday searched for 42-year-old Alberto Morales, who'd been held on assault, kidnapping, burglary and sexual assault charges.
Two Miami-Dade Police officers were escorting Morales to Las Vegas when they had a layover Monday night at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Bowling says Morales was disruptive on the flight so the officers rented a vehicle to drive to Las Vegas, nearly 1,200 miles away.
Bowling says Morales had a sharp object and stabbed one officer several times when the other went into a store. The wounded officer is in stable but critical condition. His name hasn't been released.
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---- — WILLIAMSBURG —Christina Kuebler, 78, of Williamsburg, passed away at home on Oct. 3, 2013. She was born to Boni and Edna (Hoffman) Abiton on March 13, 1935 in Pontiac, Mich.
Chris graduated from the Ann Arbor school system and married the love of her life, Elmer Kuebler, on Oct. 17, 1953.
For many years, she worked as a medical assistant in Ann Arbor where she and Elmer lived. After retiring in 1991, they moved into her dream home on Elk Lake. Chris was a member of the West Side Community Church for 10 years. She was a devoted mother and grandmother, and enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren.
Chris is survived by her husband, Elmer; children, Deborah (Mick) White, David (Cathy) Kuebler, Dawn (Steve) Hall, and Diane (John) Frait; grandchildren Michelle, Stacy, Kevin, Jamie, Jordan, Anna, and Michael; and great grandchildren Clara and Sadie. She was preceded in death by her parents, and uncles Jorge Supe and Justo Matutino.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, at the West Side Community Church in Traverse City. Memorial contributions may be directed to West Side Community Church Building Fund. Arrangements have been entrusted to Covell Funeral Home of Elk Rapids.


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I am grounded in autos but range broadly.
It may be way too early to write off the Chevrolet Volt despite the fact that General Motors decided to stop making the plug-in hybrid model for five weeks and won't start up again until April 23.
Exhibit No. 1 in this argument: today's sales results for March, which showed Volt sales zooming to 2,289 units for the month, a full 277 percent ahead of a year earlier and about the same percentage ahead of poor sales in January of this year.
That result gave Volt by far its best sales month ever and could inject some life back into a proposition that lately has been much more about politics than about the product.
GM didn't indicate in its mid-morning sales press release why Volt sales picked up so much ground. And in a subsequent conference call with Wall Street analysts and automotive journalists, Alan Batey, vice president of sales for Chevrolet, didn't shed much light either. He said that of the monthly total, 2,129 were retail sales, and 160 were fleet orders for Volt. He discounted a suggestion that attractive lease offers were behind Volt's surge, noting that such offers were about the same in March as in January and, actually, as a year ago.
Yet sources at some Chevy retailers didn't report any kind of broad-based surge in retail sales had developed in March over February. It's possible Volt's quick rise wasn't much noticed by many dealers; the addition of about 1,000 sales of Volt in a month's time, spread across about 3,000 Chevy dealers in the United States, would mean the sale of only an extra one-third of a unit per dealership, on average, in March compared with February. Meanwhile, a source with knowledge about federal-government fleet orders didn't believe the Obama administration had placed any big order for Volts lately.
In any event, there appeared to be some hope that strong Volt sales in March comprised more than just a one-month blip. Early last month, GM announced February sales results for Volt that had recovered to 1,023 units from only about 600 units in January — a month that had been dominated by continued publicity over Volt's fire-crash issue. But then last month, GM also announced the suspension of Volt production and further soured the waters by blaming media "exaggeration" of the fire risk for Volt's slump.
While many analysts jumped all over GM's move as an indicator of corporate resignation that Volt sales would be going into the dumper over the long term, there were some complications. First of all, the move to stop Volt output temporarily involved factors of production balancing that were significant. GM also has begun to ramp up output of the new-generation Chevrolet Malibu at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where Volt is built, and manufacturing executives wanted to throttle back Volt production somewhat anyway to synchronize it with full-volume manufacture of Malibu. GM is spending $120 million on tooling at the plant to ready it for the new Malibu.
Volt continues to make the most common sense to many consumers of any of the new-era EVs because it carries a gasoline engine, unlike the Nissan Leaf. And now Nissan is adding some "content" to Leaf, presumably at least in part in recognition of the need to make the model a more competitive proposition to Volt.
The possibility that Volt could rectify itself in the marketplace is one reason not everyone at GM is happy Volt has emerged as the poster project for Obama's green initiatives, even though the president is now trying to boost the tax credit for such alternative-energy vehicles to $10,000 from the current $7,500. His hyping of Volt made it too easy a target for conservative opponents who were easily able to conflate Volt, and its substantial subsidies by taxpayers, with true train wrecks such as Solyndra.
Easily overlooked is the fact that nothing actually was wrong with Volt's crash protection all along, as the federal government eventually acknowledged — and GM went ahead and structurally strengthened Volt under the hood, anyway. This, too, will redound to Volt's benefit over the long term.
GM executives have said that the company would make a long-term decision about Volt output this spring. Has the March sales result made that decision easier, or more difficult?
Congrats to GM!
The Volt is a great car that allows people to drive their commutes without burning up a drop of gasoline. Most people are not factoring in how much that can save in fuel costs each year. And the savings will increase every year as the price of gasoline continues to go up. People need to realize that the Volt is a great hedge against rising gas price.
What? Gas is up? it's been awhile…
Re-Volt against OPEC. Buy a Volt and only use gasoline when you need to travel beyond its range. I'm routinely making 50+ mile trips on electricity with the lovely spring weather.
Dale, Dale, Dale. Why the search for a negative spin on the Volt? I see you had to correct your article, and remove the following line when you learned that less than 7% of Volt sales were to fleet customers:
From Dale Buss's original article today: One possibility is that GM registered a major fleet order or two from a significant corporate customer in March; or a passel of state and local governments ordered a bunch of Volts.
Jimnj: LOL, glad you captured the snarky comment and can hold his feet to the fire. another interesting development is that the Volt actually climbed to 6.7% of GM sales for the month. On the Chevy Volt owners Facebook page there are dealer reps around the country talking about the sales and deliveries quite often. One reason some dealerships don't notice is because a few dealers really know how to sell the car: one sold 19 last month. Their biggest problem is not being able to get enough to sell because the factory isn't building them right now.
DDB: Sorry about my comment. You may be unaware that internet Volt naysayers are constantly hammering on the Volt, claiming that no private citizens are buying them at retail and that only fleet sales are propping up the Volt sales, that they are fire traps and safety hazards (no fires in any driven Volt in over 30 million road miles and a 5 star safety rating) that they are economically unfeasible because they cost more than the econobox Cruze (Why should a Lexus ES 350 cost $15,000 more than a Camry? Same car, right? Wrong: same platform, different car.) Understandably, then, we are a little hypersensitive to anything that smacks of unfair negativity. As the car gains acceptance, maybe (like the Prius owners in the past) can just relax and be happy at not having to defend our cars against unfair criticism.
Dale – Thanks for the response, and of course I thank you for updating the article with the latest informatoin.
For the record, I didn't say you were trying to hide anything. I am trying to understand why you tried to spin record Volt sales in a negative way (i.e. the Volt still isn't selling well to the American public), without any justification for bringing up high [but in reality nearly non-existent] fleet sales. I admit my criticism of your original article as being negative is unfounded, in that you pointed out at the end the "fact that nothing actually was wrong with Volt's crash protection all along".
It looks like "thestreet.com" was also trying to claim that record March Volt sales were caused by GE fleet sales with the headline: "GE Places Asterisk on Record Chevy Volt Sales". That make me even more curious why two separate authors would so prominently speculate about something that turns out to be false. Curiouser and curiouser.
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a medium baking dish with the olive oil.
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and saute the onion and garlic until tender. Stir in the heavy cream. In a small bowl, mix the milk and cornstarch, and stir into the saucepan to thicken the heavy cream mixture. Remove from heat, stir in the shrimp and mushrooms, and season with dill, seasoning salt, and pepper.
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I tried this (with the following modifications) and it was LOVED by all. I substituted a can of evaporated milk for the heavy cream, added 1 teas. of tarragon and baked it uncovered. It lowered the fat, increased the subtle herb flavoring and kept it from getting watery.
Three stars as written, as I see this recipe as only the foundation or starting point for a finished dish. I used halibut rather than cod, but that's neither here nor there and doesn't affect the recipe. I sweated the mushrooms along with the onion and garlic as I didn't need them to give off all their juices into the sauce as the dish was baking! I didn't add cornstarch or milk, as neither was necessary if you simply reduce the cream to thicken. The cream sauce needed flavor beyond the dill and a little sherry was the obvious choice. I didn't use the Parmesan - I guess being Italian I have a bias against using cheese with fish or other seafood! Finally, since this was to be baked at 350 degrees for 30 minutes (perfect time and temperature by the way), there was no need to cover it and have it "stew" rather than bake, also holding on to all of the juices which would only have made the sauce more liquidy. This turned out to be a rich, flavorful dish, with both the shrimp and the fish perfectly cooked. The sherry, as Hubs so aptly put it, definitely gave the dish character. I layered the shrimp over the fish filets, then poured the sauce over them. It isn't directed to do this in the recipe, but do salt and pepper your fish and shrimp before pouring over the sauce and baking! For a little color, sprinkle on a little paprika. The small changes I've outlined gave this dish definition and dimension and went a long way toward bringing this dish up to a good 4-star rating.
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Absolutely oustanding - so rich and elegant, but so easy to make. I made it pretty much as written - cut back on the parsley as we aren't huge fans - but I'm sure it would work just as well with any other white fish, and maybe a combination of shrimp and scallops. Thanks so much, Lynseey!
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OK. That's a lot to put into the opening paragraph. Here's what is really happening.
There was a lot of good news in October compared to the September report and I can't fault the SIA for making the most of that. Month-over-month revenues increased (the blue line in this post's chart which was a part of the SIA press release), and the 12/12 growth has improved from -4.9% in September to -4.1% in October. (This is a comparison of the past 12 months against the prior 12 months, a proxy for annual growth before the year is complete.)
The graphic's red line illustrates the most recent 3 months compared against the same 3 months one year ago. It is another measure of growth that I find to be less useful than the 12/12 growth figure since it's comparing two different periods that both occurred after the bottom fell out of the market.
Things appear to be improving, but the year will still end lower than 2011. The recent WSTS forecast (which the SIA has endorsed) calls for a 3.2% revenue decline.
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Their success in showing innovation and agricultural progress in the community led to the program being one of the 12 Iowa FFA chapters selected to receive a "Be the Seed" grant, in which more than 40 chapters from around the state applied.
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Swinton had very high praises for the work Pekin FFA and their advisor, Juston Lamb, have done in the past.
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