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Downtown Elizabethton will take a drive back in time Saturday when hundreds of classic cars will fill the streets for the Carter County Car Club's Annual Show.
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Car Club president O.B. Foster said the club is expecting between 300 and 400 cars to be a part of the Annual Show. That includes car show regulars who frequently come to the downtown Elizabethton show and additional visitors from places such as North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and around the region.
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This is the club's first year back in downtown Elizabethton after hosting the annual show at Borla Industries for a few years. Foster said the move is likely to be a permanent one.


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you're making some nice progress mate
the most recent one, while scribbly and all, shows just how much you understand about the planes of the face and lighting them--not too shabby.
keep em coming, you're doing well.
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here is the rest. ill update again soon
Looking good. The women in pic 2 and 4 in the latest post both have some issues. The first ones waist is way too thin, and check the back on the other one. I don't think it's supposed to be that stiff.
Nice man, good amount of work. Digging the hand studies. There's something about your line quality that's bugging me a little, how are you drawing lines? It seems like you might be connecting straight lines together... is that how you do it? Otherwise, tobbA is right, watch your proportions and how the pelvis and rib cage connect, you're making it too thin... it's better to be subtle about it and find the nuances in the figure that will make her beautiful, rather than push it far, because it starts to look like a caricature or cartoon. You're doing well though, you've already improved a good amount, like I said the hand studies are nice.
snowlion. I love that 2nd hand in post #93. it is powerfull and sure and drawn without a shadow of a doubt. you take your work farther down that lane and awesomeness is yours!
thanks for the crit Tobba.
thanks cdejong. as far as the lines, i dont understand what you mean by connecting straight lines. i try to rough out the proportions with an H pencil then go over that with an HB.
thanks ashess. i really cant wait for the awesomeness.
heres a drapery study, the beginnings of a dinopainting, and some character stuff for this ninja/mongol girl i tried painting recently and failed at. so this time im starting over redesigning her and going to work on compositions/epic scene ness next.
SO. i have been doing lots of life drawing in the past couple weeks, here is the best stuff ive done. all poses were between 5 and 20 minutes. there is also a master study of joseph shepard and some portrait studies of john singer sergeant. any crits or advice on what to be working on would be greatly appreciated and help me achieve awesomeness sooner. thanks
im uploading these at school at the computers are crapping out when i upload too many pics at once. sorry for separating all these. regardless they are in order of when i did them
i just realized i might be posting my images too large. do these seem too big?
here is my attempt (start) at a master study of a sergant painting, here is the original
Good stuff. Like the hatching style in pic 3
that model drawing;s gonna pay off in spades. you might want to spend some time comparing your piece to the original afterwards (take a phonepic if its life drawing) chech where you've gone off. some proportions are off sometimes, like too big feet. or the direction doesnt quite add up. looking back at a later date will make it easier to notice these things
Hey man watch those lines and make sure you've planned each line! going for a "sketchy" look is only good after you get that line control down.
Figures look good, make sure you dont neglect color ;)
Wow dude... loads of improvement I see here as I browse through your SB. Congratulations! It is precisely this momentum that you want to maintain. It takes about a year to develop and solidify a habit. It's more about sticking to your habits and not being too concerned about whether you are disciplined enough or not. The latter just creates unnecessary anxiety. So yeah, just keep up the good habits.
Okay, now for critical feedback. You really want to pay attention to your line work. You have too many hard lines. Try to strike a balance between soft and hard lines; moderating between the two plays a big role in giving a picture a greater sense of depth. Watch those outlines as well. They're often too thick which gives your piece a real graphic quality. If you are going for realism you really want to avoid that as much as possible. On the other hand, if you're going for a graphic style then so be it. Your more graphic works (the ones you did with a marker) look great. You're carving a nice style for yourself.
Also, proportions! You've got to work harder on your proportions since getting those right at a very early stage is crucial. It can make or break a piece. A great example of what you're doing wrong in this department would be the woman you drew in post 94. Her proportions are just way off. That waist is way too narrow and her shoulders are both too wide and manly looking. Maybe she was a bit manly, I dunno, but from what I can tell it seems to be more of a perception of proportions problem than the model being too manly.
Also, try using the chalk (for your lights/highlights) a bit more conservatively. Using it less will actually help pop the figure more and give it more of a 3D feel. Another thing I noticed too was that you seem to be drawing "2D" (I hope that makes sense) and not "3D". What I mean by that is, try and look at your figure more carefully; take a good look at the whole figure and then try to break him/her down into simple 3D forms, i.e. boxes, spheres, cylinders, etc... and then take it from there. Doing that will greatly help you to render your forms and enhance the sense of 3D depth. Placing lights and darks becomes WAY easier too.
Hope this helps! Just...keep...going!
tobbA: thanks! sometimes my drawings end up pretty cool. but i actually wasn't satisfied with that one.
ashess: your definitely right. i need to slap myself in the face before every drawing and get the proportions down before i do anything. but where i do the lifedrawings they dont want any cameras/phones/photos so i cant save the pose for comparison. but that would be useful. thanks for the crit though i will definitley pay more attention to this
Vatsel: thanks for the crit! great point. im working on pushing the drawings away from the sketchyness... im just addicted.
Peetaer: whoa! i wish there was more than a "thanks" option on this forum. I need an UBER THANKS or BEAR HUG option for this one. yet again you have given me some awesome feedback and crits. thank you my friend :)
i feel bad posting without an update so ill just throw in something random ive been working on. trying to learn how to paint with photos (one of my photoshop teachers supplied the photos and jsut told me to paint something... this is what i can up with. im going to work on it some more.. but ultimately im not a fan of using photos in my paintings so far. i love the feel of the paintings that are close to the technique of traditional media (usually painted on a single layer without using many of the photoshop tricks). i suppose its good to know the program inside and out though, in case you ever decide to utilize the options it offers.
im working on a new master study (color this time) right now so if i can make some progress that is worthy of posting ill share that in a bit. thanks again for those comments guys! :)
ugh... so heres my second attempt at a masterstudy. john singer shepard. i tried to start in color this time and now am doubting my ability to see the color in things... i used the color picker twice (for the brown/background base color and her lips). then i tried to eyeball the whole thing for the rest of the colors. Should i continue to avoid the color picker?
The improvement on the figure is very good and this attempt at the masterstudy show that you're amazingly talented. Perhaps the matte painting could show more the reflexion of the two mountains in the water and not just the shadow (I'm not saying that that's the way in wich it should go according to physics, I actually don't know, just thought that when I saw it). Cheers!
oh man i dont know what you were talking about in my sketchbook, i love your stuff. awesome concepts and free poses. you maybe have some little problems here and there but your paintings all look so dynamic, loose and has a awesome flow. your poses and figures just look like you know what you did and not at all constructed (they act like real humans.. or robots)
keep on the good work. what i can tell is that you should work on how you show materials. there is alot of stuff where everything looks like its made from the same material. do some studies *thumbs up*
dig your stuff
Nice SB man!! You've made really good progress since page 1. Keep pushing yourself my friend!!
good stuff going on in here. Nice work :yayca:
thanks for the motivation lennon! and thanks for the crit.
Qikalain: thanks. and your right... i need to work on textures and materials.
Turbosnail:thanks man!
Zazerzs: thanks! :)
heres my first attempt at a portrait in color (starting in color that is. i used aquick sketch for the proportions but no value until i got into the color) it ended up okay... mostly just fun and good practice.
i also threw in the finished version of that photo-painting and some random creature sketch i did as a warm up.
Does anyone have any advice on improving my skills with color? As in, what should i be practicing? (painting from life, master studies, photo refs?)
Hey there i really enjoyed looking through your SB the improvement from the 1st page is very tangible and your life drawings i think are superb. Someone mentioned before you have got some great energy in your style i think maybe if you slow down a little and really study what you are looking at it will help you in the long run, then when you get to that magical point we are looking for "seeing" like an artist you can whack that energy back in a more controlled way. Okay hope this makes sense coz i dont really know what i am on about :) anyways man keep posting ill be back for sure
p.s how do i claim my ravioli??
Nice update. I think you need to work on your values more with that portrait tho. The face looks a bit flat.
I think the best way to learn about color is painting from life. Really try to see what colors are there and perhaps even exaggerate a bit to really figure them out... Also read up on color theory and stuff.
latigid: thanks! and about the ravioli haha... i didnt think anyone was going to notice that... let me know if your in seattle. ill make you some.
tobba: thanks for the crit and suggestion! (did some color studies from life today)
these were all done, like the portrait, with a quick sketch and then going straight into color. no value pre-color. they turned out alright, though i just left them super messy and didnt render them since this was primarily a color exercise.
Those potatoes look pretty sweet and that avocado looks deellicccious. MMMmmmm.....about getting better at colors, we should do some master studies. After doing those for awhile in combination with painting from life, you'll pick up an eye for colors.
The master study is coming along well! I want to see more life studies, those are looking great!
Hey there. Thx for checkin out the sketchbook. I am really liking the photo painting and I think your self portraits have really improved since the beginning of your sketchbook.
As far as improving your color skills, I have heard that it is beneficial to go to a museum and look at paintings. I know that if you look at the skin of people in oil paintings you will find a ton of different variation and color that you don't notice by just glancing at it or looking at a photo of a painting on the internet.
avocado, love the fruit& veggies! very good colour studies I think. I'd recommend trying other media to colour a bit. I like water colour, but acrylic and oil is great too. you can get a cheap water colour at most markets or at some Chinese shops. Oil costs but it's a great thing to experience. I also think chalk or acrylic sticks would fit your style.


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Over the past year, 2008 Lenett Fellow Katherine Alcauskas worked with conservators from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center (WACC) researching an 18th-century portrait of a member of one of Albany, New York's founding families—the Van Rensselaers. On Wednesday, May 7, at 5:30 pm, during the 2008 Judith M. Lenett Memorial Lecture "Framing Colonial Albany," Alcauskas will reveal what she uncovered working on the project. The lecture is free and held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Framing Colonial Albany, an exhibition of three works from the Albany Institute of History and Art (AIHA) in Albany, NY on view at the Clark, highlights the findings of a yearlong conservation project exploring itinerant painter Thomas McIlworth, his painting Jeremias Van Rensselaer (1763), and its elaborate frame. In addition to showcasing the conservation efforts, this project uncovers curious similarities with the frame belonging to a Thomas Gainsborough work, and the international connection of a Scottish artist painting members of a prominent Dutch family on British canvas in colonial America. Framing Colonial Albany is on view through July 6.
Alcauskas is the 2008 Lenett Fellow in the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. The Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fund was established by the family and friends of the late Ms. Lenett, a candidate for the M.A. degree, class of 1983, to provide lectures and seminars in American art and its conservation. Students with an interest in American art and art conservation enrolled in the graduate program may apply for the fellowship at the end of their first year. The student selected as the Lenett Fellow works with the staff of WACC during his/her second year in the program, culminating in a public lecture in the spring. The Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, the Clark, and WACC jointly administer the Lenett Fellowship.
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Why Change is Good
Originally published: 10.01.08 by Guy Kawasaki
Change equips you to handle any transition. Simply believe that something good will come.
Ariane de Bonvoisin is the founder and CEO of The First Thirty Days Inc., New York. This company runs a Web site that helps people "find the positive in any change" in their lives. She has worked for the Boston Consulting Group, BMG, and Sony Music. In this interview she explains the importance of embracing change.
Question: Why is getting good at change so important?
Answer: Every day we experience changes in the economy, the stock market, politics, business, the environment, education and healthcare systems, technology, and our family and home life. Change is the only constant in life .
When we become comfortable with change we are equipped to handle any transition.
Question: What are the key things to focus on in the first 30 days of going through personal and professional change?
Answer: As difficult as it may seem, it's essential to focus on what might be good about the change and to begin to ask yourself better questions. Trade disempowering inquiries — "Why am I so unlucky?" "Why did this happen?" "Why is life so hard?" — for positive questions such as "What is positive about this situation?" or "In what way is this change a gift?" Begin to believe that from all change — even the most challenging or painful — something good will come. This is the change guarantee.
Question: Why are some people and businesses better at change than others?
Answer: After interviewing over 1,000 individuals about their experiences with change, I've found that there are nine principles that make people good at change:
1. They have a positive belief about change and are generally optimistic. I call these people "change optimists."
2. They believe in the change guarantee: that something good always comes from change.
3. They know that they possess a "change muscle" — that they are strong, capable, powerful, and intuitive enough to handle any change that comes into their lives or that they want to initiate.
4. They refuse to become paralyzed by "change demons" — negative emotions that arise during change.
5. They don't resist change — choosing instead to accept the reality of their situation.
6. They understand that their thoughts, words, and feelings have a direct effect on how easily they move through transition.
7. They believe that life has a deeper meaning than what can be seen or felt and that no change is arbitrary.
8. They surround themselves with a support team.
9. They refuse to get stuck during change. They keep moving and take care of themselves mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Question: How can individuals flex their "change muscle" in business to get them on the path to success?
Answer: Each of us has a change resumé filled with dozens
of changes that we've already made and experienced. You've used coping
to get through past changes, and it's essential to remember that these are available to you again.
The "change muscle" remembers everything that you've been through and gets stronger with every change that you experience. This stacking effect helps to make the next change a bit easier than the last. In your business, create a change resumé to acknowledge and recognize all the changes you've already been through. It's a reminder for everyone of what you have already succeeded at navigating.
Question: What is a company's "change quotient?"
Answer: A company's change quotient reflects how good it is at change. A score is given on a scale of 1-10 based on the nine change principles and a series of questions about how those connected to the company move through change.
The change quotient examines everybody's reaction to change: the CEO, the employees, the customers, and even your competitors. As an employer you have a distinct competitive advantage if your team is good at change.
Question: What are the initial points to consider with making the change from the corporate world to entrepreneurship?
Answer: A change of this caliber requires a shift in identity . This is often the hardest type of change as both your internal and external worlds will transition.
When starting your own company, it's essential to hone in on your calling or passion — why do you really want to start this business? This is what will keep you going long before the money, prestige, or the fun shows up.
And don't be in a rush. Most of us overestimate what we will get done in a month and then underestimate how much change can happen in a year. Give yourself time.
Question: In uncertain times, how can business owners and job seekers navigate the changes they are increasingly enduring these days?
Answer: Focus on what you can control when times are uncertain: your thoughts, your beliefs, your health, your self-esteem, and the people you choose to surround yourself with. And make an effort to find your core strength; the part of you that won't be shaken when everything around you is changing.
Question: What are the most common mistakes that cause people and companies to fail at implementing change, and how can they do better?
Answer: Those who have a difficult time with change often get stuck in their "change demons" — emotions such as blame, anger, regret, fear, doubt, and shame that come up during change. Remember that each change demon canbe replaced with an empowering positive emotion. \
Those who struggle with change also:
• Hide and think they are alone — they don't ask for help.
• Place their trust in sources outside of themselves when they should be listening to their intuition.
• Become busy and distracted instead of making time to get quiet and mindful.
• Take too much action or not enough.
• Move slowly through change because they think it will be less painful. I call this using a butter knife instead of a butcher knife — sometimes change requires you to cut directly to the heart of the situation.
• Compare themselves to others.
Question: What are the most important principles to help those with start-up aspirations?
Answer: There are three:
• Change Muscle: You are strong enough, smart enough, and intuitive enough to get through any change that comes your way. Have unshakeable faith in who you are and what you can achieve.
• Change Support Team: Surrounding yourself with a strong circle of positive people, advisors, and friends will help you move through the challenges of starting a business.
• Change Demons: Challenging emotions will inevitably arise during starting a business. Remember that they can be replaced with a better, more empowering alternative, that everyone feels them, and that you can move forward despite them.
Question: What are some of the major changes you encountered in building your company and how did you overcome them?
Answer: These are the major changes I dealt with:
• Transitioning from being part of acorporate culture to life as an entrepreneur is a significant identity shift. Among other changes, I had to get used to creating my own schedule and living without a set, secure salary.
• Raising angel money and securing investors was a continual challenge as a woman without a team, as a first time business owner, and as an entrepreneur with a company based on a then obscure concept: change and life skills. When things looked discouraging, I focused on my calling, to help others through change, and kept moving forward.
• Becoming a CEO has its own set of challenges. I've found that building a team that shares similar values and work ethic is an ongoing process that involves moving through uncomfortable situations. Specifically, parting with employeeswho are not the proper fit for the company.
• While developing the company's branding — taglines, logos, etc., I accepted advice from way too many people. I eventually stuck to my intuition and went back to the very first logo.
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer Inc., where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is the author of eight books, including his most recent, The Art of the Start, which can be found at www.guykawasaki.com.
>> Read this and previous columns by Guy at www.hvacrbusiness.com/kawasaki
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October 18, 2013 · By Phyllis Bennis
This blog is part of a series on the end of the two-state paradigm for Israel and Palestine, which can be read in full on Mondoweiss' website.
On the ground, in the real world, of course there is no longer any possibility of a real "two-state" solution. Two "real" states would mean that alongside Israel, constituting 78% of historic Palestine, there would be a really independent, actually viable, fully sovereign state of Palestine on the 22% remaining, made up of the Gaza Strip, Arab East Jerusalem, and the entire West Bank.
The claimed permanence and continued expansion of city-sized, Jews-only settlements across East Jerusalem and the West Bank populated by over 600,000 people, the Separation Wall seizing 10% or so of West Bank land and most of its key water sources for Israel and not Palestine, and the unchallenged Israeli determination that any future Palestinian "state" would have no control over its borders, airspace, coastal waters and would be kept forcibly disarmed by outside actors… all make a mockery of "two states." While the creation of a Palestinian "state," made up of a bunch of scattered non-contiguous cantons amounting to less than half of the 22% of historic Palestine, is certainly possible, the notion that it would amount to an independent, sovereign, real state is specious; the idea exists today only as a diplomatic fiction.
All of historic Palestine – Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem – are currently under the control of one government and one army – Israel's. (The "Palestinian Authority's" authority is limited to essentially municipal power.) But the peoples of that land live under very different legal regimes, with different levels of rights, privileges and discrimination facing Jewish citizens of Israel, Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and Palestinians living under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Palestinian refugees denied their international right to return to their homes. Today, those separate legal systems, designed to privilege one group – Jews – at the expense of another group – non-Jews, which means Palestinians – stands in violation of the International Covenant for the Prevention and Suppression of the Crime of Apartheid.
Ultimately, the nature of the political solution – one state or two states, secular or bi-national, regionally federated or isolated – is up to the people who live there. A civil rights or anti-apartheid struggle for equality could in theory emerge in either a one or two-state context. (With two states, there would need to be complete equality between the two states as well as within both states.) But for those of us in the U.S. who are not either Palestinians or Israelis, that's not our call.
For us, the issue should focus on rights, not on political arrangements which are ultimately not our business. Our goal should be to change the policies of our government, whose military aid and unlimited political and diplomatic protection enable Israel's policies and sustain its power. We should focus on ending the U.S. policy of support for occupation and apartheid, in favor of a policy based on international law, human rights, and equality for all.
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February 8, 2013 · By Phyllis Bennis
The results weren't nearly as dire as many predicted. The Israeli elections last month didn't bring about a complete victory for the far right (and Israel's far-right is very far indeed!). Right-wing prime minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's Likud Party, in alliance with the right-wing extremist Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) party, lost at least 10 seats.
The biggest victor was the new centrist party Yesh Atid, led by charismatic television personality Yair Lapid. He ran on the basis of personality and a claim to represent Israel's middle-class interests, from the price of cheese to affordable housing to his most popular call, for "sharing the burden"—a euphemism for drafting ultra-Orthodox young Jewish Israelis into the military. Israeli commentators described the new Knesset as divided almost down the middle between center-right and center-left blocs.
That's all good. But. The campaign was waged virtually entirely on economic and social issues affecting the 80 percent Jewish population of Israel; the needs of the 20 percent of Israeli citizens who are Palestinians were largely ignored. Israel's continuing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip were off the agenda, let alone its violations of international law and human rights. On the question of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the elections represented a clear victory for Israel's status quo: the occupation will be left in place.
Read the rest of this article on Yes! Magazine's website. Yes! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions, published it on February 6, 2013.
February 5, 2013 · By Lyndi Borne
Lyndi Borne is a media intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Among many of the usual suspects airing ads during the Super Bowl, one small company shook up some conversation with an ad that was banned by CBS. The company, SodaStream, acts like it's doing the world a favor by selling home carbonation machines, and its ads jab at Coca-Cola and Pepsi for wasting bottles. They originally wanted to air a commercial during America's most-watched television event that explicitly attacked the two largest makers of sugary cola, but were bullied into airing a softer version of the ad imploring viewers to buy their product and "free the bubbles." As controversy on CBS's ban bubbled over, marketers everywhere had their say. A website devoted to Super Bowl ads actually wrote an article about them entitled "SodaStream: A David and Goliath Story?" Marketers are buying the story that SodaStream is a do-gooder because their customers buy fewer bottles.
But SodaStream is no do-gooder. Their headquarters and manufacturing facilities, located in an Israeli settlement in the center of the West Bank, are built upon the blood and tears of the Palestinian people. I've seen the devastation of these settlements, and when I saw the SodaStream commercial on Sunday night, I went flat.
SodaStream is part and parcel of the continued illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. If we're talking David and Goliath, SodaStream is more aptly viewed on the Goliath side of the metaphor. In reality, it is a profit-making enterprise built on land illegally seized by Israel, with the help of a military that is an industrial, high-tech monster that seeks to slowly strangle the Palestinian people to death.
What most people don't understand about the settlements is that they not only push people off of the land, but they then also take regional resources for themselves. Water, for example, is often stolen from people whose ancestors long ago learned to adapt to the desert. The Israeli goal, it seems, is to make Palestinian life so unbearable that people leave, or die.
I've witnessed the destructive force of settlements. From the first time I set foot on a West Bank settlement in 2000 to the last time I was there in 2010, the effect and the number of settlements had noticeably increased. In the Palestinian West Bank, I saw more checkpoints, longer lines in traffic, more roadblocks, and diversions to make way for Jewish-only settler roads. Even water pressure lowered as the settlements demanded more water diverted to them. And — at least in Hebron — more settlers were throwing rocks at Palestinian women, men, and children.
SodaStream has been singled out by Jewish Voice for Peace and others for its explicit, egregious involvement in settlement activity. Israeli settlement policy is opposed by many Israeli citizens and the United States, and is now deemed unlawful by a United Nations panel.
SodaStream is headquartered on Ma'aleh Adumim, the third largest settlement in the West Bank, built on land that belonged to the Palestinian towns of Abu Dis, Azarya, Atur, Issauya, Han El Akhmar, Anata, and Nebi Mussa up into the 1970s. Israel continues to expand and solidify such settlements around Jerusalem until Palestinians cannot any more access the city.
As with most Israeli public relations campaigns, SodaStream is clever at attaching itself to so-called "liberal" values of environmentalism, peace, justice, and freedom. However, as with most Israeli PR campaigns, the truth of human rights violations will eventually come out.
So, no matter how you feel about their commercials, don't buy SodaStream. The faster we as consumers can send a message to companies complicit in the Israeli occupation, the faster Palestinians can achieve freedom.
"Free the bubbles?" How about, stop operating on stolen Palestinian land, and "free Palestine."
October 11, 2012 · By Phyllis Bennis
What remains missing on in the v-p debate is what Israel has gained from the debate — just the debate! — over Iran. That is, as long as Israel maintains its spurious claim that Iran represents an "existential threat" to Israel, no one — no one — especially in the United States, is willing to say a word, let alone exert real pressure, on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian lands and its apartheid policies towards Palestinian people. No one's talking about that.
On the substance of Iran, we once again saw an actual disagreement on Iran policy. We're still hearing about "red lines" for the use of force against Iran, but the red lines are in two different places. To his credit, Biden didn't reference a military strike or red lines directly, although he did say the Obama administration would not allow Iran "to get" a nuclear weapon. He went on to say that war should always be the last resort.
Ryan was different. He reinforced Romney's on-again-off-again red line, threatening force to prevent Iran from obtaining "nuclear capability" — which could mean today.
But once again — Israel's occupation, apartheid, settlements expansion, the siege of Gaza, Palestinian prisoners, violations of international law and human rights — not a word. We heard from Biden that "the last thing America needs is to get into another ground war in the Middle East." But he sticks to the Obama plan — endorsed by Ryan as well — for maintaining the war through at least the end of 2014, when a "transition" to Afghan security would take place, with training, special ops, and other forces remaining in Afghanistan. No evidence of what might be different after another year and a half of war, instead of ending it right now, but nonetheless both parties agree on continuing a failed and devastating war.
And once again the drone war, militarization of U.S. policy in Africa... and Palestine, all remain unmentioned. The unspoken, indiscernable, invisible questions. And Palestine at the center.
September 27, 2012 · By Phyllis Bennis
Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' speech to the United Nations General Assembly was as much about trying to reclaim his dwindling support among Palestinians as it was designed to outline Palestine's intention to move for a new status at the UN. The consequence of "non-member state" status, while not granting full UN membership, would provide a UN imprimatur to the identity of Palestine as a state, meaning it would have the right to sign treaties. Of particular significance would be Palestine joining the Rome Treaty as a signatory to the International Criminal Court. That would, at least potentially, enable an ICC investigation of potential Israeli war crimes on Palestinian territory.
Beyond his anticipated call for the new UN recognition as a "state," much of Abbas' speech focused on Israeli violations of international law, particularly the Geneva Conventions. While he issued his usual call for resuming peace talks with Israel, he called for the United Nations, specifically the Security Council, to pass a binding resolution setting out the terms of reference for any renewed diplomatic process, something that seems to contradict his longstanding willingness to allow unchallenged U.S. control of the negotiating process.
In other parts of his speech, the PLO Chairman reasserted the PLO's role as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, while rejecting the occupation's efforts to divide Gaza from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and reaffirmed the need for a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees under the terms of UN resolution 194. In language clearly designed to win support from Palestinians both in the OPT and in the diaspora, many of whom remain dissatisfied with the current Palestinian leadership and whom he identified as "an angry people," he spoke of Israeli "apartheid," asserted Palestinian rights and the need to continue "peaceful popular resistance" against occupation. In a clear effort to win support from Palestinian civil society, whose call for a global campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions has fundamentally challenged longstanding PLO/PA strategy, he spoke in a language of rights, rejecting the notion of statehood being bestowed on Palestinians, and identified Israel's "settler colonialism" as something that must be "condemned, punished, and boycotted."
As anticipated, Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech, reflecting the huge political gain that he has won from his year of escalating threats against Iran, barely touched the Palestinian question. He has taken advantage of the fact that as long as the claim (however specious) that Israel faces an "existential danger" from Iran is on the table, no one, certainly not the United States, has been willing to exert any real pressure on Israel regarding the occupation. His reference to Israel's occupation was limited to a brief paragraph in which he claimed that "we seek peace with the Palestinians." He then went on to lecture the Palestinians, saying "we won't solve the conflict with libelous speeches at the UN, that's not the way to solve them." He said the conflict wouldn't be solved with "unilateral declarations of statehood," that the only goal can be a "mutual compromise in which a demilitarized Palestinian state [heavily emphasized in his delivery] recognizes the one and only Jewish state."
Netanyahu's speech focused almost solely on Iran, comparing it to Nazi Germany and calling for the world to join his crusade against it. He spoke derisively of those who claim that a nuclear-armed Iran might stabilize the Middle East, looking up from his prepared notes with a sarcastic "yeah, right." Interestingly, he reminded the world — seemingly as a point of pride — that he had been speaking about "the need to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons for over 15 years." It apparently didn't appear to his speechwriting team that this admission, when all of those earlier warnings were shaped by the same "it's almost too late" rhetoric that we heard today, might somehow discredit his unchanging claim.
Ignoring the fact that the United States, unfortunately, already has an "all options on the table" red line of its own (preventing Iran from obtaining a bomb), Netanyahu called on the United States to endorse his own specific red line for using force against Iran. He set his red line as Iran's ability to enrich uranium to bomb grade, and demanded that the U.S. join. While Iran has not enriched anywhere close to that level, Netanyahu's language reflected his red line on Iran's "capability," a line that he argued is almost here. He spoke on the need to attack Iranian facilities while they are "still visible and still vulnerable." Perhaps taking a lesson from then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's use of fake "anthrax" props when trying to persuade the Security Council of the need to go to war against Iraq in 2002, Netanyahu held up a primitive grade-school level poster prop and used insulting "this is a bomb, this is a fuse" language.
Netanyahu's overall language, however, was significantly more conciliatory towards President Obama than much of his recent rhetoric. Perhaps it was the cohort of Jewish Democratic Party heavyweights who scolded the Israeli prime minister for interfering in U.S. politics, or perhaps it was his U.S. advisers, or perhaps his own political team at home — but whatever the reason, Netanyahu's overt embrace of all things Romney, and his disdain for all things Obama, was kept well under wraps in New York.


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Ask anyone who has been to Bangkok what their 'must see' list of the city entails, and without fail they'll include The Grand Palace. This half-day sightseeing tour in Bangkok can be taken in the morning or afternoon and will allow you the opportunity to explore the complex, accompanied by a local guide. The Grand Palace Complex is home to a number of attractions including Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha).
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Built in traditional Thai architecture mixed with European designs, The Grand Palace complex, once the official home for the Kings of Siam, is unquestionably one of the Thailand's major tourist highlights. The King still uses the Grand Palace for certain ceremonial occasions and the regal flavor within its enormous royal grounds is still evident. During the tour you will visit the Royal Funeral Hall and the Royal Coronation Hall.
The main centerpiece of the complex however is the 45 centimeter Emerald Buddha. Carved from just one piece of Jade it is the holiest and most revered religious object in Thailand. The Emerald Buddha is housed within Wat Phra Kaew, which is a very ornately decorated building whose roof tiles reach up into the sky.
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Are foreigners "taking Americans' jobs"? Or are employers once again exploiting cheap labor and vulnerable people?
America's current heartburn over immigration policy has focused on, among other things, the impact of immigrants on African American workers and other low-wage, uneducated workers. This superficial analysis is summed up by the cry, "They are taking our jobs."
Our next president must restore the United States as a nation of laws and of rights, rooted deeply in values. This effort must appeal to all Americans and transcend race -- but cannot ignore race.
To unite us in pursuing the ambitious agenda demanded by the times, the next president must ground bold initiatives in a compelling vision of community, from neighborhood to globe. If successful, that vision will not resemble some blueprint for policy-plumbing. It will be a tapestry of values and aspirations that evokes and summons the best of what we can be.
We have two central propositions. The first concerns vision and values, the second concerns vision and color.
In 2002 and 2004, Republicans won on national security and terrorism. In 2006, they thought they could use illegal immigration to win again. Yet being tough on illegal immigrants did not turn out to be the Hail Mary pass that could galvanize the conservative base to save the Republican majorities in Congress. Instead, it may have added to the points scored by Democrats with another part of the electorate -- Hispanic voters.
While people choose to risk life and limb to enter this country illegally for many reasons, the vast majority come to seek employment -- and they find it. What would happen if employers were effectively penalized for hiring the undocumented? Would there be fewer job opportunities for those who should not be here and, consequently, fewer people trying to enter illegally?
When May rolls around, the people who work in the Bush White House Scheduling Office know it's time to show Hispanics that the president cares about this growing community. And for the last three years, the Bush White House has invited Latino leaders from across the country (or at least those who support this administration) to celebrate Cinco de Mayo on the White House lawn.
For those who wonder if there's something more to this day than the tequila and beer industries' marketing efforts, Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday celebrating the victory of a Mexican army over a much larger French army in 1862. In the United States, however, Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in this country -- especially in the Southwest -- as an occasion for cultural affirmation and ethnic pride.


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Calling all lovers of fine wine! This day trip from San Francisco to the valleys of Napa and Sonoma allows you to be the guide for a day and help select the wineries visited on this customizable tour of California's renowned wine-growing region. Visit up to 6 boutique wineries depending on the choices of your small-group and benefit from the freedom and flexibility only a customizable tour can provide.
You'll travel through picturesque countryside to discover some of California's favorite wines including Stags Leap, Rutherford, St. Helena and Glen Ellen, and enjoy a leisurely lunch stop (at own expense) at one of the wineries. All you need to bring is an appetite for fine wine and a list of suggestions for your guide on this go-with-the-flow, customizable wine country tour!
- Enjoy a day away from the hustle and bustle of the city
- Informative, friendly and professional guide
- Free hotel pickup and drop-off included
- Small group ensures personal service
For lovers of great wine and beautiful scenery, this small group tour from San Francisco takes you to where America's most famous wine labels originate. Typically, your guide will take you to both Sonoma and Napa Valleys to visit boutique wineries not frequented by large group tours. Requests for favorite wineries will be considered subject to distance constraints, so you can help plan the trip!
Sample wines from famous grape-growing regions such as Oakville, Yountville, Los Carneros, Sonoma Valley and Kenwood and be entertained by your guide's illuminating commentary on the science and art of wine making in between stops. You also have the opportunity to enjoy a delicious gourmet lunch at one of the wineries at your leisure (at own expense).Returning to San Francisco after a fulfilling day of wine tasting, you have the option of ending your tour in the picture postcard village of Sausalito, where you can browse the shops before making your way back across San Francisco Bay on the ferry (not included) or be dropped off at your hotel.
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