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JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Hello, gentlemen.
DAVID BROOKS: Hello.
MARK SHIELDS: Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Good to have you here.
So,the standoff over the payroll tax cut, David, finally, yesterday, the Republicans gave in. Were they outmaneuvered? What happened here?
DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I think they didn't understand politics.
I sort of sympathize with them in principle. We have got a number of national pastimes, baseball, motherhood, apple pie and raiding Social Security to pay for our own spending.
DAVID BROOKS: And that is what we decided to do, in part for stimulus.
And, in the Senate, they reached sort of a rushed temporary compromise on how to raid Social Security to pay for some stimulative spending. But it would only do it for two months. In the House, the Republicans said there's something squalid going on here. And they began to reject the idea.
Some of them rejected the idea of raiding it entirely, some of them just the two-month extension. They wanted the full year. Why do this two-month thing? And so they rebelled. They rebelled against their own speaker. They rebelled against the Senate.
But the country wanted the tax cuts. And sometimes, in politics, you don't get to choose what you want. There are other people in town. And so they tried to make a stand on principle without actually having a principle. And they basically got rolled. In politics, often you don't have a good option. You have six really squalid options, and you choose the least bad one.
And so this is their education that sometimes the circumstances are such just go with the least bad and get it over with. And maybe that will be the education for them.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Mark, how much damage has this done to the Republicans, or has it?
MARK SHIELDS: Yes, I will just add on that I think that the Republicans made a reactionary mistake, Judy, that there was — in the Republican House caucus, there should have been – David's right.
They should have understood once House — Senate — Republican and Senate Democrats had overwhelmingly supported, Democrats in the House supported the two months, the president supported it, that they were outvoted. But I think there is in the Republican Caucus in the House, in the Congress, and in the party nationally, there is an anti-Obama reaction.
And if the president is for something — if the president endorsed the Ten Commandments, they would say, can we cut it to seven? There really is sort of that reaction. And I think that was part of — it was driven in part by ideology as well.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So you're saying it was personal.
MARK SHIELDS: Well, the same party that will fight tooth and toenail to preserve $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that George Bush wrote into law that benefit the most wealthy among us, without ever wondering how they should be funded or financed, that never wondered how the Iraq war should be funded or financed, all of a sudden become punctilious and almost green eyeshade accountants and bookkeepers when it comes to funding this.
I agree with David that it's a very, very questionable public policy to take the revenue stream that is dedicated to Social Security…
JUDY WOODRUFF: For Social Security.
MARK SHIELDS: … and to use it. And we have done it. This is not the first time it's been done. But it should not be done.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So you're both saying that's a mistake, the whole premise behind this, whether it's two months or a year.
DAVID BROOKS: I think it's of dubious stimulative effect. And we are going to have to pay it. It's not like it's free money. We will have to pay it.
The ideological or the intellectual defense of what the Republicans were objecting to is that a permanent tax cut has long-term really economic effects. A temporary tax cut, nobody really changes their behavior. You don't hire people because of a two-month benefit. And so that's the intellectual thing. I agree there's also a large personal element involved.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, if it such a bad idea to take this money out of the Social Security fund, if you — I don't know. Do you feel it stimulates the economy?
MARK SHIELDS: I do think it's the only federal stimulus that Republicans will vote for is this tax cut. So I can understand putting money into people's pockets in hopes that we will stimulate, we will spend.
I can understand certainly the economic theory behind it. And I think it's more than plausible.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So does it — excuse me. Go ahead.
MARK SHIELDS: Well, no, so I think in that sense, you can make a case for it.
But it isn't like there's three other policies that the Republicans would back. The Republicans would back this. And I don't think anybody thought it was going to be for two months. The Republicans found themselves arguing process, Judy. It was terrible.
They were saying, what is the problem here is, we don't have regular order. Now they're appointing conferees. People's eyes are glazing over. And the Democrats have the wall poster argument to say, we're for preserving tax cuts.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, how much are the Democrats helped by this?
DAVID BROOKS: I think a little.
If we weren't talking about this, we would talking about how much the Democrats gave in to the Republicans. And they actually did give in a bunch of stuff.
DAVID BROOKS: And, instead, we are talking about, why are these guys so wild-eyed and crazy? Why they can't run an organization?
And so it helps. I don't think it's a huge story. I think most of the country is tuned out. We have had a whole series of budget fights. This is just another. People who care about politics mostly are focused on the presidential race. So I don't think it's a huge story.
Nonetheless, if you take a look at the polling, who do you trust on tax policy, the Republicans recently and historically have this huge advantage. That advantage is right now gone. And this must play a role in that.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So…
MARK SHIELDS: David is absolutely right.
And I think it helps the president in this sense, that the reality is people look at Washington and they see hyper-partisanship, they see rancor, they see dysfunction, malfunction, however you want to put it. And I think it does two things. It makes the president look like the one grownup in the entire melodrama.
And, secondly, it hurts. It hurts Newt Gingrich, because it reminds people of what it was like when we were impeaching a president, closing down a government and stalking off Air Force One. I think, in a strange way, the only way you can account for Newt Gingrich's slipping nationally is not that commercials are being used against him in Iowa, because nobody is seeing them outside of Des Moines, Waterloo, Dubuque and Sioux City.
But I think there is a sense, do we really want to go back to those times? And this is a reminder of it.
DAVID BROOKS: The irony is that the Newt Gingrich-Bill Clinton relationship was a model of comity compared to what we have right now.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Compared to what we see today.
Well, speaking of Newt Gingrich, David, Iowa caucuses just 11 days away. Where do things stand right now?
DAVID BROOKS: I think pretty good — well, first, pretty for Newt Gingrich.
And in Iowa, it is because of the ads. The super PACs are — loosely affiliated, very loosely affiliated with Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, are throwing in a ton of money to hit him on everything from Freddie Mac to everything else. And he doesn't have the resources to respond or the infrastructure to respond. So he's falling.
So, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are now looking like the front-runners, which has got to be good news for Mitt Romney in the long term, because I don't think Ron Paul is going to go toe-to-toe with Mitt Romney for campaign after campaign. And so I think this has been overall a good week for Romney.
The only final thing I will say, I think on this show last week or maybe two weeks ago, I said something incorrect. And Mark was right about something.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, it was the only thing…
DAVID BROOKS: And I thought when Ron Paul — when Paul made this Iran statement in the debate, where he said we should not go to war with Iran — it was a very anti-interventionist posture toward Iran — I thought, oh, that's it for Ron Paul.
But he not only said it in the debate. He's leading his speeches with it. And he is doing fine.
JUDY WOODRUFF: In Iowa?
DAVID BROOKS: In Iowa, at least.
I don't think he's going to be a national candidate, but he's doing quite well the last couple of weeks.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And you are saying he could win the Iowa caucuses?
MARK SHIELDS: He could.
And I thank David for that. And if there's a case where the reverse is true, I will make note of it.
MARK SHIELDS: No, I think that it is Romney.
The one question, point of dissent with David, is the question of being loosely affiliated. The super PACs are – I mean this is a legal fiction we go through. They're part of the campaign. They're an extension of the campaign, thanks to terrible, bad court decisions. This is a way of my — washing my hands of it as my super PAC attacks you. I can say, oh, well, if I intervene, that would be wrong. That would be a violation.
JUDY WOODRUFF: We're talking about — just to clarify for people who don't use the term, these are independent entities that raise a lot of money…
MARK SHIELDS: That's right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: … that are not technically, legally, supposed to coordinate with the candidate.
MARK SHIELDS: That's right, where they do raise money from supporters of one of the candidates more than other candidates. And they don't — never attack the candidate or criticize the candidate for whom they are raising money.
They simply go after, basically have savaged Gingrich out there.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And this week, Gingrich asked Romney to stop it. And Romney said, I can't do that, because I'd be thrown in, what did he say, the big house if…
DAVID BROOKS: Yes. And, technically, that is correct. You're not allowed to coordinate.
But if you're a PAC supporting Romney, it doesn't take a genius. You should attack Newt Gingrich on Freddie Mac. That doesn't take super strategy. And so Romney has plausible deniability. But they're all on the same side.
And Gingrich, he doesn't have really the record to withstand this kind of scrutiny. And now, by the way, we are seeing Ron Paul get attacked for some the racist things that went out under his name many years ago.
JUDY WOODRUFF: A little thing we reported in the news a minute ago, that Vice President Biden wrote a piece today going after Romney's philosophy on the economy.
MARK SHIELDS: And it was in the Des Moines Register.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Interesting. Yes.
MARK SHIELDS: I do not understand that.
I think that the president's had a good week. His numbers are up, at least in comparison. I don't understand it. But I am sure there is some shrewdness to it.
MARK SHIELDS: But the problem on the attack, Judy, for Gingrich is Gingrich finds himself attacking and responding to the attacks. He is totally off-message now.
So he's criticizing — he is now arguing about the campaign. Campaigns are about voters. They are not about campaigns, and they are not about candidates. And so the more that Newt Gingrich feels himself forced to respond to Romney, criticize Romney for doing this, the Romney PACs and the attacks upon him, the less he is communicating with voters, and with the message that got him to the point where he is at the front of the race.
JUDY WOODRUFF: But — so why is he doing it?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, he has got nothing left.
MARK SHIELDS: Yeah.
DAVID BROOKS: And, to me, what is happening is the gradual, silent capitulation to Romney.
JUDY WOODRUFF: By?
DAVID BROOKS: By conservatives, because what — you see Gingrich beginning to fall. Paul is doing fine.
But you see the others, the Santorums, the Perrys, the Bachmanns. Santorum is going up a little, but none of them are surging. So we have seen the succession of anti-Romneys rising. Right now, we are seeing no new, fresh anti-Romney. And, so, to me, that makes me think people are beginning — conservatives are beginning to capitulate and accept the idea of a Romney nomination.
MARK SHIELDS: And I think probably the argument they'd make is that he is the most electable. It was not unlike the argument that Democrats made in 2004 about John Kerry in Iowa, that he was the most electable, they thought, against George W. Bush.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, I'm not going to make you two do this, but in the spirit of the season, do you have a holiday wish for anybody who is involved in politics or policy-making?
DAVID BROOKS: I will take the four congressional leaders, Nancy Pelosi and the rest, and send them up to a beautiful place in Glacier National Park in Montana, frozen lake.
DAVID BROOKS: They can hike up there. I will pay for airfare and a tent. They can stay there for a week. Maybe they could do next year's budget up there. It would be a much better country if they were together up there.
JUDY WOODRUFF: This is Boehner, Pelosi, Reid and McConnell.
DAVID BROOKS: They could do the budget up there on their own. It's a beautiful place. They would be inspired. This would be a much better country.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Your wish, holiday wish?
MARK SHIELDS: Wow. Talk about the Grinch over here, for goodness' sakes.
MARK SHIELDS: My wish is that everybody, whoever he or she is, has a colleague as civil and decent and honorable as David Brooks.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Wow.
The two are kind of connected, aren't they?
MARK SHIELDS: Yes. I always thought he was honorable until…
DAVID BROOKS: … inspire the country.
MARK SHIELDS: Okay.
DAVID BROOKS: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
MARK SHIELDS: … time to time.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Happy holidays to you both. We will see you next week.
MARK SHIELDS: Thank you.


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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's 4-year-old twin daughters stepped out in stripes on Wednesday (September 25) in New York City. Not matching entirely, Loretta kept it cool in black and white stripes, while Tabitha spiced it up with red and white.
The day before, the mini fashionistas were photographed with their famous parents in the Big Apple.
The girls have been enjoying the matching game this week. On Monday, we also saw them wearing their own variation of the same dress.
"We have a routine," SJP said of her twins' outfit choices.
"They pick out their clothes at 3 o'clock when they wake up from their nap," she said. "We tell them nothing. We just give them the temperature outside and if they don't pick enough clothing, then we say, 'You need leggings or pants. You need to add something so you'll be warm enough.' That's all they would listen to."
"One is more serious than the other," the proud mom continued. "Loretta will sometimes say, 'Mama, can you help me with my bundle?' Bundles are what we make for the next morning. But Tabitha is completely on her own. She's extremely independent. They pick their hair ties, which are Emi-Jay. They only wear Emi-Jay hair ties and insist upon it. They pick their own headbands, pick their own hats. It's very amusing and entertaining for me."

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Tuesday notesApr 24, 2012 By Steven R. Peck
Check the date
An investigation is in order. Apparently the calendar has been hijacked, and June has been substituted for April. Somebody notify the authorities.
This is the farthest cry possible from last year, when winter finally arrived in April after pretty much leaving us alone from December through March. This year, it's summer that has begun in April, or the best imitation of it possible considering the date. Tuesday's forecast high in the Riverton valley: 87 degrees according to one source. That's 25 -- count 'em, 25 -- degrees above normal for April 24. Yowser.
Open hopas
The astounding weather has fooled Riverton's familiar crabapple trees, and they are at or near full bloom this week. It's a full month earlier than normal.
Throughout most of their 50-year history as Riverton's unofficial official tree, the flowering crabs have been a Memorial Day treat. This year the flowers probably won't make it to May Day.
But, my, aren't they lovely in 2012?
Some years are better than others for the hopas, and this edition ranks way, way up there. They do look a bit odd against the background of the bare-branched cottonwoods and green ash, which are the larger inhabitants of the wooded landscape and are not leafed yet, for the most part.
Enjoy the sweet-smelling white, pink and purple display while you can. A 10-day run is exceptional for the blossoms, and the forecast is for a windy, cooler day Friday. That probably will wipe them out -- all before April has ended.
More for malt
Wyoming's tax on malt beverages, better known as the beer tax, is in Riverton's sights again. For a few years now, the city has been pushing the state to raise the tax from its 1935 level of 2 cents a gallon. Wyoming could increase the tax by 1,000 percent and still fall short of the national average.
Riverton and Fremont County could put the revenue to good use for operations at the heavily used county detox center in Riverton. Mayor Ron Warpness made the case again last week, and it's a good one.
But, while it seems legitimate from Riverton's point of view to raise the tax, it's going to be hard to get legislators in other counties interested, at least enough of them to get this changed. It's simply not viewed as a major issue in many other places.
Don't forget that the alcohol lobby has influence in Cheyenne. One need look no further for proof than a malt beverage tax unchanged for more than seven decades. A tax -- any tax -- doesn't stay untouched for 72 years unless someone, or something, with real clout wants it left alone.
Thou in the Dow
It's been a volatile six weeks on the stock market, but our yearlong Thou in the Dow investment experiment is still paying off.
Last August, just after the market had taken a terrible beating, had you invested $1,000 in a stock fund based strictly on the rise or fall on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that money would have grown to $1,126.35 as of Tuesday morning. The Dow scored a 1.5 percent improvement last week, but it was anything but a smooth ride.
Health expo
Riverton Memorial Hospital's spring health fair, the For Your Health Expo is, is set for Saturday, April 28, at Central Wyoming College.
Many exhibitors from businesses and other entities with an interest in health are scheduled to participate. In conjunction, we're producing a 12-page special edition Wednesday, April 25, to appear in The Ranger and our sister paper, the Lander Journal.
We suggest you take time to read about the health expo, and we encourage you to support the advertisers who support your local newspaper.
A nickel down
Pssst ... Gasoline prices are actually down a nickel or so over the past 10 days at many Wyoming stations. The price per gallon still is higher than it was a year ago, but Wyoming's prices are well below the national average.
Most places are paying nearly $4.50 per gallon, and a Ranger reader reports that on a trip back east this month, he paid $4.91 to fill the tank of a rental car in Milford, Conn.
Always remember, in this and all else, things could be worse.
Here's to a good week.


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Several documentaries on the plight of the Palestinians were featured at the Cairo International Film Festival's opening on Thursday, November 9, reported Agence France Presse.
The news agency said that the 24th festival opened Wednesday with a film about the history of Jerusalem from the British mandate before Israel was created in 1948, to the Palestinian uprising that erupted in late September. This film is expected to be followed by a film entitled The Olive Tree and another depicting the life of famous Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan.
The festival will also honor the late martyr child Mohammed al-Durra, who was filmed as he was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the arms of his father.
The opening day of the festival also marks the 40-day passing of the death of the little boy.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Minister of Culture, Faruq Husni, who hosted this year's opening ceremonies, honored international star and guest of honor, Italian actress Sophia Loren, reported (the) Al Bayan newspaper.
The Egyptian daily reported that the actress, who arrived in Egypt last Monday, November 6, expressed great joy and deep gratitude for this great honor.
Loren, who was the first actress to receive an Academy Award Oscar for best Foreign Film, and who has also received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes film festival, said "I have participated in various festival, and I have been honored many times. But, I consider this time very special." – Albawaba.com.
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Perceived risk leaps onto school playgrounds
Standing high on the platform of the school playground's zip line, a student imagines a wild jungle across a craggy, bottomless canyon. Behind, the pack of imaginary tigers leaping from the wall mural is getting so close, the child can see the animals' fangs. The student grabs the handle and zooms through the air like Indiana Jones, reaching the other side with a massive boost in confidence that will pay off for the rest of the school day and beyond.
The teacher supervising recess has a clear view of a child who's not really that high, gliding safely over a soft, rubber surface. And it is one of many playgrounds being built on elementary school grounds across the nation.
Many district administrators may envision injured students and expensive lawsuits when considering new playgrounds that can cost between $55,000 and $75,000. But some schools buying new equipment are allowing for "perceived risk"—meaning, students sense some danger as they climb, slide and leap, but the chance of serious injury remains low.
Most children have a good sense of their capabilities when playing, says Robin Moore, director of the Natural Learning Initiative at North Carolina State University, which promotes learning and play areas for children that are designed around the natural environment, rather than factory-made equipment. "When children are exposed to opportunities for safe risk—not hazards, not hidden risks they wouldn't see, like a shaky ladder—that is good for their development, they need that to develop as confident, risk-taking individuals," says Moore, who also is a professor of landscape architecture.
Jungles and amusement parks
Elements of perceived risk were built into the new playground at St. Clairsville Elementary School in the St. Clairsville-Richland (Ohio) School District, says Principal Jim Rocchi. The playground opened April 1 with, among other features, a few "not very steep" climbing walls and a geodome that Rocchi says "looks like really heavy rope that they can climb inside and on top of. It was a little intimidating. The kids love it."
The school's previous playground was 40 years old and built on hard blacktop. "One of the biggest things we've seen is less injuries. We have mulch as surface," Rocchi says.
The school did not pay for the playground. A group of teachers and community members raised $300,000 to renovate a 2-acre recreation area that also includes a small amphitheater, a small soccer field and a pavilion. A significant contribution came from the family of one of the elementary school's preschool students, who had passed away. A local farmer donated the stone to build the playground's amphitheater, where teachers can read to students outdoors.
The playground was designed by Pennsylvania-based PlayWorld Systems. Ian Proud, the company's research manager, says products such as PlayWorld's "DropZone" and LiveWire Zip Line give kids a sense of risk. "As the tendency to litigate has caught on, we've found the challenge level on playgrounds goes down," he adds. "I tend to think the pendulum is swinging back. There's an increased interest in activities that have been verboten."
DropZone looks like a fire-pole combined with a open-air elevator. Students climb a ladder, then step on a small platform, which drops as they hold onto the pole. The zip line runs 60 feet from a platform to the ground. "It creates a sense of speed, creates a sense of flying over enough of a distance that a sense of excitement grows," Proud says of the zip line. "These kinds of activities have only been in theme parks and jungles in South America—these are the kinds of activities we are looking to bring into a playground."
There also is value in the games students make up on the playground, says Tom Norquist, senior vice president of marketing, design, and product development for the equipment designer, GameTime. "Imaginative play is another way to build a perceived risk element into the mix, for instance creating a pirate ship, or a tree house where the risk is an imagined adventure that originates in the child's mind while they interface with the climbing, sliding, and social play opportunities," Norquist says.
As for equipment designed with perceived risk in mind, Norquist cites GameTime's open-weave net tunnel, he says. "When children are inside, the net sways slightly as you walk, and you can see the ground under your feet, but children are completely enclosed within the space," Norquist says.
Spinning is another classic playground activity that provides a sense of daring, he says. "Children love the sensation of spinning, and there have been many equipment advancements made that allow children to experience rotating of their bodies at manageable speeds while meeting the applicable playground safety standards," he says.
Rehearsal for life
The benefits of play and risk-taking extend well beyond the school yard, according to Anthony Pelligrini, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota. "One of the real benefits of kids' play and what they do on playgrounds, more generally, is that they enjoy doing it so they are more motivated to initiate and maintain difficult tasks," Pelligrini says.
"This level of engagement helps kids learn new things, exhibit their competencies in social and physical arenas, and really feel good about themselves."
Playgrounds should be thought of as a "rehearsal for life," adds Proud. For instance, equipment like see-saws force children to cooperate. Also, students learn better when they get a break from classroom instruction during the day, says Proud.
"There's an increasing notion that children need open-ended play, need to blow off steam, need to go back inside having fully expressed themselves," he says. "If we're creating the context in which the child can exert themselves and develop their social skills, develop their bodies, burn calories, and we deliver the child back to the classroom ready to learn, then we're doing our job."
Dan Gardner, president of New Mexico-based ExerPlay, says playgrounds that are too safe don't benefit kids. "As a parent we want to buffer our children, we want to have a cushion around them," says Gardner, whose company sells equipment made by Landscape Structures. "If anything, we're seeing results that this has been damaging to our kids. There's nothing better than to have safe, perceived risk."
Soft landings
Most playground injuries are a result of falls on surfaces that don't have enough cushioning, Gardner says. But schools sometimes make the mistake of spending less money on surfacing because it's not as visible as the equipment. "When the school board's looking at it, and you've put $20K into a surface, they're not going to see that," Gardner says. "People need to be educated that a good surface is important."
The two main types of safe surfaces playgrounds are using these days are "loose" and "unitary," Proud says. A loose surface is made from loose rubber, sand or wood chips. These can be cheaper to install but take regular maintenance to make sure the materials are evenly distributed. A unitary surface, like soft rubber, is more expensive up front but requires far less maintenance, Proud says.
Donna Thompson, executive director of The National Program for Playground Safety at the University of Northern Iowa, says playground equipment should not be placed over grass, cement or asphalt. Safe materials include shredded rubber, sand, pea gravel, wood products, and rubber tiles. School administrators must ask about detail from the manufacturer, such as how thick the surface needs to be. The thickness should be in proportion to the height of the equipment.
Think outside play box
Gardner says he tells administrators to focus on the developmental benefits for students rather than just aesthetics. Playground equipment—depending on climate, materials, and other factors—can last for 20 to 25 years. He also says school managers should think outside the box. For example, one school he worked with put two sets of plans to a vote. The administrators and teachers wanted a more traditional playground while the students voted for a more modern system. The kids won. "We really miss the point when we don't get what the actual users want to use," Gardner says.
Tim Gill, a playground expert and the author of "No Fear: Growing Up In a Risk Averse Society," says adults should give students some leeway. "Risks cannot be eliminated. Children need opportunities for challenging, adventurous play," he says. "We, in turn, need to recognize that children can manage many types of risk, that they learn fast, and that they often learn best from their mistakes."


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A region's weather may change greatly from day to day. People tried to predict the weather for thousands of years. A correct prediction was of paramount importance to sailors and soldiers, airmen and fishermen, travellers and farmers.
In the past, people in rural Ireland, who depended so much on the weather for sowing, reaping and harvesting of crops had a fairly reliable system of their own to predict the weather. They understood that all life on earth depended on the sun so they looked to the sun and planets, wind and water, bird and beast which all depended on the sun, for guidelines. The heavenly bodies were studied very carefully by our forefathers for any changes in the weather.
Everyone is acquainted with the St. Swithin's day story which says that rain on that day brings forty days of similar weather, but another prophesy, which may not be so well known, foretells that the twelve days before St. Swithin's day are a guideline for the twelve months which follow.
The Moon
The moon in all it's phases was a great weather guide for the past generations. A far ring on the moon meant a storm near hand while a ring near the moon meant a far away storm. If the weather does not change at the beginning of any phase of the moon it means it will not change for the duration of that quarter. Also the first quarter of the New Moon follows the same pattern of weather as the last quarter of the old moon.
In winter and early Spring if the New Moon makes her appearance on the second or third day and appears like a small silvery crescent with upturned ends, it foretells frost and snow for the duration of the moon. If the moon appears to be racing behind the clouds, that presages wind and storm.


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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we continue our spotlight city series on the eve of President Obama's 100 days in office. Tonight we take the pulse of how people feel about the direction of the country.
Gwen Ifill has that from St. Louis.
GWEN IFILL: National polls show that, even in the midst of rising unemployment, frozen wages, and a continuing credit crunch, many Americans remain optimistic about where the economy is headed in these first 100 days.
It's no different here in St. Louis, where we've been talking to people from all walks of life this week.
Mark Esters worked for Chrysler, assembling Dodge Ram pickups, but seven months ago, he lost his job and he's still looking for work.
MARK ESTERS, unemployed autoworker: You have to keep looking. You have to look for something in your field or you have to consider, you know, getting a retraining or re-educated to go into another job.
GWEN IFILL: The plant where he worked just south of the city has laid off enough workers that it's gone down to one shift. Next door, another Chrysler minivan plant is completely dark.
Still, Esters is optimistic about an Obama administration plan to create more green jobs.
MARK ESTERS: There are opportunities out there for us to be able to try to learn these new jobs. And I think the administration is trying to put — I wouldn't say a spin, but put a positive outlook onto that, we're going to be able to have some good jobs sometime in the future, you know, in the early future, hopefully.
Mixed feelings on the economy
GWEN IFILL: In St. Louis's trendy Loop neighborhood, we found white-collar workers who were economically stressed, yet also still hopeful.
MUYMBI BYNUM, teaching assistant: I have two brothers who worked a long time, a brother in New York who worked for IBM for 30 years and was laid off. And that was a surprise to him. Another brother who worked for Morgan Stanley for 14 years who was laid off.
And they're both hoping to, you know, get back up again. But they were both very surprised. And they have big mortgages. You know, they both live in New York. But they're both optimistic, also.
GWEN IFILL: Do you and the people you know feel insecure about this economy?
JOHN WHITEHEAD, occupational therapist: Oh, I think they've gone through a rough time. I think Obama brings promise. We're still -- I think people are still hurting. I think their pockets are still tight, but I think he brings promise.
I mean, I'm talking about, just as much as last summer, our gas was exorbitant. And now we have a little more room, a little more money back in our pockets, where we're able to fill up our tanks, and do our shopping, do some other things we need to do.
HOPE WHITEHEAD, lawyer: We've been middle class the entire time, just very few growth opportunities. We've been caught in the credit crunch with skyrocketing surprised fees.
We've been caught in the college student loan problems. We have a son that was in college. So we've been caught in all of the middle-class spiraling down of the economy.
So it has nowhere to go but up for me. So I'm very optimistic.
GWEN IFILL: Many Americans say they are troubled by the president's decision to bail out failing banks and industries.
HOPE WHITEHEAD: We needed money to flow throughout this economy. Something had happened. There was a stop. And we needed to move forward. So I think he was right in focusing on taking the banks and making them responsible.
I think he had to do something with the auto industry. I mean, you know, we don't want to bail them out, either, but what were you going to do? And I, for one, see all of it as an investment in our future.
Skepticism on bank bailouts
GWEN IFILL: Curt and Lisa Bingham, who were out celebrating their three-year wedding anniversary with a trip to a Cardinals' game and a frozen custard at a St. Louis landmark, see things differently. Count them among the skeptics.
CURT BINGHAM, student: Government solutions just aren't working. I think they're gumming up the works more than anything, because banks are just sitting on the money.
It's not like -- I mean, it sounded good when they came out with the ideas, but there's always something when the government tries to take over or help out an industry, there's always something they're not anticipating. And I just felt like they hurried through it to do something for the sake of doing something rather than actually fixing the problem.
GWEN IFILL: So you question some of the decisions that have been made for bailouts and that sort of thing?
CURT BINGHAM: Yes. Yes. I voted for George Bush. And until '08, I was real happy with his presidency. But as a whole, I just think the government needs to get out of the way and let the American people make this economy recover.
And, you know, the only thing government can do at this point, I think, is help with tax cuts or tax breaks for us. And other than that, I don't think there's anything else they can do.
LISA BINGHAM, factory worker: There have been quite a few things I've been disappointed in, but it's still early. So hopefully we'll see some better decisions being made in the future.
BOB PUFF, small businessman: I think we ought to do it like they did in the past, lower taxes. It's all about this printing all this money and giving it out to people that don't deserve it. I think they should have let them gone bankrupt, and let them start over, go into Chapter 11, and restructure their programs, and go from there.
Anticipating Obama's town hall
GWEN IFILL: President Obama arrives in suburban St. Louis tomorrow for a town hall meeting marking his first 100 days in office. He's likely to find supporters and naysayers who have more questions than answers.
MARIBEL SANTOS VILLAMAYOR, lab scientist: I'm going to ask him how the -- when's the stimulus coming, if it's going to really help our economy? And hopefully it will, so that, you know, a lot of people won't get laid off and, you know, have a secure job.
CHARLIE CRAIG, businessman: I sometimes feel like maybe they're still a little bit, too, you know, considerate of the Wall Street people. I think, you know, they need to just really knuckle down on those people and get things straightened out.
GWEN IFILL: But even as a late spring turns to a sudden summer, many in St. Louis seem willing to watch and wait.
ROSEMARY HOANG, retail store manager: I think people just need to be patient. And he's got a plan. And I think, you know, there's going to be hiccups on the way. There has been. And I think the way he's gone about it in some ways people think it's kind of aggressive, but I think it's better than what I think we've had.
MARK ESTERS: We, as Americans, we can be impatient sometimes. I mean, it's only been 100 days. And we really have to, you know, try to stay steadfast and really look at this 365 days from his inauguration and January 20th next year look back and see what changes have been done.
And if the future is prospering at that time, then we can try to grumble if nothing happened then. It's too early now to really try to put a mark on President Obama and say that he's not doing a good job.
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Installing hinges can be a time-consuming process. The first and most important step is positioning the hinges in the door frame so the pair or trio of hinges is lined up precisely and is level. Hiding the hinges in the door frame requires carefully locating the hinges and carving out the section with a hammer and a wood chisel. The project takes time and careful hammering to avoid gouging the wood or creating too deep an inset for the hinge.
Things You'll Need
- Hammer
- Chisel
- Level
- String
- Tape
- Pencil
- Hinge
Marking the Door Frame
Hold the hinge against the door frame in the desired position with the hinge aspect, which is the metal rod joining the two halves of the hinge, pressed against the exterior edge of the door. Mark the position of the hinge on the door frame, using a pencil.
Repeat Step 1 for the next and any subsequent hinges.
Hold a level vertically against the vertical edge of the marks you made previously for the top hinge. Position the level so the edge is straight up and down. Trace the edge of the level with a pencil to correct the position of the edge of the hinge mark.
Tape a weighted string, which simply has something heavy tied to the base, above the mark you made in Step 3 so the string follows the path of the line but does not touch the ground. Trace the position of the line so you have an accurate position for the edge of the remaining hinges.
Check the level of the mark you made in Step 4 for each additional hinge to verify the marks are accurately leveled from top to bottom while following the vertical line.
Cutting the Insets
Press the end of the chisel against the marks you made for the location of each hinge so the beveled edge of the chisel points toward the center of the marks. Hammer the chisel straight into the wood along the marks, creating a scored outline of the hinge.
Hold the hinge against the scored outline to verify the dimensions are accurate. You should be able to see the scored outline around the edges of the hinge.
Press the point of the chisel into the external edge of the door frame so the flat edge will cut straight into the frame, creating the actual inset cut. Position the chisel so the cut will be deep enough for the hinge to sit flush with the surrounding frame and the upper edge of the chisel is flush with the upper mark.
Hammer the chisel lightly until the end comes to the vertical mark, which will allow the layer of wood to pop off cleanly. Repeat down the height of each set of marks you made until the inset is fully carved out.
Press the hinge into the inset cut to verify the depth. Repeat the process until the depth is accurate.
Tips & Warnings
- A router set to the proper depth can cut the insets more accurately but requires you to purchase a router and the proper bit. The router will not get into the corners, so you will still need the hammer-and-chisel method to remove the corners.
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Four other beaches in the state have also been closed after the department tested water samples taken Monday.
Public Beach #1 at the Lake remains open to swimmers.
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text: Edward I like to talk to you in more detail (maybe via the phone one evening this week). You are making a few good points. However, I'm trying to make a complex issue simpler. I don't want a complete list of all 'potentials'. I like to keep a list of realistic and practical manufacturers up-to-date. No exotic stuff either. Simple B&W film and paper with good or reasonable quality and available too. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht http://www.darkroomagic.com On 2006-02-14 09:39, "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Fuji's Rembrandt paper is made by Fuji, but again not intended for export >> with some exporters to do so anyway. It will be added to the list. >> >> Oriental paper is made by... Ilford! > > Ralph, not so quick.. Even "IF" the new emulsions are from Ilford they are > being finished in Japan and the old emulsions are still available (just > no longer being coated). Can Cybergraphics (the current name of Oriental) > still coat? > > In talking about a lot of materials we are NOT really talking about coating > since few of us (not even the makers) really know what they'll be coating > (and offering) only what they have in stocks (either cut down or still in > master/jumbo rolls) and what they could make should they choose to. A lot > of materials don't get coated very often. Technical Pan, for instance, may > have been discontinued a year ago but the last time it was coated was > in the 1990s. Some companies still can coat but don't and a few companies > selling product don't coat anymore since they no longer have the coating > capacity. Ilford, for example, had the capacity but for a time was not > coating (and the future was open). AgfaPhoto (currently in liquidation) has > the capacity but stopped coating (and the future of the coating capacity is > open and bleak). > > Instead maybe of asking "who is making film and paper" and "what", it might > make more sense to ask "Who still has the capacity to coat film and/or > paper"? And then ask (not the same question): Who is currently coating. > > The list will look quite different and many MORE companies will show up.. > There are several companies in the world currently coating motion picture > print, X-Ray and special industrial materials. The intellectual content of > our films, of course, are different but we are talking of "capacity" (and > among the list are companies with IP but no capacity)... > > We need to also talk about product. There are many suitable "industrial" > films that can well be used into our cameras.. such as traffic/surveillance, > microfilm and cine stocks. There are loads of 35mm microfilms available (and > its still hardly obsolete technology). Sure, few microfilms are available for > our 35mm cameras as most are unperforated.. but they CAN be perforated.. > > P.S.: Fotokemika no longer exists and has gone into liquidation. The property > in Zagreb was sold. The machines were moved and the company went bankrupt. > The new company is "Nova Fotokemika" in Samobor. This is, I think, the basis > for the name "Adox" as the future of Efke is unclear. Are they coating? ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.


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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
if i cancel a life insurance policy that has a cash payout do I have to pay tax even although it is after tax savings? Also is there any penalties? I have had the policy for 12 years I am 55 The monthly premium is $150 of which $100 went to life insurance and $50 went to the savings plan. I did not get a tax break on the savings so I guess that makes it pre tax dollars?
Welcome and thank you for giving me the opportunity to assist you with your tax question.
A life insurance policy is similar to a savings account. You deposit money into the life insurance policy in the form of premiums, the insurer uses a portion of your deposits to pay for the life insurance benefit and the remainder is invested. If you pay for enough years, your policy builds up a cash surrender value, or CSV. If the CSV is more than the premiums and you surrender the policy (cancel it), the excess is earnings and taxable income. For example, if you paid $1,000 in policy premiums for 20 years and you cash in the policy and receive $30,000, you'll pay ordinary income tax on $10,000 in earnings.
You should receive a Form 1099-R showing the total proceeds and the taxable part. Report these amounts on lines 16a and 16b of Form 1040.
I have paid say $150 for say 12 years = $21,600 for the life insurance and savings of which a third went to the savings portion - about $7,000. The surrender value is about $9,000. Would I therefore pay no tax based on the total premium of $21,600 or just tax on the $2,000 gain on the savings portion?
Is the cash value is more than the premiums you paid, the excess is earnings and taxable income. Likewise, if the premiums you paid are more than the cash value, there is no excess.
The first word in my last response should be "if" not "is." Sorry.
ok, is the premium the whole payment including the life insurance portion?
Was what you paid monthly apportioned in any way or was it $150.00/month premium?
It was a single monthly payment but it was broken out in the contract details I believe.
Then you would have to do the calculations on what amount pertains to the life insurance portion and what amount pertains to the savings portion.
It would seem that you would pay tax on the gain on the savings portion, based on what you are telling me.
ok, thank you
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Now that was a quality two hours of network television.
After last week's lackluster premiere, I was a little skeptical of the talent level in this year's X Factor auditions, but Wednesday night wiped away those thoughts with a slew of amazing performances.
This episode had everything that makes X Factor great: Young singers, old singers, groups and everything in between that doesn't fit the criteria to audition on "American Idol" or "The Voice."
Below is the list of the great performances tonight from the Kansas City auditions as well as continuations from last week's San Francisco and Austin shows. Performer after performer wowed judges L.A. Reid, Simon Cowell, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato.
I'm telling you now — look out for a sassy girl named CeCe, future country star Tate Stevens and a big ol' girl named Panda. Yes, Panda.
Rizzloe Jones, 18
Yes, his real name is Rizzloe. And he is a rapper. And he is a bright-eyed teenager who looks like he should have been one of Britney's fair-skinned co-stars on "The Mickey Mouse Club" back in the day. But the boy has some skills. He did a freestyle rap on the spot, had good energy, got the crowd going and the judges, even L.A. Reid, who knows his hip-hop, loved him. Britney called him "Vanilla Ice, Ice Baby."
CeCe Frey, 20
CeCe, who was all about pushing other contestants' buttons backstage and had leopard-print painted across part of her forehead (not sure why) was set up to be one of those villainous contestants who is awful once she gets on stage. But she was actually pretty freaking awesome. She has sass, but her confidence is undeniable. And her voice is definitely strong. Her only snag was that she started singing "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers, which the judges hated. She switched to "Ain't No Other Man" by Christina Aguilera — another tall order — and nailed it. She needs to lower the attitude a little, though. Not sure America is going to go for it. Maybe they just need to get used to her. I also enjoy that she kind of looks like Kelly Kapowski from "Saved By The Bell."
Vino Alan, 39
Goosebumps, from the first note. This father who's been trying to make it in music for years and sings for U.S. soldiers has an awesome voice. He sang "Trouble" by Ray LaMontagne, displayed a powerful tone and wowed the judges. That being said, I would be doing a disservice if I didn't discuss his looks. His head and part of his face are covered in tattoos. He wears baggy clothes and looks like a very tough individual. Don't judge a book by its cover — this guy is awesome.
Tate Stevens, 37
How could you not like this guy? He's a blue collar dad from Missouri with a cowboy hat who has a radio-ready, deep country voice and a great personality. He is definitely an early front runner for the older category later in the competition. His rendition of "Anything Goes" by Randy Houser was great. Tate Stevens is even a great country name.
Citizen, 21-25
It's no secret that the X Factor audition audiences are full of teenage girls. Some of them may have died during this performance from Citizen, a smooth-singing, good-looking boy band. The group sang a polished rendition of En Vogue's "Don't Let Go," and the audience ate it up. The judges liked it minus Simon, who said it was out of date. Everyone else put them through, though.
Diamond White, 13
Diamond, a cute, squeaky little teen who lives in a "shoe box apartment" with her mom in Los Angeles has a bright future. Her speaking is voice is pretty high, but when she sings, she is a pro. The judges thought she was fantastic and America will too. Good for you, Diamond!
Ally Brooke, 19
I liked this girl a lot. Until she kept singing. And singing. And singing, even after the music stopped. Ally sang a very nice version of "On My Knees" by Jaci Velasquez. Demi said she "blew her away." Okay, I guess I still like her. And she had a cool hat.
Panda Ross, 42
Her name is Panda. "Like the bear," as she said. And she is a big girl. And she has a great voice. She sang a soulful version "Bring it on Home," by Sam Cooke and Simon said she "sounded like a legend." But she also is coming off pneumonia and had to be wheeled back to the hospital on a stretcher with oxygen because she couldn't breathe. I hope Panda recovers.
Jessica Espinoza, 22
And closing out the show tonight was Jessica, a lovely Hispanic girl from the south side of San Antonia — which I learned is the rough-and-tumble side of San Antonio. After giving her story of growing up with holes in her shoes, she sang a fantastic, emotional rendition of Pink's "Nobody Knows," held back tears through the whole thing and was just great. Very strong voice.
DeAngelo Wallace, 19
This guy was criminally bad. He came on stage, annoyed the judges with his "I'm better than Justin Bieber" attitude, sang a terrible version of Chris Brown's "With You," the judges left while he was singing and on his way out, he stole the microphone attached to him and got put in cuffs and hauled away. What an idiot.
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Based on the Warner Bros. Animation kids' television series, Xiaolin Showdown sends players on an action-packed quest to seek out and protect the Shen Gong Wu, magical artifacts of supernatural power. Players will be able to take on the role of four young warriors: the well-rounded Omi, feisty Kimiko, boisterous Clay and the agile Raimundo. Each character has their own unique set of moves and special abilities, including skills from the television series such as the Seismic Kick, Judallet Flip and Typhoon Boom. Players can switch freely between the four characters at dojo drop-off areas through the game's 20 action-packed stages, selecting the best character for each new encounter. As they complete portions of the single player story mode, players will unlock special mini-games such as fire bowling and wind hockey, which take advantage of the unique features of the Nintendo DS with support for touch screen and microphone input. These mini-games can be enjoyed alone or with a friend via local wireless multiplayer support.
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Liverpool Friends of Palestine is affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which campaigns for justice for Palestinians.
Liverpool Friends of Palestine is affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which campaigns for justice for Palestinians.
The Big Ride for Gaza sets off from Liverpool on 4 August
Welcome to the website of Liverpool Friends of Palestine.
On other pages you will find out more about what we do. You'll also find some recommendations of books, films and so on and some links to other organisations. There's a 'basic history' in the 'Palestine' section and there's even a quiz to test your knowledge!
Elsewhere on the net, we have a Facebook page and you can just follow this link. You can also follow us on Twitter at @Livfop.
On this page we list some events coming up shortly, at which you are welcome to join us:
Wednesday 4th, 7.30pm - our regular monthly meeting is in Jack Jones House (the UNITE building) at 2 Churchill Way L3 8EF. Agendas etc go out separately to members.
Saturday 7th, 12 noon to 2pm - our monthly stall with leaflet and pettion, will be at the bottom of Bold Street. Drop by and help for half an hour.
Saturday 21st, 10am to 4.15pm - Britain and Palestine 1917 to 2017 - 100 years of broken promises, a day conference on Britain's role in Palestine since the 'Balfour declaration' of November 1917. It will be in the Quaker Meeting House in School Lane L1 3BT. The flyer for the conference is HERE and a more detailed outline of the event is HERE. Entrance is free although we ask you to register by emailing us (use the box at the bottom of this page). We hope you will join us for a thought-provoking day.
Saturday 4th, 12 noon - National Demonstration in London organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign to mark 100 years since the Balfour Declaration. Assemble at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. We are planning to put on a bus from Liverpool, please email us (using the box at the bottom of this page) if you want to go. Justice Now - Make it right for Palestine!
It feels a long time ago that the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 2334 on 23 December last, declaring settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem to be a 'flagrant violation under international law'. You can read the full text of the resolution HERE. But it remains a matter of record thanks to the United States abstaining rather than vetoing it.
However, it is business as usual when Israel's settler-led government passes legislation that allows for legalisation of settlements built on stolen Palestinian-owned land and starts on further settlement activity. There is plenty of international condemnation but United States silence gives a green light to further house demolitions and land-grabbing in East Jerusalem and all over the West Bank.
2017 is a year of anniversaries for the Palestinians. It is 100 years since the British government issued the 'Balfour declaration' that promised the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine; 70 years since the United Nations outlined its partition plan; 50 years since Israel occupied the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza and 10 years that Gaza has been under siege. There's a strong statement from over 250 European organisations that calls on the EU and European states to 'make 2017 the year that the rights of the Palestinian people become a reality'. The full statement and list of signatories is HERE.
If you need any reminding of why racism has no place in sport, watch THIS TRAILER for the documentary 'Forever Pure' on the Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem. It is a withering critique of a club that prides itself on having no Arab players.
Elsewhere in the footballing world, the Israeli FA is under pressure to exclude six of its member clubs that are based in illegal settlements. See HERE for a detailed investigation by Human Rights Watch. A ruling from FIFA (the international federation) is promised but is constantly delayed.
As Israeli football clubs take part in European competition, the protests follow them. The biggest demonstration was at Celtic Park where demonstrators held Palestine flags aloft in defiance of UEFA officialdom (and later raised over £150,000 for Palestinian charities).
The big security company G4S say they have decided to sell up and get out of Palestine. They have been centrally involved in the Israeli state's control of the Palestinians, so this must be classed as a big move. You can read more about it HERE. PSC and some British trade unions want to be sure and are pushing for some further answers in an open letter that you can read HERE.
An incident between a Palestinian civilian and an Israeli soldier on 24 March last year left both injured. As the Palestinian man lay immobile on the ground, another soldier shot him in the head. Palestinians would say this is nothing new and indeed the other soldiers there did not bat an eyelid. But this time the shooting was filmed and the youtube clip (HERE) went viral. Cue senior Israeli politicians agreeing that this soldier must be punished to preserve the army's integrity.
The soldier, one Elor Azaria, was charged with homicide. But while he awaited trial (detained in an open prison) he became a folk hero. You can see HERE a disturbingly large and vociferous rally held in his support on 19 April in central Tel-Aviv. Cue the same Israeli politicians criticising the prosecution! The most important quotes are linked from THIS ARTICLE. And now that the soldier has been convicted and sentenced to (only) 18 months imprisonment, there are widespread calls for a pardon. He is now reported to have been released on curfew pending appeal. As so often, extremism is becoming the Israeli norm.
A vigorous witch-hunt has been going on inside the British Labour Party. The immediate target is quite clearly Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, but the longer-term aim is to expand the definition of 'antisemitism' to include any criticism of Israeli apartheid.
It may be that a similar 'definition creep' will also find its way into Government policy as THIS ARTICLE from the Institute of Race Relations explains.
Maybe the report from the party's Chakrabarti inquiry will instil a sense of order into the debate. It was published (on time!) on 30 June last year and the full text is HERE. See also HERE a basic Q and A from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Some of the most thorough submissions to the inquiry appear on the website freespeechonisrael.org.uk.
We believe that support for the Palestinians requires opposition to all forms of racism. We see Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as a form of apartheid racism, which we will continue to oppose without apology.
Apologists for Israeli apartheid were well and truly caught out by THIS DOCUMENTARY made by Al-Jazeera. A six-month investigation by an undercover reporter produced compelling footage of an Israeli embassy official openly discussing setting up pro-Israel groups and 'taking down' politicians up to and including a Government minister.
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On 6 January last year there was a very full and informative debate on the subject in Parliament's Westminster Hall (THIS is the link, scroll down to page WH77). Of our local MPs, Peter Dowd (Bootle) expressed outrage at the blindfolding of nine-year-olds when arrested. Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside) made more than one intervention in favour of the Israeli state.
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On my recent trip to Asia, I spoke about the connection between mobile and the Internet-of-Things (IoT) fields. Many technology analysts, especially when describing market opportunities, define these as two distinct categories, often using the IoT interchangeably with machine-to-machine (M2M). I think of mobile and the IoT not only as closely linked, but also as one fueling and often integrated with another.
The visions and various implementations of smart, communicating objects are not new. The term itself, The Internet of Things, has been is use for, at least, 15 years [Kevin Ashton, a cofounder and executive director of the Auto-ID Center, claims to have used the phrase first in 1999]
During the past several years the IoT has moved to the forefront and the hype has increased. Why? There are several converging factors that are fueling the rapid growth and attention to IoT. Among them:
- Smaller and cheaper sensors that are powered by long-lasting batteries,
- More ubiquitous, faster and cheaper networks,
- Emergence of IoT programing environments that tap into creativity of consumers and enterprise users, and
- Proliferation of cloud services that made computing resources and storage more accessible and affordable.
One of the key factors that fueled the recent interest in IoT (and hype around it) is the explosion of mobile devices.
Many IoT applications use mobile (and wearable) devices as the human interface, either to receive requests or to deliver insight from the machines being controlled and the data being collected. Furthermore, mobile devices can themselves participate in the IoT system as sensors to deliver information about location, locomotive activity, acceleration, noise, light, proximity, and even our mood. Accessibility and the proliferation of mobile devices has helped move IoT into our homes, gyms and cars.


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Many land claimants cannot afford to wait 10 years before they can get what are their rightful assets, says Pinky Khoabane.
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma, in his State of the Nation address mentioned that his next term of office would be underpinned by radical economic transformation, a point that was rebutted by Economic Freedom Front (EFF) leader Julius Malema.
"You cannot pay for stolen land," Malema retorted during the parliamentary debate on the president's address, a reminder, perhaps, of the conclusion of this country's most costly land claim earlier this year, when the government paid almost R1 billion for the world-renowned Mala Mala Game Lodge as part of land restitution.
At R70 000 per hectare, the land has been returned to its rightful owners, the community of N'wandlamhlarhi in Mpumalanga at a hefty price, which the government has been quick to explain is fair and market-related.
The community will, in return, get their land back and the former owners will remain on the land until 2015, during which time they will pay R700 000 a month for the lease and share with the community the profits accrued during the period of the lease.
In that period, they will provide the rightful owners with capacity and technical support to ensure the sustainability and proper running of the business beyond the lease period.
Apart from the financial and more tangible aspects of the deal, perhaps, is the restoration of dignity and the emotional and cultural spin-offs that come with land ownership.
This seems fair; the land wasn't developed at the time of the theft and certainly didn't have the estimated R38 million brand value it supposedly holds today.
But cynics ask how land that was stolen and which has been extremely profitable for the expropriators, could be returned at such a price.
The policy of land restitution, which tries to be fair to both the expropriators and rightful owners, has stuttered largely on this issue of the price the not-so-rightful owners have wanted to charge for land they took for free while the rightful owners were shunted to poorer parts of the country.
The N'wandlamhlarhi community, for example, having been forced off their land, lived on the outskirts and in abject poverty while the Rattrays raked in millions of rand from the tourism trade. While 98 percent of the people who visit the lodge are international tourists, the owners could not visit their own land except as workers.
As is customary in these land claims, the apartheid-era owners, whose only claim to the land is the protection they receive from the 1913 Land Act, resisted restitution, dragging the process through almost a decade of legal battles – three courts, including the Constitutional Court, to be exact.
For those who are not familiar with the Land Act of 1913, it is through this piece of legislation that 87 percent of the land, largely lucrative, was reserved for whites, while the majority blacks were dumped on 13 percent of the most arid land.
Apologists for this horrendous law will no doubt be saying the owners would have done nothing with this land or very little in comparison with developments made by apartheid-era owners of Mala Mala. The fact is this land belongs to and was stolen from the N'wandlamhlarhi and they were entitled to do on it as they pleased.
Some will also point to stories of farms that have been left fallow after they were returned to their rightful owners – the "failures" of the land restitution process.
However, many will also be looking at this deal as the benchmark on which a successful land reform process should be built.
But can it be the benchmark? Can the ANC and the many land claimants afford to wait for 10 years while the process goes through courts before they can get what are their rightful assets?
Can the taxpayer afford to pay these exorbitant prices just so the rightful owners can have their land back?
The ANC is well aware that the progress made in the redistribution of land is slow.
In his State of the Nation address in February, Zuma mentioned that about 5 000 farms comprising a total of 4.2 million hectares had been returned to black hands since 1994.
These numbers reflect a gravely slow pace.
Nearly 80 000 land claims totalling 3.4 million hectares and benefiting 1.8 million people had been settled, he said at the time.
The introduction of new legislation to speed up the process is a welcome development.
While the amendments to the Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994 will offer claimants another opportunity at getting their land back, questions must be asked about the imposition of these deadlines and whether they do not deny victims of apartheid laws the restoration of their rights, land included.
The amendments extend the window period for lodging claims to 18 June 2018.
The commitment to return land to rightful owners as enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic should outweigh any other factor.
The establishment of the Office of the Valuer-General, whose role will be to evaluate land and farms, will offer a much-needed reprieve in lengthy negotiations over price.
The government will now be able to pay what is recommended by this office.
Returning land to rightful owners alone is not enough to address the eradication of poverty and food security in this country. The restoration of dignity through ownership alone when the land is not productive yields nothing.
The ruling party will have to intensify its efforts to support emerging farmers.
The mistakes of the past two decades that have seen emerging farmers frustrated by lack of financial and technical support, must be a thing of the past if radical economic transformation is to be achieved.
Equally pleasing is the commitment by the Commission for Restitution of Land and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to use mistakes of the past as lessons for the successful implementation of land reform.
Pockets of success have begun to emerge as the government moves to recapitalise and assist in the development of farms left fallow.
However, these lessons will have to be implemented at lightning speed for the true fruits of the land to be realised by the new owners.
The ANC in its second transition to an economic revolution would do well to heed the words of some of its former presidents.
Its first president, John Dube, said: "If we have no land to live on, we can be no people," while Oliver Tambo in a 1985 speech said: "The land question must be resolved, if needs be the hard way."
* Pinky Khoabane is an author, writer and columnist.
** The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Independent Newspapers.
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Safety and Effectiveness of Subconjunctival Injection of Bevacizumab in the Treatment of Corneal Neovasculization
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- Purpose:Our animal study demonstrated the effectiveness of subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab in the inhibition of corneal neovasculization formation. The purpose of this human interventional study is to report the treatment outcome of subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab in patients with corneal neovascularization.
- Material and methods: We enrolled 13 patients with unilateral or bilateral clinically significant corneal neovascularization during Aug. 2007 to Jan. 2008. Subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab once per month for at most 7 times was performed according to clinical response.
- Main outcome measurements: resolution of corneal neovascularization, reduction of lipid infiltrate, improved visual acuity.
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|Drug: subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab ( 1.25 to 2.50 mg)
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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|The Application of Subconjunctival Injection of Bevacizumab (Avastin) in the Treatment of Corneal Neovasculization
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Resolution of corneal neovascularization, reduction of lipid infiltrate, improved visual acuity [ Time Frame: prospective ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
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subconjunctival injection of bevacizumab ( 1.25 to 2.50mg) according to the clinical judgment. Once per months for three times then reevaluate the drug effect, if the response was adequate, stop the trial; if no improvement, another three month intervention would be performed.
Other Name: bevacizumab ( Avastin )
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- Significant unilateral or bilateral corneal neovascularization that extending over the limbus at least 2mm
- The underlying etiologies that caused corneal neovascularization included post penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), trauma, infectious or non-infectious corneal ulcer, post-keratoplasty, etc.
- Corneal neovascularization induced lipid keratopathy, corneal edema, or irregular corneal surface. The best-corrected visual acuity was less than 20/25
- Post-PKP corneal neovascularization that had no associated lipid keratopathy, no corneal edema, or corneal irregularity. But the neovascularization was highly possible to cause graft rejection.
- The corneal neovascularization was refractory to other medical treatment
- The patient had received PKP or other corneal surgeries more than half a year ago and was not in the acute post-operation phase
- The patient had no active endopthalmitis, glaucoma with uncontrolled intraocular pressure, or vitreoretinal diseases
- The patient signed inform consent to have regular follow up and treatment
Exclusion Criteria:
- The neovascularization had clinical improvement three months before the first injection
- The lipid keratopathy had clinical improvement three months before the first injection
- The patient that suspected to have poor visual outcome or had already been light sense negative
- Glaucoma patient that had uncontrolled intraocular pressure
- Poor corneal epithelialization
- Post-PKP patient that had graft failure or rejection
- Patient that had systemic disease which was not suitable for bevacizumab use
- Pregnant patient
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Two transfers made their commitment to UNLV official today with the program announcing it received signed financial aid agreements from Ben Carter and Jerome Seagears.
Carter, a Bishop Gorman High grad coming back after two years at Oregon, and Seagears, a senior guard from Rutgers, will both enroll at UNLV this summer. Seagears may be eligible for the 2014-15 season while Carter will sit out and have two years remaining starting in 2015-16.
"We are excited about the addition of Ben," UNLV coach Dave Rice said in a statement. "He is a versatile forward who can score in a variety of ways and is a terrific rebounder."
Seagears initially left Rutgers for Auburn after then-coach Mike Rice was fired following video of him physically and verbally abusing his players. However, Seagears only stayed at Auburn a few weeks and then returned to Rutgers and played the entire season.
"He brings valuable playing experience and has a great feel for making plays for others," Rice said of Seagears. "He is also a terrific shooter, committed defender and a tough competitor. We are counting on Jerome to provide leadership."
The Rebels expect the NCAA to declare Seagears eligible this season. If that doesn't happen he would be able to sit out one season and play his last year in 2015-16.
The duo joins fellow transfer Cody Doolin, who also must wait for the NCAA to declare him eligible for this season, and a quintet of incoming high school players to form a top-five national recruiting class.
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North Las Vegas VA Hospital emergency department repeatedly "disrespected and mistreated" a 78 year old diabetic volunteer with more than 5,000 hours of service at local VA facilities. A few weeks after two visits for a colon problem, the patient died in a hospice. When the patient's friend went to get video of the events from the emergency department, the footage had been erased.
What types of things do Australian emergency departments see on Christmas? Stonefish stings, jet ski accidents, inhaled foreign bodies … not that different from the US, although I had no idea what a stonefish was until I looked it up. Kind of reminds me of my sister.
Back in the US, some emergency physicians are noting "desperate" behavior during the holidays from patients looking to cope with loneliness – manifesting itself in excess drug and alcohol use, excessive sleep, and angry moods.
Other physicians see this behavior every day.
And back to Australia again … Now Press Ganey is "global," ranking emergency departments in Australia.
Seems like the hospital in the article cut waiting times by doing a lot of things we already do in the US. One thing we aren't doing, though is seeing patients in order of arrival instead of triaging patients first. Little uneasy with that concept.
"Yes, Mr. Dwyer, you do seem to be having a heart attack, but there was a family of four patients registered ahead of you in the emergency department who have all had runny noses and coughs for the past month and who haven't had time to get into their family physician."
Oooh. Can't wait to see this show. [eyeroll]Sex Sent Me to the ER.
Let's see. I'll run down the entire season in one sentence: injuries from doing it where you shouldn't be doing it, foreign bodies where they shouldn't be, torn female parts, broken male parts, beatdowns after getting caught with someone else's partner, and diseases. That about covers everything.
Aaaaand I wasn't too far off. I found this article from the NY Post discussing other cases in this week's episode. Stroke "mid-shag," broken penis, painful orgasm, injuries, more injuries.
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Florida patient has penile implant placed, then sues surgeon and anesthesiologist when he develops post operative infection requiring amputation of his penis, alleging that "doctors should have known that he was not a good candidate for the procedure because of his diabetes and high blood pressure."
Beware the bad outcome.
Texas man sues manufacturer of a sexual enhancement supplement after man buys supplement at gas station en route to a hotel for a tryst with is "paramour." During his episode of carnal knowledge, the man states he suddenly had severe penile pain and that his penis then allegedly began spraying blood over the sheets, wall, and mirror like some broken fire extinguisher. He then went to an emergency department where doctors allegedly had to deglove his member (i.e. pull off the skin like removing a glove from the fingers) in order to repair it.
The plaintiff's treating physician definitively linked the sexual enhancement supplement to the man's injuries. I'm sure that rough sex had nothing to do with it.
So keep this in mind, dear readers: Taking roadside erection aids may cause your penis to spontaneously snap in two. A treating physician and a plaintiff's attorney have vouched that it can happen.
Get your flu shots while they're still around. Latest round of media reports showing that "killer" flu is back in circulation cause increased demand for immunizations. Most of the confirmed cases of influenza are the dreaded H1N1 "swine flu."
The CDC Influenza Map shows that most of the US has either regional or widespread influenza activity.
Or, if you're not inclined to have a flu shot, you can just be fired instead. At Pennsylvania's Horizon Healthcare Services (a group owned by Lancaster General Health, Reading Health System, PinnacleHealth System and Penn State Hershey) a pregnant nurse refused the flu shot for fear of inducing another miscarriage, offers to wear mask instead. Hospital system fires her anyway.
Emergency department in Wigan Infirmary in the UK increasing police presence during the holidays after more than 200 assaults have been reported by staff members increases from 98 last year to 106 this year. That's twice per week where the staff is actually reporting the violence.


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The Who is an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums). They initially became known for energetic live performances, which often included instrument destruction, but are now considered amongst the greatest rock bands of all time. The band was inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
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