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Ignorance is stronger than logic. The most dangerous and deadly blindness is that caused by religious ignorance. Just as the biological warfare of AIDS urged gaybashing fools to ignore decades of heterosexual African genocide and centuries of virus-free bloody prison rapes, gaybashing fools now ignore glaring and gross institutional flaws in the Catholic religion and millions of heterosexual pedophiles, as they vent about psychotic and monstrous priests. The only thing more evil than a priest who would sexually prey upon a child, is a demonic gaybasher who would slander all homosexuals for what a few demonic priests dare to do.
All crime watch organizations report that 85-99% of most pedophiles are middle to upper classed, married, heterosexual men who rarely even visit churches and routinely molest their own daughters and nieces. The vast majority of priests are not raping little boys. Those priests who do so should be swiftly crucified. All church officials and peers who harbor and protect these pedophiles should be crucified with them, including the Pope!
Increasingly, pedophiles are cyber savvy heterosexual men who lure young girls over the Internet while their wives are watching television or parenting their own children. Many child rapists are increasingly females, seducing their friends' children or female teachers seducing their own students. Many pedophiles are males and females who traffic in global child pornography or sex slavery networks.
All statistics on pedophilia are flawed. Most children who are molested and exploited never tell anyone. So, most of these crimes are never reported, especially by most boys, who fear evil gaybashers even more than brutal perverts. Most victims are females. But, increasingly frequent male victims fear the stigmas and shame they must eternally endure from family and friends, even more than they fear the abuse of predatory sex fiends.
Many child victims blame themselves for being raped. Sexual predators are adept at making their victims feel blame and shame. Predators choose their prey wisely. They usually choose children who are regarded as disposable, due to their race and class. These dysfunctional children never tell because they are accustomed to being abused, ignored, and betrayed.
All pedophiles should be swiftly prosecuted, even when they are Catholic priests. These sadistic priests are demonic monsters who do not represent all priests, all men, or all homosexuals. If all priests were allowed to have male or female spouses, fewer of them would prey upon children. Pedophilia, like rape, is a crime of power rather than sex. Priests who molest boys do so only because boys are more accessible to them in gender segregated churches. If religions were less sexist and segregated by gender, more girls would be molested by psychotic priests.
The Catholic Church is not alone in its inability to protect children. Boys and girls are molested everywhere daily, even in other religions and churches. Pedophilia is a global epidemic which is not limited in any way to priests or males. Like rape, pedophilia is a crime of opportunity. Children are unsafe globally.
A few heroic celebrities have shared their own stories of childhood sexual abuse. Marvin Gaye was anally raped at 15 by his uncle. Marvin's sister was also raped by that same monster. Carlos Santana was sexually abused for many years by a rich American pedophile tourist. Monique was molested by an older brother for years. Oprah Winfreywas raped for many years by several of her mothers' boyfriends. Millions of children are sexually abused daily. The vast majority of them grow up to be heterosexual, contrary to the rabid lies that homohaters spew.
God created humans to touch and be touched. It is inhumane to force anyone to take a vow of celibacy. Too many priests are sexually repressed. Most of them are heterosexuals. Few are gay. The gay ones are dually repressed. They are told that God hates them. In reality, God does not hate sex or homosexuality. God created both. All religions are fabricated by human men. Jesus never called anyone a Christian or a Catholic. God is a universal and genderless spirit open to literally everyone.
Many homosexual priests join the church to sanction their lack of sexual attraction to women. They undeniably know that God made them homosexual. They erroneously learn that God hates homosexuals. Thus, they feel doomed to Hell. They molest children so that they do not have to wait in line when they get to Hell. They know that Hell's lines will be extremely long, elongated by droves of brutal gaybashers with theology degrees, throngs of evil preachers and their demonic holy sheeple.
As the media offer megaphones to gaybashers, they remain curiously silent about historic and legendary racism in the Catholic Church. From the racist rituals of "pagan baby" offerings, to the eurocentric and radical revamping of ancient images of a Jesus that originally looked like Jimi Hendrix, to the jet black Madonna and Christ child that still grace the ceiling of the Vatican, the racist elements of this priestly "Pampergate" have been ignored by bigoted media editors. Real intellectuals who do their homework will find that the worst offenders of these psychotic pedophile priests are most often exiled to Black and Hispanic parishes. The worst rapists are usually positioned to exclusively prey upon black and brown children.
I am indescribably disgusted by any adult who would sexually abuse a child. I am equally disgusted by gaybashing pseudo-christians. Pseudo-christians rule religion. They are weak and evil cowards. It is easier to bash homosexuals than to cure the gross institutional cancers of forced celibacy and homohatred in religious institutions. Cowards always take the easy ways out. Thus, I expect the holy gaybashing and Catholic Church sanctioned pedophilia to continue...
"God blesses babies and fools...". So, perhaps there is hope for some...
Dear God: Please deliver us all from the "Christians" and the holy monsters who prey upon our divine babies...Please bless us one and all..
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Part of the US Department of Education, the Office of Indian Education (OIE) is responsible for supporting local educational agencies, Indian tribes and organizations to meet the academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives. The agency tries to provide opportunities so that students of these ethnic groups can be on the same academic level with other populations. OIE seeks to meet its goals by distributing millions of dollars in federal grants to local school districts throughout the United States.
The Office of Indian Education (OIE) was created in 1972 following an investigation by Congress into the state of education for Native Americans. In 1969, the Special Senate Subcommittee on Indian Education issued a report called "Indian Education: A National Tragedy" that focused attention on the dire educational situation among these populations. As a result of these findings, the Indian Education Act (PDF) was passed, establishing a comprehensive approach designed to meet the unique cultural needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students.
The Office of Indian Education (OIE), one of five offices in the Office of Secondary and Elementary Education, administers the Indian Education Program of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. Although NCLB does not change the agency's original 1972 mandate to facilitate greater educational opportunities for American Indians and Alaska Natives, it attempts to provide greater accountability and flexibility in use of federal funds.
In October 2003, OIE was elevated to report to the Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) rather than to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), although it continues to operate within the OESE.
In 2008, there were 96 formula grants (PDF) to LEAs worth $1.9 million.
More than 44% of OIE's grants go to programs in Oklahoma, Arizona and Alaska, despite the fact that only 14% of the Native American population lives in these three states.
OIE Accused of Funding non-Indian Education
Since September 2011, the nation's lead official on issues of Native American education has been Joyce A. Silverthorne, who succeeded Jenelle Leonard, the acting director since August 2010. Located in the Department of Education, the Office of Indian Education is responsible for supporting local educational agencies, Indian tribes and organizations to meet the academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
A self-described "air force brat," Silverthorne was born circa 1947 and grew up at various Air Force bases around the world. Her mother, a full-blood enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, and her father, an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, met in Washington, D.C.
In 1977, Bachelor of Arts degree in business education at the University of Montana and a
masters degree in secondary education administration in 1990, also from the University of Montana. She completed all work except a dissertation for a doctorate in Education at Gonzaga University in 2004.
A certified teacher and administrator, Silverthorne taught at Two River Eagle School and she taught and worked as a manager of the bilingual education personnel training program at Salish Kootenai College.
An enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Joyce Silverthorne was director of the Tribal Education Department for the Tribes from 1999 to 2007, and served two years as Montana Education Superintendent Denise Juneau's P-20 Education (i.e., preschool to college) policy advisor starting in December 2008. She also served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Montana Board of Public Education for 10 years.
Silverthorne is a mother of four children and a grandmother.
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The Acting Director of the Office of Indian Education since August 2010, Jenelle Leonard has more than 30 years of experience as an educator, including work as a public school teacher and administrator, a technology implementation and training consultant, a college professor, and a regional and state education department administrator. Her specialty has been bringing technology programs to schools.


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he was in a few of his movies:
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Citizen Kane
Magnificent Ambersons
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Affairs Of Anatole
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Every March, the Franschhoek Valley 'positively' rings with song, as farmers and workers (and thousands of music-lovers) join together at Solms-Delta Wine Estate to celebrate the end of the harvest at the annual Oesfees, or Harvest Festival. With all wine farm workers given complementary admission to the one festival that exclusively features rural Cape music, the 2012 Oesfees on Saturday, 24 March, will once again be the only gathering of its kind.
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When the farm's present owner, Mark Solms, bought the farm in 2001 he realized that he would have to transform the estate radically if he was going to seriously address its legacy. He established the Wijn de Caab Trust to attempt to address the social and economic inequalities of the historically disadvantaged farm residents and employees.
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5 Chickens in a Brentwood Backyard for 3 Years: Owner Just Learned They're not Allowed
Angie Hulshoff will be at the Public Works meeting on Wednesday to speak for her birds.
Brentwood resident and backyard chicken keeper Angie Hulshoff, in the 8700 block of Rosalie Avenue, has had chickens for three years. She said she was told by a city official at the time it was OK.
Recently someone complained, and she learned there's an ordinance against keeping chickens. Now she wants to do all she can to keep her birds.
See more photos at Maplewood-Brentwood Patch Facebook.
"I love what it teaches my kids," she said. "Learning to care for animals teaches them empathy and compassion. What's more important than that?"
She started out with two hens, and now has five.
"They give us these delicious eggs that don't even compare to store-bought eggs," she said. "It's such a win-win, win-win-win."
The board of aldermen on Monday voted to let her keep the chickens until there is a ruling on possibly overturning the ordinance. The topic is on the Public Works agenda for Wednesday's meeting.
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- VIDEO: Chickens Get Care From Young MRH Researchers
- Chicken-Keepers Flock to Maplewood Chickenfest
Mr. Completely
5:54 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Brentwood has more experience dealing with Turkeys and Vultures. Maybe the city could install a 300K water feature in her back yard so the chickens could have a swim or bath.
I'd bet the neighbors near 8700 Rosalie wouldn't describe the thrill of living next to 5 chickens as win-win, win, win-win-win.
7:01 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I understand Brentwood has more serious issues to deal with but this issue found it's way to my doorstep and I'm dealing with it the best I can. I didn't run out looking for attention but I'm also not gonna just give up without a fight no matter how trivial the issue may seem.
Philip Scherry
8:16 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The neighboring municipalities of Rock Hill and Webster do allow for chickens, with certain regulations.
Rock Hill classifies them as 'pets', and any house is allowed only 4 pets. So as long as you don't have roosters its ok.
Webster is a bit more complicated. Look at their City code Section 33.205.
Gary K Lee
12:47 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Maplewood allows up to six hens - no roosters and no slaughtering allowed. You have to get a free permit from the city hall, which gives the city permission to come in to check on the chickens if neglect is suspected. Try to get them to create an ordinance similar to Maplewood's. Even St. Louis city allows chickens.
Most people's concern is that there will be no smell and no noise. That's why roosters aren't allowed. Keeping the roost cleaned out on a regular basis will take care of the smell. We compost what we clean out of the roost and cover it so it won't stink. The material has to break down a few months before you can use it in the garden because it could burn the plants if fresh.


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Compounding the problem, because they were designed as admission order sets, these order sets were not stackable, he says.
"If you have a patient who comes in with multiple diagnoses, you can only pick one order set," Lockerman says. "So our typical patient who comes in with pneumonia, CHF, a urinary infection from a nursing home, and a decubitus, you had to pick the one that covered most of the orders."
If instead the physician decided to use admission order sets for three conditions, there would be a lot of check boxes to uncheck, crippling efficiency, Lockerman says.
Lockerman would like to replace these order sets with a new tiered set, with admission-level order sets, floor-level order sets, and disease management order sets. "Those should be very small and very focused, and should only have best practices in them, not all the choices that we have now,"
he says.
The new tiered order sets will be easy to build and maintain, and will be stackable, Lockerman says. "If the patient has four diagnoses, you could pick each focused order set that will have just the things that they need or should always be done. A pneumonia order set would have community-acquired, hospital-acquired, penicillin-allergic, and nonpenicillin-allergic branches." The EMR "should actually pretty much pick them for you, and then what cultures and maybe one or two other things that are in there, that are required, but not have all the extraneous stuff in them."
Right now, planning for these new disease management order sets at Maimonides is "in the conceptual stage."
Part of the chicken-egg challenge of building these order sets is engaging physicians in the early use of some form of the order sets to garner meaningful feedback on needed improvements.
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Dual boot Windows 98/Linux ¿Howto?
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Posted 06 August 2008 - 01:06 AM
awergh, on Aug 6 2008, 08:37 AM, said:
I've got the most recent version of Mandriva on a CD (july 2008), and it runs perfect, but AFAIK I am not able to install it in the HD. Is there any possibility of doing it, or the install version is a different one?.
Thank you for your kind answer.
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Posted 06 August 2008 - 03:44 AM
When I downloaded the image I did not see any other option. I'll seek what you say.
As you see I have not the slightest idea of the Linux OS, but I hope I'll learn it.
Thank you very much.
Posted 06 August 2008 - 06:55 AM
Downside is that this virtual filesystem is a bit slower. But installing and removing is so easy. So Wubi makes it possible to give you the full Linux/Ubuntu feeling without having to change anything on your existing system. All you need is a few gig's free harddrive space.
Other downside, when talking about a Win98 dualboot, is that these opensource guys and girls claim that (Linux) Ubuntu supports FAT32. But when they roll out a new kernel they don't ever bother to test it with FAT32 volumes. Since 5 kernel updates I only found 1 to be working with FAT32. There are issues with Ubuntu and FAT32. Nothing too serious but still.
I run a Win98/Ubuntu dual boot myself. Just for fun mainly. I have a mp3-player that won't work under Win98 so it's nice that Ubuntu sees it.
But I got more hardware that's working fine under Win98 but not under Linux.
I don't understand why XP and Vista are no options for upgrading but Linux is. What do Win98 and Linux have in common? Nothing, they are both lacking WPA, perhaps that's a reason for some.
If you like Win98 because it's simple clear and open, because you have almost full control over it, because you can backup or restore your system in no time, because you don't need to download 40-50 megs of updates every week and many more reasons like this..........then Linux will disappoint you!
It's nice to have as dual-boot but I personally never considered removing Win98 for more than a few seconds
Posted 08 August 2008 - 05:19 PM
Also had quite some trouble with LILO in the early years.
And more than once, I've had a Linux CD with bad behaviour, partitions and boot manager related.
So I am using the boot manager, that comes with XFDISK, my favourite partitioner for years.
It resides in the MBR of the first physical HDD, could be removed easily by FDISK MBR.
Linux start routines are advised, to reside in the boot sector of their partition, not the MBR of the harddisk.
Anyway, Win2k and XP can't be handled this way, so they may use their own start menu in the W98 partition. But I can even modify the BOOT.INI from DOS
BTW, all system backups are made with Norton Ghost 7.5 here. Won't misplace or forget the boot files, won't complain about index.dat dirt, and it can as well run on plain DOS. Images can be compressed, and on FAT32 it splits and joins it's big images automatically.
Posted 31 August 2008 - 03:23 AM
I believe that Mandriva one can be installed from Live CD.
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Posted 11 September 2008 - 03:03 PM
A frugal install put's about 5 files on your harddrive. No need to partition. If you don't like it you can just remove the files.
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Rob Greene has been a ski instructor at Park City Mountain Resort for over 30 years. Listen up as he shares his story and why he keeps coming back year after year.
A NOTE: If you are wondering why Rob is dressed so festive, this interview was captured right before our annual Christmas Eve Torchlight Parade.
Love this and love you Rob, hope I am here as long as you!
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Official news and announcements from Park City Mountain Resort.
Andy has skied the Park City area for 20 years, and is excited to finally be a full-time PC resident and call Park City Mountain Resort his home mountain.
Samantha is new to Utah, joining the Park City Mountain Resort team in 2011 as the Marketing Coordinator.
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Brent is the director of mountain operations. He is a long-timer at the Resort, this is his 33rd season.
Bert has been with the Park City Mountain Resort Mountain Patrol since 1991.
Originally from the Pocono's of Pennsylvania, Travis found his way to Park City three years ago and is now our grooming manager. When not in snowcat you can find him skiing or snowmobiling in the Utah backcountry or enjoying the skiing here at Park City Mountain Resort.
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You play against terrorist bots which you can set in the Options screen.
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Olhão on the eastern Algarve in Portugal is a charming port town, largely untouched by tourist development and has a very distinctive Moorish appearance, despite being established long after the Moors were chased out of Portugal.
Flat roofed terraced houses with exterior stairways and detailed stone door surrounds, line the narrow, cobbled, mainly pedestrianised streets of the historic centre, only stepping distance from the harbour front.
These in turn open out into the wide, tree-lined boulevard of the Avenida da Republica, which stretches back towards the national 125 road, which cuts through the northern part of the town.
Olhão is a working town with an active fishing fleet, which still provides employment to many of it's inhabitants.
Venture out to the eastern end of the harbour and port and you will still find (and smell) Bacalhau (cod) and Octopus pegged out to dry by fishermen on racks alongside the quays.
Olhão's charm and appeal lies in the fact it has not been over developed as a tourist resort, perhaps due to the absence of a beach, but it is definitely a must if you want to experience authentic Algarve.
As the gateway to the Parque Natural da Ria Formosa, Olhão has, over the years, received a certain amount of tourist traffic, keen to explore the protected lagoon system and islands, which provide shelter to the town's port and harbour.
Olhão has had some tourism development recently though in the shape of a new marina, completed in 2009. The marina and the subsequent construction of a five star hotel and spa opposite has enhanced, not detracted, from the town's overall appeal.
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Along the harbour front there is plenty of parking providing day trippers to the town the opportunity to explore the historic centre easily on foot. The most striking buildings you will find on the harbour front have to be the town's twin, red brick fish and vegetable markets, each with their own copper-roofed circular turret.
The markets, which have a selection of cafes providing prime, harbour-side tables and chairs, are open on a daily basis. However fish lovers are best to visit on Friday, when the town comes alive for the larger weekly market. Not only are the stalls in the indoor market awash with a multitude of fresh fish and seafood, but stalls line the promenade outside with a range of goods from traditional woollen jumpers through to sometimes noisy livestock.
Towards the eastern end of the harbour front there is a small ferry port providing transit for foot passengers to the islands of Armona, Tavira and Farol within the Parque Natural da Ria Formosa, on a daily basis.
One kilometre east of Olhão you will find the headquarters of the Ria Formosa, though if you are travelling on foot the scenery does become a little more run-down with derelict canning factories lining the quays and a rather unsightly, fly-tip area adjacent to the industrial zone.
There are however upsides to taking a stroll to the Ria Formosa's headquarters, in the form of several traditional style restaurants and bars on the way. Notably 'Smokey Joe's', opposite the entrance to the Ria Formosa's visitor centre, serves a variety of mouth watering dishes including a three course, 'plate of the day' for only 5.50€ and is popular with both locals and holiday makers residing at the large campsite close by.
Olhão does have a good selection of restaurants, cafes and bars serving mainly Portuguese fare, though there are a smattering of international outlets including McDonalds and the odd Chinese. However if you are going to stay in Olhão is it well worth visiting some of the low-key restaurants such as Sete Estrelas, an adega, just off the harbour front, Três Palmeiras, a popular worker's restaurant along from the train station and the aforementioned Smokey Joes, to give you a real taste of Portuguese cuisine. The menus may be basic, but the welcome and the food wholesome and the prices definitely won't damage your wallet.
In addition to a weekly market, Olhão plays host to a large flea market, on the first Sunday of each month. Stall holders spread out their wares along the roads within the industrial zone of the town and it can make for an interesting morning finding unusual and odd artefacts which are offered for sale including traditional door fastenings, rope and coins.
Olhão is situated only seven kilometres east of Faro and nine kilometres from it's international airport and is a relatively uncomplicated journey by car. Trains run on a regular basis from Olhão both west and east along the Algarve. There are buses to and from Faro, though these are less regular than the train.
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The attractive 45-acre campus is situated on the edge of the historic market town of Ormskirk. This busy town retains the friendly atmosphere characteristic of rural England. In addition to its twice weekly market, Ormskirk boasts an interesting array of shops, restaurants, and pubs.
An associated college of the University of Lancaster, Edge Hill offers a curriculum that includes subjects such as: art and design, communication and information media, drama, English, history, mathematics, modern European cultural studies, organization and management studies, science, women's studies, sociology, and psychology.
Courses are taught by British professors and American students are integrated with British students in the classroom. Education is available for students wishing to explore, first-hand, British education and teaching methods. Students typically register for 12-15 credits per semester. A 2.5 GPA is required in addition to transcripts and three letters of recommendation for admission to the program.
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National Tour The exhibit opened in Spring 2009 at Cincinnati Museum Center and traveled nationwide for a 3-year tour with stops at Ellis Island and the Smithsonian. The flexible plan accommodated a variety of venues, from 2,500 to 6,000 square feet. At each venue, exhibitors had a chance to expand upon regional stories through special exhibit cases.
Objects and Artifacts "Women & Spirit" showcased numerous artifacts which had never before been on public display. Items assembled from over 400 communities included a handwritten letter from Thomas Jefferson, a cradle from the NY foundlings, and a replica of the first incubator along with traveling trunks, journals of immigration experiences, pioneering healthcare devices, diaries, samplers, musical instruments, student work, and ephemera associated with a number of saints. A total of 70 objects were displayed at each venue.
Supporting Programs The exhibit was supported by strong collateral materials, such as an educational outreach package and curriculum; guest speakers and roundtable discussions; and an extensive network of community support for special events and local marketing opportunities.
Exhibit Design The exhibit was based on a modular system composed of rich content printed on birch walls and enhanced by interpretive media. It showcased a wealth of stunning photographs and rare artifacts carefully presented with environmentally-controlled cases and appropriate lighting fixtures.
Media Components Media components included an introductory video projection experience, oral history listening stations, interactives, and smaller videos which showcase archival footage.
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Hebron, city-symbol of Israeli settlers
Hebron, less than an hour from Jerusalem in the West Bank, is the city that best symbolizes Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory. To watch Lucas Menget and Karim Hakiki' s report, click on 'play video'.
Hebron, less than an hour from Jerusalem in the West Bank, is the city that best symbolizes Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory. The doubly-sacred Cave of the Patriarchs is here: for Jews, the cave is the cradle of religion; for Muslims, it's the tomb of important prophets. Some Jewish settlers live around the Cave, in the heart of the old city of Hebron. That's six hundred Jews, protected by 2,000 soldiers, in the middle of 170,000 Palestinians. An exclusive report by Lucas Menget and Karim Hakiki.
In general, journalists aren't accepted in Hebron's old city, which is full of symbols and hatred.
FRANCE 24 spent several days on Al Suhada Street, known for the longest curfew in the history of the West Bank. Since 2001, the street has been "sterilized," meaning that all its stores have been shut down following a decision by the Israeli army. Worse yet, Palestinians are forbidden from being anywhere near the street. To protect the settlers, Palestinians don't have the right to walk in front of certain Jewish homes. At the outset, the Israeli army had taken such steps so as to stop the infernal cycle of violence and reprisals between the settlers and the Palestinians. But what was supposed to be temporary became permanent. As a result Al Suhada Street, as well as the Casbah of Hebron, are deserted and devoid of all human activity.
Deserted Al Suhada street, Hebron
For the last several months, Israeli society has become more conscious of the scope of the damage. A group of former soldiers of Hebron have founded the organisation 'Breaking the Silence'. Their goal? To show, explain and denounce. To say loud and clear that military protection of settlers isn't worth it, that the settlers are violent and force the army and the State of Israel to operate outside the law. Because Hebron is a lawless area, where soldiers regularly witness settlers breaking the law without having the right to intervene.
A soldier from Tsahal surveiling an empty street in Hebron
The police try to prevent 'Breaking the Silence' from entering the city. Arrests and deportations are frequent. FRANCE 24 was with the organisation's founder when he was arrested and deported back into Israel from Hebron despite Israeli Supreme Court authorisation. Another NGO, B'tselem, has chosen to "arm" Palestinians with video cameras, allowing residents of Hebron to film the troubles they face.
Here is FRANCE 24's investigation in the city that brings together many of the players in the Israeli-Palestinian drama.
To watch Lucas Menget and Karim Hakiki' s report, click on 'play video'.
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Regarding your report from Hebron
by Irfan (not verified) - 18/07/2008 - 21:28
I watched your TV reporting on the situation in Hebron with a combined sense of frustration and gratefulness. It was particularly disturbing to see Jewish settler children in the streets, taunting Palestinians who are forced to remain indoors in their own homes. At one point your report shows a mother of one of these children come up to the window of a home and call a Palestinian woman "Puta". I am grateful to France 24 for this report. The world is not aware of the growing numbers of Israelis that disagree with their goverment's policies and see the need for change. Perhaps you can follow up with a report from within Israel about these brave Israelis. I believe the world is tired of hearing about this issue and constantly hearing the history of the conflict, It is time that people on both sides set aside religious bigotry and sart treating eachother like human beings. We would all be better off and our children would see a safer world. As for that settler mother in Hebron, what a shame her anger and animosity is being transfered to her children. That is not the way to end this cycle of hatred.
The US government has to put pressure on Israel.
by Gilbert Mercier (not verified) - 18/07/2008 - 02:17
The unconditional support of the Bush administration for Israel policy toward the Palestinians make it almost impossible to get anywhere in the peace process. To be honest, the Clinton administration wasn't much better. I guess the power of the Jewish lobby in America is such that if you want to have a more balance policy , such as the approach of Jimmy Carter to talk to Hamas... you are label anti-semitic. It is a tough dilema unlikely to change with either McCain or Obama in the White House.
What about repeated Arab massacres of Jews in a Jewish holy city
by Elliott (not verified) - 14/07/2008 - 14:58
Adrian quite properly brings up the 1929 massacre of 68 Jews in Hebron. The old Jewish synagogue in Hebron, Abraham Avinu, was made into a pen for an Arab's domestic animals, goats and sheep. When Jews could return to Hebron after the 6 Day War, they faced several more massacres, albeit smaller than the one in 1929 which British policy had encouraged and abetted. For 19 years, Jews could not come to the Tomb of the Hebrew Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca,Leah [Rachel's tomb is in Bethlehem]. For 700 years, from the Mamluk sultan Baybars to the 6 Day War, Jews could not enter the tomb of their own patriarchs and matriarchs [except Rachel], a structure built by Jews in the time of Herod. For 700 years Jews could only go up to t he 7th entry step. This was only part of the humiliation that Jews had to undergo in Hebron. The argument of Menget and "breaking silence" is outrageous. The Arabs are intolerant. If they weren't violently intolerant, then they wouldn't have the restrictions that they do in Hebron.
Tigibus' reaction is simplistic and unbalanced
by adrian (not verified) - 13/07/2008 - 15:11
Lands occupied from wars FAR longer than Palestinian territories that the UN should worry about first: Russia's occupation of The Japanese Kirile Islands, Poland's annexation of Vast German lands. Romania's occupation of the Hungarian Carpathians. Italy's Occupation of Austrian Tyrol and Venetia. USA's captured Mexican territories. Britain's occupation of Gibraltar. China's occupation of Tibet is more recent. Why ONLY single out Israel ?
Some angles not looked at in your interesting TV report
by Adrian (not verified) - 13/07/2008 - 15:06
1) Hebron was one of 5 cities/towns where Jews lived constantly since Roman times, until a massacre of the Jews by local Arabs in 1929, which made the Jews leave as no protection was offered by British Mandatory Authorities
2) Hebron's Machpela cave is the tomb of Abraham, seen by both Jews and Arabs as the father of their nations
The desire of religious Jews to pray there freely is not unreasonable, just as muslims in Israel are free to pray at tombs of religious figures
by Tigibus (not verified) - 11/07/2008 - 12:16
The time is far long overdue for the United Nations to oblige the Israelis to move back to the original state of Israel and vacate all the occupied Arab lands.


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Academics Love Themselves
The higher (i.e., university) education in the United States is really good. In fact, it is so good that it is a significant "export" of the United States. Here is some data from an Oct 2006 Congressional Report:
In FY2005, the Department of State issued 565,790 [student] visas, making up 10.5% of all nonimmigrant visas issued.
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Data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) shows that in 2004, foreign students on nonimmigrant visas accounted for 28.4% of all the doctorates in the sciences and 57.2% of all the doctorates in engineering.
Personally, I came to the US for graduate studies: in 1996 at Cornell, and I moved in 1997 at Carnegie Mellon for a Ph.D in computer science. I can testify that I found the system very good indeed.
One important thing I have learned here is the respect for hard facts, for supporting your statements with data, and for quantifying your assertions with numbers. (This is one reason that I have provided you with the quotations above.) Many European systems are built around the respect of lofty "traditional ideas," or even worse, "personalities," incarnated in the untouchable professor, who is always right.
In the US everything is open for debate, and in universities the scientific argument, based on facts, is a powerful weapon. This banishes rigidity, keeping the flow of ideas open.
However great, we should not believe that the system is perfect. In this text I want to point out a weakness of the US higher education system. I won't be the first to do it: for a much more entertaining account, see this talk by Sir Ken Robinson.
When you talk about a system being "perfect," you have to first define a measure by which you quantify its quality. While I can't provide an objective metric, what I have in mind is the degree by which the system produces people which are prepared for the challenges offered by the "real world," that awaits them at graduation, and, in particular, for a job.
I have to agree with Sir Ken Robinson: the entire education is optimized for producing professors. The higher you go in the educational hierarchy, the more likely you will be to come out a professor.
One can find many explanations for this state of affairs. Let me try to propose one: a positive feedback loop self-reinforcing across generations. The more you stay in school, the more your role models are professors. These are the people you see every day. I know it very well: I have been in school for almost 30 years (that's a really long time!), and I became convinced I have to be a professor myself. Why? I had never really seen any other profession in front of my eyes. In graduate school there was an implicit, not-very-clearly-stated assumption that the successful graduates go to become professors, and the failed ones go to industry or some other "shady" places like that.
This is how the feedback loop starts. You see only professors around you, and your students also become professors, and they have only seen professors all their lives. A second problem is the information intake. Professors are really smart people. They generate a lot of ideas. They like to write and talk a lot about these ideas. That's why they write papers and organize conferences where they meet other people like themselves. What they don't like to acknowledge is that there are lots of other sources of ideas which are not universities. Speaking in particular about computing, where I know the situation better, there are a lot of very good ideas generated in industry, both in mature companies and start-ups, in open-source, by independent consultants, or even just by random hackers. Well, academics very seldom acknowledge such ideas — they don't know how to cite something which is not a formal paper. For this reason the feedback loop is somewhat closed. Not completely closed, some "traitors" do occasionally slip in at least new problems to work on from the "real world."
This is where the title of this post comes from: I came to believe that in general academics do love themselves more than the real world.
Professors defend their status quo with two technical weapons:
- The academic freedom: "don't you interfere with my teaching and my work."
- The fundamental principles: "everything changes too quickly, so I am not going to teach the latest technological fad, I am teaching the principles."
Both of these are great things, but can be used to just reinforce the feedback cycle I described above. And the problem is, not everybody should be a professor.


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Kickoff time here at the game!
0:00 Mucerino returns the opening kickoff 56 yards. Good blocking there. Stallions with good field position
Stallions convert on a big third down at the Dolphins 20-yd line. Gibson to Mucerino.
White runs it in for a touchdown, Stallions up 7-0. That Mucerino return set it all up. A couple Dolphin offsides didn't hurt the Stallions either. Really quick score there by San Juan Hills.
Marcus Hughes makes his first carry in several games for the Dolphins to start their opening drive. Good news for Dolphins fans that he's back and healthy. Dolphins punting.
The Stallions take over again with good field position.
Cody Betzler is having a nice series, two stops for a loss. Him and Devon Vise have been beasts since they've been converted to DE's.
Dolphins defense finally gets a stop, midway through the first quarter here. Stallions still lead 7-0.
Dolphin QB Mac Vail has shown that he can scramble and run. He just did that to get the Dolphins a first down at midfield.
The numbers on these custom, camo jerseys are hard to read!
Start of the 2nd Quarter
The macarena just started blasting at this game….I don't know how to react to that.
Vail tries to go deep to the end zone but the Dolphins get called for an offensive P.I. Looked pretty obvious. That penalty puts them wayy back.
The Stallions punt/kick return teams have been great tonight, big gains. Stallions go 3 and out and punt, Dana takes over at midfield again.
Matthew Slade picks off Jacob Gibson at the Stallions 26-yd line. The homecoming king is holding court!
After Slade's pick Marcus Hughes runs in a 5-yard touchdown to tie it up. 7-7 in the 2nd quarter.
Big defensive stand by the Dolphins forces Stallions to punt out of their own end zone.
Dolphins get the ball at the Stallions 20-yard line, looking to score right before the half, definitely in FG range.
Mac Vail connects with Logan Warren for a 20-yard touchdown strike. Dolphins get one in before the half, 1:47 left. That's gotta be good for the Warren clan. Logan's brother,a veteran, is one of the many veterans being honored tonight.
Dolphins lead 14-7.
Stallions fumble on an attempted lateral, Dolphin safety Nigel Crosby recovers with one minute to play, Dolphins looking for more.
Halftime: 14-7. Good game so far. Not much passing from either team just some old school running football.
Start of the 3rd quarter
Dolphins get the ball, driving down the field at their own 30-yd line.
Andrew Dunn breaks through for a big dolphins gainer, that's the first time I've seen him get his number called all year, dolphins at the 26-yd.
26-yd TD pass from Vail to Corey Chambers in the back corner of the end zone, nice play. Dolphins up 21-7, they score on their opening drive.
Aside from their opening drive the Stallions haven't had a sustained offensive drive since. Dana's defense is clamping down.
Dolphins facing a 3rd and long get some help from a Stallions personal foul. Fresh set of downs for Dana.
Dolphins driving down the field again. Marcus Hughes looks fresh and ready to go. He's gaining four yards almost every time he touches the ball it seems.
A big Brian Scott run puts the Dolphins inside the 10. I'm guessing they're going to run again, just a hunch.
Mac Vail runs it in from 1-yard out, Dolphins up 28-7 in the 3rd. The Stallions need to get something going if they want to make this a game again.
Start of the 4th quarter
Stallions looking like they are going to let Gibson air it out here, he's looking comfortable. A big Stallion gain gets negated on a personal foul penalty that drives them back to their own 13-yd line.
Big pass play from Vail to Elliot Sutherland-Dunning puts the Dolphins down at the Stallions 11-yd line. Good route, good throw there. Dolphins looking to ice this one.
Vail tries to thread one in to the end zone, the ball gets deflected and picked off at the 1-yard line, a dolphins penalty after the play puts the Stallions at 45-yard line. *Cue the comeback music*
Well maybe not, a big sack by Betzler halts a Stallions drive. Betzler has had a great game. He's a big physical player who used to be the Dolphins middle linebacker earlier this season but has thrived as a DE.
BIG pass play from Gibson to Scott Hoover makes the score 28-14, Stallions passing game is waking up with the clock winding down.
The Dolphins are running the clock down here late in the fourth. If they hold on to win they will pull even with Laguna Hills at 3-1 in league.
Game over, Dana Hills wins 28-14. The Dolphins now stand even with Laguna Hills at 3-1 and own a piece of the Sea View League title. It's the schools first football league title.


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A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format. The latest of these is a startup called Curalate, which is officially launching today with $750,000 in seed funding from NEA, First Round Capital and UPenn-focused MentorTech for a service that lets brands search and track its images across the social network, whether they have been posted by the brands themselves or by everyday consumers.
Although the site is only officially launching today, in its beta format it has already managed to pick up more than 150 brands as customers, its co-founder and CEO, Apu Gupta, tells me. That speaks to how, up to now, there hasn't been an analytics service available quite like the one that Curalate is offering.
Gupta notes that while there have been a number of companies that have jumped on the Pinterest bandwagon and started to offer analytics to measure how brands are resonating on the social network, Curalate is the first to look not just at what a brand is posting on the site, but it can also track what regular people are posting. In other words, not just the sweater as J.Crew pins it, but as you or I might pin it, too.
"Think of us as playing a giant game of Memory," he says. "Every time someone adds that sweater it adds that brand. We play that game of memory and deliver the conversation and analytics behind it, all at 'Pinterest scale.'"
Curalate is then able to track how that one piece of content moves throughout Pinterest and potentially eventually goes to a company's site to convert into a purchase. Gupta notes that the solutions Curalate has built are proprietary but are based on some known techniques in visual search.
This is a gap that Patrick Chung, a partner at NEA, says is only now starting to get addressed, as brands continue to see huge traffic coming from the image-based social network — contrary to whatever reports we've heard that traffic seems to be leveling off at the site.
"Pinterest is being crushed under the weight of its own traffic," Chung says, who notes that brands can tell that there is a lot of traffic coming to their e-commerce sites from Pinterest, but that's effectively all they know.
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Chung notes that while NEA invests in other social analytics companies — for example Hearsay Social and Sprout Social. Curalate is the first to concentrate on visual-based analytics.
Companies that have already signed up to the service in two months of beta use are a testament to how the service, in its early days, is appealing both to other tech-savvy startups but also more traditional brands. The customer list includes Birchbox, Bonobos, Kraft, Neiman Marcus and Curalate's Philadelphia neighbor, the online eyeglass sensation Warby Parker.
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text: | Owens endorses DohenyOctober 24, 2012 - Chris MorrisBill Owens has endorsed Matt Doheny in the race for New York's new 21st Congressional District. Seriously. Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican who served from 1999 to 2007, publicly endorsed Doheny, the Republican, Conservative and Independence party candidate who hopes to unseat U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, in the Nov. 6 election, today. "Matt Doheny is committed to keeping taxes low, eliminating unnecessary regulation and improving our aging infrastructure – all pro-growth solutions I championed while governor of Colorado," former Gov. Owens said in a prepared statement. "We need more people like Matt who have the business background and knowledge that can help guide Congress through our toughest issues. That's why I'm proud to support Matt – and I urge everyone in upstate New York to do the same this Election Day." Doheny had praise for the former governor. "Gov. Owens showed true leadership by finding bipartisan solutions to some of Colorado's biggest issues – and implemented them without breaking the bank," he said. "The people of Colorado rewarded his hard work by overwhelmingly electing him to a second term. I truly thank the former governor for his support of my campaign." Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. Post a Comment | in: News, Blogs & Events Web |


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Does anybody still believe in the Middle East Peace Process? Nineteen years after Oslo and thirteen years after a final settlement was supposed to be reached, prospects for a two-state solution are as dim as ever. The parties most directly concerned, the Israeli and Palestinian people, appear long ago to have lost hope. Substantive gaps are wide, and it has become a challenge to get the sides in the same room. The bad news is the US presidential campaign, Arab Spring, Israel's focus on Iran and European financial woes portend a peacemaking hiatus. The good news is such a hiatus is badly needed.
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