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Dave Grohl presented. Justin Timberlake performed to a positively baying room. Carey Mulligan put on a gorgeous show of support for her Best British Group-winning Mumford & Son. But tonight's Brit Awards belonged to one man: Ben Howard.
The Devon-raised singer scooped both Best British Breakthrough and Best British Male before a star-studded crowd of musical peers including Taylor Swift, Alexa Chung, Rita Ora and Jessie J.
'I was quite stoked to come to the awards to be honest, so to get two of these is amazing,' the modest, Emporio Armani-clad musician said - before proving exactly why he deserved them with a haunting performance of Only Love.
Elsewhere, Justin Timberlake - deliciously introduced by host James Cordon as '95% beefcake with just a little bit of horse' - whipped the crowd into a frenzy with a performance of new single Mirrors from hotly-anticipated album Suit & Tie, the One Direction boys high-kicked their way through Comic Relief single One Way Or Another, and Taylor Swift stripped out of a virginal white gown down to a black corset and over-the-knee boots for a no-holds-barred rendition of Trouble.
Notably absent was nominee and ELLE cover star Rihanna - who turns 25 today, and is partying in Hawaii with Chris Brown tonight - and Adele, who collected her award for Skyfall as Best British Single by VT from LA, where she is preparing to perform at the Oscars on Sunday.
Holding the fort on the fashion front were Alexa Chung, who wore a Valentino playsuit, Taylor Swift in Elie Saab and Jessie J in a very bold plunge-front Versace gown.
See the full winners' list below, and click here for ELLE's red carpet highlights (Mr JT included. Obviously).
The Brit Awards 2013: Winners List
Best British Female Solo Artist
Emeli Sande
Best British Group
Mumford & Sons
Best British Breakthrough
Ben Howard
Best Male Solo Artist
Ben Howard
Critics' Choice
Tom Odell
Best International Female Solo Artist
Lana Del Rey
Best Live Act
Best International Group
The Black Keys
Best British Single with Capital FM
Adele, Skyfall
International Male Solo artist
Frank Ocean
Special Recognition Award
War Child UK
Mastercard Best British Album Of The Year
Emeli Sande, Our Version Of Events
Global Success Award
One Direction


text: I own ALL of Tesla's stuff, bought when it came out ( Mechanical Resonance and Great Radio Controversy on VINYL for crying out loud!), and I think this is their best. Granted, it's tough to choose a best from a band with this kind of TALENT (they have NO PEERS), but after about a million listens I have to go with Psychotic Supper; yes, it rocks even harder than Mech Resonance. These guys are freakin' ARTISTS. I saw there was only 1 review for this CD; that's SAD. Wake up, people!! All Tesla's stuff gets 5++ stars. Serious guitar work, here. If you dig Tesla, check out Badlands 1st CD; they are the only other band I know of that even approaches the talent of Tesla. Buy the CD, you CAN'T go wrong!

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The Hostess shut down on Friday not only affected jobs and treat lovers in the tri-states, but it had a direct impact on your child's school lunch.
Quincy public schools used a hostess brand as their bread supplier.
So with no bread and no supplier, how did the district feed kids?
Washington Elementary students still got their meals today, but only after Hy-Vee on Broadway stepped up to supply the entire school district with bread.
That will last them through the end of the week, but now the real question is--how will your children get the food they need for the rest of the school year?
Students at Washington elementary Monday walked through the lunch line like any other day, but something was different.
"It tastes good and healthy."
"I like it and it tastes good."
"It is yummy," said Washington Elementary students.
But in order to get that fresh bread, jean kinder, QPS' food services director, Jean Kinder had to figure out how to feed hundreds of kids after hostess went out of business.
And she needed a solution, fast.
"Hy-vee was amazing I called them up Friday and she didn't even know what quantities I needed, she said 'no we'll make it happen' we'll bake it if we have to," said Kinder.
And they did.
These counter tops at the hy-vee on Broadway were filled to capacity this morning with over 3000 bread items. An amount Hy-Vee bakers had to work together to fulfill.
"They really stepped up, some stayed late, some came early some stayed all night making sure the product was ready to go this morning when they needed to pick that up and get it to the schools," said Mark Lammers, Hy-Vee on Broadway's Store Director.
While the decision to go with Hy-Vee was a quick fix, Kinder says major decisions still need to be made.
"We're in a mad scramble trying to figure out what we're going to do, we're going to try and get through this week and eventually we'll probably have to put it back out for bid to see who's going to sell us our bread in the future," said Kinder.
Kinder says the district hasn't picked out a bread supplier yet, they are still looking for the best option not only for the district but for kids as well.
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Tools (to Build) for Change: 'SustainaWiki'
SustainaWiki is a wiki site designed with one thing in mind: offering information about sustainability to anyone who needs it! Don't see a page you're looking for? Make a username and create the page!
I had a quick look around SustainaWiki and it appears quite new with much of the content fairly limited and using 2012 references. So far there are pages addressing energy, food, home improvement, how-to guides, landscaping, technology, transportation, and waste management. If you've got some time and knowledge to share… well, you know what to do. If you need some guidance, you might want to check out the users guide.


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I'm currently enrolled in the UC Berkeley Journalism Masters program, looking to obtain skills and experience required to pursue a career as a professional reporter. I'm a believer in interactive news, that when people interact with information and see the consequences of their choices, they better understand the complexities behind the issues at hand. I have chosen to specialize in new media for this reason, to acquire a skill set that will allow me to present users with an immersive interactive experience.
- University of California Santa Barbara
- September 2010 - June 2010
- I graduated with a major in Global Studies with an emphasis in Western Europe, with a 3.7 cumulative GPA and a 3.84 GPA for classes in my department. I spent my junior year in Barcelona, Spain, as part of an immersion program, with all courses taken in either Spanish or Catalan.
Published Stories:
- Think Oakland's deficit is easy to fix? Use this to do it yourself
- Oakland North
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, creates a Flash project for Oakland North in the style of a recent New York Times interactive. Users of the project can select items to cut from the Oakland budget to close a $32 million deficit for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
- In Oakland mayoral race, Quan takes lead over Perata
- Oakland North
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, gives a full report about the state of the Oakland mayoral race following an upset by city council member Jean Quan, who surged past former state senator Don Perata to a slight lead in a contentious election season.
- Locals react as judge upholds 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' injunction
- Oakland North
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, writes in Oakland North about the controversy surrounding the temporary repeal and prompt reinstatement of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
- Don Perata talks top issues, mayoral campaign finances
- Oakland North
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, conducts an exclusive interview with Don Perata in this Q&A on Oakland North.
- Dragon boat teams race through Bay waters
- Oakland North
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, catches dragon boats in the waters by Treasure Island in a video for Oakland North.
- Wal-Mart & Obama: Unlikely Allies in Health Reform
- Calbuzz.com
- Evan Wagstaff, class of 2012, writes on Calbuzz.com about President Obama's push for health care in 2009 and Wal-Mart's unexpected support for some aspects of his plan.
- Phi Beta Kappa member (June 2010)
- I was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa honors society based on academic performance.
- CCMA Runner-Up Best Editorial (April 2010)
- I received second place from the California College Media Association for an editorial piece about University of California budget cuts and their effect on the relationship between students and administrators.
Work Experience:
- Editorial Intern
- Homeland1.com and CorrectionsOne.com - San Francisco CA ( June 2010 - September 2010 )
- As an editorial intern, I aggregated, edited, and published multimedia news of interest to first responders, uploaded articles and photos with Front Content, a content management system, and authored technical pieces under direction of senior editors.
- Intern and writer
- Calbuzz.com - Online publication CA ( June 2009 - September 2009 )
- As an intern, I wrote several articles about local and national topics under supervision of supervision of Jerry Roberts, formerly of the San Francisco Chronicle. I categorized articles on WordPress for easy user reference and implemented a Twitter feed to increase site traffic.
- Opinion Editor
- The Daily Nexus - Santa Barbara CA ( October 2006 - June 2010 )
- I began at the Daily Nexus my first year at UC Santa Barbara and worked my way through several positions at the paper. I was a staff writer, desk assistant, and spent my final year running the opinion desk. As opinion editor, I guided weekly columnists, edited submissions, participated in staff editorials, and created layout for the page each day.
Proficiency in Spanish
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Police are investigating a homicide on the north side of Minneapolis after a man's body was found in an alley just after 11 p.m. on Saturday.
Investigators were at the scene on the 3300 block of Girard Avenue North until about 2 a.m.
The victim has not yet been identified, but police say he appeared to have been assaulted and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Phone: (952) 944-9999Fax: (952) 942-0455


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Clearly, we've had some fun with paint samples today. We got enough supplies for the Disney countdown and for this garland...yay for free art supplies!
I've been wanting to make this one for a while...it was actually my goal when I went to Home Depot today - we just stumbled upon the Disney countdown idea via serendipity.
You need a big fat stack of paint chips...don't be shy, that's what they're there for:
You'll also need ribbon, a circle punch, and school glue (so that the munchkin can help)
Punch the circles:
Aren't they pretty?!
After we punched the circles, we paired them all up with "friends" as Sadie called them...
The "friends" didn't exactly match, but they were close.
To make the garland, we just paired the friends on either side of the ribbon:
After about every third pair, I had to go back and squeeze the circles together where they had split...once the glue dries a little, they don't split anymore. You can see what the splitting looked like here:
I really like how it turned out...quick, simple, cheap, and a project that Sadie could help with...what's not to love?
I don't know what we're going to do with it, but I'll think of something. In the meantime, here's a pic of it hanging up. Any ideas on a permanent home for it? Maybe wrap it around something? Not really sure...open to suggestions on this one :)


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Inferno—a novel with the title of a classic poem. I remind you of this because when you Google "Dante Inferno" the first listing is the digital game: "...battle through the 9 circles of Hell facing fierce and hideous monsters, your own sins, and a dark past of unforgiveable war crimes..." Which sounds like Myles' Inferno: a coming of age/becoming a poet/coming out/going sober story.
Living in Poetry World, Manhattan 1970s
Myles hears the gossip at St. Mark's, why Paul Blackburn did not become the first director: "'they' gave the job to someone else. I never could find out who 'they' were." She gives us cameos of Ted and Alice, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, a whole chapter on how Bill Knott was the inspiration of Punk (!). From Aram (Saroyan) to (Bill) Zavatsky. Santo from the 9th St Copy Shop. She quotes Joe Brainard on his deathbed: "One good thing about dying. You don't have to go to any more poetry readings." About her own tenure as Director at the Church, a friend says, "She always made big speeches about not wanting to get all involved with that-boys'-scene-at-the-church because of her loyalty to Adrienne and June." She has nasty encounters with older women poets Marge Piercy and Rochelle Owens. John Ashbery waltzes through. The evolution of Orchidia Pizzeria to Two Boots Pizza is detailed.
Not Just a Memoir—It's the Writing
As if the whole novel were a poem, Myles drops ideas from early in the work into a latter portion with no transition, nakedly, sans context, jarring the reader into making new connections within her always terrific stories, creating a fugal counterpoint, juggling a false start at an escort service with learning the ropes in a massage parlor with getting into Einstein on the Beach at Lincoln Center without a ticket.
To get prose up to the speed of poetry, she enjambs sans line breaks. Could one actually have a job, being a poet? "I had that thought just briefly one tiny light and then it was gone." Myles gets into the head of the poet and describes the act of writing a poem better than it has ever been done, better than I ever thought possible: "And I sat there in the afternoon, drinking bourbon, getting good and smashed, being completely open to the world in that temporary way like I was when I came to town and I was discovering myself to be a poet. I had my notebook open to all the light coming in. I'd have a thought and write it down."
"We who write poetry and think about it all the time—who walk the streets that other humans walk, past pizza stands and trees, are citizens meanwhile of a secret country with its own currency that gets exchanged anecdotally, even whispered in the loud thrumming silence of the day, in the galleries the Marxist auditoriums jammed bookstores (being jammed with thin and irregularly shaped journals and books and people generally twenty or thirty), the stinking bars where poets meet and read in." What Bolano writes about, Myles lives. "The poet's life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window." "In the sexual encounter of our lives, when your time is uncommodified, amateur, kid, punk, unobserved, over, before, days marked useless, private, unshipped, so to speak life stays in the swarm of free-range sex shifting into art, back to sex, art again."
On writing "The Irony of the Leash": "It had a hook and it jangled throughout. I had to go out and get it, somehow.... I always need something to do.... If you don't hear things again and again, I don't see how the poem can really be a place.... Each instance added landscape. You can literally make conviction, just with words. I got it one night."
Quotable Myles
Remembering the days when all poets had black spring binders, to keep poems in: "It felt like a book. It was all about the book then. And a bag to put it in. The search for the bag produced a poem or two because of course it was a mythic search. The bag I wanted was beyond reason—something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous. Cause, you know. And I found it: tough and white and resembling something I'd wanted for a long, long time."
Lesbian: "I was always inspecting lesbians because I was pretty sure I was going to be one. But I wanted to be a poet first." "I became a lesbian in New York. It was my first or second career." "I kept hinting that I was a lesbian in my poems. That was my job, being catholic. Filling my poems with a secret so thick you could bounce on it."
She goes for a walk and looks up in the sky and sees an old kitchen fan there, removing odors, all grimy. Her insides whirring, she tried to calm by naming everything—trees, road, frightening fan—which "yielded a tiny poem I could never get right—the tenses always at odds, but it really happened. I saw my own death in the sky." "Like a spilt glass of milk, my life. A white pool shimmering on the floor." "Nope, I am destroyed. A shattered boat of a person. A broken window here, a lousy bell there, an old crappy dyke with half a brain leaking a book. A drippy excrescence. A Schmear."
Sometimes the references get so ambiguous (no one is better at the unparticularized pronoun than Myles), that you can't tell if she's writing about sex or poetry. "In bed I would lie on my back in the dark and keep nudging them. It seemed like it was about being tight. Making the word fit so good that before you knew what they meant, the opposite thing happened." " I remember sitting in the bar at the Carlyle on September 11th (or riding up Madison Avenue to meet you and your sister) when there was only one way to be. The whole city, we were all outside."
Who else could compare her downtown tenement flat with Walden Pond? "When Thoreau made lists on Walden Pond measuring and figuring out he was just like me broke in my apartment in New York. No one could find me now. No one knew what I was. I was addition and subtractions: sunlight, bumpy, white walls, millions of windows, Café Bustelo, my feet, the yellow phone, the foam mattress on the floor, the utility table on rolling wheels, the pink metal edged restaurant table, the mug that I liked, the coffee sock."
Fashion: "Figuring out what to wear so it wouldn't look like I thought about clothes."
This is the best way to write about this YOU GOTTA READ THIS BOOK! Give some hit-and-run examples of the genius. You get a choice of two covers: one an elegant flash-flame op art motif red/yellow/black on white, the other a black and white portrait of a woman's face with a cigarette burn through the lips. Choose wisely, but you can't lose.) So stop reading right here and go to OR Books to buy a copy of Inferno, paper-on-demand or ebook. Or go on for more samplings—there are no plot spoilers in a poem. Rereading is the experience.
Hell, Purgatory and Heaven
In "Drops," she tries to keep the honesty of the poem alive inside the snow job that is a grant application: "It seems clear to me (certainly from here) that something always knew what I was doing. I'm inviting you to support that something." "Ten years later when I had gotten sober I actually got a grant from the NEA to do another play called Modern Art." "A patron actually a friend actually a friend of Rene's (Ricard's)" provides her a retreat at her country house in rural Pennsylvania. he writes "An American Poem," where she proclaims herself a Kennedy, that we are all Kennedys. She runs for the Presidency. She tours Europe with Kathy Acker, Richard Hell, Lynne Tillman. The conclusion to "Drops" (named after valueless orchard apples on the ground) is a satori atop a live volcano late at night, alone and lost. "Everything was good after that, all three planes and especially giving this account to you."
The writing of love and sex: "It was like we were a couple of mimes. It was spring and the early nights were a cool blue. We were sailing. I had just broken up with somebody and I had a tremendous feeling about sex. It was like a spin painting. I noticed at the height of excitement a nipple might become a mouth and you'd forget who was doing what to who and now all that feeling was coming into language. Surrealism had been corny but now it was the way to go. Sex was a disordered prayer."
Description of her dog Rosie shitting: "Under a streetlamp in Cape Cod, on a small ledge of grass. On the beach in the day and I hate her shitting in the dark as much as I used to love smoking. Loved seeing it weave, it's not the shit, it's the air. It's the colon. It's the opening. We're basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence. She is eternally before. When she speaks it is shit, a gift, something to do. In our moment, of waiting, pointing. Silent gear, what we went out for—that is pointing. Shit is the award. The award is shit."
Sappho: "A little goat boy saw all this broken pot and soft stuff... like paper... he carried it home and they threw it in the fireplace... he heard this British guy on the other side of the island was buying stuff.... This is the story of Sappho. Each piece we've got and most of it was destroyed is full of holes. Sappho didn't write tiny poems with giant leaps. They were torn. Everybody, mostly men, a Swinburne, for example, had been filling her holes ever since."
"I start with a problem and I keep returning to the feel of it, not the idea. I don't replace it. It seems if you stay in an actual groove... then the poem never really gets lost or boring." "The problem with imitating a poet is you don't really know what they mean. Hopefully. But then you start to implicate their style in your confusion and next thing you know, you're parodying." "The absolute worst thing in the world—for like the average poetry reviewer—is nonsense. Them making nervous jokes about what they deliberately don't understand." "Or the angry [critics] holding their heads oh no like a virus is taking over. My mind! Like it's such a big deal. Minds are always being taken over. Succumb, don't resist.... It's why I read."
"Poetry (and this is why I love it and always will until I die) always winds up being the conga line between random chaos and it.... Poetry is not hard. In fact, that's the problem. It's like going to the beach. You don't go: a-hem, cough-cough, in other words... you just lie down. People read in bed for a reason. Nobody needs to be so damn awake. Sleep and Poetry. It's what Keats meant."
At one point, Myles spends a couple of pages on the novel Seabiscuit—how popular it is, how American it is, how the "reading experience" is almost like porn. It's an extraordinary meditation—when she goes shopping she thinks, "book, racehorse, and family-size package of ground beef." She's like Allen Ginsberg in the supermarket in California. She's everywhere, Seabiscuit is everywhere, but when you get right down to it, and with Eileen you always get right down to it, "If a fucking horse can tell his story why can't I." No question mark because no question: because she's a poet/lesbian/outsider. "My girlfriend and I were standing in our kitchen—while I pondered the hopelessness of writing a book about a poet. Have you ever considered the demographic you are writing for. Yes I have as a matter of fact. While I lowered her into a shallow grave.... If a fucking horse can tell his story, why can't I."
Suddenly, in "Heaven," after Rose has picked her up and it looks like sex is about to happen, we have this perfect poem embodying and opposing all the rules and intuitions, everything Eileen's given us. It's called "Friday" and it's about perfection being writing a poem based solely on watching fish swim in a fish tank, describing what they do as being the most important thing in the world. And of course it's written in prose that looks like poetry, lines being one or two sentences. "C'mon everyone lotsa traffic, lotsa opportunities. I patrol the boundaries. Upsa daisy, down down down. Yoo hoo. Going crazy. Yaaaah. // The temptation to be divine, existing in all of us. Everyone turn. Only the white fish." The last line: "Yup, this will definitely go in." And here it is, on pages 223-225.
She's unstoppable because she's a poet, unbridled because she's Eileen. An act of audacity and clarity, a poem straining to be a life, Myles' Inferno is a book for the ages, a crystallization distillation of what poetry is and art is, what life and love and sex have to do with it. Because of this, no one will read it. But you will....


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Mike Zimmer is great at getting the best out of his players, but I think it's become evident that the best these safeties have to offer simply isn't good enough. We've seen the bizarre effects of having this middling secondary - excellent corners, bad safeties. We conspicuously didn't grab one in the draft, and then we picked up Gibril Wilson, who was unfortunately knocked out of the season with an injury. But was he really a difference maker?
This team is still pretty good, but it has plenty of issues. It lost a game to Cleveland for multiple reasons, including mediocre clutch play by Palmer, bland play calling, bad calls by the referees and pitiful pass protection. I think the biggest thing, though, was that the safeties got exposed on both the run and the pass.
Chris Crocker blew coverages up and down, especially early on. Roy Williams did that too, and he also missed tackles and bounced off Peyton Hillis on a pathetic shoulder tackle. He's supposed to sniff and snuff the run. He couldn't do that, so why is he still starting? Of course, he might be out next week, but I feel like Ndukwe is just as good.
Crocker and Williams play with intensity. I love that. But the poor awareness, plus the lack of coverage skills and the overpursuit on the run when they do know what's going on, are things that are showing up on game film. The Browns targeted those weaknesses.
This offseason is going to be really interesting for a lot of reasons. I hope that one of those reasons is a brand new talented safety, prefereably a free safety.


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found a new home!
Plenty of my friends are looking
for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
Find a pet to adopt
My name is SPICE GIRL**!
Facts about SPICE GIRL**
- Breed: Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog Mix
- Color: White
- Age: Young
- Size: Small 25 lbs (11 kg) or less
- Sex: Female
SPICE GIRL**'s Info...
I am already spayed, housetrained, and up to date with shots.
Spice Girl is an 8 month old Cattle Dog/ Terrier mix. She's a little bit bigger, a little bit taller and a little bit calmer than her sister Sugar Baby. She has the same soft coat but it's a little shorter. Some even consider her a little prettier but don't tell Sugar. In most ways, Spice is very like her sister. She prances when she walks, hits high C when she barks and knows exactly what she wants out of life. She wants a fenced yard to roam in now and then, a place to curl up with a bone to chew and a spot of her own on her person's bed at night. She does not want to be lifted and carried around or taken for walks on a leash. She's totally low maintenance with a high IQ, a love of belly rubs, a sense of humor and a fearless nature. She'll happily inhabit your home and your heart if you let her do it her way. She too has attitude. It's part of her charm. And If you really want to push the limits of high drama, comedy and cuteness, you might consider adopting both of these funny little monkeys. They are a memorable sister act. Wrestling, squabbling, making up, squabbling, cuddling, squabbling...all with great gusto and wagging tails. One for the money, two for the show. Regretfully we are no longer able to adopt to RI and MA applicants. ADOPTION FEE REQUIRED. CONTACT US AT firstname.lastname@example.com
Other Pets at Dogs In Harmony -- Hagerstown
Why Adoption is a Great Option
SPICE GIRL**, a Hagerstown Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog for sale in Hagerstown, or seeking a Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog dog from a breeder in Hagerstown.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Hagerstown already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Hagerstown breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog breeders who help with Rat Terrier/Australian Cattle Dog rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Hagerstown paves the way for another one to be saved.


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Investor sentiment opened low again this week with the market depressed by new data from China showing further weakening in the local economy. Risk appetite is waning across the board as a result of concerns that China's economy is losing momentum and with emerging economies under pressure after the US Federal Reserve's decision to continue to reduce the economic stimulus. Emerging markets are continuing to be hampered by the exodus of funds as investors move money back to the developed markets, something which has caused the likes of the Turkish lira, Argentinian peso and the South African rand to be thrown into turmoil. It is also a big week for fundamental traders with the most influential data announcement, the Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) released on Friday, as well as three central bank meetings.
Investors will be closely looking to the NFP announcement to assess just how well the US economy is recovering and to see whether the unemployment rate is closer to the all-important target of 7 percent. Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been saying for months that a drop in the unemployment rate is critical to the long-term recovery of the nation and, should that symbolic level be reached, it would likely substantially improve confidence in the US recovery. If the NFP number is higher than expected, we can expect to see bullish behaviour from the USD, and likewise, if the number disappoints, we expect USD to weaken.
Whether the NFP data is positive or not, investors should closely watch the outcome for opportunities to take advantage of strong movements in either direction. The USD has started the week strengthening against the euro and the British pound, and further volatility in EUR/USD is expected when the European Central Bank (ECB) meets on Thursday and ECB President Mario Draghi outlines the Eurozone's monetary policy. The euro is under pressure with disappointing inflation data on Friday and very few signs that the Eurozone is rebounding from the financial crisis. Analysts have changed their forecasts recently and many are now predicting Draghi will announce a further reduction in interest rates from the historic low of 0.25 percent to 0.1 percent. If this announcement is confirmed on Thursday, it is likely we will see substantial movement in EUR/USD. The EUR/USD pivot point is 1.3487, with resistance lines at 1.3492, 1.3497 and 1.3502, and supports at 1.3482, 1.3477 and 1.3472.
The GBP has also shown some weakness early in the week with investors pricing in a possible interest rate hike announcement from the Bank of England as early as this month. The BoE will announce their policy strategy on Thursday and, with the UK economy continuing to grow, the market will be closely tuning in to the associated press conference to learn which direction Governor Carney is intending to take the UK's monetary policy in. Any change to interest rates in the UK could generate substantial volatility in GBP pairs, particularly GBP/USD and EUR/GBP. The GBP/USD pivot point is 1.6433, resistance levels are 1.6445, 1.6453 and 1.6465, support levels are 1.6425, 1.6413 and 1.6405.
Yen is near two month highs against the USD with declines in the EUR and the sell-off of emerging economies' currencies boosting its attractiveness as a safe haven investment. The yen was also supported on Friday by new data that showed the core rate of inflation in Japan was 1.3 percent, the highest level in five years. The pivot point for USD/JPY is 102.15, with resistance levels at 102.33, 102.42 and 102.60; and supports at 102.06, 101.88 and 101.79.
Meanwhile, the Australian dollar is struggling, closing on almost a three year low against the US dollar. AUD traders should closely watch Tuesday's interest rate decision announcement by the Reserve Bank of Australia where a possible rate cut is possible. The AUD/USD pivot point is 0.8757, with resistance levels at 0.8765, 0.8776 and 0.8784; and supports at 0.8746, 0.8738 and 0.8727.
What to Watch this Week: It's an exciting week for traders with three central bank announcements and the NFP release. Traders should focus on these announcements and particularly look to USD pairs on Friday around the NFP release. EUR/USD could also be an interesting pair to trade on Thursday when Draghi gives his press conference following the ECB policy meeting.
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A World Health Organisation (WHO) representative and health officials old a news conference in the Ugandan capital of Kampala that there is "an outbreak of Ebola" in the country, which has killed 14 people this month.
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On Sunday, June 23, 74 Cooperstown Central School seniors will put on caps and gowns to conclude one phase in their lives and prepare to embark on another.
Among those walking to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance" will be the top four students. These students will be expected to do a little something extra, give a speech.
This year's top four students are Hope Dorothy Dohner, Thomas Walter Franck, Erik Hans Mebust and Katherine Marie Monser.
In the fall, Dohner will be attending Carnegie Institute of Technology in Carnegie Mellon University. While there, Dohner is planning to study mechanical engineering.
During her years at CCS, Dohner was a member of many clubs and teams including student council, Leo Club, quiz team, Battle of the Books, jazz band, the student run fashion show. She also is a member of the State University College at Oneonta Fencing Club.
The senior is one of Eric and Mary Dohner's six children.
Franck, son of Patrick and Carina Franck, will be attending Harvard College in the fall. Franck has an interest in graduate school and studying abroad.
During his years at CCS, Franck served as the class vice president for three years, was a member of the quiz team, jazz band, pit bands, pep band and library club. He also participated on the varsity soccer and swim teams and was the president of the National Honor Society.
Mebust, son of Kai and Lynne Mebust, plans to attend the State University College at Geneseo and is enrolled in the Edgar Fellows (Honors) Program. While there, Mebust will be a member of the varsity swim team. He will be majoring in English.
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My friend Shahrzad Rizvi, along with co-author Joshua Kelly, recently published an article in Public Management Magazine titled "Communicating Emergency Information on a Budget." The article covers low-cost ways for emergency managers to connect with their communities. It highlights social media, new types of alert systems, and free online mapping of public safety concerns. The article includes links to some of these new tools, so I encourage you to check it out.
Rosemond v. United States & technology providers
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Rosemond v. United States, which addresses the culpability of a man who was charged with aiding and abetting another person's use of a gun in relation to a drug offense. The court decided that he is liable if he knew ahead of time that one of the people he drove to a drug deal with had brought a gun.
In reaching that result, Justice Kagan, writing for the majority, re-addressed some fundamental principles of aiding and abetting law (Rory Little at SCOTUSblog calls the decision "a primer on aiding and abetting law"). Since I recently co-authored an article on the aiding and abetting liability of technology providers, this decision was of particular interest.
The article addresses the lingering confusion over whether the mens rea for aiding and abetting is "shared purpose" or "knowing assistance." Justice Kagan serves up a sort of blending of the two ideas, which is common among appellate courts. Justice Alito, in dissent, writes that he wishes the court would have addressed the two differing standards, but instead "refers interchangeably to both of these tests and thus leaves our case law in the same, somewhat conflicted state that previously existed." Justice Alito also says, however, that he thinks the difference between the tests is "slight."
The point in our article is that this slight distinction can have important implications for technology providers who may be at risk of being considered accomplices of their users' crimes. Rosemond certainly adds to the conversation about that topic, but doesn't do much to answer the question. In fact, the Court, in footnote 8, expressly takes no view on "defendants who incidentally facilitate a criminal venture rather than actively participate in it," as with "the owner of a gun store who sells a firearm to a criminal, knowing but not caring how the gun will be used." This hypothetical strikes at the heart of the concerns faced by technology providers.
Interestingly, Justice Scalia joined the majority opinion except for footnotes 7 and 8. The Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting discussion about how, and why, that happened, as does DailyKos.)
In other news, our article, and its title, are featured on BookForum's Omnivore blog today.
New Podcast on Criminal Liability of Tech Companies
There's a new discussion up at "The Law Review," a podcast run by legal research company Fastcase, discussing some of the ideas in my recent article, Technology and the Guilty Mind, about the potential criminal liability of technology providers for aiding and abetting their users. The guest for the conversation is Fastcase CEO Ed Walters.
The part that addresses the article starts around the 12-minute mark with a dialogue on Judge Posner's hypothetical (discussed in the paper) about a dress seller who knows his client is using his dresses in her prostitution business. The conversation then focuses on how doctrine about knowing assistance of criminals may apply to tech companies in the communications industry (like Fastcase). Thanks to Fastcase for highlighting the article!
Update on Kim Dotcom Extradition
There's been two significant developments this week in the ongoing effort to extradite Kim Dotcom (the CEO of the now-defunct Megaupload) from New Zealand to the United States to face criminal charges of copyright infringement. I've been following the proceedings since co-authoring Criminal Copyright Enforcement Against Filesharing Services, 15 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 101 (2013).
First, there is a development in regard to fallout from the January 2012 raid on Dotcom's mansion conducted by New Zealand police, at the request of U.S. authorities. Dotcom audaciously mocked the raid at the launch event for his new service "Mega" in January 2013 by staging "a raid re-enactment complete with helicopters marked 'FBI,' and dancing girls clad in military-style dress (but with miniskirts)."
Meanwhile, Dotcom has challenged the search warrant underlying the raid in New Zealand courts. This had some success. First, the Prime Minister apologized to Dotcom for the government spying on him. Then, in November 2013, a New Zealand High Court Judge ruled that the search warrants used in the raid were not proper because they were just "general warrants" and thus "did not adequately describe the offences to which they related."
This week, however, Dotcom has faced a set back. On February 19, an appellate court issued a decision disagreeing with the High Court Judge's analysis and concluding that the warrants were valid. You can read the appellate decision here. Dotcom has vowed on Twitter to appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court. But as noted by the Independent, "[t]he decision will benefit US prosecutors who say the Megaupload website has cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million (£300 million) and generated more than $175 million in criminal proceeds by letting users store and share copyrighted material, such as movies and TV shows."
Second, the extradition hearing for Dotcom that was scheduled for April 2014 was delayed on February 25, with a new date yet to be set. It's already been delayed before. The delay is probably meant to allow time for the proceedings about the search warrant to resolve. But Dotcom, in his standard provocative manner, has"accuse[d] the New Zealand government of interfering in the judicial process, to delay the hearings until after the country's election, due in either October or November," according to The Register.
Third, as a bonus, Dotcom gave an interview this week to Complex Tech in which he mouths off about the charges against him. He complains that Google has had many more takedown requests related to pirated links than Megaupload ever had, but yet is still in business. Of course, as my paper explains, Megaupload's real problem wasn't the number of takedown requests it received, it's that prosecutors allege that the company either ignored those requests or helped facilitate the re-posting of pirated material.
Finally, Dotcom also mentions in the interview some sort of tripped-out new file service "called Meganet, which is basically kind of like a fluid ocean of data where whatever glass of water you dump into it you can never extract from it anymore, and you kind of just meet the water in the ocean somewhere." We'll see where that goes.
Technology and the Guilty Mind
Please check out my new article, "Technology and the Guilty Mind: When Do Technology Providers Become Criminal Accomplices?," which was recently posted to SSRN. Here's the abstract:
The creators of today's most successful technologies share an important willingness to push the envelope — a drive that propels digital industry forward. This same drive, however, can lead some technology purveyors to push the limits of legality or even become scofflaws in their pursuant of innovation or (more often) profit. The United States must figure out how to harness the important creative force at the heart of the hacker ethic while still deterring destructive criminal wrongdoers. Because it is often courts that must answer this question, it is essential to examine the legal doctrines prosecutors use to sweep up technology providers.
This Article focuses on one type of criminal liability — accomplice liability — that can act as a dragnet on technology that lends itself to criminal use. In particular, a violation of the federal statute for aiding and abetting, 18 U.S.C. § 2, can be implied in every charge for a federal substantive offense, and there is a potentially troubling strain of cases holding that knowing assistance can be enough to deem someone an aider and abettor, even without stronger evidence of a shared criminal purpose.
This Article examines when proprietors of technology with both legal and illegal uses aid and abet their users' crimes. The aim is to help courts, prosecutors, and technologists draw the line between joining a criminal enterprise and merely providing technology with criminal uses. The Article explains the legal doctrines underlying this type of liability and provides examples of at-risk technologies, including spam software, filesharing services, and anonymity networks like Tor. Ultimately the article concludes that the web of superficially conflicting rulings on the required mental state for aiding and abetting are best harmonized — and future rulings on liability for new technologies best predicted — by looking to the existence of "substantial unoffending uses" for the product or service provided by the technologist accused of aiding and abetting.
Successful vacant property registration (still) requires strong local enforcement
This year, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, enacted a classic vacant-property-registration ordinance. The rule gives owners 60 days to register vacant property at a fee of $75. Every year the fee escalates, by roughly $100. According to an article by the local paper, however, even though the town "has identified more than 100 buildings since it began tracking them in 2007," there was "only one registration form … filed in September" (when the law officially went into effect).
The only comment on the article, as of right now, calls for small-town civil disobedience: "Good, and I hope everyone continues to refuse to comply with this ridiculous ordinance." The commentator adds, "Hey Pottstown, instead of fining private property owners for not being able to sell/rent their properties, why don't you try and fix the reason they're unable to?"
I don't know anything about Pottstown, but ordinances with escalating fees are best used when a city wants vacant properties demolished: the "shrink the city" solution. Sometimes it's just not possible to use and restore all of a city's vacant properties. I hope that local officials are aware of and intend to create the incentive to demolish caused by this type of ordinance. Cities with no escalating fees typically focus more on maintenance requirements, in the hope of preventing deteoriation in the housing stock until the local economy recovers.
Also, I hope that local code-enforcement officials recognize that the VPR program's success is mostly in their hands; it's unlikely that people will comply with the law without some sort of pressure to do so. I made this point in 2010: "No matter what type of provisions a local government enacts, the best solution to the difficulties involved with VPR ordinances is robust code enforcement, requiring motivated code enforcement officials and proper funding."
New Article in Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal Online
Sorry for the break in blogging; I've been focused on some other projects, including getting out the final versions of my article about criminal prosecution of filesharing services. A long-form version will appear in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology later this month, and a shorter discussion of the topic was published this week in the inaugural online edition of the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal. Please feel free to check it out and leave comments.
Review: The Internet Police
I recently finished "The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed" by Nate Anderson, who writes for Ars Technica, and I loved it. I found his writing compelling and the stories fascinating. I'm sure that my being a lawyer influenced the book's appeal for me, as Anderson has a particular focus on legal proceedings. In chapter 8, for example, he discusses being the only reporter to sit through the entire retrial of a lady sued for copyright infringement. Anderson's familiarity with the law shows throughout the book. He was generally spot on in his discussion of legal topics, and I especially appreciated how he highlighted the important role for federal judges in shaping society's approach to technology. In fact, federal legal proceedings or decisions take center stage in roughly half of the book's chapters.
The chapters are helpfully broken down based on topics, and each one tracks a major story throughout the whole chapter. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the federal takedown of the child-pornography website "The Cache" (chapter 2), and the efforts to take out Sanford "Spamford" Wallace (chapter 7). Further, the story of "Sealand" and HavenCo, which I had not been familiar with, was very entertaining (chapter 1). The section on copyright infringement also interested me because it touched on many of the same issues discussed in my upcoming article about Megaupload.
As for general themes in the book, one consistent emphasis is how private parties often lobby the federal government to take over efforts to police online activity because of the government's perceived greater resources. Another is how the tools developed by online criminals are the same tools (with the same threat to privacy) law enforcement uses to track criminals down.
Finally, I liked Anderson's discussion of the balance of chaos versus regulation on the Internet, and the pros and cons of swinging too far in either direction (too much chaos=child porn, credit-card fraud; too much regulation=no innovation, no privacy). His summary of this balance near the end of the book nicely showcases what could be called the book's thesis: "Life is messy business on the Internet as it is everywhere else, and we're never going to engineer the mess out of it. That doesn't mean we ever accept crime, piracy, or boorish behavior, but we tolerate them online just as we tolerate a certain amount of drunk driving, tax fraud, or jaywalking. Many such problems could be nearly eliminated if we just tried hard enough—required breath tests before every car start, conducted audits on every tax return, posted cops at every corner. But the cost of total order is totalitarianism; the real challenge is making prudential judgments about how we weigh risks and rewards, costs and benefits, order and chaos."
Quote: Reddit founder on nerdy government
We don't have enough people in government who understand the Internet and how much Americans care about Internet freedom and digital privacy. But there are things we can do to change that: Part of it is fixing a political system that seems to operate largely on returning favors. Part of it is electing more people who understand this technology. I'd like to see more nerds in office.
–Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, to Wired Magazine, when asked what threatens innovation.
Social media and Chicago gangs
I want to draw attention to an excellent article in the October issue of Wired Magazine about how social media is amping up the gang wars in Chicago. The article starts by discussing Chief Keef and Lil JoJo, two rival rappers who taunted each other through YouTube and Twitter. Keef got a million-dollar record deal; JoJo was shot and killed.
Ben Austen, who wrote the article, interviewed people on the ground in Chicago: community leaders, local rappers and gang members, and cops. I'll just flag a few tidbits I found interesting; I encourage you to check out the whole article.
First, Austen starkly describes the difficulties facing Chicago law enforcement:
Last year more than 500 people were murdered in Chicago, a greater number than in far more populous cities such as New York and Los Angeles. The prevalence of gun crimes in Chicago is due in large part to a fragmentation of the gangs on its streets: There are now an estimated 70,000 members in the city, spread out among a mind-boggling 850 cliques, with many of these groupings formed around a couple of street corners or a specific school or park.
Second, for fans of The Wire, the HBO crime drama that ran from 2002 to 2008, Austen explains how the show's depiction of gang-life, praised at the time for its "realistic portrayal of urban life," is already outdated:
Harold Pollack, codirector of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says that in every talk he gives about gangs, someone inevitably asks him about The Wire—wanting to know who is, say, the Stringer Bell of Chicago. But The Wire, based in part on David Simon's Baltimore crime reporting in the 1980s and '90s, is now very dated in its depiction of gangs as organized crime syndicates. For one thing, Stringer Bell would never let his underlings advertise their criminal activities, as a Central Florida crew did this spring when it posted on its public Facebook page that two of its members had violated their parole and been arrested for posing with guns on their personal Facebook pages. Even a few years ago, a member of, say, the Disciples would have been "violated"—physically punished—for talking about killings or publicly outing a fellow member. But today most "gangs" are without much hierarchical structure, and many of the cliques are only nominally tied to larger organizations.
Third, in telling a story about how police warned the family of a 12-year-old that Keef's crew was posting threatening comments on a video the boy had posted insulting Keef, Austen touches on how "predictive policing" is far less exotic than critics often allege:
For a long time, criminal-justice experts have talked about predictive policing—the idea that you can use big data to sniff out crimes before they happen, conjuring up an ethically troublesome future like the one depicted in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. But in Chicago and other big cities, police are finding it's much easier than that. Give people social media and they'll tell you what they're about to do.
Finally, Austen observes that insulting a rival crew is "so much easier to do online than face-to-face." This comment, interestly, echoes the heartbreaking-but-hilarious interview Louis C.K. did this week with Conan O'Brien about why he won't let his kids have smart phones: "They look at a kid and they go, 'you're fat,' and then they see the kid's face scrunch up and they go, 'oh, that doesn't feel good to make a person do that.' But they got to start with doing the mean thing. But when they write 'you're fat,' then they just go, 'mmm, that was fun, I like that.'"


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The road to Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, is a dangerous one. As we stop at the Gush Katif Junction, my Palestinian driver becomes nervous. "They often shoot here,†he says. A group of 10-year-old Palestinian boys approach our car. My driver opens the door and lets one in. He then speeds past the armed Israeli watchtowers that guard the 200-meter checkpoint, stops the car, gives the boy a shekel (35 cents) and lets him out. He tells me the boys make money by helping drivers bring the total number of people in their cars up to three. Any less and Israeli soldiers will fire on the car, suspecting it of transporting explosives.
Thus began my journey to Rafah in November 2002, part of a photographic exploration of the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT). Rafah sits nervously next to the Gush Katif settlements, where 7,000 Israeli settlers with green lawns and swimming pools have illegally occupied 40% of Gaza's land, while 1.2 million Palestinians live in poverty on the remaining 60%. Tragically, it is off the radar of western media, even though it has suffered more death and injury per capita than any other city in the OPT in the 27 months of the Al-Aqsa Intifada: 206 dead, 2460 injuries and 800 life-saving operations, according to Dr. Ali Mousa, head of Rafah's Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital. (1)
Rafah is also the site of a serious breach of International Humanitarian Law and a potential war crime according to the Fourth Geneva Convention: Palestinian homes are being demolished daily by Israeli bulldozers under cover of sniper and tank fire to make way for a 6-meter high steel wall along the Egyptian border. The construction occasions daily gun battles and Israeli shelling which have left scores of Palestinian civilians dead and wounded. Demolition teams give little warning. Resisting occupants are ordered to leave by loudspeaker, then forced out by machine gun fire and tank shells. There is no compensation. According to Dr. Yousef Mousa, Deputy Chief of the Rafah Popular Refugee Committee, over 350 homes have been demolished, 500 partially destroyed and hundreds of others damaged by shelling. (2) The number of homeless is high, since Rafah's average family size is 11.
When I arrived in Rafah, people began pulling me into their homes in Block O, a neighborhood where demolitions occur daily. I entered one home through a large hole in the wall to find a mother feeding her 5 children. The hole had been created to allow for quick escape in case the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacks became too intense. In the neighboring home, whose southern wall had been destroyed, I stood with the occupants watching an armored bulldozer pass by. Beside me, the family's grandmother wept.
I traveled next to one of Rafah's cemeteries where a funeral was being held for Hamed al-Masri, a 2-year-old boy who was killed while his family was escaping the IDF tank rounds striking their home in Rafah's crowded Block J. (3) After the funeral, I visited Asa'ad Hassan's wife, Asmaa', in Rafah's hospital, where she was recovering from critical injuries sustained during the attack.
I spent my first evening in Rafah with Kamal Abu Shammala and his family in their new home far from Block O. Kamal had left Block O after his 10-year-old daughter had been killed while fleeing an IDF attack one month earlier, the day after construction of the wall began. According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, indiscriminate shelling of homes in Block O left 6 civilians dead and 39 wounded. (3) The IDF knew this could happen: 90,000 people inhabit less than 1 square kilometer in the Rafah refugee camp.
Following my stay with the Shammala family, I spent 4 days with a family of 10 in Block O, 75 meters from the new Israeli wall. Their house, which the father, Mousa, had built 7 years earlier, was riddled with bullet holes and surrounded by expanses of sand where houses once stood. Mousa had placed bricks in the dining room window to protect his family from the daily tank rounds. It was there that I became acquainted with what Palestinians call "the background music,†the constant machine gun fire and explosions that rock their communities. On my third day in Mousa's home, a 2-hour gun battle raged between IDF tanks and Palestinian fighters trying to push back bulldozers, all in proximity to one of the most densely populated neighborhoods on earth. Later that day, as we were eating, two large rounds slammed into the back wall of the house. A third bullet came in through the bathroom window and smashed into the kitchen wall. That night, as locals accompanied me through one of Rafah's markets, IDF flares lit up the sky, unmanned spy planes circled the refugee camp, and red tracer bullets whizzed over the market.
What is happening in Rafah is happening daily throughout the OPT. During my three-week stay, the IDF conducted 90 military actions in 45 Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank and Gaza, leaving 25 dead, 92 wounded, some critically. Scores of people were detained and arrested, others used as human shields to carry out arrests and assassinations. 52 homes were demolished without compensation and 255 dunams of agricultural land were razed. (4) It is unlikely that any of this was reported in western mainstream media.
Three Palestinian cities – Hebron, Bethlehem, and Nablus – were put under indefinite 24-hour curfew, a fact probably mentioned in the press, since these measures were preceded by Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. The journalistic emphasis on Israeli suffering is unfortunately inversely related to reality: Palestinian casualties more than triple those of Israelis. In addition, attacks by Israeli soldiers or settlers are carried out with near impunity. By contrast, when Palestinians fight back or initiate attacks ("terrorismâ€), they are arrested or killed, their homes destroyed and families made homeless, their cities encircled, put under 24-hour curfew, the inhabitants subjected to nerve-wracking house-to-house searches and their institutions rendered ineffectual.
Collective punishment is illegal and the destruction of homes and agricultural land a war crime without military justification. According to B'tselem, the leading Israeli human rights group, the IDF defends its "clearing†policy, saying it needs the land and walls as "security strips†to protect Israeli settlements and military outposts from Palestinian attacks. (6) The 205 Israeli settlements, perched on the best Palestinian land and twice as populated since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, already constitute a serious breach of international law and are a root cause of the attacks the IDF wants to prevent.
The present Palestinian reality resembles former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's successful 1999 election platform: "Peace Through Separation: We Are Here; They Are There.†As Sara Roy notes, "Barak's vision of separation was to be achieved through the construction of checkpoints, walls, fences, trenches, bridges, canals, and tunnels.†(7) Already in 1999, Palestinians were living in 227 separate enclaves surrounding by Israeli settlements and roads. (8) As Roy points out, "The physical division of the West Bank has become so pronounced that families living in the northern region do not want their children to marry spouses from the southern region because they fear they will not be able to see them (even though the distance between the north and south West Bank is no more than forty miles).†(9) In addition, over 2 years of closure of Palestinian borders have driven the unemployment rate past 50% and the poverty rate up to 70%. Not surprisingly, in 2001, the World Food Program announced that Palestinians were among the poorest people on earth. (10)
Human rights violations, however, are not new in the OPT. Human rights groups have compiled lists since 1967: 50,000 Palestinians tortured, 1500 deported, illegal transfer of 400,000 Israeli civilians into the OPT, and pillage of Palestinian natural resources, including water. A US-led attack on Iraq will worsen the situation. Recently, 800 US academics publicly warned of a possible "full-fledged ethnic cleansing†of Palestinians should the "fog of war†in Iraq blind the world to Israeli actions in Palestine. (11)
Israel continues its repressive policies because it can. Until Camp David in 2000, the Palestinian Authority signed all agreements, legitimizing this state of affairs, a tragedy for the Palestinian people. (12) The mainstream media focuses on context-deprived accounts of Palestinian attacks. Editorial pieces resemble fairy tales. The National Post in Canada recently published a speech by Izzy Asper, who owns half the shares in the newspaper and runs one of Canada's largest media corporations, Canwest Global Communications. In the speech, Asper lauds Israel as "a symbol and teacher of excellence for all of humankind.†(13)
The facts on the ground present a very different reality. People interested in improving this situation can do some reading outside the mainstream, pressure their elected officials to speak out, and support the initiatives of organizations already working for Palestinian rights. International pressure will be a central factor in ending the Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people.
1. Interview conducted November 23rd, 2002, in Rafah.
2. Interview conducted November 22rd, 2002, in Khan Younis.
3. "Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 07– 13 November, 2002,†Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, http://www.pchrgaza.org/.
4. "Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 17- 23 October, 2002,†Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, http://www.pchrgaza.org/.
5. Combined statistics, PCHR Weekly Reports, 09 November to 29 November 2002.
6. "Demolition of Houses and Fields in the Gaza Strip,†B'tselem, http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/index.asp.
7. Sara Roy, "Decline and Disfigurement: The Palestinian Economy After Oslo,†The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid (New York: Verso, 2001), p. 102.
8. Ibid., 94.
9. Opcit., p. 99.
10. Allegra Pachecho, "Flouting Convention: The Olso Agreements,†The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid (New York: Verso, 2001), p. 196.
11. Nigel Parry, "800 American professors sign document warning of coming Israeli ethnic cleansing,†The Electronic Intifada, December 18, 2002, http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article989.shtm.
12. For a full discussion, see Allegra Pachecho, "Flouting Convention…â€.
13. Izzy Asper, National Post, October 31, 2002.


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Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education, Bob Evans says the pool at the high school is more than 50 years old and in desperate need of repair. Evans says music students are practicing in hallways and cramped closets.
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Evans says a new pool would replace the two existing pools at the high school and middle school and would save money in operating costs over time. The district isn't sure yet where the new pool would go.
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The hardest choice I had to make was between 2 and 3. But what it came down to is Mangold is the best player at his position in the league. We all knew Mangold was a beast but I dont think we realized how important he was to our line. The 2 and a half games he missed our offense on a whole looked awful. He's going to be a very important part of our offense for a long time.
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The closest school is Slate Hill Elementary School.
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