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SPS Commerce's Scott Bolduc Named To Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Annual Listing Of Pros To Know In The Supply Chain Industry
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced that Scott Bolduc, Senior Supply Chain Strategist, has been named a Provider Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive for the second consecutive year. The 2011 Provider Pros to Know lists individuals from a software firm or service provider, consultancy or academia who have helped their supply chain clients or the supply chain community at large prepare to meet the business challenges in the year ahead.
"Our annual list of Provider Pros to Know highlights the many thought-leaders who are helping to shape the supply chain industry and advance supply chain as a respected discipline in the enterprise," said Barry Hochfelder, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "Their efforts in developing the tools, processes and knowledge base necessary for Supply Chain transformation, and in promoting new approaches to supply chain enablement, have earned them a place on this year's Provider Pros listing."
Mr. Bolduc has become a trusted supply chain expert and advisor to more than 40 retailers during his 10 years as a supply chain strategist at SPS Commerce. His role is to partner with supply chain practitioners, sharing best practices and helping these organizations improve how their products are distributed to retailers. Overall, he has reviewed the EDI requirements of more than 400 retailers and provided recommendations to improve efficiency and supplier adoption.
The full listing of the 2011 Pros to Know will be available in the February/March 2011 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and e-book beginning in early March and on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive website at http://www.SDCExec.com/2011Prostoknow. About Supply & Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. Supply & Demand Chain Executive is a publication of Cygnus Business Media. On the Web at www.SDCExec.com and on smartphones and tablets at www.SDCExec.com/mobile. About SPS Commerce SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service model to improve the way suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers manage and fulfill orders. Our SPSCommerce.net platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 38,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used SPSCommerce.net, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has 39 consecutive quarters of increased revenues and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com. SPS Commerce is a registered trademark of SPS Commerce, Inc. SPSCommerce.net and the SPS Commerce logo are the property of SPS Commerce, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Archives exhibit: 1916 alumni/ae event, "The Telephone Banquet"
Posted June 3rd, 2008 by Lois Beattie
On June 14, 1916, approximately 1,500 alumni/ae along with special guests, including Alexander Graham Bell and Orville Wright, gathered at Symphony Hall in Boston to celebrate the new MIT campus in Cambridge and to raise funds. The speeches presented that night were broadcast via telephone to 34 alumni gatherings all over the country. The June Object of the Month exhibit on the web site of the Institute Archives and Special Collections includes photographs, the banquet program and menu, and links to other events surrounding MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge. Visit the Archives in 14N-118 to learn more about this momentous milestone in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Drawing on cover of program by Isaac B. Hazelton, MIT class of 1894.


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Saturday, September 12
Boone Pickens Stadium
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Stillwater, OK (Sports Network) - Case Keenum threw for three touchdowns and connected with Bryce Beall on a six-yard TD pass late in the fourth quarter, as Houston upset fifth-ranked Oklahoma State, 45-35, at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Keenum connected on 32-of-46 passes for 366 yards and an interception for the Cougars (2-0), who blew out Northwestern State in the season-opener, 55-7. Beall also rushed for 78 yards and a score on 18 carries. Tyron Carrier caught seven passes for 111 yards and a TD.
"It was big, we don't look at the numbers next to the players, we just look at the team and wanted to come here and get a victory. We knew coming in here, having to play the No. 5 team it was going be hard, coach told us that. We just respected our opponent and played hard," Beall said.
Zac Robinson went 18-of-31 for 240 yards, a touchdown, and an interception for the Cowboys (1-1), who won 24-10 over then 13th-ranked Georgia last week. Dez Bryant led the receiving corps with 85 yards on five catches and returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown. Beau Johnson rushed for 82 yards on nine carries with a touchdown.
"Ultimately, what it came down to was turnovers. It was the opposite last week. We had the turnovers and they didn't. We had too many offsides and an illegal formation on the punt team. Those are the things we have to correct. We've got to do a better job of that as coaches. We've got to be more disciplined as players and we've got to take care of the football," said Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy.
After OSU went ahead 35-31 with 11:22 remaining in the contest, the Cougars put together an impressive drive to take back the lead.
Keenum got the drive started with a beautiful 30-yard pass to Carrier and a 15-yard run by A.J. Dugat later in the drive set up the Cougars at the Oklahoma State seven. On 4th-and-goal, Keenum scrambled around before throwing a pass into the end zone that hit off an OSU defender before landing in the hands of Beall as Houston went up 38-35 with just under seven minutes to play.
"Case told me to stay in, then I saw him scramble and I just ran up the field and saw him scrambling to the right, so I scrambled to the right and saw the ball get tipped up in the air and my eyes opened up wide and all I wanted to do was go up and grab it and I was going to take the hit. All I wanted to do was just grab it and take it down," said Beall of his touchdown catch.
A 26-yard interception return for a TD by Jamal Robinson with just over three minutes to play essentially sealed the victory for the Cougars.
The Cowboys, who trailed by 17 points after 30 minutes of play, came out a much different team in the second half. On its first possession, Keith Toston topped off a nine-play, 62-yard drive with a nine-yard TD run to cut the deficit to 24-14. After stopping Houston's offense, Bryant returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown, cutting the gap to three.
Johnson's 37-yard TD run gave the Cowboys a 28-24 lead with less than four minutes left in the third. The Cougars then put together a drive, which had them set up at the OSU one-yard-line when the period came to an end.
After two straight unsuccessful quarterback sneaks, Beall pushed his way into the end zone on fourth down to give the Cougars a 31-28 edge with 13:40 remaining in the game.
On the ensuing OSU possession, Robinson connected with Josh Cooper on a 22- yard TD pass to put the hosts ahead 35-31.
Houston capitalized on an early turnover to score the game's first points. David Hunter recovered a fumble at Oklahoma State 16 and Keenum scampered into the end zone on the Cougars' first play for the 7-0 lead.
The Cowboys marched down the field on its next turn, but Dan Bailey missed a 37-yard field goal wide left. Houston took over and put together a 13-play, 66-yard drive that ended in a 31-yard field from Jordan Mannisto and the 10-0 score held up for the rest of the period.
Kendall Hunter finished off a nine-play, 63-yard drive with a nine-yard TD run in the early stages of the second stanza to pull Oklahoma State within three. However, the remainder of the half belonged to a determined Cougars squad.
With close to 3 1/2 minutes remaining in the half, Keenum hit Patrick Edwards with a 17-yard TD pass to cap off an impressive nine-play, 96-yard romp to put Houston ahead 17-7.
The Cougars then recovered an onsides kick, and Keenum connected with Carrier on a 32-yard touchdown pass to end a six-play, 62-yard drive and carry a 24-7 lead heading into the locker room.
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Nathan Thrall writes: In the early days of the Gaza war that took the lives of some 2,150 Palestinians and 72 Israelis, a number of officials in Washington, Ramallah, and Jerusalem began to speak of renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations mediated by the United States. As the fighting dragged on, this talk intensified, again showing that the "peace process" gains greatest urgency from the threat of Israeli-Palestinian violence, as well as from the U.S.'s desire to calm a roiling region, including by helping Arab allies justify pro-American stances to their publics. This was why the 1991 Madrid talks occurred during the first Palestinian intifada and immediately following Arab support of the United States in the 1991 Gulf War. It was why President George W. Bush's 2003 Road Map for Middle East Peace was drafted during the second intifada and as the U.S. assembled a coalition for the 2003 Iraq War. And it is why the United States may soon seek to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, following sharply increased Israeli-Palestinian confrontation not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and after Israel's actions in Gaza were given both tacit and overt support by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority.
There is little reason to believe that renewed talks would succeed. The obstacles that caused the failure of the negotiations led by Secretary of State John Kerry have not disappeared. Many of them have grown larger. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his political program of nonviolence and negotiation have been weakened by Hamas's strategy in Gaza, which impressed many Palestinians, although the costs were enormous. Hamas sent thousands of rockets into Israel, killing seven civilians, while Israeli air strikes and artillery killed hundreds of children, devastated large parts of Gaza, and left tens of thousands of people homeless. Reconstruction will cost many billions and take years.
Still, Hamas demonstrated that its militancy and its willingness to endure a ferocious Israeli attack could achieve more in weeks than Abbas's talks have achieved in years. During the Gaza war, Israel did not announce a single new settlement in the West Bank. Although Israel did not agree to some of Hamas's most important requests—for example, the opening of a seaport and the release of recently arrested prisoners—it showed eagerness to negotiate with the Palestinians and willingness to make significant concessions, including the easing of some border crossings, extending fishing rights, facilitating the supply of construction materials, and offering to begin working in Gaza with the new Palestinian government formed in June. [Continue reading...]
#Israel, trapped by 19th century nationalism
Pankaj Mishra writes: Successive Israeli governments may appear to have succeeded in creating indestructible boundaries on the ground, as well as in the air. The Israeli Defense Forces' barrier, which separates Israeli territory from the West Bank, has successfully blocked the flow of suicide bombers. The so-called Iron Dome prevents most Hamas rockets from reaching their targets.
In the past, too, freedom and democracy depended upon the exclusion of others; the walls of the Greek polis drew clear lines between citizens and enemies. But the impulse to shut oneself off in an interconnected world can only clash with other aspirations that modernity creates: whether to grow and expand or to live a quiet and dignified life.
The IDF's barrier and the settler enclaves not only make a Palestinian state unachievable and, if it was ever attained, ungovernable. It also, ironically, contradicts the expansionist vision of "Eretz Yisrael."
In any case, the most primitive rockets can clear all fences and walls; better-designed ones will no doubt beat even the Iron Dome; and deeper tunnels will be dug. Not surprisingly, punitive Israeli measures — the blockade of Gaza from 2007 and military incursions in 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014 — eventually reveal themselves as futile exercises in self-assertion. Each time, the increased sophistication and ferocity of the attacks is matched by greater resilience on the other side.
The consistent Palestinian refusal to be shocked and awed by superior firepower will puzzle only those who have failed to grasp the central idea and event of the 20th century: the urge of self-determination and decolonization. [Continue reading...]
The smoke screen of a two-state solution has disappeared — #Netanyahu's plan for #apartheid
Stephen Robert writes: So much tragedy and insufferable grief now engulfs the Israel-Palestine debate that the past year's transformation of Israeli politics is easily overlooked. Yet, it is the nutrient for the present catastrophe, and perhaps for even worse in the future.
In 2009, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a major speech at Bar Ilan University, which, though highly nuanced, purportedly supported a two state solution. His father, a darling of the right-wing, then gave an interview to Israeli TV in which he stated that his son would never approve a state the Palestinians could possibly accept. The past year has demonstrably proved the father's prophecy.
Netanyahu's pretense to the contrary has been demolished, both by others and himself. Since there is no other sustainable solution, Palestinians have now lost all hope of their God-given right to govern themselves with the dignity humanity demands. History informs us that when that hope is lost, radicalism will ensue. Occupiers lose in the end.
Public and private statements from officials deeply immersed in these talks suggest this Israeli government was never serious about peace. Comments by U.S. Special Envoy Martin Indyk and President Obama's chief Middle East advisor, Philip Gordon, place considerable blame on Israel; perhaps with bluntness unprecedented for American diplomats. They cite Israel's refusal to discuss borders, produce maps, end settlement expansion and negotiate many of the big gap issues. Indyk believes Palestinian President Abbas was humiliated and embarrassed by Israel's coupling of settlement expansions with each release of Palestinian prisoners, implying that Abbas had agreed to pay for the prisoners. During the nine months of negotiations, Israel announced the planning of 8000 settlement units, largely outside the area likely to be part of Israel in any peace agreement. Both men also place considerable responsibility on the Palestinians, but the proportionality is notably different from previous failed attempts to broker peace.
Most important, Prime Minister Netanyahu has now removed his mask. At a recent press conference, after implying Secretary Kerry and General John Allen were naïve about Israel's security, he proclaimed that any Palestinian state contiguous to Israel constituted an unacceptable danger. Therefore, he said, such a state must have indefinite Israeli military occupation, not only in the Jordan Valley but throughout all of its territory. It appears that the alleged supporter of two states envisions a sovereign Palestinian state – but under Israeli occupation.
Certainly Netanyahu's position doesn't pass the laugh test. Still, it represents a less nuanced and unrestrained hawkishness by the Israeli right wing. Perhaps because the press conference was in Hebrew, these transformational comments have been vastly under reported.
Foreign Minister Lieberman fought for the invasion of Gaza, and driving Hamas out. His goal is an occupied Gaza, as compliant as the West Bank, creating a "stable condition similar to the West Bank."
The smoke screen of a two state solution has disappeared. [Read more...]
Obama's foreign policy and the future of the Middle East
Speaking in Washington DC on Monday afternoon, Chas Freeman said: In April, our four-decade-long effort to broker a secure and accepted place for a Jewish state in the Middle East sputtered to a disgraceful end. In the tragicomic final phase of the so-called "peace process," instead of mediating, the United States negotiated with Israel about the terms of Palestinian capitulation, not with the Palestinians about self-determination. The U.S. effort to broker peace for Israel is now not just dead but so putrid it can't be shown at a wake. Israel didn't believe in it, so it killed it. May it rest in peace.
From the outset, Israel used the "peace process" as a distraction while it created facts on the ground in the form of illegal settlements. Israeli expansionism and related policies have now made Israel's peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians– and, thus, with Israel's Arab neighbors – impossible. The United States created the moral hazard that enabled Israel to put itself in this ultimately untenable position. Forty years of one-sided American diplomacy aimed at achieving regional and international acceptance for Israel have thus perversely produced the very opposite – increasing international isolation and opprobrium for the Jewish state.
We will now "cover Israel's back" at the United Nations as its ongoing maltreatment and intermittent muggings of its captive Arab population complete its international delegitimization and ostracism. We will pay a heavy political price for this stand globally, in the Middle East, and very likely in escalating terrorism against Americans abroad and at home. It may satisfy our sense of honor. But it more closely resembles assisted suicide than a strategy for the survival of Israel and our own position in the Middle East. [Continue reading...]
Freeman spoke at the Middle East Policy Council, preceded by Kenneth Pollack, Paul Pillar, and Amin Tarzi — the 77th Capitol Hill Conference can be viewed here.
For Netanyahu, Gaza proves why Palestinians cannot be allowed to govern themselves
In a news conference held on Friday in which Benjamin Netanyahu spoke only in Hebrew, the Israeli prime minister spelled out why he believes a two-state solution is impossible:
The priority right now, Netanyahu stressed, was to "take care of Hamas." But the wider lesson of the current escalation was that Israel had to ensure that "we don't get another Gaza in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]." Amid the current conflict, he elaborated, "I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan."
Not relinquishing security control west of the Jordan, it should be emphasized, means not giving a Palestinian entity full sovereignty there. It means not acceding to Mahmoud Abbas's demands, to Barack Obama's demands, to the international community's demands. This is not merely demanding a demilitarized Palestine; it is insisting upon ongoing Israeli security oversight inside and at the borders of the West Bank. That sentence, quite simply, spells the end to the notion of Netanyahu consenting to the establishment of a Palestinian state. A less-than-sovereign entity? Maybe, though this will never satisfy the Palestinians or the international community. A fully sovereign Palestine? Out of the question.
He wasn't saying that he doesn't support a two-state solution. He was saying that it's impossible. This was not a new, dramatic change of stance by the prime minister. It was a new, dramatic exposition of his long-held stance. [Continue reading...]
Poll: Palestinians prefer suing Israel at the ICC rather than starting third intifada
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinians want to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court more than they want to fight them in the streets in an armed third intifada, according to a poll conducted by Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.
Palestinians continue to support a two-state solution and do not believe that the newly unified Fatah-Hamas government is an obstacle to renewed negotiations, according to Shikaki's data, which he presented at the 2014 Herzliya Conference on Tuesday.
Israelis also believe it is possible to negotiate with the new Palestinian government, according to pollster Mina Tzemach, who spoke on the same panel as Shikaki. [Continue reading...]
How J Street ended up supporting the occupation
Larry Derfner writes: What is J Street doing? Why is it acting in concert with right-wing Zionist organizations like AIPAC and StandWithUs in fighting against boycott, sanctions and divestment, while offering no alternative of its own for ending the occupation?
Because the truth is that J Street offers no alternative anymore; now that the Kerry talks have failed, and all the secretary of state has to show for them is a footprint on his pants seat courtesy of the Netanyahu government, America is through trying to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And everybody seems to acknowledge this except J Street. Which is not a surprise, because without America in the peace process, J Street's reason for being is gone.
That's tough; the organization is going to have to change or close shop. And I hope it does change successfully by finding a new way to advance the two-state solution. Moreover, I hope it finds a less antagonistic way than BDS to accomplish this. And if it does find such a way, I will join J Street in a minute, because as an Israeli I don't particularly enjoy supporting the boycott of Israel – but I do it because I see no other way anymore to end the occupation and allow the two-state solution to come into being. And nobody else has come up with another way, either. So as far as anyone can see, it's either BDS or occupation forever.
Yet J Street, by default, has thrown in on the side of occupation forever. With nothing left to offer except hollow pep talks about the peace process, it's fighting BDS – together with the pro-Netanyahu, pro-occupation American Zionist right. [Continue reading..]
After Kerry, only BDS may save the two-state solution
Larry Derfner writes: Now that the Kerry peace talks have failed and everyone has given up hoping that Netanyahu will change, what's the new plan for ending the occupation one day? For liberal Zionists – people who want Israel to become a Jewish state that respects Arabs – it would seem to focus on Isaac Herzog, head of the Labor Party. Unlike fellow centrist party leaders Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid, Herzog hasn't been in a position of leadership long enough yet to fail or sell out, so he's the one. The hope is that he can get elected in the coming years to head a coalition government of the center, left, maybe an ultra-Orthodox party, maybe even an Arab party for once, and do what prime ministers going back to Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago tried but were unable to do – reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Putting their hopes on Herzog is a natural progression for liberal Zionists. After all, they can't just throw in the towel and resign themselves to the occupation being permanent; it's unthinkable, psychologically insupportable. Besides, who can tell the future? Herzog seems solid; he's very smart, competent, likable, the son of a beloved army general and president – a consensus-type figure. And now that the Kerry initiative has failed, and even the timid Obama administration is blaming the Netanyahu government for it while exonerating the Palestinians (off the record), clearly the thing to do is replace the Netanyahu government. Then there will be a fighting chance for peace again (unless of course the Republicans get elected).
Here is my heartfelt, urgent advice: forget it. It's a waste of time. Electoral politics in either Israel or America, as far as it concerns the peace process, is a waste of time – hopefully not forever, but certainly for now and for the next several years. And maybe forever. This is what liberal Zionists are going to have to face, or they're going to continue wasting their time, which will make it that much more likely that the peace process will not just be dead for now, and not for the next several years, but indeed forever. [Continue reading...]
The reasons the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed
This week the Israeli columnist, Nahum Barnea, spoke to senior American officials involved in Secretary of State John Kerry's peace effort and heard their explanation for the talks' failure. Barnea writes, "what they told me is the closest thing to an official American version of what happened."
Let's go back to the beginning. Was this round not doomed for failure from day one?
"The negotiations had to start with a decision to freeze settlement construction. We thought that we couldn't achieve that because of the current makeup of the Israeli government, so we gave up. We didn't realize Netanyahu was using the announcements of tenders for settlement construction as a way to ensure the survival of his own government. We didn't realize continuing construction allowed ministers in his government to very effectively sabotage the success of the talks.
"There are a lot of reasons for the peace effort's failure, but people in Israel shouldn't ignore the bitter truth – the primary sabotage came from the settlements. The Palestinians don't believe that Israel really intends to let them found a state when, at the same time, it is building settlements on the territory meant for that state. We're talking about the announcement of 14,000 housing units, no less. Only now, after talks blew up, did we learn that this is also about expropriating land on a large scale. That does not reconcile with the agreement.
"At this point, it's very hard to see how the negotiations could be renewed, let alone lead to an agreement. Towards the end, Abbas demanded a three-month freeze on settlement construction. His working assumption was that if an accord is reached, Israel could build along the new border as it pleases. But the Israelis said no."
Compare the current round of talks to Henry Kissinger's efforts after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, an effort that led to disengagement agreements between Israel and Syria, and Israel and Egypt. Compare it to James Baker's effort after the first Gulf War, an effort that led to the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991."At the end of a war there is a sense of urgency," they said. And then one of them added bitterly: "I guess we need another intifada to create the circumstances that would allow progress.
"20 years after the Oslo Accords, new game rules and facts on the ground were created that are deeply entrenched. This reality is very difficult for the Palestinians and very convenient for Israel."
Were you surprised when you discovered that the Israelis don't really care what happens in the negotiations?"Yes, we were surprised. It surprised us all along the way. When (Moshe) Ya'alon, your defense minister, said that the only thing Kerry wants is to win a Nobel Prize, the insult was great. We were doing this for you and for the Palestinians. Of course, there were also American interests at play.
"A lot of people told us – 'don't stop. Keep going.' We told them: 'It's in your hands. Take responsibility for your own fate.' But, stuck in their own ways, they preferred we do their job for them. Public apathy was one of our biggest problems.
"One of the Palestinians who participated in the talks told an Israeli participant: 'You don't see us. We're transparent, we're hollow.' He had a point. After the second intifada ended and the separation barrier was built, the Palestinians turned into ghosts in the eyes of the Israelis – they couldn't see them anymore."
It almost sounds like you wish for an intifada.
"Quite the opposite, it would be a tragedy. The Jewish people are supposed to be smart; it is true that they're also considered a stubborn nation. You're supposed to know how to read the map: In the 21st century, the world will not keep tolerating the Israeli occupation. The occupation threatens Israel's status in the world and threatens Israel as a Jewish state."
The world is being self-righteous. It closes its eyes to China's takeover of Tibet, it stutters at what Russia's doing to Ukraine.
"Israel is not China. It was founded by a UN resolution. Its prosperity depends on the way it is viewed by the international community."
Israel can never justify the denial of Palestinian freedom
Gershon Baskin writes: John Kerry said the "A word" and was then forced to apologize.
I don't have to apologize.
I repeat Kerry's exact words and believe in every single one of them: "A unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens – or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state."
If the two-state solution is dead, as it seems it might be, Israel will become a unitary state with two populations, one with privileges and political rights and the other living in Bantustans, surrounded, isolated from each other, with no real control over their lives, denied their political rights. If Israel does not end its occupation over the Palestinian people, sooner, not later, Israel will become a new form of apartheid.
No, not apartheid like South Africa was, but a new type of political discrimination, forced separation, with separate legal systems, separate roads and more. One society will be the masters and the other the servants. To a large extent this already describes the reality. We already have a unitary state reality, and it has existed for 46 years. With no real hope for political change that will bring about the end of the Israeli occupation over the Palestinian people, this can no longer be thought of as a temporary situation over disputed territories. With annexation or without it, Israel is and has been in full control over the territories for the past 46 years. [Continue reading...]
Kerry's 'apartheid' gambit a bigger deal in U.S. than in Israel
Gershom Gorenberg writes: On Monday morning, "Apartheid" was the first word in the headline of the editorial at the top of page 2 in Israel's Ha'aretz daily. The newspaper's editorial page is an old-fashioned grey mass of type, the print equivalent of the low monotonous growl of an aging foreign policy commentator on public radio. But Ha'aretz wasn't growling about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's leaked warning, published late Sunday night, that unless Israel reaches a two-state agreement, it risks becoming "an apartheid state."
Rather, the editorial was about the planning bodies that allow Israeli settlement construction and block Palestinian building in Area C, the part of the West Bank where Israel rather than the Palestinian Authority runs day-to-day affairs. The paper urged Israel's Supreme Court to rule against the discrimination.
From this we learn two things: First, intentionally or not, whoever leaked Kerry's comments to a meeting of the Trilateral Commission on Friday did so with timing that guaranteed a muted coverage in Israel. Saturday night on the American East Coast was Sunday morning in Israel. The day's ink-on-paper newspapers were already printed and lying on doorsteps. And since Monday was Israel's' memorial day for the Holocaust, the up-to-the-second media, online and on the air, were devoted entirely to painful memories and the political uses or misuses of them. On talk radio, talk about Kerry would have to wait.
The second lesson is that "apartheid" is a strong but not shocking word within Israel's own political conversation. [Continue reading...]
Kerry clarifies when, where, and how the words 'Israel' and 'apartheid' can be used in the same sentence
In a statement issued by the State Department, Secretary of State John Kerry said: "I do not believe, nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one." [Emphasis mine.]
In a closed-door meeting on Friday, Kerry had said:
"A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state."
Kerry has now offered clarification to that statement by saying:
"I have been around long enough to also know the power of words to create a misimpression, even when unintentional, and if I could rewind the tape, I would have chosen a different word to describe my firm belief that the only way in the long term to have a Jewish state and two nations and two peoples living side by side in peace and security is through a two state solution. In the long term, a unitary, binational state cannot be the democratic Jewish state that Israel deserves or the prosperous state with full rights that the Palestinian people deserve. That's what I said, and it's also what Prime Minister Netanyahu has said. While Justice Minister Livni, former Prime Ministers Barak and Ohlmert have all invoked the specter of apartheid to underscore the dangers of a unitary state for the future, it is a word best left out of the debate here at home."
In other words, in order to avoid startling and disappointing the likes of Abe Foxman, 'apartheid' is a word best reserved for conversations with Israelis.
Kerry warns Israel could become 'an apartheid state'
John Kerry echoes former Israeli prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak. The Daily Beast reports: If there's no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming "an apartheid state," Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday.
Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term "apartheid" in reference to Israel, and President Obama has previously rejected the idea that the word should apply to Jewish State. Kerry's use of the loaded term is already rankling Jewish leaders in America—and it could attract unwanted attention in Israel, as well.
It wasn't the only controversial comment on the Middle East that Kerry made during his remarks to the Trilateral Commission, a recording of which was obtained by The Daily Beast. Kerry also repeated his warning that a failure of Middle East peace talks could lead to a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. He suggested that a change in either the Israeli or Palestinian leadership could make achieving a peace deal more feasible. He lashed out against Israeli settlement-building. And Kerry said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders share the blame for the current impasse in the talks.
Kerry also said that at some point, he might unveil his own peace deal and tell both sides to "take it or leave it."
"A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state," Kerry told the group of senior officials and experts from the U.S., Western Europe, Russia, and Japan. "Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to." [Continue reading...]
In the Middle East, time for the U.S. to move on
The Editorial board of the New York Times writes: The pointless arguing over who brought Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to the brink of collapse is in full swing. The United States is still working to salvage the negotiations, but there is scant sign of serious purpose. It is time for the administration to lay down the principles it believes must undergird a two-state solution, should Israelis and Palestinians ever decide to make peace. Then President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should move on and devote their attention to other major international challenges like Ukraine.
Among those principles should be: a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with borders based on the 1967 lines; mutually agreed upon land swaps that allow Israel to retain some settlements while compensating the Palestinians with land that is comparable in quantity and quality; and agreement that Jerusalem will be the capital of the two states.
Perhaps the Obama administration's effort to broker a deal was doomed from the start. In 2009, the administration focused on getting Israel to halt settlement building and ran into the obstinacy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and resistance from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to entering peace talks. Since then, members of Mr. Netanyahu's coalition government have tried to sabotage the talks. As Tzipi Livni, Israel's chief negotiator, told the website Ynet, "There are people in the government who don't want peace." She cited Naftali Bennett, the leader of the pro-settler party Jewish Home, and Uri Ariel, the housing minister.
Mr. Obama made the right decision to give it a second try last summer, with Mr. Kerry bringing energy and determination to the negotiations. But, after nine months, it is apparent that the two sides are still unwilling to move on the core issues of the borders of a Palestinian state, the future of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and guarantees for Israel's security. The process broke down last month when Israel failed to release a group of Palestinian prisoners as promised and then announced 700 new housing units for Jewish settlement in a part of Jerusalem that Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state. According to Mr. Kerry that was the "poof" moment when it all fell apart, and the Palestinians responded by applying to join 15 international conventions and treaties. That move won't get them a state, but it is legal and they did not seek to join the International Criminal Court, a big fear of Israel's.
In recent days, Israel, which denounced the Palestinians for taking unilateral steps, took its own unilateral steps by announcing plans to deprive the financially strapped Palestinian Authority of about $100 million in monthly tax revenues and retroactively legalizing a 250-acre outpost in the Gush Etzion settlement, which the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said was the largest appropriation of West Bank land in years.
An Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is morally just and essential for the security of both peoples. To achieve one will require determined and courageous leaders and populations on both sides that demand an end to the occupation. Despite the commitment of the United States, there's very little hope of that now.


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Alice in Wonderland. Always has been my favorite.
Pocahontas or The Lion King...
I suppose the Lion King. I mostly joined because this is about Disney before it went down the cultural and creative toilet.
My all-time favorite is Mulan. It's been my fave since I was four (so that's been like 12 years) and I have pretty much the entire movie memorized. I even kinda scare people because I can recite the scenes so well and capture the characters' emotions lol
If you thought mine would be "The Lion King" because of my username...you would be right. I <3 that movie to death. I basically like anything from the Disney Renaissance, plus "The Princess and the Frog."
Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, 101 Dalmations (101 puppies FTW!!!!!!!), and Sleeping Beauty (Love the scene when the two fairies are fighting over whether Aurora's ball gown should pink or blue )
My favorites are the Lion King movies. :) Everything on Disney right now is junk.
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But taking such actions in Pakistan and now Syria may involve high diplomatic risks and offer limited military gain, say experts outside the military. "It could be morally justifiable, legally justifiable, and strategically a mistake," says Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
For the past few months, there have been reports of US airstrikes inside Pakistan as violence increased in neighboring Afghanistan. Over the weekend, the US reportedly conducted a strike inside Syria's shared border with Iraq.
Syrian officials say the US sent four US helicopters across the Syrian-Iraqi border on Sunday to carry out a raid against suspected militants. Damascus claimed that the attack, reportedly carried out by US Special Forces units, resulted in the killing of eight civilians near the border town of Abu Kamal.
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Kevin Brown Named President And CEO Of Piedmont Healthcare
Posted on 4/1/2013
Kevin Brown has been named president and chief executive officer of Piedmont Healthcare, effective May 2013. Brown, the 46-year-old chief executive officer for Swedish Health Services in Seattle, Wash., succeeds R. Timothy Stack, who was CEO of Piedmont Healthcare until his death on July 30, 2012, following a brief illness.
"Kevin is a great fit for Piedmont," said Patrick M. Battey, M.D., chair of the Piedmont Healthcare Board of Directors who also has been serving as interim CEO for the five-hospital, not-for-profit health system. "He has a long track record of promoting partnerships with physician leaders and has demonstrated a commitment to keeping the patient at the center of organizational decisions with a relentless focus on quality and safety. The fact he comes from an area on the forefront of healthcare reform also is very valuable."
Before Brown was named CEO of the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in the greater Seattle area in 2012, he was chief strategic officer and led the development and oversight of the strategic planning office for the five-hospital health system. As the senior vice president and chief administrative officer, he had operational responsibility for the ambulatory care division which includes Swedish/Lake Sammamish, Swedish/Redmond and Swedish/Mill Creek. He also had operational responsibility for 163-bed Swedish/Ballard and 175-bed Swedish/Issaquah. His other major accomplishments include the creation and growth of Swedish Medical Group, the re-development of Swedish Ballard, the opening of a new hospital in Issaquah, Wash., and the development of an innovative ambulatory care strategy. Prior to Swedish, Brown worked for the Providence Health System leading various strategic and business development projects. He spent five years in the early 1990s working as part of the start-up management team for PacifiCare of Washington.
"Kevin is known for his mission-driven strategic vision, innovative approach and highly effective execution. He also brings to Piedmont his experience leading medical groups, running insurance products as well as oversight of clinical operations and strategy," said Janine Brown, vice chair Piedmont Healthcare Board of Directors and chair of the CEO search committee. "This is the right leader for our system."
In February 2012, the affiliation agreement between Swedish and Providence Health & Service was finalized; a joining of services intended to improve healthcare quality, access and affordability for the residents of Western Washington. Brown played a key role in supporting the transition and implementation of that agreement.
"I am honored to be chosen for this role. Piedmont is well-respected across the country for both a tradition of innovation and a commitment to delivering excellent clinical care on behalf of the community," Kevin Brown said. "I look forward to working with the board, physicians, employees, donors and volunteers to continue to build upon that legacy for the future."
In September 2004, Brown was chosen as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40." He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a master's degree in healthcare administration from Arizona State University. Brown currently resides in Bellevue, Wash., with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.
"On behalf of the Piedmont Healthcare Board, I share our deepest gratitude for the exceptional leadership of Dr. Battey and Greg Hurst, president of finance and development and interim chief operating officer, over the last several months as we searched for a new chief executive officer," Janine Brown said.


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Her father's rage only incites the girl into flirting with reckless behavior, which provides the film with scenes that are both amusing and touching. In a Hollywood teen flick, it would be hard to imagine a moment like the one in which Maria, alternately embarrassed and excited, allows a young man to see her breasts.
But Sunday is not content to stick with the uncluttered story of a young girl's sexual awakening. The authors introduce Maria's shocked discovery of her father's clandestine infidelity with his assistant at the church and the ultimate tragedy that befalls the woman (Hildegunn Riise). Both performances are splendid, and the subplot is a well-meant intrusion that humanizes the priest and softens what could have been a one-tracked oppressiveness. Still, it nearly overloads the film. And Sundquist needs no assistance. For most of the film he makes us believe in his fervent righteousness.
The surprise twist adds further justification for Maria's activism, but it also diminishes the tension of her revolt. The stakes drop as soon as we find out the priest is not the model of virtue he insists that others be. The film's conflict ought to have been between two opposing but equally powerful views -- the time-honored duel between the immovable object and the irresistible force. One suspects that Nesheim, who coauthored the screenplay with Lasse Glom, may have taken the path of least resistance, betting that audiences wouldn't accept Maria unless her father were a hypocrite and a sinner.
Until taking its questionable turn toward a flawed resolution, Sunday was headed in very much the right direction. (Most films run off the road long before that.) There are other, hugely compensating factors as well, such as the haunting, low-key chamber music background and cinematography that rivals Bergman at his best. This movie is well worth careful attention.
Olivier Schatzky's L'Eleve (The Pupil) is closer in style to Scandinavia than to its native France, possibly because this lesser-known but highly promising director may have been influenced by Bergman, as have many, many others. Or maybe because the film is an adaption of a Henry James short story; and James, who always longed to be a successful dramatist but lacked the ability -- or the willingness -- to create stage tension or to highlight the dramatic moment, forces his adapters into a slow-paced, moody rhythm that invites torpor unless one is primed to concentrate on each subtle minute. L'�leve challenges its audience but offers rewards to those willing to look and listen carefully.
The theme may be somewhat related to that of The Other Side of Sunday. It may have undertones (quite far under) of repressed sexuality, but if it's supposed to be there, it would in this instance be an older man's repressed interest in a young boy, but not so clearly stated as in the film version of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, for example. Henry James's stock-in-trade, after all, is ambiguity.
Julien (Vincent Cassel), a sensitive, erudite scholar in his thirties, is hired by the parents of a gifted but neurotic child named Morgan (Caspar Salmon) to tutor the boy because their numerous trips make it impossible for him to attend school. Julien quickly discovers that Morgan is gifted, bordering on genius, but also perhaps flirting with madness. He is arrogant about his abilities, which, in addition to an aptitude for practically any subject, include gourmet cooking. Despite the age difference, Julien treats Morgan as an intellectual equal, an approach that is much appreciated by the nervous child, who has been starved for parental affection; the two develop a close but ambiguous relationship. Julien begins to realize that the parents are adventurers, living life in the high style but hopelessly in debt and continually moving to escape the consequences. They promise to pay him eventually. He keeps threatening to leave but has a difficult time of it because he and his charge have by now become inseparable.
Regardless of whether the parents are the characteristic Jamesian Europeans, too artful for an innocent idealist, the results are the same. Reduced to poverty (they say) and unable to care for their son, they beg Julien to stay with him, to become his true parent. The film's final moment is resplendent with possibilities that can be spiritual or sexual, or both. Henry James was no sexual Puritan, but he was reluctant to be understood as dealing overtly with subject matter that was taboo in the late Victorian era (which existed on both sides of the Atlantic and provided the perfect launching pad for Sigmund Freud).
L'Eleve is lightweight compared to The Turn of the Screw, James's masterpiece of ambiguity, but it serves the master better than did the television version of the latter work. Like so many directors in this festival, Schatzky wrote his own screenplay, and we must applaud his detailed effort to reproduce an intriguing study in a medium for which it is not really suited. It was a courageous choice.
If film festivals give you nothing else, they're guaranteed to provide a healthy dose of culture shock, as I experienced in moving from the understatements of L'Eleve to the muddled statements of Paul Chart's American Perfekt. Not only was the screening oversold, causing people to sit or stand in the aisles, but announcements and introductions delayed the start by 45 minutes: We learned that Amanda Plummer had been scheduled to appear but couldn't make it, and that costar Robert Forster was indeed present, as was the writer/director. From the bottom of their hearts, they thanked all kinds of people we never heard of; Chart, who hails from Great Britain, wanted everyone to know how wonderful it was to be in the United States and how it took five years for his film to reach the screen. Produced by nine people at a cost of multiple dollars, it is likely to disappear from the screen in a few weeks.
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text: Vasudha Narayanan is a professor of religion at the University of Florida. She has written and edited five books, including The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation and Ritual (1994). She has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim fellowship (1991-92) and an NEH fellowship (1998-99). Forthcoming books include The Sacred Utterance: A Translation of a 9th Century Poem, Hindu Traditions in the United States: Temple Space, Domestic Space and Cyberspace, and The Hindu Traditions: An Introduction. Narayanan is also working on shared ritual spaces where Hindus and Muslims worship in South India. Back to: Culminating conference participants UN/AMNH conference participants |


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I would say bottle do mature over time for certain types if beers (stouts, barley wines, manic if course) come to mind. Yes, you have to be quick with recapping after re-priming. The same is true with injecting them with new hydrated yeast. Sorry but I disagree with your airlock comment. I have found that yeast that is still fermenting and kicking up a bubble every 2:30-3:00 minutes in primary is perfect for moving to secondary. That can last from a few days to weeks if anything else is being steeped in it (chips, etc). I do agree that yeast can go on for a long time but it can also poop out if the initial fermentation was very heavy and worked hard. Have fun brewing!!
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So you know what a carboy airlock is right? You know that bubbles come up right? When fermentation slows down the bubbles slow down right? Do I have you at this point? The slow down tends to line up perfectly with the typical fermentation slow down or typical primary fermentation for particular styles. If you hit a certain gravity and you're tracking the temperature daily, and you know the typical attenuation for that beer/yeast strain then you can determine when the primary will finish. Based on this and the yeast still being active then your carbonation should not take that long. The 3-4 weeks would only apply to certain styles such as the ones that I mention. A recent "Brew" magazine article essentially said you only need at most 10-14 days for carbonation. Yes, you can mature them longer but will not change the carbonation.
And the "I disagree on most of what you shared above. " yeah, that seems to be your trend without providing any valuable experience
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Chris Luva Luva wrote: ... these guys could replace someone if they EARN it. That forces your starters to not become complacent.
^^ I'm with you on this - BIG TIME
we now seem to not be hit or miss as much as we were a few years ago .. most all the guys that have been added have been a lot closer to "making it" here than we're used to seeing
the competition for roster spots can only help EVERYONE - and these guys know they will get a shot and a decent look at playing here from the coaches
P A T I E N C E - Snyder needs to just 'butt out' and give Scot time to figure out who he needs in the FO, who he needs as the HC and what players fit what he thinks is a good system for this franchise - it's a mess & it will take time
Redskin in Canada wrote:I am not sure about this move. I do not wish to sound negative, I really do not know.
We apparently traded Kyle Wilburn, another C and OL to the Titans. So, this was really a trade.
Wilburn was a good prospect competing with Tevita, another UDFA, for a roster spot. Matthews has a year experience and a good family tree but I have not been impressed by the Titans OL play. I have not seen film of him and there is where scouts and coaches earn their salary.
We are not looking at starters but potential depth.
We cut Wilborn. I know nothing about either player. I'll trust Shanny & Bruce on this.
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Kent State's Jewish Studies Program to Host Leonard Dinnerstein
Posted Jan, 19, 2010Kent State University's Jewish Studies Program is honored to host speaker Leonard Dinnerstein on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Kent Student Center's Kiva. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Dinnerstein's presentation, "Religion, Radicalism and Anti-Semitism in the United States," will explore how Christian teachings led to anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States.
"We often think about and study the effects of anti-Semitism, but it's also very important to look at where these ideas originated," says Richard Steigmann-Gall, director of the Jewish Studies Program and associate professor of history at Kent State. "Leonard has focused a considerable amount of his career to decoding the origins of anti-Semitism, so we are very lucky to be able to host him at Kent State to discuss his findings."
Dinnerstein was born and bred in the Bronx. He attended the City College of New York and completed his graduate degree at Columbia University in New York City. He taught for 33 years in the history department at the University of Arizona before retiring in 2003. Among his published works are the books "The Leo Frank Case," "America and the Survivors of the Holocaust" and "Anti-Semitism in America."
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So I am going to install my moog ball joints in pretty soon here and I want to know exactly what to do before I get my truck in pieces so I don't have any hang ups since it's my daily driver.
Basically I am wondering if anyone has experience on servicing moog lower ball joints and tie rod ends? On my tie rod ends it comes with a Zerk fitting and looks as though some grease is already in there but says that the part needs to be serviced after installation.
Now my lower ball links also say to be serviced and seem to have some grease yet they do not come with Zerk fittings.
I can go ahead and remove the nut sealing the greasing hole and install a Zerk fitting, but I worry if it will get in the way somehow and be broken off or hinder installation.
Any advice? Maybe I can grease it with the Zerk fitting than reinstall the cap that comes with the joint
Thanks in advance for any tips


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