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William Parrish lives in Brunswick County, just over the bridge from Oak Island. The town council is trying to annex the business he manages, as well as his residential property. If the annexation goes through, it is going to raise Mr. Parrish's tax bill considerably. That is why he wanted to pay for a commercial on Oak Island TV, to tell the public why this annexation is a bad idea.
"They can't manage what they've got over there, much less what they're trying to annex over here, they have no clue," said Parrish.
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"I was willing to pay for that commercial. My money is just as good as anybody over there on Oak Island. The gentleman asked me 'well, is your business located on oak island?' and I said, well not yet, and that's what I'm trying to stop," said Parrish.
Residents tell us town council is basically dismissing the concerns of those opposed to annexation, and public forums where they have been allowed to ask questions have been less than helpful.
We are not surprised that residents are frustrated. The town manager flat out refused to meet with WWAY. We also called every single member of the Oak Island town council. We could hardly get anyone to answer our calls, much less agree to an interview.
Finally, a week after our trip to Oak Island Town Hall, we got a call from town attorney Brian Edes. As far as the town dismissing Mr. Parrish's request to run a commercial, Edes says Oak Island has been in the process of changing its commercial policy for months. There was some concern that allowing paid commercials on the government channel was a violation of FCC laws, and that is what prompted the rule change, not the idea of having to run a controversial commercial.
While we appreciate the call from town attorney Brian Edes, we would still love to hear from the elected officials in Oak Island. Since they ran for public office, it is implied that they will be accessible to the public, including news media. In fact, it is considered a responsibility.
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In a few years, this journal will be buried forever.
It won't be seen.
It probably won't even be remembered.
Because the members on now will have probably left Oasis, they'll be replaced.
And because nobody will remember, it will effectively cease to exist.
It'll be a relic. A ghost.
You know, a lot of other things are like that too.
And does it scare you? Do you fear being a ghost, being pushed down the journal page numbers into obscurity? Or do you fear simply not being known significantly enough in the first place, is it that? Because if people don't know you, have never known you, it's not just that you've disappeared from reality, it's that you were never there at all.
I think a lot of people don't remember things like that that.
Would it be a better place if they did, or would they just get careless, do rash things because they'd think that, in the end, they'd only be fogotten? Would we just sort of die out in a hole of insignificant-feeling self-pity? Or would we just turn the other way, and cover it up with some money?
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Sorry if I confused you, or depressed you, or made any of you roll your eyes. I just felt like I wanted to say that. Feel fry to yell.
i think that's why people are so utterly desperate to be famous, so they can be remembered for something.
These gots peanuts and soap in 'um!
It's like the ship of Theseus parodox. Us being replaced, us replacing others; which is the real Oasis? Are they the same?
Fear of obscurity used to frighten me, terrify me actually- I never thought I'd get over the sense of my own manifest destiny; I was going to do great things.
Well I'd still like to be well known in whatever circle I end up moving in; I'd like to make an impression, live in interesting times. But then that's different to hoping for immortality or getting upset that I'll disappear. I am a narcissist, but I'm learning better.
So I think everyone at some point thinks about it, but then their lives get too full up to award themselves the self indulgence of getting tangled up in consciousness.
All you're doing is just a round about way of looking at your own mortality. And since no-one really believes in their own death it's not important.
Nm... nah, I intend to be writing gaily newses into eternity. =)
Ignorance is bliss.
No, really, though, this is the kind of stuff we can't control. Why worry about it?
Be yourself. 'Cause if you're busy being somebody else, who's gonna be you?


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Don't Let Them Eat Cake: Jenny Craig Goes to Paris
Chic and svelte Mireille Guiliano, who was for many years the CEO of the US branch of Champagne Veuve Clicquot, became a household name when she wrote the runaway international bestseller, French Women Don't Get Fat (2005). In it, she credits the French traditions of eating for pleasure and savoring meals in preventing obesity in French women.
"At the outset, let's state that French women simply do not suffer the terror of kilos that afflicts so many of their American sisters. All the chatter about diets I hear at cocktail parties in America would make any French woman cringe. In France, we don't talk about "diets," certainly not with strangers.
French women take pleasure in staying thin by eating well, while Americans typically see it as a conflict and obsess over it. French women don't skip meals or substitute slimming shakes for them. They have two or three courses at lunch and then another three (sometimes four) at dinner. And with wine, bien sûr. How do they do it? Well, that's a story. That's the story. One hint: they eat with their heads, and they do not leave the table feeling stuffed or guilty.
Learning that less can be more and discovering how one can eat everything in moderation are keys. So are exertion in proportion to calories consumed and a much more plentiful intake of water."
She guides her reader to develop
"a cultivated respect for freshness and flavor that unlocks the world of sensory delights to be discovered in presentation, color, and variety. What you do you will do for pleasure, not punishment."
But perhaps things have changed. Nestlé, the Swiss based food conglomerate, has announced this week that they are about to introduce the Jenny Craig line of pre-packaged diet entrees to France, starting March 9. The UK is next on the list in Europe, and the company also plans to make inroads in Asia, including India and China.
Europe is right behind the US in obesity rates, according to a Jenny Craig executive:
"We've done lots of research on different countries' rankings of obesity, and Europe just jumped off the map," said Patti Larchet, Jenny Craig's chief executive. "It's right behind the U.S. and Australia in percentage terms. People are really searching for an answer."
In medical terms, "overweight" is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of >25, and "obese" is a BMI>30. In the US, about 1/3 of adults are obese, and another 1/3 are overweight, according to CDC data. According to the New York Times, a study published in January by Inserm, France's national health research institute, showed that 31.9 percent of people over 18 were overweight in 2009, up from 29.8 percent in 1997. This is similar to the percentage of US adults who are overweight. In addition, 14.5 percent were obese, up from 8.5 percent in 1997.
What happened? The French government has been alarmed by the growing problem for at least the past four years. Contrary to what Ms. Guiliano writes about in her book, French culture just may be getting to be more American.
Instead of the traditional image of French families spending hours sitting at the table for a leisurely, multi-course meal, a study in 2006, which filmed family meals, found that many French families ate
"in front of their television sets, while on the telephone and even alone. In fact, the average French meal, which 25 years ago lasted 88 minutes, is just 38 minutes today."
As another indicator, while McDonald's profits in the US were slightly down (-0.7%) in the US in January 2010, European profits increased by over 4%, led by France. In fact, in recent years, France has been the second most profitable market for McDonald's, after the US.
Theories of cultural change aside, it remains to be determined if the French will be willing to buy a packaged and portion controlled entree to replace their wonderful gastronomie. The Jenny Craig France website lists some sample menus, which do sound enticing, especially in French. These include such dinner entrees as "navarin d'agneau velouté tomate (velvety tomato lamb stew), thon basquaise et son blé (Basque tuna), and poulet et ses légumes en tagine (chicken and vegetable tagine)." But they still come from a box.
I am curious to see how the various planned international rollouts of Jenny Craig will be received. The combination of individual diet counseling and support and convenient, premade meals has certainly been well received in the US, and effective for thousands of satisfied customers. I imagine that, just as they are serving tagines in France, Jenny Craig will be serving stir-fries in China and curries in India. But are those countries ready for their meals coming from a box?
Unfortunately French women do get fat. Moving to a Western highly processed diet and eating-on-the-run lifestyle can turn any nation fat—we're proving that point over and over.
The opening sentence in the New York Times—"Could U.S.-style diet coaching offer a solution to the rising tide of obesity in Europe?" demands some explanation. Have they been successful? Then why are so many people still fat?
Our diet industry is very successful—at making money! I'm quite certain they'll be successful in Europe too.
Now we're exporting our fast-food and our diet plans —genius!
Leon: will it go that far?
Ayala: thanks for commenting. Yes, a brilliant business plan, isn't it? Profit by making them fat, then profit by trying to undo the damage. Scary how quickly it is escalating worldwide.
Linda, your posts are great, I love reading them!!
Bonnie: thanks for the info. Even worse than fake food, tainted fake food!
McKenzie: that was the biggest surprise to me- not that McD's was popular in France, but that France is the 2nd largest market.
Carla: welcome! I am so excited to see you here. Now I am waiting for your madeleines, and your blog.
ame i: since composting and recycling have been mandated and made very easy here in San Francisco, we've seen our amount of trash dwindle to a respectably small amount. Everyone needs the convenience of packaged foods sometime, but your weekly trash output is a good visible reminder of what percentage of your food that is. We can all do better. Thanks for commenting.
Dr. Ayala makes a great point here:
"Moving to a Western highly processed diet and eating-on-the-run lifestyle can turn any nation fat—we're proving that point over and over."
Indeed, many, many studies have shown this to be the case: when people are tracked after moving to a western nation with high obesity rates, from a nation with low obesity rates, more often than not they become obese.
In fact, western nations are becoming more and more obese as time goes on - Australia just surpassed the US as the nation with the highest rates of obesity.
Not sure Jenny Craig is the answer for any of this...weight loss is usually followed by weight regain. Probably any changes in lifestyle will surely take as long to implement and reap benefits as the adverse changes to lifestyle took to make us obese in the first place.
These campaigns continue to surprise me, when really they shouldn't, since - as Dr. Ayala points out - the diet industry is a big money maker. Local, organic, healthy eating seems such a trend at the moment but its no match for a complex food, agribusiness, and diet industry. I am reading Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food and was shocked by a note in the first few pages stating that the Sugar Lobby, lobbied the U.S. government to address WHO's recommendation on daily sugar intake - asking the government to threaten WHO funding if the levels weren't increased. Amazing. ( a bit off topic, but in the same vain as big business messing with food, diet, health, tradition.....)
Jenna: it is sad but true that the food business is just as much about the bottom line as any other big business.
For once, being a food snob is really working for me. I'm heading to Paris for vacation this year and plan to avoid as many fast-food temptations as possible. I'll cook fresh foods in my little rental kitchen and indulge in maybe one or two lush desserts while I'm there.
So...I'll report back on OS about my experiences and I'll be sure to be on the lookout for "Jenny" commercials on French TV.
My favorite:
"It's both as simple, and as complicated, as input vs ouput."
Great line - describes my research to a tee!
Patty: lack of physical activity is definitely a big part of the issue. The problem, as you point out with our driving culture, is that now people have to schedule in exercise, whereas in previous times, being active was a normal part of living.
Seafarer: thanks for the emphasis. For those who would like more clarification, BMI, or body mass index, is calculated by weight/(height) squared (weight in kilos, height in meters). To make it easier there are charts here so you don't have to calculate: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.htm
It is an imperfect measure, but the most standard one we have. Categories of BMI are as follows: Underweight30. These measures are correlated to risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, among other diseases.


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Installing the Xaw3D Libraries
After months of being stuck in my CLI (Command Line Interface) mode, I finally broke down and installed X11R6 on my Linux machine. It's nothing to write home about, really, just a 386/40 which three years ago was state of the art. Oh well. At least I have graphics and can finally see the neat pictures on the Star Trek: Voyager WWW site. It also gave me a chance to put my mouse to work after it collected months of dust.
Taking the defaults that XFree 3.1.1 gave me, I found myself inside fvwm and its Motif-like interface, wishing that other programs also had a Motif-like interface. Motif has many advantages, but the drawback is that it costs money that many of us don't have (yet). One of the features that Motif provides is a 3-D interface for buttons and other portions of a window known as widgets. These widgets are designed such that the developer of the software determines what widgets to use and how they work, and the end user is allowed to change how the widgets are displayed. This is similar to the way that X without Motif works now.
To make your screen more 3-D like, there is a drop-in replacement for the Athena Widget set called Xaw3D. The Athena Widgets define how the scroll bars on the side of the screen work. By default, the widgets make the scroll bar for a program like xedit look like what you see in Figure 1. Functional, yet somewhat bland.
The replacement 3-D libraries make xedit look more like Figure 2. You'll notice three areas where Xaw3D has made its presence known. The buttons on the top of the window, the scroll bar on the left, and the three section markers on the top right-hand area.
You can get the 3-D widgets in most of the popular Linux FTP sites, including sunsite.unc.edu as /pub/linux/libs/X/libXaw3d_X11R6.tar.gz. There are also libraries for Xfree 2.1 along with the Xaw3d sources in the same directory.
The installation is pretty straightforward, but you have to be root. There are instructions in the libXaw3d_X11R6.readme file. Tar and uncompress the libXaw3d_X11R6.tar.gz file with:
tar -zxvC / -f libXaw3d_X11R6.tar.gz
then update the shared libraries:
The -C tells tar to untar in the root directory. Since the tar file contains the directory structure to put the libs in usr/X11R5/lib, the -C / will place the file in the correct directory without having to move it all around. Note that this will replace the libXaw.so.6.0 file that already exists there, so you may want to back it up. The ldconfig will update the file links for you, so you don't need to make the common mistake of erasing the library by using the ln command incorrectly.
Once this library is installed, this will only affect dynamically linked libraries. There are other packages available in the same directories as above that provide the libraries for statically-linked programs, should you need them: Most users probably won't.
The next time you start X-Windows, you'll notice changes in the scroll bar and other widgets that normally use the Xaw set. You can also make changes to the appearance of these widgets, using the ~/.Xdefaults file to configure Xaw.
You can use the *shadowWidth resource to change how each widget displays itself, and you can see the results of your changes by merely saving the file to ~/.Xdefaults and then starting up a new program that uses scroll bars or buttons that are statically linked. Two good examples for this are xterm and xedit.
The *Label*shadowWidth resource defines the depth of the label widgets to make them appear 3-D. You can add a shadow by setting this number, for example, to 2.
One of the best ways, however, to figure out what each widget does is to borrow someone else's configuration. Michael K. Johnson was kind enough to provide me with a copy of his .Xdefaults, and I've made my own revisions, which are shown in Figure 3.
! For Xaw3d! gives everything that Motif look to it. Sort of.*background: LightSkyBlue*Form.background: grey90*TransientShell*Dialog.background: bisque3*Command.background: gray80*Menubutton.background: gray80*ScrollbarBackground: gray60*Scrollbar*background: gray70*Scrollbar*width: 16 *Scrollbar*height: 16*Scrollbar*shadowWidth: 2*Scrollbar*cursorName: top_left_arrow! You can change the above to all kinds of icons, including gumby.! Find out what icons are available by looking in! /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h - be sure to strip off the XC_*Scrollbar*pushThumb: false*ShapeStyle: Rectangle*beNiceToColormap: false*shadowWidth: 2! The above defines all shadowwidths to 2. *Label*shadowWidth: 2! The above overrides the definition from a few lines above for Label! widgets.*SmeBSB*shadowWidth: 2*highlightThickness: 0*topShadowContrast: 20*bottomShadowContrast: 40! The above two lines define how the shadows appear on the top and! bottom of the widgets. The higher the number, the lighter it is. This! particular setting makes the top and left sides darker than the! bottom and right sides. Figure 3. File .Xdefaults
Pulldown menus can have the *SmeBSB*shadowWidth resource set, which will change the display of pull-down menus.
For more help on how the resources or Athena Widgets work, look at the man pages for the various standard X applications (such as xterm or xedit).
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Solution to Antibiotic Use in Animals- H.R. 965, Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2011
As I wrote in my blog just two weeks ago there has been growing concern on the overuse of antibiotics in animals since 1977. The research points to an increasing body of evidence that overuse of antibiotics in animals is the leading cause of drug resistance bacteria. Every year 18,000 people die from the antibiotic-resistant bug MRSA, and 80 percent of all antibiotics are used on animals not humans.
A recent study showed that antibiotic-resistant bacteria can pass easily between humans and pigs. "It's like watching the birth of a superbug," said Lance Price, the study's lead author and add that to the fact that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for use in food animals mostly to make them grow faster and fatter and you see why Lance Price is concerned.
At a recent conference in Copenhagen on antimicrobial resistance, Dr. Margaret Chen, Director General for the World Health Organization was quoted as saying. "Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill." Dr. Chen's words are being bought to startling fruition as we already discovered antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella, and E. coli and tuberculosis is increasing becoming more difficult to treat and spreading across the globe.
The new FDA voluntary guidance on how antibiotics should be used to slow the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is not enough. The overuse of antibiotics will continue, because the guidance documents endorse the use of these drugs for disease prevention. Like growth promotion, this means feeding small quantities of antibiotics to food animals throughout their lives and this practice has been shown to also lead to antibiotic resistance.
The FDA and the drug industry cannot continue to delay action possibly for decades as before, but this time with deadly consequences for the human race. A possible solution would be for Congress to pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2011 H.R. 965 S. 1211. This bill was introduced by Representative Louise Slaughter and would ban the use of antibiotics critical for human health in animal feed, but allow veterinarians to take care of sick animals. Congress should seize this opportunity to ensure that antibiotics work effectively for future generations of Americans.
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Washington DC (Atlantic Free Press) - The National Lawyers Guild strongly condemns the State of Emergency imposed on the people of Pakistan and the attacks on lawyers and the judiciary. The NLG demands that President Musharraf immediately withdraw the emergency declaration of November 3, 2007, the Provisional Constitutional Order No. 1 of 2007 (PCO), which suspends Pakistan's Constitution. This declaration includes suspension of the right to life and liberty, freedom of speech, assembly and association, and equal protection of the law, all of which are guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry is being held under house arrest, and over 2500 lawyers in different parts of Pakistan including the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association and other leaders of the Bar including officials of the Democratic Lawyers Association of Pakistan, have been detained. Journalists said the government ordered that journalists who brought "ridicule or disrepute" to Musharraf could face three years in prison.
The real motivation for the PCO is not to defend the country against "Islamic extremists" but to maintain Musharraf in power. The State of Emergency was declared after the Supreme Court indicated it would overturn the results of the illegitimate election that preserved Musharraf's rule. Musharraf seeks to prevent public protests that lawyers and political parties were organizing.
The lawyers and the judiciary are resisting efforts by Musharraf to violate Pakistan's Constitution and to interfere with the judiciary. The NLG salutes the lawyers of Pakistan for their principled stand in upholding the Constitution, independence of the judiciary, and the rule of law. The NLG supports the call by the lawyers of Pakistan to refuse to practice before judges who have agreed to take oath under the PCO. The PCO has been held to be unconstitutional and illegal by a 7-judge bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court. Chief Justice Chaudhry and other judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts who have refused to take oath under the illegal PCO continue to hold office and cannot be removed.
The NLG demands the immediate release of the lawyers and others from custody and/or house arrest and withdrawal of all restrictions illegally imposed. The NLG further urges President Bush to discontinue all aid to Pakistan until the state of emergency is lifted, the Constitution is no longer suspended, and Musharraf provides assurance that the January 2008 elections will proceed as planned.
Founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color, the National Lawyers Guild is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. Its headquarters are in New York and it has chapters in every state.
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Squats and deads fix everything!!!
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Squats and deads fix everything!!!
*static stretching
Box Squat
loose briefs
352+chains x2 (x8)
6" Block Speed Pulls
352+chains x2 (x3)
352+chains x1 (x6)
Notes: Another solo session. This was all I could get done in the time I had. Getting set up and tidied up killed a lot of my time.
No joke, even the prep and set up time can be killer, like hell getting started with it, lol.
Like both accessory days bro.
Nice squats and pulls. Lifting alone works well if you are doing basic stuff, but it sucks if you have stuff you need to set up.
Good work in a short time. Setting up and breaking it down solo blooooooows.
Great speed work. Were those block pulls from a deficit?
Got in the biggest movements!! Solid solo session
Like the look of the block speed pulls, great idea it always bugs me when people say you HAVE to pull from the floor or deficit for speed........thats not logical and seems like they read Louie say it so thats the end of it.
There are no rules, some things work when they prob shouldnt.
Great way to build starting power at a funny angle IMO.
As others have said your volume is big bro!!
Nick, I see where your coming from. But I want to add so others will understand that doing speed pulls off the floor or a deficit will help with your speed off the floor, especially against bands. Doing the speed pulls off blocks will help build speed through your sticking point.
Thanks Terry. Yeah loading and unloading can be an ass kicker in itself sometimes lol...
True mate. Cheers.
Fo sho'!! Very lucky to have a good team around me. Cheer B.
Thanks mate, they were off blocks. Just mixing things up.
Cheers Hayden...
Cheers Nick! I didnt know that. I didnt think there were any rules lol. I just work on the basis of pick were I suck from and work from an inch lower. I reckon I could get 700 to my knees pretty sharpish.
That's the basis I work on Hopp. 100%.
*static stretching
sling shot
440x3 - 3b
506x1 - 2b
550x1 - 1b dumped on board
572x1 - 1b dumped on board
JM Press
pinkys on smooth
143x10 (x4)
Short Bar Tri Pressdowns
Face Pulls
Side DB Laterals
Notes: This was a scrappy night. I dumped the 550 and 572 on the board from about 1/2inch out but still managed to press them, lol. Just got to take it on the chin, learn and move on.
550 & 572 vid below. Heres how not to bench :) The 550 in particular was all over the place. Gotta love benching to ''LMFAO - Im sexy and I know it!'' Bit of an eclectic mix going on last night.
Here is a pic of the tailored shirt sleeve of my jack shirt. Its pinched a good half inch which means over an inch all round. Far too tight. I couldnt even get the left sleeve over my elbow properly. I will get it tailored again at the mid point between the original and the new lines and it should be perfect. If a get an invite (depending how I do on April 14th) for the NEC Bodypower Expo push/pull event in May, I will be using it then which would give me about 6 weeks to get it broken in and working for me.
wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle!! HAHA Great work Justin! Those last 2 inches F'n suck! Tuck in those elbows hard. I know I asked you this before, but what grip do you use? Hard to see. Weight is climbing for sure though. Sucks about the shirt too. Hopefully they can get it right for you and youll have it in time for the push/pull.
Haha benching to LMFAO, good for the motivation levels!
Strong bench work still bro, always pushing the limits man!
Cheers B, I will. Thats full comp grip. Index on rings. I dont mind so much about the shirt. I am actually enjoying the Ace at the moment and its nice to have something even more 'gangsta' ahead of me.
Thanks Hayden. Thats what its all about as you know :)
*static stretching
reverse blues
suit bottoms
straps up & wraps
warmed up to 484x1 raw and shut it down.
Notes: I have flu like symptoms and a head full of cotten wool. My sinuses felt like they were about to explode. I was quite pleased that the squatting went ok but i only warmed up with pulls before calling it a day. They just felt heavy tbh and I twanged something in my left rear delt/lat/triceps area. Ice and hope for that one lol.
Very, very nice man!!
Bench: Cant all be good days.......love the sense of humour!!
Squat: Huge!!
Moving big weights Justin.
Great job Justin, especially feeling like shit. Great speed.
That's big weight Justin.
800 under those circumstances is damn good!!!
800 squat is strong!
Thanks a lot Terry. :)
Cheers big man!
Cheers B. Knocked me a bit but on the mend now.
Cheers Nick.
Thanks a lot Brian.
Thanks Hayden.
Good to hear you are starting to feel a bit better. 800 squat is sick!


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Ultra-Orthodox & Anti-Zionist
Groups like Neturei Karta and the Satmar Hasidim bitterly oppose the modern State of Israel.
For the groups discussed below, opposition to the State of Israel is not just academic. They have publicly burned the Israeli flag and allied themselves with the Palestinian leadership and cause. Neturei Karta's website states: "We seek to live in the land of Palestine as anti-Zionist Jews. To reside as loyal and peaceful Palestinian citizens, in peace and harmony with our Muslim Brethren." The following article discusses the reasons for their anti-Zionism. Reprinted with the permission of The Continuum International Publishing Group from The Encyclopedia of Judaism, edited by Jacob Neusner, Alan Avery-Peck, and William Scott Green.
The anti-Zionist world-view of the ultra-orthodox groups Neturei Karta and Satmar Hasidism perceives Zionism and the establishment of the State of Israel as an anti-messianic act, conceived and born from sin. These groups vigorously deny the very legitimacy of the collective political return to the Holy Land and to Jewish sovereignty. For them, this is the handiwork of humans, violating the Jewish people's oath of political quietism.
In the words of the Midrash (as expounded by Rashi), the people were adjured not to return collectively to the Land of Israel by the exertion of physical force, nor to "rebel against the nations of the world," nor to "hasten the End." In short, they were required to wait for the heavenly, complete, miraculous, supernatural, and meta-historical redemption that is totally distinct from the realm of human endeavor. This waiting over two millennia manifests the very essence and singularity of the Jewish people, expressing their faith in divine providence, in the assurance of the prophets, and in messianic destiny.
In this understanding, the Jewish people have been removed from the causal laws that govern nature and history and are exclusively bound by another set of religio-ethical laws within a causal process of reward and punishment, exile and redemption: "Unless the Lord build the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman keeps vigil in vain" (Psalms 127:1).
Accordingly, any Jewish political revival that is not messianic intrinsically represents a denial of divine providence and of the hope of redemption; it is a betrayal of the destiny and uniqueness of Israel. The attempt to hasten the End, to return by physical power to the sphere of political--and certainly military--history is a collective revolt against the kingdom of heaven, an aggressive aspiration to overstep human boundaries into the realm reserved for God--just like the deeds of the generation of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1 -9). This is an act of the devil, a demonic outburst of unclean forces that may not be corrected. It is ultimately doomed to failure, regardless of human deeds: "The Lord shall rebuke you--the Satan who has chosen Jerusalem" (paraphrasing Zechariah 3:2).
In other words, these groups' fierce opposition to the state of Israel is not directed against its secular nature or its laws and mores but, rather, against its very existence, regardless of its nature. In the words of the late Satmar rebbe, Yoel Teitelbaum, "even if the members of the Knesset [Israeli parliament] were righteous and holy, it is a terrible and awful criminal iniquity to seize redemption and rule before the time has come."
According to this logic, the concepts "Torah state" or "halakhic state" [one run according to Jewish law] are oxymorons; any Jewish state prior to the messianic age--by the very nature of its human, natural, mundane provenance--undermines and denies the Torah and takes a stand against the halakhah. The faithful, therefore, are not enjoined to struggle for the refashioning of the Jewish character of the society and the state but are required to unqualifiedly isolate themselves, to separate themselves socially from the majority of the people of Israel and politically from the State of Israel. Consequently, any use of Zionist budgets and institutions is utterly forbidden, the members of these circles doing their utmost to deny themselves any benefit from them.
In this orthodox anti-Zionist view, then, the only hope for the Jewish state is its total destruction: "But [we] need mercy that this kingdom will be destroyed only by a force from above, by the Lord, may He be blessed, not by the [non-Jewish] nations; for if, God forbid, this is to be done by the nations, it will, of course, constitute a great danger for [the people of] Israel." The Zionist endeavor is destined to make way for the true, complete, miraculous salvation, for the redemption that will rise on its ruins as its total negation.
Numerically speaking, this ideology is marginal. All told the extremists number today 20,000 in Israel and several tens of thousands in the United States and in Europe. But their indirect influence--the challenge posed by their radical views--is widely felt in ultra-Orthodoxy. They project an image of consistency and unwavering faith of a kind of avant-garde whose demands disturb the bourgeois complacency of others.
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The Illinois Attorney General ended a six-month investigation of a Jo Daviess County mega-dairy last week by citing the operation with five violations.
Traditions Dairy was cited Wednesday, April 20, for discharging pollutants without a federal permit and alleged water-related violations.
The investigation centers on silage discharge Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office claims could contaminate the drinking water of the 5,000-head dairy's neighbors. The pollutants have already turned a portion of the Apple River's south fork purple, the state says.
According to the complaint, Traditions Dairy has 60 days to respond. If it fails, owners could face up to $250,000 in fines.
Traditions Dairy, near Nora, Ill., was also named in a lawsuit filed by HOMES (Helping Others Maintain Environmental Standards), and 12 other plaintiffs, three years ago. The suit is an attempt to protect family farms and the environment by curtailing the dairy's expansion.
A portion of its site has been under construction since 2008.
The dairy has USDA approval, however, is still being reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency on the state and federal levels.
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Global IT spending 2014 growth is forecast to be an "anaemic" 2.1%.
Market watcher Gartner revised its 3.2% growth prediction to 2.1% in today's quarterly report on the global IT market, blaming cloud pricing wars and commoditisation for driving down the net spend to $3.7 trillion.
Managing VP Richard Gordon told CBR that the third age of IT, where businesses embrace digitisation and the Internet of Things (IoT), is seeing firms switch their business models from technology and processes to ignoring traditional providers in favour of cheap, commoditised cloud services.
"The era of the traditional IT spending is in transition right now," he said. "We're seeing a consolidation in the industry where data centre spending is getting more concentrated on the hyper-scale segments, the big, large huge data centres of the likes of Google and Amazon.
"There's much more flexibility there and much more competition in the market. That's tending to cannibalise the traditional IT outsourcing model."
Pricing wars between Amazon, Google and Microsoft to attract cloud customers have undercut traditional providers, Gartner claimed, leading to growth of just 0.4% to $140bn in data centre systems this year.
Large outsourcers are also suffering from businesses taking a more risk-averse approach to IT projects, using a number of smaller suppliers instead of one large provider, Gordon added.
The research firm said that commodisation is also hitting external controller-based storage providers and servers, with little to differentiate such products, leading customers to look at the bottom line.
Gordon said: "The technology argument doesn't win it anymore. Clearly there's always a spec sheet to be scrutinised but if the technology is good enough, people will just buy the good enough technology.
"IT spending growth is very anaemic, particularly in the short term, much of that is because we're seeing this commodisation across the board."
Tablet devices also contributed to the revised growth estimate, with Gartner attributing 1.2% growth to $685bn to penetration in mature markets like the US reaching 50%.
As wider adoption of mobile devices comes on, Gartner expects to see people buy lower end hardware with improving specs, such as Tesco's Hudl, leading to a lower overall spend.
However, Gordon added that 2014 has signalled the start of a third era in IT, following phases focused on automation and increased productivity and then IT management.
"If you look at the future what you're seeing is this rise of digital business," he said. "The IoT is really opening up a whole new landscape in business moving away from traditional back office functions to an era where technology is embedded everywhere."
While technology will become a business driver, it may not result in increased revenues - but it could open up opportunities for additional services.
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Gartner believes market growth will improve in 2015 to 3.7%, or $3.8 trillion, with some major phone and device releases, as well as more interest in wearable technology.
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CapLease Sells Common Stock Through At-the-Market Offering
CapLease, Inc. (NYSE: LSE) announced today that it has agreed to a block sale of 5,500,000 shares of its common stock under the at-the-market offering program announced on May 25, 2012. The shares were sold for a price of $4.65 per share and aggregate gross proceeds were $25.6 million. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. serves as sales agent under the at-the-market offering program.
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Peaches: Eat Me, J. Alfred Prufrock
Some things stay with you forever, no matter how hard you might try to forget them. Sights, sounds, smells, words. You name it. You might not think about them on a daily basis, but they are filed away, ready to jump you at the strangest of times. Things like the scent of glue sticks or the melody of some Bangles song playing in the background the night your first boyfriend broke up with you. You think you've buried them, but they keep rising up and biting you on the ass like directionally-impaired zombies who hunger for your brain.
My personal undead companion of the summer has been a small chunk of lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." which I learned in high school and, evidently, never quite unlearned. I think of them every time I encounter a peach, which is often, given the season:
I grow old… I grow old…
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
When I first heard the poem as read to me by a wonderfully hammy, Scottish-brogued English instructor, I didn't take away any sense of Prufrock's failure, isolation, or tortured psyche. No, all I took away at the time was:
What's with the peach? Why can't an old guy eat a damned peach? It's a soft fruit for God's sake. He could probably gum the thing to death.
And then I went back to reading Sylvia Plath because I was so sensitive.
Well, like Mr. Prufrock, I grow old, though I doubt very much that I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, since I can usually be found in shorts. I am, however, much older than I ever thought I would be. And I happen to like that just fine. It's just that half of the men on my mother's side of the family never made it past their 30's. In a few days, barring accidents, I will have reached 40– mid-life or, if put into seasonal terms, Midsummer. Not old, but, as I see it, just about right. To borrow from another literary source, I may be, like Miss Jean Brodie minus her attraction to Fascism, in my prime.
I think it more than just coincidence then that Midsummer is when peaches are in their prime. Fully ripened, barely hanging onto the tree, easily bruised, and fuzz to be found in nearly every nook and cranny. God, I'm like a peach in more ways than I had previously imagined. No wonder that bits of a monologue-style poem I learned about an older guy briefly wondering about fruit has come to back haunt me.
And so I leave you with a simple recipe that will help keep me and my fellow peaches in good, supple form for just a little longer than the typical season allows.
Oh, and Mr. Prufrock? Go ahead, eat me. You know you want to.
Brandied Peaches (adapted from the Linton Hopkins recipe at Food & Wine)
What better way to preserve the beauty of a just-ripe peach than with the help of a little alcohol? It's like fruit botox, but vegan.
Serves: 6 to 12
6 small to medium-sized peaches. Free stones. Really, cling stones are a real pain in the ass.
1 ½ cups water
2 cups sugar
2 cups brandy
1 cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon of cardamom
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, then reduce to simmering. Cut a small "x" on the bottom of peaches with a sharp knife and gently lower them into the water. Leave the peaches in the water until their skins loosen and their screaming stops. Remove with a slotted spoon and let cool.
2. In a large saucepan, combine sugar, water, cinnamon, and cardamom over high heat, stirring occasionally to ensure that the sugar is dissolved. Simmer for about five minutes, until a lovely syrup is formed. And I do mean lovely.
3. Excorticate peaches when they are cool enough to handle. Cut in half, remove pits (or stones, if you are English or Canadian), then transfer them to a hot, 2-quart canning jar or 2 1-quart canning jars, equally hot.
4. Add brandy to the syrup and bring to a boil. Ladle the hot syrup over the peaches and close the jar(s) tightly. Let cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for at least one week before serving. The pickled peaches can be stored in your refrigerator for up to three months. As if they would really last that long.
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