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Binyamin Netanyahu, "Bibi" to both his friends and his ever-growing list of enemies, is running for a fourth term as the prime minister of Israel. He called the election, two years early, because the leaders of two of the parties in his coalition government had become too openly hostile to his policies. So he is rolling the dice again in the hope of being able to form some different coalition.
That's what he always does. His coalitions draw mainly on the centre-right and, increasingly, the far right, partly because that is where he stands personally on "security" issues and partly because Israel opinion in general has been drifting steadily to the right. But beyond that, he has no fixed policy. His primary goal is to hold his coalitions together and stay in power.
Netanyahu is hardly unique in this. Professional politicians anywhere tend to divide into two types, the "conviction politicians" and the players, with the majority usually in the latter category. He is a tremendously good player of the game, but it has a paralysing effect on Israeli politics.
Since he cannot afford to come down in favour of either a real "two-state" solution that allows for an independent Palestine or a single Israeli-ruled state that permanently controls all or most of the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel never gets to choose between the two. Until, perhaps, now.
Netanyahu's excuse for refusing to choose has usually been the lack of a valid Palestinian negotiating partner, and there is certainly some basis for that. Mahmoud Abbas, the "President" of the Palestinian Authority, has not faced an election, even within his own Fatah party, for ten years. Moreover, Abbas has no control over the 40 percent of the Palestinian population who live under Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip.
But it is more an excuse than a reason. Genuine negotiations envisaging a Israeli withdrawal from most or all of the West Bank and a real Palestinian state, even a demilitarised one, would destroy any coalition Netanyahu has ever built. Going flat-out with the extreme right-wing project for a "one-state" solution incorporating the whole West Bank but denying Palestinians the vote would do the same. Result: permanent paralysis.
Indeed, Netanyahu has even encouraged Israelis to believe that this peculiar status quo can be a lasting substitute for a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is a ridiculous proposition, but it clearly has appeal for Israelis who would like to believe that they can have security without the pain of territorial compromise.
Meanwhile, however, the outside world has been losing patience. Abbas has been pushing for a November, 2016 United Nations deadline to end the Israeli occupation unless two-state negotiations have succeeded by then. And last week the European Parliament voted to recognise Palestine statehood "in principle" as part of the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states.
The EU resolution also said that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law – as indeed they are, but it has not been normal for Israel's allies and supporters to say so explicitly. (The European Union has granted Israel trading privileges so extensive that it is practically a member economically.) The vote was 498 in favour and only 88 against, and there was a standing ovation in the chamber afterwards.
The rot is spreading rapidly. Four national Western European parliaments – Ireland, the United Kingdom, France and Spain – have recently endorsed resolutions in favour of Palestinian statehood, and Sweden has actually recognised Palestine as a state. Other European Union members are on the brink of doing so, and even Israel's final line of diplomatic defence, an American veto, is no longer guaranteed.
The United States has used its veto on the UN Security Council to shield Israel from resolutions that criticise the country forty-one times in the past forty years. Indeed, it has used its veto for no other purpose since 1988. Israelis fully expect Barack Obama to use it a 42nd time to defeat Mahmoud Abbas's appeal for a two-year deadline for an agreement on a two-state solution when it comes before the Security Council, most likely in January.
They are probably right, but Obama will be sorely tempted to let people think that he might not use the veto, and perhaps also to push the Security Council vote down towards the 17 March date of the Israeli election, in the hope of influencing Israeli voters to turn away from Netanyahu.
It's quite common for Israeli voters to push back when they feel they are under foreign pressure to make concessions, so this could actually play out to Netanyahu's advantage. A great deal can happen between now and 17 March, so one shouldn't give too much weight to current polls. But at the moment, the numbers suggest that Netanyahu's gamble on forming a new coalition may not succeed.
And that might open the way to one last attempt to make the two-state solution work.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 9 and 10. ("The EU…guaranteed")
You can see why Hamas doesn't want a cease-fire in Gaza yet. It is continuing the fight in the hope that international outrage at the huge loss of people being killed by Israel's massive firepower will somehow, eventually, force Israel to give it what it wants.
Hamas would be quite willing to give up firing its pathetic rockets – which have so far killed a grand total of three civilians in Israel – if Israel ends its seven-year blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dream on.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's goal is harder to define. Domestic political pressure to "do something" about those pesky rockets pushed him into this war, but now he must produce some kind of success in order to justify all those deaths: around 1,150 Palestinians and more than fifty Israelis already.
But what kind of success could it be? He cannot destroy all the rockets – Hamas shows no sign of running out of them – and even if he could Hamas would just manufacture more of them later unless he physically re-occupied the whole Gaza Strip. In recent days, therefore, Netanyahu has redefined the objective as destroying all the "terror tunnels" that Hamas has dug to infiltrate its fighters into nearby areas of Israel.
This makes no sense at all. In order to protect the lives of a few hypothetical Israeli soldiers who might be killed in the future by Hamas fighters using the tunnels, over forty real Israeli soldiers have already died. Besides, Israel can't stop Hamas from digging more tunnels after the shooting stops unless it can find a way to ban picks and shovels in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu needs a victory of some sort before he accepts a cease-fire, but he cannot even define what it would be. So, as he said on Monday, "We should prepare ourselves for an extended campaign." Meanwhile, the slaughter of Palestinians continues, and sympathy for Israel shrivels even in the United States.
It's not that the Israeli army particularly wants to kill civilians (although it is sometimes very sloppy), but it does prefer to fight a stand-off war with artillery and missiles in order to spare the lives of its own soldiers. In the crowded Gaza Strip, that inevitably means killing lots of civilians.
The 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living at the same population density as the residents of London or Tokyo: about 5,000 people per square kilometre. You cannot use high explosives in this environment without killing a great many innocent civilians, and Netanyahu knew that from the start, because this is Israel's third war in Gaza in six years.
So the Israelis are being brutal and stupid, and the Hamas leaders are being brutal and cynical. (Hamas doesn't really use civilians as "human shields", as Israeli claims, but its leaders know that Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli fire provide them with a kind of political capital.) But this is not to say that the two sides are equally to blame for the killing. There is a broader context.
Before 1948, only about 60,000 people lived on the land now known as the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of those who live there now are Arab refugees, or the children, grand-children and great-grandchildren of Arab refugees, who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war. They are not there by choice.
Israel has traditionally insisted that the refugees freely chose to flee, although revisionist Israeli historians have debunked that story pretty thoroughly. But which story you believe doesn't really matter. Fleeing your home in time of war does not deprive you of the right to go home when the fighting ends. Yet the Palestinians have not been allowed to go home, and Israel is adamant that they never will be.
The argument of 1948 still applies: for Israel to remain a state with a large Jewish majority, the Palestinian refugees and their descendants must remain outside it. So most of them are jammed into this narrow strip of territory on the Mediterranean coast – and latterly they have even grown poorer (unemployment is now 40 percent) because they now live under a permanent Israeli blockade.
Israel imposed the blockade after they voted for Hamas, a radical Islamist party that refuses to recognise the legitimacy of Israel, in the 2006 election. Yes, they are more radical than the Palestinians of the West Bank, most of whom are not refugees. But there is no going back, and even in the Gaza Strip most Palestinians know it.
The ancestral lands of the Palestinians in what is now Israel are lost as permanently as those of the American Indians. The "peace" everybody talks about is really just about giving them security of tenure and real self-government in the one-fifth of former Palestine that they still occupy. Unfortunately, that is not even visible on the horizon.
When Netanyahu is addressing American audiences, he gives lip-service to a "two-state solution" that includes an independent, demilitarised Palestinian mini-state, but everybody in Israel knows that he is really determined to avoid it. Israel is therefore effectively committed to penning in and controlling the Palestinians forever.
When their objections to this situation get too violent, they have to be disciplined. That is what is happening now. Just like 2009 and 2012.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 7, 12 and 13. ("It's…civilians"; and "The argument…know it")
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. Condemning Hamas's conditions for accepting a ceasefire as "exaggerated and unnecessary," he offered his condolences "to the families of the martyrs in Gaza who are fuel to those who trade in war. I oppose these traders, on both sides."
What could he mean by that? Surely he was not suggesting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel and the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist organisation that has effective control of the Gaza Strip, have a common interest in perpetuating the current bloodbath for at least a little while longer.
Yes, he was suggesting exactly that, and he was quite right. This is the third "Gaza War" since late 2008 – they come around more often than World Cups in football – and each one has followed the same pattern. Some Israelis are kidnapped and/or killed, Israel makes mass arrests of Hamas cadres in the West Bank and launches air and missile strikes on the Gaza Strip, Hamas lets the missiles fly, and away we go again.
A few wrinkles are different this time. The kidnapping and murder of three young Israeli hitch-hikers in the West Bank, probably by Palestinians who had links with Hamas (although it denies responsibility), was followed by the torture and murder of a young Palestinian, probably by Israeli vigilantes.
The ceasefire signed after the last round in 2012 was already being violated by both sides for some months before the real shooting started a week ago. And, most importantly, Hamas had achieved a political reconciliation of sorts with Mahmoud Abbas's rival organisation that rules the West Bank as the Palestinian Authority. But although every turn of the wheel is a little bit different, the pattern remains the same.
So why would Prime Minister Netanyahu be willing to launch Israel's third war against the Gaza Strip in eight years? Because the nature of his political alliances with other parties on the Israeli right, and especially with the settler lobby, means that he could not make a peace deal that the Palestinians would accept even if he wanted to (which he probably doesn't).
That's why he was instrumental in sabotaging the Oslo Accords, the theoretical basis for a peaceful "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during his first term as prime minister in 1996-99. Back in power in the past five years, his primary excuse for not moving on negotiations has been that Mahmoud Abbas could not deliver peace because he controlled only the West Bank, while the intransigent Hamas ruled the Gaza Strip.
Then Abbas stitched together a compromise that brought Hamas back into a unity government three months ago, and Netanyahu claimed that he could not be expected to negotiate with a government that included the "terrorists" of Hamas. So is he now trying to destroy Hamas so that Abbas can rule unhindered over all the Palestinian territories and become a suitable partner for peace? Of course not.
Netanyahu knows, on the evidence of the previous two wars, that Hamas can be battered into temporary quiescence but not destroyed. He also probably realises that if he did manage to destroy Hamas, its place would be taken by a less corrupt and much more extreme Islamist outfit that might really hurt Israel. He is just doing this, with no expectation of victory, because Israeli public opinion demands it.
Hamas's motive for wanting a little war are more obvious and urgent: it has lost almost all its sources of funding. Iran stopped funding its budget to the tune of $20 million per month when Hamas sided with the Sunni rebels in the Syrian civil war.
Egypt stopped helping it after last year's military coup against Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government, and closed the tunnels under the border through which the Gaza Strip received most of its imported goods. Those imports were Hamas's main source of tax revenue. Hamas is broke, and if it stays broke its control over the Strip will weaken.
Whereas a war with Israel will rally the local Palestinians to its support, and if enough of them are killed Egypt and the Gulf states may feel compelled to give Hamas financial aid. So the only real question is how many dead Palestinians will satisfy both Netanyahu's need to look tough and Hamas's need to rebuild popular support at home and get financial help from abroad.
On past performance, the magic number is between a hundred and a thousand dead: around 1,200 Palestinians were killed in the 2008-9 war, and 174 in 2012. After that – assuming that only a handful of Israelis have been killed, which is guaranteed by the fact that Israeli air and missiles strikes are a hundred times more efficient at killing than Hamas's pathetic rockets – a ceasefire becomes possible.
We have already crossed the lower threshold of that range of Palestinian deaths in the current mini-war, so a ceasefire is theoretically possible now, but both sides will probably press on for at least another few days. Then the ceasefire will be agreed, and both sides will start thinking about the next round, only a few years from now. But the dead will stay dead.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 4, 5 and 8. ("A few…same"; and "Then…not")
5 December 2012
Dead, Dead, Dead: The Middle East "Peace Process"
By Gwynne Dyer
It's as if the world's leaders were earnestly warning us that global warming will cause the extinction of the dinosaurs. They've actually been dead for a long time already. So has the Middle East "peace process".
As soon as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that Israel will build 3,000 homes on "East One" (E-1), the last piece of land connecting East Jerusalem with the West Bank that is not already covered with Jewish settlements, the ritual condemnations started to flow. Even US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that "these activities set back the cause of a negotiated peace," and others went a lot further.
The British minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, warned that "the settlements plan…has the potential to alter the situation on the ground on a scale that threatens the viability of a two-state solution." France called in the Israeli ambassador and told him that "settlements are illegal under international law…and constitute an obstacle to a fair peace based on a two-state solution."
Even the Australian government summoned the Israeli ambassador and told him that Israeli plans to build on the land in question "threaten the viability of a two-state solution." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the plan would be "an almost fatal blow" to the two-state solution, as if it were still alive. And Netanyahu, secure in the knowledge that they wouldn't actually do anything, just stone-walled and smiled.
In almost all the media coverage, the Israeli announcement is explained as an angry response for the United Nations General Assembly's vote last month to grant the Palestinian Authority permanent observer status at the UN, which is tantamount to recognising Palestine as an independent state. As if Netanyahu were an impulsive man who had just lost his temper, not a wily strategist who thinks long-term.
Building in the "E-1" area, which covers most of the space between the Jewish settlements that ring East Jerusalem and the huge Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the Palestinian West Bank, is definitely a game-changer. It effectively separates the West Bank from East Jerusalem, the city that the Palestinians see as the capital of their future state. It also almost cuts the West Bank in two. But it's not a new idea.
The Israeli government declared its intention to build on this land fourteen years ago, when Netanyahu was prime minister for the first time. The plan was frozen in response to outraged protests from practically all of Israel's allies, who had invested a great deal of political capital in the two-state solution. But it was never abandoned.
Successive US Presidents were assured by various Israeli governments that construction would not proceed there, but most of those governments went on preparing for the day when a pretext to break the freeze would present itself. The land is still deserted today, but there are street lights, electric cables and water mains.
Now a pretext has arisen, even if the UN General Assembly's recognition of a Palestinian state makes little practical difference. Netanyahu has seized the opportunity, as he undoubtedly always planned to. And you can't kill the "two-state solution." To Netanyahu's considerable satisfaction, it is already dead.
Creating two independent states, Israeli and Palestinian, separated by the "green line" that was Israel's border until it conquered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, was the goal of the 1993 Oslo Accords. That's what the "peace process" was all about, but it was really doomed when Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister signed the Oslo deal, was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish fanatic in 1995.
Netanyahu was elected prime minister after Rabin's death, and spent the next three years stalling on the transfers of land and political authority to the Palestinian Authority that were required under the Oslo Accords. Meanwhile, he supported a vastly expanded programme of Jewish settlement in the West Bank, although it was obvious that this would ultimately make a Palestinian state impossible.
After a two-year interval when the Labour Party under Ehud Barak formed a government and seriously pursued a final peace settlement with the Palestinians, the Israeli right recovered power in 2001 and has relentlessly pursued project of settling Jews on Palestinian territory ever since.
The number of Jews living in the West Bank has doubled in the past twelve years, and they now account for one-fifth of the population there. Jewish settlements, roads reserved for Jewish settlers, and Israeli military bases and reservations now cover 40 percent of the West Bank's territory. But to retain US support, Netanyahu still has to pretend that he is really interested in a two-state solution.
That's why he had to wait for the right excuse before building on "E-1" and sealing East Jerusalem off from the West Bank. But he always intended to kill off the "peace process," and in practice he succeeded long ago.
Why do his Western allies in the United States and elsewhere put up with this fraud? Because they cannot think of anything else to do.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 4, 7 and 12. ("Even…smiled"; "Successive…mains"; and "After…since")


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Have you checked it out with your OB? You probably should. I had my tubal done over 3 years ago after having a surprise baby girl (number 2 baby). I was so determined not to have any surprises anymore, so i did the tubal. I was told my tubes were cut and burned. My usual period is 26 days give and take but this month, i am already on day 32. Very strange. I breastfed my second baby for a long long time. And even so, my period came back in 4 months and the longest time was 35 days. I am 45 this year and really have no energy to take another baby. So, i hope this is a false alarm. Hated to try a test. Hope my period just comes back naturally. Wonder also if i am starting to go through menopause. People say periods get irregular during that time.
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I had my tubes tied 2 1/2 years ago and I have NEVER had a regural period since.... But you should call your Dr. right away.. Good luck!
Yes, i should call my dr but the only reservation is that i knew he will ask me to do a self test before anything else. And that would be a bumper. What i want to here is what the chances are and what could have been done wrong with that small chance. I used to have very unstable and long cycles before both pregnancies in 2002. Anyways, thanks for your reply Jodi.
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Hello, my name is bethany and i am almost two weeks late with no signs of starting and i had my tubes tied during my c-section with my third in March. I am showing all the symptoms of pregnancy. Sick to my stomach, wanting to sleep all the time, food aversions, tender breasts, and or course no period as stated above. Is it possible so soon after having them tied? How long should i wait before i see a docter?! I can't seem to find a answer anywhere i look and it feels like it did with all three of my other children, can someone please help!! I am really scared!


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PARIS — 'Tis the season to be jolly for Europe's beauty retailers.
"We expect to end the year on a very positive note, with double-digit growth again on last year," said Catherine Bossom, buyer for perfumery and cosmetics at the U.K.'s Harrods department store, echoing many of the 14 beauty retailers representing 1,757 doors in France, the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Germany who were polled by WWD in the run-up to the holidays.
Executives who disclosed sales estimates said they expect to close 2007 with high-single- to low-double-digit gains despite transit strikes, storms and price reductions that have plagued European countries.
The current reports are all the cheerier, considering that these numbers are bucking a tough comparison with last year's holiday, when there was a moderate uptick from a decidedly soft Christmas 2005.
As in years past, fragrance rules the season. Among the scents launched in Europe this fall, retailers said standout performers include designer fragrances for women such as Emporio Armani Diamonds, Parfums Christian Dior's Midnight Poison, Gucci by Gucci, Prada's Infusion d'Iris, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, Hermès' Kelly Caleche, Paul Smith Rose, Yves Saint Laurent Parfums' Elle and Paco Rabanne's Black XS for Her.
Among the newbies for guys are Tom Ford for Men, Jil Sander Men, Narciso Rodriguez for Him and R.S.V.P. by Kenneth Cole. Other notables include the masterbrand Diesel Fuel for Life; niche scents, including Tom Ford's Private Blend, plus Christina Aguilera's celebrity fragrance, retailers said.
Of course, classics still take the gold. But there was a notable uptick in skin care sales this season, while business from pre-packaged gift sets — a perennial favorite — were down at some retailers, surprisingly.
"We can always be sure that the classics, such as Chanel No.5, will see an increase in sales in the last few months of the year," said Jeremy Seigal, managing director of The Perfume Shop, with 162 doors in the U.K. and Ireland.
Chanel No.5 topped the charts in Germany's Wir für Sie cooperative of 340 private perfumeries in September, October and November. It also came in first at Boots the Chemists in the last week of November, closely followed by the brand's Coco Mademoiselle scent.
"Chanel continues to go from strength to strength," said Jamie Kerruish, fragrance category manager at Boots, representing 400 large-format stores. "Coco Mademoiselle [has seen] the most dramatic growth helped by the fabulous TV ad with Keira Knightley."
"She epitomizes Coco Mademoiselle," added Debbie Beaumont-Howell, beauty buyer for the U.K.'s 61-door House of Fraser department store. She said at one point recently, the scent (introduced in 2001 as a flanker to the Coco fragrance) generated even more business than the perennial top seller Chanel No.5.
Also from Chanel, Allure was going strong at KaDeWe in Berlin, as were Parfums Givenchy's L'Interdit and Kenzo Flower.
Numerous Guerlain scents were swiftly moving off shelves at Paris' Le Bon Marché department store.
Among best-selling classics at Douglas Perfumeries, with 441 doors in Germany, were Dior's J'adore, Lancôme's Trésor and Giorgio Armani's Emporio Femme, plus Hugo Boss' Boss Bottled, Jean Paul Gaultier's Le Male and Davidoff's Cool Water for men, a spokeswoman said.
Cool Water took the top spot at Wir für Sie this fall, too. Le Male was a bestseller at KaDeWe and House of Fraser, where L'Eau d'Issey, Prada Pour Homme and Armani Code are ringing up strong sales. The latter eaux were generating good business at Boots, as well.
Printemps department store counts Terre d'Hermès and Dior Homme among its top-selling classic men's scents.
In this fall's fragrance crop, Emporio Armani Diamonds placed in the top five bestsellers recently launched scents at Boots in the last week of November, said Kerruish. It was also in the top 10 in Germany's Wir für Sie this fall.
"Emporio Armani Diamonds has been a really strong seller for us," said The Perfume Shop's Seigal. "[It has] a fantastic juice, which is supported by a high-profile advertising campaign. The fact that Beyoncé is the face of the fragrance, that the song [in the ad is "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"] is right, the name is right, the bottle is right and the price is right, means that it is one of our strongest offerings."
Innovative marketing also bolstered the launch of designer Marc Jacobs' scent, Daisy, according to buyers.
"Daisy has done incredibly well," said Daniela Rinaldi, head of perfumery and concessions at Harvey Nichols, with six department stores in the U.K. and Ireland. She noted the scratch-and-sniff Daisy display on windows at the department store's London flagship piqued consumer interest at launch. The floral theme is continued in the scent's packaging, featuring three plastic daisies attached to the flacon's gold-colored cap.
"The bottle and the juice are beautiful," said Rinaldi. "The concept is incredibly well executed."
House of Fraser's Beaumont-Howell agreed. "We knew it was going to be good, but we didn't know how good," she said. "It has been phenomenal, from Day One, for us."
Another flower scent reaping accolades is Paul Smith Rose, which Nicola Tompkins, buying manager for fragrance, skin care and salons at U.K. department store Selfridges (representing four doors), said had "a great launch." She noted point-of-sale materials, including gazebos decorated with roses, created buzz.
"It's very striking, very Paul Smith," said Tompkins. "There's a good synergy there with the Paul Smith fashion business."
Midnight Poison got accolades at stores including Italy's Coin. "There's a strong ad campaign, and fans of Poison were ready to make that step to a different version," said Paolo Valerio, category manager of beauty and well-being for Coin, which has 39 stores.
In October in Sephora France's 220 stores, Midnight Poison came in sixth — one place after YSL's Elle and two spots before Black XS for Her, which ranked eighth. However, none of those fragrances made it to the top 10 at the perfumery in November.
Meanwhile, Gucci by Gucci was notching up good sales at Coin because of the involvement of the brand's beauty license holder, Procter & Gamble, in the launch process, said Valerio. It was also at Printemps' 17 doors, where the fragrance was introduced exclusively in France.
"In-store events helped its success, including window displays, a good fragrance and luxurious packing," said Fabien Petitcolin, Printemps' beauty buyer.
In Germany's KaDeWe, beauty buyer and divisional manager Renate Engelmann said Shiseido's Zen women's scent has been "really excellent." Moreover, some other recent bestsellers — including Infusion d'Iris, Gucci by Gucci and Private Collection — were also featured in a catalogue celebrating KaDeWe's 100th anniversary, which boosted demand.
Although significantly different in scope and environment, the bestsellers in KaDeWe's upscale beauty department largely echoed that of the much smaller, independently run doors of Wir für Sie, where Zen, Infusion d'Iris, Diesel Fuel for Life and Gucci by Gucci also made it in the top-10 ranking this fall.
According to Coin's Valerio, Infusion d'Iris was ringing up strong sales at the store. "It has sold very well because it's a coherent project that clients have really connected with. Also, it's a modern classic juice, a little bit different from other new scents around."
Diesel Fuel for Life started up very well at House of Fraser. At Boots, it places in the retailer's top-five fragrances, including both existing and recent recently launched eaux.
"Diesel is an established brand, which is well thought of in the U.K. and appeals to a young fashion-conscious audience," said Seigal. "Fuel for Life has been popular for both men and women because it is so innovative; the fragrance is new and different, and the advertising campaign has been high-impact and wide-reaching."
L'Oréal, which holds the Italian denim brand's beauty license, created six TV spots for the masterbrand, each featuring different models, plus eight print ads — four for each of the scents.
"It's very cleverly advertised," said Rinaldi.
"Diesel has been very spectacular," continued Isabelle Pecenic, divisional merchandise beauty manager at France's Galeries Lafayette, representing 64 doors.
At Sephora France, the Diesel men's iteration came in second among fragrances destined for males in October and fourth in November. At House of Fraser, it was the most successful men's launch so far of 2007.
Other masterbrands making waves at Boots include Hugo Boss' Hugo XX and Hugo XY.
Tom Ford for Men was a front-runner at KaDeWe and Selfridges & Co.
The scent was a standout, according to Selfridges' Tompkins. "It's a really good fragrance."
At Harvey Nichols and KaDeWe, Dsquared's He Wood is also working well.
Wir für Sie's top-10 list this fall for men included the Diesel Fuel for Life and Jil Sander Men fragrances.
High-end niche scents are strong performers across the board, including at Selfridges and Harvey Nichols, where Tom Ford's Private Blend made a particularly strong debut.
"Tom Ford has been amazing for us," said Selfridges' Tompkins, adding a number of scents from the 12-unit collection, including Tuscan Leather and Oud Wood, have sold out. Oud Wood is also out of stock at Harvey Nichols, where Private Blend and Daisy are "two of the most successful launches we've ever had," said Rinaldi.
She added Infusion d'Iris and Agent Provocateur's Maitresse are also performing well. In fact, niche scents are such hot products that she introduced a shop-in-shop for French brand Memo and is looking into bowing Etat Libre d'Orange and By Kilian fragrances.
Memo has also been successful at Le Bon Marché, as have Jo Malone and Miller Harries, among other niche names.
At House of Fraser, Tom Ford's Black Orchid and fragrances by brands such as Roja Dove and Clive Christian have been great sellers, according to Beaumont-Howell.
On the celebrity front, Aguilera's eponymous scent has topped celebrity fragrance charts at the U.K.'s The Perfume Shop since its launch there in September.
"Christina Aguilera's fragrance has been one of our bestsellers at The Perfume Shop, consistently in the top five fragrances and our top celebrity scent," said Seigal, adding the fragrance appeals to both young and older consumers.
"We're surprised that Christina Aguilera has gone so well," said Boots' Kerruish. "Customers just love it."
Scents by Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and Sean John are also ranked in Boots' celebrity scent top-five listing during the last week in November.
This holiday season, treatment and color cosmetics items will increasingly be cropping up as gifts.
"Lots of brands have been offering coffrets with skin care and with color," said Rinaldi.
Indeed, many retailers say treatment is a big seller in the run-up to the holidays this year. At Coin, for instance, the category has doubled its sales this period over last — outpacing even fragrance.
"Customers are choosing to buy expensive creams as gifts instead of perfume," said Valerio.
"We have seen skin care grow with double-digit increases this season, and the luxury end of the category is certainly boosting this area," said Harrods' Bossom.
Over at Printemps, skin care sales gained about 10 percent versus the prior holiday period, according to Petitcolin, who added growth drivers are natural and organic brands.
La Mer's cream, serum and eye concentrate are bought as gifts during the holiday season at Paris' Bon Marché department store, said Marie-Francoise Stouls, director of its beauty department.
Meantime, at Galeries Lafayette, makeup is increasingly becoming a must-have holiday gift. Pecenic cited Poudre Marveilleuse, a holiday-edition Chanel powder compact, and blue nail polish from the Dior Addict collection as standout items.
When it comes to prepackaged gift sets of beauty items, some retailers note a decline in sales.
"Maybe it's because customers have preferred our own personalized coffrets, where they can choose to buy any selection of products," said Coin's Valerio. "That's really worked well for us in the lead-up to Christmas."
"We have also noticed a decline in sales of coffrets and sets, although individual fragrance sales are up, which shows an interesting trend that we may bear in mind for next year," said Bossom.
— With contributions from Brid Costello, Melissa Drier, Stephanie Epiro and Ellen Groves


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Summer Bird Breezes at Monmouth for Haskell
Summer Bird, winner of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) in his last effort, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 4/5 the morning of July 12 at Monmouth Park. The son of Birdstone is being pointed toward the Jersey shore track's signature event, the Aug. 2 Haskell Invitational Stakes (gr. I).
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The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with free agent right-hander Brett Myers on a one-year contract. Myers, who pitched for Houston and the Chicago White Sox last season, will get a chance to win a spot in Cleveland's starting rotation. His deal with the Indians includes a club option for 2014. It will not be finalized until he passes a physical. Myers went 3-4 with a 3.14 ERA in 35 relief appearances with the White Sox, who acquired him in a July trade with the Astros. The 32-year-old was 0-4 last season with a 3.52 ERA in 35 games for Houston. Myers has a 97-93 career record with a 4.20 ERA in 249 starts. He spent eight seasons with Philadelphia before signing as a free agent with Houston in 2010.
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If pharmaceutical companies have their way, severe PMS will be adopted into the new Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders as a mood disorder. They call it Premenstrual Dsyphoric Disorder, or PMDD for short.
PMDD has been listed as a proposed diagnosis in the appendix of the DSM since 1987, but it's never been officially recognized. The symptoms read like a mix of clinical depression and run of the mill PMS:
The current criteria being proposed for PMDD includes mood swings, marked irritability or anger or increased interpersonal conflicts, feelings of hopelessness, marked anxiety and decreased interest in usual activities. Also: a subjective sense of difficulty in concentration, lethargy, a marked change in appetite, insomnia, a subjective sense of being overwhelmed and other physical symptoms such as breast tenderness or swelling, joint or muscle pain, a sensation of "bloating," weight gain.
To be diagnosed with PMDD, a woman must have experienced five of the symptoms in the past year, including physical effects. This doesn't sit right with everyone – Dr. Paula J. Caplan of Harvard University told Salon, "PMDD is an invented 'mental illness.'" Caplan believes that women suffering from PMDD probably have another mood disorder – depression or anxiety – or they're experiencing external sources of distress in their lives such as failing relationships or a history of abuse.
The FDA has approved Zoloft, Paxil and Sarafem (a rebranded version of Prozac) to treat PMDD, despite the fact that it's not recognized as an official illness by the American Psychiatric Association. These antidepressants do actually seem to work in relieving symptoms – but the drugs can have serious side effects and usually aren't recommended as the first, or only, course of treatment in cases of other mood disorders. No research has really been done on alternative treatments for PMDD, such as psychotherapy or hormones – so nobody knows if throwing antidepressants at women with severe PMS is the best solution to the problem.
On the other hand, there are women out there who seem to have legitimate medical problems which are alleviated by antidepressants. As one woman suffering from PMDD told Salon's Natasha Vargas-Cooper:
"One of the things I find frustrating about modern feminist critique," Elise says, "is that I'm expected to be tough no matter what my body deals me, otherwise I'm giving in to patriarchy. What if sometimes, I'm in pain and I can't do it on my own. What has to happen to make that acceptable?"
And maybe, for the sake of women like Elise, being able to have an official diagnosis is more important than a debate about the distinction between "regular" PMS and PMDD.
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"Since PMDD ('premenstrual dysphoric disorder') first was mentioned in the DSM, people have received the mistaken impression that it's real and that it's a mental illness".
Dr. Paula Caplan, Psychologist
"When the Prozac patent came up (about to end) they (Eli-Lilly drug company) realized they needed something new to keep the money rolling in, and they came up with a new 'disorder', they just made it out of thin air---the 'Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder', PMDD, and the new wonder drug which is Sarafem, which if you look at Sarafem on the back of the label it just says 'this is Prozac'. And they were able to keep that patent so nobody else could make it, so they could keep that money rolling in" Dr. Toby Watson, Clinical Psychologist
"It should not be surprising, then, that the psychiatric field is riddled with diagnoses that are used to demean and pathologize women"
Dr. Paula Caplan, Psychologist
"The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in danger of losing the little credibility it still enjoys. The organization is chasing medical insurance company reimbursement money by empowering working groups to invent whole new diagnoses by committee."
Dr. Keith Ablow, Psychiatrist
Hmmm....unfortunetly I suffer from most of these symptoms but am reluctant to pathologicalise!
@Kendra R . . .THANK YOU! I could not have said it better myself.
We need more medical help
It's such a subjective issue, that I'm afraid I can't judge about it since I'm lucky not to experience any of the described symptoms. But neither do I know anyone who would call it a mental disorder. Usually it's more about physical pain, as far as I know.
I had terrible pain when I was young too. I had to stay in bed in a fetal position, it was horrible.
It didn't affect my mood or anything like that, it just disabled me with pain. Men never experience this so they have no idea how incapacitating this can be and they aren't empathetic whatsoever. These Bishops are only interested in forcing women to breed and pump out babies so they are trying to use that old, tired "hysterical" PMS crap on us.
It's actually true that some women have such debilitating cycles! I've suffered immensely for years and I'm only 22! I also have endometriosis though as well as suffered from a stomach issue. Mental disorder? WTF? No! Debilitating menstrual issues (whatever you wanna name it) is very real to some of us and quite frankly, I was disgusted and disappointed to read that other WOMEN here wuold be so ignorant and insensitive. Maybe it's just "life" to you, but YOU are not the one suffering like hell every month are you now? Not being able to actually get out of bed due to PAIN, real life pain, is a problem. A person who has a "suck it up" attitude about this, knows nothing about having the actual pain and problems. It's uncontrollable. You don't wake up sick from your menstrual cycles. THere's very little that can be done about these things, the pain. Depo is about as relieving as it gets and I'm a nice example of how bad those side effects alone are! YOU try dealing with something truly awful before you run off with insensitive, nasty remarks. It only makes you look terrible.
Sounds to me those could be the symptoms of living in this world. I would love to see things implemented that would make it all go away but I doubt we will ever live to see that.
"Marked irritability or anger or increased interpersonal conflicts, feelings of hopelessness, marked anxiety and decreased interest in usual activities. Also: a subjective sense of difficulty in concentration, lethargy, a marked change in appetite, insomnia, a subjective sense of being overwhelmed."
That sounds to me like: being required to work 50-60-70 hour weeks ( for no extra pay) by bosses who remind you that there are 30 people who would be happy to have your job, and watching the Repiglicans chipping away at your rights until you are rated as slightly less valuable than a good breeding cow.
Mood disorder? PMS is NOTHING! What is the GOP Republicans suffering from, BAT @^#
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Thanks. She looks very happy :-).
I vote for no :) Thank you care2 :)
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Evelyn M. Cornelius
October 24, 1925 - October 3, 2011
Walla Walla resident, Evelyn M. Cornelius, 85, passed away
peacefully in her sleep on October 3, 2011, at her home.
Evelyn was born October 24, 1925, in Wild Rose, North Dakota, to Lewis and Bertha Wells Mortenson. She attended
country schools in South Dakota. On October 21, 1944, she and Orville E. Cornelius married in Roslyn, South Dakota.
They were married 62 years when he passed away March 11, 2006.
She enjoyed her role as a homemaker and camping and yearly
trips to South Dakota. She especially enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.
Her favorite saying was "uff-da." She also enjoyed canning. When her husband was living, they enjoyed
going to and dancing at the Elks Lodge. She was a member of
the V.F.W. Grant Farmer Post #992 of Walla Walla.
Evelyn is survived by two daughters: Linda and son-in-law Mike Thompson, and Lois Volker all of Walla Walla; her sister,
Luella Tople of Pierre, South Dakota; two brothers: Marvin Mortenson of Austin, Minnesota and Selmer Mortenson of
Little Eagle, South Dakota; eight grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. In
addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sons: Elroy and Marlin; her brother, Leroy Mortenson, and
great-grandson, Landen Thompson.
A celebration of her life will be 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 11, 2011, at Mountain View-Colonial DeWitt,
1551 Dalles Military Road, Walla Walla, Washington. The graveside service will follow at Blue Mountain Memorial
Gardens, Myra Road, College Place. Reverend Mike Hinrichsen will officiate. Following the graveside service,
there will be a reception at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Walla Walla
Community Hospice through the funeral home.
Friends may write memories and sign the online guestbook at mountainview-colonialdewitt.com
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A close relative of mine is in security at one of the Center Parcs. Celebrities (particularl Z list) get free holidays a lot so that they'll promote CP in their inane columns and reality shows. A couple of years ago Pedah (pinching Reality Rocks spelling there) and his brother plus the two kids and Harvey took advantage of the freebie. He said that Pedah was actually alright and that Harvey is such a high level of disability that it took most of his time looking after him. However, the fat brother was another matter....he was clocked in his cabin with all the lights on and the curtains wide open having a J Arthur whilst watching a rather fruity DVD...my relative said he was a Merchant Banker in every other respect as well.
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9:30 a.m. ET: The Red Sox are set to introduce a new manager for the second time in as many years on Tuesday. And while the 2011 hire of Bobby Valentine came with plenty of uncertainty, the Red Sox certainly think they know what they're getting this time around. The Sox will (re)introduce John Farrell on Tuesday afternoon, this time as the new manager of the ball club. It's a return to the organization for Farrell, who served as Terry Francona's pitching coach from 2007-10 before taking the Toronto Blue Jays managerial job prior to the 2011 season. Farrell will be introduced to fans and the media at 12 p.m. ET from Fenway Park. NESN.com will have you covered with this live blog. You can have your thoughts heard, too, by using the #FarrellNESN hashtag. The best tweets will be shown on a special telecast of NESN Daily on Tuesday night at 6 p.m. and then again at 10 p.m.
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Slow day in baseball today, with just five games on the schedule, three of those taking place during the day.
START ANOTHER STREAK: The Twins lost their first game in more than a week on Wednesday, falling to the defending World Series champs. Things don't get much easier for Minnesota, facing Tim Lincecum on Thursday. Twins starter Brian Duensing is having a June himself, going 2-1 with a 2.81 ERA this month. The lefty is 1-1 with a 3.98 ERA in 10 interleague starts of his career. The Twins have won 15 of their last 18 games and seven of their last nine on the road. Twins at Giants, 3:45 p.m. ET (Follow live)
ROAD WARRIORS: Your first-place Diamondbacks (yes, you read that right) are more than happy to be on the road and in interleague play. After starting the season 5-13 on the road, the Diamondbacks have won 14 of their last 18 in the road grays. The team is also 6-2 in interleague play so far this season and have Daniel Hudson (8-5, 3.56 ERA) on the mound against a winless Felipe Paulino (0-4, 4.10) in Kansas City as the Diamondbacks seek a sweep over the Royals. Diamondbacks at Royals, 8:10 p.m. ET (Follow live)
STRUGGLING STARTERS: A Roy Oswalt-Chris Carpenter showdown should be a premier pitching matchup. Instead, the two have combined for just one win in their last 15 starts. Oswalt picked up his fourth victory of the season on June 12, snapping a seven-start winless streak, only to start another winless streak in his last outing, last Friday at Seattle. Carpenter's lone victory of the season came more than a month ago on May 10. Like Oswalt, it came against the Cubs, so maybe neither really count. Phillies at Cardinals, 8:15 p.m. ET (Follow live)For more baseball news, rumors and analysis, follow @cbssportsmlb on Twitter or subscribe to the RSS feed.


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2013 North Korean nuclear test
|2013 North Korean nuclear test
|North Korea
|Test site
|41°18′N 129°05′E / 41.30°N 129.08°ECoordinates: 41°18′N 129°05′E / 41.30°N 129.08°E,[1] Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, Kilju County
|02:57:51, 12 February 2013[1]UTC
|Number of tests
|Test type
|Device type
|Max. yield
|6–9 kilotons of TNT (25–38 TJ)[2] (South Korean estimation) or 8.4–16 kilotons of TNT (35–67 TJ) (Chinese estimation)
|Previous test
|2009 test
On 12 February 2013, North Korean state media announced it had conducted an underground nuclear test, its third in seven years. A tremor that exhibited a nuclear bomb signature with an initial magnitude 4.9 (later revised to 5.1) was detected by the China Earthquake Networks Center,[3] Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission[4] and the United States Geological Survey.[1] In response, Japan summoned an emergency United Nations meeting for 12 February and South Korea raised its military alert status. It is not known whether the explosion was nuclear or a conventional explosion designed to mimic a nuclear blast;[5] as of two days after the blast, Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean investigators had failed to detect any radiation.[6]
On 12 February 2013, a spokesman for North Korea's army command said it had successfully conducted a third underground nuclear weapons test, according to the Yonhap.[7][8] North Korea also said the test had used a miniaturized nuclear device with greater explosive power.[9]
Before North Korea announced they had conducted the test, seismic activity had already been detected in North Korea by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the seismic network operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission, near the site of previous nuclear tests at Mantapsan in Kilju County. A large tremor, first estimated at magnitude of 4.9, was detected in North Korea, and governments in the region were trying to determine whether it was a third nuclear test. The USGS upgraded the magnitude of the possibly nuclear tremor from 4.9 to 5.1, located 24 kilometres (15 mi) east-northeast of Sungjibaegam, North Korea.[10] The tremor occurred at 11:57am KST (2:57am UTC), and the USGS said the hypocenter of the event was only one kilometer deep. Later, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences did not register any seismic events and underground tremors at 16:00 local time on 12 February 2013, in the Russian Far East.[11][clarification needed] The China Earthquake Networks Center (Abbreviation: CENC; Chinese: 中国地震台网中心) also reported this event, putting the magnitude at Ms 4.9.[3] The tremor caused by the test could be felt by residents of the neighboring city of Hunchun and Antu, in Yanbian, Jilin Province, China.[12] A citizen of Hyesan, Ryanggang Province of North Korea, 80 km (50 mi) west from the nuclear test site, reported that many 5- and 7-floor buildings shook very severely, and this caused cracking.[13] The explosion was registered by 94 seismic stations and two infrasound stations in the CTBTO's global monitoring system.[14] The CTBTO radionuclide network later made a significant detection of radioactive noble gases that could be attributed to the nuclear test.[15][16]
Yield estimates[edit]
South Korea's defense ministry said the event reading indicated a blast of 6–7 kilotons,[10][17][18][19] later revised to 6–9 kilotons using the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization's calculation method.[20] The Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources estimated the yield as 7.7–7.8 kilotons.[2]
Some experts estimate the yield to be up to 15 kilotons, since the test site's geology is not well understood.[21] The Russian Defence Ministry said the power of North Korea's nuclear test blast surpassed 7 kilotons, while the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences put the yield at 5.4 kilotons.[22][11][23] NORSAR compared the seismic data from all three North Korean nuclear tests and estimated the yield of the 2013 test as approximately 10 kilotons.[24] However, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, a state-run geology research institute in Germany, estimated the yield at 40 kilotons.[20][25]
On 19 June 2013, the University of Science and Technology of China had released a report that claimed that they had found the precise location of the test at latitude 41°17′26.88″, longitude 129°4′34.68″ with an error margin of mere 94 meters and the yield at around 12.2 kt, with a margin of error of 3.8 kt.[26]
In comparison, the fission nuclear bombs dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima (Little Boy, a "gun-type" nuclear bomb) and on Nagasaki by Bockscar (Fat Man, an "implosion-type" nuclear bomb) had blast yield equivalence of 16 and 21 kilotons respectively.[20]
Further tests[edit]
On 4 February 2013, a South Korean military official had stated that there was a "chance that the southern tunnel is a decoy, but we are not ruling out that the regime will conduct nuclear tests simultaneously at both tunnels".[27] On 15 February 2013, North Korea had told China that they were preparing for one or two more nuclear tests this year.[28] On 8 April 2013, South Korea had observed activity at Punggye-ri, suggesting that a fourth underground test was being prepared.[29] It was later believed that the tunneling activity that started in April was for a long-term project, and that a nuclear test wouldn't occur soon.[30]
According to a U.S. expert, North Korea has everything in place for a fourth explosion but is hesitating due to the fear that it would anger China.[31] A professor from Georgetown University predicted that test would occur in spring 2014 at latest.[32]
On 17 December, a member of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee said that a nuclear and missile test would occur soon to draw attention away from the execution of Jang Sung-taek. This was said after North Korea floated propaganda leaflets to South Korea that threatened the annihilation of Baengnyeongdo.[33]
On 22 April 2014, South Korea reported that North Korea had stepped up its activity at its main nuclear test site, meaning they may be preparing for their fourth underground nuclear test.[34] The United States urged North Korea to refrain from testing.[35]
In response, Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, called an urgent security meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The emergency session was to be held 9 AM EST on 12 February 2013.[36] Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission (CTBTO), confirmed the event's location was "roughly congruent with" nuclear tests carried out by North Korea in 2006 and 2009.[37] Japan's Kyodo News service reported the Japanese defense ministry had scrambled aircraft to hunt for radiation effects.[38] Japan's government held a national security council meeting in Tokyo according to NHK.[39] The South Korean military also raised its readiness level.[40] In general, international reactions to the 2013 North Korean nuclear test have been almost uniformly negative.[41]
See also[edit]
- North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- 2013 North Korean crisis
- UN Resolution 2094
- Foreign relations of North Korea
- List of North Korean nuclear tests
- North Korean withdrawal from the Korean Armistice Agreement - post reaction to the nuclear test by North Korea, South Korea and the United States
- ^ a b c "M5.1 Nuclear Explosion - 24km ENE of Sungjibaegam, North Korea". Earthquake Hazards Program. United States Geological Survey. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
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9.01 Vacancy Announcements
(a) A "vacancy" shall be defined as an "open position" within the bargaining unit covered by this AGREEMENT that the Administration determines to fill; provided, however, a vacancy shall not be deemed to exist for purposes of the procedures set forth in this Article if:
if there is an employee in the bargaining unit on suspended contract with recall rights to the open position; or
(2) the Superintendent, in the exercise of his/her prerogative, fills the open position by involuntary transfer.
(b) Before filling a vacant position in the bargaining unit with an employee new to the district, the Superintendent shall notify present employees and the ASSOCIATION of the availability of the vacant position.
(c) During the school year, vacancy announcements to employees and the ASSOCIATION shall be by posting "Notices of Vacancy" in the school office in each building, with a copy to the ASSOCIATION President. During the summer months, notices shall be posted in the Central Office with a copy sent to the ASSOCIATION President. "Notices of Vacancy" shall include information regarding the building(s), grade level and certification required for the vacant position; the general duties and performance expectations/essential functions of the position, preferred job qualifications, if any, for the position and conditions of employment; and the internal application deadline and procedure for application.
(d) Present employees who are qualified by certificate for the position and who notify the Superintendent of their interest in the position will be considered for the position before individuals not in the employ of the BOARD are hired. if the applicant selected is a current employee, the Superintendent may determine to fill the vacancy with the employee during the school year or at the start of the next school year. If the determination is to wait until the start of the next school year to till the vacancy with a current employee, the vacancy may be filled on a temporary basis by another employee or a substitute for the remainder of the current school year. lf the applicant selected is not a current employee, the vacancy may be filled by a new employee hired during the school year or by a substitute until the new employee is available.
(e) The Superintendent shall consider such factors as the professional background of the applicants, their seniority in the District (See Article XII, Section 12.01, Seniority Definition), their work performance and their experience elsewhere. The filling of each position shall be governed by the principle of selecting the best person for the position, as determined solely by the Superintendent.
(f) Except for an open position filed by involuntary transfer, applicants for other vacant positions will be considered in the following order:
(1) applicants seeking reassignment;
(2) displaced employees seeking voluntary transfer;
(3) employees seeking voluntary transfer; then
(4) others seeking employment with the District.
(g) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall be:
(1) Reassignment: A change of subject or grade level assignment within the building.
(2) Transfer: A change of subject or grade level assignment from one building to another.
(3) Displaced Employee: An employee who is not assigned to the same teaching position and who is without an assignment.
9.02 Voluntary Transfer
(a) Employees under contract and recommended for renewal in April will be considered for a reassignment or voluntary transfer, provided the employee does one of the following:
(1) prior to the end of the school year the employee provides written notice to the Superintendent of his/her interest in an open vacancy. Said notice shall specify in order of preference, where applicable, the building or buildings desired, grade level desired, and/or subject area desired; or
(2) within seven (7) calendar days of the posting of a vacancy, the employee provides written notice to the Superintendent of his/her interest in the position.
(b) All employees who apply and who are qualified for new or vacant positions will be considered for such positions. Employees who apply for new or vacant positions, but are not selected for said positions may request a conference with the Superintendent to discuss why the reassignment or voluntary transfer was not granted. The employee may have an ASSOCIATION representative of his/her choice at such a conference. Additionally, the employee may request written reasons why the reassignment or voluntary transfer was not granted.
(c) For purposes of 9.01 (d), 9.02(a) and 9.02(b), "considered" means that an employee will be interviewed by a building principal/administrator the first time the employee applies for any position in that building principal/administrator's building. The building principal/administrator does not have to interview the employee again if the employee applies for that position again or for any other position in the building principal administrators building.
9.03 Involuntary Transfer
(a) An involuntary transfer is one which is initiated by the Administration for any reason which the Superintendent, in the exercise of his discretion, deems to be in the best interest of the School District.
(b) Prior to an involuntary transfer, the employee will meet with the Superintendent and be provided the reason for the transfer. The employee may have an ASSOCIATION representative of his/her choice at said conference.
(c) No employee shall be involuntarily transferred in an arbitrary or capricious manner.
9.04 Board Policy Regarding Supervision of Relative/Spouse
(a) The ASSOCIATION accepts the policy of the BOARD which prohibits any Administrator/supervisor from directly supervising any relative or spouse of such Administrator/supervisor. In the event such conditions should commence, the employee being supervised by his/her relative may be involuntarily transferred by the Superintendent.
- 9. Article VIII - Evalution
- 10. Article IX - Vacancies, Assignments and Transfers
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Shredded Pork Roast Roma
|Boneless pork roast
|2 Pound
|Olive oil
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped garlic
|3 Clove (15 gm)
|Red wine
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Canned crushed tomatoes
|28 Ounce (1 Can)
|Canned diced tomatoes
|28 Ounce (1 Can)
|Bay leaves
|Bell peppers
|1 Pound (Green / Red / Yellow Variety, Bag Of Frozen Pepper Strips Works)
|Salt/Herb mixture
|To Taste
|Caribbean spice sauce
|2 Tablespoon
In a heavy 5 Qt kettle with a cover, pour in olive oil and heat to medium high. Brown the boneless pork roast(s) about 5 min. per side. Flip over using tongs.
Add cloves of chopped garlic and saute.
Pour in Red Wine.
Add in cans of tomatoes.
Add 3-4 bay leaves.
Cover kettle and simmer gently on low until fork pierces the meat easily.
Check at 1 1/2 hours. When fork tender, remove meat to a platter and let rest 10 min.
Tear apart with two forks (or slice into chunks). Return meat to pan.
Add pepper slices and stir into tomatoes and meat.
Add seasoning salts or herb mixtures.
Add 2 T. Caribbean Spice Sauce
Return to heat until hot. Serve. Enjoy!
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The Los Angeles Dodgers' third-place finish in the NL West likely played a part in Matt Kemp getting beaten out for the 2011 MVP by Ryan Braun, who led the Milwaukee Brewers to their first division title in nearly three decades. If there was early voting for the award in 2012, Kemp would be the runaway winner after helping Los Angeles get off to its best start in 31 years. Kemp and the major league-leading Dodgers look to open 10-1 for the first time since moving to Los Angeles, while the host Brewers try to snap a four-game losing streak Tuesday night. Kemp finished second to Braun for MVP after hitting .324 with league highs of 39 homers and 126 RBIs, along with a career-best 40 steals. Braun got 56 more votes following a season in which he finished second in the NL in batting at .332 and had 33 homers with 111 RBIs. He added a career-high 33 steals. The difference may have been Braun helping Milwaukee to a franchise-record 96 wins and the NL Central title, while the Dodgers f...
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Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) is a hand-held computing device capable of running a Windows operating system. A UMPC is larger than a personal digital assistant (PDA) but smaller than a laptop. Microsoft and Intel created a design specification for the UMPC in a project called Origami.
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Rao' lab has developed, using in vitro evolution methods, a number of thermostable proteins. These mutants have been characterized using various spectroscopies and X-ray diffraction. Protein stability is seldom characterized with respect to interaction with surfaces. This aspect is being investigated in the lab. Ion selective field effect transistor (ISFET) was used as platform to develop a triglyceride sensor using evolved enzymes. Rao' lab is further interested in expanding this platform for other analytes. Plasmonic coupling in metal particles as a method to detect biomolecules is another interest pursued in his laboratory.
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