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The E-Fuel carbon credit program is planned for the latter part of 2010.
E-Fuel Carbon Credit Program
Each gallon of ethanol produced in E-Fuel Microfuelers replaces a gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel, thus reducing carbon emissions. Ethanol reduces C02 emissions by about 85% when used in vehicles in place of gasoline. A carbon credit is created with each gallon of ethanol pumped from the MicroFueler. Every dollar earned from these carbon credits will go directly to E-Fuel's Carbon Credit Fund.
The Carbon Credit Fund will be distributed to E-Fuel customers in the form of Carbon Credit Coupons in order to help keep the price of E-Fuel100 ethanol low. These coupons will discount the fuel produced in the customer's MicroFueler, thus rewarding E-Fuel customers for reducing their carbon footprint. E-Fuel distributors will hand out carbon credit coupons to the customers in their territory. Distributors may also choose to exchange coupons for organic waste used to create E-Fuel100 ethanol. Those who are interested in obtaining carbon credit coupons or providing organic waste should contact their local E-Fuel distributor.
E-Fuel will also be looking for sponsorship of the Carbon Credit Fund. Any individual or company that wishes to reduce their carbon footprint should consider contributing to E-Fuel's Carbon Credit Fund because every dollar contributed will go directly to reducing carbon emissions locally. E-Fuel will also work with companies that wish to contribute to the fund through promotions. Damage caused by fossil fuels has been widely publicized and spreading environmental awareness is a good form of advertising for any company. E-Fuel's Carbon Credit Fund allows companies to spread environmental awareness while reducing carbon emissions in their own community.
The Carbon Credit Program is planned to launch in Q1 2010.


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Two years ago, the Orioles snagged a prized free agent from the Japanese league, Tsuyoshi Wada. Sadly, the Wada era never was.
Wada was signed to a two-year, $8.15 million contract, and never got to pitch with the Orioles. When he reported to spring training in 2012, the Orioles seemingly had a dearth of starters.
Wei-Yin Chen was an unknown, Jason Hammel had just been acquired, and Miguel Gonzalez wasn't even in the organization. The Orioles were depending on Wada, but he had a sore elbow a few days into camp, and by May, he underwent Tommy John surgery.
Wada pitched for Norfolk this year and had a number of bad starts before putting together some good ones, but by then, the Orioles had a full quota of starters. Wada's methods made him unsuitable for the bullpen; he takes quite a long time to warm up.
Even in September, Wada didn't come up, and now his contract expired, and his third year option expired, he'll look for a job.
The Orioles won't bring him back even on a minor league contract. It's unthinkable that someone would offer him a major league contract now, and if he wants to pitch in the U.S., it will have to be on a make good basis.
He could always return to Japan, but after all he's been through, and his work ethic hasn't been questioned, Wada won't want to leave the States without a genuine shot at the major leagues.

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text: Jim Zabel started working at WHO in 1944. Since then he has called 6,000 play-by-play events across the country. Dubbed the "Voice of Iowa", Zabel has been in the front seat and behind the mic for every Iowa football and basketball game for 50 years, five Rose Bowl Games, three Holiday Bowls, two Peach Bowls, two Alamo Bowls, two Sun Bowls, Gator Bowl, Freedom Bowl, Kickoff Classic (New York), 48 NCAA Basketball Tournament Games, 10 NIT Tournament Games, Iowa High School Boys and Girls Basketball Tournaments for 52 years, selected basketball games of Drake and Iowa State for 20 years, Drake Relays for 60 years, "Let's Go Bowling" (WHO-TV) for 33 years, eleven Iowa Triple-A Baseball games on WHO-TV, 10 Shrine All-Star Football Games, seven years of Iowa Barnstormers Arena Football on WHO Radio (approximately 150 games). Five major golf tournaments on WHO-TV, including National Amateur in 1956, at Wakonda Club.


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UNL's undergraduate literary journal
The undergraduate literary journal of UNL, supported by the English Department and the University of Nebraska Foundation, Laurus publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual artwork created exclusively by UNL undergraduates. The annual issue is published in the spring.
Latest Issue: Laurus After DarkA Digital Mini-Issue
This October, Laurus released a digital mini-issue featuring stories of the taboo, the grotesque, and the sexy. Take a peek at this horror-themed issue - if you dare!
The 2014 issue is also available. To request a copy, email Michael Page at email@example.com.
Congratulations to last year's prize winners!
Second Place: "The Incomplete Story of Mrs. _arol Rose" by Devin Koch
Honorable Mention: "Lima Shore" by Kyle Brosnihan
Second Place: "Hoof Beat Drums" by Cody Fischer
Honorable Mention: "When the Lights Went Up" by Tony Bertino
Second Place: Demeter's Post-Modern Spring by Ian Tredway
Note: The 2013-14 poetry and prose winners were selected by two committees of graduate students. The prose committee was comprised of: Wendy Oleson, Kathleen Lacey, Claire Harlan-Orsi, Gabriel Houck, Tom Bennitt, and Jacob Hilton. The poetry committee was comprised of: Hali Sofala, Nima Kian, Sarah Chavez, Trey Moody, Marianne Kunkel, and Maria Nazos.
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Kirsten Clawson
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Kayla Punt
To contact the editors about questions or queries, email email@example.com. To submit your work, go to laurusmagazine.submittable.com. You must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Submission details can be found on the Submission guidelines page on this website.
Laurus is the undergraduate literary journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, supported by the English Department and the University of Nebraska Foundation. Laurus is a registered student organization at UNL. Laurus publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual artwork created exclusively by UNL undergraduates. The annual issue is published in the spring.
Laurus was founded in 1983. The 2014 publication will be the 21st edition. Over the years, Laurus has published early work by such notable writers as Timothy Schaffert (1990), Amil Quayle (1987, 1989), Amy Knox Brown (1987, 1989), James Cihlar (1989), Erin Flanagan (1994), Rainbow Rowell (1996), and Danielle Luther-Luebbe (2005). Schaffert was also an editor in 1991, as was Pulitizer Prize finalist Lee Martin in 1992. Faculty advisors over the years have included James Roberts, Marcia Southwick, Judith Slater, Anthony Hawley, John Chavez and John Schulze, and Michael Page.
Recently retired Professor of Poetry Greg Kuzma had the longest tenure as faculty advisor, through much of the 1990s and 2000s. Greg writes, "My work with Laurus was the most important service work I did for UNL. During the years I was advisor Laurus became entirely an undergraduate literary and fine arts magazine, printing only undergrads and edited by undergrads. I had no hand in the choices selected to publish, although I did do a lot of the proofreading. We worked hard to print full color covers, gained funding from the Art Department to support cover art and inside art, and reached out across campus to try to become a campus wide magazine. We published literary criticism, stories and poems, plays, panel discussions, essays on science and sociology, book and film reviews. For many years Laurus was the most exciting thing I did at UNL." Through Greg's efforts, Laurus has become an important institution within the UNL English Department.
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By brian | Poverty Jetset March 23, 2009 at 5:11AM
There are many images sent to indieWIRE but it was hard to pass this one up, which is a scene from the latest by Lars Von Trier entitled, "Antichrist." It might be a bit uncomfortable getting a little somethin' somethin' while laying on some heavy roots, but it seems like they don't mind. Bring on the Sexy and Outrageous Lars!
I chatted with an industry-insider who said he had read the script and seen a promo reel of the film, which stars William Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (the lovely couple in the foreground). He describes it as a "horror film," which might not come as a surprise, of course. "It's gonna be great," said the insider, "I'm told it is one of his best. He's been working very hard on it." Undoubtedly, Von Trier will show "Antichrist" at this year's Cannes.


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Dons starting goalkeeper Madalyn Schiffel '16 joined the U.S. Women's National Soccer development team this spring for the second consecutive year.
Schiffel started all 20 games for the Dons this season and posted six shutouts. She trained in April with the women's under-20 team at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego, where the country's top prospects are invited for intensive professional coaching.
"Playing at the highest level is always good for your game. I'm excited to compete there," Schiffel said about the weeklong camp. "I think things are going great."
"Right now, it's all about building confidence and showing the coaches I'm learning what they're teaching me and improving," she said.
Schiffel has her sights set on breaking into the U.S. women's under-23 squad and then the U.S. Women's National Team and competing internationally.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I.- The University of New Hampshire women's volleyball team defeated host Brown University, 3-1, on Friday night at Pizzitola Sports Center in the first match of the Brown Tournament. The game scores were 30-24, 30-27, 29-31, 30-26.
UNH improved its record to 7-8 on the year, while Brown dropped to 0-6 on the season. The 'Cats fourth game was the best of the night with 15 kills and a .333 hitting percentage.
Senior outside hitter Alyson Coler (Monte Sereno, Calif.) continued her strong play with a match-high 20 kills and a .326 hitting percentage. Coler also added a team-high 13 digs to become the fourth member of UNH's 1,000 dig club.
Senior middle hitter Chelsea Hammer (Eden Prairie, Minn.) tallied a season-high 11 kills and five blocks, while sophomore outside hitter Erin Walker (Fulton, N.Y.) registered 12 kills and nine digs. Senior co-captain Sasha Scott (North Branford, Conn.) played well defensively recording 11 digs, while senior setter Anne Davis (Groveland, Ill.) posted 37 assists running the 'Cat attack.
The Wildcats' continue play at the Brown Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 27 with a 10 a.m. match against Georgia State and a 4 p.m. match vs. St. Peter's in UNH's final match of the tournament. UNH's next home match is Tuesday, Sept. 30 vs. Harvard. Match time is 7 p.m. at Lundholm Gym.


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'Haven' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: 'Reunion'
Being postponed for a month didn't dampen the spirits of the reunion as Nathan and Duke prepared to deal with their former classmates in this episode of 'Haven'.
The show starts of precisely where the previous episode left off. Audrey and the skinwalker are talking and the skinwalker claims that Audrey, as Lucy, destroyed her and she is there for revenge. Audrey has no memory of this and once the skinwalker realizes this it knocks Audrey out after telling her that Audrey's son James knows another way to end the Troubles.
Nathan arrives and after receiving no reply to his knock, peeks in the window to find an unconscious Audrey. He wakes her and she tells him what happened. He initially thinks she is now the skinwalker but she is able to prove otherwise.
Across town, a teenager is running from someone. He hides under the bleachers and is then crushed.
Audrey and Nathan are called to the scene of the bleacher-crushing the next morning. Nathan recognizes him as they were in the same graduating class only the victim has aged a day, literally. As they turn to leave and go to the station, three other members of Nathan's graduating class arrive to begin setting up for the class reunion. Robert, the class dork is now a motivational speaker, Jeanine the prom queen and Denise the class mean girl are working as a group to set things up. Nathan says hello and he and Audrey leave.
At the station, Audrey and Nathan meet with Duke, Vince, Dave and Dwight. They tell them that they are the only people that they can now trust and that time is running out to catch the skinwalker. Duke asks where Claire is and Nathan informs him and the others that Claire is the latest known victim of the skinwalker. Nathan is running a program of the composite parts of the mutilated women to try to determine who the skinwalker is building. When the program finishes the analysis it shows a photo of Arla, the missing wife of James Cogan. Duke suggests that the skinwalker may have always been Arla.
Viewers see the skinwalker assume the face of Arla Cogan.
They split up and everyone is now searching for Arla Cogan. Duke goes back to his bar and runs into Jeanine. She has gained weight over the years and he doesn't recognize her at first. Then blows her off completely when Arla Cogan walks in and asks to talk to him.
Arla wants to make sure that Audrey goes into that barn. She also tells Duke that Audrey is in love with Nathan and that once she goes away their troubles will be over for the next 27 years. Duke asks Arla what she wants from him.
Nathan and Audrey are called back to the school where Denise has turned up dead after being transformed back into a teenager. Nathan tells Audrey that she can let others handle the investigation but she says she would rather spend her last day with him. The pair tell Robert and Jeanine about Denise and ask if they are familiar with the Troubles. Both claim it's a myth. The decision is made to continue with the reunion. Nathan feels it will be easier to protect everyone if they are all together.
Duke is on his boat and notices a locker on the deck. He opens it to find a snake. Someone hits him on the head and he falls into the water. When he resurfaces he's a teenager. He immediately goes to the police station to see Audrey and Nathan. Nathan recognizes him and they go over a list of suspects. Duke recalls running into Jeanine and Nathan goes to talk to her.
At the park, Jeanine admits to Nathan that she is Troubled. Her Trouble is that everything she eats turns into wedding cake and has for the past three years. Nathan lets her go and when Duke asks about it Nathan says that Jeanine is Troubled but is no longer a suspect; her Trouble is too crazy not to be true.
At the reunion, Nathan and Audrey are dancing and going over the case when they realize that the person they are looking for is Robert. They go to try to find him and are barely able to save two other classmates from death. Audrey catches up with Robert and has he tries to kill her Arla shoots him. As he reverts to his former self, Duke changes back into an adult. Robert has no memory of the events. He and Jeanine get together and Dwight takes them to a safe place.
Audrey Goes to her apartment and finds Arla waiting for her. Arla tells Audrey that 27 years ago James was mortally injured. Lucy took him into the barn and didn't wait for Arla. By the time Arla got to the barn she couldn't get in. She wants to be with James and has been waiting for Audrey to take her to him. Arla says that either Audrey takes her to the barn or she will kill Duke and Nathan.
'Haven' ends with the barn reappearing and Agent Howard stepping out of it with James and asking him where he wants to go.


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Ray Schroeder's Twitter Chat – July 31, 2014
Before Starting Your Online Class
- Make good decisions about which class to take. Start off with a course that will help you adjust to learning online if this is your first time using an online platform. Look at all the offerings from your chosen institution.
- Be realistic about the number of classes you can successfully complete.
- Read, save, and print the course syllabus. Understand and ask for clarification for anything you don't understand.
- Understand if there are synchronous or face-to-face requirements for the course.
- Understand the weekly deadlines and the major project deadlines for the course.
- Tell your family and friends about your online class. Discuss the challenges with them. Ask for support.
Manage Your Time Effectively
- Make learning a priority. Be in the classroom as much as possible. Perhaps daily or every other day, but plan on being online and "present" in the classroom regularly.
- Schedule your time visually through your phone or your tablet, or on a wall calendar.
- Remember that you need time for reading, writing, reflecting, posting, and perhaps working with groups using either synchronous or asynchronous technologies.
- Create a schedule with EVERYTHING listed including social events, work schedules, and family responsibilities. Then, add the time that you will need to successfully complete your class work including weekly and major project deadlines. Google Calendar is one option.
- Typically, students spend 3-4 hours per week to complete course work related to 1 credit hour. So a 3 credit hour course might require 9 – 12 hours of reading, writing, and posting each week.
Understand the Technology
- Take advantage of technology training that might be available. At UIS Lynda.com and Atomic Learning are both available to all students and faculty to assist with learning new software.
- Get a cloud storage account. UIS provides 50GB of storage for each student through a BOX cloud storage account.
Be a Part of the Class & Campus Community
- Get to know the other students in your class and connect with your campus.
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- Use positive language to state your point without using the standard "I agree or I disagree" approach. Clarify what you are agreeing or disagreeing with and why.
- Use language and an approach that is non-confrontational and respects the opinions and perspectives others in the courseroom.
Reflect on the Learning
- Reflect on what you have learned.
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"If I put my car on auto pilot it would drive through the Bronx,"; said Fat Joe as he drove and talked to S2S by phone about his new album, The Darkside Vol 1. He returned to the dark side for his fans who always told him that they love the original Fat Joe Da Gangsta, a moniker he shortened before becoming famous. But how can a millionaire think like a street dude?
"Fat Joe never turned bougie," he said, defending his ability to return to the mindset from his earliest solo albums, Represent and Don Cartegena. Remembering something Will Smith told Oprah recently, Joe added, "He said something I always say. He got way more money than me, and [Will] was like, 'I always feel like a poor guy.'" Joe feels the same way.
To prove he's still got what the streets want, Joe spits threats and calls names over a neck-breaking beat on "Ha Ha (Slow Down Son)" featuring Young Jeezy. He followed that up with a single featuring heartthrob Trey Songz, "If it Ain't About Money."
He might not get along with 50 Cent, but Joe rolled out the welcome mat for several other artists who appear on nearly every track. Busta Ryhmes, R.Kelly, Cam'Ron and Lil' Wayne are featured, among others. "I just like making music with people," Joe said. "Although, it sounds like a lot of cameos, it's real Fat Joe. It doesn't sound like a compilation album."
Fat Joe is still the boss of Terror Squad, but this time the name belongs not to the dismantled crew that Big Pun made famous, but to a fledgling imprint. Still, the veteran rapper is on a mission to get the respect he says he is due. "Who else you know that can be in the game for 16 years, that keeps coming with top-three songs in America, but still doesn't get mentioned in 'who's the best rappers' and none of that?" Joe asked. "I'm out to show the world that y'all going to have to respect my contribution to the game."
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Check out Fat Joe, featuring Young Jeezy, "Ha Ha (Slow Down Son)"


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Salt Lake City (ABC 4 Utah)--October is National Popcorn Poppin' month, so Rooster's Gourmet Popcorn swung by GMU to help us celebrate!
Salt Lake City (ABC 4 Utah)- A new soda and cookie shop is opening this week in Provo. Their name? Sodalicious.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4) - Samantha Rosser, Michael's craft specialist, is in to talk about fun treats for every graduate in your life.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – There are now free lunches for students at more than 50 Oklahoma City Schools.
The state's largest district is following other urban districts like Houston and Chicago in taking advantage of a new federal initiative, the USDA's Community Eligibility Provision.
Kevin Huffman's job at Spencer Elementary has changed a little bit.
"I used to take the money," he said Thursday.
But he's no longer a bill collector at the end of the lunch line – the guy who had to break the embarrassing news to kids coming from struggling families.
"When you say (to them) 'if you don't bring your money, it's going to be a cheese sandwich'… I felt about that big," he said, squeezing two fingers an inch apart. "Because we can't bend the rules.
"So they had something in their belly, but all the other kids were getting like the pasta dish today."
But now, every child gets every nutritious item in line because every lunch at Spencer is now free.
"So there won't be this stigma that this individual child qualifies and this one doesn't," Deborah Taylor, with OKCPS Child Nutrition Services, said. "All the children will be on the same playing field."
52 schools in the OKC district are now a part of a USDA program to give kids free lunches, regardless of income.
They meet federal requirements because their families receive government assistance, like SNAP of TANF.
Now, the lunch line moves faster.
"So they'll have time to sit and eat, and that is a really big deal," Taylor said. "If a kid can't eat it, if they don't eat it, it's not healthy."
Kevin Ponce is the OKCPS Child Nutrition Director.
"It's great for kids," he said. "It eliminates a lot of the paperwork. No meal applications."
Their parents are grateful for that, and Huffman doesn't have to see a child cry anymore, because all they could afford was a cheese sandwich.
"It is so much easier to make sure they have a full tray rather than trying to beg the children, 'remember tomorrow, please bring money'," he said.
OKCPS is working to identify more schools that can participate in the USDA provision in the coming years.
Click here for more information on the USDA free lunch program (Community Eligibility Provision)


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'Transylvania' stars had monster time creating characters
The first movie Selena Gomez remembers seeing in the theater: "Seed of Chucky."
Perhaps someday a stranger will ponder the same question and say, "Hotel Transylvania," featuring the voice of the former Disney Channel star as a vampire girl named Mavis. She's turning 118, and her overprotective father, Dracula (voice of Adam Sandler), is having trouble letting go.
"I can relate to it, I mean I just turned 20, I still live at home by my choice. It's good, but we've had our ups and downs," the actress-singer and girlfriend to Justin Bieber said during a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
Sandler can identify with the other side of the emotional equation in the animated comedy opening in 2-D and 3-D.
"Seeing his daughter grow up, it breaks your heart to see a dad struggling and then also a boy coming into the daughter's life and having to deal with that. That's just something very close to me. My kids are very young, but I feel it coming," said Sandler, seated next to Gomez.
In fact, his two daughters motivated him to make the PG-rated movie, a decade in development. "We want to make a movie that the kids can see and have a good time."
The panel included several "Saturday Night Live" alumni such as Sandler, David Spade, Molly Shannon and Andy Samberg, along with other funny men and women such as Kevin James and Fran Drescher.
They riffed on each others' answers, amusing themselves and the media, as if it were an open-mike afternoon. When Samberg said he did seven seasons of "SNL" and by the end "was pretty exhausted," Spade piped up behind him, "Is that why you look so beat up?"
When the younger star said, "Thanks, Spade," the other added in a self-deprecating tone, "Spade, who's 60." He is actually 48, while Samberg is 34.
Sandler, who fielded most of the questions, called finding Dracula's voice a scary process. "I went through many choices in the car driving to the first session and then, ultimately, I said I'll just do a little twist on the Zohan. That's about it."
The beauty of animation is it's literally one line at a time, and, Sandler said, actors can say the line four or five different ways. Director Genndy Tartakovsky said he could see and hear the actors adjust the timing of their lines, based on the reaction of the listeners, until they teased out a laugh.
And how did the animators come up with the look of Dracula, a wide-shouldered long-legged figure in black cape, with a fuchsia lining, his hair combed back, pale skin and the requisite vampire fangs?
"We wanted the film to be really expressive, so we first started to look at Adam, actually, and to break him down to the barest essentials, which is kind of like a Muppet with beady eyes and big mouth," Tartakovsky said. "Whoa ... whoa," the actor interjected.
"We started to build on that, so there's an essence of Adam in there, but then it becomes his own character," the director added. "We just wanted things to be very cartoony, very caricature, to have its own identity."
Other quick hits from the 40-minute session:
-- Sandler's first exposure to animation: "'Dumbo' was the first one I saw and locked into. 'Bambi' killed me as a kid. I liked all the sweet ones. I liked 'Popeye' a lot, too, which Genndy's going to be doing," as an animated movie.
-- James, who speaks for Frankenstein, on his movie baptism: "I snuck into 'Saturday Night Fever.' It was the first movie I ever saw. What I took away from it was when John Travolta ate two slices of pizza at once and folded them together, I thought that was the coolest move ever. I've adopted it and I've made it my own."
-- Drescher, aka Mrs. Frankenstein, on what the director wanted: "This guy wouldn't let me be as sweet as I wanted to be. He wanted me to sound obnoxious and annoying and angry all the time. He said, just be angrier."
-- Spade on landing the voice of the Invisible Man: "I got a script in the mail, and I read it and said I'd love to play Dracula, and Adam said, 'No, go to page 56, it's highlighted.' ... He called and said there might be a fun thing for you to do in here, and try to make it good and give it your normal 80 percent."
-- Samberg, as a human who falls for Dracula's daughter, which means sharing scenes with Sandler: "We got to play off each other. I like doing voice-over because it's probably the only time in my entire life that people tell me to do things more over-the-top. Do it even crazier than that?"
-- Shannon, who speaks for werewolf Wanda, on her 8-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son: "They are so excited to see this movie and they're so excited that I'm in it. ... Going to the movies as a mom is one of my favorite things to do with my kids."
-- Screenwriter Robert Smigel on his early idols: "I've always loved cartoons since I was a kid. I used to draw. I wanted to be Charles Schulz; he was my idol. Bugs Bunny cartoons are still probably my favorite art form."
-- Sandler on playing screen dad to the star of TV's "Wizards of Waverly Place": "My kids loved Selena's show. We watched it all the time, and it's a big deal that Selena's in the movie for all of us. ... It was just amazingly exciting to be in the car with my kids and say Selena's playing Mavis in the movie. And my kids were, 'No way! Do we get to meet her?'
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Smart DJ (I believe it's now Radio) is a good way of discovering some new tracks. It does a pretty good job. I haven't tried Music All Access but it also sounds great but I'll just stick with Xbox Music as there will never be a WP version of All Access.
Microsoft launches Xbox Music web player, iOS app still nowhere to be seen
Microsoft has taken another step forward with its Xbox Music service by launching the much rumored web player, though any iOS app is still very much absent. With a web client now active, it means that Mac using Xbox Music subscribers, of which we're sure there's a few, can listen to their music. Until now, only Windows users had been able to get their music on their desktops.
But, we heard in late 2012 when Xbox Music first emerged, that Microsoft planned to take the service cross-platform, which includes apps for Android and iOS. Almost 9 months later, there's still no sign of any announcement while we await the official launches of iTunes Radio and Google Music All Access for iOS. A web player is a nice stop gap for Mac users, but is a total no-go for mobile. Xbox Music will not work within the browser on iOS, but is compatible with Firefox 18 and above, Google Chrome 24 and above and Safari 5.1 and above on OS X 10.6 and up on the Mac.
A subscription is still required for Xbox Music on the web, though new customers do get the option of a free 30 day trial before the $10 a month fee kicks in. After spending a short amount of time with it — and being completely new to Xbox Music — a few things spring to mind. It looks very nice, but feels a little too much a case of 'all show, no go.' For instance, there appears to be no music discovery aspect to the web player at all. Instead, you have to manually search for artists, albums or songs. You can manage playlists and access everything you already have saved as part of your Xbox Music Pass, but if you're new to the service as I am, the web player may not be the place to start. Playing music is also somewhat frustrating; selecting a track half way through an album just plays that track, it doesn't then carry on through the album to the end. Compared to web offerings from Google and Spotify in particular, this feels distinctly lacking.
So, for now this is as close as you can get to proper Xbox Music support on any of your Apple devices, even if it does feel flawed. Hit the link below to give it a try or to sign up for a free 30 day trial and do share your thoughts with us. I'd also like to hear from any longer term Xbox Music users; how does the web player compare to your experience on other platforms?
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Microsoft launches Xbox Music web player, iOS app still nowhere to be seen
I've been subscribed to Xbox Music Pass for since 2007 when it was the Zune Pass (later Zune Music Pass). The web player works great for me but for new customers, I can see the lack of discovery an issue, but I'm sure it's only temporary. Interesting oversight, no shuffle button. As comparison to other cloud players, as far as playing music it seems on par with Google Play Music and Amazon Music Cloud. Would be nice if it utilized background audio APIs, with that and a mobile layout, they'd have a perfect interim mobile player.
IS XBOX MUSIC A JOKE ? ... no seriously, are people actually paying a monthly subscription ?
I just joined up for a 30 day free trial.. and it is complete utter CRAP!.. and why is that, you may wonder ?
Well when I use XBOX MUSIC PLAYER in my " MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER " browser via my MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7 PC, there is no way to skip to the next track while listening to an album, the "next " button on the web player is faded out - QUITE AN OVERSIGHT I'D SAY!
Oh and if that wasn't enough, the SHUFFLE button doesn't ! .. yes that's right, the shuffle button is just a button that says " shuffle " .. So I click on one songs and it plays till the end then stops.
..On my xbox app " music " I have more funcionality, I can watch music videos and create artist radio stations - on my web player I can't !
Although I use Xbox Music on my xbox, I thought I'd try using it via the Internet explorer on my Xbox - CANT DO! .. because it needs a flash update which Microsoft won't allow.
Why do companies make things so confusing ? ... because there is more money in mistakes than in products / services that are simple, smooth, functional and compatiable.
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The Inaugural Medal of Honor Bowl was played in Charleston to benefit the new National Medal of Honor Museum to be built at Patriots Point and the Wounded Warrior Project. Last week there were nine Medal of Honor recipients in town. On Jan. 11 the inaugural Medal of Honor Bowl was played in Charleston to benefit the new National Medal of Honor Museum to be built at Patriots Point and the Wounded Warriors Project.
Leading up to the game was a week long series of events, two of which were a Black Tie Gala on Jan. 10 and a Medal of Honor Brunch at Halls Chophouse on the Jan. 11, For additional information visit MOHMuseum.org.
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Marshall women fall to Marquette
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Marquette used a big advantage at the foul line to defeat Marshall, 67-46, in a Texas A&M Classic women's basketball game Friday in Reed Arena.
Marquette (2-1) made 12 of 18 foul shots. Marshall (2-2) went to the line only for only two attempts and missed them both.
"We only fouled them twelve times and they only shot eighteen free throws, but we fouled on scoring plays," said first-season Marshall head coach Matt Daniel.
Marquette was led by Katherine Plouffe with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Katie Young of the Golden Eagles also recorded a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Chukwuka Ezeigbo's second double-double performance of the season -- 10 points, 11 rebounds -- led Marshall. She also blocked two blocked shots and made two steals. Norrisha Victrum was also in double figures for the Thundering Herd with 10 points.
The Golden Eagles used their size to build a 51-36 advantage in rebounds.
"We were undersized in every position, except the center, by at least three inches," Daniel said. "Their system is experienced and ours isn't. We were out of position because we would help the helper and do different stuff.
"With that being said, it's just experience -- bottom line."
Marshall opened the game by making five of its first eight shots and was in an 11-11 tie. Marquette scored eight straight and took a 34-26 lead into halftime.
Victrum's 3-point field goal put Marshall within 38-33 early in the second half, but the Herd got no closer.
The Herd completes the tournament at noon, Sunday, against Southern, which played Texas A&M in the second game.
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Revenge Season 2: Will Amanda Clarke Go Rogue Again?
Ever since Amanda Clarke shimmied her way off the pole and into the Hamptons, we've watched in anguish as Emily Thorne tried to get the curly-haired nuisance out of the way while placating her at the same time.
It's become exceedingly irritating to watch Ems tiptoe around this hoe, but she has to if she wants to keep her quiet. And though we wish Takeda had taken her out along with Tyler, Fauxmanda does present some interesting (if not always welcome) twists, a'la baby bump.
And it seems that come Season 2, this knocked-up nightmare will potentially present an even larger problem for Emily (and we're not just talking about her growing stomach). Emily doesn't trust Amanda and even goes to Takeda to gather intel on the pregnant pole dancer.
He claims to have been training Amanda, but when Emily encounters her bestie from juvy, she seems eager to help the cause. But Ems isn't having it.
"Back five seconds and you're already pushing me away," Amanda says in the spoiler clip. "But this time I'm not going anywhere."
She's determined to make things work with her baby daddy, and refuses to let Emily get in the way.
"If he learns the truth about me, everyone learns the truth about you," she threatens.
Amanda has already gone rogue once — when Tyler filled her head with thoughts of betrayal. Could she do it again? She's definitely a loose canon, and one Emily should think twice about before setting off.
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Runny noses and pollen dust covering your car mean one thing around these parts, the APS catalog is hitting mailboxes. That's right, Spring is in full swing and USPS' finest have their satchels stuffed with the racing sailors best printed resource for gear. We've been hinting about its new properties and characteristics here for weeks but it's all over now. The secret is out and so is our 2009 catalog.
From Apparel to Vipers we've got tons of the latest new gear! Viper you say? Yep, we've added not one but SIX new classes including the Viper 640 to the one design offering. And Apparel? Oh boy, do we have some of that. This year we've added 16 more pages of it. That's 52 glorious color pages of the best and widest selection of apparel and team gear available anywhere. How about color pages? Yep, after many years of having the middle section in black and white and many requests to change it we've finally gone full color for all 168 pages. We're proud of what we've put together here this year and think you'll be pleased with our work.
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text: As I watched Ole Miss coaches celebrate the signatures from members of a historic class on National Signing Day, I couldn't help but think of other War Rooms in other years. In 2008, how heartily did Alabama coaches celebrate the signatures of Julio Jones, Mark Ingram and Barrett Jones? Did they know they had poured the foundation for three national titles? Did they have any inkling when Barrett Jones' National Letter of Intent rolled off the fax machines that he would win a ring at three different positions? Or did they lament the players who spurned them for other schools?


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A Marathon of Adventure from Book-It
Kavalier & Clay, novel by Michael Chabon, abridged adaptation by Jeff Schwager Book-It Repertory Theatre, through July 13 By Alice Kaderlan I have to be honest. The thought of spending five hours at a theatrical presentation was daunting, even for the adaptation of a Pulitzer-Prize winning book. But Book-It's shows are typically of the highest […] [Read More]
A Jazzed Up "Porgy and Bess" at the 5th Avenue Theatre
The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess 5th Avenue Theatre, through June 29, 2014 By Alice Kaderlan At intermission on opening night of the national tour of "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," I was ready to declare the show a major disappointment. The jazzed-up orchestrations, muddy diction of some singers and the 5th Avenue Theatre's ongoing sound […] [Read More]
A Searing But Flawed Play from Arthur Miller
The Price ACT Theatre, through June 22, 2014 By Alice Kaderlan There's a good reason Arthur Miller's "The Price" isn't performed very often. Despite a searing second act – given a powerful rendering in this ACT production directed by Victor Pappas – "The Price" is a schizoid play. The first act has much in common […] [Read More]
A Magical Mystery Tour from The Cabiri
TEWAZ The Cabiri, Cornish Playhouse, through June 14, 2014 By Alice Kaderlan Attending a performance by The Cabiri means entering a dream world of mysterious archetypes and free-floating associations of the unconscious mind. Although there are elements of a Cirque du Soleil-type show – aerial dancers, trapeze artists, gymnasts and dancers – every Cabiri production […] [Read More]
Many Stars Shine in PNB's "Giselle"
Giselle Pacific Northwest Ballet, through June 8, 2014, McCaw Hall By Alice Kaderlan On Friday night at Pacific Northwest Ballet a new ballet star was born. Jerome Tisserand, in his first opening night lead role, nearly stole the show in his final variation in PNB's stunning "Giselle." From the ballet's first moments, the elegant Tisserand […] [Read More]


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Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi plans changes for alumni engagement
CORPUS CHRISTI - Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi officials say they are working with the alumni association on a proposed plan to improve how graduates engage in the school.
The plan, which is being negotiated between the association and the university, involves a reorganization of university staff and a rerouting of class ring sale proceeds from the association's account to the university.
University officials said the proposed plan involves revamping the alumni association director position and adding at least four staff positions to the Office of Institutional Advancement dedicated to working with the university's colleges to ramp up support for alumni events — and eventually build donor base support.
Trent Hill, the university's vice president of institutional advancement, said larger, association-wide events aren't as appealing to alumni as they used to be.
University officials reviewed studies on alumni engagement and found that graduates tend to want to come back to their school to see people associated with their specific college of study or organization.
"We want to enhance that," he said.
Many larger, flagship universities are able to generate enough revenue through donations and fundraising that their alumni association can be self-sustaining, he said, adding Texas A&M-Corpus Christi isn't to that point.
"That's not our category," he said.
The university's ring sale proceeds previously went through the alumni association's account with the funds redirected to pay for the $56,307 salary of the alumni director, a university employee. Benefits were additional.
The alumni association is a nonprofit organization that is separate from the university.
Under the proposed plan, the ring sale proceeds still would help pay for the director's salary, which would be $67,598 plus benefits but also the salaries of any new hires related to the reorganization. In total, university officials estimated the director and staff salaries to cost about $250,000 annually.
Local university funds, which can include donations, also will be used to help pay for those salaries, said Gloria Gallardo, the university's communications and public affairs director. State funds and student fees aren't part of local university funds, she said.
The proposed plan would be an addendum to an existing affiliation agreement between the alumni association and the university, Hill said.
Some alumni association members say they have concerns with the proposed plan reducing the association's revenue and taking away the organization's influence on alumni activities.
The association will have difficulty becoming a more efficient and effective organization if the alumni director position continues to be a university employee role, said Curtis Rock, an alumni board member and 2004 A&M-Corpus Christi graduate.
"We really just don't have any influence," he said. "We are really at the beck and call of the university."
Rock started a petition to raise awareness about the university reorganization plan on www.change.org. The petition had more than 100 signatures as of Thursday.
University officials said the alumni board has total discretion over the association funds, and university officials are there to help the organization succeed.
Everyone's goal is to help the university grow, he said.
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By John J. KruzelAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 4, 2007 Tiger Woods said paying tribute to the U.S. military was one of his goals during the weeklong AT&T National golf tournament he's hosting here, and so far he's kept his promise.
He arranged for former president and WWII veteran, George H.W. Bush, to join the foursome at the end of their round, and he brought scores of military personnel here, including wounded veterans from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
"My dad was retired, but I grew up on a military base, and played golf there and that was my home course," Woods told thousands of attendees gathered at Congressional Country Club's first hole for the opening ceremony events.
"For me, all my life, I've been part of the military," he said. "I've always been around (servicemembers,) I understand the commitment it takes for men and women to do what they do each and every day. That's a commitment that I don't think that people truly understand.
"Especially with what's going on overseas, we need to say 'Thank you' somehow, and this is a small way of doing that," Woods said.
The world's top-rated golfer then teed up the ceremonial first shot for former President Bush.
"The 'No Laughing Rule' is in effect," Bush joked with the audience as he approached the tee. "If anybody laughs when I hit it, they're dead! We've got the secret service here to attack."
Bush hit a beautiful drive downrange, in the direction of a 60-foot American flag that Army soldiers from Ft. Belvoir, Va., and their families had unfurled and were holding waist-level above the fairway.
On a more serious note, the former president said he decided to be involved in today's ceremonies because it's a great way to celebrate Independence Day. The decision, he said using golf jargon, was a "gimme."
"The fact that (Woods) has tied in our superb military into this event made it easy," Bush said.
Today's military musical selection included the National Anthem, sung by Army Spc. Vicki Golding of the 257th Army Band, Washington, D.C. National Guard, and performances by the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Band. The U.S. Air Force Drill Team provided visual entertainment, and the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard displayed America's military banners, marching the flags across the first hole's fairway.
The District of Columbia National Guard flew an OH-58 Kiowa, and three UH-1 Huey helicopters over the crowd. Many audience members included servicemembers in and out of uniform, as Woods arranged for tournament sponsors to distribute 30,000 free tickets to active U.S. military personnel.
AT&T, was the tournament's primary sponsor , and is the company's Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson was the only non-professional civilian to play as a member of Woods' early-morning golf foursome.
"The recognition and the honor that we're bringing to these soldiers in our military is very important for us," Stephenson told the crowd. "We've always had a long history of supporting the military and right now in this time, to be a part of that was important.
"So we thank all of you who are serving us," he said. "We have a debt to you that we can't repay."
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Israel's New Pollyannas
Until recently, it was not difficult to define the main obstacle to a peace agreement between Arabs and Israelis: the very minimum the Syrians and Palestinians could accept exceeded the maximum Israel could give. In practical terms this meant that since Hafez al-Assad's Syria could accept no less than what Anwar Sadat's Egypt received—every inch of land lost to the Israelis in war—and since Israel could not afford to relinquish all this land (which would bring the border to within yards of the Sea of Galilee), an agreement with Syria was impossible.
Similarly, no Palestinian leader could accept anything less than total Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines (usually described as the 1967 borders) and the establishment of a Palestinian state with the eastern half of Jerusalem as its capital, while no Israeli government could allow this to happen. Ergo, the prospects of a Palestinian-Israeli agreement were nonexistent.
All the procedural arguments—the Arabs' insistence on an international conference rather than direct talks, for instance—were merely a function of these differences. The Arabs, correctly assuming that Israel—no matter who was in the government—would not deliver their minimal demands, saw in a UN-sponsored conference a venue in which the world tribunal would impose an unpalatable settlement on Israel.
That is why the Madrid conference of 1991 was considered a small miracle. Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinians actually sat down to negotiate in bilateral, direct talks. This, despite the fact that the then-Israeli government was a hawkish Likud-led coalition, headed by the stubborn Yitzhak Shamir, and that to expect it to bend to Palestinian demands for sovereignty in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, or to accept Syrian claims to all of the Golan Heights, was ludicrous.
But the meeting took place at least partly because it was conceived in deception. In secret private letters, the Bush administration was able to convince each participant that the U.S. would support its position. Thus, Syria was promised that the American (and Soviet) sponsors of the talks would not only play an important mediating role when it mattered, but that Washington saw "the return of territories according to [UN] Resolutions 242 and 338"—a formula which to the Arabs translated into total withdrawal—as applicable to the Golan.
Similarly, the U.S. assured the Palestinians that it was still committed to the general outline of the Rogers plan of 1969, which called for virtually complete Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, and that it considered the Israeli annexation of the eastern part of Jerusalem illegal. In the eyes of the U.S., the Palestinians were reminded, east Jerusalem was still "occupied territory." (As it happens, even west Jerusalem has not been recognized by the U.S. as part of Israel.) The message was unmistakable: the U.S. would support the establishment of a Palestinian homeland in the territories with east Jerusalem as its capital. Indeed, for the first time since 1967, an American administration refused Israel's request to say that it actively opposed a Palestinian state.
To assuage Israel's fears of American support for a Palestinian state, however, the Bush administration specifically agreed to exclude the PLO from the negotiating process, and to insist on a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, thus eliminating any semblance of a separate, independent Palestinian entity. Israel also received a commitment that only inhabitants of the territories could become delegates to the talks. That is, neither residents of Jerusalem nor members of the Palestinian "diaspora" would be eligible.
Furthermore, Israel was assured that the U.S. stood by President Ford's commitment to "give weight" to Israel's security concerns in the Golan Heights, that the Jerusalem question would be raised only at a later stage of the negotiations, and that the negotiations would be based on the Camp David formula. This meant an interim period of Palestinian autonomy for five years, with negotiations for a permanent solution beginning after the third year. All options would be left open—including the possibility of an Israeli demand for sovereignty over the territories.
These assurances to the various parties were clearly irreconcilable. Charitably, they were white lies intended to get everyone together in the hope that differences would be ironed out at the negotiating table. A more cynical interpretation would characterize them as a stratagem designed to create an irresistible momentum which would force Israel to yield to the prevailing world demand for total withdrawal. Either way, then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir did not appreciate their import. When asked about the American assurances to the Arabs, he said Israel was not bound by American promises. All that mattered was that the talks were bilateral and direct, and that the U.S. would not interfere.
But conflicting promises have a way of exploding. On the very first day of the Madrid conference, the Palestinian representatives, who were supposed to be included in the Jordanian delegation, were allotted the same space at the table as the other delegations and allowed a separate time slot for their addresses. Armed with American support for them as a distinct delegation, they stalled the negotiations for months until the Israelis yielded. Washington also allowed Faisal Husseini, a resident of Jerusalem and a member of Yasir Arafat's Fatah (and therefore doubly ineligible for participation), to head an "advisory team" attached to the delegation. He and the team's spokeswoman, Hanan Ashrawi, promptly became the most sought-after stars of the peace talks. The Jordanian delegation faded into the background.
In addition, the Bush administration circumvented the ban on the PLO by letting senior PLO figures enter the U.S. for the post-Madrid negotiations in Washington. Setting up shop in the delegates' hotel, they were ostentatiously consulted by the official Palestinian participants before and after every session. The commitment to exclude "diaspora" Palestinians was also broken, when Mohammad Khalaj, a member of the Palestine National Council who lives in America, was included in the negotiations on refugees at the multilateral talks on regional problems. And the final obliteration of the American commitment to exclude the PLO and Jerusalem residents came when Israel (now led by Yitzhak Rabin) agreed, as part of the deal with the U.S. (now led by Bill Clinton) following the expulsion of 400 Hamas agitators, to the formal recognition of Husseini as head of the Palestinian delegation.1
But far more disturbing than the American manipulations were those practiced by the Israeli government itself. For some three years the Syrians had been spreading the word that Assad had had a change of heart. Having lost the sponsorship of the Soviets, he purportedly now realized that he would never achieve strategic parity with Israel—a euphemism for a military capability which would enable him to vanquish Israel alone. Forced to get closer to the West to survive, and aware that the West wanted peace, he was ready to sign an agreement with Israel.
This line was startlingly similar to the argument made in 1990 by Saddam Hussein and his supporters in the West and in Israel. (Among those convinced at the time that Saddam was so eager to curry favor with the West that he would be a natural candidate for a peace treaty with Israel was Ezer Weizman, now Israel's President.) That Saddam himself proved the fallacy of the argument—he not only betrayed his promises but started a war without Soviet backing—seemed to be forgotten.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who weeks before the invasion of Kuwait had assured Israel of Saddam's benignity, was credited both with persuading Assad of the advantages of peace and with convincing the U.S. that the Syrian dictator was sincere. As Egypt had discovered, lost land could be retrieved from Israel more easily through peace than by war. And Assad, a reputed pragmatist who had repeatedly vowed to destroy Israel if it took 200 years, now saw that sitting with Israel at the negotiating table made sense. True, to mitigate the implied recognition of the Jewish state the Syrians insisted on calling the negotiations an international conference, but in reality they agreed to participate in strictly bilateral talks.
The Syrians at first found the role of peace partners a little unnatural. But eager to get their country off the State Department list of states which sponsor terrorism, they even chimed in with a confidence-building measure, allowing the gradual emigration of Syrian Jews, provided they did not go to Israel. And as soon as the Israeli delegation, under the Labor government, announced Israel's readiness to withdraw from the Golan Heights, they switched from displays of cold fury to smiles and handshakes. These prompted the new Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, to proclaim that the developments in Damascus were nothing short of sensational.
What the Syrians made clear, however, was that they expected the negotiations to bring nothing less than full Israeli withdrawal not only from the Golan Heights—small in area but strategically vital for the defense of Israel's north—but from all areas occupied by Israel in 1967 and 1982. This meant the complete evacuation of Judea, Samaria, Gaza, east Jerusalem, and the security belt in Lebanon.
Nor was Syria willing to sign a full-fledged peace treaty in return. It interpreted Resolution 242 to mean that Israel must withdraw from all captured territory on all fronts (a transparently false reading) and that in return Israel was entitled to nothing more than an end to the state of belligerency which did not include a peace treaty and normalization of relations.
Though aware of the Syrian position, Rabin—who a day before the election had said that anyone abandoning the Golan Heights would be guilty of forsaking Israel's security—predicted that "within months" Israel and Syria would sign on the dotted line. Members of the cabinet, including Police Minister Moshe Shahal who was known for his closeness to Rabin, openly advocated relinquishing the entire Golan.
To be sure, Rabin himself kept stressing that he would consider withdrawing only on the Golan Heights, not from them. But he kept all options open by allowing that the extent of withdrawal depended on the quality of peace Syria was prepared to offer. This was generally understood to mean that for a full-fledged peace treaty, which would include an exchange of ambassadors and a free flow of people and goods between the two countries, Rabin would forfeit Israeli sovereignty in the Golan and effect a gradual but complete withdrawal. In that case, leaks from government offices averred, to ensure against Syrian aggression, Rabin would insist that the area be demilitarized and the U.S. station troops between Syrians and Israelis.
Rabin's "you tell me first what kind of peace you want and I'll tell you how much land I'll give" created the impression that the Syrians had not made their position clear. Yet soon after the resumption of negotiations under the Labor government, the Syrian delegation submitted a document summarizing its position. It indicated that Damascus had not budged an inch from its insistence on total Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines on all fronts, and that in return it was willing to commit to no more than a state of nonbelligerency.
This document so disappointed the Israeli government that it asked the Syrian delegation not to publish it, a request which may have constituted a historic first: a democratic government asking a dictatorial regime to keep an exchange secret for fear that the information would adversely affect public opinion. To this day, the only open source of the document's contents is the Arab press to which it was leaked by the Syrians. Israel has yet to release it.2
This, however, was a relatively minor episode in a much more elaborate effort by the Israeli government—one in which the press collaborated—to sell Assad not only as a leader who needed and wanted peace but as a man of honor. The evidence for this, said ministers and columnists, was there for all to see: the separation agreement on the Golan Heights, which had been observed by Syria for twenty years (with the exception of a few forays by terrorists, for which the Syrians were not held responsible). Assad might be a ruthless dictator, but his signature on a contract would be binding.
Forgotten were a few pertinent facts. The reason the Syrians have been careful not to provoke the Israelis on the Golan Heights is that the Israeli army there is within striking distance of Damascus. In Lebanon, where Israeli retaliation can hurt only Hezbollah cadres, Palestinian terrorists, and Shiite villagers, Syria's scruples about agreements have seemed to disappear.
Indeed, Assad's record of broken agreements easily matches that of other Middle Eastern dictators. In 1983, he broke a pledge he had made to the Reagan administration (via the Saudis) that he would accept the Israeli-Lebanese peace treaty and withdraw his troops from Lebanon. He did the opposite: as soon as Israel began to get out, he poured more troops into Lebanon. He completed the effective annexation of the country in 1990, after having joined the anti-Iraq coalition and being rewarded by the Bush administration with carte blanche in Beirut. And recently his Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Sharaa, declared that Lebanon and Syria were "like one country."
Assad is also in violation of the Saudi-sponsored Taif agreement, endorsed by all the Arab states, which stipulates the withdrawal of Syrian troops and the restoration of Lebanese sovereignty. This September marks precisely a year since Syrian troops were supposed to have left Beirut.
Even more puzzling is the current Israeli government's support of the notion—a favorite of European and American diplomats—that Assad is pursuing peace. Hezbollah, the Iranian-financed organization whose almost daily attacks on Israeli targets finally led to the retaliatory strikes of late July, trains its 3-5,000 highly motivated fighters in Syrian camps, under Syrian supervision, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. It is equipped with Syrian arms, including potent Sager missiles, and Iranian arms brought through Damascus. The organization could not have mounted a single major operation against Israel without Syrian approval. Yet as soon as Labor came to power, Hezbollah became an "Iranian organization" operating independently. Indeed, it was only after the cease-fire ending the fighting in late July that Syria's role in "standing behind" Hezbollah was alluded to by Rabin (which did not prevent him from praising Assad a few days later).
Ignored, too, has been Syrian sponsorship of the Palestinians who openly call for the destruction of the Jewish state by force of arms. Last year, Syria held a conference of the ten "rejectionist" groups—among them Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the radical PLO factions—in Damascus, where many of these organizations have their headquarters. Syria also directs the operation of Radio Al Quds, beamed to the administered territories, which incites Palestinians against the "traitors" in their midst who negotiate with Israel. Unlike their Israeli apologists, the Syrians are quite frank about supporting the "armed struggle" as long as Israel occupies "Arab land." And they have flatly rejected Israeli demands to disarm Hezbollah and the Palestinians in southern Lebanon. In the peace talks the Syrians have rejected all Israeli suggestions to discuss a truce in Lebanon.
Nor has Assad slowed down the feverish pace of Syrian arming. Having replenished and modernized all branches of its armed forces, Syria surpasses Israel in virtually all major classes of military equipment, let alone in the number of troops. In April, Syria began to manufacture Scud-C missiles in factories near Hama and Aleppo.
Occasionally, Prime Minister Rabin and Foreign Minister Peres mention Syrian missile acquisitions and continued Syrian testing of sophisticated missiles. Israeli field commanders on the northern front also talk gravely of Syria's formidable new power. But mostly government spokesmen suggest that the Assad regime's march to peace is inexorable and must not be interrupted with irritating cavils about arms build-ups or backing Hezbollah.
The press is even worse. Not unlike Soviet apologists in the West during the cold war, Assad's promoters in the Israeli media explain that Syria is just as concerned about an Israeli attack as Israel is about Syrian aggression. Only when ambushes and shelling by Hezbollah cost the lives of Israeli soldiers in July did the press begin to question Syria's role, gingerly. Yet after the mini-Lebanese war caused by these attacks, Syria was given credit for helping to end it.
The army brass, too, has collaborated in pushing the notion that an agreement with Syria is a sine qua non of peace. The chief of the General Staff, Ehud Barak, making the kind of political pronouncement men in uniform are usually expected to avoid, has warned that failure to achieve an agreement with Syria would trigger a countdown to war. To which one wag responded, "Does such a countdown mean that Syria would start arming?" Barak also extolled Assad as a "responsible leader" following the cease-fire in Lebanon.
A similar make-believe approach has dominated the government line on the Palestinians. Terrorist attacks on Israelis are routinely attributed either to lone Muslim fanatics suddenly driven to murder Jews, or to the actions of Hamas cells. Yet the truth is that a majority of terrorist acts, against both Jews and Palestinian Arabs accused of "collaboration," are committed by the secular Fatah, Arafat's own group in the PLO. And despite the reputed rivalry between the PLO and Hamas, some of the operations are mounted by them as joint efforts. Arafat himself has repeatedly taken credit for every "execution" in the territories. ("I approve every file," he once said, "if not before the execution, then after it.")
Nevertheless, government spokesmen prefer to pretend that the killers are not operatives of the "moderate" Arafat, supporter of the peace talks, but "enemies of the peace process" such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and PLO radicals like the Habash, Hawatmeh, and Jibril groups. The not unreasonable assumption behind this charade is that the public might resent continued talks with proxies of the "mainstream" PLO in Washington while its gunmen are killing Israelis back home.
The separation between negotiators and killers was reinforced by Peres when he was asked why the subject of continued terrorism, both in Israel and the administered territories as well as on the Lebanon border, was not brought up at the peace talks. "Because the people who are doing the talking are not the people who are doing the shooting," he answered.
Yet leaving aside whether it makes sense to negotiate with people who do not control those "who are doing the shooting," the government is perfectly aware of Arafat's connection with terrorist activity. In early July, Minister of Health Haim Ramon, a rising Labor-party star who often represents the government in Knesset debates, was reported to have contacted Arafat with the proposal of a trade: direct Israeli negotiations with the PLO in exchange for the cessation of terrorism. The answer was a flat no.
This points to another government-propagated myth. When asked about the absence of reciprocal gestures by the Palestinians, Peres said, "There is nothing the Palestinians could give us. We just have to decide what we want to give them." In fact, however, a halt to terrorism is only one "confidence-building" gesture the Palestinians might make. Another would be to lift the boycott on Israeli goods in the territories and to appeal to the Arab states to terminate their economic boycott against Israel. But the Palestinians have been doing the exact opposite. When Kuwait announced that it was lifting the "secondary" boycott—the banning of foreign companies that do business with Israel from Arab markets—the Palestinian leadership yelled treason.
What the government seems unwilling to admit, perhaps even to itself, is that terrorist activity and guerrilla warfare are not "a campaign against the peace process." Individual members of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah may indeed believe that the peace process is a satanic Zionist-American plot, but the Arabs participating in the peace negotiations who use the services of these organizations—Syria and the PLO—are simply following a traditional totalitarian strategy of shooting while talking.
The immediate purpose of the shooting is to inflict as many Israeli casualties as possible. ("I want Israel to see a funeral a day on the TV screen," Assad said during the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 1984.) The ultimate goal is to create internal pressure in Israel for a speedier peace settlement which would presumably stop the killing. A grieving Kiryat Shemona mother was shown on television after a Katyusha bombardment from Lebanon crying, "Enough, give them what they want, it's time to make peace." Similarly, clashes with the army are aimed at demoralizing Israel's soldiers. If peace is really at hand, getting killed defending a piece of land slated to be relinquished makes little sense.
It is, of course, possible that branding the terrorists "enemies of the peace process" is the government's way of deflecting criticism from its Left flank for its tough anti-terrorist measures. After all, Rabin sold his super-dovish Meretz coalition partners on the expulsion of 400 Hamas agitators by assuring them that it would strengthen the PLO's position and help the peace process. And following this year's Black March, in which terrorist killings—mostly inside the Green Line—occurred almost daily, the government imposed an open-ended closure on the administered territories with nary a peep from Meretz. (Had the Likud deprived 120,000 Arab workers of their livelihood for any length of time, the Left would have been in an uproar heard around the world.)
In the first weeks of the closure, terrorist attacks ceased almost completely. That Palestinian laborers were prevented from crossing the Green Line caused hardship and losses not only to them but to Israeli builders, industrialists, and farmers. Yet the public reacted with a sigh of relief. At which point the government began to view the closure as more than a security measure; now it was seen as a brilliant political move. The assumption was that the luxury of life free of terrorism would make a majority of Israelis long for the day when Israel would relinquish the territories.
What seems to have been overlooked in this picture was that only the Israeli army's presence in the territories made the closure effective. Nor was this effectiveness a product of the separation in itself. Greatly assisted by the forced immobility of the population, the army could now make virtually unhindered house-to-house searches, discover terrorist cells, and round up known individual terrorists by the hundreds. The results were nothing short of spectacular. Most of the men wanted for killings of Israelis and "collaborators" were either apprehended or forced to flee the country (mainly to Egypt).
It was this blow to the terrorist organizations, rather than the closure—which was in effect suspended within weeks—that reduced terrorist activities to a minimum. But the government, preferring to attribute the relaxation to "the separation," continued to perpetuate the myth that the closure was still in effect well after 60,000 registered Palestinian workers and 10,000 others had returned to work in Israel.
The government also seems to have overlooked something else. The brief initial separation of the Palestinians in the territories from Jerusalem made them realize how dependent they are on their leaders and their offices, institutions, newspapers, and information services, all of which are located in the eastern part of the city. Ultimately, the most dramatic accomplishment of the closure may have been the sharpening of the Palestinian demand for the inclusion of east Jerusalem in the autonomy plan and the future Palestinian state. "The Israelis and the Americans had better realize," said the Palestinian negotiator Haider Abdel Shafi in mid-July, "that without an Arab Jerusalem there will be no peace."
Shafi's observation is probably correct. His assessment of the ten rounds of talks in the twenty months since Madrid as utterly devoid of results is also far more accurate than Peres's glowing expressions of optimism. (Rabin has been more restrained.) Even the agreement with Jordan—"all we need is a pen to sign it with," said Peres before the beginning of the tenth round—proved a chimera. The delegations had come together on a draft according to which Israel would relinquish areas on the Jordan river bank and south of the Dead Sea, in return for Jordan's willingness to sign an agenda containing the words "it is anticipated that the process will culminate in a peace treaty." But the draft, subject to approval by the respective governments, came back from Amman with "minor clarifications": the Jerusalem issue must be resolved first; all the administered territories must be referred to as "occupied"; and the reference to a peace treaty at the end of the road must be eliminated. Here, too, the negotiations were back to square one.
The Labor government's negotiating strategy is not easy to fathom. From the start, Rabin made one concession after another without a hint of reciprocation. Before the tenth round he declared—implicitly acknowledging what he had been doing up to that point—that the time of one-sided concessions was over. But he never said what he expected from the Arab side.
Concomitantly, the government has been portraying developments in rosy terms when in fact no progress has been registered. Even the one concession the Syrians had made to the Likud government—allowing Syrian Jews to emigrate—was withdrawn soon after Labor came to power. Nor did the hoped-for moderation of Palestinian demands—which was supposed to follow Israel's agreement to include Jerusalemite Faisal Husseini in the Palestinian delegation—ever materialize. On the contrary, the question of Jerusalem, which must be postponed to a later stage if any progress is to be made on the interim arrangements, became the central issue.
Overly optimistic pronouncements are probably unavoidable during negotiations. They are often used to create momentum and place the ball in the adversary's court. But under present circumstances it is difficult to see the purpose of a consistently Pollyannaish Israeli campaign. One possible explanation is that the government is deceiving itself about the willingness of the Arabs to make peace on terms that do not entail full Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, as well as all other territories taken in the Six-Day War, and a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. Another, less charitable, explanation is that the dovish faction led by Peres hopes to make the expectation of peace so overwhelming that prices which seemed prohibitive to the Israeli people only yesterday will seem worth paying tomorrow.
The Palestinians, like all the Arab regimes, enjoy an advantage democracies do not have. They can be intransigent and hard-nosed without fear of internal pressures for concessions and compromises. On the contrary, they must fear assassination if they do make concessions. Whatever some Israeli doves may imagine, it is a given that the Palestinians will not budge from the demand that autonomy—and later sovereignty—include half of Jerusalem. And it can be taken for granted that they will not agree to any substantial compromises on the territorial definition of autonomy: it will have to extend to all of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Nor will they give up on officially including the PLO in the talks.
Against these demands stands Yitzhak Rabin, who still insists on a few traditional Labor-party "no's": no discussion of the permanent solution before autonomy is established; no return to the 1949 armistice lines; no relinquishing of the Jordan valley and Gush Etzion settlements; no direct negotiations with the PLO; and no compromise on Jerusalem, which must stay undivided under Israeli sovereignty. But Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin, who voices Peres's opinions, has indicated a willingness to yield on all these points—with the possible exception of Jerusalem.
If Peres, Beilin, and the dovish faction in the government have their way, the gap between the Arabs' minimum and Israel's maximum will become so narrow as to be imperceptible. And what until recently was quite unthinkable—the establishment of a Palestinian state in the administered territories, the relinquishment of the Golan Heights, and perhaps even the division of Jerusalem into two capitals—may become official government policy.
1 Predictably, this made the Palestinians assume they could bring up the matter of Jerusalem immediately, rather than at the negotiations on the permanent solution. This in turn caused an impasse in the negotiations which prompted the Clinton administration to send a diplomatic team headed by Dennis Ross to Israel to reconcile PLO and Israeli positions.
2 See Yigal Carmon's letter on pp. 2-3 above.—Ed.