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2014 and still no hover cars?
at least make hover skateboards, sheet
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The only practical usage I can think of for a hovercar would be driving in the snow. Goodbye, black ice. Hello, smooth sailing. And can you imagine what those bad boys would cost? Us normal folk will never hover.
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I just got a buncha sfr vinyl what.
Then I had a dream I went to see Sage at some dive venue. He played 3 songs and 3 videos that sorta melted together. And he had an acoustic guitar. After the show he hung out with the small crowd. I had my PJ record gripped tightly ready for him to sign. I glanced up to see him standing next to me. Doodling something in my notebook. I didn't realize exactly what he was doing and was so happy to be near him I just immediately asked if he'd sign my record. He looked up at me a little confused then shrugged. Took it and signed it small and hard to see on the dark part of the record cover. I was pumped and didn't even care. I started walking home and flipped through my notebook. I found the page sage was doodling on and it was an incomplete awesome original artwork made especially for me. I knew right then and there that I made a huge mistake. I should've let you finish.
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hover cars and flying cars are 2 different things though,......right?
one hovers above ground
the other flys in the air
we should at LEAST have the hover cars around by now
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I think me and some friends saw what may have been hovercar prototypes over south minneapolis last summer. Or weird zeppelins. They were these things that looked radiant, that all suddenly raised straight into the air from south mpls, and when they hit a certain point, one after one, they all moved south east on the same lines, and they had what appeared to be planes following around them in a formation. I took a picture of one. We all just stood there with our mouths hanging open. They looked like giant flaming vehicles high up in the sky, lit up like hot air balloon furnaces, but sorta squarish. When they all hit a certain point, they appeared to disappear suddenly, one after the next. I had a friend throw it in his computer the other day and look at the pic I took of one in Photoshop. We blackened the sky all around it, and it made the object bright red against the black and it seemed to have the shape of an arthropod, or whatever ants are called. Thin in the middle, medium on the end and big on the front... anyways, I don't know how to attach the picture here...or you guys could try to blow it up and look at it in shop... I wasn't the only one to see it. Also, in the pic in photoshop, we realised that in the night sky around the object, the sky glowed a color, but only under/around the object, as if it were radiating light and changing the color of the sky, or something on the ground where it came from was radiating light.
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Quote: Bansky is a careerist one joke Mcdonalds generation sloganeer who appeals to the disaffected think theyre hip mediochrity who try to gain kudos off him by wallowing in his shallow pseudo political messages. Graffiti has always been about individuation with the form out weighing the message. Real graffiti artists live their art and arent out to make pretty pictures for the masses. Bansky gives you what you want Robbo gives you what you need. Unfortunately the majority of you inbreds fail to see this and confuse this with the ego. Unfortunately we live in a capitalist society where people can only see worth in something that is a service to themselves. "What does it do for me" mentality, everything demoted to a mass produced template. The polished faultless production line creation , sterile ,easily valued mass produced becomes more worthy than the handmade. Wake up people, Robin always wanted to make fools of you and you all fell for it.. all the way to the bank, suckers. Garffiti will always be a political powerful tool when it remains ugly and illegal not some nice forgetable fad slogan on your t-shirt to be marketed and tainted. so kids take a pen and baptise yourselves on the streets write over what you have been forced to endure, reclaim your view from what is essentialy ugly ie man made.become like nature. remember real people dont use masks.
mancabbage wrote: yeah man check that graf wars doc - its exactly what you want, i don't know how you could see it in the US without a torrent though as it was a one n done kinda thing for British tv, theres a torrent floating about thpough
mancabbage wrote: you seen style wars yee? The whole movie was on youtube last time i checked
Confidential wrote: I think the cultural and social change of graffiti, sometimes ugly and sloppy, is most exciting when it is outside the purview of controlling institutions.
TurnpikeGates wrote: mancabbage wrote: you seen style wars yee? The whole movie was on youtube last time i checked
Definitely, a couple times. But in this instance I'm more interested in graff artists' perceptions of, say, the type of stuff often on Wooster Collective. People have been making illegal public art for a long time, but It seems like from the 70's to the end of the 20th Century, the dominant form was spray-painted, stylized text. I want to know how the purveyors of that form, and members of that culture, feel about everything from cutesy animal stencils to stuff that's explicitly political or 'subversive' but doesn't align with graffiti culture aesthetically.
mancabbage wrote: Had to mention style wars though cos... yeah, its good init.
Confidential wrote: One trend that does bother me quite a bit is not so much the change in medium, but the institutionalization, legitimization, and management of graffiti. I find this to be contradictory to the autonomous nature and rebellious spirit of graffiti.
An example of what I am talking about can be found in local non-profit organizations in my area. these organizations, often involve youth services and attract young taggers through referrals from probation departments, schools, etc. They allow the kids to do their graffiti in legitimate venues - eg art shows, canvas, murals. My problem is not that I'm opposed to art shows, but that the non-profitization of youth culture, to me kills the spirit of it all and exposes the youth to a system of censorship and control. The adults, often in collaboration with local police ("look at what a good job we do of reforming these kids!") get to set the parameters of what, where, and how is legitimate graff, what is art.
I don't mean to romanticize street culture, however, the vandalism aspect is part of it. Despite the institutional attempts to manage and sanitize it, I think the cultural and social change of graffiti, sometimes ugly and sloppy, is most exciting when it is outside the purview of controlling institutions.
TurnpikeGates wrote: Confidential wrote: I think the cultural and social change of graffiti, sometimes ugly and sloppy, is most exciting when it is outside the purview of controlling institutions.
What about non-institutional co-optation? Like the assimilation into white/middle-class/mainstream culture at large? This has always happened in and around the culture itself, but now it seems like hipsters and art students want in on the fun on their own terms--not to join the culture, but just to taste the safer end of subversion.
See now I sound like I'm inserting my own critique, but I'm trying to be ethnographic here...I'm moreso repeating things I've heard. Am I making up the idea that kids who can get stabbed over their art feel resentment toward kids who stencil balloons onto stop signs?

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Just installed PMS, previously used TVersity. Have a few problems, the first i had with TVersity aswell.
1) When i hear music (MP3-files), i have a 10-30 second lag from i press play or next, until the wanted song actually starts playing. I have tried deactivating firewall, antivirus etc. on the server, but with no greater luck. It could easily be the same with videos, but as i don't "jump around" in them, i haven't really noticed. Navigating the folders is not slow though - a folder will load in a few seconds TOPS!
2) When i try to play a video, the folder containing the video will not "open". I can select it, but if i hit the x-button, nothing happens. For example, if i have a video-file in c:\Doc..\downloads\videos\funstuff - then i can easily navigate to the videos subfolder - and then i can select the folder 'funstuff', but if i press x, nothing happens. The obvious question here is 'Did you select video in xmb', and yes - i did. Music does not give me this problem, and probably photos neither, but i haven't checked.
Do any of you have a solution to one of these - or both - problems, then i would appreciate some help. I haven't tested all options yet, but as i have no clue where the problem is, i feel like i'm just stabbing in the dark, and that seems like a waste of time if someone has knowledge of the problem. My next stab will probably be trying to setup port settings on the router.


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The NBA's Night Off That Wasn't
Were you watching the NBA on Thursday night? It was pretty great. Two of the best teams in the league played a close, tense game that was decided in the final minute by an ecstatic burst of heroics, as Ray Allen hit a go-ahead 3-pointer to pull the Miami Heat over the San Antonio Spurs. But to commissioner David Stern, this was unacceptable. Before the game, he released a statement saying that "substantial sanctions" would be levied on the Spurs because of coach Gregg Popovich's decision to send home four of his team's top players — among them All-Stars Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker — in order to rest.
Pulling his team's biggest stars from a TNT-televised game against the league's most popular team is, on the scale of troll-ish Gregg Popovich moves, a decently rude thing to do. But there's no doubt that there were legitimate basketball reasons for doing so, considering San Antonio's overloaded schedule and the fact that they play the Memphis Grizzlies, who carry the Western Conference's best record, on Saturday. These things happen, too, because the regular season is a horse race and coaches develop their own strategies to ensure their players are prepared to make a championship push in June, as opposed to playing too hard and pulling a muscle in November. What may have ticked off Stern, though, is the transparency with which Popovich made his decision, explicitly putting his players on a plane back to San Antonio rather than withholding them with the typical list of exaggerated NBA ailments: flu symptoms, strained muscle, old age. Stern has also penalized teams in the past for making similar star-resting moves, though it's left up to history whether he ever used language as seriously as he did this time. But considering the thrilling finale, close score and fact that the Spurs reserves almost pulled off the upset, it's hard to say that fans didn't get a taste of an entertaining product, even if it wasn't as nice as seeing a trio of All-Stars.
"There are Spurs fans in Miami who have probably waited all year for this game, the one time their favorite team comes to town, and instead of the Hall of Famers, they got Matt Bonner and Tiago Splitter. That's pretty brutal. I can admit that the move was tactically intelligent to a degree and overall harmless while still thinking 'Oh, man, what a bummer,'" Matt Moore writes for CBS Sports. "But doling out a disappointment is not something that allows for Stern to send down the wrath from high atop the thing. You can't fine the Wizards for managing their cap terribly, can't fine the Bulls for playing starters too much, and you can't punish Popovich for taking a whizz on hardworking people in pursuit of… whatever it is he's trying to accomplish by resting his guys in a game in November, five months from the playoffs."
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Though the New Orleans Saints, depleted after a round of bounty-scandal suspensions, began this season 0-4, they'd since clawed out a respectable record while clinging onto the idea of sneaking in as an unlikely playoff wild card. Those hopes look to be a little more far-fetched for the moment, as the Saints were unceremoniously bounced by the Atlanta Falcons in the rare Thursday Night Football matchup that actually seemed entertaining going in. More surprising than the game's watchability, however, was the cessation of a record owned by Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who'd previously thrown a touchdown pass in 54 straight games over the past four seasons. In fact, Brees may have had his worst game as a professional, throwing five picks and ensuring the Saints won't be in control of their own postseason destiny, as they'd have to win out while also hoping the other teams ahead of them trip up. That Brees made a bunch of easy mistakes was out of the ordinary, but there can't be any doubt that the NFC South belongs to the 11-1 Falcons, at least for now.
"We may never know how much the Saints' bounty scandal cost them this year. Would they have started 0-4 with Sean Payton as their coach? Did the suspensions and lawsuits and accusations sap their energy? Let's just say this: It could not have helped. And maybe the Saints brought that on themselves or maybe they didn't — that's a whole other discussion," Michael Rosenberg writes for Sports Illustrated. "But there is a small difference between greatness and mediocrity in the NFL. The Saints planned on one and ended up with the other."
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Mariano Rivera's untimely ACL injury earlier this year was a bummer for anyone who's ever appreciated his flagless closing skills, whether or not they'd claim to be a Yankees fan. It wouldn't have been surprising, given his age and the severity of the injury, for Rivera to call it a career after racking up countless records, rings and financial reward over a nearly 20-year reign in the league. Such speculation appears to have been premature, as the Yankees are apparently on the verge of re-signing him to a lucrative one-year, $10 million contract that would presumably see him refill his former role, which had been covered by the possibly departed Rafael Soriano during the 2012 season. Of course, it's wildly early to say if Rivera could prove the difference for a Yankees team that was swept out of the playoffs. But at the very least, it'll be pleasant to see a familiar face.
It's a bit of a different picture for the New York Mets, who could only be picked as a 2013 contender by a fortune teller tripped out on bath salts. But it's important for the Mets to keep at least some stars in their big, shiny stadium, which is why they re-signed third basement David Wright to the most expensive contract in team history: eight years and nearly $140 million, which should go toward ensuring the franchise hits leader stays in Queens for the rest of his days. His ubiquity as a fan favorite and the financial and statistical argument for keeping him aboard would seem to justify the price, especially as he rebounded this season after a down 2011 year. "Whatever the particulars and quibbles," Andy Martino writes for the New York Daily News, "the big picture is more important for player and franchise: The 30-year-old Wright, who already holds many franchise records, including hits and runs batted in, will likely finish his career as a Met, and serve as club ambassador after that." It would be even nicer if the Mets got their act together while he was still playing.
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NEW BEDFORD — A masked man robbed a West End 7-Eleven convenience store at gunpoint Wednesday night, police said.
The suspect entered the store at 489 Rockdale Ave. at 11 p.m., pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded money from the register, Detective Sgt. Dean Fredericks of the Major Crimes Unit said.
He fled the store with cash, Fredericks said.
There were no injuries in the robbery. The suspect wore dark clothing and is about 6 feet tall.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective William Westgate at 508-991-6300, ext. 136.
Fredericks said it is department policy not to release the amount of money stolen in robberies.
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Fluoride is a mineral that helps prevent tooth decay and dental cavities. It is added to local water supplies, toothpastes, and other mouth care products. Most communities in the United States have fluoride added to their water supply. Studies show a reduction in tooth decay of 50% or more in children if fluoride is added to a community's water supply.1
To find out how much fluoride is in your drinking water, call your local water company or the state health department. If you have your own well, have the state health department check your water to find out if your family needs fluoride from other sources.
Normal amounts of fluoride added to public water supplies and bottled water are safe for children and adults. If your child needs extra fluoride, your dentist may recommend supplements. Use these supplements only as directed. And keep them out of reach of your child. Too much fluoride can be toxic and can stain a child's teeth.
Ask your doctor or dentist whether your children need fluoride treatments. If your children need fluoride, your dentist will recommend additional sources of fluoride. Research shows that fluoride gels, toothpastes, and varnishes reduce tooth decay in children and teens.2
Too much fluoride swallowed during the early childhood years may cause white, brown, or black spots or streaks on the outside of the teeth (fluorosis). This may also cause the tooth enamel to become rough.
Can fluoride be dangerous?
Fluoride is safe in the amounts provided in water supplies but can be toxic in large amounts. Toxic levels depend on your child's weight. A lethal dose of fluoride for a 3-year-old child is 500 mg and is even less for a younger child or infant. Keep all products containing fluoride, such as toothpastes and mouthwashes, away from children. If you think your child may have swallowed too much fluoride, call your local poison control center or the National Poison Control Hotline right away at 1-800-222-1222.
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I used to love it, but now I'm having to buy Transmit instead. Cyberduck crashes constantly these days which is really inconvenient when i have several files open for editing. Also, if it fails while uploading a file, I end up with an empty file on the server. Yikes!
I want to like Cyberduck but it doesn't quite work that well for me. It seems to take forever to get the directory list from my server (served via Cerebus) when Transmit does not. Also it just seems slower connection wise as well. For example, if I am download multiple files in succession there is a far greater pause between files with Cyberduck. It might be that Cerebus likes Transmit better for some reason though.
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My last experiences with Cyberduck were quite frustrating (timeout problems, huge load of RAM), but now I must admit the new version (cyberduck 3 3966) works like a charm.
It used to work, but now it's getting slower and slower and gives lot of timeout problems other clients don't have.
Probably this is a problem that is going to be solved, but by now I'm forced to look for other clients.
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Pulse Measurement
Your pulse is the rate at which your heart beats. Your pulse is usually called your heart rate, which is the number of times your heart beats each minute (bpm). But the rhythm and strength of the heartbeat can also be noted, as well as whether the blood vessel feels hard or soft. Changes in your heart rate or rhythm, a weak pulse, or a hard blood vessel may be caused by heart disease or another problem.
As your heart pumps blood through your body, you can feel a pulsing in some of the blood vessels close to the skin's surface, such as in your wrist, neck, or upper arm. Counting your pulse rate is a simple way to find out how fast your heart is beating.
Your doctor will usually check your pulse during a physical examination or in an emergency, but you can easily learn to check your own pulse . You can check your pulse the first thing in the morning, just after you wake up but before you get out of bed. This is called a resting pulse. Some people like to check their pulse before and after they exercise.
You check your pulse rate by counting the beats in a set period of time (at least 15 to 20 seconds) and multiplying that number to get the number of beats per minute. Your pulse changes from minute to minute. It will be faster when you exercise, have a fever, or are under stress. It will be slower when you are resting.
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- See how well the heart is working. In an emergency situation, your pulse rate can help find out if the heart is pumping enough blood.
- Help find the cause of symptoms, such as an irregular or rapid heartbeat (palpitations), dizziness, fainting, chest pain, or shortness of breath.
- Check for blood flow after an injury or when a blood vessel may be blocked.
- Check on medicines or diseases that cause a slow heart rate. Your doctor may ask you to check your pulse every day if you have heart disease or if you are taking certain medicines that can slow your heart rate, such as digoxin or beta-blockers (such as atenolol or propranolol).
- Check your general health and fitness level. Checking your pulse rate at rest, during exercise, or immediately after vigorous exercise can give you important information about your overall fitness level.
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3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware.
3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.
3DMark Vantage does get a slight boost using DDR3 memory as opposed to DDR2, but again, it's not a big leap.


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Interview with Edward Hervey about the PiTiVI video editor
If you don't already know, PiTiVI is an open source non-linear video editor. It's still in the relatively early stages of development, with quite limited functionality compared to some of the well known commercial tools, used in production environments. PiTiVI is written in Python and uses the Gstreamer framework to do the back-end heavy lifting. While PiTiVI still has a long way to go, the last 12 months has seen some good advances and dedicated resources being assigned to the team by Collabora Multimedia.
Here's an interesting interview with lead developer Edward Hervey, talking about the past, present and future plans for PiTiVI.
I've tried to use PiTiVI in the past, but unfortunately found it too limited for my editing needs. Subsequently I switched to Blender, which while predominantly a 3D authoring tool, does include a reasonably powerful video sequence editor. The learning curve for Blender is quite steep, so it's not for everyone. Let's hope a tool like PiTiVI can emerge to make open source video editing much easier and accessible for everyone.


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BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — Members of the Truckee Public Art Commission toured the art installed at Burning Man as guests of the Black Rock Art Foundation. Pictured from left: Carole Sesko, Chuck Grooms, Greg Van Loon, Knute Ascomb, Celia Howe, Pam McAdoo and Steve Randall. A Burning Man art exhibit will remain on display at the Truckee Donner Recreation andamp; Park District's Community Recreation Center through September at 8924 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, at the Pioneer Center round-a-bout. Find the Truckee Public Art Commission on Facebook.
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For the next week, people from all over the country will live in a tiny part of rural Mississippi, attending the Neshoba County Fair. The tradition has lasted more than a century.
"I think that so many people are catching on that you got to be happy," said fair veteran Mildred Estes. "Regardless what's going on. And this is the place to start!"
It does seem to be a proven fact that Mississippi's "Giant House Party" does not lack in the happiness department, or the entertainment department.
"Today the main entertainment will be the rodeo," said Doug Johnson, fair association general manager. "We always look forward to that, and of course, that's the main entertainment for tomorrow night as well."
And there is always good live music at the fair. This yea,r most girls seemed fairly excited about Tuesday night's performer.
"Luke Bryan is coming so me and a lot of my friends are coming for that," said Mary Alice Turner.
The Pavilion on the Square is famous not only for music and entertainment but for political announcements and speeches.
Political expert Sid Salter says that the speeches made by politicians and political campaigners will be exciting, not only under the pavilion but under the oak trees as well.
"I think Delbert Hosemann's speech will be one of the most anticipated among the statewide elective officials," Salter said. "Obviously there will be a lot of attention paid to Lt. Governor Phil Bryant's speech and to Tate Reeves' (state treasurer) speech. Stacy Pickering's (state auditor) speech will be another speech that people will be listening for."
Gov. Haley Barbour will give the final speech Thursday at 11 a.m. So it looks like everything is covered. Food, music, politics, and entertainment.


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Local choir to hold anniversary concert
Published: Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
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The Les Amis de la Chanson's silver anniversary concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales, 500 Goode St., Houma. My invitation doesn't mention anything about the vocal pieces the longstanding choir will undertake for this Christmas season, marking 25 years of making Christmas music together.
The concert is free, and the group never fails to please, so be sure to hear for yourself.
Choice gifts: Just in time for Christmas, a bibliophile's dream, choice books in hardly used condition, for a fraction of their original cost. The Friends of the Terrebonne Public Library's annual book sale is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library St., Houma.
The donated, like-new tomes will sell for $1.50 per inch of thickness, and $10 will buy a stack more that six inches thick. For information, call Rachel LeCompte at 876-5861.
Delray Boulevard: Looking for outstanding Christmas displays in local yards? Check out Delray, off Park Avenue, less than one mile north of Southdown Mall, 5953 W. Park Ave., Houma. You'll find a pair of dueling yard displays on either side of the boulevard.
Joe Talemo, on the left, has long been an enthusiastic Christmas decorator, traveling all over in search of additional items. Vic Michel, on the right, is strongly competitive, front yard for front yard.
And those lucky enough to get a look at the Talemo backyard, find it outdoes the front. I got a preview of both Talemo yards last week, by daylight, while Joe was still touching up the colors on a few big toy soldiers.
I expect the displays will improve in the darkness, with the strings of lights turned on.
Other spots? I have not gone looking for other displays. I am relying on readers to help with that by emailing what to look for and where. If a display pleases you, by its size, design, originality or any other criteria, speak up and share.
Tryout reminder: Auditions for the Le Petit Theatre de Terrebonne's next production, "Secondary Cause of Death," are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the theater, 7829 Main St., Houma.
Cast includes three men and six women, but some of the actors from "Murdered to Death" may return to continue their roles. Greg Whitney directs. For information, call 876-4278 or 852-1958.
In time? I recently reported my neighbor's unfortunate encounter with "no parking" signs at a Houma boat launch, and the complications he encountered in attempting to pay the ticket. It has gotten worse. David says he still intends to pay the ticket, but last week he was mugged and lost his wallet and its contents. It may be a last-hour pay off.
Thanksgiving: We feasted with family, Al and Yvonne, on turkey, ham and the "fixings." Overeating was a guilty joy.
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Another year is almost over and 2014 is knocking on our doors! Hopefully it can be a year where we all welcome the visitor, who will bring many positive gifts.
For me, 2013 was a kind of a difficult year. Not as traumatic as 2012 was, but it was still hard. I faced a lot of challenges with mental health, lost a friend to suicide, lost my dear grandparents dog and lived in a numb daze a lot of the time. However, I was lucky in that I had my parents there for me and two good
noodles friends named Nicole and Claire who put up with my craziness and for some strange reason still wanted to be friends. Siriusly Seriously though, they really helped me in so many ways and inspired to give me hope.
What do I want for 2014? I mainly hope that I can settle and try to find stability. I don't want to make major plans for the future until I am at a place where I am thinking clearly and can handle all that goes with major decisions (take 2012, where I thought my only option was to start a business). I hope that I will reach out for help and keep striving to get to a good place while also still working on creative projects and sharing love with the people I care about.
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Apps UX Team on the Road: Oracle Usability Lab, Presentations, and Demos at OBUG Benelux Connect 2013
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Feb 26, 2013
For the fourth year in a row, the Oracle Applications User Experience (Apps UX) team will be present at OBUG Benelux Connect in Antwerp, Belgium. It's a one-day event, and the agenda is jam-packed. The Apps UX team is bringing OBUG members a number of activities that will connect them with UX experts, depending on their conference agenda and interests. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get involved. Here is the line-up:
User Feedback Sessions
The Oracle Applications User Experience team will conduct user feedback sessions again at OBUG Benelux Connect. All customers and partners in the Benelux region may get involved. Last year at OBUG 2012 in Maastricht, 20 customers and partners participated in UX sessions. The number of Benelux customers and partners who continuously collaborate with the Apps UX team has been growing each year. Oracle customers and partners are invited to participate in a usability feedback session. Get a peek at Oracle's next-generation enterprise application designs and learn about Oracle's pioneering user-centered design process. Your feedback will help Oracle develop unbeatable products and solutions. This year, we are looking for the following job profiles to participate: Employees, Product Managers, Sales Representatives, Consultants, Project Managers, and more.
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- You will have the ability to contribute to and influence product direction and design for Oracle's next-generation software applications.
- You can participate early in the lifecycle of a product, rather than after a product is released.
- You will get an exclusive chance to have your voice heard by the people who are actually designing your work-flows.
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Sessions will be scheduled on an individual basis on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Antwerp, Belgium, and will last approximately one hour. If you are interested in participating, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject "Sign me up for a UX Feedback Session at OBUG Benelux Connect."
Demo Station: Applications User Experience Innovations
This year, the Oracle Applications User Experience team will run a demo pod on the vendor showcase. Experience first-hand, how Oracle does user research on the eye-tracker. Find out what user trends Oracle is paying attention to by getting a look at the new simplified experience on the tablet, and learn about the direction of mobile for smartphones. If you are a customer, come discuss the trends and pressures you face around end-user adoption. If you are a partner, come find out about Applications User Experience enablement on implementations and for custom applications.
Applications User Experience Presentations
The Oracle Applications UX team is offering sessions that might interest you. Learn more about the team's presentations and involvement by visiting UsableApps.
These members of the Apps UX Team were at OBUG Benelux Connect 2012 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. You'll see many of the same faces this year as well, at OBUG Benelux Connect 2013.


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Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 10:46 a.m.
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Several Sarasota County School District schools and departments as well as individuals, businesses and community organizations were recognized and thanked at the Sept. 17 School Board meeting for contributing personal items to U.S. Navy personnel stationed in Afghanistan.
Each honoree received an American flag and a certificate to validate that it had been flown over an American base in Afghanistan.
The recipients included Sarasota County School District; the district's Facilities, Transportation and Food and Nutrition Services departments; Wilkinson and Oak Park schools; the Laurel-Nokomis Junior Honor Society; Salvation Armyl Goodfellas Restaurant; Home Depot; and Jerry Clawson.
The project was initiated and organized by Steve Clark, a district Facilities Department manager, and his wife, Valeta, a benefits specialist in the Risk Management Department. Clark is a senior chief petty officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve Seabees.
He said he and his wife decided to collect some personal supplies and send them to Seabees in Afghanistan last Christmas. He mentioned what he was doing to his colleagues in the Facilities Department.
As the word got around the district, other departments and several schools asked if they could contribute. Through their connections, the idea spread to groups and individuals in the community as well.
Eventually, the Clarks shipped more than 500 pounds of personal supplies to Seabees in Afghanistan.
District Chief Operating Officer Scott Lempe said he knows from personal experience as a U.S. Air Force officer how significant it is for soldiers and sailors to receive mail.
It is "hugely important" for people in overseas combat zones to know that their home communities support their efforts and appreciate their sacrifices," Lempe said in a prepared statement. "Your efforts reflect great credit on you and the organizations you represent."
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Google Android Exec Leaves Door Open for Motorola Nexus Device
Google's recently-acquired hardware manufacturer, Motorola Mobility, is in a free-fall. But there's a tie-up with the parent company's brand that could be an option.
While Motorola's share of the market for smartphones and tablets powered by Google's own Android mobile operating system plummets, it is pinning its hopes on a smartphone known as "X Phone" that will be released this year, which The Wall Street Journal first wrote about in December.
If that doesn't work out, might Google's Android unit work with Motorola to develop a co-branded "Nexus" device?
"Anything can happen," said Hiroshi Lockheimer, an Android engineering executive, when asked by the Journal during the first day of Mobile World Congress, a mobile-industry conference in Barcelona.
He didn't imply that such a device was already in the roadmap, but he added that Android has worked with several other manufacturers, and that "we like to cycle it around."
A Motorola spokesman declined to comment.
So far, Google has created four Nexus-branded smartphones and two tablets with HTC, LG, Asus and Samsung, which was involved in three of them.
Android has put a greater emphasis on selling Nexus devices over the past year and currently has three for sale through its website and in some retail stores.
The devices have helped LG (Nexus 4) and Asus (Nexus 7) to establish a higher profile among Android manufacturers, though in terms of sales, Nexus devices haven't been major blockbusters like Samsung's own line of Galaxy devices.
Still, working closely with Android on a Nexus device can be tremendously beneficial to the selected manufacturer, giving them greater insight into working with Android software, according to people familiar with the process.
However, a Motorola Nexus device might upset other manufacturers who were promised by Google that it wouldn't play favorites with Android device makers after its acquisition of Motorola.
Motorola could use a boost.
During the fourth quarter of 2012, the handset maker grabbed just 1.9% of the market for smartphones powered by Google's Android mobile operating system, down from 6.2% a year earlier—meaning it sold 2.3 million fewer devices in the most recent period, according to research firm IDC.
Taiwanese tablet maker Asustek did get some traction with the Nexus 7, saying it was selling about a million per month. Google has marketed the Nexus 7 through TV commercials and other ads.
Of course, that's still small potatoes compared to Apple, which sold 10 million iPad mini devices during the last six weeks of 2012.
When asked about reports, including one by the Journal, that Google is developing plans for physical retail stores, where it could sell Nexus devices and many others, Lockheimer only said that he's focused on "coming out with more products people like."


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In 1984 (a year of Orwellian significance), activist and media and social critic Edward Herman wrote one of his many important books titled "Demonstration Elections." In it, he analyzed the US-staged elections in the 1960s in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam and the 1982 one in El Salvador. In the book's Orwellian glossary of terms, he defined the process as "A circus held in a client state to assure the population of the home country that their intrusion is well received. The results are guaranteed by an adequate supply of bullets provided in advance (and freely used as necessary to achieve the desired outcome)."
This writer calls this ugly business "democracy-engineering, American-style" backed by force to win approval of a rigged process people would never accept another way. Noam Chomsky refers to the notion of "Keeping the Rabble in Line," the title of one of his many books. It can be through soft or hard methods to assure the public goes along with what governments want imposed.
Herman's main theme was that "elections held under conditions of military occupation and extensive pre-election 'pacification' " aren't free at all but aim to get an occupying force's puppet choice accepted by the people it's installed to rule with influence wielded more by bullets than ballots to create "stability." Herman defines that term, too, as "a political arrangement free of open warfare and satisfactory to our interests." By that he means the "rabble" is cowed, induced or pummelled into submission.
Enter the dominant media stepping up to support the effort as lead cheerleader for a process hard to sell without heavy lifting convincing that what government is doing is for the common good. Never mind it isn't and that destroying democracy and the will of the people to resist are the real aims. Herman's theme works the same way today, and it's in play now in occupied Palestine. The difference discussed below is that the US and Israel tried running a "demonstration election" there in January, 2006, but it failed. The people didn't cooperate and the "wrong" party won.
Imperial powers never accept defeat and attempted to subvert and crush the democratically elected Hamas government ever since because it's too democratic and refuses to be Israel's enforcer. So anti-Hamas efforts started off by labeling it a "terrorist" organization. That was followed by political and economic isolation, cutting off all essential aid, open conflict, and on June 17 brazenly installing an illegitimate "demonstration government" with Palestinian quisling President Mahmoud Abbas illegally dismissing the elected government and appointing an "emergency" one. All this is discussed in detail below.
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Imposed Illegitimate "Demonstration" Government in Palestine
The beleaguered Palestinians are one of the world's most victimized peoples of justice delayed because it's been so long denied them. Long under the Ottomans, they then had to endure imperial British mandate rule after WW I until it ended in May, 1948. Ever since, they've suffered intolerable hardships under brutal Israeli oppression and illegal occupation with little outside support to end it.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1964 as a result and Yasser Arafat became its leader in 1969 to try. At first, it was militantly, then later through negotiation and international consensus. Nothing worked because a hard line Israeli - US nexus with Western and Arab state complicity prevented it. The predictable result was festering anger in the Palestinian Territories. They've been occupied since June, 1967 after Israel seized them in its long-planned six day war of aggression. The illegal occupation continues and Palestinian anger boiled over in two Intifadas, first in 1987, and ever since after Ariel Sharon's provocative visit to the sacred Al Aqsa Mosque in September, 2000.
By January 25, 2006, Palestinians had enough of Fatah's institutionalized corruption and willingness to be Israel's enforcer under the quisling governments of Yasser Arafat and his successor Mahmoud Abbas. They elected a dominant majority of Hamas members to Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) seats because they promised change and its candidates were untainted by corruption or willingness to serve as puppets of Israeli interests at the expense of their own people. They meant what they promised and proved it once in office, even offering to partner with Fatah at the outset in a spirit of unity. Under orders not to, Fatah refused. It guaranteed Israeli and Washington antagonism that erupted immediately once Hamas assumed office.
Palestinians endured a life and death survival struggle before the election and especially ever since, and they've been on their own doing it. After Hamas' election victory, all desperately needed outside aid was cut off, and they've been mercilessly persecuted under repressive Israeli rule. They've also been attacked viciously and relentlessly by the world's fourth most powerful military IDF forces and enlisted Fatah-led paramilitary death squads with only light and crude weapons and their spirit to endure and fight back.
Hamas - From Its Charter and How It Governs
Hamas in Arabic means courage and bravery. It's also an abbreviation of the Arabic words meaning Islamic Resistance Movement. It was formed in 1987 during the first Intifada and early on was supported by Israel to counter Arafat's PLO the Jewish state opposed at the time. Ever since, it's been an effective resistance movement against repression and occupation providing essential social services like medical clinics; education, including centers for women; free meals for children; financial and technical help to those whose homes Israelis destroyed; aid to refugees in the camps; and setting up youth and sports clubs.
It also has the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, an elite military wing, headed by Abu Abieda and other forces it needs for self-defense and law enforcement. Included among them is the "special operational force" known as the Executive Force (Tanfithya) used on the streets for policing and security.
Israel, Washington and the West call Hamas' political and social activities and its legitimate right to self-defense "terrorism" and tried to isolate and destroy its democratically elected government from birth. So far, they haven't succeeded, or are likely to, because Hamas' strongest assets are its will, readiness, and majority support from its people.
Hamas is a heterogenous democratic Islamic Resistance Movement allied with all resistance fighters for the purpose of liberating Palestine from Israeli oppression and occupation. Its method of choice is through negotiation and international consensus, not war or terrorism as falsely portrayed through the dominant media. But it states in its charter it will fight for its rights if they can't be gotten peacefully and rightfully blames Zionist Israel for its plight. They have plenty of evidence to prove it.
In its founding charter, it states it "draws its guidelines from Islam; derives from it its thinking, interpretations and views about existence, life and humanity; refers back to it for its conduct....adopts Islam as its way of life....Its ultimate goal is Islam, the Prophet its model, the Qur'an its Constitution....In the absence of Islam, conflict arises, oppression reigns, corruption is rampant and struggles and wars prevail....(The Movement) will do its utmost to....support....the weak, (and defend) all the oppressed.
(It) regards Nationalism (Wataniyya) as part....of the religious faith." Peace initiatives and international conferences are rejected if their intention is renunciation of Palestinian land. It rejects Zionist intentions to destroy Palestinian society, its values and "wipe out Islam." It describes itself as "a humane movement, which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it....(Under Islam) it is possible for the members of the three religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism to coexist in safety and security" as long as other religions "desist from struggling against Islam over sovereignty in this region."
It believes "World Zionism and Imperial forces have been attempting....to push the Arab countries" to end conflict with Zionism "to isolate the Palestinian people." It states its members don't seek "fame....nor material gains, or social status....It will never set out against any Muslims....or non-Muslims who make peace with it." Overall, Hamas has moderate political and religious views in contrast to militant hard line ones by ruling Israeli governments and the current one in Washington and other past ones.
It wants peace, equity and justice for all Palestinians while Israel and the Bush administration pursue an agenda of conflict, imperial domination and firm intention to deny Palestinians all rights they're entitled to and the UN General Assembly adopted in December, 1948 in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This historic (non-binding) document guarantees them to everyone regardless of "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status (including) the right to life, liberty and security of person."
Hamas has always called for peace with Israel and is willing to negotiate on the basis of "hudnah" or temporary truce. It's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said Hamas was willing to end its struggle for the legitimate rights of Palestinian people "if the Zionists ended its occupation of Palestinian territories and stopped killing Palestinian women, children and innocent civilians." As the elected Palestinian government, it declared a unilateral cease-fire with Israel, ended all suicide bombings, wants to negotiate, and is willing to recognize the Jewish state if Israel accepts and recognizes a Palestinian one. After being elected, it governed in good faith and agreed to a national unity government with Fatah to share power it democratically won to have alone. Israel, the US and West rejected all good faith efforts opting instead for a divide and conquer strategy.
A New Stage of Occupation for Palestinians
Israel, Washington and the West, pursued an aggressive agenda for months through armed conflict causing many deaths. From the start, Washington's point man has been Iran-Contra criminal and now deputy national security adviser, Elliot Abrams. Documents have surfaced in Middle East capitals with evidence of Abrams' role in an anti-Hamas "hard coup" strategy of violence and armed insurrection. They call for "maintain(ing) President Abbas and Fatah as the centre of (Palestinian) gravity....avoid accommodating (Hamas), undermine Hamas' political status (and) strengthen the Palestinian president's authority to be able to call and conduct early elections by autumn 2007."
The document also called for Mahmoud Abbas to reject Saudi Arabia's Mecca agreement leaving Hamas in charge. It further indicated $1.27 billion would be allocated to Abbas to add seven special battalions of 4700 new security forces to his 15,000 in place for "safeguard(ing) decisions such as dismissing the cabinet and forming an emergency government."
This all played out violently on Gaza streets leading up to Hamas' defeating opposition insurgent forces and seizing control of the Territory to establish law and order. As planned in Washington and Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Abbas then conspiratorially declared a "state of emergency." He dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and his national unity government replacing it with his own illegitimate "emergency" one.
It's illegally headed by newly appointed prime minister Salam Fayyad whose electoral list posted a 2.4% showing in the January, 2006 PLC elections Hamas won overwhelmingly. Fayyad's a pro-Western former IMF and World Bank official chosen by Washington and Jerusalem. His job is to do their bidding the way he served capital interests during his tenure at the international lending agencies. There he did it by forcing borrowers into debt slavery and their people into extreme poverty and deprivation for the sake of profit. That made him a western darling now promoted to enforce imperial domination on his people who want freedom and won't likely tolerate his portfolio to deny it to them.
Abbas, Fayyad and others in the "emergency" government are shamelessly partnered with Israel and Washington as their coup d'etat-installed puppets working against the interests of their own people. They control the West Bank alone with Hamas firmly in charge of Gaza unless or until Israel intervenes which now seems likely. It suggests a repeat of last summer's mass assault on the Territory and its sure to follow dreadful consequences for its near-defenseless people.
Plans to weaken and oust Hamas have been in place for months with Washington supplying the Abbas leadership tens of millions of dollars in aid and weapons. It's gone to paramilitary militia death squad groups like Gaza-based Fatah warlord and another Israeli-Western darling Mohammed Dahlan (Fatah's security chief now in the West Bank) and his "Preventative Security Force." It's part of a conspiratorial coup d'etat effort headed by traitorous Palestinians on the take for their own gain. Abbas is their nominal leader. Dahlan has the muscle and real power as it chief enforcer. All newly appointed members of Abbas' sham "emergency government" share equal guilt. They're junior quislings serving their puppet-masters in Jerusalem and Washington, but events are just beginning, the struggle is far from over, and its outcome very much uncertain.
Money and weapons will continue flowing into the West Bank, and from what Hamas already seized in a Gaza stash it found, it should be plenty. Unncovered were huge amounts of mounted machine guns, assault rifles, ammunition, armored personnel carriers, jeeps, armored cars and trucks, military-sized bulldozers, water cannon-dispersing trucks, large quantities of munitions including rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, explosives and various other supplies and equipment.
In total, it appears enough to equip a small army of fighters and may be worth as much as $400 million. It's sure to be replaced so Fatah traitors are heavily armed to continue fighting Israel's proxy war and acting as its West Bank enforcer against their own people. They almost certainly will resist with Hamas leading them courageously. It means Fatah's hold on power is tenuous at best and Abbas' fate equally shaky. His shameless act may in the end cost him all credibility, his job, and eventually make him liable to be held to account for his open betrayal of his own people.
Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, has no intention stepping down and responded at length live on Al-Jazeera rejecting Abbas' "hasty" moves saying 96% of Palestinians support a unity government as the best chance for peace and security. He affirmed his democratically elected government would continue functioning and maintain law and order. He also called for an end to conflict and a general amnesty. He stressed his fight is not with Fatah, but only with rogue traitorous elements in it like the dominant one headed by warlord Dahlan firmly doing Israel and Washington's bidding.
He explained Hamas' takeover was no coup and only a last resort attempt to end lawlessness, conflict and a Dahlan-led conspiracy against all Palestinians. He spoke of conciliation, unity, and conflict resolution to heal divisions in contrast to Abbas' traitorous behavior as Israel and Washington's pawn. He followed Israeli and Washington-dictated orders responding by denouncing Hamas as terrorists, refusing to negotiate, and saying he'll (illegally as explained below) order new elections that will exclude Hamas.
At this stage, Hamas' task is daunting as Haaretz reports Israeli Labor Party Chairman, former prime minister, and new Olmert government defense minister Ehud Barak, plans to launch a large-scale military operation on Gaza in weeks. It will include 20,000 troops and an air assault aimed at destroying Hamas' military capabilities quickly. Haaretz cited a close Barak aide saying Israel won't allow a "Hamastan" in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and an attack on it is certain. Air attacks are now ongoing daily, border crossings are closed, and Israel cancelled Gaza's commercial customs code. That cuts off essential supplies like food and medicines from entering the territory. Israel is now increasing its collective punishment against 1.4 million Palestinians already enduring unbearable hardships in what's considered the world's largest open-air prison with a population density three times that of Manhattan.
Israeli-Washington-Directed Fatah Declared Coup Illegal Under Palestinian Law
Virginia Tilley is a South African-based political science professor. On June 18, her article appeared on The Electronic Intifada titled "Whose Coup, Exactly?" It documented in detail that according to the Basic Law of Palestine, serving as the PA's constitution, "Abbas has violated a whole stream of Articles as well as the spirit of its checks and balances" limiting the power of the presidency. He "badly trashed numerous provisions" in it "with full US and Israeli support." The Basic Law states:
— Under Article 45, the President can remove a Prime Minister but can only appoint a new one from the majority party - Hamas.
— Under Article 83, if the Prime Minister is removed, the serving (Hamas-led) Cabinet is to govern until the (Hamas-led) Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) appoints a new one.
— Only the PLC has authority to confirm a new Prime Minister and Cabinet.
— Under Article 43, in emergencies, the President can rule by decree subject to all decrees approved by the PLC.
— Under Article 113, in emergencies, the President cannot suspend the PLC.
— The Basic Law gives the President no power to call for early elections.
— No provision in the Basic Law authorizes an "emergency government."
Conclusion: Abbas' actions constitute a lawless coup d'etat usurpation of power, or as Tilley puts it: "The (Fatah) Fayyad government is the step-child of an extra-legal process with no democratic mandate. The whole manoeuvre is not precisely a palace coup," but enough like one, in fact, to be one. She also notes "the diplomatic landscape is now in utter disarray" with the extra-legal Fayyad government only a "facsimile" of the real thing.
So far, its illegitimate creation hardly seems to matter to Israel, the US and European Union shamelessly flouting Palestinian and international law. They're ending their political and economic PA West Bank (only) embargo to bolster Fatah and Abbas while continuing to isolate Hamas in Gaza. It's an outrageous effort rewarding lawlessness and continuing to crush democratic movements when they become too democratic as Hamas did. Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri denounced it accusing the West of hypocrisy. He noted Hamas was democratically elected and added "This confirms the falseness of the international community's support for democracy."
From Dublin, Ireland at a human rights conference, former President Jimmy Carter denounced it as well. He accused the US, EU and Israel of harming and seeking to divide the Palestinian people by aiding Abbas in the West Bank while withholding similar help to Hamas in Gaza. Carter stressed Hamas is entitled to be the ruling Palestinian government because it was democratically elected. Representatives from his Carter Center observed the election and judged it free, open and fair. He urged the international community to work toward reconciliation of Hamas and Fatah but sees nothing being done to do it.
He condemned US, EU and Israeli efforts to undermine Hamas as "criminal." He continued saying "The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people of Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah." He then added Washington and others supplied Fatah security forces with superior weapons aimed at "conquer(ing) Hamas in Gaza, but the plan failed because of Hamas' "superior skills and discipline."
A Hopeful Look Ahead
Everything happening in the Middle East in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan in Central Asia is interconnected. In all of it, Washington is partnered with Israel and the EU aiming to subdue the people in both regions, control their resources, and rule over this vast area in colonial-occupier fashion directly on the ground or ideally with puppet-installed governments. Washington leads the effort and intends taking the lion share of what it can plunder provided things go as planned. The EU is tagging along led by Britain and Israel in key roles with the Jewish state getting huge amounts of funding to do it. According to a James Tucker American Free Press May, 2003 report it was at a level of $10 billion a year then with Israel wanting it upped to $12 billion.
This figure came from a Library of Congress "briefing paper" titled "Israel: US Foreign Assistance." It listed categories including direct funding aid, huge amounts in loans and loan guarantees, military aid, R & D help, and considerably more that noted academic and author James Petras documented in his important 2006 book "The Power of Israel in the United States." In total, Israel, with 5.2 million people in 2005, about the size of a large US or other city, receives more in total aid in all forms than all other nations in the world combined. It uses it to seize Palestinian lands for Jewish resettlement, build separation/apartheid walls, and wage illegal wars of aggression in pursuit of its own imperial agenda for regional dominance as an adjunct to its US partner and very generous funder.
Despite considerable effort and huge amounts of financial and other resources employed, US and Israeli imperial adventurism hasn't fared too well giving reason to hope more of it will turn out as badly for both nations. Palestinians have endured everything Israel's thrown at it for six repressive decades. In spite of it, they're still holding up maintaining their courageous struggle for equity, justice and a free and independent state they intend one day to have and likely will regardless of Israel's determination to prevent it. History is on their side.
In just the last century, nations around the world struggled for the same rights and prevailed, though for many it took decades or longer and what was gained was far from perfect or even unacceptable too often like in South Africa. The end of apartheid there was replaced by neoliberal "Thatcherism" resulting in greater poverty and hardship for the poor majority than in the earlier era. However, progress usually comes slowly and rarely without setbacks or disappointments. The point is it can come when people seeking it never stop believing it will or working for it until it does. Palestinians have been doing it since 1948, and one day they'll have what they and all others deserve everywhere, their own state in which to live free from foreign occupation secure at last on their own land.
An early hopeful sign was reported in Haaretz by correspondent Shlomo Shamir June 22. He noted in spite of US, British and French pressure (with new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's shameless backing) for a Security Council declaration of confidence in the Abbas government, it was withdrawn before its drafting stage because of strong protests against it by Russia, South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar. These countries objected to anti-Hamas policies and attempts to characterize it as a terror organization and isolate it. In addition, Russia and South Africa questioned the emergency government's legitimacy arguing instead for a unity government as the solution to the conflict in occupied Palestine.
It's a small, maybe temporary victory, but important one nonetheless. It shows mighty America, Israel and the EU can be challenged and forced to back down giving Palestinian people hope more victories will follow and in time the one they want above all others. With faith, courage, patience and redoubtable will, one day they'll prevail, their Nakba will have ended, and their right to live freely on their own land will be affirmed and recognized.
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Israel, Washington and the West call Hamas' political and social activities and its legitimate right to self-defense "terrorism"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hamas has been responsible for carrying out suicide bomb attacks against civilian targets, such as blowing up buses carrying innocent men, women, and children. If you want to call that self-defense, so be it. But I think perhaps it is that which Israel, Washington, and the West are objecting to, rather than its commendable social/charity activities.
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Thanks for Nothing...
I just wanted to clarify your intent in your poorly-written bashing of the state of Israel. The same organaization that's blowing up buses and killing arabs & Israelis is simply acting in self defense? Have you watched the news in the past 20 years? Your viewpoint is either misinformed or just ignorant. The next time you decide to champion a terrorist organization, do it on your own time. Reading your article (the 1 minute I lost today) made me realize why it's called the "Free Press." No one would pay to read your words.
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BOOK REVIEW: Here's an interesting article.
SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to spy novels and Middle East intrigue, after 16 spell-binding years, the gripping story behind the Middle East quagmire - its issues of nuclear weapons and the quest for a Palestinian State - is finally being told in a ground-breaking new book entitled, THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY.
Author Robert Spirko created the work in such a way that every reader in the world would understand all the intricate issues in the Middle East and how close the region actually came to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY, a genre spy-thriller by Robert Spirko, was fourth on the best-seller list at Atlasbooks, Inc., a national book distributor. Ingram Books is the worldwide distributor.
Mr. Spirko has a unique way of holding the reader in his grasp as the plot of THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY unfolds. He literally takes you from your armchair and immerses you into the lifestyle of the Bedouin, the Israeli, the PLO and the mindset of the Middle-Easterner.
THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY is not just another spy-novel; it is the quintessential spy-thriller because it forces the reader to understand how both sides "think" and why that thinking ultimately led to repeated wars in the Middle East.
Spirko, a financial and geo-political analyst, turned his attention to the Middle East in 1987, after discovering several common elements related to the Middle East question. In working for peace, and after several frustrating years, he put down his analysis in writing and when he was finished, he not only had a solution to the quagmire, he had a story to tell.
But, nobody was listening.
Today, all that has changed, thanks to Olive Grove Publishers who decided to give his book a chance.
When the Palestinian question came to a festering crisis in 1990, he had already predicted several of the actual events before they occurred. For instance, Spirko predicted the Intifada and Persian Gulf War, missing the actual invasion date of Kuwait by only one week. He did this through spectacular supposition, analysis and prediction based on what he was "seeing" in the region.
When Spirko typed his manuscript, he set the work to fiction, about what he thought might occur soon in the Middle East involving weapons of mass destruction, nuclear proliferation, the Palestinian uprising before it occurred, and how the Palestinian question begged to be answered, little did he realize that every event he described in the book would eventually transpire.
His story of what was really happening behind the scenes in the Middle East is truly astounding and remarkable, and his contribution to the Camp David Peace Talks in 2000, formulated a solution to the Jerusalem question. When the BBC got wind of it, they termed it "as nothing short of brilliant" - Jerusalem becoming the simultaneous capitals of both Israel and Palestine in congruous or concentric zones.
Spirko originally copyrighted his book on October 20, 1987, in the U. S.
Library of Congress where intelligence agencies reviewed his work.
Today, finally, somebody is listening.
Spirko feels that both sides must return to the Camp David Peace Talks and resume where they left off and "freeze in place" the already-agreed-upon negotiating points.
"It's like a marriage where both spouses storm away mad in an argument.
They don't divorce and then try to resume their relationship, they come back together, settle their differences, and resume their marriage. It must be the same for the Middle East Peace talks," Spirko says.
The story begins in Beirut, Lebanon, once a great financial capital of the Middle East, which lay in ruin, having been systematically blasted to rubble during 20 years of inexhaustible civil war and siege by Israel, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and Lebanese factions. Soon, the quest for a Palestinian State would be framed by these events; namely, the invasion of Kuwait by a neighboring rogue state, Iraq, with Saddam Hussein's goal of seeking nuclear parity with Israel.
In Mr. Spirko's story, Rick Waite, a forgotten UPI correspondent, and Adrienne Waters, a Pulitzer Prize journalist from the London Times, meet-up in Beirut with a PLO operative named Ahmed, who discovers a secret intelligence memo about a secret plan to destroy Israel.
In the ensuing chase to find the answer to this secret communiqué and what it means, a deadly race against time begins as the unlikely trio tries to halt the launch of a secret weapon from a hidden PLO base camp in the Syrian Desert. U. S. and British intelligence operatives have their own agenda, and attempt to stop whatever is going on to save the entire region from a nuclear holocaust.
Spirko weaves a tale of chilling duplicity and thrilling action, as the characters evade and devise a method to announce the discovery of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles to the rest of the world - all while United Nations' delegates bicker endlessly.
An executive at BookMasters, Inc., says, "The book is absolutely stunning in the manner in which Mr. Spirko, tells his tale. He is truly a master as an analyst, and it's totally unlike anything else we've ever read in a spy-thriller. It keeps you turning pages and won't let you quit - until the very end. And, what an ending it is! If you crave twisting plots, thrilling spy-action and intriguing characters, then this is the book for you."
Spirko, whose own background includes a stint in the U. S. Air Force and has given his advice to the National Security Council in Washington, D. C., has a degree in journalism and knows first-hand about the newsroom and what it takes to be an intelligence field agent. His knowledge of the trade makes the story real, daunting, and strikingly similar to "The Year of Living Dangerously."
"THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY drips with reality," quips a book reviewer from Olive Grove Publishers. "If books were rated by Siskel & Roeper, it would be given a two-thumbs up."
Not since, Casablanca, do characters as earthy as Rick Waite, or as beautifully mysterious as London Times reporter, Adrienne Waters, or as desperate as PLO operative, Ahmed, bring fresh characters to a story that will be remembered by readers for a long time.
The novel is a mass market paperback produced by Olive Grove Publishers, and can be purchased at area bookstores through Ingram Book Group, New Leaf Distribution, and Baker and Taylor, priced at $14.99, ISBN 0-9752508-0-9. THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY can also be ordered on the web at www.atlasbooks.com, or email orders from: firstname.lastname@example.com, or from Barnes & Nobles, Border's, Dalton's, efollett.com & Follett bookstores at colleges and universities, WaldenBooks, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com and other popular retail bookstores. Or, readers and store managers can call 1-800-BOOKLOG, or 800-247-6553 direct, to order.
For readers who want to know what was really going on in the Middle East prior to the Persian Gulf War, Sept. 11th, and Iraq War, THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY, is a must read.
a guest said:
You forgot to mention that under the current situation on the ground, Hamas attacked Fatah and basically took over the Gaza Strip by force. If there was any coup it could easily be said that it began by the actions of Hamas. This article is very interesting, but please clarify this for me please!!!
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Innocent men, women, and children
I always find it interesting that those deploring the killing of "innocent men, women, and children" can only see those killed by Palestinian "terrorists"; whereas, the far far greater number of "innocent men, women, and children" being killed are Palestinian, and they have been killed by the Israeli Defense Forces, and its allies.
When comparing Hamas and the IDF as terrorist organizations, the IDF wins hands down every time for its brutality and callousness.
a guest said:
...there's one more documentary movie about the Israeli aggressions, occupation and crimes, called occupation101 (google-it). A must see!
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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball program enjoyed its most successful summer camp ever this week when they saw a new high of 114 kids at the four-day event.
It is the first time in the program's history that they have eclipsed the 100-member mark after improving on last year's 95 attendees.
The addition of new campers was a welcome sight for assistant coach and Director of Camps Geoff Grawn.
"Last year I was thrilled and if anyone would have said we would eclipse that I would be ecstatic," said Grawn. "Since we were able to add more attendees this year, it shows the connection we have with the area.
"We are glad they love being a part of our camp."
Part of the reason the increase was possible is due to the donations of the many camp sponsors, particularly from Stripes through the years. They have been the primary camp sponsor for the past nine years and continue to give to the program. Shea Physical Therapy and the Navy/Army Federal Credit Union also contribute yearly to the camp's success.
"The money that they donate to us for camp allows us to put on the type of camp that makes it attractive to youth from throughout South Texas," said Grawn. "Their support helps our program continue to grow in the community."


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History and Systems of Psychology, Advanced Theories of Personality, Advanced Social Psychology, Biopsychology
Psychopathology, serious mental illnesses, incompetency and insanity evaluations, risk assessment, correctional psychology, cross cultural psychology, biological bases of behavior.
Forensic Psychology Practice
Trial Competency and Insanity Evaluations
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PhD - California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University-1992
M.S. in Applied Psychophysiology
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