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History was never my favourite subject. When my teachers used to say enthusiastically "history happens around us all the time" I never really understood what they meant.
"Gilad Shalit returns home. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen..
"I have chills and tears. Can not sleep. What a joy."
Anglo-Jewry has welcomed the news that a deal has been made to secure the release of Gilad Shalit.
More details have emerged about the deal made between Israel and Hamas last week to bring Gilad Shalit home.
On Tuesday night Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the soldier, captured at the Gaza border more than five years ago, would be back with his family within days.
News of a deal inked between israel and Hamas to secure the release of Gilad Shalit prompted wild celebrations in Jerusalem. British teenagers on the FZY and Bnei Akiva yearcourse schemes were there to join in.
The Israeli Prime Minister has confirmed that a deal is underway to bring home the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
According to Mr Netanyahu's official Twitter feed, the 25-year-old will be coming home within days.
"We have concluded arduous negotiations with Hamas to release Gilad Shalit. He will be coming home in the next few days," said a message posted on Twitter.
Gilad Shalit could be freed as early as next month after more than five years in captivity if a reported prisoner swap goes ahead.
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The Israeli family of one of the American hikers who was freed after 781 days in captivity in Iran has expressed relief at his release.
Josh Fattal, who turned 29 while in an Iranian jail, was back home in Philadelphia this week for the first time in more than two years.
British Jewry joined international efforts to highlight the plight of Gilad Shalit as the Israeli soldier's family marked his sixth birthday since his capture by Hamas.
Sergeant Shalit turned 25 on Sunday and the Board of Deputies wrote to other religious groups urging them to support efforts to secure his freedom.
The British Jewish community has joined international efforts to highlight Gilad Shalit's continued captivity as the soldier marks his sixth birthday since he was kidnapped by Hamas.
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Could the useful life of a bar napkin in conceptualizing a vehicle's electrical system be drawing to a close?
Truly revolutionary ideas have emerged from crude sketches scrawled on the closest thing at hand when inspiration strikes at dinner or during drinks. But with today's advanced communication tools, suppliers and automakers must find better ways to trade critical product information.
In the electrical systems business, new software is arriving with potential to not only simplify that interaction but also slice development time by more than half.
"This has cut down on our overtime and our engineering tasks," says John Banks, principal engineer at wiring leader UT Automotive. "No longer are we chasing scrap pieces of paper or bar napkins. In the past, trading this information was chaotic. Now it's centralized and consistent."
Mr. Banks refers to a system from Mentor Graphics that will generate a wiring schematic for all or part of a vehicle based on a three-dimensional image created on a CATIA work station.
The schematic can include every electrical or electronic function, from audio systems to headlamps. Simulations can be run to detect any open circuits or misconnections and to determine if the wiring gauge and fuses are adequate.
"Previously, you would hand-draw these schematics, and you put your faith in your drafting department," Mr. Banks says. "Now, software tools are giving it to you electronically."
UTA started using the Mentor Graphics/CATIA system two years ago, and it reduced development time (normally about 135 weeks) by 57% in a recent bumper-to-bumper wiring job for DaimlerChrysler Corp.
The biggest change, Mr. Banks notes, is that the wiring schematic is created once, and changes made to it electronically are seen by all engineers working on it, both at the OEM and supplier level. In the past, the supplier and customer usually had their own schematics, which meant each company had to alter their models when design changes were made. Once again, a phone call or a bar napkin drawing did not always constitute effective communication.
"Now, everyone can be on the same page," Mr. Banks says. In addition, routing throughout the vehicle becomes easier, data input is simpler, and supplier databases of their work can be much more complete.
Anything that simplifies automotive wiring is a blessing as consumers demand the conveniences of home when on the road. Power locks, for instance, used to be a luxury. Now, more than 80% of U.S.-built cars have them.
Virtually all features contributing to safety and comfort today require power, from sunroofs and auto-dimming mirrors to trip computers and remote keyless entry. If on-board navigation systems and Internet access gain wide acceptance, vehicle wiring systems will become even more complex.
The average vehicle a few years ago had about 75 lbs. (34 kg) of wiring, all of it stretching more than a mile. There's so much wiring - with more coming in the future - that the auto industry is migrating from the current 12-volt standard to 42 volts for additional capacity.
"You will have more wires than ever before, and you'll have to trace them all through the body and make sure they're hooked up properly," says Ken Waichunas, director of automotive marketing for software supplier Analogy Inc.
He sees automakers pushing for smaller gauge wires to carry the same amount of power, which will require a redesign of electrical systems.
New design tools can contribute to these efforts.
Late last year, Analogy won a contract to supply AB Volvo with its new SaberHarness, a $25,000 software package that can be used to design, simulate and test a wiring system before manufacturing it. The entire system can be validated before a single prototype is built.
Volvo will use SaberHarness to replace its in-house development tools, for both passenger cars and heavy trucks. Analogy is expecting to announce another major automotive customer for Saber-Harness in the coming months, Mr. Waichunas says.
Another giant in electrical systems, Yazaki Corp., which invented the wire harness concept in 1929, has been using Analogy simulation tools for several years and has tested SaberHarness recently.
"It's a truly powerful tool," says Ray Ernst, manager of advanced technology at Yazaki North America Inc.
What he likes most is that designers can use the package to describe the functions they want in the vehicle, and the software does the rest.
"It will tell you automatically what your gauge sizes have to be," Mr. Ernst says. "That all used to be done by hand by the engineer."
Despite the excitement about these new tools, apparently some of them cannot build an electrical schematic that allows multiple features (for instance, a vehicle with and without power windows) to be plugged in and out.
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ROCKFORD -- Northern Illinois alum and star Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has two words for ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit. "Bite me!" He and teammate Pat Schiller, a linebacker and fellow NIU alum, modeled new t-shirts made to mock Herbstreit's comments about NIU not belonging in a major BCS Bowl Game. When NIU was announced for the Orange Bowl, Herbstreit called the selection "a sad state for college football."
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A Washington man was arrested and charged with having immoral communications with a person he believed was an underage girl from South Kitsap.
Nathan Daniel Wood, 22, of Monroe, was charged with communication with a minor for immoral purposes in Kitsap County District Court on Aug. 20. He was booked into Kitsap County Jail on charges of communication with a minor for immoral purposes and attempted third-degree rape of a child. Bail was set at $50,000.
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The mother reported the incident to sheriff's deputies, who took custody of the girl's cellphone.
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We're hearing a lot about Chicago's efforts to turn around struggling schools. Read the papers, and you'll get the impression that a handful of charter schools are the only bright stars in a dark firmament. But that impression is wrong.
At least one other set of schools has been posting big gains. Eight schools working with a Chicago non-profit called Strategic Learning Initiatives (SLI) have made large strides in student performance in the past few years. And their model is quite different from the turnaround models that get the most press.
They do not fire teachers. Their principals don't get the axe. But they do use concrete strategies to change what happens in their classrooms. Researchers from AIR reviewed SLI's results and called on policy makers to take note:
Well before decisions are made to reconstitute schools under the mandates of NCLB, school districts would be wise to consider far less drastic, but clearly powerful, interventions such as [SLI's] Focused Instruction Process.
As school closings and charter takeovers capture the popular imagination, we are apt to ignore other options. SLI President John Simmons recently told us about the success of his approach in Chicago.
Public School Insights: There is a lot of talk right now about turning around struggling schools. The model that is most mentioned, and has been enshrined in federal policy, is reconstitution, which involves firing the principal and replacing at the least half the teachers at a school. The thinking is that this process is required to create the conditions needed for success. Does your experience bear that out?
Simmons: We think that there's a better way. Reconstitution can work. You can get results. But our experience, which includes not only the last almost four years with our most recent network of schools but also the last 15 years using a similar model in schools in the lowest income neighborhoods in Chicago, shows that our model is getting better results than the reconstitution model. And it is lower cost and faster.
Public School Insights: What kinds of results have you been getting?
Simmons: [Part of our process is weekly assessments of student achievement.] By the way, we call it a "process" and not a "program" because teachers and principals have an opportunity to modify and improve it on a regular basis.
We are seeing that schools are able to improve their weekly assessments pretty quickly after starting our process, typically after the first six weeks. Children ...
Shocking news! You can turn around a struggling school without firing all or even most staff. You can even keep the principal. All you need is a little--or a lot of--help from your friends.
This is one of the big lessons I draw from a new study (PDF) of work by Strategic Learning Initiatives (SLI) to turn around 10 troubled schools in Chicago. SLI worked with existing school principals and teachers to improve instruction, and student performance gains accelerated by a factor of six. And SLI did this work without resorting to the slash-and-burn turnaround techniques that are all the vogue these days.
Here's an excerpt from Education Week's report on the study:
"The results that SLI has achieved, and that [the American Institutes for Research] has validated, are very impressive and suggest that well before decisions are made to reconstitute schools under the mandates of [the federal No Child Left Behind Act], school districts would be wise to consider far less drastic, but clearly powerful, interventions such as the Focused Instruction Process," write AIR analysts Steven Leinwand and Sarah Edwards in their July evaluation.
The U.S. Department of Education's four models for turning around low-achieving schools using federal stimulus money all require the principal to be fired; one calls for the school to be closed. But [SRI CEO John] Simmons argues that it's less expensive, and often more effective, to invest in the people already working in the schools. With the right tools, he says, school staffers can produce different results....
"That is the heart of our story--the application of research to the work of improving schools. High-performance schools aren't just born, they are trained and coached."
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Yesterday, we shared our interview with David Cicarella, the union president who helped broker an historic agreement between teachers and the New Haven, Connecticut school distict.
Today, we'll hear from two district officials who were instrumental in the deal. Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries and Chief Operating Officer William Clark describe the groundbreaking collaboration that made the agreement possible.
Public School Insights: There has been a lot of attention given to the new contract in New Haven—a lot of it praise. What you think are some of the most groundbreaking provisions of that agreement?
Clark: I think the first big groundbreaking piece was how we approached it. Historically, due to Connecticut's Teacher Negotiations Act, you are really forced into a very tight timeline of negotiations that is specifically identified by statute. Certain pieces have to be done by certain dates; otherwise you hurtle towards arbitration. So with the leadership of [Superintendent] Dr. Mayo, [New Haven] Mayor DeStefano and Dave Cicarella from the [New Haven] teachers union, what we really did was try to chart a different way and a different approach.
What we set up was essentially parallel tracks. On one track you had reform discussions and on the other track you had the classic negotiations. The reform discussions were specifically separate so as to not fall prey to the trappings of negotiations. We began by sitting around the table with the best intentions in mind: What could we do—what are the possibilities that could exist—if we look at this as a collaborative approach? That really opened a lot of doors.
We started, under Garth's leadership within that committee, by coming up with a belief statement that both parties signed on to. So then even when we had some fits and starts and ...
Teachers in New Haven, Connecticut recently ratified a contract that U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised as an "important progressive labor agreement" for its provisions on teacher evaluation and school reform. David Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, recently told us about the agreement.
(Stay tuned tomorrow for an interview with New Haven district officials Garth Harries and Will Clark.)
Public School Insights: There has been a lot of praise given to the new contract in New Haven. What do you think are the most groundbreaking provisions of this agreement?
Cicarella: There are three components that get the most attention. One, our willingness to discuss tenure. Two, our willingness to talk about including test scores as a part of teacher evaluation. And three, the contract's provisions for the closing and chartering of schools.
Public School Insights: Let's start with tenure. What do you think the big accomplishment has been on that part of the agreement?
Cicarella: Historically, unions have been completely unwilling to discuss tenure, because it's the only protection that teachers have against unfair dismissal.
But we've got to tighten up the dismissal process. We can't have folks—and this is a complaint that the public makes and is legitimate—going through two, three, four years of improvement plan after improvement plan, when everyone knows that ...
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If you're looking for a Cinderella story, get to know the people at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland:
One of the [paraeducators] who had been here a long time said, "you know, they used to call this place 'slumville.'" Now, she says "the President's visiting here...." He came to our school for the work we did. He didn't just happen to show up.... It was the apotheosis of my entire career.... The President of the United States--the President of the United states!--is in our cafeteria...because of the work that went on in this building....
That's Susan Freiman, Viers Mill's staff development teacher, describing President Obama's surprise visit to the school last month. She worked hard with her colleagues to turn the once struggling elementary school into a national exemplar where almost every student is proficient on state tests. That is no mean feat for a school where most students are from low-income families and almost half are still learning English.
It doesn't take long for visitors to see just how remarkable Viers Mill is. Last week, Freiman took me through a school buzzing with excitement and academic purpose. She showed me some first grade classrooms where ...
Jack Grayson has been many things in his 86 years. A farmer, FBI agent, journalist, importer/exporter, professor, business school dean, and member of three presidential commissions. But he has made a lasting name for himself as one of the nation's most outspoken champions of productivity and quality.
Grayson rose to national fame almost forty years ago as Chairman of the U.S. Price Commission, which helped avert hyperinflation in the early 1970s. His brush with economic turmoil convinced him that productivity was key to the nation's well-being, so he founded The American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), a non-profit that helps organizations boost performance by improving their processes. As APQC chairman, he is devoting all of his time to the organization's work in education.
These days, many school reformers are fond of reciting lessons they have learned from business. Be innovative. Focus on outcomes. Get the incentives right. The rest, the theory goes, will follow.
But Grayson says such reformers are missing the biggest lesson of all: Focus on process! He admits that talk of process can be dry as dust, especially when all of DC is abuzz with talk of innovation. But it is process improvements that brought the best American businesses out of the industrial age, he insists.
Yes, innovation and outcomes are critical. But if reformers ignore the hard work of building schools' capacity to produce the best outcomes, even the most innovative school systems may well go the way of GM.
Listen to Grayson's interview on the Public School Insights podcast (~23:15).
A quick warning about our recording: It has a lot of background noise. If the side conversations and occasional pop music become too distracting, read the edited transcript below.
Public School Insights: A lot of people are talking about the promise of innovation in improving education. Do you think innovation itself holds the key to solving our problems in public education?
Grayson: No. Innovation will certainly help, and innovation in any area is the leader. It's the new idea. But you do not want to leave the old idea behind because ...
How you measure a school's progress matters. A lot. Just ask Beth Madison, principal of a school that is thriving by common-sense measures and failing by official measures.
George Middle School has made robust gains over the past decade. Over 80 percent of George students receive free or reduced price lunch, and a full 23 percent are special education students. Yet students' test scores are at or above state averages in most subjects.
Still, the school has not made Adequate Yearly Progress seven years running. Why? Because year after year, Madison tells us, it has been a hair's breadth away from meeting its targets for one particular subgroup of students in one particular area, like attendance. Madison is bracing herself for the impact of the H1N1 flu, which could hurt her attendance numbers for yet another year. You can't win.
What does Madison want? In short, some flexibility. She feels her school should be judged for its students' academic growth over time rather than against absolute performance targets. The school has made steady strides despite big demographic shifts that have increased its share of low-income students. But it still falls short of state goals.
Madison is no whiner. She praises No Child Left Behind for pushing schools to do much more for vulnerable children. She believes the extra money she has received for missing performance targets has helped the school improve. But she still feels No Child Left Behind is a "messed up" law.
She can thank her lucky stars that the Portland school district will not throw George Middle School on a Procrustean bed of reform. District leaders will not hobble her by imposing one-size-fits-all reform strategies. (Madison has particularly harsh words for strategies that require struggling schools to fire most teachers. She calls them a "train wreck.")
The district listens when she describes her school's success, Madison told us. And the district offers support tailored to her school's specific needs.
George Middle School is not in thrall to the official version of success. That's good news for teachers and students alike.
Listen to Madison's interview on the Public School Insights podcast (~26 minutes).
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Public School Insights: George Middle School has made tremendous strides since the early 2000s. But you've missed Adequate Yearly Progress seven times. Could you tell me a little bit about how you see the school's progress in the light of the AYP issue?
Madison: AYP in Oregon is not a growth-based model. It is a model with many subcategories within English language arts and math in which [the state] judges students' ability based on a RIT score [which is essentially] a simple score of grade level. [AYP also includes student attendance measures, again divided into subcategories].
So regardless of the fact that the kids who come in at very low levels of previous performance may make years and years of growth gains in one year — or at least their testing shows they do — that may not be enough to meet the magic number.
If Oregon used a growth-based model, then I think that we would not have had any trouble making AYP the last three years. But we have a very large population of special education students -- about 23 percent. Many of these kids come in [to sixth grade] with their learning achievement level between Kindergarten and second grade. We have one of the ...
"Welcome to my world," said the traditional public school to the charter.
Reformers who get mugged by reality can sound an awful lot like the dreaded "establishment." Take, for example, the story of the Opportunity Charter School in Harlem. Started by ardent reformers, the school now faces closure if it can't raise students' scores by next year. The reformers are crying foul.
Their arguments sound familiar and reasonable. The school takes the city's lowest achievers, half of them with learning disabilities, so it has a tougher road to travel. The state's tests can't measure the kinds of progress the school has made with those students. And the one-year deadline is unreasonable.
The reformers are on shakier ground when they seek to distance themselves from traditional public schools. The charter's assistant principal claims that the state can't "expect the school to be accountable for a system that has failed ...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced an ambitious goal: To turn around the nation's lowest-performing schools. The Learning First Alliance (LFA), which sponsors Public School Insights, applauds that goal. Today, the Alliance released a set of principles for tracking the progress of the nation's school turnaround efforts. Principles for Measuring the Performance of Turnaround Schools outlines how education agencies and communities can determine whether those efforts are leading to both swift improvement and sustained change in persistently struggling schools.
This statement offers a framework for aligning turnaround efforts with a vision for giving every child access to an excellent public school. The proposed principles can help policymakers, educators and communities identify schools in need of intervention, reliably gauge the progress and ...
There is a school turnaround strategy for every taste. At least, that's the impression I get from the National Journal's most recent panel of experts. Asked to name the best strategies for turning around schools, different experts list different ideas. Pair struggling schools with the best teacher training institutions, writes Steve Peha. Create a year-round calendar, writes Phil Quon. Shutter struggling schools and start from scratch, writes Tom Vander Ark.
Each of these ideas has merit in some cases--I myself love the first idea, like the second, and am not fully sold on the third. But none is a necessary ingredient for all or even most schools.
So what do we know about turnarounds? Two big themes stand out in much of the school turnaround literature:
These themes are also clear in the many turnaround stories we profile on this website. Policy makers should take note.
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It's high time to slay the reconstitution dragon. Despite what you may hear these days, you do not have to kill a school to save it.
Here's what Emily and Bryan Hassel write in Education Next, which is hardly a pro-union rag: "Successful turnaround leaders typically do not replace all or most of the staff at the start, but they often replace some key leaders who help ...
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9:00am - 10:00amNetworking breakfast sponsored by CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS9:35 - 9:45amWelcome address by the Chairman 9:45am - 10:30am Reinventing the role of the cable company: Making an impact in the fiber space Will MSOs investment in increasingly sophisticated Ethernet offerings make them a more appealing choice to SMEs? Is content ownership imperative to maintaining a competitive edge in the fiber business of the future? Is there a glass ceiling for cable companies? Where will they look to for future investment opportunities? What regions are cable companies most active in?Moderator: Jennifer Fritzsche, Managing Director, WELLS FARGO SECURITIES Don Detampel, EVP, Technology and President, Commercial Services, CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS Jeremy Bye, VP, COX COMMUNICATIONSThane Storck, Group VP, Carrier Services, TIME WARNER CABLE BUSINESS SERVICES Steven Cochran, President and CEO, WOW! BUSINESS
10:30am - 11:45amMorning coffee and networking break sponsored by SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 11:45am - 12:45pmData center investment: The next step in portfolio expansion?Will there be a convergence of fiber providers and data centers? Should fiber providers become more prominent players in the data center space? Or vice versa? How are fiber providers currently utilising their acquired data center assets?The evolving impact of data centers: How will data centers increasing their purchase of fiber networks impact the current fiber ecosystem? With localised content being the next step to assuring quality of content delivery to the end-user, how are fiber providers utilising datacenters to achieve this?Future of Value Added Services: How has the increase in cloud migration impacted the need for connectivity between data centers? Should fiber providers invest in dark fiber and position themselves as transport focused or become more enterprise orientated, and provide services such as cloud, security etc?Moderator: Dave Burns, VP - Network Technology, QTS DATA CENTERS Randy Brouckman, CEO, EDGECONNEX Jack Lodge, President, GLOBAL CAPACITY Gil Santaliz, Founder and Managing Member, NJFXMike Hagan, VP of Sales, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC BANK STREET 12:45pm - 1:45pmNetworking lunch1:45pm - 3:00pmData Center Summit: The intersection between Connectivity and Data Center infrastructureRoundtable Discussion hosted by Bank Street & Schneider Electric Join Bank Street and Schneider Electric as they host a thoughtful and provocative round table discussion with some of the leading services operators in the Data Center ecosystem.
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Sally Pearson taking a break from running, coming home to Australia
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- August 17, 2012
A WEARY Sally Pearson has chosen an early sabbatical over potential prizemoney of at least $60,000, plus appearances fees, on offer in Europe.
Fresh from her London Olympics conquest, Pearson had entered the final two hurdles events on the Diamond League calendar, tonight's Stockholm meet and the final in Zurich on August 30.
Prizemoney for winners of individual races on the circuit is $10,000, while the Diamond Race champion at the end of the season earns a $40,000 bonus.
Queensland's Olympic champion, who leads Games bronze medallist Kellie Wells by two points in the Diamond Race, will forfeit that windfall and will also forgo her appearance fees.
Money, however, has never been the priority for this racing machine.
The 25-year-old initially wanted to compete tonight in Sweden, but eventually accepted the advice of her family, coach and management team.
"Physically she's fine. But it's been a long season, she's done everything she set out to do and it's difficult, mentally and physically, to maintain your peak for so long, " said coach Sharon Hannan.
"I question the value of continuing with these meets at the end of an Olympic year.
"And every athlete deserves the opportunity to come home and celebrate their achievements."
As an Olympic gold medallist, Pearson can expect her earning power to double and $60,000 could look like a drop in the bucket by the time she begins her world title defence next year.
She has a carefully selected stable of sponsors, including adidas, who have assisted her since her teens and there will be even more commercial interest following her London success.
The track star arrives home tomorrow and will take part in Olympic homecoming parades in Melbourne, Brisbane and her home celebration at the Gold Coast.
"She was just a bit tired, " said Pearson's manager Robert Joske.
"Europe just seemed too far away from her home and her dogs."
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New Order have announced they will be playing at Glastonbury, T In The Park and Oxegen - and have revealed how they saw a 'flying saucer' last time they were at Glasto. Haven't we all?
Singer Bernard Sumner told XFM: "We're set to be playing all of the festivals this summer: We're playing Glastonbury, T In The Park, one in Ireland (most likely Oxegen) and we're just looking forward to playing the new album.
"Last time we played Glastonbury I threw a bottle of Pernod at my amplifier and it didn't go down too well with the ambience of peace and love. I think we were banned for a short while, but maybe not. I actually saw a flying saucer last time I was there as well which was another interesting story…"
The band's second single release from their forthcoming album 'Waiting…' features a guest vocal from Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic, so perhaps some live collaborations could unfold depending on Scissor Sisters' plans?


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There's something you missed.
I find it odd that one of the most pivotal and mysterious moments in the Star Wars saga is discussed infrequently, and when it is the case is closed. Some time between 2005 and now the greater part of people who've watched this movie have all come to the same conclusion, and all that is debated is if they like this course of events or not.
Of course, I'm talking about the end of Revenge of the Sith, one of my all-time favorite films. I haven't been counting, but I've seen this movie 500 times, and I'm still finding new things to consider. The final hour of this movie is densely packed with information, but it doesn't hold your hand. Where a lesser film would have wrapped thing up with an expositive voiceover, Revenge of the Sith demands that the viewer watches how things unfold, and then asks the viewer to put the pieces together themselves. Unfortunately, not everyone has put them together the proper way, and that leads to a lot of differing conclusions regarding the anticlimax of the movie.
I'm talking about Padmé's death, the cause of which has been said by many to be "a broken heart."
Yuck. Nope.
I'm here to tell you that this theory does not hold up, and I'm going to show you why. Listen to my case, consider the evidence, re-watch the movie, and rethink the flawed broken heart theory.
I. The term "broken heart" is not the droid's diagnosis.
The only time anyone mentions anything about a broken heart is when Padmé is pleading to Anakin to stop being off-the-wall crazy. It's an obvious reaction to what she's hearing: he has admitted to turning against the Jedi order and killing children, siding with Palpatine, and even plotting to overthrow him. Of course she would be heartbroken! But it didn't kill her. Would that news kill you? Nope. It didn't kill her. Move along.
II. It wasn't Anakin's Force choke, either.
In a truly despicable move, Anakin physically hurts his pregnant wife because he thinks she has sided with Obi-Wan to kill him. He uses the dark side to choke her. After a few very intense seconds, he lets her go, and she collapses to the ground. The film makes great efforts to show you she is CLEARLY alive.
First, we can see her chest move up and down as she is unconscious on the ground. Second, Obi-Wan discretely checks to see if she's living before the duel. Third, she talks to Obi-Wan once he is back on board the ship following the duel with Anakin. Anakin did not kill her by cutting off her air supply for a those moments. Such a consequence is completely plausible (not saying it isn't) but the film makes sure to let you know many times that this did not contribute to her death.
III. Droids don't know squat about the Force.
After arriving at Polis Massa, Padmé is immediately taken to the medical ward. She is directly cared for by medical droids, with organic(?) Polis Massans supervising the effort.
Let's get one thing straight for all time: droids cannot feel the Force; droids cannot interact with the Force; droids do not understand anything about the Force unless it is programmed data provided by organics.
Clearly, what is going on with Padme in this scene has to do with the Force. Because Star Wars. With that in mind, let's review the exact words the droid said to Obi-Wan:
DROID "Medically, she's completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we're losing her."
OBI-WAN "She's dying?!"
DROID "We don't know why. She's lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies."
For reasons we can't explain, we're losing her. That reason is the Force! We don't know why. She's lost the will to live. As if her connection to the Living Force was severed? Of course the droids would not be able to pick this up!!
No broken hearts here. Look at her face. Does this look like a person who does not want to live? She struggled to keep conscious and talk until the very bitter end. She does not want to go. Her will to live is strong.
So, why does it seem like the Living Force is being ripped away from her, stealing her life force in a vampiric manner? That sounds like a power one would have if they were able to cheat death.
Wait. I've heard that phrase before. <gasp!>
IV. "Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?"
Yep. By his own admission, Palpatine learned everything his master knew, and killed him only after he could acquire nothing more.
Palpatine already knew how to influence the midichlorians to create life and save people from dying.
So, as Anakin was dying from his wounds on Mustafar, the Emperor siphoned the Living Force from Padmé and brought it to Anakin. Thus, she died as he was reborn as Darth Vader.
(FYI–don't talk to me about his Darthness being conferred earlier in the film; this was just a title. When he rose in the black suit, Darth Vader was an entirely new persona for the being inside.)
But wait–none of this is part of the film! I am reading into it a little bit! I am making conclusions! Yes, exactly. The brilliance of this film is making you think deeply about the nature of the Force. There is nothing in the Star Wars canon that conflicts even remotely and plenty of evidence–by Palpatine's own words–that support it.
(For the few years before the Darth Plagueis novel was made Legends, there was much more evidence that also supported this, but let's stick with just the film for now.)
V. "I sense Lord Vader is in danger."
But how can Palpatine affect Padmé when she's all the way on Polis Massa?
Even while battling Yoda, Palpatine can feel something is wrong with Anakin all the way out on Mustafar. On this day, the Emperor is at the height of his power. The dark side is strongest, completely blinding the Jedi, who are effectively fighting against a rising tide. Palpatine is having the best day of his entire life. If he is aware of Anakin on Mustafar, he is completely capable to affecting Padmé on Polis Massa.
VI. "She was alive. I felt it."
Darth Vader rises disoriented from the excruciating ordeal he has just been through. He was set aflame, only to be reconstructed in a torturous procedure. The only thing keeping him alive, surely, was the influx of Living Force from Padmé by way of Palpatine's dark arts. It is no mere coincidence she died at the precise time the procedure was over.
The first thing Vader does is to inquire about Padmé. It's not that he was unconscious–the movie makes it clear that he was awake through the entire procedure–it's that he could feel her in the Force, and once the procedure was over he could not. He knew all along that his choke didn't kill her. He is worried about this person he means to possess, and fears the worst.
PALPATINE "Lord Vader, can you hear me?"
VADER "Yes master. Where is Padmé? Is she safe? Is she alright?"
PALPATINE "It seems, in your anger, you killed her."
VADER "I–I couldn't have. She was ALIVE–I FELT IT."
{Palpatine knowingly smiles}
VADER "No…"
The evidence is there. Anakin felt that she was alive, and then could not. Palpatine smiles in satisfaction. And here lies is the most damning evidence in support of my case–the one irrefutable fact no one can deny…
VII. There's no other way Palpatine would know what's happening to Padme.
Padmé was taken to a secret location, hidden from the Emperor and Vader. Palpatine was pretty busy in the events following his duel: he picked up Anakin and rebuilt him. If he wasn't killing Padmé from afar, why oh why would he be aware of her death? There would be no news of it so suddenly; it had only happened seconds before he told the news to Anakin. This is the lynch-pin of Palpatine's whole plan, the part that would enslave Vader forever in his despair. She had to die–right then–or else Vader would never truly be committed to the Emperor.
This movie and the subsequent movies also show that neither Vader or the Emperor knew anything of her location, or of the birth of Vader's children. The Emperor's power was at its height, but not omniscient.
The fact that Palpatine knew about Padmé's death is the one big, huge giveaway that he was involved and that SHE DID NOT DIE OF A BROKEN HEART!
Once this deciding piece of evidence is given away by the film, the rest of the details previously shown to you all fall into place. But, don't take my word for it–watch the movie. It's all there. This is less of a theory than it is just a close watching of a film with many, many layers to uncover. I'm just going with the facts, here.
So please, please(!)–stop talking about murderous broken hearts in Revenge of the Sith. The film deserves better treatment than that, and you deserve to watch this classic one more time.