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"No school can be a great school unless it's a safe school," is a familiar phrase often cited by Secretary Duncan, and one that he repeated earlier today as he opened the first session of the National Summit on Gender-Based Violence Among Young People in Arlington, Va.
The Summit is being hosted by ED's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, and brings together organizations, educators and federal, state and local leaders to discuss ways to end gender-based violence among young people. Participants will share their expertise, give feedback on existing federal efforts, and provide recommendations on the future direction of federal policy and programming.
At ED, we are supporting efforts across the country to help prevent sexual violence in schools and on campuses. Through our grant programs, K-12 school districts are providing year-round training for school personnel on sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and mandated reporting of incidents. Our grant funding is also helping universities and colleges that are preventing interpersonal violence and starting innovative intervention programs. These universities are also conducting research into best practices to curtail interpersonal violence, often with impressive results.
Earlier this week, Secretary Duncan and Vice President Biden announced new guidance to help schools, colleges and universities better understand their obligations under federal civil rights laws to prevent and respond to the problem of campus sexual assault. Vice President Biden noted that the Obama administration is the first administration to state that sexual violence is not only a crime, but can also be a violation of an individual's civil rights.
Check out our media advisory for more information on the two-day National Summit on Gender-Based Violence Among Young People.


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Phi Beta Sigma to Celebrate Centennial in D.C.
6/26/2014, 12:24 p.m.
Members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., (Sigma) are preparing to color the nation's capital Blue and White during the organization's Centennial Celebration July 16-20th, in Washington, D.C.
Thousands of men of Sigma and their families will have an opportunity to enjoy a festive atmosphere, one lined with an outstanding list of events featuring major recording artists, political personalities, a unity rally and an unveiling of the fraternity's monument on the campus of Howard University, among others. The 5-day celebration, which will commemorate the fraternity's founding on January 9, 1914 at Howard University, begins with a golf tournament and concludes with a worship service and Bon Voyage Reception.
"We hope to do honor in some small measure to the dedication of those who went before us. Through our tributes, we celebrate the achievements our organization has made across the world. We resolve to hold our standards high and rededicate ourselves for a brand new Century, with the same fervor first shown by three collegiates, our revered Founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse and Charles I. Brown, at Howard University, in 1914," said Centennial Co-chairmen Hon. Carter D. Womack, 27th & 29th International President; Hon. William E. Stanley, Jr., 28th International President and Hon. Peter M. Adams, Esq., 30th International President. "May our pride keep showing for generations to come. We look forward with great excitement to our families and Sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority joining us in this Grand Celebration. Onward Together to a magnificent Jubilee," they added.
Event schedule includes:
Wednesday, July 16th – Honorable Demetrius C. Newton Golf Tournament (Blue Mash Golf Course, 5821 Olney-Laytonsville Road, Laytonsville, MD 20882), Welcome Reception, Centennial Collegiate Summit, Sigma Museum, Sigma Marketplace, Chapter Displays, "The Best Is Yet To Come," An Evening Celebrating 100 Years of Service with host Flex Alexander and honoring Dr. Bobby Jones, Gospel Concert featuring Pastor Shirley Caesar and a National Pan Hellenic Council Party.
Thursday, July 17th - Rededication & Necrology Ceremonies, Day Party featuring Syleena Johnson and Eddie George hosted by Comedian Joey Wells, Centennial Step Show Competition, Hip Hop/Rap Concert featuring Wale and Centennial Hospitality.
Friday, July 18th – Sigma Continental Breakfast, Sigma-Zeta Reaffirmation Ceremony, Sigma Legends Roundtable featuring Bobby Seale, Congressman John Lewis, Dr. Benjamin C. Muhammed, Reverend C.T. Vivian and Warren Ballentine, Day Party featuring Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly Concert hosted by J. Anthony Brown and Centennial Hospitality.
Saturday, July 19th - Family and Legacy Breakfast featuring George Fraser, Memorial Monument Unveiling (Howard University), A. Philip Randolph Unity Rally featuring Reverend Brother Al Sharpton, Centennial Grand Orchid Blue-Tie Ball hosted by Malik Yoba.
Sunday, July 20th - Worship Service and Bon Voyage Reception.
Ticket prices are Sigma Market Place $10 per day or $35 for four days, day parties $25 and MAZE Concert and Orchid Ball $100 each.
Individual event tickets are on sale now to the general public (including non-registered Brothers). Individual event ticket sales will end on June 27, 2014.
For more information on Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Centennial Celebration, please visit www.pbs100.org.

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As Islam in Spain steadily grows, so does the risk of radicalization. The opposing phenomena of insular religious radicalism and Spanish xenophobia toward Muslim immigrants have obstructed the social integration of the country's rapidly expanding Muslim community. Spain's location across the Mediterranean renders it a prime destination for immigrants from North Africa, but also a prime target for foreign radical elements. To many such individuals, al-Andalus—the territory of the Iberian Peninsula lost by Islam in the fifteenth century—is no longer simply an abstract cause, but rather a concrete jihadist objective.1
For the country's main political parties, meanwhile, the issue of Islamic radicalism remains largely taboo. The Rajoy government has been loath to engage in the controversial debates arising from the Muslim minority in Spain, leading some to accuse the government of altogether "abdicating the battle of ideas" between moderate and extreme interpretations of Islam. However, on the counterterrorism front, the administration's recent efforts indicate a more aggressive, determined stance towards the prosecution of suspected terrorists.
There are five principal groups in Spain that, either overtly or covertly, advocate a rigid adherence to Islamist doctrine: the Salafists, Al Adl wal Ihsane ("Justice and Charity"), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Tablighi Jama'at, and the Muslim Brotherhood. While some of these groups display a more moderate public face in order to avoid social marginalization or persecution, some scholars assert that these groups provide fertile ground for Islamist recruitment and actively hinder the integration of Muslim communities into the social fabric of Spain.2 Of the more than 1,000 mosques throughout the country, Spanish intelligence sources currently estimate that 20 percent are involved in the active promotion of radical Islamic doctrine, primarily by calling for the rejection of Spanish society in favor of a strict adherence to a sharia-based lifestyle.3 To that end, Spain's Interior, Justice and Labor Ministries published a joint 2010 report which concluded that, despite the comparatively small percentage of radicals among Spain's Muslims, there are reasons for serious concern regarding both the intensity of their radicalism and their skill in promoting it.4
Numerous studies and investigations commissioned by city councils and the Mossos d'Esquadra (the autonomous regional civilian police of Catalonia) chronicle the advance of the Salafist movement in Spain.5 Salafists are generally concentrated in the regions of Catalonia and Murcia and their surrounding areas. Local newspapers in these areas have reported cases of Salafi imams publicly advocating for a radical, violent ideology in their communities. In one such instance, nine men in Reus sentenced a woman accused of adultery to death by stoning. The woman managed to escape, and the men were arrested by the local Mossos d'Esquadra.6 When brought to court, however, such cases have not often led to successful convictions, possibly due to the strong bonds of loyalty between the imams and their congregations that may inhibit objective testimony.7
Nevertheless, a significant number of well-known jihadist commanders who espouse Salafism currently reside in Spanish prisons, including Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, alias Abu Dahdah, who has been directly linked to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. Other prisoners were connected to the radical cells responsible for the 2004 Madrid train bombings, whose perpetrators received training abroad from the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). Often, the most radicalized groups on Spanish soil maintain ties with different groups working in North Africa. These connections open pathways to the network of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).8 Spain has also served as an important hub for the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), whose members frequently interact with the GICM as well as with radicals in Catalonia.9
The Spanish region of Murcia, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea, boasts an estimated 120 mosques and prayer rooms. There, the local landscape of Islamist activism includes the adherents of Al Adl wal Ihsan. Founded in 1983 by Moroccan preacher Sheikh Abdesalam Yassine, the organization attracts followers from poor districts as well as from universities and other more educated circles. The group has been outlawed across the sea in Morocco because it does not recognize the religious legitimacy of the Moroccan Crown. Although it does not have as much visibility in Spain, Spanish authorities believe that it has the potential to "damage the integration of Muslims into Spanish society by defending the prevalence of Islamic law over Western law, and have therefore labeled the group a radical organization."10 In 2010, the Spanish naturalization application of the vice president of Murcia's Islamic Federation (FIRM), Mounir Benjelloun, was rejected because of his ties to Al Adl wal Ihsan. It seems that Benjelloun has forged a close and potentially strategic relationship between FIRM and Al Adl wal Ihsan. Since FIRM reportedly controls 45 of the 120 existing mosques and prayer rooms in Murcia, some fear that Al Adl wal Ihsan has obtained through this relationship a strong, legitimate platform from which to disseminate its message.11
The municipal government of Ceuta, one of Spain's two North African exclaves, has also expressed concern about the potential for strategic collaboration between Al Adl wal Ihsan and yet another Islamist group, Tablighi Jama'at, whose Spanish off-shoot is led by prominent imam and Ceuta resident Laarbi al-Lal Maateis.12 As with Al Adl wal Ihsan, Spanish Intelligence Services have tried to deny citizenship to members of Tablighi Jama'at on the premise that they are radicals opposed to social integration. However, the Spanish National Court often overturns such decisions.13
Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HUT) prefers to cloud itself in secrecy, so the exact size and number of HUT cells in Spain is still unknown. In 2007, the Athena Intelligence Journal defined the group's three primary activities in Spain as: proselytizing and distributing propaganda, especially to "foment division and confrontation between Muslims and non-Muslims;" increasing its presence in Islamic cultural and social organizations; and advancing an Islamist, anti-Western agenda through online forums and discussions.14
Through its affiliation with the Spanish Muslim Association founded in 1971, the Muslim Brotherhood is one of the more solidly established Islamic groups in Spain. Radical Muslim Brotherhood elements were especially active in Spain at the turn of this century. The infamous Abu Dahdah network, an al-Qaeda hub based in Madrid, provided funding to the Brotherhood while coordinating logistics for recruits transiting Europe.15 The Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies (IEEE) notes that the network played a significant part in not only the 9/11 attacks, but also the attacks in Morocco in 2003 and Madrid in 2004.16 Although their activity has faded from the media spotlight, the Brotherhood maintains a serious presence in Spain, largely in the regions of Andalusia, Valencia, and Madrid.17
Since the Madrid bombings in 2004, approximately 400 Islamic militants have been arrested in Spain.18 The radical Islamist cells in Spain typically include immigrants from the Maghreb (mainly Algerians and Moroccans who belong to cells originating in their home countries) and from Pakistan, due to the historical presence of a large Pakistani immigrant community in Catalonia. Cells and networks have traditionally been small and autonomous rather than interconnected. Recent investigations by Spanish security forces, however, have detected increasing links connecting these radicals with their counterparts outside of Spain.
In fact, the existence of organized transnational terrorist groups on Spanish soil has been proven by the trial and sentencing of elements of the Algerian Comando Dixan cell in 2002 and the legal processes against militants from a Catalonian jihadist network in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, who were captured during 2009's Operación Tigris. More recently in 2012, Barcelona's police forces initiated Operación Kartago (Operation Carthage), which attempts to "neutralize" the threat of lone-wolf terrorism by preventing potential Spanish terrorists from traveling abroad to seek training.19
The number of arrests in recent years reflects a threat level that seems to justify these law enforcement efforts.20 On June 22, 2013, a German national of Tunisian descent was arrested in Mallorca for publicly proclaiming that Allah had sent him to "kill all the Spanish."21 Also in June, Barcelona police arrested five Tunisian men accused of disseminating Osama bin Laden's speeches online, and sharing through social media instructional videos of bombmaking, training, and executions carried out by terrorists.22 Earlier this year as well, two suspected members of an underground terrorist cell with ties to AQIM were apprehended. Spanish police compared cell members' lone-wolf style radicalization to that of the Tsarnaev brothers, who were accused of committing the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.23
In 2012 alone, five people were arrested for terrorist ties in two separate high-profile cases. On June 26, Rachid Abedellah Mohamed and Nabil Mohamed Chaib—both Spanish citizens—were arrested in Melilla for organizing and running a terrorist cell intended to recruit new members for training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then, on August 2, with the cooperation of international security services, three al-Qaeda activists were arrested in Spain's biggest recent operation against violent Islamic extremism. Two of the suspects, Eldar Magomedov and Muhamed Ankari Adamov, were Russian citizens of Chechen extraction, while the group's ringleader, Cengiz Yalzin, was originally from Turkey. Allegedly, the three men planned to stage a major attack on British Gibraltar during the 2012 Olympic Games. Upon investigation of the men's apartments, Spanish authorities found "enough explosives to blow up a bus."24 However, since no specific target had been determined, the judge presiding over the case ruled that intent to commit terrorism could not be definitively proven, and thus the suspects were released.
Other earlier cases also highlight similar legal difficulties associated with state efforts to prosecute jihadist networks. These include:
- The case of five Algerians arrested by Spanish security forces in September 2011 for providing logistical and financial support to AQIM. All five were released when the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict.25
- The May 18, 2010 acquittal by Spain's Audencia Nacional (National Court) of two jihadists accused of attempting to make dirty bombs with red mercury.26
- The November 2005 arrest of ten Algerians who had allegedly engaged in credit card forgery to raise funds for the GSPC and al Qaeda in Alicante, Granada, and Murcia. Five of these men were tried in the National Court in May 2010. They were acquitted of all terrorism charges, although three of the five were sentenced to prison for forgery.27
- The January 2008 arrest of eleven Pakistanis in Barcelona accused of plotting terrorist suicide attacks on the Barcelona metro system on the orders of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. On December 14, 2009, the eleven detainees were found guilty of some of the charges leveled against them, but were found not guilty on the charges of terrorism; it was determined that the plot had not reached the level necessary to be a terrorist conspiracy.28
In spite of the pattern of non-conviction, past U.S. intelligence assessments have confirmed the alarming nature of Islamist activity in Spain. The Spanish daily El País recently published a Wikileaks cable written by the U.S. Embassy in Madrid in 2005, which reported that Spanish authorities had only minimal intelligence on radical groups in the country and recommended that a counterterrorism center be established at the U.S. consulate in Barcelona.29 Although it remains unclear whether or not such a center was ever established, another U.S. cable from 2007 reports that Spanish authorities still deemed Barcelona's large Muslim population "susceptible to jihadist recruitment."30
As of 2013, Spain's Muslim population constituted approximately 1.6 million people, or just over three percent of the country's total 47.4 million inhabitants.31 Approximately 30 percent of this population is comprised of natural-born Spanish citizens. Half of the remaining 70 percent are Moroccan immigrants, and the remainder comes from Algeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria, the Gambia, and Mali.32 The percentage is lower than Europe's overall five percent average of Muslim inhabitants, but proportionally similar to Germany (where Muslims make up approximately 3.7% of the population).33
Nevertheless, it would be erroneous to conclude—based solely on these numbers—that Islam is a fringe phenomenon in Spain. On the contrary, the rapidity with which Islam has grown and expanded in Spain makes it both notable and potentially problematic. Since the turn of the century, Muslim immigration to Spain has increased dramatically. A study by the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain indicates that over a ten-year period from 1998 to 2007, Spain nationalized 61,086 Muslim immigrants. Yet in only three years from 2008 to 2011, 52,095 Muslim immigrants were nationalized, nearly triple the rate of the previous decade.34 The percentage of Muslims as a subset of the national population has also more than tripled since 2000,35 and in total, Muslim immigrants account for more than 20 percent of Spain's immigrant population.36
Muslims in Spain tend to belong to the following associations: the Federación Española de Entidades Religiosas Islámicas (Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities; FEERI), the Unión de Comunidades Islámicas de España (Union of Islamic Communities in Spain; UCIDE), and, more marginally, the Junta Islámica de España (Islamic Junta of Spain). FEERI possesses a significant Moroccan composition, and Al Adl wal Ihsan has attempted to infiltrate the organization in the past. UCIDE, by contrast, involves Muslim clerics of Syrian and Saudi origin. FEERI and UCIDE are, together, the key members of the Islamic Commission of Spain, the official Islamic partner of the Spanish government. By contrast, the smaller Junta Islámica is more overtly political, involving converts to Islam and so-called "progressives" while promoting a distinctive version of Islam that is occasionally at variance with the state.37 Although none of the three organizations provide figures concerning their membership or structure, it is estimated that FEERI and UCIDE together account for 70 percent of all Muslim groups in Spain.38 This in turn signifies that approximately 30 percent of Spanish Muslims fall outside of official religious institutions. Whether this exclusion is by choice or because of a lack of access has not been determined.
The comparatively recent explosive growth of the Muslim population in Spain has been mirrored by a growth of Islamic institutions. While the number of legal, officially approved mosques in the country remains low (no more than two dozen), a large number of cultural associations have sprung up in recent years, filling the need for new venues of worship and prayer. The 2007 census conducted by the Ministry of Justice's Office of Religious Affairs identified around 450 of such associations.39 However, UCIDE has admitted to the existence of more than 700 such facilities, and law enforcement authorities estimate that there are actually over 1,000 illegal mosques in existence in Spain today.24 Despite this institutional growth, UCIDE reports that 5% of Spanish Muslim communities lack access to a mosque, while 95% lack a Muslim cemetery (almacabra).40
As the statistics above suggest, Spain's Muslim community is religious—and increasingly so. In its April 2010 survey of national religious attitudes, the Spanish government found a marked increase in piousness among the country's Muslims (with religious adherence rising from 41 percent in 2006 to 52 percent in 2009). These statistics stand in stark contrast to the prevailing trend of widespread secularism among the country's native population that has developed over recent decades. For example, less than 20 percent of Spaniards today define themselves as practicing Catholics, compared to 50 percent in 1976. Meanwhile, more than 60 percent of Spanish Muslims regard Islam and democracy as "compatible, but sometimes at personal cost."41
Differences between the native-born Spanish Muslims or converts and their immigrant counterparts foster divisions in the larger Muslim community, particularly over the issues of interpretation and proper delegation of religious authority. For instance, there is a struggle underway between the competing interpretations of Islam and Islamic law practiced by Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Both versions of Islam are conservative (although the Saudi is considerably more so), while the Moroccan is additionally nationalistic, claiming sovereignty over Spanish territories in North Africa—namely, the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two smaller territories (Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera and Peñón de Alhucemas), and the Chafarinas archipelago.
Unlike other immigrant communities in Spain, Muslims are not evenly distributed throughout the country. Seventy-five percent of the Spanish Muslim population lives across the Mediterranean coast in Ceuta and Melilla.42 On the mainland, Spanish Muslims are concentrated in three regions: Catalonia (427,000), Andalusia (253,000), and Madrid (242,000).43 Andalusia, because of its geographic proximity to North Africa and its need for extensive manpower for agriculture, has attracted comparatively high levels of Muslim immigrants. So has Madrid, which serves as Spain's largest engine of economic growth and thereby provides greater opportunities for employment to immigrants.44 But Catalonia accounts for the majority of Muslim immigrants, in part because the region's official antagonism to the Spanish language has led regional authorities to prioritize non-Spanish speaking immigrants in the belief that it would be easier to immerse the newcomers into Catalan separatist culture.
The future of the Muslim population in Catalonia particularly bears watching. The region's historic secessionist attitudes have been greatly inflamed by recent economic woes and the Catalonians' frustration with the government in Madrid. The region will hold a referendum on independence in 2014. If the referendum succeeds, the would-be state will have the third-highest concentration of Muslims in Western Europe: 6 percent, or 450,000 out of 7.5 million inhabitants.45 This proportionally larger demographic, however, has galvanized anti-Muslim reactions among some of the region's non-Muslim citizens. Most visibly, a dozen Catalonian towns became the first in Spain to ban the burqa and the niqab in municipal buildings. Lleida, a city in Western Catalonia whose population is a full 25 percent Muslim, is at the epicenter of this movement. Beyond banning the niqab, its mayor shut down the city's lone mosque because there were allegedly too many Friday worshippers. In February 2012, angry townspeople began accusing Lleida's Muslims of poisoning dogs in revenge.46
Indeed, access to mosques has been a source of intense friction among rural Spanish communities. Between the mid-1990s and 2012, there have been 60 registered disputes between Muslim communities and their Spanish neighbors over the construction of mosques.47 Riay Tatary, president of UCIDE, has angrily protested what is perceived as a segregationist movement to "exile" mosques by relocating them to areas outside of city and residential neighborhoods.48 The most publicized incident of this nature occurred in 2012 in Torrejon, a town of 120,000 (of which Muslims comprise nearly 10%). The Muslim citizens of the town purchased land to expand the city's mosque, at the time located near the town's center. However, angry protests and petitions from the rest of the town's residents, as well as a demonstration by the anti-immigration Platform for Catalonia, induced the municipal authorities to revoke the building permit and change the site to one near an industrial park outside of town.49 In other instances, residents have strewn pig's blood and pork meat over potential mosque sites in a deliberate attempt to permanently contaminate the sites in the eyes of Muslims.50 While revealing a measure of grassroots fear in some areas, these acts have the potential to alienate the moderate Spanish Muslim community, even turning some towards radicalization and retribution.
Although Catalonia has been the focal point of such conflict, it mirrors a xenophobic attitude in the entire country that further endangers the peaceful integration of Muslim communities. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project 2011 Report, 58 percent of non-Muslims in Spain believed that relations between Muslims and Westerners were poor. Sixty-six percent believed that Muslim immigrants do not want to adopt Spanish national customs.51 Among those asked which religion is the most violent, 87% responded "Islam." Sixty-one percent expressed concern about Islamic extremism at home. Spain was one of the only Western countries in the project in which the majority of the population (63%) had an unfavorable attitude towards Muslims. Pew also reported that the three top stereotypes about Muslims held by Spanish non-Muslims are "fanatical" (80%), "violent" (61%), and "arrogant" (48%). The report concluded that Spain was the only Western country in which a majority of non-Muslims associate three or more negative characteristics with Muslims.52 In spite of these sentiments, Spanish xenophobia has not yet reared a viable political head. Unlike their counterparts elsewhere in Europe, groups like Plataforma x Catalunya and Spain 2000, which profess a complete rejection of Islam and Muslim immigrants, have been unable to gain much traction among the Spanish population.53
It is important to note that the majority of Spanish Muslims reject the use of violence and consider themselves well integrated into the broader Spanish community.54 However, for the minority that does not share these feelings, the blend of isolation and xenophobia that they experience is a toxic recipe. Since the Muslim community in Spain is so immigrant-heavy, it encounters many obstacles to integration: unfamiliarity with the Spanish language, lack of documentation, an unnaturally high percentage of unmarried men, and frequent unemployment. All of these factors have the potential to increase dissatisfaction and estrangement, driving the Muslim community away from its non-Muslim counterpart and consequentially increasing the risk of radicalization.55 The 2010 Religious Attitudes study found that approximately four percent of Muslims in Spain do not condemn the use of violence in pursuit of political objectives. This demographic (approximately 50,000 to 60,000 Muslims in Spain) would possibly be more predisposed to radicalization. As the Spanish government struggles with its finances, the resulting social chaos will likely cause increased perceptions of deprivation and insularism on both sides—an aggravated "us versus them" mentality—which radical elements on both sides will no doubt be eager to exploit.
In light of the wave of burqa bans, the previous government under President Luis Rodríguez Zapatero attempted to pass a new, more expansive Religious Freedom Law in order to redefine Spain as secular and neutral to all forms of religious expression.56 However, the attempt was not successful, and Zapatero acknowledged that the lack of a political and social consensus in Spain would have prevented the law's passage.57
Meanwhile, the issue had gained national prominence with the People's Party's (PP) June 2010 proposal of a motion urging the Spanish Senate to extend the burqa ban nationwide, both in public buildings and in the street.58 The Zapatero administration rejected the proposal and blocked the passing of that same motion in Congress days later.59 Shortly afterward, the ban came under further attack when eleven mosques and prayer rooms run by Salafist preachers in Lleida, Barcelona, and Tarragona challenged the ban in court. On its second appeal to the Spanish Supreme Court, the Lleida prohibition was overturned in a landmark March 2013 ruling. However, the ruling was based on the judges' opinion that municipal governments do not have the authority to make a ban that requires the backing of constitutional law. Thus no judicial precedent has yet been set on whether the national government could pass such a measure constitutionally.60
Mariano Rajoy Brey, the leader of the People's Party, succeeded Zapatero as President on December 21, 2011. Rajoy appears to be sensitive to the size of the Spanish Muslim population, and in his public statements since taking office he has been careful to distinguish between "Islam" and "Islamism." However, another recent legal initiative has infuriated Rajoy's opponents and those wary of Islamist doctrine. Sustained pressure from Rabat, Morocco on the Spanish government led to a controversial agreement passed in February 2013 (and subsequently incorporated into the Spanish legal code) that gave Moroccan religious authorities the right to "monitor" any Moroccan children adopted by Spanish citizens in order to ensure that the children remain religiously and culturally Muslim during their upbringing. Some critics have called this measure "an unprecedented encroachment of Islamic Sharia law within Spanish jurisprudence [and]… a frontal assault on the freedom of religion."61
While trying to maintain a policy of religious neutrality, the federal government has adopted an assertive stance in pursuit of jihadist cells. The May 2013 deportation of Moroccan national Noureddin Ziani for disseminating Salafist ideology demonstrates at least a partial commitment by the Spanish government to counter ideas that they deem a "threat to society."62 Then in June 2013, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz announced the administration's intention to amend the Spanish penal code in order to include proselytization from prison and indoctrination by imams in the definition of a crime of terrorism.63 This legal step is likely a response to harsh critiques over the cases of multiple terrorist suspects that have been released from Spanish prisons due to excessive punishment or lack of evidence.64 An inability to convict is an unfortunate consequence of the aggressive policies of quick intervention in cases of suspected terrorism (established in 2004 after the attacks in Madrid)—in many instances, doing so without having the necessary evidence to guarantee a conviction.
Spain's counterterrorism strategy remains closely linked to the issues of immigration and border control. Spain is a founding member of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, and maintains an inter-ministerial Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) working group, described by the U.S. State Department as "tied closely to the fight against illegal immigration and the integration of existing immigrant communities."65 The government has stepped up its cooperation with other Western countries through mechanisms such as the U.S. Immigrant Advisory Program and increased access to Europol information databases on terrorism and organized crime.66
[1] In a post-9/11 broadcast, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri termed the loss of Andalusia a "tragedy." For more, see Rafael L. Bardaji and Ignacio Cosidó, "Spain: from 9/11 to 3/11 and Beyond," in Gary J. Schmitt, ed., Safety, Liberty, and Islamist Terrorism: American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010).
[2] Rogelio Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead," Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 35, no. 6, 2012, 471-491.
[3] Ibid., 478.
[4] In the study, radical views were found in five percent of the 2,000 adult respondents. See Ministerios de Interior, Justicia y Trabajo, La Comunidad Emigrante En España De Origen Musulmán (Madrid: Demoscopia, April 2010); Comments on this report can be found in Olga R. Sanmartin, "Rubalcaba Dice Que El Gobierno 'Observa' Las Mezquitas Radicales [Rubalcaba Says the Government 'Observes' Radical Mosques']," El Mundo (Madrid), April 8, 2010, 14.
[5] Ferrán Balsells, "El Salafismo Se Hace Con El Control De Cinco Mezquitas En Tarragona [Salafism Takes Control Of Five Mosques In Tarragona]," El País (Madrid), June 21, 2010, 31.
[6] "Un 'juicio' islamista condeno a una mujer a morir por adultera en Reus [An Islamist 'trial' condemns a woman to death in Reus]," ElPeriodico.com, December 5, 2009, http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/20091205/juicio-islamista-condeno-una-mujer-morir-por-adultera-reus/print-235772.shtml.
[7] Ferrán Balsells, "La Policía No Haya Pruebas Del Supuesto Juicio Islámico De Tarragona [Spanish Police does not Find Evidence of the Supposed Islamic Trial]," El País (Madrid), June 20, 2010, 27.
[8] See "Marruecos Desarticula Un Grupo Terrorista Vinculado Al 11-M [Morocco Arrests a Terrorist Cell Connected with the March 11, 2004 Attacks]," La Vanguardia (Barcelona), March 3, 2010, 17.
[9] C. Echeverría Jesús, "La Conexión Paquistaní se Consolida También en España [The Pakistani Connection Is Also Acting in Spain]," Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos GEES Analysis, January 23, 2008, www.gees.org.
[10] Jose Maria Blanca Navarro and Oscar Perez Ventura, "Movimientos Islamistas en España [Islamist Movements in Spain]," Insituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos, January 11, 2012, http://www.ieee.es/Galerias/fichero/docs_marco/2012/DIEEEM012012_MovimientosIslamistasenEspana.docx.pdf.
[11] A. Negre, "Justicia Vincula A La Federación Islámica De La Región Con Una Organización Radical [Justice Ties The Islamic Federation Of The Region To A Radical Organization]," La Verdad (Murcia), May 6, 2010, 1-3; "UCIDE Dice Que La Federación Islámica Controla Siete Mezquitas Radicales [UCIDE Says That The Islamic Federation Controls Seven Radical Mosques]," La Verdad (Murcia), May 7, 2010, 13.
[12] "Movimientos Islamistas en España." See also El Pueblo de Ceuta, July 12, 2009, http://www.elpueblodeceuta.es/200912/20091207/200912073101.html.
[13] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead," 485.
[14] "Hizb-ut-Tahrir en España," Athena Intelligence Journal 2, no. 2, April 21, 2007, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=47235.
[15] Aaron Mannes, "El Once de Marzo: A Familiar, Maddening Scene," National Review Online, March 12, 2004, http://www.nationalreview.com/node/209873/print.
[16] "Movimientos Islamistas en Espana."
[17] Ibid.
[18] Some of these detainees have since been released. See Al Goodman, "Spain arrests 2 men suspected of al Qaeda group links," CNN, April 24, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/23/world/europe/spain-terror-arrests.
[19] "Interior: la operación de Barcelona persigue 'neutralizar' el terrorismo yihadista," Europapress, June 12, 2013, http://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-interior-operacion-barcelona-persigue-neutralizar-terrorismo-yihadista-20130612104940.html.
[20] For a fact-based, detailed account, see Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez, "No Destruirán Nuestra Libertad" [They Will Not Destroy Our Freedom] (Madrid: Temas de Hoy, 2010).
[21] Soeren Kern, "Islamic Supremacy Rears its Head in Spain," RealClearWorld, June 22, 2013, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/06/22/islamic_supremacy_rears_its_head_in_spain.html.
[22] "Spain police arrest 5 Tunisians in Barcelona accused of spreading Internet terror propaganda," FOX News, June 12, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/12/spain-police-arrest-5-tunisians-in-barcelona-accused-spreading-internet-terror/.
[23] Goodman, "Spain arrests 2 men suspected of al Qaeda group links."
[24] "Spain had near-miss with terrorism attributed to Chechen group," Public Radio International's The World, April 20, 2013, http://www.pri.org/stories/politics-society/government/spain-had-near-miss-with-terrorism-attributed-to-chechen-group-13569.html.
[25] United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator of Counterterrorism, Country Reports on Terrorism 2011 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, July 31, 2012), http://www.refworld.org/docid/501fbc9f16.html.
[26] Union de Comunidades Islámicas de España, "Estudio demográfico de la población musulmana [Demographic study of the Muslim population]," 2013, http://ucide.org/sites/default/files/revistas/estademograf12.pdf.
[27] Al Goodman, "5 Terror Suspects On Trial In Madrid," CNN, May 23, 2010, http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/23/spain.terror.trial/index.html.
[28] See "Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity," Combating Terrorism Center at West Point CTC Sentinel 3, iss. 1, January 2010, 27.
[29] "US Embassy feared Barcelona was an Islamist hub," Deutsche Welle, December 12, 2012, http://www.dw.de/us-embassy-feared-barcelona-was-an-islamist-hub/a-6320524
[30] ibid.
[31] UCIDE, "Estudio demográfico de la población musulmana."
[32] Ibid; Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead."
[33] "Germany," Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, May 15, 2013, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html.
[34] UCIDE, "Estudio demográfico de la población musulmana."
[35] See, for example, Hossein Kettani, "Muslim Population in Europe: 1950-2020," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development 1, no. 2. June 2010, http://www.ijesd.org/papers/29-D438.pdf.
[36] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead,"
[37] The websites of FEERI, UCIDE and the Junta are, respectively, www.feeri.eu, es.ucide.org, and www.juntaislamica.org. They provide some details as to the organization's ideologies and their program of activities.
[38] Patricia Bezunartea, Jose Manuel Lopez, and Laura Tedesco, "Muslims in Spain and Islamic Religious Radicalism." Microcon, May 2009, http://www.microconflict.eu/publications/PWP8_PB_JML_LT.pdf.
[39] See Escobar Stemman and Juan José, "Activismo Islámico En España [Islamic Activism In Spain]," Política Exterior 124, July/August 2008.
[40] UCIDE, Estudio demografico de la poblacion musulmana."
[41] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead."
[42] Ibid., 476.
[43] UCIDE, "Estudio demográfico de la población musulmana."
[44] See "Poblacion Musulmana En España [Muslim Population Of Spain]," El País (Madrid), June 10, 2010.
[45] Soeren Kern, "The Islamic Republic of Catalonia," Gatestone Institute, October 12, 2012, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3393/catalonia-islamic-republic.
[46] Such reports are still unsubstantiated. See Dale Hurd, "Under Siege? Spain resists Islamic invasion," CBN News, February 12, 2012, http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/february/under-siege-spain-resists-islamic-invasion-/.
[47] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead,"480.
[48] "Spanish Muslims denounce the 'exile' of their mosques," El País (Madrid), June 3, 2013, http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2013/06/03/actualidad/1370260356_229615.html.
[49] Guy Hedgecoe, "Local mosque row a Spanish problem," The Irish Times, July 10, 2012, http://www.irishtimes.com/news/local-mosque-row-a-spanish-problem-1.532693.
[50] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam in Spain: Challenges Ahead."
[51] Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, "Muslim-Western tensions persist," July 21, 2011, http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/07/21/chapter-2-how-muslims-and-westerners-view-each-other/
[52] Ibid.
[53] "Far-right extremist parties find support across Europe," Public Radio International, 30 November 2012, http://www.pri.org/stories/politics-society/far-right-extremist-parties-find-support-across-europe.html
[54] Alonso, "The Spread of Radical Islam"
[55] Kern, "The Islamic Republic of Catalonia."
[56] "Ni Crucifijos Ni Funerales Católicos [Neither Catholic Crucifixes Nor Funerals]," El Pais (Madrid), 13 June 2006.
[57] Jorge Otero, "Zapatero: 'La ley de libertad religiosa es conveniente, no urgente," Publico.es, 10 Nov 2010.
[58] "Spanish Senate Calls for Nationwide Burqa Ban," Deutsche Press-Agentur, 23 June 2010, http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1565614.php/Spanish-Senate-calls-for-nationwide-burqa-ban.
[59] Alan Clendenning and Harold Heckle, "Spain Rejects Burqa Ban – For Now," Associated Press, 20 July 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/spain-rejects-burqa-ban_n_653254.html.
[60] Fiona Govan, "Spain Overturns Islamic face veil ban," The Telegraph, 1 March 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9902827/Spain-overturns-Islamic-face-veil-ban.html
[61] Soeren Kern, "Islamic Supremacy Rears its Head in Spain," RealClearWorld, 22 June 2013, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/06/22/islamic_supremacy_rears_its_head_in_spain.html
[62] "El gobierno del PP acuerda la expulsion definitive de Espana de Ziani por 'difundir ideas Salafistas,'" [The government of the People's Party agrees to Ziani's definitive expulsion from Spain for spreading Salafist ideas), Noticias de Navarra, 16 May 2013, http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2013/05/16/politica/estado/el-gobierno-del-pp-acuerda-la-expulsion-definitiva-de-espana-de-ziani-por-difundir-ideas-salafistas
[63] "El gobierno quiere tipificar como delito de terrorismo 'recibir 'entrenamiento pasivo' en prisiones, internet, o mezquitas. [The government wants to classify the receipt of 'passive training' in prisons, online, or in mosques as a crime of terrorism]," La Vanguardia, June 12, 2013, http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20130612/54375578411/gobierno-entrenamiento-pasivo-delito-terrorismo.html.
[64] Kern, "Islamic Supremacy Rears its Head in Spain."
[65] United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator of Counterterrorism, Country Reports on Terrorism 2011.
[66] Ibid; See also United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Country Reports on Terrorism 2012 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, May 2013), http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/210204.pdf.


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Former Maryland defensive lineman Joe Vellano (6'2", 308 lbs.) is far from the most athletic defensive lineman in this year's NFL draft, but his work ethic and motor will land him on an NFL roster.
Vellano isn't among the first players you think of when mentioning this year's NFL draft class. Vellano isn't even the first in his own family.
Vellano's father Paul was a star at Maryland in the 1980s. After Joe was selected to be an All-American in 2011, the Vellanos became the first father-son duo to earn All-American honors at the same school in ACC history (UMTerps.com).
If you've seen Vellano on tape, you see that he has next-level talent; a potential caveat being that Maryland's 49th-ranked strength of schedule didn't give him the opportunity to play against better competition. Nonetheless, he accumulated 94 tackles in 2011 from the defensive tackle position.
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By Julia Coey
It is easy to forget about wild animals in the winter.
Lazy walks in the sun, enjoying the sights and sounds of birds, the antics of squirrels, the lucky glimpse of a fox are all a distant memory when the temperature drops.
Bundled up and rushing from one heated place to another on those frigid days, we imagine wild animals must be sleeping (hibernating) or have skipped town (migrated). And lots have. Hummingbirds. Long gone. Turtles. Sleeping under layers of mud until spring.
Which crazy animals stick out the cold weather with us?
One in particular might be a shock.
The American robin. Given that most people erroneously equate the robins' return with the start of spring, it may surprise you to learn they've never really left – at least not in the traditional way.
Instead of following a standard yearly winter migration route, robins flock together in groups of 50 to 100 birds and search for food. When they find a resource-rich area, they stay, regardless of how far south it is. With insects scarce in the winter, robins switch to eating mostly fruit such as crab apples, juniper berries and rose hips.
We can thank blue jays and cardinals for hanging in there and splashing a bit of colour across the grey winter canvas. Raccoons and squirrels still scamper around in the snow. Both species take cover when the weather is frigid, but remain active during milder winter days.
Opossums have slowly been moving north to Ontario from the southern states for decades. However, opossums are not well-suited for freezing temperatures; their paper-thin pink ears and tail get frost-bitten easily. They don't hibernate, but during cold snaps they can stay tucked away in dens for weeks, living off their fat stores.
Unlike the ill-prepared opossums, the red fox is active all year and has thick fur between its foot pads and on its ears – an effective barrier against frostbite. Its coat also becomes thicker in the winter. Pigeons manage the cold by alternating feet, tucking one leg up under their belly at time so they don't freeze to the ground.
Try to remember our wild neighbours this winter. As the temperature drops and ice and snow cover the ground, wild animals are also at risk of developing hypothermia and frostbite. The sooner they are found and brought to a wildlife rehabilitator like Toronto Wildlife Centre, the better their chance of survival.
Hang in there, it will be spring before we know it.
Julia Coey is a writer and development coordinator at Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC). TWC is a charity, relying on donations to run wildlife community education programs and an emergency wildlife hotline, dedicated wildlife rescue team and veterinary and rehabilitation programs that help about 5,000 sick, injured and orphaned wild animals a year. Visit www.torontowildlifecentre.com or www.torontowildlifecentre.com/toronto-wildlife-centre-psa


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Paul Bracken in his book, The Second Nuclear Age, argues that rather than tending to a Nuclear Zero, the world has in fact already gone straight from the First to the Second Nuclear Age in the years since the Fall of the Wall. Bracken, a professor at Yale School of Management who spent years in the classic think Cold War think tank notes that not only have the original nuclear powers (the US, Russia and the UK) kept their weapons, but so have the subsequent entrants (France, China and Israel). Now with with India, Pakistan and North Korea new entrants and Iran and Saudi Arabia probably in the pipe the Second Nuclear age is fairly and truly begun.
One may not like it, but there it is.
But as when the bipolar nuclear world was still new in the 1940s, there are as yet no established maps for navigating the new one. And as the Cold War's first years were so dangerous because policymakers had yet to figure out how to operate within a nuclearized context, so too are the coming decades likely to be fraught with peril. We don't know how the new nuclear works yet. The world took 50 years to learn the rules of the old one the hard way — via the Berlin Crisis, Korea, Cuba and Vietnam — it will likely require the same type of hard knocks to figure out the new.
The strategic problems of the First Age were only addressed when the debate widened to include the public, where it drew the attention of the best minds of the day (Kissinger, Kahn, Schelling). During the 1948 Berlin crisis the only strategies available were the ones left over from World War 2. Then, just as now, nuclear weapons were attractive to policymakers because they were cheap. Truman wanted to cash in on the Peace Dividend after VJ day and the only alternative to keeping 165 conventional divisions in Europe to hold back the Red Army was the Bomb. The problem was he had no guidelines on how to use it. Still he may be better off than we are now, when many think we dont need to think about those issues.
The recommended military response to Stalin's blockade of Berlin was actually for Truman to send an armored column — one that would probably have been outnumbered 50 to 1 — racing towards the former German capital. Nobody believed it would work, but it was the only response in the pre-nuclear playbook.
Truman had to improvise a strategy by announcing the famous Airlift, complemented by "routine deployments" of Silverplate B-29s to bases all around the USSR and staging joint reviews of mock bombing raids with his Republican presidential opponent Dewey to let Uncle Joe the policy was bipartisan.
No one knows what would have happened if Stalin had ordered the Berlin aerial resupply interdicted. But the alternative history is unimportant. It is sufficient to note that by trial and error Truman began to figure out how the game between the superpowers could be played without blowing up the world. It was crises of these types that pushed the problem of strategy out into the open. An analogous process has still not happened in the post Cold War period. We still sail on under colors of confident ignorance, untested by crises.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall seemingly banished such problems forever. But they did not. The accession of new nuclear powers has created an unacknowledged new nuclear age with distinctive features. For one, it is driven by regional dynamics. The "circuit breakers" no longer run through Washington and Moscow. Instead, they pass through the Middle East (Israel vs the Iran vs Saudi Arabia), South Asia (India vs Pakistan) and East Asia (China vs Japan vs North Korea). These new detonation circuits have been overlayed onto a world where the US, Russia, France and the UK still play a part. The remnants of the First Age are now written over by the structures of the Second.
And the linkages are connected in ways that create emergent and unexpected phenomena. Bracken spends many paragraphs citing actual war game results where decision makers (but not the top ones) are suddenly shocked to learn for themselves that the regional conflicts can escalate and spill over. Lesson number one: the Second Nuclear Age is more unpredictable than the First.
Equally shocking, many are determined to ignore their own unpreparedness through a process of invincible denial. "No, nonproliferation is not dead. It's no use talking about strategy, there is no strategy possible for thinking about nuclear weapons. We must get to Global Zero and all these problems will go away. How dare you think the unthinkable … " etc etc etc. The official line triumphs over common sense.
It is as if we were transported back in time to 1948 again, re-learning the ropes but with Barack Obama instead of Harry Truman at the helm. "Have we forgotten too much?" Bracken asks of our strategy. His answer is 'yes we have'. And what is more we don't even know that it's important to remember.
One of his best chapters, that on South Asia, illustrates the depth of Bracken's thinking but at the same time points to what I think is the book's major weakness. In describing Pakistan's strategic dilemma, Bracken notes that it was India's progress that destabilized the regional situation. When India got rich, Pakistan could only equalize with more Bombs.


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Thanks to the Jesus Montero/Michael Pineda trade, the New York Yankees finally have pitching depth at the cost of a weakened DH position.
Prince Fielder is one name, probably the first name, to spring to the minds of Yankee fans as to who should fill that spot. Fielder is probably the best player for that spot, but not necessarily the best option.
There are some other names the Yankees should consider in addition to the mighty Prince Fielder. While it would be nice to have Fielder mashing homers over the short porch in left, the Yankees should make signing a player at a reasonable price their priority.
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The death toll from Hurricane Carlotta has risen to three in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials said.
The storm, which weakened and broke up over the weekend, dumped heavy rains on western, central and southern Mexico.
The third person to die in the storm was a 56-year-old woman from the coastal city of San Jose Manialtepec, the Oaxaca Attorney General's Office said.
The woman was killed Friday night as she drove from her riverfront house to another dwelling in an effort to find shelter.
The woman's vehicle was knocked over by the storm's powerful winds, killing her, the AG's office said, adding that a relative traveling with the victim was not hurt.
A mudslide triggered by the storm killed two children, ages 7 and 12, on Friday night in the city of Pluma Hidalgo.
The children's mother was pulled out of the family's house alive, but she is listed in serious condition at a hospital.
Oaxaca Gov. Gabino Cue has asked the federal government to issue a disaster declaration for his state, which was the region worst hit by the storm.
Cities across Oaxaca reported damage to roads, bridges, telephone lines, the power grid and crops.
Carlotta became a Category 1 hurricane on Friday and strengthened to Category 2.
The storm later weakened and made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane before being downgraded Saturday morning to a tropical storm and later to a tropical depression.
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Hello. I've just joined this forum. I am an enthusiastic graphic novice and I have owned and enjoyed many versions of XARA. Currently on Photo & Graphic Designer 7. I mainly use Xara for simple web / presentation graphics and particularly for titling or various stills required in my video production business.
I recently wanted to make a (Xara project) animation that would work as a video overlay that emulated the viewfinder of a camcorder. Very simple, only needed 2 still images (i.e 2 frames in the animation), as I needed the little red dot in the corner to flash as it does to indicate "record" in a camcorder.
No problem in building he images/ animation, however, I needed a transparent background (as this was a video overlay). I selected to export the animation as an AVI and I made sure that I checked the "make background transparent" radio button in the "export animation" settings. Unfortunately, the result was an AVI that had an opaque black background. (I managed to use this as I imported it into my video software and then keyed out the black, but this is not ideal).
If anyone can follow my ramblings above and has a few minutes spare, I would welcome any feedback as to whether this is reproduceable on other's system, as it has me stumped and I cannot see any remaining options that I should explore. I'm wondering if there is some problem with the codecs that are coming into play in exporting the AVI.
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Spencer Cox nominated to replace Greg Bell
SALT LAKE CITY - Today Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert named State Representative Spencer J. Cox (R - Dist. 58) of Fairview to replace Greg Bell as lieutenant governor. The Governor doesn't expect the administration to miss a beat in this historic transition.
"Greg Bell leaves some pretty big shoes to fill, but Spencer Cox is the right person for the job. I am absolutely confident of his ability and talent," said the Governor. "Spencer's solid local government service, deep rural roots, astute legal acumen and meaningful business experience make him a great fit for this administration. It was important to me to select someone who held or holds public office-someone who understands being accountable to the people we serve."
"I'm especially impressed with Spencer's work ethic and commitment to public service," the Governor added. "I work hard, I expect my team to work hard, and the Lt. Governor's role is no exception. Spencer will take on a significant portfolio, especially as my lead with the Legislature, as the State's chief elections officer and as chair of the Rural Partnership Board."
"I am deeply honored at the trust Governor Herbert has placed in me and recognize the immense responsibility that accompanies this appointment," said Cox. "I share Governor Herbert's desire for limited, efficient government and a dedication to continued economic expansion that improves the lives of families in Utah. While it is impossible to completely replace Greg Bell, I pledge to work tirelessly to carry on the duties of the Lt. Governor's office with energy and integrity."
A former Sanpete County commissioner and Fairview mayor and city councilman, Cox, 38, is presently the vice-president of CentraCom, a rural telecommunications company. Born and raised in Fairview, Cox and his wife, Abby, both graduated from North Sanpete High School, Snow College, and Utah State University. While at USU, Spencer was recognized by his department as the Student of the Year and graduated with a 4.0 grade point average. He then graduated from the Washington and Lee law school with honors.
Following law school, Cox served as a law clerk to Federal District Judge Ted Stewart before practicing law at the Salt Lake City firm of Fabian and Clendenin. The Cox's are the parents of four children and come from Sanpete County families. He is also fluent in Spanish. In his spare time, Cox enjoys running, as well as camping and hiking with his family.
Once confirmed by the Utah State Senate, Cox will replace Lt. Governor Greg Bell, who announced his resignation Sept. 16. Bell has served as Utah's seventh lieutenant governor since 2009.


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Storytelling is a powerful tool. And it was recently exercised in the minds of 221 children in Compassion through the contest "Tell a Story." The story of Sara Rivas (both the one written and the one lived) is a small sample of the great treasures hidden in the children who receive support through Compassion in El Salvador.Continue Reading ›
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Just like her name, it was a miracle that she survived at such a young age. Milagro lost her right arm, and part of her face and body had deep burns. It was a traumatic event for the baby and the mother.
Life in El Salvador
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. Located between Guatemala and Honduras, it possesses 21,041 square kilometers (about the size of Massachusetts) and is tropical, with an average temperature of 30° to 35°C (80°to 95°F). The land is mostly mountains covered with tropical rainforest, with its highest peak being El Pital at 8,957 feet.
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BACKGROUND: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a disabling disease. Endovascular coiling provides minimally invasive, effective, and safe treatment of both ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Intracranial stents have improved the endovascular treatment of complex aneurysms, but the long-term durability of this treatment modality needs clarification.
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RESULTS: The 6-month angiographic results of 387 aneurysm treatments revealed complete aneurysm occlusion in 282 (72.9%), residual aneurysm neck in 50 (12.9%), and residual aneurysm filling in 55 (14.2%). Long-term radiographic follow-up, performed in 262 patients (mean, 3.63 years), showed significant recurrence of only 3 aneurysms after 6-month follow-up imaging. Forty-eight aneurysms (11.9%) were considered radiographic failures during the follow-up period.
CONCLUSION: The aneurysm recurrence rate after stent-assisted embolization in this series was similar to published data using only coil embolization for the period between treatment and the initial follow-up imaging. For aneurysms that do not initially recur, the presented data suggest improved durability in the subsequent long-term follow-up period.
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In "Skullduggery" they have the partnership of another one of the "new thing" mavericks, Joe McPhee. Now, you may ask: is this a nostalgic celebration of the past, with the same kind of revisionist perspectives we find in present recuperations of the bebop formats? No. That wouldn't be possible with the involvement of someone like McPhee, even if the American relocated in Amsterdam and the two Norwegian improvisers wanted it, and they don't. Their guest is widely known for his achievements in renewing the free subgenre, and in his path he made important contributions to other music practices, namely Pauline Olivero's deep listening electro-acoustic concepts, Nihilist Spasm Band's radical brand of noise and the jam rock of The Thing with Cato Salsa Experience.
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The Torah is teaching us that if I have received something, I must recognize it, even if it is a mixed blessing. Therefore, while we don't completely welcome the Mitzrim into our midst, we can't reject them either.
One of the most motivating forces in our avodas Hashem is a sense of "I need to pay back." How can I not do everything in my power to pay back the huge debt that I have to Hashem? However, this is based on my understanding of the sheer amount of good I receive. Unfortunately, we are a bit like the spoiled teenager who has everything and therefore has nothing. It is difficult for us to thank Hashem. It isn't that we don't have; it is that we don't perceive it.
When I train myself to appreciate the great wealth I enjoy, I gain an automatic sense of wanting to pay back. By doing this, I enjoy my stay in this world to a much greater extent, I am grateful for what others do for me, and I have an unending sense of appreciation for all the blessings I have received from Hashem.Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
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sorry rabbi, but I believe that human nature is basically ungratefull and it is only through suffering we learn to be thankful and give praise and glory to God for His steadfast love and His mercy. as in Numbers 11 verse one, we learn that G-d is not happy when we complain, shalom and G-d bless.


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Hawaii is preparing for two major storms this week, beginning with Hurricane Iselle, which is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by the time it arrives on Thursday. Hurricane Julio is expected to hit Saturday, again after weakening into a tropical storm.
Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman tells our Newscast unit that residents and tourists are getting ready for the heavy rains, rough seas and 60 mph winds expected from the storms:
"School officials across Hawaii County and Maui County have already cancelled classes for Thursday.
"The same day, the National Weather Service says a flash flood warning will cover the entire island chain.
"That includes the most populous island of Oahu … home to Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, and the tourist magnet of Waikiki Beach."
Hurricanes have struck the archipelago before, The Associated Press reports, but only rarely, and recent strikes have had little impact:
"The state was washed over by Hurricane Flossie in 2007, which caused 20-foot waves but very little damage. Hurricane Neki did minor damage to a marine national monument northwest of the islands in 2009.
"In 1992, Hurricane Iniki pummeled the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing estimated damages of $2.4 billion. Before that, the last recorded hurricane to hit Hawaii was the Kohala Cyclone in 1871."
Hawaii is warm, so how does it manage to avoid most tropical weather? Weather Channel blogger Steve Lyons wrote in 2007 that the reason was wind shear:
"The Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (called TUTT for short) rules the high levels of our weather atmosphere there and creates winds typically too fast for development of a hurricane and too fast for an approaching hurricane from the east to remain a hurricane. That is why quite a few remnant tropical circulations go by south, north, or occasionally through the islands, but rarely does a tropical storm or hurricane [reach them]."
Honolulu's Department of Emergency Management urges residents to have seven days' worth of supplies on hand.
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Officials also encouraged residents to vote early in the state's primary election, scheduled for Saturday, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.
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Dear Friends,
It's often said that before one dies an entire life will flash in quick succession before one's eyes. (You know it, you've seen it in movies a million times.) While teaching my student Y, this morning, fragments of my life flashed before my eyes. He had me in a zone of tuning-outdom. He's been taking English for five years, but seems to have retained little, and since I don't speak or understand Japanese, and he doesn't take correction, we didn't have much to talk about. Thankfully, he didn't seem to need more than an occasional nod here and there, and the requisite English word. He didn't perceive my "Could you please repeat that?" as a sure-fire sign of inattention.
While nodding in seeming agreement with Y, I was thinking of many things, and this post will be a flash of my life before your eyes:
Long time, we no have no nice time. – Bob Marley (Nice Time)
1) On a cool summer evening many years ago, my mother took my friend Janine L. and I to Broadway to see Lend Me A Tenor. We were giddy to drive into the city from Long Island, from trees to lights– a play and dinner. I can see clearly what I wore, and how I styled my hair– high on top, down in the back. Janine and I had taken tie-dying classes at the Smithtown Public Library that summer, and we both wore our tie-dyed tee-shirt creations with white pants to the play (which made me laugh, but now I can't remember even one line). Maybe then, we thought we could be designers; we thought we could meet Kirk Cameron; we thought Now-n-Laters could solve all sadness. I hear Janine is now a mother of two living in Arizona, and I'm where I never imagined I'd be. (I'd like some Tropical Punch Now-n-Laters). New York City was everything to me then.
2) At my corner convenience store, Family Mart, in a state of hunger, I decided to try the fried chicken behind the counter. It happens to be ridiculously delicious fried chicken. No joke. Yes, friends have repeatedly said that my palate is undiscerning and too "easy," but this chicken is well-seasoned, not overly crispy, and moist– all for 120 yen ($1!). In an extremely short time, I've eaten more fried chicken than is good for a healthy heart, or a healthy waistline, and I've asked the girl behind the counter not to sell me any tomorrow. Sadly, her only English words are "I don't speak English," so naturally she looked at me like a straight up nutcase. (What does she care how much fried chicken I eat?) The Japanese know a thing or two about frying chicken.
3) Why don't you practice what you preach? That's what everybody keeps telling me. I tried to occupy my mind, keep myself busy all the time. – Candi Staton (Victim)
The other day, I was reading Chronicles of Some Jamaican Chick's blog post, where she speaks of keeping herself very busy to avoid unpleasant thoughts. (I don't know how to do the hyperlink thing, so please check out the blogroll on the side). Her post inspired me, because why can't that tactic work as well as any other? Why do we need to examine and delve into every feeling and emotion, no matter how putrid and messy, until the "air has been cleared?" From now, I'm going to be a big advocate of avoidance, and try to keep myself a lot busier.
4) I must tell you that one way I won't be keeping myself busy is with online dating. I just couldn't do it, and had to delete my account. There are nice guys online, (I've been told), but my mind couldn't get into the idea of meeting any strangers (unseen) at Starbucks. I'll just have to "occupy my mind, keep myself busy all the time." It would've been better to have started initial contact with voicemail messages, and not the written word. (Why don't people use capital letters anymore?)
Life should be simpler, shouldn't it? When, I was eight I was sure it would be.
5) In the latest issue of Oz magazine, a young Japanese woman cafe hops from Meguro to Daikanyama to Jimbocho to Asakusa to Hiroo to Ebisu… you get the picture. The magazine showcases new and old, trendy and staid, conservative and bold cafes and restaurants in Tokyo and Chiba. My friend S and I have decided to patronize a new cafe every Sunday. Lonely Planet: Japan states of Tokyo that "there are more cafes, and bars in this pulsing megalopolis than in any other city in the world." We started our tour today at the Aoyama Flower Market Tea Shop.The tea shop, a large space in the back of the flower shop, features a different flower each day. It's possible to sit there with a cup of tea for hours, listen to jazz or classical music, inhale the aromas of mingled flowers and scented teas and forget the hectic streets of Omote-Sando. We're not supposed to repeat cafes, but I'd love to go back there soon.
6) Those pretty faces always make you stand out in a crowd. But someone picked you from the bunch, one look is all it took. – The Jackson 5 (I Want You Back)
This life hasn't been anything I've expected, any step of the way. It's been wonderful, and depressing at times. Sometimes now, I fear getting old and dying in a foreign country. (I fear many things). They hit me late at night. Then, on days like today, I walk in the drizzle and the damp of this Tokyo summer, to a flower shop, and my spirits lift incredibly. There's nothing an anthurium can't fix.
* I had an anthurium in NY in 2003; his name was Harry. This red one will join the pink one I bought earlier this week. (They're both still unnamed).