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Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2013
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will lift a ban on women serving in combat, officials said Wednesday -- a ground-breaking move after a decade of war that saw female troops thrust onto the battlefield.
The decision marks yet another sweeping change for the US military under President Barack Obama, who led a drive to end a prohibition on openly gay troops.
Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, "are expected to announce the lifting of the direct combat exclusion rule for women in the military," one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters.
"This policy change will initiate a process whereby the services will develop plans to implement this decision, which was made by the Secretary of Defense upon the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," the official said in an email.
Panetta and Dempsey were set to officially announce the move, which would open up hundreds of thousands of combat posts to women, on Thursday, officials said.
Under the decision, the armed services will have until January 2016 to carry out the changes.
Democratic lawmaker Tammy Duckworth, a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in the Iraq war, hailed the change.
"America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons. Lifting the ban on women in combat is good for our nation," Duckworth said in a tweet.
While women have been allowed to fly combat aircraft and fire weapons on naval ships, the Pentagon had retained restrictions on women serving in ground combat units.
In February last year, Panetta opened up about 14,000 combat-related jobs to women in an incremental step that was criticized as timid by some activists.
Calls to lift the blanket prohibition have mounted after more than 10 years of war in which women fought and died in counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan where front lines were blurred.
Some senior officers have privately voiced concerns that infantry and special forces units require major upper body strength and that difficult physical tests should not be relaxed for female recruits.
And right-leaning commentators have questioned whether mothers in uniform -- especially single parents -- should be sent into combat, even if they volunteered for service.
The Marine Corps recently opened up infantry officer training to women but the two females who volunteered failed to pass the grueling test.
Female veterans and activists say they are only demanding an equal chance to apply for combat jobs -- and not any special treatment.
US commanders began taking a second look at the ban in 2010 to reflect the changing reality on the battlefield, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put women in harm's way in any case.
Women make up about 14.5 percent of the active duty US military, or about 204,000 service members, according to the Pentagon. And advocates for changing the policy have long argued that denying female troops a chance at combat jobs effectively blocks them from attaining top jobs as commanders.
The 1990-91 Gulf war sparked an earlier wave of reform, paving the way for women to serve in fighter jets, attack helicopters and naval warships.
Panetta's decision would apply mainly to the Army and the Marine Corps, as the Air Force and Navy already have lifted most prohibitions on women in combat. In 2010, the Navy opted to allow women to serve on submarines.
The combat exclusion policy adopted in 1994 bars women from being assigned to ground combat units, but female troops have found themselves in battlefield situations by serving in units that are "attached" to ground units.
Lawmakers in Congress and rights groups welcomed the decision.
"After two wars over 10 years in which our enemies did not recognize a clear 'front,' it is appropriate that we recognize the realities of modern military combat," Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said in a statement.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it was "thrilled" and that the policy change meant "qualified women will have the same chance to distinguish themselves in combat as their brothers-in-arms, which they actually already have been doing with valor and distinction."
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Democrat Central Committee Attempts to Block Conservative Group from Attending Public Event
Carroll County Maryland Democrats have reportedly attempted to use the Sheriff's department to keep members of a local Tea Party activist group from attending a "meet and greet" with their congressional representative, Chris Van Hollen, on Monday June 24 at Caroll County Community College (CCCC).
Michelle Jefferson of We The People (WTP) Carroll County had sent out an email to her group encouraging them to give Congressman Van Hollen a "WTP greeting" at the event.
Jefferson says that upon returning from the Audit The IRS rally in Washington on Wednesday she spoke with Major Tom Long of the Carroll Count Sheriff's Department. She learned that Don West, the recording secretary for the Carroll County Democratic Central Committee, had called CCCC campus security, the county Sheriff's Department, and the State Police expressing concern about WTP attending the event with their congressman because of their "violent tendencies."
Since its inception, the Tea Party, a loose affiliation of groups promoting Constitutionally limited government, has been peppered with unsubstantiated accusations of violence and racism, so Mr. West's behavior should be recognized by many as standard operating procedure.
The meet and greet with Congressman Van Hollen is scheduled for Monday, June 24 at 5pm at Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Building K, Conference Room, Westminster, MD. The Carroll County Democratic Central Committee's website encourages you to "Drop in to meet Congressman Van Hollen and his staff."
VIDEO: Interview with Michelle Jefferson
VIDEO: Interview with Dave Wallace, Republican Candidate for MD-8
It would seem that Mr. West has filed an interim peace order against Ms. Jefferson, claiming that she has engaged in harassment. The alleged harassment consists of identifying Mr. West by name in an email to members of WTP and the following text message from Ms. Jefferson:
You're a weenie & a jackass, Don. My turn!
The full peace order can be read here:
Don West Peace Order Against Michelle Jefferson

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In each of the following questions assuming the given statements to be true, find out which of the two conclusions I and II given below them is/ are definitely true.
In the following questions, the symbols @, ©, %, $ and d are used with the following meanings illustrated.
'P % Q' means 'P is greater than Q'.
'P d Q' means 'P is neither greater than nor smaller than Q'.
'P @ Q' means 'P is smaller than Q'.
'P © Q' means 'P is either smaller than or equal to Q'.
'P $ Q' means 'P is either greater than or equal to Q'.
Conclusions : I. H % D II. W @ B
Statements : W © D, D $ B, B @ H
A If only Conclusion I is true. B If only Conclusion II is true. C If either Conclusion I or II is true. D If neither Conclusion I nor II is true. E If both Conclusion I and II are true.
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FROM dry blue sky came hot wind just as the O'Gormans' memorial service was about to begin. The wind whipped the eucalyptus leaves against the hall windows, an unsettling reminder of the day that took them.
Almost 3000 came to commemorate the popular Humevale family, which lost three members in the February 7 fires.
Family friends, relatives and community notables including Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu packed the Plenty Ranges Arts and Convention Centre in South Morang to hear tributes to Alan O'Gorman, 55, his wife Carolyn, 50, and their youngest son Stuart, 18. They died unable to defend the property they nicknamed Magic Mountain, as the fires caught them almost unprepared.
Left behind were twins Patrick and Bronwyn, 21, who clung to each other and sobbed while attempting to deliver tributes to their parents and brother.
The service was told of three very different personalities. First came the story of real estate agent Alan, who loved waterskiing, camping, fine food, wine and the Liberal Party. He was known to some friends as "the Great Round One".
His wife Carolyn, a dietitian, was a fitness and diet-conscious foil to her husband's exuberance. Mr O'Gorman's brother, Steve, recalled she once asked him to walk some paces behind her down Whittlesea's main street. "People know I'm a dietitian and you are not a great advertisement to what I can achieve," she said.
Carolyn's father, Joe Gardner, said they had a loving relationship but reacted differently to life. He was a dreamer, she could be tough. "Once he said to me, 'Your daughter is giving me a hard time. Can I get a refund?' I told him the warranty period had expired."
For Stuart, the picture was a personality a bit like his father's, an exuberant joker and maker of crazy YouTube movies. His girlfriend, Rosie Symonds, and close friend Jess Harris sang a tribute at the service.
Like many of the fire memorial services so far, no bodies were present, having not been released by the coroner.
Australian Psychological Society president Bob Montgomery said having a body present and being able to view it was important in saying goodbye.
"But obviously in a disaster, if the body has been disfigured, that is not an option," he said. "Also, if there is a long delay between the death and the body being available, it is better to have a memorial service.
"In the grieving process, it is important people come together and share their feelings."


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Welcome to the Rand Paul evolution
Hell push to loosen marijuana penalties, legalize undocumented immigrants and pursue a less aggressive American foreign policy.
Call it the Rand Paul Evolution.
In the wake of Barack Obamas reelection win and ahead of a possible 2016 White House bid of his own, the Kentucky Republican plans to mix his hard-line tea party conservatism with more moderate policies that could woo younger voters and minorities largely absent from the GOP coalition. Its the latest tactic of the freshman senator to inject the Libertarian-minded views shared by his retiring father into mainstream Republican thinking as the party grapples with its future.
In an interview with POLITICO, Paul said hell return to Congress this week pushing measures long avoided by his party. He wants to work with liberal Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republicans to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for pot possession. He wants to carve a compromise immigration plan with an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. And he believes his ideas along with pushing for less U.S. military intervention in conflicts overseas could help the GOP broaden its tent and appeal to crucial voting blocs that handed Democrats big wins in the West Coast, the Northeast and along the Great Lakes.
We have three big regions where were not competitive, Paul said. And we have to be competitive in those regions.
Paul, 49, was elected on the tea party wave that fueled GOP landslide victories in 2010, often declaring on the campaign trail that he had a message from the tea party: We have come to take our government back.
But two years later, the tea party agenda has stalled in Congress, and House Republicans who ran on that purity platform in 2010 began to tout bipartisan compromises with Democrats in 2012. Nationally, the GOP recognizes it has a demographic problem from New England to the Southwest it needs to correct ahead of the 2014 midterm elections and the next White House race in 2016.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83737.html#ixzz2C7g4bMuR
The Democratic party needs to change its stance on the drug war or else we could find ourselves in trouble.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:04 PM
Angry Dragon (29,743 posts)
1. To republicans it is all about votes, not what is right
Response to Angry Dragon (Reply #1)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:09 PM
JRLeft (7,010 posts)
2. We've been advocating (the base) for legalizing weed for decades.
It is time for us to force our people in office to listen. And yes they will pander for votes, but democratic politicians have no excuse for not presenting legislation to federally decriminalize marijuana.
Response to JRLeft (Reply #2)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:57 PM
Myrina (12,296 posts)
11. Sure they have an excuse ...
... Big Pharma hasn't figured out a way to patent the formula & corner the market for OTC sales yet.
Once they do, you'll be able to get your MJ at CVS, just with an Eli Lilly or Pfizer sticker on the pack.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:11 PM
JCMach1 (23,412 posts)
3. Paul is a right libertarian... not really news here
He is just finally getting around to some of the libertarian part.
Response to JCMach1 (Reply #3)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:15 PM
JRLeft (7,010 posts)
4. He still anti gay marriage and abortion.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:22 PM
malexand (59 posts)
5. "Paulisha"... do not believe Rand Paul
This guy is very dangerous. He has not changed and has found empathy and compassion.
Response to malexand (Reply #5)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:25 PM
JRLeft (7,010 posts)
6. Yes he is because he has always been sane on some issues but is insane on most.
Response to JRLeft (Original post)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:51 PM
pampango (24,377 posts)
7. I'm not sure that Paul will like having his name and "evolution" in the same sentence.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:34 PM
Amitymike (1 post)
8. Wheres Carl
I'm new in wordtown but i need to know ... Where is Carl Wolfson and when can i listen to him again?
Response to JRLeft (Original post)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:41 PM
Raine1967 (11,108 posts)
9. Phuck Rand Paul. n/t
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:56 PM
Myrina (12,296 posts)
10. Rand "let's worship the ... whatever-the-hell-it-was" made up thingy?
Yeah, that'll get him votes from mainstream Republicans ...


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Hello! I am glad that yall are here and I look forward to getting involved in the community!
My sobriety date is March 7th, 2015 at 12:00 PM EST (Server downtime ftw! or "fts!"). I am 32 years old (and I am a dude, in case the name throws some of you).
I consider myself a broad spectrum gaming addict. For me, a game is a game is a game. I play table-top pen and paper games (e.g. DnD, Pathfinder) addictively, customizable card games (e.g. Magic) by myself, board games obsessively, console games games without ability to self-regulate, computer games with abandon, and MMORPGs until 10 AM in the morning (but not all at once!).
I played my first video game at age 4 or 5 and have been gaming addictively since I was very young (12 or so?). I've been aware that I had a problem and that gaming was holding me back from my life since age 16. The longest I have gone without gaming was 6 months once when I was 18 or 19. Then I decided that I could control my gaming again, dove back in, swore it off again, made it 2 or 3 months, etc... until finally I gave up trying to give up and just enjoyed it until that stopped being a thing, too.
My life being in a state of going no where very slowly and gaming no longer offering a solution to my problems (in fact, it was the source of many of them), I became willing to go to any lengths to get what I had long known was available to me in a 12 step fellowship- happy, joyous and free of my compulsion to game.
I got sober via another fellowship and am finally making my way into CGAA so I can find fellow gaming addicts to work my recovery with.
I am happy to speak with anyone about my struggles with gaming, getting sober, and living sober.
Lastly, I would like to start a face-to-face meeting in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina sometime in the future.
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Hi Morgan, welcome! Glad you found us here and looking forward to meeting you in the meetings.
I got sober in another fellowship too. I find that the combination of face-to-face meetings of other fellowships and the voice meetings of CGAA work well for me.
It's exciting to hear you plan to start a face-to-face meeting at some point. I put a contact email of firstname.lastname@example.com on our list of Local Support Groups. Can I have it forward to your email address?
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Yes, you can do that. I will PM you the email address I would like you to forward to.
The face-to-face meetings are important. I don't have a problem with alcohol beyond a very clear need to stay away from it and perplexing desire to drink, so I find it a little difficult feeling connected in AA sometimes. At the same time, I don't think I could stay sober without AA meetings in my life. The in-person human connections and the fellowship before and after are just as big a part of my sobriety as are the shares I hear in meetings.
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At the time of writing, the most popular laptop on Amazon.com in the US is the Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 followed by the ASUS F555LA-AB31. If you are in the market for a new, sub-$500 laptop this holiday season, here are my findings when testing both of these popular laptops under Ubuntu Linux.
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For those curious about the performance of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, here are some benchmarks I've just finished up for this low-end, low-power ARM development board compared to other ARM, MIPS, and x86 hardware.
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I just got a 2004 ZHP Sedan and I want to hook up my car for iPod capability. If I get the OEM iPod vs the DICE, what are the differences? Will both display on my radio unit the names of songs? The main concern I have with the OEM is that I would have to stick my iPhone in the glove box which would be annoying since it's my phone. Plus, I would prefer to use my iPhone to select songs since the interface is much quicker on the phone. So would it just make more sense to use the DICE and get a mount for my phone? I would love something cleaner than a visible mount. For instance, if I could have a AUX jack placed in the sunglasses compartment under my radio and then just stick the iphone in there. That way I could just pull the phone out when I need to use it and also to change my music. Anyone got any suggestions?
I have the dice and I routed my Iphone cable to my sunglass holder ... sounds exactly like what you want... You can control your music either the car controls or from the iphone but not both at the same time. Ill post some pics this weekend!
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Combining a sightseeing trip with visiting family is always a challenge, especially when the family has small kids. So we had several things we wanted to try to do on the Israel portion of the trip, but couldn't count on many of them happening. Planning was quite a challenge, and we tossed around several itineraries before settling on this one. I kept telling Jessie that no matter what we do she'll get a flavor of the country, and we just have to count on going back (and back again) to cover the things we miss. As it turned out, we did miss some things I was really hoping to get to (Dead Sea, Tzvat, etc.), and had minimal time in other places (only a couple of hours in Tel Aviv, only a couple of hours in Haifa), but all in all we had an excellent trip.
4/6 continued: Our flight to Israel was very nice, and the service was excellent, especially considering how there were only 4 of us in the first class cabin.
The tears started to well up as the shore of Tel Aviv approached. I'll never forget my first flight to Israel, in 1977, when the whole plane broke out in song as the plane touched Israeli soil. But even in a quiet first class cabin the emotions are strong, even for someone like me who isn't very religious.
While we were standing at the door waiting for it to open, the purser said that there's a power outage at the airport and they can't get the dock to the plane. While waiting for them to wheel a stairway up, we notice that the power was restored and finally were able to exit.
Ah, back in Israel.
I can't explain why, but part of what I love about this country is the chaos/order paradox, and our entry was no exception. Being waved to the Israeli-passports-only window only to find that the computer is down and we have to wait even longer than if we stayed in the foreign passport line. Getting to the Sixt rental car booth, waiting 15 minutes while they figure out why there's no car assigned to me even though they have a record of my reservation. Being told "of course" when asking for a car with a trunk instead of a hatchback by 3 different people, only to end up with a hatchback. Finally getting a car with a trunk after persevering. Waiting another 15 minutes to get out of the garage while a car and a truck face off, refusing to back up to let the other pass.
Instead of being frustrated, we were bemused, and I felt like Jessie was getting an appropriate introduction to Israel.
We arrived in Jerusalem, and had a general idea how to get to the Dan Panorama hotel. Despite the fact that both of the maps we had had little to no relation to the few street signs that we saw, we somehow managed to find our way there through force of will.
We were pleased to have an old city view from our window, and the room was very nice. Also, although I had just joined the e-Dan club, we loved that they left us a complementary fruit basket, box of chocolates, bottle of water, and free bathroom kit bag.
We decided to head out for dinner, not being sure where we were going to go. We didn't have the energy to venture out beyond the neighborhood, so we just walked up the hill. We saw the "Cup 'o Joe" near the Great Synagogue, and I remembered reading about it on TA so we went in. When we sat down at a largish table, I tried out my minimal Hebrew and asked the host "ze beseder?" He asked us if we were only two, and when I said "ken" he pointed to a corner table and asked if that was ok. I responded "beseder." I was amused when they brought us Hebrew menus, as I had mentioned to Jessie before we left for the trip that if you only learn two words in Hebrew, "Ze Beseder" should suffice.
The restaurant/café seemed like the perfect first night spot for us. The customers were all Israelis as far as I could tell, with a lively atmosphere and friendly staff, and the food was simple but excellent (I had onion soup and cheese toast).
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4/7 Jerusalem
Woke up realizing that I was coming down with a cold. Started taking yin chiao (Chinese herbs), but had a feeling I wouldn't be able to beat this one.
Went down and enjoyed the excellent breakfast buffet. Called my nephew to arrange an afternoon meeting, then we walked up to the laundry recommended on TA (Merkaz Laundry on Keren HaKayemet, about 5 blocks from the hotel). The guy at the counter was very friendly. We dropped off our clothes and walked over to Ben Yehuda street, then down Jaffa, then down King David. I realized I forgot my kippah, so we returned to room to pick it up before heading to the Old City (I didn't want to wear the cardboard ones they hand out at the Wall).
On my sister-in-law's recommendation, we walked through the Mishkenot Sha'ananim neighborhood on our way to the old city, which was just around the corner from the hotel. This is a beautiful old neighborhood bursting with flowers. The houses have all been fixed up, and we got the impression that it's a fairly desirable place to live.
We walked through the Jaffa Gate into the old city. As we walked through the Jewish quarter we noticed several Israeli groups (soldiers finishing their training and school groups, both young kids and tons of highschool kids). This could be par for the course, but my impression was that the school groups coincided with the last week before Pesach break.
As we got closer to the wall, we ran into several tour groups as well.
One thing all the groups had in common: As they walk down the street, nobody notices whether anybody is walking towards them, let alone budges to move out of the way (Israelis and foreign groups as well). At least we gave the high school kids something to giggle about after we tried to navigate through their masses.
We went to the Wall and separated (the wall is segregated by gender). I put my kippah on and went up to the wall. There was a group of small boys at the wall, being lectured by their teacher on etiquette. A few women were looking over the fence at the men's side, and my assumption was that they were their mothers.
I walked into the tunnel to the left of the wall and looked down at the illuminated excavated portions, which seem to go down for a few dozen feet below ground level. It's so fascinating and poignant to be among such old buildings only to find out that they were built on top of older eras of the city.
When I met up with Jessie, she pointed out something I'd never observed before, which is that the women walk backwards as they leave the wall, not turning their back. There was a large group of very young school girls walking backwards as she pointed this out.
I met up with my nephew and sat in Bloomfield Park, near the hotel. For reasons I won't go into, this was our only meeting on this trip. It was an awkward and fairly painful meeting, where we discussed the impasse that lead to this being our solitary meeting.
After getting our laundry (barely made it by closing time), we decided to eat at a place a block away from the hotel because I clearly lost the battle with the cold. We ended up at Olives and Fish, which we felt was an overpriced tourist trap. The food was ok, but just ok (my lamb chops were 80% fat). As far as I could tell the restaurant was all foreign tourists, and I think it would have been unpleasant even if I wasn't coming down with a cold.
I should have consulted TA at the hotel first, as next door was a restaurant that gets high praise, Paradiso. But the way I was feeling I probably wouldn't have appreciated it.
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Woke up with a sore throat, but didn't feel as bad as expected. After breakfast, we headed out to Yad Vashem. I asked directions from the hotel clerk, and should have recognized the warning signs when he made it sound so easy. We followed the directions, but the street we were on discontinued despite the fact that the line on the map indicated that it went straight through to the museum.
One thing about driving in Jerusalem (as well as many other Israeli cities): If you miss a turn, you almost never can just go around the block. Instead, it's like Alice through the looking glass, and good luck figuring out how to get back to where you went wrong. Somehow we managed to find our way to the museum after circumventing the western edge of the city a few times, but not without some frayed nerves.
The last time I was at Yad Vashem was 30 years ago, and much has changed. A new building, designed to give you a bit of hope after going through the gauntlet of history, but also the exhibits themselves are different (now including a lot of interviews/narrative history). The children's memorial is not to be missed, and was a powerful way to end our visit.
We found our way back to the hotel without much problem. My niece, her husband, and 2 year-old daughter showed up at our hotel for a very nice reunion. We then went to my cousin's house and visited and had coffee with her as her daughter played with my grand-niece.
We had made a reservation at Tzachko for 8:30, but didn't leave my cousin's until after 8:00. We knew that our plan to drop the car off at the hotel and take a cab wouldn't pan out, so we decided to take our chances and drive. More mad hatter's tea cup ride, but I guess we managed to get into the flow of Jerusalem navigation mishegas, as neither one of us ended up in tears or shouting. The maps (we had two) again rarely if ever conformed to anything we saw on the streets, and the signs pointing to Mahane Yehuda didn't ever indicate if we were getting close. But at one point Jessie saw that we were in the general vicinity, so I grabbed a parking spot and we began to move towards the restaurant on foot. Thanks to Daphne's (TA contributor) instructions I recognized a key street name, so we made it there only 15 minutes late. We didn't know we were there right away, though, as the awning was now blue instead of yellow, but the atmosphere inside seemed to indicate we were in the right place.
Our meal was one of the best I've ever had, and the gnocchi starter was the best I've ever eaten. However, when we were finished, I asked the owner for a card and he said he had something to tell me that I wouldn't like: They were closing in a week. He said that it isn't economical to keep a restaurant like his in business, and that good restaurants are closing all over the world.
How sad.
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Woke up with a full-blown cold, although not debilitating. I've had pretty good luck over the years with staying healthy on my trips, so I guess my number was up. But it turned out not to be the kind of illness that would spoil a trip, which I'm grateful for.
So we decided against a planned day trip out of the city and instead to take it easy. Nevertheless, we did end up doing a lot of walking around Jerusalem, so not so easy.
Although I had been to Israel several times, I never really experienced Jerusalem outside the Old City and some of the religious neighborhoods, and was determined to get a better sense of the city. We explored Emek Rafai'im street and really enjoyed it, with some very appealing cafes, shops, and apartments. We also wandered around Rehavia for a bit (a nice, upscale neighborhood with some great looking houses).
We took a nap for a while and then went out to get some dinner. Walked up the hill to "Link" bar and restaurant, which was a very nice bar (unfortunately my cold forced me to resist joining the drinkers). My minestrone was excellent, and we each had burgers that were very good.
We checked out of the hotel and headed west. Stopped at the Latrun monastery per my sister-in-law's suggestion. Unfortunately Frommer's was wrong about the hours, so we arrived just as it was closing for lunch (noon). We walked around the grounds a bit and then decided to head out for a quick visit to Tel Aviv.
Because our ability to visit Tel Aviv would be limited to a couple of hours before picking up my niece at school and driving her home, we decided to head to Sheinkin street and swing by the beach afterwards. Somehow we managed to find our way there without too much problem (other than having to take a blind guess as to which off-ramp to take), and found a parking lot a couple of blocks away. Some compare Sheinkin to Haight street in San Francisco, I guess because it has a certain hipness to it, but it seemed uniquely Israeli to me. We did really like the street, and felt like we were getting a bit of a taste of Tel Aviv despite the short time. I had a smoothie, and then we picked a sidewalk café and had lunch ("Sus Etz"). I had Spaghetti Bolognese and Jessie had tomato, basil, and cheese toast. The pasta was good, and it was a great spot for people watching.
We headed to the beach, which was very nice but the day was too warm to spend much time there without going into the water. Next time we'll try to stay for a couple of nights so we can swim and see more of the town.
My niece called to explain where to pick her up, which made no sense according to the map. We planned to ask someone and hope for the best, but then she called a half hour later with specific instructions that finally made sense. Other than not being able to make a left turn on one crucial street and having to go 15 minutes out of our way to get back to the spot, we managed to pick her up at the designated bus stop.
We took my niece's advice and drove highway 2 up the coast, which was very congested and slow, but we managed to get to Zichron OK.
We got to the Eden Inn and eventually checked in at the rate that I had arranged for, but not without the clerk's resistance and my perseverance. When I first made the reservation I had called after hours (it's hard to call between 9 and 5 from San Francisco). The clerk didn't want to make a reservation, but decided to go ahead because of the time change. But something didn't seem quite right (Friday night's rate was nearly three times as much as the other nights), so I called back around midnight the next night and straightened things out. [Friday had been so much higher because of a plan for orthodox families who have four meals at the hotel and check out after sundown Saturday night, but this wouldn't apply to us]. The reservations agent said she didn't need to fax or email me a confirmation, that I just need to give my name.
When I checked in, the clerk only had a record of the original reservation and no record of the ultimate rate I had reserved. Luckily I had the name of the woman I spoke to on the phone and the clerk called her and it got resolved.
The room was spartan, to say the least, but it would suffice, especially considering the price ($105 including breakfast for 2). We could have stayed with my niece for free, but preferred a hotel so we could have a bit of down time, and didn't want to splurge.
We had take out Chinese food for dinner at my niece's apartment, quality time and OK food.
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Had breakfast (not as nice as the Dan, but still decent), and went to Cuccina Bar for espresso after (the coffee at the hotel is horrible).
Went with my niece and grandniece to the Kibbutz where she works, Sdot Yam, to see the animals she works with, and watched my grandniece commune with the baby animals.
Went to the beach at Caesaria, near the aqueduct. The weather seemed perfect (70s with a nice breeze). My grandniece went into the water for a bit, then we separated. Jessie and I walked along the aqueduct, then went to Old Caesaria and had lunch at the Port Café; very nice setting overlooking the harbor. We picked out some beautiful roman glass earrings for Jessie, and then we explored the ruins.
We went back to Caesaria to have dinner with my niece and her husband ("Crusaders" restaurant in English, but Zalbanim in Hebrew). The food was excellent (I had shrimp, of all things, Jessie had a whole white snapper, and we had some amazing humus for an appetizer), and the setting was very nice, overlooking the harbor.
My niece rode with us so she could pay for gas with her credit card and we'd pay her back. It was Shabbat, so we could only use self serve, and I had discovered that there is still a 19 shekel limit on US credit cards at the gas pumps (as I had discovered on my last trip).
Espresso and breakfast at Cuccina Bar again. I took Jessie down the Midrahov (walking street) for the first time, although most of the stores weren't open yet. But we found a wireless hotspot, so we sat on a bench and checked email and weather.
Had Shabbat lunch at my niece's husband's family (parents, sisters, grandparents), delicious traditional Moroccan-Jewish cooking.
Jessie and I decided to take a short day trip to Haifa and Ein Hod. We drove to Haifa and got a little lost on the way to the Carmel (of course!). Took the turnoff for "Carmel," but after the exit there was a fork in the road and Hebrew-Arabic (not English) signs telling you which way to go. Of course, no way back to the starting line, so we found our way up the hill and to one of the main roads anyway.
We didn't have much time to spend in Haifa, but wandered around the Carmel for a couple of hours, giving me vague déjà vu for the three months I spent at a University ulpan in 1979. We walked along Hanessi street, then the Louis Promenade, which offers great views of the harbor and the north. Unfortunately the Tikotin museum of asian art was closed by the time we got there (one of my favorite spots, although it was just a tiny storefront in 1979). We also stopped by a children's park ("Gan HaEm") which was a nice respite.
Then we headed south to Ein Hod, an artists colony that several people had recommended. We arrived after most of the galleries had closed, but we really loved the town. Very pleasant, beautiful gardens and homes, lots of public (and private) art. Next trip we're determined to stay a night or two at one of the bed and breakfasts there.
When we got back to Zichron, the Midrahov was in full Saturday swing. We took a walk and went into a couple of shops, including my favorite, the arts and crafts collective. When I was here three years ago for my niece's wedding, I regretted not getting some pottery I saw there, and was thrilled that Jessie shared my enthusiasm for it. We decided to come back before leaving to pick something up.
Dinner with my niece's family, then went back to the Midrahov to have ice cream after dinner at a great place just past the end of the walking street (sorry, don't remember the name).
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4/13, last full day.
Got up early, had breakfast, and made coffee at my niece's (too early for Cuccina Bar's espresso).
We drove to Arad to visit our sister-in-law's parents. The drive was pretty harrowing, especially since we were nearly rear-ended three times by drivers who had no concept that traffic may slow down or stop, even when we got off the 6 and onto roads with traffic lights. I have no idea how we escaped one of the near misses, as the the truck that had been tailgating us for the 3 miles came within inches of crushing us when he failed to noticed that traffic was stopped for a stoplight until the last minute (or he noticed and was overconfident in his brakes?).
When we got within 20 miles of Arad the landscape changed dramatically to desert, with camels along the side of the road and Bedouin camps and villages along the way.
We had a wonderful lunch with our sister-in-law's parents, and was glad to have my niece there to translate as my Hebrew is minimal and their English even more minimal.
The drive home was much less treacherous, probably because we were out of the morning rush.
When we got back to Zichron, we went back to the Midrahov to do some shopping. We went back to the arts and crafts coop (52 HaMeyasdim Street) to buy the pottery, and were thrilled that the potter was taking her shift at the store that afternoon. Her name is Galia Jackson, and her work is beautiful, creative, and unusual. We bought one of her pieces, as well as a couple of stained glass hamsas. We also got a few things at other shops on the street (soaps, candle holders, etc.).
A simple dinner with my niece and family and some sad goodbyes.
4/14: leaving
We had to check out at 11:00, and our flight wasn't until 4:45. The weather had turned hot, so we just decided to get to the airport early and hang out.
We drove down highway 6, but passed the airport after exiting looking for a gas station. We ended up heading north on highway 4 and getting off at the first exit, which happened to be the same place I filled up 3 years ago. He wouldn't take my US credit card, and gave me 20 single Shekel coins for change. There's got to be a better place to fill up a rental car before flying.
Any suggestions?
Returning the car was like picking it up. Waiting 15 minutes, finding out that someone who arrived later than me was checked in first, etc. But we had time to kill, so no big deal.
We went through security without a hitch, only to find that we were too early to check in (check-in starts 3 hours before departure). Go figure. So we went out, had the security tags removed from our luggage, and sat for a half hour. I went to the airport post office to drop off my "Israelphone" cellphone, where they have a stack of prepared envelopes for that Israelphones, and then we went through security again (different woman). Of course this time they sent our bags through x-ray, and things weren't quite as smooth, but we had plenty of time to kill.
We both started silently crying after getting our passports stamped.
After having lunch, we decided to spend our remaining Shekels at duty free. To our dismay, all the prices were in dollars, and they used an inflated conversion rate if you wanted to pay in Shekels. We decided to hold on to them for the next trip.
After boarding, we discovered that we were the only two people in first class, and the rest of the upper deck of the 747 was empty.
Despite having a cold the whole trip, and the falling out with my nephew, this was a wonderful and fulfilling trip. Can't wait to return.
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This an amazing detailed report and I will try to do the same. We leave next Saturday for Israel. 6 nights in Jerusalem at the Dan Panaroma, ( will ask for an old city view). Also joined the Dan club so looking forward to all the treats. We are with my brother and sister - law and have a guide for most of the time but really appreciated the specific information as I know the guide will do whatever we want since we are paying him.
My husband and I have not been to Israel since 1986 so I know so much has changed. My borther and sister - law have been more recently but we are all excited.
We will be there for Yom Hatzmot which should be exciting. The only down side is that I think every Jewish organization is taking a tour there this year so the city will be crowded.
From Jerusalem we go to Tiberias and then the Upper Galliee with two nights at a Kibbutz, then to Tel Aviv, Eliat and Petra and then home.
I am printing out your report so I can refer to it while on the trip.
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Hey thanks, I'm flattered.
Before my last trip in 2005, I hadn't been back since '87, so I know how you feel. I was pretty amazed at how much has changed in so many ways. Especially since the '87 trip was a brief trip for my brother's wedding, and most of my knowledge of the country was from when I spent the summer there in 1979.
I do enjoy seeing the country through more seasoned eyes, and being able to have more freedom than my earlier trips (driving, eating at nicer restaurants, etc.).
I look forward to seeing your trip reports. Have a wonderful time!
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I finally managed to put some pictures online. Here are our pictures from the Israel portion of our trip:
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Sure. I posted at the end of the Israel trip report, but here's the link:
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Oops, sorry about that (meant to post it at the end of the Paris trip report!).
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Thanks for this lovely trip report. My husband and I spent 2 weeks in Israel last year and it was the best trip we've taken - you brought back some lovely memories!
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I wish I had written trip reports in the past, as it's a great way to preserve my own memories too (something that isn't happening unassisted these days).
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-Matt Bellamy tossing his guitar in the crowd during Uprising. Started a frenzy that ended with about 60 people on the floor. Matt looked back all apologetically like "I should've known that **** would happen" luckily I was right outside the vicinity of it.
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By Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 11:26
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|Different children learn mentally developmental things at different ages.. Just as with every other developmental stage..
|And your implying that anyone who doesn't agree with you is at best condesending and at worst alienating to people who MAY have agreed with you if you could manage to present your views in a different way.
|Last year my front porch light was out all summer because a nest of hornets had moved in- I won't even kill those.
Originally Posted by edamommy
frog, cat... what's the difference? Soft and fuzzy and NOT so much soft and fuzzy?
Originally Posted by ME :)
...not every toddler who kills the odd bug (or frog! ) is going to torture cats as he gets older...
Originally Posted by edamommy
hmmmmmmmmm my ds is 26 months old. I am not saying that he "grasps" death or the likes, but he DOES understand pain. He knows that he cannot pick up or attempt to pick up the cat or the rabbit as it may hurt them. He knows that his feet are for walking and jumping and kicking balls (etc) and NEVER for hurting an animal or another human. He KNOWS this! He converses about it. He follows the rule... once he pulled the cats tail and got bit... ONCE! And he's never abused the other animals either. Or his friends lizard and turtle. He is VERY curious. He is VERY active. But he truly understands that! And, his best buddy is 4... and he isn't a frog squisher (or whatever) either! SO, are these exceptional little boys?
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frog, cat... what's the difference? Soft and fuzzy and NOT so much soft and fuzzy?
You know, for ME and MY family this may have happend ONCE (may happen once) ... but it wouldn't happen again. I'm mostly shocked that this kid did it more than once?!?!? Sure, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt the first time around... but someone missed the bus to have this sort of thing happen more than once! :
Originally Posted by zoesmummy
Those hornets (and I've been in a similar situation) could *seriously* harm my child.
Originally Posted by joesmom
I feel bad for the OP- like she is going to be watching every move this little boy makes- waiting for the next shoe to drop...
I do agree that sometimes when a kid hurts animals it is because of problems at home, or due to deep seated emotional issues- but sometimes, it is just because the kid does not fully "get" what he is doing.
Originally Posted by Raven67
OTF...why do you run over so many frogs?? I really don't understand that statement. I have frogs, squirells, birds, worms, snakes in my driveway, and I check before pulling out/in, to make sure nothing is in the way. The times I have run over roadkill (already dead) I feel kind of nauseous and sad. I think seeing your words about the frogs that you run over, and how you never care or give it a thought...puts this in a whole different light. It makes much more sense now. If you don't care at all when you run over a frog, why don't you want your son doing the same thing? I'm sure it's going to make it all the more difficult for you son to learn empathy for animals when there are so many exceptions around him.
Originally Posted by OnTheFence
I will definitely think twice before ever asking a very specific parenting question in regards to my own children in this forum again.
Originally Posted by mommytolittlelilly
I don't think she absolutely must watch every move her son makes, but she could do that if she wants to. Really though, I don't think monitoring every little move he makes is, in itself, going to be that helpful for this boy in the long term. I'm of the opinion that watching every move he makes might even make things worse.
I think the fact that it's happened repeatedly, though, probably warrants mom and dad stepping back to take a look at the big picture to see what thing(s) might be troubling him.
Originally Posted by edamommy
Our line is drawn by intelligent compassion...
Originally Posted by cmb123
my front porch light was out all summer because a nest of hornets had moved in- I won't even kill those. ... Seeing a kid carve letters into a tree breaks my heart as much as hearing the frog story. I've been that way since I was a kid
Originally Posted by Brisen
Hey, kids are animals too. They deserve fresh air and sunshine just as much as any ant, frog, chicken, or pig. :
Originally Posted by boongirl
You know, I am not even slightly religious but I do think the golden rule is a good one: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Originally Posted by OnTheFence
Did you read the OP, I said it has happened three times. Twice in the past several months, and once a year plus ago. He was only three the first time it happened. Good lord, why does something have to be troubling him or wrong with his psychology to do this or wrong with us?
Originally Posted by edamommy
eh? THis is regarding animal abuse... and no one should have something "nice" to say about that! Why is it so unPC to say it the way it is? Why do we have to coddle the op into thinking it's okeydokey to stomp on frogs...
Originally Posted by edamommy
eh? THis is regarding animal abuse... and no one should have something "nice" to say about that! Why is it so unPC to say it the way it is? Why do we have to coddle the op into thinking it's okeydokey to stomp on frogs...
Originally Posted by OnTheFence
I don't think my child killed a frog because of problems at home or deep seated emotional issues. As I said, he is micromanaged enough in other areas, probably when he really shouldn't be and I am not going to do anymore in that area than I have been.
Originally Posted by Chunklin'sMommy
I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with the tree thing, but would gladly kill the hornets (and other bugs)! At least you seem to have an internally consistent view, while I, for some reason, cannot!
Originally Posted by darsmama
Dear Lord,
How will I ever be able to eat a salad again?!?! Isn't lettuce just as alive as a tree?
and as Chucklin's Mommy wrote: It never ceases to amaze me that supposedly we are raising compassionate, loving, empathetic children when it seems that we can't even BEGIN to practice it ourselves. Its eye raising, really.
Originally Posted by joesmom
I don't think he did either, OTF. I feel like you must have misintrepreted what I posted- I meant it in SUPPORT of you & your son.
Originally Posted by cmb123
I didn't see than anyone was "okey dokey" about stomping on frogs. Just that it isn't completly unusual for a 4 year old to do.
As someone who is very much an animal rights person, I know there is more than one way to get a point across. Being nasty usually isn't it.
Originally Posted by darsmama
Edamommy, to be honest - I've noticed you the last month on animal rights posts and thought WOW, shes really a caring person! I was even going to look up old posts and look at Veganism more, but frankly - your PETA like tactics leave something to be desired! Nastiness is NOT the way to go. I'm passionate about circ, but I NEVER get rude with people to get my point across. It weakens the argument!
Originally Posted by darsmama
your PETA like tactics leave something to be desired! Nastiness is NOT the way to go. I'm passionate about circ, but I NEVER get rude with people to get my point across. It weakens the argument!
Originally Posted by edamommy
And it's really freaking me out that so many mamas are willing to overlook the seriousness of this issue (animal abuse) to "not cause waves" or to "not make the op feel bad" or whatever!
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Future of Islam
Whither Islam
By Gordon D. Newby
Around the world, many varied voices are clamoring to control the public discourse about the future, and the past, of Islam. With more Muslims everywhere on the internet, Facebook, blogs, and Twitter, radicalized individuals and groups are jumping into this hotly contested space, pushing agendas that span the political and theological spectrum.
Most Muslims live their Islamic lives as private and living faith, which can be said about religious individuals everywhere. Religion is, as the late W.C. Smith contended, the living, vital faith of individual persons rather than an abstract set of ideas and doctrines. But, the abstract ideas and doctrines are a key part of the public discourse about Islam, and they affect how Muslims see themselves and how outsiders understand Muslims and Islam.
This dynamic tension between individual devotion and the public scene seems louder and more frenetic now in the context of modernism, geo-politics, and worldwide economics, but it is a pattern that has been with Islam from the beginning. Islamic denominationalism, the division of Muslims into Sunni, Shi'i, Khariji, and Sufi, to name a few, has historically had claimants asserting that their group represents the "true" Islam. Even within the larger groups of Sunni and Shi'i there are and have been strong divisions on the basis of belief, practice, or regional identity. The often asked question, "Who speaks for Islam?" remains an enduring and important question. The shifting response is determining where Muslims and non-Muslims alike stand across the many divides in today's world.
Since 9/11, many in the United States have seen Islam as a monolithic threat and as a repressive, archaic religion, out of tune with the modern world, a religion needing reform. This convenient reduction of about a quarter of the world's population to a single category goes against both historical and present day facts. As mentioned above, Islam is far from a single group with identical ideas and practices, but radical actors and Islamic opponents alike promote the unitary view that all Muslims are alike. For groups like Al Qaeda, the hope is to rally all, or many, Muslims around the central idea of opposition to the non-Muslim "West," a message of a kind of fundamentalism that opposes European and American domination of world politics and the world economy. This has helped those in America and Europe whose political fortunes have been advanced by promoting fear of Islam as the enemy of "Western Civilization." But, behind these attention-grabbing headlines, Muslims everywhere are transforming their religious outlooks and practices to fit the modern world.
As we look around, we see that even those who oppose modernist ideas as Western corruptions are fully modern in their techniques. As far back as 1992, Professor Bruce Lawrence of Duke University showed in his Defenders of God that so-called fundamentalists in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, who are supposed to reject all things modern, use the tools of the modern age to resist the modern age. In a recent example, the group in Yemen known as Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula has started a glossy magazine titled Inspire, written in jazzy English, and with an online presence, apparently to attract young English-speaking Muslims to the group's oppositional views. Even the Taliban, who regard the internet as "unholy," have maintained an unofficial website to condemn their enemies. For mainstream Muslims, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and iPhone apps are now standard religious tools across the religious and political spectrum. Need to know when to pray and in which direction? There is an app for that. Want to know where to find halal food? There are many blogs for that with smartphone maps to take you there. Want to hear sermons from Mecca or Kuala Lampur? They are available on the internet.


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(01-24) 15:31 PST OAKLEY -- A student at Freedom High School in Oakley was airlifted to a hospital and another student was arrested following an on-campus brawl Thursday, authorities said.
Police responded around 11:30 a.m. to reports of a fight between at least two girls at the school on Neroly Road, said Police Chief Bani Kollo.
One girl was hurt and may have suffered head injuries, Kollo said. She was airlifted to a hospital.
Another girl was arrested on suspicion of felony battery, Kollo said. It was unclear whether other students were involved, the chief said.
Kollo did not know the motive for the fight or the condition of the injured girl. It did not appear that she was "anything but a victim," Kollo said.
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Limp Bizkit To Make Heaviest Metal Album Of All Time??
That's hard to believe. I never did and never will consider the Fred Durst-fronted quintet metal. His earlier days were spent making rap and hip hop, and then he slowly turns to rock and metal? I'm not buying it. You should stay in the genre you start out as. Despite my little opinions though Durst has just announced that the band will be making the heaviest metal record of all time.
The band's latest album, Gold Cobra released last summer, and already Durst is planning a seventh album, whose title will actually follow-up their fifth album The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1). The article states:
…the band is working on what he called the heaviest, most crazy metal record of all time, "The Unquestionable Truth, Part 2″, which Durst says will probably be an EP. That will service our core and counter balance these big, fat, ginormous hip-rock songs we're going to do. We're gonna give out some mayhem and madness…to those people who really lean that way with us.
I've never liked Limp Bizkit, and now I really don't. It's an insult to the heavy metal Gods to even put hip-hop in the same vicinity at metal, and to go from one to the other. To make matters worse, the band is currently collaborating with the worst rap artist of all time in my opinion, Lil Wayne. It's fine if they want to do stuff like that, but don't bring a genre you have no business playing into it.
Cash Money Records, the band's newest label, just further proves it's all a joke. Metal isn't about cash money and no respectable metal label would ever be caught dead with a name like this.
Durst states, It sounds like a monster; it literally sounds dangerous. It sounds like that left of center, that place of discomfort that created rock 'n' roll, created the (heavy) metal, where it all spawned from.
Nothing that disgrace to music Lil Wayne has ever or will ever do could ever be compared or even slightly thought of as metal. These statements just pain me. The entire article can be read here.
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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, said it welcomes the conviction of eight Muslims who murdered an American diplomat in 2002.
Laurence Foley, 60, an administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development at the Embassy in Amman, was gunned down on his way to work a year and a half ago.
At the time of his death, Foley was working on projects to help deliver clean drinking water to Jordanians and to rehabilitate primary health care centers throughout the country.
"We appreciate the diligence of the Jordanian investigators, judicial officials, police and other security personnel involved in bringing those responsible for Larry's murder to justice," a statement on the U.S. Embassy in Amman's website said.
A total of 11 suspects were tried -- six in absentia. A Jordanian military court sentenced eight of them to death, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior al Qaeda operative, who was among those tried in absentia.
Two other militants were given jail terms and just one was acquitted. The eleven suspects included Libyan, Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian militants.
Zarqawi, a 37-year-old Jordanian, is wanted by the U.S., for his links to al Qaeda. The U.S. is offering up to a $10-million reward on its Rewards for Justice website in exchange for information leading to Zarqawi's arrest. He is believed to be a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden.
Zarqawi allegedly released an audiotape on Tuesday aired on an Islamic website urging militants in Iraq to increase their attacks against U.S. troops and what he called their Shi'ite "agents and hypocrites," reports said.
At least 30 American soldiers and 100 Iraqis have been killed in fierce clashes since the weekend between coalition forces and followers of a radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric in several cities on the one hand and Sunni Muslim insurgents in Fallujah where U.S. troops are attempting to rout militants from a guerrilla stronghold and Ramadi, where Sunni militants opened a second front.
The voice on the tape claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks against U.S. and coalition troops since last April and urged the militants to fight.
"God has privileged you and humiliated at your hands the mightiest power in history," the voice on the tape said.
"Sharpen your swords and burn the ground under the invaders' feet. Fight the Americans, fight the rejectionists [Shi'ites] and the agents and hypocrites," he added.
The U.S. vowed on Wednesday to quash the Shi'ite militia.
But Jerusalem Post reporter Matthew Gutman, currently in Iraq, said in a radio interview that he expected the trouble to continue.
"The situation is actually not as bad as it might seem on television. People are tense here. They're preparing for the unexpected and increasing clashes between American forces and members of the... [Shi'ite] militia," Gutman said from Baghdad.
"I think the uprising will continue and I think it is going to get worse, especially in the Sunni areas after the three-day American operations in Fallujah," he said.
American troops sealed off Fallujah earlier this week, following the murder and mutilation of four American civilian contractors there last week.


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In northern climates, energy efficient buildings require tight construction to control air infiltration. However, proper ventilation is needed to maintain good indoor air quality. This project will explore the relationship between energy efficient buildings and indoor air quality. We will assess human exposure specific indoor sources of pollutants using measurement and modeling approaches. For example, the resuspension of dust particles from indoor surfaces are an important route of exposure for metals, pesticides, flame retardants, and other pollutants of concern. Work on assessing exposure to resuspended particles includes characterization of the source, modeling the transport of the particles throughout the microenvironment, and developing and testing mitigation strategies for reducing exposures. The REU fellow will be working within a team graduate students but will be given ownership of a specific project related to the overall work of the group.


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The good news is that losing 10 extra pounds is far from an insurmountable goal, as well as can be securely and absolutely completed in just over a month. The trouble is that, regardless of how difficult you try, you won't have the ability to lose those inches in a certain area; place decrease of fat via direct exercise is a myth. While straight educating the locations on which you 'd like to shed inches will not magically target those areas of fat, it will create the underlying muscle mass. Although several companies behind midsection instructors advise that they need to just be used for 4-8 hours a day, there is still some worry about the health and wellness ramifications of putting on such a limiting garment. In spite of the inquiries surrounding its performance it hasn't stopped followers attempting to emulate the appearance by buying the waistline training contraptions that their idols back.
That excels news for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with just how you search in a bikini: Excess weight can support problems such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetic issues, some cancers, high blood pressure, stroke and also even more, according to the CDC. Kailyn Lowry and also Jenelle Evans have both championed for the questionable trend Beyond the MTV network, celebs like Kim Kardashian,
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One has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.
Called, aptly, Sergio, the film teeters on the brink of hagiography.
The book is a counterpunch to the volumes of Oprah hagiography the publishing business has churned out over the years.
She wants a "hagiography," and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.
Blogger Jonathan Tobin commemorated the event with a burst of hagiography.
The hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.
The "Legende Doree" was especially opulent in Roman hagiography.
hagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.
But the great and absorbing subject of poetry in this age is hagiography.
Therefore, the psychologist finds the study of hagiography teeming with information.


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Currier House opened in September 1970, and is named for Audrey Bruce Currier '56, who was killed along with her husband in a plane crash in 1967. Its four towers are named for distinguished Radcliffe alumnae: Mabel Daniels '00, a composer and musician, Mary Caperton Bingham, a noted newspaperwoman and civic leader, Helen Homans Gilbert '36, former chair of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe, and Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
The first Master of Currier House was Jerome S. Bruner, Professor of Psychology. Ursula and Paul Levine, both biologists, became Co-Masters in 1971. Barbara Rosenkrantz, a professor in the History of Science Department, and her husband Paul took over in 1974. Next came Howard Frazier, Professor of Medicine, and his wife Lenore in 1979. They were succeeded in 1981 by Dudley Herschbach, the Baird Professor of Science, and his wife Dr. Georgene Herschbach, who is Associate Dean of Harvard College. In 1986 Gregory Nagy, the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, and his wife Olga Davidson, lecturer in Brandeis' Humanities Program, were appointed. In 1991, William Graham, the Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School, and Dr. Barbara Graham, the Associate Director of the University Library followed at Co-Masters. In 2003 Joseph Badaracco and Patricia O'Brien were appointed as Currier Co-Masters. Joe is the Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School and Pat is the Deputy Dean of Harvard College.
The Currier House arms comprise a red shield, emblazoned with an apple tree surrounded by a bench, all in gold. Above the tree is a black bar, or barrulet, with scalloped edges trimmed with white borders. The red field represents Harvard, the gold tree is the logo that Currier has used since its opening in 1971, and the black bar is taken (like Adam's rib) from the two diagonal stripes of the Radcliffe arms. The tree in fact represents the "Radcliffe apple tree," used as a symbol in the fund drive to complete the construction of Currier House. The narrow white borders are required by a heraldic convention but also refer to the white chevron originally proposed for the Harvard College arms. The combination of Harvard and Radcliffe symbols on the House arms serves as a reminder of Radcliffe's historical role in promoting the education of women at Harvard. The design refers indirectly to the Currier family. The family does not have ancestral arms, but the name, of French origin, denotes artisans who performed the second operation in preparing leather for tanning, that of scraping off the hair. A hide was laid over a rounded log and scraped with a highly curved knife, whose sharp edge was on the inside. At either end of the blade were wooden handles. Such "Currier knives" are suggested by the scallops induced in the horizontal black Radcliffe barrulet. The black barrulet indicates the important place that black and other minority students have had in education at Radcliffe and Harvard. The seven scallops recall the diatonic scale and thereby the strong interest in music and other arts in Currier House. A merely implied reference to the preparation of hides was chosen, in place of a representation of actual knives, to suggest that education is a sort of scraping and tanning of the students to make them more supple and useful for life.


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Ben Bernanke will welcome an audit, defend the Fed's independence and make a case for the Fed's role in regulation when delivering his monetary policy report to Congress today.
Temporary inventory sell-offs contributed to 4 per cent growth in the second half of last year, Mr Bernanke will say in this speech. Demand must grow in the private sector to plug the gap when the inventory bounce ends. Private sector demand is already growing at a moderate pace, driven in part by a recent pick-up in consumer spending and business investment in equipment and software. Read more


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Home is the best destination
Ian on Sunday
Many people go to the ends of the earth to find beauty. And certainly beauty can be found at the ends of the earth. The furthest end I have visited is Fiji and there I found one afternoon, when the conference I was attending had ended, a shadowy, green glade where immense trees grew amidst antique blocks of granite scarred by what seemed messages from the Gods. I was visiting a sacred place and there was an extraordinary, still, almost ominous beauty about it which I will always remember. That was a long way to go to catch that glimpse of the eternal.
But long excursions are not needed to discover beauty which often enough is there in your own backyard or not many miles beyond. A couple of hours out of home up the Essequibo there is enough beauty to last a lifetime without going anywhere else.
Sitting on the shore of that great river – and, believe me, it is a shore and not a bank – late evening time I know almost exactly what the poet Robinson Jeffers must have experienced in his home by the sea in California years ago and expressed in one of his most quiet, greatest lyrics:
Evening Ebb
The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while; five night-herons
Fly shorelong voiceless in the hush of the air
Over the calm of an ebb that almost mirrors their wings.
The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down
From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises. The ebb whispers.
Great cloud-shadows float in the opal water.
Through rifts in the screen of the world pale gold gleams, and the evening
Star suddenly glides like a flying torch.
As if we had not been meant to see her; rehearsing behind
The screen of the world for another audience.
Peace and beauty at home is the best experience of all since it soaks every day of life with contentment.
When the moon grows big my wife and I place chairs under the trees in our garden to sit and watch the goddess of the night hold court amidst the flying clouds.
Think of all the thousands of years men and women have done this, looking in wonder at the moon come up tangled in clouds in company of a star or two – whether above the pyramids of Egypt or the slopes of the sacred mountains of Greece or the remote outback of aboriginal Australia or Kilimanjaro's cloud-haunted peak or afloat on a gleaming Kashmir lake or amidst the flurrying snows of Antarctica – or outside in your own garden in Georgetown, Guyana.
As time runs on the likelihood of visiting faraway places grows more remote for me.
So perhaps it is as well that the garden surrounding us is a source of pleasure and daily wonder, surely the equal of exotic destinations difficult and boring to get to in this exacting age of globalised suspicion, oppressive security and surly bureaucracies.
And, anyway, when I travelled half way around the world what I found exotic I realise was commonplace to those who lived there.
Mysteries arise wherever you stay, abroad or quietly at home, to keep the mind alive and intrigued forever. Reading in our garden, I notice a particularly strange and wonderful gathering of colours in the sky as the sun sets. Blood-red clouds shot with gold mass over the seawall and serpentine black shadows escape from the coming night weave in and out of the flames of red and gold. It is soon over but what a wondrous sight while it lasts!
And then the stars begin to appear in the rain-washed sky and not by any means for the first time I think of how the starlight seen is immeasurably old and so we never see the stars that send the light but only what they were immensely long ago – and the thought sets me to wonder how much in life of what we love and find beautiful may also be a star's throw away from what its real meaning is. Elizabeth Jennings's mysterious poem 'Delay' stays in my mind:
The radiance of that star that leans on me
Was shining years ago. The light that now
Glitters up there my eye may never see,
And so the time lag teases me with how
Love that loves now may not reach me until
Its first desire is spent. The star's impulse
Must wait for eyes to claim it beautiful
And love arrived may find us somewhere else.
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