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Shalom to all,
Below is my latest monthly look at the main news developments in Israel and the Middle East. I focus on the Israeli national elections coming up later this month, and also review several other major stories affecting the country during December. I am still in the USA, but plan to head back to Israelnext month. May you enjoy many blessings during 2013, whatever it brings our way.
By David Dolan
The Israeli government came under fresh international criticism in December after it was announced that hundreds of new Jewish homes would be built in the northeast perimeter of Jerusalem. The area, near the largest Jerusalemsuburb, Ma'ale Adumim, is considered "occupied territory" by the Palestinians who hope to include it in any future state. Israeli leaders defended the intended new construction on land that they note has been a central part of the Jewish people's ancient biblical heartland for over three thousand years. They added that the area, like nearby Jerusalem, will remain under Israeli sovereignty in any final peace deal with the Palestinian Authority. The new construction announcement came just hours after the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to recognize "Palestine" as a non-voting UN member "state" a move that was strongly opposed by Israeland some of its allies, but endorsed by many others.
Meanwhile the political campaign heated up in Israel during the last month of 2012, with fresh Knesset national elections scheduled for January 22. The government was rocked when Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suddenly resigned after fresh criminal charges were leveled against him. Earlier Lieberman, who heads the current Knesset's third largest political party, announced he was forming a political alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's popular Likud party. Despite the unexpected resignation, opinion surveys continue to forecast that Netanyahu will easily retain his post, with his Likud party and its centrist and rightwing allies expected to receive ballots from a clear majority of Israeli voters. One small national religious party is projected to emerge as the third largest in the next Knesset under the charismatic leadership of a relatively young Israeli businessman whose parents immigrated to Israel from the United States.
In the wake of November's fierce eight-day conflict between Israeli forces and rocket-firing Palestinian militiamen in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas movement celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary during December with large support rallies held in Gaza City and north of Jerusalem. As they marked the founding of their violence-driven Islamic militia movement in December 1987, Hamas leaders reiterated the anti-peace positions spelled out in their founding charter. The seminal document declares that Hamas will never recognize Israel as a legitimate country, but will instead continue to work night and day for its total destruction. Palestinian Authority leaders attended the celebrations in an apparent bow to the growing street popularity of the radical movement that was founded with help from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement, which now controls the largest regional Arab country, neighboring Egypt.
In Cairo, anti-government protests continued the first half of December as a final draft of the Arab country's new constitution was stitched together. The constitution upholds strict Islamic Sharia law as a moral basis for all Egyptian law. Non-Muslim fundamentalist delegates who had earlier walked out of the drafting sessions to protest a move by Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi to thwart judicial review of the official document stayed away as the final version was put together. Later in the month, a national referendum was held on the new constitution, which was not surprisingly supported by most of the same 70% of the public who had earlier chosen Islamist parliamentary candidates to represent them. A new round of parliamentary elections has now been scheduled for later this winter.
Israeli leaders held urgent talks with their Jordanian counterparts in December to discuss the ongoing fighting in nearby Syria, which the UN now says has left around 60,000 people dead since March 2011. Officials in Jerusalem reportedly want to cooperate with the Hamshemite Kingdom in attempts to prevent Syria's massive chemical weapons arsenal from either falling into rebel Sunni Muslim hands or being transferred to Shiite Hizbullah forces in Lebanon. Meanwhile another senior Syrian military official defected to the opposition, which has been increasingly deploying sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles and other advanced weapons against the Assad regime's embattled military forces. In an apparent acknowledgment that the tottering regime's days are probably numbered, the Russian government began to evacuate its citizens from Syria during December. Many Russians work in the country, mostly in the defense industry.
An American group released pictures during December showing that construction is continuing at an Iranian nuclear site where experts suspect nuclear weapons were tested over the past few years. Iranian leaders responded that they would allow United Nation's Atomic Energy inspectors to examine the area if "international threats" to take military action against the Shiite regimes nuclear sites were "defused." Many Middle Eastanalysts say they believe Israeli leaders are planning some sort of major military action against the Iranian nuclear program sometime before next summer, possibly with American and other Western support. Meanwhile Kuwaiti leaders warned that an Iranian nuclear reactor located just over 100 miles east of the small Arab country poses a threat to the region and should be immediately opened to UN inspection.
On a brighter note, Israel received large amounts of much needed precipitation during the last month of 2012, with higher than normal rates of rain and snow forecast for the rest of the winter. Water officials said the level of the Sea of Galilee recently reached a high December mark that has not been achieved even once over the past decade. They noted that Israel's main above ground fresh water reservoir already began to rise in late October, nearly one month before average. Israelnormally receives virtually no precipitation between April and October, with almost all of its average 14 inches falling between December and March.
Israeli voters will head to the polls on January 22 in a national Knesset election that is being held ten months earlier than formally scheduled. All opinion surveys continue to show that current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will easily remain in power, but probably with a more rightwing coalition than is currently in place. The Likud party and its usual coalition allies are expected to win around 68 seats in the Knesset, which should leave the Premier with substantial majority backing in the next legislature. Such broad support may prove to be crucial if Netanyahu orders a military strike upon Iran's nuclear program facilities in the coming months.
However Netanyahu's Likud party's political merger in November with the current third largest Knesset party, Yisrael Beiteinu, is no longer expected to add any seats to the two party's current total of 42 (27 of those seats belonging to the Likud). In fact, polls taken in late December showed the conjoined parties would only secure around 35 seats, down from some 37 to 40 in earlier surveys. Analysts said one reason for the drop in support was the resignation mid-month of Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman from his post as Foreign Minister. The dramatic action came just hours after Israeli prosecutors said they had uncovered enough evidence to formally charge the Soviet-born politician with financial fraud and related charges. Lieberman, who has served in the Knesset since 1999, said he preferred to fight the charges out of office, but also announced that he was still heading up his joint party Knesset candidate list with the Likud party. Under Israeli law, legislators can remain in the Knesset while legal proceedings are underway against them, but cannot serve in any cabinet position.
After submitting his resignation letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Lieberman predicted that his departure from office would be very brief. "I am leaving temporarily," he told reporters in Jerusalem. He added he anticipates that the legal proceedings against him would be "speedy," saying he intended to personally argue his case in court. Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced in early December that he would indict Lieberman for promoting Israel's former ambassador to Belarus to a high foreign ministry position. This reportedly occurred soon after the envoy allegedly handed the Foreign Minister confidential information on moves by Israeli authorities to investigate Lieberman's questionable financial dealings in the former Soviet republic.
By late December, it became apparent that Avigdor Lieberman's time in government service may have come to a final end when a revised indictment was issued by the Attorney General's office. The amended indictment charges the former Foreign Minister with "moral turpitude," which would effectively prevent Lieberman from holding public office ever again if the allegations are proven to be true. Earlier in the month, it had appeared that Lieberman would work out a plea bargaining deal with the Attorney General. However new evidence emerged against the veteran politician when Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon startled the Israeli political world by becoming a witness for the prosecution. This unexpected development came soon after Lieberman removed his former deputy from his party's upcoming election list. Reports of bad blood between the two men had often surfaced over the past few years. The articulate Ayalon was often called upon to represent his country on the world stage since he spoke much better English than Lieberman, which pundits said provoked jealousy from his boss.
The big political story in Israelin the run up to the January 22 elections is the emergence of a significant new political force, The Jewish Homeparty, known in Hebrew as Ha Beit Ha Yehudi. Strongly supported by many Jewish residents of contested communities located in territory that Israelcaptured from Jordanin 1967, the party is now expected to emerge as the third largest in the next Knesset, winning up to 15 seats. Jewish Home was created in 2008 when the National Religious Party merged with two smaller parties, winning three seats in the 2009 elections. Since then, two other rightwing Knesset members joined the party, giving it a current total of five seats in parliament.
The projected dramatic surge in support for the Jewish Home party is being attributed to its popular, charismatic new leader, 40 year old Naftali Bennett. Born in Haifa, the nascent politician is the son of American parents who immigrated to Israelfrom San Franciscosoon after Israeli forces triumphed in the Six Day War. Bennett served in an elite Israeli army unit before earning a law degree from HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem. In 1999 he co-founded an Israeli anti-fraud software company called Cyota, selling it six years later for nearly 150 million dollars.
Living with his wife and four children in Ra'anna, a wealthy suburb of Tel Aviv, Bennett has been outspoken in his total opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state in disputed territory north and south of Jerusalem. Although he hardly fits the mold of the average Orthodox Jew, the highly successful entrepreneur turned politician is vocal about his deep personal Jewish faith, which he says forms the basis of his firm belief that the land in question was deeded by God to the Jewish people in perpetuity. Opinion surveys show that his notable military and business backgrounds are drawing support for his party from many voters all over Israelwho normally choose more centrist parties, including some who voted for the Knesset's current largest party, Kadima. Opinion polls show that Kadima, with 28 seats and now under the leadership of former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz¡ªmay not win even enough votes to make it into the next Knesset at all, leaving Mofaz and his remaining party colleagues in the political wilderness after a relatively short, but meteoric rise to the top of the ever-changing Israeli political scene. Under Israel's parliamentary political system, a party must win at least two and a half per cent of the overall national vote to make it into the Knesset.
Many Israeli pundits say that what is being called "the Bennett factor" was probably the main propeller behind the Netanyahu government's decision the end of November to order the construction of 3,000 more housing units, most of them apartments, in disputed territory due north of the biblical Mount of Olives. Technically known as E1, the contested area lies between northeast Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim, located near the main road from Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley. The Palestinians charge that by strengthening Jewish communities in the area, Israeli officials are attempting to thwart Palestinian hopes to eventually gain control over the land. The PA wants to connect the nearby Arab city of Ramallah, and other Palestinian Authority-controlled cities and towns north of Jerusalem, to Arab population centers south of the Holy City like Hebron and Bethlehem.
A spokesman at the White House in Washingtontermed the Israeli building decision "counterproductive," adding "We reiterate our longstanding opposition to settlements and East Jerusalem construction and announcements." The European Union and the United Nations also issued strong denunciations of the move. The PA said any new Jewish home construction will make it that much harder for Palestinian negotiators to ever return to the peace table. They had earlier denounced a new housing project in the southwestern Jerusalem Gilo neighborhood. Israeli officials announced in late December that they were speeding up that building project, asking for contractors to rapidly send in their construction bids in the coming weeks. In an interview on Israel's Channel 2 just before Christmas, PM Netanyahu strongly defended his decision to build new homes in and around Jerusalemdespite the harsh international criticism. "The capital of the Jewish people for the past 3,000 years is Jerusalem. So I will say in the clearest way possible, the Western Wall (of the Old City's Temple Mount) in not occupied territory and I don't care what the UN says about that."
Prime Minister Netanyahu announced in December that he has ordered a review of current restrictions that limit female prayer at the Western Wall. Three American Jewish groups, the Union for Reform Judaism, Hadassah and the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly, have been working with other groups in Israel to get the government to loosen the restrictions, saying they discriminate against women. Netanyahu asked the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, to put forward possible solutions that would ensure that all Jewish women who wish to pray at the Temple Mount's Western Wall may freely do so.
Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier stated that the Israeli government would have ordered the new home construction in and around Jerusalem even if the UN had not voted to upgrade the Palestinians' status at the world body to that of a "non-member observer state." Probably not be accident, the UN vote came on November 29¡ªthe exact date in 1947 when the UN voted 33-13 to "partition" the Holy Land into separate Jewish and Arab states. At the time, all of the Arab countries and their allies joined the Palestinians in fiercely rejecting the UN move, launching their war against the emerging Jewish State the very next day. Obviously had they not done so, the Palestinians would have had a fully sovereign state right next door to a smaller Israel since May 1948. Only nine countries voted against the latest UN move, including Israel, the USand Canada. The 138 countries that supported the measure included some of Israel's closest allies, most notably France, Spain,Switzerland and Denmark. The world's two largest countries, Chinaand India, also supported the Palestinian move. Among those that abstained in the vote were the UK, Australia, Germanyand Colombia.
Just before the vote was held, PA President Mahmoud Abbas stood up at the UN rostrum in New Yorkto plead for the world body to support his indirect new statehood bid. "Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel. The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine." However PM Netanyahu called the vote "meaningless," adding that Abbas was not "speaking the words of a man who wants peace." Israeli leaders again pointed out that the PA attempts to set up a state by fiat instead of via the negotiating table are a serious violation of the 1993 Oslo peace accord under which the Palestinian Authority was established with Israeli and international assistance and approval. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband Bill helped negotiate the Oslo treaty, termed the UN vote "unfortunate and counter-productive," noting it only put additional obstacles on the already difficult path to peace.
A massive support rally was held in the Gaza Strip on December 8 to mark the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising soon after radical Palestinian Muslims announced they were forming an "Islamic Resistance Movement," (better known by its Arabic acronym, HAMAS, which ironically is also a Hebrew word meaning "violence"). For the first time ever, overall Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who was based in Damascus for many years before moving to Amman, visited the Gaza Strip for the occasion, basking in the bombastic support he received from the cheering crowd. He made clear his radical movement would never alter its founding charter's unambiguous call for Israel¡¯s total annihilation and replacement by a Muslim fundamentalist Arab state. "As long as Palestineis ours and Palestine is the land of Arabismand Islam, we can never recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of it. There is no legitimacy for occupation. Hence, there is no legitimacy for Israel, however long time lasts." Positioned on the stage right behind Mashaal and other Hamas officials was a huge replica of a type of advanced rockets that Hamas terrorists fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the short conflict with Israel in November. Although it had "Made in Gaza" written on it in Arabic, most Israeli experts believe the rockets were smuggled into Israel from Iran, probably via the troubled African nation of Sudan.
Israeli officials described the Hamas leader's fiery speech as "hateful and extremist." Government spokesman Mark Regev pointed out that "Mashaal says no to peace and no to reconciliation, a message that says every Israeli man, woman and child is a legitimate target. That sort of extremism won't help peace: the opposite is true." Mashaal later held "reconciliation talks" with the rival Palestinian Fatah movement, which rules the Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah. Hamas militia fighters pushed PA security forces and political leaders out of the Gaza Strip in a violently coup staged in the summer of 2007. Recognizing that the Hamas refusal to talk peace with Israelis increasingly popular on the Palestinian street, analysts say PA President Abbas has little choice but to try to reconcile with the radical Muslim movement.
Israeli media reports said that PM Netanyahu secretly flew to AmmanJordanduring December to discuss possible joint Israeli-Jordanian military action to keep Syria's massive chemical weapons arsenal from falling into hostile Sunni or Shiite Muslim hands. Jordanwas the staging ground for major military maneuvers by American and other international forces in 2012 designed to send a message to the besieged Assad regime in Damascusthat outside Western and Arab forces might feel obliged to intervene in the Syrian internal war if the death toll continues to mount. Most Sunni Arab countries actively support the armed rebellion against the Assad regime, calling upon the dictator to quickly leave office and halt the government's attempt to quash the so-called "Free Syrian Army" leading the revolt.
However in late December, Jordanian officials issued a public statement that was a seeming rebuff against Israel's attempts to establish a joint position against the Syrian regime. Issued in Amman, the statement made clear that while Jordan is prepared to deal with any potential chemical weapon threat posed by the ongoing violence in neighboring Syria, it will "not enter any alliance" to protect itself. The statement, released by Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah, did not provide any details on Jordan's potential capability to thwart a Syrian chemical attack. Maaytah added that the intense fighting in neighboring Syriahas placed "enormous strains" on the country that is now home to some 275,000 Syrian refugees who have fled the fighting. During the last decade, the small country of Jordanfound itself hosting hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens escaping fighting in that Arab country.
Meanwhile another high-ranking Syrian military officer defected to the opposition the end of November. Major General Abdul Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, the head of the country's military police forces, announced his decision in a video broadcast on the Al Arabiya satellite news network. "I declare my defection from the regime's army, since it has deviated from its fundamental mission to protect the nation, and instead has been transformed into gangs of killing and destruction." The video was reportedly recorded along Syria's northern border with Turkey, where tensions remain high as NATO forces continue to station anti-aircraft Patriot missile batteries in the area. Major General Shallal said he knows of many other high ranking military officers who are looking for the right opportunities to defect from the embattled regime, which fought many new battles during the month with opposition rebel forces.
Whatever happens in the volatile Middle East and all around this troubled world during 2013, let us emulate the ancient Hebrew prophet Zephaniah who wrote down these stirring words: "Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on the vines. Though the yield of the olive should fail us, and the fields produce no food. Though the flocks should be cut off from the fold, and there be no cattle in the stalls. Yet I will exalt in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet light hinds feet, and makes me walk on my high places" (Zephaniah 3:17-19).
DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived andworked in Israel since 1980. His latest book, a novel titled MILLENNIUM:THE LORD REIGNS is available for purchase at his web site, www.ddolan.com in both printed and electronic versions.
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New Track: Ariana Grande – 'Touch It'
T-minus three days until 'Dangerous Woman' drops! Switching it up today for all her fans on AppleMusic, Ariana Grande is turning her attention to some of the bonus tracks on the record. Today, along with a leak of 'Moonlight', we get the highly anticipated 'Touch It'.
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Cause every time I'm with you/I go into a zone/and I remember all the places you want to go/Take me all the way/Ain't nobody gonna touch it/Cause every time I see you/I don't want to behave/I'm tired of being patient so let's pick up the pace/Take me all the way/Ain't nobody gonna touch it
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Today's guest blog post comes from Sara Ford, a Santa Fe resident and member of the museum's docent program.
Some years back, the late Fayne Lutz, a popular columnist with The Taos News, told me that whenever she volunteered to welcome visitors to Taos, she looked forward to that sincere tourist, who could be counted on to ask: "Where exactly is the art colony?" Fayne confessed that she was tempted to tell the visitor to turn right at the blinking light, a Taos landmark at the time.
Since then I've wondered what those eager visitors were looking for. A garret? No, that's La Boheme. A cluster of lofts? To me, that says SoHo. Real live artists, then? Skinny, of course, because they must be starving. They'll be wearing paint stained smocks and jaunty berets while they stand in front of easels perched precariously on the rim of the Rio Grande Gorge, where they're breathing plein-aire.
Or, do the tourists expect to find the art colony in a bar, where raucous bohemians can be overheard arguing? "A cube, Pablo? You must be kidding."
Now that I think about it an intense discussion about Cubism, Modernism, Impressionism, techniques, philosophy or marketing is one of the ingredients essential to an art colony. Art colonies began in the 19th and 20th centuries in villages usually, where creative souls interacted with one another. The key seems to be interaction.
In viewing Southwestern Allure, The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony, I was struck by two paintings by John Sloan, an artist who summered in Santa Fe for more than thirty years. Sloan's Picnic on the Ridge depicts a group of his friends, and their dogs, making merry around a campfire. Their joy is infectious. Their freedom complete.
For me, the painting typifies the camaraderie among the artists who arrived here in the late 19th and early 20th century, seeking a locale, where they were free to experiment and grow. Many of these artists were encouraged to come by artist Robert Henri, invited by the Museum's first director, Dr. Edgar Hewett, who wanted to build a museum that would be a nucleus for the growing art colony, similar to those in Europe. Artist studios were provided in the Palace of the Governors, where the museum was first located. When the current building opened its doors, all artists were allowed to exhibit their work under the museum's open door policy, championed by Henri, who, like Sloan, didn't believe in art academies or juries.
In the second painting, The New Homestead, Sloan again has painted close friends – he and his wife are included - at a housewarming at artist Will Shuster's small shack, where they're smoking and drinking with one another, in other words: interacting.
Where exactly is the art colony centered now? The Museum of Art, where most of the artists in this exhibit first found a home, will soon celebrate its one hundredth anniversary in its current location. But it's not the only museum in town now. There are ten art museums in Santa Fe, exhibiting a wide variety of art, including folk, Indian, contemporary, and Spanish Colonial.
There are art galleries now, galleries galore. According to the New Mexico Department of Tourism, three hundred galleries are in Santa Fe. One hundred fifty galleries and restaurants are on Canyon Road alone. Restaurants and coffee shops often exhibit and sell art, so they're counted.
How many artists are here I asked? Surely, someone in state government got a head count.
That's impossible to say, the state tourism person replied. "But I can tell you this," she said. "It's estimated that one out of six people are involved in some way in art."
That means Santa Feans are appraising, framing, packing, shipping and selling art in addition to painting, photographing, working in ceramics, creating sculpture or experimenting with new media, not to mention teaching art. Sometimes that gang you see on the Rio Grande Gorge is made up of art students who come every summer to learn how to draw, paint or work with clay. What about that guy walking around the plaza juggling chain saws? Or the one on the unicycle? Or the mime? Artists? You be the judge.
According to Dr. Hewett, "Art is the great, lasting, self-revealing activity of life. Through it we transmit our spiritual power through the ages."
You don't have to turn right at the blinking light to find the Santa Fe art colony or the Taos art colony for that matter. In Northern New Mexico, you'll find art everywhere. It's interactive.


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Venezuelan-born composer and guitarist Aquiles Báez has been known for confusing audiences. "For jazz fans, I am too folkloric, while for those into folk, I am too academic," he writes in the liner notes of La Patilla, his latest release on Cacao Música. "I believe that my music is as eclectic as the landscape, belonging to a space that is not lineal, but fractal."
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A graduate of the Simón Bolívar Conservatory in Caracas, Báez skillfully bridges the gap between traditional and modern Latin music, allowing foreign influences to seep into his sound without compromising his roots. With La Patilla, he has crafted a record that reflects all of these styles, which range from the free-form musicality of Egberto Gismonti and Hermeto Paschoal to the more structured vibes of Pat Metheny and Chick Corea. For instance, "A San Benito" has a clear Afro-Cuban vibe, beginning with lots of percussion that leads the way to Anat Cohen's clarinet, while "Bajo Tu Techo de Estrellas" has a softer vibe, closer to bossa nova. During his appearance at the Arsht Center, Báez will showcase material from this disc, as well as his personal tributes to the works of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gismonti, Astor Piazzolla, and the painter Armando Reverón, all who have helped shape his musical path.


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Book Review: Map to the Stars
Let's be real here. I rarely read books with romance as the main genre. It's just not really my thing. But because this one sounded super cute with its "Hollywood star meets regular girl" trope, I was intrigued. I read another book with this trope and I really liked it: Just One Wish. I highly more »


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Here's one of the reasons we all have elaborate fences at our community garden. So cute!
Belmont Victory Garden
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy was my first dog and he thought the garden was his, even though I did all the work. But Skippy always stood by me and was a great friend. Now Suzie and Charley follow in his footsteps and garden with me. We're located near Boston (USDA zone 6A). I have a community plot, a backyard vegetable garden, fruit trees and berry bushes, chickens and bees. I use sustainable organic methods and do my best to grow all of my family's vegetables myself.
Here's one of the reasons we all have elaborate fences at our community garden. So cute!
Belmont Victory Garden
He is planning his attack! HA HA! Probably thinking "If I just get a running start..."
He's also thinking "Lets see, what am I in the mood for tonight - carrots, radish, lettuce, pea tendrils .... so nice of these gardeners to grow all this for me"
His heads also a little to small for his body hehe!
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2014
"Into Oblivion features two Australian musicians of exceptional calibre: concert pianist Ambre Hammond and accordionist extraordinaire Marcello Maio – playing in intimate cabaret mode to the tables and mood lighting of the Artspace...
...What is basically a classical music recital transforms effortlessly into this cabaret setting due largely to Hammond's affinity with the audience. She is the classic raconteur with many amusing stories to tell, often at Maio's expense. Marcello barely gets a word in, but we suspect he's content with that. Being World Cup season this pair of football tragics of mixed European heritage has much to bait each other about...
...They also provide 'a visual feast', with Hammond prowling around the keyboard with a knowing stylishness, and Maio gently coaxing every nuance from his beloved accordion...
...Each in turn plays a haunting solo piece, showcasing the 'finesse and prowess' of the individual musician. But the magic of the evening comes from the fact that they work so well together, and clearly enjoy doing so...
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'They evoked the suppressed, smoldering passion of the music...'
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Ambre is my performance idol. Not only does she play like a tornado, but she is also at once sexy, funny and full of grace. When she speaks, this molten voice washes over the audience as we sit hushed, transfixed, yet somehow laughing and then, when she stops we appear to snap out of a dream. There is certainly magic in it. And the best thing of all is that she's dead humble. I have always sought such mentors- exceptional but grounded.
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Mathura: A case of cheating has been registered against a police sub-inspector earlier posted at Magorra police station following a court order.
Bhima Singh, a resident of Nagla Devia under Magorra police station has accused Sub Inspector Rakesh Singh of duping him of Rs 6 lakh.
"I had paid Rs 6 lakh to sub-inspector Rakesh Singh as he said he would get my wife a good job. However, neither he could arrange for a job nor did he return the money."
"When my FIR was also not registered then I took the help of the court at whose order a police report was registered," said an FIR by Bhima.
The sub-inspector is currently posted in Naujheel police station of Mathura.
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A Melbourne cafe shows how to eliminate harmful chemicals from it's cleaning menu by adopting GenEon technology.
Food and coffee affectionado's are fully catered to without risk of chemical contamination of their favourite bean juice or nibblies. Cleaning and sanitizing EFFECTIVELY without chemicals - how good is that?
Using the Trio unit from GenEon, Barista Stephen Coster and his sustainably focused crew at 'The Chosen Bean' keep front and back of house clean without chemicals for that fresh look and beautiful just roasted smell.
As Steve has pointed out, by cleaning effectively without impacting on the food and coffee served, customers are able to enjoy their experience here without risk of an asthma trigger being sprayed at them from a packaged chemical that would otherwise be used. Our GenEon Trio gives us great results, is dead easy to use, and fits in beautifully with our organic and Rainforest Alliance ethos. It's cheap to run - cheaper than chemicals! More people should jump on this - it's good!


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Some hubbers mentioned that they have two separate account.My question is1. What is the uses of having 2 accounts?2. Can we allowed to use same adsense account in both the accounts? ( If yes, how to set the second one)3. How to track both the accounts in single google analytics?Thanks.
1. It gives privacy and anonymity as well as allowing you to have one account for each area you cover. Once you get over 100 hubs, the account page can look at bit long, too.2. You have to. Only one Adsense account per household. And you set it up in the same way you did the first one.3. Use the same number.
I was wondering about having two hub accounts and if you could use adsense on both. Thanks for clarifying.
I was unsure about multiple accounts because most places (I thought) frowned on them - sock puppets and so on. But I can see a benefit in splitting my few sales attempts away from my nonsense hubs. Rubbishing, and then plugging plush toys, under the same ID is probably not the greatest of ideas.Sorry, can I ask the obvious.So all you do is sign out, and then go through the new account process again?
Yes, that's correct. And then just link in your current affiliate accounts on the affiliate page. You can set up Amazon to see which account sales are coming from, too.Here is what hubpages has to say:http://hubpages.com/faq/#multipleaccounts
Thanks WryLilt, something to think about.
just make sure you don't use both profiles in the same thread (some people do this in an attempt to have their views supported). Is grounds for permanent ban
I did that accidentally twice last week and reported myself. Kinda forget sometimes when I'm on my other accounts. It's hard with six!
6? Am I following you more than once?
I try and keep my other accounts out of the forums & site interaction so likely not.
Yes, This is the best idea to keep out of forums. So no risk of accidentally posting from other account.
Yes. Actually, if you just go to the sign up page while signed in, a message explains that you might want to create a new account.I don't do this because I am too easily confused.I don't really think you need to worry about mixing things. People who find your product hubs through search will seldom bother to look at another page unless you specifically send them there. Remember, they were searching and they found something - your profile page is usually of little interest and if it is, finding those other hubs is unlikely to affect any buying behavior they may or may not be planning.
I have trouble keeping one account going I would be a mess trying to keep 2 or more accounts going.
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@Cybersupe I second that I could not even imagine keeping up with more than one account.
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I saw a woman! Or: Single men's social misery in the depths of the desert
I Saw a woman, and a kid… and yet another kid, in fact I've seen a dozen of them playing in the garden beside the pool, whoa... a band of talkative women gossiping while the food was being served by a mob of maids, that is all but too exhilarating, so I decided to retire to a numb bunch of men setting aside for a breather, where am I? or is it where was I before this encounter?
This was a scene from what would have been a typical Ramadan iftar feast among a crowd of a delightfully happy neighbors in a cozy gated-community compound anywhere in Saudi, and it happens to be that I'm invited to one of them feasts... but what was it that made the scene too momentous for me that I had to suppress the feelings of alienation and gazing-around sense of surprise while replicating an image of normality and tactful behavior?
Will -can you barely hear the slurred-voice of a looping sample from "it's a man's world" running in the background?- I am single (my fiancée lives in Jordan), I live outside any type of gated-community –for a multitude of reasons-, I am engaged in a nation-wide telecom project that drains me out of any time to facilitate a chance of a "social" life, oh' and I am currently living in non other but Saudi-Arabia!
Yes indeed, a sad portrait of the reality that many single expatriates face over here –along the unfortunate locals living away from their families-, the abnormal multi-level economically-driven elitist segregation and alienation against swarms of a dominantly-male work force that seems to no longer identify itself with any family environment, during the business working hours, and the hours after; when one finds himself caged outside the world of open markets, recreational centers, shopping malls and good dining places.
Please do not read me wrong here, I am not calling for unlawful mixing or looking for someone to guide me to the many exclusive fully-fledged parties and out-of-place social events... all I want is the normal happy mix of people in the streets, markets, playgrounds and parks that is comprised of normal men, women, kids, families, -and yes- singles alike going about their business without necessarily anticipating an explosive encounters amongst each other.
For God's sake, I've been here for almost a year and a quarter, an I am craving to go to the Riyadh zoo, to reminisce my family trips over there when I was young! -"It's a man's world" chorus should have stopped looping by now-, unfortunately I can't be admitted in, I must be accompanied by a family –who should accompany who I ask myself?-, a family by current definition should include a wife as a bare minimum requirement, and anything from a trolled toddler to a half dozen trailer of kids, I thought of barrowing my aunt's 10-year old daughter but it won't cut it as a qualifying family... I comfort myself by feeling sorry for the envisaged misfortunate case of a father who's looking forward to spend quality time with his kids at the zoo while Mom is not available -for some reason- and got turned away because he doesn't qualify as a family!
Yes there are singles-only hours to enter the zoo, but they are ridiculously confined to certain days and hours that also happen to be the typical business hours we're busy at! So there goes any chance to ponder upon God's magnificence perpetuated through his overwhelming creation that was gathered from all over the world for the benefit of "families only"...
The singles workforce in Saudi –enter the rhetoric tone- is an oppressed tender of society indeed with a wide spread feeling of being systematically and institutionally marginalized from any hint of family-oriented social life! Be it that you are a white-collar top executive who missed out on bringing a family along or a humble I'll-do-anything-for-a-living south-east Asian laborer!
I must add that this does not even come close to being equated with say the couples-only night-out dilemma of the wannabe poser-cum-clubbers of western Amman, for the latter case doesn't challenge a welfare necessity, unless I stand corrected; being denied admission to the corrupt environment of a nightclub wouldn't exactly shatter one's psyche! In contrast with the uncalled for tampering with one's welfare when trying to enter a public area, a supermarket, or a furnished-apartment complex for a night-over or simply a food-court on a weekend and being denied access for merely being single!
So there you have it... a humble account on how I am being simmered into an anti-social entity that eyes any given family with envy that stems from a complete sense of sheer rejection by the post-modern society of Saudi today! I must note however, that despite the drama illustrated above, I still do enjoy my time here, and indulge in many activities –when time permits- that I would otherwise have been unable to do if I was burdened with any family-related responsibilities.


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OnePlus 5T review: Hands-on
m$ outlook, hotbar what is it?
Today my manager asked me what a hotbar in outlook did?
I've never heard of a 'hotbar' before, the only assumtion that I've got it is a way that you can get E-mail quicker. According to our headoffice IT admin chappie whos not very happy about it and is going to remove it tonight!! There been lots of complaints about it, as it has to be used! (apparently its been installed via a network computer outside headoffice and is now loaded onto all computers!)
I wasn't allowed to play so can't describe how it works, but my manager thought that we were being told that our home was the copprets, but has I said,
If this is something that been installed onto one of our computer then it should only effect that computer not computers on other sites.
The only person who should be able to make any local major changes is our admin, and she is very carefull, not one unchecked disk gets into the office let alone near any of the computers!
But any changes of the calibur, should only be enabled from the IT admin at head office, any attempts at doing this should be denied away from the main sever.
so can any body tell me what it does, (where it came from would be intresting but my thoughts that is for head office to sort.)
I concur, it is felt that at the best it is a tracking software, it could be worse.
It can normally be removed via the Add/Remove programes facility.
Mind you head office might have installed it to track your work practices!!!!! LOL
A real piece of rubbish designed to be attractive to novices and other innocents - shouldn't be entertained on any computer.
Thanks all
Somehow I don't think it comes via the headoffice, otherwise they properly keep it.
would be interesting to find out how it got onto the network though, I thinkth someone at headoffice, better start checking who can to what and were!
Leo49, most of our computer users are novice, they learn what they need yo know and stick to it, they only one who shows any adventure on the computer is our manager, who quite often sits there and says lets see what this botton does! and what happens if I do this? And then gets me of the care floor to try to sort out what she did, which she can never remember
Has I said, if it goes pear shape just press restart and if it really goes pear shape hit restart and switch off and ring head office but don't admit to nothing play ignorent and that the IT chappie sort it, thats what he's paid to do after all!
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Some top government regulators are voicing concerns about the U.S. economic recovery.
The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) told lawmakers Wednesday that many banks still could suffer as a result of bad real estate loans.
Bad loans and other problems already have led to almost 100 bank failures so far this year, and officials say hundreds of the country's 8,200 banks are in financial trouble.
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CS 483 – SD Section
By Dr. DaniyalAlghazzawi
The prime is a natural number which has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
The first 15 prime numbers are:2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47.
The integers a and b are said to be coprime or relatively prime if they have no common factor other than 1 and −1 (if their Greatest Common Divisor is 1)
For example,
The Euclidean algorithm is an algorithm to determine the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two elements.
Using recursion, the algorithm can be expressed:
function gcd(a, b) {
if b = 0 return a
else return gcd(b, a mod b)
For example:
Two integers a and b are said to be "congruent modulo" n, if their difference a − b is an integer multiple of n. If this is the case, it is expressed as:
a ≡ b (mod n)"a is congruent to b modulo n"
For example,
38 ≡ 14 (mod 12)
38 ≡ 2 (mod 12)
-3 ≡ 2 (mod 5)
The totientφ(n)of a positive integer n is defined to be the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are coprime to n.
To compute Euler's function for n:
with the product ranging only over the distinct primes p dividing n
if n=p.q and p&q are distinct primes:
φ(n) = φ(p.q) = (p-1)(q-1)
For example,
φ(6) = φ(3.2) = (3-1)(2-1) = 2 // 1, 5
Euler's Totient Function Values For n = 1 to 500, with Divisor Lists (http://www.geocities.com/primefan/Phi500.html)
Public Key: (n, e)
Private Key: (n,d)
To encrypt message:
c = me mod n
To decrypt message:
m = cd mod n
p= 11
q = 3
n = 11.3 = 33
φ(33) = (11-1)(3-1) = 20
e = 3 // 3 and 20 are coprime
d = 7 // 3.7 ≡ 1 (mod 20)
Question: Encrypt the message M=15?
c = me mod n = 153 mod 33 = 9
m = cd mod n = 97 mod 33 = 15
Hints: Using a MAC, anyone can repudiate a transaction because the key is shared between the two sides. However, using a digital signature, no one can repudiate a transaction because the private key can be owned by only one.
Using a private key to encrypt (thus signing) a message; anyone can check the signature using the public key. Validity depends on private key security.
C={M}Alice: encrypt message M with Alice's public key
M=[C]Alice: decrypt ciphertext C with Alice's private key
Using a private key to encrypt (thus signing) a message; anyone can check the signature using the public key. Validity depends on private key security.
Anyone can encrypt using the public key, but only the holder of the private key can decrypt. Secrecy depends on the secrecy of the private key.
By combining your own private key with the other user's public key, you can calculate a shared secret that only the two of you know. The shared secret can be used as the key for a symmetric cipher.


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Discussion in 'Mens Basketball' started by State43, Oct 26, 2013.
As if anyone didn't know already.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait........Some jerk from Kansas is calling the whole state of Iowa creepy?
Dude, you're in Kansas. Kansas. That place hasn't mattered since the 1880s, and even their famous person of that time left.
Iowa is creepy? Odd.
I don't get the idea of a poster that reminds us of those two games, either, but they are over the top. Crazy Internet.
Westboro means Kansas creepiness trumps any and all Iowa creepiness.
KU fans are the most myopic, delusional and arrogant fans in the entire sports world.
They have no idea that we're not outraged about the "no call", we were outraged about the phantom foul after the no call that was clearly there to fix the game for KU and gave KU a Big 12 title they did not deserve.
It was a charge, but we could have lived with a no call. We can't live with a no call, then fixing the game with a phantom foul. KU can suck my @$$ forever.
Well, that and the fact that the refs sucked so bad they didn't give Whithey his 5th when it was right in front of them.
I guess I agree with them on one thing: There are a few teams that I wouldn't mind running up the score against.
Well, maybe not a few. Mostly just one. That would be a sweet day filled with Jayhawk tears.
Being hated is good. People don't hate ****** basketball programs. You don't see a bunch of hate threads on there about TCU or TTU.
Just accept it for what it is, it comes with the territory of Fred turning this program around.
They should worry about just winning against ISU rather than running up the score. When the games aren't fixed we've pretty much played them even the past two seasons.
Gotta love that their main reason for disliking a team is that its fans don't accept the Big 12 being thrown to KU instead of KU just winning games for real.
We weren't their second favorite Big 12 program those years Jamaal Tinsley never lost a game to KU.
People who think driving though iowa is boring haven't driven through kansas.
Lived in Wichita for a year. They pronounce the Arkansas River "Are-Kansas" river. I tell them that nobody else in the nation pronounces it that way. The locals told me that the nation is pronouncing it wrong.
lol, what a bunch of suckas. Looks like we've gotten under their thin skin.
Pure. Class.
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You have to learn to ignore KU fans. They really enjoy whining and crying. That's who they are.
Don't want to get the mods involved in this, but is that gif a child twisting his or her nipples? Seems about right for KU, but maybe not appropriate for CF etiquette.
witnessing ISU beat KU in Allen Fieldhouse ----> a top 5 favorite ISU memory. For some reason, when it comes to bball, KU fans hate ISU bball, and I think that is good thing.
Wiggins needs to never know what a victory in Hilton feels like.
Yeah, we have waaaay to many opposing football fans come here and tell us ISU is their second fav team. Doubt that's true of OK State anymore and who can blame them, but the less saying that the better.
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Well, for me it definetely was the trip to Croatia last summer!
My friend called me up, and said: "Hey, you like to join us for a vacation trip to Croatia? By the way, we are leaving in an hour!".
What can I say... about an hour later they picked me up and we headed to Croatia. From my place, it's about 1000km, which takes about 11-12 hours with the car.
You have to go through Austria and Slovenia to get there. We left Germany at around 8pm and arrived down at Radac just in time to see the most wonderful sunrise.
When I was a kid, my parents used to go down to Croatia for vacation, which back then was Yugoslavia. Can you imagine a family going 1500km from North Rhine Westphalia to Split in southern Yugoslavia in a Volkswagen Beetle with a complete camping equipment? Well, those were the days in the late 60's!
Luckily, today we were able to ride down there in an airconditioned Volvo! ;-)
It was nice to be back in the country where my family used to go on vacation decades ago.
We rented an appartment up in the hills of Radac, a nice small town in the south east of Istria which is a county of Croatia.
Like so many beaches in Croatia, those in Rabac are peeble stone beaches. You get used to the stones, but you might consider to buy some special swimming shoes and a thick foam mat. After all, this way you don't have to deal with sand getting in every crack ;-)
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One of the best thing in this area is the food - fresh seafood that is! You'll love the fresh broiled calamari and all the other seafood! If you go up the hill to the next town Lapin to get some groceries at the Lidl supermarket, you definetely should visit the market downtown! They sell fresh fish and all sorts of fruit and vegetables.
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