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A class to begin next month in Carteret County will offer a view of elections from behind the ballot box.
A class to begin next month in Carteret County will offer a view of elections from behind the ballot box.
The Carteret County Board of Elections office is offering an Elections Process and Precinct Officials Certification Course in conjunction with Carteret Community College.
The course is open to local residents interested in learning more about the elections process or who may be interested in working at the polls during future elections.
Carteret County Elections Director Lindy Robinson teaches the five-week course, which the elections office started offering in 2006, and has held nine classes to date.
While poll workers are not required to be certified, Robinson said the course provides a more detailed look at the elections process and laws than the training they receive before each election. But you don�t have be a poll worker to take the class.
�A lot of our poll workers have signed up and completed the course, but we�re always excited to see new faces who are interested in learning more about the election process,� she said.
Robinson said the course open to residents in Carteret County as well as the surrounding area. Some information provided during the course is geared toward Carteret County, but much of the class is based on state election regulations.
Those interested in becoming a poll worker work in the county in which they are a registered voter.
Robinson said they have a full slate of precinct officials at this time but new poll workers are always needed to ensure there are always enough people to work each election.
The course will begin March 6 and be held on Thursday evenings from 5 until 8 through April 10. An exam is held at the end, and those who complete the class receive certification.
Robinson said they�d like to see all age groups involved.
�Just like many organizations in our community, the Board of Elections has benefited from civic-minded senior citizens willing to give of their time to work the polls year after year,� she said. �We�re hoping that other age groups will follow this example and work with us in upcoming elections.�
Whoever participates, the objective is the same.
�The goal is not just to have poll workers, but poll workers who have a working knowledge of election law,� she added. �This course will go a long way toward reaching that goal.�
The fee for the course is $70, which includes all instructional materials. The classes will be held at the Carteret County Board of Elections Office, which is located at 1702 Live Oak St. in Beaufort.
Pre-registration is required by calling 252-222-6200.
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The Holy Grail of communication technology
Imagine this: You're bringing in the last of your crop; the yield monitor is ticking away, counting each bushel as it flows to the grain wagon. This yield information is automatically downloaded to the personal data assistant (PDA) in your combine. Then as you walk into your office with your PDA in hand, the information is automatically synchronized with your docked, mobile PC and you haven't even touched a button.
That is what the designers of Bluetooth wireless technology say you can expect in just a few short years. Bluetooth is basically a tiny, short-range transceiver that will be embedded in each mobile device you own (from your yield monitor to your PC) to allow the devices to talk to one another and share information. The electronic components need to be within 30 ft. of each other. Bluetooth is expected to link anything that is electrical or has computer-based technology, including tractors, monitors, grain bins, laptops, cell phones, and even toasters and coffeepots.
Industry confidence is high: IBM (one of the company backers) claims it will not produce another computer that doesn't have a Bluetooth chip in it. Some experts expect that this technology, coupled with lasers and other devices, will allow each plant in your field to talk to Bluetooth, which will then talk to your computer, which will tell you what area of the field needs water.
Bluetooth technology was created in May 1998 by Ericsson, the Swedish mobile phone and network infrastructure company, American computer companies Intel and IBM, Finnish phone company Nokia, and Japanese electronics company Toshiba. Chip makers now include industry giants such as Microsoft, Lucent Technologies and Motorola. And more than 2,000 developers are building components with Bluetooth technology.
As with many introductions, expectations were higher than what has been delivered so far. The hope was to have the product ready to do amazing feats by this year. However, problems with power consumption, usability and price developed. And the technology proved more complicated than many supporting companies expected. Still, industry analysts expect that, in a short time, problems will be solved; components will become less expensive to produce; and in about three years, a billion Bluetooth devices will be on the market.
Should you worry about cell phone radiation?
The safety of cell phones has been a topic of debate in the media lately. After a guest on a popular late-night talk show claimed his wife's brain cancer was caused by the low-power radiation emitted by her cell phone, other cancer victims soon made similar claims. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) denied these allegations but also agreed to sponsor a six-year research program to investigate whether cell phones pose any health risk.
Recently, the CTIA passed a resolution requiring that all new CTIA-certified cell phones contain information about the phone's radio-wave levels or specific absorption rates (SAR). According to the CTIA, a cell phone's maximum SAR must be less than 1.6W/kg. Phones with the highest SARs and those with the lowest rates are as follows:
|Highest radiation cell phones
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|Ericsson T28 World
|Nokia 5170i
|Nokia Digital 5160
|Nokia 5170
|Lowest-radiation cell phones
|Motorola StarTAC 7860
|Qualcomm pdQ-1900
|Mitsubishi Trium Galaxy G-130
|Motorola TalkAbout 2297
|Motorola ST7797
|Motorola T8097
|Motorola P8097
Some experts recommend that children use mobile phones for emergency calls only. Evidence shows that a cell phone's electromagnetic field penetrates more deeply into a child's head than an adult's.
However, according to Scientific American, researchers also say the only proven danger from cell phones is that they lead to higher rates of traffic accidents when used while driving.
Never miss a call while surfing
Your callers won't get a busy signal while you are on the Internet when you use the Call Waiting Switch (CWS) from Internet Home Office Gadgets (HOGS).
The CWS notifies you of incoming calls when used with the call waiting tone from your current phone service. It works in two modes. In automatic mode, the CWS automatically disconnects you from the Internet and your phone will ring. You reconnect to the Web site you were viewing when you finish your conversation.
In manual mode, the CWS will beep to notify you of the incoming call. You have 0 to 30 sec. to talk before you are disconnected from the Internet. According to HOGS, it only takes 10 to 12 sec. to answer the phone and tell your caller you'll call him or her back.
The switch has a 30-day money-back guarantee and a 1-year warranty. Price: $100. Contact Internet HOGS, Dept. FIN, 277 Cty. Rd. 300 N., Sigel, IL 62462, 217/844-2414, www.internethogs.com or circle 194.
Electrical needs
New lines of Stanley extension cords, power strips and surge protectors will keep your shop tools, electrical appliances and computer hardware running safely.
Belkin Components, maker of the Stanley line, offers extension cords in five categories: contractor grade (has an oversized plug and a cord reel), general-purpose grade (for home or office use), outdoor grade, workshop grade and power tool grade.
The Stanley Power Protection line includes power strips and surge protectors and is available in four categories: general-purpose grade, computer grade, electronics grade and contractor grade. The contractor grade can be used almost anywhere and features hanging holes for storage, rubber outlet covers for extra safety and a system to wrap excess cord while storing. Prices range from $1.50 to $70. Contact Belkin Components, Dept. FIN, 501 W. Walnut St., Compton, CA 90220, 310/898-1100, www.belkin.com or circle 193.
New weather tools
MPower3 offers four new products to help you with crop planning.
The All-Raw Weather Data Chart includes precipitation, temperature, dew point and other basic weather parameters. It can be viewed and printed as a table or downloaded as a file. It provides the information you need to closely monitor soil moisture, irrigation needs and other crop conditions.
The Growing Degree Days Map shows degree-day trends throughout the country. You also can zero in on your region to decide if conditions are right for planting, disease or pest emergence/scouting, and other field management activities.
Hourly Regional Weather Graphics give the most up-to-date readings on winds, relative humidity, dew point, temperatures and heat index.
The Augmented North Dakota and Nebraska Weather Data use the WSI information available for these two states to provide extensive weather data for them. It also uses the hundreds of weather stations of WSI across the country to triangulate weather data specific to your field or acreage.
The company plans to add other regional weather data. Contact mPower3 , Dept. FIN, 4687 W. 18th, Greeley, CO 80634, 877/676-9373, www.mpower3.com or circle 192.

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Disney Cruise Line: A Cast Member in Training Part V
By Kim Button, ALL EARS® Guest Columnist
Feature Article
This article appeared in the August 14, 2007 Issue #412 of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753)
When most people dream about getting a job on a cruise ship and sailing the world, they imagine working onboard a ship while still being able to enjoy the freedoms and little luxuries of being a guest. They think, "Wouldn't it be nice to work as a waiter onboard, and get to explore Cozumel or Nassau during the day before heading to work for the rest of the night?" Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.
The most important difference between cruise line guests and crew members is the sheer frustration in just trying to disembark the ship. It's important to point out that this has nothing to do with the Disney Cruise Line itself. It's just the nature of the industry and a myriad of Customs rules. The DCL ships are absolutely beautiful, and I have to admit that the first time that I stepped onto the Wonder as a guest, I stood in awe in the lobby, trying to take it all in and wishing my time onboard could be longer so that I could enjoy every nook and cranny. However, when you rarely leave the ship for six months straight, your feelings start to change ever so slightly.
As a guest, you anxiously await the general disembarking announcement of each port day so that you can start walking down the gangway and begin exploring the port of call. Just because the ship is in a port of call, though, doesn't mean that the crew members will be disembarking, too.
When we were in ports during the sailing, such as Nassau, the crew were allowed to get off the ship along with everyone else. However, you actually needed the time to do it. Crew members' schedules are highly erratic and rarely are you given an eight-hour time span in which to work, like most jobs on dry land. You might be scheduled for work for an hour, with an hour break, and then work again for a couple of hours with 30 minutes off.
My team's daily schedules came in a tiny, pocket-sized Excel document. Each 24-hour day was sectioned off in 30-minute segments. I just about went blind trying to decipher which blocks of the column were shaded in for work and which were break times, because every single day we had a different schedule. The entire Cruise Staff team religiously walked around with an Excel document folded up in their back pocket because we never knew for certain where we were supposed to be at any given time in any day.
The thought of working for an hour or two and then having a break for a while sounds good in theory, until you try to execute it on a ship. You know how it can take up to 15-20 minutes to walk from your stateroom just to get some lunch? It's the same problem for crew members. So a 30-minute or hour break is quickly eaten up with travel time just to get back to your room or the crew mess.
With a schedule like that, it's nearly impossible to find the time to clear Customs getting off the ship, go somewhere, and then wait in line to get back onboard and report to duty on time in the appropriate costume. Other than leading shore excursions, I rarely ever got off the ship in the Bahamas because it was physically impossible. And you rarely, if ever, get a day off… for six months straight.
Though some crew members, such as the dining staff, had a more structured work schedule and were allowed half days off every now and then or large blocks of personal time, the Cruise Staff never had that luxury. With only six to eight people on staff at any time, we all worked 'round the clock. Typical days would start at 8 a.m. and not end until well after midnight, especially if you were hosting a deck party or acting as DJ for a club. We actually had staff meetings at 2 a.m., the only time when one of us wasn't working, so even if your work day ended at 10 p.m., you couldn't really get much sleep because you had to be in a meeting at 2 a.m.
We also had staff meetings while we were docked in Port Canaveral, the only time that we really had the opportunity to run errands, get a haircut or go to Wal-Mart. Though some other crew members had the luxury of being able to go into town all day while in our home port, the Cruise Staff always had to be back on the ship well before lunchtime, because we were all expected to be a part of the receiving line for newly embarking guests, as well as manning the Excursion Desk.
Though the Cruise Staff's schedules made it extremely difficult to find time to get off the ship in Port Canaveral, the Customs officials made it a crazy guessing game for all of the crew members. Any time we were in Port Canaveral, crew members could not just walk off the ship like the guests. We had to wait for "windows." These "windows" were pockets of time that Customs would allow crew members to disembark. The "windows" were never at the same time, might only occur every one to two hours, and there was never a specified amount of time that the "window" was open.
So, early every Thursday and Sunday (well before 7 a.m.), all of the crew members would start gathering anxiously in the elevator waiting area near the Infirmary, just outside of the crew disembarking point. Crew members were sitting on the floor, lying on the steps or standing up in a crowd of bodies who were desperately trying to get off the ship. No one knew when Customs would start scanning the first crew member ID and allowing you to get off the ship. When the process did start happening, there would be a rush of people pushing their way forward and trying to get through the security line, because sometimes Customs allowed the disembarking phase to last for 30-45 minutes, while sometimes they mysteriously closed it off after 15 minutes, possibly not to reopen for another three hours.
The "windows" situation was a source of high stress and exasperation for every crew member on board. You were never guaranteed the ability to get off of the ship to go buy some toothpaste or get a new pair of sneakers. It wasn't just for crew members working onboard the ship, though. Even DCL shore-side staff who came to the ship while it was in port to take care of some business would often become trapped onboard because of the "windows." The "windows" were finally discontinued in 2007, much to the enjoyment of every DCL crew member. Next time you sail, ask a crew member who has been around for more than a year about the crew "windows." You're sure to get some good horror stories.
Though there were many challenges in trying to disembark the Disney Wonder as a crew member, there were many reasons to stay onboard. Stay tuned for future articles and find out why pool parties were a crew member's source of sanity and how Disney Cruise Line guests make it all worthwhile.
Read Kim's first article in the series at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue389.htm
Part II is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue393.htm
Part III is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue398.htm
Part IV is at: http://allears.net/cruise/issue404.htm
Kimberly Button is the author of The Disney Queue Line Survival Guidebook.
Purchase Kim's book via: http://astore.amazon.com/debsunoffiwaltdi
Editor's Note: This story/information was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all current rates, information and other details before planning your trip.


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It took them a moment, but the Texans figured out that when the conditions are bad, and it's hard to throw the ball, maybe you should do something different.
Brilliant, I know.
With Arian Foster carrying the load, the Texans have plodded out to a 10-3 lead over the Bears at halftime of Sunday Night Football.
Foster has 17 carries for 85 yards, and caught a 2-yard touchdown pass.
That makes him the star of a first half which saw six combined turnovers (four for Bears, two for the Texans).
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has made some plays, but too many drops (including one by Brandon Marshall that could have been a touchdown) and two picks have the Bears struggling.


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System Rejects are an autonomous collective of techno artists and producers, an anarchist co-operative united through our passion for stomping techno music and our free-thinking nonconformism.
We will be releasing a series of limited run special edition 4 track EPs, exclusively on vinyl. Our releases will feature tracks from the very best of the UK's new wave acid/techno producers, international artists and stalwarts of the underground scene who share our punk ethos.
Each vinyl release will be strictly limited edition and there will be no release on any other format. System Rejects vinyl records will be exclusive collectors items and will be distributed only by the collective and our trusted partners.
We reject distributors, major labels, bland, generic, corporate entities, mass markets and government controlled industries. We reject the system. We are System Rejects.


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Overview:GeForce2 MX brings the power of NVIDIA's second-generation graphics processing units (GPU) to desktop PCs. The result is the same stunning visual experience PC users expect from NVIDIA GPUs. ??GeForce2 MX200 uniquely incorporates Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) which makes all images - including 2D 3D and video - brighter and crisper even on digital flat panels with the flexibility of the TwinView dual-display architecture. Based on the award-winning GeForce2 MX architecture this robust GPU includes advanced visual features such as hardware transform and lighting and per-pixel shading and provides GeForce2-level performance all at a mainstream price. This rich feature set combined with low cost truly makes the GeForce2 MX 200 a perfect choice.


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Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Accredited CEDR Mediator
PETER AEBERLI is a Canadian citizen, resident in the United Kingdom. He is a duly qualified Barrister and Architect and an experienced arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator. Apart from work as a barrister, his focus is dispute resolution principally, but not solely, in the construction industry. He has handled two and multi-party disputes. He is available for receives appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator by party agreement and from bodies such as the CIArb (including NHBC), the CIOB, the Construction Confederation, CEDR, AICA, the RIBA, the RICS, the ICE, the ICC, the LCIA and the Law Society. He has been asked by the ICDR (AAA) to chair a tribunal but had to decline for personal reasons. He is listed as an adjudicator on high value and prestigious projects including the London 2012 Adjudication Panel, Crossrail and BAA Terminal 5. He is listed on numerous panels including the FIDIC President's list of dispute adjudicators, the ICC Canadian National Committee Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators, the ICDR (AAA) panel of international arbitrators, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (USA) Roster of arbitrators and mediators and Engineers' Ireland panel of arbitrators.
Prior to reading law as a scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, Peter was a project architect with the Building Design Partnership, a large multi-disciplinary consultancy, and gained experience and understanding of the different skills, both professional and contracting, needed to realise complex construction projects, including hospitals, retail development and military installations. He has a good understanding of building technology being, for a number of years, a visiting lecturer in building construction at what is now Oxford Brooks University and starting a degree in Chemistry and Physics before changing to Architecture. He was, for a number of years in the mid 1990s a Joint Secretary of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT).
Disputes on which Peter has acted, have involved:
- Legal issues and contact interpretation.
- Development agreements.
- Technical and scientific issues, such as paint, roofing, cladding, corrosion, mechanical and electrical and structural defects.
- Infrastructure and civil and structural engineering disputes including concrete structures, piles, roads, bridges, power stations, airport runways, sewers and water treatment works.
- Environmental (including nuclear) issues.
- Marine equipment.
- Railways (infrastructure, computer equipment and rolling stock)
- Professional negligence.
- Delay and programming issues and disruption and delay costs.
- Quantity surveying issues including interim and final account valuation.
- High value/specification (up to £40 million at 2000 prices) residential properties.
- Commercial agency agreements
- International commercial disputes including ICC appointments (sole and chairman), LCIArb appointments (sole, presiding and wing arbitrator) UNCITRAL Rules and FIDIC dispute board.
Peter has served on committees concerned with arbitration, mediation and adjudication. He was one of the drafters of the Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules and was involved in consultations with the Government on the Scheme for Construction Contracts. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and was a member of the Commission Task Force on Reducing Time/Costs in complex arbitrations. He is a visiting senior lecturer at Kings College, London and sometime course director for the dispute resolution module of the MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution.


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IRVING, Texas (AP) Dallas Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins has been fined $7,875 for pushing Pierre Garcon to the ground well after the Washington receiver crossed the goal line on a 59-yard touchdown last week.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett confirmed Thursday that Jenkins was fined. Jenkins was penalized for unnecessary roughness for the shove on Garcon in the end zone during the Redskins' 38-31 victory on Thanksgiving.
The former first-round pick has seen limited playing time as the third cornerback behind Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne. He figures to be on the field more with nickel cornerback Orlando Scandrick injured.
Jenkins missed training camp and the season opener after offseason shoulder surgery, and complained about not getting a new contract. He's in the final year of his rookie deal.


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Consumers Could Soon Pay a Fee on Credit Card Transactions — Dollars and Sense
Current laws prohibit merchants from adding surcharges to credit card transactions, even though the merchants themselves are dinged with fees for accepting the cards.
But thanks to a lawsuit brought by retailers against card-issuers, all that could soon change.
In the past seven years, more than 50 such suits have been filed alleging that credit card providers have long conspired to collude on swipe fees. They say that collusion effectively removed any competition from the market and resulted in exorbitant fees the merchants have been barred from passing on to consumers.
Many analysts now believe the settlements will result in, among other things, a permanent removal of the ban on surcharges — which means that unless you live in one of the 10 states that forbids them, you'll be slapped with a fee every time you use a credit card for a purchase.


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2006 Senior National Taekwondo ChampionshipsCleveland, OhioNovember 3-5, 2006Day One - Friday, November 3, 2006Great job today. Master Keller:**4th Dan Lightweight Poomse - Gold Medal!**Bantamweight Sparring - Great try, but no medal!Miss Julie Wilson:**2nd Dan Heavyweight Poomse - Bronze Medal!**Heavyweight Sparring - Great hustle, especially round 3Mrs. Julia Smith:**2nd Dan Heavyweight Poomse - No Medal, next time!**Lightweight Sparring - Injuried and unable to competeMrs. Jessica Morphis:**Green Belt Heavyweight Sparring - Gold Medal!**Heavyweight Sparring - Silver Medal!Day Two - Saturday, November 4, 2006No competitors today. Day Three - Sunday, November 5, 2006We added even more medals to our medal count! Awesome!Master Morrison:**5th Dan Heavyweight Poomse - Gold Medal!Junior Master Smith:**4th Dan Heavyweight Poomse - Silver Medal!Mr. Mike Brunke:**3rd Dan Heavyweight Poomse - Bronze Medal!**Middleweight sparring - Great job - would have been even better with a competent referee!Mrs Mimi Morrison:**2nd Dan Lightweight Poomse - Gold Medal!Mr. Rick Bloom:**Red Belt Heavyweight Poomse - Gold Medal!**Lightheavyweight Sparring - Silver Medal!Mrs. Sarah Johanson:**Yellow Belt Heavyweight Poomse - Gold Medal!**Lightweight Sparring - Gold Medal!Totals: Gold - 7Silver - 3Bronze - 2


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There's a chicken war brewing between the big fast food chains.
Now, Mighty Wings — McDonald's version of bone-in chicken wings — have appeared at select stores in Atlanta, reports Scott Hume at Burger Business.
" This is purely an item that restaurants in Atlanta are testing," a McDonald's spokesperson told the Huffington Post. "There are no plans to roll these out nationally. This local market test reflects our desire to meet customer needs on a local level."
McDonald's used to sell the wings in the U.S. back in the 1990s, but discontinued them in 2003. The National Chicken Council even says that the Mighty Wings are a big reason chicken wings are so popular today.
The wings were sold last year in Australia, re-branded as Chicken McWings. They're currently on the menu in Spain as Alitas de Pollo (which means "chicken wings").
If, one day, it does go national, McDonald's would be crossing an important line. Burger chains can push chicken sandwiches all day long, but what chicken chains like KFC and Popeye's care about most are their core, bone-in items.


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I received a note from Chuck Pyle shortly after Searle's death:
"As archivist of our illustrated world, I was hoping that you might be able to pop up a post on Ronald Searle, who just passed away. One of my great heroes. There is a BIG hole in the fabric with his loss."
How true. No doubt hundreds, perhaps thousands of artists and certainly many millions of fans worldwide, who have been touched by Searle's work, are saddened by the loss of this brilliant and prolific creator.
A quick search on Flickr turns up hundreds of scans of Searle's work, many from publications and books long out of print - all of them wonderful and inspiring.
To that collection, I have added a few more, presented here today for your viewing pleasure.
Searle had no bigger fan than Matt Jones, a story artist at Disney, who has created an extensive Ronald Searle blog site.
His touching tribute to Searle contains links to many obituaries for the artist from major media outlets.


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For outdoor adventure visit Lake Taupo & National Park -
For outdoor adventures such as fishing, hiking and skiing Lake Taupo & National Park has it all!
Volcanic activity has had a great part to play in shaping the central North Island; from the great volcanic crater Lake Taupo to the magnificent Tongariro National Park; a World Heritage Area. Try your hand at trout fishing in some of the clearest pristine waters in the world or challenge yourself on the famous Tongariro crossing walk. If outdoor adventure is for you then you'll be right at home here!
If you're visiting the region in March don't miss the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Iron Man New Zealand Competition.
Did you know?
Aratiatia Rapids come to life several times a day when the dam gates of the Waikato River are opened. Within 5 minutes, this turns a dry gorge into a magnificent waterfall before your eyes. There are several vantage points and scenic two-hour hiking/biking trail between Huka Falls and the Rapids with stunning views of the Waikato.


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Welcome to Grace Hospital
Welcome to Grace Hospital. We are a 262-bed acute care facility located in the west end of Winnipeg. As our patient, we see you as a person first. You are unique and special, and your health care needs are equally unique and special. Our job is to address those needs as effectively as possible.
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Christmas drive through at the Welland Brethren in Christ Church
Contact Information:BIC Church Welland (check their web site)
Internet: http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/BICC_drive_trough01.html
Description:The Welland Brethren in Christ Church celebrates since a few years the birth of our savior on their parking lot with a drive through. Volunteers show scenes related to this great event. No fee is charged and even a free CD is handed out which guides you through the different live displays.
A visit to the Christian Camp Kahquah in Magnetawan, Ontario
Contact Information:Camp Kahquah, 1230A Nipissing Rd, RR#1, Magnetawan, ON, P0A 1P0, Tel: 705-387-3923, Fax: 705-387-0045
Internet: http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/camp_kahquah01.html
Description:After a severe surgery Elizabeth, my wife, went with a friend from our "Brethren in Christ Church" to Camp Kahquah in beautiful Magnetawan for recovery. The brief program was called "Indian Summer Retreat".
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
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Internet: http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/sainte_marie_1ca.htm
Description:Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France as Canada was called at that time, considered Christianizing as essential for a colonization. Only few Europeans had settled at this time in what we call today Canada and I learned that this was the first settlement in today's Ontario. For that reason Champlain supported the French Jesuits when they started to built a mission station in 1639 on the banks of the Wye River. It was called "Sainte-Marie among the Hurons". Hurons was the name which the French used for the Wendat nation.


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Kris Martin
Festum II
An exhibition organized by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, curated by Jasper Sharp
The second in a new series of exhibitions at the recently re-opened Theseus Temple is an unconventional floorbased installation by Belgian artist Kris Martin:Thousands of tiny bronze discs, daylight bouncing off their polished surfaces, cover the temple's floor. They remind us of the paper confetti that is traditionally thrown at weddings, parades or other moments of collective celebration – brief, ecstatic moments, after which it is then left to be trodden underfoot and slowly, poignantly disintegrate. The artwork's ephemeral, constantly shifting appearance is contradicted by the solidity and permanence of its material. The artwork is titled "Festum", after the Latin word for "festival". Placing it within a classical temple, a building synonymous with religious and spiritual activities, with prayer, sacrifice, and votive offerings to the Gods, adds another layer of possible readings to the work.
In his artistic practice, Kris Martin employs humour and an almost childlike simplicity to explore the uncertainty of the human condition, the passing of time, and our relationship with ideas of faith. As we walk through "Festum", we are invited to consider the ambiguity of celebration, and how it embodies our attitudes to both life and death.
Biography Kris Martin
Kris Martin was born in Kortrijk, Belgium, in 1972, and now lives and works based in Ghent, Belgium. His work is currently the subject of a major survey exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, having previously been shown at Kunstmuseum Bonn. He has had solo exhibitions at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, MoMA PS1, New York; and the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen.
His work has also been shown in several group exhibitions, including Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2011); Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Commercial Break, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part I, Saatchi Gallery, London (2011); Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (2010); Touched, Liverpool Biennial (2010); Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2007); Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (2007); and Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2006).
This exhibition is Kris Martin's first solo exhibition in Austria.
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- Athletes sport patriotic nail art at 2012 London Olympics
- Fans watching the games from afar emulate trend with their own DIY creations
- Enthusiasts say nail art is fun way to support athletes, feel connection to games
Not since the days of American track star Florence Griffith Joyner has nail art been front and center as an Olympic style trend like it is at the 2012 London Olympics. Athletes are showing their competitive spirit through flag-decorated nails and colors meant to mimic the medals they aim to win.
But these special motifs aren't just for Olympians.
Samantha Tremlin is one of many nail art fans getting into the spirit of the 2012 London Olympics with funky fingertips. She wasn't crazy about the Olympics before the summer games came to her country this year. But since then, the manicure fanatic who goes by "the Nailasaurus" has been honing her technique of recreating tiny Union Jack designs.
"Nail art is a hobby of mine, so as the Olympics are quite a big event and being held in my home country this year, I thought I would show some support for Team Great Britain!" said the 21-year-old Cardiff, Wales, resident, who shared her handiwork on CNN iReport.
"This year it's very close to home. It feels as though the games have united every single person in the country with all excitement and pride we're feeling."
From swimmers Missy Franklin and Rebecca Addlington to archers, cyclists and weightlifters, athletes everywhere are sporting patriotic nail decor at the games, thanks in part to British "nail queen" Sophy Robson, whose team of nail artists is providing services to athletes and their guests in "grooming salons" in the Olympic Village.
"It was such fun working with the athletes," said Robson, who designed a menu of 207 country flags to choose from in a partnership with corporate sponsor P&G. "There are no egos involved and they are just excited to have something represent their country on their nails."
Even if you're not in London or Europe, participating in the nail art trend connects viewers to the revelry, celebrity nail technician Deborah Lippmann said.
"It's a way that everyone can feel like they're a part of the experience in a supportive way, no matter where you are," said Lippman, whose eponymous nail polish brand is sold worldwide.
It's not as permanent as a haircut and having 10 fingers means the opportunity to sport various themes, with one finger dedicated to the American flag in support of country and the other to Usain Bolt because he's just that cool.
The appeal for fans is probably the same as it is for athletes: you can show off your patriotism without saying a word, said Lisa Bailey, the blogger behind the DIY resource Nail Art 101.
"Nail art can have the stigma of being for "prissy" girls or girls who are afraid to get down and dirty," Bailey said. "These women are showing that you can have hot nails and still break world records! It's no longer just for princesses and rich girls."
Da-Hae West, 25, is from South Korea, but she lives in London. She wrote "Republic of Korea" in Korean on her nails, accompanied by the national flag.
"It's a small way to show my support!" she said in an iReport.
Allison Fitzpatrick of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been experimenting with nail art for about two years as a way to "spice up the average manicure," the 29-year-old said in an iReport. It's also a great way to feel connected to the games, especially since athletes are also wearing nail art, she said.
"With the Olympics being such an inspiring event I wanted to be able to add some of that inspiration to my everyday life," she said.
"Whether the design is the iconic Olympic rings, the Union Jack to celebrate the host city or a recreation of gold medalist Missy Franklin's patriotic nails, nail art is a fun and creative way to show support for the athletes right here at home."
With the home-court advantage, the Brits probably claim the most enthusiastic Olympic-themed nail art. Plus, there's a lot of room to play around with the Union Jack, as nail art enthusiast Jenny Pasha of London demonstrated with her gold studded set of nails.
"I wanted to create a set of nails that were unique and showed off my support for Team GB," said Pasha, who documents nail art inspiration on her blog.
"I have done Union flag nails many times in the past, but for the Olympics everyone's goal is to go for a gold medal, so I decided to do an all gold set of nails," she said. "I am very proud to have the Olympics in my hometown and I love to show my pride through my nail art!"


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Monday, November 26, 2007
First there is the irony of a Zionist lecturing us about democracy. We often hear the preposterous claim that Israel should be defended because it is 'the only democracy in the Middle East,' when in fact it is an ethno-democracy or an apartheid democracy. Israeli state apparatus rules over a population equally split between Jews and Arabs. The 'Arab Israelis' are at best second class citizens, disadvantaged and under threat of transfer. (There are 20 laws which discriminate against the Arab Israeli minority. For more information visit http://www.adalah.org/eng/index.php) The oppressed Arabs of the occupied West Bank and Gaza only have voting rights in a non-existent state. And this vaunted state of human freedom is possible because most of the indigenous inhabitants of Israel-Palestine have been driven into exile. Establishing a state for the Jews in an Arab country and then calling it a democracy has been one of the blackest jokes of modern history.
Beyond that there are the pervasive Western assumptions that the current system of government in the United States is the model and endpoint of human freedom, that it must be universally applied, and that it is the only form of human organisation of any value. Democracy is good and civilised; anything else is evil and barbaric. These are some of the assumptions responsible for the tragedy in Iraq, and they underly a great deal of nonsense in the global (still West-dominated) media.
The notion that only democracies can offer people the freedom to excel is simply absurd. Elizabethan England, Islamic Spain, the Roman Empire, and the Sumerian city states were not democracies. The Old Testament prophets, the Buddha, Shakespeare and Tolstoy were not produced by democracies.
The original democracy of Athens was not particularly democratic because slaves and women played no role in decision-making. However, given that 'people' was defined as 'free men', there was 'rule by the people' in that decisions were made collectively following a debate contributed to by everybody. Athens and similar Greek cities were small enough that every free male, or at least every head of household, could meet in the theatre to argue and make suggestions.
Tribal shura (consultation) in premodern Beduin societies approached this pure democracy, as did some workers' councils, for a month or two, in revolutionary Russia, Italy and elsewhere. But such direct popular contribution to decision-making is obviously an impossibility in complex modern states made up of millions of diverse individuals. 'Democracy' is reduced to 'representation', and this in practice means putting a mark on a piece of paper every four, five or seven years. It is a testament to the power of ruling ideology that some people leave the voting booth feeling that their pencil mark has altered their nation's destiny.
Now let us briefly examine what is called democracy by the nation that wants to export it as the final, finished product of human history. In the United States the most important positions except for the presidency are held by unelected officials. National security advisers, military strategists, financial planners and supreme court judges are all appointees. Condoleeza Rice, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger never had to stand for election.
Those who do stand are selected more for their physical characteristics and acting skills than for their ideas and experience. Fundraising is more important than winning debates. Hysterical rallies, with rock music soundtracks and plenty of balloons, and the ability of a campaign team to associate their candidate with a fairytale grand narrative like 'manifest destiny' or 'defeating evil' count for more than detailed discussion of the real world. Elections are a spectacle to dazzle the people, those gullible enough to take them seriously. Such democracy, like anything else in this form of late capitalism, is a product to be consumed. Thomas Jefferson said, "No people can be both ignorant and free," and the mass of the American population is kept ignorant by the combined efforts of the media and the public education system. Famously, a majority of Americans believed that Saddam Hussain was responsible for the September 11th attacks. The fact that American heads are crammed with celebrity gossip, TV plots and brand names ensures a system in which the scum rises to the top.
The corporations own the two political parties, the presidential candidates, and the big TV stations and newspapers that cover them. This is not surprising. It would be naïve to expect the corporations to leave the world's largest economy and military complex in the hands of the people. As in other 'first world' countries the range of debate is severely limited. A propagandistic consensus has been manufactured (to paraphrase Chomsky) on the economy (a 'free market' which is actually corporate controlled) and 'security.' Anyone who points beyond the limits of acceptable discourse is mocked or, more effectively, ignored. The result, as my grandfather used to say, is that whoever you vote for, the government always wins.
As soon as there is the possibility of any real change, or any real threat, 'democracy' shows its teeth. When the Black Panthers started to take their constitutional right to bear arms seriously, and to make links between the position of Blacks in America and that of other oppressed groups throughout the world, the state resorted to violent repression. I don't accept the Syrian regime's excuse for emergency rule – that the country is under attack – but the excuse does stand up better in Syria, with the Golan occupied and America and Israel threatening further war, with war on the eastern and south-western borders and chronic instability to the west, than it does in the United States. There it took one day of explosions for detention without trial and torture to be normalised, and for the Patriot Act to be 'democratically' passed by Congress. This awards the American government the freedom to read its citizens' emails and keep files on which library books they consult.
More than 7 million Americans are in prison, on probation or on parole, a greater proportion of people than in any other country, and a disproportionate number of incarcerated people are poor and black. Blacks made up 45% of the prison population in 2002. More young black men experience prison than experience college. The American democracy seems to function as well for Black Americans as the Israeli democracy functions for Arab Israelis. If China or Saudi Arabia imprisoned similar numbers of an ethnic minority the Western media would rightly call it persecution.
Surely we need to step back from the word 'democracy' and examine the more meaningful concepts of law and rights. If a nation votes to invade another country, or to eradicate the Gypsies, must we regard its democratic choice as lawful?
We need to subscribe to the idea that people, and families, and communities, and nations, have the right not to be interfered with. The mirage of democracy obscures this bedrock of lawfulness.
We need also to establish as a principle of international relations that systems of government are not universally applicable, and that nations must be free to develop their own governments according to their own circumstances. In countries where loyalty to the official bureaucratic state identity is weak (which may not be a bad thing) people will feel loyalty primarily to their tribe, sect or ethnicity. In such countries, democracy in the Western sense may not be a wise idea. Sri Lanka, for instance, has always been populated by Tamil and Sinhala communities. When the modern state inherited 'majority rule' from the British, the more numerous Sinhalese defined the country as a Sinhalese homeland. Alienated Tamils became secessionist, and years of bloody war ensued. It would have been better to allow both communities to build institutions, to have a large degree of autonomy, and to coexist in a borderless island.
What we call 'democracy' exists most comfortably in nation states which have popular legitimacy and internal consistency, in which issues of tribe and sect have been settled. In most cases this has been achieved at the end of a long process of civil war and ethnic cleansing. America passed through the genocide of its indigenous inhabitants, revolutionary war, slavery, civil war, and the civil rights movement to reach its present imperfect state.
Democracy functioned – with severe hiccups – in Syria until the United Arab Republic, but this unwise and unequal union with Nasser's dictatorship was at first wildly popular in Syria, precisely because 'Syria' in its reduced and mangled post-colonial form lacked legitimacy in the eyes of its own people.
This is not to say that democracy is not an admirable aim. I wish America really supported Middle Eastern democracy as it claims. If it did, it would have to talk to Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers, shut down its military bases in the region, switch its favour from the Saud monarchs to the Iranian parliament, and so on. Greater informed control of the people over the political process, the economy and the environment is desirable in every country of the world, and most crucially in what is still for a while the world's most powerful country, America.
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13 comments:
- pucman said...
Thanks for your comments on the facile nature of practiced 'democracy' in the world today: the yoke of poor government may be the single quality that links all humanity most strongly. As with 'communism', another admirable idea that never played out as more than a bad joke, 'deomcracy' is a good idea still waiting to be manifested. Practised deomocracy was a joke when Jefferson espoused its virtues while owning slaves, and it remains a joke today when the West exports its need for slave labour to the 'developing' world while professing universal brotherhood at home.
That being said, it ought to remembered that voting is only a part of the democractic process/structure: the bulk of the weight of justice is carried, or ought to be carried, by a nation's constitution. To the extent that 'scum' are allowed to rise to the top and corporate interests are allowed to distort the voting and decision-making processes, it is only because the constitution and/or judiciary are too weak to prevent such miscarriages.
Constitutional reform and strengthening ought to be the primary goal of anyone interested in the ideal of democracy. The right constitutional ammendment, for example, would take care of corporate influence-peddling with the stroke of a pen.
Constitutions are humanity's only alternative to giving ultimate authority to corruptible individuals (monarchies, theocracies) and are, I believe, a universal human need, as yet unfulfilled, whether one be Tamil, Syrian, or American.
Perhaps we can find the seeds of true brotherhood by learning to recognize our common, unsatisfied, need for justice.
- qunfuz said...
Pucman - I find your emphasis on constitution-strengthening to be very useful. I think you've come close to the central issue. However, I think we need more than a stroke of a pen. The US has a fine constitution, but it is regularly ignored by the government, and the mass of the people are ignorant of this. How can we strengthen constitutions? In other words, how can we make people more aware of the importance of constitutionality, and how can we restrain corporate and other interests from taking control?
qunfuz: You claim that Israel is "ethno-democracy or an apartheid democracy", because of its treatment of israeli arabs. On what grounds do you base these severe accusations?
Please note that I'm not denying that there exists some level of discrimination against them, but this happens in every country that has a minority and these countries are not considered to be "apartheid democracies".
Israeli arabs have the right to vote and there are many arab-representing parties in the knesset. 10% of the members of the knesset are arabic. They enjoy exactly the same rights and duties as every other israli citizen, the only thing that seperates them from jews is that they don't have to do service in the army, which can be seen as a privilege (since they're allowed to serve voluntarily).
I would argue that arabs in Israel are by far better off than arabs in Israels neighbouring countries, where they are denied essential human rights and have to live under cruel dictators.
Again, I'm not denying that there is discrimination, but this topic is openly discussed and debated inside Israel, by both jews and arabs. Israeli courts have often ruled against the government to protect against discrimination.
In my opinion, if you really care about the wealth and freedom of the arabics and muslims, you should be more eager to criticize the states that discriminates them the most by denying them basic human rights and not (primarily) Israel.
You also said that israeli arabs live under "the threat of transfer". Again, where's the evidence for this? Yes, after the Israeli independence war, there was a kind of martial law applied to them, but remember, many of the arabs attacked Israeli forces during the war. Since 1966 however, there's not a single one of these restrictions in place.
- qunfuz said...
Henning - forgive me once again if I dont respond to your comment in the detail it deserves. I've spent a long time today responding to comments on the 'You Muslims!' thread, and I have children and a job! In brief, however:
1. I do complain about the abuse of Arabs and minority groups in Arab countries as well as in Israel.
2. I was referring not just to the Arab Israelis, but (even more) to the occupied Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, who suffer direct or indirect israeli rule but who cannot vote in Israeli elections.
3. True Arab Israelis have almost 10% of seats in the knesset, but they are more than 20% of the population. Their most basic problem is that they live in a state which is not defined as a state of its citizens, but as a state for all the Jews of the world. They are non-Jews in a Jewish state. I think states should serve the people who l;ive in them, and shouldnt be Jewish staes, Islamic states, or whatever. I also oppose Saudi Arabia for being (supposedly) an Islamic state - but at least the population who live there come from there. Israeli Jews are recent immigrants who drove out most of the population of Palestine and who treat those remaining as second class citizens. The Arab Israelis are nort recent immigrants. They live on the land they have lived on continuously for millenia, but often not in the same villages. In most cases they have lost their original homes and land to Israeli colonists, and live on poorer land and in poor areas which receive a proportionately much lower state investment in terms of services and returns for taxes. The Israeli Arabs are frequently described as a demographic problem, nost recently by the Israeli foreign Minister. Government ministers like Lieberman openly talk of transfer. For more on this subject I strongly recommend the book "Blood and Religion" by Jonathan Cook, as well as articles in al-Ahram weekly and elsewhere by the Arab Israeli intellectual, and member of the knesset before he was forced into exile, Azmi Bishara.
qunfuz: Thank you for your answer, I appreciate that you take the time to discuss these topics.
If you base your claims of apartheid on the fact that Israel doesn't treat palestinians living in the occupied territories as equal as israelian citizens, I think you're missing an important point: These palestinians don't want to live in Israel, they want their own state. They are even willing to elect terroristic organizations that deny Israel's right to exist at all (Hamas). Israel would only be able to treat them as citizens if they would annex the west bank and gaza, which neither they (at least the majority of them) nor the palestinians want.
It is unfortunatly that the palestinians are not yet able to live in their own state and elect their own parliament, but this is an issue that can by no means be blamed on Israel alone, as nearly all of Israels neighbouring regimes profitize politically from the suffering of the palestinian people and their political leaders are often unwilling to compromise.
I agree with you that Israel is a bit biased towards jews as it considers itself a refugee for jews worldwide. I think it should be discussed if that special state-definition is still as needed as it was when Israel was an asylum for jews who were slaughtered all over europe. But I also can see why this is a sensible issue for many israelis, because of the feeling they have, that no one in the world will help them if they would be slaughtered again.
Concerning the 20% population vs. 10% representation issue: I would ask back, how do you explain this? Clearly, arabs are not denied their right to vote. Couldn't it be that some of them see their interests represented enough by non-arabs?
Concerning the demographic problem: This is nothing special to Israel. Many politicans in many countries have the fear that a growing minority could someday become a majority, thus threatening the culture of the current majority. In the US, it is for example feared, that the hispanic minority becomes a majority someday. These fears are of course often a symptom of xenophobia, which is equally distributed among the inhabitants of this planet. Such statements must clearly be rejected and I'm sure many israelis don't agree with them.
You also made me aware of the arabic israeli Azmi Bishara. I've read some of his stuff and he's making some valid points, namely about economical differences between arabs and jews and the idea of "a state for jews". But your claim that he was "forced into exile" is clearly exaggerated: He's facing allegations of providing hezbollah with insider informations during the lebanon war, for which they seem to have good evidences.
He decided to flee the country instead of facing these allegations, that is not exactly "forcing".
Concerning Liebermann: He's certainly an idiot beyond scale, but to suggest that he wants to transfer arabs forcibly to palestine is at best exaggerated. As far as I've read about his plan, it's an idea for exchanging territories between (the to be created) Palestine and Israel, whereby Israel gets territories populated many by jews and vis-versa. Correct me, if that turns out to be wrong.
- qunfuz said...
Henning -
This is from the Wikipedia entry on Bishara: "Bishara addressed a rally of supporters in Nazareth via telephone in April 2007. He told the thousands of supporters that, "My guilt is that I love my homeland... our intellect and our words are our weapons. Never in my life did I draw a gun or kill anyone." Said Nafa, Bishara's replacement in the Knesset, commented on the charges leading up to Bishara's resignation, saying "There were many instances in which the Shin Bet tried to set people up ... They're just trying to behead a prominent Arab leader. They will fail.""
Bishara did not have access to secret military information. He was previously accused of being a traitor to the state of Israel because he openly supported Hizbullah politically and morally – as do I and very many lovers of freedom, liberal and secular and Christian as well as Muslim. There were also attempts to ban his political party because it threatened the Jewish nature of Israel, in other words because it challenged the Zionist nature of the state.
I (and a very small minority of Israelis) believe that Israel has no future as a zionist state. This is not the same as saying that the Jews should be driven into the sea. Although they arrived as colonists and ethnic cleansers, the Jews have lived in Palestine for long enough to belong to the place. I look forward to the day when they live as equals with their Muslim and Christian neighbours, the original inhabitants of the land, in a democratic state. I think it would be reasonable to include in the constitution of this state guarantees to protect individual and communal Jewish rights, given a justified fear that an Arab majority in the future may seek to snuff out these rights.
If Israel were a democratic secular state for its citizens, then the Palestinians would want to be part of it. They don't want to be part of the apartheid state that currently exists. Please spare me the 'terrorist' nonsense. Hamas has killed civilians, and Israel has killed civilians. Israel has killed far more than Hamas has. Hamas has on several occasions recognised that Israel, of course, exists, and has made very clear its willingness to make the conflict 'cultural' once there is an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 line. It does not accept Israel's right to exist, and neither do I, because Israel is a Jewish state on stolen Arab land. If in the future Israel becomes a state for its citizens it will have the right to expect Hamas to recognise it.
If you look for my post called Palestines, you will see more of my opinions on Hamas.
Your statement that neighbouring regimes are unwilling to compromise is not based on reality but on the propaganda you read. Decades ago the Palestinian leadership made the huge and historic compromise of recognising that 78% of their land would be a Jewish state. (I don't accept the two state solution, but the Arab states all do, and I think it could be a useful intermediate stage to build confidence and soothe wounds until a democratic single state could be negotiated). Most Arab states are already cravenly at peace with Israel, sadly. Syria is interested in full peace. The Saudi initiative, supported by every Arab state, states clearly that there will be full peace in return for an Israeli withdrawal to the 67 line.
This is from the Wikipedia entry on Lieberman: "In May 2004, he said that 90 percent of Israel's one million Arabs would "have to find a new Arab entity" in which to live beyond Israel's borders. "They have no place here. They can take their bundles and get lost," he said."
Your analogy with 'growing minorities' in other countries is not a good analogy. Arab Israelis are not immigrants. They are the fragment of Palestinian society that were not ethnically cleansed in 47/48. They are the original inhabitants of the land.
qunfuz: I'm sorry that I have to say this, but I think your views on Hamas are seriously distorted.
1. By saying that Hamas recognizes that Israel exists, you're almost twisting the meaning of words. Of course Hamas knows that Israel exists. But the only way that Hamas will allow Israel to exist is when it is ruled by muslims and all jews are killed or pay protection tax. Look it up in their charter, part III, article 11: "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it. [...]".
Hamas is not willing to allow a secular state with a jewish majority, that's a fact that can't be talked away.
2. Hamas is a terroristic organization, even you don't argue with this. By stating that Israel has killed a lot of civilians, you're basically saying that Israel's actions are equal to blowing yourself up in crowds of civilians (which Hamas openly supports). No action the IDF has ever commited comes close to the level of cruelty that Hamas has exercised and continues to exercise.
The only reason why Hamas hasn't killed even more civilians is because Israel isn't very keen on allowing this to happen. If Hamas had it their way, they would kill every jew that opposes their vision of islamic theocracy.
I must say I find it really sad to hear such a statement from someone who really should know better.
To further explain my point about Israels neighbours profitizing from the suffering of palestinians: All these states have done little to nothing to get them out of refugee-camps and provide them with a real future. They keep them suffering for political motives, namely pressing Israel to allow them to come back. The only notable exception from this is jordan, the only country that allowed palestinians to become citizens. Jordan is also the only neighbour (along with egypt) being really at peace with Israel. I find it disturbing that you seem to prefer a formal state war, just because you don't like the political system in Israel. Should countries also formally declare war on Iran or Saudi Arabia, because they consider themselves "islamic republic/monarchy"?
- qunfuz said...
Henning, it's clear you're a full-on Zionist. You believe that it is justified for outsiders to come into a country (perhaps not your country, but Palestine, I don't know), to drive out most of the original inhabitants, and to establish a state for all people belonging to those outsiders' ethnicity. That it is then justified for this state to occupy the remaining fragments of the land they have destroyed. I disagree. I believe that the original inhabitants of Palestine have the right to resist their dispossession. The Palestinians have tried passive resistance, and they have been mown down. They have tried appealing to the principles of international law, and they have been ignored. They have tried guerrilla warfare, and even suicide bombings. At the moment suicide bombings are not happening, partly because of the Israeli wall, mass arrests and so on, partly because the resistance leaderships have made a political decision to hold off. At the moment the resistance uses missiles and unarmed demonstrations. The means change, the struggle continues, and will continue, whether you like it or not.
I find your statement that the Israelis have not done anything as cruel as suicide bombing to be quite ridiculous. Forget for a moment the ethnic cleansing of 47 and 48, the village massacres and so on. Forget the tens of thousands murdered in Lebanon. Forget Sabra and Shatila. Forget the 'punitive raids' in Jordan and the murder of Egyptian Prisoners of War. Let's just focus on the occupation of the lands captured in 67. 3 and a half million Palestinian civilians suffer grievously every day from this criminal illegal occupation, and have done for 40 YEARS. I wont condemn Palestinian suicide bombing, but even if I did, I would say a 40 year occupation is guaranteed to create it. Pregnant women give birth at checkpoints. Heart attack victims die in ambulances held up by Israeli occupation troops. Farmers are cut off from their land. Olive orchards are destroyed. Sonic booms smash the glass in windows so that more than 90% of children are traumatised. Thousands of civilians are murdered, including children playing football and women standing on their balconies. A majority of the dead are killed by sniper fire to the head and upper body. In other words, the killing is clearly deliberate. Homes are bulldozed with disabled people still inside them. Massive bombs are dropped on residential buildings in the middle of the night.
Are you joking, or are you just sick?
I can't agree that the violence perpetrated by people in uniforms pressing buttons, people using the most grotesque of arsenals that modern science can produce, people who are occupiers and ethnic cleansers, is somehow more noble and clean than the violence perpetrated by the occupied using their own bodies as weapon delivery systems.
As for Hamas's charter: they understandably believe that Palestine belongs to Islam because the majority of Palestinians are Muslims. I'm not an Islamist and I dont wholly subscribe to this point of view. I think that in the event of an equitable settlement the vast majority of Palestinians will not support this point of view either. However, the important thing here is just how Hamas intends to get it way. Hamas has clearly said that it will fight until there is a withdrawal to the 67 line. After that, the conflict will become cultural. In other words, they will try to convert the Jews to Islam, peacefully. If the Jews dont convert - and I dont expect they will - Hamas will not attack them. This is very similar to the position of Sinn Fein/the IRA in Northern Ireland. The IRA still believes that Ireland should be a united socialist stae, and they will believe this until the end of time. But they have agreed to stop fighting and to express their desires and beliefs by peaceful political means. The situation in Ireland and Britain is immeasurably better given that all sides have agreed to deal with the IRA on this basis.
My brother-in-law is a Palestinian who grew up in Syria, as are many of my friends. Palestinians are not Syrian citizens, true, and the vast majority do not want to be. But they can live where they want, own businesses, are respected and valuable members of society. You repeat the point about Arab regimes using Palestinians to keep the war going and thereby ignore what I pointed out earlier - that all Arab states have signed up to the Saudi peace plan. All Arab states have stated repeatedly that they want full peace with Israel.
Your analogies with Iran and Saudi Arabia do not work. Both countries have faults. Personally, I particularly despise the regime in Saudi Arabia (see my post The Horns of Satan). But neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran hold as many political prisoners as Israel. Neither occupies territory belonging to its neighbours. Neither violates tens of United Nations resolutions. Neither has started wars (though Saudi Arabia has collaborated in many of America's wars in the region). And, crucially, neither exists as a result of a comprehensive ethnic cleansing which drove out the indigenous population.
The sad thing here is that the Arabs really do want peace. Even Hamas wants peace, just with a minimum of justice. I dont really blame Zionist Jews for behaving so badly. The Jews have the excuse of a brutal history to make them both fierce and paranoid. But the American and European goy Zionists have no excuse. Zionism doesnt have a future in the Middle East. The Jews could, however. If you're really a friend of the Jews you should encourage the post-Zionist Jewish future.
qunfuz: If you think I'm a zionist, please do so, I'm not really offended by that, because it seems that you think everyone who thinks that the current Israel has a right to exist is a zionist.
As a german citizen, I would be more than glad if the british decided to grant the jewish people a piece of land in germany, because we (meaning germany) were solely responsible for the holocaust. Unfortunatly, this didn't happen, which is the problem we're faced with today.
You're saying that Hamas would stop attacking if Israel would withdraw to the '67 borders. If that really would be the case, why didn't they stopped or lowered the amount of aggression once Israel pulled out of gaza? Instead they fired missiles on israeli civilians.
Describing the war of '48 as "ethnic cleansing" is at best exaggerated. The war was forced on Israel by its neighbours. The causes for the fleeings are heavily disputed and don't generally paint a picture of ethnic cleansing. Yes, there were expulsions by the israeli army, but keep in mind that
a) there were bloody fights with cruelties on both sides
b) palestinians often used guerrilla tactics to fight against the israelis
c) There also were about 800000 jewish refugees that fleed arab countries.
As tragic as the palestinian situation is, there isn't a simple solution to it. Yes, Israel could simply go back to its '67 borders and let the west-bank fend for itself. But as long as there is no palestinan government, this would leave anarchy and civil war and possibly more attacks carried out against Israel. The withdrawl from lebanon and gaza proved this, as the answer was in both cases kassam missiles. The only solution is a agreed peace between all parties. You cite the saudi arabic peace initiative. I have no doubt that Israels neighbours want peace, as they've all seen that they can't defeat it by force. It would be stupid to think that Israel has any interest in keeping the west-bank occupied, because of the heavy price they pay for this each day. One of the most critical issue in an agreement is the "right to return". It would be very lengthy to discuss this topic in full, but let me just say that this is perhaps the main thing that keeps peace away and it is thus also in the hands of the arabic nations to solve this problem by integrating palestinians into their states instead of positioning them against Israel.
I find it horrible that you think it's okay to attack civilians. Even if Israel would target civilians (please give references for your claims), the killing of civilians in response can never be justified by a reasonable being. Civilians are innocent. As long as you wont condem the killings of civilians by palestinian suicide attacks, I see no point in discussing with you, as we then clearly seem to have no equal moral basis. Please do not twist my words by saying that I do not condem israeli attacks on civilians. I do. I'm deeply sorry, horrified and shaken in my believe in israel by every civilian casualty of israeli actions.
I do however dispute that the IDF targets civilians.
- qunfuz said...
What you said is that Israel has not committed any crime as cruel as a suicide bombing, and I strongly disagree with you, for the reasons I gave. If you dont call dropping massive bombs on residential buildings deliberately targetting civilians, I dont know what you call it.
The so-called withdrawal from Lebanon: Israel remained in the Shebaa Farms, continued to hold Lebanese prisoners (hostages), and continued to violate the border - thousands of time according to the UN.
Why do Palestinians fire missiles out of liberated Gaza? 2 reasons. First, because Gaza is only one part of Palestine. If Saddam Hussain had left, say, a third of Kuwait, America would have continued firing missiles at Iraq until he left the whole country. Second, because although settlers have left Gaza (which is of course a good thing) the Strip is still surrounded by land and sea by Israeli military. By air too. There are constant overflights. Direct occupation has been replaced by a siege. In any case, an impoverished strip with almost no resources and hundreds of thousands of refugees is not viable if closed and cut off from a hinterland. This is an extreme image of the whole problem with the 2 state solution.
Arabs fought against the Jewish state in 1948 quite rightly, because a UN which didnt yet represent the colonised countries, under American pressure, had awarded the best land of Palestine to a minority of recent immigrants. No people in the world would accept this. The Palestinian Arabs had in most cases welcomed Jewish immigrants and refugees. The problem was that the establishment of a Jewish stae. There were even several early Zionists, like Ahad Ha-Aam, who saw this would only lead to injustice and war. The causes for the Arabs fleeing are no longer heavily disputed as you say. It has been established for instance that Arab radio stations did NOT ON ANY OCCASION encourage Palestinians to leave. You really must read The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (there's a link on my blog to his website). The ethnic cleansing was most definitely, most deliberately, ethnic cleansing. Even right wing Zionists like Benny Morris recognise this. It is no longer controversial. I urge you to read more widely.
The Arab states should have been more careful to keep their Jewish communities. rResentment of Zionist crimes did make Muslim and Christian Arabs dislike their Jewish neighbours, which made the Jewish Arabs feel uncomfortable. There is also plenty of evidence that Zionists actively tried to make life uncomfortable for Jews in Arab countries. Read The Lure of Zion by Abbas Chiblak for discussion of Mossad planting bombs in the Jewish quarter of Baghdad, for instance. There were no massacres of Jews in Arab countries. Nevertheless, I believe a fair settlement for Palestinian refugees should at the same time address compensation and right-of-return for Arab Jews.
The Saudi peace initiative calls for a fair negotiated settlement to the refugee issue. It deliberately keeps this vague. It does not demand that all refugees return to what is now Israel.
I thought you were german. I'm glad that you are willing for there to be a Jewish state in Germany, although I wonder if you would still support the idea if it became reality, and millions of Germans were ethnically cleansed from their homes in order to allow for the Jewish state. Obviously, it is a much fairer idea to have the Jewish stae in Germany than in Palestine. The crimes of Germany continue in Palestine.
- qunfuz said...
Although I think Hamas has far more legitimacy than Abbas, I think Hamas has made mistakes in its rule of Gaza. The reason I'm posting the article below is that a Hamas spokesman explains the movement's rejection of Israel's right to exist in its current form.
An official of the movement describes its goals for all of Palestine.
By Mousa Abu Marzook
Mousa Abu Marzook is the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement.
July 10, 2007 Damascus, Syria -
Hamas' rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver up Alan Johnston as some obsequious boon to Western powers. It was done as part of our effort to secure Gaza from the lawlessness of militias and violence, no matter what the source. Gaza will be calm landunder the rule of law - a place where all journalists, foreigners andguests of the Palestinian people will be treated with dignity. Hamas has never supported attacks on Westerners, as even our harshest critics will concede; our struggle has always been focused on the occupier and ourlegal resistance to it - a right of occupied people that is explicitly supported by the Fourth Geneva Convention. Yet our movement is continually linked by President Bush and IsraeliPrime Minister Ehud Olmert to ideologies that they know full well we donot follow, such as the agenda of Al Qaeda and its adherents. But we arenot part of a broader war. Our resistance struggle is no one's proxy,although we welcome the support of people everywhere for justice in Palestine. The American efforts to negate the will of the Palestinian electorate bydestroying our fledgling government have not succeeded - rather, the U.S.-assisted Fatah coup has only multiplied the problems of Washington's "two-state solution." Mr. Bush has for the moment found a pliant friend in Abu Mazen, a "moderate" in the American view but one who cannot seriously expect to command confidence in the streets of Gaza or the West Bank after having taken American arms and Israeli support to depose the elected governmentby force. We deplore the current prognosticating over "Fatah-land" versus "Hamastan." In the end, there can be only one Palestinian state. But what of the characterization by the West of our movement as beyond the pale of civilized discourse?
Our "militant" stance cannot by itsel fbe the disqualifying factor, as many armed struggles have historically resulted in a place at the table of nations. Nor can any deny the reasonableness of our fight against the occupation and the right of Palestinians to have dignity, justice and self-rule. Yet in my many years of keeping an open mind to all sides of the Palestine question - including those I spent in an American prison, awaiting Israeli "justice" - I am forever asked to concede the recognition of Israel's putative "right to exist" as a necessary precondition to discussing grievances, and to renounce positions foundin the Islamic Resistance Movement's charter of 1988, an essentially revolutionary document born of the intolerable conditions under occupation more than 20 years ago. The sticking point of "recognition" has been used as a litmus test tojudge Palestinians. Yet as I have said before, a state may have a right to exist, but not absolutely at the expense of other states, or more important, at the expense of millions of human individuals and their rights to justice. Why should anyone concede Israel's "right" to exist,when it has never even acknowledged the foundational crimes of murder and ethnic cleansing by means of which Israel took our towns and villages, our farms and orchards, and made us a nation of refugees? Why should any Palestinian "recognize" the monstrous crime carried out by Israel's founders and continued by its deformed modern apartheid state, while he or she lives 10 to a room in a cinderblock, tin-roof United Nations hut? These are not abstract questions, and it is not rejectionist simply because we have refused to abandon the victims of 1948 and their descendants. As for the 1988 charter, if every state or movement were to be judged solely by its foundational, revolutionary documents or the ideas of itsprogenitors, there would be a good deal to answer for on all sides. The American Declaration of Independence, with its self-evident truth ofequality, simply did not countenance (at least, not in the minds of mostof its illustrious signatories) any such status for the 700,000 African slaves at that time; nor did the Constitution avoid codifying slavery as an institution, counting "other persons" as three-fifths of a man. Israel, which has never formally adopted a constitution of its own but rather operates through the slow accretion of Basic Laws, declares itself explicitly to be a state for the Jews, conferring privileged status based on faith in a land where millions of occupants are Arabs, Muslims and Christians. The writings of Israel's "founders" - from Herzl to Jabotinsky to BenGurion - make repeated calls for the destruction of Palestine's non-Jewish inhabitants: "We must expel the Arabs and take their places." A number of political parties today control blocs in the Israeli Knesset, while advocating for the expulsion of Arab citizens from Israel and the rest of Palestine, envisioning a single Jewish state from the Jordan to the sea. Yet I hear no clamor in the international community for Israel to repudiate these words as a necessary precondition for any discourse whatsoever. The double standard, as always, is in effect for Palestinians. I, for one, do not trouble myself over "recognizing" Israel's right to exist - this is not, after all, an epistemological problem; Israel does exist, as any Rafah boy in a hospital bed, with IDF shrapnel in his torso, can tell you. This dance of mutual rejection is a mere distraction when so many are dying or have lived as prisoners for two generations in refugee camps. As I write these words, Israeli forays into Gaza have killed another 15 people, including a child. Who but a Jacobin dares to discuss the "rights" of nations in the face of such relentless state violence against an occupied population? I look forward to the day when Israel can say to me, and millions of other Palestinians: "Here, here is your family's house by the sea, here are your lemon trees, the olive grove your father tended: Come home and be whole again." Then we can speak of a future together.
qunfuz: In my eyes, you're morally bankrupt:
I've given you a chance to distance yourself from palestinans who blow up themselves and/or israeli civilians. If you can't even bring yourself to condemn these kinds of actions, you're just plain evil. If you believe that ANY action a state could do can somehow justify this, you're a really really depraved human being.
And please don't say that I wouldn't condem civilian deaths caused by the IDF. I've stated that I do condemn this, period.
I find it really shocking that you think that you can bring someone to blow up civilians by simply oppressing him, however cruel this oppression might be. Around the world we see and have seen much more cruel oppressions (take tibet)
and never have we seen people blowing themselves up in crowded areas. This is islamic theology at work, not poverty or oppression. So called "moderates" like you are supporting these actions by denying this link between this and instead blaming it on opression or poverty.
But, on the other hand, you're just following your religious beliefs, aren't you? Deceiving people to believe that your religion is really a religion of peace and that Israel would simply have to pull out of the west bank to end this conflict, denying that Hamas is a religious group that would convert or kill all jews if they could, it's all the same pattern: Deceive the non-believers until you have the strength to attack and conquer them, just like your prophet told you to and did in the hadiths.
Please tell me, what else on earth could bring you to a point where you support blowing up civilians??
Please note that this is my last post on your blog if you won't condemn these suicide bombings.
May you find the moral courage to change yourself.
- qunfuz said...
No Henning, I won't condemn suicide bombing. That doesnt necessarily mean I support it or encourage it, but I won't condemn it. To reiterate, the Palestinians have tried all sorts of resistance, and they have always been met by overwhelming violence.
People who make the distinction between 'evil' suicide bombing and 'legitimate' military violence don't seem to understand just how violent their preferred kind of violence is. War is war is war. ALL modern wars aim to terrify the enemy and to destroy economic activity by murdering civilians. The Palestinians have done far less than this than the Israelis.
And NO, suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam. You seem to consider yourself an expert on Islam (based on your comment on the You Muslims thread) and you clearly get your information from very propagandisitic, Islamophobic sources. Please read my post call Osama bin Laden, and see my comments on jihad. Islamic law states that civilians, women and children, officials of any religion should not be killed, that the environment and property should not be destroyed. Hamas make a mistake by using religious language to describe their political violence. The first anti-Israeli suicide bombers were Lebanese, and more than a few of them were Christians and Marxists.
I recognise your condemnation of Israeli attacks on civilians, but was responding to your claims that these attacks are somehow accidental and in any case more moral than the attacks of the occupied and expelled on the occupier. Anyway, Israel could not exist without its attacks on civilians.
So I dont suppose we'll be communicating again. It was nice talking to you. Enjoy revelling in your moral outrage. It won't help you to understand the world better.


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We are upgrading from v3.x to 5.x and the one big difference between the versions is that remote control is no longer available on v5. There are a few people working on the scheduler at our firm and we could all be working on it at the same time. We each could be debugging a job and if I am not mistaken, web console does not have the debugging feature. It seems that the installation mode of "master scheduler with local GUI" fits our needs the best but only one person could be using it at any one time. What's the best practice to work around this situation? We are running in distributed mode with one main scheduler and multiple agents. Should we each have a local install of the scheduler and debug code from there? Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks.
Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:15 pm
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You are correct. The web console is now the main tool providing multi-user access to the scheduler and job management. It doesn't support remote script debugging (yet).
Another toll providing multi-user access is the command line based console.
To debug scripts in graphical mode, one can start the scheduler with /NOTIMER option. This starts a standalone scheduler instance with the timer disabled and all time and event-based processing suppressed.
Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:59 pm
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Yes, I am aware that the scheduler can start with the timer disabled. Can I have multiple users logged on to the scheduler server and start up the scheduler that way without impacting the main scheduler engine? Thanks.
Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:23 am
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It can be safe only if each user starts a separate copy fro ma separate directory. One way to workaround this is to develop a batch file to copy scheduler files, alter path referenced in preferences.xml and then start user copy of 24x7 in NOTIMERr mode.
Here is a untested example demonstrating the described idea
1. copy contents of c:\24x7 to a user specific directory
@echo OFF
echo Please wait
xcopy c:\24x7 "%APP_DATA%" /E /I /H /R /Y
2. update reference to the job database file with a user-specific reference
CD "%APP_DATA%\24x7"
type preferences.xml | powershell -Command "$input | ForEach-Object { $p = '%APP_DATA%\24x7' - replace '\\', '/' ; $_ -replace 'c:/24x7', $p }"
3. start in notimer mode
master.bat /NOTIMER
Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:50 am
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Sorry, I am going to bring this question back to life because we are upgrading to the latest v5 very soon. If we are using "Master Scheduler mode with the local GUI attached" and the scheduler is running as a service, we should still be able to bring up the scheduler GUI on the server, right? I did that and the scheduler started in the no timer mode, which is what I expected. However, I was not able to add a job via the web console when both the GUI and the scheduler service are started. Is that by design? Thanks.
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You can bring up the scheduler in GUI mode, just keep in mind there is no separate GUI, it's not a GUI console, it's a full application running in GUI mode. If you do it while the service is running, most likely nothing good would come out of it. So, either use the service, or the GUI. GUI mode is for development, service is for production. If you run both and get web console connect to your half disabled GUI, instead of the service, you won''t be able to create jobs.
The right solution for a production environment, is to use the web console with the service. Use GUI only for special situations only. if you need to troubleshoot or setup something in a graphical mode.
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