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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians "genocide," while "Wonder Woman" actress Gal Gadot sends her "love and prayers" to Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
One Direction singer Zayn Malik, a Muslim born in England, received online death threats for tweeting #FreePalestine, a hashtag that Barbados-born singer Rihanna also tweeted but quickly deleted.
Celebs are using social media accounts, which are essential for building their show business brands, as political platforms that can cause a negative buzz.
Veteran Hollywood publicist Michael Levine cautions clients to be careful about stepping into the public relations controversies that surround any comment on the Israel-Gaza crisis.
"Twitter has proven to be a minefield for celebrities," Levine said Tuesday. "It provides celebrities with an opportunity to make any number of careless mistakes that can come back to haunt them. But in a war environment, where emotions are so high and people are seeing pictures on CNN of babies dying and crying, it's particularly incendiary."
The 140 characters in a Twitter posting are "like you're burping out thoughts," Levine said.
July 28, 2014
For Malik, it was a hashtag -- #FreePalestine -- the caused an uproar on Sunday. Only 14 characters, it delivered a message of sympathy for residents of Gaza to his 13 million followers that was retweeted more than 200,000 times over the next 24 hours.
The responses ranged from followers saying they were "proud of Zayn" to tweets calling on the singer to "kill himself." Some Israeli fans declared disappointment in the music idol.
Malik hasn't tweeted since, and his publicist declined to comment.
The Twitterverse controversy Rihanna stirred up this summer with messages of support for opponents of the U.S. World Cup team is nothing compared with the reaction to her #FreePalestine tweet on July 15. She deleted it just eight minutes later, but some of her 36 million followers grabbed it first. A source close to the singer explained that it was not an intentional tweet.
Let's pray for peace and a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! Is there any hope?.... pic.twitter.com/jHD56KXkcu— Rihanna (@rihanna) July 15, 2014
It was soon replaced by this less divisive message: "Let's pray for peace and a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! Is there any hope?...."
The fast deletion was followed by controversy and debate. One fan tweeted, "What's the point in being rich & famous if you can't publicly stand up for what's right?"
What's the point in being rich & famous if you can't publicly stand up for what's right?
(tweet deleted by Rihanna) pic.twitter.com/kkp5wUTsVT— Bhas (@BhasChat) July 15, 2014
Bardem's condemnation of Israel was not a spontaneous or accidental message. The actor sent a 400-word letter to Spanish newspapers last week entitled "Genocide."
"In the horror that is happening in Gaza, there is no room for distance or neutrality," Bardem wrote. "It is an occupational war and an extermination one against a town with no means, confined to minimum territory, without water and where hospitals, ambulances and children are targets and alleged terrorists. It is difficult to understand and impossible to justify. And it is embarrassing that the position of the Western international community is allowing such genocide."
Bardem followed it with a similar "open letter" also signed by others, including his wife, Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz, and Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar.
Cruz sent a statement to CNN on Wednesday defending her participation in the letter:
"I don't want to be misunderstood on this important subject. I'm not an expert on the situation and I'm aware of the complexity of it . My only wish and intention in signing that group letter is the hope that there will be peace in both Israel and Gaza. I am hopeful all parties can agree to a cease fire and there are no more innocent victims on either side of the border. I wish for unity, and peace... I believe in a civilization that can be capable of bringing the courage to have a world where humans can live side by side."
Gal Gadot, the actress cast as the new incarnation of Wonder Woman, used her Facebook page to show support for Israel. Her posting is not a surprise, considering she served in the Israeli army and represented her country as Miss Israel.
"I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens," Gadot wrote. "Especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas, who are hiding like cowards behind women and children...We shall overcome!!! Shabbat Shalom! #weareright #freegazafromhamas #stopterror #coexistance #loveidf"
Israeli model Bar Refaeli quoted Abraham Lincoln in an Instagram post with the hashtag #stopterror: "There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. there is nothing good in war, except its ending"
Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who's trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her— Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 18, 2014
Comedian Bill Maher, whose career is built on controversial commentary, used humor to defend Israel in a tweet: "Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who's trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her"
Sometimes it is silence that speaks. Levine said that some of Hollywood's most prominent Jews, who are "very politically active for liberal causes," have "not said a word of support of Israel" concerning the crisis.
For some Americans, Gaza conflict strikes close to home
Opinion: Five lessons of the Gaza war
How long will it last? Gaza conflict by the numbers
CNN's Carolyn Sung and Elwyn Lopez contributed to this report.


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The +1 Button for Retailers
Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 9:32 AM
(Cross-posted on the Google Retail and Google Commerce blogs)
The people we know and trust have a big influence on our purchase decisions. I bought the chef's knife I use every day on the recommendation of my friend Eliot, who more than knows his way around the kitchen. And I always try to bring my friend Brian along when I'm music shopping, since he has a knack for pointing out great albums I've never heard of.
We're excited about the +1 button because it brings these personal recommendations to a place where many purchase decisions start -- the Google search results page.
Adding +1 buttons to your product pages makes it easy for your customers to recommend the products they love on your site with a single click. And thanks to recent improvements to the +1 button, they can take the conversation even further by sharing your products right away on Google+.
From there, +1 annotations can help your products stand out. Potential customers might see +1's from their friends and contacts on your search ads, your organic Google Search results, or even on your page itself.
We've worked with Bazaarvoice and PowerReviews to make it even easier to get the +1 button on your pages. Both companies have extensive experience in social commerce, and can help you develop the right strategy for implementing +1 buttons on your site.
Looking for a couple examples of retailers using +1 to help their products stand out on Google search? Jockey (working with PowerReviews) and Golfsmith (working with Bazaarvoice) have already added +1 buttons to the product pages on their sites.
If you'd prefer to add the +1 button to pages yourself, it's easy to do. Just install a small snippet of code wherever you want the +1 button to appear. For advanced implementation FAQs and documentation, you can visit the +1 button page on Google Code.
As more retailers add +1 buttons to their sites, we're excited about how much more helpful search results will get. The next time I need a new frying pan, I won't need to call Eliot up -- his recommendation will be right there waiting for me.

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A $30.00 Gift Certificate to Lush Boutique
For my mom's 60th birthday my sisters and I surprised her by taking her to Salt Lake City for dinner, shopping, and to spend the night at a hotel.
A couple of days before our big "Girl's Night Out" I received the most stunning turquoise necklace, bracelet, and earrings from Lush Boutique. I was very excited to wear them with my sisters and mom while we shopped in Salt Lake.
When I walked out adorning my new jewelry from Lush Boutique, my sister said, "Oh my gosh, you look model-ish!"
The girl who was once told she looked like a young Jodie Foster in Freaky Friday?
I don't recall ever being told I looked model-ish. And that's when I decided, when someone tells you you look model-ish, you take it and run, baby. And then you tell others about the brilliant jewelry you were wearing at the exact moment someone told you you looked like a model. Ish.
And so here it is.
The Very Lovely Jewelry from Lush Boutique.
I have decided that it is important to own a few really nice pieces of jewelry.
Some that are classic.
Some that go with everything.
And some that you can pass onto your daughters or nieces.
Lush Boutique offers exactly this type of jewelry (and no, that is not me in the above image). They specialize in fresh and chic handmade jewelry at an affordable price. Their favorite materials to use are turquoise, sterling silver, semi-precious gems, pearls, and basically anything else that is gorgeous. Lush Boutique offers affordable jewelry that is timeless and fashionably chic.
The owner of Lush Boutique says, "I love designing jewelry that makes beautiful women feel even more beautiful."
Or perhaps even, let's say, model-ish?
FREE SHIPPING!! That's right, Lush Boutique is offering the readers of Give Away Today Free Shipping! The discount will be good through December 15th, and readers can receive it by using the code "GiveAwayToday" in the notes during checkout.
Today Lush Boutique is giving away a $30 gift certificate. Regardless of where in the world you live, you may enter to win up to FOUR times today.
For one entry, leave your first and last name in a comment.
Example: Jane Doe
For a second entry, please visit Lush Boutique's website here. Once you have looked around, return to Give Away Today and in a NEW comment tell us your first and last name and what you would spend your $30.00 on if you are our winner.
Example: Jane Doe: I would use my gift certificate towards The Koi -- Green and Blue Turquoise Coin Necklace--so pretty!
For a third entry, last week we asked you to tell us something nice someone has done for you at Christmas time. Today, in a NEW comment, tell us your first and last name and something nice you have done in the past or plan on doing this year for someone for Christmas.
Example: Jane Doe: Last year we did the Twelve Days to Christmas to someone. It was a lot of fun and our kids loved it! Only not-fun part? We were out of town one night and asked someone to deliver the present for us. When she was backing out of the driveway she got in a car accident. It cost $500 (and the person we did it for was staring at her out his window as the cops filed the police report, etc. Needless to say, he became a bit suspicious.)
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When Andres Rosales first got into quilting, his friends couldn't believe it. Until then, the 33 year-old had mostly spent his downtime playing World of Warcraft. His buddy scoffed. "He was like, 'Quilting — what the hell?' I'm like, 'dude, it's artistic. It's tough. It requires a lot of effort, and time, and math. There's no reset button. You screw up — oh, man.' "
Rosales — tall, thin, sporting a pair of high-top, hand-dyed converse sneakers — is one of a new breed of quilters quietly spearheading a revolution in that most traditional of American handicrafts. Launched in L.A. in 2009 and spreading online faster than a prairie wildfire via social media sites like Flickr, Pinterest and Etsy, the Modern Quilt Guild now boasts branches as far-flung as Brisbane, Australia, and São Paulo, Brazil. QuiltCon, the first national gathering devoted to modern quilting, will be held in Austin, Texas, early next year.
Earlier this year, a Ventura branch was founded as a division of the L.A.-based national organization. A new exhibit at Santa Paula's California Oil Museum, guest curated by Linda Wilkinson, showcases blankets designed by the guild's members through Feb. 17.
Before taking up a needle himself, Rosales attended quilting shows with his roommate Maureen Timmons, president and co-founder of the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild. "It would bore the tar out of me," he says, "always the same patterns and colors." Then he got a whiff of the modern movement.
"There's no checklist" of features, says Kelly Stevens, who owns Superbuzzy, the supply store where the guild holds its meetings, and who along with Timmons started the Ventura guild. But the rebels generally subscribe to a few common principles: a preference for minimalist solids over gingerbread prints; use of asymmetry and negative space (the empty area around an image); creation of texture through intricate stitching; and an overall hipper, sleeker aesthetic inspired by mid-century modern design.
Of course, "modern" is a bit of a misnomer. "There are incredibly avant-garde quilt artists that have been doing this in Japan for 60 years," says Stevens. "They fell in love with American quilting, but then made it their own. They didn't have the capsule of an American tradition that contained their vision to a particular aesthetic."
The movement has existed in pockets for years. But the time was ripe for an American flowering. The DIY movement has glamorized everything from knitting to home brewing. "We've been so inundated with convenience and technology that there's a tidal wave going back the other direction," says Stevens. "It's a cultural shift in appreciating things that have a hand touch, instead of being mass-manufactured."
Liberated from conventional patterns like the Civil War-era "Dear Jane," brand-new quilters like Rosales feel free to reimagine and reinterpret. Inspired by a trip to L.A., for his first quilt he pieced together fabric strips in teal, butter, charcoal and lime hues to simulate railroad ties. The carefully off-kilter squares show cohesion, but lack the rigid symmetry of more conventional patterns. "Angels Flight" now hangs in the Santa Paula exhibit.
Across the room, Timmons' homage to Pee-wee Herman, "I Know You Are, But What Am I?" depicts a smattering of red bow ties amid a field of gray and white squares. Peering closely, you can just detect another enormous bow tie stitched atop for added texture. Nearby, Becky Haycox's "Capturing Phase Dynamics" tracks the peaks and valleys of REM sleep cycles. (Pictured below.)
Haycox started quilting independently in 2000, but says it wasn't until she joined the guild that she felt she'd found her "people." Despite women's usual predominance in quilting circles, six of the 32 members are male. They range in age from mid-20s to 80s, and the group is considering allowing junior members. Meetings take place at night, so working people can attend.
Misty Revell, the chapter's secretary and Stevens' employee for three years, grew up in a quilting family: Her mother owned a pattern business, and Revell often accompanied her to shows as a child. At 30, she worried she was too young for a guild, but soon felt at home amid like-minded crafters.
Revell still turns to the familiar patterns for inspiration. She hesitates to identify herself as either a traditionalist or a modernist, but meanwhile, she's learning to adopt an aesthetic that embraces the strengths of each.
"I don't know what I am now," she says. "Somewhere in between. I love them both."
"Quilts Go Modern! A Fresh Take on Tradition," through Feb. 17 at California Oil Museum, 1001 E. Main St., Santa Paula, (805) 933-0076, www.oilmuseum.net. For information on the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild, visit www.venturamodernquiltguild.com.


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|Statement by Ambassador Wang Min at the Security Council Debate on Children and Armed Conflict
Mr. President,
The Chinese delegation welcomes the United Kingdom's initiative to convene this debate on children and armed conflict. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Zerrougui; the Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Brandt; and the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Ladsous, for their briefings. I have also listened to the statement by Mr. Ramm, the representative of Save the Children.
Children carry the hope for human progress. The ability of children to grow up in a secure and safe environment depends on the caring and joint efforts of all Governments and the international community as a whole. However, in many parts of the world, children are the most vulnerable group and are subject to the suffering caused by armed conflict. The protection of children in armed conflict is the abiding obligation of all parties to a conflict.
China is greatly concerned by violations of the rights and interests of children and supports the tireless efforts of the United Nations — and the Security Council in particular — to use their respective advantages to protect children in armed conflict on the basis of their respective mandates. I would like to take this opportunity to emphasize the following.
First, to protect children from harm in armed conflict, it is crucial to prevent and resolve armed conflicts. The Security Council should focus on the maintenance of international peace and security as its primary responsibility and give priority to preventive diplomacy through mediation and good offices. Efforts should be made to prevent, mitigate and resolve conflicts by addressing their root causes. That is the best way to protect children and is much more significant than providing remedies in the aftermath of conflicts. All conflicts are not the same, and the Security Council, when addressing issues concerning children and armed conflict, should not adopt a one-size-fits-all approach. Although sanctions are one way to address threats to international peace and security, they alone cannot remove the root causes of those problems.
Secondly, Governments bear the primary responsibility for protecting children in armed conflicts. To ensure the effectiveness of mechanisms for the protection of children in armed conflicts, the Government concerned should play a leading role. Communication and coordination with Governments should be strengthened. The mechanism for the protection of children in armed conflict should heed and respect the views of the Government concerned through dialogue, coordination and consultation. Priority should be given to supporting and helping the Government concerned in its efforts to protect children and their rights and interests. China urges the parties to armed conflict to carry out their relevant obligations, abide by international humanitarian law and respect and safeguard the rights and interests of children.
Thirdly, the protection of children in armed conflict requires that the international community, in its efforts at post-conflict reconstruction, adopt a comprehensive strategy aimed at creating a conducive security and social environment for the healthful development of children. The international community should give priority to the reintegration of children into their families and societies and to their continued schooling, so that they can resume normal lives.
We encourage UNICEF, the World Bank and other international organizations to strengthen their coordination and cooperation and use their respective advantages in the joint effort to help countries in conflict to build their capacity to protect children and to aid them in their efforts to eliminate poverty, to provide universal education and to work towards sustainable development.
China will continue to work with all parties in an effort to improve the situation of children in armed conflict and will do its utmost to maintain international peace and security so as to save children from the suffering of war.
Thank you, Mr. President.


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Walt Disney World Resort
30,500 acres or 43 square miles of property is what is considered the original area centrally located in Florida and is considered the largest of its kind in the world.
1965 is when the public was told about the Walt Disney World Resort Plans
52 months of construction were needed to build Walt Disney World back in 1971.
8 million cubic yards of earth were moved to build Walt Disney World.
2,000 acres remain open for development by the Walt Disney World Company.
$180 an acres was a great price for the Florida land, until Disney was named the person buying the land then the price went to $1000 an acre.
27,258 acres of land were purchased for WDW
$5,018, 770 was the cost of the 27,258 acres
18 months of moving dirt were used to just prepare the Magic Kingdom site to be built.
8 million cubic yards of earth were moved to build the Magic Kingdom.
2,600,000 chocolate covered Mickey Mouse ice cream bars are sold every year at Walt Disney World (WDW)
4 colors make up the official colors of WDW, lagoon blue, mint green, pumpkin orange, lavender.
450 acre area is Bay Lake and located near the Magic Kingdom.
4.5 miles of beach line the Seven Seas lagoon and Bay Lake
2.385 billion gallons make up the volume of water that is Bay Lake and the adjoining Seven Seas Lagoon.
3.8 million pens are purchased by WDW each year.
600 tons of steel helps make up Cinderella's Castle, and not a single stone.
4 inches is the distance the driver of the armored car has between the door and the wall of the Utilidors, which is the only gas powered vehicle allowed in the Tunnel.
9 acres of tunnel are under the Magic Kingdom.
14 feet below ground are the 9 acres of tunnels servicing the Magic Kingdom.
2 times a month the horse shaped hitching posts on Main Street, USA are scraped and painted.
20 minutes is all it takes to fill Splash Mountain and 5 Minutes to drain it.
47 square miles is the original property size that was purchased for Walt Disney World.
7,500 acres were set aside as Conversation area in 1970 and developed a system of more than 43 miles of canals and 22 miles of levees to control the water level.
70,000 fingerling bass were originally stocked in Bay lake when WDW first opened.
4 trains are part of the WDW railroad; each train has 5 cars and can hold approximately 360 Guests and 2 wheelchairs. The train names are: Walter E. Disney (red), Lilly Belle (green),Roger E. Broggie (yellow),Roy O. Disney (blue).
10 miles per hour is the touring speed of the WDW railroad trains travel at while taking you on your scenic journey around the park.
3,000,000 are how many passengers the WDW railroad carries each year.
100,000 guests is the max capacity for the Magic Kingdom. The parking lot closes at 75,000 to allow room for Hotel resort guests arriving on buses, boats and monorail.
11,000 firework shows per year makes WDW the largest consumer of fireworks in North America.
2,300 wedding are estimated to take place at WDW in a year.
15,000 weddings have taken place at WDW since September 1991.
7 million hamburgers are sold in the park each year
5 million hotdogs are consumed each year in the park
1.4 million barbecued turkey legs are consumed each year at Walt Disney World
58,000 employees are employed by Walt Disney world as of 2006, spending more than $1.1 billion on payroll and $478 million in benefits each year
5,000 employees are dedicated to the maintenance and engineering at WDW including 750 horticulturists and 600 painters.
$100 million is spent each year to maintain the Magic Kingdom.
10 of the 12 trains can be stored in the maintenance shop on its upper level (the bottom level houses the four steam locomotives that circle the Magic Kingdom). On any given night, two Mark VI trains are parked outside the gate of the Magic Kingdom. No train will ever be left outside two nights in a row.
150 truckloads of holiday decorations adorn the Walt Disney World Resort and 300,000 yards of ribbon and bows drape over 1,500 Christmas trees during the yuletide season.
72,000 ticket holders at the FedEx Orange Bowl National Championship game in Miami each receive a surprise free ticket to any Disney theme park in the world. The largest Disney theme park ticket give-away ever was part of the launch of the Happiest Celebration on Earth, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland and Disney theme parks.
50,000th child to have a Disney theme park wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Disney. This event took place on October 6, 2005.
2,500 different Cast Member costume designs make up a working wardrobe of about 1.8 million pieces. Approximately 13,000 costume pieces are manufactured each year at Walt Disney World.
15 million miles are driven by the Walt Disney World bus fleet each year.
3,421,399 (approximately)famous "Mouse Ear" hats sold each year at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando to cover the head of every man, woman and child in Portland, Oregon.
30th year anniversary for Walt Disney World was celebrated October 1, 2001. Happy Anniversary !
392,040 square feet of space under the Magic Kingdom creates the Utilidors and are bustling with action. Beside navigation information the walls are covered with motivational information, such as the 7 rules of a Cast Member.
750 watercraft makes Walt Disney World the 5th largest fleet of watercraft in the world.
14 feet deep is the Seven Sea lagoon, but Bay lake is only 12 feet deep.
2.5 million garments(pieces) exist in Walt Disney World costuming department.
150,000 gallons of paint were purchased in 2004 enough to cover 7,500 average size homes.
263 buses are in service at Walt Disney World.
50 million soft drinks are sold annually at WDW.
9 million pounds of French Fries are sold annually at WDW.
194,871 miles of toilet tissue are used annually at WDW.
24,409 miles of paper towels are used annually at WDW.
319,353 lbs. of chocolate are used annually at WDW.
1.2 million pounds of watermelon are used annually at WDW.
741,150 pounds of sugar are used annually at WDW.
1.8 million pounds of flour are used annually at WDW.
245,000 pounds of fruit filling are used annually at WDW.
38,000 pounds of white icing glaze are used annually at WDW.
2.9 million pounds of eggs are used annually at WDW.
606,000 pounds of bananas are used annually at WDW.
510,000 of grapes are used annually at WDW.
1.5 million soft pretzels are served annually at WDW.
639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese are served at WDW.
337,000 pencils are purchased annually to use at WDW.
148 million sheets of recycled copier paper are used annually at WDW.
730,102 gallons of bleach are used annually at WDW.
214,000 bandages were provided to guests during the year 2004 at WDW.
20,000 different colors of paint used in Walt Disney World.
14.25 pound largemouth bass is the largest ever caught on Bay Lake, but we'll never know since it is catch and release fishing.
3 circle vision films play at WDW. n the Magic Kingdom, take a trip through time in Tomorrowland's "The Timekeeper." The other two films using the Circle-Vision technology are both found in Epcot's World Showcase. They are O Canada!, and the Wonders of China.
175 different outfits are in Mickey's wardrobe closet, including a scuba suit and a tuxedo.
200 different outfits are in Minnie's wardrobe closet, including a cheerleader costume and various evening gowns.
15 million gallons of water are used each day at WDW.
5,000 plus performers, (not counting the 500 doves that were released), joined in the Grand Opening Celebration of Walt Disney World at the Magic Kingdom on October 25, 1971.
1,076-piece band (including 76 trombones) was led by "Music man" Meredith Wilson as part of the Grand opening parade up Main Street, USA.
51,000 employees work at WDW, this number changes with the seasons and peak park seasons.
11 miles of garland, 3,000 wreaths and 1,500 Christmas trees are spread around during the holiday season. The tallest is a 70-foot tree in Disney's Contemporary Resort. In addition, trees, which range in height from 45 to 70 feet, are placed in prominent positions in the theme parks.
500,000 character watches are sold annually mainly Mickey watches, are slipped onto wrists from Walt Disney World gift shops each year. At any given time, there are more than 200 different varieties of character watches. The most popular timepiece: a gold-tone relief of Mickey Mouse.
100 pairs of sunglasses are turned in at the Magic Kingdom lost and found alone. There have been enough "shades" submitted each year in the Magic Kingdom to outfit every resident of Sun City, Arizona; Sun City, California; and Sun City, Florida. Since 1971, an estimated 1.5 million pairs of glasses have found their way into the "lost" bin.
6,000 different types of food are served at WDW.
350 or more chefs are employed at WDW
150 semi trucks of decorations are used to decorate WDW during the Christmas season.
15 miles of garland are to decorate at WDW during Christmas season.
300,000 yards of ribbon are used for decorating at Christmas.
1,500 Christmas trees are used all around the WDW property for decorating.
8 million lights are used to decorate the 4 parks for Christmas.
18 towers are on Cinderella's Castle.
2 times the size of Manhattan Island is the property of Walt Disney World.
200 feet is the maximum building height in Florida, so the building does not have a red light installed for aircraft.
1st guest entered Walt Disney World on October 1, 1971
50,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on March 2,1976
100,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on October 22, 1979
150,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on April 7, 1983
200,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on July 20, 1985
300,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on June 21, 1989
400,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on August 5,1992
500,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on October 13, 1995
600,000,000 guest entered Walt Disney World on June 24, 1998
4 million guests of Walt Disney World Resort hotels have used Disney's Magical Express since the airport shuttle, luggage delivery and airline check-in service launched May 5, 2005
250,000 Guests at the Walt Disney World Resort ride the Various forms of "mass transit" every day, which include monorails, ferryboats, bus services and water taxis.
100,000 to 200,000 photos of guests are taken each day by Disney's PhotoPass photographers
4 % percent of all amateur photography is estimated to be taken at Walt Disney World and Disneyland
3 times the park has been closed, once resort wide in September 1999 for Hurricane Floyd; resort wide on September 11th, 2001 due to the terror attacks on America; and Epcot only on July 17th, 2002 due to a power outage.
72,000 individual AudioAnimatronic functions per second are controlled by the Digital Animation Control System (DACS)
800 different variety of trees had been acquired, moved and acclimated and transplanted at WDW as it was reported in 1970
2.2 million travelers were bused from Orlando International Airport to either a WDW resort hotels or cruise ships in 2008, That works out to about $1.6 million a year in payments to the airport
80,000 high school seniors will celebrate graduation during the annual Grad Nite party at Walt Disney World Resort. Disney has hosted the event for 36 years with a variety of acts from KC and the Sunshine Band to Jessica Simpson.


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Frederick Douglass
News about Frederick Douglass, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. More
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an abolitionist. Born to a slave mother and an unknown white father, he spent his childhood in slavery but secretly learned to read. As a teenager, he was hired out to a brutal overseer before escaping to the North. Douglass became a powerful orator and a leading voice in the struggle against slavery.
In 1845, his autobiography ("Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself") was published to great acclaim. He eloquently depicts the dehumanizing effects of bondage, writing what is often considered one of the finest examples of the slave narrative genre. In describing the efforts of an overseer to break his spirit, Douglass turns the tables to show that it was the slaveholders, not the slaves, who were the brutes to be feared. Douglass toured much of the United states and Europe speaking about his experiences and working for the emancipation of slaves.
During the Civil War he served as a consultant to President Lincoln. He was U.S. minister to Haiti from 1889 to 1891. — adapted from "The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge"


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Dassault Systemes is not to shut the home of SmarTeam
Published 30 June 2009
Posted by Al Dean
OK – a little judicious editing is needed here: We got word today that Dassault Systemes is not closing its Israeli office, the birth place of SmarTeam but 86 people are losing their jobs because R&D is movng to Boston/Paris." DS comment that:
The Tel Aviv, Israel, office is not closing nor are there any plans to close it. The Tel-Aviv location is the local market center of PLM expertise. It will be an important regional sales and sales-support office for V5 and V6 PLM, focus on the development of EST V5 and its customer base, combining superb understanding of the DS portfolio with hands-on knowledge of the local business environment. Moreover the organization will broaden its business-orientation and better serve local Value Added Resellers.
We got word today that Dassault Systemes is closing its Israelli office, the birth place of SmarTeam, allegedly "Firing 86 people today in Israel. R&D movng to Boston/Paris." In an official statement, DS comment that:
Dassault-Systemes announced today a plan to consolidate development efforts in Velizy, France and Lowell, USA for the V6 solution portfolio. V6 provides a single integrated platform for all Brands, Industries and Channels as well as delivering on the PLM 2.0 strategy.
Following this decision the V6 related activities in DS Israel shall be ceased, and over the upcoming six months 86 employees will terminate their employment in the company.
DS-Israel continues to lead the development of the current generation PLM solutions (ENOVIA SmarTeam V5) to fully support the satisfaction of over 8,000 customers world-wide. DS-Israel will also enhance its focus on supporting the Israeli market for the entire DS portfolio.
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Inventor Fusion Part II: Working with existing geometry, assemblies + annotation
Published 29 June 2009
Posted by Al Dean
#2: While the tools we've discussed are predominantly targeting the creation of geometry from scratch, one of the reasons that there's been a groundswell of interest in direct modelling technologies is the inherent ability to work with existing geometry. The reason this is providing such interest is that with history-based design tools comes an issue of knowledge and recalculation as we've already discussed, but also of knowledge. History-based design relies on a linear of recipe of features, built on top of features, on top of even more features. Editing that geometry can be painful, purely for the lag that editing early features can cause and the inherent problems with subsequent features breaking.
Alongside this purely technical hurdle to effective editing, there's also an issue with regarding knowledge. Because you have a very granular and lengthy recipe for even the simplest of parts, to make edits, to reconfigure geometry to make a design change requires some serious knowledge. Not only of the system in question and its eccentricities, but also of how it was designed in the first place. It's bad enough diving into a complex part you have designed yourself, but editing someone else's work, can be the stuff of nightmares – and bad ones at that.
Importing data
Inventor Fusion, at this release, allows you to read the native Inventor and AutoCAD format data directly – note that the system will only import solid geometry (not wires, surfaces or points in this release) – if you're also working with non-English speaking colleagues, then you need to ensure there are no non-English characters in the file names. Also, when importing Inventor data, the system again will only import solid data (not surfaces) and also will not work with assembly features (typically used for weldment design). In terms of third party data, Fusion supports the importing of SAT files (between version 4.0 and 7.0) and STEP files (supporting the AP214 and AP203E formats). In terms of Export, it'll save out to the Inventor format but the other formats are limited to SAT (7.0 only) and STEP using the AP203E standard.
Feature recognition
As we've discussed already, Inventor Fusion is a non-history-based application but still takes advantage of feature-based working methods. When you create specific native features (such as holes, fillets in this release), these are stored and remain editable. But what about imported data which typically won't have this feature date? To get over this and to add some intelligence to the system, Inventor Fusion has basic feature recognition tools built into it. Once you have your geometry imported, you can then run the Recognize Features from the Home panel. This will interrogate the geometry you have selected (it only works with one part at a time) and will find any hole, fillet or pattern features and store them in browser. It should be noted that when with imported data, this doesn't replicate the features used to build that part originally, but rather uses recognition technology to find features that Fusion can work with. The same is true of Inventor parts too. As you'll see, the system doesn't replicate the traditional Inventor feature tree, instead using a series of mirror patterns, holes and fillets to recreate the cycle fork crown part.
The Fork Crown part (from the suspension fork dataset in the Samples folder). As you can see, it has a multi-item feature and history tree detailing each operation used to build the part.
Importing the same component into Inventor Fusion give you a dumb solid which you can edit. Using the Recognize Features command will interogate the part and find features that Inventor Fusion can replicate, such as fillets, holes and patterns.
Making edits
When it comes to making changes to parts, I've found it's best to dive in and work with the data directly, using a combination of the Press/Pull and Move command to edit the geometry, shift it and work with it. When working with direct modelling tools such as this, it is important that you realise that all these systems (without exception) have quite specific limitations in terms of topology. While you can move, push and pull faces seemingly at will, the model must remain watertight and closed and the geometry/topology must solve. When you see faces disappearing, this is usually in the area of fillets and such, where the underlying modelling engine can handle the removal of those faces and patch the surfaces back it. If you try to make too drastic changes to complex geometry, perhaps to move features across faces and boundaries (particularly when those faces are non-planar), you'll run into trouble and the operation will fail. The good news is that, as with many similar systems, Fusion gives you good feedback about what the system can do and will clearly flag up problems.
Working with Assemblies
The Constrain panel gives you access to assembly both parts and multiple bodies within a single part file.
Alongside the part modelling and editing tools, Fusion also allows you to create assemblies using some basic mating tools. As the system is multi-body in a single part capable, you can work with both explicit seperate parts or use the same alignment and mating tools to build up an assembly using mulitiple bodies. Found when clicking the Constrain icon in the Home panel, the basic commands are Align, Center, Angle and Tangent, all with offsets where appropriate. One thing to note is the order in which you select your mating geometry is key. As Fusion doesn't have a fix or Anchor command to lock the first part down, you need to remember that your first selection is automatically locked and the second selection moves to it.
The Anchor glyph denotes that the first selection is locked and your next selection will move to it.
Annotating your data
Now, while the name of the Fusion game is direct editing of geometry, you do have a range of dimensioning tools, either for creating precise geometry or for annotating your model. In the former, the system allows you to create dimensions to position geometry exactly using the usual methods – but the system isn't really geared up for that yet. When it comes to annotation of a model, the system follows the new 3D annotation methods that are being introduced across the industry.
Dimensions are added directly to the model (rather that to a drawing) and you have the ability to add dimensions to specific work-planes. These can be specified directly or dynamically. As there could be a complex set of annotations, you can switch between existing annotation planes (using the tab key), which lets you keep order in your dimensioning schemes. You can also toggle between ANSI and ISO methods of dimensioning in this release.
Next up we're going to have a little chat with Kevin Schneider at Autodesk about the launch of Inventor Fusion, what Autodesk's plans are and where this is all headed. Look out for more later in the week.
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New Samples from Z Corp's new ZP150 material
Published 26 June 2009
Posted by Al Dean
I love the smell of bubblewrap, packing peanuts and prototypes in the morning (excuse the state of the desk – I've been travelling again).
A couple of weeks ago, Z Corporation announced a new composite material for its range of 3D printers, zp150. As ever, we're keen to see what these new materials can do and how they perform with data we sent to the provider, rather than just relying on a material spec sheet and some stock photos.
The SeaDoo dataset (which is coloured like this due to a bug in SolidWorks) – the new model, in the new material does have a much richer colour set than the previous test (in the background).
Well, this morning, I was greated with a slightly baffled FedEx man looking for DEVELOP3D magazine – and of course, he was rather bemused to find it was in fact my front door. Key much banging around in the back of a van and signing of paper/electronic screens and I was presented with two very large boxes sealed up with Z Corp tape. Living, as I do, in a ridiculously small house, I decided to unbox the rapid prototype joy in the street, much to the hilarity of one of my particularly noisey neighbours (he and his wife sign their christmas cards "Les and Jess." After eight years, we've yet to figure out which is which) as the packing foam decided to escape and make its way down the street. Still, after much running about and sweeping up, I was presented with three new RP models to add to my collection. Those that remember the Z540 try out, I had the same dataset built, another from Inventor (which never arrived last time) and Z Corp threw in a new model of an angle grinder. All of which have been packed up and shipped across from Z Corp's headquarter in Boston.
Deeper blacks more vibrant colours. Seems to stack up for the new material
The results are good. The blurb for the zp150 material claims 40% increases in both 'green' strength (meaning when it's fresh out of the build chamber) and when post processed using the standard infiltrant (which is cyanoacrylate or superglue to me and you). They also claim greater richness of colours, including brighter whites (which is key for architectural users) and deeper blacks). The models we've had built certainly back up the colour claims, but on opening two of the three models, the models were damaged – something which hasn't happened before. I'm pretty sure this is down to the rather battered nature of the box when it arrived, but I did find it curious. If you build parts with a more stiff material, then this is going to happen and in all fairness, most prototypes built on an in-house machine don't get shipped 4,000 miles, they're built, played with, examined, tested maybe, kept if they're good, or binned. The good news is that the models that arrived more accurately represent the colours of the data provided (we tested it using one of my favoutie devices – the Colour Cue – I've got an older one, but the new one does more), give you a better indication of design intent and let you get on with making decisions and progressing a design project.
Final Note: Another thing that my 'tests' don't really effect and that's the fact that instead of the standard infiltrant, you can also use water to post cure and toughen up the model, rather than nasty chemicals – which is particularly useful for schools and other educational establishments (where the Z Corp machines have found a healthy home).
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Inventor Fusion Part I: Inventor Fusion – getting started and creating geometry
Published 25 June 2009
Posted by Al Dean
Perhaps the most eagerly awaited bit of technology in the last few months has been Inventor Fusion. This is Autodesk's first foray into the world of direct editing of 3D geometry, which has been one of the most talked about technologies of the past 12 months with products like Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology, SpaceClaim and CoCreate creating much of the buzz. Yesterday saw the application launch, so we thought we'd give you a guide to the functionality you'll find on the web-site.
Unlike Inventor 2010, Inventor Fusion doesn't rely on history. Features are still very much an intrinsic part of the application, but it doesn't carry with it the headache of history recalculation when features are edited.
Autodesk first showed off Inventor Fusion at its annual user event, Autodesk University, in December 2008 and we got the scoop on DEVELOP3D.com with some rather shaky videos. Seven months on and the technology has just been made available for download from the Autodesk Labs web-site. Out of all the CAD vendors, Autodesk has one of the most impressive Labs sites and many technologies that started out in Autodesk Labs have been refined over the past couple of years and now form a key part of Inventor and its associated extensions, such as simulation and tooling. Inventor Fusion is likely to remain in Autodesk Labs for some time as each successive public release is put out for all to see, play with and give feedback to help drive its development.
I've been lucky enough to have access to the software for the past couple of weeks prior to it going live on the Labs site and have spent some time playing with the application. Over the next few days I'm going to share my experiences and conclusions of Inventor Fusion, kicking off with the minimal User Interface (UI).
The Inventor Fusion UI. Dynamic. Very.
User Interface
The Inventor Fusion UI is minimal to say the least and because it has a small set of commands (which actually do a lot more than might immediately be obvious) there are just two panels and tabs. Let's look at the basics of view manipulation first.
The View tab and panel gives access to the view controls for view and display. Like Inventor 2010, there's a View Cube at the top right of the UI, then the display toolbar below gives access to the rest of the view controls.
In terms of navigation, all of the controls for pan (middle mouse button or F2), zoom (scroll wheel or F3) and rotate (F4) are there, with the exception of the shift + middle mouse button combo for rotate (a little tip for Inventor 2010 users courtesy of Steve Bedder). There's also control over the display of grids, shadows, View Cube, navigation bar, and browser. As in Inventor 2010, it is worth noting that there is a toggle for orthographic or perspective display, but I encountered some display issues when in perspective mode, so be warned (I'm told this is to be fixed very shortly indeed).
There is also a material definition and texturing control for parts, so the visual appearance can be set to help put models in context. The familiar browser – now integrated into the user interface, rather than as a separate panel – gives access to named views, origins, work geometry, annotation planes and a feature list (Note: no history).
The final command for this panel is the ShowMotion tool. This is new for Inventor-related products and it sees cross-pollination of technology from Autodesk's Showcase product. Showcase excels at helping users quickly create presentations to show off product models, and allows view positions and display states to be captured and animated – think a 3D PowerPoint for design review and presentation.
ShowMotion enables users to create a shot for a view and add the animation details so it can be stored for reuse and presentations. Simply bring up the little panel in the UI, flick between views, and run simple animations. It's very slick.
Modelling from scratch
There are several things you need to familiarise yourself with before digging into Fusion. Firstly, the user experience is much more dynamic than Inventor (and many other applications, for that matter) and there is much less reliance on toolbars and icons. While all of the modelling and editing operations are available on the Home toolbar, once you get the hang of things, you'll find you don't use this much. This is a heads up interface to the extreme.
Fusion Tip #1: Fusion defaults to Inches. If you want to switch units, look at the dimension indicator at the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Inches and select from a number of unit displays (mm, cm, ft, metres are supported). The rule to the left gives you control over snap distances for the Press/Pull, dynamic manipulation controls. You'll also see the toggle icons for grid, snapping and ground shadows at the very bottom of the UI
Much of Fusion is driven from marking menus, something that was introduced into the Alias products many years ago and which has been adopted by many modelling packages as a replacement for the context sensitive right hand mouse button menu. Fusion combines the two. To begin, hover your cursor in the middle of screen. Now, hit the RMB (Right mouse button). You'll see a radial marking menu pop up and a more traditional menu. The radial commands give you access to the following:
The Marking Menu's give you access to the most commonly used command around the cursor and a secondary, more comprehensive list of commands in the more traditional menu.
For modelling. To begin, select Draw. This brings up the usual plane selection triad and you can either select a working plane or one from the browser. Once that's done, the view presents the plane normal to the screen, starts a sketch and switches on the grid if you've turned it on (either from the View Panel or from the small icon at the bottom right of the screen).
Inventor Fusion's sketching tools dynamically add ad-hoc dimensions that allow you to eye-in values (the grid helps greatly) or to tap in values to lock length and angle.
Immediately the line, circle, arc drawing tool starts and you can create a sketch. Sketching within Fusion is pretty slick. Hit the start point, add the first line and immediately the dimensions are displayed, for length and angle. While you can eye these in, it's much more powerful when tapping in known values. The tab key switches between the length and angle, and you can tap in one and eye in the other – or indeed, tap in both.
To create an arc, you drag from the end point of your last line and add the arc, again eyeing in or tapping values as you go. This process can be used to create a lot of geometry, but for more complex forms there is a pretty comprehensive range of additional sketching tools, including splines, circles, rectangles, filleting, other methods of arc construction and extending and trimming. These are available either from the Home Panel or the marking menus. To assist with geometry creation there is also the usual range of work-plane, axis and point tools to create references. These are simple to set-up and use the same dynamic movement and positioning tools as every other command.
Automatic closed loop profile detection gives you the ability to create geometry very quickly. Model glyphs give you access to operation options, such as direction of pull, and draft angle.
Once you have a closed profile (Note: Fusion only supports closed profiles at the moment for feature creation, as there's no surfacing), you'll find that the profile automatically becomes shaded indicating that it's ready for feature construction. To exit the sketch, you can either hit the small icon at the bottom right of the sketch plane or hit the marking menu and choose the modelling operation. Now, this is where things get interesting so let's look at the various commands available in this first Labs release.
The major modelling operation is the Press/Pull command, found in the marking menu or the panels. This can be used to create extrusions, either to add material or cut it away. Hit the command, select the profile you want to work with and the display brings up a preview and a small arrow. This lets the geometry to be dragged out to the desired depth (again, you can key in or eye in values). There are two additional controls you need to be aware of. Firstly, with the small glyph near the feature (by default it shows a plane and an arrow), you can either define the extrusion as running from one side of the sketch-plane, from both (to different values) or symmetrically about that plane. Secondly, below the length arrow, you'll see a small ball. Dragging this will create the required draft angle. Of course, you can also tap the values into the panel that pops up at the top of the screen.
Adding addition sketches allows you to quickly sketch, pull/push new features into your model.
The Press/Pull command is a multi-purpose tool, in that it allows you to create extrudes and fillets depending on your selection. Select a profile and you have a cut/add extrusion. Select an edge or set of edges and you have filleting to hand. Filleting allows you to work with single edges and multiple selections and you simply press the fillet into place. There is also a handy "match radius" glyph that allows a numerical reference to be taken from another existing fillet radius.
The Press/Pull command can create extrusions, offsets and fillets depending on your selection.
While the Press/Pull command will be used in most instances when modifying and adding geometry, the Move command lets you work with existing geometry and shift it – simply grab the geometry and use a triad to move or rotate sets of faces. There's also a very handy 'Select Other' tool from the marking menu. This gives a heads up way to find geometry related to your current selection, either by topological neighbour (edges or faces which are connected directly to your current selection), by Z depth (which allows you to select obscured or hidden faces behind your current selection), or using the feature selection tool (to find extrude, fillets and such from your selection). The options are displayed on-screen with dynamic previews that show exactly what you're working with. These allow you to grab the feature or face you want to work with, and then hitting the move command brings up the familiar Triad. This gives you several things to do with your geometry selection. Each axis on the triad allows you to move the geometry in that direction. There's also a visual reference for rotating geometry about an axis and a free move option using the sphere at the origin.
Using the Move Triad and the F5 key allows you to grab geometry, align the triad to the direction you want to move that geometry and pull it into position.
These small black arrows animate to you show you how your geometry selection can be manipulated.
More traditional features
Alongside the Press/Pull command, there are familiar commands for sweeps, revolves, fillets, chamfers and shell. There's also a Delete Face operation, but it's worth noting that the system will only allow you to delete a face if the removal of that face results in a watertight model, once the boundaries have been filled in.
The hole command epitomises Inventor Fusion's dynamic way of working. When you create a hole, you have a number of options for a straight bore, counter bore or counter sunk holes. These are not standards-based yet (I'd expect that's coming at some point, as Autodesk already has a wealth of data for that within Inventor 2010), but you simply drag and drop the handles into place to create the feature. That feature is then stored in the browser and can be copied/pasted into another position when required.
Hole creation isn't yet standard-based, but uses the same dynamic interaction methods to define the various constituent parts of simple bores, counter sunk and counter bored holes.
Alongside standard features, there are patterning tools (radial and linear), mirror of features and part splitting. Because these are maintained as features and remain intelligent, modifications to one mirrored face will result in updates to others within that Mirror set.
Reference geometry is available to assist creating reference with accurate references.
While this might sound complex, in reality, it's a very easy way to work. When you build successive features, you follow the same, sketch, model, preview, build workflow. Sketching is much more fluid than in Inventor 2010. If you create a sketch on an existing face, the system uses the boundaries that already exist and you can simply drag that profile loop into shape, without all that messy face splitting business.
That's it for Part One. We'll be back at you soon with Part II looking at working with existing geometry, assembly creation and model annotation. Before we go, no post would be complete with some video.
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UMM EL-FAHM, Israel (Reuters) - Disillusioned, disappointed and divided, Israeli Arab voters will traipse to the polls next week in ever dwindling numbers, aware that none of their community will have any say in how the country is run.
Whoever wins the January 22 parliamentary election, Israeli Arab parties will almost certainly not be part of the next coalition government, or indeed want to be, opening the door to four more years of often futile opposition.
"Arabs have stopped believing in the democratic tools at their disposal," said Hanin Zoabi, an Arab member of the Knesset running for the National Democratic Assembly - one of three Arab parties that look likely to pick up a handful of seats.
One of Israel's poorest and least politically engaged minorities, Arabs struggle to find their place in an avowedly Jewish state, and many doubt that participating in elections will change their lot.
Around half of the community will vote, down from 75 percent in 1999, a Haifa University poll found last month.
Arabs complain of rampant discrimination including inferior municipal services, unfair allocation of funds for education, health and housing, and curbs on building permits, leading to illegal construction out of frustration - and demolitions.
They also cite the lack of a right to family unification if they marry Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza.
Mainstream Jewish politicians say Israeli Arabs have seen their wealth and welfare rise substantially since the founding of the state, but concede that they are marginalized and more should be done to plug them into Israel's thriving economy.
They also accuse the Arab parties of being more concerned about "external" issues, such as the peace process, while not doing enough to promote the needs of their own constituents.
Whatever the reason for Israeli Arab problems, the result can be seen on the garbage-strewn streets of towns like Umm al-Fahm, home to 48,000 Arabs and close to the boundary of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Palestinians seek statehood.
Israeli Arabs, who comprise a fifth of Israel's total population, are descendants of residents who stayed on after the 1948 war of Israel's founding, in which hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians fled or were forced to leave their homes.
More than half live below the poverty line, compared with a national average of 20 percent, according to official figures, while some 30 percent are unemployed, five times the national figure, a Tel Aviv University study estimates.
"Arabs are undecided on the merits of their political participation and, given the current facts, whether their votes make a difference," Tel Aviv University lecturer Amal Jamal told Reuters. "The majority are thinking: 'What's the point?'"
In Umm el-Fahm, memorials on the main street commemorate youths killed by Israeli police in 2000, a bleak reminder of tensions between Arab citizens and the Jewish state.
Thirteen Arabs, shot while demonstrating in solidarity with a Palestinian uprising, are honored as "martyrs" by locals, who resent the fact that none of the officers were charged.
"It is easier to define us by what we are not, and to most people, we are neither fully Palestinian nor fully Israeli," said resident Majed Kamal, 37, looking at the brown, dry wreath resting on one of the youth's tombstones.
But despite ever present tensions tied to the decades-old Middle East conflict, it is bread and butter issues that concern most Israeli Arab voters, not war and peace.
Some 57 percent of Israeli Arabs polled by the University of Haifa in December said unemployment, housing, health and education were their main concerns. Only eight percent cited the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Talks between Israelis and Palestinians collapsed two years ago over expanding Jewish settlement on occupied land, and Israel's Arabs doubt they will resume any time soon.
"The peace process is not really relevant at the moment," said Raed Farrah, 29, who works at a coffee shop in nearby Nazareth. "So why worry about it?"
Some 1.6 million Muslim and Christian Arabs live mainly in cities and villages in the north of Israel where they administer their own municipal affairs and run their own schools.
Interest in local affairs far outstrips national politics - some 80 percent of Arabs voted in municipal elections in 2008 against 53 percent who took part in the parliamentary ballot a year later - 12 points below the national average.
Under Israel's proportional representation system, experts say Arab groups could secure up to 20 of parliament's 120 seats if the turnout were higher and if squabbling Arab politicians managed to present a more united front.
The three Arab-led parties - Ra'am-Ta'al, the National Democratic Assembly and Hadash - won just 11 seats in 2009. Some Arab votes also went to mainstream Jewish groups such as the Ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which campaigns openly in Israeli Arab towns, promising ever more generous welfare handouts.
By contrast, the Islamic Movement in Israel, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood now ascendant in Egypt, is urging its followers to boycott Tuesday's ballot.
With a network of community services, this conservative movement is gaining traction and the Haifa university poll said less than 50 percent of Israeli Arabs might vote on January 22, further diluting their national voice.
"We are faced with only two options. Either we give in as a marginalized minority, or we fight," said parliamentarian Zoabi.
She angered Jewish colleagues in 2010 for joining a Turkish protest boat that tried to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
In an unusual move, liberal newspaper Haaretz published an editorial in Arabic on Tuesday urging a more robust turnout, saying "despair and abstention" would bring nothing good.
"Massive Arab turnout in this election would serve all those who aspire to democracy in this country, Jews and Arabs alike. The Arab citizenry must get out and vote − for peace, for equality and for democracy," it wrote.
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This Global Resources Roundtable will explore current publishing practices and new scholarly uses of news content, and cooperative library strategies to support those uses.
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Sony punts external BD burner at home cinemas
It's portable too
Sony is well known as a maker of consumer-oriented Blu-ray Disc players, but now the Japanese giant's optical drive division wants to get into the nation's living rooms too.
Later this month, Sony Optiarc will release the BDX-S500U, an external BD writer with 3D support that's designed to be hooked up to your home entertainment system.
"The external burner replaces the DVD player in the home cinema system," the company said.
Well, kind of. You can do this if your home cinema rig includes a netbook, notebook or desktop computer.
And indeed, SO also stressed that the BDX-S500U is darn portable, making it ideal to carry around with you for ad hoc back-up sessions and hotel room BD viewing.
The drive comes bundled with CyberLink Media Suite 8 software for Windows, plus a blank 25GB disc to get your burning started. It's rated at 4x write speed for dual-layer BD-Rs, rising to 6x for single-layer BD-Rs and falling to 2x for BD-REs. All BDs are read at 6x, and it's happy to handle all the usual DVD formats and CDs.
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Stephen Klabnik takes a look at some tradeoffs in the design of Rust, and how that makes it more suitable for some kinds of projects than others. In particular, he talks about Rust's "bend the curve" philosophy towards tradeoffs.
On this podcast, Wes Reisz talks to John Xmas. Xmas works for Kasada, a company that offers a security platform to help ensure only your users are logging into your web applications. Xmas is a well-known figure in the security space. The two discuss common attack vectors, the OWASP Top 10, and then walk through what hackers commonly do when attempting to compromise a system.
In this article, author discusses how to collect metrics and achieve anomaly detection from streaming data using Prometheus, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra technologies.
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WordPress theme development involves using HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript to build dynamic WordPress sites. In this course we start with a basic HTML/CSS/JS prototype and walk through all of the steps for converting it into a full WordPress theme. The portfolio theme we build in the course covers responsive navigation, page and blog templates, custom post types and even widget areas. Upon completion of the course students should be able to build their own custom WordPress themes from scratch.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are Cisco Systems Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and J.C. Penney Co.
After Wednesday's closing bell, Cisco CSCO, +1.19% said adjusted profit came in at 51 cents a share, ahead of 48 cents a share forecast by analysts, and sales also topped forecasts. Shares surged 7% after hours after Cisco execs gave a revenue projection that was better than the Street expected.
Shares of Jack in the Box Inc. JACK, +1.18% fell 1% in Wednesday's extended trading after the fast food chain said its second-quarter revenue dropped. However, its quarterly profit rose 19% from a year earlier.
3D printing stocks could be in play Thursday after ExOne Co. XONE, +1.70% late Wednesday reported a wider-than-forecast first-quarter loss. Shares fell 12% after hours. 3D Systems Corp. DDD, +1.37% was down 0.6% on light volume.
On Thursday, Wal-Mart Stores WMT, +0.08% is projected to report first-quarter earnings of $1.15 a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet. A combination of a weak job market, food stamp spending cuts and weather all likely had an impact on quarterly results, according to Bob Summers at Susquehanna International .
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Manchester United Ltd. MANU, +0.22% is forecast to report earnings of 9 cents a share in the fiscal third quarter.
Autodesk Inc. ADSK, -0.49% is expected to post first-quarter earnings of 21 cents a share.
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High-tech too costly for small farms
The article "New frontier farms" (February 2002, p. 8) is one of good intentions but it gives the idea that all farmers should go with all of these expensive gadgets. Most of these products are ones that are great and would be wonderful to have, but most farmers cannot afford them. I have lived on a farm nearly all my life and I know that all new stuff would be nice, but it is not an option unless you are getting the revenues from somewhere else. I will agree with the fact that in the future there will be more technology in farming. But there is no way that a little family farmer can afford most of this new equipment. The only ones who are going to be able to buy the equipment are the big farmers. This will put the family farms out of business and there is already too much of that happening today.
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It Didn't Take Long For Fox To Attack Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Rescue: "Not A Hero," "Koran Controversy"
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Right-wing media are dismissing President Obama's and Congressional Democrats' work on filibuster reform, a diplomatic agreement with Iran, and immigration reform as merely attempts to distract from the Affordable Care Act.
Fox News seized on a leaked draft of a U.N. climate report to suggest that climate change has been "overstated for the last 20 years." But the draft itself clarifies that observed temperatures over the last 20 years have fallen within the range of past projections despite natural short-term variation.
Fox & Friends First claimed "scientists say" that "global warming been overstated for the last 20 years," based on a draft of the fifth assessment report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report, which was leaked in December 2012 to a blog called "stopgreensuicide," contains a graph that conservative blogs claimed showed observed temperatures were lower than the projections of IPCC's first assessment report in 1990.
But scientists debunked this claim when the IPCC draft was first leaked in December. The draft itself notes that "Even though the 16 projections from the [previous temperature] models were never intended to be predictions over such a short time scale [1999-2010], the 17 observations through 2010 generally fall well within the projections made in all of the past assessments." Indeed, as climatologist James Annan told Media Matters in December, "The grey bounds [...] indicate the range of uncertainty including natural variability, and the observations are well within that range":
Fox News revealed its closing argument against President Obama, which consisted of a falsehood-laden attack on the president's record.
Fox News came to Mitt Romney's defense after his response to the attack on American diplomats in Libya was seen by many as an "attempt to score political points" and widely condemned, even by fellow Republicans.
Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S. military." Additionally, commentators have blamed the shooting on "political correctness," with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggesting the implementation of "special debriefings" for Muslim American soldiers to prevent future attacks.
Conservative media figures have echoed House Minority Leader John Boehner's statement that "93% of the American people have access to high-quality, affordable health insurance" by arguing that because most Americans purportedly have access to health insurance, health care reform constitutes, in Fox News host Steve Doocy's words, "blowing up the system for 5 percent" who don't. These media figures have ignored that tens of millions of Americans are underinsured and that the reform bills contain several provisions intended to benefit those currently insured.
Discussing 1980 photos of President-elect Barack Obama published in Time, Sean Hannity asked, "[W]hy didn't we see these pictures beforehand?" and "You think the media maybe thought, well, it might not hurt -- it might not help Barack Obama?" Similarly, Fox News hosts asked, "Was Time magazine sitting on these photos until after the election?" In fact, according to Time, the photographer, Lisa Jack, a fellow student of Obama's at the time and now a psychologist, "put the negatives in a safety-deposit box, so that they could not be used until after the election."
Following President-elect Barack Obama's announcement of his intention to release results of an internal review of contacts between his aides and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office next week, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson stated that "there is varying discussion about whether or not prosecutor [Patrick] Fitzgerald went to him [Obama] and said, hold off for another week." In fact, Fox News' Major Garrett previously reported that Fitzgerald's office "confirms that it made a special request of President-elect Obama's transition team that it not release any of the information involved in this internal search."
On Fox & Friends First, after Gretchen Carlson reported that "The New York Times says shoddy electrical wiring has killed 13 Americans and injured many more," Brian Kilmeade stated: "They had to find the negative story in Iraq?" When Carlson again discussed the Times story on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade stated: "So, this is America bad?"
Beginning on the afternoon of April 23, MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN aired a controversial ad by the North Carolina Republican Party attacking Sen. Barack Obama and two Democratic gubernatorial candidates at least 22 times combined, in most cases also noting that Sen. John McCain denounced the ad. As media figures on MSNBC and CNN pointed out, the repeated broadcasts benefit the North Carolina Republican Party, which does not have to pay for them, and they presumably benefit McCain, even as he is credited with taking the high road for criticizing the ad.
On Fox News' Fox & Friends, while discussing retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr's question during the November 28 CNN/YouTube Republican debate, Dick Morris said, "You know, listen, let's put the blame where it's due. This is a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign." On Fox & Friends First, R. Emmett Tyrrell replied, "I think so," when Steve Doocy asked, "So, are you saying that the Clintons had something to do with CNN doing a bad job vetting these questioners?" Tyrrell later stated that "the Clintons ... have played fast and loose with ethics since day one. This is a pattern."
On Fox & Friends First, Alisyn Camerota teased a report by stating, "Details on another alleged planted question by the Clinton camp at last night's [CNN/YouTube Republican] debate," referring to a questioner at the debate, retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, a member of committees associated with Hillary Clinton's campaign. During a discussion of Kerr's involvement in the debate, on-screen captions read: "HILLARY'S STAND-IN: CLINTON PLANTS STAFFER AT DEBATE" and "PLANT MEDIA: GOP YOUTUBE DEBATE." But several hours earlier -- unmentioned on Fox & Friends First -- Fox News political field producer Jake Gibson reported online that Kerr told him that Kerr "was not contacted by the Clinton campaign to do this," had appeared at the debate without the prior knowledge of the campaign, and did not work for the Clinton campaign. Gibson added that Kerr's answer "seems genuine."
In a discussion on MSNBC's Morning Joe of Bill O'Reilly's response to criticism of his controversial statement about dining at a Harlem restaurant, host Joe Scarborough noted, "I don't think that we're mischaracterizing it at all to say O'Reilly was surprised that a restaurant run by people of color was almost just like a normal restaurant." Scarborough also observed that "Fox has been coming up with some pretty, pretty crazy banners" describing the controversy that suggest "Bill O'Reilly has nothing to do with this at all. He didn't cause this at all."
On January 17, InsightMag.com posted a story stating that Sen. Barack Obama attended a madrassa as a boy and that this information had originated from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp. With the aid of the conservative media, InsightMag.com's anonymously sourced report turned into 11 days of baseless accusations against two leading contenders for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.


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If you are going to upgrade or remodel your kitchen space, you need the best kitchen faucets to replace the old one. You must not neglect the detail pieces which you use the most in your cooking station. When your faucet is already dripping, leaking, and corroded, now is the time to say goodbye. Leave those old faucets in the past. It is time to replace it.
There are several things you should know regarding the best kitchen faucets. First think first, it is about the water works. In this case, you need to shop the faucet by its type. Aside from two basic types of faucet including two-handled and single lever, you can still find the faucet designed for specific uses, like for prep sinks or wet bars. Make sure that you provide the faucet based on its uses. There are single-handle, two-handle, pull-down and pull-out, pot-filler, hands-free, and bar faucets. Of course, each type has pros and cons that you should know as well.
Furthermore, the best faucets should provide good hydrations. It is important to consider the features that affect its function and durability. The best kitchen faucets must not be a drip as well. It should not waste the water even just a drip. Well, this also depends on the rate of dripping too.
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This video presents a scientific visualization of the Horsehead Nebula as seen in infrared light. To fill out the widescreen frame, the central Hubble image has been augmented by ground-based observations from the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The three-dimensional interpretation has been sculpted to create a wispy and mountainous environment, with stars distributed in an approximate and statistical manner. The computer graphics model is intended to be scientifically reasonable, but not fully accurate. This imaginative traverse of the glowing gaseous landscape provides an inspiring spaceflight experience that brings the celestial scene to life.
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon, T. Davis, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D Team, STScI);
Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Emerson (ESO, VISTA), and Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
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The Reversal of the Curse
God promises us "a new heaven and a new earth" (Rev. 21:1). Some people leap to the conclusion that God will simply throw the present creation onto the scrap heap, so to speak, and start over again from scratch …Read More
Vern Poythress
Dr. Vern S. Poythress is professor of New Testament interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.