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A court has suspended the panel tasked with drafting a new constitution for Egypt
Row reflects tensions between Islamist and secular groups, and ruling military council
A presidential election is due to take place next month
Many Egyptians are concerned by the lack of progress since the Mubarak regime was ousted
Egypt's administrative court has suspended the country's 100-member constitutional assembly, tasked with drafting a new national constitution. But what does that say about the country's progress toward political reform?
More than a year since President Hosni Mubarak was forced to stand down, the outcome of Egypt's "revolution" remains unclear.
The suspension of the constitutional assembly is significant, says Khaled Elgindy, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, because the document it draws up is supposed to be the "fundamental institution of the new Egypt" – and this throws up questions over its legitimacy.
The row also highlights growing tensions between secular and Islamist groups and the ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which has not yet handed power to a civilian government.
It had been hoped the new constitution would be ready before presidential elections due in late May, with a run-off vote in June.
Read more about the disbanding of the constitutional group
But that time frame now seems unlikely, analysts say, opening up the prospect that a new president is elected without a clear constitutional framework by which to govern, or checks on his powers.
That said, whether the assembly as it stood could have produced a consensus draft that would have convincingly won the nation's backing in a referendum is a moot point.
The move by the administrative court in Cairo followed weeks of street protests and objections from many political and civic society groups.
They argued the assembly was dominated by the Islamists – the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist Nour party, who hold a majority in parliament – and that as a result it would not draft a constitution that was representative of the country's diverse society, and that Islamic rules would have too much sway.
Several liberal and secular members of the assembly had already withdrawn because of the criticism, as well as the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church and Al-Azhar Institution, one of the most influential Islamic entities.
Among the individuals to pull out was Mustapha Gamel Al Sayyid, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo.
He told CNN it was clear from the outset there were no proper criteria for the selection of members.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party had appointed its own lawmakers to the assembly and had decided who would speak on behalf of other groups, he said.
Christians and women were under-represented, he said, while at the same time too few of those appointed had the necessary knowledge of constitutional law.
The suspension of the assembly by the administrative court has been welcomed by some Egyptians but not by others, chiefly the Muslim Brotherhood – for whom it represents their first real setback, said Al Sayyid.
Long repressed in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has been making gains ever since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, he said, but the court ruling means its Freedom and Justice Party may now have to give up some control over who draws up the new constitution.
The speed of the court's decision likely reflects unwelcome political intervention in the judicial system, said Dr. Omar Ashour, director of Middle East Studies at the University of Exeter and a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Doha.
At the same time, it is not yet clear how a more representative, meritocratic constitutional assembly will be appointed or how long that might take, he said.
There could still be an appeal against the administrative court's ruling, although the Freedom and Justice Party has said it accepts the decision, Ashour said.
Once the panel is reconstituted, its members will not be starting from scratch in drawing up a draft, since Egypt has had three previous constitutions and various political and civic society groups have drawn up models, Ashour said.
But a number of divisive issues will have to be addressed before a new constitution can be put to a public referendum.
Among them is the question of the role that sharia, or Islamic law, will play.
Part of the problem is that the Islamist groups have not been clear about what they mean when they say they want to implement sharia law, said Elgindy. This has made many secular groups and even some Islamists apprehensive, he said.
Other challenges include ensuring the draft's wording protects individual freedoms, women's rights and the rights of religious minorities and disenfranchised groups, he said.
"All of these issues will be contentious and because they are contentious, there's a tendency to veer towards the vague – and vagueness will have bad outcomes, because that opens it up to political interpretation and manipulation," Elgindy said.
The uncertainty over the constitution does not breed confidence ahead of a presidential election that is also proving fraught, with legal challenges to the legitimacy of several candidates, including the Muslim Brotherhood's first choice.
Voters still do not know who will be on the final list and are concerned by the increasing politicization of the courts, as they get drawn into deciding who can or cannot run, said Elgindy.
He fears the situation is sidelining weaker factions who don't have the resources to challenge the decisions and allows the SCAF to play one side against the other to its own benefit. "This has really very negative implications for the rule of law, for the independence of the judiciary," he said.
And while it's natural to see discord between the different elements after the kind of revolution Egypt has experienced, Elgindy said, he sees danger in the growing cycle of division.
"At the end of the day, most Egyptians want to see progress, whether it's a parliament that functions and passes their laws and promotes the new policies that fix the economy or bring security, or whether it's a president that can bring these things," Elgindy said.
"But what they are seeing is an almost circus-like atmosphere, and I think it's very off-putting for a lot of Egyptians who just want to move on and start addressing these major problems that have been building up over the past 15 months."
Ashour believes the recently announced candidacy of Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former vice president and head of Egyptian intelligence, may galvanize the nation's revolutionary and Islamist factions to work together to prevent a return to power of the man who is seen as the essence of the old regime.
"If this man became president, the revolution would probably be defeated," Ashour said.
The Muslim Brotherhood and other revolutionary groups have said they will return to Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt's protest movement, on Friday in what seems to be a show of anger at Suleiman's move.
Many Egyptians cannot see how the new constitution will affect them in the very near future, said Ashour, since "their more immediate concern is about their daily survival and security issues."
But, he said, "Everyone is very concerned about the election because the situation is quite unstable and there are serious risks that if this escalation keeps on getting worse, we may see another intervention by the military."


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My project is to design a medical database for many countries.
This database contains many parts: medicines, medical centers, patients, etc. for every country with its own language.
I started my design with medicine part but I'm having many issues continuing:
- How can I put all these complex parts in one database with different languages? I can't imagine any suitable design for that complex idea.
- How can I deal with the database growth from data coming fast for each part from each country?
- I read about primary files and secondary files and how they increase performance of a database. Should I made them for my database? Or should I use the default files?
- Should I separate every country with its own parts in a separated database?
I uploaded 2 pics for the initial design for medicines part in English language only.
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A Rustic, Bohemian Wedding at Gladstone's Malibu in Malibu, California
DIY details and natural wood accents lent Lindsay Rahn and Sam Kattenhorn's bohemian beach wedding a hint of rustic flair. "Growing up, we lived in Ventura County for a few years, and that is what made me completely fall in love with Southern California," Lindsay says. "The beach we always visited was Zuma along the coast in Malibu, and after we moved from Ventura County, we spent a week in Newport Beach every summer. The good times and happiness I always felt at the beach is what inspired me to want my wedding to be on the sand in my favorite town of Malibu." The day kicked off with an intimate ceremony at Los Angeles California Temple, followed by a ring exchanging ceremony on the beach outside of Gladstone's Malibu, where the reception took place. The couple let the beauty of the setting speak for itself by keeping the extras to a minimum. A bit of fresh greenery and two bundles of garden roses framed the aisle, adding a pop of fresh color to the coastal scenery. The reception was where Lindsay and Sam's vision truly came to life. Bundles of fresh eucalyptus and pale pink garden roses arranged by the couple and their family and friends dotted the reception tables, while strands of bistro lights twinkled overhead. Suspended macramé flowers and rope-wrapped lanterns filled with scented candles captured the festivity's free-spirited feel, while twig-wreath signage and burlap touches gave the décor a subtle rustic edge.
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text: So I have had my Sat radio installed in my car for over a year in current car. Now for about the past 3 months it has been not wanting to power on till about 20-30 mins. I don't know if its the cold or not as it has been working in very cold winter weather. If any one knows what the problem is as I don't want to take it in to get checked/fixed if its something simple. It's a little annoying as it turns on 10-20 mins before I get to work. I am guessing it has to do with something to do with the power cable.


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To Be Honest, the '.Crap' Jokes Were Really Starting to Get to Us
With .Mac's mediocrity so impressively well realized, it was only a matter of time before Apple wised up and improved the archaic online services suite.
And some observers are wondering if it already has. Perhaps in partnership with Google. Over at Wired, Fred Vogelstein suggests Apple may use its Worldwide Developers Conference next week to announce a major upgrade to .Mac, one based on Google Web apps like Gmail and Google Calendar, Docs and Spreadsheets. "Hints from Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO and Apple board member and from Apple boss Steve Jobs point squarely in that direction," Vogelstein explains. "Schmidt said in April in an interview with me that he envisioned just such a relationship eventually. 'We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve,' Schmidt told me. 'They have very good judgment on user interface and people. But they don't have this supercomputer [that Google has], which is the data centers. What they have is a manufacturing business that's doing quite well.' "
And there have been other hints as well. In fact, at D5 last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent a bit of time discussing Apple's effort to port Google Maps to the iPhone and talking up the marriage of Apple's interface and usability savvy with Google's back-end chops.
I'll give you a concrete example. I love Google Maps, use it on my computer, you know, in a browser. But when we were doing the iPhone, we thought, wouldn't it be great to have maps on the iPhone? And so we called up Google and they'd done a few client apps in Java on some phones and they had an API that we worked with them a little on. And we ended up writing a client app for those APIs. They would provide the back-end service. And the app we were able to write, since we're pretty reasonable at writing apps, blows away any Google Maps client. Just blows it away. Same set of data coming off the server, but the experience you have using it is unbelievable. It's way better than the computer. And just in a completely different league than what they'd put on phones before.
"And, you know, that client is the result of a lot of technology on the client, that client application. So when we show it to them, they're just blown away by how good it is. And you can't do that stuff in a browser.
"So people are figuring out how to do more in a browser, how to get a persistent state of things when you're disconnected from a browser, how do you actually run apps locally using, you know, apps written in those technologies so they can be pretty transparent, whether you're connected or not.
"But it's happening fairly slowly and there's still a lot you can do with a rich client environment. At the same time, the hardware is progressing to where you can run a rich client environment on lower and lower cost devices, on lower and lower power devices. And so there's some pretty cool things you can do with clients."
Almost makes you think this partnership Vogelstein's predicting is a done deal, doesn't it?


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Well, can I really say it? We did it.... ALL the rooms in our home have been touched & redone. Of course there is still a short list of little things that need touched up or finished but the BIG LIST is done. We stepped out in faith & purchased this home in October of 2012 and God has truly blessed us in giving us this home.
BEFORE - the original utility room
This is part of the addition that the previous owners put on the home. You have to walk through this area to get to the former hair salon which is now our master suite.
I forgot how bad this area looked. A lot of drywall missing, nasty stick-on tiles on the floor, pretty gross wooden steps, and the list could go on & on. We should have taken a picture of the ceiling. It had random drywall, poor lighting and an attic access that didn't quite close.
AFTER - the laundry room
The awesome door Jake snagged at ReStore. The door used to be a white metal exterior door. I love how you can shut the door but still see down the hallway to the kids bedrooms. And our pallet wall - love that texture!
Jake built a wall around the water heater & added shelving above for my sewing stuff. The pallet door hides all of that mess. The armoire is my linen closet.
I was given one & bought the other Minneapolis - St. Paul tea towels. With a simple pallet frame they became art.
We painted the brick wall white to give it a fresh clean look. I absolutely love it. I also love all the textures in this room.
We picked up this old side to a crib along the road a few years ago when we were on an anniversary get away. Painted it, hung it & now I use it to line dry clothes.
Jake gave me this wall decal a few years ago for my birthday. We finally got it up. Some projects (like this room) took a little while longer to get to than we anticipated.
Beautiful wood stairs that Jake extended so we don't fall off the side when opening the door. Another look at the pallet wall with the door for the HVAC. We decided to paint the concrete floor grey (used up paint from the exterior of the house). We went back & forth with other ideas, but this was the best option for right now.
My IKEA cart that I use for ironing & sewing supplies with a few pretty details.
One last glance. I am thrilled with how it turned out & ecstatic to not be looking at an unfinished space any longer.
So in all of these Before & After posts I give you paint colors. Not this one. We mixed paint from our old master with paint from our new master with paint from the toilet room. We have so much extra paint it seemed silly to buy another color.
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Botox Users Can't Understand Emotions
If you're a Botox user you're basically a zombie who's devoid of all emotion, according to new research. Talking to someone who uses Botox is sometimes tough, especially when you try to get a read on their expressions but can't get over the permanent look of shock on their face. But, in a bizarre twist, it goes both ways: The results of a study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science have found that Botox patients can't understand your expressions, either.
NPR's Shots blog explains the background of the study, led by professors David Neal and Tanya Chartrand of Duke University:
Neal and Chartrand say the subtle contraction of our facial muscles when we mirror a friend's happiness or woe generates a feedback signal to our brains. Those incoming signals from facial nerves help the brain interpret how the other person is feeling.
It's all part of neuroscientists' recent focus on so-called "mirror neurons" – the brain cells that give us the power to empathize (to "feel with") someone else.
Now how does that relate to Botox users? The researchers tested 31 women who use Botox or a derma filler to see how quickly they could judge what emotions were displayed in a series of images. And the Botox users scored poorly against derma filler patients, meaning "Botox patients' ability to make fast judgments about another person's emotions was blunted." In other words, injecting botulinum toxin into your face to temporarily paralyze your muscles might actually be harmful. Who knew?
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EFI Breaks Sales and Booth Attendance Records at SGIA
FOSTER CITY, CA—Oct. 26, 2012—EFI concluded a very successful SGIA Expo with record-setting booth traffic, leads, and sales on the show floor. It was clear that the company's product portfolio, including new innovation in digital wide- and superwide-format systems, as well as digital label production, is properly aligned to enable high productivity and profits for customers.
"The growth of the specialty graphics industry is apparent with the record breaking attendance, not only in EFI's booth, but also at SGIA overall," said Scott Schinlever, senior vice president and general manager of EFI's Inkjet Solutions. "As the specialty graphics industry continues to undergo an accelerated analog-to-digital transformation, EFI has led the way not only in best-in-class printers, but also with a fully integrated workflow from job acquisition and management to scheduling and printing. We believe these productivity enablers are equally as important as the printers themselves in ensuring that printing companies can transform and position themselves to address the requirements of a rapidly changing market."
At SGIA, visitors to EFI's booth were able to see the company's complete printer line-up and integrated workflow products. Show attendees had great interest in the newest products in EFI's inkjet portfolio, including the VUTEk HS100 Pro, VUTEk GS3250LX Pro, VUTEk QS3 Pro, EFI R3225 and the Jetrion 4900M-330. The company's focus on innovation is evident with its Pin & Cure imaging technology, first in-class LED UV-curing, and true grayscale print head technology, which is now available across many VUTEk superwide format models.
"The decision to purchase the first EFI VUTEk QS3 Pro in North America was clear with the value it offers," said Kurt Wenzel, managing partner for Imaged Advertising Creations. "The hybrid roll-to-roll and flatbed options were essential for growing our business, with the flexibility to produce more dynamic, high-margin jobs efficiently. The six-colors-plus-white capability was a value-add for this purchase as well. Instead of just upgrading equipment, we reinvested in our business for productivity and profit growth."
About EFI
EFI is a worldwide provider of products, technology and services leading the transformation of analog to digital imaging. Based in Silicon Valley, with offices around the globe, the company's powerful integrated product portfolio includes digital front-end servers; superwide, wide-format, label and ceramic inkjet presses and inks; production workflow, web to print, and business automation software; and office, enterprise and mobile cloud solutions. These products allow users to produce, communicate and share information in an easy and effective way, and enable businesses to increase their profits, productivity, and efficiency.
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The Hunza Stretch Gaiter is a waterproof and highly breathable gaiter, in a 3L Stretch Watergate™ fabric, designed for year-round wet weather use.
The Hunza Stretch Gaiter is a waterproof and highly breathable gaiter, in a 3L Stretch Watergate™ fabric, designed for year-round wet weather use.
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Girl killed, 4 others hurt in NY house explosion
WILSON, N.Y. (AP) -- An early morning blast leveled a house in western New York on Tuesday, killing a girl and injuring her parents and two siblings, authorities said.
Niagara County Undersheriff Michael Filicetti said the blast occurred around 6 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the rural town of Wilson, on Lake Ontario about 30 miles north of Buffalo. The home used propane tanks but the cause of the explosion wasn't known yet, authorities said.
Sarah Johnson's body was found in the debris at the rear of the home, Filicetti said. Authorities weren't sure of her age but believe she was between 12 and 14.
Filicetti said her parents and two siblings were blown clear and were found in the front yard by the first deputy to arrive on the scene. All four were being treated at a Buffalo hospital for serious injuries, he said.
Two other children weren't home at the time of the blast, which Filicetti said could be felt at the sheriff's communications center about four miles away.
The explosion occurred on a sparsely developed stretch of rural road. Neighbor Nate Reynolds, 22, said he was sleeping when a loud noise woke him up. At first he thought it was thunder, but then soon began getting text messages from friends saying there was an explosion nearby.
"It's sounded like a sonic boom," said Reynolds, who lives about 100 yards from the explosion scene. "It shook my whole house."
Other neighbors said they heard and felt the blast, then saw a ball of flame rise over the house. Scores of firefighters from several local volunteer companies put out the blaze.
The force of the blast sent debris flying over a wide area. Yellow wall insulation and a soccer poster could be seen on neighboring lawns.
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White Sox walk away with win against Angels
Keppinger's first pass in 140 plate appearances scores game-winner
ANAHEIM -- Jeff Keppinger walked up to his locker following a postgame workout at Angel Stadium on Thursday night and noticed a group of media members waiting to chat.
The White Sox second baseman played an integral role in the team's 5-4 come-from-behind victory before 37,711, so it stood to reason that he would serve as a primary interview subject. But with a broad smile across his face, Keppinger made one request before the talk began.
"Please don't ask about the walk," Keppinger quipped.
It was hard to avoid the topic considering Keppinger's first walk of the season couldn't have come at a better time. He broke a streak of 140 plate appearances without a free pass by drawing a four-pitch walk from Angels reliever Michael Kohn that forced home the go-ahead run during the South Siders' third straight win on their seven-game road trip, and moved the team just four games behind the American League Central-leading Tigers.
Kohn lost a seven-pitch battle with Conor Gillaspie that ended in a free pass with Adam Dunn on second, but Keppinger was taking all the way after Kohn walked Dayan Viciedo on five pitches to load the bases. The Angels right-hander wasn't remotely close to Keppinger.
"Once he walked those two guys in front of me, I was probably going to take two strikes, make him get his rhythm back and start pounding the zone," Keppinger said. "After he walked Conor, he couldn't find his arm slot or something. We didn't chase anything bad or put a bad ball in play, so it worked out for us."
"Just an off night," said Kohn, who threw 12 of his final 14 pitches out of the strike zone. "My job is to come in and keep those guys off base and unfortunately tonight I didn't do that. Just chalk it up as a bad night."
Trailing 4-2 in the eighth, Alejandro De Aza started the three-run rally with a single off Dane De La Rosa (1-1). Alexei Ramirez followed with a single to right-center, and when Mike Trout made an ill-advised throw to try to get De Aza at third, Ramirez moved into second as the tying run.
De Aza scored from third on a wild pitch on Alex Rios' strikeout, and Dunn singled home Ramirez through a drawn-in infield. Dunn was the last hitter De La Rosa faced, with Kohn entering and retiring Paul Konerko on a slow roller back to the mound for the second out. Then the strike zone disappeared for the reliever, and the White Sox (18-21) didn't offer up any help.
"Do you just take one down the middle or do you chance it?" said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of going against Kohn's wildness. "You have to make sure you are swinging at something that's in the middle of the plate and Kep did a good job of just not trying to do anything extra special."
"We had some great at-bats," said Dunn, who is 6-for-15 with six RBIs on the road trip. "Pitches that were close, we were able to lay off of them for the most part and were able to string together eight or nine really good at-bats."
With the game tied at 2 in the sixth inning, and with Mark Trumbo on base via a walk and Josh Hamilton having reached with a single, Howie Kendrick connected on a line shot to left that even sounded good off the bat on a 1-1 pitch. Viciedo did not get a good read or take a good route on the baseball, and the shot hit off Viciedo's glove for what was ruled a two-run double and a temporary lead for the Angels (15-26).
That miscue, along with De Aza getting doubled off first base on a fourth-inning Ramirez liner and Rios failing to run on that wild pitch third strike in the eighth, left Thursday somewhat short of a perfect effort for the White Sox. The offense also was 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position over the first seven innings.
Angels starter Jerome Williams allowed two runs over six-plus innings, striking out three and giving up Rios' ninth homer with two outs in the fourth, extending Rios' hitting streak to 11 straight. Williams was pulled by Mike Scioscia after just 74 pitches.
Rios did the job with his arm in the third when he threw out Chris Iannetta at the plate on Erick Aybar's single to right. The game stayed scoreless until Rios went deep in the fourth and Albert Pujols followed with a two-run shot in the bottom half of the frame after a leadoff walk to Trout.
Left-hander Jose Quintana gave up four runs over 6 2/3 innings after setting down the first seven, fanning four and walking three in 111 pitches. Matt Lindstrom (2-2) earned the victory, with Addison Reed channeling his hero Troy Percival for save No. 13 and his first recorded at the home of his favorite boyhood team.
These sum total of the parts brought the White Sox as close to first as they've been since the start of the month. Sure, it's just 39 games into the season. And yes, the White Sox remain in last place in the division.
But the team is building momentum and happy to be this close after six weeks of less-than-stellar baseball.
"To come back and just keep grinding away, I liked the way the offense battled," Ventura said. "We are going to have to do that."
"We're never going to give up, no matter what the score is," Reed said. "Breaks are going to start falling our way and we're going to start playing some good ball."


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Katherine Artzner, Kodjo Atiso, Paloma Celis-Carbajal, LaVerne Gray, Robin Kear, Laura Park
Project Description:
Help Develop and Identify Free Web-Based tutorials and Professional Development Opportunities that Librarians in other countries could access.
From Paloma for the future list:
QUESTION: Can anybody recommend some scholar-friendly non-English language/multilingual social bookmarking sites? How are subject librarians working with these? Are you adding them to your subject web sites, creating output options from the library catalog...?
ANSWER: (from Brown Univ.): My colleague recommends this site: http://www.jasonbartholme.com/2007/02/22/67-foreign-language-social-book marking-sites-revealed which organize 67 sites by language. We are not doing anything in the Libraries with these kinds of sites yet. The most I have done so far is to promote Oen Culture's foreign language pod cast site to our language faculty (http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html).
Another possible resource: (from Robin)
A new series of free online OPAL (www.opal-online.org) events is about to get underway. As the series name implies, these "Casual Conversations" will be one-hour informal conversations with librarians. Everyone in the world is welcome to participate. There is no need to register. Just show up online, listen, text chat, and talk if you want.
If you cannot participate live online, we plan to record, archive, and podcast these casual conversations, adding them to the OPAL Archive (http://www.opal-online.org/archive.htm) soon after the conclusion of each conversation.
The complete list of upcoming OPAL online programs can be found at: http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm
NOTE: The first ALA Emerging Leaders conference will take place on 11 January 2008 in Philadelphia


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Chavez's successor in Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Vice President Nicolas Maduro is taking over leadership of Hugo Chavez's political movement after the socialist leader died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Maduro now faces the daunting task of rallying support in a deeply divided country while maintaining unity within his party's ranks.
Maduro decidedly lacks the vibrant personality that made Chavez a one-man political phenomenon in Venezuela, but he has the advantage of being Chavez's hand-picked successor.
The mustachioed 50-year-old former bus driver won Chavez's trust as a loyal spokesman who echoed the president's stances. How Maduro will lead in Chavez's absence remains to be seen, although he's widely known as both a skilled negotiator and a leader who views upholding his mentor's legacy as his personal crusade and responsibility.
One of the biggest tasks Maduro will likely face is attempting to hold together a diverse movement that includes radical leftists, moderates and many current and former military officers.
Analysts have speculated that differences might emerge between factions led by Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, the influential National Assembly president who is thought to wield power within the military. But thus far both men have denied such divisions and vowed to remain united.
After Chavez's Dec. 11 cancer surgery, Maduro stepped up his public appearances to fill the void, providing regular updates on the president's condition, calling for unity among allies and lambasting the opposition.
Maduro also showed how he could attempt to continue Chavez's socialist-inspired project. Speaking at one December rally, he vowed in vague terms to maintain policies that have angered the country's leading business federation, Fedecamaras, which was long at odds with the president.
"We aren't going to give dollars to Fedecamaras. What we're going to give them is pains, headaches with this Bolivarian Revolution," Maduro shouted, his voice hoarse. "I swear to you ... we're never going to betray the people of Venezuela!"
Chavez's deteriorating health led him on Dec. 8 to announce Maduro as his chosen successor. He said that if his illness prevented him from being sworn in on Jan. 10, government supporters should rally around Maduro and elect him president.
Maduro is expected to keep promoting programs such as free medical clinics staffed by Cuban doctors and subsidized food stores, which have endeared the president with the country's vast numbers of poor. Maduro has vowed to block a return to past policies that he said had benefited the wealthy.
"Our people will never again see the bourgeoisie plundering this country," Maduro said, adding, "Better to be dead than traitors to the people and to Chavez!"
That loyalty made Maduro a logical choice, political observers said.
"Maduro combines two characteristics that influenced Chavez in his decision to designate him as successor: first, his loyalty to the party leadership, and second, his positions in favor of popular measures," such as social programs for the poor, said Steve Ellner, a political scientist at Venezuela's University of Oriente.
In his youth, Maduro drove a bus for the Caracas Metro transit system and later became a union leader.
It's unclear when Maduro and Chavez first met. But Chavez is thought to have first gotten to know Maduro in the 1980s, when Chavez was a lieutenant colonel and began a clandestine movement of disgruntled military officers that eventually carried out a failed coup attempt in 1992. Chavez was jailed on military rebellion charges and then released in 1994 when he was pardoned.
Maduro went on to become a leading member of Chavez's nascent political movement, growing closer to the budding politician and also getting to know Cilia Flores, who is now attorney general and was Chavez's defense attorney following his arrest for the 1992 coup attempt.
After Chavez was elected president in 1998, Maduro was selected to join a special assembly to draft a new constitution. He was later elected to the National Assembly and then became president of the legislature.
Maduro was named foreign minister in 2006 and oversaw international efforts such as consolidating the regional diplomatic blocs ALBA and Unasur, strengthening relations with countries such as Russia, Iran and China, and overseeing a rapprochement with U.S.-allied Colombia. He is thought to maintain close ties with Cuba's government.
Maduro "is perceived by Chavez as a negotiator with diplomatic skills who could potentially gather the support of the different factions and keep it united in the difficult months ahead," said Diego Moya-Ocampos, an analyst with the London-based consulting firm IHS Global Insight.
"Nevertheless, he is not necessarily perceived as such within all the top ranks of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela and the armed forces," Moya-Ocampos added.
Jennifer McCoy, a political science professor at Georgia State University, described Maduro as an easygoing man who has shown a willingness to talk with government opponents.
"He's always been someone who is easy to talk to," said McCoy, director of the Americas program at the Carter Center, which helped the Organization of American States facilitate dialogue between the government and opposition after a 2002 coup that briefly ousted Chavez.
Maduro was always willing "to discuss the issues, and I think that's really important going forward for Venezuela," McCoy said.
Before Chavez underwent his latest operation in December, he explained why he had chosen Maduro:
"He's one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I'm unable to -- God knows what he does -- if I'm unable to, to continue with his firm hand, with his gaze, with his heart of a man of the people, with his gift for people, with his intelligence, with the international recognition he's earned, with his leadership, leading the presidency."
Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez and Ian James contributed to this report.
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Webroot and F5 Networks Join Forces to Enhance Application Security for Enterprise Customers Worldwide
Integration of Webroot's IP Reputation Service to Power F5's IP Intelligence Offering
Bracknell, UK – June 25, 2012 – Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service, today announced a partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN). F5 will integrate Webroot's IP Reputation Services into its Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS) to provide enterprise customers with the best protection against rapidly evolving Internet-based threats. The rollout also enhances application performance and availability and develops stronger context-based security.
The first F5 product to take advantage of this capability is F5's Application Security Manager (ASM) product, a key component of F5's Application Security and Data Centre Firewall Solutions. In addition, F5's community of developers can now access Webroot's IP intelligence through the TMOS platform via F5's iRules technology to get additional leverage across a variety of use cases.
"Applications running across networks encounter a wide range of security challenges," said Mark Vondemkamp, Senior Director of Product Management, F5 Networks. "IT managers don't want the complexity of managing different single-purpose appliances. By integrating the industry's most comprehensive IP Reputation intelligence into our product platform, our customers can take advantage of added protection against malicious sites without any extra management burden."
The integration of IP intelligence into TMOS will provide F5 customers with better visibility into the context of inbound connections and control over their network resources by identifying inbound requests from malicious IPs and stopping known malicious traffic before it enters the network. This drives better network performance and security. F5 customers also gain visibility on outbound communication from infected endpoints to malicious IP addresses controlled by botnet command and control operations so that they may shut down those connections.
"We are excited to join forces with F5 Networks, which shares Webroot's mission of making security management easier for today's busy IT professionals," said Craig Whetstone, senior director of Strategic Alliances, Webroot. "Together with F5 and its community of developers, we can help their customers address the challenge of securely delivering critical business applications backed by up-to-the-minute protection against today's rapidly evolving Internet threats."
Webroot's IP Reputation Service consolidates IP threats from the Webroot Intelligence Network and publishes a dynamic data set of high-risk IP addresses. It delivers updated threat data within minutes and protects against attacks from multiple threat sources. Armed with the latest intelligence and predictive risk analysis for IPs, it reveals inbound and outbound communication with malicious IPs and enables flexible policy reporting and implementation. Features of Webroot's IP Reputation Service include:
· Comprehensive and dynamic threat coverage: Webroot's IP Reputation data is comprised of millions of malicious IP addresses and is continuously updated to address the highly dynamic nature of IP threats such as botnets and web attacks.
· Extreme accuracy: Advanced machine learning enables high volume and extremely accurate disposition of malicious IPs.
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TMOS is the universal product platform shared by F5's BIG-IP product portfolio, which is ICSA-certified as a network firewall. F5's IP Intelligence services are also available on shipping BIG-IP appliances, BIG-IP Virtual Edition, and VIPRIONs using F5's iRules technology.


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What is the Startup Passport Program
The Startup Passport is for any entrepreneur across the cities of Kitchener, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo that are trying to build something global. We know that having a space to conduct business when you are travelling is critical. You're not going to take that investor pitch in a coffee shop and you're not going to onboard that customer from a motel lobby. Thanks to the Startup Passport, you'll have the perfect place to conduct business, take meetings, make connections, and build lasting partnerships. Welcome to your global home.
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The goal of the Startup Passport is to build a stronger, more interconnected ecosystem from Kitchener-Waterloo to Toronto to Ottawa to Montreal, that will empower the entrepreneurs in these cities to thrive, grow and compete globally.
Each city is already home to global business leaders and pioneers of innovation. Yet while each city stands strongly on their own, the surest path to solidify and expand upon these gains is to pair it with a program that allows these companies scale.
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The WeWork difference: Scale, Network + Community Ambassadors
Each WeWork location is home to companies of all types and stages - from early-stage startups to forward-thinking enterprise companies. WeWork offers amazing services and programs geared specifically to Entrepreneurs. Programs like WeWork Labs, our global platform that pushes entrepreneurs to experiment, collaborate and grow. Within these spaces we foster meaningful connections between start-ups and the educational, mentorship and financial resources needed to drive their businesses forward. If you're using the Startup Passport in a city with a WeWork Labs, we will connect you directly with the local Labs manager who can help you get connected in the city you are visiting. Globally, WeWork provides more than 400,000 members around the world with space, community, and services through both physical and digital offerings with more than 425 physical locations in 100 cities and 27 countries around the world, a network that all WeWork members have access to.
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WeWork has partnered with some amazing local incubators and accelerators in the local start-up ecosystems of Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. These partners have identified high-potential early-stage companies that are ready to start thinking global. Inquire with one of these amazing partners to be eligible for the Start-up Passport program.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers today announced the July winners of the Dodger Pride Awards. The Dodger Pride Awards were created in 2008 by General Manager Ned Colletti, and are given on a monthly basis to the players at each level of the club's minor league system who play the game with a hustling, smart, aggressive style. The players and staff on each respective club vote for the awards.
The winners for July are as follows:
Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes
Pitcher - RHP FERNANDO NIEVE ranked fifth in the PCL with a 2.17 ERA and had the circuit's seventh-lowest opponents' batting average with a .219 mark, going 2-0 in five July starts. The 30-year-old allowed two or fewer earned runs in each of his starts during the month, including three quality starts and his July 13 start at Nashville when he allowed just four hits in 6.0 scoreless frames. Overall, Nieve is 5-6 with a 5.44 ERA in 19 games (18 starts) with the Isotopes.
Player - 1B/OF JERRY SANDS tied for the Pacific Coast League lead with eight July home runs and tied for third on the circuit with 26 RBI, while batting .327 in 27 games in the month. Sands was named PCL Player of the Week for the period of July 23-29 after becoming just the fifth player in PCL history to hit two grand slams in a game, doing so in the second game of Albuquerque's doubleheader on July 29 at Nashville. He joined Gregorio Petit (Oklahoma City, 2010), A.J. Pierzynski (Salt Lake, 2000), Babe Pinelli (San Francisco, 1929) and Pete Schneider (Vernon, 1923) as the only PCL players to accomplish the feat. Overall, the 24-year-old is batting .279, including a .311 mark with runners in scoring position, and ranks among the league leaders in home runs (19, T-7th) and RBI (79, 3rd).
Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts
Pitcher - RHP MATT MAGILL went 3-1 with a 2.48 ERA, the 11th-lowest mark in the Southern League, in five July starts. The 22-year-old limited opponents to a .215 batting average during the month while walking only three and striking out 30 in 29.0 innings. The Simi Valley native was honored with his third selection as Southern League Pitcher of the Week for the period of July 9-15, tossing 6.0 scoreless innings and striking out seven in his only start during the week against Pensacola. Overall, Magill leads the league with 119 strikeouts in 107.1 innings and is tied for third on the circuit with eight wins (8-5) and a 4.11 ERA in 20 starts. Magill is in his fifth professional season after being selected in the 31st round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.
Player - IF RAFAEL YNOA led the Southern League with 39 hits and ranked second on the circuit with a .348 batting average, behind only teammate Nick Buss, in 27 July games. Ynoa, who will turn 25 on Tuesday, put together a 19-game hitting streak from July 4-26, batting .429 (33-for-77) during the run. Overall, Ynoa ranks fifth in the Southern League with a .292 batting average and has excelled in his role as the Lookouts' primary leadoff hitter, posting a .331 batting average and .415 on-base percentage in 45 games batting first.
Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
Pitcher – RHP ANDRES SANTIAGO posted a 1.76 ERA (8 ER/41.0 IP) and went 2-0 in five July starts for the Quakes. The right-hander ranked among the California League's best in the month in strikeouts (48, 1st), opponent's average (.147, 2nd), WHIP (0.73, 2nd), ERA (1.76, 3rd) and innings pitched (41.0, 3rd). Overall, the 22-year-old is 5-3 with a 3.96 ERA (38 ER/86.1 IP) in 16 games (14 starts) this season and is limiting opponents to a .214 batting average, including a .188 mark at home. The Dodgers' 16th-round selection of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft was recently promoted to Double-A Chattanooga.
Player – OF JOC PEDERSON batted .336 (39-for-116) with seven homers and 22 RBI in 28 July games, including a three-home run game on July 1 against High Desert. The Palo Alto native led Rancho Cucamonga in many offensive categories in July and ranked among the California League leaders in home runs (7, T-3rd), hits (39, T-4th), stolen bases (10, T-5th), runs (26, T-5th), RBI (22, T-8th), extra-base hits (13, T-10th), batting average (.336, 12th) and on-base percentage (.414, 12th). The 20-year-old is batting .300 with 11 home runs and 43 RBI in his third professional season after being selected by the Dodgers in the 11th round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of Palo Alto High School.
Single-A Great Lakes Loons
Pitcher – RHP MICHAEL THOMAS went 2-0 and converted all three save opportunities, striking out 16 over 11.0 scoreless innings in 12 July relief appearances for the Loons to earn his recent promotion to Rancho Cucamonga. Overall, the Forest Hill, MD native went 4-2 with a 1.24 ERA (7 ER/51.0 IP) in 37 appearances with the Loons this season, limiting opponents to a .190 average. Thomas was selected by the Dodgers in the 35th round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
Player – C PRATT MAYNARD led the Loons with 14 RBI in 22 games during the month, batting .296 (24-for-81) with seven doubles and a pair of home runs. The 22-year-old backstop hit safely in 19 of 22 July games, including seven multi-hit games. On the season, Maynard ranks second on the team with a .341 on-base percentage while batting .266 (65-for-244) with three homers and 30 RBI.
Rookie-advanced Ogden Raptors
Pitcher – RHP ROSS STRIPLING did not allow an earned run over 17.0 innings in six July starts for the Raptors. The right-hander fanned 19 and walked only one batter, limiting opponents to a .155 average and a 0.57 WHIP in July. Overall the 22-year-old is 1-0 with a 0.45 ERA (1 ER/20 IP) with 25 strikeouts and two walks in eight games (six starts). Before being drafted by the Dodgers in the fifth round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, Stripling twirled a no-hitter against San Diego State on May 12 as a member of the Texas A&M Aggies.
Player – OF JEREMY RATHJEN ranked second in the Pioneer League with a .394 batting average in 26 July games for the Raptors, which included a 12-game hitting streak and a Pioneer League Player of the Week honor for the period of July 16-22. The 22-year-old ranked among the Pioneer League leaders in July in hits (41, T-1st), on-base percentage (.496, 2nd), runs (25, T-3rd), stolen bases (7, T-6th) and RBI (18, T-12th). Since being selected in the 11th round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft out of Rice University, the outfielder is hitting .363 with a .472 on-base percentage in 38 games and ranks among the Pioneer League leaders in many offensive categories.
Rookie-level Arizona Dodgers
Pitcher - LHP MIGUEL SULBARAN allowed just three combined earned runs in five starts during the month of July, going 2-1 with a 1.05 ERA and a 9.2 consecutive scoreless innings streak in his last two outings. The 18-year-old Venezuelan right-hander has struck out 34 batters and walked just four through seven starts for the season, while tossing at least 5.0 innings and allowing two earned runs or less in six of those games. Sulbaran currently ranks second in the league with a 1.51 ERA while holding the opposition to a .237 batting average (.225 in July).
Player – IF ZACH BABITT collected multi-hit games in five of 11 contests during the month. The 22-year-old second baseman walked eight times and struck out just once in his last eight games, while adding stolen bases in each of his last three contests. A 10th-round selection in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, Babitt is batting .313 (5-for-16) with runners in scoring position and .333 (9-for-27) with runners on base this season.
Rookie-level Dominican Summer League Dodgers
Pitcher – RHP WASCAR TEODO joined the Dodgers' rotation after 10 relief appearances, tossing 16.0 consecutive scoreless innings in his first three starts while allowing just seven hits and striking out 13 batters. The right-hander allowed two earned runs in his first appearance in July, but has not been scored upon since, shutting out the opposition over his last 23.2 innings overall. The 18-year-old is 2-0 with a 0.87 ERA in 13 appearances (three starts) this season, leading the team in ERA while holding the opposition to a .157 batting average in 41.1 innings of work.
Player – OF JORKY INFANTE began to heat up in July after a slow start to the season, batting .323 with four doubles, a triple and seven stolen bases in 25 games during the month. The switch hitting utility man drew 13 walks while striking out just eight times during July. He made starts at shortstop, third base and all three outfield positions and posted four consecutive multi-hit games as part of an eight-game hitting streak in which he hit .461 (12-for-26) with four walks, a double and three stolen bases.
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Lunch in the Loop: Eppy's Deli
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Editor's Note: Whether you're a tourist or an office worker in downtown Chicago, you can get sick of eating at chain restaurants all day. So we've started a series to get you the lowdown on where to find a great and affordable lunch.
Having a lot of free time right now, wandering around the Loop for lunch is a pretty exciting adventure. Sometimes my lunch trips are meticulously planned, and sometimes they're totally improvised. I improvised my way to lunch on a sunny Friday, wandering around the Loop with my trusty DSLR.
When I'm out trolling for lunch downtown, I tend to look like a tourist with a serious case of being Asian. I peek around with genuine curiosity, marveling at skyscrapers, while taking pictures of most of the food that goes in my mouth. Speaking of being Asian, my dad used to go around telling people we were 7th generation Cherokee when I was growing up just to screw with them. So to celebrate my Cherokee heritage, I wandered into a Jewish sandwich shop and parked my badonkadonk at Eppy's Deli.
One of the coolest things at Eppy's Deli is that they base their soup prices off the temperature outside—no kidding. When I visited, it was 63 degrees, which translated to a $0.63 cup of soup!
No trip to a Jewish deli would be complete without a bowl of matzo ball soup, and Eppy's version comes with a single ball bathing in chicken soup. Unfortunately, the matzo ball is somehow a bit dry and grainy in the middle, which seems odd to me, considering the fact it spends its lifetime languoring in that poultry bath. The broth itself is strongly flavored with carrot and celery, which comes through more than the actual chicken flavor. There are multiple soups on the menu, so if you're low on pocket change, getting a few of these cups may genuinely be the cheapest lunch in the loop, even if it's 100 degrees outside.
We asked one of the nice employees what she recommended, and she emphatically replied, "Everyone loves the turkey pastrami!" My dining companion wanted a Rueben ($9.25), so we fudged the recipe a bit and replaced the traditional corned beef with the turkey pastrami (which is more like a Rachel rather than a Reuben).
To my surprise, the turkey pastrami is excellent. I always have my misgivings about replacing red meat with turkey, but in this case, it's a non-issue. It's tender, very flavorful, and moist, seasoned with classic peppery pastrami spices. The thousand island dressing bolsters the sandwich with creamy richness and a bit of sweet tanginess, and the sauerkraut adds a bright sour kick along with the lightly crunchy texture of the cabbage.
The turkey meatloaf sandwich ($8.25), unfortunately, proved my prior misgivings to turkey. The regular meatloaf wasn't ready by the time I'd ordered, so I took a leap of faith into meatloaf made from our favorite leaner gobble monster. The texture of the meatloaf is mushy, while the meatloaf itself is nearly flavorless. Stick to the turkey pastrami instead.
With each sandwich, you have a choice of either two cold sides, or one hot side. My dining companion picked the mashies and gravy (included in price of sandwich). Yes, the name is a bit on the silly-goose side, I know. The mashed spuds are garlicky, and the chicken gravy is lumpy and tastes a little bit like flour, but I appreciate the homey flavor to it.
The mac and cheese (included in price of sandwich) is disappointing. It's got the bright fakey orange color I'm fond of when it comes to this type of mac and cheese, but it's surprisingly flavorless and bland, even lacking on the salt.
Eppy's Deli is a charming place in and of itself (sort of like me, hardy har). It has cute little quirks, like paying for your lunch after you eat, something you see rarely nowadays. The turkey pastrami is delicious and filling, and there's always that wonderfully cheap soup. They even serve a bottled Brooklyn egg cream. There's a few landmines in the menu, but as long as you stick to the crowd favorites, you'll be just fine.
Eppy's Deli
162 N Franklin St, Chicago, IL 60606(map)
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Israeli soldiers destroying a Palestinian house near Salfit. Photo (archive) by Lazar Simeonov.
Over the last month, the United Nations, the European Union, a coalition of dozens of leading human rights and development organizations have each condemned Israel's ongoing and discriminatory policy of demolishing Palestinian houses and infrastructure in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
While the destructive practice is not new—dating back the British occupation of the interwar period and reaching a crescendo during the 1947-1949 period known to Palestinians as al-Nakba, or 'the catastrophe,' when 500 towns and villages were wiped off the map in what is now Israel—the last decade and specifically the last few years have seen a marked increase in the number of demolitions inside the occupied territories. The communities most impacted today include the densely populated neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and the exposed Bedouin communities of the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley. No less at risk are tens of thousands of Bedouin residents of the Negev Desert inside Israel, who continue to face the threat of forced transfer under the terms of the Prawer-Begin Bill, currently making its way through the Israeli Knesset, despite recent reports that the plan had been shelved in the wake of fierce global civil society opposition.
On 11 December, the United Nations responded to a spate of demolitions across the Jordan Valley, which Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley characterized as "the forced eviction, displacement and dispossession of vulnerable Palestinians." Rawley elaborated, "Such actions cause human suffering. They also run counter to international law [and] are particularly disturbing as they leave families without shelter and compromise their livelihoods just as weather conditions are deteriorating." In the hours and days following the statement, one of the worst winter storms in living memory bombarded the region, leaving millions without power or heat from Gaza to Jerusalem, across the West Bank and throughout neighboring countries. "These demolitions must be brought to an immediate halt," Rawley asserted.
According to the UN press release, Israeli authorities have destroyed more than 630 Palestinian buildings, including homes and infrastructure, in East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the beginning of the year, "forcibly displacing 1,035 Palestinians, including 526 children."
The recent UN condemnation follows a 4 December joint statement issued by 36 of the world's leading human rights and development NGOs, including Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Human Rights Watch, Lutheran World Federation, Oxfam, Save the Children, and more. The coalition points out that "Since the resumption of the peace process in July, Israel has destroyed 207 Palestinian homes and property in the occupied West Bank, displacing 311 Palestinians, over half of whom are children." Such demolitions are "in direct violation of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law," since they "often occur to facilitate the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, with 60% of demolitions occurring in Palestinian communities close to settlement zones."
Over the years, human rights organizations have been among the most vocal critics of Israel's targeting of Palestinian livelihoods in the occupied territories, but the joint statement signifies a coordinated effort to make a resounding call that the international community cannot ignore.
The European Union, which has often espoused the appropriate rhetoric against Israel's violations of international law, especially regarding the building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land, has just as often turned a blind eye in practice. However, the condemnation of home demolitions has recently risen in prominence in the EU's criticisms of Israeli policy.
For example, the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), which determines the EU's relations with outlying states in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, frequently issues 'progress reports' on each of the countries within the neighborhood's jurisdiction. The most recent report on Israel, issued in late November, wrote that Israeli "home demolitions are a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV)'s prohibition on destruction of civilian property (GCIV, Art. 53, see also 46 Hague Regulations). They also put the protected Palestinian population at risk of, or actually cause, forcible transfer." The report holds that "Both wanton and extensive destruction of civilian property and the forcible transfer of protected populations are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions entailing specific consequences under international law (see GCIV, Art. 147)."
It remains to be seen whether the EU will put teeth to its words, but similar concerns were echoed in a recent EU draft resolution pledging unprecedented aid to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority should a peace agreement be reached in the coming months, under the auspices of the US-led nine-month negotiation process. The proposed package is meant to entice the parties to reach a settlement, yet it also draws attention to the destruction of Palestinian homes in a general statement about Israeli practice and discourse, lamenting a "deep concern with regard to incitement, violent incidents in the occupied territories, house demolitions and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza."
Again, the words are laudable, but there is no indication from reports on the draft resolution of any tangible consequences if Tel Aviv does not alter its ways. Enforceable repercussions must be outlined if Israel's colonial-military complex is to be slowed in its momentum of displacing Palestinian families and shattering livelihoods. In the shadow of such destruction, most on the ground perceive the ongoing "peace process" as hollow obfuscation, and the prospects of a genuine peace fade further into the distance. Concerted global outcries are a welcome and urgent development, but they must be accompanied by concrete action.
The Palestine Monitor has covered many of the recent home demolitions and expulsion plans now raising international ire and levels of official rebuke. Our staff visited affected communities in the Jordan Valley, including the northern village of Al-Jiftlik and the town of al-Auja near Jericho, as well as the besieged communities of the South Hebron Hills and East Jerusalem. As these families continue to face eviction, home destructions, and new demolition orders, The Palestine Monitor will continue to cover their stories.
See also, "A joint statement from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine Palestine (ECCP)"
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