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Heineken Turkey with Sumac Rub
This isn't a poisonous sumac, its a delicious spice. Sumac is a popular spice in the middle east. It can be found in specialty stores, or in online spice stores. I buy my sumac at an Indian grocery store. It has a tart, lemony flavor. You will love the flavor of sumac, it goes great with lemon. I paired the tart sumac spice with Heineken, a very popular import beer.
- 1 8-10 lb turkey, thawed, gizzards and neck removed
- 1 can Heineken beer
- A few sprigs of oregano, and the juice of a lemon
- 1 cup kosher salt
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 gallon water
- 1 1/2 gallons heavily iced water
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 4 tablespoons sumac powder
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 4 cups turkey stock, and the what's left of the liquid in the beer can
Turkey stock
- turkey neck
- giblets
- 1/2 onion
- the zest of a lemon
- 2 cloves garlic
- 5 cups water
- Add salt, sugar, lemon, onion, oregano, and garlic to a large sauce pot. Add 1/2 gallon of the water and bring to a boil. Boil until everything is onions have softened. Let the mixture cool, and add to a large pot or container, large enough for your bird. Add the heavily iced water, and make sure the mixture is ice cold before adding the bird. Add the bird and brine for 8-24 hours in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven or grill to 350 degrees. Remove the bird and discard the brine. Rinse bird very well and pat dry. Sprinkle bird with sumac powder all over and rub into skin. Open the beer, and pour about 1/4 cup out, and place the oregano and lemon juice into the can. Put the beer can in the holder, if using, and place the turkey on the beer can. The butt of the bird should be sitting on the can. Roast until internal temperature of the thickest part of the breast is 161 degrees. When the bird has reached temperature, remove from the oven or grill and wrap with aluminum foil for at least 1 hour before carving.
- While turkey is cooking, make the stock for the gravy. Add the turkey neck, gizzards, onions, garlic, and spices to a saucepan. Add 5 cups of water. Bring to boil, and then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for about 2 hours, while turkey is roasting. Stock is done when meat is coming away from the neck bone. Strain stock before using. Melt butter in skillet. Sprinkle in flour. Cook the roux until it has browned, and is fragrant. Whisk in turkey stock. Bring back to a boil, and reduce to a simmer.


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Eggheads crack open web troll brains
People who fire off abuse online tend to be keyboard warriors who lack self-control and are fuelled by vengefulness while protected by cloaks of anonymity. And they're going to cost businesses a ton of cash as they struggle to defend their reputations. This is according to a frankly shocking study published in the current issue …
As somebody who lacks self control
I do fit some of those categories. But sometimes is it absolutely justified because companies will do the reverse.
They will actually astroturf and promote their products which do not deserve promotion and they will manage agressively their image in a not so nice way to present themselves in a better light. Eventually the users of such things find out and leave on their own accord but they still grabbed your money for a while until the person wised up. I mean just look at Amazon, I would place a good bet that a large % of the reviews on there are astroturf fake reviews.
I feel the vengeful hate comments on review boards are just a counter balance to the company astroturfing . And they are useful, if the company is proactive they will remedy the bad experiences which made the person who wrote the review comment negatively. If not they'll just astroturf some more.
Saying this is just another excuse and another weapon to use against people who have some REAL concerns and beef with companies. I was nearly killed by the negligence of a company recently. Yet they spread around that it was me being a hot headed kid who was useless.
Unfortunately for them nobody believed them because a huge number of 'hot headed kids' were going to other places to skydive and their attempts to blacken my reputation on them backfired as it convinced even more people to go else where. Who were again labled hot headed kids.
> They will actually astroturf and promote their products
> which do not deserve promotion
The trouble is there's know real way to tell astrotrufing from trolling from genuinely held opinions that happen to differ from your own.
I can be sure of this because I happen to genuinely hold beliefs on copyright that seem to radically differ from the majority. I believe in copyright, I believe in creators getting paid and I believe that people who pirate should be discouraged, if necessary by prosecution or disconnection. Now all of you who are itching to get your hands on your keyboards and criticise me for that, stop. That's not the point here. The point is I hold those beliefs because, even though I have a normal salaried job with a pension now, I know something of what life is like for self employed creatives who I believe are as much deserving of a living as anyone else. Anyway, don't comment on those beliefs in this thread, just accept that I genuinely, rightly or wrongly hold them.
Anyway, as I say, holding those beliefs, I have lost count of the number of times I have been labelled a troll or a shill. And people making those accusations are utterly and completely wrong. So from my experience I can tell you confidently that a significant number of the people who are keen to label other posters astroturfers or trolls are unable to tell the difference between that and genuine differences of opinion.
People who lack self control
> I do fit some of those categories. But sometimes is it absolutely justified
> because companies will do the reverse.
You seem to be reinforcing this excerpt from the article:
"The main outcome was that of the four traits they tested for, the strongest correlation with cyber-smearing was a belief that ethics are relative and that there is no objective right and wrong:"
Worldwide, these people are called "Hypocrites". In the USA, these people are called "Liberals".
Re copyrights and liberals..
I don't think that you'll be hard pressed to find people agreeing with the original concept of copyright, which was there to let someone enjoy the fruits of their labour, but put a time limit on it to ensue that that exclusivity eventually ended and benefitted the common good.
The problem is that copyright is no longer used as intended, which then yields all sorts of vigilante rubbish - and, of course, we also have a large contingent of people who think everything should be free but who are typically self serving.
By the way, those "hypocrites" are called "new labour" in the UK. But I digress..
Duuuhhhhhh..... You're from the USA, right?
In Europe..... ah never mind.
1) And just how much did this masterpiece of obviousness cost?
2) does '1' now make me one of the nasties?
"And just how much did this masterpiece of obviousness cost?"
Ha ha. "Masterpiece of obviousness", like it. What I find strange is that they mention words like impulsivity, but there is no mention of PWD (posting whilst drunk).
Recognition at last!
Cool, so I now I know I'm an ethically relativistic, rash, impulsive, vengeful troll when I flame Virgin Media.
RE: Recognition at last!
I've had no problems with Virgin Media, unlike BT. There's a reason I switched...
Well done
By the book corporate image management. £££'s well deserved.
They seem to be concentrating on 'Daily Mail class' commentators. And also discounting commentators in that class who may have genuine grievances with a particular company; but can't afford to play the litigation game. Not to mention competitors playing dirty tricks campaign; in which case any perceived impulsiveness is probably a red herring.
I'm not convinced, frankly. Also, I have no idea what they mean by virtual self. Not am I going to find out in the near future...looks like traffic from the mighty Reg has flattened the Science Direct site.
Have you any idea how big ScienceDirect is? its about on a par with saying El Reg have flattened Microsoft UK, or Tesco
better at discerning these opinions and rhetoric from facts and descriptions?
So, what they are essentially saying is that when you read anything about any product or company you have to be "better at discerning these opinions and rhetoric from facts and descriptions", this then would include;
1) Corporate advertising and "brand" where most of what is said is opinion or rhetoric and contains as close to zero truth as toothless regulators allow
2) Astroturfing by corporate lackeys on internet forums where any attempt to disseminate any real world experience or facts about the product is met by marketing speak, fatuous drivel and the pretence that the poster is a real customer
3) Actual customers (/victims) who are angry thanks to the extreme dissonance between the BS spouted by the corporate and the actual reality, hmm, wonder why they stick the boot in???
Well said indeed.
This study appears to lump genuine smears (which in my experience are rare) in with people who have genuine grievances but tend to overstate their case or employ course language...as people who have grievances often do (that's human behavior, nothing more).
But even if you lump both types together and call them all "trolls", at the end of the day there is still more truth in what these trolls are spouting online than contained in all of corporate advertising.
website out
ATM the website for the study is having " techinical difficulties due to unforeseen .. bla bla ..
Great .. one more website that didnt expect the traffic when they published their work...
I don't think they understand the term "troll"
What a troll does is to light the blue touch paper and then step back and giggle.
hee hee.
Not if you are a corporate.
Then 'troll' means 'anyone who calls out your astroturfing'.
I'm afraid we've lost that war...
Much like the MSN calls cracking, 'hacking'; they now call flaming, 'trolling'.
@see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14898564
This is so flawed, I don't know where do I start!
@"Researcher Michael Workman gave personality tests to 193 largely college-educated "social media literate professionals" from across the US and Europe"
193 college-educated social media literate professionals isn't a cross section of the population and it isn't a particularly large sample group.
... meanwhile ... @"The main outcome was that of the four traits they tested for" ... oh great, so they tested just 4 traits.
Talk about a biased and flawed sampling and the outcome they interpret from this is that trolls attack "corporations, rather than trolling individuals."
Well yes some people do indeed attack corporations ... but that isn't the only form of trolling, as we all know, but clearly the journal writers don't (so why do they ignore other forms of trolling?).
Also they fail to separate consumer campaigns against justifiable corporate contempt, which does happen.
As for … "corporate reputation management" … that is basically, propaganda. Corporate reputation management people seek to bias everyone's perception in favour of a corporation just as protesters seek to bias peoples perception out of favour of a corporation. Both are propaganda, one for, one against. (Which incidentally also highlights that shill tactics are inherently part of corporate reputation management, because they would need to use corporate propaganda against protester propaganda).
Anyway this journal isn't analyzing all forms of trolls (as the title of this story implied) its simply focusing on corporate trolling. There are other forms of trolls (such as NPD people who simply delight in learning to manipulate people), so why doesn't this journal group even mention other forms of trolling?
Something doesn't add up about all this, so time to "follow the money" as they say ... This "Computers in Human Behavior" is a journal ... which is sold. So who would buy their journal? Could it be the customers of such a journal are corporations who want to protect their corporate reputations? At which point, bingo, it now starts to makes sense.
Could it be this is a poorly researched journal report just to create something to sell or are they simply poor researchers? Either way, this journal is very flawed.
I agree wholeheartedly...
However, I have voted down your well-written comment because I like to annoy people by trolling.
buy why bother with the effort of writing so much.
No one really cares.
"193 college-educated social media literate professionals " are impulsive and prone to mashing the CAPSLOCK key? Doesn't sound very professional.
research professing an opinion. YAWN!
(hope they didn't get paid for it).
What do they mean by relative ethics?
Corporations are, by law, built to extract money from people for as littke effort as possible in order to give money to shareholders. Morals and ethics don't come into it. If one person, even one relatively rich person, gets shafted by a corporation the fact they have no option but to deal with it and move on or slag the corporation off on message boards in the hope someone will see has nothing to do with ethics -- it's simply the only option which may help the individual or, at leas, harm the corporation.
Trolling of individuals by individuals, on the other hand, does involve morals/ethics but these people didn't study that because it won't help them get jobs from shitty, exploitative companies whose customers are pissed off.
Computers in Human Excrement more like.
Ho hum
I was going to take this little gem apart. But, well, it's so full of obvious bias (even for someone who's not versed in statistics, like me) that there's no point at all. If you want to make fun of it, knock yourself out. Just be sure to get the math right, eh.
Instead I'll counter this illustration of poor science with another illustration. There was this social sciences egghead over in the Netherlands with brilliant studies like "eating meat makes you an asshole" who then --and this happened quite recently-- turned out to've faked all the data in numerous of his (co-)publications. It was just all made up.
And, you know, none of his peers had noticed. Not for years.
The sad thing is that this sort of social sciences brilliance keeps on raking in the dosh. Bad enough if it's taxpayers', worse if it's corporates utilising this to legitimise their poor service, or something to that tune. I mean, really now. If someone happens to have poor impulse control, does that mean his grievances are automatically based in "misinformation"? It makes about as much sense as asserting that marketeering departments will never lie (because, you know, there's laws against that).
So if I may I'll predict that this "service to society" is actually not going to improve the lot of the masses any.
@AC - Ho Hum
The problem with basing research on real data is
a) collecting real data is expensive
b) it might not fit the model you are being paid to prove, or hoping to be paid for if you can prove.
never let reality get in the way of a good theory.
Well done..
.. but your point 1 is actually less relevant. A sufficiently large collection of information is actually helpful because you can bend the conclusion towards what you want by making the math so complicated that nobody will even try to check it.
That is in principle the technique used in the UK speed camera study. If you have over 50% of a document committed to an explanation of the maths involved you know something stinks. The problem is that that document still underpins a lot of government decisions, so the impact of that little bit of fraud has by now reached almost incalculable values.
Methinks the "researcher" should learn the difference ...
... between trolling on teh IntraWebTubes[tm] and being a corporate or political gadfly.
Interesting article, shame the study was done by a group that doesn't know what trolling is or the reasons people do it. Trolling is hardly ever aimed at corporations, trolls are looking for instant gratification and the easiest way to get that is to go after people who make comments. Fanbois and moral crusaders are by far the best targets for this, twisting their beliefs by making outrageously false statements, in an air of superiority and in as demeaning a manner as possible.
What's so wrong with ethical relativism?
"The main outcome was that of the four traits they tested for, the strongest correlation with cyber-smearing was a belief that ethics are relative and that there is no objective right and wrong"
Ethics are always subjective and in my opinion anyone who views the world in a purely black and white, right and wrong manner is incredibly suspect.
That's a false dichotomy. You don't have to be a nihilist to agree that there are shades of grey.
Being always right, which trolls usually are, is much more suspect than having a rigid view of right and wrong.
I agree there's nothing wrong with ethical relativism per se, but lots of people misuse it. They seem to think that it means that they are always right and anything can be justified. That's not how it works, but people who don't want to spend more than 2 seconds thinking about the ethics of their actions can make mistakes in this sense. The typical internet troll doesn't even spend 2 seconds thinking about what they're writing, let alone whether it's right to do so.
Reputation management?
I wonder why if a company provides good products/service, it would need to hire someone to manage the company reputation?
For me, if I know a company has hired one of these bottom feeders (reputation managment companies), I take it as a big stay away warning.
Now I come to think about it...just hitting the 'comment' button is an impulsive act. Any comment button anywhere for any reason.
Penny Arcade summed this up...
...with their "Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory" strip.
Yet more bad science
So they looked at 193 people, of which some small fraction were 'trolls', and then conclude based on their analyses of this small subset of a tiny sample that they can calculate a "statistically significant interaction". Sigh.
I dont shout, I just hAVE PROBLEM WITH THE Caps lock key being too close to the letter "A" ON MY NETBOOKS KEYBOard.
Trolling pedants is easy
Trolling is a art.
This is a fucking stupid story!
Who pays these bloody scientists? Call this journalism? My 2 year old could write a better article! FFS! I'm cancelling my subscription.
Starting at the wrong end
This study is just another piece of PC reinforcement of the status quo
It takes no account of the huge frustration to individual human beings of having to deal with automaton like corporates who can never be in the wrong.
Corporates and Governments view is generally that if human beings (customers, voters etc) don't like what happened it was
- they don't understand
- they didn't listen to us
- we didn't explain it to them in small enough words (the nearest thing you get to an admission of culpability)
- it was a contractor so nothing to do with us
- it was some bloke what doesn't work for us any more/has been retrained
Sure there's trolling for the sake of it but it's mostly political based - most of the anti-corporate stuff is rooted in truly frustrating experiences in dealing with corporate robots who just want you to STFU and hand over your wallet.
What a load of biased drivell! Researchers are only good for fire wood!
But did they check http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/ ?
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Inspired by the Hindu deity Shiva, Miles Toland wants to put you inside his work, to lull you with low-frequency sound waves and frame you in light.
Anyone who finds Miles Toland's installation at EXPO 13 is in for an in-depth experience. It's not enough for Toland (AR '13) to exhibit three beautifully crafted paintings, he is creating for his viewers an experience that also incorporates sound and light, suggesting the art work is not confined to a canvas, but moves freely in space and in time. He is creating the opportunity for everyone who visits to enter a meditative state.
Miles has built several wooden platforms designed as furniture from which to view the paintings. As a viewer sits down to take a canvas in, he or she will become entwined with the work. "Each is going to have an accompanying video that will be projected from pedestals I'm currently creating," says Toland. "The whole space will be dim and the videos will be projected on top. It creates this interesting conversation between the static paintings and the assembled video."
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Toland has painted these works as mandalas. Intended for contemplation, mandalas are — in the early stages of practice — intricate circular patterns intended to aid the initiate with putting aside thought and giving over to the serenity of meditation. The geometry and repetition focuses the mind 'til it loses awareness of itself and drifts away to a total awareness of "the moment." "There are definitely geometric motifs through all this and some plays on fractals. With the pinecones, particularly, with the Fibonacci sequence embedded in the design of it."
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While Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on the far right were castigating an amusement park called Superland for separating Jewish and Arab children, they were busy backing a bill that will give Israeli Jews who serve in the army a whole raft of extra rights in land and housing, employment, salaries, and much more. Superland's offence pales to insignificance when compared to that, or to the decades of state-planned and officially sanctoned discrimination against the country's Palestinian minority.
A major new report has found that the European Union has failed to fulfil its own commitments to ensure Israel improves living conditions for Palestinians.
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Statement of representatives of 13 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organisations, and a number of international lawyers and legal experts, who held a meeting in Malaga, Spain, to discuss the critical situation facing Palestinian victims who attempt to seek compensation for death, injury, and destruction of property.
Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised, including blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, she fell afoul of the state apparatus because she dared to demand justice rather than acquiesce to state sponsored witch hunts. And now, with stage 4 cancer that has metastasized, spreading to her lymph nodes, shoulder, bones and lungs, creating a grave threat to her life, she sits in a prison cell at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, where she is serving a 10-year sentence.
We are struggling not only to liberate the Palestinian people from the occupation and from Israel's racist apartheid regime, but also to liberate you from the illness of racism, so you can stop inflicting harm on me and on millions of people who are the natives of this country. And then we can live together equally and peacefully.
On the occasion of the swearing in of the new Israeli government and the 19th Knesset (18 March 2013) and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (22 March 2013), Adalah is pleased to launch the Discriminatory Laws Database,
The Israeli government has been forcing the Palestinian Authority into approving water infrastructure for illegal West Bank settlements for the past 15 years, according to research by a University of Sussex academic.
HRW's Bill van Esveld: "The main concern is over the fact that a person cannot simply be disappeared. That is against the norms of international law. That person's family needs to know what has happened to them. They have to be able to have access to a defence attorney and their government needs to be informed to permit consular access."
Upcoming documentary profiles Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky's return to the settlement where she grew up, to uncover a buried history and a landscape of denial. The film tells the stories of four veterans of the 1948 war that erased from the Israeli landscape hundreds of Palestinian villages and connects their stories to the modern-day Palestinian dispossession through the occupation and settlements.
Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area between the Sinai Desert in Egypt and the Israeli border. The group has been sitting outside the fence since last Thursday, without food. The soldiers in the field were given an order to give the refugees "as little water as possible." On Tuesday night, Israeli activists decided to deliver food they bought to the refugees themselves.
Yael Berda: "The administrative flexibility, waste of resources and the frequent administrative friction that is part of granting work permits leads to two desired results in the governmental system. It makes the Palestinian civilian population dependent on the administrative system, enabling the system to control, monitor and apply pressure and it preserves the principle of keeping the two populations separate."
Zanuta, like other small Palestinian villages in the area, existed as a cave-settlement before the West Bank was occupied by Israel. Archaeological findings reveal that Zanuta had been inhabited continuously from the Byzantine to the Ottoman period, until eventually being reduced to "a settlement of shepherds and fellahs living in the remains of the ancient structures and the residential caves alongside them," as [Israeli] archaeologist Dr. Avi Ofer described it.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills because the territory is needed for Israel Defense Forces training exercises, the state told the High Court of Justice on Sunday… The IDF and the Civil Administration regard all of them as squatters in Firing Zone 918, even though the villages have existed since at least the 1830s.
IOA Editor: Since the early 1950s, "military training needs" has been a commonly used justification for the removal of Palestinians from lands desired by Israel. Typically, after a period of time, lands captured by this method have been turned over for Jewish settlements. As commented here before, this is an old "legal" tool used by the state to deprive Palestinians of their land and livelihood, which is part of a much larger program: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine — the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian population by a new, Jewish-only population — bit by bit, year after year, decade after decade, "dunam here and dunam there," as the old Zionist slogan goes.
Day after day, tens of thousands of people live in the shadow of terror. Will there be an attack today on the homes at the edge of the village? Will we be able to get to the well, to the orchard, to the wheat field? Will our children get to school okay, or make it to their cousins' house unharmed? How many olive trees were damaged overnight?
The discovery of a rare aerial photo of Jerusalem in the 1930s, taken by a Zeppelin, has provided the long-sought after proof that when Israel occupied the Old City in 1967 it secretly destroyed an important mosque that dated from the time of Saladin close to the al-Aqsa mosque.
As a result of the High Court ruling, officers of the Civil Administration show up in Susya on June 12 and hand out six collective demolition orders affecting 52 buildings, including a preschool, a clinic and a solar panel system supplying electricity to the village and its steadfast residents.
Raja Zatara: "From the perspective of the Arab population, which was part of the Palestinian people, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are not just prime ministers. The former is identified with the Nakba, from our perspective, and with the repression and land appropriation during military rule, while the latter is identified with the activities of Etzel, with the Lebanon War and the massacre at Sabra and Chatila…"
In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails were thrown into refugee homes, businesses and one kindergarten. The incident did not lead to casualties but inspired a wave of protests leading to a race riot on May 23rd.
Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that extends what Israel tries to do outside its walls as well: to break up the collective, to weaken the individual, to deter others from resistance to the foreign regime.
In the name of ["Never again to us, the Jews"], they end up denying the humanity of the victims of Israel, the purported "State of the Jews", just as most oppressors throughout history have denied their victims' humanity.
Military prosecution says will take no legal steps against those responsible for deaths of Samouni family, killed in their home during Operation Cast Lead.
The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials and data analyzed by network security experts.
The Palestinian issue can only be resolved if Israel and its supporters in Britain abandon the dogmas of supremacy and truly adhere to the universal values of justice and fairness. Britain has a special responsibility in this, because it is uniquely responsible for our suffering: our national tragedy began with the Balfour Declaration.
The only excessive stupidity of which deputy brigade commander Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner can be accused is hitting a young blond man in front of a camera. Other commanders and their subordinates will learn the lesson. They'll check for any subversive cameras before going on to do what is unexceptional in the Wild East. They will beat up Palestinians … as well as anti-occupation activists – by rifle butt, by boot or simply by fist. Soldiers who beat up Palestinians are not generally filmed, and the (few ) written reports that exist are easily dismissed as lies and propaganda, are forgotten immediately or merely go unread.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Muslim Mamilla cemetery. This project is a grotesque attempt to erase the well-established history of a continuous Muslim presence in the city that dates back over a millennium… There is no justification for these desecrations. If they were occurring in any other place on earth, the outcry would be deafening. Unfortunately, the treatment of Mamilla is not an anomaly; Muslim and Christian sites of cultural, religious and historical significance continue to be systematically disrespected by Israeli authorities. The Protection of Holy Sites Law in Israel now covers 137 sites. Not one of these is Christian or Muslim.
Over 1500 activists from 15 countries attempted to fly to Ben Gurion Airport to travel to Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territories. They were invited by Palestinian activists to help build a school and protest Israel's control of all access points to the occupied territories. Hundreds were prevented from even boarding their planes and instead staged protests at various airports. Dozens were deported upon arrival and dozens arrested and transferred to Israeli prison. Israeli activists attempted to hold signs welcoming them at the airport but were immediately removed.
After more than a month on hunger strike, Hanaa Shalabi is in "immediatemortal danger" and at "risk of coma" according to a Physicians for HumanRights doctor. Shalabi's strike came at the heels of another high profile campaign by Khader Adnan who survived a 66 day hunger strike before the Israeli authorities decided to release him. Both were arrested under Administrative Detention, a military order that allows Israeli authorities to arrest anyone and hold them indefinitely, without charge or trial.
Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality.
Judith Ilani, Jaffa's Popular Housing Committee: "In Palestinian Jaffa, the poorest people live on the most expensive piece of soil in the country… Even if I have a doghouse close to the sea, the value of it comes from what you can build once you demolish the doghouse."
International Crisis Group: Back to basics – Israel's Arab minority and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Simultaneous Arab marginalisation and revitalisation also has manifested itself in initial efforts by its leadership to define the community's political aspirations. The so-called "Vision Documents" advocate full Jewish-Arab equality, adamantly reject the notion of a Jewish state and call instead for a "binational state" – in essence, challenging Israel's current self-definition. This, for many Jews, is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Abeer Zeibak Hadad is a Palestinian filmmaker living in the Israeli mixed city of Jaffa. This year her first feature film – Dum'a – was released in Israeli theaters. The film is the first in the Arab world to deal with sexual assault of women and girls. The film has been screening throughout the country. This week, two days before International Women's Day Dum'a was screened to hundreds of high school girls in Qalanswa, a Palestinian city half an hour's drive from Tel Aviv.
IOA Editor: Finkelstein's treatment of Palestinian rights reflects the limitations of relying exclusively on international law in the defense of Palestinian rights. Rather than forcing 100 years of history and a national liberation struggle into a legal brief, Finkelstein will do well to reconsider the implications of his focus on the "destruction of Israel" — a regional nuclear superpower — presumably by BDS activists, rather than focusing on 1948 Palestinian refugee rights and those of Palestinian citizens of Israel. As he must know, most Palestinians do not compartmentalize their national history as he appears to be doing.
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HM Prison Manchester
|Strangeways, Manchester
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HM Prison Manchester is a high-security male prison in Manchester, England operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. It is a local prison, holding prisoners remanded into custody from courts in the Manchester area and Category A prisoners.
HM Prison Manchester was known as Strangeways, after the area in which it is located, until it was rebuilt following a major riot in 1990. However, although its official name has changed, it is still commonly referred to as Strangeways.
Construction of the Grade II listed prison was completed in 1869, and it was opened on 25 June 1868, to replace the New Bailey Prison in Salford, which closed in 1868. The prison, designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1862 with input from Joshua Jebb,[1] cost £170,000, and had a capacity of 1,000 inmates. Its 234 feet (71 m) ventilation tower (often mistaken for a watchtower) has become a local landmark.[2] The prison's walls, which are rumoured to be 16 feet thick, are said to be impenetrable either from inside or out.
The prison has an element of the panopticon with its plan in the form of a star or a snowflake, with two blocks housing ten wings that emanate from a central core where the watchtower is situated.[3] The prison consists of two radial blocks branching from the central core with a total of ten wings (A, B, C, D, E, F in one block, and G, H, I, K in the second).[4]
The gaol was built on the grounds of Strangeways Park and Gardens, from which it was named. Strangeways was recorded in 1322 as Strangwas from the Anglo-Saxon Strang and gewæsc meaning "[a place by] a stream with a strong current".
The prison was open to male and female prisoners until 1963 when the facility became male-only, and in 1980 it began to accept remand prisoners. As of 2005 the prison held more than 1,200 inmates.
As a place of execution[edit]
Originally, the prison contained an execution shed in B wing and after World War I a special execution room and cell for the condemned criminal was built. Strangeways was one of the few prisons to have permanent gallows.[2] The first execution at Strangeways was that of twenty-year-old murderer Michael Johnson who was hanged by William Calcraft on 29 March 1869.[5]
Twenty-nine hangings took place over the next twenty years and 71 took place in the 20th century, bringing the total number to 100. During the second half of the century, the number of executions decreased, with no hangings between 1954 and 28 November 1962, when James Smith was executed. John Robson Walby (alias Gwynne Owen Evans), one of the last two people to be hanged in England, was executed here on 13 August 1964. Out of the 100 hangings, four were double hangings, while the rest were done individually. The "quickest hanging" of James Inglis in seven seconds, carried out by Albert Pierrepoint, took place here.[6]
Other executions[edit]
Mary Ann Britland (38) was executed on 9 August 1886 for the murder of two family members and her neighbour. She was the first woman to be executed at the prison. John Jackson was executed on 7 August 1879. Thom Davies was hanged on 9 January 1889 for sexual deviancy charges. Lieutenant Frederick Rothwell Holt was hanged on 13 April 1920 for the murder of twenty-six-year-old Kathleen Breaks. Louie Calvert was hanged on 24 June 1926.[2]
Doctor Buck Ruxton was executed on 12 May 1936 for the murder of his wife. A petition for clemency was signed by 10,000 people, both sympathetic locals with high regard for this "people's doctor" and abolitionists who mounted a large demonstration on the day of his execution. Margaret Allen was hanged on 12 January 1949 by Albert Pierrepoint for the murder of an elderly widower. Her execution was the first of a woman in Britain for twelve years.[2] and the third execution of a woman at Strangeways.
After the seven second hanging, Albert Pierrepoint executed Louisa May Merrifield on 18 September 1953. She was the fourth and last woman to be executed at the prison.[7][8]
The bodies of executed criminals were buried in unmarked graves within the prison walls, as was the custom. During prison rebuilding work in 1991, the remains of 63 executed prisoners (of which 45 were identifiable) were exhumed from unmarked graves in the prison cemetery[9] and cremated at Blackley Crematorium in Manchester. The cremated remains were re-interred in two graves (plot C2710 and C2711) at the adjacent cemetery.[10][11]
Strangeways riots[edit]
Between 1 April and 25 April 1990, 147 staff and 47 prisoners were injured in a series of riots by prison inmates. There was one fatality among the prisoners, and one prison officer died from heart failure.[12] Much of the old prison was damaged or destroyed in the rioting. Several inmates were charged with various offences, and Paul Taylor and Alan Lord faced a five-month trial as ringleaders.
The riots resulted in the Woolf Inquiry, and the prison was rebuilt and renamed Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester. Repair and modernisation cost more than £80 million after the riot, and rebuilding was completed in 1994.[13]
The prison today[edit]
The prison is a high-security category A prison for adult males and has a maximum capacity of 1269 as of 4 August 2008. Operation of the prison was put out to tender in 1994 and 2001.[4] Accommodation is divided into nine wings in two radial blocks. Cells are a mixture of single and double occupancy, all having in-cell power points and integral sanitation.
The prison has been noted for a high suicide rate following its reopening in 1994. From 1993 to 2003, Strangeways prison had the highest number of suicides among inmates than any other prison in the United Kingdom[14] and 2004, Strangeways had the highest number of suicides in the country.[15]
Education and vocational training is provided by the Manchester College. Courses offered include information technology, ESOL, numeracy, industrial cleaning, bricklaying, painting and decorating, plastering, textiles and laundry. The prison's gym runs courses in physical education and offers recreational sport and fitness programmes.
Notable inmates[edit]
- Joey Barton, footballer gaoled for assault.[16]
- Brendan Behan, Irish republican, playwright and poet, imprisoned in Strangeways in 1947 for attempting to free a IRA prisoner.[17]
- Ian Brady, held for theft prior to the Moors murders.
- Mark Bridger, held there on remand and now serving a life sentence for the murder and abduction of April Jones. Moved to Wakefield Prison.
- Ian Brown, rock singer gaoled for "air rage", released in December 1999.[18]
- Dale Cregan, held there on remand whilst awaiting trial for the murders of Mark Short, David Short, Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone. He is also accused of the attempted murders of Michael Belcher, Ryan Pridding John Short and Sharon Hark.[19] He is now serving a life sentence in the prison after being convicted.
- Emily Davison, Suffragette, sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1909 after throwing rocks at the carriage of chancellor David Lloyd George. Hunger strike led to force feeding. Blockaded herself in her cell and sued Strangeways for using a water cannon.
- David Dickinson, TV presenter specialising in antiques, imprisoned for fraud in pre-celebrity days.[20]
- James Inglis, the world's fastest hanging.[6]
- Sean Mercer, held there during his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, for the murder of Rhys Jones.
- Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette, was held for a week.[1]
- Gordon Park was convicted in 2005 of murdering his first wife, Carol Park, in 1976.[21]
- Harold Shipman, held there on remand whilst awaiting trial.
Cultural references[edit]
- "Strangeways", a track on the 1987 rock album The House of Blue Light by Deep Purple
- Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987 rock album by The Smiths.
- 'Mad' Frankie Fraser (1982) was held on 'A' Wing and excused boots for supposed fallen arches.
- Eric Allison (1970) went on to be The Guardian Prison Reporter and author of A Serious Disturbance, an account of the Strangeways Riot. A chapter of Eric's book was written by former Strangeways Hospital Officer John G. Sutton.
- In the song "There Goes a Tenner" from the album The Dreaming, Kate Bush sings of being "a star in Strangeways". The song is about a botched bank robbery.
- The song "Fallowfield Hillbilly", from the album St. Jude by Manchester band The Courteeners, refers to Strangeways and the type of people that "indie snobs" perceive to be its inmates.
- In the comic Hellblazer, issue 34 (October 1990), the main character John Constantine refers to Strangeways prison "exploding with [excrement] and blood," and describes its holding cells as "Victorian pressure cookers" into which government officials who turn a blind eye should be squeezed to "see what pops out of [their] pimple."
- In the TV series Shameless, Frank Gallagher often refers to his time in Strangeways.
- In the TV series Beautiful People, Debbie Doonan, who dislikes the police, shouts to an officer "them blokes from Strangeways had the right idea," a reference to the Strangeways Prison riot.
- Graham Fellows, in his comedic persona of John Shuttleworth, wrote a song that began, "You're like Manchester, you've got strange ways".
- "Strangeways Hotel", a song by Mike Harding.
- In the book Pollen by Mancunian author Jeff Noon two of the central characters visit Strangeways in order to speak to a prisoner. The prison has become a "Virtual" (sic) prison, where the inmates are kept locked in drawers on large amounts of a psychoactive drug that puts them into a permanent, pleasant dreamlike state.
- Strangeways was the name of the "prison cat" in the 1960 movie Two-Way Stretch, a comedy set inside a fictitious Manchester Prison which starred Peter Sellers, Lionel Jefferies and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
- Strangeways' Screw is a track from the album 'Seriously Disturbed' by 2hatJohn'.
- John Strangways, Lieutenant-Commander Retired. Her Majesty's Royal Navy Reserves, was MI6's Regional Control Officer for the Caribbean in Ian Fleming's novels of MI6 secret agent James Bond, first appearing in 'Live and Let Die' (1954), and then killed in 'Dr. No' (1958). He bore a striking resemblance to the 'man in the black eye patch', introduced to Hathaway shirt advertising by David Olgilvie in 1951. The Albert Broccoli movies bore only tangential resemblance to Fleming's stories; his eye patch was jettisoned by the filmmakers.
- Notes
- ^ a b "Strangeways Prison, Manchester". Manchester 2002 UK. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Strangeways Prison". Capital Punishment U.K. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ Miller, Keith (14 June 2003). "Making the grade: Strangeways". Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Manchester". Her Majesty's Prison Service. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ Fielding 1994, p. 7
- ^ a b Fielding 2008, pp. 239–240
- ^ Eddleston 2004, p. 839
- ^ http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/merrifield.htm
- ^ "Mass Exhumation". Cherished Land. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ "Consistory Court Cases 2007" (PDF). Ecclesiastical Law Society. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ http://www.manchester-family-history-research.co.uk/new_page_26.htm
- ^ "On This Day: 1 April". BBC News. 1 April 1990. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ de Leng, Stephanie (12 May 2011). "Life in Strangeways". Liverpool Confidential. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Shock suicide toll at Strangeways". Manchester Evening News. 29 January 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Prison suicide record condemned". BBC News. 8 February 2005. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Joey Barton released from prison". BBC News. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ Letters of Brendan Behan, McGill-Queen's University Press 1992, p. 48
- ^ "Articles". Dave Haslam. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ Martin Robinson (21 September 2012). "Cregan remanded in custody". London: Daily Mail. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ "The Official David Dickinson Website". Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ "Vigil for Lady in the Lake killer". BBC News. 28 January 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- Bibliography
- Eddleston, John J. (2004). The Encyclopaedia of Executions. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84454-058-8.
- Fielding, Steve (1994). The Hangman's Record. Volume One: 1868–1899. Beckenham: Chancery House Press. ISBN 0-900246-65-0.
- Fielding, Steve (2008). Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84454-611-4.
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When most people start getting interested in timepieces, the first thing that usually attracts them is the appearance. A distinctive dial, a unique case shape, even a nice strap can draw in the uninitiated. Then they notice watches whose hands sweep smoothly, driven by springs and gears versus the tick-tick that gives away battery driven…
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The BMJ's Head of Research, Trish Groves and European Research Editor, Wim Weber question why the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently decided to backtrack on their decision for public access to clinical trial data, in an editorial published on bmj.com today.
In April, drug company AbbVie dropped its lawsuit against the EMA which delayed the agency's plans to release previously hidden clinical trial data about drugs. This posed such a threat to public health that BMJ and the BMA were granted permission to intervene and AbbVie ended up withdrawing its case.
However, the EMA now say that clinical study reports will be available only to registered users through "controlled access" in a "view on screen only" mode. Furthermore, information could be redacted if study sponsors deem it confidential.
EMA's management board meet on 12 June to finalise the policy and authors of the first ever Cochrane reviews "are aghast" saying they "could not have properly reviewed and cross checked the thousands of pages from Roche and GlaxoSmithKline if those companies had imposed conditions like those EMA is now proposing".
Plus, in a rapid response posted on bmj.com, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWIG) warn that "data we cannot work with are still hidden – even if we see them on a screen".
The European Ombudsman questioned the legal basis of the EMA's decision, but in response, executive director Guido Rasi said the "revised access policy was deemed a reasonable compromise […] in line with 'the commission's clear message that we would also have to assure compliance with national and international obligations".
Drs Groves and Weber do say that "despite setbacks, great strides have been made in the past three years towards clinical trial transparency" and even with this "watered down policy, EMA will be making visible vast quantities of new regulatory information […] about randomised controlled trials of drugs" and "other types of interventional or observational clinical research methodologies".
They say however that a "great deal" still remains hidden from policymakers, clinicians, and patients and if EMA also stops releasing data on old trials (currently possible on request) we will all be even more in the dark.
They conclude that this is why AllTrials continues to campaign and the "research, advocacy, haggling, and politics must go on".


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Trullo Patrizia is a 300 year old trullo - romantic Southern Italian farmhouse.
Trullo Patrizia is a 300 year old trullo - a romantic Southern Italian stone farmhouse - renovation was completed and a fantastic pool (12M x 6M) installed in December 2005.Unlike many other recently renovated properties, Patrizia has not been extended with modern extensions and is completely original.We have furnished Patrizia with traditional local furniture and avoided spoiling the atmosphere with a modern chic look! The trullo is set in its own private 5 acres of olive, walnut, fig and cherry trees, on top of a hill, in a beautiful, unspoilt rurallocation near Alberobello, Puglia. It has two double bedrooms with ensuite shower rooms, and one bedroom with double sofa-bed and ensuite toilet/basin (a cot is available on request).The pool is open from mid-May to September - and longer if weather permits. How to Get There Ryanair: Flying Monday, Wednesday and Friday from London Stansted airport to Bari takes around 2.5 hours. Alitalia: Flying daily to Bari and Brindisi from Heathrow, via Rome or Milan - often cheaper than Ryanair!(Also Brindisi on Thursday and Sunday)EasyJet and British Airways: Flying twice a week Spring to Autumn, direct to Bari from GatwickBoth Bari and Brindisi are small provincial airports so collecting your luggage and car is quick and easy.Our Italian property managers, Donatella and Antonio, are also good friends. They are both fluent in several languages, have a long experience in tourism, and Donatella is a great cook.Besides locally assisting our clients, they can also provide some extra services, like: 1) Cookery lessons (with two weeks advanced booking) 2) A range of produce such as organic extra-virgin olive oil, home-made cheese, fresh pastas, breads, marmalades, local sweets and various preserves! So what is a trullo?A trullo (plural trulli) is an ancient stone building, peculiar to Puglia and particularly the area surrounding the town of Alberobello.They are dry-stone laid, using local limestone with conical roofs, and are reputed to have been created by local farmers to avoid tax in that they could easily be pulled down on a visit from the tax inspector.However, when you see a trullo you would see why this is an unlikely story - the walls can be six feet thick!The family would typically live in the main trullo, with a fire place/oven and storage on a wooden floor overhead in the cone.Animals or produce would be kept in adjoining trulli or a stone lamia (extension). No two are the same, as although they were built to a similar design, with one or more cones formed over a double wall of stone, they are built across the undulating countryside according to the local conditions and requirements.Some are whitewashed and some have mystical signs painted on the roofs.Trulli are very cool in the Summer due to the thick stone constructionPuglia is the "heel" of Italy, the South-East peninsula reaching out into the Adriatic and Ionian seas.The area is very rural and traditional, and is regarded as the "garden of Italy".Most of the countrys wine and much of the worlds olive oil is produced here, along with oranges, lemons, cherries, and countless other fruit, nuts, vegetables, wheat and a whole range of other agricultural produce. And one should not fail to mention the rich variety of seafood available in local markets and restaurants.The world famous Italian cuisine (as captured recently in the series by Jamie Oliver) is available in abundance and surprisingly cheaply, thanks to the wealth of produce.It also helps that the holidaymakers from Western Europe have not yet arrived, with prices to suit! The locals are very laid-back and friendly. In combination with hot summer sun, over 500 miles of unspoilt sandy beaches and coastline, and a generous sprinkling of mediaeval towns, villages, churches and castles, this makes for a very popular holiday destination, especially with the Italians.Holidaying here is only just catching on with the British, due to the introduction in the last 18 months of direct daily flights by Ryanair to the regional airports of Bari and Brindisi, and twice weekly flights by British Airways to Bari. There are numerous sites of cultural and archaeological interest, which reflects in the styles and designs of the villages, towns and cities of the region.History and Places to VisitHistoryThe Romans, Goths, Lombards, Byzantines, Saracens, Normans, the Crusaders, French, Greeks and Spanish have all had ownership of Puglia at some point in time, and left a mark on the region.The whitewashed buildings and towns, with narrow alleys and flights of steps that are more reminiscent of those in GreeceThere are magnificent cathedrals, castles (the octagonal 11th Century Castel Del Monte of Frederick II, Baris 13th Century Swabian Castle) and cities with Baroque influences. The Roman amphitheatre in Lecce of 1st Centrury BC is one of the oldest remaining.Places to VisitAlberobello - the focal point for the trulli! Alberobello boasts the greatest number of trulli in one place, with around 1,500 nestling in the cobbled streets around the gentle hills on which the town is built.Trulli are protected by the World Heritage Organisation. Those in Alberobello have been lived in for several hundred years up to today.There are many shops, restaurants, a church and even hotels to be found in trulli in the town.Brindisi - a bustling modern port, home to the 15th Century Aragones Castle and some medieval and Baroque churches. Daily ferries to Greece, Turkey and Albania.Castellana Grotto - the largest cave complex in Italy, with dazzling white walls of pure crystals.Ceglie Mesapica - an ancient Messapian centre lies in the old town.Cisternino - with a pretty old town, typical of the area.Gallipoli - (from the Greek kalli poli, meaning beautiful city) with a Byzantine castle, a Baroque cathedral and an ancient Greek fountain.Lecce - the "Florence of the South", described as the most beautiful city in Italy, in a Baroque style with golden stone building in quiet winding streets. Locorotondo - arranged in a circular style, with narrow winding streets, trulli and a Gothic churchMartina Franca - another Baroque city with an interesting old town centreOstuni - the "white city", with whitewashed buildings set on top of three hills overlooking the Adriatic. Many bars, restaurants and shops.Otranto - South of Lecce, with an award winning beach, lots of restaurants and shops.Polignano - a beautiful seaside town, north of MonopoliTaranto - standing on a central island between two canals, with narrow winding streets, Roman ruins, an Aragonese castle, 11th Century Baroque cathedral and Doric column from the Greek temple of Poseidon.ClimateClimateMonth.................Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept OctAvg Min. Temp.......7...12..14..17..18...15...13Avg Max Temp......20...24..26..32..33...26...23Avg no. of days rain.8...6....3....1....2....4....6
Trullo Patrizia is a beautiful 300 year old trullo - Southern Italian stone farmhouse - a high standard of renovation was completed in November 2005.
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The pilot preflighted the airplane and added 1 1/2 quarts of oil before the flight. Once on the runway, the pilot advanced the throttle, and the engine responded normally. At 100 feet agl, oil started spreading back onto the windscreen. The instructor took the controls, and reduced power to prevent overheating. Both felt there was an uncommanded reduction in propeller RPM, and continued flight would not be possible. The pilot added that the engine, 'felt and sounded normal' when the airplane impacted the trees. The engine oil filler cap was found removed and hanging by a chain. In addition, the oil that spread aft over the engine and cowling created a fan approximately 30 degrees wide, and started at the engine oil filler cap. No pre-impact failures or malfunctions were found with either the engine or the airframe. The pilot's operating handbook states, 'When oil pressure to the piston in the propeller hub is relieved, centrifugal force, assisted by an internal spring, twists the blades towards low pitch (high RPM).' The instructor had 4 hours of flight experience in the accident airplane's make and model. The pilot had 13 hours in the accident airplane's make and model.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
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