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The folks over at New Line have set their sights on a remake of the 1973 murder mystery film "The Last of Sheila". As of now they've yet to settle on a writer or director for the movie that revolves around a group of people invited to a scavenger hunt aboard a yacht owned by a man whose wife was killed in a hit and run a year earlier. I have no idea how you have a scavenger hunt on a boat so that's really what I'm interested to find out here. Also if someone uses the words "poop deck".
We already know that "The Woman in Black: Angels of Death" is in the works. Remember when I told you about that? You don't, do you. Sometimes I think I'm wasting my time coming up with witty comments day after day. Well maybe you'll listen to this! According to Hammer CEO Simon Oakes there are hopes that "The Woman in Black" will live on well past 2 films and become a franchise of sorts. Maybe it could even spawn other story lines. Like "The Woman In Plaid", about a ghost who terrorized hillbillies in the woods or something. This is going to be big.
Cam Gigandet, who's last name is impossible to pronounce, will be joining Emily Browning in a new film titled "Plush". Gigandet plays a psychic doctor who helps patients get over their past by drilling down into their memories. Browning plays a young teen who possesses the same gift. "I'm in your head!", "Well now I'm in your head!". And hilarity ensues.
Little known writer Jay Basu and UK director Tom Green have been picked up to bring "Monsters 2", the follow up to the the 2010 mumble core underground little movie that could. The only way I could be excited about this is if the real Tom Green, the bum bum song guy, was directing and starring in it. In fact I would only be excited about this if it was titled "Freddy Got Fingered 2".
Richard Norton, and Australian actor you've probably never heard of but is frightening as hell, has signed on to play a number roles in the upcoming Mad Max film titled "Fury Road". Most notably he'll take on the Toecutter role, aka the main bad guy in the movie and this seems fitting because he looks like he eats puppies for fun.
They're still putting Michael Cera in movies? Super! Anywho! "Magic, Magic" has nothing to do with the card game virgins play (sorry Mark) and everything to do with a girl who starts to lose her mental faculties on a remote Chili island and not only stars Cera but Emily Browning, Juno Temple and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Three women who I assume are very nice but have names that sound like they would have ignored me in High School so in turn hate this movie and everyone in it.
Thomas Kretschmann, who's been in a bunch of movies I've never seen, has signed on to play the lead in the upcoming Dario Argento version of "Dracula". Of course seeing that this is an Argento flick god knows what the "lead role" means. I'd normally guess Dracula but for Argento the lead character could be a mule that has orgies with supermodels on the beach. Which, now that I see it typed out actually sounds like an awesome movie. Oh and it's going to be in 3D!
Looks like the apocalypse has come a few days early because "Monsters 2" has been announced. The sequel will follow 2 brothers as they find each other in a world filled with crappy CGI monsters that like to dry hump in front of gas stations (if you saw the first one you're wetting yourself right now). At the very least this will give me a reason to use the world "mumblecore" again.


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Crystal Fung of Hong Kong knows that she needs to improve her English speaking skills in order to find her place in the global culture. That—along with an interest in American culture—is what pushed her to become an exchange student.
Crystal is hoping to find a place in a Morenci home while she attends school here, but so far she's still living nearby with the exchange program representative while enrolled at Morenci Area High School.
It didn't take long to see differences in the American education system compared to Hong Kong. For one thing, a classroom doesn't belong to the teacher in her school. The students stay in the same room all day and it's the teachers that move from one to another.
Hong Kong students aren't stuck in their seats all day, however. After two blocks of classes, students take a 20-minute break. After another two classes, there's an hour lunch period. Crystal and her friends generally eat at nearby shopping mall. Hong Kong isn't a country; it's a city of about 7 million people so it's not unusual for a mall to be close by.
With the 20-minute recesses and the long lunch period, she says it's a lot easier to make friends and get to know a lot of students, even in a big school.
Crystal said that school is going well for her here other than the language challenge, and that makes English class the toughest.
The American diet is a lot different from what she's accustomed to, but she's quite familiar with Western food. Hong Kong is an international financial center and there are cultural influences from many countries.
She's living in a rural location now which means traveling everywhere by car. She's accustomed to getting around on her own by bus, ferry and the subway.
She has two brothers back in Hong Kong. Her mother works at home and her father is a manager at an ink company.
When she returns home next year, Crystal will have one more year of high school before attending college. She's considering a career in graphic art and design.
Before returning, she hopes to take a trip to New York City with other students in the exchange program. Also, a friend in California wants her to visit.
There's a big change coming soon when winter weather moves in.
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ST. LOUIS — A federal agency says its two-year study of the deadly 2011 Joplin tornado shows that stronger building codes and improved emergency communication systems can save lives.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released its 492-page draft report Thursday at a Joplin, Mo., news conference. The U.S. Department of Commerce agency called the study the first to take a systematic look at how communities across the country can better prepare for tornadoes.
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[Dinco D]
It was a nice sunny day until the heat we fell victim
Sex on our minds while I was in her system
Girls with them beautiful, fellas the same
A freak said "Hi" and we all yelled "Train!"
So we continue on our mission to get some POONANIE!
The girl we just met is not worth the MONEY!
She's just hot and ready to serve
Three cool swell brothers who had the nerve
To approach her, throat her, along with the action
She said it's cool making love in this fashion
Trains, planes, and automobiles
It's all in the same it's how the wheels turn (Repeat 2x)
[Charlie Brown]
Engine number one! (Yes engine number two?)
Yo tell me what's the problem! (Don't you think you can solve them?)
Of course I can (I know you can) We know you can!
So I prepare to make a dance to prove that I'm the man
At first she said "I'm not with the Amtrak"
Gently I convinced her to lay upon her back
All aboard! The brothers coming in, I heard the jigga jigga
So let the fun begin
She got to ride the shotgun dropping off next stop!
On and on, but it still ain't enough
I guess it's left up to engine number three
(To get what?) What? To get aboard those
Trains, planes, and automobiles
It's all in the same it's how the wheels turn (Repeat 2x)
[Busta Rhymes]
Got on the train and rode the express (Yeah rode the express)
??? in the clit of pure bliss
Slim trim, that's what I want to get hitting (Some trim)
And knock the boots off of the slim thing, where did you get in?
From the jeep counter and that was it
She felt against my skin, so once I was ready to begin
To blow up the engine (Engine)
A let my best friends ride on the train
(The train!) The train (The train!)
The ch-ch-ch-ch-ch train! C'mon, c'mon
[Interlude from Grandmaster Flash's "Superrappin'"]
Huh! Take the train, take the train, take the train!
Huh! Take the train, take the train, take the train!
It was a party night and everybody was breaking
The eyes was screaming and the bass was shaking
And it won't be long til everybody knows
That (Milo's) on the beatbox, knowing that (Milo's) on the beatbox!
Knowing that (Milo's) on the beatbox. gooooooooing...
And, and, and, and, sha-nah-nah!
Get 'em up, move 'em in, get 'em out, move 'em out!
Trains, plane, and automobiles
Get 'em up, move 'em in, get 'em out, move 'em out!
Trains, plane, and automobiles
[Dinco D]
As I return on my return trip
I had to roll and make this girl flip
So I said, "Fellas?" (Yeah?)
Should I do it like this? (No!) Like that? (No!)
Then why is she yelling "Go Dinco go!"
Sweating the pain off, letting it drain off
Feeling relaxed as my thing went soft
Never the measure, this is the pleasure
Are you gonna ride again?
[Charlie Brown]
Yo, never!
Never I'll take your advice
But let me get off my rock, homeslice
Time was just not on my side
Hour after hour it was a long ride
Thinking how I got in so deep
My lollipop shop just would not sleep
Rocking the body in and out like a party
Screaming and creaming, "Come on Charlie!"
Cause (Charlie says!) I love to rock the body
(Charlie says!) It really rings a bell
(Charlie says!) I love to rock the house now
Yo Busta Rhymes throw down!
[Busta Rhymes]
The train was worth the long trip
I threw the Rough Rider with the broad hip
Plugged it in and broke the backbone
Like sea to the salt, yo, players grow
Just by adding a little bit of fluid
Busta rode endless to the cut is chewing
Riding and riding, slipping and sliding
The bulletproof board is a ??? combining
In the calm invasion of me and you
One plus one, it equals two
After I did what I had to do
Then subtracted me and I jetted on you, honey
You, yeah you, baby
Yeah that's right, get it out
Take the train, that's right in the mornin'
Take the train, that's right, in the afternoon
Ride on the F train, ride on the choo train, ride up on the early train
[Charlie Brown]
Ride between them two, titty trains! Ride between the fallopian tube trains


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Development Resources/HOWTO/Creation Reviews
Guidelines for Creation Reviews
See "6.3.1 Creation Reviews" and "6.3 Reviews" in the Eclipse Development Process.
The purpose of the Creation Review is to assess the community and membership response to the proposal, to verify that appropriate resources are available for the project to achieve its plan, and to serve as a committer election for the project's initial Committers. The Eclipse Foundation strives not to be a repository of "code dumps" and thus projects must be sufficiently staffed for forward progress.
What are the Requirements?
As a project proposal leader, you may ask the question "when can we hold a Creation Review for our proposal?"; the primary answer is: "we will hold the Creation Review as soon as you are confident that you have sufficient community support for the proposal". The EMO will assist you in making that decision using (at least) the following criteria: (Note that these criteria are mostly qualitative and thus - except for a few cases - there are no "right answers". The expectation is that proposers will have good answers for questions around these criteria in order to pass the Creation Review.)
Enough Developers.
The project has sufficient committed developers to achieve its goals. The Eclipse Foundation is not a place to "abandon in public" code; rather, the Eclipse Foundation strives to have active projects with active communities and thus enough developers to move the project along.
Clear and Concise Description.
If the community found any aspects of the proposal confusing, unclear, or using unfamiliar jargon, those areas must be clarified. This is a hard and fast requirement: because the Eclipse community must be able to evaluate the proposal. To do that, they must be able to understand the proposal and thus it must be clear and straightforward and free of marketing-speak.
Successful Eclipse projects are those that collaborate with existing Eclipse, or other open source, projects. Again, it can be hard to start a collaboration before demonstrating the technology, but at the same time it is never too early to start discussing collaborations with other projects. Additionally, it never hurts to join and help an existing project to start establishing those social networks that will make future collaborations on the new project possible.
For each place this new project overlaps an existing Eclipse project, what does the overlapee say about the potential overlap? (Note that the overlapee's opinion is not required to be positive, but that it is important for new projects to understand where they fit and for existing projects to understand what new developments might be coming along.)
In general, a new Eclipse project should start with code. That code may have been developed in-house, or at one of any number of hosting services (e.g. Eclipse Labs).
Extensible frameworks and exemplary tools.
Is this project visibly committed to producing both extensible frameworks and exemplary tools and runtimes built on top of those frameworks? Eclipse is dependent on its projects producing both frameworks for the ecosystem to extend, and end-user tools and runtimes to attract the critical mass of users which enable the ecosystem to exist.
Sufficient Time for the Community.
The minimum time from posting a proposal to a Creation Review is no less than two weeks. Anything less than two weeks of general accepted business days would not be giving the Eclipse membership sufficient notice of new initiatives.
Evidence of Activity.
Proposals that are more than three months old without having been created as a Project are, perhaps, not sufficiently supported by the community as the original proposers believed. Thus proposals older than three months have a somewhat greater burden of proof that they will be viable Eclipse Projects.
Proposals are required to have at least two Mentors before scheduling a Creation Review (see "6.1 Mentors"). The name, corporate affiliation(s), and current Eclipse projects/roles must be listed in the on-line version of the proposal and in the documentation for the Creation Review.
The proposal leads are responsible for recruiting the mentors. Mentors are not recuited or assigned by the EMO. The EMO will provide advice on who the proposal leads might approach as mentors, but neither the proposers nor the suggested mentors are obligated to act on that advice.
Mentors must be existing members of the Architecture Council (see the membership page). The best way to attract the attention of the whole Architecture Council and solicit mentors is to open a bug against Community/Architecture Council.
The Creation Review acts as the new committer election for the initial Committers and thus the on-line version of the proposal and the review documentation must contain the same level of nomination justification and background as an election would.
See "6.3.1 Creation Reviews".
The Creation Review documents must include short nomination bios of the proposed initial committers. These bios should discuss their relationship to, and history with, the incoming code and/or their involvement with the area/technologies covered by the proposal. The goal is to help keep any legacy contributors connected to new project and explain that connection to the current and future Eclipse membership, as well as justify the initial Committers' participation in a meritocracy.
What are the Best Practices?
In addition to the required pre-requisites, the Eclipse membership is interested in a number of "evidence of best practice" indicators.
Does the project have a community of contributors and users, outside the core developers, who are willing to work towards making this a success? This is a bit of a Catch-22 situation because it is sometimes hard to attract a community before any milestones or releases, but it is also true that projects with limited developers and even fewer users tend not to have much technical impact.
Is this a single company project or a multi-organization effort? If all the committers and contributors are in the same organization or have financial ties to the same organization, the project is at a greater risk of being de-staffed. Brand new projects are not required to be diverse, but projects cannot graduate from incubation without appropriate diversity.
Technical Scope.
Does the project have a technology scope and focus which will have a reasonable likelihood of success? Projects that are too big will definitely fail; projects that are too small are unlikely to be interesting.
Maturity Plan.
The proposal needs to define the destination/end-game/ultimate objectives for the project. What is the expected time scale for this project? Which is the destination top-level PMC for this project? For example, does this project expect to investigate technology for two years and then have proven itself sufficiently to be integrated into the Platform as a component? Does this project expect to be integrated into a the Web Tools Platform as a sub-project (and thus continue to exist, but under that PMC)? Etc. Note that this section is about a plan, not a commitment, but it does need to be a realistic and believable plan.
Following Eclipse Rules.
The Eclipse Foundation attempts to minimize the number of restrictions and rules placed on projects but there are a few. Because it is the responsibility of each Eclipse committer and project lead to understand and implement this minimal set of standards, a proposal team that shows a disregard (either deliberate or through a lack of effort) for these policies (such as the press guidelines) does not endear themselves to the Eclipse community. The Development Resources page provides pointers to a great deal of information about the Eclipse Development Process and more. At a minimum all prospective committers on the new project should be familiar with the New Committer Handbook.
Preparing the Documentation
The documentation for a Review has traditionally been a slide deck however there is no reason to use slides: a short report/document would work equally well if not better (reports are information dense relative to slides, and that's a good attribute). In fact, the proposal document itself can provide a solid foundation for the review documentation.
In any case, the review document must be/have:
- Neutral File Format. The document must be published in an operating-system neutral file format. PPT and DOC files are not considered neutral. PDF or HTML is currently the best choice. The EMO can convert Open Office and Microsoft Office to PDF if you are unable to do so.
- Archival Quality. The document must be comprehensible and complete on its own without requiring explanation by a human presenter. Archival quality is required because it will be available on the eclipse.org website in perpetuity; future Eclipse users, adopters, and even new project committers will consult it long after the review conference call has been completed.
- Correct Copyright and License. The document is being written (and thus copyrighted) by you, not by the Eclipse Foundation, and thus the copyright statement needs to be by you (or your employer). Similarly, the content should be licensed under the EPL.
The document must cover the issues discussed in the above sections. In addition, it must include:
- Brief, executive summary of the project proposal
- Comments about the community response to the proposal both positive and, if any, negative
- Description of the Initial Contribution. Is this an existing project that is moving some or all of its code to Eclipse?
- Describe extent of move (e.g. some, all, module);
- Name where the code is hosted;
- List existing domain names associated with this code;
- List any trademarks that may apply to the project name;
- List the license(s) was it previously hosted under;
- Provide a list of all past and present contributors and committers (or copyright holders).
- Initial implementation focus - the next step after the Creation Review will be full-speed-ahead implementation, so the project team had better have an initial implementation direction
- Confirmation that the project members and new candidates have read and understand the Eclipse Development Process and their responsibilities towards the community and especially in regards to IP issues.
- Future directions - it's always a good idea to have some idea of where the project is planning to go.
The Review Process
A review culminates in a review period of at least five generally accepted business days and ultimately end with a succeed/fail determination from the EMO. This review period grants the community one last opportunity to get involved with the project prior to its creation. In the past, all reviews were ended with a phone call. We no longer hold calls for reviews.
Once the review content has been created, the operational side of a Creation Review is:
- Schedule the review by sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com. (Depending on when you read this, you may have already completed this step.)
- Reviews are scheduled at most twice a month, usually on Wednesdays, usually in the morning (USA)/afternoon (Europe)/night (Asia).
- Reviews are grouped up to four at a time.
- At least one week in advance of the start of the review period, you (the proposal lead) sends the review document to email@example.com for posting.
- The EMO posts the document via the website (through the wonders of database-driven web pages, the document is automatically linked from the proposal and from the review notice).
- The EMO announces the review:
- via the eclipse.org/projects web page (as soon as the review is scheduled);
- via the reviews and announcements RSS feed (as soon as the review is scheduled and again when the review document is posted); and
- via email to the committers and membership-at-large mailing lists (at least one week in advance of the review conference call).
- At the end of the review period, the EMO will make the succeed/fail determination based on community feedback.
After a Successful Review
After the successful review, and the approval of the Creation Review by the EMO:
- the EMO will ask you to fill out the New Project Provisioning Form
- once your website CVS directory is created, you will provide content for the webpages including:
- The incubation graphic so that your new project is allowed to participate in the Parallel IP process.
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Spanish One Day at a Time in Al-Anon
One Day at a Time in Al-Anon is a book of daily meditations, reminders, and prayers help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones.
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Worthy of Love
Meditations On Loving Ourselves And Others
For those who struggle to love and be loved -- Worthy of Love offers 52 wisdom-filled meditations. Favorite Hazelden author Karen Casey clarifies the varieties of love: the love we show friends, family, a lover, even ourselves.
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon is a book of daily meditations, reminders, and prayers help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones.
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Tending Dandelions
Honest Meditations for Mothers with Addicted Children
In the shadows of our child's struggles with addiction, we find ourselves tending to a life for which we weren't prepared. Yet that place also holds great opportunity for personal growth. These meditations provide encouragement and understanding for those who are realizing that recovery rarely follows a neat or comfortable path. Along the way, we plant beautiful roses only to be injured by their…
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Unwelcome Inheritance
Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive Behaviors
Parents affected by addiction can enable their children's substance abuse and even model addictive behaviors learned from their own parents, passing the cycle on from generation to generation. Learn what you can do to help yourself, your children, and future generations break the cycle of addiction and addictive behaviors.
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Courage To Change Softcover
The Christian Roots of the Twelve-Step Movement
The writings of the Reverend Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal minister, are examined in this volume in the light of their contribution to the principles of Twelve Step recovery.
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Days of Healing, Days of Joy
Daily Meditations for Adult Children
In the days of healing and joy that lie ahead, let this book of daily meditations speak to those in recovery, instilling hope and confidence and courage. A year's worth of quotations, meditations, and closing thoughts.
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What to Do When Your Kid Needs an Entitlement Intervention
Entitlement is often confused with the word affluenza, a term used to describe the spoiledness of the very rich. But entitlement occurs across all income groups. It's a state of mind, the concept that "I deserve, even without putting in an effort." This attitude begins at home, but often our society helps reinforce it. Think of the so-called participant trophies given to all kids…
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Today's Gift
Daily Meditations for Families
Daily meditations to nurture family esteem and strengthen family bonds. A Hazelden classic.
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Hope for Today Hardcover
Al-Anon's daily reader brings fresh insight and much-needed support to anyone affected by a loved one's addiction.
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The Joey Song
A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
The Joey Song is the poignant story of a defiant addict and the mother who won't give up on him. She finally realizes that it hurts more to hang on than to let go, and that letting go is not the same thing as giving up. Sandra Swenson beautifully orchestrates a mother's lessons of love and loss, while surviving her son's addiction.
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Spanish Courage to Change
The daily meditations, reminders, and prayers from Courage to Change help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones and point to Al-Anon's impact as a vital part of recovery.
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Spanish, Hardcover, 380pp.
Courage to Change Hardcover
One Day at a Time in Al-Anon II
The daily meditations, reminders, and prayers from Courage to Change help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones and point to Al-Anon's impact as a vital part of recovery.
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Recipe from John Gallagher of Pa.
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1 tbsp garlic powder
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1/8 tsp black pepper
1 pinch of basil leaves
3 medium potatoes (sliced into 1-inch pieces)
1 dozen baby carrots (sliced lengthwise in quarters)
1 1 and 3/4oz. can of Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup (diluted with 1/2 can water)
1 1/2 cups bisquick flour
1 1/2 cups of 2% milk
1/8 tsp paprika
1 cup of fresh string beans (snapped into pieces)
In a large skillet brown the ground beef. Add in garlic powder, steak seasoning, black pepper, and basil to the meat and mix everything together well. Cut the potatoes and carrots as described above. In a 3-quart casserole bowl layer: meat, potatoes, beans, carrots, and soup mix. This should make about 3 layers. Now mix the bisquick and milk together then allow it to settle for about 5 minutes. Now pour the mixture over top of the casserole. Bake at 375 for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until the top is golden brown. When the casserole is about 3/4 of the way through cover the top with aluminum foil. (Use 1 tbsp of melted butter on top before covering with the foil.) Makes about 4 to 6 servings. Enjoy!
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(1) The legal basis for the establishment of the State of Israel was the resolution unanimously adopted by the League of Nations in 1922, affirming the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in the historical area of the Land of Israel. This included the areas of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, and close Jewish settlement throughout. This was subsequently affirmed by both houses of the U.S. Congress.
(2) Article 80 of the UN Charter determines the continued validity of the rights granted to all states or peoples, or already existing international instruments (including those adopted by the League of Nations). Accordingly, the above-noted League resolution remains valid, and the 650,000 Jews presently resident in the areas of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem reside there legitimately.
(3) "The 1967 borders" do not exist, and have never existed. The 1949 Armistice Agreements entered into by Israel and its Arab neighbors, establishing the Armistice Demarcation Lines, clearly stated that these lines "are without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines or to claims of either Party relating thereto." Accordingly, they cannot be accepted or declared to be the international boundaries of a Palestinian state.
(4) UN Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) called upon the parties to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and specifically stressed the need to negotiate in order to achieve "secure and recognized boundaries."
(5) The Palestinian proposal, in attempting to unilaterally change the status of the territory and determine the "1967 borders" as its recognized borders, in addition to running squarely against Resolutions 242 and 338, would be a fundamental breach of the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in which the parties undertook to negotiate the issue of borders and not act to change the status of the territories pending outcome of the permanent status negotiations.
(6) The Palestinians entered into the various agreements constituting what is known as the "Oslo Accords" in the full knowledge that Israel's settlements existed in the areas, and that settlements would be one of the issues to be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations. Furthermore, the Oslo Accords impose no limitation on Israel's settlement activity in those areas that the Palestinians agreed would continue to be under Israel's jurisdiction and control pending the outcome of the permanent status negotiations.
(7) While the Interim Agreement was signed by Israel and the PLO, it was witnessed by the UN together with the EU, the Russian Federation, the U.S., Egypt, and Norway. It is thus inconceivable that such witnesses, including first and foremost the UN, would now give license to a measure in the UN aimed at violating this agreement and undermining major resolutions of the Security Council.
(8) While the UN has maintained a persistent policy of non-recognition of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem pending a negotiated solution, despite Israel's historic rights to the city, it is inconceivable that the UN would now recognize a unilaterally declared Palestinian state, the borders of which would include eastern Jerusalem. This would represent the ultimate in hypocrisy, double standards, and discrimination, as well as an utter disregard of the rights of Israel and the Jewish People.
(9) Such unilateral action by the Palestinians could give rise to reciprocal initiatives in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) which could include proposed legislation to declare Israel's sovereignty over extensive parts of Judea and Samaria, if and when the Palestinians carry out their unilateral action.
This letter was drafted by the Legal Forum for Israel and by Amb. Alan Baker of JCPA. It was signed by jurists and international lawyers.


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This season's famous sneezers include soap star-turned-reality show host Alison Sweeney for McNeil Consumer's Zyrtec Liquid Gels and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi for Merck's Claritin.
Sweeney, a longtime Days of Our Lives star and host of The Biggest Loser, took part in a Zyrtec event in which she raced six people in nose costumes. Dubbed "Race Against Your Allergies," the stunt took place in New York City's Madison Square Park and delighted onlookers, including a few MM&M staffers.
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Meanwhile, DioGuardi is serving as the face of Claritin's Living Clear campaign, a user-generated content effort that invites users to submit a video to LivingClear.com showing what Claritin's non-drowsy formula has enabled them to do. Finalists will be announced May 6, and votes from visitors will decide the ultimate winner, who will pocket a $10,000 prize and win a chance to star in a Claritin online ad, while five finalists take home $1,000 and a one-year supply of Claritin products.


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Retired Vermont police officer at the right place and time to foil bank robbery
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- When John "Zippo" Frechette retired from the Brattleboro, Vt., Police Department in December 2011 after 25 years, he said he was looking forward to spending more time running marathons, hiking on the Long Trail and donating time to organizations like Special Olympics.
And retirement has been peaceful and fulfilling for the former Brattleboro police officer, who said Friday that while he has missed certain aspects of police work, he was not looking back on his decision to retire.
On Friday morning "Zippo" wasn't wearing his old uniform, but he acted like any police officer would when he helped apprehend an alleged bank robber.
Shawn Arguin, 42, was taken into custody just before 10 a.m. after he allegedly tried to rob Key Bank in Brattleboro.
Frechette was there checking his account when Arguin allegedly attempted to rob the bank.
As Arguin got ready to leave, a bank teller yelled, and Frechette stopped Arguin and got him to the ground until an armed police officer could take over.
"It all happened so fast. Instinct just kicked in," Frechette said. "I just happened to be in the right place at the right time."
The police say officers responded to the bank after receiving a report of a robbery in progress.
Arguin is being held in Southern State Correctional Facility and is expected to be arraigned Monday in Windham Superior Court.
During his 25 years as a Brattleboro Police officer Frechette was involved in some of the most dangerous, and most high profile, cases in town. But he is soft-spoken and humble, and he would have no talk Friday about acting like a hero.
He said he acted purely on instinct, and wonders what might have happened if Arguin was armed.
"They had it covered. He wasn't going anyplace," he said about the strong police presence that converged on the bank Friday morning. "I'm old school. I apprehended him, searched him, and got him to the ground until the officers were able to take over. I just happened to be there at the same time he was."
Brattleboro Police Chief Gene Wrinn said Frechette helped out Friday, but reminded the public about the dangers of getting in the middle of an ongoing incident.
"I applaud retired officer Frechette's willingness to get involved in a crime in progress, but remind others that Mr. Frechette had years of previous law enforcement experience," Wrinn said. "We welcome citizens to become involved by being observant witnesses. Citizens attempting to become involved in incidents where officers are already on scene can complicate the police response and get people injured unnecessarily."
With Arguin in custody Frechette said he had enough excitement and was looking forward to returning to retirement.
He plans to run in the Albany Marathon and is looking forward for the weather to break so he can begin training again.
During an in interview in 2011 to talk about his retirement Frechette said he didn't expect to travel too far away from Brattleboro or from the department.
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What's the measure of success in business? For some small-business owners, it's a big bank account. For others, it's a large staff. But according to the results of a recent survey for Sprint Business conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide, more than half the American small-business owners surveyed cited customer satisfaction as the true measure of entrepreneurial success.
"Small-business owners and executives are much closer to the front lines of their operations, so they recognize the contributions that a satisfied customer base can make to a company's long-term success," says Patti Manuel, president of sales and marketing for Sprint Business. "Our own ongoing research has shown that this type of long-term thinking has come to characterize businesses of all sizes."
The importance of keeping your customers--your business's VIPs--contented was also evident to most of the entrepreneurs surveyed; 58 percent of the 1,000 repsondents noted that customer satisfaction has improved within their companies during the last year, while only a slim 2 percent admitted that it has declined.
Sounds like preferential treatment--at least when it comes to your customers--isn't such a bad business idea, after all.
Pocket-Size Hero
By Laura Tiffany
When conducting business on the road, organizing your appointments, expenses and important dates can be a chore. The keyboardless SE-500 mobile organizer from Sharp Electronics Corp. is an organizational hero that will help you to contact associates via e-mail while out of the office and organize your names, dates and telephone numbers.
The SE-500 comes equipped with a modem so you can send and receive e-mail from any analog phone line, via your Internet service provider. You can enter information into the organizer by downloading from your PC, using provided synchronization software; writing electronic memos with a stylus pen on the LCD Touch Screen; or using a stylus pen to type on the onscreen keyboard.
The SE-500 also includes standard Sharp features such as Contacts (a database), Activities (a travel scheduler and calendar), Expenses (a tracking system for business expenses), Memo, Calculator and Home/World Clock. Weighing 6.5 ounces and measuring 5.9 inches long, 3.5 inches wide and 0.7 inches high, the SE-500 makes a handy business-travel partner wherever you go.
The SE-500 runs on two AA batteries. Suggested retail price: $299. From Sharp Electronics Corp., Mahwah, NJ. To order, call (800) BE-SHARP.
SCORE Some Advice
By Jessica Hale
Visa and the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) have joined forces to become "small business financial management partners." What does this mean for you? Small- and homebased-business owners will now have access to the combined resources of Visa's financial savvy and SCORE's vast experience guiding and counseling entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs who participate in SCORE counseling sessions and workshops can request free workbooks on how to write a business plan, along with other financial management concerns. Visa will also provide SCORE counselors with education materials on finding capital, obtaining loans, separating personal and business expenses and managing financial growth.
Visa's Web site will feature research on emerging small-business financial trends, and a monthly online survey will allow small-business owners to compare their experiences with those of other small-business owners by answering such questions as "Was your company's first loan application approved?"
To contact a SCORE counselor, visit the national SCORE Web site at http://www.score.org . To learn more about Visa's small business resources, visit its Web site at http://www.visa.com
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By Karin Moeller
Put this in your X-File: Aliens have landed . . . in novelty gift stores across the country, just in time for the gift-giving season. These extraterrestrial characters are sending sales skyward for fearless merchants who are brave enough to stock the eerie beings on their shelves.
Leading the alien-product explosion is Matscot International LLC in Owings Mills, Maryland, a company that's bringing the mysteries of the great big beyond into bedrooms, kitchens and offices worldwide with its alien-shaped candles, salt and pepper sets and glow-in-the-dark magnets.
"We specialize in friendly alien products," says Chris Alexander of The Shopping Moon, a Houston-based online gift distributor that's seen a recent increase in the number of wholesale alien products.
Its best sellers include Commander Xolo, an alien hand puppet seated in a UFO; and Alien Lifeforms, a set of four different aliens, including a Roswell alien (fashioned after the other-worldly visitors of Roswell, New Mexico, infamy) and a neonate alien (which resembles the wide-eyed extraterrestrials depicted in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind").
By Christina Grace Peterson
Q: I would like more information regarding the top prospective fast-food franchises for co-branding opportunities with my TCBY franchise. What food-service businesses will have the best growth potential in the next five years?
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A: Provided by Don DeBolt, president of the International Franchise Association (IFA) in Washington, DC, the world's oldest and largest trade organization representing franchisors, franchisees, consultants and academic institutions in more than 100 countries.
The decision to co-brand is a smart one. Co-branding, or the partnering of similar concepts in one location, is one of the latest ways smart franchisors and franchisees are catering to consumers' cravings for convenience.
Co-branding's partnerships encourage consumers to visit the same location for different items throughout the day, increasing revenue. An example is the pairing of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. Only the sweetest tooth would crave a doughnut a la mode, but, with this combination, the franchisee can expect to attract morning doughnut lovers and afternoon or evening ice cream fans.
You'll need to get approval from your franchisor before co-branding with another franchise. Typically, these regulations are covered in the franchise contract. Because franchising's success is based on uniformity of brand presentation, the franchisor will want to control how the brand (trademark) is marketed and co-branded to ensure it's not compromised in any way.
Pairing your TCBY with a fast-food concept should benefit customers by offering quick meals or lower-fat desserts from opening until closing time. Just about every quick-service restaurant concept is getting involved in co-branding. The IFA recommends McDonald's Corp., Wendy's International, Burger King Corp., KFC Corp., Subway Sandwiches and Salads, Pizza Inn Inc., Taco John's International Inc., Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits and many others.
The second part of your question concerns which food franchises will be hot in the next five years, and the answer is: specialty foods that cater to specific, often upscale, markets. Some of these concepts include:
- Fruit-drink outlets have burst onto the quick-serve food scene. A shake made with yogurt or milk, fruit, fruit juices and added vitamins and minerals--also known as a smoothie--can be a snack or can replace breakfast or lunch.
- Water stores are an extension of bottled water bought in grocery stores. By the pint, gallon or water-cooler size, consumers want their water pure and simple. For the health-conscious, it's an alternative to caffeinated beverages.
- Wrapped sandwiches--which are sandwiches that are "wrapped" in thin, pita-style bread rather than buns, hoagie rolls or other types of heavy breads--are low-calorie, low-fat alternatives to subs. Wraps, introduced on the West Coast, are wrapping up sales all over the United States, including some fast-food franchises, such as Wendy's, and casual-dining chains, such as TGI Friday's.
For more information on franchising trends, visit the IFA's Web site at http://www.franchise.org , or write to 1350 New York Ave., N.W., #900, Washington, DC 20005-4709.
Dr. Troubleshooter
By Roger Fritz
Every business has problems. But entrepreneurial survivors solve their businesses' problems as they arise, and grow by converting those solutions into future opportunities.
Dr. Roger Fritz has more than 40 years of experience as an educator, manager, corporate executive, university president, small-business consultant and author of 28 business and management books.
This month in Dr. Troubleshooter's waiting room, we discover the importance of test-marketing your product.
Problem: You're very enthusiastic about your new product. But before you spend lots of money to lauch it, how will you know your target market will be equally enthusiastic about it?
Diagnosis: A little test-marketing can be very helpful. What you do with the information you gather from test-marketing can be crucial.
Prescription: The purpose of test-marketing is simple: to produce and attempt to sell some of your new product to see if real people will actually spend real money to buy it. Ask potential purchasers:
- Do you like my product?
- What would you be willing to pay for it?
- If it were available at the price you have said you would be willing to pay for it, would you:
(a) Definitely buy it?
(b) Possibly buy it?
(c) Not buy it?
- How many times a year would you buy it?
- Are you buying a similar product now?
- Are you happy with the present product?
With the responses to the pricing question, throw out the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent of the figures mentioned to you. Mid-range answers are more realistic; they indicate the potential customers' "perceived value" of your product, which should influence your sales price.
Next, gather the data from your "Would you buy?" question. Count all of those who said that they would definitely buy your product and half of those who said that they would possibly buy your product. Compare that figure to the total number of people interviewed. If the result is:
- 85 percent or higher: You have a winner!
- 65 percent to 84 percent: Your chances are good.
- 50 percent to 64 percent: There's a possibility.
- Less than 50 percent: Back to the drawing board.
Excerpted with permission from Roger Fritz's The Small Business Troubleshooter: 152 Solutions to the Problems Faced by Every Growing Company (Career Press, $16.99, 630-420-7673).
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Table of Contents
- What Are Microbicides?
- How Would Microbicides Work?
- Are Microbicides Currently Available?
- What Is Happening in Microbicide Research?
- Would Microbicides Eliminate the Need for Condoms?
- Would Microbicides Protect Against All Sexually Transmitted Infections?
- What if a Woman Wants to Get Pregnant?
- Would Microbicides Be Safe?
- How Would Microbicides Benefit Men?
- How Would Microbicides Benefit Women With HIV?
- Why Do We Need Microbicides if We Will Eventually Have an HIV Vaccine?
- How Much Will Microbicides Cost, and Will People Be Able to Afford Them?
- What About Nonoxynol-9 (N-9)?
- Taking Care of Yourself
What Are Microbicides?
Microbicides are products being developed to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections or diseases (STIs or STDs). Microbicides could come in many forms, including gels, creams, suppositories, films, lubricants, sponges, or vaginal rings. They could be used in the vagina or rectum.
How Would Microbicides Work?
Microbicides could work in different ways:
- Killing germs such as bacteria and viruses or making them inactive
- Changing the condition of the vagina or rectum to make infection less likely
- Blocking infection by creating a barrier between the germ and the cells of the vagina or rectum
- Preventing the germ from spreading after it has entered the body
Are Microbicides Currently Available?
No. Scientists are testing many products to see whether they help protect against infection with HIV and/or other sexually transmitted infections. Some of these products have proven safe enough in lab studies that they are now being tested in people. However, no safe and effective microbicide is currently available to the public.
What Is Happening in Microbicide Research?
Microbicides have been in development for more than 15 years. A number of studies conducted on the early products failed to find an effective microbicide. However, there is hope that a new group of microbicides that contain HIV drugs will be more effective. These microbicides come in several different forms -- gels, rings, films -- and may serve as multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs), which address two or more sexual health issues at one time (e.g., HIV and pregnancy).
Vaginal Rings
There is also hope that vaginal rings containing HIV drugs can prevent the spread of HIV. The ring is flexible and can be inserted by the woman herself deep inside the vagina against the cervix (entrance to the womb). The ring is comfortable and rarely felt by the woman herself or her sexual partner(s). It needs to be replaced once every one to two months. This is different from vaginal gels, which need to be inserted directly before or at the time of a sexual act. Women are in control of the use of both rings and gels. However, with the ring, women do not need to plan for sex, which can allow sex to be more spontaneous.
One of the largest announcements at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections involved results from two studies that looked at the effectiveness of an intravaginal dapivirine-containing ring. The two studies -- the ASPIRE study and The Ring Study -- enrolled more than 4,500 HIV-negative women in South Africa, Uganda, Malawi, and Zimbabwe ages 18 to 45 years. They shared a very similar design, which assigned half of participants to receive a ring containing the study drug -- dapivirine, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) -- and half to receive a ring containing no dapivirine (the placebo). The rings were inserted into the vagina every month for two years.
Both studies showed a modest reduction in HIV infection among women who used the dapivirine ring. The trials were also similar in that younger women saw little or no benefit from using the ring. The difference in effectiveness in age groups has to do with adherence. Younger women were less adherent in using the ring, and consequently saw less protective benefit. Interestingly, adherence increased over time, suggesting that women may have needed some time to become familiar with the new technology.
As a result, researchers are now conducting open-label extensions on The Ring and ASPIRE studies. These extension trials are designed to gather information about how the ring works for women who are aware of its potential benefit and may shed some light on challenges with adherence.
Vaginal and Rectal Gels
Promising results were reported a few years ago from a study of HIV-negative women in South Africa. It showed that when women used a one percent gel version of the HIV drug Viread (tenofovir) inside the vagina, two out of every five HIV infections were prevented. These study results provide early proof that HIV drug-based microbicides, in particular tenofovir gel, can help protect women against HIV.
Unfortunately, a similar study of tenofovir one percent vaginal gel among more than 5,000 HIV-negative women in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe was not successful. This study, called the VOICE study (MTN 003), was stopped in the fall of 2011 because it did not work to prevent HIV infections. The gel did not work largely because women did not use it as directed. However, the tenofovir gel appeared to be safe, without major side effects. While it is encouraging that tenofovir-containing gels appear effective when used as directed, researchers will be shifting their focus to understanding why so few women choose to use these gels so that more acceptable and effective prevention methods can be identified.
Researchers also tested a version of tenofovir gel designed for rectal use. This study (MTN 017) explored the safety and acceptance of the rectal gel in transgender women and men who have sex with men in Peru, South Africa, Thailand, and the US. It found that the rectal gel was safe and well-tolerated, and that participants were highly adherent overall. Adherence was higher among those who used the product before and after sex compared to those who used it on a daily basis.
Rectal gels containing dapivirine and maraviroc are currently in development and under investigation. Scientists are also studying vaginal gels containing dapivirine, dapivirine plus maraviroc, and dapivirine plus darunavir.
Vaginal Films
Scientists in the FAME-02 study found that a vaginal film containing dapivirine delivered enough drug to vaginal tissue to prevent HIV infection when tested in the laboratory. Study of a vaginal film containing dapivirine is ongoing.
Multipurpose Prevention Technologies
MPTs provide ways of preventing more than one thing in one device. For example, MPTs may prevent pregnancy and HIV, or they may prevent HIV and several other STIs. Having methods that combine prevention of pregnancy and STIs (including HIV) would be more convenient, and likely lead to more consistent and therefore more effective use.
Researchers are studying several methods for combining prevention technologies, including a vaginal ring containing both a hormonal contraceptive (to prevent pregnancy) and an HIV drug (to prevent HIV; a form of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP). It can be inserted well before sex, stay there for up to three months, and is not usually felt by either partner. Vaginal gels that may prevent pregnancy and HIV are also under investigation.
Would Microbicides Eliminate the Need for Condoms?
No. When used consistently and correctly, male or female condoms are likely to provide better protection against HIV and other STIs than microbicides, so they are still the best choice. But for people who do not have access to condoms, or who cannot or will not use condoms, microbicides would provide another option. This is especially true for women whose male partners refuse to use condoms. Microbicides could be used without the knowledge of women's sexual partners, thereby putting the power of prevention directly in women's hands. Using microbicides could save lives and have a major impact in reducing the spread of HIV.
Would Microbicides Protect Against All Sexually Transmitted Infections?
Many of the microbicides being tested work against HIV. In time, a product may be developed that combines different microbicides and could prevent a wide range of STIs, including HIV (see multipurpose prevention technologies, or MPTs, above).
What if a Woman Wants to Get Pregnant?
Many of the microbicides being studied would allow a woman to get pregnant. These are called non-contraceptive microbicides. They would offer women the option of getting pregnant while still protecting themselves from infection -- an option that is not available with condom use. The tenofovir one percent gel tested in the CAPRISA 004 study and mentioned above is one example of a non-contraceptive microbicide. Contraceptive microbicides or MPTs would prevent pregnancy as well as HIV and, ideally, other STIs. It is important to have both types available.
Would Microbicides Be Safe?
Any new product must go through strict safety testing before becoming available to the public. Health activists and researchers are closely watching over the clinical testing of microbicides to make sure that the testing is being done correctly.
How Would Microbicides Benefit Men?
It is possible that the male partner of a woman living with HIV might be protected from infection if she used a vaginal or rectal microbicide. However, this would need to be tested in clinical trials. The safety and effectiveness of vaginal microbicides must be tested separately from rectal microbicides.
How Would Microbicides Benefit Women With HIV?
Microbicides could help protect women living with HIV from re-infection with other HIV strains, from other STIs, and from pregnancy.
Why Do We Need Microbicides if We Will Eventually Have a Vaccine to Prevent HIV?
Research on developing a vaccine to prevent HIV infection has not been successful so far. Microbicides may be available sooner than a preventive HIV vaccine. Even if a safe and effective vaccine is discovered, vaccines and microbicides will both have roles to play in the prevention of HIV.
How Much Will Microbicides Cost, and Will People Be Able to Afford Them?
Advocates are working with researchers and policy makers to make sure that any approved microbicide will be as affordable and accessible as possible.
What About Nonoxynol-9 (N-9)?
N-9 products are sold over the counter as spermicides that can prevent pregnancy. They cannot prevent the transmission of HIV or other infections. In fact, when used more than once a day, N-9 contraceptive products may actually increase HIV risk by irritating the lining of the vagina. Other studies show that N-9 is even more irritating to the rectum than to the vagina.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO):
- N-9 is not effective at preventing the transmission of HIV or other STDs. It should NOT be used for disease prevention.
- Women at risk for HIV, especially those having sex more than once a day, should NOT use N-9 for birth control
- Condoms with N-9 provide no more protection against pregnancy or infection than plain lubricated condoms. Since N-9 condoms may cause irritation, they should not be used.
- Products with N-9 should NEVER be used for anal sex
Taking Care of Yourself
Until microbicides are available, the best way to protect yourself and your partner from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, is to use a male or female condom and use PrEP for the HIV-negative partner. It is also important to avoid the use of nonoxynol-9 products if you think there is any chance you may be exposed to HIV. Getting tested for STIs regularly and getting treatment quickly if you have an STI will also help reduce your risk of HIV infection if you are exposed to HIV.


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Why do planets rotate counter clockwise around the sun?
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Answer: Be careful – the planets rotate counter-clockwise if you view them looking "down" from the northern direction. But if you are looking "up" from the southern direction, they are moving clockwise. The question you may be asking is: why do all the planets rotate in the same direction? It is believed that the entire solar system condensed out of a hot cloud of gases, which formed the sun and the planets and the other matter in the solar system as it cooled. This gas was rotating, which explains two things: first, why are all the planets pretty much in the same plane (because when a cloud of gas rotates, it tends to form a flat disc perpendicular to the axis of rotation); and second, why are all the planets rotating the same way (because the cloud of gas from which they came was all rotating in one direction). The planets rotate in the same direction that the sun is spinning about its axis, which is further evidence that everything came from the original cloud of rotating gas.
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The Middle East – Despair as a Spectacle
Not only are we surrounded by the smell of death, but the television and PC screens around us assure that the pictures of death remain constantly in front of our eyes: Whether a picture of the coffins of American soldiers killed by the Iraqi fighters, or the pictures of tortured Iraqis.
In this nightmare death is the winner, in Riyadh, Madrid, Damascus, and of course in the land where nightmares are omnipresent: Iraq and Palestine.
Enforcing change or changing political forces?
The scene as it is now is the ideal condition for an even more violent scenario of change supported by those who see change through more bloodshed the only way out.
But the three forces claiming to support reform are far from providing its basic requirements. Firstly, the regimes of the regions want a reform that would not change their corrupt authority over their people.
Secondly, the North-Atlantic policy makers want a controlled reform that would guarantee stability and assure their strategic and economic interests are preserved.
And thirdly, the different Arab political forces, whether Islamic or Nationalist, are far from having a consistent reform vision that would address not only domestic affairs but also regional and international ones.
These very three forces need reform themselves, or any talk about peace and stability would only add power to the Israeli-American machinery of hegemony.
Rulers in the Arab world
One can confirm that the first force, the Arab polity, would not go for a real power sharing that would lead to a restriction of their unlimited power and access to national wealth. The rulers of the Arab world continue to be a major obstacle to change and progress.
According to the theory of those Arabic regimes it would even give them more support against their own opponents if they can assure the super power they can back its fight against "terrorism".
The pressures exercised to give the Islamists more space in the political domain only resulted in the green light the Egyptian Wasat party was given to re-apply for a political party.
Being a small unrepresentative fraction of the Muslim Brotherhood that declared dissent it hardly would represent the mainstream Islamic opposition. Such trivial concessions are only meant to deceive the masses, calm down external pressures, and fragment the national opposition even further.
The United States
On the other hand the super power is in real need of reforming its own policy in the region. Revising its own historic mistakes and failing policies is the only way to regain its credibility that it completely lost in the Arab-Israeli conflict and in Iraq.
Unless the EU steps in more strongly it would soon lose the limited remaining ability to be a trusted partner in the eyes of the Arab peoples.
The different forces that demand power sharing need to become more democratic, more innovative and less antagonist toward each other. The call for accountability should include their own elites and leaderships, and self critique is very much needed.
The Islamists
The Islamists are urged to reformulate their vision of the relation between the public and the private, the political and the civil.
Their notions of morality and overstress on virtues should be translated into a clear perspective of civic virtues and civil liberties, or else they would end up following the same authoritarian track of the dominant polity in case they ever get to power.
Caught in the middle – a public in despair
Not only do people in Palestine commit martyrdom – or what is called suicide bombing – in despair, but average citizens do the same in many countries, yet in a more implicit manner.
They escape reality by embracing apathy, denial and retreat from the civil space.
Accused by the authorities of being unprepared for democracy and the cause of the failure of the development plans, they feel estranged in their own country.
They are accused by foreign powers of holding a culture that is backwards, a religious devotion that encourages terrorism and a spirit of hatred and intolerance against the "other".
On the other hand they are accused by the Islamists of being far behind the "ideal" model of an Islamic society, affected by westernization. They seem to be losers either way.
Escaping reality
Circulated by death images, death threats and death promises, they turn their back to the future. Pain is deep, and the easiest way to escape is rising consumerism and emerging centrality of the individualism and a materialist world view.
No democracy without democrats, and no future without reform, and no reform without change in the current checks and balances. This is the dilemma of the Arab World.
The way ahead can only bring promising signs if we see the birth of new ideas and a new radical democracy.
Muslims and Westerners should join forces
If the Muslims were able to build bridges with the leftists in the anti-war coalitions in the West as well as in the region, why should this option be excluded from the reformative actions?
A more radically democratic Islam would require the leftists to be more sensitive to Islam. A liberal democracy might not be the right option for the region, but rather a social democracy.
If the masses hear a voice of social justice and a discourse of progressive Islam they would put their faith and trust in it.
Ahmed Abdallah, Cairo
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