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See my highlights in the report pasted below. Israel has been accused of violating the truce. Also in today's newspaper: Clinton warns Netanyahu not to punish Palestinian Authority for UN bid and Netanyahu trying to convince Israeli hawks he won Gaza war.
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source: Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Palestinians: One killed, several wounded by IDF fire on Gaza border
Hamas spokesman accuses Israel of violating the Egyptian-mediated truce, says organization will complain to Cairo; Israeli military spokeswoman says army investigating report.
By Gili Cohen | Nov.23,2012
Israeli gunfire across the Gaza border killed one Palestinian on Friday and wounded several others, medics said, two days after a ceasefire between the territory's Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel took hold.
A Hamas spokesman accused Israel of violating the Egyptian-mediated truce and said the group would complain to Cairo. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army was checking reports of the incident.
Medics said Anwar Qdeih, 23, was hit in the head by Israeli gunfire after he approached the security fence that runs along the Gaza frontier – an area that Israel has long declared a no-go zone for Gazans.
A relative of the dead man, who was at the scene, told Reuters that Qdeih had been trying to place a Hamas flag on the fence. He added that an Israeli soldier had fired into the air three times before Qdeih was hit in the head by a bullet.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said: "We will contact the Egyptian mediator to discuss the incident."
According to the terms of the accord, both Israelis and Palestinians agreed to stop their hostilities. However, the brief document left details on access to the tense border zone to be worked out in the days ahead.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said on Friday the shooting violated the ceasefire agreement.
Malki, speaking at a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, called the incident "a clear violation of the agreement and should not be repeated."
Seven other Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli gunfire from the border since the start of the ceasefire, medics said. Six of them were hurt on Friday and one on Thursday, when the Israeli military said 200 Palestinian "rioters" approached the fence.
Israel's army constantly patrols the border area and says its forces have come under increasing attack this year, with militants planting explosive devices and firing an anti-tank missile on at least one occasion.
The IDF was preparing for possible disturbances in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday morning after worshipers emerged from prayer services at the mosques.
In an effort to minimize potential disturbances, the IDF arrested 55 Palestinians in the West Bank on Thursday.
The Shin Bet security service announced on Thursday that the perpetrators of Wednesday's bus bombing in Tel Aviv, which wounded 28 people, were arrested later that day. It said the security services had arrested several Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, most of them from the West Bank town of Beit Lakiya, who had confessed to preparing the bomb, choosing the target and buying the cellphone that detonated it from a distance.
Wednesday's ceasefire deal ended eight days of fierce fighting that left 163 Palestinians and six Israelis dead.
Below is the unedited text of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, courtesy of "Information Clearing House". It was originally distributed by the Egyptian presidency.
Unfortunately the agreement was violated almost immediately when Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, Anwar Qdeih, (a 23 year-old), on the border. He was apparently shot through the head while trying to place a Hamas flag on the fence near Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
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Text of Israel-Hamas Peace Agreement
November 22, 2012 CAIRO
Agreement of Understanding For a Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
1: (no title given for this section)
A. Israel should stop all hostilities in the Gaza Strip land, sea and air including incursions and targeting of individuals.
B. All Palestinian factions shall stop all hostilities from the Gaza Strip against Israel including rocket attacks and all attacks along the border.
C. Opening the crossings and facilitating the movements of people and transfer of goods and refraining from restricting residents' free movements and targeting residents in border areas and procedures of implementation shall be dealt with after 24 hours from the start of the ceasefire.
D. Other matters as may be requested shall be addressed.
2: Implementation mechanisms:
A. Setting up the zero hour for the ceasefire understanding to enter into effect.
B. Egypt shall receive assurances from each party that the party commits to what was agreed upon.
C. Each party shall commit itself not to perform any acts that would breach this understanding. In case of any observations Egypt as the sponsor of this understanding shall be informed to follow up.
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This damning analysis was published in Haaretz by veteran reporter, Amira Hass.
Hass is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. She is unique as an Israeli journalist reporting on the Palestinian situation as she has chosen to live in the West Bank and Gaza and do her reporting from there.
Her reporting of events, and her voicing of opinions that run counter to both official Israeli and Palestinian positions regularly exposes her to verbal attacks and opposition from both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
source: www.haaretz.com…
Israel's 'right to self-defense' – a tremendous propaganda victory
By Amira Hass
By supporting Israel's offensive on Gaza, Western leaders have given the Israelis carte blanche to do what they're best at: Wallow in their sense of victimhood and ignore Palestinian suffering. Israels right to self defense a tremendous propaganda victory
One of Israel's tremendous propaganda victories is that it has been accepted as a victim of the Palestinians, both in the view of the Israeli public and that of Western leaders who hasten to speak of Israel's right to defend itself. The propaganda is so effective that only the Palestinian rockets at the south of Israel, and now at Tel Aviv, are counted in the round of hostilities. The rockets, or damage to the holiest of holies – a military jeep – are always seen as a starting point, and together with the terrifying siren, as if taken from a World War II movie, build the meta-narrative of the victim entitled to defend itself.
Every day, indeed every moment, this meta-narrative allows Israel to add another link to the chain of dispossession of a nation as old as the state itself, while at the same time managing to hide the fact that one continuous thread runs from the 1948 refusal to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, the early 1950s expulsion of Bedouin from the Negev desert, the current expulsion of Bedouin from the Jordan Valley, ranches for Jews in the Negev, discrimination in budgets in Israel, and shooting at Gazan fishermen to keep them from earning a respectable living. Millions of such continuous threads link 1948 to the present. They are the fabric of life for the Palestinian nation, as divided as it may be in isolated pockets. They are the fabric of life of Palestinian citizens of Israel and of those who live in their lands of exile.
But these threads are not the entire fabric of life. The resistance to the threads that we, the Israelis, endlessly spin is also part of the fabric of life for Palestinians. The word resistance has been debased to mean the very masculine competition of whose missile will explode furthest away (a competition among Palestinian organizations, and between them and the established Israeli army ). It does not invalidate the fact that, in essence, resistance to the injustice inherent in Israeli domination is an inseparable part of life for each and every Palestinian.
The foreign and international development ministries in the West and in the United States knowingly collaborate with the mendacious representation of Israel as victim, if only because every week they receive reports from their representatives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip about yet another link of dispossession and oppression that Israel has added to the chain, or because their own taxpayers' money make up for some of the humanitarian disasters, large and small, inflicted by Israel.
On November 8, two days before the attack on the holiest of holies – soldiers in a military jeep – they could have read about IDF soldiers killing 13-year old Ahmad Abu Daqqa, who was playing soccer with his friends in the village of Abassan, east of Khan Yunis. The soldiers were 1.5 kilometers from the kids, inside the Gaza Strip area, busy with "exposing" (a whitewashed word for destroying ) agricultural land. So why shouldn't the count of aggression start with a child? On November 10, after the attack on the jeep, the IDF killed another four civilians, aged 16 to 19.
Wallowing in ignorance
Leaders of the West could have known that, before the IDF's exercise last week in the Jordan Valley, dozens of Bedouin families were told to evacuate their homes. How extraordinary that IDF training always occurs where Bedouin live, not Israeli settlers, and that it constitutes a reason to expel them. Another reason. Another expulsion. The leaders of the West could also have known, based on the full-color, chrome-paper reports their countries finance, that since the beginning of 2012, Israel has destroyed 569 Palestinian buildings and structures, including wells and 178 residences. In all, 1,014 people were affected by those demolitions.
We haven't heard masses of Tel Aviv and southern residents warning the stewards of the state about the ramifications of this destruction on the civilian population. The Israelis cheerfully wallow in their ignorance. This information and other similar facts are available and accessible to anyone who's really interested. But Israelis choose not to know. This willed ignorance is a foundation stone in the building of Israel's sense of victimization. But ignorance is ignorance: The fact that Israelis don't want to know what they are doing as an occupying power doesn't negate their deeds or Palestinian resistance.
In 1993, the Palestinians gave Israel a gift, a golden opportunity to cut the threads tying 1948 to the present, to abandon the country's characteristics of colonial dispossession, and together plan a different future for the two peoples in the region. The Palestinian generation that accepted the Oslo Accords (full of traps laid by smart Israeli lawyers ) is the generation that got to know a multifaceted, even normal, Israeli society because the 1967 occupation allowed it (for the purpose of supplying cheap labor ) almost full freedom of movement. The Palestinians agreed to a settlement based on their minimum demands. One of the pillars of these minimum demands was treating the Gaza Strip and West Bank as a single territorial entity.
But once the implementation of Oslo started, Israel systematically did everything it could to make the Gaza Strip into a separate, disconnected entity, as part of Israel's insistence on maintaining the threads of 1948 and extending them. Since the rise of Hamas, it has done everything to back up the impression Hamas prefers – that the Gaza Strip is a separate political entity where there is no occupation. If that is so, why not look at things as follows: As a separate political entity, any incursion into Gazan territory is an infringement of its sovereignty, and Israel does this all the time. Does the government of the state of Gaza not have the right to respond, to deter, or at least the masculine right – a twin of the IDF's masculine right – to scare the Israelis just as Israel scares the Palestinians?
But Gaza is not a state. Gaza is under Israeli occupation, despite all the verbal acrobatics of both Hamas and Israel. The Palestinians who live there are part of a people whose DNA contains resistance to oppression.
In the West Bank, Palestinian activists try to develop a type of resistance different from the masculine, armed resistance. But the IDF puts down all popular resistance with zeal and resolve. We haven't heard of residents of Tel Aviv and the south complaining about the balance of deterrence the IDF is building against the civilian Palestinian population.
And so Israel again provides reasons for more young Palestinians, for whom Israel is an abnormal society of army and settlers, to conclude that the only rational resistance is spilled blood and counter-terrorizing. And so every Israeli link of oppression and all Israeli disregard of the oppression's existence drags us further down the slope of masculine competition.
Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories. He has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Falk is interviewed here by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.
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Now seems like an appropriate time to remember this address given by British MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, back in 2009, during the last Israeli assault on Gaza.
Sir Gerald, who was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist, said: "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town… A German soldier shot her dead in her bed… My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza."
Kaufman urged his government to impose a complete arms embargo on Israel.
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By Joe Plumb - Honorary British Consul, Iquitos, Peru
On Friday 12th April 2013 just before 10am, a strange sight indeed at San Jacinto Prison, Iquitos! Three Englishmen-Honorary British Consul in Iquitos, Joe Plumb, David Thomson and the editor of the "Iquitos Times" Michael Collis (in long trousers so it must have been a very special occasion) , banged on the huge steel main door of the prison and demanded to be allowed access.
Happily we all three walked out again three hours later.
The motive of our visit was to watch the final three matches and then present the Cup and Winner's Prize of 100 nuevo soles in the "Copa Britannica", (the British Cup), a five-a-side tournament which was inspired by the friendship we have with Hector, an inmate who, we hope, is shortly coming to the end of his stay in prison.
Over four consecutive Sundays 25 teams had been accumulating points in a Prison League until we were left with the four semi-finalists who played each other in what was a show of rapid, dynamic, full-blooded "fulbito" between men from 20yrs to 60yrs of age, deprived of their liberty mainly for crimes such as petty theft, handling and trafficking drugs and other crimes, mainly of a non-aggressive nature.
It's not pleasant in San Jacinto Prison. It's hot, sweaty, unsanitary and no-one lends anyone a penny. You have to show you're tough to survive and any sign of weakness is pounced upon and exploited.
Even though we were going into the prison of our own free wills and to perform a charitable act we had to apply in writing to the Director of the Prison in order to get permission to take a camera in and the guidance we received was "no belts, no mobile phones, no wallets, keys or money"
On admittance to the penitential institution the three slightly-disgruntled Brits were unceremoniously given a pat-down. I was first into the cabin and suggested to the guard to make the chap following me (Mike) strip down to his Y-fronts as he might have a concealed weapon! Comments on a post-card to...
Embarrassingly, all Mike had concealed was a highly-dubious purple furry pouch with the prize money in it and a dodgy story about his ex-wife's teeth! I must remember to pick up a wallet for him, but it would probably get as dust-covered as his long trousers were, it'd get aired so infrequently!
Joking aside, we passed through four sets of heavy wrought-iron railings/bolted and padlocked-doors. Guards carry batons and guns, spray canisters and there are sniffer-dogs behind every door. We entered a communal area where men were bathing themselves, washing and drying their clothes, food was being cooked, a workshop on How-To-Make-Artisan-Handicrafts was taking place and the inmates were stood around chatting, telling jokes, gently chiding each other, basically making the time pass any way they could.
Despite the high-security our presence was obviously a welcome break from the usual routine and we were asked questions about who we were, why we'd chosen to help the inmates and when we'd be returning to visit again. We were made to feel very welcome and the atmosphere during the whole visit was one of relaxed curiosity and general festivity.
The whole of Pavilion 1 joined in-with around 150 inmates actually making up teams, others who participated as referees, an organizing committee who organized the draw, kept score, team coaches, even a first-aid man on hand to massage any knocks or strained muscles.
The tournament was coordinated between the representatives of the British community in Iquitos and the Director of the San Jacinto Penitentiary, Dr. Rafael Villa Verde, based on a mutual desire to allow the men the opportunity to participate together and work as a team, give them a prize to aim for, and to have some fun and let off steam.
Between Mike (better known to many as "Mad Mick") who made a donation of footballs and got the prize money together, and Joe who donated an almost-1metre high Cup from the Honorary British Consulate in Iquitos, the event was not costly to organize but was certainly worthwhile and carried out with a lot of good-natured rivalry and friendly banter.
Starting at 10am, the two semi-finals were played consecutively and resulted in a 1-0 victory to Team 1-2 against Team 1-12 and a 3:2 win by Team 2-6 over Team 1-9.
So in the Final it was Team 1-2 versus Team 2-6 and the final result was a 4-1 win by the winners of the first semi-final, Team 1-2. lead by...our friend, Hector!
Special Thanks to Head of Security, Tecnico Ernesto Ayala Cotrila, the Prison Lawyer, Dr. Pizarro and our personal bodyguard, Tecnico Carlos Morales from Chiclayo, who kept watch over us for the morning.
The winning team was made up of: Angél Alvarado Quiroz, Joaquín Freitas Sangama, Sandro García Amasifuen, Hector del Águila Amasifuen, Edén Carrión Quispe, José Peña Calampa, Guillermo Collao Villanueva and Federico Torres Gutiérrez.
We hope to repeat this event next year with a larger Winner's Prize or donation to improve the prison facilities and if possible we'd like to make it an annual event.
We invite other foreign nationals resident in Iquitos-whether British, US citizens, French, German, Australina, Italian, Canadian, whatever your nationality, if you live in Iquitos and feel grateful for it's hot, tropical embrace, to jump on board and assist, in whatever way you are able, with these small, uncomplicated gestures, along with "Project Navidad"-Christmas presents for Poor Children, and other such actions, which help to show us foreigners in a good light and are a small way of showing our integration into and gratitude toward, this City and Region which we've come to call "home".
We know that the legal process and justice system here in Peru is unwieldy and tedious. In Peru's prisons there is a broad mixture of guilty and innocent women and men, awaiting trial for years at a time, people of or implicated in a crime whose lawyers are not lifting a finger until they're paid to do so, as well as the reality of a lot of people charged with crimes who are not in prison but on suspended sentences due to lack of space in the prisons.
That's not really the interest of the small group of British nationals who decided to get involved and organize this sporting event. We don't really feel that it's within our competence to make judgements or decisions about whether someone is guilty or not. Bringing a bit of joy and fun to the lives of over 900 men deprived of their liberty was the aim of our sporting event and that was within our ability.
As we awarded the "Copa Britannica" to the football champions and 12 'o' clock loomed, ever-loyal to our British roots, there was more than one reference to it being "it's nearly beer O'clock". As we left "San Jacinto" prison, I observed to David and Michael that it was as good a feeling to walk out as it had been to go in and see the prisoners.
Maybe I'm just saying this as Honorary Consul, (sub-text: "Stay out of trouble, lads") but for me, one very definite lesson from our visit is that it's better to stay on the right side of the law in Peru because the other option is not an attractive one.
I feel proud of what we'd done with the inauguration of the "Copa Britannica" and I think we do ourselves and our great country credit by conceiving of the idea. Let's hope we continue to forge links of simple friendship and collaboration to make our society in Iquitos and in Peru more humane and to show how we British contribute positively to the communities in which we live.
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Up until the fight today was ok. The builders amused me humming more to Kerrang (even to FOB) and I did the usual stuff on AC. I've not had much time to do my things (cause the workmen dudes were here till 2 and most of that time was spent having to watch them). After The Simpsons I had a nap. So I'm gonna try and write soon once I've calmed down. I'm doing really shit on finishing the sosodirty claims on my own timetable, so I'm gonna try and do that first then Into The Darkness. I'll do a standalone tomorrow.
You remember that Tokio Hotel gore pic I posted a few days ago? The gore one? Well the artists taking commissions for free, so I've sent him an e-mail. I hope to get a reply from him soon about it.
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Some of the strawberry petals have started to fall, leaving Kitty very anxious that we don't miss the first strawberry. I've tried to explain that it's still going to be a while before flowers turn into fruit, and by the time that first one ripens I suspect no strawberry will ever have been so eagerly anticipated. Now all I need to do is find some netting to put over them to prevent 'fat pigeon' as he's known around here from claiming the prize. I don't think she'd mind if it was our robin but fat pigeon has done little to endear himself save once topple off the fence and I think Kitty would be wanting to do more than "raaa" at him if he pinched her berries.
And in the front beds we have a small haze of green.
The northerly end has now definitely been identified as spinach on the basis that (a) it came through first (b) it looks like the seedlings on the packet and (c) the rainbow chard has started to appear at the other end and it looks different.
This is what we think is spinach,
And this is rainbow chard.
Which brings me to my question. I've never really grasped the concept of thinning; in my head to have grown something is a miracle, why would I want to pull it up, but I do get that that may also be the reason why I only ever grow minuscule root vegetables. But when it comes to the spinach and the rainbow chard, I'm not quite sure what to do. I want to grow them both as baby leaf if I can, that way I can cook them if we feel like it, but also, well probably mainly, eat them both in salads, spinach and avocado salad being one of my favourite lunches thanks to a small Pip-bump who gave me a humungous craving for it that happily translated into merely deep affection post partum.
So, should I thin them now, or wait until they have little leaves and then thin/harvest for lunch, leaving the rest as a sort of cut and come again salad? And if I thin now is there anything I can do with the thinning? replant them? eat them for lunch? I really, really don't know much about growing food do I!
And as for the sweetcorn in the middle, well there are a few things that might be the start of seedlings, or they might be weeds, or some leftover grass. For the moment we're leaving well alone and we'll make a decision as and when anything substantial appears.
Yes, that's my lens cap for size, rather than a dinner plate, the seedling you're looking for is that tiny green dot!
So for now we're carrying on as normal. We haven't really been out into the garden this week apart from a little bit of occasional weeding, but it has become our morning ritual to run out to the beds and stare at them for a bit to see if anything new has appeared overnight. We're doing it because it's fun, and we like to eat strawberries, corn on the cob and spinach salad, but I can't help thinking that the girls will be picking up a fair amount about the origins of their food along the way – what more could you ask for for the summer.
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When you were a child, did you ever try to run away from home? Did you make a mad dash, map out a plan, or just threaten in an attempt to get your way? TV sitcoms from the 1950's and 1960's frequently used the runaway theme. The child usually tied a knapsack to a stick and hit the road!
I can remember two situations from my early years. The first involved our neighbors across the road. Their family had six children; ours had five. Our two families were together often. On this occasion it was near supper time and Mom got a phone call. Her friend Laura told her the oldest daughter, Cindy was upset about something and decided she wanted to live with us. Her mother came up with a clever plan to solve the dilemma; and Mom quickly put the plan into action! The idea involved something important to all of us, food! The instructions were Mom was supposed to share with Cindy her plans for our supper. I think Laura said she did not like spaghetti; and if we were having that she would return home. She left as fast as she arrived. In this case "Mother knows best!"
The other time I was the "leading lady." I got mad about something and told Mom I was leaving home. I guess I early showed signs of being a drama queen; because I went and picked a small bouquet of forget-me-not flowers and took them to Mom! Then I started my journey, but only walked a little way up the road, turned around and went back to the house. She obviously did not need the forget-me-nots. I did not give her time to forget me!
God is always calling out to us to remember Him. "Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today (Deuteronomy 8:11 NKJ)." Don't keep running away!
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2014 Hannibal Wing Ding
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- Hannibal, MO 63401 United States
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The 10th Annual Wing Ding is coming up on Saturday, January 25th—presented by the Hannibal Jaycees and Miller Lite. The event will be held at the Admiral Coontz Armory in downtown Hannibal. Doors will open to the public at 11:00am. Wings will be served at 1:00pm and judging will take place at 4:00pm. Admission is $5.00.
First place will be awarded $1000; second place, $500; and third place, $250. This year's theme is "Wing Dynasty," after the popular television show. Teams are encouraged to show up in all their camouflaged and bearded glory, and to decorate their booths accordingly. The best-decorated booth will be awarded a cash prize of $100. Happy-happy-happy!
The Hannibal Jaycees will provide the chicken wings for all contestants. Commercial fryers and oil are available upon request for any teams that will be using non-battered wings. Teams can sauce, season, rub or BBQ their wings. Each team must have at least one member on-hand to assist with the cooking. Teams are allowed to bring their own grill, fryer or smoker if they notify the Jaycees in advance. All cooking will take place outside under the overpass.
The Wing Ding is a smoke-free, adults-only event; absolutely no one under age 21 will be admitted. There will be games and activities throughout the day and the Hannibal Jaycees will sell pretzels, water, soda and adult beverages. A portion of the proceeds from this year's Wing Ding will go to a local charity. Cans recycled from the event will benefit the Great River Honor Flight, a program that provides no-cost flights to local military veterans to visit war memorials in Washington, DC.
Complete rules and entry forms are available at www.hannibaljaycees.org. You may also obtain an entry form by calling Jamie McCoy at 573-999-5073 or Jenny Pabst at 573-795-6577. Entries must be submitted by noon on Friday, January 24th. The entry fee is $100 per team of up to 5 people. Teams that sign up by December 31st will receive a $25 early-bird discount.
The Hannibal Jaycees look forward to seeing you on Saturday, January 25th, 2013 at the Admiral Coontz Armory, 301 Warren Barrett Drive in Hannibal, for the 10th Annual Wing Ding!


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Bird-riding loses luster in South Africa's ostrich capital
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Clambering onto an ostrich for a ride used to be popular among tourists in a South African town known as the "ostrich capital of the world."
Not so much anymore.
Two major ostrich farms in the Oudtshoorn area have stopped offering ostrich rides to tourists, responding to concerns from European clients and others about the birds' welfare. A third farm is sticking with the feature, saying its regulations include tourist weight restrictions and that an ostrich does not experience discomfort while trotting with someone on its back for 10 seconds or so.
The debate is part of a wider discussion in Africa and beyond about the ethics of human interaction with certain animals for entertainment or other purposes. Ostrich farmers stress that riding an ostrich is different from riding an elephant, which would need to be trained. Nor, they say, can it be compared with the petting of lion cubs, whose time in captivity prevents them from learning how to survive in the wild.
But ostrich rides, which used to be "something that really captured the imagination," are now viewed with distaste by many clients, said Douglas Bester, owner of Cango ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn. The farm scrapped rides at the end of February.
"It's a market demand," Bester said, adding: "It's more ethical to teach kids to love the birds than to sit on them and have fun laughing when someone falls off."
Oudtshoorn is in South Africa's arid Karoo region and ostriches were first farmed there for their feathers in the 19th century. Feathers ranked fourth behind gold, wool and diamonds in the value of South African exports before World War I, whose economic fallout devastated the ostrich industry, according to the website of the Safari Ostrich Show Farm. Besides feathers, there is also a market for ostrich eggs, meat and leather.
The Safari farm started regulating ostrich rides about 15 years ago, eventually lowering the weight restriction for tourists to 60 kilograms (132 pounds), and dropped the practice altogether on May 5, said marketing manager Billy Engelbrecht.
"We saw that a lot of our local and international tourists weren't that keen on riding ostriches anymore, like they would have been 40 or 50 years ago," Engelbrecht said.
Highgate, another ostrich farm, still offers rides in its tours, which include a visit to a breeder room where ostrich chicks hatch and an "ostrich derby" in which employees race on the birds while tourists watch. The farm does not allow anyone above 74 kilograms (163 pounds) to sit or ride on an ostrich, which can easily carry a weight of 90 kilograms (198 pounds), said owner Johan Keller.
"The ostriches experience no pain or discomfort with any of these activities," Keller wrote in an email. He said: "Our birds are happy birds."
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Lesson Plan/Procedures - The Renaissance and Reformation: Unit 3: The Renaissance and Reformation - Mr. Lambert. All handouts are posted below.
Week of 9/21 Day 1 - Intro Renaissance Day 2 - Intellectual and educational impact of the Renaissance. Notes. Day 3-4 - Reading: Medici in Florence. Week of 9/28 Day 1 - Renaissance art analysis Day 2 - Renaissance art analysis Day 3 - Machiavelli Day 4 - Machiavelli Week of 10/5 Day 1-2: Selfie Project Day 3-4: Work on project/finish Machiavelli. Renaissance Theme Unit. Make a Daily Renaissance Activity Lesson Plan Book Reading Comprehensions History What Was the Renaissance?
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Socials 3 Which was more important to the Haida, the salmon or the cedar?
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For purposes of utilities, taxation, and postal delivery, the city's engineering department has the layout and location of every street in the city. But in this story, a street has disappeared from record! The main character discovers the forgotten street and makes a very interesting choice at the end of the story. As you read this selection, pay particular attention to the way the author describes the setting and characters of Green Bottle Street and also at the way he describes the place where Marc lives at the beginning of the story. Lesson This story introduces you to the process of taxation.
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Offaly Camogie Notes (May 8)
Social Media
For up-to-date fixtures and results follow Offaly Camogie on Facebook, Twitter: @offalycamogie, Instagram: Offalycamogie, Website www.offalycamogie.ie.
Leinster Junior Semi-finals, May 13: Offaly v Carlow. U14 Championship: ROUND 4, May 20: St. Ryanghs V St.Sinchill's, St.Cillians V Naomh Brid, Tullamore V Lusmagh/Drumcullen, Kinnitty V Shinrone, K/K BYE, BIRR BYE.
Division 2 Leinster League Final: St.Cillian's (Offaly) 3-6 Danesfort (Kilkenny) 0-5. Senior Leinster Quarter-finals, May 6, 2017: Wexford 1-9 V Offaly 0-13
Offaly Camogie Crest
The county board is asking the public to come up with designs for a camogie specific crest that incorporates the Offaly coat of arms. The winner will be kitted out in new county Azzurri Sport leisure wear with the winning crest on it. Open to everyone of all ages. Entries must be returned to your club delegate or emailed/posted to Mairead on email@example.com or Mairéad Haugh, Cadamstown, Birr, Co. Offaly by May 30.
Feile Skill Winners
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Just a five letter word but for anyone who has been blessed at some point in their lives to participate in sports, a word that hopefully represents a person who has exerted a positive energy into their lives. When I think of the many coaches I have had in multiple sports, I also think of all the contemporary female classmates who back in the 60's had no opportunity to participate in competitive or interscholastic athletics, who never had the chance to experience the growth and life lessons learned from a great coach.
Like humanity in general, coaches span the whole range of "the good, the bad, and the ugly". Personally, I was pretty lucky in the character of the coaches I had along the way. Although I did have one former Little League coach who totaled out my Triumph Spitfire, after I had just washed and waxed it in front of my parent's house, on his way home from an afternoon visit to Shug Smith's Oak Hill Tavern, my experiences connected me to some great people. Little League coaches Mr. Lester, Mr. Holliday and Mr. Tyner were great examples of sportsmanship coupled with volunteerism and a real desire to let kids be kids and have fun with the game.
My favorite baseball coach though personified some of the great qualities of a coach. Joe Chesare. A great lesson for us all in the downside of judging a book by its cover. Joe was not, to my knowledge, a great former athlete. He didn't coach because he had kids on the team. He loved the game of baseball and wanted in some way to pass that love on to us kids. I can still see Joe walking across the fields, bat bag over his shoulder, cigar stub in his mouth, tobacco stains on his t-shirt but, always, always a smile. One of my greatest sport's memories was the day Joe taught me how to throw a curveball. Joe came to the mound in practice with our catcher, Dan Tice, after I had just moved up to Babe Ruth League from Little League. After Dan reassuringly referred to my curveball as "a dinky one", Joe showed me a different way to grip the ball and snap my wrist at release. In a made for TV moment, my first try had ball movement that looked like an optical illusion, the ball "dropping off a table". Joe just smiled and walked back off the field and I knew I had a primo go to pitch. A good good man who let us have fun and had fun with us.
Although he never said it, I always felt that my Dad resented when I quit playing baseball and focused on running. My love of running had its genesis in a program run during the summer by a man who I could never call anything other than COACH. Joe Wilber. My hometown back in the 60's invested in numerous programs during the summer to give kids opportunities to learn new skills and interact with their peers. Joe Wilber ran the summer track and field program, by himself, pretty much staging a small meet on Thursday afternoons. I think I probably went for the first time in our neighborhood public transportation system………the Meehan's station wagon with probably 15 kids, unbelted, crammed into it. No pictures from that era but in my mind's eye, I see COACH WILBER in standard 60's gym teacher mode, grey t-shirt, grey shorts, crewcut and non stop, no nonsense but all done with a sense of humor and getting everyone involved and feeling positive. So many friends that I continued growing up with and competing with and against who are gone now. Jimmy Johnson. Fred Von Holtz. Joe Bendzunas.
As I moved up in school, Coach Wilber was our junior high school gym teacher as well as my basketball and baseball coach. In basketball, I was probably one of his few major failures as he was unsuccessful in getting me to shoot layups leaving the floor on the right foot. That and the fact that in terms of vertical leap, a dime was about it, led me instead to become a bomber. In baseball I remember a time when Coach came to my rescue as an umpire was going to eject me from a game. I'm coaching third base when a very close play at third has the umpire calling our player out. I said loudly, (phonetically) "HAY-SOOOS COR-O-NA" which the umpire interpreted as Jesus Christ. Coach took me aside and asked me what I said and when I told him, he had his wry Coach Wilber smile on his face and smoothed the troubled waters with the ump.
For all my life, as often as I ran into Joe Wilber, I could never for a second consider calling him Joe. Even when I was in my 40's and would run into him early in the morning at the Oswego Country Club when my son and I would be exploring the back nine hitting balls but more importantly looking for frogs and turtles, the occasional fawn, he was always, had to be always, Coach. When he died suddenly, like many others he had been a positive life force for, it was like a punch in the gut and the funeral was tough. In my life, I have many times had one wheel off the track, maybe two, heading for the ditch and it was always the memory of Coach Wilber that pulled me back. He has run marathons with me, is with me every time I ride the bike, and there are few days that I don't think of him and how thankful I am to have known him. To have had him as a COACH.
Part two: Running coaches


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Ranch Had Duty to Find Worker Injured in Field
(CN) – A Nebraska rancher is liable for waiting a day to rescue a worker who was injured in the field and ultimately lost a leg, the state Supreme Court ruled.
Adam Martensen was repairing pasture fences for Rejda Brothers Inc. on March 15, 2004, when his all-terrain vehicle flipped over and pinned his right leg.
The accident occurred in an 80-acre pasture, and Martensen did not have a cellphone. After completing the work in the 80-acre pasture, Martensen was supposed to move on to a 400-acre plot.
When Martensen did not appear at the ranch's supper table, the company's vice president, Russell Rejda, looked for the worker in vain at some local bars.
A search party combed the fields the next day, but by that time Martensen's leg endured irreversible trauma. Doctors amputated the leg above the knee.
Martensen filed a negligence lawsuit against Rejda, claiming that his employers failed to rescue him in a timely fashion. He offered to settle the case for $600,000, but Rejda rejected the offer.
At trial, Martensen's attorney asked Russell if the company had the responsibility to find their employee sooner.
"I'm trying to figure out the wording on that," he replied. "I, you know, I guess so, yes."
A doctor testified that Martensen's leg could have been saved if someone had found him within the first six hours.
The trial court ruled in Martensen's favor and awarded him $750,000.
Rejda Brothers Inc. appealed the verdict, arguing that it did not have a duty to rescue Martensen until its personnel learned of the injury, but the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that the company's argument was without merit.
"The record shows that Martensen established causation and damages, and Rejda's evidence to the contrary did not persuade the jury otherwise," Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman wrote on the court's behalf.
The justices also rejected Rejda's argument that the plaintiff's counsel's question that resulted in Russell's "I guess so, yes" answer invaded the province of the jury.


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LOS ANGELES • Transformers star Megan Fox has filed for divorce from actor Brian Austin Green after five years of marriage, a Los Angeles court spokesman said.
The filing last Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the divorce. It came after media reports last week that the couple had separated.
In 2008, she was named the world's sexiest woman in a poll by the magazine FHM.
She has said she met Green, who appeared in the 1990s television show Beverly Hills, 90210, when she was 18 and he was 30.
They went on to date for years and married in 2010.
Fox, 29, has requested joint physical and legal custody of their sons Noah, two, and Bodhi, 18 months, it was reported.
Green, 42, also has a 13-year-old son from a previous relationship.
The date of the separation is listed as June 15, said E! Online. But they decided to split six months ago, a source told Us Weekly last week.
A source told the magazine recently: "They fight about her career. He would prefer she focus on the family more than being obsessed with getting roles."


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Good evening from the Spirit of Speyside 2014 Festival. A busy day it has been and if you want to keep up to date with my activities or festival news then either follow me on Twitter (@raithrover) or check out my Facebook page here.
I will write up more in-depth thoughts right here at a later date but for an instant hit try the above options. Today, after arriving I checked out the Glenlivet festival edition and felt £200 for a 15 year old was too much despite it being a single cask release.
Then I proceed to Knockando for a distillery tour with the manager before sitting down for a lengthy tasting session. This took us from the new make spirit right through all the ages (many not available outside of France) before arriving at the sublime 25 year old. To wrap things up with had the mighty cask strength Manger's dram made from 5 casks selected by the manager and distillery employees. A great afternoon.
This evening I go for a stroll and come back with an old version of a Bowmore 12 year old at a fantastic clearance price, before setting off for Glenfiddich. This evening meal was 3 courses for £27.50 and included 5 drams. The cost of everything was probably covered by 1 of those drams; Glenfiddich rolled out the exclusives in shape of the Festival edition, a 1st fill sherry cask and a 23 year old due for release worldwide in July 2014.
After all of this, I wonder how Day 2 will meet the challenge? Check out Facebook or Twitter for the latest – I've already uploaded photographs from the Glenfiddich event, Knockando and Glenlivet to the Whisky Rover Facebook page.


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At 8:30am on Saturday, November 3, 2012, I was the first speaker (so as to "wake" everyone up!) at the Toastmasters District 45 Fall Conference at Hilton Garden Inn, in Bangor, Maine. The A-roll video of this 30 -minute workshop has been posted to youtube, via the following link:
The 3-Prong System for Motivating Club Success.
If you choose to do the workshop while the video plays, you may likely want to first do the following two things:
1) Download and print out the PDF file of the HANDOUT used in the workshop.
2) Click the "Show more" link on the youtube page to see the Details.