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Free-agent winger Chad LaRose re-signed with Carolina Thursday _ and that wasn't good news for the Flyers.
LaRose scored 19 goals last season and had looked like he would be a nice fit for the Flyers. He was relatively inexpensive and would have given the Flyers some needed scoring punch at right wing, a position that has been decimated by the departure of Mike Knuble (27 goals last year) and Joffrey Lupul (25).
GM Paul Holmgren is still investigating the thinning free-agent market.
As it stands, some of the Flyers' lines have been weakened because their projected right wingers scored a combined 27 goals last year _ the same total as Knuble, who signed with Washington.
Though it could change, it's possible the right wingers will be Ian Laperriere (7 goals last year), converted center Danny Briere (11 in an injury-plagued season) Arron Asham (8) Andreas Nodl (1).
LaRose signed a two-year deal for $1.7 million per season; the Flyers have about $2.3 million in cap space, so they would have been able to sign LaRose.
Without Knuble and Lupul, the Flyers' lines will look drastically different. Coach John Stevens has lots of options and will probably try numerous combinations. Here is how they might look:
1. Gagne-Giroux-Briere _ The Flyers' version of the French Connection. Could be sensational.
2. Hartnell-Carter-Laperriere _ Lappy replaces Lupul.
3. Carcillo-Richards-Asham _ The CAR Line is loaded with scrappy, hard-working players. But would Carcillo and Asham be good enough finishers to work with Richards?
4. Cote/van Riemsdyk-Powe-Nodl/Kalinski _ Cote's roster spot could be in jeopardy. Jared Ross could also fit into the mix.
The defensive pairings could look like this:
Timonen-Coburn _ Will they be reunited?
Pronger-Carle _ Carle supplies the speed, Pronger the physicality.
Parent-Jones _ Would be a good duo if Jones has recovered from hip problems.
Send me the lines and pairings you think would be the most effective.
In Friday's Inquirer, Flyers chairman Ed Snider tells why the Flyers mortgaged the future to acquire Pronger, who is expected to help give the Flyers one of the league's top defenses.


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Miley Cyrus goes incognito behind her sunglasses while taking her pup Floyd out for a walk on Tuesday afternoon (December 18) in Philadelphia, Penn.
The 20-year-old actress/singer is in town to spend time with fianc� Liam Hemsworth who is filming his upcoming flick Paranoia.
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The day before, Miley visited Liam on set where the couple was spotted taking pictures with waiting fans.
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A recent government audit of a veteran job training program revealed more than half of its 99,000 available slots are unused. With the U.S. veteran unemployment rate hovering around 9.9% in March, according to the Labor Department, some are questioning why vets aren't taking advantage of the program and if they are aware it exists.
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The government-sponsored Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) is available to veterans aged 35-to-60, and covers up to one year of payments or benefits with a monthly $1,564 stipend for enrollees, according to Curtis Coy, deputy under secretary for Economic Opportunity at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
As of press time, Coy says the VA had 113,000 applicants with more than 97,000 approved to leverage the programs' benefits, but only 43,000 have enrolled. After a vet is approved to proceed, the VA sends reminders to enroll in the program and leverage the tuition benefits, which apply to a list of 209 high-demand occupations. If they do not plan to leverage the benefits, the agency encourages them to withdraw to leave space for others.
"This is a 12-month program that we are not yet 12 months into," Coy says. "We have seen the enrolled numbers steadily climb and there is a difference between those who have been approved versus those who are actually enrolled."
Coy says the program targets a "sweet spot" for unemployed vets in that age group, and those who are receiving other benefits for education under the G.I. Bill are not eligible for VRAP.
In 2012, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 773,000 unemployed veterans, down from 945,000 in 2011. For veterans ages 25-to-34, the unemployment rate is 10.6%, compared to the non-veteran unemployment rate of 8.2% in 2012. Veterans under 24-years-old are unemployed at an even greater rate of 20.4%, compared to the non-veteran rate of same-aged-people of 15.0%. About 200,000 of these unemployed veterans in 2012 are post 9/11 vets.
Kevin Schmiegel, executive director of Hiring Our Heroes at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, says the decisions many veterans make after coming home impact their hiring chances.
"When I would ask [veterans] what they would do next, many said they'd go home and find work when they got there," he says. "They would make a decision of the heart, and 80% of military families go back to their hometowns, or stay in and around military installations. They're [in] rural areas, so it could be as simple as them registering [for the program] but being in a community with no jobs." Schmiegel is a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of service, and has since worked with Hiring our Heroes on closing this unemployment gap.
What's more, Schmiegel says, 70% of vets are not willing to relocate for work.
The Hiring our Heroes program has a new tool at ResumeEngine.org to help veterans fine-tune their resumes to better showcase their skills and increase their hiring opportunities.
"It's not just about programs that train, but also about [veterans] making informed decisions," he says. "Most of the folks that are struggling went to high school and volunteered for the armed services. They are 24-years-old and under. After you give them the tools, it's up to them, but I don't think they have all of those tools."
Coy says the program will continue to take applicants until Oct. 1, and will continue to pay out benefits until March 2014, unless Congress extends the program further. For more information visit www.va.gov.


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|April 8, 2011, 04:48 PM
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I have a small reloading bench and space is always a problem. I found out about Patmarlins ROCKDock right here on the Firing Line forum. I went to his web site ( http://www.patmarlins.com/ ) and checked it out.
Perfect! Just what I needed. I ordered one and it came in today.
Mounting the ROCKDock is easy if you can drill a straight hole. Six holes in the bench and the retaining plates are mounted. I ordered the Dillon 550B custom plate and two blank plates. If you will be mounting a Dillon press, be sure to order the custom plate. It's worth every penny and more.
I mounted my two RCBS presses on the blanks that I ordered. If you don't have the drills, drill press and counter sink to prepare the blank plates then be sure to order the custom plates for your press.
Once the dock is mounted, you can swap reloading presses in seconds. Just loosen the six mounting bolts and the presses slide out and back in. Thighten the mounting bolts and the press is secure and ready to use.
This is by far the best and easiest to use mounting system around if you have multiple presses and limited space. This would also work well if you have one press and several places you need to reload at. One ROCKDock at home, one at the camp and one at the club would mean easy use at any location.
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|November 28, 2012, 05:34 PM
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Picking the correct sight combination
I posted this elsewhere on the forum but thought maybe it would be relative to this particular section...
I have an H&R Buffalo Classic in 45/70 - just rec'd it back from the factory fitting it. I have pretty much decided, unless someone can convince me differently, that I'm going to buy the Williams FP receiver sight to attach to the rear of the barrel. What I am having a challenge figuring out is what should the height be on the front sight - I want a globe sight, like the Lyman 17 series.
The center of the aperture (at its lowest adjustment) is .325" above the plane of the barrel in the rear. The difference in diameter between rear & front of the barrel = .310". So, dividing that in half = .155" which means that the center of the rear sight aperture is .470" (.325+.155) above the plane of the barrel where the front sight will rest.
So...ideally, should the front sight height be as close as possible to the exact measurement of the rear sight (.470)? And since it will likely be impossible to match this exactly, is it better to have a shorter or higher front sight given that the rear sight is measured at its lowest setting? Also, the fact that this is a 45/70 with its unique trajectory characteristics, how does that figure into these calculations?
I should probably add that my main interest is hunting and informal shooting. I can be convinced to start in some friendly competition at my local range, but shooting beyond 200 yds is probably not going to be much of an interest to me.
Thanks a bunch for any help.
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I dunno - When I bought my BC (early on), it came sans sights.
So, I just installed the proper WGRS atop the bbl in the factory holes/prep, and a Lyman #17 up front, then shot/zeroed it w/o problem.
I don't worry much about every problem, until one arises.
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yeah, I'm not worrying about a problem either. my barrel came like yours: w/o sights. but i dont want a f/r sight combo that doesnt work because their not matched in terms of height
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No one likes waiting—not for the train, not for a crush to text you back, and certainly not for the damn self-checkout lanes at Dominick's. But no waiting game is more soul-crushing than the line outside a club.
It's a special and horrific kind of social abuse that we willingly invite as we shift our weight from aching foot to aching foot, texting in that desperately nonchalant way and wishing someone would just LET US IN ALREADY PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF BEYONCE. Here's how to make it through the line with a scrap of dignity intact.
1. Don't show up already wasted. Hey, I know how expensive those club drinks are, so I won't begrudge you a shot before leaving your apartment, but keep it to one or two. The biggest jerk waiting to get past the velvet ropes always is the drunk guy or girl who doesn't realize how obnoxious his or her whining is. Plus, bouncers don't want to let potential riff raff in anyway.
2. Don't name drop. Unless you and Avicii have matching tattoos and are planning to chill together all night, do not utter the words: "I know the DJ/manager/bartender/server/girl who hands you a towel in the bathroom." If you really do know management, they should make sure you get in without you having to grovel.
3. Don't buy in to the beauty pageant. It's tough not to spiral into an existential crisis when you see bouncers letting other people through the door while you're still stuck outside breathing in River North traffic exhaust. "Is it my hair? Is it this dress? Should I be more tan right now?" Stop it. Yes, sometimes pretty people get special treatment in life, but that's unfair and lame and there's no reason to think you're a lesser person because of how close you are to ordering bottle service.
4. Don't try to latch on to your friends inside. Clubs don't work like green cards—having friends inside doesn't grant you automatic club citizenship. Asking them to interrupt their good time to try to drag your butt through the door is lame and probably won't work.
5. Be patient. Yes, young grasshopper, this is the only way to survive. Find your inner Zen place (as much as you can in 4-inch heels) and wait your turn. If the waiting gets ridiculous, head to another bar—no club is the only game in town.
What's in the tips above is as important as what's not in there. You'll see nothing about bribing bouncers, sticking your boobs out, flirting with people ahead of you in line or complaining about how badly you have to pee.
If you're one to employ those tactics, I don't want to be hanging out with you in the club anyway. Me and my crew will be the overdressed ones posted up at the dive bar down the street because we got sick of your nonsense.
Kate Bernot is RedEye's nightlife reporter. She once left a club line to use the bathroom at Starbucks and thinks waiting is always better when you have a scone in your purse.
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NEW BOSTON — Fifty-seven marijuana plants were seized Friday morning during a raid at a home on Thompson Lane, according to a release.
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We've hit a little dry patch in between the combine and the free agency, so now is as good a time as any to empty the old notebook. My goal is to make this feature a regular part of Birds' Eye View during the NFL offseason and possibly into the coming season.
1. Moving Asante Samuel will be trickybut the Eagles, at this point, have no other choice. It was blatantly clear that the cornerback's bait-and-switch style did not mesh with the Eagles' less-blitzing defense. I'm not sure how Samuel ended up missing the final two games of the season when he appeared to be on track to play in the penultimate game against the Cowboys, but his absence allowed the Eagles to envision how their cornerback tandem for 2012 would look with Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie opposite Nnamdi Asomugha. Samuel's age (31) and his salary ($9.4 million) will make it difficult to move the Pro Bowl corner, but the Eagles did have offers last summer. In fact, they had one deal in August with the Lions, but it fell apart at the last moment.
2. The Eagles are still a ways off from making significant changes in scheme, but the rumblings coming from the NovaCare are that with Samuel likely gone the corners will play more man-to-man press coverage next season. It makes perfect sense with both Asomugha and Rodgers-Cromartie more comfortable playing that way.
3. Adam Schefter's report from last week that DeSean Jackson was available for trade did not come from the Eagles, I was recently told. The ESPN NFL reporter essentially said as much when he was asked about it on the radio. It makes little sense for the Eagles to float a trade rumorwhen they're trying to negotiate an extension with a player they still hold rights to. More than likely an agent with a name that rhymes with "Brew Brosenhouse" tossed a monkey wrench into talks when the Eagles failed to match his estimation of Jackson's worth.
4. Jaiquawn Jarrett came to the Eagles ballyhooed as a big hitter. But through all of training camp, the preseason and the regular season, the rookie failed to deliver what could accurately be described as a punishing blow. It's hard to play fearlessly when you're still grasping the finer points of a defense, but Jarrett had another issue: He had yet to develop physically. As much as they tried the Eagles couldn't pack weight onto the 22-year old. He entered the season listed at 6-foot, 196 pounds, and looked thinner at season's end. This offseason, needless to say, is an important one for Jarrett. Because he doesn't have elite speed he has to be a half-thought ahead. So the film room needs to become a second home for the Temple product. But Jarrett has to spend just as much time in the weight room if he wants to be sculpted into an NFL safety.
5. Jarrett and some of the Eagles' other young players face certain obstacles in their offseason preparation. Before the new CBA teams were able to hold voluntary workouts as early as mid-March. Two years ago, almost every Eagles player, save for a few veterans, showed up for workouts. This year, under the new deal, the workouts aren't scheduled to begin until mid-April. That means Jarrett, for instance, can't receive on-field instruction nor can he watch film with a coach for another six weeks.
6. The practice limitations probably affect Michael Vick the most. As I've written elsewhere, this is the most critical offseason of the quarterback's career. It will be Vick's first full offseason as a starter in six years. He's stayed local for most of the last two months and has been a regular down at the NovaCare Complex. But Vick and various other Eagles have essentially been restricted to the weight room or the trainer's room if they're rehabbing. They can confer with coaches, but it makes you wonder if lines are being blurred between how much coaches can and cannot do with their players.
7. With the Eagles expected to have a considerable amount of salary cap room – the cap figure will be set next week – now would seem the right time to extend LeSean McCoy. The running back has obviously made himself into one of the premier players at his position and it would behoove the Eagles to lock him up now if they want to avoid what could eventually become an expensive proposition. Sounds simple enough. A deal, though, will ultimately come down to negotiating McCoy's worth. Down in Baltimore, Ray Rice – who had every bit as good a season as McCoy – is set to be franchised because he reportedly wants Adrian Peterson-type money (7 years, $100). For the Ravens, placing the tag on Rice at a $7.7 million figure is a no-brainer. McCoy has said all the right things in regard to his contract, but he will have to balance long-term stability vs. a future big payday if the Eagles dangle an extension.
8. The success of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandezof the Patriots had nearly every NFL reporter from a city outside of a Boston writing a story at the Super Bowl about the possibility of their hometown team utilizing two tight ends the way New England did this past season. There was one problem with that premise: No other team has two tight ends as good as Gronkowski and Hernandez. The Eagles have a good starting tight end in Brent Celek, who rebounded nicely from a down season in 2010. His backup, Clay Harbor, is solid, but he doesn't project as someone that could fill the Hernandez role if the Eagles pass out of two tight end sets more often.
9. The term "high motor" has become short hand, in the parlance of Birds fans, for the Eagles' drafting of undersized defensive linemen. The team is aware of the perception (truth?) so much so that I think they'll do their best to avoid undersized defensive end like Marshall's Vinny Curry.
10. While there aren't as many top-tier defensive ends in this year's draft, there are a slew of talented defensive tackles that should go in the first few rounds. A lot will depend on what the Eagles do in free agency, but I sense they will take a defensive tackle first in the draft. They didn't draft a single one last season or in the 2009 draft and took only Jeff Owens in the seventh round of the 2010 draft. The last defensive tackle the Eagles took high in the draft was Trevor Laws in 2008 in the second round. Laws' contract is up and despite efforts to extend him last season I don't think he's back. That creates one opening. Derek Landri is a free agent and as much as I think the Eagles want him back his return isn't a done deal. Cullen Jenkins, after taking a pay cut, will return. But he's 31 and Mike Patterson, who is coming off brain surgery, will be 29 by the start of the season. The Eagles do have some youth at the position. Antonio Dixon is a restricted free agent and the Eagles are expected to tender the 26-year old, but he is coming off a triceps injury and didn't exactly look comfortable playing in Jim Washburn's system before he was injured. Cedric Thornton is a wild card. He spent most of his rookie season on the practice squad, but the Eagles liked the 6-4, 309-pound 23-year old so much that they upped his salary to keep him when another team tried to pluck him from the practice squad.


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SUNRISE, Fla. — David Clarkson and Brian Rolston scored goals and Martin Brodeur stopped 25 shots in his return from injury and the New Jersey Devils beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Sunday.
The Devils are 17-2-2 in their past 21 games. The Devils climbed within nine points of eighth-place Carolina in the Eastern Conference while the Panthers remained eight points back of the postseason cutoff.
Brodeur hadn't played since injuring his right knee on Feb. 6 in Montreal.
Marty Reasoner scored for Florida and Tomas Vokoun made 24 saves.
The Devils took a 1-0 lead at 5:46 of the second period. Rod Pelley took a shot from the slot and Vokoun blocked it. The puck bounced out to the left corner of the crease and Clarkson swept in a backhand shot past Vokoun for his ninth goal of the season.
The Devils stretched their lead to 2-0 a few minutes later on Rolston's power-play goal. The Devils won the faceoff and Dainius Zubrus pushed the puck out to Rolston above the left circle. His slap shot went through Vokoun's pads at 9:11.
Reasoner's goal came at 15:31 of the third. Michal Repik brought the puck out from behind the net to Reasoner at the left corner of the crease. His shot beat Brodeur.
Notes: Florida F Rostislav Olesz has been placed on injured reserve because of a knee injury from Friday's game at Atlanta. … F Chris Higgins broke his thumb in that game and will be out indefinitely. … The Panthers recalled LW Kenndal McArdle and RW Hugh Jessiman from AHL Rochester. … Ilya Kovalchuk had a 12-game points streak snapped.


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Benny Morris was one of the earliest and most important Israeli "new historians" whose scholarship and courageous truth-telling refuted a number of mythologies about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among other things by demonstrating that the Palestinian refugee problem was deliberately created by the Zionists, who engaged in what we today call "ethnic cleansing." Morris and others proved beyond reasonable doubt that in 1947-48 the Zionist military forces and political leadership drove a large part of the Palestinian population out of the lands under Zionist control, often by means of massacres and other acts of terrorism against the Arab civilian population.
"Transfer"-- the preferred Zionist euphemism for driving Palestinians from their homes, farmland, property, and villages—sometimes was motivated by revenge for resistance to the expanding Jewish control of Palestine, but more importantly it was deliberate state policy, designed to seize Palestinian land and property for distribution to the new wave of Jewish immigration from postwar Europe, and even more importantly, to ensure that Jews would be a large majority within the borders of what became Israel.
Today Benny Morris can no longer be regarded as a scholar and historian, but merely a propagandist, indeed a particularly shameful one, for he has traded on his former status and reputation as a fearless truth-teller in order to lend credibility to his ongoing series of disingenuous comments on current issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The latest example is a Morris essay in the September 29 issue of Haaretz, "No Love For Muslims, Unless They're Palestinians." Morris begins by discussing a metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as recently employed by Jeffrey Goldberg and Christopher Hitchens; it is worth quoting at some length:
"Hitchens approvingly cites (and expands) a metaphor coined (I think) by Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for The Atlantic: A man (the Zionist Jew), to save himself, leaps from a burning building (anti-Semitic and Holocaust Europe) and lands on an innocent bystander (a Palestinian), crushing him. To which Hitchens adds - and the falling man lands on the Palestinian again and again (the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza, the suppression of the intifadas, the construction of settlements in the territories, etc)."
"But the metaphor is disingenuous, and it requires amplification to conform to the facts of history. In fact, as the leaping man nears the ground he offers the bystander a compromise - let's share the pavement, some for you, some for me. The bystander responds with a firm "no," and tries, again and again (1920, 1921, 1929, the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 and the 1947-48 War of Independence), to stab the falling man as he descends to the pavement. So the leaping man lands on the bystander, crushing him. Later, again and again, the leaping man, now firmly ensconced on the pavement, offers the crushed bystander a compromise ("autonomy" in 1978, a "two-state solution" in 2000 and in 2008), and again and again the bystander says "no." The falling man may have somewhat wronged the bystander, but the bystander was never an innocent one; he was an active agent in and a party to his own demise."
To begin, this is laughably bad writing, a consequence of Morris' lame and increasingly absurd effort to make an extended argument within the confines of a forced metaphor. The far more important point, of course, is that Morris's three main arguments in the essay are all bad ones. It is not that what he says is flatly false so much as that what he omits—and surely deliberately so, since he knows better—effectively makes the argument a dishonest one.
First, the "leaping man," the Zionists, never truly offered the Palestinians a fair compromise before Israel was created, despite Morris's argument, which refers to the several partition plans suggested in the 1930s and 1940s as the best practical compromise to solve the conflict between the Zionists and the overwhelming Palestinian majority, particularly the 1947 UN partition plan that formed the basis for the creation of Israel in 1948. The UN compromise partition plan was rejected by the Palestinians, but supposedly accepted by David Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership.
However, that is another part of the Israeli/Zionist mythology that has been decisively and repeatedly shown to be essentially false: the evidence is irrefutable that Ben-Gurion "accepted" the plan and sold it to his reluctant co-leadership, solely as a temporary tactic to allow the Zionists to gain a foothold, from which they would build a state and powerful military forces that could later expand and take over all of historical Palestine—the West Bank, all of Jerusalem, and even parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Transjordan.
Here, in Ben-Gurion's own words, was his plan. In a 1937 letter to his son, he wrote:
"A partial Jewish state is not the end, but only the beginning. The establishment of such a Jewish State will serve as a means in our historical efforts to redeem the country in its entirety….We shall organize a modern defense force…and then I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in other parts of the country, either by mutual agreement with our Arab neighbors or by some other means….We will expel the Arabs and take their places…with the force at our disposal."
And in early 1949 Ben-Gurion told his aides: "Before the founding of the state, on the eve of its creation, our main interest was self-defense….But now the issue at hand is conquest, not self-defense. As for setting the borders—it's an open-ended matter. In the Bible as well as in history there are all kinds of definitions of the country's borders, so there's no real limit."
In Morris's second argument, he criticizes Christopher Hitchens for "seeming to accept the Palestinians' definition of themselves as 'natives' struggling against an 'imperialist foreign enemy.'" Actually, he strongly implies, it is the Jews who are the true natives of Palestine, not the Palestinians: "What of Jewish residence in the Land of Israel between the 1th century BCE and the late Byzantine period (5th and 6th centuries C.E? And what of Jewish residence and 'nativeness' in Palestine since 1882, nearly 130 years ago? If residence grants rights, surely Jewish residence counterbalances Arab residence in Palestine since 636 C.E."
In effect, in an only slightly qualified manner, Morris is repeating the standard Zionist argument that Jewish rights in Palestine are greater than those of the Palestinians because the Jews were there first. It is emblematic of the poverty of thought on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that this argument is not immediately recognized as simply preposterous, outside the realm of even minimal intellectual respectability.
What's Right and What's Wrong with the Zionist Argument?
In evaluating the case for Zionism, the first step must be to separate the original Zionist argument for the necessity of a Jewish state from the arguments that such a state must be in Palestine. When Jewish nationalism or the Zionist political movement emerged in Europe in the early 20th century, its core belief was that the Jewish people had both an overwhelming need for and a moral right to a nation-state of their own. In light of the often murderous persecution of the Jewish people throughout history, it is hard to imagine any other people who have had a more powerful case for possession of a state of their own.
Where that state should be located, however, was a very different matter. The terrible paradox of Zionism is that while the arguments for the right and need of the Jews to have a state of their own were so strong as to be nearly self-evident, most of the arguments for the right to create that state in Palestine were quite weak.
The founder of the Zionist political movement, Theodore Herzl, initially considered the question of where the Jewish state should be located as an open one, a practical issue rather than an ideological or religious one. Thus, for awhile the Zionists canvassed a number of possibilities. However, the search for alternatives to Palestine was quickly abandoned. The turning point—and the origin of the Palestinian-Israeli and the larger Arab-Israeli conflict—came at the Zionist Congress of 1903, which decisively rejected any effort to create the Jewish state in any place but Biblical Palestine.
From the 19th century to the present, Zionists have made a number of arguments for exclusive Jewish political rights in Palestine. The first is the religious or Biblical argument: God promised the Jews that Palestine would be theirs forever, following which they established a Jewish Kingdom throughout the land, ruling for centuries until they were conquered and later expelled from the land by the Roman Empire. That is not an impressive argument, in the first instance because religious arguments convince only those for whom religious arguments are convincing. In any case, Christianity and Islam have their own religious claims to Palestine.
Moreover, a growing number of Israeli archaeologists, anthropologists and Biblical scholars have concluded that the Zionist argument that purports to rest on the actual history of the land is tendentious and largely mythological, lacking serious historical evidence to support it. Still, for the sake of argument let us assume that those modern scholars who challenge the mythology—the stories of Abraham, Moses, the Exodus from Egypt, the Jewish conquest of Palestine, and the later expulsion of the Jews by Rome--are in error. Assume further that the historical evidence supports the Zionist argument that Jews lived primarily in the ancient land of Palestine for many centuries, over which they established political sovereignty, losing this Jewish homeland only because they were forcibly conquered. Would all these presumed facts establish a modern Jewish claim to the land of Palestine?
Hardly. In no other place in the world is it accepted—in law, moral reasoning, or in plain common sense--that an ancient claim to a land has precedence over two thousand years of a different reality: eight centuries of Christianity, followed by thirteen centuries of an overwhelming Islamic majority. Indeed, nowhere else in the world does it even occur to anyone to make such a manifestly absurd argument.
To elaborate, Palestine has been repeatedly conquered by outside invaders since ancient history: by Assyria, Babylon, Alexander the Great, the Roman empire, the Crusaders, the Arabs, the Ottoman Empire—indeed, if the Old Testament is to be the historical source, in the Biblical era by the Jews themselves! On each occasion, many or most of the previous inhabitants of the land were killed, driven into exile, or subjugated by new rulers, who then held sway for centuries. Who, then, are the "rightful" claimants?
Put differently, by what objective criteria are the claims of one set of victims—the Jews supposedly driven out by the Romans over two thousand years ago—privileged over all other such claims? If ancient victimization is the criterion, then the descendants of the Canaanites (for example, the Syrians!), who lived on the land until the Jews conquered them, must have priority over the descendants of the Jews. On the other hand, if recent victimization is the criterion, then all victims of conquest after the Roman expulsion have priority over the Jews.
There is scarcely any place in the world that has not at one time been conquered, subjugated and populated by previously external forces. Consequently, absent a religious basis ("the Promised Land") accepted by everyone, including those of different nationalities and religions, the stopping of the clock as it marches backward in time to 20 centuries ago, neither earlier nor later, must be completely arbitrary and self-serving. Thus, a kind of common sense statute of limitations on land claims by right of previous inhabitance has evolved. Of course, there can be no precision in ascertaining the point at which the passage of time has nullified the moral or legal validity of previous land claims, and certainly there are hard cases.
The Zionist claim, however, is not one of them. While the metaphorical statute of limitations is vague, we can at least establish a morally plausible range:
*The passage of a few months or years is not enough to wipe out past rights. Thus, no unbiased observer challenged the moral right of the Bosnians, the Croatians, and the Kosovar Albanians to reverse Serbian ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia—even though force was often necessary and it required the dispossession of Serbs who had recently taken over the abandoned homes and villages.
*The passage of some decades creates a complex problem. Thus, the question of whether the Palestinians have the right to return to their homes and villages in what is now Israel is one of the most vexing issues in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not easily resolvable, either in practice or in moral principle—except by some kind of fair compromise.
*Two hundred years or so is too long. For example, while there is no doubt that in the 19th century Americans illegitimately and forcibly conquered much of what became the United States from the Native Americans and from Mexico, it does not follow that today's Native Americans have even the theoretical moral right to reconquer the West, or that Mexico could legitimately drive out the Texans today.
This is not to deny that the Native Americans still have some persuasive legal and moral claims for some forms of restitution. After a century and a half, however, the use of force to assert previous territorial rights would be an entirely different matter. For example, there seems to be no doubt that a couple of centuries ago my home in Buffalo was once on land inhabited by the Seneca Indian Nation—but I don't think that would give the modern Senecans the right to demand I return it to them, or to violently drive me out if I refuse.
*If this line is reasoning is persuasive, then a territorial claim based on previous inhabitance two thousand years ago is beneath serious consideration. To be sure, even after the Roman conquest there continued to be a substantial Jewish community in Palestine. However, over time most became Christians or Moslems as a result of the consecutive foreign conquests and occupation of Palestine, leaving only a small minority that preserved its Jewish identity.
As a result, by the end of the 19th century, prior to the beginning of the Zionist immigration, only some 15,000-30,000 Jews remained in Palestine, about 3-7% of the Arab population. Different studies have come to somewhat different estimates, but none remotely support Morris's claim that "Jewish residence counterbalances Arab residence in Palestine since 636 C.E." (emphasis added)
There is only one good argument for the Zionist claim to have a Jewish state in some part of the land of Palestine, but it is a sufficient one. Unlike the other arguments I have discussed, the fact of centuries of murderous Jewish persecution, culminating in the Holocaust, cannot be dismissed as irrelevant in legitimizing the creation of Israel. To be sure, the matter is complex: the conflict between the Jews and Palestinians long preceded Nazi Germany, and in any case the Palestinians were in no way responsible for the Holocaust or, for that matter, for the earlier history of murderous European anti-Semitism that produced Zionism. As the Palestinians always ask: Why should we be made to pay for evils we did not commit?
On the other hand, the Holocaust made the case for the creation of a Jewish state and a haven for the victims of anti-Semitism not only irrefutable but urgent. And by the late 1930s the die was cast; it was far too late to consider alternatives other than Palestine. In that context, the Palestinian plea of innocence lost much—though not all—of its force. The answer to the "why should we pay" question was this: it had become a tragic necessity, for the alternative, in terms of the human consequences, was worse.
In that case, could the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been averted, or at least settled long ago? Perhaps it might have, if two things had been done by Israel at the time of its creation, or at least since. First, Israel should have jettisoned its untrue, infuriating, and irrelevant "narrative" and simply rested its case for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine on historical necessity in general, the Holocaust in particular, and the absence of a practical alternative to the land of Palestine. And since 1948 the only argument necessary to the Zionist case is that Israel exists, new moral as well as factual realities have been created, and Israelis have the right to live.
At the same time, however, Israel should have publicly and repeatedly acknowledged that the creation of Israel had created a grave injustice to the Palestinian people, that the subsequent Israeli expulsion, occupation, and repression of the Palestinians had compounded the injustice and the pain it has long inflicted on the Palestinian people, and that as a result Israel would do everything in its economic and political power to remedy those injustices and alleviate the pain-- short of abandoning its state.
Even today, it is probably not too late for Israel to do this, and it may very well be the case that such an acknowledgement—accompanied by major Israeli economic assistance to the Palestinians—is the necessary psychological prerequisite if there is ever to be a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But first the Israelis (and their allies in the American Jewish community) must go through a painful demythologizing process; sadly, they will get no help from Benny Morris, despite his earlier work.
Morris and the Two-State Solution.
Morris's last argument is based on a serious distortion of the fistory of the two-state solution, especially in 2000 and in 2008. Morris simply reasserts the standard mythology: that in 2000 Ehud Barak offered Arafat a genuine two-state solution but that Arafat flatly rejected it, made no counteroffers, walked away from the negotiations, and began the violent intifada. No part of this mythology has survived serious examination. The issue is far too complex to be examined here, but it has been refuted in great detail by a number of scholars, journalists, and former policy makers—most of them Israeli. (For my own analysis, see here)
Here are the most salient points:
*Even as the negotiations were proceeding, Barak was continuing to expand the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, continuing the Israeli practice of creating "facts on the ground" that precluded their return to the Palestinians.
*No one knows for sure what Barak "offered" to Arafat in 2000, since he refused to put anything in writing and even refused to talk directly to Arafat at what was supposed to be a "summit" meeting at Camp David in July 2000. As for what Barak seemed to be hinting he might finally offer, at most it would have left the largest and most important Jewish settlements beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders under Israeli sovereignty—not least because they had been deliberately placed there to ensure Israeli control over some of the best agricultural land and largest West Bank water aquifers.
*On the crucial issue of Jerusalem, Barak not only continued to insist on full Israeli sovereignty over the entire city, including over the Muslim mosques in the Old City, he actually hardened the Israeli position over Jerusalem by demanding for the first time that Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount plateau, adjacent to the mosques. As many Israelis and others have noted, Barak's position on Jerusalem alone doomed the negotiations to failure.
*On another crucial issue, the Palestinian refugee "right of return" to Israel, Barak was also completely uncompromising, later stating that no Israeli prime minister would ever accept "even one refugee on the basis of the right of return."
*Barak continued to demand a demilitarized Palestinian state, Israeli control over Palestinian borders and air space, and even a long-term Israeli military presence and settlements deep within the projected Palestinian state, especially in the Jordan river valley and adjacent mountain tops.
In short, if the Palestinians had accepted Barak's apparent proposals—assuming that in the end Barak would have formally offered them--they would have gained only a tiny, economically nonviable and water-starved Palestinian "state"—or perhaps, better said, Bantustans--divided into a number of noncontiguous parcels separated by Israeli armed forces, roads, and Jewish settlements, denied a capital in East Jerusalem or even sovereignty over the Muslim religious sites on the Temple Mount.
No wonder that Shlomo Ben-Ami, Barak's foreign minister, later said that "Camp David was not a missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well," and that Barak himself later boasted that he had given the Palestinians "not a thing." And even then, the overall conclusion of investigations by European, U.S and even Israeli intelligence organizations is that Arafat did not make a policy decision to abandon negotiations and turn to violence; rather he was unable to contain the Palestinian intifada, which at least initially was a revolution from below.
What Happened in 2008?
Morris writes that the Palestinians again rejected a compromise two-state solution in 2008, supposedly offered by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. The facts are murky, but there have been some indications of what happened. Olmert, who had a long history as a hardline rightist before his election, was prime minister from May 2006 until he was defeated for reelection by Benjamin Netanyahu in February 2009. Throughout his term in office he not only continued but stepped up the expansion of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and two months before his term expired he instituted the infamous Israeli attack on Gaza and resisted efforts by members of his own Cabinet to cut short the attack before even more Gazan civilians were slaughtered.
Still, it is true that in the last few months of his time in office—and when there was no longer any doubt that he was about to be decisively defeated by Netanyahu—Olmert made some surprisingly strong public statements about the need for a genuine and fair two-statement settlement with the Palestinians, perhaps including some form of shared Israeli-Palestinian sovereignty over the Old City and other sites within Jerusalem of religious importance to both Jews and Muslims.
There were some preliminary talks between Olmert and high-level Palestinian leaders on the basis of these promising Olmert statements, but there were no official Israeli proposals, no formal negotiations, no public documentary record, and in any case the process was quickly aborted when Olmert authorized the Israeli attack on Gaza and Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister.
And because Morris knows all this, today he is nothing more than a propagandist for the indefensible, and a particularly dangerous one at that, precisely because before he betrayed his calling he had gained great credibility as a fearless teller of the truth. Put differently, while once Morris told truth to power—often described as the highest calling of intellectuals-- now he tells the lies that power wants to hear. So it is hardly surprising that Morris, once a pariah in his country, today is a thriving and celebrated defender of Israeli policies and a close adviser to top Israeli political leaders.


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TOKYO (AP) — Government data show Japan's industrial output fell in November, and consumer prices continued to decline in the latest show of a dismal economy.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry reported Friday industrial production dropped 1.7 percent from the previous year.
Another ministry said the core consumer price index slipped 0.1 percent in November, compared to the same month last year, a sign Japan is still dogged by deflation, or prices spiraling downward.
The unemployment rate improved by 0.1 percent from the previous month to 4.1 percent last month.
Hopes are high that new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies, centered on loose monetary policy and public spending will wrest the world's third largest economy out of the doldrums. Stocks are recovering and the yen has slipped, a boost for Japan.


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On iMapGeo, Geospatial Professionals Share Real-World Stories19 Dec, 2012 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin
New community portal from Trimble delivers first-hand accounts of people overcoming day-to-day challenges.
Earlier this year, Trimble launched iMapGeo, an online portal that showcases stories of geospatial tribulations and triumphs, shared by professionals around the world. In addition to user stories, the venture incorporates live iMapGeo World Tour events and contributor awards. Todd Taylor, senior marketing manager for Trimble's GeoSpatial Division, was kind enough to provide his perspective.
Cadalyst: What is the primary goal of iMapGeo — to help geospatial users learn from each other, to engender a sense of community in the industry, to cast the technology in a more glamorous light, or something else?
Taylor: All of those suggestions have some role, but ultimately we simply want to make it easy for people to share and learn from the work that is happening across the geospatial industry. The industry is full of dynamic people who apply knowledge and technology to solve real-world problems. By encouraging participation from the larger geospatial community, we hope to collect a mosaic of insights, stories, and reports that highlight geospatial challenges and successes from across the globe.
Trimble launched the iMapGeo portal earlier this year, providing geospatial professionals with a new forum for sharing their experiences and learning from their peers.
IMapGeo offers partners and community members direct participation with minimal restriction. If you want to blog about a geospatial project or field experience, but don't want to establish and promote your own blog platform, you have an opportunity to use the existing platform and audience on iMapGeo to achieve the same end. This is vastly different from the more formal abstract submission, academic publication, or professional editorial content development processes often associated with sharing one's work. By focusing on stories of people solving problems, we show a fresh and human perspective. In this way, iMapGeo is not so much about profound breakthroughs, but more about the experiences that make working in this industry rewarding for the majority of us.
How do you define the audience for iMapGeo?
It is certainly intended for geospatial professionals, and most of the content relates to projects implementing Trimble solutions. However, we can accept stories that do not reference Trimble solutions whatsoever. We would not, however, directly accept content that promotes the products of companies that are not partners in the iMapGeo program. Simply put, that means we accept a wide range of stories, but not commercials.
The impact of the site on the general public knowledge is difficult to assess at this early stage. There are other projects — for example, "Geospatial Revolution" by Penn State Public Broadcasting — that specifically target this objective and do an excellent job of achieving it. In the longer term, iMapGeo may have some larger role to play in public awareness, but for now our focus is on the geospatial community.
In the four months since launch, we have had more than 4,000 unique visitors to iMapGeo.com. We've also experienced a 25% increase in our LinkedIn group members and a 40% increase in Twitter subscribers, and the World Tour attracted approximately 500 participants. These numbers are promising first signals; just like the geospatial industry itself, iMapGeo is growing, evolving, and picking up momentum.
The stories that have been shared so far address a variety of topics, ranging from classifying land cover to gathering imagery using a foam glider–mounted camera. Is there one that has special meaning to you?
There have been a number of interesting stories that have caught my attention. The contribution with the most shares across social channels was a simple story about a lady collecting geospatial attributes along 127 miles of county road together with her "four-legged, mobile data collection partner," Killer the dog. Another concerned a piece of equipment that was lost during a field mission and survived six months of exposure to the Canadian winter, only to be returned to operating service the following spring.
However, my personal favorite comes from a project in Borneo where remote sensing technology is being deployed to map biodiversity features including habitats, species distributions, and carbon stock in an effort to design a network of conservation corridors. For me, that story captures how the combination of geospatial professionals and technology can positively impact our world.
You held World Tour events in a dozen locations this year, ranging from Moscow to Melbourne to Rio de Janeiro. What do the events entail?
The program is designed so that we can learn from each other and better understand the challenges and successes in local communities. All of the events feature members of the local geospatial community sharing their projects, experiences, and insights. These presentations are an essential part of the event.
In terms of format, every event is a little bit different. For example, in Chicago and Kansas City we mixed seminar sessions with hands-on system demos. In Melbourne the session ran as a short-format breakfast session with several 20-minute "flash presentations." In Rome and Budapest, the events focused on one product and its specific applications. In China we held two completely different events: in Beijing we had more than 200 attendees, and in Tianjing we held a closed, invitation-only event.
You emphasize sharing via social media; what role does it have to play in the geospatial community?
The most obvious is as a bi-directional and discretionary communication channel between vendors, users, and other interested participants. Of course, channels such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn are heavily trafficked networks with the capacity to reach the majority of the geospatial community. Leveraging social web dynamics to enable quick and easy content embedding or sharing is a logical way to reach people. (To keep up with iMapGeo as it evolves, I'd suggest subscribing to @TrimbleGSpatial on Twitter or joining the "Trimble Geospatial" group on LinkedIn.)
Because participation is completely at the user's discretion, you need to remain relevant and address topics of interest for the community. In this respect, social media is a noise filter for the community as well as an access mechanism and outreach tool.
Another important function is the socially augmented product experience. A good illustration of this is Trimble's eCognition Community. Launched in 2008, the eCognition community is one of the industry's largest, with nearly 7,000 members and more than 4,000 content entries, including wikis, discussions, code snippets, images, and more. It focuses primarily on knowledge sharing as a core value, functioning as a virtual resource for eCognition users that can be easily utilized in conjunction with eCognition software. As a vendor, this also allows us to engage with users virtually, generating product feedback, creating beta testing groups, and more.
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The Pacific men's basketball team was better on the road Saturday, but still not good enough.
The Pacific men's basketball team was better on the road Saturday, but still not good enough.
The Tigers found themselves in a back-and-forth affair at Western Michigan in an ESPN BracketBusters game, but didn't make enough plays to get a needed road victory. There were five lead changes and six ties, but the Broncos of the Mid-American Conference hung on for a 67-62 victory before 3,172 at University Arena.
Pacific (15-12) had plenty of chances late, including senior Rodrigo de Souza missing an open 3-pointer with 1:08 remaining that would have given his team the lead. Western Michigan (17-9) exploited its size advantage to corral key rebounds in the final minutes.
"We played hard, played together and took great shots," said Pacific coach Bob Thomason, who fell to 4-5 in his career in BracketBusters contests. "I'm mystified why we don't shoot better on the road when we're getting good looks. Still, we made progress while playing against a good team."
It was Thomason's second visit to Kalamazoo, Mich., separated by nearly 44 years. Thomason was a sophomore guard for a Pacific team that visited Western Michigan, and he scored three points in a 77-75 win Dec. 6, 1969.
"It's hard to think of something from 45 years ago," Thomason said. "I remember starting, but not playing a lot in the second half. It's a nice atmosphere here and they have a good program."
This time around his team couldn't avoid its bad habit of starting slowly on the road, falling behind 9-2 before recovering to trail 33-29 at halftime. Junior forward Tony Gill had a career-high 18 points off the bench, three days after scoring 17 in a loss at UC Irvine. Senior point guard Lorenzo McCloud had 15 points and four assists for Pacific, but it wasn't enough as the Tigers made 36.7 percent of their shots. Pacific did manage to go 11 of 30 on 3-pointers, which kept it in the game.
"We fought from beginning to end and our defense was pretty good," Gill said. "But late in the game our rebounding hurt us and we missed shots that usually go in for us."
Western Michigan improved to 10-1 at home with four players reaching double-digits in scoring, led by senior center Shayne Whittington's 14 points and seven rebounds.
Pacific, currently in second place behind Long Beach State, will resume Big West Conference play next week, visiting Cal State Fullerton on Thursday and UC Riverside on Saturday. The Tigers are 2-9 in road games.


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Registation will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on April 19 and the class will feature training from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Born in Cartagena, Colombia, Salcedo started his career in the fitness and entertainment business in 1996, he worked in Bogota, Colombia with Beto Perez, creator of Zumba fitness, as an international presenter and dancer at Jakarta, Indonesia, Italy, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala and in the United States since 2005.
As a dancer, Salcedo has done tour in Asia, and in the U.S.A with Eddy lover, Makano and La Factoria (Panamanian music artists). He won the contest for "Baila mi Baile" and latin TV show, "Sabado Gigante" on Univision.
Salcedo is now working with Zumba fitness as a Zumba education specialist, international presenter and model. He was an official presenter of Caribbean Heat at the "Zumba Fitness Convention" from 2010-2013.
In addition to his experience as a Zumba instructor, Salcedo has also been on stage with pop-star Pitbull and he is also the lead voice on the original Zumba songs "Mueve la Cadera," "El Amor," "Estamos Calientitos," "Tonto no" and more.


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Ok I think I am echoing mommal here. I got interrupted a few times while trying to reply so I am not going to reedit now.
I think you can probably rule out reflux & forceful letdown. Why? because it is unlikely these things would improve for a time and then get worse again. Its possible for a few reasons, but unlikely. So that is good news.
heres a thought. It does not matter. Fussiness is a normal part of life for a newborn, and fussiness when nursing is also normal, if for no other reason that an infant nurses so much, fussiness and nursing will normally coincide.I just wonder what's the reason of her fussiness recently.
Here is how you tell fussiness is a sign that something is probably really wrong-1)baby is visibly unhealthy (has a fever, whatever) 2)baby is not gaining weight normally 3) baby never calms down for any part of the day
As far as the nipple pulling, again, unless this is accompanied by some other symptom, I think it does not really matter why baby does this.
The flailing etc. sounds positional to me. By which I mean I wonder if changing your nursing positions ever helps? Standing, leaning back, sidelying, etc.
If my baby was too upset to nurse without agony for both of us, I would not nurse, comfort another way, and nurse later.
I don't think you need to decide at this point whether you like breastfeeding or hate it, or like being a mother or hate it. We (society) tends to have an unfortunate idealization of motherhood which is seldom the reality. Breastfeeding is a normal part of new motherhood and there are lots of things to get used to in the new motherhood period. It sounds as if you are sick and exhausted and unshowered, and that never feels good. But except for the sick part, this is pretty par for the course in the first few months with a newborn. I suggest you try to stop finding fault with yourself for having a normal mothering experience with a normal baby. I would also suggest do not worry about tummy time, babies typically hate it and it's possibly not in any way needed for a baby who is not spending hours flat on their back in a crib.


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Managing Growth in America's Communities
Island Press, 1997 - 311 pages
Communities across the country are turning to the concept of "growth management" to help plan for the future, as they seek to control the location, impact, character and timing of development in order to balance environmental and economic needs and concerns. Managing Growth in America's Communities presents practical information about proven strategies, programs and techniques of growth management for urban and rural communities. Topics examined include: public roles in community development determining locations and character of future development protecting environmental and natural resources managing infrastructure development preserving community character and quality achieving economic and social goals property rights concerns The author describes regulatory and programmatic techniques that have been most useful, obstacles to be overcome, and specific strategies that have been instrumental in achieving successful growth management programs. He provides examples from dozens of communities across the country as well as state and regional approaches currently in use. Brief profiles present overviews of problems addressed, techniques implemented, outcomes, and contact information for conducting further research. Among the communities profiled are Arlington County, Virginia; Fort Collins, Colorado; Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky; Lincoln, Nebraska; Sarasota, Florida; Raleigh, North Carolina; Scottsdale, Arizona; and numerous others. Also included in the volume are informational sidebars written by leading experts in growth management including Robert Yaro, John De Grove, David Brower, and others.Managing Growth in America's Communities is essential reading for community development specialists including government officials, planners, environmentalists, designers, developers, business people, and concerned citizens seeking innovative and feasible ways to manage growth.
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Q The Property Rights Issue by Erik Meyers
Chapter 3
Where to Grow
G Strategies for Metropolitan Open Space by Larry Orman
a Transferable Development Rights in the Long Island
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Achieving Economic and Social Goals
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Q Developing Defensible Impact Fees by Arthur C Nelson
Preserving Community Character and Quality
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Mount Moriah is the final resting place for 1,000s of veterans from the Revolution, Civil War, Spanish American War, War of 1812, World Wars I & II, Vietnam, and Korea.
All are welcome to join our clean-up events. Check out our event calendar for upcoming dates! Photo: Celeste Stewart/ Philadelphia Photo League
It's estimated that more than 80,000 individuals are buried at Mount Moriah. In addition to the many veterans buried here, there are 1,000′s of individuals who are notable in their own right—from mayors and baseball players to entertainers and journalists.
The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery host clean-up events throughout the year. All are welcome to attend!
Mount Moriah Cemetery is an historic burial ground incorporated by an Act of the State Legislature in 1855, one of several rural cemeteries developed in Philadelphia between 1845 and 1860. Philadelphia and Yeadon share equal shares of the cemetery, which spans Cobbs Creek.
Philadelphia was an important hub for the transportation of supplies and troops from the East Coast to the front lines during the Civil War. In addition to arsenals, supply depots and navy yards, Philadelphia also had numerous military hospitals, as well as the U.S. …Read More
The cemetery map and section maps provided here were last updated around 1910. Some section numbers/letters have changed over the years and the boundaries are not always exact. Please review our restoration map to see the current status of sections of the cemetery. If …Read More
The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Mount Moriah Cemetery by honoring the memory of those interred here through community engagement, education, historic research, and restoration. The Friends' tax identification number is 45-2247158. …Read More