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There is nothing you can buy in this country that delivers comfortable seven passenger people hauling and over 30 MPG on the highway. Ford wants to change that with a squat, roomy, efficient, seven-passenger people hauler.
Arguably, when you can buy the newly introduced Ford Transit Connect Wagon you may have the same difficulty as a fully loaded up one may not be able to reach the suggested 30 MPG highway. That's not a critique of Ford, or the 1.6-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder we swooned for in the 2013 Ford Escape.
It's just a giant box that can tow, we're told, 2,000 pounds while shouldering a 1,200-pound payload bigger than what you can store in a Mazda5. Although, maybe you don't want to try all of the Transit Connect Wagon's capabilities at once.
Given our love of van culture and the growing realization among many consumers that the minivan is neither sexy nor the best use of space, the Transit Connect is close to our ideal family vehicle on paper (well, until they give us a Ranchero with rear-facing B.R.A.T-like seats).
Ford will offer the Transit Connect here with the choice of their dull 2.5-liter four-cylinder rental fleet engine and their more interesting EcoBoost 1.6-liter four-cylinder, which should produce something close to the Escape's 178 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque. (ignore the manual transmission in the shot above, there's no manual transmission available). It won't be fast, but that's not really the point.
Compared to lumbering minivans or wasteful SUVs, the Escape is something you could reasonably own in a city or crowded suburb with a family. Sure, there are crossovers (Ford builds a reasonable competitor) but this is a Wagon, dammit! You can even have your choice of a liftgate or side-hinged cargo doors.
If Ford fails in the coming years we should shoulder part of the blame. We told them to make the Fusion the Mondeo (they did), bring us the new Focus and give us the ST (they did), and deliver unto us a Fiesta (they did that, too).
Now we're getting into random requests. We've always wanted a more featured Transit with optional seven-passenger seating (though, we'd probably buy the five-passenger version). Now we have that too. Maybe we should keep pressuring them to bring over the European Ranger, because we're running out of stuff to ask for.
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In the Age of Instagram, Senior Portraits Go Upscale
For teens who constantly snap photos on their phone, high school yearbook photos are taking a page out of glossy magazine shoots, including professional makeup, hair and styling. Elizabeth Holmes reports on Lunch Break.
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Microsoft has given relief to Android business users as a native Outlook.com app made its way to the Google Play Store. The Exchange ActiveSync protocol is standard for business and Enterprise professionals. Unfortunately, the functionality is lacking in many older Android handsets. So, the initial user reviews of the app seem mixed but it's better than nothing. Check out the features after the quick jump.
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2012-2013: In cross country, competed in Yale's win over Harvard…First on the team at the CCSU Mini-Meet…Third on the team at the New England Championships…Competed at Heps...In indoor track, ran personal best of 5:04.75 in the mile at Yale Season Opener, placing first...In outdoor track, finished sixth in the 800m at Harvard-Yale.
2011-2012: In indoor track, competed in the 800-meter run and the 4x800-meter relay…Notched wins in the 800-meter run (Yale Collegiate Invitational) and distance medley relay (Giegengack Invitational)…Season-best 2:57.21 in the 1,000-meter run at Dartmouth-Columbia-Yale…Third in the 800-meter run at Heps (2:11.47) and ninth at ECACs (2:11.96)…In outdoor track, competed in the 800-meter run at the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina, finishing in 2:09.93 for eighth place…Also placed seventh in the 1,500-meter run in 4:26.45 in Raleigh…Competed in the 800-meter run and the 4x400-meter relay at the Larry Ellis Invitational.
2010-2011: USTFCCCA First-team All-Academic...In outdoor track, competed in the 800m at the NCAA First Round meet, where she finished 37th overall...Ran a collegiate best in the 800m of 2:08.91 at Heps, where she went on to finish sixth...Member of the distance medley relay team that broke the school record at the Penn Relays (11:12.08)...In indoor track, personal best of 2:10.45 in the 800m to finish 5th at the ECAC indoor championship... Eighth at indoor Heps in the 800m... In cross country, competed in the Dartmouth Invitational.
2009-2010: Competed in the 400m, 500m, and 800m...Ran a season-best 2:13.21 at Harvard-Yale.
High School: Broke the state record in the 600m…Set eight school records…Seven-time "LL" state champion (three times in 600m, three times in 800m, 4x800)…Three-time state open champion (twice in 600m, once in 800m)…Team MVP all four years.
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A Department of Justice proposal would make it easier for FBI investigators to hack into remote devices that have had their location purposefully obscured or that are acting as part of a botnet.
The proposal was published Friday for comment, ahead of a May 29 meeting of the US Judicial Conference's committee that sets policies and procedures for the country's court systems. The proposal would alter search warrant rules -- called Rule 41 in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure -- including lifting current restrictions on judges only being authorized to sign search warrants for within their jurisdiction.
Multiple civil liberties and privacy rights groups, however, have warned that the changes would give government investigators too much power, too little accountability, and would affect too many innocent bystanders.
But the Justice Department says that it needs expanded powers to help prosecute online criminals who operate anonymously and across the country's 94 federal judicial districts. "Our rule change will ensure that courts can be asked to review warrant applications for probable cause in situations where is it currently unclear what judge has authority to review a warrant application," Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr says in an emailed statement. "The proposal makes explicit that it does not work any change to the traditional rules governing probable cause and notice."
[A former Navy admin has been charged with compromising more than 30 government and private sites. Read Navy Nuclear Carrier Sysadmin Busted For Hacking Databases.]
One change contained in the proposal would allow judges to sign warrants that authorize remote access by the FBI to search electronic storage media and to seize or copy electronically stored information if the location of the computer has been concealed through technological means, or for cases involving systems located in five or more districts -- for example, if they're being used as part of a botnet. The bureau also wants the ability to send search warrant notifications to suspects via email or other digital means.
While those requests might sound like simple, necessary changes designed to bust cybercrime syndicates, the devil is in the details. "In one sense, this is a minor change in the rule to allow a judge to issue a warrant to search a specific computer which may or may not be located in the district in which the judge is located," said Mark Rasch, a former federal computer crime prosecutor who's now the chief privacy officer for SAIC, speaking by phone.
"But it has real potential for abuse," he added -- for example, if prosecutors engage in "judge shopping" or "forum shopping" by refiling rejected search warrant requests until they find a judge -- in whatever jurisdiction -- who will sign it.
The changes would also authorize the FBI, in its pursuit of botnet masterminds or other criminals, to automatically install malware on large numbers of infected PCs. "In plain English, this proposal would permit the government to seek warrants allowing it to hack into computers over the Internet using malware," said Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's speech, privacy, and technology project, in a blog post. He also warned that the bureau might continue to tap zero-day vulnerabilities to help hack into bot-infected PCs, which could put everyday Internet users at risk if criminals or other nation states reverse-engineered the bugs exploited by the FBI.
Under the proposal, instead of having to obtain search warrants to hack individual PCs, the FBI could use one search order to access large numbers of systems. "What that means is the government could then install its own anti-botnet with one order, infecting not the botnet authors' computer, but the botnet victims' computers," explained SAIC's Rasch. Cue the potential for large numbers of innocent bystanders having their computers and cloud accounts searched by the FBI, despite facing no reasonable suspicion of having done anything wrong.
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- Makes 4 servings
- 4 1/2 bay leaves
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Hungarian sweet paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed chipotle chile pepper*
- 3/4 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 4 1-inch-thick T-bone or rib steaks (about 1 pound each)
- 1 loaf ciabatta bread, halved horizontally, each half cut crosswise into eight 5x3-inch slices
- Olive oil
- 1 cup creamy Gorgonzola cheese
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Finely grind bay leaves, paprika, chipotle, and cumin seeds in spice grinder. Reserve1 teaspoon mixture. Transfer remaining mixture to plate.
- Sprinkle steaks generously with salt and pepper. Press both sides of steaks into spice mixture on plate and rub to spread evenly. Grill steaks to desired doneness, about 5 minutes per side for medium-rare.
- Brush cut sides of bread with olive oil. Grill, cut side down, until slightly charred, about 1 minute. Spread Gorgonzola onto grilled side of each bread slice. Sprinkle cheese with ground black pepper and reserved spice mixture. Return bread to grill, cheese side up. Grill until cheese begins to melt and bottom of bread is slightly charred, about 1 minute. Sprinkle bread with thyme; place 2 slices on each of 4 plates. Serve steaks with bread.
- *Crushed chipotle chile pepper can be found in the spice section of most supermarkets.
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- Calories1472
- Carbohydrates50 g(17%)
- Fat103 g(159%)
- Protein88 g(176%)
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Seeking out panoramic views from mountain summits became very popular in the 1800s. Some mountain top views became especially popular tourist destinations, such as Mt. Tom, in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts. A cable car railway built in 1897 allowed easy access to its summit. President William McKinley described Mt. Tom as "the most beautiful mountain out look in the whole world" after he visited the mountain in 1899. This postcard shows a tourist-laden cable car ascending the mountain's steep side through a deep rock cut. The car was named after the 17th century surveyor Elizur Holyoke.
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Though I would really love to see some good participation. From posts I've seen around the board I think we could get a well rounded line up sound setups. It's not limited to PCs either. It's open to the whole music sound system realm - from ipods to car audio to home theater on up.


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LINCOLN — When she reached her mid-forties, Khenmo Drolma was diagnosed with cancer and given five years to live. The diagnosis pushed her to dedicate herself completely to the religion that she had been dabbling in since she was 30, Buddhism.
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Rob Kosberg needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 108 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
The iMOD System
We are a financial services company (Crown Financial Solutions - logo designed here!) that specializes in helping people in financial crisis.
We may need a web page designed down the road as well.
We have a product that will bridge the gap between borrowers and banks and help them get a modified mortgage.
Initially this product will go to bank reps, CEO's and VP's but will also be direct to consumer.
We want to "bridge the gap" which may be a nice theme but are wide open to ideas. We want something professional with pop - but definitely not cheesy.
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Game time pushed back from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. --- After a tough weekend to open Ohio Valley Conference play, the Tennessee Tech baseball will look to upset another Southeastern Conference opponent as it travels to Vanderbilt Tuesday.
The first pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.
The Golden Eagles are 18-21 all-time against the Commodores, which includes an 11-2 loss in their last meeting back in 2011.
Tech enters the game with a 9-14 record, including a 1-2 mark against UT Martin this past weekend.
During the weekend, the Golden Eagles were led by Dylan Bosheers, who drove two runs in each game for a team-high six RBI. Ben Burgess drove in three runs himself and scored a team-high four runs.
VU owns a 9-15 record, which includes a pair of wins against Georgia in its last two games.
Anthony Gomez leads the Commodores in runs batted in with 22, while Tony Kemp has scored a team-high 22 runs.
Probable Starters
Tech: RHP Garrett Baugh - 1-1, 4.24 ERA, 17.0 IP, 23 H, 24 SO, 12 BB, 9 R, 8 ER
Vanderbilt: LHP Sam Selman - 0-3, 10.00 ERA, 18.0 IP, 24 H, 16 SO, 16 BB, 29 R, 20 ER


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Western Environmental Incorporated (WEI) is located in Mecca, which lies within the Coachella Valley near Indio, on tribal land owned by the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (see map below). DTSC had previously determined that WEI could not legally accept and/or treat "non-RCRA hazardous waste" at their Mecca facility without a valid permit. In May of 2012, DTSC issued an Evaluation Survey and an Evaluation of Soil Sampling. The Evaluation of Soil Sampling determined that chemical concentrations of the treated soils were below both federal and California hazardous waste limits. The Evaluation Survey outlined seventeen recommendations that would facilitate WEI's compliance with California standards. In April 2014, WEI notified DTSC that they are not currently accepting "materials currently regulated as California Hazardous waste". Therefore, compliance with the seventeen recommendations outlined in DTSC's Evaluation Survey for operation of a permitted California hazardous waste facility is not required. DTSC will continue to work with CBMI in an advisory capacity, and be available to provide support to the community. For details, please refer to the most recent Fact Sheet.
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Gaza, this tormented part of Palestine, land of suffering and resistance, is also a land of long history. This article presents two recent attempts to recover the ancient and medieval history of Gaza: a book by Gerald Butt (Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza, 1995) and an exhibition displayed in 2007 at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva: Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations. Aiming to illustrate the long history of the Gaza region and its daily life over the centuries, the book as well as the exhibition emphasize the status of Gaza as a meeting point at the intersection of crossroads of cultures and civilizations.
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1. An engaged history of Gaza
2. At the crossroad of civilizations
2.1. The history and archaeology of Gaza in Geneva
2.2. Towards an archaeological museum in Gaza
3. References and further reading
A. History of Gaza
B. Resources on the book Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza
C. Resources on the exhibition Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations
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Figure 1: Map of Palestine (1849). From A Classical Atlas, to Illustrate Ancient Geography by Alexander G. Findlay, (New York, 1849; reprint Harper, 1954) (Source).
Events in Gaza have brought it into central focus. Since decades, this tiny strip, squeezed along the Mediterranean coast between historical Palestine and Egypt and packed with 1,5 million Palestinian inhabitants, became the focus of politics, war and resistance. With the recent unjust and inhuman war on Gaza, this small Palestinian territory (only 25 miles long, the most densely populated piece of land in the world) symbolizes more than ever the tragedy of Palestine and its people in this beginning of the 21st century. Whilst humanity tends towards more mutual understanding, the criminal forces of oppression and barbarism still use the unqualified language of collective punishment and mass murder against a whole people.
To understand those events, one needs a lot of historical, economic and demographic information, not easily available between two covers. Gerald Butt, a distinguished British correspondent, born and brought up in the Middle East and educated in London, has provided considerable information in his slim but incisive book. He has used classical historical research, a tool most newsmen neglect these days, to connect Gaza's long and turbulent past to its more familiar present.
Figure 2: A shuttle aerial view of Palestine (Source).
Likewise, a major exhibition was displayed in 2007 at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Museum of Art and History) in Geneva: Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations (from 27 April 2007 to 7 October 2007). The exhibition displayed hundreds of archaeological and historical objects drawn from the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and the private collection of Gazan entrepreneur, Jawdat Khoudary. The exhibition aimed to illustrate the multicultural nature of the tiny region's daily life over the centuries. Egyptian scarabs, sculptures of Poseidon and Aphrodite, mosaics from Byzantine churches and Muslim gravestones suggest the vast range of archaeological objects that illustrate the long history of this part of Palestine.
Nowadays, the Gaza Strip is a name synonymous with an image of occupation, resistance, political turmoil, poverty, unrest and violence. This is Gaza's lot since several decades. Since the middle of the 1990s, Gerald Butt had alredy published a small book that revealed in a direct and informative style how the scenes of violence and human suffering were taking place in a land rich in history. This book is Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza; it was published in 1995 in Cyprus and United Kingdom by Rimal Publications and Scorpion (Hardcover, 188 pp., ISBN: 1-900269-03-1 - 220 x 146 mm).
Figure 3: Map showing Palestine's topography (Source).
In the book Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza, Gerald Butt presents the first comprehensive history of Gaza. The author describes the rise and fall in the fortunes of this narrow strip of coast which, for over four millennia, has been a meeting place of European, Asian and African empires and civilizations, a crossroads for conquerors and a major Mediterranean trading port.
In this admirable "biography", Butt shows the modern reader, who thinks of the Strip as a vast refugee camp housing 1,5 million Palestinians in slum conditions, that Gaza was once a robust city state which survived invasions by the armies of Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, Rome, Israelites and Byzantium, the Arabs, Seljuks, Mamlukes, Turks and Crusaders. The waves of invaders brought to Gaza their cultures and technologies and fostered trade with the known world. Under the Greeks Gaza boasted a great library, under the Romans an efficient administration and some fine buildings, under the Byzantines a grand church raised by the Empress Eudoxia, a school of rhetoric, a forum, colonnaded streets and a municipal council. Butt quotes an Italian pilgrim who visited the city in 570 CE and found it "a lovely and renowned city, with noble people distinguished by every kind of liberal accomplishment".
Figure 4: View from Gaza City (Source).
Thus, Butt demonstrates the West's unfairness in characterizing citizens of Gaza, generally known as the Philistines, a people of "material outlook indifferent to culture". This wrong characterization was probably adopted from the Old Testament, in the aftermath of the wars between the Philistines and the Hebrews.
The original Philistines were one of the mysterious "Sea People" who arrived on the southern and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean in the 12th century BCE, settling in Gaza in 1175 BCE. The Philistines were taller than the local people, they wore kilts and ribbed helmets, drove chariots, smelted iron and traded with Aegean islands. They established five city states along the southern Levantine coast, with Gaza as their capital. Though given an evil reputation by the Old Testament, the Philistines were certainly more akin to culture than their local Semitic antagonist. Philistia did not become a cultural backwater for another 2,000 years, and then only because the Seljuk conquerors devastated the area so extensively that it never recovered. Whatever was left of Gaza's rich history was lost during the fighting in World War I or looted after its occupation in 1967.
Figure 5: Front cover of Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza by Gerald Butt (Rimal Publications, 1995).
Butt has done a service to truth by exploding this myth. His book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Middle East since it gives us perspective on a location deluged by history, a place which is now a cul de sac rather than a crossroads but could once again come to thrive if the regional peace process succeeds.
Continuously inhabited for more than 3,000 years at a key strategic crossroads of the region, the Gaza territory has been a palimpsest of influences throughout its existence. As well as considering the early period, the age of the Pharaohs and Philistines of the Bible, accounts were given of the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras. The coming of Islam, the interlude of the Crusades and the long period of Ottoman domination bring the story up to the First World War.
The crucial history of Gaza in the 20th century is discussed in the period of the Mandate and the conflicts with Israel. It culminates with the intifada and the prominence of Gaza in the struggle of the Palestinian national movement for the recovery of independence and the emergence of the Palestinian state.
Figure 6: The Great Mosque of Gaza, also known as the Great 'Umari Mosque (Al-Jami'a al-'Umari al-Kabir), is the largest and oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip (Source).
Butt begins almost every one of the 15 chapters in the present and then uses a peg to take readers to an appropriate historical period, thus creating links and frameworks for the present to the past. His message is largely that we have been here; Gaza was not only at the crossroads of civilizations but a part of it. Almost half the book is dedicated to Gaza's pre-Islamic and indeed pre-Christian past, emphasizing the often forgotten traditions of the animists and pagans, the Canaanites, the Philistines and, of course, the many invaders.
A rich tradition of trade and economic self-sufficiency is unthinkable to the average Gazan today, but as Butt points out, it was the norm, both hundreds and thousands of years ago. The once vibrant life of Gazan philosophers, musicians and theologians stands in sharp contrast to today's apparently bi-polar society, pitted into two camps of political and social ideology.
Figure 7: Coptic Church in Gaza City Suburbs (Source).
Butt maintains that Gaza was burned to the ground so often and managed to re-group and reinvent itself so tenaciously that it is bound to survive and bloom again, in spite of all efforts to keep it down. The recent and ongoing abuse that Gaza was subjected to can be understood better with the words of another Gaza scholar, Sara Roy of Harvard University, who speaks of the "de-development" of Gaza as a result of its occupation. These words can be understood more fully in the light of a long historical perspective. Keeping Gaza's history in mind makes its state of being today all the more shocking.
The lesson brought about by the long history of Palestine in general and Gaza in particular is that, despite the unqualified suffering inflicted upon Gaza and its people, it will certainly once again be a gem along the Mediterranean. To appreciate it more fully, Butt's Life at the Crossroads is key to understanding just what a fabulous gem it is.
Table of Contents
1- 'Land of Many Battles'
2- A City on the Boarder
3- The Roots of Palestine
4- Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians
5- The Rule of Greece & Rome
6- Under the Byzantine Cross
7- The Arrival of Islam
8- The Crusaders
9- Ottoman Domination
10- The First World War – 'A Scene of Sad Desolation'
11- The British Road to Disaster
12- Egyptian Rule and the First Israeli Occupation
13- Arab Defeat and Israeli Military Rule
14- Intifada – 'A Mass Expression of Outrage'
15- The End of the Wilderness Years?
The author
Gerald Butt was born and brought up in the Middle East. After graduating in Arabic and Middle East Studies from London University, he worked for the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) before joining the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). He was the BBC's Middle East correspondent from 1982 to 1990. He has previously written four books on aspects of the region. After that he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Middle East Economic Survey in Nicosia, Cyprus and works at present as a freelance writer and broadcaster.
"The greatest value of Life at the Crossroads is that it gathers into one enjoyable book, a history with Gaza as the star."
Martha Myers Eleiwa, Journal of Palestine Studies
"This reader found herself drawing together background from biblical studies, history, and archaeology. In the history of Gaza, they are interwoven and the separate fields of study gain clarity in relationship to each other."
Nancy G. Scudder, Middle East Council of Churches
2. At the crossroad of civilizations
Figure 8: Views from Napoleon's Fort (Qasr El-Basha) located in downtown Gaza, an imposing stone building dating back to the Mamluk period. Napoleon is believed to have spent a few nights in it on his way through the town in 1799 (Source).
The Gaza Strip is in the headlines with tragic regularity, masking the fabulous archaeological riches under its soil. Pharaonic, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic sites fill the territory, an essential relay point on the overland road between Africa and Asia and an important port at the outlet of the trade routes between East and West.
To show this, a major exhibition was displayed in 2007 at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Museum of Art and History) in Geneva: Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations (from 27 April 2007 to 7 October 2007). Curated by Marielle Martiniani-Reber and Marc-André Haldimann, the exhibition displayed the multiple facets of Gaza's archaeological heritage that reflects the multiplicity of civilisations that have permeated the region. The event was held in the framework of a UNESCO-sanctioned project to create an archaeological museum on the site of the ancient port of Gaza. Funded by a board of Palestinian civilian trustees, the future museum's development would proceed with scientific and technical support from the Museums Division of the City of Geneva.
The exhibition Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations gathered 531 archaeological finds drawn from the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and the private collection of Gazan entrepreneur Jawdat Khoudary. The exhibition aimed to illustrate the multicultural nature of the tiny region's daily life over the centuries. Egyptian scarabs, sculptures of Poseidon and Aphrodite, mosaics from Byzantine churches and Muslim gravestones suggest the vast range of archaeological objects that illustrate the long history of this part of the Palestinian land.
2.1. The history and archaeology of Gaza in Geneva
Figure 9: Four objects illustrating the ancient history of Gaza: a. dagger handle with incised geometric decorations, Early Bronze Age, 2700-2350 BCE (bone, length 19.5 cm); b. Egyptian scarab, Iron Age or Second Intermediate Period (enamelled steatite, length 1.4 cm, width 1 cm, thickness 0.6 cm); c. figurine: woman with drum, Iron Age, 8th-7th century BCE (ceramic, height 10 cm, width 5.2 cm, depth 5.2 cm); d. figurine: head with pointed hat (probably a horseman), Persian, 6th-5th century BCE (hand-modelled ceramic, height 3.2 cm, width 3 cm). © Antiquities Department of Gaza (Source).
The large exhibition organized in Geneva about the rich past of Gaza city and its neighbourhood land displayed the multiple facets of the archaeological heritage that reflected the multiplicity of civilisations that had permeated the region. It was the first ever public show of Gazan antiquities. Its 530 artefacts, drawn chiefly from the vaults of the private Palestinian collector Jawdat Khoudary and the Palestinian National Authority's Department of Antiquities, depict a Gaza that was once at the nexus of trade routes and a meeting point of cultures. This is a good lesson of history to remember today. Indeed, what a significant contrast with the present prevalent situation of Gaza!! Nowadays Gaza is connected only with violence. But in the past, Gaza's early inhabitants were prosperous, practiced multiculturalists. On show are objects from several empires unearthed during the past two centuries, with some dating back nearly 5,000 years. Egyptian stone scarabs are displayed alongside Greek statues, Byzantine mosaics, Syrian oil lamps, French coins, Roman amphora jugs, along with Islamic objects from all the periods of Islamic history: an oil lamp decorated with arabesques from the Umayyad era in the 7th-8th century, a funerary stele with Arabic inscriptions from the 12th-13th century-Ayyubid Gaza, a decorative plate with palm tree motif belonging to the Mameluk period, etc.
No wonder then that the exhibition's organizers aim, with the support of UNESCO, to repatriate these treasures by 2016 to a museum they hope to build atop the ruins of the ancient Gazan port of Anthedon. Curator Marc-André Haldimann sees the project laying a foundation for a future of tolerance. "It reminds us that Gaza is not the deadlocked prison that it is today," he says, "but, as it was—the window of the world."
The objects revealing the antiquity and greatness of Gaza's past emerged in the frame of many archaeological campaigns undertaken since the 19th century in Gaza. The last two decades of the 20th century have been particularly fertile thanks to the ample size of the digs, jointly conducted by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem. The tens of thousands of objects unearthed from the excavations, in addition to those from the private collection of Jawdat Khoudary who for more than twenty years has been preserving the sometimes monumental relics that have appeared in Gaza's building sites, illustrate the diversity and continuity of the civilizations that have succeeded – and intermingled with – each other on this now exiguous territory. Some 530 objects were selected for display in Geneva exhibition to discover the daily, civil and religious life of the people dwelling in the Gaza Strip since 3500 B.C.
The last perennial water source before the Sinai desert crossing, Gaza – located along the only overland route between Africa and Asia – has been known since time immemorial for its bountiful orchards, its pleasant climate and its abundant water resources. The region was held to be of major strategic importance since early Antiquity: the demand for Palestinian raw materials (copper and bitumen, as well as olive oil and wine) led predynastic Egypt to establish in 3500 BCE the citadel of Tell Sakan on the banks of the Wadi Ghazzeh, some twelve kilometres from the modern city. The Egyptian predominance dwindled in the second millennium BCE in front of the growing influence of the Syro-Palestinian populations known as the Hyksos. They gave to Gaza the exceptional site of Tell al-'Ajjul which was the first to be methodically excavated, an operation conducted from 1931 by Sir Flinders Petrie. The Gaza settlement however soon fell once again under the domination of Egypt, an event that entered the realm of history as the conquest by Thutmose III on 25 April 1468 BCE was duly recorded in Egyptian archives. The territory of Gaza became dotted with other Egyptian fortresses, such as Deir-el-Balah which became famous for the discovery of a 14th-13th century BCE necropolis comprising some fifty anthropomorphic sarcophagi made of baked clay.
In 734 BCE the Assyrian empire took control of the region and made Gaza its southern border; a border that would disappear before the unprecedented expansion of the Persian empire in 539 BCE. Gaza's commercial expansion from then became exponential: as a relay point between the incense and pepper caravan routes from Hadhramaut (Yemen) and the one opening the way to the raw materials of Palestine, the city and its territory harboured several ports at that time of intensely busy activity.
Figure 10: Archaeological vestiges from Gaza ancient history: a. Aphrodite or Hecate with infant Pan, Hellenistic or Roman (marble, height 48 cm); b. bottle (alabaster), Low Period, 4th-3rd century BCE (calcite, height 14.5 cm); c. spherical phial, Roman, 1st century CE (glass, 6 x 4cm); d. Anthropomorphic jar, Roman, 1st-2nd century CE (glass, height 9cm, width 4.5 cm). © Jawdat Khoudary Collection, Gaza (Source).
The Hellenistic world, always in the forefront with regard to maritime exchanges, wasted no time in founding a port and settlement four kilometres from Gaza. The Greeks, probably originating from Boeotia, established Anthedon of Palestine around 520 BCE, which was revealed from 1996 thanks to the joint excavations by the Palestinian Authority and the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem. Gaza's vocation was then set for more than a thousand years; it became in effect a crossroads of civilisations between the Arabian caravan culture of the Nabateans, Egypt, the Levant, Syria and the Greek world, whose artistic influence profoundly permeated this privileged territory.
Neither Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 BCE nor the utterly decimating one by Alexander Janneus in 96 BCE were able to doom the fate of the land which rose from its ashes under the protection of Pompey in 57 BCE. Already sumptuous under the Romans, Gaza would recover its status as a major port under the Byzantine Empire. From the 5th century CE its products were exported as far as England and Western Europe while its School nurtured such leading theologians as Barsanuphius, John of Gaza and Mark the Deacon, whose writings profoundly influenced Christian literature both in the Orient and the Occident. The arrival of the Muslims in 637 CE would not change the aura of the city; it remained a pivotal crossroads and from the 8th century sheltered a highly celebrated school of law in the Islamic civilisation, founded by Muhammad al-Shafi'i. Attacked by the Crusaders in the 11th century, Gaza was reconquested by Muslims and later on was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire while remaining a central stop on the pilgrimage route.
The exhibition Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations hosted in Geneva's museum was exceptional for both its magnitude and for the nature of the objects displayed. Official bodies and a private collector united to present a genuine archaeological anthology to the public of Geneva. The Department of Antiquities of the Palestinian National Authority lent two hundred twenty-one objects found during the many joint Franco-Palestinian excavations undertaken since 1994. Parallel to this, Jawdat Khoudary made available three hundred and nine pieces from his private archaeological collection, which is now registered in the official inventory of Palestinian cultural assets.
Figure 11: Islamic objects from Gaza: a. Oil lamp decorated with arabesques, Umayyad, 7th-8th century (ceramic, 8.5 x 6.5 cm, height 4 cm); b. funerary stele with Arabic inscriptions, Ayyubid, 12th-13th century (white marble, height 39 cm, width 33 cm, thickness 5.5 cm); c. decorative plate with palm tree motif, Mameluk (limestone, height 33 cm, width 26 cm, thickness 10 cm); d. half dirham, Bahri Mameluks, Al-Mansour Nour al-Dîn 'Ali, Cairo, 1257-1259 (silver, 2.047 g). © Department of Antiquities, Gaza and Jawdat Khoudary Collection, Gaza (Source).
From five thousand five hundred year old jars to refined Egyptian alabaster vases, from a hoplite's helmet to Byzantine mosaics, from a zestful Menad to an Ayyubid period stele, from the painstaking reconstruction of a sumptuous Hellenistic dwelling to ornate Ottoman lintels, the diversity of civilizations that were cradled in the Gaza Strip were presented to the visitors through the rooms of the exhibit like a common theme that was both familiar yet surprising, given the dramatic situation linked to Gaza during the second half of the 20th century until today. An amphora from Gaza, found under the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rome in 1980 by the Canton of Geneva's archaeological office, was placed at the threshold of the exhibition; there it served as a testimonial to the ancient links between Geneva and Gaza, as it was imported in Europe in the 5th century already.
As the documents of the exhibit show, this exceptional display was intended as the concrete manifestation of a hope, an aspiration founded on the – perhaps decisive –role played by a cultural initiative to explore the Palestinian identity with its many facets of such diversity.
The exhibition was accompanied by the publication of a book in French which played the role of catalogue of the exhibit, in the form of a survey of the archaeological and historical context of the display: Gaza à la croisée des civilisations. Tome 1: Contexte archéologique et historique (Chaman édition, 2007, 24x22 cm, 256 pages, with 162 illustrations in colour, including maps and architectural plans).
2.2. Towards an archaeological museum in Gaza
Figure 12: Front cover of the catalogue of the exhibition Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations: Gaza à la croisée des civilisations. 1. Contexte archéologique et historique, edited by M.-A. Haldimann et al. (Neuchâtel: Chaman Edition, 2007).
The exhibition on the archaeology and history of Gaza organized in Geneva was held in the framework of a UNESCO-sanctioned project to create an archaeological museum on the site of the ancient port of Gaza. Funded by a board of Palestinian civilian trustees, the future museum's development will proceed with scientific and technical support from the Museums Division of the City of Geneva.
The perfect state of preservation of the ancient harbours unearthed in Gaza-Blakhiah, in conjunction with the number and quality of artefacts recovered, have fostered a project aimed at building a major archaeological museum on the actual site of the antique ports. Under the patronage of UNESCO, the future museum will protect the archaic buildings as well as the archaeological collections and is being planned with the technical and scientific assistance of the City of Geneva, particularly with respect to the requisite architectural competition and the training of the Palestinian workforce. The presentation of the Geneva exhibition will constitute in this sense a possible forerunner for the future display in Gaza.
The Gaza Museum of Archaeology (Mat'haf Gaza) was originally projected for opening in late 2008 in the Gaza Strip. According to museum director Jawdat N. Khoudary, the idea is to show Gaza's deep roots from many cultures: "It's important that people realize we had a good civilization in the past" (see [Wikipedia], Gaza Museum of Archaeology and Museum Offers Gray Gaza a View of Its Dazzling Past, Ethan Bronner, New York Times, July 25, 2008).
Khoudary, a construction company owner, instructs his employees to save whatever they dig up so that he can search it for treasures. He also pays fishermen who bring him archaeologically interesting objects.
The project of the museum, sponsored by UNESCO, is funded by a board of Palestinian trustees. It receives scientific and technical support from the Museums Division of the city of Geneva. Although the Gaza Strip has been the site of many archaeological digs since the 19th century, there has been no museum to this day allowing the general public to view the findings. As a consequence, tens of thousands of unearthed objects remain unknown. In the aftermath of the Geneva exhibition, the UNESCO-sponsored project of an archaeological museum on the actual excavation site of the antique port of Anthedon, now known as Blakhiah, to the north of Gaza City will fill this gap. To a certain extent, the Geneva display can be considered a precursor to the museum.
The Palestinian National Museum of Archaeology will be funded by the citizens of Palestine with scientific and technical support, through the provision of training internships, from the City of Geneva's Cultural Affairs Department and Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. Other museums, such as the Benaki Museum in Athens, are also potential partners in this training programme, notably with regard to art restoration work.
A letter of intent that clearly established the framework and conditions for this collaboration was signed on 10 December 2005 in Bethlehem by Ziad al-Bandak, the Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities at the time, and Patrice Mugny, Executive Councillor in charge of the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Geneva. The future Palestinian National Museum of Archaeology, already ratified by a decree signed by President Mahmoud Abbas on 28 May 2006, would be built on a plot of 18 hectares at Blakhiah, near the Shatti refugee camp. Situated on an archaeological site, the historical vestiges will naturally be taken into consideration and be presented in the best possible manner.
The archaeological specimens to be shown originate mainly from excavations undertaken in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem. Also on display will be items from private Gaza collections, in particular that belonging to Jawdat Khoudary from which a selection of pieces were presented in the Geneva exhibit. The museum building should include, in addition to the exhibition rooms, a library, a multimedia room, restoration work spaces, storage rooms, workshop areas (for interior designers and decorators, locksmiths, cabinet-makers, etc.), as well as office spaces for conservation or public reception purposes. The edifice should have a surface area of some 20,000 square metres and is scheduled to be completed in 2016.
3. References and further reading
A. History of Gaza
- Bitton-Ashkelony, Bruria, and Kofsky, Arieh, editors, Christian Gaza In Late Antiquity. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004, 248 pp.
- Al-Shaykh 'Uthman al-Taba' (1882-1950), Ithaf al-a?izza fi tarikh ghaza, edited by Abul-Latif Zaki Abu Hashim. Gaza: Maktabat al-Yaziji, 1999; reprinted 2005, 4 vols.
- [BBC], Gaza's ancient history uncovered: (Last Updated: Saturday, 22 October 2005).
- Bisharat, George For Palestinians, memory matters. It provides a blueprint for their future.
- Bronner, Ethan, Museum Offers Gray Gaza a View of its Dazzling Past, New York Times, 25 July, 2008.
- Cohen, Amnon; Lewisyear, Bernard, Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century, Princeton University Press,1978.
- Doughty, Dick, Gaza: Contested Crossroads, Saudi Aramco World, September/October 1994, pp. 2-11.
- Doumani, Beshara, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, University of California Press, 1995.
- Gil, Moshe, A History of Palestine, 634-1099, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Hill, G. F., Mark The Deacon: Life Of Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza. Translated with Introduction and Notes by G. F. Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
- Le Strange, Guy (1890), Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. London: Alexander P. Watt for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1890. Online text: click here. Reprinted Beirut: Khayats, 1965; New York: AMS Press, 1975 (xxii, 604 pp.) See the Table of contents.
- Robinson, Edward, Biblical Researches in Palestine, 1838-52: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, University of Michigan, 1841.
- Sabbagh, Karl, Palestine: History of a Lost Nation, Grove Press, 2008.
- Shahin, Mariam, Palestine: A Guide, Interlink Books, 2005.
- Stanley, Bruce, and Dumper, Michael, Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006.
- [Studium Biblicum Franciscanum], Gaza - (Gaza, al-'Azzah), Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.
- [Wikipedia], Porphyry of Gaza (retrieved 18.01.2009).
- Ze'evi, Dror, An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s, SUNY Press, 1996.
B. Resources on the book Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza
- Jansen, Michael, Deluged by History: Life at the Crossroads, Middle East International, 1 March 1996.
- Myers Eleiwa, Martha, Old History - Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza, Journal of Palestine Studies, 6 September 1996.
- Roy, Sara Life at the Crossroads, Middle East Journal, 9 February 1998.
- Scudder, Nancy G., Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza, Middle East Council of Churches, 8 January 1997.
- Shahin, Mariam, "Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza (review), May 2005.
- Taylor, William, A Prize for the invaders: the torment of Gaza, Church Times, 17 May 1996).
C. Resources on the exhibition Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations
- Documents of the exhibition Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations: Press release, General information, Rendez-vous, Press visuals, The future Museum, Speech by Patrice Mugny, Gaza timeline.
- Haldimann, Marc-André et al., editors and authors, Gaza à la croisée des civilisations: Contexte archéologique et historique. Neuchâtel: Chaman Edition, 2007, 256 pp., ill.; 24 cm. (catalogue of the exhibition Gaza at the Crossroad of Civilizations).
- Tharoor, Ishaan, The Glitter of Old Gaza, 24 May 2007.


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At the invitation of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova, was received by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, on 5 February.
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The midnight security guards covering the 35 acres of the Cathedral Village grounds in upper Roxborough are of course out to assure the safety of the retirement community's residents.
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However, in the 15 years that Judy Carney, 59, has been on the job, she has added other concerns to her patrol — dealing with creatures with curved horns, sharp macular tools and more than two legs for speedy getaways.
Conflict with these creatures is a possible danger, but Carney is fearless. She knows how to deal with wild temperaments and considers her work an opportunity to help rather than punish. Actually, she loves and befriends many of them — with a few exceptions.
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An entirely different situation another night was the hunky snapping turtle she met lumping along a path, lost and far from his/her home. Evading a major snap, she picked it up, unscathed, took it home and gave it to her brother to put in the creek where the snapper belonged.
"One of the tricks to approaching animals," she said, "is to freeze on the spot so you don't scare them." Then of course you need to know how to help them if necessary without injury to yourself or the creatures, somehow showing your concern. Animals seem to sense that concern, especially when Judy takes them home to Roxborough to join her family of pets and, formerly, to her four children — Patrick, Jimmy, Jill and Colleen — when they were young and lived at home.
As a child, Carney said, "My life was always full of pets: mice, snakes, chameleons, lizards, birds, dogs, fish, etc. — allowed by my mother as long as we took care of them.
"More recently I've had every kind of animal imaginable, including two baby pygmy hedgehogs (they look like mini-porcupines) and a handicapped hamster whose injured leg I had to amputate." These have kept company with her two Japanese Chin dogs, a Boston Terrier, two cats, and two ponds of koi and goldfish.
Other rescue missions have included the unfortunate possum she found in a resident's bathroom that she rescued and released, and the almost dead squirrel and baby chipmunk she found lying miserably in someone's doorway.
She wrapped them in a warm blanket in a box and took them to the Schuylkill Wildlife Clinic for care and freedom. There was also a dog, miserable and confused by the ear-piercing July 4 fireworks who somehow had found its way onto the CV campus and was lying outside an apartment.
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So Judy Carney has made many and varied friends and acquaintances on her midnight to 8 a.m. roams of CV's large grassy campus, and fortunately she's able to keep in touch with the outside world while on indoor desk duty , particularly the skunks who lick the nearby building windows.
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This Competition Electronics Pocket Pro 2 Shot Timer allows the user to review up to four shots at a time with shot numbers, times & splits. The large LCD screen has three display modes, and the unit features both quick start and delayed start modes. This is the official timer for Winter Range and End of Trail Cowboy matches. Timer is attachable by a clothes pin type belt clip for easy on and off. The main display may be configured three ways: Review Direct, Set Par Direct, Single Time Only. The ergonomic designed start button on side so right or left hand doesn't cover microphone or buzzer.


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GTuel needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Based in Columbus, OH We want to help culture a Better way to move and store you life.
We feel like we have way better product than PODS and we want to tell the world!
We plan on giving away copious amounts of these shirts to help promote the brand, and show we are not corporate, But a friendly brand.
BINS is:
1) Attractive, signaling positive lifestyle aspirations
2) Built around consumer needs
3) Environmentally friendly Bins are made from 100% reusable and recyclable materials.
4) Clean
5) Promoting and understanding of a 'simple lifestyle'
6) Personal/personable
7) Modern and innovative
8) An organizational solution
9) Bins earth tone exteriors blend in to every setting.
65/35 female/male demographic.
Age 20-40
We are looking for a retro and or cartoon type look. but is must follow our brand guild-lines,
A design worn by both men and women.
We are a portable moving container company (like PODS) so part of idea would incorporate who we are .
One that shows our product and what it is.
We want to show we are friendly fun brand.
We also want to incorporate the Neutral Colors.
most likely this design will be printed on America Apparel shirts
Can we incorporate the fact Bins are made from 100% reusable and recyclable materials?
Please incorporate our URL GotBins.com and Phone number 1-800-GOT-BINS
Some of our Aspirational Brands that we like
1) Target
2) Mac
3) iPod
Our website , gives a good idea of our look and feel for the brand.
I have attached some files to give you some more perspective.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
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Colombia's FARC to Release French Journalist Romeo Langlois
Bogotá – Colombia's largest guerrilla group said it will release a French journalist on Wednesday that it has held for a month after a firefight with the Colombian military.
The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a communique posted online Saturday night that it would shortly provide the handover coordinates to the International Red Cross, a delegate of the French government and former Colombian Sen. Piedad Córdoba.
The communique was signed by the group's 15th Front.
Romeo Langlois fell into rebels hands on April 28 while accompanying troops on a cocaine lab destruction mission in the jungles of southern Colombia. Rebels attacked, killing four security force members. Langlois was wounded in the arm.
Colombia's defense minister says a witness saw Langlois shed the helmet and body armor the military had given him and flee toward the rebels. The military unit had destroyed other labs in the area and was ambushed after arriving by helicopter.
Langlois, 35, was on assignment for France24 television. He has been reporting from Colombia for more than a decade and has also contributed to the French daily Le Figaro.
Reached in Mexico, Córdoba said she would return to Colombia immediately. A friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Cordoba has brokered rebel hostage releases since 2008.
The rebels, known by their Spanish initials FARC, took up arms in 1964 and announced in February that they were halting ransom kidnappings. Last month, they released 10 police and soldiers they called their last "political prisoners."
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By Cody Willard
The markets are up huge in the past three months. Check out this chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index via BigCharts.com:
With stocks up so much, I've been reducing the weighting of my longs on TradingWithCody.com (a service not affiliated with MarketWatch, where I detail my trades in real time). I'm really quite happy that I've been getting so many emails about my shorts; anytime the market goes up this much this fast your spidey senses should go off. But don't just go out and short any stock that's been going up.
It's always, always, always best to short companies that are fundamentally in trouble, not just to bet on momentum swinging the other way. When you get both together, that's the sweet spot. Finding outright frauds are the easiest short trade to stomach, even if it runs against you, because you can be almost certain the market will catch up. Think Tyco International Ltd. $TYC and HealthSouth Corp. $HLS After that come companies that can change, but the change is going to be painful so management might not do what's necessary. Genworth Financial Inc. $GNW just said that it would rather be downgraded by Moody's than to get its balance sheet in order. Pretty dumb for a life-insurance company if you ask me.
I also like shorting companies that exist solely on government welfare or government cover-ups; that's why I shorted A123 Systems Inc. $AONE and Lender Processing Services $LPS in the MarketWatch Revolution Investing portfolio. This is pretty tricky timing-wise, because the government and welfare payroll can stay solvent longer than you can. Which is why I always look for a catalyst in these scenarios. With LPS, it was the recognition by the legal system that "robo-signing" was real and was a billion-dollar mess. In the case of AONE, the welfare just stopped flowing.
Then comes the bulk of shorting, the companies that are on the wrong side of history and major secular trends. I picked out 12 of them in my book on stocks to short, "The Dirty Dozen." I like to focus on huge multidecade trends, because the market doesn't appreciate just how badly everything that stands in the way will be wrecked. Imagine if you could have shorted gas-lamp manufacturers the year before Thomas Edison and General Electric Co. introduced the light bulb. More contemporarily, here's what Barnes & Noble Inc. $BKS has done since the introduction of the iPhone:
If you had bought the first iPhone and realized that all reading content was going digital and that bookstores on their way out, you'd be up about 70%.
So how does this apply to Staples Inc.? $SPLS Longtime readers know that I don't care much for the two-party system; the only real beneficiaries are the networks that take their money and run their ads ($CBS is up 71% over the last year.) But my ears perked up when I heard this speech in support of Mitt Romney from Staples co-founder Ted Sternberg:
"Today Staples employs nearly 90,000 people. It has over 2,000 stores, over 50 distribution centers. It is part of a competitive industry that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses get started on their own. For me, as a founder, it was the realization of a dream."
Sternberg was doing a little #humblebrag, but I wouldn't be so psyched if I were a Staples shareholder. Staples disrupted the previous generation of office suppliers by doing something radical: creating a retail presence. Before that, most companies, even small ones, had to find office-supply distributors (like the one in "The Office") to get what they needed to do business. Romney and his pals at Bain Capital interviewed the managers at small firms, and realized that they were spending their whole time finding printer ink and pens, not on actual business. Here's what Staples did in the 10 years after its IPO:
Romney and company nailed that trade. But in 2012, do you really need 90,000 employees to hawk low-margin office supplies out of 50 distribution centers? The costs and liabilities of having a retail presence in every single market in America are enormous. Staples along with OfficeMax Inc. $OMX and Office Depot Inc. $ODP are fundamentally overleveraged in the era of Amazon.com Inc. $AMZN I've been talking to purchasing managers at small firms, and what they tell me is that Amazon subscriptions for office supplies are easy to manage and significantly cheaper. Yes, local office-supply stores will still exist, but the footprint has to shrink. Those stores will be for last-minute purchases, not the bulk of what a company buys.
Which is basically what Staples admitted this morning:
Staples to close stores, cut costs, boost online presence
"Staples Inc. is speeding up store closures, shaking up management and boosting its online business as the office-supply chain implements a multiyear plan to cut costs. The Framingham, Mass.-based company is looking to save $250 million, before taxes, by the end of fiscal-year 2015. At that point, Staples said it intends to have shaved down its retail square footage by 15%."
Staples already does significant business online, about 40% of revenues, but that other 60% will be really difficult to replace. They're taking a $35 million charge to close 30 stores this year. (Surprisingly, landlords at Simon Property Group Inc. $SPG don't just let you walk away from leases.) They want to close 15% of their 1,800 North American stores in the next three years; that's 225 stores.
Let's say that it's $1 million per store: That's $225 million in costs up front, a loss of $600 million in revenue and a cost savings of $250 million per year. (These numbers are ultra-rough.) So as Staples is trying to transition to the way-more-profitable online business, its revenue will be going off a cliff and the costs up front will be bigger than the cost savings. Forget the Europe and Australia operations — those are just a mess.
But I'm no McKinsey consultant, and Staples does run the business pretty efficiently. Free cash flow looks strong, and maybe a business-school wunderkind can do some operational/financial magic. What he or she won't be able to fix is that office supplies as a category are in permanent decline.
This is a cloud- and tablet-based and paper-free world. We're already there, and all those trends are only going to get bigger. You don't need a highlighter for anything on an iPad. You don't need a 3M Co. Post-it for your iPhone. Five years from now, I predict that copier sales will be a fraction of what they are today. Here's a Morgan Stanley slide on paper usage since the introduction of the iPad:
I have no position in Staples at the moment, but I figured I'd throw this analysis out there after the news hit this morning. There just isn't much for stockholders to be hopeful about. That is, unless Mitt Romney loses the election. Then I bet he revises his 2011 tax return to take the whole deduction, rejoins Bain and takes Staples private.
Be sure to check out The Dirty Dozen: 12 Stocks Broken Business Models or sign up for TradingWithCody.com to get it for free.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple and net short LPS. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard. Cody's No. 1 best-selling Amazon book, "Everything You Need to Know About Investing," is available in digital and in paperback.


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2013: Played in 120 sets...1,216 assists...256 digs...97 kills...56 blocks...24 aces...led the team in aces, was second in digs, and third in aces and blocks...ranked sixth in the country in assists per set (10.13)...set the MIT record for assists in a season...amassed 61 assists and 22 digs against Stevenson (2/24)...tallied 56 assists, 14 digs, and seven kills versus Vassar (2/24)...also generated 56 assists and nine digs against Baruch (1/27) and Emmanuel (3/21)...produced six blocks versus Sage College (3/10)...Nazareth College Golden Flyer Invitational all-tournament team...MIT Invitational all-tournament team...MIT Scramble Tournament all-tournament team...currently ranks third all-time in career assists (2,095).
2012: Played in 98 sets...879 assists...38 aces...152 digs...61 blocks...ranked second on the team in digs, third in aces, and fourth in blocks...was 18th in the country in assists per set (8.97)...dished out 57 assists versus Emmanuel and then had 52 against Stevens in the same afternoon (2/26)...earned five aces versus New Jersey City Univ. (3/24)...collected 12 digs against D'Youville (1/27) for the first of three double-doubles during the season (Emmanuel on 2/26 and NYU on 3/3)...registered seven blocks versus Kean (2/25).
2011: Unable to compete due to injury.
Off the Court at MIT: Majoring in applied mathematics and management with a minor in economics...completed internships as an equity research intern and a financial planning intern at Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc....Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Why I Chose MIT: I chose MIT because it offered the best combination of highly reputed academics and competitive athletics, all a short T ride away from the heart of Boston. I knew that if I went to MIT I wouldn't have to sacrifice my education to play an elite level of volleyball. The coaching staff is extremely involved and invested in the team's success, not only on the court, but off it, too. I've already learned so much about volleyball and myself, and I've only just started. I'm excited for the rest of my career at MIT.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Fairport High School...three-time first team all-county...three-time All-Greater Rochester...All-Greater Rochester co-player of the year during senior season...Red Raider award winner...valedictorian...Harvey Anderson Male Student of the Year...National Merit Commended Student...AP Scholar with honors...National Honor Society for two years.
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Obama Campaigns for Gun Proposals in Minneapolis [PHOTOS]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Barack Obama is pressing for a ban on military-style firearms and for universal background checks for gun buyers, taking his case directly to the public amid divisions over the proposals in Congress.
Obama says the measures to limit access to some weapons or to require a check of criminal histories during weapons purchases are common sense measures that have support of the public.
But he says: "We don't have to agree on everything to agree it's time to do something."
Before his remarks Monday, Obama held a roundtable discussion at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center, speaking with law enforcement and community leaders.


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aren't pretty much all the carbon kiteboards on the market using TeXtreme carbon? I know North's are, and based on the look, seems like it's what the other brands are using as well...
cool that people are going to carbon tho...
any idea on durability? from what I've heard, most manufactures won't warranty breakage on a carbon board if you ride it with boots...
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The moment of predation
Ann Coates 4/30/2012 4:07:11 PMWow, brilliant shot. #1459868
Carol Flisak 4/30/2012 4:23:10 PMExcellent capture, William... perfect timing and details! #10115289
Inge Linden 4/30/2012 10:34:43 PMFantastic capture! #10115562
William88 5/3/2012 4:05:36 PMThank you very much! #10121462
Deborah C. Lewinson 5/25/2012 5:53:49 PMAwesome image, William!
Congratulations on your finalist award!
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Ann Coates 5/25/2012 6:10:51 PMCongratulations on your fantastic finalist. #10150179
Phyllis H. Burchett 5/25/2012 7:08:40 PMCongrats on this amazing finalist! #10150613
Jack Gaskin 5/26/2012 4:12:26 AMWISH I'd seen this when first posted AWESOME CATCH
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Rolando Rosito 5/26/2012 6:36:27 AMGreat finalist William, Congratulations and good luck #10152186
Mary K. Robison 5/26/2012 11:46:47 AMOutstanding capture, William ~ Congratulations on your well earned finalist!
David M. Montero 5/26/2012 12:35:40 PMCongratulations on your Finalist selection of this wonderful capture William. #10153208
JO ANN CLEVELAND 5/26/2012 6:22:39 PMCongratulations on your outstanding finalist Wm, I love it!
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Karen Celella 5/27/2012 4:38:29 AMCongratulations on your outstanding finalist, William! #10154940
Graeme yew Chow 5/27/2012 8:43:50 AMOutstanding precision timing,congratulations William! #10155410
William88 5/28/2012 4:40:07 PMThank you very much everybody! #10157829
Randy D. Dinkins 5/28/2012 5:52:40 PMTerrific catch!!!, congratulations #10157938
Ujjwal Mukherjee 5/29/2012 2:14:49 AMFantastic capture and finalist,congratulations and all the best!! #10158387
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Achievement begins with belief, CONGRATULATIONS on your achievement!Merna
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On an oppressively hot morning in July 1969, on an Army base in Vietnam, three young American soldiers were fatally wounded in a classroom.
The soldiers — two helicopter pilots and an equipment repairman — were attending a class to teach new arrivals about the safe handling of grenades. Instead, a live grenade was exploded in their midst, spraying strips of metal and iron casing with deadly force.
Retired journalist David Venditta, a cousin of one of the soldiers who was killed, spent two decades trying to figure out what happened in that classroom.
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Veteran HPD officer/administrator heads UH Hilo campus security
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Monday, October 19, 2009
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
Former Honolulu Police Department Deputy Chief Warren J. Ferreira has been appointed Director of Campus Security at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
A resident of Hilo, Ferreira brings more than 40 years of law enforcement and security experience to the University. Following his retirement from the Honolulu Police Department, he served as corporate director of security for Outrigger Hotels.
Ferreira will begin by assessing the University's existing security functions and developing a comprehensive security and safety approach that meets the current and future needs of faculty, staff and students. He plans to bring what he describes as a "value added" and customer service approach to UH Hilo campus security.
"Becoming Director of Campus Security affords me an exceptional opportunity to develop a security program from the ground up," Ferreira explained. "The task, although daunting, is not without some significant personal and professional rewards."
UH Hilo security is responsible for patrolling 712 acres of University property, including several off-campus locations, which constitutes the largest area in the University of Hawaiʻi System to secure. Within the area are 622 residential students who live on campus 24/7. Security has most recently been a function of contract guard services and has lacked a permanent employee as director.
"The growth in student enrollment and complexity over the past decade demands an expert in campus security and emergency response to direct this crucial area of campus operations, so we're very pleased to have someone of Warren's caliber join us," said Dr. Debra Fitzsimons, vice chancellor for administrative affairs. "Providing a safe and secure campus is one of the most important services an institution of higher learning can provide its students and we take that responsibility very seriously."
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An exploration of the people, places and events in the history of Whitley County, Indiana.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Becky is Recovering
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Thanks for the update, Charlotte!ReplyDelete
Tell Becky I said to take it easy,
and I hope she's home soon.
Hope Becky will soon be home and back online.ReplyDelete
She will continue to be in my prayers.
Thanks for the update.
So glad to hear she's doing well. Please tell her she continues to be in my thoughts and prayers. And thank you for keeping us all updated, Charlotte!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the update. Give Becky my love and tell her I look forward to her return.
Things just aren't the same without her!
Glad to here Becky's doing well. I'll be glad when she is home and healed.ReplyDelete
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