That was the conclusion of at least one major media outlet after a Texas steakhouse waiter posted an image of a fake handwritten note on Facebook to convince Americans that racism "still exists." But if you can't trust everything you read on social media, how should readers respond when the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group nurtures the same unsubstantiated fiction?
CAIR had every reason to approach Cavil's allegations with skepticism and restraint, especially given the historical susceptibility these complaints are to forgery.
Consider the case of a Tennessee Red Lobster employee who posted a receipt online in 2013 showing that she was tipped "none" followed by a written racial slur; or the gay server working at a New Jersey restaurant who accused a couple of refusing to tip him and writing, "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle" on a receipt. Cavill's spoof was remarkably similar to a 2017 case where a Virginia waitress presented a receipt which stated, "don't tip Black people." In each instance, follow-on investigations proved that the so-called victims were, in fact, defrauding the public.
In the same manner, CAIR's New York chapter refused to correct or unpublish an article supporting the discredited story of an 18-year-old Muslim woman who, in December 2016, alleged that three Donald Trump supporters tried to remove her hijab and called her a terrorist. The falsified report remains on CAIR's webpages and social media accounts, even after the offender pleaded guilty and was sentenced for falsely reporting an incident and disorderly conduct.
CAIR-DFW reinforced this narrative when, just days after reporting a hoax in their own backyard, they shared an article on Facebook detailing a University of California-San Francisco study which defined Islamophobia as a public health crisis causing "psychological distress," a poor diet, and other detrimental symptoms. Unfortunately for the Dallas branch, they inadvertently linked to an article that was highly critical of the study and disputed its conclusions.
As a member of the "Islamophobia lobby," CAIR's net function is to aggressively search for and punctuate any discernible act of discrimination against Muslims. Despite their controversial past, CAIR's representatives can preserve a modicum of legitimacy by orchestrating a comprehensively overblown Islamophobia crisis and convincing lawmakers that CAIR is uniquely empowered to expose and respond to this anti-Muslim bigotry.
Though CAIR's Islamists may have a complicated relationship with the truth, journalists should be held to a higher standard. By injudiciously promoting CAIR's worldview and accepting their Islamophobia narrative at face value, the establishment press does real and lasting damage to national unity and social cohesion in America.


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The tree that is in between both my neighbour's house and my own 49/51 Arnold Road needs removing and requires replacing with a smaller street tree as this has now caused us some considerable stress and expense. The branches frequently fall from the tree regardless of season damaging the vehicles that are parked on the driveways. Roots have penetrated the drive and damaged the water pipes to the main dwellings. The insurance company's have informed us that any further claims would have to be directed to the council.


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An appropriately obtuse adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, this film explores violence in a Mexican border city through beautiful and haunting abstract imagery.
An adaptation of 2666, the posthumous novel by Roberto Bolaño, Santos Arias' film adopts the postmodern character of its source text by combining warmly shot landscapes and other more abstract imagery with passages from the book detailing a photographer's investigation into a series of murders in the fictionalized city of Santa Teresa (based on violence occurring in the real Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez). The narrative becomes a fiction-documentary hybrid in its recounting of the real atrocities committed in this city, while highlighting the themes with Santos Arias' 16mm photography.


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Q: Git: Deleting Remote Branch Doesn't Synch? So on Computer A, I did the following.
git branch test
git push

On a different machine Computer B, I pull the changes and track the remote branch test
git pull --all
git checkout -t origin/test

all is good.
But when I delete the test branch on Computer A and push the changes doing the following:
git checkout master
git push origin --delete test
git branch -D test

Now back on Computer B, I do the following
git pull --all
git branch -a

test shows up which is OK, since I didn't delete it locally.
However, remotes/origin/test also shows up.
I have a feeling that git pull --all doesn't update the remote branches?

A: To remove from your local repo branches that were deleted remotely, you have to run git fetch --prune.
If you have a local branch tracking the deleted branch, your local branch won't be removed, but tracking will be unset.

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Q: .htaccess can not redirect URL without extension I'm having some URLs (linked from outside) which do not have an extension, e.g
www.example.com/main

Originally there were files main.htm and main.html in the server's root.
However, an
RewriteRule ^main$ main.html [L,R=301]

does not work.
There is no folder main/ nor a file named main in the server root.
There are other entries in the .htaccess file which do work, so I'm sure the RewriteMod is active and working. I also have rewrite rules for typos (a link to www.example.com/xyz) that can be redirected.
RewriteRule ^xyz\)$ xyz/index.html [L,R=301]

The interesting thing is that the www.example.com/main URL appears unaltered in the browser (the URL in the browser bar doesn't change (as it does with a redirect)) but the page appears with the content of the file main.de.html. If I create a file named main.da.html it appears with that content (but only after an apache restart).
I can not figure out how it gets there or how to redirect it to main.html.

A: Disable MutliViews at the top of your .htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews

MultiViews (part of mod_negotiation) will ordinarily search for physical files that match main (in this case) as a basename (and would respond with an appropriate mime-type). This happens before mod_rewrite. So, if you had a file called main.de.html, this will be served as an internal subrequest (no redirect) before mod_rewrite has had a chance to process.

(but only after an apache restart).

This isn't something that would ordinarily require an Apache restart. Although it's possible that there is some caching going on. (?)

RewriteRule ^main$ main.html [L,R=301]

Aside: This is unlikely to be valid as an external redirect, unless you have an existing RewriteBase directive (I assume you must have)? Otherwise you should prefix the substitution with a slash. ie. /main.html (if the file is in the document root).

www.example.com/main URL appears unaltered in the browser

If MulitViews is not the problem, then it could be that the directive is in the wrong place in the config file and other directives are perhaps conflicting. We would need to see your .htaccess file.


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Agelena inda is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae, which contains at least 1,315 species of funnel-web spiders . It has been described by Simon, in 1897. It is primarily found in India.

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Fulton County Voter Reports Dominion Voting Scanners Ran Out of Battery Power in His Precinct
January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021 Corinne Murdock
Georgia voter Richard Hendrix reported that the Dominion Voting Systems (Dominion) scanners ran out of battery power at his Fulton County voting location at Heards Ferry Elementary School on Tuesday morning.
Hendrix stated that he filed a complaint with the Secretary of State's office, and sent copies to Senator Burt Jones, Republican Party of Georgia Chairman David Ralston, and Governor Brian Kemp.
In an interview with The Georgia Star News, Hendrix explained that his vote was dropped into a locked box to be scanned later. He asserted that those kinds of issues shouldn't have occurred at all.
"You can't tell me there's a dead battery at 9 a.m. on the day of voting, the only time it's going to be used. You should've checked the machine[s] on Sunday night. That's [on] the people responsible for the machines, not the volunteer workers that showed up Monday morning," stated Hendrix. "It wasn't just me, it [affected] everybody voting in this precinct. It shocks me that we're having these problems when everyone's seen nationwide [that] we've had these problems with Dominion before."
After Hendrix experienced his issue with casting his vote, he told The Star News that he searched online to see whether others were experiencing similar issues.
"I discovered on The Gateway Pundit an article about voting irregularities being reported already, where scanners aren't working throughout the state. One of the men in the article said he'd had his problem at Heards Elementary [like me]," stated Hendrix. "Obviously, it wasn't a one-off, and it's happening all over the state. This is not isolated."
Hendrix added that he and his wife experienced issues earlier this year with the election systems as well.
"[W]hen we voted the last time, [the poll workers] told her she'd already voted. They let her vote, but it was by provisional ballot," stated Hendrix.
A spokesperson from the Secretary of State's office told The Star News on background that they weren't aware of any similar reports coming in. They confirmed that all scanners have a battery, and explained that with nearly 3,700 precincts it wasn't unusual for workers to forget to plug the machines in because the workers only operate several days out of the year. The spokesperson assured The Star News that the ballots were stored securely until the scanner could be plugged in again.
Fulton County was one subject of several hearings conducted by the Georgia State Senate Judiciary Subcommittee over the last few months. One allegation presented in particular – the "suitcase ballots" video – in part prompted the subcommittee to send a letter to the county election officials requesting that the county turn over all absentee mail-in ballots for forensic inspection. A lawsuit similarly requesting access to Fulton County's mail-in ballots for inspection was also filed by an election integrity organization. That hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
The county also experienced significant issues during both the general election vote processing and the subsequent recounts. Several days after Election Day, the county had to rescan their ballots after discovering that the number scanned didn't match the total received.
Fulton County's Election Communication Division Manager, Darryl Carver, didn't respond to a request for comment by press time.
Corinne Murdock is a reporter at The Georgia Star News and the Star News Network. Follow her latest on Twitter, or email tips to [email protected].
Photo "Voting Machine" by KOMUnews. CC BY 2.0.
Battleground State News, Georgia, News, The Southdominion, Dominion Voting Machines, Election Integrity, Fulton County, Georgia, Georgia Secretary of State
Twitter, Media Prepping Public for Georgia Election Uncertainty
'Pray for Truth and Pray for Trump' Rally Planned for Downtown Nashville as Congress Meets to Certify Electoral College Vote
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The 1776 Commission Releases Report on American Founding with Proposals to Unify Nation

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Blog / Ask Tim / A Christian Tourist or Jesus Loving Explorer…Which Are You?
A Christian Tourist or Jesus Loving Explorer…Which Are You?
You don't have to live long before you realize that there're some parts of our lives that can't be orchestrated or choreographed in advance. Our job is to do our best to respond properly. Some people prefer a reality filled with unknowns and daily challenges that test their wits.
But I can't say those kinds of people hold the majority position. My observation is that most of us would prefer to wield as much control over what's coming next. This would include choosing plans and paths that appear the safest. For the record, predictable and controlled plans tend to consistently appear safer.
Sometimes it's our personality that demands taking the road most predictable. We're hardwired to need to know what's next and are extremely uncomfortable otherwise. Sometimes it's our circumstances that incline us to take the path of least resistance. Between our children and our bigger responsibilities, a life of minimal risk simply sounds wise.
However, when this is the attitude we take towards our spiritual life, we may not realize that we're inviting mediocrity on board and possibly relegating the Holy Spirit to the back of the bus. Let me explain by using a recent trip Darcy and I took to New York City.
If big city life wasn't a part of your up-bringing (as is both Darcy's and my case), and you happened to be spending a week in the Rome of the modern world, then most people would think that the smartest and safest way to spend a week in NYC is to plan each day in advance and carry out those plans in the most non-threatening way.
What this normally looks like is using taxis (or contracting a driver) to move about the city, having specific sites you want to see each day, and preferably hiring a tour guide or their equivalent to not only make you feel at home at these different sites, but also remove the fears and unknowns from these places. A city like New York isn't very threatening when someone who knows where they're going is driving you to your destination and someone else is running interference for you once you're there. Life at street level, within the subway system, and in the midst of the crowd at the various sites can be intimidating—especially if you've never lived in a big city. Throw in the backdrop of night, and it's even more important to most people to take the safe and predictable route.
Although this is the way many people go about it, it's not the plan that typically yields the richest reward for a visit to a city as spectacular as New York. Which is why we chose our first day and last day (Sundays) to go the safe, predictable route (taxis and specific time sensitive destinations—which happened to be church services), and used the six days in between to turn our trip into a full scale adventure. We had tickets to a Broadway show one evening and tickets to the 9-11 memorial one morning. Other than that, our plans went something like: "Let's go down to the financial district today and figure out what that's all about. Tomorrow, let's head up to Central Park and hang out there for a while and then head down 5th Avenue. Maybe the next day we can see what the Village and SoHo are all about and then find a place to have dinner in Little Italy." We got out the little maps our hotel provided and figured out the subways and foot routes we needed to take to get to where we had in mind. Meanwhile we carried with us the Bible of city explorers: Fodor's.
As we look back on our trip, we KNOW that we could never have seen as many of the unexpected but fascinating places we experienced had we been following a safe, but cast-in-stone, plan. We wouldn't have gathered the deeper insights through exploration had we been dependent on pre-digested tour guide's speeches. Most importantly, we wouldn't have been able to experience the passion, intrigue, and gritty wonder of a city like New York had we not lived each day out within its masses—at street level—depending on our wits to get us though. We had a blast!
There's a safe way to carry on our Christian life. It starts with leaning heavily on the professionals at church each Sunday. It demands that we steer clear of the shadows during the week and definitely avoid using any spiritually subterranean means of travel that has us living out our Christian life in close proximity to strangers that might not share our spiritual values. Safe church services, safe pre-digested Bible studies, and staying within the perimeter of a circle of safe Christian friends is so much more appealing. But, we don't need the Holy Spirit to actually show up when we choose this plan.
All this said, there's something to be said for living at least part of our weekly spiritual life where all we have is the Fodor's of Christian Explorers—the Bible and spiritual wits that are guided by the Holy Spirit. There's something to be said for families that operate this way too. It's the difference between being a Christian tourist or being a God-led explorer at the mercy of the power and presence of Jesus working from the inside out. One keeps you safe but gives you a very limited peek at the wonder and grandeur of God. The other inclines you towards much greater spiritual strength and guarantees you a front row seat to God's majesty.


Today we gave our Presidential Toasts! Then we talked about the changes facing the United States in the Early 19th Century including: War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, and the Era of Good Feelings.
Today we talked about politics. We looked at the Election of 1800 and saw the origin of negative ad campaigns. We also decided that in an argument proving your opponent wrong is equally as important as proving yourself right!
Today we broke down the Bill of Rights. We saw how each right was a response to the taxes, impositions, and crimes that the British imposed against the Colonists. We also talked about the (lack of) rights that you have in school!
You have no SS homework. Tomorrow we will talk about George Washington and listen to more Hamilton raps.
Today we talked about ratification. We looked at what it took to get the 13 Colonies to ratify the Constitution (hint: it was the Bill of Rights). Then we started to talk about the Bill of Rights, but didn't get very far.
We'll continue our discussion tomorrow!
Today we talked about the Constitution. We looked at how the Federalists and Anti-Federalists argued about the amount of power the government needed. We listened to selections of Hamilton the musical in order to discuss the tensions surrounding the Constitutional Convention.
Then we talked about Powers and Clauses within the Constitution in order to make sure we have a strong foundation before tonight's homework.
Today we took the mandatory district pre-assessment. It was thrilling!
Today we talked about the American Revolution. We decided that the United States won, and that was about it. Then we looked at the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, Shays' Rebellion, and the Constitutional Convention.
2. Complete quiz corrections (if you want to).
• Why did you get it wrong?
Today we talked about the start of the American Revolution. We looked at Thomas Jefferson, as well the Continental Congress' desire to part from Britain. Then we thoroughly analyzed the structure of the Declaration of Independence and came to the conclusion that it was structured in the same way as any well written essay.
Your homework tonight is to craft a break-up letter to an imaginary significant other in the format/structure of the Declaration of Independence.


Forex Options Trading – Forex Money Management: How to Turn $1,000 to $12,000?
Step 1: Open a Forex trading account of $1000 for every lot.
Step 2: Determine how many pips you want to gain before you increase your investment in a lot. The minimum pip to start increasing investment varies from people to people. Start with a number of pips that you are comfortable with. Let' say you decided that 200 pips is enough to start adding to your investment. You'll need an average of only 10 pips for a day for 20 trading days.
Step 3: Increase you're the percentage of your lot if you achieve your minimum profits. If you haven't reached your minimum pip, continue trading with the number of pips within your capacity. The increase of on the percentage of your lot should be in the increments of 10% percent per achieved profits.
Timothy Stevens is a Forex Options Trader who owns [http://www.NonDirectionTrading.com] – He has helped hundreds of people on Trading Forex with Options.
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Blue Apron has indefinitely stopped its pilot program with Costco, just a few months after it launched.
In May, the meal kit delivery service launched the service — offering its beef stir-fry and chicken tacos — at 17 West Coast Costco locations. The goal was to give customers a taste of what Blue Apron has to offer. And the hope, of course, was that once their palates were wetted, Costco shoppers would be inspired to not only buy their meal kits from Costco, but also subscribe to Blue Apron to enjoy more of their offerings. The Blue Apron meal kits for sale in Costco cost less than the meals sent to consumer's doorsteps by the company.
The end of the program was just one of the announcements Blue Apron made during its earnings report last week, including plans to restructure the business and cut about 100 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce.
The partnership with Costco was one way Blue Apron has tried to boost business. Last month the company announced that a rotating selection of meals will be available on-demand to customers in select areas in New York City on the Grubhub and Seamless online and mobile platforms.
Blue Apron shares have lost almost 70 percent of their value since the company went public last year, and the company was down more than 22 percent this year as of May. Analysts have suggested that Blue Apron's best hope would be to be acquired, with one analyst suggesting that Walmart might be the best suitor.


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Fandoms: Power Rangers, Power Rangers S.P.D., Power Rangers R.P.M.
Scott's seen what happens when the monsters attack and the Rangers are too late, seen the damage that evil can wreak. And from Cruger's stories, the evil that is coming is far more powerful than anything that came before. The evil that is coming, probably twenty years out from now, will be enough to level the entire earth as well as the rest of the galaxy.
They need heroes with the power to save the world. And the only way to do that is to have subjects willing to have Siberian DNA spliced with their own.
Scott meets Lia at the testing facility. Lia is blind and looking for a way to restore her sight, a way to get back to her brother who disappeared a year ago.
And she has Scott's Marks on her arm.
After the experiments, Lia continues to search for her brother and Scott gears up to join Earth's fledgling S.P.D.- spear-headed by Nathan Tate, Cruger, and Dr. Kat- when they get the big news: Lia's pregnant.
Scott starts to believe in hope again, but then he and Lia end up in a car accident when she's only a week from the delivery. Lia dies in the accident, but only after their son is born.
Fandoms: Power Rangers, Power Rangers R.P.M.
She leaves him before he can say anything more, doesn't even tell him goodbye. In her head, she hears another voice, somewhere she cannot name. I want you to come back for me.
Maybe this is the final evolution, the last piece of Venjix's game, the end of the blind girl he'd crafted into a monster. She coughs, choking, spitting blood out onto the floor. There's nobody around for miles; the night is close and dark with demons. Tenaya buries her head in her hands and screams.
It's been 2 years since Venjix was destroyed. 2 years since the RPM team went their seperate ways. However, something happens to draw them back together.
"I'm leaving tomorrow." / "I'll come visit you." ―- ScottTenaya, in the years after Venjix.
When 3 members of the team go missing, a discovery north of Omega City sets RPM on a path to discovering the legacy they had no idea they were part of and a journey to overcome their demons. 2yrs post Danger & Destiny.


Tokyo – A 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of biting his adult son to death to get rid of a "snake haunting him", Japanese media have reported.
TV Asahi said Katsumi Nagaya seriously injured his son, Takuya, on Friday at the younger man's apartment in Anjo, central Japan, by head-butting and biting him after the 23-year-old began writhing around and claiming to be a serpent.
Takuya was taken to hospital but declared dead a short time later, the broadcaster said.
The suspect reportedly told police he had attacked his son in order to remove the snake from his mind.


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All 7ths are expected to be leaders. The prefects at the Edinburgh Academy are known as Ephors, after the officials of ancient Sparta, and are expected to take a lead role in one area although these may also be taken by other 7ths who have a particular interest.
Areas of responsibility assumed by the Ephors include giving School tours to visitors, acting as heads of division, being class mentors, running the Charities and Eco Committees, serving as 'front of house' representatives at School events, leading community service (volunteering) projects, event and project organisation (Leavers' Ball, Yearbook, Leavers' Revue) and promoting Internationalism by leading, supporting and mentoring students for whom English is a second language.
Pupils of all ages participate in a number of Activities & Clubs at the Academy. A few are listed below.
Charity Committee
Livestock Committee
P5/6 Choral Club
P3/4 Choir
Yogi Leader Club
Cross Country Club
Athletics Club
Relax Clubs
Grow Your Own Club
Guitar Group
Quest Club
International Group
Equalities Committee
Public Speaking & Speakers' Dinner Series
Mock Court
Malala Group
Friend Support Group
4x4 Challenge
Water Sports Club
Edinburgh Choral Society
The EA community extends beyond the walls of the School. On the weekends, academic endeavours give way to a range of sporting matches throughout the year. Pupils (and Academicals) vigorously support their student athletes in Athletics, Cricket, Cross Country, Fives, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Squash, Swimming & Tennis.
We have a proud sporting tradition at the Edinburgh Academy. Our annual Rugby match with Merchiston Castle School, first played in 1858, is the world's oldest continual rugby fixture.


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VCU Department of Otolaryngology
Clinical Services & Programs
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Otologic and Neurotologic Surgery
Audiology and Balance Center
Cochlear Implant Center
Voice and Swallowing Clinic
Snoring and Sleep Apnea
Allergy and Sinonasal Disorders
Smell and Taste Disorders Center
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Audiology Staff
Application and Interview Process
Residency Policies and Forms
Appointments & Referrals
Resident training - Introduction
Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. Our residency provides comprehensive training in the medical and surgical care of patients with diseases affecting the ears, upper respiratory and aerodigestive tracts, and related structures of the head and neck. We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of our graduates who have gone on to subspecialty fellowship training, academic careers, or thriving clinical practices. To accomplish our educational goals, the program provides structured clinical experience in the operating room, inpatient, and outpatient settings, didactic instruction, and research training to cover the entire scope of the specialty of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. We have incorporated technology into our residency training program to enrich the educational experience. We feel that the use of electronic texts and learning tools assists our residents during their progression through milestones in training.
The program is five years long including the structured PGY-1 year (see Program Overview). There are two positions available per year, filled through the National Resident Matching Program (see Application and Interview Process).
The program is centered at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (VCUMC) in downtown Richmond. This is a busy level I trauma center with over 700 beds, 30 operating rooms between the main and ambulatory operating rooms, and over 80,000 emergency visits per year. The Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery outpatient clinic is located in the Nelson Clinic building, while the Head and Neck Tumor Clinic is located in the Massey Cancer Center. The Department also has satellite outpatient facilities at the Stony Point Specialty Surgical Center located about ten miles west of VCUMC, and in Colonial Heights, Virginia about 15 miles south of VCUMC.
Each resident spends twelve months of their training at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veteran's Administration Medical Center (HHMMC), located less than 10 miles south of VCUMC. This time is split between the PGY-2, 3, and 4 years. The HHMMC has over 400 acute care beds, and is a tertiary care referral center for oncology, open-heart surgery, spinal cord injury, and heart, lung, and liver transplantation for the Mid-Atlantic region. The Division of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at HHMMC has a fully equipped outpatient clinic, and state of the art operating room facilities for both in-and outpatient surgery. If you have additional questions please contact Pamela Calhoun, our residency program coordinator at 804/828-3965 or ent@vcu.edu.
Kelley Dodson, MD
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VCU Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center


Know your customer (KYC) solutions provider encompass has partnered with Bisnode to provide customer on-boarding services to financial institutions in the Nordic region.
The move comes at a time when most of the banks in the region are working to implement stringent anti-money laundering (AML) and KYC compliance standards.
The two companies will work together to develop solutions that will enable the Nordic banks to reduce customer on-boarding costs.
They will also work to enhance compliance standards during on-boarding thereby improving transparency.
Additionally, encompass and Bisnode will collaborate to improve the on-boarding experience for customers.
Encompass co-founder and CEO Wayne Johnson said: "The regulatory environment in the Nordic region is under more scrutiny than ever before, and with this comes the need for tighter, more effective KYC controls.
Commenting on the KYC services partnership, Bisnode CEO Magnus Silfverberg said: "This partnership with encompass is a natural fit for us, since the highest quality data is absolutely key to effective KYC.


Scientists have discovered another crucial reason to ensure that moms have a healthy pregnancy and it's tied to the heightened risks of developing schizophrenia genes in the fetus.
Pregnancy distress or complications not only trigger health problems like high blood pressure in mothers. Apparently, they also affect the placenta's health by signalling to the body to turn on the genes tied to schizophrenia, according to the findings published in the journal Nature Medicine.
Schizophrenia is a severe type of mental disorder that impacts a person's thought process, behavior and feelings. Schizophrenic people have a different view of the reality around them and the symptoms can begin manifesting in their teens.
Previous studies have shown that schizophrenia development is at least 60 to 70 percent based on the genes. But how these genes are activated can depend on the health of the mother's pregnancy.
Experts from the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Maryland dug deeper to find the links. Researchers looked into the data of 2,800 adults from different parts of the world who were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
From this data, 20 percent were revealed to have mothers with pregnancy complications raging from high blood pressure, preeclampsia, emergency C-section and poor fetal growth. Researchers also learned that those with high genetic risks, coupled with the pregnancy complications, increased their schizophrenia genes risk five times more.
The study also showed that the more that mothers experienced pregnancy distress, the more the organ turned on those genes.
The placenta is central to fetus development as the organ provides the nutrients like food and oxygen, and cleans up waste in the mother's blood. When under duress, the placenta presents symptoms like inflammation.
"For the first time, we have found an explanation for the connection between early life complications, genetic risk, and their impact on mental illness and it all converges on the placenta," study author Dr. Daniel Weinberger said.


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Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep among A-list actors set to appear in Netflix's new star-studded comedy
Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep. TNS
Adam McKay has managed a coup not seen since Steven Soderbergh managed one in the star-powered "Ocean's Eleven."
Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep will lead what appears to be the most star-studded cast since the heist movie.
Mexico sets sights on return of ancient Aztec headdress on display in Austrian museum
Taylor Swift, Bradley Cooper guitars to be auctioned for Nashville COVID-19 relief
Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth and Bollywood actress Kriti Kharbanda unite for a chat
The director/producer has assembled an ensemble of A-list talent for his Netflix comedy "Don't Look Up," a film that already had Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Rob Morgan attached.
Popstar Ariana Grande is set to make an appearance in the star-studded film. TNS
Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet and Himesh Patel are also on the call sheet for the forthcoming film.
Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Matthew Perry and Tomer Sisley have also signed on to make appearances.
McKay has been known to populate his features with pop-culture celebrity cameos.
In his 2015 drama-comedy "The Big Short," Margot Robbie, chef Anthony Bourdain and Selena Gomez all made appearances.
'Friends' star Matthew Perry has a role in the movie. TNS
Since the announcement, "Friends" star Perry shared his excitement for the role in a Tweet that read: "I just booked a movie with Meryl Streep! If you need me, I'll be on the treadmill for the next six weeks."
"Don't Look Up" follows the story of two low-level scientists (played by Lawrence and DiCaprio) who embark on a global media tour to try and warn the world about an impending meteor.
However, they find an unreceptive audience.
This will be DiCaprio and Lawrence's first Netflix film. The pair are among the few major A-listers to have yet starred in a project for the streaming giant.
"Don't Look Up" is looking to begin shooting in Boston on 19 November. No release date for the film has been announced.
Cinema Film Netflix
Bridgerton: Furious viewers threaten to boycott season 2 after Regé-Jean Page's exit
"I only watched because of his on-screen magnetism, charm and charisma. The other scenes were interesting but nothing compared to the scenes with him," said one viewer.
The UFO episode on Netflix's real-life show 'Unsolved Mysteries' is spooking viewers
Many of the rebooted show's viewers took to social media to reveal they were freaked out by the fifth episode of the show that centres on the Berkshire UFO sightings, which have remained a mystery since 1 September, 1969.
Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans to star in $200 million Netflix thriller 'The Gray Man'
One of the streaming giant's most expensive films, it will see the actors directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, who have helmed several Marvel films including "Avengers: Endgame."
Upending the romantic genre
Netflix movie 'Someone Great,' starring Gina Rodriguez, advocates putting yourself before your significant other.
National Pavilion UAE hosts Emirati artist at Venice Biennale
Curated by Maya Allison, Executive Director of The New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Between Sunrise and Sunset is an installation of human-sized, abstract and organic sculptural forms.
Spider-Man comic book page leaps to record $3.36 million at auction
The page features the first appearance of Spidey's black symbiote suit that would later lead to the creation of anti-hero Venom in artwork by Mike Zeck from Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars no. 8.
Andrew Garfield reveals Emma Stone's reaction after he lied about 'Spider-Man' return
The British actor revealed that Stone kept on texting him about whether the rumours of his involvement in the new film were true.
Oscar Isaac is Marvel's newest superhero with 'Moon Knight'
In 'Moon Knight' Isaac plays Marc Spector, a former soldier with a profound case of dissociative identity disorder that manifests as fully distinct individuals.


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Dr. Mechoulam unveils synthetic cannabinoid acids discovery
Raphael Mechoulam, an Israeli organic chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, remembers the letdown after his groundbreaking discoveries surrounding the structure of the cannabis compounds CBD and THC in 1963 and 1964, followed by clinical tests with CBD published in 1980.
"Not much happened," Mechoulam said, noting that it would take more than 30 years before his clinical work on using CBD, or cannabidiol, to treat epilepsy became widely accepted. Greenwich Biosciences, which is owned by GW Pharmaceuticals, was able to develop the first cannabis-derived drug that built on Mechoulam's research. The drug, Epidiolex, treats seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsy and was approved by the FDA only last year.
But even as his work laid the foundation for the modern cannabis industry and for understanding how cannabis interacts with the human body, a white whale eluded research: cannabis acids, which are compounds that are produced in the plant when it is alive and may be more potent than their better-known derivatives, such as CBD and THC.
That changed on Monday, when Mechoulam and a group of researchers announced at a medical cannabis conference in Pasadena, California, that they have developed a process for creating synthetic, stable acids that are found within the plant, and that the synthetic acids, which include acid versions of CBD and THC, are now available for licensing to companies for drug development.
Read more at nbcnews.com
Publication date: Thu 3 Oct 2019
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2019-10-30 University researches find out more on THC- and CBD-sources
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Of the Naval Treaty of 1922 and Novel Trends in British America Bashing
The BP debacle has spawned some previously untapped new variants of America bashing in the UK. Not that the British were remarkably behindhand in piling on during the worst of the latest climax in European anti-Americanism that reached its peak several years ago. It was so much the more surprising to learn in an article by Peter Hitchens that appeared on the website of the Daily Mail that his countrymen have been "fawning" on the United States. Of course, the citizens of our mother country are noted for their reserve, but I have visited many British websites and forums in recent years, and never discovered anything that it would ever occur to me to describe as "fawning." Be that as it may, the Brits, like most Europeans, have remarkably thin skins. They have been dishing out abuse to America with the best of them for years, but, as their response to criticism over the BP affair demonstrates, they can't take it.
Hitchens' whining piece complaining about our "hostility" because our President dares to criticize a British company for unleashing the greatest environmental disaster in our history is a case in point. The author wears his paranoia on his sleeve. For example,
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and a people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
Perhaps it's just that the "thoughtful" among my fellow countrymen have been hiding their opinions from me as well all these years, but I can honestly say that I can't recall a single conversation in which the English were singled out for resentment and dislike, unless Hitchens is referring to George III. On the contrary, other than the occasional Irish Catholic with romantic notions about the IRA, Americans who pay any attention to the English at all tend to be Anglophiles.
Other than that, the article is filled with the usual bitching and moaning about America that we have long been accustomed to. There is one novelty that I haven't seen elsewhere, perhaps because it is too far-fetched even for most Europeans. Quoting Hitchens,
It was American pressure that forced us out of the first rank of naval powers in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which led to our defeat at Singapore 20 years later.
I had to laugh out loud when I read that bit. It assumes the reader is completely ignorant of the relevant history. In the first place, the treaty didn't force Britain "out of the first rank of naval powers." It established a ratio of 5-5-3 in fighting ships among the treaty powers England, the United States, and Japan, respectively. The British and U.S. navies were the most powerful in the world at the time. How, then, did the treaty force Britain "out of the first rank of naval powers?" In fact, the Naval Treaty of 1922 was one of the greatest triumphs of common sense over fear and hysteria in the annals of international relations. It ended a nascent arms race and was of great benefit to all the signatories, and not least to the British. At the time the Conference was called, the pound sterling was at its lowest point, British citizens were paying crippling taxes, and England was facing another period of naval expansion they could ill afford, forced on them by the building programs of the United States and Japan.
They owed the United States a massive debt, and every penny they paid would have directly benefited our building program. On paper, at least, we had already passed Britain in naval strength, and our superiority was only likely to increase. Recall that when countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and even Denmark had challenged British sea power in the past, it had led to war with an England which felt her life menaced by rival naval powers. In fact, war with the United States was seriously contemplated at the time by many Englishmen as the only alternative to a ruined England and a disintegrated Empire.
In the upshot, the British delegates were delighted by the agreement, as well they should have been. A crippling arms race was avoided, and taxes were lowered. The treaty was of such obvious advantage to England that the prevailing sentiment in the US media was that we had been hoodwinked. They had good reason to feel that way. In 1920 the United States already had an advantage over England in tonnage of capital ships of 1,117, 850 to 808,200. Our advantage in battle guns was 340 to 284. As provided by the treaty, tonnages were reduced to 525,850, 558,950, and 301,320 for the United States, Great Britain and Japan, respectively, giving a slight advantage to the British. The very real and serious potential causes for war among the signatories were removed for many years into the future.
As for the treaty causing the British defeat at Singapore 20 years later, that claim has to take the cake for the most ludicrous of all the ludicrous charges directed against us from Europe in recent years. How, exactly, would crippling her economy by charging ahead with the building of a fleet of obsolete battleships have helped the British 20 years later? As anyone who knows anything about her situation in the years immediately preceding World War II is aware, the economic burden of rearmament in the face of the German threat was painful enough for her to bear as it was. The cost of maintaining a massive navy in an arms race with Japan and the United States for the preceding 20 years would have made it well nigh impossible. When war did come, Japanese airpower made short work of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the two battleships that actually were on hand to defend Singapore. In the fighting that followed, a superior British force was defeated by a Japanese army perilously short of supplies in one of the greatest stains on the proud tradition of British arms ever recorded. We Americans don't blame the Bladensburg Races on anything but the cowardice of our troops and the ineptitude of our commanders. I suggest that the British consider the possibility that they may bear some responsibility for their own abject defeats as well.
Well, we did have a difficult adolescence, and perhaps one can't blame our dear old mother country for occasionally being a bit testy with us. The next time Hitchens directs his poison pen our way, however, he would probably do well to pick a more convincing grievance than the Naval Treaty of 1922.
Author HelianPosted on June 15, 2010 June 15, 2010 Categories Anti-Americanism, Foreign affairs, Politics, United Kingdom, World Politics
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Melinda Caroll, Founder/Executive Director
Melinda served as Youth Education Coordinator for the ArtPlace America creative placemaking grant project on Maui called, Malamalama Maui, from January 2017 to July 2018. During that time, the benefits of project creation, arts integration/education, environmental outreach and social artistry, all became clearly visible and practical as healthy community building solutions, to heal and add value to local communities in Hawai'i.
Her extensive experience as a team-leader, event-organizer and collaborator for the 100ʻs of events and workshops across the United States and around the world, has provided Melinda with a unique skill-set and insight into community engagement. That combined with her 30-year career as a professional Singer/Song-writer, performer, National Song-leader for Girl Scouts of the USA and a 5-Rhythms Dance teacher has taught her the value and need for Arts in our public school systems and in community settings as a way of up-leveling education and communication into cooperative, powerful forces for change. Her passion for Arts in our schools and communities, not only to grow budding artists, recognizes the natural development of individuals into tolerant, creative thinkers who are not afraid to tackle difficult challenges in life.
Melinda has written, recorded and produced 100's of songs and over a dozen songbooks. She has performed in numerous concerts and facilitated world-wide song-writing and song leading workshops since 1989. She brings creativity, inspiration, imagination and passion to the music arts of singing, performing, collaborative song-writing and story telling and she loves sharing her passion with children and adults world-wide. A Hawai'i resident and life-long Hawaiian Cultural student, Melinda believes in ART as a catalyst for positive social and environmental change. For more, visit her website, MelindaCarollMusic.com.
Rae Takemoto, Creative Project Director
Experienced Arts Literacy Coordinator and Coach for teachers, administrators, and teaching artists, with a demonstrated history of building arts integration programs in schools. Over 32 years of teaching and coaching experience. Instrumental in creating Hawaii's first public school to take a whole school arts integrated approach. Launched and co-developed the Turnaround Arts Hawai'i initiative in Hawaii. Skilled in Organizational Leadership Coaching, Program Development, Curriculum Development & Instructional Coaching, Vision Coaching, Literacy, and Nonprofit Organizations.
Rae is an advocate for whole child learning through arts education for 25+ years in Hawai'i and presently serves to facilitate vision leadership along with arts programs coordination and arts integration coaching in classrooms at Pomaika'i School, Hawaii's only public school to implement arts integration as a whole school, as well as for teachers of other schools in Hawai'i. She knows that when children are educated in and through the arts, they grow intellectually, socially, and emotionally-head, heart and hands learning! Rae believes great change can begin with one person at a time, one school at a time and that this shift needs to happen NOW!
Shelley Toon Lindberg, Multi-Media Visual Artist, Teaching Artist & Project Advisor
Based in Hood River, Oregon, Shelley teaches K-12 students, adults and trains teachers in arts integration practices in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Interdisciplinary Studies in Arts, Education and Communications at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. Her visual art pieces appear in public and private collections throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Shelley serves as the Executive Director of Arts in Education of the Gorge and is principal teaching artist for the Voices From the Land project.
Shelley's artist in the schools residencies are focused on climate science, writing personal stories, designing storyboards, painting with watercolors, and utilizing iStopmotion and iMovie on iPads to create animated film with the students and training for teachers.
For more of Shelley's Art, go to Arts Education of the Gorge Videos.
Susana Browne, Advisor for Education and The Arts
Susana Browne was an elementary education teacher for ten years before becoming the education director at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) in 1998. In that position, she had the opportunity to work statewide and nationally to promote arts education, provide professional development for teachers and teaching artists, and research the impact of an arts education on children. Her most cherished accomplishment was helping to start and sustain the only fully arts-integrated school in Hawai'i, Pomaika'i Elementary. Susana retired from MACC in 2016 and began her work with the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, supervising teacher candidates in the Statewide Elementary Education program. In 2018, Susana became a commissioner for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. She is also on the board of directors of Adaptations Dance Theater.
Lily Diamond, Board President
President Lily Diamond is a writer and advocate harnessing the power of digital media to democratize wellness and empower women through storytelling, accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment, and revolutionary acts of self-care within our earth and human communities. She is the creator of internationally beloved blog Kale & Caramel and author of bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table, celebrated as one of the top cookbooks of 2017 by the New York Times, The Independent, Cooking Light, mindbodygreen, and more.
Lily's writing has been featured in VICE, Healthyish, the Huffington Post, Refinery29, and more. Her work is informed by two decades of study, certification, and teaching in the art and practice of meditation and psychosomatic therapies. She is a devoted co-conspirator to organizations decolonizing food and wellness for all. Lily was educated at Yale University and lives in Maui, Hawai'i, where she grew up, on occupied native Hawaiian land.
Check out Lilyʻs latest book, co-authored with Rebecca Walker! A Journal For Everyday Evolution, released on December 8, 2020 from Sounds True, transformational writing prompts for personal and global change, Whatʻs Your Story?
David Kauahikaua, Board Vice-President
David Kauahikaua serves as Vice-President of When WE Shine. He brings a rich and experienced background as a producer/arranger/engineer/keyboard player who has been involved in the recording industry in Hawaii since the early 80's. One of the first in Hawaiʻi to use computers to enhance music production. David has worked as a musical director for numerous well- known Hawaiian performers and musicians including Don Ho, Loyal Garner, Frank De Lima.
David was honored with the 2017 Nā Hōkū Hanohano award for "Engineering / General Category" and his original composition "Kailua Rain" was a final ballot nominee for "Instrumental of the Year" in 2018. He was awarded "Outstanding Arranger" in the 1981 First Hawaiian Music competition for his orchestral arrangement of Loyal Garner's "I Donʻt Want to Go Away."
David and Melinda Caroll have produced over 40 music projects and albums together, including 16 CD's for Girl Scouts of the USA, plus they have co-produced numerous other children's original music, including Songs for Change in 2018 and Keiki Songs for Change, 2019. Currently, David helps people realize their musical visions through programming, arranging and producing their songs. Check out his discography.
Reneʻ Ruch, Board Secretary/Treasurer
Born in Switzerland, Reneʻ has resided the last 30 years in Hawaiʻi on the beautiful island of Maui, about 4,000 feet up Haleakala. He has been a practicing Tax Accountant, Tax Preparer and an Enrolled Agent for the last 20 years and continues actively with his profession.
Reneʻ is an avid enthusiast of The Arts and arts education. He believes in the long-term benefits of arts integration in our schools as an innovative way to support childrenʻs creative problem solving and emotional and social well-being. He understands the long-term effects of these benefits spreading out and into families and our island communities. He is an enthusiastic supporter of When We Shine Foundationʻs work in these areas and happily shares his skills and expertise!
Christa Ochocki, Admin Support
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The objective of this thesis is to design a programmable wafer testing array on a single chip based on micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and VLSI. The wafer-scale integration in this thesis is a programmable array of test probes that are used for engineering test of VLSI and ULSI silicon integrated circuits at the wafer level. This consists of two subsystems (1) the VLSI address circuits used for addressing and controlling the MEMS on the chip and (2) the latching probe MEMS microstructure array that actuates into position for testing VLSI wafers. Each of the subsystems have been designed, analyzed and simulated separately. These structures were then integrated into a demonstration 4x4 array forming a programmable probe card. A 3-micrometer critical dimension is used for both the VLSI CMOS and the MEMS physical design layouts. The fabrication technique for the MEMS microstructure is detailed. A standard 12-mask CMOS technology is used for the fabrication of the address circuits.
Sadeq, Salima Taifa, "Programmable latching probe microstructures for wafer testing applications" (2000). Theses. 760.


Although the ground beneath our feet usually seems stable, the continents we stand on are moving all the time. The theory of plate tectonics explains the how the continents move on the Earth's surface. It tells us why some mountain ranges form, why earthquakes tend to occur at particular places on Earth and why fossils have been found in unusual places.
As far back as the late 16th century, some people noticed that the eastern coast of South America and the western coast of Africa seemed to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Alfred Wegener, a German geophysicist, proposed the hypothesis of Continental Drift in the early 20th century. Wegener said that all of the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent, known as Pangaea, and had drifted apart. He noticed that fossils of plants and animals that could not have crossed oceans on their own had been found distributed throughout the different continents of the southern hemisphere. For example, archeologists had discovered Mesosaurus fossils in both Africa and South America.
At first, the scientific community did not accept the idea of continental drift because there was no way to explain how the continents moved. It was not until the latter half of the 20th century, when geologists were able to measure seismic activity and the orientation of magnetic fields in rocks in relation to the Earth's magnetic poles, that the concept of continental drift was accepted.
The theory of plate tectonics says that the lithosphere, which consists of the Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle, is divided into many small plates. Some of the larger plates contain a whole continent plus part of the ocean floor.
Lithospheric plates, or tectonic plates, move constantly, at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) a year in response to unequal heat distribution within the Earth. Now, Europe and North America are moving away from each other, and Africa is moving toward Europe at this rate.
Sometimes two plates bump together. If a plate is covered with dense oceanic crust, it can sink beneath the other plate and descend into the mantel.
Plates covered in continental crust are too buoyant to sink. When two plates topped with continental crust meet, they collide and form a mountain belt. The Himalayas formed during such a collision.
Earthquakes tend to occur at plate boundaries.
The place where two plates come together is known as a convergent boundary. Plates pull away from each other at divergent boundaries. When plates separate at mid-ocean ridges; they create fractures that fill up with molten rock from the mantle. When this rock cools and solidifies, it causes the ocean floor to spread, a phenomenon known as seafloor spreading. Sediments near ocean ridges are younger and thinner than sediments further away from mid-ocean ridges, proof that rocks near mid-ocean ridges formed recently.
Places where plates slide against each other are transform fault boundaries. California's San Andreas Fault, known for its earthquakes, is an example of such a boundary.


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Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
By Eva Bartlett
Gaza is running out of drinking water. Credit:Eva Bartlett/IPS
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip, Aug 22, 2010 (IPS) – "It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now." Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cuts plaguing all of the Gaza Strip.
While Palestinians in Gaza have grown accustomed to power outages, a combined result of the destroyed power plant, bombed by Israeli in 2006, and the siege imposed by Israel and the international community, the blackouts have increased in frequency and duration.
For years, Palestinians in Gaza have been subject to power outages, ranging from six hours to 14 hours a day. More recently, the blackouts last entire days.
The main reason is a reported lack of fuel for the plant, fuel which since November 2009 the Palestinian Authority has been responsible for buying and transferring to Gaza.
Making matters worse, Gaza is experiencing a wave of intolerable heat and humidity. Temperatures have soared to between 35-40 degrees Celcius, with humidity up to 65 percent.
Umm Fouad is 64, has had 15 children, and has a consequently fatigued body. With her poor health, she is constantly tired on a good day.
"It's so hot. All day long I can't breathe, and I'm exhausted. There's no relief. Even when there is electricity, the ceiling fan just pushes the hot air around. But now without electricity for so long, everything is even hotter and harder."
Ramadan, a month of fasting, is also a time of joy for Muslims. Yet this is one of the hardest Ramadans Abu Fouad's family has faced.
Aside from the dangerously high heat and humidity, there are practical concerns. "We can't make bread, there's no electricity for the hotplate, and we don't have cooking gas," says Umm Fouad.
"It's been three days we haven't had water," says Abu Jaber, 45, one of Abu Fouad's many sons. His apartment is on the third floor of the simple concrete house, and during the summer month heats up until it is unbearable to be indoors.
"There are 53 people living in this house. Our six apartments each need around 1,500 litres of water per day, for cooking, laundry, cleaning, bathing…and that's excluding drinking water."
Like other homes in the neighbourhood, the house is not connected to town water lines. Instead, when town water runs to a public line 150 metres from the home, Abu Fouad hooks up a hose and through a series of pumps, sends it up to the roof storage containers. "We need five pumps to bring the water from town connection to the roof of our house," explains Abu Jaber.
Throughout the Strip, water lines are affected by the lack of electricity, meaning entire areas are cut off from running water for as long as the blackouts last.
A Gaza-wide lack of water compounds the problem. The United Nations notes that 43 percent of water in the networks is lost to leakages that result from a need to rehabilitate the water networks. But under siege, bringing the basic piping and materials needed for this project is impossible.
"Now that the power outages last for days at a time, my father isn't able to bring the water our family needs," says Abu Jaber.
"When our area has electricity, the water lines aren't running. And when there's water, we don't have electricity. So he ends up staying awake all night waiting for electricity to come."
Abu Fouad explains the water tank routine he takes care of. "In good circumstances, when we have electricity, it still takes at least an hour and a half to pump the water to each 1,500 litre tank. Since there are six tanks, it takes almost half a day."
But that's when there is regular electricity. Now with the power cuts, he is left waiting for the time when electricity and town water coincide.
"I'm worried about everyone in our house. They all need water. How will they wash for prayers? How will they cool down in this heat?"
The head of the family, he thinks of his children and their families. "Everyone comes home from work or school wanting to wash and refresh. But now its very hard for them to do so."
A devout Muslim, he worries about cleanliness for praying. "Now that it is Ramadan, it's all the more important to wash. I don't ask for much, but I do need to wash my hands, face, body before praying, and I pray five times a day."
Waiting for the chance to refill their water tanks, Abu Fouad misses out on rest.
"I'm not sleeping much. It's easier to go without sleep when you are young, but when you are older like me, and in this heat, you suffer. I'm very tired. My joints ache. I need this rest. I need the cleansing water."
Abu Jaber agrees that the problem impacts the entire house. "My daughter studies virtually at university, and she absolutely needs a computer and internet access to do her studies."
His eight-year-old son, Ahmed, also feels the cuts. "He's fasting this year. He fasted last year, no problem. But because there's no relief from this intense heat, he's finding it very hard physically this year." Abu Jaber speaks of his younger brother, 31, and without work for several years. "My brother opened an ice cream shop a few months ago, to work during the summer months. And just when he started to get customers and collect what he'd invested, the power cuts got worse."
"The money I earn from the shop doesn't compensate me for what I spent to open it. My generator isn't meant to run for hours at a time," says Abu Oday. "And to run it six hours costs me 30 shekels (seven dollars) in fuel."
Unemployed before opening the shop, the 29-year-old wanted an income to support his wife and three children. "I end up paying more for the diesel and generator maintenance than I earn. So I'm closing the shop."
The problems of one family are mirrored by families around the Strip, with a population of 1.5 million people in a very small, very hot piece of land.
"Because of the electricity and water shortages, it's the hardest Ramadan I've experienced yet," Umm Fouad says. "But we will continue to fast." (END)
'Israel was attacked in '47′ and other howlers from the pen of George Will
Aug 22, 2010 11:21 am | Howard Kyle
Weiss: Praise the lord, George Will is in Jerusalem opining for the Washington Post in the most reactionary manner possible about the Jews' ancient claim to the land based on a ring found near the western wall and other hokum. Max Blumenthal has a great response to Will that includes the statement: "To understand the sheer insanity of Netanyahu's magical ring story, consider how I would be received if my grandfather, Hymie Blumenthal, changed his name to Hymie Quetzalcoatl, then I asserted a historical mandate to rule over Mexico because Quetzalcoatl was a deity of the inhabitants of the ancient Toltec city of Teotihuacan. I would have a hard time being taken as seriously as David Koresh or the Unabomber."
Meantime, Howard Kyle, a longtime student of the issue, sent us a letter he has sent to George Will. Here it is:
The following is a response to your August 19 column, Skip the lecture on Israel's 'risks for peace'.
I agree with your main point that it is "fatuous" or "obscene" to lecture Israel on taking risks for peace. Instead we should be lecturing Israel on their obligation to comply with international law in order to achieve peace.
In July 2004, the International Court of Justice in an advisory opinion ruled that both Israel's separartion wall and its associated regime of check points, settlements, and by pass roads in the West Bank were illegal. The ICJ further stated that an occupying power cannot claim that the lawful inhabitants of the occupied territory constitute a "foreign" threat for the purposes of Article 51 of the UN Charter. The ICJ noted that Israeli settlements and the displacement of Palestinians is a violation of Article 49, paragraph 6, of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The ICJ further cited Israel's on going, oppressive policy of land confiscations, house demolitions, creation of Jewish only enclaves, restrictions on movement and access to water, food, education, health care and employment, as being in violation of its obligations under international law and the Palestinian right to self determination.
This is what anyone seriously interested in peace should be lecturing Israel about. All else, as they say, is just commentary. However, you completely ignore this most relevant point and go on to promulgate distorted history and and a completely Israelicentric point of view.
Let me start with this careless statement.
"On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations recommended a partition plan. Israel accepted the recommendation. On Nov. 30, Israel was attacked."
Israel didn't come into existence until May 14/15,1948. It was the Jewish Agency that accepted the partition plan on behalf of the Jewish Community in Palestine. The plan was rejected by the Arab community and for good reason. The partition plan gave 57% of the land as well as 84% of the prime agricultural land to the Jews who constituted only 33% of the population and most of whom were recent immigrants. Jews comprised only 7% of the population in Palestine when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.
Second, the recommended partition plan was just that – a recommendation. It did not have the force of law. That would have required a Security Council resolution. The partition plan also required certain preconditions be met. Among these were the establishment of both an Arab and a Jewish state as well an international zone to include Jerusalem for it to take effect. It was not a unilateral choice. The proposed states were required to adopt a constitution ensuring the civil and religious rights of all their citizens and to form an economic union. None of which ever happened. (Israel still has no formal constitution, generally considered a hallmark of a democratic state.)
You write sympathetically of Israeli parents, who ten years ago, during the intifada would put their school bound children "on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner." Yet, you ignore the routine violence and harassment that Palestinian school children in the occupied areas experience today from ultra nationalist settlers.
Just this April, an Israeli settler deliberately drove his vehicle into a group of Palestinian school children as they walked to school in At-Tuwani. The children from this and the neighboring villages require a military escort to and from school because of repeated attacks by Israeli settlers from Ma'on settlement and Havat Ma'on outpost. You might find it enlightening to read The Closed Road to Education: Palestinian Students suffer under violent settlement expansion by a group called Christian Peacemakers Team (For your convenience http://www.cpt.org/about/mission)
You get in a dig about the late Yasser Arafat whom you describe as a "terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner." Was it your intention to create the impression that this irony is unique to the Palestinians? You must be aware that former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. During the British Mandate era, Begin was head of the Irgun, which the British government declared a terrorist organization. Begin was responsible for the King David Hotel bombing in 1946 which killed more than 90 people and the massacre of 240 men, women and children on April 9, 1948 at Dier Yassin. Perhaps you buy into the discredited notion that he, unlike Arafat, was a "freedom fighter."
You place responsibility for the intifada solely on Arafat, who you say "launched" it, even though a US fact-finding U.S. committee led by Senator George J. Mitchell reviewed such allegations and found "no basis on which to conclude that there was a deliberate plan by the PA to initiate a campaign of violence." However, Mitchell did note one cause:
Palestinians are genuinely angry at the continued growth of settlements and at their daily experiences of humiliation and disruption as a result of Israel's presence in the Palestinian territories. Palestinians see settlers and settlements in their midst not only as violating the spirit of the Oslo process, but also as application of force in the form of Israel's overwhelming military superiority.
You resurrect the old canard of Ehud Barak's so called "generous offer." You write that during the July 2000 Camp David meeting, then Prime Minister Barak "offered to cede control of all of Gaza and more than 90 percent of the West Bank, with small swaps of land to accommodate the growth of Jerusalem suburbs just across the 1949 armistice line" and by rejecting Israeli generosity those silly Palestinians missed an opportunity to have a state.
Let's look at that so called generous offer in more detail. According to an analysis by Seth Ackerman:
The annexations and security arrangements would divide the West Bank into three disconnected cantons. In exchange for taking fertile West Bank lands that happen to contain most of the region's scarce water aquifers, Israel offered to give up a piece of its own territory in the Negev Desert–about one-tenth the size of the land it would annex–including a former toxic waste dump.
Palestinians living in their new "independent state" would be forced to cross Israeli territory every time they traveled or shipped goods from one section of the West Bank to another, and Israel could close those routes at will. Israel would also retain a network of so-called "bypass roads" that would crisscross the Palestinian state.
Israel was also to have kept "security control" for an indefinite period of time over the Jordan Valley. Palestine would not have free access to its own international borders with Jordan and Egypt–putting Palestinian trade, and therefore its economy, at the mercy of the Israeli military.
The Palestinians would have permanently locked in place many of the worst aspects of the very occupation they were trying to bring to an end.
But don't just take his word for it. Here's what Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israel's Foreign Minister and key negotiator at Camp David had to say about the generous offer in a 2006 radio interview: "Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well."
You write: "The creation of Israel did not involve the destruction of a Palestinian state, there having been no such state since the Romans arrived." Yes, but Palestine was a defined territory when under Ottoman rule, and more importantly, was recognized as such by both the League of Nations and the UN. An indigenous population had been living there more than there for more than 1,000 years.
Under the League of Nations, Palestine was classified as a Class A Mandate. As such it was considered advanced enough politically and economically that a provisional independence could be granted, "subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance." Upon termination of a mandate sovereignty was to be automatically vested in the people of that territory. Palestine was the only Class A Mandate under the League that was not granted independent statehood.
You write: "In the 62 years since this homeland was founded on one-sixth of 1 percent of the land of what is carelessly and inaccurately called "the Arab world," Israelis have never known an hour of real peace." Yes and was that not to be expected? No one forced Israel to declare itself into existence when and where it did. It knew the neighborhood and the risks. It knew that none of the Arab nations that would be its neighbors voted in support of partition nor would the partition resolution have passed in the General Assembly were it not for extensive United States lobbying.
By early 1948 it was widely accepted that the partition plan would not work. That is why the UN started to back away from it and began work on a U.S. proposed UN Trusteeship Plan for Palestine. Unfortunately, President Truman, yielding to Zionist pressure, killed this effort when he blindsided his own delegation at the UN by recognizing the new state of Israel 11 minutes after it declared its existence.
The Trusteeship Plan was intended to provide for a peaceful transition from the British Mandate into a new governmental entity in Palestine capable of serving and protecting all of its citizens – Jew, Christian and Moslem. It would have prevented the misery and suffering caused by the forced displacement of 750,000 Palestinian refugees by Israel In its War for Independence that is the root cause of the problems there today.
US Secretary of State George Marshall and Defense Secretary James Forrestal both opposed Truman's rapid recognition of the Jewish state. Their opposition was based in part on the regional instability that would inevitably result from establishing a colony of 800,000 recently arrived European Jewish immigrants in the midst of 22 million Muslims sympathetic to the Palestinians.
You mention the 1936 Peel Commission which originally proposed a partition plan for Palestine that was shot down by both Arabs and Zionists. It would have been more appropriate to reference the 1946 Joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine whose report has more relevance to the current situation. Among the Committee's key recommendations:
In order to dispose, once and for all, of the exclusive claims of Jews and Arabs to Palestine, we regard it as essential that a clear statement of the following principles should be made: That Jew shall not dominate Arab and Arab shall not dominate Jew in Palestine. That Palestine shall be neither a Jewish state nor an Arab state…We, therefore, emphatically declare that Palestine is a Holy Land, sacred-to Christian, to Jew and to Moslem alike; and because it is a Holy Land, Palestine is not, and can never become, a land which any race or religion can justly claim as its very own.
Truman rejected all of the Committee's recommendations except one calling for a temporary increased Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Perhaps this "homeland" that, as you say, has "never known an hour of real peace" would have had a different fate if it had given the UN Trusteeship Plan a chance to achieve a peaceful resolution instead of undermining it.
If there is ever to be a resolution to the Palestinian Israeli issue, it will only be achieved by an open minded, thorough and honest understanding of the issues involved. A true peace, one that is just, sustainable and most importantly, grounded in international law, cannot be built upon myths and half truths. Your column does not help to achieve that type of peace. In fact, it does the opposite.
Norman Finkelstein : we want a reasonable settlement
RT speaks to U.S. author, academic and outspoken Palestinian supporter, Norman Finkelstein, as he is lobbying to speak at the United Nations to promote progress for a Middle-East Peace Process.
Zionist Fanatics Interviewed!
"We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village."  Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969.
US Boat to GAZA Fundraiser
Lets Set Sail to GAZA on "The Audacity of Hope"
Saturday August 28, 2010 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Speakers, Food, Music
The Potter's House 1658 Columbia Road NW Washington, DC 20009
Contact: Alice Azzouzi – 703-862-3622
This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel's blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into Gaza the blockade has been lifted.
This is not the reality. Gaza is still under siege, vital building materials and other supplies are banned, exports of goods from Gaza are denied and neither ships nor people can travel without permission from Israel, permission which Israel will not give. Gaza is essentially an open-air prison under a U.S.-backed Israeli blockade.
We are planning to launch a U.S. boat to Gaza, joining a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and parts of the Middle East due to set sail in September/ October of this year. In order to succeed in this essential but costly human rights project, we need significant financial support. Citizens around the world have responded to the plight of the Palestinian people and are taking action to help break the blockade which is suffocating the lives of the people of Gaza and denying them their liberty.
The U.S. government is complicit through established policies that uncritically support Israel in its brutal attack on the Palestinian people and on those who attempt to intervene on their behalf. We in the United States must continue to step up and do our part. We must join with others from across the world to support an end to the collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. We turn to you to help make the U.S. boat, The Audacity of Hope, a reality.
The cost is $ 370,000, of which we have raised $ 150,000 so far. We must raise at least $ 200,000 in the next month. These funds will be used to purchase a boat large enough for 40-60 people, secure a crew, and cover the licensing and registering of the boat. In addition, the funds will subsidize some other costs of sending a U.S. delegation. We can make this happen together. For example, with 370 people giving $1,000, or with 3,700 people giving $100, we will have raised our full amount. We have already received donations ranging from $10 to $10,000. So, give what you can and give generously.
From the deck of The Audacity of Hope, we will be in a powerful and unique position to challenge U.S. foreign policy and affirm the universal obligation to uphold human rights and international law. Let us act now because every moment counts and every dollar counts. Together we will contribute to the great effort to end the blockade of Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine.
To learn more and to donate on-line, go to: http://ustogaza.org
Please spread this appeal letter far and wide, so that others will contribute as well.
On behalf of the U.S. BOAT TO GAZA,
Checks payable to: Way to Jerusalem PHC, write: U.S. BOAT TO GAZA in the memo.
Mail to: The Way to Jerusalem Mission Group
The Potter's House 1658 Columbia Rd NW Washington, DC 20009
Alice Azzouzi – 703-862-3622