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How Does a Catapult Work?
By Amanda Gronot
Physicists recognize six types of simple machines: levers, pulleys, screws, wheel and axle systems, wedges and inclined planes. A simple machine is any simple device that makes work easier, such as the wedge-end of a nail, which is easier to hammer into a board than the flat end. Depending on the trebuchet type, it may use anywhere from two to six simple machines.
What Is a Trebuchet?
A trebuchet is a type of catapult, which is a device that can hurl an object much farther than a human can thrown it. The first documentation of trebuchet use dates to second century China, though catapults have been around for some time prior to the Roman Empire. Trebuchets are best-known for their role in castle attacks during the medieval period: The attacking army could position it far enough from the castle that archers couldn't hit them, and they could hurl practically anything over the walls.
The primary component of a trebuchet is a Type-1 lever -- the same type of lever as a see-saw. On one end of the lever, called the "load arm," the trebuchet operator secures the object that he wants to hurl. This end of the lever is tied down to the base; on the other end, the "force arm," the operator hoists a large weight. When the operator releases the tie-down holding the load-arm, the weight falls rapidly, sending the load arm flying rapidly upward and hurtling the object when it reaches the vertical position.
Wheel and Axle or Pulley
To hoist the weight on the force arm of the lever, the operator must use a simple machine such as a pulley or a wheel and axle system. A pulley is actually a form of a wheel and axle system, but both systems allow the operator to lift a heavy weight much more easily than he could by simply using his own two hands. While the operator does the same amount of work, these simple machines allow him to perform the work over a longer distance, thus requiring less exertion, or force, and making it feel easier. Trebuchets could launch stones of up to 300 pounds, but this would require a counterweight of almost 2,000 pounds, which required using a lot of pulleys.
Screws or Wedges
Most trebuchets are held together with screws or nails, which are a type of wedge. Trebuchets are almost universally constructed out of wood, and while a small trebuchet science project may hold together with glue, a larger model requires a more solidly fastened frame. Both wedges and screws are actually forms of inclined planes. A nail's inclined plane works to separate the material, then holds it fast with the friction of its shaft. A screw is an inclined plane wrapped in a spiral, which converts rotational force into linear force and holds objects in place with its ridges.
MIKIDS: Simple Machines
ThinkQuest: Trebuchet -- Physics of the Trebuchet
In 2008 Amanda Gronot began her professional career as a writer for a research company. She helped ghostwrite a book for a prominent CEO and has had essays and translations published in the prestigious classics journal "Helicon." Gronot graduated with a four-year Master of Arts/Bachelor of Arts in classics from Yale University.
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A List of the Five Types of Pulleys
Mechanical Disadvantages of a Lever System
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How Does a Rock Crusher Work?
Science Fair Projects on Levers, Wedges & Pulleys
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Cloudstreet
Posted By Jessica Carrascalao Heard Under Text Analysis, VCE English Literature, Year 12 English, Years 7–12
Insight Text Guide author Anica Boulanger-Mashberg discusses Tim Winton's Cloudstreet
There are plenty of reasons why Tim Winton's Cloudstreet (1991) remains one of Australia's most loved contemporary novels (it hit the top of the list in ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club's survey of '10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die' in 2012, the National Year of Reading). So how do you translate this diehard national adoration to an enthusiastic and productive academic study?
Yes, it's one of the longer texts on the VCAA set lists – an epic domestic journey – and that can be overwhelming for students. But it's a rewarding read, not a slog, and the length and breadth of Cloudstreet means there are so many directions in which students might choose to take their interpretation of the novel. Any one of the text's features – including character, style, structure, narrative voice, and historical and cultural setting – provides enough textual evidence to support a really in-depth exploration of how Winton constructs meaning in his authorial choices, and by combining any mix of these, a whole new set of investigations becomes available. For instance the narrative framing, formed by the intrusion of Fish's first-person perspective throughout, welcomes discussions about how narrative point of view influences our understanding of events. When paired with an investigation of the magic-realist style of much of the narrative (particularly Fish and Quick's experiences), this gives students plenty to think about in terms of how symbolism constructs the reality of the characters and how this reveals underlying authorial beliefs and values. For example, despite the epic difficulties both the Lamb and the Pickles families experience throughout, one of the novel's strong themes is that family is one of the most important things of all. This is reiterated in symbolism as well as structural elements, such as Quick and Rose's ultimate return to Cloudstreet, bringing a circular closure to the narrative.
Cloudstreet also offers a strong basis for exploring how characters can convey, construct, illuminate and even epitomise themes – this is useful, as sometimes it can be difficult to identify the connection between character and theme in narrative. An obvious example is central character Sam Pickles' pigheaded reliance on the power and significance of 'the Hairy Hand of God' or 'Lady Luck'. His fatalism and insistence that lives are shaped and controlled by luck forms an interesting counterpoint not only to the Lambs' ethos of hard work and determination, but also to his own slightly contradictory view that it can sometimes be possible to hide from the 'Shifty Shadow' and thus evade what fate has in store. These various perspectives on fate and free will play out in the events of other characters' lives too, and in each of their approaches to the opportunities they see as being available to them.
Another particularly productive aspect of Cloudstreet for VCE study is the language use: while many elements of Winton's story are mundane and relatable (the characters all struggle with universal themes of love and loss, for example), the language itself is often poetic and extraordinary while simultaneously reconstructing very natural everyday rhythms and speech patterns, particularly in the dialogue. There are strong contrasts between informal registers (such as the use of slang and abbreviations in direct dialogue) and more heightened lyrical tones (such as in the frequent use of symbolism, allusion and rich imagery, as well as in the sometimes stylised narrative descriptions). Such contrasts help students look at the specific impact of language choices at various points through the text, whether it be to intensify the novel's emotional impact; to assist in character development; or to communicate underlying themes and ideas.
Essay questions
How do the shifts in narrative voice throughout the novel help readers understand Cloudstreet's central themes?
Fish's drowning is a framing event for the entire narrative. Do you think it supports or critiques Sam Pickles' views about fate and luck? (Note that you will first need to define and justify your interpretation of Sam's beliefs, since textual evidence can support multiple options here.)
How does the heightened language in Cloudstreet (consider poetic rhythms, character voices, imagery and symbolism, magic realism etc.) convey underlying values and ideas?
Consider the chapter titles that form a key component of the narrative. Why do you think Winton chooses to communicate information in this way? How would you describe the contribution of this element to the text?
Need help getting to grips with Cloudstreet? Purchase our Insight Text Guide for Cloudstreet by Virginia Lee. With chapter-by-chapter analysis, discussion of characters and relationships, practice essay topics, in-depth analysis of themes, ideas and values, and much more, the Insight Text Guide for Cloudstreet provides a clear, comprehensive analysis of the whole text.
Insight Text Guides are produced by Insight Publications, an independent Australian educational publisher.
Tags Australian literature, Cloudstreet, English, Exam preparation, High School, Literary Analysis, literature, Senior English, Tim Winton, VCE English
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EAL: Preparing for the listening comprehension task


Plot: While in captivity, industrialist Tony Stark (Downey) creates a high-tech suit of armor which he first uses to fight his way to freedom, and then to prevent a dark-minded scientific genius from carrying out his nefarious plot against humankind.
Meaning: The amour represents man's desire to keep a distance from his fellow man, while Robert Downey Jr. represents man's desire for men.
Plot: Tom (Dempsey) is a consummate ladies' man. Hannah (Monaghan) is his best friend and the one constant in his life. But when Hannah leaves town for a six-week business trip, allowing Tom to realize his love for her runs deeper than he ever knew, how does he deal with conveying his feelings -- especially when she returns with an engagement ring on her finger, and a request for him to be in her wedding?
Meaning: With the modern world's gender roles continuing to blur as we progress in this technological age, this film address the brand new issue of can men and woman just be friends? In the end, they prove that men and women must bone if they want to talk to each other.
Plot: Joy (Diaz) and Jack (Kutcher) meet while on a Las Vegas bender, where their drunken nuptials are only part of a larger problem: What to do when Jack wins $3 million with Joy's quarter, and they are forced to spend six months as wife and husband if they are to see a penny of their winnings.
Meaning: Greed should never supplant the needs of the ones emotional self. Material goods can not provide the happiness that forced marriage can.
Plot: The Pevensie children return to Narnia one year after their first adventure in the magical land. Soon after entering the kingdom, however, they learn that 1,000 years has passed here, and all is not well since an evil king ascended to the throne. The children and allies both, old and new, band together to help restore the kingdom to its rightful heir, Prince Caspian (Barnes).
Meaning: Imagination and the willingness to hope are often seen as childish, but it is these qualities that allow children to overcome diverse obsticales. As adults we too could do with a dose of optimism in the face of adversity. Also, Jesus is a lion.
Plot: Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones (Ford) is called back into action to stop a Soviet plot to uncover and use ancient artifacts in order to take over the world.
Meaning: Hiding the past away will not help us have a secure future. We must uncover our own personal "relics" and gain control over what curses they might have imposed upon our lives. Only then will we have the strength to punch our own personal "Soviet Spies" in the face.
Plot: Set four years after we last saw the ladies, Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) negotiate their friendships, romances, and careers in New York City. At the center of it all is Carrie's pending nuptials to Mr. Big (Noth).
Meaning: Ask your girlfriend. She'll explain it to you.
Plot: Geneticist Bruce Banner (Norton) takes flight in order to understand -- and hopefully cure -- that the condition that turns him into a monster. Complicating his situation is the military initiative that wants him captured and controlled, as well as the arrival of a more-deadly nemesis: The Abomination.
Meaning: Life deserves second chances. Sure something may have caused you pain in the past, but that's no reason not to try again. I mean, it might be good this time. Right?
Plot: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival lover (Timberlake) before the NHL Stanley Cup.
Meaning: The same meaning as Austin Powers.
Plot: The Caped Crusader (Bale) teams ups with Gotham's Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart) to take on the city's newest villain -- The Joker (Ledger).
Meaning: Escalations of conflict only causes more conflict. The only true way to end a fight is to kill someone (or the person who plays them).
Plot: A geologist (Fraser) on a special mission with his son (Hutcherson) discovers the entrance into a previously unseen world.
Meaning: See you are the Earth, and sometimes you need to journey to the center of yourself. You are also probably full of dinosaurs. The 3-D represents your mother's love.


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Singapore's Wild Bird Trade Raises Troubling Questions About African Grey Parrots
A new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society and TRAFFIC underlines Singapore's role as a leading transit hub for birds from Africa and Europe to East Asia and the Middle East, and highlights serious discrepancies in the way this trade has been recorded over a decade.
Published in Oryx, the study is the first of its kind that describes Singapore's prominent involvement in the trade in birds listed in CITES Appendix I and II based on government data. Notably, it also emphasizes trade record discrepancies.
The study found Singapore to have imported specimens from 212 bird species listed in Appendices I and II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) from 2005 to 2014.
More than 86,000 birds traded over this period could not be accounted for after arrival in Singapore. "Birds that were not re-exported can be presumed to have remained in the country for the domestic markets, but given the scale of the discrepancy, it seems unlikely," said Chris Shepherd, Regional Director for TRAFFIC in Southeast Asia.
Of all species, the African Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus, a popular pet bird, topped the list of species imported to and exported from Singapore during the assessed period—more than 41,700 traded birds were recorded.
Researchers found that Singapore had imported twice as many African Grey Parrots as birds of other species, and re-exported three times as many of the parrots as birds of other species. Almost half of the African Grey Parrots imported during the study period were reported to be wild-caught, from countries under scrutiny for unsustainable exports.
Included as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the once highly-abundant African Grey Parrot is at great risk from hunting for the global pet trade and has already been eliminated in parts of its native range in Central and West Africa. In response to this growing threat to the species, a number of African countries led by Gabon are supporting the uplisting of the African Grey Parrot from CITES Appendix II to Appendix I, the strictest category, later this year when the CITES member governments meet in South Africa.
"Such significant trade data discrepancies in government figures as unearthed in this study warrant further investigation, as an inability to effectively monitor the movement of species such as the African Grey Parrot fundamentally undermines CITES and facilitates potential loopholes for illegal trade," said Colin Poole, Regional Director for WCS.
The authors state that Singapore is well positioned to serve as a global leader, employing best practices in the regulation, compliance and monitoring of the international trade in wildlife. This is particularly important, not only in terms of its obligations under CITES, but also in relation to the potentially serious impacts that could arise from zoonotic diseases, such as highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, being brought into Singapore inadvertently through an inadequately regulated wildlife trade.
The study calls for Singapore to begin by taking greater steps to fulfil its obligations to internationally agreed CITES guidelines and provide more complete and accurate trade information, including clearly reporting the actual number of animals in trade rather than simply the number of permits issued. In 2012, Singapore was put in the spotlight by an earlier TRAFFIC study for allowing imports of tens of thousands of parrots, mostly falsely declared as captive-bred from the Solomon Islands but in fact laundered from the wild.
Shades of grey: the legal trade in CITES-listed birds in Singapore, notably the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus, appears in the journal Oryx here.
The study was partly funded by WWF-Singapore.
WWF is one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organisations, with over 5 million supporters and a global network active in over 100 countries. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
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Benefits from wild medicinal plants, wildlife trade in Lao PDR, Saiga horn in Malaysia, Sri Lankan reptiles, ivory in Nigeria—all in the latest TRAFFIC Bulletin
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Protester climbs into tree at Trans Mountain pipeline terminal in B.C.
71-year-old man has set up a 'mid-air' protest at Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby
A mid-air protest has begun in B.C. at the western end of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which carries oilsands crude from Alberta to a port in Metro Vancouver.
Stand Earth spokesman Sven Biggs says 71-year-old grandfather Terry Christenson has climbed a tree inside the Westridge Marine Terminal, where oil would be loaded onto tankers in a planned expansion of the pipeline.
This is the second protest for Christenson, who was arrested in March 2018 after climbing a tree in the same area to slow clearing for the pipeline construction.
Christenson's first protest lasted 16 hours before he was removed, but Biggs says the professional mountain climber has enough supplies to remain in his new perch for a week.
READ MORE: Canada says B.C. trying to impede Trans Mountain with pipeline legislation
Stand Earth says about 230 people were arrested last year for violating an injunction against protests at the marine terminal and other nearby infrastructure linked to the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The federal government supports the tripling of the pipeline's capacity but suspended work on the expansion last August when the Federal Court of Appeal found parts of a National Energy Board review were flawed and should be redone.
Biggs says Christenson's protest could be the start of many more.
"It's a message to Justin Trudeau and his cabinet who are right now considering whether or not to re-approve the pipeline. If they do that, I think they are going to see a lot more actions like this mornings'," Biggs says.
A statement sent by Christenson, through Stand Earth, says climate change will affect everyone and today's protest is on behalf of his grandchildren, and grandchildren around the world.
"Canada is already on the path to clean energy and we must continue to diversify our economy, not build more dirty pipelines. I'm here today to ensure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hears this message loud and clear," Christenson says.
Tanker approaches Westridge Marine Terminal, which has operated in Burnaby since the 1950s. (Black Press files)
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Sagit Emet* is an author, playwright and creative writing instructor. "Gaya's Dawn", published in 1999, is a YA novel that has won the Lea Goldberg and Zeev awards. Sagit has written plays for children and teenagers, and one for adults – "Because of the Night" – which was performed at the Habima National Theatre. Sagit provides one on one writing advice and runs workshops for writers.
The fact that I am writing about the space I write in, instead of writing what I should really be writing in the space I write in, comes to prove that writing is difficult.
Or maybe it means I'm off track, not serious enough, unable, or all the other horrible things I think about myself when I'm stuck.
Right now I'm working on a novel for adults.
I've been working on it for a few years now. To be more precise, I began working on it four years ago, but only got into a real writing routine during the last year. Three times a week, five-six hours every time.
My sweet husband built a cabin for me in our yard. It has wooden walls and bookshelves, illustrated postcards of poets I love, and inspiring sentences on the corkboard that's prompted up opposite me.
It also has a big window, through which I can see our green garden and parrots chirping in their cages.
Everything is so picturesque and magical.
The perfect writing space, don't you think?
I edit their writing together with them and sift through their words and ideas to find that one specific thing they really wish to write about, even if they themselves don't know exactly what it is quite yet.
For meetings of this sort – my cabin is perfect.
It's just literally too close to home. It's easy to escape from it "just for a minute" to hang up the washing, or put a pot of rice on the stove, chat with the neighbor who's just returned from overseas, or join the kids for lunch – Since I'm here anyway, how can I not sit with them?
On writing days my lovely cabin stays empty.
This room is a five minute drive from my home. It's in my mother's apartment.
It's not picturesque at all. Instead of birds chirping I sometimes hear the next door neighbors fighting or talking too loudly on their cellphones.
On the corkboard opposite me there are electricity and municipal bills that have to be paid.
And still – here I manage to detach and feel as if I'm completely alone.
It may be because I'm a woman and a mother. At home, where my kids are right around the corner, I lose focus and become too practical and efficient. But here, my mother's presence in the kitchen doesn't bother me at all. I manage to stare into space, dive into my story-world and write.
Usually I arrive here at 9 am, after swimming (I've been swimming every morning for 25 years now. I wish I could be as persistent with my writing) and leave at 3 or 4pm. I start my morning with a coffee to-go from the next door café. Sometimes I get seized by a sudden health ambition, and then the coffee is replaced by vegetable juice that's comprised of carrot, beetroot, celery and apple. My mom makes it for me and then goes about her business. (She's retired and very busy. Her day is full of fun activities).
Everything has already been said. I couldn't do it without it. I write. Save. And send my writing to myself via Gmail at the end of each day just to be safe.
Perseverance and will power are needed – as they are in sport, but the finish line of my book is vague and unclear, and the route reveals itself, surprises me and grows longer every day. Sometimes I think that all this writing is masochistic, that it's a waste. So many long hours during which I write instead of living. But sometimes, a moment before I pack up and leave for home, I read the words flickering on the screen, and suddenly I really like the characters, and manage, for one pure moment, to imagine that one day, maybe, it will be a book. And I feel happy.


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Pedestrian dies in hospital after reportedly 'darting' into traffic
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (FOX 9) - Apple Valley police are investigating after witnesses say a man who darted into traffic was hit by a car.
According to Capt. Greg Dahlstrom, Thursday around 7 p.m. police responded to a report of a man hit by a car in the northbound lane of Cedar Avenue near 150th Street W.
When authorities arrived, they started CPR on the 37-year-old pedestrian. He was severely injured and unconscious. Crews took him to Hennepin County Medical Center.
THe man was later identified as Ian Michael Rosch. Police say he died from his injuries Friday morning at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Witnesses told police the man was in the median and then went into traffic unexpectedly and was hit by a car before the driver could stop. The pedestrian was not in a crosswalk.
No one inside the car was hurt.
State Patrol is completing a crash reconstruction. The road was closed for about two hours as law enforcement assessed the scene.
The investigation is ongoing.


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I spit on your puny Earth Simulator!
A couple months back, Apple introduced their Power Mac G5, based on IBM's PowerPC 970 chip in configurations up to a dual 2.0-gigahertz one. They touted it as "the world?s fastest personal computer and the first with a 64-bit processor."
This met with all kinds of whining from, well, all sorts of people. AMD users, for example, protested that since a small-time specialty PC maker had started selling workstations with AMD's 64-bit Opteron CPU in early June, Apple wasn't selling the first 64-bit personal computer.
This took quite a bit of cognitive disconnect. Let's see... one computer is sold as a "personal computer," to people who expect to run all kinds of general-purpose software, from Microsoft Office to AOL. It uses a chip designed for personal computers. VH-1 runs ads for it. It sells hundreds of thousands of units a year. It's available at hundreds of stores all over the world, and via dozens of mail-order catalogs.
The other system is sold as a workstation to people who're going to be rendering video and animation, uses a chip designed for a server, and is available from... it manufacturer, and a couple dozen resellers in other countries. Sound like a "personal" computer of the sort you'd find in someone's house? Nope.
Just to be snarky, one could point out that the "workstation" has a slower bus, slower RAM (and less capacity for RAM), and slower hard drives than the "personal computer."
But now, it looks like one Apple reseller has gotten a little carried away with their ad copy. CDW - generally a sane bunch - is now claiming that "The new Apple Power mac G5 is the world's fastest computer." Given that they didn't even manage to get the product name right (it's "Power Mac" in title case), I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked that they're apparently totally unaware of things like the Top 500 most powerful computers in the world...
Of course, if the Power Mac G5 really is faster than, say, the NEC Earth Simulator, I'll be really happy when mine finally arrives!


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My father has failed me, boy tells court
By Basirat Braimah On Aug 1, 2014
I love my parents, but my father has failed me." These were the words of 10-year-old Michael, whose father, Sunday Ajibulu, yesterday, prayed the Customary Court at Alakuko, a Lagos suburb, to dissolve his 12-year-old marriage told the child's mother, Bukola.
Michael was the sole witness in the divorce case between hi parents.
Ajibulu, 45, an employee of Berger Paints, accused his wife of being troublesome, adding that she lacks respect for his family and neighbours.
"Since we got married, I have not enjoyed peace. Each time she realises that I don't greet a neighbour, she easily presumes that I am having an affair with her. She wasn't like this when I met her. I left our home because she rain curses on me whenever we have an argument. She has succeeded in turning my son against me. I have not made love to her this year because I am fed up. I don't want to die; please, separate us," he explained.
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But, Bukola, 32, a teacher, denied her husband's allegations, saying she has been a supportive and caring wife.
"Through thick and thin, I have stood by him. Words of encouragement toward him turned a rhythm for me. I have always been a humble wife and mother. We dined together and wore the same outfit.
"My husband left home four months ago under the pretence that he was transferred to another branch. He said it was not possible to come home daily except weekends and I believed him. On seeing a court summons, I was shocked because he still made love to me before he left home and we talk almost every day," she said.
She prayed the court not to dissolve the marriage because she still loves her husband.
The court President, Chief Godwin Awosola, ordered Ajibulu to pay N15,000 to the registrar for the child's upkeep. He also advised the couple to maintain peace and adjourned the case till August 28 for further hearing.
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Apple will not sell or support other operating systems, but using the Intel chips means users can run both the Mac OS X and Windows XP on their Mac hardware. That is expected to boost the Mac's appeal to enterprise shops.
Following weeks of industry speculation, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs confirmed Monday that there will be Intel chips inside his company's Macintosh personal computers starting in 2006.
"Yes, it's true," Jobs told attendees at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco. Rumors of an alliance between Apple and Intel have surfaced periodically since the company began its transition to the Unix-based Mac OS X in 2001. That's because unlike earlier iterations of its Macintosh operating system, Apple's OS X was designed to run on multiple hardware platforms.
Jobs validated that speculation today. "I have a secret to tell you," he said. "Mac OS X has been leading a secret life." For the past five years, he revealed, Apple engineers have been compiling Mac OS X for Intel chips, just in case.
"Mac OS X is cross-platform by design," Jobs said. To prove his point, he demonstrated that the Macintosh computer running his on-stage demo contained an Intel Pentium 4 3.6-GHz processor.
This major strategic shift signals the end of longstanding relationships with IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, which until last year was a division of Motorola. The two companies manufacture the Power PC chips currently found in Macintosh computers.
Apple's dissatisfaction with its chip suppliers is a result of their inability to meet performance commitments. Jobs said as much when he explained the rationale for the move, noting that, in addition to processor speed, power consumption and heat are important considerations.
Jobs expressed regret at being unable to deliver a G5 PowerBook. The IBM G5 chip used in Apple's desktop and server computers runs too hot and draws too much power to be easily adapted for use in a notebook.
"We want to be able to make the best computers for our customers moving forward," Jobs said, adding, "We don't know how to build them with the future Power PC roadmap."
Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel; Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe; Roz Ho, general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit; and Theo Gray, co-founder of mathematic software company Wolfram Research, were on hand to voice their support for a road map based on Intel chips.
David Moody, VP of worldwide Macintosh product marketing at Apple, says emphatically that this does not mean that anyone with an Intel-based PC will be able to install the Mac OS X. However, he notes that while Apple will not sell or support other operating systems with next year's Intel-based Macs, the company has no plans to prevent users from concurrently installing a second operating system like Windows XP. The possibility of running Mac OS X and Windows on the same Intel box may make Apple hardware more appealing to enterprise customers.
Michael Gartenberg, VP and research director at JupiterResearch, called the Intel chip deal an extremely significant event. "Apple made it clear that it plans this [platform transition] not to be disruptive, neither to its developers nor its customers," he says. "And that's a really good thing. The way that Jobs demonstrated existing applications running on the Intel platform, as well as getting developers to discuss how easy it was to create native applications, will go a long way in both directions to ease both user and developer fears."
Apple's developers don't appear to be afraid. They're weathered major transitions before, reworking their applications during the shift from 68K chips to Power PC chips in the mid-'90s, and during the 2001-2003 transition from the legacy Mac OS to today's more modern Mac OS X.
"For developers who, like us, have been following Apple's recommended best practices, we expect this transition to be a smooth one," writes Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc., in an E-mail.
But some developers are scratching their heads. Matt Brown, founder and CEO of custom business software creator Waverley Software Design, says the announcement surprised him, and he's not sure why Apple would abandon its commitment to Power PC chips.
Steve Sheets, who runs Midnight Mage Software, expressed similar concerns, noting that two years ago Jobs told developers that the Power PC architecture would always be superior. However, he acknowledged the G5 chip's issues with power consumption and heat, and said that he expects the transition will be relatively easy.
There's reason to believe it will be. Jobs demonstrated software called Rosetta that will help with the hardware switch. Rosetta dynamically translates programs compiled for Power PC processors so that they run on Intel chips. So it is that Microsoft Office, for example, runs without noticeable degradation on an Intel-based Macintosh today.
Those at Apple, of course, are upbeat. "We think it's a manageable move," says Brian Croll, senior director of software product marketing.


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Jennifer Aniston recalls how Harvey Weinstein tried to bully her into wearing a dress
Jennifer Aniston opens up about her unpleasant experiences with Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexually harassing over 80 women.
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UPDATED: October 10, 2019 17:44 IST
Jennifer Aniston recalled unpleasant experiences with Harvey Weinstein.
Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her experience of being 'bullied' by the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
In an interview to Variety, Jennifer recalled an unpleasant incident. "I had to. There was the premiere dinner. I remember I was sitting at the dinner table with Clive, and our producers and a friend of mine was sitting with me. And he literally came to the table and said to my friend: "Get up!" And I was like, 'Oh my gosh.' And so my friend got up and moved and Harvey sat down. It was just such a level of gross entitlement and piggish behaviour," she said.
She remembered how he tried to bully her. "I remember, right when [his ex-wife] Georgina's clothing line Marchesa was starting. That's when he came to visit me in London while we were shooting. He'd be like, 'Ok, so I'd like you to wear one of these to the premiere.' And I went through the book, and at the time, it wasn't what it is today. It was not for me. He was like, You have to wear the dress. That was my only bullying. And I was like, 'No, I will not wear the dress.'"
Harvey Weinstein was accused in 2017 of sexually harassing over 80 actresses. These allegations kickstarted the #MeToo movement, which spread to India in 2018.
Asked if the #MeToo movement had made a change in Hollywood, Jennifer said, "Absolutely. I think there's still room for improvement, but I think that kind of behavior is done. I think people have had the s scared out of them. It's also this big pendulum. Everybody has this new playbook and everybody's trying to figure out what the new rules are. But what's so wonderful about doing this show is that it is so unapologetically honest in terms of topics and the situations. It's basically showing all sides. It's showing how things are said behind closed doors during Me Too, that no one else has the balls to say in front of the world.
Jennifer rose to fame with the sitcom Friends, where she played the role of Rachel Green. The show ran from 1994-2004. The actress is now busy with The Morning Show.
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Hey Buddy? Need some help? That's why the uBuddies are going to be at Codegarden 2019, to help you, yes you!
Introducing 3 more Umbraco Codegarden uBuddies.
Codegarden 2019 is introducing a buddy scheme. Past attendees of Codegarden have volunteered to buddy up with first timers. This blog introduces three more uBuddies!
Are you a buddy to?
Not one but two uBuddies being introduced this week.
The next uBuddy to be introduced is John Seto.
Introducing a new uBuddy between now and Codegarden, our first uBuddy profile is Dirk De Grave.
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There is a way of creating custom attributes in HTML5, though.

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The couple sources I had seem to have dried up and I'm getting closer to the point of doing the cage on my $2015 Challenge car. Anyone have anything out there and can point me to challenge friendly sources, preferably in the mid Atlantic area?
You might try your local metal fab shop. I get some stuff from mine, their prices aren't too bad and they are willing to order anything they don't have as long as you want a full stick.
Dillsburg Aeroplane Works will have any tubing you might desire.
Not sure of current pricing tho, probably not challenge friendly.
S&W Race Cars will make custome cages to order. They are doing a lot for oddball cars in various Crap Can series. You can down load a form from them, measure your car and they will bend up and cut bars to suit. I believe you have to notch them. But it's probably a good way to get a cheap cage kit as a basis.
Second the local fab shop recommendation. Most businesses that are set up to receive bulk metal would have no problem receiving a full stick or two of DOM. It'd be a small favor for them to order the material from their usual metal supplier, maybe even chop it into smaller lengths for you.
I don't think Dillsburg Aeroplane is around any more. I heard the older gentleman who was running it had passed.
I'm trying to find local shops, but the DC area doesn't seem to have too much. Still looking though.
There is a local (to me) group of circle track racers who buy their tube in bulk and then sell off excess on CL. Is there a local circle track scene you can tie into?
In my area of "locally", there is a "Specialty Alloy" shop that can get me whatever DOM I need. Other than that, the off road and 4wd shops often have some (lots of 1.75), and there are a couple drag racer shops (lots of 1.625).
I've got about 100' of 1-5/8 x .120 seamed. There's plenty of people who will tell you that building a cage out of it is a suicidal death sentence and you'll shoot your eye out. But I've designed a lot of steel weldments that had to be evaluated by a Professional Engineer and given a wet stamp before construction, and I race on welded steel parts I've designed and fabricated.
Provided it's a light-ish car and the cage is properly designed, it would meet the requirements of the various sanctioning bodies.
Would I build a cage for a big HP, big tires SCCA/NASA race car out of this stuff? No. A Le-Chump car? Sure.
I'm in MD between Silver Spring and Bethesda. Ping me if you're interested. I stll need to figure out a price, but it'll be cheaper than say, Standard Steel sells it for.
motomoron wrote: I've got about 100' of 1-5/8 x .120 seamed. There's plenty of people who will tell you that building a cage out of it is a suicidal death sentence and you'll shoot your eye out. But I've designed a lot of steel weldments that had to be evaluated by a Professional Engineer and given a wet stamp before construction, and I race on welded steel parts I've designed and fabricated. Provided it's a light-ish car and the cage is properly designed, it would meet the requirements of the various sanctioning bodies. Would I build a cage for a big HP, big tires SCCA/NASA race car out of this stuff? No. A Le-Chump car? Sure. I'm in MD between Silver Spring and Bethesda. Ping me if you're interested. I stll need to figure out a price, but it'll be cheaper than say, Standard Steel sells it for.
From what I can find, SCCA and NASA do not allow cars with ERW cages to pass tech. It appears chumpcar and LeMons will let it slide, but that's something to consider. I know some DE events just borrow tech inspection rules from SCCA or NASA, so it may have implications even if you don't decide to race with an ERW cage. Just a heads up.
Agreed. My race car roll structure integrated w/ a tube chassis) is all seamless, and any cages/chassis/control arms/critical-stressed parts I design and fabricate will be DOM or CrMo.
I would personally be comfortable racing a Le Chump car w/ a well designed and made cage fabricated from ERW tube provided it was well above the minimum diameter and wall requirements. Bear in mind the "seam" in ERW tube is a fusion weld that's very close to the yield strength of the rest of the tube. So I'd align it favorably.
I've evaluated failed weldments in the course of my work and haven't seen tube or pipe fail at it's seam. I have seen many failures directly adjacent where structural members have been joined by welds. This is why a good cage design will load welded joints in compression in an impact/rollover situation.
Also - the original poster stated they were looking for tube for a 2015 challenge car in the mid-atlantic/DC area. Not an SCCA/NASA or track day car.
Yes, this is for a challenge car, not an track day car. My primary objective is that it be NHRA legal, which .120 wall would likely be an issue for. The NHRA spec is .118 for mild steel (DOM or ERW), but between inconsistencies in the tube and bending, I'm a bit concerned on actual wall thickness at bends.
That being said, I'm going to shoot you a PM motomoron. You're practically in my neighborhood. I live in Rockville and work in Bethesda.
From an engineering perspective, I agree with motomoron. A properly designed and welded ERW cage can be much safer than a E36 M3ty DOM cage. Materials do not determine the final product. Forgot to include that in my previous comment.
So you're in Rockville, right? It ain't exactly close to you, but Potomac Steel in Springfield is usually willing to sell to small-order customers.
As for pricing, you would just have to call them and ask.
I also like Stock Car Steel (online) and On Line Metals, with the former being cheaper. Problem is, UPS won't ship anything longer than 8 feet, so you can't get full sticks to make the hoops.
Pat wrote: I don't think Dillsburg Aeroplane is around any more. I heard the older gentleman who was running it had passed. I'm trying to find local shops, but the DC area doesn't seem to have too much. Still looking though.
Appears to be, sorry to hear that. Sounds like family was liquidating stock and calling it quits. RIP Charlie Vogelsong.
Again not the cheapest place but they have outlets all over and they sell any quantity you need.
The last time I talked with Carol Smith his last and only comment of ERW was "I wish I had never printed that article. Todays ERW is very nice and fine for cages. The crap that split was cheaply made English tubing" This was about two month before he passed away. I was so surprised his number was listed in the phone book on-line, and he picked up and we talked for a couple of hours a few times. Wish I had gotten to meet him in person.
I was driving up I95 ans saw Potomac Steel 571-386-4268, today. just a bit south of 495.
Pat, if you don't find anything closer to home drop me a line. I'll make some calls around here. I have a couple sources I can hit up.


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Birmingham City analysis: Striker search suffering from constipation
Logjam and financial limitations making this a summer of struggle for Gary Rowett.
Brian Dick
Blues boss Gary Rowett
Birmingham City's search for a striker has taken another twist with the news their second bid for Che Adams has been knocked back.
With Ricky van Wolfswinkel moving to Vitesse Arnhem within hours of him being identified as another potential target.
The long, frustrating wait looks frustratingly as though it will be a little longer.
Blues writer Brian Dick wonders where do Birmingham City go from here?
Is it vital that Birmingham City have their new striker before the start of the season?
Why is it proving so difficult?
Two reasons. Money and competition.
Birmingham's liquid asset situation is considerably better than it was 12 months or two years ago. The fact they are even making seven-figure offers is a sign of that.
However, there's money and there's MONEY. Blues signed Ryan Shotton for £300,000 plus add-ons, Newcastle took Grant Hanley for £5.5m.
Blues are chasing Che Adams for around the £1.5m mark - Norwich are trying to sign Ross McCormack for £11m.
In that respect I get what Gary Rowett says about it being hard to improve the current team - with the resources he has got.
If we take last summer as an example when clubs were offering £1.5m for Clayton Donaldson - Birmingham's task to make the side better is to find someone better than Donaldson for less money.
Which is hard if you are the only one trying to do it, ridiculously difficult if you're one of 20 clubs looking for the same thing.
Once the top three or four clubs have had their pick of the cream of the crop, the rest are left trying to make the minutiae of their deal more attractive than anyone else's.
Secondly that competition has created a log-jam.
Bizarrely missing out on van Wolfswinkel might be a good thing if that means Norwich are then free to take McCormack, which in turn allows Fulham to convert their interest in James Wilson.
The market gets moving as the paralysis by analysis eases and everyone benefits from the fluidity in the system.
At the moment the whole process is constipated and a huge wallet is the only laxative.
Che Adams bid stalls:
Does this mean Adams won't come?
Who knows. The transfer market is like haggling for a handbag in an Arabian souk.
Tourist: "How much for that?"
Seller: "500 dirhams!"
Tourist: "You're joking, I'll give you 200."
Seller: "No 450, I've got children to feed."
Tourist: "OK, 250, it's not worth any more."
Seller: "I can't go lower than 425, I'm making a loss."
Tourist: "I can't go higher than 300."
Seller: "Sorry 400 is my absolute minimum."
Tourist: "I'm not paying that, there's a hole in it and I don't like the strap."
The tourist then walks off - but that is not always the end of the story.
Without wishing to offend any of the parties involved it's fair to say both Birmingham and Sheffield United are trying to do the best for themselves.
The deal appears to be at the walking away stage but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it is resuscitated at some point - especially if the handbag - Adams, decides he wants to go home with the tourist - Rowett.
Che Adams of Sheffield United
What about Ricky van Wolfswinkel?
Apparently Blues were tracking him for several weeks until it became clear Norwich didn't want to lend him to a Championship rival. It is not clear why it took them and month-and-a-half to realise Birmingham are in the same division.
Rowett insists even without Van Wolfswinkel and Adams there are other names on the list.
As we know Tom Bradshaw's already gone, much to the chagrin of many Birmingham supporters, but Rowett has a right not to go for him.
Which Blues fan would want him to conduct his transfer activity according to a social media poll?
Only time will tell whether he was correct to overlook the former Walsall man - and much of that will depend on who he brings in and when.
Rest assured, there will be a new striker at some point before the transfer window closes - but at this stage it is not clear who and when.
How good and how soon comes down to two things, money which weakens competition and that is out of Rowett's control.
Birmingham City preparations
Free coach travel
No panic buying
Emerging youngsters
Player ratings v Hibs
How did young Reece do?
Hibs 1-0 Blues
Why Blues want Che
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Begin Memorial in Brisk
Professor David Assaf of Tel Aviv University led a tour to Vilna and Brisk recently. He requested, and received, information regarding Menachem Begin's legacy.
He has now sent us these photographs from Brisk, Begin's birthplace, including his family home:
Menachem Begin Mentioned ... Once
In the latest volume of foreign affairs documents' collection of the United States State Department, on the subject of the Arab-Israeli Dispute between the years 1969–1972, Menachem Begin, who served as a Minister and head of the Opposition, is mentioned once:
Following Israel's acceptance of the U.S. peace initiative on August 4, Prime Minister Meir's Government of National Unity broke up when six members of the Gahal faction, a coalition group led by Menachem Begin, withdrew in protest of the Cabinet's decision to participate in the cease-fire with the UAR and Jordan. (New York Times, August 4, 1970, p. 9)
On page 503.
One reference in 1090 pages.
The Irgun's Attitude Toward Arabs
A Jocular David Ben-Gurion
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Beginomics
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Kahlon's dangerous mix of Netanyahu and Begin
The man who slashed Israeli mobile bills has been tapped to be Israel's next finance minister. But Moshe Kahlon's next reforms are going to be a lot harder, and won't be helped by his legacy of Beginomics and Bibi politics.
By David Rosenberg | Mar. 25, 2015
...Kahlon is a proud Likudnik, but that's his biggest problem of all. His Likud is not Netanyahu's free-market, tycoon-fawning, fiscally restrained Likud, but the old Likud of Menachem Begin that likes capitalism and big government in equal doses.
Recall, it was Begin who invited the godfather of free market economics to advise him on policy after the party took power in 1977. But as one observer said at the time Begin followed through on only half of the advice, taking the Milton without the Friedman.
Begin liked the idea of destroying Israel's socialist establishment, but he couldn't let go of the idea of populist economics that increased social welfare spending and the birth of the Haredi schnorrer economy, massive deficits, hyperinflation and serial devaluations.
Worse still, on security issues, Kahlon is a Likudnik in the Netanyahu mold -- one that favors negotiations toward a Palestinian state sometime in the distant future when a more amenable Palestinian leadership in in place, the threat of Islamic extremism has passed, and pigs fly. In the meantime Israel will keep expanding settlements, ensuring there will be nothing to negotiate over when the time comes.
The Revolt Studied and Analyzed - A New Scholarly Book
and Rafael Medoff's review:
A fresh look at how the Jews drove the British out of Palestine
"There can no longer be an armistice between the Jewish Nation and its youth and a British administration in the Land of Israel which has been delivering our brethren to Hitler," Menachem Begin's February 1944 declaration of revolt announced. "Our nation is at war with this regime and it is a fight to the finish."
With just a few hundred combat-ready fighters and a pitifully small weapons arsenal, the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (Etzel), the pre-state underground militia led by Begin, probably did not seem like much of a threat to the British administration in Mandatory Palestine. Yet just over four years later, 80,000 battered and demoralized British troops withdrew from the Holy Land and the State of Israel arose. Bruce Hoffman, in "Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947," presents a detailed chronicle of the guerrilla war waged by the Irgun, the Stern gang (also known as Lehi) and occasionally the Haganah against the British authorities.
What makes "Anonymous Soldiers" a valuable contribution to the historiography of the revolt is that Hoffman is the first scholar of the subject to fully utilize the many thousands of British intelligence documents from the 1940s that have been declassified in recent years. Together with newly available collections of papers of individual intelligence officers and the recently discovered intelligence files of the Palestine Police Force, these documents offer a revealing look at British perceptions of the revolt, the factors that shaped British efforts to stamp out the violence and the reasons that ultimately led to England's defeat and withdrawal from Palestine.
Hoffman begins with a lengthy introduction (more than 100 pages) chronicling the situation in Palestine from the time of the 1917 Balfour Declaration until the eruption of the revolt in 1944. While this section breaks no new ground, it does provide helpful context for understanding the foundations of the Mandate period and the formative years of the Irgun.
The revolt began with a series of Irgun bombings of Immigration Department offices, "striking," Hoffman notes, "at the organ of government responsible for implementing the White Paper's restrictive immigration policy." He could have done a better job of explaining the human consequences of the 1939 White Paper, for it was those consequences — the fact that would-be Jewish immigrants were being sent back to their deaths in Nazi Europe — that drove the Irgun to take up arms when it did. Hoffman does not adequately address the strong connection between the revolt and the raging Holocaust.
It would have been relevant to mention, for example, what Begin and his colleagues likely were reading in the Palestine press in the weeks leading up to the revolt. It was in January 1944, after all, that Polish Jewish escapees Eliezer Unger and Yosef Korniansky arrived in Palestine and provided harrowing, widely published descriptions of European Jewry's plight that prompted Histadrut official Yosef Sprinzak to write: "Two people came out of hell and shook our conscience to its roots. Something must be done."
Perhaps because indifference to the mass murder was so widespread in British government circles in both London and Palestine, British officials completely misunderstood the motives for the launching of the revolt. Hoffman cites a memo by the High Commissioner for Palestine, Harold MacMichael, blaming it all on the Biltmore Program, a 1942 affirmation by American Zionist groups of the need for a "Jewish Commonwealth." Biltmore, in fact, had nothing to do with the Irgun's actions (Begin even ridiculed it in his memoir, "The Revolt"), but MacMichael's perception illustrates how much attention London paid to American Zionist agitation.
A new dynamic in Palestine
The Irgun's initial bombings and shooting attacks on British police stations, military bases and government offices in 1944-45 did not result in significant losses of life, but they helped establish a new dynamic in Palestine. Now the rebels were the ones calling the shots; they alone knew where and when the next bomb would explode. The British struggled to cope with the rising tensions and the increasingly difficult task of governing the Holy Land.
As for the Palestinian Arabs, they were "quiescent" as the conflict raged between the Jewish underground and the British, Hoffman notes. The strong British military response to Arab violence in the late 1930s left the Palestinian Arab community in a state of "exhaustion and political paralysis." At the same time, the continued enforcement of the White Paper went very far toward meeting the Arabs' demand to prevent Jewish immigration. Thus Palestine's Arabs remained on the sidelines as the Jews and the British slugged it out.
Hoffman maintains that the Jewish underground's attacks in 1944 gravely endangered the Zionist cause, because a Churchill-appointed cabinet committee on Palestine had recently "approved a plan to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states." Although Hoffman does not provide the details, the plan would have created a large Arab state called "Southern Syria," a British-ruled "Jerusalem territory" stretching from Jerusalem all the way to the Lod airport and a Jewish state on the coast that was nearly five hundred square miles (25 percent) smaller than the tiny one proposed in the 1937 Peel plan. Moreover, Churchill insisted the plan be shelved until some unspecified time after the November 1944 American presidential election.
Hoffmann gives too much credence to the cabinet committee's partition proposal. Even if the Irgun had known of it, would Begin have accepted the vague promise of a severely truncated state, lacking even a date for implementation? With 12,000 Hungarian Jews being gassed in Auschwitz daily in mid-1944, and England still keeping Palestine's doors shut, the Irgun was not prepared to wait until global political circumstances made Jewish statehood convenient for the British or the rest of the international community.
Churchill's partition plan ended up in the dustbin of history, alongside numerous other plans for dividing the Holy Land in various ways, including the Churchill government's 1944 offer to Arab leaders (reported by Meir Zamir in Haaretz in 2008) to establish a "Greater Syria" that would unite Syria, Transjordan, and Palestine, with a small autonomous area for Jews under Syrian sovereignty. Every new revelation concerning wartime British diplomatic maneuvering seems to validate Begin's skepticism regarding London's promises.
The Irgun and the Stern gang, neither privy to these British internal machinations nor likely to be impressed by them, intensified their attacks. Among the most notorious was the Sternists' assassination, in November 1944, of the top British official in the Middle East, Lord Moyne. "The main reason that Lehi targeted Moyne [and other senior officials]," Hoffman notes, was not because of anything about them personally, but simply "the offices they held and the British rule they represented."
In the case of Moyne, however, it is a fact that he pushed aggressively to send Jewish refugees back to Hitler's Europe, and even gave a speech to the House of Lords in 1942 in which he claimed Jews were not part of a cohesive national group but were the products of "Slav blood" with "a strong Hittite admixture." The Foreign Office, the Colonial Office and the Palestine administration were filled with those who shared Moyne's distaste for Jews and Zionism, not to mention his peculiar ideas on race.
Even before the Moyne assassination, the Jewish Agency and Haganah had decided to undertake what became known as "the Season" (as in "hunting season"), an attempt to crush the underground forces by kidnapping and sometimes torturing Irgun members and then handing them over to the British. Future Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek was one of the leaders of this effort. The British intelligence documents cited by Hoffman show that the Mandate authorities were convinced that turning Jew against Jew was the key to ending the revolt.
What the British did not anticipate was how quickly Jewish support for the Season would evaporate. A significant portion of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine) rejected the notion of Jews informing against their brethren. The Haganah itself was deeply divided over the propriety of such actions. The final straw came in the summer of 1945, when England's newly elected Labor Party government repudiated the pro-Zionist promises of its own campaign platform. Haganah men who had brutalized Irgun members were soon fighting alongside their former victims in the United Hebrew Resistance Movement.
Hoffman shows how British overreaction to the reinvigorated revolt played right into the Jewish underground's hands. Draconian curfews and violent searches for weapons in Jewish towns served only to push the public closer to the rebels. The lashes meted out to an Irgun teenager outraged the entire Yishuv and created a groundswell of sympathy for the group's retaliatory whipping of a British officer. The mass escape of Irgun and Lehi prisoners from the supposedly impenetrable Acre fortress jail in 1947 dealt another jarring blow to British pride.
A 'deadly blow' against British pride
Finally the British imposed the ultimate in collective punishment: martial law. At the time, the authorities insisted that its purpose was strictly for security reasons, not an attempt to impose an economic penalty on the Yishuv by restricting the ability of people to go to work and stores to do business. But documents uncovered by Hoffman tell a different story. He found, for example, a senior intelligence officer privately asserting that martial law would succeed because "making of money is almost a second religion with the Jewish race."
What was the straw that broke the British administration's back? Some historians cite the Irgun's 1947 hanging of two British officers, in retaliation for the execution of Irgun and Stern gang prisoners. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones, for his part, later remarked that the hanging of the officers — "a deadly blow against British patience and pride" — was a turning point in persuading the government that Palestine was ungovernable.
Multiple factors contributed to the British decision to withdraw. Economic hardships weighed heavily on the war-weary British public. American Jewish protests were blackening England's name and straining American-British relations. The plight of Holocaust survivors languishing in Displaced Persons camps, dramatized in the voyage of the Exodus and other postwar refugee ships, created additional headaches for London. But the Jewish revolt in Palestine "played a salient role" in forcing out the British, Hoffman concludes, because it created "a sense of hopelessness and despair" among government officials, which, when combined with the other factors, simply could not be overcome.
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of 15 books about Jewish history and Zionism.
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Menachem Begin - Refugee
From the JDC archives, Polish Jewish refugees receiving JDC aid, after they had moved eastward to Vilna, Lithuania in 1940 to escape the Nazi regime and Begin's name appears:
And his future September 1940 chess partner, Israel Scheib - Eldad:
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Post-Facto Praising of Menachem Begin
From Shimon Shiffer's January 2, 2015 op-ed
Between Begin and Netanyahu
It was 3:30 am on May 18, 1977 when Likud leader Menachem Begin walked into Metzudat Ze'ev, the party's headquarters in central Tel Aviv, in order to deliver the election night victory speech.
"Today is a turning point in the history of the Jewish people and the Zionist Movement, the likes of which we have not known for 46 years," he declared, after shocking the elites and political commentators and winning 43 Knesset seats with the Likud, compared to only 32 Knesset seats gained by the Labor Alignment headed by Shimon Peres.
"We reached this day out of full faith in democracy – aspiring to change things in our country through the ballot, and only through the ballot."
That was Begin – the biggest democrat among Israel's prime ministers in the past four decades, and the modest of them all. He never forgot, not even for a second, that his first commitment was to serve all of Israel's citizens, without making any distinction between secular and religious, Jews and Arabs, his supporters and his opponents.
...Unlike Begin, who managed to appeal to diverse audiences, the list led by Netanyahu marks fixation, obsolescence.
...in the Likud, which for several decades turned to the center of the public stage and aimed to take what we remember as the Liberal Party under its wings, Netanyahu is focusing on only one issue: The settlements. In other words, the Likud has become a party which represents only one sector. No more talking about solving the housing crisis and an equal share of the burden. There is one direction: Judea and Samaria.
...we'll reach the conclusion that the current prime minister failed to hold on to proven talents and offer them a place in his garden.
...Even if we agree that these are different times, the comparison to Begin's strong Likud is inevitable.
I remember the excitement in the audience which gathered at Metzudat Ze'ev that night in 1977, when Begin asked his wife Aliza to join him on the podium for the victory moment.
"I remember the devotion of your youth, your love for me as a bride, how you followed me into the wilderness, through a land sown with mines," he said in a paraphrase of a famous verse from the Book of Jeremiah.
It wasn't "come on, Sara" and "the first lady." They stood there without hair designers, without royalty etiquette from other places – a couple which really walked the entire way, made the entire journey, together.
But even more than that, Begin taught us that a leader must take responsibility for his moves, both for his successes and for his failures. That's another thing we can only yearn for.
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