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Gabon: Anti-gay ban as reform stalls
Posted by EILE Magazine on December 14, 2019 in LGBT, News & Current Affairs
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Gabon has passed an anti-gay law, becoming the 70th country to do so, an official confirmed, as the global pace of reform falters.
The central African country banned "sexual relations between people of the same sex" in a new penal code earlier this year, according to copies of the law online.
A government official, who declined to be named, confirmed the change, which happened in July, but was not widely reported. The minister of justice declined to comment.
Davis Mac-Iyalla, an activist who monitors LGBT+ rights in West Africa, said he had spoken to two Gabonese men arrested under the new law, who had to bribe police to be released.
"It has further sent the LGBT community underground and has created harassment," said Mac-Iyalla of the Ghana-based Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa.
"The corrupt police now use that, arrest people and then people have to bribe their way out."
These reports could not be independently confirmed.
Confirmation of the change, which introduced a penalty of up to six months in prison and a fine of 5 million CFA francs ($8,521), came at the end of a mixed year for LGBT+ rights.
Hopes for more reforms were raised last year, when India's Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex, overturning a colonial-era law, and spurring campaigners to press for similar reforms in other former British colonies.
When Botswana decriminalised gay sex in June, the number of countries outlawing same-sex relations fell to 69, according to LGBT+ advocacy group ILGA World – the lowest figure since it started monitoring such laws in 2006.
But large populations of religious conservatives, including growing numbers of Evangelical Christians, are opposed to LGBT+ rights in African countries, including Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria.
In May, a Kenyan court upheld a law criminalising gay sex, dating back to British rule. Advocates are challenging that ruling.
There are legal cases challenging bans on same-sex relations under way or planned in countries including Singapore, Mauritius and six nations in the Caribbean, according to ILGA World.
"Globally … we're seeing polarising tensions," said Lucas Ramon Mendos, a researcher at ILGA World.
"Where things are getting better, there is a momentum for even more improvement, and where things are bad now we're seeing things are worsening."
At least 35 countries have prosecuted LGBT+ people […] in the last two years, according to ILGA World research – 28 in 2018 and 17 so far in 2019.
"The decrease in countries from 2018 to 2019 can hardly be read as a positive sign," Ramon Mendos said. "We think there is a huge number of cases flying under our radars."
In Africa, 33 out of 54 countries [have anti-gay bans]. Six African countries have scrapped their bans since 2012, marking a positive trend overall, said Neela Ghoshal, a researcher with Human Rights Watch.
"It's unfortunate that a lot of African countries have claimed and owned those homophobic, colonial values, but others haven't," she said.
"In general, across the continent, things are moving more in the right direction than in the wrong direction … I'm guessing you'll see a lot of change in the next 10 years or so."
-Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage – Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Political Notes:The Ups, Downs and In-betweens
New city leaders, redistricting, the race for governor and more.
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The Race Is On: Gov. Brian Kemp picked up two high-profile challengers last month, one a Democrat and one a fellow Republican, each hoping to make him a one-term governor. Stacey Abrams, the Democratic voting rights activist, announced that she will run; just days later, Republican former U.S. Sen. David Perdue said he will challenge Kemp for the Republican nomination.
Abrams, the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, lost a close race to Kemp. Perdue, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, lost a close runoff early in 2021 to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff.
Both Abrams and Perdue, for different reasons, have been highly critical of Kemp as regards voting and elections. Abrams has accused Kemp and other Republicans of engaging in voter suppression, while Perdue has blamed Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for the Republicans' loss of two Georgia Senate seats – including his own. The state's primary elections are scheduled for Tuesday, May 24.
City Leaders: Two-term City Council Member Andre Dickens is Atlanta's 61st mayor, after a convincing victory over City Council President Felicia Moore in the Nov. 30 runoff. Dickens claimed nearly 64% of the vote to Moore's 36%. He succeeds Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who declined to run for a second term. Former Mayor Kasim Reed lost his bid for another term, after placing third in the Nov. 3 general election.
Doug Shipman, new to politics after serving as CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Woodruff Arts Center, becomes city council president. Other winners from that night include Democrat LaRhonda Patrick, the first woman and first Black mayor of Warner Robins; and Cosby Johnson, a Brunswick native who is that city's 60th mayor.
Redistricting Roundup: One of the earliest effects of the General Assembly's congressional redistricting session, and resulting map, was Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath's announcement that she will run this year in the 7th District rather than her current 6th District, challenging her Democratic colleague and incumbent Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux.
State Republicans who controlled the redistricting process redrew McBath's district to eliminate heavily Democratic areas in Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties and add more conservative precincts in Cherokee, Dawson and Forsyth counties. McBath and others have said it would be highly unlikely she could win in the newly drawn 6th. The 7th District lost some parts of Forsyth but gained Democratic-leaning sections of Gwinnett County. It is likely to be an even stronger Democratic base.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's 14th District was rearranged to add some Democratic-leaning Cobb County sections – something neither the Cobb residents nor Greene were happy about.
Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop's 2nd District in Southwest Georgia became more competitive with a move from majority Black to just under 50% Black. Bishop, who has served in Congress for 28 years, says he will run for reelection.
No Name Changes: The Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia (USG) has determined that it will not move ahead with recommendations from an advisory group to rename some 75 buildings and colleges on 26 public college and university campuses. Many of the 75 bear names of slaveholders, Confederate leaders or those considered to have supported white supremacy.
The Regents offered no explanation for their decision.
The advisory committee, created in June 2020 and headed by Albany State University President Marion Fedrick, reviewed the names of some 900 buildings and educational entities. Among those suggested for name changes were the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, named for the post-Civil War editor of The Atlanta Constitution who championed the "New South," but whose writings indicated support for white supremacy, and several buildings named after the late U.S. Sen. Richard B. Russell, including one at Georgia College in Milledgeville.
New BOR Officers: Harold Reynolds, CEO of BankSouth Holding Co., headquartered in Greene County, is the 2022 chair of the Regents. He is a past chair of the State Board of Technical and Adult Education, now the Technical College System of Georgia.
Erin Hames, headmaster at Heritage Preparatory School, a Christian school in Atlanta, and former deputy chief of staff for Gov. Nathan Deal, is the new vice chair.
Reynolds, a founding partner of Linger Longer Development Co., is a graduate of Georgia Tech.
Hames, a member of the State Bar of Georgia, has an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from Georgia State University College of Law.
U.S. Attorney Nominee: Ryan Buchanan, an experienced federal prosecutor, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta. He will succeed former Republican State Rep. Byung "BJay" Pak, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump but resigned after pressure from the White House to support Trump's claims of election fraud. Buchanan, who comes with strong recommendations from Georgia's Democratic U.S. senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, has been an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta since 2013.
This article appears in the January 2022 issue of Georgia Trend.
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4 So the young man that Elisha the prophet had sent, went to Ramoth Gilead. 5 When he arrived at Ramoth Gilead, he found the army officers. They were sitting together. 'Captain, I have a message for you', he said. 'For which of us?' Jehu asked. 'Only for you, captain', the young prophet replied. 6 Jehu stood up and he went into the house. The young prophet poured the oil on to Jehu's head. He said, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you. "I am making you king over the LORD's people in Israel. 7 You must kill the family of your master Ahab. In this way you will punish Ahab because he killed my servants the prophets. Also, Jezebel his wife killed many of the LORD's servants. 8 The whole family of Ahab must die. I will kill every man from the family of Ahab that is in Israel. I will kill every male slave. And I will kill every man who is not a slave. 9 I will make the family of Ahab like the family of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. It will be like the family of Baasha the son of Ahijah. 10 And dogs will eat Jezebel at a place in Jezreel. Nobody will bury her." ' Then the young prophet opened the door and he ran away.
14 So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat became an enemy of Joram. Jehoshaphat was the son of Nimshi. Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead. All the army of Israel was with him. They were waiting to see what Hazael would do. Hazael was the king of Syria. 15 But King Joram then returned to Jezreel. This was to get well after his illness. The army of Aram had hurt him in the war with Hazael. Hazael was the king of Aram. Jehu said to his officers, 'If your purpose really is to make me king, do not let anyone get out from the city. They will tell the news in the city called Jezreel.' 16 Then Jehu got into his chariot and he rode to Jezreel. That was because Joram was resting there in Jezreel. Ahaziah was the king of Judah. He had come down from Jerusalem to meet Joram.
27 Ahaziah was the king of Judah. He saw what had happened to Joram. So, he ran away past the house in his garden. Jehu followed him. Jehu shouted, 'Kill him too!' They hurt Ahaziah in his chariot. He was on the road to Gur near Ibleam. But he ran away from them to Megiddo, where he died. 28 His servants took him in a chariot to Jerusalem. They buried him with his ancestors in his grave. It was in the City of David.
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Most Widely Used Cellphone Encryption Technology 'Easily Cracked' by the NSA to Listen in on You!
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Francisco Seco/AP – In this October 2013 file photo, a man looks at his cellphone as he walks on the street in downtown Madrid. The NSA's ability to crack cellphone encryption used by the majority of cellphones in the world offers it wide-ranging powers to listen in on private conversations.
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.
While the military and law enforcement agencies long have been able to hack into individual cellphones, the NSA's capability appears to be far more sweeping because of the agency's global signals collection operation. The agency's ability to crack encryption used by the majority of cellphones in the world offers it wide-ranging powers to listen in on private conversations.
U.S. law prohibits the NSA from collecting the content of conversations between Americans without a court order. But experts say that if the NSA has developed the capacity to easily decode encrypted cellphone conversations, then other nations likely can do the same through their own intelligence services, potentially to Americans' calls, as well.
Encryption experts have complained for years that the most commonly used technology, known as A5/1, is vulnerable and have urged providers to upgrade to newer systems that are much harder to crack. Most companies worldwide have not done so, even as controversy has intensified in recent months over NSA collection of cellphone traffic, including of such world leaders as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The extent of the NSA's collection of cellphone signals and its use of tools to decode encryption are not clear from a top-secret document provided by former contractor Edward Snowden. But it states that the agency "can process encrypted A5/1" even when the agency has not acquired an encryption key, which unscrambles communications so that they are readable.
Experts say the agency may also be able to decode newer forms of encryption, but only with a much heavier investment in time and computing power, making mass surveillance of cellphone conversations less practical.
"At that point, you can still listen to any [individual person's] phone call, but not everybody's," said Karsten Nohl, chief scientist at Security Research Labs in Berlin.
The vulnerability outlined in the NSA document concerns encryption developed in the 1980s but still used widely by cellphones that rely on technology called second-generation (2G) GSM. It is dominant in most of the world but less so in the wealthiest nations, including the United States, where newer networks such as 3G and 4G increasingly provide faster speeds and better encryption, industry officials say.
But even where such updated networks are available, they are not always used, because many phones often still rely on 2G networks to make or receive calls. More than 80 percent of cellphones worldwide use weak or no encryption for at least some of their calls, Nohl said. Hackers also can trick phones into using these less-secure networks, even when better ones are available. When a phone indicates a 3G or 4G network, a voice call might actually be carried over an older frequency and susceptible to decoding by the NSA.
The document does not make clear if the encryption in another major cellphone technology — called CDMA and used by Verizon, Sprint and a small number of foreign companies — has been broken by the NSA as well. The document also does not specify whether the NSA can decode data flows from cellular devices, which typically are encrypted using different technology.
The NSA has repeatedly stressed that its data collection efforts are aimed at overseas targets, whose legal protections are much lower than U.S. citizens'. When questioned for this story, the agency issued a statement, saying: "Throughout history nations have used encryption to protect their secrets, and today terrorists, cyber criminals, human traffickers and others also use technology to hide their activities. The Intelligence Community tries to counter that in order to understand the intent of foreign adversaries and prevent them from bringing harm to Americans and allies."
German news magazine Der Spiegel reported in October that a listening station atop the U.S. Embassy in Berlin allowed the NSA to spy on Merkel's cellphone calls. It also reported that the NSA's Special Collection Service runs similar operations from 80 U.S. embassies and other government facilities worldwide. These revelations — and especially reports about eavesdropping on the calls of friendly foreign leaders — have caused serious diplomatic fallouts for the Obama administration.
Cellphone conversations long have been much easier to intercept than ones conducted on traditional telephones because the signals are broadcast through the air, making for easy collection. Police scanners and even some older televisions once were able to routinely pick up people talking on their cellphones, as a Florida couple did in 1996 when they recorded an overheard conversation involving then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Digital transmission and encryption have become almost universally available in the United States, and they are now standard throughout much of the world. Governments typically dictate what kind of encryption technology, if any, can be deployed by cellphone service providers. As a result, cellular communications in some nations, including China, feature weak encryption or none at all.
A5/1 has been repeatedly cracked by researchers in demonstration projects for more than a decade.
The encryption technology "was designed 30 years ago, and you wouldn't expect a 30-year-old car to have the latest safety mechanisms," said David Wagner, a computer scientist at the University of California at Berkeley.
Collecting cellphone signals has become such a common tactic for intelligence, military and law enforcement work worldwide that several companies market devices specifically for that purpose.
Some are capable of mimicking cell towers to trick individual phones into directing all communications to the interception devices in a way that automatically defeats encryption. USA Today reported Monday that at least 25 police departments in the United States own such devices, the most popular of which go by the brand name Harris StingRay. Experts say they are in widespread use by governments overseas, as well.
Even more common, however, are what experts call "passive" collection devices, in which cell signals are secretly gathered by antennas that do not mimic cellphone towers or connect directly with individual phones. These systems collect signals that are then decoded in order for the content of the calls or texts to be understood by analysts.
Matthew Blaze, a University of Pennsylvania cryptology expert, said the weakness of A5/1 encryption is "a pretty sweeping, large vulnerability" that helps the NSA listen to cellphone calls overseas and likely also allows foreign governments to listen to the calls of Americans.
"If the NSA knows how to do this, presumably other intelligence agencies, which may be more hostile to the United States, have discovered how to do this, too," he said.
Journalists Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady reported in their 2013 book "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry" that the FBI "has quietly removed from several Washington, D.C.- area cell phone towers, transmitters that fed all data to wire rooms at foreign embassies."
The FBI declined to comment on that report.
Upgrading an entire network to better encryption provides substantially more privacy for users. Nohl, the German cryptographer, said that breaking a newer form of encryption, called A5/3, requires 100,000 times more computing power than breaking A5/1. But upgrading entire networks is an expensive, time-consuming undertaking that likely would cause interruptions in service for some customers as individual phones would be forced to switch to the new technology.
Amid the uproar over NSA's eavesdropping on Merkel's phone, two of the leading German cellphone service providers have announced that they are adopting the newer, stronger A5/3 encryption for their 2G networks.
They "are now doing it after not doing so for 10 years," said Nohl, who long had urged such a move. "So, thank you, NSA."
One of those companies, Deutsche Telekom, is the majority shareholder of T-Mobile. T-Mobile said in a statement this week that it was "continuously implementing advanced security technologies in accordance with worldwide recognized and trusted standards" but declined to say whether it uses A5/3 technology or plans to do so for its 2G networks in the United States.
AT&T, the largest provider of GSM cellphone services in the country, said it was deploying A5/3 encryption for parts of its network. "AT&T always protects its customers with the best encryption possible in line with what their device will support," it said in a statement.
The company already deploys stronger encryption on its 3G and 4G networks, but customers may still wind up using 2G networks in congested areas or places where fewer cell towers are available.
Even with strong encryption, the protection exists only from a phone to the cell tower, after which point the communications are decrypted for transmission on a company's internal data network. Interception is possible on those internal links, as The Washington Post reported last week. Leading technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, have announced plans in recent months to encrypt the links between their data centers to better protect their users from government surveillance and criminal hackers.
SOURCE: The Washington Post
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Railway worker gunned down by armed robbers honoured in Springburn today
Father-of-three James Kennedy was 43 when he was shot, just four days before Christmas
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An heroic railway worker who died trying to stop armed robbers has been honoured with a memorial plaque on the anniversary of his death.
Father-of-three James Kennedy, 43, was shot at the former St Rollox Railway Engineering Works in Springburn four days before Christmas in 1973.
The culprits were a gang of seven men who made off with the works payroll of £9,854.39.
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James bravely tackled them, despite knowing they were armed, standing in the gateway to prevent their escape. He was severely beaten and shot when he made a final bid to stop the robbers.
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James was rushed to the Royal Infirmary but later passed away.
Lord Provost Eva Bolander unveiled a plaque to James Kennedy today, and said: "It's a privilege to honour the bravery of James Kennedy almost half a century since he tragically lost his life. It's important his story of heroism is heard and remembered for posterity."
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James, from Bearsden, was posthumously decorated with the Glasgow Corporation Bravery Medal in 1974 and the Queen presents his widow, Ellen, and daughters Shona, Elspeth and Leila with the George Cross at Buckingham Palace in 1975.
Elspeth said: "I'm extremely proud of my dad. He died a hero. I'm delighted to have this opportunity to celebrate that bravery. I'm proud he did the right thing. His life counts and his courage is inspiring."
She was joined at today's ceremony by her sisters - including Shona, who travelled from Baltimore to attend.
Elspeth remembered: "We were at my maternal granddad, William Stuart's house. The police had taken a while to find us because we weren't at home and there weren't mobile phones or anything like that then.
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"It was about lunch time. I remember it was two police detectives who came. They weren't in uniform. One of them took us into the front room. The other took mum and granddad into the kitchen. I just remember my mum howling – screaming.
"It was on the news. I remember the detective putting the television off. I often wonder what would have happened if they hadn't found us, and told us, before we saw it on the news.
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"My dad went to work that day and never came home. Christmas time always brings back memories of my dad.
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"It was really hard financially and emotionally for my mum, who's passed now, with three small children. Her faith as a Jehovah Witness helped her through it."
The gang, including Sydney Draper and Alan Brown, were convicted of the James Kennedy murder in 1974.
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Two weeks ago, I was in Jerusalem.
I stayed in the Jerusalem Hotel, one block from the largest entrance to the Old City. I ventured through the city's storied alleys, ancient stairways, and vibrant markets over and over during my few days there. I ate hummus, visited holy sites, and bought souvenirs. When I did make a purchase, I naturally bargained down the price a bit, but not as much as I would have if I have been in any other land. I just didn't feel right going back and forth too much with those of my people who have remained in the Old City for so long. Also, people pay me to tell jokes. I have a pretty good life. I have no problem giving a small portion of each ticket price to the Palestinian economy.
The Arab residents of the Old City have been present for centuries. Today, the population of the Old City is comprised of about 37,000 people, including 27,000 Muslims, 6,000 Christians, 1,000 Armenians, and 3,000 Jews. That means there's at least 33,000 Arabs inside of Jerusalem's old walls. That's 89%. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that, no matter how hard anyone might try to deny it, Jerusalem's Old City is an Arab place. It's been that way for almost 1400 years. 47 years of foreign occupation hasn't changed that.
Hebrew and Arabic are both official languages of the State of Israel (although there are some initiatives underway in Israel today to revoke the current status of Arabic). As such, all road signs in the country are displayed in Hebrew, Arabic, and, most times, English. Why English? Well, many of the Jewish residents of Israel speak English as a first language. Also, $3 billion a year gets you a lot of perks, unless you're an American citizen of Palestinian descent trying to visit your homeland, but that's another story for another day.
She asked me to come over to her apartment (at 3 am!).
She asked me to come over to her apartment (I ran to my car).
She asked me to come over to her apartment (I wish).
Yerushalayim, (Al-Quds). Yerushalayim, (Al-Quds). Yerushalayim, (Al-Quds).
I kept seeing it. I kept getting angry. I kept feeling defeated.
Then I went back to the Old City.
Sure, I saw a few of those teenagers in military fatigues holding M-16s. But when I saw who they were pointing their guns at, I saw restaurant owners serving falafel, hummus, and shawarma. In other words, I saw Palestinians (and some Israeli soldiers).
Sure, I saw a few Israeli flags flying around here and there. But when I saw what they were flying over, I saw people speaking Arabic, using wildly unnecessary hand gestures, and kissing each other on the cheek an inordinate number of times. In other words, I saw Palestinians (and some Israeli flags).
Sure, I saw some of those European-looking guys peering from their balconies onto the meandering alleys and streets of the Old City. But when I tried to see what they were looking at, I saw shopkeepers selling cardamom and cumin, Arabic artifacts, and embroidered accessories. I saw women pushing their mint and thyme. I saw men marketing their keffiyehs and rosaries. I saw locals. I saw my people. I saw Palestinians (and some Israeli guests).
Jerusalem possesses the flavors of many cultures. She reaches out to all the children of Abraham. Even for a skeptic like me, one cannot deny the gravity of walking in her streets. Her arms are wide open. She is welcoming. I know all of these things. I've seen her.
But while I know what she is, I also know what she is not. Jerusalem is not Polish, or Russian, or Hungarian. She is an Arab. If she could speak, she would invite me over for dinner and pile food on my plate, even when I told her I was stuffed. The lemonade she would serve me would be overly sweet and tart. And she would ask me why I wasn't married yet. And when she would utter anything to me, I would understand her. Because while Jerusalem can speak to anyone, her favorite language is Arabic. And lucky for me, she has a Palestinian accent.
While I was strolling through the markets of Jerusalem, a nice leather bag caught my eye. Now, I'm usually pretty worried that I give off a pretty American vibe whenever I walk around in Palestine. But as I was bargaining my way to a purchase, the shopkeeper told me he would give me his rock-bottom price. After all, as he said, I am "ibnil balad." I am "a son of the city." Maybe I got the best price, maybe I didn't. I didn't really care. At that point, I was jubilant that he knew that, like him, I belonged there.
Next time I visit Jerusalem, I am going to try to find that guy again. I need to ask him what it is about me that let him know that I was her son. I really need to know what that thing is, so that I never, ever change it.
Its the endearing Palestinian accent and sarcastic humor, they'll know it anywhere. They spotted me too.
An excellent interesting piece, as usual, that has the taste of "Ibn albalad". Welcome back from Jerusalem, Amer.
So beautiful, Amr, I was teary eyed reading about the enduring love for al-Quds that all Palestinians share. Insha'allah, al-Quds will live forever.
Beautiful, Amr. I was also teary eyed. When is your next gig in NY?
Amer another great article. (Loved the satire, i'm sure you understand) I was fortunate enough to visit the Holy City this year and your article reminded me of the smells and sounds of the inner narrow streets. The baking of fresh bread, Hummus stalls outside the Damascus gate. Looking like tourists we definitely got the royal treatment at the stores, they even pulled out the cardamom Coffee and fresh juice.
This gave me chills and made me cry, thanks amr habibi!
I think this Jerusalem-transcription is one of the strangest thing I have ever seen during my studies in arabic language, where transcription is our second amateur hobby.
It reminds me about dictionaries, whereas the words in (parentheses) is the ones who is about to fall out of vocabulary. I doubt Al-Quds is such a word.
Either the way, it's a really weird way of humiliating people.
Hi, Amer. I appreciate your sense of being so at home in Al-Quds and am very glad that you were there and experienced all of that. I hope you go again and again.
Overall, you are definitely right about how the Israelis have erased many Palestinian place names.
However, I question your sense of the history of those signs. I lived in Jerusalem in 1971 and distinctly remember seeing those signs saying Urshlaim (al-Quds) in Arabic back then. That's part of how I began to learn to read Arabic.
And, the name "Al-Quds" is a name for the city that came with the Arabic speaking Muslims in 638 or afterward. See http://palestineoverview.blogspot.com/2013/06/history-of-city-al-quds.html.
So, I don't mean to quibble at all — your overall sense is definitely right — but for real accuracy, those signs are not a recent phenomenon.
Just a quick note to you regarding the Arabic word for Jerusalem (Yerushaleem), it is correct in the sign. The Hebrew use Yerushalime and the Arab Christians have used the word Yerushaleem. The Arabic Bible use Yerushaleem. The word Al-Quds was employed by the Muslims to reference its holiness by which over time became employed as a proper name which in some sense undermined the Arabic/Syriac name of Yerushaleem. Why Islam never utilized Yerushaleem would be a good topic to research.
Thanks for all you do. Keep up the good work. God bless.
but none of these historical details is really the point. there seems to be a hint of something damaging in your post. perhaps i am wrong. but don't ever fall for israel's attempts to create separations between arab christians and muslims. i can tell you firsthand that we are all equal "threats" to her.
I truly understand the point you are making against Zionist apartheid regime. The word Jerusalem is spelled correctly in Arabic in the sign. All of the Arabic speaking Christians recognize the word Al-Quds in reference to Jerusalem but they all do know Yerushaleem as properly spelled in the Arabic sign. In the Arabic text of the Bible, it has always been Yerushaleem not Al-Quds. You may be in for a surprise to hear Yerushaleem quite frequently spoke among the Arab/Arabic speaking Christians. My Arabic baptismal certificate states "The Greek Orthodox Jerusalem Patriarchate" and nowhere does it state the word Al-Quds.
Great article! I know right, find out what that "something" is….and never change!
Great article… Next time when you visit Al Quds – Jerusalem, I am inviting you over for coffee.. Would love to share thoughts and vision!
will be my pleasure rasha!
This article is one of your best Amer! Great work! On another note, I just viewed a video on facebook that was shared by an acquaintance about Brigitte Gabriel. What are your thoughts on that vile serpent? Sorry, couldn't resist inserting my opinion here. I think some well versed and informed Arabs should post a rebuttal to her propaganda. But who? Who??
Jerusalem has been a Jewish-majority city since the 1850s. There was a Jewish majority in the old city, and all of Jerusalem until 1949, when the Arabs kicked them out of the Jewish quarter.
Israel regained its holy city in 1967, in a war started by the surrounding Arab nations. They regained the temple mount, the most holy Jewish site in the world, and the state of Israel banned Jews from praying there because they did not want to upset the muslims who prayed there. That is what Jews do.
Jerusalem has all kinds of people in it: Jews, Christians, Muslims. They all share and love the city. The thing is, though, that Jerusalem is Jewish. If she could speak, she would speak in beautiful expressive Hebrew, and ask you if you had found a nice Jewish girl. And feed you another rugelach. Because her veins run with the blood of a Jew. However much people may call her an Arab city, she has had a Jewish majority for nearly two hundred years. The muslims will not see her in the admiration she deserves. The muslims will not rightfully see her as the most holy place in the world.
There are Jews, muslims, and christians in Jerusalem. But her name is Yerushalayim, because in her heart, she is a Jew.
I do not support Israeli government policy completely either, and I think that on the signs it should say Al-Quds in Arabic first, but I really dislike that you are trying to disconnect Jerusalem to Judaism. It just is not okay. Jerusalem was a Jewish majority city before 1949 as they are now again. So I don't really know which part of this you disagree with.


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AMERICA/BRAZIL - The hospital ship named in honor of "Pope Francis" will bring the Gospel and social assistance to the remote areas along the rivers Amazonas
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Letter of commitment from seminarians: "we cannot speak of vocation excluding the mission"
"Migration and public policies": 34th National Migrant Week
President of the Rural Workers Union assassinated: violence and murders in the Amazon increase
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Week of prayer for Christian unity dedicated to justice
The hospital ship named in honor of "Pope Francis" will bring the Gospel and social assistance to the remote areas along the rivers Amazonas
Juruti (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan Friars of Assisi in the Providence of God and the association of lay people who accompany it are completing the preparations to launch, next July, the "Pope Francis" hospital ship which will bring the Gospel and health assistance to over 700 thousand inhabitants of Amazonian areas reachable only by river, in the Brazilian state of Pará.
According to the data that the congregation provided Agenzia Fides, the 32-meter ship houses the country's most complete floating hospital, with facilities for diagnosis, treatment, hospitalization and prevention in medicine, ophthalmology, odontology, surgery, and laboratory analysis, infirmary, vaccination room and machinery for radiography, ultrasound, mammography…. The ship will depart from the port of Óbidos with a crew of 10 people (including a religious) and 20 medical and paramedical volunteers (including university professors and students) and will visit about 1,000 coastal areas in 10-day expeditions, using two motorboat- ambulance for a first survey of the health situation of each area and for emergencies. The expedition will collaborate with the local hospitals of Juruti and Óbidos.
In times of floods, it will also serve as a rescue boat. The initiative originated from the visit of Pope Francis to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of World Youth Day 2013, when the pontiff asked the founding priest, friar Francisco Belotti, if they were present in the Amazon.The reply was a no and the Pope simply replied "Then you have to go". As a result, the association and the fraternity took charge of the two hospitals mentioned, which were closed. Soon we "perceived that the population that lives on the banks of the river had considerable difficulties in reaching the hospitals - friar Francisco tells Fides - and then we understood that the only way was to make the hospital go to them".
The mission will be coordinated by a priest of the fraternity, in charge of bringing the Word of God to the population visited, as well as ensuring the rich approach of humanity and dignity of assistance. The construction of the ship was possible thanks to an agreement with the State, which allocated the proceeds of compensation for collective moral damage to the project at the expense of Shell Chimica and Basf SA, following an environmental accident that caused at the time 60 fatal victims and other huge damages. (SM) (Agenzia Fides, 1/6/2019)
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Expunge small-time pot convictions if it's legalized
By Letters to the Editor Mar 11, 2019, 1:57pm CDT
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As the state of Illinois discusses legalizing recreational use of marijuana, it is important to also discuss what must accompany the conversation.
I am not opposed to the legalization of marijuana (I am a child of the 1960s and, yes, I inhaled). With the bill for legalization, there must also be a bill dismissing convictions against individuals still incarcerated for selling marijuana, unless it is massive quantity, and expungement of their records and the records of those who already are out of prison. Not just for those in the last two years but for all who were ever convicted.
Also, with the consideration of legalization, there must be an aggressive commitment and concrete plan to equal the unequal playing field of the West and South sides with investment and opportunity.
Where marijuana has been legalized, often the arrests of white youth have decreased while the arrests of black youth have increased. Why? Because for white youth in the middle and upper-middle classes, marijuana is indeed considered truly recreational. In neglected and abandoned communities, where many black and brown youth live and unemployment is in double digits, possession of marijuana is considered a job! Thus, youth are arrested because of larger quantities in their possession.
Until we can promise release and expungement, and deal with the high unemployment in abandoned and neglected communities, legalization really needs to be put on hold.
In the pursuit of justice ….
Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, Faith Community of St. Sabina, Auburn-Gresham
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Why rent control would fail
I have been surprised by the push for rent control that I have been reading about in the papers. I'm old enough to remember that this was tried before on a large scale back in the 1970s, though I didn't pay as much attention to it as I would today.
I do know that it didn't work out well. You want to control the income of landlords, but will you also control their taxes and maintenance costs? What will probably happen is that you will see a mass conversion of rental apartments into condos.
People become landlords to make money. If you make that more difficult, they will adapt. And you will end up with fewer apartments to rent. And people will still be displaced.
Larry Craig, Wilmette
The super-rich drain our country
From their very inception, income taxes in this country were based on the ability to pay, or progressive taxing rate. Gov. Pritzker, in keeping with that policy, is proposing a higher tax rate for the six- and seven-figure income families. It's puzzling, however, that those who make the most from our economic system and benefit the most from it, are the ones who object the most. It has to be considered that one of the reasons for economic woes is that the super-rich have manipulated the tax policies in this country for so long. Resulting debts should come as no surprise. As Warren Buffett said, it's wrong when his secretary pays more in income taxes than he does.
Daniel Pupo, Orland Park
Give tax breaks on mortgage interest to those who need it
While there are many factors driving inequality, there is one area easy to correct: tax breaks. One of these, the mortgage interest deduction, costs the government tens of billions of dollars a year, yet the rich — the top 20 percent of earners — receive most of this money. This tax break was sold as a way to encourage home ownership, yet those receiving the bulk of the benefit have no reason to be so incentivized. In fact, this tax break also applies to second homes, which again there is no reason to incentivize. Rather than lining the pockets of the rich, this tax break should be limited to first-time home buyers and those who have lost their home to foreclosure.
Lee Knohl, Evanston
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For many students, an assessment of learning styles and learning difficulties can be a great relief.
In particular, because we focus on strengths it can provide a student with a positive view of his or her abilities, and an explanation of why they find some areas of learning can be more difficult. The assessment gives students, as well as tutors and lecturers supporting them, a chance to plan strategies to overcome challenges.
At college and university level, we focus particularly on the development of study skills targeted to the student's particular course of study. We can also advise on exam arrangements, which could include extra time or the provision of a computer for writing exam papers.
Students benefit from an assessment in many ways. An assessment of dyslexia or dyscalculia can boost self-esteem and help to develop coping strategies for learning that will be positive and useful for performance in further and higher education, and throughout adult life. In our reports, we provide an overall picture of the student's abilities and difficulties as well as clear and attainable ways of helping them to show their strengths.
If a student is assessed as dyslexic or dyscalculic, we can recommend a range of access arrangements including extra time, use of computers or calculator, and where appropriate, the provision of a reader and/or scribe. A full assessment can provide a strong case for assistance. Please note, though, that access arrangements are put in place by the student's college, university or local authority, and they also have to support any application.
The assessment was a big help. I couldn't understand why I was having difficulty with certain tasks before.


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Oscar: Broadway Melody (1928), First Winning Musical
January 27, 2014 by EmanuelLevy
The first Oscar-winning musical, The Broadway Melody, was MGM's first musical and also the first talking film to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Advertised as "All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing," it also featured the technological innovation of color. One number, "The Wedding of the Painted Doll," was presented in two colors. A backstage musical, it is the tale of two sisters (Bessie Love and Anita Page), who seek fame in the New York theatre, and in the process fall in love with the same song-and-dance man.
By any standards, the story and characters are cliche-ridden, but in l929, the novelty of sound, color, and form proved winning. And the nominated performance of Bessie Love, as the older, wiser sister who sacrifices herself for her sister's career, was truly excellent.
A big-budgeted film, close to half a million dollars, "The Broadway Melody" opened to rave reviews, soon becoming one of the seasons top money-makers, with over $3 million in domestic rentals.
The Broadway Melody" was such a box-office hit, that MGM made three more "Broadway Melody" films, of which "The Broadway Melody of l936," released in l935, is considered to be the best and one of the few sequels to be nominated for Best Picture.
The supporting cast, particularly Jack Benny, as the columnist, and June Knight, as a no-talent who wants to become an actress, was more impressive than the leads, played by Robert Taylor and Eleanor Powell. The movie won one Oscar: dance direction for David Gould's sequence, "I've Got a Feeling You're Foolin'."
Unlike many of her peers, Bessie Love, a silent screen actress since 1916, made an easy transition to sound. The musical boasted wonderful score from the team of Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed score. Some of the songs would become standard, such as You Were Meant for Me, and the title tune. There was one sequence in Technicolor, a lavish, Ziegfeld-like production number, titled "Wedding of the Painted Doll.
MGM's then young production chief, Irving Thalberg, saw this number and thought it was too static, so director Harry Beaumont had to shoot it all over again. Douglas Shearer (actress Norma's brother), who was in charge of sound at MGM, suggested to reuse the original recording, thus beginning the technique of pre-recording music for musical numbers.
Detailed Plot
Sisters Anita Page and Bessie Love, who play a vaudeville act, come to New York for their big break on Broadway. Charles King plays the song-and-dance man whose affection for one sister (Harriet alias Hank) is supplanted by his growing love for the younger, more beautiful sister (Queenie). Queenie tries to protect her sister by dating the wealthy but unscrupulous "stage door Johnny."
The movie opens with Eddie Kearns debuting "The Broadway Melody." He tells some chorus girls he's brought the Mahoney Sisters to New York to perform it with him in Francis Zanfield's latest revue. Hank, the older sister, prides herself on her business sense, while Queenie is lauded for her beauty. Their Uncle Jed arrives to tell them he's gotten them a job with a 30-week traveling show. Hank tells him they're not interested but he says he'll give them time to think it over.
Eddie, who is engaged to Hank, sees Queenie for the first time since she was a girl and is instantly taken with her. Zanfield isn't interested in it but says he might have a use for Queenie, who begs him to give Hank a part as well. Eddie witnesses this exchange and becomes even more enamored of Queenie for her devotion to her sister. During dress rehearsal, Zanfield says the pacing is too slow for "The Broadway Melody" and cuts Hank and Queenie from the number. Meanwhile, another girl is injured and Queenie replaces her. Hank is upset that Queenie is building her success on her looks rather than her talent.
Queenie spends a lot of time with Jock, of which Hank and Eddie fervently disapprove. They forbid her to see him, which creates conflict between the sisters. Queenie is only with Jock to fight growing feelings for Eddie, but Hank thinks she's setting herself up to be hurt. Eventually, Eddie and Queenie confess their love for each other, but Queenie, unwilling to break her sister's heart, runs off to Jock once again.
Hank berates Eddie for letting Queenie run away and tells him to go after her. She calls Uncle Jed to accept the job with the 30-week show. When Queenie resists Jock's advances, he gets upset and abusive. Queenie runs to Eddie and leaves Jock and the party behind. Hank and Uncle Jed await the arrival of Queenie and Eddie from their honeymoon. The relationship between the sisters is on the mend but there is discomfort between Hank and Eddie. Queenie announces she's through with show business and will settle down in their new house. After Hank leaves with her new partner and Uncle Jed, Queenie laments the fact that her sister hasn't found the happiness she deserves. In the final scene, a distraught Hank is on her way to the train station.
Music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed
"Broadway Melody"
"You Were Meant For Me"
"Wedding of the Painted Doll"
"Boy Friend"
"Truthful Deacon Brown", music and lyrics by Willard Robison
"Lovely Lady"
Commercial Appeal
MGM promoted the movie when it was released, in February 1929, by decorating the exteriors of theaters with signs "100 Percent All Talking! 100 Percent All Singing! 100 Percent All Dancing!"
As a result, the picture made a huge amount of money, $4 million (equivalent of over $100 million today) .


Spain 'can't have the dictator in a place of honor,' says deputy PM.
Legal amendments to Spain's Historical Memory Law, dating from 2007, grant the government the power to exhume Franco's body. It's a change aimed at thwarting legal efforts by Franco's descendants and supporters to block the exhumation in the courts. The move is in line with the 2011 recommendations of a national commission endorsed by the United Nations, and a decision by parliament in 2017.
Spanish PM: "[Spain] can't have the dictator in a place of honor".
Although I'm loathe to tacitly speak in support of someone like Franco, let's put this into context : all of the kings of Europe going a few centuries back were just dictators with an hereditary title to give them legitimacy.
So if Franco is dug up, why not dig up all the Kings and Queens of Spain and relocate them from cathedrals to common graves? Some of them (and those of other European monarchies) were rather despicable human beings.
Captain Europe is a very naughty boy and good children should not pay him any attention.
Thank god Franco won. If there's one thing we know about the communists he defeated, they're the most evil murderous people that have ever existed. Franco done humanity a favour.
The only thing the left does well is to divide people and create problems that don't exist: minorities against majorities, those that don't have vs. those that do have, one religion vs. another, one language vs. another. You would think that these troublemakers would just grow up and get a job… and start by studying something at university that is meaningful, productive. The world would be a better place without these spoiled, decadent, hedonistic hippies that have no respect for traditions and established systems that work. And worst of all – their intolerance. They have no respect for the rights of those not aligned with their communist views.
Clearly, Franco is a dictator who gave orders to emprison and kill many opponents. The memorial should be dedicated to his victims. His remains should be taken in a remote cemetary. Clearly when he designated Juan Carlos as his successor, he didn't expect the former Spanish king to restore democracy. Juan Carlos did. So whether Franco's descendants approve of this decision or not is of little concern. Some will say: why dwell on the past? Because it is only fair to do so.
Everybody has identified you as a troll by now. So stop pretending. Franco is great? Really? He sacrificed the Spanish people to Hitler because the Spanish civil war was but an exercise agreed by both fascist leaders in view of WW2. Both fascists and communists are plagues that need to be eradicated from people's sympathies.
"…their intolerance. They have no respect for the rights of those not aligned with their communist views.
And do you have tolerance and respect for the rights of THOSE ALIGNED with the communist views?
Your comment just shows that your tolerance is unidirectional.
To reassure you; I am not a communist sympathizer but I am shocked by your logic.
Spain did not have a choice between good and evil in their civil war. Franco was bad, the anarchist and communists were worse.


Discuss Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in its official discussion thread!
Capcom brings the Monster Hunter franchise back to Nintendo home console owners with the newly minted Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate!
Like Monster Hunter Tri before it, players will assume the role of Hunter, though this offering of the game boasts over 200 sidequests and "the most expansive offering to date," per Capcom.
There are new ways to control the fight on the fly as well with the Wii U GamePad, granting access to books, maps, and mini-games (so tasty!) without interrupting the battle. More monsters, materials, and weapons/armor are sure to be included, too.
Players with a 3DS version of the game may play alongside Wii U players with local connectivity, and a Wii U file may able be taken on the run with the 3DS as well.
The Argosy is expected to dock in March '13.
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DAVID R. GEIGER vs. NEEDHAM MILLER, LLC
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MEMORANDUM OF DECISION DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND ALLOWING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF LIS PENDENS
Plaintiff David R. Geiger ("Mr. Geiger") owns and resides at the property at 22 Tanglewood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts ("the Geiger Property"). Verified Complaint ("Complaint") ¶ 1. Defendant Needham Miller, LLC ("the LLC") owns and is currently developing the property at 16 Tanglewood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts ("the LLC Property"). Complaint ¶ 2. The Geiger Property abuts the LLC Property along the Geiger Property's southeast and the LLC Property's northwest side lines. Plan And Profile Of Part Of Tanglewood Road Wellesley, Mass. Scale Horz. = 1 inch = 40 feet Vert. = 1 inch = 4 feet Jan. 5, 1957 Owner Wellesley Construction Co. Inc. 47 River Street, Wellesley, Mass. Engineer Joseph Selwyn 14 Linden Ave. Belmont, Mass. [Note 1] The Geiger Property and the LLC Property both abut Tanglewood Road. Id. At issue in this case is an approximately 270 square foot area of the LLC Property ("the Disputed Area") [Note 2] over which Mr. Geiger claims ownership by virtue of adverse possession based on his use of the Disputed Area as an extension of his lawn.
Mr. Geiger filed the Complaint, Plaintiff's Ex Parte Motion For Temporary Restraining Order And Preliminary Injunction ("the PI Motion"), Plaintiff's Ex Parte Motion For Approval Of Lis Pendens ("the LP Motion") and a memorandum of law in support of those motions on July 15, 2020. A hearing was scheduled for July 21, 2020 and subsequently rescheduled to July 28, 2020 by agreement of the parties. On July 27, 2020, the LLC filed a memorandum of law in opposition to the motions and the affidavits of John Bruno, Karen Petrucci, Stephen Petrucci and Roy Arruda. For the reasons set forth below, the PI Motion is DENIED and the LP Motion is ALLOWED.
The following facts appear from the Complaint and the affidavits filed herein.
Mr. Geiger acquired the Geiger Property on October 20, 1989. Complaint ¶ 3 and Ex. 1. Mr. Geiger has resided continuously in a single-family home at the Geiger Property since approximately March 1990. Complaint ¶ 4. Since Mr. Geiger's acquisition of the Geiger Property, the boundary between the Geiger Property and the LLC Property in the area at issue has been marked by a shrub, tree and planting bed on the LLC Property ("the Bed"). Complaint ¶ 6. Mr. Geiger alleges that, at all times during his ownership of the Geiger Property, "the owners of [the LLC Property] have occupied and maintained the [Bed] . . . while Mr. Geiger has occupied and maintained all of the land to the right of the [Bed] to the exclusion of all others, including the owners of [the LLC Property]." Complaint ¶ 7. More particularly, Mr. Geiger alleges that "[a]t all times since [he] has owned and occupied [the Geiger Property], he has exclusively used, occupied, and maintained all of the land on his side of the [Bed]." Complaint ¶ 12.
With respect to the use that he has made of the Disputed Area, Mr. Geiger alleges that he and his agents (professional landscaping services engaged by him) have engaged in the following acts: weekly mowing during the growing season; fertilizing and applying other lawn maintenance materials; periodic seeding; seasonal clearing of fallen leaves; removal of tree branches and other debris after storms; and seasonally watering multiple times each week with irrigation systems. Complaint ¶¶ 16, 19. Professional arborists engaged by Mr. Geiger have also had full access to and moved across the Disputed Area to tend to two trees in Mr. Geiger's yard. Complaint ¶ 17.
The abutting LLC Property was previously owned by Alice and Stewart Ward ("the Wards"). Complaint ¶ 11. The LLC purchased the LLC Property from the Estate of Alice Ward, Complaint ¶ 22, in March 2019. Bruno Aff. ¶ 3. In late 2019, Mr. Geiger observed orange-colored surveyors' stakes in his front and side yard along the boundary between the Disputed Area and the Geiger Property. Complaint ¶ 20. Thereafter, Mr. Geiger learned that the LLC had purchased the LLC Property and notified the LLC of his claim of ownership by adverse possession of the Disputed Area. Complaint ¶ 22. [Note 3]
According to the evidence offered by the LLC, its predecessors, the Wards, employed Petrucci Landscaping Co. Inc. ("Petrucci Landscaping") from 2003 through 2018 to do landscaping work on the LLC Property. Affidavit of Karen Petrucci In Opposition To Plaintiff's Motion For Preliminary Injunction, sworn to on July 21, 2020 ("K. Petrucci Aff.") ¶ 2; Affidavit of Steven Petrucci In Opposition To Plaintiff's Motion For Preliminary Injunction And Lis Pendens, sworn to on July 21, 2020 ("S. Petrucci Aff.") ¶ 4. Petrucci Landscaping did a spring and a fall cleanup of the LLC Property every year during that period. K. Petrucci Aff. ¶¶ 2-3 and Exs. 1-2. That cleanup included the Disputed Area, where employees of Petrucci Landscaping blew leaves and picked up sticks and branches that had fallen. Affidavit of Roy Arruda, sworn to on July 23, 2020 ("Arruda Aff.") ¶ 5; S. Petrucci Aff. ¶ 5.
After its acquisition of the LLC Property, the LLC employed a surveyor to establish the lot lines between the Geiger Property and the LLC Property. Bruno Aff. ¶ 8. Subsequently, the LLC razed the older home on the LLC Property and is currently building a new 6,874 square foot home in its stead. Bruno Aff. ¶ 3. As part of its landscaping for the new home, the LLC plans to install a line of evergreens along the boundary with the Geiger Property where the Disputed Area is located. Bruno Aff., Ex. 5.
According to Mr. Bruno and as shown in photographs submitted by both parties, "[t]here are no plantings, structures, fences or equipment including irrigation equipment (including no sprinkler heads) from [the Geiger Property] that is on any portion of [the LLC Property]." Bruno Aff. ¶ 5. The photographs of the Disputed Area show above ground roots, from what is presumably a nearby tree, and patches of grass. Complaint, Ex. 2; Bruno Aff., Ex. 3. The photographs also show that, prior to the LLC's recent alteration of the Bed, the Disputed Area could be reached from the remainder of the LLC Property by going on one or both sides of the Bed. Complaint, Ex. 2.
The PI Motion
The Applicable Standard
A preliminary injunction may issue only if Mr. Geiger demonstrates (a) a likelihood of success on the merits, (b) that he faces a substantial risk of irreparable harm if the injunction is not issued, and (c) that this risk of irreparable harm outweighs any risk of irreparable harm which granting the injunction would create for the defendant, the LLC. GTE Prods. Corp. v. Stewart, 414 Mass. 721 , 722-723 (1993); Packaging Indus. Group, Inc. v. Cheney, 380 Mass. 609 , 617 (1980). In cases invoking the public interest, the moving party must also demonstrate that the requested order promotes the public interest or will not adversely affect the public. Commonwealth v. Mass. CRINC, 392 Mass. 79 , 89 (1984). The public interest is not implicated in this case and, as is set forth below, Mr. Geiger having failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits, this court need not undertake the irreparable harm analysis.
Likelihood Of Success On The Merits
"Title by adverse possession can be acquired only by proof of nonpermissive use which is actual, open, notorious, exclusive and adverse for twenty years." Lawrence v. Concord, 439 Mass. 416 , 421 (2003) quoting Kendall v. Selvaggio, 413 Mass. 619 , 621-622 (1992), which in turn quotes Ryan v. Stavros, 348 Mass. 251 , 262 (1964). "The burden of proof extends to all of the necessary elements of such possession . . . If any of these elements is left in doubt, the claimant cannot prevail." Holmes v. Johnson, 324 Mass. 450 , 453 (1949), citing Gadreault v. Hillman, 317 Mass. 656 , 661 (1945).
In this case, the parties dispute whether Mr. Geiger's lawn maintenance activities, standing alone, suffice as a matter of law to constitute an open and adverse use of the Disputed Area. Mr. Geiger points to Miller v. Abramson, 95 Mass. App. Ct. 828 , 829 (2019) for the proposition that "mowing, fertilizing, and occasional trimming of trees and shrubs" is sufficient to establish adverse use as a matter of law. The LLC contends instead that, although lawn maintenance has been a factor in finding adverse possession, the cases have generally relied on more than lawn maintenance standing alone, citing Shoer v. Daffe, 337 Mass. 420 (1958); Collins v. Cabral, 348 Mass. 787 (1965) (rescript); and Shaw v. Solari, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 151 (1979). As noted by this court in Mullins v. HD/MW Randolph Ave., LLC, 25 LCR 221 , 224 (2017) (Speicher, J.), "the peculiar characteristics of a particular area, such as its size (usually its rather small size), may render more routine cultivation and maintenance sufficient despite the lack of accompanying structures or major landscape alterations." However, in every case that this court reviewed, including those cited in Mullins, factors in addition to lawn maintenance supported the adverse possessor's claim. See Shoer, supra (the lawn at issue was enclosed with a privet hedge); Miller v. Abramson, supra (there was a natural boundary of trees and shrubs and the appendix shows that a patio was constructed in part on the disputed area); Pedonti v. Fantasia, 2011 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 286 (disputed area was set off by a retaining wall, concrete blocks, a stone pillar and a hedge); Thomas v. DiPinto, 2008 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 352 (the disputed area was bounded by thick impenetrable brush on one side and a fence or hedge on another); McNeill v. Miller, 2007 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 437 (the disputed area was set off by a fence); MacDonald v. McGillvary, 35 Mass. App. Ct. 902 (1993) (the disputed area was set off by a fence). Accordingly, this court concludes that Mr. Geiger's use of the Disputed Area, consisting solely of lawn maintenance, was not open and adverse.
On that ground alone, Mr. Geiger is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his claim. On this record, Mr. Geiger has also failed to establish that his use was exclusive, which provides an additional ground for denying injunctive relief.
To be exclusive, "[s]uch use must encompass a 'disseisin' of the record owner. And this means exclusion not only of that owner but of all third persons to the extent that the owner would have excluded them." Peck v. Bigelow, 34 Mass. App. Ct. 551 , 557 (1993) (citations omitted). Accord Brandao v. Docanto, 80 Mass. App. Ct. 151 , 158 (2011) ("A claimant's use is 'exclusive' for purposes of establishing title by adverse possession if such use excludes not only the record owner but 'all third persons to the extent that the owner would have excluded them.'") quoting Peck, 34 Mass. App. Ct. at 557. "Acts of enclosure or cultivation are evidence of exclusive possession." Labounty v. Vickers, 352 Mass. 337 , 349 (1967). "[A] use or possession which is not adverse to the owner, or which is concurrent with that of others, or which does not exclude a similar use or possession by others, will not confer a title in fee, however long continued." Eastern R. Co. v. Allen, 135 Mass. 13 , 16 (1883).
Here, Mr. Geiger did not fence off or take any other steps that would preclude use of the Disputed Area by others, such as erecting structures or planting trees or shrubs. He did not incorporate the Disputed Area into his irrigation system by placing any portion of his system within its boundaries. And, on this record, others, in the form of the Wards' landscaping service, in fact continued to go on the Disputed Area seasonally to undertake the Wards' own lawn maintenance activities.
Because the court has concluded that, on this record, Mr. Geiger is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his adverse possession claim for failure to establish that his use was open, adverse or exclusive for twenty years, it is unnecessary to weigh the irreparable harm to each party in determining whether a preliminary injunction should issue. The court also notes that it has made no determination as to whether Mr. Geiger has provided satisfactory proof of the other elements of his claim.
The LP Motion
Pursuant to G.L. c. 184, §15, the statute governing the issuance of a lis pendens, "[u]pon motion of a party, if the subject matter of the action constitutes a claim of a right to title to real property or the use and occupation thereof or buildings thereon, a justice of the court in which the action is pending shall make a finding to that effect and endorse the finding upon the memorandum." Here, Mr. Geiger has filed the LP Motion, his complaint asserts a claim of a right to title to the Disputed Area, and he has satisfied the procedural requirements of §15(b).
For the foregoing reasons, the PI Motion is DENIED and the LP Motion is ALLOWED. The endorsement on the memorandum of lis pendens and required findings will issue separately.
[Note 1] The court takes judicial notice of this plan, recorded in the Norfolk Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 553 of 1957 in Plan Book 204. Mass. G. Evid. Rule 201.
[Note 2] Affidavit of John Bruno, sworn to on July 24, 2020 ("Bruno Aff.") ¶ 6 and Ex. 2.
[Note 3] Both parties address communications between counsel and between Mr. Geiger and the LLC's manager, Mr. John Bruno ("Mr. Bruno"), during January through June 2020. Because those communications are not germane to the issue of whether Mr. Geiger has established a likelihood of success on the merits of his adverse possession claim, they are not further addressed in this memorandum of decision.
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Q: Is there any existing service in HotDocs tools to receive data from an external source to prepare a document? HotDocs is a tool to generate documents and basically it carries 2 things. First is temple and second is answer file. Template carries variables and data to those variables are pushed through answer file.
Generally answer file is page where is it asks for data and further it generates a document.
Now our requirement is - instead of passing variable's values through answer file, I need to send through a API built using PHP which provides data in JSON format.
IS there any exiting service in HotDocs to serve this kind requests?. I can change the data from JSON to XML if required.

A: At the moment there is no off the shelf converter from JSON to HotDocs Answer XML however, at HotDocs we do this all the time. If you produce either JSON or XML from your application the data will need to be transformed into the HotDocs answer XML format - e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AnswerSet title="Demo Answers" version="1.1">
    <Answer name="Employee Name">
        <TextValue>Graham Penman</TextValue>
    </Answer>
    <Answer name="Job Duty">
        <RptValue>
            <TextValue>make tea</TextValue>
            <TextValue>make coffee</TextValue>
            <TextValue>make some cake</TextValue>
        </RptValue>
    </Answer>
    <Answer name="Annual Salary">
        <NumValue>12.0000000</NumValue>
    </Answer>
    <Answer name="Contract Date">
        <DateValue>10/10/2016</DateValue>
    </Answer>
    <Answer name="Paid Seminar Days">
        <TFValue>false</TFValue>
    </Answer>
</AnswerSet>

There are three key things you need to know to create the answer XML: The data type of your data, the data type in HotDocs and whether the data you are passing is a list or single item.
So to build the answer XML is relatively easy.
The answer XML is essentially key value pairs being contained between the opening and closing tags:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <AnswerSet title="Demo Answers" version="1.1">
 ...Answers go here
 </AnswerSet>

We then add answers in by adding the following and specifying the variable in the template the answer corresponds to, the actual value (from your data) you want to set the answer to and also the type of data it is in the template - in the example below it is text however, the type in HotDocs are: TextValue (string), NumValue (decimal), TFValue (boolean), DateValue (DateTime) and MCValue (see later on in this answer).
<Answer name="[Variable name in template]">
     <TextValue>[Value from your data]</TextValue>
</Answer>

For multiple choices specifically you can select one or more answers so the answer XML format is slightly different:
<Answer name="[Variable name in template]">
     <MCValue>
          <SelValue>[First selected value]</SelValue>
          <SelValue>[Second selected value]</SelValue>
     </MCValue>
</Answer>

If you have repeated data you want to put into the document you can use the list repeat format:
<Answer name="[Variable name in template]">
    <RptValue>
        <[Variable Type]>[First value]</[Variable Type]>
        <[Variable Type]>[Second value]</[Variable Type]>
    </RptValue>
</Answer>

Once you build this XML structure you can pass this into the assemble document method on the REST services as a string with the template to assemble the corresponding documents.

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After the return of the holidays most of us resume their workouts. After one or several weeks without exercise and being very relaxed it is necessary that we go to train with a suitable predisposition to avoid problems.
We must bear in mind that not having performed any type of activity on vacation is important to know that our muscles are very relaxed and we need to re-stimulate them and prepare them for exercise and effort. A good way to start is doing long and intensive sessions of stretching and warming . This phase is the most important when it comes to training, as it will prepare the muscles for the subsequent exercise. Stretching and warm-up will activate our circulation and prepare the fibers for the effort that exercise will entail.
The most common advice to return to the workouts is to put the body to the point, and for that the haste are never good companions. It is necessary to return the exercise is slow and relaxed , making the muscles become gradually acclimating back to the routine of workouts. This acclimatization will get us to avoid some scares such as muscle overload that can lead to tendinitis, contractures or muscle injuries.
When it comes to resuming workout routines it is essential to control weight loads, and it is that we can go hand in hand and we can do much damage without realizing it. For this, it is necessary that at least the first two weeks, we are able to acclimate to the exercise and the routines by controlled exercises with soft loads that simply serve us to get ready and to re-condition the muscles to give the step to the use of loads greater.
Start training again with the routine with which we went is a good alternative. It is not advisable to start with new exercises that we do not know, since not being one hundred percent we can run the risk of injuring ourselves. It is important and advisable to keep this routine for about a month to change it and introduce new exercises.
Another alternative to get started is to do so through a combination of exercises that touch every part of the body and every muscle group in the same training session, and thus not force any of them, but simply to condition them to deal with a workout much more Complete past the two-week period we recommend to catch up in the training room.
It is very important, and we must not forget to keep muscles stress free, and it stretches are important, especially when you have not trained. That is why it is necessary that we dedicate enough time to carry them out.
As always advise is important that the exercise routines should always be accompanied by good food, that is the basis for optimal physical condition, of course, we suggest that training after the return of the holidays are led by a personal trainer qualified since it will make that such adjustment of our body is in the best possible way.


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Gustaf Gründgens (December 22, 1899 - October 7, 1963) was one of Germany's most famous actors of the 20th century. His single most famous role was that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust, which is by many still considered having been the best interpretation of the role ever given.
Gründgens was also involved in one of the most famous literary cases of 20th century Germany, as the subject of a book by Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann, who wrote a novel entitled "Mephisto", which was a barely veiled bellicose account of the life of Gründgens. The book portrayed its main character as having shady connections with the Nazi regime. A lawsuit ensued as well as a controversy about libel and the freedom of fiction. Anyhow, their relation was a complicated one, since Gründgens was at one point married to Erika Mann, Klaus' sister, and the three had together worked in the theater, and both men have been homosexuals, a topic avoided in the novel.de:Gustaf Gründgens eo:Gustaf GRÜNDGENS nl:Gustav Gründgens pt:Gustaf Gründgens
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No matter how long your stay in Egypt, whether one day or one year, make it a point to stop in the Valley of the Queens. You can visit the one place which could truly take you back over three thousand years - the Tomb of Nefertari.
The drive from our hotel in Luxor to the ticket booth was only twenty minutes; my heart was beating heavily with excitement. This was going to be the day that I witnessed astounding beauty!
What would most impress a tourist in Egypt? The Great Pyramid? Definitely, it is as amazing as it is mind-boggling. King Tut's Treasures at the Cairo Museum? They are astounding. The Temples of Karnak and Luxor? Both make you stop and wonder what life must have been like for the Ancient Egyptians. And what about Abu Simbel? The magnitude and beauty from these temples emanates the power of Ramses the Great and his most loved wife Nefertari. Obviously each of these is impressive and truly unforgettable; they leave you with a feeling that words can not express.
In addition to the above-mentioned wonders, there exists a special place, which includes all the astounding beauty, the power and amazing talents of the Ancient Egyptians. It shows the deep love of a man for his wife. If there is a place where the walls speak, it is none other than the Tomb of Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens in Thebes.
It did not matter that the admission fee was 100 Egyptian Pounds, nor that I would only have ten precious moments in which to take it all in.
he sun shown brightly as we approached the entrance to the Valley of the Queens. As I began walking from the lot towards the entrance of the Valley, the anticipation was almost too much to handle.
This tomb is an ancient marvel with its bright living colors and amazing beauty. Of all the tombs discovered in Egypt, the Tomb of Nefertari is the most colorful, most dramatic and most well preserved. It is true there are many tombs throughout Egypt, which are wonderfully decorated, but none is as vivid as Nefertari's. The artisans talent gives all those who enter this tomb the overwhelming feeling time has stood still since 1255 BC when Nefertari died at a young age.
The biggest question in my mind as I witnessed this marvel was - how? How did it remain in such pristine shape? I felt so honored to be present in Nefertari's tomb.
In 1986, The Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Getty Conservation Institute combined their efforts to combat the demise of the paintings from the effects of salt, moisture and flooding. The job was both time-consuming and extremely delicate. There was to be no restoration of the paintings; only conservation methods were to be used. In 1987, after thoroughly documenting the tombs' features and decorations, the institute proceeded to temporarily bandage the paintings that were separating from the walls. The conservationists used small bandages of Japanese mulberry bark paper. Then, over a six-year period, the meticulous work continued. The group was able to stabilize the deterioration which had occurred.
The biggest mistake I could have made would have been not treasuring every moment of my time spent in Nefertari's Tomb.
Egypt is a beautiful country. Many of the works of the ancients have survived to this day to tell us their amazing story. Sometimes the artwork is in outstanding condition, other times the artwork is in ruins but in Nefertari's Tomb, the artwork is alive and it tells wonderful tales of what the Ancient Egyptians felt was in the other world. As I walked slowly into the tomb, the colors just jumped off the wall. My first reaction was the tomb was too beautiful to be authentic. As I slowly walked through savoring all of the details and realized this tomb has survived over 3,000 years, it made me smile. I smiled because I was proud - proud I was in Egypt to see this. I smiled because I was amazed - amazed at the wonders I was seeing. And I smiled because I was privileged, truly privileged to be in this amazing country. And I was privileged to be right in the center of history!
As I explored Egypt, I felt an incredible happiness as I traveled from one amazing place to another. I also felt the true sorrow (or letdown) which inevitably takes place when you've left someplace you looked forward to seeing. Egypt will have this effect. Egypt has much more to offer the historian, scholar, explorer, and vacationer who can spend any amount of time. The one thing you definitely can count on is you will want to come back!


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HIV solution from bee venom? 'Too soon to tell' despite Internet buzz
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By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times - Monday, March 11, 2013
A study showing that a toxin in bee venom can kill HIV has set the Internet abuzz, but some veterans in the battle against HIV/AIDS caution that such early findings should always be greeted with caution.
"So, is bee venom the next big thing" in fighting HIV, asked Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, a global advocacy organization for AIDS prevention. "Don't know. Too soon to tell," he said.
The bee-venom study was published recently in the journal Antiviral Therapy by Washington University School of Medicine researchers in St. Louis.
Their news made headlines a few days after the federal government said a child had been "functionally cured" of HIV, thanks to months of receiving antiretroviral medicines.
Typically, these treatments permit people to manage their infections, but they are not a cure.
According to authors of the study, the toxin in bee venom — known as melittin — was lethal to HIV in laboratory tests.
Melittin was loaded into nanoparticles and inserted into human cells. When the melittin-infused nanoparticles met normal cells, they were harmless. But when they contacted the HIV, they "ruptureDiamonds " the virus's protective coat and killed it.
"We are attacking an inherent physical property of HIV," said Dr. Joshua L. Hood, a research instructor in medicine at Washington University. "Theoretically, there isn't any way for the virus to adapt" to defeat the toxin, he added, noting that "the virus has to have a protective coat."
The new bee-venom therapy could be delivered in a topical vaginal gel or through an injection into the bloodstream of an HIV-infected person, wrote Dr. Hood and his colleagues, adding that they hope to proceed with additional trials to test such a gel.
Mr. Warren of AVAC said that while exciting scientific news should always be celebrated, "there's a lot that happens between a publication like this and an actual product that would then potentially have an impact on the epidemic."
Just recently, Mr. Warren noted, public-health officials had to report that a major study of African women asked to use an HIV-prevention therapy called tenofovir every day failed to reduce HIV infections.
Those disappointing results came "20 years after some of the earliest work looking at tenofovir," Mr. Warren said. So saying "we are one step closer" to ending AIDS may mean we are "only a tiny step closer."
On March 3, the National Institutes of Health released news that a Mississippi toddler born with HIV was "functionally cured" — had no detectable levels of virus or any signs of disease.
In that case, the baby — who tested positive for HIV several times — was given three kinds of anti-HIV drugs at birth and sent home with more medicine; the treatment continued for 18 months.
When the child was seen by a doctor again in the fall of 2012, there were "no identifiable levels of HIV in the body," pediatric HIV/AIDS researchers Dr. Deborah Persaud and Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga told the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Their research had been funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, both entities within NIH.
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic peaked around 1999, according to a 2010 report issued by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS' report. However, as of 2009, despite major inroads in prevention and treatment, there were 2.6 million new HIV infections, 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and 1.8 million deaths resulting from the infection in 2009, the agency said.
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13 Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel, 2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. 3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear." 4 And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.