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Wednesday June 30th, Michael Jackson left his hotel in Paris in the early afternoon. He went to Rambouillet, a town 75km in the West of Paris. His visit there was cut short by unwelcome paparazzi followers. Michael had to return to his hotel because he couldn't get rid of them and didn't want the purpose of his visit to Rambouillet to be reported.
Later in the afternoon, by 7 p.m., Michael and friends of his went out to see "The Matrix", a movie that's just out in France. They drove to the Champs-Elys es where most theatres are located.
Skipper Nagin, Michael's bodyguard, tried to get tickets for the movie in a theatre down the famous avenue. Unfortunately, the movie had already started there. So they went to another place. Skipper bought tickets first, then Michael and his party walked in the theatre when the lights were out and sat in the last row.
Before the "Matrix" began, Skipper brought Michael and his friends popcorn and cokes.
The King of Pop was disquised in an Arabian fashion with an orange scarf, his mask, a red shirt, black trousers and a pair of sneakers.
When the movie was over, Michael and his guests sneaked out of the theatre through a side exit and got in their car that was waiting there.
It was the second time Michael watched "The Matrix". He already saw the movie in New York a few months ago.
Michael asks fans not to come and see him in Paris as he currently wishes to be left alone.
01/07/1999 Michael's Toy Story
Paris, Thursday July 1st. Michael left his hotel today at 4:45 p.m. and went to Le Forum des Halles, a big shopping mall in the center of Paris. His car entered Le Forum through the deliveries entrance. He spent a few minutes at "L'Escale", a toy store inside the mall, but didn't buy anything there. While he was in the store, he tried to play with a Nintendo 64 system but couldn't as it wasn't turned on. He also watched closely a life-size statue of Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider heroine, and touched her arms and hips to feel the material.
Afterwards, he went to La Samaritaine, a famous department store. He visited the toy department and bought a lot of toys, including "Batman" puppets and the "Toy Story" dinosaure (Michael picked up the one that was on presentation on a shelf instead of a brand new boxed copy).
Michael was followed and bothered by paparazzi during his whole shopping spree. They hid in the stores and took pictures of him constantly.
Michael wasn't disguised. He wore his black trousers, a red shirt, his mask, hat and glasses, and a pair of sneakers (to ease on his slightly sprained ankle).
Michael was accompanied by a big escort on his short escapade. He drove in a BMW car (with Prince, Paris and Skipper) and was followed by a van (with friends, a nurse and bodyguards), a taxi (with more bodyguards), and a motorcycle policeman.
Michael was back at his hotel by 7 p.m..
03/07/1999 A Strange Gift
Today, Friday June 2nd, Michael didn't leave his Parisian hotel. He stayed in-doors the whole day. By 7 p.m., however, a surprising scene happened. The paparazzi that have been following Michael restlessly in Paris for the last few days offered the King of Pop a strange gift. They arranged a box full of bathroom accessories to be brought up to his suite. Among the gifts were a bathrobe and towels embroidered with the names of Prince and Paris. A strange gift...
04/07/1999 Working in Paris
On Saturday July 3rd, Michael spent the afternoon and the evening in a studio near Paris, working on a special project for the new album.
05/07/1999 Another working day in Paris
Sunday July 4th, Michael spent another afternoon and evening working in a studio near Paris.
05/07/1999 Michael moves out
Today, at 2 a.m., Michael left the hotel Plaza Ath n in Paris where he had been staying for the past few days. He went to another hotel.
Although Michael didn't move out in order to escape from his fans or the media, he doesn't wish to reveal his whereabouts for the time being. Therefore, we won't publish the name of his new hotel, although it is already all over the French media.
Today, Michael didn't work; he spent the whole afternoon enjoying himself.
07/07/1999 Another day in Paris
Tuesday July 6th, Michael spent another day in Paris. He had leisure activities in the afternoon with Prince and Paris, and business meetings in the evening.
His whereabouts are still not to be announced as he wishes to enjoy some time away from the public eye.
Michael is expected to go back to New York City by the end of the week-end.
11/07/1999 Michael in Paris - Update
Michael is still in Paris, enjoying time with his family. Debbie arrived Friday 9th and stays with her husband and children at the same hotel. (Michael's whereabouts are still not to be revealed)
The King of Pop was planning on leaving Paris this week-end. However, he's just extended his stay. He's now expected to leave next Wednesday or Thursday. He's enjoying his time in Paris so much that he postponed all of the business meetings he had this week in the USA.
To clear up a rumor, planetjackson.com informs you that Michael didn't shoot any video in Paris last week. His working in a studio was not related to the making of a video for the new album. For the time being, the purpose of his spending two days in a studio is not to be developped. That is Michael's request.
14/07/1999 Michael leaves the Disneyland Hotel
Michael left the Disneyland Hotel Tuesday night, July 13th. He had spent last week there, enjoying time with his children at the Disneyland Paris resort.
15/07/1999 Michael in South Africa
Tuesday night July 13th, Michael left Paris and flew to South Africa. He landed in Johannesburg and went to the Sun City resort where he is currently staying.
Michael is in South Africa with his children on vacation.
18/07/1999 Michael Attends Nelson Mandela's Birthday Party
Sunday July 18th, while in South Africa on a vacation trip, Michael Jackson attended the private party Nelson Mandela (81) held for his family and close friends at his Johannesburg estate.
The King of Pop and his children stayed for lunch. Later in the afternoon, they went back to the Sun City resort where they're staying.
19/07/1999 Slight Change in Schedule - Update
Michael was expected to turn in song samples from the new album by the end of this month. However, due to several delays, Sony Music won't get the expected material on time. Therefore, a slight change in the schedule has been made. Michael is now expected to turn in a sampler of his new album by early August.
This slight change does not affect the planned November 9th commercial release date.
22/07/1999 Back to the USA
Currently in South Africa, Michael is expected to fly back to Los Angeles this week-end.
24/07/1999 Quote from Monica
18 years old American R&B singer Monica recently gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times in which she was quoted as saying:
"One of the turning points in my life was the first concert I attended. It was Michael Jackson. I was 7 years old. After seeing such a good show, I had an entirely different interest in the artist and in music."
26/07/1999 Michael in London
On his way back to the USA from South Africa, Michael stopped in England for a short stay. He arrived in London on Sunday July 25th and attended business meetings on Monday.
27/07/1999 Michael's Note
Monday July 26th, Michael sent out a note to the fans waiting outside the Dorchester, his Londonian hotel.
The note read: "Expect my Millennium album very soon. It will be very exciting! I'm not feeling too well but I'll be better soon".
(wording of this transcription may slightly differ from the original note)
The King of Pop is expected to leave London Tuesday 27th.
27/07/1999 Quotes from Rodney Jerkins
The Los Angeles Times recently published an interview with Rodney Jerkins. About working with the King of Pop, the young R&B producer stated:
Michael Jackson was my biggest wish ever. He's pushed me more than any artist or record company. We had a lot of fun; I'd play the music real loud and we'd go crazy pumpin' fists, clappin', cheerin'. His drive is unbelievable. He would call me at 5 in the morning, in the studio, and I'd be like, What are you doin' up? And he'd say, I just want to make sure everything's goin' right.' There's a lot of pressure, working with a Michael Jackson or a Whitney Houston. There's no two or three pitches if you miss once, you don't get a second chance.
Rodney Jerkins was also recently interwied by Billboard Magazine:
My basic approach as a producer is to really study who I'm working with. I try to know them before they get to the studio. When I worked with Michael, I listened to all his CDs. I studied him so much that when he hears what I'm doing, it's a combination of the old Michael with something new.
28/07/1999 Quote from Phil Collins
English singer and producer Phil Collins was recently interviewed by American newspaper Daily News. Asked about Michael Jackson, he said:
"The people who don't want anything from him are children. Everyone else wants something. They want to flirt with glory... He's a tabloid victim."
29/07/1999 Official Announcement
Today, Sony Music has officially announced that they should get the tapes of Michael's new album by the end of August.
The title of the album should then be revealed...
30/07/1999 Michael's studio session in Paris
Contrary to a press release available on the Sony Music France internet site, Michael Jackson did not record a song while in France in July.
His going to a studio near Paris was not related to the recording of a new track or the shooting of a video.
30/07/1999 Press Conference
On August 29th, Michael Jackson is planning on attending a press conference to announce his Millennium projects.


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Kavya Shetty Wiki/Biography
Kavya Shetty is an Indian film actress and model who predominantly works in the Kannada film industry. She has also appeared in a few Tamil films. Kavya is a professional model who took part in the 2011 Femina Miss India beauty pageant. She went on to work as a commercial model, before venturing into acting. She made her acting debut in the 2013 Kannada film Nam Duniya Nam Style directed by Preetham Gubbi.
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Kavya Shetty Physical Stats & More
|Height (approx.)||in centimeters– 170 cm
in meters– 1.70 m
in feet inches– 5’ 7”
|Weight (approx.)||in kilograms– 55 kg
in pounds– 121 lbs
|Figure Measurements (approx.)||34-26-34|
Kavya Shetty Personal Life
|Date of Birth||10 June 1988|
|Age (as in 2018)||30 Years|
|Birthplace||Mangalore, Karnataka, India|
|Zodiac sign/Sun sign||Gemini|
|Hometown||Mangalore, Karnataka, India|
|College/University||Institute: N. M. A. M. Institute of Technology, Nitte|
|Educational Qualification||CSE (Computer Science Engineering)|
|Debut||Kannada Cinema: Nam Duniya Nam Style (2013)
Telugu Cinema: Shivani (2014)
|Hobbies||Traveling, Reading Books, Photography|
Kavya Shetty Family
|Parents||Father– Manohar Shetty (Economics Professor)
Mother– Vasanthi Shetty (Retired Bank Employee)
Kavya Shetty Favourite Things
|Favourite Food||Sea Food|
|Favourite Actor||Bradley Cooper|
|Favourite Film||P.S. I Love You|
|Favourite Sportsman||David Beckham|
Facts About Kavya Shetty
- Kavya Shetty was born into a Mangalorean family in Karnataka.
- She started her career as a model after completing the graduation in Computer Science Engineering.
- The Fashion Guru Prasad Bidapa is the man behind her success; as he recognized her talent and skills and carved it by promoting her to several ramp walks.
- She is one of the most prominent faces of the Indian advertisement industry. She has worked for several prints and television commercials including Reliance Jewels, Psr, Club Mahindra, Malabar Gold, Toyota Altis, Palam Skills, Clinic Plus, and Santoor.
- She is an Indian film actress and commercial model who typically works for Kannada Cinema. She also appeared in some Tamil movies including Shivani and Idhu Enna Maayam.
- She got fame in the South film industry after the huge success of her movie Ishtakamya directed by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar.
- She earned the Miss Photogenic title at 2011 Femina Miss India.
- She was one of the finalists in the “Ford Models Supermodel of the World” contest in New Delhi.
- She has worked for a few Kannada and Telugu films which include Nam Duniya Nam Style, Shivani, Ishtakamya, Zoom, Smile Please, Sahara, and more.

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Efficient, flexible technologies will be needed to meet 100-percent renewable targets
Johnny Lieu for Mashable: Researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia are testing solar cells that use electronic inks printed on plastic film to conduct electricity.
NEXTracker's milestone demonstrates India's accelerating shift to clean energy
New York 'Energy Czar' Recognized for Efforts to Accelerate Renewable Energy Adoption Across the State
Today the Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 392, establishing a new statewide community solar program that will ensure that renters, low-income families, and others have the opportunity to participate in the state's growing clean energy economy.
The near completion of the world's first floating offshore wind farm, Statoil's Hywind pilot park in Scotland, UK, is a notable example of MacGregor's capabilities. It will feature Pusnes substructure connection mooring systems from MacGregor, which have been delivered and will be installed when the hulls are complete.
Conference Background 2nd Annual ASEAN Solar+ Energy Storage Congress & Expo 2017 is the largest congress focusing on solar and energy storage market in ASEAN. The event will take place in Manila, the capital of Philippines, on November 14-15, 2017. Investors over the world are gradually realizing the potentials of energy storage market in ASEAN, especially Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. Participants from governments, utilities, independent energy producers, energy storage products manufacturers, consulting companies, associate as well as other related sectors are invited to together discuss applications, opportunities and challenges for solar and energy storage development in ASEAN market.
Great New Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited confirms to join ASEC2017 !
APsystems joined the approved vendor list for Dividend Solar, a leading home-energy financing platform. The agreement brings APsystems advanced microinverter technology to Dividend's portfolio of top-tier, consumer-friendly solar products.
Group strengthens its offering with enhanced strategies and investments to support the Offshore Wind sector. Turnkey cable solutions, Project engineering, State-of-the-art cable technologies and monitoring & maintenance services all on display
Natural Power, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier and SubC Partner have joined forces to launch www.Offshorewindspect.com - a new force in offshore wind turbine inspections which brings together a market-leading cooperative that is dedicated to reducing downtime.
WorleyParsons China, the country's largest international engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) provider, has been awarded a detailed engineering design contract with a major global polysilicon manufacturer.
Today, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) issued a statement on the Nevada Legislature's passing of a bill that re-opens the residential solar market in the state, which had been all but frozen since a 2015 regulatory decision.
Silicor Materials Announces Production of PERC Mono Cells at 20% Efficiency Using Its Standard Solar Silicon
Silicor Materials, Inc., a manufacturer of high-quality solar silicon and aluminum by-products, announced today that in its first ever attempt, the company has produced p-type mono PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Cell) cells at approximately 20 percent efficiency, using 100 percent of its standard silicon feedstock.
Sonal Patel for Power Mag: The world's offshore wind sector, which has been at near-standstill in the U.S. owing to high costs and technical limitations, is poised to see a fierce developmental gust that can be attributed to several factors.
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I'm loading up on Nordex this week (NRDXF.PK)
For anyone unfamiliar with Nordex, they are one of the fastest-growing companies in the wind energy market. Right now they are ramping up their operations in China and the US, with tons of orders coming in, especially for American windfarms located in the midwest. They recently opened a manufactuing plant in Arkansas, and they have plans to hire a lot of new employees to support their growth in the US.
Right now, the stock is around $12/share. I don't think we will see it go any lower. And I would almost guarantee that if you buy it right now and hold the stock for the next 5 years, you will see outstanding returns. The wind energy market is expected to grow at least 25% per year over that period... and Nordex is one of the most well-managed companies in the industry, so I would expect them to outperform the industry as a whole. Get in before it's too late.

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As previously mentioned in this blog, all covered employers under the new electronic recordkeeping regulation were required to electronically file their 2016 300A form by December 30, 2017. As of January 1, 2018, OSHA no longer accepted the 2016 data. During the filing period, OSHA indicated approximately one-third of the establishments that were required to file did not do so.
In February this year, OSHA instructed compliance officers to begin inquiries into whether businesses had complied with the electronic recordkeeping rule and that it would issue an other-than-serious citation for failing to do so. The maximum penalty for such a classification is currently $12,934. OSHA’s deadline to issue such a citation expires on June 15, 2018.
OSHA has also indicated that it may eliminate the electronic filing requirement that employers with 250 or more employees must submit their OSHA 300 logs and 301 incident reports due to privacy concerns of personal information. As mentioned above, it waived such requirement for the 2016 forms.
For covered employers that have missed the 2016 filing deadline, it would still be prudent to review all of its OSHA forms to ensure they are properly completed in case OSHA comes knocking. It may not necessarily prevent the issuance of an other-than-serious citation required by the electronic submission rule but doing so could be help prevent additional recordkeeping citations and/or negotiating down the penalty particularly when businesses are aware OSHA is currently focused on this issue.

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The Murdochs and shareholders are bracing to hear from independent committees set up to assess the blockbuster $US27 billion ($39.2 billion) proposal to reunite News Corp with US-entertainment company Fox via a merger.
The two committees composed of independent board members from News Corp and Fox have been analysing the merits of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s plan to recombine the family’s sprawling media assets under one umbrella since October.
The proposal’s special committees may give the first indication about whether they will give the green light to the deal this month, said a person familiar with the matter. Other details such as a valuation for the combined company may come with the initial guidance from the committees, the person said.
The groups’ non-Murdoch affiliated directors are led by UK-based investor Masroor Siddiqui for News Corp and former BHP chairman Jac Nasser for Fox.
It is the first hurdle the Murdochs must clear if they are to push ahead with the merger, which would combine News Corp’s US, UK and Australian newspaper operations, digital real estate assets and book publisher Harper Collins with Fox’s US-based Fox News and Fox Sports brands.
The second will be a vote from both company’s shareholders, which the Murdochs have said they will sit out. The Murdochs own about 40 per cent of the voting shares in both companies and said they will not vote unless non-Murdoch shareholders grant approval.
Will Granger from Australia-based Airlie Funds Management, which has a small shareholding in News Corp, has been waiting to hear from the committees. But as it stands, he prefers not to see the merger go forward.
“We don’t see much of a commercial rationale for the merger, and we like our shareholding in News Corp – we think the business owns a collection of high-quality assets that are deeply undervalued by the market – so we don’t want our ownership in News Corp to be diluted by a merger at the current market price” Mr Granger said.
The fund manager is one of several News Corp shareholders who have spoken out publicly against the Murdochs’ proposal as it currently stands.
US investment giant T Rowe Price and UK-based Independent Franchise Partners are two of the bigger stockholders who have already spoken against the re-merger. Analysts and shareholders have suggested selling off or spinning out some of the company’s businesses to get shareholders on board with the merger.
The two assets within News Corp targeted for possible sales or spin-outs are the money-making, digital real estate assets, which includes its 61 per cent holding in Australia’s REA, and Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Analysts have argued both assets within the $US11 billion conglomerate are being undervalued, dragged down by some of the company’s UK and Australian newspaper operations and stake in pay-TV operator Foxtel.
Mr Granger said Dow Jones, which made $US433 million in EBITDA last financial year, would be a good candidate to spin out of the company.
“We think there’s a huge amount of value on offer in News Corp, particularly in the Dow Jones segment ... it has gone through a significant transformation over the past decade.
“It has transitioned away from the old ad-reliant model to one that now focuses on maximising digital subscriptions, the benefits of which are only now starting to show up in the financials.”
But sources say the likelihood of the Murdochs breaking apart News Corp in search of shareholder approval may be slim because of the executives’ personal attachment to the businesses.
Lachlan Murdoch was behind the company’s initial investment in REA more than 20 years ago, while Rupert Murdoch is understood to believe that The Wall Street Journal is one of the jewels of the crown of his media empire.
News Corp insiders further express doubt about the Murdochs’ stated rationale for the proposed merger – that is, to scale up against the media and tech giants and pursue new businesses opportunities, particularly in online betting.
A Rebekah return?
The moves have sparked questions about whether the merger has been designed to consolidate the Murdoch family’s media empire behind Lachlan – Rupert’s anointed successor.
But what roles Lachlan and other senior executives take in a re-merged News Corp-Fox business have also been the topic of speculation. A report from online news website Daily Beast this week said UK-based executive Rebekah Brooks was being lined up to lead the recombined company.
Ms Brooks was forced to resign from the Murdochs’ News International in 2011 after becoming embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal at tabloid News of the World. She was eventually found not guilty on hacking charges in a London court and rejoined the renamed News UK as CEO in 2015.
Lachlan Murdoch would likely be named executive chairman of the new company created by the proposed merger, insiders say.
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Like most men and women, you are probably keen on getting rid of your double chin. In the age of social media and oversharing, everything is documented and exposed—including your more unflattering angles. But as individuals, we loathe the idea of letting society see our imperfections, such as loose or sagging skin. Genetics, lifestyle and aging can all affect the chin and neck areas in different ways. Dr. Stallworth is here to educate patients of all ages about the chin—and surgical options to improve its appearance.
Double Chins and Weak Chins
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Since the T5 slips were extremely slow to update this year, I filed an Taxpayer’s Ombudsman complaint.
Today I received the call from the CRA department responsible. They confirmed that there was a big problem this year. When a filing was flagged for certain follow up, the data was set aside and held for further review. Due to staff error, this data was left in limbo until the mid part of April 2018. As a result, large amounts of T5 data were updated in the last half of April. For example 2 million T5 records issued by TD Bank were not updated until at least 6 weeks after the T5 filing deadline.
I was assured that steps have been taken to ensure this does not happen in the future.


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Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Mulgrew's point of view, that the new budget agreement represents some sort of victory, that we've pushed back Cuomo, has little or nothing to do with mine. Amazingly, we've managed to move backwards at the behest of a governor at the low point of once massive popularity. Cuomo wanted more teachers fired and more schools closed, and it's very hard for me to see how his new budget doesn't achieve that.
At the NY Post, things are different. The Post's POV is based on something, but I have no idea what. Reading it, you'd think Mulgrew was all-powerful, laying down rules for the city to follow. This piece says teachers ought to reject Mulgrew because he's turned on us, supporting the new suspension regulations. I agree with the piece that the new regs may make our jobs more difficult, but I don't see that as reason to reject Mulgrew.
Were Mulgrew the omnipotent force described in the Post editorial, we wouldn't have gone six years without a contract, and we wouldn't have foregone the 8% increase most other city workers got between 2008-2010 for 10 years without interest. Teachers with permanent licenses would not have to reregister to renew them. We wouldn't be looking at mandatory failure of 5% of schools statewide, expedited dismissal procedures, a higher dependence on junk science, or any of the other nonsense our leadership failed to stop, let alone acknowledge in a recent email that now appears nothing short of delusional.
The Post argues that teachers have gotten more money for less time in the classroom, as though teachers are dancing in the streets over spending hours at tedious and wasteful meetings. I'd rather be with the kids, and I don't know a single teacher who feels otherwise. Of course, there's no evidence the Post bothered to consult a single teacher before writing this piece.
The Post continues, offering teachers an alternative to Mulgrew's selfish ways. We can work in charter schools, unencumbered by union. In the Post's universe, charters don't unionize because they don't want to pay dues or abide by those darn union rules. Who wants due process? Isn't it better to let Eva Moskowitz fire you outright because you have a bad haircut? Who wants to stand up for special needs kids who aren't served? Isn't it better to ignore the fact they don't get what they need at risk of losing your job?
The Post, evidently, has never heard of people being afraid to unionize. The Post has never heard of people being afraid for their jobs. In Post-land, Americans are happy to work at Walmart and Target for sub-living wages, with crappy or no benefits. In Post-land, teachers love bringing home cell phones to take parent calls on their own time, and there isn't enormous teacher turnover in charters. In my world, student teachers go all out to get jobs in public schools, and only resort to charters as a last resort.
The Post trots out the old canard about pervert teachers being protected by UFT, as though we are out on the streets cheering child abuse. No one wants that, and the Post doesn't bother with clauses in the UFT Contract that mandate immediate removal of anyone involved in inappropriate contact.
The Post plays into the widespread lie that there is some zombie plague of bad teachers that needs to be eradicated. It says it is nearly impossible to fire teachers, and conveniently ignores the new evaluation system, too young to even have been tested. It ignores the exodus of hundreds of ATR teachers as a result of the new contract, as well as new regulations that place those who remain at risk for no good reason.
Worst, it suggests, with no evidence whatsoever, that Cuomo is the best hope for schools. Personally, I have enormous issues with Mike Mulgrew as President of UFT. But I wouldn't resolve them by affiliating with an astroturf front group like E4E, or volunteering a slave to Eva Moskowitz. Like Governor Cuomo, the Post has not the slightest notion what it is to be a working teacher. This happens when you live in a bubble, taking in what you like and ignoring everything else. Post writers ought to spend more time with real working teachers.
So should Mulgrew. If he thinks there's anything good about the state budget, he needs to head for a classroom and talk to working teachers who aren't on the UFT Unity gravy train.
I am proud to be UFT, and I support my brother and sister teachers. Our union can do way better, but it's still our union. 80, 000 of us together do better than we would one at a time, with bowls in hand, asking Eva Moskowitz, "Please, ma'am, may I have some more?"
But that's exactly the Post's vision for working teachers. It's not good for us, and it's not good for the kids we serve. Who stands up for the kids? Who will fight for them, ALL of them?
UFT teachers will. That's our job, and it's on our minds every moment. There are reasons to reject our leadership. A big one is its abject failure to work against Cuomo during the election. Another is its ridiculous strategy of opposing him only on the budget, and failing to be aggressive on all the issues that came back to haunt us today. Yet another is its miserable inability to perceive what opt-out is or represents, let alone act on it.
I don't think Mulgrew shares the Post's vision of working people striking for more work and less pay. But for much of last night I wondered what sort of happy pills he must have taken before he wrote that outlandish email painting the state budget as a victory.


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Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi has agreed to a four-year deal with Spanish side Valencia, after Los Che beat off the team in pursuit of Mikel’s signature which includes Chinese moneybag Shanghai SIPG, Marseille and Inter Milan.
Mikel who has slipped down the pecking order under Antonio Conte and yet to feature for The Blues since he returned from the Olympics
However, Valencia sporting director Garcia Pitarch did confirm he had talks with the Chelsea midfielder over a possible transfer to the Mestalla stadium.
Speaking to Spanish news outlet Superdeporte: “In the case of Obi Mikel, with Chelsea’s permission, I met with him in London on Christmas day.
“I informed him of the option [of joining Valencia]. He said he would think about it.”
Valencia will sign the Nigerian international is to reinforce their squad, Los Che is with three wins in 15 La Liga games, are staying outside of the relegation zone on goal difference.
“Now we will have to evaluate the situation,” Garcia Pitarch stated
Mikel transfer may be put on hold as Valencia in search for a new head coach after Cesare Prandelli’s talks on resignation, the Italian stepped down after less than three months in charge.
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However, their exact source is not known. This stellar “cannon fire” has continued once every 8.5 years for at least the past 400 years, astronomers estimate. A NASA spokesman said: “The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon.” The current best explanation suggests the plasma balls were launched by an unseen companion star of V Hydrae. This star system could be the archetype to explain a dazzling variety of glowing shapes uncovered by Hubble that are seen around dying stars, called planetary nebulae. “This is the first time we are seeing this process in action,” said Raghvendra Sahai of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. But the details of how these jets were produced remained a mystery.


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Love, love, the brisket and kelaguen at ASU Smokehouse. The brisket melts in your mouth, and the kelaguen is done the right way. Local favorites, tourists must have.
My co-workers and I love this place! They have the best smoked meat dishes and we can't seem to get enough! The meat is tender and juicy and flavorful through and through. You can tell that it has been smoking for a while. The portions...More
Asu has a small menu in a small shop in a small island but has GREAT BIG FLAVORS in all their meats. It is slow cooked to perfection. This is one of Guam's hidden gems. This place needs to open a real sit down restaurant....More
Savor the smoked meats that is offered in this tiny take-out stall in the Chamorro Village. It's pricey, but it's worth the $$ for the meats are tender and just plain Good! It's best to go there during the week, but a word to the...More
Asu is the indigenous CHa'moru word for "smoke". A brainchild of one of Guam's political prodigies, Angel "Sonny" Orsini, Master Smoker (former Guam Senator). Asu's humble beginning was as an incubator business to share the Master Smoker's passion of smoking choice meats to perfection and...More
Good smoked meats are difficult to find. Smokehouses normally don't operate on a typical 9 to 5 schedule and Asu is no exception. They open at 11am and close at 2pm. There is one day where they open again during the weekly village festival, but...More
The secret recipe BBQ sauce is my favorite , the smokin' hot donne' dinanche has heat. The staff is friendly . My wife and I love the vinegar cabbage salad. Brisket is great. Generous portions. They Accept CREDIT CARD and accept over the phone orders....More
Another successful meal from Asu Smokehouse! We ordered the beef brisket and the pork shoulder. Each came with red rice and slaw, plus a bonus small container of their homemade BBQ sauce! I wish I would have known how good the sauce was so I...More
Awesome BBQ Joint in Chamorro village. It's a small shop but don't be fooled. It's a legit slow smoking joint with Guam spicy seasoning. Ordered the Pork shoulder and ribs. Excellent!! Good size portions. Juicy and well slow cooked smoke flavor. Just enough Chamorro spicy...More

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On-the-Go Recycling was a pilot by way of research for both Britvic, the NHS and shopping centre customers, and ran for 7 months. Every tonne of waste collected through the scheme produced up to £100 worth of raw materials to be locally recycled into new cans and bottles.
Recycling was one of the ways Britvic felt it could help create a cleaner and more sustainable local community.
The majority of consumers asked had noticed the new recycling hub areas and most said they had/would use them. As a result of the success the hospitals involved have pledged to change their behaviour and ensure they make more recycling easier for visitors to do.
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Is the first time the best time? No we are not talking sex.
Could another iteration of a game equal the experience of the original before it?
Before you had your chance at it, you heard people talk about it.
You check out this game, it has been hyped up to be one of the best games ever created. You give in so that you can experience this game especially with all the hype it has been receiving.
You open the package, rip the plastic off and gain instant satisfaction during your time of playing the game.
You lose over and over against the computer but you don’t care because you were playing the game that was hot for the moment.
Have sequels and or reboots of games lived up to the hype of their originals? Take Killer instinct for example, the hyper combo fighter debuted in 1994 and featured 2d combat with fast paced combos and fatality like finishers. There was a ton of inputs to master and the more you practiced the more you were rewarded.
Fast forward to 2013 and we see the digital release of Killer Instinct on the Xbox One. The game features the same combos minus the finishing moves that we were used to.
The graphics are beautiful with 3D models but has the game play changed? The answer to this question would vary depending on who you ask, I would say yes, the game is now a button mashers dream.
Don’t know a combo? Button mash your way to victory. The experience I had playing this game didn’t match up to the original. In my opinion the first time was the best time!
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As a fan of modern dance, this performance was right up near the top! The dancers were beautifully artistic and technically on point! I enjoyed the stage settings and backdrops and the feel of theatre which was blended in with the act of dancing. This gave the dancers, who usually don't interact with the audience vocally, an identity and personality! I really enjoyed this little bit of difference from other dance company performances. I would definitely see them again and recommend Nederlands Dans Theater to others. Well done!


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In today's Chargers news update, the San Diego Chargers have been named by one writer as a potential landing spot for recently-released Pro Bowl cornerback Brandon Flowers.
According to Bleacher Report's Gary Davenport, the problem is that the team only has about $2 million in cap space to take a shot at signing Flowers. However, if they could find a creative way to facilitate such a move, Davenport thinks they should jump on the opportunity.
"That doesn't mean they shouldn't try," Davenport writes. "Yes, the Chargers drafted TCU's Jason Verrett in the first round of May's draft. However, Verrett isn't a miracle worker, and the Chargers didn't place a cornerback in PFF's top 90 last year."
Another potential benefit of signing Flowers would be the fact that he is, just like Verrett, an undersized defensive back. Having the experience of becoming a top NFL quarterback despite what scouts would term as "ideal size," Flowers could potentially do wonders for Verrett if he was willing to take on a mentoring role.
Either way, the Chargers would have to do a lot of work on their books in order to make this a reality.
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This weekend, Scablands Books will release two poetry collections from the Spokane poets Ellen Welcker and Tim Greenup.
The boutique press is the brainchild of novelist Sharma Shields and is an offshoot of Scablands Lit, a nonprofit literary organization that supports artists and writers in the Inland Northwest.
The pair will read their work at a book launch Saturday at Auntie’s Bookstore, where they’ll be joined by Simeon Mills, whose graphic novel “Butcher Paper” also is available through Scablands Books.
Welcker is the author of the 2010 poetry collection “The Botanical Garden,” as well as two chapbooks, and her work has appeared in Pinwheel, Horse Less Press, Ink Node, Railtown Almanac and The Spokesman-Review, among others. Her new collection is called “Ram Hands.”
Greenup, who teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College, is releasing his first collection, “Without Warning.” His work has appeared in BOAAT Press, LEVELER, interrupture, Railtown Almanac and elsewhere. In this email Q&A, Greenup talks about the themes and inspiration for his book.
Q. When did the idea of putting together a collection first come to you?
A. I’ve fantasized about having a poetry collection ever since I began writing poems, which was in high school. Doing the work of actually piecing together a collection probably began in earnest for me about six years ago when I began making small groupings of poems to submit to chapbook contests. Considering the ways the poems play off of, respond to, and echo each other seemed like an extension of one of my favorite high school hobbies, which was making mixed tapes. Maybe this is a way of saying I’ve never left high school.
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A. It’s a coming of age collection, or that’s how I thought of it as I worked at sequencing the poems. A lot of the poems have to do with boyhood, adolescence, adulthood. More broadly though I think the collection is concerned with change and the disorienting nature of sudden change. Most of the poems were written in the aftermath of some significant changes in my life, like the death of my mother. That change plays heavily in the collection. And I suppose saying the poems are concerned with change is another way of saying they’re concerned with loss. In that sense, the poems in “Without Warning” are like most other poems.
Q. There are some recurring characters in “Without Warning” (Hello, Terry and Julie). Was it fun/challenging to weave these characters throughout the collection?
A. The collection really began for me with the Terry and Julie poems. I had a chapbook manuscript of just those poems, and gradually integrated my newer work into that manuscript. So those poems provided the basis for the collection. That’s why Terry appears early on in the collection and is also central to the last poem in the book. All things begin and end with Terry, who is, to answer your question, great fun.
Q. What do you hope people can take away from reading “Without Warning”?
A. My main hope is that people take pleasure in the experience of the poems – the images, sounds, rhythms – the way someone takes pleasure in the experience of listening to the music of a favorite song or looking at a favorite painting. Beyond that I don’t have any specific takeaways in mind for the collection.
Q. As a teacher at SFCC, what is the most important advice you can offer to aspiring writers, be they poets, fiction writers, journalists, songwriters or whatever?
A. There’s a time for being creative and there’s a time for being critical of what you create. Both are important to fully realizing your creative vision and ensuring its quality, but I wouldn’t suggest trying to be creator and critic at the same time. At best, doing so will suppress the imaginative power of your work, and at worst it will lead you to stop creating altogether. This is not new advice, but it’s worth remembering.
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Colorado lays claim to over 300 days of annual sunshine statewide, and to more than 300 inches of snow in the mountains on a yearly basis. In fact, it snows somewhere in Colorado every month of the year.
Summer high temps in the lower elevation areas of eastern Colorado, as well as in the mountain foothills fronting Denver, Colorado Springs and Trinidad, etc., reach into the low 80's, with morning lows in the 50s.
In the mountain regions, summer highs reach the low 70's, with lows in the 40's. In the winter months, daily highs average near 40 degrees, while lows hovering around 15 degrees. Humidity in Colorado is very low.
For an interesting look at historical Colorado precipitation (by regions) view this precipitation map
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HIGH TEMPERATURES ( Fahrenheit/Celsius )
(Jan) 41/5 (Feb) 45/7 (Mar) 50/10 (Apr) 60/15
(May) 69/20 (Jun) 79/26 (Jul) 84/29 (Aug) 81/27
(Sep) 74/23 (Oct) 64/18 (Nov) 51/10 (Dec) 42/6
LOW TEMPERATURES ( Fahrenheit/Celsius )
(Jan) 16/-9 (Feb) 19/-7 (Mar) 25/-4 (Apr) 33/1
(May) 42/6 (Jun) 51/11 (Jul) 57/14 (Aug) 55/13
(Sep) 47/8 (Oct) 36/2 (Nov) 25/-4 (Dec) 17/-8
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Welcome to Pittsburgh! What do you want to do first? Not sure yet? Well what about plans for tomorrow? …Well you still have time to decide… Where are you staying? You haven't booked a hotel yet?!?!
Safely explore Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center.
The health and safety of visitors and staff is the History Center’s top priority. The History Center and its museums have established new procedures and policies to ensure all guests feel safe upon entering the buildings and enjoying the exhibitions.
Uncover 250 years of Western Pennsylvania history at the Senator John Heinz History Center. The Smithsonian Affiliate features the original TV set from the iconic "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," the world's largest collection of Heinz artifacts, and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.
The Senator John Heinz History Center and its family museums, including the Fort Pitt Museum and Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, are open! To help manage capacity and keep visitors safe, guests are encouraged to pre-purchase online tickets and reserve a date and time of visit. Showcase your Pittsburgh Pride and enjoy all the benefits of being a member, including free admission to the History Center and its museums, and a membership to the Smithsonian Institution. Learn more about being a History Center Member.
The Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum is a museum-within-a-museum. Located on the second and third floors of the History Center, this sports museum celebrates Pittsburgh’s iconic sports legacy. Take a stroll to the historic Point State Park and see the Fort Pitt Museum, a two-floor, 12,000 square-foot museum that features the region’s essential role during the French & Indian War and the American Revolution. Located in Avella, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village is the oldest site of human habitation in North America. This National Historic Landmark also houses three outdoor areas including a 16th century Indian village, 18th century Frontier Trading Post and 19th century village.
Now open, experience America's history through rare artifacts, engaging interactives and immersive exhibit design at the latest traveling exhibition, American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith. This exhibit, developed in partnership with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, showcases how Pittsburghers and events in the Western Pennsylvania region have helped shape our democracy, including the Whiskey Rebellion, African American and women's suffrage, the civil rights movement and more. The American Democracy exhibition is included with the price of admission.
Insider's Tip: Be sure to check out a signed land grant from Benjamin Franklin and a traveling desk that belonged to George Washington.
Adult Admission: $18 ($9 for students)
Child Admission: $9 for ages 6-17. 5 and under are free.
Senior Admission: $15
Parking: Paid Parking.
Expand your knowledge of Western PA and plan your next family adventure with a trip to the Heinz History Center - Pennsylvania’s largest history museum! Visit the History Center’s website for more information and to plan your visit.
Pittsburgh is the perfect destination for unforgettable family fun! Featuring many fantastic attractions, Pittsburgh has plenty of entertainment options for kids of all ages. Plan your KidsBURGH® trip today!

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Did anyone ask for a new King Arthur movie? Whether you did or not, Warner Bros. plans to release King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Guy Ritchie’s visionary take on the classic fable, this spring, and to help whet our appetite before the next trailer, EW has debuted several stills from the film, which you can check out above.
Starring Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) in the titular role, as well as Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) as Guinevere and Jude Law (HBO’s The Young Pope) as the villainous Vortigern, Legend of the Sword, naturally, promises not to be your dad’s King Arthur. Action packed, hyper-stylized and full of destruction and mayhem, the film’s summer release date promises a highly entertaining experience. Or at least, we hope it does, as many are still finding themselves scratching their head at the movie’s existence.
In addition to releasing the above photos, EW also spoke with Ritchie about the possibility of a Knights of the Round Table cinematic universe – don’t expect any surprises with his answer.
As much as anything, I enjoy the process of filmmaking. Going back to Sherlock was very fun. Going back into this would be great fun. I like the world. I like Charlie. I liked everyone I worked with. It’s just a world that I’d like to stay within for a while. It’s not like there aren’t enough stories to be told within the mythology of Arthur and all of the characters within it with Merlin, with the sword, with Guinevere, with Lancelot. There are lots of untapped narrative still to be dealt with.
We’ll have to wait until King Arthur: Legend of the Sword hits theaters before we jump to such conclusions, but for now, be sure to take a look at the gallery above and mark down May 12th, 2017 in your diaries, as that’s when this one will land.


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BAE Techniques has secured funding for the subsequent part of the Eurofighter Storm plane anti-jamming system.
The Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver (DIGAR) Section 4 Enhancement is meant to enhance the plane’s survivability towards GPS sign jamming, spoofing, and radio frequency interference.
The funding additionally covers BAE’s new GEMVII-6 airborne digital GPS receiver, enabling digital beamforming anti-jamming by the plane.
“DIGAR makes use of superior antenna electronics, high-performance sign processing, and digital beamforming for considerably improved GPS sign reception and superior jamming immunity,” BAE defined.
“These capabilities significantly enhance the extent of GPS jamming safety and are vital for fight plane as they maneuver by way of a contested battlespace.”
A consortium of BAE, Airbus, and Leonardo developed the plane primarily for the British, Spanish, German, and Italian air forces.
Over time, 5 extra militaries have acquired the plane, together with Austria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman.
BAE leads the plane’s general design, manufacturing, and improve, whereas Leonardo handles its sensing and survivability, together with radars and defensive subsystems.
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Leonardo just lately introduced the subsequent spherical of upgrades to the plane’s Defensive Aids Sub-System (DASS), together with a brand new radar.
A part of the Section 4 Enhancement, the DASS features a Hensoldt digital receiver that helps the plane determine “fashionable and sophisticated targets,” enabling it to deploy acceptable countermeasures.
It additionally contains band extension, enhancements to sign processing algorithms, and processor capabilities.


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Today the US took its next-to-last stab at calculating First Quarter GDP, and the downward revision was impressive even by recent standards. It now appears that the economy, well, here's how Bloomberg puts it:
Gross domestic product fell at a 2.9 percent annualized rate, more than forecast and the worst reading since the same three months in 2009, after a previously reported 1 percent drop, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. It marked the biggest downward revision from the agency's second GDP estimate since records began in 1976. The revision reflected a slowdown in health care spending.
And this, believe it or not, is still an unrealistically positive spin on the actual numbers. The Consumer Metrics Institute (CMI) specializes in finding the truth in the Bureau of Economic Analysis' statistical fog, and here's a telling paragraph in CMI's longer, must-read report:
And lastly, for this report the BEA assumed annualized net aggregate inflation of 1.27%. During the first quarter (i.e., from January through March) the growth rate of the seasonally adjusted CPI-U index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was over a half percent higher at a 1.80% (annualized) rate, and the price index reported by the Billion Prices Project (BPP -- which arguably reflected the real experiences of American households while recording sharply increasing consumer prices during the first quarter) was over two and a half percent higher at 3.91%. Under reported inflation will result in overly optimistic growth data, and if the BEA's numbers were corrected for inflation using the BLS CPI-U the economy would be reported to be contracting at a -3.51% annualized rate. If we were to use the BPP data to adjust for inflation, the first quarter's contraction rate would have been an horrific -5.62%.
That's right, the government is assuming that inflation is running at a rate of 1.27%. To anyone who eats (beef, eggs, and citrus prices are up 9%, 5%, and 22%, respectively, in the past year) or drives (gasoline is at record highs in many states) this seems just a tad on the optimistic side. As CMI noted, MIT's Billion Prices Project, which monitors real-time pricing across the Internet, is rising at a nearly 4% rate, which for most people probably feels more accurate.
So why is Washington using such deceptive inflation numbers when calculating GDP? Because 1) it makes the economy look bigger, which makes US economic policy look more effective and its architects more competent, and 2) they can get away with it. Most media accounts of this and other economic statistics simply repeat the headline number without considering at how it was calculated, so what the government says is exactly what most people hear. Only in the sound money community is this debated, and that's far too small a forum to affect general perception.
But an effective lie is still a lie, and this one is a whopper.

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"If I could pick just one [of many thousands of books on the subject] that I would want educated people to read, I think it would be Hirsh Goodman's concise and wonderfully readable new offering." -- Jonathan Kay, National Post
"[Goodman's] insights and judgments on the issues confronting Israel are sharp, original and, in many instances, disturbing and challenging." -- Jewish Chronicle
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HIRSH GOODMAN is a Senior Research Associate at the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he directs the Bronfman Program on Information Strategy. Prior to joining the Jaffee Center in 2000, Goodman was the Vice President of the Jerusalem Post. In 1990 he founded the Jerusalem Report and served as its Editor-in-Chief for eight years. Between 1986 and 1989 he was the Strategic Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he authored, with W. Seth Carus, The Future Battlefield and the Arab-Israel Conflict. From 1975 until 1986 Goodman was the Defense Correspondent of the Jerusalem Post, a contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report, a contributor to the New Republic, a special correspondent for the Sunday Times of London and a news analyst for CBS News. He continues to write a regular column, "My Word," for the Jerusalem Report. Goodman lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.See all Product Description
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Among the major dangers is the nuclear program of Radical Islamic Iran. Goodman gives a painfully accurate description of the geographical tinyness and vulnerability of Israel. Between Haifa and Tel Aviv along the coast is the heartland of productive and economically successful Israel. Israel is according to Goodman one nuclear weapon away from total destruction. Despite this Goodman also outlines Israel's superior offensive military capabilities and suggests that even Iran is unlikely to risk the kind of devastation Israel could inflict upon it. He does not say this but in fact Israel could put an end to Iran by destroying the greater Tehran area.
Goodman also talks about other threats including internal ones. He sees the growing Haredi community as a threat. But presents the optimistic idea that this population will choose to integrate economically into the state. He also outlines the problem of the Arab minority of Israel and suggests that their integration depends in part upon their willingness to do national service. He does not suppose that this will make them forget their Palestinian Arab identity but will rather give them a real stake in the state they live in. Goodman explains the negative role a number of treasonous Palestinian Israeli, or Israeli Arab members of Parliament have played.
Goodman is a secular liberal and speaks about the importance for survival of Israel maintaining its democratic values. He claims the democratic character of the state has been threatened by those on the Right of the political spectrum.
In outlining the situation with the Palestinians he claims that the Jewish majority in the whole of the land will soon be lost. He does not relate to the demographic claims that in fact long-standing demographic trends have been halted and that the Jewish population is growing at a much larger rate than previously expected. He does not consider then the possibiity that the Jews may be able to maintain a good majority in the whole of the land.
Goodman speaks too about America's ties with Israel, and goes into great detail about what Israel owes the U.S. Perhaps he should have said a bit more about what Israel gives back to the U.S.
On the whole he shows that his long experience in Israel (From 1965) and the closeness he has had with many figures of the military and political establishment have made him up-to- date and understanding of Israeli realities.
However most strangely on the question which he considers most important, making peace, he has an incoherent view. Goodman believes that making Peace with the Palestinians is critical to Israel's survival. But he at the same time acknowledges that with 'Hamas' in Gaza Israel cannot hope to have a full peace. He seems to want an Israeli withdrawal from 'the West Bank' the creation of a Palestinian state there , and a Peace in which international pressure is withdrawn from Israel. But clearly Gaza and the Palestinians there are an essential part of the whole question. So given 'Hamas' genocidal views of Jews and Israel there can be no Peace now.And Israel if it is realistic has to be prepared to continue to maintain a superior military power if it is to survive.
In this he is aware of the special inventive and creator quality of many Israelis and feels this is essential to Israel's survival.
This is on the whole a very good book, despite its flaws in outlook, and one which reveals a great deal of insight into Israeli reality.
Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman, born in South Africa and an Israeli since 1965, knows real apartheid first hand and in "The Anatomy of Israel's Survival" (PublicAffairs, 288 pages, $26.99) he resoundingly refutes the anti-Semitic charges by Jimmy Carter and other haters of Israel that the country with 20 percent of its population of Arab and Bedouin heritage engages in the former racist practices of his native land.
Goodman notes that former President Carter referred to Israel as a "cancer" and later as an "apartheid state" (page 162) and that his national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski "was considered Rasputin in Israel and an anti-Semite" (page 162). Refuting the misconception that American administrations have been uniformly friendly to Israel, Goodman on the same page writes that Caspar Weinberger, Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense, was the only foreign dignitary in the history of Israel to refuse to visit Yad Vashem, the memorial to the six million Holocaust victims. Weinberger, who died in 2006, was a Christian who was Jewish on his paternal grandfather's side. Even a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Henry Kissinger, was recorded as saying that the Jews of Russia should be "gassed" in comments with his boss, the anti-Semite Richard Nixon.
Goodman has been called a "liberal Zionist," which some would say is a contradiction in terms. He's against Jewish settlers in the Arab villages of greater Jerusalem, which he argues should be the capital of an independent Palestine. Western liberals and "progressives" should applaud this move, outlined on Pages 194-200. In those six pages he deals with Vice President Joe Biden's March 2010 visit to Israel and the "open slap in the face to the American administration" caused by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizing Israeli settlements in Arab parts of Jerusalem.
As young Jews leave Jerusalem, a city too besotted with religion for increasingly secular Jews, Arabs are attracted to the city, especially since residence there gives them most of the right of Israeli citizens, "including probably the best health care and social services in the Middle East," Goodman says.
Of the approximately one million Arab citizens of Israel, Goodman would like to see them included in the mandatory national service young Israeli Jews must complete -- not the military service but service in health care, security services, working with the disadvantaged, etc. "Universal service," he writes, "is the way to integrate, not only the Hareidim [the ultra orthodox Jews]
but also the Israeli Arabs into Israeli society."
Refuting the the phony "apartheid" argument is the freedom of religion granted to all Israelis -- Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Baha'i, which has its world headquarters in Haifa -- which is not the case in most of the Middle East. More than 800,000 Jews were driven out of Muslim countries in the wake of Israel's 1948 creation and subsequent wars, making most of those countries without Jews or with pitifully small remnant communities in places like Turkey or Tunisia.
The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Yemen and other countries have raised anew the question "can Israel survive?" and beyond have raised it anew for Israelis -- and Jews throughout the world -- as well as their supporters and adversaries. Goodman set out to answer it, through rigorous factual assessment of each of the challenges his country faces, and by consulting experts and participants on all sides of every complex issue. But what he learned was that this once `essential question' has become a dangerous distraction.
Goodman shares his clarifying analyses both of recent political events and of Israel's strategic position. He shows how the country's obsession with dangers posed by outside forces has obscured the harder issues facing it from within ever since its leaders disregarded [Israel's first prime minister David] Ben Gurion's advice to leave the territories captured during the Six Day War of 1967.
Goodman argues that Israel's survival is jeopardized more by the competence of its leaders and fissures in its social and political system than by any outside threat--even the apocalyptic-sounding ones from Iran.
A severe critic of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and current P.M. Netanyahu for their settlement policies, Goodman nonetheless says (Page 101) that "The Palestinians have to realize that Israel cannot be expected to tear itself to pieces for the sake of peace. Peace should mean that 50,000 or so Jews could live in Palestine as Israeli citizens, voting in Israeli elections, but paying their local taxes to the Palestinian Authority, which would in turn guarantee the safety and security of those settlers who chose to remain in Palestine...."
Good luck on that! Especially considering that Goodman writes (Page 102) about the hatred and the conflict between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza: "In the takeover of Gaza, Hamas showed no mercy, throwing Fatah loyalists off the tallest buildings in the [Gaza] Strip and having gangs of hooligans kill others, including so-called collaborators with Israel, who were shot without trial." So much for the religion of peace, which has also seen horrendous massacres of Muslims vs. Muslims in Syria and Libya, among other countries.
Turkey, wrongly seen as a model for Muslim democracy, according to David P. Goldman ("Spengler" on the widely read Asia Times Online site) and others, is engaged in a struggle with its Kurdish minority. Kurds and Turks are both Muslims, but that doesn't stop them from hating each other. Goldman writes in his new book "How Civilizations Die" that the current leader of Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan is really an Islamist, and a radical one at that, in a country that embraced secularism under the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
Gaza, ruled by Hamas, which the U.S. and the European Union considers to be a terrorist organization, is a much thornier problem that the relatively moderate West Bank, which Israelis call Judea and Samaria. Hamas is funded by Iran, which has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
"The Anatomy of Israel's Survival" is a must-read book by everybody, whether they are supporters of Israel or not. The country, a First World democracy -- the only one in the region now that Turkey is well on the road to being a radical Islamist state -- is not going to disappear. Get used to that, Goodman says.
PublicAffairs is to be congratulated once again for publishing an important book that everybody should read, regardless of their views on Israel and the Palestinians.
I particularly found hope in his discussion of the choices that Israel and Israelis face going forward, and that peace can actually be a choice of the Israeli people. Both sides seem to continually point fingers in the other direction as to what is stopping peace. Goodman puts forth the case that there is a lot that Israel can do to make the prospects for peace much better, such as solving the Heredim welfware problem in Jerusalem, integrating all Jews (orthodox or no), Israeli Arabs and Bedouin into some form of national service. And of course, stopping settlement expansion is a key thing too.
He is correct in postulating that the majority of younger, up-and-coming Palestinians in the West Bank itself do want peace, and furthermore they want a secular future, not the one Hamas is creating in Gaza. However, Israeli occupation will undermine that and make them susceptible to the ideas of Hamas and others. He also claims that young Israeli politicians are more moderate and peace-wanting than the current crop of political opportunists that currently occupy high positions.
Goodman does not whitewash the fact that some key figures in Israel, such as Avi Lieberman, have extreme and racist views, and reports with matter-of-factness what some Israeli Arab MKs have done that is entirely outrageous and the racism that exists there as well.
As far as I can tell this book is about the fairest recounting of the situation, and hope for the future that I've ever read from the Israeli point of view. Goodman is evidence that there are Israelis committed to peace and a future where it's possible to live in harmony with Palestinian neighbors. Israel is a legitimate country, and the aspirations of Palestinians are also legitimate and can be met in a mutually beneficial way.
Page 129 Eizenkot doctrine is old: its the Iron Wall from Vladimir Jabotiski, see Avi Shlaim Iron Wall. Page 115 after conquest of the Golan in 1967 all Syrians, 131.000, were expelled except the 7000 Druze.
Missing in the anatomy of Israel's survival is whether or not it will be a state for all its inhabitants. The state imposed hafrada (segregation) measures should be waived and it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex. The control off 6 million over 6,6 million (exclusive 1,5 million refugees outside its controlled area's) and treat them as second class or lock them up in Bantustans is not endurable and inhumane. From its position of strenght it can initiate, stear and realize this process. Than it will an economic power in the region and will made a big step forward in development.


U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday a two-year extension and expansion of a program that would allow Hong Kongers currently based in the U.S. to stay beyond the expiration dates of their visas, until January 26, 2025.
Biden said the extension would offer “a safe haven for Hong Kong residents who have been deprived of their guaranteed freedoms in Hong Kong” under Chinese rule.
Previously, Hong Kongers who were present in the U.S. on or before Aug. 5, 2021, were eligible to apply for the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) visa. However, as of Thursday, those who are currently residing in the country will also be allowed to apply for a visa extension.
The program was set to expire in two weeks on Feb. 5, but the Biden administration faced mounting pressures from Democratic lawmakers and lobbyists to extend the program — that advocates said would be a lifeline for those who may face political persecution back home.
Samuel Chu, president of the Campaign for Hong Kong, told Semafor that the program had helped nearly 4,000 Hong Kongers remain in the U.S. so far. “Many would face political persecution, rigged trials, long jail sentences, and loss of freedom if forced to return,” he said.
Non-immigrant international students from Hong Kong are also able to apply for the DED, but are required to continuously reside in the U.S. from their date of arrival and are not allowed to voluntarily return to Hong Kong.
Since China imposed a draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong in June 2020, more than 150 opposition lawmakers, political activists, protesters, and journalists have been arrested in Hong Kong — under the broadly-defined charges of secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces.
Washington claims that Beijing has undermined the basic rights and freedoms in Hong Kong — those protected under the Basic Law and Sino-British Joint Declaration — agreements that were made when the city was “handed back” to China from the British in 1997.
“The PRC has continued its assault on Hong Kong’s autonomy, undermining its remaining democratic processes and institutions, imposing limits of academic freedom, and cracking down on freedom of the press,” Biden said, in his Thursday announcement.
Roughly 20% of American expats have also left Hong Kong, according to the U.S. Center for Strategic & International Studies, saying that residents were growing increasingly concerned over diminishing freedoms under Beijing’s National Security Law. The city’s strict anti-COVID measures have also played a part in the “brain drain.”
Hong Kong only recently stopped enforcing mandatory hotel quarantine for inbound travelers. The city still requires residents to wear surgical masks in public.


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Construction will begin at the William Street Coach Park on Tuesday with the site due to go live from Thursday November 5.
Testing at the site will be available seven days a week from 8am until 8pm and it will have the capacity for around 350 tests per day.
Speaking at a briefing of the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum this morning North Yorkshire’s director of Public Health, Dr Lincoln Sargeant, confirmed the plans for the facility.
He added: “People will still need to book for tests as they would to go to any of the other sites but it means that access will be improved.
“In Harrogate on the first full day [of its walk-in site] we tested 133 people so we are hoping those maybe the kinds of numbers we will be seeing in Scarborough.”
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