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The private space of a drawing
Drawings on, and without, paper.
In my work I explore both the possibilities and the limitations of drawing. I research the relationship between physical space and its translation onto a flat surface – the subtle frontier that separates illusion from reality.
All my work is strongly linked to …
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A Dutch artist whose work is rooted in Neo-Plasticism might be suspected of seeking facile identification with an artistic commonplace, a sort of visiting card for a foreign audience. Van de Mheen doesn't fall into that trap. Her works convey the emotion that lies at their core, in pieces that play with the relationship between theory and feeling.
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Eaton's Willis on brink of history
EATON -- Eaton senior Sarah Willis has already made history, now she's looking to cement her name in the record books for years to come.
As a junior Willis shot a 136 over the two day state tournament, the lowest score ever by a female golfer.
This year Willis became the first girl to ever win the boys Southwestern Buckeye League Championship.
She shot a 70, beating the second place golfer by four strokes.
After spending the entire season with Eaton's boys team, since the school doesn't have a girls golf team, Willis is changing her game to compete against girls all across the state.
She shot a 69 at the sectional tournament followed up by a 69 at the district tournament to propel her to her third state tournament appearance.
Willis finished 10th as a freshman, missed out as a sophomore despite a strong shooting a 76 and missing by one stroke, and won the state championship in record setting fashion as a junior.
Now the Eaton senior has a chance to join a select group. Only four girls have ever won two individual state championships in Ohio High School Athletic Association history. Only three of those were done in back to back fashion.
Jessica Belskis, Worthington Kilbourne, won in 1994 and 1995. Carly Truitt, Marysville, won in 2002 and 2003. Allie White, Lancaster, won in 2006 and 2007. Haylee Harford, Leavittsburg LaBrae, won in 2011 and 2014.
No golfer from the Miami Valley, male or female has won two individual state golf championships.
Willis is trying to join that elite company.
"It would just be awesome to win it back to back because I'd be part of a very select few that have ever done that before in their high school careers," Willis said.
"The personal goal is to show myself I can do it more than once and I can defend my title for as long as possible."


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feelings III
I feel as if life could go on without me. Nothing can stop time. It goes on and on but life could surely go on without me. It's sad but true. I feel it. Things around me and things inside me. The real life always inside me. Bubbling. Ready. Real. Outside just a mockery. An appearance of life, never true, never real, a fake. If I could stay inside my head 24/7, I happily would. Unfortunately, economy rules, not our real selves and needs. Yeah, sad but true!
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Compensation to clinical trial participants in India: A gap analysis
Mohd Urooj, Gulam Mohammed Husain, Mohammad Ahmed Khan, Munawwar Husain Kazmi
Department of Pharmacology, Central Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Under CCRUM, Ministry of AYUSH Government of India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Correspondence Address:Mohd UroojCentral Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Under CCRUM, Ministry of AYUSH Government of India, A. G. Colony Road Opp. ESI Hospital, Hyderabad - 500 038, Telangana IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/jphi.JPHI_31_17
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jphi.JPHI_31_17
The recent amendments notified by the Government of India, for conducting clinical trial, is greatly appreciable as promoting safety and well-being of human subjects. These rules clearly state that medical management of injuries in clinical trials is mandatory, and clinical trial-related injury or death needs to be compensated over and above the medical management. These rules need to be reconsidered for simplification and better understanding of issues regarding compensation. There is a need of clarity at some points which should be discussed with all stakeholders for better understanding of current regulations. In our view, attention must also be given to academic investigators, during discussion to promote availability of cost-effective treatment in India.
Keywords: Adverse event, ethics, injury/death


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Buyisiwe feels like a stranger in the place he grew up. He simply cannot shrug the feeling of dread following him through the streets of London.
And then he receives the terrible news. His mother can't take care of him anymore; he has to go and live with his estranged father, Themba, in Africa. Africa is not what Buyisiwe expected it to be.
It is a place of great beauty and splendour, magnificent animals and terrible danger. A scarred, man-eating lion prowls the game reserve, waiting for his next victim. The hunt is on. Who will survive? And will Buyisiwe finally find a place where he really belongs?
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This piece comes to us courtesy of This Week In Education.
How fascinating to wake up and find out that Adell Cothorne (pictured), the Noyes Elementary School principal interviewed in tonight's PBS Frontline documentary (a) had never been on camera in all the previous previous PBS segments on Rhee that we've seen and (b) had filed a suit against DCPS that was only recently unsealed and dismissed.
Cothorne's complaint (Cothorne v District of Columbia) makes for juicy reading but the federal government didn't think much of it. The USDE found that "cheating was limited to just one school, which it didn't specify," according to Greg Toppo's USA Today story. Cothorn had filed the complaint under the False Claims Act and "sought a percentage of any potential financial proceeds had the case gone to trial," according to Emma Brown's Washington Post story from over the weekend. According to a statement just put out by Rhee, the latest findings "confirm what we've long believed, that the vast majority of educators would never compromise their personal or professional integrity to cheat on a test, thereby cheating children."
Still, it it's a pretty big coincidence (?) that the Cothorne complaint and response popped up just as the Rhee documentary was about to air -- and that the Rhee, DCPS, and Frontline folks may not have known that was about to happen until it appeared.
Equally fascinating but much less complicated to figure out is why StudentsFirst put out its report card this week, knowing that the Frontline documentary was scheduled to air. Whatever it merits or lack thereof, the report card shines a light on the current work of Rhee and her allies, and puts the pressure back on the education establishment she's fighting against, rather than letting the Frontline story about what happened way back in 2010 take front and center. So all of you writing about what an awful report card it is are actually helping Rhee out. Keep it up. (StudentsFirst has gathered up all the positive press for you -- see below the break).
Moving on: Now having watched the show a second time now, I stand by the basic thrust of my original post (PBS Documentary Humanizes Rhee's Tenure,) that it generally favors Rhee, humanizing her with the story of her decision to join TFA (blame PBS!) showing snapshots of her as a young idealistic teacher, and giving her a chance to re-define her departure from DCPS as something she still laments. She officially resigned, but I'm not sure anyone believed that -- and in any case she made some awkward remarks about her departure at the time. This time, she gets to say, "I lost the job that I loved."
There is some heart-wrenching, angry-making footage of a teacher describing being fired and escorted from her building, and video of some verbal sparring between Rhee and the City Council that is hard to watch, knowing what is soon to come. But the Frontline piece omits the most dramatic and perhaps disturbing Rhee moments I've ever seen or watched: her 2008 argument with Randi Weingarten at NSVF, and Mayor-elect Gray's impromptu press conference in the hallways outside his offices, with a stressed-out Rhee standing in the background. (Lady Michelle Flees The Castle Gray)
Last but not least, some of you may have noticed that on Morning Joe yesterday Rhee floated the idea of turning Title I and II -- the forumula-based federal funding streams through which most K-12 education moneys flow to schools -- into competitive and reform-minded grants, sort of like Race to the Top or i3. Hey, NCLB is already blown up, accountabily-wise. Why not blow up the funding stream, too?
What's next? Who knows? Most likely, StudentsFirst will quickly move from rating states to putting out scorecards on individual legislators like Emily's List and the NRA and everyone else does. It's also possible (though not likely) that Rhee will start wearing a Guy Fawkes mask to press conferences, her allies will start calling themselves "Rheenonymous," and the threats, glitter bombs, and publishing of embarrassing information will begin.


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Reflections Reflections is our adult ensemble, and they meet on Sundays at 6:00 pm. This group leads our worship services periodically, and they prepare special services, primarily for Christmas and for a Good Friday service near Easter
Sanctuary ChoirThis is the primary worship leader/choral organization for our church. In addition to giving leadership to our 11:00 am Sunday worship service, they also present various seasonal and other special programs including Christmas, Easter, and Composer Day. They rehearse on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30 pm. Childcare is available during this time.
FBC RingersFBC Ringers is a select group of hand bell ringers who occasionally lead in our worship services. They rehearse on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in the fellowship hall building. Music reading is a requirement for membership.
Rhythm and Melody Makers This choir is comprised of 4 yr. - 1st grade children who meet on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm. This is not a performance choir, but they do sing in a special services at Christmas and again in the spring, near the end of the school year. Children in this choir are introduced to all aspects of music and includes activities that involve listening, moving, singing, and using rhythm instruments.
Music MakersThe Music Makers choir is composed of children in grades 2 & 3 and meets on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm. in the children's Sunday School department. The primary goal of this choir is to teach spiritual concepts through music. In this choir, we concentrate on helping each child develop a singing voice, a sense of steady beat, and fundamental music reading. These children also will sing at special services during Christmas, and in the spring near the end of the school year. Sometimes, they will join with the Young Musicians to present a special musical production.
Young MusiciansYoung Musicians is for children in grades 4, 5, & 6. The choir meets on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm in the choir room. Young Musicians participate in worship services on occasion, and especially at Christmas and in the spring. They very often will prepare and present a special musical production. At the end of the school year, they will form the core group to prepare and present the annual VBS musical.
HarmonyHarmony is our youth girls ensemble. They rehearse usually on Sunday at 4:30 pm. In addition to leading periodically in our worship, they also present special programs throughout the year, which they sometimes share in other churches.
Ages:4 years - Adults
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We would like to thank everyone who turned out last night for our 2018 Winter Educational Forum!
And a special thanks goes to Patrick Jordan, President of NYS Young Democrats, who came up from New York City to speak at our forum. Take a moment to visit their website at nysyd.org to find out more about their work. We are looking to support them in establishing a chapter in Orleans County, so send an email to email@example.com if you are a young Democrat who would like to get involved!
The New York State Young Democrats are the official youth arm of the New York State Democratic Committee. The New York State Young Democrats represent young democrats between the ages of 16-36 living in all of New York's 62 counties. Members of the organization strive to make a positive difference in the community by working within the political process and upholding the principles of the Democratic Party. The membership base reflects the broad diversity of New York and the party, including high school students, college students, young workers, professionals and families.
Along with Patrick, Jim Renfrew moderated a panel of Kenny Capurso, Andrea Newman, and Mark Steffenilla (Genesee County Young Democrats) through a range of topics and audience questions.
And we were grateful to have in attendance 4 of the 5 announced Democratic candidates in the NY-27 congressional race: Joan Elizabeth Seamans, Nick Stankevich, Sean Bunny, and Tom Casey
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Upstairs Dave
Once upon a time – so the story goes – there lived an old man all alone, cold and miserable, in a deep forest. Actually Dave lived in a well-heated flat at the top floor of a large apartment building. Since his wife's death his daughter visited once every two weeks, filled his fridge with very healthy food and took his washing. Slightly wheezing he spent his days shuffling from bed to chair, to kitchen, to window. Any more exertion caused a nasty bout of coughing. Emphysema, the doctor had called it and given medication. Radio and television he used sparingly but he enjoyed the view from his windows. Tops of cars driving in and out of parking spaces, heads and shoulders of people entering or leaving the front gate, children flailing their arms while speeding on skate boards. From his bedroom window he could see a cluster of trees, a well-fenced pond and a mostly empty playground. Above – clouds, lots of them, always changing shapes and so near that he felt like reaching out to touch them.
There was a small balcony, bordered by a waist-high concrete wall. Before his wife had placed too many plant pots one could have put a chair out in the sun. Dave spent careful time tending the plants through the seasons, in his wife's memory. Sometimes he had the extra job of cleaning fine dust from all balcony surfaces which had blown in when the wind was in that direction, from the crematorium at the cemetery behind the trees. Then Dave's wheezing had become a real bother. The bird table, protruding over the balcony's ledge, which he had installed ages ago at his wife's wish, brought some diversion. He loved to watch the busy little visitors from the sky.
One day Dave noticed more activity on the balcony. Two birds were constructing a nest in the big bush in the corner where the branches had grown well above the concrete wall. Not many weeks later one bird was patiently sitting in the nest, looking at Dave without apparent fear. Eventually, as expected, small cheeps could be heard from three yellow wide open beaks. Fascinated he spent hours watching how the parents flew in and out with titbits of food for these three ever-hungry little ones. They grew larger, shaking their shiny feathers as their home became decidedly crowded. Now they were more daring, scrambling towards the rim of the nest, with flapping wings. Until the inevitable had to happen. Dave watched, agitated and helpless, how one of the fledglings balanced on the nest's rim, lost his foothold and tumbled down into the abyss, out of sight.
Strangled wheezes emerged from Dave's chest. He had to sit down. What could be done to save this innocent creature from the dangers of solid ground? He must rescue it. Years had past since he had left his flat as the endless flight of stairs was like a prison gate. Could there be a way out? Perhaps he could divide the trip somehow? There were landings on each floor where one could rest. A chair was needed. Of course that folding canvas chair from ancient fishing trips might be useful. Through tight lips a little smile appeared. " I could do that" he loudly told himself. The light weight canvas chair was found and dusted. Shoes became more of a problem since Dave's feet had swollen considerably over the last few years. Never mind; he would keep his slippers on. Nothing could stop him now.
Shouldering his chair he walked through the door and slowly, step by step, made his way down. It was surprisingly easy. Having managed three floors his heart was racing and he unfolded his chair for a rest. Not bad. Not bad at all. He continued his journey till he arrived at ground floor. Such a heavy front door! It felt like moving the boulder from the grave of Christ. Unsteady steps took him along the foot path around the building, anxiously keeping his glance on the ground for the little bird. Looking up to find the location of his balcony he felt dizzy and had to steady himself on the trunk of a nearby tree. Against the overwhelming height of the building the clouds looked quite small from his new position.
Dave could not find the little bird. Slumped on his chair he contemplated the situation. "What are you doing here grandpa? Lost something?" A young woman with a boy in school uniform asked. "You lost what? A bird?? Well well. I suppose he fell into this tree and his mum is looking after him now. Or else the cat got him. – Shall I walk you back into the house? It's getting a bit chilly." At the entrance the woman and child skipped up the stairs till a door clanked shut.
Dave now readied himself to climb a mountain. Firmly gripping the railing he mounted the first stair with one foot, then let the other follow. How many times would he have to repeat this? The first landing came into sight and soon Dave flopped into his chair, with trembling legs. What did it matter how long the climb would take? After all, no one was waiting for him at home.
Little by little Dave conquered each floor. People would overtake him with hardly a glance, others managed a greeting. On level three a stout woman panted up the stairs, carrying two bags of shopping. An orange tabard flashed under her flapping fleece jacket. "These stairs will kill me! It looks as if you have sussed it out. A chair. Good idea. Do you have far to go?" Her door clanged shut, only to be opened again shortly afterwards. "Good, you are still here. I thought you might like a cup of tea." She handed him one of two mugs. Together they slurped. He really had needed that drink. Dave learnt that her name was Moira and that she worked at the local grocers. "I would love to retire soon. All that standing makes my feet swell." She looked at Dave's feet. "I wish they would allow me to wear slippers like you." When she collected Dave's empty mug she added: "If you ever want anything from the shop, just let me know."
Refreshed Dave continued his ascent. Only two more flights to take. Nearing the summit his steps became more determined, till finally he reached his door, panting, flushed, elated. The flat appeared different; smaller, brighter. On the balcony he found the nest empty. His little protégées had flown.
The next day felt different. Dave's mood was almost festive. These birds had shown him the way into a new life, full of possibilities. He decided to make his way downstairs from time to time, especially as a wooden bench near the building's entrance had not escaped his attention yesterday where the sunshine might be just right. These journeys were now carefully planned and prepared. Dave put on a clean shirt with his best herringbone jumper, he neatly combed his thinning hair and completed the outfit by folding a new white handkerchief into his pocket, from a box of long-forgotten Christmas presents. Only the old slippers had to remain on his feet.
As time passed Dave had become a well-known feature in the apartment bloc. His wife had always said that he was a good listener. Garry on the ground floor had invited him to watch the football one evening and his wife Susan had also made him very welcome. With their two children of school age the flat was decidedly crowded, which reminded Dave briefly of the birds nest on his balcony.
Whenever Moira on level three was at home, she appeared promptly on the landing to ask Dave in, for a cup of tea and ginger cake. There were always problems with her daughter. "The school has telephoned to tell me that Vicky is playing truant again" she burst out. "It's easy for them to say that I should exert better control when I am out working and she just disappears for hours." Moira points at a heap of hair-and make up things on the table. "Where does she get the money to buy all that stuff? – certainly not from me!" Tears gather in her eyes. "What ever can I do? You should hear her language towards me!" Wistfully she added: "It's not easy to be a single mother. A man's firm hand is what she needs."
One evening Dave dozed on his well-worn sofa to the sound of his radio, when the door bell rang. A most unwelcome sound since Dave considered the privacy of his own flat out of bounds for neighbours. Only at the second, more insistent, ring he heaved himself up grudgingly. Moira of course. Shaking, she pushed her bulk through the door, her eyes red from crying. "Now it's happened, what I have always feared. The police has brought Vicky home. She was caught shoplifting at New Look. For once Vicky looked frightened. Thank god it was just a caution, but what might happen next?" She walked to the window. "The police car is gone now, but everybody must have seen it. The shame!" Dave stood in front of her, his lean body bent forward, like a question mark. "A cup of tea?" that always seemed to help. When they had both emptied their cups and Moira had dried her tears she was reluctantly ready to face her own home and Vicky.
The seasons passed while Dave watched the life from his chair on the landings. The orchestra of sounds echoing up and down the stairwell amused him: the percussion of footfalls from heavy boots, tapping children's steps, the staccato of stilettos, clapping flip flops. Then intermittently the cymbals from bunches of keys and the boom of closing doors. Voices – harsh, soft, loud, faint – Dave now recognized most of them.
On level four, just below his flat, a group of students had moved in and there was music spilling out at the most unexpected hours. The sound of a saxophone, endlessly rehearsing the same piece over and over again, added to Dave's sound collection. Did he play in a band? Moira hated the noise, but Dave absorbed it all. The role as passive, friendly observer suited him well and he in turn seemed to do some good just by listening.
One recent afternoon when the autumn sun had warmed him on the bench outdoors, he lazily watched the group of boys with their skateboards on the road. Of course it was the youngest who again fell over. This time it seemed worse than usual and he painfully limped to Dave's bench, with blood trickling down his leg from the knee. Dave knew him. It was Garry and Susan's boy Steve, perhaps ten years old. Since both of his parents would be out at work, Dave did his best to console him. He bandaged the wound with his white handkerchief and talked to the boy, till he became calmer. "The gang," Steve motioned to the group of skateboarders, "they say that you are an old geezer and…and that you have one foot in the grave." Dave permitted himself a thin smile. "Well, as you can see I have both feet firmly on the ground." As if to confirm this he glanced down to his slippered feet. "You know, Steve, I was just like you when I was your age. Skateboards were not invented then but I was an excellent swimmer. I won prizes with my school team." "You won prizes?" Steve glanced at him doubtfully. "Yes, honest, and I used to look just like you then." Uncomfortably Steve shifted a little further away from Dave. "And you know, Steve, you may not believe this now, one day you will also become an old man and then you will look just like me." In horror Steve searched Dave's face, with its deep wrinkles, a mole on his cheek, a tooth gap just visible behind flabby lips. "No, never!" Steve's injured leg jerked as if he wanted to kick Dave. Then he hurried off to find the comfort of his friends and settled on the kerb near them.
From his favourite bench a few days later Dave noticed a different atmosphere. The skateboarders raced up dangerously close to him, laughing and making rude noises with swimming movements of their arms. "Hey granddad, show us your medals! Want a go on a skateboard?" A conker hit his back, then another one and a few more. Confused and frightened he lifted his hands to his face, wheezing heavily. He scrambled up from the bench and shuffled towards the entrance of his building.
In the hallway a fierce bout of coughing overtook him. He felt his foot slip. Was it a marble? A conker? Wet mud? He lost balance and crashed to the stone floor, hitting his head against the edge of the first stair. Susan found him there, unconscious, with blood streaming from his head.
At the hospital Dave never regained consciousness. His funeral at the cemetery behind the trees was well attended. Dave's daughter was surprised how many people from his apartment bloc had made time to shed a tear for "Upstairs Dave" who would be missed. "If only he had stayed in his flat my father would be happily alive now" his daughter said. Not everybody agreed.


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In my last bookish post I said that I was going to read a particular book but actually have ended up reading something completely different.
May Contain Nuts by John O'Farrell was a Christmas present from a very dear friend. It has been on my 'must read' shelf since then and one morning, when I knew I was taking our class swimming and I would have 30 minutes spare while they had their lesson, I grabbed it from the shelf and shoved it in my bag for later.
The book proved to be a really witty read. It tells the story of Alice, an over-anxious middle-class mother who desperately wants to do the best for her children. In particular it focuses on the efforts and lengths that she and her husband go to whilst trying to get their eldest child Molly into a public school in Chelsea.
From the opening chapter, as Alice causes a car crash after ambushing an unsuspecting speeding driver with a mannequin dressed as Tony Blair in school uniform, this is a real laugh-out-loud novel. However, the measure of comedy and sarcasm has been well-judged by Farrell and the happy yet politically correct ending rounds of the book nicely.
The only real fault with the book was the just a little over idealised tone towards the end. It had a very warm conclusion and I had gone from being rather annoyed with the central character Alice at the beginning to liking her at the end. However, the mood in the final chapters suggests that inner-city state schools are great places to attend and are environments where everyone gets on together. From experience, I know this not to necessarily be the case.
Nevertheless I would really recommend this book to anyone who wants an interesting easy read and a good giggle. I'm sure that many parents coming towards the secondary school application period or those with teenage children would find this very amusing.
For my third and likely final read in May, I've just begun reading Nella Last's Peace. This has been on my 'must read' shelf for over two years which is a real surprised as I loved reading Nella Last's wartime diaries when I was at university. I shall let you know how this one as soon as I've finished it.


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Notes & Coffee: August 28 - September 3
Notes & Coffee is here to keep you informed of all the trending student affairs and higher ed news stories most critical to our field as they develop. In the age of information overload, we're here to bring you vetted examinations of the stories that matter to our field. We invite you to brew a favorite morning beverage, kick back, relax, and catch yourself up for the week ahead with Notes & Coffee.
Higher ed and the floods of Houston – Heavy rains continued to inundate the Houston area and its colleges and universities on Monday, with officials fearing that the damage brought by Tropical Storm Harvey, which originally hit Texas as a hurricane, could still get worse.
As a challenge to DACA looms, participants brace for a battle – As Hurricane Harvey lashed her small home in Houston with wind and rain, Carolina Ramirez hunkered down on Friday to face a threat she finds even more ominous: word that President Trump may be about to rescind the program that has allowed her to work and live there for the past five years without fear she'll be deported. Ms. Ramirez, 28, is one of the original beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The program, whose fate is now up in the air, has allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to work and study here for two-year renewable terms.
DACA recipients' economic and educational gains continue to grow – Since it was first announced on June 15, 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA) policy has provided temporary relief from deportation as well as work authorization to approximately 800,000 undocumented young people across the country. As research has consistently shown, DACA has not only improved the lives of undocumented young people and their families but has also positively affected the economy more generally, which benefits all Americans.
Supporting LGBTQI survivors on campus – II – Understand why LGBTQI students may not report. It is highly likely that LGBTQI students may avoid reporting relationship or domestic violence to the police, campus officials or medical professionals for fear of discrimination or mistreatment.
Peer mentors jumpstart ASU transition for former foster youth – Thirty new ASU freshmen and transfer students who started classes at the university last week took advantage of Bridging Success Early-Start. The six-day residential transition to college program, held Aug. 6–11, helps welcome alumni of foster care to the university and prepares them for success in their first–semester and beyond. ASU Now sat in on several afternoons of the program to get an inside look at the Early-Start experience and some of the ways that peer mentors help new students' confidence unfold.
Policy Update for the Week of August 22 - 29, 2017
Campus Free Speech 2017 Legislative Round-up & Considerations Following Charlottesville
By Teri Lyn Hinds, August 24, 2017
In this post, NASPA Director of Policy Research & Advocacy, Teri Lyn Hinds, reviews legislation related to free speech on college and university campuses was proposed in at least seventeen states, passed in seven, failed in three, and is still pending in at least seven. Much of this legislation requires campuses within the state to create or update policies adhering to principles of intellectual diversity, the free exchange of ideas, and other ideals while also restricting the ability of campuses to designate specific free speech zones. Some bills, based explicitly on the Goldwater Proposal, include provisions that would prevent a campus from disinviting a speaker invited by any member of the campus community along with requirements for campuses to enact sanctions against students who "disrupt" speakers or events. As the events in Charlottesville on the University of Virginia campus earlier this month, coupled with data from a Gallup poll that shows that the majority of Republicans believe campuses are too liberal, portend another dynamic year for free speech on campus, the post includes some additional considerations for campus professionals who may find themselves in the middle of free speech discussions.
Campus carry comes, quietly, to Texas community colleges
By Nashawa Bawab, August 10, 2017
Campus carry legislation was enacted over a year ago at four-year institutions in Texas amidst growing movement-building both for and against its implementation. Recent Texas legislation, TX SB 11, however, has quietly implemented campus carry at the community college level without much uproar in either direction. The law allows anyone with a gun license over 21 to carry a concealed handgun on college campuses in Texas. While private colleges and universities may opt out, community colleges do not have that option, but instead my implement "gun-free zones." The new guidelines are projected to impact hundreds of thousands of members of the campus community. There are over 700,000 students enrolled in community college in Texas and 50 public community college districts in the state.
Colleges Utilizing Web Tool to Curb Sexual Assaults
By Tiffany Pennamon, August 24, 2017
In light of potential rollbacks to Obama-era Title IX guidance, Dr. Penny Smith's 2014 Keys to Coping online tool, has been recently modified to increase victim support for students and expand opportunities for sexual assault violence prevention. According to Dr. Smith, consultation with 60 institutions initially led to her nearly dismantling her program due to the poor reputation institutions feared to develop from an increase in reporting expected in a result of the implementation of the tool. However, a case study of four institutions showed that 60 percent of students found the tool to improve how their respective schools handle campus sexual assault prevention. An additional benefit is the self-care aspect of the tool, which provides options for students to assess their needs for mental health support as a part of the reporting process. According to Dr. Smith, Keys to Coping works to assist institutions in achieving Title IX compliance whole also giving sexual assault victims the opportunity to control the information they share.
Department Lays Out Options for Charlotte Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum, August 25, 2017
Although the Obama administration cut Title IV funding to the Charlotte School of Law in December, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos did not extend loan forgiveness to students who attended the school during or after the fall 2016 semester. The Department stated that it was following a statute that provides for loan forgiveness up to 120 days before the closure of the institution, however sources confirm that these stipulations are a part of federal regulation, not statute. Under this declaration, the Department will only honor full loan forgiveness for students that have withdrawn from the program on or after April 12, 2017. Students who withdrew before April 12 will have to make a borrower-defense claim which has a higher standard than that of a closed-school discharge. Students seeking loan forgiveness are also met with DeVos's recent decisions to stall Obama-Era guidance around borrowers defense and servicer accountability. Former Charlotte students now have to wait for their claims to be considered along with the thousands of claims pending since the start of the new administration.
As a Challenge to DACA Looms, Participants Brace for a Battle
By Katherine Mangan, August 25, 2017
President Trump continues to send mixed-messaging regarding the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and advocates and analysts discuss whether or not the end of the program may be approaching. Thomas A. Saenz of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (Maldef) argues that Texas must show it has standing to sue over DACA by proving that the costs of the program outweigh the benefits. He continues to point out that even though Attorney General Jeff Sessions has indicated distaste for the program, the Justice Department will be required to defend it, as the administration will need to continue to focus on deporting criminals rather than Dreamers. Recent reports also suggest that White House aides may be encouraging President Trump to strike a deal, protecting Dreamers in exchange for funding for a border wall and increased measures of immigrant enforcement.
State Summaries
Bathroom Bills:
While the Policy and Advocacy Team at NASPA has been watching for movement of TX HB 46 and TX HB 50 during Texas Special Session, both failed to move forward by the end date of 8/16/2017. These bills mimic failed legislation HB 2899, a slightly more lenient form of the original TX SB 6 Bathroom Bill. TX HB 46 would forbid "political subdivisions, including a public school district" from adopting or enforcing measures to "protect a class of persons from discrimination" in regulating "access to multi-occupancy restrooms, showers or changing facilities." HB 50 was identical except applying only to a school district board. In the past few months other states have retreated from the conversation. Additional bills of this kind are unlikely to be introduced during the 2016-2017 legislative session.
Sanctuary Campuses:
In the past few months, we have seen 11 states consider 18 pieces of anti-sanctuary legislation that would affect college campuses. 6 states have introduced (pro) sanctuary legislation that extends to college campuses. Of this legislation, 9 pieces have failed, and 15 are pending, and 4 have been enacted. PA HB 14 was removed from the table on 06/22/2017. CA SB 54, a statewide sanctuary bill is in Assembly and was set for its first hearing on 08/23/2017 and placed on suspense file.
Guns on Campus:
Upwards of 17 states are considering legislation concerning guns on campus during the current session. In the 43 pieces of legislation the Policy and Advocacy Team is tracking, 18 bills are pending, 20 have failed, and 6 have been enacted, in AR, GA, OK and TX. GA HB 280 went into effect on 07/01/2017. CA AB 424 was ordered to a second reading by the Committee on Appropriations on 07/10/2017. TX SB 11 which will allow anyone over 21 with a gun license to conceal carry was enacted on 08/16/2017
Federal Summaries
*Congress is in recess during the month of August
More Notes
For-profit colleges find few reasons to lobby a friendlier education dept.
Why college professors are offering to help students get food and shelter
This college program wants to overhaul the education culture in Alaska
The looming decline of the public research university


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One of my former colleagues often twisted an old saying into: "Everything old is old again" when he saw a decades-old published counterfeit submitted for authentication. It made sense.
Very often, both altered and counterfeit coins reside in longtime collections and do not appear on the market again until their owner dies or decides to sell the collection. Such a case occurred last week at Independent Coin Graders and made me recall his words.
As I examined a U.S. gold type set that was removed from an old Whitman folder, the $2.50 Indian and gem uncirculated 1904 $20 Liberty coins were both decades-old fakes. Usually with these sets, the $3 and the Type 2 gold dollar are the fakes. Thankfully for the deceased owner's family, this was not the case. Anyway, it was nice to see these "old friends" I cut my teeth on long ago. It gave me an opportunity to make some micrographs of "wormy tool marks" – a common characteristic we saw on die-struck counterfeits in the 1970s.
It is much different today. In the 1970s and 1980s, the counterfeiters sought to produce the most perfect fakes possible in Gem Uncirculated condition. In the Authentication Bureau, we would see "perfect" coins, fully lustrous and without rub or blemish, yet lacking in high point detail. Back then, I warned my authentication class students to be wary of any coin that looked too good to be true! That appearance had become one characteristic of a coin that raised a red flag demanding a careful examination. Coins such as this are still being produced by modern counterfeiters; yet a close look using some type of magnification will reveal a tiny granular, fuzzy surface especially on their relief design.
Don't be fooled. Today's counterfeits are produced in several degrees of quality from cartoonish junk in Figure 1 to extremely deceptive pieces. That's because several makers are involved. In my opinion, a few world governments are involved in producing the best fakes.
For instance, we know that high quality fakes are coming from Bulgaria and China that for a short time have fooled authentication experts in this country. These were not made at the dirty little mints producing souvenir imitations.
Years ago, extremely deceptive Trade dollars were on the market. Next we saw Flowing Hair dollars.
In both cases, these counterfeits were seen in high grades. Counterfeits in these grades made it easier for authenticators to map out identical contact marks from circulation that were on the original genuine coin used as a model to produce a counterfeit die. Many defects on the genuine coin would transfer and then show up on all fakes struck from the counterfeit die. Thanks to the availability of archived auction images and the like, researchers have discovered that even some damaged genuine coins were bought by the fakers at discounted prices, then repaired and used to make the counterfeit dies.
Recently, rather than try to produce a perfect counterfeit, the crooks have discovered they can pass more lower-grade fakes that have been damaged or corroded to make the authentication of a single example virtually impossible for most of us to detect! That's why vintage copper coin types have become excellent targets. For these, even a third-party grading service might not have the opportunity of having several coins of the same type to examine together.
Therefore, imaging of submissions has become extremely helpful, and both Numismatic Guaranty Corporation and the Professional Coin Grading Service are far advanced at this.
I've urged readers to join, or at the least to read, the Internet coin forums. Two that I visit regularly are Coin Talk and Collectors Universe. One member of both, Jack Young, has posted some excellent information on these boards with images of many very deceptive counterfeits discovered by his study group of Early American Coppers members.
Knowledge is power. All of you reading this owe it to yourselves to become more informed about your business or hobby with regard to authentication (and grading).
By doing that, you'll become another set of eyes to help the third-party services weed out any suspicious coins you may encounter.


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Delegation is the process of identity propagation from a caller to a called object.
As per the J2EE specification, a servlet and enterprise beans can propagate either the client (remote user) identity when invoking enterprise beans or they can use another specified identity as indicated in the corresponding deployment descriptor.
The IBM extension supports EJB to propagate to the server ID when invoking other entity beans. There are three types of delegations:
- Delegate (RunAs) Client Identity
- Delegate (RunAs) Specified Identity
- Delegate (RunAs) System Identity
Delegate (RunAs) System Identity
The EJB specification only supports delegation (RunAs) at the EJB level. But an IBM extension allows EJB method level RunAs specification. Method EJB method level runAs specification allows one to specify a different RunAs role for different methods within the same enterprise beans.
The RunAs specification is detailed in the deployment descriptor (the ejb-jar.xml file in the EJB module and the web.xml file in the Web module). The IBM extension to the RunAs specification is included in the ibm-ejb-jar-ext.xmi file.
There is also an IBM specific binding file for each application that contains a mapping from the RunAs role to the user. This file is specified in the ibm-application-bnd.xmi file.
These specifications are read by the run time during application startup. The following figure illustrates the delegation mechanism as implemented in the WAS security model.
Delegation Process
There are two tables that help in the delegation process:
- Resource to RunAs role mapping table
- RunAs role to user ID and password mapping table
Use the Resource to RunAs role mapping table to get the role that is used by a servlet or by enterprise beans to propagate to the next enterprise beans call.
Use the RunAsRole to User ID and Password mapping table to get the user ID that belongs to the RunAs role and its password.
Delegation is performed after successful authentication and authorization. During this process, the delegation module consults the Resource to RunAs role mapping table to get the RunAs role (3). The delegation module consults the RunAs role to user ID and password mapping table to get the user that belongs to the RunAs role (4). The user ID and password is used to create a new credential using the authentication module, which is not shown in figure.The resulting credential is stored in the ORB Current as an invocation credential (5). Servlet and enterprise beans when invoking other enterprise beans pick up the invocation credential from the ORB Current (6) and call the next enterprise beans (7).
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Title: Deny Me
Author: Fiona Cole
Release Date: Nov 21, 2016
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Jameson King.
My best friend's brother and the person who could make an Olympic sport of ignoring my relentless teasing and taunting.
I was a live-in-the-moment girl flirting with a man who always looked to the future. He was traditional, carrying the weight of his whole family on his broad shoulders, and I had been taught to never fall in love, focusing on my career instead of a future with anyone.
He tried to deny me, tried to deny the passion simmering between us, bubbling under the surface of every game we played.
But all that changed during one week in Jamaica. Falling into bed with Jameson was easy, but falling in love was out of the question.
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I will keep this brief. I didn't like this book, there a few redeemable parts but still I can't find a way to like this book like other people, I guess I am in the minority.
First of all Evelyn, the heroine... oh how I dislike her. I couldn't connect with her. From the beginning I feel like she almost harassing Jameson, I guess the poor guy was thinking with his manhood so he followed her.
The constant reminder that she can't fall in love, oh please, I was tired to hear that. WHY can you not let you feel something... Honey, it's not like love is an STD. Personally, I think I understood her personal reasons but since she couldn't even understand her mixed feeling, I couldn't either. Not that I wanted to.
Jameson was okay... I guess he just went with the flow. I mean who doesn't love a guy that can save a girl... to then realise they are in love? I guess it's just reversed roles this time.
The story... Look, I don't have a master in English and I don't know if I'll be wrong (if I am, I'd appreciate if you tell me where) but how can I explain the writing style? From the prologue I was expecting a different thing with the first chapter. They make out "passionately" and God help me, she just gave him a taste of what he was going to miss because she doesn't screw with the same guy twice? For God's sake, give the guy a brake.
Then whoa, they jump into a meeting between Lu (her best friend) Jameson and Lu's friend, and she starts talking how they always make pranks because they are this big family... she lives far away from her mom. She jumps in teasing really hard Jameson, just because she can and now that something happened they have the biggest chemistry, he just doesn't want to act on it.
And then she jumps into how her best friend lost her parents, and jumps again into how her best friend suffered from a bad accident so that's why she guess Jameson now wants to settle down (and that's what keeps her out of Jameson radar, because she likes her but not to have a relationship with him).
I mean, she doesn't one that because her mom teached her to be independent... and she keeps jumping on moments, and I feel like it's a big effort to make me know her better and her group of friends and she keeps jumping. So I got tired and I gave up.
It felt rushed, and I feel like the author didn't give me time to adjust her pace.
Overall is a nice book I wouldn't want to read again, but hey! there is a bright side in everything I just gifted the book to my best friend and she totally loved. Maybe it's not my style, but I totally recommend you to give this a try.
I flung the curtain open and stepped out, staring down at my breasts as I cupped them, pretending I didn't see Jameson at all. "Lu, what do you think of my breasts in this bra? Do they look perky enough?"
I looked up, gasping in shock at seeing Jameson. "Oh, no," I said, lifting my hand to caress the skin of my chest. "Jameson, I didn't know you were in here." Luella was snorting, trying to hold in her laughter at my exaggerated show. "But while you're here, why don't I get your opinion?" I cupped my boobs again, lifting them for inspection. "Do they look perky enough in this bra?"
Finally taking a moment to meet his eyes, I prepared myself for a look of embarrassed shock. Instead, I was greeted with overwhelming heat. If his eyes could reach out and touch me, they would have singed my skin. The smile slipped from my lips and I swallowed, trying to wet my dry mouth.
His eyes scanned all the way down to my pumps and back up to the breasts I lifted for his inspection. A lifetime seemed to pass as his stare stroked a fire across my skin. My breath stuttered out between my lips at the way he took me in. It threw me off and I was struggling to collect myself.
"Like what you see, Jameson?" Lu asked, laughter filling her voice.
His eyes blinked a few times, pulling himself from the trance. Looking between us, he seemed to make a decision. Standing tall, I prepared myself for whatever he would throw my way.
He focused his eyes on me and let them slide up my body again. But this time was different, it was an intentional ogling that shocked me. Jameson never stared at me like that. I would catch him every once in a while, checking me out, but never so openly ogling my body.
When he dropped the bag at Lu's feet and started taking steps toward me, a fluttering kicked up in my chest. But I set my jaw and held his stare. Whatever his plan was, I would win.
Nothing could have prepared me for when he squatted down and hoisted me up over his shoulder. I let out a loud yelp and braced my hands on his firm ass. As he began walking with me still over his shoulder, I beat at his back and demanded, "Put me down, Jameson King!" His response was to slap my ass and keep walking. "Luella, help me!"
That traitor only laughed.
"Jameson, put me down!"
"Fine," he said calmly, dropping me to the floor.
A victorious smile formed on my lips until I saw he had brought me into the fitting room. He winked before turning back to Luella, who was still laughing in her chair, and said, "Ignore the moan of pleasure coming from in here. It's just me fucking Evie." Her smile falling was the last thing I saw before the curtain closed and he turned to me.
My back hit the mirror as I backed away from him.
"Jameson," I tried to reason. "Don't you-"
My words were cut off as he covered my mouth with his hand, only letting muffled groans escape. "Oh yeah, Evie. Rub all over my dick. That's a good girl."
My eyes were going to pop out of my head from shock hearing Jameson talk dirty to me with his sister right outside. My body just leaned against the glass as I stared into his cocky eyes. They held victory because he had the upper hand and knew it. How was I losing?
I had reached out to grab his crotch when the curtain was ripped back and Lu's eyes flicked from me to him, her lip curled in disgust. "Fucking gross, Jameson."
Tossing his head back, he let out a deep laugh and removed his hand from my mouth. "Maybe that'll teach you guys to stop playing with me." He edged out of the small enclosure, kissing Lu on the head on his way out. "See you later, baby sister." He gave me a wink before turning to walk out of the gold room, tossing over his shoulder, "Enjoy your dress shopping."
We stood frozen, watching his retreating back. "Well, shit," I muttered, dropping my shoulders in defeat.
Lu smirked. "Looks like you need to up your game, Evelyn."
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Luella King has experienced loss all her life. After losing her parents and the most important person in her life, she hesitates to open up to anyone and instead plays it safe. One night, she throws caution to the wind and gives into her desires with a sexy stranger.
Fearing her sudden and unexpected loss of control, Luella runs away from him. A chance second encounter pushes her to open her eyes and give the stranger a chance.
There's something about Jack MacCabe that makes her feel safe enough to lower her guard. Despite how busy he is with his job as a security specialist, they continue to spend more time together and with each date and late night message she finds herself falling in love.
When a serial killer wreaks havoc on their city, Jack's dangerously close proximity to the case reignites Luella's fears of losing someone important to her. Surrendering her fears in order to keep Jack by her side challenges Luella to her limits, while Jack is under pressure to catch the serial killer before it's too late.
As Jack and Luella draw closer to one another, the killer closes in on their next victim. Soon Jack and Luella find themselves entrenched in a mystery they never saw coming.
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Lord Mayor remembers fallen heroes
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Anne Underwood, will lead the Remembrance Day Service and Parade on Sunday 12 November in Victoria Square. Everyone is invited to attend and also observe the two-minute silence at 11am.
The order of the day is as follows:
10.25am: Marching contingents to form on Colmore Row.
10.30am: Uniformed Contingents march on
10.35am: Members of the City Council and VIP's proceed to the Grandstand
10.40am: The combined Bands march on.
10.55am: The Civic Wreath Laying Party leaves the Council House
10.56am: The Lord Mayor's party arrive at the dias.
The Chaplain will conduct the Service of Remembrance.
11am: Roll of Drums followed by "The Last Post".
11.02am: Salute of gunfire. The Salvation Army will lead the singing of "O God our Help in Ages Past".
Followed by the laying of wreaths led by the Lord Mayor.


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Now there's an option (finally) to buy two of the most essential types of Kremlin tickets online. But it might not always be the most practical solution. Let's find out when, how and why should you do that.
The only tickets that are available online are to the territory and to the Armory Chamber.
First, you need to decide what kinds of tickets are going to buy. If you're going only to the territory, buying them online is not that crucial. You'll still have to go to the same regular ticket office to collect your pre-paid tickets. And you can easily just buy them in person on the spot once you're there since those are the most readily available tickets in unlimited quantities at all times. If you're just buying those, you can continue reading this article explaining how to better buy them in person.
Where buying tickets online REALLY matters, is when you're trying to buy the Armory Chamber ones. In this case, you better buy all other tickets you need online too. Since you're already doing it, it'll be just easier to collect them all in the same ticket window.
Why is the Armory so different? Because the tickets are limited by quantity and each is tied to a specific time slot. There are only 500 tickets available for every time session, and about 60% of them in summertime get reserved by big tourist groups in advance.
If you somehow inadvertently managed to see the ticket booth before your visit, and you did it in summer, you might have noticed there was a huuuge line of people stretching for at least 25-50 meters outside of the building. Want to challenge you stamina and heat-resistance? You can join that herd every day for free. All you need to do is Not to buy your Armory tickets online. And then hours of empty standing and a ton of soaking fresh disappointment are absolutely guaranteed. Because even if you decide to take the stand, your chances of buying anything are pretty slim despite the sacrifice. The limited number of tickets is usually only enough to cover the first 25-30% of the entire line each time. Everyone else gets to stand until the next time-slot opens 2 hours later. It's an absolute slaughter! Don't you even dare to try to do this. Just imagine that buying Armory tickets online is the only way of doing it. That'll make your life much easier.
But even online, they sell like toilet paper at a curry festival. So it'll be a really good idea to buy them waaay ahead of time. All the tickets officially start getting sold 18 days in advance on the Kremlin's website. Keep that in mind, and try to buy them at least 10 days before the visit. Note that only about 90 tickets available for each time slot this way. Apparently, that's because they really want to make sure that the suffering in that giant line outside the ticket office never ends, and that the people there always have just enough tickets available to keep them hopeful, but never enough to actually get one. And that the employees inside, behind the heavily tinted windows always get to enjoy the everlasting circle of crushed expectations, devastated hopes and human misery. Well... whatever keeps them excited, I guess.
Here is the link to buy any of those tickets online from the Kremlin's official website. Switch categories at the top of the page and choose the type of tickets you need. Find an available date and follow the instructions. Notice how in the place where you switch between ticket types every category has the word "Tickets" in it, except the Armory which says "Ticket" (singular) instead. It very well might be a subtle hint at the quantity of those tickets that you are likely to find available if you didn't think about buying them ahead of time.
After you've paid for them there, you'll have to collect them all from one of the ticket windows in the main ticket booth on the day of the visit. Below you'll find a picture of said booth and its location on the map. Inside of it look for the windows number 1 and 2. They'll have inscriptions above saying that they deal only with pre-paid tickets and tourist groups. And while yeah, it's still potentially a queue, it's usually only around 1-5 minutes long rather than 30 minutes to eternity. All you need there is to show your passport. Other types of IDs with your name and photo on them usually work, but they might look upset by them since they officially require a passport.
Here you have it. Now you know how to secure for yourself a couple of hassle-free Kremlin tickets. Before you enter make sure you take a look one last time at all the people standing in line for the Armory tickets just to fully appreciate the size of the bullet you just dodged. And then with the feeling of total self-satisfaction choose the Kremlin entrance that suits you most from the picture above and go inside. (Entrance 1 is for the territory, Entrance 2 is for the Armory and the Diamond Fund)
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A mammoth jurists' petition delivered to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton states that the EU is wrong in holding that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are illegal, and that the term "1967 lines" does not exist in international law.
1,000 Jurists to EU: Settlements are Legal – Mammoth petition delivered to Catherine Ashton states: '1967 lines' don't exist.August 6, 2013
European Union decides to keep its mouth shutJune 25, 2013
Speaking of Stupid FeministsJune 23, 2013
Ashton apparently only has a problem with Jewish, but not Israeli Arab, "settlers"December 22, 2012
(This creepy old Labour hack is even uglier than she looks. And the company she keeps should set off everyones alarm bells:)
(SheikYerMami) In other news from the Elder:
"Extremely troubled" Ashton
Ashton apparently only has a problem with Jewish, but not Israeli Arab, "settlers"EU High Representative Catherine Ashton made this statement earlier this week:The approval of an additional 2610 housing units in the settlement of Givat Hamatos is extremely troubling, coming in addition to announcements made at the end of ovember and Monday's approval of 1500 units in Ramat Shlomo. This plan for Givat Hamatos would cut the geographic continuity between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. I strongly oppose this unprecedented expansion of settlements around Jerusalem.
EU "Upgrades" Relations with Israel, Strangling Strings AttachedAugust 3, 2012
(gatestoneinstitute.org)The upgrade, which comes amid a barrage of unending criticism of Israel's policies, in fact appears aimed at increasing Israel's economic dependence on the European Union, with the objective of enhancing the bloc's leverage over the State of Israel. Authored by EU delegations to the Palestinian Authority, the document includes severe recommendations meant to strengthen Palestinian control over East Jerusalem and coerce Israel to change its policy in the West Bank. The document is unprecedented in that it deals with internal Israeli issues.
The European Union has upgraded trade and diplomatic relations with Israel in more than 60 activities and fields, including agriculture, energy and immigration.
But the wide-ranging boost to bilateral relations, which was announced at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels on July 24, is unlikely to end the deep-seated hostility European officialdom harbors towards the Jewish state.
The move, which comes amid an unending barrage of European criticism of Israeli policies in the West Bank, Gaza and within Israel itself, in fact appears aimed at increasing Israel's economic dependence upon the European Union, with the objective of enhancing the bloc's leverage over the State of Israel.
As a whole, the package stops short of the full upgrade in relations that was frozen after Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip in January 2009, but is highly significant nonetheless.
Among other measures, the European Union will remove obstacles impeding Israel's access to European government-controlled markets and enhance Israel's co-operation with nine key EU agencies, including the European Police Office (Europol), the EU's Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Notably absent from the package is the Agreement on Conformity, Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA), a trade agreement that seeks to eliminate technical barriers to trade in industrial products, with the objective of increasing European access to Israeli markets, and vice-versa.
Although the European Commission and the European Council approved the ACAA in March 2010, ratification of the agreement has been held up in the European Parliament due to lobbying by pro-Palestinian activist groups, who argue that the agreement will benefit Israeli companies that do business in the disputed, so-called Occupied Territories.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (AFET) on June 7 recommended that the ACAA be ratified, but its fate will be determined by the Committee on International Trade (INTA), which is scheduled to vote on the measure on September 18, 2012.
In any event, the official EU statement announcing the upgrade in bilateral relations is also replete with condescending criticism of Israel, which the EU accuses of perpetrating a wide range of human rights abuses in the "occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)" and within Israel itself.
Among other items, the statement refers to Israel's obligation to protect the rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority, stressing the "importance to address it as a core problem in its own right." The document also condemns the "excessive recourse by Israel to administrative detention."
The EU urges Israel "to refrain from actions which may…curtail the freedom of association and freedom of speech (of civil society)" and it calls on Israel to prosecute "settler extremists" for their "continuous violence and deliberate provocations against Palestinian civilians."
The statement "stresses Israel's obligations regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian population" and condemns "developments on the ground which threaten to make a two-state solution impossible, such as, inter alia, the marked acceleration of settlement construction, ongoing evictions of Palestinians and the demolition of their housing and infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), including East Jerusalem, the worsening living conditions of the Palestinian population and serious limitations for the Palestinian Authority to promote the economic development of Palestinian communities, in particular in Area C."
The EU is also "concerned about reports on a possible resumption of construction of the separation barrier because the EU considers that the separation barrier where built on occupied land is illegal under international law, constitutes an obstacle to peace and threatens to make a two-state solution impossible."
The statement comes amid a wave of official EU criticism of Israel that is often one-sided, disproportionate and bordering on obsessive.
In July, for example, the European Parliament passed a highly biased resolution accusing Israel of literally dozens of offenses against the Palestinian population, Palestinian institutions and even Arab Bedouins. The statement criticizes Israel for "expansion of settlements and settler violence, planning restrictions and the consequent acute house shortage, house demolitions, evictions and displacements, confiscation of land, difficult access to natural resources, and the lack of basic social services and assistance…" The resolution even accuses Israel of "creating an institutional and leadership vacuum in the local Palestinian population."
In June, EU "Foreign Minister" Catherine Ashton, who has a well-earned reputation for making statements that seek to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state, criticized Israeli policies that "are illegal under international law and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible." Since assuming her post in December 2009, Ashton has never criticized Palestinian obstructionism and their setting impossible preconditions for entering genuine peace talks with Israel. (In March, Ashton famously equated the killing of three children at a Jewish school in France with "what is happening in Gaza.")
In May, the EU's 27 foreign ministers unanimously condemned "the ongoing evictions and house demolitions in East Jerusalem, changes to the residency status of Palestinians…the prevention of peaceful Palestinian cultural, economic, social or political activities…the worsening living conditions of the Palestinian population…of jeopardizing the major achievements of the Palestinian Authority in state-building…the continuous settler violence and deliberate provocations against Palestinian civilians…" But nowhere does the document call on the Palestinian Authority to recognize the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state, a move that arguably more than any other would advance Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
In January 2012, the EU published a document called "The EU Heads of Mission Report on East Jerusalem" which makes an urgent plea for the EU to adopt a more "active and visible" implementation of its policy towards Israel and the peace process.
Authored by EU delegations to the Palestinian Authority, the document includes severe recommendations meant to strengthen Palestinian control over East Jerusalem and coerce Israel to change its policy in the West Bank.
The document recommends that the European Union fund Palestinian construction projects in Area C of the West Bank without Israel's cooperation, undermining Israeli control. But under the Oslo Accords, Area C is under full Israeli civil and security control; it contains all of Israel's West Bank settlements and a small Palestinian population. The EU document also states that Israel's policies are undermining the prospect of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, and calls on Israel to support Palestinian construction across Area C and in East Jerusalem.
The report includes a radical proposal for "appropriate EU legislation to prevent/discourage financial transactions in support of settlement activity." Under the proposal, the European Commission would use legislation to force European companies to stop doing business with companies involved in settlement construction and commercial activities.
Recommendations include the preparation of a "blacklist" of settlers considered violent in order to consider later the option of banning them from entering the European Union. The document also seeks to encourage more PA activity and representation in East Jerusalem.
The report advises senior EU figures visiting East Jerusalem to refrain from being escorted by official Israeli representatives or security personnel. In addition, the document encourages officials to instruct European tourism firms to refrain from supporting Israeli businesses located in East Jerusalem and to raise EU public awareness of Israeli products originating from the settlements or from East Jerusalem.
In December 2011, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz obtained a classified working paper produced by European embassies in Israel, which recommended that the European Union should consider Israel's treatment of its Arab population a "core issue, not second tier to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
The document is unprecedented in that it deals with internal Israeli issues. According to European diplomats and senior Foreign Ministry officials quoted by Haaretz, the document was written and sent to EU headquarters in Brussels behind the back of the Israeli government.
Other issues the document deals with include "the lack of progress in the peace process, the continued occupation of the territories, Israel's definition of itself as Jewish and democratic, and the influence of the Israeli Arab population."
The original document also included suggestions for action the EU should take, but these were removed from the final version at the insistence of several countries. Among these were the suggestion that the EU file an official protest every time a bill discriminating against Arabs passes a second reading in the Knesset, and that the EU ensure that all Arab towns have completed urban plans, "with each member state potentially 'adopting' a municipality to this end."
Haaretz reported that, according to a European diplomat involved in drafting the report, work on it began in 2010 at the initiative of Britain. The idea was to write a report that could be debated by a forum of EU foreign ministers. At some point, however, several countries, among them the Czech Republic, Poland and the Netherlands, expressed objections to its contents and the document was watered down.
Also in December, four EU members of the UN Security Council issued an angry joint statement branding Israeli "settlements" in Palestinian occupied territories and East Jerusalem as "illegal under international law." The statement said: "We call on the Israeli government to reverse these steps. The viability of the Palestinian state that we want to see and the two-state solution that is essential for Israel's long-term security are threatened by the systematic and deliberate expansion of settlements."
While the EU continues to exert pressure on Israel, Jerusalem has been unable to extract meaningful concessions from Brussels. For example, the EU has once again rejected an Israeli request that the bloc designate the Lebanon-based Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently launched a new diplomatic push to convince the EU to outlaw Hezbollah following the murders of five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver on July 18. Israel blames Hezbollah for the suicide bombing at Bulgaria's Burgas airport.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently heads the EU presidency, said there is "no consensus among the EU member states for putting Hezbollah on the terrorist list of the organization," and claimed that there is "no tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terrorism."
Lieberman has also failed to persuade Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, to "intervene" on Israel's behalf in a controversy regarding Tunisia's desire to include a clause in its new constitution making normalized relations with Israel a criminal offense.
As these examples and many others indicate, Israel should be under no illusion that the recent "upgrading" of bilateral relations with the European Union will end European hostility toward the Jewish state. Quite to the contrary; Israel should be expecting an increase in European meddling in its internal affairs.
Soeren Kern is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.
Iran Declaring Victory On Nuke TalksMay 23, 2012
Making or using WMDs is 'haram' in Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says (AFP, Atta Kenare)
(is iran's fist still clenched?)Iran Declares Victory in Nuclear Talks:
Since the beginning of the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran, foreign policy establishment figures have been bubbling with optimism about the negotiations leading to a deal that will settle the crisis. The inauguration of the talks is considered a master stroke that will head off the possibility of a Western or Israeli attack on Iran and allow the European Union to back off its pledge to implement an oil embargo on the Islamist regime. All that will be needed, we are told, is a little patience, and then EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will broker an agreement that will involve the removal of refined uranium from Iran but allow Iran to continue its "peaceful" nuclear research…
That the Iranians believe they have defeated Obama on this issue is now no secret. The only question is whether the president and his credulous Jewish supporters will let this taunt go unanswered as the P5+1 talks head inevitably toward an agreement that will give international sanction to Iran's nuclear goal.
…and of course we will believe these guys now. Catherine Ashton says that throwing rocks is a demonstration of peace… no really. She just said that yesterday.
European Union Catherine Ashton: Palestinians have right to throw stones as part of nonviolent protest.May 23, 2012
(other) European Union Catherine Ashton: Palestinians have right to throw stones as part of nonviolent protest.(IMRA).Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Take a careful look at this statement issued by the European Union. The EU doesn't deny that Bassem Tamimi engaged in soliciting protesters to throw stones. And the EU doesn't take a stand against stone throwing.Question: Does the EU consider stone throwing to fall within the classification of "non-violent protest"?] EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 22 May 2012 A 233/12. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/13033…
Statement by the Spokesperson of High Representative Catherine Ashton on the case of Bassem Tamimi The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: "The High Representative is very concerned by the conviction of Bassem Tamimi in an Israeli military court on 20 May 2012 on charges of taking part in illegal demonstrations and of soliciting protesters to throw stones. The EU considers Bassem Tamimi to be a 'human rights defender' committed to non-violent protest against the expansion of an Israeli settlement on lands belonging to his West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The EU attended all court hearings in his case and is concerned at the use of evidence based on the testimony of a minor who was interrogated in violation of his rights. The EU believes that everyone should be able to exercise their legitimate right to protest in a non- violent manner."Read the full story here.
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We are pleased to add someone with John's breadth of experience with business development and relationship management in this market.
Norwalk, Conn. (PRWEB) May 28, 2015
Wilmington Trust hired John Barrett as managing director and senior private client advisor for the firm's Norwalk, Conn. office. In this role, Barrett will provide comprehensive wealth management advice to high-net-worth individuals, families, entrepreneurs, business owners, foundations and endowments. He will focus on clients in Connecticut, Westchester County, and New York City.
"We are pleased to add someone with John's breadth of experience with business development and relationship management in this market," said Larry Gore, Wilmington Trust's Northeast Region president.
Barrett joins Wilmington Trust with 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Most recently, he was private client advisor with U.S. Trust in New York. Previously, he was managing director with First Republic Bank, and held positions at TD Bank Wealth Management and JP Morgan Chase Private Bank.
"As M&T continues to expand its business in Connecticut, having John on our regional team comes at a great time," said Paula Mandell, president of M&T Bank's Tarrytown, New Jersey, and Connecticut banking markets. "John's leadership and expertise in wealth management will be very helpful to our clients and prospects."
Barrett earned his degree from Iona College. He also is a Certified Financial Planner™.
He was named one of Private Asset Management magazine's "Rising Stars" in 2013. He also is involved with Orphan's Heroes, a not-for-profit organization that provides education, housing, and support to children who have been orphaned and abused.
Barrett is located in Wilmington Trust's office at 501 Merritt 7, Norwalk, Conn., and can be reached at (203)295-2791.
Wilmington Trust's Wealth Advisory offers a wide array of personal trust, financial planning, fiduciary, asset management, private banking, and family office services designed to help high-net-worth individuals and families grow, preserve, and transfer wealth. It maintains offices throughout the United States and focuses on serving families with whom it can build long-term relationships, many of which span multiple generations.
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