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Galveston-bound line stuck off Mexico's coast as families wait
Just as Melinda Ramos was watching a news report about a fire on her parent's cruise ship, her dad called.
"He was laughing," said the relieved 19-year-old from Lake City. "He might be completely joking, but he said they're sleeping in tents outside."
More than 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew members were stranded Sunday on the Carnival Triumph about 150 miles off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula after a fire in the aft engine room. In a news release, the company said the ship's automatic fire extinguishing systems activated and the blaze was quickly contained. No guests or crew members have reported injuries and everyone was asked to remain in public areas or on the ship's deck.
The Triumph is without propulsion and running on emergency generator power. The ship left Galveston Thursday and was scheduled to return Monday. A tug boat was dispatched Sunday and the Triumph is expected to arrive in Progreso, Mexico, Wednesday afternoon, according to the company. From there, Carnival said it would fly guests home.
Families of the stranded guests took to Twitter, Facebook and discussion forums for seasoned cruise-takers.
Some prayed for a safe return and worried about being unable to reach their loved ones. Teens with family on the ship tweeted that they were excited to be home alone a few more days, or proclaimed exactly how much they were freaking out. Others complained about receiving bare bones information from Carnival officials.
Other trips canceled
People who had bought tickets for the Triumph's cruises scheduled to depart Galveston Monday and Saturday were disappointed to learn the trips had been cancelled, but most were glad to hear no one was hurt. Others with vacations booked for the summer or Spring Break asked friends if they should cancel their plans.
Recent passengers on the Triumph said Sunday's fire didn't surprise them because their own trips were plagued by engine problems that delayed their return, or prevented them from reaching Cozumel. A Carnival official said he was uncertain of problems on previous cruises.
Only a few messages from passengers surfaced in the public sphere as most focused on reaching friends and family. Those who did confirmed that everyone was safe, but complained about toilets, faucets and showers not working.
A fire two years ago put Carnival Splendor adrift off the Mexico coast, leaving passengers without air conditioning, hot food and working toilets before being towed to San Diego, reported USA Today.
Ramos said her parents, Matt and Mary, are excited that their vacation has been extended - even if many of the ship's lights and the casino have been shut down to focus power on refrigeration units.
Still having 'good time'
The Carnival Elation took a detour Sunday to rendezvous with the ship, passing along extra food and supplies, said both Ramos and a Carnival official.
"It was difficult to hear them, but it sounds like they're still having a good time," Ramos said, estimating that this is her parent's seventh cruise.
She said Carnival is offering Triumph passengers another cruise for free and this experience hasn't shaken her family's confidence. They plan to take it.
Carnival said in its news release that it will refund all passengers the cost of the trip, including gratuities and transportation costs. Guests booked for the ship's next two departures will be contacted and given a full refund, reimbursement for travel expenses and a 25 percent discount on a future three to five-day cruise.
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- Many family caregivers struggle with how relationships change after memory loss
- Aging experts say you can still share meaningful connections, even as memories falter
- Care center director: "You have to separate what your relationship was before."
On a recent late night in New Jersey, Adam Robb sat up with Dulcie Laurance, lulling her back to sleep.
Robb's 92-year-old grandmother is one of an estimated 36 million people worldwide with dementia, according to 2010 data from Alzheimer's Disease International, and Robb is one of about 65.7 million people in the United States taking care of relatives with various conditions, including dementia.
"It's 11:45 p.m., you just went to bed," Robb wrote to her; Laurance has been deaf for 25 years and macular degeneration undermines her ability to read lips, so Robb, a journalist, communicates with her via written notes. Laurance smiled and sheepishly laughed.
Impairment in the body's internal clock, ultimately disrupting a person's sleep-wake cycle, is just one of the potential symptoms of dementia. When Laurance woke up that night, she'd misinterpreted a light in the living room as a sign that it was time to get up and start her day.
It hurt Robb to see his grandmother changing, but he stayed with her, knowing she once did the same for him.
Rethinking and adjusting relationships is one of the often overlooked parts of being a family caretaker, aging experts said. Since no two people experience dementia in the same way, many caregivers are at a loss with how to cope with a disease that can rob the vivacity and obvious connections of loved ones they once knew.
"You have to separate what your relationship was before," said Laura N. Gitlin, director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at Johns Hopkins University.
Dementia is a loss of brain function and affects memory, thinking, language, judgment and behavior. Alzheimer's disease is the most common and among the most severe types of dementia. Most aren't reversible.
"It's not merely a memory lapse -- we all have those moments where we forget somebody's name or we forget where we put our keys or glasses. This is really very different," Gitlin said. "You not only forget something, you then don't have a strategy of how to correct it."
Laurance was always kind, proud and "grandmotherly," Robb said. Memories of those characteristics drove his decision to move from his own Jersey City apartment in September 2011 and back to his mother's house -- they'd noticed that Laurance became more animated when her grandson was around.
She can still recognize her own home and who is with her -- usually Robb and his mother, who shares in caregiving responsibilities.
"I feel terrible when she just can't seem to put it together; that's the worst," Robb said.
Her dementia is on the tamer side of the spectrum; for many, it means forgetting precious relationships and people.
"The best you can give for a person with dementia is recognition of the person they were and are and be compassionate in your communication," said Darby Morhardt, a research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Compassion includes caregivers recognizing what is and is not within their power to change as the relationships evolves. Correcting mistakes, essentially drawing attention to the memory loss, will likely lead to frustration and embarrassment that can lead to agitation and anger.
"Always remember to help the person with the illness 'save face,'" Morhardt said. "If the person thinks they're in a different city and it really makes no difference that they are told otherwise, it is best to not correct, but to connect on an emotional level."
She said they can sense the caregiver as someone they feel close to, whether or not they know the person's name.
"Enter the reality of the person with dementia and do not try to force them to enter yours," Morhardt said.
It's important to remember that the person isn't acting forgetful or difficult to hurt family members or caregivers, aging experts said, and they can still pick up on negative reactions, even if they don't understand why.
"People who do have dementia are extremely sensitive to the emotional tone set and they can pick up if someone's angry or disappointed," Gitlin said.
"It's important to understand that when the person does or says things inappropriate or negative, that it really is the disease process and that the person may be overwhelmed and you cannot put intention to that behavior you see."
Dementia sufferers are not able to take the feelings of others into account. They become uninhibited and say things that may have been fleeting thoughts in the past -- a "say what we're all thinking" mentality.
"Caregiving for a parent can bring up a lot of emotion -- parents know how to push our buttons and that does not stop with dementia," Morhardt said.
Ultimately, caregivers must accept it's the neurodegenerative disease talking, not past spites or misgivings.
"Spouses and adult children can be confused by the behavior of someone with dementia and think that what they are doing and saying is purposefully hurtful. It is important to recognize that it is the disease talking," Morhardt said.
It's also important to recognize that while it is a caregiver's duty to focus on another's health, it's imperative they focus on their own health as well.
"Primary doctors should be tracking caregivers not only because they're at a great risk for depression, but for other kinds of poor health outcomes," Gitlin said.
Resentment can ultimately overwhelm the desire to help.
The National Center on Caregiving estimates that 40% to 70% of caregivers have symptoms of depression, which can lead to more health problems. Spouses caring for a husband or wife are particularly likely to experience depression.
But with 65.7 million family caregivers -- 10 million of them caring for people with diagnosed dementia -- there's safety in numbers. Organizations like the Alzheimer's Association sponsor caregiver support groups throughout the nation.
"We all manage. We do what we need to do," Robb said.
Robb still remembers long weekend and holiday car rides, when his grandmother would sit beside him in the back seat and make up stories that stretched the entire trip. Now, his mother prints stories he writes for the Jersey Journal in extra-large print so his grandmother can read them.
"It makes me happy to see her enthusiasm for them, knowing they keep her as entertained or distracted or as happy as her stories made me," Robb said. "You never really know how or when or if ever you can pay back a family member for what they did in helping raise you, so I'm lucky to be able to experience and recognize this."
The relationship rewards might not be the same, but they still have value, experts said.
"Recognize your limitations and the limitations of others," Morhardt said. "Acknowledge the grief and sadness, but try to appreciate the moments of connection."
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The wildfire, which is already being dubbed the "Machine Gun Fire", was sparked during target practice at Camp Williams, a National Guard facilitate 48km outside Salt Lake City. Apparently, artillery ignited a small dry bush and the fire quickly grew out of control. NPR reports:
"It was kind of a perfect storm scenario where once the fire started on the firing range at the National Guard base, the wind really kicked up," said Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson, who saw homes catch fire. "Literally, the fire was coming down into the backyards of many of these residents."
Winds racing through the area at 40 to 50 mph pushed the "Machine Gun Fire" over a mountain ridge and into the Salt Lake Valley, Hutson said.
"It was lifesaving efforts trying to get people out of the area because of a very, very fast-moving fire - literally moving faster than anybody could run," he said.
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Kreativ Gratitude: My Secret Genealogy Ambitions
I write the following as a sincere "thank you" to Sherry Stocking Kline of Family Tree Writer (a very informative and entertaining blog - check it out if you haven't already) for the Kreativ Blogger Award. I was so entranced as I read her "Seven Things" ('cause she sounds like my alter ego) that I was inspired to reveal some of my Secret Genealogy Ambitions.
(Much of my genealogy research for the better part of the past year has consisted of dutifully adding Normans to my database and transcribing Moore family obituaries. It's good work – I'm happy to have the information – but sometimes I get a little bleary-eyed. And when I get bleary-eyed, I start to get distracted. And when I get distracted, I start to get silly. Right now it's genea-fantasies, the more outrageous, the better):
* To be rich enough to order birth, death, marriage, will, and land transcription books to my heart's content, without the guilty feeling that I shouldn't be spending so much money.
* To win a "Blog Makeover," with Thomas Macentee of GeneaBloggers and Destination: Austin Family covering the technical aspects, one of our talented digiscrappers such as Vickie Everhart of BeNotForgot working on presentation of family photos, and someone such as Leslie Ann Ballou of Ancestors Live Here handling blog design. (And, yeah, Sherry, some of that Photoshop stuff.)
* To have an un-researched line that doesn't have a super-common surname such as Smith, Moore, or Lewis.
* To take The Ultimate Genealogy Fantasy Road Trip, occasionally joining up with convivial genealogy travelers such as the You Go Genealogy Girls Cheri Hopkins and Ruby Coleman, or Linda Hughes Hiser of Flipside, or Carol of Reflections From the Fence, or Becky Wiseman of kinnexions.
* To have the money, time, and proximity to the venue to be able to attend some of the major genealogy conferences. (I missed two recent conferences that were not too far from my own back yard – FGS in Philadelphia in 2008 and NGS in Richmond in 2007.)
* To be able to do that Google Earth for Genealogists thingy that Pamela and Rick Sayers do where you can superimpose historical maps on Google Earth maps.
* To get a response to every e-mail I send out to contact the people who posted messages on my family lines long, long ago and to have everyone who has found their family lines on my blog to actually contact me.
That's all I can think of for now. Guess it's time to get down out of the clouds and back to that enormous Norman family. Now let's see if we can find the maiden name of my third cousin twice removed's first wife….
Again, thank you for the award, Sherry, as well as for the inspiration.
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Aw, gee. I'm blushing. I really am. And grateful. And really, really inspired.ReplyDelete
Road Trip... Aww, I dream of Road Trips, too, where there is unlimited time to look, unlimited funds to make copies (and afford the gas and the motel rooms) and you luck out and find cousins who have the information you can't find....
Thank You, Greta, for inspiring me!!
I love your post! You and Sherry have inspired me. I'll have to put my secret geneaolgy ambitions in writing as well. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Like Sherry - - blushing!
Would love to go with you on a research tour!
Right now the touring is not getting any research done, well, not genie research. YET!
In years past have used Tana(and her predessor) to research in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, probably others! It really is a great way to research, getting right to the county courthouses and all those fabulous libraries.
Would love to go with you, and learn from each other.
Oh, was so nice of you to comment on the Great Blue Heron photos!
Sherry - I even make mental maps of where I would visit - now that's geeky!ReplyDelete
Lisa - Can't wait to see what your secret ambitions are!
Carol - A lot of your states are ones I hope to visit - SC, GA, NC, VA (well, I live here), MO and IL.
Some day, some day....
Just a little expression of my appreciation . . .ReplyDelete


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Normally, these indicators would be the beginning of bad tidings, as was the case last year. However, demand, particularly overseas, remains relatively strong, and concern regarding the drought in New Zealand has kept world prices robust.
Feed prices remain a primary concern of farmers who buy most, if not all, of their grain and forage since even the expected $20-range milk prices will not balance the checkbook for many of those operations. Last year was one of have and have nots as farms with homegrown feed did better when milk prices recovered in the summer and autumn, but those without such feed continued to struggle. This year may very well be a repeat unless near-perfect weather intervenes in drought-stressed areas.
However, there is some bright, longer term news for the industry. A new version of a tried-and-true dairy product appeared in domestic markets about seven years ago and has taken the dairy case by storm. Greek yogurt has quickly replaced a high portion of traditional yogurt sales while also expanding total yogurt category sales. More importantly for dairy farmers, Greek yogurt uses twice as much milk protein pound for pound than traditional yogurts and, therefore, twice as much farm milk is needed to generate the product.
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Greek yogurt made its first inroads onto supermarket shelves in the Northeast, and local production has surged since then. Even though the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order is the second largest in the nation, Greek yogurt has expanded Class II utilization to more than 25 percent. In some months, more producer milk is used in Class II products than Class III cheese.
Some Northeastern producers are concerned that these high-protein yogurts are displacing milk for the local Class I market. They speculate that lower Class I sales are the result, depressing blend prices. This is not the case, however, as Northeast Federal Order provisions have always assured that Class I processors receive first call on producer milk. While Class I sales are declining, the cause lies with accelerating reductions in fluid milk consumption.
Milk flowing to Greek yogurt plants is far more likely to displace milk that would have gone into the Class IV balancing class that includes butter and dry milk powders. A high proportion of the farm milk previously made into nonfat dry milk at Agri-Mark's plant in Massachusetts is being sold as skim milk to Greek yogurt plants. The good news for producers is that the Class II price averages about 70 cents per hundredweight higher than Class IV under all Federal Order pricing provisions. More Northeast yogurt plants are on the way!
Greek yogurt sales have expanded throughout the country, and its production is expanding outside the Northeast as well. The largest yogurt plant in the world was built in Idaho, and a future expansion will be in the works. In addition, other facilities are opening in the Midwest and elsewhere. The anticipated growth in demand for Idaho's milk is already raising farm milk prices there.
USDA is considering including these high protein yogurts in their domestic food distribution programs that include the school breakfast and lunch program. This product would be an excellent addition to school menus, combining the nutrition that parents and policy makers demand with the great taste that children crave. As some traditional dairy products struggle to remain in schools, providing another dairy option for students who are developing lifelong eating habits would be a positive sign for farmers and processors alike.
Satisfy consumers
Consumers love the thicker, richer taste of Greek yogurt as well as the greater nutritional value of the product. Retail prices are often twice that of traditional yogurts, but that has not slowed sales. Consumers are willing to pay significantly more for great tasting, high-quality dairy products. This is an important lesson for the entire dairy industry and should drive both new product innovation and the search for "new" international products that have been around in places like Greece for thousands of years.
This article appears on page 264 of April 10, 2013 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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I'm really new to this SEO world and I've been reading a lot to try and figure it out.
We have a site that allows users to browse/create events anywhere. And we fill it with content from the main cities in the US.
We would like it to show for searches for things like "events in san francisco" or "what to do in new york", however, since the site is not really location-specific, I'm not really sure where to begin.
I've been thinking a couple of things, maybe you can help me decide if these would be a good way to start or if I should try something different.
1- Allow something like location-specific urls (e.g. example.com/browse/san-francisco) could just show the main page centered in San Francisco.
2- Change the headers/title of the page so it adapts automatically to the city being browsed (and change this dynamically as the user changes the location of the map).
3- Add internal links to different locations (e.g. add a link at the footer of the page that says "Events in Seattle" that makes the site load events in that city. (this would probably depend on implementing #1).
What do you guys think? will any of these really help or should I look for a different approach? any advice is welcome.


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The year 2012 is quickly winding down.
The year 2012 is quickly winding down.
On New Year's Eve, tens of millions of Americans will be hitting bars, restaurants and nightclubs to ring in the new year. There will be funny hats, noisemakers and, at midnight, half a plastic cup of cheap champagne to celebrate, after drinking prodigious amounts of alcohol during the evening.
Some people refer to New Year's Eve as "amateur night for drinkers." And the cops will be out in full force.
Also, various renditions of "Auld Lang Syne" will be playing throughout the day and evening, in keeping with the holiday spirit.
But what reasons do most of us have to be nostalgic about the old year or look forward to the new?
Not many.
The most recent events of 2012 have revealed that America has lost faith with its government and the policing agencies designed to protect us. Certain events can make us angry, but not angry enough. We say we want change, but we are fearful of it. We are too lazy to pursue it, anyway. We can react to tragic events, but our reaction only reinforces our beliefs that we are being failed by our government.
The massacre in Newtown, Connecticut was the result of legally owned weapons being available to a mentally deranged person not authorized to use them. The reaction of many Americans was to rush out and buy more weapons. Some people even advocated arming school guards!
People felt they were let down by the law enforcement agencies.
Some groups, such as the NRA, feel that this incident might result in stiffer gun laws. That the laws currently in effect did not prevent the Christmas Eve Massacre in Webster, New York, does not seem to have made an impression on them whatsoever. Four first responders from the fire department were gunned down, two of them killed, and seven homes went up in flames, the work of a madman with a criminal history who was not supposed to have guns. He got them anyway.
Even the religious lunatics of the Westboro Baptist Church have entered the fray. They wished to show up en masse
at the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Massacre ( 20 of whom were schoolchildren ) in protest. Their message: the shootings were God's wrath over "equal marriage!" They were prevented from doing this, not by the various police agencies in that area, but by the Hell's Angels motorcycle club, who blocked them from protesting at the funerals.
Once again, people have lost faith in their policing agencies.
Our economy is still a disaster, yet this presidential election was the most expensive in history, costing more than the annual budgets of most third-world nations. We are supposedly on a "fiscal cliff," yet Congress walked of with its pay raise intact. We have a long term, expensive war going on in Afghanistan that is serving no real purpose, and is us costing American lives daily.
Here in Monroe County and the City of Rochester we can see that loss of faith more closely. Both the County Executive and the Mayor of Rochester claim that they have created tens of thousands of jobs in this area, while never mentioning the tens of thousands of jobs that have left. And Rochester has the seventh highest level of child poverty in the nation.
The County Executive's recent radio advertisement boasts of our area's "world-class quality of life." She fails to mention that Monroe County has the highest level of infant mortality in the state. The County Executive also claims that she has held property taxes flat for the ninth year, but fails to mention that your tax bill will be higher because of the subterfuge of "fees."
The split in local government, between the Republican dominated County Legislature and the Democratically monopolized Citygov, is frighteningly apparent. The two groups simply won't work together, and it shows. The county Republicans have long abandoned any serious political participation in Rochester. They see the city as a convenient dumping ground for social issues like halfway houses for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, for group homes for people suffering from mental and physical disabilities, for homeless shelters. This keeps the suburbs largely white and pristine.
For the two Republican members of the County Legislature whose districts cross over into the city, who they truly represent is perfectly clear: they vote with their suburban Republican brethren to the detriment of their city constituents.
Then there's Citygov! Monopolized by the Democrats, Citygov frequently warns Rochesterians that there might have to be severe cuts in essential city services because of budgetary constraints. This does not prevent Citygov from making devil's bargains with developers that end up costing the city tens of millions of dollars in revenue yearly. This does not also prevent Citygov from borrowing tens of millions of dollars to "loan" to the developers of other projects, such as "Collegetown."
And the latest plan for downtown redevelopment consists of creating a "Potemkin Village" in the vicinity of the defunct Midtown Mall, to the detriment of the impoverished neighborhoods of the northeast and southwest areas of Rochester.
The county Republicans have already created a nauseating cult of personality about the County Executive. The city Democrats are attempting to do the same for the current mayor of Rochester, though for far fewer good reasons.
Rochester has a reputation for violence; it is the murder capital of New York State. Rochester's chief of police, James Sheppard, frequently grins impishly before the camera, says most of the murders in Rochester are gang related. Since they occur so frequently, that statement isn't very reassuring about the police department's ability to cope with it. Moreover, the police department isn't able to cope with the youth gangs and drug dealers who roam our streets at any hours of the day or night. This has been a particular problem we have seen on the upswing in Maplewood over the last few years, and we have complained about it frequently, only to be told that there was nothing the police could do about it, except to scatter them. Since these kids regroup a few blocks away, this hasn't been very effective.
And violence has occurred as a result. Two weeks ago, a rumble of perhaps 40 to 50 kids caused a lockdown at the Maplewood branch of the public library. The staff and the patrons were fearful of their safety, and two people outside were injured.
The dismal state of the Rochester City School District has its share to play in the amount of youth violence that is occurring here. The city schools have the lowest math and verbal scores and the highest drop-out and truancy rate in perhaps the whole state. Dr. Bolgen Vargas, Rochester's Superintendent of Schools, admitted in August of this year that perhaps as many as 50% of our schoolchildren are truant on any given day, which means the teachers have not been accurately reporting on their attendance. Dr. Vargas also claimed that our verbal and math scores would be higher if the kids were in school. Frankly, it doesn't require a Ph.D to figure that out. However, Dr. Vargas has been patently unsuccessful in getting these kids back to school, which accounts for the numbers of youth gangs roaming the street during school hours.
As for our elected school board, they have been failing for the last thirty years. They see their job as to get re-elected and possibly move up the political food chain, and not to offend too many people by making any serious changes to the school system. This also means the unbridled opposition of the school board to mayoral control of the schools, which would eliminate them as a body paid for by the taxpayers of Rochester. While mayoral control has failed to improve the schools in every city it has been undertaken, the school boars here has been failing continuously for over a generation.
And the parents? Dr. Vargas likes to point out that many of our truants come from single parent homes, that they move about Rochester a great deal ( so that nobody can keep track of them ) and that some of these children are left in the care of by-blow relations, like grandmothers, who are probably watching other children as well. In short, parents have abdicated their responsibilities while maintaining their "authority," such as they have.
Yet, we are continually told that the city and the county are "poised on greatness!" But our emperor and our empress are naked, no matter what they or their toadies tell us.
Some well meaning sentimentalists use the by-now banal phrase "it takes a village" to solve all of these problems. But even a functioning village requires a sense of community and a respect for tradition and authority, which our troubled urban youth does not have because there is nobody to provide them with any. Many adults don't believe in it anymore, either.
As for "political correctness," that hasn't really solved anything, either, except to sugar-coat racism, bigotry and prejudice. It hasn't eliminated them. Not by a long shot.
Yes, we don't trust our government. We don't believe in the politicians who run for office. We are tired of the lies.
And, the most galling part of it, WE PUT THEM THERE! And we are too lazy to remove them and make the changes necessary to put us back on the right track. Too many of us are too lazy not to vote a straight ticket at election time.
We have lost faith in our own creation, and now we reap our reward.
Ladies and gentlemen, raise your half-full plastic cups of cheap champagne:
I wish you all a BRAVE new year.
Bravery is something we're going to need.


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Disk encryption: not just for paranoids
Many companies are beginning to do something that years ago would have been thought of as overkill: encrypting data while it is sitting on the array. This article will help you decide if this is something your company should do.
As direct-attached storage (DAS) moves to storage area networks (SANs), a question asked more often of storage administrators these days is: "How safe is our data?"
The question is being asked for a couple of reasons. First, attaching storage to networks introduces security vulnerabilities that didn't exist in the DAS era. And companies are increasingly facing regulations requiring that they take extra steps to keep sensitive customer information private.
The risk associated with sending backup data over an unprotected IP network is obvious. But even an isolated SAN is vulnerable to attack. Many switches, host bus adapters (HBAs) and other fabric elements use management console interfaces that rely on out-of-band connections that are only minimally protected.
"The management interfaces are the first security vulnerability in a SAN fabric that people should look at," says Nancy Marrone-Hurley, a senior analyst with the Enterprise Storage Group (ESG) in Portland, OR. "But there are many other potential problems that most storage managers haven't even begun to think about."
These security concerns are leading a growing number of storage administrators to embrace an idea that not long ago would have qualified as a symptom of paranoid overkill: encrypting data not only as it traverses a storage network, but also as it sits on disk and tape arrays. No doubt the idea makes some sense. If you've encrypted all your critical data, hackers would be prevented from reading it, even if they were able to worm their way into your storage network. But it's not quite as simple as all that--there are trade-offs.
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Encryption's downside
Before deciding to encrypt, storage managers will have to decide whether degraded performance and interoperability snags are a price worth paying for increased peace of mind. Storage encryption products--mostly from a group of relatively young companies--work in a variety of different ways, and some impact SAN throughput more than others.
And while most storage encryption products make some use of cryptography standards, in most other respects they are highly proprietary and don't interoperate. That means once you select a storage encryption product, it's going to be difficult to switch.
Some storage managers think shoring up SAN security through encryption is worth the trade-offs. United Airlines' Loyalty Services Group in Shaumberg, IL, which runs the company's Web-based booking system, recently decided to deploy an encryption appliance from NeoScale Systems Inc. as part of a project to replace the DAS used to store customer credit card information.
The CryptoStor FC appliance sits directly on the Fibre Channel (FC) wire between the switch and storage devices and encrypts all data as it moves onto disk. The appliance offloads all encryption processing from the application server, and like other storage encryption appliances, it authenticates users attempting to access protected storage and allows administrators to create rules governing which data blocks are encrypted and which ones are not.
United opted for encryption, says Gary Pilafas, senior storage and systems architect, in large part because of expectations that regulators will require the company to prove it's done everything possible to keep customer information private.
"When they come to us and ask what we've put in place to protect customers, we can show them," he says.
So far, Pilafas says the CryptoStor appliance hasn't reduced the performance of his SAN. Because the appliance is transparent to other devices in the SAN fabric and it implements encryption algorithms in hardware, NeoScale claims it's able to perform at nearly 2Gb/s line speeds.
Some storage encryption tools, however, have a larger impact on SAN performance. While appliances such as those from NeoScale and Decru Inc. handle encryption in the hardware and claim nearline-speed performance, others such as the Assurancy SecureData from Kasten Chase and the CoreGuard from Vormetric Inc. require hardware or software agents running on servers in addition to the hardware appliance. This approach generally involves a performance hit. Kasten Chase estimates a 10% impact on SAN Fibre performance. But there's an upside to this approach: It can be more easily scalable.
Performance concerns have kept some organizations away from storage encryption. At Deloitte Consulting, IT managers have considered encrypting storage. With its many clients throughout privacy-conscious Europe, Deloitte could use encryption to reassure regulators, says CTO Eric Eriksen.
"But each time we've looked at it, we've become concerned with the performance issue. The only way to resolve that would be to test some appliances, which we haven't done yet, he says."
In the meantime, Deloitte has used encryption features built into applications such as e-mail to protect some data while in transit.
Application-centric tools
Whether to take a storage-centric approach to encryption or an application-centric approach is another decision security-conscious IT managers will have to make. While some appliances sit directly on the FC and encrypt data on a storage block-by-block basis, other encryption products work much more closely with the application.
Ingrian Networks' Network-Attached Encryption product includes an encryption appliance, but unlike the Decru and NeoScale products, it also works with what Ingrian calls a Secure Transaction Platform--software that sits in front of a Web or application server and monitors files and records passing between those servers and the database server. The Secure Transaction Platform allows IT managers to be more selective about what they're encrypting because it deals with data on a more granular level, as files or records rather than blocks.
Another product, Vormetric's CoreGuard, works in a similar way, with a software agent called Policy Enforcement Module plugging into the operating system's file system. CoreGuard also includes a policy engine, giving administrators the ability to grant or restrict end-user access on a file-by-file basis and to track who's accessed which files and when.
Such application-level encryption and authorization has its advantages. Even competitors admit that besides offering much more fine-grained encryption and access control, such systems also are able to encrypt and protect data from the moment applications generate it.
"If you're running one key application and that's where the bulk of your mission-critical data is, application-level encryption makes sense," says Scott Gordon, NeoScale's VP of marketing.
That's exactly the situation that last year convinced Van Nguyen, director of global IT security at an integrated circuit software design company, to deploy Vormetric's CoreGuard product to encrypt and control access to proprietary source code, the heart of the company's intellectual property. The integrated circuit software company created its own version control software that allows developers at 80 sites in 20 countries to collaborate by sharing files over an IP network. CoreGuard's encryption allows the company to ensure the privacy of the source code. And its access control features allow the company to keep track of who accesses a particular file.
"We looked at some of the storage encryption appliances, but they represented only half of a solution," says Nguyen. "With those, even after you've encrypted the data, there's a lot you can't control."
While application-centric encryption offers more control, there are drawbacks. Because products like Ingrian's rely on software agents, they tend to impact performance more than hardware-only encryption engines. And many application-centric products support only a limited range of environments. Vormetric, for example, only supports applications running on Sun's Solaris operating system. Officials say the company currently is working on a Linux implementation.
Moreover, relying on applications or application-specific tools for encryption can spawn complexity.
Consider a situation where an enterprise had several applications generating critical data that required encryption. The data that had to be integrated came from different applications. If different applications running on different operating systems handled encryption differently, it's likely that data would have to be decrypted before it could be integrated, causing extra overhead and a security risk.
But whether you opt for storage-centric or application-centric approach, you'll have to accept one central fact: All storage encryption products today are highly proprietary. While most use standard encryption algorithms such as the FIPS-approved 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard as the starting point, they take different approaches to things such as authenticating users and storage devices and clustering. That means storage encryption appliances don't interoperate.
"Encryption appliances right now are point solutions ... once you've selected one, you're pretty much stuck with that approach," says Enterprise Storage Group's Marrone-Hurley. That's because in industries such as healthcare and financial services, organizations are required to retain patient and customer records data for years or even decades. Such organizations must be able to store encryption keys securely for years and find them when they need them. While Neoscale and Decru appliances encrypt tape-bound data, storage managers should think twice before using encryption, particularly for protecting large amounts of data that will be vaulted.
According to W. Curtis Preston, founder of The Storage Group, if encryption appliance vendors were to fail and stop providing support, users with large amounts of archival data on tape could be confronted with the large job of trying to decrypt it. Therefore, Preston says, encryption is a better fit for backup applications involving tape because recovery would be easier.
In either case, says Preston, users considering encryption for tape should ensure the appliance they choose does compression as well as encryption.
"What if [the encryption appliance] were to go away?" says Kevin Granhold, manager of network services at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, which has installed a NeoScale CryptoStorFC to protect patient data stored on a Compaq EMA 12000 SAN.
"Given that the appliance is proprietary and available from only one vendor, we had to make sure that we could make copies of the keys and store them in a secure location," he says.
Adding new features
In response to these concerns, storage encryption vendors have been beefing up their systems' key management capabilities. Last spring, Decru added what it calls "lifetime key management" features to its DataFort appliances. They include clustering and automated key backup, which ensures that keys are always stored in two different appliances. In the event that both appliances are destroyed, Decru also makes a software recovery tool that can be used to decrypt data stored on FC SANs, NAS or tape devices. NeoScale supports similar features.
Such failsafe features have convinced storage managers like United's Pilafas to overlook the proprietary nature of encryption appliances. "I'm not a big fan of proprietary appliances, especially appliances that sit in-band," he says. "They have to make a real good argument. In this case, they did."
Even if a case can be made for storage encryption in your organization, it's important to keep one thing in mind: Encryption should be thought of as just a piece of the storage security puzzle, not as a silver bullet. Besides using encryption to beef up the privacy of data at rest on networked storage devices and in transit, storage managers should also work to develop a coherent set of storage security policies, make sure strong authentication and authorization exists between SAN and NAS fabric elements and create mechanisms for auditing fabric changes.


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Desktop virtualization deployment strategies and challenges
A look at how enterprise IT execs have deployed desktop virtualization, the benefits they have realized and the challenges they faced along the way.
- Christina Torode, Editorial Director
This is the second in a two-part series about enterprise desktop virtualization adoption strategies. This part digs into how enterprises are deploying virtual desktop technologies and the challenges they are encountering along the way. In the first part, IT executives and experts discuss the trends that are making it easier for IT to pitch desktop virtualization as the answer to a host of business problems.
For Neal Kaderabek, CIO at Hallmark Services Corp., desktop virtualization was but one piece of a larger business transformation project to update IT systems and business processes and position his company for growth.
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Desktop virtualization, however, was not an easy piece. Kaderabek's team converted 400 of the health insurance company's physical devices to virtual desktops using VMware Inc.'s desktop and server virtualization technologies.
"It's not as easy as it looks," Kaderabek said. "The hard part is getting the images created for every [user and department] role of the organization." This step alone took his team a year to complete.
When Hallmark Services began the project in early 2008, the Naperville, Ill.-based company was a trailblazer of sorts. "It required a lot of learning by the school of hard knocks," Kaderabek said. "My advice to anyone else choosing to virtualize desktops is to make sure you have some talent that has been there, done that."
Fortunately, these days enterprise organizations increasingly are sharing their desktop virtualization stories, along with lessons they've learned along the way. The main technical recommendations from CIOs who have been there and done that: Take a phased approach to desktop virtualization, and be prepared to invest in many types of desktop virtualization and nonvirtualized technologies to get the job done. Job No. 1 from a user perspective is creating a consistent application and data-service delivery experience for employees regardless of the platform they're on.
"Think about [desktop virtualization] as a composition of multiple application delivery vehicles that make the experience transparent to users," said Chris Wolf, analyst at Gartner Inc., during the research firm's recent Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego. That might mean using a combination of technologies (not necessarily virtualized ones) to give users access to a portal of applications. "This really is a brokering technology, where virtualization can be one enabler. Software as a Service is another enabler; in fact, it is the No. 1 stop for the app onboarding workflow before [our clients] look to deploy apps internally," he said.
A phased approach to desktop virtualization
For Elio Benincasa, assistant vice president for infrastructure management at Manulife Financial Corp., desktop virtualization began with server virtualization, progressed to application virtualization and has matured in the last couple of years into a technology stable enough for enterprise organizations the size of Toronto-based Manulife.
Starting with the U.S. Life Insurance division of Manulife, the justification for a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was the need to support process workers, such as call center users; in-house and offshore application developers; and some administrative and operations staff. At the same time, Benincasa was called on to give call center and application developers a consistent look and feel when they access applications.
The challenge was that some development work was being done on Windows Server 2000 and some on Windows Server 2003, while users were on Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP2. Benincasa had to find a way to simplify the management and maintenance of multiple systems, and give users a consistent experience when they use applications, regardless of the platform they are on. A VDI allowed him to do both.
"VDI gave us a consistent look and feel for many platforms and for many users -- from offshore developers to call center users," Benincasa said in his Catalyst conference presentation. "Another benefit was that training was simplified, and deploying a new [operating system] and new apps to the platforms became much easier."
Shift your mind-set to not care about the end devices, who owns it or where it's coming from.
Dustin Fennell, vice president and CIO, Scottsdale Community College
In the beginning, the project's infrastructure was based on VMware and consisted of a server-hosted desktop and thin clients that took advantage of existing hardware platforms. Connection brokers identified users and provisioned virtual desktops for users based on their roles and access privileges in the company.
Version 1 (as Benincasa calls it) for U.S. Life Insurance began in 2007. Today he is working on a VDI plan for Manulife's U.S. Investment division with the same use case scenarios: application developers, operations support staff and offshore database administrators. VMware's ESX hypervisor and VMware View had been the base technologies for the first desktop virtualization project. For this go-around, his team is using Citrix Systems Inc.'s VDI infrastructure, with the ESX hypervisor as the back end.
"Our global infrastructure folks started developing standards during this first iteration and decided to go with the Citrix [brokering] platform with ESX on the back end this time," Benincasa said. A primary reason for the change is that ESX uses the PC-over-IP remote desktop protocol, but the Independent Computing Architecture protocol used by Citrix is a global standard at Manulife. "It's easier for us to run one protocol globally across all firewalls and regions," he said.
With version 2 under way, Benincasa has some advice to share:
- Understand why you are implementing VDI, who the users are and what kind of work they do: "User acceptance is a key thing. If you give users a solution that won't work with all of their apps, you're going to have a major problem."
- Some applications are still going to need a physical footprint. This was the case with Manulife's Bloomberg system that its traders use.
- The desktop virtualization landscape keeps changing. Keep an eye on it as you place your bets, and realize that acquisitions might affect your licensing terms.
- Sit down with your procurement team to define licensing terms with vendors under the VDI model. Is the per-user fee based on North American users? If it is, third-party offshore users will not be covered.
- You will be making significant infrastructure investments: "On the server side, you need to understand sizing. You don't want to implement and find out there's not enough memory running on the disks."
- The cost of persistent images in VDI is multiplied by each of those images.
- Have a provisioning mechanism in place that meets compliance requirements and prevents offshore developers from printing documents or walking away with information, for example, on thumb drives.
Head of the class with desktop virtualization
Dustin Fennell, vice president and CIO at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, also is a big advocate of a phased-in approach to desktop virtualization. His team moved the college's IT systems to a fully operational VDI, with 250 applications virtualized to date.
Their first goal was to make application delivery independent of platforms and devices. "Get out of the business of managing end devices. Shift your mind-set to not care about the end device, who owns it or where it's coming from," Fennell said during a presentation at the Gartner conference. To make this happen, start with applications, he advised. By virtualizing applications first, you can begin to deliver features to users immediately without having to overhaul your current infrastructure. Then, move on to virtual desktops to tackle applications that are graphic-intensive, such as Autodesk Inc.'s AutoCAD and Adobe Inc.'s Creative Suite 5.
In Fennell's view, another key element is a Web portal with a provisioning system that's based on Active Directory user access to deliver apps to users located anywhere and using any device. "We are leveraging desktop virtualization and a whole host of other virtualization technologies to create on-demand access to services that our users need to consume via whatever device they happen to be using, from wherever they happen to be," he said.
The college's desktop infrastructure includes local PCs with the operating system still installed, server-hosted applications, server-hosted desktops, server blade computing, application and OS streaming to local devices, and bare metal hypervisors. "Using bare-metal machines, someone can come in and steal it and we don't care. It's a throwaway machine and no data resides on it," Fennell said.
Desktop virtualization saves Scottsdale Community College about $250,000 a year as a result of its being able to pool hardware and software resources, extend the life of hardware, and decrease support -- and reduce IT headcount as well, Fennell said. Of the money saved, a portion -- $50,000 -- is being redirected to fund IT innovation grants for ideas culled from the college's faculty and staff.
The savings and improved service to students prompted the rest of Maricopa County's community college system to adopt Scottsdale's desktop virtualization strategy. This project will cover the needs of about 260,000 students annually and 12,000 employees. In the meantime, Scottsdale Community College continues to reap the rewards of desktop virtualization.
"We gained a competitive advantage over the 15 other colleges in the area competing for students, because [students] no longer have to make an educational decision based on the age of hardware or the software they can afford. We provide free access to the software they need, to any type of device," Fennell said.
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Details on 'ZOMBIES,' Chuck's Upcoming Short Story For October Playboy Magazine
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It's becoming a yearly tradition to not only see a new novel drop by Chuck Palahniuk (Doomed on October 8th), but a new short story as well. Usually, these stories have two things in common: 1) Chuck will read them while on tour for his current novel. 2) Chuck will print them in Playboy Magazine.
This year's short story is called 'Zombies,' and during a recent interview with Oregon Live, Chuck had this to say about it:
"The story was originally published in Playboy, the only major glossy magazine that will risk buying my fiction. When my editor there, Amy Grace Lloyd, wanted to run it the entire staff insisted that [Hugh Hefner] approve it personally. Yes, it's risky, but Hef said it was okay."
"The new story is called "Zombies" but the title is a bit of a misdirection. It will also run in Playboy, in October, to coincide with the launch of my next novel, "Doomed." To date, it's the only story I've written that's made an audience weep instead of vomit. This past spring I read it at a sold-out event in a bar, and hundreds of the hippest, most-jaded readers could be heard sniffing back tears. Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy."
The issue is not out on newstands yet. But keep an eye out. And if you'd like a chance to see this story read live, I'm assuming Chuck will be reading it during his Doomed tour in October. Dates for those events here.


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ROGERS, Ark. — Arvest Bank is pleased to announce that Ginger Glenn has been hired as a new trust officer for Arvest Bank in Benton County.
Glenn brings more than 10 years of experience in the legal and banking sectors, and will assist individuals, families and nonprofit organizations with trust, estate or other planning needs and goals in her new role. She will work at Arvest's downtown Rogers location.
"As Arvest Wealth Management continues to grow, we are seeking to add staff that brings expertise in their respective fields. Ginger's background in trust, taxation and law made her a perfect fit," said Tabi Lipscomb, Regional Trust Manager for Arvest Bank in Benton County. "We look forward to the benefits she will be able to provide current and new clients in our market."
Glenn earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Kansas State University, as well as a law degree and master's degree in taxation from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. Glenn has been active in numerous professional and civic organizations, and has taught at the University of Missouri – Kansas City's Henry W. Bloch School of Management. She lives in Rogers with her husband, Justin.
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Above: Attendees at a rally outside the CU Association of New York sign 'Don't Tax My CU' postcards that will be sent to New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both democrats.
The "Don't Tax My Credit Union" message is getting through to legislators: U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, pledged to fight to keep legitimate tax exemptions, lauding credit unions for their work and for providing necessary competition to banks, News Now reports.
Pascrell made these comments during a town meeting in Cliffside Park Tuesday night. Among the 200 people in attendance were Tom Quigley, director of marketing for XCEL Federal Credit Union in Secaucus, New Jersey Credit Union League President Greg Michlig and Christian Abeel, the league's director of government affairs.
In Michigan, republican Rep. Dan Benishek also stated his support credit unions' tax-exempt status, according to the Michigan Credit Union League (MCUL).
"As a credit union member, I am opposed to efforts that would raise taxes on any small business—including credit unions," Benishek said. "I will continue to work with my colleagues in the House of Representatives to support policies that reduce regulatory burdens and promote employment for all job creators—from credit unions to the small businesses in Northern Michigan that they finance."
MCUL CEO David Adams said Benishek's statement demonstrates how credit unions contribute to the economy of Michigan and the nation.
"We asked Congressman Benishek for a statement regarding the credit union tax exempt status and he went one step further," Adams said. "In addition to expressing clear support for the continued tax status, he reiterated his core values that align with credit unions' top legislative priorities—namely maintaining and improving the tax and regulatory climate so credit unions can provide more capital and services to the members and businesses that create and provide jobs."
MCUL also has received statements of support from Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin. In the House, the league has received statements of support from Democrats Dan Kildee, Gary Peters, Sander Levin and John Dingell and Republicans David Camp, Mike Rogers, Tim Walberg and Kerry Bentivolio.
Nationwide, credit unions, leagues, and CUNA are spreading the "Don't Tax My Credit Union" message.
Last week, for instance, an energized crowd of credit union leaders and members—including representatives from nearly every area credit union, rallied outside the Credit Union Association of New York headquarters in Albany to voice their support for the national Don't Tax My Credit Union campaign:
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Christmas has come early this year for Germany's producers as national and regional funds paid out a total of more than €12m production support to such filmmakers as Fatih Akin, Feo Aladag, Rosa von Praunheim and Simon Verhoeven in their last funding sessions for 2012.
The third part of Fatih Akin's Love, Death and Devil trilogy, The Cut, received €1m from FilmFörderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and €250,000 from the State Minister for Culture (BKM), while Feo Aladag's second feature, Später im Sommer, was awarded €200,0000 from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. The war drama set in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region will be produced by Independent Artists with Geissendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion.
Meanwhile, actor-director Simon Verhoeven is joining forces with Philip Koch to write and direct the psychological horror film Unknown Error, to be produced by The Lives Of Others' Wiedemann & Berg Film, was allocated €500,000 by Munich-based FFF Bayern, which also backed actor Josef Bierbichler's directorial debut Mittelreich and Marcus H. Rosenmüller's biopic Trautmann about the legendary German goalkeeper Bernhard "Bert" Trautmann, who played for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW gave its highest sum - €700,000 – to Arne Feldhusen's Stromberg – Der Film which will bring Germany's answer to The Office to the big screen with Christoph Maria Herbst reprising his role as the incompetent boss of a German insurance office. The Brainpool TV production had already been awarded €320,000 from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and raised €1m from the series' fans via crowdfunding in just one week at the end of 2011. NFP will release Stromberg theatrically.
The Düsseldorf-based fund also supported producer Sigrid Hoerner's directorial debut Miss Sixty, starring Iris Berben and Jesper Christensen, as a co-production between Moneypenny Film and Bavaria Pictures; and sales agent The Match Factory's co-production of the Cypriot Greek filmmaker Yannis Economides' film noir The Six-Fingered Man, which will be produced with Greek production houses Argonauts and Faliro House.
In addition, Frankfurt's Hessen Film Fund gave backing in its last round to Rosa von Praunheim for a new documentary Praunheim Memories where he will re-visit old haunts in the Frankfurt suburb where he spent his childhood and youth.
Meanwhile, Germany's incentive programme DFFF had backed 100 projects with a total of €48.1m between January 1, 2012 and the beginning of December.
Recent productions supported by the scheme, which has been extended for another three years until December 31, 2015, have included the animation film 7 Zwerge – Der 7bte Zwerg, Lulu Wang's feelgood comedy Posthumous, Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man, Christian Schwochow's Lagerfeuer, and Bernard Rose's biopic Paganini. (ends)


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The U.S. is ignoring the source of the conflict and chain of incidents leading up to the current Gaza crisis, say Greens
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders said today that the U.S. must pressure Israel not to resume its war on Palestinians living in Gaza, and that the illegal blockade and hardship imposed by Israel on Gaza must end.
"President Obama and Congress have the clout to stop a repeat of the 2009 Gaza War, in which more than 1300 Palestinians were killed, including 700 civilians, over 300 of them children. Thirteen Israelis were also killed, of whom three were civilians. This is a 'David and Goliath' fight, with nuclear-powered Israel acting in disregard for international law against a dispossessed people living under siege. Israel's assaults on Gaza will not make Gazans go away or resolve the conflict," said Muhammed Malik, former co-chair of the Miami-Dade Green Party, who recently spoke at the Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference at the University of Michigan. (2009 Gaza War casualties: see http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?CategoryId=1&DocId=917 and figures referenced at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_War)
Green Party leaders noted that targeted assassinations are illegal and that the airstrike authorized by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak that killed Hamas military commander Ahmad al-Jabari also killed his 14-year-old son.
The Israeli airstrike ended two days of calm after news that Egypt had brokered a truce between Israel and Palestinian officials. The truce was meant to end a surge of violence that resulted in more than 100 missiles fired out of Gaza and repeated Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, where people are already living in conditions comparable to an open-air prison (http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/16/israeli_negotiator_hamas_commander_was_assassinated).
"The Obama Administration should press for an immediate ceasefire and resumption of the negotiations. Claims by Israeli and U.S. officials that the IDF is trying to avoid Palestinian civilian casualties are not credible. Washington and the U.S. media have focused on the increased Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza but are ignoring the chain of incidents, including killings of Palestinian civilians, that motivated Hamas to fire rockets out of Gaza," said Jill Stein, the Green Party's 2012 nominee for President.
"The terrorism that Israel is using to maintain the occupation far outweighs the retaliatory terrorism committed by Hamas. Unless these assaults can be halted, we'll see another massacre of Gazan civilians and further deterioration of the city," added Dr. Stein. (For a timeline of events leading up to the recent confrontation, see http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-shattered-gaza-truce-leading-escalating-death-and-tragedy-timeline and http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/11/15/when-does-israelpalestine-violence-start/)
"The U.S. government and most U.S. media have ignored the heart of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians, including Gazans -- Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their native land, ongoing colonization of Palestinian land in Israel and the Occupied Territories, and Israel's refusal to allow refugees to return home, as prescribed by international law. Over two thirds of Gazans are from Israel and the West Bank," said Justine McCabe, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).
While self-defense and armed resistance against military occupation are legal under international law, no such law tolerates attacks on civilians. Greens have urged support for Palestinian and Israeli peace groups and for nonviolent resistance, and have called for an end to all violence targeted at unarmed civilians. Greens insist that regional stability and security for all the people of Israel and Palestine are not possible until peaceful negotiation based on international law resolves the conflict.
The Green Party of the United States has called for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and U.N. directives, ends the occupation of Palestinian lands, and observes full and equal human rights for Palestinians within Israel and the Occupied Territories, including the right to return home.
"Washington must stop aiding Israel's violations of human rights. Israel has a budget surplus and 6.5% unemployment. U.S. taxpayers, facing austerity and unemployment at home, are seeing $3 billion of their tax money sent annually to Israel, which receives 60% of all U.S. foreign military financing," said David Schwartzman, member of the DC Statehood Green Party and the Green Party's International Committee.
"Israel's history of aggression towards Palestinians and neighbors like Lebanon and Syria has made it increasingly isolated internationally. If this situation continues, we'll see more animosity directed against the U.S., and chances for peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians will dwindle. Nor will Americans indefinitely accept their government's misguided Middle East policies and pay exorbitant tax dollars for it," said John Rensenbrink, Maine Green and member of the International Committee.
See also:
"U.N. experts say Israel's blockade of Gaza illegal"
Reuters, September 13, 2012
"U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel"
Congressional Research Service, March 2012
"Hamas Wins Palestinian Elections: Questions you need answered"
Jewish Voices for Peace
"Gaza Redux"
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, Popular Resistance, November 16, 2012
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