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Reaction to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's claims of significant historic ties to Taunton was swift and in some cases predictable.
Reaction to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's claims of significant historic ties to Taunton was swift and in some cases predictable.
"Put your full waders on. It's starting to get deep," Middleboro Selectman Allin Frawley, a casino opponent, posted on his Facebook wall linking to a Sunday Cape Cod Times story reporting the claims.
The Times obtained copies of two widely anticipated reports contained within the tribe's application to have 146 acres in Taunton and 170 acres in Mashpee taken into trust by the Department of the Interior.
One report claims historic and modern ties to Cohannut, which encompasses modern-day Taunton, as part of the larger Pokanoket tribe. The other, prepared by tribe lawyers, attempts to demonstrate the Mashpee tribe was always under federal jurisdiction so a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, known as the Carcieri decision, would not prevent the tribe from getting land.
The claims were met with skepticism by Michelle Littlefield, who has led opposition to the tribe's $500 million casino proposed for East Taunton.
"None of us are concerned," Littlefield said. "To me, it's all smoke and mirrors. We're not worried in the least."
Documentation included in the reports has never been used previously either in the tribe's pursuit of federal recognition or in its aborted attempt to get land into trust for the casino it proposed for Middleboro, she said.
"I don't know anyone in the United States named King George," she said, a reference to the tribe's report that it had an agreement — equivalent to a treaty — with the British crown in 1763 protecting Mashpee land from English settlers. The report argues the deal should have been enforced by the United States, which is responsible for any treaties for sovereign land it takes over.
James Lynch, a Connecticut-based historian working on behalf of a state-recognized tribe known as the Pocasset, said the Mashpee tribe isn't connected to the Pokanoket, as it asserts. He says the Mashpee tribe was isolated to Cape Cod. He said there was no treaty and that the tribe's documented history shows that it was under state, not federal, control.
Lynch said he's not being paid by the Pocasset tribe, but does work on their behalf pro bono because he feels they are "getting screwed" by the Mashpee tribe and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) invading their turf.
It's the Pocasset, not the Mashpee or Aquinnah tribes, which is tied to the land in Southeastern Massachusetts from Cape Cod to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, he said.
The Pocasset tribe filed a petition to become federally recognized two years ago, Lynch said.
The process took the Mashpee tribe 30 years to complete.
Last week, Lynch filed official opposition to the Mashpee application with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, even though he's yet to see the actual report.
In the report, he concludes Mashpee and the Aquinnah were compelled "to invent and embellish a past" to achieve "an economic agenda."
In its report claiming ties to Taunton, the Mashpee tribe attempts to deflect expected criticism by pointing out that the Pocasset have come alive only after the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act gave tribes the right to build casinos on tribal land.
Mashpee's application to be recognized predated the casino law by 11 years.
"A newly-formed tribe (that is post-IGRA), calling themselves Pocasset, also claimed ownership of the Watuppa Wampanoag Indian Reservation," the tribe report states. "However, this group was and is not recognized by any existing historic Wampanoag tribes nor have they demonstrated any sustained control over the Watuppa Reserve."
It was Mashpee Wampanoag member Amelia Bingham and other "traditionally-minded Wampanoag" who opened the 277 acres, known as the Watuppa Wampanoag Reservation, within the Freetown-Fall River State Forest for ceremonial uses, the report asserts.
In an interview Tuesday, Lynch disagreed, saying a reservation was created in the early 1700s for the Pocasset.
"There was never a cessation of the reservation use," he said.
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation website makes no mention of a specific Wampanoag tribe. In 1976, Gov. Michael Dukakis signed an executive order strengthening control over the land by tribe members.
Lynch has written letters to the editor to the Times and other newspapers in Southeastern Massachusetts opposing the tribe. In 2009, he was hired for $5,000 by Halifax selectmen to disprove the Mashpee tribe's ties to Middleboro, where it planned to build a $1 billion casino.
Lynch has been described by tribes as a "hired gun," employed to poke holes in research done by tribes seeking federal recognition. In a lawsuit brought by New York against the Shinnecock tribe, his credentials were called into question because he lists himself as a "Ph.D (abd)" on his curriculum vitae, which means "all but dissertation." His work was called "slipshod" and "replete with errors," according to court documents filed in that Shinnecock case.
Lynch said it's "par for the course" for defense attorneys to pick apart expert witnesses. He said he did not complete his doctorate because of family issues, but doesn't think it's misleading to include the reference on his resume.
In a 2009 case involving the Unkechaug Nation in New York, a federal judge questioned Lynch's motivation.
"Mr. Lynch found adversely to the tribe's federal recognition in nine matters in which he was retained by clients opposing tribal recognition," the court document states. "In the one matter in which Mr. Lynch found in favor of federal tribal recognition, he was retained by a client that supported tribal recognition."
Lynch defended his work. "I don't invent the facts. The facts are there. My job is to find them and present them," he said.
It's unclear how much weight the Bureau of Indian Affairs will give to Lynch or any other comments opposed to the Mashpee tribe's claims. Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the bureau, had no immediate comment.
The Mashpee Wampanoag produced a letter earlier this month from the bureau that indicates a decision on whether to consider the tribe's application under the "initial reservation" designation is imminent. The bureau has also stated that it will act early this year on whether Carcieri affects the application, according to the letter.
In March, the state gaming commission will re-evaluate the tribe's progress clearing its federal hurdles. At that point, the commission could open up the Southeastern Massachusetts region — for which the Mashpee Wampanoag were given a first chance to build a casino — to commercial bidders.

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Piscología® supports HoneyLove Fundraiser
Special HoneyLove cocktail featured Dry Soda at the G2 Gallery in Venice, CA
"HoneyLove's Yellow Tie Event: a fundraiser for the conservation organization with a mission to protect the honeybees and inspire new urban beekeepers. Piscología Pisco was served in a specialty cocktail with Seattle-based Dry Soda. Topa Spirits' brand ambassador, Frankie Thaheld, created the cocktail recipe with honey, lemons and Blood Orange Dry Soda. Over 200 people gathered at the event at the G2 Gallery in Venice, California on Saturday, November 19 at 7:00 PM.
Participants enjoyed yellow carpet photos, a honey tasting from local beekeepers, a silent auction, and a special performance by Los Angeles band Leftover Cuties in addition to the fun drinks. "It was a memorable evening, I had fun mixing organic hone with Piscología, learning about bees and educating a friendly group of people about pisco," said Tanya Talampas, Marketing and Events Coordinator of Piscología"


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Twenty allegedly abused pit bulls were taken from a Queens home Thursday as the NYPD's newly formed Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad helped bust an alleged dog-fighting ring.
Members of the squad, along with officers from NYPD's 113th Precinct and the ASPCA's Forensic Investigative Team, executed a search warrant inside a St. Albans home Thursday afternoon as part of a dog-fighting investigation, police said.
Investigators found 20 starved and scarred pit bulls inside the home. The dogs were all taken to the ASPCA's main office for medical care.
Two suspects living in the home, Addison Holder, 44, and Keisha Hall, 33, were each charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty and animal fighting, as well as criminal possession of a controlled substance for methamphetamine found in the house, police said.
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New Afghan law curtails women's rights
The new paragraph seems quite innocuous at first glance: "The following persons shall not be questioned in court as witnesses: defending lawyers, doctors, children and relatives of the accused." Although this doesn't sound unusual, the devil is in the detail.
According to this paragraph, if an Afghan man attacks or abuses his wife, children or sisters, his relatives may not testify against him in a court of law. The bill, which was recently passed by the Afghan parliament, excludes parents, grandparents or siblings from testifying in court. Because most violent acts against Afghan women are committed within family structures and not outside, according to the government, this means that almost all potential witnesses are automatically excluded.
"Those who support this law argue that relatives cannot be objective and that their testimony could lead to acts of revenge," says Samira Hamidi, a member of the Empowerment Center for Women (ECW), a women's rights organisation in Afghanistan. She is not convinced by these arguments."The prosecution of acts of domestic violence will become more difficult as the new law virtually guarantees impunity for perpetrators, thus giving criminals the chance to walk free."
International human rights organisations such as "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) have sharply condemned the law and called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai not to sign it.
Far-reaching consequences
The law is part of a new version of the Afghan Penal Code, a project that legal experts and the Afghan Parliament have been working on for six years. Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, a parliamentarian from Kabul, is disappointed by the decision. "This law not only restricts women's rights; it is also a violation of human rights, as it deprives a person of the opportunity to testify as a witness," she says.
The new law has far-reaching consequences for Afghan women, says Heather Barr of HRW. "It makes it impossible to prosecute cases of domestic and sexual violence within the family, forced marriages, child marriages or marriages for the settlement of clan disputes," she says, adding that the legislation is the latest step in the parliament's attempts to curtail women's rights. Barr is of the opinion that the new act literally voids the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which President Karzai signed last year, after it was initially rejected by parliament. Male parliamentarians in particular had argued that the bill infringed on traditional values. However, because it was passed by the president himself following international pressure, it is still legally binding and punishes violence against women.
Misogynistic atmosphere in parliament
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi is one of the 68 women MPs in the Afghan parliament, where a quarter of all seats are reserved for women. She says there has been a growing misogynistic tendency among her colleagues in parliament, driven by conservative forces. "We parliamentarians work in an unsafe environment where we are constantly in fear," she says. "The parliament is dominated by a politically hostile mood in which it is impossible to make laws that can ensure the long-term welfare of the Afghan people."
"This is a worrying development and it can be observed not just in parliament, but also in other segments of the society," says Heather Barr, citing examples such as the reduction in women's quotas in Afghan provincial councils from 25 per cent to 20 per cent last year, the resumption of a nationwide debate to reintroduce stoning as a form of punishment and the appointment of former Taliban insurgents as members of the independent Human Rights Commission. "We have also observed the assassination of several female police officers, demonstrating the fragile situation of women in the war-torn country and the risks to their rights," she adds.
Pressure on government
Women's rights activists regret this situation, especially in light of the imminent withdrawal of international troops from the country by the end of this year. After all, protection of the rights of Afghan women was one of the official justifications for the military operation. "But the international community has abandoned Afghan women," says Barr, who adds that she would like to see the international community putting more pressure on the Afghan government and only providing further financial assistance on the condition that women's rights are adequately protected.
Women's rights activists fear that the new law could cancel out all of the hard-won gains Afghan women have achieved so far. The decision is now in the hands of President Karzai. He has the final say on the matter.
Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi
© Deutsche Welle 2014
Editors: Gregg Benzow/DW.de and Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de
Comments for this article: New Afghan law curtails women's rights
Positively diabolical! On no account should Karzai sign it.Palvasha von Hassell21.03.2014 | 15:52 Uhr


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Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A temporary file race condition issue existed in blued's initialization routine.
Additional detail: The file in question is "/tmp/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist" and was created shortly after boot and potentially other circumstances. Under certain circumstances, the writing or creation of this file could be attacked with standard file race techniques to create or clobber files by a local attacker.
Impact: A user with physical access to the computer may be able to cause Safari to launch if the screen is locked and the RSS Visualizer screen saver is used
Description: An access control issue existed in Quartz Composer's handling of screen savers. This issue is addressed through improved checking for whether or not the screen is locked.
Additional detail: The original finder of this bug is Jay Craft of GrooVault Entertainment, LLC. That is to say, when this bug was originally found and fixed, this was the original reporter. My work in finding this bug was merely to retest the issue once Lion was released. I noticed his issue was once again present. The description was defined as CAN-2005-2515 and is listed in http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23465?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Thanks to the Apple Product Security team for addressing both issues.


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Kendra Wilkinson's Secret To Long-Distance Happiness With Husband Hank Baskett: Sexting! 'Sending A Naked Picture Keeps Him Going!'
Kendra's busy in Los Angeles and Hank is traveling MinnesoWould YOU ever send naked photos of yourself to the person you love? Sounds risky to us!
Can you believe this? While Kendra Wilkinson, 25, is busy working in Los Angeles and her husband Hank Baskett, 28, is traveling with his football team, the Minnesota Vikings, Kendra admits that she has a secret weapon to keeping the spark alive in their marriage during the long-distance separation — she sends her hubby sext messages! "This morning, Hank woke up to a surprise text," Kendra confesses to People. "Let me tell you, sending a naked picture to my husband definitely keeps him going!"
"We definitely keep things spicy even though we're not together in person," Kendra says. "We know how to keep things fresh, romantic and sexy. … There's Skype, yeah, that's definitely our number one. We also have our BlackBerries."
Still, Kendra would much rather spend time with her hubby in person: "You can take a breather and actually think about why you miss each other," she says. "Then when we see each other, we're fresh and re-energized and it's time to get it on again!"
Kendra has already gotten in trouble once when an ex-boyfriend released a sex tape of her. So, god forbid Kendra and Hank ever breakup, because if they do, he would have nude photos of her to send around!
For more TMI quotes from Kendra, be sure to check out the all-new season of Kendra's reality show, Kendra, premiering Nov. 7 on E!


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Virginia Beach Little League is and has been an anchor of the community, as a non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide a safe, instructional and fun baseball & softball environment for the children of Virginia Beach. We are chartered under the umbrella of Little League International, Inc., and part of Little League Southeast Region, District 8.
Our league operates as an all-volunteer program, and therefore relies on the support of our network of families, local businesses, corporate and community sponsors. Through this outpouring of support, Virginia Beach Little League continues this tradition and mission so that local boys and girls can participate in ten different divisions of baseball each year.
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For 75 years, Little League® has established a proud, rich history in the hearts and minds of generations of Little Leaguers. Since its founding in 1939, Little League has nurtured the human spirit, and that is why it has been universally successful in cities and towns throughout the world.
Little League promotes a healthy balance of community-based activities through regular-season play among local teams and access to the world's largest youth baseball and softball tournament for more advanced players – the Little League International Tournament. The organization offers programs and divisions of play that serve boys and girls, ages 4 to 18.
Little League Baseball, Incorporated is a non-profit organization with the mission to "promote, develop, supervise, and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in Little League Baseball and Softball." Through proper guidance and exemplary leadership, the Little League program assists youth in developing the qualities of citizenship, discipline, teamwork and physical well-being. By espousing the virtues of character, courage and loyalty, the Little League Baseball® and Softball program is designed to develop superior citizens rather than stellar athletes.
Little League® is an international pastime that has been a fabric of societies throughout the world for 75 years. Since its founding in 1939 by Carl Stotz, Little League has instilled leadership, character, courage and loyalty in all that participate, including the nearly 1.5 million adult volunteers. Little League can be found in 91 countries worldwide with more than 3 million children participating (850+/- within Virginia Beach Little League) on roughly 196,000 teams each year. Little League has celebrated many milestones due to the dedication of its players, parents and volunteers.


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Cauliflower cheese soup
Throw a new spin on this comforting classic by blending into a smooth and creamy soup
Nutrition and extra info
- for up to 1 month, without cheese
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal188
- fat10g
- saturates5g
- carbs13g
- sugars9g
- fibre3g
- protein13g
- salt0.82g
- knob of butter
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 large cauliflower (about 900g/2lb), leaves trimmed and cut into florets
A brassica, like cabbage and broccoli, cauliflower is a mass of tiny, tightly packed flower…
- 1 potato, peeled and cut into chunks
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 700ml vegetable stock (from a cube is fine)
- 400ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…
- 100g mature cheddar, diced
Heat the butter in a large saucepan. Tip in the onion and cook until softened, about 5 mins, stirring often. Add the cauliflower, potato, stock, milk and seasoning. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and leave to simmer for about 30 mins until the cauliflower is soft and the potato almost collapsing.
Whizz in a food processor or crush with a potato masher until you get a creamy, thick soup. Top up with more milk to thin a little if serving in mugs. You can make ahead up to 2 days in advance, cool, cover and leave in the fridge until needed, or freeze for up to 1 month. When ready to serve, warm through, ladle into mugs or bowls, top with the cheese pieces, then stir through before eating.


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David Price may be traded soon. Price would make any MLB team better, but Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs examined which teams would benefit most in acquiring Price. This graph shows Price would help the Blue Jays most in making the playoffs and the Dodgers most in winning the World Series.
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Library to host stories and crafts
Provided to the Tribune
The Lake Tahoe branch of the Douglas County Public Library will host Saturday stories and crafts Feb. 9.
Children ages 3 and older are invited to celebrate Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year at the library at 3 p.m. Stories, treats and a craft will be part of the celebration. All supplies will be provided. Younger children should be accompanied by an adult.
Guests must register for program by Thursday, Feb. 7. For information, visit douglas.lib.nv.us. To register, call 775-588-6411.


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We had lots of friends over to help us celebrate Miles and the 4th. And since our favorite African country celebrated 50 years of independence this week also, we decided to celebrate that as well. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends, who love us and love our children. And after all that has been going on, it was just so nice to have some FUN! Here's how we party it up...Terry style. Let this be your warning- TONS of pictures will follow!
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Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 0.5
Ingredients and Preparation
- Combine all ingredients except milk and chives in slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low 10-12 hours, or high 3-4 hours.
- Stir in milk during last hour.
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"I love working with The Speaker Agency. They make great suggestions, are easy to work with, and always help me find excellent speakers at a price within my budget. What more can I ask!"– Director Education Alliance, Kentucky Bankers Association
We have been working with the Speaker Agency for over 5 years and each year they deliver a top notch speaker. They really listen to what we are looking in a speaker and provide us with list of candidates that fit the mold. They also go beyond with personal descriptions of each recommendation. Our event has grown each year and it's directly related to the speakers Speaker Agency have found for us.– Executive Director, Rochester Insurance
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wub51427 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Need a logo for relaunch onlineshop cake-company fitting to closed contest
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The company sells cake-decoration articles and party-equipment.
95% of clients are ladies.
IMOPORTANT! Please include in your logos the subtitle:
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Possible payments are every kind you want - also paypal and international bank transfer.
We will show products in an online shop and sell them.
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I love Gwyneth Paltrow- I think she's beautiful and classy and I love that she seems family orientated and into good health, but in the same way I am- with a glass of wine on the side. :)
So I subscribe to her blog Goop, which sends out newsletters once a week or so on various topics- health, beauty, food, travel, etc. One recent newsletter caught my eye- A Better Breakfast, and especially the Paleo Bread recipe. Being a recent gluten free convert, I thought this easy and tasty sounding recipe sounded perfect to try, so I gave it a go. However as I couldn't find all the ingredients, I made some substitutions, but in my opinion (and my family's!) the bread came out tasting beautifully.
This is how I made it:
1 3/4 cup LSA (Linseed, sunflower seed and almond)
2 tablespoons coconut flour
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
5 eggs
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar
I blended all the ingredients in a food processor, poured the mixture in a paper lined lasagna tray and cooked for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
This is what the bread on the Goop website looked like:
This is what my bread looked like (iPhone):
I think not bad!
I'm assuming because I used unrefined LSA, and not blanched almond flour that is why my bread was darker in color. And it didn't rise as much as Gwyneth's bread, but I was quite satisfied! I ate it hot out of the oven with soup for dinner, and then with Manuka honey for breakfast the next day. I even toasted it on the third day and it was still good!
If you love wholesome, tasty bread I suggest you give this ridiculously easy and totally delicious bread a try.
Happy baking!


text: The HR10-250 is notoriously bad for its HDMI output port. There's a company that fixes them. They advertise on the web. Also, there is a newer HDMI card that apparently works fine. Mine went bad, and they sent me a new one (refurb actually - this was almost 2 years ago) and it's HDMI port also didn't work. I sent my old one back to them. I finally gave up, sent off my HDMI card and paid a $100 bucks to have it fixed. Worked ever since. DTV didn't do a good job of support on these, prolly because they were working on their own which is now here. Still, this is the best DTIVO out there if you want HD.


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Today tourguides at the Roman Coliseum, probably the most visited tourist site in Rome outside of the Vatican, casual mentioned that it was built by 20,000 Jewish slaves brought back after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple.
The emperor Titus brought 20,000 Jewish slaves to Rome, slaves used to bulid the Roman Coliseum. Proof of this lies in the Arch of Titus, which depicts a menorah as part of the bounty from Jerusalem. To this day, the Talmud forbids Jews from walking under the Arch.. After Titus destroyed Jerusalem, Babylonia arose as the new Jewish center.
Academics generally agree that the Jewish presence in Italy began in 161 BCE when Judah Macabee sent a delegation to the Roman Emperor. Four families of Jewish nobility settled in southern Italy and were dependent on Jerusalem for law and prayer. To this day Italian Jews remain loyal to the Jerusalem Talmud.
This is significant because it shows the why the earliest Italian Jews placed heavy emphasis in the study of Tannach; had different Hebrew grammar; learned cabala and Midrash; and wrote Piyutim, when those who followed the Babylonian Talmud did not write piyutim or learn midrash. For example, Israel allowed the recital of the piyutim in the first three verses of piyutim, while Babylonia forbid this practice. Jews in Italy, as later in Ashkenaz, followed the Jerusalem practice. In addition, Italian Jews gave extra significance to custom, to the extent that at times it could over ride Halacha, something that ould never happen in Bablylonia. Few people understand that the roots of minhag in Ashkenazic Jewry originate from the first Jews to arrive in Italy.
In 632, Islam began to spread and 90 percent of the world's Jews come under Islamic rule by the end of the 7th Century. Eliezer ben Yehudah of Worms, a descendent from the four original families to come to Italy, wrote that there was major migration from 914 to 957 of Italian Jews moving north who found communities along the way.
Italiani Jews moved from southern Italy north to Germany and France, bringing with them the Jerusalem Talmud. In 1276, Spain took control of Sicily and in the 1280s, the French invaded southern Italy, bringing with them anti-Jewish legislation. Italiani Jews moved to north central Italy, settling in small groups. In 1306, Ashkenazic Jews were expelled from France and moved into the Piedmont area of western Italy. In 1348, the Black Plague came to Germany, killing more than 60 percent of the population, and Jews were blamed. Life became intolerable in Germany and resulted in a population shift into eastern Italy.
And in 1492, when Spain expelled its Jews from its empire, which included Sicily, Sephardic Jews begin to settle in western Italy. So by the end of the 14th Century, Italy became a mix of French and German (Ashkenazic), and Spanish Jews (Sephardic), competing against the original Jewish settlers (Italiani), each with its own customs and language.
However, life in Italy during the Middle Ages was extremely unstable for Jews, who negotiated their stay in each city under a contract called a condutta, which allowed a certain group to stay for a limited amount of time.The condutta could be annuled at any time as as a result Jewish life was unstable. No synagogues or mikvehs were built and because the Jews were legal citizens, they could not be given autonomy. As a result of the condutta, Jews lived in small numbers, usually not enough for a minyan, in hundreds of localities and in isolation from organized Jewry.
Between the 9th and the 13th century, it is estimated that there were 50,000 Jews in southern Italy and in Sicily. The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 from Spain and its Italian possessions included Sicily and Southern Italy. From that time until the emancipation of the 19th century, Jewish life was not different from that of other European communities.
Prominent Rabbis
Italian Jewry produced a few prominent rabbis of note. Rabbi Joseph Cologne aka the Maharik (1420-1480), writes rabbinical responsa clearly show the conflict between German and French influences on Italian Jewry. Rabbi Judah Messer Leon was an Italiany with a profound secular education. He was an accomplished physician and philosopher receiving the title Messer (sir) and Leon (Lion – Lion of Judah). He was anointed a knight and was given the rights to give doctorate degrees.
R. Messer Leon established a Yeshiva in Ancona, had many disciples and in 1473 was the first Jew to see his own book published while he was still alive (Mantua). Nofet Tsofim (which was translated into English as The Book of the Honeycombs Flow, trans. A. Lesley), is an analysis of language and how rhetoric can be used for convincing others based on ancient rhetoric models of Cissero and Quintilian. Leon measured the Torah against their models to show how the Torah is perfect and embodies every kind of ideal rhetoric. However, Messer Leon shows that one can have a lot of culture as well as being strict on religious matters.
In the second half of the 15th Century, Rabbi Elijah Capsali (1490-1560) was born to a German Jewish family that migrated to Crete (ruled by Venice). He was a Rav and he was a historian, who wrote Seder Elijah Suda (The lesser order of Elijah), a book of Venician chronicles that provides the history of Torah Study in Venice. Other rabbis of note include Rabbi Yehuda Minz and Rabbi David Provencal.
In 1516, the first Jewish ghetto in Europe was established in Venice and Jews had to live behind its walls. In Italian the word ghetto means foundry and was used because the Venice Ghetto sat on the land of a dormant foundry. TheBull of Pope Paul IV in 1555, caused other cities to follow Venice's example and start ghettoes in much of western Europe.
Italian Jews were always citizens with equal rights until the Venice ghetto opened. By comparison, citizenship was not granted to the Jews in France and Germany until the Emancipation of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
In the Venice Ghetto Sephardic, Ashkenazic and Italiani Jews had five different houses of prayer. Synagogues were opened in the top floor of existing buildings. There were three parts to the Venice ghetto. The New Ghetto, dates from 1516, and was the first section occupied; the second section is called tthe Old Ghetto and dates from 1541. The Newest Ghetto was added in 1633.
All that exists of the Venice ghetto walls today is the portico, through which guests enter. There is a huge square and tall buildings that surround the long narrow streets. Three of the synagogues – the Spanish School (Sephardic), the Levantine School (Sephardic)and the Italian School (Italiani) - surround the same square. They can only be accessed today by taking a a tour of the Ghetto. There are two Ashkenazic synagogues in the Venice Ghetto. One is the Canton School, aptly named for the German Canton family.The other is the Great German School.
It is not until 1590 that Jews in the rest of Italy began to live in walled communities and ghettos, which created larger Jewish communities where Judiasm can thrive with schools, minyanim, live autonomously and where the population could regenerate itself. In addition, condutta were no longer needed. As a result, the first Italian synagogues are built after 1590.
The Leghorn Jewish community was not established until late in the 16th century, largely due to the ghetto restrictions in most of Italy. Cosimo Medici, a wealthy industrialist who did not always bow down to church policy, had regained the ports in Pisa and the free port of Leghorn and issued an invitation in 1548 to attract people who would make the ports into trade centers. He also issued incentives, such as religious freedom and tax exemptions, thus providing a magnet for Jews.
In 1593 Fernando de Medici renewed the invitation via a public manifesto to merchants of every nation, especially persecuted Jews. He promised them incentives such as tax exoneration, freedom of religion and trade, amnesty. He also promised that they wouldn't have to bear the badge, listen to sermons or be subjected to forced baptisms. Thus a larger group of Sephardic Jews flowed in, followed a few years later by Italiani Jews and Germans. Medici allowed them citizenship, an autonomous tribunal and the freedom to build synagogues.
The Jews there became the richest and most important community. It also became the center for the printing of Hebrew books. By the end of the 17th Century there were 3500 Jews in Leghorn, a number that doubled in the next century. The Sephardic Jews dominated not just in numbers but in trade, real estate, Torah study and culture. The community lasted until the time of Napoleon and was unique in Italy.
As previously mentioned, the Jewish community of Rome was the oldest in the Diaspora, dating back to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Roman Jews, to be differentiated from Italiani Jews, who date themselves from the time of Judah Maccabee. The Jews who came as slaves of Titus, were freed and established themselves in the area of Rome known as Tratavere. Caesar allowed them public meetings; Cicero recognized their importance as traders and artisans. Historical record indicates 13 synagogues.
Jews were subject to different rules and regulations, largely dependent on the Church. In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council under Pope Innocent III required Jews to live in a separate living area as well as clothing to indicate they were Jews. The Jews of Rome were subject to a variety of problems during much of the 13th and most of the 14th centuries.
By 1555, the Bull of Paul IV required Jews to live in a ghetto, sell their real estate, have only one synagogue, trade only in secondhand goods and wear a yellow cap. The Rome Ghetto was on the banks of the Tiber River and had five entrances, but was expanded to have two more. There were five squares eight streets and lanes, all of which rose upward for lack of space. For 200 years, the ghetto caused over 6,000 Jews to live in squalor and degrading humiliation. By the end, there were five synagogues (three Italiani and two Spanish) in a single building, but each had rich furnishings. In 1893, the synagogues were destroyed by fire.
When France's emperor Napoleon invaded Italy in 1796, he granted the Jews their first emancipation which lasted until his fall in 1815. At the time, the Jews of Italy still lived in ghettos, 9,000 of them in the Papal States, 6,000 in the Republic of Venice, about 5,000 in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany where they enjoyed, especially in the harbor city of Leghorn, very favorable conditions. Six thousands lived in the area of Trieste and Milan, which was under the Austrians and another 6,000 in the territories under the House of Savoy, which included Piedmont, Savoy, the coastal area from Nice to Genoa and the island of Sardinia, where there were no Jews.
Late 19th and Early 20th Century
The relief was short lived. The French "new international order" granted freedom but imposed heavy taxes and in some cases made the Jews the scapegoats after Napoleon's defeat. By the late 19th century, Jews in Rome were forbidden to follow their dead in procession, or to sell goods to non Jews; they were obliged to wear yellow stripes on their clothes and their rabbis were made responsible for bringing them to listen to conversion lectures.
In 1885, the Rome ghetto was demolished completely, thereby erasing all historical evidence of its existence. In 1904, the community built the great synagogue, a symbol of splendor and decadence, probably to recapture its role as the first Jewish community in Italy. Underneath is the Spanish synagogue. In an adjacent building, there is a museum to the Jewish Community of Rome.
At the start of War World II, 40,000 Jews lived in Italy, most of them for centuries. Of those some 10,000 disappeared through conversion, another 12,000 emigrated abroad (including 2,000 to Palestine) and more than 7,000 died during the Holocaust. As a result, about 10.000 Jews of old Italian origin remained.
The Italian Jewish community as we know it today has a different and varying history, one which is heavily influenced by population shifts from France, Germany, and Spain, as well as their languages and customs.
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Native Species Expected to Rebound on Rat-free Palmyra Atoll
January 28, 2013
Palmyra Atoll is rat-free one year after a major effort to remove these invasive predators, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Island Conservation announced today.
Removing non-native rats was the top priority for the Palmyra Atoll Restoration Project, a multi-year effort to protect 10 nesting seabird species, migratory shorebirds, the rare coconut crab, and one of the largest remaining native Pisonia grandis forests (a rare flowering tree in the Bougainvillea family) in the tropical Pacific.
Palmyra Atoll, approximately 1,000 miles south of Honolulu, Hawai'i, is cooperatively managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy as a National Wildlife Refuge and a scientific research station. The area includes 25 islets covering 580 acres of land, and thousands of acres of healthy coral reefs. In 2009, the refuge and waters surrounding it were also included in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
Non-native black rats were likely introduced to the atoll during World War II, and the population grew to as many 30,000 rats. The invasive rodents eat eggs and chicks of ground and tree-nesting birds, particularly sooty and white terns. Rats also eat land crabs and the seeds and seedlings of native tree species.
To reverse this trend, in June 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Island Conservation carefully and strategically implemented the removal of the destructive, non-native rats from Palmyra Atoll, using a rodenticide that had been successful in similar projects on other islands. The Palmyra project was the result of more than seven years of planning and research to ensure that native species were not harmed during the removal, and was the first step in a longer-term effort to restore the atoll's ecological balance.
"This wonderful atoll is again able to thrive the way nature intended—without rats. Palmyra has been infested with rats for so long, there will be benefits to wildlife we didn't even fully anticipate—such as the explosion of the fiddler crab population that we're seeing," said Susan White, Monument Superintendent/Refuge Project Leader, Pacific Reefs National Wildlife Refuge and Monuments Complex, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Palmyra's crucial role in sustaining the Pacific oceanscape is solidified because of this remarkable team of exceptionally talented people."
Using the same proven methods that were used years before to detect the extent of the rat problem on Palmyra, scientists conducted surveys over a month-long period this summer and confirmed that the entire atoll is currently rat-free. In the tropical climate at Palmyra, rats reproduce approximately once every 3-4 months, so conducting surveys one year after the removal effort is sufficient time to detect rats remaining on the atoll. During the summer, the project partners established a network of 286 rat detection stations that covered the entire atoll. Each station was checked four times during the course of one month. Aside from the detection stations, team members spent hundreds of hours scouring the atoll for natural indicators of rat presence. In accordance with observations of the recovery of native species over the past year that suggested that the project was successful, the recent monitoring found no rats after one year.
"Millions of seabirds, trees, crabs and other native species can now thrive in their home without the threat of being eaten by rats. Staff and visitors to the atoll have seen a large increase in the numbers of crabs, insects, seedlings and seabirds. Our collective efforts to bring balance back to Palmyra are working. The scientific rigor, attention to detail, and collaboration is a testament to the integrity and cooperative nature of our partnership," said Suzanne Case, Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy's Hawai'i program.
The University of California Santa Cruz Coastal Conservation Action Lab (UCSC-CCAL) is monitoring the response of Palmyra's terrestrial ecosystem by comparing measures of seabird, shorebird, and plant populations taken before and after rat removal. In the summer of 2012 they found dramatic increases, including:
• Over 130% increase in native tree seedlings (Palmyra has ten locally rare native tree species), and the first record of Pisonia seedlings (no seedlings were observed in 2007 prior to rat removal);
• A 367% increase in arthropods (such as insects, spiders, and crabs); and
• No change in Bristle-thighed Curlews found at Palmyra (special care was taken to ensure this imperiled species was not negatively impacted by the rat removal project)
"With the atoll free of rats, we are already seeing a dramatic increase in many things that rats preyed upon: nesting seabirds, migratory shorebirds, native tree seedlings, and small invertebrates like fiddler crabs. The island is truly rebounding," said Gregg Howald, North America Regional Director, Island Conservation.
Although Palmyra is rat-free today, the threat of re-introducing rats or other invasive species is present anytime a boat or airplane travels to the atoll. A detailed prevention plan is in place to minimize the threat of non-native species being introduced to the atoll.
The removal of introduced species such as black rats is a proven, effective conservation tool that has been successful on numerous islands across the globe, including the Galapagos archipelago, a multitude of islands in New Zealand, the Channel Islands off the coast of California, and Hawadax Island (formerly 'Rat Island') of the Aleutian Island chain in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
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• Photos – http://www.protectpalmyra.org/photos/
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Oracle Enterprise Linux gets backing from EMC, others
It was another small step forward for Oracle Enterprise Linux this week as a handful of ISVs pledged support, but it's still a long road ahead for the Red Hat clone.
In a joint statement, EMC and Oracle, announced that Oracle Enterprise Linux is now EMC E-Lab certified, meaning it has been tested and qualified on core EMC platforms and software products.
The news came a day after Oracle announced that a handful of other hardware ISVs had also pledged to support its brand of Linux. For Tony Iams, a senior analyst with Rye Brooke, N.Y.-based Ideas International Ltd., the news was indicative of an upward trend for the company's Linux distribution, which was launched in October.
Iams called the announcement a natural progression for Oracle, given its stated efforts to wrest away market share from Red Hat Inc. in the enterprise Linux space. "It shows they're gaining some traction," he said.
However, Iams was quick to point out that the ISV list provided by Oracle encompasses only hardware vendors. "In some ways this is the path of least resistance for Oracle. As in many cases, it's only a question of making sure device drivers work. Oracle's Linux is identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so there's really no reason why these drivers shouldn't work," he said.
The hardware vendors listed by Oracle include 170 Systems Inc., AppWorx Corp., Egenera, Emulex Corp., Hitachi Data Systems, QLogic Corp. and Synoran. Each of these vendors now includes Oracle Enterprise Linux among the operating systems they support.
Monica Kumar, Oracle's senior director of Linux and open source marketing, said that Oracle is seeing growing interest from its partners to support their products on Oracle Enterprise Linux and ensure compatibility for their customers. She said Oracle has also maintained full compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
"The announcement is important because it gives users a comfort level when buying into Oracle's brand of Linux," Iams said. "It will be interesting to see if Oracle can keep up these kinds of announcements. For this to be truly effective, Oracle really needs to be able to match Red Hat's support ecosystem with minimum compromises."
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PITTSBURGH - Canonsburg, Pa.-based CONSOL Energy and Consolidation Coal Company violated federal law when they forced a long-time employee to retire because they refused to accommodate his religious beliefs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Beverly R. Butcher, Jr. had worked as a general inside laborer at the companies' mine in Mannington, W.V., for over 35 years when the mining companies required employees to use a newly installed biometric hand scanner to track employee time and attendance. Butcher repeatedly told mining officials that submitting to a biometric hand scanner violated his sincerely held religious beliefs as an Evangelical Christian. He also wrote the mining superintendent and human resources manager a letter explaining the relationship between hand-scanning technology and the Mark of the Beast and antichrist discussed in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament and requesting an exemption from the hand scanning based on his religious beliefs.
The mining companies refused to consider alternate means of tracking Butcher's time and attendance, such as allowing him to submit manual time records as he had done previously or reporting to his supervisor, even though the mining company had made similar exceptions to the hand scanning for two employees with missing fingers. The EEOC charges that Butcher was forced to retire because the companies refused to provide an accommodation to his religious beliefs.
Religious discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. CONSOL Energy, Inc. and Consolidation Coal Company, Civil Action No. 1:13-cv-00215-IMK) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"In religious accommodation cases, the standard is not whether company officials agree with or share the employee's religious beliefs," said Philadelphia regional attorney Debra M. Lawrence. "Instead, the focus is on whether the employer can provide an accommodation without incurring an undue hardship."
EEOC District Director Spencer H. Lewis, Jr. added, "In this case, the mining companies not only lost the services of a long-tenured employee, they also violated federal law when they obstinately refused to consider easy alternatives to their new hand-scanning time and attendance system to accommodate Mr. Butcher's religious beliefs."
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Tysabri has been a popular topic here on the Life with MS Blog for several years. In fact, one post on the subject has nearly 1,300 comments and is still an active source for people taking or thinking about taking the drug more than three years after we posted that blog.
Events of this past month, and this past weekend specifically, bring the topic to the fore once again.
In early October of this year, the pharmaceutical companies that make and market Tysabri were acknowledging 13 cases of the rare and potentially fatal condition progressive multifocal eukoencephalopathy (PML)
Last week it was disclosed that an additional 10 cases of PML were reported (most of them in Europe; in fact, most of the now 24 reported cases are in European MS patients). To say that finding information on any of these cases is difficult is an understatement. In fact, I believe that the information in our comment section (left by three relatives of people who contracted PML) has been much more in depth than any I have been able to find!
The companies have decided to update the warning label for the drug, which will include the information patients are supposed to read every time they go in for infusion. The new label will warn that the risk of PML appears to increase with the number and duration of treatments. The companies are sticking to the 1:1000 risk ratio (though 1:800 is a number currently circulating) for patients receiving drug from 24 to 36 months, but the new warning states that, "[t]here is limited experience beyond three years of treatment."
As I stated, finding information has been VERY difficult and, quite frankly I'm a bit offended (though not completely surprised) that most of the information I've been able to glean is from "financial sources."
Many of you know that I am in the midst of making drug choices for the future treatment of my multiple sclerosis. Tysabri has been on my short list…my very short list. But I wanted to wait and see how the whole PML situation looked after 10,000 people had been on the drug for at least 24 months. We've crossed that threshold and, quite frankly, all it's done is make me want to wait longer.
I understand that my ability to wait is not a luxury all people living with MS have right now.
The vast majority of people taking this drug are happy with their results. The vast majority suffer far fewer side-effects than they did with previous therapies. The vast majority of PML cases have been reported in Europe and I don't know the details of the TOUCH program (the U.S. Tysabri risk management program) in Europe.
When, however, I read of the anguish of a husband who has lost his wife to PML or a brother who sees his sister as a hollow shell of her former self and unable to communicate, and I sense renewed fear in people considering this as their MS treatment, I know that it is time to have another open conversation about Tysabri for MS.
I'm not trying to be a harbinger of bad tidings here, I think you know that. Like many of you, I live with MS and am constantly trying to live my life with multiple sclerosis to the fullest. The drug we choose (or the choice to be drug-free) is a part of how each of us lives with this disease.
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Our journey began in Desert Splash's comfortable hangar at the Scottsdale Airport that sometimes serves double duty as a corporate event location. There we first met up with Desert Splash co-founder and AzOps General Manager, Scott Currier, who recounted to us how the idea for these panoramic seaplane adventures in the Sonoran Desert began.
"My good friend in Alaska is also a pilot and fly fishing junkie. We started doing caravans in 2007 to Alaskan fishing lodges. At first it was just passenger traffic. The business grew—first four more airplanes, then three, each a 10-seater like the one Desert Splash uses. We then built a 10,000 square foot hangar for our fleet and the planes started doing Medivac and US Mail duties along the inside passage to Ketchikan from British Columbia, along the same route that the cruise ships take. In winter the Alaskan business slows, and so we had the idea to begin tours here in the Southwest."
Currier calls Scottsdale his home and besides now running Desert Splash also runs a civil engineering firm that he founded years ago and somehow finds time to do extensive charity work with the Scottsdale Charros.
Currier's love of the land has clearly put its mark on Desert Splash.
Currier found a kindred spirit in our tour's pilot, Rob Norberg, an avid outdoorsman who, along with his dog, takes many a trek or seaplane ride to wilderness adventures in Alaska, the Sonoran Desert and beyond.
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Some of the highlights of the "Apache Air Trail" tour that we took included: rock formations along the Superstition Mountains; learning the history of how the Apache evaded the Cavalry in this area during the Indian Wars of the 1870's; seeing Native American cliff dwellings in the mountainsides; seeing stands of saguaro cacti, evenly spread across the rising cliffs; flying past the area of the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine and hearing of its history.
After circling the scenic Roosevelt Bridge and Dam our pilot made an ever so gentle landing in Roosevelt Lake taking us to Splash Island.
We were in the middle of protected national forest after having flown over similar forests only approachable by air or boat, and areas only approachable by a death-defying road with many hairpin turns.
It's on this small island that other Desert Splash tours host a fine dining brunch.
In our case, we shared some light "adult beverages" and happily sat soaking up the sun in lounge chairs for a while before re-boarding the plane for the return.
Our island lingering was just long enough to make the return flight yet another palette of colors and shadow in a somewhat settling sun.
As spectacular as our flight was, it is perhaps Desert Splash's most vanilla offering. Through partnerships with other tour organizations, Desert Splash also combines seaplane adventures with horseback riding, standup paddle boarding, hiking, and trips to Arizona's breathtaking Sedona and Grand Canyon and many more luxury adventure excursions from which you can choose.
Alas, this is one Scottsdale excursion that won't be available to the summer steal traveler as the plane is called back into duty in Alaska during the Southwest's hotter summer months.
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Ferrari's Board of Directors examines 9-month results. Record industrial cash flow: 213 million euro. Revenues for the quarter at 446 million euro +12.6% and trading profit up by 46%
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Maranello, 26th October – The Board of Directors of Ferrari met today, chaired by Luca di Montezemolo, to examine the results at 30th September.
Revenues for the quarter totalled 446 million Euros, 12.6% higher than the figure for the third quarter of 2009. 1,398 cars were delivered to dealers (+3.9%).
Trading profit was excellent, showing a growth of 46% reaching 76 million Euro, the equivalent of 17% of income compared to the 13% achieved in the third quarter of 2009. This result is mainly due to increased sales, excellent progress in the personalisation programme, and continuing efforts to increase efficiency in all areas of the company, including the Racing Department.
In terms of models, the California continues its success and the 458 Italia has performed excellently. Deliveries of the latter have already started on all markets, and are destined to speed up in coming months.
Results for the first three quarters show revenues of 1,349 million Euro (+4.8%) and a total of 4,598 cars delivered to dealers (+2.4%).
Ferrari's trading profit for the period came to 192 million Euro, compared to 176 million Euro last year (+9%).
An extraordinary result in terms of industrial cash flow, which reached a record figure of 213 million Euros, a particularly important result given the constant high level of investment in product development
"The economic results, like the sporting results," commented Luca di Montezemolo, "sum up the great team effort put in by all at Ferrari. In a market that remains unstable, Ferrari has continued to offer cars which are exclusive, innovative and of high quality, allowing us to take advantage of important sales opportunities. In racing, determination and the will never to give in have enabled us to get one of our drivers into the lead in the Formula 1 championship. We must continue with this commitment, both in the markets and on the track to bring an exceptional 2010 to a fitting conclusion."
In the first nine months, some of our traditional markets that were particularly badly hit by the crisis are picking up: North America is up by 5%, the UK up by 17% and Australia up by 10%. Among our new markets, strong growth in China has continued, with an increase of 15%.
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Everyone needs to have clean toys for dirty fun, and Penthouse and Topco have teamed up to bring this antibacterial toy cleaner spray. The easy spray dispenser makes it convenient, quick and easy to clean all your toys. Simply apply thoroughly to the toy as desired and wipe it down with a clean, dry cloth.
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Born March 26th, 1946 in Los Angeles, Johnny Crawford came from a theatrical family. As a child, he began a TV career as one of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers. It wasn't long before he landed the role of Mark McCain in ABC-TV's popular Western series, The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors. The show's debut was in the fall of 1958, on Tuesday nights. Johnny's recordings of the songs, Cindy's Birthday, Rumors and Patti Ann, just to name a few, are very well remembered to this day by teenaged girls who "grew up" with him.
After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1964, Johnny continued to appear in tons of television shows and movies. He learned how to ride and rope on The Rifleman set so he rode the professional rodeo circuit for two years. He was then drafted into the Army, where he spent two years making training films. When he was discharged, he returned to acting and singing.
So what's Johnny doing now? After spending two years on the New York cocktail circuit singing in another man's band, Johnny formed his own 16-piece, Los Angeles based 1920's orchestra in 1990. The Johhny Crawford Dance Orchestra is now a fixture on the local swing-dancing scene re-energized by the film, Swingers. He's forsaken acting to forge a career and a business around that era in American history. "It was such a wonderful time," says Johnny. "There was a quality in almost everything in those days - the clothes, the architecture, the furniture, the cars and especially the music."
"Both sides of my family were musical," he explained. "One of my first memories is hearing my mother play the piano." The music of the late 20's was often played in his home, imprinting sweet recollections that would propel him eventually to a retro lifestyle. He has become one of the premier society crooners and orchestra leaders in Los Angeles. Crawford has appeared monthly at the Hollywood Athletic Club where he draws a crowd that range in age "from 21 to 101", says actress Julie McCullough, a regular who learned to Lindy Hop at his high-energy performances.
Wearing a top hat and tails and doing a mean Charleston, the lean bandleader approaches his role like any other part, right down to addressing the audience as if it were actually dancing at the old Cocoanut Grove. "I can't believe it's 1928 already", Crawford introduced a set one Tuesday night. "It seems like yesterday we opened at the Biltmore as a replacement for Earl Bertnett and his orchestra." The historically accurate asides are more than shtick. Crawford uses his onstage pulpit to educate the audiences about the unabashedly sentimental melodies Tin Pan Alley produced between the two World Wars, an era he thinks was unfairly maligned during the rise of 1940's big bands and later lost to bebop.
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On the Seventh Day of Christmas....Scrapbooking!
Monday, December 21, 2009
WHY DID I START SEEING SPRING GARDENING STUFF IN MY SCRAPBOOK STORES TWO WEEKS AGO? Hello, I'm only on day seven of my festivities, and it's just depressing me. This is where I need someone to say: "Christy, stay out of the scrapbook stores." I've been five times in the last four days, and I'm planning on going tomorrow as well. I've been several more times earlier in the week. I'm crafting, I "have" to go. So....today, I made it to the early service, which was fabulous, Pastor Graham was back in the pulpit (he's been a little under the weather), and the music was fully Christmas, yay! This afternoon I headed over to my pal Amber's house. I adore her, and she is a master scrapbooker. I learn so much from her. I'm going to add some pictures of a few of the crafts she is working on....b/c I can't add pictures of things I'm working on because they are gifts, and anyway, she's so talented, I had to take pictures! Anyway, we scrapbooked from 1-11, with one run to Michael's, and a dinner break. I got a lot accomplished, including an mini-album that will be a gift once I take/print pictures for it, and a few photos from my summer vacation....two years ago....I guess I'm a little behind. Whatever, I'm a little less behind than I was, so...yippee! I'll just stop taking pictures until I catch up....ha, I needed a good laugh to round out this evening! OK....back on to some projects....I can't believe how close Christmas is!!!
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IUCN is deeply saddened by the loss of Wangari Maathai, one of Africa's foremost environmental campaigners and a great advocate for social justice, human rights, peace and democracy. Wangari Maathai has passed away in Nairobi at the age of 71.
Professor Wangari Muta Maathai was internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights, and the environment. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1977, Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement, encouraging women in rural Kenya to plant trees as a way to improve their lives through better access to clean water, fire wood for cooking and other resources. The movement brought positive change to women in rural areas and inspired countless other women across the globe.
"IUCN has lost a great friend and a role model", says IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre. "A woman who was not afraid to put her own life at risk in the name of the values she fought for. She had the power to inspire women in her home Africa but also reach communities in the most remote parts of the world."
In December 2002, Professor Wangari Muta Maathai was elected to Kenya's parliament and appointed Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources. She was also the first woman to earn a doctorate in East Africa. In 2004, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
"Wangari Maathai's life is a perfect example of how great courage and determination can break all possible boundaries set by society", says Marton-Lefèvre. "We're going to miss her but her legacy will continue to inspire people around the world."


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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During 2019, he is serving on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
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I am finally ready to submit the last chibi tutorial for the day. Almost everyone loves Pokemon and lately I have been uploading lessons based on some pretty adorable chibi style Pokemon species. This Pokemon was actually a request, and since I know that it is a popular character I knew that there would be more than one person that would appreciate a lesson on "how to draw chibi Rayquaza", step by step. Rayquaza looks like some sort of snake or lizard species, but since I know nothing about him, I'm going to have to be a bit ignorant when it comes to giving you some background info on Rayquaza. I'll wait to talk further on this Pokemon when I draw out the actual sized version. That way there I don't waste time on writing a bio out for a chibi version of the real thing. For now have fun with learning "how to draw chibi Rayquaza", hopefully you like what I have created for your enjoyment. Adios people and be sure to come back tomorrow for more drawing fun.
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CPA EXAMINATION NOVEMBER 1964 The Los Angeles Office continued to set new highs for the number of successful candidates completing the examination for a single office. Their new record is 20, compared to their old one of 17, set in the May 1964 exam. The total for the Firm was 101. • For the second examination in a row two men from the same office were among 16 candidates to receive Honorable Mention in the competition for the Elijah Watt Sells Award of the American Institute of CPAs. In the May 1964 exam it was Pittsburgh. This time two Houston men have won the honor: Rick C. Reed and William O. Strange. Rick and Bill are 1964 graduates of Rice and Oklahoma Universities, respectively. The Minnesota CPA Society's Harold C. Utley Award for highest grades in the state was won by Richard A. Snyder of our Minneapolis office. Dick graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1964. • Thirty H&S offices had one or more candidates complete the examination successfully. ATLANTA Peter F. Horan John S. Perkins, Jr. Richard A. Sheedwith BALTIMORE Kenneth E. Meredith BOSTON John E. Sears BUFFALO Gary E. Doane CHARLOTTE Joseph D. Pool, Jr. Robert D. Skees CHICAGO William L. Brockschmidt William D. DeMent John E. Kessler James A. Spear Warren C. Weed CINCINNATI John H. Espelage CLEVELAND James D. Huebner Gary J. Previts DALLAS Piatt L. Allen, Jr. Robert H. Hankins Darrell E. Johnson Kenneth R. Nicholas DAYTON Thomas V. Hendricks Ronald L. Roswell DENVER Larry A. Hagen Fredric E. Ieuter Michael T. Nelligan David R. Reynolds James D. Robshaw DETROIT John H. Smith HONOLULU Kenneth C. H. Leong HOUSTON George M. Blankenbeckler Thomas E. Cook, III Rick C. Reed William O. Strange John S. Turner INDIANAPOLIS Alan P. Landis KANSAS CITY Richard J. Goode Lawrence J. Pickert LOS ANGELES James C. Beardall Alfred J. W. Boegh Allen R. Bradley William P. Ewens Richard M. Gardner Bruce E. Grant Eleanor A. Greene Gerald E. Hubbard William S. Kreisle David C. Leedy Dwayne L. Liddell Elwood G. H. Lui Margot A. Niehenke Clarence A. Phillips David J. Ruggles Henry Schiffer Edward C. Sebek Leroy L. Shaffer Edwin N. Tucker John W. Wanlass MIAMI Thomas J. Caudle Jay M. Cook Angel Cortina, Jr. John W. Nixon Victor Rio MILWAUKEE Robert A. Arendt James R. Avery MINNEAPOLIS Thomas E. Chomicz Thomas A. Commes John B. Lilja Richard A. Snyder NEWARK Hugh T. Clark, Jr. Robert J. Kane Ernest O. Tarien NEW ORLEANS Lester J. Boudreaux, Jr. Rodney J. Estrada Mrs. J. Garlane Howell NEW YORK James R. Beamish James J. Begley William H. Fordney Jerry D. Josephs Louis G. LeVee Ronald S. Piatt Michael P. Sheehan Henry L. Smith Patrick J. Waide OMAHA Douglas T. Kiesey PHILADELPHIA John G. Cannon Edward J. Ceol John J. McKiernan Joseph W. Pettit Stanford L. Stevenson, Jr. ROCHESTER Ronald M. Kane SAINT LOUIS Guy W. Owings Jack A. Yeager SAN DIEGO Gary C. Landers. Terrence R. Rodgers Leon F. Willis, Jr. SAN FRANCISCO Cass P. Apple John S. Dearborn Patrick G. Murray Warren D. Solt SEATTLE Del M. Jones Ronald H. Mead 13


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March is here. That means you have 305 days left to follow through on your 2013 health and fitness resolutions.
We're trying to stick to our health and fitness goals by taking small, simple steps toward ditching empty calories and finding ways to keep exercise fun. (We kicked off the year with a list of 52 "paths to fitness." You can find it at http://www.latimes.com/52paths.) Please join us by sharing your suggestions via email or by using #LATFit on Twitter and Instagram.
This tip comes to us from Tony Newhall of Valencia, who has managed to come up with the ultimate motivational tool. He's figured out a way to make money while he's working out:
"I've added something to my brisk, 45-minute walk through my suburban community every morning — I carry a plastic bag and pick up litter along the way. It cleans the neighborhood and is its own reward. Plus I keep any plastic bottles and beverage cans I find for my grandkids' recycling stash. This activity gets me going each morning — hoping to collect record trash, cleaning the neighborhood and thrilling my grandkids."
Thanks for the suggestions, Tony!
How are you staying on track in 2013? We want to hear all about it.


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Aaron Kwok
From DramaWiki
- Name: 郭富城 / Kwok Fu Shing (Guo Fu Cheng)
- English name: Aaron Kwok
- Also known as: Gwok Fu Sing / Sing Sing
- Profession: Actor and singer
- Birthdate: 1965-Oct-26
- Birthplace: Hong Kong
- Height: 172cm
- Weight: 64kg
- Star sign: Scorpio
- Chinese zodiac: Snake
- Blood type: A
- Family: Two older brothers and an older sister
- Talent agency: First Strong Workshop, Ltd.
About Aaron[edit]
Aaron Kwok Fu Shing is a famous singer and film actor in Hong Kong. The Chinese media refer to him, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王 Cantonese: sêi daài tïn wong, Pinyin: sì dà tiān wáng). He is also known as "Hong Kong's Michael Jackson" because of his excellent dancing ability.
In 2004, Aaron held a series of concerts which impressed fans and critics alike, and garnered him a Hong Kong Dance award presented by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. Due to the overwhelming success of his 2004 concert series, Aaron held a second series of concert in the following year. He shaved his head for his 2005 concert, and his new image surprised a lot of the audiences. "The Aaron Kwok Mega Hits Live In Concert 2005 Chapter II" got great reviews from the audiences and the media, due to Aaron's amazing performance and fabulous clothing.
At the Taiwan's 42nd Golden Horse Awards ceremony on November 13, 2005, Aaron won the Best Leading Actor title for his role in "Divergence" by beating out Hong Kong veteran Tony Leung Ka-Fai and took everyone, including himself, by surprise. This was also Aaron's first Golden Horse nomination.
Aaron was a dancer before he started his music career. He started out as a background dancer for TVB music and variety shows. He first gained recognition in Taiwan for a TV advertisement. Soon after, in 1990, his debut album "Love You Endlessly"( 對你愛不完 Cantonese: dêui néi ngoî bät yun, Pinyin: duì ní aì bù wán) was released in Taiwan. This album had sold more than 500,000 records in both Taiwan and Hong Kong. The song "Love You Endlessly" (對你愛不完) was the biggest hit in the early 90s. The success of his first album made him famous in Hong Kong and earned him the title as one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the Chinese music industry.
TV Series[edit]
- Hearts of Fencing II - Sunshine Heartbeat (TVB, 2004, guest star)
- Regalia Bay (2004)
- Romancing Hong Kong (2003)
- Wars of Bribery (TVB, 1996)
- Heartstrings (1994)
- Revelation of the Last Hero (TVB, 1992)
- Modern Love Story III
- Man from Guangdong (TVB, 1991)
- Yuppies on the Move
- The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain (TVB, 1990)
- Song Bird (TVB, 1990)
- When Things Get Tough (1990)
- Two of a Kind (TVB, 1989)
- Genghis Khan (TVB, 1987)
TV Series Theme Songs[edit]
- Light Moth (燈蛾), Burning Flame II opening theme song (TVB, 2002)
- Wars of Bribery opening theme song (TVB, 1996)
- Revelation of the Last Hero opening theme song (TVB, 1992)
- The Monkey King 2 (2016)
- One Night Only (2015)
- Monk Comes Down the Mountain (2015)
- Port of Call (2015)
- The Monkey King (2014)
- Silent Witness (2013)
- Christmas Rose (2013)
- Conspirators (2013)
- Better and Better (2013)
- Cold War (2012)
- Floating City (2012)
- Love in Space (2011)
- Love for Life (2011)
- The Detective 2 (2011)
- City Under Siege (2010)
- The Storm Warriors (2009)
- Murderer (2009)
- Empire of Silver (2009)
- The Detective (2007)
- Father and Son / After This Our Exile (2006)
- Divergence (2005)
- Throwdown (2004)
- Heat Team (2004)
- And I Hate You So (2002)
- Para Para Sakura (2001)
- China Strike Force (2000)
- The Storm Riders (1998)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1996)
- Anna Magdelena (1998)
- Whatever Will Be, Will Be (1995)
- The Bare-Footed Kid (1993)
- Millionaire Cop (1993)
- Kung Fu Scholar (1993)
- A Moment of Romance II (1993)
- Saviour of the Soul (1993)
- The Thief of Time (TVB, 1992, TV movie)
- Game Kids (1992)
- Gangs '92 (1992)
- Rhythm of Destiny (1992)
- Truant Heroes (1992)
- Lee Rock II (1991)
- The Queen of Gamble (1991)
- Close Escape (1989)
- Pepsi
- His Chinese name was used as the city name in Eastern Hero; it was often mentioned during the show for comic relief.
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We got a sneak peak at Twitter's new headquarters today during a press event about the site's full-fledged overhaul.
But Twitter.com isn't the only thing that's getting an overhaul: In about six months, microblogging company is moving to its new headquarters in a gorgeous, old Art Deco building in San Francisco.
While the evirons of the company's new digs could be described as "shabby" or "down-at-heel," and are certainly replete with empty buildings and "for sale" signs, Twitter employees are excited and optimistic about the new site.
Twitter's new home at 1355 Market is definitely a fixer-upper. The building doesn't appear to have any other tenants that we could see, and every floor we saw was gutted and ready for renovation.
But the place has good bones. The building was once the site of the now-defunct San Francisco Furniture Mart, a wholesale market that was only open to the public twice a year. At the press event today, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey explained that the construction on this Art Deco-era building was completed in 1937, the same year that construction was completed on the Golden Gate Bridge.
The move should happen around June 2012. All of Twitter's 700 current employees based in San Francisco will relocate to the new building.
Of course, there's more than enough space for those employees. Twitter is occupying three floors of the building, a total of 220,000 square feet, which CEO Dick Costolo said was "enough space to hold thousands of people."
"We're going to need all this space to scale the company," said Costolo.
For now, however, the office space is still raw, with exposed beams, concrete floors, no heating to speak of. One spokesperson told us that all the attendees at today's gathering almost had to wear hard hats and vests; only the small room we were in was approved for public consumption.
We were also told that the roof will be cleared to make way for a garden.
Twitter also has international offices in London and Tokyo, and several offices around the world will be opened in the middle of next year, around the time of the move to 1355 Market.
Twitter is certainly growing fast enough to fill the space in due time. The company revealed today that signups have increased 25 percent since Twitter launched its partnership with Apple.
And in terms of revenue, eMarketer estimated today that Twitter's global advertising revenues will grow 210 percent to $139.5 million in 2011, up from $45 million in 2010. Last year was the company's first full year selling ads, and early in 2012, Twitter will also fully roll out its self-service ad platform to rake in the long tail of ad dollars (and to better compete with Google and Facebook, which have similar offerings).
For 2012, eMarketer forecasts that Twitter will see $260 million in worldwide ad revenue, up 86.3% over 2011.
Many thanks to VentureBeat's Sarah Mitroff and The Next Web's Drew Olanoff for photography hardware help.


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Lean Startup 101 "Vegas Style"
"Discover Scientific Methods to Launching and Growing Your Tech company in Vegas!"
after talking to and surveying a number of our fellow ATW members i found out that they really like the Lean Startup methodology or they just heard about it want to learn more (i highly recommend you just buying the book).
for this meetup we will be talking about the Lean Startup, and we will have a panel of some of the most innovative VegasTech companies and Vegas startup entrepreneurs come share how they apply the lean startup principles.
Once i shared my ideas for this event to David from Tracky, he recommended that i should host the event at the InNEVation Center. Richard from the InNEVation Center really liked what i was up and approved my event for the 29th of March from 7pm to 9pm.
Now i have a few Vegas Tech companies and startup entrepreneurs that are willing to join in a panel and share the secrets to startup success.
Here are our Vegas Tech Companies
Originate- brings together nearly 100 of the most talented entrepreneurial software developers, designers, and strategists in the world to find opportunities to do what they love most
Tracky– is a web based platform to help you collaborate, share, and get your projects on track
Gabuduck– makes awesome interactive apps for kids! By combining music with creativity
TicketCake– has sold tickets online to shows by Snoop Dogg, Third Eye Blind, Ali Cambpell from UB40 and they've sold close to $1M in tickets
Here are our Vegas Entrepreneurs
Michael H Kaleikini- Writer for Entrepreneur.com and biz dev guy for vegas businesses.
Mr.X – mystery guest
So what will we discuss when you attend:
•How to quickly see if your business ideas is even worth a million dollars
•You'll be getting served some startup success tips by our panel of Vegas Tech entrepreneurs "Vegas Buffett style"
•Why most startups fail and how to avoid thier pitfalls to help you succeed
•how to get an unfair advantage at Startup Weekend by applying these principles
BTW, This meetup event is being sponsored by the InNEVation Center so it is 100% FREE to you…. all you need to do is show up and take notes.
Claim your FREE seat at the InNEVation Center all you need to do is RSVP to be able to get in the building.