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In her book "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away," philosopher and writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein imagines Plato on a U.S. book tour, speaking at Google, on a cable TV show and debating child-rearing at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Goldstein told Here & Now's Robin Young, her idea is borrowed from her love of science fiction, where sometimes the story is built around "one preposterous hypothesis and everything else follows."
Plato is the most influential thinker in the history of the West, so much so that one of the giants of 20th century philosophy said that the tradition of philosophy in the last 24 centuries, "consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Goldstein brings Plato to life because she wants to demonstrate the continuing relevance of philosophy today, and to show that philosophy has also made slow but certain progress over the centuries.
Goldstein's Plato finds the debates of our day — about democracy, childrearing and same-sex love — familiar. He has things to add to the debate, but he also has a lot to learn from us, not just science, but also ethics and morality.
Book Excerpt: 'Plato at the Googleplex'
By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Dramatis Personae
Cheryl, media escort
Marcus, software engineer
Rhonda, narrator and Cheryl's friend
The other day, I came into the city to meet my friend Cheryl for a drink and—her expression—a little tête-à-tête-ing. Cheryl and I are both New Yorkers transplanted to the West Coast. That's one of the ties between us. It might be the only tie between us, but somehow we've fallen into the habit of being friends. We met at a pricey hotel bar on Nob Hill that's decorated like an Italian bordello, with heavy red velvet drapery and gilded statuary. But it is—again Cheryl's expression—quiet as a vault, which means you can hear yourself talk, even though, as usual, Cheryl did most of the talking. You can't altogether blame her, given the interesting people she's constantly meeting. She's my own personal version of Gawker, a way of my getting a glimpse into the lives of the famous, the near-famous, and the willing-to-do-anything-short-of-landing-themselves-on-death-row-in-the-hopes-of-someday-being-famous. She was late, which was my first tip-off that something was up with her. Cheryl is super-organized, which is something you have to be in her line of work. Here's how organized she is: while she was parking her Lexus, she called me and told me to order her a Long Island Iced Tea, which is a far stronger mixed drink than our usual Chardonnay.* The drinks were just being brought to the table when Cheryl arrived, amid all the jangling of the large silver bangles she was wearing. Cheryl is always in full Tiffany armor.
After she'd made her little joke about the waiters, who all act as if there were stiff entrance requirements enforced to get in here, including letters of recommendation from your high school math and English teachers, she settled down to tell me about her latest adventures escorting authors from one media event to another. Since everybody's writing books these days, Cheryl gets to meet politicians, movie stars, all sorts of has-beens, alcoholics, and junkies, and even some authors who do nothing but write books. She's got the knack, she says, so that people open up to her, and if she ever retires and writes a tell-all memoir she'll need her own media escort as well as a good lawyer.
Boy, did I have an experience today, she launched in with little preamble. My author was a philosopher, which I just figured was going to be awkward and tedious. And he uses just the one name Plato, which struck me as not a little off-putting, as if he were on a par with a Cher or a Madonna. From the start I figured it was going to be one very long day, but I had no idea.
She took a long sip of her drink.
No idea at all, she continued. Plus his event was one of those Authors@Google things and that place always puts me on edge. It's hard to breathe in the congested self-congratulation up there at the Googleplex. When somebody tells me that they work hard and play just as hard, which I hear every frigging time I go there, then I make it a point to roll my eyes . . . hard.
Cheryl rolled her eyes as she said this. Her coming down so hard on the Googlers for their high self-esteem is funny, in its way. If I had to escort the high-and-mighty the way Cheryl does, I'd be so intimidated I wouldn't open my mouth unless absolutely necessary. I'm intimidated at one remove, just hearing about Cheryl's authors. But no matter who Cheryl is escorting, she doesn't know from awe. On the contrary, if you know what I mean. So it's funny how irked she is by other people's little gestures of self-importance.
Of course, there is the food there, she was saying. I always make it a point to take my authors to lunch there first. I've told you about the food there, right? I mean it's gorgeous. Yoscha's Café is my favorite. It's huge and airy, and they've got dozens of food stations with different gourmet food so lovingly prepared you can just imagine the doting caretakers who sent their darlings out into the world. And of course it's all free, as I explained to Plato. That's the first thing to know about the food here, I said to him. They get breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever, absolutely free. It's feeding on demand.
I'd hate that, I told Cheryl. I'd gain ten pounds in a week.
Yeah, well, apparently that's a "problem"—she air-quoted—which they complain about in their bragging sort of way. We work hard, play hard, and eat hard, which makes us exercise hard. Oh, my goodness, can you possibly grasp what a bunch of superior people we are? Cheryl was rolling her eyes again. Anyway, she went on, Plato was listening to me very intently—it's almost disconcerting how intently he listens—even though I was just rambling on, kind of free-associating, just trying to make conversation because I could tell this guy's skills at small talk were not the highest. You know, very ivory tower, though with extremely good manners, almost something aristocratic about him. Also he makes eye contact, unlike a lot of these types. In fact, he makes serious eye contact. His stare is penetrating to the point of aggravating. Anyway, when I finally stopped to take a breath, he asked me: And what is the second thing to know about the food here? You see, he's got this very logical mind. If you say to him, here's the first thing to know about something, then you've also got to give him a second thing to know about it. So I said, well, I guess the second thing is that it's yummy. And of course it's local and organic and all those other kinds of things that people around here are into.
And he asked me, have you ever heard of the Prytaneum?
No, I answered, what's that, some hot new restaurant?
He sort of smiled, which he tends to do more with his eyes than his mouth, and said, in a manner of speaking, yes, it is hot. The sacred fire of the city is kept going there at all times, its flame carried to any new colony established by the metropolis.
Well, of course, I had no idea what he was talking about, though I vaguely sensed he was making some kind of a joke. He comes from Athens, I forgot to tell you that, and even though I'd been to Greece on that cruise with Michael before the kids were born, the more Plato spoke, the more I realized that Michael and I hadn't seen the real Greece. I mean, you have no idea of how different they do things over there, at least to listen to Plato describe it. Anyway, he told me, the Prytaneum also serves free meals.
So I said to him, no kidding! That's quite a deal. How can they afford to stay in business?
It is run by the city, he answered, and the meals are mainly for those who have rendered extraordinary service to the city.* I had a friend who got into some very unfortunate legal trouble. Socrates was charged on two counts, impiety and corruption of the youth.
Corruption of the youth? That sounds pretty dark. Was he some sort of pedophile? I asked him.
Not in the sense that you are most likely thinking, he said, though he loved youth.
Well, I hope not in the sense that I'm thinking! I said right back at him, which made him kind of wince.
The charge was more a matter of his not accepting the moral values of his society and his encouraging the young to question them as well. And he was right to question them and to get us younger men to question them. As proof of how corrupt the society was, the jury ended up convicting him.
And you should have seen his face when he said that, Rhonda. This was the first inkling I got that there was a lot going on behind his façade. He's a restrained kind of person—very, I don't know, formal.
And it's true that every time Cheryl spoke Plato's words she took on a formality, speaking slowly and precisely, as if every word had been carefully considered. She's a natural-born actress who just automatically slips into impersonations.
In fact, the longer the conversation went on, she continued, the more I could see glimmers of genuine human feeling going on behind his marble façade. I could tell from the tightening of his jaw and from the way his voice, which is very soft to begin with,‡ went even softer, how traumatic this whole business with his friend Socrates must have been for him.
So I asked him: How long ago did this happen to your friend?
Oh, it's ancient history, he said. I was a young man, not yet out of my twenties.
That's interesting, I said, breaking into Cheryl's narrative, which she doesn't exactly encourage. It's rare for a man to care so much for a friend, I said. Are you sure that Socrates was just a friend and not something, you know, more?
Well, of course the thought occurred to me, too, Cheryl said. But you don't just come out and ask someone about that, especially not someone like Plato. You know, my trick to getting my authors to tell me so much? It's asking the question just to the side of the one that I really want to ask. So I just said, what a terrible story. Didn't he have a good lawyer?
Lawyers, said Plato and smiled. I have heard of such people.
Well, of course you have, I said to him, again wondering if this was an example of some kind of humor, you know a lawyer joke, especially since he said it with a slight smile. He has a pretty stiff face, with very strong bone structure, kind of broad around the forehead, and he doesn't make any sudden motions, facial or otherwise. You can see what a powerful physique he must have had when he was younger, and he still holds himself ramrod straight.
We have no such people in Athens, Plato said. Accusers accuse and defendants defend. Everybody acts as his own lawyer. Those who can afford to usually hire a logographer to write their speeches.
No lawyers, I interrupted Cheryl. He's got to be putting you on. Whoever heard of Greece having no lawyers?
No, that's what I meant about Greece being so unbelievably different, Rhonda. It's kind of mind-boggling.
Are you sure this Plato isn't one of your fiction writers? I asked her.
Well, if he is, he's more convincing than any of them. I'll never hear the word "gravitas" again without thinking of him. This guy is like hewn from gravitas. The procedure in our city, he said, is that if you are found guilty you get to propose the penalty that you think would be fair. Then the accusers pose another penalty, harsher of course, and then the jury votes on the penalty, often aiming for the mean. This procedure worked to Socrates' detriment. My friend was famous for his irony, and he was not inclined to abandon it, not even with his life hanging in the balance. I should say especially when his life hung in the balance, since to cower before death, showing a readiness to do anything, throw overboard any principle, in order to stave off death just a few moments longer—for it is only a few moments from the standpoint of eternity—is unmanly.
That's an interesting perspective you've got there on death, I told him, but just one helpful hint. I'd avoid the use of adjectives like "unmanly." They can come off sounding sexist, as if you think maybe men are superior to women.
How'd he take that? I asked Cheryl.
Surprisingly well, Cheryl said, especially for someone so old-school. He thanked me for my advice, promising that he'd try to remember to avoid sexist words in the future. I have not failed to notice, he said, how differently women are regarded in your society compared to mine. It had always struck me as an unreasonable waste of human resources to keep talented women secluded in their homes, which is what our practice is.* Yours is a much more rational way of utilizing human potential. So let me amend my last statement and say rather that Socrates held it to be ignoble for a person to undertake an action with the only aim of postponing death, especially since the proposition that death is an evil turns out to be non-trivial to justify.† During his sentencing, Socrates made a point of mentioning Achilles, who is considered throughout Greece to have been the greatest legendary hero. Achilles had been given the choice of either a brief but glorious life or a prolonged but less exceptional life. Of course, Achilles made the heroic choice, and so did Socrates, though I should mention that my friend had already reached his seventieth year, so the option of a short life was foreclosed.* Nevertheless, he would not succumb to the indignity of acting only to eschew imminent death, especially when doing so required violation of the principles on which he had lived out his life. So when asked to propose a penalty that would accurately reflect his culpability Socrates responded that since he had performed an invaluable service to his city, trying to wake its citizenry from its sleep of complacency, and had never asked for any recompense for his services, the city, if it truly wished to show justice toward him, should vote him free meals for life at the Prytaneum. That was the penalty he proposed after he'd already been voted guilty of a capital offense (Apology 36c– d).
That's some chutzpah your friend had there, I said to him.
Chutzpah? he asked me. This word I do not know.
Excerpted from PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Copyright © 2014 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher, writer and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant." Her new books is "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away."
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OK. Thought exercise for you now. Imagine the ancient Greek philosopher Plato in the U.S. today on a book tour - it could happen - the most influential philosopher in Western history. How influential? Well, one modern authority said the last 24 centuries of philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato's dialogues in which he took up questions like what is love? Should society censor art? What's the best form of government?
What would he make today of a PR agent, of Google? How would he weigh in on the great debate launched by tiger mom Amy Chua on raising children? What would Plato teach us and learn from us? These are the questions philosopher and writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein explores in her new book, "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away." We invited her in to spend a few minutes here today. So, Rebecca, welcome back.
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN: Oh, it's great to be here.
YOUNG: What a hilarious idea, have Plato be on a book tour. Plato, creator of philosophy as we know it, at the knee of Socrates. Remind us who he was.
GOLDSTEIN: Who they were, yes. So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.
And Socrates was put on trial on the capital charges of impiety and corrupting the young - this was in 399 BCE - found guilty by his 501 jurors. And then he was supposed to plea bargain with them, and he ended up so infuriating them that more people voted for him to die than had voted for his guilt and he was executed.
YOUNG: Put to death.
GOLDSTEIN: He's put to death, yeah. You know, he so often speak as if the ancient Greeks were all philosophers. I mean, they were all so committed to reason. It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.
YOUNG: Well - and Plato picks up where he leaves off and takes his dialogues, these Socratic questions that he would ask, crazy questions in a lot of cases, but these questions that would get these dialogues going. And Plato, as we said, creates philosophy as we know it. So you bring him to today.
GOLDSTEIN: Yes.
YOUNG: Why, first of all?
GOLDSTEIN: As a way of demonstrating the persistence of the questions that he asked, not necessarily the answers. And one of the things I want to do in bringing him back is to demonstrate how far we've come. It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress. Well, my Plato, when he comes back, is constantly being astounded, not just by the science and technology that we've learned, but by the ethical knowledge, the political knowledge, you know, what, no slaves? That never occurred to anybody in the ancient world that slavery was an abomination.
YOUNG: Well, you imagine him on a speaking tour, chaperoned by his media PR escort Cheryl. She gets into an amazing debate with him. It's over personal freedom and whether people are really equal. But it starts with an analogy with orthodontia.
YOUNG: How?
GOLDSTEIN: Yes. In the dialogue - and, of course, Plato wrote in dialogue forms. And he often used these very homely analogies. It's about farmers, or it's about sheepshearers or, you know, they are these most abstract and lofty ideas but put in the language of very down-to-earth metaphors. And so I gave him a modern one, orthodontia.
YOUNG: OK. Relate that to personal freedom.
GOLDSTEIN: Well, it was - the question became whether or not there are philosophical experts. And this was a contentious debate in Plato's own day. Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake in these questions to feel that we ourselves know the difference between right and wrong. And then along come these experts, philosophers, claiming, you know, an expertise, a special training, a special skill, a special talent. And that's where that analogy to orthodontia comes in, that Plato - there is - is arguing that if you have crooked teeth, you take them to an expert who knows how to straighten your teeth. Well, if you have a crooked life, it's very hard for you yourself to judge that. Maybe you need an outside expert. And that's where philosophy comes in.
YOUNG: Well, a Google engineer argues that Google has changed all of that.
GOLDSTEIN: Yes. Yes. He has the idea that crowd-sourcing could answer these ethical questions. And he comes up with this, I think, fairly ingenious idea of a search engine. He calls it the ethical answer search engine, and these questions could be answered with EASE. That's the acronym of his search engine. And Plato was able to throw a monkey wrench into this idea.
YOUNG: He demolishes that.
GOLDSTEIN: He does demolish it. And often, what I try to do, I memorized all 26 of the dialogues so that I would know passages that Plato had actually written that were relevant to our debates so I could weave them in. Actually, I'm still tweeting as Plato because I just hear him constantly. I read something - I always try to weave in actual words of this 2,400-year-old man.
YOUNG: Could you give us a little bit from his dialogues and then from the words you actually gave him in your book to demonstrate to us how he did demolish that argument?
GOLDSTEIN: Yeah. Basically, he actually uses what he's learning from us, which is that we've made a lot of progress that there have been ethical reformers who went against the grain. And they proposed ideas that we couldn't arrive at through crowd-sourcing because they were new.
YOUNG: They were outliers.
GOLDSTEIN: They were outliers. So when, you know, the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.
YOUNG: Philosopher and writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Her new book, "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away." By the way, if you'd like to follow Plato on Twitter - who knew? OK, it's her. It's @platobooktour. You're listening to HERE AND NOW.
YOUNG: It's HERE AND NOW.
If you've just tuned in, welcome. We're talking Plato and philosophy, and it's fun, because it's filtered through the imagination of MacArthur Genius Award winner Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who, in her new book, takes Plato on a modern-day book tour. The book is "Plato at the Googleplex."
Let's pick up where she has Plato as part of an author's panel at New York's 92nd Street Y, debating childrearing with two other authors. One, Sophie Zee, who sounds suspiciously like Tiger Mom Amy Chua; only Sophie Zee's book is called "The Warrior Mother." The other author represents those old school European-born child psychologists who say parents should do nothing to shape their children. Let them discover themselves.
And by the way, Rebecca Goldstein, you named that author Dr. Mitzi Munitz. Who is she supposed to represent?
GOLDSTEIN: I don't know. She just...
YOUNG: Oh, you made her up.
GOLDSTEIN: She kind of - you know, I think it started as a kind of Melanie Klein figure. And I had read a lot of Melanie Klein many, many years ago. And so it begun by having her in my mind, but as somebody who has a very strong sense of a child's autonomy.
YOUNG: Right. And let them become their own person.
GOLDSTEIN: Yes.
YOUNG: Well, and where does Plato come down with these two extremes?
GOLDSTEIN: It's interesting. They actually give Plato a hard time because, you know, I think Plato's position is somewhat difficult. You know, everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And I think that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually has to teach us that you have to air your views and bring them to the table with people - with whom you disagree very much.
Plato does talk a great deal about recognizing the characteristics of the exceptional child and of training it, of subjecting it to something far beyond the Warrior Mother or the Tiger Mother, and he gives us this program in The Republic, everything from the kind of bedtime stories they should be allowed to read, the balance between sports and music, and all sorts of things that actually the Tiger Mom talks about.
But he is trying to train exceptional children not just for the sake of, you know, having exceptional children. We all want our children to be exceptional. But - so that they will be the perfect leaders of his utopia. So ethically developed that we can trust them with all of this power. So it's really a political question that he's answering there.
Amy - I'm sorry, not Amy Chua. Sophie Zee and...
GOLDSTEIN: ...and my dialogue, you know, she just - you know, it's the responsibility of every parent to produce an off-the-charts child. And when Plato says, look, that's just not possible, that children have very, very different talents, she says, well, then it's in the immoral universe. Here you are saying Plato that the unexamined life is not worth living. And if it takes tremendous philosophical sophistication to live the examined life, are you telling me that some of our children can't live a life worth living? And that is actually - I think that's a vey important question to ask Plato.
YOUNG: And does he shift at all? Does he...
GOLDSTEIN: There's a certain opening that over the course of the book, I think he becomes a little more flexible on this issue. One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conception of all lives matters. And it was really was true for them, that certain lives matter a lot more than others. It didn't dawn on them that all lives, although different, can be lives of equal mattering. And that is actually something a huge ethical lesson. It taken us millennia to learn and it's still going on. We're still wrestling with this question, expanding the boundaries of the lives that matter, trying to erase the inequalities that exist across the globe. That is something that we really have still to learn but certainly to teach the ancient Greeks.
YOUNG: Well, it is all here. One of my favorite allegories of Plato is allegory of the cave. The people chained in a cave, facing away from the opening of the cave to the wall behind on which they're watching this - the shadow puppet show. They're looking at the shadows on the wall instead of the real world behind them until one escapes and tries to tell them, you're only looking at the shadows on the wall. I love that. It applies so - I'm first to say this, but it - by far - but it just applies so to technology today, and how we're always looking at our screens and the shadows on the wall. And we're not looking at the thing outside the door.
GOLDSTEIN: Hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes.
YOUNG: How do you use it?
GOLDSTEIN: It is one of the most powerful metaphors that come from the history have law(ph) space(ph). And, you know, for Plato - Plato believed in our being able to make philosophical progress. For him, this is a metaphor of making philosophical progress. When he has Socrates say when he first paints this picture of everybody chained, there's - they can't even turn their heads and see them puppets, much less the world that exists outside the cave, and they're just staring at shadows and they're studying the shadows. They're expert shadowist. One of the respondents actually - it's Plato's brother - says that's a strange picture you're painting. And Socrates says, it's of us. That's the way we are.
And for him, and in particular for Plato, it was a picture of our ethical knowledge, that we are all prisoners of ideology. Plato was trying to break the bonds of Athenian ideology, of Athenian exceptionalism and saying, you've really haven't even begun to consider this question of what it is to live a life that's worth living.
YOUNG: You are only looking at shadow of something that's something that you already know.
GOLDSTEIN: Exactly. So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. And he uses a word, a Greek work, agraphia, which means ungrounded. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.
YOUNG: You can listen to the guy who snuck out and said, hey, there's something over here.
GOLDSTEIN: Exactly.
YOUNG: Gosh, he- so he wasn't talking about the screen TVs?
GOLDSTEIN: No, but we sure can apply it.
YOUNG: Rebecca, your book comes after a very intense debate in the New Republic awhile back between your husband - Harvard linguist and cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker - and Leon Wieseltier. Your husband writing a plea from science to the humanities, saying, science is not your enemy. Leon writing, no, science wants to invade the liberal arts. It's essentially a debate who really has all the answers to the big life questions, science or, you know, ancient understanding. Put that debate aside, although it was juicy, what do you say?
GOLDSTEIN: Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science. I mean, for example, just everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing, you know? I would say that philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.
That's the - a kind of trick that Socrates and Plato use over and over again. It's really very characteristically a philosophical technique. It's not the kind of empirical testing. It's arguing for inner coherence. But that - we can make progress using that. We have made progress using that.
YOUNG: That's philosopher and writer, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Her ingenious new book, "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away," in which she puts Plato on a book tour in the U.S., "Hilarity Ensues." Rebecca, thanks so much for talking to us about it.
GOLDSTEIN: Oh, thank you. It's so much fun to be with you.
YOUNG: And, Jeremy, I'm looking at some of Plato's tweets from his book tour. Here he says, you know, I follow Aristotle, but he doesn't follow me back. A severe case of anxiety of influence, I'd say. Again, you can follow him/her @platobooktour.
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Shell's drill vessel Kulluk ran aground New Year's Eve on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island near Kodiak Island. On Jan. 6, it was pulled off the rocky bottom and towed a day later to protected waters in Kiliuda Bay within Kodiak Island.
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"I know you're looking for specific answers but we wanted to let you know that due to the fact that multiple entities are involved in the assessment of data, including Unified Command, Shell, Smit Salvage and Det Norske Veritas, Unified Command will not comment on the assessment until the report is finalized," said spokeswoman Deb Sawyer by email in response to questions about the operation. She did not provide a timetable of when the report would be done.
Smit Salvage is a Holland-based salvage company. Norway-based Det Norske Veritas inspects and evaluates the condition of vessels.
The unified command said 250 people are in the Kodiak area as part of the effort and future plans for the Kulluk will be determined once a report is finished.
But the command structure declined to answer questions on how many divers and remote operated underwater vehicles were involved, what kind of data was collected, what inspectors might be looking for and whether anomalies have been detected.
The command structure also declined to say whether the inspection involves investigation of the vessel from the inside. No more details have been released regarding Kulluk generators that were knocked out or damage from seawater that entered through hatches that should have been sealed.
The Kulluk was built in 1983 for a Canadian company and purchased by Shell in 2005. The 266-foot-diameter vessel drilled last year in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. Its funnel-shape, reinforced hull is designed to deflect and break up moving ice, allowing it to drill beyond the short open water season.
The anchor handler Aiviq was towing the Kulluk to Seattle when the vessels ran into trouble in rough Gulf of Alaska water.
A tow line snapped Dec. 27 and a day later all four engines on the Aiviq failed, possibly due to contaminated fuel. The vessel's crew eventually regained power but four subsequent tow lines attached to the Aiviq or other vessels also failed before the grounding.
The unified command has said the Kulluk will not be moved before the end of Kodiak's tanner crab fishing season, which opened Wednesday and usually takes four to six days, said state shellfish management biologist Mark Stichert. Predicted bad weather may delay fishermen catching the quota of 520,000 pounds, he said.
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CVS Caremark Corp.'s imminent exit from the cigarette and tobacco business — an unprecedented move for a major pharmacy company — is being cheered by many medical professionals and lawmakers as a triumph of corporate responsibility over the bottom line.
But industry experts say the strategy shift is less an altruistic endeavor than a savvy marketing ploy from a drugstore giant trying to promote itself as a retail health hub in an age of increasingly self-serve healthcare.
"It's smart business on CVS' part," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, a state steeped in tobacco history.
The drugstore chain — the largest in the country by sales with $123 billion in revenue in 2012 — said Wednesday that it will be tobacco free by Oct. 1. CVS has more than 7,600 stores, making it second in retail locations only to Walgreens.
The move comes soon after the 50th anniversary of a landmark report from the surgeon general linking smoking to illnesses such as lung cancer and heart disease. Pharmacies have faced years of criticism from health advocates for juxtaposing tobacco items with medical products.
Former smoker President Obama applauded CVS, saying the company "sets a powerful example" and that its decision "will have a profoundly positive impact on the health of our country." He added that the strategy shift will aid his administration's efforts to reduce tobacco-related deaths and illnesses while also bringing down healthcare costs.
CVS said that it is sacrificing $2 billion in annual revenue in its endeavor, which it said also includes a "robust national smoking cessation program" to begin this spring. But the Woonsocket, R.I., chain also has much to gain.
Amid a shortage of primary care doctors and legislation that expands access to healthcare coverage, CVS and many of its competitors are investing in more in-store urgent care clinics. They're also featuring pharmacists who can offer medical counseling and extending outreach efforts to clinicians and medical centers.
More Americans are seeking self-service options at local retailers providing a growing suite of services and products made cheaper and simpler by improving technology, said Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath.
"In today's fast-moving, competitive market, retailers are taking their resources from declining categories like cigarettes, where there's a lot of cost associated with securing the products and checking people's ages, and putting them into growth areas that involve health and services," she said.
Retail establishments such as CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid operate more than 1,600 health centers, according to an article Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. The piece was written by Dr. Troyen A. Brennan, CVS's chief medical officer, and Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, who runs the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UC San Francisco.
"Making cigarettes available in pharmacies in essence 'renormalizes' the product by sending the subtle message that it cannot be all that unhealthy if it is available for purchase where medicines are sold," they wrote.
Investors were uncertain, sending CVS Caremark's stock down 1%, or 67 cents, to $65.44 a share Wednesday. Meanwhile, Walgreen Co. rose 3.4%, or $1.90, to $57.85, and Rite Aid Corp. increased 2%, or 11 cents, to $5.45.
But by renouncing cigarettes, CVS could end up engendering loyalty among customers, some experts said.
Elena Maa, a Los Feliz mother of four, said she'll patronize the chain even more now that cigarettes are on their way out.
"Smoking isn't good for us or the kids," said Maa, who was shopping at an East Hollywood CVS with her 3-year-old son, Jake. Maa, 44, said Jake's mild asthma is exacerbated by secondhand smoke.
In 2008, San Francisco banned tobacco products in pharmacies, becoming the first U.S. city to do so. Boston and Needham, Mass., followed the next year with similar laws. Less than 5% of cigarette revenue came from pharmacies in 2009, according to the Center for Global Tobacco Control.
Walgreens resisted the San Francisco ban and issued an alert arguing that removing cigarettes from drugstores would "force smokers to liquor stores, tobacco shops, gas stations and other retailers that don't carry smoking cessation products and don't have pharmacists available for advice on quitting."
On Wednesday, Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin said the company would "continue to evaluate the choice of products our customers want, while also helping to educate them and providing smoking cessation products and alternatives that help to reduce the demand for tobacco products."
Walgreens said it is working with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare to run a free online program called Sponsorship to Quit, targeting smokers who want to stop.
Rite Aid, in a statement, said that in addition to its tobacco products, it sells items to help smokers quit and offers pharmacists to counsel customers trying to go cold turkey.
Wal-Mart declined to comment.
For cigarette companies already struggling with declining demand, increased regulation and hostility from the medical field, the loss of a major U.S. retailer will burn.
The American Medical Assn., which in 2009 publicly opposed the presence of tobacco products in pharmacies, said Wednesday that CVS would help curb tobacco use by limiting customers' access to it and "will spur other pharmacies to follow suit."
In 1965, 42% of adults were smokers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, only 18% of adults light up.
Between 2008 and 2013, the $93.1 billion U.S. wholesale market for cigarettes and tobacco products suffered a 2.4% annual sales slump, according to research from IBISWorld. Revenue is projected to decline 1.6% in each of the next four years.
Cigarette companies such as Altria Group Inc. have tried to compensate by searching for customers overseas and by steadily raising prices. But the business, which owns Marlboro and holds more than a quarter of cigarette market share, said revenue from its smokeable products segment decreased 3.2% in the fourth quarter.
Altria, which did not return a request for comment, saw its stock slip 1.3%, or 43 cents, to $34 a share Wednesday. Reynolds American Inc., the second-largest tobacco company in the country and parent to cigarette brands such as Camel and Pall Mall, dipped 0.7%, or 36 cents, to $47.14 a share.
"We value the long-term relationship we had with CVS and respect their commercial decision," Reynolds spokeswoman Jane Seccombe said. But many smokers are defiant, saying that what CVS won't offer they'll just find somewhere else.
Thomas Franklin, 35, is a pack-a-day smoker who said he buys cigarettes at a CVS near his West Hollywood home because they're cheaper there. Franklin said he would stock up before the products disappear from the chain.
He said CVS was picking and choosing vices to block from shoppers.
"They shouldn't sell candy because it's bad for your health," Franklin said, "or alcohol, for that matter."
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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is fully expected to start Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, but the NFL hasn't closed the book on the rookie's recent head injury.
FOX Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported Sunday that the Redskins face a "hefty" fine from the NFL for their handling of RG3's concussion, suffered in last Sunday's loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
The Redskins described Griffin as "shaken up" after the injury, but the NFL wants its 32 teams to "immediately acknowledge a head injury to prevent concussed players from getting pushed back on field," Glazer reported.
It's no surprise Washington's handling of RG3's injury landed on the league's radar. We'll monitor this one closely in the coming days.
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- Learn to Program (Website/Book)
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The 2014 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic Art Contest has begun and is now accepting entries from local young artists. All North Texas students in first through sixth grade are invited to participate. Art contest materials, including the illustration template, can be downloaded online here. The deadline to mail in the illustrations is Friday, October 10th. The winners are determined by a select group of judges.
"For 18 years now we have enjoyed engaging with the younger sports fans in the Metroplex through our art contest," AT&T Cotton Bowl President Rick Baker said, "We hope that art teachers from across the North Texas community will encourage their students to participate."
A total of 18 young artists comprising three age categories (first and second grade, third and fourth grade, fifth and sixth grade) will be honored at their respective schools in recognition of their winning works of art. Additionally, each winner will receive tickets to the 2015 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Throughout the holiday season, the winning artwork will be on display at AT&T Stadium. The artwork will also be featured on the 60-yard scoreboard at the stadium during the Classic on Thursday, January 1st. The illustrations not selected as winners will be used as placemats during the AT&T Cotton Bowl Big Play Luncheon.
"We want to encourage all elementary school art teachers to participate and make the AT&T Cotton Bowl Art Contest part of their classroom curriculum," Baker said. "As an incentive, not only can the young artists win tickets and great prizes, but the teachers of winning students are also rewarded for their participation."
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Game Warden Kevin Glass Named 2013 Texas Marine Officer of the Year
AUSTIN— State game warden Kevin Glass has been named the 2013 Texas Marine Officer of the Year by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Law Enforcement Division.
The award was presented to Glass by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director Carter Smith at the Thursday meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at TPWD Headquarters.
With twenty years of service and experience, Glass, stationed in Waller County, has proven himself to be an asset to Texans.
In 2012, Glass participated in more than 160 Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education training hours, including the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators Tactical Boat Operators course and the NASBLA Seated Sobriety course.
Glass is also actively involved in training his fellow game wardens, in and out of his district, in various subjects ranging from firearms to water safety. He is one of 15 trainers instructing the Seated Standard Field Sobriety Test. In addition, he is also the primary instructor for the DWI/BWI/SFST refresher course for his district and has assisted in the instruction of the SFST portion at the Texas Game Warden Academy for the last five years.
Warden Glass has arrested and filed five or more boating while intoxicated cases every year since 2009 (21 total) and has arrests for boating while intoxicated dating back to 1995. As a result of his success in the enforcement of BWI laws and many hours and late nights on the water assisting and teaching his partners, Glass is involved in nearly all BWI arrests in his district.
Year after year, Glass has been one of the leaders in his district in terms of cases filed, boat hours logged (more than 2,000 in the last four years), and training hours instructed.
In June 2011, Glass arranged a meeting with the Harris County District Attorney to discuss and demonstrate the new seated sobriety of test and invited the assistant district attorneys to ride along and witness the test being administered in the field. Harris County is the third largest county per capita in the nation and consistently leads the state in alcohol-related crashes. Since that meeting, the warden has filed five BWI cases using the Standard Seated Sobriety Test and has taught and supervised others in the district resulting in the filing of six more BWI cases utilizing this test.
In addition, Glass volunteers to patrol Harris County waterways increasing the assigned game wardens of Harris County and providing leadership, experience and motivation to detect and arrest violators of BWI as well as other penal code and Parks and Wildlife code violators.
Glass is now in the running for the Southern States Boating Law Administrators Association Marine Officer of the Year Award, which, if chosen, would make him eligible for the National Boating Safety Officer of the Year Award given by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators.
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I been bad, so sorry, life was hectic, life is hectic and occasionally intense. I have not been near you Blog and there's so much I have to say, so much that I've been meaning to say.
In the meanwhile, I will be practicing the art of public speaking over the weekend.
I'm part of some Performance Galore at an event called STOP TALKING 2 which may be like LOOK WHO'S TALKING 2 but without the breeding. Friday, November 27, 9:30pm - 11:15pm at GOOD BLOOD BAD BLOOD, 13 KENSINGTON Avenue (Kensington Market). Thinking I may talk about My Dream Bar at this event...
"But Robert, you don't drink!"
"Ha ha, true and it's all a part of...My Dream Bar..."
I hope you haven't all heard it already....
Thennn the next nite, saturday November 28th, I'll be yammering at this:
LATE all NIGHT ART PARTY!!
House of Everlasting Super Joy presents a total transformation of our space bringing the demons and deities from our minds to our walls! But not only the walls! The floors! hanging like scurvy dawgs from the ceiling!
The idea is this, the wizards of today will use any media to cast their spells, to cultivate psychic energy. Part of the future wizards job is too expand the capacity for a room full of people to generate positive orgones, thus allowing the audience to feel freer, to think positively in the face of evil, to talk to that girl youve been noticing for a few weeks.
Alexandra Mackenzie
Neelam Kler
Dimitri Karakostas
movie prop installation by exploding motor car!!
JON MCurley
Robert Dayton
Alex Coleurs
Tarp Installation by Vanessa Bee Rieger AND David Hanes
There will be refreshments, NEW ORLEANS STYLE RICE AND BEANS!
Thennnn the next nite at FEELINGS it's a return to MOODS:
Before FEELINGS was MOODS with DJ Body beautiful and Sipreano.
Then DJ Body Beautiful's co-hort Sipreano left and it all changed...but this nite is a return to MOODS with a special post-recitation mini-set by Sip!
We start after bar trivia which ends between 9:30 and 10.
Sip will pop in laaaater. He has something to take care of first.
No cover but the cover of night. Sunday. the Ossington (61 Ossington).
Then Monday the 30th is UNVEILING!!! So excited about this:
Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, 10pm (don't be late as we are rarely very tardy)
The Ossington (61 Ossington Ave., Toronto)
Free admission
Followed by a soiree/party
"Unveiling #2"
Hosts Robert Dayton, Junior, and William A. Davison dramatically unveil the latest and never-before-seen (until this very eve) creation of artist Fiona Smyth, fresh from her intensely stunning show at the INDEXG Gallery (read review here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/the-true-north-plastic-and-dyspeptic/article1336915/ )
This is exciting as Fiona is a major seen and unseen influence on the current widespread drawing front. Fiona will also be selling the second issue of her art mag THE WILDING at this event!
Then they will be auctioning off this masterpiece with minimum bid starting at just 50 dollars !!! A low price for this amazing work by this important artist...
This will be followed by a soiree/party
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY! So if you want to bid and possibly attain this never-before-seen work by a great artist, you best attend! Even if you are broke like us, you do not want to miss this opportunity of UNVEILING....
"The Unveiling" is a new series of one-night-only soirees/exhibitions, held monthly (more or less) in the back room of The Ossington Bar, which playfully reinvent a romantic and antiquated concept - that of a single artist "unveiling" their latest creation for a gathering of colleagues, collectors, critics, and cultural elite. The series is organized and hosted by local artists/curators William A. Davison and Robert Dayton and presented as part of Intervention Mondays.
"It's largely an excuse to have a party once a month. We don't take anything too seriously and we fully recognize the potential for humor in this idea. We want to emphasize the fun factor." says spokesperson and series originator Davison. Indeed, for those who know the work of either Davison or Dayton, a humorous, subversive approach is not at all unexpected. "At the same time," Davison continues, "we have a deep respect for the work we will be presenting and we feel that this series will provide a highly unique, entertaining, and engaging way for some of our favorite artists to show their recent creations."
Fiona Smyth is a Toronto based artist exploring popular and alternative cultural icons and imagery. Smyth's work probes these timely societal, sometimes intense and always relevant topics with a sense of humour, wonder and catastrophic consequence. She also employs surrealist, abstractionist, spiritual, feminist and pro-sexual strategies to achieve her unique aesthetic. Her use of media also reflects this range of interest by using different formats from which to engage her audience including comics,
illustration, painting, animation, music covers, web-based art and her fabulous murals. Smyth has exhibited in Taichung /Taiwan, Venice/ Lido, Jeollabuk-Do/ South Korea, New York City, Winnipeg and most recently The Parkdale Gyre at INDEXG in Toronto.
For upcoming gigs check www.myspace.com/fionasmyth
And I have to try to get a grant written by Tuesday...oy vey....
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Culebra is one of the last undiscovered gems of the Caribbean, a magic isle surrounded by untouched coral reefs and ringed with deserted, powdery-white beaches. It lies approximately seventeen miles east of Puerto Rico and twelve miles west of Saint Thomas. With much of its adjoining reefs protected as a wildlife preserve by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the pristine beauty awaits a selected lucky few.
This small island populated by about 2,800 friendly people is part of Puerto Rico, with easy accessibility from any part of the United States and similar currency, but without the crowds of San Juan. You will find an atmosphere of people saying hello to each other and old ways of picking up hitchhikers and leaving doors unlocked, rarely seen in other places.
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Culebra Beach Villas, a complex located directly at Flamenco Beach, is ideal for relaxing and enjoying the tranquil beauty of the Island of Culebra. Culebra Beach Villas enjoys the best location of the Island, as Flamenco Beach was recently rated second in America and five in the World
The property consists of thirty-three individually-owned units, equipped with kitchen (microwave oven, stove, fridge, coffeemaker, silverware, dinnerware and kitchen utensils) and air conditioning unit. Management provides the room with bed linen and bath towels. Each unit is prepared to accommodate a specific amount of persons, not to be exceeded at any time.
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Junk art: 'sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials as: glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood'.
Gabriel specializes in high end junk sculptures ranging from as small as a figurine to larger than six feet tall. With experience as early as mid 1990's, Gabriel has designed and created many junk sculptures.
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I am moving my blog to Myanmar Man's Diary.It has already passed the beta testing stage and now up and running. Please visit my new blog. For Myatthura.Blogspot.com, I will be updating it with the excerpt from my new posts in Myanmar Man's Diary. Another blog I was invited to contribute to is Today in Myanmar, a website about Myanmar culture, custom, information, travel advice, life and anything about Myanmar. You can also visit the new blog. So far, I am the only one who regularly contribute to this blog while other friends are still writing their articles. Thank you for your support.
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Long ago, a war between gods and demons (known as Ragnarok) erupted, and the world was thrown into a state of chaos. Asgard, overrun by demons, was on the brink of destruction. In desperation, the gods broke an ancient taboo. Sacrificing their very lives, they created black-winged reapers that came to be known as Grim Angels. Each wielding a godly weapon known as a Diviner, the angels entered battle... Through their fierce resistance, the angels brought the war to an end. The demons were sealed away, but the gods would soon follow. However, the gods were able to leave behind their power in the heavenly isle of Riviera... They entrusted this promised land to the inhabitants to watch over until their return....
One thousand years have passed since the gods demise... Signs of the demons return have brought fear to this peaceful land. Without the gods, Asgard cannot withstand another war.
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Lethal Kozák believes Lazio can go all the way
Friday 15 March 2013
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S.S. Lazio hat-trick hero Libor Kozák believes his side can go all the way to the final after seeing off VfB Stuttgart, who, Cristian Molinaro was forced to admit, were second best.
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S.S. Lazio striker Libor Kozák was delighted to take home his first match ball, and duly become the UEFA Europa League's leading scorer, after downing VfB Stuttgart with a hat-trick at the Stadio Olimpico. After seeing off their second Bundesliga opponents in the competition, and extending their European unbeaten run to 12 matches, Kozák said the Serie A side can go "all the way" to the Amsterdam final. A favourable quarter-final draw is all midfielder Ederson wants, while Stuttgart defenders Serdar Tasci and Cristian Molinaro humbly admitted they were simply no match for the Biancocelesti.
Libor Kozák, Lazio forward
This is my first hat-trick for Lazio and of course I am really happy. I am going to enjoy tonight, I am delighted for myself and my team that we have gone through. It is not like I give less in the league, I always try to give my best, even if something seems to be lacking in Serie A. Every minute I play, I try to do the same thing.
We are now into the quarter-finals and all the teams are strong, so it is going to be a great challenge for Lazio, for us and for the fans, and we will give it our best no matter who we face. I think everybody has seen how good we are and that we can make it all the way. If we have the mentality we showed today in the other games, then I think we will reach the final.
Ederson, Lazio midfielder
We controlled the game well, found a quick goal and that gave us a lot more confidence to dominate. We did not just want to sit back and see what happened, we tried to attack, to score and to cause them problems, which we did, and now tomorrow we hope to get a favourable draw to see if we can go even further.
This was a first for me, playing behind closed doors. It was difficult because we are used to having the fans pushing us, and that motivates you. It was really strange but we put that to one side and concentrated on the game and that was more important. We played two good games and took them seriously. They are a good team and they caused us problems.
Serdar Tasci, Stuttgart defender
You could say it was their effectiveness which made the difference. We played a decent first leg, but we conceded cheap goals and did not take our chances so it is obviously hard then to get anything from the second leg. We have come a long way in the Europa League and I do not think many people really expected us to get this far. We started very early in the play-offs against Dinamo Moskva, then we came through the group and then beat Genk.
It was a great experience for us and it will help us, because we have been able to measure ourselves against good teams and now we have to ensure we give it our best in the Bundesliga. If we want to get back into the Europa League, then our best chance will be via the cup. We play SC Freiburg at home [in the semi-finals] and they are having a strong season, but we will see – that would be the ideal way back.
Cristian Molinaro, Stuttgart defender
We came into the game after a 2-0 first-leg defeat, where we played badly, and we came here intent on putting Lazio under pressure immediately. But after going 1-0 down – when we were caught napping – the game went downhill from there. They are excellent in possession and it was easy for them to make it 2-0 on the counter. Lazio were far better, there is no doubt about that. Kozák scored three goals like a pure striker should – all three were beautiful goals, and credit to his team-mates who set him up – and he was ready.
Maybe we could have done better with our early chances in Stuttgart, where we also made a mistake for the opening goal, and when you miss chances like that it becomes really difficult. They can then close things up and you struggle to break them down. It has hardly been a good period for us of late and this does not help. We were not on a par with Lazio, but now we have to roll up our sleeves in the Bundesliga, where we have dropped into the bottom half, and climb back up again.


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Palestinian center names football tournament after first Palestinian female suicide bomber
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Mar. 8, 2011
Palestinian youth center names football tournament after first Palestinian female suicide bomber Wafa Idris
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The Al-Amari Palestinian youth center has announced a football tournament for youth
to be held later this week, named after the first Palestinian female suicide bomber Wafa Idris.
The Al-Amari youth center's website displays its logo with UNRWA's name in the center. On the home page, just below the logo and bordered in red, is the announcement of the Wafa Idris tournament.
(After publication of this item UNRWA spokesman called PMW and insisted that they are no longer involved in this youth center and not responsible for the naming of the event after the terrorist.)
Wafa Idris was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She blew herself up in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring more than 100 on Jan. 27, 2002. As a volunteer for the Palestinian Red Crescent, she was able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem in a Palestinian ambulance. Since her bombing, Israel has been forced to delay Palestinian ambulances entering Jerusalem at security check points.
The PA has repeatedly presented Wafa Idris as a hero and role model, naming places and events after her, including a summer camp for youth funded by UNICEF, a Fatah women's military unit, a university students group for Fatah members, a Fatah course, and more. There have been public demonstrations and songs on PA TV to honor her. See listing and video below.
The following is the announcement of the Wafa Idris Tournament in the official PA daily:
Headline: "Al-Amari plans to launch the '
(Martyr) of Honor, Wafa Idris' youth tournament."
"The administration of the Al-Amari youth center has announced its plans to launch a youth tournament (for 19-year-olds) to be named '
(Martyr) of Honor, Wafa Idris [tournament].' The Al-Am'ari administration is maintaining contacts with the Palestinian Football Association for permission. [The tournament] will commence on March 10. Twelve teams will be participating."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
, March 6, 2011]
The Palestinian Authority and Fatah have honored Wafa Idris in numerous ways since her bombing:
Summer camp funded by UNICEF named after Wafa Idris:
"Yesterday, activities ended in the camp named after the
[Martyr for Allah] Wafa Idris, for girls in the city of Kalkiliya. The camp was founded by the Scout general administration in the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The camp was under the supervision of the Scouts in the Kalkiliya Administration and about 100 girls from the organizing committee of the city's Scouts participated... [At the closing ceremonies thanks were given including] to UNICEF for its support of the camps."
, July 18, 2003]
Fatah names women's terror unit for attacking Israeli civilians after Wafa Idris:
"Senior officials in the Fatah Movement have said that the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades... has recently created a women's brigade, in order for women to take an active part in the war being fought in the Palestinian areas. The purpose of this brigade is to carry out attacks on the Israeli home front. The unit has been named 'the brigade in honor of the Martyr Wafa Idris.'"
, March 1, 2002]
Fatah students' group named after Wafa Idris has course in democracy and human rights:
"The students' committee of the Shabiba [Fatah] student movement, the Shahida Wafa Idris cell in the Al-Quds Open University in Tubass, celebrated yesterday the completion of a course in democracy and human rights.
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
, Aug. 11, 2002]
Fatah named women's course after Wafa Idris:
"... the General Security Forces held a graduation ceremony for the Shahida (Martyr) Wafa Idris course, for training Fatah women cadres, organized by the Commission in cooperation with the General Union of Women and the Public Relations Department in the Jenin District."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
(Fatah), July 3, 2005]
PA TV regularly broadcast a video honoring Idris in the years following her terror attack:
"My sister Wafa, my sister Wafa
Oh the heartbeat of pride,
Oh blossom who was on earth and is now in Heaven.
Allahu Akbar! [Allah is greater]
Oh Palestine of the Arabs,
Allahu Akbar, Oh Wafa!
But you chose Shahada [Martyrdom]
In death you have brought life to the aspiration
But you chose Shahada
In death you have brought life to the aspiration."
[PA TV (Fatah), first broadcast May 2002]
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Immediately following the suicide bombing, the Palestinian Authority held a memorial demonstration in her honor. A photograph of this demonstration appeared in a Palestinian daily, featuring posters bearing her picture with the following caption:
"The Fatah Movement, Ramallah branch, Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, eulogize with great pride the heroic Martyr, of the Al-Amari Refugee Camp, the Martyr Wafa Idris."
The demonstrators waving these posters are young girls, perhaps first-graders.
, February 1, 2002]
Fatah video honors Wafa Idris
This picture of Wafa Idris with the text "The
(Martyr) Wafa Ali Idris" appeared in a PA TV music video, which blends scenes and pictures paying tribute to the PLO, Fatah, Yasser Arafat and PA and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas.
[PA TV (Fatah), Dec. 31, 2009]
Among the many articles of praise for Wafa Idris:
"Raviha Diyav, member of the administrative staff of the Palestinian Women Union emphasized that the participation of [Wafa] Idris in the attack shows the determination and the resolve of the Palestinian woman to participate as full partners in the national struggle, alongside her brothers."
, Feb. 1, 2002]
"Recently, the heroine Wafa Idris succeeded in carrying out the bombing in Jerusalem, and subsequently, the Martyr Da'arin Abu Asiyah [carried out a suicide bombing at a roadblock]. These actions... attest to the Palestinian woman's capability to perform successful actions."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
, March 11, 2002]
Attaf Yussuf, a columnist in the media supplement The Women's Voice, wrote after Idris's bombing:
"Palestinian women desire to participate alongside the men in all aspects of the struggle."
, March 1, 2002)]
"She [Idris] represents the major role of the Palestinian woman in the national struggle... Zaad Abu Ayin, a member of the high-ranking Movement Committee of Fatah, delivered a speech in which he praised the heroism of Idris, as a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which belongs to the Fatah Movement."
Feb. 1, 2002]
From the internet about the UNRWA youth center:
"Al-Amari youth center was established in 1953. Since its creation the center has been a subsidiary to the UNRWA youth club centers system. The center is located at Al-Amari refugee camp within Ramallah & Al-Bireh Municipality area."
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