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A nourishing story of forgiveness, mercy, and redemption. Yes, StoryCorps does it again.
Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier. But, instead of clinging to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the other side — Israeli and Palestinian — by sharing their pain and their humanity. They tell of a gathering network of survivors who share their grief, their stories of loved ones, and their ideas for lasting peace. They don't want to be right; they want to be honest.
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Awwad is a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank. He is a spokesman and project manager for the Parents Circle - Families Forum.
Damelin is an Israeli who lives in Tel Aviv. She speaks with community groups about her experiences as part of the Parents Circle - Families Forum.
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Watch complete, behind-the-scenes footage of Krista's interview with Robi and Ali during a restorative justice conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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This documentary takes a direct, honest approach that lacks the sugar-coated enamel of many peacekeeping portrayals. Through the participants of the Bereaved Families Forum you experience the difficult dialogue taking place between Palestinians and Israelis, cry, and find hope in the possibility of common people reaching out and changing the situation by sharing their stories with each other.
This documentary takes a direct, honest approach that lacks the sugar-coated enamel of many peacekeeping portrayals. Through the participants of the Bereaved Families Forum you experience the difficult dialogue taking place between Palestinians and Israelis, cry, and find hope in the possibility of common people reaching out and changing the situation by sharing their stories with each other.
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The moving letter Robi Damelin wrote to the mother of the Palestinian man who killed her son.
Robi Damelin shares the path she chose after losing "my precious son" with his killer in this poignant letter.
"Let us look into each other's eyes and recognize each other's pain with empathy; let us see the human being behind the green and the blue. Let us force all to come to the table and not to a grave to talk."
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Need to reflect on just who isn't coming into these "dialogic" processes, but does in fact send themselves via their money into the middle of this conflict? I admire the people in the video story. I have heard them before on Democracy Now. There work is powerful and needed by the people on the ground, but the real perpetrators of these crimes never get dragged into these kinds of open dialogic processes, nor into the light of day for all of history to see. Those processes are needed on the ground so that life can go on between ordinary people who were all exploited and abused by rulers on all sides of this conflict, including right-wing extremists from the US and other places who seed this conflict from many directions. But what is also needed are constitutional reforms which limit the power of the few to seed and benefit from conflict and war, and treat "created equal" citizens as their personal pawns and fodder for war machines. That in addition to dialogic and peaceful processes of understanding will be a real contribution for this educated and enlightened generation to contribute to posterity. We need to get to the bottom of the money flows that keep this conflict so raw. There is big money that builds settlements, seeds extremist religious education on both sides of this conflict, supports population control and social engineering by seeing religious communities to change the voting balance. Very ironic that terrorism is blamed on extremist Muslims on this planet today, but who really funded the extremist movement in Wahabbist Madrassas for decades? That would be the Saudi Royal family for anyone not familiar. The same goes with right-wing religious education groups everywhere including Israel and Palestine. Growing their extremism serves someone, and we had better start figuring out and fingering just who those people are. History if full of examples of Kings seeding conflicts between subjects to deflect from their own failings, and to make money from war or providing "security" to anxious subjects they themselves had a hand in making anxious. Israel's politics are as divided and divisive as those in the US, and many of the same money forces are behind these conflicts there and here. Just who is being served by this on-going continuing conflict whose secretive influence and power could have let to the set-up for failure of peace processes many were led to invest hope into? And what kind of prerogatives by ruling elites are maintained, furtively, by our "constitutional democracies"? Well, they are constitutional, but constitutions change and evolve with times. The US constitution once supported slavery, jim crow and kept mothers and grandmothers from voting, and since the 1970s it supports the prerogatives of a few with power and money to own media empires to propagandize and mislead ordinary citizens into voting against their own best interests. The US Supreme Court tacitly approves of divisive propaganda and scapegoating in FCC licensed media. We know what Presidents made these appointments, and what social classes benefit from the stalemate and permanent regressive taxation regime that only exacerbates economic hardships in the heartland of the US where is rising the most rage, anger, resentment, scapegoating and anti-state/separatist movements. The Israeli constitution may also have its own problems because right-wing forces and foreign influencers certainly seem to have the upper hand there, as they do here now with Citizen's United vs Federal Board of Elections to propagandize minds of ordinary, systematically propagandized, disinformed, manipulated, and increasingly anxious, but otherwise "created equal" citizens. Benoit de Spinoza said our "social constructions" were how we express our divinity. Now is the time for us to express this divinity more through reforms to social constructions. We need new constitutional reforms to take a way the prerogative of military industrial and financial ruling elites from seeding and perpetuating military crises that enrich themselves forever at the expense of taxpayers and ordinary families who just want peace and real prosperity, not the kind artificially created by war economies. Notice Europe has not had an internal war for 70 years because the constitutional reforms enacted there after WWII explicitly limit the power of monarchs, aristocrats and military industrialists to make war as had been their sole way of making wealth since the Roman Empire. EU seems to have much more robust democracies and equitable distribution of national wealth and future opportunity than does the US right now. We need to continue deep insight into this conflict. And every other, since upon deep reflection they almost all reflect similar circumstances.
I haven't had a conflict in my life as serious and deadly as what is going on between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea but if I do this program will help me solve it. Rather than attacking the other and defending the self, both Robi and Ali seem to be looking towards the desired end result - peace. There's a line in a Jewish prayer "Lord grant us peace, Thy most precious gift". I hear both Robi and Ali praying for peace. I hope they, and we, can all have peace. I think this program itself is working towards that outcome.
Personally, I feel that we can conquer "most" conflicts through the development of embodied relationships. By this, I mean that we get to know the other person in a fundamental way whereby we learn (through a great deal of grace & humility) to honor the dignity of the person or; as I would like to put it - we discover the soul beneath the surface.
I live in the midwest (Kansas) where there are very few opportunities to engage and befriend Jewish people even though I have developed an increasing interest in their faith tradition (I, myself am Roman Catholic). At a very simple level, I have decided to be pro-active about forming my own inter-religious dialogue with Judaism. I am doing this by learning Hebrew, reading anything I can get my hands on, and participating in some events at a Synagogue in Kansas City, MO. I don't have to go to Israel or hold a summit, or pray at the wailing wall - all I have to do is "actively" listen to their stories by putting aside my agenda and just being present or just "showing up".
In the film, Ghandi, I remember the scene where Ghandi tells a Hindu penitent (who is seeking forgiveness for killing a Muslim) that in order for the sin to be purged, Ghandi tells the Hindu to go and take care of the murdered man's children. It was a powerful lesson to learn and hints at the true "cost of discipleship" that Bonhoeffer spoke of.
In closing, I would like to offer a poem I wrote whilst thinking of all the "conflict" in the Middle East. The figure of Abraham as the father of both Judaism and Islam was the inspiration for this meditation of mine. You may print it if you like or just enjoy it.
Rick Folker, MASM
Kansas City, MO
Abram's Broken Dream
Rick Folker
His withered hand sifts through the sand,
While he sleeps…
His only bed now,
These rough, coarse grains
For this lonely, haunted Abraham.
And yet he dreams…
"My descendants are like
stars that have fallen upon a land of
Broken promises and endless hates...
Two sons; two nations
Two faiths."
And yet only one endless earthquake.
Something causes him to wake
some voices whispering and pleading;
"Remember Isaac, Remember the Knife?"
"No please - Remember your people, remember your wife."
Lillith-like women laughing,
they torment him unceasingly…
"Go ahead and choose - choose death or choose life!"
In his sleeping, his waking -
The searing sun his only cover
All alone with his stars and his sands -
He waits …
He waits and hopes
And prays to wake
In the hot Arab sun Isaac and Ishmael from afar
Phantoms who vanish
reaching, fighting, arguing for their star.
"Why have you left us bereft of
your dream,
your wish of shalom
Sinking and stinking
Of broken promises
A father who will live through the ages
Whilst Arabs and Jews live through
The wars where broken hearts give birth to newly-found hatreds
Always sleeping and dreaming father
Whilst your sons must be leaving and longing and looking….
And waking
My ex-husband was dying of cancer. He could no longer care for our teenaged sons, so I was preparing to take them. However, I could not find a house to rent that I could afford. I looked at 13 places. Then I had a dream. The dream image reminded me of an incident 17 years previous: a mutual acquaintance called my husband a "pride-filled son of a bitch" for not listening to an old man tell him how to repair his truck. On pondering that event, I asked myself how I was being a "pride-filled son of a bitch." Immediately I saw how tightly I was holding on to bitterness, hatred and resentment toward my ex-husband. I had not seen that. I thought all the crap was on his side. I knew, again, immediately, that I could not live like that. That evening I invited him to live with us. He accepted, very gladly. The last seven months of his life were not easy. But we became friends. I especially felt, for the first time, that he listened to me. Of course, he had cancer of the mouth, and couldn't talk much! His heart, though, both of our hearts -- had softened and opened to each other. It was clear that we weren't married again. But it was a blessing for us both, a huge one, to spend that time together. It led to a several miracles for me: After he died, I joined his church, which had supported us in very practical ways. Then, I was led into ministry in that church and now serve my own church. Our three children witnessed our reconciliation. And, the biggest miracle, I no longer had to carry the acid of all that bitterness around with me. I was a bigger person, with a bigger heart.
Thank you for doing this show! I have a sister who will not forgive me or have anything to do with me. For over 18 years she has disowned me. I can't change her feelings or her choice. I hope and pray that I will always forgive because it's so incredibly painful and isolating to be unforgiven.
I write prayers. My approach to "A Prayer for Peace in the Middle East" was influenced by the passion and wisdom of Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad that come through in your interview, as well as a memory -- provoked by a photo on Facebook -- of a Palestinian man, a friend of my youth whom I'd long forgotten.
Please take a moment to read and listen to the prayer at www.tobendlight.com or www.kavanat-or.com. Another prayer on that site that holds profound significance for me is "For Bereaved Children." It's quite special. I recommend it, as well.
Thank you for your work,
For Peace in the Middle East
Sons of Abraham,
Sons of Hagar and Sarah,
Of Isaac and Ishmael:
Have you forgotten the day we buried our father?
Have you forgotten the day we carried his dead body into the cave near Hebron?
Have you forgotten the day we entered the darkness of Machpaelah to lay our Patriarch to rest?
Sons of Esau and Jacob:
Have you forgotten the day we made peace?
The day we set aside past injustices and deep wounds to lay down our weapons and live?
Or the day we, too, buried our father? Have you forgotten that we took Isaac's corpse into that humble cave to place him with his father for eternity?
Brother, I don't remember crying with you.
Sister, I don't remember mourning with you.
We should have cried the tears of generations.
We should have cried the tears of centuries,
The tears of fatherless sons
And motherless daughters,
So that we would remember in our flesh that we are one people,
From one father on earth and one Creator in heaven,
Divided only by time and history.
One G-d,
My brother calls you Allah.
My sister calls you Adonai.
You speak to some through Moses.
You speak to some through Mohammed.
We are one family, cousins and kin.
Holy One,
Light of truth,
Source of wisdom and strength,
In the name of our fathers and mothers,
In the name of justice and peace,
Help us to remember our history,
To mourn our losses together,
So that we may,
Once more,
Lay down our weapons and live.
G-d of All Being,
Bring peace and justice to the land,
And joy to our hearts.
First of all, I was floored by these two and their ability to see past their losses and use it to help others. I cannot imagine losing a loved one so irrationally and so needlessly because of religious conflict, but to take this pain and use it for the greater good is so amazing to me! It is also great for both of them to recognize that even though they are considered "enemies" to each other, each of them are human and each of them share a lot of the same pain. And the fact that they could laugh and joke together and are actually friends is just so great, it shows that with effort anyone can see past their differences and learn from one-another. Maybe someday this could spread throughout the world and we won't have to wage these wars anymore.
There are many irreconcilable conflicts in my personal life that I should look past -I suppose I've focused my energy into hating these people instead of moving on from it. I think I could take a hint from these two amazing people and see that if I turned around my anger and focused on making things better, my life could be so much better from it.
Putting differences aside was certainly emphasized in this broadcast. Ali was quite passionate towards this concept in the beginning of the broadcast. I agree that the "taking sides" between these groups is only leading to more conflict with no hopes of ending the on-going war. I find it interesting that religous beliefs can fuel such violent acts. Is it right to kill in the name of religion?
I can relate to such situations that experienced everyday in life. Particularily prejudice amongst ethincs in public schools. It's rather easy to feel the tension amongst ethnic groups with varying beliefs in religion and cultural values. I have found that it is often a good tactic to stay quiet around those with whom you don't agree with. I have come to learn that everybody will never agree with all of my beliefs and values. Differences will always be present among different people, and coming to terms with this is essential to living a peaceful life. On the other hand, I believe it is these differences that give the world such a rich diversity and culture. This variety can be beautiful, and also dangerous.
This interview was so
This interview was so beautiful. It reflects many principles taught in the simple book "Anatomy of Peace" by the Arbinger Institute. Thank you
The following comment was
The following comment was added to an episode of Tom Ashbrook's On Point titled Artificial Intelligence. The comment was inspired from the agitation of turning the discussion into a dichotomy of man versus computer. Hopefully the On Being readers will find association to these thoughts, this program about taking sides, and the divisiveness of only seeing two options of an argument.
Dichotomy is artificial. It's likely the binary nature of the computer is transforming human intelligence instead of human intelligence transforming computers. Dichotomy is not how the human neural network works. Synaptic connectivity is more complex than ones and zeros. Dichotomy discounts the grey matter. It gets stuck in an endless loop of polarization; good vs. evil, winners and losers, or man vs. computer.
Instead of fearing how the computer will overtake man's ability, why not focus on how the synaptic process can scale beyond an individual and help many discover the mutual inclusion within a solution?
Our current economic model is based on building more wealth with less human effort. Why not flip that model? How can we utilize more people to figure out how to use less energy and consume fewer resources? How can humanity's neural network be utilized to do good? It's not an either/or argument. It's not all or nothing. It's in the grey matter.
Maybe it's time to switch from artificial intelligence to real intelligence or let loose of this hold on the false dichotomy of a binary computer.
Your Sunday morning program
Your Sunday morning program is the only homily I need.
Thank you Krista.
A brilliant, deeply moving
A brilliant, deeply moving program for Americans like me who share intimate personal and family allegiance to Israel from World War and MidEast heroism history, and the most intractable dream of peace.
as much as this relationship
as much as this relationship and its goals are to be admired and promoted, unfortunately by excluding religion from the conversation limits the effects. There is a major part of the conflict which is not about land or nation but rather religion. These individuals do not address or represent this. We need to bring religion with tolerance and "dignity of difference" as Rabbi J. Sacks calls it to make lasting headways. However any conversation is beneficial and important. I commend and thank them both for this.
I'm so glad I decided to
I'm so glad I decided to listen to the "No More Taking Sides" broadcast. I think there is so much all of us can learn from these two incredible people.
After dealing with seeing your mother swallowing plastic to deliver a message and seeing her in prison frequently, Ali almost had a right to become bitter. After losing his brother, Ali said he contemplated killing Israelis to make himself feel better. That's how the cycle of violence continues. Instead, he chose to think of others' pain he might cause and he "saw the other side". Those words were pretty powerful to me. He didn't just deal with his pain; he used it.
Robi doesn't sound bitter either as she talks about her son and the way he really was. She said it has to be a conscious decision to remain alive after losing a child. As a mother, I think losing a child would probably be the hardest thing one could ever imagine. Robi decided she could be more effective in Parent Circle than anywhere else in the world.
Robi and Ali are amazing people. We can all learn so much from them and how they have dealt with their pain and tried to stop the violence rather than contributing to it. They said the governments aren't stopping the violence, but people can by having truthful dialogue with personal narrative. Their statements have a lot of wisdom behind them. Another one is that we shouldn't use religion as an excuse. When Ali talked about David (Robi's son) telling him "Take care of my mother", I got chills. These people have really grown to love and care for each other and you can hear it in their voices.
Kudos to you! Its so much
Kudos to you! Its so much harder to hate when we know each other.
This On Being podcast is the
This On Being podcast is the most powerful and emotional one that I have heard so far in this semester. It is about two people who lost their loved ones in the war. But instead of turning their pain into more violence, they decided to understand the other side — Israeli and Palestinian — by sharing their pain and their humanity. Robi Damelin lost her son David, and Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef.
To Ali Abu Awwad, his brother was like his best friend, his father, and his mother. Yousef was killed by an Israeli soldier who shot him in his head. He had nothing to do with the hostilities but was still killed. I can imagine how hard it was for Awwad to hear the news about his loving brother's death. There's one thing that was very touching to me, he said, "We — it's a very special life with Yusef. So at that moment, Yusef, for me, was another life, and I lost that." A very great point was made by Awwad was that killing other Israelis doesn't do anything good. It doesn't ease the pain of losing his brother, and it certainly won't bring Yousef back. Instead of becoming hateful and seeking vengeance, he decided to live better for his brother's memory. He was introduced to a new idea of using this pain in a human way to protect people and lead both nations towards nonviolent.
The same thing happened to Robi Damelin. She lost her wonderful son and was very depressed about it. But when she saw the parents or the family members of her country's enemy were also in great pain, she realized that she should use this pain to stop the violent and prevent more families from experiencing the same tragedy.
It was very touching to me to hear these stories and it was very inspiring to me that we can use our humanity in a way to stop wars and violence and bring peace to this world.
I think they're both
I think they're both remarkable, Ali more so because Palestinians are enduring far worse daily suffering in Palestine than Israelis living in Israel or Jews living abroad. My deep empathy/allegiance with the underdog is perhaps keeping me away from believing that Robi's suffering is equal to Ali's - yes, the humanity shared in all suffering and emotions is there, but the systematic degradation of human dignity that Palestinians suffer everyday, cannot be equal to living in Israel as a Jew. Surely, how can the Palestinians be expected to rise above this without the resources such as the world's Jewry enjoy?
Did you listen to this
Did you listen to this podcast before commenting? If so, you have missed the point of what they are saying.
I am Israeli who experienced
I am Israeli who experienced the pain and suffering of this conflict, and I am so moved by the honest love and communication between Robi and Al. Thank you for sharing your story and thank you Robi to remind us NOT to choose a side. I am sharing the passion for peace with you as I too sharing my message in my published book Walking in The footsteps of the Masters and my upcoming memoir
Thank you Robi, Thank You Al.
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Due to the weather, Adam Gidwitz has been postponed to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 6:30 IN THE GALLERY.
N Y Times bestselling author of the Grimm series, Adam Gidwitz, joins us at the Library on Tuesday, December 10. He will be presenting the final book in the series, The Grimm Conclusion. The series has been very popular with readers in grades 4-7 with its gorey reinterpretations of classic fairytales. Interested readers and their parents are invited to come to the presentation and stay to meet Mr. Gidwitz at the reception afterward.
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Third Buffalo man charged in city drug investigation
Another Buffalo man has been charged following an investigation into drugs in the city of Dunkirk.
Steven D. Douglas, 25, of Buffalo was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance on Monday by Dunkirk Police.
Douglas is the third Buffalo resident arrested in the last week for selling crack cocaine in the city.
A secret Chautauqua County Grand Jury had issued an arrest warrant after the grand jury heard the case brought by the County District Attorney's Office based on information from the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force.
It is alleged that Douglas has sold quantities of crack cocaine to agents of the task force on numerous occasions in the city.
This culminates a three-month investigation into the sale of crack cocaine in the city.
Douglas was taken to the City of Dunkirk Jail, then transported to the Chautauqua County Jail where is being held pending arraignment.
Additional arrests are anticipated and the investigation is continuing.
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Human Risk Of DDT Is Almost Infinitesimal
To The Reader's Forum:
I'm surprised that Tom Erlandson would write some of the things he did in the May 26 Readers' Forum (Voice of the People Should Be Heard). If I may paraphrase him, he seems to be saying: Rachel Carson was right. DDT is bad, therefore fracking is bad now and the people are right to abhor it.
I'll grant that DDT is bad for birds and non-target insects (which Tom didn't mention) and it leaves long term residues in the environment. But the human risk of DDT, and most other modern pesticides, is almost infinitesimal compared to many of the insecticides they replaced. Examples would include nicotine sulfate and lead arsenate. I knew a man who, in early tests, ate a tablespoonful of pure DDT every day for a month with no apparent immediate or delayed effects. The man who applied DDT spray to our barn liked to make a show of drinking a cupped handful from the tank at every stop. He had a normal life span and health.
Houseflies are the worst pest on a dairy farm. Before DDT we used ultra-safe pyrethrum in oil spray. It killed only the flies it actually hit and it had no residual effectiveness. When DDT appeared, suddenly there were practically no flies in the barn for weeks.
DDT was used on crops and in many other applications. It and subsequent modern pesticides made enormous gains in yield, purity, and quality of food possible and helped keep food prices low. There was speculation about the extinction of the house fly and there was a large scale world program for eradication of malaria, both based on DDT. Like nearly every other blessing, this blessing was inherently mixed. The black and white good Rachel Carson vs bad chemical companies; the them vs us is propaganda and politics, not science.
DDT is a chlorinated hydrocarbon. There are no chlorinated hydrocarbons in fracking fluid. Drawing any connection between the two is low grade non sequtur deception. I often have to laugh at "the people" superstitiously mumbling in horror about "chemicals" when they have absolutely no idea what a chemical even is. Tom knows as well as I do that "the people" almost never act on the basis of scientific information or logic and nearly always on the basis of emotion and ignorance, and above all fad and conformity. That indictment includes liberal contributors to environmental organizations.
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The next table lists the technical specs of the tested notebook in comparison with its opponent ASUS A6Rp:
Test Methods
The notebook's hard drive was formatted in NTFS before the tests. Then we installed Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 with DirectX 9.0c, system drivers (from the included disc), and Windows Media Encoder 9.0 with Windows Media Player 9.0. We also installed Windows Media Player 10.0 for such tests as PCMark 2005.
The following settings were used for the tests:
- Power-saving services – Off
- Audio subsystem – Off
- Network services – Off
- Maximum screen brightness
- Maximum display resolution (1280x800)
- Windows Taskbar is Unlocked
- Windows Taskbar hides automatically
- Classic Desktop theme
- No background image on the Desktop
- No screensaver
- Low security level
- Pop-ups blocking disabled
There were two exceptions: we returned to the Windows XP desktop theme for PCMark 2005 since the program required that. And for SYSMark 2004 SE to work normally, we had to roll each parameter back to its default (as they are set right after you install Windows).
Two power modes were used. First, we selected the Always On power mode for maximum performance and the shortest battery life. Then we switched to the Max Battery mode for the maximum battery run-down time.
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- Performance benchmarks: synthetic (SiSoftware Sandra 2005, SiSoftware Sandra 2007, PCMark 2004 1.3.0, PCMark 2005 1.2.0), office and multimedia (SYSMark 2004 SE, Business Winstone 2004, Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004), and games (3DMark 2001SE Pro, 3DMark 2003 3.6.0, 3DMark 2005 1.2.0, 3DMark 2006 1.1.0, Quake 3, Quake 4, Unreal Tournament 2003)
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- Classic (the system is under a high and evenly distributed load)
- Reader's test (the pages are browsed through each 15 seconds)
- Idle mode
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Want to learn how mead is made, the significance of that amazing Game of Thrones opening title sequence, and what medieval life would've really been like for a dwarf like Tyrion Lannister?
For its Game of Thrones Day this Saturday, Ohio State's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is examining the Game of Thrones HBO series and George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels through academic panels, kitchen demonstrations, dance performances, arts and crafts presentations, combat demonstrations and other activities that will fill much of the lower level of the Ohio Union from 9:30 to 6.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is the first in what CMRS intends to be a yearly series of events that will examine modern pop-culture phenomena "with attention to their profound and wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts."
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For the lip.... if the body is still wet enouigh, add a coil of clay and form it into the thickened flange.
Do you have a banding wheel yet? (A kitchen lazy susan can double for this.)
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The federal government spent over $1 billion to conduct more than 2 million personnel background investigations for government employees in fiscal year 2011. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) conducts the majority of these investigations for federal agencies including the Department of Defense (DOD). DOD requests more investigations from OPM than any other federal agency and received over 788,000 background investigations that cost over $787 million in fiscal year 2011. Agencies use electronic case management systems to identify employees who need investigations and monitor the status of investigations. In addition, agencies use electronic adjudication systems to store records of the decisions that officials make based on investigations, such as whether an applicant is suitable for federal employment, and in some cases, whether the applicant is eligible for a security clearance, enabling him or her to access classified information.
In light of long-standing delays in completing these processes and other concerns, Congress set objectives and established requirements for improving aspects of the personnel security clearance process in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.[1] Among other things, the act established requirements for reciprocityan agencys acceptance of a background investigation or clearance determination completed by any authorized investigative or adjudicative agency, subject to certain exceptions. When agencies do not reciprocally accept a background investigation or clearance determination completed by another agency, government resources may be used inefficiently to conduct duplicative investigations and adjudications. To meet the objectives laid out in the act and oversee reforms of the employment suitability and security clearance eligibility processes, DOD and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence established the Joint Security Clearance Process Reform Team (Joint Reform Team) in 2007. In 2008, the President issued an executive order[2] to ensure an efficient, practical, reciprocal, and aligned system for the suitability and security processes, among other things. The order (1) established a Suitability and Security Clearance Performance Accountability Council, which is accountable to the President to achieve the goals of reform (2) designated the Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the chair of the Council; and (3) outlined the responsibilities of the Council, which include establishing requirements for enterprise information technology. Since 2008, the Joint Reform Team under the guidance of the Performance Accountability Council has encouraged agencies to automate their paper-based case management and adjudication systems by using electronic systems.[3]
[1]Pub. L. No. 108-458 (2004) (codified at 50 U.S.C. § 435b).
[2]Exec. Order No. 13467, Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information (June 30, 2008).
[3]The Performance Accountability Council is currently comprised of representatives from 11 executive branch agencies, including DOD and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Multiple agencies have invested in or are beginning to invest in potentially duplicative, electronic case management and adjudication systems despite governmentwide reform effort goals that agencies leverage existing technologies to reduce duplication and enhance reciprocity. The governmentwide reform effort, led by the Performance Accountability Council, has resulted in progress in reducing delays in the amounts of time needed to conduct investigations and adjudicate clearances. Additionally, the Joint Reform Team, under the Performance Accountability Councils leadership, set as a goal in its information technology strategy that agencies will leverage existing systems to reduce duplication and enhance reciprocity.
However, of the agencies that GAO reviewed, GAO found that since 2007 three agenciesDOD, the Department of Justice (Justice), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have each developed and implemented their own electronic systems for case management and adjudication. In addition, GAO identified three other agenciesthe National Reconnaissance Office,[1] the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of the Treasurythat are beginning to invest in new systems that may duplicate the systems that DOD, Justice, and DHS have already implemented. Moreover, OPM officials told GAO that OPM plans to develop a new electronic case management and adjudication system. See the table below for the agencies GAO identified that have developed or are planning to develop their own electronic systems for case management and adjudication and the amounts those agencies have invested as of fiscal year 2011.
Agency Investments in Electronic Systems That Have Potentially Duplicative Capabilities for Case Management and Adjudication
Investment as of FY11
Department of Defense
$32 million
Department of Justice
15 million
Department of Homeland Security
6.5 million
National Reconnaissance Office
In development
6.8 million
Department of Veterans Affairs
In development
Department of the Treasury
In development
Office of Personnel Management
Source: GAO.
aAccording to officials at the Department of the Treasury, the agency seeks $300,000 to fund its system.
According to DOD officials, DOD has intended to share the technology for its case management and adjudication system with other agencies since it developed its system. According to Department of Energy officials, the agency piloted a part of DODs system in 2010 and it is still considering whether to implement it. In addition, DOD officials told GAO that the Social Security Administration plans to use DODs system. DOD officials estimate that to implement the DOD system, agencies would need to invest approximately $300,000, in addition to any expenses agencies could incur if they chose to customize DODs system to meet specific needs. Furthermore, DOD officials estimate that agencies may need to spend approximately $100,000 per year for long-term support and maintenance of the system. Likewise, OPM officials told GAO that OPM plans to share the technology for any case management and adjudication system that it develops with the agencies that request investigations from OPM.
However, the Performance Accountability Council has not developed specific governmentwide guidance regarding how agencies should leverage existing technologies to prevent agencies from making duplicative investments in electronic case management and adjudication systems. As a result, individual agencies can decide to develop their own new systems without evaluating whether utilizing an existing system would be a more cost-effective approach. Since it was established, the Performance Accountability Council and the Joint Reform Team have issued several reports detailing reform-related plans, including a Strategic Framework in February 2010. The Strategic Framework established goals, performance measures, roles and responsibilities, and proposed metrics for determining the quality of security clearance investigations and adjudications. However, the Council did not include specific guidance in the Strategic Framework about how agencies might leverage existing technologies. Without specific guidance regarding how agencies should leverage existing technologies, agencies may miss opportunities to avoid duplicative investments in electronic systems for case management and adjudication.
[1]While the National Reconnaissance Office is an agency within DOD, it is beginning to invest in an electronic system distinct from DODs system.
GAO recommended in February 2012 that OMBs Deputy Director for Management, in his capacity as Chair of the Performance Accountability Council, should
The federal government may realize multiple potential benefits from taking the actions GAO describes, including improved reciprocity and cost savings by preventing duplication of investments in electronic systems. Agencies that operate the same electronic systems for case management and adjudication may be able to share records of personnel background investigations with one another more easily, which may improve reciprocity and result in cost savings by using existing investigations rather than paying for new ones to be conducted.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the products listed in the related GAO products listed below. GAO selected agencies to review that meet a combination of one or more of the following criteria: (1) utilizes OPM to conduct most of its security clearance investigations for civilians, military, and industrial (contractor) personnel; (2) ranks among OPMs top 10 largest investigation customers, by volume and/or by total expenditures in fiscal year 2010; and (3) is a member of the Performance Accountability Council. GAO also reviewed selected additional agencies that are developing or planning to develop an electronic system for case management and adjudication. GAO then interviewed knowledgeable officials at each of these agencies about the status of and their plans for investments in electronic systems for case management and adjudication.
GAO provided a draft of its February 2012 report to OMB for review and comment. OMB agreed with GAOs recommendation that OMB develop additional guidance to help ensure that reform stakeholders identify opportunities for preventing duplication in the development of electronic case management and adjudication technologies in the suitability determination and personnel security clearance processes. As part of its routine audit work, GAO will track the extent to which progress has been made to address the identified actions and report to Congress.
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SARANAC LAKE – The Saranac Lake boys basketball team came up just short Thursday night in a 47-45 Champlain Valley Athletice Conference loss to Beekmantown.
The Red Storm led by three with under two minutes left in the game, but the Eagles rallied to overtake the lead. Saranac Lake had a chance to tie in the closing seconds, but a fast break layup was off the mark.
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Fig. 4 highlights the concept of soloing on non-adjacent strings. It's a surefire way to spruce up your technique, and Hall uses it tastefully in almost every solo he takes. He'll also use one note as a pivot tone or springboard to play through the changes. This uses the chords from the first four measures of "My Funny Valentine."
Speaking of pivot notes, Hall also likes to create chord melodies within his solos, no matter what the instrumentation of the ensemble. Sometimes he'll choose a note and harmonize it within the context of a tune. Fig. 5 is an example of something he might play over the harmony to "All the Things You Are."
The techniques used in the examples above are simple and should be transposed into all keys. In doing so, not only will you develop a solid knowledge of the fretboard in general, but you'll also have more creative avenues through which to improvise. Pick one technique at a time and play it over a jazz standard—or even just a 12-bar blues to start. Work on it slowly and before you know it, you'll have these sounds under your fingers and in your ears.
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The fertility awareness method (FAM) is a form of natural family planning that uses a combination of several separate methods - usually calendar charting, basal body temperature (BBT), cervical mucus, and cervical observation - to predict when a woman will ovulate. This method, also called the Sympto-Thermal Method, can also be used as a method of natural contraception.
The fertility awareness method helps women identify and predict ovulation so they can time their reproductive efforts to coincide with their most fertile days, thereby increasing the likelihood of conceiving. In general, a woman is able to get pregnant for about 5 to 7 days each month. Sperm can live inside a woman's body for 3 to 5 days after intercourse; but after ovulation, an egg is viable for just 24 to 48 hours. You are more likely to conceive if intercourse occurs from 3 days before ovulation until 2 to 3 days after ovulation.
One advantage of FAM is that it is completely natural, with no associated health risks or side effects. Other advantages include its effectiveness if used correctly and consistently (especially for women who have regular menstrual cycles); it can increase a woman's awareness and understanding of her body; and couples using FAM may develop greater communication, cooperation, and responsibility. In addition, the methods can be used to confirm each other; for example, a change in cervical mucus can be confirmed with a change in basal body temperature.
One disadvantage of the FAM is the amount of time and effort required to learn how to use the method correctly - it requires considerable commitment and calculation - and some women say that despite careful tracking and adherence to the method, they simply cannot detect a predictive menstrual pattern.
The fertility awareness method is most effective for women with regular menstrual cycles. Women who have recently given birth, had an abortion or miscarriage, or are breastfeeding or approaching menopause may find it more difficult to chart their fertility because their fertile signs may vary in unpredictable ways due to irregular hormonal fluctuations. This method is also not recommended for couples who have serious reproductive problems or for women with irregular cycles. The following are the most common methods used as part of the fertility awareness method:
Calendar Charting
Calendar charting, also called the rhythm method, involves using past menstrual cycles as a guide to calculate the average number of days in your cycle and estimate your future fertile days.
If we use the first day of menstrual flow as the beginning of the calendar, an egg is maturing and is almost ready to be released from the follicle by day seven of the average cycle. Somewhere between days 11 and 21, hormones in your body cause the egg to be released from the ovary (ovulation) and travel down the fallopian tube towards the uterus. If sperm does not fertilize the egg, it breaks apart. By the 28th day of your cycle your hormone levels drop, which signals the lining of the uterus to be shed as the beginning of your menstrual flow.
The first half of the menstrual cycle, before ovulation, is very different in every woman and can even change from month to month in the same woman. But the last half of the cycle is usually more similar for every woman because there are approximately 14 days from the day of ovulation until the start of the next period. (The average menstrual cycle is between 28 to 32 days.) This is why women are encouraged to count back 14 days from their last period to pinpoint their most fertile time of the month.
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The American University of Rome is committed to excellence in education and the promotion of cross-cultural exchange. AUR is dedicated to encouraging academic achievement in its students and offers a curriculum designed to complement our high academic standards and ensure an active-learning environment with small student:faculty ratio. Founded in 1969, The American University of Rome is the oldest degree-granting American University in Rome. AUR is a coeducational, accredited university which offers undergraduate degrees in eight disciplines and enrolls around 500 students. Courses are taught by accredited faculty and students can earn up to 15 credits.
Overlooking the historical center, the university is located on top of the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. With its own garden of Roman pines it offers a spectacular view of Rome and the surrounding hills. The campus is near two city parks, Villa Sciarra and Villa Pamphili and historical landmarks. The area also hosts diplomatic residences and several international academies.The university is an urban campus and the compound is composed of 5 nearby buildings. The main campus is formed of two buildings, an auditorium and a spacious garden. Building A hosts administrative and faculty offices, student services and the main computer lab while building B has the bulk of the classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices. Evans' Hall, a liberty villa of 1920, is the site of the library, student lounges and a beautiful outside garden. Carini 23, a five-story building of the '70s designed by a famous Italian Architect (Paolo Portoghesi) is the location of design studios, faculty offices, and the Batista Multimedia Laboratory, a state of the art lab for film production. For more information, please visit the American University of Rome's website.
Various courses will be available in art history, archeology, fine arts, business, communication, english, economics, history, international affairs, italian, management, marketing, political science and sociology.These courses could be used to fulfill major requirements or Liberal Arts Inquiries (LAI).


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Why the reason the James Bond intro on Help! was included just on the U.S. release?? I ever wanted to know it...
Yep, the Beatles were BIG Bond fans - they even had private screenings of the first few 007 movies at their homes as soon as the movies were released. Of course they didn't want to stay in line to watch them at a theatre - it would had been MURDER for them, they would obviously get sliced and bit to pieces or something of that sort by movie goers...[:D]


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Obama birth control mandates loosens lawsuits
NEW YORK – The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul appear to be moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
Faith-affiliated charities, hospitals and universities have filed dozens of lawsuits against the mandate, which requires employers to provide insurance that covers contraception for free. However, many for-profit business owners are also suing, claiming a violation of their religious beliefs.
The religious lawsuits have largely stalled, as the Department of Health and Human Services tries to develop an accommodation for faith groups. However, no such offer will be made to individual business owners. And their lawsuits are yielding conflicting rulings in appeals courts around the country.
"The circuits have split. You're getting different, conflicting interpretations of law, so the line of cases will have to go to the Supreme Court, " said Carl Esbeck, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School who specializes in religious liberty issues.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that Obama's fiercely contested health care overhaul, known as the Affordable Care Act, was constitutional. But differences over the birth control provision in the law have yet to be resolved.
Under the requirement, most employers, including faith-affiliated hospitals and nonprofits, have to provide health insurance that includes artificial contraception, including sterilization, as a free preventive service. The goal, in part, is to help women space pregnancies as a way to promote health.
Religious groups who employ and serve people of their own faith – such as churches – are exempt. But other religiously affiliated groups, such as Catholic Charities, must comply.
Roman Catholic bishops, evangelicals and some religious leaders who have generally been supportive of Obama's policies have lobbied fiercely for a broader exemption. The Catholic Church prohibits the use of artificial contraception. Evangelicals generally permit the use of birth control, but they object to specific methods such as the morning-after contraceptive pill, which they argue is tantamount to abortion.
Obama promised to change the birth control requirement so insurance companies and not faith-affiliated employers would pay for the coverage, but religious leaders said more changes were needed to make the plan work.
The Health and Human Services Department said it could not comment on litigation. A spokeswoman also did not respond to a question about when the latest revisions in the birth control rule would be made public.
However, government attorneys responding to a lawsuit said an announcement was expected by the end of March. In the suit filed by the evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois and Catholic Belmont Abbey in North Carolina, the court ordered government attorneys to provide a progress report on the new rule every 60 days. Whatever its final form, the mandate will take effect for religious groups in August.
At the center of the cases is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the 1993 law that bars the government from imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion for anything other than a compelling government interest pursued in the least restrictive way. The question of how or whether these criteria apply when owners of for-profit businesses have a religious objection to a government policy hasn't been fully tested.
"It's more natural for people to say Notre Dame exercises religion, but when you say this power tool company exercises religion, you have to explain it little more, I think the claims are really the same," said Kyle Duncan, general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents many of the plaintiffs.
Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, argued the business owners are trying to use a religious liberty claim to deny benefits to someone else.
"We don't think that religious liberty claims can be used as a way to discriminate against women employees – using those claims to take away someone else's benefits and services," Amiri said.


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Gulfstream's aircraft service center in Beijing received authorization from Chinese authorities to perform maintenance on the company's business jets.
(Gulfstream Beijing Center. Photo, courtesy of Gulfstream.)
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) granted the approval through a Joint Maintenance Management (JMM) agreement with the Civil Aviation Department of Hong Kong and the Civil Aviation Authority of Macau SAR. Gulfstream Beijing is now authorized to perform airframe, avionics and interior maintenance on G550, G450 and G200 business jets registered in Hong Kong and Macau.
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It is normal for a cat to groom its head, but repeated scratching might indicate a problem. One common type of ear infections in cats is ear mites, and they could be the root of the issue.
Ear mites in cats are highly contagious, so your cat may have picked them up from another cat, according to VCA Animal Hospitals. The most common clinical signs include ear scratching and head shaking and a dark, waxy or crusty discharge from the ear. The skin around the cat's ear may also be irritated from all the scratching and hair loss in the area may occur. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there may also be a strong odor coming from the ear.
Bring your cat to the veterinarian if you notice these signs. The vet will be able to observe mites and rule out other causes of these clinical signs. Once the cat has been diagnosed with ear mites, it will be given medication to eliminate them. VCA recommends owners treat the ears and skin of all affected and susceptible pets in the household.


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"In June 2007, Governor Perry signed legislation that set an Efficiency Portfolio Standard (EPS) and encourages utilities to deploy demand response (HB 3693). The EPS applies to residential and commercial customers and directs utilities to reduce their customers' consumption." [1]
Texas was one early with deregulation of their electric power markets, for that reason there are multiple options for customers wishing to take third party electric service. The Public Utility Commission of Texas regulates the rates the utilities charge not third party electric service so more options are available to customers who take part in third party electric service through a retail electric provider (REP). The Commission however has dealt with Time of Day rates for business as early1979 and residential rates by 2001. Demand-side management was established as early as 1979, with the Independent System Operator, ERCOT, later establishing load reduction programs separate from the utilities. With lots of industry in Texas distributed generation has always been around. Most distributed generation in Texas chooses to participate within the ERCOT power markets, but by 1998 some utilities did have rate schedules for qualifying facilities. [2, 3, 4, 5]
"In September 2008, the Commission filed with the Texas Legislature, in compliance with a law enacted in 2005, its second report on AMI—"Report to the 81st Texas Legislature: A Report on Advanced Electric Metering as Required by House Bill 2129". The Commission concluded in its report that deploying AMI is a "critical component of the evolving Texas electric market," not least of which because it enables demand response." [1]
Time of Day, or Time-of-Use rate break the cost for electricity into periods on a seasonal basis with either critical peak, on-peak, or off-peak pricing.
Demand-side management includes interruptible accounts, where with notification the company can de-energize the customers electric equipment as contracted.
Distributed generation includes generation qualifying facilities and are paid based on published on-peak and off-peak yearly Avoided Energy Cost Estimates, or as contracted with the company.
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See the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) for information on consumer-owned Cooperatives: http://www.nreca.org/members/MemberDirectory/Pages/default.aspx
Texas offers tax deductions and exemptions, loans, utility rebates, and grants and rebates on solar, water, geothermal and wind energy.
More information can be found in the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=TX
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[1] Demand Response and Smart Metering Policy Actions Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005: A Summary for State Officials, Prepared by the U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee for The National Council on Electricity Policy, Fall 2008. URL: http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/NCEP_Demand_Response_1208.pdf
[2] The Electric Company, El Paso Electric, Commercial and Industrial Tariffs. URL: http://www.epelectric.com/tx/business/rate-tariffs-1
[3] Entergy, Entergy Texas, Inc., Residential Rate and Rider Schedules. URL: http://www.entergy-texas.com/your_home/tariffs.aspx
[4] Entergy, Entergy Texas, Inc., Commercial and Industrial Rate and Rider Schedules. URL: http://www.entergy-texas.com/your_business/business_tariffs.aspx
[5] Tariff for Retail Delivery Service, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC. URL: http://www.centerpointenergy.com/staticfiles/CNP/Common/SiteAssets/doc/CNP%20Retail%20Del%20Tariff%20Book.pdf


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Size 1X is tagged as XL, but it is equivalent to typical 1X sizing.


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Excellent piece of writing Krista, caution and hope is an
Excellent piece of writing Krista, caution and hope is an effecitve mix.
One additional suggestion: The handy thing about faith is that I can help heal the environment and not be concerned about the ultimate outcome. That is called "deliverance".

Beautiful. So there was no "end of history" in 1989 as
Beautiful. So there was no "end of history" in 1989 as some were led to say out loud...

Great writing and such a great interview with Bill and
Great writing and such a great interview with Bill and many others that have really touched my soul. I feel awakened to this potential and responsibility of doing what we can and like the humming bird one beak at a time working with faith and vision. This show has ignited my spirit and I am taking flight!

Very nicely written Krista. I'm always surprised that
Very nicely written Krista. I'm always surprised that environmental issues aren't the single most uniting force among people of varied faiths. It seems to me that regardless of how a person feels about the events that have occurred throughout "Creation", (ie: what does evolution look like or not look like, degree of literal fact in the creation story, etc.), most would certainly agree that we are stewards in one way or another of this gift of Creation. Our need to take good care of this gift would seem to be something that would build bridges between most traditions. I also enjoyed several of the references in the articles - good backup - thanks.