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Brookfield Academy
The Rising Stars Art Program invites parents with a 3-year-old into the world of "Mini Masters." Play with paint like Monet. Draw like Matisse. Create with clay like Degas. For information, call Mary Ricci at (262) 783-3200.
Brookfield Central
The DECA team is raising money with a fundraiser hosted by T.G.I.Friday's, 17430 W. Bluemound Road, all day Jan. 23. Obtain a flyer from the school website, and take it to the restaurant that day to have 25 percent of the cost of your meal donated to the team.
Brookfield Christian
This past week, the second-grade class has been working on final drafts of their personal narratives, and the strategy of drawing conclusions in reading. The class just finished up a unit on maps and patriotic symbols, and how those symbols relate to our country and its past.
Brookfield East
The Spanish Honor Society went to La Casa de Esperanza on Jan. 5 to assist with the annual Three Kings Event, which celebrates the Three Kings Holiday celebrated in many Spanish-speaking countries. La Casa distributes gifts to all registered families. Spanish Honor Society, in addition to assisting with the celebration, also purchased many of the gifts for this event. SHS raised money through a change drive. Students that are presently taking a language donated money to purchase gifts for La Casa de Esperanza.
Brookfield Elementary
Families are taking part in Splashtacular, a fun evening at the Country Springs Hotel Water Park on Jan. 17.
Burleigh Elementary
Kindergarten students are exploring fish in their FOSS science unit. They are learning about fish and how they exist in their habitats.
Dixon Elementary
The Brookfield Women's Club hosted a Design Day for a new Universally Accessible Playground proposed for Mitchell Park on Tuesday. Design Day featured children's activities, an architect's presentation and volunteer opportunities. The playground will include cooperative games, multi-sensory activity structures, and musical, educational and artistic components. Dixon students participated in a morning design session.
Immanuel Lutheran
Immanuel is gearing up for its annual basketball tournament. Spirit Week is Jan. 21 through Jan. 25 with a different theme each day. Monday is pajama/movie day; Tuesday each class will dress according to an assigned decade; Wednesday will be Neon Dress Day; Thursday is Crazy Day; and Friday is Spirit Wear and Pep Rally Day. The tournament begins Jan. 24, when the seventh- and eighth-grade girls have games and continues Jan. 25 when the eighth-grade boys play. The tournament continues through the weekend.
Pilgrim Park
Middle School
Music students recently had the opportunity to rock the BMO Harris Bradley Center. On Jan. 4, a choir ensemble had the opportunity to sing the national anthem prior to the Milwaukee Buck's game. Not to be outdone, the school's drum line followed up with a performance at the Buck's game Jan. 8.
St. Dominic
St. Dominic Catholic School accepts registrations for 3-year-olds throughout the school year. Call the school office, (262) 783-7565, if you want to find out more about the 3-year-old kindergarten program. In other news, St. Dominic School is sponsoring a coat drive for Grantosa School in Milwaukee Public Schools. Gently used coats can be donated through Jan. 18.
St. John Vianney
As part of the integrated literacy program, St. John Vianney held its all-school spelling bee Jan. 9. More than 200 students from grades five through eight competed in individual classroom spelling bees for a chance to participate in the all-school spelling bee.
St. Mary's Visitation
St. Mary's Visitation School will welcome Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki on Jan. 21. In anticipation of Catholic Schools Week, the archbishop is celebrating a special all-school Mass with St. Mary's pastor, the Rev. Peter Berger at 8 a.m. in the church. The archbishop plans to visit the classrooms after Mass and will pose with the students in an all-school photo. Catholic Schools week runs Jan. 27 through Feb. 2. St. Mary's will kick off the week with an open house from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 27; all are invited to attend. This year's theme is "Catholic Schools Raise the Standards," and St. Mary's Visitation has a week of special activities planned to mark the celebration.
Swanson Elementary
The fifth-graders in Katherine Sommerville's class have been reading nonfiction text and researching a country. They presented their country at the Multicultural Fair on Tuesday. The students were excited to share what they have learned with their family and friends.
Tonawanda Elementary
It is Read to Succeed time once. This is a free program that encourages kids to do some recreational reading. Reading logs have been given to all interested students. If students choose to participate they need to read for 360 minutes, keep a reading log, have a parent/guardian sign it and turn it in by Feb. 15. By doing this students will receive a free ticket to Six Flags. Tonawanda students are expected to be reading each night. They may include those minutes toward the 360 needed minutes on this reading log.
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Middle School
Eligible students are taking part in a field trip to the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on Jan. 23.
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text: Emery County emergency medical personnel deliver accident survivors to Castleview Hospital late Sunday night. According to Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Cameron Roden, a Ford Excursion traveling northbound on Utah State Road 24 lost control of its trailer and rolled several times, killing the driver and two of the vehicleâs passengers. The driver of the vehicle, Darren J. Westerfield, 48 of Murray, along with Tyler Keep, 15, of Murray, and Alisa Keep, 8, of Murray were all pronounced dead at the scene near mile marker 146. Roden further stated that the other four passengers riding in the vehicle were transported to Castleview Hospital and treated for moderate injuries.


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By PATSY STODDARDStaff, Emery County Progress
Editor's Note: Emery County's long and varied history is the source of fierce pride for many and as the county and its people look forward to what may seem like an uncertain future, it is perhaps appropriate to look back at where we have been. In the first of a three part series, key moments of Emery County's history will be explored.
Emery County has a rich and varied past. There have been many activities and endeavors that have come and gone. One of these is the mining activities on Temple Mountain and the surrounding areas.
Among the first operators of a mine on Temple Mountain were Oscar Beebe, J.R. Browning and A.L. Olsen. They filed a mining claim on the third day of November in 1903 on a mining claim known as Orinoco. These mining claims had to be "proved up" on a yearly basis. Beebe is reported to have found uranium deposits while in the area herding sheep. Joseph Swasey also discovered uranium in the Temple Mountain area around the same time. On Nov. 15, 1918 a notice of intention to suspend the performance of annual assessment work on the mining claims was filed. The first permit was for the removal of lode, vein or deposit bearing silver, gold and other precious metals.
Many tales have been told of mining operations and the people involved in this mining. The Swasey family comes to mind with the mention of uranium mining in the early days. Royal Swasey was an avid letter writer and many of his letters went to his sweetheart Miss Eva Larsen. These letters told of the surveying work that he was doing and the road he was working on in the Temple Mountain area. Oscar Beebe asked Royal to work at his mine on Temple Mountain and Royal agreed. This was at North Temple Wash on Nov. 21, 1912.
Mark H. William's book Utah's Scenic San Rafael 2001 describes it in this way, "Uranium mining assumed economic importance when Madame Marie Curie discovered radium. She became famous for her research into radioactivity, and was the first women to win the Nobel Prize. Madame Curie and her husband Pierre who taught physics at the University of Paris, teamed up to conduct research on radioactive substances. They found that the uranium ore contained much more radioactivity than could be explained solely by the uranium content. The Curies began a search for the source of the radioactivity and discovered two highly radioactive elements, "radium" and "polonium." The Curies won the 1903 Nobel prize for physics for their discovery. Madame Curie sent men all over the world seeking uranium so she could extract radium from it which is used in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Beautiful carnotite uranium was found in the base of Wingate Sandstone on Temple Mountain. This high-grade ore was mined with metal spoons with long handles. A lower grade form of ore was found in the Chinle formation just below the Wingate formation.
"Only the high-grade ore was of any value as the uranium content had to average 10 percent. This ore would yield 200 pounds to the ton for which Madame Curie paid $10 per pound or $2,000 per ton. It was the richest of the mineral that was ever shipped. Several sources including old newspaper articles say Madame Curie visited Temple Mountain during the initial uranium boom. There is a rock house still left in the area where Madame Curie stayed," said Williams.
Monte Swasey in an interview with Kathleen Truman of the Emery County Historical Preservation Commission said, "Granddad Swasey and old Wyatt Bryan had a road out the Ferron down to Temple Mountain and what they called the Cowboy Mine and that was back in 1900. Madame Curie was doing a bunch of experiments with radium. They couldn't ship anything to Madame Curie that was under 2 percent. In 1906 Madame Curie came clear over from France and came out to the Temple Mountain Mine and stayed with them for a week to 10 days just to see where all the ore was coming from.
"Dad (Royal) said when they were mining the ore there would be a seam they would follow and they would follow it along and then before too long it would open up into a big room where they would dig in there with sacks and shovels, the ore was so soft. They could just shovel it into sacks and load them into the wheelbarrow. They would wheel it out and then they would load it onto the wagon. When they got a wagon load of it they would freight it across the desert into Green River. They would store it in a warehouse until they had enough for a train car load. The car load would then be shipped back East and loaded on a boat to be shipped to France.
"Japanese people moved in on the north side of Temple Mountain and drilled little holes going back in. It almost looks like a cathedral there," said Swasey.
The uranium boom in Emery County was two fold, the initial Madame Curie era and the beginning of the atomic age. Swasey said, "When the radium boom started Byron Howard from over to Huntington came by down to Dads asking about Temple Mountain, questions like who it belonged to. They hadn't proved up on it or done anything with it since they were shipping ore to France. So he, (Howard) hauled away their dump ore they had thrown away and made $40,000 on it. Also the first dinosaur from this area came from Temple Mountain and went back to the Smithsonian Institute," said Swasey.
In the book, "A History of Emery County" Edward A. Geary describes the second boom, "The Atomic Energy Commission sought to develop domestic uranium supplies by instituting purchasing and bonus programs intended to stimulate exploration and development. The Temple Mountain and the Tidwell Draw areas of Emery County had produced uranium during the radium boom early in the twentieth century. By 1949 several old mines were being reopened at Temple Mountain. Most of them were eventually controlled by Consolidated Mining Company. Consolidated drilled 36 inch shafts to the deeper ore beds, lowered disassembled mining equipment through the shafts, then reassembled it in the ore zone. Shipments from Temple Mountain reached 100 tons per day by early 1950."
The demand for uranium led to 910 claims being filed in the year 1949. Owen McClenahan of Castle Dale was one of these prospectors, he describes the period as, "Men by the thousands flocked into these erosional wastelands in old jalopy automobiles and army surplus jeeps. Here they would camp and then proceed by foot in all directions climbing steep slopes until they reached the mineralized sandstones. There the ones without Geiger counters would take samples to be checked later. Those with the counters would follow mineralized areas until they had a reading from their counters which was a loud response of amplified clicking reminding one of a rattlesnake showing its annoyance to man.
"As a rule one of the worst things that could happen to a prospector would be to find just enough to raise his hopes, his dreams and encourage his irresponsibility to raise money in any devious way he could. Many men lost everything they owned, including their wife and family," said McClenahan.
Deposits were discovered that only yielded a few tons and other larger deposits were found in the Muddy Creek drainage in the southern part of the Swell.
Geary said, "The town of Green River received a substantial economic boost from the uranium boom, serving as a staging and supply point for prospectors and for Temple Mountain, Muddy Creek and Tidwell Draw mines. Union Carbide Corporation erected an ore sampling and concentrating plant on the east side of the Green River which remained in operation until 1961. A number of residents found employment in the diggings or with their own claims. The town's first newspaper in more that 30 years also made its appearance during this time, The Green River Journal began publication on July 21, 1955. Jim Hurst made a profitable business flying prospectors and mining officials from Green River to landing strips scraped out of the sagebrush at numerous locations. With the end of the boom however miners and prospectors and those providing services to them moved on with little lasting benefit to the community."
The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining's Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program has begun the closure of abandoned uranium mines in the San Rafael Swell. The Temple Mountain Project would close approximately 140 uranium mines in the historically significant area.
Emery County's long history has many cycles of boom or bust. Many ideas, many attempts at economic prosperity. Some lasting and some here for a fleeting time. An important lesson to be learned in the history of Emery County is that its history must be preserved. It must be talked about and recorded for those coming here in the future. The heritage of this county if lost would not be easy to restore. Truman said, "All of the documents, pictures, letters and diaries anything containing the history of our county should be preserved. If you have old documents or pictures and do not know what to do with them, donate them to the Emery County Archives or let the archives make copies of them and return them to you. Many tales are documented through an old letter or a journal entry. It dates events and records that they really did happen and it isn't just folk lore. Emery County is rich in tradition and history, it is up to us as individuals and as a county to preserve these events long past as a reminder of who we are as a people," said Truman.
(Next Week: The creation of water canals by pioneers of Emery County was a key point in the history of the area.)


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By COREY BLUEMELStaff Writer
On an average weekend in this country, one teenager dies from alcohol related incidents every hour. This figure comes from an HBO reality special called Smashed. It is a docu-drama filmed in actual hospital trauma units, and features cases in which teenagers are critically injured due to alcohol related accidents.
The first story is one of a young man named Timmy. He is brought into the trauma unit with a severely broken leg and extensive head injuries. He later admitted to drinking a case of beer just before jumping on his 4-wheeler to take a ride. A high speed collision with a tree stopped his activities very abruptly.
During the course of the emergency room treatment, his parents arrive at the hospital to see their son as he is about to go into surgery for the broken leg. He is on a ventilator which is helping him breathe, he has severe head injuries, and is unconscious.
Fear and shock cover the faces of Timmy's family as they await word of his condition. None of the physicians have given them any hope for his survival, let alone recovery. As the first few days pass, Timmy survives the initial trauma, but remains in a coma. There are scenes of a mother, crying, hopeless, trying to sleep in a hospital chair as she is afraid to leave the hospital for fear that she will never see her son again.
Siblings and other relatives come into his room and talk with him while he lies in a coma, hoping that the sound of their voices will rouse him. One afternoon, he moves his legs and the family becomes ecstatic and is overcome with relief. His mother and father were beginning to believe they would get their son back.
They soon came to realize, and are informed by the doctors, that body spasms and leg movements are a normal reaction when someone is in a coma with a brain injury. It does not necessarily mean that the injured person will be OK.
About a week into the coma, Timmy opened his eyes and looked at his mother's face. Though unable to speak, he seemed to recognize those around him. His family would get their wish for him to live through this tragic accident.
For the next several months, Timmy would go through extensive physical and mental therapy, along with a battery of tests to gauge the amount of brain damage. During this time, Timmy was able to enlighten his mother concerning the day of the accident.
While still unable to verbalize well, he was insistent that he would not quit drinking. He seemed to be unable to connect his present condition with the drinking.
This story was one of many on the video which demonstrated the terrible, lifelong consequences of underage drinking. Without exception, every one of the young people who suffered traumatic injuries will be affected through the remainder of their lives.
One beautiful young woman had suffered so much brain damage from a car accident involving alcohol, that she could not remember what the question was long enough to answer it. Her mother explained that the young woman would never regain her short term memory, thus never being able to live a normal life.
Many of the young people featured in the video had the same kinds of lifelong injuries, some physical, some mental. None of them would be able to hold a job and live normally. Many of the young men who suffered injuries were antagonistic and depressed following the injury. Some were even aggressive to the point of hurting other people, with no control of their actions.
Following the video, the local residents who had gathered for this informational meeting agreed that underage drinking is a very serious problem. One told of his third grader who knows children his own age who are already drinking.
Sgt. Tom Harrison of the Emery County Sheriff's Office stated, "We here in Emery County seem to think that we are immune to these problems because we live in rural Utah and not a big city, but we have all the same problems here in rural Emery County. Over the years there have been many tragic events due to underage drinking. We have great kids here in Emery County, some who make very bad choices once in a while. We as adults need to do whatever is necessary to reach these kids, and teach them to make better choices."
What parents need to do: create a positive living home environment; talk early and often with your child; help them become competent and involved; teach children to choose friends wisely; monitor your child's activities; and help children deal with stress or depression. If you, as an adult, choose to drink alcohol: always drink in moderation; do not use alcohol as an escape from your problems; do not portray alcohol use as fun or glamorous; and keep alcohol locked up and away from children.
Adults need to set "no alcohol" rules. Set clear rules and consequences; be specific; post and review the rules; be consistent; be reasonable; and recognize and reward good behavior.
Forty percent of young people who drink before age 15 will become alcohol dependent as adults. Parents must learn they are the most powerful influence on a child's behavior. Learn and explain the risks of underage drinking; have daily, positive communication with your children; set clear rules about no alcohol; consistently enforce the rules; monitor your childrens' activities and stress levels; help them choose friends who support your rules; and ensure that alcohol is not available to your child at home or from friends when your child is away.


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Type: New Feature
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.0
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Authentication
Now that Multi-auth is in 1.8 and I have ported the changes over to the NTLM module, we can now plan to include it in Moodle HEAD - ready for 1.9 release!
I have opened this tracker to allow feedback from testers - I'm especially interested to hear from people testing it in 1.9 - see the link:
to download the current version for 1.9/HEAD
There are a couple of things to be aware of.... - when upgrading from versions prior to 1.8 when the ntlm module has been installed - after the upgrade you will need to use a manual account to authenticate eg "admin" and then re-configure the settings for the NTLM module as these don't get carried over correctly during the upgrade (doesn't affect people already running 1.8 though...)
Also - I found an issue with the global var that stated the number of subnet/masks to use, so I have hardcoded it to 8 in a couple of places - I want to fix this before inclusion in Moodle Head.... - hopefully sometime this week.....
please let me know how you go with testing!
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Hi All
I have put the 1.8 NTLM on to the 1.9 HEAD (as of yesterday - 18/04/07) but came up with the following problems...
If the user already exists in the user database, NTLM login works perfectly but if the user is logging in for the first time, then they receive a NTLM has not been enabled on this page.
The solution I have found to this is to login the user first on the offcampuslogin page and then get them to re-login via the NTLM page.
To ensure this was the case, I have deleted (via SQL) all NTLM users between tests and also the session2 table.
In addition to this, I also noticed a problem when you go back in to edit the details, the user fields are not recalled from the DB. Although all the LDAP settings are present the actual user fields (e.g. givenName, sn, mail etc) do not get re-displayed.
Hope some of this helps.
Hi Ian,
thanks for the details - I haven't forgotten about it! - I think it's because the password is blank when using the oncampus page, so some of the processes don't run...
I'm stuck in Peoplesoft Training with oracle over the next couple of weeks - but I've got a big list of things I'm trying to cover off after-hours!
Hi Ian,
should be fixed now - I've patched HEAD - will probably take a while for the files to get updated in the zip downloads....
Hi Skodak,
you're the maintainer for the auth stuff aren't you? - any objections with this going in HEAD sometime next week?
I have quickly looked at the code, it might be better to alter normal ldap first and make it reusable - both cas and ntlm could IMHO use it without code duplication.
The idea is to use $this->authtype everywhere in ldap plugin and then just wrap it in cas or ntlm == have it initialized in one private property and call its methods as needed.
Could you have a look at it?
you're right - it would make more sense like that...... - I don't think I'll have time to redevelop it and test it extensively enough for 1.9 though, - I wouldn't want it to hold up the 1.9 release!
I'm thinking the logical place for the ip address stuff won't be in the ldap module itself, but the global auth settings, - eg where we currently set an alt login screen - that way all modules could make use of the IP address stuff.
I'm not all that familiar with CAS and how it uses LDAP - I'll have to have a good look at it, to see how LDAP would need to be modified to allow it to be reused.
I'll get onto this sometime soon.....
I keep on intending to refactor all the LDAP-based plugins in Moodle since nearly a year, but I never start doing it . CAS, NTLM and LDAP auth and enrol share (or should share) most of the LDAP core functions and kowledge (like defaults for all the different LDAP servers). All of them could go into .../lib/ldaplib.php and be user everywhere you need them. Just one place to fix and add new features, unlike the current 'mess'
Saludos. Iñaki.
It seems there is a small bug in the 1.8 code (haven't tested 1.9dev yet). I have tested the .zip from the modules donwload page, not the CVS version (although the date of the last CVS modification on the 1.8 branch is the same of the .zip file) and a seconf more serious bug.
The small bug is config.html uses $CFG but the variable is undefined. We need to define $CFG as a global variable in auth_plugin_ntlm::config_form before including config.html. That fixes the issue.
The second one is more serious as it wipes your NTLM data mappings everytime you save the NTLM configuration. This happes because near the end of config.html we have a line that reads:
print_auth_lock_options('ldap', $user_fields, $help, true, true);
that should read:
print_auth_lock_options('ntlm', $user_fields, $help, true, true);
to use the NTLM data mappings, instead of the LDAP ones.
With this to fixes I've been able to use the plugin without problems in my test environment.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Thanks Iñaki!
I've got a big list of stuff that I planned to do over the past month - including work on the ntlm module - but our family have all ended up being hit at some point with "bugs" - (I'm just coming out of Influenza A) - If you get a chance, could you commit the changes to CVS? - it will be a problem with 1.9 code as well.
Uh! I don't have a CVS account, so I'm afraid I won't be able to do it. Maybe I should ask for one...
Saludos. Iñaki.
wow! - I think it would be a great idea! - your contributions are much appreciated, and it would be even more efficient if you had the ability to do it yourself! - I've really appreciated a lot of the patches you have made available in the forums - esp the LDAP stuff! - your knowledge in this area seems to be pretty impressive!
not going to make it into 1.9 - will aim for 2.0 (as long as the family doesn't get sick again!)
Hi Dan,
I have commited my fixes and a couple of others from Rod Ward (from the end of this thread).
This is the first time I mess with Moodle's CVS so I hope I didn't break anything
Saludos. Iñaki.
Hi! I'm taking this tracker item over to land the code we've been cooking in http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=80104
I have it ready to merge at http://repo.or.cz/w/moodle-pu.git?a=shortlog;h=mdl19-authldap-3
Could you please post one-file-patch in unified format as attachment? I am still not able to get it from that git link, sorry
I've attached the whole patch for review
In reviewing it earlier today I noticed there's a small refactor it needs around the process that happens when a user logs in. There was a big chunk repeated in login/index and in every bit of code that did SSO of any kind. I've refactored into a new function called complete_user_login() that deals with session setup.
repost the comment so it goes out to watchers...
I've attached the whole patch for review
In reviewing it earlier today I noticed there's a small refactor it needs around the process that happens when a user logs in. There was a big chunk repeated in login/index and in every bit of code that did SSO of any kind. I've refactored into a new function called complete_user_login() that deals with session setup.
Landed in HEAD and MOODLE_19_STABLE – now time for the testeeeeerrrrrrs...!
Patches for a couple of typos, and user_login() not being converted to use the get_cache_flags() thing (it was still using get_config()).
With those patches, it works with all the combinations of:
- IIS 6.0 running on W2003
- Apache 2.2.4 running on W2003
- Firefox 2.0.4 (W2003)
- Firefox 2.0.9 (Debian etch).
I'll give it a go with Apache 2.x on Ubuntu 7.10 in a few minutes, just to make sure it works there to.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Beauty - thanks I~naki for the extra pair of eyes and apologies - I think you caught something I had as a "stashed" incomplete commit in my repo (blush!). Reviewed and committed. 1.9, wohoo!
Add kerberos based authentication support. With a really few minor changes you'll be able to support kerberos based authentication ( apache, mod_auth_kerb ).
Is that all that's needed? - Cool! -
As it's such a minor change, we should be able to get this in 1.9 and 2.0 - Martín?
Dan - I think we're in deep freeze mode
Janne - the patch changes the username unconditionally, even if kerberos is not expected/enabled? Why?


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May 2009 – First symptoms. Swelling in left and right hand MCP joints. Fatigue changes begin.
July 2009 – Primary care physician orders RA factor test. Results: 26
October 2009 – First Rheumatologist appointment. Begin Relafen (NSAID).
December 2009 – First appointment with different Rheumatologist. Begin Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine).
January 2010 – Begin methotrexate. Fatigue begins to lesson after Plaquenil but before MTX. MTX offered changes in energy level and in joint stiffness.
May 2010 – Begin Humira. By July fatigue changed markedly again, as did joint stiffness.
July 2010 – Gradually reduce daily NSAID dosage to only as needed. Dosing about 500 mg 3-4 times each week.
October 2010 – Drug combinations begin to bring significant increase in energy level and decrease in pain levels and stiffness.
September 2012 – Biggest RA-related health challenge yet. Multiple infections and longest interval without Humira since May 2010. Begins to resolve in late October 2012.
December 2012 – Major medical health insurance ends. Health insurance should NOT be tied to people's work … just sayin'.
December 2012 – Begin gluten-free diet and although I experienced major withdrawal symptoms, I also found major improvements in my RA symptoms. All medications continued.
December 2012, January and February 2013 – More infections and more time without Humira, however this time is was a very manageable change. No major change in symptoms without Humira.
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Located in Compton in the Eastern Townships 20 km from Sherbrooke, the Louis S. St. Laurent National Historic Site recalls the life and work of the former Canadian prime minister.
Visit the house where he was born as well as his father's general store, and fall under the spell of the 1950s. Explore the remarkable history of a man renowned for his integrity and immerse yourself in the attractions of the rural village where he grew up.


text: Beth Ditto Arrested for Being Drunk and Disorderly: 'Google Me, Bitches'Anna Breslaw3/19/13 9:00amFiled to: Dirt Bagbeth dittoBeyonceCharlie SheenDenise RichardsSofia Vergarastephenie meyerKristen StewartRobert PattinsonLeonardo DiCaprioAferdita dreshajlil wayneLiev SchreiberomarosaLatoya JacksonMichael duncan clarkeHarry StylesTaylor SwiftMama JuneMama june shannonLindsay LohanJennifer Anistonjustin therouxKatie HolmesJason molinaJustin TimberlakeQuezvhane wallisryan lochteDan stevensDownton abbey3561EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink In what sounds rather like a Portlandia cameo gone wrong (or right!), Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto was arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge in a Portland bar on Saturday night. Spoiler alert: It sounds like she was drunk and disorderly. 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Willem DE KOONING
Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on 24 April 1904. In 1916 he was apprenticed to a commercial art firm, and began night classes at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, from where he graduated in 1925. He migrated illegally to the United States in 1926, and, by 1927, had settled in New York. He supported himself through a variety of jobs, while meeting artists such as John Graham, Stuart Davis and Arshile Gorky. In 1935 he was employed on the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration[1] but was obliged to cease his involvement when it was discovered that he was not an American citizen.
De Kooning exhibited in New horizons in America at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, in 1936. In 1938 he met his future wife, Elaine Fried, and began his paintings of women. He continued to support himself through commercial art jobs and occasional commissions. In 1940 and 1946 he designed costumes, sets and backdrops for ballet productions. He also exhibited in American and French paintings at McMillan Gallery, New York, in 1942, and the touring exhibition Abstract and Surrealist art in the United States in 1944. He had his first solo exhibition at the Egan Gallery, New York, in 1948, and was represented at the Venice biennale in 1950 and 1954. In 1958 he participated in MoMA's European travelling exhibition The new American painting. De Kooning became an American citizen in 1962.
In 1963 de Kooning moved his studio to Springs, near East Hampton on Long Island, and began a new series of paintings of women. Retrospectives were held in 1965 and 1968–69: the first was shown at Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, and the second, organised by MoMA, toured Amsterdam, London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. In 1969 de Kooning made his first sculpture and in 1970 he began a series of lithographs at the Hollander Workshop, New York. In 1974–75 de Kooning's drawings and sculpture travelled to North American venues in an exhibition organised by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and in 1978 an exhibition of recent work was mounted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
A major retrospective, organised by MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, travelled to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, in 1983–84. The artist received the National Medal of Arts in the United States in 1985. The major holdings of his work in the Hirshhorn collection were displayed in Washington, Barcelona, Atlanta, Boston and Houston in 1993–95, while an exhibition of de Kooning's late paintings, organised in 1995 by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, travelled to Minneapolis, Bonn, Rotterdam and New York in 1996–95. De Kooning died, aged 92, on 19 March 1997. A large exhibition of the artist's drawings of the female figure (1938–55), organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, travelled to Washington and San Francisco during 2002–03. Another retrospective, curated by John Elderfield, was held at MoMA in 2011–12.
[1] A Great Depression-era scheme to employ artists in creating murals for buildings, as well as posters and paintings.


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Whate is your opinion of country music?
I just started listening to it and some of it is pretty decent.
Elaborate if you will, thanks.
Whate is your opinion of country music?
I just started listening to it and some of it is pretty decent.
Elaborate if you will, thanks.
This is the way i see Country Music, "Cheating"
Why cheating? The real country music performers i dont like, even though their voice and lyrics aren't bad, as a whole i dont like it.....why? well it is too country. But there are songs and singers, that although are said to be country, i totally disagree. The perfect example is Taylor Swift, which is considered a country singers and therefore her music as well. There are songs like Highway 20 Ride, that although is from a hardcore Country band sounds more like a rock pop song and it is great. so yeah they cheat a lot, even though they are country singers they only really do well when they do another genre. but thats just my opinion. By the way another examples are:
Carrie Underwood (her biggest hits sound more like a pop rock, rather than country)
Lady Antebellum (i dont see anything country about this band, yet thats what they are considered)
Keith Urban(lol another that sounds more like a pop rock)
Darius Rucker (this guys is probably my favorite country singer, cuz his music is nothing like country......well maybe a lil, but his good songs (aka History in the Making) is nothing like country
and lastly we got Danny Gokey(another American Idol vet) and Hanna Montana( really?...)
When I think about country I think about Creedence Clearwater Revival, some Clapton works, Johnny Cash or the more recent Ryan Bingham, and their music is great.
Country (and folk rock) music makes me think about trips, about journeys. It's the perfect music for any trip you venture in with friends or lovers. It's kinda nostalgic, and makes me feel at home wherever I am. It's kind of a more "human" music. Pop or pop rock... those sound too artificial, too unnatural to me.
Basically, it inspires me; although it's not the music genre I normally listen to.
When I think about Country music. I think about how its the highest music genre that has the highest suicidal rate of its listeners than any other. And thats a fact btw.
I listen to a lot of the mainstream, e.g., Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, etc.


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Greening Olympics Reaches New Peak at the 2006 Winter Games in Italy
News Comes as UN Environment Programme Prepares to Sign Agreement with Organisers of 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
Nairobi/Lausanne, 9 November 2005 - Measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, minimize water use in snow-making and promote eco-friendly hotels are among a raft of initiatives aimed at making next years Winter Olympics the greenest ever.
Today the Torino Olympic Organising Committee (TOROC) unveiled its new Sustainability Report at an international sports conference co-hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The Conference, under the theme of 'Sport, Peace and Environment' brings together around 350 delegates, representing up to 100 different countries. The list of invitees and speakers includes prominent athletes, such as Olympic Medalist Frankie Fredericks, representatives of the IOC, including Vice-President Gunilla Lindberg, and representatives of a number of National Olympic Committees.
Pál Schmitt, Chairman of the IOCs Sport and Environment Commission, said: When you host the Olympic Games, among the main priorities must be the environment.
He said the meeting this week in Nairobi at UNEPs headquarters was a good opportunity for the Organising Committees of the Olympic Games to review achievements and explain their plans in the field.
The Torino Sustainability Report is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to make mass spectator events both entertaining and environmentally sound.
One of the cornerstones is the HEritage Climate TORino (HECTOR) project designed to make the winter games carbon neutral.
The organisers calculate that the 2006 Winter Olympics (10-26 February) will generate the equivalent of just over 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide with the main sources of emissions coming from transport and the operation of the Olympic venues.
The sister Paralympic Games will generate the equivalent of 15,000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas making the total emissions from both events just over 120,000 tonnes.
Under HECTOR these emissions will be offset via forestry, energy efficiency and renewable energy schemes both at home and abroad in line with the international climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.
For example the Piedmont Regional Government and the Pinerolo town council are financing renewable energy and sustainable energy projects.
Employees of TOROC will, during the life of the games, generate an estimated 500kg of greenhouse gases which can be offset by buying 10 Euros-worth of carbon credits linked with a reafforestation project in Mexico; renewable energy projects in Indian and Sri Lanka and an energy efficiency scheme in Eritrea.
Ugo Pretato, Head of Environmental Programmes at TOROC told the VI World Conference of Sport and the Environment, taking place under the theme 'Sport for Development and Peace': Climate change and offsetting carbon dioxide emissions are high priorities for the Torino Winter Games, especially as winter sports and climate change are closely interrelated.
This is the first time that an Olympic event will be able to offset all the carbon emissions produced during the event. They are being offset largely thanks to an investment of three million Euros by the Piedmont regional administration into energy efficiency projects, which are expected to generate an estimated 300,000 tonnes of carbon credits, he added.
The IOC, as part of this weeks events, has published its own Guide on Sport, Environment and Sustainable Development. It was created with the view to present methodological and practical tools to the sports community, based on the major principles of sustainable development.
The Guide, drafted by Professor Joseph Tarradellas of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), examines ecosystem services and their interrelation with various sports disciplines. It analyses the impacts that athletes and different sports from water sports and indoor disciplines such as gymnastics, to large outdoor matches have on the environment, and offers practical solutions and tips to participants and spectators alike.
Meanwhile UNEP also announced it was signing on 18 November an agreement with the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2008 Summer Games (BOCOG).
The memorandum of understanding is aimed at helping Beijing with its ambitious proposals in areas ranging from air, water and noise pollution up to transport, landscaping and the disposal of solid wastes.
UNEP will also be helping with public awareness campaigns which it is hoped will leave a lasting legacy among citizens in Beijing and China generally on the importance of the environment for long lasting and enduring development.
Klaus Toepfer, UNEPs Executive Director, said: UNEP is delighted to be associated with both Torino and Beijing as part of our increasingly constructive relationship with the IOC and sporting bodies generally.
Without doubt, sports and sports men and women can be a power for good in the world inspiring by example and bringing together communities, nations and cultures in a common understanding of the principles of peace and fair play, he said.
In terms of the environment, the two organising committees are taking forward a green torch first lit in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. I am sure the measures they are both undertaking will make the upcoming winter and summer games a crucial guide for environmentally-friendly mass spectator events everywhere over the coming years, added Mr Toepfer.
Other Keystones of the Torino Strategy
Snow-making machines can consume large quantities of water. The construction of 20 new reservoirs holding 350,000 cubic meters of water had been originally proposed.
However the organisers, in collaboration with the Province of Torino, were able to identify water-saving and other measures to reduce the scale of construction and thus minimize the impact on the landscape.
Now only nine new water storage facilities, holding around 220,000 cubic meters, have been built.
Monitoring at the recent World Cup for cross-country skiing, which took place at Pragelato, and other locations scheduled to host Olympic events has indicated that potentially high levels of sewage-related pollution might arise.
In order not to overload mountain water purification plants, the organisers plan to collect such wastes at sensitive sites and transport them to bigger Metropolitan-based plants during the games.
Extensive monitoring and rehabilitation has also been underway to minimize the impacts of construction at, for example, the ski jumping venues around Pragelato and the bobsleigh track at Cesana Pariol.
Aerial photographs show that no new quarries have been opened and there has been no expansion of existing landfill sites as a result of these works.
In addition, trees, new habitats and natural engineering works are incorporated in and around these construction sites in order to restore the fragile mountain ecosystems and landscapes.
Restoration of ancient and old spring-fed fountains are also to be carried out in local mountain villages.
Other measures either completed, underway or planned include a waste materials plan to handle the anticipated increases in rubbish during the games; the development of eco-friendly buildings at, for example the new Olympic Village, and the use of pollution-free materials in their construction and an extensive sustainable transport plan.
In addition TOROC has adopted the International Standards Organizations 14001 standard alongside the European Commissions Eco Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) to ensure the continuous improvement in the environmental performance of the organisation.
Meanwhile sponsors of the games are to be subject to a voluntary sustainabilty programme in which they agree to meet a set of ethical and environmental standards. TOROC has also instituted a green procurement policy which aims to source environmentally friendly products and services.
It is also promoting the European Eco-label for hotels and helping them to secure this green mark. Olympic accommodation for athletes will also be subject to the Eco-label standards.
Notes to Editors
For more information on the Torino Winter Olympics, please visit http://www.torino2006.org
The World Conference on Sport and the Environment is held every two years for members of the Olympic Movement (National Olympic Committees and International Sports Federations) to review the impact and contribution of sport to the environment. The Conference also reviews the environmental activities of Olympic host cities and candidates.
In 1994 UNEP and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) signed a Cooperative Agreement in which both organisations agreed to promote environmental considerations in sport events of the Olympic Movement.
UNEP is represented on the IOC Sport and Environment Commission, which meets regularly to review environmental issues as they relate to the Olympic Games and to advise the IOC Executive Board on environmental issues.
The Olympic Movement itself has declared the environment to be the third dimension of Olympism, alongside sport and culture. The Centennial Olympic Congress, held in Paris in 1994, devoted part of its debates to sport and the environment. Its final document called, among other measures relating to the environment, for the inclusion in the Olympic Charter of a provision underlining the necessity of preserving the environment. The Olympic Charter was subsequently amended in 1996.
UNEP has developed an active Sport and Environment Programme to promote the links between sport and the environment. In February 2003 the UNEP Governing Council adopted a long-term strategy on sport and the environment, which seeks to further reinforce UNEPs work in this field. The strategy also seeks to strengthen partnerships with sports organisations and federations, and specifically requests UNEP to initiate cooperation with Olympic host cities.
For More Information Please Contact Eric Falt, Director UNEP Division of Communications and Public Information, on Tel: 254 20 623292, Mobile: 254 (0) 733 652656, e-mail email@example.com; or Theodore Oben, Head of Unit, Children and Youth, Sport and the Environment, on Tel: 254 20 623262, Mobile: 254 (0) 722 526 181, e-mail email@example.com
For information on UNEP's activities on sport and the environment, please visit http://www.unep.org/sport_env/index.asp
UNEP News Release 2005/54
Further Resources
Torino 2006 For more information on the Torino Winter Olympics
6th World Conference on Sport and Environment Sport, Peace and EnvironmentNairobi, Kenya 9 - 11 November 2005
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Beijing 2008 Official site of the Beijing 2008 Olympic summer games
Vancouver 2010 Official site of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic winter games
Conference's Daily Updates
Photo Galleries - Opening Ceremony (Wednesday, 9 November 2005)
- Thursday, 10 November 2005
- Athletes attending the Conference- Tree Planting Ceremony
Online exhibitions: - Be a Champion for the Environment!
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Nature and Sport Training Camps
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UNEP's long term strategy on Sport and the Environment
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These also-rans gave it their best but came up short in America's biggest election. How much do you know about these presidential losers?
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Question 1 of 30
Which candidate was known as "Little Giant"?
George McClellan
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas was a fierce defender of the Union and lost to Abraham Lincoln.
Herschel Johnson
Question 2 of 30
Which candidate lost an election that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court?
Bob Dole
George W. Bush
Al Gore
Bungled vote counting in Florida contributed to this election fiasco.
Question 3 of 30
To whom did Thomas Jefferson lose the 1796 election?
Thomas Pinckney
John Adams
Adams picked up more than 54 percent of the vote to win.
Aaron Burr
Question 4 of 30
Who served as vice president under John Adams after the election of 1796?
Thomas Jefferson
It was the only time in U.S. history that a losing candidate wound up serving as vice president. Back then, the rules said whoever got the second-most votes in the election became the vice president.
Aaron Burr
Thomas Pinckney
Question 5 of 30
Which losing candidate came up with the idea of nationwide stumping tours?
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan gave hundreds of speeches and garnered a lot of support, but still lost multiple times.
Alton B. Parker
James M. Cox
Question 6 of 30
To which candidate did George B. McClellan lose?
Abraham Lincoln
He had immense support in the military but that popularity didn't extend across the country.
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Question 7 of 30
Which candidate was the only one to have died before the electoral vote was cast?
Horace Greeley
His dejection at being defeated in the election contributed to his decline.
Winfield Scott Hancock
William Jennings Bryan
Question 8 of 30
To which candidate did Thomas E. Dewey lose?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Harry S. Truman
Dewey was supposed to win; it was one of the biggest upsets in election history.
Question 9 of 30
Which loser founded the Reform Party?
Ross Perot
Perot was the first third-party candidate in many years to actually nab more than a few votes.
John Davis
Rufus King
Question 10 of 30
What occupation did Horace Greeley take up before politics?
He was an editor at the New York Tribune, one of the most well-regarded publications of the era.
Question 11 of 30
Which election did Grover Cleveland lose?
But he won the other two, making him a huge winner in the end.
Question 12 of 30
Who did John Hancock run against?
George Washington
Given Washington's legendary reputation, Hancock didn't have much of a chance.
James Iredell
James Madison
Question 13 of 30
In what year did Strom Thurmond run for president?
Thurmond served as a senator for nearly five decades.
Question 14 of 30
How many times did Aaron Burr lose the election?
He lost to three icons named Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
Question 15 of 30
Which party was Martin Van Buren representing when he lost in 1848?
Free Soil
The party made the abolition of slavery one of its core issues.
Question 16 of 30
How many people ran for the Republican nomination in the 2016 election?
A whopping 17 people ran for the 2016 nomination. Despite the presence of several senators and governors, political novice Donald Trump wound up with the nomination.
Question 17 of 30
Strom Thurmond was a strong supporter of what issue?
He couldn't win the White House, but he touted racist views during his decades in politics.
civil rights
Question 18 of 30
John Q. Adams's first run at president failed to unseat which incumbent?
Zachary Taylor
James Monroe
Monroe won both the 1816 and 1820 elections.
Martin Van Buren
Question 19 of 30
How many states did Michael Dukakis win in 1988?
He also won the District of Columbia, but the election was a landslide for GeorgeH.W. Bush.
Question 20 of 30
By what percentage did Hubert Humphrey lose the 1968 election?
1 percent
Nixon just scraped by; we all know how that turned out.
4 percent
8 percent
Question 21 of 30
Which losing candidate had the nickname, "The Pathfinder"?
Horace Greeley
John C. Fremont
Fremont was a famous explorer who led four expeditions across North America. He was the first Republican party candidate and lost to James Buchanan.
William Dayton
Question 22 of 30
Al Smith was the governor of which state?
New York
He lost the 1928 election but was governor four times.
New Jersey
Question 23 of 30
Which election did William Jennings Bryan NOT lose?
He didn't lose in 1904 … because he didn't run that year.
Question 24 of 30
Before running for president, Winfield Scott Hancock was an officer who served in which war?
American Civil War
He was praised endlessly following his leadership at Gettysburg.
War of 1812
Spanish-American War
Question 25 of 30
How many electoral votes did Adlai Stevenson collect?
He lost the 1956 election to Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide.
Question 26 of 30
After losing to Ronald Reagan, which position did Walter Mondale fill?
attorney general
ambassador to Japan
Mondale was also vice president under Jimmy Carter.
secretary of state
Question 27 of 30
In 2002, what event caused Walter Mondale to run for senate at the last minute?
He thought maybe he could build his way back to the presidency.
The other candidate died.
Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash just before the election; Mondale barely lost.
He was diagnosed with diabetes.
Question 28 of 30
Who was the first third-party candidate to carry a state in an election?
John Floyd
Ross Perot
William Wirt
Wirt served as attorney general and was renowned for his intelligence. He carried Vermont in the 1832 election.
Question 29 of 30
Robert Kennedy's assassination prompted which man to run for president?
Edmund Muskie
George McGovern
McGovern was distraught over the killing but eventually threw his hat into the ring. Hubert Humphrey ended up becoming the Democratic nominee for 1968.
Barry Goldwater
Question 30 of 30
What contributed to the collapse of Ed Muskie's run for president in 1972?
He cried in public.
The press reported Muskie shed tears as he defended his wife against unwarranted attacks. Muskie said the "tears" were really melted snowflakes on his cheeks. Either way, the damage was done.
There were huge discrepancies in his tax returns.
He could not throw a baseball.


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Skip to comments.Hamas Leader Mashaal: I accept a Palestinian state on '67 borders
Posted on 11/22/2012 10:10:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared a position on Palestinian statehood that is nearly identical to that of his Fatah rival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in an interview with CNN aired Wednesday.
"I accept a Palestinian state according [to] the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital, with the right to return," the Hamas leader told Christine Amanpour in Cairo.
Pushed about his party's refusal to recognize Israel, Mashaal said such a declaration could only be made once a Palestinian state has been created.
"After this state is established, it decides its standing toward Israel," the Hamas leader said.
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The Israelis cannot accept '67 borders due to security risks, especially with their enemies acquiring more sophisticated weapons as time marches on. If Israel, should the muslims have their way,be destroyed, I hope she takes everyone around her down the drain with her, using nuclear weapons to boot. And be sure to lob a few nukes into Saudi Arabia (Mecca and Medina and a few other choice cities) to finish off these barbaric pigs for centuries. I hope it doesn't come to that, however given current U.S. leadership, it may. God Bless Israel and her people.
No deal. Now, go screw yourself, Mashaal.
""After this state is established, it decides its standing toward Israel," the Hamas leader said."
And somewhere in Israel a drone is being warmed up for its next take down mission.
Israel should have nevergiven back any of the territory it won in the 1967 war...
I ambetting a lot of the older generation in israel is regretting being too nice to the barbarians at the gate.
Ain't gonna happen.
Suggestion to Israel. Cut Gaza loose. Recognize Gaza as a country. Turn off the electric, water, all workers are to return to Gaza. Wall up the place and remove any asset you have there.
Let Egypt and the world community deal with them.
Christine Amanpour again. Why is our news so filled with foreigners? She's basically a Brit born to Iranians, sent to Tehran for school.
It's way stale to me, that i can only get world news interpreted through the eyes of foreigners who despise everything America was.
Hamas or Obama? I can't tell whose plan this is.
Israel is too smart to exchange a strategic advantage for the promise of peace-unfortunately, the Palestinians have nothing to offer but their word, which is worthless.
Israel, please put this pig out of communication range.
Israel owns everything else, including all of the West Bank. This is the true two state solution. Trans-Jordan was created by the British out of two thirds of the Palestinian Mandate as a Arab state. The West Bank was occupied illegally by the Trans-Jordanian army in 1948, and tried to wipe out all signs of Jewish presence in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Yes the West Bank was occupied between 1948 and 1967 by Arab forces, but was reunited with greater Israel, after Jordan attack Israel in 1967.
There I fixed the statement.
khaled mishaal, you have been judged and found wanting. Your days are numbered and your demise is at hand. I promise you.
I want Israel to demand the 1920 borders of the mandate put forth by the occupying British.
With some dickering, this could work.
The Palestinians would want crossing rights to directly connect the two parts of their country.
The Israelis definitely want some special consideration for the Old City, which has places sacred to all the parties involved.
The right of return cuts both ways. What about Christian Arabs displaced from Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth? Those places used to be majority Christian, before Jordan conducted its programs against Jews and Christians.
Also, what about the Jews expelled from Iraq and other Muslim countries? And, what about the Jews expelled from the Jewish settlements on the Jordanian side of the green line, who returned to those settlements after the 1967 war. What right of return do they get?
Finally, there are irregularities to the cease fire line ending the 1949 war that is called the Green Line, that make no sense as a permanent border.
But, all of these things are like so many little details. If the other side accepts the principle of a two-state solution, they can be worked out.
It is not hard to imagine some swaps of land and some netting of the right of return. For example, evacuation of settlements on the wrong side of the Green Line, straightening of the Green Line, and extension of West Jerusalem (Israeli Jerusalem) to the Old City, along with shared sovereignty of the Old City. Each country could then establish its capital in Jerusalem.
With regard to displaced Arabs, Israel has stated it will accept those who can demonstrate that they were owners of land prior to fleeing the place when hostilities broke out. (Israel has a significant Arab minority, and those people do quite nicely in terms of education, economic opportunity, representation in government, and so forth.) These individuals, plus netting of displaced Arabs against displaced Jews should satisfy the responsibility of Israel. The Arab countries and in particular Palestine should take responsibility for the remaining displaced Arabs, Christian as well as Muslim. But, whether they do or not, is not Israel's concern.
With a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the spigot to UN refugee money should be shut off. The Arabs who have been living in tent cities (which have become brick and mortar cities) will have to get about life as free persons.
As there can be no binding oaths between men and lions, neither can wolves and lambs ever be of one mind, but hate each other for ever and ever. -The Iliad
No. When the stated goal, over and over, is the complete destruction of Israel, regardless of agreements, it won't work.
He may be lying. That's all we need to say. This means no unilateral concessions, and the only thing you agree to is either a comprehensive agreement, or incremental steps each one of which is justified on its own merits. Netanyahu is brilliant. If anybody can juggle the domestic politics and the geopolitics involved, he can.
Gosharoootirooo. Everything's all better now. I'll be so happy when I can leave my home, and all those "refugees" return to where my new home will be. They'll chase away the Sudanese "refugees" from Tel Aviv, except for the Muslims amongst them, and we'll all live happily ever after./must I say sarc?
Israel for it's part should set it's sights on a return to post Yom Kippur 1973 lines and a complete removal of all Arabics within those lines .
By whatever means necessary .
To have negotiated away Greater Israel gains after 1973 has been a huge mistake . There is never any benefit whatsoever in negotiating with the Arabs . Zero . They are the enemy and will remain so until the end of time .
Absolutely cut Gaza loose... not one sheckel of aid to them. And publicly hang every single HAMAS member the next time rockets fly from there.
Sorry, Mashaal, 45 years of acting like a chickenshit is going to count against you.
I accept 1500 BC borders.
The limits of the land given to the Jews by God through Moses and Joshua.
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A 36-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee. And within 24 hours, she has died.
New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton are back, in Robin Cook's electrifying 25th novel. Last seen in Vector, the doctors confront a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery.
Despite institutional resistance from her superiors, as well as from those at Manhattan General, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation. Though it seems impossible to determine why and how the patients are dying, she comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related, they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever serial killer with a very unusual motive, involving frightening ties to both developing genomic medicine and the economics of modern-day health care.
Then Laurie is dealt a double blow: While coping with Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, she discovers she carries a genetic marker for a breast-cancer gene. As her personal life continues to unravel, the need for answers becomes more urgent, especially when Laurie is pulled into the nightmare as a potential victim herself. With time winding down, she and Jack race to connect the dots, and save Laurie's life.
With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner as vivid as today's headlines.
©2005 Robin Cook; (P)2005 Penguin Audio and Recorded Books, LLC
"The best-selling physician/author is in top form as he revisits the love/hate relationship between New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and her lover, Jack Stapleton, in this gripping medical chiller." (Publishers Weekly)
"A bit too predictable"
As with previous Cook novels, this one is full of well developed characters and has a fast-paced and interesting story line. The only complaint is that the plot was way too predictable and I could see the climax coming during the second or third hour of this 14+ hour audio book. Although there were a few twists and turns along the way, the storyline and ending were predictable enough to leave me feeling generally dissapointed.
S. Bennett
"So disappointing!"
This was my first, and probably my last, Robin Cook novel. I had such high hopes for this book when I purchased it! Unfortunately, multiple factors conspired to make me hate it. The book is about some thirty- and forty-somethings, but the author reads them all as if they were very uptight and much older than stated. I can't tell how much of the problem is the narrator and how much is Mr. Cook's incredibly stuffy dialogue. The book keeps restating parts of the plot as if we have forgotten what happened thirty minutes ago, which I found annoying. I think my biggest issue, though, was the plot and subplots. I am a physician, and as such I have NEVER met forty-something doctors who are as oddly formal and 'official'-sounding as some of these characters. I also found it incredibly hard to believe that the characters involved didn't figure out some of the medical things that went on within their own lives a little quicker. Surely Laurie has done autopsies on women who died of the medical condition she has in this story-- and yet she has no clue?!? Finally, the idea that so many mysterious deaths are occurring at a hospital with a low morbidity rate, and yet the administration is not alarmed, drove me completely nutty. The most interesting part of the plot (a national conspiracy) was given about 2 minutes of time at the end of this overly-long story. By the end of the book I really didn't care what happened to the people involved. Hate to bum you out, but I really can't recomend this one.
Doctor of misanthropy
"Haven't I read this before?"
Seems like Cook's written this story a few times before. Formulaic and predictable. At least it's Cook's formula, and not derivative.
The story line had potential, but the writing is sophomoric, the dialogue stilted, and the narration is terrible. I wasted a credit on this one.
"Mediocre material beautfully narrated"
George Guidall enhances every book he narrates, lending nuance and drama to even the most pedestrian prose. This is a workmanlike thriller that feeds effectively on one's natural fear of lying helpless in a hospital bed. But the story never really grabs you -- there's a kind of mechanical feel to it, as if the author were following a mystery cookbook recipe. Had anyone but Guidall narrated the book, I doubt I would have stuck it out to the end.
"Predictable but still exciting"
I just finished listening to this audiobook, which I completed in less than a week (half the usual). The motivation to buy this book is that I used to be a fanatic of Robin Cook medical thrillers when I was in medical school back in the nineties. The last novel I had read was Contagion in 1998 and then I never had the time to read any more, until I discovered Audible. Well, I started listening to the book with a lot of enthusiasm and nostalgia, expecting to find it as exciting as his previous novels, but found it's too predictable from the beginning, as other reviewer pointed out. On the other hand, there are some medical aspects that are dificult to believe by any person minimally knowlegeable of how hospitals work. Being myself an M.D. I couldn't understand how nobody had though about Potassium Choride as the causal agent for the unexplained deaths, since it was so obvious. Well, it didn't make me lose interest, since I wanted to know the details of how the genetic markers fit into the plot. Bottom line, a bit dissapointing if you have read previous novels but still worth the time, specially since there are not many authors out there writing medical thrillers.
Love mysteries
Even better than some of Robin Cook's older books. I guess being able to predict the ending doesn't bother me much or I would give up reading mysteries all together. I enjoy the ride not just getting to the destination.
"No mystery here"
Looks like Robin Cook needed to redecorate his house and cranked out a formula book. The end was in sight within the first hour or so and there was little to keep my interest other than I was out of town with no other audio books available ...
I am someone who enjoys audible books very much now that they exist. As a young student (real young) I can remember a teacher telling me how books can transport people to different places & open up a whole new world. This is how listening to audible books make me feel. Now if I can just stop falling asleep while listening to them at night I would be fine. Ha ha
"Very interesting story line"
The story line was very good. It was a fresh approach to what could be called the evil in this world with a very suprising ending
I can't recall, but I did like this one a lot. It also proves how perserverance & dedication plays an important part in life.
No clue
Nice Narration too.
"Wish it was better"
I've read most of Robin Cook's books and while they are enjoyable most seem to have the same plot - our hero against the big bad managed care company. How about something a little different?
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Union reps of the employees who will lose their jobs early next year when what used to be the old Nabisco plant closes have not yet met with the Boulevard and Byberry facility's owner to negotiate severance and other benefits.
Echoing elected officials' call for a boycott of Oreos and other snack foods made by Mondelez International, the union whose members will lose their jobs when the company closes its Northeast Philadelphia plant next year also is asking the public not to buy the company's products.
State Sen. Mike Stack said Oreos are his wife's favorite cookie, but he's not going to buy them anymore.
More than 350 jobs will be lost when the old Nabisco bakery at the Boulevard and Byberry closes early next year, lawmakers are saying.
The iconic old Nabisco bakery will be closed by early next year, the facility's current owner, Mondelez International, announced today. Mondelez spokeswoman Laurie Guzzinati this afternoon said Mondelez was consolidating its East Coast operations and will invest heavily in facilities in Fair Lawn, N.J., and Richmond, Va. The company said 350 employees will lose their jobs.
State and city officials met with Mondelez International executives last week to discuss the possible closing of the company's landmark Boulevard bakery, but the only news out of the session held Nov. 21 at the Bellevue in Center City is that there probably will be more meetings.
An in-house announcement last week that the company that owns the old Kraft plant at Byberry and the Boulevard was considering closing it sent city and state officials scrambling to find out what they could do to save the large bakery's almost 300 union jobs and keep Oreos baking in the Northeast.
State Sen. Mike Stack, state Reps. Kevin and Brendan Boyle and bakers' union leaders today promised to do everything they can to make sure the half-century-old former Kraft plant at Byberry and the Boulevard doesn't close, taking away the smell of baking Oreos and about 300 union jobs.


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Here is ''Under The Mistletoe''
Here is ''Under The Mistletoe''
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
Who is this guy?
ETA: Just seen others replies. I've never heard of him before!
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I'm sorry but I wish his mistletoe was attached to a falling anvil.
'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!' (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol)
Bieber seems to be going for a more mature look for this release.
Justin Bieber isn't for me.
I love this song. <3


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Skip to comments.DUmmie FUnnies 12-19-09 (KOmmies Now Hate ObamaCare)
Posted on 12/19/2009 7:04:37 AM PST by PJ-Comix
You can now add the KOmmies to the ranks of those who HATE the Harry Reid version of ObamaCare. For some reason, the Democrats seem intent on committing electoral suicide in order to ensure that some bill, ANY bill, passes the Senate by Christmas. You can see the KOmmie angst over ObamaCare (ReidCare) in this THREAD, "Voters Revolt: Only 33% Support for New Senate Health Care Bill." The KOmmies object to ReidCare because it doesn't include their beloved option. Rational people oppose it because it does way more harm than good. In fact, Robert Byrd may be the first victim of ReidCare because they just wheeled him into the Senate in the middle of a cold snowstorm so he could vote on a Senate procedural vote that would have stalled the ReidCare vote. He sure didn't look healthy and ReidCare just might claim him as a victim. Another victim of ReidCare is Harry Reid's own political career. All he is doing is making himself even more unpopular that he already is in Nevada where they are more likely to terminate his career in 2010. So let us now watch the KOmmies wail about Reidcare in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, holding a suicide watch for Democrats, is in the [barackets]:
Voters Revolt: Only 33% Support for New Senate Health Care Bill
[And 100% of Harry Reid is intent on committing political suicide.]
A new Research 2000 poll from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America shows that voters support a health care bill with a public option by an overwhelming majority, 59% to 31%--but when it comes to the newest Senate health care bill, with mandates and no public option, those numbers are nearly reversed. By caving to Joe Lieberman, Democrats are about to push for a bill with only 33% support.
[Progressive Change in the title of that outfit shows the poll is questionable as far as support for public option. Now on to the other KOmmies...]
let the repubs sink it, and let them own the sinking of heath care reform. then bring it up again in three months, and if they dont cooperate, let them sink it again. then bring it up every 3 months till there arent any republicans left in congress.
[An analysis worthy of one Pied Piper Pitt.]
Democrats should know better than to hang this stinking Albotross around our necks as we go into the 2010 election.
[Thank you, Harry Reid.]
Imagine when people are forced to pay for this junk insurance.
[It would make the current Tea Parties seem like small affairs.]
The peasants are revolting!
[The KOmmies stink on ice!]
This bill is getting shittier by the second, and even the general public knows this.
[ObamaCare started out crappy.]
This is 94 redux--the bill has become so f*cked up with politics, that any good it would have done has already been removed from it.
[Politics? GASP! You mean politicians were bought off to support this bill?]
If the Dems force this bill down people's throats, they will do much worse at the polls.
[With Harry Reid as a victim.]
There's nothing politically to be gained by passing this current bill. NOTHING. When you do something that 2/3 of the country is telling you not to do, they respond by voting against you. That's how things work.
[Get your popcorn ready for Election Night 2010.]
From where I'm sitting, it looks as if the GOP is going to win. Losing the 2008 election will mean jack in the long run (in the short run it's a definite win for the Democrats and the American people as McCain/Palin would be a lot worse) if they are able to let the Democrats commit political suicide with this bill and then regain both houses in 2010 and the WH in 2012. In their world, they win, their large corporate buddies win, the Americans will hate the Democrats for forcing them to buy insurance, Labor will be apathetic at best to Democrats for a few years.....
[Yeah, being FORCED to buy insurance will make the voters just love the Democrats...NOT!]
This constant support of Lieberman so he can do the dirty deeds our leadership wants done but doesn't have the balls to do themselves is sickening. Obama should apologize to Dean.
Sometimes I think Republicans are correct when they say life is cheap to many people on the Left.
ibtp yay!
Top 10!
If we don't connect between now and Christmas, here's a hearty Merry Christmas to you and your lovely wife. And to all on DUFunnies, as well.
Let's face it, DUmmies hate life itself...
top 10!
So it is normal for the Dems to hoodwink the public?
Please add me to your ping list.
Starting to doubt their own communism?? They are questioning far more than the bill. They're questioning their beliefs.
Mary Christ-mas
They sure did. The pubbies did little to fight although today they are at least making a show of it. Too little too late MAYBE but it looks that way.
The final vote hasn't been taken yet so we still have a chance to kill it.
You have to wonder about that new Democrat strategist who is advising Obama to push this in the face of such obvious and growing opposition by the public. What's that guy's name again? I think it's...Grove. Kurt Grove, that's him.
The taaxes would start immediately and the faux benefits for the poor and illegals would kick in years later.
What a stupid idea. Great way to ramp up support huh?
Fact is everyone thinks insurance premiums would double before the "benefits" kick in. So force people to buy it??
Thats criminal. Its unconstitutional.
The far right hate it. The far left hate it. The center right hate it. But it is going to pass anyway. Something is wrong. Bad wrong. Do the Democrats know they will still be in control after November 2010?
I guess I will just go out and buy me a new rifle. I am thinking about a Henry chambered in .45 Long Colt.
You are right. Something is VERY WRONG here. No one wants this bill..yet it is being shoved down our throats ..sight unseen..in a hurry.
It is political suicide..unless they know they are going to be reelected through fraud.
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #1041.
Let's quit calling it Obamacare and come with a more descriptive word bite. Something like...
The Obamanation of desolation (and put a rap beat on it)
aomba America
Either Obama intends to be President-for-Life like Hugo Chavez or Robert Mugabe, or else he figures that it's more important to push the US in a major way towards communism in one term than to have two terms as President.
Not that many left-wing leaders have been willing to give up power once they have it.
Just how tight is Hussein with the insurance companies? I k now they were big donators to his campaign. Between the "stimulus" money that he's holding back, just in time for his re-election campaign, and his possible chumminess with the insurance companies (AARP is his b*tch), he's got lots of money to shovel to ACORN-added to the fact that the ban on funding to them was just overturned with small fanfare-he's got all kinds of ways to pay off all kinds of people in upcoming elections, the better to induce fraud. Plus his support amongst blacks, for what that's worth (and you can't oppose a minority or call them on shadiness without having the racism card thrown at you) has actually risen. He may believe that he has this covered, no matter what he does.
Fo schizzle.
... they will end up with even more staff defections.
Not necessarily -- a nice 'tombstone' can cost...
These Democrats are Third Way politicians: Only a Third support their bill, but they'll find a Way to pass it anyhow.
Cash for Junkers.
The Dems are dining on peasant under-class.
Crap and Betrayed.
I only hope the Republicans can get their dux in a row.
They're giving us the Big Lewinsky, forcing this bill down our throat.
Tune: "Chain Gang" Original MIDI
I hear somethin' sayin'
(Well, don't you know)
That's the sound Underground, worried 'bout the Change Gang
Bein' chained and detained, workin' for the Change Gang
All day long they're sayin'
(Well, don't you know)
That's the sound Underground, worried 'bout the Change Gang
Bein' chained and detained, workin' for the Change Gang
All the Dems they used to love
Now they hate, you hear 'em wail
Worried 'bout insurance procurance
And goin', goin' to jail
You hear them bashin' their president
Then you hear just what it meant
That's the sound Underground, worried 'bout the Change Gang
Bein' chained and detained, workin' for the Change Gang
Can't ya hear them sayin', mmm
I'm doin' time--no insurance--I'm doin' time
Serve my sentence, it's at least a year
But meanwhile I got to live in fear
(Well, don't you know)
That's the sound Underground, worried 'bout the Change Gang
Bein' chained and detained, workin' for the Change Gang
All day long they're sayin', mmm
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my Democrats lied
Give me health care, I'm angry
My, my Democrats lied . . .
Reid it and weep!
Reid it and reap!
A kind reach-out to any from the Democratic Underground:
"Sometimes I think Republicans are correct when they say life is cheap to many people on the Left."
As a former lib, I can tell you that this is a root philosophy of conservatism:
Human life is precious.
To conservatives, human life is more precious than sucker fish. Human life is more precious than flies. Conservatives honor people who spare no expense for the health of loved ones. Conservatives respect those who spare no expense for their own health.
It seems noble to force the rich to pay for other peoples' health, but please look at it this way: is it noble to force the rich to pay for drug addicts' health? Is it noble to force the rich to pay for a drunk's health? Is it noble to force the rich to pay for the health of illegal immigrants?
Charity is served best from the heart, not when it is forced on people. You force someone to pay money to strangers, and that person will stop and consider worst-case scenarios of how his or her money is being thrown down a rat hole.
Another concept of conservatism: Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt not steal. Social liberalism is about the legalization of theft and the encouragement of coveting.
[I will add this to my profile for a while.]
Affirmative action top ten!
Is there a public option and is their abortion funding in this bill?
The final vote hasn't been taken yet so we still have a chance to kill it."
I thought they now have their 60 votes. Oh I wish Rush was on right now!
They have the *promise* of 60 votes but remember: these are politicians. Anything can happen.
For instance: Virginia Senator Jim Webb is a democrat but pretty independent in a you-never-know-what-he's-going-to-do-next kind of way. He put out an email to us virginians asking us what we think. Maybe he is wavering. Who knows? But he could vote no at the last minute.
Intense uproar from the people *might* change a vote or two, we won't know until we try.
Patience. Faith, even if we lose this bill we have many ways to fight its legality and implementation. :0)
Runners-up for the Top Ten Primitives of 2009 up now.
Link on next comment, below.
They were expecting a government owned health care system and got corporate welfare for insurance companies instead. With restrictions on funding abortions thrown in for good measure.
I thought they were going to vote on it tonight.
Me too. I thought there was an 8PM vote but I have been doing other stuff and not following. Did it not happen?
According to the most recent report on FNC, it is scheduled for Christmas Eve.
OK. Thanks!
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