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For the Thunder Bay Kings, the 2,600 plus kilometre trek from Northern Ontario was well worth it.
The Kings capped off the long journey with a 5-2 victory over Pursuit of Excellence Sunday afternoon to capture the 34th annual Daily Courier International Elite Midget Hockey Tournament.
It's the second championship for the Kings in five years. They beat Hamilton 4-1 in the 2009 title game.
"We didn't come out to BC to practice our penalty killing or practice our power-play or practice our systems we came out here to execute our systems and for the most part we did that this week," says victorious Kings head coach Darrin Nicholas.
"This is a big deal for us. It gives us a chance to see some teams we would never get to play. Our road to the national championship goes through Saskatchewan and Manitoba as well so we need to play some western based teams just to get a flavour of the type of hockey that's being played out there."
After an opening game blip, a 3-2 overtime loss to Calgary Edge, the Kings, who had only played three times in the last two months, got on a roll that didn't stop.
They won their final four round robin games and Saturday's semi-final before Sunday's title victory.
Despite the score, the outcome was never really in doubt.
Even through a scoreless opening period, Thunder Bay carried much of the play with their strong, physical forecheck.
But, it was special teams that punctuated the victory.
Brad Arabia opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal two minutes into the second period. After giving up a power-play marker to POE on the same man advantage Thunder Bay took over the balance of the period.
Keaton Longpre on a power-play and Billy Exell with the teams at even strength increased the margin to two heading into the final frame.
Ryan McQueen went five-hole early in the third to put Thunder Bay up three before the winners ran into penalty trouble that could have derailed a title run.
"Our penalty killing has been strong for us all year long. We gave up a couple of power-play goals today but we don't play in this game unless we kill off 14 minutes in penalties in the semi-final last night," added Nicholas.
Key in that were a pair of lengthy five-on-three kills that faced his club midway through the third.
POE was able to manage one goal late in the second five-on-three but were not able to muster much after that.
Ryan Burton sealed the win with an empty net goal in the final minute.
Matt Lueken and Brody Saywell scored goals for Pursuit of Excellence who were trying to become the first none AAAA Kelowna team to win the tournament.
Thunder Bay was making their 12th straight visit to the tournament.
Sunday's win guarantees they will be back for lucky 13.


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EFF Demands Refunds for Invalid MSN Music Store Purchases
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday demanded that Microsoft issue refunds for MSN Music Store purchases that will be inaccessible after Microsoft deletes the music store servers this summer.
Microsoft announced last week that as of August 31, the company will delete its MSN Music license servers, so music purchased from the now-defunct MSN Music Store will be accessible only via the five computers you authorized to play the tunes.
Customers can apparently burn their purchased music to CDs and upload that to their new computers, but EFF says that is "woefully insufficient to redress the problem."
"Microsoft is asking its customers to invest more time, labor, and money in order to continue to enjoy the music for which they have already paid," Shari Steele, EFF executive director, wrote in a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Steele called on Ballmer to formally apologize to customers affected by the change. Customers should also be offered a refund for music purchased, or replacements from an online store that offers the same tracks in a DRM-free format, she wrote.
She also requested that Microsoft provide customers with proof of purchase, work with industry partners to eliminate DRM from the Zune music catalog, and widely publicize its efforts "so that Microsoft customers know their options."
Microsoft general manager Rob Bennett told CNet last week that continued support for Music Store purchases was impractical, and that the focus should instead be placed on the Zune. "No one ever foresaw being in this situation," Bennett said.
EFF was skeptical. "The situation was easily foreseeable when Microsoft shut down the MSN Music Store back in 2006," Steele wrote.
Microsoft launched the MSN Music Store in September, 2004, in an effort to compete with Apple's iTunes, but it never made much of a dent in iTunes' business. Two years later, Microsoft started redirecting MSN Music Store shoppers to the Zune Marketplace.

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"Hey! How about adding a category for us girls: Which one of the 4 quarterbacks is the hottest?"First of all, we respect and appreciate any women hanging out with us here in the M Zone. Any ladies who follow sports, especially college football, are all right in our book.
Obviously, we didn't realize you were out there reading on a regular basis. But continue to comment and send us emails and, like ESPN adding the WNBA scores to the bottom of the sports ticker, we'll put up more posts geared your way (plus Benny thinks if we do, he might get laid. Doubtful).
So this post is for the M Zone women (and any guys who want to vote as well...not that there's anything wrong with that). Per your request, the M Zone presents...
See, just ask and we listen, ladies (which only works because we're not married to you or dating you).
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With more than $36,000 expended for scholarships in 2012 alone, the Mount Vernon Rotary Club is hoping for exceptional community support for its scholarship fund raising dinner next week.
The dinner, which will mark the 75th Anniversary of the Mount Vernon Club, has been set for 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 at the Rosemary Jennings Hall of the First United Methodist Church. See the Nov. 7 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for more details about the scholarships offered and the event.


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DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit police have arrested a 22-year-old ex-convict they say offered to help a husband and wife in a stalled vehicle before sexually assaulting the woman.
Police say a 55-year-woman and her 63-year-old husband were in the vehicle Jan. 1 on the city's east side when the man approached them. Police say the suspect showed a weapon, demanded money and sexually assaulted the woman.
Police say the woman was treated and released. Her husband wasn't injured.
Detroit police say they identified a suspect, who was arrested in Livonia.
Twenty-two-year-old Howard McKnight was arraigned Sunday in Detroit District Court on kidnapping, armed robbery, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, repeat offender and other charges.
He's jailed on a $1 million bond and returns to court Jan. 22. It's unknown if he has a lawyer.


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Evil BeagleMommy suggested he send the coworker a graduation card since she did all the work.
I wouldn't even send a card. I'd simply respond with my regrets and forget about it.
Polite regrets and a quick e-mail to the "school" that's graduating him, perhaps?
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STAWELL - Representatives from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union are lobbying to ensure employees at Stawell Gold Mines will be put on a fast track scheme for support payments once their employment ceases with the company.
Duncan MacGregor, who is organiser for the Victorian District Mining and Energy Division, has been meeting with management and staff at Stawell Gold Mines, since the announcement that the mine's owner, Crocodile Gold, would commence winding down the underground operation.
Mr MacGregor said he had worked closely with the mine's general manager Troy Cole since the transition phase commenced in July, to ensure the best outcome for all staff.
"Our main concern is for the welfare of the employees," Mr MacGregor said.
"We have met with representatives from the Northern Grampians Shire Council and have asked them to lobby the Federal Government for support. We are seeking to have the employees considered for immediate qualification for the Stream III Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations/Job Services Australia Assistance Program.
"A Stream III qualification would give them immediate access to a range of assistance such as retraining, recognition of prior learning and greatly assist in the ability of these good people to find alternative and hopefully meaningful employment.
"If we are able to find employment for these people, in the short term, it will not only lessen the stress and tension to themselves and their families in such a difficult time, but will hopefully limit the downstream effect that this closure will have on the greater Stawell community."
Mr MacGregor said mine employees had skills that can be utilised above ground. He hopes mine management, council and business operators will work together to generate job opportunities for those people from the mine who want to remain in the community.
"If these opportunities don't present themselves, then you lose not only the worker, but a wife who could also be employed at the hospital or as a shop assistant, the children from a school and the flow on effect from that would be the loss of a teacher," he said.
"So the impact isn't just on one person, it impacts on the community as a whole.
"We are concerned for the welfare of our members and their families as they move into a new phase in their lives."


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COLLINGWOOD chief executive Gary Pert has described comments made by players' union boss Matt Finnis as ''inaccurate, ignorant and inflammatory'' as tension over the illicit drugs debate escalates.
Pert, who has emerged as a key figure in the push for change to the three-strikes code, was incensed with Finnis, claiming the AFL Players Association boss, while defending the policy, had taken ''pot shots'' by declaring ''we do not need posturing and speculation by officials and the media''.
Finnis also claimed: ''It is ridiculous and self-serving to blame the testing regimen for the fact that a small minority of players have used illicit drugs.'' This prompted Pert to respond in an email sent to AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou and club chief executives: ''You stated in your article illicit drugs are used by a small minority of AFL players - based on this claim have you ever done a detailed, independent study on exactly how many players in the AFL use illegal drugs at any stage during the year? No. Has anyone completed a detailed study on behalf of the clubs on the ongoing impact of the speculation around player behaviour in regards to illicit drug use? No. Are AFL players exploiting the loopholes in the current IDP created by the AFL and the AFLPA? I'm interested in your thoughts.''
While Pert did admit he and Finnis shared a common commitment to deal with the drugs issue, Pert wrote: ''Your statement that there is no need for 'contributors' to think about the AFL and club brands and reputations is a sad indictment to come from the head of the AFLPA.''


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ARARAT - Business transition plans submitted to the State Government on the future of the NMIT Aradale campus in Ararat may see part of the campus subdivided and sold, however, NMIT will continue to maintain a presence in Ararat.
Member for Ripon Joe Helper said details of the full impact of almost $300 million in cuts to TAFE funding have been revealed in a leaked cabinet document which spelt out how courses would be slashed, jobs lost and campuses closed.
"The transition plan will have a devastating impact on the TAFE sector, particularly in regional Victoria. The Government either does not understand or does not care about the importance of the TAFE system to regional Victorians. The Baillieu Government has shown the same disregard for regional Victoria as it did when it cut funding for the DPI offices and the CFA."
"If anyone thought that cutting $300 million would not have an impact locally then you just need to look at the transition plan for NMIT and its Ararat campus. The campus, situated in one of Victoria's prime wine making regions, provides strong support to our local wine industry.
"The Ararat campus will be forced make a significant 'organisational restructure' in an effort to manage its share of the funding cuts for NMIT. There appear to also be preliminary plans to sell off part of the Ararat site.
"Ararat is currently working through the Prison redevelopment debacle and is now faced with the further challenge of managing the changes to TAFE funding and the impact they will have on the wider community."
An NMIT spokesperson said NMIT would continue to maintain a presence in Ararat in some form.
The spokesperson said that in the transition plan was a proposal to retain the Ararat campus, but potentially subdivide the site and sell off part of it for reinvestment.
"This may include the part of the site including the old heritage buildings, which may well be returned to the state, unless there is an appropriate new development option for the buildings," the spokesperson said.
"If some subdivision occurs there will be some assets retained for NMIT including the winery, vineyard, olive plantation, lavender and training centre.
"In all likelihood it (campus) will be retained but a portion of the site subdivided."
The NMIT spokesperson said included in the assets on the site were a number of houses in Grano Street.
He said there is also a proposal to have each house placed on its own title and sold.
"We want to stress that all proposals in the business transition plan are just proposals at the moment," he said.
"We have had no kind of solid feedback from the government yet and don't expect it in any formal sense until late October.
"The proposals around Ararat site are in a smaller category... and we are not anticipating the government will move on the proposal regarding Ararat in the short term."
Currently there are no stand alone full courses conducted at the Ararat Campus, but students from other campuses utilise the facilities.
Viticulture and agriculture departments of NMIT use the facilities to supplement courses conducted at other campuses.
While there are only a small number of staff at the NMIT Aradale Campus at present, the spokesperson said what ever happens in relation to the proposals, staff will be required to keep it operational.


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No Transcendence, Only Laconic Commentary
He lies stretched out, arms crossed beneath his head, one leg bent, the other leg extended. Exactly as people lie when they have time to relax; in summer, for instance, when the weather's warm, and they just want to enjoy the sunshine. What a shame, then, that he won't be able to relax in this environment. The man is lying on the edge of an abyss. It could be the edge of an oversized table, made of hard wood. Not a place where it's possible to feel comfortable; also because of the two walls, one on the left and one in the background. They loom over him like monoliths, one black, the other grey. So why is this person lying there? It surely can't be in order to relax. Perhaps he can't get away from this place; perhaps he's confined here, has been hurling himself at the walls and is now exhausted. Is he a prisoner?
Godot in the West Bank
"Waiting #02" is the name of the painting by the artist Hani Zurob, born in Rafah in 1976. The situation depicted on the painting can be interpreted in many ways: as universally human, in the best existential tradition. But it can also be interpreted politically. And when a Palestinian artist paints a scene like this, the reference that immediately suggests itself is to the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Inevitably, the reclining figure then reminds the viewer of the unemployed men we so often see on television, usually sitting in cafés, chatting, playing cards or chess, killing time, one way or another. An artistic commentary on the hopeless situation in the Palestinian territories, then, where for some people the passage of time is as miserably slow as in Salvador Dalí's pictures of the melting clocks?
Man and mask
Hani Zurob, who now lives and works in Paris, is enough of an artist to leave the interpretation open, as in all his other works. A child riding a toy car in front of a grey surface: it could be a wall, it could be the wall.
"Flying lesson #02 (Gravity)" is the title of this work, painted in 2009. No carefree childhood this. "Standby", a series of painted-over portraits from the same year lso lend themselves to a political interpretation: people without faces, as if they are wearing masks. Faceless people, figures that lack all individuality. Palestinians as a collective political plaything?
It can be understood in this way, but it doesn't have to be. A fundamental element of art is that it is also the art of ambiguity. And Hani Zurob's art is ambiguous, for it points not only in the direction of Palestine but also in the direction of Western Modernism. One is reminded of the haunting image in Edvard Munch's "The Scream", of the maltreated figures in the works of Max Beckmann, of the deformed, grotesque faces painted by Francis Bacon. All of them artists who were open to horror, whatever its source: the self, battling with its inner demons, perhaps even helpless in their grasp; or it may have an external source, the result of politics gone awry.
In any case, art devoted to horror has long since established its norms, has become "global art". Its aesthetics transcend all boundaries, they are comprehensible to all. In Palestine, too, this style of art was adopted quite some time ago.
Post-heroic art
But on the other hand: is it possible to express oneself otherwise? Is the political art of earlier years still convincing? Apparently not. The "activist" art of someone like Abdul Hay Musallam, who became a chronicler of the Palestinian resistance, has for the most part had its day. "Al sumud" ("Steadfastness") was a heroic epic created in 1983 and dedicated to the fighters of Ain al-Hilweh, the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been attacked the previous year by the Israeli army. But heroic images like these are rarely seen in contemporary Palestinian art.
No, indeed – artistic exhortations to the people to stand firm are scarcely to be found in contemporary Palestinian art; how could they be? The peace process with Israel has stagnated, the West Bank can barely hold its own against its more powerful neighbour; it is forced to acquiesce to bitter territorial losses as a result of settlement building. Added to this, the Palestinians themselves are divided, split into the opposing camps of Fatah and Hamas. Disillusionment abounds, and this is mirrored in the works of Palestinian artists. Their art is clearly post-heroic; in these leaden times, they express themselves in laconic touches.
Farewell, dreamscapes
The warning sign for an Israeli checkpoint glows in soft, pastel colours in a work by Jad Salman, born in Tulkarem in 1983 and now living in Paris: it has those gentle tones familiar from the Mediterranean landscapes of August Macke, Paul Klee or Henri Matisse – an ironically stylised idyll, simulating a picturesque charm of a kind that, in the West Bank, no longer exists. Nature has been transformed into piecemeal administrative districts drafted on the drawing boards of politics. A wall several metres high eats its way along the border, dividing what its architects believe should forever be kept asunder.
Not even the Almighty could get anywhere with a situation like this – or so, at least, we are given to understand by Suleiman Mansour (b. 1947 in Birzeit). He has painted the outstretched fingers of God and Adam on the separation wall in Ramallah – the central image of that great painting once created by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Yet whereas in the Renaissance masterpiece the Creator and his creature were almost able to join hands, in Ramallah the fingers of God and Adam are several metres apart. In Palestine, even a simple handshake is clearly beyond the bounds of possibility.
The horrors of war
And when encounters do take place, they are often not entirely smoothly. Not, at least, as depicted by the artist Vera Tamari, born in Jerusalem in 1945, now living in Ramallah. "Going for a Ride" is the title of her installation from 2002, which displays four flattened automobiles lined up neatly alongside each other. In the West, this would be read as a criticism of the disposable society – in Palestine, however, it provokes associations with unfortunate encounters with Israeli tanks, incidents on that "road to nowhere" that leads out of Tamari's artwork and into nothingness.
The Jerusalem-based artist Rula Halawani highlights the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an even more direct, brutal, immediate way than Tamari. "Negative Incursion" is the title of her series of negative prints, from photographs taken in 2002 during the five-week siege by Israeli troops of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The horrors of war reveal themselves here in drastic form.
Art as chronology
Palestinian art documents reality, and simultaneously reveals a lot about itself. It is highly political, and simultaneously jaded in the extreme – at least in the sense that it is unable to oppose a too large a reality with any spaces of its own. Art does not lead to a better world; all that is left to it is the escape into irony and laconic commentary.
On the other hand: who still looks to art for redemption these days? Transcendence as a category is well past its sell-by date. Ideally, art may be set up in opposition to reality. However, faced with a reality that is overpowering it can do little more than simply bear witness to it. It adopts the function of chronology. It is unable to believe in better worlds. It is even less prepared to create them. Kersten Knipp © Qantara.de 2010 Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
This year, for the first time, Palestine will be showcasing its artistic talent at the Venice Biennale, the world's biggest and liveliest contemporary art extravaganza. Palestinian curator and art historian Salwa Mikdadi managed to put the exhibition together exclusively with Palestinian funding. Interview by Irmgard Berner


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I read the book that O.J. wrote from jail, plus books written by Nicole Brown's sister, by her best friend Faye Resnick, and countless others written about the case by lawyers and various experts. My television was pretty much permanently tuned into CNN that summer. When the trial went into the fall, I even had to call in sick for class the morning that the verdict was announced so that I would be able to watch it.
Being able to watch the court proceedings allowed a real glimpse into the case and I found it very interesting. Seeing the trial unfold with the whole media frenzy surrounding it was kind of like 'reality television' before its time.
When news broke recently that O.J. Simpson had been arrested again and may face life in prison for the ten charges against him in connection with an armed robbery and kidnapping incident in Las Vegas, of course Eddie e-mailed me right away, "So, you think he's innocent again?"
What do I think now? Well, I think that he's certainly got some anger issues and obviously, he has a violent past. There's no arguing that. Maybe he did get away with murder. He really lost me when he wrote and published If I Did It last year, a book explaining how and why he would have committed these murders, had he been the actual murderer.
This whole new case is definitely fishy...a set up? I think it's a possibility. All of the victims are serious criminals. It's certainly a sketchy story. Whatever the truth is, the chances of O.J. actually getting sentenced to life in prison are I'm sure, about as likely as getting away with murder...oh, wait...
Perhaps I have missed my true calling as a criminal lawyer. Maybe it's not too late...but I'll only work for high profile celebrity clients. And I will only wear Prada suits when I'm in the courtroom.


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UBS $1.5 Billion Libor Settlement Signals More to ComeSilla Brush and Phil Mattingly
UBS AG's $1.5 billion settlement for manipulation of interest rates and criminal charges against two former traders paves the way for additional sanctions in a global investigation of more than a dozen banks and brokers.
Switzerland's biggest bank settled with U.S., U.K. and Swiss regulators for manipulating rates thousands of times over six years through relationships with multiple banks and brokers. Two traders were charged with conspiracy in a criminal complaint, while UBS's Japanese affiliate pleaded guilty in the U.S. to felony wire fraud. Hong Kong authorities today said they've started a probe into potential misconduct by the bank.
"UBS sometimes acted alone, sometimes in two-way collusion with at least four other banks and sometimes it violated the law with the assistance of one or more of five inter-dealer brokers," David Meister, head of enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in a news conference in Washington.
The UBS settlement is the second in the investigation of global interest rate benchmarks after Barclays Plc agreed to pay 290 million pounds in June. Regulators have sought information from more than a dozen banks that set rates in the U.S., Europe and Japan that underpin more than $300 trillion in contracts worldwide.
Probes Continue
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has started an investigation to see if there was wrongdoing by UBS in its submission of data for setting the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate, according to a statement from the de-facto central bank today. The HKMA is also reviewing whether the potential misconduct may have had a material impact on the rates.
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc is in settlement negotiations with regulators, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Meanwhile, traders at Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Agricole SA and HSBC Holdings Plc are under investigation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the probes are continuing.
The UBS settlement for the first time details how brokers played a role in the manipulation. ICAP Plc, the world's largest broker of transactions between banks, said in May that it had received requests from government agencies probing banks' submissions to the London interbank offered rate.
"I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg from the perspective of regulators going after financial firms," Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a telephone interview.
'Pervasive' Behaviour
Regulators found that traders at the Zurich-based bank made more than 2,000 requests to its own rate submitters, traders at other banks and brokers to manipulate rate submissions through
2010. At least 45 bank employees, including some managers, knew of the "pervasive" practice and a further 70 people were included in open chats and messages where attempts to manipulate Libor and Euribor were discussed, the U.K. Financial Services Authority said.
Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general and head of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division, said the manipulation of global interest rates is "one of the most significant scandals ever to hit the global banking industry," and UBS may have been one of the worst actors.
"The bank's conduct was simply astonishing," Breuer said at the news conference in Washington.
The U.S. Justice Department said Tom Alexander William Hayes and Roger Darin were part of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud from September 2006 to 2009. Hayes, 33, served as a senior yen swaps trader at UBS in Tokyo, while Darin, 41, worked as a short-term interest rates trader at UBS in Singapore, Tokyo and Zurich, the U.S. said.
Getting Rich
"Make no mistake, for UBS traders, the manipulation of Libor was about getting rich,'" Breuer said.
Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Darin "conspired with others known and unknown within UBS to cause the bank to make false and misleading yen Libor submissions to the British Bankers' Association."
Darin didn't respond to a voice-mail message, and efforts by Bloomberg News to contact Hayes and his lawyer were unsuccessful. Wire fraud and conspiracy convictions carry a maximum prison sentence of 30 years and a $1 million fine for each count. Antitrust convictions carry a 10-year maximum sentence and $1 million fine.
Hayes, in a March 2009 message, asked a broker to help influence nine of the 16 banks contributing to the Yen Libor rate, naming the unidentified banks in separate messages.
Champagne Shipments
"Got it mate," came the response from the broker, identified only as "Broker-C" in the Justice Department documents.
In a separate conversation earlier in the month, Hayes again requested a broker to push for two separate banks to lower their submissions.
Brokers were compensated for assisting Hayes in manipulating Libor through a special bonus and "other perks," according to the Justice Department. Hayes, noting how helpful a broker had been, said in an August 2008 message to a colleague "Yeah… I reckon I owe him a lot more."
"He's ok with the annual champagne shipment, a few [drinking sessions] with [his supervisor] and a small bonus now and then," the broker responded.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Last year, a number of Dutch supermarket chains began boycotting Israeli products, or at least products from Israeli Jews living in the contested areas of Judea and Samaria, the so-called "West Bank."
Chabad representatives in Holland are now telling Israel National News that pro-Israel Christian groups in the European country have managed to at least partially break the boycott.
According to the report, the Christians threatened to in turn boycott the chains in question if they continued to bar Israeli products from their shelves. At least one chain is said to have acquiesced and returned Israeli products to its shelves in time for Passover.
The development is yet another high-profile failure for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to isolate and economically damage the Jewish state in service to the Palestinian nationalist cause.
Recently, Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson made waves when she refused to bow to BDS pressure and renege on her deal to become a spokeswoman for Israeli soda-maker SodaStream, which operates a factory in the West Bank that employs hundreds of Palestinian Arabs.
Johansson even ended a long-time relationship with UK-based humanitarian group Oxfam over the fiasco. She accused the group of unfairly singling out Israel for criticism.
And, while their supposed supporters in the international arena are bullying others into boycotting Israeli goods, the Palestinians themselves have actually increased imports from the Jewish state.
Recent reports published by the Palestinian Bureau of Statistic reveal that imports from Israel are up by over 17 percent over the past year, while imports from other countries are down by over 16 percent.
As we previously reported, Palestinian Arabs simply prefer to buy "Blue & White."
In related news, the BDS movement recently showed its ugly side when activists at the University of Michigan reportedly shouted racial slurs and issued death threats against both Jewish and non-Jewish students who refused to support a motion to divest from Israel.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, numerous students were called "dirty Jews," and at least one was on the receiving end of "physical threats" from BDS activists during a gathering at the student government's headquarters to discuss the issue.
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Gloria L. Kallenbach, 88, of Carmi, died Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi.
Gloria L. Kallenbach, 88, of Carmi, died Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi. She was born July 1, 1924, in Enfield, the daughter of William and Cora (McKenzie) Draper. She was married to Glenn Kallenbach and he survives.
Gloria was a member of First Christian Church in Carmi and a graduate of Alton-Wood River High School. Her working career included serving as a cook at Brownsville School and later as secretary and administrator for the Doctors Clinic in Carmi. In her leisure time she enjoyed quilting.
Survivors include her husband Glenn Kallenbach of Carmi; son Gary Kallenbach and his wife Dorothy of Olney; brothers Carl Draper of Wood River, and Paul Draper and his wife Armenda of Alton; sister-in-law Marynell Draper of Hartford; grandchildren and their spouses Tonya and Randall Mowrer, Kenna and Richard Lee, Amy and Jon Roeder, and Jason and Lindsey Berger; and 13 great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; daughter Karen Sue Berger; son Dale Kallenbach; and brothers Kenneth Draper and Robert Draper.
Visitation and funeral are Saturday, January 19, at Cook Funeral Chapel in Carmi. Visitation is at 9 a.m. and the funeral is at 11 a.m. Burial will be in White County Memorial Garden near Carmi.
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BLAMER, DR. WILLIAM C. "BILL" Higgins Lake and Flint
Dr. William C. "Bill" Blamer, of Higgins Lake and Flint, age 91, passed away Monday, August 12, 2013 at Genesys Hospice. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, August 17, 2013 at Woodside Church, 1509 E. Court Street, 1509 E. Court Street, Flint, MI. Burial at Gerrish Township Cemetery, Roscommon, MI. Visitation 5-8 p.m. Thursday and 3-7 p.m. Friday at the Brown Funeral Home, 1480 E. Hill Road, Grand Blanc, MI and 9-10 a.m. Saturday at church. Dr. Blamer was born November 8, 1921 in Atlanta, Michigan the son of the late Claude and Violet Blamer. While a student at Central Michigan University Bill was called to active duty and served with the 3rd Army in Europe during WWII, earning four battle stars on his European Theatre Medal and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He held the rank of Captain when discharged from the Army and was promoted to Major while serving in the Army Reserve. While still in the service he married his college sweetheart Bernice of Oxford. Six months after leaving the service Bill was hired as a business teacher and basketball coach at Flint Technical High School. Dr. Blamer took a position with Flint Junior College (now Mott Community College) as basketball coach where his teams posted a 148-44 record winning five state and three regional championships. In 1962 Flint advanced to the Final Eight and in 1961 went to the Final Four in the National Junior College Basketball Tournament. For his accomplishments as a basketball coach he was inducted into the Greater Flint Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. After coaching for eight years at Flint JC he was appointed Athletic Director and Chairman of the Health and Physical Education Department. Dr. Blamer later served in several administration positions at the college retiring as vice president for Academic Affairs. Dr. Blamer was active in both professional and civic organizations serving several terms as the President of the Michigan Junior College Athletic Association and as Director of Region XII (Michigan, Indiana and Ohio) of the N.J.C.A.A. He also served one term as President of the Michigan Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Dr. Blamer was a founding member of the Bruin Club and the Greater Flint Area Sports Hall of Fame and was the original Director of Region XIII of the Michigan Special Olympics. He was also a member of the original Michigan Council for Physical Fitness and Health and the Holloway Reservoir Advisory Committee and many other committees. Survivors include: his 3 children, Claudia Cameron of Fenton, Robert Blamer and wife Carrie of Whitmore Lake, MI, Richard Blamer and wife Charlene of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; daughter-in-law, Theresa Blamer; grandchildren, Marlo Peck and husband Craig, Ellen Berglund and husband William, Kevin Blamer and wife Kelli, Danielle Little and husband Mike, Megan Harris and husband Rob, and Emily Pittman and husband LaQuan; great-grandchildren, Charley, James and Sam Peck, Will, Joe, Andy and Henry Berglund, Avery Little, Courtney and Kaitlin Blamer. Dr. Blamer was preceded in death by his wife, Bernice, his son, William E. Blamer, and his brothers, Robert and Homer Blamer. Those desiring may make contributions to the Bernice and Bill Blamer Scholarship Fund at Woodside Church or to the Bill and Bernie Student Aid Fund of the Foundation for Mott Community College or to a www.brownfh.com
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The issue of minimum pay for "sleepover" time - this time involving workers in school boarding houses - is expected to go before the Employment Court again next year.
The workers from Iona College and Woodford House, both in Havelock North, represented by the Service and Food Workers Union, will be relying on the principles established by last year's ground-breaking Court of Appeal ruling in the long-running case of disability support worker Phillip Dickson and Idea Services Ltd.
The court upheld earlier findings by the Employment Court that such support workers on sleepovers were working and should be paid at least the adult minimum wage for every hour of their shift.
The boarding schools' case is the first one in which applicants have sought to apply the principles of the case outside the residential disability sector.
In October the parties successfully sought to have the matter removed from the Employment Relations Authority to the Employment Court for consideration.
In the parties' joint memorandum to the authority, the schools said their main defence was workers were not conducting "work" as that word was used in the Minimum Wage Act.
The memorandum said the case was "likely to have ramifications in other parts of the education sector and other "sleepover" situations outside of the residential disability sector".
The national secretary of the Service and Food Workers Union, John Ryall, said the number of workers affected in boarding schools was probably 50 to 60 nationally but hundreds would be eligible for back pay if the court ordered it.


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89 GL rally car or show car
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Personally, I am more interested in function over form. All show and no go doesn't cut it, in my book. Cars are meant to be driven.
Rally that sucka!
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For a rally car, I would go with swapping in a turbo motor. Find a good-running turbo car that has been in a wreck and swap the motor and all the electronics. Then you can start making some power.
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Lift it, put a good engine in it, and run it around like nobody's business.
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Nothing like seeing a older car that looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. I respect folks who take care of things over time. That's what we all have fascinations with car museums.
All the cars die early around here because of the salt. My old GL used to get me a complement every week or so by total strangers. Too bad it had cancer on the bottom side:boohoo:
Having said all that,
For a show car you need the right car to start with. If the car is not fit for restoration, why make it a money pit?
You may have more fun carving it up and playing with it.
When "Little Roo" came through SLC it turned 100% of the heads!
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82 Hatch, well it stated out that way....
01 Forester, still is a Forester.....
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As said in previous post, you can't go wrong with a rally car, you will have a lot of fun going to the local rallycross races or just tooling around. This car makes a pretty good platform for one, not a lot of after market stuff but there is some things available and some gheto stuff you can do.
Is you car a turbo or fuel injected?
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In the US you have Orthodox denominationalism, not unlike protestant denominations.
As for myself, when I see a Greek, Russian, OCA, and Antiochian bishop all together, I don't see any distinction between their faith.
Nonetheless the Presbyterian church is not one Church. Do they have Sacramental Communion? No, because they have no Sacraments. They are not one Church otherwise they would only have one Jurisdiction.
they think they have sacraments and call them such; they do have communion with one another at what they call the Lord's Table.
you are missiing my point. From within their millieu, from which they view themselves as equally correct and us as wrong as we view them as incorrect and ourselves right, they could be one denomination and aren't.Plus we, along with everyone ellse view them as separate, albeit very similar denominations.
BrotherAiden,I'm not really up with the play on this topic, but I do wonder if you might be meaning "congregations" instead of "denominations". Would it be, in speaking of denominations, that the Orthodox Church itself would be seen (from the outside) as a denomination made up on many congregations, but congregations that are all united under common dogma/faith?
From without (outside of Orthodoxy), Greek Orthodox are seen as a different denomination than Russian Orthodox or Serbian Orthodox, or Syrian Orthodox, etc. etc. From within, we are the only ones who don't see it that way and call is jurisdictionalism A rose by any other name.....?
But those outside who see "Greek Orthodox" and "Russian Orthodox" as different denominations will continue to see them as different denominations even if they were part of the same jurisdiction. The monasteries of the Holy Mountain are the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, yet there is a Russian Orthodox Monastery (Panteleimon), Greek Orthodox Monasteries (Dyionysiou, Iveron, Megisti Lavra etc), a Bulgarian Orthodox Monastery (Zographou), a Serbian Orthodox Monastery (Chilandar) etc.... and each Monastery follows different rubrics, uses different languages, and even measures time differently (Iveron uses "Jerusalem Time" while the others use "Byzantine time"). So what's going to make these people who think they are "different denominations" realize that they aren't? It seems to me that bo matter what we do, there will always be those who misunderstand us , and even the first Christians experienced this- "Aren't Christians those guys who hold secret meetings where they eat flesh and drink blood?"
But when the Serbian gal and the Ukranian guy and myself (OCA) try to explain at work why we are not in the same denomination to either the Catholics or the protestants, they just don't get it.
And you know how most people are these days, they don't have the patience for an expanation of the subtleties, differences and distinctions. I think maybe the non-religious get it better than the other Christians do.
But when the Serbian gal and the Ukranian guy and myself (OCA) try to explain at work why we are not in the same denomination to either the Catholics or the protestants, they just don't get it. And you know how most people are these days, they don't have the patience for an expanation of the subtleties, differences and distinctions. I think maybe the non-religious get it better than the other Christians do.
Referring to Rid's second comment/questionno they aren't different congregations of one denomination. Each denomination has it's own discipline for instance. If the pastor at one congregation has an affair with his secretary, the other congregation doesn't discipline him, his denominational hierarchy does.I am sure you have seen ethnic communities in older cities with several churches with onion domes: Ukranian, Russian, Serbian, Byzantine Catholic, all within a few blocks of each other. Well, go to a section of the city where the upper middle class once lived and see two Presbeterian churches across the street from one another, with a smaller one two blocks away. There you had your PCUSA congregation, your old United Presbyterian congregation and the smaller Refromed Presbyterian congregation. If you had asked any parishoner exiting on Sunday if they are part of the denominaton across (or down) the street and they would have told you in explicit (not vulgar, although perhaps emotional - I mean, explicit theologically) terms why they are not part of that denomination.To THEM they are not congregations of the same denomination.
There is no such thing as denominations in Orthodoxy. You should have told them the truth, that you are all members of the same religion: The Eastern Orthodox Church.
doesn't our jurisdictionalism look just like their denominationalism? People will never be convinced that how we see ourselves is the truth if our outward physical appearance says otherwise.
The Orthodox Church in America was brought here by immigrants, for themselves and their families, not to evangelize or proselytise. Converting America to Orthodoxy was never a goal.
This is an interesting way of putting it, "denominationalism". While it is true we all share the same sacraments, I think it is quite accurate to say that in many ways we are like denominations. People always say we aren't broken up into different denominations because we share the sacraments, because a Greek can go to a Russian Church and have communion, but think about what that entails, and you wind up with something that looks quite a lot like a denomination! In order to share this common Eucharist, different jurisdictions require such a wide variety of things: in some you can just show up and partake no questions asked, in others you must have gone to confession at least since the last fasting period, in others you must have confessed that day or the night before, in others even if you have gone to confession with a priest the night before the priest distributing communion will not believe you when you tell him this and will refuse you communion (I have seen this happen). Some unity we have there...
I hardly see the way parishes are run as making denominations exist. I have to sadly disagree. We are one Church, and to compare the Church to the Protestant "denominations" that have no Sacramental Unity or Common Faith is downright wrong.
But how do we appear to those outside the Church?
There can be the same doctrine, same soteriology, same basic "liturgy" and same stance on modernistic innovations and you have the Presbterian Church in America (PCA), the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC), the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America (RPCNA) and possibly the Christian Reformed Church (CRC). Each has it's own "hierarchy," its own institutions, it's own departments of missions and evangelism, its own publications, etc.How is that so different from Orthodox jurisdictionalism (aka denominationalism)?
Why [are] there jurisdictions you ask? Because the churches here were established by greeks and slavs and arabs, and these jurisdictions still use these languages in their worship, its not because we broke away from each other.
And NOT all protestants create new denominations because some pastor came up with a new idea and started a new church, which is how many Orthodox caricature protestant denominationalism. Orthodox ignorance of mainline protestantism is both alaming and shameful (but that is another subject)...these denominations were formed over issues of theological integrity and conscience. Whether we agree with their reasons as Orthodox it must be acknowledged that these weren't frivolous moves because some individual pastor got a "word form the Lord."
David Bryan you make excellent points. It is interesting that you are willing to consider those Presbyterian groups as jurisdictions. I have never had an Orthodox person offer that much respect to a Protestant group.
I appreciate your points, but I still do not believe that eucharistic unity and common dogma and tradition in the USA can be continually over and over again be appealled to as "cover" for functional denominationalism (separate discipline, boards, publications, institutions, etc). At least you call it a scandal, which is more than many Orthodox do.
I cannot see the different Protestant denominations as "Jurisdictions" of one "Church". That's just not the way it is. Denominations wouldn't exist if they were part of the same Church. The Church is visibly one. This is one of the very important Christian doctrines. I would say that to say that the Church is merely a bunch of "denominations" is indeed heresy. I am sorry if I am being harsh, but that's just the way I see it.
Great post DavidBryan!
David Bryan you make excellent points.
It is interesting that you are willing to consider those Presbyterian groups as jurisdictions. I have never had an Orthodox person offer that much respect to a Protestant group.
One reason for it, however, is that I found Christ as a Presbyterian and was nurtured in that community; when I became Orthodox I did not (and do not) believe that I found a different God. I found the right doctrine and right practice in relation to the God I already knew and was introduced to in the Presbyterian Church.
Therefore some of the responses above about us Orhtodox being the true Church with the true sacraments and writing off the protestants as just being outsiders to the true faith, I find to be bogus triumphalism.
Finally, I commend you on your knowledge of the doctrinal distinctives of various protestant groups (you must be a convert!).
Finally-finally, by your writing "you are fond of saying" indicates that you have read and given thought to (or at least noticed) my posts when the subject of evangelicals/protestants has come up on OC.net. I take that as a compliment from someone such as yourself who makes posts that are thougtful and contain reasoned content rather than just emotion and opinion.
Before you call for the Spanish Inquisition here...
Before you call for the Spanish Inquisition here, I don't see anyone on this thread claiming that the Church is intrinsically denominational, so there's no reason to continue to raise the dreaded heresy flag. What I DO see in the discussion is BrotherAidan arguing that the [Orthodox] Church in America often appears no different from the denominational landscape of American Protestantism and DavidBryan countering with his observation that American Protestantism could be considered little different from our [Orthodox] jurisdictionalism. Notice my emphasis on such words as "appears" and "observation". They're discussing their own particular views of the landscape of American Christianity; they're not arguing doctrine.
So "denomination" literally means "a misnaming" or "a nickname."
Which doesn't apply to the 15 Autocephalous Orthodox Churches. The $1 and $100 are different denominations of the same thing, money.
The Canonical Orthodox Churches believe in the same things with different names based on ethnicity, region, etc.
I'm arguing semantics rather than theology.
Semantics is the Golden Road to Schism.
Old Calendar vs. New Calendar - are they denominations of one Calendar?
I'm not sure that's true. Semantics is simply the study of how words are used. If our words are unclear, perhaps a new word is necessary to convey our meaning.
Yep. I've argued that before on this forum.
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Here's your chance to help John Vanderslice in self-releasing two new albums via his basement-run label, Tiny Telephones. He has just launched a Kickstarter to facilitate the pressing and distributing of the records. The first album is Dagger Beach, an original he spent 10 or so months writing and recording. Second, Vanderslice will release a a second record covering the entire David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs. He will tell you all about it in the video above!


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Inner Space: visualising the earth, mind and body
14 August 2013
On Thursday 15 August as part of National Science Week, leading researchers from the University of Sydney and Garvan Institute will discuss the transformational contribution visualisation techniques make to science and medicine.
For over 2000 years, artists have illustrated the intricate structure of the body to record its pathologies and represent medical procedures. Techniques for visualisation continue to revolutionise science and medicine when used in anatomy and pathology and in their application to data and complex systems.
The researchers will discuss how visualisation reveals the unifying structures of nutritional flows between the earth, the body and the mind. They will outline how it creates multidisciplinary approaches to research, preventative health and clinical treatment.
Professor John Crawford, Head of Sustainability and Complex Systems, Judith and David Coffey Chair, Charles Perkins Centre, will discuss how the geometry of nature has evolved over time through a common set of self-organising principles that help the resulting forms grow and adapt according to environmental cues.
In particular, Professor Crawford will show how visualisation enables understanding of the complex geometry of the inner space of soil. He will reveal the internal architecture of a leaf and how soil works through a constantly flowing relationship between the living and the dead.
Professor Ian Hickie, Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, will provide insights into the links between a person's inner space and sense of self and the complex environmental and social systems in which they are embedded.
While much of psychology and mental health throughout the 20th century focused on developing personal narratives, there has also been a very strong tradition of visual representations of internal states and their relationships with external systems.
Professor Hickie will discuss a social program in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and an artwork that aptly describes the complex systems at play. He will also present visualisations used to understand brain research.
Dr Kate Patterson, Biomedical Animator, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has for the past five years worked with scientists, doctors and veterinarians to create images and visual stories about science and medicine. She is currently working on a 3D animation called Cancer is not just one disease.
The project uses research discoveries and the tools of cinematography, storyboarding, graphic design and sound engineering to tell science stories.
This event is supported by Inspiring Australia.
Event details
What: Inner Space, Visualising the Earth, Mind and Body
When: 6 to 7.30pm, Thursday 15 August
Where: Lecture Theatre 101, New Law Building, Camperdown Campus
Cost: Free
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