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By Alan Duke
LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Four years after Michael Jackson died, his oldest son is ready to tell a jury about the last days of his life.
Prince Jackson, now 16, was 12 when he followed an ambulance carrying his father to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on the afternoon of June 25, 2009.
Now, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson and their grandmother Katherine Jackson are suing AEG Live, accusing their father's last concert promoter of negligently hiring, retaining or supervising Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.
Jackson lawyers informed AEG Live attorneys Monday that Prince will be the next witness after a doctor who is an expert in medical conflicts of interest completes his testimony Tuesday.
That would likely put Prince on the stand a day after the fourth anniversary of his father's death.
Jackson lawyers argue that the promoter and producer of the "This Is It" shows pressured Murray to get Jackson to rehearsals but failed to get Jackson help despite numerous red flags that he was in trouble.
Murray told police he used the surgical anesthetic propofol nearly every night for two months to treat Jackson's insomnia. The coroner ruled that an overdose of propofol killed him.
AEG Live lawyers argue that Jackson chose and supervised Murray and that their executives had no way of knowing the doctor was using the dangerous treatment.
A medical conflict of interest
Dr. Gordon Matheson, the director of the sports medicine department at Stanford University, testified as an expert in medical conflicts of interest Monday.
After reviewing testimony and evidence in the case, Matheson concluded that AEG Live created a conflict of interest because the contract it negotiated with Murray to serve as Jackson's personal doctor for $150,000 a month "was likely to lead to poor medical decisions."
Matheson, the team doctor for Stanford's athletic department, compared it to a football coach telling a team doctor on the sidelines in the fourth quarter of a big game that a star quarterback has to go back in the game despite a suspected concussion.
Murray, who had closed his clinics to take the job and was $1 million in debt, would be inclined not to resist the AEG Live executives' pressure to get Jackson to rehearsals despite evidence of his failing health, Matheson testified.
Murray himself was conflicted because the negotiated contract was structured so that he answered to AEG, but it also could be canceled if the tour was canceled, he said. "I think that conflict played out as Michael Jackson's health began to deteriorate."
E-mails from the show director Kenny Ortega and production manager John "Bugzee" Hougdahl warned AEG executives of Jackson's deterioration during June 2009, including indications he was unable to do some of his trademark dances or remember lyrics to songs he had sung for decades.
His makeup artist and a choreographer testified about Jackson's paranoia, his talking to himself and hearing voices, and his severe weight loss.
Associate producer Alif Sankey testified that she "had a very strong feeling that Michael was dying" after a rehearsal 11 days before his death.
"I was screaming into the phone at that point," Sankey testified. "I said he needs to be put in the hospital now."
Lost battle for sleep
A Harvard sleep expert testified last week that the nightly propofol treatments likely interrupted Jackson's sleep cycle, robbing him of REM — rapid eye movement — sleep, which is vital to keeping the brain and body alive.
"The symptoms that Mr. Jackson was exhibiting were consistent with what someone might expect to see of someone suffering from total sleep deprivation over a chronic period," Dr. Charles Czeisler, a Harvard Medical School sleep expert, testified Friday at the trial.
If the singer had not died on June 25, 2009, of a propofol overdose, the lack of REM sleep may have taken his life within days anyway, according Czeisler's testimony Friday.
Lab rats die after five weeks of getting no REM sleep, he said. It was never tried on a human until Murray gave Jackson nightly propofol infusions for two months.
Prince to testify
Prince will be the only one of Jackson's three children who will appear in court, although the video of Paris' deposition over two days in March will be seen at some point during the AEG Live defense presentation. The company compelled her testimony, calling her a key witness to her father's dealings with Murray and to her own relationship with her father.
Jackson lawyers informed the court last week that Paris, 15, would not be available to testify in person because she is hospitalized for psychiatric treatment after a suicide attempt earlier this month.
In testimony last week, chef Kai Chase recalled how devastated Paris was in the first moments at home when she realized something was very wrong with her father.
"We were literally pulling her by her ankles down the stairs as she was trying to go back up, screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!'" Chase testified.
Paris made millions cry two weeks later when she spoke at the public memorial for Jackson.
"Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine," she said. "And I just want to say that I love him so much."
Jackson confided in his son about his business dealings at an early age. His testimony is expected to include revelations about what his father told him in his last weeks about whom he trusted and distrusted.
"Prince has always been, even at 12, the little man — daddy's little man," Chase testified. "He wanted his father to be very proud of him, which Michael was."
"The weight of the world is on his shoulders, the eldest, big brother and father figure to his siblings," Chase testified. "It's a lot for him, growing, liking girls. He wishes his father was here to give him advice. It's devastating to him."
Life after his death
Jackson died just two weeks before he was to travel with Prince, Paris and Blanket to London where 50 concerts were scheduled over the next 10 months. Their father told them they would go on a long world tour after the London shows, which they were excited about, Paris said in her deposition.
After the tour, Jackson intended to buy a mansion in Las Vegas to serve as a base while he concentrated on making movies, his children said. To prepare them, Jackson hired a film professor from the University of Southern California to teach them movie-making techniques in their home school.
With their father gone, the children moved in with their grandmother in the same Los Angeles home where Michael Jackson lived at a teen. The veil of privacy — which included wearing masks when in public with their father — was soon replaced by occasional public appearances to honor their father.
The children spoke at the Grammys, a Hollywood Boulevard dedication ceremony, a tribute concert and to Oprah Winfrey. In each event, they appeared poised beyond their years.
The two oldest enrolled in a private school, a major change from the home tutoring their father provided.
Prince and Paris have both begun exploring careers in entertainment.
Prince worked several days as a "special correspondent" for "Entertainment Tonight" and acted in an episode of the television show "90210." Aunt La Toya Jackson arranged the jobs for him.
Paris signed up with an A-list Hollywood manager to help with her acting career earlier this year, but that's on hold while she is being treated.
Blanket, whose nickname came from the blanket his father often covered him with in public, is still taught at home, which is now a big hilltop house in a gated Calabasas, California, community.
"He does dance moves like his father," according to Chase, who was rehired as the children's chef last year.
Blanket, now 11, does "a lot of remembering what daddy did, and it's constant nonstop talking of him and his father's relationship together," Chase testified last week. He often wears a T-shirt from the Cirque du Soleil "Immortal" show based on his father's music, Chase said. "He wears it constantly."
The trial, in its ninth week in a Los Angeles courtroom, is expected to last into August, according to lawyers on both sides.
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August's Daring Bakers' Challenge has been picked by Lorraine at "Not Quite Nigella" (Australia) and Angela at "Spoonful of Sugar" (UK) who have chosen the famous "Dobos Torta", a Hungarian speciality...
Although I have been fantasizing about making this wonderful cake since very long, the choice of that recipe just fell at the worst time of the year. Imagine baking a cake with buttercream when it's 36.4° C (97.52° F) outside and the himidity level is of 73% and you apartment is like a furnace... Either you have to be stark raving mad or living in an air-conditioned house. So, when you are under the weather, very sane and you place is hotter than than the entrails of Hell, then let me tell you that it's absolutely suicidal, exhausting and it's a real pain in the neck to bake something fancy like that!!!
This sweltering heatwave made everything more complicated (even what wasn't at the origin - like this cake) and transformed every little task into a big one. Not only did I lose 10 pounds while baking, but my cake was also showing signs of tiredness and melting before my eyes. After spreading a first layer of buttercream, I had to put my cake in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before I could continue adding the next layer. My incessant ballet between the fridge and the working counter was time-consuming and fatiguing. And to crown it all, my caramel didn't want to harden rapidly and prefered to start liquifying (due to the high humidity). Really nerve-racking!
After hours of fighting against the elements, I finally got my cake together. My biggest concern then was focused on the next step: immortalizing the "Dobos Torte". How was I going to take pictures of it in that heat? After getting it in and out of the fridge at regular intervals in order to avoid a total disaster (melted buttercream and suffering cake), I was more or less able to take a few decent shots.
I can tell you that after having taken my last picture of this cake (or impending doom LOL), I felt kaput, as if I had run a marathon or crossed a desert by foot. The whole experience was so laborious and nearly traumatizing. Anyway, I ended up with a presentable "Dobos Torte" that tasted heavenly, so all that suffering was not in vain!
I must say that I was very proud of my accomplishment as I was not only able to beat the heat, but also it's devastating effects and learnt how to deal with it all. Those long hours of sweating, panicking and trying to find ways to overcome the difficulties linked to the scortching heat made me a stronger baker. My "Dobos Torte" still ended up looking and tasting great no matter the obstacles.
I followed the recipe to the letter, but decided to make extra thin sponge cake layers and produced seven rounds instead of six. I also used half the quantity more buttercream that I flavored with tonka bean. All that resulted in a cake that was smooth like a pillow, ambrosially chocolatty (with a little twist of tonka) and to die for.
I really want to thank Lorraine and Angela for having chosen that long-craved Hungarian treat and helped me "master" the art of baking while going through a heatwave!!!
Recipe based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers' cookbook "Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague".
2 baking sheets
9" (23cm) springform tin and 8" (21cm) cake tin, for templates
Mixing bowls (1 medium, 1 large)
A sieve
A double boiler (a large saucepan plus a large heat-proof mixing bowl which fits snugly over the top of the pan)
A small saucepan
A whisk (you could use a balloon whisk for the entire cake, but an electric hand whisk or stand mixer will make life much easier)
A metal offset spatula
A sharp knife
A 7 1/2" cardboard cake round, or just build cake on the base of a sprinfrom tin.
A piping bag and tip, optional
Preparation times
Sponge layers: 20 mins prep, 40 mins cooking total if baking each layer individually. Buttercream: 20 mins cooking. Cooling time for buttercream: about 1 hour plus 10 minutes after this to beat and divide.
Caramel layer: 10-15 minutes.
Assembly of whole cake: 20 minutes
6 Large eggs, separated, at room temperature
1 1/3 cups (162g) Confectioner's (icing) sugar, divided
1 Tsp (5g) Pure vanilla extract
1 Cup plus 2 Tbs (112g) Sifted cake flour (substitute: 95g plain flour + 17g cornstarch sifted together)
A pinch of sea salt
1. Position the racks in the top and centre thirds of the oven and heat to 400° F (200° C). 2. Cut six pieces of parchment paper to fit the baking sheets. Using the bottom of a 9" (23cm) springform tin as a template and a dark pencil or a pen, trace a circle on each of the papers, and turn them over (the circle should be visible from the other side, so that the graphite or ink doesn't touch the cake batter).
3. Beat the egg yolks, 2/3 cup (81g) of the confectioner's (icing) sugar, and the vanilla in a medium bowl with a mixer on high speed until the mixture is thick, pale yellow and forms a thick ribbon when the beaters are lifted a few inches above the batter, about 3 minutes. (You can do this step with a balloon whisk if you don't have a mixer.)
4. In another bowl, using clean beaters, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the remaining 2/3 cup (81g) of confectioner's (icing)sugar until the whites form stiff, shiny peaks. Using a large rubber spatula, stir about 1/4 of the beaten whites into the egg yolk mixture, then fold in the remainder, leaving a few wisps of white visible. Combine the flour and salt. Sift half the flour over the eggs, and fold in; repeat with the remaining flour.
5. Line one of the baking sheets with a circle-marked paper. Using a small offset spatula, spread about 3/4cup of the batter in an even layer, filling in the traced circle on one baking sheet. Bake on the top rack for 5 minutes, until the cake springs back when pressed gently in the centre and the edges are lightly browned. While this cake bakes, repeat the process on the other baking sheet, placing it on the centre rack. When the first cake is done, move the second cake to the top rack. Invert the first cake onto a flat surface and carefully peel off the paper. Slide the cake layer back onto the paper and let stand until cool. Rinse the baking sheet under cold running water to cool, and dry it before lining with another parchment. Continue with the remaining papers and batter to make a total of six layers. Completely cool the layers. Using an 8" springform pan bottom or plate as a template, trim each cake layer into a neat round. (A small serrated knife is best for this task).
The sponge layers can be prepared in advance and stored, interleaved with parchment paper and well-wrapped, in the fridge, overnight.
4 Large eggs, at room temperature
1 Cup (200g) Caster (ultrafine or superfine white) sugar
4oz (110g) Bakers chocolate or your favourite dark chocolate, finely chopped
2 Sticks plus 2 Tbs (250g) Unsalted butter, at room temperature.
1. Prepare a double-boiler: quarter-fill a large saucepan with water and bring it to a boil.
2. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs with the sugar until pale and thickened, about five minutes. You can use a balloon whisk or electric hand mixer for this.
3. Fit bowl over the boiling water in the saucepan (water should not touch bowl) and lower the heat to a brisk simmer. Cook the egg mixture, whisking constantly, for 2-3 minutes until you see it starting to thicken a bit. Whisk in the finely chopped chocolate and cook, stirring, for a further 2-3 minutes.
4. Scrape the chocolate mixture into a medium bowl and leave to cool to room temperature. It should be quite thick and sticky in consistency.
5. When cool, beat in the soft butter, a small piece (about 2 tablespoons/30g) at a time. An electric hand mixer is great here, but it is possible to beat the butter in with a spatula if it is soft enough. You should end up with a thick, velvety chocolate buttercream. Chill while you make the caramel topping.
The buttercream can be prepared in advance and stored in the fridge for up to 5 days.
If you're in Winter just now your butter might not soften enough at room temperature, which leads to lumps forming in the buttercream. Make sure the butter is of a very soft texture I.e. running a knife through it will provide little resistance, before you try to beat it into the chocolate mixture. Also, if you beat the butter in while the chocolate mixture is hot you'll end up with more of a ganache than a buttercream!
1 cup (200g) Caster (superfine or ultrafine white) sugar
12 Tbs (180ml/g) water
8 Tsp (40g) Lemon juice
1 Tbs Neutral oil (e.g. grapeseed, rice bran, sunflower)
1. Choose the best-looking cake layer for the caramel top. To make the caramel topping: Line a jellyroll pan with parchment paper and butter the paper. Place the reserved cake layer on the paper. Score the cake into 12 equal wedges. Lightly oil a thin, sharp knife and an offset metal spatula.
2. Stir the sugar, water and lemon juice in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over a medium heat, stirring often to dissolve the sugar. Once dissolved into a smooth syrup, turn the heat up to high and boil without stirring, swirling the pan by the handle occasionally and washing down any sugar crystals on the sides of the pan with a wet brush until the syrup has turned into an amber-coloured caramel.
I recommend cutting, rather than scoring, the cake layer into wedges before covering in caramel (reform them into a round). If you have an 8" silicon round form, then I highly recommend placing the wedges in that for easy removal later and it also ensures that the caramel stays on the cake layer. Once set, use a very sharp knife to separate the wedges.
1. Divide the buttercream into six equal parts.
2. Place a dab of chocolate buttercream on the middle of a 7 1/2" cardboard round and top with one cake layer. Spread the layer with one part of the chocolate icing. Repeat with 4 more cake layers. Spread the remaining icing on the sides of the cake.
3. Optional: press the finely chopped hazelnuts (1/2 Cup (50g) roasted, peeled and finely chopped hazelnuts) onto the sides of the cake.
4. Propping a hazelnut under each wedge so that it sits at an angle, arrange the wedges on top of the cake in a spoke pattern. If you have any leftover buttercream, you can pipe rosettes under each hazelnut or a large rosette in the centre of the cake.
Refrigerate the cake under a cake dome until the icing is set, about 2 hours. Let slices come to room temperature for the best possible flavour.
I should also note that the cake will cut more cleanly when chilled.
Etant donné la longueur du texte original, je n'ai malheureusement pas pu faire une traduction française de ce billet et je m'en excuse auprès de tous mes amis lecteurs et blogueurs francophones!
C'est pourquoi je vous suggère de vous rendre sur les blogs mentionnés ci-dessous. Vous y trouverez cette recette en version française.
Chez Jasmine de "Jasmine Cuisine" (Canada)
Chez Isa de "Les Gourmandises d'Isa" (Canada)


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Somewhere on the 18th hole, after many adult beverages (if you know what I mean), we had a knock-out-drag-out yelling discussion about doctor attire. Last Friday, we had a great discussion on whether docs should wear lab coats. And, that's initially how our discussion started yesterday. Then, someone in our group mentioned wearing a tie and a lab coat during office hours. Last week, here's what Dream Mom said about neck ties:
Also, I still like it when the docs wear a tie to work-doesn't matter if it's a bow tie or regular tie. Call me old fashioned, but I like it. As for the female docs, it wouldn't hurt to put a little make up on from time to time; some of the female docs look liked they just got out of bed.As our discussion got more heated yesterday, someone in our group made reference to this study which stated that neckties carry germs. I think that's a cop-out. Personally, I like the neck tie - Maybe not every single day (like the lab coat). But, for me, most of the time, I wear a tie.
What do you think? Which do you prefer? Tie or no tie....
Update: Nurse Ratched's Place just posted an interesting commentary called "Do You Remember When" which also talks about nursing attire:
Do you remember when you HAD to wear a white dress, white nylons and nursing shoes, and a nurse's cap? The dress was hard to keep white (you know what I mean), the nylons were uncomfortable and would run, and the hat was always getting tangled up in IV tubing while you were counting those infernal drops. At the end of my shift, I looked more like a bag lady than an angel of mercy.


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16% of all consumers have FICO® Scores in the Very Poor range (300-579).
Roughly 62% of consumers with credit scores under 579 are likely to become seriously delinquent (i.e., go more than 90 days past due on a debt payment) in the future.
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99% of consumers have FICO® Scores higher than 471.
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FICO® Scores in the Very Poor range often reflect a history of credit missteps or errors, such as multiple missed or late payments, defaulted or foreclosed loans, and even bankruptcy.
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Public Information: If bankruptcies or other public records appear on your credit report, they typically hurt your credit score severely. Settling the liens or judgments at the first opportunity can reduce their impact, but in the case of bankruptcy, only time can lessen their harmful effects on your credit scores. A Chapter 7 bankruptcy will remain on your credit report for up to 10 years, and a Chapter 13 bankruptcy will stay there for 7 years. Even though your credit score may begin to recover years before a bankruptcy drops off your credit file, some lenders may refuse to work with you as long as there's a bankruptcy on your record.
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changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North
Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims,
it will become the first state disqualified from a federal
compensation program for the long-term jobless.
June, 2013
officials adopted the package of benefit cuts and increased taxes for
businesses in February, a plan designed to accelerate repayment of a
$2.5 billion federal debt. Like many states, North Carolina had
racked up the debt by borrowing from Washington after its
unemployment fund was drained by jobless benefits during the Great
changes go into effect Sunday for North Carolina, which has the
country's fifth-worst jobless rate. The cuts on those who make
unemployment claims on or after that day will disqualify the state
from receiving federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation.
That money kicks in after the state's period of unemployment
compensation — now shortened from up to six months to no more than
five — runs out. The EUC program is available to long-term jobless
in all states. But keeping the money flowing includes a requirement
that states can't cut average weekly benefits.
North Carolina leaders cut average weekly benefits for new claims,
about 170,000 workers whose state benefits expire this year will lose
more than $700 million in EUC payments, the U.S. Labor Department
Creighton, 45, of Cary, said he's been unemployed since October,
and this is the last week for which he'll get nearly $500 in
unemployment aid. He said he was laid off from a position managing
statisticians and writers amid the recession's worst days in 2009
and has landed and lost a series of government and teaching jobs
since then — work that paid less half as much. His parents help him
buy groceries to get by.
just not sure what I'm going to do," said Creighton, who has a
doctorate. "What are we to do? Is the state prepared to have this
many people with no source of income?"
the changes to North Carolina law, state benefits will last three to
five months — at the longer end when unemployment rates are higher.
Qualifying for benefits becomes more difficult. Weekly payments for
those collecting the current maximum benefit of $535 drop to $350,
falling from the highest in the Southeast to comparable with
neighboring states.
leaders who control the General Assembly sought an exception to the
federal law two months before voting to change unemployment benefits.
Congress last year allowed Pennsylvania, Indiana, Arkansas and Rhode
Island to proceed with cuts to weekly benefits that their
legislatures had approved for after the expected expiration of
federal benefits, which later were extended.
Carolina's request was never acted on.
states this year cut unemployment benefits and restricted
eligibility, but none included drops in weekly benefits, said George
Wentworth of the National Employment Law Project, a worker-advocacy
states are aware of the no-reduction provision, said Doug Holmes, who
heads the National Foundation for Unemployment Compensation &
Workers' Compensation, which represents businesses on unemployment
insurance issues.
of them considered doing something that would reduce the weekly
benefit amount, but for whatever reason chose not to take the step of
enacting legislation," he said. "But North Carolina also had one
of the biggest problems."
states carry such federal debt. The Labor Department declined to
comment on North Carolina's looming situation but said no other
state is considering changing benefits in a way that would imperil
U.S. help.
of the new North Carolina law say the reduced benefits and increased
business taxes are necessary to repay the federal debt — the
third-largest in the country.
groups, Democratic congressmen and the state NAACP want to delay the
cuts until the federal program expires in January, but lawmakers and
GOP Gov. Pat McCrory have refused.
would burden businesses and potentially increase the debt, said Rep.
Julia Howard, R-Davie. The cuts also will push people to find work
faster, then move to a better job as the economy improves, she said.
may not be the job that you want or your career for the rest of your
life. But to take a job, get back into the job market," Howard
who have staged protests nearly every week against Republican
policies say lawmakers are slashing a safety net for the poor while
corporations and the wealthy benefit.
the changes will mean $3.6 billion in total benefit cuts and higher
costs to employers through 2017, according to the General Assembly's
fiscal research office. Benefit cuts on the jobless make up 74
percent of that figure. The accelerated target for repaying the
federal debt, which fell to $2.1 billion in June, is sometime in 2015
rather than 2018.
Carolina companies now pay an additional $42 per employee yearly to
pay the debt. Without the changes, businesses' unemployment
insurance taxes would rise by $21 per employee every year until the
federal debt is paid.
state's top business lobby, the North Carolina Chamber, primarily
assembled the package of proposals that lawmakers adopted.
got to pick a point in time where you solve the problem. They picked
a point in time that allowed us the most time to pay the debt as
quickly as we can and get a new program in place so that we can help
people find work," said Gary Salamido, the group's top lobbyist.
"It's a very unfortunate circumstance for everybody involved."
Bostick, 58, of Raleigh, said he lost his job in April 2011 and will
lose extended federal benefits immediately. He said he earned about
$700 a week in take-home pay, often working double shifts at a
ConAgra Foods plant until it shut down after a fatal explosion. Since
then, he said, the only jobs he's found matching his skills pay
less than $10 an hour and are outside Raleigh. Now he'll have to
revisit those or start a handyman business.
rather do that than bring home $200" after commuting and taxes, he
said. "They are really putting the gun to your head now."


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JERUSALEM — It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that has been in contention from the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
What followed was a Palestinian uprising that put Mideast peace efforts into a deep-freeze.
Five years later, Sharon, who died Saturday at 85, was again barreling headlong into controversy, bulldozing ahead with his plan to pull Israel out of the Gaza Strip and uproot all 8,500 Jewish settlers living there without regard to threats to his life from Jewish extremists.
His allies said the move was a revolutionary step in peacemaking; his detractors said it was a tactical sacrifice to strengthen Israel's hold on much of the West Bank.
Either way, the withdrawal and the barrier he was building between Israel and the West Bank permanently changed the face of the conflict and marked the final legacy of a man who shaped Israel as much as any other leader. He was a farmer-turned-soldier, a soldier-turned-politician, a politician-turned-statesman — a hard-charging Israeli who built Jewish settlements on war-won land, but didn't shy away from destroying them when he deemed them no longer useful.
Sharon died eight years after a debilitating stroke put him into a coma. His body was to lie in state at the parliament on Sunday before he is laid to rest at his ranch in southern Israel on Monday, Israeli media reported. Vice President Joe Biden will lead the U.S. delegation.
His death was greeted with the same strong feelings he evoked in life. Israelis called him a war hero. His enemies called him a war criminal.
President Barack Obama remembered Sharon as "a leader who dedicated his life to the state of Israel."
Former President George W. Bush, who was in the White House during Sharon's tenure, called him a "warrior for the ages and a partner in seeking security for the Holy Land and a better, peaceful Middle East."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a rival and harsh critic of Sharon, said: "His memory will be enshrined forever in the heart of the nation."
President Shimon Peres, a longtime friend and rival, said "he was an outstanding man and an exceptional commander who moved his people and loved them and the people loved him."
The Palestinians, who loathed Sharon as their most bitter enemy, distributed candy, prayed for divine punishment and said they regretted he was never held accountable for his actions, including a massacre in the Lebanese refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla by Christian militiamen allied with Israel during the 1982 invasion that was largely his brainchild.
"He wanted to erase the Palestinian people from the map … He wanted to kill us, but at the end of the day, Sharon is dead and the Palestinian people are alive," said Tawfik Tirawi, who served as Palestinian intelligence chief when Sharon was prime minister.
The man Israel knew simply by his nickname "Arik" fought in most of Israel's wars, gained a reputation as an adroit soldier and was the godfather of Israel's massive settlement campaign in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He detested Yasser Arafat, his lifelong adversary, as an "obstacle to peace" and was in turn detested in the Arab world.
His career spanned the Middle East conflict from its early skirmishes through five wars, one of which left him hailed as his nation's savior, and another reviled as its disgrace.
He was a lifelong opponent of concessions to the Arabs who ended up giving away land and offering the Palestinians a state of their own.
His was a life of surprises, none bigger than his election as prime minister in his twilight years, when he spent his first term crushing a Palestinian uprising and his second withdrawing from Gaza. The pullout in 2005 freed 1.3 million Palestinians from Israeli military rule and left his successors the vague outline of his proposal for a final peace settlement with Israel's Arab foes.
After the Gaza withdrawal, Sharon shattered Israel's long-standing political divisions by leaving Likud, the hard-line party he had helped found three decades earlier. He created a new centrist party, called Kadima, or Forward, to support his efforts to reach a deal with the Palestinians and draw Israel's permanent borders. The party was cruising toward victory in upcoming elections when Sharon suffered his stroke.
The stroke and extended coma set off one of the strangest periods in Israel's political history. While his deputy, Ehud Olmert, quickly assumed office and led Kadima to victory in a subsequent, Sharon remained a visible presence.
Over the years, every development in his medical condition became front-page news. His sons tried to revive him by showing him family photos or bringing Sharon, who often joked about his huge size, his favorite foods. At one point, doctors moved him back to his family farm, only to return him to the hospital several days later. His son Gilad later said that his father could wiggle his fingers and move his eyes.
Marina Lifshitz, a nurse who treated Sharon, said that when she showed Sharon a photo of his late wife, Lily, she saw a tear in his eye. "It is very difficult to forget that," she said Saturday.
Over the past week and a half, doctors reported a sharp decline in his condition as various bodily organs, including his kidneys, failed. On Saturday, Dr. Shlomo Noy of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv said "his heart weakened and he peacefully departed" with relatives by his bedside.
"That's it. He has gone. He went when he decided to go," Gilad Sharon said afterward.
As a soldier, Sharon was known for daring tactics and occasional refusal to obey orders. As a politician, he was known as "the bulldozer," contemptuous of his critics, the man who could get things done.
This go-it-alone attitude also shaped his second term as prime minister. Expressing impatience with stalled peace efforts, Sharon opted for separating Israel from the Palestinians, whose birthrate was outpacing that of his own country. He gave up Gaza, with its 21 Jewish settlements, and four West Bank settlements, the first such Israeli pullback since it captured the territories in the 1967 Mideast war.
He also began building a snaking barrier of fences, walls, razor wire and trenches to separate Israel from the West Bank, a project he initially rejected out of fear it would be seen as a tacit renunciation of Israel's claim to the West Bank.
Sharon sold the pullout as a security move. The withdrawal and the barrier, which left large West Bank settlement blocs on Israel's side, led many to suspect his real intention was to sidestep negotiations with the Palestinians and make it easier to hold onto what really mattered to him — chunks of the West Bank, with its biblical Jewish resonance and value as a buffer against attack from the east.
Sharon embodied the farmer-soldier image cherished by the pugnacious Jewish state that arose from the ashes of the Holocaust.
Sharon was born to Russian immigrant parents on Feb. 26, 1928, in the farming community of Kfar Malal, 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of Tel Aviv. He commanded an infantry platoon during the 1948 Mideast war over the creation of the state of Israel.
Leading a ragtag band of soldiers, some Holocaust survivors, Sharon took part in the unsuccessful May 1948 assault on the Jordanian Arab Legion stronghold at Latroun, a key spot on the road to Jerusalem whose Jewish district was blockaded by Arab forces. He was badly wounded in the leg and belly, and bled for hours while surrounded by enemy soldiers.
"I know it's a terrible thing. Because people will read it and they will say, 'Look, he drinks also blood,'" he said, laughing his trademark deep, hearty chuckle.
In 1953, he commanded Unit 101, a force formed to carry out reprisals for Arab attacks. After the slaying of an Israeli woman and her two children, his troops blew up more than 40 houses in Qibya, a West Bank village then ruled by Jordan, killing 69 Arabs. Sharon later said he thought the houses were empty.
After Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Sharon was rebuked for engaging in what commanders regarded as an unnecessary battle with Egyptian forces. Some 30 Israeli soldiers died.
The accolades mounted as well. Sharon received praise for his command of an armored division during the 1967 Mideast War, in which Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula.
His finest hour in uniform, as he described it, came in the 1973 Mideast war. Yanked out of retirement by an army desperate for leadership, he commanded 27,000 Israelis in a daring drive across Egypt's Suez Canal that helped turn the tide of the war. A picture of a boyish-faced, 45-year-old Sharon, bloody bandage wrapped around his head, remains one of the most enduring images of the war.
Out of uniform, he used sheer force of personality to coerce a quarrelsome array of hawkish factions into forming the Likud, which four years later would be elected to power, ending 29 years of rule by the moderate Labor Party.
Sharon became a minister in Menachem Begin's government, and clung to his hawkish views. When Begin negotiated the historic 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Egypt, Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab country, Sharon voted against it.
By the time Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula under the accord, Sharon was Begin's defense minister. Begin quipped that he was reluctant to give Sharon the job lest he "encircle the prime minister's office with tanks."
But when it fell to Sharon to remove the Jewish settlements Israel had built in Sinai, he obediently ordered the protesting settlers to be dragged away and their homes bulldozed to rubble.
Then came one of the most controversial chapters of his tumultuous life.
In 1982 he engineered the invasion of Lebanon. It was portrayed as a quick, limited strike to drive Palestinian fighters from Israel's northern border. Later it emerged that Sharon had a larger plan: to install a pro-Israel regime in Lebanon — a design that typified boldness to his friends and dangerous megalomania to his critics. The conflict quickly escalated, and Israel remained in Lebanon for the next 18 years.
That September, the Israeli military, controlling parts of Beirut, allowed members of the Phalanges, a Lebanese Christian militia allied with Israel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla in Beirut to root out "terrorists." The militiamen systematically slaughtered hundreds of civilians, including women and children. The massacres sparked mass protests in Israel and abroad. An Israeli commission rejected Sharon's contention that he didn't know what was coming, saying: "It is impossible to justify the minister of defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre."
He was fired as defense minister.
In his autobiography, Sharon said he was outraged by the findings. "It was a stigmatization I rejected utterly," he wrote.
Sharon stayed in the government as a minister without portfolio and pledged to remain in public life. "When I saw the weakness of the leadership, the hypocrisy, the hatred within Israel among Jews, when I saw the developments throughout the Middle East, I thought that I simply had to stay," he wrote.
A journalist and friend, Uri Dan, predicted — famously and, as it turned out, accurately— "Those who didn't want to see him as army chief got him as defense minister, and those who don't want him as defense minister shall get him as prime minister."
In 1983, Sharon filed a $50 million lawsuit against Time Magazine for alleging that Sharon, while defense minister, had discussed avenging the murder of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel with Lebanese Christian militia leaders. Time said the discussion was held the day before the Sabra and Chatilla massacres. A six-member jury in New York concluded that the Time report was false but acquitted the magazine of libel, saying it published the report in good faith.
Later, an Israeli court rejected a libel suit filed by Sharon against the Haaretz daily over a 1991 article that claimed he misled Begin about his military intentions in Lebanon. Israel would remain entangled in Lebanon until 2000.
Sharon gradually rehabilitated himself, serving in parliament and using various Cabinet posts to build dozens of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza despite international protests.
As foreign minister in 1998, Sharon called on Jewish settlers to grab as much land as possible before a permanent territorial agreement was reached with the Palestinians.
"Everyone there should move, should run, should grab more hills, expand the territory. Everything that's grabbed will be in our hands, everything that we don't grab will be in their hands," he said.
He also played a leading role in the absorption of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
Sharon's demonstrative visit to the Temple Mount, or Haram as-Sharif, soon followed. Palestinian riots escalated into a full-fledged uprising that would claim more than 3,000 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli lives.
In February 2001, with the fighting continuing and last-ditch peace talks collapsing, Israelis grew deeply disillusioned and inclined to lay all the blame on Arafat. Yearning for a strong leader, they elected Sharon prime minister in a landslide.
Fighting continued throughout Sharon's first term in office and he was re-elected in 2003 to a second term.
Later that year, with Israeli towns suffering a wave of suicide bombings originating in the nearby West Bank, the bulldozers once again went into action as Sharon began building a barrier of walls and fences.
In late 2003, he unveiled his "unilateral disengagement" plan — withdrawing from territory he no longer deemed essential to Israel's security — without an agreement with the Palestinians.
He also confined Arafat to his West Bank headquarters in his final years before allowing the longtime Palestinian leader to fly to France in late 2004 shortly before his death. Arafat's death gave him a new, more moderate Palestinian leadership with which to deal.
In an earlier speech he dropped what for Israelis was a bombshell. For the first time he called Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza an "occupation" and conceded that an independent Palestinian state was inevitable.
"Occupation is bad," he said in front of cameras to his shocked Likud lawmakers.
Still, the Gaza pullback fell far short of anything offered by his predecessor or acceptable to even moderate Palestinians. While supporters say Israel is better off without involvement in Gaza, the withdrawal is widely seen as a failure in Israel because the territory was subsequently overrun by Hamas militants who went on to launch rockets at Israel.
Speaking Saturday, Olmert said Sharon's legacy was far more complicated than critics say.
"Arik was not a warmonger. When it was necessary to fight, he stood at the forefront of the divisions in the most sensitive and painful places, but he was a smart and realistic person and understood well that there is a limit in our ability to conduct wars," he said.
Domestically, Sharon became the latest in a long line of Israeli prime ministers whose terms were marred by corruption probes. He was accused of improper fundraising and accepting bribes, allegedly paid to one of his sons, from a prominent real-estate developer, but never charged. His oldest son, Omri, however, later served seven months in prison for fraud connected to campaign fundraising for his father.
Behind his gruff public demeanor lurked a dry wit, Old-World charm and a fondness for fine dining and classical music.
Sharon was widowed twice — he married the sister of his first wife after she died in an auto accident — and had two sons, Gilad and Omri. A third son died in 1967 in a firearms accident.
David Landau, author of a new biography titled "Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon," said Sharon's greatest legacy was turning the tide of the 1973 war and especially exiting Gaza — a momentous event that broke down key taboos for Israel's hard-line right wing.
He said Sharon's recognition of Israel's "occupation" of the Palestinians, and his willingness to cede occupied territory, set the stage for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's current peace efforts in the region.
"That is a hugely important part of his legacy as it is still valid and active now in today's negotiations and it harks back to Sharon," Landau said.
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