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Anthony Shadid
I didn't know Anthony Shadid personally, but I respected his writing. His last story for the NYT, on militias running amok in Libya, was perhaps the best one I'd read about the country's internal conflict since it began in 2011. It reminded readers – well, those few who care to recall Libya – that "interventions" do not end when the last bomber flies back to base, whether we're claiming "mission accomplished" in the name of neoconservatism or the "responsibility to protect."
His dispatches from Iraq stand out as some of the greatest condemnations of our criminal behavior towards the Iraqi people, criminal behavior that so far almost no one, not those who used their uniforms as cover to murder, rape and torture Iraqis, nor the officials who misled us into the war, nor the liars in the mainstream media and intelligence community who presented falsehood as fact, have been held accountable for. But as much as Iraq disillusioned him, the "Arab Spring" gave him hope that yes, democracy could come forth after the Occupation of Iraq in spite of American bayonets and decades of craven pandering by Washington to dictators of the secular and Islamist varieties.
Shadid's Iraq stories reminded us of the human cost of war. Shadid was an astute observer, a quality that is becoming all too rare today.
Shadid also saw the Second Intifada up close (and took a bullet to the shoulder for it, though that wouldn't be last scrape with violence in his line of work; last year he and his colleagues were arrested by the Libyan authorities – their local driver died of injuries from the abuse meted out to them). He described the conflict as one where "to a miserable degree, civilians are combatant."
His loss is made all the more tragic by the fact that just when the world needs good, honest reporting from Syria as the country spirals into a civil between the Syrian regime and a growing insurgency – another war where "to a miserable degree, civilians are combatants" – he is not there to deliver it.
Boston.com just republished Shadid's four day account of his journey through the West Bank in the spring of 2002, where he observed firsthand the despair, desperation and hatred on both sides of that conflict, whose only lasting results have been to add to the body count on both sides and enable the settlement enterprise to proceed apace.
It's worth quoting it at length; there's no better way to mark Shadid's career than letting his words speak for him:
A lot can be learned about the pain and punishment wrought by the Israeli-Palestinian war by looking at the arms with which it is fought.
When I first visited the Middle East in 1988 as a student journalist spending a summer in Jerusalem, I landed in the middle of the intifadah, the Arabic name for the Palestinian uprising that had begun a year earlier. The weapons of choice then for Palestinian youths were rocks, slingshots, and, as the conflict wore on, Molotov cocktails. They were little match for the rubber bullets – and sometimes lethal alternatives – employed by Israeli soldiers drafted for duty in the territories they occupied.
When I returned in March, the constellation of those arms had changed. Still underway was an uprising that Palestinians saw as a fight for independence. But the pitch of that battle bore little resemblance to its predecessors. Skirmishes with stones and slingshots had been replaced by guerrilla operations against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza, by ambushes of Jewish settlers seen by Palestinians as colonists, and by suicide bombs inside Israel wreaking civilian carnage that was the definition of indiscriminate.
The force of the Israeli response was still disproportionate but far more destructive – Merkava tanks, helicopter gunships, even US-made F-16s, whose fire had made for indelible footage in a Muslim world that sees the war as millennial.
And again arms told the story of the conflict. In 1988, it was the arms of young men that were most remarkable. Throwing rocks can be a rigorous regimen, and along with frequent tragedy came the youthful exuberance of doing something mischievous.
In March, I interviewed Palestinian men of that same generation under the stone porticos of Bethlehem's labyrinthine Old City. They were older, angrier, and far less exuberant. They dressed in black. And they bore scars. One of the men refused to shake my hand, hiding his arm under his jacket. He was concealing a missing hand and forearm blown off three months earlier by an M-16 rifle that was booby-trapped by Israeli operatives.
This was a far dirtier war.
There was little room for shades of gray. On one side was Israel, a country with overwhelming US support, seized by militancy and desire for revenge over the drumbeat of suicide bombings. On the other side was a vastly outgunned Palestinian people who were in the bleakest, most forlorn mood since the 1967 war began their occupation.
During two weeks in Israel and the Palestinian territories this spring, I registered traces of that dirty war. But it took four days in Ramallah to grasp it.
The hourly news bulletins on Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV network, spoke to the new war I was covering. Friday, March 29, was my first full day in Ramallah. Before dawn, columns of Israeli tanks, bulldozers, and soldiers rumbled into the hub of a nascent Palestinian state. Along deserted, fog-shrouded streets, the armor headed straight for Yasser Arafat's headquarters, a hilltop compound known as Moqata'a. But in scenes soon repeated across the West Bank, the city bore the brunt of the invasion.
Electricity was cut, and staccato bursts of gunfire rolled over the olive trees along rocky hills. Tanks parked at intersections, and the roads were plowed with their treads. Palestinian fighters, with blank faces eloquently expressing their fear, huddled at street corners in mismatched camouflage. They awaited a fight they knew they would lose.
The most pitched battle erupted at Arafat's headquarters, as a bulldozer smashed a hole in the wall of the compound, which sprawls over a city block. Israeli soldiers poured in, forcing Arafat to retreat to a windowless room in a three-story building.
In a daylong saga that occasionally turned surreal, the scene inside was played out hour by hour on Arabic satellite channels like Al-Jazeera. Aides said that Arafat was praying and reading the Koran. At other times, he was said to be giving commands to his fighters. Palestinian television aired a picture showing Arafat seated next to a guard, with a pistol on the table in front of him.
At the start of its broadcasts, Al-Jazeera aired a line that Arafat had delivered earlier in the day. "They want me either a prisoner, in exile, or dead, but I tell them I want to be a martyr," the 72-year-old Palestinian leader said. Then, with an Arabic flourish, he repeated the word. "A martyr, a martyr, a martyr," he said.
Those words did not reflect the 1993 Oslo accords that promised to end a half-century of conflict, nor his handshake with the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at a White House ceremony presided over by President Bill Clinton. The message recalled Beirut in 1982, when Ariel Sharon, then Israel's defense minister, sent Israeli forces across the northern border in a misguided attempt to destroy Arafat's headquarters in Beirut and the Palestine Liberation Organization's state within a state in southern Lebanon.
It was an analogy with which neither side was uncomfortable. Then, as now, Sharon was after "terrorist infrastructure" and could wield the force of one of the world's mightiest armies to try to eliminate it. Then, as now, Palestinians in overwhelming numbers endorsed armed struggle as the surest path to national liberation, despite the almost cartoonish odds they faced.
My first morning in Ramallah was a throwback. The tanks, the destruction, the irreversible message of invasion that I watched from a hotel window – this was history revisited, like an earlier era of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Its arrival obliterated the nuances that had sprung up under Oslo inside both Israeli and Palestinian societies. Both accuse the other of declaring the war that March 29 brought, but neither disagreed that war had begun.
How had it reached that point?
The suicide bombings – a tactic first brought to the region by communists in Lebanon, then picked up with deadly effect by Islamists in the Palestinian territories – had, as Sharon and other Israeli leaders pointed out, transformed their society.
In the week before leaving for Ramallah, I had driven to northern Israel to cover a crowded bus torn apart by a Palestinian with bombs strapped to his body. the next day, I saw the scene repeated in Jerusalem, followed by the horrific carnage of the bombing of a passover seder in the coastal town of netanya.
The bloodshed had a way of blurring the specifics of each tragedy. As a reporter, how many ways can you describe bodies hurled through windows, twisted metal forged by the detonation, and the bomber's blood splashed across a building's facade? The very monotony of the attacks made them so horrifying. The less novel they seemed, the more vividly they touched lives that had long been isolated from the brunt of the conflict.
In covering these bombings, it struck me how little distinguished the discourse of both Palestinians and Israelis. Both were dominated by anger, and the anger was dangerous. It fed off a feeling of vulnerability, a thirst for vengeance, and a conviction that no one understands their pain. That discourse of war has laid bare the chauvinism that courses through both societies, and in sentiments alone, both mirror the other in their militancy. It was militancy that I heard after the bombings.
"There is no life with Arabs," said David Baruch, a hairdresser whose shop is a few minutes from the attack in Jerusalem. "We cannot live with them, and they cannot live with us. We have to throw them out. This is our country. It is a Jewish country."
"We want war, we want war," Haim Mizrahi, another Israeli, told me a few minutes later outside his store, which is down the street from the bombing. "It's war, and we want war."
That sentiment is the mainstream, for Israelis and Palestinians.
Khalil Shikaki, whose Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research tracks public opinion, has measured Palestinians' loss of faith in negotiations and subsequent hardening of attitudes during the uprising. If suicide bombings had driven Israelis to the edge, Palestinians have grievances as deeply felt and longer-standing, all of which revolve around the occupation and a fading prospect for its end.
Even before Israel's reoccupation of Palestinian cities in March and April, nearly nine in 10 Palestinians endorsed violence, including suicide bombings, to oppose it. That contrasted with the two-thirds of Palestinians who had endorsed the peace envisioned by the Oslo agreement when it was signed in September 1993.
Israelis, in turn, welcomed, even demanded, the invasion of Ramallah that in time was repeated in other Palestinian cities. Those demands reached a pitch after the suicide bomber tore apart more than two dozen Israelis in Netanya.
On Friday, hours after that invasion began, I walked near my hotel, trying to interview the scattered Palestinian fighters. The gunfire was too intense. This was not the kind of protest with tear gas so familiar nearly 15 years ago. It was tanks and armored personnel carriers, and the trail they left in Ramallah felt arbitrary – stones of once tidy walls spilling into the street, cars crushed under tank treads, streetlights strewn across intersections to make room for the bulky tanks to negotiate their turns.
A colleague and I ran down the street, groping for the path where we heard fewer shots. We randomly chose a house and knocked on the metal door, rain gathering in a puddle on the porch. With remarkable hospitality, Farida Qaria welcomed us in. She served us Arabic coffee as we huddled with her family around a gas stove to keep warm.
Amid the international outcry over the invasion and Arafat's imprisonment, amid the calls for a cease-fire and a return to negotiations, Farida's daughter, Dalia, offered an opinion widely shared in Ramallah that morning. War had begun, and it was a different war. "There is no peace with Jews," the 22-year-old Christian told me, more matter of fact than angry. "With Sharon, there is no peace." She paused, then began again. "This war will not end. I don't think it will ever end."
The Abu Gharbiyyah family didn't stay inside Friday, and I heard their story on my second day in Ramallah.
Before dawn, as the invasion began, Murad awoke with his 20-year-old wife and 5-month-old baby and decided to leave town. They never made it. Israeli snipers shot at their gray Renault, killing his wife instantly. Murad was shot twice, and blood poured from his back and shoulder. He grabbed his infant son, fell out of the car, and tried to crawl across the rain-soaked street. He managed only a few yards before he collapsed. His baby tumbled from his arms. As Murad lay unconscious, the infant's cries punctuated the gunfire that sounded like a jackhammer.
The firing stopped for a moment, and a neighbor ran outside to get the baby. Murad remained in the street. Brothers Amr and Omar Zaloum, who lived nearby, and their cousin Mohammed Zaloum approached Murad, sprawled beside his Renault. "We went to try to help and they started shooting," 17-year-old Omar told me from his hospital bed.
All three were shot – Amr in his right thigh, right hand, and back, Omar twice in his right forearm, and Mohammed in his abdomen. They lay for hours in the street with Murad waiting for help. It was not until 1 p.m. that ambulances made it past Israeli combatants and took them to the hospital.
When I asked an Israeli military spokesman about the shootings, he did not know of the specific incident. But he assumed they were caught in the crossfire of "fighting terrorism." "We have no intention of hurting innocent civilians," the spokesman said. "We're only looking for terrorists and their infrastructure."
The four men were listed as wounded – a category that attracts less attention than the dead but whose tally may be no less tragic. Their injuries spoke to a sad fact of the Israeli-Palestinian war: When the conflict is measured in its broad est terms – the suicide bombings in Israel on the one hand, the curfews, the blockades around Palestinian towns, and the grinding details of occupation on the other – civilians are the preeminent target of a conflict that is disproportionately fought in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Both sides have created cultures that make excuses for that fact. In a corollary to the sense that no one understands their pain, both sides dismiss criticism as naive. That goes for the Palestinians' acceptance of suicide bombings. It goes for the Israelis' practice of collective punishment that touches virtually every Palestinian life.
The suicide bombing phenomenon particularly struck me – not necessarily for its violence but in how widespread the culture that celebrated it had become. In 1996, I visited the Gaza Strip as a reporter for the Associated Press. It is among the world's bleakest places. The maze of alleys gives off an oppressive feeling of confinement, suffocation, and seclusion. Those very traits speak to the Palestinian existence, be it under blockade in the West Bank or in refugee camps that stretch to Lebanon and beyond.
In the fetid streets, where poverty mixes explosively with desperation, I found a youth culture of bravado that reminded me of the grittiest side of urban America. It was, I thought then, "gangsta Islam," in which guns stood as a symbol of resistance and violence was exalted.
During that visit, at a Hamas rally, thousands of young men watched as activists reenacted the kidnapping in 1994 of an Israeli soldier who was later killed in a rescue attempt. In the skit, men disguised as Orthodox Jews and speaking Hebrew with heavy Arabic accents picked up the soldier, Sergeant Nachson Wax man. The crowd cheered when it heard his name. It went wild when the actor portraying him was beaten or cried out for his mother in Hebrew. I doubted they really thought it was funny. In a conflict that had become so personal, so colored by vengeance, I got the sense they felt the only way to get back at Israelis they blamed for their plight was to hurt them emotionally. The sentiment is the refrain of the powerless: Because we hurt, they should hurt, too. And it was a sentiment I now heard voiced not only by Islamists organizing in Gaza but by a broad cross section of Palestinians. That sentiment is new in its breadth and conviction, and it is a vivid window on the anger that grips Palestinian society.
In the West Bank today, there's a sense that Israel has crossed red lines by sending F-16 fighters against Palestinian cities and by deploying US-built Apache helicopters against fighters armed with rifles. In the mismatch of power, Palestinians in overwhelming numbers see suicide bombings as the one means at their disposal to respond with pain equivalent to what Israelis deliver. The kaleidoscope of graffiti puts it another way: "They have nuclear bombs, we have human bombs."
The threats of both sides are potentially indiscriminate, and both hold a key to the conflict: To a miserable degree, civilians are combatants. And Palestinians don't play the game alone.
Debates rage over civilian deaths from Israel's military operations in the West Bank – were civilians avoided or was their safety disregarded? But there is little question that the less lethal measures of Israel's crackdown single out civilians. In the 20 months of the uprising, checkpoints imposed around the 3.5 million Palestinians have nearly tripled. They have turned the territories into dozens of besieged cantons, and barred the overwhelming majority of Palestinians from leaving the places where they live.
By any name, it is collective punishment, a variation of which was replayed in the morning of my second day in Ramallah after I left the hospital. Palestinians under curfew peeked out of their doors to complain about dwindling stocks of food or how their water was running out. No one had prepared for a long siege, and no one expected the Israelis to stay. The curfew imposed on them was yet another act in the long-running drama of occupation: power exercised as arbitrarily as the victims it claimed.
"Israel is not fighting the Palestinian authority," Salah Totah, a 33-year-old Palestinian-American told me, coming out of his door as he saw me walking down a street that was cloaked in silence. "It's fighting the Palestinian people. They call us the terrorists. But if we're the terrorists, it was the Israelis who taught us."
The word "terrorism" has only lately infected the American discourse, inaugurated by September 11. But it has long played prominently in the official pronouncements of the Israeli government – and Palestinians cringe at its use. To them, anyone opposed to Israeli policy becomes a terrorist, and Israeli officials, to their own disservice, make few distinctions in employing the word. Palestinians have their own semantics: Suicide bombings become "operations," a chillingly neutral term picked up by Arab media.
The linguistic games serve to shield the identity of targets – civilians humiliated by the occupation and slain in its operations are caught in the web of fighting terrorism; Israeli civilians killed in suicide bombings become faceless casualties of the resistance.
The words wash away distinctions. They become a cover and an impetus for waging a war that cares little for contrasts between combatants and noncombatants. The vendettas they inspire become both personal and blind.
Omar Jayouse, a 43-year-old father of three whom I met the second day, was a bit player in the intransigence. Soon after dawn, the soldiers had taken over his home, deeming as strategic its location near Arafat's headquarters. Their dialogue was an insight into how voracious the conflict had become.
"Are you teaching your kids to kill Israelis?" soldiers asked Jayouse, director of Educational Network, a local teacher-training group funded in part by Save the Children-USA. "Do you hate Israel? Do you like Sharon?"
When he asked what they were doing in his home, they reminded him of the bombing in Netanya. They accused him of raising his children to be bombers. They blamed him for their presence. "The soldiers told me, `We are here because of you,' " he recalled. "They want to teach us a lesson. They want us to know that we are not safe."
I awoke on Sunday with the feelings that grip any reporter covering a breaking story: What have I missed, where should I go, and what's the best angle for tomorrow's story? My mood was bleak. I had seen more blood in two days than I had seen in 10 years as a reporter at home and in the Middle East. The images of a day earlier were still racing through my head. They were the snapshots of war: bodies disfigured by the geometry of death, the unreal look of a lifeless face, the horror of jelled blood next to a skull emptied by the blast of a gunshot.
Those images were of five Palestinian policemen who were killed in a gun battle that had lasted more than an hour. The men were holed up in the third floor of a building that housed the Cairo-Amman bank, fleeing advancing Israeli troops. Hours later, I saw them lying in pools of blood, their bodies slumped together against the walls of a small room. One of the men was probably in his 60s, the others were middle-aged or older. Three had been shot in the head at close range – one of them had two bullet wounds to the back of his skull. Blood and bullet holes about 3 feet off the floor lined the walls behind them, the height of someone kneeling. Three paramedics dragged the stiff bodies into an elevator and then loaded them onto an ambulance. They were disgusted by the work and angry at what they thought was murder. "They were shot point-blank," said Mohammed Awad, a paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. "This is an execution."
The Israeli military reacted angrily to the charges. A spokesman told me later that the policemen were killed in an intense exchange of fire at close range. He said two Israeli soldiers were wounded in the gun battle. "It wasn't an execution," the spokesman said. "If they hadn't opened fire, it probably wouldn't have happened."
Whatever the circumstance, the scene chilled me. It was not the deaths themselves in which I saw tragedy. There was too much of that already. Neither was it the possibility that the men had been executed. It was instead something far more banal. Lying in his own blood, one of the policemen had his eyes open, as though he had watched his own passing. The soiled and bloodied black-and-white kaffiyeh that served as his funeral shroud seemed so dismissive. His procession was to be dragged by his boots into an ambulance. His death was wretched, and his face, which reminded me of my grandfather's, was familiar. For a moment, the union of those two brought humanity to his killing and overwhelmed me. For that brief moment, I saw humanity amid a conflict that thrived on dehumanizing its victims.
I don't know the truth of the events in the bank building. I suspect we never will. The policemen's deaths did not compete with the toll of suicide bombs or the carnage of Jenin. They are sure to be overshadowed by the bloodshed ahead. In hindsight, their deaths were no more than portent, foreshadowing what was to come.
I had no car, so that morning I walked with my Palestinian colleague, Said al-Ghazali, across a city shrouded by siege. We went to Ramallah Hospital, witnessing a standoff that seemed a microcosm of my time so far. Soldiers were determined to search for suspects they thought might be hiding inside. Doctors were determined to block their entry, deeming the hospital off-limits. We covered that scene, then moved on. We talked with residents and tried to engage soldiers. We walked to Arafat's compound.
And then I was shot. It happened in the afternoon, as Said and I were walking back to my hotel through an area that had been in complete control of the Israeli military for days. We both wore flak jackets, and we both had "TV" written prominently with red tape on our backs. We walked in the middle of the street to avoid suspicion. I believe the single bullet was fired by an Israeli soldier, though I never saw him. I believe he thought I was Palestinian. The slug entered my left shoulder, blasted off part of my vertebrae, then exited my right shoulder. Twelve pieces of shrapnel were left in me.
My head filled with the anarchy of emotions and impulses that crisis brings. The lack of rules that drew the boundaries around this conflict struck me as I lay in the street. It was a dirty war, and I was another victim. I was another line crossed – a noncombatant dragged into a conflict not of my making.
I was treated by an Israeli medic, then taken on a stretcher to a Palestinian hospital across the street. I kept asking whether the bullet had hit my spine. "No, no, your spine is OK," the Palestinian doctor told me. They finished the X-rays, then took me to a recovery room. As I sat on the bed, I heard soldiers enter the facility. Within minutes, two soldiers with guns drawn barged into my room, shouting at me in Hebrew. "Back off," I yelled angrily. "I'm an American journalist." They answered in English: "Get your hands up." I limply lifted my hands, my shoulders immobile from bandages.
In the rest of the hospital, the war went on. Soldiers shouted as they went room to room. Doctors and staff were corralled in an office. Patients lay alone in their beds. Outside my door, soldiers lined up suspects along the hallway, young Palestinian men whose wrists were bound by plastic handcuffs, their heads leaning against the wall. Doctors loudly protested the violation, and in the end, all were released.
Later in the evening, I talked with the Israeli officer in charge. I told him I believed an Israeli soldier had shot me. He answered calmly, even warmly. "If we shot you, I apologize on behalf of the army," he said. "But" – he shrugged his shoulders – "you know you were in a war zone." That made sense to me on my third day in Ramallah. I was in the zone of a very nasty conflict, one with few rules and one with even fewer boundaries. My shooting was as telling as the scene that followed in the hospital – no one, not doctors, nor journalists, was off-limits. As in Israel, with the carnage that suicide bombings claimed, victims were indiscriminate.
After midnight, I was wheeled into a room on the floor below. There was another bed next to me. In it lay Carlos Handal, a Palestinian cameraman for Nile TV, who had been shot in the neck by Israeli soldiers on the first day of the invasion. Al-Jazeera was on the television overhead. The station was still in the mode of reporting a war, recapping breathlessly the day's events. The newscaster mentioned my wounding that day and referred to Handal's earlier shooting. We watched without saying a word.
I awoke to a day of negotiations that would make any Levantine proud. The Globe's Middle East bureau chief, Charles A. Radin, was on the telephone, speaking with the army and with colleagues and others offering aid. We were trying to persuade soldiers to escort me and my colleague, Said, to the checkpoint at the edge of town. From there, Said would go home, and I would go to a hospital in Jerusalem. The calls were hectic, the signals changing. At one point, the US consulate asked me if I would go alone. I said no, feeling somewhat embarrassed at being inflexible but knowing that Said could be stranded for weeks if I didn't insist that he accompany me. An hour or so later, a few more calls behind us, we had our OK from the Israeli military.
I was leaving, a departure tinged with guilt. One doctor, I thought, was insulted, angry that I had turned down his care for the Israeli alternative. A woman drove home the injustice of the situation. Doctors had removed her son's appendix a week earlier. The Israeli invasion followed, and they were stranded. She asked me to help. "What can I do?" I said meekly from my bed. Without anger, she offered words that have stuck with me. "You can leave," she said. "We can't. We have to stay here."
I was loaded into a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, and Said jumped into the front seat. We drove to Ramallah's main intersection, Minara Square, where we were to pick up our escort to the checkpoint. But contrary to our agreement with the army, the officer there refused to allow Said to accompany me. In a mix of exasperation and anger, we chose to go back to the Palestinian hospital. Then, in a mix of exasperation and impatience, we decided to head for the checkpoint on our own in the ambulance.
The wrongheadedness of some decisions unfolds over time, as misfortune follows misfortune. Regret creeps up on you. This was not that kind of decision. I knew immediately this was a bad idea. We tore through Ramallah's deserted streets, all the while expecting a roadblock, a warning shot, or an order blared from a loudspeaker. We heard nothing, our luck misleading. As I gripped the sides of the stretcher, the driver shouted to me: "We made it, Mr. Shadid. We're almost out. We're almost there."
A few moments later, gunfire erupted. I could hear the bullets ricochet off the pavement, but all I could see was blue sky through the ambulance's back window. The driver threw the car in reverse. We thought they were shooting at us, though we learned later the target was probably stone-throwing youths. The ambulance sped into a nearby refugee camp, and we hid in its claustrophobic alleys of concrete and cinder block, looking for another exit from Ramallah. With the unanimity that fear brings, we all agreed our cat-and-mouse game looked suspicious, and the driver sped again to the main street.
Palestinians tried to get us to stop and take on a boy who had just been shot in the head. The driver refused. "I'm already carrying somebody," he said. "He's a foreigner." The word made me feel both ashamed and relieved. I was part of the conflict by choice, a voyeur who could choose to be invisible. More important, I was more than a number, more than a vendetta. I was an individual.
The Israeli-Palestinian war is often seen through the lens of one side or the other. Israelis, in more numbers than ever before, see the conflict through the lens of terrorism. They feel a nation besieged by the lurking threat of suicide bombings that has disrupted lives. The chill of danger has brought home a conflict from which cities like Tel Aviv and Netanya were distanced psychologically, albeit not geographically. A threat so sinister warrants, even justifies, a response that crosses lines.
Palestinians see that same conflict through the lens of occupation. While Israelis may fear walking their streets, Palestinians point out that they cannot even enter theirs. The curfews, the checkpoints, the overwhelming superiority of arms Israel wields, have produced the humiliation of occupation that is stretching into a second generation. Their uprising is a war for independence, a fight for statehood. They say that their critics chastise them without having endured the subjugation they know all too well.
I saw my four days in Ramallah through the lens of dehumanization, the deprivation of humanity that this war inspires. Civilians are combatants in a conflict that has qualitatively changed from the intifadah I first covered. Stones have given way to suicide bombs, rubber bullets to tanks and helicopter gunships. The escalation is possible in part because neither side comprehends the other's pain. Vendettas, an intensely personal quest for vengeance, only deepen. Because the conflict pits two sides of disproportionate force, that pain is disproportionate, and far many more Palestinians have died. But a lens that blurs distinctions ensures that the pain will endure.
Being neither Israeli nor Palestinian was my ticket home. Radin had managed to get the Israeli military on the phone, and we, in turn, called them. We kept them on the line as we crept toward the checkpoint, yard by yard. I watched the sky, desperately searching for a tank's turret or the camouflage netting of a checkpoint. I knew that the army I blamed for my shooting a day ago would ensure my passage now.
"We're there, we're there, Mr. Shadid," the driver cried out. He brought the ambulance to a stop, and the doors swung open. Soldiers with rifles searched under the cot next to me and looked in my hastily packed bags. Then they took my stretcher out of the vehicle emblazoned with a crescent and put me in an ambulance marked with the Star of David.
I had crossed a border, both physical and ideological. We drove over the hilly roads of Jerusalem, past cedar trees and pines, past billboards in Hebrew and tony shopping centers. In 15 minutes, I was inside Israel's best hospital.
Said remained behind, at the checkpoint.
As he had approached, a soldier trained a gun on him. Another soldier told him he had orders not to let Said pass. "Go back home," one shouted.
Said stayed at the checkpoint for two hours, waiting with others. Without my presence, he was just another Palestinian negotiating yet another checkpoint in a land full of them. He had no name; his ethnicity was his identity. That was this war's verdict.


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Midrange enterprises (with 50 to 499 employees) had to be most cautious during the downturn, but they now have a strong focus on the basic areas. (See chart at right.) In these enterprises, categories where the most organizations are increasing spending year-over-year are user PCs (74 percent) and servers (72 percent).
In large enterprises, investment in systems did not suffer as much as it did in midrange organizations in recent years. Instead, budgets were increased for other elemental IT areas, especially back-up and continuity. Roughly a third of large enterprises say they're increasing budgets in each of these categories.
In 2010, most IT organizations spent more than originally budgeted on central technology needs, such as security and email systems. (See Finding 1.1 on page 17) That's because last year's budgeting cycle -- which took place in late 2009--occurred before the economic recovery started.
This article was originally published on 06-30-2011


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So I hear about this guy named Mike Michalowicz, who has this idea that companies should institute "library hours," a chunk of time each day when everyone in the office shuts up, unplugs from the Internet and focuses on work.
My first reaction was, "Unplug this, turkey." (I actually said something saltier than "turkey," but the editors won't let me print it because they're mean.)
Honestly, the idea of workers being banned from answering emails or talking to each other sounds like something from an episode of "The Office" or a kindergarten rule foisted on grown-ups.
I tracked down Michalowicz — when he wasn't having "nap time" — and pressed him on the concept.
"I agree that even thinking about doing it seems impossible," he said. "But we are so connected that our productivity is dropping. People calling for attention through your hand-held, people physically coming into your office space — it's a constant distraction."
Michalowicz has founded three companies and is the author of the small-business book "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll." He said he used library hours — usually just one hour, from 10 to 11 a.m. — and found that his employees eventually liked it and saw it as a chance to press through a sizable amount of work.
"The wonderful thing about library hours is, it involves the entire group, and it's enforced by the entire group," Michalowicz said. "It's like Weight Watchers; there's this public declaration that you're going to do it."
Well, nothing makes an idea sound fun quite like comparing it with Weight Watchers. So with that, I'm going to ask everyone to be quiet while I answer some questions.
Q: Will I ever get a good raise again? I used to get 10 to 15 percent raises, but now I am lucky to get a 1 percent raise.
— "Sign me Anonymous" in Chicago, via email
A: First, I would like to point out that I spent a great deal of time reporting this issue and then worked extra hours — missing my wedding anniversary, my son's birthday party and lots of TV — making sure the information was presented in as clear and useful a manner as possible, thus making me an invaluable asset to my company. (Slight tangent: My bosses look very nice today. Have they lost weight?)
Moving on … raises are nettlesome workplace issues even during the best of times. But with the U.S. economy presently stumbling about like Amy Winehouse on a brewery tour, many workers have been seeing annual wage bumps either shrink or vanish altogether.
Well, there's good news. According to an annual compensation planning survey by the consulting firm Mercer, more than 98 percent of U.S. companies plan to award base-pay increases this year. The survey also found that only 2 percent of companies are planning sweeping salary freezes this year, compared with 13 percent in 2010 and a whopping 31 percent in 2009.
For some intellectual authority on the matter, I spoke with Robert Aliber, professor emeritus of international economics and finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
He spoke with measured optimism: "The economy is sluggish. Lots of people are hunting for jobs and most employers are not eager to give wage increases right now. But that's a cyclical phenomenon, and that will change as the economy rebounds. And there are lots of reasons for believing the economy will rebound."
Despite a rash of disappointing reports, including the recent news that the nation's unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, many economists continue to believe job creation slowly will improve this year.
While the fate of the economy is out of the average worker's hands, there are steps that can at least boost a person's chances of making more money.
Emily Bennington, co-author of "Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job," said this: "I think a lot of employees are looking at the issue of raises from the wrong side of the telescope. They're focusing on the employers and saying, 'When can I expect to have a raise again?'
"They should be focusing on, 'How can I be such a rock star that when raises are allocated, I'll be at the top of that list?'"
Bennington said that since 2008, many companies have stopped giving across-the-board cost-of-living raises and started pooling the available wage-increase money, doling it out only to workers who are performing well.
"A lot of companies now have discretionary privilege when it comes to allocating who gets what," she said. "If you're an employee and you're phoning it in and if you're working for a manager who has that discretionary privilege, a percentage of your raise might get tagged on to the strong performers and you'll wind up with less."
The bottom line is to have patience that the economy will swing back in a more favorable direction and, in the meantime, focus your energy on your job. Then, hopefully, good things will come.
And please let my bosses know how much this helped you. I've got kids to feed.
Q: During a PowerPoint presentation, a slide came up with the name of a new hire and his title and responsibilities. There was already a well-liked, hard-working person in that position and he was on the call. That is how he found out he was demoted. Was that totally inappropriate?
— Liora in New York, via email
A: The short answer to your question: "Yes, that was totally inappropriate."
The long answer: "Yes, that was totally inappropriate, and that boss should be fed to the lions or, at the very least, forced to listen to Fran Drescher gargle for nine consecutive hours."
For more opinion, I consulted Web personality MeetingBoy, the anonymous man who unleashes bitter — and funny — rants about his intolerable boss and office life in general at MeetingBoy.com.
"I'd like to say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not," MeetingBoy wrote in an email. "Batman likes to say, 'Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot.' Well, managers are no different.
"On the surface, it might seem that this was an inconsiderate oversight, that they forgot to tell the guy. But most managers are cowards when it comes to conflict, especially firings and demotions."
Of course there are certainly good managers out there who handle this sort of thing with grace. But, as MeetingBoy wrote, "sadly there is no Batman to rid Gotham City of the scourge of bad managers."
So be glad you weren't the one so thoughtlessly demoted. And hope that workplace karma, in the end, catches up to the villain.
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So I hear about this guy named Mike Michalowicz, who has this idea that companies should institute "library hours," a chunk of time each day when everyone in the office shuts up, unplugs from the Internet and focuses on work.


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Visiting Jakarta: Day 2
Today photographer Darren Black and set designer Sarah May and I gave a fashion talk to designers, stylists and photographers at The Femina Group office in central Jakarta today. We also met with the designer that we will be working during the next few days. Of course we managed to get in some good shoppingContinue reading


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I am currently trying to improve speed on a tilemapped game. The tiles are all in one big texture. If two or more diffrent floor tiles are neighbours the system creates a transistion on one tile: The base floor tile is rendered first then the transition is rendered on top of the tile. The transistion is a tile with transparent parts in it. On top of this the walls of the game are rendered in a separate layer. Most of the wall field is transparent.
Currenty the engine uses multi-pass rendering which works - but the performance is quite bad. I want to improve this and now I try to use multi-texturing.
Currently I succeded in rendering two tiles above each other but the result is not what I expected. I get problems because of the transparency.
I think GL_DECAL is nearly what I want but there are problems if the floor-texture has transparent parts:
If I render the wall above the floor the wall is only visible if the floor is opaque. If the floor is transparent the wall disappears too.
I think I have to use GL_COMBINE but with which paramters?


text: The Department of Justice's decision to revise its interpretation of the Wire Act could have a major impact on the nascent US iGaming industry. Or, as some suggest, its impact could be felt in gaming verticals that are well-established and generating money for operators and states alike. A selection of speakers from ICE Sports Betting USA discuss the DoJ's about-turn.


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There is nothing like touring a country with a local to get to experience the real thing, and in my view, the same applies to food. In Cuba, patrons of paladares (improvised restaurants in people's houses) can enjoy an even more intimate experience feeling almost as a family guest. Did you watch Fresa y Chocolate? The movie featured La Guarida, one of Cuba's most famous paladares. These establishments became legal and openly popular in the 90s.
My granddad lived in Batista's Cuba, where he developed a taste for the local fare, among other things. Now retired and living in Miami, Cuban food is a must when we get together. We have made as many memories around tacos and comida de fonda, as those we have made around plates full of rice and beans.
I was incredibly excited when I heard Paladar was coming to Chicago. The name, for one, gave it instant credibility. Plus, the menu offered family recipes and regional cuisine. I decided to give it a try as soon as I could. I did not make a reservation, and stopped by on a Saturday evening. We were warmly greeted as soon as we arrived.
I wanted to depart from the staples, and instead of ropa vieja, I ordered the red fried snapper, as it reminded me of the mojarras with garlic we eat in Mexico. Our waitress was so nice that she brought additional sauces. Try the avocado sauce. It is amazing and will have you saying wepa! at the first bite! It was so good, I ended up putting it on my rice. The food was perfectly cooked, delicious and generous, and the mojitos, are simply out of this world. The menu offers a variety of flavors. I had a cucumber mojito and a guava mojito.
The restaurant is cozy, casual and curiously decorated. It has pictures on display and china plates, a nod to the Cuban tradition in which hosts give a piece of the china set they receive as a wedding gift to their special guests. What's more, the gracious owner, José Gonzáles, makes multiple rounds to engage with his patrons. The service is so personal and warm, you may as well be in his dining room.
I am never one to skip dessert, but in this particular instance, not even the prospect of flan could pull me away from my plate. I simply couldn't put my fork down.
Paladar is open Monday-Sunday 11am – 12am. Find it in Chicago's Logan Square area, 2115 N. Milwaukee Ave.


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Frequency scan
In order to be able receive a particular signal with your TV tuner device you will need to tune/set it to the correct radio frequency used by that source transmission. Therefore, you (or, at least, the viewing application you are using) will first want to know which frequencies are used for transmission and thereby are tunable for your receiver at your location of residence. Frequency scanning utilities, listed below, perform such signal detection and, generally, provide a list of the frequencies upon which content is discovered, with which higher level applications can then in turn use for tuning purposes.
Note: Historically, the set of frequencies used under the older analogue systems have differed from one another, meaning that the particular frequencies used across North America, Europe, Asia, etc., etc., will differ depending upon the transmission standard adopted within each nation. When countries began to make the transition to digital TV systems, most have opted to continue to use their old channel frequency schemes so as to make the switch from analog to digital systems as seamless as possible for the end user.
Frequency Scanning Utilities
- scantv (part of xawtv package, both branches)
- apps with built in scanning ... tvtime, xawtv/motv (which call upon scantv), kdetv ...
One of the handiest tools for scanning frequencies is "(dvb)scan", a utility included within the LinuxTV dvb-apps package. (dvb)scan parses the information from a pre-configured initial scan file that is specific to a particular country/region/location/service_provider (many of which are contained within the dvb-apps package as well as being available within the wiki or elsewhere), then tunes into the frequencies and lists the names for all available PIDs.
- alexplore (part of the v4 xawtv package)
- dvbscan/scandvb/atscscan
- scan
- w_scan
- scan-s2 [1]
- dvbv5-scan
- apps with built in scanning ... kaffeine, MythTV, Me TV
Comparison of DVB frequency scanning commandline utilities
The following table lists the main features of the different command line scanners. For specific information on usage, have a look at its specific wiki article.
|feature \ scanner
|last stable
|linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1 (outdated, May 2006), look dvbv5-scan
|outdated, look dvbv5-scan
|none / use latest version
|outdated, look dvbv5-scan
|none / use latest version
|linuxtv.org maintained
DVB-S2 support missing
needs dvb driver with API-3.2 or 5.x
|linuxtv.org maintained
|compiling needs dvb driver with API-5.0 or higher
usage needs API-3.2 or API-5.x
|needs dvb driver with 5.0 or higher
last update 02/2009
|needs dvb driver with 5.5 or higher
in development (01/2012)
file format (up to now) incompatible to other apps
|supported DTV types
|DVB-S, DVB-C(Europe), DVB-T, ATSC (VSB and QAM), DMB-TH (China)
|DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C(Europe), DVB-T/T2, ATSC (VSB and QAM), DMB-TH (China)
|DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C(Europe), DVB-T, ATSC (VSB and QAM)
|ISDB-T, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVBT2, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and more
|initial scan file required
(matching to your satellite or local aerial/cable network)
|yes (use dvb-apps hg from linuxtv.org)
|yes (use dvb-apps hg from linuxtv.org)
|not required
|yes (use dvb-apps hg from linuxtv.org)
NOTE: slightly different file format from scan because of additional DVB-S2 support.
|yes (new file format)
|can generate initial scan file
|can generate channels.conf for zap/xine/mplayer/vlc
|yes (default)
|no (new file format)
|can generate channels.conf for VDR
|yes, but hopeless outdated (vdr-1.3 only)
|yes (default)
|yes (default)
|no (new file format)
|can generate channels.dvb for kaffeine
|no (new file format)
External Links
Digital For some other general sources (which may or may not be that useful) for finding local channel frequency lists, see:


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Eric explains how to take a blues song or progression and make it your own.
Taught by Eric Madis in Blues Slide Guitar seriesLength: 9:54Difficulty: 2.5 of 5
Slide guitar and Blues go way back, and have a rich heritage of complimenting each other. The slide is a wonderful way to add that "vocal" quality to your guitar playing as well. This technique can be used with all genres of music, but Eric will cover it within the world of Blues.
Lesson 1
Eric Madis delves into the world of slide guitar and discusses how it can be used within the blues universe.Length: 26:36 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 2
Eric Madis teaches two crucial slide guitar licks.Length: 17:12 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 3
Eric shows how the basic closed lick can be played over a twelve bar blues. He also introduces a lick by Kokomo Arnold.Length: 12:19 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 4
Eric Madis talks more about the Kokomo Arnold lick and explains some variations developed by Elmore James and Tampa Red.Length: 11:14 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 5
Eric teaches a few licks from Fred McDowell and demonstrates how they can be used in a blues progression.Length: 10:00 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Eric Madis explains how Duane Allman put his own unique spin on a classic lick played by Fred McDowell.Length: 9:28 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 7
Eric Madis demonstrates licks in the style of Duane Allman.Length: 5:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 8
Eric Madis demonstrates how the Duane Allman style "Harmonica Imitation Lick" can be used over different chords and changes.Length: 7:52 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 9
Eric Madis talks more about the Duane Allman style of playing and introduces the idea of playing in a box.Length: 8:01 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 10
Eric Madis teaches two classic licks in this lesson. First he covers a lick called "Son House's Train Lick." He also covers the "Electric Chair Lick."Length: 7:47 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Eric Madis teaches a classic blues slide lick called the "Elmore James Melodic Lick."Length: 8:51 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 12
Eric Madis introduces four new blues licks that can be played with a slide. He teaches a Charlie Patton lick, an ascending one-string turnaround, a descending turnaround lick, and also talks about sliding...Length: 10:22 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 13
Eric Madis teaches how to fill empty spaces in an arrangement with common licks. This lesson is particularly useful for solo guitarists.Length: 4:48 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 14
Eric demonstrates how the licks and techniques from previous lessons can be combined to play a smokin' blues solo.Length: 5:56 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 15
Eric introduces open A tuning and shows how some of the licks you have already learned can be transposed to the key of A.Length: 11:26 Difficulty: 2.5 FREE
Lesson 16
Eric offers up some amazing slide guitar tips. He talks about guitar setup, how to hold the slide, which finger to use and more.Length: 13:30 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
Learn how to play the timeless Delta Blues using a slide. This lesson uses A tuning.Length: 15:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 18
Eric teaches how to play the classic "Walking Blues" progression using a slide.Length: 14:25 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Eric teaches a rendition of "Rollin' and Tumblin'" that can be played with a slide.Length: 15:09 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
Eric explains how to take a blues song or progression and make it your own.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
Eric Madis demonstrates how blues licks, movable chords and other ideas can be combined to create an improvised blues shuffle.Length: 16:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 22
Eric Madis gives an in depth review of core blues licks in open A tuning.Length: 18:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
Eric explains how the classic "Dust My Broom" lick can be used to develop a theme that spans an entire twelve bar blues.Length: 6:01 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 24
Eric Madis demonstrates some slide licks that use a more linear approach instead of a vertical, box-based approach.Length: 8:44 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 25
Eric Madis shows how the "Harmonica Imitation Lick" can be used to create a theme that spans an entire twelve bar blues.Length: 6:11 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
Eric Madis combines two classic licks to create a smokin' 12 bar blues theme.Length: 7:10 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
About Eric Madis
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Eric Madis is a guitarist, singer and composer, a versatile artist whose playing and compositions reflect his diverse and thorough background in American music. Whether performing in an ensemble or as a soloist, he exudes a love and a mastery of the blues that have been refined by years of experience in jazz, country, rock, and even Hawaiian music. What results are performances that include authentic renderings of old rural blues, personal interpretations of modern urban blues and jazz standards, and original music that defies strict categorization, but that draws heavily from these traditions.
Eric lives in Seattle where he leads his own ensemble, performs as a solo act and performs in the Seattle Swing Trio. He has released four CDs on Luna Records, and is currently working on a fifth. He is on the faculty of the National Guitar Workshop and Dusty Strings Music and teaches guitar privately.
Eric lived his formative years in Colorado with a family that was musical (his mother was an accomplished opera singer), and began his music study on the piano at the age of nine. He began performing shortly after picking up a guitar at ten years of age. By the age of sixteen, he was performing in Chicago-area coffeehouses. He has accompanied artists as diverse as bluesmen Big Walter Horton, Sunnyland Slim, Deacon Jones, Hawaiian luminaries Irmgaard Aluli, Kekua Fernandez, Emma Sharpe and author/poet Nikki Grimes.
He has led bands in Illinois, Texas, Colorado and Washington. He has opened shows for Robben Ford, James Cotton, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Mem Shannon, Hawkeye Herman and author Sherman Alexie. Eric's four albums have received critical acclaim, including regional airplay and nominations from NAMA and Washington Blues Society (WBS). He has received 16 Best Blues nominations from WBS, was a finalist in the New Folk Awards at the 1981 Kerrville National Folk Festival, a finalist in the 1991 Seattle Guitar Starz competition, and has music featured on five film soundtracks. Eric has taught guitar classes at Denver Free University, University of Washington's Experimental College, Northwest Folklife Festival, National Guitar Workshop, and Canada's Guitar Workshop Plus.
Whether performing in a group or as a soloist, at a concert or a small club, teaching privately or a large workshop, Eric is a dedicated professional, with commitment to the quality of his art and to his audience.
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The Blaze – Billy Hallowell
Immigration continues to be a contentious sociopolitical issue, with politicians, faith leaders and American citizens all weighing in on proposals to cope with the millions of illegals who are currently residing within the nation's borders. Due to its complexities, finding common ground can be difficult, however religious leaders like the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), believe that it is possible to reach viable — and faith-based — solutions to the domestic conundrum.
TheBlaze recently interviewed Rodriguez, a prominent evangelical leader, to learn more about how he is tackling this controversial issue. Considering the role that preachers have in American communities and the work Rodriguez has been engaged in, his perspective on this front is important.
Among other observations, Rodriguez told TheBlaze that Christians' views on immigration have changed dramatically over the past seven years, noting that progressive and conservative evangelicals, alike, are coming together like never before (we reported on a massive campaign bridging political divides earlier this year called "The Evangelical Immigration Table").
"It's important to that conservative evangelicals today, as in comparison to seven years ago, serve as probably one of the most significant supportive groups in favor of comprehensive immigration reform," he said, noting that just a few years ago these same individuals and collectives were opposed. "Today, because of groups like the Southern Baptists [and] Liberty Counsel…we are pushing immigration reform and we have a piece of legislation coming forth from Marco Rubio."
Rodriguez noted that he believes the previous stance against reform was rooted in "spiritual, cultural and political myopia." Rather than a horizontal issue, the faith leader said that conservative evangelicals are now seeing the issue vertically and have woken up to the realities the nation is facing on the immigration front.
Also, outside of the political realm, Rodriguez noted that the most significant growth in Christianity is actually coming from these immigrants, making this as much a religious issue as it is one of policy.
"Before it was a political issue. Now it's a God and Christian issue," he continued.
As for critics who might dismiss plans to provide a path to citizenship and other such proposals, TheBlaze asked how Rodriguez would react to those who believe that illegals broke the law and that, as a result, they shouldn't be given amnesty.
"I agree they broke the law and they shouldn't be given amnesty," he responded. "We have to ask ourselves what is the Biblical solution for those who are here."
Rather than deporting them — something Rodriguez said simply isn't a viable option — he advocated a more compassionate and understanding approach. He also claimed that many of the 11 million people (estimated) who are here actually came to the country legally at some point, but some "overstayed their VISAs" (a Wall Street Journal report corroborated that 40 percent of illegals did enter the nation legitimately at some point).
He said that there's a fact-versus-fiction paradigm that shows that many of these individuals have actually contributed to their communities. Rodriguez also highlighted his belief that it's unfair to throw these individuals out when they have been living here for years.
"Ronald Reagan would agree with me on this. He was the one who said that these immigrants really embody the future of America," he added. "True conservatism [means that] if we are to conserve the spirit of entrepreneurship, we want to welcome these immigrants."
It's not as though the faith leader wants to open the floodgates. Rodriguez is, in fact, calling for overarching reform. And he's fully on-board with making illegals go to the back of the line, pay fines, and learn the English language. He noted that the process for becoming a citizen should include these benchmarks and that it could — and should — take someone 10 to 13 years to achieve this goal.
Now, as for the contention between progressive and conservative evangelicals on a wide variety of issues, Rodriguez spoke candidly about immigration as a uniting force. He said that it has been the most unifying issue he's observed in quite some time among evangelicals — so powerful, in fact, that it has conservative evangelicals like Rodriguez finding common ground with progressives like Sojourners' Jim Wallis.
"We coalesce around welcoming the stranger," he said, noting that Matthew 25 is a key Bible verse in the immigration reform debate.
"I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me," reads a portion ofMatthew 25:35-36.
Rodriguez's comments come at the same time that a bi-partisan immigration plan is being proposed to help cope with the nation's borders as well as the 11 million illegals who are estimated to be living within them. TheBlaze told you about the proposal's contents earlier this week.
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XLRI Admissions Test XAT 2009
XLRI Jamshedpur invites applications for XLRI Admissions Test (XAT 2009). XAT Scores are used for admission to the following programmes conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources and other participating institutes
XAT 2009 will be conducted in 31 cities on January 04, 2009 Test Timings: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm at the following cities
Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Trivandrum, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam
Programmes at XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources
a Business Management Programme: Two year full time residential programme that facilitates learning in theory and practice of different functional areas viz. Economics, Finance, General Management, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, and Strategic Management and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, to equip the students with an integrated approach to management function and managerial skills
b Personnel Management and Industrial Relations Programme: Two year full time residential programme that facilitates learning in modern concepts, techniques and practices in the management of human resources and industrial relations. It exposes the students to different functional areas of management to enhance their effectiveness c
c. General Management Programme: One year full time residential programme for Working Executives who have completed minimum of 5 years of experience as on 31st March 2009
d. Fellow Programme in Management: The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is a Doctoral level (Ph.D.) programme. The FPM is a full-time, residential, doctoral programme that trains prospective scholars to become highly skilled and innovative researchers and teachers in various aspects of management. It primarily aims at preparing students for careers as faculty members at premier academic institutions.
XAT scores are used by 60 other management schools in India for Selecting the students to their programmes. For a detailed list of the other participating institutes visit http://www.xlri.edu/xat_assoc_institutes.php
How to Apply?
A candidate can obtain XAT Bulletin from select branches of AXIS Bank on payment of Rs. 800/- (Rupees eight hundred only). For the Axis bank location details visit http://www.xlri.edu/bankname.php
A Candidate can also obtain XAT Bulletin from XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur by sending a DD drawn in favour of "XLRI Jamshedpur A/c XAT" for Rs. 850/- (Rupees eight hundred fifty only) payable at Jamshedpur.
Registration for XAT 2009
1. The candidate has to visit the website www.xlri.edu and go to XAT Registration. Here he/she has to fill in the online XAT form. The information to be provided includes XAT Bulletin No, date, AXIS Bank branch name/ demand draft number, date and personal details. After online submission the candidate will immediately get his/her XAT ID and password.
2. Once the candidate provides the application details for XAT associate institutes he/she can proceed to take the printout of XAT Payment Advice cum Photo Form (XAT PP Form).
3. The candidate has to paste his/her recent photograph and put full signature in the designated space provided on the XAT PP Form. Mention your XAT ID and your name on the reverse of the DD. The candidate has to enclose the demand draft along with the XAT PP Form and send it by registered post / speed post / courier so as to reach XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur on or before December 05, 2008.
4. XAT office, XLRI Jamshedpur will send the XAT Bulletin after receiving the XAT PP Form & DD.
5. The candidate has to keep a printout of XAT ID and password for any modifications to personal details, taking a printout of XAT 2009 Admit Card and for any correspondence with the XAT Office.
6. The candidate has to go online to www.xlri.edu anytime during December 18, 2008 and January 01, 2009 and can take a print out of the XAT 2009 Admit Card where the Address of the Test Centre will be mentioned.
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The Danish designer duo Salto & Sigsgaard created this new pendant light for Lightyears. 'Juicy' will be presented at this year's Euroluce from 12 – 17 April in Hall 9, stand C12.
Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard were asked to design an energy-friendly pendant for the dining table. The result is 'Juicy', a highly elegant lamp characterised by a slender shade which is seperated by a thin illuminated gap for the change of the light source. The diffuser is a honeycomb-filter, which effectively concentrates the light while preventing dazzling at the same time.


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Guest Post: Film review of The World Before Her, directed by Nisha Pahuja
by Nish Israni
I love to explore the neighbourhoods in Toronto, and sometimes find myself walking along streets that I have never been to, just taking in the sights. The other night, I was walking by Royal York station when I came across the Kingsway theatre. Right away, a poster for The World Before Her, a documentary by Nisha Pahuja, grabbed my attention. I couldn't believe my eyes. The World Before Her had won the best documentary award at the Hot Docs festival this year, and I so desperately wanted to watch it. The only showtime was just minutes away and I jumped at the chance.
The theatre was cozy and intimate, which I found charming. I respect a theatre that plays obscure, edgy or indie films because mainstream movies generally dominate cinema screens. The popcorn stand doubled as the ticket vendor area, and the guy was sweet to me as I bought the ticket. It turned out that I was the only one in the theatre, which I didn't mind at all, because that meant I could fully relax.
The World before Her is a documentary that follows the competitors for the "Miss India" crown as they go through a strict beauty regime before the pageant. Winning the crown ensures a legacy of fame and riches that would be hard to come by for the average Indian woman, but there is a lot of controversy surrounding the pageant. Some strict conservative fundamentalists in India believe that the concept of pageants stems from the west, that women are being objectified, and that this quest for beauty is demeaning. The doc follows protests across India, including footage of women getting chased out of bars and beaten up by these right-wing extremists. Thus, the pageant officials make the bikini-round happen behind closed doors where it isn't televised in an attempt to protect the models, and to appease the immense pressure they receive from conservatives.
Nisha Pahuja explores the extremes by overlapping the stories of the women in the pageant with those of young girls in a camp run by Durgha Vahini, the women's wing of the militant fundamentalist movement. These young girls are put through a rigorous training composed of lectures, combat training, nationalist ideals and taught how to be good Hindu women. These girls even learn how to use weapons, and are told to protect Hindu culture and territory by all means necessary. These camps have been deemed terrorist activities by the Indian government, and the film is the first time a camera has been allowed in to their grounds.
We meet these girls, and hear them express their beliefs which have been ingrained into them by the women who run this camp. It's heart-breaking to watch them recite hateful messages as if they were parrots mocking their owners. Nisha interviews one girl throughout who is particularly outspoken, and she confesses on camera that she would kill anyone who threatened India. Yet to see these girls learn self-defense and how to take care of themselves is heartwarming at the same time.
This documentary follows the lives of all these young women who are chasing a future for themselves while living and growing up in India. It highlights the many pressures that they face, such as imposing gender norms and expectations and sometimes blatant violence against women and children. She suggests a paradox where women in a beauty pageant or in a militant nationalistic camp all dream of a viable future despite the odds stacked against them. The empowerment that comes with winning a crown or knowing how to use a gun all suggest that women have a world before them waiting to be owned.
As a young girl who grew up in India until the age of 11, I enjoyed the documentary very much! Being alone in the theatre was like the icing on the cake because I can get quite emotional when watching a movie, especially one with scenes from home. I am glad that all my gasps, shudders, screams and laughter were muffled by the curtained walls of the theatre. I would recommend this documentary for anyone wanting to brush up on their knowledge of the fate that awaits some young Indian women.
Nish Israni is a young woman of colour who is passionate about social justice. She believes in the power of solidarity as a force for healing, transformation and finding community. She loves to create artistic expressions in their various forms which are sometimes fueled by activism such as zines, poetry, spoken word, films, and photography. She can be reached at email@example.com. RAGE MORE!


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Pope Francis Appoints New Bishop of Pueblo, Colo.
Bishop-designate Stephen Berg promises, 'You will have all I have to give.'
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has named the next bishop of Pueblo, Colo.: Msgr. Stephen Berg of Fort Worth, Texas, a trained pianist who became a priest after a career as a business executive.
"You will have all I have to give," Bishop-designate Berg, 62, told the people of his diocese at a Jan. 15 press conference in Pueblo. "I will also give my best to all of my people, especially the Hispanic ministry."
The Pueblo Diocese covers 48,000 square miles of territory across southern Colorado. It has about 64,000 Catholics in 53 parishes, 44 missions and four Catholic schools.
Bishop-designate Berg, whose new diocese is predominantly rural and mountain, cited his own background in rural life in Montana and Texas. "My happiest moments in ministry were in the rural ministry of northwest Texas in the wide open spaces," he said.
Addressing his new diocese's priests, he said, "We need each other. I need your support, and I promise you will have mine."
He will succeed Bishop Fernando Isern, who retired in June 2013 for health reasons.
Bishop-designate Michael Olson of Fort Worth said his diocese is "very proud and joyful" at the appointment. "I personally am happy for him and the Diocese of Pueblo. At heart, Bishop-elect Berg is a good priest, a kind man, a true Christian and a wise leader."
The bishop-to-be is a native of Miles City, Mont., the Diocese of Pueblo said. He is the oldest of the 10 children of Connie and Jeanne Berg and an uncle to 27 nieces and nephews. He is a nephew of Bishop Emeritus Joseph Charron of Des Moines, Iowa.
He attended Catholic schools in Miles City and graduated from Sacred Heart High School in 1979. He studied at Gonzaga University in Washington and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in piano performance.
Bishop-designate Berg on Jan. 15 noted his past in Colorado. "The best times of my life seem to be coming together, and they seem to fit. I am very at peace with this situation," he said.
The future bishop earned a master's degree in piano performance from Eastern New Mexico University in 1975 and a master's of divinity from the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio in the 1990s.
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He taught music at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth and worked for 14 years as a manager and an executive in the retail nursery industry. In 1993, he entered Assumption Seminary, and in 1999, Bishop Charron ordained him to the priesthood.
Bishop-designate Berg has served as parochial vicar, pastor and administrator at several Diocese of Fort Worth parishes. Bishop Kevin Vann named him the diocese's vicar general in 2008. He also served as moderator of the Curia of the Fort Worth Diocese and as an adjunct spiritual director at Dallas' Holy Trinity Seminary.
Pope Benedict XVI named him a monsignor in March 2012. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the International Serrans.
When Bishop Vann was moved to the Diocese of Orange, Calif., in December 2012, Msgr. Berg was chosen as administrator of the Fort Worth Diocese. Bishop-designate Olson said that Msgr. Berg's time as pastor, vicar general and diocesan minister has prepared him for his new assignment.
Bishop-designate Berg will be ordained a bishop and installed as head of the Pueblo Diocese on Feb. 27.
Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver welcomed the appointment, saying that the "Church will be enriched by his enthusiastic and energetic presence, and I am sure that the faithful will appreciate his love for Colorado."
The archbishop praised the bishop-designate's "rich family life," his love of music and his experience in both the corporate world and Church life.
"I and the faithful of Northern Colorado pray that God will bless his ministry here in Colorado and make it bear abundant fruit!" Archbishop Aquila said in a Jan. 15 statement.
Bishop-designate Berg said in a statement that he was "humbled and deeply moved" at his appointment.
"I know Colorado to be a beautiful land of beautiful people, and I look forward to serving the faithful of Pueblo as their shepherd in Christ. I eagerly anticipate our future together as we grow and build our local Church."


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Because no one reads the newspaper and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
* Tony Romo may or may not have had a guy's day out with the brother of his current girlfriend who is also the ex-boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend, but who is definitely the pretty boy on that one show. I'm not sure how, but this will definitely cost Dallas a playoff game. [Dallas Observer]
* I include this story about Michigan's Boubacar Cissoko not to gloat, but because it's truly fascinating to wonder how a guy goes from starting cornerback to convicted armed robber in six months. (Unless you think it makes Rich Rodriguez look bad, in which case, feel the gloat.) [Detroit News]
* The DEA has issued 10 search warrants on physicians and pharmacies "affiliated" with the Padres and Chargers. My suspicion? Illicit DayQuil ring.[LA Times]
* Paul Pierce joins the free agent parade that I am so fortunate to not be able to write about in two days time. [Boston Globe]
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I'm currently considering to write an application that would use OpenCL to offload atom distance calculations to the GPU (the specific situation being Monte Carlo simulations of protein folding), and I have a couple of questions in this regard.
To describe the problem briefly: I have, in the host memory, a float array that stores atom coordinates (with 3 * N elements) and another float array of N * N elements that stores the distances between the atom pairs.
Ideally, I'd like to write an OpenCL kernel that takes the coordinates array as input and writes the pair-wise distances into the output distances array. Since these arrays will be used in other parts of the host code (without assuming OpenCL acceleration), I'd like to map them onto OpenCL memory objects on the device memory in order to avoid doing potentially expensive copies from host to device memory and vice-versa.
After reading the latest OpenCL reference, it seems to me that there are, at least, two ways of achieving this:
creating the buffer objects passing CL_MEM_USE_HOST_PTR to clCreateBuffer(), as well as the pointers to the arrays in the host memory. This should use the memory referenced by the host pointers as the storage bits for the memory objects.
creating the buffers in device memory, and then mapping them to address space on host memory with clEnqueueMapBuffer(). In this case, the coordinates and distance pointers defined on the host side should store the pointers returned by the calls to clEnqueueMapBuffer().
First of all: am I correct at all in arriving to these two conclusions? If so, which method should be preferred?
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Francis Hutcheson entered a controversy among moral philosophers over whether or not human nature was primarily "benevolent" or "selfish". The former position was taken by the Earl of Shaftesbury in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times; the latter position by Bernard Mandeville in The Fable of the Bees which was provocatively subtitled "or Private Vices, Publick Benefits." Hutcheson took Shaftesbury's side against Mandeville in this debate.
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Frozen mania may be over but the excitement around Shopkins is just heating up. Some even say Shopkins is the Frozen of 2015.
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See Jennifer Lawrence on Set of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay'
Jennifer Lawrence is back in her Katniss braid for the filming of the third 'Hunger Games' installment, 'Mockingjay.' Check out the new photos of the actress in-costume on the set.
The 23-year-old was photographed today (May 7) surrounded by cameras and film crew — and eccentrically dressed citizens of the Capitol, of course.
The photos were taken in Paris, but the background doesn't give much away, so we're dying to know exactly which part of the movie is being filmed in the City of Light.
JLaw was all bundled up in a heavy-looking teal quilted jacket, spanning from head to toe. The oversized hood almost covers her face, almost as if it's meant to disguise her. What do you think, 'Hunger Games' fans? Any good guesses on what scene we're looking at?


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Have you upgraded to Windows 8 yet? Well, if you've been holding off, but figure you'll end up making the move sooner or later, you should grab your license now, even if you're going to hold off on installing for a little bit longer.
Microsoft announced on its blog today that its low prices for Windows 8 will end on January 31st, and after that you'll need to pay full retail price—or hunt for a sale/pirate the thing. Here are the updated prices:
Windows 8 upgrade editions will be priced as follows starting in February:
The Windows 8 Pro upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $199.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 upgrade edition will be available online and at retail for $119.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Pro Pack will cost $99.99 MSRP (U.S.).
The Windows 8 Media Center Pack will cost $9.99 MSRP (U.S.).
For reference, you can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $40 right now. Microsoft also reminded us that the last day to apply for the $15 upgrade to Windows 8 from Windows 7 if you bought a Windows 7 PC just before Windows 8 came out is February 28th. [Microsoft via VentureBeat]


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I am trying to find out information on the Supasave Group which I believe existed in the 1970's in Notts, and was started in Warsop, possibly by a David LEE. In particular it would be helpful if I could obtain a list of stores in the Group, especially if this included a store in Newark on Trent. (The store address would also be helpful). Please let me know if you can help - many thanks!
This may help: (Entry by 'Caz' on this forum, Sunday 11th March 2007):
No Legz, I'm not being short-sighted at all! You're absolutely right about large supermarkets killing local shops and that's why I opposed the building of a Tesco in Warsop a few years ago. You don't have to argue with me about that. I've already said my bit and fully agree with what you're saying! Though it's a little ironic as Warsop was a pioneer of supermarkets almost 50 years ago when David Lee took over his dad's hardware store on Sherwood Street (who remembers that?) and opened Leefair, which he later changed to Supasave and started the chain.
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J. Michael Straczynski is revealing more details about his remake of Forbidden Planet. Not only does the script call for more action than the original scifi classic, there may be plans in the works for more Forbidden Planet movies.
Babylon 5 creator Straczynski is still at work on the screenplay for Forbidden Planet. He elaborated a bit on his earlier comment that his remake is "not exactly a prequel." He explained that, while we will witness the fate of the Bellerophon, the ship whose crew vanished on Altair IV 20 years before the events of the original movie, it will be as a counterpoint to the story of the crew of the C-57D and their encounter with Dr. Morbius and Altaira. While this new concept calls for more action than we saw in the original, Straczynski says the script's basis on The Tempest is first and foremost in his mind.
But the big news that, if Straczynski's movie takes off, we may be seeing more Forbidden Planet. Says Straczynski:
"Warners is very excited about it, thinks it's a big franchise for them and a huge budget, so they're very much oriented toward getting it done."
Babylon 5 creator reboots a sci-fi classic ... and a sequel? [SCI FI Wire]


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