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Senator Dianne Feinstein says it's time to lift the secrecy off the CIA drone program that targets al-Qaida operatives so that U.S. officials can acknowledge the strikes and correct what she says are exaggerated reports of civilian casualties.
The California Democrat and Senate Intelligence Committee chairman says she and other lawmakers may explore setting up a special court system to regulate strikes, similar to the special courts that signs off on government surveillance in espionage and terror cases.
Feinstein spoke after the confirmation hearing for CIA nominee John Brennan, who defended the drone program, saying policymakers only used lethal strikes as a last resort.
She says the CIA allows her staff to monitor the top secret Predator program, but she believes it's now too public to keep under wraps.


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LONDON, July 8 (UPI) -- Although marijuana is best known for bringing on the "munchies," researchers in Britain found two marijuana compounds act together as an appetite suppressant.
Dr. Steph Wright, director of research and development at GW Pharmaceuticals, said four Phase 2 clinical trials will have results by the end of the year that might help develop a drug used to treat patients suffering from "metabolic syndrome" -- a risk factor for heart disease, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Although marijuana is an illegal drug in England, GW Pharmaceuticals has a license to grow the plant -- bred to express different quantities of cannabinoids -- in specially constructed greenhouses at a secret facility in the south of England, Wright said.
The researchers said the two compounds being tested -- THCV and cannabidiol -- had an appetite suppressing effect, but it only lasted for a short time. However, when the scientists looked closer, they found the compounds also had an impact on the level of fat in the body and its response to insulin, a hormone that controls sugar levels in the blood.
In research involving mice, THCV and cannabidiol boosted the animals' metabolism, leading to lower levels of fat in their livers and reduced cholesterol in their blood stream, the Telegraph reported.

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Windows 8 has been released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Microsoft has a lot riding on this newest operating system and it is certainly not the Windows you are used to. Today, I would like to show you around the new Windows 8, and point out some of the differences you should expect when this becomes the standard starting this fall.
Pictured above, is the "Start" screen in Windows 8. As you can tell it is a radical departure from the typical Windows you are accustomed to. Windows 8 is designed with the tablet in mind. That is why you see the brightly colored tiles on the main screen. The screen is designed to be easily usable on a tablet or touch screen computer. On the "Start" screen, Microsoft made some assumptions about the type of apps people commonly use. Your not stuck with these "Tiles" as the start screen is fully customizable. In the upper right corner there is an icon where you can customize it to show your picture. Each corner of the screen has a purpose to help you navigate around. If you put your mouse in any corner it will show you a different menu. You may be accustomed to Windows having a little "Start" button in the lower left corner of the screen. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can kiss that little guy goodbye. Instead of a "Start' button, you get a start screen. That is the first and fundamental thing you need to grasp when dealing with Window 8.
Below, you can see where I zoomed in a little on the "Start" screen. One of the "Tiles" is labeled "Desktop". If you click this tile it will put the computer in desktop mode. This is good news for those of you who are used to Windows XP.
In the image below, you can see what it looks like when you go into desktop mode. Notice what I I have highlighted. You'll probably notice more what is missing. The old start menu button is gone!
So how do you get around? Well, there are lots of ways to get around. I will try to show you a few of them. Microsoft introduced a new menu bar called the "Charm Bar" with Windows 8. You can see this pictured below. To get the "Charm Bar", you position your mouse in the upper right corner of the screen and the bar will appear. There are several options on the "Charm Bar". To answer a really big question I know you're gonna have, if you want to see all your programs, click the "Search" charm on the "Charm Bar". From the "Search" charm you will see a list of all your "apps" (programs are so 90's). The "Share" charm can only be used in the "Start" screen mode. For instance, if you're viewing a web page from the start screen, you can share it using the "Share" charm. The "Start" charm will take you to the "Start Screen" when you click it. The "Devices" charm is also not to be used in "Desktop" mode. It is supposed to be an easy way to send files to a printer or other device. The "Settings" charm is basically the control panel for the computer.
If you position your mouse in the bottom left corner of the screen, you will get the "Start Screen" button, pictured below. This lets you toggle back and forth between the desktop and the "Start Screen".
Remember the old key combination of Alt + Tab? Well, that works for Windows 8 too, see picture below. It is actually a pretty easy way to go between things you have open.
Trying not to overload you here, I will let this be my last explanation for this tutorial. If you position your mouse in the upper left corner of the screen, you will see a small window representing an app window that you have open. If you leave your mouse hugging the left side of the screen and begin to move down, you will see a black bar with all the active apps listed. You can click the active app to go to it. You can right-click the active app and you can close it from there. A picture of what I describe can be seen below.
This is just one of many tutorials to come. I hope you have enjoyed it and please feel free to ask any questions you have. As you can see, Windows 8 is radically different. I feel for all the IT organizations who are facing any kind of large scale deployment of Windows 8 because it is so different. Keep checking back with us as we continue to inform you of all the latest tips and tricks.


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A sheriff's deputy in Ohio has been fired for ordering jail inmates to dance to an Usher song in exchange for making phone calls and using a microwave.
Dominic Martucci, 35, was fired from his post at the Summit County sheriff's office this week, and the departmental charges against him — including ones of misconduct and of mistreating inmates — were released Wednesday, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
He's accused of making five inmates entertain him with a dance to Usher's "Yeah!" in order to regain privileges — like the chance to make phone calls, use a microwave and get items from the commissary — that they had lost earlier in the day.
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One inmate did the worm, and another busted out the robot.
"I did what I had to do so I could use the phone," the inmate who responded to the command with robot moves told investigators, according to the Beacon Journal. He had to call his family because a relative had died.
Martucci allegedly called over another deputy and said, "Stop and watch this, it's going to be funny."
The inmates told investigators that their dance routine audience included as many as five deputies. One inmate said that he was sent to lockdown because he had "messed up" and that Martucci demanded he dance to his liking.
Martucci admitted that his actions were wrong but insisted he was just trying to "lighten the tension" in the jail by forcing the inmates to dance, the Beacon Journal reported.
"The community needs to be assured that all inmates that come the doors of the Summit County Jail will be treated humanely and with respect," a department spokesman said.
Martucci is expected to appeal the department's charges.
His internal charges may be small potatoes, however, compared to the felony charge an Idaho man faced last week for ordering somebody to perform Michael Jackson's "moonwalk" dance at gunpoint.


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A for-profit company's bid to corner a share of N.C.'s public education market turned into reality earlier this month when an administrative law ruled the school could open.
In a May 8 ruling from the bench, Judge Beecher Gray, of the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, ruled in favor of N.C. Learns, a non-profit set up house the cyber school run and marketed by K12, Inc. and gave the school a go-ahead to open.
Late last week, Gray released his written order (click here to read it) :
Respondent [N.C. State Board of Education]'s failure to act or grant final approval to Petitioner [N.C. Learns/K12]'s Request for final approval of its application by the date required by statute (March 15, 2012) was made as a result of using an improper procedure or no procedure; was affected by errors of law or rule; and was arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion.
It'll be the first virtual charter school in the state, and unless the state appeals, the school run by a Wall Street company will open up this fall. As many as 1,750 students in its first year, or $18 million in state education funding, could end up in the school's coffers.
The company has been under fire in other states, where critics claim it puts profits over education. In New Jersey this week, a lawmaker introduced a bill that would temporarily halt any more cyber schools from opening.
In North Carolina, the for-profit-run school took a little-known about route to seek approval for a statewide charter school, and convinced the Cabarrus County school board to back their proposal.
(Helping was K12, Inc.'s hiring of a former Cabarrus County lawmaker to lobby the school board, and a current state Senator hired on to be the lawyer for N.C. Learns, the non-profit set up to get the charter from the state for the school). The company also said it would send four percent of the public education dollars back to Cabarrus County schools in exchange for backing the proposal.
Final approval for the charter school was supposed to be in the hands of the N.C. State Board of Education, but the state board ignored the application and let a March 15 deadline outlined in state statutes go by without any action.
The N.C. State Board of Education has 30 days to appeal Gray's order to Superior courts in either Wake or Cabarrus counties.


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James Morrissey, together with his creative team and visionary clients, has become a huge force behind Chestnut Hill's recent renaissance.
In his contemporary office in Flourtown, the owner of Morrissey Design LLC describes with great enthusiasm many local projects he had the privilege to work on. These include the Chestnut Hill Hotel, Market at the Fareway, as well as retailers Indigo Schuy, Bone Appetite and Green Design.
His greatest impact on the Chestnut Hill community perhaps will be the Fareway, a community gathering space between the Chestnut Hill Hotel and Market buildings. Morrissey's goal in designing the Fareway was to connect the indoor experience of the Hotel, Market and Chestnut Hill Grille with the outdoor experience of the open space. Ultimately, the Fareway provides multiple opportunities for visitors, residents, shoppers and employees to experience meaningful moments for engagement, he said.
Connecting the Hotel and Market with Germantown Avenue, the Fareway is designed as a large piazza featuring benches, table seating, a water feature, and landscaping.
"This is a multi-functional space that creates a sense of commerce and community coming together," Morrissey said.
The final design of the Fareway continues to evolve. As part of this effort, the parking lot will be reconfigured to accommodate a community gathering space atmosphere
Ron and Abby Pete own the Fareway property, the hotel, Market and adjacent building hosting the post office, Kings Garden and hotel rooms. Morrissey's designs update and unify the hotel, the post office and carriage house through façade improvements and decorative features, such as the curved railing design of its second-floor balcony.
"He (Morrissey) is a really talented, innovative guy who thinks outside-the-box," said Ron Pete. "He has a good perspective on Chestnut Hill as well."
Formerly known as the Chestnut Hill Farm Market, the Market at the Fareway is getting more than just a facelift. Morrissey Design worked closely with the Petes to develop a new grid layout for Market. Vendor booths are based on an 8-foot-by-8-foot module so Market and its vendors can grow or rearrange for maximum flexibility.
Describing Market as a "modern, general store," Morrissey explained that his team created different design concepts for the market stalls so that vendors could select their own style, but each is complementary to other Market stalls. Reclaimed building materials are used in all the designs, providing a timeworn feel and creating a nice blend of new and old.
"Morrissey Design harmoniously integrated the beautiful tradition aesthetic of the Chestnut Hill commercial district with the contemporary attitude of the Chestnut Hill shopper," said Eileen Reilly, E. Vitalize Consulting and former recruiter. "Through Morrissey's careful planning, there was no sacrificing modern-day style in this historic Philadelphia neighborhood," (The Petes have hired Reilly as a consultant to the Market renovation.)
Morrissey says that in working with the Petes and all his clients he tries to carefully listen, figure out what key moments they are looking for and hones in on these.
When Steve and Schuy Nunn created Indigo Schuy selling women's athletic apparel and accessories, it was their first retail venture and they knew what they were trying to accomplish.
"Morrissey Design helped us to achieve a clean, fresh look for our boutique," Schuy Nunn said.
The final product is Indigo Schuy's clean, white fixtures, built-in storage and shades of blue and indigo, designed to create an organized, relaxing retail environment.
When the Chestnut Hill Business Association approached him for assistance, Morrissey provided pro bono interior design services to assist with the leasing of the location where Green Design boutique is at located.
"They needed someone to help them (potential tenants) visualize what could be done with the space," Morrissey said. "I am very happy to help."
Consistent with the products sold at Green Design, the interior uses environmentally conscious materials such as recycled, repurposed and reclaimed finishes. Combined with open shelving, wood floors,and big light fixtures, the boutique has a free, airy feel, yet a level of sophistication as well.
Morrissey Design's footprint goes well beyond Chestnut Hill. In Fort Washington, its design work includes McGerk's new outside deck and the interior of Scoogie's Classic Italian Restaurant and in Wayne they it Cilantro, a Mexican restaurant with a sophisticated lime and white color scheme.
In Center City, the Morrissey team is engaged with Iron Stone Strategic Capital Partners. LLC in the adaptive reuse of the facility consolidating the Philadelphia Police Department Special Victims Unit (SVU), Department of Human Services (DHS) Sexual Abuse Investigations Unit, Philadelphia Children's Alliance, and staff from the District Attorney's Office.
In describing these, as well as his Chestnut Hill projects, Morrissey speaks of his team as "a think tank of great ideas," Morrissey believes that his experience living abroad and working for a variety of design firms have offered him a unique perspective from which to approach projects. Ultimately though, it's his team that makes the difference. He describes them as incredibly talented architects and designers and works hard to create a work atmosphere where that encourages a collaborative and collective approach.
"They are a great group," Ron Pete said. "They are so bright and creative and they are very flexible. They can design whatever the client would like."


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Because Kulyok is pretty much the best, she's cooked up a new mod for the holidays. It's Reunion, and it's available now.
The de'Arnise Keep is once again in danger, and Nalia and her people need your help. This Throne of Bhaal adventure brings you toe-to-toe with a mysterious attacker, and gives you a chance to ask some tough questions of at least a couple of your parents. The perfect BG2 stocking stuffer.
New versions of D0Tweaks and the famous Experience Fixer are now available on the mod's webpage, thanks to Angel's tireless efforts!
Top-notch code, good compatibility and Ioun stones - what else to wish for?
Kulyok has put the finishing touches on Unfinished Business V25. This update to one of the game's most popular mods of all time introduces multi-language support for BG2EE, other BG2EE improvements, and fixes to various minor issues in existing quests. Finish more business here.
Thanks to Wisp's efforts, we have the first new Quest Pack release in quite some time. Version 3 now includes a ready-made Mac installer, a partial Russian translation and translation updates for several other languages, and extensive modernizations, improvements, and bug fixes. Be among the first to download it here.
Jastey has updated BG1 Unfinished Business with several bugfixes and adjustments, and two small new components: "Prism and the Emeralds Tweak" and "Duke Eltan in the Harbor Master's Building". Version 13.1 is now available here.
Thanks, Jastey!
Wisp has implemented text fixes reported and suggested by the BWP team. Download the new version here.
Thanks, Wisp!
After six years of intense labor, Echon has released a new version of The Fields of the Dead, a Baldur's Gate mod. Playable on Tutu, Trilogy, and Enhanced Edition, the mod overhauls many elements of the gameplay experience, from item stacking to spell systems. New to this version are additional item tweaks, an adjustment to the poison system, and an expanded random treasure system.
Download from the FOTD page.
Thanks to the efforts of Kaeloree, Wisp, and Kulyok, several PPG mods are now ready for BG2:EE.
Included in this update are:
Banter Packs Dungeon Crawl Dungeon-Be-Gone Flirt Packs Kelsey Keto Unfinished Business Assassinations Back to Brynnlaw The Sellswords Xan de'Arnise Romance Branwen, Coran, Tiax
Kelsey is now packaged as a unified SOA/TOB install--no more need to download and install two separate components.
Thank you to everyone involved in maintaining and refreshing these mods.
It's been nearly eight and a half years since a totally new component was added to Unfinished Business, but that streak is at an end! Kulyok has adapted the original design notes for the Murder of Acton Balthis into a full subplot for Haer'Dalis, and you'll find it in the new Unfinished Business v20.
In addition, several long-standing bugs have been corrected in several quests, and translations into German, Russian, and Polish have been improved and updated. The latest edition of this legendary mod is available here.
Kulyok is back to entertain, delight, and beguile with two new productions.
In The Sellswords, journey beneath the surface once more to tangle with Bregan D'aerthe and some of the Underdark's most notorious personalities. Available here.
In Back to Brynnlaw, return to the pirate isle to investigate Cowled Wizard activity, learn more about the unique settlement, and perhaps even discover something about yourself. Available here.
Some of you probably played Xan in BG2 and even romanced him in BG2 and BG1 - and more than a few were disappointed that his romance ended abruptly in Bodhi's graveyard.
Version 10 adds a happy ending for Xan's romance that spans the entire saga - from the first meeting in the Nashkel mines to the final choice at the Throne of Bhaal. Find out how Xan's parents met, ask him to become your Chosen, discuss pancakes, alternate universes, what Xan was up to during the Time of Troubles and much more. In short - have fun!
New in version 10:
- Xan's happy ending for the bonded path(SoA and ToB content, Readme, flirts, player-initiated dialogue, voicing, two new epilogues - and limericks!);
- Additional talks for the friendship and the non-bonded romance paths;
- Additional encounter with Ricar in ToB, Chapter 9;
- Russian translation for the new content;
- and more!
Learn more about the mod and download version 10 here!


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A Manchester man has received £150 compensation from Littlewoods Shop Direct Group after he was repeatedly subjected to misdirected telephone marketing calls.
Dave King received the money in an out-of-court settlement from Everyday Financial Solutions, Littlewoods' financial services business. He had threatened court action after his attempts to remove his telephone number from Littlewoods' cold-call database failed, obliging him to pay BT to block calls from the catalogue firm.
To make matters worse, the calls weren't even directed at King. The number was held in error as the contact number for someone King didn't even know.
"Just before Christmas I started receiving promotional phone calls from Littlewoods - I received 16 calls in one week but they had my phone number by mistake as they kept asking to speak to someone else," he explained. "I told them time and time again that they had the wrong number and they assured me on numerous occasions that they would sort it out, but the calls continued - even though they had a legal obligation to correct the data that was held on their system as soon as possible.
"In the end I had to pay to get BT to put a block on their phone number so that they couldn't call me," he added.
King, something of a legal eagle, claimed compensation under Section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998, for damages incurred due to the contravention of rights under the Act. The dispute was settled out of court after Littlewoods agreed to pay £150 and remove King's details from its databases.
Others subject to similar problems might also be able to claim compensation, King said.
The Register has copies of the correspondence between King and Littlewoods, in which the firm apologises but fails to explain why King's entry was not deleted earlier, despite repeated promises from telemarketing staff.
Littlewoods Direct Home Shopping declined our invitation to comment on this story. ®


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Membership of NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN)
Qualification for membership
A non-governmental organization abiding by the Statute of NFN and having the following qualifications may be a member of this Federation.
(a) An autonomous volunteer Non-Governmental social organization established as per the prevailing laws.
(b) Having the general membership opened.
(c) Having the executive committee based on direct and democratic election process.
(d) An organization not distributing institutional income as a bonus for personal purpose.
(e) Free from party and power politics.
(f) Having the programmes and financial management transparent.
(g) An organization committed for the progress, awareness and empowerment of poor and backward communities and groups.
(h) The organizations having only the objectives relating to religious activities, business/cooperation, sports or recreation, vachanalaya (reading room) or library and the organizations/institutions, operated with communal and regional feelings and consumers' committees, trade unions and other occupational associations shall not be deemed eligible for the membership of the Federation, even if they are established as per the prevailing laws managing social organizations.
Members and Types of Membership
An organization desirous to be a member of the Federation and having the specified qualifications shall have to submit an application duly to the district branch. The district branch shall have to forward it along with recommendation directly or through the regional committee to the central committee for providing membership to such a qualified organization. The membership shall be granted after the endorsement of such a recommendation by the central committee. If any organization obtains the membership directly from the central committee, it shall have to provide the information thereof to the concerned region and district branch.
There shall be three types of membership in the Federation:
(a) General Member: Principal Nepali NGOs, having qualifications as specified above, to have duly obtained the membership.
(b) Co-Member: The branches and sub-branches of Nepali NGOs, having qualifications as above, operating their branches and sub-branches in one district after having registered in another district.
(c) Affiliated Member: The foreign donor organizations, supporting the Nepali NGOs affiliated with NGO Federation, from amongst International Non-Governmental Organizations operating in Nepal after receiving approval as per the prevailing laws.
Provisions for Membership
(a) A non-governmental organization, desirous to be a member of the Federation and having the qualifications as above, shall have to submit an application to the central committee through the district branch. The district branch, after examining that whether or not it is appropriate to provide membership to the organization duly filling an application and meeting the requirements of qualifications, should send through regional committees directly to the central committee all details of the organization as per the format specified by the Federation along with recommendation for endorsement within a period of one month from date of submission of application. It shall not be deemed to have been a member until the authentic information of the endorsement by the central committee is received.
(b) In a case where there is no district branch or ad-hoc committee in any district, an application should be submitted to the concerned regional committee office. By verifying whether or not the applications so received are in accordance with Statute, the regional committee shall have to send all details along with recommendation to the centre for ratification.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (a) and (b) above, if the concerned district and regional committees are inactive or if any organization submits an application to the central office by showing an appropriate reason that it could not, owing to other reason, be affiliated even having branch in one's district and if the central committee, after considering it appropriate upon investigation, provides a membership, then the central committee will send the information of such a member-organization to the concerned region and district branches.
Membership Fees
Membership fees for the NGO Federation of Nepal shall be on the basis of financial transaction of the organization or as provisioned by NFN Statute.
Continuation of Membership and Renewal
(a) Renewal should, along with organization renewal certificate and financial as well as performance progress report, be made by the Member-organizations in the district branch before the end of Poush (mid January) of each year.
(b) If any organization could not make renewal within the said period of time, the renewal has to be made before the end of Ashad (mid July) of the same fiscal year by paying a fine of Rs. 100.
Termination of membership
In the following circumstances, an NGO member-organization shall be deemed not to be a member of the Federation. The disqualification of the NGOs shall be determined directly or on the recommendation of the district of the regional committee. However, such organizations shall not be deprived of an opportunity of defense.
(a) If it is not pursuant to the criteria for the qualification of membership.
(b) If the member NGO is dissolved.
(c) If an accusation that the member NGO has acted financially and morally irrational tasks is proved.
(d) If the Federation declares that it has not behaved pursuant to the Codes of Conduct of the Federation.


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4 comments:
- Healing Woman said...
I agree with you Julie. I'd also like to see a some men in office shed a few tears as well..
- January 18, 2013 7:15 AM
- AkasaWolfSong said...
Well, Julie...this Grandmother sheds tons and tons of tears every year so...
I cry over everything, because everything moves me. It is part and parcel of who I am. I had a therapist tell me once, that I probably had a chemical imbalance in me that caused me to cry so much and I just laughed at her. I told her she was sooo, sooo wrong.
I feel our culture is changing, albeit slowly to include the feminine side of every human, and conversely every male. When we pray and walk in balance with Mother Earth, Creator...things can and will change.
I'm slowly seeing changes...they are slow but they are there. :)
Collectively we can keep the winds of change on the upswing, Dear Heart...by just believing.
I love you Julie...your spirit is sweet and tender and one of the reasons I resonate with you! :)
- January 18, 2013 9:09 AM
- Mindert de Wit said...
Tears are solidified words that cannot be spoken ... ...
- January 18, 2013 9:49 AM
- Snowbrush said...
I recall something about a presidential candidate who got eliminated because he cried. The media alway refer to someone who cries as someone who "broke down."
- January 18, 2013 1:26 PM


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The next version of Ubuntu Server is expected to include Nginx in the main archive, meaning it will "sit alongside Apache in 14.04 with full security updates over the life of the release," Canonical employee Jorge Castro wrote today.
The open source Nginx has become one of the most popular Web servers after Apache, noted by Ars Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson for being a "lightweight speed demon." Nginx's upgrade to the main archive comes at a good time because the 14.04 release in April 2014 will be Ubuntu's Long Term Support edition and will thus receive five years of support."This is excellent news for those of you using stacks that tend to use nginx; increasing our support of nginx has been something many Ubuntu Server users have been telling me they'd like to see and it's good to see us make some progress in this area," Castro wrote.
Castro credited developer Thomas Ward for getting Nginx ready for the upgrade, having maintained the Nginx packages "for every Ubuntu release since 10.04" in April 2010. Castro also noted that features in Ubuntu's Juju automation software can help users "dynamically swap between Apache and nginx."
"Having NGINX packages added to any distribution is a great benefit to both our users and the broader web consumer community," Nginx technical evangelist and community manager Sarah Novotny told Ars. "Ubuntu is particularly exciting as it has such a tremendous position as the operating system on the cloud. We are looking forward to working with the Ubuntu community to support their packaging."
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A question of mine was suddenly "stolen" (I supposed by admin) and all my answers transferred to another question even though my question was very clearly initiated on the basis of license which is "commercially usable free graphics" and not "free graphics". No GPL or similar licences was called for in the suggestions and explicitly excluded. Only LGPL, Public Domain or any License that permits free Commercial Use was called for. That's why the original question didn't satisfy my requirements.
Furthermore this happened within the last week after the question has been running for about 8 months.
The question where mine was transferred to also has not been edited to make the licensing requirement absolutely clear.
Happiniess to all, I suppose, accept a vinilla world where free is free, or is it? Just bunch everything together called free, even if it isn't.
EDIT: Something to consider as well, a deleted question is more accessable on SO than a question merged in this way since the merged question completely dissappears.


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Gamespot score:n/a
my score:7.0
(+)Pros:-Solid team based combat,-provides story scenerios for more than just touma,-characters have interesting battle styles,-great voice acting,-good anime styled visuals,-great soundtrack during battle.
(-)Cons:-Limited characters,-many characters focus too much on being "punchy",- not much in game content.
Gameplay time:10 hours+
Anime tie-ins always follow a rule, and that rule is that the story in game usually matches with that of the anime. Index is no different, the game follows through the story of season one and two, all in touma's perspective. Luckily, to prevent the game from being only focused on touma, we get stories with other characters as protoganists as well, such as accelerator, kanzaki or that rank 4 level 5 esper. Of course, these characters have different stories of thier own, different from that of touma. It doesnt take long to finish these stories, I would say about 20 mins-30 mins per story, provided you don't skip the conversations and cutscenes, while touma's story would be about twice as long.
|Misaka and touma duking it out...something that happens quite oftenly in the anime.
To aru majutsu no index, as mentioned earlier, is a 1v1 fighting game. While the combat is 1v1, you can select another character as an assist to call out in combat. Combat is a simple 1v1 brawl. You pick a character, choose an assist, and you're ready to go. In battle, controls are pretty simple. There are 2 attack buttons, one button for dodging/blocking, one button for calling assists and of course one button for an overdrive super. As you can see, theres not much going on, but even with the simple controls combat is still a blast. Even against the AI, you are constatly kept on your toes. Before each battle starts, theres a standoff where you pick to either, light attack, heavy attack or block. Its acts as a simple rock, paper, scissors game, and decides who get first strike. AI will obviously get the upper hand, but its always fun to just guess, and if you get it right, just start off a combo.
As mentioned, the AI's abilities in combat are not to be overlooked. Most of the time, whatever character they use, they will have good chances of being able to beat you, provided you set them to a decent difficulty. If you friends, all the better, its good to have a face off between friends and show off what you have in store for them. While most of the game can be better off played by just doging/ blocking, then followed by a flurry of heavy and light attacks, assists can play a big part of battle, such as opening opportunities for combos, shaking the opponent off you, or giving you chances to extend your combos. All in all, the system is pretty in depth to have good fun, though it only features 2 attack buttons, mixups and assists add much to the depth.
|Anyone would know how awesome of a matchup this would be.
Now lets talk about some of the characters. Index has a good cast of characters, though there should be more, some of the characters that could fit into a fighting game are not here. Agnese and crew, sherry cromwell and lazard too, these could make good fighters, but they didnt make it into the roster. Not that Im complaining, the roster is already not bad as it is. We have some of the obvious game characters to add, like touma, misaka and accelerator. We also have other characters, such as stiyl, kanzaki, tsuchimikado, kuroko and others. There are even some of the more unknown characters, those not known to the anime yet. That ranked 4 esper (dont know her name), the sage arqua and a kazakiri that fights.
While the characters are kind of limited, they have interesting fight styles that at least help differentiate between them abit. Stiyl fights by placing runes all around the area, kanzaki draws her enemies in for deadly melee attacks, misaka attacks her enemies from afar, while touma just goes blitzkreig right at the start. There are also assist only characters, like index and last order, they dont fight at all, and can only be chosen as assists. There should be more of these characters, I can think of at least 10 more assist tier characters. Come on, how awesome would it be to have komoe sensei as an assist eh?
|Damn touma just wants to keep punching people.
To aru majutsu no index, as an anime tie-in, manages to do pretty ok. Compared to a game like bleach heat the soul, I would pretty much prefer index. While the game could use more content, the fighting is pretty good, and we have some good character choices. If they were to make another game like this, putting in more characters and throwing in more content would really make the game more enjoyable, and definetely more lasting. Overall, a good game, to aru majutsu no index is a game suited for any fan of the anime series.
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[We have the following Call for papers from the organizers of "AB INITIO: Law in Early America," a conference to be held June 16 and 17, 2010:]
The Legal History Consortium and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, both of the University of Pennsylvania, together with the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School, will sponsor a conference focusing on the legal history and historiography of North America to 1820. The conference will take place at the McNeil Center in Philadelphia, and will feature work by new scholars, as well as commentary and new work by senior legal historians. Professor Bruce H. Mann of Harvard Law School will deliver the keynote address; other confirmed participants include Sarah Barringer Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania, William Novak and Martha Jones of the University of Michigan, Barbara Welke of the University of Minnesota, and Richard Ross of the University of Illinois. Paper proposals in any field of law related to the geographic and chronological focus of the conference should be submitted by February 15, 2010. Proposals must include a 300-word abstract and a cv. For those selected to present, final papers of no more than 9,000 words must be submitted by May 1, 2010. All papers will be pre-circulated to conference participants. Support for presenters' travel and lodging expenses will be available.
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Little Axl Jack Duhamel entered the world in Los Angeles and weighed in at seven pounds, 10 ounces, according to a representative for the singer and her husband, actor Josh Duhamel, who has eagerly been anticipating his first-born son's arrival for weeks.
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In anticipation of the upcoming May 21 runoff between LA mayoral candidates, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller, Wendy Greuel, community advocate and talk show host, Starlett Quarles, of THE Dialogue, in partnership with West Los Angeles College, is hosting an event designed to bring members of Los Angeles' Black Community together to discuss how they can be a part of the new mayor's agenda for the city of Los Angeles.
Entitled "A Dialogue with Black LA (DWBLA)," the civic engagement event will be free to the public and act as a catalyst for a new call to activism that is specifically designed to bring about tangible, positive changes in LA's Black ommunities. In order to achieve this objective, DWBLA organizers understood that the community itself would have to be more engaged.
"As an officially designated predominantly Black institution of higher learning, we at West Los Angeles College (WLAC) are interested in engaging in and facilitating dialogue around the important global issues and those affecting our local communities," said Nabil Abu-Ghazaleh, president, WLAC. The 'Dialogue with Black LA' event is ideally set here given that West serves the communities of Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, the Crenshaw District, South LA and other neighborhoods with high African American populations. Welcome to West!"
Over 700 residents of Black LA will gather to hear experts discuss and address two Black agenda questions: "What Should Black LA WANT?" and "What Does Black LA NEED To Do?" Each panel will host seven community expert panelists each representing one of DWBLA's Black agenda items: Economic Development, Education, Criminal Justice, Cultural Competency, Health, The Faith Community, and Political Accountability.
Panelists include: Kwanzaa Founder and Creator, Dr. Maulana Karenga and Brotherhood Crusade's President, Charisse Bremond-Weaver, on Cultural Competency; Councilwoman Jan Perry of the 9th Council District and Nolan Rollins, President of the Los Angeles Urban League, on Economic Development; and 54th District Assemblymember Holly J. Mitchell and Congresswoman Karen Bass, on Political Accountability.
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The moderators for the DWBLA Panels represent the next generation of socially-progressive Black voices. The Moderator for Panel 1 is Brandon I. Brooks, managing editor of the L.A. Sentinel newspaper and the L.A. Watts Times Weekender; the moderator for Panel 2 is Erin Aubry-Kaplan, LA Times contributor/author; while the mayoral candidate conversations will be moderated by Dialogue host, Starlett Quarles.
DWBLA concludes with Quarles conducting one-on-one interviews on political accountability and the agenda for Black LA with the final two mayoral candidates: Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel. With the candidates fighting for the vote of LA's Black community, the goal of DWBLA's Mayoral Conversations is to help answer the question: "Who Will Black LA Hold Accountable?"
"'A Dialogue with Black LA' was born out of the need for the Black community to come together to discuss the creation of an agenda for Black LA," said host and executive producer, Starlett Quarles. "As a community, we truly need to understand that City Hall will be won by our votes, and the next four years should not only be determined by endorsements but an overall Socioeconomic Development Strategy that not only benefits the Black Community but also includes Community Buy-In. That's important. "
DWBLA begins at 8am with a community partner expo made up of local organizations and businesses that not only support the creation of an agenda for Black LA, but also provide products, services, and/or resources that can help to reinforce its evolution. The expo ends at 4pm. A small number of food vendors will be onsite, including Earlez Grille, Pucker UP Lemonade, Creative Cuisine Concepts, and Oat-a-Mola Cookies.
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As a U.S. senator, President-elect Barack Obama has been a part-time Washingtonian for four years. But Washington remains largely terra incognita to Obama's Chicago-raised wife, Michelle; to his two young daughters, Malia and Sasha; and to his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who will move to D.C. to be near the family. To introduce the Obama family to the eccentricities of the federal city, Slate excerpts the following primer from Reputation: Portraits in Power, a new anthology of profiles by Marjorie Williams. Williams, a frequent contributorto Slate, died in 2005. The book is edited by her husband, Slate senior writer Timothy Noah, who also edited an earlier collection of Williams' work, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate.
The essay that follows was written in 1993 as another Democratic president—Bill Clinton—was settling into the White House. Glaringly dated references have been edited out, but it's still remarkable how little of the city's character has changed.
"Washington City is the poorest place in the United States from which to judge the temper of the nation," wrote a columnist named Frank Carpenter in 1882. "Its citizens have a different outlook on life than those of the individual states, and the atmosphere is artificial and enervating."
Two centuries after the city's founding, Carpenter's observation makes a good starting point for a tour of the capital's soul. For Washington is a much-maligned city, butt of a thousand campaign slurs and target of resentment by the legions of Americans who feel estranged from their government. And no one dumps on the city more than the people who live here. This is not, we tell ourselves guiltily, the real America. The population is too transient, we say, too obsessively focused on government. The city is provincial, we add. The theater is still second-rate at best, the food—despite the ethnic enclaves and a small if growing number of inspired restaurants—a pale shade of the diversity that New York or Chicago can offer.
The wise defender of Washington knows that you will get nowhere by trying to refute the common criticisms; you must begin by embracing them. To love Washington is to champion its amateur status as a city. Washington is unfashionable, and God bless it. Despite the grandly conceived boulevards and circles, laid out by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791, the city feels more suburban than urban—in design, in atmosphere, in ethos. Gore Vidal wrote, correctly, of the "calculated dowdiness" of old-line Washington society. This is a town of the comfortably, proudly unchic—of the grosgrain hair band, the plaid skirt, and the boiled-wool jacket. When Washington does feint in the direction of trendiness, it comes across like a man in midlife crisis sporting bell-bottoms and a bolo tie. The city's priorities are simply different from those of other cities. Although there are a great many six-figure salaries here, the superrich are almost absent, and along with them the need for plumage. Washington is less about money than—exactly as the flabby clichés insist—about power. Its credit system is proximity; its currency, information.
There are two distinct Washingtons—the local city and the national capital. The former is the actual community made up of the District of Columbia and its booming suburbs. It is one of America's youngest great cities and one of its most paradoxical stories of urban success and failure. Supported by the steady engine of federal spending, greater Washington is one of the richest metropolitan areas in America, measured by education level and household income. Washington also has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. Race relations follow the same pattern. The area is home to a huge proportion of middle- and upper-income blacks, but the city itself retains a depressing level of informal segregation. Washington proper is a mecca for African-Americans, with a thriving black culture, but white Washingtonians know little about this side of the city. To the hordes who are drawn to the city by ambition, it is Washington's other life—its role as the national capital—that has the most vivid reality. This split personality is the continuing legacy of Washington's birth, for it was a capital before it was a city, selected by George Washington in 1791 on behalf of a bickering Congress. Only after the location was chosen, for its ambidextrous appeal to both the North and the South, was Pierre L'Enfant commissioned to make it real.
How far apart the two Washingtons lie was rather poignantly suggested in 1990, when federal authorities set up an undercover drug purchase in Lafayette Park, just across the street from the White House, in order to provide a prop—a seized bag of crack cocaine—for a televised speech by President George H.W. Bush. (The president intended to hold up the bag of crack and intone sadly that drugs were sold everywhere—even across the street from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.) Alas, when the order went forth to find the evidence, it turned out that crack arrests were unknown in the heavily policed blocks surrounding the president's home. In the end, someone had to be induced to sell crack across the street from the White House. When the Drug Enforcement Administration instructed its mark, a local dealer, that the buy would take place in Lafayette Park, he said, "Uh, where?"
Across the street from the White House, the agents explained.
"Where the fuck is the White House?" asked the dealer, who had grown up in southeast D.C.
To the city's striving political class, of course, the White House is and always will be the center of the universe. This state of mind is summed up, for me, by the view from the Presidential Suite of the Hay-Adams Hotel, where Bill Clinton spent his first night in Washington as president-elect. If you gaze out the south-facing window in the sitting room, across petite Lafayette Park, the White House is a thing of marzipan, improbably near and intimate in scale. To the initiated, Washington is a place where power seems just this seductively close at hand. I spent my wedding night in the same suite at the Hay-Adams and keep a rich memory of it. I like to imagine that late at night, after meeting with the outgoing president and fending off the press and dining with a few dozen ambitious strangers, Bill and Hillary turned out all the lights and stole over to the window in their bathrobes to assimilate at last the awesome turn in their lives.
The fables of power in Washington are, of course, 95 percent hooey; the truth is far more prosaic. Policy is made by a thousand tiny engines. A Cabinet secretary has social firepower, but it's the analysts who report to the deputy assistant secretaries who are really writing the rules, along with certain staff members on certain Senate and House subcommittees—the men and women who live for the day the Washington Post will describe them as "key staffers." And they aren't out at Hollywood's idea of a Glittering Washington Party; they're back at their scrungy government-issue desks, scarfing down a Domino's pizza over another late-night assignment. Under either party, late-night revelry is unknown to "official" Washington. It's been suggested that one reason sex scandals have such an explosive impact on Washington is that there is so little sex going on here in the first place.
A different kind of myth obscures Washington's charm for the casual visitor, who may find that the city's most renowned features are some of its most overrated. The cherry blossoms may be beautiful, yes, but the area around the Tidal Basin is always mobbed while they are in flower, and the glory lasts for only a few days before the scene disintegrates into what looks like bare trees banked in patches of wadded Kleenex. (Far better to spend an afternoon in the gardens of Georgetown's glorious Dumbarton Oaks.) The Museum of American History at the Smithsonian surprises you with the feel of a crowded attic. (Try, instead, a Sunday afternoon at the Phillips Collection.) Of the city's monuments and public spaces, the best are those that have been transformed by the visible use others have made of them. The Mall, which forms the great spine of L'Enfant's original plan for the city, is in fact a rather dull, naked rectangle—until you reach the Reflecting Pool and your mind's eye summons the sea of humanity that crowded around it to hear Martin Luther King describe his dream. This is why the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the single mandatory stop on any visitor's trip. The sense of action there, of being embraced by a live event, is unexpectedly powerful—especially for the visitor who pays attention to the tributes left daily by mothers and buddies and sons and strangers at the foot of the black granite wall.
The membrane between society and Washington's power crowd is a porous one. Some new presidents, like George H.W. Bush, are already creatures of Washington when they move into the White House. Others, such as Ronald Reagan, must court the locals like the ambitious son of a banker wooing the daughter of old aristocracy. He badly wants her cachet to take the edge off his raw money; her secret is that she wants his money just as badly. Every rung of the social ladder has its counterpart on the power ladder: The president first, of course. Below him the White House chief of staff (who has only delegated power, to be sure, but remember, proximity is all) and the top three Cabinet members—the secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury. A senior senator who chairs a powerful committee ranks near the top (though a more junior senator can transcend an unsexy committee assignment with charm), as does a justice of the Supreme Court.
Though a common complaint is over the city's transience—no one who figures in official Washington is from here, after all—the truth is, many newcomers stay forever, secretly at home in the city everyone loves to hate. As each administration departs, it leaves behind a layer of flotsam on the shore—lobbyists, lawyers, public relations people—all now too smitten or too connected ever to move away. The city happily absorbs its quadrennial infusions of new blood. But Washington always does more to change its newcomers than the newcomers do to change it.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co will try to generate interest in its upscale Lincoln vehicles with an ad campaign that draws on the brand's heritage and includes its first-ever Super Bowl spot.
The campaign, which launches Monday, features a 60-second TV commercial that opens with an image of an actor playing Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. president after whom the brand is named.
The second-largest U.S. automaker is also relaunching the brand under its original name, the Lincoln Motor Co.
"This is how Lincoln started. This is how we will become great again," the automaker says in print advertisements that will appear in major newspapers and online media Monday.
Chief Executive Alan Mulally as well as Jim Farley, Ford's global marketing chief and new head of Lincoln, will mark the launch at an event in New York's Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday.
Two decades ago, Lincoln was the top-selling luxury nameplate in the United States. But in 2011, its vehicle sales were just 85,643 - less than half the amount sold by Lexus, Toyota Motor Co's upscale brand.
Ford is determined to show a different side to a brand that has developed a musty image over time. The goal is to attract younger, more progressive buyers by offering more personalized service, glossier showrooms and fresh designs.
By the end of the month, dealers will receive the 2013 MKZ sedan, the first of seven new or refreshed Lincoln models that will be launched by 2015. Ford is also laying the groundwork to launch the brand in China, to take advantage of a growing appetite for luxury cars in the world's largest car market.
The automaker is reworking the service standards for its roughly 325 U.S. Lincoln dealers, taking cues from boutique hotels as inspiration. Ford is providing perks such as "date nights" to people who test-drive a Lincoln car.
The MKZ competes with Cadillac's CTS and the Lexus ES.
Initially, Ford sought to set Lincoln apart from the Ford brand in its U.S. marketing strategy, not unlike the distinction between Volkswagen AG and its top-tier Audi brand.
But Ford's successful turnaround under Mulally could revive interest in the brand, executives said.
"Traditionally, in North America, you try to hide your mainstream brand, but every wealthy person in America knows what happened to Ford," Farley said in an interview in Beijing in August. He took on charge of the Lincoln brand on December 1.
"That's not to say we're going to make Ford a huge part of the marketing, but we're also not going to hide it," he said.
Some analysts and executives have expressed skepticism about the brand's prospects. In an interview with The Detroit News last year, General Motors Co Chief Executive Dan Akerson said Ford "might as well sprinkle holy water" over the brand.
But Ford's smaller rival, Chrysler Group LLC, has benefited from its iconic Super Bowl ad in 2011 that featured the tag line "Imported from Detroit."
The 2013 Super Bowl game, the most heavily watched annual event on U.S. television, will be broadcast by CBS Corp, which is selling 30-second ads for as much as $4 million.
Ford decided not to advertise during the 2012 National Football League championship game, although its rivals GM and Chrysler did.
Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Maureen Bavdek


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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Obscure federal rules of civil procedure
5 comments:
- Robert Richards said...
For civil procedure rules, please see the sources cited in Sward, A history of the civil trial in the United States, 51 University of Kansas Law Review 347.
- December 26, 2010 at 1:39:00 AM EST
- Robert Richards said...
For the evidence rules, recommend checking Byrne, Manual of Federal Evidence (1928), http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2002277 , and the editions of Wigmore and other major evidence treatises used during that time.
- December 26, 2010 at 1:56:00 AM EST
From your description, this is a rule of evidence, not civil procedure. A witness can be impeached on re-direct much more easily than on direct exam. But there is no re-direct unless there is cross examination. I don't know that there were federal rules of evidence in the 1920s, so if you don't find them, look in case law by searching for impeachment of witnesses, and re-direct examination. (I am a lawyer who litigates only rarely in federal court.) Ed T
- December 26, 2010 at 2:05:00 AM EST
As to civil procedure, in a common-law action before the FRCP were promulgated in 1938, I think this would have been governed by state procedures under the Conformity Act, or by local rule. But I'm not sure what the story is on the evidence side.
- December 27, 2010 at 12:11:00 AM EST
e mail professor edward purcell at new york law school -- he is the expert
- December 28, 2010 at 4:26:00 PM EST


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Note: Please see 1 of 5 for introduction. –SB
Yet I have chosen Jerusalem,
that My name may be there
The third occurrence of a Tetrad of Blood Moons significant to Jewish history, as reported by NASA, was in 1967-68. Why was this significant to Jewish history? 1967 was the year the city of Jerusalem was reunited with the Jewish people for first time in nearly nineteen hundred years.
. . .
The Tetrad of Blood Moons of 1967-68 occurred on the Jewish holidays of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles:
. . .
This third Tetrad, beginning in 1967, occurred on the Jewish holidays of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles with the total solar eclipse occurring on November 2, 1967, before Passover of 1968.
What was happening to the Jewish people during this time?
See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those your cherish.
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
so that Israel's name is remembered no more."
Israel was at war from the moment they declared statehood.
The War of Independence of May 15, 1948, through March 10, 1949, occurred the day after Israel's rebirth. . . . The war was fought along the entire length of the country's border; against Lebanon and Syria in the north; Iraq and Transjordan in the east; Egypt, assisted by contingents from the Sudan, in the south; and Palestinians and volunteers from Arab countries in the interior of Israel.
It was the bloodiest of Israel's wars with a total of 6,373 killed in action. The jubilant celebration of the nation's rebirth was over. Sandwiched between the War of Independence and the Six-Day War was the Sinai War of October 29 through November 7, 1956, which was fought against Egypt over the control of the strategic Sinai Peninsula.
In 1967, the Arab nations, committed to driving the Jewish people into the sea, once again rallied against Israel. On May 15, as Israel commemorated their Independence Day, the buildup of Egyptian troops began moving into the Sinai near the Israeli border. By May 18, Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the Golan Heights.
. . .
On May 18, 1967, The Voice of the Arabs radio station proclaimed:
As of today, there no longer exists an international
emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise
patience no more. We shall not complain any more to
the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply
against Israel is total war, which will result in the ex-
termination of Zionist existence. [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.]
On May 20, Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad threatened Israel with the following declaration:
Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse
the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation it-
self, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab
homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trig-
ger, is united. . . . I, as a military man, believe that the
time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation. [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.]
On May 27, Nasser of Egypt challenged Israel:
"Our basic objective will be the destruction of Isra-
el. The Arab people want to fight," he said. [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.] The
following day, he added: "We will not accept any . . .
coexistence with Israel." [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 18.]
On May 30, King Hussein of Jordan signed a defense pact with Egypt. Nasser then announced:
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are
poised on the borders of Israel . . . to face the chal-
lenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq,
Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation.
This act will astound the world. Today they will know
that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour
has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious ac-
tion and not declarations. [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.]
President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq joined in the vicious war of words:
The existence of Israel is an error which must be recti-
fied. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy
which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear—
to wipe Israel off the map. [Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 18.]
On June 4, Iraq joined the military alliance of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
The Arab rhetoric was matched by the mobilization of hostile Arab forces. Approximately 465,000 enemy troops, with more than 2,800 tanks, and 800 aircraft surrounded Israel. [Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars (New York: Random House, 1982), 149.]
He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might
know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so
that you might always fear the LORD your God.
The Six-Day War was a war of miracles. . . . There was no military reason for their victory; . . .
. . .
Israel's military commanders recognized that the taking of Shechem would be one of the toughest and bloodiest battles of the war. The largest crossing of the Jordan River began in the country of Jordan and continued through the Samarian Mountains and into the city of Shechem. Abraham used this very crossing as he entered into the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:6).
The Jordanian army assumed that Israel would enter Shechem through their coastal region so they placed their heavy artillery and tanks on the other side of the city overlooking the roads leading to Shechem from the west. The IDF (Israel Defense Force) decided to outmaneuver the enemy by first fighting to the north and west and then coming back down to enter Shechem from the east, which was "the back door" of the city.
Colonel Uri Banari gives his eyewitness account: [Original text on pages 215-19 from R. Menachem Mendel Kasher, The Great Era (Torah Shelemah Institute).]
At the entrance to Shechem stood thousands of Ar-
abs who waved white handkerchiefs and clapped
their hands. In our naivete, we returned greetings and
smiles. We entered the town and wondered: We are
advancing and there is no disorder, no panic, the local
armed guards stand by with rifles in their hands keep-
ing order, and the crowds are cheering.
Suddenly something happened which changed the
entire picture in a moment. One of our officers want-
ed to disarm an Arab guard. When the latter refused,
our officer fired a shot in the air. At that moment, all
the crowds disappeared and streets emptied out. The
Arabs began sniper fire.
I didn't comprehend what had transpired. Only
later, did I understand.
The residents of Shechem thought that we were the
Iraqi forces who were due to arrive from the direction
of Jordan. The numerous enemy tanks were situated
on the west side of Shechem. They woke up to their
error very late.
The Arabs were surprised; the fear of the Jews fell
upon them. In Hebron, and in Shechem, in Jenin and
in Jericho the Arabs were heavily armed. There was
not even one small Arab village without arms. With
great haste, the Arabs, however, hid their weapons and
didn't consider using them. They raised their hands up,
and flew white flags of surrender from every edifice.
The fear of G-d fell upon hundreds of thousands of
proud Arabs, who were filled with hatred and loathing
for Israel. Only yesterday, they had sworn to fight until
their last drop of blood.
In the late hours of the night, an IDF truck loaded with arms and shells parked next to a building in Jerusalem. Its mission was to bring a fresh supply of ammunition to the front line outposts. The element of danger was great for if the truck was hit by enemy fire, the subsequent explosions of all the ammo would bring all the buildings in the area down on their inhabitants.
Suddenly the whistling of an approaching enemy shell was heard, and the shell, indeed, scored a direct hit on the vehicle. But the Arab shell did not explode. It remained perched atop the pile of Israeli shells in the truck.
Yisrael, a cab driver who was drafted to fight in the Six-Day War as part of the paratroop unit assigned with conquering the Straits of Tiran, gave the following account upon his return:
The Israeli soldiers didn't have to parachute out of
the Nord airplanes which took them to the Tiran
Straits. They landed like spoiled tourists in the air-
port, because the Egyptian regiment which was on
guard there fled before the Israeli troops were visible
on the horizon.
After landing, I was sent with another reserve
soldier, and electrician, to patrol the area. When we
had distanced ourselves two kilometers, an Egyptian
halftrack appeared before us filled with soldiers and
mounted with machine guns on every side. We had
only light weapons with a few bullets that couldn't stop
the halftrack for a second. We couldn't turn back, so
we stood there in despair, waited for the first shot, and
for lack of a better idea, aimed our guns at them.
But the shots didn't come.
The halftrack came to a halt, and we decided to
cautiously approach it. We found eighteen armed sol-
diers inside sitting with guns in hand, with a petrified
look on their faces. They looked at us with great fear
as though begging for mercy. I shouted "Hands up!"
As we were marching them and I had returned to a
state of calm, I asked the Egyptian sergeant next to me,
Tell me, why didn't you shoot at us?"
He answered, "I don't know. My arms froze—they
became paralyzed. My whole body was paralyzed, and
I don't know why."
It turned out that these soldiers didn't know that
the Straits of Tiran were already in Israeli hands; why
didn't they eliminate us?
I don't have an answer. How can one say that G-d
didn't help us.
IDF Director of Operations Maj. Gen. Ezer Weizmann was asked by Mr. Levanon, the father of a fallen pilot, how he explains the fact that for three straight hours, Israeli Air Force planes flew from one Egyptian airstrip to another destroying the enemy planes, yet the Egyptians did not radio ahead to inform their own forces of the oncoming Israeli attack.
Ezer Weizmann, who later served as president of the State of Israel, was silent. He then lifted his head and exclaimed, "The finger of G-d."
Following his blow-by-blow analysis, the military correspondent for the secular Ha'aretz newspaper summed up the Six-Day War with the admission: "Even a non-religious person must admit this war was fought with help from heaven."
A German journalist summarized:
Nothing like this has happened in history. A force in-
cluding 1,000 tanks, hundreds of artillery cannons,
many rockets and fighter jets, and a hundred thousand
soldiers armed from head to toe was destroyed in two
days in an area covering hundreds of kilometers filled
with reinforced outposts and installations.
And this victory was carried out by a force that
lost many soldiers and much equipment, positions,
and vehicles. No military logic or natural cause can
explain this monumental occurrence.
. . .
King Hussein of Jordan proposed a cease-fire before the IDF could take back the Old City of Jerusalem. World leaders put increasing political pressure on Israel, demanding that they accept the proposed truce. Then suddenly, King Hussein changed his mind, refusing to submit to the very conditions of the cease-fire that he personally put in place! . . .
The Old City had been under Jordanian control since 1948. For nineteen years the Jewish people had been prohibited from the Western Wall where they had prayed for thousands of years before. It took just three days for Israeli forces to defeat the Jordanian army. On the morning of June 7, the order was given to take back the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli paratroopers stormed the city and secured it. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrived with Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin to formally mark the Jews' return to their historic capital and their holiest site. At the Western Wall, the IDF's chaplain, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, blew a shofar to celebrate the event.
In total, 21,000 of Israel's enemies were killed during the Six-Day War; Israel lost 779 soldiers. Jerusalem became the capital of the Jewish people once again. David Ben-Gurion was right when he declared, "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
God's signature was on the miraculous victory of the Six-Day War. He signaled this historic event with the third series of Four Blood Moons. The trials and tribulation of war finally brought forth triumph for the Jewish people—the unification of their beloved Jerusalem.
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STATE governments lost little time in pushing back against the federal government's call for more energy market competition by asking Canberra to overhaul regulation of the sector.
After a doubling of electricity prices in parts of Australia over the past few years, much of the interest in Thursday's release of the energy white paper was on electricity sector reform.
Following privatisation in the 1990s, Victoria is the only state to open the door fully to electricity competition.
New South Wales has retained price controls for residential and small commercial users, and a review of the market is under way to assess competition and whether price controls should be removed.
All other states have retained some form of price control, which reflects the exposure of state politicians to the backlash from power price or supply problems.
The real work in overhauling electricity sector regulation will begin at the energy ministers' meeting later this month.
That meeting will consider a series of reports aimed at overhauling the way investment in the power sector is regulated.
Under the present regulatory regime, electricity companies are able to inflate their capital spending plans and challenge government decisions they don't like. This, coupled with decisions by some states such as NSW to opt for higher reliability standards, has fuelled steep power price rises in recent years.
"The federal government must … strengthen its regulator to ensure decisions are made in the long-term interests of consumers," NSW Energy Minister Chris Hartcher said.
Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Michael O'Brien said: "What was missing [in the white paper] was any program to ensure the Australian Energy Regulator
has the resources, the powers and the independence it needs to do the job consumers need it to do.
"The AER will continue to face difficulties in regulating large, well-resourced energy network companies without fundamental structural reform."
The federal government wants all state governments to open the door to full competition by privatising all government-owned assets and removing price controls.
"Nearly half of NSW households have already moved away from standard regulated rates by shopping around for the best deal," Mr Hartcher said.
"But until we are confident competition in the energy market has been found to be effective … the government will continue to provide a regulated price option."
Victoria has mandated smart meters aimed at cutting electricity use, at significant cost to all users, but other states have refused to follow suit despite pressure from Canberra.
Mr Hartcher said some customers could benefit from smart meters, but his government was opposed to a national scheme because of the cost to customers if they were forced upon them.
"Customers must first understand the potential benefits that smart meters can offer," he said. "Energy businesses should have flexibility to offer innovative products that customers want, not ones that a government has forced upon them.
"And when these products are made available, customers should be entitled to choose."
NSW is working with Victoria and Queensland to present a united front at this month's meeting of energy ministers, which could clear the way for measures to overhaul electricity sector regulation to be finalised at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in early December.
This story Administrator ready to work first appeared on Nanjing Night Net.