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Excellent news, shoppers. The fantastic and Philadelphia-centric Franklin Flea indoor market has extended its dates at at the Historic Strawbridge's Building this spring, adding three more Saturday shopping days to its calendar this May and June. Originally scheduled to shutter for the spring season on Saturday, May 24, the weekly market will now return on […]Read more»
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Hold on to your doilies, folks. The Philadelphia-centric Franklin Flea indoor market returns to Center City with the start of its 2014 season on Saturday, April 19. With indoor market days on the calendar for the spring and a full summer alfresco market schedule in the works, Franklin Flea is set to supply Philadelphia shoppers […]Read more»
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December 18, 2013
This season, shoppers still looking to give fun, unusual, creative or sure-to-be-coveted presents have one more weekend to scoop up sweet scores at the Franklin Flea, which hosts its last two market days this Friday and Saturday, December 20-21. Housed in an architecturally beautiful historic Center City Philadelphia building at 8th and Market streets, the […]Read more»
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Sleigh bells are ringing and snow is glistening on the 2012 Philadelphia Santa Express. On Black Friday, November 23, ride SEPTA's Santa Express, a special holiday-themed train which will deliver guests to The Gallery at Market East where there will be a Christmas parade throughout the mall. The special service includes five colorfully decorated trains […]Read more»


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Israeli defence minister suggests his air force hit Syria, aiming at weapons for Lebanon
MUNICH - Israel's defence minister strongly signalled Sunday that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week, telling a high profile security conference that Israeli threats to take pre-emptive action against its enemies are not empty. "We mean it," Ehud Barak declared.
Israel has not officially confirmed its planes attacked a site near Damascus, targeting ground-to-air missiles apparently heading for Lebanon, but its intentions have been beyond dispute. During the 22 months of civil war in Syria, Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed concern that high-end weapons could fall into the hands of enemy Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militants.
For years, Israel has been charging that Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran have been arming Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against Israel in 2006.
U.S. officials say the target was a convoy of sophisticated Russian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. Deployed in Lebanon, they could have limited Israel's ability to gather intelligence on its enemies from the air.
Over the weekend, Syrian TV broadcast video of the Wednesday attack site for the first time, showing destroyed vehicles and a damaged building identified as a scientific research centre. The U.S. officials said the airstrike hit both the building and the convoy.
Turkey, which seeks the ouster of Assad and supports the opposition that is fighting against his regime, harshly criticized Israel regarding the airstrike in Syria. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Israel engaged in "state terror" and he suggested that its allies have nurtured wrongdoing on the part of the Jewish state.
"Those who have from the very beginning looked in the wrong direction and who have nourished and raised Israel like a spoiled child should always expect such things from Israel," Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan, who also criticized Iran for supporting Syria, is a frequent critic of Israel, a former ally of Turkey. Relations hit a low in 2010 when Israeli troops raided a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, and nine activists on board were killed. Both sides accused each other of initiating the violence.
In his comments Sunday in Munich, Barak came close to confirming that his country was behind the airstrike.
"I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago," Barak told the gathering of top diplomats and defence officials from around the world.
Then he went on to say, "I keep telling frankly that we said — and that's proof when we said something we mean it — we say that we don't think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon." He spoke in heavily accented English.
In Syria, Assad said during a meeting with a top Iranian official that his country would confront any aggression, his first comment on the airstrike.
"Syria, with the awareness of its people, the might of its army and its adherence to the path of resistance, is able to face the current challenges and confront any aggression that might target the Syrian people," Assad was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA.
He made the remarks during a meeting with Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran's National Security Council. Iran is Syria's closest regional ally. Jalili, on a three-day visit to Syria, has pledged Tehran's continued support for Assad's regime.
Jalili, who also serves as his country's top nuclear negotiator, condemned the Israeli raid, stressing that it has proven the "aggressive nature of Israel and its threat of the region's security and stability."
The chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that Tehran also hopes Syria will strike back against Israel.
Syrian opposition leaders and rebels have criticized Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acquiescence to the Jewish state.
The Syrian defence minister, Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij, said Israel attacked the centre because rebels were unable to capture it. Al-Freij called the rebels Israel's "tools." He told the state TV, "The heroic Syrian Arab Army, that proved to the world that it is a strong army and a trained army, will not be defeated."
Ahmad Ramadan, an opposition leader, said Syria's claim that the rebels are co-operating with Israel "is an attempt by the regime to cover its weakness in defending the country against foreign aggression." He spoke by telephone from Turkey.
While Israel has remained officially silent on the airstrike, there seemed little doubt that Israel carried it out, especially given the confirmation from the U.S., its close ally.
Israel has a powerful air force equipped with U.S.-made warplanes and has a history of carrying out air raids on hostile territory. In recent years, Israel has been blamed for an air raid in Syria in 2007 that apparently struck an unfinished nuclear reactor and an arms convoy in Sudan believed to be delivering weapons to Hamas.
Israel has not confirmed either raid, but military officials routinely talk about a "policy of prevention" meant to disrupt the flow of arms to its enemies.
In the days preceding the airstrike, the Israeli warnings were heightened. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a series of dire comments about the threat posed by Syria's weapons.
Israel considers any transfer of these advanced weapons to be unacceptable "game changers" that would change the balance of power in the region.
Israel has grown increasingly jittery as the Arab Spring has swept through the Middle East, bringing with it a rise of hostile Islamist elements. While Assad is a bitter enemy, Israel's northern front with Syria has remained quiet for most of the past 40 years.
If Assad is toppled, the threat of al-Qaida forces operating along Israel's frontier with Syria would pose a new and unpredictable threat. Israel has been racing to reinforce its fences along its northern frontiers with Lebanon and Syria.
In addition, Israel fears that its archenemy Iran, the close ally of Syria and Hezbollah, is moving closer to developing a nuclear weapon.
Israeli leaders have vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms, making veiled threats to use force if international diplomacy and sanctions fail.
Israeli defence officials tried to play down Barak's comments, saying that he was voicing a general policy that Israel is ready to defend its interests and not discussing a specific incident. They also noted that he was not speaking in his native Hebrew.
Even so, it seemed that Barak, a former prime minister, military chief of staff and regular participant on the world stage, was sending a message that Israel's warnings are not hollow and that further military action should not be ruled out.
"There is a real danger now that seriously problematic weapons will reach Hezbollah, and Israel is trying to prevent this," said Reuven Pedatzur, a defence analyst at Tel Aviv University. He said the threat has reached the point "where weapons are actually being loaded on trucks and sent on their way. That is new."
Pedatzur said the decision by Syria to try to move weapons to Lebanon could indicate that Assad's days are numbered. Assad may fear that he won't be able to secure the weapons for much longer, or may be under pressure from Iran to transfer the arms to Hezbollah before he is toppled.
Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in mid-2006 that ended in a stalemate, and Israeli military planners believe it is just a matter of time before another war breaks out.
Israel says Hezbollah has already restocked its arsenal with tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, and that obtaining chemical weapons or the advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles would severely hinder Israel's ability to operate in Lebanon.
In Beirut, the Lebanese military issued a statement saying that six Israeli warplanes flew over different areas of the country on Sunday.
Federman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Ian Deitch in Jerusalem, and Christopher Torchia in Istanbul contributed.
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Internet of Things Notes
From eLinux.org
Here are some random notes by Tim Bird about the Internet of Things:
- security
- privacy (prevention of revealing personal data - like when you are home)
- prevention of malicious tampering
- addressability/routing
- bandwidth
- data storage scalability
- cost - millions of units need low BOM (e.g, 10 cents)
- system size (RAM should be internal to avoid separate DRAM price)
- power requirement - unwired sensors need small power requirements
- product lifespan (or, upgradability)
network configurations
- 1) each node directly addressable from full internet
- 2) nodes are accessible only via a gateway device
- gateway can provide security?
How to categorize device accessible on PAN, BAN or home area network, where mobile device puts data in cloud.
Stages of IOT deployment
(Based on Rose)
1) personification of dumb objects Objects become a proxy for a user (e.g. smartphone becomes your keys for wireless unlocking and garage-door opening)
2) Partially Autonomous Sensor Networks e.g. smart fridge knows expiration date, and sends alerts or auto-creates a grocery list
3) Autonomous Independent Devices e.g. smart fridge orders food autonomously
Existing IOT systems
- Solar panels on Tim's house - reports and notifications on internet, read-only
- has hub in home, with power-line networking from inverter to hub, then using home network from hub to internet
- there are no privacy issues - power does not fluctuate based on personal info
- smart meters on Tim's house - reports on internet, read-only, not sure how data is transmitted to PG&E
- there are privacy issues - power usage reflects home occupancy and activity patterns
- there may be security issues - not sure if meter can be manipulated (written to) over network
- http://www.wired.com/2013/01/securing-the-internet-of-things/ - Andrew Rose, January 2013, Wired
- http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-experts-are-nervous-about-the-internet-of-things/ - Michael Kassner and panel, February 2014, Tech Republic
- http://www.cmswire.com/cms/internet-of-things/7-big-problems-with-the-internet-of-things-024571.php - 7 Big Problems with the Internet of Things - David Roe, March 2014, CMS Wire
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-iot-problem-statement-05 - IETF draft, January 2013
IOT resources
- Tim Bird gave an overview of some IOT issues, as they relate to network effects and Linux, in a keynote at ELC 2014.
- Here is a link to Tim's keynote: The Paradox of OpenSource and Embedded
Dedicated conferences
- http://www.iot-devcon.com/ - Internet of Things Developer Conference
- http://www.iot-conference.org/iot2014/ - International Conference on the Internet of Things
Trade Groups
- Allseen Alliance - promotes AllJoyn for peer-to-peer networking
- IPSO Alliance - IP Smart Objects Alliance - promotes IP standard for IOT
- article about the alliance: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1323276&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT
- Open Interconnect Consortium - promotes ???
- Zigbee, 6lopan, thread, BLE, Z-wave


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The advent of the era of cloud computing is disrupting the IT industry, but one issue continues to impede a headlong rush to the cloud: trust.
That's the contention of Andrew Baumann, (@1andrewb) a Microsoft researcher whose paper Shielding applications from an untrusted cloud with Haven, written with colleagues Marcus Peinado and Galen Hunt (@igalenhunt), has been named a best paper of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2014), being held in Broomfield, Colo., from Oct 6 to 8.
"One of the biggest impediments to cloud computing is the change in the trust model from on-premises computing," Baumann explains. "When I store my data on my computer, I know that, with reasonable precaution, I can keep anyone else from accessing that data.
"However, when I store my data in the cloud, I must trust not only the cloud provider, but also the cloud provider's operations staff and the legal authorities with jurisdiction over the cloud provider's computers. This creates a huge friction on the movement of data and computing to the cloud."
In the best-paper-winning publication, Baumann and his colleagues offer a concept they call "shielded execution," which protects the confidentiality and the integrity of a program, as well as the associated data from the platform on which it runs—the cloud operator's operating system, administrative software, and firmware.
The researchers' prototype, named Haven, represents the first system that can achieve shielded execution of unmodified legacy applications on a commodity operating system and commodity hardware.
"With Haven," Baumann says, "we have shown for the first time that it is possible to store data and perform computation in the cloud with equivalent trust to local computing. Our Haven prototype demonstrates how unmodified applications can run and store data in the cloud with complete security and privacy from the cloud operator, the provider's operations staff, and legal authorities."
Haven uses the hardware protection proposed in Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX)—a set of CPU instructions that can be used by applications to isolate code and data securely, enabling protected memory and execution. While previous work has demonstrated how SGX could protect simple computations, the Haven technology addresses the challenges of executing unmodified legacy binaries and protecting them from a malicious host.
"Haven is able to provide shielded execution in the cloud," Baumann says, "by building on two core technologies: Drawbridge, a new kind of virtual-machine container from Microsoft Research, and SGX, a proposal from Intel to protect against malicious privileged code.
To produce Haven, Baumann's team worked with the SGX research team at Intel Labs, including Matthew Hoekstra, Simon Johnson, Rebekah Leslie-Hurd, Frank McKeen, Carlos Rozas, and Krystof Zmudzinski. The Intel team provided the Microsoft researchers with an SGX emulator and reviewed a number of possible options for enhancements to the SGX architecture to enable uses such as Haven. Based, in part, on discoveries made by the Microsoft researchers during prototyping, Intel is producing a revised SGX specification.
"With Haven," Baumann says, "we have demonstrated how to combine Drawbridge with SGX to provide shielding of arbitrary Windows Server applications, the kind of applications that run in the Azure cloud now, without any modification of the application code."
For Mark Russinovich, chief technical officer for Microsoft Azure, those words are music to his ears.
"The implications of this technology on public clouds could be far-reaching," he says, "with multiple use cases that will allow customers to take advantage of the agility, scale, and cost savings the cloud provides, while gaining unprecedented security in the processing and storage of their most sensitive data."
The Haven paper is just one of eight papers from Microsoft Research being presented during OSDI, the premier forum for academics and industrial researchers to discuss the design, implementation, and implications of systems software.
Included on that list is Project Adam: Building an Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning Training System, written by Trishul Chilimbi, Yutaka Suzue, Johnson Apacible, and Karthik Kalyanaraman. Project Adam, which was publicly announced July 14 during Microsoft Research's annual Faculty Summit, garnered a wealth of attention for its demonstration of the ability of large-scale, commodity distributed systems to train huge deep neural networks effectively, in this instance by identifying the precise breeds of individual dogs.
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This location is in Neenah. Nearby parks include Bill Miller Park, Skatepark and Neenah Skate Park.
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Definition of stewardess in English:
stewardessLine breaks: stew¦ard|ess
Pronunciation: /ˈstjuːədɪs , ˌstjuːəˈdɛs /
A woman employed to look after the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
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These are the kinds of product ideas that I wish had come to me during my time at university. By taking product markets that are stagnant and totally refreshing them they are opened up to more potential consumers. This is Edyn, a new product from entrepreneur Jason Aramburu designed by Yves Bahar that aims to bring smart home technology to the garden.
Edyn monitors light, humidity, temperature, soil moisture, nutrients and waters plants when they are thirsty. It also connects to your mobile device via WIFI, giving remote information on your plants and veggies whilst offering tips on what to grow, dependant on condition of the soil it is planted in.
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Hadn't been to the mall where this restaurant is located for several years. Now, thanks to the great service and food, we will be visiting regularly. Immediately upon entering this charmingly inviting business, I felt special and happy. Why? Because the entire staff is happy and pleasant. Large groups and small groups, as well as individuals, were sitting in comfy booths or tables surrounded by twinkling lights, great art from local professionals, and quietly playing guitar music.
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TEK is the newest (September 2010), the most professional, best financed and well-equipped state agency in Hungary. Under the direct supervision of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, the Counter Terrorism Centre is tasked with preventing terrorist attacks, solving national and international hostage crises, capturing and arresting dangerous armed criminals, fighting organized crime and protecting the Hungarian government. They are also a member of the Atlas Network, a grouping of the special police units of the 27 states of the European Union.
The fourth largest local policing agency and the largest Sheriff's Department in the United States, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, or LASD, is home of one of the most experienced and respected SWAT units in the country. The SEB is often looked to by national and international law enforcement agencies for training and advice. Responsible for a territory of 4,752 sq mi, with a population of 3,000,000+, they are also one of the busiest teams in the United States.
From the small island of Mocanguê, in the Rio de Jainero bay, the Brazilian Navy Combat Divers Group can strike anywhere. Whether in the huge Amazon river and its surrounding hostile jungle, or in the oceanic strip of the Brazilian coast, they are ready for any maritime interdiction actions, hostage rescues or facility recovery situations that may arise. They are the tip of the spear of the Brazilian Navy and will play a central security role during the soccer world cup in June and then of the Olympics games in 2016.


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Valiant Teaser: H.A.R.D Corps
- Written by Royal Nonesuch on Monday, March 04 2013 and posted in News with Benefits
There's a whole new wrinkle in Valiant's upcoming Harbinger Wars!
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You already know that our friends at Valiant have their big Harbinger Wars crossover coming up. Well, if you didn't now you do. Well, it looks like The Flyin' V is going to be using the occassion to bring back another of their classic properties. Come issue three of the crossover, you'll get to meet the all-new H.A.R.D Corps!
This being The Outhouse, we would usually make some kind of joke about how the men in this teaser are so "hard," but, eh it's Monday. Just look at the teaser.
Note to Valiant: The image is credited to Patrick Zircher, but we're assuming a colorist worked on this too. Just sayin.'
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This school is one of the worst schools I have ever attended in my life. The office does not care at all about your problems or concerns, not even the assistance principle. When students have zero period the office assistants are never available for us in case of any questions. The counselors do not help at all with your college, and there are times when they lock the doors and they don't even let you speak to them because they are "busy" , also drugs is another major factor. Their academics are low (very low). People in the main office treat students really bad, yell at them, ignore them, and don't care about their problems. The main office will never care unless a parent shows up "mad" or they wont care anyway. The only place I feel safe asking questions is at the attendance office and there is only ONE person to help. (But shes really nice and understands us students.) This is a bad school and there are lots of bad influence people around the school it is sometimes even scary to walk down some hallways.
Chula Vista is one of three high schools I attended, and by far it was the worst. The administration and teachers didn't show any concern for the students, unless they were overachievers or troublemakers, regular kids fall through the cracks. They have a pretty bad disability program compared to other schools in the south bay. They're quick to push underachieving students out, when other schools go through various channels to motivate kids and give them a second chance, Chula Vista simple sends them to outside programs. The students are snobbish, and rude. They run their school as elitist, there's a clear division between the in-crowd, the outcast, the freshmen and the seniors... Something I didn't witness at the two other schools I went to. It has pretty bad drug and alcohol problems, and too much promiscuity for a high school.
My daughter attends this school. I am so pleased with this school that I am very confident she is getting the education and counseling she needs for college. The only thing I see that would need improvement upon is their attendance office to update the days that students miss. =)
This school has helped alot of students but some students do not know how much they help. This high school (chula vista) seem to be the greatest school out there and seem to have been the greatest experience of my life and wished i have not moved from this school. They helped me plenty and i took advantage of that.
This school is amazing. Chula Vista is full of astounding talent and the most spirit I've seen in any school.
Chula Vista High School Is a really great school, full of school spirit and with teachers that or helping students 24/7 in and out of school, when at teachers are not getting paid for their extra time. They inspire all students to try their hardest and help them realize what kind of opportunities we have outside of school and which would be the best for us. Our community is not the best, but CVHS tries their hardest to provide after school activities to keep us out of trouble. Myself Have gone to several schools in the district, and by far, CVHS has been my favorite.
Chula Vista Senior High is one of the best high schools that the sweetwater district offers. As an acting alumni and brother to a Spartan freshman. I could not be more proud to rate this school. Not only does Chula Vista High provide students the tools to succeed in college. It goes above and beyond to make it a priority of every student to attend a 4 year college.As a former ASB officer I can attest that the ASB and athletics department is one of the highest rated in southern California. Chula Vista High is a school of tradition and honor which to this day holds up to the everchanging landscape of education.
My duaghter and two of my wifes sisters have gone through CVHS and it was a great experience for all. The dance program (part of the visual and performing arts)is well run and a great addition to a well rounded high school. The school is a mixed ethnicity with a mostly hispanic make-up and in general a nice atmosphere to be a part of no matter what ethnicity. Very friendly staff and students alike.
Chula vista high is a great school.The teachers are very nice and into our academics and even the students are friendly. We always welcome new students who come to our high school and we are also well known for the creative and perfoming arts known as the scpa. I'm in the scpa and has shown me many of the arts. We are also known to be quite spirited at our pep assemblies and *school spirited*. In other words cvh is a great school to go to.
The School for the Creative and Performing Arts program is superb! The facility is old and some remodeling has begun. The students are wonderful.
Chula Vista High students seem to be always nice and friendly and always seem to say thank you alot than some schools. They have great and spectacular school spirit and have great spartan pride in their school.They have great academics and have a wonder for knowledge.
I am a former student at CVHS, graduated in 2003. I believe that this school has a lot to offer, not only does it have the best Creative Performing Arts program (won two Grammy's designating it a National Grammy Signature School!) The teachers are amazing in what they do, not only do they get to know the student but help them achieve their goals. My mom is part of their CVHS Parent Support Group which keeps the families who are involved, updated with the schools cases, and events making them get informed by the teachers themselves on their son/daughter progress in school, if needed. Plus, they offer American Sign Language classes. Overall this is a great school for a dedicated student to go to. I am proud of having graduated from there because I am now persuing my goal at Cal State Northridge to become a Sign Language Interpreter/Audiologist.
I was a student here from 1996-2000 and loved it. There is so much to do. There are too many people enrolled there, though, and it was really crowded. The classes should have a smaller teacher-student ratio. It's pretty bad when the school has to build trailers in the student parking lot and use them as extra classrooms because of lack of room for so many students. Because there are so many spanish speakers in the school who have trouble with English, it makes the overall school look bad when it comes time for testing. Students who cannot speak English are just randomly answering questions bringing our overall score down. There are also a lot of students who live in Mexico and come over to the U.S. to get free education. Somehow they are getting away with this by giving the school 'proof of U.S. residency' by submitting a water or electric bill belonging to a relative that lives in the U.S., when all along the student in fact resides in Mexico. I think this is unfair to all the taxpayers and the other students. I also think that more foreign languages should be offered instead of just French and Spanish. The teachers are great and experienced, there are a lot of activites to choose from, and the students overall are successful. I really enjoyed my 4 years there and thought they were some of the best years of my life.
this school is great . they just need to put the test in spanish for the english learners there and they are set.
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So many buttons and bottoms in this question - hilarious. I wouldn't worry too much about buttoning your bottom button cause the standard practice of not buttoning a bottom button is usually reserved for bottom buttons on a blazer/jacket. Buttoning bottom buttons on a cardigan is thus purely subjective and if you think it looks funny without the bottom button buttoned then I would just button that bottom button right up.
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Apartheid at the Israeli High Court
In 1992 the Knesset enacted Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty. This basic law speaks clearly about human dignity. It states explicitly: "All persons are entitled to protection of their life, body and dignity". And let it be emphasized: all persons, not just citizens, not just residents, and not just Jewish persons. However, Judge Aharon Barak's Supreme Court (sitting as the HCJ) has ruled that the law is applicable to Jewish settlers in the territories, but the question of whether it is applicable to their Palestinian neighbors has been left as "pending decision", i.e. an open question about which the need to decide has not yet arisen.
This ruling is crude legal activism by the HCJ, distorting the words of the basic law enacted by the Knesset, turning it into an Apartheid law. More precisely, this is Apartheid common constitutional law.
Since then, the Israeli Supreme Court has added two building blocks to the edifice of Apartheid. The first one is the ruling which recognized "Bank-Hamizrachi's" constitutional property right in a house built in the Gaza strip. Thus, the HCJ actually decided that a Jewish corporation in the occupied territories is entitled to constitutional rights stemming from the Basic Law, but the question whether a Palestinian person in this area is entitled to those rights has been left open. The second building block was laid by the Ga'abith ruling, which addressed the question whether a Palestinian man residing in Israel as the spouse of an Israeli resident has the right of hearing, after the state decides to deport him for security reasons. The state argued that the Palestinian man had no such right, since he had no legal status in Israel. Judge Elyakim Rubinstein recognized the Palestinian man's right of hearing, since this right is supposed to be granted to every person. However, lo and behold, the view of this judge who represents the religious right wing remained a minority view! The seemingly liberal judges, Dorit Beinish and Hanan Meltzer, ruled that the Palestinian man's right could be derived from the right granted to his Israeli spouse, and subsequently left open the crucial question whether he himself has that right independently.
By doing so, the HCJ has completed the edifice of Apartheid which it had been building. Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty is not applicable to all those who are regarded as human beings by a humanist attitude. Neither are the boundaries of its jurisdiction geographic, like the green line. Instead, they are substantively ethnic. A Jewish settler will be protected by the basic law – both in the territories and in Israel. Her Palestinian neighbor's rights, which should follow from the basic law, either inside Israel or in the occupied territories, have yet to be decided.
Leaving this question open, under the status of "pending discussion", leads, at the very least, to a delay in the recognition of the Palestinians' right and conveys the message that for 17 years Israel's Supreme Court has been regarding basic laws as currently irrelevant for granting constitutional protection to the Palestinians. Thus, contrary to the common view, the Supreme Court has not only exercised a tight-fist policy in protecting Palestinians from violations carried out by the other Israeli branches of power, it has also exacerbated these violations, through its "legal activism" approach, denying Palestinians protection granted by the Israeli parliament.
URI WEISS is a PHD law student at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
This article was translated from the Hebrew by URI WEISS and Ofer Neiman.


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You work 3.84 minutes per day to pay for your bicycle, 2 hours for your car
James D. Schwartz of The Urban Country recently calculated that Americans work on average two hours out of every day to pay for their cars. Now he's figured out that a bicycle costs only 3.84 minutes. And that's being conservative, assuming you'll drop $1,500 on a new commuter bike every five years, after which it will have zero value.
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$1,500??!! I'm not willing to pay more than $200 for a complete working bike.
*student budget*
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Top 10 Ways We'd Want George R.R. Martin to Kill Us Off
George R.R. Martin wants to kill you. (Assuming that you haven't already died several times over in the course of reading his A Song of Ice and Fire series or watching the wildly popular HBO show, Game of Thrones.) This time, he wants you to pay him to do it (or rather, donate to charity) and believe us, if we had $20,000 lying around, we'd throw it at him faster than you can say "Red Wedding."
The money is going to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in Sante Fe, New Mexico; and if you're feeling incredibly generous, Martin has promised to name a future ASOIAF character after you, allow you to choose your station in life, and then kill you off in a way that we're assuming will be both memorable and traumatizing. Tragically, we don't have 20 Gs, but we do have quite a few ideas for how we'd like Martin to murder us.
10) Mauled by a direwolf… or death by dragons… or eaten by one of the White Walker's creepy horses. We're not picky.
9) As one of Khaleesi's Unsullied, fighting in her honor.
8) At a wedding. Duh.
7) Denying the Hound chicken.
6) Sacrificed to the Lord of Light.
5) Slowly, mentally decimated by Ramsay Bolton.
4) Slapped by Jaime Lannister's golden hand.
3) Alcohol poisoning from trying to keep up with Cersei.
2) Shot through the heart by an arrow from Ygritte for making eyes at Jon Snow.
1) Ending up on Arya's list.
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- By Adolat Najimova and Daniel Kimmage Uzbek soldiers on the streets of Andijon the day after the bloodshed on May 14, 2005 (epa)WASHINGTON, October 19, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Uzbek President Isla Uzbekistan: Karimov Reappraises Andijon. — "Uzbekistan: Karimov Reappraises Andijon - Radio Free Europe",
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Date: May 19, 2009
by: Pam McTeer | News Editor
Manatee County Public School's Superintendent Tim McGonegal recommended $14 million in cuts for the 2009-10 school year at the Manatee County School Board meeting last night.
McGonegal's 30-item proposal included eliminating assistant principals in schools that have fewer than 575 students, 36 reading coaches throughout the district and 50 positions at the district office. And although music and art classes would not be affects, some other electives, including physical education, could be lost.
Furthermore, McGonegal proposed a four-day furlough for employees and converting Duette Elementary into a contract site.
McGonegal estimates the cuts would save about $14.1 million. He also anticipates another $14 million from the federal stimulus.
The district originally had anticipated a cut of $20 million, but now, it will face a reduction of $25 million over the next three years. The change can be attributed to several factors, including funding from the federal stimulus package and that the state allowed school districts to transfer money from their capital funds to their operation funds.
"Stakeholders concurred that the district must continue to maintain a high quality of education for our students," McGonegal said. "I am not recommending across the board salary reductions or school closings and there will be no reduction in school resource officers."
McGonegal said the input he's received from the community through Town Hall meetings and budget committee meetings, among other venues, over the last six months has been invaluable in forming his recommendation.
The Manatee County School Board will vote on the budget cuts at its June 8 meeting.
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I think the arts and artists are one of our most effective tools in reaching beyond and through repressive regimes in giving hope to people.Thanks to Gary for sending this to me!
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She has said the right thing. Arts has a big role to play in the society. Its importance cannot be ignored.
Surely Picasso should be included on the list of politically influential artists (Diego Rivera, Daumier, Goya) as well as the Russian Constructivists, among many many others.
Dudley, I think the visual arts are highly influential in human rights. I think part of the problem is that most statement/thought provoking art pieces are in museums or galleries and a lot of people don't get to those venues often. Art walks are great because they're free for people who might just want to browse the selection. Many people I know who aren't interested in art will go to an art walk because it's outdoors and free. Sometimes, in the process, they can broaden their own horizons.
Visual Arts not influential?
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I don't see how visual art is any less influential or communal than any other art. A novel is written by one person but read by many; a symphony by one composer is played by an orchestra for a concert hall full of people; likewise, a sculpture is crafted by an individual but viewed in museums and galleries by the general public. It is talked about, admired, and reflected upon. What's not shared about that experience?
Furthermore, sometimes what people need is one-on-one interaction, eh? I tend to think that art affects people when it becomes personal, when they connect it to themselves and the things they know.
And anyway, art is a collective creation no matter what the medium. There are so many stakeholders, from funders to audiences to families of artists, that it's hard to say any type of art is really a solitary act. Unless you're Milton Babbitt, I guess.
Hilary is fantastic and articulate - but she does not mention the visual arts, only literature, music and theater. As a visual artist myself, I often wonder whether the visual arts are too hermetic, too dependent on one-on-one interaction to be truly influential in the field of human rights. Any devil's advocates out there?
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For the first time in 20 years, Apple's quarterly profit exceeded Microsoft's (see BusinessWeek.com "Microsoft's Net Falls Below Apple As iPad Eats Into Sales.) Thus, on the face of things, the companies should be roughly equally valued. But they aren't. This week Microsoft's market capitalization is about $215B, while Apple's is about $365B – about 70% higher. The difference is, of course, growth – and how a lack of it changes management – including Microsoft
According to the Conference Board, growth stalls are deadly.
When a company hits a growth stall, 93% of the time it will be unable to maintain even a 2% growth rate. 75% of the time we can expect it will fall into a no growth, or declining, revenue environment. And 70% of the time it will lose at least half its market capitalization. That's because the market has shifted, and the business is no longer selling what customers really want. No matter how hard management tries to recapture the past, customers have decided to move on.
At Microsoft, we see a company that has been completely unable to deal with the market shift toward smartphones and tablets:
- The overall PC market declined by 2% last quarter
- Consumer PC shipments dropped 8% last quarter
- Netbook sales plunged 40%
When revenues stall earnings become meaningless.
Even though Microsoft earnings were up, it wasn't because they are selling what customers really want to buy. Microsoft has caught the "Wal-Mart Disease" – constantly trying to do more of what it always did, hoping it can regain old results – even as the market keeps shifting. In stalled companies, executives cut costs in sales, marketing, new product development and outsource like crazy in order to prop up earnings. They can outsource many functions. And they go the resorvoir of accounting rules to restate depreciation and expenses, delaying expenses while working to accelerate revenue recognition. While Microsoft had higher earnings than last quarter, it wasn't because customers were excited about their products!
Stalled company management will tout earnings growth, even though revenues are flat or declining. But smart investors know the ongoing effort to " manufacture earnings" does not create long-term value. They want "real" earnings created by selling products customers desire - creating incremental, new demand. Success doesn't come from wringing a few coins out of a declining market – but rather from being in markets where people prefer the new solutions.
Mobile phone sales increased 20% (according to IDC), and Apple achieved 14% market share – #3 – in USA (according to MediaPost.com) last quarter. And in this business, Apple is taking the lion's share of the profits:
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Growth creates an investor multiplier effect – stalls consume cash
When companies are growing, investors likes management to pump earnings (and cash) back into growth opportunities. Investors benefit because their value compounds. In a stalled company investors would be better off if the company paid out all their earnings in dividends – so investors could invest in the growth markets.
But, of course, stalled companies like Microsoft and Research in Motion, don't do that. Because they spend their cash trying to defend the old business. Trying to fight off the market shift. At Microsoft, money is poured into trying to protect the PC business, even as the trend to new solutions is obvious. Microsoft spent 8 times as much on R&D in 2009 as Apple – in both dollars and as a percent of revenue – and all investors received were updates to the old operating system and office automation products. That nearly $9B expense generated almost no incremental demand. While revenue is stalling, costs are rising.
At Gurufocus.com the argument is made "Microsoft Q3 2011: Priced for Failure". Author Alex Morris contends that because Microsoft is unlikely to fail this year, it is underpriced. Actually, all we need to know is that Microsoft is unlikely to grow. Its cost to defend the old business is too high in the face of market shifts, and the money being spent to defend Microsoft will not go to investors – will not yield a positive rate of return.
Late market entry is too expensive, and fails
Additionally, Microsoft's cost to extend its business into other markets where it enters far too late is wildly unprofitable. Take for example search and other on-line products:
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While much has been made of the ballyhooed relationship between Nokia and Microsoft to help the latter enter the smartphone and tablet businesses, it is far too late. Customer solutions are now in the market, and the early leaders – Apple and Google Android – are far, far in front. The costs to "catch up" – like in on-line – are impossibly huge. Especially since both Apple and Google are going to keep advancing their solutions and raising the competitive challenge. What we'll see are more huge losses, bleeding out the remaining cash from Microsoft as its "core" PC business continues declining.
"Value plays" in declining growth companies are a myth
Many analysts will examine a company's earnings and make the case for a "value play" after growth slows. That's a mythical bet. When a leader misses a market shift, by investing too long trying to defend its historical business, the late-stage earnings often contain a goodly measure of "adjustments" and other machinations. To the extent earnings do exist, they are wasted away in defensive efforts to pretend the market shift will not make the company obsolete. Late investments to catch the market shift cost far too much, and are impossibly late to catch the leading new market players. The company is well on its way to failure, even if on the surface it looks reasonably healthy. It's a sucker's bet to buy these stocks.
Rarely do we see such a stark example as the shift Apple has created, and the defend & extend management that has completely obsessed Microsoft in the wake of this shift. But it has happened several times. Small printing press manufacturers went bankrupt as customers shifted to xerography, and Xerox waned as customers shifted on to desktop publishing. Kodak declined as customers moved to film-less digital photography. CALMA and DEC disappeared as CAD/CAM customers shifted to PC-based Autocad. Woolworths was crushed by discount retailers like KMart and WalMart. B.Dalton and other booksellers disappeared in the market shift to Amazon.com. And even mighty GM faltered and went bankrupt after decades of defend behavior, as customers shifted to different products from new competitors. Buying into any of the losers as a "value play" meant you lost money.
Not all earnings are equal. A dollar of earnings in a growth company is worth a multiple. Earnings in a declining company are, well, often worthless. Those who see this early get out while they can – before the company collapses.
Update 5/10/11 – Regarding announced Skype acquisition by Microsoft
That Microsoft has apparently agreed to buy Skype does not change the above article. It just proves Microsoft has a lot of cash, and can find places to spend it. It doesn't mean Microsoft is changing its business approach.
Skype provides PC-to-PC video conferencing. In other words, a product that defends and extends the PC product. Exactly what I predicted Microsoft would do. Spend money on outdated products and efforts to (hopefully) keep people buying PCs. Instead of paying its cash to investors, to invest in growth opportunities, that $8.5B will soon be gone into hands of Skype investors.
Meanwhile, soon all smartphones and tablets will support video chat from the device; built in. And these devices are already connected to networks – telecom and wifi – when sold. They don't need the IP networking Microsoft lacks, and acquired with Skype. The future for Microsoft/Skype does not look rosy. To the contrary, we can expect Skype to become one of those features we recall, but don't need, in about 24 to 36 months. Why boot up a PC to do a video chat you can do right from your hand-held, always-on, device?
The Skype acquisition is a predictable Defend & Extend management move. It gives the illusion of excitement and growth, when it's really "so much ado about nothing." And now there are $8.5B fewer dollars to pay investors to invest in REAL growth opportunities in growth markets. The ongoing wasting of cash resources in an effort to defend & extend, when the market trends are in another direction.
While Microsoft is diverted, dumping this huge mound of cash into Skype, "Google is Going After Microsoft's Heart directly with Chromebooks" according to BusinessInsider.com. For anyone who isn't familiar, Chromebooks offers corporate users the ability to do everything they want in the field at a fraction of the cost of traditional PCs, much lower support cost (less than half) and almost no user complaints. Competitors keep pushing the market shift toward cloud computing and mobile, while Microsoft is stuck dropping billions trying to Defend & Extend its historic platform.
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