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The "all-American harvest festival" continues until 4 p.m.
Activities will be centered around the intersection of Mill Street and South Railroad Avenue.
Pedricktown Day has become an annual tradition here, drawing visitors from around Salem County and beyond.
Opening ceremonies will kick-off at 9 a.m. at the bandstand located on South Railroad Avenue, featuring the Oldmans Township School band under the direction of Todd Lenhart.
Live entertainment will be performed by Tin Whiskers Band, RealCoolYeah Band and Phydeaux's Flying Flea Circus and Wahoo Medicine Show.
Children will be entertained by the "Pumpkin Hollow" children's area, and amusement rides will be in an area located near the fire hall.
Other kids activities include a magic show, caricaturist, balloon artist, face painting, and pumpkin painting.
Toddler attractions include a trackless train, and Mickey Park Adventure. Inflatable rides this year include Jurassic Adventures, rock slide and Polar Extreme Obstacle Course.
Keeping healthy competition going, Oldmans residents can partake in the cake and pie baking contest and also, scarecrow contest.
Other activities for the day include: The Pedricktown Ladies Auxiliary's annual sit-down luncheon, Pedricktown Firemen's Chicken Barbecue and the Country Store annual chicken and ribs barbecue.
Aside from the car show along the festival route, making a return this year are helicopter rides, located at the Oldmans school playground area.
The Pedricktown Day Committee will make an additional donation to the Wounded
Warriors Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping wounded warriors who incurred service-connected injuries on or after Sept. 11, 2011.


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Teen-agers stole cell phones from individuals walking on the campus of East Stroudsburg University in Monroe County early Saturday morning.
ESU police chief Robin Olson described the first incident as a strong arm robbery. A man walking on campus between Stroud Hall and University Center about 12:45 a.m. when assaulted by four males who took his phone and iPod. The victim was struck in the face and received minor injuries.
In the second theft, which happened at about 1:45a.m., a lone individual approached another person on campus and asked to borrow a cell phone. The perpetrator then ran off with the phone.
Olson does not know if the incidents were related. The suspects in both incidents were described as males between the ages 15-19.
The investigation is ongoing. Olson stated there were witnesses to the second incident.

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My how time flies. It's another weekend and time for a few more pictures of our gorgeous commonwealth.
First, a picture to warm the cockles of any central Pennsylvanian's heart — the gun counter at Cabelas. This one is located just outside Hamburg along Rte #78 in Berks County. Lots and lots of firepower. Aaaaaaaah!
And check out the store's centerpiece.
And if, like me, you'd rather have your beasties living and breathing you can always visit Lake Tobias' wildlife park in Halifax north of Harrisburg [here]. There you can get up close and actually touch the critters [well, some of them — stay away from the big cats…, and the gators…, and the bears and, …well, any of the carnivores].


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Rozay! what's the problem with these rap niggas?
They don't know how to play it cool, you know?
I mean there's a time and place for everything
Been thinking bout you all day
Right now, it's about that time
Fucking you, fucking you, fucking you
Look how you turn me on baby
(you like when you talk to him, I mean for saying something)
Singing is believing, Usher, baby
Turn the lights on
[Verse 1: Rick Ross]
She kissing on me, biting on my bottom lip
In the Galleria all I get is buy me this
Conversations on the phone until the break of dawn
Combination to her home, I gotta make her moan
Mean hustle got me chasing all this fast money
Balenciaga sneakers, now she touching cash money
So sexy in them all black Giuseppe heels
50 stacks in her bag so she know it's real
Top off the Ferrari now we thugged out
Smoking on that cali bumping 2Pac
It's me against the world now what's your phone number
Jumping in that range rover and I'm coming over!
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Arab-American relations: A new perspective
By Khalid S Al-Khater
To understand properly Arab-American relations requires a complex analysis that is contrary to the traditionalist belief and its reliance on slogans and illusions. Those who embrace it are forced to swim against the current and bear harsh criticism.
For Arabs, considering this issue requires also confronting a number of other issues. Interpretation depends on the intellectual background of the interpreter, as Immanuel Kant pointed out long ago. More recently, Professor Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese-American who is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, emphasized that the Arab dilemma, regarding this and other questions, depends primarily on an intellectual and cultural mode of thinking.(1)
There are many in the Arab world who understand this challenge to find a new way of thinking, like the Lebanese writer Ali Harb when he said, "If the crisis is the exhaustion of the conceptual framework and work methods, and the confrontation of the challenges and problems, the first task of whoever takes the intellectual concern and epistemological fate is to deeply review the employed intellectual tools for managing identities, merits, the construction of life and the production of facts. He who confronts such a task does not have any option other than to swim against the current, by stripping the priorities that engage his mind and by adopting ontological ventures, in order to practice his free criticism of axioms. Alternatively, he must think differently from what is pervading and dominating the way of viewing and contemplating occurrences and destinies. Without that, there is no way for us to understand and diagnose crises or to mind and manage the defeats and debacles in the Arab world or worldwide."(2)
Those who reject a rethinking about Arab views regarding the US, like Professor Hassan Naf'a, head of the political science department at the faculty of economics and political science of Cairo University, often take the historical relationship between the two parties out of context.(3) Such argumentation, which dominates Arab discourse about this issue, confirms the statement of French philosopher Jean Francois Revel, "The ideologist twists the neck of reality to suit his ideologies, whilst the seeker of truth gives up his ideologies to understand reality."
To understand this phenomenon better, I have coined the word "sloganist" to describe someone who believes and repeats what has always been said, and is popular among the Arabs, without examining the evidence or distorting it to a remarkable degree. Illusions thus come to dominate reality, an approach which fits with the slogans and ideologies such as those that have been used by Arab governments and some organized nationalist and religious fundamentalist organizations for the past half-century in order to blind the Arab people from seeing their internal problems.
Archaic slogans and illusions have made the Arabs live daydreams of their own making. These cocoons, which take different masks in the forms of Arab nationalism, one Arab nation, Arab unity, and Palestine being the first cause among Arabs, have little basis or occurrence in reality. Despite being the aspirations of all Arabs, they are closer to dreams than reality. One can liken them to the ambition of someone who is trying to build a pyramid starting from its summit, against the laws of physics. Those aspirations turned to dreams because of the Arabs' inverted schedule of priorities, tending to accept slogans and symbols, despite their terrible consequences.
The slogan of Palestine being the priority cause among Arabs has distracted them from their internal issues and problems. This practice has become harmful to the Palestinians themselves because they are deluded by it into believing that the Arab nation - which, as previously stated, is itself an illusion - is standing with them in deed and word despite a half-century of only words and no deeds.
The United Nations Development Program's Arab Human Development Report for 2002, which was prepared by a team of top Arab intellectuals, shows without a doubt that the Arabs are no better off than are the Palestinians. The only difference is that the Palestinians are resisting oppression, deprivation, and injustice, and as a price for their resistance, are being trampled by Israel's tanks and their houses demolished by his bulldozers.
Poverty, deprivation, illiteracy, lack of freedom, injustice, female oppression and disregard for human rights are predominant in the entire Arab world. These problems are imposed on the Arab world by its own tyrannical and oppressive governments. Were they to resist, it would result in the same fate as that of the Palestinians, except the actions would be carried out by the tanks and bulldozers of the Arabs' own despots.
The examples are plenty. For instance, there was the demonstration of almost 100,000 people in Cairo stadium two weeks before the war with Iraq began. This was arranged by sloganists, chanting anti-war in Iraq slogans and pro-Palestine slogans; yet they remained silent about the extension of Egypt's emergency law by three years. This despite the law having already been imposed for the last 22 years, and despite the tyranny, abuse, indignity and disrespect for their human rights which the Egyptian people have suffered as a result. These abuses are detailed by Dr Mohammed Abbas in his book
I See the King Naked,
(4) a book whose contents are extremely depressing. Or one could cite the recent incident in which the Tunisian police attacked authorized demonstrators because their chants changed from authorized slogans to a cry for genuine domestic reform.
As if Arab nationalism, one Arab nation, and united Arabs slogans were not enough for sloganists, they constantly espouse new slogans that are even more mythical than the previous ones. Specifically, the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and the phantom scheme of one Islamic nation and one Islamic world. These slogans suppose that Muslims are united under one sect of Islam and possess any of the common attributes that other peoples share in order to achieve prosperity, development, freedom and dignity.
In line with my previous statements, I will follow Ali Harb's recommendations and swim against the current by introducing a new intellectual platform which is more realistic and does not depend on archaic slogans or illusions but rather on the logic of an epistemological understanding of reality as elucidated by the present signs and indicators. It is an interpretation which hopefully will not be taken as being biased toward America in particular, or the West in general, but as a personal endeavor to swim against the current and to think outside the box.
The intellectual foundations that I intend to lean upon comprise three major concepts that have shaped my view:
, the way in which we view history. History can be viewed in two different ways. One is the classical view that considers daily events and news as history. The second is the view of history that encompasses a much longer and wider series of events. The great Arab philosopher and scholar Ibn Khaldun discusses this view of history in his al-Muqaddimmah (an introduction to the philosophy of history), where he refers to this as "trends".(5)
These two different ways of viewing history give us completely different interpretations. The first way, which looks at and takes daily events and news as history, does not reflect the whole picture of what is taking place in the world. It only reflects a fragmented and simplified picture that is limited by space and time. Relying on such a view always leads to wrong conclusions and negative reactions. It is similar to the old classical Newtonian scientific view that considers the universe as being a giant machine made up of small parts. To understand it requires taking it apart and studying the parts in isolation, independent of each other, and without any regard to their environment. That view, which has been proven a failure, has caused many of the world's environmental, social, and economic problems.
This classical view has been replaced by an inclusive and holistic view, which considers everything in the universe as interrelated and entangled systems which cannot be understood unless looked at holistically. This new view, when applied to history, considers daily events and news as parts of the historical processes that either support or oppose the trend of history; affecting it positively or negatively, being part of the process that systems tend to go through in order to be holistic. They are the constituents of the soup but not the soup.
, the way in which we look at ourselves. It is my deep belief that I am a human first, Qatari second, a Gulf citizen third, and an Arab last - contrary to what the sloganists would have us believe. It also leans on my desire to live with the world and not only in the world. Only animals have no choice but to live in the world and not with the world.
, the System Theory view of the world. This, with overwhelming evidence, has shown that everything in this universe should be looked at and viewed as a system or a combination of systems, from the smallest quarks to super-clusters of galaxies. These systems, from the big bang to the present and into the future, have been evolving by amalgamating and combining to form bigger and more complex systems, moving to unity but not uniformity.
In my analysis of Arab-American relations, I will use these three concepts as the platform and background of my intellectual interpretations by considering that relationship from the following three perspectives:
1 The dominant trend that is conquering the world, its structure and constituents, is global, but with a Western flavor. Yet globalization still torments and alienates Westerners as much as everyone else in the world.
2 The non-viability of domination and empire-building in today's world.
3 The nature of current and future conflicts in the world.
This analysis requires, in addition to the new intellectual platform mentioned above, getting rid of the xenophobia that has been used by Arabs in general and intellectuals in particular, as a hanger on which to put all their problems and backwardness. Arab intellectuals, during the last half-century, have found it easier to believe in slogans and to use xenophobia. The motives may include personal interest and blowing off steam without annoying or clashing with their despots - thus avoiding their prison cells and whips - instead of coming forth with the truth. Even though I genuinely realize the difficulty in getting rid of this complex, I could not proceed without making it a condition for understanding my analysis, since it blinds the vision and constrains the mind from understanding any new interpretation.
1 The dominant trend that is conquering the world
Today, the trend that is dominating the world is what Professor Michael Mandelbaum, in his latest book
The Ideas that Conquered the World
has called "The Liberal Theory of History (LTH)."(6) This theory has three pillars: free trade, peace and democracy. These three pillars are the same ideas that US president Woodrow Wilson called for at the 1919 Paris conference, subsequently becoming known as "Wilsonianism", though they were rejected by the US Congress at that time and have sometimes been ridiculed since then.
These three pillars of LTH are interconnected and constantly affect each other. Free trade requires peace, and peace in turn requires democracy, since democratic countries do not go to war, as the historical record shows.(7) The dominant power of this trend asserted itself through the collapse of the Soviet Union without a single shot being fired. It gained further momentum afterward and has become evident in many areas.
For example, from the perspective of free trade: there was the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the boom in world markets, and 75 percent growth in the gross domestic products (GDP) of countries across the world. On the peace front there has been the spread of regional agreements which have worked to prevent war among European, East Asian, and Latin American countries in areas once beset by unrestrained conflict and violence. From a democratic perspective: in 1900 there was not a single country in the world with unrestricted democracy, but by the mid-20th century there were 22 democratic countries with 31 percent of the world population, and by the end of that century there were 119 democracies, containing 58.2 percent of the world population, out of 192 existing countries. At least 85 of those countries, representing 38 percent of the global population, are regarded as having democratic policies that respect basic human rights and the rule of law.(8) It is really sad and shameful that not one Arab country is among those.
To understand what is taking place in the world, we should proceed by grasping this theory and this trend. Yet even today most people still think traditionally and view events only through the veil that has been placed over their eyes during war and conflict-filled centuries, as tools for domination and influence, to satisfy greed.
People do not realize that the conflict is mostly within them, between their conscious and unconscious wants and desires, between the local and the global, between progress and regression, between development and stagnation, between changing and joining the dominant and beneficial trend or stagnating and keeping the status quo. They are afraid of losing the particular characteristics of their identities if they become part of progress in the world and do not realize that their fear is not warranted or justified, as can be seen by what has happened elsewhere in the world and is explained by System Theory.
Oxygen and hydrogen do not lose their characteristics when they combine to make water. A man does not lose his identity when he gets married and has family or when a citizen becomes part of a society.(9) Similarly, by making beneficial changes and joining an international system which is interactive and not dominating, Arabs and Muslims would not lose their identity or special characteristics either.
But most of them reject this trend because of the following: Its feared effects on their culture, traditions and customs and their unjustified worry about losing them. The conflict of the requirements of this trend, such as freedom of religion, pluralism, individualism, women's freedom and a reduced role for the state, with the status quo. This trend's real negative aspects; for example, the triumph of the global market and its free trade pillar often brings excessive consumption and corporate greed, which harms the environment and degrades human values which evolved throughout centuries.
Religious revivalism among the people of the world is an important aspect of this conflict from within. It is the only truly individualistic form of resistance available to those wishing to fight the negative aspects of this trend. If viewed dialectically, the LTH trend can be considered the thesis and religious revivalism as the antithesis. In other words, the world does not inevitably have to be stuck in this phase. On the contrary, a turbulent transition period eventually will produce a synthesis that will lead to a better world. But currently, of course, the world is going through a difficult and agonizing "rebirth" because of this process.
This resentment of (and conflict with) the trend from within has been reinforced by the ambivalent policies of the current US administration. The administration appears to have no clear vision on how to reinforce it, even though the Americans themselves initiated it and - as the most economically and militarily powerful nation in the world - are the most capable to strengthen and sustain it. The isolationist and parochial policy which the Bush administration adopted before September 11, 2001, was reflected in its withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol and Anit-Ballistic Missile treaty, its imposition of trade barriers to protect several US products, and its post-September 11 arrogant behavior, as lucidly explained by Fareed Zakaria in his Newsweek special report "Why America Scares the World and What to Do About it."(10)
However, it is important to keep in mind that America is democratic and the next administration might follow a different path and adopt a different attitude, one which supports this trend with a clear vision, as the Clinton administration almost did. It is also important to understand the values that underpin the American strategic policy, which was best demonstrated by the answer president Harry Truman gave when Henry Kissinger asked him how he wished to be remembered. Truman answered, "We completely defeated our enemies and made them surrender. Then we helped them to recover, to become democratic, and to rejoin the community of nations. Only America could have done that."(11)
Naturally, these dramatic changes are not mere products of American will and policy but are products of far broader and longer-term trends. Many of these are involved with shifts in technology. The digital revolution, which is the third major human revolution (after the agricultural and industrial ones), requires new political, economic, and social arrangements, as did the previous two, in order to better foster human progress and avoid a breakdown phase of this human revolution. These revolutions are really macroshifts in human development. Historically, such shifts in technology and human society have shared common characteristics. They go through four phases, with each one shorter than its predecessor. These phases are:
The Trigger Phase:
Innovations in "hard" technologies (tools, machines, operational systems) bring about greater efficiency in the manipulation of nature for human ends.
The Transformation Phase:
Hard technology innovations irreversibly change social and environmental relations and bring about, successively:
A higher level of resource production
A faster growth of population
A greater social complexity, and
A growing impact on the social and the natural environments.
The Critical (or "Chaos") Phase:
Changed social and environmental relations put pressure on the established culture, putting into question time-honored values and worldviews and the ethics and ambitions associated with them. Society becomes chaotic in the Chaos Theory sense of the term. Society does not lack order but exhibits a subtle order that is extremely sensitive to fluctuations. The evolution of the dominant culture and consciousness - the way people's values and ethics respond and change - determines the outcome of the system's chaos leap (the way its development trajectory forks off).
The Possible Breakdown Phase:
At first, the values, worldviews and ethics of a critical mass of people in society are resistant to change, or change too slowly, and the established institutions are too rigid to allow for timely transformation. Social complexity, coupled with a degenerating environment, creates unmanageable stresses. The social order is exposed to a series of crises that degenerate into conflict and violence.
The Possible Breakdown Phase:
The mindset of a critical mass of people evolves over time, shifting the culture of society towards a better-adapted mode. As these changes take hold, the improved social order - governed by more adapted values, worldviews, and associated ethics - establishes itself. The social system stabilizes itself in its changed conditions.(12)
Most people in the world are still struggling with Phase 3, and some are either beginning to go through Phase 4B, or fighting to avoid Phase 4A. There is no doubt that this trend is a major part of that macroshift, because most people desire it, consciously or unconsciously. They all surely desire peace, democracy, and the ability to prosper through a free trade that is just and is controlled by the rules of law, as represented by globalization.
But transitional resistance is sparked by the fact, for example, that free trade does not seem to be fair or just and is biased towards the rich countries of the world as a consequence of the greed and domination of market fundamentalists and the temptation of power. This domination will eventually be ended by the people of the world, supported by their values - including a genuine belief in the essence of religion, and not merely in dogma - which will undercut the materialistic nature of globalization. The rising number of local and global NGOs will surely be one factor that plays a big role in reducing the injustice of globalization.
The Arabs, especially after the war in Iraq, are at the bifurcation point of Phase 4. Either they can take advantage of this turning point in history and break through, or reject it and break down. Deciding to travel one of these roads or the other is very important at this time, especially for the Palestinians.
If the Palestinians had understood this trend and abandoned the one Arab nation, Arab nationalism, and Palestine the first Arab cause slogans, especially after Oslo, they would not have fallen into Ariel Sharon's trap when he visited the al-Aqsa mosque, igniting the second intifada, which unified the Israelis against peace. Sharon was well aware that Israel would disintegrate because its nature is such that it does not concord with this trend. Israel, although democratic, is a state built on ethnic and religious principals, which surely make it a racist and a bigoted state. And unless it changes its principles to coincide with LTH, it surely will not be able to survive its forces.
2 The non-viability of domination and empire building
In this age, domination and empire building are no longer pursued for many reasons. As philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, "Beware of listening to the imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and that the earth itself belongs to no one!"(13)
These traditional concepts of domination and empire building go against the pillars of this new trend of history. Free trade requires peace, and peace in turn requires freedom and democracy. It provides a more viable way of achieving common and mutual interest than seizing resources from other countries. Adopting a win-win strategy is less costly in terms of loss of human lives and material costs. This is especially true at this time and age from the perspective of the West in general, and America in particular, when one considers their advances in technologies, efficient management, and other tools for gaining competitive advantage.
This strategy can guarantee sustainable common interests while domination cannot. Japan and Germany are the best examples from the past, and Qatar and Kuwait from the present. The traditionalists conclude that since America has established military bases in these countries, the intention is domination and control of their resources, while reality reflects exactly the opposite and confirms at least a partial application of the Liberal Theory of History.
In Qatar's case, the Americans do not have a monopoly over Qatar's most important resources, oil and gas. There are other non-American companies working in that field in Qatar, such as Maersk (Danish), TotalFinaElf (French), Philips (Dutch), and, in the near future, Shell and other companies from Canada and Australia.
Qatar also has the Japanese and others as partners for developing its huge gas reserve. The same applies to Qatar's capital projects. Although Qatar has allocated more than 10 billion riyals ($2.75 billion) for capital projects for the year 2003, the American share of that is nil because of the absence of their companies in that field. The same could be said about trade. The amount of trade between Qatar and the US is not the highest on Qatar's trade chart.
In the case of Kuwait, despite the presence of American military forces since liberation, and the special relations that have existed since that time, America has not gained any favorable economic status. On the contrary, the Kuwaiti parliament refused to grant any oil production concessions for its northern oil fields to any foreign companies, including Americans, or sign any production sharing agreements as Qatar did. The same applies to the Kuwaiti market for power generation and equipment, which is mainly controlled by Japanese and European firms.
For whom would a president, who is democratically elected for only a limited period, build an empire? This illusion stems from our mistaken view of history and our belief in the immortality of our oppressors. Empire-building requires an oppressor who can conscript whomsoever he wishes to fight for him in order to increase his wealth and satisfy his greed. Democratically ruled countries do not sacrifice their sons for the sake of their president's ambitions or ideologies, as the protests that ultimately forced the US withdrawal from Vietnam showed.
The American "empire" already exists and the sun does not set over it. It is a new kind of empire that is represented by companies like McDonald's, Microsoft, General Motors and similar ones, none of which require military dominance for their growth and sustainability. These companies also welcome and thrive on competition, contrary to the belief of traditionalists who perceive competition as a reason for domination.
The danger of the terrorism that is used nowadays to fight and oppose dominations is that it is too high a price to pay. Terrorist acts such as that of September 11 and other incidents around the world prove beyond any doubt that terrorism is very difficult to predict or fight. It is also worth noting that terrorism is no longer restricted to acts of violence. A computer hacker sitting in front of his home computer a world away could create havoc in another country's military or financial systems, especially in a country highly dependent on the digital revolution to run its systems like the United States.
The rest of the world owns $6.5 trillion worth of American companies, which, based on traditional thinking, are supposed to be the hidden hands behind America's desire for "domination" and "empire building". This is surely paradoxical since American companies have become multinationals which would not belong to a single empire even if such an empire existed.
Advanced economies no longer depend on the raw materials which were once the main object for domination, imperialism and empire building. Advanced economies such as America's depend mostly on the service sectors, which constitute up to 80 percent of their GDPs. Companies like Microsoft, Sun and McDonald's are the main constituents of the American economy. Raw material is no longer the biggest share of the value of manufactured goods as before. The raw material value of a car such as a BMW is very small indeed. Its value is mainly in its engineering, which requires more brains and technology than material: brains and technology that do not require military domination.
It follows that advanced capitalist economies desire and opt for bigger markets with strong purchasing powers to help them grow and prosper. It is in their interest to see the rest of the world's economies become healthier and not dependent on aid that comes mainly from those advanced economies themselves. This attitude is in alignment with the spirit of capitalism and not against it.
3 The nature of current and future conflicts
Many theories and scenarios show unawareness of the extent to which the current conflict is played out along ontological and epistemological lines within the individual, be he Westerner or Easterner, poor or rich, Christian or Muslim, or of any other religion or ethnic origin. The world has become a small village where everyone can reach, influence, and communicate with everyone else. As a result, everyone is faced with an internal conflict to find one's identity, which has been torn apart by the speed and shock of change of the digital revolution, the entanglement and mixing of cultures and traditions, and shortened distances.
In this context, most Arab intellectuals and analysts rely on their perceptions of an outdated, classical, traditional intellectual platform and shabby culture (politically, economically, and socially) when analyzing Arab-American relations or their relations with each other or with the rest of the world. Because of that outdated mode of thinking, they invariably conclude, incorrectly, that the objective of the Americans is domination, control, neo-imperialism, and empire-building. Hence, they have only taken, out of all of the many theories developed regarding the present situation, Samuel Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations and upgraded it into a prophecy. They have accepted it, believe in it, and work hard to convince their people to see the West through it.
If there were to be any serious conflict, it would surely not be between the strong Americans and the weak Arabs or Muslims, because the weak cannot threaten or compete with the strong. Muslims in general and Arabs in particular are weak politically, economically, technologically, socially, and most important, militarily. Rather, it would be between America and other rising power centers such as Europe and China. It is highly logical to conclude that it is in no one's interest for the Arab or Muslim worlds to be backward and left behind, contaminated by repression, poverty, and illiteracy for the following reasons: Poverty, ignorance and repression give birth to terrorism, especially among those infected with xenophobia.
Migration to search for food and freedom is an enormous problem facing the West and which can only be stopped if people's conditions are improved in their own localities. No country wants 300 million poor and impoverished people as its neighbors or as additional residents. It is in the spirit of capitalism, which depends on creating and sustaining consumer societies with strong purchasing powers, to make them grow instead of allowing them to become needy societies, always dependent on aid and charities.
Instead of the Arabs ridding themselves of that outdated way of thinking which is only making them fall behind in progress and development, we still find them twisting the neck of truth to suit their ideologies and slogans. At the same time, they tend to accuse whoever tries to forget his ideologies in order to understand the truth and live with reality, as a traitor or a servant of the American prince.
It is not then difficult to understand the cause of those who harshly attack the smaller countries of the Gulf for having American military bases on their soil. Those countries relied on Saudi Arabia for a long time to defend them and discovered the fallacy of that belief after Saddam invaded Kuwait. This discovery made them turn, logically, to the strong to help them defend themselves against aggression from neighbors who either already have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or strive to have them. These countries realized that their oil and gas wealth makes them vulnerable and a focus of greed. They face demographic problems as a result of that wealth, and they cannot build strong military forces even if they unite. They are very wise not to listen to or accept the sloganists' call to rely on slogans and myth.
The sloganists' claim that the West hates Arabs and Muslims has no foundation whatsoever. If that were the case, France would not have over 1,500 mosques, Britain over 2,000, and a similar number in America. The West would not have established so many centers specializing in Middle Eastern studies, in an effort to understand its people's problems and help them find solutions. It is also worth mentioning that the first and strongest opposition to a war against Iraq came from the Catholic Church and the Church of England.
Based on all the above ideas, I strongly believe that the American intention beyond invading Iraq and freeing its people from Saddam's repression is to bring peace, stability, and prosperity to the area. However, I do have my doubts that they can bring democracy to the area because democracy is a human value that can only flourish if the people embrace it. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the Americans can initiate the right environment for it.
I view the war with Iraq as a coin, both faces of which are for the good of the Iraqis. One face can be seen to reflect Americans as liberators. The other face reflects Americans as occupiers - a situation which would be easier for the Iraqis to resist and defeat later. It is always easier to fight a foreign enemy than to fight an enemy that is from within. A man can fight a vicious tiger but he is incapable of fighting even the smallest cancer from within. This metaphor can also be used to illustrate my belief that the entire Arab world has become so weak and sickly because of those tumors from within that it is no longer able to help itself.
The United States is in tune with many of the requirements of the contemporary world, and if there is going to be any leading power at all, it is the best qualified to play that role. Any such state must be democratic, law-abiding and sometimes needs to utilize force to implement that law. Only the United States with its strong economy, technology, and military power has that capability and the will to sacrifice.
By the same token, though, it is the task of others as members of the world society to make sure that it follows and applies democratic process, not only from within but also internationally, and to restrict it from unilateralism. We have to reinforce the principles of common interests and common securities by offering our support to that leader instead of resenting it. To encourage the United States to be isolationist or unilateralist, as some traditionalists inside and outside America preach, would be a heinous act. A bipolar or multi-polar world will only lead to more conflicts that are more dangerous and could have a critical impact on the survival of humanity. The twentieth century stands as witness to the horror of that kind of world.
It is time for us to trust the world and learn how to live with it and not only in it. It is also time to give those who are trying to help us a chance and deal with them not on the presumption of "Everyone is guilty until proven innocent," as we presume when we deal with each other within the Arab world and beyond. We have to change our own minds and societies and open them up, because as long as they remain closed they will decay. This is in accordance with the universal second law of thermodynamics, which says that every closed system will eventually decay.
Our civilization reached its apex when it opened its doors to other cultures, translated their books, and took the benefit from their intellect and philosophy. It flourished by participating in the development and progress of humanity and not by rejecting new ideas because they did not come from us. We should not reject everything that is not originally Arabic or try to twist it to look or sound Arabic as the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abdurrahman did when he claimed that Descartes' famous conclusion "I think, therefore I am" came from the Arab saying "Look and you shall find". This sort of attitude does not help us participate in the human voyage of progress and development as did some of our great scholars such as Averroes, Avicenna, Ibn Khaldun, al-Farabi, and many others; those for whom the West has great respect and whose part in history it does not deny - as we do their ideas and values.
(1) Fouad Ajami, "Iraq and the Arabs' Future", Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003.
(2) Ali Harb, The World and its Plight: The Logic of Conflict and the Language of Dialogue, (Beirut: Arab Cultural Center, 2002), p. 11.
(3) Hassan Naf'a, "The Intellectual Arab and the American Prince: Fouad Ajami as an Exemplar," al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi (The Arab Future), No. 289, March 2003. Also, published in Wojhat Nadher al-Kotob, March 2003 issue.
(4) Mohammed Abbas,
I See the King Naked
(Cairo: Madbooli, 1999).
(5)Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddimmah (Beirut, Dar al-Fikr al-Arabi, First Printing: 1997)
(6) Michael Mandelbaum, The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Public Affairs, a member of the Perseus Group, 2002).
(7) See for example, Bruce Russett.
Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).
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(9) Ervin Laszlo,
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
(Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Fourth printing, 2002).
(10) Fareed Zakaria, "Why America Scares the World and What to Do About It," Newsweek, March 24, 2003.
(11) Quoted in Henry Kissinger's
(New York, 1994), p. 425.
(12) Ervin Laszlo,
Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World
(San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Inc., 2001).
(13) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
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This past weekend we had a dirt themed party for my little guy who turned two. A dirt theme means lots of brown which translates to blah, boring, bland for party decorations. Are brown plates, balloons, cake and food going to excite the two year old set? I didn't think so. Sure we had some brown stuff going on, but I threw in splashes of fun bright colors here and there. My best splash of color was the cake! We've all seen a dirt cake, but when you cut into this one you get eye popping polka dots with some 'grass' covered cupcakes spread about. Sure did put an exciting twist on the cake! I can still hear the ooohs and ahhhs and excitement from the kiddos. Get this super fun spice up your cake how to after the jump…
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For the polka dots I used a white cake mix from the store that doesn't contain any really bad stuff (hydrogenated oils). I divided the batter into bowls and added AmeriColor gel food coloring in electric colors. Then we pour then into mini muffin pans and baked for 10 minutes, removed from the oven and set aside to cool.
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1 teaspoon salt
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The call came from Arthur Kill Road between Armstrong and Abingdon avenues.
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The re-sentencing date for Gregory McRae, the New Orleans police officer convicted of burning the body of Henry Glover after he was fatally shot by another officer, has been postponed two weeks. The hearing had been set for Tuesday afternoon but was rescheduled to Aug. 15 by U.S. District Judge Lance Africk.
The reason for the delay was not immediately known.
McRae is currently in prison, having started serving a 17-year sentence handed down by Africk two years ago. He was one of five officers charged in the case, which involved the shooting death of Glover four days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall and the disposal of the body. Only McRae, who set fire to a car holding Glover's dead body, is facing prison time.
He was found guilty on four counts related to burning Glover's body. An appeals court vacated one of the counts and granted his bid to be re-sentenced on the remaining three. McRae's lawyer last week asked that Africk sentence the veteran officer to 10 years and a day, one day longer than the minimum 10 year-sentence on the three remaining counts.
McRae's co-defendants in the 2010 trial have all either been re-tried and acquitted or had charges against them dropped. David Warren, the officer who said he believed his life was threatened because Glover appeared to be armed while looting an Algiers strip mall, was acquitted of charges in the shooting.
McRae has admitted that he used a flare to set fire to the car. But he said he did so because of post-traumatic stress brought on by the chaos of Katrina's aftermath-- not because he was trying to cover up the shooting.
Several civil lawsuits filed by Glover's relatives, seeking millions of dollars in damages from the city and Police Department, still are pending.
Rebecca Glover, Glover's aunt, said she and her family had planned to be in court Tuesday. She said the delay was another disappointment for Glover's loved ones.
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News from the Nest: This is what it is all about
Ever since my husband and I started dating more than eight years ago, he has teased me about one of my favorite sayings: "this is what it's all about."
I have found the saying to be very versatile, and use it when I'm showing appreciation for something or as sarcasm when I'm disappointed.
For example, if I have a great meal that really pushes my taste buds to the limit, I'll say, "this is what it's all about." If we are on a pontoon in the middle of a lake on a perfect summer day, "this is what it's all about." I spend an evening reading a good book with a glass of wine, "this is what it's all about." Or, if I find myself disappointed in a highly praised movie my response may be "Really? This is what's it's all about?"
Having children gives even more meaning to this simple, overused phrase I like so much. Just last weekend, my two little ones crawled up on the couch with their daddy for naptime. As I watched the three of them lay there I thought to myself, "this is what it's all about."
Every morning, my son asks if he can go wake up his sister and she screeches with excitement each time he walks in the room, "this is what it's all about."
As many times as possible during the day I beg for hugs from my children, which they usually love to give in return. I ask my son to see how hard he can squeeze me just so I can feel that warmth and love and eternal bond that we have as he has his arms and legs tightly wrapped around my body. My little girl has started to learn how to do this, too. Her teeny, tiny arms go around my neck like a snug scarf, and I only wish I could literally wear her there all day long, to keep me warm and keep her close. Now "this is what it's all about."
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A Dominican missionary, d. at Valladolid, Sept., 1549. One of the most illustrious Dominicans of the sixteenth century in America. A native of Leon in Spain, he first studied jurisprudence at Salamanca, then became a Benedictine and lived as a hermit on the Island of Ponza for five years. He then joined the Dominicans, who had established themselves on the Island of Hispaniola ( Santo Domingo ) in 1510. Betanzos went there four years later. In 1516 he, with several other Dominicans, wrote a violent letter to Las Casas on the rapid disappearance of the Indians of the Antilles, indulging in the grossest exaggerations about the numbers of the aboriginal population (which they had no means of knowing, even approximately), and the excesses purported to have been committed by the Spaniards. In 1526, Betanzos went to Mexico and founded the Dominican province of Santiago de México. Hardly had it been established when Fray Tomás de Berlanga set forth a claim that it belonged to his newly founded province of Santa Cruz with the provincial seat at Santo Domingo. Betanzos went to Spain in 1531 and obtained from the Holy See the independence of his foundation. He also established the Dominican Province of Guatemala. As Provincial of Mexico in 1535, he at once organized missions among three Indian linguistic stocks: Nahuatl ( Aztec, or Mexican), Mixteco, and Tzapoteco. He returned to Spain in 1549, and died in September of the same year at Valladolid. The Bishopric of Guatemala was tendered to Betanzos, but he declined it. While, in his letter of 1516, he acquiesced in the extreme views of his brethren of the order on the question of Indian policy, in the "Opinion" ( Parecer ) given by him in 1541, and approximately repeated in 1542, just as the unfortunate "New Laws" regarding the Indies were to be promulgated under the influence of Las Casas, he assumed an entirely different attitude. Free from all controversial spirit, he quietly gave his opinion in a sense diametrically opposed to the measures Las Casas pressed upon the Government. This is significant, coming from a member of the same order and of almost equal rank. Betanzos was an intimate friend of the most distinguished Franciscans of Mexico — Archbishop Zumárraga, Motolinia, and others, who did not harmonize with Las Casas in his extreme tendencies. He is credited with the authorship of an addition to the "Doctrina" of Fray Pedro de Cordova which appeared in 1544, and possibly in 1550, but this is not yet fully established.
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HONOLULU � The 3,200 people living on a rural Hawaiian island that soon will be purchased by billionaire Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison have a laundry list of what they�d like to see him provide.
Working-class residents on Lanai want stable jobs. Affordable housing. No onerous restrictions on hunting or fishing. A return to agriculture. Improved transportation to Maui, Oahu and other islands given an airport with limited flights. Even simple things such as the reopening of the community pool. They hope he�s willing to sit down, listen to their concerns and be sensitive to the unique culture of Hawaii.
But on Lanai, an island paradise unscathed by urban annoyances such as traffic lights, residents� lives are largely dependent on whoever owns 98 percent of the island�s 141 square miles. Without tourism, the economic engine that has driven the island under its current billionaire owner, the �pineapple island� doesn�t have much.
�It�s not an island with a lot of resources and the kind of infrastructure you need,� said Bill Medeiros, assigned to oversee Lanai as executive assistant to the mayor of Maui County, of which Lanai is part. �At one time, almost the whole island was pineapple.�
Lanai residents are fully aware, Medeiros said, that their wants ultimately have little bearing on the reality of living on an island whose future rests with the whims of an owner with deep pockets willing to bear a financial loss.
That owner is soon to be Ellison, an adventurous billionaire who needs the island a whole lot less than the people of Lanai need him.
The constant fear is what happens if the owner doesn�t renew leases on rented homes, closes a hotel or decides he�s had enough and sells, community leaders say.
�It�s always, �What happens if he sells us? How scary,�� said Kepa Maly, executive director of the Lanai Culture & Heritage Center.
It would be nice if Ellison, known for being a visionary, can find a way for Lanai to sustain itself in a way that honors its roots, Maly said. But he shouldn�t expect to turn a profit.
�The history of Lanai since western contact is littered with the graves of unsuccessful western business interests,� he said. �I can�t believe someone buying the island today would be able to get richer off of it.�
Current billionaire owner David Murdock, who led a shift from the island�s pineapple industry to luxury resort and home development, had been losing $20 million to $30 million a year, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser previously reported.
Ellison has yet to fully reveal his plans for Lanai, but his representatives have assured the state senator who represents the island that the high-tech CEO and world-renowned sailor has no plans for radical changes and will be sensitive to the culture of the island.
Still the reality, Maly noted, �is clearly someone has to earn some money. How do we do that?�
And Ellison didn�t become the world�s sixth richest billionaire without some shrewd business sense.
�He told me once that he�s like anybody else when he spends his money on something, he doesn�t want to get taken,� said Mike Wilson, managing editor of the Tampa Bay Times who authored, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn�t Think He�s Larry Ellison.
But for a pet project like buying an island, �I�m sure his first concern is not that he�ll lose money,� Wilson said. �I don�t think he�s unconscious of the natural beauty of the place or anywhere else.�
The island�s charm means residents travel via $50-round trip ferry ride to neighboring Maui to shop at stores like Costco or Walmart. There may be only 30 miles of paved roads, but a gallon of gasoline at the lone gas station on Friday was about $5.75, compared to Honolulu�s average of $4.20 and the U.S. national average of $3.45. Residents supplement the food on their family�s table by fishing and hunting � mostly deer and some wild pig. There�s one school and one hospital. For more than routine medical care, residents must fly to Honolulu, a 25-minute plane ride away.
Lanai�s small size has led to a tight-knit community, in which residents strive for a simple life.
�For an island that may have been host to many well-known people, it�s still an island that allows a lot of courtesy and privacy,� said seventh-generation Lanaian Sol Kahoohalahala.
As the sale gets closer to being a done deal, Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa is pondering how Ellison might �completely alter the economic structure of the island.�
Playing off Ellison�s high-tech prowess Maly has a novel idea: �Software development. How about Lanai becoming engaged in computer sciences?�


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Armstrong outlines reasons for seeking OPALCO board position
The elections for directors to OPALCO provide an opportunity for cooperative members to select individuals who bring diverse skills and experience to OPALCO's Board of Directors. I am pleased to be a candidate for election to that board.
I have lived on Orcas Island for 32 years, raised four children here, and worked. As I have watched our community grow, I have seen OPALCO respond to the increasing needs for reliable and affordable energy.
It made great strides reducing power outages and the resultant manpower expense through the laying of underground cables. Under wise management, it has done an excellent job of securing and distributing affordable, pollution-free hydroelectric energy from the Bonneville Power Administration.
These next years will bring new challenges to OPALCO. They will require an engaged and knowledgeable board committed to preserving affordability through continued focus on conservation and advancement in technology and wise consideration the power choices that must be made as San Juan County's energy needs increase and the supply of hydroelectric energy reaches capacity.
While expertise in engineering, energy technology, and business are definite assets needed on the board, strong connections to the community and commitment to represent community interests are important too.
I have served on diverse boards and worked professionally as the founder and director of Orcas Montessori Preschool, the director of Children's House Family Resource Center, and director of Orcas Island Prevention Partnership and Orcas Readiness to Learn.
I bring a lively intelligence, an ability to listen and work cooperatively with others, and a passion for protecting our environment. I would be honored and excited to work as a director for OPALCO bringing positive leadership and strong work ethic to the issues that OPALCO will address in the coming years.
Thank you for considering me as a candidate. You may vote by returning your ballot enclosed in the annual report or by coming to the annual meeting on May 16.
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Clear west, storm shot eastSeptember 29th, 2012 at 5:15 pm by Ian Schwartz under Latest Posts, Weather
A calm day for most of New Mexico today with some limited storm activity in the NE.
Storms will continue to roll along the Sangre De Cristo Mountains this evening but will start to dwindle by tonight.
Sunday will mean clear conditions for most of western NM with another round of storms possible in the north and the northeast.
A cold front pushing into the northeast will help to fire the storms, but it wont drop temperatures too much.
As we start the week more sunshine and dry conditions will take over as a ridge of high pressure starts to build in from the west.
Another cold front will push into the northeast Wednesday into Thursday. This front isn't packing a lot of moisture, but it will drop temperatures in many locations.
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The Metro Council's weekly meeting will take place in Hillsboro Thursday, Dec. 2 at 5 p.m., during which Council will hear public comments about a proposed capacity ordinance that will improve the Portland region's growth rules, create more effective and efficient use of existing public investments and improve the management and accountability of public services.
Metro's goal is to ensure the region makes the most of its existing cities as part of the agency's long-term strategy to provide good jobs, protect valuable farm and forest land and preserve outdoor recreation opportunities.
Metro is evaluating proposals to create stronger protections for industrial land to ensure it remains available for large manufacturers; to focus public investments to support existing businesses, cities, town centers and transportation corridors; and to provide more affordable housing, among other areas.
Four public hearings will be held throughout the region over the next three weeks:
5 p.m., Monday, Nov. 29, Clackamas County Public Services Building, 2051 Kaen Rd., Oregon City
5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 2, Hillsboro Civic Center Auditorium, 150 E. Main St., Hillsboro
5 p.m., Dec. 9, Metro Regional Center Council Chamber, 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland
2 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 16, Metro Regional Center Council Chamber, 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland during the Council's regular meeting. NOTE: The Metro Council is scheduled to vote on the proposed capacity ordinance at this time.
Read more about Metro's work to improve growth management, including information about upcoming public hearings at www.oregonmetro.gov/capacity
The Metro Council will be considering ways to protect farms, forests and natural areas by investing inside the existing urban growth boundary. It will not be considering an expansion of the boundary until a revised urban and rural reserves map for Washington County is agreed to by the Metro Council and the Washington County Board of Commissioners and acknowledged by the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission. That work will not be completed before spring 2011.
Read more about the current status of urban and rural reserves and the ruling of the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission on urban and rural reserves at www. oregonmetro.gov/reserves


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The column that says Mr. Keith is alive and well.
Good morning!
"Greetings from Millville,
"Good to talk with you, Jack.
"SHINE Adventure Camp is in full swing this week.
"We have 44 wonderful children in grades 6-9 participating.
"A huge shoutOut of thanks for yesterday's and today's activities:
"Brad Smith, from the Nature Conservancy, Lesson on Conservation and the Cohanzick Aquifer and
Maurice River Watershed.
"Steve Eisenhauer from the Natural Lands Trust.
"All kids participated in a kayak trip from Route 49 to Union Lake Dam.
"Special shoutout to Bel Haven Paddlesports Jim Markel for his assistance.
"AHOME sponsored a trip on Maurice River Cruises with the finest crew of Captain Dave and First Mate Tom.
"Quite a few of the children had never even been on a boat.
"Awesome stuff.
"On Tuesday after bowling at the Mousetrap, we went to the East Point Lighthouse to tie in the the collective river experience.
"A huge thanks to God for creating our beautiful Maurice River right in our backyard.
"These kids are so fortunate to have it.
"Attached and in the
next email are several pictures the kayak shot was taken by Mr. Eisenhauer from the Natural Lands Trust.
"In Christ.''
— Mr. Keith
Students' behavior at Quinton Township School appears to have improved during the past school year.
Principal Stewart Potter went over the rates for detentions, suspensions and other issues, which are
overall lower than the previous year, during a recent school board meeting. Verbal warnings, lunch detentions and after-school detentions were down, and the total number of referrals dropped about 25 percent.
"The two big things I was really looking at were the internal and external suspensions," Potter said recently. "Internals dropped almost 25 percent and externals (dropped) 75 percent. That's really, really huge."
There were only one or two external suspensions. These students were repeat offenders, he explained, and students only receive external suspensions after two internal suspensions.
Quinton School, getting it done.
"Michael D'Orio's quest for 20-pound carp this year came close when he landed this 18-pound carp on July 7.
"Michael and his dad have switched from trout fishing after catching 74 this year to sport carp fishing.
"Michael claims he likes to reel in something that pulls back and carp will do just that
"They have caught several 15 pounds plus in the past three weeks, but this 18-pounder is the biggest Michael has landed so far.
"Still plenty of time to get the 20-pound one he says.
"This carp was caught at the Broad Street dock in Bridgeton on homemade bait, 10pound test line and medium fresh water tackle.
"Michael battled the carp for about 35 minutes.
"Michael said after the battle maybe we should upgrade to a little heavier fishing rods, Dad !''
MY KIND OF TOWN: Where the county needs another wood-chipper.
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French Real Estate
Foreigners love Paris…
That's why Paris Real Estate just broke a new historical record.
If there is a real estate depression in United States, but also in European countries like Greece, Spain and Ireland, French real estate market is still trading at high price, for several reasons:
- Building new constructions in France is not easy, it requires a lot of administrative approvals, and for example in Paris you cannot just build high buildings without urban services approval.
- French banks have always been cautious in lending money for buying real estate. Most of buyers had to have a debt income ratio below 33%.
- French law is very protective for buyers, French and Foreigners have the same rights, thats why foreign people like investing in France, where life quality is still great.
Housing Market Overvalued
But with 3-4% yields, from which you have to deduct many costs and taxes, it appears to me that French Housing Real Estate is overvalued now, and that it might start to decline.
Paris is at historical new highs, and price have increased much more quickly than rents.
A decline would be logical, even though with financial crisis, real estate is considered as a safe protection.
Professional Real Estate Market
But if an investor doesn't want to take the risk to invest in an over valued market, he should consider investing in French professional real estate,
Scpi for example, offer a net yield between 5 and 6%, which is great.
Scpi are private companies that invest in professional real estate, and rent it.
- They collect the rents, and pay it back to their investors.
- The management company takes care of everything:
- buying, selling, renovating, finding tenants, etc…
- Investors buy shares, and receive a net yield every quarter.
The best scpi these year will offer a 6% net yield, with a good yield-security ratio:
- scpi possess tangible assets
- they don't have debt or very little
- their assets produce cash-flows
- management costs are a fixed percentage that cannot be changed
Foreign Investors
Foreign people are allowed to invest in Scpi, even if they don't reside in France.
They will only have to make an annual tax declaration, but if their income in France is less than 11 896 euros per year, they won't pay any taxes.
They'll have to pay csg-crds though, which represents 15,5% of the income.
The advantages are:
- they won't have to manage anything, everything is done by the management company
- they can decide how much they want to invest. If one share of scpi costs 1000 euros, they can decide how many shares they want to invest in.
- yield is great
- it's a good way to diversify your assets and currency
The risks and drawbacks are:
- it's real estate, so the value depends on real estate value
- income is transferred only on a french bank account
- an annual tax declaration is necessary
As a French financial advisor, I have a few foreign investors who invested in Scpi and are happy with it.


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In order to do so, I have devised a list of 10 patterns I would like to sew this year. Rather than one-a-month I decided 10 would be more reachable and if I have time, then I can always add more. I can switch out patterns, but I may not add any until I am done with the first 10. And lastly, I will make them wearable. This is important.
Now, I have chosen five of the patterns that I definitely want to sew:
2. Mail Order 2179 (1947) - Definitely in a nautical theme, methinks.
3. McCall's 9705/Simplicity 3899 (?/1952) - I want the cute sweetheart top with the bottoms of the lower look, but elasticized so I don't flash anyone.
4. Simplicity 4768 (1954) - Sweet n' simple and a staple to boot. I've got rose shaped buttons lined up for this one already.
5. Simplicity 8208 (1969) - I badly need skirts that are comfortable (aka don't need a slip), flattering and adorable and I think this fits the bill. The high waist is a total bonus.
1. Simplicity 7177 (1975-Dress, view 2)
2. Vogue 8813 (1974-View B)
3. Simplicity 1626 (1930s-Collared Shirt, maybe the shorts if I have time!)
4. McCall 8098 (1950-View B)
5. Simplicity 3414 (1950-View 2)
6. McCall 8195 (1950-View B)
7. Simplicity 7542 (1968)
8. Mail Order 8570 (1940s)
9. Mail Order 3035 (1940s)
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script for dealing with rude comments about weight?
I need a verbal and behavioral script to work from. I've experienced some recent weight gain. A relative will soon be visiting our home. Based on past experiences, I expect that he will comment on, judge, and offer advice about my weight. Please help me out. [more inside]
Too sad to be good convo partner?
Ok, so I've been having this problem lately (and I think it's related to my recent depression) where I meet new people and kind of expect that I'll never develop any friendship with them, but then it actually does happen, and I realize in horror that when they bring up previous conversations we've had, I act completely clueless because I didn't bother to remember it in the first place, and they say something like, "Remember we were talking about how my mom lives literally right next door to you?" (seriously, that happened today) and I remember suddenly, but clearly have already made it obvious that I didn't remember it in the first place... That's been happening a lot lately, and I want to know how to recall what I talked about with people more. [more inside]
Do you remember this advice column?
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Workplace racism and etiquette advice. MI. [more inside]
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Fri., 3:56pm: YSU trustees meet to discuss presidency
YOUNGSTOWN YSU's Board of Trustees may announce their decision on who will become the next president.
In a special meeting this afternoon, the board convened to discuss the vacancy and the remaining three candidates.
Current president Cynthia E. Anderson will retire July 1 after three years in office.
The three candidates include William R. Decatur, executive vice president of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Randy J. Dunn, president of Murray State University, Murray, Ky.; and James D. Moran III, vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Starting today, they will each visit the campus to greet faculty, academic chairs and academic senate leadership, YSU students, and members of the university and outside community.
This is a developing story. Check back for more information.