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==PhD/MSc Studentships==
==PhD/MSc Studentships==
* [http://users.ugent.be/~tschrijv/
* [http://users.ugent.be/~tschrijv/.html PhD studentship at Ghent University ]
* [http://www.functor.se Industrial PhDs and MSc projects at Functor AB]
* [http://www.functor.se Industrial PhDs and MSc projects at Functor AB]
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This page collects advertisements for commercial and academic positions involving Haskell or related technologies.
If you are seeking Haskell jobs, or wish to recruit, good places to follow are the Haskell and Haskell-cafe mailing lists, the CUFP Job Opportunities list and the Types mailing list (particularly for research jobs). Contacting those organisations listed on the Haskell in industry is a good idea. Joining the nascent networking site Haskellers may also prove beneficial.
Please also supply the date when you add a new job opening to the list below.
1 Industry positions
1.1 Related positions
2 Academic positions
- Programming Languages Researcher with Haskell Expertise (added Sep 2010)
3 PhD/MSc Studentships
- PhD studentship at Ghent University (posted on November 22, 2013)
- Industrial PhDs and MSc projects at Functor AB
4 Internships
- Internships on Haskell and GHC, at Microsoft Research, Cambridge
- Spring Internship at Intel to develop EDSL for parallel vector computation (added Nov 2010)


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If you work on sets with strict push ups work out how many you can do in one go. The after a rest try 10 sets of 70- 80% of that. You should increase quite quickly.
Also try doing as many as you can at the start of each set on your finger tips before dropping to your hands. it helps work the forearms and stabiliser muscles too

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Mitchell, RiverDogs spin two-hitter
Yanks prospect continues trend of strong Charleston pitching
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 8, 2012 5:41 PM ET
New York's No. 20 prospect Bryan Mitchell faced one batter over the minimum in six innings of work and he and three RiverDogs relievers combined to two-hit the Rome Braves in a 1-0 victory Sunday.
"It was great," said Mitchell, who threw 45 of 66 pitches for strikes in his South Atlantic League debut. "I wanted to have a good game, so I could not have dreamed it up better."
Charleston pitching has now allowed just one run on six hits over the first three games of the season.
In the middle contest of the three-game series on Saturday, three RiverDogs surrendered a run on three hits in a 2-1 victory. One day earlier, Jose Campos combined with Pedro Guerra and Philip Wetherell on a one-hit shutout against the Braves.
"I was just trying to stay down in the zone and get ahead of hitters," Mitchell said. "Some guys were swinging early and I tried to get ahead with my changeup, but normally I was working off my fastball and using my curveball as the out pitch."
Gary Sanchez, MLB.com's No. 53 prospect, and No. 73 Mason Williams are batting a combined 7-for-21 (.333) in three games this year, while Dante Bichette Jr. -- the organization's No. 8 prospect -- has five of Charleston's other nine hits. But it has been pitching that has helped the RiverDogs to a perfect 3-0 start.
On Sunday, Mitchell was just as sharp as the starters who preceded him in the rotation.
He retired the first nine batters he faced before Elmer Reyes led off the top of the fourth inning with a single to left field. But Mitchell struck out the next two batters and catcher Francisco Arcia threw out Reyes trying to steal second base to end the threat.
"It was a jam shot," Mitchell said of Reyes' base hit. "It was a fastball inside that I think broke his bat. It was one of the bloops that just happened to fall in."
After a perfect fifth, Mitchell surrendered a two-out walk to Fernando De Los Santos, who promptly stole second base to give the Braves their first runner in scoring position. Reyes worked the count full, but Mitchell induced an inning-ending ground ball from shortstop Cito Culver with his 66th and final pitch of the afternoon.
"I think we have really good offense and defense," said the 6-foot-2 right-hander who was signed away from the University of North Carolina. "Everyone has stepped up and I think we have the team to win a lot of games.
"I wouldn't say we get overlooked, but you do have to give a lot of credit to the pitchers who keep putting up zeros."
Fred Lewis worked around a hit and a walk in the seventh, Zachary Varce pitched a hitless eighth and Pedro Guerra spun a perfect ninth for his first save of the year.
Selected by the Yankees in the 16th round of the 2009 Draft, Mitchell came into the 2012 season with just 15 Class A Short-Season games under his belt. He went 0-1 in his only New York-Penn League appearance with the Staten Island Yankees in 2010, and he posted a 1-3 record with a 4.09 ERA in 14 starts with the Yanks in '11.
On Sunday, Rome starter A.J. Holland (0-1) allowed one unearned run on three hits and two walks over 6 2/3 innings in the losing effort. He struck out four batters.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Centro Legal de la Raza's 44th Anniversary Gala ~ Building Healthy Communities ~
Friday, April 12, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Centro Legal de la Raza's 44th Anniversary Gala
~ Building Healthy Communities ~
Please join us to celebrate 44 years of building healthy communities!
2013 Honorees
Visionary Leadership Award: Robert J. Birgeneau is Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. He is known nationally as a leader in equity and inclusion and for his commitment to ensuring access to higher education for disadvantaged students, especially those who are undocumented. Under his leadership, Berkeley became the first public university in the nation to offer scholarships to undocumented students and to create a resource center for their support.
Community Justice Award: Tenants Together is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants. As California's only statewide renters' rights organization, Tenants Together works to improve the lives of California's 15 million tenants through education, organizing, and advocacy.
Pro Bono Champion Award: Cooley LLP attorneys contributed over 33,000 pro bono hours in 2012. In addition, in 2012, Cooley obtained a judgment for five individual plaintiffs against Fremont-based Avemos Financial and its owner for damages incurred as a result of Avemos's loan modification scheme, which was intended to defraud homeowners in financial distress and was primarily targeted at Spanish-speaking immigrants of modest income.
Master of Ceremonies: Aimee Allison, Director of Media and Community Affairs at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.
Youth Law Academy 2013 graduating seniors!
Featuring: Live Tango music by Trio Garufa and DJ dance party hosted by Love in the Mix!
For more information please contact Jennifer Miller at Centro Legal at (510) 437-1554 ext. 127 or firstname.lastname@example.com
We hope to see you there!
When & Where
1547 Lakeside Drive
Friday, April 12, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)
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Arts & Culture
Straight TalkBy Ian Volner
Readers of Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities will recall the "Collateral Campaign," a fictional initiative to commemorate the seventieth anniversary, in 1918, of the ascent of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef to the throne. As the novel progresses, so too does the campaign: it will be a whole year of festivities, it will be The Austrian Year, The Austrian Peace Year. The planning draws in prominent personages who introduce more and more ambitious proposals; it launches scores of dinner evenings, plenipotentiary committees, and public debates.
Musil's subject, and the admixture of sympathy and satire he brought to it, seems awfully familiar in 2011. Nowadays, we are fairly encircled by Collateral Campaigns—by artistic enterprises whose intentions, intellectual and social, are unimpeachable, yet which seem always to hover between event and discourse, between process and product. Example: the new BMW Guggenehim Lab in the East Village, which opened last month.


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Spurs Streak Ends - Fall to Thunder
Oklahoma City, OK (SportsNetwork.com) - The San Antonio Spurs had a chance to extend their franchise-record winning streak and all but seal up the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs, but the Oklahoma City Thunder stood in the way.
Kevin Durant scored 28 points with seven rebounds to help Oklahoma City cool off the red-hot Spurs with a 106-94 decision and sweep the four-game season series between the teams.
Durant has now scored 25-plus points in 39 consecutive games, which is one shy of the NBA record set by Michael Jordan.
San Antonio had its 19-game winning streak halted in the process and the Thunder pulled within three games of the Spurs for first-place in the West.
Oklahoma City has eight games left on its schedule while the Spurs have six remaining.
Russell Westbrook netted 27 points with six assists in Oklahoma City's third straight victory overall and sixth win in its last eight games. Serge Ibaka contributed an 11-point, 12-rebound double-double and Reggie Jackson added 14 points off the bench for the Thunder.
Patty Mills paced San Antonio with 21 points, while Tim Duncan recorded 17 points and eight rebounds. Kawhi Leonard also added 17 points in the setback.
Playing on the back-end of a back-to-back, the Spurs led 51-43 late in the second quarter when Westbrook nailed a 3-pointer and then followed that with a layup to cut the deficit to 51-48 at the break.
Ibaka made a jumper early in the third that ignited a 17-4 burst that staked the hosts to a 69-60 lead. The Thunder grabbed their first lead since the early stages of the first quarter during the run and Westbrook followed a Durant jumper with a dunk to cap it.
Mills hit a 3 to cut the deficit to seven, but Durant's runner capped the scoring in the third to make it an 80-71 game heading to the fourth.
Jackson scored the final seven points during a 9-2 quarter-opening run which gave Oklahoma City n 89-73 advantage.
Mills later scored eight straight to cut the deficit to eight just before the six-minute mark of the frame. The Thunder, however, pushed the lead back to double digits and kept a comfortable lead down the stretch.
Game Notes
Thunder center Kendrick Perkins started for the first time in 17 games due to groin surgery. He didn't attempt a shot in 12 minutes of action ... Jackson returned from a two-game absence because of a back sprain ... Oklahoma City shot 40-for-81 (49.4 percent) from the field and held the Spurs to 38-of-88 (43.2 percent) shooting ... The Thunder had a 30-13 edge on the fastbreak ... San Antonio owned a 42-39 edge on the glass.


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Human Rights: Everything you need to know
There's a lot happening in the world. Amnesty International has members and offices in every part of the world, with experts and researchers producing up-to-the-minute data and groundbreaking reports.
Here, you'll find out more about breaking news, stories we're following, reports we're releasing, and what's trending on social media.
Together, through the power of grassroots activism, we've freed thousands of people who were imprisoned because of who they are or what they believe, and we've changed laws around the world that affect millions of people. For example, we recently helped free filmmaker Keywan Karimi, who had been sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes because he made a documentary about graffiti.
Learn more about our victories and search them by region and topic.
Our teams on the ground work alongside local human rights groups and impacted communities. They document the real stories and circumstances behind major human rights issues. For example, we recently documented conditions at refugee camps in Australia and met with several families.
Learn more about other field stories and people directly affected by human rights abuses around the world.
We provide up-to-the-minute information and expertise for the media and the public on human rights issues in the United States and around the world.
For example, we work with major national media outlets to provide data about human rights abuses and personal stories that illustrate broader issues.
Visit our media center for our latest press releases, reports, and other resources.


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Hurricane Names
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.
Here is the list of Atlantic names for 2013-2018
Click here to read more.


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Here you will find all the information needed to start your journey in the martial art of Karate under one of the leading professional instructors, Lee Taylor, who is registered and certified with the British Combat Karate Association
From Little Ninjas, Childrens & Adults Karate, to the History of Karate it's all here for you to read, absorb, enjoy, then make a life changing decision and enroll in a class near you!
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On the Shelf
"By Jove, the Monocle Has Returned," and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Writing advice for children: "If you can get inside the creepy, disgusting mind of a monster you will really scare your reader."
- For more than a century, the Times has seldom passed up an opportunity to discuss the monocle: "Monocles used to be gimmicky … but now people realize they are useful with menus and theater programs."
- Thirty cult films you must see, including Sharktopus: "the tale of a genetically engineered half shark, half octopus who wreaks havoc at the beach."
- At last, a quantum leap in airship technology—the new Airlander can stay aloft for three weeks, and is, despite its bulbous bloat, pretty handsome to behold.
- Silence is now a luxury product. "The fiercely defended philosophy of the quiet car is spreading."


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by Norman L. Geisler
List price: $29.99
PLEASE NOTE: Marketplace items do NOT qualify for free shipping.
Well-illustrated with photos, charts, and maps, and written in an easy, informal style, this survey will be enjoyed by all Christians who want to enrich their understanding of Old Testament people and events.
Norman L. Geisler


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Hello everone,
Has anyone used php-Judy?
If so, how can serialise that data, so I can use it later?
I have a few arrays that I have to work with, and pass to other scripts that take 500MB in PHP, 400MB in SplFixedArray, 10MB in php-Judy and a few MB serialized.But having problems getting the data set in the Judy array back to serialize it (without manually looping it and making normal objects)...
Anyone worked with very large arrays in php and found a better solution? or knows how to deal with Judy?
I run several gigs worth of arrays in my scripts with no problem (22k rows a second with no overhead attached), why is it you feel you need this extension and need to serialize? Your going to take a performance hit.
Never heard of it but if what you saying is true - 10MB vs 500MB in normal php array, it's definitely worth a look. I'm skeptical because of such a huge difference but if it's really true then I'll probably be using it.
Thanks for pointing this out.
I have a few k rows also (10k+), but each is a multidimensional array with string keys (objects), that get passed from one script to another (assume serialize/unserialise), but when they get passed over, they hit the PHP memory limit and bomb out (ok, I can increase that, but each request takes ~30sec, so can't really give each one 2GB ram...)
And the main issue is this: How-big-are-PHP-arrays-really-Hint-BIG (Arrays are way bigger than the data they have to store...)
What I actually need, is a way to group data (ex: classes/structure/objects), without the overhead of creating the class (that gets way to slow)
Any suggestions?
Found this mail archive: http://email@example.com/msg00147.html
Sadly I found the same thing...So my current solution is to keep the objects serialized in binary format, and unserialize them on use...Less CPU but a ton less RAM needed.
I'll keep an eye on this thread in case someone has any better ideas.
K. Wolfe I would be interested in your input.
Whats the nature of these scripts? Why do you need to pass the entire array? Can you localize the scripts into one?
To prevent a lot of overlap, I assumed this is still in relation to http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?966015-Efficient-way-to-passing-large-objects-between-scripts
Hopefully, that assumption was correct. @K_Wolfe ; in other words, it is the whole multiple servers processing 900+ responses each containing several a few megs of data, that get combined together as they move up the stack.
Ohhh.. Same guy eh? I'm giong to fall back to my original thought, from the older thread, atleast I thought I brought it up..
You need to set up a central "application server" and then a data warehouse of sorts.
We know that your going to need some multi threading in order to get those curl / soap calls completed timely (or in this case child processes since php doesnt have multi-threading ) We want to 1) ultimately increase all performance which will mean the rest: 2) lower network traffic 3) lower processing being done on each array.
I'm about to mention something that's frowned upon by some people here, but sometimes some jobs call for something such as this, I'm currently setting up a datawarehouse using it due to the sheer volume of data I'm dealing with:
I recommend setting up a central data server with MongoDB. http://www.mongodb.org/You can store multidimensional data (arrays) in this database. There is no strict table structure, each row can have its own structure, which means you need to program those restrictions in the the code, if they need to exist.
Say the return you get from those curl calls is xml, you'd only need the following:
//connect to mongo
$m = new Mongo();
$coll = $m->dbName->xml_responses;
$coll->insert(json_decode(json_encode(simplexml_load_string($curlResponse)), 1));
This will have loaded your array into mongodb. While yes, we are running a json_encode and decode on this, we can drop a lot of network traffic. When all of your 900 requests have been fulfilled, you can actually QUERY your return results, rather than manipulate it in memory.
MongoDB is a whole new beast that isn't covered often here at the forums, before running away from the idea, have a look at it. I've grown to love it (in the right situations) and one the places it excels is those randomly structured XML / json structures. You can even run in some caching based off these results. You can index anything with the subdocument as if it were a normal column (an array element is 5 levels deep? you can index it and query for it)
Did not know mongodb can add indexes on multidimensional arrays, I'll check it out.
I will have to make some tests, since while I only insert a few thousand records (50-100k), I need to update a few fields in all of them, so not sure how fast that gets done in mangodb.
Currently, I store each object twice:One in binary format (so I can pass it between scripts), and once in Judy format so I can work with it.In my app, 11k records take 0.3sec to process (updates and so on), but 1.2sec and 30MB (instead of 185MB normal arrays) to igbinary_unserialize and turn the data to a Judy object.BUT, at this point I don't need all the data, only part of it, so since I can pick what to show, the 1.2 sec turns to 0.1 and 30MB to 300KB.
Keep this in mind though:
The maximum BSON document size is 16 megabytes.
This is not a huge deal, just don't go crazy when trying to aggregate your data
Ya, thought I had it, but Judy does not work on Debian GNU (live servers) but works on Ubuntu (dev server)...When I iterate the keys I get junk in there for Debian, so seams like a memory leak or something.
Can you supply a sample reply from your soap / curl call for me? I'm curious to see the format of these, this project still intrigues me
PMed you a sample
Your PM disappeared? lol Can you try another source, that one is timing out on me
This one should work then:http://nopaste.dk/p21345
Sorry, I'm starting to have a small look at this today. So this is one of your many requests your children will send out then?
Whats your environment look like again? how many nodes and their specs?
Can you throw me a few more types of requests (dont need the response) and give me a quick rundown of what each fields change does for you.
After some offline discussions, My top level thoughts:
I would recommend loading some sample xml responses into MongoDB, and then try pulling them out, see what your memory looks like through there. I really feel that a json based db is your answer here for caching and transfer.
On top of this, possibly Java / Python to handle your soap calls as this has true multi threading capability (im referring to a single process running as a service to handle all your requests to the external source). Threads (children processes) would be dynamically created and destroyed based on requests given to it and then feed the response back to mongo.
The front end would wait for a completion flag within mongo for that session id before retrieving the data.
And if you are required to use PHP, you can create a restful HTTP service in PHP so you can have multi-threading (so long as you execute multiple simultaneous calls to these services). Granted, if I were writing it, the top controller would be written in a different language (C#, Java, Python, anything that has a strong multi-threading framework) so you can send out requests and manage them in a thread queue (and tell it to wait till all return before doing further processing).
A few tutorials:http://phpmaster.com/writing-a-restful-web-service-with-slim/http://www.9lessons.info/2012/05/create-restful-services-api-in-php.html


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Immigrant Rights Groups Vow to Hold Cornyn, Cruz 'Accountable'
Immigrant rights groups from across the country say they will begin running radio ads and will stage street protests to hold Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn 'accountable for, in their words, 'creating obstacles to immigration reform,' 1200 WOAI news reports.
The groups say they will target Cruz and Cornyn, as well as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), who, ironically, is the author of the immigration reform bill they claim to support, although he has been backing away from it in recent days.
Fernando Garcia, who heads the Texas Border Network for Human Rights told 1200 WOAI news the border security measures being pushed by Cornyn and Cruz would turn the Texas-Mexico border into a 'war zone,' and he says people who live in the Rio Grande Valley don't want to live like that.
"This plan would create one of the most militarized borders in the world," Garcia said. "But the difference is in this case it would be a militarized border in a place where there is no conflict between allied nations."
Garcia said living along the Rio Grande would become like living in some of the most dangerous places on earth.
"After Korea and the border between Israel and Syria, the U.S. Mexico border would become the world's most militarized border," Garcia said.
The groups say they want to 'increase pressure' on Senators in Texas and Florida, on behalf of 'powerful and growing blocs of Latino voters that care intimately about the immigration issue and want to see this bill passed."
The group saw no irony in claiming that 'Latino voters' want to see the bill passed, and then singling out two Latino Senators as the ones who are blocking passage of the bill.


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I've been using XBMC for quite a while now and after setting all the correct scrapers and locations it has allways found new episodes as i added them.
However recently it stopped working (kinda).
Some new episodes are found and some aren't
I've already checked thetvdb.com if the new info is available there, it is.
I've also (double) checked the filenaming (which is done by Sickbeard) and it is exactly the same as earlier episodes.
If i go to file mode and navigate to the appropriate show it says i've seen all episodes, however if a click on the show it shows me episodes i haven't watched (without any info whatsoever).
If i go to library mode and navigate to the appropriate show it also says i've seen all episodes and when i click on the show it doesn't show the newly added episodes.
I've updated my version from early september to the newest nightly (of 23rd september), this doesn't change anything.
What am i missing? For the life of me I kind figure it out (and it's driving me nuts :eek!
I hope someone can point me in the right direction!
XBMC TV Show scraper is missing episodes [TheTVDB.com]
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2011-09-26 07:51 Post: #2
For anyone who might have the same problem in the future, here is the solution:
Each of the shows (and even a few movies) who didn't get scraped had a tvshow.nfo or movie.nfo file in the root folder.
(i have my shows ordered as such: TV-Shows/Showname/Season ##/Episodes)
Apparantely this file gave XBMC the impression that by scraping that file XBMC could stop looking any further. So new episodes never got added.
Several other shows which updated just fine didn't have this .nfo file, so XBMC just scanned and scraped the complete folder!
I think they were created when i used Ember Media Manager to add fanart and stuff to my shows. So don't use Ember Media Manager!
Any extra fanart or posters can be through the info screen of a perticular show anyhow (atleast in Aeon-Nox)
Hope this helps someone in the future
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How To Keep Your Cool When A Guy Disappears
Sometimes men vanish into thin air. When that happens, follow these rules.
If you ask me, nothing is harder on the heart or the ego than the disappearing act. One minute you are smitten over Mr. Constant Contact and the next … nothing. No explanation and no closure. He stopped texting, stopped calling and you are left to fill in the blanks.
Has your latest leading man disappeared without a trace? If so, here's what you should do:
1. Resist temptation. Once it is confirmed that Mr. Vanishing is alive and well, resist your urge to seek information from his friends, his family or the source himself.
I was dating Mr. Too-Good-To-Be-True for a solid month and I believed we were taking our happy romance to the next level. Then one day his daily "Good morning" text was missing from my inbox and I spent the rest of the day staring at my phone, distracted in sincere worry that something was amiss.
Read The Post-Breakup Guide to Social Media
Mr. Too-Good-To-Be-True ignored my check-in call and before I could fabricate horrendous stories of his whereabouts, I noticed he was cheerfully posting on Facebook and obviously alive and well. Weeks went by and I could not shake my anger and self-doubt. Perhaps I did or said something wrong to encourage his behavior.
I mustered up an email begging for closure and some sort of validation that our connection was not a mere fabrication in my naïve mind. Again, no response. I never got closure from him, and by sending that email I gave someone who didn't deserve it another chance to let me down. If he was too cowardly to communicate our ending in the first place, no declaration of hurt or resentment will suddenly change his mind or his manners.
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Thursday, March 11 2010 - Other Important News
Update - Rachel Corrie Trial in Israel
"British activist saw Rachel Corrie die under Israeli bulldozer" - Story and video at read more.
– Ed.
UPDATE 10 March 2010 -
by Rory McCarthy in Haifa
[Watch a brief video clip from the Guardian of Rachel's mother and father, and their lawyer, speaking.]
A British witness told a court today about how he had watched an Israeli military bulldozer run over and kill the American activist Rachel Corrie while she was trying to stop Palestinians' homes being demolished in Gaza.
Richard Purssell, who was also a volunteer activist in Rafah at the time, seven years ago, described the "shocking and dramatic event" in an Israeli court in Haifa on the first day of a civil suit brought by Corrie's family against the Israeli state.
Twenty-three-year-old Corrie, from Olympia, Washington, in the US, went to Gaza for peace activism reasons at a time when there was intense conflict between the Israeli military and the Palestinians.
The Corrie family lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein, said he would argue that her death was due either to gross negligence by the Israeli military or that it was intended. If the Israeli state were found responsible, the family would press for damages.
Purssell, a Briton, now working as a landscape gardener, said he volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) to witness events in the occupied Palestinian territories for himself. In Rafah he had been hoping to prevent the Israeli military from demolishing Palestinian homes. The organisation was strictly non violent, he said. "Our role was to support Palestinian non-violent resistance."
On the day of her death, 16 March 2003, Corrie was with seven other activists, including Purssell, in Rafah, close to the Israeli-guarded border with Egypt. They saw an Israeli military armoured Caterpillar D9 bulldozer approaching the house of a Palestinian doctor.
Purssell described how the bulldozer approached at a fast walking pace, its blade down and gathering a pile of soil in its path. When the bulldozer was 20 metres from the house Corrie, who like the others was wearing an orange fluorescent jacket, climbed on to the soil in front of it and stood "looking into the cab of the bulldozer".
"The bulldozer continued to move forward," Purssell said. "Rachel turned to come back down the slope. The earth is still moving and as she nears the bottom of the pile something happened which causes her to fall forward. The bulldozer continued to move forward and Rachel disappeared from view under the moving earth."
The bulldozer continued forward four metres as the activists began to run forward and shout at the driver.
"It passed the point where Rachel fell, it stopped and reversed back along the track it first made. Rachel was lying on the earth," Purssell said. "She was still breathing." Corrie was severely injured and died shortly afterwards.
The Israeli military says it bears no responsibility for Corrie's death. A month after her death the military said an investigation had determined its troops were not to blame; the driver of the bulldozer had not seen her and had not intentionally run her over. It accused Corrie and the ISM of behaviour that was "illegal, irresponsible and dangerous".
Hussein will argue at the Haifa district court that witness evidence shows that the soldiers did see Corrie at the scene, with other activists well before the incident, and that they could have arrested her or removed her from the area before there was any risk of injury.
Before the hearing began, Craig Corrie, Rachel's father, said the family had been on a "seven-year search for justice in Rachel's name". He added: "I think when the truth comes out about Rachel the truth will not wound Israel, the truth is the start of making us heal."
Cindy Corrie, Rachel's mother, said the family was still waiting for the credible, transparent investigation Israel first promised regarding her daughter's death. "I just want to say to Rachel that our family is here today trying to just do right by her and I hope that she will be very proud of the effort we are making," she said. She said the family had met the staff of US vice-president Joe Biden on Tuesday to talk about the case.
Three other witnesses, two more Britons and an American, who were all at the scene in Rafah when Corrie was killed will give evidence at the Israeli court. It is not clear if any Israeli military officials will speak.
The hearing is scheduled to run for at least two weeks.
7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov't
March 16, 2010: International Day of Conscience and Rachel Corrie Day of Action
March 10, 2010
On March 16, 2003, human rights activist Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to protect a home in Gaza from demolition while the family was inside. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier ran over Rachel in a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Rachel was 23 years old. Seven years after her killing, Rachel's parents are still seeking truth and accountability. Today is Rachel's day in court and Israel must be held accountable for Rachel's killing - take action now.
After Rachel's killing, Israel conducted an investigation that even the U.S. State Department said was not thorough enough and neither credible nor transparent. The U.S. government advised Rachel's parents Cindy and Craig Corrie to sue Israel, which they did in March 2005. Their case is finally starting in the Haifa District Court in Israel today. Follow the trial at the Rachel Corrie Foundation website http://www.rachelcorriefoundation.org/.
CCR sued Caterpillar (view the details of the case Corri et al. v. Caterpillar) on behalf of Rachel's parents as well as four Palestinian families whose family members were killed or injured when Caterpillar bulldozers demolished their homes. The court dismissed that case in 2007 because it would put into question the U.S. government's decision to pay for the bulldozer sales.
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7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov't
March 10, 2010
Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago as she stood before a Palestinian home facing demolition. Today, a trial opens in Israel in a lawsuit brought by Corrie's family against the Israeli government. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israel's version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket. We spend the hour with Rachel Corrie's family: her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah.
AMY GOODMAN: In the midst of Joe Biden's first visit to Israel as vice president, the Israeli government has embarrassed the Obama administration by announcing plans to add 1,600 more homes to a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. Biden said Israel's move "undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions that I've had here in Israel." His comments were released Tuesday after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he reiterated the "unbreakable" ties between Israel and the United States. Biden is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah today.
This comes as an unusual trial gets underway in Haifa. An American family is suing the state of Israel for the unlawful death of their daughter, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. She was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago. Today, the Haifa District Court in northern Israel will begin hearing evidence from eyewitnesses to Rachel's death. An earlier internal army investigation exonerated the bulldozer drivers, concluding the soldiers could not see the young American peace activist in front of them. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israel's version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket.
Well, I interviewed Rachel Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, and her sister, Sarah Simpson, a few days ago, just before they headed to JFK Airport here in New York to go to Israel. I asked Rachel's mother, Cindy, to go back to those events of March 16, 2003, and explain why Rachel had gone to Gaza to begin with.
CINDY CORRIE: In January of 2003, Rachel went first to the West Bank for training with the International Solidarity Movement. It was a Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance movement to oppose the occupation and what was happening to Palestinians at the time. That movement was founded because there was a resolution in the United Nations, submitted by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to have a human rights monitoring force in the area after the start of the Second Intifada, when there was so much killing and violence. And that resolution was vetoed by the United States and by Israel. And at that point, ISM was formed.
Some of the co-founders included an Israeli woman, Neta Golan; Americans, Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf; a Palestinian academic, Ghassan Andoni; and others. And Rachel joined that effort. She was trained in Beit Sahour. She had prepared here before she left. She was studying Arabic. She had done a lot of education, and she was beginning to educate our family, because we were new to this issue.
She went--she chose to go to Gaza, to Rafah particularly, because she felt that it was maybe the most forsaken part of the Occupied Territories. It was where she felt her focus and attention was needed. She was there for about seven weeks. She was working, doing a lot of things during the time. Part of what she was doing was writing back and informing us about what she was seeing. And her words have since been incorporated into a play, and her writing from there is in a book of her work.
AMY GOODMAN: Called?
CINDY CORRIE: Called Let Me Stand Alone, published by Norton some years ago. But the play is My Name is Rachel Corrie, is still being seen around the world. Craig and I, just before we came to New York, saw a reading of it in Tacoma, Washington. We went to a performance in Reykjavik, Iceland last year. So it just keeps moving around the world.
But she was working with children and with women's groups. One of the women in Gaza, when we visited there in 2003, was so happy to show me a note that Rachel had left for her on International Women's Day. She wanted to connect women in Rafah with women near our community in Olympia. And so, she wanted to start a sister city project between Rafah and Olympia, which people in our community have supported since that time.
She was opposing--one of the things that she did was to oppose home demolitions, along with the other internationals who were there at the time to support Palestinians. Human Rights Watch reported that between September 2000 and 2004 over 1,700 homes in Rafah were destroyed. It was mass clearing demolitions, is what the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions tells us. These were not punitive demolitions. Those were occurring in the West Bank for people who were accused of doing some harm to the Israeli citizens through suicide bombings or some other way. But these were clearing demolitions. And the neighborhood where Rachel was staying, it had been a neighborhood with many, many homes at one point. But these were being massively destroyed to clear a buffer zone and to put in a large steel wall, that now largely has come down. But it was standing and was being built at the time we were there in 2003.
The home that Rachel stood in front of that day had two families in it--two brothers, an accountant and a pharmacist, and their five young children. Craig and I have come to know that family. We visit them whenever we go. We have communications with them. Part of the family came to the United States. The Israeli government had nothing against this family. They allowed them to go to Tel Aviv in order to get their visa to come to the United States to travel with us in the year 2005. And yet, their home was destroyed without any, you know, accommodation of any sort and under great threat to the family, as well. It didn't happen the day Rachel stood there; it happened later that year.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Rachel standing there that day, what did she decide to do? What happened that day?
CINDY CORRIE: I think Rachel knew that Reem and Iman, that Kareem, that those children were behind that wall. She had been helping them with their English homework and with their--they were helping her learn Arabic. She had slept at the foot of their parent's bed, because they couldn't sleep in their own bedroom because of the shots that would be fired through the wall as Israeli military equipment drove past the house. So she slept at the foot of the family's--the parent's bed with the other children to offer some international protection to that family.
The bulldozer was coming toward their house, and she knew that the kids and the parents were behind her. I don't think there's any way that--you know, I think she also believed that the bulldozer would stop. It had stopped for activists, came right up to them, pushed into them, but stopped at other points during that day. I don't think she believed this was going to happen to her. But she couldn't move, because right behind her were these kids and people that she had grown to know and to care for.
AMY GOODMAN: And what you understand the bulldozer did?
CINDY CORRIE: We have eyewitnesses, seven international eyewitnesses. We have photographic evidence from all of those eyewitnesses that, according to their report--we were able to read the Israeli military report, which happened in Rachel's case, happens for almost no Palestinians, but there was a--because of US insistence, there was a military police investigation. They indicated, though, they didn't use the photographic evidence that the ISMers had, but anybody looking at those photos can see that what the ISMers say is accurate, that the bulldozer proceeded toward Rachel, that she took a position indicating that she was not going to move.
She was in her orange jacket. She, when it kept coming, she rose on the mound, and the eyewitnesses testified that her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer, so she could clearly be seen, but the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her, and so that it was covering her body. It stopped and then reversed, according to the eyewitness testimonies, without lifting its blade, so backed over her once again. Her friends were screaming at the bulldozer drivers through this to stop. They rushed to her, of course, and she said to them, "I think my back is broken." And those were her final words. And they squeezed her hands and told her that they loved her. And I feel like she had good people with her.
AMY GOODMAN: Cindy Corrie, explaining how her daughter Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian family's home from demolition in Gaza seven years ago. An Israeli court is now beginning to hear evidence in the Corrie's lawsuit against Israel for the unlawful death of their daughter, twenty-three-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington, Rachel Corrie. The trial begins today in Haifa.
This is Democracy Now! We continue with Rachel's family--her mother, her father and her sister--in a minute.
AMY GOODMAN: We return now to the family of Rachel Corrie. Seven years after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer and five years after filing a civil lawsuit against the Israeli government, the case has moved ahead. Today a district court in Haifa will begin hearing evidence about the circumstances of Rachel's death.
On Friday, just before they left for Israel, I sat down with Rachel's family--her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah--for an in-depth interview about the case. I asked Rachel's father Craig to lay out the particulars of the court case.
CRAIG CORRIE: This is a culmination, really, of seven years of our family searching for some sort of justice in the killing of Rachel. And we've tried to do that through diplomatic means, and we've asked for a US-led investigation into Rachel's killing. We also understand that the Israelis, through Prime Minister Sharon, promised President Bush a thorough, credible and transparent investigation of Rachel's killing. But, by our own government's measure, that has not happened. So we're left with simply a civil lawsuit.
So, we're accusing the state of Israel of either intentionally killing Rachel or guilty of gross negligence in her killing seven years ago. And so, we're seeking--the only thing you can seek in a civil case is damages. You know, so it's really a very small part of the story that's gone on in our lives. But it's critical to have our time in court.
Our motivation for that was largely that it is an avenue which we understood we would be able to pursue and get information. So, through the discovery process, we were hoping to get a good deal of information. We have gotten some, but they've used sort of secrets of state to keep us, block us, from getting other evidence into court. But we're going forward, and we're very hopeful that we will get a fair trial.
AMY GOODMAN: Cindy Corrie, speaking of blocking information, the Palestinian doctor who first treated your daughter, who first treated Rachel, is not being allowed out of Gaza to testify? Is that right?
CINDY CORRIE: That's our understanding at this point. We were alerted by our attorney, really about a week or so ago, that the Israeli government seemed to be dragging its feet about having our eyewitnesses. We have four international eyewitnesses. There were seven on the scene when Rachel was killed. Four will be coming to testify. Our attorney told us that the Israelis were not agreeing to let them into Israel. We sought help from the US government, from the State Department, and from our ambassador. And subsequently, the four international eyewitnesses have been given approval to come, and they will be entering the same day that we are.
But the doctor, who's in Gaza, who was with Rachel at the end of her life, or soon after, who administered to her there in Gaza in the hospital, was called as a witness on our side, and the Israeli government has not yet approved entry for him. He also could testify, we hoped, by video conference. That's what's been offered, and they have not agreed either to having him come into Israel or to testify by video conference. And we are pursuing that. We know that Ambassador Cunningham has also been pursuing this with Israeli officials.
AMY GOODMAN: The US ambassador to Israel?
CINDY CORRIE: The US ambassador to Israel, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: He's been pushing for the Palestinian doctor to be able to testify.
CINDY CORRIE: To be able to testify by video conference, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: Sarah, the autopsy of your sister, of Rachel--and I'm still sure that is hard to hear seven years later--can you talk about the significance of that?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: Yes. First of all, when Rachel was first killed, our family really didn't want to have an autopsy done. It just wasn't in our beliefs or wishes. And it seemed at the time quite apparent how she was killed, so the necessity of it didn't seem like it was necessary at that time. But my mother and father were in Congressman Baird's office and were basically told that the Israelis would refuse to release Rachel's body back to the United States unless an autopsy was done.
They understood, through the State Department, Congressman Baird, that there was some sort of court proceeding going on in Israel, and there wasn't a lot of information about that court proceeding. But they were allowed to give a statement of the family's wishes about the autopsy, and they did a written statement that said the autopsy could only occur if it was done in the presence of a US embassy official and also if it was performed by a civilian doctor. And that was placed in writing and signed and faxed to a Captain Margolin [phon.] with the IDF. And what we didn't know was that Captain--
AMY GOODMAN: The Israeli Defense Forces.
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: The Israeli Defense Forces. And what we didn't know at the time was that Captain Margolin took that to the Israeli court and submitted it into the court record. And the judge granted the wishes and said that the autopsy could only occur with the US embassy presence and by a civilian doctor. In 2003, my parents were allowed to read the military police report about the investigation into Rachel's killing. And in that report, it said that a US embassy official was present at the autopsy, so we always assumed that that had happened and had gone as our wishes had stated.
It wasn't until several years later, through US government FOIA records, that I first saw some mention of the fact that there was no US embassy official present during the autopsy. And it took us until 2007 to confirm with the State Department in writing that absolutely there was no US embassy official present. So that goes against an Israeli court order in terms of the autopsy wishes. So we actually amended our complaint against the government of Israel to bring the violation of the Israeli court order into these proceedings, and information about that will be heard.
AMY GOODMAN: How will this proceed? It starts Wednesday, March 10th, which is actually just six days before the seventh anniversary of Rachel's death. Cindy?
CINDY CORRIE: Well, I think we have to see how it all unfolds. What we know now is that we will be presenting our witnesses, the witnesses that we have called. That includes Craig, because he can testify to the wishes about the autopsy. It includes the four eyewitnesses. It includes the doctor, Dr. Hiss, who performed the autopsy, and an expert witness who will testify that he believes that the stipulations by which bulldozers are supposed to be used--there are manuals that we obtained through the courts about how the bulldozers are supposed to be used. Those state clearly that when people can't be dispersed or are in the area, they're not supposed to operate. And so, the expert witness will testify to a number of things, but he'll testify about that piece of things. And our witnesses will be presented.
We thought that we would then hear the state's witnesses, but we just learned last week that, in an unconventional motion, according to our attorneys, the Ministry of Defense applied to not have to submit any of their affidavits to the court--our witnesses had to submit affidavits months ago--but not to have to submit their affidavits to the court and to have thirty days after they hear all of our witnesses testify before their affidavits are submitted. Once that happens, then there will be another court proceeding, apparently, when their witnesses will have to testify and be cross-examined by our attorney. But at this point, we don't know what that date will be.
The case will be heard by a judge, Judge Gershon, in the Haifa district court. District court there is not equivalent to our district court. This is the court there that falls under their Supreme Court, or their High Court. And our understanding originally was that he would hear the testimony from both sides and then would get final reports from the attorneys in both sides. Following the presentation of evidence, he would then take that and review it, we were told, up to several months and then would come back with a decision about responsibility. And depending on how that turned out, then there would be another phase in which there would be discussion in the court about damage and how parties were damaged.
AMY GOODMAN: Sarah, this is your first time in Israel?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: Yes, it is. It will be my first time in Israel. And honestly, I wish that there would have been a way for me to go without the focus being entirely on the trial, because, you know, I do feel like I need to get a chance to experience a little bit of the culture, meet some of the people. And I'm sure there'll be some opportunity, but the focus is entirely on the trial at this time, and, you know, it's a difficult time for our family because of that.
I also--one of my main purposes in going was just, personally, I wanted to be able to hear the IDF's side of the story. We were asked very early on whether or not we would want to meet any of the military that were involved in killing Rachel, and I've always said, "Yes, that's true." I've told our US government that if given the opportunity to meet the bulldozer driver, that's something I would want to do. I know it would be very difficult and very challenging, but I think it's a step that I would have to be open to. And now I feel like it's been a real violation that in the time that it was set to go to see those soldiers hopefully testify, hopefully they would be called, that that opportunity is not going to be available to me. And I don't know whether or not I'll be able to travel back when the government presents its side. So, you know, it's going to be a challenging time when we're there.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you know, Craig, if the man who drove the bulldozer will be there?
CRAIG CORRIE: We don't know that. If he comes, it'll be because the state calls him as a witness, and that'll allow our attorney to cross-examine him. And we certainly hope that he comes. As Sarah alludes, I mean, there's another way to handle some of this. We would like to meet that person.
There are lots of victims, Amy, when you look at a war and what happens. And we lost Rachel, and that hurts every day, but that bulldozer driver lost a lot of his humanity when he crushed Rachel. We're told by B'Tselem, for instance, that in 2004, I believe, the highest--the cause, proportionately, of deaths in the Israeli soldiers, the highest one is suicide. There's a big toll to soldiers. And I guess I have to hold out my hand, in some way, that if that man could understand what he's done, in terms of our loss, if he could mourn our loss of Rachel, I could mourn his loss of humanity.
There's a lot of steps, as Sarah says, that would have to happen that way. But yeah, I'd like to meet him. And it's not about trying to put him in jail. It doesn't do me any good if his children don't have a father, if he has children. But some way, like Desmond Tutu talks about, of mending the tear in society, and I think it's more like a wound in your arm, and to expect that one half of a wound would heal and the other half stay unhealed is impossible. Both halves have to heal.
AMY GOODMAN: Cindy?
CINDY CORRIE: I think it's important for people to understand that this lawsuit, as Craig said in the beginning, was just--it's one step, one piece of what we've been doing in the past seven years. And we did pursue answers diplomatically. We worked with the State Department, with--you know, trying to work with the Israeli government to get answers to our questions early on. It was actually in the Department of State quite early that the suggestion was made that we sue the Israeli military and the Israeli government as a way to address this. But it wasn't--
AMY GOODMAN: The State Department suggested that.
CINDY CORRIE: It was through the State Department that the suggestion initially was made for us to--
AMY GOODMAN: This was during the Bush years.
CINDY CORRIE: This was during the Bush years, yeah.
CRAIG CORRIE: It was. It's our first meeting within--actually in the State Department in June of 2003, and we were discussing trying to get an independent investigation. And Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Larry Wilkerson, so chief of staff to Colin Powell, turned to me, and he said, "If it was my daughter, I'd sue them. I don't care about money. I wouldn't care about anything. I would sue the state of Israel." And we were surprised--
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: And I think that was reiterated.
CRAIG CORRIE: --but ended up doing it.
AMY GOODMAN: Sarah?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: We didn't file the final lawsuit almost up until the last minute that the statute of limitations would wear out, because we wanted to do this diplomatically. We thought, given the relationship of the United States with Israel, that there was the means to resolve this diplomatically. And no family wants to go through a lawsuit in these kind of matters. And my father and I actually met with Larry Wilkerson in, I believe it was, December 2004, and again that statement of filing a lawsuit was reiterated. And we did file the lawsuit then in the spring of 2005.
AMY GOODMAN: You have lost a lawsuit against Caterpillar--
CINDY CORRIE: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: --the company that made the tractor that crushed your daughter that the Israeli military used.
CINDY CORRIE: Yes, uh-huh.
AMY GOODMAN: What were the grounds of that suit and the rejection of it, the denial of it?
CINDY CORRIE: And that suit was brought in US court and in western Washington. But some people really misunderstand the direction of it. In international law, there is the obligation to hold corporations accountable if they sell their products, continue to sell their products, knowing that human rights violations, a pattern of human rights violations, are occurring with their equipment. And Caterpillar Corporation had been on notice for years that their Caterpillars were being used to harm Palestinians, to destroy their homes, but also to take their lives. Rachel was not the only person on that lawsuit. There were a number of Palestinian families. I've been to the gravesite of a Palestinian family in Nablus. I recognized the name when I was walking through the gravesite of a family, eight family members that were destroyed when their house was demolished with Caterpillar equipment on top of them. It isn't that Caterpillar sold a piece of equipment, and then something bad happened; it's that Caterpillar continues to sell the equipment knowing that their equipment is being used for human rights violations.
Now, in the--the case was dismissed in western Washington in the district court there but was appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And in their ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court upheld the decision of the lower court, primarily because the US government entered into the discussion, and there is separation of powers. And the court did not discuss the merits of the case at all, but said that they were cognizant of the fact that--a political question is the legal term for this, but that cognizant of the fact that if they ruled against Caterpillar corporation or address this, that they could be implicating the United States because of its role in funding all of this equipment, so could be--they were cognizant of the fact that they also would be possibly intervening in terms of who has the right to make these decisions within our own government. It's a separation of powers question.
AMY GOODMAN: You will be going to Israel at the same time as the Vice President. He's here--he's in Israel for the week. Now, interestingly, Joe Biden, as senator, raised the question of the death of your daughter. Can you explain the circumstances of this, Cindy Corrie?
CINDY CORRIE: Yes. You know, during the course of the last seven years, our family visited nearly every congressional office, my extended family. And, of course, many constituents brought Rachel's case before congressional members when we were trying to get a resolution passed for an American investigation, HCR 111. But we visited every congressional office. So President Obama's office as senator was visited by members of our family also.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you meet with him?
CINDY CORRIE: We have--we talked--Craig asked questions of Obama during the Iowa campaign season. We were in Atlantic, Iowa when he was speaking there. And he knew about Rachel's case.
AMY GOODMAN: Before, then, I ask about Biden, OK, Craig, what did you ask--
CRAIG CORRIE: Well, actually, it's a pretty--
AMY GOODMAN: --President-to-be Obama?
CRAIG CORRIE: Yeah, it was strange, because we were in Atlantic, Iowa, so western part of Iowa, farmland, huge farmland. We're in county fairgrounds in a cow barn. And I'm sitting on a fence behind the crowd, and the President-to-be Obama is actually asking people for questions, and he called on me.
And so, I ask a very easy question, because I just simply said I have friends in Palestine whose homes are being destroyed, whose farms are being taken from them by the Israelis, with no compensation. And I also have--and it's true--I have Israeli friends who have lost family members in suicide bombings and stuff. So what could he do to protect the farms of my friends in Palestine and also assure my friends in Israel that there wouldn't be any more suicide bombings? And then I told him why I was interested in the case and about Rachel's killing there. And he recognized the name Rachel Corrie. He was familiar with that without an aide or his wife or somebody explaining it to him.
And so, he went on about five minutes talking about what was necessary, and essentially a two-state solution is what he said, for that and giving his commitment to a viable, contiguous state of Palestine alongside a state of Israel, living in peace and dignity and having a future for their people. So it was pretty much a standard US stated foreign policy, not actually the foreign policy we often pursue and enforce, but what we state, and a pretty good answer. And he went on, like I say, for about five minutes. It was very personal.
AMY GOODMAN: So back to Joe Biden. Talk about the questioning--
CINDY CORRIE: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: --that he did of the--
CINDY CORRIE: Well, it was also during the Iowa campaign, with my Iowa family members. Rachel's case was brought to his attention in quite a large way. He was asked repeatedly about her case. And he did become interested. He finally said he wanted to see what was going on. And we know--we have copies of questions that he then submitted to Ambassador-Designate--the American ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, who now is the Israeli ambassador, questions that he asked about Rachel's case. He asked about what had been done in the State Department and in the embassy in Tel Aviv to pursue a thorough, credible and transparent investigation. And he also asked whether or not they thought that there had been a thorough, credible and transparent investigation. Clearly, getting this is important to officials in the US government.
AMY GOODMAN: And what did James Cunningham answer?
CINDY CORRIE: He laid out the steps that had been taken in pursuit of a transparent investigation and the communications that have occurred between the Department of State and Israel about the case and indicated that they have continued to ask the Israelis to answer questions and to comply with a thorough, credible and transparent investigation.
The communication--one communication that he cited was when Mora Hardy from the State Department went to raise some issues about it, a trip that she made. And we, in a follow-up to that, had a communication from Michelle Bernier-Toth in the State Department, who said that they continue to ask questions and that their questions go either unanswered or ignored by the Israeli government. And what the ambassador assured Biden was that he would continue personally to make sure that a thorough, credible and transparent investigation was pursued. And that was during his--during confirmation in 2008.
AMY GOODMAN: Will you try to meet with Vice President Biden in Israel?
CINDY CORRIE: I think it would be really helpful to us if we could, just to let him know--
AMY GOODMAN: The significance of--
CINDY CORRIE: --the status of it and the significance of it.
AMY GOODMAN: What would be the significance of him showing up in court?
CINDY CORRIE: I don't think we're asking for him to show up in court. But I think what we're wanting--and I know our officials have to walk a very careful line. They can't appear to be interfering at all in a court process. But I think what we know is that this has continued to be a problem and a matter that US officials do care about. And I think that his meeting with us--and others there, as well, could do that. We do have an invitation to meet with the ambassador. And I think they're sending that message that this remains a concern to the US government and that they wish to see a fair trial
AMY GOODMAN: Cindy Corrie, on the trial that begins today in Haifa in the Corrie family's lawsuit against Israel over the death of their daughter Rachel, a twenty-three-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington. We'll be back with the conclusion of the conversation in a minute.
AMY GOODMAN: We return now to the final part of my interview with the family of Rachel Corrie, as their civil lawsuit against Israel goes to court today, suing Israel for the unlawful death of their daughter Rachel. Rachel's father Craig Corrie explained the importance of American officials showing interest in the case.
CRAIG CORRIE: When we're talking about US officials and US government showing some interest in this case, Congressman Brian Baird, who is our congressman and was the congressman for Rachel when she was killed--and it was his office that we were right after Rachel was killed. He has now written a letter to the judge and is asking that he be able to testify in the case, come to Israel overnight, but he needs that to be--him to be heard on either Sunday the 21st or Monday the 22nd, because, of course, there are votes in Congress and all that. But it's pretty amazing to me that a US congressman would be willing to take a redeye to Israel, come and testify, and then pop back onto a redeye back to Washington, DC. And, you know, my thanks go out to the congressman. I hope he's allowed to do that. But his willingness to do it is just flooring to me.
AMY GOODMAN: It's very interesting. He also went to Gaza, right?
CINDY CORRIE: He did.
AMY GOODMAN: Along with Keith Ellison, the congressman.
CRAIG CORRIE: Three times ago. He just got back, actually, a couple of weeks ago from his third trip to Gaza. And so, you can see, with him, because he's somebody that we now have, you know, had personal contact with over a number of years. And he got there and saw, you know, worse than what Rachel saw, but he got there and saw it, and it was, as his chief of staff said, life-changing. And you can see that in what he writes and says about it.
AMY GOODMAN: You'll also be there as Tristan Anderson continues to, well, undergo rehabilitation. He's in a very serious state, the American citizen who was photographing protests, who was shot by the Israelis. Will you be visiting him? Did you know him?
CINDY CORRIE: We didn't know Tristan Anderson. Craig and I were in Cairo last year on March 14th, just two days before the sixth anniversary of Rachel's killing, when we got word about what had happened to Tristan.
AMY GOODMAN: And what exactly happened?
CINDY CORRIE: He was shot with a high-velocity tear gas canister when he was at a demonstration, I believe in Nil'in village. And he has been, you know, in treatment ever since. Very, very seriously injured. I don't know the status. I hope--we have talked to his parents, and my understanding is that there are still family members there. I know Tristan is still there, and we hope to be able to connect with him when we're in Israel.
But one of the connections, I think, about accountability for Rachel that I hope others will make is to what's happened to nonviolent human rights observers and activists, Palestinian, Israeli and international, in the West Bank and elsewhere. There's been an assault on these people. And it continues. We have friends from--Palestinian friends who were--that we met at demonstrations or we met in Israel in the West Bank, who have made the decision to nonviolently resist what's happening to their villages with their land being taken, because they believe that's the best path for their children. And some of those people have been imprisoned in the past year because of their activity in nonviolent efforts. And I think we have to challenge that, and I hope people will be making the connections between what happened to Rachel and that issue.
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: I'd just quickly like to point out--
AMY GOODMAN: Sarah?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: One of my frustrations in all the work that we did in Congress was that I think we thought, in the initial days after Rachel was killed, if the US government took a very strong stance against her killing, that perhaps it would have given some more protection to the others--I mean, to US citizens that are traveling in that region. And what we know is that shortly after Rachel was killed, Tom Hurndall, who was a British peace activist, was killed in the same two-mile stretch of Rafah, Gaza. Then there was James Miller, who was a British reporter that was also shot and killed in that same two-mile stretch. On the US side, we had Brian Avery in the West Bank, who was severely injured when he was shot in the face by the IDF. And now we have Tristan Anderson. And some of the frustration was that if there was accountability in Rachel's case, I wonder how many of those other cases would not have happened.
I do like to point out that in the case of the British citizens, that the British government took a very strong stance against those killings. In the case of Tom Hurndall, they actually managed to get a criminal conviction. And much of that came by the work of the family and the work of the UK government to put pressure on Israel to do a credible investigation. In the case of James Miller, that criminal process did not occur. It was very similar to our case. They closed the case without bringing charges. But the British government continued to push so that there would be basically a damages claim. I believe that it was about $2.4 or $2.5 million to that family. And I don't think it's about the dollar figure, but it's about saying that there was something very wrong that went on in that case. Iain Hook was another British citizen that they did not get--he was killed, as well, and they did not get a criminal conviction in that case. But again, that damages claim does say that the [UK] government believed that there should be accountability in that case.
And I just think that the US government certainly has the ability to push for the rights of their citizens and the safety of their citizens as hard as the UK government does. And I think both President Obama and Vice President Biden would understand that and want to make sure that the safety of the US citizens that are traveling in Gaza and the West Bank is the highest priority, when we're over there.
AMY GOODMAN: The anniversary of Rachel's death will be taking place in the midst of the trial. Trial begins March 10th. Her death occurred on March 16th. What are you calling on people to do?
CINDY CORRIE: We're calling on people to be visible on March 16th, calling for accountability in Rachel's case, but also making the linkages between accountability for her and the lack of accountability that's occurred in--particularly with Gaza, with what happened in Operation Cast Lead in December of 2008 and January of 2009, but really for all of the acts of violence against Palestinians and others in the Occupied Territories.
And we're also calling for attention to the assault on nonviolent human rights observers and activists that continues in various ways. There are Palestinians, now a growing number of Palestinians, who have died in nonviolent protests to the wall in the West Bank. People can find their names, I think, by going to the International Solidarity Movement website.
AMY GOODMAN: The separation wall.
CINDY CORRIE: The separation wall. And sometimes I read the list of those names. Palestinians resist nonviolently in many different ways. But this is in nonviolent protest to the wall.
And also, I think it's important for people to make the link between our ability to access the Israeli courts and the fact that Palestinians have really little opportunity to do that. We understand that currently Palestinians who want to operate in the courts or to take their cases to the courts have to put a bond forward of something between twenty and fifty thousand dollars in order to bring a suit. And this is, of course, very prohibitive to them to be able to do that.
B'Tselem and Human Rights Watch and other organizations have talked about the impunity that the Israeli military enjoys because of lack of accountability through the courts and in other ways. And I hope that people will be visible to say, "We've had enough of this," and to call for accountability for Rachel, but to link it to these other larger issues.
CRAIG CORRIE: Amy, one other very specific thing that people could do, and I'm calling for people to do--the US government has come out against the blockade or the continued occupation and siege on Gaza. The children that were behind the wall that Rachel stood in front of are still under a state of siege. And I think that, very specifically, people around the world and certainly in this country could write, call or fax the White House and say, not only should we be working to have the Israelis lift that siege, but if they continue to be unwilling to do so, then the United States should come in there, work out a way that they could come in and--the Berlin airlift, it sent a message to the world about our ability to protect people around the world and our willingness to do so. If we did something similar by sea to the Gaza Strip, it would change the view of Americans around the world for maybe another fifty years. It is something that's doable, and it's something that the people out, your fans, could actually physically do and ask the White House to do that.
AMY GOODMAN: I don't know who wants to take this on, but what did happen to your daughter on March 16th? What do you understand happened?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: My understanding of the case--
AMY GOODMAN: Sarah?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: --you know, after looking at all the evidence that I have seen--and in particular, there's an IDF video. It's a still camera that was out on the border that day that filmed the area that Rachel and the activists were in. It did not actually film the incident of her killing. The camera, at the time that she was killed, just happened to pan towards the Egypt border and was focused on the Egypt border away from where Rachel was at the time, and then, after she was hit, quickly panned back around to where she was. And I've looked at that video in second-by-second detail, painstakingly trying to figure out exactly what was going on. After looking at that and other evidence, I am very confident that the bulldozer driver and operator knew that Rachel was in front of that bulldozer as it began to move forward towards her. We know that they did not see Rachel leave that visibility field, because of course she was hit and injured. So she did never leave that visibility.
AMY GOODMAN: What she was wearing?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: She was wearing a red vest, like what you would see a flagger on the side of the road wear, so very obvious red reflective vest. And one of the things was, when I first got that copy of that IDF videotape, the US government requested that tape. It came in very grainy black-and-white footage. Since that time, more recently, an Israeli reporter was able to obtain a color copy of that film. And when you see that color copy, the red vest--there was another activist who was wearing a red vest, as well, and he's on the scene--it stands out, remarkably, in that color film. There's no doubt that she would have been visible wearing that vest.
I want to point out about the color copy of the tape, too. In the black-and-white version, it actually does show Rachel standing on the scene prior to her being killed. We know from testimony that the scene that she's--the place that she's shown on that video, she actually walks forward slightly, I think about twenty to thirty yards, and she's actually hit and killed about about twenty and thirty yards in front of where she's seen on that black-and-white tape. But when the color copy showed up, amazingly, that point at which Rachel was still alive and could be seen, that portion of the tape wasn't provided to the reporter. It was cut out.
So there is this feeling, when I look at that, that there's a great attempt to try to depict that Rachel couldn't be seen on the scene that day. But why aren't we given the whole copy of the tape? Why wasn't our US government given the color version of that tape when they repeatedly asked to have the audio transmissions of the bulldozer drivers in their headquarters, as well as the videotape sent to the US government on behalf of our family.
AMY GOODMAN: Are you hoping to get that in this trial?
SARAH CORRIE SIMPSON: We already had the discovery process, and we have not been given any further tape. So, at this time, I'm not confident that that would come forth.
AMY GOODMAN: Is that a violation, Cindy, of the judicial process in Israel that, in discovery, you're not getting what you're asking for, if it exists?
CINDY CORRIE: Well, I believe that it is. We have asked for the evidence that's available. And the videotape has been controversial from the beginning. You know, part of it is that the first stories that we got from the Israeli government--I think the first one was that Ed McKeon, who was in the American embassy, said he was told initially that a wall fell on Rachel from a home demolition. And then the story went to "No, we weren't doing any demolitions that day." And then a PowerPoint, taken from this video, was circulated through the United States Congress and shows a picture of the bulldozer with a high mound of earth and says here's--puts an X where Rachel's body was and says, "See, she couldn't be seen." What we know through--and have been speaking about for some time--through Sarah's analysis, is that that wasn't the bulldozer that hit Rachel. There were two bulldozers in the area that day. Each of them had two people inside. There was an armored personnel carrier there, as well, that was supposed to also be looking at what was happening in the area. But the photo that was circulated to the members of the United States Congress to say to them, from the Israeli officials to the US Congress, "See, she couldn't be seen," is false. And so, there's been a repeated effort that we've seen through the years to provide misinformation.
AMY GOODMAN: Rachel's parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, and her sister, Sarah Corrie Simpson, on their quest for the truth and accountability for the death of Rachel Corrie. The civil trial begins today in Haifa, Israel. Rachel was killed seven years ago, on March 16th, 2003.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Some games are bigger than others, no matter how many times a coach tells you they all count for one. This one doesn't. It's worth at least 1.4. It's Florida-LSU, Tigers vs. Gators, Albert vs. Mike, corn dogs vs. jorts, Cajuns vs. Crackers.
Who: No. 17 Florida (4-1) at No. 10 LSU (5-1)
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It's big no matter how you slice it, and if you do slice it, serve it with red beans and rice because we are in Baton Rouge.
The sights and sounds of the parking lot are as good as it gets, a combination of country music, Zydeco and shrimp boils, all attacking the senses.
Florida-LSU has always been special to me because of the great memories this game has produced.
Heck, I can remember sitting in my living room in the Carol Estates subdivision of northeast Gainesville listening to Florida pull off a huge upset over LSU in 1964.
The game had been postponed to the end of the season because of a hurricane. For some reason, I remember it being cold in Gainesville that night. Or maybe I just had too much ice cream.
Earlier this season, I questioned whether Florida-Tennessee was truly a rivalry game for the Gators anymore. At the same time, I would submit that Florida-LSU is a rivalry game.
In fact, I think it's the most underrated rivalry game in college football.
When bloggers or hacks or talking heads are putting together their lists of the best rivalries in college football, they don't even consider this one.
They don't think outside the box, in part because the two schools have so many other games that could be considered rivalries.
But I would make the argument that it doesn't get much better or bigger than Florida-LSU.
Now, Steve Spurrier almost ruined it by winning 11 of 12 games against the Tigers. But even that was filled with acrimony and intensity.
Remember when LSU beat Florida in 1997 and the Tiger assistants were making fun of Spurrier by referring to him as "Shiny Pants" because of the pants he wore in the USFL?
Spurrier got his revenge by winning the next four times against LSU by a combined score of 138-44. But it was after he departed that the rivalry really got cranked up.
And for Generation LOL, all that matters is what has happened in the last decade or since Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.
For me, a rivalry game has to have certain elements.
It has to have history and this one is teeming with it. If you have 20 minutes, I'll tell you where I was sitting during the downpour in the '72 game and why it ended in a 3-3 tie. It'd take an hour to explain the Tigers getting five fourth-down plays in 2007. The 1989 game? That's an all-day sucker.
Les Miles' call for the fake field goal. Tim Tebow's jump pass. Percy Harvin's catch and run.
To be a legitimate rivalry, the visiting team has to win sometimes. Over the last 12 years, the home team is 6-6. From 1980-86, the home team never won. That's what I call a rivalry.
Maybe this rivalry doesn't have the hatred that some others do. It has been my experience that the losing team rarely complains to talk shows about the winning team. Instead, they usually pound their own coach for his shortcomings.
But is there a rivalry game with as much talent on the field?
In the last 12 years, there have been 144 NFL Draft picks playing for the two teams. Last year's game alone saw 17 draftees battling it out.
Maybe you had to be growing up in the 1970s to appreciate this as a rivalry. Maybe it's not one. Maybe it's just another big game. This is the SEC where every week matters.
But I do know this — only once in my life have I ever walked into a stadium knowing that Florida could not win.
That was two years ago at LSU. The score was simply a sidebar. During the following week, an assistant at LSU called Will Muschamp and told him that he had let the LSU staff know that they'd better enjoy the win because Muschamp would get the Gators back to where they needed to be.
A year later, Florida won a tough, physical game that turned on an instant replay review.
The rivalry was back.
And it will be there today.
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