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Ron Paul: UN Undermines Sovereignty
US Presidential candidate Ron Paul has said the Palestinian drive for statehood highlights how the United Nations undermines the sovereignty of independent nations, and the US should realign its foreign policy to one that puts its interests first.
In the latest edition of his weekly Texas Straight Talk newsletter, Paul tackles the thorny issue of Palestinian statehood by looking at it from the Jeffersonian perspective of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
"We can no longer bribe the Israelis and Palestinians to continue an endless 'peace process' that goes nowhere," the Texas Republican congressman writes. "It is not in our interest to hector the Palestinians or the Israelis, or to 'export' democracy to the region but reject it when people vote the 'wrong' way."
In addition to being at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with its 1947 Partition Plan, Paul writes the world governing body also threatens American sovereignty and economic well-being, moving from its original intention as "an international forum to preserve peace" to one that provides "political and legal cover for the military aspirations of interventionists."
"Under the sovereignty-destroying doctrine of 'Responsibility to Protect,' adopted at the 2005 World Summit, the UN takes it upon itself to intervene in internal conflicts of its member states whenever it believes that human rights are being violated." Paul writes. "Thus under 'Responsibility to Protect,' the UN provides the green light for a kind of global no-knock raid on any sovereign country."
"Personally I wish the United States would de-recognize the United Nations," he writes, noting how every year he has introduced legislation calling for an end to US membership in the UN.
Paul advises the Palestinians to steer clear of the United Nations, noting that recognition by the international governing body is no guarantee of sovereignty. It has been used as cover to attack other UN members that fall out of favor with American administrations, such as Iraq and Libya.
The congressman's comments come as the UN Security Council prepares to consider Palestine's application for membership later this afternoon. President Obama has said Palestinian statehood should result not from a unilateral bid at the world body, but from negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. The US has vowed to use its veto power in the Security Council to block recognition of the Palestinian territory as an independent nation.
But Paul said the United States should not block Palestine's application, even though he doesn't see Palestinian membership as a "particularly productive move."
"I believe in self-determination of peoples and I recognize that peoples may wish to pursue statehood by different means," Paul writes.
"As we saw after the Cold War, numerous new states were born out of the ruins of the USSR as the various old Soviet Republics decided that smaller states were preferable to an enormous and oppressive multi-national conglomerate."
"The real, pro-US solution to the problems in the Middle East is for us to end all foreign aid, stop arming foreign countries, encourage peaceful diplomatic resolutions to conflicts, and disengage militarily," he writes.


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The FIFA World Cup Finals are an international football tournament held every four years. The first World Cup, played in 1930, had only thirteen participants - from North and South America and Europe - as many European teams refused to travel to Uruguay for the tournament. The 2002 finals will involve 32 national teams, from all around the world.
From 1934 and 1978, sixteen teams participated in each tournament*. Between 1982 and 1994, twenty-four teams took part in the finals, and from 1998, thirty-two teams.
The format used in the tournament has varied over the years: a round robin among all of the teams, a single elimination tournament, and a mixture of the two types have all been used. Currently, the format is to split the 32 teams into eight groups of four teams. Each group will play round robin once, and the top two teams from each group advance to the second round. The second round starts a single elimination tournament among the remaining sixteen teams.
The 2002 World Cup Finals will be the first co-hosted by two countries - Japan and South Korea - instead of being held in a single country. Since 1938, the host nation has been awarded a place in the Finals without having to qualify. Likewise, the defending champion from the previous Finals is automatically qualified; as France won the 1998 Finals played in France, it received this boon for the 2002 tournament.
No national team has won the World Cup more times than Brazil's, which has won it four times - in 1958, 1962, 1970, and 1994.
*There were no Finals in 1942 or 1946, and only 13 teams participated in 1950.
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Place 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh butter in a saucepan and add 4 anchovy fillets. Smash anchovies into the butter and allow butter to foam, then draw away from heat and mix anchovies well into butter. Add chives, parsley, oregano leaves and blanched almonds to anchovy butter. Moisten with white wine and marsala. Bring to a boil.
Place soles on a warmed serving dish slightly overlapping them, and nap with the sauce.
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Celebrate Easter with classic brunch and dinner recipes, like this perfect glazed ham.


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Two zoning issues will be on the agenda at the next monthly meeting of the East Torresdale Civic Association at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10, at the Liberty Evangelical Free Church, Linden Avenue and Milnor Street.
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Labor Day is past and that means many civic associations throughout the Northeast will resume their general meeting schedules. The meetings are free and open to the public.


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'Tis the Season to Make Holiday Plans
Every year around this time I see an article about the need to enjoy the summer yet also start to think about the back-to-school and holiday seasons. This year it's me bringing you this friendly reminder. It really is time to prepare for the revenue that search engine marketing can drive in these upcoming back-to-school and holiday seasons.
Though it wouldn't be unnatural to think about search - at least paid search - as being the perfect medium for a last-minute plan, such a thought process will cost you in terms of lost revenue and increased expenses.
If, by chance, you are completely new to SEM, you need to build some history before the busy season. No paid search campaign is as successful on day one as it is on day 30, or 60, etc. Right now is the perfect time to figure out which product and keyword categories provide the important combination of volume and profitable transactions.
With Google's quality score, which measures historical clickthrough rate as a function of your ranking and click price, and Yahoo's pending launch of a similar scoring system, it is of further importance that you build a history now. This is so that later in the year when the market is flooded with seasonal advertisers, you will have a cost advantage.
Also, you will know which keyword categories perform very well (and call for unlimited budget as long as they stay profitable), which have average performance (and likely will perform much better during the back-to-school and/or holiday season) and which just won't perform at all (and deserve minimal, if any, budget).
As you think about what keyword categories make the most sense for your paid search efforts, ensure that you also test various promotional creative messages and landing pages.
If your company is like most, you have at least a few weeks lead time for new creative and landing pages. Get out ahead of this schedule, develop a few conceptual options and get them into development. Then, come September, you'll be testing and learning instead of waiting for creative you wish you had.
Though the time is getting close, it's not yet too late to capture additional organic search traffic (the non-paid search results found in the main body of the engines) as well.
Depending on the size and architecture of your Web site, fixing all organic search-listing roadblocks may not be possible. However, at a minimum, starting a search engine optimization process now can result in increased search placements for a few of your most important pages and perhaps the new ones you are building with targeted promotional messages.
Whether the back-to-school and/or the holiday seasons are big times of year for your business or whether you leverage other seasonal/promotional efforts, it is important that you involve your search marketing team - in-house or outsourced with an agency - to maximize your return from these initiatives.
Your promotional efforts will drive search behavior, so start planning now in the summer months and enjoy the benefits in the busy seasons ahead.


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The integration with Concur delivers ensures high quality customer data and allows you to create a single data standard across your company, across the world… decreasing costs and implementation time. The real-time data integration will provide your company access to HCP and HCO licensure information required for transparency reporting while increasing data quality by eliminating manual data entry.
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Personality seems to be a huge driving force behind this Nashville wedding shot by Scobey Photography. Everything from the fun paper goods to the vibrant florals and the charming tablescapes screams personality. It's Southern BBQ fused with traditional Indian elements and eclectic bits and bobbles and it's all coming together for a wildly good looking affair.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
By Gary R. Rasberry
Defense carries Blue Jays past 'Riders
DELPHOS - Both St. Marys and St. John's brought plenty of defense to their matchup on Monday night, but a slight drop off by the Roughriders allowed the Blue Jays to extend a lead and come away with a 39-23 win at Robert A. Arnzen Gymnasium in Delphos.
The loss is the first of the season for St. Marys (3-1) while the Blue Jays, the Division III state runners-up from last year, improve to 4-1.
The first half was a solid defensive half. The Blue Jays led 9-8 after the first quarter and were only ahead 13-11 at the half. The teams were a combined 8-of-30 shooting (26.7 percent).
"We weren't unhappy with our first-half effort," said St. Marys coach Tim Niekamp, "I felt we defended (St. John's) well. We struggled a bit offensively and were a bit methodical."
"Both teams' defense was kind of taking away any offensive flow that you could get," said Blue Jays coach Dan Grothouse. "Even when you thought you had some offensive flow, the shots weren't going down for either team."
St. Marys tied the game to start the second half on a Emily Shellabarger bucket with 6:21 left in the quarter, but it would be just over 51/2 minutes before the Roughriders would add points to their side of the scoreboard.
That allowed the Blue Jays to step up. Sarah Clark put St. John's up for good with a three-pointer with 5:36 left. Then after a trading of scoreless possessions, Clark drove the lane, got fouled and made the bucket. The conversion of the old-fashioned three-point play made it 19-13.
"We were fortunate in the second half to make a little bit of a run," said Grothouse. "We got a big three out of Sarah, then got another big shot. ... That was kind of our intention, in the second half, maybe to get down low to Lindsay Reindel to see if we could put pressure on their big kids."
Zefiryn Bryan added a bucket with 3:21 to make it 21-13 before Shellabarger snapped the Roughriders' cold spell with 1:47 left in the quarter, but six points was all the closer the Roughriders would get the rest of the day.
"We knew what we wanted to do in the second half. We knew how we wanted to execute, where we wanted to get the ball. We just couldn't get it done," said Niekamp. "Delphos played strong defense, but we didn't help ourselves with our spacing and our cutting and our screening. I was just very disappointed in our execution that second half, offensively."
Bryan paced the Blue Jays with 12 points while Clark added 11 points and seven rebounds.
Shellabarger was the only Roughrider in double figures with 12 and Erika Thornsberry added seven points.
St. Marys hosts Bath in Western Buckeye League action on Thursday while St. John's remains at Arnzen Gymnasium to host St. Henry in Midwest Athletic Conference action.
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Brandy Murry's Interactive Text made this one fun to do. Here's a photo of our DGD swimming in the giant fish tank at the Florida Aquarium last August. TFL
O M W! I love this layout - great job!
This looks so cool. Love that photo and how you used the interactive text. Love it!
WOW! Are you taking layout pills? This is a great!!!!! layout. The colors are so pretty and I love it!
Fantastic photo. I love how the font enhances the large photo and its not cluttered with anything else. Great page.
Wow, this is wonderful Diane - what a totally neat photo - so cool that you took it. Beautiful background blending and wonderful journaling and text - I'd say you learned well from that tutorial. Super layout.
Great and very appealing!
I love those interactive text layouts!! They are what I used forth
P52 last year... You did a wonderful job here! I love the fonts you used, especially that big flourishing F in fishes!! The photo is wonderful... This is such a great page :-)
P52 last year... You did a wonderful job here! I love the fonts you used, especially that big flourishing F in fishes!! The photo is wonderful... This is such a great page :-)
Great photo, and great journaling. I really like the font styles also.
Awesome photo Diane! I love those Interactive templates too. Need to dig them out and use again. You did a wonderful job with this. Very striking layout.
Amazing work. Professional. What a great photo and the interactive text is inspired. This could be a poster ad for the facility. I'd love to hear what they would say if you showed it to them.


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When I saw trailers for this film, I assumed this would be a silly movie. Akiva Schaffer, one of the current writers of Saturday Night Live, is at the helm of this film and that was enough to interest me in seeing this zany movie about a goofy Evil Knievel wannabe stuntman making jumps on a moped bike. So I anticipated having fun at the screening, but I was disappointed.
Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) is a dim-witted stuntman in this farce who leads a crew of losers. In his rural community, neighbors encourage him to perform hazardous leaps over large objects, trucks, and swimming pools which he fails to do in every attempt. His motivation is to gain the respect of his stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) who enjoys kicking his butt everyday. Ian McShane gives a genuine performance as an intimidating head of household. This routine of fighting with Frank continues until the day Frank has a heart attack. Without Frank around to fight with, Rod loses his motivation. Rod decides to raise money for Frank's medical treatment by jumping 15 buses. Bringing a healthy Frank home will restore Rod's motivation and daily fights for respect. As stupid as the plot sounds, it should be funny.
It is a fact that the jokes and gags in this movie are absurd. Many scenes of the dorky stuntman running into barriers can be compared to another SNL star, Adam Sandler, in The Waterboy. The film seems to carry the same type of comedy themes seen in SNL skits. The star of the movie, Andy Samberg, is an SNL cast member and his co-star Jorma Taccone, who plays Kevin (Rod's younger stepbrother), is an SNL writer. Apparently an SNL sensibility has heavily influenced the script. The jokes are there, but those same jokes are taken one step too far, making some of them outrageously ridiculous.
The wacky supporting cast did their best with a weak script. Isla Fisher's character is Denise, Rod's next door neighbor and love interest. She's a good actress and the fiancee of Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat. Sissy Spacek as Rod's mother was a waste of good talent. Bill Hader, Danny R. McBride, Will Arnett, and Chris Parnell supplied some humor, but the dialogue was too far over the top to be good.
This slapstick comedy tried to give a gift-wrapped ending to Rod the Nerd by making him a hero, but in my mind it did not make a difference. This movie resulted in nonsense and a waste of time.
Directed by: Akiva Schaffer
Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Release date: August 3, 2007
Genre: Action, Comedy and Romance
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffThis review of a meh album brought to you by your reviewer of meh. "Nabataea": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBpXBbO6o9k
Burning sun? Well I hope so or else we are in trouble. Great Review by the way.
damn didnt even know these fuckers were still rockin
Why did you have to ruin this album for me Irving. I was sure i was going to love it.
Album Rating: 3.0Ever since Kiske and Kai left the band, this band is meh, save for the The Dark Ride album. Will dive into the text later. Judging only from several YouTube links for this record, it indeed lies somewhere between 3-3.5(tops). Edit: Excellent review, mindpos.
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Album Rating: 3.3Excellent review. I think I feel the same way. Metal is getting off to a bad start. Flotsam&Jetsam and Voivod both seem a little underwhelming too.
Digging: Believer - 1 of 5
Album Rating: 3.0Did you listen to the new Voivod album Trey?
Album Rating: 3.3Only once... so, it's kind of a snap-judgement.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffInterested in trying out that new Voivod album, actually. Will see if I can find a proper download when I get off this rig haha.
Good avatar Trey. Didn't know you were a Tangled fan. Irving, I am disappointed in you. Why can't you just review stuff you think is 4 and above?
yeah i wont be listenin to this
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffIrving, I am disappointed in you. Why can't you just review stuff you think is 4 and above? T.T
Album Rating: 3.3
Interested in trying out that new Voivod album, actually. Will see if I can find a proper download when I get off this rig haha.
Good avatar Trey. Didn't know you were a Tangled fan.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffYes, I'd like it very much please =) That being said, I'm currently working on an offshore rig and might not be able to actually get around to reviewing for another week and a half. So, um, yeah. I'll try my best to be your second, but um, no promises hahaha.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffI am, actually. REVIEW IT WILLIE. NAO.
Album Rating: 3.3Review the Tangled movie?
Nah, the score.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffNice reading. Low expectations, but will check this out.
Nice review, ecstatic to see you writing more. And yes, please review the Tangled soundtrack. I just made reference yesterday to the floating lantern scene with regards to date ideas if I ever take Taylor Swift out.
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Whimsical and high-concept, and featuring a standout performance from our new boyfriend Jérémie Elkaïm, who has just won Best Actor at the Rome Film Festival for this role (clearly the jury was crushin' on him too), "Hand in Hand" ("Main dans la Main") is a gentle, quirky take on the mystical and somewhat random power of attraction and love. By contrast with the artifice of the other French rom-com we reviewed in Rome, "Populaire," writer-director (and supporting star and Elkaïm's wife) Valérie Donzelli's lightness of touch evokes more the sensibility of a loved-up Miranda July in its attention to off-kilter but grounded detail. Or maybe it's just that lead actress, well-respected French thesp Valérie Lemercier, also excellent, here reminds us of July. It's the hair. Whatever the case, the film bubbles along nicely, with our two appealing leads bringing nuance to an idea that in the wrong hands could have become cutesy (we'll leave that for the bound-to-happen Reese-Witherspoon-starring U.S. remake), right until even that magic wears off and the film runs out of steam with about 15 unnecessary minutes to go.
The premise is simple and sweet: unambitious mirror-maker Joachim Elkaïm, who also co-writes) and successful dance school impresario Vero (Lemercier) meet, inexplicably kiss, and from that point on neither can physically leave the other's side. This despite the fact that they are not in love, and in fact Vero is in a stable relationship of an undefined but certainly long-term variety, with another woman, Helene. Confusion, exasperation, physical comedy and doctor's visits ensue before the two of them work out a way to simply live with their peculiar condition, explaining it only to those very close to them (who react with incredulity at first that gradually thaws into acceptance), and finding more or less ingenious ways to cover it up elsewhere. And soon, though methods of 'escape' occur to each of them, they find themselves coming to relish their unique closeness — to love the cage.
When it works, it works really well, and because of the superb performance from both leads and a script which downplays rather than amps up the oddness of their affliction, the gradual, oddly prosaic love story is believable despite the 'supernatural' circumstances. But as so often with this kind of high concept ("Stranger Than Fiction" occurs to us as another example), the quirky premise can't quite work out how to play itself out. At that point the film resorts to deus-ex-machina tactics to explain away the logic gaps but still enable the happy ending that it's somehow mandatory this sort of thing concludes with.
The result is an ending that is not bad, exactly, but it just doesn't feel a part of what has gone before. All the good work of grounding the film is lost in favor of a fantasy conclusion that, despite the unbelievability of a lot of what has led up to it, is the only part of the film we couldn't swallow. Their final dance should be a moment of stirring, sweet grace and is instead the one occasion when the two leads don't seem to have chemistry. Transplanted away from the milieu in which the rest of the film took place, the closing scenes play out in a weirdly downbeat fashion, for what is essentially a wish-fulfillment ending.
We can't believe "Hand in Hand" won't get a Stateside release of some sort, as it's a very sellable (to indie-land) melding of offbeat sensibility, Parisian fantasy and straight-up romantic comedy that we can imagine playing well in arthouse theaters. And dodgy ending aside, we'd recommend it, for the lovely Parisian-ness of the characters' lifestyles, for the charming simplicity of its premise and most of all, for the arrival of the exceptionally attractive Elkaïm. If we didn't call it before, after Donzelli's last, "Declaration of War," or last year's "Polisse," we call it here and now: he's going to be a star. [B]


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text: Facebook Brings Back the Old "Most Recent" News Feed Option (But It's Kind of Hidden)Whitson Gordon11/09/11 4:30pmFiled to: UpdatesFacebooknews feedSocial NetworkingSocial29EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkFacebook recently changed its layout, no longer allowing you to choose between "top stories" and "most recent" stories. Due to user outcry, however, they announced today that they'll be changing it back, though you might not notice it at first. Here's how it works. AdvertisementThe news feed is keeping its divided news feed, with one category of stories on top and another on the bottom, though with this new update, you can choose which stores show up at the top of your feed. If you want to see more recent stores rather than what Facebook considers "top" stories, just hit the teeny tiny "Sort" button in the upper right-hand corner of your news feed and choose "Recent Stories First".The changes are rolling out gradually, as they always do, so if you don't see the new button yet, keep an eye on Facebook every few days. Hit the link to read more.AdvertisementInteresting News, Any Time You Visit | Facebook Blog You can contact Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page. Reply29 repliesLeave a reply


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Prepare for success in the classroom! Corresponding to the chapters in the 8th edition of Lewis' market-leading text Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, this study guide offers a complete review of content and a wide range of activities to help you understand key nursing concepts. Alternate item format questions reflect the most current NCLEX test plan. To make studying easier, answers for all exercises are included in the back of the book.
Medical-Surgical Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
Section One: Concepts in Nursing Practice
1. Contemporary Nursing Practice
2. Health Disparities and Culturally Competent Care
3. Health History and Physical Examination
4. Patient and Caregiver Teaching
5. Chronic Illness and Older Adults
6. Community-Based Nursing and Home Care
7. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
8. Stress and Stress Management
9. Sleep and Sleep Disorders
10. Pain
11. Palliative Care at End of Life
12. Addictive Behaviors
Section Two: Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Disease
13. Inflammation and Wound Healing
14. Genetics, Altered Immune Responses, and Transplantation
15. Infection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
16. Cancer
17. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances
Section Three: Perioperative Care
18. Nursing Management: Preoperative Care
19. Nursing Management: Intraoperative Care
20. Nursing Management: Postoperative Care
Section Four: Problems Related to Altered Sensory Input
21. Nursing Assessment: Visual and Auditory Systems
22. Nursing Management: Visual and Auditory Problems
23. Nursing Assessment: Integumentary System
24. Nursing Management: Integumentary Problems
25. Nursing Management: Burns
Section Five: Problems of Oxygenation: Ventilation
26. Nursing Assessment: Respiratory System
27. Nursing Management: Upper Respiratory Problems
28. Nursing Management: Lower Respiratory Problems
29. Nursing Management: Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
Section Six: Problems of Oxygenation: Transport
30. Nursing Assessment: Hematologic System
31. Nursing Management: Hematologic Problems
Section Seven: Problems of Oxygenation: Perfusion
32. Nursing Assessment: Cardiovascular System
33. Nursing Management: Hypertension
34. Nursing Management: Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome
35. Nursing Management: Heart Failure
36. Nursing Management: Dysrhythmias
37. Nursing Management: Inflammatory and Structural Heart Disorders
38. Nursing Management: Vascular Disorders
Section Eight: Problems of Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, and Elimination
39. Nursing Assessment: Gastrointestinal System
40. Nursing Management: Nutritional Problems
41. Nursing Management: Obesity
42. Nursing Management: Upper Gastrointestinal Problems
43. Nursing Management: Lower Gastrointestinal Problems
44. Nursing Management: Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract Problems
Section Nine: Problems of Urinary Function
45. Nursing Assessment: Urinary System
46. Nursing Management: Renal and Urologic Problems
47. Nursing Management: Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease
Section Ten: Problems Related to Regulatory and Reproductive Mechanisms
48. Nursing Assessment: Endocrine System
49. Nursing Management: Diabetes Mellitus
50. Nursing Management: Endocrine Problems
51. Nursing Assessment: Reproductive System
52. Nursing Management: Breast Disorders
53. Nursing Management: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
54. Nursing Management: Female Reproductive Problems
55. Nursing Management: Male Reproductive Problems
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Jose Alonso Najera Jr. Convicted of Murdering His Parents to Get Their Life Savings
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Jose Alonso Najera, Jr., the Garden Grove man we told you last month was on trial for allegedly murdering his parents in a plot to steal money they pulled out of the bank before Y2K, was convicted today.
The Orange County Register has the scoop from inside the courtroom today.
The stocky 29-year-old reportedly sat silently with tears welling in his eyes as the six-man, siz-woman jury announced Najera was guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his father, second-degree murder in the slaying of his mother and special circumstances for multiple murders and murder for financial gain.
He could get life in prison without the possibility of parole at his June 28 sentencing.
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Then 19-year-old Najera called police around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 28, 1999, to report he had come home to find his parents, Elena and Jose Najera Sr., dead on the floor of their Garden Grove home.
Police determined the couple was stabbed to death, and investigators linked DNA from hair and saliva in a ski mask found at the crime scene to one of Junior's high school chums, Gerald Thomas Johnson, now 29, who in 2002 was convicted of double-murder and sentenced to life in prison. [Correction: Johnson died in prison in 2008; authorities said he committed suicide.]
A review of the case and additional investigation led to Najera also being charged with the murders in a plot to steal his parents' life savings, which they had withdrawn from the bank in anticipation of a Y2K disaster and placed in a safe deposit box, which their son could access.
The jury agreed that Najera plotted with Johnson to have his parents snuffed out. He left a window of his home open so Johnson could enter the night of the killings.
Najera then went to Johnson's house to wait out the dirty deed. Several friends of both killers were invited over to give them an alibi. But as the party raged on, Johnson slipped out, drove over to the Najera home and stabbed the mother and father more than 20 times each.
During the couple's struggle to survive, Johnson's ski mask was pulled off. He left it behind. It would be his--and his conniving friend's--undoing.
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Editorial: Obama's deficit in statesmanship
How the mighty have fallen. In a poll last week by Quinnipiac University, a plurality of voters declared President Obama the worst man to hold the highest office in the land since World War II.
That's a decidedly ignominious distinction considering the failings – real or perceived – of several of the presidents that preceded Mr. Obama.
George W. Bush steered the nation into two separate wars, producing nearly 5,300 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq and costing American taxpayers more than $4 trillion.
Bill Clinton disgraced himself by having an adulterous affair with a White House intern young enough to be his daughter, which contributed to his dishonor of being the second president in U.S. history to be impeached.
Jimmy Carter is remembered for his impotence in securing the release of 52 American diplomats and others held hostage 444 days by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, and for presiding over the worst economy since the Great Depression.
Richard Nixon was brought down by the Watergate scandal, becoming the only president to resign from office.
Yet none of those former presidents is held in as low esteem as the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Indeed, 53 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Mr. Obama's job performance; 54 percent say his administration is incompetent in running the government, and a 45 percent plurality said the county would be better off if Mitt Romney was in the White House.
So what explains the precipitous decline in the president's standing? Well, we think it attributable in no small part to Mr. Obama's almost complete lack of statesmanship.
Yes, we understand the president's frustration that his second-term agenda hasn't gotten much traction on Capitol Hill, where the House is in the hands of Republicans.
But it's almost as if Mr. Obama expected the House GOP to rubber-stamp his proposals as House Democrats during 2009-10, when they passed the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with next to no Republican support.
Now Mr. Obama finds he needs he needs the support of at least some members of the loyal opposition to get legislation passed – like immigration reform. But the president has not bargained with House Republican leaders.
Instead, he has tried to bend House Republicans to his will by demagoguing those who differ with him on such policies as climate change – as he did during his politicized UC Irvine commencement speech – and by threatening to bypass the duly elected representatives of more than half the electorate by issuing executive orders and directives.
Mssrs. Bush, Cinton, Carter, Nixon and other of Mr. Obama's predecessors may have left some presidential traits to be desired. But, arguably, none were less statesmanlike than the nation's current chief executive.
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People who have an eating disorder often become preoccupied with negative thoughts about themselves. It is often hard for them to think healthy or balanced thoughts. Although it is impossible to stop all negative thoughts, you can reduce these thoughts with a few simple techniques.
- Remember that your goal is to feel better with each passing day. Ask someone you trust to remind you of that when you are feeling hopeless.
- Every day make one encouraging statement to yourself. For example, say to yourself, "Every day, I am taking better care of myself and my body."
- Remind yourself that you can do this. Say to yourself, "I am a capable person."
- Distract yourself for awhile. Play with your pet, write a "thinking-of-you" note to a friend, listen to an empowering song, or imagine putting your negative thoughts in a box and sealing it shut.
- Accept the thought as your experience, knowing that your thinking took some time to form this pattern. It will take some time to learn to think in a different way. Try mindfulness-based stress reduction to help you with accepting difficult situations and experiences or negative thoughts and feelings.
- Spend time with other people. Get to know them. Do not spend time repeating negative things to yourself.
- Make a list of your accomplishments, such as things you have recently learned, things you have recently done that were hard for you, or things you have changed about yourself.
- Make plans to do something you have been wanting to do, such as visit a new store or see a certain movie.
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TrainingPeaks software solutions will enable IRONMAN athletes to achieve their goals by allowing them to track, analyze and plan their training.
TAMPA, Fla. (May 1, 2013) – IRONMAN is proud to announce TrainingPeaks as the Official Training Software of IRONMAN®. For the next four years, TrainingPeaks will offer its complete web, desktop and mobile tracking, analyzing, and planning system to all IRONMAN triathlon participants to help them achieve their goals - whether it's to complete their first triathlon, or qualify for the IRONMAN® World Championship.
"This sponsorship with IRONMAN has been a long time coming - thousands of our customers already compete in IRONMAN events every year," said TrainingPeaks CEO Gear Fisher. "TrainingPeaks is the ideal software for IRONMAN athletes to track all their training, nutrition and metrics."
"We congratulate every IRONMAN registrant for setting a goal when they sign up for a race - but we know that the hard part is the journey that lies ahead. The long hours on the road, the early morning swim sessions, and just staying motivated to get out there every day is a huge commitment. Most IRONMAN participants are working with a limited amount of time to train. Our technology enables athletes to navigate the entire journey successfully through guidance and accountability. It's a proven system that works - that's why we're so excited to roll it out to all IRONMAN participants. We can help in the process from the moment they commit to this life-changing goal."
Through the sponsorship, all IRONMAN, IRONMAN 70.3® and 5150™ registrants will have the option to get a free basic TrainingPeaks account where they can log their workouts and perform analysis of their training data.
"Our partnership with TrainingPeaks allows us the ability to provide athletes with a full training resource that will assist them in their journey from registration to race day," said Andrew Messick, Chief Executive Officer for World Triathlon Corporation (d/b/a IRONMAN). "We embrace the relationship ahead with TrainingPeaks as we endeavor to improve the athlete experience."
TrainingPeaks will also perform race-day data analysis from some of the top IRONMAN pros for major events, including the IRONMAN World Championship, IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship. Dirk Friel, co-founder and Chief Evangelist at TrainingPeaks said, "We want to use power, heart rate and GPS data from the pros and other age groupers to show all athletes how to race successfully for their own events - as well as educate the general public about the sport." TrainingPeaks analyses will also be featured on IRONMAN Live webcasts.
TrainingPeaks and IRONMAN are officially launching the sponsorship at the IRONMAN 70.3 St. George triathlon on Saturday, May 4, with a kick-off party the preceding Thursday evening to be attended by media, industry and pros, including three-time IRONMAN World Champion Craig Alexander. Alexander himself has used TrainingPeaks to track, analyze and plan his training since 2010. "TrainingPeaks is at the leading edge of science and training, and I have found nothing else compares," said Alexander.
Along with the kick-off event Thursday, TrainingPeaks will be exhibiting at the St. George expo and performing live, race-day power analysis from the top professional athletes. The full analysis, including infographics and screenshots will be available at TrainingPeaks.com/StGeorge as well as IRONMAN Live.
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The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. They were named for the abundant California sea lion and harbor seal populations in the Bay Area.
Early history[edit]
Along with the Los Angeles Angels, Portland Beavers, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, and Seattle Indians, the Seals were charter members of the Pacific Coast League, which was founded in 1903. The team played their home games at Recreation Park at Harrison and 8th Streets until it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
The mild climate of the west coast allowed the PCL to play a much longer season than the major leagues and the other eastern professional baseball leagues. Seasons often ran 200 games or more, especially in the early years. In the 1905 season, the Seals set the all-time PCL record by playing 230 games (Pacific Coast Baseball League Record Book 1903–1969, compiled by William J. Weiss, League Statistician; published by the PCL, 1969; p. 30).
The Seals finished the 1906 season playing home games at Freeman's Park in Oakland. A new Recreation Park was constructed at 14th and Valencia Streets for the 1907 season. The Seals won their first PCL pennant in 1909, finishing 13 1⁄2 games over the runner-up Portland Beavers. They won flags also in 1915, 1917, 1922, 1923 and 1925.
During the 1914 season, the Sacramento Solons were moved to San Francisco, where they finished out the season playing as the San Francisco Missions, representing the city's Mission District. The idea of a second team in San Francisco remained alive and, after the 1925 season, the Vernon Tigers were purchased by a group headed by San Francisco businessman Herbert Fleishhacker and moved to San Francisco and renamed the Mission Reds or simply the "Missions", again representing the Mission District as this team played their games five blocks from Mission San Francisco de Asís. From 1926 through 1930, they played their home games at Recreation Park, playing at home while the Seals were on the road.
In 1918, financially strapped owner Henry Berry put the San Francisco Seals up for sale and Charles H. Strub, George Alfred (Alfie) Putnam and Charles H. Graham each acquired a one-third share in the team.
In 1931, the Seals moved to their own park, Seals Stadium, an 18,600-seat facility located at 16th and Bryant Streets. Seals Stadium was unusual in that it boasted three clubhouses: one for the visitors, one for the Seals, and one for the Missions, who moved there with the Seals and were the Seals' tenants from 1931 through 1937, after which the team moved back to Los Angeles to become the Hollywood Stars in 1938.
There were three breweries on the adjoining northwest corners of Seals Stadium, which included Hamm's, Budweiser and Lucky Lager.
The Seals celebrated their inaugural year in Seals Stadium by winning the PCL pennant in 1931. The following year, Seals outfielder Vince DiMaggio arranged a tryout for his younger brother Joe. In 1933, Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 61 straight games,[1] a harbinger of his 56-game hitting streak for the New York Yankees in 1941. The team won the pennant again in 1935.
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In 1945, a controlling interest in the team was purchased by businessman Paul Fagan, with the stated intention of bringing Major League Baseball to the west coast by having the Pacific Coast League becoming the nation's third major league. He spent thousands of dollars upgrading Seals Stadium to perceived major league standards. He hired former major league player Lefty O'Doul, a native San Franciscan and fan favorite, as manager. Though the Seals won the pennant in 1946, subsequent teams under Fagan's watch did not fare as well, typically finishing in the second division. Rival clubs did not buy into Fagan's major league ambitions. Rather, they established working agreements with major league teams, and fared better than did the independent Seals.
Fagan gave up his aspirations and sold his interest in the Seals, who became an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. After their Bay Area rival, the Oakland Oaks, moved to Vancouver after the 1955 season, the Seals won their last PCL pennant in 1957, which proved to be their final season. During the 1957 season, the New York Giants announced their move to San Francisco for the 1958 season, and the Seals were forced to relocate.
The Seals moved to Phoenix, Arizona for the 1958 season. They became a minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, and they were renamed the Phoenix Giants. The franchise then moved to Tacoma, Washington, where they played from 1960 to 1965, returning to Phoenix for the 1966 season. The team remained in Phoenix until MLB expanded in 1998 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. This forced another move of the former Seals franchise. In a complicated deal the franchise became the Tucson Sidewinders, displacing the existing Tucson Toros, affiliated with the Diamondbacks. The Giants' affiliation was transferred to the displaced Tucson AAA franchise, which became today's Fresno Grizzlies. In 2009, the Tucson Sidewinders franchise moved to Reno, Nevada. They retained their affiliation with the Arizona Diamondbacks as the Reno Aces, and play their home games at Aces Ballpark. The Tucson Toros returned under the same ownership as the Sidewinders, but they are not affiliated with a major league club. The new Toros play their home games at Hi Corbett Field.
The Giants played their home games at Seals Stadium in 1958 and 1959, moving to Candlestick Park in 1960. Seals Stadium was subsequently torn down to make way for a White Front store. When this chain of stores went out of business, the building stayed empty for some years. It was finally turned into a car dealership and later a Safeway grocery store. The legacy of the Seals lives on in the Giants' mascot Lou Seal, as well as in a statue of the Seals' cartoon mascot (c. 1947) at AT&T Park, and with a marker on the 16th & Bryant sidewalk placed where Seals Stadium home plate stood.
The Seals were largely independent of major league farm systems except for the following affiliations:
Year | Affiliation(s) |
1936; 1945 | New York Giants |
1942 | Brooklyn Dodgers |
1951 | New York Yankees |
1956–57 | Boston Red Sox |
Notable alumni[edit]
- Harry Feldman, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Frank Crosetti, Major League Baseball infielder
- Joe DiMaggio, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Vernon Gomez, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dominic DiMaggio, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Jack Mealey (born 1899), minor league baseball catcher, who also managed in the minor leagues and served as president of the Sooner State League
- Gene Woodling, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Elmer Orella (b.4/15/1921 d. 2/15/2012), a left-handed pitcher for the Seals under O'Doul from 1944–1946
- Frank Bodie, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Vince DiMaggio, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Gus Suhr, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Earl Averill, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Lefty O'Doul, Major League Baseball outfielder & pitcher
- Albie Pearson, 1958 AL Rookie of the Year & 1963 All-Star, outfielder
- Babe Pinelli, Major League Baseball infielder and Major League Umpire
- ^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p. 210, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- Kelley, Brent P.. The San Francisco Seals, 1946–1957. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995. ISBN 0-7864-1188-0.
- O'Neal, Bill. The Pacific Coast League 1903–1988. Eakin Press, Austin TX, 1990. ISBN 0-89015-776-6.
- Snelling, Dennis. The Pacific Coast League: A Statistical History, 1903–1957 McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995. ISBN 0-7864-0045-5.
External links[edit]
- Minor League Baseball's "Top 100 Teams" entry on the 1925 San Francisco Seals (team #10)
- Minor League Baseball's "Top 100 Teams" entry on the 1922 San Francisco Seals (team #44)
- Minor League Baseball's "Top 100 Teams" entry on the 1928 San Francisco Seals (team #50)
- Minor League Baseball's "Top 100 Teams" entry on the 1909 San Francisco Seals (team #71)
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I have been so busy trying to get client pieces done and Christmas shopping, I keep forgetting to post my tree! This is at the shop, I went around just finding things all over to decorate it with! Let's play "I SPY" Look all over and tell me some thing you SPY on the tree!!
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I'll send you some of my own money so you can buy gifts.
I'll send you some of my own money so you can buy gifts.
I think either food or gifts is a higher priority than moving tickets. Everyone should have 2 moving tickets to get to Korea already, right?
And I dont think it would hurt us at all to use FSDP.
Do I need to click something or does it just add to my balance?
It should automatically go into your currency.
I think there's a medium grain deposit at my location. I could start with that. I think that for the time being we will have to run the company's like normal company's though.. Since we can't really fight yet etc.
I donated a small amount of gold that you have to convert first ;)
Alright, got level seven now.
Ok.. So do i start with a grain factory? I'd like to know now because i have to go to bed in a bit.
A little harsh but a lot true.
You can start with a grain company, build up a stockpile of grain, and then make a bread company next time you have enough gold.
Wait, what does fighting have to do with the running of the company?
What shall i name it? FSDP Grain #1 ?
No i meant that we don't really have a MU that we can support right now.
imoo we need a weapons company more than a food one, we can buy food from lituania and undercut that nob in korea but weapons are roughly the same in both areas
True but weapons don't give more xp. Food does.
Ministry of Plenty
(our mu should be called the Ministry of Peace)
(and our newspaper the Ministry of Truth)
Name it whatever you want :) In both the czech and eSK, it was called the Islamic Grain Company however, easily recognizable by FPers and its fun. I would avoid naming it FSDP grain though. Politics and food shouldnt mix too much, unless its a welfare program.
And I see what you meant now.
Just got done fighting. I have 175/200 xp.
The first FP company is a fact! It's name is Glorious grains and it is located in north chungcheongcheun..etcetc
I'm just going to open job applications for the time being. If you are an FP'er and you want to work at our company just give me a sign and i will make place for you.
Anyone willing to donate an equivalent of 2.88 KRW? Gotta get dat food
We can't work slave wages unless we have a cheap source of food. It makes more sense to start with a food company.
I say we send our level 7 gold to Scientist so he can make the food company ASAP.
also we could make a company in korea and recruit the population which would rally support for us
we could easily go over the current wages provided (up to 6 KRW but 1 LTL = a bit less that 2 KRW's) so we would get cheap labour AND support
He should get a buttload of gold tomorrow or the day after. I think it should be ok.
That is a possiblity. At this rate it won't be needed though. A lot of people should reach level 7 today.
Damnit monkey! Why you ninja my words!
Level 7
Congratulations monkey!
Also people, vote on stuff once you hit 7. You get XP for voting.
I'm sorry if the loans are currently low. I don't know how much i need to quite at the moment. Please bare with it untill i know what to expect!
And the first employee and therefore employee of the month is Carnage222!
Joined up and my name is Mr Anderson.
I think the loans are decent for Korean standards though. If i notice the gain is a lot higher than the loss i will upgrade the incomes!
Come work in my company if you are in Korea!
Level 7, also it seems countries are giving Korea its land back.
Or some Indonesian group is trying to free it, I dunno.
Anoying Portuguese guy is immediatly reacting to my higher than usual checks and is raising his. (Hey.. It's good for the economy though! )
Last thing you said is correct. For some reasons indonesians are killing indonesians. Fine with me!
They've persuaded Indonesia to give back a region that has no resources and barely any people in it.
The high diamonds region in Jeolla is too much of a gem for them to give up.
It seems LTL is getting stronger against the gold, so if someone buy buttloads of gold today and waits for a week or so and then makes that gold back into LTL they will make buttloads of profit, pr optional to the size of the butt
you know what would be cool in e-sim? the space race
should i leave my current job with gives me 11 korean won to join the fp one or stay with this one and earn lots of money?
I'm refreshing the Korean Jobs market page to view the wage changes in realtime.
This is fucking comical watching him squirm.
So I now have 7 gold, what should I do with it?
Join the FP one. You might miss a day of xp depending on how things play out but soon we should have a system where you can buy food very cheaply in a Korean market or it gets hand delivered to you.
I'm in SK, should I join a party or something? I'm not exactly sure what to do right now, I'm level 4. Send me some invites, Dexanemus.
And what do I do after my daily food limit has reached? My salary is only 6.01 KRW and I spent that food, which I ate. so I've got none left, do I just fight and wait for the next ingame day? Also, how long does each in game day take?
Wait until the other people catch up to level 7. We need to know if the extra gold will be necessary to make more companies.
On that note I think it will be alright if we plant our Diamond company in Jeolla, despite the Indonesian occupiers. Since there is a "rightful owner" mechanic the company should still be labeled as Korean. Could be wrong about that though :\
Apparently the Portuguese guy has been playing since Day 2. I'm sure his monopoly getting busted by a rabid entrepreneurial newbie really rustled his jimmies.
if a region falls do the companies in it survive?
Sent the 7 golds scientist's way


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Sadat, Carter, Begin, in 1979 after signing of peace treaty..(Photo by: TAL SHABTAI/GPO)
Peace with Cairo: 35 years of hopes, lost opportunities – and an uncertain future
By ZVI MAZEL
Should Sisi be elected as is generally assumed, he will have to decide whether to go along with the cold peace or to take the bold decision to promote cooperation with Israel for the greater benefit of both countries.
The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt turned 35 last month.
On the one hand it has weathered a succession of crises, on the other it never brought about the hoped for development in the relations between the two countries, let alone between Israel and the Arab world. In fact it led to Egypt being expelled from the Arab League, which transferred its seat from Cairo to Tunis.
The Egyptian establishment did not embrace the peace with open arms: then-foreign minister Ismail Fahmy – coincidentally the father of today's foreign minister Nabil Fahmy – resigned in protest. And the people of Egypt never warmed to their Israeli neighbors. Relations were carried out at the governmental level. During his long rule, president Hosni Mubarak never tried to overcome the psychological, cultural and religious obstacles blocking the path to closer contacts.
And yet economic, cultural and scientific cooperation would have ensured stability in the region as well as progress and better living conditions; it would have been a magnet for foreign investments and technology to the great benefit of both countries. It might ultimately have brought other Arab countries to change their minds about Israel. Judging from recently published documents regarding the negotiations between Egyptians and Israelis in the years 1977-1979, this is precisely what president Anwar Sadat intended. "We have to find ways to show that we are more than good friends; our two peoples and our two religions have much in common," he is quoted as saying.
Mubarak, who became president after having seen Sadat assassinated in October 1981, never tried to do more than "keep the peace as it was" – promoting relations with the United States while limiting contacts with Israel, leading to what became known as "the cold peace." He was not in favor of large-scale economic and industrial cooperation but did let two major projects go through: the construction of an oil refinery in Alexandria and supplying natural gas to Israel. However important these two projects, conducted jointly by Egyptian and Israeli companies, were, they had nothing to do with the everyday life of the Egyptians and did not contribute to normalization between the countries.
This could be the reason they no longer exist. The refinery was sold to Kuwaiti interests; the gas supply was halted after the Sinai pipeline was blown up 14 times after the fall of Mubarak, while the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces vainly attempted to prevent the attacks. By that time supplying gas to Israel was seen by many as some form of the hated normalization, with Egypt being better off without it.
Mubarak's main preoccupation had been to restore ties with the Arab League – and not to pursue Sadat's vision, which might have led the League to be the one to ask Egypt to come back. The League did eventually let it back into the fold in 1989, having been convinced that peace with Israel was being kept to a minimum.
Mubarak could boast that Egypt had "resumed its rightful place in the Arab world" – but it did nothing for the economic and social development of the country. Ultimately the lack of development was to bring him down after 30 years of a regime which had shown itself as barren as it had been hitherto stable.
The peace did have one outstanding success – in the field of agriculture. Thanks to the determination of Yusef Wali, a devout Muslim who was minister of agriculture and who believed in rapprochement between the two religions, there was unprecedented cooperation with Israel in the '80s and '90s. Israel let Egypt benefit from its state of the art techniques in drip irrigation and growing fruit and vegetables on desert soils. Experts were dispatched to Egypt, model farms set up and thousands of young Egyptians went to Kibbutz Bror Hayil, near Sderot, to learn advanced agricultural techniques. The result was nothing short of a revolution.
Egypt became almost self-sufficient in fruits and vegetables.
Yet this all important cooperation was done with the utmost discretion, not to say secrecy, because it contradicted the policy of the cold peace and was bitterly opposed by the Wafd party, the Left party (Tagammu), the Islamic establishment and the Muslim Brotherhood. They all accused Israel of "poisoning Egyptian soil through drip irrigation" and selling contaminated fertilizers to Egyptian farmers.
Following the revolution that overthrew Mubarak, Wali, was jailed for alleged corruption.
Nevertheless this cold peace held fast through two intifadas, two wars in Lebanon and two major conflicts with Hamas.
Egypt recalled its ambassadors three times to mark its displeasure but did not go any further.
Though Cairo is committed to the Palestinian cause, it understands that the Palestinian conflict has embroiled the country in five wars with Israel with no discernible results. The fact is that even the Muslim Brothers did not try during their short rule to break off diplomatic ties with Israel; they even send a new ambassador to Tel Aviv (he was recalled during the IDF's Pillar of Defense operation against Hamas in Gaza). This being said, they would probably have recalled the ambassador once they had established the Islamic dictatorship they were diligently fostering.
What will happen now? Egyptians are tired of chaos after three years of mass demonstrations, an economy spiraling out of control and growing insecurity. A majority of them are putting their hopes in Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the new strongman of Egypt and the leading candidate in the presidential elections to be held at the end of May. Sisi knows, however, that their trust is not limitless. Should he fail to redress the economy within a year or two, or try to establish a new military dictatorship, he could very well find himself in the same situation as Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi.
Israel is not an issue right now. The cold peace goes on.
However, both countries are cooperating in the fight against Islamic terror, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, and against Hamas attempts at destabilizing Egypt. They exchange vital intelligence; Israel has let Egypt move more troops into Sinai than the peace treaty allowed for.
Should Sisi be elected as is generally assumed, he will have to decide whether to go along with the cold peace as before or to take the difficult and bold decision to promote cooperation with Israel for the greater benefit of both countries.
The writer, a fellow of The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is a former ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden.
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Some homeowners might be starting to notice flooding on their properties. This is thanks to the extra water accumulation the spring thaw brings, not to mention those April showers. When pools of water start to gather in sections of your back or front yard, is this something you need to worry about? Absolutely.
Why should we worry? Because pooling or flooding on your property means there's a grading problem. If it's serious, you'll get water coming into the basement. It can come in through the foundation, window wells or window frames, if it isn't taken care of.
And if it's not serious now, it won't be long before it does become a high priority. All you need is one heavy storm, and that's it. You can have major flooding and water seeping into your basement.
If you do notice water pooling on your property, you need to keep an eye out for signs of moisture in your home. Look for things like water stains or a musty scent in the basement. Moisture problems lead to a whole different can of worms: mould, rot, and poor indoor air quality. And unfortunately, the fix is rarely cheap.
Proper grading is essential. It's a strategy to protect the longevity of your home by managing the water around it. If the ground around your home slopes toward it or is completely flat, you're going to have grading problems. You must have a minimum five-degree slope away from your home, on all sides. What's a five-degree slope? If you measure six feet away from the foundation, the ground should be three inches lower than the ground next to the house.
Having a five-degree slope prevents water from pooling around your foundation. You can have the most watertight foundation, but you never want it in an environment with a lot of water. Remember, concrete isn't waterproof. That means it doesn't matter how water tight a foundation might be; if water is there long enough, it's going to get in.
If water gets into a home's exterior or concrete and freezes, it starts to deteriorate the materials and compromise the structure. A home constructed the right way draws water away from the home. And grading does that for you.
Proper grading directs the flow of surface water away from any building's foundation, including your neighbours'. Some people don't realize it, but grading is sensitive. Playing with the grading around your home doesn't just affect your own property; it can affect your neighbours', too. Grading problems have been at the root of more than a few neighbourly disputes, which doesn't surprise me: The threat of water damage can shake up any homeowner.
So who decides the grading on your property? It's usually a joint effort between the original builder and the city. In most cases, new residential lots must now have a grading plan submitted by the builder. This plan is reviewed by the city, which later decides if it approves it or not.
The builder is responsible for final lot grading. A provincial land surveyor is responsible for verifying everything is in working order. But it's the homeowner's responsibility to maintain the proper grading around the property, and that's where things can start to go wrong.
A lot of homeowners don't know they can't mess around or change their properties' grading. They'll do landscaping, add sod, raise the ground level in one place, and lower it in another. All of this changes the slope the property needs to have if it's going to drain surface water it's supposed to. If these changes affect other properties, it can even escalate to a civil matter.
What does it take to maintain the grade? You have to make sure that any landscaping you have done doesn't affect the drainage around the property. That includes not blocking easements or swales. These are drainage channels that direct storm water away from the house. Just planting a tree in the wrong place can block these channels. You need to be careful. Most of us can't afford to get it wrong.
When we add things like gardens along foundation walls, fences, swimming pools, walkways, decks and patios, there's a strong chance you'll interfere with the land's ability to properly drain surface water. And when that happens, guess on whose shoulders it falls to correct it? The homeowner's. It's up to you to find the right professional to make it right . . . and pick up the tab.
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No, probably not, but this is a ridiculous hypothetical and doesn't prove anything. I dress to be happy with how I present myself to others, not necessarily because they will like how I dress (they usually don't).
If I was the only person living I'd have bigger issues than dressing well.
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At least not in my opinion. My buddy did the same thing when we were in high school about 6 or 7 years ago. Booted up in Linux, copied the SAM file over, cracked it at home. Did it a few times until we found one that the administrator account had logged into. He was never caught until the end of the year because we decided to pull a prank and change the standard wallpaper for all the student accounts to this http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7629/gib.png.
He was caught because as it turns out, the system was setup to capture screenshots of anyone logged in every 10 seconds, combined with the fact that he signed in to the library to use the computer, they were able to catch him. I don't think they ever found out about changing some grades, but I'm not sure about that.