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The War of 1812: Items from the Collections
of the Massachusetts Historical Society
The Massachusetts Historical Society has a rich collection of materials relating to the War of 1812, as it was the first major military conflict that the United States was involved in after the Society's founding in 1791.
Even after the formal conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in which the United States gained its independence from Great Britain, there continued to be constant antagonism by the British over such activities as trade, impressment, and American efforts to expand across its own territories.
The War of 1812 began on 18 June 1812 and continued until early in 1815. Fought on land and sea, the war stretched both armies from Canada down to New Orleans and beyond. The young American Navy, especially, displayed impressive might and resolve against their much larger and seasoned British counterparts.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, the Society presents the following selection of broadsides, letters, and artifacts.
Capture of the British Frigate Gurriere [sic] by the U.S. Frigate Constitution ...
The Strong Fast, or, Hypocrisy in the Suds: a Hymn for the Occasion
Bloody News!: General Hull, and the British Frigate Guerier [sic] taken Plummer ...
A Happy New-Year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the President and Congress ...
Brilliant Naval Victory: Yankee Perry Better than old English Cider
Letter from Joseph Forrest to French Forrest, 22 September 1813
Surgeon's kit used by William Swift, MD, U.S.N., during the war of 1812
"Three Wise Men of Gotham Went to Sea in a Bowl": A Trip to Washington City: ...
Letter from John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 December 1814
Peace on Honorable Terms to America
A New Song on the Causes--Beginning, Events--End & Consequences of the Late ...
Exhibition: 18 June - 8 September 2012
Beginning on 18 June 2012, the Massachusetts Historical Society will present an exhibition entitled, "Mr. Madison's War": The Controversial War of 1812. Many New Englanders were bitterly opposed to the war. Some maintained trade with Canada and willingly furnished supplies to the blockading British navy. In 1814, men from Massachusetts joined delegates from other New England states to discuss secession at the Hartford Convention. This exhibition will close on 8 September 2012.
Bicentennial of the War of 1812
Beginning in April 2012 and continuing through 2015, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard will commemorate the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 and The Star Spangled Banner. Please visit the website, Bicentennial of the War of 1812 to see a list of events, partners, educational activies, and clear historical information (including a timeline and links to historical resources). The Massachusetts Historical Society is pleased to be included on the web page, The War of 1812: Historical Resources.


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Hudson Institute Releases Quarterly Survey of Economics Bloggers
27 Apr, 2012, 08:06 ET
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pessimism marks the attitudes of top economics bloggers in a new quarterly survey conducted over the last 48 hours by Dr. Tim Kane at Hudson Institute. Three of four respondents describe the U.S. economy as "mixed," while the same number think it is "facing recession" as believe it is "strong with uncertain growth." Worse, only 6 percent of respondents believe the economy is "better than official government statistics show," while 33 percent think it is worse.
"After nearly three years of seeing how ahead of the curve this disorganized group is, I'd match their insights and wisdom against anyone," said Kane. "The beauty of the economics blogging community is its ideological diversity, where a majority of bloggers favor fighting inequality in the United States while at the same time mocking the gimmicky 'Buffet Rule.' What really should catch our attention is the long-term skepticism the bloggers have about a strong or easy recovery, particularly in Europe."
Research highlights include:
- Over the next three years, bloggers do anticipate mild growth in U.S. output, employment, and labor force participation. On the other hand, more respondents than not see higher budget deficits and more poverty over the next three years as well.
- Bloggers anticipate a recession in 2012 as most likely in the Eurozone, followed closely by Argentina, with four other economies far less likely (the United States, China, Japan, and developing economies).
- Policy recommendations of the bloggers for the United States tend to favor defense cuts, doing more to reduce inequality, and allowing states to set their own minimum wages. Most tax reforms were panned by the group, notably the "Buffet Rule" which was opposed by 59 percent of respondents (with more strong opposition than any other policy). Adopting a flat tax or a value-added tax were also unpopular ideas, though the group did generally endorse capping tax deductions and credits per household.
- Jeff Miller (A Dash of Insight) asked a question about Federal Reserve policy. A surprisingly large majority of economics bloggers believe the presidential election slightly affects monetary policy by shaping perceptions of the economy.
- One question asked bloggers to identify the partisan voting on 9 key pieces of legislation over the last 12 years. Every one of the four major pieces of legislation advanced under President Barack Obama were ranked as sharply more partisan than the five major pieces of legislation advanced under President George W. Bush.
Haiku on Taxes Submitted by Economics Bloggers
Continuing a tradition recommended by technology blogger Robert X. Cringely, the group submitted a series of haiku. This quarter, the haiku deal with the issue of taxes in celebration of April 17th when federal taxes were due. Entries include:
A thousand plum trees, They drag their broken branches. No water till you bloom!
Noni Mausa (Angry Bear)
crazy tax language crazy lying candidates see the connection?
David Zetland (Aguanomics)
democracy is a dance not an abstraction. make institutions.
Steve Waldman (interfluidity)
Emancipation Day and Sunday, Two Extra Days to Stall that Check
David Tufte (voluntaryXchange)
If AUMF Was truly bipartisan Bad economics rules
Ken Houghton (Angry Bear)
Mayans off a year. In twenty-thirteen cometh the Taxmageddon.
Will Franklin (WILLisms.com)
Missing Pulitzer No Prize winner for fiction? Try US budget!
Jeff Miller (A Dash of Insight)
Our problems abound in a culture divided. Demographic pain.
Doug Short (dshort - Advisor Perspectives)
Seriously, though When will the top 1% Ever catch a break?
Ryan Avent (Free Exchange)
Sleeping dog, China Yuan and dollar intertwined Better let him lie
Wade Roush (Xconomy)
Taxmaggedon looms. The time for reform draws near. Broad base and low rates.
Donald Marron (dmarron.com)
Washington DC Popes Selling Indulgences Good Business Models
Arnold Kling (EconLog)
Way too much spending Makes debt crisis even worse Future doom assured
Craig Eyermann (Political Calculations)
Threats beyond the wall But they play a game of thrones Winter is coming
Eli Dourado (elidourado.com)
Progressives taxes. Can they ever be simple? Can the rain be dry?
Tim Kane (Hudson Institute)
Hudson Institute is a nonpartisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis promoting security, prosperity, and freedom. http://www.hudson.org
For more information, please contact:
James Bologna: 202-974-6456, [email protected]
SOURCE Hudson Institute

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Intel has ported Google's Android mobile operating system to smartphones based on its Atom microprocessors, an Intel executive said Tuesday.
Intel already has Android running on Atom-based smartphones and certain customers are interested in using it, said Renee James, general manager of Intel's software and services group, on the sidelines of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing. She did not provide further details of the project.
"Intel is enabling all OSes for Atom phones," James said.
The move is part of Intel's aim to further drive its Atom microprocessors into smartphones, a market dominated by chips from Arm Holdings. Software has to be made specifically for the architecture of a microprocessor. Intel builds chips on the x86 architecture, while Arm chips are based on RISC (reduced instruction set computer).
Google originally designed Android to be used on common mobile phone processors made with Arm technology, but since Android is open-source software, other companies have changed it so it can be used with other chips.
Acer, the world's second-largest PC vendor, ported Android to netbooks based on Atom microprocessors last year. MIPS Technologies, which sells its own chips based on the MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) architecture, ported Android for use in a range of devices that use MIPS chips, including set-top boxes, digital picture frames and home media centers.


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The Indian navy is prepared to deploy vessels to the South China Sea to protect India's oil interests there, the navy chief said on Monday amid growing international fears over the potential for naval clashes in the disputed region.
India has sparred diplomatically with China in the past over its gas and oil exploration block off the coast of Vietnam. China claims virtually the entire mineral-rich South China Sea and has stepped up its military presence there. Other nations such as Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia have competing claims.
Indian state-run explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has a stake in a gas field in the Nam Con Son basin, off Vietnam's south coast.
Indian Navy Chief Admiral D.K Joshi said while India was not a claimant in the dispute over territorial rights in the South China Sea, it was prepared to act, if necessary, to protect its maritime and economic interests in the region.
"When the requirement is there, for example, in situations where our country's interests are involved, for example ONGC ... we will be required to go there and we are prepared for that," Joshi told a news conference.
"Now, are we preparing for it? Are we having exercises of that nature? The short answer is yes," he said.
He described the modernisation of China's navy as "truly impressive" and acknowledged that it was a source of major concern for India.
Any display of naval assertiveness by India in the South China Sea would likely fuel concern that the navies of the two rapidly growing Asian giants could be on a collision course as they seek to protect trade routes and lock in the supply of coal, minerals and other raw material from foreign sources.
"It is one of the most important international waterways and freedom of navigation there is an issue of utmost concern to India because a large portion of India's trade is through the South China Sea," said Brahma Chellaney, analyst at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Chellaney, however, played down Joshi's comments, saying the Indian navy's focus would remain on the Indian Ocean, which the Asian nation views as its strategic backyard.
In September 2011, an Indian warship sailing in the South China Sea to the Vietnamese port of Haiphong was challenged when a caller identifying himself as an official of the Chinese navy warned the ship on an open radio channel that it was entering Chinese waters.
Nothing happened, the ship sailed on, and both India and China have since played down the incident, with New Delhi saying the vessel was well within international waters in the South China Sea and that there was no confrontation.
China's neighbours are fretting about a recent Chinese media report on new rules that will allow police in the southern Chinese province of Hainan to board and seize control of foreign ships which "illegally enter" its waters from Jan. 1.
The Philippines on Saturday condemned the Chinese plan as illegal and Singapore, home to the world's second-busiest container port, said on Monday it was concerned.
Asked about the report of China's plan to board ships, Joshi said India had the right to self-defence.
Estimates for proven and undiscovered oil reserves in the South China Sea range as high as 213 billion barrels of oil, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a 2008 report. That would surpass every country's proven oil reserves except Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, according to the BP Statistical Review.
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This olive green seed bead necklace is very pretty. The green is a muted olive green. It could be layered with others or worn alone. Very nice! The necklace will be made to order and is available in many different lengths, from short to extra-long. I hand string these tiny seed beads on beading wire and finish them with an antique brass or sterling silver lobster clasp and ring. This is a single strand necklace, but the longer lengths can be wrapped.
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Single Strand Made to Order Lengths
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Strung on Beading Wire
Arrives thoughtfully packaged in a signature kraft jewelry box
Handmade in Texas
NOTES ABOUT CHOOSING LENGTH: I measure the length from end to end including the clasp. The 35" is shown in the photos above. The 35" length will wrap 5 times to make a bracelet. It will wrap twice around your neck but it will be short, about 17". If you want it to wrap twice around your neck and be longer, then you will need to order 45" length or above. For example, the 45" will wrap twice around your neck and will be two strands about 22" long. The best way to decide what length you want is to cut a piece of yarn in the length you are thinking of and try it out!


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Wyclef Jean and Kim Kardashian To Host Haiti Fundraiser
Haitians are still struggling through the effects of the tragic earthquake that hit just last year, however, the continued support and aid has has brought hope to its citizens.
On December 16th, Wyclef Jean, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, fashionista Donna Karan and music mogul Andre Harrell will host a special event where items from the film and art industry will be auctioned, with benefits going towards Haiti's relief project.
"The Truth" is a multimedia exhibition and auction of film images and artworks by Haitian, Haitian American and Haitian inspired artists.
Some of the entertainment industry's elite will be in attendance such as Forest and Kiki Whitaker, Spike Lee, Erykah Badu, David Arquette, Maria Bello, Gary Dourdan, Michael Stahl and Jimmy Jean-Louis.
The exhibition and Auction will raise funds to give the Haitian people "Gifts of Love" packages this holiday season and into the New Year. Packages will include critical items such as shoes, solar flashlights and whistles to help prevent night attacks and rapes on women living in the Haitian camps.
The premier reception will include human rights activist Kerry Kennedy as "Master of Ceremonies," renowned fashion photographer Marc Baptiste will be the "Exhibition's Curator", and Christie's Lydia Fenet will act as the evening's "Auctioneer."
The event will include a special performance by Grammy Award-winning artist Wyclef Jean, followed by a live three-hour "Twitter party" hosted by Ms. Kardashian.
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Garden Tree House by Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
Location: Kagawa , Japan
Year: 2012
Photo courtesy: Daici Ano
This is an extension project on a thirty-five year-old house for a daughter and her husband. Azelkova tree and a Camphor tree stood on the site since the time the main house was build thirty-five years ago. Removing these trees was one of the design requirements because the new additional building could not be built if these trees remained.
When I received the offer for the project, I thought of various designs before I visited the site for the first time. However, all my thoughts were blown away as soon as I saw the site in person. The two trees stood there quite strongly. I listen to the stories in detail; the daughter has memories of climbing these trees when she was little.
These trees looked over the family for thirty-five years. They colored the gardenand grew up with the family. Therefore, utilizing these trees and creating a new place for the client became the main theme for the design. In detail, I cut the two trees with their branches intact. Then I reduced the water content by smoking and drying them for two weeks. Thereafter, I placed the trees where they used to stand and used them as main structural columns in the center of the living room, dining room, and kitchen.
In order to mimic the way the trees used to stand, I sunk the building addition 70 centimeters down in the ground. I kept the height of the addition lower than the main house while still maintaining 4 meter ceiling height. By the way, the smoking and drying process was done at a kiln within Kagawa prefecture. These two trees returned to the site without ever leaving the prefecture.
The client asked a Shinto priest at the nearby shrine to remove evil when the trees were cut. Nobody would go that far without a love and attachment to these trees. When this house is demolished and another new building constructed by a descendant of the client hundreds of years from now, surely these two trees will be reused in some kind of form.
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Pentagon: No survivors in American helicopter crash in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — All seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed, the Pentagon said Friday in a written statement.
The aircraft crashed in western Iraq a day earlier, said the officials, who insisted on speaking anonymously to release details of the crash before they were made public.
The crash did not appear to be the result of enemy activity and is under investigation, the Pentagon said.
"This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations. We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today," said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga, director of operations in the fight against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria.
The helicopter was used by the Air Force for combat search and rescue and was shifting from one location to another when it went down Thursday afternoon near the town of Qaim in Anbar Province.
The Pentagon said an accompanying U.S. helicopter immediately reported the crash and a quick-reaction force comprised of Iraqi security forces and coalition members secured the scene.
The names of those killed would be released after next of kin are notified, the statement added.
New York City officials announced Friday that two of those killed were longtime members of the city's Fire Department — Lt. Christopher Raguso and fire marshal Christopher "Tripp" Zanetis. They were "truly two of New York City's bravest," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
President Donald Trump offered his thoughts and prayers on Twitter Friday for the families of service members killed, saying he was thinking of the "brave troops," and adding that "their sacrifice in service to our country will never be forgotten."
The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have an outpost in Qaim, which is located near the Syrian border. The anti-IS campaign accelerated through much of last year, as coalition and Iraqi forces battled to take back a string of cities and towns.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over IS in Mosul in July. In the following months, Iraqi forces retook a handful of other IS-held towns including Tal Afar in August, Hawija in September and Qaim in October. In November, Iraqi forces retook the last Iraqi town held by IS — Rawah, near the border with Syria.
The U.S.-led coalition has continued to work with Iraq and Syrian Democratic Forces to shore up the border region to make sure that foreign fighters and insurgents can't move freely across the region.
Associated Press writers Susannah George in London and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.


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December 4, 2008
Private Albums in Picasa Web
"Select the 'Require sign-in to view' option to set the highest level of privacy for your album -- you specify who has permission to view it, and visitors must sign in to their Google Account to verify their identity. Anyone not included on the album's 'Shared with' access list will be unable to view the album," details the help page.
The access list is displayed in the album's sidebar and you can add or remove people from that list at any time. The only problem is that your friends need to have Google accounts to validate their identity and access the album.
Until now the only alternative to making the album public was to make it unlisted, but the album still had a web address that allowed anyone who knew it to view your album. If you try to view an album that has the new visibility option enabled, you'll get this error message:
Since you now have three levels of visibility and it's difficult to remember which albums are unlisted or private, Picasa Web Albums' homepage displays the access setting next to each album using an icon.
{ Thanks, Michael. }
13 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2008 at 3:26 AM
great... have been waiting for this for long time :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2008 at 7:57 AM
The only problem is that it doesn't remember anyone whom I shared an album with. So, I have to invite them again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM
When did this take effect? I went so someone's web album earlier and it said I had to sign in, but I could still see their albums..was that some kind of trial thing that just started today?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2008 at 5:33 AM
More interesting is the new face labelling for the Picasa photosReplyDelete
People tagging has been added in September.ReplyDelete
If I had a photo of nudity, in my photo album, but my album was private, will Google delete the pictures?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2008 at 10:24 AM
this is a sweet addition, why it hadn't been done sooner i don't knowReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2009 at 3:05 AM
It is a good addition, it needs to be more secure and fool proofReplyDelete
I found this message under the people tab> favoritesReplyDelete
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Do you know any way how we could ask them not to do this...
I think it is a very nice addition since I want to share family photos, say of my daughter, without them being posted on the web. It is too bad you can't share private photos with non-google account users, such as users on yahoo or hotmail. It would be easier to see family photos if a link from other e-mails accounts were allowed since family and friends may be with other service providers.ReplyDelete
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Why did you take this feature off, without letting the users know about it?ReplyDelete
What do you mean? The feature is still available. By default, all new albums are private (only you can access them).


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Architects: Kovac Design Studio
- Year: 2010
Photographs:Lisa Romerein
- City: Pacific Palisades
- Country: United States
Text description provided by the architects. Designed as the home of firm Principal Michael Kovac, Sycamore House serves as a laboratory for the firm's ongoing research into sustainable architecture and a showcase for Kovac's design philosophy. The home's seamless integration of environmental systems and green materials has made it one of the first in California to garner Platinum Certification from the USGBC LEED for Homes Program.
Sycamore House takes its name from three beautiful trees on the site that originally attracted Kovac to the property; the simple geometry of the house is driven by the steeply descending site. Nestled into the downhill side of a ridge top street, the 3,400 square-foot home presents a deceptively modest one-story face to the street, while a view from below reveals a series of sculpted volumes over three floors. Inspired by the surrounding sycamores, Kovac commissioned artist Jill Sykes to turn the minimal street facade of recycled fiber cement panels into a canvas into which her subtle shadow patterns were etched.
A 23-foot tall interior concrete wall anchors Sycamore House to its site and organizes the house formally and functionally. The wall's weighty presence provides an elegant counterpoint to a delicate cantilevered stair connecting the upper living spaces to private spaces below. Its thermal mass helps to regulate air temperature while its vertical expanse encourages natural ventilation, both guiding warm air to clerestory windows and drawing cool canyon breezes from below.
Photovoltaic panels provide for nearly all of the house's power needs, and a green roof insulates the home and reduces storm water runoff. The house also employs an array of sustainable materials, including high fly ash content concrete, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified woods, reclaimed wood flooring, zero-VOC paints, recycled glass tile, formaldehyde-free plywood, and high efficiency plumbing fixtures and appliances.
The effort toward maximum sustainability extended beyond the design of the new home to encompass the 'deconstruction' of the existing house on the site. Prior to its removal, site vegetation was cleared by a herd of grazing goats. Interior fixtures and appliances were removed and donated to Habitat for Humanity, while framing lumber was re-used elsewhere in low-income construction. Overseen by The Reuse People, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to keeping usable building materials out of landfills, the process repurposed a minimum 75% of the existing building material.


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There's a new form of ransomware—apparently built by amateurs—that takes your money but deletes your personal files anyway. Security research firm Talos recently published a blog post about a new form of malware dubbed Ranscam.
This ransomware follows the basic premise of previous variants. It claims your files have been encrypted, and thus inaccessible to you, then threatens to delete all your files if you don't pay up. Ransomware's scary premise prompts many people to fork over the dough in order to save their photos and other content.
Ranscam ignores conventional ransomware behavior, however, and deletes the victim's content long before they have a chance to pay up. In typical ransomware scams the user is usually prompted to pay up in Bitcoin, which is harder to trace than other forms of payment. After they pay it, and the transaction is verified, the files are decrypted and the ransomware deletes itself.
The Ranscam authors, however, don't bother with all those technical details and just hope for the easy payout without regard to the user's files.
The impact on you at home: The good news is Ranscam is still in its early days and doesn't appear to be widespread. Nevertheless, it's an important reminder that you shouldn't trust that you'll get your stuff back if you end up paying a ransomware scam.
How to guard against ransomware
Ransomware can find its way onto your PC just like any other form of malware, such as through an email attachment or a malicious website. For that reason, your best line of defense is a solid antivirus and real-time malware protection program. PCWorld's guide to assembling the ultimate free security suite can help on that front.
Beyond that, however, you've got to back up your files regularly. That way if you ever do get hit with ransomware you still have your files safely stashed away in a backup. The key, however, is to make sure you have a backup utility that uses versioning where files are saved at different points since its creation, so that if your backup files are also encrypted, you can rollback to versions from a few days previous, when everything was fine.
Check out Lincoln Spector's earlier discussion on the ins and outs of back-ups that protect against ransomware.
And don't forget to make sure you have a double backup plan that includes a local backup to an external hard drive, as well as a cloud-based backup service such as Backblaze or Carbonite.


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AUGUSTA, Maine — A week and a half of tension that began to mount last week with the release of an A-through-F grading system for public schools culminated Friday evening with Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen attacking Senate President Justin Alfond for delaying action on a sweeping teacher evaluation plan that has been under development for more than a year.
Alfond freely admitted he held the measure up because he and other Democratic leaders wanted to see what education initiatives Bowen and Gov. Paul LePage would unveil late in the legislative session on the heels of what Alfond called months of secrecy around destructive education initiatives by the administration.
"I've talked to Senator Alfond a couple of times about this and I just haven't gotten an answer," Bowen told the Bangor Daily News on Friday evening after he released a bulletin on the subject. "The problem is that the phone keeps ringing from the education community and superintendents. They're calling and saying 'where are the rules?'"
At issue are rules the Department of Education developed for evaluating public school teachers and principals, a result of bipartisan legislation passed last year. There has been disagreement over the rules, particularly how much student progress should count toward a teacher's evaluation. The rules, which are supposed to go into effect next year, require a public hearing and legislative approval.
"Because the governor and this commissioner have been so secretive and non-transparent with their education agenda, we felt it was only smart to ensure everything was on the table, like the A-through-F grading system, before we took up this bill," said Alfond, referring to letter grades that the LePage administration gave all Maine schools last week. "We're really glad we did that because we can now see so many elements of the department's plans coming through."
In addition to the grading system, LePage unveiled three bills this week that have already put Democrats, the Maine Education Association and the Maine School Management Association on the defensive. Those bills include LD 1529, which would lift the 10-school limit on the number of charter schools that can be authorized by the Maine Charter School Commission and allow low-income students school choice, both concepts that have long caused conflict between the two major political parties. The bill also would allow taxpayer money to flow to religious schools that meet the same requirements as other private schools.
LD 1524, also released on Thursday, would require the state's public higher-education institutions to track which incoming students require remedial courses and then allow the Department of Education to reduce subsidies to the high schools the students came from by the cost of the remedial courses.
Those bills came a day after the release of LD 1510, which would allow the Department of Education to take aggressive actions against failing schools that don't improve within two years, including revoking their "basic approval," and allow their students free school choice.
Bowen said the teacher evaluation rules were given to legislative leaders seven weeks ago as of Friday.
"It's frustrating when I can't get a straight answer," said Bowen. "In my two years here I haven't seen a situation where a piece of legislation has been passed by the Legislature bipartisanly and we've gone forward with the public rulemaking process and then we can't get an answer from leadership. We've never run into this before. I guess what we're trying to do is have superintendents call their legislators."
Alfond reacted with dismay to Bowen's comments, especially since he said Democrats are generally supportive of the teacher evaluation system.
"This is the commissioner unfortunately following the governor and making everything political and everything into a lobbying effort," said Alfond. "When it's convenient for Commissioner Bowen to support education, he turns on the switch and when he wants to weaken the education system, which he has done repeatedly over the past week, he just throws a blind eye toward teachers and schools. It's unfortunate that he is so political as a commissioner of education."


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Safety Leadership: Aligning safety talent with safety strategy
Editor's Note: Achieving and sustaining an injury-free workplace demands strong leadership. Throughout 2013, experts from Ojai, CA-based consulting firm BST will share their point of view on what leaders need to know to guide their organizations to achieve world-class safety performance.
Do you have the right people in the right places to drive your safety strategy? Many leaders recognize that achieving world-class performance is requiring new competencies and skills for safety professionals and all leaders. The challenge is that few organizations currently give strategic attention to safety talent development or have the systems to accurately assess safety talent strength. Even fewer focus on safety leadership as critically as other leadership competencies for their senior executives, and addressing this gap is about to get a lot harder.
Experts predict a dramatic shortfall between the growing number of safety positions and the number of qualified professionals who will be available to fill them. Changing demographics have created greater competition for talent generally, and in safety we are now seeing "inverted bell curves" in which talent is weighted heavily at senior and primary positions, with insufficient qualified succession pools at mid-levels. Keeping up with the growing demand for safety talent and safety competence clearly requires solutions that extend beyond traditional staffing approaches. It will take a robust safety talent strategy.
Safety talent strategy
The goal of all talent management strategy is to build what is called a "talent-rich" organization: A place where there are enough of the right people in all the right places to support the company's mission. Safety talent-rich organizations continuously think about where they are and where they want to be – and who they need to get there. Five critical disciplines support alignment between safety and talent:
- Understand the role of safety talent. When safety is a strategic activity, the safety professional's position, function and contribution must necessarily be broader than that of a technician. Safety must be a pathway to higher roles in the organization, not just a specialist cul-de-sac. Safety also must be a "gate" through which future leaders must pass on their way to more senior positions. Understanding safety's role helps you define work profiles and career paths that support both the organization's need for expertise as well as the individual's need for growth.
- Build a place for safety in talent management systems. Talent search, assessment and selection, and retention all support an organization's strategic objectives – including safety. Make sure your systems do more than fill open positions. Consider how short- and long-term safety objectives must influence these activities, engage safety talent in the ongoing success of the organization, and provide sufficient professional opportunities to facilitate progression of the career track.
- Develop a cultural value for safety leadership. To foster great safety leaders, an organization's executives must have a deep understanding of – and appreciation for – safety culture. Drive discussions around the value of safety leadership as a competence, expectations of what good safety leadership looks like and safety's role in the wider business.
- Identify and address the safety risks that rise from an organization's talent. Talent management plays an important role in aligning organizational priorities around safety. Look at how organizational structure, performance management, and rewards and recognition align with – or undermine – safety objectives.
- Foster a partnership between the talent and safety management groups. Collaboration between safety and talent management leaders is critical to supporting current and future safety objectives. Look for common ground (e.g., are the necessary training and development activities for safety professionals coordinated with the talent management team?) and for ways to partner on developing safety leaders through coaching and mentoring in safety principles and practices.
A promising partnership
An effective safety talent strategy draws on good talent management practice to support safety objectives. A good strategy also optimizes individual contribution and growth – and retention. In this way, talent strategy facilitates and strengthens the natural partnership between safety and the business.
Andrew Goodman is executive vice president, talent management, for BST. An expert in leadership,operations and organizational design, Goodman manages the worldwide development and execution of BST's strategic human resource capital initiatives.
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The Invention of Palestine as a Psychological Weapon for Conquering Eretz Yisrael Summary Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea.
Today, the modern enemies of a resurrected Jewish Nation have dusted off Hadrian's curse and are attempting to pull off a monumental theft: the Arab world have reincarnated "Palestine" to steal Israel's heritage and the Land of the Jewish People.
"Hadrian's Curse" will expose the BIG lie of the "Palestinian cause" in a full-length 120-minute documentary. The film will document that there never was a "Palestinian" people, The world has become so accustomed to the "truth" of the "Palestinian" perversion of history and work backwards, exposing recent claims and acts whose absurdity and villainy shock uninformed observers.
When Arafat declared: "Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it", it turns out that Arafat's nation already stretches over an area larger than all of Europe.
his is the twisted story of one of the biggest, most remarkable fraud in history. It is such a successful fabrication that many otherwise informed people have been duped and mislead. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon used Israel's enemies, the Arabs, to try to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets. The Jewish People eventually bested Hadrian. They returned to their land and reestablished sovereignty over it.
They rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital, and resettled desolate Judea. They did all this only to now confront the reincarnated curse of Hadrian in the guise of Arabs renaming themselves "Palestinians" and claiming all the ancient Land as their own.
As explained in the Film, many Israelis and lovers of Zion have accepted this misnaming and misidentification. Hadrian's ancient curse now threatens Israel's very existence.Israel's success and endurance and the world's hope for peace in the 21stcentury, demands that the deceit and danger of a Palestinian state must be exposed and avoided. It is our fervent hope that "Hadrian's Curse" will expose the historical truth.
Part I - The Secret All the Arabs Know
At the Annapolis Conference, George Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples.
One of those peoples has a clear identity – the Jewish People. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of that second people: Already in 1977, one of the central spokesman of that "second people", a member of P.L.O. leadership, Zahir Muhsein, the leader of the al-Sa'iqa Organization, revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
Are you in shock? If the Palestinian People does not exist, what does exist? Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael and who have disguised themselves as "Palestinians" for fraudulent purposes. "Only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel," in Muhsein's words. A fraud so successful that even George Bush can be found seeking a state for that fraud!
Do you think Zahir Muhsein is alone? This transparent fraud about the so-called existence of Palestine is revealed to us by all the Arabs' leaders:
In 1974, the late Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad, declared: "It would be fitting for us to mention to the responsible Israeli authorities that we view Palestine not just as an inseparable part of the Arab nation, but as a part of Southern Syria." In 1987, he reiterated himself at a conference in Amman, "A country named 'Palestine' has never existed." Jordanian King Hussein responded, "The appearance of the national Palestinian persona serves as a response to Israel's claim that Palestine is Jewish."
Yet the prize goes to Arafat who in 1970, with candid simplicity, told the reporter Arianna Palazzi: "The question of borders doesn't interest us… From the Arab standpoint, we mustn't talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it….. The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call "Jordan" is nothing more than Palestine."
Such revelations are an eye-opener for anyone who has not understood until today the masked-ball being run by the Arabs: The true meaning of Arafat's words, that "Palestine is Jordan," is that for the Arabic people, living under the "Pan-Arab" umbrella, in addition to over twenty Arabic countries, there is already a country called Jordan that was established by the British for the Arabs on 77% of the Land of Israel, promised to the Jewish People by the League of Nations in 1922. Anywhere else on earth, could an additional country would be established for a people that already has twenty-one countries?
All the same, there is nothing like the testimony of the founder of the P.L.O. himself, Ahmed Shukari. Already in 1956 he proclaimed from the podium of the U.N., as the Arab League's ambassador there, that "such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all. This land is nothing but the southern portion of Greater Syria…"
And if Ahmed Shukari says that Palestine does not exist at all, the logical inference is that "Palestinians" do not exist at all either. That same Shukari was born of a Turkish mother in Lebanon, was himself a Jordanian lawyer, served as the ambassador of Syria to the U.N., the ambassador of the Arab League to the U.N., and the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.N. In 1964, after this talented actor who changed loyalties like a chameleon was fired by the Saudis, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser hired him to found the "Palestine Liberation Organization", the P.L.O., an organization dedicated to the liberation of a country that in his own words did not exist at all.
All the prominent spokesman of that poor, homeless "people" say openly: The Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael are precisely the same Arabs who live in Syria, Jordan or Lebanon. They are not a separate country, but a fragment of the enormous Arab nation divided amongst many Arab countries. In their identity they are Arabs and the invention of Palestine is just a transparent bluff: "a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity". Can any testimony be better than that of the Arabs themselves, exposing the lies and deception involved in Palestine's creation?
Yet the most compelling argument for the idea that the "Palestinian People" is a fraudulent invention, and that the Arabs are all one people, was expounded by none other than Mr. Husseini, head of the Supreme Arab Committee, to the U.N. special committee that was deliberating on Eretz Yisrael in 1947:
"An additional consideration of great importance for the Arab world is racial uniformity. The Arabs lived in a broad expanse stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. They spoke one language, and shared a common history, tradition and aspirations. Their unity was the solid foundation for peace in one of the most central and sensitive regions in the world. For that reason, it does not make sense that the United Nations should facilitate the establishment of a foreign entity within that well-rooted unity."
Indeed, Mr. Husseini is correct. His declaration before the investigative committee of the United Nations exposes the simple fact that there is no "Palestinian" language and no unique "Palestinian" culture. The Palestinians are Arabs, and they cannot be set apart from the Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Remove from the argument the lies and untruths and you reveal that the conflict is taking place between the Arabic, Muslim empire of twenty-one states and the Jewish People, claiming their right to their one and only historic homeland, consisting of less than one fifth of a percent of the lands under Arab control.
This is the twisted story of the biggest, most unprecedented fraud in history. It involves such a successful bluff that many people have no doubt about its veracity. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon by which means Israel's enemies, the Arabs, are trying to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets. Part II - The Arabs' Ultimate Goal
Following the Six Day War, the Arab countries, defeated by a small county determined to survive, understood that Israel would be impossible to beat militarily. They understood that the Israeli Samson would be possible to beat only by way of the cunning of the Philistine Delilah. And that's what happened…. No longer would there be cries firing up the masses to genocide, but rather, sophistication… A melody carefully aimed at the delicate western ear. The Arabs discovered that from a propaganda standpoint, it was easier to convince world public opinion of the rights of the poor, small, deprived "Palestinian People" to its own state, than to justify the demand of the enormous Arab empire for an addition of territory from a tiny country fighting for its life.
The Palestinian People is a fabrication invented with aforethought as a psychological weapon of Arab countries defeated in battle, a "Trojan Horse" for conquering Eretz Yisrael, as Feisel Husseini said after the Oslo Accords.
So was born the worldwide propaganda campaign that turned matters on their head. The Israeli "David" against the Arab "Goliath" was transformed, by way of sophisticated propaganda, into the Israeli "Goliath" oppressing the Palestinian "David". The object of this propaganda is to blot out and forge the name and identity of the ancient, Biblical Eretz Yisrael, and to transform it into the land of "the Palestinian People" fabricated by Arab propaganda.
By such means did their false propaganda gain such a strong foothold in the media and the bastions of liberalism that no one has paid any attention to the simple truths spoken openly by Zahir Muhsein, Assad, Shukari, King Hussein or Arafat.
By means of brainwashing, fabrications, lies, falsification, and taking advantage of the world's ignorance and the international media's superficiality, a process has been taking place in broad daylight, for several dozen years already, of counterfeiting and blotting out history. And just as Goebbels and Hitler, the arch propagandists of the 20th century said derisively, the bigger the lie, the more people will believe in it.
Fulfilling the demands of the Palestinian lie, will put an end to the identity of Eretz Yisrael. Following the loss of the Land's identity, will come the loss of our right to the land. For, if there are "Palestinians", that implies that there is also a land called Palestine, and if there is a Palestine… then there is no Eretz Yisrael.
The most terrible part is that large sectors of Israel, itself, have already fallen into the Arab propaganda trap. It is they who are opening the door to the Trojan horse that will destroy the identity of Eretz Yisrael. This is a war that is not being waged by means of weapons and armies, or over physical territory. It is being waged on the battlefields of awareness of the Land's identity. The Roman name "Philistia" was a fiction invented by the Roman emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135 C.E., a fiction of Hadrian then, and a fiction of the Arabs today, to the same degree.
It is a fabrication that represents no people, not then and not today. It is a sophisticated fiction invented for one purpose and one purpose alone, to wipe out a land's identity. If the land is called Palestine, then the Jewish people are occupiers. If the land is called Eretz Yisrael, then the Arabs are occupiers.
This is the essence of the Arab propaganda war, which is intended to steal the identity of Eretz Yisrael and to transform it into Palestine, and by such means to turn the Jewish people into occupiers of Eretz Yisrael. That's the whole story.
Now it's already clear. The Palestinian identity is tactical, artificial and temporary. It is just a tool in the pan-Arab struggle against Israel. The amazing thing is that it's all out in the open. Section 12 of the Palestinian charter summarizes the idea of this temporary identity, by stating that:
"The Palestinian people believes in Arab unification. It believes that in order to fulfill its task towards achieving this goal, it must, at this stage of its national struggle, preserve all the components of its Palestinian personality, and it must increase awareness of its existence, and reject all plans liable to weaken it or make it disappear."
Is there another people in the world that writes in its charter of self-definition the expression "at this stage"? And what will be in the next stage? Obviously, after conquering Israel, the territory will be divided up between Arab countries, and those Arab countries themselves will throw Palestine into the wastebasket of history.
As Arafat said, the Palestinian people are a fiction. The same is true regarding the Jordanian people, and all the other Arabic speaking peoples in the Middle East. These are not peoples with separate identities, but part of the great Arab nation. Only that has a true identity. By their self-definition, they cannot be divided up into a number of peoples with individual identities. Rather, they constitute one nation consisting of many states, as Arafat himself said to Arianna Palazzi in an incautious moment.
For the sophisticated Saudis, with their Saudi Peace Plan, it is clear that its purpose is not to actualize the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, for no such people exists. They conceal the truth that the great Arab nation has already actualized its right to self-determination by establishing a large number of countries, one of which extends over about 78% of the area of mandatory Eretz Yisrael. For the Arabs, exploding with laughter over the foolishness of the West, it is clear that if an additional Arab state arises in the western portion of Eretz Yisrael, that will not serve the right of self-determination, but the demand of imperial conquest of all Eretz Yisrael by the Arab nation. Is George Bush dragging Israel to its destruction?
The Palestinian fabrication is exposed precisely when we listen to authentic Arab voices. The prominent Arab historian, Dr. Philip Hitti, who expressed himself at the Anglo-American commission of inquiry in the State Department building in 1947, said as follows:
"Sir, Palestine never existed throughout history. Absolutely not!"
Moreover, Professor Juhan Hazam, in his testimony before that same commission, added:
"Before 1917, when Balfour made his declaration, there had never been a Palestinian question, and there was no Palestine as a political or geographic unit."
Also a local Arab leader, Abd al-Mahdi, testified before the Peal Commission in 1937 as follows:
"There is no such land. Palestine is a term invented by the Zionists. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our land was for hundreds of years a part of Syria."
Indeed, this is a picture of the real situation in 1918 and at the start of the British conquest of Eretz Yisrael…
Were there any trace of truth to the claim regarding the historicity of a Palestinian People, we should certainly have expected to find mention of it in the history books and encyclopedias, as well as in archaeological research.
Part III- Will Israel finish Hadrian's Work?
Thus, the way to Palestinian Hell was paved with the good intentions of Christian Zionists like Lord Balfour, the British foreign secretary. In the Balfour declaration, and by the decree of the Mandate, they decided, based on historic rights, to grant Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people. Yet they called it Hadrian's Roman name, Palestine, which had originally had the precise intention of blotting it off the map.
From that moment on, the way was prepared for the birth of the Palestinian fiction.
The name Palestine, by which the British accidentally called the land, bore the seeds of destruction of the Palestinian bluff, as if the entire Land was the stolen property of the Palestinian people, an ancient, rooted people, thousands of years old. This was such an incredible but successful fabrication that large portions of Israeli society fell into its snare. In the report presented in 1938 to the League of Nations, the British made it very clear: "The name 'Palestine' is not a country but a geographic region.'"
No one could have imagined in 1917, at the time of the Balfour declaration during WWI, that anyone would use the name Palestine to create a monstrous, hostile, false identity, for propaganda purposes, and would engrave on their flag the destruction of Israel.
The reporter and writer Joan Peters, in her book From Time Immemorial, writes, "The one and only identity never adopted [by the inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael] before 1967 was that of 'Palestinian Arab'."
The Palestinian lie was not hatched by any land or any people, but by a map, a map drawn by two European colonial ministers, an Englishman, Herman Sykes, and a Frenchman, George Picot, and on the map was written… "Palestine". It was clear to the British that Palestine as a sovereign political unit had never existed. No nation had ever borne its name. No people had ever prayed for its welfare. It was a name that hadn't existed at all for 1300 years, ironically, precisely when Muslim empires were dominant. "Palestine" was a Roman political fabrication that had faded and disappeared together with the empire that had created it.
The Land regained independence only when the name "Eretz Yisrael" [the Land of Israel], the name in the hearts of the first Zionists, was restored to it. Had not this identity been preserved by the Jewish People, and had it not been preserved in the hearts of the Christian Bible-loving nations who made up the League of Nations, the national rebirth of the Jewish People might never have taken place.
This is the substance of the war being waged on millions of television screens throughout the world. It is being waged over the identity of Eretz Yisrael. It is being waged by means of all the media, and it seems as though the Arabs have the upper hand, while Israel leaves an impression of impotence, of not yet having even identified the battlefield on which its fate will be sealed.
While Israel prepares jets and tanks for a military struggle, Israel's enemies are preparing their weapons for the final battle, for sticking the last dagger into the back of a State of Israel that does not understand and is not even ready for this battle. Unless Israel prepares for this battle, comes to an understanding of its complexity and frees itself from the false terminologies and constant brainwashing, Israel will be defeated and its land will be irrevocably taken from it.
Will Israel, which valiantly vanquished all the Arab armies when they attacked it also know how to face this propaganda attack that is threatening to destroy it?
It would seem as though the battle is already decided. The Arab propaganda has already penetrated the nervous system and destroyed the immune system that defended the Jewish People for 2000 years, with even the Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Minister saying that "Israel's interest is to establish a Palestinian state"…
In other words, what they want is for the Bible to be rewritten and for King David's land of the Bible to become the land of Goliath the Philistine.
Could anything be more insane? Is there another nation on earth that behaves this way?
Is it possible that Israel will be beaten without a single shot being fired, simply handing over their land to a wretched fabrication, a coarse, primitive, charlatan canard, a deception that conceals the destruction that the Arabs are preparing for Israel? Could Israel's leaders be too blind to see the danger looming of the Land's Jewish identity being lost? Will precisely the vision of the prophets, fulfilled with the establishment of the State of Israel, bring with it the destruction of the identity of the Jewish People's land, and lead to its exchange for the false identity of Hadrian – Palestine? When lies are repeated many times, they become true. Such a lie is the fabrication regarding the existence of a historic Palestinian identity. That false identity, which began with Hadrian's curse and that was revived by Lord Balfour, has become a first rate propaganda tool. It became that the moment the Arabs understood the potential of destroying the identity of Eretz Yisrael, and with it the identity of the People of Israel, whose name bears the stamp of ownership of the Land.
The struggle against Israel was the glue that bound the Arab world, otherwise sunken in endless internal quarrels. The Arabs' aim in fabricating Palestine was not to build a nation but to annihilate a nation. Yet to conceal that plan, they invented the plan of "phases". The first phase is the invention of a "Palestinian People". The second phase is the liquidation of Israel, weakened and wearied after Oslo.
By such means did the Arabs conceal their genocidal intent with a "new tool", in the words of Zahir Muhsein, for conquering Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot.
All of these lies and falsehoods, this whole "costume ball" is being marketed by the media, which is turning out to be an obsessive collaborator with the biggest lie on earth. Precisely this Hadrian understood. That's why he chose the name Palestine. Precisely this is understood as well by Hadrian's heirs – the Arab propagandists who through their use of this false name sever the historic tie between the People and the Land of Israel. Without doing that, it would be impossible to use the word "conquest" – could a people be considered the conqueror of its own land? The question Israel faces is this: Will the Jews forego the name and the identity of their Biblical land? Will the Christian world agree to concede on the identity of the cradle of western civilization, the holy land, Eretz Yisrael?
It's the twist of fate that for all this to happen, the Jews had to vanquish Hadrian completely, return to their land, establish sovereignty, resurrect the Hebrew language, establish a mighty army, industry, the best agriculture on earth, hi-tech, culture, song, dance, reestablish a nation, rebuild Jerusalem as their capital and settle every town and village that Hadrian destroyed. Could we have possibly come full circle? Will Hadrian's curse, which didn't succeed for 1800 year, precisely when Israel was in exile from their land, succeed just now, with Israel's return? Will it be precisely the Israeli government that will resurrect Hadrian's curse, previously lost in the depths of forgetfulness?
Today, 1800 years later, an Israeli Prime Minister is calling for fulfilling what Hadrian failed to do – the erasure of Eretz Yisrael and the establishment of Palestine.
The Emperor Hadrian is smiling from the grave. The writer, a Former member of the secular Kibbutz "Ein Charod" is a media personality, serves in an elite army unit [Sayeret Matkal] and was one of the founders of the "Nahalal Forum on Behalf of the Entire Eretz Yisrael". He is presently preparing a documentary film on the Arab Palestine myth called : Hadrian's Curse


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I'm creating a plugin where a file is loaded and if a link is clicked, it passes some variables that are appended to the url. So if a link is clicked it will change the url by appending
filter/?term=il_Massac,st_locked which should load the
filter.php file.
My issue is how do I get it to use the
filter.php which is included in the plugin? The main plugin file is called
meta-box.php. If I added it the the theme as a page, it works but I want the plugin to do the work instead of adding a page. Right now, if I don't use it as a page-template in the theme folder and just have it in the plugin folder, it gives a 404.
Here is the code to the link that is in my meta-box.php file:
<a href="<?php echo home_url()?>/filter/?term=<?php echo $term ?>">search link
$term is a variable that has some search parameters in it. So if I click that link, it gives me the 404 page rather than loading the filter.php file to execute some code. Again, I can add it the the theme as a page template but I would like it to be contained within the plugin so it does not need to be added to the theme as a page template.
Does that help?
Any suggestions on how I might do this?


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Reading Indian writing in English represents an act of translation every time I read. Yes, even when the book is written in English, every book represents a journey through and across culture.
It might seem strange to hear a native English speaker say that I read English in translation, but I do. Given the idiomatic differences between American English and Indian English, language does occasionally pose a barrier.
Like the time I first encountered the word "mugging" in Five Point Someone. The context told me that the Indian idiom did not denote theft as it does in American English, but something closer to "cramming."
More often, these translation issues arise when I encounter a word like mundu, as I did in The Better Man. That word led me on an etymological wild goose chase that ended with Honey Singh.
For me, reading becomes more than a passive act. Reading Indian literature is an active search for meaning across cultures. The farther removed from the culture I am, the deeper my search for meaning. It's easy enough for me to read a thriller set in Bangalore when I'm sitting at MTR.
Reading becomes something entirely different, however, when I am reading a book about Santhal culture set in Jharkhand while I'm in South Carolina.
That's the story of The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey. My first act of translation occurred on page one when I read "dhai-budhi." The term was obviously enough "midwife" in English. Then, I encountered "dahni-bidya" or "witchcraft." To a native Santali speaker, these words are as different as chalk and cheese, but to my non-native eyes, they were as similar as there and their.
For the first few pages, I felt a profound sense of disorientation. Then, I read the map on the verso of the title page. This did not help much until I saw a place I recognized: Ghatshila, the hometown of the author, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. I traced the location on Google and tried to re-create Rupi's world in Jharkhand from my back porch in South Carolina. It helped make her fictional world real.
When I read across cultures, my brain is like a train. Each culture has its own car. The train moves along slowly and clumsily until the coupling locks into place. When that connection between the culture cars is finally bridged, the story glides along the tracks, and the ride is smooth.
Those first couple miles are rough, though. If you want to know why Indian writers working in English struggle to make the jump to a global market, my experience is the answer. Reading across cultures is real work. I crave the knowledge this reading provides. I thirst for new words and experiences. Unfortunately, most readers don't want to work. When reading fiction, they seek escape, fun, and fantasy. The most work most readers are willing to do is figure out whodunnit.
To reach a broader audience, publishers often edit books for foreign markets. This decision seems inocuous enough, but it isn't. It's an act of destruction of the writer's intention and the fictional world that's created.
For example, if dahni-bidya and dhai-budhi had been translated, I would have lost a layer of meaning and connectedness to Santhal culture. It struck me as I read how closely these words resembled each other. Whether they are etymologically connected is irrelevant. What matters is that their very use, rather than an English translation, connected the words in my head. Without making that—most probably wrong—connection, I would never have pondered the position of women within Santhal culture more deeply.
Some books overcome this translation issue by using a glossary or footnotes. Both take extra work to produce, and their value to cultural outsiders is questionable. When a writer is already translating experience across culture, how much effort should we really expect? Is a glossary the literary equivalent of cultural gymnastics? Shouldn't the reader do some of the work? Meet the writer halfway?
What would I lose in the process of using a glossary? Would I lose the time it took me to find an online Santali-English dictionary? Would I lose the time it took me to head on a virtual journey with Google?
Or would we call those losses gains?
Would a glossary have made my reading easier? Yes. Simpler? Yes. Lazier? Most definitely yes.
But what would I have lost in translation without getting lost in translation? Without getting lost in the syllables and elemental nature of language?
I don't know. For I can't unread what I have read or read a book that has not been written. All I know is that my reading is richer because I didn't have a glossary.
Perhaps you are wondering if you should read Rupi? Can you read her even if you don't have my experience in India or aren't Indian yourself?
Yes. You should and you can.
The writing is lucid. Shekhar's narrative flows easily. The story itself is not so complex that you can't follow it. Yet, if you have the time and inclination, the story has depths for you to plumb.
Rupi and her family are in many ways like any other family. Their experiences are grounded in their Santhal identity, but many aspects of their struggles and joys are universal.
I do ask that you try to understand the context of this narrative. Rupi comes of age with India. Her Jharkhand is not for the most part contemporary Jharkhand. Rather, Rupi's experience seems to parallel India's independence and Jharkhand's struggle for statehood. When you read about attitudes toward witchcraft, you must set aside your notions about what witchcraft is or isn't. You must appreciate that the story takes place in a different place and time.
Most importantly, I ask that you do not judge Rupi for whom you think she is, but instead for whom she thinks she is. Her decisions, right or wrong, are hers alone. They represent only her experience and no one else's. They are not meant to telegraph across all Santhal women, but to show a snapshot of one woman's life.
For that's the beauty of reading Rupi.


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Who's ready for a game based on a five-year-old joke about a Saturday Night Live skit from twelve years ago? Thanks to the magic of the iPhone and iPad, Cowbell Hero becomes a real thing next month.
I would be incredibly disappointed with Digital Hero Games (via PocketGamer) for making Cowbell Hero if they hadn't put so much effort into it, packing 16 licensed tracks into this Guitar Hero parody game, including the all-important "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult. They've got some Creedence in there, Santana, Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic and more. It's a damn impressive track list for the punch line to the joke that's been showing up on t-shirts and in YouTube videos for ages.
Check it out:
• "Down on the Corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth
• "Little Willy" as made famous by Sweet
• "Cowbell Blues"
• "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock
• "Evil Ways" as made famous by Santana
• "Time Has Come Today" as made famous by The Chambers Brothers
• "Give and Take"
• "Annabelle"
• "Got to Give it Up" by Marvin Gaye
• "Better by the Pound" by Funkadelic
• "Funkify"
• "Rock Me" by Steppenwolf
• "Good to Your Earhole" by Funkadelic
• "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" as made famous by Blue Oyster Cult
• "More Cowbell"
All I know is I've got a fever and the only cure is the death of this gag. Perhaps Cowbell Hero will get it out of everyone's system and we can move on.


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A true breakthrough in high-speed Time Measurement and test technology, GuideTech's GT668PCI-1 leverages the power of its CTIA continuous time-stamping technology, eliminating the need for supplemental triggers, pattern markers or clock recovery circuits. GuideTech's CTIAs enables serial interfaces pattern verification and full jitter analysis in milliseconds for fast, automated characterization and high-throughput production test on all ATE platforms, including low-cost and in-house testers. High accuracy 100MHz time base with NIST traceable calibration. Some of the GT668PCI-1 measurements include Jitter measurements, PLL & Clock Jitter,
Spread Spectrum Modulation, PLL Lock Time, Frequency, Period, Pulse Width, Skew, Tpd, Rise/Fall Time, Time Interval Error and more.
Product Benefits:
Resolution, Accuracy, and Measurement Rate:
- Measurement table in figure 1 (see back) represents each channel. Therefore, both channels may operate alone or simultaneously.
- Multiple boards can be calibrated for an absolute accuracy of +1nS between channels on separate boards
Interface to the PC:
- Memory can be read while measurements are taken, enabling continuous operation.
Service Warranty:
Full year, full service warranty for upgrades and/or repairs as needed.
|Time Res. — Single Shot
|2 ps
|Time Res. — Averaged
|0.9 ps
|Freq. Res. (Digits/S)
|Up to 10
|Max. Meas. Rate (MSa/S)
Main Input Channels:
- No. of channels: 2
- Frequency range: DC – 2.7 GHz
- Input impedance: 1KΩ || 10pF, or 50Ω software programmable
- Coupling: DC, AC
- Amplitude range: -5 V to + 8 V
External Clock and ARM Inputs:
- Frequency Range
- External clock: 10 MHz (+/- 100 Hz)
- External arm: DC – 80 MHz
- Input impedence: 1KΩ (user may install additional resistor)
- Temperature compensated crystal oscillator:
- Temp: 0 – 45 C +/- 10ppm
- Aging: < 1 ppm / year


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Six mermaids attempt to uncover hidden talismans in order to save their undersea world in the Waterfire Saga, a new multi-platform YA series from Disney Publishing Worldwide, written by Jennifer Donnelly. A venture that spans various creative groups across DPW, the four-book saga will debut with Deep Blue on May 6, along with an enhanced e-book edition that includes promotional video content and an original song commissioned by the company's Hollywood Records. Deep Blue will be published simultaneously in the U.K., Italy, and Spain, with yet-to-be-announced additional foreign editions to follow in late 2014 and early 2015, and an audio book recorded by The X-Factor finalist Bea Miller will be released by Listening Library. Suzanne Murphy, v-p and global books publisher, acquired world rights to the Waterfire Saga from Steven Malk of Writers House, Donnelly's agent. Disney Book Group associate publisher Stephanie Lurie will edit the series.
The Waterfire Saga grew out of a collaborative effort among various Disney Publishing departments, whose staffers had for some years been exploring the idea of doing a project based on a mythology of mermaids. "Editors, in-house artists, and designers got together to figure out what we could do on this theme from a creative standpoint," said Murphy. "The idea for the Waterfire Saga blossomed from there. We collaborated on building a far-reaching world beneath the oceans where teenage mermaids from different realms battle evil."
That underwater world began to take shape as staffers compiled a "bible" of nearly 200 pages that contains profiles of the main characters, information about their cultures and lifestyles, the story arc, and copious images of the mermaid world and its inhabitants. "The bible covers so many details, even what the mermaids eat and wear," said Murphy. "These aren't your clam shell bra-wearing mermaids. Though they are magical, they are outgrowths of the human world and the world of the sea."
In-house enthusiasm for Donnelly's YA novels, A Northern Light (which won Britain's Carnegie Medal and a Printz Honor) and Revolution, led Murphy to approach the author to write the series. "Many of us here are big fans of Jennifer's work," said Murphy. "Her historical novels are so rich in terms of place and history, and she really gets character on top of that. She was perfect for the project."
Serendipitous Timing
"It was a tremendous coincidence," said Donnelly of being asked to write the Waterfire Saga. "It was summer 2011; I'd finished Revolution and was casting about for ideas for my next project and coming up dry, which is a very scary thing for a writer," she recalled. She decided to spend a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, viewing "Savage Beauty," a retrospective of the work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
"I was spellbound," said Donnelly. "All these emotions – loss, love, longing – were bound up in the stitches of McQueen's clothes. And in the last gallery, which had ocean-related themes, I looked overhead and there was a giant video screen showing a girl sinking through the water, and I was mesmerized. I thought, 'Who is she?' And I knew immediately that whatever I wrote next would feature the ocean in some way." Donnelly arrived home to find a phone message from Malk, asking if she'd be interested in writing a series about oceans and mermaids. "I was speechless," she said. "All I could do is think, 'You've got to be kidding me!' "
After signing on, Donnelly received the Waterfire Saga bible from Disney, and set about bringing the mermaid world to life – with some trepidation. "I had never written fantasy before, so it was a bit overwhelming," she said. "With historical fiction, you can't depart from the real world. In fantasy, you have all this freedom, yet the world has to have logic and make sense to readers. I was given much leeway, which was both terrifying and exhilarating. I went back and forth with the Disney illustrators, so this has been much more collaborative than anything I've done before."
Though the series is rooted in fantasy, Donnelly noted that she wanted to ensure that the characters – though magical beings – are real to readers. "Not only are the mermaids physically inspired by real ocean creatures, but they are very much teenagers, going through what all teens do," she said. "They struggle to understand themselves and their place in the world. We all like our fantasy with characters and experiences we can recognize as our own, and there is definitely a lot of reality in this series."
What the Future Holds for the Mermaids
The second installment of Waterfire Saga, Rogue Wave, will be released in January 2015. The third and fourth volumes are due in fall 2015 and summer 2016, respectively. And the series will continue to expand in 2015 with graphic novels and comics, the latter originating from DPW's global magazine and comics creative team, based in Milan. Also planned for fall 2015 is an illustrated gift-book edition of Deep Blue.
Jeanne Mosure, senior v-p and group publisher at Disney Publishing Worldwide, envisions further growth of what the company is calling a global franchise. "The world of the Waterfire Saga is global in scope, and we hope to make this world relevant to YA readers and bring it to them in different ways," she said. "We're taking a holistic approach and launching the series across various platforms, and are looking to develop interactive, digital, and additional video and music components."
Disney is launching the Waterfire Saga with, ahem, quite a splash. Deep Blue will have a 250,000-copy first printing, and the $500,000 marketing campaign for the novel includes a national author tour kicking off May 6; print, TV, and in-theater consumer advertising; promotion through ABC Family and Hollywood Records; and a retail floor display with riser.
Donnelly, who has already completed the second book of the series, noted that this is hardly her first brush with Disney mermaids, as she and her 10-year old daughter, Daniele, are longtime fans of Ariel of The Little Mermaid fame. "We love Ariel in this house," she said. "In fact, Daniele wore an Ariel costume for three Halloweens. Of course, the Waterfire Saga is very different, in age appeal and tone – it has a darkness and an urgency to it. I adore these characters, adore writing about the ocean and, as it turns out, adore writing fantasy. This has been the best project of my life."
The Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 May ISBN 978-1-4231-3316-2


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Young men who are obese in their early 20s are significantly more likely to develop serious ill health by the time they reach middle age, or not even make it that far, suggests research published in BMJ Open.
It's well known that obesity in adulthood poses a risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but it's not been clear whether obesity in early adulthood strengthens that risk.
The authors tracked the health of 6500 Danish 22 year old men for 33 years up to the age of 55. All of them had been born in 1955, and had registered with the Military Board for a fitness test to gauge their suitability for military service.
All potential conscripts in Denmark are subjected to a battery of psychological and physical tests, including weight. Most (83%; 5407) were within the normal range and 5% were underweight (353). One in 10 (639) were overweight and 1.5% (97) were obese.
Normal weight is classified as a body mass index (BMI) of between 18.5 and 25; obesity is classified as a BMI of 30 or more.
Almost half of those classified as obese at the age of 22 were diagnosed with diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, blood clots in the legs or lungs, or had died before reaching the age of 55.
They were eight times as likely to get diabetes as their normal weight peers and four times as likely to get a potentially fatal blood clot (venous thromboembolism). They were also more than twice as likely to develop high blood pressure, have had a heart attack, or to have died.
Every unit increase in BMI corresponded to an increased heart attack rate of 5%, high blood pressure and blood clot rates of 10%, and an increased diabetes rate of 20%.
In all, obese young men were three times as likely to get any of these serious conditions as their normal weight peers by middle age, conferring an absolute risk of almost 50% compared with only 20% among their normal weight peers.
The findings prompt the authors to warn that the continuing rise in obesity may counteract the fall in deaths from heart disease.
"Thus, obesity related morbidity and mortality will, in decades to come, place an unprecedented burden on healthcare systems worldwide," they suggest.