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In my right hand I have a mug of Brazilian coffee (Fruit and Nut Espresso).
The coffee was delivered through my letter box yesterday, courtesy of Pact Coffee, one of many coffee subscription services.
However, Pact doesn't like to think of itself as a subscription service. Its founder, Stephen Rapoport, believes many subscription services work for the business but not for the customer.
So, if the model is often abused, just what makes a good subscription service?
1. Habit
It seems obvious when it's said aloud, but it's something overlooked by too many businesses that decide upon a subscription model - subscription models should reinforce a habit in the consumer.
Companies need a great product, but it means nothing without the consumer's habit.
Drinking coffee is, for many, a defining habit (how many cups did I have today?) but remember, too, that habits can change (news consumption is the obvious example here; I don't enjoy a paper newspaper anywhere near as often as I used to).
In order to reinforce habits, subscription services need to cater to customers as diligently as possible (doing everything else in this list, to ensure a customer keeps on enjoying the service).
2. Flexibility
This is another obvious one. Pact allows me to suspend my coffee for 30 days, change the delivery day, choose another coffee or expedite it for next day delivery.
Increasingly there are subscription services that don't tie us into minimum contracts or make us choose only one flavour of service.
Spotify and Netflix have given users experience of a flexible subscription, and they want it everywhere else.
The accountants may not be able to plot recurring revenue as surely (actually, there's probably a fairly steady rate of cancellation), but the customer is happy.
It's a constant source of frustration to me that I can't control or view my Citroën finance plan easily online.
I had the same frustration when I was a gym member, having to call or go into the gym to book classes or cancel etc.
When I moved house, I had to do a lot of offline leg work to move all my subscriptions to a new address.
At a minimum, consumers expect to be able to quickly and easily view the particulars of a subscription. Aside from changing payment and address details, maybe the platform could offer tips on how to get the best out of your service.
The point is that ease of use is paramount. There's no point in offering flexibility if the customer has to sit on hold for 15 minutes before they can make a request.
Subscriptions are designed to make the regular purchase of products easier, not more frustrating. As such, online interfaces should be fun to use, and perhaps eventually updates may be integrated into more popular messaging apps.
NOW TV's account page offering no-hassle cancellation
4. Personalisation
We have to hat-tip to Spotify and Netflix again, here. Recommending songs and movies based on play history was a game changer for streaming media, helping to initiate the uninitiated.
It's this personalisation that helps to attenuate the habit we talked about above.
Pact allows me to rate the coffees I receive, and future deliveries will be better tailored to my tastes.
The subscription is the perfect way to build a relationship with a customer, beyond a one-off purchase.
Just as a local butcher would remember what cut you had last week, so must the subscription service.
5. Communication
This is another side of UX. Subscriptions of the past have tended to get your payment details, press the green button on the service, then disappear into the background and hope that if you don't like it, you'll forget to cancel.
What companies should really be doing is communicating with the customer (perhaps by email, post or two-way on social media).
This communication should be designed to inform the consumer, either practically ('your delivery has been dispatched') or playfully (perhaps an interview with a coffee farmer).
6. Added value
In summation I'll quote Rapoport from an article he wrote for Virgin.
..the subscription has become something of a mosquito. They're universally irritating, but regularly tolerated because they sit between the customer and the thing they want; in a mosquito's case, the holiday.
Gym memberships are a good example of people putting up with the monthly payments because there's no alternative - and likewise the business couldn't run without it.
So, a better gym subscription might be one that added value by doing more to get you to visit, and guiding you through a long-term lifestyle plan.
The point is that the subscription has to add some extra value to the transaction (e.g. bonus content from a publisher) - convenience may be enough, but often it's not.
So, what shouldn't be on subscription then. Well, condoms for one. Believe it or not, there's more than one service that will send you condoms every month.
Having sex could be described as habitual (compulsive?), but condoms are a product you buy when you need them, require little storage and don't need to be fresh.
Why subscribe to three a month from rubberclub.com when you could buy 50 from Amazon? There's little value to be added, other than the novelty if given as a gift.
Perhaps this is the wrong note to end on, but I welcome your thoughts below.
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But can you actually get off the service? From painful experience, I have found that a subscription provider really has no interest in letting you go. Certainly, no one blames them but they drag their feet and moan and whine and you complain and get madder and then finally you're free. Solve this... then such a service would be excellent and even better than excellent if it did even half of what you suggest.
The biggest problem with a subscription model is that it is in the provider's commercial interest to spend less on their product in order to maximise profit(or even just break even).
This can end up being a race to the bottom on quality and price as soon as the subscription is no longer perceived as being of premium value.
Unfortunately the standard perception of subscriptions is that they need to deliver extra value at a lower price. This is an inherent flaw in any subscription model.
Have a look at Hotel Chocolat's Tasting Club. It allows you to manage your subscription online, choose what chocolates you want, individually score each chocolate that comprises your subscription and see what other members have scored the same chocolates (apparently they use this information for future product development), add extra boxes, select preferences as well as being given recommendations for future subscriptions. You can even cancel it without any problems. You'll get some begging letters to rejoin but its no hassle if you want to quit.
Work looking at a more comprehensive piece on subscription models from an eConsultancy post last year: https://econsultancy.com/blog/66034-the-pros-and-cons-of-subscription-ecommerce-models/


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Texas A&M VP Cook Named "International Brand Master" By Educational Marketing Group
Feb 28, 2013, 01:37 EST
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jason Cook, vice president for marketing and communications at Texas A&M University, has been named "2012 International Brand Master" by Educational Marketing Group (EMG), a Colorado-based international brand-managing firm.
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"Jason Cook has managed to reinvent and reinvigorate the Texas A&M brand, while staying consistent and paying homage to the traditions that make the university such a unique institution," noted EMG in announcing that Cook won the award for a variety of accomplishments that came to fruition last year, including the university's move to the Southeastern Conference (SEC). "Perhaps the most telling demonstration of Jason's talent is his work unifying both Texas A&M's academics and athletics brands, an effort that has presented a united front during a time when the university has had more national exposure than ever before," the EMG officials added in their announcement.
Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin joined in congratulating Cook and his team. "I'm delighted to see Mr. Cook be so prominently recognized for his leadership in elevating the Texas A&M brand and helping make the rest of the world know what we take for granted here in Aggieland — that Texas A&M is a top-flight institution and is rapidly achieving even more prominence both nationally and internationally," Loftin said. "Thus, I join with others in the Aggie Network in congratulating him and his team for outstanding work on behalf of our university."
Cook has headed Texas A&M's marketing and communications programs for the past five years. He previously served in similar capacities for the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and Texas A&M Agriculture, which includes the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. He began his career in athletic media relations at Mississippi State University, his alma mater, and subsequently served as an assistant vice president for Birmingham-based HealthSouth Corporation, which was once the nation's largest provider of sports medicine and healthcare services.
He said his selection as the "2012 International Brand Master" is a high honor – for him personally and, even more so, for Texas A&M.
"While my name is on the award, it is the result of a team effort reflecting the effective and dedicated work of the entire Division of Marketing & Communications," Cook said. "It was gratifying, indeed, to be a part of the effort where so many people pulled together to strengthen the Texas A&M brand and make the university even better known for all the right reasons."
EMG President Bob Brock cited Cook's "combination of critical thinking and tactical skills" as major factors in his selection for the prestigious award. "We are thrilled and honored that a professional of the caliber of Jason Cook has been named the 2012 International Brand Master," Brock said. "Mr. Cook has had an outstanding impact on the venerable Texas A&M brand, and his combination of strategic thinking and tactical skill inspires us all." The initial field for the award included 15 "exceptional nominees," according to the EMG announcement, with nominees from England, Australia and Belgium among them. A "blue-ribbon" panel of volunteer international judges narrowed the pool to three finalists, with Cook the ultimate winner. Nominees were asked to provide responses to numerous specific questions related to their brand's strategy and tactics and to provide results as well as furnish several letters of support from their colleagues.
In response to the judges' request, Cook provided the following overview as part of the competition process:
"While Texas A&M is one of the nation's largest and most prestigious universities, our brand was not widely known across the country and the institution was perceived much like it was in the 1970s: a regional, all-male military institution, not the thriving, top-20 research university that it is today. Recognizing that athletics is the 'front porch' of a university – providing an opportunity to reach millions of people each Saturday in the fall – I worked directly with the University's President and Board of Regents to initiate a focused plan in 2011 that would increase the visibility of the Texas A&M brand across the country. This effort culminated with Texas A&M leaving the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference on July 1, 2012. While many ascribed different motives for our departure from the Big 12 and fueled many detractors and skeptics, our plan had three primary objectives: increase the exposure for our student-athletes and coaches, as well as for our world-class faculty and their research; create new revenue streams in the form of TV payouts, licensing, sponsorships, philanthropy and ticket sales; and provide long-term stability for the Texas A&M brand in a period of significant athletic conference upheaval. The SEC is widely recognized as the nation's top athletic conference, and through its extensive media partnerships with ESPN and CBS, the national exposure generated by the league is unparalleled. The SEC move allowed us to introduce the Texas A&M brand to an entirely new geographic region of the country and expand the national footprint of the brand. What's more, the SEC's media platform played a significant role in our campaign for Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel to become the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. Today, because of these efforts, Texas A&M is widely recognized as one of the hottest college brands in the country."
More news about Texas A&M University, go to http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/
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Gangster Squad
Los Angeles, 1949. Crime has a new boss in the form of Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn, though he seems to be doing a Robert DeNiro impression for much of the time. Cohen is not stoppable by the regular police because he kills everyone that's dumb enough to decide to testify against him, so the police chief decides that he needs a force that's outside the law to take him down. And that force's name is the Gangster Squad, made up of war veterans, at least one pulp hero, and a couple of younger guys to act as sidekicks.
Yes, this movie sounds a lot like The Untouchables or any of the other gangster movies that we've seen over the years, but when has imitation stopped Hollywood from doing something?
Gangster Squad should've been released soon after the last Batman flick, but it was delayed because of the shooting in Colorado, and also had a scene of a shooting in a movie theater replaced.
Josh Brolin plays Detective O'Mara, a guy that's kind of like a psychotic Ned Stark. He's got a lovely wife and a baby on the way, but he takes on the leadership of the Gangster Squad because he feels it's his duty. And while he never pays the price that Ned does, the people around him suffer quite a lot for his decision and his apparent lack of strategic thinking. O'Mara's wife picks his team for him, and if she wasn't pregnant and not a cop she might have been a good choice for actually leading the squad, because she's a smart cookie. It's not that O'Mara is unlikable, he's got enough grit for ten John Wayne's and it's obvious that his men are dedicated to him, but he's definitely a one tactic kind of guy, and brute force doesn't always get the job done.
The squad itself is well-cast, though I kind of feel like the reason Jerry (Ryan Gosling) joined the squad is a bit too melodramatic for the rest of the movie.
Robert Patrick is the best in the squad hands down. His character is the most Pulp-ish in the movie, and he seems a little out of place because he ends up being larger than life in a lot of his scenes, like the one where he threw a can up and kept it in the air with his bullets, or his attempt to jailbreak some of the other members of the squad, which didn't quite go as he planned. He seemed like a character out of the Old West more than anywhere else and if there hadn't been so much shooting and action going on people might have questioned what he was doing in the movie. But there's no time for questions like that here.
Emma Stone does a great job being Cohen's eye candy, and she manages to make herself a part of the era with her dialogue, but there's not anything else for her to do but be the damsel in distress. It's kind of disappointing to see her just hanging around and being pretty when we know she can do so much more, especially since Gangster Squad is directed by Ruben Fleischer, who also helmed Zombieland, where Emma Stone had tons to do besides be the damsel in distress.
All in all, I think Gangster Squad is a fun movie, but it could've been so much more with a little bit of character development on both sides of the action. We know a lot about Mickey Cohen's past and that he wants LA all to himself, but we never quite know why he's so driven to take the town and hold it. Is it just simple greed, or is there more to it than that?
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Today I spent the afternoon with Manuel Serrano, designer of Hop, a Scheme variation for cross-tier web programming, targeting JVM and Javascript.
This is highly related to WebSharper, which lets you program HTML/Javascript/Ajax with F#. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that WebSharper includes demos of HTML5 programming with F#. For example:
You'll need a HTML5-enabled browser - these are web apps, so you won't need anything else. Most other samples work in all browsers.
If you want to develop web apps like these with F#, WebSharper Standard is now available as a free download, as recently announced by Adam Granicz.
The F# code for these apps is impressively succinct and clear. (And typechecked! And you get to program both client and server in one great language!). The animated clock includes a lovely use of GUI-async programming. Many of the other WebSharper samples are also great examples of F# web programming. The F# code is executed as Javascript on the client side.
Now that WebSharper has been released and matured, it will be great to see it used more widely by F# users. Given the importance of both HTML5 and Silverlight, F# users interested in shipping visualization apps should really make sure they know how to use F# to program these, using the Silverlight SDK (for Silverlight) or tools such as WebSharper (for HTML5).
Here's a snippet for the animated clock:
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Step Out For a Stylish Paris Date Night
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West stepped out for dinner at Lasserre Restaurant in Paris last night. Kim's baby bump was on display in a tight black dress that she covered up with a fur coat. Kim and Kanye have been in France for Couture Fashion Week and have been attending shows in between date nights. Kanye checked out the Lanvin men's presentation on Sunday, while Kim popped up at the Stéphane Rolland Haute Couture show yesterday. They met up again for a late meal on Monday, which came a day after the season three premiere of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami. Kim's ongoing divorce from Kris Humphries was a topic on the show, but in real life, she's currently focused on her relationship with Kanye and the July arrival of their first child together. Source: Getty, INFDaily.com and FameFlynet‹ Back to Story
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This hearty ham and bean soup is the kind of soup you crave on a cold fall or winter day. It's a simple preparation using dried beans and diced ham along with chopped vegetables. The flavor comes from the long simmering. Add a ham bone or ham hock for the extra smoky flavor. It is an excellent way to use leftover ham!
We like hot baked cornbread with the soup, but biscuits slathered with butter or thick slices of crusty homemade bread would be equally delicious.
It's a great lunch soup, too. Serve it in cups with sandwiches or a simple tossed salad.
What You'll Need
- 8 cups water
- 1 pound Great Northern beans or navy beans
- 2 cups diced cooked ham
- 1 ham bone or ham hock, optional
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 or 2 ribs celery, chopped or sliced thinly
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
How to Make It
- Bring the water and beans to a boil in a large saucepan or Dutch oven; boil for 2 minutes. Remove the beans from heat, cover, and let stand for 1 hour.
- Add the ham, ham bone, or hock to the beans, along with onion, pepper, bay leaf, carrot and celery to the beans. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover, and simmer until beans are tender (skim foam from top), about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. If soup is too thick, add a little more water.
- If you used a ham bone or ham hocks, take them out of the soup and remove the meat. Dice or shred the meat and return it to the soup.
- Add the tomato sauce and salt, to taste; simmer for about 15 minutes longer. Remove the bay leaf.
Tips and Variations
- If you soak the beans overnight, use 8 cups of water and skip the first step of boiling the beans and letting them stand for an hour.
- For some extra texture and flavor, add 1 can of diced tomatoes to the soup along with the tomato sauce.
- This soup is good for tailgating. Transfer the finished soup to a slow cooker and take it along to a party or event. Keep it on low or on the warm setting for serving.
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"Putin shaped Russia's political decade"
Vladimir Putin is the man who shaped Russia's political style in the decade after Yeltsin, says Christian Science Monitor correspondent Fred Weir.
"It is his character, his sort of very measured, competent – again not democratic, not open – but also not capricious the way Yeltsin was. His style has more than anything else shaped our decade," he said.


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Mickey Kramer's legacy of learning continues with Tidewater Together
Fri, 03/20/2015 - 2:38pm
Posted in: Special Events
Everything about Tidewater Together would have pleased Mickey Kramer.*
The learning, the diversity, the scholars, the extension of Jewish values and the community— especially the community—were some of the most important things in the world to him, says his son Ron Kramer.
"My father would just love it—he worked his whole life for this community and the Federation—and to him, it didn't matter whether you were Reform or Orthodox or Conservative, whether you liked the Tigers of the Yankees," says Kramer. "What mattered was that we're here for each other, and that we're continuing to learn. He was a mensch and a great role model."
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'I-Am-From-The-IRS' Phone Fraud
Wed, 03/18/2015 - 3:10pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 12, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, Timothy Camus, explained the growth of an IRS "phone impersonation scam." Camus called the "I-am-from-the-IRS" phone fraud the "largest, most persuasive impersonation scam in the history of our agency."
The scam usually starts with a fraudster using a fake name who calls a victim. The fraudster gives a false "badge number" and claims the victim owes taxes. The scammer frightens the victim by claiming there is criminal liability without an immediate payment.
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IRS "Tax Time Guide" Helps Taxpayers
Mon, 03/09/2015 - 1:11pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation
With tax filing season now at full speed, the IRS published a "Tax Time Guide" with many tips that will help taxpayers.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen noted, "We are doing everything we can to help taxpayers get the assistance they need this tax season. Our phone lines are extremely busy this year, so this series will offer taxpayers tips on how to get help. There also are important options and issues to keep in mind as the April 15 deadline approaches."
There are many online services on www.irs.gov to assist taxpayers.
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Personal Planner
Fri, 03/06/2015 - 12:39pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation
Gifts of Stock
What will the market do this year? Perhaps the best answer is, "It will go up and down." Stock returns vary to a significant degree each year. However, long-term stock returns have been reasonably substantial.
Between 1990 and 2010, the average stock return was about 6%. While there was a very substantial increase during 1990-2000 and decreases during 2002 and 2008, the total return over two decades was approximately 6%.
Longer holding periods have generally resulted in higher total returns. The total stock return for seven decades between 1940 and 2010 was in excess of 10%. Returns for long periods of time have paralleled this amount.
Because many stocks have increased in value over time, you may hold stocks with substantial appreciation. If you're considering a major gift or end-of-year gift, a gift of public company stock to charity provides two major benefits. First, there is a charitable deduction for the value of the stock. Second, the charity does not pay tax on the sale of the stock so you bypass the capital gain.
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Do You Need To File A Tax Return in 2015?
Wed, 03/04/2015 - 2:21pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation
What are the IRS income tax filing requirements for retirees this tax season? I didn't have to file last year, but I picked up a little income from a part-time job in 2014 and I'm wondering whether I need to file this year.
Whether or not you are required to file a federal income tax return this year will depend on how much you earned (gross income), the source of that income, your filing status and your age. Your gross income includes all the income you receive that is not exempt from tax, excluding your Social Security benefits, unless you are married and filing separately.
Here's a rundown of the IRS filing requirements for this tax season. You probably won't have to file if your 2014 gross income is below the threshold for your age and filing status. However, if your gross income is above the threshold then most likely you will.
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Callah Terkeltaub - My Jewish Story
Fri, 01/09/2015 - 2:51pm
My story didn't initially begin Jewish...
From a young age I always knew I was different from my family. Growing up in the Roman Catholic Church the "Christian way" is practically taught to you from birth. I always wanted a deeper connection with my faith and struggled through my preteen and teenage years searching for meaning and trying to fill a void that I felt was in my life. No matter how many books I read and how diligently I studied I never felt a connection with Catholicism.
At the tender age of 13 I decided to not pursue confirmation classes because it became clear that it wasn't the religion for me.
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A bright road ahead at Tidewater Jewish Foundation
Tue, 12/30/2014 - 2:51pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation
I am thrilled to join the outstanding team at the Tidewater Jewish Foundation and to have the honor to serve this community as its president and CEO. With a rich history and longevity of professional leadership in this position, I hope to build upon our success while bringing a fresh perspective to this role.
I come from a broad background of work experience in the fields of human services as a case manager, human resource management at MassMutual Financial Group and development (planned giving) in the Federation world. For the past seven years I served as the director of the Jewish Endowment Foundation, a division of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts.
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TJF and the Community Relations Council of the UJFT offer a way to support the children of Ferguson
Tue, 12/02/2014 - 2:41pm
Posted in: Tidewater Jewish Foundation, Community Relations Council
For those of us watching the events in Ferguson, Missouri unfold on our televisions, the images are disturbing and distressing. For the residents of Ferguson, they are reality. The death of Michael Brown and the events that followed, reaching a climax last week, are particular to Ferguson. However, the underlying societal issues at play are, unfortunately, national in scope.
There are long term issues to face. However, right now, the people of Ferguson and surrounding areas are hurting badly. The children of Ferguson, especially, are facing a harsh reality. Libraries have become somewhat of a safe haven for the children in the area.
Following the lead of the St. Louis Jewish Community Relations Council, the Tidewater Jewish Foundation and the Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater have partnered to offer support by collecting new or gently used children's books with enclosed notes of encouragement that will be delivered to the children of Ferguson.
Stop by the Sandler Family Campus on Thursday, December 18th from 12-7pm, and drop off a new or gently used children's book with your message of support and inspiration, or choose messages we'll have on hand, to include with your donation.
Questions? Contact Shelby Tudor at (757) 965-6105 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Robin Mancoll at (757) 965-6120 or email@example.com.
Regards from Israel
Wed, 10/15/2014 - 11:59am
Posted in: Community Relations Council
by Dr. Einat Wilf
Israel Today Forum Expert
Danger Zone: What Regional Turmoil Means for Israel
Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Sandler Family Campus
For more information or to RSVP today by click here.
Join the CRC and community partners for a "tour d'horizon" of the geopolitical condition of the Middle East and the powers at play as The Honorable Einat Wilf, former member of Knesset discusses what this most recent turmoil means for Israel. Known as one of Israel's most articulate representatives on the international stage and a leading intellectual and original thinker on matters of economics, education, foreign policy, Jewish peoplehood and society, Dr. Wilf was born and raised in Israel. She served as an Intelligence Officer in the Israel Defense Forces before receiving undergraduate degrees in Government and Fine Arts from Harvard, an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge. This mother of three kids under the age of four, offers a strong female voice as the first woman expert to take part in the Israel Today series. For more information on this and other Israel Today Forum events, click here.
Dear Friends,
Let's face it, it has been a terrible summer. Even for those of us lucky enough not to have had to mourn the personal loss of a loved one, this summer of war has taken an emotional and mental toll much greater than many of us initially admitted. The spirit was one of "a stiff upper lip", but nerves were frayed and, in between the sirens, few of us were able to do anything more than stay glued to the television.
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Sunny with a Chance of Rockets: Part 6
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 3:36pm
Posted in: Holocaust Commission, Stop the Sirens
By Elena Barr Baum
Read Part 5 here.
Friday morning dawned, and we were no longer under the protective wing of Yad Vashem, what to me felt like, next to the Knesset, the safest place in Israel. We looked at the forecast for Tel Aviv on the Ha'Aretz website. It was SUNNY, WITH A CHANCE OF ROCKETS. I think that headline tipped the scales for us.
After much back and forth – wanting to be tough; wanting to believe that everything would be ok; wanting to stand strong for Israel; and not seem like we were "abandoning it" when it needed us and our economic boost the most - I finally took the advice of my Israeli friends, and listened to my concerned family back at home, and rebooked myself to come back to the US early. The first flight I could get on at that point was late Saturday night. Deb worked out her travel plans, also to leave earlier than scheduled, on Sunday morning. Mickey was scheduled to fly out Friday night, so she, Deb and I did not go to Tel Aviv Friday as originally planned, but took in some of Jerusalem, since we had not seen much but Yad Vashem since we arrived. We had a lovely day, wandering, dining and shopping. Deb and I waved farewell to Mickey's taxi that evening and sent her off to the airport. (She can tell you about that story!).
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Launch Party prizes revealed! Autographed CDs from Alex, Se7en and BoA
We've got a great list of goodie bag and door prizes from our sponsors for the DramaFever Launch Party. Who are they again? Ito En, THEME Magazine, MiN New York, mark., La Vie Zen Spa and TimeOut NY Magazine. It's been whispered our own prizes would be autographed, and it's not just one, but three items! Thanks to our friends at AllKpop, we've put together a sweet collection of autographed CDs from Alex, Se7en, and BoA!
Kpop fans know Alex as the baritone crooner from Clazziquai, but K-dorama fans know Alex as the voice of "She Is" from My Lovely Sam Soon. Clazziquai also scored the dancier "Be My Love" on the My Lovely Sam Soon OST. At the launch party, we'll randomly give out two signed copies of Alex's solo album "My Vintage Romance."
Se7en's come to America to make a name for himself as a singer, but K-dorama fans know him better as Lee Hoo in Goong S! Once again, two signed copies to a pair of lucky winners!
And BoA? Do we really need to introduce the Kpop-Jpop superstar? We'll be giving out two signed copies of her first American album as she tries to break into the Billboard charts in 2009.
If that weren't enough, we'll also be giving out copies of Clazziquai's new album "Mucho Punk" -- not yet released in the U.S.!
Whew! And we didn't even mention the DramaFever T-shirts yet...


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Bizarre race in Texas...so far
Between the jet driers breaking hinges on hoods and effecting the cowl flaps, and Dale Jr's wreck, this is already a weird event.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup event at Texas Motor Speedway, already a day late due to rain showers yesterday is finally underway. But the race is really weird so far.
It's not a night race, so we can't really tell if there is a full moon out, but we are under the second caution after only 14 laps.
The first ten laps were run under caution, to get some heat int he track and dry the remaining wet patches before going green.
During that time, multiple driver, starting with outside pole sitter Brad Keselowski coming down pit lane with a broken hood hinge. Then more and more drivers were coming down pit lane with issues with their cowl flaps.
Drivers were driving too close to the jet driers that were on track, and it caused the air pressure in the hood area to effect these areas, causing some minor damage to some.
Then NASCAR gave the effected drivers their starting spots back.
Then, once they finally got going green Dale Earnhardt Jr. found himself hard in the outside tri-oval wall after clipping the inside grass.
Earnhardt admitted his own mistake, as the ride heights of the cars do not allow them to run through the grass.
Team mate Jimmie Johnson was riding behind Earnhardt Jr, and was peppered with bits of Earnhardt's car, causing damage to the front clip of his car, as well as a large dent in his hood and windshield.
What a weird start to this race.
Update: Lap 29. Kevin Harvick goes up in smoke.
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US to set up permanent air base in Poland
Press TV – May 9, 2011
US President Barack Obama will reportedly announce the establishment of a US air detachment in Poland during his upcoming visit to the European state.
Poland's leading Gazeta Wyborcza daily cited an unnamed Polish diplomatic source on Monday as saying that Washington would announce the transfer of an F-16 base from Aviano in Italy to the Lask air field in central Poland during his May 27-28 visit.
Poland's Defense Minister Bogdan Klich also said on Monday that both sides would be ready for the agreement.
"At the moment we are holding talks with the Americans on the topic of a detailed agreement that will govern on what basis the Air Detachment — the detachment that will permanently service the F-16 and Hercules crews and land personnel periodically visiting Poland — will be stationed on our territory," he was quoted by the Polish PAP news agency as saying.
Last year, Klich said he hoped the F-16 rotations would begin in 2013.
In 2010, the White House confirmed the "establishment of a US air detachment in Poland to support the periodic rotation of US military aircraft."
Meanwhile, Russia warned Poland against hosting US fighter jets, saying it would counter the move.
Geithner scuppered IMF plan to impose haircut on Irish debt
WakeUpFromYourSlumber | May 8, 2011
According to Morgan Kelly, a highly-respected Irish economist, In November 16th 2010, the rarely-altruistic IMF suggested that unguaranteed bonds in failing Irish banks should be given a haircut by an average of two-thirds. This plan, which would have lessened the penury imposed on the Irish taxpayer, was apparently scuppered by one Timothy Geithner, US Treasury Secretary and Don of the Wall Street Mafia. Kelly describes this and more in his op-ed piece in the Irish Times of May 7th 2011, part of which is quoted below
On November 16th, European finance ministers urged [finance minister Brian] Lenihan to accept a bailout to stop the panic spreading to Spain and Portugal, but he refused, arguing that the Irish government was funded until the following summer. Although attacked by the Irish media for this seemingly delusional behaviour, Lenihan, for once, was doing precisely the right thing. Behind Lenihan's refusal lay the thinly veiled threat that, unless given suitably generous terms, Ireland could hold happily its breath for long enough that Spain and Portugal, who needed to borrow every month, would drown….
Ireland's Last Stand began less shambolically than you might expect. The IMF, which believes that lenders should pay for their stupidity before it has to reach into its pocket, presented the Irish with a plan to haircut €30 billion of unguaranteed bonds by two-thirds on average. Lenihan was overjoyed, according to a source who was there, telling the IMF team: "You are Ireland's salvation."
The deal was torpedoed from an unexpected direction. At a conference call with the G7 finance ministers, the haircut was vetoed by US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner who, as his payment of $13 billion from government-owned AIG to Goldman Sachs showed, believes that bankers take priority over taxpayers. The only one to speak up for the Irish was UK chancellor George Osborne, but Geithner, as always, got his way. An instructive, if painful, lesson in the extent of US soft power, and in who our friends really are.
The negotiations went downhill from there. On one side was the European Central Bank, unabashedly representing Ireland's creditors and insisting on full repayment of bank bonds. On the other was the IMF, arguing that Irish taxpayers would be doing well to balance their government's books, let alone repay the losses of private banks. And the Irish? On the side of the ECB, naturally.
Iran: No Sorcery But A Constitutional Struggle
Moon of Alabama | May 8, 2011
So there is sorcery within the Iranian government of president Ahmadinejad, allies of him have been arrested for it and he will step down?
Today Yves Smith links to a Raw Story piece which is headlined Iranian president may resign after allies arrested, charged with sorcery. Raw Story has no sources for that claim but a link to a Guardian piece which claims:
Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds".
The Guardian provides no source for its report but that Iranian website Ayandeh it links to.
But there is little Iranian with that website except its use of Farsi language. It has an English title "Iranian Futurist". It's full domain name is www.ayandeh.nu and it is registered via Loopia Webbhotell AB in Vasteras, Sweden. The admin email for that website is firstname.lastname@example.com and that domain is registered to one Hossein Mola with an address in Kesta, Sweden.
Hossein Mola also registered the domain vahidthinktank.com. That site only has a Farsi Donation page (google translate link) and a button "English" which brings one to a blogspot page of one Vahid V. Motlagh who claims to be a futurist and looks into "Ideas for a deeper sense of life".
But back to the Guardian's source, the futurist Iranian/Swedish/Norwegian website ayandeh.nu. I can not find (google translate link) any article that would fit this as a source for the "sorcery" and "arrests" the Guardian reports. The website is a mix of futurology including from Vahid V. Motlagh, Iranian human rights stuff and a few news items about Iran. It is neither really Iranian nor a reliable source.
The whole sorcery and arrests claims are likely nonsense invented to make a little reported constitutional crisis within Iran's ruling class look more mysterious than it is.
Now lets talk about that crisis.
While the "west" always claims that Ahmedinejad is a "hardliner" or "conservative" that claim has never been true. He is a rather progressive social democrat with a more laical and secular outlook than many of the "principalists" in the Iranian parliament and the conservative clerics. This was already obvious back in 2006 when Ahmedinejad allowed women into soccer stadiums but was overruled by conservatives and the supreme leader Khamenei.
After the 2009 elections, which he won with a comfortable 60% of the votes, an emboldened Ahmedinejad again pressed for a more laical society. His point man for this project was Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. Mashaei, an engineer and politician, is a war-comrade of Ahmedinejad. His daughter is married to Ahmadenejad's son. He is known for a relative liberal view especially with regards to women's rights and even on relations to people in Israel.
In July 2009 Ahmedinejad made Mashaei his first vice president. Conservatives protested and within a week the supreme leader ordered him out. Ahmedinejad showed them the finger and made Mashaei his chief of staff and gave him most of the powers he would have had as first vice president. It is rumored that he is grooming him for taking up the presidency when Ahmedinejad will end his current last term.
Recently Mashaei made several comments which set out Iranian nationalism and Shia Islam as two equal pillars of Iranian strength. For the clerics this was an unbearable attack on their position and on the prerogative of Islam and they fought him bitterly. In early April this year Ahmedinejad was pressed to let Mashaei go and to get a new chief of staff. The conservative intelligence minister Hojatoleslam Haydar Moslehi, himself a hardline cleric and the cabinet watchdog of the supreme leader, was thought to have led the campaign against Mashaei.
But then Mashaei reasonably claimed that he found his office bugged and Haydar Moslehi was fingered as being behind the plot. The president did not liked being spied on by his intelligence minister and by mid April Ahmdinejhad fired Haydar Moslehi as minister and reinstated Mashaei as chief of staff. The supreme leader Khamenei then demanded the reinstatement of his spy Moslehi.
There was a lot of back and forth on the issue, including Friday sermons from the pulpit, but Ahmedinejad did not retreat. The Iranian constitution gives the president as the chief executive the right to seat and fire ministers. The supreme leader's constitutional position is comparable a U.S. chief justice position in the supreme court. He is certainly not a dictator without bounds. As part of the judicature he has a (small) formal say in (vice-)presidential positions but no formal say at all in cabinet positions.
This led to a situation where Moslehi still acted as minister but was ignored by Ahmedinejad who either boycotted cabinet meetings when Moslehi was attending or ordered him out before they started. For some fourteen days the situation was hanging in balance.
Finally the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, stepped in. In the end a majority requested that Ahmedinejad follow the wishes of the supreme leader. As the parliament has the power to impeach the president Ahmedinejad had little choice but to, for now, give in.
Today Ahmedinejad attended a cabinet meeting with Moslehi present. Also present was Mashaei.
While this all may sound dramatic it was a quite normal situation in the Islamic Republic. Since its foundation, power struggles between the executive, legislative and judiciary branches are a regular occurrence. The conservatives and the Islamic judges, usually somewhat wrongly described as clerics, demand a higher ranking for the judiciary branch led by the supreme leader. The executive points to its democratic legitimation and sees this as an equal source of power. The legislative is usually split on the issues.
So there is nothing in this story about sorcery or arrests. There may have been rumors of such but those were likely more a part of a smear campaign against Mashaei than a real issue.
What astonished me was how little this whole issue was reported on in the "west" over the last weeks. That may well be because the "western" distorted viewpoint of Ahmedinejad as a "hardliner" who "lost the elections" and of the Iranian judiciary branch as "clerics" gives the wrong frame of reference to understand simple politics in Iran. Not understanding what was going on let reporters turn to nonsensical claims.
PS: The above overview on what happened in Iranian politics in the last month is based on many sources I read over the last month and which I currently have no time to collect and link appropriately. The best source to follow the issue was the blog of Nader Uskowi, not a fan of the Islamic Republic but knowing it reasonably well, who regularly posted on it over the last weeks. The, at times quite partisan, discussion in the Race for Iran comments also helped.
Meshaal told to choose between committing to Quartet's conditions and Bin Laden's fate
MEMO | 09 May 2011
In a startling statement, the chairman of the Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee has threatened to assassinate the head of the political bureau of Hamas. Shaul Mofaz, MK, said that Khalid Meshaal should declare his organisation's commitment to the conditions set by the International Quartet, including the recognition of Israel, "or become a target for assassination in the way that Bin Laden was dealt with".
Speaking to Radio Israel on 8th May, Mofaz said, "I know the Hamas movement very well, and I believe that it is one of the most difficult terrorist movements that Israel has known. And our records for Hamas are long and bitter because of the many operations that the movement has carried out against us."
The MK said that Meshaal has two choices: "Either accept the Quartet's conditions, which include the cessation of terrorist operations, the recognition of Israel and an acknowledgement of all the agreements signed with it", or face assassination attempts. "He has to make the choice," added Mofaz.
Tel Aviv is ready to negotiate with the Palestinian government that will be formed post-reconciliation, claims Mofaz, if and when Hamas declares its acceptance of the Quartet's conditions. He stressed that the international community must insist on Hamas adopting them. He also called on Netanyahu's government to take political initiatives and expend the effort necessary "to prevent Israel's international isolation because of the country's lack of real leadership working towards changing the current reality". This, he concluded, constitutes a big dilemma.
The Book of Joshua (Muravchic) Prophetic on Arab Democracy
By Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment | May 9, 2011
Two years ago at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington, DC., Joshua Muravchic spoke about his book, "The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East." In "The Next Founders," he profiles seven people from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Kuwait, and Syria. It's especially noteworthy that the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) advisor was not promoting democratic voices only in regimes that would be considered unfriendly to Israel.
There to discuss Muravchik's book was Tamara Wittes, another longtime pro-Israel advocate of democratic reform in the Middle East and author of Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy. The then director of the Saban Center's Middle East Democracy and Development (MEDD) Project is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), where she coordinates democracy and human rights policy for the NEA Bureau and supervises the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). According to an April 18 Washington Post report, MEPI has funneled up to $6 million to Syrian opposition groups since 2006. Wittes commented:
"There are a lot of organizations in Syria and other countries that are seeking changes from their government. That's an agenda that we believe in and we're going to support."
Presumably, those "other countries" included Egypt. After all, as far back as 2005, while she was still working for Haim Saban's Israel-protecting think tank, Wittes had written a critical piece on Hosni Mubarak entitled "Elections or no, he's still Pharaoh," in which she predicted that Egyptians would soon "start thinking, along with other Arabs, about hitting the streets."
Watch June 2009 video (intro ends at 5:50) – click title for video: Book TV: Joshua Muravchik, author "The Next Founders"
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Settlers storm school, post racist slogans
Palestine Information Center – 09/05/2011
NABLUS — Jewish settlers stormed a Palestinian secondary school for girls in Sawiya village, south of Nablus, and placed racist, anti-Arab posters on its entrance in Hebrew.
The education office in southern Nablus said in a statement that the settlers, who were protected by Israeli army troops, also glued other posters on the school's walls inciting against the Palestinians.
The office condemned the act, which negatively affects the educational process, and called for an immediate halt to such practices.
The Israeli occupation forces provide protection for such violations of this school in the village and other schools in the region, which are routine practice on the part of the settlers.
Meanwhile, groups of settlers barged into the Palestinian Wadi Al-Hilwa grazing area in the northern Jordan Valley and threatened the shepherds there and told them to leave the area.
Local sources said that the settlers came from the nearby Maskiot settlement and were planning to annex the Palestinian land to their settlement, which was already established on usurped Palestinian land.
Obama freezes Chicago Palestinian leader's bank accounts
By Maureen Clare Murphy – The Electronic Intifada – 9 May 2011
The US government has frozen the bank accounts belonging to Hatem Abudayyeh, a Palestinian community organizer and director of a social service organization serving the Arab community in Chicago, and his wife, Naima.
Meanwhile, several members of Congress have written to the Obama administration to express their concerns about violations in civil liberties as a result of earlier government actions toward Abudayyeh and other activists.
The freezing of the Abudayyeh family's bank accounts on Friday, 6 May is the latest development in a secret grand jury investigation that has been launched by US District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office in Chicago. The freezing of the accounts has raised concerns that criminal indictments in the case may be imminent.
"I was downtown [in Chicago] on Friday, I had parked my car in a garage and when I tried to use my debit card to get out, it was declined," Hatem Abudayyeh, director of the Arab American Action Network, told The Electronic Intifada. "I talked to Naima right away and she said she had no access with her card either, so I had to call a friend in the [Chicago] Loop to borrow money to get my car out of the garage."
The next day the couple went to their bank branch, where the manager said that he had no information but that their accounts were frozen as a result of a government order.
The Abudayyehs' accounts were frozen just two days before Mother's Day is observed in the United States. "We were planning on having lunch with my mom and her family, and I couldn't buy flowers or anything like that," Hatem Abudayyeh said.
Last September, federal agents raided and searched the Abudayyehs' home and confiscated the family's belongings, including financial records and, as Hatem Abudayyeh told The Electronic Intifada last November, "everything that said 'Palestine' on it." Federal agents also confiscated home videos that Naima Abudayyeh, a Palestinian immigrant, had recorded during a family visit to Palestine last summer.
The Abudayyehs' five-year-old daughter was present during the raid and the family was mainly confined to their small living room during the hours-long search through their home.
That same day, federal agents raided several other homes and offices across the Midwest, serving subpoenas to 14 anti-war and international solidarity activists to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago. After those activists refused to testify to a grand jury, saying that they were being unfairly targeted because of their work organizing in opposition to US foreign policy in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Colombia, nine additional activists were served subpoenas around the month of December.
The nine additional activists served subpoenas are all residents of Chicago and all are Palestinians or those who have organized in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Electronic Intifada's managing editor, Maureen Clare Murphy, was served a subpoena on 21 December. The subpoena issued to Murphy is not connected to her work with The Electronic Intifada, but likely targets her because of her Palestine solidarity activism.
All 23 activists who have received subpoenas since September have refused to testify, despite risking being jailed for doing so.
A grand jury, no longer in use anywhere outside the US, is an investigative tool that allows the government to compel citizens to testify even if they are not suspected of any crime. Activists targeted by these subpoenas, their lawyers, and their supporters, believe the government is using the grand jury as a form of political inquisition and intelligence gathering, targeting groups and individuals working for a more peaceful US foreign policy.
Attack on the US Palestinian community
According to a statement made by the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the Coalition to Protect People's Rights and also distributed by the US Palestinian Community Network, "Not only does the government's action [to freeze the bank accounts] seriously disrupt the lives of the Abudayyehs and their five-year-old daughter, but it represents an attack on Chicago's Arab community and activist community and the fundamental rights of Americans to freedom of speech" ( "Demand US Attorney Fitzgerald unfreeze the bank accounts of the Abudayyeh family," 8 May 2011).
Of the total of 23 activists who have been subpoenaed, seven are Palestinians from Chicago — home to one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Middle East. Scores of Arab community and Palestine solidarity organizations, as well as anti-war groups, civil liberties organizations and faith groups, have issued statements condemning the investigation and attempts to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in the US.
The investigation for which the 23 activists have been targeted takes places in the context of widespread surveillance and repression of the Muslim and Arab communities in the US.
And as The Electronic Intifada reported in November of last year, the investigation targeting the subpoenaed activists is just the latest chapter in a long history of US government attempts to criminalize Palestine community organizing and support work in the country.
In December 2001, the US government shut down the largest Muslim charity in the US, the Holy Land Foundation, which sent direct humanitarian aid to Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation, amongst other places. Five defendants prosecuted in relation to the case are serving out lengthy prison sentences of 15 to 65 years (for more information, see the Holy Land Foundation case website).
Other prominent Palestinian community organizers in the US who have been put on trial in recent years because of their work educating Americans about the impact of US military aid to Israel and raising funds for humanitarian assistance for Palestinians living under occupation are Dr. Sami al-Arian, Muhammad Salah and Dr. Abdelhaleem Ashqar.
All three were acquitted by juries of US citizens of all terrorism and racketeering-related charges but have been charged with or convicted of obstruction of justice or contempt of court for refusing to name the names of other Palestinian activists in the US and in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Investigation into material support law violations
While the US government does not comment on grand jury investigations or even confirm that they are underway, search warrants used to raid activists' homes last September indicate that the home invasions and subpoenas are part of an investigation into violations of the law banning material support for foreign terrorist organizations.
The material support legislation was enacted under the Clinton administration, expanded with the PATRIOT act under Bush and expanded even further last summer after the Supreme Court ruled in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that political speech can be considered material support for foreign terrorist organizations if done in a "coordinated way."
The broad scope of the material support laws — especially after last summer's Supreme Court decision — has provoked sharp criticism from civil liberties groups. Humanitarian agencies have also protested the breadth of the laws, saying it impacts their ability to carry out their work.
Critics of the legislation have pointed out that had these laws been in place during the South Africa anti-apartheid movement, it would have criminalized the entire movement in the US. At the peak of the movement, the Reagan administration's State Department placed Nelson Mandela's party, the African National Congress (ANC), on the designated foreign terrorist organization list. The South Africa solidarity movement in the US took direction from the ANC.
Undercover agent at center of case
The basis of the investigation for which Abudayyeh and the 22 other activists have been targeted appears to be the word of an undercover law enforcement agent who infiltrated anti-war groups in Minneapolis.
The agent, who went by the name of Karen Sullivan, became involved in the anti-war movement in Minneapolis around the time of the 2008 Republican National Convention — one of the largest anti-war protests in the US in years ("Who was Karen Sullivan?" City Pages, 20 January 2011). The 14 activists subpoenaed in September were all involved in organizing permitted marches to protest the convention.
In addition to apparently surveilling activists, the undercover agent also disrupted their work. "Sullivan" elected to join an educational trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank in the summer of 2009. When she and the two women from Minneapolis with whom she was traveling arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, they were detained and ultimately deported. The two women with whom the agent was traveling have since been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.
The identity of the undercover agent has been confirmed in discussions between the activists' legal team and the US attorneys. However, the undercover agent's identity was not disclosed during the discovery process of the lawsuit filed by Mick Kelly — one of those raided in September — after Kelly was shot at close range and injured by a high-velocity marking device during one of the Republican National Convention marches.
Attorneys representing Kelly, one of the organizers of the march, filed a motion in March of this year to reopen the lawsuit discovery process and subpoena "Sullivan" as she was present when he was shot ("Lawsuit against police violence at Republican National Convention to go forward," Fight Back! News, 4 March 2011).
Call to action
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the Coalition to Protect People's Rights are calling on supporters to call US District Attorney Fitzgerald's office today to protest the ongoing investigation and the freezing of the Abudayyeh family's bank accounts ("May 9: Demand US Attorney Fitzgerald unfreeze the bank accounts …").
Meanwhile, hundreds of concerned citizens have signed a pledge issued by the Committee to Stop FBI Repression to take action in the event of activists being jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury or being indicted (Pledge to resist FBI, grand jury repression).
Activists across the country have built a broad support movement that has seen trade union resolutions in support of the targeted activists from locals representing more than 600,000 workers in the US. They have also lobbied to elected representatives and several members of Congress have written letters to the Obama administration raising concern of the investigation's violations of civil liberties (see "Statements from legislators about the case," Committee to Stop FBI Repression).
Since Fukushima the real dangers of nuclear power are now better known
By Andrew McKillop | VHeadline | May 9, 2011
In an article published August 1, 2010 I stated what is now clearer than ever, after the Fukushima disaster, and more and more threatening, after perhaps the last time the USA triumphally announces that Bin laden is dead (announcements of his death stretch back as far as December 2001).
In the August 2010 article I said:
Conventional wars, like the conventional nation states that make or "wage" war, are less and less credible due to the new nuclear threat, due to certain or assured massive or total destruction and economic damage, when or if large reactors and nuclear installations are hit.
A quick roundup of admitted and officially announced damage to the 6-reactor Fukushima site in Japan, and economic losses due to this disaster as of early May is as follows:
– At least 4 of the reactors are destroyed and unable to be repaired, and the 2 that could or might be repaired face rising Japanese public opinion in rejection of nuclear power. Radiation levels on-site remain very high, also making it difficult to envisage repair of the 2 potentially recoverable reactors. Dismantling the reactors and safe store entombment and neutralization of radiation danger at the site will cost at least US$12 billion and take several years – perhaps more than 10 years.
-Around 90,000 Japanese have been forced out of their homes, jobs and livelihoods in the 20-kilometre Total Exclusion Zone around the disaster site, that many scientists say should be extended to at least 30-kilometres. There is no known date for when these persons can or might return inside the exclusion zone, resulting in total economic loss. Some 25+ years after the Chernobyl disaster, its 7,800 square kilometre total exclusion zone remains uninhabitable.
– Economic costs and losses from the Fukushima nuclear disaster are presently estimated at a total of around US$130-175 billion, but may further increase.
– The total radiological inventory or radiation potential of each reactor at the Fukushima site is about 200 times the radiation released by the Hiroshima atom bomb, which killed about 60,000 persons by radiation (blast and fire, also killing at least as many persons, in August 1945).
-Including fuel rods in fuel pond storage, ancillary equipment, on-site nuclear wastes and nuclear materials, the total radiological inventory of the Fukushima site is probably more than 10,000 times the radiation released by the Hiroshima atom bomb.
Worldwide, there are about 440 civil reactors of similar size to the Fukushima reactors, in service at this time, as well as about 290 research, scientific and military reactors, and about 370 submarine and surface ship reactors. The radiological inventory of these mostly non-military reactors is vastly higher than the radiation release potential of all nuclear weapons held by the so-called "declared nuclear powers" (USA, Russia, China, France, UK), and the "non-declared powers" (India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea)
Since late 2010, world media has repeatedly carried reports claiming Al Qaeda intends to become nuclear capable. One example is a February 2, 2011 article in UK Daily Telegraph headlined Wikileaks: Al Qaeda is planning a dirty bomb, and continuing: "Al-Qaeda is actively trying to secure nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build a radioactive"dirty" bomb, according to leaked diplomatic documents".
The antiquated, technological naivety of this Wikileaks claim reminds us that Wikileaks has possibly multiple agendas and multiple masters in its so-called quest for truth. The article citing Wikileaks goes on to repeat claims of Al Qaeda being "interested" in dirty bombs, basically nuclear wastes or radioactive material packed in any kind of container and exploded, for example in a city center dustbin.
Al Qaeda operatives would however have no interest in the vast dirty bombs also known as civil nuclear reactors. They would also eschew fuel rod fabrication centers, waste reprocessing and storage centers, road, ship and train convoys transporting ultra-deadly materials, notably plutonium, the world's uranium mines, and remaining large quantities of smaller sized nuclear ordnance, including atomic mines, torpedoes and artillery shells, leftover from the Cold War period!
Nuclear reactors are in no way designed to resist military attack – even so-called military reactors which are mostly high neutron reactors able to quickly "breed" or produce plutonium and highly enriched uranium, to make atomic weapons, are themselves rarely hard-shell protected or located underground. Most nuclear reactors have so-called containment features rarely exceeding 20 to30 centimetres of concrete and in some cases a few centimetres of mild steel protection of the reactor cores. Fuel rod dumps or cooling ponds – as shown in the case of Fukushima – are sometimes located in open air surroundings with zero protection.
The range and types of conventional military ordnance able to penetrate and destroy reactor cores, or their cooling systems, or both are very wide-ranging. They range from conventional bombs, artillery shells, mines, mortars, anti-tank and anti-building shoulder-fired missiles, to conventional short-range or long-range missiles. These missiles are owned by more than 20 nations, including Iran's Shahab-4. Other than conventional military ordnance, unconventional and so-called terror war ordnance able to destroy any civil nuclear reactors include a large range of potential weapons. These range from kamikaze explosives like the suicide belt, to long range anti-tank missiles, improvised devices using conventional military or civil explosives, drone-launched explosive charges, and electronic and Internet based hacking attack on the control systems of nuclear plants.
Only after covering some of the more rational and likely weapons choices, do we come on to hijacked airplanes deliberately crashed on nuclear sites – whether reactor sites, reprocessing sites, fuel fabrication centres, waste storage centres, and other parts of the so-called nuclear value chain.
The Fukushima disaster has prized open previously semi-secret information on the fantastic death toll in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus from the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986. Some 60,0000 Liquidators were forced to work at the site, under panic conditions, with little or no protection and today perhaps one-third to one-half of these Liquidators are already dead. Economic loss from the Chernobyl disaster, in today's money, was at least US$250 billion. This was not a military attack or terror attack, but a nuclear catastrophe due to human error. The Fukushima disaster was due to earthquake and tsunami, of course aggravated by the proven irresponsibility, lying and cost-cutting of the site operator, Tepco.
Nuclear power is therefore already a dagger pointed at the jugular vein of the global economy and consumer economy. Today, with what is likely the last gasp of the Al Qaeda farce, and its violence and loss of life, created by American geopolitical strategy for unknown or absurd reasons, we have a new and additional asymmetric nuclear war threat.
Western media and the Wikileaks communication side-channel provides false information on the supposed Dirty Bomb threat of Al Qaeda, but totally ignores the reality of existing and vast dirty bomb civil reactors and other nuclear infrastructures in the worldwide nuclear value chain. Since Fukushima the real dangers of nuclear power are now better known. Whatever may remain of Al Qaeda's operatives will also know.
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Murder without Corpse
By Linh Dinh | May 8, 2011
In a photograph, Bush is shown in an Army jacket, his hands holding a tray with a picture-perfect turkey, garlanded by grapes. He is surrounded by American troops, most of whom are not looking at him. This is meant to convey that the photo was spontaneous, casual, and not posed. It is authentic.
In another photograph, Obama is shown in the Situation Room of the White House, surrounded by his top security advisors. They are watching something. Of the thirteen faces, none is looking at the camera. Again, this is to convey that the photo was natural and spontaneous. Obama is shown in a casual jacket, Biden in shirt sleeves, details that indicate they are at work, and not posing for a propaganda photo, god forbid. This image is so authentic, in fact, that it borders on the illicit. This was a secret session, after all. That's why all of the laptop monitors have been blackened out, and the photo in front of Hillary Clinton has been blurred. We should be thankful, then, for this courtesy peep at a scene we shouldn't even have access to. The spontaneity is also reinforced by an unfamiliar face at the back, peeking in. She is younger and shorter than the rest, truly a little person among heavyweights, nearly all of whom are men, by the way, yet only the most cynical would conclude that this small woman was added to double the female representation in the room. A really tall and large woman would not do. Like that worm in the British royal wedding photo, this tiny woman provides just enough intrigue without distracting.
As we all know, Bush served up a plastic turkey, so the turkey propaganda photo was itself a turkey, but a much bigger turkey is the Situation Room image. Releasing it, the White House explained that Obama and company were watching the raid and execution of Bin Laden in real time, with the snuff film made possible by a camera mounted on the helmet of a Navy Seal. Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that any head during a firefight is not likely to be stationary, not long enough, in any case, to broadcast steadily and clearly to the folks back home, not unless it wants to be a dead head, that is.
"Hey, Seal with the camera, run up that stairs and fix your gaze on Geronimo, will you? Remember to stand still and don't duck, so our Commander in Chief will have a vivid stream of images, OK?"
Soon after, the White House explained that there was no live feed of the crucial moment, after all, that the camera actually didn't work for 25 of the 38-minute raid, so there was absolutely no video footage of Bin Laden, but why this sudden reversal? Can't these people work out their lies before they broadcast them to us?
The White House had to backtrack because it had painted itself into a corner. It had already refused to produce photos of a dead Bin Laden. He had been shot above the eye, it said, shattering his skull, so such a gory image would inflame Muslim sentiments. "We don't want to spike the football," Obama explained. But if we can't see a dead Bin Laden, how about a photo of him alive? If a helmet mounted camera could deliver a live feed to the Situation Room, surely it can produce at least one image of Bin Laden with his head still intact, and in that house? But this, too, was out of the question, incredibly enough.
With webcams, surveillance cameras, Google street view and the ubiquitous camera phones, it seems that the entire world is always photographed, or ready to be photographed these days, that anyone at any moment can be captured by that voracious shutter, then uploaded onto a screen. There are cameras hidden inside pens, books, boom boxes, clocks, air purifiers and smoke detectors. You can probably google any name, a grade school chum, your first lover, long lost cat, dead grandma, bless her soul, and find photos of them online, uploaded by the Pentagon, or maybe God himself.
After any political assassination or execution, the public has also come to expect a photo as evidence or trophy. Just think of the strung up Mussolini, bloody Ngo Dinh Diem inside an armored car, a shirtless Che Guevara or the bandaged head of Leon Trotsky.
We are drowning in photographs, most of which we can do without, yet the one image that everyone wants to see this week, of a Bin Laden dead or alive during the raid, is not available. Instead, we are treated to a wealth of irrelevant information. We are told that there was "a hero dog" involved; that Obama and company had turkey pita wraps, cold shrimp, potato chips and soda, bought from Costco, the cheapo outlet—how nice, this common man touch—in the Situation Room; that Obama has met to congratulate his commandos, all highly intelligent and responsible family men between the ages of 30 and 40. Whatever.
The Bin Laden photos would not matter if there was a corpse, but that too, has gone missing, so without a cadaver or even the flimsy evidence of a photoshopped photograph, what is there to this sensational murder, really? Nothing but words from the CIA and the White House. Though they lied to us about Jessica Lynch's "rescue" and Pat Tillman's murder, we are to believe them this time because they have suddenly decided to speak the truth. Honestly.
So It Begins! Sen. Charles Schumer Proposes Increased Security And No Fly List For Amtrak Trains
The Intel Hub | May 8th, 2011
Just days after the CIA released information allegedly found in the compound of Osama Bin Laden that indicated Al Qaeda is planning to target U.S. railways, a leading Democratic has proposed new security measures for all Amtrak stations in America.
The simple fact is that the staged death of a long ago dead man is being used to implement further totalitarian police state actions in a country billed as land of the free.
Soon after the staged media spectacle began, western intelligence sources claimed that they had found evidence that Al Qaeda was planning to attack U.S. railroads.
Instead of doing their job and vetting information given to them by a corrupt government, the corporate controlled media immediately broadcasted the fake videos as 100% truth.
Now in response to the Al Qaeda terror fear, Sen. Charles Schumer is taking the lead in the establishment of these so called "security" checkpoints.
"Circumstances demand we make adjustments by increasing funding to enhance rail safety and monitoring on commuter rail transit and screening who gets on Amtrak passenger trains, so that we can provide a greater level of security to the public," the New York Democrat said at a news conference, reported Reuters.
These adjustments include a new Amtrak no fly list similar to the list that is already in place in our nation's airports.
This is a classic example of Problem – Reaction – Solution.
Bahraini Activist Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja Severely Wounded under Torture
Al-Manar | May 9, 2011
Bahraini human rights activist and former president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja was drastically beaten by the Bahraini authorities after being arrested in April.
"Al Khawaja's jawbones were completely smashed and he is suffering from four fractures in his face; he is to undergo a very critical operation", another Bahraini activist Nabil Rajab stated.
In an interview with Al Manar website, Rajab called upon "the Bahrainis all over the world, specifically those living in European countries, to proceed with the lawsuits and use all possible judicial methods against the Bahraini regime".
Furthermore, the human rights activist clarified that "we are victims of our region, as sympathizing with any cause is influenced by the sectarian aspect… we are also victims of inconsistencies and interests of world powers that ally with Al khalifa (Bahrain) regime".
This comes as the Bahraini regime has been executing brutal repressive policies against civilians since the protests began. The Bahraini security forces are breaking into houses, kidnapping young men and women, arresting humanitarian and political activists, as well as opposition figures, and are imprisoning and torturing most of them.
Four political prisoners have been tortured to death; the last was funder of Al Wasat Bahraini newspaper and prominent business man Karim Al Fakhrawi.
In addition, the Bahraini authorities have issued death sentences against four protestors who were accused of killing two policemen; an accusation that was denied by the young men's lawyers.
On this topic, Rajab, who is currently prohibited from traveling abroad, expected that more death sentences will be issued against political detainees, and considered that "referring civilians to military tribunals and issuing death sentences against them are acts that contradict the bill of rights and are denied by Western countries, specifically the European Union that has ties with this regime".


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Wire Frame Subaru Sculpture.
That's not CGI, that's a lifesize wire frame sculpture of Subari Impreza by British artist Benedict Radcliffe. The "car" was parked outisde of an art gallery and was ticketed by pissed off traffic cops!: http://news.windingroad.com/etc/wonder-woman-your-car-is-ready%e2%80%a6/ - via digg
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OHMYGAWD! You took the thought right out of my head, Eduo! Just paint the lines glowing blue instead of yellow!
Hooboy, I used to LOVE that show. Like TRON in realspace...*LOL*
Hooboy, I used to LOVE that show. Like TRON in realspace...*LOL*
Reminds me of Automan.
Looks like the makings for a great college prank. Maybe replace an RA's car with a wireframe replica ...


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Don't sit your drink on your Dutchman.
People in my area have talking a lot about this lately. I'm not sure what a dutchman is but they have saying don't put a sandwich on the dutchman and don't put your drink on one. What the heck is a dutchman?
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I know what the Flying Dutchman is! Thats about it.
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There is a brand of grill / smoker called a dutchman. Putting your sandwich or your drink on it would be very unwise! You should ask the next person you hear say it what exactly they are talking about.
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The only thing I can think of is that there is a company with that name that makes wood furniture. Other than that, dunno.
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This impressive-looking cake will delight coconut-lovers. The filling needs to chill overnight, so be sure to begin preparing this dessert a day ahead of time.
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups whipping cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups sweetened flaked coconut
1/4 cup sour cream
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
5 large eggs
1 1/3 cups whipping cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups sweetened flaked coconut, toasted
For filling:
Stir cornstarch, 2 tablespoons water, and vanilla in small bowl to dissolve cornstarch. Bring cream, sugar, and butter to boil in heavy medium saucepan. Add cornstarch mixture and bring to boil. Remove from heat and stir in coconut. Cool completely. Mix in sour cream. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
For cake:
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour three 9-inch round cake pans. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt in large bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in another large bowl to blend. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in cream and vanilla. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture. Divide batter equally among pans. Bake until tester inserted into center of cakes comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool completely.
For frosting:
Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl to blend. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
Place 1 cake layer on cake plate. Top with half of filling. Place second cake layer atop filling. Top with remaining filling. Place third cake layer atop filling. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake. Pat toasted coconut over top and sides of cake, pressing gently to adhere. (Can be prepared up to 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Let stand at room temperature 3 hours before serving.)
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"I'm a snacker," said Mr. Belling, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned CEO of PopChips. "I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips as much as I tried them." So in 2007, he set out to find the holy grail of snacking. What he found wasn't just a new chip brand, it was a whole new category.
"I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip," he said. As the name indicates, PopChips are neither baked nor fried, but popped via a combination of heat and pressure (not all that different from popcorn).
Once he was happy with the product, months were spent interviewing between 20 and 30 package-design firms before hiring Turner Duckworth to give PopChips a brand identity and brightly colored snack bags. While it's used a variety of advertising agencies, including San Francisco-based Pereira & O' Dell and now New York-based Kraftworks, its grassroots marketing approach, a blend of hyperlocal and social marketing, has stayed largely the same.
One addition to PopChips' outreach is celebrity spokesman Ashton Kutcher, who approached PopChips earlier this year. "He was a fan of the brand, and we were doing a round of financing, and Ashton, through a mutual friend, said he'd be interested in investing." Then he said he wanted to be the company's "President of Pop Culture" and help shape the brand's social-media strategy. "I assumed I was getting punk'd," Mr. Belling said.
PopChips have been picked up for distribution nationally by Target stores, Whole Foods, Jamba Juice, 24 Hour Fitness gyms, and are served on Virgin Airlines.
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So far I have the feed and an archive of the revisions being automatically generated and uploaded to the remote server daily.
Having an RSS feed for the SVN commit history presented an interesting problem where I couldn't really update the script_version field in the scripts schema.sql file without clogging up my revision history with worthless updates about the version number being updated.
So, I wrote a small script that exports a copy of the script, retrieves the SVN revision number from the repo, then updates schema.sql with the correct version number before finally packaging script for me.
In case anyone's curious, here's the code for that. This little script lives in my working copy on my workstation, not under version control.
echo "Exporting HEAD revision..."
svn -q export http://192.168.1.102/svn/wallpaper-script
echo "Updating working copy..."
svn -q update
php -r '
$properties = `svn info -r HEAD`;
if(preg_match("#^revision:\s*(\d+)\s*$#im", $properties, $revision))
echo "Updating script version in schema.sql to 2.{$revision[1]}...", PHP_EOL;
$schema = file_get_contents("wallpaper-script/install/schema.sql");
$schema = str_replace("script_version'\'', '\''2.0'\'')", "script_version'\'', '\''2.{$revision[1]}'\'')", $schema);
file_put_contents("wallpaper-script/install/schema.sql", $schema);
echo "Compressing package...", PHP_EOL;
shell_exec("tar zcf wallpaper-site-script_2.{$revision[1]}.tar.gz wallpaper-script");
echo "Cleaning Up..."
rm -rf wallpaper-script
echo "Done."