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Awards season kicks off Sunday with the 69th Golden Globe Awards (8 ET/5 PT on NBC). Who will emerge victorious? We don't know yet, but we can have fun predicting — and so can you. Download your ballot here, make your picks and compare them to ours below.
Homeland, New Girl and new shows lead Golden Globe nominations
Drama Series
Will win: Homeland
The Showtime thriller premiered to a ton of buzz that only grew with every successive episode, culminating in a tense, edge-of-your-seat season finale last month. That, plus the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's affinity for newbies equals a winning formula.
Watch out for: Game of Thrones
The sprawling and lavish series is the sort of pretty new thing that's right up the HFPA's alley. Also keep an eye out for American Horror Story, as the group is quite fond of Ryan Murphy (besides Glee's wins, Nip/Tuck won this category seven years ago).
Comedy/Musical Series
Will win: Modern Family
With its affection for two-time defending champ Glee waning (the show received zero acting nominations), the HFPA should at long last jump on the Modern Family bandwagon (hey, it didn't reward 30 Rock until three seasons in, either). Ironically, the trophy would come during season that, while still hilarious and heartwarming, isn't as sharp as the first two.
Watch out for: New Girl
It helps to have the It Girl as your lead.
Drama Actor
Will win: Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Playing against type as a cagey, ruthless and morally ambiguous Chicago mayor should play into Grammer's favor. A Globe favorite, Grammer has eight nominations and two Globes at home for Frasier, and he no doubt helped his little-seen show to a series nomination.
Watch out for: Damian Lewis, Homeland
We'd love to pick Bryan Cranston (for the win even), but we've accepted the fact that the HFPA does not like Breaking Bad. Lewis gets the edge for being on the hot new show — especially compared to Jeremy Irons (The Borgias). Plus, the odds are not in Boardwalk Empire's Steve Buscemi's favor to repeat: In the past 28 years, only Hugh Laurie (House) managed to win more than once.
Drama Actress
Will win: Claire Danes, Homeland
Already 2-for-2 at the Globes, Danes ought to maintain her perfect record for her riveting powerhouse turn that ensured her TV legacy will be much more than just Angela Chase. Also working in her favor: She's the only nominee whose show has a series nomination.
Watch out for: Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Revenge is the watercooler new show of the season, and part of that is thanks to Stowe's divine ice queen Victoria Grayson, whom she plays with a hardnosed yet vulnerable touch.
Comedy/Musical Actor
Will win: Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
A four-time nominee (previously nominated for Friends and, yes, even Joey), LeBlanc can finally score his first major award for his brazen satire of himself, not to mention Hollywood — and the HFPA will love the nudge-nudge-wink-wink of Americans bastardizing British shows. Like Danes, LeBlanc also benefits from being the only nominee whose show is nominated for series.
Watch out for: Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
The support is there for Galecki, who shockingly made it into this race without co-star and defending champ Jim Parsons.
Comedy/Musical Actress
Will win: Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
No contest. The trophy's been engraved with Deschanel's name since New Girl premiered. The HFPA has a thing for ingénues and it won't be able to resist Deschanel's quirky magnetism.
Watch out for: Laura Dern, Enlightened
Cable's dark comedy ladies have triumphed in this category two years running, which bodes well.
Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Will win: Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Pearce should get a Globe to go along with his Emmy for his disarming and dissolute playboy.
Watch out for: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
It's tough for series stars to face off against the TV movie/miniseries folk, but Dinklage has the chops to pull off a win. His impish Tyrion crackles in every scene he's in and, like Pearce, he also deserves a Globe to go with his Emmy award.
Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Will win: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Lange's fabulous Southern belle from hell ought to snatch the Golden Globe favorite (this is her 12th nomination) her fifth statuette, which would tie her for third-most wins with Rosalind Russell.
Watch out for: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
The only thing better than a fake Southern dame? A real British (and two-time Globe-winning) dame. Don't be surprised if the HFPA falls just as hard for the British period drama as we Americans have.
Golden Globe surprises and snubs: So many new faces, but still no Breaking Bad
Drama Picture
Will win: The Descendants
With The Artist competing in comedy, Alexander Payne's first flick since Sideways, full of pathos, laughs and tears as it explores imperfection, should take the prize here.
Watch out for: The Help
You can't disregard the most commercially successful and beloved film of the lineup.
Comedy/Musical Picture
Will win: The Artist
This is sewn up. The crowd-pleasing and warm throwback to silent films will be catnip to HFPA voters, who fancy stylishly crafted period pieces. A win would cement The Artist as the Oscar front-runner. Fun fact: Since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's across-the-board coronation eight years ago, the Globes film winner — from either genre — has matched with the Oscars only once (with Slumdog Millionaire three years ago).
Watch out for: Bridesmaids
If The Hangover could win, why can't the ladies?
Drama Actor
Will win: Brad Pitt, Moneyball
His pal and closest competitor George Clooney has three nods, but Pitt, who won his only Globe 16 years ago, had an equally banner year with The Tree of Life and Moneyball, in which his quiet performance, imbued with a Redford-like charm, reminds us just how skilled an actor he is. With that said, let's be real — no one loses when any of these hotties wins.
Watch out for: George Clooney, The Descendants
HFPA voters love them some Clooney. In resurrecting his pet project The Ides of March from near awards death, they gave the two-time winner four nominations. If they don't want Clooney to go home empty-handed, this will be the best spot to reward him (since he's totally not winning drama picture, director or screenplay).
Drama Actress
Will win: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
It's a tight race, but Streep's flawless portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, combined with her Globes history — she's the most nominated performer with 26 — could net the living legend her record-setting eighth statuette. Plus, the film's subject matter alone would appeal to the foreign press.
Watch out for: Viola Davis, The Help
Davis' Aibileen is the heart and soul of The Help, and the veteran actress shines in her first lead film role.
Comedy/Musical Actor
Will win: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Easy win here. The Artist wouldn't be half the film it is without Dujardin's enchanting and devastating performance, conveyed with more emotion without saying a word than by most actors with pages-long, baity dialogue.
Watch out for: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50
2011 may have been the Year of Ryan Gosling, but his double nominations (he's up for Crazy, Stupid, Love here and for The Ides of March in drama) may hurt him, paving the opening for his fellow next-gen talent, who superbly carried a film about a sensitive subject.
Comedy/Musical Actress
Will win: Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Another lock. Williams should win her first Globe for her brilliant portrayal of the multi-faceted Marilyn Monroe we didn't see in pictures. It also helps that Monroe was a Globe darling herself, having won three trophies, including two in the now-defunct category of World Film Favorite — Female.
Watch out for: Charlize Theron, Young Adult
No matter how unlikeable her Mavis Gary is, Theron is a past champ with the most critical adoration of the remaining women. Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet's Carnage barely registered, and the nomination is the award for Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig.
Supporting Actor
Will win: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Giving Plummer the trophy would not only honor his poignant portrait of a gay man in late bloom, but recognize his heretofore largely unrewarded half-century film career.
Watch out for: Albert Brooks, Drive
Brooks' sinister mobster is the hip and cool vote.
Supporting Actress
Will win: Octavia Spencer, The Help
The most fluid race of the season, the award could go to any of these ladies. Spencer's co-star Jessica Chastain may have more films to her 2011 resume, but we'll tip Spencer for her outspoken and spirited Minny who never borders on cartoonish. It's a breakout role for the 41-year-old who spent years toiling as a character actress with bit parts.
Watch out for: Berenice Bejo, The Artist
If The Help gals split the vote, Bejo's luminous turn can snatch her the prize.
Who do you think will win?
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Golden Globes Predictions: Who Will Win?
Awards season kicks off Sunday with the 69th Golden Globe Awards (8 ET/5 PT on NBC). Who will emerge victorious? We don't know yet, but we can have fun predicting — and so can you. Download your ballot here, make your picks and compare them to ours below.


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Networking Tips: 5 Easy Ways to Build a Strong Professional Network
Networking is paramount when you're building a small business.
It is often your most effective form of marketing. And, it is free.
While networking may not take anything out of your business's bank account, you do need to put a little time and effort into it. And contrary to popular belief, networking is not trying to close a deal or get something from someone. It is not begging for help from someone. It is not even about convincing someone to help you out.
In business, networking is meeting and interacting with individuals who have similar interests in an effort to build relationships that will produce current and future benefits.
Networking is about relationships. It is about being friendly. It is about finding others who will enhance your life and career.
So, how do you do it? What are the best ways to use networking to build your business? Networking is actually quite easy. Follow these 5 simple tips to successfully build a strong professional network.
1. Learn Their Needs First
Networking isn't about being pushy and begging for handouts.
It is a 'you scratch my back; I'll scratch yours' mentality. When you begin a networking relationship, learn how you can help them first. Networking relationships don't form when you meet someone new and start asking for favors. Find out what you can do for them, and hope you get the same in return.
2. Network In and Out of Your Industry
Making connections and relationships within your industry is a great place to start. Find people you can help who just might help you in return. But, don't stop there.
Branch out from your usual circle. Just because someone is not in your industry does not mean they are not a valuable part of your network. Word of mouth and referrals are a big part of networking, and you never know who is going to be talking about you.

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What felt like an unending wait for a medal at the Rio Olympics ended late last night when Sakshi Malik bagged a bronze medal after defeating Kyrgyzstan's Aisuluu Tynybekova in women's freestyle 58 Kg wrestling. It was a momentous occasion, not least because the 23-year-old is the first female Indian wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics.
Twitter exploded in joy. From sportspersons and celebrities to actors and politicians, there is no Indian left on Twitter who hasn't congratulated Malik.
Sakshi Malik creates history! Congratulations to her for the Bronze. The entire nation is rejoicing.— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 18, 2016
On this very auspicious day of Raksha Bandhan, Sakshi Malik, a daughter of India, wins a Bronze & makes all of us very proud. #Rio2016— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 18, 2016
#SakshiMalik is a reminder of what cn happn if u don't kill a girl child.When d going gets tough,its our girls who get going &save our pride— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 18, 2016
A great athlete performs when it matters most and #SakshiMalik did just that! Our 1st medal at #Rio2016 ,1st of many for young Sakshi.— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) August 18, 2016
#sakshimalik thank you. Proud of every indian athlete that is fighting the best to make us shine. #respecttheeffortnotjusttheresult— Shahid Kapoor (@shahidkapoor) August 18, 2016
#SakshiMalik We want you to know that India loves you.— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) August 18, 2016
Go Girl ...We celebrate you with pride. pic.twitter.com/CkfMsppotY
#SakshiMalik has salvaged the pride of a billion people.This must become the moment when we inspire ourselves to turn Indian sport around— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 18, 2016
Congratulations to #SakshiMalik on winning Bronze. Thank you for giving us a moment of joy and pride. pic.twitter.com/922WF959wy— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) August 18, 2016
Bow down to #SakshiMalik 's mother as well,who encouraged her 2 pursue wrestling.Tdy a country of1.25bn is rejoicing— Vijender Singh (@boxervijender) August 18, 2016
What great news to wake up to! #SakshiMalik, your resilience at #Rio2016 has made whole of India proud. Many Congratulations!!!— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 18, 2016
Congratulations, #SakshiMalik ! Congratulations India! Woohoo! pic.twitter.com/wntHCF2WWm— VISHAL DADLANI (@VishalDadlani) August 18, 2016
Thank you #SakshiMalik - The first medal, A woman, wrestling- a million different victories in that one win. #girlpower— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) August 18, 2016
What a sweet win for India! On the Rakshabandhan diwas Congratulations #SakshiMalik from all of us.— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) August 18, 2016
A medal! And a first for a woman wrestler! Hopefully, the first of many. Congratulations to the tough #SakshiMalik— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) August 18, 2016
The innocent smile of achievement and our smile is of immense pride.....#SakshiMalik is the hope for the future.... pic.twitter.com/WTdJ1yZ43k— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) August 18, 2016
And for all the male chauvinists in India, think again. It was a woman who made India look good with its first medal! #SakshiMalik— SUHEL SETH (@suhelseth) August 18, 2016
#SakshiMalik gave a great gift to #Ind— Ajay Maken (@ajaymaken) August 17, 2016
Had it not for a freak injury-@phogat_vinesh was also on verge of a glorious medal!
Proud of you!
These great pictures from #SakshiMalik 's home will resonate throughout #Ind https://t.co/fAsFnuKjwb— Vikram Chandra (@vikramchandra) August 17, 2016
Congratulations #SakshiMalik for winning BronzeMedal in wrestling at #Rio2016 . We are proud of you.— Ram Vilas Paswan (@irvpaswan) August 18, 2016
Congratulations Sakshi Malik! 1st Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal. Well done. You have done India proud!— Aamir Khan (@aamir_khan) August 18, 2016
साक्षी मालिक - शाबाश. भारत को तुम पर गर्व है.— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) August 18, 2016
Sakshi Malik - shabash. India is proud of you. #SakshiMalik
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1990 Nissan Stanza GXE 2.5 12valve
Hight performance at medium cost
-Replaced central motor support at 90000 miles.
-Alternator was twice replaced at 104000.
-Rotor (distributor) was replaced at 106000.
-Automatic transmission broke up at 108000 miles.
General Comments:
-This car has performed good.
-I give it heavy use, this city is full of breaches and bad state avenues, so I'm very pleased for the money investment I've made.
-The transmission broke up because the car was used for racing before.
-Interior looks excellent, the sun and the years has caused little damage, but it still looks great with a little hand every week.
-Seats and sunroof hasn't suffered any damage by general use.
-Everything works, the air conditioner has four years without maintenance and still works fine.
-This car has expensive repairs, but nothing broke's up until you give it hard use.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 31st May, 2004


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• Where: Toast Cafe, 326 Vine St.
• Hours: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
• Price range: Sandwiches and wraps are between $5.95 (veggie) and $7. Salads are $7. For breakfast, a B'eggel Egg Sandwich will set you back $2.65 and bagels and lox runs $5.25.
• Contact: 756-9995 or toastcafechattanooga.com
I like coffee a lot and have to have a cup or two in the morning, but if I drink it after 10 or 11 a.m., I can't sleep that night. Because of that, I tend to choose a non-coffee shop place to eat. That and a lot of them seem to focus on sweets.
While Toast Cafe on Vine Street places a heavy emphasis on its coffee and tea drinks, it also has a better-than-expected breakfast and lunch menu. In fact, it's a really good menu and based on just one visit, I'm excited to go back and try other items.
Toast offers several coffee drinks, including espresso, latte and cappuccino and about the same number of teas. You can also order a hot chocolate or a caramel apple cider. Many of the coffees and teas also can be ordered cold or frozen.
For breakfast, you can get a B'eggel Egg Sandwich with or without meat or cheese. There is also a steak and egg sandwich, a vegetable sandwich on either a bagel or an English muffin, yogurt, fruit and oatmeal.
There are eight gourmet sandwiches, six classic sandwiches, six wraps and seven salads. Bread options are sourdough, marble rye, bagel of choice, whole wheat, pretzel roll or wrap.
I was torn between several items, including the Chipolte Chicken, Turkey with Artichoke Parmesan Spread and the Tuscan Sun sandwiches and the Turkey Hummus & Goat Cheese wrap.
I opted for the Tuscan Sun ($7.15) and since no soups were being offered at the time of my visit, I ordered as my side dish a bowl of Mediterranean Black Bean Salad ($2.95). Both were delicious and went well together.
The sandwich is made with ham, turkey, pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, provolone and Swiss cheese and is served on a pressed pretzel roll. The salad had shoepeg corn, black beans, green peppers, red onions and Feta cheese tossed with a light vinaigrette.
For most of my visit to Toast, which was made two days after Christmas around the lunch hour, I was the only customer so it is hard to infer too much. The same person took my order at the cash register and delivered my meal. I filled my own drink glass. I will say that after the meal was delivered, I did not see the wait person again until I went to the register to ask for a to-go menu.
Toast is located in the same space where Chad's Records was -- the record shop moved right next door -- and if you ever shopped there, you will be amazed at how large and open the space now feels.
It is a fairly spartan place with little in the way of decoration. The painted tin ceiling, dark wooden floors, giant Diedrich coffee grinder and Chinese lanterns in the center of the room are pretty much it in the dining area.
One recommendation would be to place some three-paneled screens or something to hide the trash area. That said, it is the type of funky space you'd expect to find in a downtown coffee shop, and there is plenty of room and more than enough tables to feel comfortable.
Both of the items I had were very good, and I'm glad to have found another place to go for a sandwich or a salad. It may be a little off the beaten path, but there is always parking in that area and worth the trip.
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Kill This Bill
"BOLD, RESPONSIBLE, common-sense reform of our current lobbying and ethics laws is clearly needed," House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) told his colleagues on the House floor last week. "We owe it to our constituents. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to this institution."
Very true -- which is why House members should reject the diluted snake oil that Mr. Dreier and the GOP leadership are peddling as bold reform. Their bill, which is expected to come before the House for a vote today, is an insult to voters who the GOP apparently believes are dumb enough to be snookered by this feint. The procedures under which it is to be debated, allowing only meaningless amendments to be considered, are an insult also -- to the democratic process.
At best the bill would marginally improve the existing arrangement of minimal disclosure, laxly enforced. Reporting by lobbyists would be quarterly instead of twice yearly and slightly more detailed (with listings of lobbyists' campaign contributions -- already available elsewhere -- along with gifts to lawmakers and contributions to their charities). Nothing would crimp lawmakers' lifestyles: Still allowed would be meals, gifts (skybox seats at sporting events, say) and cut-rate flights on corporate jets. Privately sponsored travel would be suspended, but only until just after the election.
The provisions on earmarks are similarly feeble. Lawmakers who insert pet projects in spending bills would have to attach their names to them -- but that's all. If that happens, these provisions wouldn't be subject to challenge. Earmark reform that wouldn't allow a vote to stop future "Bridges to Nowhere" isn't real reform.
Matching the anemic measure is the undemocratic procedure under which it will be "debated" on the House floor. Nine amendments are to be considered, including such tough-love provisions as "voluntary ethics training" for members and holding lobbyists liable for knowingly offering gifts whose value exceeds the gift limit. (Not to worry: Legislators wouldn't be liable for accepting them.) The Rules Committee refused to permit votes on amendments to strengthen the measure, including proposals to establish an independent ethics office; to require lawmakers to pay full freight for chartered flights; or to double the waiting period for lawmakers to lobby their former colleagues from one year to two. Neither would the majority risk an up-or-down vote on the much more robust Democratic alternative.
Democrats tempted to vote for this sham because they're scared of 30-second ads that accuse them of opposing lobbying reform ought to ask themselves whether they really think so little of their constituents. As for Republicans willing to settle for this legislative fig leaf, they ought to listen to Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.). "I happen to believe we are losing our moral authority to lead this place," Mr. Shays said on the House floor last week. He was generous not to have put that in the past tense.


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Cultural and policy determinants of sustainable tourism development.Project ID: ENV4960198
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Cultural and policy determinants of sustainable tourism development.
Dane projektu
Całkowity koszt:Niedostępne
Wkład UE:Niedostępne
Kraj koordynujący:United Kingdom
System finansowania:CSC - Cost-sharing contracts
To assess the relationship between tourism as an economic and social activity, and the environment. To identify and analyze those elements of the socio-political and institutional context which facilitate or hinder sustainable tourist development.
To assess the relationship between tourism as an economic and social activity, and the environment. To identify and analyze those elements of the socio-political and institutional context which facilitate or hinder sustainable tourist development.
The project examines the impact of tourism on environmentally sensitive coastal areas in three Mediterranean countries: Greece, Spain and Italy. Particular attention is devoted to a comparison of environmental impact of local ownership of tourist enterprises, and of tourist developments owned by non-resident national/multi-national entrepreneurs respectively. In each of the countries examined, the project assesses the political and cultural determinants of damage to the coastal environment in two contrasting locations, one with minimal environmental damage, and one with substantial damage. The work also contains interviews with tour operators, tourists, local business people, and residents of the studied communities in order to determine how each group conceptualises issues of sustainable tourism and their involvement in the policy process. The research design allows a number of comparisons across different countries and across different kinds of environmental outcomes:
i) comparison of the extent to which national environmental policy programmes are connected to those of the tourist sector at the national and local levels, and the implementation of these programmes at the local level;
ii) examination of local determinants of tourist development, such as the impact of local cultures, the influence on developmental strategies of both local business and large national investors, the influence of local political culture, the impact of environmentalist movements and of EU-level policies.
In addition to ethnographic research , the methodology is a
combination of document analysis and interviews with policy
makers and stake-holders. The policy relevance of the project lies in a better understanding of the impact of tourist
development in different local contexts. It also aims at
achieving a transfer of knowledge between local cases and
between countries. This project seeks to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and local culture, that is, to provide
guidelines for policies towards environmentally and culturally sustainable developments in tourism.
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Peter Novosel is a Los Angeles based film maker, born and raised in Perth, Western Australia.
His misspent (super fun) years after high school were spent playing in a punk rock band (they were on Guitar Hero!), shooting music videos and making websites before someone, for some reason, gave him a job in advertising. Over the next 10+ years, he went on to create some of the most talked about campaigns for brands like Samsung, Activision, Smirnoff, Motorola, HSBC, and ESPN in the US, London, Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.
In 2015 he paired up with Jeff Gonick to form the directing partnership of Jeff+Pete and together have gone on to direct campaigns for the likes of Dr Pepper, Amazon, Sprint, Navy Federal Credit Union, American Eagle Outfitters, Yahoo!, Kelley Blue Book, See America and Sony to name a few.
Pete has also maintained a side career as an editor for hire but mostly Pete just really enjoys talking about himself in the third person.
Hit me up and let's make some stuff together!
Meantime, here's a pic of the back of my head while I give direction to a very brave actor dressed only in his underpants.


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Most of Your Favorite British Shows Aren't Leaving Netflix After All
Great news, innit?
Good news for Anglophiles: More than a dozen British shows have been saved from streaming oblivion, as Netflix has renewed its contract with the BBC. Dr. Who, Luther, and Top Gear were among the lucky shows to earn renewal, and in the end, only four shows will expire from Netflix at the end of the month: Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, MI-5, and Red Dwarf. All credit to the new deal must go to the plucky British prime minister, who, at a conference in London shortly before Christmas, stood up to the American president with a brave speech extolling the virtues of Shakespeare, Churchill, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter, and David Beckham's right foot.


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RaNia introduces K-pop's first African American girl group member
RaNia is breaking all kinds of social barriers in what might be the most exciting news for international K-pop fans. DR Music has officially announced that RaNia's newest group member is Alexandra Reid, an African America rapper from the United States.
On November 4, RaNia's agency, DR Music, released the group's video teaser for their upcoming comeback "Demonstrate" featuring Alexandra Reid and announced on Facebook soon after of her initiation into the group, stating, "African-American rapper Alexandra has officially joined as a member and will start promotions from this album onward. This is the first time that an African-American member has joined, so please give us some focus."
The announcement created quite a buzz among K-pop fans, and social media and is building up extreme excitement towards their impending comeback.
Alexandra, who is now called Alex, is a 21-year-old rapper hailing from Kansas and has been a part of the American entertainment company Def Jam since she was 15 years old. She was preparing to debut in America when she heard about RaNia and signed on as an official member instead. Alex became a fan of K-pop through YouTube and decided to become a part of the Korean entertainment industry with RaNia.
Due to visa issues, though, she was only able to join the group just last month (hence why she is not in any of the teaser images), but she is currently preparing with the rest of her group for their comeback. Alex will appear publicly with the five other members of RaNia for the first time on November 5 on M!Countdown.
We are excited to see what she and the newly reformed RaNia will bring and wish them the best of luck.
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Experian Automotive today announced that consumers continued to make their loan payments on time in Q4 2013. According to its latest State of the Automotive Finance Market report, 30-day automotive loan delinquencies were down 3.5 percent (going from 2.72 percent in Q4 2012 to 2.63 percent in Q4 2013), and 60-delinquencies remained flat at 0.74 percent.
Additional findings from the report show outstanding automotive loan balances increased 11 percent from Q4 2012, reaching $798.5 billion in Q4 2013 (the highest level since Experian Automotive starting publically reporting the data in 2007). The increase in open loans spanned across all lending types with finance companies showing the greatest increase of 21.2 percent, followed by credit unions with 13.2 percent, then banks with 10.5 percent and captives by 5.3 percent.
"The automotive finance market continues to move along at a very healthy pace, and we are pleasantly surprised by the continued drop in delinquencies," said Melinda Zabritski, Experian Automotive's senior director of automotive finance. "The record level of open loan balances combined with the reduction in late payments shows that consumers who have purchased a vehicle are not only reliant on financing, but also firmly committed to making their payments on time."
The report also showed that repossessions were up 42.8 percent in Q4 2013, going from 0.46 percent in Q4 2012 to 0.65 percent in Q4 2013. However, the increase was driven entirely by finance companies that provide a significant majority of their loans to credit challenged customers. In Q4 2013, finance companies nearly doubled their repossession rate, jumping to 2.84 percent from 1.61 percent in Q4 2012.
Other lender types saw their repossession rates fall slightly:
- Banks went from 0.24 percent in Q4 2012 to 0.23 percent in Q4 2013
- Captives went from 0.36 percent in Q4 2012 to 0.34 percent in Q4 2013
- Credit unions went from 0.16 percent in Q4 2012 to 0.15 percent in Q4 2013
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|Swiss double victory
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|Sunny Soelden
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The Audi FIS Alpine SkiĸWorld Cup season got off to a sunny start in Solden (AUT) last weekend. The glacier venue hosted the season opening for the 11th time in 12 years.
On Saturday, the ladies kicked off the competitive action in a giant slalom race. Austrian Kathrin Zettel made an impressive comeback after the injury-plagued last season and summer as she overtook first run leader Tanja Poutiainen of Finland by 98 hundredths of a second. Austrian Andrea Fischbacher, until now known mainly as a super-G skier, took her first giant slalom podium, while the defending World Cup giant slalom champion, Italian Denise Karbon, finished fourth.
On Sunday, the Swiss controlled the opening men's race of the 2008/2009 World Cup season with Daniel Albrecht catching his third career win and Didier Cuche taking second, with a full second or more of a margin over all others. Beginning the defense of his GS title, Ted Ligety (USA) skied into third while Thomas Fanara of France made an impressive comeback from injury-related absence. The much anticipated return of Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal from last year's injury was perhaps a bit disappointing as he finished 13th. Clear and sunny conditions, with temperatures just above freezing, welcomed an estimated 15,000 fans at the Rettenbach glacier on Sunday.
The season will continue with two slalom races up in Finnish Lapland at Levi on 15th-16th November 2008.
|Peetu Piiroinen (FIN)
Photo: Oliver Kraus/FIS
|London crowd
Photo: Oliver Kraus/FIS
The first big air of the currentĸLG Snowboard FIS World Cup saw London debut as host of a FIS World Cup. In an enthralling final at sold-out Battersea Power Station before 10'000 fans, 2007 World Cup winner Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) took home the victory beating defending World Cup champion Stefan Gimpl (AUT). The podium was rounded out by Benedikt Nadig (SUI).
Piiroinen - along with the other Finnish stars Risto Mattila and Markku Koski, who both missed the final as did Olympic silver medalist Danny Kass (USA) - was among the top aspirants for victory. The Finn took the honors with first-class tricks: a flawless "Cab 1080" followed by a "Backside 900 Rodeo", which didn't count for the final score, and a "Cab 900."
Runner-up Stefan Gimpl was full of praise for his contender: "Peetu was unbeatable today. He was the best in the final as he was the best in the qualifiers." He added: "The event was outstanding. The location was wicked and the spectators were killing it. They definitely had a lot of understanding of what we were doing."
Although Piiroinen and Gimpl were the dominating riders, it was a young American who took home the honor of winning the best trick of the day contest. Scotty Lago deservedly claimed victory as he stuck a phenomenal "Double Backflip Late Backside 180" making the audience go nuts.
The LG Snowboard FIS World Cup will continue in Saas-Fee (SUI) for the season's second half-pipe contest this weekend. The qualification for both ladies and men is held on Thursday 30th October with the semi-finals and finals scheduled for Friday 31st October in the Freestyle Park Allalin. It's the fifth consecutive season now the freestyle riders will meet in the Swiss glacier village. No wonder that more than 130 athletes from 22 nations will enter the event.
|Matthias Lanzinger
Photo: Milka
The AIJS - the International Association of Ski Journalists - again took advantage of the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season opening to award the Skieur d'Or - Serge Lang Trophy to recognize the most impressive performance of the last season. The 2008 trophy was presented to Austrian Matthias Lanzinger whose was tragically injured in a career-ending ski accident at the end of last season which led to the amputation of his lower leg.
The 27-year-old Salzburg native was member of the Austrian team since 1997, competing in the World Cup since 2004/05 and was deemed one of the most talented ski racers on the team. He specialized in giant slalom and super-G. His best World Cup result was a fourth place in super-G in Beaver Creek in 2005.
"Matthias Lanzinger is a role model for all athletes. Thanks to his permanent optimism he has been able to master his destiny in a truly remarkable way," commented AIJS-President Robert Seeger the unanimous choice by AIJS. "We wish Matthias Lanzinger all the best for the future and are sure we will still be hearing much about him."
|Whistler Creekside
Photo: VANOC
The IOC's Coordination Commission, of which FIS President Gian Franco Kasper is member, made its seventh visit to Vancouver last week. The Commission confirmed that the Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee (VANOC) continues to be on the right track to host top quality Olympic Winter Games in February 2010. The Commission was particularly pleased to see that VANOC's participation in the IOC's Beijing 2008 Observer's Program had a positive impact on its planning and that the Games legacy remains a top priority for the next Olympic Games organizers.
The Coordination Commission Chairman Ren Fasel said: "With the Beijing Games now over, it is Vancouver 2010's turn to step into the spotlight and I am confident that Vancouver 2010 can also raise the bar for the Olympic Winter Games. The team is in the process of finalizing a number of key Games-time plans, such as transport, volunteers and staffing, over the coming few months, and will then be in a very good position going into their operational phase at the end of next year."
The Commission especially spent time reviewing venues in the Whistler area, which will host the skiing and sliding sports as well as the athletes' village. Next season will see FIS World Cup events in five of the six FIS Olympic disciplines being held in the 2010 Olympic site, providing a valuable real-time test of the Olympic organizers' preparedness.
|Moscow press conference
Photo: OC Moscow
Russia is on its way to becoming an international winter sports hub. "During my recent visits to Russia, I have become convinced of Russia being fully worth its success in winning the right to host the Olympic Winter Games 2014. There is no doubt that ski venues in Sochi will be at the highest level and the Russian attitude towards sports is unique," commented FIS Chief Race Director for the men's Alpine World Cup Gnter Hujara at a Press Conference in Moscow last week covering this winter season's schedule of competitions.
Russia will host a number of major events this winter. The first of these will be an unprecedented FIS Alpine World Cup promotional event in parallel slalom in Moscow, for which a unique and imposing site is being constructed. The facility will be 150 meters long, 36 meters wide and 60 meters high, and will allow more than 10,000 people to watch the action from a special viewing platform. Construction of the structure has already started in the Vorobievy mountains. Other events include a FIS Freestyle World Cup in aerials and the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup in big air, both in Moscow, as well as three Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup competitions in Rybinsk.
Sochi 2014 is working closely with the FIS in readiness for its Alpine Skiing test event program, which begins in 2012. This will enable Russian athletes to prepare for the Games in the very venues in which they will be competing in 2014.
|Inside FIS
Audi has been giving its name to the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup for six years now. At the start of the 2008/2009 season in Slden, Audi announced the extension of this cooperation with FIS by another four seasons up to and including the 2011/2012 season. Audi is the name-giver and thus one of the most important partners of FIS and the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. In addition, AUDI AG has been supporting the German Ski Association for over two decades now and is also partner of the Alpine national teams from Sweden, Finland, France, Liechtenstein, Italy as well as the athletes from Austria and the United States. For Audi another highlight of the 2008/2009 season will be the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Val d'Isre, France, in February 2009 where Audi is the presenting sponsor.
FIS is pleased to present two new World Cup websites, focused on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup at www.fisalpineworldcup.com and LG Snowboard FIS World Cup at www.fissnowboardworldcup.com, launched last week.
The goal of these FIS World Cup fan websites is to provide year-round service to fans of skiing and snowboarding along with delivering background information for the media. They will especially focus on the athletes offering detailed profiles, behind-the-scenes reports, blogs and lifestyle information. Of course, the sites will also feature race and news coverage from the FIS World Cup competitions and in-depth information on the venues as well as a World Cup Wall of Fame. For Snowboarding, a community will also be incorporated allowing the fans to contribute their content.
FIS is working together with Zug, Switzerland-based Infront Sports and Media AG and its Italian subsidiary Infront Italia on this project. With support from the National Ski Associations, the ski industry and other FIS partners, FIS is convinced that these new websites will help us make great strides in promoting skiing globally. To visit the new Alpine site, click here and for the Snowboard site, here.
|Simulation in progress
Photo: OC Inawashiro
The final inspection for the FIS Freestyle World Championships took place at the Inawashiro Town General Gymnasium, "Camerina", on 28th October 2008. More than 100 officials and staff who will be involved in the Championships gathered together to inspect the state of preparations and discuss possible cases which might occur during the event.
FIS Freestyle Coordinator Joe Fitzgerald commented: "We have 125 days, about three months to go. This kind of rehearsal is the last one before the actual competition in March. Collaboration of all parts of the organization is essential for the success of the Championships."
The inspection reviewed details from preparation phases before competitions, such as team arrival to the bib distribution prior to the race. During the second half, a simulation of the day of the Opening Ceremony was also held at the Inawashiro ski area, reviewing all procedures from course preparation to the start of the qualification to mixed zone operations and winner presentations and spectator guidance.
|Interlaken (SUI)
Some 30 participants representing 20 countries, including some newcomers such as India and Argentina, participated in the 7th FIS Leaders' Seminar that was held last week in Interlaken (SUI) and Solden (AUT). The seminar was entitled as "Development of Ski Sport in Emerging Countries by Organizing Events" and it saw presentations on the economic impact of winter sports events along with perspectives of the industry, local organizers and FIS. For the first time, the Leaders' Seminar included a visit to the FIS office in Oberhofen as well as a three-day outing at the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Opening in Solden (AUT). For many of the participants representing developing ski nations in the FIS Aid&Promotion program, the combination of presentations and attendance at a World Cup provided a unique opportunity to learn about event organization on site and the chance to meet with various representatives of the ski industry, such as during the FIS Forum Alpinum held in Solden in conjunction with the season opening.
FIS Event and Sponsoring Manager Niklas Carlsson was among the 2495 participants at last week's Sportel, the international sports convention for television and new media, held in Monaco. With the support of Richard Bunn, FIS TV Consultant, meetings were held with marketing agencies, TV companies and many others keen to learn about FIS and its activities. "The benefits to FIS of being able to make contact in one venue with so many players from the TV sports industry are enormous," commented Carlsson.
Organized for the 19th time in the Grimaldi Forum, four-day SPORTELMonaco is universally recognized as the most important trade show for companies involved with any aspect of sports programming and sports content across all distribution platforms.
|Seminar in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
|Seminar in Steamboat Springs
A busy program of FIS Technical Delegate and Jumping Judges' seminars is currently underway in Ski Jumping. Following a European seminar in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) on 17th-18th October 2008, another seminar for North American TDs and Jumping Judges was held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (USA) on 24th-25th October. Both seminars were led by Ueli Forrer, Chairman of the Jumping Sub-Committee for Officials, Rules and Control, and supported by Horst Tielmann, COC Coordinator, and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, also by Miran Tepes, FIS Assistant Race Director Ski Jumping.
The seminars discussed topics such as the International Competition Rules and roles of the Jury and TD. Special focus was given to practical preparation of the in-run, equipment control, wind measurement and collecting information for the FIS Injury Surveillance System. At the end of both seminars, several participants took their TD and/or Jumping Judge examinations required for on-site duty.
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|Member News
Austrian Ski Association (OeSV) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) signed an agreement to broadcast key European skiing events. The agreement includes a number of Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events and the Four-Hills Tournament in Ski Jumping, both in Austria, including last weekend's opening in Slden.
Under the agreement, the EBU acquired all worldwide media rights for the next three seasons. EBU Director-General Jean Rveillon was quoted commenting on the agreement as an important achievement for the organization and its members. "We are delighted that the Austrian Ski Association has chosen the EBU to showcase its sport on TV. Skiing is a thrilling experience for audiences. We hope that this will be the start of a long-running partnership," he concluded.
|In Depth
|Marcel Looze
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One competition in each event of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup has been staged since the season start in New Zealand in September. FIS Race Director Snowboard Marcel Looze took his time to reflect on the first events and look forward to the rest of the season.
FIS Newsflash: What do you expect from this season?
Marcel Looze: "We had a really good start in New Zealand with the season opening half-pipe contest in Cardrona. With pretty much all the nations already training down there, staging the competition at the end of their training sessions is a great way to kick off the season. We hope to continue with the same strong rider fields in the other World Cup half-pipe competitions. This is already true for this week's event in Saas Fee (SUI) where we have welcomed a very strong group of riders from both around Europe and overseas.
The season's first snowboard cross in Chapelco (ARG) was the first time we competed in Argentina. We were able to try a new style snowboard cross course which was 20-30% longer than usual, in order to add a dimension of stamina to the technical elements. The course, shaped by highly experienced FIS technical advisor David Ny, was excellent and showed the direction in which we would like to develop.
The indoor parallel opening in Landgraaf has become a tradition, but this time it really showcased excellent opportunities for our new title sponsor LG to activate their sponsorship on the local level. The nearby facilities offered a great chance for the spectators and sponsor guests to get acquainted with the sport through lessons and other activities.
The London big air last weekend was a very special four-day event combining sports and music in an excellent manner. It also demonstrated the benefits of a high level of cooperation between the national association and the local organizer. The sold-out audience of 10'000 and the best rider field ever at a big air event was testimony to the attractiveness of our sport. I really hope to see more events of this caliber and quality of organization in the future too."
FIS Newsflash: What is new this season?
Marcel Looze: "One of the major changes is obviously that we have welcome onboard a new title sponsor, LG Electronics. With the European snow season just getting underway in earnest we look forward to further strengthening our cooperation and partnership.
In terms of venues, besides Chapelco and London, Grenoble - the next big air venue - is a new location on the calendar. A team from the local organizing committee was on site in London to collect ideas and experiences and I am very much looking forward to that event. We will also see a premiere big air in downtown Quebec City, along with the established big air sites of Moscow and Stockholm.
The new big air format received good feedback after the first try in London last weekend. The riders and audience alike enjoyed the suspense lasting until the very last jump of the competition. In fact, based on the initial feedback we might consider having more than 10 riders into the finals to make them even more exciting.
Another new thing on this year's schedule is the first-ever FIS slopestyle World Cup event to be held in Bardonecchia (ITA) in February. By organizing both a half-pipe and slopestyle competitions on one weekend, the organizers can benefit from the synergies of a group of riders competing in both events. The competition venues will also benefit leisure riders afterwards as the competition sites will be available to the public as snowpark afterwards."
FIS Newsflash: Is there something special this season?
Marcel Looze: "Of course, the first ever FIS Snowboard World Championships in Asia, to be held at Sungwon, Gangwon Province (KOR), are a highlight of the season. The competition venues are well-prepared for excellent sports competitions and the organizing committee is currently in the process of training their staff and finalizing all other preparations. The January World Championships also represent the start of the quota qualification period for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010."


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This wildlife rescue centre located on the indonesian island of Java. It is home to many different species confiscated from Indonesia's rampant illegal wildlife trade.
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We need compassionate volunteers to assist in the daily care and enrichment programme for a number of orangutans at this rescue facility in Yogyakarta.
At an existing rescue centre in Yogyakarta, we are in the early stages of building a large biosphere (currently code-named the "Orangudome") to house 50-100 red apes by the end of this year. This project has the involvement and support of the royal family of Yogyakarta, the local community and is creating a role model for captive care of orangutans around the world. This centre forms an important element in the battle against the illegal wildlife trade, enabling orangutans to be confiscated and immediately brought into a professional facility prior to establishing their origins in Borneo or Sumatra and the lengthy process of sending them home. For many of these victims of the illegal wildlife trade, their chances of rehabilitation and release back to the wild are limited due to their age and amount of time already spent in captivity. There are several large cheek-padders languishing in confined conditions in zoos and government facilities across Java, for which the Orangudome will be a second chance at dignity and a better life. There are also several young orangutans that will then have opportunity to begin the early stages of rehabilitation, while their chances of being returned to their natural habitat are being worked on in parallel.
Thus the new orangutan rescue facilities serve the orangutans in the following ways:
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 23, 2016) - BMO Financial Group (BMO) and MasterCard today marked the beginning of a phased launch of the first biometric corporate credit card program in Canada and the U.S. that will enable cardholders to verify transactions using facial recognition and fingerprint biometrics when making online purchases.
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The 225 nonprofit hospitals that volunteered to participate were spared penalties if they failed to meet benchmarks. Instead, they became eligible for bonuses of up to $2.5 million if they did. It was a very nice incentive. But that was then.
Come Oct. 1, hospitals will have to deal with the other side of that coin. That's when the Medicare program will begin pegging a portion of its payments to the quality of care that hospitals deliver. Medicare is setting aside 1% of the money it normally pays to hospitals – about $963 million – into what is essentially a quality benchmark fund. For hospitals to recoup the 1%, they will need to meet the benchmarks, which include the prevention of readmissions.
For long-term care providers, it may be too soon to see this development as a cautionary tale. After all, the revised hospital payment system hasn't even begun. But that doesn't mean senior living operators shouldn't find a dark cloud around this silver lining.
It's a rare month that CMS does not unveil a new pilot program aimed at improving care. Nothing wrong with that. Nor is there anything wrong with incentives intended to reward superior care.
But problems can result when a one-size-fits-all program is foisted on an entire market — particularly when such a program has financial strings attached.
CMS is about to launch the Independence at Home demonstration. The effort has a worthy goal: keeping chronically ill seniors in their homes and communities for as long as possible.
The program is set up so physicians and nurse practitioners will direct teams of health professionals to coordinate primary home care. For now, here's the carrot: If they reduce Medicare costs by at least 5% (as compared with more traditional office- and hospital-based care), the teams will receive a share of any savings beyond that threshold.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The head of South Sudan's military courts has resigned, saying high-level interference made it impossible to discipline soldiers accused of rape and murder amid the nation's civil war, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday.
The resignation of Col. Khalid Ono Loki is the third high-level departure in a week. A highly respected general stood down seven days ago, citing ethnic favoritism in the military and rampant human rights abuses. On Friday, the minister of labor defected to the rebels.
Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.
Since then, fighting has increasingly fractured the world's youngest country along ethnic lines, leading the U.N. to warn that the violence was setting the stage for genocide.
In a letter addressed to the chief of army staff, Loki said soldiers were committing crimes without fear of punishment, particularly officers who were Dinka, the same tribe as the president and chief of army staff.
"In your relentless endeavors to protect your own ethnicity, and founded on no single law, you always freeze and/or abolish court issuance and rulings even of murder, rape and theft cases," he wrote.
"You have ordered arrests of civilians in military jails exterior of proper legal channels ... I can no longer continue with such a corrupt, ethicized and unethical institution."
Loki's resignation buttresses allegations by international rights groups that the government permits soldiers to gang-rape and murder civilians with impunity. The U.N. has documented hundreds of accusations of rape involving soldiers in the capital alone.
Rebels have also been accused of human rights abuses, although fewer cases have been documented.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang said Loki had resigned last year but that it had not been publicized.
"Their defection won't have any negative bearing on the national army," he said. He did not comment on reports of human rights abuses by the military.
The government has previously said soldiers who commit abuses are prosecuted. Officials have not provided any figures or details on such cases.
The rash of resignations will isolate Kiir's government further within the international community and strengthen calls for a regional protection force to patrol the capital and for the military to withdraw.
There are 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan, but they have been criticized for not intervening when human rights abuses are being committed.
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It is a blustery day in spring, and I am going to the mental-health unit of Bangor Hospital to meet a professor. The trigger for this meeting is a call for writers willing to work with patients' records from a hundred years ago or more. The outcome is, first, that I agree to write about mental illness provoked by the Religious Revival of 1904, and second, that I invite other writers to use patients' records of interest to them. I leave with a hundred pages of closely-typed notes in my bag, and this is only the first of a series of meetings, not all of them always easy. It has been hard at times for writers trained in the arts, and experts in the history of mental-health treatment, to communicate. You will agree, I think, that it was worthwhile.
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Netanyahu Is Losing the Fight Against the ultra-Orthodox on All Fronts
As the year comes to an end, the public's attention keeps being drawn to the prime minister, whose opponents want to pin the blame on him for Haredi exclusion of women, and whose allies are about to re-introduce a bill to delay Yair Lapid's entry into politics.
It's happening again. In the summer, it was the social-protest movement. In the fall, it was the hilltop youth rampaging at an army base. And now, in the winter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the outcry over the ultra-Orthodox exclusion of women.
"I didn't know, I didn't know," Netanyahu told the Likud ministers on Sunday. The culture war in Beit Shemesh has been underway for years. A week before, on Mount Carmel, he was the first to have identified, recruited and taken action. This time, he was the last to see, hear and know. It's not clear which is worse: that the prime minister doesn't know what's going on 20 minutes from his office, or that it takes a media frenzy for him to "instruct" the police to do their job.
His adversaries say that when he is prime minister, the evil forces come out in force, because they are responding to signals from the top. Netanyahu and his supporters accuse mysterious forces, left-wing elements, political strategists and anonymous donors of hatching a political scheme to besmirch him and create a new centrist, secular party.
"It's not by chance that there's a new story every day," one of the prime minister's aides said this week. "Someone is steering the stories and ensuring that the fire does not go out."
Apparently, narcissism and paranoia are essential for holding power.
Calculated risk
Last week, after Channel 2 News broadcast its story about the Beit Shemesh girl who was attacked by Haredi men for "modesty" offenses, Netanyahu realized he had to come out against the Haredim. It was a calculated risk: The ultra-Orthodox, least of all United Torah Judaism MKs, really don't like hearing complaints. Moshe Gafni screamed and threatened, Yaakov Litzman sent messages and Israel Eichler accused Netanyahu of treachery. But the party didn't leave the coalition. Netanyahu came across as vanquishing the Haredim, who in return savaged him in their media ("the weathervane leader" was the headline in the journal of Agudat Israel's Meir Porush ), but they all returned home safely to light Hanukkah candles.
Netanyahu has an unflattering record with the ultra-Orthodox, which includes whispering in the ear of kabbalist Rabbi Kedouri ("The left has forgotten what it is to be Jews" ) and a longtime alliance with them. One of the reasons he lost the election in 1999 was that the public was fed up with his right-wing and Haredi coalition. On election night in Rabin Square, the crowd shouted at prime minister-elect Ehud Barak: "Anyone but Shas!" Barak partnered with Shas anyway and was kicked out of office a year and a half later.
In 2003, when Ariel Sharon formed his second government, he left the Haredim out and very quickly became king of Israel. It's already a cliche to point out that Ehud Olmert gave his Haredi coalition partners everything they wanted and then some. That passed quietly, because Olmert conducted negotiations with the Palestinians. Netanyahu is doing only the former.
The extremists in Beit Shemesh and elsewhere don't vote. Certainly not for Likud. They don't recognize the state. But Netanyahu is besmirched by kowtowing to them more easily than previous prime ministers. He is trying terribly hard to be everyone's prime minister. You won't catch him making divisive remarks this term.
"These phenomena will not be, they will not be," he told the Likud ministers. Culture Minister Limor Livnat and others advised him not to rush to make public commitments, because the issue is complex. The ministers competed with one another in denouncing the Beit Shemesh assault. Netanyahu's chief of staff, Natan Eshel, a former senior National Religious Party official, noted that the national-religious movement also separates boys and girls in schools. Minister without Portfolio Benny Begin remarked that teachers at secular schools wear "immodest clothes," and that it bothers him.
"Well done," Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar said. "In one short meeting we have managed to cast aspersions on the Haredim, the national-religious and the secular. Not bad at all."
Will the anti-Haredi wave hurt Netanyahu, and if so, to what extent? It depends what the key issues are in the next elections. A civil agenda could be lethal for Netanyahu and Likud. A damage-control assessment by his bureau toward the end of the week concluded that the Haredi public's curses improved his standing among the general public. The Haredim don't vote for him anyway. After the elections, they will always join a right-wing government; they'll only partner with the center-left if it can form a government without them. And over the past three years, no surveys have found that the second scenario is likely.
Transparent agendas
Israel's leading female politicians moved like a migratory flock this week from a women-excluding city to a meeting against women's exclusion to a torchlight march against women's exclusion, and from there to the Knesset and so on and so forth. They spoke from the heart, but most readers won't be shocked to hear that all of them have transparent political agendas to promote.
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima ) has seen her own and her party's popularity on the decline for months. She knows that quite a few members of her party want to oust her from the leadership. Livni hopes that the women's exclusion saga will do for her what the social-protest movement did for Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich over the summer.
Not that things are easy for Yachimovich. You can't compare her prominence as an independent MK, kicking and legislating, to her current status as party head, handling unexciting internal party matters. She too had a bit of positive publicity this week, though she would be happy to avoid any event with Livni.
And this week there was no escaping Limor Livnat, who heads the government committee on the status of women. She erred badly by expressing understanding for women's exclusion as long as it happens purely in Haredi milieus. Even if what she said has a certain logic, this is not a message that a cabinet minister should be conveying. And as always with Livnat, it seems like she is less interested in striking at segregation than striking at Livni. That goes over well in Likud.
MK Zahava Gal-On is running for the Meretz leadership against MK Ilan Gilon. Her chances are pretty good, and the exclusion tsunami is good for her. As far as she is concerned, it can continue until Meretz's primaries are held in February. She is watching as Labor moves slowly rightward, toward the center. Kadima is already there, and only Meretz (or what remains of it ) will be left on the left, or what remains of it.
Livnat, as expected, strove to differentiate between the cause for protest and Netanyahu's coalition partners. Speaking in the Knesset Wednesday, Livni and Gal-On connected all the bad things that have been happening here lately - anti-democratic legislation, the "price tag" attacks and the protests over singing female soldiers - and the exclusion phenomenon, which did not pass over even Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who refused to award a prize to two female scientists in his office. They hurled the whole package in Netanyahu's face, even though he was demonstratively immersed in a book by Yeshiva head Rabbi Haim Sabato recounting conversations with Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein.
It was actually Yachimovich, the salient opposition figure, who made a great effort to depoliticize the events in Beit Shemesh. "The phenomenon is grave, but it is not party-related and it is not political," she said. On another occasion she said, "I do not like the prevailing tone of a fire - 'brothers, the town is burning.' There is no need to mix everything together: Channel 10, the extremists who attacked Israeli soldiers and the exclusion of women."
Yachimovich was aiming straight at Livni, her rival for the center and the moderate left. She also launched a registration drive this week, aimed at recruiting the religious, the settlers and the Haredim to Labor. She is not looking to insult them.
Livni wants to bring back the left-leaning voters who abandoned her, some for Labor, some for Meretz. But whatever happens, she will always blame Netanyahu.
"Did you see how she stood there, with that scrawny torch?" Livni's rival in Kadima, MK Shaul Mofaz, said after Livni took part in the torchlight march for women's rights from the Supreme Court to the Knesset this week. For a professional soldier like Mofaz, "scrawny" is the ultimate insult.
Cooling off and shutting up
In less than two weeks, on January 11, the bill mandating that journalists take time off before entering politics will have its day. (It's been dubbed the "Yair Lapid law" for the popular television personality who is said to be considering a political run ). MKs Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud ) and Ronit Tirosh (Kadima ) submitted bills on the matter more than a year ago. Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu ) buried the bills, mostly because his party chairman, Avigdor Lieberman, opposed them.
Conventional wisdom had it that Lieberman wanted Lapid to enter the arena so he would erode Kadima's support, thus making Yisrael Beiteinu the Knesset's second largest party. Last week, a small voice from Lieberman's office ended the cooling-off period for the cooling-off law.
Why the change of heart? Lieberman knows Kadima has been losing popularity since the summer's protest movement broke out, followed by Yachimovich's election as Labor leader and Netanyahu's success in redeeming kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The secular public could express its anti-Haredi sentiment while voting. Lieberman doesn't need Lapid and his secular agenda. Polls are already giving Yisrael Beiteinu a three- to four-seat lead over Kadima. Lapid might erode not only Kadima but also Lieberman.
The committee is likely to pass the bill, which will call for a cooling-off period of at least one year. "On the face of it, this is consistent with the theory that speaks of a wave of anti-democratic, anti-media legislation," Shama-Hacohen said this week. "But you will be amazed to hear that the person who urged me to sponsor the legislation is a veteran journalist who spends a lot of time in the Knesset. Our interest is that the Knesset's left wing split into several factions. If Lapid's entry into politics ends up hurting Likud, it's not worth it. If we lose only one seat, it will be worth it. Anyway, that's my approach."
If the legislation advances, Lapid will have to make a decision. If he leaves journalism, he may wind up wasting a year. If not, he might miss the train. Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu are convinced they are doing the right thing. As one of Netanyahu's people told someone in Yisrael Beiteinu, "If worse comes to worst, we'll shut him up for a year."
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EASTHAMPTON — Calling Riverside Industries the incubator for the arts, woodworker Silas Kopf asked the City Council to support funding for the agency's window replacement project.
He was one of about a dozen who spoke at a public hearing Wednesday night asking the council to approve a $300,000 Community Preservation Act contribution to the $1.135 million needed to replace the building's windows.
The council unanimously supported it, with two members abstaining because of conflicts of interest.
The nonprofit Riverside owns the One Cottage Street building for its programs and rents out studio space to dozens of artisans. But the building is old and drafty and drains more than $50,000 from the operating budget in energy costs. Many of the windows are more than 100 years old, Riverside Executive Director Deborah Thomas has said. The money saved could be used for its budget instead.
The Community Preservation Act Committee unanimously supported awarding $300,000 to the agency that provides services to people with developmental disabilities in April, but approval required city council approval.
Kopf, who had his studio in the building for two decades, said One Cottage Street has helped create and nourish the city's art community and draw people to the city.
One Cottage Street was built in 1859. The mill first produced battens and twines, and later rubber thread, according to the Riverside website. Glendale, a division of United Elastics, and later J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc. used the building. The mill closed in 1972. J.P. Stevens donated it to Riverside in 1976.
Riverside is in the process of replacing the 912 windows and will preserve the exterior character of the building in the process. As of this spring, more than 200 had been replaced.
The project qualifies for preservation money because of the historical preservation component.
Ten percent of preservation act money is reserved for historical preservation.
Councilor Donald L. Cykowski said he has problems with many CPA projects but would support this one. "Riverside does a lot of good for disadvantaged children and adults," he said.
"The building is like the resurrection of our downtown," said Councilor Joy E. Winnie. "It's so vital. It's right downtown."
Robert Harrison, chairman of the city's Community Preservation Act Committee, said the account has $700,000 available after this appropriation. "It's a growing dollar amount," he said. The state will add to it in October. Since the city first adopted the measure in 2003, it has raised $4 million between city and state contributions.