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From Cousin:
In 2004, genealogists discovered that U.S. Presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry shared a common ancestral couple in the 1500s. It was reported that the two men are sixteenth cousins, thrice removed. However, the two are in fact ninth cousins, twice removed. Also, in 2007, it was revealed that then-U.S. vice president Dick Cheney and then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are eighth cousins.
That's right folks: Obama (ie: the Black Guy) and Cheney are more closely related than Bush and Kerry (two Yalies).


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SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iHeartCommunications, Inc. ("iHeartCommunications") announced today the expiration of its private offer (the "Exchange Offer") to eligible holders of iHeartCommunications' outstanding 10.0% Senior Notes due 2018 (the "Outstanding Notes") to exchange Outstanding Notes for newly-issued 11.25% Priority Guarantee Notes due 2021 of iHeartCommunications (the "New Notes"). The Exchange Offer expired at midnight, New York City time, on February 3, 2017 (the "Expiration Time").
As of the Expiration Time, approximately $737.9 million in aggregate principal amount (or approximately 86.8%) of Outstanding Notes, including approximately $503.0 million in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Notes held by subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications, had been validly tendered and not withdrawn in the Exchange Offer. iHeartCommunications expects to deliver the New Notes to be exchanged for the Outstanding Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn on February 7, 2017 (the "Settlement Date"). All Outstanding Notes held by unaffiliated parties that were validly tendered in the Exchange Offer will be exchanged for New Notes. Outstanding Notes held by subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications that were validly tendered in the Exchange Offer will be prorated so that iHeartCommunications does not exceed its current secured debt capacity under the indentures governing its existing indebtedness. Accordingly, on the Settlement Date, iHeartCommunications expects to issue approximately $476.4 million in aggregate principal amount of New Notes, including approximately $241.4 million in aggregate principal amount of New Notes to its subsidiaries.
All Outstanding Notes validly tendered in the Exchange Offer will receive the early tender consideration of $1,000 principal amount of New Notes for each $1,000 principal amount of Outstanding Notes tendered. Participating holders will also receive, with respect to their Outstanding Notes accepted for exchange, accrued and unpaid interest, in cash, from the last applicable interest payment date up to, but not including, the Settlement Date.
Immediately following the Settlement Date, approximately $373.6 million in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Notes will remain outstanding.
The New Notes will be issued as "additional notes" under the indenture governing iHeartCommunications' 11.25% Priority Guarantee Notes due 2021 that were issued on February 28, 2013, and will be treated as a single class with such notes but will not trade fungibly with such notes.
The New Notes were offered in reliance on exemptions from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
This press release is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or exchange nor the solicitation of an offer to buy the New Notes or any other securities. The Exchange Offer was not made to any person in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale was unlawful. Any offers of the New Notes were made only by means of an Offering Circular.
About iHeartMedia, Inc./iHeartCommunications, Inc.
iHeartMedia, Inc. (PINK:IHRT), the parent company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., is one of the leading global media and entertainment companies. The company specializes in radio, digital, outdoor, mobile, social, live events, on-demand entertainment and information services for local communities, and uses its unparalleled national reach to target both nationally and locally on behalf of its advertising partners. The company is dedicated to using the latest technology solutions to transform the company's products and services for the benefit of its consumers, communities, partners and advertisers, and its outdoor business reaches over 35 countries across five continents, connecting people to brands using innovative new technology.


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AdVirtus – The Most Convinient Way To Develop Good Habits
Develop good habits and have fun along the way.
Target Audience: People who want to make their life more effective and achieve their goals.
Website URL: http://www.advirtus.com/
Feedback sought:
- Visit http://www.advirtus.com. Spend no more than 5-10 seconds on the home page. What do you think the site is about?
- Now go back to the site and comment on various elements of the site.
- What do you find bothersome? What do you like?
- What do you think of the sign up process?
- Would you sign up for a paid account? If not, why? The site is free now.
- How do you think the site compares to other similar sites/competitors?
- Please share any additional feedback/comments you might have.
About Advirtus:
Advirtus is a new web-service that lets anyone set goals and form a habit to carry them out.
After you join the site, you can add your tasks/goals: jogging, not smoking, applying the principle of Getting Things Done daily – the task can be anything. Users' tasks may be personal or stored in the bookmarks (future tasks that the user would like to perform). In addition, there are group tasks which can connect multiple users. Task frequency can be easily defined.
We are quite realistic about the process of developing habits and we think that you can not simultaneously perform more than fifteen tasks. Once the task is completed, that is, successfully completed all forty times, it is put into the archive and adds to your base skills to replace it with another from your bookmarks. This bookmarked skills can be edited or removed.
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> Visit http://www.advirtus.com. Spend no more than 5-10 seconds on the home page. What do you think the site is about?
I've noticed that there were some categories of some tasks. I also managed to read that I need to perform some tasks daily.
Suggestion: make the main idea of the site obvious (cut the small text in yellow rect in half and make it stand out with larger fonts). 5-10 seconds might be not sufficient to grasp what the website is about.
>Now go back to the site and comment on various elements of the site.
Catalogue must be the most important, since it's in the top left corner… lets see… It contains categories of tasks. Some kind of header would be nice, like "Here you can find examples of tasks. Choose from existing ones or create your own".
It's not really clear what the Groups are…
When I went to "Feed" I hovered over the "Oh Life" (You have finished the task implementation Oh Life, 25 month_12 23:15)
1. you've got an error in translating the months name I think.
2. When I hover over Oh Life I see a hint in russian
3. The link "Oh Life" leads to a 404 page.
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Paula McClure, an Emmy-winning television personality who founded a spa for women, died Wednesday July 17 in Dallas after battling brain cancer. She was 40.
Known in the Dallas area as a co-host of "Good Morning Texas" on WFAA-TV for nearly three years in the late 1990s, McClure had a successful broadcasting career that included a stint on "Entertainment Tonight."
McClure had surgery and a series of conventional and experimental treatments. At the same time, she founded the Paula McClure Women's Cancer Foundation, which provided research money for schools and doctors to study the brain and offered information about brain cancer, especially for women.
She began her career at KDFW-TV in Dallas while studying broadcast journalism at Southern Methodist University. She graduated and stayed with the station, hosting her own talk show.
She won an Emmy Award for an interview with Barbara Walters while she was hosting Good Morning Texas.


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Two Courts, One Law
I'll get to Phil's McCain-Obama-and-the-courts question in a sec. But I first have to say that while I'm generally a big fan of David Savage's at the L.A. Times , there are parts of this latest piece that sound like they could've been written by Rush Limbaugh.
The McCain-Obama comments reflect a long-standing divide between conservatives and liberals on the role of the courts. Reduced to the simplest terms, conservatives say judges should follow the law, and liberals say they should ensure that justice is done.
Ugh. I appreciate the need to get this complex, age-old debate boiled down to within a journalistic word limit, but there's gotta be a better way. Of course both conservatives and liberals say judges should follow the law. Beyond that, and within the descriptive limits of the stereotyped terms, "conservatives" say that "following the law" means using the fewest possible interpretive clues to figure out what the law means (for statutes, text only; for the Constitution, at best, a guess at what the framers meant in 1789), and as a matter of practice they fill in any remaining areas of uncertainty (of which there are inevitably some in some cases) with broad ideological preferences—about the power of the government, the role of the courts, and the kind of society in which they want to live. "Liberals" believe "following the law" means looking to as many interpretive clues as might reasonably shed light on the text (legislative or other kinds of history, text and textual context, the purpose of the document, etc.). As a matter of practice, they, too, may fill in remaining areas of uncertainty with an equal and opposite set of broad baseline principles, including the principle that judges get to say what the law means.
There's no way around the problem of laws that are sometimes unclear. I think on balance the "liberal" approach to interpretation has a better chance at preserving the idea of "law" as having some sensible and identifiable meaning. But the reality also remains that vast swaths of the law are clear for both liberals and conservatives; that's why, among other things, not every dispute in the United States ends up in court. For those that do, there's also no way around the reality that judges will have baseline structural preferences and preferences about what they think "justice" would require in any given case. But I wouldn't deny (as many conservatives and some liberals do) that such preferences can matter, at least at the margins of judicial decision-making. That's why judges are politically appointed. That's why presidential appointments matter.
So what can we glean about McCain and Obama so far? I'd say that apart from some reassurance that the one reflects most conservative baseline assumptions, and that the other reflects most liberal baseline assumptions, not much. But to my colleagues who've watched this longer than I, I'd be pleased to stand corrected here.


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No. 8 Kansas begins the second half of its Big 12 schedule on Saturday afternoon against West Virginia. As we wait for the tip here in Lawrence, here's our usual five things to know about the matchup:
1. Offense vs. Defense:
West Virginia entered Saturday ranked 27th nationally in offensive efficiency, and it should make for another solid test for a Kansas defense making incremental improvements in conference play. But even if the defense has an off day, the KU offense should be able to score enough to win at home. West Virginia's defense (ranked 142nd in efficiency, per KenPom.com) will have its hands full against KU's top-10 offense.
2. The league race:
Depending on Texas' result at Kansas State, Kansas, 8-1 in the Big 12, needs a victory to stay one game clear of the Longhorns, 7-2. The key for Kansas: Holding serve at home. If KU wins its remaining five home games, that's at least 13 Big 12 wins for KU, and another loss for Texas, which still has to come to Allen Fieldhouse.
"I still think it's wide open," Bill Self said this week. " I don't think it's a two‑horse race at all. I think there's still some teams with four losses that have a shot. We were in this position last year if I'm not mistaken, 7‑0, and ended up having to come from behind to get a piece of it. It's still wide open."
3. Surprising number:
After struggling to hit shots at Texas and Baylor, freshman Andrew Wiggins now has the lowest shooting percentage (44 percent) of any KU starter. Wiggins, though, has hit 70 of 83 free throws (84 percent) in his last 14 games.
4. Surprising number II: Joel
Embiid is shooting 61.6 percent from the floor, the best of any KU starter. But if you look at effective field-goal percentage, which weighs three-pointers more heavily, Naadir Tharpe has actually been the most efficient KU player on offense. His effective field-goal percentage is at 62.8% for the year, while Embiid's is at an even 62 percent.
5. Huggins vs. Kansas: West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has taken teams to Final Fours and coached lottery picks. But he's never beaten Kansas. He takes an 0-6 record against the Jayhawks into today's game. That mark includes an 0-2 mark while at West Virginia.


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Why are there so many signs in Korea that are written in broken English?
Not many people from Korea speak English, yet you can see so many signs and product names written in (often incorrect) English. If they are going through the trouble of looking up words and designing their permanent signboards with them, why not proofread them? That's because most signs in English are NOT for actual English speakers. Hyunwoo explains what that means.
Engrish In Korea – Why So Much (Incorrect) English on Korean Signs?


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MONTPELIER, Vt. – Retired bus driver Rodger Brassard says he didn't know he had more than $5,000 coming from his late mother's life insurance policy, but found plenty of uses for the money — including a visit to his daughter in Alaska.
Brassard, 67, of Burlington, was one of the beneficiaries of an audit of insurance companies done by a Connecticut company at the request of several states.
Auditors found that many life insurance companies were not being aggressive enough about tracking down beneficiaries when people with life insurance died. Several large companies, including Prudential, AIG, Lincoln Financial and others, have entered settlements with states to improve their practices.
Now legislatures are joining in, with Vermont and several other states passing laws spelling out the steps companies must take to find the people owed money when one of their policyholders dies.
Since last year, eight states have passed legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. They are Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota and Vermont.
Under the Vermont version of the law, the companies must:
n Check databases of their policyholders against a Social Security master database that records deaths around the country to ascertain when a policyholder has died and the policy should be paid off;
n Make a "good-faith effort" to find the policyholder within 90 days;
n Send the policy payout to the unclaimed property division of the state treasurer's office if the beneficiaries cannot be found immediately, so the state can continue the search.
"This law will help ensure that Vermonters receive their rightful benefits promptly, instead of discovering much later that proceeds were turned over to unclaimed property or being held by the insurance company itself," Gov. Peter Shumlin said in a statement.
State Treasurer Beth Pearce said recently that life insurance companies already use the Social Security database to determine when they can discontinue annuity payments, so the twice yearly check of the database for payouts would not pose an undue burden.
She said that last year, the unclaimed property division received payouts from about 2,500 life insurance policies with a total value of about $2.2 million.
Whit Cornman, spokesman for the American Council of Life Insurers, an industry group, said the industry paid out more than $200 million in life insurance benefits in Vermont in 2011.
"While the amount of unclaimed life insurance benefits at issue represents a very small percentage of total claims paid, we know the percentages represent real people," Cornman said in an email.
Brassard said of the $5,000 he got last year, "It got put into the general funds. We used it for just about everything." Then he added that it enabled the trip to Alaska during the holidays. "It was the first Christmas I got to spend with my daughter in 18 years," he said.
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Libel: Israel seeks rule from Euphrates to Nile
Since the Palestinian Authority was established it has systematically indoctrinated young and old to hate Israelis
and Jews. Using media, education, and cultural structures that it controls, the PA has actively promoted religious hatred, demonization, conspiracy libels, etc. These are packaged to present Israelis and Jews as endangering Palestinians, Arabs, and all humanity. This ongoing campaign has so successfully instilled hatred that fighting, murder and even suicide terror against Israelis and Jews are seen by the majority of Palestinians as justified self-defense and as Allah's will.
Throughout history bogus conspiracy accusations have been used to incite hatred, violence, and mass murder. The myriad conspiracy libels concerning Israel, Israelis and Jews are an integral part of the Palestinian Authority's ongoing hate promotion. PA libels claim that Israel conspires to infect Palestinians with AIDS, spread drug addiction, conspired and successfully murdered Arafat, and more. The PA's goal has been to inculcate hatred to the degree that fighting and murdering Jews and Israelis will be glorified as heroic self-defense.
Libel: Israel seeks rule from Euphrates to Nile
A repeated PA libel claims that Israel secretly conspires to conquer and rule "from the Euphrates to the Nile", an area which includes the territories of Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. As with all propaganda, the PA includes detailed fictitious "proofs" to make the lie sound credible. The PA asserts as fact that the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament,
displays the slogan "From the Euphrates to the Nile," and that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the Euphrates and Nile rivers, indicating Israel's plan to conquer everything in between. This video clip, broadcast hundreds of times on PA TV from 2001 to 2009, depicts a classroom of Jewish children wearing skullcaps in front of the Israeli flag, repeating after the teacher: "The Land of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates". All the actors speak Hebrew and the fabricated scene is presented as authentic, as if it were an actual lesson in a Jewish school.
The following are additional examples of this libel:
Fatah official: "If the Palestinian cause is eliminated, then Israel will spread its flag from the Nile [River] to the Euphrates [River]"
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Jan. 13, 2018
Official PA TV program
Palestine This Morning
, on the role of Palestinian women in protesting against US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, hosting Fatah Revolutionary Council member Salwa Hadib
Fatah Revolutionary Council member Salwa Hadib:
"[The occupation] has received a strong push and support from the American decision [to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital]. We are in Ribat (i.e., religious conflict/war over land claimed to be Islamic) and a struggle with [the Israelis] until Judgment Day… What pains me the most is the Arab disregard. I hope that all of the Arab governments will be coordinated… We need a lot more Arab and Islamic popular protest, and we need the Arab governments to make their voices heard, because we are defending – we in Palestine are the defenders of the entire Arab homeland. If the Palestinian cause is eliminated, then Israel will spread its flag from the Nile [River] to the Euphrates [River] and will reach the borders of the most distant Arab states, and this is what we're warning against."
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Fatah official: Israel`s motto: "The empire of Greater Israel – from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the Euphrates River"
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 27, 2016
Headline: "Zaki: The date of the convening Fatah's Seventh Conference will be determined today"
"Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki... emphasized that the strong Fatah Movement is the only one that is able to expose the shame of Israel and its policy, and this is in light of the changes through which Israel has begun to implement its motto 'the empire of Greater Israel – from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the Euphrates River,' as the stupid criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu says…"
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Guest on PA TV: Israel's motto is "The State of Israel from the Nile [River] to the Euphrates [River]," and steals water in order to achieve this goal
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Mar. 26, 2016
Official PA TV program
Palestine This Morning
from the studio in Amman, Jordan, hosting geologist Mazen Rial to discuss water – the basis for sustainable development.
Geologist Mazen Rial:
"If we examine the racist separation fence that Israel built, [we will discover] that it was not built in a random manner, and its route is not straight. Its purpose is to surround the good water sources and the good wells, so the Jewish side can use them. We held negotiations on the subject of land, and they negotiated for land while thinking about water. I always say that water is the most important thing as far as the Zionist entity is concerned, and all their wars with the Arab world were based on this… the central motto of Israel is that something cannot be created out of the blue: 'The State of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates' – from the Nile River to the Euphrates River – in other words as far as they are concerned water is the foundation for taking over the region, to use it and to establish the Zionist enterprise at the expense of the Palestinian national enterprise and the Arab liberation enterprise.'"
Egyptian Sheikh on PA TV: Israel, with the US's help, is behind regional violence and sectarianism in order to expand Israel's borders from "the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Sept. 11, 2015
Official PA TV program
, hosting Egyptian Sheikh Nabil Na'im:
Sheikh Nabil Naim:
"The Israeli involvement in what is happening in Syria is evident to all. ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra, where do they receive treatment? In the Israeli hospitals. The weapons that ISIS receives come from Turkey and Israel. The one who created the problems in the region's countries is Israel… Who destroyed Iraq? Iraq was destroyed by America. Do you not agree? They have Brzezinski, the Jewish leader (Zbigniew Brzezinski, advisor to Jimmy Carter on national security, a non-Jew, and a severe critic of Israel –Ed.) - he said: 'In order to create 'Greater Israel' from the Euphrates to the Tigris, it is necessary to dismantle the [Arab] countries adjacent to Israel and turn them into warring sectarian and ethnic frameworks… Israel is not interested only in Palestine. In the Israeli parliament Israel's borders are from the Nile to the Euphrates. On the Israeli flag [the stripes] symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates, with David's Kingdom between them… We want to say to the people: 'The reason for all your problems is Israel. You need to solve the Israel problem. Do you understand? Israel is linked to the problem of the dam in Ethiopia. Israel is linked to the crisis in southern Sudan. That is what divided [southern and northern Sudan]. Israel is linked to what is occurring in Syria and Libya."
Jabhat Al-Nusra is a branch of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization operating in Syria and Lebanon, formed in January 2012. It is an Islamic Sunni, Jihadist group fighting against the Syrian government forces in the Syrian civil war, in order to establish an Islamic state in Syria.
Fatah official: Israel's flag represents the Nile and Euphrates as borders of the state
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 3, 2015
Op-ed by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Committee member and regular columnist for the official PA daily
: "The power between the flag of Palestine and the borders of the Nile and Euphrates!"
"The additional question is whether the leaders of the occupation state have begun to sense their weakness due to the leader of the State of Palestine and the PLO heading the army of political realism and rationality, and of the Palestinian people's will and aspirations for freedom and independence! This is because they now believe that the raising of the Palestinian four-color flag (the flag of 'Arabness') [parenthesis in source] at the UN headquarters [in New York] expresses a withdrawal, even just a slight one, from the two blue stripes in the flag of the occupation state, 'Israel', which represent the Euphrates and the Nile [rivers] as the borders of the State of 'Israel!'"
PA daily: Israel has "aspirations [to rule] from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2015
: "Recurring sectarian wars"
"Unfortunately, while Israel is facing isolation and international boycott, we find that the Arabs have opened the door of salvation to it, as it has had secret diplomatic relations, and security relations with many of the Arab countries in regards to dealing with the revolutions of what is called the Arab Spring - all this while knowing that Israel has relations with the moderate, radical Islamic, and secular Syrian opposition, as one, as if the internal Arab revulsion created a strong love towards the Israeli occupation. Israel spreads the danger posed by ISIS on one hand, and the Iranian danger on the other hand, in order to sneak into the bedrooms of the Arab regimes, as if it has no aspirations [to rule] from the Nile to the Euphrates..."
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Abbas advisor Al-Habbash "likes" Facebook post: "Jews are behind all that is happening from Iraq to Egypt"
Source: Facebook page of Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Abbas' advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs and Supreme Shari'ah Judge, July 1, 2015
Mahmoud Abbas' advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs and Supreme Shari'ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash wrote in response to the Islamic State terrorist attack that killed dozens of Egyptian soldiers in Sinai on July 1, 2015, that Israel is the one benefiting from the attack:
"I have no doubt that the main beneficiary - and perhaps the only one that really benefits - of the attack in Egypt is Israel. Simply put, this means that whoever harms Egypt is acting for the good of Israel, whether or not they want to."
Al-Habbash received many replies supporting his words. One was the anti-Semitic response of Ashraf Salameh Abu Islam which Al-Habbash 'liked':
"This is what the Jews are working towards: the establishment of the great kingdom from the Iraq river [Euphrates] to the Nile. It used people with twisted, extreme faith, and the Jews are behind all that is happening from Iraq to Egypt. Unfortunately, there are those who implement their (i.e., the Jews) plans in the name of Islam."
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Note: ISIS - Islamic State attack on Egyptian checkpoints (July 1, 2015) - A jihadist group affiliated with the Islamic State terror organization attacked several Egyptian military checkpoints in northern Sinai simultaneously, killing and injuring dozens of Egyptian soldiers.
Fatah official: Israel intends to have a "main state from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Al-Asima, bi-weekly distributed with official PA daily, May 27, 2015
: "The black Nakba ("the catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) "
From an article by Fatah Central Committee Member Abbas Zaki
"Anyone who is interested in the liberation of Palestine and strives for a life worthy of the people of sacrifice, must cease the policy of indifference towards the consistent aggressive strategy of the Israelis, which includes the destruction of the Al-Aqsa [Mosque], the division of what is already divided and the cooperation with collaborators and cowards in the Middle East under false pretexts. This is in order to exhaust the Arab will power, to destroy the [Arab] nation's capabilities from the [Atlantic] Ocean to the [Persian] Gulf with the intention of drawing the map of Zionist rule, with its main state from the Nile to the Euphrates, and to turn the Zionist dream into reality."
Caricature: Israel wants land from "river to the sea"
Source: Al-Ayyam, June 12, 2014
For years the Palestinian Authority has adopted the libelous claim that the two stripes on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates or the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and thereby a Jewish plan to establish a "Greater Israel" ruling over that entire area.
Text on upper right corner of image:
"[Israeli President Reuven] Rivlin and his slogan! Israel's new president"
Text on right bucket:
"From the river"
Text on left bucket:
"To the sea"
Official PA daily: Zionist "colonial project" end goal is control "from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 6, 2014
By Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for official PA daily and advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs
"Since Israel was established on the ruins of the Palestinian
(i.e., 'the catastrophe,' Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) – which has [recently] marked its 66th anniversary – the Zionist leaders have been developing their slogans and methods of extermination and terrorism against our Palestinian people within the Green Line, which include the military orders that have harmed the dignity and rights of the Palestinian person in the most barbaric and despicable ways, until they surpassed Italian Fascism, German Nazism and [other] military dictatorships around the world.
After Israel conquered all of historical Palestine, the Sinai and the Golan on June 4, 1967, it continued its 'price tag' policy against the Palestinian people in particular and the Arab nations, whose territories were conquered, in general, by restoring the Emergency Law and the military orders, in order to complete the stages of its initial Zionist plan and colonialist project, which is based on the fundamental political slogan, 'Your land, O Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates.'"
Fatah spokesman: Israeli flag symbolizes aim to rule "from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Mar. 23, 2014
Official PA TV cultural program
Panorama of the Hour
hosted Spokesman of Fatah's Supreme Leadership in Gaza, Hassan Ahmad.
Spokesman of Fatah's Supreme Leadership in Gaza, Hassan Ahmad:
"As we [all] know, and as you [all] know, the Israeli occupation entity is, up to this very moment, raising the flag from the Nile to the Euphrates, a Star of David between the Nile and the Euphrates – the expansion project."
Fatah spokesman claims Israeli flag represents Israeli rule from the Nile to the Euphrates
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Mar. 19, 2014
Fatah's official spokesman Ahmad Assaf:
"Did you know that Israel still today has no borders? It has no borders. Even the two stripes on its flag [represent Israeli rule] from the Nile to the Euphrates... The Palestine battle for the Arab region and the Arab nations is not a pan-Arab battle but a national battle [of each Arab country]. Because the Palestinian nation is the first line of defense against Israel's plans and aspirations."
[Official PA TV, March 19, 2014]
Assaf reiterated the libel in an interview on Egyptian TV:
Fatah's official spokesman Ahmad Assaf:
"The Israeli flag still speaks [of rule] from the Euphrates to the Nile. Look at the Israeli flag... They still believe in the Greater Israel. As the first line of defense, the Palestinian nation is not merely defending itself, but the entire Arab nation. For this reason, the Arab nation's defense or standing (with the PA) is certainly a pan-Arab duty, but at the same time, it is the national duty of each Arab country, because Israel's aspirations go beyond [its] borders."
[Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt), posted on YouTube on March 19, 2014]
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Expert on Israel Affairs on PA TV: Israel seeks to rule "from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, May 15, 2013
PA TV open studio for Nakba Day. Interview with expert on Israel affairs, Adel Shadid:
"The Zionist enterprise in the region doesn't limit the harm it causes only to the Palestinian people and Palestinian geography… This enterprise is one of expansion and exchange [of one population with another] and proof of this is that Israel, even though 65 years have passed since it founded its entity, has yet to determine its borders. Thousands of laws have been passed in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) and in Israeli institutions and still Israel's borders are not defined. This takes us back to the ancient and false Biblical story which is considered part of the Zionist perception and theory – that all territories in which Jews lived 2,000 years ago will be their state by right, in other words, from the Nile to the Euphrates, meaning the Arab regions in Syria and North Africa are destined to be under their geographic rule and under their political and economic control."
Fatah official propagates libel that Israel wants to rule "from the Nile to the Euphrates"
Source: Official PA TV Live, Jan. 4, 2013
Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, spoke on a PA TV Live broadcast from a Jordanian celebration of Fatah Day.
Azzam Al-Ahmad:
"Our campaign against the Zionists was not a Palestinian-Israeli campaign, but rather an Arab campaign against the forces of old-style colonialism and the Zionist dream, [a campaign] that aimed to defend the entire Arab region. We, as Palestinians, remain the spearhead, and we were never anything else… We defended Lebanon, we defended Medina. Do we not know that they (i.e., the Jews) dream of a state reaching from the Nile to the Euphrates? ...We say to our brothers who do not grasp the reality of the situation (lit. 'who have been struck by color blindness'): 'We are involved in a campaign of the entire Arab nation. We aren't in a campaign that is Palestine's alone. This puts us all in the same trench.'"
PA daily: The aim of Zionism is to rule over the world and over all non-Jews
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2011
"There was no period [like it] in history, and no other nation has acted with such recklessness, expelling and spilling blood, as the Zionist movement did against the Arabs of Palestine. The source of the name 'Zionism' is 'Mount Zion', one of the four mountains upon which the city of Jerusalem was founded. The Jews believe that their God lives there. Zionism is an extreme religious ideology whose aim is political hegemony and the transformation of a Jewish monarchy in Palestine into a basis for their eternal rule over the world, [and] that others, "Goyim" [non-Jews], must submit to their will, [their rule] which is drawn from the will of God."
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Netanyahu conspires to "control" the Middle East "through all available means"
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 17, 2011
"In an announcement published by the Commission for Information and Culture, the [Fatah] movement said… that Netanyahu's extremist government is falsifying historical facts, and that although the leader of the Israeli Kadima party, Tzipi Livni, has acknowledged that the Palestinian State is not a favor bestowed by anyone, Netanyahu is seeking to breathe new life into the Zionist enterprise, through plans for the control over and hegemony of the Middle East region through all available means, both military and economic."
PA TV history program: Jews throughout history have sought rule over all Arab land, not just "Palestine"
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Oct. 10, 2010
PA TV history program, Witnesses and Testimonies, featuring two Jordanian academics:
Jordanian academic Muhammad Dohal:
"The interest of the Zionists, throughout history and at the present time, was not the land of Palestine alone; rather, their interest was greater than that. … The Jews' interest included all of the Arab land, we might say, or at least the Arab area surrounding Palestine, such as Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and even parts of Saudi Arabia, whether through active control, media control, or economic control. All this was planned by the Jews in order to rule this region with all its human, economic, material and other treasures and resources."
PA daily: Israel seeks to control Arab Islamic nations
Source: Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 9, 2010
Rev. Terry Jones, leader of a small church in Florida, started a campaign to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11th, 2010, to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda terror attack. The official PA daily used this as the launching point for another verbal attack against Israel and the US:
"It's not at all impossible that the American security institutions are behind the crazy, hatred-filled pastor, with the aim of leading to the continued existence, perpetuation and deepening of the contradictions between the supporters and followers of different religions, and especially between Christians and Muslims. All this is in order to cover up Israel's crimes and the American forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Algeria and the Arab Gulf…
The Republican right-wingers, Israel's allies – and in particular, the supporters of religious fanaticism among the right-wing messianic Anglican groups, who purport to be Zionists – continually try to fan the flames of the differences and to incite wars, with the aim of wearing out the strength of the American people and of all nations of the world, and in particular of the Arabic and Islamic nations which are considered weak, to force upon them an ongoing act of plunder of their wealth and their natural resources, depriving them of any spark of hope to develop and to join the circle of humanity, in order to maintain the control by Israel – the racist apartheid state – over these nations, and especially over the Palestinian Arab nation."
PA TV libel promotion: Israel seeks rule from the Euphrates to the Nile
Source: Al-Falastinia TV (Fatah Party), Nov. 2, 2009
A video that aired on both PA TV and Al-Falastinia (Fatah) from 2001 - 2009 depicts a staged classroom of Israeli children wearing skullcaps in front of the Israeli flag, repeating after a teacher:
"The Land of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates."
The video clip is shown as if it were an actual classroom in an Israeli school. The child actors speak Hebrew.
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Zionism ultimate goal: The Euphrates to the Nile
Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Aug. 5, 2008
"There is a tale or a slogan of the global Zionist movement which states that the borders of Israel are from the Euphrates to the Nile."
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Welcome to Kindergarten! I am so excited to join the Our Lady of the Lake family as a Kindergarten teacher!
I am a lifelong Clevelander, growing up and living on the Westside. I am a product of Catholic schools from grades K-12. I attended Cleveland State University and earned my BA in Psychology and completed a post-baccalaureate teacher education program through Notre Dame College. Additionally, I am a few courses away from completing my M. Ed. in Educational Technology. Prior to receiving my teaching license, I was a nanny for nearly nine years.
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I have always been interested in photography but only became serious in 2007 when I bought my first digital camera. Since then I have been working back in time to the dawn of photography. First via the pinhole camera , toy cameras and various vintage film cameras my favourite of which is a battered but fully working Rolleiflex.
The Calotype which was one one of the first photographic processes first came to my attention in 2012 when I visited an exhibition called the Photographers Own , Paper negatives from the 1850s at the Daniel Blau gallery at Hoxton in London. I was astonished at their beauty and wanted to find out more and even make one myself. My imagination was well and truly fired.
With help from a small band of Calotypists and photo historians - the Calotype Society on the photo sharing web site flicker I made my first Calotype in May 2012. I was now hooked. I would at this point like to mention Richard Cynan Jones , Wlodek Witek and Roxanne Guez without who's help and encouragment making a Calotype would have been almost impossible. Our small band of world wide Calotypists have met twice, In 2013 we met at Lacock Abbey the birth place of modern photography and in August 2015 we met at St Andrews the town where photography grew and developed into an art form.
When I set out on this path I hadn't realised how interested I would become in Victorian history as I sought to find out and absorb everything to do with the Calotype. Making a Calotype is as much a craft as it is a science. It has required me to expand my knowledge of many subjects including Chemistry , maths , health and safety, history, research , optics , art ,woodwork and paper. On top of which it gives you a pretty good work out and above all teaches you patience. It is a slow process !
For me the Calotype allows me to express how I see the world , or may be that should be how I would like to see the world.
I have always been drawn to the landscape and my eye is usually steered to the same subjects as our photographic ancestors. I am particularly interested in the photography of William Henry Fox Talbot the inventor of photography , the Scottish partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson who's art at the dawn of photography is still rarely surpassed. And then of course there is Benjamin Brecknell Turner one of the worlds greatest landscape photographers. Recently the work of John Adamson the elder brother of Robert had piqued my interest , as a figure in early photography I feel that his work and influence has been greatly underestimated , something that I hope will be rectified in the near future.
In the Autumn of 2015 I had the privilege of being invited to have four of my pictures displayed at the Collecting Shadows Exhibition at the University of Louisville .
In August 2015 the Calotype Society met at St Andrews in Fife Scotland. Where we were allowed to view the work of the original Calotypists from the 1840s.
as well as produce our own Calotypes.
I returned in early October to record the old paper Mill at Guardbridge before it is renovated. A Photographic process involving paper seemed fitting. I also got to see some of William Henry Fox Talbots work close up as well as the Govan album which is an amazing collection of early photography.
Recently I have had the great honour of having my work at Guardbridge archived in the Special Collections at St Andrews.
In 2016 I had a Calotype and the corresponding print displayed at The History of Photography exhibition at Warwick Arts centre organised by Jo Gane. And in the summer I have had great pleasure in presenting two Calotype demonstrations at the inaugural St Andrews photography festival as well as having two of my prints from Guardbridge displayed at Martys Kirk along side prints by Hill and Adamson and Thomas Rodger. Which was unexpected and a huge honour . My thanks goes to Rachel Nordstrom head of the St Andrews special collections for that opportunity.
In 2017 I had three of my prints displayed in the Memory of Shadows exhibition in Oslo , thanks to Wlodek for that opportunity .As well as an exhibition of my St Andrews Calotypes and prints in the St Andrews photographic festival in September. A big thanks to Rachel Nordstrom for this.
In April of this year 2018 I had the great honour of being guest Speaker at the book launch in Bristol of Ali Bacons historical novel "In the Blink of the eye ."
Later that month I gave my first lessons in the making of Calotypes to the talented Caroline Douglas , in Edinburgh . Where we achieved some remarkable results.
This Website is a response to the many people who come up to me when I am out in the field , intrigued by the big camera. I am often asked if I have a website. So here it is .


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Many accounts of the Liberian civil war describe such episodes of violence in morbid detail, the assumption being that Liberia is a place so removed from the world that the practices of yesteryear—cannibalism, heads on stakes, and black magic—still prevail. In American Warlord, investigative journalist Johnny Dwyer takes a different tack. Atrocity here never feels gratuitous. By beginning with Jusu's experience, Dwyer is free to tell another, much more complicated tale, moving backward and forward with narrative deftness, without losing sight of its moral and legal underpinnings.
Jusu's story was first told in his testimony in the case of United States v. Belfast. The defendant, Roy Belfast Jr., (a k a Charles Taylor Jr., a k a Chucky), the furious armed man at the checkpoint, is the American-born son of Charles Ghankay Taylor, the guerrilla leader turned Liberian president. Jusu's testimony was a key piece of evidence in the case against Chucky, who was convicted in 2008 and has the distinction of being the only person ever convicted under American anti-torture laws. (Chucky's father was convicted four years later by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for crimes against humanity there.) It's an unusual situation: a combatant in a foreign civil war being tried in an American court. Chucky might be the only person to have faced prosecution for the atrocities in a war in which 250,000 people were killed and many more displaced.
The central story of American Warlord could be the plot of a young-adult novel, a twisted bildungsroman about a juvenile delinquent running with a bad crowd, and whose tough facade hides a vulnerable soul. Chucky is born in 1977. After his father abandons the family to pursue his political ambitions in Liberia, the young Chucky is raised by his Trinidadian-American mother, Bernice Emmanuel, and his well-meaning stepdad, Roy Belfast Sr. Their marriage begins to falter in the late '80s, around the time that Charles Taylor starts appearing on the nightly news as the leader of a rebellion intent on overthrowing the despotic rule of Liberian President Samuel K. Doe.
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Marcel Christ is a highly successful still-life photographer. However, there is rarely anything still in his photographs. His subjects move, jump and fly. By experimenting with different materials and techniques, he creates original shapes and structures. In his "Clouds and Powder" series, the materials are often unpredictable. He brings his education in chemical engineering to bear in creating unpredictable moments.
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Francesca Lia Block Quotes About GardensQuotes about: Gardens
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.
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Messes are inevitable when kids do crafts. If that stresses you, prepare the area with newspaper in order to keep glue and glitter off your floor and furniture. Another idea is to use washable markers and water soluble adhesives.
If you're struggling to find good prices on your supplies for your art projects, try browsing through some second-hand stores. A lot of thrift stores and consignment stores have plenty of items for artistic inspiration. Check in frequently as items come in every day.
There are countless jewelry supplies online that offer what you need to make your own pieces of jewelry. Make precious jewelry with their selection of beads and chains. Costume jewelry is an important part of many of our modern fashions. If you are interested in designing your own piece, there is a lot of money to be saved, as well as a new addition to go with your wardrobe.
Focus on doing one thing before starting another. It is a tempting idea to do a lot of different things at once in arts and crafts. You might abandon some of your projects if you start too many things. Spend the time necessary to complete each project before beginning a new one. This will better your chances of finishing.
Look online for ideas for crafting. If you are looking to start a project, look for ideas online. No matter who is doing the project or how old they are, you can find something that you can all do by looking online.
Organize all your art and craft supplies. While you can store the things you need in a number of different ways, you need to find the one that suits you best. If you stay organized, finding needed items will be a breeze. It ensures you know where each item is.
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Arts and crafts activities are a great way to entertain a large group of children or adults. It makes no difference how old the members of the group are, you can find projects for anyone. Look on the Internet for project ideas that will appeal to everyone in the group.
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Get a spirograph. You can get one online, or at a retail location. Use it to teach children how patterns work. As the markers move through the patterns, your kids can learn about different physics-based wave patterns.
Purchase supplies on sale to make your projects less expensive and easier on your wallet. If you buy at a crafts store, you'll pay a ton. Going wholesale means you can more supplies for less dollars. You can share extra supplies with friends, sell them or keep them on hand for future projects.
Don't discard the package that your products come in. You may be able to reuse or recycle much of the packaging in arts and crafts. Keep it all in a bin, so that you have instant inspiration for future projects.
You want to ensure you have allotted a proper amount of needed time for your art projects. You should not rush when working on your project. To get the best quality, you need to put in good time. You cannot do it justice when you do not take enough time. So make some time for it and you'll notice different results.
Put together a model with your child to help your child develop important skills. The models that snap together are good for younger kids; the ones that involve painting little pieces and gluing are more suited for kids in middle to high school.
You can find some great, inexpensive arts and crafts materials in your kitchen pantry. You can make an evening into an arts festival with a little glue, macaroni, and paper plates. Just get your kids to create their own art.
Would you like to be able to knit, but you do not know where to start? Don't worry! There are many books available to teach you the beginner stitches all the way up to the most advanced stitches. Learn what you need by reading and viewing pictures.
To create a keepsake item for a newborn, request baby pictures of the child's siblings. Make a mosaic pattern, leaving round holes at each of the hours. Glue the photos into place. Cover the mosaic with glass, then add the hands and a motor. Now, you have created a beautiful clock that this child will treasure forever.
Do you adore handmade items but never thought you had the time to create them yourself? Pick up an arts and crafts hobby, and you just might surprise yourself with how little time these projects actually take. You can take a class or read a book.
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On Sept. 24, the Internal Revenue Service issued REG-134974-12, "Reliance Standards for Making Good Faith Determinations" (proposed regulations). The proposed regulations address the standards for making a good faith determination that a foreign organization is a charitable organization to which a private foundation (PF) can make qualifying distributions.
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To avoid excise taxes, PFs must make minimum qualifying distributions each year (Internal Revenue Code Section 4942) and avoid making taxable expenditures (IRC Section 4945). A PF that makes a grant to certain foreign organizations may treat such grant as a qualifying distribution if the PF makes a good faith determination that the foreign organization is a public charity (as defined in IRC Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1), (a)(2) or (a)(3)), is a private operating foundation (as defined in Section 501(c)(3) and Section 4942(j)(3)) or isn't a disqualifying organization (as defined in Sections 4942(g)(4)(A)(i) or (g)(4)(A)(ii)).
Expenditures made for other than charitable purposes are considered taxable expenditures as defined in IRC Section 4945(d) and will subject a PF to an excise tax.
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A PF that makes a grant to a foreign organization that doesn't have a determination letter issued by the IRS will be treated as making a grant to a public charity if the PF has made a good faith determination that the grantee is a public charity. A "good faith determination" under Treasury Regulations Section 53.4945-5(a)(5) is one that's based on a grantee's affidavit or an opinion of counsel of either the PF or the grantee.
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Under the proposed regulations, the PF's reliance my be based on written advice given by a "qualified tax practitioner" who's subject to the requirements of Circular 230. A "qualified tax practitioner" includes an attorney, a certified public accountant or an enrolled agent, as those practitioners are defined in Circular 230 Sections 10.2 and 10.3. The proposed regulations limit the definition of "qualified tax practitioner" to these three types of advisors because,
…these practitioners generally provide advice to clients with respect to taking positions on tax returns, and these practitioners are generally authorized to represent their clients before the IRS without limitations applicable to other types of practitioners…
The IRS also cites cost as a reason for expanding the class of practitioners on whose written advice a PF may rely. In its explanation of the proposed regulations, the IRS states that it and the Treasury Department believe that broadening the class of advisors will decrease the cost of seeking professional advice regarding these determinations, enabling PFs to engage in international philanthropy more cost-effectively. Expressly allowing a PF to rely on a broader spectrum of advisors could also encourage more PFs to get written tax advice, which would, in turn, promote the quality of the determinations that are made.
Importantly, unlike the current rule, the proposed regulations don't include foreign counsel, unless the foreign counsel is a qualified tax practitioner as defined by the proposed regulations. This is consistent with Circular 230, which requires an attorney or certified public accountant be licensed in a state, territory or U.S. possession and an enrolled agent be enrolled by the IRS.
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NOTE: The following information is taken from posts published at http://stnektariosmonastery.tumblr.com/
In 1999, Geronda Joseph Voutsas wanted to have guard dogs for the monastery, similar to St. Anthony's Monastery. He purchased 4 pure bred dogs from a local breeder; 3 German shepherds and 1 Rottweiler. They were named Chiotes, Duvelis, Roussos and Arapis. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Arapi
The original plan was to train them and use them as guard dogs because there had been numerous incidents of night time intruders and vandalism on the property.
One Sunday, the novice in charge of walking the dogs, Gregory, took them off their leash so they could run freely. On this particular day, a bus from Astoria was visiting the monastery. The bus organizer, Katerina Koutsoupakis, had brought her 2 young daughters. The girls were playing with other children at the monastery's playground which was located just past the first pond.
The unleashed dogs ran to the playground and attacked Katerina's daughter who was about 9 or 10 years old.
This girl was severely mauled—her face, arms, legs, etc. had been bitten, leaving wide, deep gashes. She was airlifted to a hospital in the city and proceeded to go through reconstructive surgeries, skin grafts, etc.
The other children were traumatized by the incident. The news spread through the five boroughs quickly. The monks were instructed they had no blessing to speak about the matter to anyone. If someone asked, they were to respond "I don't know," and if they were persistent, then the monk would refer them to Fr. Germanos or Fr. Epifanios.
Shortly thereafter, the young girl's mother decided to sue the monastery to help pay for the large medical bills which her family could not afford. This action initiated a chain of events that were orchestrated by the monastery to help minimize the potential damage this embarrassing scandal could create.
First, a State Trooper from the K9 unit was called in to examine the dogs to see if it could be determined if they were at fault, or if they had any predispositions to this type of behavior. The expert determined that the shepherd with a floppy ear, Duvelis, was a fear biter and most likely the culprit that initiated the attack.
The monastery had to eliminate the evidence so no tests could be done on the dogs' teeth/bite patterns, etc. Fr. Kassianos and a catechumen from Toronto (who was never baptized and has since fallen away from the Church) were given the obedience to take the 3 shepherds to the local animal hospital and have them put down.
The Rottweiler, Chiotes, was given as a blessing to a young man named Stavros in New Jersey. The monks were given an obedience to tell pilgrims that they had given all the dogs away as a blessing. The reason: the monks were unable to properly care for them so the dogs were given better homes.
Next, in order to minimize the monastery's culpability, two of the older fathers started to coach the novice responsible for the dog incident on what his story would be at the hearing. This would be the 'official' story and he had to rehearse it daily with them until he had it memorized.
Katerina also started looking for a young girl who witnessed the attack. It was decided an older father would call her spiritual father so he could talk to the girl's mother, who in turn would talk to the girl. She was essentially given an obedience to say she didn't know or remember anything from that day if anyone was to ask her about what had happened.
During this time period, one of the monks from St. Nektarios, Fr. Philotheos, had to travel to St. Anthony's Monastery in Florence as he had an INS appointment down there (as the Brotherhood had not informed INS about relocating to NY, they were still using the Florence address and the monks without citizenship had to fly back and forth to Arizona for immigration appointments).
Fr. Philotheos did not want to return to New York due to ongoing problems there, and asked Geronda Ephraim if he could transfer to St. Anthony's Monastery. He relentlessly begged big Geronda to allow this. Big Geronda allowed it and the monk remained at St. Anthony's.
Katerina interpreted this event as an attempted cover-up, i.e. this monk was sent far away, out of state, so he wouldn't be called to the hearing to testify, and thus must have been responsible as well.
Katerina talked to Fr. Philotheos when she visited St. Anthony's to see Geronda Ephraim for confession. She secretly recorded Fr. Philotheos while conversing with him, in the hopes she could obtain some kind of evidence to help her case. She understood his vague apology and self-reproach as an admission of guilt which further confused things, but was later resolved.
Despite Geronda Ephraim admonishing Katerina not to sue St. Nektarios Monastery, she proceeded (keep in mind, Geronda Ephraim's own words are advice and admonishments are obediences too, the Elder shouldn't have to say "I command you" or "This is a command."). Katerina was awarded approximately $650,000.
This settlement was a setback for St. Nektarios Monastery as they had an obligation to pay a $25,000/month mortgage for the first two years of their existence, with the possible penalty of losing the property.
The consensus of the Elders was that Katerina would not enjoy her money and it'd bring her misery as she essentially was attacking St. Nektarios himself via her actions. Also, since she lost big Geronda as her spiritual father, and by extension the monasteries, she had essentially lost or forfeited her salvation.
NOTE: Arapi is equivalent to the English word "nigger" and at the monasteries, it is a name reserved for the black animals, or animals with the most black in them. ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Arapi )
Geronda Ephraim had a black cat when he lived on Mount Athos with St. Joseph the Hesychast. He named it Arapi and it was one of his favorite cats. Thus, the name now has somewhat of a sentimental tradition and has been transplanted to the North American monasteries. The black cat at St. Anthony's is named Arapi. Later, when the Geronda Joseph obtained some cats for St. Nektarios Monastery to help with mice control, he named the gray tabby cat Arapis).
Also see: https://scottnevinssuicide.wordpress.com/category/anti-black-sentiment-in-orthodox-patristics/
Blind obedience: For readers that may not understand, whenever a monk or nun is issued an obedience–and by extension a lay person who is confesses at the monastery–they are expected to do it, without complaints, grumbling, and especially without judging, criticizing or examining the order that is give. Even if the obedience is a 'sin', or a crime, etc. the disciple is not accountable for doing it; the one who has given the command will account for it. The disciple is accountable, though, if he/she does not obey. Geronda Ephraim has said in many homilies to his monastics, "On Judgement Day, God will ask a monk only one question: 'Did you do obedience?' If the answer is yes, then the monk will go to Paradise. If the answer is no, then eternal hell. This is the mindset monks and nuns live; and if they don't have it, they struggle to acquire it through prayer, warring their thoughts, and caning themselves. This is why there is a conspiracy of silence when incidents occur, and it's also how the monasteries insulate themselves from outsiders. When the whole brotherhood or sisterhood is told, if anyone asks, this is the answer. Even if it is a lie, in the minds of the monks and nuns, they are not lying: they are doing their obedience and gaining crowns for the next life. Their only fear is not executing the obedience properly, by which they could lose their eternal soul if God happens to call them to the next life and they die in disobedience.
It should also be noted that one of the main obediences Geronda Ephraim has given to all the abbots and abbesses (and their second-in-commands) is he does not want scandals, he does not want bad examples from monks/nuns that incite people to talk badly about the monastery, extra special caution when a dignitary visits (many times before a bishop or priest visits a monastery, the Abbot or Abbess will call all the monastics for a pep talk to be on their best behavior, not to do or say anything that will scandalize the special guest), etc. There is a constant need for perfection that is not keeping with reality. And this anxiety of the abbots and abbesses not to sadden Geronda Ephraim is many times transmitted to the monastics.
Fr. Philotheos and Novice Gregory have both left the monastic life, and are now happily married living in the world.


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Judges in Florida's Northern and Middle districts have some of the widest variations in the country when it comes to sentencing folks on federal drug charges, according to new data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a group affiliated with Syracuse University's law school.
The findings, based on a review of "sentences imposed by 885 judges in more than 370,000 cases" between 2007 and 2011, show that seven judges in Florida's Northern District doled out a median sentence of 120 months. However, average jail time imposed by the lowest sentencing judge was 51.5 months while average jail time from the highest sentencing judge was 136 months.
The difference in averages is the fourth greatest of any district in the country.
The data were analyzed on behalf of The Associated Press as a way of examining whether judges appointed by a specific political party were more prone to give out harsher sentences. But the AP concludes that "the party of the president who picked a judge is not a good predictor of whether a judge will be tough or lenient on a defendant found guilty at trial."
The AP goes on to explain:
In the 10 court districts with the most drug case sentences after trial, Republican-appointed judges assigned stiffer average sentences in five districts, but Democratic appointees gave longer penalties in the other five. In weapons cases as well, the longest average sentences were issued by Democratic appointees in five districts and by Republican-appointed judges in the other five.
Even though there is limited access to the data, the few charts available for free provide an interesting glimpse into how wonky federal drug sentencing is, particularly in Florida.
Judges in the state's Middle District handed out an average sentence of 82.5 months in more than 3,000 drug cases. The harshest judge averaged 120 months per sentence, while the easiest judge handed down 51 months on average. That disparity was the seventh greatest in the country.
Meanwhile, judges in the Southern District - The Pulp's home turf - appear to be way easier on defendants than their northern counterparts. The average sentence in the more than 4,000 cases down here was just 60 months. The lowest average was 46 months and the highest was 87 months.
David Markus, an attorney who knows a thing or two about federal drug cases, writes on his blog:
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In my view, the old system in which sentences were driven by mandatory sentencing guidelines created by sentencing commissioners is much much worse than federal district judges evaluating the particular case and individual appearing before the court. Cases are different. Defendants are different. Districts are different. Sentences then must be individualized.
There are a lot of flaws with these initial impressions of the data. Still, if you're planning on soon facing a judge and some drug charges in Florida, better hope you're in a Southern District courtroom.