text: AFTER receiving rave reviews for their performance in Madrid, Palestinian negotiators at the second round of Middle East peace talks in Washington are finding the going more difficult.Some analysts say they have lost the public relations advantage they gained in Madrid, where the peace process was launched last month. Diplomatic observers were surprised and impressed when the Palestinians proved conciliatory and pragmatic during opening ceremonies in Madrid. The performance generated hope that when formal negotiations with Israel began in Washington they would quickly get down to business. But during a week of wrangling over procedure, in which they insisted on talking to Israel independent of their Jordanian negotiating partners, the Palestinians appear to have staked out a harder line. Sources close to the delegation are especially dismayed because of the lost opportunity for a public relations victory offered by Israel's decision to boycott the originally scheduled date for the opening of the Washington talks. "All the pluses they gained when the Israelis didn't show up on the fourth of December, the Palestinians lost when they got nit-picky," says one source close to the Palestinian delegation. "They should have said, 'We're here to talk.' They have no clue about the media and the message." Palestinian delegates say this procedural issue is crucial to the outcome of negotiations to provide greater autonomy for Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A week of procedural bickering was triggered by conflicting interpretations of US-brokered ground rules for the peace talks, which call for a joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to treat with Israel, but also refer to "two-track" negotiations "between Israel and the Arab states, and between Israel and the Palestinians." Israel says it is willing to talk to the Palestinians separately but insists on the umbrella of the joint delegation. Because a separate Palestinian delegation could set the stage for an eventual Palestinian state, Israeli sources say Palestinians have reneged on an agreement in Madrid to negotiate over interim autonomy without reference to the final status of the territories. The Palestinians insist on being a separate negotiating entity because they want to be the only Arab party responsible for concluding the autonomy agreement with Israel and because their aim is an independent state in the territories. "Although the joint delegation is the address, we think the point of departure for direct talks must be the two-track," says Sari Nusseibeh, a West Bank university professor who is an adviser to the Palestinian delegation. "The point of ultimate reference has to be the Palestinian side. We have to be the party to make the final agreement with Israel." "It's not a procedural issue, it's the ultimate in substance," says another source close to the Palestinian delegation. Right or wrong, the harder-line position has tarnished the pragmatic image Palestinians cultivated in Madrid and has invited media criticism that they have badly overreached. One reason may be the absence in Washington of Faisal Husseini, the leading Palestinian figure in the West Bank, and the increased influence of Palestinians who live outside the occupied territories and who are clo se to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Mr. Husseini, who was an adviser to the Palestinian delegation in Madrid, reportedly opted to stay home to shore up faltering grass-roots support for the peace process. Persistent doubt at home that the peace process will produce Israeli concessions may, itself, be another factor behind the more rigid Palestinian posture in Washington. "They feel their domestic constituency is weakening," says an informed Israeli source. The absence of Husseini and the new mix of Palestinian personalities in Washington may also help to explain why the Palestinians have had greater difficulty projecting unity or explaining their position to the media effectively, analysts say. After refusing to issue visas to any PLO advisers, the US granted waivers to two Palestinians who live outside the territories, including Akram Haneya. Mr. Haneya is a close adviser to PLO leader Yassir Arafat and an influencial member of the newly created "Higher Committee" of delegates and advisers that directs the Palestinian delegation. Although Haneya's profile has been low, "his presence keeps the touch of the PLO on the proceedings," notes a London-based Lebanese journalist. Although the US is not currently talking to the PLO, it has always agreed that "diaspora" Palestinians like Haneya have a right to be involved in the peace process. The waivers for Haneya and Taysir Arouri, another deportee from the West Bank, also reflect a US conviction that an indirect PLO role is needed to legitimize the participation of non-PLO Palestinians from the occupied territories, analysts say. "Everyone, including Israel and the US, knows there's no process without the PLO," says James Zogby, executive director of the Arab American Institute. "So, creative ways were found to get around the problem so as not to disrupt the process." Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are expected to resolve their procedural differences when talks resume today. Israel is also holding separate talks with delegations from Syria and Lebanon. Multilateral talks on regional issues are due to begin early next year.


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Lea Black is among six women starring in the Magic City's franchise of one of the most popular reality shows. The series, which debuts Tuesday, began shooting a year ago and already wrapped, but few people knew about it. For Black, that was intentional.
"I didn't tell anyone," she said in a recent phone interview. "I think people are probably mad at me. I denied doing it until Bravo announced it. I guess I'm shy about it."
The Texas-born Black — who dubs herself the "token gringa" on the show — was cast not just because of her famous husband but due to her considerable political and charity fundraising efforts.
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His law partners, however, are another story.
"I think my husband's law partners are having a stiff drink about it about now," she laughed. "They're dialing 911."
Black said she had misgivings about doing the show when first asked but hoped it would ultimately benefit her charities.
"I wasn't sure and now I think the show's become a phenomenon," she said. "Bravo has created a pop culture phenomenon. I guess I decided to just live life and see what happens and go for it."
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It is with great pleasure that we spent a few hours with Andrew Jefford on Tuesday, writer and journalist, to answer a few of his questions about ''terroir'' .
Although he lives in France, down towards Montpellier, I hadn't welcomed him to Saint Emilion for a few years and this is a shame as he is one of the English wine critics that backed our story from the early days. Something that wasn't too common for the English at the time, all too happy to bash the Garagiste liked by the 'uncultivated Americans'. 20 years ago, the English were still the gatekeepers of the good taste of Bordeaux wines.
A meal and wine tasting with a red Burgundy whose name I don't recall, Valandraud 2010, 3 Marie 2009 (because when one talks about ''terroir'', the Roussillon generally has something important to say), Clos du Beau Père 2010 and Virginie de Valandraud Blanc 2012.
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The team is owned by Sanjiv Goenka, who managed to rope in the most iconic player in the T20 format – Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The current captain of the national team will be brining in a lot of fans to the franchise, which will definitely give them a huge boost.
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Needless to mention, team will be captained by Dhoni, who will be leading familiar names such as Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin and many more. Ashwin has been enjoying a brilliant run with the national team, and the experience there will certainly help him shine in the upcoming IPL.
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NEW HYDE PARK, NY – The North Shore-LIJ Health System today announced that 16 Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) young adult Explorers were among the latest group of community members taught by North Shore-LIJ Health System instructors to properly install car seats.
Car crashes are the biggest killer of American children up to 12-years-old, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Using the correct car seats and restraints for kids can help save their lives and prevent injuries. The North Shore-LIJ Health System's child passenger safety instructors have been offering child seat safety classes in the community for the past 15 years and host car-seat inspections on Long Island.
During the three-day car seat safety training, 16 NCPD Explorers, volunteers between the ages of 18 and 21, as well as four NCPD personnel, two Town of Hempstead park rangers, two Brookhaven Safety Town educators and a nurse from Nassau University Medical Center learned about the correct car seats to use for children of various ages, heights and weights, as well as how to properly install the car seats. The training took place at Hassel Auto Body in West Babylon for 30 hours over three days in June with the help of a grant from Safe Kids and the New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Commission.
Debora Riccardi, DNP, Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center director of community outreach, said the key to keeping kids safe in a car is not only instructing parents about the correct seat for their child now, but also how to properly restrain them in the future. Dr. Riccardi presented the training session along with two community health nurse educators -- Joann Stiehl, RN, a child passenger safety instructor and special needs technician, and Daina Shaw, RN, a child passenger safety instructor. Additional child passenger safety instructors from Long Island also assisted with the training.
"These newly trained people will be going out into their communities and helping to educate people about how to properly restrain and protect their children in a car," Dr. Riccardi said. "This will reinforce the training that we already provide and help it to spread further. And in the case of the Nassau County Police Department Explorers, these young people may choose to become police officers in the future, so this training could help families for years to come."
Nassau County Police Officer Dan Johannessen, who leads the Explorers program, said of the car seat training," I strongly believe in the benefits this training has for the community and I'm grateful to the North Shore-LIJ Health System and Debora Riccardi for making this possible."
Through a grant from Safe Kids and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Cohen Children's Medical Center has been offering classes to the community about child seat safety for about 15 years.
There are free car seat evaluation events through the year at North Shore-LIJ facilities and other places in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and the Bronx. Car seat checks will be done at Cohen Children's Medical Center on Oct. 14 and Nov. 3. For more information and to schedule an appointment, call 718-470-3352 or visit http://www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny/ccmcny-for-patients-and-families/ccmcny-cps-installation .
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Steam Guard the account protection feature introduced earlier this month has now been rolled out and is available to all Steam users. Allowing them to protect their accounts from Phishing and Hijacking attacks.
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Living with a serious and rare diagnosis like pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be isolating. The PHA community is a network where people can connect with others who aren't just living with PH, they're living their best lives. People with PH are more than their illness, with hopes, goals and experiences that are rich and inspiring. Friends, family, caregivers, care providers and other supporters who have been inspired to add their voices to the fight against PH are part of this network, too. Together, the PHA community has the right heart for adventure, altruism, community and caring.
Interested in sharing your story? Contact us at www.PHAssociation.org.
Post-Transplant Life is an Unexpected Adventure
By Kathleen Sheffer From left, Kathleen and Monica in the German Alps, with help from a self-timer. Against a fair amount of unfavorable odds, I will be photographing PHA's 13th International PH
Rebekah Calverley Lives an Amazing, Beautiful, Fearless Life with Pulmonary Hypertension
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Rebekah was sick a lot as a toddler with colds and even pneumonia. That didn't stop her from being active like any other child as her parents searched for
Early Diagnosis and Advanced Care Put Indianapolis Mom with Pulmonary Hypertension on Promising Path
Indianapolis, Ind. (April 10, 2018) -- Donna Sparks combats a progressive life-threatening lung disease with courage, conviction and compassion -- for herself and others who share her fight. Diagnosed three years ago with pulmonary
St. Louis Survivor of Deadly Lung Disease Working Hard, Inspiring Others and Breathing Easily
St. Louis, MO (March 20, 2018) -- Amanda Harvey-McKee's life is the epitome of the notion that if you want to get something done, give it to a busy person. At age 39, she
Washington, D.C. Golden Glove Lightweight Champion Elvis Medrano Faces Biggest Battle with Deadly Lung Disease Diagnosis
Silver Spring, Md. (March 13, 2018) -- In and out of the boxing ring, Washington, D.C., Golden Glove lightweight champion Elvis Medrano is in a daily battle for his life. At 27, he's lived six
PHA Support Group Leader Stephanie Bachelder Wears Many Hats in Meeting With Congressman
PHA support group leader volunteers take on many roles in the pulmonary hypertension (PH) community. Many are living with PH -- others are caregivers or health care professionals -- in addition to being constituents,
How the Unknown Led to Certainty for PhD Student and PH Patient Raele Robison
Raele Robison was a student in a demanding PhD program when she was diagnosed with scleroderma and pulmonary hypertension. Now armed with answers about what was causing her mysterious symptoms, she is living her best
The Barefoot Movement: PHighting for a Cure for Jackson
Noah Wall is a singer, songwriter, and fiddler in the award winning acoustic band "The Barefoot Movement." Her nephew Jackson Wall was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) at one year old. Jackson's parents hold a
Living and Breathing through PH – and Hurricane Maria
by Luis Cortes I was born in 1976 and raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico with a congenital heart defect called, Tetralogy of Fallot. Since no open heart surgeries were done on
The Right Heart Video Series: Kerry Babylon
Kerry Babylon is living her best life with PH. In this video post from PHA's The Right Heart blog series, she talks about traveling with PH and the importance of family. Kerry recently starred in a
Jaxon's Story: The Highlight of Our Day Every Day
Temi and Lance Jones welcomed a beautiful baby boy named Jaxon into their lives in July of 2016. He was healthy, and they never had any cause for concern until the
Darby Hetrick: "I Don't Let PH Hold Me Back"
By Darby Hetrick I am 20 years old and I have Pulmonary Hypertension. I have had PH since I was two years old. Yes, there were some hard times, but I never let it
My Return to Gardening After CTEPH
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Shavini's Story: "I Don't Worry About What I Have No Control Of"
Shavini Fernando, 35, talks about her pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) diagnosis two years ago and her journey to the United States from Sri Lanka in search of better care and treatments. Since being diagnosed,
Support Group Leader Bill Kolms' CTEPH Story
Bill Kolms was initially told that he was just getting older and needed to exercise more before he sought additional information about his symptoms. He ultimately determined that he had a type of pulmonary hypertension
Passion to Profession: Following My Mother's Faith and Tenacity
By Kimberly Mosley It was the summer of my senior year of high school. I remember the doctor coming into the room and diagnosing my mother with pulmonary hypertension (PH). It was something that
The Right Heart Video Series: Dancing My Way Through Pulmonary Hypertension
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My "Pre-Existing Condition" Started at Birth – How I Fight for Access to Care
By Bobby Hall About Bobby Hall: Bobby Hall is a social media influencer and activist who lends his voice to raising awareness for pulmonary hypertension. He also works for Project Angel Food, an organization
The Right Heart Video Series: Darby's Story
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More Than a Spectator: Living My "New Normal" With PH
By Tami Arnold Most people don't realize I'm sick. It's not something you could guess by looking at me. When I was diagnosed with PH in 2008, I really didn't think it was that
This Is Your Journey: Lessons in Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult PH Care
By Becca Atherton I was diagnosed at birth with complex congenital heart disease that caused me to develop pulmonary hypertension. Now 24 years old, I'm transitioning from pediatric PH care to an adult facility.
Family Rallies Around Child Living With PH: Everybody Deserves the Dream of "When I Grow Up…"
In Haylee's first year of life she was on the exact growth chart as her older sister, but was hit with several respiratory illnesses. As she grew older, some of her milestones were delayed
Coming Full Circle: A Filmmaker's Journey
By Robert Nyerges Although it seems like just yesterday, nearly ten years have gone by since the passing of my mother, Helena Strauch. Neither my mother or myself knew a lot about her rare
Travel by Train: My 1,200 Mile PH Adventure
By Barbara Holden People living with PH often have special travel considerations that require extra planning. The quickest route – flying – isn't always an option. Sometimes the choice to not travel by airplane
My Husband's Unexplained Illness and PH Diagnosis
By Arianne Rohmann My active thirty-year-old husband was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and bi-lateral blood clots after experiencing unexplained symptoms for months… Five months later I was a 29-year-old widow raising a four-
Inadequate Coverage Nearly Cost Me My Life
By Sharon Thomas I had health care coverage when I found out I needed a life-saving heart and lung transplant for a disease called pulmonary hypertension. However, my insurance denied the treatment I needed.
Announcing "The Right Heart" – New PHA Blog Series of People Living Their Best Lives With PH
Living with a serious and rare diagnosis like pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be isolating. The PHA community is a network where people can connect with others who aren't just living with PH, they're living their
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Rain or no rain, river cleanup continues
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The 13th annual Medina River Cleanup takes place Saturday, May 4, at the Bandera City Park. The cleanup begins with registration from 9 am to noon at City Park near the dam. Participants will receive free T-shirts.
After all the hard work, a free barbecue for all participants and donors - courtesy of Precinct 2 Commissioner Bobby Harris - will begin at 5 pm in the park. Local singer-songwriter Rodney Joe Smith, who has worked in the music business full time for more than a decade, will provide entertainment, accompanied by Boerne guitar picker, John "Woody" Woods, who has international performing experience.
Now in its third year, the drought has wrecked havoc on river recreation. Shuttles from most of the tube and kayak rental companies have ceased and may not open this year without significant spring rains.
But, rain or no rain, the Medina River Cleanup continues. Participants are expected from more than three-dozen cities and towns throughout Texas.
Last year, 172 people from 32 Texas towns pitched in to clear more than three tons of trash from the river with more than half of them paddling. This year, the drought has forced the closing of about 13 miles of the river to paddlers. Cleanup below San Julian Creek to Medina Lake will be conducted by hikers and with cooperation of landowners along the river.
For more information on the river cleanup and fund drive, maps of the Medina River and section heads, visit www.MedinaRiver.net.
Tax deductible donations may be made out to the Medina River Protection Fund and sent to PO Box 417, Lakehills 78063. Don Sloan serves as treasurer.
Pictured: Pieces of trash - big and small - will be hauled off during the 13th annual Medina River Cleanup on Saturday, May 4. It's not too late to volunteer. Registration takes place from 9 am until noon by the dam in Bandera City Park.
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The wireless broadband market is set to see significant growth over coming years, according to a new report.
Industry analyst Analysys Mason has predicted that by 2015, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate service revenues of $784 billion (£395 billion).
The report also foresees WiMax enduring a tough time, with the market being dominated by HSPA and LTE technologies.
According to the publication: "LTE will take off relatively slowly, but its customer base will reach 440 million by 2015, with associated revenue of $194 billion (£97 billion)."
Meanwhile, by the end of 2008, HSPA is expected to support 88 per cent of all wireless broadband consumers and is still expected to dominate in seven years time.
Dr Mark Heath, co-author of the report, commented: "Despite the increasing availability of LTE and Wimax, HSPA and HSPA+ will still support 54 per cent of wireless broadband users by the end of 2015."


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With Jim Dailey's announcement last week that he will not seek another term as Little Rock's mayor, it is about time we openly discuss the absurdity of his job.
It's a part-time position invested with none of the executive powers that are traditionally part of what it means to be a "mayor." Dailey gets a vote when matters come before the 10-member city board of directors, and he chairs the board meetings, but he is not really running things.
That's because Little Rock has a form of government that puts day-to-day control of the city in the hands of a city manager. Conceived as a way of preventing quid pro quo municipal corruption, the system resembles a corporation, with a professional bureaucrat acting as CEO and reporting to a board of directors.
In theory, it's not a bad concept. Since the city manager doesn't owe his or her election to anyone, he or she can make objective administrative decisions (as opposed to rewarding lucrative contracts to political allies, for example).
But adapting business models to government is always problematic, because businesses aren't democratic. Democracy may not always be efficient, but it ensures accountability. In Little Rock's form of government, the person with the most power is not directly answerable to the voters. That is inherently undemocratic.
To understand that better, just imagine if we had similar arrangements at other levels of government. What if the national chief executive was a manager hired by Congress? Even better, we could allow our part-time state legislature to name someone to oversee the functions of Arkansas government. That would certainly keep corruption at bay.
As undemocratic as Little Rock's system is, having a high-profile, mostly ceremonial mayor actually makes things worse, because it hides the problem. The mayor has to campaign throughout the city and win votes from the entire electorate, and the voters believe they have elected someone who can respond to their needs. In reality, they merely installed the 11th member of the city board, while the person best equipped to solve their problems never came around to ask for their vote. The whole process is misleading, to say the least.
To make it honest, we need to do one of two things. We can scrap the essentially meaningless mayor's seat and make it clear that executive authority rests exclusively with an unelected manager who reports to the city board.
Or we can make the elected mayor the chief executive of Little Rock.
I prefer the second option, because it is simple, transparent and logical.
Think about it purely in terms of accountability, which is perhaps the biggest benefit of representative democracy. If you're unhappy with how city government is being run, right now you cannot directly influence who is running it. You can complain to the city director who represents your ward, but that person is only one vote out of 11.
And while the city manager has to keep the city directors happy, that often entails something very different from keeping the average citizen happy. (Maybe the city manager took care of one of your director's pet projects, so the director is less inclined to hold the manager accountable for your grievance.)
An elected mayor, on the other hand, has a natural incentive to respond to everyone. There's always the danger of corruption or power consolidation with a strong executive, but that danger exists in our state and federal levels of government. In return we are able to directly elect a leader who can get things done, and we can vote that person out when we are dissatisfied with his or her performance.
Furthermore, a truly empowered mayor can bring the city together in a way no one else can. Right now the city is divided among so many constituencies, with rivalries between downtown and outlying areas, wealthier and poorer neighborhoods, and corporate and civic interests. With the city board the only directly elected branch of government, it's no coincidence that those fissures are perfectly replicated there, since each member is obligated to stand up for his or her particular constituency.
Only a mayor would need to find a way to bridge differences and broadly appeal across constituencies to assemble a coalition large enough to win election. With the added ability to actually enact an agenda and the motivation to remain in office, that mayor could make real strides toward compromise and cooperation.
Any debate about Little Rock's form of government is admittedly complicated by the fact that the current city manager, Bruce Moore, is unusually competent, effective and fair.
But any system benefits from excellent leadership. This city deserves a structure that can withstand a bad regime, which means enshrining democracy and accountability before everything else.


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New Year, new language. 12 tips for 12 months on improving English
The New Year is here, 2018 is the time for you to improve your English! Whether you are elementary or even proficient – there are always ways to improve, we have put some of our favourite tips together for you to follow, 12 tips for the 12 months of 2018!Continue Reading –


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Speaking for myself, I have lived my life in a particular way. I consider life from two distinct perspectives; the inner world (my universe) and the outer world (the big universe which my universe intersects with).
The Outer World
For many people, it seems to me, there is only one world: the outer world. It governs them. It could be said that they are complete automatons to the events of this outer world. Of course they do not see it like that, but from where I'm looking it seems exactly so. It might be pleasant to be able to claim that "It is not so for us." I doubt that it would be accurate though.
Any examination of the events of my life suggest to me that most of what I have done for a living, who I have consorted with, where I have lived and so on, were indeed driven by events from the outer world. And given my nature, many of the things that I "chose to do," were a foregone conclusion. I didn't really make choices, I just fell in line.
The Inner World
But what of this inner world? What is it? How did it arise?
We could also ask why is it so weak? And we could also ask why does it exist at all?
Being as honest as I know how, I have to say that there has always been something in me that wants to "find out." You would demean it to call it "curiosity," You can be curious about trivia. It is more than that. I can look at my life and I can see that some of the decisions I have taken came from my inner world. I sought out particular books, I sought out particular people, I was enchanted by cathedrals, I listened to holy music. This came from my inner world.
For many years I fed on a diet of words. Words from holy books, word from mystical books, words from Work books. That was mostly how this inner world fed.
A Focussing
One day, there was a focussing. It was fairly recent. It happened that one day the ruler of my inner world concluded that Gurdjieff's words could be trusted. Gurdjieff was dead, passed, but his writings remained – the writings over which he slaved for so many years. They could be trusted. They were the most important food in the diet of words.
This was no small thing – to have concluded that there was no point looking anywhere else. In my opinion, it is not a conclusion that many people have reached.
It was not long after that, that the ruler of that inner world decided to "try and fathom the gist."


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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, author, and lecturer, Dr. Shirin Ebadi shares her insights in this Up Close interview from NAFSA 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Ebadi discusses a wide variety of topics, including the recent travel ban, acceptance of displaced refugees, and how she remains hopeful despite the rise of violent extremism and conflict around the world.
As the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi continues her work fighting for human rights with a specific focus on her native Iran.
Dr. Ebadi won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting human rights, particularly for women, children, and political prisoners in Iran. One of the first female judges in Iran, Dr. Ebadi also was the first woman to serve in the role of Chief Justice.
After being forced out of the judiciary as a result of the 1979 revolution, Dr. Ebadi later became an attorney in private practice defending the rights of political dissidents. Her work led to her being arrested numerous times and receiving death threats. Despite now living in exile, Dr. Ebadi remains committed to her mission of speaking out against human rights abuses and advocating for legal reforms in her country.
Dr. Ebadi is the founder of several organizations, including the Defenders of Human Rights Center, is co-founder of the Nobel Women's Initiative, and launched the Million Signatures Campaign, a campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law.
She frequently lectures at universities across the world and is the author of 13 books, including her memoir Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country and the recently published Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran. Dr. Ebadi earned her master's, juris doctor, and PhD degrees from the University of Tehran.
NAFSA thanks the Loyola Marymount University for its generous support of this event.
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Malgorzata Dzieduszycka: Are we getting close to accessing the European Union?
Tadeusz Mazowiecki: This question should be put to Western Europe. As far as we, in Poland, are concerned this is a rhetoric question. We have always felt we are part of Europe, or at least in Poland we do and in my opinion so does the rest of Central Europe. However, it is only today that we can confidently give a positive answer. This was not the case in 1989 when the answer was not so clear and obvious. To some people, to some politicians who believe that the EU should remain a Union of Nations with what one might call a Carolinian tradition, the answer remains just as obvious.
The actual question should be whether it is desirable to perpetuate the division and retain the sense of Europe in a strictly geographic sense, not clearly defined, or whether to go beyond that division.
M. Dzieduszycka: Do you feel responsible for Europe?
T. Mazowiecki: Yes, and the reason is that I come from a nation and a country having close ties with European tradition, with West European tradition to be more precise, and because in my opinion Europe is likely to have a meaningful role in the forthcoming division of our world.
M. Dzieduszycka: What do you mean by "the forthcoming division of our world"?
T. Mazowiecki: What I mean is that after the era of the bi-division we have begun to detect different centers of influence and are probably entering a new phase regarding the situation worldwide. I believe that only Europe as a whole can have some meaningful role to play in this new world about to be shaped.
I repeat, however, that in order to achieve this aim we must count on the determination to have a united Europe and also count on the help from Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe if we want to overcome this civilization cleavage.
M. Dzieduszycka: What were you able to contribute to the cause of this new and united Europe?
T. Mazowiecki: To start with we changed the trend of Polish politics by opening up towards the West. Secondly, we made a radical change in Polish-German relations seeing that such policy is of utmost importance to this part of the world. Thirdly we opened up towards all of our neighbors stressing the fact that we can only envisage the future in the framework of good and peaceful relations. In other words, we accepted the only political standing that makes sense in today's Europe, assuming that Europe is to become a unit and that it must develop rather than to return to ancient conflicts such as occur in places like former Yugoslavia..
In this way we tackled three important questions: the opening up towards the West, the settling of Polish-German relations and a global opening up towards each and every one of our neighbors.
M. Dzieduszycka: In your opinion, what direction is Europe going to take forward?
T. Mazowiecki: I agree with what is contained in Havel's outline: the direction must be set by a spiritual inspiration dawning upon Europe; by seeking to restore the deeper roots of a unified European culture, of something that is hard to name. We have witnessed the disappearance of Europe's political divisions, an era of economic cooperation has begun and differences in civilization are decreasing. On the other hand we feel that factors of merely political and economic nature, no matter how important, must not become the backbone of European unity. I believe it was Jean Monnet, one of the fathers of the European Union, said who in the days when EU bore the title of the Steel and Coal Union, that he is concerned about steel and coal but none of these bear any great interest for him. For him what matters is politics.
Nowadays, to paraphrase this saying, one might say that when one tackles matters related to adapting East European agriculture to the demands of Western European economics what really matters is the deep union of Europe, a union extending beyond politics.
We are, however, unable to give a precise definition of this objective and are unable to say what should be the role of politics and of politicians in achieving it. It is evident that churches and Christianity have a role to play but the role that is to be played by politics and politicians is hard to define.
We realize that the price of bananas let alone that of oil are not most important and that what matters is to return to deeper cultural roots and to the living source of European culture.
As an additional comment I should like to say that Europe must not be considered separetely because it is a part of all humanity and that this question of all-encompassing human solidarity has practically gone into oblivion.
The era of fostering the third-world is now behind us. We no longer bother about it and wish to live according to standars of the wealthy countries. Well, if Europe is to play its proper role it must set aright its differences in civilisation and act likewise with regard to the rest of the world. This goal, hovever, will never be achieved if we do not consider the foundations underlying European culture.
M. Dzieduszycka: Does this mean that in your opinion the responsibility of European politicians can be translated as the capacity to keep a good balance between their own interests and those of the rest of Europe, or do you place this responsibility within the larger scope of responsibilities towards other parts of the world? Do you extend the Europeans' responsibility to the rest of the world?
T. Mazowiecki: I believe that there is a close tie between both.
M. Dzieduszycka: With regard to Europe, can you blame yourself for anything? Did anything ever go wrong with your endeavors?
T. Mazowiecki: It is hard to say. What went wrong? Perhaps our hopes and our dreams went too far.
M. Dzieduszycka: What dreams?
T. Mazowiecki: One of them was that once the iron curtain fell, some projects would come into effect without undue delay. In practice we saw how difficult it is to achieve this aim and we abandoned thoughts of utopia to assume more realistic guidelines. It is hard to sum up our results and to say whether we succeeded. In my opinion we achieved a lot despite obstacles. Let's put it this way: the extent of our dreams is far removed from that of reality.
M. Dzieduszycka: What was the greatest obstacle in making these dreams come true?
T. Mazowiecki: I would say that, aboveall it was the utopian formula that "what we need is a new Marshall plan" came in the first place. In reality economic considerations were of primary importance.
M. Dzieduszycka: Therefore in your opinion, was poverty the main obstacle?
T. Mazowiecki: Yes, it was. But there was a second one as well. I referred earlier on to spiritual values that must be rediscovered and restored in Europe. Have we succeded ? I think not. We were unable to convey our own experiences that undeniably carry some weight. We were unable to convey the idea that our souls were saved in a totalitarian environment by remaining faithful to basic values.
M. Dzieduszycka: Are you thinking about transmitting this sort of experience to our Western partners, or do you mean to say that our own people, the voters of today, should be reminded of it?
T. Mazowiecki: I mean both things. When I refer to Europe it is the West that I have in mind. The experience we lived through has not been considered as a global human experience and as far as culture is concerned this is a very important factor.
M. Dzieduszycka: It is hard to convey one's own experiences in such a way that someone else could adopt them for themselves. Photographs of children, victims of the war, are shown worldwide by the TV. They are a good indication that it is not enough to know about facts and show that there is no sense of responsibility in those who merely get to look at them.
T. Mazowiecki: This is precisely the reason why I doubt that there is any sense in discussing these facts over the Internet.
M. Dzieduszycka: We all feel the same but there may be some sense in the peculiarities of this media over which a privately voiced opinion may become a public outcry and a visit to a web site by someone like yourself may well be taken by others as a personal contact with you. Some good might come out of it.
T. Mazowiecki: I may be too sceptical but the fact is I don't yet know how to handle this tool.
M. Dzieduszycka: An additional reason for us to thank you for agreeing to grant us this interview.


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Military Family Network Brings Discounted Tickets To Finale Concert
The Military Family Network has secured discounted tickets for military service members and their families to the finale concert for the National Anthem Project. The National Anthem Project, led by The National Association for Music Education (MENC), is a multi-year campaign to re-teach the words and significance of our national anthem and spotlight the importance of school music education.
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Zika and Neglected Infectious Diseases
Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the agency's frontline public health officers who respond to emergencies, like Zika virus.
This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded travel alerts for Zika Virus to 28 countries and territories. The World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency. In Brazil, the country hardest hit, authorities have reported nearly 4000 new cases of the birth defect microcephaly, according to the BBC. The outbreak is blamed on Zika virus, which is spread by mosquitos and through sexual contact.
When outbreaks like Zika occur, the CDC sends disease detectives to affected areas. Officials with the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service investigate, research, and do surveillance. They track the first appearance of an infectious disease. "Emerging diseases in people are often tracked back to animals," says Jennifer McQuiston, CDC disease detective. A discussion about outbreak investigations was part of Spotlight Health in 2014. Watch the session. Featured speakers: Tom Frieden, McQuiston, and Neil Vora.
In summer 2016, Spotlight Health will delve into the topic of neglected infectious diseases. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will cover the topic. Learn more about Spotlight Health programming here.
Podcast: Prison Reform
On the heels of President Obama's pledge to end solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders, we catch up with former prisoner Shaka Senghor. He was on an Aspen Ideas panel discussing overpopulated prisons. Senghor advocates for prison reform in his role as strategy director for #cut50. Listen to the episode and subscribe to Aspen Ideas to Go on iTunes or other podcasting services.
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What are the prospects for democracy around the world today? Join key experts to examine the rise of extremism, constraints on representative government and new forms of authoritarianism. You'll find other collections from the Festival at iTunes U such as The Beauty of Mathematics and our most popular collection What is Happiness? Find more collections here.


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14 February 2013
In Season: Damson Ice Cream
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Gorgeous ice cream! I love plums but usually only either eat them as is or baked them into a tart. But this ice cream is calling me! Beautiful!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Jamie, just loving all the summer fruit at the moment :)Delete
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Just letting you know i have nominated you for Super Sweet Blogging award...........enjoy your recipes...
please follow link to accept....no pressure:)
Thank you! No pressure...I'll head over & check it out.Delete
Oh more plum recipes - have yet to try them in ice cream but looks delish.ReplyDeleteReplies
I reckon just about any fruit is delicious in ice cream & surely then it can count as one of my 5+ a day!!!Delete
Oh I do love plums, and in ice cream even more! Perfect for a summer afternoon...I'm envious of your lazy, sunny days!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh they have been lovely, certainly enjoying a little quality quite time after a hectic festive season!Delete
I am totally envious. Would have loved to get my hands on some damsons this season. I am still eeking out my damson gin that I made a couple of years ago, but stocks are getting low!! I'm definitely going to try this with some other plums though.ReplyDeleteReplies
I am very lucky to have Arfi down the road! She keeps me in stock & you have reminded me I have some damson gin that should be well & truly ready :)Delete


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I love Chris Brown. Well, no. I love his music. But I don't want to date him. So imagine my horror when I realized that, basically, I was.
I'm not used to feeling ashamed of myself and that's exactly how you feel when your boyfriend hits you. Not so much fear, and certainly not anger—that comes later—but in the immediate aftermath, it's pure uncut shame and humiliation.
How did I let this happen?
I'll start at the beginning. Jack was my first love, the boy to whom I lost my virginity (in a pathetically hilarious way). We've been on and off for 10 years and after going away to the Caribbean together this summer, we seemed 100 percent back on and head-over-heels in love.
And then, a few weeks ago, he came to visit. We were out with his coworkers and as we stood at the bar together and he told me he loved me.
"I love you too."
"I know," he said.
"Ohhh ha ha you know, huh?" I laughed and gave him a friendly poke.
"Eff you." (Although, um, he didn't say "eff")
That was what he said. Eff you.
"Jack. Do not say things like that to me. IDK if you're joking, drunk, or what but it's weird and mean and hurtful and rude. DON'T."
But he did again. And again, and then a fourth time. Then, in front of everyone, he called me a cunt. A cunt. As in "Well, we could be having a nice night but now my girl here is being a little cunt." Everyone got really quiet and awkward.
"Do you think you're the only person who can be mean?" I hissed through tears. "You want to play this game of who can be more vicious? OK. You're short and balding. How ya like it?"
He. Went. Nuclear…NUCLEAR.
"You're out of my life forever!" he screamed and stormed out of the bar, across the street to his hotel room. I followed—surely surely he couldn't be serious.
At this point, the whole fiasco went next level. Apparently, being short is his Achilles heel and I—by now crying hysterically—was a demon beyond compare for mentioning it.
Suddenly he was nose-to-nose, yanking me by the hair and screaming how I crossed this line and that he will effing kill me.
Did I mention that he slept with my best friend last year? He did. And I forgive him. But I point out that he's no Shaq and suddenly I was the awful one?! What the hell was going on?
Then he shoved me. I hit the floor, hard, and hit my head. Suddenly he was hovering over me grabbing me by the face, his nails digging into my cheeks, shrieking about how I've ruined everything and that I'm dead to him. I'd honestly never seen someone lose it like that. And I was scared.
I'm not sure what he would have done to me had security not arrived. Infuriatingly, they kicked me out—because his name was on the hotel room, can you believe that??—and put me in cab, sobbing with such force I almost threw up.
How could this have happened? I've known him nearly half my life and never, not once have I seen him lose his temper. That made the whole incident even worse because I desperately wanted to see this as a fluke, a one-time thing that would never, ever happen again. But here's the thing about psycho boyfriends—once you see a side of them, you can't ever unsee it. I now knew what he was capable of, and it was terrifying.
Maya Angelou famously said that when a man shows you who he is, believe him.
Later that afternoon he insisted that I come by his hotel so he could "explain."
"First of all, I want to apologize unequivocally for hitting you. There's no excuse," he said in a pitiful sheep's voice. But then his eyes shifted to meet mine, a burning, psychotic vacancy in them. "But you did make me really mad."
"J," I said slowly, "life is long. And hard. And if this is how you react when someone mentions your height, how will you handle kids? Mortages? Death?? You're a giant baby."
He didn't have much of a response, but babbled vaguely about getting therapy. Then he switched tactics, gushing that he loves me so much, and pulling out an emerald Cartier necklace. Seriously. A freaking Cartier necklace. Those things are expensive.
"Please," he said, near tears. "I just want us to move forward and enjoy the weekend."
"Oh come on. Why do you want to make this worse by holding on to it? God, get over it." Yes, he actually said these things.
"J, you don't get to hurt me then decide that I'm not healing fast enough for you," I fumed. "That's not how an apology works."
"Baby, please."
I sat there, blinking back tears of anger and yes, shame, at my own inability to leave. I wasn't strong enough. I was exhausted from 24 hours–nay, 10 years--of drama with this boy, so I gave in. Machiavelli says that you have to use capitulation (or, well, surrender) to your advantage: know when to retreat and gather your strength.
Right then, I had no strength left. I just wanted peace. I wanted it all to be over. And I knew that if I just played along and got through the weekend, he would go back to Florida and it would be over. So I sat there, numbly watching TV as he flitted around obsequiously, making reservations at my favorite restaurant, and even trying to convince me to fly to Vegas for a whirlwind "I'm sorry" trip.
Somehow, I got through the weekend with him. And sure enough, I haven't seen him since. But a big part of me still loves him and misses him so much. Because it wasn't all bad. I told my best guy friend Sid, who volunteers at a domestic violence shelter, about the saga and tried not to sound cliché.
"He just needs to learn to express himself, that's all," I offered. "If he were truly abusive don't you think I'd have noticed by now? Plus, I've done things I'm not proud of either! How would I feel if someone threw me away after every misstep?"
"Do you realize that everything you just said is exactly what I hear all day long from abused women?" Sid said, shaking his head. "Like, verbatim."
More shame. I wasn't even original in my misery. Just another spineless Lifetime TV character who can't get her shit together.
Now, weeks later, I'm getting over it. I listen to a lot of Rihanna, Miranda Lambert, and My Chemical Romance. I make my roommate check my voicemails for me because I'm terrified one will be from him. I purposely told all of my friends what happened so they could constantly remind me what a psycho he was and how he'll never get better—especially when he refuses to take any responsibility for what he did.
"You did make me mad."
Those words rattle around the hollow place in my heart that was once filled with love. What a shame.
Has a boyfriend ever hit you? What would you have done if you were in my shoes? Tell me your story in the comments.
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