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KOffice 2010 Summer Sprint Report
Hot on the heels of the 2.2 release of KOffice -- the first release we feel that users can give a try and use for real work -- the KOffice developers met in Essen-Horst in Germany, in the wonderful Linux Hotel. Thanks to sponsorship by the KDE e.V. and the hard work by Alexandra Leisse and Inge Wallin, we could spend three days discussing and hacking.
With the weather being perfect, the hotel hospitable and the surroundings leafy and all a-twitter we not only hacked and discussed. There was time to relax over a beer, get to know each other a little better and stroke the hotel cat.
Friday was mostly spent hacking, reviewing each others' code and sitting outside and discussing the state of KOffice until very late in the night. The next morning, Saturday, saw the start of a very long and rather gruesome meeting. No hacking, only a few coffee breaks and one pizza break. This day was devoted to three main topics:
The meeting notes are on the developer wiki.
Nokia sponsored not just the Saturday dinner but also the Sunday lunch, which was pizza again, for which many thanks from everyone present!
Saturday night again was most spent hacking, comparing notes, benchmarking ODF loading and similar things and drinking Slovakian peach liquor.
Sunday was a lot more technical than Saturday: we discussed text rendering, which is still a sore point, a new architecture for file filters, text layout problems, charting issues and separating the user interface from the core even more. This is something that Nokia has quite some experience with, having developed a completely new user interface on top of the KOffice applications, and we're keen to pursue this path even further.
All in all, the attendants agreed this was a really positive sprint in a relaxing atmosphere. Many decisions have been made and a lot of work got done!
Great weekend, great team!
Good work guys.
p.s. are the picture labels of the second and theird picturs swapped by accident? ;)
By Sebastian Sauer at Fri, 2010/06/25 - 4:41pm
How can we reach out and gain a real userbase
>How can we reach out and gain a real userbase
Please, first make the fonts look good in Koffice 2.2.x. It is evident as a proof kspread 2.2 does show nice font while typing (nice font rendering = bug), but it becomes blurry on input!
A nice way to Reach to new users:
1. fix font rendering
I as a user concerned for koffice's development (bug reporting, enhancement wishlist) have reported bug for this blurriness, and even with many votes, it is a year old bug...
For what I see as a user, Koffice is lagging because of this font rendering and the welcome dialog...
Bug I reported in March 2009:
Other users bothered by bad font rendering:
and nokia bug report is lying there, QT guys please have a look:
Please try to fix the font bug in QT 4.x. thanks.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Fri, 2010/06/25 - 11:58pm
In Progress
1. The font problem was discussed at the meeting, for more information see the meeting minutes. The problem is under investigation, but no solution has been found yet. We are aware that this serious problem.
2. Depends on what you want to get fixed. The dialog will basically stay the same, though some details have been improved like new icons in Krita. The dialog isn't really fancy, but it generally works well and there are bigger problems to solve than replacing the opening dialog.
By slangkamp at Sat, 2010/06/26 - 2:25am
The opening dialog
I think the reporter didn't want to replace the dialog, but fix the bugs that are really obvious when you open it. And I think we will be able to do that before 2.3.
By Inge Wallin at Sat, 2010/06/26 - 6:27pm
opening dialog
Opening dialog needs interface cleanup, nice icons.. that'll do
1. use of proper names/labels (like "Create New document" headline, then those options of general, business, etc. should be there
instead of sidebar on left using *Tabs* would give uncluttered and better appearance to the dialog
------------------------------Open Dialog----------------------------
1. General Document -> Blank Workbook (icons/artwork here)
2. Business -> [list of available options]
3. Home & Family -> [list of available options]
[Create] ("use this Template" is too technical) [Cancel]
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Sat, 2010/06/26 - 8:11pm
Opening dialog and templates?
I agree with the above that the opening dialog is badly layouted and not very welcoming.
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Sun, 2010/06/27 - 12:08pm
Well in KWord I have found no way of changing the style of a text to "Head 1" or whatever and that is the first thing that disqualifies KWord for me, did not bother to look at the rest of it since it would be pointless.
Btw. I tried some minutes. So either the initial layout I was confronted with is pretty bad or you should really make things like that more discoverable.
Also there is no option I find usefull in the side-panell. I want to write texts first so I do not care about transparency or colour gradients.
In that regard you should imo focus more on the single applications. Flake is nice but it should imo be considered as "addon" for most cases --> so move it into a menu, like an add menu.
Basline is in case of KWord: Please focus on what a word processor is for.
By mat69 at Sun, 2010/06/27 - 11:24pm
Usability of the styles docker
Right, that's it. We have to do something about that styles docker. We will get a lot more complaints about this if we don't redesign it.
Here's how it works right now to do what you want:
1. When the cursor is in a paragraph that you want to change to "Head 1", go to the docker labeled "Tool Options". Select the "Styles" tab.
2. Click on the style that you want ("Head 1" in your case).
3. Click on the button in the lower left corner with a check mark on it. That will apply the chosen style.
And yes, I agree that it's cumbersome and should be changed.
By Inge Wallin at Mon, 2010/06/28 - 9:11am
Oh, I just realised the
Oh, I just realised the needed docker was not present in my case and adding them is also not that optimal --> right clicking on the name of a docker or the seperator == small click space.
Imo the apply button here is really uneeded, a double click should be enough.
By mat69 at Mon, 2010/06/28 - 11:13am
How can we reach out and gain a real userbase?
> How can we reach out and gain a real userbase?
By Axel at Fri, 2010/07/02 - 1:30pm

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Gandhi Plays The 'Holiday Cups' For The First Time (Watch)
Tis the season for Elvis Duran's favorite holiday tradition of playing 'cups' on the radio to an instrumental version of 'Sleigh Bells.' Our newest member of the morning show family, Gandhi, had never experienced the magic of a faux horse hoove sound effects from tapping empty paper cups on our studio console... so of course, Elvis had to give her a taste of the wizardry.
There's nothing quite like a radio station filled with rhythm challenge people trying to 'faux horse gallop' in unison. When Elvis threw to Gandhi and gave her to the opportunity to do a solo gallop, she nailed it! Danielle Monaro on the other hand... had a drunk horse. HA!
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Task::Test::Run::AllPlugins - Specifications for installing all the Test::Run Plugins
Test::Run is an improved harness for running test files based on the "Test Anything Protocol" (TAP - http://testanything.org/ ), which is commonly used for writing tests for Perl code, but is otherwise universal.
Installing this Task should get you up-to-speed with Test::Run by installing all the plugins that are available for it.
From the CPAN or CPANPLUS shell type:
install Task::Test::Run::AllPlugins
And follow all the depenedencies.
Afterwards, set the environment variable
HARNESS_PLUGINS to the following:
export HARNESS_PLUGINS="ColorSummary ColorFileVerdicts"
Or if you wish to use the Alternate Interpreters plugin as well to:
export HARNESS_PLUGINS="ColorSummary ColorFileVerdicts AlternateInterpreters"
Then you can use runprove to run and analyze TAP scripts (like CPAN modules t/*.t files) from the command line:
runprove t/*.t
If you have written a plugin and wish it to be included in this task, don't hesitate to contact me: http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ .
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Please report any bugs or feature requests to
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You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Task::Latemp
You can also look for information at:
The Test-Run Homepage
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
CPAN Ratings
RT: CPAN's request tracker
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New Cato Paper Warns of the Consequences of Restrictions on Chinese Tires
Despite the controversy that seems to color all portrayals of U.S. trade with China, the bilateral relationship has held up remarkably well, to the benefit of both countries. But, as I explain in this hot-off-the-presses Free Trade Bulletin, things could go south quickly if President Obama grants the wish of the United Steelworkers union to impose import restrictions on Chinese-produced passenger tires.
Under a special U.S. statute that applies only to China, the president can authorize import restrictions in cases where a domestic industry is found to be suffering from "market disruption" on account of increased imports from China. The U.S. International Trade Commission already rendered that conclusion in the tires case and recommended that the president impose duties of 55 percent. Though duties might benefit the USW, which represents fewer than half of all U.S. tire production workers, the restrictions would be immensely costly to almost every other interest in the tire supply chain, including distributors, wholesalers, retailers, downstream industrial users, and consumers — especially lower income consumers. Such a decision would amount to a crystal clear U.S. disavowal of its pledge to the G-20 to avoid new invocations of protectionism, just one week ahead of the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.
The stakes are particularly high in the tires case because the president has the discretion to reject the tariff recommendations altogether, which is exactly what President Bush did on all four occasions when the ITC recommended restrictions under this statute during his administration. Unlike antidumping and countervailing duty restrictions, which run on statutory autopilot without requiring the president's attention or consent, Section 421 explicitly requires the attention and participation of the U.S. president. The Chinese will view restrictions in this case, then, as a personal directive of President Obama, and the consequences for bilateral relations could be severe.
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Fuel costs and logistics burden spur efforts to design dramatically more efficient military transport aircraft
Traditionally, performance drives military-aircraft design decisions and the energy implications of those choices are secondary. But as fuel costs eat into reduced budgets, the balance is shifting. Energy is fast becoming a critical constraint on operations, and the results could reshape aircraft design.
For now, the U.S. Air Force's efforts to cut fuel bills are focused on its transport and tanker fleet, which consumes two-thirds of the aviation fuel the service burns each year. While near-term retrofits—such as formation flying, winglets and other drag-reduction devices—can reduce the fuel consumption of existing aircraft, they will not provide the scale of savings sought in the long term.
The name of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Revolutionary Configurations for Energy Efficiency (RCEE) program says it all: Dramatic changes in aircraft design may be required to achieve significant reductions in fuel consumption.
The goal of RCEE Phase 1, which ran from 2009-11, was to define a next-generation mobility fleet that would use 90% less fuel than today's transports and tankers. Under Phase 2, which began in 2011 and will run until 2015, companies are taking a closer look at specific configurations.
In Phase 1, Boeing defined a mixed fleet that met the 90% savings target: an all-electric truss-braced-wing design with 20-metric-ton payload; a 40-ton-payload distributed-thrust hybrid-electric design; and a 100-ton payload hybrid-electric blended wing-body (BWB). In Phase 2, the company is taking a closer look at the distributed-thrust, hybrid-propulsion design.
Lockheed Martin, meanwhile, studied a wide range of configurations and technologies in Phase 1 in search of the 90% goal, concluding a hybrid wing-body (HWB) offers the most potential. In Phase 2, the company is further refining the concept, which combines a blended wing and forebody for aerodynamic and structural efficiency with a conventional aft fuselage and tail for compatibility with current airlift missions, including airdrop.
The twin-engine HWB is designed to take off in less than 6,500 ft. and fly 3,200 nm carrying 220,000 lb. of payload, including all the outsize cargo now airlifted by the Lockheed C-5. Lockheed calculates the aircraft will burn 70% less fuel than the Boeing C-17 through a combination of better aerodynamics, newer engines and lighter structures. "We use mature technologies to be affordable and could build it today," says Rick Hooker, an aeronautical engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
The HWB study is marked by a high degree of aerodynamic optimization using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools not available when today's airlift fleet of C-17s and Lockheed C-130s and C-5s was designed. Starting with a cruise Mach number of 0.7 as originally lofted, extensive shape optimization using CFD increased cruise speed to Mach 0.81 and reduced transonic drag by 45%, says Lockheed aeronautical engineer Andrew Wick.
Lockheed estimates the aircraft is 65% more aerodynamically efficient than the C-17, which is penalized by its 1980s design and the requirement for short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) capability. The HWB is 30% more efficient than a C-5, and Lockheed says it is even able to achieve an aerodynamic efficiency 5% better than the Boeing 787, albeit at a lower Mach number.
That efficiency comes from several sources. To start, the blended forward fuselage carries 25% of the lift and moves the wing roots outboard, extending span and reducing drag without increasing wing weight. The spanwise lift distribution is improved and wing aspect ratio increased to 12 for the weight of a conventional aspect-ratio 9 wing,
The aft fuselage, meanwhile, ensures the aircraft is compatible with current loading and airdrop operations—a challenge for pure flying-wing designs like the BWB, says Hooker. The conventional T tail incurs a 5% drag penalty relative to a pure BWB, but provides robust control and avoids the cost and risk of developing new control effectors and algorithms for a flying wing to enable STOL and manage the abrupt center-of-gravity (CG) shift when airdropping heavy loads.
The aft fuselage is designed to provide a smooth flow field around the aft paratroop doors and cargo ramp, similar to a C-5, says Hooker. The tail is sized to handle a CG range of 20% mean aerodynamic chord, the same as a C-5. And the aircraft is designed so the tail is not needed for trim in the cruise, avoiding a drag penalty.
An unusual aspect of the HWB design is that the blended forebody encloses a circular pressurized fuselage. Some cargo is carried in unpressurized outer bays—pallets are loaded via the rear ramp, moved forward on floor rollers, then sideways through fuselage doors and into the outer bays on ball mats. The result is a pressurized fuselage that is smaller and lighter than the C-5's despite the similar cargo capacity. Lockheed calculates the HWB's structure is 18% lighter than a conventional design.
Another unconventional element of the configuration is the engine location above the wing trailing edge. Over-wing nacelles have long been avoided in aircraft design because of adverse transonic interference with the wing, but careful optimization by Honda of the engine location on the HondaJet has given the configuration new credibility.
Lockheed studied cruise interference drag with engines mounted in several locations—under and over the wing leading edge, over the trailing edge and on the aft fuselage—and generated more than 15,000 Navier-Stokes CFD solutions. The results showed that mounting the nacelles over the inboard trailing edge improved lift-to-drag ratio, regardless of engine type, for an aerodynamic benefit of up to 5% over a conventional under-wing location.
Three potential powerplants have been identified. General Electric's GEnx is available today, providing a 25% reduction in specific fuel consumption (sfc) over the C-17 and C-5M engines. Rolls-Royce's conceptual Ultra Fan has a 30% lower sfc and could be available by 2030. Third is a GE open rotor that could be available after 2025 with a 35% lower sfc. Combined with the improved aerodynamic efficiency and lighter weight, lower sfc results in the HWB burning 70% less fuel than a C-17 with GEnx engines, 75% with Ultra Fans and 80% with open rotors, Lockheed calculates.
Interestingly, despite diameters ranging from the GEnx's 11.8 ft. to an open rotor's 21 ft., "the wing optimized out to the same shape for all three engines," says Wick. "The same wing for all three allows the engine installation to be modular. We could build it today and it would be designed to be able to be reengined."
Analysis showed the over-wing installation offers other benefits, he says. The long wing chord ahead of the nacelle acts as a flow straightener to reduce inlet distortion and also shields fan noise from the ground. The overhang from the trailing edge means the engine is still accessible for maintenance and removal. And a smaller tail is possible with over-wing engines, says Hooker.
There is a powered-lift benefit from placing the engine nacelles over the trailing edge of the wing. "The inlet flow provides a large amount of suction lift on the wing," says Hooker. This has a similar effect to the high-pressure area generated by under-wing engines blowing over deflected flaps, as happens in the C-17, and allows the over-wing engines to achieve a similar 15% increase in maximum lift coefficient.
To provide STOL capability, excess fuel volume could be traded for flap blowing to create a circulation-control wing, as in the STOL airlifter concept developed by Lockheed for AFRL's Speed Agile program. Another possibility is deflecting thrust downward, using flaps aft of the engine, core flow vectoring with an F-35B-style swiveling nozzle, or rotating the engines when the flaps deploy, "so they go along for the ride," Hooker says.
Although RCEE is just a study effort, the Air Force will have to begin work on its next strategic airlifter in the near future if the C-17 is to be retired as planned starting in 2033. Noting it took 21 years to field the C-17, Hooker says ,"We need to start today to avoid a future gap."


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Do u think that Lemony Snicket
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Its not his voice, its someone named Jude Law's voice, I just found out on
IMDb, but he IS credited as the screenwriter.
CJ, Daniel Handler is the author of the children's books which the movie is based on, and he is the real Lemony Snicket. He doesn't use his real name. I guess you knew that though.
Yes, I did....
but was Jude Law the shadow of Lemony in the beginning or maybe the shadow on the Lemoney site, but I know I've seen a shadow of him somewhere. Talking at the window at his typwriter, is this Daniel or Jude Law???
huh....well thats a wonderful piece of info thanxs Michele.
and in the audio commentary it is not jude's voice.....it is (i guess) Daniel Handler.
I am part of an elite group of people......THE MEN OF JCO.
(Standing member since July 18th, 2005)
The silouette looks a little like Jim...
not Olaf but Jim....
I wonder...
Ok, I'll have to listen to it again. I have heard Daniel's voice, because he did some cassettes of his stories in his voice. (the library has them). He did at least one book in his voice, and then hired someone else for the following books. Now I get what you were saying, because his voice isn't what you would imagine reading the books. I like him, even though his voice is kind of odd. He's from San Francisco, too.
It was a perfect voice that they used for the movie...
Very good choice, very calm and quiet.
Reflective, the voice gives the feeling or idea that he wishes he could
have been there to help, but also the dissappointment in himself that
he wasn't there in time to help.
Well done!
What about his hands? It's super!!!
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
You're kidding...you weren't talking about Jude Law's voice?....he's no wimp
Ok, I get you...it got changed to Jim's hands...
I have to say one thing about posting like this rather than chatting, for instance I was working on my post, while another person posted about Jim's hands, and I hadn't seen it. So, not every post is a response to the one before it. I just wanted to post a picture of Jude Law, and there was no connection.
i am just curious if jude will comeback for the sequal (if there will be one)
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MUNICH, Germany
Every movie buff remembers the conclusion of "The Wizard of Oz," when Dorothy wishes herself back from a head-spinning foreign travail by repeating the phrase, "There's no place like home." Well, there was a bit of that sentimental homecoming on display last weekend at the Munich Security Conference, whose theme might have been "Back to the Future."
Vice President Joe Biden was positively gushing about the good old trans-Atlantic alliance in his speech to the conference. Only a year ago, Europeans were facing an existential economic crisis and worrying about an American "pivot" to Asia. But the economic talk here was about Europe's recovery from its near-death experience, and Biden reassured his audience that U.S. policy, too, has come back to its traditional center point:
"Simply put, President Obama and I continue to believe that Europe is the cornerstone of our engagement with the rest of the world," Biden said. "It's that basic. Nothing has changed."
At another point, Biden (who has been attending this conference since the 1970s) described himself as a "proud Atlanticist."
He affirmed that "we are a Pacific power." But you couldn't mistake his relief in saying, "It's great to be back among friends," or his insistence that "Europe remains America's indispensable partner of first resort."
Biden has a gift for telling people what they want to hear. But this wasn't just the speech of an ingratiating politician.
An administration that began with such broad ambitions in foreign policy does seem to have come back home to a traditional conception of American alliances and strategic doctrine. Obama's picks for secretaries of state and defense, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, are as old-school Atlanticist as Biden.
For an administration whose second term is framed with the idea that America is ending two wars and doesn't want to start any new ones, Europe is safe. This is not an administration that is seeking new enemies, or new friends, even. It likes the old set of allies, especially now that they are looking less feeble.
Indeed, Biden disclosed that one of the new initiatives Obama will propose this year is a trans-Atlantic trade and investment zone, which encapsulates the atavistic 2013 agenda.
The relief that the eurozone crisis has largely passed was palpable here. Even though Germany still wants to keep the screws on debtor nations such as Greece and Spain, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble talked about "progress" and "headway" in the crisis, and there wasn't any disagreement from Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the head of Germany's opposition Social Democratic Party.
Steinmeier sounded the "back to the future" theme when he boasted that even in the age of high tech, "We actually like manufacturing."
This old-fashioned determination to maintain (and modernize) its industrial base helped Germany remain prosperous after the 2008 recession even as Britain and other European nations suffered convulsions from an overreliance on the financial sector.
Given how widely it was predicted that the eurozone couldn't hold together, its resilience counts as one of the interesting contrarian facts of the new year, as Philip Stephens noted last week in The Financial Times. Without ever quite admitting it, German Chancellor Angela Merkel bucked the Bundesbank and allowed the creation of a robust European Central Bank that can act as lender and guarantor of last resort, much as the Federal Reserve does.
Confidence and liquidity are returning to European markets, as Deutsche Bank co-chairman Anshu Jain told the conference. He noted that default rates have halved in Italy and Spain, trading volatility has declined, and countries and corporations are again able to tap the financial markets.
But the abiding economic fact, which underlay nearly every discussion here, is that the American economy is on the way back -- not just a recovery from 2008, but toward a new energy self-sufficiency and manufacturing edge based on low-cost oil and gas shale.
Jain of Deutsche Bank argued that given these cost advantages, the U.S. economy "looks very strong for the next 20 years."
That's the irony as the foreign-policy wheels of 2013 start turning. Almost despite itself, America is back, embracing once again its traditional allies. America may have struggled in Iraq and Afghanistan, it may be facing a rising China, but somehow it has managed to fall uphill.
This is one of the blessings of American power: You can make enormous economic mistakes, embark on costly and largely futile foreign wars, watch your closest European allies flirt with disaster -- and still look like the indispensable, inevitable power. As Dorothy said, there's no place like home.
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JACKSONVILLE — Tim Tebow won't be playing for his hometown team.
The Jacksonville Jaguars made it clear Thursday that they have no plans to pursue the popular and polarizing New York Jets backup quarterback.
The Jets are likely to release the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and Jacksonville native during the offseason, and many believed Tebow would land with the Jaguars. ESPN quoted a source who said it was a "virtual certainty" that Tebow would play in Jacksonville in 2013.
But new general manager David Caldwell nixed that idea at his introductory news conference, saying, "I can't imagine a scenario in which he'll be a Jacksonville Jaguar — even if he's released."
Owner Shad Khan asked former GM Gene Smith to acquire Tebow last March, but the left-hander chose the Jets.
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Look Younger in 28 Days
Week 1 Recharge your body and mind
Get some beauty sleep
When you hit the sack at night, your skin goes into repair mode. Blood flow increases and with it, skin's oxygen supply; amino acids also kick into action, producing collagen, which helps fight lines. But you can reap the benefits only if you're sleeping enough (about eight hours). Fortunately, it's simple to fit in more and higher-quality shut-eye. First, avoid that gory Stephen King novel and the nightly news right before you go to sleep. "Violent subject matter can make you restless," says Susan Zafarlotfi, Ph.D., clinical director of sleep-wake disorders at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. And skip your late-night glass of vino. "You may nod off faster, but you're apt to be tossing and turning in a few hours." A healthier way to feel tranquil: "Put away your worries when you put on your pajamas," Zafarlotfi says. Stash the laptop and laundry out of sight.
Break a sweat daily
Exercise gets the circulation going, pumps oxygen into vital organs and tissues, releases endorphins and fights stress—all of which are beneficial to your skin (not to mention your heart, lungs, muscles and mood). "Lower-body workouts are best at boosting blood flow, because they use your biggest muscles," says Julie Bobek, a personal trainer in New York City. (Stair climbing, the elliptical trainer, cycling or doing squats and lunges are all good picks.) Getting physical also improves fluid drainage in your face. "Your undereye area will look dramatically less puffy if you simply work up a sweat for 20 minutes," says Ellen Marmur, M.D., chief of dermatologic and cosmetic surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. But be sure to end your workout at least a few hours before you turn in for the night, or else those post-exercise feel-good hormones might make you too wired to drop off quickly.
Rev up your results
Reason #267 to ease up on sugar: Research suggests that when sugar binds to collagen's skin-plumping fibers, they can stiffen, possibly causing wrinkles. New topicals claim to help break the sugar-collagen bond.
Week 2 Focus on the basics
Swap soap for a kinder, gentler option
Regardless of your complexion type or age, it's crucial to wash off the day's grime and makeup before you slip between the sheets. (Unless you perspire a lot while you sleep, you probably don't need to wash your face in the morning.) For the best results, choose a simple, mild cleanser rather than bar soap, according to Jessie Cheung, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at New York University Medical Center in NYC. That's because harsh soaps often contain stripping surfactants (the chemicals that create all that lather), causing dryness and exacerbating the appearance of fine lines.
Shield your skin
We know you're sun-smart, but we'll say it again (and again!): You have to wear a sufficient amount of broad-spectrum sunscreen. Every. Single. Day. There's plenty of proof as to why. The sun is responsible for up to 90 percent of premature aging, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation in NYC. Yet only 20 percent of Americans wear sunscreen 365 days a year, finds a survey by Neutrogena and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Get into the habit of applying one full teaspoon of an SPF-laced product to your face and neck every morning (even when it's overcast or raining), and always select the best type of product for your skin's needs. Sunscreens made with physical blockers such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are effective at preventing a wide range of rays from penetrating skin, but these formulas can appear chalky (especially on dark skin), which makes them tough to wear under makeup. So use these skin protectors on your body rather than on your face; from the neck up, try a product that contains chemical blends, like Mexoryl or avobenzone. These also guard skin from UVA and UVB rays, but they're lightweight, glide on smoothly and disappear into skin.
Rev up your results
Grab a moisturizer that offers instant benefits and prevents future damage. Look for one with sunscreen (to ward off UV rays and the free radicals they produce) plus potent antiagers like peptides, which help collagen production.
Week 3 Reveal smoother skin
Help your cells along
As early as your mid 20s, skin-cell turnover slows from about once every 21 days to every 30 days; by your 40s, total turnover takes around 40 days. To look more luminous, remove dead skin cells yourself. Your best bet is to use an exfoliator that tricks your complexion into renewing itself more rapidly. Retinoids, the Rx version of vitamin A, are best for speeding cell turnover, as well as amping up collagen and reducing fine lines. You'll find this powerhouse ingredient in prescription-strength Retin-A and Renova. Retinol, the over-the-counter cousin of retinoid, is also an effective line- and acne fighter, though both products can cause redness and flaky skin. "Don't overdo it on these. It's best to apply only a pea-sized amount for your entire face and neck," says Ranella Hirsch, M.D., a dermatologist in Boston. To gauge if you're using the right amount, "place a tissue against your face. If it falls off, you haven't overapplied."
Don't forget to moisturize
Because you're removing the top layer of dead cells, your skin requires extra TLC, both in the morning and at night. Applying a face cream daily helps prevent and soothe irritation as well as replenish skin's natural moisture. "Use as thick a formula as your skin can tolerate without breaking out," advises Dr. Marmur, who suggests products with water-attracting hyaluronic acid and glycerin. If you're prone to acne, try an oil-free gel formula or a lotion that replaces moisture but won't clog pores. And don't skip moisturizer in summer. Although higher humidity can keep skin feeling dewy, intense heat and sunlight are drying. (If anything, skin needs more attention at the end of the season, after all the exposure to the elements.)
Rev up your results
Serums are getting a lot of buzz lately, and for good reason: They can be infused with high levels of active ingredients and their lightweight consistency allows them to seep more deeply into skin, Dr. Hirsch says. Look for antiagers such as firming peptides, skin-repairing growth factors and botanicals, as well as pigment-reducing niacinamide (vitamin B). We like Dior Hydra Life Skin Energizer Pro-Youth Serum, $73.
Week 4 Fall for antioxidants
Prevent sun damage
Once you have your essential skin routine down, you're ready to add antioxidants to the mix. Why isn't mere sunscreen enough? Antioxidants form a protective shield on skin, guarding it from pollution and free radicals, which assault and age your complexion over time. "When you leave your house, you lock your doors to prevent burglars from breaking in; that's like applying sunscreen," Dr. Hirsch says. "But sometimes, even if you lock up, robbers can still find a way inside. SPF is not foolproof—some UV light will slip through and cause dark spots, lines and crepeyness." Think of antioxidants as a burglar alarm of sorts, your skin's second-tier defense system against environmental damage. Key antioxidants to look for: vitamin C and E, coffeeberry, green tea, coenzyme Q10, idebenone (the synthetic version of CoQ10), pomegranate and resveratrol (the antioxidant in red wine). You'll typically find these in serum or liquid form, so they won't leave a film on skin or mess up your makeup. Apply them before you put on moisturizer and sunscreen. "But don't rely solely on products as a source of antioxidants," says Leslie Baumann, M.D., a dermatologist in Miami Beach. Take a multipronged approach instead. "Drink green tea and eat fruit and vegetables every day," she says.
Rev up your results
The eyes are the first area to show signs of aging (dark circles, crow's-feet at the outside corners, a downward drooping of the outer lids). Camouflage shadows and lines with an illuminating concealer, says Pati Dubroff, a makeup artist in Los Angeles. To counteract droopiness, curl lashes for lift, then flick eyeliner up subtly at the outer corner of eyes.
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Nokia's long-awaited Meego platform, its tie-in with Intel, has been shown off in multiple pictures.
The new screenshots show off a new operating system that takes its cues from Nokia's Maemo system (used on the N900) the iPhone's iOS 4 system and the Palm Pre's WebOS.
The official MeeGo blog brought the pictures to the world, showing elements like a variety of ways to perform most tasks, such as unlocking the screen or multi-tasking.
An iPhone-like grid of icons was to be expected, as was multiple home screens, so we're glad to see Nokia getting the basics right here.
Blurring for focus
Maemo's way of doing things is apparent too, where the focus is maintained on certain elements of the screen by blurring out the backgrounds.
A huge number of gestures are detailed in the developers specifications, such as double long press tapping - which sounds like it could get a little confusing.
But we're still hopeful that Nokia will turn the corner - if Meego lands on devices in the near future (such as on the N9, if it turns out to be real) we might FINALLY see Nokia closer to the sharp end of the smartphone market.
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For thirteen centuries, between 1200 B.C. and the second century A.D., the Jews lived in, and often ruled, the land of Israel. The population was clustered mainly in Judaea, Samaria, and Galilee. The Jews' dominion was long but not eternal. The Romans invaded and, after suppressing revolts in A.D. 66-73 and 132-135, killed or expelled much of the Jewish population and renamed the land Palaestina, for the Philistines who had lived along the southern seacoast. After the conquest, some Jews stayed behind, and the faith of the Hebrews remained a religio licita, a tolerated religion, throughout the Roman Empire.
By the nineteenth century, Palestine had been ruled by Romans, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Christian Crusaders, and Ottoman Turks. When Mark Twain visited in 1867, his imagination soaked with the Biblical imagery of milk and honey, he discovered to his surprise "a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land . . . desolate and unlovely." Jericho was "accursed," Jerusalem "a pauper village." Twain's passages on Palestine in "The Innocents Abroad" have, over the decades, been exploited by propagandists to echo Lord Shaftesbury's notion that, before the return of the Jews to Zion, Palestine was a land without a people for a people without a land. Twain and Shaftesbury, as it turned out, were hardly alone in failing to recognize a substantial Arab population in the Judaean hills and beyond.
And yet nineteenth-century Palestine certainly was desolate and impoverished. The population in 1881 consisted of four hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian Arabs and twenty-five thousand Jews, nearly all of them ultra-Orthodox non-nationalists living in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberias. Palestine, despite its importance to the three monotheistic religions, was a political backwater. The Ottomans divided the land into sanjaks, or districts, which were ruled from Constantinople, Damascus, and Beirut. It was at this time, however, that European Jews—poor, mainly secular, and feeling the onset of an intensified anti-Semitism in their countries of origin—began to emigrate to Palestine. This was the First Aliyah, or ascent. Most European Jewish emigrants headed to North America and Great Britain, but some, in small numbers at first, sailed to Palestine. The local Ottoman bureaucrats were strapped for cash, and the new arrivals had little problem obtaining entry rights, agricultural plots, and building permits. This was colonialism not by conquering armies but by persistent real-estate transactions—and, when necessary, baksheesh.
The plans of the early Jewish settlers were unambiguous, even if they seemed, at the time, wholly incredible. As one early Zionist, Ze'ev Dubnow, wrote to his brother Simon, "The ultimate goal . . . is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have been deprived of for these two thousand years. . . . The Jews will yet arise and, arms in hand (if need be), declare that they are the masters of their ancient homeland."
In the midst of this first wave of immigration, Zionism found its chief tribune, dreamer, and theorist in Theodor Herzl. A mediocre playwright and the Paris correspondent for a liberal Viennese daily newspaper, Neue Freie Presse, Herzl witnessed the Dreyfus trial in 1894 and the appalling anti-Jewish demonstrations that followed. In the four-volume "History of Anti-Semitism," Léon Poliakov writes that in the last decades before the First World War it was "hard to determine whether the French Jews or the German Jews were the more fervently patriotic." But Herzl concluded that if anti-Semitism was as pervasive in the capitals of the European Enlightenment as it was in tsarist Russia there was no hope for assimilation. He was thoroughly secular and had no real Jewish learning. He spoke neither Yiddish nor Hebrew. (Indeed, the pathos of his conversion to Zionism lay in his devotion both to Vienna and to German culture, and in the degree to which events in Europe would, with the rise of the Third Reich, surpass his darkest predictions.)
When Herzl published "Der Judenstaat" ("The Jewish State"), in 1896, the book seemed to most readers as utopian as Bacon's "New Atlantis." As portrayed in Amos Elon's wonderful 1975 biography, Herzl was an almost comically quixotic figure—the bearded café intellectual with his historical dreams travelling the world, trying (and failing) to win financial support from the Rothschilds and political support from the Kaiser and the Ottoman sultan. And yet the Zionist movement, with Herzl at its center, took hold, and in 1897, at the First Zionist Congress, in Basel, Switzerland, a motley collection of Jewish intellectuals and political activists voted to establish a Heimstätte, a "publicly and legally secured home," for the Jews in Palestine. Although the delegates surely had a sovereign state in mind, they were careful in these early days not to use such terms, so as not to alarm the Gentiles or offend any Jewish grandees who might eventually decide to fund their project.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Palestinian Arabs identified themselves not as a unified people but as subjects of the Ottoman Empire and of the greater community of Islam; their local identities were tied to their villages, clans, and families. Resistance to the earliest wave of Jewish immigration was apparent, but it was polite compared to what came later. In 1899, the mayor of Jerusalem, Yusuf Dia al-Khalidi, wrote to Zadok Kahn, the chief rabbi of France, saying that the Zionist idea was in theory "natural, fine, and just. . . . Who can challenge the rights of the Jews to Palestine? Good lord, historically it is really your country." But, like other Palestinian notables, he opposed Jewish immigration, because the land was inhabited and resistance would inevitably follow. "In the name of God, let Palestine be left in peace," Khalidi wrote. Rabbi Kahn passed the letter on to Herzl, who blithely wrote to Khalidi to reassure him that the Zionists, with their wealth, their skills, and their education, would build an economy to benefit both Arab and Jew.
As the flow of immigration increased, so did the resistance, especially with the end of the First World War and the beginning of British control over Palestine, in 1917-18, and culminating in the 1936-39 Arab revolt against the Yishuv, the name for the pre-state Jewish community. The resistance took the form of demonstrations (some of them virulently anti-Semitic), riots, assaults, and bombings. The Palestinian leadership became more and more radicalized, and small clandestine groups were formed. In turn, radical Jewish factions and militias began to win support.
Where the Arabs were concerned, Herzl had been more oblivious than cruel. But the leader of the Yishuv, David Ben-Gurion, recognized the us-or-them nature of the conflict; he sensed the emotional force of his adversary's position even as he fought for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Between 1931 and 1939, as Jewish emigration mounted, the Arab majority declined from eighty-two per cent to seventy per cent. "What Arab cannot do his math and understand that immigration at the rate of sixty thousand a year means a Jewish state in all of Palestine?" Ben-Gurion stated. As he confessed years later to the Zionist Nahum Goldmann, "Why should the Arabs make peace? . . . We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them?"
Among Arab clerics, kings, and diplomats, the view of the Jews hardened into a maximalist politics, at once threatened and threatening. In 1943, when Franklin Roosevelt sent out feelers to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia to solve the Palestine situation, the King responded that he was "prepared to receive anyone of any religion except (repeat except) a Jew." In a letter to F.D.R., he wrote, "Palestine . . . has been an Arab country since the dawn of history and . . . was never inhabited by the Jews for more than a period of time, during which their history in the land was full of murder and cruelty." In 1947, Jordan's prime minister, Samir Rifa'i, hardly the most radical politician in the region, told reporters, "The Jews are a people to be feared. . . . Give them another twenty-five years and they will be all over the Middle East, in our country and Syria and Lebanon, in Iraq and Egypt. . . . They were responsible for starting two world wars. . . . Yes, I have read and studied, and I know they were behind Hitler at the beginning of his movement."
What followed was a drama of redemptive, liberating settlement on one side and catastrophic dispossession on the other—all of it taking place on a patch of desert land too small for easy division and too imbued with historical and holy claims for rational negotiation. For the Jews in Palestine, Zionism was a movement of national liberation after untold suffering; for the Arabs, Zionism was an intolerable assault by the colonial West against sacred ground and Islam itself. Even now, more than a century later, politicians and scholars alike quickly betray prejudices, passions, and allegiances in the details they select when relating the saga that led to the U.N. Partition Plan, on November 29, 1947, and the war that began just hours later.
In Soviet-era Russia, honest young men and women of academic inclination knew never to enter the field of modern history. In order to live a scholarly life relatively free of cant and suppression, one studied Byzantine manuscripts, Mayan civilization, medieval Burma—anything that would safely skirt mention of one's own time and place. In the new society of Israel, however noisily democratic, national history is inescapably political, too. And, like any young nation, especially one born of conflict, Israel did not readily accept scholarly work that challenged its most cherished national myths. Self-doubt, complexity, and reflection are not the modes of infancy; in any country, mythmaking precedes documentary rigor. For nearly forty years, Israeli histories and textbooks, with few exceptions, endorsed the notion that the more than seven hundred thousand Arabs who left Palestine as refugees in the years between 1947 and 1950 did so voluntarily or at the urging of their leaders. This was a view echoed abroad by Leon Uris in his fantastically popular novel "Exodus"; Uris writes of "the absolutely documented fact that the Arab leaders wanted the civilian population to leave Palestine as a political issue and a military weapon."
In the late eighties, Israel encountered its first revisionist historians, a group of rigorous young scholars intent on seeing clearly the founding and development of the state, come what may. At the head of that small and diverse movement was Benny Morris, a Sabra and a Cambridge-educated leftist, who, like Israel itself, was born in 1948. His latest book on that pivotal year of war and transformation, "1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War" (Yale; $32.50), is a commanding, superbly documented, and fair-minded study of the events that, in the wake of the Holocaust, gave a sovereign home to one people and dispossessed another. Remarkably, the book makes every attempt at depth and balance, even though its author has professed a "cosmic pessimism" about the current situation in the Middle East and has denounced the Palestinian leadership in the harshest terms imaginable.
Benny Morris's family emigrated from Britain in 1947, and Morris grew up in the heart of a left-wing pioneering atmosphere. As an infant, he lived on Kibbutz Yasur, which had been established in 1949 on the ruins of the Arab village of Al Birwa, where the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish lived before going into exile. His father, Ya'akov Morris, was an Israeli diplomat and a published historian and poet.
In 1982, Morris experienced Mena-chem Begin and Ariel Sharon's invasion of southern Lebanon, first as a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, then as a soldier, when his division was called up and took part in the siege in West Beirut. As a reporter, he visited Rashidiye, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre, and interviewed refugees who had lived in the town of Al Bassa, in Galilee. When Morris returned home, he examined newly declassified papers in the Israel State Archive, along with documents in archives in the U.S. and Britain and at the United Nations. (Arab governments have made available very little archival material on the period.) His subject was the military conflict between the early Zionists and the Arabs and the subsequent exile of the Palestinians from their cities and towns.
In 1988, Morris published "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949," which revolutionized Israeli historiography and, to a great extent, a nation's understanding of its own birth. Relying less on testimony than on the newly available documents, Morris described how and why sixty per cent of the Palestinians were uprooted and their society destroyed. It was a far more complex picture than many Israelis were prepared to accept. The book features a map that shows three hundred and eighty-nine Arab villages, from upper Galilee to the Negev Desert. Morris revealed that in forty-nine of these villages the indigenous Arabs were expelled by the Haganah and other Jewish military forces; in sixty-two villages, the Arabs fled out of fear, having heard rumors of attacks and even massacres; in six, the villagers left at the instruction of Palestinian local leaders. The refugees, who probably expected to return to their homes in a matter of weeks or months, went to Gaza and the West Bank, and also to surrounding Arab countries—Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria—where, to this day, they have never been fully absorbed.
Morris's aim was not simply to invert the standard Zionist narrative. He provided a stark picture of the anti-Semitism that infected the Arab leadership, including the influential mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, who refused any compromise with the Zionists and, in the forties, promoted anti-Jewish propaganda from Berlin and recruited Bosnian Muslims for the S.S. Morris quoted the many leaders among the Palestinians and the Arab countries who vowed to eliminate the nascent state of Israel and force the European Jewish arrivals back to where they came from. But he also wrote at length about acts of wartime cruelty committed by the Jewish victors against the Palestinians. He counted about a dozen documented cases of Israelis raping Palestinian women but concluded that more likely went unrecorded. He said that there were about two dozen acts of massacre, some involving four or five executions but others involving many more, at Saliha, Deir Yassin, Lydda, and Dawayima. Morris wrote that, although the leader of the Jewish forces, David Ben-Gurion, did not give explicit orders to expel Palestinians from their villages and urban neighborhoods, he was, from April, 1948, onward, projecting a message of transfer, an "atmosphere" in which, for example, a young commander, Yitzhak Rabin, could sign an order to expel the Arabs from Lydda just after receiving a visit from Ben-Gurion. "He understood there could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst," Morris has said.
"The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949" was the most important text in that first wave of Israeli revisionism. (Other "new historians," as Morris dubbed his generation of like-minded scholars, included Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, and Tom Segev.) The book was published at the height of the first intifada, a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip led by young people throwing stones at Israeli troops. Morris supported the intifada as a legitimate expression of outrage against the occupation. When his Army unit was called up for service in the West Bank city of Nablus, he refused to go and spent three weeks in jail.
Morris went unrewarded for his independence. Although his book received serious attention in Israel and abroad, he could not get a university job. In 1996, he announced in the press that he planned to leave the country. When the interview was published, Ezer Weizman, a key military figure in the 1948 war and the President of Israel, summoned Morris to his office and asked if he supported Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Morris, who considered himself a liberal Zionist, said that he did. Weizman called the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Be'er Sheva, and, a year later, after passing through the usual academic checkpoints, Morris began his career there as a professor of history.
Between 1993 and 1998, amid the optimism of the Oslo Accords and the possibility that the century-long conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs might be coming to a negotiated end, Morris worked on a comprehensive survey of the confrontation. The title, "Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001," attests to the book's historical and imaginative sympathy both for the Zionists, who acquired a homeland but never a sense of security, and for the Palestinians, whose demand for a homeland remained unsatisfied. Like all Morris's work, the book does not pretend to some sort of absolute objectivity—he has been attacked from every side over the years—but its attempt at balance is obvious: where there is anti-Arab racism among the Zionist forefathers, it is quoted; where there is venality among the early Palestinian leadership, it, too, is pointed out. The epitaph to "Righteous Victims" is the famous passage from Auden's "September 1, 1939" that speaks to the degrading costs of war and persecution: "I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."
But, just as the Arab world's rejection of the 1947 partition plan pushed Israeli leaders toward an even harsher view of their adversaries, Yasir Arafat's rejection of the peace proposals proffered by Ehud Barak in 2000 at Camp David and at Taba, Egypt, coupled with the second intifada, which followed, disillusioned Benny Morris to the point of embitterment. Morris, who has always voted for parties on the left, said that Arafat had "defrauded" the Israelis, and he decided that the Palestinians had no intention of forging a compromise. Morris was not at all persuaded by explanations and press reports claiming that Clinton and Barak had offered Arafat an unfair, hastily prepared deal. Even if Israel returned to its pre-1967 borders, Morris concluded, the Palestinians would consider that only a step in a "phased plan" to eliminate a "crusader state" from sacred Arab lands. After 2000, he said in a 2004 interview with Ha'aretz, "I understood that they were unwilling to accept the two-state solution. They want it all. Lod and Acre and Jaffa." Morris did criticize the Israeli government for continuing to build on occupied territory, but, especially in his role as pundit and polemicist, he was no longer giving equal weight to two "righteous victims."
In the Ha'aretz interview, Morris took a tone that was in scant evidence in his earlier journalism or scholarly work. He spoke of a "deep problem in Islam," of a world in which "life doesn't have the same value it does in the West." The Arabs belonged to a "tribal culture" in which "revenge" played a "central part," a society so lacking in "moral inhibitions" that "if it obtains chemical or biological or atomic weapons, it will use them."
Morris was hardly the only Israeli liberal dispirited by Arafat's behavior in 2000 and the suicide bombs and re-occupations that followed; nor was he alone in his gloom after September 11th. But his new language came as a shock_._ He described the Arab world as "barbarian," and said that the Israeli massacres committed in 1947-48 were "peanuts" compared with those in Bosnia. Then, there was his call to build "something like a cage" for the Palestinians: "I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no other choice. There is a wild animal that has to be locked up in one way or another." Upon reflection, even Morris was appalled by those words and later apologized.
To some extent, Morris has been writing the same book throughout his scholarly life, and one theme that has been pronounced is that of "transfer." In all his work, he has explored the thorny question of whether or not Ben-Gurion and his colleagues explicitly endorsed a policy of "transferring"—exiling—the Arab population from Israel.
By the time of the 2004 Ha'aretz interview, Morris had adopted a harsher, more prescriptive tone that was sometimes chilling to the liberal audience that had first welcomed him. Fearing the loss of a Jewish majority and the rise of an Arab fifth column, some right-wing politicians have advocated transferring either the Palestinian Arabs or the Israeli Arabs, or both, to Jordan—a country they refer to as the true Palestinian state. (That was once a theme of Ariel Sharon's.) Although Morris does not endorse such a policy—"It is neither moral nor realistic"—he does say that, historically speaking, BenGurion "faltered" in 1948. "If he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job," he told Ha'aretz. "I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all." Morris acknowledged that ethnic cleansing was "problematic" but later pointed out catastrophic situations in which it could be "beneficial for humanity." He cited the Turkish expulsion of the Greek minority, Greece's expulsion of its Turkish minority after the First World War, and the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. (His sanguine perspective is unlikely to have been shared by, say, the German survivors of the Brünner Todesmarsch, the Brno death march.)
Four years ago, Morris said that only "apocalyptic" circumstances would demand that Israel carry out a policy of transfer. By January, 2007, writing in the Jerusalem Post, he seemed convinced that apocalypse was around the corner. The United States has been driven to isolationism by its "debacle" in Iraq, Russia and China are "obsessed with Muslim markets," and Israel, led by a "party hack of a prime minister," who botched the war with Hezbollah in 2006, will now be "like a rabbit caught in the headlights" as Iran prepares to launch nuclear-tipped Shihab missiles at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Be'er Sheva. In this scenario, which Morris implied is nearly inevitable, the Israeli leadership knows that it cannot launch a unilateral attack on Iran, for fear of igniting a "world-embracing" terror campaign:
So Israel's leaders will grit their teeth and hope that somehow things will turn out for the best. Perhaps, after acquiring the Bomb, the Iranians will behave "rationally"?
But the Iranians are driven by a higher logic. And they will launch their rockets. And, as with the first Holocaust, the international community will do nothing. It will all be over, for Israel, in a few minutes—not like in the 1940s, when the world had five long years in which to wring its hands and do nothing.
What is so striking about Morris's work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own. The stridency and darkness of some of his public pronouncements is not a feature of "Righteous Victims," which is the most useful survey of the conflict, or of "1948," which is the best history of the first Arab-Israeli wars. In "1948," the assembled compendium of aspiration, folly, aggression, hypocrisy, deception, bigotry, violence, suffering, and achievement is so comprehensive and multilayered that no reader can emerge without a feeling of unease—which is to say, a sense of the moral and historical intricacy of the conflict.
One of the lingering mythologies that Morris set out to confront in "1948" is the iconography of strength and weakness, the competition between Jews and Palestinians for the role of underdog and chief victim. There were two wars following the U.N. partition resolution: first, the immediate Palestinian uprising against the Yishuv_,_ and then, after the Palestinian defeat, the coördinated invasion by the armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. Morris concludes that the Arabs were demographically and geopolitically stronger—the Palestinians outnumbered the Jews of the Yishuv two to one, and the surrounding Arab states had a population, all told, of forty million. But in the years leading to the war the Yishuv had organized political and military institutions that were suited to crisis. Troop call-ups, expert foreign military personnel, and weapons-procurement systems were in place. By contrast, very few Palestinians came from the Hebron, Ramallah, and Nablus areas to aid their fellow Palestinian Arabs in Jaffa, Haifa, Jerusalem, and the Jezreel and Jordan Valleys. "The Yishuv had fought not a 'people,' " Morris concludes, "but an assortment of regions, towns, and villages." When the four Arab armies invaded, on May 15, 1948, they, too, were disorganized and—compared with the Jews, who were fighting for their survival—far less motivated.
About six thousand Jews and twelve thousand Palestinians died in the conflict; the Egyptians lost fourteen hundred men; the Iraqis, Jordanians, and Syrians lost several hundred each. Not long afterward, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were exiled from their homes, and the Jewish minorities in the Islamic world—in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Libya—experienced anti-Semitic demonstrations, pogroms, threats, internments, bomb attacks, synagogue fires. This, too, was a product of the war, and half a million Jews, the Sephardim, eventually left Islamic countries for Israel and, largely because of the circumstances of their exile, formed the Likud rank and file.
In his closing pages, Morris writes with rueful understanding and keen judgment of the consequences of his subject, the rise of a state that gave him a home while displacing so many others:
The war was a humiliation from which that world has yet to recover—the antithesis of the glory days of Arab Islamic dominance of the Middle East and the eastern and southern Mediterranean basins. The sense of humiliation only deepened over the succeeding sixty years as Israel visibly grew and prospered while repeatedly beating the Arabs in new wars, as the Palestinian refugee camps burst at the seams while sinking in the mire of international charity and terrorism, and as the Arab world shuttled between culturally self-effacing Westernization and religious fundamentalism.
Next month, the Israelis mark the sixtieth anniversary of their independence, the Palestinians the sixtieth anniversary of al-nakba, the catastrophe. ♦


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Over in the campfire, plans were made & remade for what's become something of an
annual event. The Fungal Ride.
This year, the northern contingent bailed for a variety of reasons. We made a decision to
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of Morro Bay.
Dave & Tina and their friend Colby met Stephen, Sharon and I at Casa Burnzilla.
A quick trip to Darryl's to pick him up. Check out the view. That's Monterey Bay in
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March 31, 2014
Marc Platt, a renown dancer of stage and screen and one of the last remaining members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, died Saturday in Marin, his daughter Donna Platt said. He was 100.
Mr. Platt, whose reminiscences about the company are documented in the 2005 movie "Ballet Russe," is perhaps best remembered as the original Dream Curly in the 1943 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" and as Daniel Pontipee, the fourth brother in Stanley Donen's 1954 musical film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
While with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Mr. Platt also choreographed the 1939 production of Rodgers' "Ghost Town." He left the company in 1942 to pursue a career on Broadway, where he was chosen by Agnes de Mille to originate the romantic dream ballet sequence in "Oklahoma!"
For many years Mr. Platt continued to perform in stage and then in movies, dancing with Rita Hayworth in "Tonight and Every Night," and starring as Junior Casady in the 1946 film "Tars and Spars," before landing the role of one of the sprightly and dashing brothers in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Mr. Platt also can be seen as one of Curly's friends in the 1955 film adaptation of "Oklahoma!"
Marcel LePlat was born on Dec. 2, 1913, in Pasadena. In the 1920s, his family moved to Seattle, where his early dance training took place under Mary Ann Wells. It was Wells who advised the young man to audition for the renowned Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, then led by Colonel Wassily De Basil. Choreographer Leonide Massine hired the good-looking tall red-headed American and changed his name to Marc Platoff, to match the "Russianized" image of the company. The energetic, lanky young dancer would tour with that company until Massine founded his own offshoot of the Ballet Russe with Rene Blum in 1938, and Platt became a founding member of the new company.
During a tour of "Kiss Me Kate," he met Jean Goodall, whom he would later marry in 1951 and with whom he has two children. Goodall, who co-directed a dance school in Florida with her husband for many years, died in 1994.
In the late '50s and early '60s, Mr. Platt appeared on television and also the cabaret stage. In 1962, he was appointed director of the Radio City Music Hall ballet company in New York.
Ever the irrepressible character and a passionate dance artist throughout his life, Mr. Platt continued to perform well into his 90s, appearing in Marin Dance Theater's "Nutcracker" as the Toymaker.
As he told The Chronicle last December on the occasion of his hundredth birthday, "Always do what you love for as long as you can. I was a dancer and I'm always a dancer."
Mr. Platt is survived by his son Ted LePlat, from his marriage to Eleanor Marra; and from his marriage to Goodall, his son Michael and daughter, Donna and her partner, Stewart Munson, as well as granddaughter Casey Price. A memorial for Mr. Platt is pending.
PLATT, Marc (Marcel Emile Gaston LePlat)
Born: 12/2/2013, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
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Marc Platt's westerns – actor, dancer:
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Oklahoma! – 1955 [dancer]
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV) – 1958 (Mel Herrick)
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Should the U.S. Withdraw from NAFTA?
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-MS, thinks so. According to CongressDaily, Taylor is about to introduce a two-page bill that would withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Taylor blames the agreement with Canada and Mexico for the loss of 5 million manufacturing jobs since it was enacted in 1994. This is a popular but false charge. Manufacturing jobs have declined in the past 15 years for one big reason: soaring productivity.
Overall output at U.S. factories was actually 37 percent higher in 2009 compared to 1993, the year before NAFTA took effect, according to Table B-51 in the latest Economic Report of the President. We are producing a higher volume of stuff with fewer workers because individual workers are so much more productive than they were in the early 1990s.
As I've argued before, NAFTA has spurred more trade and deeper integration among the three partner countries. It has created new opportunities for American companies and their workers to raise their competitiveness in global markets. It has strengthened ties to our two closest neighbors.
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Panama City Beach -- A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant.
(*Update -- Woman now facing serious charges -- Real name "Nekiva Vonte Hardy." See story on wjhg.com for details*)
Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one bikini-clad woman, who identified herself as 23-year-old Kimesia Smith of Montgomery, Ala., (but who police later learned was 30-year-old Nekiva Vonte Hardy) jumped up on the counter and threw a charity coin jug at employees, and 3 of Smith's friends also began throwing napkins, utensils, and trays throughout the restaurant.
The woman in the bikini, who became concerned about the whereabouts of her two children after Panama City Beach Police placed her in handcuffs, was taken to the Bay County Jail on charges of simple battery, in part because of allegations she pulled a Burger King employee's hair. Beach police contacted a friend of the woman, who told police she would take care of (Hardy's) children.
So is this another spring breaker gone wild? Panama City Beach Police Chief Robert Harding doesn't think so, saying, "She's a 30-year-old unemployed mother of three from Montgomery, so I would surmise that she's not a spring breaker."
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Meredith Vieira is returning to NBC with the second season of "The Meredith Vieira Show" in a new live format.
"I'm excited to be returning live for our second season – uncut and unfiltered, anything can happen," said Vieira in a statement. "With the new live format, we'll be able to connect even more with our viewers and bring their voices into the discussion."
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A Nissan Leaf electric car has been modified by Oxford University to become a robotic car controlled by an iPad. The project which it is called "auto drive" enables the car to drive itself for short stretches which could mean a stress free school run for parents or a productive work commute for others.
The system has been developed by the University and uses small cameras and lasers built into the cars bodywork which all link back to a trunk mounted computer. The iPad becomes the front end and is fitted within the cars dashboard.
The whole user experience is provided by an iPad which quickly guides the user through the few checks that are needed to induce autonomy. When it is safe to do so, the car offers the drive the chance to be driven automatically. Here is video showing that process. At any time the driver can take back control of the car by touching the brake - it's exactly like cruise control in an existing vehicle - only this time the car sees obstacles, controls speed and steering. It feels very natural.
There are three computers onboard. The iPad, the LLC (Low Level Controller) and the MVC (Main Vehicle Computer). The iPad runs the user interface and demands constant attention from the LLC. If any of these computers disagree the driver will not be able to start autonomous driving. If at any point there is a problem when the car is in control the human driver is prompted to take control, if they fail to do so the car is automatically brought to a stop.
The car is based on a modified Nissan Leaf which is powered solely by electricity. When you run out of fuel you just need to find a suitable power point rather than a gas station. Of course that wouldn't be too hard when you have a self drive system as capable as this. As Oxford University points out, we should imagine a time when all cars can drive themselves some of the time. This is what's needed for everyday use; a future not condemned to congestion and accidents and one that has cars driving themselves and interacting safely with other road users. Maybe that possibility has just taken a step closer.
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The photo taken by Kansas City pastor Jacob Jester on Saturday and posted on Twitter has been viewed nearly 300,000 times.
"I really didn't stop to think about what would happen," Jester told msnbc.com. "I just snapped a picture."
Jester said he was traveling to Albuquerque on Saturday when he noticed the woman behind him was traveling with a baby about the same age as his son. He had just passed through security when he looked back and saw the baby receiving the pat-down.
"My thinking was, this is an extreme measure. I wouldn't want that to happen to my own son," Jester said.
Jester, who said that he doesn't know the woman and her baby, snapped a picture with his phone and posted it on Twitter. "Just saw #tsa agents patting down a little baby at @KCIAirport. Pretty sure that's extreme."
The Transportation Security Administration posted a response on its blog: "We reviewed the screening of this family, and found that the child's stroller alarmed during explosives screening. Our officers followed proper current screening procedures by screening the family after the alarm, who by the way were very cooperative and were on the way to their gate in no time."
TSA screeners are instructed to use a modified pat-down for children 12 and younger, according to the agency's website.
The latest incident follows recent highly publicized complaints over airport security screening procedures, including an 8-year-old boy who received a pat-down at Portland International Airport and parents upset after their six-year-old was frisked in New Orleans . Former Miss USA Susie Castillo also recently filed a complaint with TSA , claiming in a video that went viral that she felt "violated" after her groin area was touched four times during a security screening.
Jester said that he has great respect for the TSA and their efforts to keep the flying public safe.
"I'm not out to embarrass the TSA," Jester said. "But I do believe there has to be a line drawn. I do not believe that an 8-month-old constitutes a security threat."
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