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Verhamme family
Verhamme, a Dutch Mennonite family, whose ancestor Pieter Verhamme moved from Kortrijk (Courtrai) in Flanders, Belgium, to Haarlem, Holland, in 1567 because of persecution. Here this family was found first in the Flemish, then in the Peuzelaarsteeg Mennonite congregation until it died out in the 18th century. From about 1700 a branch was also found in Amsterdam as members of the Lamist church. Here too they died out. Elisabeth Verhamme, one of the last descendants, died unmarried in 1858 and left a legacy to the Algemeene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit.
The Verhammes were prominent businessmen at Haarlem and Amsterdam. Abraham Verhamme (1639-1727) is said to have been one of the wealthiest citizens of Haarlem. They were faithful members of the church. As far as is known, no members of this family served as ministers, but some of them were trustees of the Mennonite orphanage at Haarlem, and a number of them both at Haarlem and Amsterdam served as deacons.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Verhamme family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 10 Dec 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verhamme_family&oldid=133408.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Verhamme family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 10 December 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verhamme_family&oldid=133408.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 813. All rights reserved.
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'Twas the night before Christmas . . . and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his friend's lives in dire danger. The crime Holly witnessed could be the biggest police cover-up this side of New Orleans-and no one's talking. Driven to desperate measures to uncover the truth, Ware stages a coup at a Christmas party for the New Orleans elite, including the mayor, the council chairman, the sheriff, and the superintendent of police, who just happens to be hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace's estranged father.
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The general populace (those without top-secret code-word clearance) was unaware of the activity until Snowden leaked the documents, which created a stir among the masses. Some were more aghast at the situation and are asking why their privacy needed to be encroached upon. Others have looked to try and devise ways of keeping their information private, such as the people over at tech startup Cloud Guys Corporation, who have developed a device that may keep the prying eyes of the NSA out of your files.
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For the second time President Barack Obama will not attend an Inaugural event ball held to recognize Medal of Honor recipients.
A spokesman for the Presidential Inaugural Committee confirmed Friday that Obama would attend only the official Inaugural Ball and the Commander-in-Chief's ball -- the latter of which is just for servicemembers and where MoH recipients are special guests.
Obama was criticized by some four years ago when he became the first President to skip the American Legion's Salute to Heroes ball since it was first held in 1953.
Also noticeably absent from the planned list of attendees for the Jan. 21 event is former Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, one of only three living MoH recipients from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the only one who will not be present.
"As I understand it, invitations were sent to all living MOH recipients. 25 of them decided to attend our banquet," Legion spokesman Marty Callaghan said in an email Friday. Meyer, who received the nation's highest award for valor for going to the rescue of U.S. and Afghan troops caught in an ambush in 2009, could not be reached for comment.
Those scheduled to attend include Salvatore Giunta and Leroy Petry, former Army staff sergeants who, like Meyer, received the Medal for actions in Afghanistan. The Medal of Honor has been awarded seven other times since 2001 – three for actions in Afghanistan and four in Iraq. In all those cases the award was presented posthumously.
Also scheduled to attend the Salute to Heroes ball are World War II veterans Walter Ehlers and Hershel Williams; Korean War vets Thomas Hudner and Ronald Rosser; and 19 Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War: John Baca, Donald Ballard, Gary Beikirch, Patrick Brady, Sammy Davis, Roger Donlon, Harold Fritz, Joe Jackson, Jack Jacobs, Walter Marm, Jr.; Thomas Norris, Robert O'Malley, Robert Patterson, Alfred Rascon, Ronald Ray, Gordon Roberts, James Sprayberry, Kenneth Stumpf and Brian Thacker. In all, the 25 veterans slated to attend the ball represent about a third of the living Medal of Honor recipients, according to the Legion.
The Legion began holding the Salute to Heroes Ball in 1953 as part of the Inauguration Day events surrounding the swearing in of Dwight Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States.
Every president since then made an appearance at the ball until Obama four years ago.
Following charges that he "snubbed" the Medal of Honor recipients the White House released a statement saying Obama appeared only the balls organized by Presidential Inaugural Committee. The statement also pointed out the special invitation status of MoH recipients at the Commander-in-Chief's Ball.
At the time the American Legion also issued a statement intended to defuse the criticism.
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The announcement would always come around the seventh inning, when a Red Sox publicist would tell the media in attendance that Fenway Park was again sold out, a streak that stands at 793 games and dates to May 15, 2003.
But in the wake of the joyless 2012 season, that streak is in jeopardy.
Season-ticket renewals are down 10 percent from this time last year. Although those coveted tickets will eventually go to fans on the waiting list, the renewal lapse is seen as a signal that even hardcore fans are cooling in their enthusiasm. And that can translate into a drop in overall ticket sales — and empty seats in the stands.
"It will come as no surprise if, on the heels of a 69-win season, our fans don't sell out the park some nights this year," said Sam Kennedy, the team's chief operating officer. "We know it takes time to reconnect, to restore faith, and to believe again. We are passionate fans, too. We understand."
Kennedy also said that although there are no tallies yet on single-ticket sales, he expects those to be down, too.
Uncertainty about the streak began last season. On some nights the empty seats around the venerable park were there for everyone to see, even as another sellout was announced.
Yet Red Sox management's definition of a sellout — in which they count the total number of tickets distributed, including 800 complimentary tickets to each game, plus standing-room tickets — allowed the team to keep the streak alive.
Among the four professional sports in North America, the streak is second only to the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers'mark of 814 games from 1977 to '95. The Sox broke the Cleveland Indians' record for Major League Baseball in 2008. The Indians sold out 455 straight from 1995-2001.
So what's in store for the struggling Sox this season? The team will not be helped in their early ticket sales by fan excitement over a superstar's joining the team. General manager Ben Cherington took a different approach in player acquisition this offseason, shying away from the high-profile players the team has signed in the recent past in favor of lunchpail types such as Ryan Dempster, Shane Victorino, Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, and David Ross.
Cherington has added complementary pieces around second baseman Dustin Pedroia, and will look to the future with promising prospects in the farm system, such as outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. and shortstop Xander Bogaerts.
Given that approach, Kennedy said, the team expects to take a hit at the box office.
"It's no surprise that season-ticket renewals are lagging behind somewhat so far from 2012," Kennedy said. "We hope that those who are on the fence will renew when they see a new team with new personalities take the field."
According to an industry source familiar with tickets sales for big-market franchises, the news could be worse.
"Actually, being 10 percent down after a year they had last year isn't that bad," the source said. "I think only in Boston could you see that minimal of a dropoff. When people are angry about their sports teams, they usually send them a message. This is a message, but not exactly one they're shouting from the rooftops."
The Red Sox are selling good character and a new manager in John Farrell, their former pitching coach, whom they have charged with righting the ship and reversing the fortunes of the pitching staff. They are banking on calmness after the tumultuous Bobby Valentine era and a desire by veterans such as Pedroia, David Ortiz, and Jacoby Ellsbury to prove last year was an aberration.
"The silver lining for some fans is that some of those who have been on the waiting list for many years may finally get their chance this year,'' Kennedy said. "I anticipate our season-ticket base will be roughly consistent with what it has been in years past, albeit with some new buyers from the waiting list." The Red Sox have about 20,000 season ticket holders.
Said Kennedy, "We will certainly know more in the coming weeks."
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Developed by researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, the Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic-or AMP-Foot 2.0 is not only designed to give wearers an incredibly natural and lifelike gait, it also features an energy harvesting system to put a natural spring back into someone's step.
Your average prosthetic uses a spring or elastic to store and repurpose energy from a downward step to propel the wearer forward. But it's a passive approach that doesn't precisely mimic the motion and actions of a human leg. The AMP Foot 2.0, on the other hand, uses a lightweight motor powering an actuator and a specially-designed locking release mechanism.
The actuator ensures there's always enough stored energy to push-off someone weighing up to 165 pounds at every step, while the timed release mechanism matches the natural motion of someone walking on flat ground. What's most impressive is that the prosthetic weighs just five and a half pounds, which is close to the weight of a human foot. So in theory it wouldn't take someone long to learn to walk with the new prosthetic. [Vrije Universiteit Brussel via Gizmag]


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Opinion: Adios Affirmative Action?
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the Supreme Court decision to hear a case this fall regarding a referendum in Michigan on race-based admissions. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... awe as the Supreme Court this week ... during school landmark gay marriage cases ... but the court also surprised observers ... by angry here in Michigan case on race based admissions ... best of the Web columnist James Taranto ... is on set to tell us all about it James ... what is the dispute in the making things ... one is rusted and surprise all observers rise to two years ago the court would take this case ... by ... what happened was ten years ago and two thousandthree the U S Supreme Court ... to make a long story short our old racial discrimination at the University of Michigan ... affirmative action is really a present for racial discrimination ... they said this is ok ... I'd ... so the voters of Michigan ... disagreed that put an initiative on the ballot in two thousandsix which passed with fifty percent of the vote ... be adding any kind of recent racial discrimination by the state of Michigan including at the university's ... a pro discrimination advocacy group ... went to court ... and claimed that this initiative was unconstitutional ... and the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals all the ones that were to put that quote up on the screen from the sixth Circuit said go ahead since ... I've been sick certain Suncor race conscious admissions policies quote in your primarily to the benefit of mind or to translate that in English for what they're saying is ... that that that they're basing this on a couple of long ago an obscure Supreme Court cases in which the court said ... that when you will not pass along ... I'd ... benefiting minority is ... and then you will ... get you repeal it by voter initiative you're depriving minorities of equal protection under the law ... the first of these cases involve the fair housing laws would actually was in and instrumentation lot ... the second one involved the busing plan in Seattle which I ... was actually pro discrimination plan and plan to use discrimination ... but he is the hardest race that had been upheld by the Supreme Court ends in the past the debt that the Supreme Court justify a race based admissions to educational institutions ... not to the benefit of the minority but for the benefit of everybody in the universe and well being of this is where this case is on a collision course with broader versus bones are the two thousandthree it's ... not only did the Supreme Court justify why ... racial discrimination on the basis of promoting equal diverse student body ... it said that that's the only reason ... that justifies now was aware that this is liberals and conservatives on the Supreme Court saying this well this was so I'd I'd this was either the Liberals and Justice O'Connor ... and Justice Kennedy although he descended from the case ... agreed in principle but diversity ok what does say ... that the Michigan six circuits saying ... of ... race based admissions are the best of minority are flying you got Supreme Court precedent say that with a problem with the sick circus or is this excerpt is saying ... that ... racial discrimination ... in the state of Michigan ... he is to benefits ... it was enacted to benefit minorities ... they're calling Justice O'Connor a wire ... that is the amount since she said were to take the University's word for it ... that this was her idea of strict scrutiny right which is the standard this post was aborted take Universe's word for the sixth circuit has blown up a whole run I ... was told the court skinny here with about thirty seconds left what's in here Fisher versus the University of Texas ... which is another landmark case seemed very similar issues ... idea that this is Michigan cases ... is can it ... really a full hearing or you think the justices in deciding vote like and what the justices to infection or what's likely to happen for sure is that the dresses will stop just short of saying you can't just random bits of rates ... so the leaves some wiggle room ... I and another generation university administrators what will be left to figure that out ... but that will mean ... that the Gordo Minotaur be open for I it's full on assault on the Michigan case which is well deserved a full on assault on the Michigan case will we will stay tuned best of the Web columnist James Taranto thank you so much ... for being with us ...


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I bet everyone reading this article knows that heat pipes and vapor chambers are two-phase devices used as part of a thermal solution. But, do you know how they're different, when they should be used, or why they're so effective?
In this article, I limit the text and maximize the illustrations and tables to quickly get you up to speed on these amazing little devices (Table 1 below). I'll also provide some links to thermal calculators you'll find useful. If you're unfamiliar with the inner working of two-phase devices, please refer to this page.
Table 1: Both heat pipes and one-piece vapor chambers start the manufacturing process as a copper tube offering cost and shaping benefits. Two-piece vapor chambers begin life as two stamped plates.
When Should I Use These Devices?
There's no hard and fast rule here. But generally, you'll use heat pipes to move heat and vapor chambers to spread it (Fig. 1). Heat pipes can be easily bent and flattened to wrap around crowded system components, making them the go-to choice when heat needs to be moved from the heat source to a remote fin stack—usually for distances greater than 40 to 50 mm.
1. Vapor chambers are most often used to spread heat to a local heat sink, whereas heat pipes are generally better for moving heat to a remote sink.
Vapor chambers have a very large continuous area, allowing for better isothermalization of the heat sink. If you need a heat sink that's minimally 10 times, but usually closer to 20 times, the area of the heat source, consider vapor chambers. At the beginning of the design cycle, you can use a heat sink sizing calculator to estimate the required volume of the heat sink.
These Devices Can Be "Tuned" for Specific Applications
2. While heat pipes that use grooved or mesh wicks save cost and allow for smaller diameters, their performance characteristics fall far short of those using sintered wicks.
Three types of wick structures are found in heat pipes and vapor chambers. A copper sintered wick is by far the most prevalent due to its higher power-handling capacity, low thermal resistance, and ability to work against gravity. What isn't so widely known is the tremendous amount of tuning that can happen within these devices (Fig. 2).
Changes to wick thickness, wick porosity, and fluid charge may dramatically alter the performance characteristics of the device. That's why engineers should use published performance data as a general guideline and not the final word. Here's an example from Celsia's online heat pipe performance calculator that shows Thermal Conductivity and Qmax versus Angle for heat pipes using a standard wick (Fig. 3).
3. Results from Celsia's online heat pipe performance calculator show the power-handing capacities for various diameter heat pipes.
For heat pipes with the room for a thicker wick (4 to 10 mm), the maximum power-handling capacity increases by 17.5% to 45% when compared to a standard wick. Among the tradeoffs are slightly reduced effective thermal conductivity and shaping flexibility. Standard wick heat pipes are able to be flattened more than performance wick heat pipes before it negatively affects performance (Table 2).
Table 2: Choosing a performance wick structure increases power handling, but heat-pipe flattening can't be as dramatic because it begins to negatively affect performance.
Vapor Chambers Can Dramatically Reduce Spreading Resistance
Heat sources with high power densities or limited air flow to the heat sink to cool them often require a heat sink base material. Such material is more thermally conductive than either solid aluminum or copper. This is where vapor chambers come in handy. Figure 4 presents a summary of the results generated from Celsia's spreading delta-T calculator.
4. Celsia's online spreading delta-T calculator helps engineers quickly see if vapor chambers can substantially reduce spreading resistance in the base of the heat sink.
As a rule of thumb, engineers should consider a vapor chamber when the spreading delta-T in the base is larger than 10oC. This equals roughly 25% to 33% of a typical thermal budget. As seen in the previous example, both copper and aluminum bases far exceed this rule. Changing to a vapor chamber reduces the delta-T to a manageable 5oC.
In summary, heat pipes and vapor chambers are incredibly versatile devices for those times when heat must be moved to a remote condenser or spread to a local one. They're dependable, relatively inexpensive, and they provide considerable design flexibility.


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Valent BioSciences Acquires Pace International
Valent BioSciences Corp., a leader in biorational product development for agriculture, public health, and forestry worldwide, said it agreed to acquire Pace International LLC, a global leader in the postharvest segment of commercial agriculture with operations in the United States, Mexico, and South America. Previously, Valent owned 25% of the company.
The acquisition adds another strategic platform to Valent's rapidly expanding global biorational business. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Pace specializes in the development and commercialization of coatings, sanitizers, and postharvest disease management products for use in many crops including citrus, stone fruit, pome fruit, potatoes and others. Postharvest products improve fruit quality and maintain nutritional value while allowing for longer storage. Postharvest losses can range up to 40% to 50% of all produce that is grown, depending on the crop and country, Valent said.
"The Pace assets bring Valent the unique opportunity to leverage our extensive product portfolio and pipeline further downstream into new and exciting areas that will redefine the postharvest business segment," said President and CEO Michael Donaldson. "Along with our $150 million investment in a new biorational product manufacturing facility in Osage, Iowa, VBC's acquisition of Pace will help us to meet the growing demand for high-quality produce and further expands our global footprint as the undisputed leader in this sector."
Biorationals are products typically derived from biological origins that are highly specific in their activity while providing economic, health, and/or environmental benefits.
Donaldson, also an executive officer with Valent parent Sumitomo Chemical Co., said the acquisition supports Sumitomo's strategic vision to diversify its participation in the food production value chain. "With this acquisition, SCC becomes the only multinational supplier with both conventional and biorational product solutions extending from pre-planting seed protection and physiological seed enhancement to preharvest crop production/protection and postharvest applications benefiting the entire value chain," Donaldson said.
Pace employs more than 100 people worldwide. Roberto Carpentier, vice president of sales and marketing for the last eight years, will become the new executive vice president and chief operating officer of Pace, reporting directly to Donaldson. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year.


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The house saga
To conclude the cliffhanger I left you hanging from in my previous post, I have to maintain that real estate may still be a racket. However, it ended up serving me well.
The dispute on the low appraisal went through, adding about $6000, which mean it was still $7500 short of the agreed upon price. The seller had already knocked about $2000 of the list price I saw (which was over $10k under what he originally listed at 6 months earlier) for me, and was paying all of my closing costs.
So, the seller had to decide if he was willing to take that big of a hit. His realtor said he would rescind his commission to make the sale. It helped that the realtor was the seller's cousin. However, I had to bring $1500 more to the closing. But I was getting $7500 off our agreed upon price.
I agreed.
Now I'm a homeowner.
I met a neighbor later on closing day. He seemed to think that I was renting. He must have thought the seller gave up. I accidentally said that the process had been a roller coaster but stopped myself short of explaining the details. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear that he may be under water.
I can't help but look to the day, probably less than 10 years from now, when I'll sell the place. Will I make a profit because I got such a deal? Will the neighborhood go sour? Will I have stuck thousands of dollars into it?
So far the only money I've stuck into the house itself is a programmable thermostat that I've yet to install. I'm not even going to paint (yet, anyway). I'm still acquiring adult things at 32 — I'm not married or have a kid, so I've lived off used & crappy kitchen supplies, free couches, and cheap sheets for long enough. That's where my money will be going for now — the stuff I can take with me to the next place.


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Police are questioning a "person of interest" in connection with the shooting of a 7-year-old boy in Chicago Sunday.
Tavion Jackson was released from Mt. Sinai Hospital after being struck while walking a bicycle up the front steps of his home around 9 p.m. on the 4200 block of West 5th Avenue in the West Garfield neighborhood, police said.
The boy's mother told NBC 5 Chicago Monday that her son is "traumatized and afraid to come outside."
Shots rang out at a car on the street in front of the boy's home, police said, and Jackson was hit twice, in the arm and under the arm. The shooting happened right outside Charles Sumner Math & Science Academy, where school starts in a week.
"He just raised his arm and said that he had been shot," Tavion's mother, Tasha McDuffie, told reporters.
They had just come back from a picnic, McDuffie said, and Tavion was helping his cousin bring her bike into the house while the rest of the family brought other children inside.
"He's a kid," McDuffie said. "He's supposed to be able to play outdoors. ... You should be able to go into the house and get ready for bed and go to school like normal kids, but instead he gets shot going inside the house."
Neighbors said they heard two shots, then saw two men running through the school courtyard afterward. Police scoured the school grounds, looking for a weapon.
Residents who live in the area said the neighborhood is normally considered a safe haven for kids.
"This is the safest part of the neighborhood for them to play," resident Lavell Tubbs said, "so all the kids come out and play right here by the school, so I really didn't expect anything like this to happen."
"Nothing like this ever happened here," neighbor Jeanette Pruitt said. "This is the first time."
This was one of 28 shootings in Chicago since 6 p.m. Friday. Six people were killed. Police said shootings were down slightly from this same weekend in 2012, when there were 34 shootings and seven murders.
Police haven't yet made any arrests in the shooting that injured the 7-year-old.
"People have to wake up and be aware of what is going on around you," McDuffie said. "People need to be aware of where their kids are. ... What you do affects other families and their kids."
McDuffie said she plans to move from the block.


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New York Times Op-Ed Index for January, 2013
A) Rape, Lies and Videotapes - Shmuel Rosner - January 2, 2013
Statistically, illegal immigrants account for far fewer rapes than Israel's legal residents. Yet statistics don't mean much in the lead-up to election day or in areas where immigrants are heavily concentrated. There, those figures don't do much for the locals, who feel scared in their own neighborhoods, or the immigrants, who often live in inadequate conditions and face discrimination from residents, or the local authorities, who have to manage a problem their superiors seem uninterested in solving.I'm very uncomfortable with this, given the record of the New York Times. But unlike a news story last week which attempted - with no credible evidence - to smear Israeli society with the "racist" label, Rosner limits his criticism to a small number of politicians attempting to exploit grievances. Because Rosner's criticism is limited and not general, I won't rate this anti-Israel. But it isn't pro-Israel either. Neutral.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 0 / pro-Israel - 0
B) Nominations for Defense and the CIA - Editorial - January 7, 2013
Mr. Hagel's independence and willingness to challenge Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, sanctions on Iran and other issues — both in the Senate and later as an administration adviser — have so alarmed neocons, hard-line pro-Israel interest groups and some Republican senators that they unleashed a dishonest campaign to pre-emptively bury the nomination. It failed, but the confirmation process could be bruising. The opponents are worried that Mr. Hagel will not be sufficiently in lock step with the current Israeli government and cannot be counted on to go to war against Iran over its nuclear program if it comes to that.Despite the obnoxious language here, ("hard line pro-Israel" without a comma, "lock step") I was prepared to give this editorial a pass. It didn't appear to be about Israel. However, following Senator Hagel's abysmal performance last week, the Times followed up with an editorial faulting Senate Republicans for the disaster. The editorial even acknowledged implicitly that Hagel was unprepared, but again used the term "in lock step with the current Israeli government..." suggesting that his disagreements with Israel are a major reason that the editors at the Times support Hagel.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 1 / pro-Israel - 0
C) Israel's true friends - Roger Cohen - January 7, 2013
Five years on, that needed dialogue has scarcely advanced. Self-styled "true friends" of Israel now lining up against the Hagel nomination are in fact true friends only of the Israeli right that pays no more than lip service to a two-state peace (when it even does that); scoffs at Palestinian national aspirations and culture; dismisses the significant West Bank reforms that have prepared Palestine for statehood; continues with settlement construction on the very shrinking land where a Palestinian state is envisaged (and was granted nonmember observer status at the United Nations last November by 138 votes to 9 with 41 abstentions, including Germany); cannot find a valid Palestinian interlocutor on the face of the earth despite the moderate reformist leadership of Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad; ignores the grave implications for Israel of its unsustainable, corrosive dominion over another people and the question of how Israel can remain Jewish and democratic without a two-state solution (it cannot); bays for war with Iran despite the contrary opinions of many of Israel's intelligence and military leaders; and propels Israel into repetitive miniwars of dubious strategic value.The photograph accompanying this op-ed is a protest by Jewish Voice for Peace, an extreme anti-Israel group. Was the picture included for the sake of irony or out of naivete? I'm guessing the latter. Most of the above paragraph is a poorly constructed run on sentence. As I've noted previously, given the decrease in rocket fire from Gaza since Pillar of Defense, shows that November's war against Hamas accomplished a very real goal. There's nothing dubious about that. How is it that someone who criticizes Israel for defending its citizens presumes to identify Israel's true friends? That's what's dubious about Cohen's column.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 2 / pro-Israel - 0
D) Extreme Makeover, Israel - Shmuel Rosner - January 8, 2013
You can't want to be seen both as a fun-loving, entrepreneurial society and as a hardy frontiersman fighting for your survival. You can't be both a start-up nation and a place on the verge of annihilation. But what if you are?It's a generally sympathetic look at Israel. I could have done with a little less cynicism, though.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 2 / pro-Israel - 1
E) In defense of Hagel for Defense - Nicholas Kristof - January 9, 2013
It's bullying and name-calling to denounce people as anti-Semitic because they won't embrace the policies of a far-right Israeli government that regularly shoots itself in the foot. In a world in which anti-Semitism actually does persist, this is devaluing the term so that it becomes simply a glib right-wing insult. Maybe that's why Jewish Voice for Peace, a liberal American Jewish organization, has announced that its supporters have sent 10,000 e-mails to President Obama in support of Hagel's nomination.The Jewish Voice for Peace is not liberal and it's also not pro-Israel. (Understand that JVP supports dialogue with Hamas - no doubt part of why Hagel appeals to the group - and the Palestinian right of return, which would destroy Israel.)
Current tally - anti-Israel - 3 / pro-Israel - 1
F) Financial crisis in the West Bank - Editorial - January 10, 2013
There are many causes. After Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, won an upgrade for the status of Palestine as a nonmember observer state at the United Nations General Assembly last fall, Israel retaliated by withholding the $100 million in monthly tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians. Congress, meanwhile, has been withholding more than $450 million in American aid. Last year, Mr. Fayyad said he hoped to improve the authority's financial condition by cutting spending and raising taxes on wealthier Palestinians. The tax plan ran into strong protest and the West Bank's modest economic growth has slowed.Much as I want to classify this editorial as being anti-Israel, I'm not sure that it is. It is certainly critical of Israel and unfairly so. It absolves the Palestinian Authority of any responsibility for its financial woes. But this editorial really isn't mostly about Israel. Neutral. (Reluctantly.)
Current tally - anti-Israel - 3 / pro-Israel - 1
G) President Morsi's repulsive comments - Editorial - January 15, 2013
The problem goes deeper than just Mr. Morsi, however. The remarks were made at a time when anti-Israel sentiment was running high in Egypt and the region after the three-week Gaza conflict in 2009 between Israel and Hamas. The sad truth is that defaming Jews is an all too standard feature of Egyptian, and Arab, discourse; Israelis are not immune to responding in kind either.There's a significant point here about defaming Jews. However it's undermined by the false equivalence and even the degree to which the editorial seeks to justify Morsi's comments (by attributing it to Cast Lead.) Neutral.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 3 / pro-Israel - 1
H) Reckless driving - Shmuel Rosner - January 15, 2013
But if Israel is riding a safety tide, it is riding it high, with even better results than most other countries. Australia, Canada, the United States, France and Japan were all ahead of it 10 years ago; now, they are all behind.By objective measures Israel has improved its road safety. No negativity. Wow.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 3 / pro-Israel - 2
I) The Blight of Return - Roger Cohen - January 17, 2013
When I was in Cairo recently, I saw a senior Western official who meets regularly with President Morsi. She told me she has no doubt of his belief in Israel's right to exist and the urgent need for a two-state peace. Power is responsibility; it can change people. The United States should test Morsi by pressing him hard to forge Palestinian unity in pragmatism. That would remove an Israeli excuse for oppression that tramples on the Jewish state's own best interests.Oh, good! A "western official" told Cohen that Morsi is really a pragmatist even as he asserts control over the military and the media! And he insists that trusting Morsi to oversee a merger between Hamas and Fatah would be "pragmatic." I keep on repeating that the occupation has long been over. The only matter left is borders. If the Palestinian wish to negotiate they will get their state. Cohen does Israel (not to mention the cause of peace) no good by insisting that Israel must trust extremists to reform or to buy into compromise when there's no constituency for it in the Palestinian political sphere. Cohen is correct that the Palestinians need to give up on the right of return. It's a shame that he doesn't note that even the moderates are still insisting on it.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 4 / pro-Israel - 2
J) The Countersettlement - Raja Shehadeh - January 17, 2013
Then came the Oslo Accords, which divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C. The Palestinian Authority was given some jurisdiction over Areas A and B; Area C, amounting to 60 percent of the West Bank [pdf], was placed under exclusive Israeli control. This helped create the impression among Israelis that settlers in Area C would be safe from eviction because under any final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians the zone would be fully annexed to Israel. Since the beginning of the occupation, 120 settlements sanctioned by the Israeli government and 99 unofficial outposts have been erected in the West Bank.What Shehadeh doesn't mention is that portions of Gaza were Area C also, and those were all evacuated. Earlier he made a claim about "state lands" that is objectively designated as propaganda (scroll towards the end of the post). Please also read Barry Rubin's The Ultimate Settlements are not the problem article.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 5 / pro-Israel - 2
K) Bibi forever - Shmuel Rosner - January 21, 2013
The Israeli public also agrees with Netanyahu's skepticism about finding a negotiated settlement on Iran's nuclear ambitions, about the Palestinian peace process and about the long-term prospects of the Arab Spring. Shelly Yacimovich of the Labor Party paid a price for trying to bypass all this by focusing on social and economic issues. Her peers and rivals of the center-left criticized her for abandoning a core issue of the left: peace. And for many Israelis that position made her irrelevant in the race. What's the point of having a leader with no clear agenda on the most urgent matters?Rosner effectively argues that Netanyahu is mainstream. Is anyone else at the New York Time paying attention? Roger Cohen in his latest, Israel's Mr. Normal, clearly isn't.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 5 / pro-Israel - 3
L) U.S. Inaction, Mideast Catacalysm? - Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour - January 21, 2013
Second, the status quo is not a path to a one-state solution, but to Bosnian-style ethnic cleansing, which could erupt as quickly as the Gaza fighting did last year and spread to Israeli Arab cities. Right-wing Israelis and Hamas leaders alike are pushing for a cataclysmic fight. Mr. Abbas, whose Fatah party controls the West Bank, has renounced violence, but without signs of a viable diplomatic path he cannot unify his people to support new talks. If his government falls apart, or if the more Palestinian territory is annexed (as right-wing Israelis want), or if the standoff in Gaza leads to an Israeli ground invasion, bloodshed and protests across the Arab world will be inevitable. Such chaos might also provoke missiles from Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militant group based in Lebanon.Abbas has, of course, avoided any "viable diplomatic path" in hope of bringing international pressure on Israel to make concessions without his having to concede anything in return. In the meantime his media and schools delegitimize Israel and glorify terror. The idea that the status quo is untenable is baseless fear mongering.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 6 / pro-Israel - 3
M) Break all the rules - Thomas Friedman - January 22, 2013
On Israel-Palestine, the secretary of state should publicly offer President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority the following: the U.S. would recognize the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank as the independent State of Palestine on the provisional basis of the June 4, 1967, lines, support its full U.N. membership and send an ambassador to Ramallah, on the condition that Palestinians accept the principle of "two states for two peoples" — an Arab state and a Jewish state in line with U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 — and agree that permanent borders, security and land swaps would be negotiated directly with Israel. The status of the refugees would be negotiated between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which represents all Palestinians inside and outside of Palestine. Gaza, now a de facto statelet, would be recognized as part of Palestine only when its government recognizes Israel, renounces violence and rejoins the West Bank.It's kind of remarkable that Friedman's analysis doesn't mention "Hamas." Yes, there's implicit reference "de facto statelet," but I think he's not mentioning Hamas explicitly because he knows how absurd his argument is. Why should Israel make any further concessions - political or territorial - when Hamas has not moderated and could still very well gain power in the West Bank? Furthermore the very fact that when Israel made the sort of concessions Friedman calls for, the result in Gaza was to empower Hamas, which has been threatening southern Israel ever since.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 7 / pro-Israel - 3
N) Peace Process? Check the back burner - Mark Heller - January 23, 2013
Finally, nothing Obama does can be effective unless it fully complements an equally visible redefinition by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, of the purpose of the process. For while Obama may inject an element of urgency, only Abbas can dispel the sense of pointlessness — by clearly communicating that positive movement will culminate not just in Israeli concessions on territory but also in a definitive termination of the conflict, the renunciation of any further claims, and the peaceful coexistence of two states for two peoples.There's a lot of sense in this article. Heller explains why Israel doesn't feel urgency about the peace process (something that Thomas Friedman occasionally) but explains that further progress is out of Israel's hands (something Friedman never does.)
Current tally - anti-Israel - 7 / pro-Israel - 4
O) The Israeli Center Lives - Roger Cohen - January 23, 2013
Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned as the incarnation of a strong Israel, square-jawed before the Western Wall. He emerged weakened and chastened. The Israeli people delivered the one thing he believed an early election would not produce: A comeuppance.P) Israel's election - Editorial - January 23, 2013
The White House on Wednesday renewed its call for peace talks to resume. This won't mean much if President Obama is not ready to invest political capital in a new diplomatic initiative. Unlike the bungled effort in his first term, though, he needs to carefully prepare the political ground, including making his first trip to Israel as president and explaining to the Israeli people how any peace plan will enhance their security.Q) A better Bibi - Shmuel Rosner - January 28, 2013
As I was detailing last week, one can't beat something with nothing, and Netanyahu couldn't be beat by rivals who are inexperienced or unable to articulate an agenda that contrasts with his on the most serious issues facing Israel. It is true, as many have noted, approvingly or disapprovingly, that Israeli voters cast their ballots this time based on domestic issues — another trend I had not anticipated.Unlike Roger Cohen or the editors of the New York Times, Rosner acknowledges that he got the Israeli election wrong in underestimating the strength of Yair Lapid and domestic issues generally. Cohen and the editors were more concerned with scoring points off of Bibi rather than acknowledging their hysterical fear mongering about a "right wing" Israel government. The discredited hysterics should have occasioned some humility, but didn't. Of these three election reviews, only one can be called pro-Israel.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 9 / pro-Israel - 5
R) Sitting down with Amos Oz - Roger Cohen - January 28, 2013
At 73, Oz has been surprised often enough not to regard the worst as inevitable, even if war has been Israel's leitmotif since 1948. He asks this question: "Who ever expected Churchill to dismantle the British Empire, or De Gaulle to take France out of Algeria, or Sadat to come to Jerusalem, or Begin to give back the whole of Sinai for peace, or Gorbachev to undo the whole Soviet bloc?"Boldness? Sounds like a Thomas Friedman line. Yes Begin gave up the Sinai for peace. Now there are many who say even that wasn't enough. Peres withdrew from most of the West Bank, Netanyahu from Hebron, Barak retreated from southern Lebanon and Sharon withdrew from Gaza. Agree or disagree with these actions, the question is did any of these "bold" moves bring peace closer? The so called "Aqsa intifada," the Israeli war with Hezbollah in 2006, Operations Cast Lead and Pillar of Defense, followed each of these bold moves. When Cohen explains why none of these bold moves brought peace closer, then he'll be in a position to lecture Israel.
His message to the incoming Israeli government is clear: Peace is impossible without boldness; nothing is beyond the capacity of an open-ended, surprise-prone humanity.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 10 / pro-Israel - 5
S) Why Palestine should take Israel to court in the Hague - George Bisharat - January 29, 2013
The Palestinians' first attempt to join the I.C.C. was thwarted last April when the court's chief prosecutor at the time, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, declined the request on the grounds that Palestine was not a state. That ambiguity has since diminished with the United Nations' conferral of nonmember state status on Palestine in November. Israel's frantic opposition to the elevation of Palestine's status at the United Nations was motivated precisely by the fear that it would soon lead to I.C.C. jurisdiction over Palestinian claims of war crimes.In response Elder of Ziyon quoted international law expert, Eugene Kontorovich as to why Bisharat's scenario is hogwash. Regardless of how fanciful Bisharat's scenario is, it's the continuation of a campaign announced by Mahmoud Abbas on the op-ed pages of the New York Times in May, 2001. At that time Abbas said that he would international fora to pressure Israel. Since then, the New York Time has lent its pages to those who would abet this campaign all the while regretting that there was no movement on the peace process. The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
Current tally - anti-Israel - 11 / pro-Israel - 5
T) Israel ducks on human rights - Editorial - January 30, 2013
Human rights reviews are an important tool for judging all countries by universal standards and nudging them to make positive changes. By opting out, Israel shows not only an unwillingness to undergo the same scrutiny as all other countries, but it deprives itself of an opportunity to defend against abuse charges. The decision could also undermine the entire review process by providing an excuse for states with terrible human rights records — like North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe — to withdraw as well. It certainly will make it harder for Washington to argue for reviews when an ally rejects the process.The illogic of this editorial is stunning. Two paragraphs earlier the editorial noted, "...Israel is the only country that is a standing item on the agenda for the council's biannual meetings." Acknowledging the special treatment Israel gets from the despots who run the Human Rights Council shows that Israel does get unfair scrutiny from the council; a perfectly good reason to avoid the kangaroo court.
Final Total - anti-Israel - 12 / pro-Israel - 5 / neutral - 3
Methodology: I surveyed all opinion articles at the New York Times website from January 1 - 31, 2013. I included articles that were substantially about Israel in the count, but not letters to the editor. A bulk of the opinion was driven by the Israeli election and the Hagel nomination.
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Morocco's Human Rights record in occupied Western Sahara has always been poor. But since the peaceful protest by ten of thousands of Saharawis (Western Sahara's indigenous population) near El Aaiun in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara in October last year– the so-called Gdeim Izik protest camp that was the largest ever protest in the occupied territories – this record is becoming increasingly poor. On September 25 this year, Moroccan settlers and security forces again attacked peacefully protesting Saharawis, this time in Dakhla in occupied Western Sahara. Many were injured in these attacks, including women and children, and 28-year-old Saharwi activist Maichan Mohamed Lamin Lehbib was assassinated by Moroccan forces, according to the Saharawi liberation movement, Polisario. And last Monday, October 10, Moroccan forces brutally attacked peaceful protesters in El Aaiun in the occupied territories. According to the Polisario, approximately 30 Saharawis were injured and many others arrested.
In Gdeim Izik, as in the other demonstrations, the protesters were intent on showing their frustration with the lack of progress in the so-called Western Sahara conflict, the plundering of their resources by Morocco, and the arduous and discriminatory conditions they live under. They have endured 36 years of illegal colonisation, abuse and discrimination by Morocco, as well as nearly twenty years of waiting for a referendum on the status of Western Sahara that is demanded by international law and promised by UN. Moroccan forces clamped down heavily on the peaceful protest in Gdeim Izik, injuring many of the protesters, killing a 15-year-old Saharawi boy, Nayem Elgarhi, and imprisoning several of the participants. According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the Moroccan authorities allegedly torture many of the Saharawis whom they have detained, the most common methods, according to Amnesty International's 2011 report being "beatings, electric shocks and threats of rape." The detainees are also often forced to sign confessions and brought before military courts on more or less trumped up charges.
Abba Malainin, Polisario's representative to Denmark, tells Africa Contact that he is "very worried that the Moroccan authorities maintains their torture against the protesters, that they will not be given a fair trial and that their health situation is deteriorating." "There were twenty-three Saharawi human rights activists arrested after the crackdown against the protest camp, Gdeim Izik, last year. They are now in Sale prison near Rabat waiting to be presented to a military court," Malainin says. "One of these, Cheikh Banga, has been doing a hunger strike since 15 September. His life is in danger. Another, Sidahmed Lemjiyed, President of the Saharawi Committee for Protection of Natural Resources, was detained on 25 December 2010 in El Aaiún. Since then, he has been imprisoned without being accused of a crime and without having been before a court. According to an international group that visited Morocco this week, his health is deteriorating."
But as Morocco maintains a virtual media blackout in occupied Western Sahara and has banned NGO's from operating there, independent information about the situation in occupied Western Sahara is hard to come by. "Morocco still banning the entrance to Western Sahara of the Media and Independent observers," says Abba Malainin. "And Morocco has in the past few days banned an International human rights Delegation, the Spanish International Association for the Observation of Human Rights (AIODH), from visiting the imprisoned Saharawi human rights activists in Morocco. Also, Saharawis in occupied Western Sahara have no right to free expression or free association."
By Peter Kenworthy, Africa Contact
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Google has teamed up with Wal-Mart and several other major retail partners to sell the company's Chromebook laptops at their stores.
The Mountain View, Calif., tech giant said Chromebook laptops will now be sold at more than 6,600 stores, or three times as many stores as before.
Wal-Mart began selling the Acer C7 $199 Chromebook at 2,800 of its stores Monday.
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This weekend, Google will also add Staples into the mix. The office supply retailer will sell Chromebook laptops from Samsung, Acer and HP at all of its more than 1,500 stores and through its website.
Google also said that later this year that select Office Depot, Office Max, Fry's and TigerDirect stores will also carry Chromebook computers. New retail partners for other countries where Chromebooks are sold were also announced Monday.
Previously, Chromebooks could only be purchased from Best Buy stores or on the Web from online retailers such as Amazon.com.
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The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer, aviation sales rep for U-Fuel, and president of EAA1114.
In Part I of this series, we reviewed the history of the autogas Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) that allow us to use the fuel in hundreds of different legacy aircraft and engines. But what do aircraft owners do when their airplanes are not covered by these STCs, for instance later model Beech Bonanzas, Barons, Cessna 210s and 310s, Mooneys, and other aircraft with high compression-ratio engines? Many of these aircraft will be covered by the latest development from Petersen Aviation, the Anti-Detonation Injection (ADI) system for light aircraft. First, a brief history and description how it works, contributed by Todd Petersen.
ADI first saw widespread use during World War II. At that time it was used in American fighters and bombers as a means of developing significantly more power. The P-47 developed as much as a 30% increase in power with ADI, useful if someone was on your tail. In bombers it was used primarily for added power on takeoff. The extra power didn't come from ADI by itself. Intercoolers were also necessary, and the fuel system went into auto lean at the same time the pilot hit ADI. It is also important to remember that we were using 115/145 octane avgas back then. Between the fuel, intercoolers, ADI and auto lean, significant extra power could be wrung out of an engine.
ADI is also useful for a different purpose. It can be used to maintain rated power while using a lower octane fuel, much lower than the 100 octane many of us think our engines need. This is possible because of the cooling effect of ADI fluid, which is a mixture of methanol and water, sometimes mixed 70/30 and sometimes 60/40. When it is injected into the inlet air of an engine it evaporates very quickly, cooling the charge and slowing the burn rate. Methanol packs a lot of octane, around 120, and this makes it possible to pack more fluid into the engine than would be possible with water alone, plus it keeps things from freezing at altitude.
In World War II, ADI was usually activated by flipping a small hinged detent out of the way so you could get more travel on the throttle. When the throttles were advanced into that range it threw the mixture into auto lean and turned on ADI. Today we turn it on with an electrical circuit that monitors manifold pressure and temperature. The I0-520s and I0-470s that are approved begin detonating at about 80% power, so the system comes on at 70% power.
We also discovered during our testing that detonation could occur at almost any power setting if the CHTs were high enough. Say for example you're cruising along and you have a broken ring on one cylinder, or you develop an intake leak which gives you a lean condition in one cylinder. In not too long a time this can give high CHTs in that one cylinder and it can be enough to cause serious detonation. Consequently our ADI system is tied into CHT probes on each cylinder. On the I0-520 and I0-470 detonation starts at around red line so our system will turn itself on if the CHTs exceed 400°F. A warning light in the cockpit calls the pilot's attention to it so you know to enrichen the mixture or make other adjustments to address the heat issue but ADI keeps the engine safe in the meantime.
An ADI system consists of a tank, lines, pumps, filters, and nozzles, along with the electronics to operate it. ADI fluid is not placed into the aircraft fuel tanks nor does it ever pass through any of the existing aircraft fuel system. A separate tank and set of lines is installed to allow ADI fluid to travel through the airplane to the engine. Fifty-five gallon drums of ADI fluid are available for $2.82 per gallon. If an aircraft owner mixes his own ADI fluid the cost is reduced to about $2.11 per gallon. Approximately one half gallon of fluid is used per engine per takeoff.
Petersen Aviation, Inc. of Minden, Neb., and Air Plains Services of Wellington, Kan., have joined forces to bring the ADI systems back onto the market and to seek FAA approval for more of them. With today's uncertainty over the future of avgas the time is right to reintroduce these systems. Owners of Beech Barons and Cessna 210s have little to fear over the eventual demise of 100LL given that our ADI system offers an alternative that has already gained FAA approval. Regardless of what 100LL is replaced with, VLL (very low lead), unleaded avgas or autogas, as long as it is no less than 91 octane AKI it will work with ADI.
Pilots in other parts of the world may benefit even more than in the US. In West Africa 100LL is $16 a gallon. In Australia 100LL may dry up altogether now that the military no long requires it. Indeed, throughout South Asia and in Africa 100LL is prohibitively expensive when it's available and in some places it just simply never is.
This series of STCs will be offered for sale by the end of the year through Air Plains Services at a cost of approximately $15,000 for a Baron, and $2,500 less for a Cessna 210. Additional detonation and flight testing is anticipated for engines and airframes not previously approved, such as late model Beech Debonairs/Bonanzas and Cessna 310s, among others, depending on demand.
What's the bottom line? For aviation writer Mac McClellan, whose 1975 Be-58 Baron (pictured above) burns around 30 gph in cruise, the cost differential between avgas and autogas (on April 13 it was $1.48 according to AirNav) would result in nearly $9,000 in annual fuel savings for 200 hours of flying, about average for a well-traveled Baron owner like Mac. In less than two years, he would have amortized the ADI's cost and be operating his Baron $44 per hour cheaper on autogas than when using avgas. And he'd be contributing exactly zero lead to the atmosphere.
For those who are concerned about the need for a small tank of ADI fluid at $2.82 a gallon, consider the plight of pilots flying aircraft with the Rotax 912 series engines. Rotax strongly recommends the use of a lead scavenger if the lack of ethanol-free autogas requires that avgas must be used. With lead scavengers costing well over $100 a gallon, the use of leaded avgas in the Rotax, an engine that not only powers many LSA aircraft but is now used in several light twins, results in a significant additional cost penalty compared to autogas.
For more information on the ADI system, contact Air Plains Services at 620-326-8581 or Petersen Aviation, Inc. at 308-832-2200. In Part III of this series, we'll describe the growing list of new aircraft and engines that have been designed from the outset to operate on autogas.


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"She was shot point blank by the Taliban simply for wanting to go to school, but Malala Yousufzai still believes that she is the "luckiest," the ardent activist told a crowd at the Mashable Social Good Summit on Monday.
Joined by her father, Shiza Shahid, CEO of the Malala Fund, and Elizabeth Gore, resident entrepreneur at the UN Foundation, Malala shared how she's grown since she was attacked by the terrorist organization in Pakistan 10 months ago and how her supporters have motivated her to continuing fighting for the rights of girls." READ MORE


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Mitt Romney can't be held accountable for his extreme right-wing views, at least according to his campaign's senior adviser, who said the candidate should be given a "reset button" on any positions he's taken during the primary campaign if he wins the nominations and faces off against President Obama in the fall.
Appearing on CNN this morning, Romney Communications Director Eric Fehrnstrom was asked if he's concerned that Romney may alienate general election voters with some of the hard-right positions he's taken during the primary to appeal to conservatives. Fehrnstrom brushed this concern off:
HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.
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Polls show Romney has lost support among independent voters as the primary campaign has forced him further to the right.
It's unclear if Fehrnstrom expects people to just forget some of the fairly radical stances Romney has taken on everything from immigration, to contraception, to climate change, or if he expects the candidate to change his positions on those issues in the coming months — something Romney is certainly known for doing. As Fox commentator Brit Hume said of Romney last year, "You are only allowed a certain number of flips before people doubt your character."


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Vets Helping Vets: Tackling Veteran Unemployment Through Service
Today's guest post comes from Kate Enos, Deputy Press Secretary at Corporation for National and Community Service. Her original post was released on Nov. 2nd, 2011, via Serve.gov – National Service Blog.
Todd Schnittke proudly served his country during the Gulf War as a Multiple Launch Rocket System Technician from 1989-1993. Yet, he had a will to continue his service to the United States that never disappeared. Now, he proudly serves under another title – AmeriCorps member at the AMVETs Career Center in Mansfield, Ohio.
The unemployment rate for veterans in Ohio lingers around 16% — higher than the national average. Veterans, young and old, are looking to AmeriCorps members like Schnittke and organizations like AMVETs gain access to crucial access to job resources and employment opportunities.
Schnittke, 40, represents one of 20 AmeriCorps members who currently serve with AMVETS Career Centers across the state. AmeriCorps members with AMVETs in Ohio have successfully provided assistance to more than 1,000 veterans and helped approximately 200 veterans secure employment in fields such as healthcare and transportation.
AmeriCorps provided a necessary change in direction for Schnittke. After a stint as a security officer in a correctional facility, he headed back to school at North Central State College. It was there that he learned about AmeriCorps. For a veteran with service in his blood, the opportunity to help fellow veterans was too great to pass up.
In Mansfield and the surrounding region, Schnittke has helped more than 80 veterans with career services, including job training, resume workshops, mock interviews, and access to employment opportunities.
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|Heat oven to 350 degees F. Lighlty coat 9x5 inch loaf pan with cooking spray; set aside. In large bowl, blend Dried Plum Puree, sugar, water and vanilla. DRIED PLUM PUREE: Blend 2/3 cup pitted dried plums with 3 tablespoons HOT water. Stir in banan just to blend. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add to dried plum mixture, alternating with buttermilk and blending thoroughly. Spread batter in pan. Bake in center of oven about 1 hour, 15 minutes or until wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn onto rack to cool completely. For best flavor, wrap and store overnight before serving. Tip: 1/4 cup skim milk mixed with 1 tsp vinegar can be substituted for buttermilk.
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