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... He is Horus who arose as king of Upper and Lower Egypt,
This most ancient of deities is most definitely not to be confused with Horus (Hor-sa-Isis or Haroeris), child of Isis and Osiris. In his earliest incarnation, Horus was a sky god whose name was "Hor," meaning either "face" or "distant," but he later evolved into a solar deity during the introduction of the Osirian cult.
The usual iconography of this god was of either a falcon or a man with the head of a falcon on his shoulders. However this Neter embodied within himself a multitude of falcon gods in various manifestations and with various names, a few being:
Horus of Behdet (located in the Western Delta) took form as a hawk-headed warrior. His cult moved from the Western Delta to Edfu, in Upper Egypt in later times, and the temple here subsequently became known famously as Edfu. It was known colloquially as Djeba ("Retribution Town") because of the fact that Set and his followers were brought to justice there.
Harakhti ("Horus of the Two Horizons"). God of the east and the rising sun.
Behdety ("He of [the] behdet"). The hawk-winged sun disk that symbolized the passage of the sun through the sky.
Harpocrates (Har-pa-khered—"Horus the child"). The god manifests as a child sitting on his mother's knee, wearing the side-lock of hair and occasionally sucking his fingers. This form is of the divine child.
Harisiese (Horus, the Son of Isis). This representation symbolizes the legitimacy of the Osirian line made manifest in the offspring of Isis and Osiris.
Horus or Heru was evident as a Neter of kings from at least predynastic times, with a cult center based in the ancient capital city of Upper Egypt, Nekhen (Greek name Hierakonopolis—"City of the Falcon"). A falcon deity had been preeminent in Nekhen since early times and it was this deity, Nekheny, who was subsequently absorbed into Horus. Nekhen's crown was lost to Edfu in later times, but it still remained an important cult center for Horus.
Excavations at this site in modern times have revealed an oval, temple-like structure (dating to the early Naqada II) closely resembling temples found in Mesopotamia, perhaps indicating ancient trade links with this culture. The peoples of the ancient world were great explorers; they exchanged not only goods but also ideas. These ideas were like precious seeds that gave rise to important cultural, spiritual, and economic developments, and Egypt's civilization benefited greatly from the flow of this information.
Remains at this site have revealed a circular stone wall, paved areas, and remnants of column bases. We can only surmise that a pole displaying the image of the Neter may have stood in the center of this space, whilst at its base were ceremonial platforms and around the courtyard were workshops for a variety of craftsmen. The central shrine looks to consist of three rooms, with four huge timber pillars making up the fac?ade and colored mats serving as the walls.
With regard to the relationship between Horus and Set, we need to be aware of the dynamics of the relationship between the Neters and their embodiment of balanced rulership within the Two Lands. There has been great debate about whether there is a historical basis to the Horus-Set struggle enshrined within Egyptian mythology. Some authorities see it as a predynastic power struggle between the tribal leaders of Upper Egypt (followers of Horus) and those of Lower Egypt (followers of Set). Once unification had occurred, Horus reigned supreme as national deity, and history was rewritten by the victors many decades later.
We may be familiar with the tales of Horus, son of Isis, and the titanic battle with his uncle Set for the throne of Egypt, so we shall not enter into its recounting here.
Have we come any nearer to even understanding this Neter? Perhaps? Or perhaps not. As an embodiment of divine and human kingship, Horus emanates measured calm, deep wisdom, and immense strength. He is a warrior king embodying the power and beauty of an ancient, ancient civilization, one who is capable of great ferocity in defense, but it is a controlled force, wasting nothing, focused and direct. Equally he is wise in the ways of kingship, one who is utterly trustworthy and speaks words of Truth.
It is to our discredit that our perceptions of this most ancient and august of Neters appears not to shift too far from the image of the Osirian child. That may be so, Pilgrim, but you are blessed with free will; seek the truth behind the illusionary truths that confront you.
Excerpted from Pathworking with the Egyptian Gods, by Judith Page and Jan A. Malique.
Judith Page is a well known artist specializing in representations of Egyptian pantheon groups with a strong emphasis on astronomy. Her work has been featured on the covers of numerous magazines and books. Visit her ...


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Venezuelan Know-How Fuels Rise Of Colombian Oil
Nearly a decade ago, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez fired 20,000 striking oil workers, many in highly specialized areas who had years of experience.
Venezuelan oil production has since fallen, and those banished oil workers are helping boost oil production in other countries, including one new oil frontier, Colombia.
On a recent day on Colombia's southern plains, the oil fields run by Pacific Rubiales, the country's biggest private oil producer, were a hive of activity.
Oil rigs noisily drilled, while nearby, thousands of workers paved roads, installed pipelines and built huge oil tanks. Across 700 sun-baked square miles, they are fixated on one objective: producing more oil to add to the quarter-million barrels pumped each day.
We knew that that oil was here because we understand very well all the geology here in South America.
It's a far different place than it was a few years ago, when Marxist guerrillas targeted oil installations and oil production in Colombia barely topped 14,000 barrels daily. Then, the Venezuelans came. One of them was Ronald Pantin, now chief executive of Pacific Rubiales.
"We knew that that oil was here because we understand very well all the geology here in South America," he said. "We bought the Rubiales field, and now you see what has happened."
In 2002, Venezuela's oil workers were on the front lines of huge protests against Chavez, that country's fiery leftist leader.
Chavez got the upper hand and purged dissident workers from the state oil company. Pantin, a former executive at the company, was among those who had previously quit. But his colleagues — many with a quarter-century of experience — were among those fired.
"[Chavez] fired knowledge. And then you had this diaspora of Venezuelans going everywhere — to Canada, Colombia, the Arab countries, everywhere, people with pretty good experience in the oil sector," Pantin says.
Similar Geology
Hundreds landed in Colombia. The fact that the country was largely unexplored was attractive to Venezuelan oilmen like Humberto Calderon, who founded Vetra Energy with other Venezuelans.
Calderon knew Colombia shared some of the same geological formations as his homeland. He says two other factors helped attract wildcatters: security policies that weakened the rebels and favorable financial terms that lured investors.
"The conditions were here, the opportunities to grow here were present, and at the same time we feel very well-protected, that any political interference wouldn't come here to affect us," he says.
Colombia's gain has been Venezuela's loss: That country had once been the world's fifth-largest exporter; now, it's down to 11th place. And in Colombia, production rose from just over 500,000 barrels a day in 2005 to nearly 1 million barrels today. Most of the oil is exported, and the biggest recipient is the United States.
A quarter of the production is in the southern plains, where helicopters ferry oil workers from one end of the Rubiales field to the other. There's a school, a hotel and streets of prefabricated housing for workers. German Hernandez, a Colombian who oversees oil operations in the area, remembers a far different place a decade back when he first arrived.
There were fewer than 20 workers, he says, and they lived in tents.
Today, Hernandez says, it's the country's biggest oil field.
The goal for this company, he says proudly, is to double its production to half a million barrels a day in five years.
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NEW ORLEANS — — Ravens veteran free safety Ed Reed has never embraced a conventional approach.
So the Louisiana native wasn't keen on the idea of retiring after a Super Bowl victory in front of his family and friends.
Following the Ravens' 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Reed declared in the locker room emphatically that he has more football left in him.
"This is not it," Reed shouted. "This is not it. I'm not done."
Reed, 34, has battled multiple health issues, including a torn shoulder labrum and a nerve impingement.
Brandishing a huge unlit cigar in his mouth, the St. Rose, La., native said he's more than likely to keep playing the game as long as his body cooperates.
"It's all about right now," Reed said. "I'll reassess things the way I always do and we'll tune in and get back to you all. It's all about the moment. I'm not even thinking about this. I love this game. If I'm able to do it, I'll be doing it."
Reed intercepted 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the first half.
"He overthrew it," Reed said. "Corey Graham did a great job on the backside by discouraging and making him throw it behind Randy. He threw it too high. I'm just happy to catch it, man."
For Reed, this marks a perfect ending to the season.
The Destrehan High product takes an immense amount of pride in being from the New Orleans area.
"To do it for the hometown, in the hometown, to do it for Baltimore — there can't be a better feeling than that," Reed said. "I'm blessed and grateful. I'm just so grateful."
Reed said he's not done having fun. He has plans to celebrate here in New Orleans.
"This season, man I'm ready to kick my feet up, but I can't," Reed said. "I'm ready for [New Orleans brass band] Rebirth. Ready to second-line all the way up Poydras [Street], man. We about to walk all the way back to the hotel like we do it in New Orleans."
Reed's younger brother, Brian Reed, died two years ago after jumping into the Mississippi River. Brian Reed had battled mental illness.
"It's bittersweet because we have been through a lot," Reed said. "Been through a lot as men. Been through a lot as a team."
Success for Kruger, Ellerbe
Relentlessly chasing down elusive San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the Super Bowl, Ravens outside linebacker Paul Kruger displayed the pass-rushing form expected to make him a prized free agent.
Kruger's combination of athleticism and aggressiveness allowed him to deck Kaepernick in the first quarter of the Ravens' 34-31 win Sunday night for a loss of 10 yards at the Ravens' 18-yard line to hold the 49ers to a field goal.
It was the first of two sacks for Kruger in the first half at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
With his rookie contract expiring after the game, Kruger is a pending unrestricted free agent who might be too expensive for the Ravens to retain.
With a career-high nine sacks during the regular season and an additional 4.5 sacks in the postseason, the 2009 second-round draft pick has built a niche as a situational pass rusher. Kruger could command a multiyear contract in the range of $35 million to $40 million.
"The Ravens know I want to come back," Kruger told The Baltimore Sun. "My focus is on the Super Bowl, and the chips will fall where they may.
"I don't know what else I can do. I just have to let it happen and let my agent do his job. I would love to be here, but it's not up to me."
Kruger said he won't allow himself to get stressed out by his unresolved status heading into the offseason.
"I've never been through the process before," Kruger said. "I don't know what to expect. I'm sure I will pull my hair out a little bit at first, but this is a good problem to have."
Kruger recently fired his previous representation and hired California-based agent David Dunn. Dunn has represented several other Ravens players, including former tight end Todd Heap.
"I think he's a really good agent; he's been great so far," Kruger said. "I'm very upbeat about everything. He's accustomed to dealing with the Ravens, so that's good."
Another pending Ravens free agent had a strong showing in the Super Bowl. Starting inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe had four solo tackles, including one for a loss, in the first half.
Ellerbe would prefer to remain in Baltimore, and that's a possibility with Ray Lewis' retirement.
"It's a business, but I would love to be here," Ellerbe said. "Baltimore is where I got my start, but it's not up to me. It's out of my control. The Ravens know how I feel. I hope we can work something out."
Fake field goal fails
The Ravens' decision to attempt a fake field goal in the first half backfired in a major way.
A direct snap from Morgan Cox to rookie kicker Justin Tucker failed to generate a first down as Tucker was tackled shy of the marker.
Instead of picking up three points on a chip-shot field goal, the Ravens saw their aggressiveness work against them.
Before the sequence, the Ravens had been sharp in the red zone.
In the playoffs, the Ravens had scored touchdowns on 10 consecutive red-zone scoring opportunities before the trick play.
Flacco on fire
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco had a stellar first half, displaying a precise passing touch.
He threw three touchdown passes with no interceptions, giving him 11 scoring passes in the postseason to tie with Joe Montana and Kurt Warner for the most in the playoffs in one season.
Accurate and calm, the low-key New Jersey native connected on 13 of 20 passes for 192 yards for a 135.8 quarterback rating.
He delivered touchdown passes to tight end Dennis Pitta and wide receivers Anquan Boldin and Jacoby Jones.
The 56-yard score by Jones, in which he beat cornerback Chris Culliver — who launched a controversy last week with anti-gay remarks on comedian Artie Lange's radio program — was the longest play the 49ers' defense has allowed this season.
Tempers flare
It got chippy in the second quarter with a series of fights breaking out and offsetting personal fouls given to cornerback Corey Graham and 49ers offensive tackle Joe Staley.
Ravens cornerback Cary Williams lost his temper, going after 49ers fullback Bruce Miller. Williams shoved an official, who was trying to restrain him, away in an effort to get more shots in on Miller.
Williams was fortunate to not be ejected.
E. Reed ties playoff record
In his home state of Louisiana, with family and friends cheering on every move, Ravens veteran free safety Ed Reed was eager to put on a show.
After leaving the game to go to the locker room for examination of an undisclosed injury, Reed made his presence felt in the second quarter when he intercepted an overthrown pass by Kaepernick.
The interception was the ninth of Reed's playoff career, tying the former NFL Defensive Player of the Year for the most in NFL history with Ronnie Lott, Bill Simpson and Charlie Waters.
Picked on
Lewis Ray Lewisshowed his age in the first half.
The 37-year-old struggled to keep up with former Maryland tight end Vernon Davis as he made four receptions for 72 yards by halftime.
At his advanced age for a football player, pass coverage is no longer Lewis' forte. Lewis had surrendered 30 completions in 40 attempts in his direction for 373 yards, no touchdowns and a 103.4 quarterback rating before the Super Bowl, according to Pro Football Focus. Lewis allowed an average of 12.4 yards per reception during the regular season and the first three playoff games.
Healthy squad
Every regular starter was active Sunday night for the Ravens. That included Ellerbe (toe, back, sprained right ankle) and Pitta (inner thigh).
The Ravens scratched rookie cornerback Asa Jackson, safety Omar Brown, cornerback Chris Johnson, outside linebacker Adrian Hamilton, offensive guard Ramon Harewood, wide receiver Deonte Thompson and defensive tackle Bryan Hall.
The Ravens had full participation in practice all week, and everyone was listed as probable on the final injury report.
49ers starting linebackers Aldon Smith (shoulder) and linebacker Ahmad Brooks (shoulder) were both active.
Ogden in the house
Former Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden, who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, had a role with the team before the Super Bowl.
He was an honorary game captain for the AFC champions and at the 50-yard line for the coin toss.
"I think the Ravens are a team of destiny," Ogden told The Baltimore Sun. "We have an excellent shot to win this thing."
Turnover kings
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The forced fumble by rookie outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw, who knocked the football out of running back LaMichael James' hands, marked the ninth turnover the Ravens have forced this postseason, with Reed's interception boosting the total to 10.
The fumble was recovered by defensive end Arthur Jones.
The Ravens have forced an NFL-high 38 turnovers in the playoffs since 2008.
End zone
The 49ers deactivated quarterback Scott Tolzien, safety Trenton Robinson, running back Jewel Hampton, defensive tackle Tony Jerod-Eddie, offensive lineman Joe Looney, linebacker Cam Johnson and defensive tackle Ian Williams. ... Former Ravens running back Ricky Williams was on the field with the team before the game. ... Vince Papale, the former Philadelphia Eagles special teams contributor who was portrayed in the movie "Invincible," was hanging out at the Ravens' team hotel all week. Papale said he likes the Ravens' hard-hitting style. "These are real tough guys," said Papale, a friend of former Baltimore Colts safety Bruce Laird's.... A chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., which was struck by a tragedy in a mass shooting in December, joined Jennifer Hudson on the field to perform an emotional rendition of "America the Beautiful" before kickoff. The chorus is made up of third- and fourth-graders whose music teacher has taught at Sandy Hook for a decade. They released the following statement: "Our wish is to demonstrate to America and the world that 'we are Sandy Hook and we choose love.'" ... Belting out a popular series of her signature songs, Beyonce performed to heavy applause during the halftime show. She brought down the house with "Crazy in Love."


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The Ottawa Senators have avoided arbitration with Mark Stone, signing the winger to a one-year deal worth US$7.35 million on Friday.
The deal came the same day the team and the restricted free agent were set to have a hearing to determine the player's contract for the 2018-19 season.
Stone had reportedly asked for $9 million in arbitration, while the team countered at $5 million.
The 26-year-old from Winnipeg, who can become an unrestricted free agent next summer, tied for the Senators' lead with 62 points in a lost 2017-18 campaign.
Ottawa and defenceman Cody Ceci had an arbitration hearing on Wednesday, with the player reportedly asking for $6 million, and the club coming in at $3.35 million. A decision was expected later Friday.
Stone has scored at least 20 goals in each of his four full NHL seasons, and registered a career-high 42 assists last year.
His 381 takeaways since the start of 2014-15 rank him first in the NHL, 84 more than the next closest player.
Selected by the Senators 178th overall at the 2010 draft, Stone has 249 points (95 goals, 154 assists) in 307 NHL games.
Stone, who made $3.5 million in each of the last three seasons, also has five goals and eight assists in his 27 career games.
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Saint Paul Winter Carnival Ice Fishing Tournament
January 1, 2021 @ 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
An event every day that begins at 12:00 PM, repeating until February 7, 2021
Welcome Minnesota Anglers & prepare your tackle for our month+ long fishing tournament! Save the date for our month+ long digital ice fishing tournament through the FishDonkey Mobile App, launching January 1st and running through the end of carnival, Feb. 7th, 2021.
- King of Winter Largest Walleye – length
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- Largest Bass – length
- Largest Crappie – length
- Largest Sunfish – length
- Largest Perch – length
- Grand Slam of Panfish – measured by the total length of 3 fish 1 crappie, 1 sunfish and 1 perch
- Winter Carnival Super Fan – random chosen winner – must have 2021 Winter Carnival button in photo
- Kids fish – 12 and under category – any fish entered has a chance to win awesome prizes
- Wildcard – Any other fish including sturgeon, Musky, rough fish – length
Categories and leaderboards will update throughout the contest, so check the leaderboards on your phone or on the website to follow the tournament progress.
Eligible fish are limited to all Minnesota public waters to get the whole State of Minnesota participating in Winter Carnival.
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- Zune and iPod: Most people caprome the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It's very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker.


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Huygens Probe
The Huygens Probe was part of the joint ESA-NASA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon, Titan.
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Mass: 701 lbs.
Major Instruments:
Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument
Doppler Wind Experiment, Descent Imager
Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer
Aerosol Collector
Surface Science Package
Program Managers:
European Space Agency
Italian Space Agency
Launched: October 15, 1997, aboard a Titan IV-B from Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral AFS
Deployed at Titan: Spacecraft separation, December 25, 2004; landing, January 14, 2005
Manufacturer: Thales Alenia Space (then Aerospatiale)
Model Scale: Actual size
The Huygens Probe was part of the joint ESA-NASA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon, Titan. Huygens was carried to the Saturnian system aboard the Cassini spacecraft, which continued to study Saturn after launching Huygens into the dense atmosphere of Titan. The main Huygens mission, a parachute descent through Titan's atmosphere, revealed a dense cloud atmosphere at the surface, about 20 kilometers thick, and a muddy landing site featuring chunks of water ice swimming in a haze of methane. Titan's weather is believed to feature torrential downpours and flash flooding, interspersed with decades or centuries of drought; surface features include boulder fields, sand or clay swamps and numerous hydrocarbon lakes and seas.
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Hold inhaler upright: Step 2
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Tilt head back and breathe out: Step 3
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Position the inhaler: Step 4
There are two ways to position the inhaler when using it without a spacer. You can place the inhaler in your mouth. Or you can hold the inhaler 1 in. (2.5 cm) to 2 in. (5.0 cm) in front of your open mouth, without closing your lips over it. This method may be better for getting the medicine into your lungs. But some people may find this too hard to do.
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If you need to take a second dose, wait 30 to 60 seconds to allow the inhaler valve to refill.
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When I was a little kid, I loved to play for days dressing up and creating makeover for my dolls. There were a lot of paper dolls in the shops with different accessories. I had no PC and web, because of that Barbie games were less versatile than fashion games are in the modern world. I remember that there were various combinations a kid could put on the Barbie doll when choosing dress and style. I had six dolls, which were really popular those times. Parents didn't purchase more than 4 usual dolls for their children, so the plastic Barbie has become an exceptionally popular thing. However a very sad fact was that kids played a lot, and the dolls deteriorated quite fast.
There were also classic Barbie dolls which were extremely desirable dolls for girls when I was a kid. We used to have fun with dress up with our dolls for hours and I never got bored of playing. I know that dress up games is still a very interesting activity for your daughter today, and if your personal computer is connected to the World Wide Web, it becomes more and more wonderful. Exist multiple interesting things you can do while using your PC, I will try to describe some later.
Online paper dolls – There are various characters online to make virtual dolls of. You just need to print the character and cut. In the case that you dislike Barbie, or your daughters got bored with it, your daughters can choose from a great variety of other personages, like the Piter Pen. For example, you and your daughter can dress up Sister Bear . Your daughter can select new outfits for them, print the outfits and after that create the style for the bear.
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We're sure the new Barbie games can be very interesting. Your kids can now create style for thousands of dolls for hours and never get bored. However when you remember about it, there was something special about those classic dolls. This was so wonderful after little girls dressed plastic dolls up.
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BEIRUT — Syrian government troops and Hezbollah militia took control on Sunday of the strategic town of Yabroud near the border with Lebanon, a major blow to rebel forces in eastern Syria who are now effectively cut off from fighters near Damascus as well as rebel-held areas to the north.
With nowhere else to flee, rebels crossed into Lebanon, raising the prospect of fighting there between rebels and their Lebanese supporters in the town of Arsal on one side and the Lebanese army and fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on the other. Syrian government aircraft were reported to have struck retreating rebels and refugees along the border.
Syrian state television and Lebanese channels with close ties to Hezbollah, which committed hundreds of fighters to the push against Yabroud, reported the city's capture, with Syrian television announcing that the operation had "returned security and stability to the town of Yabrud and its surroundings in northern Damascus province."
Yabroud is the largest city in Qalamoun, a mountainous region along the Syria-Lebanon border that once linked rebels fighting in Damascus with pro-rebel safe havens in Lebanon. It had served as a hub for rebel activity against both the government of President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah. Lebanese authorities have blamed militants in Yabroud for manufacturing car bombs that have repeatedly struck pro-Hezbollah neighborhoods in Beirut since last summer.
Because of the Qalamoun's strategic position linking the pro-rebel Lebanese town of Arsal with the rest of the Syrian battlefield, the government's months-long campaign has been treated as strategically important by both sides. Hezbollah committed hundreds of its well-trained fighters while rebels set aside their differences to welcome sizable detachments of al-Qaida-linked fighters from the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, who have been fighting one another elsewhere in Syria.
The fall of Yabroud followed the government recapture last year of the town of Qusayr and a successful campaign to take rebel-held districts in both Hama and Homs provinces to the north.
A Lebanese military source said the Lebanese army was preparing for an influx of fighters fleeing Yabroud. Arsal is already filled with tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
"We were expecting the fall of Yabroud this weekend," the military official said on the condition of anonymity because he lacks permission to talk to the foreign reporters. "We have moved special forces troops and tanks into place. Because of the terrain, we cannot stop the terrorists from entering Arsal but we can try and keep them from entering the rest of Lebanon."
The official confirmed both a series of air strikes and the clash with the Lebanese army.
"The Syrian air force is hitting areas we know they use to move between Lebanon and Qalamoun and have killed or wounded dozens of (rebels)," he said. "And terrorists did attempt to attack an army patrol. We expect many more attacks like this in the Arsal region now."
The news that Yabroud had fallen was greeted with relief, the distribution of candies and heavy celebratory gunfire in Beirut's pro-Hezbollah neighborhoods in the southern suburbs, which have been living under extreme security measures after about dozen suicide bombings targeted the area in recent months.
"People are happy because they think the car bombs will stop hitting us now," said Abu Ibrahim, a Shiite resident of southern Beirut with close ties to Hezbollah. "They are handing out sweets, shooting in the air and hoping that this means their people and families will stop dying."
A Hezbollah military commander, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons, said the "high price" for Yabroud was worth it because the operation will make both Beirut and Shiite villages in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley safer from the radical Islamists of the Nusra Front and ISIS, who consider Shiites to be apostates and traitors for fighting alongside Assad.
"We left a clear path for them to retreat to Arsal, the strategy has been to cut off that pocket from both Syria and Lebanon," he said. "Now the Lebanese government needs to make the proper decision and clear Arsal of these gunmen and terrorists."
But with a very weak Lebanese government starkly divided between supporters and opponents of the rebels, finding a political consensus on action against Arsal will be difficult.
"We know many of Lebanon's leaders are aligned with these terrorists," he said, referring to the Sunni political bloc that makes little effort to avoid open support for the rebels. "The army will have to be strong."
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I've made this swimsuit too many times to count. The first time I made it was in 2009 when my girls were four and I sized down the pattern to a size three (skinny kids). Now, I'm making the size seven (seven! how did they get so big?). The version I have only goes to size 7 but I was lucky enough last year to stumble across the larger version too so now I can make lovely swimsuits al the way to size 14. This is a great Speedo-like swimsuit. There is a second version with contrast panels. I've never made that but I think it would be great if I could find some contrasting fabric that looks good together.
I made four swimsuits; two, one-piece suits and two, two-piece suits. I was afraid they would be too big because the girls are a bit on the small side and not yet seven. Here are awesome Vogue poses. I covered their faces because there are some weirdo creepers out there. I bought this fabric a long time ago from eBay.
Weirdo Pose #2
The twinleys love them. We had Swimsuit Dance Party.
Weirdo Pose #3
The two-piece version seems to cover everything nicely.
I used my sewing machine to do all the stitching because the serger threads seem to break all the time and the zig-zag stitches seem to never break.
We are gearing up for our March cruise!!!! I need some swimsuits too!!!!!


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For almost a decade in the 1980s, Richmond, Virginia's Orthotonics constructed and performed a unique catalog of music that could be appreciated for both its inventive complexity and its ability put party people on the dance floor.
Early on, famed DJ, John Peel, discovered and showcased their music on his show in London, and by the time they were finishing their first LP, "Wake Up You Must Remember" in 1984, they'd attracted the attention of guitarist/improviser Fred Frith, who assisted the band in producing and mixing that album and its follow-up, "Luminous Bipeds," two years later.
Though their catalog is small, the music contained in these recordings displays an impressive conceptual range and virtuosity, while suggesting too, that the band developed a particular method of group composition that was refined through constant "woodshedding" and always included room for spontaneous improvisation.
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Freddy Milton was born in Viborg, in Jutland, Denmark. His first comics work was the realistic police strip 'Zenit', that he made with his brother Ingo for newspaper Jyllandsposten in 1972. Milton's real career took of in 1974, when he worked for the Swedish publisher Semic Press. He restored old newspaper comics and drew the Sherlock Holmes parody 'Sheerluck Homes' for Seriemagasinet. Most of his work of the time appeared in his own fanzine Sejd however, which he published between 1973 and 1979. In this fanzine, he created his famous 'Familien Gnuff' from 1974 to 1978. During this period, he also founded the fanzine Carl Barks & Co., in honour of the famous Duck artist.
In 1975, he teamed up with the Dutch artist Daan Jippes and began a collaboration with the Dutch publisher Oberon and the magazine Donald Duck, which lasted until 1982. Milton moved to Copenhagen in 1980, and besides his Disney work, he did translation jobs for Semic. For Interpresse, he made two albums with the Walter Lantz character 'Woody Woodpecker' ('Søren Spætte'), and later produced many Woodpecker stories for the Søren Spætte monthly. In this magazine, he also took on the 'Gnuff' series again. Several 'Woody Woodpecker' and 'Gnuff' albums have appeared since 1985.
Milton developed his own style of social criticism in his stories, especially in his adult comics 'Villiams Verden' (1982), 'Villiams andere Verden' (1984) and the album series 'Dekalog over Janteloven' (a comic adaptation of the Ten Commandments). In the second half of the 1980s, Milton produced successul "roll game books", like 'Hvem Myrdede Kock-Robin' ('Who Killed Kock Robin?'), 'Drøje Dage i Jobjunglen' ('Tough Days in the Job Jungle'), 'Jagten på den Vise Sten' ('The Hunt for Wise Sten') and 'Video eller Virkelighed?' ('Video or Reality?'). In addition, Milton cooperated with the LEGO company on a couple of albums, which were published in Germany as 'Burg Donnerstein'.
In 1995, Milton began the humourous Viking series 'Svend, Knud & Valdemar' in the monthly scouting magazine Glimt. In 1997 he returned to the funny animal style when he adapted K.H. Wieth's children's story 'Musebogen' into comic book format. Milton continued to draw Duck comics for Holland, without Jippes, throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, sometimes with his own scipts.


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Here in my neck of the woods, it's the weekend before the start of classes. At my house, life got frantic this week as my wife, a high school language arts teacher, returned to work.
It's about to get really busy if you are at all involved in education. As you gear up in whatever way that you do, I selfishly wanted to jot down a few reminders that I'd be telling myself if I were about to get started.
First. I hope you take lots of risks for the sake of learning this year. Not just for your students, but also for you. Make it a goal to try to learn something in a sustained and meaningful way that has little to do with your classroom life. I've been trying to learn photography this year, and while I'm nowhere close to proficient, it has been helpful to be in the mindset of a learner who's struggling. That's how many of our students feel everyday.
It doesn't have to be a big risk that you always take – take little ones, too. Ask the question that you're hesitant to ask. Share the writing you're doing with your students. Volunteer to do the silly dance at the assembly. Just challenge yourself a little bit every now and then. We rise to the challenge when we're pushed. But it's easy to forget to reach.
Try very hard not to work all the time. I suck at this, at turning off my work brain and focusing on being a dad or a husband or "just a dude reading the paper at the corner coffee shop," but I recognize the value of being at rest and at play, of knowing that it's better to let small work things go in the name of preserving long term relationships. You CAN be that hero teacher that everyone loves and is in awe of, but only for a little while. Then, you burn out and fade away and don't do anyone any good at all.
You need no one's permission to postpone a due date or modify an assignment for the benefit of a student, or to delay some grading for the benefit of yourself or your family. All will be right with the world if you're a day late, so long as you had a reason.
Be an expert when you need to be. Be a learner always. You are probably the most experienced learner in your classroom. But don't assume you're the most knowledgable person or object. If you've a computer handy, then you're not. Embrace that. Relationships and mentoring cannot be outsourced or Googled. They take time and genuine concern.
Model always what you want your students to do. You and your behaviors and habits, no matter how much you might wish otherwise, are a curriculum of sorts, perhaps THE curriculum.
Be humble, but fight like crazy for your students.
Have at all times, as Geoff Powell says, "a healthy respect for young people."
Work on your crap detector. Teach your students to develop theirs. Read and write lots. Let your students make meaningful choices in their learning. Hold them accountable for the choices they make, good or bad.
And share the good stuff. Your stories are all human ones, and they are all special, just as each one of you, and each of your students, is special. There is always someone curious about what you're up to.
You'll have nervous days and scared days and failure days. But you'll also have "yes" days. Write about, reflect upon, and learn from all of them, but build a special place to keep a record of the "yes" ones. Return to it when you need a boost on some of the not-so-good days.
I wish you well. I ask you to be brave and humble and kind and tenacious and wise and caring and gentle and fierce. We so need you to do well. And there are lots of folks out there who want to help. Do good stuff.


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The following instructions will show you how to make the fonts on your TinyMCE editor a little bigger than the default 10px. If your eyes are not as good mine, then you may need to increase the fonts to something a little bit more legible. Font sizes bigger than 12px would do.
If you are not familiar with TinyMCE, it's a popular web-based text editor used by many web applications, CMS and blogging software. WordPress uses TinyMCE editor as well, which is the blogging software for this blog. Now, if you need to increase the size of the text in the textarea, then you will need to edit the several themes that came with TinyMCE.
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Oil Spills that Do Not Need to be Reported
Properly Functioning Vessel Engines
Discharges of oil from a properly functioning vessel engine are not deemed to be harmful, therefore they do not need to be reported under the Discharge of Oil Regulation. However, oil accumulated in a vessel's bilge is not exempt.
Research and Development Releases
The EPA Administrator may permit the discharge of oil on a case-by-case basis in connection with:
- research,
- demonstration projects, or
- studies relating to the prevention, control, or abatement of oil pollution.
However, the Discharge of Oil Regulation specifically forbids the use of dispersants or emulsifiers to circumvent the discharge regulations.
NPDES-Permitted Releases
Three types of discharges subject to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) are exempt from oil spill reporting:
- Discharges in compliance with a permit under section 402 of the Clean Water Act, when the permit contains:
- either an effluent limitation specifically applicable to oil, or
- an effluent limitation applicable to another parameter that has been designated as an indicator of oil;
- Discharges resulting from circumstances identified and reviewed and made part of the public record with respect to a permit issued or modified under section 402 of the Clean Water Act, and subject to a condition in such permit. This exclusion addresses situations where the source, nature, and amount of a potential oil discharge was identified, and a treatment system capable of preventing that discharge was made a permit requirement.
- For example, if a discharger has a drainage system that will route spilled oil from a broken hose connection to a holding tank for subsequent treatment and discharge, the treatment system must be sufficient to handle the maximum potential spill from that source. Spills larger than those contemplated in the public record are not exempted; and
- Continuous or anticipated intermittent discharges from a point source, identified in a permit or permit application under section 402 of the Clean Water Act, which are caused by events occurring within the scope of relevant operating or treatment systems. This exclusion applies to chronic or anticipated intermittent discharges originating in the manufacturing or treatment systems of a facility or vessel, including those caused by periodic system failures.
- Discharges caused by spills or episodic events that release oil to the manufacturing or treatment systems are not exempt from reporting.
Discharges Permitted Under MARPOL
Certain discharges beyond the territorial seas (defined as extending three miles seaward from the coast) are allowed if they are permitted under international law. The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), as amended, prohibits the discharge of oily mixtures (defined as mixtures with any oil content) from a tanker except when all of the following conditions are met:
- the tanker is proceeding en route,
- the tanker is more than 50 miles from the nearest land,
- the instantaneous rate of discharge does not exceed 60 liters per mile, and
- the total quantity of oil discharged in any ballast voyage does not exceed 1/15,000 of the total cargo carrying capacity.
In addition, MARPOL allows discharges in quantities verified by a monitoring system to be less than or equal to 15 ppm, regardless of whether the discharge causes a sheen. Therefore, discharges permitted under MARPOL into waters seaward of the territorial sea are exempt from U.S. oil spill notification requirements. Such discharges may include the operational discharge of limited quantities of oil-water mixtures from ships.


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Greenland-Scotland Ridge, he has become increasingly involved in the
more difficult challenge of explaining science to policy-makers and
marine managers through the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership
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Nintendo 3DS hits US March 27 for $249.99
Nintendo has announced pricing and availability for the Nintendo 3DS. The company has already confirmed that there will be over thirty games announced for the console between the 3DS' launch and E3 2011; now we know the 3DS will hit the US on March 27, priced at $249.99.
Preloaded on the 3DS will be an activity log, pedometer app, Mii Maker for creating 3D avatars and Face Raiders. There'll also be AR games – which will work with the bundled AR cards – and internet browser, 3D video player and an audio player. Nintendo will offer Gameboy and Gameboy Color titles, together with demos, through the Nintendo eShop.
In Europe, Nintendo has partnered with Eurosport to bring 3D sport videos to the 3DS, as well as Sky 3D for short 3D clips on the handheld. There'll also be Aardman content featuring Shawn the Sheep in 3D for the 3DS, a series of one-minute shorts accessed via SpotPass by the end of 2011.
The Nintendo 3DS will be available in aqua blue and obsidian black. In the US, it will launch on March 27 2011 priced at $249.99.
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Nintendo 3DS Brings a Dimensional Shift to the World of Entertainment on March 27
Glasses-Free 3D Gaming System Comes Packed with Features at Suggested Retail Price of $249.99
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The company that changed the world of video games with touch-screen gaming in 2004 and motion-controlled gaming in 2006 now pioneers the next dimensional shift. On March 27, Nintendo introduces portable entertainment in 3D – without the need for special glasses. The Nintendo 3DS™ system will be available in either Cosmo Black or Aqua Blue, and will have a suggested retail price of $249.99. Pricing outside the United States will be established by the local markets, but offer similar consumer value.
"Nintendo 3DS is a category of one – the experience simply doesn't exist anywhere else," said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. "You have to see Nintendo 3DS to believe it. And it's like nothing you've ever seen before."
Nintendo 3DS includes two screens. The bottom touch screen makes use of a telescoping stylus that is stored in the unit itself. The top screen displays 3D visuals to the naked eye. Looking at the screen is like peering through a window into a world where characters and objects have true depth. The system also has a 3D Depth Slider that lets players select the level of 3D they enjoy the most. The 3D effect can be ratcheted up to the highest level, scaled back to a more moderate setting or even turned off completely, depending on the preference of the user.
In addition to the familiar + Control Pad and button controls found on previous Nintendo hand-helds, Nintendo 3DS now also includes a Circle Pad, which provides a full 360 degrees of direction, giving it the freedom and precision needed to play games in 3D worlds. It brings the same degree of responsiveness that gamers enjoyed when Nintendo introduced an analog control stick to navigate Mario™ through Super Mario 64™ on the Nintendo 64™ system.
A built-in motion sensor and gyro sensor can react to the motion and tilt of the system, so whether players are twisting their systems side to side or moving them up and down, their motion-compatible Nintendo 3DS games respond instantly. No other system includes so many tools for game developers to create new and fun experiences for players.
Two features will allow owners to stay connected in new ways. Both deliver bonus content to owners as they move around during their daily lives, so users might open up their systems at any moment to find new surprises. For owners who choose to activate it, the StreetPass™ feature is capable of exchanging game information with other Nintendo 3DS systems as owners pass one another. Small packets of information can be exchanged using this data-transfer method, such as Mii™ character data, maps for games or high scores and custom character data for different games. The SpotPass™ feature can connect to compatible public hotspots and through a wireless broadband Internet connection at home, even if the system is in Sleep Mode. Once connected, the Nintendo 3DS system will receive new content and updates on a regular basis.
Each Nintendo 3DS system comes pre-loaded with a variety of fun games, applications and features, such as Nintendo 3DS Camera. Nintendo 3DS has three cameras. One camera points at the user, while two additional cameras point outward. These two outer cameras take photos in 3D. The fun, built-in game Face Raiders™ asks users to shoot at funny depictions of their own faces. Nintendo 3DS, when put into Sleep Mode, can act as a pedometer, while letting users earn Play Coins for the steps they take that can then be traded in for additional content in compatible games and applications. By accessing the Activity Log, users can check their steps as well as their play time. With Nintendo 3DS Sound, users can enjoy sound-manipulation tools or rock out while listening to their MP3 or AAC music files. An upgraded Internet browser will also be available via a system update.
The Mii Maker™ application gives users new tools to create Mii™ characters even more easily: Users can either import Mii characters from their Wii systems using an SD memory card or use the camera to take a picture of a person and have an automatic Mii character created. Users can even save their Mii characters to an SD card as pictures, which enables them to be used any way a digital photo would for personal use, such as a profile picture on social-networking sites.
The Nintendo eShop, through a system update, will offer access to downloadable games, including Nintendo DSiWare™ and ones specifically made for Nintendo 3DS. Also, just as the Virtual Console service on Wii makes retro games available for download, the Virtual Console games on Nintendo 3DS will be pulled from classic Game Boy™ and Game Boy Color games. Players will be able to view game videos, download demos for select games and see how other consumers rated the games. The Nintendo eShop will use a cash-based system. Users can either input credit card information in the shop or purchase a Nintendo 3DS Prepaid Card at retail locations.
Nintendo 3DS comes with six augmented-reality cards, called AR cards. When the two outer cameras are pointed at the cards, they read the cards and superimpose images and animations onto the scene. So users shouldn't be surprised if they see a dragon popping out of their kitchen tables. Developers can also use this technology to add creative new experiences to their games.
Built-in parental controls can be used to limit Internet access or some of the wireless functions. By using a PIN code, parents also can turn off the 3D function altogether, or limit the ratings of the games that their kids can play.
Fans of online play will be happy to learn that the friend codes for Nintendo 3DS are specific to each Nintendo 3DS system, not each game. Once friends trade hardware codes, at any time they can check their friends list to see which of their friends are online and what they are playing.
Nintendo 3DS can also play Nintendo DS game cards with their original 2D visuals. The system also includes a slot for an SD memory card. To help users get started, every system comes with a 2GB SD memory card (though owners can provide whatever size they like). Using a service that will be provided after the hardware's launch, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™ owners will be able to transfer games downloaded from the Nintendo DSi Shop onto their new Nintendo 3DS systems.
During the launch window (between the March 27 launch date and the E3 Expo in early June) more than 30 games will be available to Nintendo 3DS owners. These include Nintendo-created games like Pilotwings Resort™, which has players soaring acrobatically over iconic Wuhu Island; nintendogs™ + cats, a new version of the Nintendo DS classic with a feline enhancement; and Steel Diver™, a side-scrolling submarine adventure that gives the illusion that the player is peering into an aquarium. Other Nintendo 3DS games in the works include The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D, Star Fox 64™ 3D, Kid Icarus™: Uprising and new installments in the Mario Kart™, Animal Crossing™ and Paper Mario™ series.
Nintendo 3DS also enjoys some of the strongest third-party support of any system launch. A partial list of titles coming soon to Nintendo 3DS includes Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked from Atlus; Super Street Fighter® IV 3D Edition and Resident Evil®: The Mercenaries 3D from Capcom; Madden NFL Football from EA SPORTS; The Sims™ 3 from Electronic Arts; Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D from Konami; LEGO® Star Wars® III: The Clone Wars™ from LucasArts™; Ridge Racer® 3D and Dual Pen Sports™ from Namco Bandai Games America Inc.; Super Monkey Ball™ 3D, Thor™: God of Thunder and CRUSH™ 3D from SEGA; BUST-A-MOVE™ UNIVERSE from Square Enix, Inc.; Samurai Warriors® Chronicles and Dead or Alive® Dimensions from Tecmo Koei America Corp.; and Asphalt™ 3D, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Shadow Wars, Combat of Giants™: Dinosaurs 3D, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® 3D, Rayman® 3D and Rabbids® Travel in Time from Ubisoft.
For more information about Nintendo 3DS, visit http://www.nintendo3ds.com.
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 billion video games and more than 577 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company's website at http://www.nintendo.com.


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The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs 123movies, Gomovies, Fmovies.
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: George Segal, Hayley Orrantia, Jeff Garlin, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Director: Adam F. Goldberg
Studio: Adam F. Goldberg Productions, DR Productions, Happy Madison Productions, Sony Pictures Television
TV Status: Returning Series
Duration: 23 min
Release: 2013


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Israel's Heartbreaking Policy to African Asylum-Seekers
Meet Omer Olivier. Mr. Olivier is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Israel for the last seventeen years without official status. Although he has filed a request to be recognized as a refugee, his lack of recognized status means he cannot work legally nor get medical services.
And so, typically, it goes for those who claim refugee status in Israel. In recent years, there have been 4,322 applications for refugee status; according to Physicians for Human Rights, three have been processed and approved. (The figures are murky. A different report estimates between 35,000 and 38,000 asylum seekers, the vast majority of whom, knowing how slim are the odds that they will actually be processed, let alone approved as "legitimate" refugees, have not applied for asylum. Of those who have applied, less than one percent have been processed and accepted as refugees.)
The stumbling block is Israel's refusal to examine people who claim refugee status on a case-by-case basis. By Israel's preferred definition, asylum seekers are in fact infiltrators. So much for being gracious to the stranger.
I met some of these "infiltrators" in a day-care center in Tel Aviv in mid-April. They are stateless people, unable to return to Eritrea for fear of arrest and worse, unable to establish legal residence in Israel. The ones I met were four years old. Thousands more, children and adults, are housed at a massive detention facility in the Negev, which I plan to visit on my next trip to Israel.
Often, the argument put forward in defense of Israel's restrictive policy is demographic: Israel would be overrun were its doors to be opened. Indeed, Prime Minister Netanyahu has inexplicably asserted that these people are "a threat to the Jewish and democratic character of the State of Israel."
One obvious problem with this argument is that Israel is today a country with a population of more than eight million, and nowhere near the verge of being overrun, still less so were there a more thoughtful path to legal status.
Instead, Israel has determined that Eritrean and Sudanese refugees, the main asylum seekers, are simply not eligible for Refuge Status Determination, as required by the UN Convention on the Rights of Refugees, which Israel ratified on October 1, 1954. And when the terms of reference of that Convention were broadened in 1967, Israel ratified that, too, on June 14, 1968.
The Knesset Information Center acknowledges that Israel is the only developed country that uses temporary collective protection as an alternative to granting asylum on an individual basis, even though the guidelines of the UN High Commission on Refugees clearly state that granting collective protection does not relieve a country of its responsibility to guarantee basic social and economic rights to asylum seekers.
The collective "protection" currently imposed on Eritreans and Sudanese is, in effect, a deferred deportation order; those who are "protected" by it lack work permits, health insurance and welfare benefits. That means that Israel must somehow deal with the 60,000 asylum seekers in Israel who have survived the trek through Sinai, where many have been repeatedly raped or otherwise abused. Once in Israel, they congregate in poor neighborhoods where two-way resentment festers.
The problem: Israel makes the conferral of basic social rights contingent on at least legal residence. The unprocessed asylum seekers lack legal residence, hence lack access to health and social services, are cut off from all local social service frameworks, are barred from legal employment. This drives very many of them into an existence of indigency and want, renders them dependent on charity and non-profit social assistance organizations. Some women find their way to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which reports that many require gynecological attention in the wake of their experience of rape and abuse.
This is not the case in many other countries, where legal status and social benefits are de-linked. While awaiting a ruling on their legal status, asylum seekers in most developed countries enjoy many or all the social rights due a citizen. That is definitively not the case in Israel. After being detained for months or even years, they are given a document that explicitly states that they lack the legal right to work. Lacking the legal right to work, they enter the unregulated job market, where they are often underpaid and overworked and not protected by labor laws and where they are dependent on a network of volunteers for health care.
Plus: The State of Israel does not provide these people homeless shelters, which is particularly problematic for women, since sex is sometimes a precondition for being taken into an apartment.
The bitter irony here is, of course, that we might have expected that a nation shaped by the refugee experience would find humane ways to deal with today's displaced people. Israel is easy to love — but too often it breaks your heart.


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A Libyan local official says 92 prisoners have escaped from a prison in a western town due to weak security. Hassan bin Sophia, who is spokesman of the Zliten local council, said only four guards were watching 220 criminal and political detainees at the prison on Friday.
He said the prisoners asked for a doctor, and when the prison gate was opened, they attacked the guards and fled. He said 19 prisoners were soon recaptured, two of them wounded when guards opened fire. Local officials are contacting the families of the escapees to convince them to surrender. (AP)


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"Doświadczony żeglarz nie walczy z prądem ani wiatrem, ale pozwala im unosić się w obranym przez siebie kierunku."
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Salad bar and soup are recommended for wellness lunch. Ones with bigger hunger we invite straight from the road for our chefs specialties!
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… and get wild in My Spa and get luxurious during Ingrid Millet spa treatment with a glass of Champagne… or maybe you will choose moisturizing compress for regional apples or take care of your shape and get temped to be wrapped in cotton?
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"Doświadczony żeglarz nie walczy z prądem ani wiatrem, ale pozwala im unosić się w obranym przez siebie kierunku."
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Jimmy Lai Raid: Hong Kong Media Mogul Unbowed By Raid As Democracy Battle Boils
Hong Kong's most powerful critic of Beijing, a brash media tycoon whose home was raided by anti-corruption officers, said on Friday he won't be cowed by efforts to silence him ahead of a crunch decision this weekend on the city's political future.
Jimmy Lai, 65, a self-made millionaire smuggled into Hong Kong by boat as a child, has become one of the most influential magnates in greater China, standing up to an increasingly assertive China and pumping millions of his own money into a movement seeking democracy for the former British colony.
His role as the main financial patron of the pro-democracy movement since the territory's 1997 handover to Communist Party rulers in China has come under growing scrutiny.
Lai stood by on Thursday as his home in an affluent avenue in Hong Kong's Kowloon district was raided, a move some observers said was part of an intensifying campaign to smother pro-democracy forces seeking universal suffrage.
"There's no doubt it only makes us more determined. But that's all I can tell," he told Reuters. "We will slug it through. Whatever happens, it only toughens us up."
The early-morning raid came days before Beijing is expected to rule it will limit 2017 elections for Hong Kong's leader to a handful of pro-Beijing candidates, a move likely to trigger a showdown with pan-democrats who are planning an "Occupy Central" campaign to shut down the city's main business district.
The standing committee of China's parliament, the National People's Congress, is due to announce its decision on Sunday.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said in a statement it had searched three homes and the office of a lawmaker as part of a bribery investigation.
A copy of a search warrant seen by Reuters gave permission for the ICAC to look for items including bank and electronic records related to payments or donations made by Lai to officials of the center left Labour Party.
Over the 17 years since Hong Kong returned to China, Beijing has ratcheted up its control despite promises to grant the city a high degree of autonomy and eventual universal suffrage.
"Jimmy is more or less the only donor (for the democratic movement)," said Martin Lee, one of the founders of the main opposition Democratic Party.
"The intended effect (of the raid) is to scare all tycoons from giving money to the democrats, and secondly to scare people away from Occupy Central, and also distract our focus on democracy and at the same time blacken the democratic camp."
Prominent pro-establishment figure and former Hong Kong security chief Regina Ip, however, said she was confident the anti-corruption force was independent.
"People shouldn't read too much into the timing. There were complaints made and we are talking about large sums of money," Ip said, adding that any charges would play out in a fully transparent and fair legal system.
Lai owns Hong Kong-based media company Next Media Ltd, which publishes Next Magazine and the popular pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid, Hong Kong's second-most popular daily with a circulation of around 190,000.
Apple Daily says its anti-establishment stance has resulted in advertising boycotts, its website has been repeatedly hacked and tens of thousands of his newspapers have been torched at distribution points on several occasions by unknown parties.
Lai, in the latest edition of his Next Magazine, lashed out at what he described as "state-level" hacking that gained access to his banking records and other personal documents.
Lai says the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, spurred him to switch from the garment business to newspapers and once dubbed former Chinese premier Li Peng "a son of a turtle egg", a highly offensive Chinese term, for his role in the killings.
Lai founded the casual wear brand Giordano in 1981.
Apple Daily has pursued an activist agenda since the handover and is expected to play a vital role in rallying public support for the Occupy Central campaign.
"Real democracy, that's what we're fighting for," said Lai.
(Additional reporting by Yimou Lee, Clare Baldwin and Diana Chan; Writing by Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Returning to Mandolin Mondays this week we have classical mandolinist Alon Sariel with us to play this gorgeous original prelude from a recent partita he composed for mandolin. Joined by his cat and his Mintu Biswas mandolin, Alon's video is one you'll not want to miss.
If you're new to Alon's music, he's an award-winning mandolinist and lutenist originally from Beersheba, at the southern part of Israel. Now living in Hanover,
All the way from India, the amazing Tapas Roy brings us an amazing video for this week's Mandolin Mondays. Here's Tapas original composition played on his beautiful Mintu Biswas Mandolin.
Tapas Roy, is a versatile mandolin player from India. He began his musical journey with the Dotara, at the age of ten, learning from his father Pdt Paritosh Roy who was a legendary Bengali folk music composer and a renowned Dotara player.
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Cano ready to provide Dominican big boost
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Dominican Republic's chances in the World Baseball Classic will lean heavily on Robinson Cano's potent bat, and the Yankees second baseman said he can't wait to play in the tournament.
"It's always good when you can go represent your team, when you're one of the main guys that can play for the team," Cano said.
Cano said that the Dominican squad will miss the contributions from sluggers like Albert Pujols and Jose Bautista, but he is hoping to contribute a few big hits to the attack for manager Tony Pena.
"You don't have Pujols, you don't have Bautista," Cano said. "Those type of guys you don't have on your team, but it's more about your country. For me, I love the Dominican, grew up in the Dominican. Why not go now and have a chance to represent my country? I have a chance to represent my country and do my best."
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, who is playing for Team USA, is the Bombers' only other Classic participant this spring.


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Whenever a new console launches in Japan, people line up. And whenever there are lines, there's often press there taking photos. During the last several hardware launches, I was there, doing just that.
For Kotaku coverage, I always try to take as many pictures as I can at several different stores to get a better feel for how something's doing. Still, whenever you see a line of Japanese people on TV or in a magazine, don't believe it. Don't.
In Japan, lots of people waiting is typically equated with success. This is why hardware launches are such a big deal in Japan. In recent years, because of overwhelming crowds, more and more Japanese retailers are offering pre-orders, cutting down on the first day sales panic.
Paid line standers are called "sakura". Jaded as I am, seeing people waiting outside a ramen shop always makes me wonder, are these people paid shills?
According to TV news reports, around 800 fans waited. (Fuji TV)
Popular restaurants in Japan do draw lines. It's the same anywhere, really. Certainly, not every line is filled with phony customers, but there are people, such as Kinect line-stander "Butch", who claim to be professional shills.
That soft power, the ability to make people wait, transfers to the cult of celebrity. In the past, famous folks (think The Beatles) arriving at airports was a big deal. Over the years, it's become less so. The crowds that greet celebrities at the airport these days are paparazzi.
The Japanese mass media takes great interest in how many people are waiting for something. Whenever a new console launches, Famitsu always provides headcounts—usually rough estimates. Those numbers are then often picked up by Western sites, Kotaku included. This is neither a good thing or a bad one, it exists.
This doesn't look like 800 fans. (2ch)
From the reporting I've seen Famitsu numbers tend to stand up, but the TV media is often suspect. Earlier this week, a recent Fuji TV broadcast showed the arrival of South Korean female pop outfit Girls' Generation in Narita airport, stating that approximately 800 people were in line.
A photo of the line that wasn't aired showed far fewer people. "They've got one zero too many," one netizen joked.
A Japanese tabloid exposed what's apparently a sakura flier for another Korean star Jang Keun-Suk, who made his singing debut in Japan this April.
According the flier, would-be shills were offered ¥2,000 to be at the airport when Keun-Suk arrived at Narita airport on July 27. The flier requested high school girls and women up to 49 years old. Those participating would be bussed to the airport.
While initial reports said 800 people waited at the airport for Keun-Suk, apparently around 100 people apparently turned up when famed actor and singer arrived. According to the article, 80 of them were sakura. Twenty of them were Keun-Suk diehards.
Some members of the Korean media have accused the tabloid of fabrication, saying its simply another example of anti-Korean sentiment. So is it pro Korean sentiment with a TV channel says that 800 people turned up to see Girls' Generation?
The rumored flier. (2ch)
These events are PR. Just as most console launches are PR. When Microsoft held its official Xbox 360 launch in Shibuya, it said the Xbox 360 consoles sold out. It might have sold out at the one shop with assembled press, but at shops across the country, it was another story.
With the importance of bricks-and-mortar retailing on the decline, the number of people waiting in line is increasingly become less and less important. If you want to know how popular someone really is, don't look at the crowds. Check the sales numbers.
Culture Smash is a daily dose of things topical, interesting and sometimes even awesome—game related and beyond.
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The communications giant Comcast announced in February that it would buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, creating the largest cable provider in America, with more than 33 million customers. That is about one third of the U.S. cable and satellite television market. FCC approval is required for the merger to go into effect. Critics of the deal say it would lessen competition and lead to even shoddier customer service. They are probably right, as all of us will soon find out, because there is little chance the merger will be stopped. Comcast, Time Warner, and their political fixers have spent years preparing for this moment—by buying off the Democratic Party.
Comcast, which employs more than 100 lobbyists, spent almost $19 million last year on lobbying activities. Its president and CEO, Brian L. Roberts, is a golf buddy of President Obama's, and a Democratic donor who has contributed thousands of dollars not only to the president's campaigns, but also to the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DNC Services Corporation, and to Steny Hoyer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bob Casey. Roberts' executive vice president, David Cohen, is a former aide to Democratic bigwig Ed Rendell. Cohen skirts lobbying regulations through loopholes, has raised more than $2 million for Obama since 2007, and in 2011 hosted a DNC fundraiser at which the president called him "friend." Cohen has visited the White House 14 times since 2010, including two visits to the Oval Office. He attended the recent dinner for President Hollande of France.
Cohen plays a major role in the Comcast Foundation, which has disbursed more than $3 billion since 2001, primarily to "groups that serve African-Americans, Latinos, and Asians" and other segments of the Democratic coalition. You will be surprised to learn that many of the groups to whom the Comcast Foundation has donated now support the proposed merger. Of the $33 million Comcast has spent on political campaigns since 1989, more than half, or some $18 million, has gone to Democrats. Barack Obama is number one on the list of the top ten recipients of Comcast's largesse. There are four Republicans on the list.
Comcast's in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party are more difficult to calculate. In a media environment that already tilts leftward, the NBC networks, which Comcast owns, distinguish themselves as especially pro-Obama. Comcast has one channel, MSNBC, which is almost entirely devoted to furthering the president's agenda and the broader priorities of the American progressive movement. How do you put a price on the contributions of the invaluable Ed, Al, Chris, Chris, Rachel, and Lawrence? Where would the Democratic Party be today without The Reid Report? They give so much.
MSNBC shares staff and resources with NBC News, whose chief foreign affairs correspondent is a personal friend and tireless advocate of Hillary Clinton's. NBC Sports, which during its recent Olympics coverage bent over backwards to apologize for Russia, has on its payroll the liberal pink eye victim Bob Costas, famous for advocating gun control during a sporting event. President Obama and Michelle Obama are regulars on the Jimmy Fallon show, and Joe Biden was the first guest on Seth Myers's Late Night. Biden is always good for laughs.
The company Comcast wants to absorb shares its partisan leaning. Since 1989, Time Warner has given $29 million to political campaigns, and more than half of that money went to Democrats. The top three recipients of contributions from Time Warner's employees, their family members, and PACs are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. President Obama comes first, with more than $1 million. Hillary Clinton comes next, with some $400,000. (Sexism?) Time Warner's PAC has given lavishly to the DNC Services Corporation, the DCC, and the DSCC.
Time Warner's CEO, Robert Marcus, has donated $8,500 to Democrats since 2010. His giving also favors Democrats over Republicans. So far this cycle Time Warner and its employees have lavished support on Alison Grimes, Cory Booker, Kay Hagan, Mark Takano, and Henry Waxman. They are all—well, you know what they are. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, who has received donations from both companies, had to recuse himself from Senate business with the merger when it was revealed that his brother, Robert, was representing Time Warner. Comcast and Time Warner are on the list of companies subject to an ongoing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation. Will Reid and Schumer return the money donated by companies under investigation for shady business practices overseas?
The chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is a venture capitalist and former lobbyist for telecom interests. Obama appointed him in 2013. "Comcast Lobbyist Cohen Meets His Match in FCC's Wheeler," read a recent headline from Reuters, but the adversarial relationship implied therein seems to me to be vastly overstated. In fact "match" is a good word to describe the similarities between these two men. Both are influence brokers that have successfully navigated the highly complex and highly lucrative maze of telecom politics. Both are Obama campaign bundlers. Wheeler raised somewhere between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama's first presidential race, personally maxing out to the campaign and to the DNC, and bundled at least $500,000 for the president's reelection. Fortunately, we can rest assured that none of this, not Wheeler's ties to his industry, nor the specter of regulatory capture, nor the shared political agenda of regulator and "industry partner," nor the prospect of future employment, will affect Wheeler's decision in any way.
It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust. If Republicans had any sense, they would wage war against Comcast and its Democratic enablers and turn the merger into a live issue. Needless to say they have not done so, perhaps in the wrongheaded and futile hope of scraps from the table of the Comcast cable beast, perhaps in the foolish and selfish notion that David Cohen may one day add another man to his company of lobbyists.
"I have been struck by the absence of rational, knowledgeable voices in this space coming out in opposition or even raising serious questions about the transaction," Cohen said in a recent C-SPAN interview. I am struck by the same absence, but I am not surprised by it. At this writing opposition to the merger seems to be limited to the Writers Guild of America, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, and Senator Al Franken of Minnesota. This is what happens when you buy one political party and disarm the other.
Imagine the noises from MSNBC if the merger involved Rupert Murdoch or Glenn Beck or Sheldon Adelson or the K-O-C-H brothers. Criticism would lead the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Costas would interrupt a Sunday Night Football game to decry corporate consolidation, Fallon would crack wise in his monologue. And who are the opponents of high prices, horrible customer service, and sub-standard Xfinity packages left with instead? Stuart Smalley.
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server [<server description>|<server refnum>]
server [+|-][<server name>]
server [-add] <server description> [see below]
server [-delete <server refnum>] server [-update <server description>]
The nexus of irc is the server, also known as "ircd", which comes in different classes, such as "irc2.8", "irc2.9", "EFNext", "ircu2.8" "ircu2.9", "hybrid5", "hybrid6", "hybrid7", "dreamforge", "bahamut", and a huge list of others. The above list classifies the most likely types of servers you will encounter. There are some irc-like implementations, most of which have been devised for microsoft windows operating systems. EPIC does not promise to work on any server that diverges significantly from traditional irc (which these servers usually do) and so we will not consider these servers at all in this discussion.
At the most basic level, all unix irc servers in widespread use have a direct lineage to one common ancestor, ircd2.8. Therefore, the features provided by ircd2.8 are portable to all irc servers. This includes the ability to join channels, to send messages to other users, to set topics, channel and user modes, to kick users from channels, and the like. How- ever, through the course of time many extensions have been added to the ircd software, and a particular set of extensions to ircd are distributed as a software package and typically are used by an entire network. Each server "class" defines a loose set of extended functionality that is available to the user whenever you use that class of server. That server's extensions may not be available on other servers, or it may be available in a different way.
How does EPIC know what servers you want to use? EPIC always tries to keep a server list, even if it contains only one server.
The contents of the server list will always contain:
If the server list is still empty *or* if you use the -a command line option, then EPIC will read the "servers file", which is:
The "servers file" can be an absolute path or start with a tilde (for home directory expansion), but if it is neither, then the file will be looked for in the IRCLIB directory, which is:
If all of the above fails, EPIC will use the value of #define DEFAULT_SERVER_LIST which is there only as a failsafe and not as a useful default server list.
See server description for more information about server descriptions and server refnums.
See referring to servers for more information about how to refer to your servers once you've added them to the server list.
Windows and servers have a many-to-one relationship. Each window is always connected to exactly one server at a time; no more and no less. You can have as many windows connected to a server as you want.
You can have as many servers open as you want. A server is automatically opened when the first window is connected to it. There is always one window connected to every open server; a server is automatically closed when the last window is disconnected from it.
The SERVER command manages EPIC's server list, letting you add, remove, connect, or disconnect servers as you need to.
|Show the server list.
|/SERVER -DELETE <refnum or desc>
| Remove server <refnum> (or <desc>) from server list.
Fails if you do not give it a refnum or desc.
Fails if server does not exist.
Fails if server is open.
|/SERVER -ADD <desc>
| Add server <desc> to server list.
Fails if you do not give it a <desc>
|/SERVER -UPDATE <refnum> <desc>
| Change server <refnum> changing any fields to new values specified in <desc>.
You cannot update a server that is open.
|/SERVER +<refnum or desc>
| If the server's state is "CLOSED", change it to "RECONNECT".
This allows the server to reconnect if windows are pointed to it.
Note: server reconnection is asynchronous
|/SERVER -<refnum or desc>
| Unconditionally close a server connection
Note: server disconnection is synchronous!
|Switch windows from current server to next server in same group
|Switch windows from current server to previous server in same group
|/SERVER <refnum or desc>
|Switch windows from current server to another server.
As the colon is already used by EPIC as an argument seperator, IPv6 adresses need to be surrounded in square brackets [] to prevent the colons from being interpeted.
To change to a new server, irc.foobar.com, on port 6668:
/server irc.foobar.com 6668 /server irc.foobar.com:6668
To change to a new server and register with the nickname "JoeBob":
/server irc.foobar.com:::JoeBob
To switch to the next, or previous, server in the same group
/server + /server -
To associate a new server, irc.booya.net, to your current window:
/server +irc.booya.net
To delete server 5 from your list:
/server -delete 5
To add server "irc.foo.com" on port 6667 with nick "blah" to your list:
/server -add irc.foo.com:6667::blah
To connect to an SSL server:
/server irc.foobar.com:::::IRC-SSL


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Ryan Giggs was born on the 29th of November, 1973 in Cardiff Wales. Ryan is a midfielder who currently plays for Manchester United in the English Premier League where he has spent all of his professional career. Ryan is also a representative of the Wales National team.
Ryan began his youth career at Manchester City before moving to rival club Manchester United. After 3 years in the youth system Ryan was elevated to the first-team where he has won 11 Premier League titles, 4 FA Cup's. 4 Football League Cup's, 7 Community Shield's, 2 Uefa Champions Leagues, 1 Uefa Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 Fifa Club World Cup.