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ONU Law Announces 25% Tuition Reduction for 2014-15
Ohio Northern University has announced a reduction of tuition for the Pettit College of Law starting with the 2014-15 academic school year. Called The ONU Law Promise, this new initiative is intended to make an ONU legal education more affordable, to reduce student loan debt, to sustain academic quality, and to prepare students for long-term success in their legal careers.
Beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the College of Law will reduce its tuition rate levels by 20-25 percent off its 2013-14 tuition rates (reduced by $8,926 to a rate of $24,800). While the tuition reduction helps make a legal education more affordable, everything else about ONU's innovative law program will remain the same.
Rick Bales said, "The ONU Law Promise is about affordable excellence. We believe every student should have the opportunity to receive a private legal education at a price that allows for long-term success and minimal debt."
Current law students also will see the same reduction in tuition to $24,800. Many students – those with no scholarship or with a scholarship less than $8,926 per year – will see a net tuition decrease of up to $8,926 per year. Other students – those with a scholarship of $8,926 or more per year who maintain their academic requirement for their scholarship – will pay no more net tuition in 2014-15 than they did in 2013-14, because the tuition reduction will be offset by a commensurate reduction in their scholarship awards. All students will benefit, however, from the University's pledge to not increase nominal tuition for the 2014-15 academic year.
ONU Law students also will continue to benefit from accessible faculty who inspire and support them, small class sizes that offer individual instruction, a diverse international network of students and alumni, and an innovative curriculum that melds theory with real-world experience to graduate practice-ready lawyers.
The College of Law at Ohio Northern University has consistently strong first-time bar passage rates (with 100 percent passing in February 2013), a second-in-Ohio rating for bar-required job placement, and a 45-year track record of providing high-impact, guaranteed clinical placements.


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Children as combatants
Promoting child Martyrdom
Jerusalem and "every inch" of land will be freed "by the blood of the youth" - girl recites poem on PA TV
Girl on PA TV program for youth recites a poem:
"They say I'm a terrorist, but I'm no terrorist
What can I do, Mother, they took my book away
They tied me up, blindfolded me and threw me in a tank
They threw me into a dark room under watch
They wouldn't let me see you, Mother, and wouldn't let me see my friends
I longed to go to school and I longed to have my games...
I swear by a child's tears...
By the blood of the youth
Jerusalem will return to us...
We'll free every inch from the foreigner's clutch."
Host: "Bravo, bravo, applause."
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Baby Feeding Essentials
After a set of baby spoons warped in the dishwasher into odd shapes and my homemade baby food wouldn't come out of its freezer container, I went on the hunt for products that would work for my family and me. I have discovered a few favorites.
Highchair: I love the Graco Cozy Dinette Highchair. My mom has the Zarafa print and I, of course, have the Carina print (for those of you who don't know, that's my daughter's name). Baby seems comfortable in the chair and will let me do dishes and things around the kitchen while sitting in it. Also, it is highly adjustable to whatever your needs may be. My only complaint is that the front wheels don't swivel and sometimes make it hard to move the chair from the dining room to the kitchen (which I rarely do anyway).
Spoons: For baby spoons I prefer the Munchkin Soft-Tip Infant Spoons, with their solid structure that can be easily held by both me and my baby. A close second are the NUK Soft Bite Infant Spoons, which have a thin metal handle with a silicone tip. My only issue with these is that Baby plays with the spoons and sometimes bites the metal handle – I'm worried about it hurting her gums/new teeth.
Bowls: The NUK Bunch-A-Bowls With Lids, on the other hand, are fantastic. They make my life a lot easier when traveling or storing leftover baby food in the refrigerator. They fit perfectly in a quart-size zip-top bag with a spoon and a bib!
Bibs: We go through a lot of bibs. I've tried a bunch, and most do the trick. However, with textured foods, Baby has decided to reject every third bite (I actually mean eject – she spits it all out with much fanfare). So, we needed something a little more heavy-duty. Enter: Bumkins SuperBib, waterproof coated polyester, with a pocket for ejected food! Yay! Also, they are SuperCute, with different prints for boys and girls, as well as fun Dr. Seuss prints.
Cups: These bibs also help now that she is learning how to drink on her own. We have had some success with the Nuby No Spill Cup with Super Spout, and Baby adores banging her cup on the high chair!
Freezer Containers: When I make food for Baby, I tend to have extra that I freeze in single portion sizes for later. The Beaba Multiportion Freezer Tray works amazingly well. The silicone tray is sturdy enough to hold the food in the freezer but flexible enough to flip it out once frozen. Also, it comes in four great colors, green, orange, blue, and pink. Perfection!
With the mess on my floors, I should probably get one of these Splashmats!
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Just when you would think that a Mushaira would not attract a lot of viewers I found out that thousands of people thronged to attend one in village Usia in UP's Ghazipur district. The gathering had around 20 poets who kept the audience awake and busy till early morning the next day.
An October evening when it's not that chilly makes for an ideal function like a Mushaira. Grandly titled 'All India Mushaira' the chief guest was M W Ansari, IPS who is ADG in Chhattisgarh police. The Zamania Circle Officer Kamal Kishore was also among the reciters.
According to a local report, chief guest Ansari said: "Both Hindi and Urdu are my language, but justice has not been done with Urdu. Both the languages must be supported and encouraged."
The Mushaira was dedicated to late Haroon Rashid, who was the editor of Urdu daily Inquilab and was born in Usia. The posters proclaimed - 'Ek Shaam Haroon Rashid Ke Naam'.
Some memorable lines
"Insaniyat ka jazba dikhane lage hai log, bhookh se gash khakar girne waalo ko mirgi batakar joota soonghaane lage hai log"
"Yeh mat samajhna ki tumse woh pyaar karte hain, haseen log hain aksar shikaar karte hain"


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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran urged New York State last week not to renew permits for 68 wells in Jamaica, Queens, until a study into the long-term effects of using one of Long Island's main drinking water sources is completed.
At a news conference on Feb. 1, Curran was joined by New York State Sens. Todd Kaminsky and Elaine Phillips, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Citizens Campaign for the Environment Executive Director Adrienne Esposito and dozens of supporters who said that a proposal to renew a 10-year permit could threaten the Lloyd aquifer, the sole source of drinking water for millions of Long Islanders.
Curran and others called on the state's Department of Environmental Conservation to request that the first phase of a U.S. Geologic Survey study is completed before the DEC renews a permit that would allow New York City to pump water from a series of wells in Queens. They also requested that a comprehensive water resources management plan is prepared for Long Island.
"We are together today to ask the DEC [to] take notice of the amount of concern we have about renewing the permit to use the wells before we know the science," Curran said in a statement. "Without the science we will not know the real impact of New York City drawing water from the Lloyd aquifer."
"Casual drilling into the Lloyd without demonstrated urgency is [a] grave mistake that we cannot afford to make," added Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach.
Renewing the permits for the Queens wells, which expired at the beginning of the year, would enable New York City residents to have a back-up supply of water in the case of a drought, according to Esposito. She said in July that it has become necessary for New York City to re-open the wells because the city is planning to shut down an aqueduct that transports water from upstate New York into the city.
Esposito told the Herald that she is fearful that re-opening the Queens wells, which have not been used since 2007, would reduce Long Island's drinking water supply. Long Island is designated as a sole source aquifer, which means that all of its drinking water comes from aquifers underground. Officials have said that three million people on Long Island share only three major aquifers, and that the Lloyd aquifer — the oldest and deepest — is vulnerable to saltwater intrusion.
"Our aquifers are already under assault and years of over pumping and mismanagement are contaminating the groundwater," Kaminsky said. "The pristine Lloyd aquifer is a birthright for Long Islanders and a source of water for the rest of the state in case of a catastrophic emergency."
"On behalf of the Long Beach City Council, and our residents, we urge the DEP and DEC to support the protection of the Lloyd aquifer, our most precious resource, eliminate reactivation of the Lloyd's wells from their plan, and await real, in-the-ground data from the USGS Groundwater Sustainability Study until making any decisions that could dramatically affect the future of Long Island water," City Council President Anthony Eramo said in a statement.
If the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is successful in its bid to re-open the wells in Queens, the DEP has the potential to take 62 million gallons of water per day from the aquifers, according to the draft environmental impact statement.
"We can't give them our water, we don't have it to give," said Esposito, who also said at public hearings that the plan would exacerbate a drought on Long Island. "We have to preserve what we have because there's nowhere else to go."
Other environmentalists worry about possible contamination from the wells. As the 68 wells drain water from the aquifers, the water table would sink, and more salt water from the Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean could infiltrate the aquifers. The Lloyd aquifer, for example, is on the cusp of having saltwater intrusion and may be pushed over the limit by New York City's drainage of the aquifer, according to Sarah Meyland, the director of the Center for Water Resources Management at the New York Institute of Technology.
"It would be catastrophic for the City of Long Beach because all their water comes from the Lloyd aquifer," Meyland said.
"The reactivation of these wells presents a serious threat to Long Island's sole source aquifer, and a renewal for New York City could be a denial of Long Islanders' right to clean water," Phillips said.
Depleting the water could also change the flow of plumes, which carry pollutants. In Bethpage, where the Northrop Grumman plant produced equipment for the military for World War II, pollutants flow into the Long Island Sound.
To prevent these pollutants from contaminating the sound, the Town of Oyster Bay installed remediation wells in the path of the plume to clean up the water. Once the water table decreases, these plumes would no longer flow into the sound. Instead, they would flow into Queens, where there are no remediation wells — and it could take years to install one.
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School district police must investigate, not cover up
When the Beaumont Independent School District formed its own police department, administrators cited the need to provide security for its many facilities. Accepting their stated good intentions does not diminish the duty to investigate allegations of wrongdoing – rather than cover up incidents the districts might find embarrassing or for which they might be held financially liable.
One such incident was the 2010 traffic stop by a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy who pulled over BISD transportation supervisor Clifton Guillory in the early morning hours for driving his district-owned pickup so erratically the deputy told his dispatcher, "He's drunker than Cooter Brown; ran off the road three or four times while I was behind him."
Recall that a BISD police officer came to the scene and gave Guillory a ride home. No breathalyzer test was performed and no charges were filed on the supervisor who was allowed to quietly retire. It was fortunate no one was injured or killed – including Guillory – but school district police should not be permitted to shield employees from the legal consequences of their actions.
A report this week of a school-related crime brought the Guillory incident to mind. A parent of a female student at Austin Middle School described how their daughter's teacher put on a movie in her class, turned down the lights and promptly fell asleep. In the classroom while the movie played, the parent said two male students sexually assaulted their daughter and another girl, both 11 years old. Both girls reported the incident to school officials who brought in BISD police, who in conjunction with the Austin principal, promptly drew a curtain of secrecy over the investigation citing the rights of the alleged perpetrators and laws about confidentiality in cases involving juveniles.
At a minimum, such incidents should be reported to Beaumont Police and the Jefferson County District Attorney's office for two reasons. First, both agencies have trained investigators with vast experience handling such cases. Second, there is frankly good reason based on past performance to doubt the competence and impartiality of school district police to see that justice is done and not to place the best interests of the district over the victim of a crime. By bringing in the police and DA, the district would be forced to comply with the letter of the law. Despite juvenile shield laws, surely the young victims and their parents have a right to know the status of the young men accused of sexually assaulting her.
BISD must move quickly to demand total professionalism and accountability from the principal and the district police chief, and not allow either to hide behind district lawyers to thwart justice in the name of limited liability. Timothy Chargois will almost certainly inherit this problem when he takes control of the district as its newly selected BISD superintendent. If the allegations are upheld, the sleeping teacher and the male students in question must answer for their actions, or lack of same, and we call on the superintendent to take swift action. Two 11-year-old girls deserve at least that much.


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Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation under the EU Merger Regulation into the planned acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, a US database and application software company. The Commission's initial market investigation indicated that the proposed acquisition would raise serious doubts as to its compatibility with the Single Market because of competition concerns on the market for databases. The decision to open an in-depth inquiry does not prejudge the final result of the investigation. The Commission now has 90 working days, until 19 January 2010, to take a final decision on whether the concentration would significantly impede effective competition within the European Economic Area (EEA) or a substantial part of it.
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: "The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world's leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world's leading open source database company. In particular, the Commission has an obligation to ensure that customers would not face reduced choice or higher prices as a result of this takeover. Databases are a key element of company IT systems. In the current economic context, all companies are looking for cost-effective IT solutions, and systems based on open-source software are increasingly emerging as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions. The Commission has to ensure that such alternatives would continue to be available".
Oracle is active in the development, manufacture and distribution of company software, including middleware (i.e. software that connects software components applications), database software and business application software and related services.
Sun offers computing infrastructure, including server and storage solutions and middleware and database software.
The proposed transaction would bring together two major competitors in the market for databases. The database market is highly concentrated with the three main competitors of proprietary databases – Oracle, IBM and Microsoft – controlling approximately 85% of the market in terms of revenue. Oracle is the market leader in proprietary databases, while Sun's MySQL database product is the leading open source database.
T he Commission's preliminary market investigation has shown that the Oracle databases and Sun's MySQL compete directly in many sectors of the database market and that MySQL is widely expected to represent a greater competitive constraint as it becomes increasingly functional. The Commission's investigation has also shown that the open source nature of Sun's MySQL might not eliminate fully the potential for anti-competitive effects. In its in-depth investigation, the Commission will therefore address a number of issues, including Oracle's incentive to further develop MySQL as an open source database.
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In Cannon Falls, Minn., the president compared negotiating with House Republicans to negotiating with his wife.You know what bugs me about this analogy? It's the contempt for the intelligence of the audience. The federal budget is not the same as a household budget scaled up. A husband and wife can't just "raise the debt ceiling." And the 10% Obama is referring to is not the avoidance of an expenditure (like the golf clubs). It's taxes. There is nothing like that in the family budget. The husband and wife do not have the option of commanding other people to give them money... unless they rob people... in which case the wife would be right to say, no, we can't go out robbing people. And the husband would be crazy to think he was making a modest and moderate argument by saying, "But honey, it's only for 10%."
"In my house," Obama noted, "if I said, 'You know, Michelle, honey, we got to cut back, so we're going to have you stop shopping completely. You can't buy shoes; you can't buy dresses; but I'm keeping my golf clubs.' You know, that wouldn't go over so well."
In Decorah, he said: "Everybody cannot get 100 percent of what they want. Now, for those of you who are married, there is an analogy here. I basically let Michelle have 90 percent of what she wants. But, at a certain point, I have to draw the line and say, 'Give me my little 10 percent.' "
Now, I'm not saying that taxes are theft. I think we should pay taxes to pay for whatever it is that we want and need from government. I'm just saying that the analogy between the federal budget and the household budget is all off. It's used by politicians to sound folksy and to try to persuade people who are not supposed to be very bright.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A shocking not guilty verdict was delivered Tuesday in the murder trial of Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
A jury in Florida found the young girl's mother not guilty of first-degree murder and not guilty of aggravated manslaughter of a child. However, she was convicted of providing false information to law enforcement.
The verdict has caused an uproar across the country and in the Tri-State area. CBS 2's Sean Hennessey and 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck spoke with residents in New York City and New Jersey about their opinions regarding the case's outcome.
"That's it? Just lying to police?" a bewildered Lori Shapiro, of Brooklyn, asked Hennessey.
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Social networking sites have also erupted with reaction, including celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, who Tweeted: WHAT!!!!???!!!! CASEY ANTHONY FOUND NOT GUILTY!!!! I am speechless!!!," and Ricki Lake who also posted on Twitter: I'm disgusted! #notguilty? Oh come on.
For Shapiro, the verdict also brought back memories of another high-profile case.
"There was so much, all the stack of evidence that was against her — just like OJ got free. This is another OJ that somebody who I feel was guilty went free," she said.
CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez also spoke with people in Times Square who were closely following the trial.
"I thought she was guilty. I was a 100 percent sure she was guilty," Ray Clavel said.
"I think her and the father and the mother were all in on it," LaVera Oberly said.
Other New Yorkers had quite a different opinion on how the trial turned out.
"I think there was more to it than the prosecution showed us," Marvin Shapiro said, "I thought it might have been just an accident that led to other things, but I don't think she was guilty of premeditated murder."
"All the facts weren't presented in terms of whether she drowned or if it was an accident," said Joanne Bactowal, of East New York.
"It didn't sound like to me, from the limited information I had, that they had real forensic evidence that was conclusive enough to really make you think that she had done it," said Jan Wheeler, of Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Schuck spoke with a crowd at Matthews Diner in Waldwick, N.J. who watched the verdicts as they came down.
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"I'm extremely mad. I know if it was my daughter, I would have an extremely difficult time even thinking about anything happening to her — let alone having something happen to her like this," Lisa Barthold told Schuck.
Barthold also went on to say that Anthony should have at least been found guilty of neglecting her child.
"It just doesn't seem logical that a 2-year-old disappears for 30 days and you don't say anything," she said.
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An upset loss in Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby (Grade I) did not prevent Chadds Ford Stable's Union Rags (#22) from being the favorite in Churchill Downs' final Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW") pool of 2012, but that result clearly narrowed the gap in odds between the fan's choice and the popular "All Others' (#24) wagering interest and other individual contenders being pointed toward the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) on Saturday, May 5.
Union Rags, tabbed as the 3-1 favorite in Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia's morning line odds for KDFW Pool 3, closed as the 9-2 betting choice after his third-place finish behind Take Charge Indy (#21) and Reveron at Gulfstream Park. Close behind in the Derby Future betting finale was the Mutuel Field, which includes all 3-year-olds other than the 23 individual horses in Pool 3, and a pair of 8-1 shots in reigning 2-year-old champion and Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) winner Hansen (#8) and San Felipe (GII) winner Creative Cause (#3).
Total wagering in the three 2012 KDFW pools stood at $1,470,019 when Pool 3 betting closed at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 1. The total is the fourth largest in the history of the bet that was first offered in 1999 and reflected an increase of 7.9% over 2011's three-pool total of $1,362,101. This year's total is the largest since the current three-day, Friday-through-Sunday format for Kentucky Derby Future pools was adopted in 2010.
Betting in the just-concluded Pool 3 totaled $427,347, an increase of 8.8% over the $392,910 wagered in last year's final pool. The Pool 3 total included $303,043 in win wagers and $124,304 in exacta bets. Wagering in the pool was extended 30 minutes beyond its regular closing time of 6 p.m. to accommodate the running of the $1 million Louisiana Derby (GII) at Fair Grounds, which had a scheduled post time of 5:55 p.m.
The 2005 KDFW betting total of $1,665,990 remains the largest in the bet's history, followed by $1,503,806 in 2002 and $1,471,606 in 2006. All three totals were recorded when the wager was conducted in a four-day format.
While his defeat in the Florida Derby did not knock Union Rags out of the top spot on the Kentucky Derby Future Wager odds board, prices on several horses tumbled after trainer Michael Matz's son of Dixie Union suffered his second career setback on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Odds on the "All Others" interest – which received boosts from weekend victories by Daddy Long Legs in the UAE Derby (Group II) at Dubai's Meydan Racecourse and Hero of Order, who provided a 109-1 shocker in the Louisiana Derby – closed at 6-1, the price that had been pegged by Battaglia in his morning line odds. Hansen, briefly favored during Friday's opening day of betting, edged Creative Cause to be the overall third choice despite a late flurry of betting on the latter during the pool's final hour.
Odds on Florida Derby winner Take Charge Indy, a 73-1 risk early Saturday, had dropped to 15-1 when wagering concluded Sunday evening. Other individual horses with final odds well below their morning line prices included the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Optimizer (#17), a 50-1 morning line risk who closed at 22-1, and Vinery Racing Spiral (GIII) winner Went the Day Well (#23), who closed at 19-1 after opening Pool 3 at 30-1. Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) winner Gemologist (#7), 20-1 in the morning line, was the overall fifth choice at 12-1.
The Kentucky Derby Future Wager allows fans of the famed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) the opportunity to wager on Derby contenders weeks in advance of the race. Derby Future bettors receive odds that are in place at the conclusion of each pool's betting – prices that could be more attractive than odds available at Churchill Downs on Derby Day. The Kentucky Derby Future Wager offers $2 minimum win and exacta wagers. Exactas, introduced in 2009, are also available in $1 boxes and part-wheels.
For a complete list of final odds and $2 win will-pays for Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 3, click here.
Click here for a complete list of $2 exacta will-pays for KDFW Pool 3.


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"Without a doubt, the master of [armed] resistance is the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat. Even this Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign, 2000-2005), whose flag Hamas has tried to wave unjustly, forcibly, falsely and fraudulently- that [Intifada] flag belongs to Yasser Arafat alone. These [Fatah security] forces paid the heavy price in the second Intifada, both as Shahids (Martyrs) and as prisoners. The largest number of prisoners are from the security forces. They are the ones who bore arms and carried out the greatest and most important operations against the Israeli occupation and especially against soldiers, and some of the most famous operations in the West Bank- Ein-Arik, Wadi Al-Haramiyeh, Sorda, and others. These were carried out by the heroes of the Palestinian security forces, who protected the homeland and the national interest, while Hamas merely looked on for many months before starting [terror]."
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English is the language of the enemy
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June 29, 2009
The Intifada "belongs to Yasser Arafat alone"
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Palestinian lecturer denies biblical and historical Temple
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June 17, 2009 (1min)
Israel was created to rid Europe of Jews
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Fatah boasts about lynch and murder, takes credit for more attacks than Hamas
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The Quran says Jews have inherently negative characteristics
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Jews have no connection to Jerusalem
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Israel is acting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque
June 9, 2009 (1min)
PA Chief Religious Justice: Even Orthodox Jews deny that the Western Wall is part of the Temple
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Jesus was not a Jew but was a Palestinian prophet of Islam
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May 22, 2009 (2min)
Jesus and Mary were "Palestinians par excellence"
May 12, 2009 (1min)
Denying the existence of the Israeli Temple
May 8, 2009 (1min)
Abbas: "I will not accept a Jewish State"
Apr. 27, 2009 (1min)
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Apr. 24, 2009 (1min)
PA Mufti: Jesus and the prophets were all Muslim
Apr. 21, 2009 (1min)
Hamas TV animation mocks Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit and vows more kidnappings of soldiers
Apr. 21, 2009 (2min)
Nasour promises "We will return…we'll play football there"
Apr. 10, 2009 (1min)
Arafat both financed and condemned suicide terror
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Fatah official: The "resistance" brought about Oslo Accords
Apr. 6, 2009 (1min)
Pharaoh is Israel, Moses is the Palestinians
Mar. 29, 2009 (1min)
If you don't study for tests - blame the Zionists
Mar. 20, 2009 (1min)
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Fatah still refuses to recognize Israel, 2009
Mar. 16, 2009 (1min)
Celebrating most lethal terror attack in Israel's history
Mar. 11, 2009 (1min)
Hamas puppet Nassur: I declare war on the Zionists
Feb. 13, 2009 (1min)
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Boy vows to join father in Martyrs' Paradise
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Jan. 21, 2009 (1min)
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Jan. 19, 2009 (1min)
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Beginning today, Bank Marketing Strategy will be known as Retail Banking Strategies and will become part of The Financial Brand.
Go to the new site.
When I launched Bank Marketing Strategy over four years ago, the financial services industry was a lot different than it is today. We were in the middle of a huge financial crisis, the first iPad was just introduced, and banking customers were still more likely to go to branches than to bank on mobile devices.
My website began as a quest to better understand social media and content creation, with early posts generating less than 100 page views. Today, most articles published are viewed by more than 5,000 people, with the most popular article generating more than 35,000 page views. Boy, have times changed. And my website has evolved as well.
For the last two years, I've been talking with Jeffry Pilcher, publisher/founder of The Financial Brand about ways we could partner and work together. After careful planning and months of preparation, I'm pleased to announce that The Financial Brand will be my new publishing home.
Effective today, I'll be sharing my insights at the Retail Banking Strategies section of The Financial Brand. Articles from my this site will be moved to the new location as quickly as possible (it is a manual process). The most popular articles have already been migrated, with the complete transition expected by June 1. Until articles are migrated, they will still be available on Bank Marketing Strategy.
By combining forces, we will be able to dig deeper into the opportunities and challenges banks and credit unions face. While The Financial Brand will continue to deliver the marketing, branding and advertising coverage you've come to expect, my Retail Banking Strategies section will provide a deeper level of analysis and perspectives into the issues confronting CEOs, CMOs, COOs and retail bankers at financial institutions around the world such as:


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A group of teenagers find out they may be the last chance theyre world has to be saved from the Queen of Light, a heartless woman who nearly destroyed their country 3,000 years ago. She has been reincarnated into this era, and now they must revive the Last King of Darkness, the one who stood against her in the Great War, to even stand a chance of defeating her wrath.
Rated PG, but likely to be changed to PG13 once the real fighting starts.
*note: If you are one of my old readers, no the comic hasnt changed. I'm just giving you more information*


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Hrr. This page looks a little rushed to me.. proportions seem a little off, and Caleb looks off in the second panel..*headscratch* Could just be I'm dead tired too. XD
Laz's eyes look a tad too large in panels 3 and 4, and his face is a little off in panel 1. I do adore the last little Lazzy expression,though. I think Dave's just trying to settle into his new style, and Caleb actually looks a little better here than he did in the past couple. Dialogue as always is gold, though; I like these little character bits when we can get 'em.
Good job on this one as well, honestly I don't mind the artwork, it's the story that I come back for
Oh THAT'S just what every artist wants to hear. =P
Amen to that comment.
Sad-eared Laz is sad.
awesome tail'spressions, that's something a lot of folks don't quite seem to get about tails is how expressive and mobile they are
Wait a second…
Am I hallucinating, (possible since I have not slept and it is now morning) but has Laz's legs always been that long? Is he getting taller?
Is Laz getting taller?
Wait, so the racist white guy isn't necessarily a straight forward evil skinhead? Good, I like it.
Spear… OF DESTINY!*
*Not actually the spear that poked Jebus that one time.
Laz seams taller
Has it really been a few months? Damn, time flies fast there.
Last frame, Laz is right. Not all cultures are created equal, and simply having one is not sufficient to justify its existence.
As many others in the comments I also reacted to the drawing style in this strip.
I went back a few strips and made some comparisons and I think this is actually how David's art style has developed into.
I think you can clearly see an art style change after the hiatus (between strip 173 and 174).
Art development is a good thing. But I preferred the old one. Laz head is now smaller compared to the rest of his body, which makes him look older.
I'm starting to like the elf more, his body language seems to place him as a socially inept history geek. don't worry mr. elf., we'll play train games with you.
Oh..hey, look. It's the comic that I forgot about for a while since it wasn't in my bookmarks anymore (they all got deleted..*sad*) But anyways..*bookmarks immediately* Laz, solve all your problems with fire. Got an upset g.e.m. with you? Set yourself on fire then latch onto him and laugh and enjoy the ride while he's running around trying to put it out. Got an ancient god that's turned into a book on you? Threaten him with fire and see if he doesn't magically get better within a few minutes….if that fails you always have it for kindling I guess…..
i agree with laz on that last one
Few MONTHS?! It's been that long for Laz? Nice putting in a timeline perspective check, by the way.


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Handmade Ceramic Bowl
Small handmade ceramic bowl with earthy matte glaze. Measures 3.75" wide x 2.5" tall. One of a kind. It can be used as a tea bowl, or for creating small flower arrangements. Flower frog is not included.
The ceramic bowl is dishwasher safe.
I ship orders within one business day from Monday through Friday. On holidays, I will ship the following business day. Select your preferred shipping service (STANDARD, PRIORITY, or EXPRESS) on the Shipping drop down menu at checkout.
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I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
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How many silk ribbon spools will I need for my bouquet?
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How many yards of silk ribbon do I need per invitation?
Most calligraphers and wedding invitation designers use 1 yard to adorn each invitation.
Do you offer samples?
My plant dyed colors may vary from batch to batch, for this reason I do not offer samples. Even if the color doesn't match precisely, they always look beautiful and add another layer of thoughtfulness to wedding invitations, programs, and bridal bouquets.
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At the moment, I am not offering custom colors. I hand dye limited edition colors.
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Following a wabi sabi lifestyle, every step is slowly crafted by hand in my studio: from hand dyeing silk using plant dyes from flowers, roots, foliage, nuts, fruits, and woods; sourced from fair trade companies or locally foraged, to tearing it organically into ribbons embracing imperfection, lightly pressing for a natural texture, and rolling onto handmade wooden spools.
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You are buying a "living color" that may appear to change depending on the lighting. Each silk ribbon is one of a kind and may have nuances, marbling, speckles. Plant dyeing embraces imperfection and find beauty in its authenticity.
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f/8 is probably about right, but if you are trying to do macro with a 50mm f/1.4 you're gonna have a problem. The fifty dollar f/8 lump o glass is far better for macro than the $700 1.4 (at least until you stop down the 50mm to f/8 that is)
All I have is an IPhone to take pics of my work. Was looking at getting a cheap camera for close ups and macro work of the PCBs I make.Anybody got any input?
That is a good pic. But I want to get closer and to see more details than that. My IPhone just won't do it. My old Canon does a much better job. Plus, I don't do this for a living nor do I do it as a hobby. I just wanted some nice pics of the boards I made. I am looking for an all around good camera. But, I don't have to have one..
What is your real intention for this photo? What kind of details do you want to see? Solder whiskers?
Are you looking to do an optical inspection of SMD parts? An 8MP photo can also do that too.
Have you tried the scanner method? I scanned one of my boards at 1200dpi and it freaking humongous. You can see the thickness of the silkscreen paint applied.


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Opening remarks by the Secretary-General for the seminar with Ambassadors, delivered on the occasion of the visit to the OECD by Portuguese Health Minister, Paulo Macedo
Paris, September 30th 2013, 11h30
Dear Ambassadors, colleagues:
It is a great pleasure to welcome Paulo Macedo, Minister of Health for Portugal, to the OECD today. We have a unique opportunity to learn from the Portuguese experience of handling what is one of the most critical economic and social challenges we face today: improving our nations' health in an increasingly tight budgetary environment.
Minister Macedo is a Health Minister with a fascinating background. Among other roles, he has been Vice-Chairman of the Banco Comercial Português' Executive Board of Directors, a Member of the Supervisory Board of Polish Bank, Bank Millennium, and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Euronext. In addition, he has served as Director-General of Taxation and Chairman of the Tax Administration Board in the Portuguese government. I cannot think of a better profile to serve in government at a time of financial and economic duress!
The challenge of delivering health reform in difficult times is one faced, not only by Portugal, but also by many of the countries represented around this table. In the decade up to 2009, health spending in OECD countries increased by 4.5 per cent a year on average -- around three times more quickly than income. We used that money to pay for more doctors, more nurses, more expensive diagnostics, more drugs, more surgery, and to pay higher prices for all these services. But, we failed to pay attention to value for money.
The public expenditure crisis has thus hit many of our health care systems hard.
In Portugal, health spending has been reduced from 10.8% of GDP in 2009 to 10.2% now. This has been achieved by rationalising spending on pharmaceuticals, promoting the use of generic drugs, moderating salaries; cutting the fees paid to hospitals, and increasing user charges, while still protecting those in most need. The Portuguese authorities have also taken steps to improve the quality of primary care and care in hospitals, and to increase the use of ICT in health. This is all very positive stuff.
But the challenge now, as for many countries, is to find ways to further improve the performance of the Portuguese health system to deliver better health to citizens, despite the persisting economic conditions. For example, tackling the causes of disease more effectively will be key to delivering a more efficient health system. Coping with dependency in old age and promoting higher quality of care are other major challenges.
I look forward to hearing the Minister's own personal take on these challenges and his plans for future reform. We at the OECD stand ready to support you in your endeavours to deliver better health and better value for money to your citizens.
Thank you.
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The common thinking for anyone with eyes who has seen Daniel Thomas run this preseason is that while he may become a good player down the road, the rookie still has to adjust to the NFL game.
Thomas, you see, is a former quarterback. He made the transition to running back at Kansas State and now is making the transition to pro football. That's a lot of transitioning. So he has some learning to do.
He needs to be more physical.
He needs to run with more explosion.
He needs to get his shoulders squared, his pad level low and his legs churning.
In lay terms, he needs to bust up in there.
I told you this Sunday after watching Thomas be somewhat tentative on two and-goal runs from the 1 yard line versus Carolina. Despite denials from the Dolphins, their addition of Larry Johnson suggested that's how they felt.
And today, Thomas himself confirmed it.
"I would say that's about right," Thomas said "I've just got to lower my pads and trust my blocks and everything like that and I'm trying to get better here at practice and carry it into the next game."
Thomas is getting encouragement to make his adjustments and improvements from those around him. After his first down run failed Friday, quarterback Chad Henne told him in the huddle to hit the hole harder on second down.
And coach Tony Sparano apparently also suggested Thomas run a wee bit harder by getting on the player's case in practice.
"Yeah he was," Thomas said. "He was just telling me I need to get it in there and to stop tippy-toeing and everything like that. It was true though."


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VIERA, Fla. -- Drew Ward's professional baseball career is off to a good start and the Nationals are expecting bigger things from him in the future.
A third-round pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, the left-handed hitting Ward had a .292 batting average with a home run, 28 RBIs and a .402 on-base percentage for the Gulf Coast Nationals last year. It prompted MLB.com to rank Ward as the 13th best prospect in the Nationals' farm system.
VIERA, Fla. -- Drew Ward's professional baseball career is off to a good start and the Nationals are expecting bigger things from him in the future.
A third-round pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, the left-handed hitting Ward had a .292 batting average with a home run, 28 RBIs and a .402 on-base percentage for the Gulf Coast Nationals last year. It prompted MLB.com to rank Ward as the 13th best prospect in the Nationals' farm system.
What has impressed assistant general manager Doug Harris about Ward? His plate discipline. Before Ward was drafted, there were scouts, according to published reports, who questioned his skills because the competition was considered weak while he attended Leedey High School in Oklahoma.
"[Ward] did something that was difficult to do," Harris said. "He came in and performed at a high level, but how he did it was as impressive as the results. One thing he did exceptionally well for a young player was his recognition and control of the strike zone. Coming from a … small school, that doesn't happen every day. He showed a great deal of maturity offensively."
At this point of the spring, the Nationals have not decided where Ward would start the season, but it would not surprise anyone if he played for Class A Hagerstown.
At 6-4, 210 pounds, Ward, 19, is expected to get even bigger and be a slugger. He is currently in the Nationals' accelerated camp, where top prospects hone their skills under the watchful eyes of Harris and the Minor League coaching staff.
"I would like to get my power numbers up as I age," Ward said. "They say the last thing to come is power. But I would like it to come a little earlier. I want to keep on taking the ball the other way, hitting up the middle. The inside pitch I can get to. I still need to work on hitting the other way and up the middle as possible."
One thing is certain: Ward is a confident young man. He sounds older than his 19 years. He has a routine that he goes through every day. He hits off a batting tee and receives front tosses from one of the coaches. He also makes it a point to hit the ball up the middle and the other way during batting practice.
"I just get my mind set for the game. I get ready to go," Ward said.
It also helps that he comes from a baseball family. His grandfather, Bob, put together the Oklahoma Travelers, an American Legion baseball team. From 1964 to 2013, the team is 2,668-947. His father, Gregg, played professional baseball in the Braves organization.
"It's always been baseball, baseball, baseball," Ward said.
Ward also grew up idolizing former Reds great Pete Rose. As a 7-year-old, Ward was in Las Vegas with his father and the younger Ward was able to get Rose's autograph. After that, Gregg told his son about Rose the player. It prompted Drew to do more research on Rose. Ward saw a lot of videos of Rose the player and was impressed by how he played the game.
"He was such a grinder, which is not my type of playing," Ward said. "I'm more of a power guy. But just the way he played and put all his effort out there. That's probably my baseball hero."
Ward hopes to be a baseball hero one day. He was drafted as a shortstop, but the Nationals thought he was better off at third base.
"His skill set at this point profiles a little bit better on the corner. He is a big man. We think in the short term, that is the best place for him," Harris said. "Keep him on the left side of the infield and continue to learn footwork, glove work, build his arm for the left side of the infield.
"We are going to give him every opportunity to stay on the left side of the field. Down the road, he is going to be a very big and physical man. We'll see where his body takes him, how he is able to adapt as he grows."
Ward was fine with the position switch. He said he took thousands of grounders to get used to the angles of playing at third. Now he is happy being a member of the Nationals organization.
"The Nationals are the best organization -- the coaches, the whole staff is great," he said. "It couldn't get any better. I was very fortunate to get drafted by them. I wanted to get drafted higher, but after I look back, I wouldn't want anything to change."
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Garcia sees White Sox playing in October
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Avisail Garcia has skills, the kind of skills that make almost anything possible on the baseball field.
The White Sox right fielder could potentially launch a pitch 415 feet over the center-field fence in one at-bat, only to beat out an infield single and then steal second in his next trip to the plate. He could finish off the evening with a tough catch in the right-center field gap or by throwing out a runner trying to go from first to third on a single.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Avisail Garcia has skills, the kind of skills that make almost anything possible on the baseball field.
The White Sox right fielder could potentially launch a pitch 415 feet over the center-field fence in one at-bat, only to beat out an infield single and then steal second in his next trip to the plate. He could finish off the evening with a tough catch in the right-center field gap or by throwing out a runner trying to go from first to third on a single.
Whether expert prognosticator is included in that list of positive traits for Garcia won't be known until later in October. At least that's the hope of the 22-year-old.
During a recent interview with MLB.com, Garcia talked about the White Sox getting to the World Series. That talk was focused on the upcoming 2014 season, in the midst of the reshaping process.
It wasn't exactly a prediction and certainly was far from a guarantee. It was more about the confidence exuded by Garcia concerning this younger and energetic team put together by general manager Rick Hahn.
"I believe we can do it. Yeah, this year. Why not?" said a smiling Garcia, but in a serious tone. "You never know. So let's see what happens."
There's little chance for the White Sox to be competitive, let alone a playoff team or World Series contender, without significant contributions from Garcia.
He was acquired from Detroit as part of a three-team deal last July 30 that sent right-handed hurler Jake Peavy to the Red Sox and shortstop Jose Iglesias to the Tigers. The White Sox also picked up Minor League pitchers Jeff Wendelken and Francelis Montas and shortstop Cleulius Rondon.
Garcia posted a .304 average in 42 games with the White Sox, knocking out five homers and driving in 21. The 6-foot-4, 240-pounder has been overlooked slightly in the hoopla surrounding Jose Abreu's arrival, but figures to occupy the important second or third spot in the order.
"Media-wise, he's probably under the radar right now because, of course, Abreu has the contract this offseason," said White Sox hitting coach Todd Steverson. "I bet he isn't under the radar for the teams we are playing.
"They know his potential and what he's capable of. It's a matter of honing his skills. He knows his discipline at times can waver, and that's what he wants to focus more on -- swinging at better pitches so his talent can come out. That's the only way it can come out."
In 291 Major League at-bats, Garcia has drawn just 12 walks and struck out 69 times, backing up Steverson's notion of patience. He also has a .289 career average.
Ask Garcia a good spot for him to hit in the White Sox order, and he smiles and makes it clear that it really doesn't matter. Garcia even remembers batting leadoff while playing at the Triple-A level for the Tigers.
"I'm going to play hard wherever they are going to put me," Garcia said.
"As far as the physical tools, he's as talented as anyone out there," said White Sox designated hitter Adam Dunn of his teammate. "He seems to be a pretty quick learner. He's going to be fun to watch because he can do a lot of things a lot of guys can't."
This learning curve was tested when Garcia moved from Lakeland of the Florida State League to Double-A Erie to the Tigers over the course of the 2012 season. The fun didn't stop with that September jump to the Majors, as Garcia became a part of the Tigers playoff roster, leading to seven at-bats in the Division Series against the A's, five hits in 11 at-bats against the Yankees in the ALCS and five more at-bats in the World Series, while putting together a .261 average with four RBIs overall.
Ty Cobb and Garcia are the only Tigers players 21-or-younger to record a postseason hit, after Garcia came through in Game 4 of the ALDS. Garcia became the first Tigers rookie with a postseason extra-base hit (double), RBI and stolen base in the same game, in Game 4 of the ALCS.
All of this was taking place for a young man who was adjusting to the playoff spotlight while the Venezuelan native was sharpening his English.
"I spoke a little English, but I learned English when I was there in the playoffs. They have a lot of interviews, so I learned fast," Garcia said. "I watched TV, movies. I read. I did a lot of practice. I watched interviews too, so I picked up something. I picked up little words that they say."
"That speaks volumes to the type of player they thought he was," Steverson said of Garcia's 2012 jump. "Lucky for us in that deal last year that we were able to acquire him and we have a young, power-hitting, strong-armed outfielder with some speed. He's a helluva piece in my opinion for our lineup."
When apprised of Garcia's World Series comments, Steverson asked "Why wouldn't you want to shoot for the best?" He added the key thing is for the players all to buy into the idea because they are the ones out there doing it every day.
If that happens, anything is possible. Just ask Garcia, who has developed his own version of 'You gotta believe.'
"You put something in your mind and you work for that, I think you come through," Garcia said.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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"But the more important question right now is why would Congress be looking to give the Copyright Office more autonomy when it's quite clear that the Office has absolutely no competency when it comes to modernizing its system, and there has been a six-year pattern of throwing away money without a properly managed plan and a longstanding practice of lying about it to Congress itself?"
Sounds like Congress figured out they are perfectly suited to overseeing themselves, saving Congress the trouble of lacking all competency and then lying about it....
but why would an archival storage system for something that can by definition be considered evidence in legal cases allow people to log in and erase or alter that evidence?
Even with an audit trail (which is implied), this just seems like madness. Every frame of footage uploaded should be 100% protected. During any trial that happens, the two sides are of course allowed to pick and choose exactly the frames they want to present to support their case.....
Maybe, just maybe....
If a worm were spread that permanently bricked every Philips smart light bulb it connected to, the public backlash against Philips would start some "serious" thinking about this stuff. The cost to the "innocent externals" would be a few bucks for a busted lightbulb, the cost to Philips would be a warning shot across their bow.
just maybe.....
I see nothing at all on NameCheap's page about how to sign the petition. I see a place to sign up for their mailing list, and a place to share the page. But nothing about signing the petition.
150GB at 100% of 1.5Mbps =
150,000,000,000 * 8 / 1,500,000 = 800,000 seconds
800,000 / 3600 = 222 hours / 30 = 7.4 hours per day
Yes, this affects *just* ScreenOS. JUNOS is a completely different thing from a completely different code base. It is unaffected by this breach.
And to "some_guy" at comment #38.... Israel? WTF?
Maybe something akin to Jury Duty. Have a pool of arbitrators (possibly filled by the courts), and assign one randomly to each case as it is brought.
That removes the direct financial incentive of the company being the one "hiring" the arbitrator, and the arbitrator needing to encourage future business.
Holzer wrote a 2014 letter that MuckRock, which provides a FOIA request and hosting service, was "not a member of the news media"
According to Holzer, MuckRock is a "commercial" entity
Doing the math here, assuming each review had only one reviewer paid to do it, that's $750 - $100 = $650 per review. $650 x 920 scored papers = $598,000. Yet the company claims $20,000,000 in revenue last year?
Maybe the $750 is just an application fee, and there are many more demands for money afterward (like a FOIA fee of $5 per page to print the review?).
By the way, I notice that when you go to AT&T's webpage on the 150GB usage caps, there's a helpful link "how much is 150GB?". Instead of a small paragraph of text that takes a few hundred bytes, it's a 2-minute video that takes a couple of MB. So the answer is: "about 7500 of these videos".
To quote the EFF on this:
"In other words, if a South Carolina inmate caused a riot, took three hostages, murdered them, stole their clothes, and then escaped, he could still wind up with fewer Level 1 offenses than an inmate who updated Facebook every day for two weeks."
While DRM is certainly responsible for this a lot of the time, sometimes it's good old-fashioned feature creep.
Example in point: iPod Nanos. I love my 5th gen nano, but the newer ones are twice the size and dropped half the useful simple things in an effort to cram more useless "spiffiness" into them. The result: used 5th gens sell for considerably more than new 6th gens on Ebay. When mine finally dies, I will go there to buy one rather than fork out $150 for a new one from Apple.
"If the agency expects to be entrusted with the data and communications of the world, it needs to be above reproach on every observable level."
Of course, there are two ways to accomplish this:
1) Actually be above reproach
2) Limit the number of observable levels
Technically Verizon wasn't throttling Netflix, they were throttling Level 3, which carries Netflix traffic. And congested peering ports aren't throttling, unless they are deliberately under-provisioned to the point where they cannot carry their designated load.
Link capacity of peering connections (as well as all other Network-with-a-capital-N connections) aren't just pulled out of a hat. Extremely large amounts of throughput analysis is done to understand the requirements of the link. It is extremely important to ISPs to be able to handle the required bandwidth.
This issue would have been spotted in 5 minutes by a junior engineer. Add the fact that it was fixed only after weeks of press shaming and the "payments" from Netflix means it was deliberately designed to extort such payments.
I say the way to combat this stupidity is to give the DHS exactly what they want. Let's see how they handle a few hundred thousand reports a day every day for the next year. Spun this way, every box of nails, every roll of duct tape, every bottle of bleach is a potential terrorist threat.
"When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers".
If you can't use basic defenses (like public domain), I wonder if someone could fight back by suing Malibu Media or whoever for defamation/libel? They are accusing you of a crime despite proof that you committed no crime, and doing it in public documents.
Lots of comments about voluntary, but don't forget about the other part of the lie: anonymous.
You are driving your car with license plates on it; chances are that by the time you've rolled your window down the cops know who you are by running your plates. Yes, it's not 100% but it's close enough for most people to think there is nothing anonymous about this at all.
Another silly attempt to micro-manage by specific technology, in an area where technologies change on a monthly basis. The rules against texting for example.... how about my phone which can text hands-free (voice control)? How about sending email? Twitter/Facebook updates? Thumbs up/down on Pandora? Touching the screen to see what time it is?
As for HUDs, my car can have one factory installed? Several makers are experimenting with HUDs to give important information. Will this be banned too? Will we need a lawyer to interpret whatever legal language comes out to tell us?
I'd sigh and say "my tax dollars at work" but it hardly seems like it's working, now does it?
"The biggest obstacle to curbing grand juries (much less eliminating them) is the government itself."
Well, there is that pesky fifth amendment:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger"
I am surprised that no one has (yet) suggested "time of ... public danger" as a convenient way around it.


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Perhaps the most difficult thing to do when dealing with current events is to establish the link between economics and politics. Thus the corporate press never, ever present an event, the invasion of Iraq for example as having any connection with economics, indeed any attempt to do so is ridiculed (eg it's not all about oil). The modus operandi is, keep it simple stupid, it's good versus evil, don't confuse the public's mind with the complexities of real life for once you do so, an awful lot of explaining has to be done as to why countries act the way they do, none of which is in accord with the way events are portrayed in the MSM.
In my last piece, 'Leaving the scene of the crime', I quoted from a piece in the Independent on the 'Suez Crisis' by Mary Dejevsky which is a perfect example of this process in action whereby Empire whether past, present or intended is reduced to the level of psychology and personalities. Defeat is a "national humiliation". Yes, there is a passing reference to economics but it is never presented as the root cause of the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Eygpt. Instead it's couched in the context of the Cold War and Nasser's desire to 'take control of the Suez Canal'. Why he would want to do this is not explained except in the context of one person's desire for power or a desire to humiliate 'Great Britain.' Thus Dejevesky tells us:
"The Suez crisis began when the young and forceful President of Eygpt, Gamal Abdul Nasser, seized control of the Suez Canal after the US and Britain refused to help fund the Aswan Dam."
Note that Nasser did it according to Dejevsky largely because Nasser was "young and forceful" nor does Dejevsky explain why the US and Britain refused to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, fundamental economic reasons disappear beneath the psychology of Nasser, who was "young and forceful" no doubt because he had too much testoterone circulating in his overheated, Arab veins.
Thus the causes of wars are invariably presented to us because there are nasty, evil individuals in charge who want to take over the world or destroy 'civilisation' or, as in the case of Nasser, for some kind of adolescent urge to prove himself a 'real man'. Once reduced to such simplistic causes it becomes all the easier to bury the deeper and more fundamental reasons why countries go to war. They may exist, it is after all, even for a duplicitous writer like Dejevesky all but impossible to ignore them, but we are led to believe that such reasons are subordinate.
Take for example North Korea where we are told that Kim Sung II, the president of the DPRK wants nuclear weapons because he wants to 'take over' South Korea and destroy the 'West'. He wants to do this basically because he's a nutcase, a psychopath or again perhaps he has too much testosterone circulating in his hot, Asian veins?
Whatever the reason be assured that economics has nothing to do with the 'Korean nuclear crisis'. But dig a little deeper and we get a very different picture of events.
"At the six-party talks on September 19, 2005, a statement of principles on nuclear disarmament was signed between the U.S. and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] … Although the U.S. was required under the agreement to begin normalizing relations with North Korea, on literally the very next day it announced the imposition of sanctions on North Korean accounts held in the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia, ostensibly because they were being used to circulate counterfeit currency."[1]
Over a year later and the US has yet to provide any evidence to back up its accusation.
"The North Koreans said they would respond to evidence of counterfeiting by arresting those who were involved and seizing their equipment. "Both sides can have a dialogue at the consultative body through which they can build trust. It would have a very positive impact on addressing the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula," Ri said. The delegation also suggested that a North Korean settlement account be opened at a U.S. financial institution and placed under U.S. supervision, so as to allay suspicions … Not surprisingly, the North Korean offers were rejected."[2]
So why did the US invent the bogus story of North Korean counterfeiting?
"The measures taken against Banco Delta Asia deprived North Korea of a major access point to foreign exchange, and served also as a mechanism for magnifying the effect of sanctions. By blacklisting Banco Delta Asia, the U.S. caused other financial institutions to curtail dealings with the bank, until it was forced to sever relations with North Korea. The campaign soon took on global significance. The U.S. Treasury Department sent warning letters to banks around the world, resulting in a worldwide wave of banks shutting down North Korean accounts. Fearing U.S. retaliation, banks felt it prudent to close North Korean accounts rather than risk being blacklisted and driven out of business. U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey observed that sanctions and U.S. threats had put "huge pressure" on the DPRK, leading to a "snowballing avalanche effect." U.S. actions were meant to undermine any prospect of a peaceful settlement."[3]
Clearly 'regime change' is the objective of US actions, for by depriving the DPRK of access to foreign currency and thus the ability to trade, further weakens the already weakened North Korean economy. Why subject the Korean people to such deprivations when we are told that it is the welfare of the Korean people that motivates the actions of the West?
So what the hell is going on here? Why would the US sign an agreement that reduces tensions, normalises relations that would lead to the removal of any kind of 'nuclear threat' from the DPRK and then do its best to sabotage the agreement? More to the point, why is this not reported in the MSM? Why hide such important information from the public especially when we are being told that North Korea is such an alleged threat to peace?
Dare one suggest that the MSM has some kind of hidden agenda here, that it doesn't want us to know the real reasons behind events and the actions of our political leaders? How else does one explain why such important information is missing from news coverage of North Korea?
Those of us with a skeptical view of events as they are portrayed to us will need no convincing but what of the great majority of the public who are not aware that they are being misled and lied to?
Obviously there are two realities coexisting here, the one presented to us in the mass media and the other reality of real power being exerted for the real reasons, not the least of which is economic. For as long as North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, indeed any country which pursues a course not in accordance with US economic objectives, it will feel the wrath of its power whether the leader is "young and forceful" or a "popularist demagogue" or whatever derogatory put-down suits the situation.
To suggest that the MSM behaves in this way is of course derided as the ravings of 'conspiracists' or even worse that such a critique is itself the expression of a hidden agenda all its own. Yet how else can one explain the complete absence of any reference to the real actions of the US in its dealings with the DPRK than by the fact that the MSM has a not-so-hidden agenda in keeping critical facts from the public especially if they have a direct bearing on the management of engineered crises such as the North Korean 'nuclear threat". It wouldn't do to expose the under-handed actions of the US when the media line consists of endless stories about the DPRK's 'nuclear ambitions' and its deranged leader.
And note how 'crises' come and go at least as presented in the corporate press. One day the world is on the brink of nuclear conflagration and the next not a word is to be found about North Korea's nuclear 'ambitions'. But taken as a continuum of news coverage events consist largely of one 'crisis' after another. Never of course of the West's creation, it's always those nasty Asians, double-dealing Arabs, or hot-blooded Latinos etc. In fact it's an endless liturgy of crises and threats to 'our' way of life but these are always 'threats' that exist in splendid isolation from reality.
'We' are always the victim of a rogue's gallery of various and sundry nutters and over-sexed psychopaths who come and go according to criteria dictated by the actions and objectives of our governments. But without the active complicity of the corporate media such 'threats' would be impossible to sell, thus the seeming innocuous words of the likes of Mary Dejevsky, which purport to be no more than her 'musings' about her then youthful impressions of the 'Suez Crisis' ("Mine is the generation that grew up in the shadow of Suez") take on a far more ominous role for they reinforce an imperial view of the world, of an 'us versus them' world, where 'we' are the victims, even if, as Dejevsky suggests, it's merely no more than a fatal blow to our once imperial egos.
But this is how the deception is carried off and what makes such 'musings' so dangerous for they mask the underlying reality of power and economic interests (eg ownership of the Suez Canal, which although running through Egypt right across Egyptian land, was "seized" by Nasser in Dejevsky's topsy-turvy universe, where ownership is the exclusive right of those with the power to enforce it).
Defy that power and be assured you will get what you deserve, first demonised by the MSM, then isolated by the mythical 'international community' (newsspeak for the US and the major European economic powers) followed by an unhealthy dose of high explosives just in case you didn't get the message.
1. For the full story see 'Why Bush is Seeking Confrontation With North Korea', By GREGORY ELICH
2. ibid
3. ibid