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I told the story of this in Hardcore Zen. Now you can see the video of me filming my bit in Ultraman Tiga episode 51 in 1997. I originally taped this on a VHS camcorder (remember those?). I transferred it to DVD later. Then I used the clip as a way to test out a software program that rips video from DVDs. Which is why it's watermarked. Now I don't know where the DVD is. I'm sure it's still somewhere in all my stuff, packed away.
Well, today I officially turned in the final edits of both Sin Sex And Zen and Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. Editing a book is a multi-part procedure. I turned in my "final" versions of both books months ago. Then they came back to me with editor's comments. Then I fixed it again. They they come back to me with a second round of fixing. And now I've sent those back as well. I'll get one more look-see at the books before they go to the printers. But at that point I'm only allowed to make the most minor corrections. This is because by then the typesetting is being done and if I make anything but the very most minor corrections it throws the page numbering off and all kinds of hell breaks loose.
So at this point they are both pretty well done. If you click on those Amazon links I provided you'll see place-holder covers that will not bear much resemblance to the real covers. At least that goes for Sin Sex And Zen whose cover is being drawn even as you read this by the magnificent Mr. Alex Wald. It'll be a whole lot better than what they sent to Amazon to hang out there till Alex finishes. I'm not sure if Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way will be changed or not.
Fundamental Wisdom will be released first, in August, followed by Sin Sex And Zen in September.
For now I'm just hanging out at an undisclosed underground facility in the back hills of North Carolina until I jet off to Europe on May 2nd. This just in, it looks like I will also be be doing a gig or two in Israel this summer. That's pretty exciting.
As the books get more popular, my life gets continuously weirder. I'm still not getting rich. But I am getting noticed. I think I mentioned here how two different people spotted me in random locations in Austin a couple months back. That happened to me once in Saint Paul -- at a party of all things -- and once in Los Angeles. It's not, by any means, a regular event. But it is a very odd thing when strangers stop you on the street and know your name as well as significant details of your personal life.
I sort of hate it.
I understand this goes along with the territory. I am in complete agreement with Dogen's view that one shouldn't pursue fame and profit. But when Hardcore Zen was about to be issued I had a long talk with Nishijima Roshi about it. I knew that putting a book out would lead to a certain degree of fame (though the profit, as I said, has been very slow in coming, which is why I'm couch surfing these days). He said that this was all right. In his view it was a completely different matter. I wasn't writing books in order to become famous. I wrote because that's what I like to do. And fame sometimes follows if people like what you do. The same thing, he said, happened to Dogen. He got famous even though he did not pursue fame.
To a certain degree, in order to make a living at any kind of artistic endeavor, you need to be famous. It's part of the job. I find it alternately fascinating, bizarre and scary. I like doing interviews. I like getting to travel around and be a performing circus monkey for people. I'm fascinated by the mechanics of the industry.
It's bizarre, though, how people sometimes interact with me these days. I don't get it when they get all excited just to talk to me. I can't understand it. I mean, intellectually I can. I'll admit to nearly peeing myself when I got to actually hang out with Gene Simmons and Alex Cox. But to have someone react that way to me is just weird. I don't know how to respond. Which is why, if you act that way around me I tend to look funny at you.
Scary is encountering people who don't understand that just because they know the parts of my life I've chosen to reveal in books that they are not actually my buddy. This doesn't happen much, but it has happened a couple times. I always try to duck out as quickly as I can when I meet someone like that.
I was in a threeway Skype chat the other day with two friends. One had seen me at talks a few times, while the other had only seen it once. So I got to listen as they compared notes about how weird it was to watch total strangers react so strongly to the presence of someone (me) that they just knew as their friend.
From here on in I'm only gonna get more of this stuff, not less. The only way to stop the snowball I started rolling would be to quit writing and go live as a recluse. But I have no plans for that. I'm just gonna keep on doing this stuff for a while. So suck it.

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Ronald K. Noble
Secretary General 2000-2014
First elected on 3 November 2000 Mr Noble became at the age of 44 the youngest Secretary General in INTERPOL's history. Following two re-elections in 2005 and 2010 he stepped down from the post on 7 November 2014.
Prior to serving as INTERPOL's Secretary General, Mr Noble oversaw four of the US's largest law enforcement agencies, including the US Secret Service, the US Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division.
Mr Noble, a fully tenured Professor at New York University School of Law, began his career in law enforcement as a federal prosecutor specializing in organized crime, drug trafficking, fraud and corruption cases.
The initiatives below were carried out under the leadership of Ronald K. Noble during his tenure as INTERPOL Secretary General from 2000 to 2014.
Strengthening INTERPOL's response to terrorism
The attacks in the USA of 11 September 2001 marked the dawning of a new era of global terrorism. In the wake of these attacks, Mr Noble saw the need for INTERPOL to modernize its tools and services and to operate on a 24/7 basis. Mr Noble set up the Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) at the General Secretariat in Lyon, France, to provide round-the-clock assistance to member countries. Ten years later, in 2011, the CCC was bolstered by a second operations room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a third site due to open in Singapore in 2015.
The Fusion Task Force, established in 2002, offers practical tools to member countries in the fight against terror and extremism. By 2014, the Fusion Task Force database contained details of more than 8,000 individuals suspected of terrorism, with data contributed by 167 member countries.
Created in 2005, the INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice alerts law enforcement agencies worldwide to individuals or entities who are subject to UN sanctions such as asset freezes, travel bans or arms embargoes. The Special Notice combines the UN sanctions regime with INTERPOL's well-established notice system into an effective global law enforcement tool.
Supporting police in the field
Under Mr Noble's leadership, INTERPOL became more operational, deploying response teams to assist national police forces in the field. At the request of member countries, teams of experts can provide support with security arrangements for major events, crisis response, and the identification of victims of disasters.
In 2002, the first INTERPOL Major Events Support Team (IMEST) was deployed to the USA to assist with security arrangements for the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
The first INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) was also dispatched in 2002 to investigate a bombing incident in Bali, Indonesia.
Following the Asian Tsunami of December 2004, INTERPOL launched its largest-ever IRT and coordinated the international Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) response under INTERPOL's globally accepted standards. This deployment took INTERPOL into new territory, beyond its traditional crime-fighting role. The team withdrew in February 2006, by which point, more than 3,000 of the 3,750 victims recorded at the centre in Thailand had been identified. By the time Mr Noble stepped down as Secretary General, some 100 IMESTS and 100 IRTs had been deployed across all regions of the world.
Improving the exchange of data
When he took up office, Mr Noble realized that instant, secure communications, along with revitalized databases and tools, were essential in order to improve the effectiveness of international policing.
I-24/7, a secure global internet-based communications system, was launched in 2003 to enable member countries to contact each other and the General Secretariat at any time. It provides the network through which member countries can connect to INTERPOL's databases and share intelligence and data.
Since its inception in 2002, the Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database has helped countries to secure their borders and prevent criminals from moving freely between jurisdictions. A search takes less than a second to reveal whether a document is listed on the database. In 2014, the test phase of the I-Checkit project was launched, enabling the private sector to screen documents against the database.
In order to boost the exchange and comparison of forensic data, INTERPOL created the DNA Gateway in 2002. By 2014, some 180 countries used the database, with searches resulting in more than 1,600 matches in 2014 alone. The rapid expansion of this resource demonstrates the integral role it serves to member countries.
The colour-coded system of Notices was extended in 2004 with the addition of the Orange Notice. This alerts police worldwide to an event, a person, an object or a process that represents a serious and imminent threat to public safety.
Reinforcing the role of member countries
Mr Noble placed great importance on the activities and experiences of INTERPOL member countries. During his tenure, INTERPOL expanded to include 13 new member countries.
Mr Noble made it his mission to visit all INTERPOL member countries to see their needs first-hand in order to build stronger collaboration. Starting with Spain in November 2000, he visited Iceland – the 190th and final member country – in October 2014.
In Mr Noble's final year at INTERPOL, the Heads of the National Central Bureaus (NCBs) held their 10th annual conference. Mr Noble was the driving force behind the creation of this conference, which allows the Heads of NCBs to come together to discuss common challenges and to ensure the work of the NCBs is at the core of INTERPOL actions.
Bolstering operational support
As well as improving systems and data, Mr Noble promoted a more active role for INTERPOL in terms of supporting police around the world with operations in the field.
In 2007, Mr Noble took the decision to launch Operation Vico, INTERPOL's first ever public appeal for information, after police channels had failed to identify a man featured in child sex abuse images on the Internet. Within hours of the man's photo being published on INTERPOL's website, members of the public on three continents named him as a Canadian national working in Korea. With police closing in, the suspect fled to Thailand, where he was arrested 11 days later.
INTERPOL's ability to provide neutral, expert law enforcement assistance was demonstrated in 2008, following a request from Colombia. INTERPOL was asked to carry out an independent forensic analysis of computers and hardware seized during a raid on a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) camp in Ecuador. The aim was to determine whether the equipment had been handled in accordance with international procedures and could therefore be used as evidence in legal proceedings.
During his final weeks in office, Mr Noble was presented with the keys for the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation building in Singapore. This is the culmination of Mr Noble's vision for a cutting-edge research and development facility for the identification of crimes and criminals. This new facility will focus on cybercrime, digital security and capacity building, and will house the third operations room of the Command and Coordination Centre, thereby strengthening INTERPOL's global presence.
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Smyrna Town Council approved 5-1 Monday to move forward with Fearn Clendaniel as the architects for the Smyrna Police Station expansion.
Councilwoman Valerie White voted against the motion. Councilman Jeff Flairty couldn't make the meeting.
The approval came after a presentation from the project's construction manager Ed Ide, of i3a, and Wade Clendaniel, of Fearn Clendaniel Architects, on the changes made to the project.
In the presentation, Ide informed council that the parties involved – i3a, Fearn Clendaniel, and the Police Building Committee – were able to cut the price from $4.9 million to $3.8 million as council asked.
"We looked at the project from a number of different ways to bring the building down to match the budget," Ide said. "Holistically we looked at the square footages and rooms that can be eliminated at this point."
The group came up with two alternatives to cut. The first alternate is the tactical training room and storage area in the basement. The second alternate is to remove the large security area currently in the feasibility study.
"We plan on keeping them as alternates as time goes on, and if the budget shows that we can bring them back into the project and award those on bid day we will do that," Ide said.
By cutting space from these two alternates out of the basement, the committee was able to save about $463,000. Other cuts made include geothermal energy, LED lights, fixtures, furniture, equipment, and soft costs. In total, about $1.134 million was cut to bring the total price of the project down to $3.76 million just under the $3.8 million cap set by council. The $3.76 million includes a $300,000 contingency that was required from council.
Ide said the next steps in the process would be to hire an architect and then continue on with the design process and complete the schematic design phase, which would be to refine the preliminary layout. The steps after completing the design phase will be to evaluate the alternates, evaluate the energy, evaluate the building material, and to continue to work with the committee in terms of getting grants.
Overall, Ide said there are five levels of design: a feasibility study, schematic design, design development, a construction document, and then bidding.
Council would go on to approve Fearn Clendaniel as the architects to proceed with the expansion.
After the meeting, Police Chief Wil Bordley said he's ecstatic the project is starting to move forward: "It's not everything I initially wanted. Obviously we had to take some things out in order to meet the budget. I hope we have a good bid day so those alternates come back into the project."
Mayor Pat Stombaugh is also happy with the approval by council.
"I really believe it's something that's extremely needed and it's an asset to our town," Stombaugh said.
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Celebrities visit Utah in battle against Global Poverty
08/25/2013 8:59amStars rub shoulders with ordinary citizens for the Global Poverty Project, a non-profit with an initiative to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030.
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Teen girl, 4 men arrested in St. George prostitution sting
08/25/2013 1:37pmA 17-year-old girl and four adults, including two from St. George, were arrested in a prostitution sting Friday that involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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LDS missionary dies in Malaysia
08/25/2013 9:50pmA Utah man serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died Sunday after being hit by a car while riding his bike in Kuching, Malaysia, church officials said.
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08/25/2013 10:29pmA Highland family launched a bobblehead toy and cameras into space earlier this month to celebrate son's life-saving donation to his sister.
Vandals destroy property at church in Magna
08/25/2013 10:34pmVandals caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to The Lady of Lourdes Church Saturday night.
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Earth : Asia : Middle East : Palestinian Territories : West Bank : Bethlehem
Bethlehem (Arabic: بيت لحم, Beit Lahm Hebrew: בית לחם Beit Lechem)[34] is a small city located some 10 km (6 miles) south of the Old City of Jerusalem within the West Bank, in an "Area A" zone administered by the Palestinian Authority.
The "little town" of Bethlehem, mentioned in any number of Christmas carols, attracts pilgrims worldwide on account of its description in the New Testament (and particularly the Gospels) as the birthplace of Jesus, whom Christians believe to be Messiah and Son of God. The Church of the Nativity, one of the oldest churches in the world, is the focus of Christian veneration within the city.
Bethlehem is revered by Jews as the birthplace and home town of David, King of Israel, as well as the traditional site of Rachel's Tomb (on the outskirts of the town).
Although also home to many Muslims, Bethlehem remains home to one of the largest Arab Christian communities in the Middle East (despite significant emigration in recent years, resulting in a growing Muslim majority) and one of the chief cultural and tourism drawcards for the Palestinian community. The Bethlehem agglomeration also includes the small towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, the latter also having biblical significance.
Building up to the Millenium in the year 2000, Bethlehem underwent a massive largely foreign-funded project called Bethlehem 2000 in hopes of turning Bethlehem into a major tourist destination comparable to destinations such as Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in tourism infrastructure. Unfortunately a year later, the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation occured and the ensuing violence scuttled these tourism efforts. With the Palestinian uprising and violent clashes between both sides now have been over and done with for quite a few years, violence is now a thing of the past and many in Bethlehem hope to continue on where Bethlehem 2000 started them off.
A long snake of town, the main thoroughfare of Bethlehem is Manger Street which stretches from Rachel's Tomb (and the road to Jerusalem) all the way to Manger Square, the focal point of the city. Manger Square is flanked by the Church of the Nativity on one side and the Mosque of Omar on the other. The Old Town and the souq (market), which are best navigated on foot, stretch up the hill from Manger Square.
The name means "The House of Bread" in Hebrew, and "The House of Meat" in Arabic. However, it seems likely that both meanings have been retrofitted onto what was originally the House of Lachma, the Mesopotamian god of fertility. The area has been settled since 5,000 BC and there is some evidence that the town is mentioned in the Egyptian Amarna letters (1400 BC). The Old Testament Book of Ruth (c. 1150 BC) has the first certain reference to Bethlehem; it tells the story of Naomi, who left Bethlehem during a famine, and later returned with her daughter-in-law Ruth. Still, Bethlehem remained a small town in the shadow of mighty Jerusalem, and according to most estimates it had some 300 to 1000 inhabitants at the time of the event that gave Bethlehem its fame, namely the birth of Jesus.
Somewhat surprisingly, aside from noting that the Nativity indeed took place there, the New Testament virtually ignores Bethlehem. And things didn't change immediately afterwards: wrecked during the Bar-Kochba revolt (132-135 AD), the Romans set up a shrine to Adonis on the site of the Nativity. Only in 326 was the first Christian church constructed, when Helen, the mother of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, visited Bethlehem. Afterwards it grew slowly but steadily, achieving its pinnacle as a strong fortified city during the Crusader era, but the Ottomans razed the fortifications and reduced Bethlehem back into the village it was 2000 years earlier.
The setback proved only temporary, and despite the turbulence of the 20th century the town has (as of 2000) grown to an estimated 184,000 inhabitants. On December 21, 1995, Bethlehem became one of the areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority. In the city itself, 41% of the population is Christian, while 59% is Muslim. Christians used to be a large majority but their numbers have declined throughout the 20th century. Although Arabic is the language of Bethlehem's inhabitants, English, French and other languages are widely spoken and understood by many people in Bethlehem.
It should be noted as well that although Bethlehem is a Palestinian town, it is also a tourist-orientated town.Because of Bethlehem's immense potential as a tourism magnet, the Palestinian Authority maintains a constant tourist police presence in the city. For example, if escalations in violence are occurring in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, this does not mean that trips to other Palestinian cities such as Bethlehem should be seen as unsafe Bethlehem is a safe place to visit for tourists to visit and tourist numbers are increasing to this hidden gem of the Holy Land.
Get in
Nearly all travellers arrive via Jerusalem. Since Bethlehem is administered by the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli military checkpoint stands on the road connecting the two locations. If entering from Jerusalem, one must pass through the "Rachel's Crossing" Israeli checkpoint into Bethlehem. One simply flashes his/her passport to an Israeli soldier, places his/her bags into an x-ray machine, and then walks through a metal detector, much like airport security, to get into/exit Bethlehem. As with all areas under Palestinian Authority control, Israeli law forbids Israeli citizens to enter unless they receive approval from the Israeli Civil Administration. Currently, groups of peace-supporting Israelis are applying to the Israeli Civil Administration to make monthly, coordinated visits to Palestinian cities in order to meet with and make friendly relations with Palestinians in Palestinian cities. For more information, visit the Humanisty Website - page no longer in operation. Tourists are free to enter and exit the checkpoint to Bethlehem and back to Jerusalem as many times as he or she would like without any restrictions. Make sure you bring your passport with your Israeli-issued tourist visa to enter and exit the Palestinian areas.
By car
Be careful if using a hire-car, as most rental companies in Israel make it clear that the car has to be used, and remain, on Israeli soil.
By bus
There is an Arab bus station nearby Damascus Gate that goes to various West Bank Palestinian cities (if you have trouble finding the bus station, ask a local). Arab bus 21 runs from the Arabic bus station nearby the Damascus Gate ("Bab el-'Amoud") in East Jerusalem via Beit Jala to Bethlehem. The average trip length is 30 minutes and costs ₪7. This route takes you straight into Bethlehem without needing to stop at a checkpoint (someone might come to check your passport on the bus, but it's painless). After you cross the border, tell the driver where you're headed and he'll let you know what the best stop is to get off (maybe about 10 minutes after entering the border). From there you can either cab to the main area (Manger Square, Church of Nativity), or just walk.
Shared taxis (sherut/servees) leave from the Arab bus station nearby Damascus Gate and manage the trip in 20 minutes.
Minibus 24 also leaves from the Arab Bus Station near Damascus Gate, it costs ₪5 and runs directly to the Bethlehem Checkpoint and back. Make sure to bring a passport. It may also be the case that you are waved through without any inspection. From the checkpoint, you can either walk half an hour or take a taxi to the center of Bethlehem (25shekels), which is about 3 km away.
On foot
Devoted pilgrims often prefer to walk (and in happier times there has been a large procession at Christmas), at a brisk pace the trip is doable in 2 hours but there are plenty of ups and downs along the way and the summer heat is fearsome.
Get around
For first time visitors it is best to travel by taxi. Bethlehem is a small city so taxi rides are extremely cheap. From the checkpoint to the Church of the Nativity (and anywhere within Bethlehem city) it should cost no more than ₪20. To travel from Bethlehem to it's neighboring suburbs of Beit Sahour or Beit Jala, it should be no more than ₪25-30. To travel to any of the destinations located outside of these areas (such as Herodium, any of the surrounding Monestaries or Solomon's Pools) it's advisable to negotiate a price with a taxi driver at the Bethlehem bus station. Many taxi drivers are willing to take you to a site, wait there while you tour a site and then take you back to Bethlehem for a negotiated price. Whenever negotiating a taxi price, always say the lowest price you think would be reasonable for the trip, and bargain with the driver from there. The driver will start as high as he thinks he can charge and bargain down for you.Make sure to agree on a price before going into a taxi.
Warning: Some Bethlehem taxi drivers can be extremely welcoming, but also extremely manipulative. Be absolutely firm with them about where you want to go, or they may unilaterally appoint themselves your tour guide and take you everywhere they want you to go - including attractions you didn't ask to see and stores from which they receive a commission. Some may even invite you to have coffee at their home or even spend the night, but in return expect to be your tour guide for the duration of your time in Palestine. You can bargain them down to reasonable prices if you're tough, so if you don't want the hassle of trying to make your own way around, this can be a lovely way to see Palestine and spend time with a Palestinian family. However, if you like to explore independently and dislike being guilted/pressured into making decisions, it's best not to hire a single driver for the whole day.
The All Nations Cafe [35] organizes summer caravans where internationals can learn about the social, political and cultural fabrics of life in and around Bethlehem.
The Holy Land Trust [36] organizes tours of many cities in Palestine for both politically inclined tourists and religous tourists. They are also able to organize homestays with local families and or short term/long term volunteer oppourtunities in the Bethlehem area for willing participants.
The Bethlehem Bible College [37] offers Bible study courses in English, Arabic, and other languages
While Bethlehem's souq is alot smaller than Jerusalem's, it is much less touristy and the sellers are less aggressive and very friendly, many even offer potential customers coffee and tea. The Palestinian Authority doesn't charge a sales tax, so Bethlehem's shopkeepers charge much less for souvenirs. Bethlehem is a perfect place to practice those bargining skills that you were hoping to try out!!
In peaceful times, Bethlehem's traders do a roaring trade in souvenirs for pilgrims to the town. In the current situation, the tour operators prefer to quickly hustle their guided groups in and out of the Nativity Church without allowing them time to look around Manger Square. Often, at the end of the tour, they will take their groups to a pre-selected souvenir shop and charge the owner of the shop a big commission for the sales made to the tour group. That means most smaller souvenir shops here are blessedly free from pilgrims, and also that the smaller shops are in desperate need of business. They remain, however, substantially less aggressive than Jerusalem's sellers. Souvenir shops in Bethlehem are much, much cheaper than in Jerusalem- with all the same selection (surprisingly, many Bethlehem souvenir shops even have Jewish themed souvenirs). One must venture out of Manger square to the souvenir shops on Manger Street and also in the market place beside Manger Square past the Mosque of Omar. The smaller looking souvenir shops offer the best deals and very friendly service. Bethlehem is an awesome place to get all your Holy Land souvenirs for much, much cheaper than you would get them in Israel. If a price is listed in USD, it's a hiked price for tourists, so don't hesitate to bargin for a much lower price (you will almost always get a lower price if you ask for it).
You must visit the Milk Grotto Church which is two minutes away from the Nativity Church. On your way up there, look for an Olive Wood factory located on the Milk Grotto Street, with the name Christmas House Olive Wood Factory [38]. The guys there can provide you with an amazing tour of their workshop and you can see how they hand carve things from the olive trees, a must see. Very friendly Christian family, and they also have a gift shop, where you can find really unique gifts. Also they have another gift shop right in the manger square next to the peace center building.
Just off Manger Square on Milk Grotto Street there are a number of souvenir shops selling various religious gifts and Bethlehem's famous olive wood carvings.I found the Tabash Nativity Store friendly, not pushy, and willing to give discounts. They will also offer you a free Turkish coffee.
Visit one of Bethlehem's four refugee camps for traditional Palestinian handicrafts, handmade olive oil soap, and beautiful embroidery.
For a complete list of restaurants in Bethlehem go to [40]
Enjoy the atmosphere and hang out with friends for dinner or a a few drinks at Bistro lounge bar in Beit Jala.
Visit the famous Cremisan Cellars Winery located in the Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jala. This Winery, also the site of the ancient Cremisan Monestery, is on a hilltop and offers a spectacular view of the valley below it and as well of the surrounding Jerusalem and Bethlehem area. A must visit for any wine enthusiast! Cremisan Cellars, [5].
The problem of finding somewhere to stay as encountered by Mary and Joseph are long gone in Bethlehem. There are many options to choose from. Because Jerusalem is often the place where tourist stay rather than Bethlehem, Bethlehem's hotels offer much cheaper rates than Israeli hotels in order to entice tourists to stay in Bethlehem rather than just do a day tour of the historic sites and then quickly leave back to Israel. Bargining for a cheaper hotel price usually works in Bethlehem. Feel free to email/phone numerous Bethlehem hotels for quotes and compare the prices, it definantly saves you money rather than staying in an overpriced Jerusalem hotel. Note, for phone numbers in the Palestinian territories, there are two area codes: +972 and +970. If one of the area codes don't work for a contact number, try the phone number again using the other area code.
Get out
Bethlehem's bus station is also a great starting point to get to other cities in the Palestinian territories. Located at the bottom floor of the bus station are numerous "Serveeces" (Palestinian Sheruts) that drive to cities such as Hebron , Ramallah and Jericho.


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Famous white elephants include Olympic Stadium in Montreal, the former Millennium Dome in London and the Concorde jet.
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an unwanted gift that one has no use for
by Light Joker January 17, 2006
A party where people (usually family, friends, or a combo of the two) get together and have a game where you unwrap, steal, and trade off presents never actually useful in real life. I mean, my family W.E. party got me a laser tape measure!
"What's up! How did the White Elephant party go?"
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"Ooh! That sucks."
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1)A gag gift, usually an unwanted gift that is rewrapped and redistributed. 2)Bundy Gift.
I got this Joey Fatone Bobblehead doll from that turkey across the street. What could I do with it? I know, It can be the White Elephant at the Christmas party this year!
by Bedford Hopeful November 08, 2004
A valuable item or act that requires expencive upkeep. Often the upkeep is not worth it.
The war on terrorism is a large white elephant.
by Halfofone June 28, 2005
a project/venture/possession whose cost of maintenance is way higher than its rating of usefulness.
the freedom tower in NY is currently a major example of a white elephant, they could have just built the WTC Twin Towers II instead.
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Maybe relevant for M3F only? posted there too. --[[User:Oggfan|Oggfan]] 07:32, 8 May 2012 (PDT)
Maybe relevant for M3F only? posted there too. --[[User:Oggfan|Oggfan]] 07:32, 8 May 2012 (PDT)
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License and Copyright
Do notice that I proposed a simpler standard for those two tags a couple of months ago.
- COPYRIGHT = Name of Entity (e.g. Xiph.Org Foundation)
- Should be renamed 'RIGHTS' (as proposed on the wiki page). Copyright... Well. It is not nice. We are talking about Distribution rights, anyways... Added by Aleksandersen on October 3, 2007
- LICENSE = Link to license, only URI/IRIs allowed ( e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )
- But it lacks a way to determine machine readable date of rights. Such as with RIGHTS-DATE. Added by Aleksandersen on October 3, 2007
This makes it simple for both users and machines to understand the data. --Ivo 16:33, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
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The following was added by Ijabz on October 18, 2007
I really like VorbisComments because in contrast with other metadata formats (e.g ID3,MP4 metadata) it is very simple to develop a programing interface, you can treat every field as a simple name-value pair without breaking anything, if a field value is formatted in a special way to aid machine parsing but your program doesnt know about it thats ok it wont break. Having seen how long it has taken for ID3v2.4 to be adopted I think Xiph would do better to improve VorbisComment (without breaking backwards compatability) rather than provide alternatives.
It only really has three drawbacks:
1. The list of official fields is too small, we need a definitive list of offical fields now that is much larger than it is now. These fields are not mandatory so I cant see any drawback in extending this list, but there seems to be a reluctance to actually do it. A reasonable approach would be to look at the list of defined frames in ID3 and provide vorbis equivalents where possible. Should also consider adding the list of tags added by the Musicbrainz project, seeing as they are an opensource not for profit organisation whose main aim is to improve the quality of infdormation about recordings they appear to be a prefect partner.
2. VorbisComments do not provide support for binary data, and when anybody mentions this it is explained that the data should be added as a seperate multiplexed stream. I dont understand this solution and I'm not aware of any applications that actually do this so even if I implemented support for it in one program it would be of limited use. The most important binary data for audio files is cover art images and without support for these OggVorbis is at a serious disadvantage. Audioshell implements it by base64 encoding the image, this seems a perfectly sensible solution that would be easy to implement, and would work for any binary data.
3. VorbisComments do make it more difficult to show complex relationships and an XML format would proably be better as expressing these. However if a relatiuonship is complex it is probably too complex to be of much interest to anybody, however it can still be done using VorbisComment. For example the following example is given within the Metadata wiki page:
How do you indicate which artist played tenor sax in the solo?
This is a very specific request, but could be done by adding a subfield character (I've used a colon in this example) allowing machine parsing of related attributes
Or you could amend the Fieldname so it supported a way of linking fields,e.g:
ARTIST-1:fred ARTIST-2:jane INSTRUMENT-1:tenorsaxophone MUSICPASSAGE-1:solo
so the rule is if a field ends with (-n) all fields ending with the same value of n are linked, I dont see how this breaks things
- On drawback 2, VorbisComments were designed to be text-only. As you point out, the intention was to put binary data in a separate logical bitstream. Unfortunately, at the moment, adding such a stream to an Ogg container breaks many players. An initiative is in progress to address this using Ogg Skeleton. As for cover art, there is now such a proposal using the VorbisComment tag METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE.
- On drawback 3, VorbisComments are inherently unstructured. For complex relationships, it would be better to use a system which has built-in structure such as XML. Multimedia Metadata Format (M3F) is such a draft proposal.
- Martin Leese 19:52, 1 July 2009 (PDT)
Character encoding
Moved from article as it is not a good idea. The section was added by Aleksandersen on September 13, 2007
The goal is to be offer better support for more languages and make machine processing faster.
The specification should be a little more strict to achieve this.
Field names may be UTF-8 and all UPPERCASE for easier machine processing.
Allowing tag names to be UTF-8 instead of ASCII is a backwards-incompatible spec change. If we did this, requiring that the case mapping happen in the tagging application rather than in decoders is reasonable, since case mapping in unicode is non-trival.
The original argument for ASCII was that we need standardized tag names for interoperability, so there's no point in being able to localize them, and we might as well go with our native prejudice. Localizing the values should be done by appending a language code to the tag, since this is both machinable and there may be collisions between translated tag names.
- UTF-8 is a bad idea in field names. The field names are for machine interpretation, localisation should be done on the software side. UTF-8 introduces matching problems (canonical form) and encoding/decoding problems (difficulty in finding length of a string). Please sign comments; I think the above is a cumulative set of comments, but no idea.--Imalone 01:11, 17 September 2007 (PDT)
Attributing involved parties
Moved from article as it is not the consensus view. The section was added by Aleksandersen on September 13, 2007
The goal is to attribute more persons and organisations involved in audio and music productions to make room for more advanced search and sorting.
NO PROPOSALS! VorbisComments need a lot of extension beyond just the ARTIST field name. See work at Multimedia Metadata Format (M3F), the proposed XML replacement for VorbisComments for structured metadata.
Proposal: Adding embedded Lyrics field
Similar to mp3's id3v2-tags lyrics and synchronized lyrics (SYLT) fields - available since 1998. Missing this every day.
Maybe relevant for M3F only? posted there too. --Oggfan 07:32, 8 May 2012 (PDT)
Synchronized lyrics may also be embedded as a Kate text stream, though patches to get playback in misc audio players are mostly been ignored (isn't that the fate of most patches to anything ?). 07:43, 8 May 2012 (PDT)


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