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Since Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul questioned whether, on constitutional grounds, he would have voted for Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he has been subjected to a barrage of historically-minded criticism. Paul's critics have expressed doubts about the nominee's professed endorsement of the goal of Title II, which was to guaranty equal access to many public accommodations without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. To them, his claim (which he later tried to retract) that he was simply questioning Title II as a means of accomplishing this result, while endorsing anti-discrimination as an end, rings hollow. Indeed, it seems to echo statements made during the 1960s by people who opposed any form of racial equality, and by those who sought to give them political and intellectual cover. Much of the criticism levied at Paul, however, downplays the history that led to the enactment of Title II, which raised serious questions about the constitutionality of a broad federal public accommodations law, even in the minds of racial liberals.Photos: Rand Paul; Oklahoma sit-in; Firefighters use hoses on civil rights protesters, Birmingham, 1963.
Title II was preceded by the sit-in movement of the early 1960s, which caused many Americans of egalitarian racial beliefs to sympathize with the point of view that got Rand Paul into so much trouble. During the sit-ins, young people entered restaurants and other public accommodations, and refused to leave when they were denied service, causing the proprietors to invoke apparently race-neutral trespass laws (rather than segregation statutes) to eject them. The sit-in protesters claimed that to refuse them service in an institution otherwise open to the public was a denial of their basic humanity as American citizens. The proprietors took the position that Paul seemed to endorse, that their basic rights as property owners allowed them to refuse service to anyone they pleased. Which side was correct? Predictably, white racists sympathized with the proprietors, but others did as well.
The justices of the Supreme Court, the majority of whom sympathized with the objectives of the sit-ins, struggled for years to avoid ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the protesters. This was true even though the justices had had little trouble ordering the desegregation of many public institutions during the 1950s, and had also extended the non-discrimination mandate to some private entities. The reason was summed up in an opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan, himself the grandson and namesake of the justice who had dissented from the Court's infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, and from its invalidation of the first federal public accommodations law. "An individual's right to restrict the use of his property," wrote Justice Harlan, "lies beyond the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment."
When President Kennedy sent his civil rights legislation to Congress in 1963, one question naturally arose: If the Supreme Court had sent strong signals that it was not prepared to extend the Fourteenth Amendment to restaurants, lunch counters and similar establishments, what gave Congress the constitutional power to act? Later Court decisions would clarify this issue, but its solution was not clear to many racially liberal Americans at the time. While many Northern states and cities had public accommodations laws on the books, a federal law in this area proved so controversial that the administration did not even include a provision covering that subject in its initial civil rights proposals. What broke the logjam were the Birmingham demonstrations in the spring of 1963, which finally convinced many whites outside the South that the once controversial claim of the sit-in protesters should take precedence over the claims of the proprietors.
After Birmingham, the administration proposed what would later become Title II, but concerns about its constitutionality still shaped the debate in Congress, even among professed liberals. Strong supporters of anti-discrimination favored a broad public accommodations law based on the Fourteenth Amendment. But many of them conceded that such a provision might be unconstitutional, given the signals that the justices were sending about the scope of that amendment. Moderate liberals wanted to ground the bill in Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce, but they believed that such a bill might not cover many businesses that had provoked the sit-in protests-those with a limited connection to the interstate movement of goods and services. Attorney General Robert Kennedy himself cautioned that an overbroad public accommodations bill would make "a private business" into "an instrument of the State." Administration lawyers tiptoed around the question of Title II's constitutionality, finally lodging it in the Commerce Clause.
Thus, it is a mistake to assume that anyone who, for constitutional reasons, would have paused at the prospect of voting for Title II was simply an opponent of racial equality. Defenders of white supremacy often fed into this tendency by offering specious constitutional objections to Title II, and to the statute more generally. Some of these objections have been invoked in the recent debate over Paul's use of history. But it is also true that the strongest advocates of a broad federal public accommodations law tended to downplay any constitutional issues. Indeed, Kennedy and others in the Justice Department worried that this tendency would produce a bill that would eventually be invalidated by the courts. By 1964, many supporters of Title II simply felt that it was the right thing to do, as did most Americans. At that moment, to speculate about the constitutionality of the bill would simply bolster the cause of those who would employ any argument-good or bad-to block it.
If there is a problem with Rand Paul's statement, it is not in what he said but rather the context in which he said it. What he said, or at least implied, is basically correct: that, in 1963 or perhaps even in 1964, a racially egalitarian member of Congress might have had qualms about the constitutionality of a federal public accommodations law. That problem had no easy solution, and liberals realized it at the time. But to make that statement as a candidate for the Senate at a time when those particular constitutional questions have long been settled-as most such questions are-in the court of public opinion, raises suspicions that he is speaking more about the present than the past. This is particularly true given that Paul has been identified with the Tea Party-a political movement that makes constitutional objections to federal legislation a centerpiece of its reason for being. The main questions that Rand Paul's statement raises have more to do with the politics of 2010 than they do with the history of the 1960s.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Mack on Rethinking the Rand Paul Controversy
4 comments:
- bondwooley said...
Scientists claim that a headless cockroach can only be expected to survive for 10 days.
Kentucky may have found the exception to the rule in Rand Paul!
This short satire is my video response to the good doctor:
Rand Satire
- May 31, 2010 at 3:25:00 PM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
As I read this post, I was thinking of Justice Souter's Harvard commencement speech in May, and especially his discussion of Brown v. Board of Education which preceded the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s. (The speech is available via The Harvard Crimson.)
- June 1, 2010 at 7:13:00 AM EDT
- Unknown said...
This is nice intellectual defense of an argument Paul didn't make.
Paul's objection, as I understand it, was not based on which level of government, state or federal, should enact public accomodations law.
Instead, his objection was that public accomodations law infringed on the liberty of the business owner to decide who to serve. That objection would negate all public accomodation laws, federal or state.
It was the extreme position of Jim Crow, and would have negated the progressive laws of the rest of the country not only with regard to public accomodations, but also private employment and the white "academies" that had been established after Brown to educate white school-age children.
- June 1, 2010 at 8:18:00 PM EDT
- Justinianus said...
Even if it was "the position of Jim Crow," it might also be the position of reasonable people with non-racial motivations. I mean, come on, are we trying to have a discussion like intellectuals, or not?
In any case, this is a fine article. My only quibble is that it resorts in the end to the easy "tin ear" criticism of Rand Paul: that he shouldn't be bringing this up in our current context. The only problem with this criticism is that Rand Paul didn't bring it up. Interviewers who were trying to "trap" him about his libertarian convictions brought it up. Once an interviewer says "But if you don't like government solutions, what about the Civil Rights Act?," what is Paul supposed to do? Answer honestly (but then he's "bringing up" a politically-settled issue), or tap dance and run away? We spend countless hours cheering comedians who mock politicians for their propensities to take the latter course of the non-answer. But when one comes along who is willing to give an honest answer based on his principles (non-racist principles, in case that still isn't clear), what do we do? Are we refreshed? Of course not. We turn on him like a pack of wolves. "Why, he holds an unconventional opinion!" For shame!
- June 7, 2010 at 3:54:00 PM EDT


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We're getting there. The nominations for August have been tallied, and the Molly goes to…
Next, September. You can remember back to September, can't you? (I don't think I can).
We're getting there. The nominations for August have been tallied, and the Molly goes to…
Next, September. You can remember back to September, can't you? (I don't think I can).
chigau (almost) says
Congratulations to Amphiox!
Did anything exciting happen in September?
feralboy12 says
Chronosynclastic infundibulum!
My copy of The Sirens of Titan is on a shelf about two feet to my right. Win!
'Tis Himself, OM says
Congratulations, Amphiox. Your invitation to the monthly OM baby roast and orgy is being lost in the mail as I write this.
For September I nominate Jafafahots because he's intelligent, witty, and something else that I forget AND A. Noyd for decisive, astute writing on numerous topics.
Aquaria says
Congrats to amphiox.
My votes go to Rey Fox and Rorschach.
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
Congratulations to Amphiox. I'll add a couple of days aging to your next grog.
Let's see, my lists say *looks at pile of paper where lists are* nothing at the moment. I'll get back later, after the shredder makes confetti of the junk.
Dick the Damned says
"chronosynclastic infundibulum"
Is that the whole of Morris, or just the campus?
Oh yeah, with all those feckin' churches, it's gotta be the whole of Morris.
For September,
consciousness razor
Stephen Wells
(I can't remember if any of them commented here in September specifically, but those are my general choices.)
cicely, Inadvertent Phytocidal Maniac says
Congrats, Amphiox!
KG says
Congratulations to amphiox (and to Brother Ogvorbis for July!)
For September: Rey Fox, consciousness razor and Dianne
SQB says
Congratulations, Amphiox, and my vote for September goes to Louis.
A3Kr0n says
Fantabulistic Amphiox!
I don't know who to vote for. Can I vote for Erin Breda's "Why I'm an Atheist"?
Congratulations, Amphiox!
I'll repeat myself from the last noms:
Jafafahots, who has been ignored much too long and always has sharp, insightful comments.
A. Noyd, who writes with clarity, incisiveness and patience.
Louis, who goes above and beyond when communicating with peoples and always provides amusement.
athyco says
So well-deserved, Amphiox! It makes a September vote much easier since there were two names with many check marks on my list. Now that you've been mollified, my choice is clear.
Here, then, is a ballot marked A. Noyd.
otrame says
Grats, Amphiox. Very well deserved.
Louis and Diane are my choices for September.
The Ys says
ChasCPeterson says
You know, Jerry Garcia owned the movie rights to Sirens of Titan. Supposedly there's a draft screenplay he did with Terry Southern.
There's a project I'd like to see.
drewl, Mental Toss Flycoon says
Congrats Amphiox!
I'd be happy with any of the noms upthread, but I'll vote Dianne for some serious heavy lifting and sweet fact smackdowns.
drewl, Mental Toss Flycoon says
Also Chas @ 16, I'm now very curious about that project. More for JG, but also TS. Thanks for the tangent!
scooterskutre says
I trap the neigbors' cats. Their meat is gamy, and a bit stringy, gets caught between the teeth, but I am able to digest their cat souls, and project the mighty pussy at my job, wandering around, pretending to do something, and laughing at the mice.
Dan says
This is where I learned about the "chronosynclastic infundibulum". I wish I could find the entire movie. It's hilarious, and weird satire…you know Vonnegut. and it even has Bob and Ray the funniest news team ever!
Father/Brother/Nephew/Cousin/ex-Mother-in-Law Ogvorbis, OM: Independently-Minded Baboon says
Congrats, Amphiox.
I hereby third (or foruth, fitfh, or whatever) Louis. Xe has shoen remarkeable patience dealing with willfully obtuse trolls, semitrolls, demitrolls and learning noobies. It alwasys amazes me just how well treating someone seriously can either enrage or engage. Well done, Louis.
pj says
Ye yee! Conga-rats to amphiox.
For september I nominate Louis. His posts always make me want ask "What are you on, and can I get some?".
Mattir says
Congratulations to Amphiox, and for September, Louis and Rey Fox.
Antiochus Epiphanes says
Rohrschach and Rey Fox
Ogvorbis, Temorarily Disconnected From My Computer And Can't Sigh In says
And I just reread my #21 and ask that the powers-that-be do not judge my nomination based on my homages to Tpyos.
Giliell, the woman who said Good-bye to Kitty says
Congratulations, Amphiox!
I second A.Noyd
David Marjanović, OM says
…um… people… he's a lowercase amphiox.
I can't remember September at all and have probably missed many of the threads you're talking about.
…um… people… he's a lowercase amphiox.
Um, David, some of us capitalize proper names because it's proper and the way most of us were taught.
Sili says
Um, David, some of us capitalize proper names because it's proper and the way most of us were taught.
So you're taught to go against the wishes of the wearer? Do you call them Christian names, too?
Proper names are capitalised, if people want them capitalised. Personally I think bell hooks is a wanker for insisting on doing it off the Internet, but as a nym I don't mind.
Anyway, congrats to OMphiox.
And for October: oniongirl (no capital) and Muse, the lesbian (no capital) lovers.
Classical Cipher, Murmur Muris, OM says
Congrats to amphiox! I'll renom Rorschach for consistent awesomeness and Louis for being hilarious.
Sastra says
Well deserved Molly for amphiox. Congrats!
For September:
consciousness razor
A. Noyd
Antiochus Epiphanes says
Sastra: Do you still have my e-mail? Could you send me that pic…you know the one that PZ took, but is not in? (Thanks, Squidly OL). Thanks
Muse (evidently temptress of Pharyngula women) says
I'm for Dianne and Louis
kristinc says
Dianne and Louis for me too. Dianne is fierce and articulate, Louis is patient and ever ready to lie in wait until he can skewer some absurdity.
Philip Legge says
Chalk up another poster most impressed by Louis (very strong efforts by others such as Muse and Dianne notwithstanding).


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Open Season
December 27, 2009 12:00 AM
Step right up folks and see "The Wild Man" stick his hand in that medieval torture device — the dreaded padded foothold trap. Never before seen by human eyes. Just one thin dime is all its takes to witness this horrific spectacle. Just one thin dime. Will he lose his hand, chopped off at the wrist or will he chew his arm off to get out of the trap? Will he writhe in agony and pain as he dies of gangrene or will he die of starvation, unable to free himself from the evil death trap? If you thought the geek biting the head off a chicken was something to see, you 'aint seen nothin' yet.
Don't settle for imposters. He's the genuine article. The one, the only — Trapped Wild Man. And seein' as the boss ain't around, I'm going to let the first ten people in absolutely free. That's right. Absolutely free! Alright now, no shoving, no pushing, there's plenty of room for everybody. Let the kids come up front where they can see the blood and gore. And the inhumanity! The cruelty! You think you can't bear to watch, but you won't be able to avert the eyes. You can't pull away.
Yes, the humane, padded foothold trap has been fiendishly demonized and sensationalized by animal rights drama queens as a freakish, cruel and torturous device that breaks bones, inflicts deadly damage on any living thing unlucky enough to step in it, is more painful than slamming your fingers in a car door, more powerful than a locomotive and faster than a speeding bullet, but the truth is it's a big pile of horse feathers.
The rubber-jaw foothold trap is a wildlife management tool that is designed with padded jaws to hold a fur-bearer securely and humanely until the trapper arrives, usually within a few hours. Unfortunately, it was outlawed in Massachusetts by ballot referendum in 1996 after well-funded animal rights extremists waged a propaganda-filled campaign filled with misinformation, half-truths and whole lies, misleading the public into believing they were voting to outlaw the old fashioned steel-jaw trap, like the old bear traps.
Should the lawmakers allow scientific wildlife management policy to be snatched from the hands of highly-educated, professional wildlife biologists and left to the whim of voters duped by wailing breast beaters?
Since the humane foothold trap was outlawed coyote populations exploded, with the cunning and often vicious animals terrorizing neighborhoods and people, and killing countless beloved pets and valuable livestock. They are fierce enough to kill adult deer and animals as large as cows. Recently in Canada, a woman was savagely attacked and killed by a pair of the ferocious animals, the second recorded human fatality in modern times, adding proof that they can be dangerous to humans.
Now that the media has been exposing the carnage by coyotes, animal rights extremists are worried that the Legislature could consider reversing the misbegotten ballot referendum and reinstate the use of the humane trap. Let's hope the Legislature does come to its senses in 2010 and reverses the ban so the humane wildlife management tool could be used very effectively once again, especially in areas where hunting is not an option.
In a recent anti-trapping letter to The Standard-Times, the writer implies that the fear of the trap being reinstated is real and could hurt the animal rights movement. She writes, "Here we go again with the call to bring back trapping. Did we forget that the people of Massachusetts voted to ban this cruel and inhumane practice? And it should stay banned — permanently!"
It should stay banned? At the cost of pets, livestock and possible human life and limb?
The writer also falsely claims that getting a limb caught in one of these devices is like slamming your fingers in a car door, but more painful and causes broken bones and other injuries. "For the fortunate animal who gets away, usually by chewing its leg off, it will die of gangrene. For those who can't get away, it will starve to death, get attacked by other animals, or wait on its fate when the trapper returns," she says.
So, are we to believe that an animal that gets away by chewing its leg off is "fortunate" to die slowly of gangrene, rather than be dispatched quickly and humanely by the trapper? Is this a fate that the animal rights movement deems fortunate and humane? And the animals don't starve to death because state law requires trappers to check their traps at least daily. All first-time trappers are also required to attend a trapper education course before being issued a license.
The writer also claims that domestic pets could fall victim to the traps. But the padded foothold trap is adjustable, so that only the weight of the targeted animal will spring the trap. If a trapper is after coyotes, the trap is set so that only an animal the weight of a 35-pound coyote (and heavier) will spring it. A cat or small dog is too light to set it off.
Even in the extremely rare event where a free-roaming cat or dog gets caught in a padded trap, the trapper would simply release it unharmed to scamper or trot its way home. Anyone who allows a cat or dog to roam free puts that pet at greater risk of much more dangerous and deadly fates, such as falling prey to larger, more aggressive free-range pets, coyotes, foxes, fishers, hawks or cars.
In closing, the writer challenges, "If these so-called rubber-jaw traps are painless "» I want to see a trapper put his hand in one. Let's see how much it doesn't hurt."
This outdoor writer is not a trapper, but he is a hunter and conservationist and knowledgeable enough about trapping to accept the challenge and demonstrate that the traps truly are humane and not the heinous devices purported by the animal rights drama queens. So I got a coyote-size rubber-padded trap and went to The Standard-Times office to have the demonstration filmed by S-T videographer Nick Tavares.
Quiet on the set. Take one. Lights, camera and "» action! I set the trap, demonstrated how a small animal can't set it off, then stuck my hand in it and sprung it. Seeing as human finger bones are much smaller than a coyote's leg bone and human skin is much thinner than a tough-skinned coyote, my fingers and hand surely would be broken, mangled and bloodied, so the writer claimed.
It clamped onto my hand and to the surprise (and disappointment maybe?) of the cameraman and a few onlookers (who all asked for their dimes back — hey no refunds) there was no screaming, crying, blood, broken bones or other damage.
It's not nearly as painful as slamming your fingers in a car door and not even as painful as pulling a hair out of your nose. I didn't have the urge to chew my arm off and it's been six days since then and no gangrene has set in and I have not starved to death, debunking the myths and misinformation that they are cruel and inhumane. And while my hand was in the trap nobody said, "let's get him," and came to attack me.
To view the demonstration online, visit SouthCoastToday.com/sports and see for yourself. Then stick around for the next show and see JoJo the dog-faced boy. He walks, he talks and he crawls on his belly like the reptile man!


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New program lets Altoona professors share expertise in and out of the classroom
New program lets Altoona professors share expertise in and out of the classroom
ALTOONA, Pa. -- Sometimes the best, most valuable learning comes outside of the classroom environment. Students in the Honors Program at Penn State Altoona are finding that out by eating sushi, re-enacting the raid on Harper's Ferry and touring a grain corporation plant -- not for a grade, not for extra-credit, but simply for the sake of conversation and whatever may come from it.
The Distinguished Honors Faculty Program, new to Penn State Altoona this year, is based on one by the same name at the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University Park. The philosophy behind it is to get students into a non-classroom setting and involved in intellectual discussions about timely or interesting topics. "It's not about professors going in with any kind of agenda or lecture at all," said Laura Rotunno, coordinator of the program at Altoona.
More often than not, the topics brought about by professors have nothing to do with their areas of expertise or what they teach, and students are participating in realms outside of their academic majors or courses. The result is open dialogue on thought-provoking subjects and exposing students to innovative thinking and expanded understanding. "Some of the questions and issues we discuss that pique intellectual curiosity turn into things students can write about or that inspires them to do research or even figure out what they want to do in their academic career," said Rotunno. "Interacting with professors outside of the classroom can also show students what professors do in a new and different light."
Meghan Delsite is a sophomore studying communications. She has only been in the honors program about two months but already thinks this new feature has added greatly to her experience. "Coming to college and being able to do this kind of thing just means so much to me. There are so many opportunities I wouldn't have had if didn't join this program. It's already helped me grow a lot and experience more."
Rotunno put out a call to professors over the summer for proposals outlining their intended events. There were spots for most who offered their time and energy resulting in nine diverse programs throughout the academic year. The first, with Erin Murphy, associate professor of English, focused on failure and risk-taking. Over dinner at Yamato, a Japanese restaurant in Altoona, the group discussed their ideas of failure, how to handle it and the importance of taking risks. The conversation was topped off with students trying sushi and other Japanese foods for the first time.
"For me, this particular Distinguished Honors Faculty Program was an issue close to my heart," stated Annette Nagle, a junior from Altoona. "The insights and advice that Erin shared with us helped change my perspective about the new path I have found myself on. I hope to attend the Success! What does it mean to be successful? program in January. I'd imagine hearing different perspectives on what success is would be a nice balance, now that I have a healthier perspective on failure. I wouldn't want to miss another opportunity to gain enlightening perspectives from bright academic leaders and students on our campus."
Honors students can attend as many events as they'd like. Some involve dinner and discussion but others also include field trips, like the one to the "Body Worlds" exhibit in New York City in October, one to the Pennsylvania Grain Corp. plant and one to Harper's Ferry, W.Va., in March. Field trips are exciting and fun but are only an added bonus. Students seem to prefer the interaction with professors.
"Around that dinner table, professors look at you like an equal rather than as just another student," said Delsite. "They are talking with you and communicating, and the fact that we are having dinner with these older, wiser people is really cool." Delsite says after just the first event she became inspired to delve into new areas, such as the poetry Murphy is so passionate about. "I hadn't met her before and afterward I was like, 'Wow, I want to go read poetry now.' I want to do a lot more just from that one dinner where we spent two hours talking to each other."
Rotunno is pleased with the success of the program in such a short amount of time. It was funded for the year by money from Schreyer Honors College that was then matched by Penn State Altoona's honors and Academic Affairs funds. She hopes the program will eventually have its own funder and continue to grow. How elaborate it becomes is really up to the imaginations of the professors who get involved. "The more vibrant we can make the program, the more students will talk and become engaged. Reinforcing the ideals of the honors program, taking initiative and taking advantage of opportunities, being interested and engaged students … that's what this is all about," she stated.
Nagle added, "You get to see a different side of professors and you get to know them as humans, people just like you -- rather than academic leaders giving you facts for a grade. It's also a great way to meet other students in the honors program. You have a great excuse to go out for an evening, participate in thought-provoking discussion and make new friends. We should take every chance we can to learn lessons about life, take time to relax and enrich our lives."
"The fact that these professors take time out of their schedules and want to share is pretty amazing. It's cool how they can influence us through just these small things," said Delsite.
Extending beyond classroom walls can open the eyes of student and professor both educationally and personally, and broaden their views on the world. "Sometimes classrooms have to be expanded to encompass the richness of what we teach," said Sandra Petrulionis, professor of English and American studies. She and husband Joe, instructor in philosophy and history, are hosting the Harper's Ferry trip. "This is especially true when arbitrary barriers, like the wall separating history and literature, stand as unnecessary obstructions. The Distinguished Honors Program gives us a chance to take interested students into the field, in our case next year to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. John Brown and his violent raid in 1859 on the federal arsenal there will offer complex demonstrations of the benefits that can be achieved by overlapping history, literary studies and ethics."
For a look at upcoming dinners, discussions and field trips, visit altoona.psu.edu/honors.


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- Apples are grown in trees in orchards, and once harvested they continue to ripen.
- Most apple trees, once planted, will take four to five years to bear their first fruit.
- Apples are notable for their adaptability to weather and climate. Most apples are grown year-round. However, optimal growing conditions exist in the fall.
How to shop for them
- Choose apples that are not bruised, discolored or soft.
- Select apples that have vivid color, intact stems and a smell that's fresh and not musty.
How to store them
- Whole apples can be left at room temperature for up to one week while retaining peak freshness, or in the crisper drawer (away from other strong odors as apples are very porous) for up to three weeks.
- If deciding to peel or cut up an apple ahead of time, squeeze about one tablespoon of lemon juice on the flesh of the apple. The added acidity will extend the apple's shelf life and delay browning, while also adding a "citrus" type taste. Use cut apples within two days.
- The best apples for freezing are Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Gala and Braeburn.
How to prepare and eat them
- Apples, just like many other pieces of produce, may have a food-grade wax application. The FDA allows the use of beeswax, shellac, petroleum or vegetable-based waxes or resins on apples. It's always advisable to rinse produce in cool tap water prior to consumption.
- Apples don't need to be peeled. Additional nutrition, flavor and texture exist within the apple peel!
- Apples are great eaten by themselves or cut into slices and dipped in peanut butter. Try adding cinnamon to apples to capture that classic fall flavor any time of year!
- Apples pair well with nuts, including walnuts, pecans and cashews. Try making a chickpea salad with chopped walnuts, celery pieces and diced onion. Top with apple slices and toss with a light, creamy (dairy or non-dairy) dressing.
- Apples are a fantastic component of classic desserts like pies and muffins.
- Make your own applesauce! Heat apples to warm temperature in oven or microwave, add to a food processor and quickly blend (for chunky applesauce) or fully pulverize (for smooth applesauce).
- Nutritional highlights
- The old saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" may not be too far from the truth! A diet consisting of a variety of plants, including fruits, builds up our defenses against chronic disease and seasonal sickness. Apples are a great part of that diet, as they possess many nutritional benefits.
- Apples have zero cholesterol (as do all plants), are very low in sodium, have little to no fat, are packed with fiber and contain polyphenols, which inhibit oxidation and may fight inflammation.


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Quinquennial fiestas to mark the descent of the Virgin Mary
- いつ: 開始日 2020/06/28 終了日 2020/08/05
- どこで: Santa Cruz de la Palma
- 自治州 : Canary Islands
- 県/島 : La Palma
These festivities have taken place every five years since 1680, and include a number known as the Dance of the Dwarves that has been declared a Festivity of National Tourist Interest.
Every five years in July and August, Santa Cruz de la Palma celebrates the Descent of the Virgin of Las Nieves, the patron saint of the island of La Palma. On the last Sunday of June there is a pilgrimage where local residents, dressed in traditional costumes, bring the throne of the Virgin Mary down from its hilltop shrine to the church of El Salvador. This marks the beginning of the so called Semana Chica (secondary festivities), with events such as the Pandorga, a nocturnal procession through the centre of the town where children carry multi-coloured paper lanterns of different shapes, to the sound of music.
The Semana Grande (main festivities) starts the second Sunday of July, with street parades featuring carnival figures and the Minué dance. The keynote event of the fiestas, however, is the Dance of the Dwarves: in the first part, participants represent different characters as they dance and sing. In the second part, a polka strikes up and in a matter of seconds participants turn into dwarves and speed up their movements to continue dancing all night long through the streets of the town.
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This fiesta is usually celebrated every five years in July and August. Next edition: 2020.


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I usually write a very long detailed summary of the SC, but I'm hoping to make this one a bit shorter. It's not that SC07 wasn't good - it was. It's not that Reno was bad - it was. It's that I'm utterly burned out and still trying to recover. I've never been so tired after a Supercomputer conference before. I actually think that's a good thing (Doug will be expounding on why). If I managed to sleep 4 hours a night, I was lucky. If I manged to actually eat one meal (or something close to it), I had a banquet. But there were some cool things at SC07 and I've hope I do them justice.
What was the IEEE thinking?
If you recall, I thought Tampa Bay was not a good location for the conference. The exhibit floor was very cramped (there were booths out in the hall), the hotels were spread all over Florida, and there was absolutely nothing to do around the conference center. Then some person who scheduled a cigar and cognac party discovered that in Tampa the cigar bars all close on Monday (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean? know what I mean?). So I had high hopes about Reno. And let's not forget about leaky roof in the exhibit hall.
The exhibit floor while fairly large was actually split across several rooms. This kind of spread things out a bit, but at least all of the exhibitors were in one place. But, once again, the hotels were spread out. However, the IEEE committee did a good job in providing luxury coaches to and from the hotels and the convention center. On the negative side, if you had a meeting with a company that had a "whisper suite" or meeting room, you were virtually guaranteed to walk a bit since they were all well away from the conference center. All of them were in the hotels which meant that you had to negotiate through the casino maze to find them. Of course this was the fault of the hotels and not IEEE, but I can't tell you how hard it was to wander through the casinos trying to find a specific room. Reno itself had a good number of restaurants and places to go (I went to the Beowulf Bash at a cool Jazz Bar -- nice place).
However, my overall opinion of Reno, if you haven't guessed by now, was that it's not the best place to hang out. So it looks like IEEE is 0 for 2 over the last two years. Next year's SC is in Austin, which I know has lots of good restaurants, places to go, etc. So let's hope that IEEE can pull this one out of their a** because their recent track record is not good (with me anyway). But my intention is not to complain about the location, etc. The conference is about HPC, so let's talk about that.
Themes and Variations
I always try to find a theme in the SC conference but if you read my blogs you will find out that I actually found 3 themes at SC07. They are,
- Green Computing
- Heterogeneous Computing
- The Personal SuperComputer
Green Computing (but why aren't the boxes Green?)
The world seems to be captivated by everything Green (that is after being captivated by the melt down of Brittany Spears). We're all looking for ways to improve our use of natural resources and reduce our green house gas emissions and HPC (High Performance Computing) is no exception. Everywhere you walked on the floor you saw companies stating how they improved the power consumption and cooling of systems. I think I even saw a company that claimed the color of their 1U box was specifically chosen to reduce the power consumption and cooling. While I'm exaggerating of course, almost all companies claimed that their products were redesigned to make them more green. In my opinion, some of these claims were warranted and some were not.
Green Computing will become a mantra for many customers now and in the future and with good reason - power and cooling are reaching epic proportions. Many data centers can't produce enough cooling for the compute density that vendors can deliver. Sometimes the problem is there just isn't cooling air but many times it's not enough pressure to push the cool air to the top of the rack. APC has done a tremendous amount of research and development to understand the power and cooling of high density data centers. For example APC explains that for racks with conventional front to back cooling with power requirement of 18kW per rack (fairly dense rack), the rule of thumb for cooling requirements is about 2,500 cfm (Cubic Feet per Minute) of cooling air through the rack. Also, they go on to explain that a conventional perforated cooling tile for under the floor cooling can only provide about 300 cfm of cooling. This means you need 8 tiles to cool a single rack! On the other hand, grated tiles can provide up to about 667 cfm of cooling air to a rack, only requiring about 4 tiles to cool a single rack. Either way, the cooling requirements are rather large for high density systems.
Don't forget that if you have 2,500 cfm of air going in, you will have 2,500 cfm of hot air coming out. This air needs some kind of return. If you have a 12 inch round duct for the return air, 2,500 cfm requires the air move at about 35 mph! This also means the air coming out of a cooling tile is also going to have a high velocity.
So power and cooling are big deals for today's dense systems. We can and need to design data centers to better cool today's systems. I talked to a few people at the show, and a number of them were asking about liquid cooling. You can get what I call liquid cooled assist devices today from APC and from Liebert. Both devices uses liquid flowing through a device to cool air exiting the rack. Some of the devices are self-contained. That is, the liquid never leaves the device. Some of the devices rely on chilled water inside the data center (somehow this all seems like back to the future when Cray had liquid cooled systems).
So there are many ways to cool a data center - too many to discuss for this article. In addition to more efficient cooling, vendors have focused on more efficient processors that produce less heat.
Transmeta was one of the first to develop products targeted at reducing the power consumption of systems without unduly hurting performance. This lead to companies like RLX and Orion Multisystems using Transmeta processors in HPC clusters. But, unfortunately these companies didn't survive (I like to think that these companies gave their "lives" so to speak, to advance technology for the rest of us).
Today we have SiCortex who is making systems with a very large number of low power CPUs (derived from embedded 64-bit MIPS chips). They installed their first machine at Argonne National Laboratory this year and are working on delivering other systems. The approach that SiCortex has taken is to use to use large amounts of low power and slower CPUs. One of the other keys to their performance is the use of a very fast network to help applications scale to a large number of processors. At SC07 they showed their new SC072 workstation that uses their low power CPUs and networking to produce a box with a peak performance of 72 GFLOPS using less than 200W. While performance may not be earth shaking, the goal of the SC072 is to provide software developers with a platform that has a meaningful amount of cores and is identical their full production system.
The picture below in Figure One shows the inside of a SC072 workstation.
You can see the 12 heat sinks (heat sinks not heat sinks+fans) in the picture. Under each heat sink are 6 CPUs for a total of 72 CPUs. Each CPU is capable of 1 GFLOP of theoretical performance, so you get 72 GFLOPS in this small box. I'll be writing a follow-up article on Personal Supercomputers where I will go into more depth about the SC072. Needless to say it is one cool box (figuratively and literally).
Cluster in a Box
Sun brought one of their "clusters in a shipping container" solutions to the show out in the parking lot. I didn't a chance to get into the shipping container but I peaked inside. It's a very cool cluster idea (again figuratively and literally). You bring it in on an 18-wheel truck, plug in the network, the chilled water and power, and bingo - a cluster. Since they are using chilled water it's a very green solution. Rackable has a similar solution.
SC07 was the launch point for the Green500. It's a website devoted to listing the top500 most efficient systems in the world. Dr. Wu-chun Feng, previously of Los Alamos and now at Virginia Tech has been a champion of lower power systems and started the idea of the Green500 to promote the idea of "Green Computing." The inaugural list which coincides with the Top500 list being announced, was announced at SC07. The top machine, actually the first 5 machines are IBM Blue Gene/P systems. The #1 system is at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Daresbury Laboratory and achieved 357.23 MFLOPS per Watt. The #6 system was a Dell Poweredge 1950 system at the Stanford University Biomedical Computational Facility and achieved 245.27 MFLOPS per watt (this is the highest ranking cluster on the list). The lowest ranking machine was ASCI Q, which is an old Alphaserver system, at Los Alamos. It achieved only 3.65 MFLOPS per Watt (ouch!).
This initial list is built from the November 2007 Top500 list. So it gives us, the HPC community, a good baseline for starting a Green500 list. In the future I hope that the list will expand to include smaller machines such as Microwulf. I think people will be surprised how power efficient smaller machines can be. Particularly if they are diskless nodes.
Heterogeneous ComputingThe second trend I see is somewhat opposite to Green Computing, but still has its merits if it works for your application. Since we are fundamentally limited by the same CPUs, hard drives, interconnects, and memory, the power consumption of the core systems is about the same. Also, CPUs clock speeds are slowly increasing, but no where near the previous rate. Many people are looking additional types of hardware for ways to accelerate baseline performance. This trend is often referred to as Heterogeneous Computing.
The current major contenders for Heterogeneous are,
- FPGA's (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)
- Clearspeed
- GPUs (Graphic Processing Units)
- Cell processor from IBM and Sony
All 4 are devoted to providing great leaps in processing capability, at a good power/performance point, and hopefully, at a good price point. With exception of the Cell processor, however, none of these technologies are designed to operate as stand alone systems. i.e. They all need a host of some sort.
All of these technologies (and companies) are trying to provide increases in computing power in different ways. I think I've said this before, but a couple of years ago, my bet was placed on GPUs. The reason for my bet is simple - commodity pricing. Commodity pricing brought down the big iron of HPC and commodity pricing is doing wonders for the electric car industry. So I think commodity pricing can hep GPUs become the winner in the accelerator contest.
The other three technologies, FPGA's, Clearspeed, and Cell processors are either very niche products, in the case of Clearspeed, or somewhat niche products as in the case of Cell processors. At the highest end, Cell processors are sold in perhaps the hundreds of thousands or low millions due to their use in the Sony PS3. But GPUs are sold by the millions every year (last year Nvidia sold over 95 million GPUs). The crazy gamers out there who have to have the latest and greatest fastest GPU(s) so they can enjoy their games, have been pushing the GPU market really hard the last several years. Plus people now have multiple machines in their homes - multiple computers and game consoles - all of which have GPUs in them. So this means that GPUs have become commodities. I can go into any computer store anywhere and find very fast graphics cards. Heck, I can even go into Walmart and find them! (when you're in Walmart, you have arrived). So Nvidia and ATI (AMD) can spread development costs across tens of millions of GPUs, allowing them to sell the cards for a low price. God bless those gamers.
The other technologies simply don't have this commodity market working for them. This means they have to spread their development costs over a much, much smaller number of products, which forces the prices way up. This is why I think that GPUs will be the winner in this accelerator contest. Also, I'm not alone in this belief.
I think everyone saw the AMD announcement about a double precision GPU card that does computations. The board has 2GB of memory (the largest that I know of with GPUs), uses 150W of power (while it sounds like a lot, it isn't too bad), and costs $2,000 (that's a bit out of the commodity range). In addition, AMD is going to finally going to offer a programming kit for the GPU. They will be offering a derivative of Brook called Brook+.
Nvidia was showing their Tesla GPU computing product. I stopped by the booth and I was amazed. They were showing off a 1U box that had four Tesla's on-board that provide well over 1 TFLOPS in performance. Here is a picture of one.
Just behind the 1U box on the left hand corner you can see a Tesla card and you can see the back of the card. Notice that there isn't a video connection :) You can also connect multiple 1U boxes using what I think is a PCI-e connector. Here's a picture of a Tesla cluster as well.
Looking at the bottom of the rack (it's a half-rack), you can see the row of fans in the front of the Tesla 1U nodes. You will also see four 1U nodes in the rack. I'm not sure what the other nodes are in the rack. The Tesla nodes are connected via a PCI-e cable.
Nvidia has released a free tool for programming called CUDA. It's available for free and uses basic C commands with new data types. Basically CUDA is a compiler that compiles GPU specific commands and spits out non-GPU code that you can compile with whatever C compiler you want. I spoke with a couple of their developers that I know very well. They say it's very easy to write code with CUDA. These guys are very bright (actually extremely bright) so your mileage may vary, but in general, I trust their opinions. There are even some rumors of some kind of Fortran extensions for CUDA. So go out and get your G80 or better card and start coding!!
Commodity CPUs are Getting FAST
While HPC is already about performance, the other thing that I think is significant at SC07, is that Intel announced their Penryn family of chips. While normally this isn't such a big deal, the benchmarks that Doug Eadline, our fearless head monkey, has run indicate that it an significant improvement in performance over past quad-core designs. Doug's benchmarks were sponsored by Appro. Look at Appro's website for a copy of the paper. It's truly amazing.
I see these benchmarks as being a new trend in commodity processors. The CPU manufacturers are introducing changes into their chips that are really the HPC community. Look at the fact that SGI and Cray are using commodity processors in some of the products. Commodity CPUs are getting FAST.
The next generation of Intel processors, currently with the code name Nehalem, look to be faster still. They will feature an on-board memory controller, a new on-the-board interconnect called QuickPath (somewhat like Hypertransport), and up to 8 cores per socket. The rumor is that Nehalem will be an amazing performing CPU. I've even heard rumors that it will rival IBM's Power6 CPU. All of this at a commodity price - wow!. We'll have to wait for real benchmarks, but the promise looks great (To quote a famous line from a movie, "you can wish in one hand and cra* in the other - which one will you get first?" - can anyone tell me what movie that is from?).
I saw a few other things around the floor that impressed me but didn't really fall into the "themes" I've previously mentioned. I'm going to mention two in this article that impressed me.
Flextronics and the Personal Supercomputer
The first one is a work group personal cluster that was developed by, of all vendors, Flextronics. Flextronics, is one of the largest manufacturers in the computer world. They make motherboards, cases, and systems for almost every vendor you can think of at SC07. Most of them don't admit it but they do. Flextronics also can design components for vendors. The have honed the ability to manufacture, ship, and support components to a fine art. There aren't many, if any, companies that can do it better. So, it's very interesting that they are now developing systems (why not? They do all of the other pieces extremely well).
They have designed a chassis that has, I think, four two-socket boards inside. The picture below in Figure Four shows the chassis.
You can see the Infiniband cable coming out of the front of the case. It connects to a chassis that is below the one in the picture.
If you put quad-core processors in each socket, then you have 32 cores per chassis. Flextronics was showing 4 chassis for a total of 128 cores. They were also running ScaleMP on the system. ScaleMP has a product referred to as vSMP that allows you to connect several systems together to make them appear as a large SMP machine. You don't have to use MPI to code for distributed nodes. Using vSMP allows the disparate nodes to appear as one large machine. The plot on the screen above the chassis shows the memory bandwidth as a function of the number of cores. To me the plot looks fairly linear. I'll have to look at ScaleMP a little closer.
I'm working on an article about Personal Supercomputers (PSC) that give a little history of PSC's and present current PSC's. Look for it at a ClusterMonkey near you.
Verari and Storage Blades
Verari is an HPC vendor that has expanded beyond just HPC, but still always pays attention to it's HPC roots. I always enjoy going to their booth and seeing what new things they have cooked up. When I stopped by and this year it was no exception. Verari is one of the pioneers in the commodity blade area. They also utilize vertical cooling in their HPC systems since, guess what, hot air rises, so just take advantage of natural convection to push the hot air upward and out of the rack. Over the years their blades have evolved and at SC07 I got to see one of their new storage blades as show below.
The top blade in the image is the storage blade. It's mounted just like it would be in a rack.
The blade in the image shows a total of 12 SATA drives that are 1 TB in size for a total of 12 TB in a blade. From what I understand you can connect this storage blade via a connector to a node with a RAID card. I also think that the drives in this blade are hot-swappable. Very nice design.
One word of caution though. This is about the limit that you want connected to a single RAID card (12TB). While I have a file system article coming to ClusterMonkey that explains this in more detail, the fundamental reason is that if you lose a drive, in the case of RAID-5, or 2 drives, in the case of RAID-6, you are almost guaranteed to hit a read error while reconstructing the data. This will cause the reconstruction to fail and you will have to restore all of the data from a backup. Restoring 12TB of data from backup will take a long time.
SC07 - I've Recovered (I think)
It's been at least a week since SC07 and I think I've recovered. My sleep pattern was a mess but I think I've straightened that out. I still hear the faint sound of slot machines in my nightmares. I'm looking forward to SC08 and I'm going to definitely make more time to walk the floor and visit more booths, more friends, and my pillows much more often. I hope to see you there!


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The dismantling of the Bench Mob this summer caused a lot of angst and anguish for fans of the Chicago Bulls. Next to the stellar play of Derrick Rose, the reserve unit was the biggest reason for the success the team had over the last two seasons.
But while some fans accused the Bulls of being cheap and breaking up the team, they really had no other alternative, according to the Bench Mob's "shooter" and newest member of the Atlanta Hawks, Kyle Korver.
"It wasn't anything about our play," Korver said in an interview with HoopsWorld. "It was strictly a business decision. They were way over the salary cap. Derrick's contract is a big one and it kicked in and you already have a lot of other guys locked in."
Rose is set to make a little over $16 million this season, $9 million more than he made in 2011-12. Add that to the large contracts of Carlos Boozer, Joakim Noah and Luol Deng, it quickly becomes apparent the front office couldn't have kept the team intact, even if they wanted to.
But if there is any good news in what happened during the offseason, it's that the team dealt honestly and squarely with the players about their departures.
"We had a bunch of really solid players but they had to let everybody go and that's just the new business of the NBA. It's the business side. We all learned that last year, right? It's a business and you know what to expect. The Bulls were upfront with us."
Just business. That's how it always is in the movies, right?
Here's more news from around the web:
- Bulls like NBA's 'no-flopping' rule (Chicago Tribune)
- 2012-13 Chicago Bulls tickets on sale Friday (Bulls.com)
- Taj Gibson not worried about leaving the Bulls (ESPN Chicago)
- Thoughts on the Bulls training camp (Chicago Bulls Confidential)


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LAC Round Table
Promoting the renewable energy industry in Latin America and the Carribean
The countries of the LAC region face a permanently widening technological and industrial gap because they have so far been unable to develop a competitive renewable energy technology industry.
Participants discussed the policies and measures that need to be introduced to make sure the region does not turn into primarily a consumer of technologies and follower of industrial trends, which would lead to the loss of numerous jobs and lucrative business opportunities.
For more information, please contact:
Victor Hinojosa, Chief of LAC Programme
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Nota informativa: Fomento de la industria de las energías renovables en América Latina y el Caribe
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Background paper - English version (490 KB)
Background paper - Spanish version (490 KB)
Informe Encuesta Regional - Promoviendo las Energías Renovables en América Latina y el Caribe: incrementando la capacidad manufacturera y sus aplicaciones. (780 KB)


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So you want to be able to capture your ideas wherever you are and put them into creative mind maps . There are actually several iPad apps to allow you to do just that. We have included in the list below the major mind mapping apps you might want to try on your iPad. These apps are all highly rated and work pretty good.
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Obama's Flawed Peace Process
According to former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami the assumption that peace between Israel and the Palestinians can be achieved by driving a wedge between "moderates" and "extremists" is a fatal misconception
Since its inception in Oslo almost two decades ago, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been stymied by the dysfunctional political systems of both sides. Hostage of an impossible coalition and of a settlement movement of free-lance fanatics, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's leadership is seriously compromised. His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.
Today, the clique that surrounds Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embodies the bitter deception which the peace process that began with the Oslo agreement has meant for the Palestinians. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority has come neither to represent the majority of Palestinians nor to rule by democratic means.
Abbas' presidential term has expired, and elections are constantly being postponed. The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the opposition. With no institutionalized democratic legitimacy, the PA is bound to rely on its security forces and on those of the occupier, Israel, to enforce its will.
A growing disconnect
Of course, throughout history, national liberation movements have had to marginalize their own radicals and fanatics in order to reach the Promised Land. This was true of Zionism, of the Italian Risorgimento, and most recently of the Catholics in Northern Ireland. But never did the outcast faction actually represent the democratically elected majority. A peace process conceived as a means to weaken and isolate the winners of an election – Hamas – is unlikely to gain much traction.
Like George W. Bush, President Barack Obama confines his diplomatic engagement largely to friends rather than adversaries. This, more than anything else, explains the growing disconnect between Arab public opinion and the Obama administration.
The assumption – dear to the architects of the current process – that peace can be achieved by driving a wedge between "moderates! and "extremists" is a fatal misconception. The paradox here is double. Not only does one negotiate with the illegitimate "moderates," but it is precisely because of their legitimacy deficit that the moderates are forced to be unyielding on core issues, lest the radicals label them treasonous.
The problem of legitimacy
The Palestinian negotiators' dangerous deficit of legitimacy – and, indeed, the disorientation of the entire Palestinian national movement – is reflected in the return of the PLO to its pre-Arafat days, when it was the tool of Arab regimes instead of an autonomous movement. The green light was given to the current negotiators by the Arab League, not by the elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
Obama's endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's claim that if Israel is recognized as a Jewish state and its security needs accepted, "I will surprise, and the sky is the limit," has made the current process possible. But maximal security – for example, an insufferably long timetable for withdrawal, unreasonable territorial demands wrapped up as security needs, an Israeli presence in the Jordan valley, and full control of Palestinian airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum – would inevitably clash with Palestinians' view of what sovereignty entails.
For Netanyahu, creation of a Palestinian state means the end of conflict and the finality of claims. By reopening Israel's demand to be recognized as the state of the Jewish people, he is forcing the Palestinians to insist even more on the constituent issues of the conflict, first and foremost on the so-called "right of return" of Palestinians who fled or were driven out after Israeli independence in 1948.
Abbas is too weak and compromised to accept any final settlement with which Netanyahu can live. Arafat set the standard as to what is acceptable and what is not, and Abbas cannot allow himself the luxury of deviating from it. As he admitted in a recent interview with the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds, if pressured to concede on sacred Palestinian principles such as refugees, Jerusalem, and borders, he "would pack his suitcase and go away."
Focus on what is essential
It is not impossible that with Hamas in the picture, an agreement could end the occupation, if not the conflict. In other words, such a process would deal with the issues of 1967 – defining a border (including Jerusalem), withdrawing and dismantling settlements, putting in place security arrangements, and the Palestinians' assumption of full governance responsibility – while shelving for the future those of 1948.
Hamas is a far more convenient partner for such a settlement than the PLO. Oddly, Hamas and Israel might have more common ground than Israel and the PLO. Israel wants an end to the conflict but is incapable of paying the price, whereas Hamas can better reconcile its ideology with a peace agreement with Israel if it is not defined as final.
The end of the conflict, like the requirement that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state, is a concept that has unnecessarily acquired mythical meaning. Instead of insisting on what the Palestinians cannot give, Israel should focus on what is essential: the international legitimacy of its borders. United Nations Resolution 181 in 1947 has already recognized Israel as a Jewish state. And, even if Palestinian negotiators agreed to end the conflict once and for all, the chances that all Palestinian factions would abide by such a settlement are nil.
Whatever route is taken, the great question today concerns the enigma that is Bibi Netanyahu, a would-be Churchill who believes that his mission is to thwart the designs of Iran's evil new Shia empire, something which requires the goodwill of the international community, particularly of the Obama administration. It is not entirely far-fetched to assume that Netanyahu finally calculated that if he wants more room to maneuver to deal with Iran, he must participate in the peace process with the Palestinians.
But, in that case, Iranian quiescence, not peaceful relations with an independent Palestine, might be Bibi's true objective.
Shlomo Ben Ami
© Project Syndicate 2010
Shlomo Ben Ami is a former Israeli foreign minister who now serves as the vice-president of the Toledo International Center for Peace. He is the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
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To ensure 'new for old' cover applies, you must insure your holiday caravan and contents at the value it would cost to replace them with new (of equivalent specification), and not at the current value. You should review this value each year at renewal.
'New for old' cover is available on static caravans, holiday chalets and lodges up to 15 years old, unless your park has a block scheme insurance arrangement with us, in which case a different limit may have been agreed - please call us to check.
The alternative to 'new for old' cover is 'market value' cover.
'Market value' insurance covers you for all the same things as 'new for old', but in the event of your holiday caravan being damaged beyond repair (written off) we will pay out your holiday caravan's current market value, instead of replacing it with a brand new model. If your insured contents are also damaged we will replace them in line with their current market value. If you decided not to replace them, you would receive a cash settlement based upon the market value at the time of the incident.
'Market value' is nearly always cheaper than 'new for old', so is a good option if you are looking to save money on your insurance premium.
'Market value' cover is available on static caravans, holiday lodges and chalets up to 25 years old (unless your park has a block scheme insurance arrangement with us, in which case a different limit may have been agreed - please call us to check). We may be able to renew existing customer policies which have reached and exceeded this limit subject to satisfactory claims history and circumstances.
'Personal possessions' are items you bring from home such as clothes, bed linen and toiletries. These items can be covered on our policy when in, on or about the static caravan, holiday lodge or chalet.
Personal possessions are often covered by your home contents insurance policy. If you are unsure, it is worth checking your home contents policy before paying to insure on our policy as well.
Please note the maximum we will pay per single item of 'personal possessions' is £300. We cannot cover high risk items such as jewellery but we offer a separate policy for gadget and leisure equipment you own such as laptops, tablets, mp3 players, cameras, bicycles, fishing tackle, surfboards, tents and much more.
If you reside in your holiday caravan for the majority of the year (and do not have a separate household insurance policy) please contact us for details of the extended cover we can offer.
'High risk items' are not usually covered under our static caravan, holiday lodge and chalet policy. We can however cover 'high risk items' if your holiday caravan is your main residence and you have no other form of household insurance.
'High risk items' include jewellery, cameras, mp3 players, laptops, mobile phones and pedal cycles. For a full list see our policy booklet. These items have a high insurance risk associated to them, often because they are expensive and either attractive to thieves or prone to damage.
We offer a separate policy for gadget and leisure equipment you own such as laptops, tablets, mp3 players, cameras, bicycles, fishing tackle, surfboards, tents and much more.
You can also often insure high risk items through your home contents insurance policy to ensure they are covered when you take them away from home.
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Legal expenses cover is offered as an optional extra for an additional fee on top of your static caravan, holiday lodge, or chalet insurance premium.
We understand that some customers use their static caravans, lodges or chalets all year round and just vacate the holiday site when it closes. If this is the case and you do not have a separate home insurance policy, we are able to extend our policy to cater for your needs.
We can provide a range of additional insurance benefits including:- Increase on the 'personal possessions' single item limit from £300 to £1,500
Your static caravan, holiday lodge or chalet must be sited on a licensed holiday park registered with the local authority. If your park has a residential licence and not a holiday licence then you need to take out our park home insurance instead.
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Family members include: husband, wife, civil partner, girlfriend, boyfriend, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, son, daughter, nephew, niece, cousin, brother, sister, and any of the above related through adoption or marriage.
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A £250 excess (or higher if you have selected a higher excess) applies to any damage caused whilst hired out.
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Protected no claim discount is not available for holiday caravans, static caravans, holiday lodges or chalets.
Claims history is a key component for insurers when calculating your premium. Under our static caravan, holiday lodge and chalet insurance policy, we are unable to offer insurance cover if you have made three or more claims within the last three years.
If your park has a block scheme insurance arrangement with Leisuredays, a different limit may have been agreed - please call us to check.
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Yes, we cover hot tubs under our static caravan insurance policy. If they are fixed in the ground or to the structure they would be covered under the 'structure' section of your policy. If they are free standing and could be removed when the caravan is sold then they would be covered under the 'contents' section. It is your responsibility to make sure your total sum insured value takes into account the value of the hot tub.
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An interesting feature on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme today discussed a new online web project, Locating London www.locatinglondon.org
It "allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map."
The site uses several datasets to allow you to build up a picture of what life may have been like within an area of London at a particular time. Choose a dataset and then use a series of powerful filters to control the search eg. women killed in a particular street in a particular year.
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As well as Rocque's map, the more accurate Ordnance Survey 1st Edition Map of London 1863-80 has also been employed for geo-referencing purposes.
Rocque is now mainly remembered for his map of London. He began work on this in 1737 and it was published in 24 printed sheets in 1747. It was by far the most detailed map of London published up to that time, and remains an important historical resource.
The map of London and his other maps brought him an appointment as cartographer to the Prince of Wales in 1751. A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753 he was employing ten draughtsmen, and The Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales appeared. There was a second edition in 1762.
He also surveyed and published maps of Middlesex, Oxford, Barks, & Buckinghamshire in 1760.
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The scammers will typically look for a vehicle where the gel coat is aged and faded, police said.
They will offer unsuspecting owners a new gel coat, saying the vehicle will look "like new" again.
The cost ranges from $50 for a front grill to $1,000 for an entire motorhome, police said.
Once the job is finished, the scammers will tell their customers not to touch the newly applied material for 15 hours, saying the chemical resin could burn fingers or stick like glue.
Some scammers have also brought along a child, asking the owners to look after the child, thereby distracting them while they apply automotive or machinery grease to the vehicle.
Unsuspecting owners have discovered later that they paid up to $1,000 for someone to wipe grease all over their camper or other vehicle.
If left on the vehicle, the grease will collect dirt or become milky if the surface gets wet.
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