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It took me 2 hours of clicking and refreshing to book a camping permit at Havasupai, also known as Havasu Falls, for my partner and a friend (I was out as soon as I heard the words "10-mile hike"). Permits usually sell out for the following year on the day they become available. It's a bit like Black Friday for hardcore nature lovers.Continue reading "Incompetence, inertia, or dark UX at Havasupai?"
I got a job!
It's official! I start next week as a developer for Shepherd Dog, a local consulting firm (announcement on their blog). Continue reading "I got a job!"
Book review: Design for Real Life
I recently had the pleasure of discussing Design for Real Life by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher with a local UX book club. Continue reading "Book review: Design for Real Life"
My take on a Craigslist redesign
Aspiring designers are often encouraged to build their portfolio with their own speculative redesigns of existing websites or apps. Craigslist is a frequent target for such redesigns, and it's easy to see why. Continue reading "My take on a Craigslist redesign"
UX review: Virgin America
I mentioned in a previous post that I'm taking a course on Visual Design from the fine folks at Skillcrush. One of our first assignments was to take a look at Virgin America's website and give our opinion of the site's UX. Continue reading "UX review: Virgin America"
That time I started a fight and got a free phone charger out of it
Disclaimer: results not guaranteed. There may not be a phone charger in it for you if you start a fight. Continue reading "That time I started a fight and got a free phone charger out of it"
Book review: Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg
It's not a book about UX per se, but I think a lot of the ideas in Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg can apply to UX. Continue reading "Book review: Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg"

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Melania killed it on President Trump's protracted romp around the Muslim world, his visit with the Muslim pontiff, and his stop in Israel with Bibi and his klafte of a wife (as in a nag).
Melania deserved to have her moment in the limelight WITHOUT Ivanka (member of the diabolical Javanka duo), who has inserted herself into every issue of state.
As an American Thinker columnist put it, "If you love your father, Ivaka, take your kids and you husband and go back to New York."
RELATED: "What Ivanka Wants, Ivanka Gets."


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Lilac Mars was the ninth story in the anthology Iris Wildthyme of Mars. Written by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, it featured the return of their character Megali Scoblow and the same version of Mars previously explored in their Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel Beige Planet Mars.
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to be added
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- Scoblow returned to Mars in 2613.
- Scoblow is known to the Xlanthi as "Bringer of Tears and Unwelcome Feelings".
- Scoblow has a lifetime ban from the Lego Club of Earth.
Notes Edit
- Megali Scoblow's previous two appearances were also co-written by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham.
- Geb's situation parodies Sutekh's in Pyramids of Mars.
- Geb says that an Egyptian deity has been played by Julian Glover. It's Upuat in the Faction Paradox audio series.
Continuity Edit
- It is mentioned that Scoblow was formerly a professor at Santa Diana University (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars) and formerly the owner of an escort agency on Eros. (AUDIO: Venus Mantrap)
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Do you know the meaning of breakfast? It suggests cracking the 6-8 hour quickly that you maintained while you were sleeping. An excellent morning meal sets the tone for the day. So, avoiding morning meal indicates you failed to lay out your day right. Consuming a healthy and balanced snack early in the morning boosts your metabolic rate as well which implies rapid calorie burning. It has actually been shown in numerous researches that youngsters that consume morning meal on a regular basis have the tendency to execute better in institution than those which skip morning meal. Similarly, grownups also experience a better efficiency if they start their day with a nutritious morning meal.
Morning meal and Weight management
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Geared towards working product managers who need to regularly gather data from different sources to make decisions, this full-day workshop offered by Mind the Product helps participants understand how to adopt a user-driven perspective on measurement, ensuring that your products are optimized for customer success.
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Divided into modules, each topic covered focuses specifically on the role that product managers should play in the process of metrics alignment & implementation: The workshop will be driven by a single business scenario, allowing you to work together in a hands-on way, tackling metrics questions similar to aa real-world situation.The course covers:
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Paintings, Jewellery, Watches, Silver, Asian Art, Ceramics, Glassware & General Items
Auction Venue:
18 The Glenmore Centre, Pent Road, Shearway Business Park,
Shearway Road, Folkestone, CT19 4RH
315 Lots
Unsigned, Nineteenth Century Two Items: Schooners at Sea
7.5 x 10.25 and 7 x 9 ins.,Oil on Canvas. In goodish condition. One painting was framed in Bognor of George IV fame.
Clark, Michael Twentieth Century British, Study for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher Ill in Bed
12 x 10.25 ins., (30.5 x 26 cms.), Etching 4/100 Signed Numbered and Titled in Pencil. Muriel was the famous or possibly infamous owner of the Colony Room frequented by some of the leading 'arts' people of the time. Bacon was a founder member and was paid
Calman, Mel 1931-1994 British AR, Holly Wood
8.25 x 11.5 ins. (21 x 29.25 cms.), Drawing with Pencil, Signed
Heath, Michael John b1935 British AR, (Two Items) Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic; Russia the Last 80 Years
Both 8.5 x 14.5 ins., (21.5 x 37 cms.), Pen and Ink Wash, Signed. Michael Heath is an illustrator and cartoonist. He has worked for many organisations including Private Eye, Punch, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and currently the Spectator.
Heath, Michael John b1935 British AR, Two Items: It's the New Minimalism; It's the Boredom Really
.. 8.5 x 14.5 ins., (21.5 x 37 cms.), Pen and Ink Wash, New Minimalism Titled; Boredom Signed and Title on Separate page, Well, It's the Boredom Really, Mean we're Sitting Around All Day with Nothing Much to Report and Need a Bit of Action, so we Get Wired
Heath, Michael John b1935 British AR, (Three Items) Canapes; Party Policies; President Bush outlines Plans
Canapes: 10 x 11 ins., Pen and Ink wash, Signed. Party Policies: 10 x 14.5 ins., Pen and Ink Wash; President Bush Outlines Plans for Revitalising Russia to Comrade Gorbachev in Moscow, Print, Signed and Titled by Hand.
Heath, Michael John b1935 British AR, (Two Items) Aw Come on Saddam, Give it a Rest, KGB Communism
9 x 13.5 ins., Pen and Ink Wash, Signed; Communism: 8.5 x 14 ins., Pen and Ink Wash plus a small Collage, Signed
Hunt, William 1790-1864 British, The Master of his Realm, a very handsome Cockerel and Chickens
6.25 x 8.5 ins., (16 x 21 cms.), Watercolour, Signed W.HUNT. Good condition
Dali, Salvador 1904-1989 Spanish AR, Michelangelo from Quinze Gravures 1968 (M&L 289)
Drypoint Etching published by Werbungs and Commerz Union Anstalt, Atelier Regal. No hand-signed examples exist. Signed and Titled in the etching.
Roberts, Arthur Spencer 1920-1997 Irish/British AR, Crane
29 x 19.5 ins., (74 x 49.5 cms.), Pastel, Signed
Guercino 1591-1666 Circle of, Italian, Mary Magdalene
48 x 36 ins., (122 x 91.5 cms.), Oil on Canvas. Two Christies stock numbers printed verso and a date in wax chalk of 28 February 1964. The painting was offered for sale by Christies on that date. The pose of an attractive girl looking in rapture to heaven
£2000 - £3000
Paris Street Scene, Illegible Signature
24 x 36 ins., (61 x 91.5cms.), Oil on Canvas, There is a small amount of damage, which can easily be patched.
Millais, William Henry 1828-1899 British, Frensham Lakes
16.25 x 25 ins., (41 x 63.5 cms.), Watercolour, Signed and Titled
Renoir A, Nineteenth Century French, Flowers in a Vase
23 x 17 ins., (58.5 x 43.25 cms.), Print on Canvas, Signed and Dated 1866. The painting is begging for a clean.
Unsigned a Young Couple in a Glade
Oil on Canvas, 25.5 x 21 ins., (65 x 53.5 cms.), Oil on Canvas
Tahit? A Turkish Scene
16.5 x 21 ins., (42 x 53.5 cms.), Water Colour, Signed
£30 - £50
Unsigned, Charming scene of a young girl in front of a mirror
10.75 x 8.75 ins., (27.5 x 22 cms.), Oil on Board. Good condition
£50 - £90
Leuers, Jeanette b1942 French Child in a Boat
8 x 10 ins., (20.5 x 25.5 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed
Poleino? Italian? Young Woman Smiling
10.25 x 8.25 ins., (26 x 21 cms.) Oil on Canvas, Signed but very hard to read.
Porzenalo Young Woman gently smiling
10.25 x 8.25 ins., (26 x 21 Cms.), Oil on Canvas, Signed but very hard to read.
Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century Portrait of a young Girl
16.5 x 13 ins., (42 x 33 cms.), Oil on Canvas. The bottom half of the painting is in terrible condition. A purchaser would have two choices. Choice one would be simply to cut off the damaged part. Choice two would need a full restoration. The actual portra
£50 - £90
Thurrel P, Twentieth Century British, Seagulls
16 x 20 ins., (40.5 x 51 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed
Johnson E, (Signature is very hard to read) Nineteenth/Twentieth Century British, Ships in Stormy Weather
5.5 x 12 ins., (14 x 30.5 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed. This is a charming active painting.
Sherrin, Daniel 1891-1971 British AR, The Beach
9 x 18 ins., (23 x 45.75 cms.), Watercolour, Signed
Millais, William Henry 1828-1899 British, Dolgelly
26 x 19 ins., (66 x 48.25 cms.), Watercolour, Signed and Titled. Also a photograph of the painting (Two items) Dollgelly is a fine example of Millais at his best. The spelling Dolgelly has been used because that is what he wrote, not Dolgellau as it is now
£800 - £1200
Fox, Henry Charles 1855?-1929 British, Farmer bringing the Cattle Home
21 x 14.25 ins., (53.5 x 36 cms.), Watercolour, Signed and Dated 1912. Good condition no fading.
Pevil, Charles Twentieth Century British Juan les Pins
10.5 x 14 ins., (26.75 x 35.5 cms.), Watercolour on Card, Signed and Titled
£40 - £60
Tahir Twentieth Century Turkish Istanbul
10.25 x 15.75 ins., (26.5 x 40 cms.), Watercolour, Signed
Brangwyn, Frank 1867-1956 British AR, Albi
11.5 x 10.25 ins., (29 x 26 cms.), Two plate Etching and Drypoint. Signed. Provenance: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1 and the late Sir Richard Parsons.
Henning, Keith Twentieth Century British AR, Sitting Room Door
18 x 7.5 ins., (45 x 19.75 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed. Label verso: NEAC stating name and address of the artist and Title. Sold at the NEAC for 8, 8 shillings.
Piper, John 1903-1992 British AR, Gedney, Lincolnshire
595 x 820mm, Lithograph drawn on stone, Printed on Crisbrook Waterleaf paper with full margins 595 x 820mm (sheet size).Signed in pencil lower right, an un-numbered archive proof aside from the edition of 70. Printed in the Curwen Studio, London 1964. Part
Piper, John 1903-1992 British AR, Exton, Rutland
743 x 515 mmm, Lithograph drawn on Stone, Printed on Crisbrook Waterleaf paper with full margins 59.5 x 82.0 cms. (Sheet size), Signed in Pencil lower right. an un-numbered archive proof aside from the edition of 70 printed at the Curwen Studio, London 196
Christophorou, 1921-2014 British/Greek/French AR, Words with the Past
45 x 17.5 ins., (114.25 x 44.5 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed, Label verso: Title, Artist and Date 1960, Bought by Mr. J.Sankey.
£800 - £1200
Kelly, Philip 1950-2010 British/Irish AR, Angel of the Revolution
36 x 25 (71 x 56 cms.), Oil Pastel, Signed. Label verso: RA Summer Exhibition 1993. Phil had an interesting early career - expelled from Rugby, travelled to Africa, qualified with a BA in Art and French at Bristol University in 1973 and then did many and v
£500 - £700
Cockrill, Maurice 1936-2013 British AR, Generation 9
36 x 24 ins., (91.5 x 61 cms.), Oil on Canvas Signed, Titled, Dated 1993 verso. In many ways I consider Maurice's work in the early nineties some of his best.
Cockrill, Maurice 1936-2013 British AR, Untitled
12 x 16 ins., (30.5 x 40.5 cms.), Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated verso
£350 - £650
Newington, Charles Contemporary British AR, Lake Ceremony (Kerala)
6 x 8 ins., (15.5 x 20.25 cms.), Oil on Panel, Signed with Monogram CN, Signed and Titled verso. Charles wrote: 'The little Indian drawing shows a magical moment as devotees are blessed by the elephant on the edge of a river in the deep jungle of Kerala. T
£150 - £200
Newington, Charles Contemporary British AR, Passing Tales
10.5 x 15.5 ins., (16.75 x 39.5 cms.), Drypoint Etching, Signed. Charles was asked to produce a work for an exhibition in Canterbury Museum in 2000, the six hundredth anniversary of Chaucer's death. Passing Tales based on the travels of Chaucer was a celeb
£150 - £250
Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie 1890-1978 British AR, Portrait of Lydia
7.75 x 6 ins., (19 x 15 cms.), Etching, Signed in Pencil. (At the date of this etching it was not customary to number sets of prints. They were hand pulled, so very large numbers were impossible.) Brockhurst's etching technique was so fine, it was often mi
£120 - £190
Daws, Lawrence M b1927 Australian, Tree
42 x 29 ins., (106.5 x 73.5 cms.), Signed and Titled 'Linoprint for Adrian'. Adrian is the son of Neville Weston, Daws's biographer. Provenance: The picture comes from the family of Neville Weston.
Daws, Lawrence M
b1927 Australian, Cain, Promised Land Series. 29.5 x 39.5 ins., (75 x 100.5 cms.), Charcoal and Ink, Signed. Provenance: The painting belonged to the family of Neville Weston, the biographer of Lawrence Daws.
Lear, Edward 1812-1888 British, Calvi Corsica
28. 9.5 x 13.25 ins., (24 x 34 cms.), Watercolour, Signed with monograph LE. Lear was a great traveller and visited Corsica on a number of occasions. There is some foxing in the painting, which can easily be removed.
Russell, John 1745-1806 British, Portrait of a Young Girl eating a Sweet Meat with a Dog
24.5 x 17.5 ins., (62.5 x 44.5 cms.), Pastel. The picture is in good condition. Label verso stating name of painter and subject covered by backboard. A charming touch is a large crumb on the edge of the child's mouth from her food so typical of children.
Galt, Alexander Milligan 1913-2000 British AR, Shire Horse
12.5 x 17.25 ins., 31.75 x 43.75 cms.), Oil on Canvas, Signed. Galt was one of he Scottish Colourists and highly regarded by other painters.
Indefinite Signature, Contemporary British AR Quadra 1
Mixed Media Print with hand coloured additions, Signed with impossible to read signature, Very good condition and excellent frame.
Oleg (Zhivetin) b 1964 Russian Invitation under the Moon
22 x 28 ins., (56 x 71 cms.), Signed in Gold Pen 146/195, Mixed Media print with Hand Coloured Additions. Label verso with full details.
Csaba Markus b1953 Hungarian/American, Cassandra
19.25 x 11.25 ins., (49 x 28.5 cms.), Mixed Media Print with Hand Coloured Additions, Signed AP6/30
Treby, Janet b1955 British AR Lovers Post
27.5 x 20.5 ins., (70 x 52cms.), Mixed Media Original Print, Signed in Gold Pen, 52/250. Very good condition
Csaba Markus b1953 Hungarian/ American, Eros
34 x 24 ins., (86.5 x 61 cms.), Mixed Media Print with Hand Coloured Additions, Signed, Artist's Proof. Csaba Marcus now lives in America to further his career.
Whittington J
. Nineteenth/Twentieth Century British AR, Spaniels. 11 x 19 ins., (28 x 48.5 cms.), Charcoal. Signed and Dated 1903
Spurling J, 1871-1933 British Two items: Sovereign of the Seas and James Baines
Both 13.25 x 16.25 ins., (33.5 x 41 cms.), offset Lithographs, Signed in the Print. Good condition.
David Lucas 1802-1881 British Dedham Vale Painted by John Constable Esq RA
Engraved by David Lucas, 22.5 x 19.25 ins., (57 x 49 cms.) Written along the bottom of the print: This LANDSCAPE Engraved from a Painting by JOHN CONSTABLE Esq RA is by permission most respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant Thomas Boys. London Re
Treby, Janet b1955 British AR Moon Dance
14 x 15.75 ins., (35.5 x 40 cms.), Mixed Media Print with Hand Coloured additions, Signed in Gold.
Csaba Markus 1953 Hungarian/American Ulyana's Dream
26.75 x 17 ins., (68 x 43 cms.), Mixed Media Print with Hand Coloured Additions. Good condition
We are very happy to offer a large private collection of Miniature paintings almost all oil paint on ivory
From King George IV, the greediest king, to Ferrers the last Earl to be hung for murder, they make a very interesting collection. Brighty GM Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century British The King (George IV). 5 x4 cms., Oil on Ivory, Signed verso with title and da
Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudeley, Brother of Jane Seymour, Queen of England
10 x 7.5 cms., Oil on Ivory, After Hans Holbein 1497-1543. The Seymour family had become leading citizens in the reign of Henry VIII reaching their pinnacle when Henry married Jane Seymour. Sadly she died with post natal problems only a year after marrying
Portrait of a Soldier, Eighteenth Century
2.5 x 2 cms., Oil on Ivory, Very good condition. This is a quality miniature.
Nineteenth Century Portrait of an Officer with Red Jacket and Sash
7.5 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory, Good Condition, no fading.
Portrait of a Beautiful Young Woman
6.5 x 5 cms., Oil on Ivory. A charming and touching portrait of an attractive young woman.
Portrait of a Gentleman, early Nineteenth Century
5.25 x 4,25 cms., Oil on Ivory, Good Condition
A Seventeenth Century Gentleman with a blue coat and white ruff
7.25 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory,
Nineteenth Century Serving Officer with medals looking pensive
8.25 x 6.25 cms., Oil on Ivory, Good condition
Young Woman with a Bonnet and Rose in her Hair
5 x 4 cms., Oil on Ivory, Eighteenth Century painting. Very good condition.
Early Eighteenth Century Portrait of an Attractive Young Lady with a Hair Band
6.25 x 6.25 cms., Oil on Ivory
Maria Teale wife of George Webb, Captain
6 x 5 cms., Oil on Ivory, Early Nineteenth Century
Gentleman with a smart Moustache
8.75 x 6.5 cms., Oil on Ivory, Well framed
£200 - £400
Portrait of an Older Man with Blue Sky behind him
8 x 7 cms., oil on ivory
Portrait of a Man, early Nineteenth Century
5 x 4 cms., Oil on Ivory
Portrait of a Lady Seated by Leroi with a Landscape Background
9 x 7 cms., Oli on Ivory. A flamboyant frame with small damage
£300 - £600
A very high quality portrait of an Elegant Lady holding a Rose by M
e Brun.9 x 7 cms., Oil on Ivory, Good frame.
Portrait of an Indian Princess
8 x 6.75 cms., Oil on Ivory, Nineteenth Century.
Portrait of a Young Girl looking over her Shoulder
7 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory. The subject of a portrait looking over her shoulder was a device used by Dutch painters in the seventeenth century particularly to give greater perspective, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer being a wonderful example. The portr
Portrait of a Young Man
7 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory, Nineteenth Century
Portrait of an Attractive Woman
9.5 x 7.5 cms., Oil on Ivory, Nineteenth Century
A Portrait of a Young Woman with tumbling hair
6.5 x 5.5 cms., Oil on Ivory.
Portrait of an English Gentleman
7 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory.
£150 - £350
Thatcher CF Eighteenth Century British, Portrait of Ferrers, Laurence Shirley Fourth Earl
7 x 6 cms., Oil on Ivory. Ferrers has the dubious distinction of being the last peer of the realm to be hung for murder. Ferrers had a violent temper and in a drunken fit shot Johnson, his old steward. In 1750 he was hung after a trial by his peers. To no
Portrait of a Nineteenth Century Beauty
9 x 7 cms., Oil on Ivory. Very well framed.
Preston C Nineteenth Century British Boats on a Beach
30 x 50 ins., (76.25 x 127 cms.), Oil on Canvas, Signed. Well framed
Preston C Nineteenth Century British Boats Sailing past a Harbour
30 x 50 ins., (76.25 x 127 cms.), Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Bought as a pair with Boats on the Beach by the vendor many years ago.
Miniature painting of a Man Fishing watched by a Dog
11 x 8.5 cms.), The scene is almost certainly in the Netherlands, Ink and ink wash, good condition. The perky dog adds a lot to the image.
David Lucas 1802-1881 British Lock Keeper Painted by John Constable Esq
RA Engraved by David Lucas. 22.5 x 19.25 ins., (57 x 49 cms.) Written along the bottom of the print: This LANDSCAPE Engraved from a Painting by JOHN CONSTABLE Esq RA is by permission most respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant Thomas Boys. London
After John Hoffner, Watercolour Lord Horatio Nelson, 8
x 7 ins., (21.5 x 18cms.), Framed
Shepherd, Sidney Horne 1909-1993 British AR Standing Woman
11 x 8 ins., (28 x 20.5 cms.), Pencil, Signed in Ink
£40 - £60
Bratby, John Randall 1928-1992 British AR Carnival Venice
48 x 36 ins., (122 x 91.5 cms.), Oil on Canvas, Signed top left. Very good condition.
£2000 - £3000
Chatten, Geoffrey Contemporary British AR Drifter Lydia Evans
32 x 50 ins., (81.25 x 127 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed and Titled verso. Drifter Lydia Evans is a relatively early work by Geoffrey showing great empathy for the sea and those who work on it.
Chatten, Geoffrey Contemporary British AR, Off to the Fishing Grounds
32 x 50 ins., (81.25 x 127 cms.), Oil on Board, Signed and Titled verso.
Breitling Top Time gold plated chronograph watch
Circa 1960s. The 36 mm round case with black dial, gold hour and minute hands, silver subsidiary seconds dial at 9 o'clock, baton markers, outer 1/5th minute track and chronograph complication with centre seconds hand and silver subsidiary minutes dial at 3 o'clock. Black leather strap with pin buckle clasp. This watch is currently working having been serviced and fitted with a replacement perspex glass in December 2017.
£1000 - £1500
Silver hunter pocket watch with Albert chain
Key-wind, key-set movement. The 41 mm engraved case with white dial, blued hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock, Roman numerals and outer one minute track. Complete with silver Albert chain, winding key and fob.
£30 - £40
9 ct yellow gold open face pocket watch with Albert chain
Stem-wind, stem-set movement. The 48 mm case with white dial, blued hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock, Arabic numerals and outer one minute track. Complete with 9 ct yellow gold Albert chain and bloodstone and cornelian set fob.
£350 - £450
18 ct yellow gold full hunter pocket watch by Thomas Russell & Son, Liverpool
Stem-wind, stem-set seven jewel movement. The 49 mm case with white enamel dial, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o' clock, Roman numerals and outer one minute track. Chester hallmarks for 1916.
£600 - £800
Omega gold plated watch
The 33 mm round case with silver dial, gold hour, minute and second hands, baton markers, outer one minute track and date aperture at 3 o'clock on a brown leather strap with pin buckle clasp. Currently not working.
£70 - £90
Omega Constellation stainless steel quartz watch
The cushion shaped case measuring 32 x 30 mm with black dial, steel hour and minute hands and baton markers on a mesh link bracelet with folding clasp. Not currently working.
Movado 18 ct yellow gold diamond set lady's watch
Manual wind movement. The 17 mm round case with silver dial, gold hour and minute hands and baton markers on a single cut diamond set gold mesh link bracelet with folding clasp. London import marks for 1977.
£250 - £350
Rolex Precision 18 ct yellow gold lady's watch
Manual wind movement. The 15 mm round case with gold dial, gold hour and minute hands and dot and baton markers on an integrated gold snake chain bracelet with folding clasp. Glasgow import marks for 1957. With Rolex box.
£250 - £350
Tissot Visodate Seastar Seven 9 ct yellow gold watch
Automatic movement. The 33 mm round case with silver dial, gold hour, minute and second hands, baton markers, outer one minute track and date aperture a 3 o'clock on a gold mesh link bracelet with sliding clasp.
£280 - £380
Omega 9 ct yellow gold watch
Manual wind movement. Circa 1987. The 34 mm round case with silver dial, gold hour, minute and second hands and baton markers on a gold mesh link bracelet with sliding clasp. With box and papers.
£300 - £400
18 ct yellow gold double Albert chain
Length 367 mm. Weight 37.8 grams.
£700 - £900
Jewellery box
With hinged lid opening to reveal a mirror with upper tier and three drawers, one with a removable box. Measures 287 mm wide x 167 mm high x 187 mm deep.
£10 - £20
Collection of jewellery
Comprising a pair of 9 ct yellow gold drop earrings, drop length 32 mm; a 9 ct yellow gold cat's eye ring; ring size M; and a paste ring, ring size J.
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Enter stage right the venerable Nayland smith himself, chasing this fiend from the orient. It would be generous to say that he is the very embodiment of crumbling empire. To modern eyes and ears he comes across as little more than a swaggering colonialist stooge whose tawdry and mean spirited observations about the dangers of the" yellow peril" and other ethnic visitors to the shores of Albion make him sound like a bit of a John Bull when he is actually a more layered character than that. I suppose you have to allow for the ignorance of the age and look with kinder eyes than that. (Not forgive, just understand and be glad it is over.Well, it should be.) and enjoy the rip roaring boys own quality of the writing and the home grown swarthy exuberance of Sax Rohmer. A one man tsunami of exotic adventures on the fog soaked cobbles of old London Town there is a lot to enjoy.One can only hope that in time he also saw the mind boggling scarlet inking that passed for racial understanding and appreciation of ethnic diversity within his stories as the Stereotype Sax Rohmer helped create was reinforced by the success of the stories in this book. The stories had previously appeared elsewhere but were collected in this incredibly successful first volume. Their influence has bled down through the culture over the decades since the stories saw print coloring everything from pulp serials to other iconic dramas such as the adventures of the good doctor. Who could ever forget the absolute classic Talons Of Weng Chiang, a veritable tick-box of ripperesque phantasmagoria..
You have heard Nayland Smith's words with regard to Doctor Fu Manchu now here are the Devil Doctor's words about himself; "Out of Fire I Came-The Smoldering Fire Of A Thing One Day To Be a Consuming Flame. Into Fire I Go.Seek Not My Ashes, I Am The Lord Of The Fires..."
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Fire Ant Video FAIL
I have lazy fire ants…
does anyone know of a natural insecticide for fire ants and ticks?
WE have tried several insecticides from walmart. The spray works only for a few hours. The crystals you pour on the ant hills doesn't work they just move somewhere else. They comeout after the rain. They are very numberous and bits leaving scars! We even tried pouring gasoline on the hills and lighting them on fire. Caused fire to come out in other places. These hills are from 4 to 5 feel long and about 24 inches high.
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FROZEN CROWN Join Nine Lives Entertainment Roster; Tour Dates To Be Announced Soon
September 15, 2018, 2 years ago
Italian power metallers Frozen Crown, signed to Scarlet Records, have checked in with the following update:
"We're extremely proud to announce we've joined Nine Lives Entertainment roster, amongst names like Stratovarius, HammerFall, Gamma Ray and many more. This means that to all of you asking if we're going to play in your country, we can finally answer 'Yes, we will!' Many tour dates are going to be announced very soon, and we can't wait to share them with you!
Of course we're extremely grateful with all of you guys! The reason why we got in touch with one of the bigger international booking agencies is only because of your INCREDIBLE support! It's only the beginning. See you on tour!"
Nine Lives Entertainment has issued the following statement:
"We warmly welcome this very talented young Italian band. Trying to find a great band which has a unique style and approach to its music is a job for a very patient and observant man or at least a very lucky one! We at Nine Lives Entertainment think that we've been pretty lucky this time to discover our new act Frozen Crown and proudly announce that the female fronted power metal band will be part of our artist roster from now on.
The Italian group has been founded in their home town Milan and released their debut album, The Fallen King, on February 9th, 2018. Their epic power metal which features both female and male vocals is marked by the impressive virtuosity of guitars and keyboard, intense and beautiful melodies as well as the clear and mellow voice of lead singer Giada Etro. Listening to their songs, it got more and more obvious to us, that we found something very special!"
Frozen Crown recently released an offcial video for their new single, "Everwinter". Check it out below.
Frozen Crown released their debut album The Fallen King on February 9th. They recently checked in with the following update:
"When we started all this, we couldn't expect our debut album to sell so many copies. Your amazing support made it possible for us to go further and give The Fallen King a new incarnation. From today, a limited, 350 copies signed version of our debut album is available in vinyl on our BigCartel store! Thanks for setting this milestone with us. We owe you everything!"
"Fail No More"
"To Infinity"
"I Am The Tyrant"
"The Shieldmaiden"
"Chasing Lights"
"Queen Of Blades"
"Across The Sea"
Check out the band's official Facebook page here.
Frozen Crown are:
Giada "Jade" Etro - lead and backing vocals
Federico Mondelli - vocals, guitars, keys
Talia Bellazecca - guitar
Filippo Zavattari - bass
Alberto Mezzanotte - drums


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Over the years Smartec has brought a wide variety of products on the market. Starting with the temperature sensor in the beginning of the 90's, now we have included over fifty sensors in our portfolio.
What is a Smart sensor without software? A customer can find all kinds of software applications in the supportshop on our website; all the software is free to use and virus free.
In more than 25 years of sensor production, we noticed that a designer prefers more than a sensor a solution for his sensor problem, what lead in writing of rather complicated software and hardware by themselves.
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For quick design-in of sensor solutions there are modules exclusively developed by our own laboratories, they include easy to use evaluation software and hardware for the customers convenience.
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Is Fasting Safe?
Does Fasting, like, work?
- Improved insulin sensitivity – the more insulin sensitive you are, the better your body utilises glucose (carbs/sugar). The better your body utilises glucose the less chance of developing type II diabetes.
- Cellular repair – when you fast the body undergoes a cellular repair process that removes any waste and toxic material from the cells.
- Improved brain health and cognition
- Helps you differentiate between *actual* hunger and *mental* hunger – there's a tendency to feel a bit of hunger and immediately rush off to satisfy it. The truth is, this hunger is more often than not just a habit and not actual hunger. Fasting for short periods helps you differentiate between this impulse to eat and actual, physical hunger.
- Builds Discipline and Mental Resilience – I've spoken about this ad nauseam but I use fasting as a tool to build mental resilience and control impulse. We've become accustomed to feeling hunger and immediately running off to satisfy this feeling. Learning to sit and not be controlled by your impulses is going to pay dividends not only to your dieting goals but other goals, too.
- It can help suppress appetite
Hey, internet human. I know you were all up in the article enjoying it and what not. Well, this article has been turned into a complete book and you can download a copy for absolutely free, by clicking the image below.
Now, let's be clear. by downloading the book you will be added to my email list.
HOWEVER. this isn't one of those lame email lists where you're emailed every day being pitched things you don't even need because that's lame.
No. This is one of those awesome email lists where you look forward to opening and reading because you learn something new.
Don't take my word for it. Here's what my subscribers are saying.
I asked my email list how they would describe me (and my emails) to a friend. Here's what a handful said.
"Bro, you're killing these posts and articles man! Keep doing what you do. You don't understand how much I look forward to these emails I see in my inbox on a new article or round-up." – Raj Rajakumar
"Aadam's writing is entertaining enough you don't need to find nutrition and fitness entertaining to be entertained…plus he breaks the information down so you don't need an effin' degree to benefit from his articles.
To be honest, I think I actually described you this way to my hubby: 'Dude knows his shit, is entertaining as hell, super helpful, and not a d-bag. Bonus points: has an accent'" – Shauna Emery
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I was the victim of a form of identity theft - twice.
I'm not particularly proud of this fact. On both occasions, my credit card numbers were stolen. The first time, someone pilfered my account to ring up betting charges in Europe. The second time, the villain went on a shopping spree at an office-supply store.
Although I didn't have to pay for any of the fraudulent charges, I discovered there's a lot I could have done to prevent this from happening and avoid potential damage to my credit rating.
Due to the increased use of online shopping, tougher credit standards, and the relative ease of this felony - known as the "gunless robbery" - identity theft will get worse. Some 10 million people a year are victims, according to the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in $50 billion of lost business.
Todd Davis, chief executive of LifeLock
Inc., an identity-theft protection company in Tempe, Ariz., estimates that half of all such robberies are committed by organized crime. The other half are through "social engineering, that is, people like waiters and waitresses, dumpster divers going through trash, your friends and family."
What's vexing to consumers is the time lost in trying to repair their standing with credit agencies and fixing collateral damage.
The first time I was ripped off, my phone company mistakenly shut off my Internet and landlines because I was being billed to a credit card account that had to be closed.
The best way to prevent identity theft is to monitor your credit carefully:
Look at your credit report at least twice a year and well in advance of a major installment loan or mortgage application. You can do a cursory check of all three agencies at annualcreditreport.com.
Immediately report any errors and keep a close eye on whether any unauthorized applications for credit were opened recently. That's a red flag that someone may have stolen your data.
Don't offer your credit card or driver's license numbers to an organization you don't know and never provide your Social Security details unless it's absolutely required by a trusted firm.
If you want to get an extra layer of protection, enroll in extended fraud protection programs. They will scan your accounts and credit files constantly for unusual billing.
Want to take it a step further? Shred any documents or mail that may have account or personal information on it. Use "virtual" credit card numbers provided by your bank for online purchases, if available.
Should you discover that you have been victimized, notify your credit card company immediately and close your account. Also file a report with your local police department.
The bank will send you an affidavit to notarize for any charges you haven't incurred. Document the fraudulent ones and send it back immediately.
While filing an affidavit to note scam charges is part of the process, you need to follow up with credit bureaus to ensure these billings are taken out of their scorings. In other words, you need to see that they "rescore" once you have cleared up your accounts.
The larger problem with identity theft is that it may sabotage your credit standing. Say a thief uses your card number and charges more than your credit limit. That lowers your rating and may make you ineligible for loans.
Need credit immediately after fixing your record? Ask the credit bureaus to do "rapid" rescoring.
To lock down your credit information, you can request that a "freeze" be put on your file through the three major bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. This will prevent anyone from accessing your information.
Keep in mind that if you request a freeze, you will need to unfreeze before you apply for more credit.
"I wouldn't recommend a freeze unless you have a need for it," says Gerri Detweiler, a credit adviser with credit.com, a consumer website. "That would include going through a nasty divorce or dealing with a lost or stolen wallet."
John F. Wasik is a Bloomberg News columnist.
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In this lesson I will talk about hyperbilirubinemia and your role in care of this patient.
So what is hyperbilirubinemia? It is high bilirubin. Ok what is bilirubin? Bilirubin is form in the liver from broken down red blood cells. The bilirubin is then excreted into the feces. Why is this a common problem in newborns? Well a few things, the newborns didn't have to worry about doing this when they were in utero and now they sometimes have an immature liver that is trying to do its job. They might have bruising from delivery which means more broken down red blood cells. They might not be feeding great which means they aren't stooling alot and excreting the bilirubin. There are two classifications, pathological and physiological jaundice to understand.
So our pathological versus physiological. Pathological jaundice appears within the first 24 hours of life and it indicates that there is a pathological process going on. This means something else other than this normal process. So this could be a blood incompatibility between mom and baby and blood mixture has occurred. If the baby has maternal blood that doesn't match then he is going to work hard to break down those red blood cells which means there will be more broken down red blood cells. Another cause could be a diseased liver. It is working properly. So pathological jaundice will requires further investigation and assessment. Physiological jaundice starts the 2nd or 3rd day of life and can be expected as this normal transition from placenta doing the work to the baby's liver. Causes of this are bruising from delivery. So bruising is broken down red blood cells so if we have extra of these it is adding to the work of the liver and the baby can not excrete it quick enough. Prematurity because the liver is just immature and not able to keep up. Breastfeeding is another cause because the baby isn't getting enough to stool enough and get the bilirubin excreted. Our concern for anytime of jaundice is if it goes untreated and levels rise to dangerous levels then kernicterus could occur which is brain damage.
This newborn is going to be assessed like normal with the head to toe assessment but you will observe jaundice on a patient with hyperbilirubinemia. So yellowing of the skin and sclera. This starts at the head usually and as it builds the yellow color spreads from head to extremities. So they might be a touch yellow on face and then as you see it move down to the diaper area it is rising. You need to have good lighting and really assess the skin. If jaundice coloring happens in first 24 hours it is a red flag that we have pathological problems so notify the doctor to draw a bilirubin. Once you have your bilirubin level from the lab you can graph it. This is how you will assess if phototherapy is needed. So let me draw this graph for you. On one side we have the bilirubin level on the other it is the hours of life. And you plot your number and it will either fall in the low risk, ow intermediate, high-intermediate, or high risk. High risk levels needs phototherapy. You do need a physician order for phototherapy but at least you will know to expect that we need to light the kid up. There is some variant based on different labs or if it is a pathological issue but a total level of 12 mg/dl at day 2 to 3 is usually high risk with critical being greater than 15 mg/dl.
Management is going to be frequent feeding. We need the baby to stay hydrated and get enough volume so that the baby will stool more. The more they eat the more they excrete, right? We will initiate phototherapy treatment if levels are high enough. Education is important if the lights are started. The baby needs to wear protective goggles over their eyes and stay under the light. So you can see in this image the goggles on the eyes. I just wanted you to have an idea of what that was and have a visual. The googles protect their eyes from the light and it is funny because when you take them out from the light to assess them or draw labs you remove the goggles and can see a yellow ring around their eyes like a racoon. That is always a good sign that the bilirubin is coming down. The babies hate being under this light because they have no clothes on, they are un-swaddled and can't be held. So it can be quite miserable for them and the parents. But if they don't stay under this light it will get worse.
Human development is a concept because if this is pathological then it is related to development, liver metabolism because it is working to excrete the bilirubin and nutrition because we need the baby well fed and hydrated to excrete the bilirubin.
So on to the important facts. Remember these and you will have a good grasp of what this is. We have high bilirubin levels in the blood. The bilirubin comes from broken down red blood cells. It is secreted by the liver so if we have anything that causes a lot of broken down red blood cells like bruising or blood incompatibility and an immature liver then the bilirubin can't be excreted fast enough. This will cause jaundice to occur and our treatment is phototherapy to reduce the bilirubin.
Make sure you check out the resources attached to this lesson and review the differences between physiological and pathological. Now, go out and be your best selves today. And, as always, happy nursing.


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It has been noted that there is an increase of click frauds taking place with Google Adwords and other PPC campaigns. A lot of researchers have estimated that as of 2008, there were about more than $1.6 billion that occurred. Click fraud arises when a competitor may be clicking on your ads to crack your ad budget, or when an individual installs a web robot or spider to generate fraudulent clicks on your ads.
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15 Nov Huawei Mate 20 Pro is here!
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is finally here and I'm ready!
It's no secret that I am a little bit obsessed with Huawei smartphones. I have one and although there's a couple of other smartphones out there that I fancy, Huawei is my main chick. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro launched a couple of weeks ago and I'm excited.
I'm looking for a good price on a new one, so if anyone knows of any good Black Friday deals on this, please let me know.
We attended the Huawei Mate 20 Pro launch at the end of October. I must give it to the Huawei team, they are terribly good at putting on a show when they launch new products – it's always big and dramatic – which I love.
A dance performance started off the evening which lead to a very dramatic entry onto stage for one of the Huawei spokespeople. Honestly, I couldn't wait to hear all about the new addition to the family.
The features
Besides the usual things that Huawei get right like a battery that lasts forever and great cameras, here's a couple of highlights for me:
- Reverse charging. This means that with your (still) full battery, you can charge your friends' smartphones with yours. I am looking at all you iPhone users who constantly seem to be charging your phones. Don't worry, we got you
- Speaking of charging, it charges from 0 to 70% in just 30 minutes – oh and you can do this through wireless charging
- Instead of just taking a pic of your food to let your Instagram followers know that you are in fact eating, you can now take a picture and it will tell you exactly how many calories you're about to consume. I'm not so sure how I feel about this one, but it might improve my eating habits
- It's water and dust resistant – I do wish they would make a waterproof one though
- It's the world's first smartphone to support super fast wifi download speeds
- Super accurate GPS
- It has leica triple camera which is powered by AI – all you need to know is that you have 40, 20 and 8 MP to take the most amazing pictures and videos. Also an ultra wide lens allows you to capture wider image
These are merely what stood out for me, but you can read up on the rest. Pretty impressive though!
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While everyone else had digital cameras, I was the only old school "photographer" with my Canon A1 and 2 rolls of film.
At the lab I have only printed out this photo for which I have to thank James and his eye for detail!
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EDITOR: THE PA seems even more lost than ever before
In the article by Barak Ravid, the confusion, despair and hopelessness by the collaborationist PA seems clearer than ever. For two long and useless decades, the PA has built its position of the sand of US and Israeli promises, so it is now conditioned too deeply to rethink its inaction and passivity. It meant the PA is reactionary in the deepest sense of the word – it always reacts, almost never initiates. Even when a year ago it came up with the UN recognition policy, it immediately started pulling back, even before the massive US pressure was being applied. If you build on Israeli good will, what can you expect? The only real goal of Israeli policy since 1967, was and stays the retention of control over the whole of Palestine, directly or indirectly, while trying to get rid of its people by a variety of means, all illegal. Failing to ralise this, or playing along with it, as the PA has done, is a suicidal policy for Palestine to adopt.
In the meantime, the blockade and attacks over Gaza continue unabated, with misery in the area seemingly without an end in sight, and with no international action to bring it to a close. The hopes some have had since the start of the Arab Spring and the fall of Mubarak in Egypt, seem to have petered out altogether – while affecting some real changes in Egypt, Mursi seem to have a blank spot when it comes to Gaza. He speaks well on the subject, but avoids any action to remove the blockade. Various reports below describe the desperate situation in Gaza.
As Israeli elections near, Palestinians feel nothing but despair: Haaretz
Some 19 years after Oslo, both the PA leadership and the average Palestinian have lost hope in the peace process.
RAMALLAH – On Monday, Yossi Beilin sat alongside Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a convention hall in Mukataa, and waxed nostalgic. "We used to work without the Americans," he said. "Clinton heard about Oslo two weeks before the White House ceremony." Abbas, a bitter smile on his face, corrected him. "A week before," he said.
Some 19 years after that historic event, the despair in Ramallah has never seemed deeper. It is ingrained in the faces of Abbas and his advisers, who met on Sunday with the delegation of the Geneva Initiative, which include Knesset members, mayors, and political activists from Labor, Kadima, Meretz, and the Likud. MKs from Shas had also planned to attend, but cancelled at the last minute. On the eve of elections, a picture with Abbas could only do damage.
The Palestinian delegation was at a loss. Last year's United Nations Security Council move failed, and the move planned for this year isn't garnering international interest. When Abbas spoke before the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, the hall was half empty. The average Palestinian has also lost hope in the peace process. He's given up hopes of ending the Israeli occupation, and has directed his frustration over the economic crisis at Abbas and his Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad.
The upcoming Israeli elections only served to enhance the depression in Mukataa. As the Likud campaign focuses on the Iranian issue, the Labor party on the price of cottage cheese and cucumbers, and as Yair Lapid pushes the amorphous idea of "a new method," the Palestinians understand that they do not interest the Israeli public, or its elected officials.
"Never have I felt more desperation in the Palestinian streets than I feel today," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary of the active committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the frustration could be seen on his face as well. "When I talk today about the two state solution, people look at me like I'm crazy, like I've said that [Foreign Minister Avigdor] Lieberman is the Secretary General of the Geneva Convention," continued Abed Rabbo.
The head of the Palestinian negotiation team, Saeb Erekat, doesn't stop smiling, but displays the same despair. He says that he recommended to Abbas that he return the keys to Netanyahu. "The Palestinian Authority is broken anyway, so we might as well make it official," he said.
Will this despair plant the seeds of a third intifada? Abbas stressed on Sunday in front of the MKs that a return to terror is not an option, though he hinted that a continuation of the deadlock could lead to further deterioration. "No one knows what could happen if the Arab Spring reaches us," he said. "It has reached Jordan, and look what has happened in Syria – there is chaos everywhere."
His advisers are even more pessimistic. "The Palestinian citizen sees that the national political process is completely blocked, so he focuses on his day to day life," said Abed Rabbo to the MKs. "But eventually he'll forget, and it will blow up in our faces."
Abbas is in despair over Netanyahu. "He has ruined the two state solution," stressed Abbas. "Now there are more and more Palestinians talking about one state." He is steadfast in his determination to approach the UN General Assembly, to attain observer-state status for Palestine. Apparently, this will happen in late November. The day after, he told the MKs, he will resume negotiations with Israel, without any preconditions.
When asked of his opinion on a possible return to politics for former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and why the two of them didn't reach an agreement, he places the blame on internal Israeli issues.
He mentioned his constant contact with Olmert, and even revealed that he called him two weeks ago from New York. One of his advisers said that the conversation focused mostly on praising the former prime minister for his interest in peace, but not in politics.
But the evidence of Abbas' longing for Olmert's return to politics rests on the fact that he did not hesitate to alter history concerning the negotiations they held in 2008. In an interview with the Washington Post in 2009, Abbas said that an agreement wasn't reached because the differences between the two positions were too great.
On Sunday, he sounded completely different. "During Olmert's time we had successes," he remembered. "We didn't reach an agreement, but we reached understandings on all of the core issues… I'm sure if there was more time, maybe two more months, we could have reached an agreement… he left, and when Netanyahu showed up, he denied the understandings, and decided to return to the beginning."
The MKs and political activists urged Abbas to try and influence Israeli public opinion before the elections. "The peace process is not playing a central part in these elections and that's a bad sign," said MK Daniel Ben Simon (Labor).
Attorney Shimon Chazan, a veteran Likud persona from Holon, had his own idea. "I invite you into Israel," he said to Abbas. "Come like Sadat, and speak to the people. You can have an influence."
Ron Pundak, one of the architects of the Oslo agreements was more specific. "In November, there will be a memorial ceremony in Rabin Square. Come talk to the Israelis," he proposed. Yossi Beilin joined in. "State that you are prepared to speak in the Knesset following the elections, " Beilin said. "That could change everything. People will talk about it. Everyone will look forward to it."
Abbas listened to the Israeli guests, but grew impatient as time went on. He lifted up a small booklet that was distributed to all of the attendees at the meeting, and proceeded to provide details on the Palestinian stances on every issue pertaining to the peace process. "What is unclear?" he asked, while waving the booklet in the air as anger, frustration, and doubt continued to mount. "Look at it. Netanyahu should look at it. Anything else, I can't clear up. The ball is in the Israeli court. If you want two states, act accordingly," said Abbas.
Five Gaza militants killed in air strikes: BBC
Four Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip at the weekend killed five militants, Palestinian officials say.
Two militants died and two other people were injured near Deir al-Balah on Sunday, ruling Hamas officials said.
Israel's military said it had targeted a "terrorist rocket squad".
On Saturday evening, an air strike killed the leader of a Gaza-based Salafist group and another militant in Jabalia and, a few hours later, another militant was killed in Khan Younis.
The Salafist leader killed in Jabalia, Hisham al-Saedni, was hit on a motorcycle. Israel said it was responding to a rocket attack on southern Israel.
Saedni, 43, is said to have headed the Mujahideen Shura Council.
On Friday, a rocket apparently fired by the same group landed in the courtyard of a residential building in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. No-one was injured.
There has been a flare-up in violence across the border recently, with Palestinian militant groups firing rockets into Israel and Israel carrying out a series of air strikes against targets across the Gaza Strip.
EDITOR: A new attempt at rewriting history
Israel has spent seven decades in rewriting the history of the Middle East, not content with having changed its course. The Mizrahi Jews, many who have been residents of Palestine for hundreds of years, and well integrated into the region, have not been amongst the adherents of political Zionism originally, which was a European phenomenon, historically based on the masses of Jewish proletarians living in Poland, Russia and some other East European countries. When in 1948 Israel finds itself in urgent need of labour and canon fodder after the war, great effort is being put into alienating Arab Jews living in the various Arab countries of the Middle East from their environments, so as get them to leave and immigrate to the newly-founded state. In this, all mans are thought to be fine, including throwing bombs into Jewish synagogues and meeting places, in order to frighten the Jewish community into leaving, such as was the case in Iraq, where Jews have lived for over 2500 years, well before the Arab conquest of the region. The most important religious and juridical creation of the diaspora – the Talmud – was written and finalised in what is today Iraq, after all, and Jews were in no hurry to leave Baghdad – they have been fully integrated into the society, and had actually formed the bulk of the Iraqi middle class, as well as its most progressive sections, such as the Iraqi communist party. This is a historical would still festering in Israel; after their arrival in Israel, the Jews from the Arab countries were incarcerated in transit camps (Ma'abarot) for decades, and have suffered systemic and rabid racism, including, in the case of the Yemenite Jews, the forced removal of their children, which were passed to adoptive Ashkenazi families. The 'heritage' of the period is still rife in Israel, with much frustration and anger very much alive in the Mizrahi communities across Israel, where the past suffering has produced the still current second-class citizenship of the so-called development towns. The leadership of Israel has been exclusively Ashkenazi, though the Mizrahi Jews are the majority within the Jewish citizens of Israel, a situation which continues to fire anger and foment dissatisfaction and disaffection in Israel. The power structure of the state is not built on class, historically, but on ethnicity, with Ashkenazis ruling the roost, the Arab Jews being the majority Jewish ethnicity coming well below them, then the Ethopian Falsha black community, with the Palestinian citizens of Israel (some 21% of the total) making the bottom rung. Obviously, the rest of the Palestinian people are people of no status whatsoever, without citizenship, standing, or human rights, or the protection of the law.
Instead of treating this community of Jews from the Arab countries as the potential bridge towards the Arab peoples around Israel, and thus building peace and reconciliation, they were treated as inferiors, and as partly belonging to the 'hated enemy', thus closing an important gateway into the future. Now it seems that rewriting history even further is necessary, in order to cover up the crimes of the past once again.
Israel campaign throws spotlight on Jewish refugees from Arab lands: BBC
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem
At the edge of Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, elderly men sit playing backgammon – or shesh besh as it is known locally – wearing looks of intense concentration.
It is a scene which can be found in coffee shops across the Middle East, such as in Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. In fact many of the men here are Jewish Israelis who originally came from those Arab countries.
"We stayed in Baghdad until 1951, when we moved to Israel," Vardika Shabo says. "They hated the Jews in Iraq. They killed many of us in 1948. They took our belongings and burned our houses."
"We left with nothing except our suitcases. No money. We left the house, my parents' shops. Everything that we had, we left."
Another man, Baruch Cohen, left Qamishli in North-Eastern Syria in 1963. He tells me he was 13 when his father led a group of 97 Jews out of the area. They left secretly to avoid unwanted attention and were helped across the border into Turkey.
From there safe passage to his new home was arranged by the Jewish Agency, a government body which brought Jews from the Diaspora to live in Israel.
"We were persecuted. The regime was very cruel to the Syrian Jews," says Mr Cohen. "We escaped with just the clothes on our backs. It was like the exodus from Egypt in the Bible. We lost our lands and came here as refugees."
According to Israeli government figures, 856,000 Jews fled Arab countries in four years after the state was created in 1948. Officials say they lost billions of dollars' worth of property and assets.
A new government campaign aims to raise awareness of their plight. More controversially it aims to equate it with that of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in Israel. It insists that both cases are part of the same core issue that must be addressed by any future peace talks.
"The problem of refugees is probably the most thorny and painful one. Everyone agrees without solving this we won't be able to achieve true peace nor normalisation in the Middle East," says Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.
"We have to, ahead of time, understand that refugees are not only on one side of the border but both sides. There are Arab refugees and there are also Jewish refugees and we should use the same yardstick for them all."
Mr Ayalon spoke at the first special conference on the issue at the UN headquarters in New York last week. He suggests that an international fund could be set up to deliver compensation for both sets of individuals.
'I am a Refugee'
Palestinian leaders though are angry at the "I am a Refugee" campaign, which they see as an Israeli attempt to create a new obstacle for any future peace efforts.
"This is not an issue in the negotiations that we agreed on with them – they include Palestinian refugees, Jerusalem, borders, settlements, water and security," says chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.
"They continue loading issues to the overloaded wagon of complexities in order not to have a solution."
He suggests Israel's timing is designed to coincide with the latest plans to ask for the UN General Assembly to admit Palestine as a non-member state. This will enable the Palestinian leadership to pursue Israel through the international courts.
"These people are destroying the two-state solution and that is why we are going to the UN in order to preserve it," Mr Erekat says.
The refugee issue has proved so difficult that it was put off by the two sides to be tackled as part of any eventual final status discussions under the Oslo Accords in 1993.
It has been a key Palestinian grievance since 1948. Palestinians argue that their "right to return" is enshrined in UN resolution 194 passed that year, which states that "the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date".
Israel says that such a move would obliterate the country's Jewish majority.
Painful memories
While Jews from Arab countries are now naturalised citizens of Israel, many Palestinian refugees remain in camps; most are in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
At al-Jalazun refugee camp on a rocky hillside near Ramallah in the West Bank, 86-year-old Ahmed Safi lives with his family in a small, overcrowded house. His grandchildren have just arrived home from the local school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
"We had a huge house in Beit Nabala in Ramla [in present-day Israel]," Mr Safi says. "All the family lived there. Our life was very nice. We had work and a good income, but when we left we couldn't take anything with us because we were scared and we left in a hurry."
His wife, Umm Hazem jangles some large keys, which she sees as symbols of her right to return.
"You see these? I grabbed them from the cupboard and took them with me. I couldn't take anything else as I had my new baby in my arms," she says.
"We want our home back. Even if they came and filled this house with money, it would never compensate. I miss our house in Beit Nabala. The Jews destroyed it but the land is still there, we are still here. We know it's our home, it's our country and there's no place like home."
Analysts warn that the latest moves by Israel, to place the Jewish refugee issue firmly on the agenda, and by the Palestinians to change their UN status are likely to further delay any resumption of peace talks, which stalled nearly two years ago.
EDITOR: Racism rules!
Even the Israeli government had to admit that its own treatment of the African migrants was inhuman, but this will not change the way they are treated, of course…


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