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In a rehearsal room in east London, five actors are impersonating the cast of the 70s sitcom Are You Being Served? There's Mr Humphries, flouncing and rolling his eyes. There's Mrs Slocombe, harping deathlessly on about her pussy. Then, suddenly, we're plunged into an amateur terrorist plot culled from a Günter Grass novel. This is And the Horse You Rode In On, the new show from theatre company Told by an Idiot, which represents their first foray into topical drama.
The Idiots (as they're known) are veterans of "devised theatre": their hits include 2007's gender-bending Casanova. But this new show breaks ground for them, in direct response to co-directors Paul Hunter and Hayley Carmichael's desire to know "why don't companies like ours do stuff that is more overtly political?"
By "companies like ours", they mean groups who create plays not on the page, but in the rehearsal room, collaboratively. (Although each company's process is different, devisors tend to generate theatre from improvisation and game-playing.) Hunter and Carmichael believe deeply that theatre should be metaphorical, not literal – which rules out docudrama à la David Hare – and that performance should never "tell the audience what to think". Even with this new show, Hunter says he's reluctant to make an overt political point: "We don't want to be specific about anything."
Judging by the fabulously loopy rehearsal I see, he's succeeding. The show's ostensible subject is "extreme acts of violence and the lengths people will go for their beliefs". Its sources include Bugs Bunny, Hitchcock's Sabotage, and two pages from Grass's novel Local Anaesthetic, "reshaped," says Hunter, "and clashed with a Christmas episode of Are You Being Served? translated into German." In the Idiots' universe, Grace Brothers stands for the bourgeois establishment against which Grass's terrorists rebel.
"Some people will see our show and go, 'What's political about that?'" says Hunter. "Because it doesn't specify certain incidents. Theatre tends to go, 'I'm going to do a piece about this', and it becomes about that, and nothing else. Which always makes me think, 'I could have read that in the New Statesman.'"
Political theatre tends to be done in Britain with plain-speaking seriousness, "represented," says Hunter flatly, "through psychological realism, or naturalism." He acknowledges exceptions, particularly in bygone days, when Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and John McGrath's 7:84 made highly theatrical agitprop. More recently, the all-singin', all-dancin' Enron and Black Watch – concerned, respectively, with the collapse of the financial markets and the Iraq war – departed from the norm.
But as a rule, says Carmichael, "if you make theatre in a playful way, then you aren't [held to be] a serious writer. The fact that we're in a room together going, 'You do this, and then I'll say that' is seen as meaning we're not rigorous about the process." In fact, counters Hunter, it means that: "Theatre should deal in metaphor and the imagination. It can work according to a different reality entirely, and still resonate with what's going on now."
The examples he cites are all international: the pantomimic satires of Italian playwright Dario Fo; the obliquely political films of Michael Haneke; the Al-Kasaba company's cri de coeur from the Middle East, Alive from Palestine. The Idiots draw on their own memories, too, of touring their early work overseas. "In Romania, after we did this fairytale show, they said to Hayley, 'Your character represents the new Romania.' And to the other actor, 'You are like the old communism.' In countries where they had oppressive regimes, theatre-makers are used to metaphor."
It's certainly true that politics is in the eyes of the beholder. Ostensibly leftwing plays are often deceptively conservative, in that the radicalism of their content is undermined by conventional form. By contrast, devised theatre genuinely walks the walk, demonstrating its belief in liberty, fraternity and equality in the collaborative, open-minded means of its production.
But that can militate against political content, says Oliver Dimsdale, one half of Filter Theatre. The company's last show, Water, and their next, Silence, broach sociopolitical issues, albeit by accident. "With Water, we meant to make a play about childhood," says Dimsdale. "Politics is rarely the most important issue. You're looking for what unites the people in the room, and that tends to be stories, or human nature, or making theatre in a new, interesting way.'"
And yet Water – about climate change – proved devisors have much to offer political theatre. With its unsettling look at our complacency in the face of nature, it showed us politics rather than jawing on about it – most memorably, in its final image of a world underwater, oblivious humans drowned in their own inertia.
More of this would make a welcome addition to the journalistic work of Hare, Steve Waters and the verbatim-theatre scene. Devised theatre needs to shed its inhibitions about direct political commitment. But in the meantime, its mode of engagement shouldn't be overlooked. "Devising is a form of theatre that can deal with issues, but does so in its own language," says Dimsdale. "Maybe devisors are starting to address politics more overtly. But in the meantime, we offer it as part of a mix. And the other part is brilliant, ingenious storytelling."


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Charts — or data graphics, as the snobs and academics call them — open up wonderful opportunities for communicating. And Quicken charts are really easy to use.
In fact, many times, Quicken automatically adds a small chart to a report window, like in this figure.
You can also display just a chart, however. Produce just a Quicken chart:
In Quicken, click the All Reports & Graphs button, then select Reports & Graphs Center from the pop-up menu that appears.
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Guest post: on SciFi Author Brian Stableford
Posted January 10, 2013on:
Today's post comes to us from nrlymrtl (pronounced Nearly Mortal, not Gnarly Myrtle), webmistress of Dab of Darkness and contributor at Dark Cargo. Thanks to the hardworking folks at Wildside Press who are making a large number of Stableford titles available as ebooks, nrlymrtl has been able to discover and enjoy a new-to-her author. Here's her thoughts on some of his writings:
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Biologist, Sociologist, Writer: Brian Stableford
by nrlymrtl
In 2012, I discovered Brian Stableford and his Daedalus Mission books (The Florians, Critical Threshold, Wildeblood's Empire, The City of the Sun, Balance of Power, & The Paradox of the Sets) as published by Wildside Press. The gorgeous, detailed covers on the Wildside Press additions are also an attraction. As a biologist, these books drew me in right away because of the underlying ecological and biological principles as applied to colonizing other worlds. Even on Earth, no matter where we go, we have always had to bargain with Nature, and she has not always been an easy bargainer. Spreading Humanity across the Universe is not only a daunting task mechanically, financially, engineeringly, but also in learning to manipulate new environments and ourselves long term biologically.
And that challenge, met not just in a few years, but rather haphazardly some generations later, is what captivated me about these books. So, of course, I had to read up on Stableford. Who is this man, how many more of his books are out there, and how many should-be-sleeping hours can I physically give up to his books?
The more I learned about this man, the more I appreciated him. This Brit graduated with a biology degree in 1969 and went on to study sociology, complete with a PhD thesis titled, 'The Sociology of Science Fiction' in 1979. At over 70 novels, he is still writing and publishing today, so no worries that I will run out of quality reading material anytime soon.
Over the years, Stableford has provided some interesting interviews where he has shared his views on Dragonlance Novels and his collaborative process with Dave Langford on The Third Millennium. Indeed, I had fun perusing through these, appreciating his honesty on a variety of things. Learning from Locus Online's interview about Stableford's French-to-English translations for proto-SF works, I had to look them up. Happily, many of them are published by Black Coat Press, such as the translated works of Paul Feval.
As you can see, there are many, many Stableford works (what diversity!) to keep me happily reading for some time to come. I hope his works also make it to your bedside book cache.
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If I didn't take anything else away from this it was beneficial to learn what " nrlymrtl" meant and how it was pronounced, lol!
But I also learned some nice things about an author that I knew of in name only but knew nothing about him, what he wrote, etc. And I'm glad that you have an author you enjoy so much who also has a large volume of books to keep you satisfied. That is the bad thing about falling hard for these newer authors, you have to wait forever for their next book to come out!
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Last time I was in San Francisco, I took my big sister Natascha on a test drive with Tesla. She took delivery of her blue Model S today, so I am happy to say that they joined the Tesla owners club today! This photo was taken just before my first race at Daytona, after Bobby added a Steal Your Face Sticker to my race car. Lesson: Good guitar playing pays off, kids. :)
Whoops, I forgot to mention that my bro in law is Grateful Dead singer and guitarist Bob Weir. I couldn't figure out a way to edit my first post. Is that not a function on this forum?
Sadly, no :(
Actually, for the Original Poster, yes. Use the Edit function on the Tesla logo. But only the opening post and title (plus forum location) can be changed.
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Monday, 3 October 2016
About my Grandad
His chicken was always 'too dry', and nobody was allowed to speak during the Countdown ad break so he could crack the teatime teaser. We'd play 'snap' on the regular, and the cards would always end up in the air, caught in the laughter between us, and every six months or so I'd count up his loose change pot and he'd let me keep whatever was in it. He was mischievous, impatient, brash - sometimes insufferable, but he was mine. And I loved him.
He would have been 88 today, and he would have pretended he was 21 again, like he did every year because his jokes never changed, and he probably wouldn't have liked his cake or the soppy card I chose, but wouldn't have minded that we'd filled his fridge with a hearty steak and some chocolate eclairs, because well, what else do you buy the man who has it all? And he would have caught my eye across the room and pulled a silly face and we'd have been happy, I think, just to be with each other.
We always were.
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Your writing is always so magical, touching and from the heart. Has a way of filling me with both sad and happy tears at the same time. I'm gradually losing my grandad to dementia and it helps to be reminded it's the little things we hold dear. Thank you for writing this, please never stop.ReplyDelete
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A simple guide to the incandescent light bulb ban.
There has been a recent spate of sensationalist news articles that would have us all believe that as from 1st September 2009 it will be illegal to stock, sell, buy or use 100w and 150w incandescent light bulbs. This article is designed to give you all of the facts without any of the sensationalism.
Fact. It is not illegal to buy, sell or otherwise use 100w light bulbs now. Manufacturers and retailers have entered into a voluntary arrangement not to produce, import or restock 100w incandescent light bulbs after the 1st September 2009. Britain has signed up to a proposal that will see all traditional light bulbs phased out by 2016.
So, what has actually happened and why?
The EU has decided that we need to cut our carbon emissions drastically by 2020. As a result of this they passed a directive that means the much-loved incandescent light bulb will be phased out over the next few years, as it is the least efficient light bulb available today. This means that in two years time you will not be able to buy any incandescent light bulbs at all, with some exceptions that I will go into later.
Why has this happened? We need to accept that the incandescent light bulb is very inefficient. Watts are a measurement of electricity, not of light output. When we pass a current through the tungsten filament it glows white-hot. This is what gives off the light. Unfortunately, only around 10% of the energy used is given off in light with the remaining 90% being given off in heat. This makes the incandescent light bulb only 10% efficient and that in part has led to its downfall.
What light bulbs are not being phased out? The EU recognise that the energy saving compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) is not suitable for every application. To that end, there are a number of exceptions that will still be available, including.
- Energy saving halogen light bulbs.
- All spot lights.
- All strip lights.
- All daylight bulbs.
- Specialist bulbs such as cooker lamps.
What are the alternatives? There are many usable alternatives available, all of which save energy and so save you money in electricity costs. It really depends on if the light bulb is visible or not.
Energy saving halogen light bulbs. If you have a traditional chandelier or other light fitting where the lamp is visible then by far the best alternative is the energy saving halogen light bulb. These perform in exactly the same way as an incandescent light bulb whilst saving 30% in energy consumption. They give instant light, are fully dimmable, have no mercury content to worry about and give an excellent crisp white light. In addition, they last at least twice as long as a traditional household lamp, look the same and have a lower purchase price than a CFL lamp, typically between £1.40 and £1.80 each. It is likely that this cost will come down as demand increases.
CFL light bulbs. If your light fitting has shades or the light bulb is otherwise hidden the CFL lamp is a realistic alternative. They are typically 75% more efficient than incandescent light bulbs and last up to ten times longer, although the initial purchase cost is far greater. These will continue to be available in every type of cap and have come a long way since the early days. They now reach maximum brightness quicker than ever and are also available in spiral form, which means that they give off more light for less space.
LED light bulbs. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that LED lighting is the future. They run cool, are ultra reliable, consume 90% less electricity than an incandescent light bulb and the quality lamps last for over 35000 hours. They are available in different colour temperatures to ensure that you get the right type of light for each application.
LED light bulbs have been around for some years now, mainly as a replacement for halogen GU10 or MR16 replacement spotlight bulbs. They are extremely efficient, typically saving 90% in energy over an incandescent light bulb. A 3w LED GU10 replacement lamp gives around same amount of light output as a 40w halogen light bulb. Our LED light bulbs are ultra reliable, generate very little heat and can typically last 12 – 15 years in the home, up to 20 times longer that a halogen GU10. Care should be taken when buying this type of replacement lamp as not all LED's are of the same quality. Choose a quality product with a good history of research and development; using high quality LED's and you will reap the benefits with reduced electricity bills for many years to come.
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So this week we have been looking after Alfie, our dog Chester's brother. As our friends baby was due any day we were the on call dog sitters. These Sprockers are crazy loveable, incredibly intelligent but more so cheeky dogs.They did not stop moving, jumping, growling running or playing for the first 24 hours. It was madness, we were bad dog sitters, there was no bed time, there were too many treats and far too much attention from the kids towards the dogs.
Weirdly almost 24 hours after Alfie arrived, they settled, they sat and then fell asleep for two glorious hours. Peaceful, quite resumed. I could concentrate and at last the dogs were happy. So I decided to celebrate by making some doggy treats, as I felt that Alfie was probably missing his folks. If was away from my family I know that Tea and Cake is always a winner.
Peanut Butter Pup Treats
2/3 cup oats
1 cup oat flour (see directions on how to make this below)
1 ripe banana, mashed
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup dried parsley (for fresh breath!)
3 tbsp peanut butter
Preheat oven to 140 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. To make the oat flour, pour 1 cup of oats into a food processor and pulse until finely ground. Add the remaining ingredients to the food processor (or a large mixing bowl) and mix until combined and formed into a soft dough. Remove the dough from the processor and place it on a lightly floured surface.
To create circular cookies, ball up pieces of the dough and flatten in your palm. To create cut-outs, roll out the dough using a rolling pin until 1/4″ thick and use a cookie cutter to cut out the shapes. Place treats on the cookie sheet and bake for about 40 minutes, or until golden brown and crispy.
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Authorities have charged a second student at a Yonkers school in connection with a sexual attack on a 13-year-old girl.
The 13-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal sex act. Another 13-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday on the same charge.
Both were sent to a detention center in Valhalla.
Authorities say the girl was attacked on April 24 in a classroom of the Cross Hill Academy.
Her father filed a complaint with police two days later after becoming aware of the alleged attack.
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At the end of June, at least 20 ships in the Black Sea were hit by what appears to be the first documented case of GPS misdirection used as an attack, also known as spoofing. The affected ships' GPS systems incorrectly placed them 32 km inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
GPS spoofing is caused by sending a false signal from a ground station, which confuses the receiver, potentially luring it off course. Experts think that this episode may be a sign of Russia experimenting with a new cyberweapon, as GPS spoofing has been occurring in central Moscow over the past year. A fake signal centred on the Kremlin redirects anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away – playing havoc with phone apps (the scale of problem was apparently first revealed when people tried to play Pokemon Go).
While the spoofing at the Kremlin has good defensive reasons – guided bombs, missiles and drones rely on GPS to hit their targets – a spoofing attack on distant ships has worrying implications.
So what?
GPS spoofing affects all systems within range of the signal. David Last, former head of the UK's Royal Institute of Navigation, thinks that the Black Sea incident suggests a new device has been developed, capable of causing disruption and confusion over a large area: "My gut feeling is that this is a test of a system which will be used in anger at some other time."
This apparently long-range attack may also indicate that GPS spoofing is becoming easier. It has required sophisticated technical expertise until very recently, but experts now think it can be done by competent hackers using commercial hardware and software from the internet. Short-ranged systems can be potentially be used to hijack or divert individual driverless vehicles or autonomous ships.
The insidious nature of spoofing makes it harder to detect than GPS jamming, which simply swamps signals with noise, usually causing receivers to set off alarms. As David Last notes, "Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the receiver to lie."
After fake news, could fake GPS be the next form of disinformation with systemic implications?


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Q: Where is khatu shyam ji mandir located ?
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Q: Distance from delhi to khatu shyam temple ?
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Manuel Fernandes transfers to Besiktas
Fernandes has signed a three year contract with Beşiktaş worth €2.1 million per season.
This transfer comes after it has been known for few weeks that Valencia want to sell Fernandes to Besiktas and it was in the players hands if he would join Besiktas or not.
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Stocks have soared ever since Donald Trump stunned everyone by winning the presidency, but Trump's victory was far from a landslide mandate. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 2.6M votes. This marks the fifth time a president has won the electoral college but lost the popular vote—and Trump's popular vote deficit was much larger than the previous four times this election outcome occurred.
But before Democrats claim a moral victory, they would be wise to examine the congressional tally. According to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans won 3M more House votes than Democrats. That means a staggering 5.5M voters picked Clinton and then voted for a Republican congressional candidate—which not only speaks volumes to Trump's personal unpopularity, but to the rightward drift of white voters.
The ongoing Trump Rally shows that markets approve of PEOTUS's vow to lower corporate taxes, simplify personal taxes (Trump wants to reduce today's seven rates to three), and reduce regulations. Energy and financial stocks have gained the most, while tech stocks have lagged. Last year's big winners, the so-called FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google) have not participated in this celebratory advance.
I anticipate that this trend will continue. Trump lost tech-rich California by 4M votes. Not surprisingly, his 'kitchen cabinet' features no Silicon Valley luminaries. From a regulatory standpoint, tech has the most to fear from the new administration. Early in his candidacy, Trump lamented the destruction to local merchants from Amazon (and Trump is also no fan of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post.) Despite the new president's penchant for late-night tweeting, investors should be wary of owning social media stocks, given their rich valuations and the potential adversarial relationship with Washington.
Wall Street and financial industry stocks have fared better since election day and should continue to do so. Trump wants to end the Fed's zero interest rate policy and has pledged to purge the Fed of doves like Chairwoman Janet Yellin, whose term expires in early 2018. Higher rates will increase bank profits by increasing the net interest margin from lending. If Dodd-Frank is gutted, smaller banks should grow faster, as well.
But investors need to be careful what they wish for. Less than a decade ago, we got a crash course in the consequences of an unregulated Wall Street. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reduced predatory behavior like payday loans, exorbitant credit card fees, and destructive mortgage terms like negative amortization (thank you Golden West and the Sandlers for making these toxic loans commonplace). Moreover, the recent Department of Labor edict forcing advisors to be fiduciaries first and salespeople second should reduce the excessive fees embedded in mutual funds and other investments. Despite some hopes on Wall Street that the Trump Administration will block implementation of this law in 2017, I suspect it will be enacted as written, and the mutual fund world will either have to adapt or continue to lose assets. I would not own—and might short—the worst positioned players like Waddell & Reed and Franklin Funds.
Finally, while Trump's proposals might stimulate growth, I am wary about his refusal to address America's gigantic $19 trillion debt burden. This problem, as outlined in the book This Time is Different by respected economists Rogoff and Reinhart, could keep growth at the sluggish, sub-3 percent rate seen throughout President Obama's eight years. If that occurs, the S&P may well disappoint the bulls and produce single-, not double-digit gains during Trump's time in office.


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Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63 (1847) [29:15]
Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80 (1847) [26:29]
Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 100 (1851) [27:53]
Ilya Gringolts (violin); Dmitry Kouzov (cello); Peter Laul (piano)
rec. Lutheran Church of St. Catherine, St. Petersburg, 4-7 June 2010
Of the three Schumann piano trios No. 1 in D minor is probably the most often played. No. 2 in F is the sunniest, while No. 3 in G minor is just one work among many which defy the much-repeated theory that Schumann was suffering from mental decline in the 1850s.
I very much like these performances, with only tiny reservations. The players have a genuine instinct for Schumann's music its emotional ebb and flow, its expressive ardour, its blend of masculine and feminine characteristics, fire and tenderness, incisiveness and dreaming. As Hans Gál writes in his excellent BBC Music Guide to Schumann's Orchestral Music: Schumann's style is not easy to describe. Exuberance is certainly a most essential component of it, and a cool, detached approach to his music is as impossible for the listener as for the performer. His soul is in every expressive phrase he shapes, and the instrument has to sing to do it justice. This is equally true, if not more so, of the chamber music, and the players on these CDs are totally sensitive to these requirements. Take the first movement of the 3rd Trio, in which the composer's rhythmic obsessiveness becomes particularly intense where Schumann marks Rascher, before the understated, enigmatic ending. In this movement, within an ideal flexibility of tempo, every expressive nuance is cherished and there is a real sense of wonder in the new melody introduced at letter B (bar 35). The completely new material introduced in the development, including pizzicato quaver passages, is justly dramatic.
The D minor trio receives a really fine performance, though the 1928 Cortot/Thibaud/Casals recording will always be essential. The opening movement is magnificently turbulent, the ghostly passage at about the midway point (both stringed instruments playing near the bridge) being sensitively handled. In the slow movements of both this and the F major trio Gringolts, Kouzov and Laul capture that vital innig quality. The first movement of the F major work benefits from a not-too-fast tempo, while the subtle opening of the finale has the necessary spontaneity.
Among my small reservations are Gringolts' tendency to scoop or slither in some of his shifts - for example at the opening of the G minor trio while, conversely, the players' emotional turbulence can lead to occasional heavy-handedness. These are very minor quibbles in the context of marvellously expressive playing. I gladly live with these excesses as part of their fiery, passionately involved performances. Late Schumann is often very elusive. In the same G minor trio, the change of key at letter D in the finale brings a section which is particularly difficult to bring off, but these players manage it very well. The opening theme of this finale is also problematic, the many grace notes being tricky to negotiate without harming the rhythm, but again these players make light work of it.
These performances will bring lasting pleasure. The most important qualities the true Schumann characteristics already mentioned are wonderfully evident and the players' total emotional commitment is admirable.
Philip Borg-Wheeler
Will bring lasting pleasure. The total emotional commitment is admirable.


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Palestine Information Center – 04/08/2011
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have banished a Palestinian native of Beit Safafa for allegedly harassing Jewish settlers who usurped the residence of close relatives.
In a bizarre decision by the Israel Magistrates Court, Mohammed Salah, 47, was ordered to pack up from his family of ten and reside in Tarqumiya, south of Al-Khalil, for 90 days after allegedly ''humiliating'' the settlers.
''One of the settlers attacked me and threatened to create a problem and have me banished, but I paid no attention to the threats. But unfortunately the occupation police listened to his lies, so I was arrested,'' Salah said.
Salah added he was forced to pay fines as well as several bail bonds worth thousands of Israeli shekels.
He said the settlers had seized a house that belonged to his father and brother on property owned by his family since the period of Jordanian rule.
Before Salah was arrested, the settlers physically assaulted his wife and daughter and demolished a wall on his residence and began digging on his property to extend water and sewage lines, Salah said.
''The same settler, accompanied by another group of settlers, had threatened to kill me and confirmed that he had paid a sum of money to have me killed if I didn't depart from the land,'' Salah also said.
The Gilo settlement, established in 1971, was built on Beit Safafa and stretches to Beit Jala city. It has grown so it has consumed smaller settlement communities, all of them built on Palestinian lands.
Jewish settlers have become an increasing menace for the native Palestinian people in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The natives fight for existence as the Israelis have aimed at displacing them claiming the land as their own.
According to a report released by the Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, the settler population of the West Bank has increased 40 times since 1972.
The report said the population as 2010 came to an end was 519,974, marking a 1.4 percent increase from the closure of the previous year.
About 51 percent of them have settled in East Jerusalem, where most of the new settlements have been established, the report says.
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easy to tell from their clothing they have very deep, historical roots in palestine and not from… oh, deepest, darkest, eastern europe where the turkic sorts roamed.
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How did you feel about Lily's relationship with Zach? Personally I found it unnecessary to the plot.... I wondered what the appeal for Zach was in the relationship, especially as it would be dangerous for him. Lily would not be the easiest person to get on with, I would imagine!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The "Romance"
Posted by PJ at 3:49 PM 2 comments
Monday, April 27, 2009
The ending
So as not to spoil the ending for those who are still going, I will post the question in the comments page....
Posted by PJ at 12:57 PM 3 comments
Bees as a motif
What do you think is the significance of bees in the story? How do you think the secret life of bees relates to Lily's own life?
Posted by PJ at 12:55 PM 4 comments
Civil Rights
How did you feel about the handling of race issues and the civil rights movement in the book? How did you find the portrayal of Rosaleen? (Personally I found it a bit cliched). Why would she spit on the white men's shoes when she was fully aware of what the consequences could be?
Posted by PJ at 12:43 PM 1 comments
Monday, April 20, 2009
Test for Philippa!
Did it work?
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The wall
I really liked the use of May's wall, especially the ending where Lily reinvents the purpose of the wall. I thought it was interesting to see the progression through Lily to a meaning other than alleviating grief and sorrow.
Posted by Nic at 7:28 PM 2 comments
Monday, April 6, 2009
So who's read the book?
Has anyone read the book and seen the film? I haven't seen it yet, did it measure up? I like the look of the cast.
Posted by Nic at 6:33 PM 6 comments
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Black Madonna
I've been reading some of Sue Monk Kidd's interviews about the Secret Life of Bees online and they were mostly along the same lines, but this one struck me as particularly interesting. The interviewer is from a religious publication or website (not sure which) and the focal point of the interview was the black madonna. I read the Secret Life of Bees years ago and am halfway through rereading it and, despite the importance of the black madonna, it never struck me as a particularly religious book, so this article put an entirely new slant on the book for me. I'll be interested to see what I pick up this time around.
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