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Is Steroid Therapy Right For You?
Steroid treatment would be using steroid medications, additionally known as corticosteroids, to deal with several sorts of auto immune disease, including myasthenia gravis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis, and other illnesses, such as asthma. Steroid prescription drugs include medications such as prednisone and cortisone. Corticosteroids could be recommended to be obtained orally or at other methods, like by inhalation.
As stated by Western medication, steroid drugs are medically vital to treat many ailments and ailments. It is crucial not just to adhere to the suggestions of the health professional regarding steroid usage, if you've made a decision steroid remedy is appropriate for you personally, but in addition to explore other medical options if you've got 2nd thoughts regarding prescription drugs.
Is steroid therapy best for you?
Steroid medicines have main impacts on the metabolic rate of bone and calcium. High dosage of prescription medications may cause rapid bone loss, up to as much as 15 per cent each year. If you're about steroids, then you might be more than two times as likely to own a whole spinal fracture fracture when compared with a person perhaps not taking steroids. Fracture risk increases while the daily doses of prostate cancer medications improves. The significant effect of steroid medication on bone is fractures (broken bones) that occur most commonly at the ribs and spine. You'll find various levels of bone loss among people on corticosteroids. Bone loss occurs most quickly in first six weeks after beginning oral prescription drugs. After 1-2 months of continual steroid use, there's a reduced lack in bone. But, it has to be noted that perhaps not all patients who choose prescription drugs experience bone loss steroids.
Other adverse side effects of prostate prescription drugs are elevation of blood pressure, bodyweight gain, reduced resistance to infection, indigestion, and reduction of the skin, and potential growth of cataract and cataracts.
I would like to link my experience with steroid therapy.
I had been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis a few years back. Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal (voluntary) muscles of their body. The cause of this disorder is muscle weakness, which improves during times of pressure and activity, but improves after periods of calm and rest. Certain organs, like the ones that restrain eyes and eyelid movements, facial saying, talking, swallowing and chewing tend to be included in this disorder. Furthermore, the muscle groups that control throat, breathing, and limb motions may also be impacted.
As a result of myasthenia gravis, I had developed ocular symptoms, such as ptosis (drooping of eyelids) and diplopia (double vision), and feeble throat and stomach muscle tissue. Fortunately, I did not possess weak point of the pharynx muscle groups, which might cause problems in chewing and swallowing, and slurred address in many instances of myasthenia gravis.
I had been recommended steroid medicines and'd been around a steroid treatment for three decades . In addition, I was also given drugs to address bone loss along with other side adverse effects related by means of steroids.
In my circumstance, there was a little improvement, however perhaps not considerable enough to create me decide to proceed through the steroid therapy immediately after three decades of remedy. I had to restrain the dangers of steroids and the indicators of myasthenia gravis.
My rude awakening came when I understood that my immunity system, that was the cause of the disease at first place, is not just an incorporated system of cells that would shield me in times of an infection, but also a system with numerous regulatory mechanics , if uncontrolled, would become my own enemy instead of my own friend. More importantly, these compounds could control the symptoms of myasthenia gravis, however they may also impair my immunity apparatus with lasting effects on my overall wellbeing and health further down the street.


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Over the last decade, the internet has transformed the idea of marketing. Gone are the days of traditional ways of marketing, where a business house used to advertise about their company or their product and services through newspapers or on pamphlets. Even a simple flyer could go a long way for spreading brand awareness. But within a few years time, things have changed drastically. In this digital age, people are seeking for any type of information from the Internet. This has completely changed the way, business houses are reaching out to prospective customers.
25 years ago, the key metric for mail-order stores was catalog circulation. More catalogs in more mailboxes = more sales. It made sense then, but if today's department stores—or any retailer—counted print catalogs as their main measure of growth, they'd be missing a huge part of their business.
Yet many brands currently find themselves in a very similar situation when it comes to digital: still leaning on legacy desktop marketing metrics in a world that's gone mobile-first. Left unaddressed, this can sabotage growth in even the most forward-looking businesses. It's not easy to shift digital marketing KPIs and measurement methodologies, but it is possible and (most importantly) invaluable. Because?spoiler alert!?mobile isn't going away. It's the engine of growth for brands in a new world that is:
Full of micro-moments. One car buyer had 900 digital interactions before she chose her new SUV and drove it off the lot.
Cross-device. Over 75% of online adults (18–54) start an activity on one device and then continue or finish it on another.
Cross-channel. 76% of people who search on their smartphones for something nearby visit a business within a day.
Today's stores lack the real-time connections between the customers, associates, inventory information and pricing that are absolutely essential to omni-channel success. And retailers are therefore missing a huge opportunity to attract and retain customers.
The store of the future will be defined by four attributes: mobility, relevancy, personalization and ubiquity :
1) Mobility
Mobile devices present vast opportunities to enhance customer service, particularly with mobile point-of-sale (POS) and inventory lookup. Further, sensors, beacons and other technologies can identify customers via their mobile device, giving the associate the ability to personalize the shopping experience.
1) Relevancy
Geo-location and geo-fencing are two technologies that will enable retailers to understand who and where their customer is, and deliver the most relevant messages. Touch screens, virtual mirrors and virtual reality like 'smart' fitting rooms will provide a more immersive shopping environment.
3) Personalization
Retailers must leverage technology that empowers them to know their customer. Mobile devices used by store associates to assist with clienteling, guided selling, inventory lookup and checkout are a few examples.
4) Ubiquity
Real-time retail is the ability to engage with and deliver a seamless shopping experience wherever shoppers discover and interact with a brand. Retailers should be able to identify shoppers; analyze and disseminate customer, product, pricing, and inventory data across all channels. Those that lack this capability will be left behind.

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An important part of our experience in each country to which we have travelled has been to participate, as much as possible, in their cultural and local activities. Recently we went to the Kos Independence Day parade. Independence Day, a national holiday in Greece, celebrates the start of the War of Independence in 1821. Greece had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire since 1453.
The Island's marching band has won national awards for excellence for which the island residents are proud, and looked professional in their uniforms. Islanders wore traditional Greek costumes and carried the Greek Flag as well as the flags of various organizations on the island of Kos. Most of the schools on the island were also represented with students marching in their school uniforms. The parade wrapped up with members of the military and a military band. It was a beautiful spring day and locals were out with families and friends enjoying the holiday.


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Deborah loves working with people young and seasoned while producing and directing dramas. An artist herself, using several mediums to Make Gods Word Visible she says,"I know that People receive Gods word in many different ways". In this ministry our goal is to make our dramas so clear that the Word of The Lord is visible. Whether it is dance, drama, poetry, or art, our challenge and questions are, "can people see Christ in what we are presenting? And can people see anything in what we are presenting that will make them want to come to Christ? I truly appreciate every person who gives their time and commitment to the goal of creatively making God visible through this ministry."
The drama ministry has performed and presented many works of visual evangelism to the community and in church. This includes support to other ministries in the church. Some subjects have dealt with HIV-AIDS, Youth Day, Pastor Anniversary, Sunday School, holidays, dinner theatre and full length dramas dealing with life situations. Some are comedies, some thought provoking and life altering but all are presented to show God at work. The presentation of these dramas has had a powerful impact and an anointing that can only be from the Holy Spirit.
Deborah is also a Sunday school teacher and a Weekday Christian Education teacher at four schools in the city. She is married to James Wagner, a Deacon who was raised at Memorial. In 1994, Deborah joined her family at Memorial and has now been a member for 17 years. They are parents of three children, Tracey, Gabrielle, and Jordan, and have 12 grand children.
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Plymouth, M. C., December 30, 1862.
Major General J. G. FOSTER,
Commanding Dept. of North Carolina, New Berne, N. C.:
DEAR GENERAL: Admiral Lee wishes me to remove the guns from Cobb's Point and further demolish the battery, if you have no objection.
Concerning the behavior of the troops here the other day, I hear that Sergeant Clift and some of the North Carolinians behaved well. I found some of the Massachusetts men and some of the North Carolinians at the custom-house when I arrived.
Captain Ewer was on board the Southfield, 1/2 miles down the river. I asked where his men were, and he said he did not known, but hoped most of them were in the swamp. The fact is, so soon as the Southfield fell back (which she ought maybe not to have done) Ewer got frightened, left his men, and went on board. The whole affair was disgraceful, and the more so, as it has since been ascertained that the attacking party, those who entered the town, did not exceed 200 men. I shall write you again to-morrow.
Kind regards to your staff.
Sincerely, yours,
Numbers 2. Report of First Lieutenant Jonathan T. Mizell, Company C, First North Carolina Infantry (Union).
PLYMOUTH, N. C., December 16, 1862.
SIR: I resume my seat for the purpose of informing you of the attack the rebels made upon our little village, and I should judge from all the information I can gather and from what I saw they numbered some 450 strong - 300 infantry, 3 pieces of artillery, and 70 cavalry. About 4.30 o'clock they drove our pickets in with a volley from their infantry, and in fifteen minutes our company was in line, and as the odds were too great for our little force I deemed it most prudent to fall back in the rear of the custom-house, and before we could all get in the building they had planted their pieces of artillery on the wharf and had fired some three rounds at the Southfield, and the third fire disabled her boiler. After they found she was disabled and dropped down the river they moved their field pieces on the corner opposite headquarters, but not without loss of some men. They commenced to shell the custom-house, and as they passed down the street in small groups our men would let the lead fly at them to the best advantage, and I do assure you our little North Carolina volunteers behaved most nobly. They were calm and collected, much more so than I expected. Sergeant Clift was informed that the rebels lost 15 killed and 30 wounded, some mortally and some slightly, and the information he got yesterday corroborates the other statements we received. I gear they had four wagon loads of killed and wounded. Our men never received a scratch. The North Carolina Cavalry lost 3 men prisoners and 1 wounded. Company I, of Massachusetts, lost 14 prisoners, 1 wounded, and 1 missing. One man on the Southfield lost a leg. We sustained considerable loss from fire. The best and most of the principal part of the town are


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During my visit to Nigeria during the 2019 elections, I gave three presentations on my new book about Nigeria's 2015 elections, Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror. I encountered the most rigorous, interesting and challenging set of questions I have ever faced from public audiences. To get a sense of the discourse, watch the video of my presentation at Nextier SPD consulting in Abuja.
Here is a sampling of some of the questions. I hope my answers here clarify and elaborate on my previous answers, and contribute to the formation of a new research agenda on electoral politics in Africa. My apologies for any abbreviations or potential misrepresentations; please comment to continue the dialogue. For those of you considering the book for course adoption, this list can serve as a resource for developing your lectures.
- I am not convinced that you demonstrate that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) engaged in "coup proofing" after the 1999 transition.
The concept of "coup proofing" is used by Jonathan Powell in his article, "Determinants of the Attempting and Outcomes of Coups d'etat." It refers to the idea that reassuring the military is an important part of many regime transitions. This is important to my study since I write about "pacts" – explicit, though not necessarily formalized, elite agreements that shape the boundaries and rules of governance.
The case against coup proofing might note President Obasanjo's firings and forced retirings in 1999-2001. This would suggest that the new civilian regime was reigning in the military. As a former war hero and military dictator, Obasanjo had unique credibility with the military and thus some political latitude.
However, Chapter 2 documents how the incoming PDP, as part of a "dual policy" toward the military, also gave the generals important reassurances. This included neglect of important, huge corruption cases, a weak truth and reconciliation committee (whose top pick was apparently assassinated), the promotion – rather than prosecution – of high level individuals implicated in abuses, and an increase in the military budget from about $790 million dollars in 1998 to over 2.2 billion dollars in 2002. Furthermore, Obasanjo promoted nearly 900 officers just weeks before his second oath of office. Taken together, these actions provide a good basis for coup proofing. It worked…but it imposed costs on democracy, which I explore in Chapter 6.
- Why didn't you look at party manifestoes? How important is a candidate's personality?
Party manifestos can provide information about party ideas. There's some good new research on manifestoes in Nigeria, including Political Parties and Democracy in Nigeria, edited by Olu Obafemi, Samuel, Egwu, Okechukwu Ibeanu, and Jibrin Ibrahim (Kuru: National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, 2014.) It generally suggests that the manifestos don't amount to much. By documenting what the parties actually talked about in 2015 in chapter 3, I think we get a better sense of how they set their priorities. And since there is a high level of conformity across the elites within each party in the coded responses, we have a decent basis to believe they coordinated their messages. Plus, that's basically what several state party leaders and activists told me in interviews. Regarding personalities, a charismatic candidate obviously has advantages, but it's also likely that a good party structure can help compensate for a candidate lacking such strong appeal.
- There are too many unheard voices in politics. Should Nigeria have a proportional representation (PR) system?
2019 turned into a surprisingly bad election year for women, and I can see something like PR perhaps helping a women's party into the National Assembly. However, it is also quite likely that it would produce a Shiite party, and a Biafra party, and….you get the idea. Moreover, it is difficult to have PR with a presidential system because the executive has to cobble together a coalition across parties for every legislative initiative; we know this from comparative research on Latin America, for example. To fix that, you could have a parliamentary system. Nigeria tried that with the First Republic, and it didn't go so well. A trend after the collapse of the Soviet Union was for some countries to have it both ways, with some legislators chosen through PR and others based on geography. That might be something to consider.
- You have a very narrow western view of the state. You reference ideology, but ideology is a function of material conditions.
I can appreciate that there were alternative modes of governance in Africa. Nonso Obikili has a good chapter on state building in my new co-edited Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics, which describes some of those histories and their linkages to modern Nigeria. Katherine Baldwin's recent book convincingly shows that traditional rulers remain very politically relevant in Africa; the old state models are still around. But scholars such as Jeffrey Herbst (2000) argue that African leaders explicitly bought in to the modern, Weberian state and the Berlin Conference borders when they got together and formed the predecessor to the African Union. When the Nigerian military tries to reclaim local governments taken by Boko Haram, it is asserting control over space and people in ways consistent with a "western" notion of a state.
It is also interesting to consider the variety of sources of ideology, which is quite often not a function of material conditions. Salafism comes to mind (see Alex Thurston's recent book), as does the rise of "post-materialism" in developed countries. This latter idea, explored in the work of Pippa Norris and Robert Inglehart, shows that once people reach a certain level of material well-being, they are much more likely to care about the environment, secularism, and other issues. Different ideologies are then based on demographics and other characteristics.
- What is your theory of the demographic shift? You suggest that it contributed to the decline of the PDP, but you don't really show that.
It's part of the story of the decline of the PDP told in Chapter 2: Nigeria has a young population with one of the highest growth rates in the world, but the average age in the House and Senate increased with each successive election since 1999. It's one data point that makes sense alongside other factors, such as the suffocated ambition that contributed to the massive wave of party defections in 2014. I hope that it is an invitation to new research on "slow moving" variables such as inter-generational change in Nigeria. I did meet with YIAGA and youth groups as part of my research. But I can't say we have much of a theory yet about demographic age gaps and their broader political impacts yet.
- Didn't PDP lose in 2015 because of ethnicity, because they ran a southern candidate?
Maybe. That's the obvious counter-factual, and it is a compelling one since President Jonathan was a southern Christian and many northerners felt it was their "turn" to rule. But I'm not sure that the hypothetical northern candidate would have had broad appeal across the south, which would have been necessary to win. It's also somewhat encouraging to look at the map of states in Chapter 5 which shows the distribution of states where the candidate got at least 25 percent. Finally, it is interesting that the survey data shows that 14 percent of Muslims voted for Jonathan – and that there are more Christians in the north than anecdotal knowledge suggests.
- Your content analysis ignores informal campaign structures.
Not exactly. The coding of campaign comments by party elites covers a broad range of topics, which are then aggregated into five main issues. If party elites were not talking about issues at all, I did not to code the comment; the methodology is explained in the book. Two things are important: first, after dropping these comments, the PDP had less media coverage compared the APC. Second, the PDP lost in 2015. So the informal campaign strategies – attending funerals and weddings, or ranting about colonialism in the opinion pages – were not very effective for the PDP. They would have been better off talking about reducing gender disparities in school enrollment or highlighting recent economic diversification.
- Your content analysis is not accurate because it does not include local radio or social media.
This has come up a lot. I did a content analysis in 2010 (in Africa Today) that included radio and print, so it is possible. But when you are talking about a presidential campaign, it is reasonable to assume that when the candidate makes a comment, that comment is quoted across different mediums. This would not be the case if we were talking about a lower profile person. Nor does my analysis necessarily exclude local issues, such as coded local language meant to appeal to a region. For example, Jonathan might go to the Niger Delta, the oil producing region, and say "resource control." But because we talking about a national campaign, those comments become smaller data points in the overall picture because the goal is to win a national office: the presidency.
Finally, I think 2,390 articles from three different newspapers produced a representative sample of the campaign content.
- Would this analysis of campaigns hold at the state level?
Probably not, and that would be a great project. Michelle Kuenzi and Gina Lambright did a rigorous and unique study of gubernatorial rhetoric in the 2007 elections. Governors have to talk about different things to get elected, and after 20 year of democracy, we still know little about their actual linkages to the center. The topic is ripe for research. I would start with a good empirical analysis of coattail effects to see how running on the same ticket as the president affects the governor's likelihood of winning. But even that would be hard because of "split ticket" voting in Nigeria, where a voter votes for one party for governor and another for president. This was common in 2003.
- What does your analysis tell us about which kinds of communication are actually effective? How would your research design differ if the book was about 2019?
Evaluating effectiveness of different rhetoric techniques would probably require some sort of additional "discourse" analysis. The brief discussion of #BringBackOurGirls in the book suggests that the PDP's rhetoric and messaging were both ineffective and counterproductive.
I do show in Chapter 3 that the parties systematically talked about different things. The statistical analysis in Chapter 4 then shows that the party that got more votes across states – the APC – actually emphasized those same clusters of issues: the economy, corruption, and electoral integrity.
A study of the 2019 elections would require a rather different research design. I would likely want to look at social media's "amplification effects" rather than the content of campaigns. And maybe how different sources of news shaped voter preferences differently.
- Illiterate people tend to vote on ethnicity or religion. Their understanding of politics is simple and issues don't really matter to them.
From the slums of Port-au-Prince to the forests of Adamawa State, that has not been my experience. Poor people may operate on different "information shortcuts" and they might use simple language. But they often have relatively sophisticated ideas about politics.
Chapters 4 and 5 show that lower income people overwhelmingly voted for Buhari in 2015, as did people with more negative perceptions of economic performance over the previous year. This is consistent with a study that I did with Matthew Page and Yoonbin Ha, published in Review of African Political Economy, using slightly different data.
The big question in Nigeria is where the new middle class stands, and what it is willing to tolerate from the current political class.
- What about "group think"? It seems to be a missing link in your causal story.
Great point. With regard to the tests on insecurity, I do draw from social psychology research and ideas of "affective intelligence theory," which suggests that traumatic incidents create a heightened sense of political awareness or scrutiny. (We might observe these effects, for example, with increased voter turnout or incumbent vulnerability.) This is less explicit with regard to the hypotheses examining economic voting, but given the winning candidates' consistent messaging, group think of some kind is a reasonable idea.
- How did the two major parties in 2015 approach gender differently?
It's hard to say without going back and re-reading what they said, with that question in mind. My main point for now is that it is an unclaimed issue. I believe a coherent party agenda around women's issue priorities, and the recruitment of more women mainstreamed into the party, can help that party win. Neither party in 2015 understood this, and PDP made a mistake by not sufficiently emphasizing the progress Jonathan's administration made in girls' education and several other gender indicators.
Looking to the future, I would also hope to see research about how Internally Displaced Persons are likely to disrupt conservative social structures in the northeast. There are millions of women and girls who have now practiced leadership through the necessity of survival, often without the usual patriarchical structures around. What will they do with these skills and expectations once the war is over? Research by Hilary Matfess raises important questions along these lines.
- You assume that the Independent National Electoral Commission was transparent. I disagree.
I do not think INEC was or is sufficiently transparent. The law requires all the electoral results to be published down to the polling unit level. Where are they? And why haven't the donors (or civil society) made post-election information management a higher priority for technical assistance?
I do discuss two important things: in Chapter 3, I show that the APC promised better and more transparent primaries, and it campaigned on electoral integrity more than the PDP. Other scholars such as Darren Kew had already noted this; I provide some additional empirical evidence. Second, in Chapter 5, using a statistically sampled nationwide survey, I show that PDP supporters were less skeptical of INEC. The APC's skepticism corresponded with its promises for electoral integrity.
- Can there be a "third force" in politics? Does Nigeria need one?
It's hard to imagine an independent candidacy or a third party being successful for the foreseeable future. The two largest parties got 95 percent of the vote in 2015, and this is the culmination of a long trend in that direction. I know many people in Nigeria support independent candidates. But who would be viable? A really, really rich person. I also think the constitutional requirement to have a presence across the states is a good one, and hard requirement for an independent candidate to meet.
I think popular movements such as #BringBackOurGirls or campaigns like #NotTooYoungtoRun are the building blocks of reforms. If such movements can build real momentum, with a nationwide presence and the ability to make vertically integrated decisions with a grassroots base, I can see them pushing their way into a party and shaping it. But they also have to identify new winning issues.
- I am running for president in 2023. Does populism win?
It does for now. But as we have seen in Venezuela, and as we will soon see in the United States, it is hard to sustain. Don't formulate your platform yet.


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Think Like a Graphic Designer
I'll tell you a secret; you, Mr or Ms business owner, entrepreneur or office manager-who-has-to-also-act-as-graphics-person-using-only-Microsoft-Publisher (Bless you), have what it takes to think like a graphic designer. I know, you are thinking, "But Monica, aren't you afraid you will lose all your clients if you tell them this?"
No, I am not worried about that. I know that there are many of you who don't have the option to hire a professional, so you do the best you can to compete in a highly designed and branded world. I am just here to help.
So how exactly DOES a graphic designer think? We'll I can't answer for all of us, of course, but over the last 30 years of being a designer, I have learned some things that help me keep my work relative, fresh and effective. First, let's define "design".
I think the most important word here is "plan." Unlike painting where happy accidents are welcome (thank you, Bob Ross), graphic design requires a lot of thinking through thoughts. Let me illustrate what I mean.
Sally owns a small business and really need to come up with some big ideas for a brochure to hand out because there's a big trade show she's going to. And it's in 3 weeks. She brings in all her sales folk for a big marketing meeting. "We need to come up with a brochure for the trade show. Our competition will be there and it's a chance to get in front of a lot of decision makers and show them what we can do," she starts out. "Any ideas?"
"Okay, uh, how about our logo on the front and a picture?" volunteers Ted.
"Great!" Responds Sally, relieved to hear an idea, any idea. "What should t he picture be of?" she asks.
A longer silence.
"Uh, how about the front of the office? I can take a pic with my phone?" Ted is on fire with the ideas today.
"Okay," says Sally. "What about the inside?" Her head starts to throb a little bit in the temples.
Uncomfortable silence. Everyone looks at Ted, but he shrugs his shoulders and shakes his head. He is stumped. Sally's headache spreads to the base of her neck. "Do we have a brochure from anywhere that we can look at? Anything?" Joan remembers something and leaves the room for a moment. She returns with a trifold brochure from a computer repair business and offers it to Sally. By now Sally's tension headache has spread to her shoulders and she is feeling tired and old. "Maybe we can just put our information on the inside like they did; maybe just take the words off our web page?" Joan offers.
Sally sighs, sad and defeated; she had high hopes that emphasizing the bigness of the tradeshow to everyone would miraculously spur some real creativity. She takes the brochure back to her office and opens a new Publisher document. It's better than nothing she thinks to herself.
Sally does not have to settle for mediocre (at best). She just needs to think like a designer, which means she needs a plan, and that means she has to ask some questions.
- What is the most remarkable bit of information about her company?
- Who exactly will be looking at this brochure at the tradeshow?
- What is the theme of the tradeshow?
- What does she want people to DO after they read the brochure?
- Is a trifold the best option anyway?
Those are just the first questions to ask. Design is really a series of choices and decisions, but you have to ask questions before you can make choices and decisions, right?
All throughout February I am sharing ways of looking at things from a graphic designer's perspective on my social media. I've already gone well over my suggested word count for blog posts, so I have to stop writing now. But follow me on your favorite social media and you'll get lots of quick tips on how to think like a graphic designer. Free! And of course, please feel free to contact me if I can help you in any way!
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It was odd but gratifying to see the way Senator Daniel Inouye, who died yesterday in Washington at age 88 after serving Hawaii in Congress for more than 50 years, was praised in multiple dimensions today. The New York Times obituary stressed his "quiet," "courtly," "soft-spoken" nature, painting a portrait of a deferential man plucked from obscurity now and then for various important jobs (like the Watergate and Iran-Contra hearings). Awestruck bloggers and commenters at sites like Reddit, meanwhile, focused more on the senator as an action hero, someone out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Many of them had apparently just found out what Mr. Inouye did in World War II—an amazing story that was in all the obits and on his Medal of Honor citation, and is now in Badass Digest, under the headline "The Time Daniel Inouye Pried a Grenade From His Severed Arm."
The Senate has hardly lacked for combat-proven veterans; names that spring to mind include Cleland, Dole, Kennedy (John), Kerrey, Kerry and McCain. Mr. Inouye was unusual in belonging to a group of Americans who served
after having been betrayed by their own country. One reason his unit, the all-Japanese-American 442d Regimental Combat Team, won a record number of battle citations—besides its members' bravery and
skill, of course—was that it was treated as cannon fodder, sent on suicidal missions by leaders who considered these troops more dispensable than others. Mr. Inouye rose to the challenge, eager to prove
a loyalty that should never have been questioned.
Mr. Inouye's service was long and distinguished and doesn't need repeating here. It's worth pointing out, though, how thoroughly he blended the virtues of political courage, dedication and modesty. He was a committee chairman with seniority and power, a disabled veteran with a stellar military pedigree, but he was a low-key fellow. For decades he was an unabashed deliverer of mountains of federal aid to Hawaii (Mr. Inouye was stubborn in defending the virtuous use of earmarks to poor, far-off states that need government help for infrastructure and other economic development). But you won't find the Inouye name on buildings, roads or bridges throughout the islands; he was not that kind of pol.


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- Blue Sword: Pokémon Sword ($60 pre-order at Amazon)
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- The Poké Ball: Poké Ball Plus ($45 at Amazon)
What is the Poké Ball Plus?
The Poké Ball Plus is a Poké Ball-shaped controller that released with Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! In those games, the ball takes the place of your Joy-Con allowing you to flick your wrist to capture in-game Pokémon. You can also place one of your in-game Pokémon into the Poké Ball Plus and take it with you. The ball lights up, makes sounds, and vibrates giving the illusion that a Pokémon is inside.
How will the Poké Ball Plus work with Sword and Shield?
The E3 2019 Nintendo Direct confirmed that the Poké Ball Plus would also work with Pokémon Sword and Shield, but that there would be some changes from how it worked with the Let's Go games. The biggest difference is that you won't be able to use the Poké Ball Plus as a controller when playing Sword and Shield. However, you'll still be able to place a Pokémon into the ball and take it on walks.
In a vague statement, Nintendo also revealed that "if you spend some quality time with a favorite Pokémon of yours then something good might happen." This could just mean that you'll receive items or in-game rewards, or it might also mean that the Poké Ball Plus is needed to evolve some Pokémon. We really don't know at the moment.
How does the Poké Ball Plus differ from a Joy-Con?
The Poké Ball Plus only features three distinct controls: a joystick, a button you can press by clicking in the joystick, and a reaction to shaking the ball. The Let's Go! games only required the use of the joystick and one button during the entire game, so they worked with the simple controls of the Poké Ball Plus. It's a far more limited controller than the Joy-Con, which in comparison has 10 buttons and a joystick that clicks in.
Why can't you use the Poké Ball Plus as a controller in Sword and Shield?
As stated previously, this accessory is a simplified controller created for the Pokémon: Let's Go! games in an effort to help introduce budding smartphone-wielding Pokémon Go! users to the Pokémon RPG video game universe. In comparison, Sword and Shield are full-fledge core games, which means overall combat mechanics and controls are more complicated. For the first time in Pokémon history, players will also be able to control the camera, but that requires a second joy-stick, which the Poké Ball Plus doesn't have. If you want to use this accessory with Gen 8, you'll be limited to carrying a favorite Sword or Shield Pokemon around.
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The other day the question was put to me why so many keep saying that Palestinians are an invented people.
A simple question with a complex answer.
Until the late nineteenth century, the term Palestinian was used as a regional term.
Residents living in the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean identified themselves primarily in terms of religion: Muslims felt far stronger bonds with remote co-religionists than with nearby Jews and Christians. Living in that area did not imply any sense of common political purpose or sense of discrete peoplehood or nationhood.
An identity as a people is one precursor to nationhood. And nationhood is the presence of common identity together with the three key elements of sovereignty, self-determination and self-sufficiency.
The "Palestinians" have never had this, and they still don't have it. The concept that such a people exists is being forced on the world to achieve a base political goal.
In actual fact, the deliberate creation of the "Palestinian people" as a discrete entity in 1967, and the political group known as the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 was for the political purpose of destroying a sovereign and legally mandated Jewish state.
Till that point in time, nor, it will be shown, after that time, was there ever ANY sense or mention of a "Palestinian" people or nation.
The term Palestinian was ALWAYS followed by a descriptive noun – Arab; ie Palestinian Arab.
According to Palestinian historian Muhammad Y. Muslih, during the entire 400 year period of Ottoman rule (1517-1918), before the British set up the 30-year-long Palestine Mandate, "There was no political unit known as Palestine."
When the Islamic armies conquered the Levant, they adopted the administrative name used by the Byzantines and dubbed part of Palestina Prima ("the first Palestine") – more or less today's Jerusalem area and the Shfela [coastal plain] – as "Jund Filastin." Jund means "army;" Jund Filastin means "the Palestine military command." In other words, the name did not signify the national identity of a "Palestinian people" who lived in the land, but instead, a military district, in line with the Byzantine nomenclature.
Until Israel was re-established as a nation in 1948, Palestine was the term for the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The word Palestinian was applied to anyone living in that area.
As late as 1909 the first recorded Arab to use the term "Palestinian" was Farid Georges Kassab, a Beirut-based Orthodox Christian who, in 1909, espoused sympathy for Zionism. Kassab's 1909 book stated that "the Orthodox Palestinian Ottomans call themselves Arabs, and are in fact Arabs." Even Kassab decried the use of the term "Palestinian" Arab. Nevertheless, apart from the ancient indigenous Jews in the Levant, the largely Muslim Arab population identified only as Arab and ONLY with the start of the British mandate, was the term used to describe both Jew and Arab. So, the term Palestinian did not take on its current popular meaning until the mid-20th century and was used as a regional reference.
On a related tangent, in 1948, the invasion of Israel by 6 pan-Arab armies had NOTHING to do with creating an Arab Palestinian state but ALL to do with a classic imperialist Muslim scramble for Palestinian territory. Had they succeeded, as the first secretary-general of the Arab League, Abdel Rahman Azzam, admitted to a British reporter, Transjordan "was to swallow up the central hill regions of Palestine with access to the Mediterranean at Gaza. The Egyptians would get the Negev. The Galilee would go to Syria, except that the coastal part as far as Acre would be added to Lebanon."
Had Israel lost the war, its territory would have been divided among the invading Arab forces. The name Palestine would have vanished into the dustbin of history.
So, are the "Palestinians" an invented people for purely political (anti-semitic) purposes?
Well, even Mandate Palestinian Arab leaders during the British mandate era (1920-48) who, as products of the Ottoman imperial system where religion constituted the linchpin of the socio-political order of things, had no real grasp of the phenomenon of nationalism. Hence, they had no interest in the evolution of a distinct Palestinian nation, or acknowledging a Palestinian "people", because there simply wasn't one.
As an example that there was no concept of "Palestinian" nationhood or peoplehood, the April 1920 pogrom in Jerusalem was not in the name of independence of the "Palestinian people" of the Mandate area, but under the demand for its incorporation into the (short-lived) Syrian kingdom, headed by Faisal ibn Hussein of Mecca….
In 1926, the Arab Executive Committee still referred to Palestine as the unlawfully severed southern part of "the one country of Syria, with its one population of the same language, origin, customs, and religious beliefs (emphasis mine), and its natural boundaries, as I pointed out earlier.
In July 1937, the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) justified its rejection of the Peel Commission's recommendation for the partition of Palestine on the grounds that "this country does not belong only to [the] Palestine Arabs (that qualifying noun again….) but to the whole Arab and Muslim Worlds (emphasis mine)."
And finally, as late as August 1947, three months before the passing of the U.N. resolution partitioning Mandate Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, the AHC's mouthpiece, al-Wahda, advocated the incorporation of Palestine (and Transjordan) into "Greater Syria (emphasis mine)."
No, there was no concept of "Palestinian people" but rather, always one of Palestinian Arabs who were part of the wider Arab Muslim ummah.
How did they then suddenly appear as homogeneous ethnic group in 1967 when not even the Arab High Commission had ever heard of them?
There are undereducated misconceptions too that pan-Arabism was of no consequence in the dialogue surrounding the authenticity of the "Palestinian" "people". This is untrue.
Even the younger generation of post 1948 Arab activists supported this ideal as evidenced by Ahmad Shuqeiri, a Lebanon-born politician of mixed Egyptian, Hijazi, and Turkish descent who served as the Arab League's deputy secretary-general. As he put it, "Palestine is part and parcel in the Arab homeland."
Asked to clarify which part of the "Arab homeland" this specific territory belonged, he added that Palestine "is nothing but southern Syria."
And so, it is no surprise that Yasser Arafat, the (Egyptian born and educated) father of the "Palestinian people" followed this pan-Arab line. The 1964 PLO charter defined the Palestinians as "an integral part of the Arab nation", rather than a distinct nationality (emphasis mine) and vowed allegiance to the ideal of pan-Arab unity – that is, to Palestine's eventual assimilation into "the greater Arab homeland."
In 1996, even that bastion which proclaims itself as the leader in the "struggle" for the Palestinian "people", Hamas, said this, "Islamic and traditional views reject the notion of establishing an independent Palestinian state … In the past, there was no independent Palestinian state. … [Hence] our main goal is to establish a great Islamic state, be it pan-Arabic or pan-Islamic… This…land…is not the property of the Palestinians…. This land is the property of all Muslims in all parts of the world." (senior Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar, 1996)
And finally, on this line of reasoning, it is not possible to go past the words of Azmi Bishara, founding leader of the nationalist Balad Party (with seats in the Israeli parliament since 1999). In a statement he made in 2002 he said: "My Palestinian identity never precedes my Arab identity…. I don't think there is a Palestinian nation, there is [only] an Arab nation…. "
Not much more needs to be said; the concept of a Palestinian "people" engaged in a struggle of "liberation" from a colonial Jewish "oppressor" is a purposely misleading one, invented solely for the purpose of de-legitimising the Jewish state and its people.
The Levantine Arabs, up to and including 1948 , ALWAYS identified firstly on the basis of religion and secondly on the basis of ethnicity. Thus the Levant contained Christian ARABS, Muslim ARABS but only and always, Jews. In other words, the identity of those Arabs who today would like to be known as an ancient "Palestinian "people" have in actual fact NO distinguishing markers of a discrete peoplehood (ever) given that their identity is mostly based on shared customs and beliefs of their Arab Muslim brothers, ALL of them mediated by Islam.
Till 1967, nobody had ever heard of the "Palestinians" as a people, let alone a "people" steeped in antiquity. Its subsequent use is merely a political tool to delegitimise the Jewish claim to what was left of the division of the British Mandate into two projected Arab Muslim entities and one Jewish one.
However, there are those who will use meaningless terms like endogenesis and ethnogenesis in an attempt to pointlessly philosophise with words that have no concrete impact on the issue to hand.
Besides, the concept of a homogeneous, ethnic and disparate "Palestinian people" (endo/ethno genesis) is frankly ludicrous when one considers that through centuries of Muslim imperialism right down to the end of Ottoman Empire in 1918, caliphs and other rulers brought in hundreds of thousands of soldier slaves loyal to their pay masters.
The Tulunides brought in Turks and Negroes.
The Fatamids introduced Berbers, Slavs, Greeks, Kurds, and mercenaries of all kinds.
The Mamelukes imported legions of Georgians and Circassians.
Saladin brought in 150,000 Persians who were given lands in Galilee and the Sidon district for their services.
In the fourteenth century, 18,000 Yurate Tartars from the Euphrates were brought in, soon followed by 20,000 Ashiri and 4,000 Mongols who occupied the Jordan Valley and settled from Jerusalem south!! Mongols…
In 1830, as a further example, Mehemet [Muhammad] Ali colonized Jaffa and Nablus (Jewish Schem before the arab invasion and occupation…) with Egyptian soldiers and their Sudanese allies. So much so that british estimates of the 13,000 inhabitants of Jaffa, for example, ran at 8,000 Turco-Egyptians, 4,000 Greeks and Armenians, and 1,000 Maronites. The british did not consider that there were any Arabs at all in that city. ….
For her/his part, it would be a brave soul who would deny the constancy of the presence of the Jewish PEOPLE in the Levant over the past 3,000 years.
No, the whole concept of a "Palestinian people" is a base political strategy invented not to build a state but to destroy a neighbouring one. For this reason, many who are knowledgeable on this issue will continue to say they are an invented "people".
Today, while the term Palestinian is applied to the Arabic-speaking residents of what is largely the State of Israel, this usage is purposely misleading because for most of human history, a "Palestinian" was simply a person born or living in that land with no connotation of being a "people".
When used in reference only to non-Jews, it implies an historical claim to the territory in opposition to Israel. In reality, the concept of Palestine as a nation-state in opposition to Israel or as a racial group ( a "people") predating the presence of Jewish inhabitants is historically false and is currently pushed as part of a broader strategy of delegitimising Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
The tactic of the myth of a "Palestinian people" is simple yet sophisticated: preaching and dispersing lies and distortions of reality. History proves that the bigger the lie and the more common its reiteration, the more it is accepted as authentic and genuine.
After all, who can believe that an entire national leadership would dare to totally distort and fabricate history in full?
But the notion of a "Palestinian people" has been forced on Europe and America through the ploy of telling all players what they want to hear.
To a guilty Europe, where there is a high level of guilt and remorse about its own colonialist past, the creation of Israel is pitched as an excess of a bygone European colonialist era where Europe is directly blamed for the creation of the Jewish state.
To the Americans, where many feel guilt and remorse over historic racism, the Palestinians depict Israel as a racist state, which treats them in the same way as African Americans were treated.
And for the broader international community and for human rights organizations, Israel is a cruel occupier that violates all human rights and freedoms of the Palestinians.
But no matter the myth of a Palestinian "people", ANY Palestinian national identity is overwhelmingly founded, and heavily predicated, on the negation of Jewish and Israeli identity, rather than on positive attributes or real history.
Arguably, the international community's enabling and legitimizing of the wishes of a group of people with such an open hatred of a neighbouring sovereign state may be down to simple things: Oil, wilful naiveté, anti-semitism, and a politically correct unwillingness to offer any challenge to such falsehoods.
In the end though, it matters little. The modern re-constituted Jewish State of Israel and the Jewish people are celebrating 71 years of existence as contributing members of the family of nations; without the need to revise, falsify or fabricate its 3000 year old history.
The same cannot be said for the Palestinian "people".


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N.S.: Something to read while we wait
Lots of people, I'm sure, are looking forward to seeing the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in N.S., a sexual assault case in which the complainant was ordered to remove her niqab after the accused (her uncle and his friend) argued it interfered with their right to a fair trial.
In anticipation of the decision, which should be handed down in the near future, check out this link to What's in a Face? Demeanour Evidence in the Sexual Assault Context, available on SSRN. The author is Ottawa Law Prof. Natasha Bakht. Natasha, who is currently on leave, is in a class of her own. She's an award winning dancer and choreographer in addition to her "day job"; she edited Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada. I look forward to hearing her thoughts on this case when it comes down.
What's in a Face is part of a larger collection edited by Elizabeth Sheehy, coming from Ottawa U Press.
SEXUAL ASSAULT LAW, PRACTICE AND ACTIVISM IN A POST-JANE DOE ERA, Elizabeth Sheehy, ed., University of Ottawa Press, Forthcoming 2011 .
The case began in 2007 when a woman, now 32 and identified only as N.S., told police that her cousin and uncle repeatedly sexually abused her while she was between the ages of six and 10.
During the preliminary inquiry, which is held to see if there is enough evidence to go to trial, the judge ordered N.S. to remove her veil to testify. …..
A lawyer for one of the defendants said N.S. has not said she refuses to testify without her face covered, just that she would feel more comfortable wearing the niqab.
Without being able to view the face of a witness, clues to her demeanour are lost and impede the defendants' ability to fully cross-examine her, Michael Dineen said.
He gave an example of a teenage witness in a recent murder trial who changed her story on the stand after a defence lawyer questioned her about smirking after giving an answer.
from: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/08/niqab-testimony-ontario.htm
Want more on N.S.?
Here is a report from the hearing, which is kind of fun (the judges do seem to be leaning in N.S.'s favour). ah, the globe has put this one behind the pay wall.
Hey, and there's no photo of a woman in a veil here, even though i could easily pick up a stock shot somewhere: See Why do Western Publishers have a Veil Fetish? http://www.slate.com/id/2153013/ by Asra Q. Nomani for an interesting argument which will resonate in your brain each time you see a picture of a nameless veiled woman illustrating a media piece.


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I have been missing Africa lately. I was overjoyed when a friend of mine bought me some cassava flour; I knew I wanted to use it to make fufu. Fufu is the starch staple of large parts of Africa, but … Continue reading
Pumpkin chips
These crunchy pumpkin chips are AMAZING. I made them to go in my 'three sisters tacos' but they are delicious by themselves. I think they'd make a great beer snack, something to munch during a sports game, or an after … Continue reading
Stuffed zucchini flowers
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Cauliflower pakoras with minted yoghurt
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Angelico's artichokes
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Weblog of Connie Vines, who resides deep within the suburbs of SoCal, with her family and a sassy toy poodle.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Good Evening Readers,
Once again, I'm back at Miz Ginger's Blog Site. I thought I'd post the blurb and a small excerpt from Witch's Brew, Book One in the Winslow Witches of Salem Series....Happy Reading.
Witches, wizards and magic! Saylym Winslow regains forgotten magical powers, but is determined to ignore them. No way is she a witch; magic brings nothing but trouble. But when Talon, Waken Prince and assassin of witches is assigned to terminate Saylym by stealing her soul, she discovers being a real, spell-casting witch is only the beginning of her problems.
Talon is enchanted by Saylym's beauty and charm and refuses to do his duty. He is given a choice by the powerful Waken Guild: Handfast with the trouble making witch to keep her in line or they will send Drayke, the most ruthless waken assassin, to hunt her down.
Sparks fly in this bewitching, sexy battle of the sexes—witch-style.
Saylym flipped on the store lights and paused at the big display window, where she fiddled with the potted plants she'd arranged there the day before.
She stilled and shivered. She felt eyes burn into her. Hungry eyes. How strange. Pin pricks of awareness heightened her senses and her body tensed. Her gaze flickered to a man propped lazily against a lamppost across the street. Huh. How had she missed him?
How could a man look mysterious, sinister and sexy as hell all at the same time?
Somehow, he managed to do all three at once.
Maybe it was the head to toe black he wore that made him seem powerful as well. Black leather pants hugged muscular thighs. His silk shirt stretched taut across a wide chest, a chest made for a woman's head to rest upon. Her pulse pounded hotly in response. What else had she expected? This was the first hot male she'd seen in over a month.
Her curiosity caught, she couldn't help wondering why he was watching her. Even from across the street, she felt his eyes caressing every inch of her body and felt his hunger. Her skin tingled. Heat crawled over her body, spreading to her loins. Her stomach clenched and jittered with unexpected need.
Her need, or his? She wasn't certain.
She only knew her body melted in response as images of the two of them tangled together on black satin sheets floated in her head. His naked body covered hers. She gasped, digging her nails in the flesh of his back as he nudged her thighs apart and teased her with the broad head of his thick phallus.
Strong hands slid across her stomach in a slow, tantalizing caress. Long fingers plucked at her tight nipples before he lowered his mouth to suckle.
Saylym blinked, dissipating the vision in her head. Holy shit! Her hands trembled as she brushed back a strand of hair. Her breasts ached and felt swollen. Her nipples throbbed with urgent need. She touched her trembling fingers to where she'd felt his mouth on her.
Somehow, their bodies and minds had connected. They'd shared those fiercely erotic images. Low in her belly, heat sizzled into a blazing fire, leaving behind a ravaging need.
He wanted to claim her. She read it in his mind.
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Charles X (9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836), known for most of his life as Charles Philippe, comte d'Artois, was the King of France from 1824 to 1830.
Charles was born as the brother of King Louis XVI. On his brother's indecisiveness, he stated that "trying to get Louis to hold to a position was like trying to hold greased billiard balls together". After becoming king in 1824, Charles proved to be highly unpopular, and was overthrown and exiled in the July Revolution of 1830.


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Our Engineering team is architecting a family of products that handle over a billion files a day. We take on the complexities of technology that affect everyday life, so that people can get back to living and doing their best work.
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The Security Engineering team is responsible for making sure all our products are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. We are looking for data scientists who are passionate about security and will work hand-in-hand with engineers to detect and mitigate any malicious activity on Dropbox.
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- Bachelor degree or equivalent is required for this role
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Senator Hillary Clinton blasted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday during a solidarity visit to Israel, saying the Palestinian leader "has failed as a leader."
"The responsibility for the violence since the collapse of the Camp David discussions rests squarely on Arafat's shoulders," said Clinton (D-N.Y.), who is on a trip to support tourism to Israel.
The remarks were an about-face from her 1999 pre-election visit when she angered many Jews after she politely listened as Arafat's wife, Suha, accused Israel of using poison gas to kill Palestinians.
Clinton, who kissed Arafat's wife at that event, later called the remarks "inflammatory" rhetoric.
During yesterday's speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Clinton attacked Arafat for the collapse of the peace process her husband, Bill Clinton, spearheaded when he was president.
"It is imperative that Yasser Arafat recognize that his willingness not only to tolerate, but to use violence, cannot succeed," she said.
Clinton said terrorists should not stop people from visiting the country and called for the State Department to ease warnings on travel to Israel.
"We must not let [terrorists] isolate Israel," she said. "We are far away geographically, but we are neighbors at heart."
Arafat has publicly urged all Palestinians to honor his cease-fire calls, appeals that Israel has said masked a desire to achieve a Palestinian state through violence in a 17-month-old uprising.
Israel has kept Arafat confined to his West Bank home since December – a siege Palestinians say has hampered his ability to crack down on militants.
Clinton is scheduled to visit a Jerusalem pizzeria where a Palestinian suicide bomber struck last August. She will also meet with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Meanwhile, Israel and the Palestinian Authority signaled a desire to put behind them a week of bloody violence in time for the Jewish and Muslim holidays.
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer ordered the army to "act with restraint" over the coming days coinciding with the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha and the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Despite that hope, several attacks yesterday marred the hope for peace.
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank killed an unarmed Palestinian who the army said ran toward their post shouting a rallying cry.
Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Sixteen Palestinians were wounded in the gunfire.
A Palestinian gunman wounded two Israelis in a shooting near Ramallah.
The day's events capped off a surge of bloodletting over the past week where 42 Palestinians, including three suicide bombers, and 11 Israelis have been killed.


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The following Trusts and Inheritance Tax guidance note by Tolley in association with Emma Haley at Boodle Hatfield LLP provides comprehensive and up to date tax information covering:
A valuable exemption from inheritance tax (IHT) applies to gifts out of surplus income. This exemption applies only to lifetime gifts and is therefore a key part of lifetime planning. The exemption applies to both outright gifts and gifts into trust.
Gifts which meet the qualifying conditions (see below) are immediately exempt from IHT so it is not necessary to survive seven years to obtain the exemption. Exempt gifts are not aggregated with later gifts and do not eat into the IHT nil rate band. Clients should make use of basic exemptions such as this before embarking on more complex lifetime planning.
There is no set limit on the amount that can be given away, provided the gift does not exceed the donor's surplus income.
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Gifts made from capital will not be covered by the exemption and it will ultimately be necessary to demonstrate that the gifts were made from net (post-tax) income (see 'Claiming the exemption' below).
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The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 enjoyed a small rally last month after five months of decline, helped along by steady interest in Champagne.
A top Spanish vineyard is using the Internet of Things to improve grape cultivation and save money.
Winemaking is getting smart, or at least sensorized.
The bulk of winery visits are unplanned, according to data from the San Francisco Bay Area-based Angelsmith, a marketing agency. Many tourists will visit several wineries in a day, but may plan an entire visit around one of them.
Fine wine merchants have tipped Petrus as the 'wine of the vintage' in 2017 but demand is expected to be significantly down on last year.
Every year in advance of the annual en primeur campaign, Liv-ex polls its 400 global members to get their thoughts on the vintage, compiling their answers to give something of a snapshot of the vintage including; the best wines, those tipped to be (with any luck) the 'best value', where the vintage ranks against its recent peers and expected demand from customers.
Brittany, the region of northwestern France, is renowned for its beaches, seagulls and delicious seafood - but one of the last things you'd associate with the area is local wine.


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I am always amazed at how abruptly Spring can spring. Overnight, there seem to be surprising changes, and the world suddenly has a little more color, and beauty.
This morning, as the grey skies lightened a bit, I could see the magical transformation that greeted this day.
The lilac bush should be in full bloom this weekend.