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# Georgia Voting Machine Issues Heighten Scrutiny on Brian Kemp

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who has led an aggressive purge of the state's voting rolls.

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If former state representative Stacey Abrams wins the race for governor of Georgia, she would be the US's first black woman governor.

She's running in a tightly contested race against sitting secretary of state Brian Kemp, who in his official capacity as overseer of Georgia's voter rolls has fought hard the past few months to remove people from the active voter lists who might be inclined to vote for Abrams.

He's been accused of targeting black voters specifically, purging them from voter rolls.

Black people make up 30.2 percent of Georgia's population, according to the US Census.

Many have said Kemp should have stepped down as secretary of state, citing a conflict of interest between his role as the guardian of the vote and as a candidate on the ballot.

New questions around Kemp's oversight of the election flared Tuesday amid problems with voting in some parts of the state.

Late Tuesday, a group of Georgian voters filed a lawsuit requesting an injunction to prevent Kemp from overseeing the vote count, writing that they have "reasonable belief that Kemp will not be a fair judge of the outcome of the elections and will exercise his official duties in a biased manner that denies them the right to cast an effective vote."

The plaintiffs request someone new be appointed to certify the outcome of the vote.1

Even before the lawsuit, and in addition to worries about bias, Kemp's dual role as candidate and election official was a cause for concern.

"We have a secretary of state who is running for governor who hasn't been there for four months to run things," says Sara Henderson, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, a nonpartisan grassroots organization.

Henderson is working with 150 people across Georgia Tuesday.

"He's left it up the elections supervisor Chris Harvey, and they have a very small team of folks, it's only eight people."

Wait times to vote in some areas Tuesday were averaging three hours, a representative for Verified Voting, a nonpartisan organization devoted to voting security, told WIRED.

This was owing both to problems at polling places and higher than expected turnout, according to Henderson.

At one polling place in Snellville, in Gwinnett County, north of Atlanta, people were unable to vote for hours because there were no power cords for the machines when the polls opened, according to NBC News.

Snellville's population includes a higher percentage of blacks, 36 percent versus 29 percent than the county overall.

"What we are seeing would back up the theory that voter intimidation and disenfranchisement is occurring in low income minority communities across the state," says Henderson.

"We've had the most reports of problems from areas that are densely populated with minorities."

Her team has gotten reports from numerous counties that they've run out of ballots, or don't have enough provisional ballots.

She says counties have been "consistently underfunded" and offered little communication.

County election officials are relying on news reports to understand how many ballots to prepare, and what is going on with lines and machine malfunctions, she says.

The lack of preparation and accurate information at the polls is leading to what Henderson calls voter intimidation from poll workers who wrongly turn people away.

"We've had reports of voters being completely turned away without even being given a provisional ballot," Henderson says.

"Sixty students at Albany State University this morning were turned away completely and we can't figure out why.

We have an attorney on the ground who is trying to figure out how to get the students back to the polls."

More than 53,000 voters in Georgia were purged from the voter rolls owing to a strict "signature matching" rule that requires voters' registration signature to exactly match their DMV signature.

These people have moved to a "pending registration list."

These pending registrants are supposed to be allowed to vote.

Kemp has said that if people present ID, they will be allowed to vote.

Trouble is, according to Henderson, poll workers don't necessarily know or understand this.

The pending list is separate from the electronic registration list that poll workers are trained to use.

Poll workers need to know to check that list, and they need to know that if a name appears on the list that person is allowed to vote.

In some cases, she says, poll workers don't know about the pending list, and voters don't know to ask poll workers to check it.

Georgia is also one of only five states in the nation that doesn't provide paper ballot backups for its electronic touchscreen machines, according to Verified Voting, so when things go wrong—as they are today—it's impossible to conduct a full audit.

Some machines that generate needed "smart cards" for voting were not working properly in Georgia Tuesday.

Trouble with misinformed poll workers, lack of ballots and missing power cords aren't the only problems plaguing Georgia's election.

Georgia voters have been inundated with misleading robocalls from Kemp falsely claiming that Abrams wants to let undocumented immigrants vote.

His supporters are also falsely suggesting that armed Black Panthers are intimidating white voters at the polls.

Over the weekend, Kemp accused the Democratic Party of attempting to hack the state's voter-registration system, without citing evidence.

On Monday, Kemp, who is white, engaged in racial fear-mongering, tweeting that "The Black Panther Party is backing my opponent.

RT if you think Abrams is TOO EXTREME for Georgia!"

The tweet linked to a Breitbart article, which took an image, posted to Facebook by a group identifying itself as The New Black Panther Party, of a small "armed rally against voter disenfranchisement" held on November 3.

The Breitbart article compares that rally, which appeared to have no more than five Black Panthers in attendance based on a review of 22 photos the group put on Facebook, to the 1,000-person-plus rally Trump held for Kemp the next night.

Kemp's supporters are using the same images to claim that Black Panthers are intimidating voters at the polls.

One post shared in a Facebook group called Trump Train, which has more than 54,000 members, urged people to call police if they saw Black Panthers at the polls: "Black Panthers, a radicalized-racist militant group, are armed with assult weapons roaming the streets and neighborhoods as well as the voting polls in Georgia to intimidate and 'persuade' Voters to vote for the far-left democrat candidate, Stacey Abrams for Governor."

The New Black Panthers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There have been some reports of racially motivated voter intimidation outside polling places on Tuesday.

Henderson says she and her team have gotten a few reports of people with megaphones shouting anti-black racial slurs outside certain polling places, though she declined to name the counties.

Police, she say, have had to get involved in some instances.

The secretary of state's office has issued no official warnings about voter intimidation or problems at the polls and did not respond to a request for comment.

If you experience problems voting, you can report them to Common Cause at 866-OUR-VOTE.

1Updated at 7:08pm ET with information about the lawsuit filed to prevent Brian Kemp from overseeing the election results.

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The voters were given no notice that they had been purged. Palast ultimately sued Kemp, claiming over 300,000 voters were purged illegally. Kemp's office denied any wrongdoing, saying that by "regularly updating our rolls, we prevent fraud and ensure that all votes are cast by eligible Georgia voters."
 Kemp's office was found to have violated the law before and immediately after the 2018 midterm elections. In a ruling against Kemp, District Judge Amy Totenberg found that Kemp's office had violated the Help America Vote Act and said an attempt by Kemp's office to expedite the certification of results "appears to suggest the Secretary’s foregoing of its responsibility to confirm the accuracy of the results prior to final certification, including the assessment of whether serious provisional balloting count issues have been consistently and properly handled."   Kemp said the expedited certification was necessary to facilitate his transition to the role of Governor.
 After Totenberg's ruling thousands of voting machines were sequestered by local election officials on Election Day in 2018, an action that critics say was designed to increase wait times at polling locations. The sequestration of machines disproportionately affected counties that favored Kemp's opponent and caused voters in some locations to have to wait in line for hours in inclement weather in order to vote.


She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

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Full name: Kathryn Ann "Kay" Lunda (-Vandevrede)

Born: April 28, 1957 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Affiliations: Madison Speed Skating Club, Madison (USA)

Kay Lunda competed for the Madison Speed Skating Club.

In 1969 she was US outdoor midget division champion.

In 1970 she was in the juvenile class, winning the US indoor title, and placing second outdoors.

In 1971 she won the US juvenile outdoors title.

In addition to her Olympic appearance, Lunda competed at the 1973 World Junior Championships, placing third all-round and second in the 500 and 1,000 distances.

Lunda had a twin sister, Kathy Lunda, who also competed in speed skating.

Kay Lunda (born April 28, 1957) is an American speed skater.


The arena is named for Dr. Robert L. Ewigleben, the former school president who was responsible for the building of the arena as well as the inception of Division I ice hockey at the school in 1979.

(meta data) TITLE: Ewigleben Ice Arena - Ferris State Bulldogs

The Bulldogs play their home games at the Robert L. Ewigleben (pronounced A-VEE-glave-in) Ice Arena, which is located on the Ferris State University campus.

The 2017-18 season signifies the arena's 43rd year of operation and the facility is named in honor of former FSU President Dr. Robert L. Ewigleben.

While at Ferris State, Dr. Ewigleben helped establish the sport of hockey and coordinated its progression to the NCAA Division I level during his tenure (1971-84)

The facility, which is located on the southwest end of the FSU campus, underwent a 3.3 million renovation project in the summer of 2008.

New slabs for the main and half ice sheets along with new dasher boards and seamless tempered glass panels were installed.

The installation of new flooring around the rink and upgrades to the locker room were also implemented.

The arena features an ice surface measuring 85 by 200-feet with a corner radius of 28 feet.

The arena is attached to the 39,300 square foot Ewigleben Sports Complex and the Student Convocation Center, both of which form the nerve center for Ferris State Athletics.

With an official seating capacity of 2,493, the arena features a half-size rink for recreational use, three dressing rooms with direct access to the ice surface, a multi-purpose wing, and the Bulldog Room lounge for game activities.

In an on-going effort to maintain the quality of the Ferris State hockey program, the arena's interior was painted in September 1995 to enhance its appearance.

In the 2003 summer, artwork was added around the arena's interior and in 2007, a display paying tribute to the Ferris State All-America selections was placed above the northeast side entrance.

The facility was expanded with the construction of a 4,560 gross-square-foot Bulldog varsity hockey locker room annex as part of the Ewigleben Ice Arena Remodeling Project.

The carpeted hockey locker room, located on the Ewigleben Ice Arena's west side, was officially dedicated on January 17, 1999.

The state-of-the-art locker room features 30 individual lockers, a study lounge with computers, film study room, equipment room, training and stick room, coaches' offices, and a sauna.

The centerpiece to the Ice Arena is an expanded, attractive common lobby area, which is connected to the 2,400-seat Student Convocation Center and Jim Wink Arena.

Both facilities together encompass approximately 42,000-square feet of space.

The lobby features a ticket office, two concession areas, a pro shop, and a skate rental room.

Other Ewigleben Ice Arena improvements include a renovated and enlarged 1,620-square foot press box along with a renovated locker room facilties for the Big Rapids (Mich.) High School hockey program.

Two new scoreboards were installed at both ends of the ice rink in late November 1999 and the bleacher seats were replaced midway through the 2000-01 season.

The multi-purpose Ewigleben Ice Arena also serves as host for numerous university and community events.

The Robert L. Ewigleben Ice Arena is located on FSU's Sports Drive adjacent to West Knollview Drive.

From U.S. 131 expressway, take the Perry Street exit (139) east and upon reaching State Street turn right and go south.

The Robert L. Ewigleben Ice Arena is enclosed within the Sports Complex, located on the west side of South State Street on the hill.

The Robert L. Ewigleben Ice Arena (/ˈeɪvəˌɡleɪbən/ "AY-və-glay-bən") is a 2,493-seat hockey arena in Big Rapids, Michigan. It is home to the Ferris State University Bulldogs ice hockey team of the WCHA.  The building is attached the FSU Sports Complex, which also includes Wink Arena, a volleyball court, a studio ice rink, offices, concessions and meeting space.  The Ice Arena also hosts the local high school and junior hockey programs.


Benedictine's primary focus is on building young men of conscience, discipline, and achievement, and to provide a strong college preparatory academic curriculum.

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About BCPBenedictine College Preparatory provides the best opportunity for young men in the Richmond area to receive a strong, Catholic-grounded high school education.

With small classes and a devoted faculty, we are able to recognize and nurture each student's unique talents.

students have the benefit of a professional, dedicated, and experienced faculty who not only teach, but also coach, mentor, guide and form our young men through their academic journey.

LEARN MORE ABOUT BENEDICTINE LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

ArtsAt Benedictine, we value the artist as much as the athlete, the photographer as much as the philosopher, the sculptor as much as the scientist.

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A new Corps is upon you, a Corps of young men.

We will form Cadets as Christian men of conscience, discipline and achievement.

I would like to focus on the words of that mission, as they are of paramount importance:

As an instItute of the Catholic Church, we recognize that the family is the "first church."

However, we also understand that the Cadets spend more time with our faculty, coaches, monks and military cadre each day than with their parents.

Our responsibility in their formation is great, and shared.

When did failure become an acceptable option?

We aren't talking about ball games; we are talking about the souls of young men.

He formed them through witness and instruction.

You formed these young men for many years.

The definition of Catholic is "universal."

Our mission is not to make a young man Catholic.

However, he will learn how to exercise his conscience, appreciate Christian virtue and seek truth in Christ.

Men: There is a crisis of men in this country.

Saint Paul calls men "to love your wives even as Christ loved the church" (Eph 5:25).

Yet, we have the world's highest national divorce rate and prisons overflowing with fatherless sons.

Someone must answer the call to make real men of faith: selfless and self-disciplined.

Give us your boys; we will make them men.

Some schools are afraid to say conscience.

They prefer something more ambiguous, such as values.

Recognizing the existence of a conscience requires the recognition of God and his work within you.

To some people, discipline has a negative connotation.

The "man of discipline" implies he who maintains the self-control and moral courage to do the right thing when no one is looking.

A disciplined man is proud of something larger than himself: his God, his family and his Corps.

He makes choices to reflect well on those that he loves.

We earn everything we get, including respect.

Hope, faith and hard work are its guarantors.

When we train young men to act according to a properly formed conscience and exercise self-discipline, they will have no choice but to achieve.

Benedictine will form Cadets as Christian men of conscience, discipline and achievement.

Benedictine College Preparatory is a private, Roman Catholic military high school in Goochland, Virginia.  It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond and is owned and operated by the Benedictine Society of Virginia, part of the American-Cassinese Congregation. Benedictine offers education through a private military institute model, which has long been a traditional form of education for young gentlemen in Virginia.


The officers then died in a crash on their way back to California.

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In The Coming of the Saucers, Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer hailed the dawning of the UFO age.

Arnold recounted his own celebrated sighting as well as his involvement with the notorious Maury Island incident, a hoax Arnold naively participated in.

From the beginning of the UFO phenomenon, the urge to spin yarns proved irresistible to some.

Like weeds in saucerdom's fertile ground, UFO hoaxes, tall tales, rumors, and other silliness sprouted and spread.

One of the most notorious -- and successful -- liars, the late Fred L. Crisman, actually bridged the gap between the Shaver mystery and the UFO mystery.

Crisman first surfaced in a letter published in the May 1947 issue of Amazing Stories, in which he claimed to have shot his way out of a cave full of deros with a submachine gun.

Palmer next heard from him the following July.

This time Crisman said he had actual physical evidence of a flying saucer.

Palmer passed the story on to Kenneth Arnold, who was investigating reports in the Pacific Northwest.

Arnold interviewed Crisman and an associate, Harold Dahl, who identified themselves as harbor patrolmen (they were not).

Crisman, who did most of the talking, reported that Dahl had seen doughnut-shaped craft dump piles of slaglike material on the beach of Maury Island in Puget Sound,

The next morning a mysterious man in black threatened Dahl.

"I know a great deal more about this experience of yours than you will want to believe," the man said cryptically.

The two men showed the material to Arnold.

In a state of high excitement Arnold contacted an Army Air Force intelligence officer of his acquaintance, Lt. Frank M. Brown, who quickly flew up from Hamilton Field in California in the company of another officer.

The moment they saw the material, their interest in it evaporated: It was ordinary aluminum.

Embarrassed for Arnold, the officers left without telling him their conclusions.

While flying back to Hamilton, their B-25 caught fire and crashed, killing both officers.

Though Crisman and Dahl subsequently confessed to other Air Force investigators that they had made up the story, the legend would live on for decades afterward.

Some writers-including Arnold and Palmer, who wrote a book about the case-hinted that the officers died because they knew too much.

But to Capt. Edward Ruppelt of Project Blue Book, the Maury Island incident was the "dirtiest hoax in UFO history."

Years later Crisman's name would reemerge in another contentious context.

In December 1968, while investigating what he believed to be a high-level conspiracy to murder President John F. Kennedy, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison called Crisman to testify before a grand jury.

Some early assassination-conspiracy theorists would identify Crisman (falsely) as one of the three mysterious "hoboes" arrested and photographed shortly after the shooting in Dallas.

Before his death Crisman was peddling a new, improved, UFO-less version of the Maury Island story.

He now claimed that the "truth" involved, not flying doughnuts dropping slag, but something even more dangerous: illegal dumping by military aircraft of radioactive waste into the harbor.

Though this tale was no less tall than his earlier one, it has already entered UFO literature as the "solution" to the Maury Island "mystery."

Read about other well-known UFO hoaxsters and scam artists:

George Adamski and the Space BrothersHoward Menger and UFO ContacteesJohn Lear and the Dark SideOtis CarrRichard Sharpe Shaver, UFO HoaxsterStar People

Most of what is speculated comes from a report by Kenneth Arnold, an aviator who had claimed to see several UFOs in the area around that time, in the first UFO sightings ever recorded.
 Crisman and Dahl claimed to Arnold that they were harbor patrolmen on a workboat near Maury Island and that they saw six doughnut-shaped objects in the sky. According to Crisman and Dahl, one of the objects dropped a substance that resembled lava or "white metal" onto their boat, breaking a worker's arm and killing a dog. Dahl also claimed he was later approached by a man in a dark suit and told not to talk about the incident. While even the claim that Chrisman and Dahl were harbor patrolmen is now believed to be false, Arnold was convinced by their story and contacted an Air Force intelligence officer, who flew in along with another from California. The officers concluded the metal objects were aluminum and not of interest. They did not reveal this to Arnold, however, to avoid embarrassing him.


The device featured a slimmer stainless steel build, smaller display, leather bands and a price tag of $199.

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I backed the Pebble on Kickstarter, but mine hasn't shipped yet.

But if the best smartwatch is the one you have with you, then for me, the MetaWatch Frame is the best smartwatch around—because it's already on my wrist.

MetaWatch sent me two of its $199 Frame watches, one in black and the other in white, and while I'll still happily welcome my Pebble when it arrives, the wait is no longer painful.

I'm awfully pleased with the Metawatch Frame.

Both the black and white models of the Frame employ leather bands.

The leather feels stiff, solid, and durable, and stands in contrast to the rubber watchband that the Pebble ships with.

(The company makes several other models of smartwatches, including a sports band in various colors and the limited edition Strata, designed by Susan Kare.)

The Frame's face is a solid, weighty slab of stainless steel.

The face is two inches tall and 1.5 inches wide, though the actual display is smaller—just about one inch square.

The LCD display—96 pixels square—looks great in dim light and okay in brighter settings.

MetaWatch calls it a "sunlight-readable, reflective mirror display."

It works, and I can read the screen whenever I need to, but the mirror backing sometimes means I need to angle the watch a bit to make text more readable.

At the right angle, the text is sharp and dark.

At the wrong angle, it looks pale and washed out.

The Frame sports six identically-shaped buttons, three per side.

The top left button controls the watch's built-in top light; a backlight would surely do even better—the top light doesn't uniformly or wholly illuminate the screen—but it's enough to see the watch screen in dark situations.

Three identical buttons per side control the Frame's functions

The middle left button enters music mode.

The music controls are sparse: The screen shows the name of the currently selected (or playing) song, along with the artist—or at least what fits of each; it tells me, for example, that Satisfaction is by "The Rollin…"

In music mode, small icons indicate what the other buttons will do.

The lower left two buttons are play and next, and the lower right two buttons adjust volume up and down.

You'll want (and need!) to make your playlist or album selection ahead of time, on your device, because you can't navigate playlists and albums from the Frame itself.

The lower left button displays a screen with status information.

Icons indicate whether Bluetooth is turned on, whether the watch is successfully paired, and its remaining battery life.

That screen also shows the watch's current firmware version; I tested using version 1.35 of the MetaWatch firmware, which was released this week.

The button at the upper right displays the watch's last received notifications again.

The middle right button toggles through the watch's four home screens—more on those in a bit.

And the lower right button enters a watch-specific menu for turning Bluetooth on or off, toggling a seconds indicator, inverting the display, and disabling or enabling a vibration alarm for when your phone and the watch disconnect.

That last feature is a helpful way to help prevent you from forgetting your phone; if you walk too far away from it, the watch loses its Bluetooth connection which causes that alarm vibration, so that you hopefully realize your error.

There's also an ambient light sensor on the Frame.

The watch doesn't actually make use of that sensor out of the box, though third-party developers can use it.

On the back of the watch face are some tiny nested pins.

Those are used in tandem with the charging clip—yes, clip—to top off the watch's battery.

The alligator clip is usable, though it takes a little more effort to center properly than the magnetic charging cable the Pebble employs.

The clip uses the included Micro-USB cable connected to a power source you provide.

Both the clip and the cable match the color of your Frame.

The Frame is rated 3ATM for water resistance, meaning it's splash and rain resistant but shouldn't go in the shower, bathtub, or swimming pool with you.

The Frame works by pairing to your iPhone or Android device via Bluetooth 4; I tested it with my iPhone 5.

Android makes the connection process a smidgen simpler, but the iPhone pairing process is simple enough to go through: You pair both within the app and then within your iPhone's Bluetooth settings as well.

You can customize four different screens for the Frame, and you customize those screens within the app.

I'll describe the process using the iPhone app here, since that's what I used.

On-screen widgets display information on time, weather, and more

The Frame's face divides into a four by four grid.

Using the app, you can configure how those grid spaces are used on each of the four separate home screens.

I chose to set one with a 2x1 clock, a 1x1 calendar, and a 1x1 weather widget; the second screen has a 2x1 clock (again) with a 2x1 weather widget; the third has a 1x1 clock, a 1x1 iPhone battery status indicator, and a 1x2 stock widget; and the final screen is a 2x2—full-screen—clock.

My setup doesn't use options like a 1x2 or 2x1 calendar widget, or a 1x1 Chinese Lunar widget.

Configuring these widgets is a bit clunky within the app, but not something you need to revisit often.

You can drag them around the in-app watch face, just like reorganizing app icons.

If you tap on a given widget, you can tweak its settings, though some—like the clock faces—have no settings at all.

(The full-screen watch face with the latest firmware I tested shows a nice, tall digital time display, with the date beneath it.

That's far better than the tiny time with dolphins leaping around it in prior versions of the full-screen clock.)

I'd love Pebble-style alternate watch faces, though.

I'd also like more control in general: I can't, for example, specify which calendars the MetaWatch should look at to push to the Frame.

So when it shows me just that, say, Jason Snell will be out of the office all day tomorrow, I wish it would instead look at my own calendar and not the work vacation calendar I'm also subscribed to.

The only reason I have two watch widgets installed is because the wider one—which shows both today's and tomorrow's forecast—doesn't show the current temperature.

I needed to add the smaller one too, since it gives me that data point.

No other apps yet work with the Frame on the iPhone.

MetaWatch expects to open the iPhone version of its API soon, and it's clear that the team continues to work on adding functionality to the watch's software.

The Frame initially shipped with Facebook, Twitter, and email notifications all listed as "coming soon."

We're still waiting for two of them, but email notifications now work—sort of.

You can add exactly one Gmail account into the MetaWatch app, and the app will check for new emails to push to the Frame as frequently as every 15 minutes.

I like the way it looks, and appreciate that it's not massively oversized or gaudy.

It's bigger than a typical digital watch, but not obnoxiously so.

The weather, stock, and calendar widgets all update on their own.

It's very cool to look down at my wrist and see that my next meeting is a call with a colleague, and that it's 45 degrees outside—along with the fact that it's, you know, 2:57 p.m.

I'm also a big fan of vibrating notifications on my wrist.

I miss iPhone vibrations in my pocket all the time, and I often feel phantom pocket vibrations when in fact there are none.

My wrist isn't subject to those issues: When the Frame vibrates, I know it.

And since it doesn't receive every iOS notification, it's not buzzing all day long.

It vibrates about genuinely important stuff: meeting alerts, incoming text messages, Caller ID, and emails.

I can glance at my wrist and see what's notifying me without needing to grab my iPhone, and I really like that.

I noted that when I received an iMessage that was just a photo or video, the Frame's display indicated that I'd received a message, and from whom, but just showed a blank message.

I'd appreciate a note of some sort indicating that the received message contained some sort of attachment.

But it's a fine-looking, well-built watch, and the parts that need improving can be improved with software updates.

If, however, you told me that the Frame would never do anything more than it could do now, I wouldn't regret the purchase for a moment: I love the notifications on my wrist, and the data on the Frame's screen.

It's a great device that feels like the future.

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Lex uses a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 5, an iPad mini, a Kindle 3, a TiVo HD, and a treadmill desk, and loves them all.

His latest book, a children's book parody for adults, is called "The Kid in the Crib."

Lex lives in New Jersey with his wife and three young kids.

Second generation watches were sold under names Strata (model code SW12-1) and Frame (model code SW12-2). Strata has Water Resistant Mark 5 and Frame has Water Resistant Mark 3. The Strata, which was focused more on value, was bulkier but more durable with its double injection-moulded polyurethane body.  It was also cheaper as the Kare model retailed for $140. The Frame, on the other hand, was the variant targeted towards the fashion segment.


He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, the artist Sandi Ste. George.

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In December 2017 Biomatters released a new enterprise software, Geneious Biologics, which is targeted at companies engaged in commercial antibody screening.

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In January 2016, singer Adele rapped Nicki Minaj's verse on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" during a segment called "Carpool Karaoke", which Minaj reacted to with praise.

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# Nicki Minaj reacts to Adele rapping her 'Monster' verse: 'She is mad ratchet'

Adele showcased her rap skills for James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke'

Nicki Minaj has commented on Adele's recent 'Carpool Karaoke' appearance with James Corden, which saw the British singer rapping Minaj's verse from Kanye West's 'Monster'.

Corden recruited Adele for his hugely popular Late Late Show segment, which aired in the US earlier this week (January 13).

In addition to Minaj, Adele sang The Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' and a selection of her own hits.

Responding to her take on 'Monster', Minaj took to Twitter to write: "Adele is mad ratchet.

She added on Facebook: "Pull thru, QUEEN! #Adele #Monster the attitude & fingers to match.

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Adele is reportedly planning to launch her own clothing line for 'stylish but busy mothers' later this year.

"It's still in the early stages, but she's been getting input from several designers and working on her own sketches," a source revealed to Now magazine.

Retailer Evans, which specialises in plus-size clothing, has reportedly been lined-up as a stockist.

Tom Doran of Evans told the magazine: "When we worked with designers Clements Ribeiro, they used designers tried and tested on Adele.

Their high street collection for Evans included the Adele dress – inspired by the very outfit she wore [at the 2012 Grammys]."

Adele returned from a three-year hiatus with a new album, '25', last year.

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Minaj's verse has become so iconic and acclaimed that artists like Demi Lovato, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ed Sheeran, Troye Sivan, Millie Bobby Brown, among others, have rapped the verse in concerts or interviews.


In the United States, ASME has developed the B5.57 Standard entitled "Methods for Performance Evaluation of Computer Numerically Controlled Lathes and Turning Centers", which establishes requirements and methods for specifying and testing the performance of CNC lathes and turning centers.

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Originally called the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Tower when it was constructed in 1967 as the centerpiece of their industrial park (37°39′14″N 122°23′06″W / 37.654°N 122.385°W / 37.654; -122.385 (Wind Harp)), this striking 92-foot-tall sculpture by Lucia and Aristides Demetrios is one of the world's largest aeolian harps.

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### A large instrument played by the wind.

Perched on a hilltop in a South San Francisco industrial park, this striking 92-foot-tall sculpture by Aristides Demetrios is one of the world's largest aeolian harps.

Named for Aeolus, the Greek god of the wind, and invented by the 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher, an aeolian harp is a passive instrument played by the movement of the wind.

Originally called the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Tower when it was constructed in 1967 as the centerpiece of their industrial park.

Fabricated from steel manufactured at Bethlehem Steel.

It was designed to "take advantage of the viewer's motion…constantly changing, presenting a series of graceful ellipses and a shifting light pattern."

Be sure to visit on a breezy day to hear the eerie sounds of the arched steel I-beams singing at their loudest.

Situated 243 feet above sea level, the site also offers a beautiful panoramic view of South San Francisco and the Bay.

In turn, the Wind Harp can be seen from the Bay Bridge, East Bay and from the San Francisco Airport.

Be sure to visit on a breezy day to hear the eerie sounds of the arched and rusted steel I-beams singing at their loudest.

It is located amongst the buildings of Genetech.

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Uber acquired Otto for $625 million in 2016.

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# Uber Strikes Deal With Volvo to Bring Self-Driving Cars to Its Network

An Uber self-driving Volvo in Pittsburgh.

Uber plans to purchase thousands of self-driving Volvos for its fleet once the technology is production-ready.

SAN FRANCISCO — No one knows what the future of self-driving cars will look like, or how long it will take to get there.

But every major player in the field is striking partnerships to be ready for the day when autonomous vehicles finally become mainstream.

That includes Uber, which on Monday announced a new deal with Volvo.

Under the agreement, Uber plans to purchase as many as 24,000 self-driving Volvos once the technology is production-ready, putting the vehicles into its extensive ride-hailing network.

"Everything we're doing right now is about building autonomous vehicles at scale," Jeff Miller, Uber's head of automotive alliances, said in an interview.

"We don't know exactly how an autonomous world will look.

But we know that we want to be the platform that's at the center of it, from a ride-sharing standpoint."

The deal is an extension of an agreement Uber made with Volvo nearly two years ago, when the ride-hailing company started its research and development efforts in autonomous vehicles in earnest.

Uber has worked with third-party component manufacturers to build software and hardware for driverless cars, then worked closely with Volvo to outfit the automaker's XC90 vehicles with the technology.

But the new deal vastly increases the number of Volvo driverless cars that Uber can work with, showing the scope of its ambitions.

Volvo, which is based in Sweden and owned by Geely Automobile Holdings of China, said in a statement that Volvo and Uber were contributing $300 million to the project.

From automakers like Ford, Tesla and General Motors to technology companies like Google, Uber and Lyft, titans of the transportation industry are racing to gain an edge in a future of autonomous vehicles.

Each of the players has approached the issue differently.

Automakers like G.M. and Ford have spent billions buying software-based start-ups to work on integrating driverless technology into their vehicles.

Tesla has long offered a hybrid version of self-driving software in its vehicles, and recently debuted an electric, nearly autonomous semi truck that it expects to hit the road in the next few years.

Uber has done most of its work in research and development in-house instead of teaming up with multiple manufacturers, as has been the case with Lyft, Uber's largest rival in the United States.

In particular, Uber has invested in its Advanced Technologies Group, home to hundreds of engineers in Pittsburgh, where it is doing much of its autonomous vehicle research.

"The only way we could control our own destiny was to work with this technology that had the potential to disrupt our business, and have direct involvement in the creation of it," Mr. Miller said.

"We couldn't afford to be on the outside looking in.

Some of Uber's work in self-driving cars has run into hurdles.

The company has been fighting a lawsuit from Waymo, Google's onetime autonomous car business, over stolen trade secrets.

Uber has expanded its partnerships over the past year, striking deals with automakers like Daimler to bring autonomous cars onto the ride-hailing company's network.

Mr. Miller said that Uber would own and operate fleets of its own vehicles purchased from partners like Volvo, but that there was no one-size-fits-all approach, so it would also allow other self-driving vehicles on its network.

An earlier version of this article misstated the type of vehicle Tesla recently unveiled.

It was an electric semi-truck that is nearly self-driving, it is not fully autonomous.

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Things seem to be looking up at Uber's embattled self-driving car unit.

The company just made a deal with Volvo for as many as 24,000 XC90 sport utility vehicles to be delivered between 2019 and 2021.

Uber then plans to add its own driverless technology and unleash a fleet of robo-taxis onto the world.

News of the deal and Uber's continued ambitions to lead the way on driverless cars comes with a lot of caveats.

A small one is that retail prices for the XC90 start at $45,750, which means this deal could cost Uber around a billion dollars.

Which is a lot of money for a company that famously loses money very quickly.

The bigger problem is the company's on-going lawsuit with Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Waymo has accused Uber of stealing confidential information about its self-driving technology when it acquired the self-driving truck company Otto and hired its star engineer Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Google's self-driving car operation.

The trial takes place next month, and things do not look good for Uber.

A recently revealed report shows that Levandowski started meeting with Uber six months before he left Google and then destroyed five hard drives that contained proprietary Google data after Uber told him not to bring any trade secrets from his old job.

Uber fired Levandowski earlier this year, claiming that the 37-year-old engineer refused to participate in an internal company investigation.

Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick resigned a month later, after a string of scandals involving sexual harassment and discrimination.

After all that fracas, Levandowski founded a religion called Way of the Future that focuses on "the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence."

But the Waymo lawsuit is just the most immediate problem that Uber faces in attempting to be the first ride-hailing service with its own fleet of self-driving cars.

In recent months, multiple reports catalog in-fighting and technological struggles within Uber's self-driving car unit, known as the Advanced Technology Group (ATG).

Uber made a big splash a year ago when it picked Pittsburgh as the headquarters for the ATG and poached several prominent professors from Carnegie Mellon University to develop its self-driving technology.

It only took the company a year to chase away several of those engineers—some of whom started competing driverless car companies—and alienate the city of Pittsburgh by failing to produce jobs and support fundraising efforts, among other things.

The city's controller, Michael Lamb, called the Uber partnership "an opportunity missed" this past May.

Still, Uber's engineers in Pittsburgh march on.

The team is slowly confronting the very difficult problem of perfecting self-driving technology and scaling it up to work on an entire fleet.

Now that the company has actually signed an agreement for a fleet, the ATG is under pressure figure it all out in a few short years, not decades.

That is, of course, assuming that Uber's new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, can eventually steer the ship away from its scandalous, money-losing habits.

And also assuming that the verdict in the Waymo lawsuit doesn't lead to serious setbacks for Uber in the self-driving taxi race—a competition the company must win, some say, to keep having a future.

So, uh, congratulations to Uber on buying all those Volvos.

If the self-driving stuff doesn't work out, at least the resale value tends to be pretty good with those Swedish safety machines.

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After spending $925 million to develop autonomous trucks, Uber cancelled its self-driving truck program in July 2018.


The period of the tenth and ninth centuries BCE has been the subject of an intense scholarly dispute, as well as of ongoing archaeological investigations.

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The world of archeology is rocked by evidence of King David's palace unearthed in Jerusalem.

You might think that's a silly question, but in the world of academia, revisionist history and even biblical archaeology, scholars have cast the shadow of doubt over Judaism's intrinsic connection to Jerusalem.

The Moslem Waqf, the religious authority that administers the Temple Mount -- the site of Judaism's First and Second Temples -- has been claiming for years that there was never a temple there.

But the idea that Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and Jerusalem its holy capital has been under attack from far more reputable sources in recent decades as well.

For a growing number of academics and intellectuals, King David and his united kingdom of Judah and Israel, which has served for 3,000 years as an integral symbol of the Jewish nation, is simply a piece of fiction.

The biblical account of history has been dismissed as unreliable by a cadre of scholars, some of whom have an overtly political agenda, arguing that the traditional account was resurrected by the Zionists to justify dispossessing Palestinian Arabs.

The most outspoken of these is Keith Whitelam of the Copenhagen School which promotes an agenda of "biblical minimalism," whose best-known work is The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History.

Finkelstein claims that the myth of King David was the creation of a cult of priests trying to create for themselves a glorious history.

Even in Israel, this new school has found its voice.

Israel Finkelstein, chairman of Tel Aviv University's Department of Archaeology, began championing a theory several years ago that the biblical accounts of Jerusalem as the seat of a powerful, unified monarchy under the rule of David and Solomon are essentially false.

The scientific methods for his assumptions, called a "lower dating" which essentially pushes archaeological evidence into a later century and thus erases all evidence of a Davidic monarchy, were laughed off by traditional archaeologists.

But his book, The Bible Unearthed, wound up on the New York Times' best-seller list and he became the darling of a sympathetic media.

He concluded that David and Solomon, if they existed at all, were merely "hill-country chieftains" and Jerusalem a poor, small tribal village.

He claims that the myth of King David was the creation of a cult of priests trying to create for themselves a glorious history.

But the debunkers of Jewish biblical history got some bad news recently, when a spunky, dedicated archaeologist began her latest dig.

Dr. Eilat Mazar, world authority on Jerusalem's past, has taken King David out of the pages of the Bible and put him back into living history.

Mazar's latest excavation in the City of David, in the southern shadow of the Temple Mount, has shaken up the archaeological world.

For lying undisturbed for over 3,000 years is a massive building which Mazar believes is King David's palace.

For Mazar, 48, one of the world's leading authorities on the archaeology of ancient Jerusalem and head archaeologist of the Shalem Center Institute of Archaeology, the discovery was the culmination of years of effort and solid speculation.

From the time she was a teenager, she had her nose in archaeology literature, and worked closely with her grandfather, renowned archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, who conducted the southern wall excavations next to the Western Wall.

She holds a doctorate in archaeology from Hebrew University, is author of The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations, and in the 1970s and '80s worked on the digs supervised by Yigal Shilo in the City of David.

The significant discoveries made then, including a huge wall called the "stepped-stone structure" -- which Shilo believed was a retaining wall for David's royal palace or part of the Jebusite fortress he conquered -- ignited Mazar to continue to look for the prize: David's palace itself.

Some biblical scholars gave up looking for the palace because, according to Mazar, they were looking in the wrong place.

Scholars searched for remains of the palace within the walls of the ancient Jebusite city that David conquered and called Ir David (City of David).

This city, while heavily fortified with both natural and man-made boundaries, was also very small, just nine acres in size.

When no evidence of such a majestic palace as the Bible describes was found there, the next step was to claim that David's monarchy never really existed.

But Mazar always suspected that the palace was outside the original city, and cites the Bible to prove it.

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed, they went on the attack to apprehend him.

This occurred after he conquered the Fortress of Zion, which was the actual nucleus of the city, and built his palace.

The Bible says that David heard about it and "descended to the fortress," (2-Samuel 5:17), implying that he went down from his palace, which was higher up on the mountain than the citadel/city.

Mazar told Aish.com: "I always asked myself: Down from where? It must have been from his palace on top of the hill, outside the original Jebusite city."

Mazar says she was confident in her assessment of where the palace would be.

What she discovered was a section of massive wall running about 100 feet from west to east along the length of the excavation (underneath what until this summer was the Ir David Visitors Center), and ending with a right-angle corner that turns south and implies a very large building.

Within the dirt fill between the stones were found pottery shards dating to the 11th century BCE, the time when David established his monarchy.

Based on biblical text and historic evidence, Mazar assumed that David would have built his palace outside the walls of the fortified but cramped Jebusite city which existed up to 2,000 years before; and in fact, the structure is built on the summit of the mountain, directly on bedrock along the city's northern edge, with no archaeological layers beneath it -- a sign that the structure constituted a new, northward expansion of the city's northern limit.

"I was shocked at how easy it was to uncover it, and how well-preserved it was, as if it were just waiting 3,000 years for us to find it."

What most amazed Mazar was how close the building is to the surface -- just one to two meters underground.

"The cynics kept saying, 'there will be so many layers, so many remnants of other cultures, it's not worth digging, it's too far down.'

I was shocked at how easy it was to uncover it, and how well-preserved it was, as if it were just waiting 3,000 years for us to find it," Mazar said.

Mazar snickers at the idea that she is some sort of divine emissary revealing the eternity of David's kingdom.

My focus is on how magnificent and enduring these complex structures are, that they were preserved and protected for so many generations.

In truth, when I began to excavate, I had to be prepared for any result.

I even had to be prepared to accept Finkelstein's hypothesis if that's what the facts indicated.

Still, I am a Jew and an Israeli, and I feel great joy when the details on the ground match the descriptions in the Bible.

Today it's become fashionable to say there was no David, no Solomon, no Temple, no prophets.

But suddenly the facts on the ground are speaking, and those outspoken voices are stammering."

The City of David is essentially the ancient nucleus of Jerusalem, located just south of the mountain on which the Holy Temples stood.

From here the rest of the city as we know it grew and developed over the course of history.

According to tradition, the first significant event that occurred there was the meeting between Abraham and Malki-tzedek, King of Shalem.

King David, divinely directed, chose this city as the capital of his united kingdom.

And the more archaeologists uncover and identify, the easier it is becoming to form a complete picture of the people who lived there -- with the pivotal Jewish history of the First Temple period, described in the Prophets, played out in its structures and installations.

The Bible says that King David brought God's Tabernacle to its final home in this original Jerusalem, expanded the city, and made it the spiritual and economic capital of the world at that time.

According to Jewish tradition, he fulfilled God's master plan for a spiritual monarchy that would endure until the final Redemption.

"The construction that we found was a complicated and intricate engineering operation that must have required immense resources, and the dating matches," says Mazar.

"This is the kind of step one would expect of a new ruler who wants to turn the city he conquered into his permanent residence, and who has an exceptional vision of the future development of the city."

According to the Bible, David's palace was constructed by Hiram, King of Tyre, the contemporary Phoenician ruler and his ally against the Philistines.

Mazar, an expert in Phoenician construction from her excavations at Achziv on Israel's northern coast, attests that this building bears the mark of Phoenician construction, not likely to be found otherwise in the Judean hills.

In fact, quite a bit about David's palace is known from the Bible itself.

It was a "house of cedars" built by Phoenician builders (2-Samuel 5:11 and 1-Chronicles 14:1) who used the cedars of Lebanon and developed a distinct style of stone masonry.

Remains of pillars and decorative stone capitals in this particular style were discovered at the site years before, which was one clue Mazar used to look for the palace.

Mazar believes that the palace was used for Jewish monarchs until the destruction of the First Temple 450 years later.

To indicate this, she speaks excitedly about a tiny clay item she found at the site (found on the 17th of Tammuz, the fast day commemorating the siege of Jerusalem before its destruction).

It is called a "bulla," a clay disc, inscribed in ancient Hebrew script with the name of the sender as a "return address," used to seal papyrus scroll "mail."

The bulla bears the name of Yehuchal Ben Shelemiah,* who is mentioned in Chapters 37 and 38 of the Book of Jeremiah.

Yehuchal was one of two emissaries dispatched by King Tzidkiyahu to Jeremiah, asking him to pray for the people during the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon.

In an about-face, Chapter 38 tells that Yehuchal was one of four ministers who asked the king to kill Jeremiah, claiming that he was demoralizing the besieged nation with his prophecies of doom and destruction.

The bulla found on the site of the palace indicates that the building was used by the king, or at least by his ministers, until the destruction of Jerusalem soon afterwards.

(In fact, a nearby cistern uncovered in what might have been a king's courtyard is speculated to perhaps be the pit Jeremiah was lowered into, as recorded in Jeremiah 38:6).

"For me, finding the bulla was tremendous," says Mazar.

"Yehuchal was no longer just some name in a biblical account that I might not even have been sure was true.

It is very rare to find such precise evidence for a narrative in the Bible."

Mazar is heady, not with personal glory or the fame, but with what she considers validation of the Bible she so loves and respects.

Mazar took the bulla home to examine and decipher.

With the help of a needle and magnifying glass, she cleaned off the grains of dust until the ancient inscription was revealed.

Together with her boys, aged 14, 13, and 11, they managed to decipher the ancient Hebrew script.

Mazar's late husband, also an archaeologist, had published material on bullas, and the boys made use of their father's articles which explained how to properly examine and decipher the clay.

Mazar is heady, not with personal glory or the fame that has followed her since the discovery, but with what she considers validation of the Bible she so loves and respects.

"Today the scholarly approach to Tanach [the Bible] is that it's not true unless you can prove it true.

Why don't we say it's true unless we can prove otherwise?"

More than ten years ago, Mazar proposed a solid thesis as to the location of the palace, and argued her position in a piece published in Biblical Archaeological Review.

After years of digging in the City of David under her professional mentor Yigal Shilo before he passed away, and based on finds several decades ago by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, she knew she was in the right place.

David's palace was the topic of her last conversation with her famous grandfather, biblical archaeology Professor Binyamin Mazar, before he died ten years ago.

He told her, "Kenyon found the protoaeolic capitals (of the decorative Phoenician stone-work), so go and find where she found them, and start there."

Despite her sound hypothesis and impeccable credentials, she couldn't find any financial backers, as if no one in the academic world really wanted to find David's palace.

It would just be too politically complicated.

It's no wonder, when even mainstream archaeologists are inclined to play down finds which might be considered too highly charged with biblical or historical accuracy.

An example is Adam Zertal, who in 1983 discovered an enormous sacrificial altar on Mount Eval, on the very mountain where Joshua was described in the Bible as having built an altar after the Jews crossed the Jordan River.

The altar he found contained tools dating to the 12th century BCE, the time the Jewish people entered the Land, and its construction matched the descriptions of Joshua's altar in both biblical and rabbinic texts.

But instead of the expected excitement accompanying such a monumental find, Zertal's academic colleagues ignored him and his discovery.

The more vocal accused Zertal, a secular Jew raised on a kibbutz, of being politically motivated to support Jewish settlements in the area around Shechem (Nablus), where Mount Eval is located.

Despite the seeming indifference from the academic world, Mazar's proposal finally found a sponsor in the Shalem Center, an academic center in Jerusalem that recently established an institute for archaeological studies, and was funded by Roger Hertog, an American Jewish investment banker who told the New York Times that he fronted the dig because he wants to encourage scientific support for the Bible as a reflection of Jewish history.

David Hazony, editor-in-chief of Azure, a journal published by the Center, is excited about Mazar's results.

"We don't want to see this shunted to the side like Zertal's discovery," he told Aish.com.

"The message he got from his colleagues was, 'It's bad for business to find things from the Bible these days.

It makes us look like unsophisticated messianic fanatics.'

Unfortunately, academia has done much to undermine the Jews' capacity to say where they come from and what their past is all about.

We want to create an environment where serious scholars can pursue their research without feeling intimidated."

But as fast as new Jewish artifacts are being unearthed, Mazar is concerned that a great number are being destroyed.

As spokesperson for the Committee Against the Desecration of Antiquities on the Temple Mount, Mazar has for the past six years tried to alert the world to the vandalism being perpetrated by the Muslim Waqf, who have their own agenda of destroying remnants of proof of Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem, and who consistently deny that there ever was a First or Second Temple.

According to agreements made between the Israeli government and the Waqf, to whom the Israelis handed control of the Temple Mount in 1967, the Arabs are not permitted to carry out independent works on the Mount without permission from the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Over the years, however, there have been indications of the Waqf breaking this status quo, such as when they sealed up the ancient Hulda Gates entrance to the Temple Mount on the southern wall and buried the adjoining steps and ancient tiling, and the sealing of an underground water cistern that some rabbis thought would lead to the Temple foundations.

The greatest breech was discovered in 1999, when the Waqf bulldozed and then paved over close to 6,000 square meters of the ancient Temple Mount surface.

Temple Mount artifacts were ripped from the Mount and secretly dumped in several places throughout Jerusalem, mostly in the Kidron Valley east of the Old City and also in the city dump.

Over 100 truckloads of Temple Mount rubble, soil and artifacts were clandestinely removed.

Tzachi Zweig, then an archaeology master's student at Bar Ilan University, blew the whistle on the Waqf when he discovered Temple artifacts in junk heaps around Jerusalem, and then presented some of the artifacts he unearthed at an archaeology conference at the university.

Under the supervision of his mentor, Professor Gabriel Barkay, dozens of truckloads of the "garbage" were moved to a special site near Mount Scopus, where until today teams of archaeologists and volunteers continue to find massive amounts of valuable, significant artifacts from the First and Second Temple periods.

But it is enough to shift the burden of proof.

Antiquities in Israel has long been a politically contentious topic, with all its religious and nationalistic overtones.

The jury is still out on where all this activity will lead.

But one thing is certain: Mazar's discovery has rocked the archeological world.

As Hazony wrote in Azure: "Is this absolute proof?

But it is enough to shift the burden of proof...

The normally reserved Amihai Mazar of Hebrew University, one of the most esteemed scholars in the field of biblical archaeology and author of the standard textbook, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000-586 BCE, has described the discovery as 'something of a miracle'."

"In the end," says Mazar, "the integrity of the land and its history will prevail.

And I'm grateful to have a small part in it."

*And Yehuchal's "business card" is actually one of several that have been discovered in the last decade, which give further testimony to the veracity of the biblical account of the king's court activities prior to Jerusalem's destruction.

In another excavation site, thought to be the remains of a public building, over 50 bullas were discovered under the charred layers of destruction.

King Nebuchadnezzar's fires razed the city, but those same fires solidified the clay seals like a kiln, preserving them in good condition and fully legible.

They bear dozens of Hebrew names, two of them belonging to characters in the Bible who were contemporaries of Yehuchal.

One of those is Gemaryahu Ben Shafan, one of King Yehoyakim's scribes, in whose chamber Baruch Ben Neria read Jeremiah's words of rebuke and repentance (Jeremiah 36:10).

Another name is Azaryahu Ben Hilkiyahu, a member of the family of high priests who officiated before Jerusalem's destruction (Chronicles I, 9:10).

Rachel Ginsberg writes for Jewish publications in Israel and the United States.

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### Seven Questions: Unearthing the Bible

great I believe you refer to the tneth of tevet rather than 17

I was a teenager with USY working at the kotel site.

Why was it neccessary to pave over all of the mikvahs we unearthed?

it shows to the world and Muslims that Jerusalem is in fact the Jewish State's capital since King David's reign.

But still I'm happy enough I have a piece of wisdom from them. ;-)

As in many professions theories come and go, but taken as a whole Biblical Archaeology paints a broad sweep of evidence for the veracity of the Tenach easily reaching back to the time of Avraham and perhaps even the Ark of Noach (in Turkey).

As a student and teacher of history in both secular and religious schools I can attest to voluminous artifactual evidence that does not need tremendously complex interpretations to verify Biblical accounts.

Many modern theories are proposed out monetary, political and personal agendas.

If you read Kings and Chronicles you will notice that Solomon built the really big grand palace.

And then he asked to build a temple, but God told him that it would be his son that would do it.

I am delighted to see another piece of the puzzle falll into place to prove the Bible true and accurate.

Israel be proud of your heritage and thankful of who you are.

Thank you for this report, I was looking for the cistern

To share with the public the actual balance of what Elilat Mazar has found and how the archaeological world is reacting it must reflect the current situation.

Eilat found another bullae from the same story on the Bible, which is incredible and advances the thrust of this article by miles.

She published her 2005-2007 seasons in preliminary form last month, with further findgings, and the whole situation is different.

Is her dating done according to the Hebrew calendar or the secular one ?

They are supposed to be off by about 150 years in ancient times.

So how is she measuring finds vs. times they are supposed to be from ?

Once again, the Bible proves itself to have a 100% Historical accuracy.

If we have the dots of a picture we can connect them and gain the picture.

Unless there is a another set of dots providing a very similar but different picture we must accept the first.

It is a far greater stretch of the imagination to imagine another picture without a recorded history than the one placed before you in such fine detail as the Bible.

There will always be scoffers and unbelievers and they will be the in the majority.

To imagine a world without God is to imagine deadly confusion and the futility of life.

I am an American Christian who had the good fortune to take a tour of Israeil with other Americans in 1989 with Ms. Mazar's father and brother leading the tour group.

We visited the southern wall area Eilat had recently been given charge of where she gave us a talk about her excavations.

This is so exciting to read about what has been uncovered after all these years.

What patience it must take to do archeological work!

Thanks to all of you for bring out the truth.

I am acquainted with some of the volunteers from OK.

The work seems to be working smoothly and quickly.

May God continue to bless and inspire Eilat Mazars work.

Finkelstein is a damn fine chap & merely claims that David was a local chieftain & not great king - perfectly logicalAs to Mt Eval the interpretation of the finds are highly disputedThe really mythical stuff seems to surround Solomon

I am very grateful for the work of Eilat Mazar.

I intend to use some of the information gleaned from this article to teach an adult Bible class.

I firmly believe that the closer we come to the coming of Messiah, the more archeology will uncover the truth of what ancient Jewish history proclaims.

Someone once told me that archeology is actually young and compared to the ground it has to cover, no one can say something is histortically untrue.

Can we prove, unquestionably, that Dante wrote the works that are attributed to him...or that some of the world's greatest art was truly the work of its acclaimed artists??

No..we only have the WORDS of those who SAY so!!

This is a really well written and information rich article.

It could be the basis of an incredible documentary and book!

Having recently toured Israel, I find any new information showing how accurate the Bible is so very exciting!

One thing about this article really stood out to me: We need to not be so afraid of our heritage as Jews, and reclaim what is rightfully ours.

And somebody please tell me why the Waqf still has control over the Temple Mount.

Especially when we know they are trying to destroy our history.

Methinks there must be something of the divine in all this---the well-perserved, shallowness of the find, the easily-decoded bullae, even Ms. Mazar's husband's work on the tablets.

God can be slow but He's usually working on something.

The archaeological evidence is overwhelming, yet people who don`t want to believe wont believe, even though they believe anything and everything else, evolution, big bang, dinosaurs and the trillion zeros they add after the number one.

Encouraging proof of what we know is true.

I'm always so excited to see your byline; you consistently write about topics that are so important and dear to my heart.

Now that I don't see you anymore (it's been a long time since Seminary!) I feel connected to you by your powerful words.

the discovery just goes on to confirm 4us believers the wonderful truth and beauty we have found in the Bible.

we are not shaken by the unbelievers' qualms.

I love this article, thank you for publishing it.

I took an elective course in college just prior to entering the Canadian military on the ancient biblical scrolls, and some of the articles by the revisionist "scholars" such as Keith Whitelam were forced down my unwilling throat.

This wonderful article by Rachel Ginzberg on the work of Dr. Eliat Mazar which verifes so much of the biblical account is most refreshing.

After reading this article I finally have an inkling as to why there is a dearth of excavations confirming the veracity of the Torah.

It always disturbed me and now I understand the reason.

What a pathetic state the Jewish people are in; but on the other hand - look at what Hashem is now revealing to us!

There is hope - this is part of the heraldry of Mashiach.

Yishar Koach to my friend Rachel - what a fabulous article to give us all Chizuk and what a Zchus to help spread the news!

Thank you Aish and thanks to Prof. Mazar!

Ms. Mazar is to be thanked for her perseverance in searching for this most important structure.

We will be awaiting much in-depth information from her about this find!

The first time I was in Israel (six years ago.) I was told by a very wise tour guide that, "the present is fixed and the past is always changing."

he concluded with information on archeology and how new sites are discovered and how they then change our perception of the past.

Best wishes to the archeologist of this story, it is truly remakrable to see what science has to say about the ancient world.

I'm impressed with the work, & hope for its continued success

It is of some good importance that archaelogy is able to show evidence to all, of ancient Jewish heritage and ties to the land of Israel, esp in these present times.

this past summer i visited ir david and the water tunnel.

it was a great and worthwhile experience.

it should be made a must for all future tours.

an increased jewish presence in that area both during the day and night is a must.

ms. ginsberg's article serves as an excellent intro on this subject and should be given wider exposure.

The article on David's palace is quite remarkable.

What can be done to get world opinion behind an honest accounting of the degradations of Jewish antiquities?

I don't doubt your findings for one second.

We have only the proofs that we deserve as jewish people.

Thank you for the excellent article detailing the amazing discovery of King David's palace in Jerusalem.

This well written piece gave pertinent background, interesting details surrounding the case, and compelling information as to the ramifications for biblical archaeology in general.

Israel and all who love her can be proud of Eilat Mazar!!!

This is wonderful news and it makes me proud to be living in the day and time of the finding of King David's palace.

I am absolutely proud that Dr. Mazar has this find.

Dear Rachel Let me thank you for the highly informative article and I just want to appreciate the rewarding work of Ms Mazar as well as a word of praise for her hard and bold hearted scientific approach

a discovery absolutely unique and vastly underpublicized.

Thank you Rachel Ginsberg for providing us with such good news.

Your article was very informative and enjoyable to read.

This discovery is tremendously exciting!

I minored in archaeology and have dabbled in it for the last 30 years.

I can honestly say this article has excited me more than almost anything else in the world of antiquities in all that time.

I remember coming to Israel in 1969 and suddenly the Bible changed from a storybook to a history book.

How much more so now should we be in awe that... it is real!

This is the first mention I have seen of this find.

Kudos to Aish.com - what a phenomenal website!

Clearly this story is not being told by the general news media with any enthusiasm.

As Rachel Ginsberg points out, it doesn't fit with their agenda, which is to promote "Palestine" and "demote" Jewish historical attachment to the land.

In this they closely resemble the Philistines of old, who wanted to "get" King David before he could solidify his hold on the kingdom.

There is truly nothing new under the sun.

It gives hope even with all the lies from the Wagf and others.

Now lets forward this article to all our friends so it will get around.

The media is not helping us so what are we waiting for ?

Living in Jerusalem's Old City, a ten-minute walk from the site described in the article, I see archeological "proofs" of the Biblical narrative every time I go to the grocery store.

The efforts of the anti-religious academia and media to cover up the truth is akin to their efforts to cover up the greater truth of G-d's existence.

The article was well written and to the point.

Dr. Mazar has done what most of us only dream of.

We need more careful scholars that believe the Hebrew Bible accounts as accurate especially knowing that so many of the current "sites" were designated by Constantine's mother Helena in the 4th century.

How accurate could she have possibly been.

I believe we are in for even greater discoveries in the future that authenticate the Hebrew Text.

"The jury is still out on where all this activity will lead"...let's pray and cry that this is the begining of a new begining.

May the darkness that surrounds the world and especially the Jewish people soon be banished with the rising of a brilliant sun, the start of a new day.

If more soil is removed I am sure that the truth will be proved.

There is no doubt in my mind after seeing all of the items recovered near Askelon and Bet Shean as well as those near the old city

I have always been concerned with the destruction of ancient Israeli archealogical remains, it's a good thing she found this one before others proceeded to destroy it.

I am very impressed by the recent discoveries, especially of King David's Palace.

I am slso horrified by the way the Waqf has destroyed so many thkings relating to the 1st. and 2nd. Temple.

Who are we going to sell this site to or give it away?

We do so well at being against ourselves that giving away precious land, holy sites etc. becomes second nature to us, and then we cry everyone is against us, maybe we should sometimes look in our own backyards for our enemies.

Excellent article - Despite the political opposition it needs world wide disemination.

Tremendous discovery, time will prove it valid

This find opens up the possibility of further excavations revealing the truth of the biblical records.

The academics by and large are anti-God and anti-Biblical records.

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