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Bread feast!!

1:03 AM Tukiyooo 0

I stopped in to Lidl before work - their bread shop is so good.  They bake all the pastries fresh on their premises.<div><br></div><div>Then it was off to Starbucks for breakfast before work.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuxlHDL_KyfXWRK8u_a_AMzIf9ubFy8rVo1sWR7hkae_Tv3OSEWrzMVhmO9DS2AVUbEVfGEYxsr2WJim48pdUBOxrIpPmwVeB1j3rTAIt3iLa7Q-_F3SKvzuUSm-K8q0_b33Iu3GS-pqsH/s640/blogger-image--1162266889.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuxlHDL_KyfXWRK8u_a_AMzIf9ubFy8rVo1sWR7hkae_Tv3OSEWrzMVhmO9DS2AVUbEVfGEYxsr2WJim48pdUBOxrIpPmwVeB1j3rTAIt3iLa7Q-_F3SKvzuUSm-K8q0_b33Iu3GS-pqsH/s640/blogger-image--1162266889.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsyUKTnFW8ZIgrAnOI6xieooIs1gHox3SnAjvx_7PO0vJDMgbCi7M5gFkfByneXq8kjw1n16tuh7sc1dz8UpiIyPS72fdA4qoa8KetJQlB6D-fItLClb9SiOpgPr1NBPN5PLY4DJE_5GA/s640/blogger-image-1588864093.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsyUKTnFW8ZIgrAnOI6xieooIs1gHox3SnAjvx_7PO0vJDMgbCi7M5gFkfByneXq8kjw1n16tuh7sc1dz8UpiIyPS72fdA4qoa8KetJQlB6D-fItLClb9SiOpgPr1NBPN5PLY4DJE_5GA/s640/blogger-image-1588864093.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5hcf9rBYJSwM09GCm22-RNv0IjGHI6rofWptcpKuuFyLyOosTjm1lgh3j241UPW0BMLQE84HjHaKMMSiAzlRkbNf1qGwgb3-uo-iSEC1zmpIf_72RnT6S2QO-bFFqlm7uT60te-tdup5/s640/blogger-image--1698786649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5hcf9rBYJSwM09GCm22-RNv0IjGHI6rofWptcpKuuFyLyOosTjm1lgh3j241UPW0BMLQE84HjHaKMMSiAzlRkbNf1qGwgb3-uo-iSEC1zmpIf_72RnT6S2QO-bFFqlm7uT60te-tdup5/s640/blogger-image--1698786649.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivY6iDN1ls1mJCyC_itp1BATQNTycVl_9eefD54vBDBdMFT29xyEZ2fBdBuYh18X1yMBbGOUDs0pkITgVUSiKwv5vBBlLWnGuxodArzw_PMHyEj_WBwzkiuDG61OHV2eBvtTK3Z3kP_f8x/s640/blogger-image--986925326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivY6iDN1ls1mJCyC_itp1BATQNTycVl_9eefD54vBDBdMFT29xyEZ2fBdBuYh18X1yMBbGOUDs0pkITgVUSiKwv5vBBlLWnGuxodArzw_PMHyEj_WBwzkiuDG61OHV2eBvtTK3Z3kP_f8x/s640/blogger-image--986925326.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>

Bread feast!!

I stopped in to Lidl before work - their bread shop is so good. They bake all the pastries fresh on their premises. Then it was off to Star...

QATAR AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD:

12:50 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PDefwe_kuUeruPuNmE1pHeMsZSNTc2aBEobD7a5kiV8ts2hG3Cwux9f2lRftomrdM-YU6Lq1BpawCHZ1nWudF_P7cGBCbQcWN6KlmOfoM9HoR0spdk1_9IznjZ-dl5hqKGnrfSLbxcSi/s1600/qatar-flag.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PDefwe_kuUeruPuNmE1pHeMsZSNTc2aBEobD7a5kiV8ts2hG3Cwux9f2lRftomrdM-YU6Lq1BpawCHZ1nWudF_P7cGBCbQcWN6KlmOfoM9HoR0spdk1_9IznjZ-dl5hqKGnrfSLbxcSi/s400/qatar-flag.gif" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">LOSING THE CROWN JEWEL?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via StratRisk</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule did not just impact its supporters in EGYPT. In QATAR, it caused a tremor inside the whole ruling establishment; destroying the political bridges it had built to exert influence in the country.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR WAS THE MOTHER WHOSE MILK FED THE ISLAMIST GROUPS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It spent billions to install them in power – observers estimate that QATAR paid more than $17 billion to Arab Spring countries – especially the deposed president Mohamed Mursi. This could be the beginning of the decline of the role of QATAR under the new Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems clear that SAUDI ARABIA trumped QATAR in EGYPT. At least this is how its leaders felt. This could bring the conflict between the two countries to square one, but in favor of SAUDI, as is apparent from the official QATARI silence concerning EGYPT. QATAR’S press is also confused about EGYPT as it can’t stop wailing about the overthrow of Mursi’s ‘democracy’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the other hand, SAUDI KING Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz was quick to commend the situation, even before the military read its statement on the removal of the president. King Abdullah congratulated the army for “fulfilling the will of the people.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, QATAR’S men who had EGYPT under their grip for a whole year are now on the country’s most wanted list, following the orders of the south Cairo prosecutor to apprehend the Brotherhood’s spiritual guide, Mohamed Badie; his deputy, Khairat al-Shater; and members of the Guidance Office, on charges of inciting the killing of demonstrators and spreading sectarian strife.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In his first speech after assuming the rein in QATAR, Emir Tamim maintained that his country “rejects sectarianism in the Arab world and does not support any particular political current against the others.” But how will this translate on the ground?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will the young sheikh take off the robe of “Emir of the Arab Spring” inherited from his father, who had turned it into autumn? Will he make a wise reassessment of QATAR’S role in the region and its relationship with Islamists who get out of control if they are disobeyed?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><br /></div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE QATARI PROJECT: “DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEUTRALITY, AN OPTION?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tamim maintained, “QATAR is on the side of the Arab people and their aspirations to live in freedom and dignity, away from corruption and tyranny.” He repeated the motto of his predecessors: “QATAR will remain the Kaaba of the oppressed.” The political project that had hidden under the veil of religion now stands naked. This is a bad omen for the political future of the new emir, who will not be able to survive if he continues to extend his hand to the Islamists seeking power in the region. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for EGYPT, an official source in the foreign ministry spoke to the country’s news agency about the necessity of national cohesion and achieving the goals of the January 25 revolution. It seems the Qatari government is treating the situation realistically.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BAD PERFORMANCE OF MURSI AND THE ISLAMISTS UNDERMINED THEIR IMAGE IN EGYPT, JORDAN, PALESTINE, SYRIA, AND TUNISIA.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A QATARI journalist considered the statement one of “wisdom and caution that will shape the features of the new emir’s policy concerning Arab and international affairs.” There are some in the new emir’s leadership who see that it would be wise to be neutral or adopt a reformist policy concerning internal political crises of neighboring countries. However, the miserable performance of Mursi and the Islamists undermined their image in EGYPT, JORDAN, PALESTINE, SYRIA, and TUNISIA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The political project that had hidden under the veil of religion now stands naked. This is a bad omen for the political future of the new emir, who will not be able to survive if he continues to extend his hand to the Islamists seeking power in the region.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCCaUXd_Ni9SAI0uBDiUaJstugr5zbUARQFw0Im_5z83u2iUq2lb00Q3tipwu07DP2tJbH82eHi7w58KGEWJyFWnhK1dqSNdOAJc3FQbKK3HrfuSq4r0x5o_UuwIWvIWmSgLHs-qeCVgO/s1600/map_qatar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCCaUXd_Ni9SAI0uBDiUaJstugr5zbUARQFw0Im_5z83u2iUq2lb00Q3tipwu07DP2tJbH82eHi7w58KGEWJyFWnhK1dqSNdOAJc3FQbKK3HrfuSq4r0x5o_UuwIWvIWmSgLHs-qeCVgO/s320/map_qatar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some say that the new emir is gradually working to put an end to the “suicidal” and “confrontational” approach of the former foreign minister. He will set the tempo for external investments and their impact on political issues. This is in addition to the haphazard nature of some investments in Western countries, especially FRANCE and BRITAIN.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(BRITAIN and FRANCE, together with QATAR have been trying to topple the Assad regime, for reasons that are partly mentioned above) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some analysts believe that Tamim will try to emulate the UAE and compete with it in attracting foreign investment and international tourism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Observers said, “After the fall of QATARI Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad, who was also head of the committee overseeing the SYRIAN situation, Qatari policies will change under Tamim. There are those in QATAR today who understand that the war in SYRIA is no longer confined to that country and is a real and existential threat to the region.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SYRIA CHAOS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the exchange of power in QATAR, several predictions have surfaced. However, one question remains. Where is QATAR heading under its new ruler? Will this small sheikhdom still exert the same influence on the Arab and International levels, something that exceeds its real size by thousands and surpasses the role set by its external sponsors?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><span style="color: blue;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR’S GREAT POWER GAMES </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/04/qatars-great-power-games.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/04/qatars-great-power-games.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reality is that SYRIAN steadfastness against the siege, in addition to popular anger toward QATAR’S role in spreading chaos, has imposed new facts on the US, forcing it to be convinced of the fiasco in SYRIA. Therefore, it must get rid of the tools that failed to fulfill its murderous desires. The first step was the meeting of the “NATO Islamists” in Cairo to transfer control to SAUDI ARABIA, through Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s apology and declaration of obedience to the Kingdom. This was followed by a US security delegation visit to Doha, which informed Sheikh Hamad of the need for change that would keep Prime Minister Hamad away from the Arab files. And so it was.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR INVESTED BILLIONS TO EXPAND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, IN VAIN SO ITS SEEMS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, QATAR can only count its losses with the fall of the Brotherhood in EGYPT. It had invested billions to expand its sphere of influence. However, QATARI investment was faced by wide opposition and raises several questions in Arab Spring countries, due to their disturbing support for political Islam currents.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Qatar faces the shock of the collapse of its allies, many questions have been raised about the ties that bind QATAR and the Islamists today. Will the fall of the Brotherhood in EGYPT be the divorce papers between QATAR and the hegemonic project of political Islam in the region? What about the support to armed groups in SYRIA, such as al-Nusra Front? What is the future of the Arab Spring mufti Qaradawi? By the way, where is Qaradawi?</span></div>

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Calling for presenters at the Google Summit in Cape Town – a great incentive involved!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEwT4ptoITS9gQ7m0DZIwnESjVCvHE1t7DmEHIw31NaVrwr_28zDCp51F2ODcZtfSwk5AxB1V9edsfHfREt6nJW0csggMNsbK4uMN9LaN-ka6kxcR9r5Mh2Z9Sfk9VVG6Ol1MUFvkYOs/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5v7et_K1iPbj3K0VnxHEWAvrPqN8KLIwaW5GWCJwXJ3UuOSxWiYYLEzZIg6uGz5jGtyJPXIjVjSRe2sEn_AwXLI55rRlnt9ppXCS1qpAzIMnCiltyWoLr1egWZntHr4eDIfeGfrIORQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WbsHwGrxo-aJ0VPNSKfzwoPjM8563qA9KdGjbmI5DdVgZJNVidaPlvzBmehl35idtJKlV3dbd2HwiPe1qlHMQKdxYX8a8_e9LkN1ARRadRu0XGdfWDMVoP5AGXr3pHTUH4k8o155aYc/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia8JHoqUCzrRp_P9yz4-ATwehQKnein72INLaYVc_QmqYRbUqDNUZMCLEAcwx6F8ElMQlHXTspszfjwUGpQyK3yFWo8sICUSV07kZc1ccIGYlQF_yPcEuaJDbisDcA4DvSLauYOgecHJA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greetings from the<b> </b>South Africa Google in Education planning committee. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, we announced the first annual Google in Education South Africa Summit to be hosted by </span><a href="http://www.schoolnet.org.za/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SchoolNet South Africa</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.parklands.co.za/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parklands College</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  on Sep. 26th and 27th, 2013.  Registration is now open! We’re especially excited to announce William Florance from Google to keynote our event. Here is a link to the event website with all of the information: </span><a href="http://za.gafesummit.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">za.gafesummit.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Request for presenters</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are hoping that you would be interested in presenting at the Google Apps Summit. If you are interested, please take a look at a few of the session titles listed below (differentiated in levels of expertise) and fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QK_p-pCgX4Zu6BplOmMeA_47TJO-J4G_j0TCVzbn49s/viewform">this form</a> sharing your interest in presenting.  Each of the sessions will be one hour in length and should engage the participants as much as you can. We encourage our participants to bring a device to engage with the topics and presentations. We will provide you with a projector and a screen, however you need to bring your own laptop for your presentation. Participants will also have WiFi to follow along with your presentation. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please fill out this Request with the title and description of your session. It will also ask for some biography information. <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QK_p-pCgX4Zu6BplOmMeA_47TJO-J4G_j0TCVzbn49s/viewform">Request for Presenters</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You do not have to stick to a title of ideas from the list below, it is just a list of suggested topics.  If you have another session that you would be interested in sharing that is not on the list, please feel free to add your own presentation and description.  We will have a lot of sessions throughout the two day conference so feel free to fill out the form more than once if you would be willing to share more than one presentation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you know of anyone else that would be a great presenter at the Summit, please forward this email on to them. Please submit your presentation proposals by August 1st.  We will be in touch with you shortly after to let you know more about the schedule for your presentation(s).   </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Compensation to presenters</span></b><br />For compensation, you will receive a complimentary registration to the two-day conference (a R2000+ value) and be able to work closely with this amazing group of Googlers and presenters.  We sincerely hope that you will accept the invitation to present to make this a successful professional development event for all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you have any questions, please let us know. Please forward this email on to others you think might be interested in presenting at the Summit.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ideas for presentations</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned, these are just ideas. If you have something else relating to Google that you would like to present please submit your idea with your application.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Strands</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Technical<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Beginner- Getting Going with Google<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Intermediate- Gear Up with Google Apps<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Advanced- Getting Geeky with Google<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Administrators<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Higher Ed </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Technical Strands</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Technical Deployment of Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Google Apps for Education Dashboard<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Security, Archiving and Managing Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>The Guide to Going Google- Deploying Google Apps at your School<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Beginner- Sessions will be labeled “Getting Going”</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Going with Google Apps for Education Overview<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Going with Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Going with Google Chrome<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Going with YouTube for Schools<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Going with Student use of Google Apps for Education<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>The Guide to Going Google- Deploying Google Apps at your School<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Intermediate- Sessions will be labeled “Gearing Up”</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up with Google Forms and Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Creating a Personalized Google Map<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Building tours with Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Even More- Picasa, Blogger, Reader and Voice<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Chromebook Classroom<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Google Voice in the Classroom<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Google Apps for Administrators<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up with Advanced Google Search<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gearing Up: Change Management with Google Apps for Education</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Gearing Up: Getting Creative with Picasa and other photo editing apps<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Advanced- Sessions will be labeled “Getting Geeky:</b><u></u><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Lit Trips & Google Earth<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky: Becoming a Chrome Ninja<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Apps Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Forms and Scripts<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky with Google Spreadsheet Magic<b><u></u><u></u></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u>  <u></u>Getting Geeky with Fusion Tables </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you there! Early bird rates for applications apply till the end of July.</span></div>

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Greetings from the South Africa Google in Education planning committee. Recently, we announced the first annual Google in Education South ...

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeeeeers Chuckleheads!!  Matt-Man here writing on this here IWS Radio blog for the first time in, oh I don’t know…since this past Sunday.<br /><a href="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/p480x480/1002240_10151438815501734_60965827_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Photo: Sporting my new FREE shoes compliments of Dr. Scholl's.  The Doctor does customer service RIGHT!!" border="0" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/p480x480/1002240_10151438815501734_60965827_n.jpg" width="355" /></a><br />Holy Cow!!  That’s like a century in dog years…I think.<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />On the IWS Radio Show this past Sunday, I mentioned to Jayman that we should take a couple of days off from the website, so I could do some things that tighten up our IWS brand, and tie up some loose ends as far as our You Tube page which is under my name and not the IWS Radio name.  And plus…<br /><br />We could relax for a few, and let out a nice big Social Media sigh, and then come back refreshed.<br /><br />I stated that merely taking Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off would be good for our souls, our creative juices, and I could fix our You Tube page.  Jayman, while not necessarily agreeing, acquiesced.<br /><br />So…<br /><br />After <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/07/07/matt-and-jay-live" target="_blank">Sunday’s show</a>,</span></i> my best friend Schmoop and I drank, played music, and talked about rearranging furniture.  The Schmoopster was scheduled off and has been off, all <strike>her life</strike> week, so she would do that, and then?<br /><br />We ate Johnsonville Brats…and lots of them.<br /><br />Monday, I had to go to work…go to work with a hangover.  It wasn’t that bad until, I got THE PHONE CALL.  On the other end of the line was a crazy woman who was insisting that I should pay her $100.00 a week in order to help her put our son through college.<br /><br />Her argument was built on a pile of sand, but she quickly and convincingly firmed up her philosophical treatise, and won me over to her side by calling me immoral, and labeling The Schmoopster, as homely.<br /><br />So Monday night, drunk on the euphoria of being on a quasi-vacation and the lyrical tones of the crazy woman’s voice in my head, I had a couple of beers, a frozen pizza, and then went to bed.<br /><br />Tuesday was awesome, because I only work Noon-5 on Tuesdays.  Sure it was raining, but my adorable, college bound son showed up at The Beer Mine needing $200.00.  I gave it to him, and after a couple of moments nervous of laughter, he went on his way.<br /><br />When I got home shortly after 5 PM I walked into the Bagwine digs and the furniture had indeed been rearranged by The Schmoopster and it looked awesome, however…The cat was none to pleased.<br /><br />I had a couple of drinks, and then before I knew it, it was 6:30 PM and it was time for Jayman and I to be interviewed by Katie D on her Blog Talk Radio Show.  We were there.  We were pithy, and then…<br /><br />Ol’ Katie ran out of questions, cut the interview short, and the evening took a turn for the worse.<br /><br />It turns out that the adorable, yet awkward interview was a result of Jayman and I, especially me, threatening the young Miss Katie through our penchant for answering the questions that Miss Katie asked.<br /><br />I think it was my answer to her question,<i> “How did your show come about?”</i> and I responded, <i>“Jay sent me an e-mail.”,</i> that sent the young ingénue’s protector and psychotic sansei into a verdant and virulent attack upon my character upon the timeless timeline of my Facebook page.<br /><br /><a href="http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/218/365/elisabeth-hasselbeck_display_image.jpg?1273098218" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/218/365/elisabeth-hasselbeck_display_image.jpg?1273098218" /></a>With my good name besmirched by accusations of pedophilia and felonious assault, Schmoop ate and went to bed, and shortly afterwards, I ate and went to bed.<br /><br />On top of all of that heartache, I was crushed to find out that Gretchen Carlson will no longer be on Fox and Friends in the morning, as her gravitas, and journalistic instincts necessitate a primetime afternoon show, and she will be replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck.<br /><br />So much anguish…I have had better vacations, but it’s not a total loss.<br /><br />The re-arrangement of the Bagwine digs looks awesome.  Ryno and I are meeting for pizza tonight at The Hut, and…<br /><br />Looking back on these past few days of vacation?  I know that I am living the thug life.  Word!!<br /><br />Oh the You Tube thing that was the impetus for all of this?  Eh, I never really got around to that, but trust me, I will.<br /><br />After all, I am one immoral son of a bitch who lives with a homely chick, and that’s how we roll.<br /><br />Cheers!!<br /><br />Matt-Man<br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Matt’s Facebook Page</span></a></div>

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

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Insanity Workout Review

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Jody Whitley</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>You may be wondering where you can order Insanity. First of all, this is an insanely hard to do set of workout DVD's . When you first start out it's harder. It gets very much easier the more fit you become and even addicting if you keep it up and start seeing results. I am overweight and just shy of 40, but I have dreams of getting back into my pre-marriage body. I did <a href="http://sell.com/2FSH25">Order Insanity Online</a> and as I decided to seize the day and go for it, and I am not sorry.<br />  <br />  My muscles are currently screaming, every bit of me hurts. Every day, I both love and dread pushing play on this dvd, because I know what will happen when I do. I will spend 45 minutes gasping, lurching around, heart pounding, sweat running off me like a monsoon, desperately trying to keep up with a workout designed by fitness demigods. Afterwards, when I can catch my breath and pull myself up of the ground.<br />  <br />  After my workouts and for the rest of the day I feel so good it is not even funny. Yesterday when I finished my workout and was talking to my husband, I said "You know what I feel like? I feel like I'm on vacation!". You know, that feeling you get on day one of vacation when you have the whole thing stretching before you, when there is a cool beer in your hands and not a care in the world? It's like, life is good today. That's how I feel when my blood is pumping, when my body is sore and I am really so proud of myself. I was inspired by this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_OGHDHQJw">Shaun T Workout</a> review by Elena. You can also order at the link under this particular youtube video for $49.95.<br />  <br />  The DVDs themselves are good, the music is great, the instructor is incredible and never demeaning. Although I did figure him out after a few rounds, his team goes at it hard core, and when he gets tired he goes over to one of his team members, like "Tanya" or "Akeel". (At least he gets a break and can still talk otherwise he'd be huffing and puffing I'm sure.) I feel like he is speaking directly to me and he is very encouraging. I am also encouraged when the folks exercising with him can't keep up, because I know that if these very in shape people can't do it, then I am in good company. The rest of the package is fine. I'm also on weight watchers, so I am not using BeachBody's eating plan right now. I don't plan to be changing diets mid-stream.<br />  <br />  The workout calendar is nice, I keep it up to date and it is a good motivational tool for me. The DVD case is compact and sturdy. It IS a little pricey, but I think that it is worth it so far. It is giving me back my self respect. Not to mention making me become addicted to looking better and becoming more in shape.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>Want to find out more about <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsmJUwyGqI'>Insanity Workout Houston</a>, then visit jody whitley's site for information on<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_OGHDHQJw'>Reviews On Insanity</a>.</div><br />  </div><br />

Insanity Workout Review

By Jody Whitley You may be wondering where you can order Insanity. First of all, this is an insanely hard to do set of workout DVD's...

Software QA Manager ( C++, SQA/SQC, White/Black/Gray box testing, SCM ) (#109379)

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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">  <div><b>Position</b>: Software QA Manager<br>    <b>Location</b>: Milpitas, CA <br>    <b>Duration</b>: Full time<br>    <br>    <b>Job Description</b>:<br>    The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers.  The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness,  optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems.  These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes.   The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation  specific for their process needs.  The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.</div>  <div> </div>  <div><b>Responsibilities:</b></div>  <div>1) Lead and manage a team of SQA/SQC engineers for metrology products.</div>  <div>2) Develop and implement testing methodologies consistent with the division's software development lifecycle model.</div>  <div>3) Ensure that the required level of quality is achieved in the products' software releases.</div>  <div>4) Create/enforce software process improvement initiatives to include more thorough white box/gray box testing; early involvement of  SQA/SQC engineers in the requirements phase, improvement in software development process, etc.</div>  <div>5) Encourage a division-wide "Quality Culture" where quality is viewed as everyone’s responsibility.</div>  <div>6) Ensure/Audit compliance to development process and quality performance by the software development and SQA teams.</div>  <div>7) Work with software development teams to ensure resources and test plans are aligned with development schedule.</div>  <div>8) Incorporate industry BKM to existing software process, e.g. quality reviews, etc</div>  <div>9) Ensure software quality plans are written and reviewed with the product team ahead of time for each planned software release.</div>  <div>10) Responsible for developing and maintaining the projects' software processes and coordinating the activities to assess, develop, maintain, and improve these processes.</div>  <div> </div>  <div><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div>  <div>- BS, MS or PhD preferred, in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.</div>  <div>- Minimum of 5 years of management experience in software quality management.</div>  <div>- Having some software development experience preferred.</div>  <div>- Knowledge (with experience preferred) on different software development lifecycles and methodologies, e.g. Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, etc.</div>  <div>- Experience with the development of automated testing.</div>  <div>- Fluency in SQA/SQC methodologies and tools, including programmatic-level testing; knowledge of white, black, and gray box testing methodologies</div>  <div>- Experience with CMM or ISO 15504 certification  preferred.</div>  <div>- Knowledge of Software configuration management.</div>  <div>- Experience with Rational Team Concert.</div>  <div> </div>  <div><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div>  <div>Doctorate (Academic) with at least 3 years of experience.<br>    OR<br>    Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<br>    OR</div>  <div>Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<br>    <br>    Kindly send your resumes to<font color="navy"> </font><a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><font color="navy"><u>Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</u></font></a></div>  <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>  </span></font>

Software QA Manager ( C++, SQA/SQC, White/Black/Gray box testing, SCM ) (#109379)

Position : Software QA Manager Location : Milpitas, CA Duration : Full time Job Description : The Film and Scatteromet...

Alert: Bicyclist missing in Shenandoah National Park

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Blue Ridge Mountains Dickey Ridge missing person Shenandoah National Park Tyler Keefer Alert: Bicyclist missing in Shenandoah National Park

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Cocktail time!

2:44 PM Tukiyooo 0

Cocktail time!<div><br></div><div>I got this cocktail mix in Dunnes Off Licence.  It says it contains alcohol but not what type of alcohol.  I bought the Citrus Daiquiri but there were others available.</div><div><br></div><div>You stick them in the freezer and then squeeze them out in to a glass - kind of like a slushy!</div><div><br></div><div>They are marketed as a "Squeeze & freeze" cocktail. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVK3jztOA_4dSsVBAjpwg6g56ymUsvsluBgW-uOb-EZ03n6l_TgJHxchO8CsBx8A2BLvoEGSl8WIQoGc1iBSxUVBiOi3O7IzEq_Ev33ZuZlNNNNOzGC-jM5FeVK5lZToUyPqzT2etjEtR/s640/blogger-image-925122236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVK3jztOA_4dSsVBAjpwg6g56ymUsvsluBgW-uOb-EZ03n6l_TgJHxchO8CsBx8A2BLvoEGSl8WIQoGc1iBSxUVBiOi3O7IzEq_Ev33ZuZlNNNNOzGC-jM5FeVK5lZToUyPqzT2etjEtR/s640/blogger-image-925122236.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Generally I make my own cocktails (Caipirosca & Cosmo) but I like the convenience of these.  They are probably full of sugar but sure I'll give them a whirl!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZHAL0gphJcDy6fs6yjW0i8IHKaBKb_lPAItZ2dEmdIQ4PV5D-I9xR_ePYDwmTmj2oiK5HFzWBNlIy5zhqHoNT6Q5NfhkI3Oc-bFJF0LOfsrrhiQQ3wOcUIyXUwSGOHGf_sy41qC0XRMs/s640/blogger-image--610654329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZHAL0gphJcDy6fs6yjW0i8IHKaBKb_lPAItZ2dEmdIQ4PV5D-I9xR_ePYDwmTmj2oiK5HFzWBNlIy5zhqHoNT6Q5NfhkI3Oc-bFJF0LOfsrrhiQQ3wOcUIyXUwSGOHGf_sy41qC0XRMs/s640/blogger-image--610654329.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div>

Cocktail time!

Cocktail time! I got this cocktail mix in Dunnes Off Licence. It says it contains alcohol but not what type of alcohol. I bought the Citru...

71 ALEC bills let corporations off the hook for injuring or killing people

1:20 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s1600/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s200/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>The corporate escort service for state lawmakers known as <a href="http://alecexposed.org/">ALEC</a> wants corporations to become even more powerful than they already are. In this year alone, 71 -- yup, 71 -- ALEC-backed bills have been filed to make it harder for citizens to sue companies that kill, maim or sicken them.<br /><br />Brendan Fischer at the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/">Center for Media and Democracy</a><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12172/justice-denied-71-alec-bills-2013-make-it-harder-hold-corporations-accountable-ca"> reports</a>,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">For decades, ALEC has been a conduit for the oil, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries to push legislation that changes the rules to limit accountability when a corporation’s products or actions cause injury or death -- such as when a Koch Industries pipeline <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html">explodes and kills teenagers</a>, or when the tobacco or pharmaceutical industries withhold evidence that their products are dangerous.</blockquote>In just six months, these corporate-empowerment bills were introduced in 30 states.<br /><br />Now it's a fundamental tenet of American law that someone who is injured by another has the right to pursue justice in front of a jury. ALEC wants to take away that right -- at least for citizens.<br /><br />These ALEC bills limit how much a corporation must pay for injuring people: <br /><ul><li>The ALEC “Noneconomic Damage Awards Act” (versions of which were introduced in five states in 2013) limits the amount a jury can award to compensate a person for their diminished quality of life as the result of an injury. </li><li>The misleadingly-named "Full and Fair Noneconomic Damages Act" (introduced in two states) limits the amount a corporation might have to pay to compensate a person for their pain and suffering.</li><li>The “Phantom Damages Elimination Act” (introduced in two states) changes the rules so a person who paid health insurance premiums for years would recover less for their medical bills than a person who had no insurance: rather than placing the full cost of paying for medical bills on the wrongdoer, the bill would reduce the amount they must pay if a person's insurance company negotiated a discount. </li></ul>This one gives immunity from certain kinds of lawsuits:<br /><ul><li>Ten states introduced the “Trespasser Responsibility Act,” which would largely absolve landowners from a responsibility to maintain safe premises, and tends to benefit large landowners like railroads, utility companies, and big agriculture. These large corporations would be absolved from their duty to act responsibly, and would be immune if a person accidentally wanders onto their property and are injured by poorly-maintained electrical boxes, dangerous chemicals or farm implements.</li></ul>The list goes on and on. To see if your state lawmakers are considering one of ALEC's corporate empowerment bills, click <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12172/justice-denied-71-alec-bills-2013-make-it-harder-hold-corporations-accountable-ca">here</a>.<br /><br />

ALEC 71 ALEC bills let corporations off the hook for injuring or killing people

The corporate escort service for state lawmakers known as ALEC wants corporations to become even more powerful than they already are. In th...

TURKISH LEADERSHIP DEMORALIZED....

1:15 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGgRzlodJ2_3JTp1Tbfmcf8CeWhfwGWX5OhDGUi8s9qV4AzPEjZbfksHsHxvDslziVrjOzso7fY5ddrJIqB5jKSh_CnrVbnpUQiavElkoPDLlMwP0m7pauoeMYgnJh1qtPanXTq-AZ9WB/s1600/20121119194107_egytr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGgRzlodJ2_3JTp1Tbfmcf8CeWhfwGWX5OhDGUi8s9qV4AzPEjZbfksHsHxvDslziVrjOzso7fY5ddrJIqB5jKSh_CnrVbnpUQiavElkoPDLlMwP0m7pauoeMYgnJh1qtPanXTq-AZ9WB/s400/20121119194107_egytr.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.....BY COUP IN EGYPT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If there is one place on earth where the effects of the July 3 military coup in EGYPT were felt as much as in Cairo by deposed president Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, it must be TURKEY.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Cengiz Candar</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/authors/cengiz-candar.html" target="_blank"><span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"></span></a></span></i><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> via Al Monitor </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COUP IN EGYPT CAME AS AN ADDITIONAL TREMOR TO PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Ankara coped with the trauma of the events in Istanbul and most other parts of the country, the military coup in EGYPT came as an additional tremor to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It so shook Erdogan that he interrupted his much-needed holiday and returned to work, convening his top aides and within 48 hours launching a vigorous campaign of criticism against the West, especially EUROPE, for not acknowledging the EGYPTIAN coup as a coup.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZZITgrnpdImHBiAJVMKIModv0T-0GTlTonZY_EBUU3u-fGFl9ZsPlpEFxDna6YnXtRwbc9c3FQ0RQbyuAdNT8RmMeC1hXm4V135fCfimlF5ealFgBte8WPoG2gSpejblWc1rdKi6TcZl/s1600/TurkeyEgypt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZZITgrnpdImHBiAJVMKIModv0T-0GTlTonZY_EBUU3u-fGFl9ZsPlpEFxDna6YnXtRwbc9c3FQ0RQbyuAdNT8RmMeC1hXm4V135fCfimlF5ealFgBte8WPoG2gSpejblWc1rdKi6TcZl/s320/TurkeyEgypt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKISH Islamists are living the EGYPTIAN coup not as a coup in EGYPT but as profoundly as a coup against themselves in TURKEY.… The EGYPTIAN military’s unseating of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood also serves as a dose of palliative care that AKP rule needs badly given its own traumas, especially the Taksim-Gezi protests. Erdogan and his fellow party members have again retreated to the shelter of victimhood and legality, two themes they voice persistently. The AKP has successfully employed the theme of “victimhood’ in its claim that it represents the “black TURKS” against the “white TURKS,” and its leaders always aver that to come to power through elections is the source of legitimacy for a political movement that has victimhood as its starting point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BALLOT BOX IS THE CHASTITY OF DEMOCRACY</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a speech on July 5, Erdogan, while rejecting the military coup in EGYPT, justifiably emphasized that an elected Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood government must be deposed through elections. He frequently repeated, “The ballot box is the chastity of democracy.” Two TURKISH dailies under strict government control used the expression for banner headlines the following day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The TURKISH public and certainly the ruling party apparently did not pay much attention to the June 30 gathering of record numbers of people in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in EGYPT to demand Morsi’s resignation and did not feel that given Morsi’s autocratic tendencies, the June 30, 2012, elections that brought him to power may well have been the last elections for EGYPT for quite some time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The principle that those who enter by elections must go with elections was cited as a sine qua non of democracy. This serves to reinforce the democratic legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood government in EGYPT and AKP rule in TURKEY. It also helps in resuscitating the theme of victimhood that the AKP finds highly useful.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is another functional aspect of this approach. Erdogan and his supporters want to believe and demonstrate that the Taksim-Gezi events in Istanbul were a product of “foreign forces,” an international plot seeking to topple Erdogan by preparing the ground for a military coup. The July 3 Egyptian coup is therefore presented as a (self-fulfilling) prophecy of Erdogan’s Taksim-Gezi narrative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ERDOGAN SUGGESTS: TURMOIL IS ORCHESTRATED BY FOREIGN SOURCES</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/turkey-in-turmoil.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/turkey-in-turmoil.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Further articles related to above topic:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkeys-double-edged-sword-policies-or.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/turkeys-double-edged-sword-policies-or.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKT4TILVroqpPCOBEz8UZJT3lWuvM01CSlHAQSIwOVEZo3bNKCFCTsyHezG4c3UHkvzFkjAkoH2bJXLqcPe-S2-THJ8DeRh4VM4pPRLJDMRd3hmIrXVsj7cMq4-wudPUDjNR_jSKTHwxDQ/s1600/tur_1787216c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKT4TILVroqpPCOBEz8UZJT3lWuvM01CSlHAQSIwOVEZo3bNKCFCTsyHezG4c3UHkvzFkjAkoH2bJXLqcPe-S2-THJ8DeRh4VM4pPRLJDMRd3hmIrXVsj7cMq4-wudPUDjNR_jSKTHwxDQ/s320/tur_1787216c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The AKP and its propagandists also latched on to the EGYPTIAN coup as a life preserver in an attempt to recoup the moral high ground they lost because of the Taksim-Gezi events. In the meantime, some of the liberal-democrat intellectuals in TURKEY who had supported the Taksim-Gezi protesters, and were distancing themselves from the AKP to avoid being seen as supporting a military coup, went to such great pains in denouncing the events in EGYPT that their support for Taksim-Gezi appeared to have been meaningless. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’S<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> GRANDEST DREAM — THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TURKEY- EGYPT AXIS IN THE REGION.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus on one side of the coin, the military coup in EGYPT paradoxically represented something of a magic cure for the AKP. On the other side of the coin, however, the worst loses accrued to TURKEY’S AKP as much as to the EGYPTIAN Muslim Brotherhood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no threat whatsoever to the AKP's grip on government. This is the basic difference between EGYPT and TURKEY. That said, the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood rule in EGYPT denies the AKP the chance to fulfill one of its goals, which is also Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's grandest dream — the establishment of a TURKEY-EGYPT axis in the region. The AKP and Muslim Brotherhood's ideological kinship was to have played a determinant role in the realization of this dream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEY GRANTED A FIVE-YEAR, $1 BILLION LOAN TO EGYPT WITH NO REPAYMENT FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is why TURKEY had chosen to use its soft power most generously for the benefit of the Brotherhood government. While the Morsi administration was struggling to obtain a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in fall 2012, the Erdogan government granted a five-year, $1 billion loan to EGYPT with no repayment for the first three years. This is a massive amount of money for both countries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvZnk0bb2gYerYzU1r_NvHWAWZqDLcAT-sMFjuCTesRrLdRLqfC6ib6rCvOOh8JOgjDgyf3VnjfP-fNPvaSdZhhqiwrupDOjt1pKQ6eLxT_BavFO8ETIdHg6dChPCyJeveWEDPQrR1Vm7/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvZnk0bb2gYerYzU1r_NvHWAWZqDLcAT-sMFjuCTesRrLdRLqfC6ib6rCvOOh8JOgjDgyf3VnjfP-fNPvaSdZhhqiwrupDOjt1pKQ6eLxT_BavFO8ETIdHg6dChPCyJeveWEDPQrR1Vm7/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the six months that elapsed since then, the expectation was that as a consequence of TURKEY’S largesse to EGYPT, Morsi and his Brotherhood would decide to emulate the Erdogan AKP of 2002–2011 to prove the theory that Islam and democracy can coexist. The opposite, however, occurred, with Erdogan beginning to look more like Morsi, and the AKP beginning to resemble the Muslim Brotherhood ideologically.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is why the overthrow of the Brotherhood came as such a severe shock to the AKP. The party’s self-confidence — driven by its successes in power and increasingly morphing into arrogance — was shaken, and in terms of realpolitik, TURKEY’S power, influence and room for maneuver in the region was significantly curtailed. One cannot now speak of a TURKEY-EGYPT axis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE OUSTING OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FROM POWER WILL ALSO NEGATIVELY AFFECT TURKEY’S SYRIA POLICY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is an unquestionable reality that the developments in EGYPT have allowed the Damascus regime to breathe much more easily.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">TURKEY WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS IF IT COULD BRING ITSELF TO RISE ABOVE THE SECTARIAN CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE DICTATED ITS REGIME CHANGE POLICY IN SYRIA. At:</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-syrian-policies.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/turkeys-syrian-policies.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FROM FRIEND TO FOE, WHAT CAUSED THE SHIFT IN TURKEYS SYRIA STRATEGY? At:</span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/turkeys-sunni-crescent.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The AKP that tended to correlate its Palestine and regional policy with Hamas will now have a tough time given the seismic aftershocks of the end of Muslim Brotherhood rule on its Gazan neighbor. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One of the first victims of the military coup was the postponement of Erdogan’s visit to Gaza, once considered crucial to the revitalization of his political fortunes.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The spread of resistance to the military coup in EGYPT and the possibility of Muslim Brothers returning to power seem a grand hope and dream for the AKP, but this is an excessively optimistic outcome that is all but impossible to predict and may entail unwanted developments, including a civil war. While the EGYPTIAN events offered some relief to Erdogan and his party, it is hoped that they are able to read and grasp the realities of EGYPT that cannot but be demoralizing for them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

TURKISH LEADERSHIP DEMORALIZED....

.....BY COUP IN EGYPT If there is one place on earth where the effects of the July 3 military coup in EGYPT were felt as much as in Cairo b...