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ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

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<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><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;"> </span></b></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><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="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6QkUne7OQrX5dRoUYRaJxw6cSTEK5WxIjRY_LEiXXxsU9gxZ4L8SC2bcNJzc-Hc9gOj0TX6qN-GGbJhDDCpF7ouz21nLMn2zesTjzPJTaYFkPYGUS026ZJwFhHyqTdV0siKnTbAr9ZW5X/s1600/israel-palestine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6QkUne7OQrX5dRoUYRaJxw6cSTEK5WxIjRY_LEiXXxsU9gxZ4L8SC2bcNJzc-Hc9gOj0TX6qN-GGbJhDDCpF7ouz21nLMn2zesTjzPJTaYFkPYGUS026ZJwFhHyqTdV0siKnTbAr9ZW5X/s400/israel-palestine.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></span></b></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CONTEMPLATING A SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE IN THE PALESTINIAN POSITION ON A POLITICAL AGREEMENT: POSSIBLE ISRAELI RESPONSES</span></b></span></span></div><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><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";">By Zaki Shalom via INSS Insight </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; 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 prevailing opinion in ISRAEL and among many AMERICAN and PALESTINIAN officials is that chances are slim that the current negotiations will lead to a real breakthrough that will promote a full settlement between ISRAEL and the PALESTINIANS. Yet while the assessment is reasonable, powerful considerations could in fact lead the two parties to decide to make a material change in their positions. This article examines the possibility that a fundamental and perhaps even dramatic change will occur in the familiar PALESTINIAN position, and examines possible responses by the US administration and the Israeli government.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><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";">Read also: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><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";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">JORDAN AND ISRAEL</span> </span></b><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/2013/10/jordan-and-israel.html"><span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/jordan-and-israel.html</span></a></span><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";"></span></div></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";">Far from the eyes of the media and for the most part discreetly, ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN negotiations are underway. The UNITED STATES is apparently present at some of the discussions, serving in a “supervisory” role over the ISRAELI and PALESTINIAN positions. According to information that has not yet been officially confirmed, discussions on the issue of borders will soon begin in the presence of US General John Allen.</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 style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; 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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PALESTINIAN - JORDANIAN CONFEDERATION</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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; 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/2013/01/israel-jordan-and-palestine.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/01/israel-jordan-and-palestine.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TELLING THE UN SIX HOME TRUTHS</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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; 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/2011/09/palestine.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/palestine.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PALESTINE AND PARANOIA - JORDAN, JERUSALEM AND JITTERS</span></b><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";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; 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://jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/palestine-and-paranoia-jordan-jerusalem.html"><span lang="ES-AR" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;">http://jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/palestine-and-paranoia-jordan-jerusalem.html</span></a></span></div></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 prevailing opinion in ISRAEL and among many AMERICAN and PALESTINIAN officials is that chances are slim that the current dialogue will lead to a real breakthrough that will promote a full settlement between ISRAEL and the PALESTINIANs. Gaps between the respective positions are wide, and the mediator – i.e., the UNITED STATES – is seen as lacking sufficient leverage to lead the two sides to modify their positions significantly. Yet while the assessment is reasonable, powerful considerations could in fact lead the two parties to decide to make a material change in their positions. </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";">THE BACKGROUND TO A POSSIBLE CHANGE</span></b></span></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";"> </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="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Several considerations could lead the PALESTINIAN Authority (PA) toward a substantive change in its traditional positions on the issue of a settlement. The first concerns a PALESTINIAN assessment of the US administration’s ability to dictate terms for a settlement that are not acceptable to ISRAEL. During President Obama’s first term it became clear that his administration’s ability to force ISRAEL to act against what it sees as a national interest, namely, continued construction in the settlements, is limited.</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 has also become clear to the PA that the Obama administration is intentionally avoiding linkage between ISRAEL’S positions on the issue of a settlement and bilateral relations with ISRAEL. Furthermore, the PALESTINIAN leadership was disappointed by the administration’s position on upgrading the PALESTINIAN Authority’s status in the UNITED NATIONS, and thus the PA’s apparent hopes that the Obama administration would impose on ISRAEL a settlement favorable to the PALESTINIANS were dashed.</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 style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…..<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">that offer to share the large land was so logical, generous and right, it was literally ‘an offer he couldn’t refuse’--but Arafat did in fact refuse that huge geographical land mass for a homeland. Instead he tried to overthrow the King and take over all of Jordan. </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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read entire article at: <a href="http://specialguests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EFFkkVkuulgKBngPvH&style=PrintFull&tmpl=fullprint">http://specialguests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EFFkkVkuulgKBngPvH&style=PrintFull&tmpl=fullprint</a>and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div></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 ARAB world, likewise perceived as another supporter of the PA in its struggle to obtain a political settlement with ISRAEL, has been shown in recent years to be a fair weather friend. Major Arab countries – e.g., EGYPT, SYRIA – are undergoing powerful and historic upheavals, and their international status has suffered a harsh blow. Other countries, such as SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN, and LEBANON, are contending with serious threats from within and without, and it is doubtful that they have significant ability to help the PALESTINIANS achieve their national goals. In addition, the events in EGYPT have led to a considerable weakening in the standing of Hamas, which was sorely limiting the PA’s political room to maneuver. Under these circumstances the PA might feel freer to adopt more moderate positions.</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";">LIMITED CONCESSIONS BETWEEN THE TWO ARCH FOES<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></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";">In the meantime, construction in the settlements continues, in spite of some restrictions ISRAEL has placed on itself – apparently with some coordination with the US administration – concerning the scope and location of the building. The widespread impression that right wing tendencies among the ISRAELI public are growing and that the left is weakening could lead the PA to conclude that ISRAEL might continue to expand the settlement enterprise in the foreseeable future. The current peace process appears to be a personal whim of US Secretary of State John Kerry and thus far has not earned substantive backing from the President. The crisis over the SYRIAN regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons and the US dealing with the ever evolving situation regarding SYRIA could lead to a PALESTINIAN assessment that President Obama’s standing is weakening and in the coming month’s international attention will be focused on SYRIA. This could push the PALESTINIANS toward a settlement, even a limited one, with ISRAEL.</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; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The obvious conclusion from the PA’s point of view is that it may currently be facing a historic decision of “to be or not to be,” specifically, a final opportunity to fulfill the vision of two states for two peoples.</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;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POSSIBLE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHANGE</span></b></span></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";"> </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="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The PALESTINIANS are not likely to go so far as to adopt positions that are close to those of ISRAEL. However, it is certainly possible that they would adopt positions acceptable to the US that would lead the administration to demand that ISRAEL yield something measurable in exchange. For example, the PALESTINIANS might announce to the US government that they are prepared to pledge – most likely in secret – that the PA will consent to a certain formula that might satisfy the ISRAELI demand that the PA recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and/or an agreement on terminating the conflict, if and when there is agreement on the settlement in its entirety. Or, the PA might agree, under the above conditions, that the right of return would apply mainly to the PALESTINIAN state to be established, on the basis of an understanding that over the years, ISRAEL would be prepared to take in a limited number of PALESTINIAN refugees. Or, the PA might make it clear that it is prepared to consider favorably an agreement on security arrangements proposed by the US military delegation that has been examining this issue with ISRAEL in recent months.</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 style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; 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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What no mains stream media ever reports are the opinion, citizens of other ARAB Nations, and tribes have of the PALESTINIANS. Ask for example SYRIAN, JORDANIAN or LEBANESE citizens,   and they will in most cases comment, that no Sunni ARAB tribe or nation really want PALESTINE Arabs in their country for PALESTINIAS are notorious when it comes to land ownership, for they never are satisfied with what they have. <b>"Thus it’s better to let the ISRAELIS struggle with them instead of us." </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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read entire article at: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/license-to-statehood.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/license-to-statehood.html</a></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="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span><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/2012/11/strategic-fallout-from-gaza.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/11/strategic-fallout-from-gaza.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; 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/2012/11/iron-dome-was-only-real-israeli-winner.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/11/iron-dome-was-only-real-israeli-winner.html</a></span></div></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;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POSSIBLE ISRAELI RESPONSES</span></b></span></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";"> </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="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If in fact the above scenarios materialize, either individually or in some combination, President Obama will likely abandon the quiet passivity he has recently adopted concerning the MIDDLE EAST peace process. He will likely aspire to be intensively involved in achieving a settlement, and the fact that he is now in his second term will give him a freer hand vis-à-vis ISRAEL. There is no doubt that he will want to leave his historical mark as the man who succeeded in bringing about a settlement of the ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN conflict, which was a flagship issue in his first term.</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/AVvXsEh8B5vNZT3bVB-l_lY1Xf7xTNifs3xbKZGe3IGgAnAU89W0U4tImzYZ0_dGqx3Otkl65OEe33yUfx-JBQx0sjh_y3HGYJ8nG_mgKzv6sTow9HABL-fSuGTnb2k9wXKlFqUgEKAKsgQYenth/s1600/Israel-Palestine1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8B5vNZT3bVB-l_lY1Xf7xTNifs3xbKZGe3IGgAnAU89W0U4tImzYZ0_dGqx3Otkl65OEe33yUfx-JBQx0sjh_y3HGYJ8nG_mgKzv6sTow9HABL-fSuGTnb2k9wXKlFqUgEKAKsgQYenth/s320/Israel-Palestine1.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";">Beyond this, the threatening moves made by the EUROPEAN UNION against ISRAEL concerning the ongoing construction in the territories could help the President create an international front to exert heavy pressure on ISRAEL to offer a conciliatory platform in exchange for the more flexible PALESTINIAN position. For example, the administration might demand that ISRAEL present the map of its borders at the opening stage. Another possibility is that the administration demands that ISRAEL agree to hold discussions on the basis of the 1967 lines and the possibility of territorial exchanges.</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";">If – and this is a big "if' – this situation comes about, Prime Minister Netanyahu would face difficult and far-reaching decisions on both the national and the personal levels. In his party, there is a group of ministers and Knesset members with considerable political clout who strongly oppose any concessions to the PA beyond gestures such as releasing additional prisoners and perhaps even freezing construction in the territories for a limited time and in limited areas. If there were a willingness to make further concessions, this would almost certainly lead them to demand that the party institutions be convened immediately for the purpose of making decisions that would restrict the Prime Minister’s room to maneuver. Netanyahu would need to take into account the shocks to his current coalition, although these would be relatively insignificant in terms of the stability of the government, since if the right wing religious party HaBayit HaYehudi were to leave the coalition, this would enable the entry of the moderate Labor party.</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 a personal level, Netanyahu would have to take into account that political moves toward a settlement would seriously damage his credibility. Over the years, he has been extremely critical of prime ministers who sold the public one agenda and implemented an opposing agenda when they reached office. He was elected on the basis of a right wing platform, and it will be difficult for him to explain why he is abandoning these principles. In such circumstances, the prime minister could decide to dissolve the coalition and hold elections, with the agreement as the central issue. If that happened, the elections could be seen as a referendum.</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";">Netanyahu would probably seek to create linkage between his willingness to make concessions to the PALESTINIANS and AMERICAN willingness to continue supplying ISRAEL with high end defense technology and hardware as well as increased - renewed economic cooperation. The Obama administration might consent to this if it believes that by failing to consent to this linkage it could cause the peace process to fail. In such a case, Netanyahu is far more likely to respond positively to the administration’s demands in the PALESTINIAN context.</span></div>

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

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Are your property rights a thing of the past?

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<div class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><script src="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=560&height=345&playList=517954234" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /><br />Hundreds of people's homes have been wrongly ransacked by bank contractors. They are hired by banks to clean out foreclosed homes, but they either break into houses that haven't been foreclosed yet or they just break into the wrong house.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/bank-contractor-lawsuits-safeguard_n_3975574.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a> reported,<br /><blockquote>Every day in neighborhoods across the country, low-paid workers with little oversight or training decide whether to break into someone else's home. </blockquote><blockquote>They are independent contractors working indirectly for banks, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. </blockquote><blockquote>Mortgage agreements give these banks the right to enter abandoned properties, even those that are locked up, to secure them against the ravages of weather and to perform other simple repairs. But the contractors they hire to do this work sometimes force their way into houses and condominiums that are still occupied by their owners, changing out locks and removing what they find inside, including family heirlooms and other valuables.</blockquote>Fortunately, people are fighting back (but they shouldn't have to in the first place):<br /><blockquote>Fed up with what they claim is a serious violation of their property rights -- and sometimes outright theft -- homeowners are fighting back. </blockquote><blockquote>In the past five years, people in 31 states have filed more than 250 lawsuits against the six largest national companies that contract directly with banks to inspect and repair homes in some stage of default or foreclosure, a Huffington Post review of court records found. The majority of these cases have come in the past 18 months.</blockquote>Read the whole thing <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/bank-contractor-lawsuits-safeguard_n_3975574.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

foreclosure Are your property rights a thing of the past?

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Cosmos Creations: baked corn review!

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7xnHt-2dSkU/Uk8JcB_qSVI/AAAAAAAAKCs/q5SSph8JmbI/s1600/13+-+2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7xnHt-2dSkU/Uk8JcB_qSVI/AAAAAAAAKCs/q5SSph8JmbI/s320/13+-+2" width="320" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>What's your favorite food of choice when you go to the movies?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mine is popcorn, there's just something about going to the movies and the taste of the buttery popcorn that I love.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>We all know also that it's not healthy at all because of all the salt in it and it tends to make us thirstier because of the high sodium.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>How they are different from popcorn:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No kernels!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Baked</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Facts:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Non GMO corn</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Gluten free</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No trans fats</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No hulls</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No kernels</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All natural ingredients!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Today I will be reviewing these baked corn snacks from <a href="http://www.cosmoscreations.com/">Cosmos Creations</a> that I was sent for review!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>They are made with all natural ingredients and the best part of all is that they aren't drenched in butter making them healthier alternatives for us movie goers! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Win win!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The flavors I was sent are:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><i>Sea Salt and Butter Flavor:</i></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AVWKCG8kuUg/Uk8JcGki5tI/AAAAAAAAKCg/rcZUxkT0xCE/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AVWKCG8kuUg/Uk8JcGki5tI/AAAAAAAAKCg/rcZUxkT0xCE/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Tastes just like movie themed popcorn without all the oil from the butter! Has a bit of a sweetness to it too I packed some with my lunch and it was fantastic!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><i>Salted Caramel:</i></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Ttp82B0gSo/Uk8JcIL_tZI/AAAAAAAAKCo/4QKh6Rhl1og/s1600/13+-+4" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Ttp82B0gSo/Uk8JcIL_tZI/AAAAAAAAKCo/4QKh6Rhl1og/s320/13+-+4" width="320" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I love caramel flavored corn and can't wait to try this one especially since it's Fall and caramel corn is sweet and perfect for a sweet tooth craving!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><i>Caramel:</i></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOQNaeCmXK0/Uk8JcAW3CUI/AAAAAAAAKCk/9caAzSlGfkw/s1600/13+-+3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOQNaeCmXK0/Uk8JcAW3CUI/AAAAAAAAKCk/9caAzSlGfkw/s320/13+-+3" width="320" /></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Caramel corn has got to be one of the greatest inventions ever made!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><i>Cinnamon Crunch:</i></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p1TcUdlwP20/Uk8OHhyJibI/AAAAAAAAKDE/Hjy7ItRAkPY/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p1TcUdlwP20/Uk8OHhyJibI/AAAAAAAAKDE/Hjy7ItRAkPY/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>I absolutely love the sweet taste of cinnamon on popcorn it's delicious and tastes just like cinnamon toast crunch cereal !</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Links:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Website:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://www.cosmoscreations.com/">http://www.cosmoscreations.com</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Facebook:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CosmosCreations">https://www.facebook.com/CosmosCreations</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Twitter:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://twitter.com/cosmoscreations">https://twitter.com/cosmoscreations</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Instagram:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://instagram.com/cosmoscreations">http://instagram.com/cosmoscreations</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Cosmos Creations: baked corn review!

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Richard II Live From Stratford-Upon-Avon: Cinemas In Australia, Canada, Germany And Ireland Confirmed

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMjkpewdTffK6kVkjqiQ7BF87ZmPGjhYrl6PzdJAWHFMWXf0l8IbrAJA4m0yIIayjYmjDdoxuMrKbgRmUCZL7st1wvDAKMEEWfIwxbFNSkIRp5GmFDWID2YRwQvlsZl8CJqNeFHkib8M/s1600/R2Video4-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMjkpewdTffK6kVkjqiQ7BF87ZmPGjhYrl6PzdJAWHFMWXf0l8IbrAJA4m0yIIayjYmjDdoxuMrKbgRmUCZL7st1wvDAKMEEWfIwxbFNSkIRp5GmFDWID2YRwQvlsZl8CJqNeFHkib8M/s640/R2Video4-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Royal Shakespeare Company have added new locations for the international cinema broadcasts of<i> Richard II </i>starring David Tennant.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to the already known locations in the UK, USA, Malta, Sweden and Russia, the RSC have now added confirmed venues in Australia, Canada, Germany and Ireland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/cinemas-and-tickets/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Visit the RSC Live From Stratford-upon-Avon for more information</b></span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The RSC stress that cinemas are still being added in the UK and around the world, so keep checking back: the list is in no way complete yet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> on 10th October 2013 and will run until 16th November 2013. It will then transfer to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. The production is directed by Gregory Doran and stars David Tennant as King Richard and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be filmed and streamed live into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> cinemas on Wednesday 13th November, and then into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>schools on Friday 15<sup>th</sup> and into cinemas in locations worldwide via broadcasts running until February 2014</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep up to date with all the Richard II news on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Richard II Live From Stratford-Upon-Avon: Cinemas In Australia, Canada, Germany And Ireland Confirmed

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'This Charming Man': What Makes David Tennant So Popular?

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-r-cQTfgXhWfii8ZjWmb1-U0AvuJI8KBrtCZvu6cws5SZfvxBVyooxZT4I9qGcT6DBEn2E2Fk1Y0N3uer6_-lcXnWaT6sC4T8rC4aHGkLZlVIdIiJeVMSG1RJC3_ULIa_CONaBeb2Nk/s1600/Leith1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-r-cQTfgXhWfii8ZjWmb1-U0AvuJI8KBrtCZvu6cws5SZfvxBVyooxZT4I9qGcT6DBEn2E2Fk1Y0N3uer6_-lcXnWaT6sC4T8rC4aHGkLZlVIdIiJeVMSG1RJC3_ULIa_CONaBeb2Nk/s640/Leith1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant is about to return to the stage, will be seen as the Doctor later this year and early next year he will be reprising his role in <i>Broadchurch</i> for an American audience. National weekday paper Metro wanted to know what is it about the actor that makes him so popular. They asked our own blogger Sarah, and this is what she told them:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant's career seems to go from strength to strength with each new role that he undertakes. So what is it that makes him so popular? In my opinion it’s David himself that has led to his huge success as an actor.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His friendly, down to earth approach and staunch work ethic make him popular with his contemporaries and he is often praised by co-stars for being a pleasure to work with. In short he is an exceptionally nice man who happens to be extraordinarily talented and part of his appeal is that he doesn't seem to realise just how talented he is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tennant's handsome good looks obviously appeal to the female audience, but his allure is as much about his personality, his wicked sense of humour and intelligent banter, which shines through in the rare interviews that he gives to the press.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His private life remains just that – private. He doesn't court media attention which is a rarity in these days of OK magazine spreads and reality TV shows. He reminds me of the old school <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place>actors, he has charm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s helped that David effortlessly manoeuvres between the media of television, film, theatre and radio. He has been credited with introducing a whole new audience to the works of William Shakespeare during his time with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he is equally at home meeting up with his fans at Doctor Who conventions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His workload is huge and yet he appears tireless. This year alone we will have seen David in no less than four new TV dramas, including the hugely successful Broadchurch on ITV.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’s also recorded a series of children’s audio books, filmed a new romantic comedy in his native Scotland, is just days away from making his debut as Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and in November we will see his return to the show that made him a household name when he appears as the Tenth Doctor in the eagerly awaited Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The diversity of his work is reflected in his huge fan base where you are as likely to chat to a 15 year old boy who’s a fan of his time as the Doctor as to 55 year old woman who is a fan of his theatre work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it’s not just in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>that David has fans, his fan base is huge and reaches far and wide, with fans across Europe, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>to name just a few territories conquered by Tennant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it’s natural that he has now decided to head for American shores where he will team up with Broadchurch’s creator Chris Chibnall in an attempt to recreate the show’s home success across the <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place>. And I have no doubt that they will.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once, when interviewing Tennant back in 2006, he told me that he ‘never had any great five year plan’ and simply ‘bumbled along’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that just bumbling along has really paid off for this charming man.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/04/from-doctor-who-to-broadchurch-what-makes-david-tennant-so-popular-4134059/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Read the original article here</b></span></a></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div>

David Tennant Metro 'This Charming Man': What Makes David Tennant So Popular?

David Tennant is about to return to the stage, will be seen as the Doctor later this year and early next year he will be reprising his role ...

Hundreds of union workers protest government shutdown

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oPdw5m-v-ygb0vRAVXRx1KfXEEm2GS1zg1ZM3gW-uqrzH_P-J6pJAEVmATbR1ioCaOFUdXcbT2vaIflexHPaEa2OfrXe6ObtlkLQ2RX4NJ3ZvjC6XAJx9hibqH3AqSh63mN3Y10DhJkh/s1600/Furloughed_fed_workers_protest_congress_lockout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oPdw5m-v-ygb0vRAVXRx1KfXEEm2GS1zg1ZM3gW-uqrzH_P-J6pJAEVmATbR1ioCaOFUdXcbT2vaIflexHPaEa2OfrXe6ObtlkLQ2RX4NJ3ZvjC6XAJx9hibqH3AqSh63mN3Y10DhJkh/s400/Furloughed_fed_workers_protest_congress_lockout.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union workers protest shutdown today.</td></tr></tbody></table>Locked-out federal workers <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/10/04/federal-workers-to-rally-against-shutdown-on-capitol-hill/" rel="nofollow">gathered in front of the Capitol</a> in Washington D.C. this morning to protest Republican extremists in Congress who shut down the government. <br /><br />Members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Government_Employees" rel="nofollow">American Federation of Government Employees</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Treasury_Employees_Union" rel="nofollow">National Treasury Employees Union</a> and other unions spoke for thousands of union workers employed by the government, calling the shutdown what it is: a lockout.<br /><br />Led by Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and union leaders, the crowd of workers chanted "Let us work" and "Shut down the shutdown." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the jobs of dedicated public servants should not be held hostage by tea party fanatics:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Two weeks ago a shooting took place not too far from here at the Navy Yard. Hundreds of brave federal police officers responded to stop the carnage and restore security. Today those dedicated officers are not being paid. That's outrageous.</blockquote>Sanders noted the budget that Republican extremists refuse to pass is already a very conservative one. He said there's no reason for them to shut down the government over a budget that is more to the right-wing's liking than anyone else's.<br /><br />As the crowd grew, furloughed federal employees talked about the uncertainty and hardship their families are facing during the shutdown. An aviation safety inspector said he can't do his job to make sure planes are safe to fly. And a worker from <a href="http://goodjobsnation.org/" rel="nofollow">Good Jobs Nation</a> who works at a McDonald's at the Smithsonian described how  the shutdown harms low-wage federal contract workers.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkevrdvH68adkOByYwtb1JyfEOvUlQdxRxATfmprfkzbhmuflhM6s8siwNhUnZGCH-pg0JCI4sE_MVKYnnKQ19nqUkuh7DQvf2Jv7JsqjBy2NF-lNBqnTTOe34O0wNncCiH_Eqfp4YXTN/s1600/Furloughed_fed_workers_protest_lockout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkevrdvH68adkOByYwtb1JyfEOvUlQdxRxATfmprfkzbhmuflhM6s8siwNhUnZGCH-pg0JCI4sE_MVKYnnKQ19nqUkuh7DQvf2Jv7JsqjBy2NF-lNBqnTTOe34O0wNncCiH_Eqfp4YXTN/s200/Furloughed_fed_workers_protest_lockout.jpg" width="185" /></a></div>Workers at the rally said they should get back pay for the days they are furloughed. Some members of Congress have <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/house-and-senate-bills-would-pay-federal-workers-for-shutdown-furloughs/2013/10/03/d2fc8096-2c58-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html" rel="nofollow">proposed legislation</a> to do just that. <br /><br />The pain from the shutdown is not just being felt by government employees. Speakers railed against right-wing lawmakers who put veterans' families and other vulnerable people at risk, just to score political points and to gut a law they don't like.<br /><br />As for Republicans' proposal to reopen some parts of the government with piecemeal funding, workers at the rally said they want all of their coworkers to get back to work, not just some of them. <br /><br />Rep. Ellison said locked out federal workers were prepared to come back and protest every day for as long as extremists in Congress keep holding the government hostage.

Hundreds of union workers protest government shutdown

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Union workers protest shutdown today. Locked-out federal workers gathered in front of the Capitol in Washington D.C. this morning to protes...

Librarian III - Albany Public Library (NY)

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<strong>Librarian III - </strong><strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Albany Public Library</span></strong></strong> (NY). General Statement of Duties: Under the supervision of the  Executive Director this position oversees all operations of three branch  locations. Job Description:  The responsibilities include supervision  of librarians, library assistants and library clerks  throughout  multiple busy urban branch locations listed above. The Head of Branches  is responsible for hiring, mentoring, coaching, training, evaluations,  scheduling, payroll and customer service.  The Head of Branches must  insure library policies and procedures are followed as well as lead by  example.  At times the Head of Branches would also be responsible for  working at the circulation and reference desk as needed.  Other duties  include the development and presentation of library programming and  other duties as assigned. Additional Desired Skills and Abilities:  In  addition to meeting the minimum qualifications for the position, the  ideal candidate should possess excellent communication skills; display  an enthusiastic commitment to customer centered public library service;  embrace the opportunity to work with a diverse customer base;  demonstrate the ability to lead and manage the work of a team; and  exhibit an innovative and creative approach to problem solving.  The  ideal candidate should be able to prioritize, multi-task and have a good  sense of humor. Minimum Qualifications:  Internal candidates must be  currently classified as a Librarian III. Graduation from a registered  college or university accredited by the American Library Association or  registered by the NYS Education Department to grant degrees with a  Master’s Degree* in Library Science, Information Services or equivalent  and three (3) years of paid full-time professional library experience in  a library of recognized standing, one (1) year of which must have been  in an administrative** capacity over a complex operation. *Minimum  qualifications are in accordance with New York State Education  Department Division of Library Development. **Administrative capacity is  defined as spending the entire workweek planning, organizing,  budgeting/allocating funds, staffing and communicating. Special  Requirement: Eligibility and application for a New York State Public  Librarian’s Professional Certificate at the time of appointment.  A  valid NYS Driver’s License is required at the time of appointment and  for the duration of employment. Schedule: Combination of day, evening  and weekend hours. Salary: $54,536.74 annual with a very good benefit  package. Deadline: Review of candidates will begin <span style="color: red;">October 21, 2013</span>. Apply to: Human Resources & Finance Manager, 161 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY  12210, <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:reinhartm@albanypubliclibrary.org" href="mailto:reinhartm@albanypubliclibrary.org">reinhartm@albanypubliclibrary.org</a>.

Librarian III - Albany Public Library (NY)

Librarian III - Albany Public Library (NY). General Statement of Duties: Under the supervision of the Executive Director this position ove...

Richard II Video Production Diary 6: Breastplates, Crowns, Shirts And Hats With The Costume Department

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest video production diary from the Royal Shakespeare Company visits the Costume Department where Alistair McArthur, the Head of Costume, shows the process of making costumes for <i>Richard II</i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alistair explains the process, from first measurements to discussions with designers, to the first stitching and fitting then alterations and the final transfer across to Wardrobe. There's a first glimpse at some of the costumes - breastplates and armour for Bolingbroke and Mowbray and one of the crowns that David Tennant will be wearing as King Richard. Even in the closing days before the production opens, changes are still being made to characters and roles, meaning that the Costume Department are still working flat out</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"They're quite frantic at the moment," concludes Alistair, "But it's all looking good and it's looking on schedule. Just."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the video here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/woA1Ezc1UKI" width="420"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II</i> will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> on 10th October 2013 and will run until 16th November 2013. It will then transfer to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. The production is directed by Gregory Doran and stars David Tennant as King Richard and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be filmed and streamed live into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> cinemas on Wednesday 13th November, and then into cinemas in locations worldwide in broadcasts running until February 2014. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep up to date with all the Richard II news on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

Richard II Video Production Diary 6: Breastplates, Crowns, Shirts And Hats With The Costume Department

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The latest video production diary from the Royal Shakespeare Company visits the Costume Department where Alistair McArthur, the Head of Cost...

Programmer Analyst 2, Integrated Library Technical Services - Yale University Library, New Haven

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<strong>Programmer Analyst 2, Integrated Library Technical Services - </strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Yale University Library</span></strong>,  New Haven. Position Focus: Reporting to the Manager of Digital Library  and Programming Services, the Programmer Analyst plans, develops, tests,  and documents computer programs, applying knowledge of programming  techniques and computer systems. In addition, the programmer analyst  evaluates user requests for new or modified programs to determine  feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current systems,  and computer capabilities. The Programmer Analyst will focus primarily  on evaluation, creation and adoption of software used for ingesting  archival collection materials, finding aids and metadata into a digital  preservation repository based on the Fedora Commons software in support  of a grant funded project to digitize a collection of more than one  million documents and objects covering Dr. Henry Kissinger’s life. This  position has a duration of two and a half years from the date of hire.  Required Education, Skills and Experience: 1. Bachelor’s degree and  three years of experience in analysis and programming of small to medium  scale systems or an equivalent combination of education and experience.  2. Well-developed programming skills; emphasis on code documentation,  code standards, and demonstrated use of available frameworks. 3.  Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills. 4. Proven ability  writing SQL queries using MySQL, Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server;  demonstrated ability in application development with two or more of the  following: C++, Java/J2EE, Ruby, Python and/or C#. 5. Ability to  communicate effectively through both oral and written expression;  excellent customer service skills. 6. Advanced skills in object-oriented  programming. Preferred Education, Skills and Experience: 1. Five or  more years of experience with object-oriented programming. 2. Experience  with front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap, JavaScript, JavaScript  Toolkits such as JQuery and D3, Ajax, and Java/JSP. 3. Experience  working with Archival Collections; understanding of software packages:  Archivists’ Toolkit and/or Archivematica. 4. Demonstrated ability  designing and documenting complex procedures. Library IT: Library IT is a  department of innovative people who provide multiple IT related  services to the Yale Library and the Yale community. The staff supports 8  Enterprise Systems including the integrated library system (ILS). The  department maintains 920 workstations, plus a growing number of mobile  devices. Library IT maintains 856 Terabytes of storage, and hosts  approximately 80 servers, virtual and physical. In addition to  maintaining the library’s computers, webpages, and infrastructure, much  of the work in the department is project based. Library IT projects are  initiated to provide the Yale community with seamless and transparent  access to the library’s rich resources, including physical, electronic,  and digitized materials. Through the development of these projects and  other initiatives, Library IT will provide the Yale community with a  high level of service on par with peer academic institutions. How to  apply:  Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue  until the position is filled.  Applications, consisting of a cover  letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three  professional references should be submitted by applying online at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.yale.edu/jobs" href="http://www.yale.edu/jobs" target="_blank">http://www.yale.edu/jobs</a>.  The STARS requisition ID for this position is 22983BR.  Please be sure  to reference #22983BR in your cover letter. Yale University is an  affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.  Yale values diversity in  its faculty, staff, and students and strongly encourages applications  from women and members of underrepresented minority groups.

Programmer Analyst 2, Integrated Library Technical Services - Yale University Library, New Haven

Programmer Analyst 2, Integrated Library Technical Services - Yale University Library , New Haven. Position Focus: Reporting to the Manager...

Mandisa Last Idol in Top 100 Albums, But Scotty Can Help in Two Weeks!

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJam25e0OU5Y3P0VB4SRB5W_ULuJqzC8I-Xff11oCOh82v5XdFyNH9w8oG1fyFLSS81DOOOMabmLT84zW0Fz_zHKKa4cDxtn2D262kfJ0BXz87F40Ev6piW6LP4ipJnCKA8VS4kq-dYrwB/s1600/bb200-20131004.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJam25e0OU5Y3P0VB4SRB5W_ULuJqzC8I-Xff11oCOh82v5XdFyNH9w8oG1fyFLSS81DOOOMabmLT84zW0Fz_zHKKa4cDxtn2D262kfJ0BXz87F40Ev6piW6LP4ipJnCKA8VS4kq-dYrwB/s400/bb200-20131004.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">green = Mandisa, maroon = Phillip, lt blue = Carrie, dk green = Kelly</td></tr></tbody></table>Another week has passed and now Mandisa's "Overcomer" is the only American Idol album remaining in the <a href="http://www.mjsbigblog.com/billboard-chart-date-101213.htm" target="_blank">BillBoard</a> Top 100 at #92 (falling from #72). The three other Idol winners with albums in the Top 200 were all released in 2012, and now all of them have fallen out of the Top 100. This marks the first week Phillip Phillip's "The World From the Side of the Moon" has fallen out of the Top 100 after 45 weeks, at #117 (from #87 last week), but he is actually <a href="http://www.mjsbigblog.com/phillip-phillips-to-re-release-debut-album-with-new-live-cuts.htm" target="_blank">re-releasing a "special" edition</a> of the album in November with three live tracks, which will also be available as an EP. That should give him a new sales boost in November, at least from his fans. Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" has slipped to #127 for its second trip out of the Top 100 in 74 weeks. And Kelly Clarkson's "Greatest Hits: Chapter One" album hangs in the Top 200 at #171 (from #164 last week.) Frankly I am amazed Kelly's album has lasted on the chart that long since its release back in the Holiday Season of 2012. Having a greatest hits album stay in the Top 200 for two holiday seasons is pretty incredible. I will be interested to see if it can stay in the Top 200 before her new Christmas album, "Wrapped in Red", is released at the end of this month.<br /><br />With all the Idol albums slipping on the charts, the next Idol album is fast approaching, Scotty McCreery's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/See-Tonight-Deluxe-Scotty-McCreery/dp/B00EUUJICM" target="_blank">See You Tonight</a>" in about 10 days. Since his second album was actually a Christmas album, this should be considered his official "sophomore studio" album, and that means we can compare its sales with the other sophomore studio albums from previous winners. First I must sort the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol_alumni_album_sales" target="_blank">list of those albums</a> to see how they stack up:<br /><br />1) Kelly Clarkson "Breakaway" (2004) 6.3M<br />2) Carrie Underwood "Carnival Ride" (2007) 3.3M<br />3) Fantasia Barrino "Fantasia" (2006) 530K<br />4) Ruben Studdard "I Need An Angel" (2004) 483K<br />5) Jordin Sparks "Battlefield" (2009) 177K<br />6) David Cook "This Loud Morning" (2011) 130K<br />7) Taylor Hicks "The Distance" (2009) 52K<br />8) Kris Allen "Thank You Camellia" (2012) 35K<br />9) Lee DeWyze "Frames" (2013) 3K*first week numbers<br /><br />Of the winners second albums, only Kelly and Carrie had huge, platinum hit albums with them, and Fantasia and Ruben also had very strong sales with their sophomore releases. None of the other winners have broken more than 200K with the sales of their second studio albums. (I am disregarding non-winners like Clay Aiken, Daughtry, Kellie Pickler and Jennifer Hudson who all had strong selling second albums.) Frankly, Scotty's holiday collection, "Christmas With Scotty McCreery" sold well enough to be #5 in my above list, which bodes very well for his new collection of much better written material. I am guessing it should sell better than the Christmas album, and being the third October release for Scotty in three years it should comfortably sell well throughout the holiday season, if it is promoted as well (or better) than CWSM or CAD. Since UMG Nashville actually knows Scotty has a good track record selling albums they will likely get behind him and promote him well.

Mandisa Last Idol in Top 100 Albums, But Scotty Can Help in Two Weeks!

green = Mandisa, maroon = Phillip, lt blue = Carrie, dk green = Kelly Another week has passed and now Mandisa's "Overcomer" is...

6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quick weight loss is not for people of huge weight, only for otherwise healthy. Any person seeking to slim down permanently needs to make more of a lifestyle change, and not only seek out quick weight loss diets.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">6 foods for quick weight loss:</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHQ048RzLvRH6T0qTKZS1csXswQXiyrmtC9XkOhrdtd9cngORos4nHC4ybdWY5PRr2_WWQULAmTauqyiuQd4zak1Xhil0oLW65WwrJfqE8csW1517iiqhtEpMn4Ha_v5RgspkT2vWuyw/s1600/6+Best+Foods+for+Quick+Weight+Loss.jpg" title="6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </br><center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center></br><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dark chocolate:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chocolate can slow  down digestion which means you really feel full longer and eat less at  your subsequent meal. Also the antioxidants in the cocoa will keep  anyone healthy.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Apples:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apples are a excellent food to obtain fiber, does not exceed 100 calories. It will keep you full for a while and offer some energy. Should you eat organic apples.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mushrooms:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mushrooms are much lower in calories than beef, so you can change mushrooms for beef in some meals.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Vegetable Soup:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eating vegetable  soup for losing weight is a great way. Vegetable Soup help reduce body  fat, increase the fiber content of the foods you eat and  you will be  likely to eat fewer calories overall. Vegetables soup that help weight  loss include cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, cucumber, lettuce and  spinach..</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eggs:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eggs are a great source of protein, help you to building muscles. Also eggs contain an ingredient that can help to cut down calories consumed during each meal.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Chile Peppers:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eat spicy chile peppers before a meals, help curb your appetite, so you will feel less hungry.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div> <center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center>

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Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #4

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qmNX6BB-iUW-yYDLmM_-5TrNMDH4KRtzD75wFytnQZKI9dfiaq1f50tYG3yBn71cdxPHAXhg_ZyO2TKGhYtxTPHgj3uQ8ggpgpCtbRFJwJE7rU-KMP-sSzjSw0qz5Whc2eI1iQnj-U/s1600/school1.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qmNX6BB-iUW-yYDLmM_-5TrNMDH4KRtzD75wFytnQZKI9dfiaq1f50tYG3yBn71cdxPHAXhg_ZyO2TKGhYtxTPHgj3uQ8ggpgpCtbRFJwJE7rU-KMP-sSzjSw0qz5Whc2eI1iQnj-U/s640/school1.bmp" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> Hello Sarah Jane.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: It's you Doctor. Oh my god, it's you isn’t it? You've regenerated.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Half a dozen times since we last met.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: You look... incredible.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>So do you.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: I got old. What are you doing here?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Well, UFO sightings, school gets record results. I couldn't resist. What about you?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: Same. *</span><em style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">They both laugh.*</em><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> I thought you'd died. I waited for you and you didn't come back, and I thought you must have died.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>I lived. Everyone else died.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: What do you mean?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Everyone died, Sarah.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: I can't believe it's you. *</span><em style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Mickey screams.*</em><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> Okay, now I can. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">School Reunion (2006)</span></span></span>

David Tennant Doctor Who Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Tenth Doctor Quotes Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #4

The Doctor : Hello Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane : It's you Doctor. Oh my god, it's you isn’t it? You've regenerated. The Doctor : Hal...

September scenes along the Blue Ridge Parkway

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwyFVelB1Iaa7Jbu_6vgoAfP9I4PemlOc06aea3XWx_PVgFYiFHy_gT2SQmYv3XoffXxRj4o7ACKGyGOM8A8knNOfMRFmtXRKVUBWpgUTC7oL50VMPVsBKurFKK3_BTJ_S8Hdliej0BRa/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwyFVelB1Iaa7Jbu_6vgoAfP9I4PemlOc06aea3XWx_PVgFYiFHy_gT2SQmYv3XoffXxRj4o7ACKGyGOM8A8knNOfMRFmtXRKVUBWpgUTC7oL50VMPVsBKurFKK3_BTJ_S8Hdliej0BRa/s400/14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The government shutdown has closed all attractions, restaurants, restrooms, and visitor centers along the Blue Ridge Parkway but the roadway itself is still open. Here are some scenes from Monday, the last day before the shutdown, as SWAC Husband and I drove from North Carolina back home to the Shenandoah Valley.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiEOtE-YDgwMxRp2-QtSufTb5rx08ltBmoWQROOX7BlGAi-pUY4CpSxDmKDnRT6lmQH6xMq9mz7TJbqaxoSYmlBDJZTzceJ0JOepjuUc_rfmTUxZYgSxTGc5zgrp12XN2vaN73ARWtspP/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiEOtE-YDgwMxRp2-QtSufTb5rx08ltBmoWQROOX7BlGAi-pUY4CpSxDmKDnRT6lmQH6xMq9mz7TJbqaxoSYmlBDJZTzceJ0JOepjuUc_rfmTUxZYgSxTGc5zgrp12XN2vaN73ARWtspP/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mabry Mill and the restaurant are closed due to the shutdown. We enjoyed visiting with historical interpreters including the blacksmith who had visited the <a href="http://www.frontiermuseum.org/">Frontier Culture Museum</a> in Staunton and was impressed not only with the museum's blacksmith but the entire site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKM3pP6vGVhdqKatqxowMrzzrzY_Rz0yl8mpiu8OuyOc_YwD47nfUgiWsEh64pGS-O0h19ti5sJ-jRb-Qv7k_50g-eRdsWsbkpNLm29O-TSoZvt2SStrFp38tRMnjWvLfooRJcKp51WEp6/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKM3pP6vGVhdqKatqxowMrzzrzY_Rz0yl8mpiu8OuyOc_YwD47nfUgiWsEh64pGS-O0h19ti5sJ-jRb-Qv7k_50g-eRdsWsbkpNLm29O-TSoZvt2SStrFp38tRMnjWvLfooRJcKp51WEp6/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYTPDPiLxImQuGE8hzKzzAfP1be1IAE8fYZ0knWJwU-7MjZw53vyP7hX7ue7d7XFG5ah44Lr0dOSerOs4Z1CyCkBS-S9Uqr2aJ2qYpkUfqH_Ad9XxE2ScOsn4e68P60VlxdupryjE4jBN/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYTPDPiLxImQuGE8hzKzzAfP1be1IAE8fYZ0knWJwU-7MjZw53vyP7hX7ue7d7XFG5ah44Lr0dOSerOs4Z1CyCkBS-S9Uqr2aJ2qYpkUfqH_Ad9XxE2ScOsn4e68P60VlxdupryjE4jBN/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1jut1Z2sc91Hp_yuBEJLuPyvzRlSmJ9LKdMhAZPMg-KV0LBT2Q4h6amSqW4-5Pup-8_0WEbSheb7YGpFyuBMPTSq1Spvay4p28klAggu6kZWFkr4B__gJbq8h9stDUJxCQoXQlwv3coM/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1jut1Z2sc91Hp_yuBEJLuPyvzRlSmJ9LKdMhAZPMg-KV0LBT2Q4h6amSqW4-5Pup-8_0WEbSheb7YGpFyuBMPTSq1Spvay4p28klAggu6kZWFkr4B__gJbq8h9stDUJxCQoXQlwv3coM/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKRX6twfUCLqyqdH8N_DdT2MAfysbwDCfdX6g2jl3MCkGE5ULR3FjmVqCzw6cKIOBUEw-O5r1Ab9queQYIXQNEACOlIs9GUCrQrwqgU7-5ITxo2B5PZd4L32uee0WH5R5VmFZb7y_T-8j/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKRX6twfUCLqyqdH8N_DdT2MAfysbwDCfdX6g2jl3MCkGE5ULR3FjmVqCzw6cKIOBUEw-O5r1Ab9queQYIXQNEACOlIs9GUCrQrwqgU7-5ITxo2B5PZd4L32uee0WH5R5VmFZb7y_T-8j/s400/9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWJWm2qSMk338Jos-E8mwZI-_fApuGqnwSJM2uhL8xzyEa_cPl62jXsIrExrCeedCw8wiGu_Df5xsywW9xq0W-3NYogW0x-vGNJozho3jXrUXVFF2N8jHl_1kbWnKEBeg1BzA8i5Tffkq/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWJWm2qSMk338Jos-E8mwZI-_fApuGqnwSJM2uhL8xzyEa_cPl62jXsIrExrCeedCw8wiGu_Df5xsywW9xq0W-3NYogW0x-vGNJozho3jXrUXVFF2N8jHl_1kbWnKEBeg1BzA8i5Tffkq/s400/13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpXqFjG-BFXA2JkvSpR6p4Xuj3H40pnkg9Ovvih54VL8cQfBTWT-_11boH2ekzgntl-T6bhDKw9KdQuuvCF1nfYLTDZsVuYPjhL0PjIiTXmwHdL2kCSqiXvJntWJeP-9nXDxqULShP6nA/s1600/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpXqFjG-BFXA2JkvSpR6p4Xuj3H40pnkg9Ovvih54VL8cQfBTWT-_11boH2ekzgntl-T6bhDKw9KdQuuvCF1nfYLTDZsVuYPjhL0PjIiTXmwHdL2kCSqiXvJntWJeP-9nXDxqULShP6nA/s400/24.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />September 30, 2013

Blue Ridge Parkway government shutdown Mabry Mill North Carolina Virginia September scenes along the Blue Ridge Parkway

The government shutdown has closed all attractions, restaurants, restrooms, and visitor centers along the Blue Ridge Parkway but the roadway...

LTE: 'Bill Bolling, we need you'

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Letter to the editor in today's <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/pickoftheday/2268636-12/step-up-bill-bolling.html"><i>Roanoke Times</i></a>:<br /><br /><div id="storyDate">Friday, October 4, 2013</div><br />       <div id="storyBody"><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">Bill Bolling, where are you?</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">I know that you have been lieutenant   governor for two terms. You have served with a governor who has moved   Virginia forward. You know what Virginia needs to stay the great   commonwealth that it is.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">We have no choice for governor this November. We need you.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">You said yourself on TV that you should   have run. It is not too late; run as an independent or write-in. </div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">The   people of Virginia don’t even know where the candidates stand on issues.   All we have heard is negative commercials from both sides.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">We need you to led Virginia for the   next four years, so we can be proud of the wonderful state we live in.   And keep Virginia moving forward.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersSigTown">CHARLOTTE CREASY<br />ROANOKE</div></div>

2013 gubernatorial election Bill Bolling Roanoke Times write-in campaign LTE: 'Bill Bolling, we need you'

Letter to the editor in today's Roanoke Times : Friday, October 4, 2013 Bill Bolling, where are you? I know that you have been li...

Today's Teamster News 10.04.13

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<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-across-washington-support-local-grocery-store-workers" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Across Washington Support Local Grocery Store Workers</a>  teamster.org   ...The Joint Council of Teamsters No. 28, which represents more than 50,000 members and their families across Washington, Alaska and Northern Idaho, says it will honor a grocery worker strike if one occurs...<br /><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-north/franklin-park-has-contract-706014/" rel="nofollow">Agreement reached with public works, police talks go on</a>   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   ...Public works and parks employees, who are represented by Teamsters Local 249 in Pittsburgh, have reached a contract with the borough of Franklin Park, Pennsylvania...<br /><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/306815-report-suggests-commercial-waste-management-reform/" rel="nofollow">Report Suggests Commercial Waste Management Reform</a>  Epoch Times   ...“Growing up, jobs in the sanitation industry were good paying jobs with good pension plans. Now the majority of private owners pay very low wages and little in benefits. Many break the most basic health and safety regulations,” said Sean Campbell, a former garbage truck driver and current president of Teamsters Local 813...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/real-wages-down_n_4023869.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">Corporate Profits Are Soaring, But You're Not Feeling It</a>  Huffington Post   ...real wages have declined by nearly seven percent in the past seven years, while, corporate profits have increased by 18.6 percent over the past year...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/democrats-balk-at-obama-s-fast-track-push-on-pacific-trade-talks.html" rel="nofollow">Democrats Balk at Obama’s Fast-Track on Pacific Trade</a>  Bloomberg News   ...Some Democrats in Congress, whose support <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/barack-obama/">Barack Obama</a> needs for trade accords, want to put the brakes on a Pacific-region deal just as the president prepares to meet with leaders of nations drafting the pact... <br /><a href="http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/sorry-charlie-american-made-tuna-claim-questioned" rel="nofollow">Sorry Charlie? American-made tuna claim questioned</a>  manufacture this   ...”Foreign flag vessels, using who knows what gear type, no traceability, canned in Samoa. Hilarious..."<br /><a href="http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=33089&t=FMCSA-Taking-Comments-on-Mexican-Truck-Program-Applicant" rel="nofollow">FMCSA Taking Comments on Mexican Truck Program Applicant</a>  Transport Topics   ...The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is allowing the public to comment on an application by Transportation and Cargo Solutions S de RL de CV to participate in the Mexican cross-border trucking pilot program...<br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/thousands-march-to-mark-anniversary-of-infamous-mexico-city-protest/" rel="nofollow">Thousands march to mark anniversary of infamous Mexico City protest</a>  AFP   ...Protesters clashed with riot police in Mexico City, leaving dozens injured as thousands of people marched to mark the anniversary of the 1968 massacre of students...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/happy-100th-birthday-income-taxes-or-how-rich-have-gamed-system-pay-smaller-share" rel="nofollow">Happy 100th Birthday Income Taxes! Or How the Rich Have Gamed the System to Pay a Smaller Share</a>  AlterNet   ...October 3 marked the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax. That is, the income tax that we have today – the first US tax raised on earned incomes was a temporary one imposed to help pay for the War of 1812. Another helped pay for the Civil War, but was allowed to expire in 1872...<br /><a href="https://theconversation.com/google-and-exxonmobil-run-rings-around-outdated-tax-laws-18845" rel="nofollow">Google and ExxonMobil run rings around outdated tax laws</a>  The Conversation   ... ExxonMobil (has a) ... Spanish subsidiary (that) operated for a while from the same address as its auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Spanish company apparently had one employee on an annual salary of €55,000, but it reported net profits of €9.9 billion for the period 2009 to 2011. The key to this was a strategy designed to take advantage of Spanish laws for attracting foreign investment...<br /><a href="http://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Coal-Use-Falling-Proof-of-Progress-to-Low-Carbon-Future.html" rel="nofollow">Coal Use Falling, Proof of Progress to Low-Carbon Future</a>  Oil Price   ...The vehemence in this pace of growth has led the IEA to project that coal consumption will challenge oil as the top global energy source by 2017. From this point, however, its reign will wane as an increasing emphasis is placed on other more clean-burning fuels...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/government-shutdown-causes-blood-shortages" rel="nofollow">Now the Government Shutdown Is Stopping Blood Drives</a>  Mother Jones   ... in just two days, four federal agency blood drives scheduled by one DC-area health care system have been canceled. The regional Red Cross has had to cancel six others in the Washington region...<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-republican-hardliners-arent-conservatives-theyre-radicals/280217/" rel="nofollow">The Republican Hardliners Aren't Conservatives, They're Radicals</a>  The Atlantic   ...The legislators driving the direction of the GOP aren't interested in smart, limited government. They're aiming to eviscerate even the parts that work well...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/nsa_director_admits_to_misleading_public_on_terror_plots/" rel="nofollow">NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots</a>  Salon   ...The Vermont Democrat then asked the NSA chief to admit that only 13 out of a previously cited 54 cases of foiled plots were genuinely the fruits of the government’s vast dragnet surveillance systems...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/politics/debt-limit-impasse.html?hp&_r=0" rel="nofollow">Treasury Says Mere Prospect of Default May Harm Economy</a>  New York Times   ...The debt-limit impasse could cause credit markets to freeze, the dollar to plummet and interest rates to rise precipitously with catastrophic effects, according to a Treasury Department released Thursday...<br /><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/apple-now-hoards-10us-corporate-cash_961919.html" rel="nofollow">Apple now hoards 10% of US corporate cash</a>  Money Control   ...After the technology sector, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry is the next most cash-flush sector, according to Moodys. Pfizer for example, is sitting on a USD 50 billion cash pile...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bp-wins-appeal-of-spill-claims-ruling/2013/10/02/5009ff70-2bcb-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html" rel="nofollow">BP wins appeal of spill claims ruling</a>  Associated Press   ...A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived BP’s claims that a judge’s interpretation of a settlement over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could force the company to pay billions of dollars for bogus or inflated claims by businesses...<br /><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/02/3666091/florida-prison-healthcare-providers.html" rel="nofollow">Florida prison healthcare providers sued hundreds of times</a>  Miami Herald   ...The Florida Department of Corrections awarded a five-year, $1.2 billion contract to provide medical care for thousands of state prisoners in North and Central Florida to a Tennessee company that was sued 660 times for malpractice in the past five years...<br /><a href="http://www.democracy-tree.com/rtw-battles-michigan-ontario/" rel="nofollow">New RTW Battles in Michigan and Ontario</a>  Democracy Tree   ...Two new right-to-work threats to report: one in Michigan against the non-union, dues-based State Bar of Michigan, and another across the border in Ontario. Michigan attorneys are firing back against the shadowy forces behind RTW. The Koch brothers should be warned: Don’t piss-off 43,600 lawyers...<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/02/basic-services-staggered-in-bankrupt-detroit-/2912231/" rel="nofollow">Detroit residents cope with bankruptcy in daily lives</a>  USA TODAY   ...Here are some far-reaching effects of the city’s lack of operating funds on both its citizens and workers...<br /><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/business/labor_and_unions/20131003_Trade_unions_rail_against_non-union_worksite.html" rel="nofollow">Trade unions rail against non-union worksite</a>  Philadelphia Inquirer   ...Philadelphia Trade unions have taken their dispute with developers Michael and Matthew Pestronk to a new level, producing a sleek documentary that accuses the brothers of safety and health violations at their signature project, the unfinished Goldtex building...

Today's Teamster News 10.04.13

Teamsters Across Washington Support Local Grocery Store Workers teamster.org ...The Joint Council of Teamsters No. 28, which represents ...