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July 10 ...
1509, John Calvin, Protestant theologian
1723, Sir William Blackstone, legal scholar
1834, James McNeill Whistler, painter
1871, Marcel Proust, French writer, creator of the 16-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), the lengthy cyclic novel known in English as Remembrance of Things Past (1922-31) and regarded as one of the greatest achievements in world literature.
. . . The importance of Proust’s novel lies not so much in his descriptions of changing French society as in the psychological development of characters and in his philosophical preoccupation with time. As Proust traced the path of his hero from happy childhood through romantic attachment to self-awareness as a writer, he was also concerned with seeking eternal truths in the changing world. He treated time both as a destroyer and as a positive element that can be grasped only by intuitive memory. The sequence of time is perceived in the light of the theories of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, whom Proust admired. Time is in constant flux, moments of the past and the present having equal reality. Proust also boldly explored the depths of the human psyche, subconscious motivations, and the irrationality of human behavior, particularly in relation to love. The work, translated into many languages, established Proust’s reputation throughout the world, and his method of writing, which entailed analyzing his characters’ development in minute detail, had an important influence on 20th-century literature. Another Proust novel, discovered and published after his death, is Jean Santeuil (3 volumes, 1952; trans. 1956).
1943, Arthur Ashe, tennis player
1975, Mary McLeod Bethune, educator
1931, Alice Munro, writer
1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England. This site features biographical information about Lady Jane, whose reign lasted only nine days. She was beheaded the following year for treason.
1892, The violent strike of steelworkers at Carnegie Steel's Homestead works ends when the state militia disperses the strikers. Four days earlier, company guards had shot into the picketers, starting a riot.
1925, The so-called Monkey Trial of teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution begins in Dayton, Tennessee. The trial matches nationally famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
1925, the official news agency of the Soviet Union, TASS, was established.
1951, talks to end the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
1953, Four months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders arrest Lavrenty Beria, his longtime head of security. Beria is executed later that year for treason.
1962, the Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1972, Whitelaw's secret meeting with IRA
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw has been involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London.
Mr Whitelaw broke the news to the House of Commons as he announced that the two week ceasefire in Northern Ireland had come to an end.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/newsid_2499000/2499643.stm
1973, the Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.
1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.
1985, Rainbow Warrior sinks in explosion
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has been blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.
One of the 11 crew members on board has been killed. He has been named as Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereiro, 33.
Two explosions, 60 seconds apart, ripped through the stern at 2345 local time (1245 BST) and the environmentalists' boat sank in four minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/newsid_2499000/2499283.stm
1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.
1999, After playing to a scoreless tie through regulation and overtime, the U.S. women's soccer team defeats China in a shootout, 5 goals to 4, to win their second World Cup.
2000, UK tidal wave of web users
One in four British homes is now using the internet according to figures released by the government.
A new survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that in the first quarter of this year there were six-and-half million households accessing the internet, which is double the total for the same period last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/newsid_2499000/2499333.stm
Missing in Action
1972 GREEN FRANK C. JR. WASKOM TX
July 9 ...
1819, Elias Howe, sewing machine inventor
1856, Nikola Testa, Serbian-born American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. Tesla was one of the great pioneers of the use of alternating current electricity. Alternating current electricity changes in strength cyclically over time and is the type of electricity that power companies supply to homes today (see Electricity: Alternating Currents). Tesla invented the alternating current induction generator, a device that changes mechanical energy into alternating current electricity, and the Tesla coil, a transformer that changes the frequency of alternating current.
1858, Franz Boas, anthropologist
1916, Edward Heath, British prime minister
1937, David Hockney, painter and graphic artist
1956, Tom Hanks, actor
1540, England's King Henry VIII had his six-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
1755, British Gen. Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War.
1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
1816, Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1816: Delegates from colonies in southern South America declare their independence from Spain as the United Provinces of South America, later known as Argentina.
1819, Elias Howe was born on this day in 1819. Howe is credited with inventing the sewing machine, for which he received a patent in 1846. America's Story, from the Library of Congress, details people and events that shaped American history.
1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1850: U.S. president Zachary Taylor dies after an attack of food poisoning five days earlier. He will be succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1900: Queen Victoria of Great Britain gives the royal assent to the Australian Federation Bill, establishing an autonomous Commonwealth of Australia on January 1, 1901.
1924: The Democratic Party convention takes over 100 ballots to nominate a compromise candidate, John W. Davis, a lawyer and former ambassador, for president against incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
1947, the engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1951, President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
1967 American Leonard Bernstein conducts a concert with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate Israel's victory in the Six-Day War.
1973, Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire
Prince Charles has enjoyed the Bahamas' last day as a British colony.
He hosted a formal reception at Government House, Nassau, last night for dignitaries from 52 countries overseeing the end of over 300 years of British sovereignty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498835.stm
1982, a Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
1982, Queen fends off bedroom intruder
A man has broken into Buckingham Palace and spent ten minutes talking to the Queen in her bedroom.
At around 0715 BST Michael Fagan, 31, scaled the walls around the palace and shinned the drain-pipe up to the Queen's private apartments.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498731.stm
1984, Historic York Minster engulfed by flames
A massive fire has devastated large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage.
Shortly after 0200 BST the alarm was raised and 150 fire-fighters from across north Yorkshire spent two hours bringing the blaze under control.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498525.stm
1991, Bank collapse costs taxpayers millions
The closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International has lost about 20 local councils up to £30m in investments.
BCCI was forced to shut its doors by the Bank of England last week amid fraud allegations.
Councillors from Scotland to the south-west of England fear that poll taxes will have to be raised to offset the losses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498975.stm
1992, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton chooses Tennessee senator Al Gore to be his running mate.
2001: Scientists discover why we are here
A Californian University has thrown more light on why the Big Bang works after nearly 40 years of world-wide research.
Most scientists accept that the universe began with the Big Bang and the existence - in equal amounts - of matter and anti-matter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498637.stm
Missing in Action
1967 LEE CHARLES RICHARD SAN DIEGO CA PROB DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 06/03/83
1967 MARTIN EDWARD H. SAVANNAH GA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1971 LILLY CARROLL BAXTER MORGANTOWN WV
1972 KETCHIE SCOTT D. BIRMINGHAM AL
The Moscow Times
A Ton of Explosives Unearthed at Moskva
By Kevin O'Flynn
Staff Writer
Police inspecting the site of the Moskva hotel after workers uncovered boxes of World War II-era explosives Sunday.
Construction workers in central Moscow faced an unpleasant surprise on Sunday when they uncovered more than 1 ton of explosives under what was once the Moskva Hotel, in what appeared to be either a walled-in storage site or preparations for a last-ditch stand during World War II.
Sappers, police and emergency services were called to where the hotel stood on Okhotny Ryad opposite the State Duma on Sunday afternoon after construction workers discovered dozens of boxes filled with explosives while working in the hotel's foundations, a source at the Emergency Services Ministry said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/002.html
U.S. Charges in Adopted Girl's Death
The Associated Press
An adoptive U.S. mother has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old girl.
Peggy Sue Hilt, 33, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, was arrested and charged in her daughter Nina's death in Virginia, where she was visiting relatives.
Hilt called emergency services July 2 to say the girl had stopped breathing. An autopsy showed Nina died from one or more blows to the abdominal area, police said. A court hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/013.html
Putin Warns of Threats to Democratic Societies
By Judith Ingram
The Associated Press
Putin handing off a pen to Jacques Chirac during Friday's signing ceremony.
GLENEAGLES, Scotland -- Terrorists should not be allowed to cause division among world leaders, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, at the end of a Group of Eight summit that was overshadowed by the deadly train and bus bombings in London a day earlier.
Democratic societies are well equipped to tackle terrorism, Putin said. "The main condition, I want to stress this yet again, is not to allow terrorists to creep through the crevices between us and breach our common struggle."
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/016.html
Putin Sets Themes for Russia's G8 Presidency
The Associated Press
GLENEAGLES, Scotland -- President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the Group of Eight would concentrate on energy policy, declining population rates in Europe, the most serious infectious diseases and education when Russia took over the presidency next year.
Putin said that of all the G8 countries, only the United States' population was growing, and that was due to migration.
He said that his G8 colleagues had pledged their help to develop policies that would positively affect Russia's drastic demographic slide. Russia's population -- the largest in Europe -- has been declining steadily since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, with increased poverty, alcoholism, emigration and degradation of the health care system blamed for reducing birth rates and life expectancy.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/015.html
Terror Investigation Grows as London Mourns
By Matt Moore
The Associated Press
LONDON -- Authorities are fearful of more terrorist attacks in Britain until the people behind Thursday's bombings on the capital's transport network are captured, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Sunday as investigators trying to identify the attackers continued to pore over videotapes and photos.
"The fact is the terrorist threat is a real one as we saw so dramatically and awfully on Thursday," Clarke, the Cabinet minister responsible for law and order, told BBC television.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/251.html
North Korea to Resume 6-Party Talks
By George Gedda
The Associated Press
BEIJING -- North Korea said Sunday it was committed to banning nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula, a day after the communist nation agreed to return to the disarmament table after a yearlong boycott.
The announcement came on the same day U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Chinese leaders met to try to resolve the long-running impasse that has spawned concern over the North's nuclear weapons program.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/252.html
Solidarity Can Fight Terror, Secrecy Can't
Editorial
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In his response to the London bombings, President Vladimir Putin strongly urged G8 leaders "not to allow terrorists to creep through the crevices between us and breach our common struggle."
A common struggle against terrorism, however, implies more than unity between leaders; it means that governments must work together with the ordinary citizens that most often bear the brunt of such attacks.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/006.html
Russia's Worst Competitive Advantage
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Last month, when a freight trail derailed in the Tver region, spilling tons of oil, the media portrayed the accident as an environmental disaster of national importance. Yet oil spills are a regular occurrence and a major problem. According to data from Greenpeace, around 5 million to 10 million tons of oil is leaked in accidents similar to the one in Tver every year, more than anywhere else in the world.
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For a country that lives off of black gold, we seem to have little problem throwing plenty of it away. However, it is not fair to chalk this up to good old-fashioned Russian slovenliness. A significant portion of the spills is the fault of foreign companies working in Russia. This summer, a rivulet of $60 per-barrel black liquid was discovered next to the Ryazan oil refinery, which belongs to TNK-BP. This company came into being when BP bought a 50 percent stake in the Tyumen Oil Company in 2003 in a deal worth around $7 billion, an example of the kind of large-scale foreign investment the Russian government is hoping to attract to the country.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/11/009.html
The Miami Herald
Damage reports from Haiti
5 reported dead in Haiti
Updated at 4:30 p.m. July 8.
At least five people were killed in Haiti, according to the Red Cross's initial reports.
In Les Cayes, in southern Haiti, one person died and nine were hurt, said Athanase Ntampuhwe, head of the International Delegation of the Red Cross. At least 50 homes there were damaged.
Four people died when a bridge in Petit Goave was destroyed, he said.
Another person was killed in Grand Anse, according to initial reports. Another 24 people there ''disappeared'' and 10 were hurt, Ntampuhwe said. In that town, a Catholic church tumbled to the ground.
In one remote town near Jeremie, officials had been unable to determine the fate of up to 1,500 families. A helicopter was sent to do flyovers, he said.
''The storm was not really terrible, if you compare with Jeanne last year,'' he said. ``It was manageable and we did not have to panic.''
-- FRANCES ROBLES
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12087965.htm
Damage reports from Jamaica
No deaths reported on the island
Updated at 7 p.m. July 8.
Some 2,500 people were still in shelters Friday evening in Jamaica, where officials were surveying damage to determine a crucial question: How many of those folks can go home?
''That number will go down once the rain stops, because many of those people's homes were just wet, not destroyed,'' said Dr. Barbara Carby, director general of Jamaica's Office of Disaster Management and Emergency Management.
Jamaica's eastern areas of St. Thomas and Portland bore the brunt of the storm. Heavy rains there caused flooding and landslides, cutting off major roadways, she said.
At least 10 homes were destroyed, but no one was killed or hurt, she said.
Airport and seaports are open.
-- FRANCES ROBLES
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12088226.htm
Damage reports from Cuba
CABO CRUZ - News on island traveling slowly
Updated at 8 p.m. July 8.
News of the deaths had yet to reach many Cubans on the island because Dennis wiped out the electricity.
''Everything is absolutely fine here,'' said a woman who lives in central Santiago de Cuba. ``The only thing is we're in the dark, totally isolated. It rained and rained with a lot of wind, and of course I was so scared I was dying. But now everything looks perfect.''
The woman was surprised when she learned of the deaths, stressing that government officials always prepare by evacuating coastal and low-lying areas.-- FRANCES ROBLES
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12088645.htm
Damage reports from the Keys
Locals prepare for storm
The locals who frequent Papa Joe's know each by first names only: Ben. Joe. Winny. Bill. Sparrow. Dennis, they said, would fit right in.
The wooden walls and floors of this Islamorada landmark stood firm, even as the fierce winds and rain from Dennis crashed against the window pains late Friday night. Wasn't fierce enough said owner Patricia Gehrkens. ``You can't even see any white caps on that gulf. We'll be fine.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12087160.htm
Reports from North Florida
PENSACOLA - Okaloosa County residents worn down by storms
Updated at 4:58 p.m. July 10
''"We're tired, already,'' said Dino Villani, director of public safety or battered Okaloosa County east of Pensacola. ``We we're still tired from last year and we're already tired now.''
''"The sheer number and magnitude of storms have taxed our resources financially, physically and emotionally,'' Villani said and it is only the early part of the season.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12096967.htm
`This one has a lot of oomph'
Hurricane Dennis punished Key West throughout the night and rolled its outlying bands through South Florida.
BY JENNIFER BABSON, NICOLE WHITE AND MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@herald.com
KEY WEST - Lights blinked off at 9:59 p.m. and 40,000 people in the Florida Keys fought the storm in the dark. Rain pulsed in horizontal sheets and the cock-a-doodling wild roosters of Key West reclaimed the streets. Wind came in screeching bursts and more was on the way.
The front half of Hurricane Dennis, a mammoth storm that at one point developed 150 mph winds, arrived Friday in the Florida Keys and South Florida. Would it get worse? Would it fail to live up to its advanced billing? The answer lurked just over the horizon early today.
''This is the beginning of a long season,'' said Key West Mayor Jimmy Weekley.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12075530.htm
Core of Hurricane Dennis makes landfall in North Florida
By PHIL LONG, GARY FINEOUT AND MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@herald.com
FORT WALTON BEACH - The viciously powerful core of Hurricane Dennis drilled the North Florida coast between Pensacola and Navarre Beach this afternoon -- the same region assaulted 10 months ago by Hurricane Ivan.
Forecasters said radar observations indicated that landfall came at 3:25 p.m. EDT on Santa Rosa Island, about 20 miles east of Pensacola. Dennis' maximum sustained winds at that moment were between 115 and 120 mph, they said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12100833.htm
Man found electrocuted Sunday in Fort Lauderdale
HERALD STAFF REPORT
Hurricane Dennis did minor damage in South Florida, but it apparently claimed one life early Sunday in Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale police said a man in his 30s was electrocuted overnight on the street, apparently by a downed powerline damaged by hurricane force winds.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12100821.htm
Ry Cooder: The lost world
A neighborhood destroyed by greed 50 years ago comes alive in Ry Cooder's latest CD
BY JORDAN LEVIN
jlevin@herald.com
After chasing history and soul around the world, Ry Cooder has found them in his own backyard.
On Chávez Ravine, the musician best known for producing the Buena Vista Social Club, portrays the destruction of a Los Angeles Chicano neighborhood in the 1950s. It's part elegy to a lost place and time, part angry diatribe against commercial forces that destroy community, part soundtrack to a non-existant movie.
For the past three years, it has consumed the 59-year-old Cooder's life.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12092015.htm
China, Latin America: a dance of two strangers
Most Chinese know little about Latin America, but their country is rapidly expanding trade, investment and diplomatic ties in the region, where knowledge of China is also lacking.
BY TIM JOHNSON
Knight Ridder News Service
BEIJING - On a recent Friday night, as quick salsa rhythms poured out of Beijing's hottest Latin dance venue, owner Zhou Junyi stood at the entrance and swiveled his hips to display his skill at salsa dancing.
He quickly looked embarrassed and gave up.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12097257.htm
Death camp visit shows the worst of humanity
KRAKOW, Poland -- The concentration camp is around the corner from a McDonald's. It is up the hill from a Shell station and next door to an apartment complex.
Plaszow -- that's the name of it -- was immortalized in Schindler's List. Oskar Schindler plucked hundreds of doomed Jews from this place and gave them shelter in his factory. If you saw the movie, you remember the house from which commandant Amon Goeth shot Jews for target practice. It's still here. Standing near it, you can hear the squeal of children in the apartment house playground.
I don't know what I expected a concentration camp to be when I joined 24 other people on this ''interfaith pilgrimage'' to Polish Holocaust sites, but I didn't expect this. I didn't expect the place where human beings were enslaved, tortured and killed to be within sight of a warehouse superstore.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12097258.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Abbas slams approval of Jerusalem barrier route
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS AND JPOST STAFF
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas harshly accused the Jerusalem barrier plans approved by the Israeli government on Sunday and said that the PA would not come to terms with them.
"The approval of the fence route in the Jerusalem region could bring about an end to the relations between the two sides. Such measures will not help serve the peace nor will they serve the security of Israel, which places obstacles on the road to dialogue between the sides," Abbas said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962587527
Israel set to be largest world Jewish community
By BETH ALEXANDER
For the first time in 2000 years, Israel will next year become the largest Jewish community in the world, figures released by a Jewish Agency think tank revealed Sunday.
However, the report issued by The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute predicted that even in 15 years time, the majority of world Jewry will not be living in Israel (at present, about 40% of world Jewry live in Israel while by 2020, 46% will choose Israel as their home).
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962588721
AG Mazuz meets leading settler rabbis
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
In a stormy meeting, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and State Prosecutor Eran Shendar pressed settlement rabbis Sunday evening to temper their followers' activities to avoid bloodshed during the evacuation of 25 settlements this summer.
Mazuz has previously met with a number of settler leaders including the largest settlement organization, the Yesha (Hebrew acronym for Judea Samaria and Gaza) Council) to hammer out a modus vivendi for the withdrawal, slated to begin August 15.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962588835
'Treasury sucking blood of survivors'
By NINA GILBERT
Shinui MK Yosef Lapid accused the Treasury on Sunday of trying to "suck blood" from Holocaust survivors because of its opposition to establishing a government corporation to seek out heirs of unclaimed assets.
A Knesset subcommittee that is to legislate a law to settle the affair of Holocaust-era assets that are held by the state met for the first time on Sunday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962588647
Precision timers cause London blasts
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JPOST STAFF
LONDON
More than 48 hours after the deadly blasts that tore through the London Underground and a double-decker bus on Thursday, bodies remained trapped deep inside a rat-infested subway tunnel and none of the 49 confirmed dead had been identified Saturday night.
Initial investigations show that the three bombs in the Underground exploded almost simultaneously and were made of high explosives, suggesting the material was not homemade and boosting the supposition that the attack was organized by a sophisticated group such as al-Qaida. It was possible the explosives were industrial or military materials bought on the black market, police said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120876249277
Film festival in the forest
By HADASS BEN-ARI
Here's a film festival that's not for those who like to lounge around in a comfortable theater with a large popcorn and a drink. The Greek-style amphitheater in the Ben Shemen forest, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, serves as the setting for under-the-stars summer screenings of Israeli films organized by the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund in cooperation with the Israeli Cinema Fund.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962584077
American congregations donate Torah scrolls to Border Police
By ELANA BROWNSTEIN
Two Torah scrolls will be dedicated in a ceremony at the Western Wall Sunday to kick off an effort to equip each Border Police base in Israel with its own scroll.
The scrolls are being donated by two synagogues in Pennsylvania who were approached by Chaim Veshalom Hatzola, a Jerusalem-based organization, which, in addition to working as a first-response medical team in the event of a terror attack, also responds to the needs of soldiers, including supplying warm clothing and hot meals in the winter. They have recently adopted this project to donate Torah scrolls.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120962586383
Talk to the laity
Add the United Church of Christ to the list of Protestant churches riding the anti-Israel bandwagon.
Following the example of the Presbyterian Church USA, the World Council of Churches, the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church, which have in the past year all suggested divestment from Israel on some level, the UCC on Tuesday adopted two resolutions that set back relations with the Jewish people.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120616709559&p=1006953079865
Tornadoes
Space Coast under tornado watch today
FLORIDA TODAY
The Space Coast is under a tornado watch and a high wind alert today as Hurricane Dennis passes hundreds of miles to the west.
The tornado watch is in effect for 36 Florida counties including Brevard and Indian River until 4 p.m. today.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050709/BREAKINGNEWS/50709001
Gulf Coast-bound Dennis swipes Keys
Landfall expected today; 1.4 million told to evacuate
By Bill Kaczor, Associated Press July 10, 2005
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- With authorities urging her and more than a million others to flee, Melba Turner was weary as she prepared for yet another hurricane that was on a path to smash into the Gulf Coast.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/10/gulf_coast_bound_dennis_swipes_keys/
National Weather Service confirms F-2 tornado
03:44 PM EDT on Friday, July 8, 2005
By 6NEWS Staff
MILLERSVILLE -- Residents in Millersville are picking up the pieces Friday after a tornado tore through town Thursday.
The National Weather Service has ruled that an F-2 tornado (winds from 113-157 mph) touched down in Alexander County around 1:30 p.m.
The tornado touched down just north of the Catawba County line and tracked four miles northeast before lifting up at Millersville Road.
J.N. Daniels was in Charlotte running errands at the time the tornado hit his Alexander County home.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-070805-millersville_tornado.87efc098.html
The Chicago Tribune
Bombings reminder of U.S. vulnerability
Officials worry about possible `sleeper cells'
By Stephen J. Hedges and Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau. Tribune Washington bureau chief Michael Tackett and Tribune national correspondent Cam Simpson contributed to this report
Published July 10, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The deadly terrorist strike on London commuters last week was a reminder of what U.S. authorities have warned since Sept. 11:
Another attack in this country is a near certainty.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507100348jul10,1,7688362.story?coll=chi-news-hed
CTA Brown Line re-opens after bomb threat
Associated Press
Published July 10, 2005, 11:04 AM CDT
Train service was stopped on the Chicago Transit Authority's Brown Line for about an hour Sunday morning after someone called in a bomb threat, authorities said.
A person called 911 at 8:22 a.m. and told an emergency dispatcher that the CTA's Kimball Avenue station would blow up in 12 minutes, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050710cta,1,6843134.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Iraq Suicide Bombings Kill at Least 33
By FRANK GRIFFITHS
Associated Press Writer
Published July 10, 2005, 12:15 PM CDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A man strapped with explosives blew himself up at an Iraqi military recruiting center in Baghdad as suicide bombers attacked three times in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 33 people and breaking a relative lull in violence in recent days.
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Man drowns despite 911 call by Bill Daley
Published July 10, 2005
The city had its first lakefront drowning this year, despite a 911 call from former U.S. Commerce Secretary Bill Daley.
Daley, brother of Mayor Richard Daley, was walking about 6:30 p.m. Thursday just north of Oak Street Beach when he saw the man struggling and called for help on his cell phone, said Tom Kelly, spokesman for JP Morgan Chase, where Daley is an executive.
Daley told emergency officials where he saw the man go under, Kelly said.
The Chicago Park District, which supervises lifeguards, is investigating the incident along with the Chicago Police Department, said parks spokeswoman Jessica Maxey-Faulkner.
A full complement of 16 lifeguards was on duty during the drowning, she said.
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Waves Pound Beaches As Dennis Nears Coast
By DAVID ROYSE
Associated Press Writer
Published July 10, 2005, 11:34 AM CDT
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- Hurricane Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast on Sunday with battering waves and high wind after strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 storm, roaring toward a region still patching up damage from a hurricane 10 months ago.
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Chicago's hope for rain this week pinned on Dennis
Published July 10, 2005
With dangerous killer Hurricane Dennis picking up energy from the warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico, latest forecasts Saturday evening called for a gradual strengthening of the storm with Catagory 4 winds well in excess of 130 m.p.h. a distict possibility when it makes landfall somewhere along the Gulf coast from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana later today. Storm surge waves as it hits could be as high as 12 to 14 feet.
Four to 8" rains should touch the west coast of Florida and spread inland ahead of and with the storm center. Flooding rainfall will probably precede the weakening low as it moves north into the Middle Mississippi and lower Ohio River valleys Monday and Tuesday.
Moisture associated with the remnants of Dennis could make its way as far north as Chicago later Tuesday and Wednesday just as a cool front moves through from the NW, giving NE Illinois its best and probably only chance of rain this coming week.
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Devotion that puts humans to shame
'MARCH OF THE PENGUINS' 3 stars
By Allison Benedikt
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 8, 2005
Luc Jacquet's documentary "March of the Penguins" tells the unfathomable story of the emperor penguin, a species whose breeding cycle puts us mere humans to shame.
Every year, the penguin emerges from its underwater bath to brave the biting wind and bitter cold of Antarctica, waddling and belly-surfing 70 miles, single file in caravan, to the one locale on their blasted continent that can ever so slightly shield them from the harshest conditions. All this so that the female can lay a single egg.
But first she must find her mate. The emperor is a serial monogamist--committed each year to only one lover--and soon after arriving at the breeding ground, the thousands of short-footed, barrel-chested birds pair off, dancing two by two by two, with their long beaks crossing in what narrator Morgan Freeman implies is a kiss.
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"March of the Penguins" Page with Film Clips
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'Penguins' Takes Flight Amid Box-Office Slump
A documentary that cost $8 million beats big-budget releases in ticket sales per screen.
By Elaine Dutka
Times Staff Writer
Published July 6, 2005
Who says there are no success stories in this summer of Hollywood's discontent? A little documentary about migrating penguins, of all things, has emerged as an unlikely star among the high-octane explosions, sexy gunplay and over-the-top special effects now dominating the cineplexes.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-fi-penguins6jul06,1,945398.story?coll=chi-entertainment-front
Lives of cold comfort
"March of the Penguins" details the birds' remarkable quest to survive their Antarctic environment. VIDEO
By Nancy Ramsey
Special to The Times
Published June 26, 2005
A dozen years ago, Luc Jacquet, then a master's student of biology in Lyon, France, answered a classified ad for a "fearless biologist, ready to spend fourteen months at the end of the world."
"I knew nothing about Antarctica or about penguins," says the director of "March of the Penguins," which opened Friday. But after his first stay, Jacquet returned again and again, filming the harsh continent's wildlife and landscape. And it was the penguins that particularly captured his imagination. "I was driven by a desire to tell the story. My stay was very emotional."
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Shuttle/Space Page
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The seven astronauts of the STS-114 crew.
In front are astronauts Eileen M. Collins (right), commander; Wendy B. Lawrence, mission specialist; and James M. Kelly, pilot. In back are astronauts Stephen K. Robinson (left), Andrew S. W. Thomas, Charles J. Camarda, and Soichi Noguchi, all mission specialists. Noguchi represents Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
(NASA)
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Test your knowledge on the shuttle program
Sentinel space editor Michael Cabbage has compiled these 10 questions on the space shuttle program. See how well you do.
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Comprehensive look at Columbia
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STS-1 -- Columbia mission No. 1 (1st shuttle program mission overall)
April 1-14, 1981
Landing site: Edwards AFB, Calif.
Crew: John W. Young (5), Commander; Robert L. Crippen (1), Pilot
Milestone: Shuttle program's first mission
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Illustration of Future Flight Vehicle Options. What will be the best vehicle for NASA and the safety of our astronauts?
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Eileen Collins
Low-key. Persistent. Unflappable. That's what colleagues call the leader of the first shuttle mission since the Columbia tragedy
By Jeremy Manier
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 10, 2005
Just seconds into Eileen Collins' first flight as a space shuttle commander in 1999, an electrical glitch forced her to prepare for a harrowing emergency landing that no shuttle had ever attempted.
Though the shuttle reached orbit safely, Collins' cool response to the trouble-ridden launch helped seal the admiration of colleagues who say it's fitting she will lead the first shuttle mission since 2003, when the Columbia accident killed seven astronauts.
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Hurricane Dennis lashes Florida Keys, threatening Gulf Coast
By Coralie Carlson
The Associated Press
Published July 9, 2005, 10:39 AM CDT
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Hurricane Dennis spared the Florida Keys a direct hit Saturday, but its squalls with strong winds and sheets of rain still knocked out power to tens of thousands in the state, flooded streets and spawned tornadoes as residents hunkered down and rode out the storm.
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'I never saw the tube so quiet'
Commuters tense as mass transit reopens
By Christine Spolar
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published July 9, 2005
LONDON -- By 6 a.m., the brave were on their way.
Fintan Lillis had lived in London only a few months and wasn't quite sure Friday how to maneuver to his office, a Web site design business in downtown London, without riding his usual subway line to Edgware Road. But a day after the worst terrorist attack ever in the city center, the young Irishman was learning, as he said, "to get on with it."
"It was strange," the 22-year-old said at Paddington Station after an unusually quiet 20-minute ride from his home in west London. "You could see people looking around a little bit queasy. . . . But in the end, you just had to do it."
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Chicagoans, visitors pour out support
By Tonya Maxwell
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 9, 2005
With a Stars and Stripes bandana tied around his head, Kenneth Lehman sat at a table draped with the Union Jack on Friday and penned his support for Britain in five words.
"Stand Firm! Never Give Up!" wrote Lehman, who traveled from Cicero to the British Consulate in Chicago. He was one of hundreds of downtown workers, area residents and tourists who visited the Wrigley Building, 400 N. Michigan Ave., to sign the consulate's book of condolences in the aftermath of Thursday's bombings in London.
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Sunday, July 10, 2005
Morniing Papers - continued . . .
Of Interest
London Tube Users To Get Underground Mobile Coverage by 2008
Mike Slocombe
23 March 05
Commuters on London's Tube network could soon be able to bellow out, "I'M ON THE TUBE!" if trials to introduce mobile and wireless Internet connections underground from 2008 get the green light.
London Underground (LU) is planning to install technology that will give commuters mobile phone coverage in the concourse, ticketing areas and platforms of underground Tube stations - but not on trains rumbling through underground tunnels.
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=distribution&id=2042
The Jordan Times
Donor countries agree to finance study for Red Sea-Dead Sea project
By Rami Abdelrahman
AMMAN — The World Bank has launched a process of resource mobilisation for a feasibility study and environmental and social assessment for the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study.
Following meetings between delegations from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority with donor representatives from Europe, Japan and the United States, the bank posted on its website that several donor countries had agreed to fund the $15.5 million study.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/economy/economy1.htm
World recoils in horror after UK attacks
King reiterates Islam rejects violence, terrorism
Agencies
THE WORLD RECOILED in shock on Thursday after bombs tore through London's transport system killing at least 37 people in a coordinated rush hour attack.
Countries in Europe and the United States stepped-up security after the blasts and vowed to hunt down the militants who caused carnage in the capital of Britain, the closest US ally, host to the G-8 rich nations' meeting and EU president. Messages of sympathy and condolences poured in from European and Middle Eastern nations, particularly those whose civilian populations had been targeted by militants, branding the attacks barbaric, repulsive and heinous.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news2.htm
Abbas, Hamas leader meet with Assad
Israeli troops on Thursday fire tear gas on Palestinian protesters at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in Qalqiliya ( AFP photo by Jaafar Ashiyeh)
DAMASCUS (AFP) — Palestinian and Syrian leaders met Thursday with the Damascus-based heads of Palestinian factions, including leading groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in a bid to boost Palestinian efforts to form a national unity government, officials said.
The meeting came days after Hamas rebuffed invitations to join the Palestinian government, which would oversee the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip due to be launched in mid-August. Before the tripartite gathering, Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is on his first visit to Damascus since being elected in January as successor to the late Yasser Arafat, the official news agency SANA reported.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news3.htm
Qureia angers MPs
RAMALLAH (AFP) — Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia incited mounting anger from MPs for failing to address continuing security chaos during a defence of his government's record in parliament on Thursday.
The beleaguered Qureia delivered a speech on his administration's performance at a closed-door session of parliament after 44 of the 83 active MPs, many of them disgruntled former ministers, signed a petition to force him to appear.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news8.htm
Rift between Cairo, Baghdad
By Hamza Hendawi
The Associated Press
CAIRO — Iraq's top terrorist may have achieved something more significant than just scaring away Arab diplomats when he ordered the abduction of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad, and then claimed his killing.
The crisis may have sown the seeds of a rift between Iraq's Shiite-led government and Egypt — an Arab powerhouse whose goodwill Iraq needs. It also underlined the unease that the predominantly Sunni Arab world has held towards political developments in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam, a Sunni.
Arab states have reluctantly lent their support to Iraq's postwar rulers, casting doubt on their independence and expressing worry at the new dominance of the Shiite majority and the Kurds, who combine for 80 per cent of Iraq's estimated 26 million people.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news10.htm
Iran wants to break UN seals to test parts
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to let it break UN seals and test atomic equipment that has been mothballed under an agreement with the EU's three biggest powers, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.
A US official said it appeared Tehran wanted to violate its pledge to suspend all activities linked to the production of enriched-uranium fuel, a technology that can be used in either atomic power plants or weapons.
But the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saeedi, said the move had nothing to do with the suspension of nuclear activities it agreed with France, Britain and Germany, representing the European Union (EU).
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news4.htm
Turkey's Kurdish rebels strain regional politics
By Sibel Utku Bila
Agence France-Presse
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkey's Kurds admire the self-rule their Iraqi cousins enjoy, but the safe haven accorded to Turkish Kurd rebels in northern Iraq fuels Ankara's fears of Kurdish separatism and keeps the region under strain.
With the resurgence of violence in Turkey's southeast by the rebel Kurdish Labour Party (PKK), based in neighbouring Kurdish-held northern Iraq since 1999, Ankara believes the Iraqi Kurds are also accountable.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news5.htm
Islamist leader Turabi blasts new constitution
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Islamist leader Hassan Turabi has launched his fiercest attack to date against Sudan's new interim constitution, due to be signed on Saturday under a north-south peace deal.
Turabi, who was President Omar Bashir's one-time mentor and only freed last week after 15 months in detention over an alleged coup plot, said it was drafted undemocratically.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news6.htm
President leads heavily armed convoy to disputed government seat
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia's transitional president left his northeastern stronghold in a heavily armed convoy on Thursday to secure the central town of Jowhar as the undisputed seat of his homeless government, Somali officials said.
In a bid to gain the upper hand in a bitter conflict with Mogadishu-based warlords who insist the administration base itself in the capital, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed departed his base in Bossaso, Puntland, to join Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi in Jowhar, they said.
During the 1,050-kilometre trip to south, Yusuf will recruit fighters from among local militias to defend against possible attacks from the Mogadishu warlords and protect government supporters when he arrives in Jowhar, they said.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news7.htm
Democracy is acquired
Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh
Several things about democracy, which is centuries old, are all too well known. One is that democracy is a process that happens over time; it cannot be introduced, cannot materialise and cannot start to bear fruit overnight. Another is that different countries or cultures develop different versions of democracy. There is no one version that fits all. A third is that the concept of democracy itself varies from one theorist to another, and from one practitioner to another. And there are many other points.
A well-known fact about democracy in the Kingdom is that it is relatively new. Another is that it is, so far, very promising; several important achievements have been made, though much needs to be done still. Overall, Jordan needs to be congratulated on the steps, mechanisms and structures it has implemented for the purpose of consolidating democracy.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion3.htm
Percentages are an interesting way of measuring growth, but, eight percent of nothing is still nothing. It seems that corruption, even in South Africa is an overwhelming force when poverty has been the state of things. Corruption is laid in greed and a new source of monies. So, where aid primarily came in sacks of wheat people went hungry while wheat became a commodity. Now, with the rest of the world coming to right the wrongs of Africa it is paramount that corruption in government in Africa is scrutinized.
Africa at the G-8 meeting
Jonathan Power
Prime Minister Tony Blair is giving the G-8 summit the same kind of energy he famously gave to the launching of the misconceived war against Iraq. The question is will he be any more able to hit the target accurately than he was in that case?
He has certainly prepared himself better. Instead of relying on fast-written, poorly researched, intelligence reports, he has spent over a year studying Africa as the chairman of his Commission for Africa. Along with mainly African commissioners he presided over a first rate team of economists who came up with well-informed drafts that not only were the most perceptive observations of all the many reports on Africa over the last two decades but were well written to boot. However, that is not enough. I still don't think Blair gets it quite right.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion4.htm
Religion of tolerance
The deplorable bombings that rocked London and the slaying of Egyptian Ambassador-designate in Baghdad Ihab Sherif on Thursday once again highlight the need for world nations to close ranks to fight terrorists wherever they are. In addition, these crimes place an added burden on Muslims all over the globe to join hands to fight such acts committed in the name of Islam, but which more than anything are targeting Islam and all that this tolerant faith represents.
Hours after the four coordinated attacks shocked the British capital, a previously unknown group calling itself the Organisation of Al Qaeda Jihad in Europe claimed responsibility and threatened similar attacks against Italy, Denmark and other “Crusader” states with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to news agencies.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion1.htm
New York Times
Spreading Colo. Fire Prompts Evacuations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 10, 2005
Filed at 5:50 a.m. ET
WETMORE, Colo. (AP) -- Searing heat and dry, gusting wind spread a wildfire across 2,400 acres of southern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of 150 homes as flames crawled along mountain ridges west of Pueblo.
The flames had burned to within 100 yards of Greenwood, and fire crews stood guard over the small community Saturday.
''We could see the trees explode,'' said Bill Mauger, 73, who watched with his wife as the fire climbed ridgelines. ''You could hear crackling and smoke come off the trees. It was like a bomb going off.''
More than 300 firefighters struggled against temperatures in the 90s and erratic winds. By evening, only about five percent of the lightning-sparked blaze had been contained, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Wildfires.html
8 Leaders Hail Steps on Africa and Warming
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 9, 2005
AUCHTERARDER, Scotland, July 8 - Striking tones of optimism and defiance a day after the attacks in London, President Bush and the leaders of seven other big industrial nations concluded a summit meeting here on Friday saying they had made substantial progress in addressing African poverty, global warming and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
London Tube Users To Get Underground Mobile Coverage by 2008
Mike Slocombe
23 March 05
Commuters on London's Tube network could soon be able to bellow out, "I'M ON THE TUBE!" if trials to introduce mobile and wireless Internet connections underground from 2008 get the green light.
London Underground (LU) is planning to install technology that will give commuters mobile phone coverage in the concourse, ticketing areas and platforms of underground Tube stations - but not on trains rumbling through underground tunnels.
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=distribution&id=2042
The Jordan Times
Donor countries agree to finance study for Red Sea-Dead Sea project
By Rami Abdelrahman
AMMAN — The World Bank has launched a process of resource mobilisation for a feasibility study and environmental and social assessment for the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study.
Following meetings between delegations from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority with donor representatives from Europe, Japan and the United States, the bank posted on its website that several donor countries had agreed to fund the $15.5 million study.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/economy/economy1.htm
World recoils in horror after UK attacks
King reiterates Islam rejects violence, terrorism
Agencies
THE WORLD RECOILED in shock on Thursday after bombs tore through London's transport system killing at least 37 people in a coordinated rush hour attack.
Countries in Europe and the United States stepped-up security after the blasts and vowed to hunt down the militants who caused carnage in the capital of Britain, the closest US ally, host to the G-8 rich nations' meeting and EU president. Messages of sympathy and condolences poured in from European and Middle Eastern nations, particularly those whose civilian populations had been targeted by militants, branding the attacks barbaric, repulsive and heinous.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news2.htm
Abbas, Hamas leader meet with Assad
Israeli troops on Thursday fire tear gas on Palestinian protesters at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in Qalqiliya ( AFP photo by Jaafar Ashiyeh)
DAMASCUS (AFP) — Palestinian and Syrian leaders met Thursday with the Damascus-based heads of Palestinian factions, including leading groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in a bid to boost Palestinian efforts to form a national unity government, officials said.
The meeting came days after Hamas rebuffed invitations to join the Palestinian government, which would oversee the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip due to be launched in mid-August. Before the tripartite gathering, Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is on his first visit to Damascus since being elected in January as successor to the late Yasser Arafat, the official news agency SANA reported.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news3.htm
Qureia angers MPs
RAMALLAH (AFP) — Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia incited mounting anger from MPs for failing to address continuing security chaos during a defence of his government's record in parliament on Thursday.
The beleaguered Qureia delivered a speech on his administration's performance at a closed-door session of parliament after 44 of the 83 active MPs, many of them disgruntled former ministers, signed a petition to force him to appear.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news8.htm
Rift between Cairo, Baghdad
By Hamza Hendawi
The Associated Press
CAIRO — Iraq's top terrorist may have achieved something more significant than just scaring away Arab diplomats when he ordered the abduction of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad, and then claimed his killing.
The crisis may have sown the seeds of a rift between Iraq's Shiite-led government and Egypt — an Arab powerhouse whose goodwill Iraq needs. It also underlined the unease that the predominantly Sunni Arab world has held towards political developments in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam, a Sunni.
Arab states have reluctantly lent their support to Iraq's postwar rulers, casting doubt on their independence and expressing worry at the new dominance of the Shiite majority and the Kurds, who combine for 80 per cent of Iraq's estimated 26 million people.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news10.htm
Iran wants to break UN seals to test parts
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to let it break UN seals and test atomic equipment that has been mothballed under an agreement with the EU's three biggest powers, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.
A US official said it appeared Tehran wanted to violate its pledge to suspend all activities linked to the production of enriched-uranium fuel, a technology that can be used in either atomic power plants or weapons.
But the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saeedi, said the move had nothing to do with the suspension of nuclear activities it agreed with France, Britain and Germany, representing the European Union (EU).
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news4.htm
Turkey's Kurdish rebels strain regional politics
By Sibel Utku Bila
Agence France-Presse
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkey's Kurds admire the self-rule their Iraqi cousins enjoy, but the safe haven accorded to Turkish Kurd rebels in northern Iraq fuels Ankara's fears of Kurdish separatism and keeps the region under strain.
With the resurgence of violence in Turkey's southeast by the rebel Kurdish Labour Party (PKK), based in neighbouring Kurdish-held northern Iraq since 1999, Ankara believes the Iraqi Kurds are also accountable.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news5.htm
Islamist leader Turabi blasts new constitution
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Islamist leader Hassan Turabi has launched his fiercest attack to date against Sudan's new interim constitution, due to be signed on Saturday under a north-south peace deal.
Turabi, who was President Omar Bashir's one-time mentor and only freed last week after 15 months in detention over an alleged coup plot, said it was drafted undemocratically.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news6.htm
President leads heavily armed convoy to disputed government seat
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia's transitional president left his northeastern stronghold in a heavily armed convoy on Thursday to secure the central town of Jowhar as the undisputed seat of his homeless government, Somali officials said.
In a bid to gain the upper hand in a bitter conflict with Mogadishu-based warlords who insist the administration base itself in the capital, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed departed his base in Bossaso, Puntland, to join Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi in Jowhar, they said.
During the 1,050-kilometre trip to south, Yusuf will recruit fighters from among local militias to defend against possible attacks from the Mogadishu warlords and protect government supporters when he arrives in Jowhar, they said.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news7.htm
Democracy is acquired
Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh
Several things about democracy, which is centuries old, are all too well known. One is that democracy is a process that happens over time; it cannot be introduced, cannot materialise and cannot start to bear fruit overnight. Another is that different countries or cultures develop different versions of democracy. There is no one version that fits all. A third is that the concept of democracy itself varies from one theorist to another, and from one practitioner to another. And there are many other points.
A well-known fact about democracy in the Kingdom is that it is relatively new. Another is that it is, so far, very promising; several important achievements have been made, though much needs to be done still. Overall, Jordan needs to be congratulated on the steps, mechanisms and structures it has implemented for the purpose of consolidating democracy.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion3.htm
Percentages are an interesting way of measuring growth, but, eight percent of nothing is still nothing. It seems that corruption, even in South Africa is an overwhelming force when poverty has been the state of things. Corruption is laid in greed and a new source of monies. So, where aid primarily came in sacks of wheat people went hungry while wheat became a commodity. Now, with the rest of the world coming to right the wrongs of Africa it is paramount that corruption in government in Africa is scrutinized.
Africa at the G-8 meeting
Jonathan Power
Prime Minister Tony Blair is giving the G-8 summit the same kind of energy he famously gave to the launching of the misconceived war against Iraq. The question is will he be any more able to hit the target accurately than he was in that case?
He has certainly prepared himself better. Instead of relying on fast-written, poorly researched, intelligence reports, he has spent over a year studying Africa as the chairman of his Commission for Africa. Along with mainly African commissioners he presided over a first rate team of economists who came up with well-informed drafts that not only were the most perceptive observations of all the many reports on Africa over the last two decades but were well written to boot. However, that is not enough. I still don't think Blair gets it quite right.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion4.htm
Religion of tolerance
The deplorable bombings that rocked London and the slaying of Egyptian Ambassador-designate in Baghdad Ihab Sherif on Thursday once again highlight the need for world nations to close ranks to fight terrorists wherever they are. In addition, these crimes place an added burden on Muslims all over the globe to join hands to fight such acts committed in the name of Islam, but which more than anything are targeting Islam and all that this tolerant faith represents.
Hours after the four coordinated attacks shocked the British capital, a previously unknown group calling itself the Organisation of Al Qaeda Jihad in Europe claimed responsibility and threatened similar attacks against Italy, Denmark and other “Crusader” states with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to news agencies.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/opinion/opinion1.htm
New York Times
Spreading Colo. Fire Prompts Evacuations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 10, 2005
Filed at 5:50 a.m. ET
WETMORE, Colo. (AP) -- Searing heat and dry, gusting wind spread a wildfire across 2,400 acres of southern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of 150 homes as flames crawled along mountain ridges west of Pueblo.
The flames had burned to within 100 yards of Greenwood, and fire crews stood guard over the small community Saturday.
''We could see the trees explode,'' said Bill Mauger, 73, who watched with his wife as the fire climbed ridgelines. ''You could hear crackling and smoke come off the trees. It was like a bomb going off.''
More than 300 firefighters struggled against temperatures in the 90s and erratic winds. By evening, only about five percent of the lightning-sparked blaze had been contained, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Wildfires.html
8 Leaders Hail Steps on Africa and Warming
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 9, 2005
AUCHTERARDER, Scotland, July 8 - Striking tones of optimism and defiance a day after the attacks in London, President Bush and the leaders of seven other big industrial nations concluded a summit meeting here on Friday saying they had made substantial progress in addressing African poverty, global warming and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/international/europe/09summit.html
Srebrenica 10 Years On: Tormenting Memories
By DAVID ROHDE
Published: July 10, 2005
SREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 9 - A decade ago here in eastern Bosnia, Camila Omanovic tied a rope around an iron pipe in an abandoned factory. She asked God to forgive her and tried to hang herself
Andrew Testa for the New York Times
Camila Omanovic at the grave of her husband at the memorial to those massacred at Srebrenica.
Herman Wouters for The New York Times
Sgt. First Class Theo Lutke.
Days earlier, Bosnian Serb soldiers had overwhelmed 370 poorly armed Dutch peacekeepers protecting Srebrenica, a pocket of 40,000 Bosnian Muslims that had been declared a "safe area" under United Nations protection. In the final and most brutal chapter of four years of ethnic war - and the worst massacre in Europe since World War II - the Serbian forces rounded up and killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. Ms. Omanovic's husband was among them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/international/europe/10bosnia.html?hp
For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: July 10, 2005
LONDON, July 9 - Long before bombings ripped through London on Thursday, Britain had become a breeding ground for hate, fed by a militant version of Islam.
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Mustafa Setmarian Nasar operated in London for years.
For two years, extremists like Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, a 47-year-old Syrian-born cleric, have played to ever-larger crowds, calling for holy war against Britain and exhorting young Muslim men to join the insurgency in Iraq. In a newspaper interview in April 2004, he warned that "a very well-organized" London-based group, Al Qaeda Europe, was "on the verge of launching a big operation" here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/international/europe/10qaeda.html
Education Secretary Backs End to Student-Loan Loophole
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: July 9, 2005
The secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, joined the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, yesterday in asking Congress to close a loophole that lets lenders claim a 9.5 percent government subsidy on certain student loans.
Ms. Spellings called for an end to the practice, which is known as recycling. It allows lenders to use the income from loans that receive the 9.5 percent subsidy to make new loans that then receive the subsidy, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/education/09loans.html
Flora With a Star in Its Corner
J. Emilio Flores For The New York Times
Rene Russo in her garden with native plants including St. Catherine's Lace, far left, and Octopus agave, left.
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Published: July 7, 2005
LOS ANGELES
JUST about everyone in Los Angeles has a cause, but Rene Russo's is a decidedly lonely mission. While many of her Hollywood peers use their celebrity to exalt the hybrid Prius or bash Republicans, she is championing plants that many homeowners are unfamiliar with or, worse, dismiss as weeds.
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Native plants like senecio and aloe, which fill the yard in front of Andree Matton's house in Monrovia, Calif., thrive on less water than grass.
Ms. Russo has become an advocate for the use of California native plants, which she is trying to promote as a low-maintenance panacea for the region's water supply uncertainties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/garden/07russo.html
Hurricane Gains Strength and Bears Down on the Gulf Coast
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: July 10, 2005
Residents in several southeastern states were ordered to evacuate and advised to find shelters while emergency supplies were pre-positioned as Hurricane Dennis strengthened and approached land today. Meteorologists said the storm had escalated and could be a Category 4 when it reaches the Gulf Coast states this afternoon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/national/10cnd-dennis.html?hp
Driving Upstream: A Road Trip With Stops for Salmon
By SAM SIFTON
Published: July 10, 2005
THE idea was to drive a cool car north from Seattle, ripped on strong coffee and the smell of rain, and eat some salmon. The idea was to eat so much salmon, in fact, that driving would become difficult. My wife and I would sit sleepily in summer chill aboard a ferry, our eyes exploring the deep and fast-moving waters of the Strait of Georgia, and digest.
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/travel/10salmon.html
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Roll Over Rove
Loose Lips Sink Ships;
Matt Cooper's Source
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter
By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.
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"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency..."
Person of Interest;
Mystery Thickens in Secret Source Case
After two years, more questions than answers have emerged on who named a CIA agent and the role the White House may have played.
By Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Was it Karl Rove, after all?
Or is President Bush's longtime political advisor getting a bum rap, fueled by wishful thinking of administration critics?
Nearly two years to the day after Robert Novak identified a CIA operative in his syndicated newspaper column, the mystery of who might have leaked the identity of Valerie Plame to Novak and other journalists seems only to be deepening.
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White House stops short of its previous denials of wrongdoing
Is Rove Going Down?
Is Rove Going Down?
By Arianna Huffington / AlterNet
How is it that the second most powerful man in America is about to take a fall and the mainstream media are largely taking a pass? Could it be that the fear of Karl Rove and this White House is so great that not even the biggest of the media big boys are willing to take them on? Does the answer to that one go without saying?
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Don't Cry for Us, Berlusconi
Italy to Start Iraq Troop Pullout in Fall
Associated Press
GLENEAGLES, Scotland - Italy plans to begin withdrawing some of its troops from Iraq in September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday.
Berlusconi, who was a strong supporter of President Bush on Iraq, sent 3,000 troops to the country after the ouster of Saddam Hussein to help rebuild the country. He had previously indicated he hoped a pullout could begin in September.
"We will begin withdrawing 300 men in the month of September," Berlusconi said at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. But he added that the decision was not final and would depend on the security conditions on the ground.
Berlusconi said he had discussed the plan with allies and with the Iraqi government but added "we will have to give confirmation of our intention" on the decision.
But Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said earlier this year that the Italian troops would remain in Iraq until early 2006.
Calls have mounted in Italy from politicians on the right and left for the troops to be brought home.
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London Police Press on With Investigation
Associated Press
As jittery commuters braved the Underground Friday, police continued with investigation and recovery efforts, stressing they were still in the early stages of what promises to be an arduous investigation.
The police press office said the overall death toll from Thursday's four terrorist bombings was 49 but said they have not accounted for all the dead on one subway train deep underground. About 100 wounded were hospitalized overnight.
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Zarqawi: Everywhere and nowhere
By Dahr Jamail / Asia Times
AMMAN, Jordan - A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his al-Qaeda-linked organization in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn't claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various mainstream media outlets). Given that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be based on administration lies and manipulations, I begun to wonder if the vaunted Zarqawi even existed.
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Suicide bombers kill 27 Iraqis in new spate of attacks
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 27 people, mostly young men seeking to join the Iraqi army, were killed in a spate of suicide bombings as the United States and Britain considered a drastic troop reduction in the country.
And radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr announced the launch of a nationwide petition to demand the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
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Suicide bombers kill 27 Iraqis in new spate of attacks
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 27 people, mostly young men seeking to join the Iraqi army, were killed in a spate of suicide bombings as the United States and Britain considered a drastic troop reduction in the country.
And radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr announced the launch of a nationwide petition to demand the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3277
Military to Pay Halliburton Another $5B
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military has agreed to pay a Halliburton subsidiary up to $5 billion for another year of care and feeding of U.S. forces in Iraq, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.
The task order calls for Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., to provide things like food and laundry service, showers, drinking water and other ''quality of life'' services for troops in Iraq, said Linda Theis, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Ill. The job also includes some fuel transport and other services.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3273
THE WAR ON TERROR: PROGRESS?
Four years ago this September, the world changed. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, rose from the rubble of tragedy to boldly lead a war on all those who hated freedom. We were going to smoke them out of their caves.
We invaded Afghanistan, toppled their brutal dictators and set up a provisional government that became an elected government that will celebrate its democracy this fall at the polls.
The war there, however, is not over and was never won. The Taliban launched a spring offensive, heroin sales are booming, non-aligned war lords rule much of the outlying country, and the citizens stuck in between are feeling uneasy.
The #1 Evildoer hasn't been found--nevermind the leader of the Taliban who also vanished. Now Pakistan says Osama might be in Afghanistan. Afghanistan says he might be in Pakistan but wherever he is, he's not in Afghanistan.
Finding this guy is enough to
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Chicago Sun Times
The Weather in Chicago (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
89º
"HAMMOCK TIME"
City workers flock in suburb-like fringes
July 10, 2005
BY SCOTT FORNEK, MARK J. KONKOL AND ART GOLAB Staff Reporters
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At first glance, the modest brick homes framed by neatly kept lawns on a stretch of Sawyer Avenue on the city's Southwest Side are decidedly ordinary.
Look a little closer, though, and a concrete Dalmatian guards a porch, a small brass fire helmet knocker hangs on a door, and an occasional unmarked squad car rests curbside, all hinting at what nearly everyone on this block shares -- a city paycheck.
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Passenger on no-fly list sends plane back to Paris
July 9, 2005
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter
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One day after deadly bombing attacks in London, a person on the federal no-fly list was allowed to board a Chicago-bound Air France flight, forcing the plane to return to Paris about four hours into the flight after officials discovered the passenger's status.
Flight AF050 from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was returned to Paris long before it was near U.S. airspace, and the person on the list was questioned by local authorities, said Lara Uselding, a spokeswoman for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-plane09.html
Suitcase on platform shuts part of Red Line
July 9, 2005
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Staff Reporter
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Parts of the CTA Red Line were shut down and a North Side grocery was evacuated Friday morning after a commuter reported an unattended suitcase on the northbound Berwyn platform.
Although the Chicago Police Bomb & Arson squad found only clothes in the luggage, the incident was a testament to the heightened fear and vigilance against potential terror attacks following London's deadly underground train bombings.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-chireax09.html
Ground Zero bell rung to honor victims
July 9, 2005
BY VERENA DOBNIK
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NEW YORK -- The bell that was a gift to New York from the people of London after the 2001 terrorist attack rang again Friday in a tiny chapel near Ground Zero -- this time with New Yorkers mourning those who died in Britain.
The world's latest terrorism victims were remembered at St. Paul's Chapel, which had served as a sanctuary for rescue workers who prayed, washed and wept there after the World Trade Center attack.
The 5-foot, 650-pound bell, known as the Bell of Hope, was given to New Yorkers on Sept. 11, 2002. It was cast by London's Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which also cast the Liberty Bell and London's Big Ben.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ny09.html
2 charged in death of UIC student
July 10, 2005
Two men from the Chicago suburbs are facing murder charges in the beating death of a University of Illinois at Chicago student, Chicago police said early Sunday.
Officer Patrice Harper of the police news affairs office identified the two as Muaz Haffar, 21, of Burr Ridge, and Mantas Matulis, 20, of Clarendon Hills.
Haffar and Matulis were both charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery, and were scheduled for an appearance in Bond Court later Sunday.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-student10.html
This is due to the cuts across the board in the Federal government. Bush is forcing any and all financial resources including 'Rainy Day' funds into use. Those funds were squirreled away for FRANK emergencies. The Iraq invasion is not an emergency. This is more of the draconian 'attitude' of Bush's administration which began with Don Evans to suck the government at all levels dry. The states and local governments need to put their survival out there to their residents realizing their budgets need increased income from increased taxes with appropriate cutbacks as well if they haven't already. Bush could not be more "W"rong. This administration brags there will be another attack like 9/11; then what to they think they are doing to the reserve funds in government. 9/11 BETTER NOT HAPPEN AGAIN !!
Schools to tap reserves to cover 'bare bones' budget
July 9, 2005
BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter
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Even after reaping $45 million in new property taxes, Chicago Public Schools must dip into cash reserves for the second time in three years because the system plans to spend more money than it will take in, according to a new $5 billion budget unveiled Friday.
One expert said the $20 million drawdown of the system's reserve fund was one of several "troubling'' signs in this year's budget. CPS officials contended it proves Illinois needs to pony up more education dollars statewide.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-skul09.html
Conservatives back woman for court
July 10, 2005
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
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Conservatives are privately urging that President Bush replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with another woman in an effort to disarm feminist opposition.
The principal conservative choice is Appellate Judge Edith Jones, who was considered for the Supreme Court by the first President Bush more than a dozen years ago but is only 56 years old. Judge Edith Clement, Jones' colleague on the 5th Circuit (New Orleans), has a lower profile, could be easier to confirm and would probably be acceptable to conservatives.
Left-wing feminists would oppose confirmation of either Jones or Clement, but their argument against President Bush of gender bias would be undercut.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak10.html
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