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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Hamas leader ends long exile, visits Gaza Strip
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal ended decades of exile on Friday with a triumphal first ever visit to the Gaza Strip that underscored the Islamist group's growing confidence following its latest conflict with Israel.
After passing through the Egyptian border crossing, Meshaal knelt and touched the ground with his forehead, offering up a prayer of thanks. He was then greeted in the warm December sun by dozens of Palestinian officials from an array of factions.
Thousands of supporters lined the streets, which were decked in green Hamas flags, as he drove through the coastal enclave, boisterous resistance songs blasting from loudspeakers and gun shots ringing out in welcome as his motorcade reached the city.
Meshaal will spend barely 48 hours in the territory and attend a mass rally on Saturday that has been billed as both a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas and a "victory" celebration following the November fighting.
Israel rejects Hamas's assertion that it won the eight-day conflagration, which left 170 Palestinians and six Israelis dead and was ended by an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
Meshaal said his arrival in Gaza was like a rebirth that followed on from his natural birth in the nearby West Bank in 1956 and a second that was his narrow escape in 1997 from an Israeli assassination squad wielding a poisoned needle.
"I pray to God that my fourth birth will come the day we liberate Palestine," he said, clearly moved by his reception, with uniformed police breaking ranks to try and kiss his hand.
"Today is Gaza. Tomorrow will be Ramallah and after that Jerusalem then Haifa and Jaffa," he said. Ramallah is in the West Bank, while the latter cities, which have large Arab populations, are in modern-day Israel.
He later visited the home of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in 2004, as well as that of Ahmed Al-Jaabari, the group's military commander, who was killed in a similar air strike last month.
Hamas denied seeking Israeli guarantees that Meshaal would not be targeted in Gaza and massive security was laid on, with gun-toting, black-masked guards from the Hamas military wing patrolling the streets in open-topped trucks and motorbikes.
"This is the most beautiful day in my life," said 27-year-old policeman, Mohammed Abed. "I kissed him on the head."
Meshaal, 56, had been widely understood not to have set foot in the Palestinian territories since he left his native West Bank with his family aged 11. However in his speech he indicated he had returned there for a visit as a teenager 37 years ago.
UNITY PLEDGE
Hamas has ruled the tiny Gaza Strip and its 1.7 million population since 2007, when it won a brief civil war with its secular rivals Fatah, which still controls the occupied West Bank. Israel had pulled troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005.
The two main Palestinian factions have tried, often with little enthusiasm, to patch up their differences. Meshaal vowed to push for unity which is longed for by ordinary Palestinians.
"This is a promise from the leadership of Hamas. We will press ahead with reconciliation to end divisions and to stand united against the Zionist occupation," he said on Friday.
The Palestinian movement's founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel but its leaders have at times indicated a willingness to negotiate a prolonged truce in return for a withdrawal to the lines established ahead of the 1967 war, when Israel seized East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank.
Hamas continues to say that it will not recognize the Jewish state officially, and it is viewed as a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and most Western governments.
By contrast, the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he wants a permanent peace deal based on 1967 lines. Sidelined during the Gaza fighting, Abbas regained the spotlight last week when he secured de-facto statehood recognition for the Palestinians at the U.N. General Assembly.
Meshaal ran Hamas from exile in Syria from 2004 until January this year when he quit Damascus because of Iranian-backed President Bashar al-Assad's war against Sunni Muslim rebels, whose religion and politics are closer to those of the Palestinians. He now divides his time between Qatar and Cairo.
His abrupt departure from Syria initially weakened his position within Hamas: ties with Damascus and Tehran had made him important, but with those links damaged or broken, rivals based within Gaza had started to assert their authority.
However, he regained the initiative in last month's rocket war with Israel, working closely with Egypt to secure the truce, and although he says he plans to step down soon, few in the Gaza Strip expect him to follow through on that pledge.
In a show of unity, Hamas's Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, stuck close to Meshaal's side throughout the day.
Israeli media have barely mentioned the exile leader's return. Israeli officials say their week of round-the-clock bombing raids in November had not only killed military chief Jaabari, but also severely depleted Hamas's weapons stockpile.
"They can dance in the streets as much as they like, but their leaders know what damage was inflicted," said a senior Israeli official in Jerusalem, who declined to be named.
REGIONAL SHIFTS
However, the conflict clearly boosted Hamas's political standing in the region, winning it the support of Sunni regional powers, such as Qatar, Turkey and Egypt. All dispatched senior delegations to Gaza in a rare and public display of solidarity.
The Arab Spring revolts of the last two years have brought friends of Hamas to power across the Arab world, above all Egypt's new President Mohamed Mursi, whose long-banned Muslim Brotherhood is spiritual mentor to Hamas.
Meshaal is viewed as more moderate than the local Gaza hierarchy and some Israeli analysts believe that for all the tough rhetoric expected in the coming days, he might well be someone with whom Israel can one day do business.
"From Israel's point of view, Khaled Meshaal now plays a more positive role," said Shlomo Brom, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a research institute based just up the coast in Tel Aviv.
The last Palestinian leader to make a triumphal entrance to Gaza was the late Yasser Arafat, who took the same route back from exile in 1994. The mood then was very different, however. Arafat rode in on a wave of optimism after signing an accord with Israel that promised a final peace within five years.
There is no such expectation of a lasting resolution any time soon, with a growing number of Israeli and Palestinian analysts writing the obituary of that two-state solution.
(Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-leader-meshaal-ends-exile-arrives-gaza-strip-111016824.html
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Israelis question too, 'Who wants this war?'
Residents of southern Israel only reluctantly express support for a potential expansion of the conflict in Gaza and express sympathy for the suffering on the other side of the border.
An Israeli woman takes cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern town of Ofakim November 18. Many Israeli residents only reluctantly express support for the expansion of the conflict.
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Just days after Adi Pito married a woman from the town of Kiryat Malachi, he heard that a rocket from Gaza had struck an apartment building there, killing three residents.
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?I was worried about my wife,? says Mr. Pito, who was in a nearby city at the time. ?If you ask me, I think we have to destroy Gaza. I think they are animals, not people,? he says, pulling at his new wedding ring as he stood outside the damaged apartment yesterday. ?It?s the right thing to do.?
But in towns across southern Israel that have been hit by rockets, other residents only reluctantly express support for a potential expansion of Israel?s Pillar of Defense operation and express sympathy for the suffering on the other side of the border, where at least 53 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured since the operation began five days ago.
?When people say, ?Let?s kill them,? I don?t think they really mean to do it,? says Yehudit Bar Hay, a trauma expert at the Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War, known as NATAL. ?It is an angry feeling but ? we don?t want to kill the people of Gaza. We see the mothers and the children, we are sorry for them.?
Even those who are ?very, very injured? from the trauma of living under rocket fire say they don?t want to hurt anybody, adds Ms. Bar Hay, who lives less than a mile from the Gaza border.?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Israel?s military ?is prepared for a significant expansion of its operations,? even as at least 16,000 reservists have been called up for a potential ground invasion. The Defense Ministry has authorized the calling up of as many as 75,000 reservists ? more than six times as many as participated in the 2008-09 Gaza war.
But while some Israelis say war is necessary or inevitable, few are happy about it.?
?Who wants this war? Nobody in Israel,? says Ashdod resident Bebert Avitan, his pink-rimmed glasses hanging from his neck.
Part of the reason for a lack of public pressure may be the effectiveness of Israel?s Iron Dome system, which has kept casualties very low despite a barrage of rockets from Gaza. See today's Monitor story on the Iron Dome system.?
?Hamas apparently has much greater capability than it had in the last war on Gaza,? says Galia Golan, a political scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, but notes that there hasn?t been a parallel uptick in Israeli casualties. ?Because Iron Dome has been relatively successful, there has been less pressure on the government or within the government to launch a ground attack.?
Only three Israelis, all from one building in Kiryat Malachi, have been killed in the recent escalation.
As the evening news shows a picture of a bombed out building, lifelong resident Masodi Sugaker says, ?It?s so sad to see this. To [have to] make everything new after this? Why? Because of Hamas.?
?Hamas exploits their own people, the Palestinians,? says she adds.
Her sister, Hanna Shukrun, adds, ?We don?t want [war],? because there are kids [in Gaza].
But she says, ?Israel can?t just sit here and do nothing?. Our army doesn?t need to wait until they have many weapons.?
(This story was edited after posting to correct the name of Galia Golan from IDC Herzliya. We apologize for the error).
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Friday, December 7, 2012
New Orleans Wedding from Amalie Orrange Photography
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I basically did a jump for joy when I saw this pretty, little gem in my inbox. Not only am I a huge fan of the Crescent city, I just so happen to be heading there in just a few days. There really is no destination like New Orleans, and this colorful wedding proves it over and over again with its fab images from?Amalie Orrange Photography. There?s nothing not to love, from the fun yet formal ceremony to the gold accented reception and it?s all right here for you to enjoy.
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From Amalie Orrange Photography? Amanda and Justin met while living in San Diego while Amanda was working as an events planner and Justin was in the military. They decided to have a beautiful wedding in New Orleans and went all out. This was a weekend wedding party! Amanda wanted a true New Orleans wedding from the brass band, trolley, the classic French croquembouche as their wedding cake and the insanely gorgeous Galvez as their venue. Everything was simple stunning! I am in love with the images and this couple ? the bride smiled from ear to ear all day long.
Wedding Photography: Amalie Orrange Photography / Wedding Venue + Catering: Galvez Restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana / Wedding Planning: Kelley Mitchell / Floral Design: Bee?s Wedding Designs / Officiant: Rev. Charles R. Cross / Wedding Cake: Zoe?s Bakery / Wedding Invitations + Paper Goods: Jenny Lam-Jolley / Brass Band: Salty Dog Brass Band / Band: The New Orleans Suspects / Linens, Candelabras, Cocktail Tables + Rentals: Event Rental / Photo Booth: Big Easy Photobooth / Transportation: Capital City Trolleys / Wedding Dress: Yvonne LaFleur / Hair: Warren English / Makeup: Make Me Up
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Brazil remembers famed architect with vigil, samba
Vera Lucia, wife of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, left, embraces Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes next to the coffin containing the remains of Niemeyer, at the "Palacio da Cidade" or "City Palace", in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Vera Lucia, wife of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, left, embraces Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes next to the coffin containing the remains of Niemeyer, at the "Palacio da Cidade" or "City Palace", in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A woman reacts by the coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, at the "Palacio da Cidade" or "City Palace", in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A woman holds her son by the coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, at the "Palacio da Cidade" or "City Palace", in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
The coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is carried down the ramp of the Planalto presidential palace at the end of a memorial, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? The city where architect Oscar Niemeyer was born 104 years ago was saying goodbye Friday with a public vigil, flowers and yes, samba.
After a viewing in Brasilia, in the presidential palace he himself designed, Niemeyer's body was flown to Rio for a vigil. Men and women filed by his wooden casket covered by a Brazilian flag and three red roses in the City Palace, paying their respects before a private funeral. The traditional samba group "Banda de Ipanema" announced it would play at the interment, since the famed architect was also a patron of the irreverent troupe.
Niemeyer died Wednesday, 10 days before his 105th birthday, of a respiratory infection.
Most of those honoring Niemeyer with a last visit were simply thankful for his contribution: creating an architecture that was quintessentially Brazilian and internationally acclaimed.
"His legacy is great," said Julia Fernandes Souza, 67. "It will be with us forever. I am here to thank him."
Niemeyer's unmistakable designs gave the country's capital, Brasilia, a uniquely Brazilian aesthetic. The architect used concrete as it were something malleable, using it to create great sensuous curves, or letting it flow like water to imbue static structures with a sense of movement. He also designed much of the United Nation's New York complex and countless works in several other nations.
The extent of national and international regard for the man and his work was clear in the words of visitors and in the cascade of flowers and crowns that flanked his casket, including two from the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul. In a nod to Niemeyer's communist militance, Fidel Castro's crown was dedicated to "the unconditional friend of Cuba, Oscar Niemeyer." Raul Castro's was sent to "dear friend Niemeyer." Still a third crown came from Cuba's ambassador in Brazil.
Although Niemeyer is credited with downplaying the transformative power of what he did, saying, "architecture doesn't change anything. It's always on the side of the rich. What's important is believing that life can be better." It was Niemeyer's political stance and outspoken defense of the poor that moved Neuza Saraiva, 70, to join the many lining up to pay their last respects Friday.
"He was a great artist, an extraordinary human being, and a real communist," said Saraiva, who shared his political stance. "I saw in his work the representation of his ideal. Communism is about the people, and what he did, he did for the people."
Just as not everyone loved his unique style ? art critic Robert Hughes once called Brasilia a "utopian horror" ? Niemeyer's politics also earned him sharp criticism, even on the day he died. A columnist for the conservative magazine Veja caused a stir by calling Niemeyer "half-genius, half-idiot," and saying the man thought and wrote "detestable things," and defended "homicidal regimes."
Much of Brazil, however, seemed ready to put aside differences and celebrate with commemorations for the man who once said, "I love life and life loves me. We're an unbearable couple."
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Cape Cod Times: Reporter faked dozens of stories
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Karen Jeffrey fabricated people in some of her stories, the Cape Cod Times says.
By James Eng, NBC News
A Massachusetts daily newspaper apologized to its readers after an internal investigation concluded that a veteran reporter wrote dozens of stories that included people who don?t exist.
The Cape Cod Times said Karen Jeffrey, 59, a writer for the Times since 1981, ?admitted to fabricating people in some of these articles and giving some others false names.?
In a column published Tuesday titled ?An apology to our readers,??Publisher Peter Meyer and Editor Paul Pronovost wrote:
Papers have personalities, and no two are exactly alike, but at the end of the day, facts are facts. And a good newspaper holds nothing more sacred than its role to tell the truth. Always. As fully and as fairly as possible.
This is our guiding principle, so it is with heavy heart that we tell you the Cape Cod Times has broken that trust.
The column said Times editors reviewed Jeffrey?s previous work after questions were raised about a source in a story she wrote last month about a Veterans Day celebration. Editors were unable to find 69 people in 34 of her stories since 1998, when the newspaper began archiving stories electronically.
Jeffrey "no longer works for the Cape Cod Times,? the newspaper said.
Jeffrey could not be reached for comment. A telephone message left Wednesday for a listing under her name was not immediately returned.
Meyer and Pronovost added:
We were able to verify sourcing in many stories written by Jeffrey, mostly police and court news, political stories, and recently a series on returning war veterans. The stories with suspect sourcing were typically lighter fare ? a story on young voters, a story on getting ready for a hurricane, a story on the Red Sox home opener ? where some or all of the people quoted cannot be located.
In a 2011 story about a Fourth of July parade in Cotuit, for example, Jeffrey wrote about a man named Johnson Coggins, described as 88 years old, ?the patriarch of the family? and a longtime Cotuit summer resident. Editors were unable to find that name via searches of public records and the local assessor?s database, Meyer and Pronovost said. They also couldn?t locate five other people featured in the story.
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The newspaper said an investigation of Jeffrey's work began Nov. 12 when a Veterans Day assignment raised questions among editors.?According to the newspaper's account of the investigation, Jeffrey's story began this way:
?CHATHAM ? Ronald Chipman and his family were strolling along Chatham's Main Street when they noticed traffic slowed. A crowd of people gathered at the small rotary ahead.
?Flags, uniforms, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The Chipmans were momentarily puzzled.
?'I looked at my wife. She looked back at me. We had the same guilty thought ? Veterans Day ? and we thought nothing about it except as a long weekend on the Cape until we saw that,' said Chipman, 46, a Boston resident. 'You live in the city and sometimes you forget about things like this ? about things still mattering to people,' he said.?
The editors were unable to find the Chipman family. When asked if she could help locate the family, Jeffrey said she could not because she threw away her notes.
An expanded review of Jeffrey?s previous work turned up ?dozens of additional stories with suspect sources,? the newspaper said.
Editors also spot-checked other reporters? work but turned up no questionable sourcing. ?We are confident this situation was isolated to Jeffrey,? Meyer and Pronovost wrote.
The Cape Cod Times, a daily newspaper based in Hyannis, Mass., that claims daily circulation of 43,000,?serves Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass. It is owned by the?Dow Jones Local Media Group, a subsidiary of?News Corporation.
The newspaper said editors will now spot-check reporters? articles more frequently, choosing stories at random and calling sources to verify they exist. Jeffrey's questionable stories or passages of stories will also be removed from capecodonline.com and will be replaced with a note that explains why they were removed.
Craig Silverman, founder of Regret the Error, a blog on Poynter.org that reports on media errors and corrections, said?Jeffrey is the third "mass fabricator" to be exposed this year:
The first was New Canaan news reporter Paresh Jha,?who fabricated sources and quotes in at least 25 stories, and the second is?a former staff photographer for Sun-Times Media, who?made up names and quotes for photo essays.
Silverman wrote:
Jeffrey?s offenses stand out for their frequency, and for the length of time she got away with it. Fabrication is always scandalous, but it?s all the more outrageous when someone can get away with it for so long. I imagine Jeffrey?s former colleagues are struck by that as well.
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Sony reveals 3.5-inch Xperia E single or dual-SIM Android phone, coming early next year
Sony has just announced the new Xperia E smartphone sporting a 3.5-inch HVGA 320 x 480 display and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (though the specs indicate ICS), available with single or "Xperia Edual" mode SIMs. It's touting the new handset as a way to "stay on top of your data and battery usage," sporting special software that disables WiFi and data traffic when the screen has been asleep for more than a few minutes. With the dual-SIM option, you'll also be able to switch between carriers with a single touch "to stay on the most cost effective plan." It'll come with HD Voice and Walkman xLOUD technology for optimal sound quality, according to Sony, and other specs include a 1GHz processor, wireless DNLA connectivity, a 1500 mAh battery and black, white or pink color options. The Xperia E will launch in Q1 2013, according to the PR, which you can find along with a video right after the break.
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