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Yemen's 'Death to America' rebels bring calm to northern Yemen
The Houthis, a Shiite rebel group that battled the government in northern Yemen for years, has brought stability and investment to its territory. Its rise could threaten US-Yemen cooperation.
Members of the Shiite rebel al-Houthi group sit while guarding a group meeting in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 16.
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EnlargeBarely a decade ago, the Old City of Saada was tentatively placed on the list to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once an impeccably preserved relic of medieval Arabia, the ancient settlement is now largely in ruins. Centuries-old homes lie wrecked, their mud brick construction crumbling. Bullet holes pock-mark the walls of ancient mosques.?
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For many here, the irreplaceable loss of one of Yemen?s most prominent historical sites exemplifies the senseless destruction wrought upon the region during years of clashes between government forces and the Houthis, a Zaydi Shi?a rebel group that has battled Yemeni troops and allied tribal fighters since 2004.
While a tentative calm has been restored in recent months, the violence continues to cast a pall over this rugged mountain town, which now lies under the effective control of the rebels.?Once forced to operate largely from secluded mountain hideaways, the Houthis? dominance is now unquestionable?in the provincial capital of Saada. The government managed to maintain control of the city throughout the years of fighting, but in the power vacuum that emerged as former President Ali Abdullah Saleh struggled to hold on to power in 2011, the Houthis were able to wrest control from government hands.?
Now signs bearing the group?s slogan, ?God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Damn the Jews, Power to Islam,? pepper the streets alongside tributes to fighters killed during the years of conflict. While government troops continue to man their posts, armed Houthis run checkpoints undisturbed, controlling the vast majority of Saada and parts of adjacent provinces.
Life has seemingly returned to normal now. Markets in the province bustle and newly constructed hotels welcome guests. But the group's bellicose anti-American rhetoric and unrestrained criticism of the US government's policies in Yemen worry Western diplomats. Houthi leaders have sharply criticized members of Yemen's current government for their cooperation with the United States, capitalizing on rising anti-American sentiment in the country.?
"We're not against a relationship based on mutual benefits and respect," says Saleh Habra, the head of the Houthi's political bureau. "But we must reject America's policies, which are meant to create chaos in Yemen and the region."
Many residents expressed enthusiastic approval of Houthi governance, saying the rebels? rule has lead to security and stability. And as the frequent sight of construction attests, some here are confident enough about the current calm to invest, pouring money into infrastructure projects in the impoverished province.
?We?ve seen so many difficult years,? says Abu Ahmed, a businessman in Saada overseeing construction work at his new soap factory. ?But now, Saada is at peace, and we can actually imagine a better future.?
Still, reminders of the past are ever-present. The war resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and bombed out buildings dot both the city of Saada and surrounding villages. Few families here were untouched ? over 20,000 people were killed in the fighting and tens of thousands of Yemenis were displaced. And while Houthi leaders claim overwhelming popular support in Saada, the group?s rise has not been without opposition.
Tensions between the Houthis and local salafis, an austere and chauvinistic branch of Sunni Islam, erupted in months of fierce clashes last fall; a violent confrontation between supporters of the Houthis and backers of a rival Zaydi cleric left one dead earlier this month. Yemeni politicians and tribal leaders have watched the Houthis' rise with trepidation, characterizing them as a destabilizing presence operating against the best interests of the country.
Houthi leaders say they are committed to maintaining the peace. But the group remains heavily armed, appearing ready for any coming confrontation.?
Despite the current break in violence in Saada, friction between the Houthis and numerous local actors ? from Sunni Islamists to political and tribal adversaries who aligned with the government against them ? remain unresolved. ?And while many here optimistically put faith in the current calm, others confided that, as long as the situation stays tense, there?s ample reason to fear that it will be short lived.
Sporadic clashes between supporters and opponents of the Houthis in tribal areas between Saada and Sanaa have left many Yemenis anxious about a resumption of large-scale fighting, which would likely derail Yemen's tenuous post-Saleh transition and throwing much of the nation into chaos.
?There may be peace now,? said Ali al-Quhom, a Houthi representative in Saada, ?but those who fought us in the past still want war.?
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Garlic Shrimp Linguini ? Friday Night Bites | PartyBluPrints.com
Photo credit: Alexandra Mascali
It?s time for Friday Night Bites and tonight it?s our take on a simple scampi.
This light yet filling dish is a perfect ?Friday Night Bite? recipe. Although it takes less than 15 minutes to prepare, this flavorful recipe will make your guests feel special and your family feel full!
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Garlic Shrimp Linguini ? Friday Night Bites
Author:?Elizabeth Mascali
Recipe type:?Main
Cuisine:?Italian
Serves:?4
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- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 2tbsp. unsalted butter
- 5 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1 lb. raw shrimp, peeled and deveined ? tail-off
- 1 lb. linguine
- Parsley (optional garnish)
- Bring large pot of salted water to a boil and prepare linguini al dente according to directions on the package.
- Add olive oil and butter to saut? pan and heat over medium heat, add garlic and saut? until golden brown. Remove garlic from pan and set aside.
- Add shrimp to pan and cook 1-2 minutes/side or until white/opaque.
- Reduce heat to low. Drizzle lemon juice over shrimp and add garlic back to pan.
- When linguini is al dente, use tongs to remove from pot and add to saut? pan. Toss with shrimp mixture. If dish seems a bit dry, add some of the pasta water to saut? pan and toss.
- Garnish with parsley and serve.
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Associate Dean of Student Services Position in Hawaii
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October 25, 2012
Associate Dean of Student Services Position in Hawaii
Associate Dean of Student Services at the William S. Richardson School of Law
Duties and Responsibilities:?
The Associate Dean of Student Services provides leadership and manages all major matters involving student services at the Law School including, but not limited to, student advising and counseling, professional development/career services, student records, registration, and issues of student conduct and safety. The Associate Dean is a member of the senior management team, provides a direct link between students and the faculty and administration, collaborates closely with admissions and financial aid staff, and has possible teaching opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) Degree.
- Strong counseling skills.
- Progressively responsible administrative experience in a law school or other professional school involving student services administration, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of theories, principles, and practices of higher education program administration.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Extensive relevant experience, preferably at least six years in an academic setting or with academic programs.
- Knowledge of personal computers and job related software programs.
- Knowledge of the legal profession and professional school accreditation.
- Knowledge of law school administration.
- Indicia of potential for leadership and creativity in legal education.
- Bar passage.
To Apply:
Submit cover letter indicating how you satisfy the minimum and desirable qualifications, names, contact information (including e-mail address) of at least three professional references and r?sum?.
Electronic submissions to: James Pietsch, Professor of Law jpietsch@hawaii.edu preferred.?
Address:? William S. Richardson School of Law, 2515 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822
Inquiries: James Pietsch; 808-956-6785; jpietsch@hawaii.edu
See http://www.pers.hawaii.edu/wuh/Jobs/NAdvert/15542/1751232/1/postdate/desc
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Friday, October 26, 2012
TransAlta profit up on strong margins, lower costs
(Reuters) - Canadian electricity generator TransAlta Corp
Net earnings attributable to common shareholders rose to C$56 million ($56.4 million), or 24 Canadian cents per share, from C$50 million, or 22 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, earnings were 18 Canadian cents per share.
Revenue for TransAlta, which operates power plants in North America and Australia that run on coal, gas and renewable energy, fell nearly 15 percent to C$538 million.
The company said its results were constrained by a loss in its energy trading business and by lower power prices in the Alberta and Pacific Northwest.
Power prices have sunk to at least 10-year lows in several regions as a result of low natural gas prices.
The company said on Friday it planned to build natural gas-fueled power projects in Canada with U.S.-based energy services provider MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
"The creation of this partnership ... better positions the two companies to pursue significant growth opportunities in Canada," TransAlta CEO Dawn Farrell said in a statement.
Studies show that more than $200 billion of investment in power generation is needed in Canada over the next 20 years, Farrell said.
All development and construction or acquisition of approved projects will be funded equally, TransAlta said.
The company said on Thursday that it would maintain its quarterly dividend of 29 Canadian cents per share.
There had been concerns that the company may cut its dividend after it was forced by a regulator to keep open two generating units that it had planned to shut.
(Reporting by Bhaswati Mukhopadhyay in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/transalta-profit-rises-lower-maintenance-costs-120355361--finance.html
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Samsung Galaxy Ad Is About Dirty Videos - Business Insider
Rather than focusing on Apple-bashing, Samsung's new ad for the Galaxy S III uses an different but equally edgy pitch: the new phone is good for making, and viewing, sex videos, the company suggests.
The ad follows a husband who is leaving for a business trip. To show how easy it is to share videos and other data ? you just rub the back of your phones together ? his tutu-wearing daughters tell him that they made him a video to watch when he's gone. Then his wife bends over to his open taxi window and whispers that she made him a video too, but he "probably shouldn?t watch it on the plane."
And we know what that means! "The next big thing is here."
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Team Cuba for Mexico Games Announced
Team Cuba this summer in Holland. Photo: Erik van Kordelaar
HAVANA TIMES ? The 27-man Cuban baseball team to play five exhibition games in Mexico was announced on Tuesday. The games will be played starting on Thursday with? Victor Mesa managing the islanders.
Pitchers: Alexander Rodr?guez, Freddy Asiel ?lvarez, Ismel Jim?nez, Norberto Gonz?lez, Yoannis Yera, Darien N??ez, Calos Juan Viera, Yander Guevara, Miguel Lahera and F?lix Fuentes.
Catchers: Ariel Pestano y Yosvani Alarc?n
Infielders: Jos? Dariel Abreu Correa, Alexander Malleta, Yordanis Sam?n, Dayan Garc?a, Jos? Miguel Fern?ndez, Yulieski Gourriel, Michel Enr?quez, Lu?s Yander La O, Yordan Manduley and Roberto Carlos Ram?rez.
Outfielders: Frederich Cepeda, Alfredo Despaigne, Guillermo Heredia, Yasmani Tom?s y Ariel S?nchez.
The first three games will take place October 25,26,27 in the city of El Carmen, Nueva Leon against a university squad strengthened by players from the Mexican professional league. On the 28th the Cubans will play against the host Campeche Pirates and on the 30th vs. the Yucat?n Lions.
Depending on their performance in Mexico, Team Cuba could suffer replacements from a pool of 14 other players in training before the upcoming exhibition games in Chinese Taipei (Nov. 12-13), and in Fukuoka and Sapporo, Japan on November 16 and 18..
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Environmental Education for Sustainable Future Towards 21stCentury
We have built a society, which is violent & explosive .We are living in extremely explosive times the world is in confusion and human beings are driven by the power of egocentric behavior. The large scale exploitation of nature, population growth, accelerated development of productive forces, the ever increasing destruction of natural resources for human comfort has lead to depletion and degradation of natural environment bringing in a dangerous ecological imbalance in the man environment system.
The ecological crisis and increasing poverty, hunger and violence are forcing man inevitably to face the realities of the human situation. The whole human life ??? politically, economically, socially, environmentally and even culturally ? appears to be in a state of turmoil and seems to be going through a very grave crisis.
- At this rate what will happen in the next millennium?
Human values (cultural, moral & spiritual values) are eroding at very fast rate resulting in declining the quality of life of the people. At the dawn of the new millennium, what is required most is ???Peace & Sustainability?. Environmental Education for sustainability plays an important role in building peace & harmony and developing nonviolent global sustainable society
According to the 1989 Brundtland Commission Report, sustainability refers to meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
?It encompasses economic, social, institutional and environmental dimensions of society and stresses the ways educational and academic institutions can be adapted to provide a more collaborative and supportive role to enable sustainability.? Thus when we talk about Sustainability, we mean the sustainability of the human race, not the planet, and even more concretely, the sustainability of a civilized and prosperous humanity.
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What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development has been defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report. ?Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
- The concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world?s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
- The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment?s ability to meet present and future needs.?
- The Role of Education in the Pursuit of a Sustainable Future
?Education is a key and vital element in moving sustainability forward???? as per the Report of the UN Secretary General
- Agenda 21(Rio)
- UN Millennium Goals
- Earth Charter
- UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD)
- WSSD (Johannesburg)
- WSSD: Reaffirming the Role of Education :
Education as the foundation of sustainable development was reaffirmed at the WSSD. The Plan of Implementation recognized education as critical for sustainable development in its own right, but also saw education as a key agent for change and a tool for addressing such questions as gender equality, rural development, health care, HIV/AIDS and consumption patterns. The Plan also called for synergy among global initiatives in education, specifically mentioning theDakra Framework for Action on Education for All (EFA) , in which literacy, gender issues, and quality education play central roles and are essential for sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals on universal primary education. Finally, the Plan recommended that the UN General Assembly consider adopting a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development starting in 2005.
- Why Environmental Education?
Education for Sustainable development
?Education for Life
Education through Life
Education throughout Life?- Said Mahatma Gandhi
?Education is a human right. Education is the primary agent of transformation towards sustainable development, increasing people?s capacities to transform their visions for society into reality.?
- Four major thrusts of Education for Sustainable Development?
Chapter 36 of Agenda 21, adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, is devoted to ???Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training?.
It identifies four major thrusts of Education for Sustainable Development:
1. Promotion and Improvement of Basic Education;
2. Reorienting Existing Education at all Levels to Address Sustainable Development;
3. Developing Public Understanding and Awareness of Sustainability;&
4. Training ? Training the workforce with knowledge and skills to perform their work in a sustainable manner
- The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
?Education at all levels can shape the world of tomorrow???? UNESCO. The UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an international recognition of the key role that Education and Communication can play in enabling and enhancing sustainable development efforts, and processes leading towards these. ?Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract ? sustainable development ? and turn it into a reality for all the world?s people.? Kofi Annan, UNSG, 2001
- The Education for Sustainable Development:
Originally perceived as education about sustainability, it is being increasingly recognized, through the influence of Agenda 21 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, as more than the dissemination of knowledge.
- Education at all levels can shape the world of tomorrow, equipping individuals and societies with the skills, perspectives, knowledge and values to live and work in a sustainable manner.
- Education for sustainable development (ESD) is a dynamic concept ?that utilizes all aspects of public awareness, education and training to create or enhance an understanding of the linkages among the issues of sustainable development.
- Education for sustainable development is a vision of education ?that seeks to balance human and economic well-being with cultural traditions and respect for the earth?s natural resources.?
Education teaches people to be better individuals, family members, community members and citizens. Education not only provides scientific and technical skills, it also provides the motivation, justification, and social support for pursuing and applying them. The international community now strongly believes that we need to foster ??? through education ??? the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future.
References:
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
- Education for Sustainable Development http://www.ceeindia.org/esf/esd.asp
- UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development http://www.unesco.org/en/esd/decade-of-esd/
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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