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Trails along SB 83?

Hey Everyone,
I was curious if anyone knew about the trails along Southbound 83 side? I happened to notice today on my commute and wouldn't mind checking it out. I would say it extends from the route 30 junction down to the mount rose exit. If anyone from the york area is interested in doing some investigating with me or knows any info, send me a message.

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On Sudden Hill, published on 28th August 2014 by Simon & Schuster, is a new story from from Linda Sarah, illustrated by Benji Davies. It's a story about friendship, childhood and emotion, and accepting someone new.

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The story follows Birt and Etho, best friends that take their cardboard boxes up to Sudden Hill every day and have all sorts of imaginary adventures. But then one day they meet Shu, who has found a big box and the courage to ask if he can play too. Birt isn't quite sure, and it isn't long before he begins to feel left out and then refuses to come out to play any more. But Etho and Shu haven't forgotten about him, and they've been busy making things out of cardboard...

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Conflicts with childhood friendships is something that I would imagine all children have to deal with at some point, if not at several points. Two friends that are close can find it very difficult when a third child appears on the scene. So I think that this is a wonderful book to share with young children. The message is that although just having one friend is great, when you introduce more children you can widen your experiences and have a lot more fun together. It's a lovely book to share with children to help them deal with these issues. It's also a beautiful and simple read, with enchanting illustrations.

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My friend Nanea is breaking up with singlehood, and my girls and I are ready to help. Best friends since UCLA, we throw Nanea a wild bachelorette party weekend in NYC.

My group takes a bite out of the big apple. We shop uptown, dine downtown, theater on Broadway, picnic in Central Park -- good times, good times. Saturday night, we hit a bar in the meat packing district.

The joint is too cool for signage, but not too cool for us. I'm sporting a black lace tube top from Forever 21, and I am rocking that discount couture. Picture me... I look even better. Feeling feisty, I take the tiara intended for the bachelorette and wear it all night. Normal, no? Effective, yes? It's an instant conversation piece.

I'm meeting people. I'm making friends. I am in a zone. I even start a game of truth or dare. I'm the life of the bar.

Local boy Jake buys us a round and brings good conversation. We have one of those long ask-anything, reveal-everything chats reserved for bars in strange cities and freshman year dorms. All of us girls have boys at home, so the chat is for pure flirt's sake. We talk relationships, dating, hook-ups and land on what's our type.

Jake looks our gaggle of girls up and down and says, "For me, the perfect woman would have Shana's top, Nanea's bottom, Angel's lips and Carin's...."

Carin's what? My mind races through the endless possibilities. I've been working hard with my trainer and my little bod is working for me. So he'll totally go with my flat abs and tiny waist. Or maybe he's a curves guy, and is all about my swingin' hips. Oh, but men do dig my long, flowing dark blonde -- OK, fine, highlighted dark blonde -- hair. Hmmm. What is the sexiest part of Carin Davis? There are really too many to just say one. But Jake managed to: "The perfect woman would have Shana's top, Nanea's bottom, angel's lips, and Carin's ... ridiculousness."

My ridiculousness? Whatchu talkin' about, Willis? My ridiculousness? That's crazy talk. He might as well have said I have a good personality and doomed me to wallflower status. My ridiculousness. Ha! I am a very cute girl.

More than cute -- attractive. Yeah ... I'm like a model. That's right. I'm like a 5' 2" supermodel. I'm talking "Deal or No Deal" briefcase-babe hot. And yet you claim my best attribute is my ridiculousness?

Wait. Hold on. You think I'm ridiculous?

"Um, you are wearing an unexplained tiara," Jake points out.

I get it. Bedazzled hair wear is cool for Miss America, but not for me. Well, listen here buddy. There's nothing wrong with a girl having a little sparkle.

So I'm bizarrely outgoing, unusually uninhibited, and have been known to like center stage. A lot. But to say that makes me ridiculous -- that's uncalled for. And for your information, no one uses the term "ridiculousness" anymore, the PC phrase is "normalcy challenged."

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I drunk-dial my boy Scott and recap the night. He seems amused as I describe our social antics, public game play and the cheer I was dared to perform for the bar. Then I tell Scott about Jake's perfect woman. And he laughs, in a way that says Jake may have gotten it right. I am little ridiculous. And that's kinda hot.

Could it be that my looks only complement my true best feature -- my crazy charm? Interesting. Men find my charisma endearing, even magnetic. Anyone can be good looking, but I'm good fun.

Looking for back up on my theory, I poll my male friends and ask: "What makes a woman sexy?" Their answers: confidence, wit, intelligence and large breasts (OK, there's always one).

But maybe Jake and Scott are on to something. I am a confident, energetic, funny, silly, spunky girl and that makes me sexy. For me to think otherwise would be ridiculous.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

The top leadership body of Egypt’s ruling party resigned Saturday, including the president’s son, but the regime appeared to be digging in its heels, calculating that it can ride out street demonstrations and keep President Hosni Mubarak in office.

The ruling party leaders who resigned included the country’s most powerful political figures - and its most unpopular among many Egyptians. The move may have been aimed at convincing protesters in the streets that the regime is sincere in implementing democratic reforms they demand.

Earlier on Saturday, February Al Arabiya television retracted its report that President Hosni Mubarak had resigned as head of Egypt’s ruling party.

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Hatnua’s poor showing also suggested how little of the election was about negotiations with the Palestinians. Livni made much of the issue during the campaign, but it clearly failed to resonate with voters. Hatnua’s six seats equaled the showing of Meretz, the solidly left-wing party. By contrast, Labor, traditionally a promoter of peace talks, barely raised the issue in the campaign. Instead it focused on socioeconomic issues and made significant Knesset gains.

With Election Day over, the coalition building begins: To win another term as prime minister, Netanyahu now must cobble together an alliance of at least 61 Knesset members to form Israel’s next government. Who he chooses – and who agrees to join him – will determine a great deal about the course charted in the years to come by the Israeli government.

ELECTION RESULTS (according to exit polling):
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Yesh Atid: 18
Labor: 17
Shas: 13
Jewish Home: 12
Meretz: 6
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Kadima: 0

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    Bibi is not in any weaker of a position than he was in 2009. People seem to be forgetting that even though the right-wing won 65 seats in 2009, the NU (which had 4 seats) patently refused to sit in any government with him so it was more accurate to say that he had 61 useable right wing votes in 2009. He had to add a non-right party. Otzma and Am Shallem cost the right 2-3 seats but Otzma wouldn't have joined anyway. The dream of a 70 seat right/religious bloc is just that; it would require relatively low turnout on the left/Arabs and no tiny parties not meeting the threshold but wasting votes. Putting Lapid into the coalition will probably be less of a nightmare than being extorted by Ehud's Barak breakaway Labor faction or Maofaz's Kadima. There are still 250,000 votes from the IDF, prisons or hospitals which might slightly change the seat composition; then again I have no idea if IDF soldiers vote left, right or mixed.

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In 2009, Tamar, located approximately 80 kilometers off the coast of Haifa, was the world’s largest natural gas discovery, endowing Israel with over 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.  The confetti had barely settled when Leviathan, 40 kilometers farther offshore, shocked the nation and the world with a payload double that of Tamar, and the esteemed honor of being the largest offshore natural gas discovery in the world in over ten years, and totally a grandiose 700 billion cubic metres (24.7 trillion cubic feet).

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“Keep in mind that Russia has 70 times more gas than we do,” Druz said. “They’re buying our gas to control it. They don’t want anyone to interfere with their political and economic power.”

Despite the new relationship, British Petroleum  (BP) told Reuters on July 25 that it had beaten Russian gas monopoly Gazprom on a bid to provide Israel with liquefied natural gas (LNS).  BP will make two LNG deliveries a month starting December 1 for six months, with an option to make six more deliveries.

Considerable pressure has been placed on the prime minister to allow a greater percentage of Israel’s gas to be exported.  “You’ve got Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz saying the more gas we sell, the more tax revenue we collect.  Then there are those who say it will strengthen relations with Russia, warm up Turkey, and bring us closer to Cyprus, not to mention setting Arab countries back on their heels,” Druz said.  Loudest of all are the Tamar and Leviathan partners, who stand to make serious profits.

According to a report in Globes online business magazine, the prime minister has been convinced that an increase in the options for natural gas exports is a good idea.  Globes reported’ that representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Finance are pushing for the gas export policy to be as flexible as possible, and believe exports will positively impact Israel’s relationship with China and other Asian countries.

There is also excitement over a new agreement between Israel and Cyprus to lay a pipeline connecting the two countries and Europe.  The Cypriot Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism submitted the plan for the Trans-Med Pipeline which will lay 1,400 kilometers of pipeline to connect the two countries to the network in Greece – to the European Commission. If approved, the pipeline is expected to be operational by 2018.

In the meantime, the public is silent on the matter of Israel’s energy independence.  “In the US, energy is a big part of each major party’s platform.  In Israel, I don’t know if there’s any party that has anything about energy in its platform at all,” Druz said.  “The Israeli public and the political establishment have never even imagined that Israel had the potential for any kind of energy independence, and two years ago they’re all of a sudden surprised by it, so the public and the political establishment have not caught up, and there’s no one to protect and preserve our energy for the next 40 years, it’s being sold off as quickly as possible to Russia.”

“To me it’s the equivalent of someone winning the lottery and they get it all up front, and they go and do something really harmful to themselves…. They got in with the wrong crowd …and all these bad things materialized because they had all this freedom. There are no grownups who are putting the interest of Israel above the short term financial interests.”

While Israel’s interests include profits from higher tax revenues, they also include the possession of natural gas.

“Israel Electric pays about $5.5 for each million BTUS of gas, anyway – if they sell to Israel, they’ll still make over 100% profit margin and instead of the gas lasting 20 years, it will last 40 years, and Israel won’t have to pay to liquefy, ship, or protect it,”  Druz said.

There are also Israel’s immediate needs. Earlier this month, Israel Electric Corp called on citizens to conserve power to help avert blackouts this summer due to fears that a heat wave will coincide with a natural gas shortage.

Though the problems would likely be short-term and not seriously detrimental to the economy, they would likely cause periods of discomfort throughout the country.

Amit Mor, CEO of Eco Energy, an Israeli strategic and financial consulting firm for the energy sector, predicted that Israel would rely on natural gas for 70% of its electricity generation by 2016, almost double its needs today.

Protection is a big issue for all Israeli resources, and has proved of vital importance for Israeli offshore gas fields.   Military officials have been making plans to secure oil rigs inside Israel’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which extend 129 kilometers offshore from Israel’s northern tip to over 185 kilometers off Gaza.

The IDF issued a statement to the AFP acknowledging that the gas fields “significantly [broaden] the challenges facing the Israeli navy”, and saying the Israeli government’s approach is “to use both presence and deterrence”.

That strategy will include the acquisition of four new warships outfitted with advanced radars and the Barak anti-missile defense system, as well as surveillance drones and patrol boats at an annual cost of NIS 3 billion.

About the Author: Malkah Fleisher is a graduate of Cardozo Law School in New York City. She is an editor/staff writer at JewishPress.com and co-hosts a weekly Israeli FM radio show. Malkah lives with her husband and two children on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

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2 Responses to “Israel to Generate 70% of Electricity from Gas by 2016, but Policymakers Lag Behind”

  1. I would also like the gas to be saved for use in Israel but the economics may require greater profit from the gas companies to make it worth their while to pay for the initial exploration and infrastructure costs. Russia may want control, but they may also be able to deliver protection against attacks which is something worth paying for.

  2. Toby Trompeter Kraman says:

    Canada's Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, MP for Eglinton-Lawrence, just came back from an economic mission to Israel where the new off-shore and discoveries of gas deposits were foremost among the discussions with Netanyahu, government and business leaders. Canada has a lot of expertise in off-shore drilling and the political will is there to help Israel. Though Canada isn't at all mentioned in this article, I certainly hope that Israel will look to Canada to play a major role in helping develop it's gas fields and energy self-sufficiency.

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Israelis Fed Up with Obama

Friday, February 13th, 2015

A poll published on Friday shows that nearly two-thirds of Israelis think that the Obama administration is interfering in the elections, and more than half of the respondents back Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s planned visit to Congress.

President Barack Obama already has stated he will not meet with Netanyahu two weeks before the elections, but many Democrats in Congress have thrown salt on the wounds of American-Israeli relations by stating they will boycott the Prime Minister’s speech.

The survey, carried out by the Hebrew-language Maariv weekend newspaper and The Jerusalem Post, stated that 62 percent of Israelis think Washington is putting its two cents into the election campaign, while 31 percent disagreed and 8 percent expressed no opinion.

Support for Netanyahu was a bit less, with 56 percent backing his acceptance of an invitation from Republic House Speaker John Boehner to speak to Congress, where he received an enthusiastic ovation in 2011 when he spoke to a joint session of Congress.

Almost lost in the controversy over the Prime Minister’s planned speech is its content – Iran, which may be the real reason President Obama and many Democrats are so angry at the Prime Minister.

Netanyahu has constantly warned that Iran is stalling for time and not negotiating. He has explained over and over that Iran wants to gets its hands on a nuclear weapon, hell or high water, and that the Obama administration is far too dovish.

Netanyahu’s speech in Congress comes until three weeks before a deadline for Washington and Tehran to agree on the basis to conclude negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development.

Pervious polls have shown that most Israelis think Netanyahu is exploiting the planned speech to help voters in Israel focus on the Iranian nuclear threat and vote for him, an assumption that is a certain bet given that nothing happens in Israel without political intentions.

That does not contradict the real concern of the Iranian threat and that the Obama administration will not stop it.

The United Nations 10 years ago passed resolutions for its nuclear inspectors to inspect Iran’s program, and the United States spearheaded Western sanctions on Iran to convince it to cooperate. Nothing has worked.

Iran has whittled down the will of the Obama administration and Western powers to the point that the deal being put together simply would delay Iran’s nuclear capability and not eliminate it. The deal also is based on Iran’s allowing United Nations inspectors to enter all of its nuclear facilities, even though it has built underground operations while it was supposed to be cooperating with nuclear inspectors.

That is why Netanyahu is willing to risk worsening relations with the Obama administration and speak out against the expected deal, regardless of polls and boycotts of his speech by Democrat Congressmen,.

Given Iran’s consistent refusal to play ball by mutually agreed rules, Netanyahu’s visit will be unnecessary if Tehran balks and refuses the “P5+1″ offer. It is generous but not enough for Iran. It would allow Iran to keep a large part of its nuclear  infrastructure but supposedly block Iran from building a nuclear weapon.

Netanyahu is not taking any chances.

Below is the video clip of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2011, when he received 29 standing ovations.

V-15 Activists in Israel Copy Obama’s 2008 ‘Hope’ Campaign [video]

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

Activists in Tel Aviv working for the “V15″ campaign to dump Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are delivering a message strangely similar to that of President Barack Obama when he campaigned in 2008.

Hope. Change. They were the heart of Obama’s platform nearly seven years ago.

As seen and heard in the video below, Tel Aviv activists for V15, heavily funded by foreign donations, don’t have much else to say.

Michael Ganoe, a very pro-Israel Christian from West Virginia who hosts a radio show heard in the United States, interviewed activists as part of his Insight to Israel/Hershey’s for Heroes imitative.

Here is a bit of the dialogue between Ganoe and a Tel Aviv activist:

Activist: We stand for the hope to bring more change…. We don’t feel there is any hope.

Ganoe: What is there about the government you do not like?

Activist: We don’t like the cynical use of no hope.

Ganoe: What do you thing is the biggest problem with Israel?

Activist:  No hope. There is no hope. There is no way to change

Ganoe: But what are you trying to change?

Activist: We are trying to bring hope.

The fingerprints of Jeremy Bird, Obama’s National Field Director, are all over the V15 campaign that he is helping to direct.

V15, like the 2008 Obama election campaign, has one message, and that is “hope” for change, meaning getting rid of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu no matter who would take his place.

Obama offered “hope” and “change,” and America got it in spades.

Dermer ‘Breaches Protocol’ and Backs the Patriots

Monday, February 2nd, 2015

Israel Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer joked about White House complaints that he breached protocol and tweeted on Sunday, “Breaking Protocol, Choosing Sides: Go Patriots.”

The Obama administration has publicly charged with Dermer for “breaking protocol”  by not directly informing the administration that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will speak to Congress in March. Netanyahu is expected to use the occasion to deliver a broadside at President Obama’s insistence to veto any Congressional bill for sanctions against Iran.

Dermer has been under the gun on both sides of the Atlantic, so he used the Super Bowl as an opportunity to lighten things up a bit with his Tweet.

The Ambassador has denied he was at fault and told Jeffrey Goldberg in an interview Friday, “It was the speaker’s responsibility and normal protocol for the speaker’s office to notify the administration” that Netanyahu was invited to speak to Congress.

Palestinian Authority Incitement: Israel Planned French Terror

Sunday, January 25th, 2015

The Palestinian Authority on Sunday called for “resistance” and boycott of all Israeli goods, capping off a campaign of promoting the blood libel that Israel planned the recent radical Islamic terror attacks in France.

Why would Israel do such a horrid thing? Why would Israel draft the Mossad to pay off Muslims to kill Jews and Christians in France?

Abbas and his Fatah movement have the answers: Aliyah of Jews from France and “revenge on European government…because of their positions on the Palestinian cause.”

Now that we know why 17 people were killed in three straight days of barbaric murder, we must remember that Secretary of State John Kerry has said over and over again the past several years that Abbas is against violence and does not incite his lone wolves to murder the sheep.

So how can it be that a recent poll of Arabs in Judea, Gaza and Samaria found that 84.4 percent of the respondents support the claim that “the operation (i.e., terror attack) was suspicious, and that Israel may be behind it,” while “only 8.7% believed that the murder of the French [citizens] in Paris was a natural result of the spread of Islamic extremism in Europe.”

The answer is that they read official Palestinian Authority media.

The official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported last week, as translated and published by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) today:

The Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, planned the attacks because Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders want to encourage Jewish immigration and take “revenge on European governments… because of their… support for… an independent Palestinian state.”

One regular columnist, Muwaffaq Matar, argued that because Netanyahu “wishes to realize the myth of the ‘Jewishness of Israel'” and encourage immigration, the attacks against Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe were “no coincidence, but a carefully executed and fully controlled plan.” He further argued that these claims were true because “‘Netanyahu’s Jewish State’ was the only one to benefit” from these attacks….”

Another regular columnist, Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, claimed that “Turkish sources, including intelligence and the mayor of Ankara,” determined that the attacks were “planned by the Israeli Mossad.”

The Palestinian Authority also used its official television network to tell viewers on January 12, in an interview with a journalist, that “in the past, the Israeli Mossad carried out operations (i.e., terror attacks): It bombed synagogues in order to force the Jews to emigrate.”

It gets even worse. Israel even trained the terrorists and gave them weapons, according to another writer for the daily.

Yahya Rabah wrote:

We have seen how Israeli terrorism in all its forms… is what grants patronage to all the terrorist groups in the region. Eventually, we have seen that terror[ists] have begun to receive training, weapons and perhaps [even] intelligence from Israel. Therefore, many believe that there was more to the last wave of terrorism in France than [just] two young Muslims. This was an [attempt to] target the role of France… [which voted] in favor of the Palestinian-Arab proposal at the [UN] Security Council last month!

Kerry can take pleasure in the fact that the Palestinian Authority officially condemned the attack on the Charles Hebdo magazine offices while letting a writer for its official daily write that the “unknown Charlie Hebdo magazine” had published “offensive cartoons” of the Prophet Mohamed “to get publicity and “extract itself from financial crises.”

None of this is a surprise to our readers.

But it is a surprise that the Obama administration still cannot come to terms with reality because doing so would be an admission that it has been hoodwinked for 20 years by a two-faced monster that has conned successive American governments and the State Dept., which still insists that none of this would have happened if Israel simply would follow the Arab world’s orders and stop insisting on Zionist demands, such as remaining a Jewish state and protecting its citizens from terror.

Netanyahu Pours Salt on Obama’s Wounds

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu jabbed President Barack Obama in the ego Thursday in an announcement of his accepting an invitation by Congressional Speaker John Boehner to address a joint session of Senators and representatives next month.

Just by coincidence, pure coincidence, the Prime Minister will be speaking two weeks before the Knesset elections, a situation which gave Obama the opportunity to rule out a meeting with his sparring partner as a matter of standard operating procedure that the president does not meet with visiting dignitaries near an election.

Whether Boehner invited Netanyahu or whether the Prime Minister invited himself doesn’t matter to President Obama.

Netanyahu advised the American Ambassador but did not notify the president before Boehner made public that the Prime Minister will address Congress, a move that the White House officially said departed from protocol but really meant was a direct  cut at Obama.

The office of the Prime Minister poured salt on the cut Thursday when it announced:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the invitation sent by Speaker John Boehner, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate, to address a joint meeting of Congress…..

The address will provide an opportunity for the Prime Minister to thank President Obama, the US Congress and the American people for their support of Israel.

Netanyahu has cornered Obama. He will profusely thank the president for the support that both men know is grudging.

And since the president is supporting Israel, and since Israel wants tough sanctions on Iran to remain, just like Boehner does, it only is logical that  Obama is really not supporting Israel if he vetoes a Congressional bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran if does not conclude negotiations on limiting its nuclear program by the next diplomatic deadline, which keeps getting extended while Tehran plays for time.

In case Obama did not get the message from Netanyahu that the Prime Minister and the president are on the same page, even if in a different book.

Netanyahu’s office added:

“Just last week I discussed with President Obama the common challenges we face from Islamist extremism, including resurgent terrorism and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

“I look forward to being able to share with the joint session Israel’s vision for working together to address these threats and to reiterate Israel’s commitment to the bond that unites our two democracies.”

Netanyahu, like most of us, heard or read Obama’s State of the Union address this week in which he vowed to fight terror but, instead of mentioning “Islamist extremism,” made clear that  “we continue to reject offensive stereotypes of Muslims — the vast majority of whom share our commitment to peace.”

Pass the salt, please.

Bloomberg Marks Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as First Non-US Cities for Funds

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced that Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo are the first non-U.S. cities selected to participate in the $45 million expansion of its Innovation Teams program.

The program aims to improve the capacity of City Halls to effectively design and implement new approaches that improve citizens’ lives  by relying on data, open innovation, and strong project and performance management to help mayors address pressing urban challenges.

Grant funds will allow mayors to hire and fund innovation teams – often called “i-teams” — for up to three years.

Jerusalem will receive $850,000 per year, focusing initially on poverty and economic development. Tel Aviv-Yafo will receive $650,000 per year, focusing initially on issues related to cost of living and illegal immigration.

“Successful innovation depends as much on the ability to generate ideas as it does the capacity to execute them – and i-teams help cities do both,” said philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. “More and more city governments around the world are eager to innovate.”

Bloomberg Philanthropies also announced that grants will go to Albuquerque, Boston, Centennial Colorado, Jersey City, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mobile Alabama, Minneapolis, Peoria  Illinois, Rochester, Syracuse, and Seattle.

State Dept.: Anti-Settlement Policy Will Remain even After Obama Leaves

Thursday, December 11th, 2014

The State Dept. insists that its anti-settlement policy is not dependent on President Barack Obama and will continue even after he leaves the White House in January 2017.

Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told high school students this week in Gush Etzion, which the United States considers “illegal,” that the  Obama Administration “won’t be around forever” and that Israel will resume building for Jews in Judea and Samaria once he is gone as president.

He apparently thinks Hillary Clinton won’t succeed Obama.

Ya’alon has a habit of saying what he thinks before he thinks. Earlier this year, he was quoted as stating in “private” remarks that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is “obsessed ‘and has a Messianic complex when it comes to the “Peace Process.”

He didn’t bother to think that his remarks to the high school students this week would be quoted, but maybe it is better off to give the White House a not so gentle reminder that it is going to have to fight hard in the Israeli election campaign if it wants to get rid of people like Ya’alon, who don’t take orders from Washington., which thinks otherwise.

“This Administration’s opposition to settlements is fully consistent with the policies of administrations for decades, including of both parties. So the notion that would change is not borne out by history,” State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at Wednesday’s press question and answer session,

She agreed that Obama will be out of office in two years, pending a sudden change in the U.S. Constitution, and the next administration is not going to change anything regarding the audacity of Israel to build homes for Jews in half of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, where it had been doing so for more than 40 years before President Obama blew in with the wind.

Previous administrations, contrary to what Psaki says, never have been called Jews “illegitimate” for living in areas of Jerusalem that the Palestinian Authority, with the backing of the State Dept. thinks is their God-given property.

Ya’alon notwithstanding, Israel will be stuck with American opposition to Jews living within Israel’s borders that the United States determines, according to Psaki.

It is unusual for a State Dept. spokesperson to predict what future administrations will determine.

Maybe she knows something that no one knows, but it is more likely that her comments give testament to an attempt to make the State Dept.’s long-standing pro-Arab policy part of the White House Bible.

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Economic events of the past couple of years are teaching builders and remodelers what other industries have realized for decades: After you’ve sharpened your pencil and squeezed the last nickel out of your subs and suppliers, there’s a good chance you still won’t be able to turn a profit unless you can also “lean up” your operation. You’ve got to add value to your product and ruthlessly eliminate waste while shortening your sales, construction, and service cycle. And technology is really the last, best way to accomplish those goals and push those last dollars to your bottom line.

Since we published our last technology round-up (“Connecting All Contractors,” 10/07) several trends have emerged that will influence how successful builders and remodelers will be operating for years to come. Some developments — for instance, near-universal fast broadband Internet access — didn’t take a psychic to predict. Others caught us by surprise, such as the explosion of social networks like Twitter and Facebook and their impact on business. So here are four trends to watch, with examples of how some savvy contractors and consultants, big and small, are already taking advantage of them.

TREND 1 Web 2.0, or Word of Mouth on Steroids

Did you happen to catch the AT&T commercial where the little girl has lost her dog? Instead of hoping someone would stumble across the missing pet, a friendly passerby sends a phone picture of the pooch off to his friends, who in turn forward it to all their friends. Minutes later — not days, not even hours — the dog is reunited with happy owner. End of ad.

Substitute “our great remodeling experience” or “the worst builder: avoid!” for “lost dog” and you begin to understand what is meant by the “viral spread” of information. The so-called Web 2.0 is all about collaboration, the easy sharing of information between applications and Web sites. Blog posts, Twitter tweets, Flickr photos, Google Docs, and YouTube videos have one thing in common — they’re easily shared online. Look closely and you’ll notice little snippets of HTML code or “buttons” that allow you to embed on your own sites whatever information you happen to be looking at. And other people can embed what they find on your blog or Facebook profile somewhere else, causing it to spread like a virus. That ability to share information has given rise to social networking, self-published blogs, do-it-yourself information systems, and personalized home pages, as well an explosion of new Web-based applications that make online collaboration and Web-based meetings less expensive and easier than ever.

Social Media Cuts Both Ways

Online social networks are nothing new. Even before there were PCs, there were dial-up bulletin-board systems. The JLCforum community has been in existence for more than 10 years. But it’s taken inexpensive broadband access coupled with collaborative applications like photo and video sharing for social networks to really take off. Now that they have, all it takes is one especially vocal subscriber to Angie’s List (,, or any of the dozens of other consumer protection sites to land you your next lucrative job — or put you out of business, convicted without a trial.

The truth is, thanks to the social Internet, you’re no longer completely in control of your brand. “Reputation management” — monitoring and protecting a business’s reputation online — has become a staple for many other industries. Now contractors need to pay attention, too. You should make it a point to know the buzz, good and bad, about your business. Web sites like claim to offer some help (for a price), but the best thing you can do is build your own armor by proactively soliciting solid customer reviews on the various contractor review sites. It’s much tougher for one customer from hell to trash a contractor if he has 50 positive reviews from other buyers, an active blog, a pile of Facebook fans, and a healthy gaggle of followers on Twitter. So if you’ve been wondering whether tweets, blogs, “friends,” and “followers” belong in your future, now you know: Protecting yourself from the Internet bullhorn could be reason enough to jump in.

While you can rest assured that the names are going to change, make no mistake: The social media train has left the station, never to return. Facebook is now the second most used Web site on the planet after Google, and Twitter is inching toward the top 10, according to (I can’t begin to cover all of the ways here in which builders and remodelers need to make use of social-networking tools, but I invite you to join the conversation at the Business Technology forum at

The social Web has been instrumental in helping remodeler Greg DiBernardo escape local low-price bid wars and find a niche in high-margin custom deck-building.

Broadcast Yourself

When YouTube first came on the scene in 2005 it was mostly filled with amateur attempts at “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” and I’ll admit I didn’t get it. But I sure get it now. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a 10-minute Web video could be worth 100 sales that you otherwise wouldn’t have, or 500 mistakes your crew doesn’t have to make. Of all the trends we’re covering, Web video may wind up being the most important. Not only is YouTube currently the No. 1 video site on the Internet, it often ranks second in search results and is fourth in total traffic globally, after Google, Facebook, and Yahoo. That’s huge — and the really good news is that it’s no tougher for you to have a great video on YouTube than it is for Home Depot or Lowe’s to have one.

Greg DiBernardo, owner of Fine Home Improvements of Waldwick LLC (, is leveraging YouTube to drive traffic to his Web sites. “Recently, to showcase our products, we added a simple slide show in YouTube created with the free ‘save to YouTube’ feature of Google Docs,” he says. “We also cross-market by posting project photos and videos on While our roots are in general remodeling, the Internet has opened up a such a steady flow of qualified deck leads to us that it enabled us to quickly establish ourselves as a deck-building specialty company.” Bergendecks .com, he adds, “has great Google ranking, so anyone looking to build a deck in our local area finds the site, sees the type of work we do, and educates themselves at the same time. Our close rate on leads directly from our own site is around 80 percent.”

The explosion of simple-to-produce, simple-to-share Web video has made it possible to distribute any kind of information imaginable quickly and inexpensively.

Installation and training. Remember that YouTube videos can be played on many smartphone devices. If you’re dealing with tricky high-risk installations, why not have your factory rep or an expert installer shoot some installation videos your crew can watch on their phones? If your subs speak Spanish, create a silent video or add a Spanish soundtrack after the fact.

Homeowner how-to. How many frantic phone calls could be avoided if your buyers had a 24-7 resource they could refer to anytime they got stuck? By making a Web video of your homeowner orientation tour, you’ll not only help clients remember how to winterize the lawn sprinklers or tilt in the windows for cleaning, you’ll also be documenting that you actually did the orientation tour.

Marketing. In sales, the only thing more powerful than a third-party testimonial is a video with your customers singing your praises. Interview your buyers on camera and ask them to recount a funny story from your job or explain how your crew solved a specific problem that cropped up.

No camcorder required. You don’t even need a camcorder to make a video. In addition to the “save to YouTube” feature in Google Docs, there are automated tools like Animoto ( that can create a professional-quality video from your photos, text, and music.

TREND 2 Tracking All Information, Anywhere, Anytime, and on Any Device

By the time you read this, Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6 will be duking it out as two of the best computer operating systems ever created — yet it won’t make very much difference in how most of us use technology. The focus of personal computing is quickly moving from the desktop to the Webtop, where data and applications live in the Internet “cloud” and can be accessed just as easily from a smartphone or netbook — a mini laptop — as from a computer. Cheap, available broadband service has given rise to hundreds of Web-based applications and services that will prove useful to contractors. Practically any category of commercial software you can think of, from office to project management, now has free or cheap equivalents, many of which are totally Web based.

Computer in Your Pocket

On the hardware front, things keep getting smaller and cheaper, as well as more connected. Today’s smartphones are as capable as laptops were a few years ago, and some of the most exciting software today is being created for the Apple iPhone, Google Android, and R.I.M. Blackberry, not for computers. Netbooks can run Windows, bridging the gap between smartphones and full-size computers, and are available for as little as $199 (with a cellular Internet contract). Because of a contractual limitation imposed by Microsoft, netbooks ship with only 1GB of RAM (memory), but most can be upgraded to 2GB for under $50. By the time you read this, Windows 7 netbooks may be available.

Verizon Wireless is offering the normally $499 HP1151NR mini laptop for $199 with a two-year data contract. Its bright screen and ability to get online anywhere makes it a good job-site companion. Windows 7 versions may be available by the time you read this.

Expect to see more devices like the Novatel MiFi, which allows up to five WiFi-equipped devices to share one high-speed cellular internet connection. The $99 (with contract) MiFi is available from Verizon, Sprint, and several minor cellular providers.

Layar, shown here providing a “jobs available” overlay for a temporary jobs service in Amsterdam, is the first of what will be many “augmented reality” applications.

Online everywhere. Online project management systems are most effective when everyone involved with the job can use them. As cellular companies continue to expand their services into the boonies, access to the Internet on job sites is less of an issue, but at $60 a month for 5GB, data transfer still isn’t cheap. Connection-sharing devices like the Novatel MiFi Personal Hotspot will let your lead carpenter share a connection with up to five WiFi-equipped subs.

Augmented reality. If you watch sports on TV, you’re already acquainted with “augmented reality”: It’s easy to forget that the yellow first-down line isn’t really painted on the field. Look for something similar coming to a smartphone, GPS receiver, or computer near you. Imagine you’re looking at building sites with a client. In the near future, you’ll be able to point your phone camera at an empty building lot and have your 3-D CAD model of the house appear, along with the lot price, tax, and plat information — plus the location of municipal services overlaid in “virtual marking paint” on the ground. You can send the whole overlay back to your office to use in sun or energy studies or to relocate your pipe entrances on the foundation plan.

Later, when you’re at the building supply and come across a new type of tile membrane, you can forget the guy in the orange apron — just point your phone camera at the bar code, and a set of technical specs and installation videos will be zoomed to your phone. Need them in Spanish or Chinese? Not a problem.

One of the first working examples of augmented reality is the Layar Reality Browser (, available now for Samsung’s Android-OS powered smartphone. Layar works by taking advantage of GPS (global positioning systems), along with the phone’s accelerometer, compass, and camera. It rolled out to businesses in Europe last year and is currently in development with several USA-based partners to deliver property details to home buyers visiting Layar-enabled neighborhoods.

Emerging Hardware Trends: Pico Projectors and Smartpens

Even though your smartphone has a usable keyboard, can run all the software you’ll ever need, and is virtually a video production studio, you still can’t have a meeting huddled around a 2-inch screen. Get ready for the pico projector. It’s already available as a stand-alone device not much bigger than a smartphone, and within a couple of years you’ll see it built directly into your phone, much like a camera is today. A pico projector can project a usable 2- to 3-foot image on anything from a scrap of drywall to a T-shirt, making it possible to fire up that 3-D model, CAD drawing, or installation video wherever and whenever you need to.

LiveScribe’s Pulse digital pen combines the convenience of old-school paper with an ingenious recording system that makes it possible to correlate what you write or draw with what you heard in a meeting or planning session.

You can already purchase pico projectors from Optoma and others, starting at around $230 for a stand-alone unit. Within the next few years you’ll see pico projection capability built in to your smartphone.

If even a netbook or smartphone is too bulky for you, try a “smartpen” like the $170 LiveScribe Pulse ( This ingenious system records and synchronizes both pen strokes and sound. In playback mode, you can “touch” a note and play back whatever was being recorded at that moment. It’s perfect for documenting design requirements, contract negotiations, inspections and walk-throughs, or just jogging your memory.

LiveScribe works by tracking a grid of tiny dots on special paper. You can buy preprinted LiveScribe paper or print your own. Your “pencast” can then be downloaded to the LiveScribe desktop software or shared on the Web. Additional software is available ($29) that will convert the hand-written notes to searchable text.

Essex, Ill., remodeler Eric Carlson uses LiveScribe when doing walk-throughs for estimating. “I’m able to make sketches and write some key words while providing spoken details that I can easily refer back to later when preparing the quote. Everything syncs to a desktop PC and the words in your own handwriting are searchable. Everything can be uploaded to a free Web site that allows you to share your pencast with clients or others. Nobody realizes it is anything special, which allows me to focus on the client instead of the technology.”

Tracking Systems

GPS is more useful for contractors than ever. With it, a phone camera can “geo-tag” job-site photos, proving that the footing rebar or window flashing was on the current project and not fudged from somewhere else.

Point-to-point GPS driving instructions already save salespeople and workmen hassle, time, and fuel, but that’s just the beginning. Rick Westmoreland, a builder and renovation contractor in Kansas City, Mo., loads AccuTracking, a tracking software, on all of his field workers’ phones. “When the economy slowed down,” says Westmoreland, “I shifted from home building to weatherization contracting and wanted a better way to track and report time-card information for Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance. AccuTracking allows me to preload job-site locations, then track when workers enter and leave each site, their travel time, and time spent at the supply house. It will even text me when they arrive or depart a location.”

For businesses who want their customers to be able to “see” their service vans on a map, AccuTracking data can be integrated into the company’s Web site, Facebook account, or iGoogle personal home page. It also has an application programming interface (API) so developers can embed the information into their own software applications.

TREND 3 More Applications Move to the Web

Now that high-speed broadband is relatively cheap and widely available, Web-based applications and services have finally taken off as a viable alternative to desktop software and even small business networks. It’s tough to justify the cost and administrative hassle of an in-house server and extra network infrastructure now that just about anything you would use a small-office server for can be done for less using the Internet.

According to Greg Cashen, P.E., a senior manager for the Phocis Group, a construction and consulting company in Northern California, “One of the biggest things to come out of the Web 2.0 world is a wealth of inexpensive Web-based project management, client relationship management (CRM), and collaboration tools. At our company, we use tools by 37signals [], specifically Basecamp for project management and collaboration and Highrise for tracking deals and correspondence with prospects. Clients have access so that there’s one place for them to go for their project files and messages. There are other tools that are tailored to our industry, but for the combined price of $48 per month — not per user — Basecamp and Highrise are hard to beat.”

For about $8 to $10 per month per user, AccuTracking will document every move of a registered device (typically a GPS-equipped cellphone or vehicle) and report back to the contractor.

Accounting software has been one of the last things to make the leap onto the Web, probably because of security concerns, but today there are online replacements for QuickBooks. Phocis Group has made the break from office accounting software, too, in favor of Xero (, a Web-based full-featured accounting tool. Says Cashen, “Xero provides our invoicing, expense management, AR/AP, and all the other features expected from an accounting software. The invoicing and expense management features alone are indispensable.”

Remote Meetings and More

Web-based meetings are another category of software that is quietly changing how contractors do business. Instead of trying to get people together in person, a builder can fire up a Web meeting, share drawings and documents on-screen, or even look around the job site with a Web cam. Problems can be resolved or decisions made in minutes instead of days or weeks.

For several years WebEx ( and GoToMeeting ( have provided reliable — albeit relatively expensive — online meetings and screen-sharing. But free is better for contractors, and,,, and all offer reliable free online meetings — DimDim for a whopping 20 participants.

New Zealand–based Xero provides a full-featured small-business online accounting system starting at $29 per month.

It can import the NAHB chart of accounts and was chosen by Web-usability guru Jakob Nielsen as a top 10 in usability in 2008.

Contractors can now design personalized home pages that get daily updates via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds from a wide range of sources. This iGoogle example ( combines industry Web sites and blogs with desktop “widgets” — mini-applications displaying to-do lists, document lists, and other productivity tools. MSN, MyYahoo,, and offer similar personal home pages.

Eric Carlson, owner of Crafted Character, a remodeling company in Essex, Ill., uses online meetings on a regular basis. “I can present project details to customers and other tradespeople at the same time, with each of us in different locations,” he says. “I use Chief Architect and SketchUp to create 3-D renderings of the project. I can then review with the client, architect, and designer at the same time without the travel logistics, or all being huddled around a single laptop. I use the ConnectNow service, which is free for up to three simultaneous users. You can share your entire desktop, or just the applications you want others to see. It works great and has been well received by all those involved so far.”

Office Live is based on the SharePoint engine, which turns Microsoft Office into a true collaboration platform, with project-centric document management, photo libraries, contact and task lists, and more. Hosted versions of SharePoint start at under $10 per month at, making it one of the least expensive collaboration choices. Office Live offers Microsoft Office users some of the same features for free.

DIY information systems. You no longer have to find the information you need — it can find you. Thanks to a mechanism known as RSS, for Really Simple Syndication, it’s possible to have Internet news and information that interests you delivered and organized exactly the way you want it, in a “feed reader” — a personalized home page of your choice.

“In addition to JLC forum posts,” says Greg Cashen, “I also subscribe to RSS feeds for articles from JLC, Big Builder, Building Design & Construction, Commercial Property News, and Retail Traffic, among others. Doing so has allowed me to drastically reduce paper waste while getting access to articles that help me make business decisions and stay informed on the industry.”

More for free. The past couple of years have brought an explosion of new applications — both industry-specific ones and generic ones that can be tweaked to work for a builder or remodeler. For every big-name commercial title, there’s a good bet you’ll be able find a free or cheap alternative. If you’re on a budget, is a good place to start.

TREND 4 Online and Offline, the Best of Both Worlds

Despite faster Internet connections, some software applications — like CAD, estimating, and heavy-duty engineering number-crunchers — still work best installed on your PC. Software vendors are taking advantage of the Internet with shared libraries, online help systems, and collaborative frameworks like Microsoft’s SharePoint. If you use Microsoft Office but feel that you aren’t quite ready for SharePoint, there’s Office Live ( for free. Based on SharePoint, Office Live offers online file sharing and storage, as well as various features for small businesses, like a free Web site.

Google has also taken advantage of the online-offline approach with SketchUp (, its groundbreaking 3-D design application. Google’s online 3D Warehouse provides users with a place to upload and collaborate on thousands of 3-D components. Google also makes use of its other major acquisition, YouTube, to store SketchUp training videos, and its photo-sharing service Picasa Web Albums to maintain a gallery of sample images.

The Google 3D Warehouse contains thousands of 3-D components — both user-created and professionally modeled — for use in Google Earth and SketchUp projects.

Evernote’s Web site says, “Welcome to your notable world. Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.” Well, almost. A premium account costs $5 per month or $45 per year, but it gets rid of the ad banners and gives you more options for saving and retrieving information.

Your Second Brain

In the past couple of years, another class of software known as “intelligent information assistants” has emerged to bridge the online-offline gap. These include Microsoft OneNote, DevonThink, Zoho Notebook, and perhaps the most powerful of the bunch — and the most popular with contractors — Evernote ( This program combines the ability to gather and store bits of information from just about any source you can imagine — from a Web-site clipping to an actual paper document — with a powerful online database and indexing capability that makes it easy to retrieve whatever you’re looking for. Evernote has versions of its client software for PCs and Macs as well as a variety of smartphones, or you can run it from a Web browser on any Internet-connected computer.

Dustin Wyatt, owner of Wyatt Homes in Desloge, Mo., has been using Evernote to store and catalog day-to-day information of all types. “You can either enter a note on your smartphone or you can write a note on a scrap of lumber or drywall — or even on your hand — and snap a picture of it with your camera phone,” he says. “Evernote will convert it to text and make it searchable. It’s then retrievable on my phone, in Evernote on my laptop, or on the Evernote Web site from any other computer or device.” Wyatt takes photos of products at the supply house, or of potential customers and their business cards; all the text in the photo is recognized via Evernote’s OCR (optical character recognition) software, so the photo is searchable. “Evernote recognizes the text with amazing accuracy,” he says. “I can also create notebooks of research for products or projects with the Evernote Web browser by capturing Web pages. Span tables, code books, how-to information — if it’s available online, I can organize and search it in Evernote.”

Actually, with improvements in speech-to-text technology, you don’t need to write or type at all to make use of Evernote, Social Media, and many other online tools we’ve mentioned here. Jott ( is an online speech-to-text engine that will let you update with your phone and voice just about anything that you’d normally need a keyboard for. Accuracy isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for many applications.

Bridging the Generation Gap

If you’re 40-something or older, there’s a good chance computers and the Internet are something you learned to deal with long after you were in the workforce, and you still may not be completely comfortable with them. Not so for Generation Y, those 75,000,000 Americans who were born roughly between the mid-70s and the mid-90s and have never known life without technology. As your new generation of customers, they will expect you to be as tech-savvy as they are. And as your new generation of competitors, they’re going to clean your clock if you aren’t.

There’s a noticeable difference in attitude toward technology between older and younger contractors. For example, while most established builders and remodelers have Web sites, you’re apt to find that they contain all kinds of dire warnings and copyright notices warning users not to copy or distribute the images of floor plans or 3-D renderings. New-gen builders are more apt to realize they’re selling houses, not photographs. They’re likely to encourage sharing by making use of a photo sharing service like Flickr ( while including a visible watermark on their images with their Web address and phone number visible, so it’s easy for someone to contact them.

Wyatt, who’s in his 30s, is typical of the tech-savvy GenY builder. “As time goes by,” he observes, “guys like me are going to be less and less willing to deal with subcontractors who will only give out quotes by fax, and vendors who don’t have their inventory available online. I appreciate the knowledgeable guys behind the counter as much as the next guy, but when their competitor provides the guys behind the counter plus the online access to pricing and inventory, I’m going to go to that competitor. I often see guys talking about computers or the Internet as if it’s some other world, separate from the real world. This attitude bewilders me, as technology is just a part of the world, not some other thing. For us technology isn’t a nice thing to have, it’s a necessity.”

Joe Stoddard is a JLC contributing editor and technology consultant to the building industry. He moderates the jlconline Business Technology forum.


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Long-term survival of a woman with well differentiated papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum: a case report and review of the literature

Jeffrey M Clarke1* and Paul Helft2

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