Authors, Films, Drama and Comedy Highlight the Orange County ...

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The Merage Jewish Community is presenting an eclectic mix of thought provoking films and authors combined with humor and entertainment at the third annual Orange County Jewish Arts Festival which runs from November 8 through November 18th. All events will be held at the JCC which is located at 1 Federation Way in Irvine.

FILMS:

?Brothers?

Thursday November 8, 7 pm

Drama: Hebrew with English subtitles

The Orange County Jewish Arts Festival begins with the thought provoking film Brothers a drama directed by Igaal Niddam dealing with Israels religious-secular divide .The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Rabbi Elie Spitz, Professor Scott Spitzer and Professor Steven Russo-Schindler discussing the issues dramatized.

In recent years, the Jerusalem has seen an increasing number of demonstrations from extremist elements of the Haredi (ultra-orthodox) community, protesting perceived violations of their strict interpretation of Jewish law. This is the backdrop for the film Brothers (produced by Troubadour Films, Geneva in Hebrew, with English subtitles). The film focuses on the troubled relationship between two brothers who have not seen nor spoken to each other for 25 years: the distinguished lawyer and Torah scholar Aaron, who has traveled to Jerusalem from the United States in order to defend a group of Yeshiva students who have refused military service in the IDF and his brother, Dan, an idealistic kibbutznik. A brilliant defense lawyer, Aaron finds his equal in his adversary Shelly, a driven, fiercely secular public prosecutor. The combination of an intelligent script, outstanding performances and the directors commitment to presenting the issue in all its complexity, makes for a rich and satisfying viewing experience. Tickets are $ 12 and available online or at the door.

Follow Me The Yoni Netanyahu Story

Sunday, November 18, 5 pm Israel, 2012; Documentary

Screening followed with special appearance by Director Jonathan Gruber

Yoni Netanyahu was a complex, passionate individual thrust into defending his country in a time of war and violence. The older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Israeli Prime Minister, Yoni led the miraculous raid on Entebbe in 1976. Although almost all of the Entebbe hostages were saved, Yoni was the lone military fatalityleaving behind a grief-stricken family and nation.

On its own, Yonis story is a dramatic onebut when told through his published and unpublished notes and lettersit rises to another level. Follow Me is about conflict, patriotism, war, love, family, brotherhood, sacrifice, and hopeall communicated in intimate detail through Yonis own words. Featuring interviews with three Israeli Prime Ministers, Yonis ex-wife (for the first time), and recently released audio from the Entebbe operation itselfFollow Me brings a rare portrait of Israels elite soldiers and their greatest hero to the big screen. Tickets are $ 18.

AUTHORS:

Sunday, November 11 at 3 pm, Free admission!

Anne-Marie Asner

Childrens author Anne-Marie Asner will be at the Jewish Arts Festival Day for a fun-filled, interactive event including a reading of Matzah Ball Books latest title, Hanukkah with Noshy Boy and Friends. Children ages 2-7 and adults can enjoy a time travel activity to ancient times, and even learning a bissle (little bit) of Yiddish! In this story, Noshy Boy, with help from his Bubbe (grandma) and Zaide (grandpa), hosts a Hanukkah party filled with latkes, donuts and chocolate gelt celebrating the tastiest holiday of the year! Noshy Boy and his friends re-enact the story of Hanukkah as they become the Maccabees of ancient times. Much to their surprise Klutzy Boys clumsiness actually comes in handy for winning back the Temple and the miracle of the oil is even better when Shmutzy Girl is able to actually stay clean. Other titles by author Anne-Marie Asner include Shmutzy Girl, Noshy Boy, Shluffy Girl, Kvetchy Boy, Klutzy Boy.

Tuesday November 13 at 10am:

Author Maggie Anton- Rav Hisdas Daughter? ? a novel of Love, Talmud and Sorcery

Spend an intriguing morning with author Maggie Anton and Rabbi Leah Lewis from congregation Shir HaMaalot exploring the fascinating world of women, Talmud, love and magic

Hisdaduka, both beautiful and learned, is the youngest child of Talmudic sage Rav Hisda. Her story unfolds in the 3rd century Babylonia, in the household of her father, one of a handful of beleaguered rabbis struggling to establish new Jewish traditions after the destruction of Jerusalems Holy Temple.

Reader fascination with all things magical in modern literature continuesfrom the Harry Potter novels to most recently, Deborah Harkness A Discovery of Witches. Modern witches may be fantastical, yet history reveals that in third-century Babylonia, in the land where the word magic originated, real-life enchantresses used incantations for everyday needs and desires. Novelist Maggie Anton, author of the acclaimed Rashis Daughters series, shares a young womans entry into this world of ancient sorcery in RAV HISDAS DAUGHTER Book I: Apprentice

Tickets are $ 20 and includes light refreshments.

Friday, November 16, 10:30 am

Stanley Ginsburg

Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking

You had me at Challah When was the last time you had an authentic, chewy bagel and not one of the bread doughnuts they sell today? Or an onion-fragrant bialy? Or a thick slice of corn rye? Or a piece of Russian coffee cake?

If you?re like most people, it was longer ago than you can remember. Fact is, traditional Eastern European Jewish baking, along with the culture in which it evolved, is on its way to extinction.

Meet author Stanley Ginsburg and go on a journey inside the Jewish bakery. More than a collection of recipes, Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking chronicles the history and traditions?as well as the distinctive baked goods?of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe and America. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Talmud, Sholom Aleichem and the yizkor books that memorialize communities destroyed in the Holocaust, Stanley Ginsbergs engaging ?edible history? that endows these recipes with a powerful sense of time and place. Inside The Jewish Bakery received the prestigious IACP Jane Grigson Award. The Jane Grigson Award is an award issued by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). It honors distinguished scholarship and depth of research in cookbooks and is named in honor of the British cookery writer Jane Grigson. Tickets are $ 25 and includes tastings from Inside the Jewish Bakery

Thursday, November 15, 7 pm ? Comedy Night!

Author David Misch Funny- the book and the Film Circumcise Me

A funny film, a hilarious author- a great evening that will leave you smiling long after it is over The evening will start with the screening of the documentary film Circumcise me and continue with author David Misch discussing his book Funny- The Book.

About the film Circumcise Me

Comedy; Directors: David Blumenfeld and Matthew Kalman

?Is it hot in here, or am I the only one dressed for Poland in the 17th century?? Yisrael Campbell looks more like a rabbi than a comedian, but don?t be fooled by the big black hat, frock coat and Hasidic side-curls. Born Chris Campbell, the son of an ex-nun and a Catholic schoolteacher, he converted to Judaism not once, but three times ? Reform, Conservative and Orthodox. His spiritual journey began as a drug-drenched teenager in Philadelphia and ended in Jerusalem among the suicide bombs of the Palestinian intifada. So what?s to laugh about? It?s the way he tells it. CIR

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US, Europe see hope in future Iran nuclear talks, but will press on with sanctions

The U.S. and the European Union said Tuesday they'll press on with sanctions against Iran, even as they hope the promise of new negotiations could lead to a diplomatic solution ending the nuclear standoff.

Appearing together at a news conference in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo before continuing a joint tour of the Balkans in Serbia and Kosovo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said both diplomacy and pressure would continue until Iran makes significant concessions over its disputed uranium enrichment activity.

"We continue to try and find ways to move forward on our negotiations," Ashton told reporters in Sarajevo. She cited contact over the weekend between a top aide and an assistant to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and said she would be reaching out to Jalili "in the near future."

Still, there appeared to be no significant advance in the process since world powers instructed Ashton last month in New York to speak with Jalili and gauge Iran's seriousness on coming into compliance with its international nuclear negotiations. The West fears Iran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

The West has demanded that Iran must stop enriching uranium to 20 per cent purity, shut down its underground Fordo enrichment site and ship its 20 per cent stockpile out of the country. In return, Iran has been offered civilian plane spare parts and 20 per cent-enriched nuclear fuel for its medical research reactor in Tehran.

Clinton said the U.S. message to Iran is clear. "The window remains open to resolve the international community's concerns about your nuclear program diplomatically and to relieve your isolation, but that window cannot remain open indefinitely. Therefore, we hope that there can be serious good-faith negotiations commenced soon."

Iran has sent mixed signals on its nuclear program. World powers cited increased flexibility from Iran in September when they agreed to lay the groundwork for a new round of negotiations, and on Tuesday Iran's Foreign Ministry said the standoff could be resolved if the U.S. and its partners recognize Iran's right to produce nuclear fuel.

But senior Iranian officials also have threatened to boost enrichment levels if the West doesn't ease sanctions. And the U.S. and its partners say measures that are crippling the Iranian economy will remain in force until Tehran first starts coming into compliance with its international obligations.

Clinton and Ashton spoke during the first leg of their tour of the Balkans, where they are urging rivals ethnic groups and governments to settle their differences for the good of their nations.

Seventeen years after the U.S.-led intervention ended Bosnia's civil war, Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats are split on how to unify the country or even to dissolve their federation entirely into separate ethnic parts. The Serb republic and the Bosniak-Croat federation have their own governments and parliaments, held together only weakly by a three-member presidency that Clinton and Ashton met with.

Clinton called efforts by some to roll back the Dayton Accords passed during the presidency of her husband "totally unacceptable," a reference to Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's call for the dissolution of Bosnia. He has also denied the genocide of Bosnia's Muslims in the 1990s.

Clinton urged all Bosnia's leaders to "put aside their political differences, put aside the rhetoric of dissolution, secession and denial of what tragically happened in the war." She and Ashton said the country's slow pace of reforms and the inability of leaders to look past their ethnic constituencies are holding back its hopes of joining the EU and NATO, and leaving it behind neighbours such as Serbia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Later in Belgrade, the two met Serbia's nationalist president, Tomislav Nikolic, and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.

Clinton told them that normalizing ties with Kosovo, which broke off from Serbia four years ago, is critical for Serbian aspirations of entering the 27-nation European Union. She urged progress in talks with Kosovo about issues such as freedom of movement, customs, utilities and government services, without calling for Belgrade to immediately recognize the independence of its former province.

After Serbia, the pair flew together on Clinton's plane to Kosovo's capital of Pristina, where they'll press top officials on similar matters on Wednesday. Afterward, Ashton will drop off the trip and Clinton will travel on to Croatia and Albania, NATO's two newest members.

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Associated Press writers Aida Cerkez in Sarajevo and Jovana Gec in Belgrade contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-europe-see-hope-future-iran-nuclear-talks-213014392.html

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Raids, medical tests risk Lebanon's gay-friendly reputation

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Teddy, a Lebanese university graduate, performs a belly dance at a nightclub in Beirut, in this November 2007 file picture.

By Shane Farrell

BEIRUT, Lebanon ? It is 2 a.m. in an abandoned theater in Hamra, a neighborhood in the Lebanese capital.? Men pack the room, their fists pumping the air in time with the thumping music.? A bare-chested dancer in tight-fitting shorts glides around the stage, reaching his hand around another man?s neck, pulling him close and stealing a kiss.

These parties are popular with those who can afford the $33 entrance fee. For those looking for an alternative, around a dozen different bars and clubs aimed at gay men dot the city.

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Beirut has for decades been a haven for gay men and lesbians, luring people from throughout the region, including deeply conservative countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. But while the city?s image as an oasis of open-mindedness attracts foreigners - and sells newspapers?-?the liberal veneer disguises a conservative underbelly that recent police sweeps and reports of invasive ?medical? tests have exposed.

Family ?would not accept it?
Many gay men in Beirut carry on double lives despite living in what is considered to be the gay capital of the Middle East.?

?I?m only out to my close friends,? said "Jad," 22, who asked that his real name not to be published. ?My family is quite religious and would not accept it.? When I was younger my mother made it clear that she would disown me if I came out to her.?

Indeed, while gay bars and clubs are common, homosexuality ? or behavior deemed ?contrary to nature? ?? is illegal according to article 534 of the Lebanese penal code.

Technically, this means that only those who have been proven to engage in such illegal acts are liable for arrest.? In practice, ?people have been arrested just because a particular security officer thinks that person might be gay,? human rights lawyer Nizar Saghieh said.

?Despite the fa?ade of tolerance, the reality is that a negative stigma of homosexuality persists,? said Georges Azzi, co-founder of Helem, a non-profit group working on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues.

The burden is heaviest for homosexual men who don?t have the right connections and cannot afford to pay off officials to avoid punishment.

?Unless you know your rights or know someone in a position of power to help you, you?re in trouble,? said Rebecca Saade, who works on LGBT rights with an underground group that focuses on lesbians and transsexuals.

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Lebanese demonstrators hold signs against "virginity tests" on women - and men suspected of homosexuality - during a protest in Beirut on August 11.

Gay men who cannot afford to live outside of the family home are more likely to engage in sexual acts in places where they could be caught.

An incident in July revealed the contradictory attitudes toward homosexuality in Lebanon. Leading local television station MTV released footage of several popular gay hangouts?and police then raided two establishments and arrested patrons.

?I think the internal security forces felt pressured to act and arrested people in these theaters because they felt no one would pay any attention or care,? Helem?s Azzi said. ?The theater was in a poor neighborhood and the customers are on the lowest rung of Lebanese society, many of them were non-Lebanese Arabs.?

A surprising watershed
While a raid in Lebanon?s second city Tripoli went relatively unnoticed, journalists jumped on reports of a one in the outskirts of Beirut after it emerged that dozens of men arrested had been subjected to physical tests.

The controversial procedure, which human rights lawyer Nizar Saghieh said has ?no basis in science and is used as a tool of intimidation,? involves examining the anus for indications of sodomy.

The test has been standard for many years, according to human rights lawyer Saghieh, but was never before brought into the media spotlight. He estimates some 100 to 200 procedures take place every year.

Paradoxically, news that the men had been subjected to the invasive test jump-started a discussion on how homosexuals were treated in Lebanon. ?Until then, the debate had focused whether to grant equal rights to homosexuals and revoke article 534, said Saghieh.

Hundreds were rushed to emergency rooms after an explosion left a 15-foot crater in one of Beirut's nicest neighborhoods. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.

?But the debate was stagnant,? he added. ?With the anal tests, the debate focused on a single aspect of how gays are treated and a lot of people, despite their view on article 534, felt the practice extreme.?

Indeed, the media was almost unanimous in condemning the practice following the revelations over the summer. Many referred to the practice as ?tests of shame.?? One major TV channel went so far as to call Lebanon a ?Republic of Shame,? a term that gained traction across social networking sites.

Following the furor, the Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi passed a decree calling for an end to the tests.?Gay rights campaigners cheered the speedy policy change.

?It is probably the biggest success story in terms of gay rights in the Arab world,? Saghieh said.

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Saade agreed that the government?s decision was significant.

Still, it was just one victory in a long fight for equal rights in Lebanon, advocates said.

?We have come a long way in the past decade or so, but at this point I think revoking law 534 remains a dream,? Saade said.

Indeed, if you aren?t part of the wealthy and privileged Beirut elite, being gay in Lebanon can still prove treacherous.

"Mazen," a 23-year-old who asked for his real name not to be used, said he?s been encouraged by signs that many people are becoming more accepting in Beirut.? But these changes are largely limited to the capital and have not reached his village in the south where homosexuality remains a major taboo.

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Like others in his position, he hides his sexual orientation from much of his family.

?I have told a few cousins who are of similar age but I would never come out to my mother. She would be heartbroken, ashamed and make sure it stayed within the family,? he said.

?If I came out to her, I think she would never speak to me again.?

Shane Farrell is an NBC News contributor and a reporter at NOW Lebanon.

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/30/14780797-oasis-of-tolerance-or-republic-of-shame-two-faces-of-gay-life-in-lebanon?lite

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Meet SnagFilms Filmmakers: Can We Govern Ourselves? New Doc ...

Despite numerous countries fighting for their freedoms, there are many entities today that exemplify autonomy. British documentarian Ivo Gormley's new documentary "Us Now" explores various real examples of self-government around the globe. The film is available to view now on SnagFilms (and below).

What it's really about: "In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power? 'Us Now' is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. It is a description of a world going through the greatest social change since the invention of the printing press. 'Us Now' tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the existing notion of hierarchy. For the first time, it brings together the fore-most thinkers in the field of collaborative governance to describe the future of government. 'Us Now' takes a look at how the internet could allow us to do away with politicians and run the government ourselves. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government for ever. If distributed networks of people can run complex organisations such as football clubs, what else can they do? 'Us Now' follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United; a football club owned and run by its fans, Zopa; a bank in which everyone is the manager,?and Couch surfing; a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers. The founding principals of these projects; transparancy, self-selection, open-participation, are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives. 'Us Now' describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for collaborative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others.

On the influence of anthropology: "I studied anthropology and always took photos. So travelling around and documenting things was always what I did, I started filming things with my dad's video camera as soon as I could and

"Many films are polemics or about how everything's going wrong in the world. Hopefully this is a credible argument for how we could all lead more fulfilling lives."

started editing things together when I was about 17. In those days we could only fit about 10mins of SD footage on the computer. But it felt amazingly exciting to be able to manipulate the footage and then spit it back out on to DV tape. I like being able to go to a place explore it for the first time with the video camera, the camera almost justifying your strange questions and presence in some situations, and then to be able to have a document of it that you can show the rest of the world."

What inspired you to make this film? "I felt like I was from a generation that was taught about how socialism had failed, but was witnessing the failure of global capitalism to allocate resources effectively. It seemed there was no credible ideology available to me. The first time I saw Wikipedia I was utterly amazed. It seemed to me to be proof of human's ability to collaborate through disagreement, across geographical boundaries, without financial incentive and without a rigid hierarchy. It seemed like we weren't using this technology, or anything vaguely similar in the most powerful structures that govern our lives. I wanted to explore this."

His outside influences: "We tried to look at big films about ideas: Adam Curtis has been influential on me structurally rather than stylistically. We watched lots of films that had Philip Glass soundtracks and said important things with text on screen. Some of it rubbed off and with some of it we tried to do our own thing."

On the challenge of the idea of the film: "This was essentially a film about power structures, these are essentially invisible, so it was hard to work out how to film them in the way that wasn't really boring. We got really lucky with the football team and happened to film one of the most amazing matches I've ever seen."

What do you think SnagFilms audiences will respond to most in your movie? "Hopefully the sense of optimism. Many films are polemics or about how everything's going wrong in the world. Hopefully this is a credible argument for how we could all lead more fulfilling lives."

What's Next: "I'm making a film about the Kalash, a tribe of about 3000 who live in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They play a game of hockey with 200 people on a team and a 5 kilometre pitch. The losers sacrifice oxen and the winners become king. It's a fascinating and beautiful place going through a lot of change. I'm excited about getting the film out there."

[Full Disclosure: SnagFilms is the parent company of Indiewire.]

Source: http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet-snagfilms-filmmakers-can-we-govern-ourselves-new-doc-investigates-true-examples-of-autonomy

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Elizabeth Warren Has the Momentum Over Scott Brown with Only One Week to Go

Professor Elizabeth Warren has seized the momentum in her race to unseat freshman Republican Sen. Scott Brown, with most polls in the last month showing the race leaning her way.

A Rasmussen poll released late Friday gave Warren a five-point edge over Brown, 52-47 percent. The poll surveyed 500 likely voters with a 4.5 percent margin of error. Since the end of September, Warren has steadily increased her lead over Brown in the Rasmussen polls. In a Rasmussen poll conducted on Sept. 24, the two candidates were tied at 48 percent. Warren has won or tied in all but three polls taken since then, with an average lead of 3.7 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics Polling Average of the race.

One of those ties came from a new Boston Globe poll released today. In a poll of 583 likely voters, the candidates were tied at 47 percent each. The poll's margin of error was 4.1 percent. Buoying Brown's hopes are his strong favorability numbers. Despite Massachusetts's liberal reputation, Brown continues to remain popular with the electorate, viewed favorably by 57 percent of respondents, to only 37 percent unfavorable. Warren's popularity has taken a small hit under the brunt of relentless attack ads on her history of private law work. Warren's favorability was 49 percent, down four percent from a previous Globe poll. More importantly, her unfavorability number increased six points, from 36 to 42 percent.

This change seemingly has not hurt her chances. Increasingly, national pundits and political bloggers see the race moving Warren's way. The Washington Post and Rasmussen Reports both categorize the race as "leans Democratic," while the New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog calls it "safe Democratic."

The candidates are scheduled to meet for their fourth and final debate Tuesday night in Boston. The impact of Hurricane Sandy on Boston and Massachusetts may force a postponement. Both candidates have already suspended their campaign appearances ahead of the storm on Monday. The debate is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. at the WGBH studios just outside Boston. CNN Anchor John King will moderate the hour-long event, which ill be carried live on television by WGBH Channel 2, WCVB Channel 5, New England Cable News, WHDH Channel 7, on the radio by WBUR 90.9 FM, WGBH 89.7 FM, and Bloomberg Radio. The debate will also be live-streamed over the Internet on BostonGlobe.com and Boston.com. At the time of this writing, no decision on whether or not to cancel has been made by the media consortium sponsoring the debate, or if the debate will be rescheduled if it is.

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Building My Individual Fire | Soulmate Attraction

The process of readying oneself for a great relationship is an art in itself. I learned this twenty years ago when I attracted my first soulmate, the man who became my husband for twenty years. So I thought it would be a snap to ease right into this time, now that I am almost divorced and forging my new life. I was ready for the great love of my life?my second soulmate. But I was wrong. I?ve had to go through the discovery process about my own individual readiness all over again. It is quicker this time, at fifty I have much experience and wisdom to apply to this journey, so while it took me about four years to travel through my own dark night of the soul in my twenties, and come out the other side ready for union with my higher power and another, this time it seems like two years will be necessary. This was not what I had in mind a year ago when I became clear about ending my marriage. I thought I could just swap, one partner for another?one lifestyle for another and skip all of that messing grieving and re-evaluation, life transformation stuff in the middle. But I was wrong again.

However now that I see the light, (and the error of my ways) it is bright and exciting. I call the unknown my close friend now. This helps a lot because I don?t think we can allow a transformative process to really move through us if we are clinging to the known factors in our life. The universe needs a wide berth and a sense of our trust if it is to deliver remarkable results. When friends ask me how I?m doing lately, I say, ?I?m finally feeling content to build my individual fire!?. This is a joyful declaration?I was sad and lonely for many months this past spring and summer. I was grieving several losses all at once; a twenty-year marriage, the ending of a subsequent relationship that I had erroneously felt and hoped would be ?it?, the death of my father in June and the overall change in life for my two sons and me (they moved to new schools and I was about to commence graduate school full-time). I hadn?t ever felt this kind of loneliness?it was an ache so profound and primal, I can only describe it as possibly similar to what earlier humans may have felt when they had been cast out of their tribe and forced to survive the elements alone. But I had decided to spend six months free of the distracting influence of romance in order to discover what I felt and who I was becoming. This was a deep dark night of the soul transformation, which unfortunately, we never seem to be fully aware of when it is occurring. Yet as always seems to happen with the dark night, it brought me to my knees into what finally became a true unqualified surrender; surrender of the faulty operating systems that were not going to get me what I wanted?something deeply fulfilling and meaningful in life and love.

The surrender didn?t happen right away. As have always I fought it. Willful Aries that I am, I thought I knew best about how to conduct my life. But this time there was no messing around with will, the losses were piling up, and by the time my father died suddenly there was nowhere to go but to the ground, on my knees. Which was the most powerful place I could have found. On the ground on our knees is where it all happens with God and the universe?that is where we become open to receiving the great gifts of wisdom, guidance and inspired insight. Nowhere else are we as powerfully aligned with our maker as that exact humble moment?on the ground, on our knees. That is where the universe likes to have us?wide open and vulnerable to using it?s help. Open to letting it do the grunt work in our lives, the heavy lifting?so we can just listen to its operating instructions for the fancy footwork it will show us, if we let it.

Only when I became desperate enough to finally listen to higher wisdom, my true source, could I really hear the message, ?it?s time to be alone now, this is a big opportunity to lay down a whole new foundation for your great life to come?don?t miss it!?. I would like to tell you that I felt a strong instant resolve to be alone and build my individual fire. But that would be lying; it was weak. And I had to listen over and over again (to the voice recordings) to the wise words of two different guides who spoke to this direction. All the while I was taking steps in my life to build my new future, yet nothing felt quite right. I had been accepted to an MSW (master of social work) program and was planning to attend school full time September of 2012. Yet I wasn?t certain about it, it didn?t feel 100% like the thing I should be doing. However, I knew that I wanted career advancement and the possibility of a job in two years. This program worked from a logistical standpoint I would be done in two years, and honestly I saw no other options. So with much anxiety about returning to school after thirty years: with two boys, being a solo parent, and running a business along with some fear of writing research papers and driving three to school hours twice a week, and still knee deep in grief and loss, I committed. Who could have predicted it would all turn around just as soon as the semester began?but it did!

I can remember driving home from my first school orientation at the end of August and feeling for the first time in a year that I was once again on a meaningful path and that graduate school would be healing for me. I think meaning and purpose are healing for us because they give us a sense of hope. Hope is what allows us to defer instant gratification in the pursuit of our dreams. When we have no hope we want to feel better NOW. And sometimes those choices do not build much for our future of sustainable happiness. But once we are inspired for something that is has meaning for us we can do almost anything. This is how I began to find contentment in building my individual fire. But it took two more months for it to really catch. I share this because I think it is important for us to realize that transformation is not usually instantaneous. We get some clarity about a direction to go in and then we feed it, and it gradually starts to feed us and we create a cycle of reciprocity between our self and our new path.

Two months into it, my individual fire is getting strong. I am content to be alone for another six months or longer. I am cultivating my soul by doing several things. I am fine-tuning the daily details of how I operate in the world in regard to time management, boundaries with my family, daily rhythm and routines. I am also listening closely to the cues about my future direction and how to enhance the work I do with people. And lastly I am listening closely to what I am learning about the kind of partner that will fit with the me who I am becoming. A variety of lovely men have ventured in my direction this past year. I only got involved with one of them, but each had their merits. They are nice guys, also kind, handsome, charming, manly, smart and interesting. But all of them had something in common?they wanted me to do the work of initiating and pursuing. For whatever reasons each of these men did not want to take the risk?they were ambivalent; nor did they know how to really connect and be met by a partner. They did not want love, they wanted to some approval and assurance and to explore. I was attracting them to my energy because I was not ready to fully be the new me yet?the me that will be ready to connect and meet with an able and ready partner. I am clear that the quality of relationship I desire will include a greater sense of maturity and harmony than I have previously known. Building my individual fire is how I ready myself to do that. We always attract to us someone who possesses approximately the same level of readiness and emotional health. You just can?t get around that. It?s the law of the universe. I left my marriage and immediately fell for a man who I was ?crazy about?, but neither of us were in that place of true readiness. I had attracted someone whose capacity for a great relationship was just a bit beyond what I had found in my marriage, but not much. I?d had no time to rearrange my being in between the two relationships. I don?t want to be alone, I want a great man in my life. But I am content to build my individual fire now because I have a lot of hope that I am creating the platform for a great relationship and a meaningful new life with each log I throw into my fire. The logs take the form of many things; the meaningful work I do at my internship with middle school age children and my coaching work with clients, the ways I can connect and nurture my two sons, discovering efficacy in my re-entry to academia?working hard at getting good grades, practicing simplicity and self care amidst a big endeavor and being willing to humbly admit when I mess up so I can start over again.

This is enough?this is all I need in my life right now. It feels vital purposeful and alive?fulfilling. I feel fulfilled. Three months ago, still in the throws of the dark night of the soul, I could not imagine this would be possible. But it is and I am deeply grateful for it. I don?t know where my path is taking, me. I have been told I am not supposed to know right now and I actually trust that. All I do know is that I am currently on the right path for me right now and that is enough. I didn?t used to like to live this way. I am a planner. I like to know what I am shooting for and how it is going to unfold. We all do. Yet now the unknown has actually become kind of thrilling to me, if I can feel this much ?rightness? today, why not see where it leads? I just need to be able to peer into the tunnel of my future, ? as far as the light can see?. No further needed today. This brings a tremendous sense of liberation. I can actually trust life and the universe. A path with meaning and purpose can offer this to us?it?s gift is comfort. Meaning and purpose is how we build our individual fire. One of my favorite movies is Field of Dreams, where a mysterious voice tells the main character, Ray Kinsella, a young farmer who is in financial trouble, to plow under his corn field and build a baseball diamond there. The voice is like the chant of the universe, ?If you build it they will come?. Ray does as he is told and a myriad of healing miracles occur that no one could have predicted?hi life path is revealed through this process. So will yours. Begin it now?build your individual fire!
? 2012 Margo Davis-Hollander, is an unpublished work protected by copyright law in the United States. It cannot be reproduced, copied, lent to other people without the written consent of Margo Davis-Hollander.

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'Frankenstorm': Worse than sum of its parts

McKayla Walker and her mother, Holly, fight the wind and enjoy their first time to see hurricane waves on the Atlantic Ocean, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 in Atlantic Beach, N.C. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, Chuck Beckley)

McKayla Walker and her mother, Holly, fight the wind and enjoy their first time to see hurricane waves on the Atlantic Ocean, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 in Atlantic Beach, N.C. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, Chuck Beckley)

A person rides in a cart blown by the winds along the Altlantic Ocean in North Wildwood, N.J., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, as the winds pick up ahead of Hurricane Sandy. From the lowest lying areas of the Jersey shore, where residents were already being encouraged to leave, to the state's northern highlands, where sandbags were being filled and cars moved into parking lots on high ground, New Jersey began preparing in earnest for Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Map shows predicted rain across the northeast

A satellite image of Sandy is shown at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Early Saturday, the storm was about 335 miles southeast of Charleston, S.C. Tropical storm warnings were issued for parts of Florida's East Coast, along with parts of coastal North and South Carolina and the Bahamas. Tropical storm watches were issued for coastal Georgia and parts of South Carolina, along with parts of Florida and Bermuda. Sandy is projected to hit the Atlantic Coast early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster.

How did it get that way?

Start with Sandy, an ordinary late summer hurricane from the tropics, moving north up the East Coast. Bring in a high pressure ridge of air centered around Greenland that blocks the hurricane's normal out-to-sea path and steers it west toward land.

Add a wintry cold front moving in from the west that helps pull Sandy inland and mix in a blast of Arctic air from the north for one big collision. Add a full moon and its usual effect, driving high tides. Factor in immense waves commonly thrashed up by a huge hurricane plus massive gale-force winds.

Do all that and you get a stitched-together weather monster expected to unleash its power over 800 miles, with predictions in some areas of 12 inches of rain, 2 feet of snow and sustained 40- to 50 mph winds.

"The total is greater than the sum of the individual parts" said Louis Uccellini, the environmental prediction chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists. "That is exactly what's going on here."

This storm is so dangerous and so unusual because it is coming at the tail end of hurricane season and beginning of winter storm season, "so it's kind of taking something from both ? part hurricane, part nor'easter, all trouble," Jeff Masters, director of the private service Weather Underground, said Saturday.

With Sandy expected to lose tropical characteristics, NOAA is putting up high wind watches and warnings that aren't hurricane or tropical for coastal areas north of North Carolina, causing some television meteorologists to complain that it is all too confusing. Nor is it merely a coastal issue anyway. Craig Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told reporters Saturday: "This is not a coastal threat alone. This is a very large area. This is going to be well inland."

Uccellini, who estimated that 60 million people will feel the storm's wrath somehow, said: "This storm as it grows and moves back to the coast on Monday and Tuesday, the circulation of this storm will extend all the way from the Midwest, the Ohio Valley, toward the Carolinas up into New England and southern Canada. It's really going to be an expansive storm system."

It's a topsy-turvy storm, too. The far northern areas of the East, around Maine, should get much warmer weather as the storm hits, practically shirt-sleeve weather for early November, Masters and Uccellini said. Around the Mason-Dixon line, look for much cooler temperatures. West Virginia and even as far south as North Carolina could see snow. Lots of it.

It is what NOAA forecaster Jim Cisco meant Thursday when he called it "Frankenstorm" in a forecast, an allusion to Mary Shelley's gothic creature of synthesized elements.

Cisco and others have called this storm unprecedented. Uccellini, who has written histories about winter storms, said the closest analogs are the 1991 Perfect Storm that struck northern New England and a November 1950 storm. But this is likely to be stronger and bigger than the Perfect Storm; it will strike farther south, and affect far more people.

In fact, the location among those with the highest odds for gale-force winds in the country's most populous place: New York City. New York has nearly a 2-in-3 chance of gale force winds by Tuesday afternoon.

One of the major components in the ferocity of the storm is that it is swinging inland ? anywhere from Delaware to New York, but most likely southern New Jersey ? almost a due west turn, which is unusual, Uccellini said. So the worst of the storm surge could be north, not south, of landfall. And that gets right to New York City and its vulnerable subways, which are under increasing risk of flooding, he said.

"There is a potential for a huge mess in New York if this storm surge forecast is right," Masters said.

Add to that the hundreds of miles of waves and the overall intensity of this storm, Uccellini said in an interview, and "we are in the middle of a very serious situation."

Forecasters are far more worried about inland flooding from storm surge than they are about winds.

There are several measures for hurricanes. And one NOAA research tool that measures the intensity of hurricane overall kinetic energy forecasts a 5.2 for Sandy's waves and storm surge damage potential. That's on a scale of 0 to 6, putting it up with historic storms, such as Katrina. It rates a much smaller number for wind.

Because of the mix with the winter storm, the wind won't be as intense as it is near the center of a hurricane. But it will reach for hundreds of miles, spreading the energy further, albeit weaker, meteorologists said.

Uccellini and Masters said they expect the central pressure of the storm to drop to a near record low for the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast for any time of year. That is a big indication of energy and helps power the wind. This puts it on par with the 1938 storm that hit Long Island and New England, killing 800 people, or the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane.

Associated Press

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Rights group: Muslim area of Myanmar city destroyed

Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

A girl joins others collecting pieces of metal from the rubble in a neighborhood in Pauktaw township that was burned in recent violence October 27, 2012.

By Reuters

SITTWE, Myanmar - A human rights group expressed concern for the safety of thousands of Muslims on Saturday after revealing satellite images of a once-thriving coastal community reduced to ashes during a week of violence in western Myanmar.

The images released by the New York-based Human Rights Watch show "near total destruction" of a predominantly Rohingya Muslim part of Kyaukpyu, one of several areas in Rakhine state where battles between Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists threaten to derail the former Burma's fragile democratic transition.

More than 811 buildings and houseboats were razed in Kyaukpyu on Oct. 24, forcing many Rohingya to flee north by sea toward the state capital Sittwe, Human Rights Watch said.

"Burma's [Myanmar?s] government urgently needs to provide security for the Rohingya in Arakan (Rakhine) State, who are under vicious attack," Phil Robertson, the group's deputy Asia director, said.

There were widespread unconfirmed reports of boatloads of Rohingyas trying to cross the sea border to neighboring Bangladesh, which has denied them refugee status since 1992.

No food, no water
Rohingyas in dozens of packed boats with no food or water that have fled Kyaukpyu -- an industrial zone important to China -- and other recent hotspots were seeking access on Friday to overcrowded refugee camps around the state capital Sittwe, according to four Rohingya refugee sources.

Some boats were blocked by security forces from reaching the shore and few Rohingyas managed to reach the camps, the sources said by telephone.

A crew from Britain's Channel 4 News gains access to resettlement camps set-up for around 60,000 members of the Muslim minority group months after deadly clashes with local Buddhists forced them from their homes.

Wan-lark foundation, an organization that has been assisting Rakhine Buddhist refugees, said no clashes in the state had been reported to them since Friday night, but dead bodies of Rakhines had been found.

"Around 6pm last night in Kyawtyaw, the bodies of 16 Rakhines were found in the sea. They had died during the attacks on Thursday. We're looking for more bodies," representative Tun Mein Thein said on Saturday.

The chaos suggests the reformist government is struggling to contain historic ethnic and religious tensions suppressed during nearly a half century of military rule that ended last year.

Myanmar government ends direct media censorship

A Rakhine government spokesman put the death toll at 112 as of Friday. But within hours state media revised it to 67 killed from Oct. 21 to 25, with 95 wounded and nearly 3,000 houses destroyed.

The death toll could be far higher, said Human Rights Watch, citing "allegations from witnesses fleeing scenes of carnage and the government's well-documented history of underestimating figures that might lead to criticism of the state."

The clashes come just five months after communal unrest killed more than 80 people and displaced at least 75,000 in the same region.

Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

Hla Hla Myint, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head in recent violence, rests in a bed at a hospital in Kyuktaw township, Myanmar, Thursday.

'Ethnic cleansing'
A boat carrying 120 Muslims from Kyaukpyu was intercepted by Rakhines, who killed the men and raped the women, the advocacy group Burmese Rohingya Organisation U.K. claimed in a statement. This report could not be verified, Reuters said.

"Ethnic cleansing is happening under the noses of the international community and they are doing nothing," said Tun Khin, the group's president. "We have confirmed reports that hundreds of people have been killed and the government must be aware of that."

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Kyaukpyu is crucial to China's most strategic investment in Myanmar: Twin pipelines that will carry oil and natural gas through the town on the Bay of Bengal to China's energy-hungry western provinces.

The United Nations has warned that Myanmar's fledgling democracy could be "irreparably damaged" by the violence.

Rohingyas are officially stateless. Buddhist-majority Myanmar's government regards the estimated 800,000 Rohingyas in the country as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and not as one of the country's 135 official ethnic groups, and denies them citizenship.

But many of those expelled from Kyaukpyu are not Rohingya but Muslims from the officially recognized Kaman minority, said Chris Lewa, director of the Rohingya advocacy group, Arakan Project. "It's not just anti-Rohingya violence anymore, it's anti-Muslim," she said.

It was unclear what set off the latest arson and killing that started on Sunday. In June, tension flared after the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman that was blamed on Muslims, but there was no obvious spark this time.

Rights groups such as Amnesty International have called on Myanmar to amend or repeal a 1982 citizenship law to end the Rohingyas' stateless condition.

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LG E960 support manuals confirm Nexus 4 name, 8GB and 16GB configurations

The information leaks ahead Google's Android event next week continue to flow, with the latest thanks to support manuals on LG's Australian and UK websites. While we're already familiar with the phone's hardware thanks to a detailed Belarusian review, the manuals confirm it is going to be called the Nexus 4, and that along with the 8GB version we've seen there will definitely be a 16GB edition available. As you can see above, it also includes an induction coil for wireless charging and excludes any microSD slots for additional storage. This all comes after two separate Nexus 10 leaks earlier today, as well as a report by Wired of a lost Nexus 4 recovered in a San Francisco bar (sound familiar?) last month. Hit the source link below to check out the LG E960 PDF for yourself (you may need to select the "show all" radio button), although there's only a few diagrams and support info waiting within.

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Live Polls Show Obama With Bigger Leads In Ohio (CHART)

How tight is the presidential race in Ohio? It depends who's polling.

Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.

TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percentage points in Ohio while his average lead in robo-polls has been less than 2.

Ohio has been the most polled state of the presidential campaign since the national conventions, edging both Florida and Virginia for that distinction. The 44 polls conducted there since the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 6 include 22 done by automated calling, 16 performed by live phone interviews, five conducted online and one based on mail-in responses.

The chart below looks at Obama's leads in live polls compared to the robo-polls since the end of the DNC last month. Any dip below 0 percent represents a lead for Republican nominee Mitt Romney:

The live polls showed Obama with a much bigger post-convention bounce in September than the robo-polls did. His biggest lead was 10 points in a live survey conducted Sept. 18-24 by Quinnipiac University, CBS News and the New York Times.

Conversely, the robo-polls were much more reactive to Romney's rise following the first debate on Oct. 3 in Denver. Obama's average lead in the 15 automated surveys conducted in Ohio after the debate dwindled to less than a point. Romney led in just five surveys in the weeks following that debate. Four of them were robo-polls.

Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll and co-founder of Pollster.com, explained that surveys conducted by live callers remain the preferred method because they are able to reach a more accurate sample of voters.

Part of that, he said, is because unlike robo-polls they are allowed to call cell phones as well as landlines. (Robo-polls are legally prohibited from calling cell phones.) Another reason is that voters are more likely to answer questions from a real person than a pre-programmed recording. That means live polls will sample not just the enthusiastic voters, but also some who are in the middle of the road.

"The response rates to automated polls are naturally a good deal lower than live interview polls. Both have low response rates, but automated are quite a bit less," Franklin told TPM. "The lower the response rate, the more likely you are to get a more involved, interested and motivated sample. That shows up in a higher probability of voting, but might show up with lower undecideds."

Because robo-polls can only contact landlines, they also have a reputation for skewing older, whiter and less Democratic. But Doug Usher, a pollster for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and managing partner at Purple Strategies, which uses robo-polls, told TPM that a "well-crafted automated poll can make up for some of the age and minority gaps." He pointed to online surveys designed to capture voters who only use cell phones.

Nevertheless, Franklin said that automated pollsters will have no choice but to find a way to include a more representative share of what is a growing segment of the electorate. The Gallup organization picked up on this trend earlier this month, increasing the portion of cell phone users in the sample of its daily tracking poll to 50 percent.

"The number of cell phone only users in the population is only going up," Franklin said.

Still, automated polls have grown ubiquitous over the last few election cycles, and their appeal is easy enough to understand. They represent a more economical option than live polls, which necessitate more manpower. Robo-polls also enable organizations to conduct "snap surveys" in one night. Two of the automated polls included in the data above were conducted the day immediately following the first debate.

Charles Franklin is a consultant to TPM's PollTracker

Chart by TPM's Christopher O'Driscoll

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Back and back again!

Hello! 'Name's Hughes. I was a member here quite a long time ago, but I left because I got really busy with school and work... and I dunno why I feel like I'm making excuses! I never shoulda left I'm sorry! D:

*achem*

Anyways, I'm back, though I doubt anyone here remembers me. Probably for the better. I've changed a lot since I last came on here, let's just put it that way! For the better man!

So, uh, yeah, that's all I got.
Nice to meet everyone! :)

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Merkel's conservatives reach three-year high in key opinion poll

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives climbed to their highest level in more than three years in a leading opinion poll published on Friday, but the results pointed to no outright winner emerging from next September's election.

The closely watched Politbarometer for ZDF TV indicated neither Merkel's center-right coalition nor a center-left alliance would be able to win a majority.

The ZDF poll also showed a 48 to 44 percent majority of Germans now believe Greece should remain in the euro zone, up two points from the previous poll. Earlier polls showed a large majority in favor of Greece leaving the euro zone.

Merkel, who has in general been praised in Germany for her leadership in the euro zone crisis, has campaigned more vocally on behalf of Greece staying in the euro zone in recent weeks.

Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), rose 1 percentage point to 39 percent in the ZDF Politbarometer poll - their highest level since 40 percent in September 2009 just before the last election when they won 33.8 percent.

But support for her Free Democrat (FDP) coalition partners remained stuck at 4 percent, one point short of the 5 percent threshold needed for seats in parliament. The FDP won 14.6 percent in the 2009 election.

The main center-left opposition Social Democrats (SPD) fell 2 points to 29 percent in the ZDF poll while the Greens, the SPD's preferred coalition partners, rose 1 point to 13 percent. With 42 percent the two parties would fall short of a majority.

The SPD had jumped to six-year highs in early October after naming former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck as their candidate to run against Merkel next year. In an October 10 Forsa poll, the SPD climbed to 30 percent.

The Left party were unchanged at 6 percent, the ZDF poll showed. It also found that the Pirates party would win only win 4 percent, down 1 point from the last poll.

The Pirates - self-confessed nerds campaigning on an eclectic platform of free Internet downloads, data protection, free underground rounds and legalizing drugs - had surged into double digits earlier this year, reaching as high as 13 percent.

But they have dropped in polls as doubts about their seriousness and ability to come up with constructive solutions grew. The Pirates are also wracked by in-fighting. Two party leaders announced their resignations on Friday: executive board members Julia Schramm and Matthias Schrade.

The poll results would mean only four parties would be in the next parliament with the FDP and Pirates falling short.

That would mean Merkel's CDU/CSU could form another "grand coalition" with the SPD, the same constellation that ruled from 2005 to 2009, or a new coalition with the Greens, which has so far only been tried in one state, Hamburg.

Political analysts, and Greens leaders, believe it would be difficult if not impossible to bridge some of the wide gaps between the conservatives and the pro-environment Greens.

The SPD and Greens could in theory form a coalition with the Left party, but many SPD leaders on the party's centrist wing are opposed to that. Many SPD leaders also are against a repeat of being junior coalition partners in a grand coalition.

(Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/merkels-conservatives-reach-three-high-key-opinion-poll-184040898.html

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