BOSS 58 - Magic

Orli Yaniv on Galei Zahal with Bruce Springsteen's new CD "Magic".
23rd September Boss had 58th Birthday.

'Magic' Song Titles:

1. Radio Nowhere
2. You'll Be Comin' Down
3. Livin' in the Future
4. Your Own Worst Enemy
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. I'll Work for Your Love
8. Magic
9. Last to Die
10. Long Walk Home
11. Devil's Arcade

Links:
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen
Lyrics from Lebanon: http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/links/index.php
Official Website: http://www.brucespringsteen.net

EU court upholds Microsoft's $613M fine

By MATT MOORE, AP Business Writer 9 minutes ago from Associated Press

A European Union court on Monday dismissed Microsoft Corp.'s appeal against an EU antitrust order that ordered it to share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.

It also upheld a $613 million fine — the largest ever levied by EU regulators.

The EU Court of First Instance ruled against Microsoft on both parts of the case, saying the European Commission was correct in concluding that Microsoft was guilty of monopoly abuse in trying to use its power over desktop computers to muscle into server software.

It also said regulators had clearly demonstrated that selling media software with Windows had damaged rivals.

"The court observes that it is beyond dispute that in consequence of the tying consumers are unable to acquire the Windows operating system without simultaneously acquiring Windows Media Player," it said.

"In that regard, the court considers that neither the fact that Microsoft does not charge a separate price for Windows Media Player nor the fact that consumers are not obliged to use that Media Player is irrelevant."

But it did overturn regulators' decision to appoint a monitoring trustee to watch how Microsoft had complied with the ruling, saying the Commission had exceeded its powers by ordering Microsoft to pay for all the costs of the trustee.

Microsoft can appeal the decision to the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice, within two months.

The Commission immediately said it welcomed the ruling, without giving details.

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems called the ruling a good result.

"It's a very good day, for it signals that there will be fair competition for the sector," said Maurits Dolmans, a lawyer for the group.

In its 248-page ruling, the court upheld both the Commission's argument and its order for Microsoft to hand over information on server protocols to rivals. Microsoft had claimed these were protected by patents and the Commission was forcing it to give away valuable intellectual property at little or no cost.

The court confirmed "that the necessary degree of interoperability required by the Commission is well founded and that there is no inconsistency between that degree of interoperability and the remedy imposed by the Commission.

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On the Net:

Court Ruling: http://tinyurl.com/3x2pze

Larry Allison of Oracle in Israel

לארי אליסון, מייסד ומנכ"ל Oracle העולמית יגיע לביקור בישראל
במסגרת ביקורו ייפגש אליסון עם בכירי הממשל והמשק ועם ראשי זרועות הביטחון

לארי אליסון, מייסד ומנכ"ל (CEO) של ORACLE העולמית, יגיע לביקור ראשון בישראל. במסגרת ביקורו ייפגש עם הנשיא שמעון פרס, עם ראש הממשלה אהוד אולמרט, ועם אישים בכירים נוספים בממשל הישראלי. בין היתר, מתוכננת קבלת פנים לכבודו בחסות השגריר האמריקאי.

הביקור, שיחל ב-8 באוגוסט, מוגדר כשילוב בין ביקור ממלכתי-עסקי לביקור פרטי עם משפחתו בישראל.

אליסון הינו מאנשי החזון הבולטים ביותר בתעשיית הטכנולוגיה, אשר הקדים את זמנו וזיהה את הפוטנציאל המסחרי והשיווקי הטמון באינטרנט לפני רבים אחרים.
לפני 30 שנה בדיוק ייסד את אורקל על בסיס תוכנה שפיתח עבור ה-CIA והפך אותה לספקית מסדי הנתונים המובילה בשוק.
אורקל היא כיום הספקית הגדולה בעולם של תוכנות ניהול מידע ארגוניות, עם הכנסה שנתית של 18 מיליארד דולר בשנת הכספים 2007, אשר הסתיימה ב-31 במאי 2007. אורקל העולמית פועלת ביותר מ-145 מדינות ברחבי העולם לרבות ישראל.
אורקל ישראל הוקמה ב-1996 ועוסקת בשיווק, מכירה, תמיכה יישום והדרכת מערכות, בסיסי נתונים, שרתי יישומים, כלי פיתוח, פתרונות ERP, CRM Business Intelligence אינטרנט ואינטרה-נט, ופתרונות נוספים. במהלך שנות פעילותה בישראל הרחיבה אורקל את מעגל לקוחותיה בלמעלה מ-2000 חברות. מספר המפתחים בטכנולוגיות אורקל בארץ נמצא במגמת עליה ומונה כיום למעלה מ-10,000 איש.

לארי (לורנס ג'וזף) אליסון (62) נולד בניו יורק לאם יהודיה. הוא אומץ על ידי זוג יהודים, קרובי משפחתה של אמו .
עוד כילד גילה אליסון כשרון מיוחד למתמטיקה ומדעים, והוכרז כסטודנט השנה באוניברסיטת אילינוי. הוא עזב את האוניברסיטה בסוף השנה השניה ועבר לאוניברסיטת שיקגו, שם נתקל לראשונה במקצוע תכנות המחשבים.

בשנות ה-70 החל לעבוד כמתכנת בסיס נתונים בחברת אמפקס, שם בנה את בסיס הנתונים עבור ה-CIA שנקרא ORACLE. אליסון הושפע מדף בנושא בסיסי נתונים שנקרא "מודל עבור בסיס נתונים לבנק גדול" שנכתב ע"י איתגר קוד עבור IBM . IBM לא ראתה פוטנציאל מסחרי בקונספט הזה שנקרא Structured Query Language (SQL) אך אליסון ושותפיו ראו. בשנת 1977 הקים אליסון את אורקל, תחילה בשם SDL (Software Development Laboratories), בהשקעה של 2000 דולר. הם פיתחו תוכנת מסד נתונים המתאימה גם למחשבים גדולים וגם למחשבים אישיים, שינו את שם חברתם ל-Relational Software Inc ואחר כך ל-ORACLE על שם המוצר. הלקוחות הראשונים למסד הנתונים של אורקל היו בסיס חיל האויר רייט פטרסון וה-CIA. ב-1980 מנתה אורקל 8 עובדים וגלגלה מחזור של 1 מליון דולר, אך בשנה שלאחר מכן, IBM אימצה את ה-SQL של אורקל למחשבי המיינפריים שלה. בשבע השנים שלאחר מכן הוכפלו מכירות אורקל כל שנה. מחברה של 1 מיליון דולר הפכה לחברה של ביליון דולר.

אורקל המשיכה להצליח בשנות ה-90. הבנקים, חברות התעופה, יצרני המכוניות וענקי הקמעונאות תלויים במסדי הנתונים של אורקל. אורקל הרוויחה גם מהתפתחות המסחר האלקטרוני באינטרנט. הרווח הנקי שלה גדל ב-76% ברבעון אחד בלבד בשנת 2000, ושער המנייה שרד את התנפצות הבועה של ההיי-טק ושמר על יציבותו.

Darwish Mahmoud. Came back to Haifa. "Why Have You Left the Horse Alone".

Four years to Yaffa Books and Coffee Shop, Shimon Peres Becomes a President. I bought a book by Darwish in Hebrew. "Why Have You Left the Horse Alone".
Biography From Official Website:
Darwish is considered to be the most important contemporary Arab poet working today. He was born in 1942 in the village of Barweh in the Galilee, which was razed to the ground by the Israelis in 1948. As a result of his politi-cal activism he faced house arrest and imprisonment. Darwish was the editor of Ittihad Newspaper before leaving in 1971 to study for a year in the USSR. Then he went to Egypt where he worked in Cairo for Al-Ahram Newspaper and in Beirut, Lebanon as an editor of the Journal “Palestinian Issues”. He was also the director of the Palestinian Research Center. Darwish was a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO and lived in exile between Beirut and Paris until his return in 1996 to Palestine. His poems are known throughout the Arab world, and several of them have been put to music. His poetry has gained great sophistication over the years, and has enjoyed international fame for a long time. He has published around 30 poetry and prose collections, which have been translated into 35 languages. He is the editor in chief and founder of the prestigious literary review Al Karmel, which has resumed publication in January 1997 out of the Sakakini Centre offices. He published in 1998 the poetry collection: Sareer el Ghariba (Bed of the Stranger), his first collection of love poems. In 2000 he published Jidariyya (Mural) a book consisting of one poem about his near death experience in 1997. In 1997 a documentary was produced about him by French TV directed by noted French-Israeli director Simone Bitton. He is a commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters.

Muhamoud Darwish is the winner of 2001 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. The prize recognizes people whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry, and expression. As defined by the foundation, cultural freedom is the right of individuals and communities to define and protect valued and diverse ways of life currently threatened by globalization.

In the words of poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Mr. Darwish is “the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart. What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world – his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered.”

Mr. Darwish published his first book of poetry, Leaves of Olives, in 1964, at the age of 22. Since then, he has published more than twenty poetry books, including The Adam of Two Edens, Mural, Why Have you Left the Horse Alone, and Eleven Planets. The University of California Press has published his prose work, Memory For Forgetfulness. In 2000, Gallimard published the latest French anthology of his work and, in 2002, a new English translation of Mr. Darwish’s Selected Poems will be published in the United States.Among his accomplishments is the 1969 Lotus Prize and 30 compilations of poetry and prose.

Carefull at 7pm 07.07.07

The Seven Wonders of the World.
7 Wonders of Ancient World:
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria


New Seven Wonders Candidates:
Number Wonder Location
1 Potala Palace Lhasa, Tibet
2 Old City of Jerusalem Israel
3 Polar ice caps Polar regions
4 Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Hawaii, United States
5 Internet N/A
6 Mayan ruins Yucatán Peninsula, Mesoamerica
7 Great Migration of Serengeti and Masai Mara Tanzania and Kenya
8 Grand Canyon (viewer-chosen eighth wonder) Arizona, United States

Charming Sam Blog

TheJC - Print Article

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Want to help Israel? Help its Arab citizens

28 June 2007

By By Paul Usiskin

Over the past few months, Anglo-Jewry has become increasingly aware of the discrimination against Israeli Arabs — or Palestinian Arabs, as they now prefer to be called. The Abraham Fund, which promotes Israeli-Palestinian Arab dialogue, launched a UK branch earlier this year. The Pears Foundation brought community leaders and Israeli Jewish and Arab experts together in March, to discuss how best to increase funding to Palestinian Arabs. And the UJIA’s CEO, Douglas Krikler, admits there is real urgency about the Palestinian Arabs’ situation.

They are one of the poorest sectors in Israel’s economy and neither contribute to nor benefit from Israel’s consistent growth. The discrimination against them is the culmination of nearly 60 years of betrayal of Palestinian Arabs. Asking “what is this to us?” is rather like the Simple Son at the Passover. It should be a matter of concern to all Anglo Jews.

Israel’s Declaration of Independence included a promise to the Palestinian Arabs that they would “play their part in building the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions”. Instead, there has been persistent discrimination, the stain of which Israel must remove.

From 1948-66, the bulk of the Arab population lived under Israeli military administration. The Naqba — the tragedy, as Palestinian Arabs call the War of Independence — delivered a national concussion from which they were unable to recover until after military administration ended. Yet even then, higher education, jobs, housing and municipal services all were and are inadequate and hard to access. Mass land expropriations in 1976 only exacerbated matters, and villages — a misnomer for townships of 20,000 plus — were placed under curfew whilst their land was seized.

No one should be surprised that Palestinian Arabs, watching Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, fear being squeezed out of what remains of their own land.

Demonstrations in support of the Palestinians lead to the October 2000 tragedy, in which 13 Palestinian Arabs were killed in riots. Seven years later, no Israeli has been sentenced for their part in the loss of lives.

Worst of all, Israel is actively trying to create a Jewish majority in the Galilee, where at the moment, 52 percent of the 1.149 million residents are Palestinian Arabs. The Galilee and Negev redevelopment plan first published in November 2004 totalled £2.09 billion. Palestinian Arabs have not had enough of a voice in this strategy. Over the past year, ex-Gaza settler families were offered £11,220 to resettle in the Negev or the Galilee. In June 2005, a conference in Carmiel discussed the details of the Galilee re-development. No Arabs were invited.

NGOs now lead Palestinian Arab civil society in trying to crystallise the direction of a new Palestinian Arab collective. The first and most significant expression of this was “The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel”, released at the end of 2006. Produced by a committee of heads of local authorities, and specifically not Palestinian Arab Knesset political parties, the Vision stated what the Palestinian Arab community wanted in its relationship with Israel. Every aspect of the life of a national minority was covered, including collective rights; national identity; representative institutions; participating in the peace process; furthering dialogue.

Israeli reaction was dismissive. Israelis are anxious about Hizbollah, Iran, Hamas. The Azmi Bishara case, in which the Arab Israeli MK was accused of spying for Hizbollah during the 2006 Lebanon war, has intensified suspicions that the Palestinian Arabs are a fifth column.

More than tzedakah, Anglo-Jewish engagement with these issues can lead to a vital role in assuaging past agonies and future fears. There is a blatant need for social justice for the Palestinian Arabs, without whom Israel’s democracy is the poorer.

Paul Usiskin is co-chair of Peace Now-UK

O C C U P I E D: "Bimkom" Conference in Jaffa

O C C U P I E D: "Bimkom" Conference in Jaffa

Widely used diabetes pill Avandia might significantly increase the risk of heart attacks.

Study raises questions about Glaxo diabetes drug
By Stephanie Saul

Tuesday, May 22, 2007


NEW YORK: Clinical trials show that the widely used diabetes pill Avandia might significantly increase the risk of heart attacks, according to an article being published in The New England Journal of Medicine.


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued what it called a "safety alert" in response, advising patients who are taking Avandia, particularly those at high risk for a heart attack, to seek advice from their doctors.


The agency also said it had been evaluating a possible risk increase since August and announced plans to convene an advisory panel to review the issue as quickly as possible. But government regulators cautioned that they had not confirmed the significance of the findings.


The New England Journal of Medicine posted the paper Monday on its Web site, ahead of its print publication June 14, a step that the editors take with matters they consider to have implications for public health.


"We view this as the best publicly available data on a very important question," said the editor of the journal, Dr. Jeffrey Drazen. "It shows what we regard as a preliminary, but worrisome, signal about cardiovascular toxicity of this drug."


While noting possible weaknesses in data used in the analysis, an accompanying editorial calls for a review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It also questions why physicians would prescribe Avandia, which is made by the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and is known generically as rosiglitazone.


In a statement, Glaxo said it strongly disagreed with the conclusions of the report, Reuters reported.


"GSK stands firmly behind the safety of Avandia when used appropriately, and we believe its significant benefits continue to outweigh any treatment risks," the company said.


Avandia, on the market since 1999, is used by an estimated two million people a year worldwide for the treatment of Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes. With $3.2 billion in worldwide sales last year, it was Glaxo's second-biggest product, after the asthma drug Advair.


Drazen said patients concerned about the drug should meet with their doctors to decide whether to remain on it or switch to another drug.


The finding - that Avandia raises the risk of heart attack by 43 percent - was based on a review of 44 studies of the drug. The review was conducted by Dr. Steven Nissen and Kathy Wolski of the Cleveland Clinic, where Nissen is chief of cardiovascular medicine.


Nissen was among the first doctors to raise questions about the cardiovascular safety of Vioxx, the Merck painkiller that was withdrawn from the market in 2004.


Nissen's letter noted increased cardiovascular problems in a 5,000-patient clinical study. GlaxoSmithKline sponsored the trial in an effort to expand use of Avandia beyond a treatment of diabetes to a prevention of it.


In the trial, patients taking Avandia had 66 percent more heart attacks, 39 percent more strokes and 20 percent more deaths from cardiovascular-related problems.


The New York Times



Copyright © 2007 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com

Steve Ballmer’s comments bring MS Shares down FT.com

My Windows 98 crashed so this is with Linux!

FT.Com Writes:

Microsoft shares fall after Vista warning

By Kevin Allison in San Francisco

Published: February 16 2007 22:44 | Last updated: February 17 2007 02:33

Microsoft shares suffered their biggest intra-day fall in nine months on Friday, a day after its chief executive warned that some analysts’ revenue estimates for the new Vista operating system appeared to be “overly aggressive”.

Steve Ballmer’s comments, made at a presentation to Wall Street analysts, came two weeks after the long-awaited launch of Vista, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system.

Vista, which is intended to replace Windows as Microsoft’s core profits earner, is the company’s most important new product since the launch of the Windows 95 operating system nearly 12 years ago.

Mr Ballmer on Thursday cautioned that Vista would not lead to a big increase in Microsoft sales in the coming fiscal year.

“You shouldn’t think of a huge surge in fiscal year ’08 relative to ’07,” he said.

Roger Kay, an analyst at Endpoint Technologies, said the comments may have been a way for Microsoft to damp expectations for the coming quarter, which typically marks a seasonal low for consumer personal computer sales.

“Most consumers aren’t buying PCs right now, and corporations are serious when they say they are not going to start adopting Vista until 2008,” he said.

Mr Kay, who expects Microsoft to ship 72m copies of the operating systems this year, said Microsoft’s internal estimates for Vista sales may have been overly optimistic as well.

“Ballmer has always been very much a salesman, and he has tended to tout things on the high side,” Mr Kay said.

Most big companies, which account for the bulk of PC sales, are expected to upgrade to Vista gradually over the next few years.

Microsoft’s shares fell as much as 2.7 per cent in early trading in New York on Friday, recovering slightly to close down 2.4 per cent at $28.74. The shares had risen from a low of $21.51 in June, an increase of about 30 per cent.

However, shares in the world’s two biggest personal computer makers, which are relying on Vista to boost sales of PCs this year, drifted slightly higher yesterday. Hewlett-Packard rose 0.21 per cent, while shares in Dell rose 0.04 per cent.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

Massarano's Jerusalem. Bloggers United!

END-OF-Blogger-Beta Bloggers United!
http://chanasys.blogspot.com
http://chanasystems.blogspot.com
Bussed to Jerusalem to meet Avraham Massarano
Yizhak came together with John his friend who took over the talking.
Trouble and Scandle in the Police.
Saw The Queen last night. My Comments on Imdb.com

 http://imdb.com/user/ur0498043/comments

Video-Schedule

Video-Schedule: "TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

Mortimer and Raymond Sackler
Institute of Advanced Studies

In coordination with
The Moshe Dayan Center for
Middle Eastern & African Studies


אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

המכון ללימודים מתקדמים
ע'ש מורטימר וריימונד סאקלר
בשיתוף עם:

מרכז משה דיין
ללימודי המזרח התיכון ואפריקה


Professor Bernard Lewis
Professor Emeritus
Princeton University Princeton, U.S.A


פרופסור ברנרד לואיס
פרופסור אמריטוס
אוניברסיטת פרינסטון
פרינסטון, ארה'ב



Lecture



הרצאה




ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS"

My Last day of 2006

Here in Jaffa at Midnight there were many Fireworks for the New Year 2007 and Eid al-Adha.
I heard Nachman Shai in the Morning about Iraq and Iran.
He said that Israel should take the "Backseet" and not sit in front over the Iran Issue as it concerns many countries.
I had a Last meeting with Noah Shai Anavim, and exchanged cards.
I told her about http://groups.myspace.com/jaffaduet My New Group called "Duet in Jaffa".
Many Thanks to Noah.
Best wishes to Everyone.
Sam in Jaffa.

I am tired of hearing about Saddam Hussein

Heard it at 5 am.
I am against Capital Punishment
And I Hope Peace will Return soon to Iraq.
Sorrow for all the Dead Today and in the Past.

סיפורי ארץ ישראל

סיפורי ארץ ישראל

Happy Chanukah but not much Good News

Happy Chanukah but not much Good News

Friday, 15. December 2006, 19:01:03

News

Haaretz News Flashes Today

Not much Good News,
Happy Chanuka.
Mandriva Linux Working with Internet.


Haaretz News Flashes Today


20:37Iran says will painfully avenge UN sanctions against its nuclear program (Reuters)

20:33Fatah: Hamas orders hit on 8 Fatah leaders in Gaza, including Dahlan (Haaretz)

20:23Haniyeh meets with Egyptian security official in wake of recent PA violence (AP)

20:04Austrian businessmen suspected of exporting nuclear components to Iran (Reuters)

19:33Jordanian king calls on Palestinians to cease internal feuding (AP)

19:32Chirac orders probe into French participant in Iranian Holocaust conference (AP)

18:53Former minister Sharansky receives Presidential Medal of Freedom (Haaretz)

18:36Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet calls emergency meeting over escalating violence (AP)

18:26Haniyeh: We joined Hamas in order to be martyrs, not ministers (Israel Radio)

18:24EU demands Syria respect Lebanon`s democracy and stop meddling in its affairs (AP)

18:17Gamblers try to fix National League soccer game (Army Radio)

18:15Qassam fired into W. Negev lands in open field, no injuries reported (Israel Radio)

18:04Hamas: $35m Haniyeh didn`t carry into PA to be deposited with Arab League (Reuters)

17:36Hezbollah official: 250 of group`s militants killed in Lebanon war (AP)

17:18Senior Abbas aide Erekat: Hamas `fully responsible` for Gaza violence (AP)

17:12Lebanese PM in Moscow, hoping for Russian help in settling relations with Syria (AP)

16:38France pushes ahead with int`l conference on rebuilding Lebanon (AP)

16:22Abbas aide: Abbas ordered probe into deadly shooting on Haniyeh`s convoy (DPA)

16:05Haniyeh calls for unity among Hamas, Fatah, `to preserve Palestinian blood` (Reuters)

15:53Iraqi police: Two suicide car bombs explode outside U.S. bases in Iraq (Reuters)

15:327 donated organs implanted in patients` bodies across Israel this week (Israel Radio)

15:12Hamas: We won`t free Shalit unless our prisoners are freed simultaneously (Reuters)

14:54Top Hamas official rejects new elections, says Abbas seeks war (Reuters)

14:28British PM Tony Blair heads to Turkey for Mideast peace drive (Reuters)

14:26Sen. John Kerry: Bush refusal of dialogue with Iran, Syria is a mistake (AP)

13:3931 Hamas supporters wounded in clashes with Fatah in Ramallah (Haaretz)

13:32Iraq Red Cross: U.S. forces harassment is bigger threat than insurgent attacks (AP)

13:23EU leaders criticize Iran over Holocaust denial,`negative policies` in Mideast (AP)

12:59Ramallah hospital sources: Nearly 20 Hamas men hurt in clashes with Fatah (Reuters)

12:47Ramallah resident: One killed, three wounded in Fatah-Hamas clashes (Israel Radio)

12:37Fatah-Hamas clashes reported in Ramallah during Fatah rally there (Israel Radio)

12:32Defense Ministry not allowing 250 Palestinians to go to Mecca via Rafah (Haaretz)

11:49Iranians begin voting Friday in country`s third-ever local council elections (AP)

11:34Hamas: Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan behind attack on Haniyeh`s convoy (Reuters)

10:52Turkey, Israel have agreed on pipeline linking Black Sea and Red Sea (Reuters)

10:33Hamas deploys armed militants in key parts of Gaza (Reuters)

10:16Iran: Any UN resolution to pressure Tehran over nuclear program would be illegal (AP)

09:34Woman, 65, critically hurts 90-year-old in Nahariya, in fight over snoring (Haaretz)

08:54Iran says Olmert`s remark on nuclear power is sign of Israel`s weakness (Reuters)

08:46Peres: Funds Haniyeh collected will finance terror, not feed Gazans (Israel Radio)

07:54MK Steinitz: Israel must respond harshly to Hamas-Iran alliance (Israel Radio)

07:29Former PA minister Abu Zaida: Situation in PA is very dangerous (Israel Radio)

07:09Six people killed in three traffic accidents in south overnight (Israel Radio)

06:4560-year-old man burned to death in apartment fire in Hadera (Israel Radio)

05:48Arab League chief reports progress in Lebanon mediation (AP)

Police arrest suspect in murder of Katzrin teenager

My Sisters Children all went to Nofei Golan School and My Mother lived in Kazrin for a few happy years


From w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
Police arrest suspect in murder of Katzrin teenager
By Jack Khoury

Thousands of residents of Katzrin attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of 13-year-old Tair Rada, whose body was found Wednesday evening in the bathroom of the Nofei Golan high school, where she was a seventh-grader.

The community rabbi, Yosef Levy, spoke of the sense of shock that had enveloped the town since word of Rada's murder was released.

Yesterday morning a Katzrin man, Raphael Cohen, 57, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder. The police said Cohen was "strange" and lived alone. Cohen denied any connection to the murder, and his attorney, Ibrahim Oudeh, said the police had not presented any evidence against his client, who has no criminal record.

Judge Rahamim Tzemah said, "it is difficult to say at this point that the suspicion is well-founded." Nonetheless, considering that the investigation is in its preliminary stages, the judge said he believes "there is enough evidence that apparently connects the suspect to the crime." The judge extended the suspect's remand by only three days, denying the police request for a seven-day remand.

Crime scene investigators continued to collect evidence yesterday throughout the day, around the school and especially in the bathroom where Tair's body was found at 7 P.M. Wednesday by local police, who were sweeping the town after she was reported missing. Police said Tair had gone to school as usual Wednesday morning. Her mother reported her missing a few hours after she failed to return home at 2 P.M.

There were stab wounds on the body as well as other signs of violence. The body will be submitted for autopsy.

Despite Cohen's arrest, the police have not ruled out the possibility that the murder was the result of teen violence. A police officer told Haaretz that Cohen's arrest might be an effort to rule out certain directions in the investigation. At the request of the police, the court placed a gag order on the details of the case, including those involving other suspects who have not yet been brought to court.

Regular classes were suspended yesterday at the high school, where many parents accompanied their children to school and remained with them in the classroom. Psychologists, educational counselors and social workers were on hand all day at the school. Last night, a parents' meeting was held in the school together with teachers and mental health professionals. The parents said the mood of the children was grim, and they asked a number of questions about security at the school.

Tair is survived by her father, Shmuel, who recently retired from the career army, her mother Ilana, and two brothers, Roi, 24, and Ehud, 22.

Last update - 02:58 08/12/2006

Six hurt as tornado hits London

Six hurt as tornado hits London
Tornado damage

Many people are spending the night in a respite centre after a tornado ripped through several streets in north-west London.
Up to 150 houses and many cars were damaged when the freak weather hit the Kensal Rise area.

One man in his 50s suffered a serious head injury and five were treated for minor injuries and shock.

Fire services have sealed six roads in a zone covering a quarter of a square mile and searched at least 100 homes.

Fire crews were called at about 1100 GMT on Thursday to Chamberlayne Road and surrounding streets, amid reports of collapsed scaffolding and damage to buildings.





Witnesses said there was heavy rain and sleet, then debris flying through the air.

Resident Colin Brewer said: "It was really, really incredible. All of a sudden I saw a swirl starting to form and then, it was amazing, but it then touched land.

"I then saw clumps of all sorts of things flying into air. It went from exciting to terrifying."

Local resident Daniel Bidgood said: "I was in my living room and I heard a big crack of lightning and thunder, then as I went to the window I heard a sound which was like standing behind a jetliner.

"I could see a huge cloud rolling up the street, making this tremendous sound.

"I went to try to take a picture of it but a shower of debris smashed all the windows of my house."


He reported seeing trees ripped up from the roots, front doors missing, windows smashed and people being hit on the head by flying objects.

Dave Bonner, of London Fire Brigade, said one house had its roof completely removed while another had an exterior wall demolished.

Residents returning from work were told to report to the Church of the Transfiguration hall in Chamberlayne Road where they would be met by police and local authority representatives.

Brent Council has set up a respite centre at the nearby Legion Hall on Albert Road for residents who have been made temporarily homeless.

A council spokeswoman said about 70 people are at the hall but they are preparing to help about 150.

The UK experiences an estimated 50 tornadoes on land each year, putting it top of the European league.

The BBC Weather Centre said the tornado lasted less than minute.

"To see a tornado is not that unusual - but the magnitude of the damage due to the one in north-west London is," said BBC meteorologist Susan Powell.





She said the tornado formed due to a lot of energy in the air across the UK, producing widespread heavy thunderstorms with gusty winds.

"However, in the case of the shower in London, the massive up and down draughts came into phase, spiralling and forming a tornado," she said.

The Association of British Insurers said initial estimates suggested damage would be in the millions of pounds rather than tens of millions as seen in Birmingham tornado in 2005.

The last tornado which caused significant damage in London was in December 1954, in west London, in which six people were hurt and the roof of Gunnersbury London Underground station was ripped off.

What Microsoft say about Linux Deal with Novell

From the Editor
Greetings Samuel,

Cheers to you all. We have three big things to celebrate this week. First, I'm writing to you from beautiful and exotic Barcelona, the site of the sold-out Tech-Ed IT Forum. The conference hall is overflowing, so much so that we Microsoft employees were banned from the keynote to make more room. But fear not, this intrepid reporter will not miss out, and neither should you. In fact, we can all check out the IT Forum sessions of interest virtually by joining the Virtual Side. Watch interviews with top experts, listen to podcasts, and see featured sessions via video on demand. It's a good thing I found out about this after I booked my nonrefundable trip to Barcelona. Tapas anyone?

There is good reason to be here live, however, and I'm not talking about the nightlife in Las Ramblas. We're throwing our own party with the official launch of the first Forefront Security products: Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint, both of which will be available in December. In case you haven't been paying attention, the Forefront solutions are based on the Antigen products acquired by Microsoft in the 2005 acquisition of Sybari Software. You don't have to wait for December, though. Check out the public betas of Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint today.

And the third thing to celebrate is the landmark deal between Microsoft and Novell to improve interoperability between Windows and Linux. What's really cool about this agreement is that it acknowledges the fact that so many of you manage mixed-source environments and that, to support you effectively, we have to bridge the divide between open source and proprietary software. To that end, Microsoft and Novell will create a joint research facility to pursue new software solutions for virtualization, management, and document format compatibility. This isn't so much about Microsoft embracing Linux; it's about supporting the choices that customers make and making it easier to deploy Windows in Linux environments and vice versa.

Everyone wins and that's reason to celebrate.

Thanks for reading.
Mitch Irsfeld
Editor, TechNet Flash

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