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Our nation is threatened by a growing cultural divide, a paralyzed political system, and deteriorating support for our core institutions. Our political system is increasingly unable to solve problems and reach bipartisan compromise. The deterioration has reached a point that we are losing trust and faith in our politicians, our institutions, and each other. As a result, our nation may be divided to an extent that we are losing a sense of shared aspirations, ambitions, values, and the belief that there is more that unites us than divides us.


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GRIP, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, doesn't begin for over a month. I always like to do some planning in advance, and with my schedule for the next three weeks, I need to do even a little more advanced planning.
I received an email from Elissa and Debbie, the GRIP co-directors, regarding schedules, etc. Since I'm flying and won't have a car, parking isn't an issue. But making sure that I have everything packed that I will need is more important because I won't be able to just run out and pick something up.
With over 200 students enrolled in GRIP this year, there are going to be two lines for lunches and breaks. It appears that breakfast and dinner will be all together, which is great, since I'd like to be able to see some of the students in other sessions.
I have completed my reading for the Practical Genetic Genealogy class, but I'm going to reread some of the material since I feel I will understand it better after my DNA day at Jamboree. I also may do some other reading (if I can fit it in).
So, what do I really need to remember? I'll probably update this list and post it again in a couple of weeks.
Alarm clock
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Fitted bottom sheet (those mattress covers are slippery and the flat sheets just don't stay tucked in)
That's all for now. These are items that we often have in hotel rooms that aren't in dorm rooms. Hope this helps you all get started. See you in a month.


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In another bout of bad news for Research in Motion, Google has announced it will end support for its BlackBerry Gmail app.
The Mountain View-based search company said it will end support for the app on Nov. 22.
"Over this past year, we've focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in this area," Google said in a blog post.
The announcement comes as Google just released a iOS app for Gmail. Users can continue to use the BlackBerry app even after Google ends its support.


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Ali Farag went undefeated through January with a 4-0 mark in the No. 1 position (photo courtesy Dale Walker).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 5 Harvard men's squash team travels to New York City and Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend to take on No. 15 Columbia and No. 6 Cornell in a pair of Ivy League contests.
No. 5 Harvard
The Crimson broke out to a 10-0 start before dropping its next two to No. 3 Princeton and then-No. 1 Trinity. Despite the losses, Harvard remained in the No. 5 position in the most recent College Squash Association (CSA) rankings and will likely move up after knocking off No. 4 Rochester, 7-2, Jan. 28. All 21 players on Harvard's roster have won at least two individual matches and all enter the weekend with records of over .500. The Crimson is 111-15 (.881) in individual matches in 2011-12, including 13-0 in the No. 1 position. Brandon McLaughlin (4), Nigel Koh (3) and Nick Hopcroft (2) provided the early season wins at No. 1 for the Crimson, while Ali Farag (4-0) has won the last four matches in the top spot. Julian Kirby (10-1) leads the team in wins with 10.
Last Time Out
After losing its last two matches, the No. 5 Harvard men's squash team got back on track with a dominant 7-2 win over No. 4 Rochester Jan. 28 at the Murr Center. Ali Farag won his fourth consecutive match at No. 1 to start his college career, as the Crimson won in each of the top seven positions.
No. 15 Columbia
The Lions were on a two-game winning streak with wins over Connecticut College and Georgetown to get back to .500 for the year, before slipping to 5-6 overall with a loss No. 10 Williams, 8-1.
This is the first meeting between Columbia and Harvard since the Lions became a varsity program in 2010-11.
No. 6 Cornell
Entering the weekend, the Big Red is tied with Harvard for third place in the Ivy League. Cornell sits at 8-3 overall with all of its losses coming to teams in the top five. Trinity and Yale downed the Big Red earlier in the season and most recently Cornell fell to Rochester, 7-2.
Owen Butler comes into the weekend with the best record for the Big Red at 10-1 in positions No. 6-9, while Arjun Gupta trails at 9-2 in positions No. 3-6.
Harvard leads the all-time series with Cornell, 40-2, with both of the Big Red's wins in the series having come recently. Cornell's first victory over the Crimson came in 2008 and the second in 2010, but Harvard won the last meeting, 5-4, a season ago.
Next Up
Harvard rounds out the regular season against Brown Feb. 10 at the Murr Center and at Yale Feb. 12.


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Photographer's Note
Die Niagarafälle (englisch Niagara Falls sind Wasserfälle des Niagara-Flusses an der Grenze zwischen dem US-amerikanischen Bundesstaat New York und der kanadischen Provinz Ontario.
Im Bild die"the Maid of the Mist"
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.
The picture shows the "the Maid of the Mist"
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danos (110395) 2014-05-08 7:45
Hi Wolfgang,
very nice the panoramic view of the place with the moody of the atmosphere to makes the image even more effective.A eally excellent snapshot of the 'the Maid of the Mist'.
holmertz (82832) 2014-05-08 7:48
Hello Wolfgang,
This is a fine shot looking rather dramatic, as if from a stormy sea. There is a beautiful blend of grey and almost green tones and you placed the boat very nicely on a diagonal. It would be an interestinbg challenge for a painter to capture this view.
Kind regards,
emilbo (22616) 2014-05-08 8:20
Allô Wolfgang!
Une magnifique photo qu'on pourrait dire, prise en pleine tempête. L'effet est dramatique. Je sais qu'il faut avoir un bon ensemble de pluie, pour cette aventure, si on ne veut pas sortir de là tout mouillé. Est-ce que tu étais sur terre ou dans un autre bateau pour prendre la photo?
ikeharel (98396) 2014-05-08 8:22
The known round-boat, like a big bucket, of the Niagra-Falls, Wolfgang.
A pleasure that get you wet, but what a sight to see from.
Nice taken with the turbulent-water around.
Good evening,
lousat (120521) 2014-05-08 8:42
Hi Wolfgang,it seems a scene from a dramatic movie..ehee..magnificent capture from the Niagara falls,truly original and very well done with spectacular detail and colors despite the very difficult location,i like it! Have a nice evening and thanks,Luciano
Fis2 (141882) 2014-05-08 10:14
Witaj Wolfgang!
Takim stateczkiem pod wodospadem Niagara, to musz± byæ wra¿enia.
Fajne spojrzenie i kadr.
Scena wygl±da na powa¿n±.
its a real panoramic and brethtaking view
how did you take this difficult shot?
almost perfectly executed with this
boat placed diagonaly
dramatic atmosphere and capture
truly original
PiotrF (41884) 2014-05-08 12:09
Hello Wolfgang,
Imminent view of choppy water, spectacular capture from the Niagara falls. Dramatic atmosphere.
Well managed shot!
emka (138716) 2014-05-08 13:31
hello Wolfgang, it must be fun to go with this boat under the waterfall. Unfortunately in April, when I was there, the water was still frozen :((.
WArm regrads MAlgo
jcpix (14030) 2014-05-08 16:13
Hi Wolfgang,
Maid of the Mist...what mist, where...I see none?? :) I can never see or hear of this boat without thinking of the movie Bruce Almighty, and the scene that takes place on this vessel. :)
You've definitely composed this to play right into the strength of its namesake...plus, it leaves some room for the imagination, as it might appear to be lost at sea, completely isolated from any sort of land and being tossed about by the waves. A very interesting, elevated perspective and fun image. Nicely done! Enjoy the new day. Take good care.
Friendly wishes,
rychem (67707) 2014-05-08 21:35
Wir sehen die Niagarafaelle nicht, aber wir koennen sie hoeren! Erstklassiges Foto, ein einsames Boot auf dem tosenden Wasser
Mics (984) 2014-05-09 1:45
Hi Wolfgang
Great capture. I like the tempestous mood of your shot.
Kind regards,
delpeoples (60288) 2014-05-09 1:57
Ciao dear Wolfgang
This poor ship looks like it is in trouble. I love the wild water and how small the ship looks in comparison to it. The icy blue colours work really well and it is well contrasted. Nice work.
ruisc_pt (11360) 2014-05-09 6:05
Hi Wolfgang Forcher
Outstanding framing,
A misty ambiance like in a exploring trip...
Very well done
mirosu (16313) 2014-05-09 6:33
Guten Tag Wolfgang,
Der Schif ist von oben sehr gut aufgenommen. Es ist in sehr gutem Kontrast gegen weisses Wasser. Quadrat-Format ist perfekt. Sehr schoene Aufnahme.
Ich wuensche Dir schoene Wochenende.
Nicou (187726) 2014-05-09 8:06
quelle vue de ce ba^te4au dans cette eau en remou sueprbe vue et cpatage uqel blanc et bleu et vue plongeante3, sueprbe.
Bravo et amitié
samson (2250) 2014-05-09 8:22
Hi Wolfgang
Looks like the boat is heading towards a perfect storm.
Well done on the dramatic effect.
Romano46 (18472) 2014-05-09 14:37
Ciao Wolfgang
il soggetto era nella posizione più idonea per rappresentare una scena drammatica anche se si tratta di una situazione che si svolge solo nel raggio di pochi metri in prossimità della cascata.
Ottima la composizione e molto buono lo scatto anche considerando le difficoltà oggettive che l'ambiente ostile presenta.
Ciao e buon fine settimana
ourania (51103) 2014-05-09 23:45
Hello Wolfgang,
this is a superb capture, a fascinating scene. I like very much the diagonal perspective of the ship and the sense of depth you have achieved within this misty frame. You cropped the picture excellently, balance, movement and drama are combined superbly. I also love the rich palette of cold tones and the atmosphere, which has been rendered even more dramatic by the isolation of the boat. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a lovely weekend,
jhm (190735) 2014-05-11 5:23
Hello Wolfgang,
Fog gives always a special atmosphere these small boat is the real eye catcher on these picture .
Also the photographer did his best.
Your picture is very well taken, with depth and perspective.
Splendid colours and lovely presentation.
Very well done, TFS.
Have a nice Sunday,
serp2000 (47063) 2014-05-12 11:52
I see there are not a lot of the tourists on the boat. I do remember we had have a full ship of the travellers. Anyway, this is very interesting photo, it reminds me a lonely vessel in the stormy ocean! Good capture of the water expression, excellent photo, Wolfgang! TFS!
photoray (13981) 2014-05-12 19:52
Guten Tag Wolfgang,
Good action scene of the Maid of the Mist, appearing like a ship at sea in a heavy storm. Amazing the turbulence is from a waterfall instead.
Also taking this boat trip is an exciting experience.
Thanks for sharing,
mkamionka (53294) 2014-05-16 8:17
Hallo Wolfgang,
I had the pleasure to be on his boat and take also a similar photo like this one here but it was in pre-digital times and the quality of my photos is not good. Nice capture here with the mist clearly seen and justifying the name of the boat.
Very well done!
Schoenes Wochenende!
No_One (4) 2014-05-17 5:26
Hi Wolfgang
Amazing that this is the maid of the mist, as soon as I saw it I thought of the movie The Perfect Storm!
I guess we normally see these boats with the falls in view, but this is a great idea, as it shows the effect of the falls on the water. Great view, thanks for sharing.
Best wishes
Didi (61569) 2014-05-18 23:12
Hi Wolfgang
Interesting remake of the film Niagara
Very good scene in the stormy falls site
Well done
Best regards
claudeD (47754) 2014-05-19 9:18
Hello Wolfgang,
always impressive this pictures from the Niagara Falls. Very good composition and fine sharpness.Like the shot very much.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
jmdias (91326) 2014-05-22 17:38
I know Iguassu and Victoria falls, I need to know this one to complete the 3 largest ones. haha.
nice view of the boat that looks like lost in the middle of a storm. beautiful mood.
siudzi (34141) 2014-05-24 0:34
Hi Wolfgang,
What a capture this! It looks like a movie scene! Really like the moment you selected for that image and special execution full of cold blue tones. TFS!
Have a nice weekend!
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- Date Taken: 2013-05-03
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Historical anthropologist, University of Chicago
Hosted by AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez, "Inside the President's Studio" features interviews with anthropologists about their ideas, research and passions. It is part of an ongoing effort to foster public, visible and active engagement with anthropologists. Become a part of the conversation by reading and listening to the interviews, adding your comments to the blog, and suggesting people or topics for future pieces.
This month the studio features Shannon Lee Dawdy, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is a historical anthropologist whose research focuses on New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexcio.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, only the second part of the audio interview is available. For a copy of the written questions provided before the podcast was recorded, see below or the February 11 isssue of Anthropology News.
How did you end up becoming special liaison between FEMA (the Federal Emergency ManagementAgency) and the Louisiana State Historic Preservation Office, after Hurricane Katrina, andwhat did you, in fact, do in this role over the past 5 years, or perhaps you still do?
In the days after the storm, I asked an old friend and mentor, Dr. Tom Eubanks (now deceased), who was the Louisiana State Archaeologist, if there was anything I could do to help and he got back to me quickly with a proposal for this role, which lasted from the beginning of October until the end of December 2005. In this role, I assisted in reconnaissance surveys of New Orleans to assess the condition of historic properties and sites; I consulted on modifying historic preservation review processes to take account of the massive scale of the event, and various special projects like researching the social history and landmarks of the Lower 9th ward.
Your work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina put you in the public spotlight more than many anthropologists. Have you secretly enjoyed that spotlight? Are you normally outgoing and, if not, how do you handle the spotlight and the multiple audiences with whom you now engage?
In New Orleans before Katrina I had other experiences with public outreach and media attention, so this was not an altogether new thing. When there's a greater good to serve, there is some satisfaction in getting a message across. But I become quite uncomfortable when the focus shifts from events and messages to the person speaking (i.e. myself). I've never had any interest in being a celebrity and I hate being photographed or filmed. As an anthropologist, I have so far failed to comprehend the current American fascination with fame and attention for attention's sake
What first drew you to New Orleans? Didn't you start out doing historical archaeological work in the southeastern part of the U.S.? Did New Orleans lure you away with its sights, smells, music, tastes, and archives? Or was it "pure luck"?
Actually it was my husband who lured me there after I finished coursework for my master's at William and Mary, where I got my first archaeological training. He's a jazz musician. After I was lured, the complexity and sensuality of the city hooked me.
I have long thought that we do too little anthropological work (and perhaps even too little historical and sociological work) on New Orleans and southern, urban and semi-urban Louisiana. Would you agree, or do you think that much has changed since the 1970s and 1980s when I did my work on New Orleans and Louisiana? If you do agree, why do you think we have too few scholars working on the rich past and present lives of Louisianians? Is it that too many people just think of New Orleans as the city in which they prefer to play?
There's been quite an upwelling of work by sociologists, anthropologists and historians on Louisiana and New Orleans since the early 1990s — Daniel Usner, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Helen Regis, Jacques Henry and Carl Bankston, Kevin Fox Gotham, to name just a few. Since Katrina, there's been more work and new dissertation projects started, so I think though this characterization was quite true at the time I started to work there, it has since become a locus of interesting work by a wide variety of scholars.
What were you like when you were 10-12 years old? What kind of life did you lead? Did you, or others, expect you to do something within the realm of what you do today? Have you always known you wanted to be an archaeologist or was there everanother career path that beckoned?
When I was 10, I think I still wanted to be a truck driver. I was a shy and quiet tomboy, but none of my colleagues believe me.
Do you have a favorite popular cultural depiction of archaeologists? A least favorite? Do you cringe (or secretly treasure) films in which archaeologists come across as brave heroes or daring adventurers?
I don't think of myself primarily as an archaeologist and am not all that invested in the persona so I guess I don't have strong feelings about media depictions, though am amused by the fact that Indiana Jones was supposedly a University of Chicago professor. If only we were allowed to be that interesting, or get that much leave time to run off and get in trouble.
Your book, Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans, seems quite historical to me. I also know that you like to focus on individuals and their everyday lives, even if you think about empires and their out-of-the-way places by looking at their lives. Don't historians think of you as a historian and wonder why you call yourself an archaeologist? As a fellow (past) student of New Orleans, I could see you also within the realm of social/cultural anthropology (albeit a historically inflected one). What am I missing?
I don't think of my work in disciplinary terms. My PhD is in anthropology and history. Sometimes I dig in the archive. Sometimes I dig in the ground. Now I am doing ethnography. Whatever the questions I am pursuing require.
How do you know when you've got a (scholarly or scientific) question that is worth pursuing? How do you begin to pursue it and how do you decide that you have pursued it enough? Are there times when you just drop a project because you don't know what to do with it any more or where to take it? Can you give us an example or two of the latter?
I can't think of any projects I've dropped. In terms of ones worth pursuing, it has to do with what the material is saying to me and whether or not it inspires new directions back into theory and history. This is not part of the creative process about which I am terribly self-aware, so I'm not sure I can explain it. If a project keeps me up at night thinking or I am excited to go into the office the next day to get some ideas down, then it keeps growing.
What do you do when you are not working? How do you take breaks? Do you take breaks?
I am sure not enough breaks. I spend time with my kid and family when not working.
Does anything about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on your research and professional life surprise you? Did the overall experience change the way you teach, the way you relate to neighbors in Chicago, the way you think of anthropological training, the way you think of urban infrastructures or even historical ruins, the way you think of governments, state structures, and imperial centers or outposts? Have you had that fleeting thought here and there about going back to school to study civil engineering or city planning?
Katrina changed many things for me, some of which I describe in the preface to Building the Devil's Empire and in a chapter in a new book from Michigan called Anthrohistory. Disaster not being anticipated, it is all a surprise. Made me unafraid to take risks, made me more conscious of the importance of friendships but also realistic that you can't save the world, only help those you know.
Should I ask if you blame anyone for the damage(and loss of life) that accompanied Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast? Is this a questionyou dodge when asked?
No dodging. I blame all of us addicted to oil and agribusiness which necessitated the revetment of the Mississippi river and the destruction of Louisiana's protective marshes. I blame the federal government for substandard levees and a bungled response.
I must ask about the MacArthur grant you just won. Was it a total surprise? Do you now feel pressure to do work on a different scale or at a higher level of risk-taking? Can you imagine yourself 5 years from now looking back at what you chose to do? What are your greatest hopes for these years? And your greatest fears? Do you somehow feel obliged to choose a project with a likely impact on public policy or on the direction of archaeological research in the U.S., or perhaps even specifically on disaster prevention or historical preservation?
Yes, it was a total surprise. It comes with no strings attached, but is meant to be a spur to creative work. I take that challenge seriously but in order to sustain this gift over the long haul, I am going to take my time to figure out what to do with it. Historic preservation is something I study rather than something I do. The gift has made me assess honestly what my most unique contributions might be and I think they lie in spurring collaborative work across the Gulf of Mexico, and in researching/writing beyond genre. And if only I could use the MacArthur to prevent disasters…


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team (20-6) downed the Columbus State University Cougars (15-12) in a 63-45 drubbing in the first round of the Geico Championship Series Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament. This is the eighth time in school history a GC head coach led a team to 20 wins. Maurice Smith is the first Bobcat head coach to have 20 wins in his first season.
The 'Cats will travel to USC Aiken to play No. 4 Lander University at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 5 in the semifinal round at the Convocation Center. The other semifinal game will be played by No. 12 USC Aiken and No. 1 Clayton State University.
Chimere Jordan (Gray, Ga.) led all scorers with 14, shooting 6-of-18 from the floor. She also chipped in six boards, five assists and four steals. Jordan's 14 points makes her the 12th player to enter the 1,000 point club at Georgia College, as she now has 1,013. Jordan is the first Bobcat to score over 1,000 points in just two seasons of play.
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Georgia College went up 2-0 after a Jordan jumper and would not trail the rest of the game. The Bobcats stretched their lead to as many as 16. Karisma Boykin (Carrollton, Ga.) had all 10 of her points in the first half. She also grabbed eight rebounds, three steals and dished out two assists. GC took a 38-22 lead going into the first half.
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The Bobcats shot 22-of-64 (.344) from the field and held the Cougars to 14-of-52 (.269) shooting. The 'Cats out-rebounded Columbus 50-36, won the turnover battle 18-12 and had 10 steals. The Bobcats are now 8-0 when they record double-digit steals.
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|Version 3 (modified by mauricio, 6 years ago) (diff)
Trac XML-RPC Plugin
This plugin allows Trac plugins to export select parts of their interface via XML-RPC.
It also includes some exported functions for manipulating tickets, with plans to include functions for other parts of Tracs API.
Unfortunately, due to some issues with mod_pythons FieldStorage emultation layer, this plugin requires the patch in [trac-ticket:2509 #T2509] to be applied to your Trac installation.
Once this patch has been applied, install in the same manner as any other Trac plugin:
# python setup.py bdist_egg # cp dist/*.egg /srv/trac/env/plugins
Bugs/Feature? Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for XmlRpcPlugin? are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the zipped source from [download:xmlrpcplugin here].
You can check out the source for XmlRpcPlugin? from Subversion at http://trac-hacks.swapoff.org/svn/xmlrpcplugin.
End-User Usage
Obtain a list of XML-RPC exported functions available to my user:
import xmlrpclib server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://athomas:password@localhost/trac-dev/RPC2") print server.tracrpc.api.list_xmlrpc_functions()
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NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) -- Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz are expecting their second child.
The 33-year-old singer and 35-year-old record producer announced the news Thursday on Instagram. July 31 marks the couple's fourth wedding anniversary, and Keys posted a picture of herself and Swizz Beatz captioned with a special message to her husband.
"Happy Anniversary to the love of my life @therealswizzz !!" she wrote. "And to make it even sweeter we've been blessed with another angel on the way!! You make me happier than I have ever known! Here's to many many more years of the best parts of life!"
Swizz Beatz posted a similar photo on his Instagram and captioned the shot, "Love is life & life is love and we're so excited for another GIFT from up above. Happy anniversary my Goddess. 4 years of greatness & cheers to 100 plus more inshallah."
Keys and Swizz Beatz married on the French island of Corsica on July 31, 2010. The couple already have one child together, son Egypt, who was born in October 2010. Swizz Beatz has three other children from previous relationships.
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STAMFORD — The home of Newtown school shooter Adam Lanza's father is for sale.
The Advocate of Stamford (bit.ly/1cs8vvz) reports that Peter Lanza's house in the city's well-to-do Westover section has an asking price of $710,000.
The 54-year-old Lanza and his second wife lived in the house for about five years, although a Lanza spokesman said Tuesday that Lanza is not on the deed. The spokesman declined to comment on Lanza's plans.
Listing agency Halstead Properties describes the home as a 2,375-square-foot ranch cape with three bedrooms and a pool.
In December, Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself. He also killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home before going to the school.
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Strawberry Frappuccinos No Longer Vegan, Contain Ground-Up Bugs
A few years ago, we happily passed on the news that a change in Starbucks Frappuccino flavors meant that you could get some flavors in a vegan formulation. But now, if you're a Frappuccino lover who eschews eating animals, you'll have to stay away from the strawberry variety from here out. The good news is that the newest base doesn't contain artificial red food dye. The bad news is that's because it's been replaced with cochineal extract, a dye made from dried, ground-up insects.
You might say "ew!" or just shrug this off, but it's a big deal to vegans. The site This Dish is Veg tipped us off to the change, and they in turn learned about it from a vegan barista who read the new ingredients list. They checked in with Starbucks, and this was the company's statement:
At Starbucks, we strive to carry products that meet a variety of dietary lifestyles and needs. We also have the goal to minimize artificial ingredients in our products. While the strawberry base isn't a vegan product, it helps us move away from artificial dyes.
Many Starbucks ingredients can be combined to create a beverage free from animal-derived products; however, we are unable to guarantee this due to the potential cross-contamination with other animal-derived products in our retail locations.
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Faculty Will Write, Travel This Summerby Jim Amidon • May 9, 2005 Share:
It's all over but the tears and memories.
The 2004-2005 school year at Wabash College is now, officially, in the books. Sunday about 175 men will earn their sheepskin diplomas as graduates of the College and head off to begin their lives in graduate and professional schools and the workplace.
Underclassmen are long since gone. When finals ended Friday, there was a mass exodus of the last remaining underclassmen and now, mercifully, we are again blessed with ample parking around the campus.
Before the students left, we sent out some mass email notes to find out how many of them will spend their summer. The list was fascinating and included research internships from coast to coast, internships with firms like Saks Fifth Avenue, and the typical lawn mowing summer jobs.
You can check out the full story on the College's web site: www.wabash.edu
Once we pinned down the summer plans of our students, we decided to ask our faculty how they plan to spend the summer.
English professor Tobey Herzog will travel to Chicago, Norwalk CT, Tallahassee FL, and Austin TX to interview Vietnam soldier-authors Larry Heinemann, Philip Caputo, Robert Olen Butler, and Tim O'Brien)for a book he is writing. Tobey, a Vietnam veteran, has already written a book about O'Brien, and Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was on campus last year.
First-year German professor Brian Tucker will travel with his colleague John Brynes on an immersion learning trip to Berlin. Tucker will stick around after the students return to the States, and will research 19th century German author Theodor Fontane. He'll also participate in a summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Theater professor Jim Fisher will deliver the commencement address at Mitchell College on May 13, then work with student intern Braden Pemberton to write half of the forthcoming "Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism, 1880-1930." He's also been commissioned by the University of South Carolina Press to do another volume on playwright Tony Kushner.
Math professors J.D. Phillips, Mike Axtell, and Will Turner will host the first Wabash Summer Institute in Algebra. Thanks to a nifty grant from the National Science Foundation, our faculty will host 12 students from all over the country for intense mathematics research and discussion.
Turner will complete that before he heads to Beijing, where he will present a paper at the
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation.
History professor Rick Warner will be writing a book on the Cora Indians, write some book reviews, and will once again be involved in grading World History AP essays. Then, later in the summer, he'll travel to Morocco to present a paper on African history at the World History Association conference.
Fellow historian Michelle Rhoades, who spent spring break in Paris with her history students, will be working to finish her book, "The French in Love and War: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Disease."
Rhoads and Warner will also collaborate with Steve Morillo and Jon Aden on a new world history textbook. Professor Morillo, on research leave next fall, will also be working on two other books on military history and the "warrior elites" in world history.
Math professor Chad Westphal will be a visiting scholar at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then spend the rest of his summer collaborating with colleagues at Purdue and Colorado on (yikes!) "least-squares finite element methods for problems from continuum mechanics." (Note to readers: I don't know what that means, either.)
Religion professor Stephen Webb isn't content to write just one book; he's working on three different books this summer. He'll also attend the Christian Scholars Conference at Pepperdine University in Malibu, where a panel will be devoted to his last book, "The Divine Voice."
English professor Tom Campbell has spent the year in Tokyo, where he has been involved with the GLCA/ACM Japan Study Program. Once the students leave, Tom and his family will spend a month touring the country.
Art professor Greg Huebner wrote that he'd be spending five days a week in the comforts of his studio in the Stutz Building in Indianapolis.
First-year music professor Peter Hulen has been commissioned to write new compositions in choral music and for the Quartet New Generation, a recorder-playing quartet, which will perform at Wabash next year.
All in all it will be a busy and exciting summer for the faculty. This is by no means and exhaustive list, but just an opportunity to demonstrate how our teachers spend their summers.
As for me? I've got nothing planned that is nearly as exciting as trips to Beijing or trips through Japan or Malibu. Mostly just gardening, some water skiing, and prepping for next year.
Amidon is Wabash College Director of Public Affairs and the College Secretary. He writes a weekly column for the Crawfordsville Journal Review. This column appeared May. 9.
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Toyota's clever attempt to reach owners of "jailbroken" iPhones and other iOS devices via a Scion tC-theme posted on Cydia — an alternative appstore for the devices — garnered downloads and press attention for smart marketing. Now the campaign's gaining attention for completely caving to Apple. UPDATE.
It's estimated approximately 8-9% of iPhone users have jailbroken their device, giving them access to a broader range of apps and customization options with just a few simple steps. It's legal, but Apple's been notoriously against the practice and will not recognize jailbroken phones for support.
Given how many iDevices are out there, and given they have enough of a disposable income to spend on them and then throw away the service and warranty agreement, it's a huge market for automakers like Toyota trying to reach tech-obsessed consumers for certain vehicles like the Scion tC.
Advertising agency Velti developed a theme for the car and uploaded it to Cydia sometime in February, harming no one.
Unfortunately, press attention about how great an idea this was caused Apple to send a request to Toyota to shut it down. And they did, choosing to pull the theme in order to maintain its relationship with Apple, even though the automaker's entertainment center is Microsoft-powered.
In just a few days Toyota went from a large community of car-buying consumers giving them kudos to getting comments like this, posted on the Modmyi site:
"This is ridiculous... looks like even Toyota is Apple's b!tch."
So much for all that good will.
UPDATE: According to a Toyota spokesperson, the company was not requested by Apple to end the campaign:
At no point did Apple ask us to end/remove the "jailbreak" component of our campaign. The campaign ended at the end of March as scheduled. Overall it was a very interesting experiment that extended advertising to reach a new, unique audience.
We spoke with Kyle Matthews of the modmyi.com community, who broke the story, and he claims his website featured an advertisement link to something called "Scion 2011 Theme" that was an extension of Toyota's campaign through April 7th. "I had a check from Velti in my mailbox Monday when they called me to say cancel the campaign and remove the theme," says Matthews.


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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ignyta, Inc., the personalized medicine company dedicated to improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lupus and other autoimmune diseases, announced today that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has expanded its support of Ignyta through an additional $1M capital term loan facility. The new facility is incremental to the previous $500K facility entered into between Ignyta and SVB in June 2012.
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The company was launched in August 2011 by Jonathan E. Lim, M.D., former president, CEO, and board director of Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc., and Gary S. Firestein, M.D., director of the Clinical and Translational Research Institute and Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor of Translational Medicine at UC San Diego. Ignyta is a trailblazer in the application of "omics" technologies integrated with bioinformatics to the development and commercialization of novel biomarkers and tests for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in autoimmune diseases.
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Why is this important? It's important because Qatar just beat out the US to host the 2022 World Cup and that event is usually held in June.
Now, I don't know about you but I can't imagine running around for five minutes in that kind of heat, much less over the course of two 45-minute halves. How hot does it get in that area of the world? Well, when world-class swimmers are dying in the water, you can say it's pretty dang hot.
So, what happens to soccer players who don't even have the water? I've been in a ballpark in the States in June and it's no joke. If I wasn't able to continuously replace the water I lost through sweating with beer, I would have been in trouble. And I was only sitting there, not moving around. Add 20 degrees and a lot more physical exertion and you've got a recipe for disaster.
I know that Qatar has been developing air conditioned stadiums and all that jazz but this just seems like a phenomenally bad idea. Or maybe it's just that I'm American and can't understand why you'd ever say no to us. Maybe we forgot to say "Pretty please"?


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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois state Senate approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday in a Valentine's Day vote spearheaded by Democrats, as gay couples around the country used the romantic day to dramatize their quest for the right to marry.
The Illinois Senate, which is heavily Democratic, voted 34-21 largely along party lines to advance the measure to the House in President Barack Obama's home state. The fate of the bill in the state's lower chamber remains uncertain.
Democratic Governor Pat Quinn has promised to sign any bill legalizing gay marriage, which would make Illinois the 10th state to legalize same-sex nuptials, in addition to the District of Columbia. It would also become the first Midwestern state to approve same-sex marriage through legislation. Iowa's Supreme Court legalized such marriages there in 2009.
"Full equality for all people is right for Illinois," Quinn said in a statement urging the House to approve the measure.
Obama has encouraged the drive to legalize gay marriage, authorizing a White House statement recently saying that if he were still in the Illinois legislature, he would vote for it.
The Illinois drive to legalize gay marriage coincided with a national campaign by a coalition of gay rights groups to highlight the issue on Valentine's Day.
As part of what they call "Freedom to Marry Week," same-sex couples will request marriage licenses in 18 places around the country, including a number of states where same sex-marriage is not legal.
"These laws are unjust and immoral, and we are confronting those laws head-on across the country," said Heather Cronk, managing director of GetEQUAL, a gay rights group.
Democrats accounted for all but one of the votes supporting legalization of gay marriage in the Illinois Senate. Three Democrats voted against the bill and two voted "present."
Republican Senator Jason Barickman brought audible gasps on the Senate floor and galleries when he said changes sponsors made earlier Thursday to guarantee religious liberty had persuaded him to support the bill.
Barickman acknowledged afterward that his vote could cause a backlash in his largely conservative district, but he had no regrets. "I feel like I did the right thing," he said.
Democratic Senator Bill Haine voted against the proposal and along with Democratic Representative Daniel Beiser has proposed amending the Illinois constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
"We are changing an institution that is revered or held sacred ... by thousands of people," Haine said.
Although the Illinois House, like the state's Senate, is controlled by Democrats, the fate of the legislation in the lower chamber remains a question mark. It is unclear when representatives might take up the proposal.
Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross said he was not sure whether the measure would gain Republican support. There also was concern that some black Democratic legislators from Chicago could oppose the measure because of pressure from African-American Christian pastors.
Some black ministers have joined Illinois Catholic bishops in expressing strong opposition to legalization.
The state's financial crisis is expected to dominate the legislature this year and some business groups have said lawmakers should focus solely on the state's fiscal mess.
Three states approved same-sex marriage by referendum in the November election: Maryland, Maine and Washington. Rhode Island, the only state in New England that has not yet legalized same-sex marriage, moved a step closer last month with approval by its state House of Representatives, although it was expected to face an uphill battle in the state Senate.
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As your Invisalign® dentist in San Mateo, we will be the first to tell you that your smile will look beautiful when we are done but it is not a quick process to get your teeth straightened using Invisalign® or any other system. We follow a very set and defined process at our clinic to make sure that your teeth not only move to the right location, but also stay there. It is important for you to set the right expectation, and have a clear sense of the ultimate goal which is to give you straighter, better-aligned teeth at the end of the treatment.
Invisalign® works based on a series of aligner trays. Each of these trays are designed to move your teeth .25 millimeters and are supposed to be in place for 2 weeks at a time. Using a "pushing" method this gradual movement allows the teeth to adjust to their new alignment before starting to move them to the next phase. Since it is a slower process, we estimate that the average of a patient will undergo treatment for around 12 months. There are a few cases where it can be completed in around 6 months, and even some cases where it has taken up to 3 years, but the average is 12 months. We will discuss your particular situation during the first consultation.
When you meet with us for the first time, as your Invisalign® dentist in San Mateo, we will go over a number of different aspects of your treatment. This will include information on the length of the treatment and what to expect after you are done with your initial Invisalign® plan. Two aspects that are not as well know about Invisalign®, are the use of refinements after the treatment and the need to wear a retainer. We will discuss this with you before starting the treatment, but here is a quick overview.
Retainers: Whenever you move your teeth into a different alignment, they have a tendency to want to move backwards after the treatment is completed. We do not want you to lose the alignment, which we work so hard with you to get for a period of a year or more. To offset this potential movement, we will prescribe a retainer. The retainer will be custom fabricated for your mouth specifically. You will need to wear this retainer every night so that it can hold your teeth in place. If you do not wear the retainer, you do run the risk of the teeth moving and having to restart the entire process. This is especially true if you have a tongue thrust.
Refinements: One thing we have learned as an Invisalign® dentist in San Mateo, is that after the treatment is over there are often small modifications that need to be made. Sometimes these modifications are adjustments that you want to see, and at other times we will need to make modifications. To do this, we will take measurements of your newly aligned teeth, and create a special set of refinement aligners to make the tweaks necessary to give you a perfect set of straight teeth.
During your initial appointments, we will discuss all of this in detail, including the likelihood that any refinements may be necessary.


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Star Wars Actor Kenny Baker Dies at 81
Aug 13, 2016 1:54 PM EDT
Kenny Baker, the actor who brought the lovable Star Wars droid R2-D2 to life, has passed away at the age of 81. The British actor died after a long illness, The Guardian reports. Baker, who was 3ft. 8in. tall, played R2-D2 in the first six Star Wars… Read more


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Used 2019 KiaForte FE Sedan
- Stock: SAKH16106
- Odometer
- 15 miles
- Fuel Economy
- 27.0/37.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Aurora Black
- Interior Color
- Black
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Transmission
- 6 speed manual
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 2.0L I-4 cyl
Highlighted Features
- Lane departure
- Automatic temperature control
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front dual zone A/C
- Remote keyless entry
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Fully automatic headlights
Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- Air conditioning
- Automatic temperature control
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front beverage holders
- Front dual zone A/C
- Illuminated entry
- Overhead console
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power windows
- Rear beverage holders
- Rear door bins
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 195/65HR15.0
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Power steering
- Rear tires: 195/65HR15.0
- Wheel size: 15"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- AM/FM radio
- Primary LCD size: 8.0"
- Radio data system
- Smart device integration: Apple CarPlay & Android Auto
- Speakers: 4
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Front center armrest
- Front seats: bucket
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Rear seats: bench
- Cylinder configuration: I-4
- Drive type: front-wheel
- Engine liters: 2.0
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 27mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 31mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 37mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 14.0gal.
- Horsepower: 147hp @ RPM
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Transmission: 6 speed manual
- Variable intake manifold
- Variable valve control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: trunk
- Compression ratio: 12.50 to 1
- Engine bore x stroke: 81.0mm x 97.0mm (3.19" x 3.82")
- Engine displacement: 2.0 L
- Engine horsepower: 147hp @ RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,801mm (70.9")
- Exterior height: 1,435mm (56.5")
- Exterior length: 4,641mm (182.7")
- Front headroom: 986mm (38.8")
- Front hiproom: 1,346mm (53.0")
- Front legroom: 1,072mm (42.2")
- Front shoulder room: 1,425mm (56.1")
- Interior cargo volume: 433 L (15 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 433 L (15 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 2,718L (96.0 cu.ft.)
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- Rear hiproom: 1,298mm (51.1")
- Rear legroom: 907mm (35.7")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,405mm (55.3")
- Wheelbase: 2,700mm (106.3")
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- Lane departure: Lane Keeping Assist active
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By Jilly on Wednesday, October 30, 2019This is the second forte I've owned, because I loved the first one so much. This car has tons of safety features I didn't imagine would exist so soon, like collision avoidance, lane keeping assist, and blind spot collision warning. It also sends me a notification when it senses I am drowsy and should take a break. Also it has many comfort features like heated, and cooled seats. The trunk provides tons of storage space as well as the back seat wich is surprisingly roomy.
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By Crazy Caly on Tuesday, June 04, 2019Okay the old Forte may have been short of expectations for everything. However Kia is upping its game in the car industry. They have done a very good job with the optima's over the years. Now it looks like they are putting their efforts into the all-new Kia Forte 2019. Love the overall styling. Doesn't look like a car that cost under $20,000. Then you get in and they've added all kinds of good technology. They have Lane assist frontal Collision assist also excellent backup camera and Android Apple carplay with 9 1/2 inch screen. Also dual climate control and all of these safety features and more are on the basic models of the car. I got the middle-range version the XLS. I did not like the S low profile ride it was a little shaky. However I did enjoy the XLS which has bigger tires and has a more Suburban ride. It also has a mode indicator when you're on trips you want to the smart mode for awesome gas mileage I got 45 miles per gallon hightailing it to the beach. I get about 43 miles to the gallon going up in the Deep mountains on Smart Mode. It also has a sport mode that will allow you a little bit more horsepower when you want to get somewhere in a hurry. I actually push this car recently to get to a wedding on time and it was awesome. The people that say the engine is a little weak or absolutely crazy. It stayed on a hundred and ten miles an hour and was so smooth it felt like that was its regular speed. Mine is a little tight on curves but that's because of the lane assist steering that is on the car. Which is a good safety Factor when you want to pop a top on a soda or if you are fumbling with your sunglasses. It also will let you know if you are a drowsy driver pretty cool for a car under $20,000. I call this car that used car breaker I was going for a used car at around the same price point of 16 to 17000. It reminds me of the way they are doing bicycles now. You can buy a new bicycle cheaper than you can repair your old one. Kia Forte is like used priced and it's brand new with a awesome warranty. Love the fake stitched Dash and old school vents they applied in this car. Car is comfortable even though it does not have the updated seats. Back room is not too shabby in this car. Where I love it is the trunk space. Driven the car 12,000 very beautiful miles. Car has exceeded expectations. Would highly recommend this to anyone he wants to save money and have a great ride. I just love riding up beside a BMW and showing them the hands off driving lane assist safety feature. This item is on a lot of luxury cars that cost 20000 more. It's great to save money. If you're not a prude you will love this automobile!
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This evening an item came up in my Google reader which made me exclaim a delighted "Oh!".
One of the many great features of the Trove site is all the RSS feeds. As all of my immigrant ancestors settled in Victoria, I have signed up to the RSS feed for newly added titles from that State. It has been fantastic seeing more and more newspaper names relating to regional areas appearing.
This one in particular made me sit up and take notice because my COUPER branch had a long history in the Oakleigh area, being some of the earliest pioneers and also sitting on council. They also have the sad distinction of the known first burial in Oakleigh Cemetery – Christina Couper was buried there on 11 December 1860, aged just 7.
Naturally I jumped right in. A search on COUPER gave me 69 hits. Many of them were advertising for "Dr Couper-Johnson", and not likely to be of interest to me. When I eliminated those I still had 22 results. Sadly, 21 of those results are still undergoing quality control so I can't see them!
The one result I can see is notes from an Oakleigh Shire Council meeting, where my butcher ancestor's request to renew his slaughtering licence was considered, but postponed. I will have to do a manual search for meeting notes for the next month to see what happened. I know that he continued as a butcher for many more years, so presumably he got the licence but there must have been a reason for consideration of the request to be postponed.
OAKLEIGH SHIRE COUNCIL. (1888, December 22). Oakleigh Leader (North Brighton, Vic. : 1888 - 1902), p. 7. Retrieved August 4, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66176226
I must remember to search on Cowper and other variations as well.
Moving on there were tantalising glimpses of promising articles which were in the results but not yet viewable. Like this one:
What sad event?! What was his role in it?
There were also several mentions of a D.Couper in Court of Petty Sessions reports. I will just have to wait and see what they contain.
Something to look forward to!


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"This crap is like walking barefoot on a thorn. AAgh!"
No it isn't, it's a perfect opportunity for irony, ...lateral thinking needed here.
I've mentioned this before, if you encounter one of these CLICK ON IT!
…here's what happenes.
Adsense generates banner ads by keywords that it harvests from the site, and presents a unique ad for each browser view based on cookies on that browser.
In this case, it's a Christian organization. When you click on the banner ad, the Christian organization (…get this) has to pay Adsense extra, Atheist Nexus gets a cut. Just click, and after the page opened, either close it or hit your "back" button. You just helped Atheist Nexus.
Here you have the double irony of a ridiculous Christian ad on an atheist site, effectively tithing to the site after you click on the banner -> helping to pay for a site where some (well a few of us anyway) are actively pursuing the enforcement of the Establishment Clause …and separation of church and state.
A delicious irony.
This crap is like walking barefoot on a thorn. AAgh!
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FLOORTEC R 870 combining performance, price, ergonomics and low total costs of ownership. It is a versatile, heavy duty, dust free sweeper for both outdoor and indoor applications. It is suitable for sweeping in both light and very dusty environments with debris up to 60 mm.
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The side brooms have no belts and all brooms and electric motors are shut off when not in use, saving power and maintenance costs. No tools are needed for main or side broom and filter removal and easy access to all components makes for fast and easy maintenance and service.
The retractable hopper with high hydraulic dump can be closed from the operator compartment letting the operator drive the machine away after dumping into a container. The inclined operator foot panel improves comfort and the low two step panel makes it safe and easy to jump on and off.
FLOORTEC R 870 is it suited for a wide range of use from industry and manufacturing, warehouses, distribution centers, parking lots, gas stations, car dealers, agriculture, machine pools and multi-story car parks to agriculture, building and construction.


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Life on the Edge
The City of the Dead on the outskirts of Cairo is an inhabited necropolis, home to the poorest of the poor, the overspill from the congested slums of the Egyptian capital. Incorporating diary extracts and based on extensive research, Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg's book paints a vivid and compelling portrait of life on the edge of Egyptian society. By Volker Kaminski
Mona is proud of being a cemetery dweller. The walls and gravestones have been familiar sights to her since childhood. Her parents' apartment among the tombs has three small rooms, not much for a family of ten, but when she helps her mother prepare a meal and the family gathers around the table, nobody gives a thought to the dead in their burial chambers a few metres below their feet.
This, and the fact that the cemetery is still in regular use for burials, is just part of her everyday life. As far as Mona is concerned, it's just normal routine.
Childhood and youth in the City of the Dead
It was through a chance encounter, whilst engaged in some research in Cairo, that journalist and author Haase-Hindenberg got to know the 18-year-old Mona. Though reluctant initially, she later agreed to tell him her life story.
Mona, the eldest of eight brothers and sisters, keeps a diary, excerpts from which have been woven into Haase-Hindenberg's book, allowing the intimate subjective authenticity of Mona's own voice to complement the sober, objective tone of the biographer.
What emerges is a fascinating story and one that reveals not only the terrible poverty of the people of the City of the Dead, the population of which is estimated at around a quarter of a million, but also the voice of an intelligent young woman determined to escape the debilitating drudgery of her surroundings.
The strange new world of downtown Cairo
Before finishing school, Mona's world was limited to the dusty cemetery lanes, the small markets among the mausoleums, with craftsmen hammering gravestones in front of their houses. This was all to change the day she decided – without telling her strict parents – to take a trip into downtown Cairo. From that day on, her 18th birthday, things would never be the same again for Mona.
Her first sight of the megacity that is Cairo overwhelmed her. On a boat excursion down the Nile she got to know some young students who were very different from the people she knew back home. Their modern outlook, easy-going attitude, casual clothes, and the carefree attitude that can only be found in the offspring of wealthy parents brought home to Mona just how great the differences in Egyptian society are.
Reflecting on the future
Everyday life in the City of the Dead is bound by tradition. So-called "Torabi" are responsible for the allocation of apartments in the cemetery to new arrivals, mainly from the rural areas of Upper Egypt. Mona's parents are simple, conservative-minded people who can neither read nor write.
Mona is her mother's right hand and, along with her schoolwork, is kept busy with household chores from morning till night. But on nights when she cannot sleep she will sometimes stand before the mirror and reflect pensively on what the future may hold for her.
Haase-Hindenberg uses Mona's biography to show us the lives of Egypt's poorest and, in so doing, to get across a great deal of information on Islamic religion, law and social reality.
He sticks to Mona like a second shadow and analyses her thoughts – only occasionally overdoing it a touch, becoming too didactic. Nevertheless, he does succeed in providing an absorbing insight into a world that may at times seem as strange and remote as a lost continent.
Cautious emancipation
It is, above all, the dramatic contrast between rich and poor that strikes Mona most strongly in Cairo. Still, she does manage to find a job in the city, experiencing a taste of freedom away from home.
She twice breaks off an engagement that has already been arranged for her, learns to look critically at many things, and is eventually even able to write about the most traumatic experience of her childhood: the barbaric custom of clitoral circumcision, which is still practiced in some parts of Egypt and one to which Mona herself was subjected.
In addition to relating the moving story of one girl's life and providing an unusual view of Cairo, this book also contains brilliantly vivid colour images – a tantalising glimpse of life in the City of the Dead.
Volker Kaminski
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Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg, Das Mädchen aus der Totenstadt. Monas Leben auf den Gräbern Kairos ("Girl from the City of the Dead - Mona's Life Among Cairo's Graves"), Heyne, 2008
Translated from the German by Ron Walker
Young People in the Arab World
A Blank Space on the Academic Map
A new anthology outlining the current status of research into young people in the Arab world concludes that neither western nor Arab scholars have comprehensive and meaningful research material to work with. Julia Gerlach reports
The First Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament
Promoting Diversity, Dialogue and Solidarity
The first Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament will bring together students from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories - and Israel, among others. The young participants have now met in Alexandria for a preparatory conference. Nelly Youssef reports


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Forget that musty old snake-hater we usually celebrate on March 17th. It's time for us to create St. Patrick Stewart's Day. Here's the illustrated tale of a man who deserves his own holiday for pioneering work in the worlds of acting, geekdom, and making baldness cool.
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in 1940 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in northern England. He was one of the few adorable babies of Black And White Photo Times.
From there Patrick left school at 15 to focus on acting, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and soon afte breaking into television acting. As you can see, he hadn't yet lost his hair or stopped dressing like a monk 100% of the time.
Patrick stayed with the RSC till 1982 and kept up his Shakespearean chops long after that. He earned a 2008 Tony Award nomination for playing Macbeth on Broadway, and a Coolest Guy Ever Award win for playing Hamlet on Sesame Street.
Patrick's also done a range of non-Shakespearean theater, and returns to Broadway this fall to perform Pinter and Beckett plays with his X-Men co-star Sir Ian McKellen. They'll probably rehearse just like they did scenes together in the X-Men movies (telepathically, in a plastic prison):
Patrick was still an "unknown British Shakespearean actor" (according to the Los Angeles Times) in 1987, when producer Bob Justman convinced Gene Roddenberry to cast Patrick in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Patrick's role was that of Jean-Luc Picard, a hero from a faraway future where medical science can provide anyone with backbones, even the French.