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Colors make my world go round. When creating a dish, the taste and visual appearance is what influences the creativity. The ability to imagine colorful combination on the plate comes from a graphic design background. One of my favorite color combination is green and purple, for they harmonize well together. When a salad uses vegetables with those colors, it's visually stunning. This Red Cabbage and Snow Pea Salad is a type of cole slaw without mayonnaise or a creamy dressing. The surprise green vegetable is snow peas, instead of leafy green. The leafy vegetable instead is the red cabbage.
The red cabbage is one of Mother Nature's finest masterpieces. When slicing into a head, the pattern and swirls of compressed reddish-purple and white leaves always draws me into its beauty. One head of cabbage lasts over several meals. The leaves are usually shredded and sealed into a plastic bag. They're instant additions to green salads for a contrast of colors and textures, especially with bright green snow peas.
The other day a chef on television demonstrated another method of prepping raw snow peas by vertically slicing them. This cutting method intrigued my creativity with salad ideas. Immediately, I thought of a refreshing cole slaw type of raw salad made with slice snow peas, grated carrots, scallions for a bit of kick, and the shredded red cabbage currently in the refrigerator.
The result? It's a dramatic vegetable salad of purples, oranges, and greens. The shredded salad was tossed with an Asian-Inspired Vinaigrette, and each dish was garnished with sesame seeds. The salad is a crispy compliment to roast or grilled meats, especially a whole Peanut Butter Roast Chicken (the recipe coming soon). The Red Cabbage and Snow Pea Salad is not only a colorful salad, but the taste is refreshing. It's an unusual and appetizing side dish, and it pairs well with many summer dishes.
Red Cabbage and Snow Pea Salad
Click here to download a PDF of the Red Cabbage and Snow Pea Salad recipe.
10 oz. snow peas; cleaned with ends trimmed; vertically slice thin
3-cups of shredded red cabbage
1 cup of grated carrots
3 green onions; sliced thin
1/2-cup fresh mint
1/2-cup fresh cilantro
Sea salt and fresh black pepper
Asian-Inspired Vinaigrette (Recipe provided below)
Garnish: Sesame seeds
1. Gently toss all ingredients.
2. Garnish each serving with sesame seeds.
3. Enjoy
Asian-Inspired Vinaigrette
1 tbsp. fish or soy sauce
3 tbsp. peanut/neutral oil
3 tbsp. rice vinegar
1-inch grated fresh ginger
Crushed red pepper; to taste
1 tsp. sesame oil
The juice of one lime
1. Whisk all ingredients together.
2. Toss with Shredded Red Cabbage and Snow Pea Salad.
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Sling Book Shelf - White w/ Gray
The Wildkin Sling Bookshelf is the perfect addition to any room! The sturdy wood bookrack with fabric pockets displays books for easy recognition by young children, encouraging them to read and then return their books for a neat and organized room. This bookshelf measures 25 x 24 x11 inches. Some assembly is required.
Measures 25 x 24 x11 inches
Recommended for children ages 3 – 10
Features four shelves for optimal organization
Some assembly required
Metal poles, Melamine Faced Chipboard, MDF board, Polyester sling shelves
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Rockville, MD – Call 2011 the year of the big resurgence for Robert Scheer and his colleagues at Scheer Partners.
When the economic downturn began in 2008, virtually every company in the local commercial real estate sector slowed down, and Scheer Partners was no exception. The recession forced the Rockville-based company, a leading provider of fully integrated commercial real estate services for the health science industry in the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas, to scale down from three D.C.-area offices and dozens of employees to one location and a small, albeit talented, cadre of brokers.
Though difficult market conditions have remained in place more recently, over the past 12 months Scheer Partners managed to stage an explosive turnaround as it underwent an instrumental transformation by turning its specialized life sciences niche into a dominant position in the greater medical community.
Scheer and the firm's other leaders had to make some tough decisions, and overcome a variety of hurdles along the way, but the company has clearly found its footing and is now rolling along. This is evident in an extremely prosperous 2011 that saw Scheer Partners carry out significant deals for a range of biotechnology and health-care businesses; considerably boost its overall client base; expand its work force; and experience exponential revenue growth.
Today, the company is much stronger, and results on par with last year are expected in 2012, executives say. Pound for pound, the current team at Scheer Partners is the most productive group in the firm's more than 20-year history, says Scheer, the company's founder and president.
"Our per-agent output is up more than 30 percent in the last two years," he says. "The sizable life sciences transactions we completed in 2011 for Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Mars Symbioscience and Novavax alone represented nearly 250,000 square feet, which was approximately 62 percent of the total net absorption leased, with a gross aggregate transaction volume of $80 million."
Behind these and the many other notable deals are the professionals at Scheer Partners, and the company of late has certainly bolstered its broker and executive ranks.
What's more, with the additions of Ken Luchs and Perry Berman, Scheer Partners now has senior staff filling all of the strategic competencies in the company's full-service platform. "This enables us to execute on complex acquisitions, brokerage, construction management and financial activities with equal ease," Scheer says. "Most importantly, we increased our market penetration in our targeted health-care sector by more than 24 percent from 2009, showing sustained average quarter-to-quarter growth of 12 percent, based on the total value of transactions."
That accomplishment in the health-care field is rooted in a decision made two years ago by executives at Scheer Partners to leverage the firm's stellar client base in the life sciences to vastly increase the company's business in the much larger – and more opportunistic – medical space.
Scheer Partners officials arrived at this pivotal determination after assessing the firm's competitive advantages, such as its deep industry relationships, long-time experience and technical expertise, as well as several key factors in the marketplace, including an aging population, favorable demographics in Montgomery County and other jurisdictions around the Washington region, and new federal health-care legislation.
Moving forward with this renewed focus has represented the number-one priority for everyone at Scheer Partners, and, despite the uncertainty that came with this shift in strategy, the reward is clearly outweighing the initial risk. By achieving an abundance of major objectives in 2011, Scheer Partners has managed to outperform all other boutique, regional and national competitors entrenched in the D.C. area.
"This past year has amounted to a tremendous success story for our company," Scheer says. "We've brought on board several well-known brokers and executives, and the sheer number of transactions and service deliveries that we have done over the last 12 months for clients in health care and the life sciences, even as we faced ongoing market challenges, is extremely encouraging. I am confident that our momentum will undoubtedly continue in 2012."
Here are some highlights from 2011 that illustrate the robust year recorded by Scheer Partners, including leases completed for tenants, property listings obtained from landlords, consulting agreements won, and new members joining the firm's brokerage team:
Advanced BioScience Laboratories
In the first quarter of 2011, contract research/manufacturing organization Advanced BioScience Laboratories (ABL) moved into its new 72,000-square-foot headquarters at 9800 Medical Center Drive in Rockville, as well as a separate 35,000-square-foot vivarium facility, also in Rockville. Scheer Partners represented ABL in these two leases, negotiating the transactions as well as providing construction and project management on the combined $15 million build-out of both Rockville properties.
Mars Symbioscience
Mars Symbioscience, the global health and life sciences unit of food manufacturer Mars, recently signed a lease for 65,000 square feet in Germantown, and this year it will relocate from Rockville to the new space. Scheer Partners negotiated the lease on behalf of Mars Symbioscience and is also providing ongoing construction and property-management services.
Vaccine maker Novavax committed to 74,209 square feet of laboratory, manufacturing and office space in Gaithersburg, in a deal put together by Scheer Partners. During the first quarter of 2012, Novavax, which landed a lucrative federal-government contract in 2011 to develop influenza vaccines, will move its corporate office to 21,209 square feet at 22 Firstfield Road, while the entire 53,000-square-foot building at 20 Firstfield Road will serve as its primary commercial-scale manufacturing plant.
Additionally, over the course of the past year, Scheer Partners executed more than a dozen medical-related transactions totaling 66,000 square feet of space for a variety of clinical practitioners and health-care companies.
200 Professional Drive
Douglas Legum Development engaged Scheer Partners to market 200 Professional Drive, a 63,000-square-foot building in Gaithersburg. Brokers at Scheer Partners are targeting large office users, as well as health-care companies and medical practitioners, for the 48,500 square feet of available space for lease.
501 N. Frederick Ave.
North Bethesda-based Guardian Realty Investors hired Scheer Partners to market its 50,549-square-foot building at 501 N. Frederick Ave. in Gaithersburg. By March 31 of 2012, Kaiser Permanente is slated to consolidate its area operations into a separate 200,00-square-foot facility in Gaithersburg, leaving behind 35,000 square feet of fully improved medical-office space at 501 N. Frederick Ave.
1701 Research Blvd.
San Diego-based BioMed Realty Trust called on Scheer Partners to market 1701 Research Blvd., a 104,743-square-foot building in Rockville that BioMed is repositioning as a Class A lab and office property. Subsequently, Meso Scale Diagnostics fully leased this facility.
19735 Germantown Road
Expanding its long-standing relationship with the Bethesda-based Walker Group and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Scheer Partners secured the listing of the 97,0000-square-foot medical-office building at 19735 Germantown Road in Germantown, where 37,000 square feet is available for lease. This project boasts a state-of-the-art, hospital-operated 24-hour emergency room on the first floor and is ideally suited for medical practitioners seeking to access the growing up-county health-care market.
Scheer Partners' expertise is also receiving attention outside of the local commercial real estate industry. In recent months, the firm received two consulting contracts centered on the development and marketing of life sciences-related assets.
In one project, the University of Rhode Island hired Scheer Partners to market and develop a 250,000-square-foot, multi-building research and technology park on the university's campus that would house engineering, science and tech firms.
Secondly, Space Florida, the state's aerospace economic-development agency, engaged Scheer Partners to determine the marketability of its 104,000-square-foot Space Life Sciences Laboratory (SLSL).
Ken Luchs
Ken Luchs, a 50-year real estate professional who previously served as president and CEO of the Shannon & Luchs Company, which was one of the largest full-service real estate firms in the Washington market, is a senior vice president with Scheer Partners. In this position, he will concentrate on, among other things, representing health-care tenants and owners of medical-office buildings in the D.C. region.
Anna Martin
Anna Martin recently began working at Scheer Partners as a commercial property manager. Previously, she served as a property manager with the JBG Cos. At Scheer Partners, Martin, who has 11 years of industry experience, is focusing on all aspects of property management, such as administration, budgeting, compliance, occupancy control, personnel, tenant relations and vendor management.
Yvonne Mirowski
Yvonne Mirowski is Scheer Partners' director of operations and marketing. She has more than 13 years of marketing experience in the commercial real estate sector. In the Washington area, Mirowski formerly held stints at American Real Estate Partners and Cushman & Wakefield. Her responsibilities at Scheer Partners include marketing Montgomery County's technology incubator program, participating in industry events, and working on the company's interactive marketing and public relations campaigns, as well as its quarterly newsletters.


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Investigate authentic haunted grounds in a ghost hunting adventure.
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A struggling university department asks you to join their secret research team, making you an operative in paranormal investigations. Using a wide range of authentic ghost hunting gadgets (such as an EMF meter and full-spectrum camera) you will collect samples and gather evidence that will help you to dig deeper into the unknown and your fellow scientists to upgrade your equipment.
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You will travel the world to conduct investigative missions at the most world's most haunted grounds. Have you ever heard of plague doctors from Poveglia Island, lost souls of the Suicide forest or Pontefract's poltergeist? In this game you'll face them all.
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Even though this is a horror game, do not expect ghosts to be jumping out at you from the darkness for no reason. In fact, most of them won't respond to your mere presence at all, unless you make them. It is your task to find out how, if you hope to meet your objectives.
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To provide the best customer service to culturally diverse groups, you must be well acquainted with their expectations as consumers and with the variety of funeral customs and practices they honor. Never make assumptions about the best ways to meet the funeral and memorialization needs and desires of groups that are new to you or your market.
The following list includes religions recognized by the VA per the Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers. For further insight, consult clergy members from a particular group or other resources in your community that are aligned with diverse groups.
Wormald, B. (2014). Pew Research. Religious Landscape Study U.S. Religion Census 1952 to 2010 Available Emblems of Belief for Placement on Government Headstones and Markers. National Cemetery Administration The Association of Religion Data Archives Caring Through the Funeral Library of World Religions and Faith Traditions National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA Religious Traditions For Baptisms and Funerals. Federation of Christian Ministries Transition Rituals Cultural & Religious Funeral Customs Customs and Religious Protocols Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains Funeral Traditions | A Summary of the Practices of Different Faiths Related to Death and Funerals Religious Traditions
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A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the moon
Scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration.
In a new paper published in the journal "Communications Biology," University of Florida researchers showed that plants can successfully sprout and grow in lunar soil. Their study also investigated how plants respond biologically to the moon's soil, also known as lunar regolith, which is radically different from soil found on Earth.
This work is a first step toward one day growing plants for food and oxygen on the moon or during space missions. More immediately, this research comes as the Artemis Program plans to return humans to the moon.
"Artemis will require a better understanding of how to grow plants in space," said Rob Ferl, one of the study's authors and a distinguished professor of horticultural sciences in the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS).
Even in the early days of lunar exploration, plants played an important role, said Anna-Lisa Paul, also one of the study's authors and a research professor of horticultural sciences in UF/IFAS.
"Plants helped establish that the soil samples brought back from the moon did not harbor pathogens or other unknown components that would harm terrestrial life, but those plants were only dusted with the lunar regolith and were never actually grown in it," Paul said.
Paul and Ferl are internationally recognized experts in the study of plants in space. Through the UF Space Plants Lab, they have sent experiments on space shuttles, to the International Space Station and on suborbital flights.
"For future, longer space missions, we may use the moon as a hub or launching pad. It makes sense that we would want to use the soil that's already there to grow plants," Ferl said. "So, what happens when you grow plants in lunar soil, something that is totally outside of a plant's evolutionary experience? What would plants do in a lunar greenhouse? Could we have lunar farmers?"
To begin to answer these questions, Ferl and Paul designed a deceptively simple experiment: plant seeds in lunar soil, add water, nutrients and light, and record the results.
The complication: The scientists only had 12 grams — just a few teaspoons — of lunar soil with which to do this experiment. On loan from NASA, this soil was collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions to the moon. Paul and Ferl applied three times over the course of 11 years for a chance to work with the lunar regolith.
The small amount of soil, not to mention its incalculable historical and scientific significance, meant that Paul and Ferl had to design a small scale, carefully choreographed experiment. To grow their tiny lunar garden, the researchers used thimble-sized wells in plastic plates normally used to culture cells. Each well functioned as a pot. Once they filled each "pot" with approximately a gram of lunar soil, the scientists moistened the soil with a nutrient solution and added a few seeds from the Arabidopsis plant.
Arabidopsis is widely used in the plant sciences because its genetic code has been fully mapped. Growing Arabidopsis in the lunar soil allowed the researchers more insight into how the soil affected the plants, down to the level of gene expression.
As points of comparison, the researchers also planted Arabidopsis in JSC-1A, a terrestrial substance that mimics real lunar soil, as well as simulated Martian soils and terrestrial soils from extreme environments. The plants grown in these non-lunar soils were the experiment's control group.
Before the experiment, the researchers weren't sure if the seeds planted in the lunar soils would sprout. But nearly all of them did.
"We were amazed. We did not predict that," Paul said. "That told us that the lunar soils didn't interrupt the hormones and signals involved in plant germination."
However, as time went on, the researchers observed differences between the plants grown in lunar soil and the control group. For example, some of the plants grown in the lunar soils were smaller, grew more slowly or were more varied in size than their counterparts.
These were all physical signs that the plants were working to cope with the chemical and structural make-up of the moon's soil, Paul explained. This was further confirmed when the researchers analyzed the plants' gene expression patterns.
"At the genetic level, the plants were pulling out the tools typically used to cope with stressors, such as salt and metals or oxidative stress, so we can infer that the plants perceive the lunar soil environment as stressful," Paul said. "Ultimately, we would like to use the gene expression data to help address how we can ameliorate the stress responses to the level where plants — particularly crops — are able to grow in lunar soil with very little impact to their health."
How plants respond to lunar soil may be linked to where the soil was collected, said Ferl and Paul, who collaborated on the study with Stephen Elardo, an assistant professor of geology at UF.
For instance, the researchers found that the plants with the most signs of stress were those grown in what lunar geologists call mature lunar soil. These mature soils are those exposed to more cosmic wind, which alters their makeup. On the other hand, plants grown in comparatively less mature soils fared better.
Growing plants in lunar soils may also change the soils themselves, Elardo said.
"The moon is a very, very dry place. How will minerals in the lunar soil respond to having a plant grown in them, with the added water and nutrients? Will adding water make the mineralogy more hospitable to plants?" Elardo said.
Follow up studies will build on these questions and more. For now, the scientists are celebrating having taken the first steps toward growing plants on the moon.
"We wanted to do this experiment because, for years, we were asking this question: Would plants grow in lunar soil," Ferl said. "The answer, it turns out, is yes."
- Support and funding for this work was provided by NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division, NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, NASA grant NNX14AT24G, NASA grant 80NSSC19K0752 and the University of Florida
Written by Samantha Murray for University of Florida News


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Plotting a course forward for state and federal policy on medical cannabis is the agenda for patients, parents, medical professionals and other stakeholders gathering in Washington, D.C., this weekend at Americans for Safe Access' second annual National Unity Conference. Legal access to medical cannabis has been supported by the American public for decades, and it is the law in 20 states and the District of Columbia, but this issue can be complex, and successfully navigating it requires a clear understanding of where we've been, what we know, and where we want to go.
The facts about medical cannabis are frequently counterintuitive. On the medical side, cannabis stimulates appetite (so much that everyone knows the slang name for the effect), but those who use it are on average thinner and have less of a chance of getting diabetes… because it helps regulate insulin. The smoke contains tars similar to tobacco, but there is no link to lung cancer among even the heaviest users… because it has a protective effect.
For opponents of medical cannabis, the policy side has proven counter to their intuition as well. Many opponents said with confidence that allowing medical use would send a message to kids that marijuana is safe and increase teen use. But studies of medical cannabis states shows the opposite: States with medical cannabis laws have seen teen marijuana use drop since the laws were enacted. Some law enforcement predicted an increase in drugged driving and more accidents if anyone had legal access, but the data shows the otherwise: states with medical cannabis laws have fewer fatal traffic accidents. And just last week, one of the favored talking points of the opposition – that medical cannabis and facilities that distribute it must contribute to crime – was debunked by a statistical study from the University of Texas showing that the rate of assault and property crimes doesn't increase when states pass medical cannabis laws; it drops.
A virtue of our federalist system is that states can be laboratories of experiment in devising laws on controversial social policies such as medical cannabis. States can often act more nimbly than Congress, and the nation can see what works and what doesn't and make choices accordingly. The 17 years of experimentation on implementing medical cannabis laws has shown that medical cannabis can be produced, manufactured and distributed to a population in need without negative impacts on public safety. However, the fear of federal intervention has made policy makers restrict programs in hopes that their state will not have to endure federal raids, to the point that many medical cannabis laws are not for those the laws aim to aid: patients.
The first medical cannabis laws only gave patients a defense in court if they were arrested and charged for using, possessing or growing the cannabis that their doctors had told them might alleviate their suffering. Almost everyone could agree that no one should be behind bars for following their doctor's advice. As research advances in the 1990s revealed more of the remarkable mechanisms behind how cannabis can treat so many types of conditions when other drugs can't, attention turned from keeping the sick out of prison to devising sensible plans for getting them medicine. By the late 2000s, every state that was adding medical cannabis laws included guidance for distribution. In the last decade, public health officials have become focused on ensuring quality control and establishing industry standards for testing, packaging, and all the other regulatory details we take for granted with medical products.
Guidance for those regulators is now available. Standards for commercial medical cannabis products, as well as the reliability and quality of related services, were created in 2011 by the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the principal U.S. trade association and the voice of the herbal products industry. Scientifically valid methods of testing the identity, purity, potency, and quality of cannabis products were established late last year when the Americans Herbal Pharmacopeia (AHP) issued a definitive, comprehensive account of the plant's botany and constituent components.
Applying these new insights and standards to crafting good policy is the goal of the advocates who will be gathering at ASA's conference. To help, conference attendees will hear from a host of experts. Capitol Hill heavyweight Jim Tozzi of the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness will discuss how federal regulations work, or don't. Herbal product scholars will recount the history of botanical medicines in the United States. Experts will assess the future of regulation and product safety, including which state laws are working and which are not. Scientists will address the myths and facts of CBD (cannabidiol), a cannabis chemical that's been getting enormous attention for its ability to alleviate intractable seizure disorders. Among the featured speakers are Sebastopol Mayor Robert Jacob; inventor and Harvard professor Stephen Corn, M.D.; cannabis researcher Jahan Marcu, Ph.D.; University of Massachusetts Amherst botany professor Lyle Craker, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation President Eric Sterling; author Martin Lee; and many more.
On Monday, April 7, ASA will host a noon press conference and briefing for Hill staff on the Capitol grounds, and a lobby day to bring the issue to members of Congress. More than one third of the U.S. population lives in states with medical cannabis laws, and over 1 million Americans are legally using medical cannabis under the care of a physician. But authorizing the use of cannabis for medical purposes is only the first step; the nuances of how you distribute and regulate it are crucially important. Legislators and voters in over a dozen states are considering new legislation on medical cannabis. After all these years of state experimentation, America should be ready to do it right.
A lot has changed in the 14 years that I have been a medical cannabis patient. We've reached a scientific consensus that cannabis and its compounds have medical value. Now the debate is about how Americans will have access. The largest remaining opponent to letting doctors and patients make decisions about medical cannabis is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which has resorted to changing its rules under the Controlled Substance Act and ignoring its own judges to keep cannabis in its natural form illegal.
This new debate about how to regulate access for patients has thrust the issue into other current debates, such as the role of botanical medicines in health care, the taxation of health care, and the overlapping responsibilities of cities, states and our federal government. Congress should appreciate that the state experiment has done much of the work of navigating medical cannabis regulation. They can easily resolve the state and federal conflict by handing over the regulations of an unregulated substance to the states.
Moving forward on medical cannabis policy isn't partisan; it is not a sign of liberal leanings or being soft on crime. On the contrary, supporting a medical cannabis policy that respects the state experiment to stop treating patients as criminals and regulate how they get their medicine simply acknowledges the outcomes. Congress should encourage states to show compassion for their most vulnerable citizens, participate in exciting medical research and bring in much-needed revenue -- all while reducing teen use of marijuana, reducing driving fatalities and reducing crime in communities.
Steph Sherer is executive director of Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group. She also is a medical marijuana patient with over 11 years of experience servicing and managing nonprofit businesses and community organizations. This article originally was published on The Huffington Post.


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From Avatar to The Wizard of Oz, Aristotle to Shakespeare, there's one clear form that dramatic storytelling has followed since its inception.
A ship lands on an alien shore and a young man, desperate to prove himself, is tasked with befriending the inhabitants and extracting their secrets. Enchanted by their way of life, he falls in love with a local girl and starts to distrust his masters. Discovering their man has gone native, they in turn resolve to destroy both him and the native population once and for all.
Avatar or Pocahontas? As stories they're almost identical. Some have even accused James Cameron of stealing the Native American myth. But it's both simpler and more complex than that, for the underlying structure is common not only to these two tales, but to all of them.
Take three different stories: A dangerous monster threatens a community. One man takes it on himself to kill the beast and restore happiness to the kingdom … It's the story of Jaws, released in 1976. But it's also the story of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem published some time between the eighth and 11th centuries.
And it's more familiar than that: It's The Thing, it's Jurassic Park, it's Godzilla, it's The Blob—all films with real tangible monsters. If you recast the monsters in human form, it's also every James Bond film, every episode of MI5, House, or CSI. You can see the same shape in The Exorcist, The Shining, Fatal Attraction, Scream, Psycho, and Saw. The monster may change from a literal one in Nightmare on Elm Street to a corporation in Erin Brockovich, but the underlying architecture—in which a foe is vanquished and order restored to a community—stays the same. The monster can be fire in The Towering Inferno, an upturned boat in The Poseidon Adventure, or a boy's mother in Ordinary People. Though superficially dissimilar, the skeletons of each are identical.
Our hero stumbles into a brave new world. At first he is transfixed by its splendor and glamour, but slowly things become more sinister . . . It's Alice in Wonderland, but it's also The Wizard of Oz, Life on Mars, and Gulliver's Travels. And if you replace fantastical worlds with worlds that appear fantastical merely to the protagonists, then quickly you see how Brideshead Revisited, Rebecca, The Line of Beauty, and The Third Man all fit the pattern too.
When a community finds itself in peril and learns the solution lies in finding and retrieving an elixir far, far away, a member of the tribe takes it on themselves to undergo the perilous journey into the unknown …
It's Raiders of the Lost Ark, Morte D'Arthur, Lord of the Rings, and Watership Down. And if you transplant it from fantasy into something a little more earthbound, it's Master and Commander, Saving Private Ryan, Guns of Navarone, and Apocalypse Now. If you then change the object of the characters' quest, you find Rififi, The Usual Suspects, Ocean's Eleven, Easy Rider, and Thelma & Louise. Related Story
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So three different tales turn out to have multiple derivatives. Does that mean that when you boil it down there are only three different types of story? No. Beowulf, Alien, and Jaws are 'monster' stories—but they're also about individuals plunged into a new and terrifying world. In classic "quest" stories like Apocalypse Now or Finding Nemo the protagonists encounter both monsters and strange new worlds. Even "Brave New World" stories such as Gulliver's Travels, Witness, and Legally Blonde fit all three definitions: The characters all have some kind of quest, and all have their own monsters to vanquish too. Though they are superficially different, they all share the same framework and the same story engine: All plunge their characters into a strange new world; all involve a quest to find a way out of it; and in whatever form they choose to take, in every story "monsters" are vanquished. All, at some level, too, have as their goal safety, security, completion, and the importance of home.
But these tenets don't just appear in films, novels, or indeed TV series like Homeland or The Killing. A 9-year-old child of my friend decided he wanted to tell a story. He didn't consult anyone about it, he just wrote it down: A family are looking forward to going on holiday. Mom has to sacrifice the holiday in order to pay the rent. Kids find map buried in garden to treasure hidden in the woods, and decide to go after it. They get in loads of trouble and are chased before they finally find it and go on even better holiday. Why would a child unconsciously echo a story form that harks back centuries? Why, when writing so spontaneously, would he display knowledge of story structure that echoes so clearly generations of tales that have gone before? Why do we all continue to draw our stories from the very same well? It could be because each successive generation copies from the last, thus allowing a series of conventions to become established. But while that may help explain the ubiquity of the pattern, its sturdy resistance to iconoclasm and the freshness and joy with which it continues to reinvent itself suggest something else is going on.
Storytelling has a shape. It dominates the way all stories are told and can be traced back not just to the Renaissance, but to the very beginnings of the recorded word. It's a structure that we absorb avidly whether in art-house or airport form and it's a shape that may be—though we must be careful—a universal archetype.
Most writing on art is by people who are not artists: thus all the misconceptions. —Eugène Delacroix
The quest to detect a universal story structure is not a new one. From the Prague School and the Russian Formalists of the early 20th century, via Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism to Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots, many have set themselves the task of trying to understand how stories work. In my own field it's a veritable industry—there are hundreds of books about screenwriting (though almost nothing sensible about television). I've read most of them, but the more I read the more two issues nag away:
1. Most of them posit completely different systems, all of which claim to be the sole and only way to write stories. How can they all possibly claim to be right?
2. None of them asks "Why?"
Some of these tomes contain invaluable information; more than a few have worthwhile insights; all of them are keen to tell us how and with great fervor insist that "there must be an inciting incident on page 12," but none of them explains why this should be. Which, when you think about it, is crazy: If you can't answer "why," the "how" is an edifice built on sand. And then, once you attempt to answer it yourself, you start to realize that much of the theory—incisive though some of it is—doesn't quite add up. Did God decree an inciting incident should occur on page 12, or that there were 12 stages to a hero's journey? Of course not: They're constructs. Unless we can find a coherent reason why these shapes exist, then there's little reason to take these people seriously. They're snake-oil salesmen, peddling their wares on the frontier.
I've been telling stories for almost all my adult life, and I've had the extraordinary privilege of working on some of the most popular shows on British television. I've created storylines that have reached over 20 million viewers and I've been intimately involved with programs that helped redefine the dramatic landscape. I've worked, almost uniquely in the industry, on both art-house and populist mainstream programs, loved both equally, and the more I've told stories, the more I've realized that the underlying pattern of these plots—the ways in which an audience demands certain things—has an extraordinary uniformity.
Eight years ago I started to read everything on storytelling. More importantly I started to interrogate all the writers I'd worked with about how they write. Some embraced the conventions of three-act structure, some refuted it—and some refuted it while not realizing they used it anyway. A few writers swore by four acts, some by five; others claimed that there were no such things as acts at all. Some had conscientiously learned from screenwriting manuals while others decried structural theory as the devil's spawn. But there was one unifying factor in every good script I read, whether authored by brand new talent or multiple award-winners, and that was that they all shared the same underlying structural traits.
In stories throughout the ages there is one motif that continually recurs—the journey into the woods to find the dark but life-giving secret within.
By asking two simple questions—what were these traits; and why did they recur—I unlocked a cupboard crammed full of history. I soon discovered that the three-act paradigm was not an invention of the modern age but an articulation of something much more primal; that modern act structure was a reaction to dwindling audience attention spans and the invention of the curtain. Perhaps more intriguingly, the history of five-act drama took me back to the Romans, via the 19-century French dramatist Eugène Scribe and the German novelist Gustav Freytag to Molière, Shakespeare, and Jonson. I began to understand that, if there really was an archetype, it had to apply not just to screenwriting, but to all narrative structures. One either tells all stories according to a pattern or none at all. If storytelling does have a universal shape, this has to be self-evident.
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When it comes to structure, how much do writers actually need to know? Here's Guillermo Del Toro on film theory: You have to liberate people from [it], not give them a corset in which they have to fit their story, their life, their emotions, the way they feel about the world. Our curse is that the film industry is 80 percent run by the half-informed. You have people who have read Joseph Campbell and Robert McKee, and now they're talking to you about the hero's journey, and you want to fucking cut off their dick and stuff it in their mouth.
Del Toro echoes the thoughts of many writers and filmmakers; there's an ingrained belief for many that the study of structure is, implicitly, a betrayal of their genius; it's where mediocrities seek a substitute muse. Such study can only end in one way. David Hare puts it well: "The audience is bored. It can predict the exhausted UCLA film-school formulae—acts, arcs, and personal journeys—from the moment that they start cranking. It's angry and insulted by being offered so much Jung-for-Beginners, courtesy of Joseph Campbell. All great work is now outside genre."
Charlie Kaufman, who has done more than most in Hollywood to push the boundaries of form, goes further: "There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it." But they protest too much. Hare's study of addiction My Zinc Bed and Kaufman's screenplay for Being John Malkovich are perfect examples of classic story form. However much they hate it (and their anger I think betrays them), they can't help but follow a blueprint they profess to detest. Why?
All stories are forged from the same template, writers simply don't have any choice as to the structure they use; the laws of physics, of logic, and of form dictate they must all follow the very same path.
Is this therefore the magic key to storytelling? Such hubris requires caution—the compulsion to order, to explain, to catalogue, is also the tendency of the train-spotter. In denying the rich variety and extraordinary multi-faceted nature of narrative, one risks becoming no better than Casaubon, the desiccated husk from Middlemarch, who turned his back on life while seeking to explain it. It's all too tempting to reduce wonder to a scientific formula and unweave the rainbow.
But there are rules. As the creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin, puts it: "The real rules are the rules of drama, the rules that Aristotle talks about. The fake TV rules are the rules that dumb TV execs will tell you; 'You can't do this, you've got to do—you need three of these and five of those.' Those things are silly." Sorkin expresses what all great artists know—that they need to have an understanding of craft. Every form of artistic composition, like any language, has a grammar, and that grammar, that structure, is not just a construct—it's the most beautiful and intricate expression of the workings of the human mind.
Did God decree an inciting incident should occur on page 12, or that there were 12 stages to a hero's journey? Of course not.
It's important to assert that writers don't need to understand structure. Many of the best have an uncanny ability to access story shape unconsciously, for it lies as much within their minds as it does in a 9-year-old's.
There's no doubt that for many those rules help. Friedrich Engels put it pithily: "Freedom is the recognition of necessity." A piano played without knowledge of time and key soon becomes wearisome to listen to; following the conventions of form didn't inhibit Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich. Even if you're going to break rules (and why shouldn't you?) you have to have a solid grounding in them first. The modernist pioneers—Abstract Impressionists, Cubists, Surrealists, and Futurists—all were masters of figurative painting before they shattered the form. They had to know their restrictions before they could transcend them. As the art critic Robert Hughes observed: With scarcely an exception, every significant artist of the last hundred years, from Seurat to Matisse, from Picasso to Mondrian, from Beckmann to de Kooning, was drilled (or drilled himself ) in "academic" drawing—the long tussle with the unforgiving and the real motif which, in the end, proved to be the only basis on which the real formal achievements of modernism could be raised. Only in that way was the right radical distortion within a continuous tradition earned, and its results raised above the level of improvisory play … The philosophical beauty of Mondrian's squares and grids begins with the empirical beauty of his apple trees.
Cinema and television contain much great work that isn't structurally orthodox (particularly in Europe), but even then its roots still lie firmly in, and are a reaction to, a universal archetype. As Hughes says, they are a conscious distortion of a continuing tradition. The masters did not abandon the basic tenets of composition; they merely subsumed them into art no longer bound by verisimilitude. All great artists—in music, drama, literature, in art itself—have an understanding of the rules whether that knowledge is conscious or not. "You need the eye, the hand, and the heart," proclaims the ancient Chinese proverb. "Two won't do."
Storytelling is an indispensable human preoccupation, as important to us all—almost—as breathing. From the mythical campfire tale to its explosion in the post-television age, it dominates our lives. It behooves us then to try and understand it. Delacroix countered the fear of knowledge succinctly: "First learn to be a craftsman; it won't keep you from being a genius." In stories throughout the ages there is one motif that continually recurs—the journey into the woods to find the dark but life-giving secret within.
This article has been adapted from John Yorke's book, Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story.
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Today Sony Pictures lifted its veil of secrecy from The Da Vinci Code. The novel's offensive caricatures of Jesus Christ, Christian history, the Catholic Church and Opus Dei have all been retained in the film. Indeed the offensiveness of the caricatures has been magnified by the power of visual imagery.
Moreover, Sony has announced that the film will not include a fiction disclaimer stating that any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.
Catholics, other Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other persons of good will have repeatedly asked Sony to respect religious belief. In so doing, we were not asking for a special favor. Nor have we wished to limit anyone's freedom of expression. From the beginning we have appealed to Sony's own sense of common decency. Unfortunately, this appeal has failed.
In addition, this request for respect is in line with the commitments to society that Sony Corporation has made publicly. The Sony Group "Code of Conduct," approved by the highest authorities of the corporation on May 28, 2003, contains the following:
· "Recognizing that conduct that is socially acceptable in one culture or region may be viewed differently in another, Personnel (of Sony) are required to give careful consideration to cultural and regional differences in performing their duties" (section 1.3);
· "No Personnel may make racial or religious slurs, jokes or any other comments or conduct in the workplace, that create a hostile work environment" (section 2.4);
· With respect to publicity, Sony commits itself not to engage in false publicity that misleads or slanders others (section 3.4).
In a recent business publication, a high executive of Sony acknowledged that "its businesses have direct or indirect impact on the societies in which it operates." Another affirmed that "ethics and integrity have to be in the company's DNA". And a third stated that "there can be no prosperity for a company that does not consider the environment and society."
In appealing to Sony in recent months, no one has asked Sony to do any more than live up to its own public commitments. Unfortunately, Sony's actions have not matched its words and have offended the religious beliefs of hundreds of millions of Christians. The end, in this case financial, does not justify the means. It is the aggressor that loses dignity, not the victim.
We do not mean by this to judge the intentions of any individuals. The question is whether this film respects the Sony Group Code of Conduct, or whether that code is yet one more "Fictional Code," in which any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.
As he was 20 centuries ago, Jesus Christ is for many today "a scandal and a folly." But many still receive the gift of faith, and firmly believe that he is the Son of God, the Redeemer of every man and woman, and the source of charity for the world. God can bring good out of bad and the events of recent months will lead many believers to rediscover the depth and beauty of their Christian faith.
Soon this regrettable but fleeting episode will be forgotten. Let us hope that its lessons about mutual respect and understanding are not.
Manuel Sánchez Hurtado, Opus Dei Press Office, Rome


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UncategorizedUnited States Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois and Al Franken of Minnesota have introduced legislation called the Affordable College Textbook Act that seeks to make college textbooks affordable and openly available under the Creative Commons Attribution license. According to Durbin's press release, Bill S.1704 does 5 things:
- Creates a grant program to support pilot programs at colleges and universities to create and expand the use of open textbooks with priority for those programs that will achieve the highest savings for students;
- Ensures that any open textbooks or educational materials created using program funds will be freely and easily accessible to the public [via CC BY];
- Requires entities who receive funds to complete a report on the effectiveness of the program in achieving savings for students;
- Improves existing requirements for publishers to make all textbooks and other educational materials available for sale individually rather than as a bundle; and
- Requires the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress by 2017 with an update on the price trends of college textbooks.
You can read the full text of Bill S.1704 here. In addition to highlighting the rising cost of textbooks, Bill S.1704 defines the following terms:
(3) OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE.—The term ''open educational resource'' means an educational resource that is licensed under an open license and made freely available online to the public.
(4) OPEN LICENSE.—The term ''open license'' means a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable copyright license granting the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use the work and adaptations of the work for any purpose, conditioned only on the requirement that attribution be given to authors as designated.
(5) OPEN TEXTBOOK.—The term ''open textbook'' means an open educational resource or set of open educational resources that either is a textbook or can be used in place of a textbook for a postsecondary course at an institution of higher education.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) note several existing open textbook programs that have proved successful in lowering costs for students, including the University of Minnesota's online catalog of open textbooks which has so far saved students $100,000; Tidewater Community College's degree program where each course uses open textbooks lowering costs to zero for students; and Washington State's Open Course Library project for its 81 largest enrollment courses that has saved students $5.4 million to date.
In addition to cost savings, SPARC highlights Bill S.1704's potential impacts of high quality and innovation:
- High quality materials. Open educational resources developed through the grants will also be available for all other colleges, faculty and students across the country to freely use.
- Supporting innovation. At a time where new models to support open educational resources are rapidly emerging, this bill would help foster innovation and development of best practices that can be shared with other institutions.
For more info, see:
- Senator Durbin's press release
- SPARC's press release, web page to take action, and page about the bill
- Summary and current status of Bill S.1704; complete text of bill
You can take action to support Bill S.1704 here and use Twitter hashtag #oerusa to share the news!
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
A Corner Revisited
Some of you may remember this corner of my home with this old garage sale table. I had painted it this past Summer (last Summer seems eons ago), black. Well no news flash...she is still black. Like many of you I get the urge to change things up a bit. This time of year can be soo dreary in this part of the country. I needed something a little more Springy. I have had this cute little white shelf thingy (for lack of a better word) I got at a garage sale. I didn't know where to put her. I decided to take down the wall shelf that had been above the little table and paint the white shelf thingy (anyone have a better term for it?) to mesh better with the table. So out came my little bottle of acrylic paint and she became black as well. Now they are harmonious and make quite a pair! I got out some of my birdies....they may be making their debut a bit early..but who cares. I displayed a skeleton key on a ball of twine, set out some of my fave old books, (the top one was my great-grandmother's book), out came my silly little bee skein and she is good to go! Now this corner makes me smile and takes a way a bit of the Winter duldrums! Take that old man Winter! XOXO, cherry
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Some thrift finds and a project or two or three!
Square wreath with fruit..2.00! Will hang with some toile ribbon from mirror.
Milk glass urn piece 3.00....will fill with my stamps.
Vintage cherries...1.00! Of course I HAD to have these.
Little mini frames in varied colors...a dollar!
Project #1
Project #2
Project #3
I have been away for a bit because of a heavy heart....I just have not felt like blogging. Some horrible things have come to pass in the past week. I can't go any further with out saying I have felt such sorrow for our friend Becky over at http://sweetcottagedreams.blogspot.com/ . I am sure many of you know she lost her son last week. I just don't understand why these things happen but I know that it brings me closer to my faith when they do. Sure makes you realize your REALLY not in control of your future or those you love. It is all up to the grace of God when he decides to bring you home. If you have not done so yet...please go and say a prayer for Becky and her family right now. Keep her in your thoughts and your heart.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Progress HO!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
A Curious Assortment...
Yep...that about sums up this post. Actually that sums up my brain right about now. As usual I don't have some insightful clever concise little write-up here. Just an assortment of things. I have been finishing up more orders this week...two more to go and send out. My house is in shabbles. I am behind in some awards and a thank-you for a lovely little gift from a talented gal over at http://barnesfamilylove.blogspot.com/. See that adorable coffee cozy? She makes them. She made a whole whoppin bunch of them and sent them out to a whole whoppin bunch of people. Yeah she's sweet that way! I thank-you and my coffee mug does too! Now my mug is stylin in the toile. Also above there in some order are some more crafts/orders.
Some more playin with the camara in this dark dank dungeon we call home. NO natural light. Also Miss. Andrea from over at http://andreaw123.typepad.com/my_weblog/ is in the process of doing a kitchen redo...she wanted to see my black island. So here she is Andrea. She is a humble one (we were suppose to have a built-in but that is yet another thing the builder messed up)from JC. Penny. I painted her black..she was white. I added a few appliques to her and that is it.
At the bottom are a few thrift finds an adorable milk glass bowl for 1.50!!!! A monogram B linen tea towel. Stands for Bomb jiggety.. pretty sure. Yeah anyway..movin right along. A book with the sweetest illustrations...50 cents. I know I broke the bank on that one. A child's shoe mold and a tole tray. So there you go! Did I just completely confuse you with all the jumbleness? ....I am off to bed...at least I got another post in the same week...by an hour! xoxo, cherry


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Fasting in the month of Ramadan at college can be both a challenging and rewarding experience. Juggling school work and exams along with personal goals and extra worship might be both stressful and frustrating at times. Yet, the ambience created by the presence of fellow Muslims becomes both heartening and spiritually uplifting.
"It is more encouraging to do [additional] worship when everyone around you is as well," commented Shafaq Akhter, a student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She shares an apartment with two other Muslim girls. "It does get a little tough balancing out student life and keeping up with Ramadan goals, but every time I see myself slipping in one way or the other, I get a lot of support from friends and family to [ensure] a good balance."
Before Ramadan begins, Akhter decides her spiritual objectives: to read a portion of Quran or to memorize certain verses daily and then maintaining a record over the course of the month, which helps her quantify her progress.
"As the month goes by, I find it harder to keep up with my goals," she observed, adding that she picks up her pace in the last 10 days. "I believe it's always helpful to try to get your friends or roommates to set goals for themselves. Even though we had different goals, we continued to encourage each other to keep up with them."
Nihaad Zaman, a student at Middlesex County College, N.J., warns against making too many resolutions or setting standards that are too high. "Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said the most loved deeds by God are the most regular deeds, even if they are few," she cited. "It's best if we just do a little extra, constantly, and then add on as that becomes easy for us."
As for herself, rather than spelling out resolutions, she continues her regular worship in more quantity and intensity. Her main resolve is to be a better Muslim at the end of the month. "Ramadan is a month of training for the next year to come and if we don't come out of Ramadan a better Muslim, doing more for the sake of God, then we did not get the full benefit of the extra that we did in Ramadan," she opined.
Saif Syed, a senior at University of Wisconsin, Madison, feels the sweetness of spending Ramadan among Muslim friends, something he never experienced until college. "It's easier and more rewarding to arrange for an all-night-worship event with friends on campus as we can encourage each other to stay up and read Quran," he said.
The most challenging task for him is to arrange his schedule in order to spend the most time in the mosque, especially the odd nights of the last 10 days. "We have a mosque right on campus," Syed said. "I can even do my homework there. Spending time in the mosque even doing homework feels rewarding."
He advised that students should have a detailed plan as to how they wish to handle everything together, from studying to worshipping to extracurricular involvements. "It's very easy to get caught up in the community obligations and then stress out over our relationship with God and strengthening our spirituality, but it's really important to make sure we're improving our relationship with God and strengthening our spirituality," Syed, 21, advised.
Keeping a weekly calendar helps Hisham Zahid, a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. He sees Ramadan as an opportunity to "develop time management, create positive habits while lessening the bad ones, and associate with people in positive and productive environments," he noted.
Although most Muslim Student Associations provide daily dusk meals for students, the pre-dawn meal is an independent affair for dorming students. For Muslims sharing an apartment, as Shafaq Akhter does, the pre-dawn meal too is a time to share.
"The environment has a great impact on your daily life and keeping a positive atmosphere promotes proper decision making especially when it comes to a balance between school, extracurricular activities and fulfilling spiritual goals," Zahid added.


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Shadows of the past
Thirteen years have passed since 9/11. Why did you want to tell a story set around that time?
Nadeem Aslam: You say that the war is more or less over there. It may be over for the Americans, but it is not over for the people who live in the place where the war was fought. The consequences of that will stay with them for a very long time. I wanted to write "The Blind Man's Garden" because I thought that the world should hear – for better or worse – part of the story of what happened and what the fallout was for Pakistan. I think Pakistan is paying a terrible price: the jihadi mindset, the daily explosions, the daily suicide bombs ...
As a writer and an artist, as someone who love words and works with words, one of the most humiliating things over the past decade has been to see how language has been corrupted on both sides. You listen to the American regime and it talks about something called "enhanced interrogation". What they really mean is torture. "Extraordinary rendition": that's another word for kidnapping. You listen to the Taliban and they talk about jihad, which they reduce to just one meaning, namely war. That means bloodshed. But the word jihad has as many meanings as a rose has petals. To smile at someone when you don't feel liked smiling is jihad. To be kind to someone when your own life is full of meanness and cruelty, that is jihad.
So I wanted to just rescue language from these groups. I wanted to say: "Ok, let me unpack this word called jihad and show you its multiple meanings." We lived through this extraordinary period that began with 9/11 and ended with the Arab spring; an enormously rich decade in which there seems to be a clash between an incomplete understanding of the East and an incomplete understanding of the West. So I wanted to find a story that would contain as many of these elements as possible without loosing shape as a novel. After all, it is first and foremost a novel, and one of the amazing things about novels is that it doesn't tell you what to think; it tells you what to think about. So I don't come to a conclusion. I just tell the story of this family. Then I just walk away and you can make up your mind.
Ultimately you are saying that there is no victory, only victims. That is the case even with the American soldier who comes to Pakistan to avenge his dead brother ...
Aslam: Absolutely. We don't know whose side Homer was on, which is not to say that there is nothing wrong with the American foreign policy or that there is nothing wrong with the Pakistani government. I just wanted to talk about human beings.
You address a number of the atrocities committed during that period: for example, the way the Afghan people slaughtered the loathed Taliban; the ignorance of the Americans, who look away even when children are tortured before their eyes; the horrible sexual abuse of young boys by the warlords. Did you want to break the silence on these issues by addressing them in the novel?
Aslam: These things are not unknown, certainly not in Pakistan. The incident about the boy being raped is actually based on a real incident. I could never make such things up; I don't have that kind of imagination. War is full of these atrocities. People say that my books have a melancholic tinge, but I work in tragic times.
In general, you focus more on death and violence in this novel than you did in earlier novels. Now 9/11 represents what the American cultural theorist Mitchell calls a "pictorial turn", i.e. a caesura in the way pictures shape our narrative of reality. Did you feel a certain challenge to write in opposition to the tidal wave of pictures relating to this period?
Aslam: When the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed, it was such a horrendous spectacle that the whole world got to see it. I wanted to take two small insignificant, human beings in a far away country that most people around the world either view with suspicion or actively despise. I wanted to show that if you listen closely enough, if you look closely enough, the explosion that occurs when two lives are destroyed is just as great.
A novel is an amplifying device. Those buildings collapsed? Now let me show you these two tiny people and I am going to show you what happened to them. When we get to the last page, let's see how moved you are or if you are moved at all or how involved you are in their struggle. I want to show you what a heroic struggle it is to stay human, to say: "no, I am going to do the decent thing."
Again and again in the novel, Mikal and Naheed are told that there is an easy way out. When Mikal is with the American soldier, they even say to him: "we will pay you, just give us the American guy." He says "no". And when they meet in the garden earlier before he meets the American, he says, "let's walk away" and she says, "I can't because I have to look after my father-in-law".
People talk about writers falling in love with their characters. I never had that feeling before, but this time it was different: these two are just brilliant. And I really became alarmed because of the trajectory I had chosen for them, i.e. that they were going to become entangled in the war and how they would manage to lead a quiet life again. They were, in the real sense of the word, like a hero and a heroine.
Since 9/11 at the latest, the West has associated Pakistan with Islamism. In your novel, however, we are faced with several facets of Islam. There is a Sufi, there are the Islamists and there is Rohan, who is a devout Muslim and the owner of the garden, but ultimately goes blind. Did you want to say: all of this is Islam?
Aslam: In a way I cannot talk about this because these various versions of Islam are there in my life. My father's family are communists and people of the left, so they are atheists. My mother's family was religious. So she came into this communist household where wine was served and people smoked. My mother would say her prayers and my aunts would say their prayers, but none of my uncles said their prayers. So even if I wanted to say that Islam is one thing, I couldn't because I know there are so many different kinds of Islam.
To be honest: I am not sure what the original impulse was behind Rohan going blind. Yes, in a very beautiful way it means that his faith blinded him. So someone made that connection, but I had the feeling that I probably didn't and that I only realised it later. Benjamin Britten said that if I am a good enough musician, the piece I compose will say more then I intended. So the resonance is there – sometimes without the artist wanting it to be.
Interview conducted by Claudia Kramatschek
© Qantara.de 2014
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de


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Long-time readers (all 3 of you) will remember when I lost my job several years ago, and how devastated I was by the loss.
photo: jaaron
It. Was. Awful.
BUT! I survived, and turned those survival skills into an article that's just been published over at elephantjournal.com.
The best time to read this article is before you lose your job, since there are tips on what you can do to be prepared, just in case. The second best time is after.
Either way, you can read it here: What To Do Before and After You Lose Your Job.
xo, Susan


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Norah Borges Letters
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0004
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This collection consists of the personal letters of Norah Borges. All but one letter are sent to Esther Haldo de Amorim, with one letter sent to Aurora Haldo de Haldo. Also included are four drawings by Borges, and two programs of Borges' exhibitions. Materials include letters, postcards, drawings, and pamphlets.
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