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A Persian Parable of Losing One's Homeland
The story of Daryoush Aryana, who in the process of trying to procure a new identity card becomes entangled in the labyrinth of an all-powerful bureaucracy, is set in Tehran in mid-1960s. But it could just as well take place anywhere people suffer under the arbitrary tyranny of the authorities, the abuse of public office and rampant corruption.
The simple fact of having lost his identity card and having to renew it turns into a nightmare for Aryana that stretches on week after week.
Daryoush Aryana has lived since his childhood in the West. As a boy he left his Iranian homeland with an uncle and moved to America, where he studied, taught and travelled through Europe. He lived for a long time in Paris, until one day he felt the urge to see his old homeland again. Besides sporadic contact with Iranians living in exile, he no longer has any ties to his country. His return is instead motivated by emotional reasons, by homesickness and an indefinable longing.
A homeland grown foreign
Soon after he arrives – after only three weeks – it becomes clear to Aryana how foreign Tehran society has become to him. Frustrated, he decides to leave again. This is where the novel begins. Aryana is looking forward impatiently to his departure – he only needs to obtain his new identity card, which, as the officials assure him, is a mere formality.
But then this supposedly minor detail proves to be a virtually insurmountable challenge for Aryana. He is sent from door to door, from one official to the next, and even after weeks of agonising waiting, he still hasn't made any progress.
Esfandiary's novel, which he wrote while living in Iran, was intercepted and confiscated at a Tehran post office and only made its way to America after being re-typed. It was published there in the 1960s. We have Ilija Trojanow to thank for rediscovering the novel and translating it for German readers as part of his "Weltlese" (World Selection) series.
The loss of identity
As Trojanow emphasised in an interview, the novel is more than just a Kafkaesque tale of a helpless individual lost in the dark corridors of a dubious bureaucracy. The central theme is instead the lack of a homeland – a fate common to millions of people in the 20th century who found themselves uprooted and at risk of losing their identity.
It is this background against which Esfandiary sets his story, in which the main character, Aryana, bereft of a true homeland, sets off on a symbolic quest for his identity, in the form of his identity card.
The various stations on his marathon trek through the offices of the Iranian authorities, and the social conflicts Aryana experiences along the way, are the main focus in this modern parable, making for fascinating reading. Esfandiary vividly depicts the bizarre difficulties that Aryana encounters in his dealings with the government administration.
Friendliness and hypocrisy
In the process, it's remarkable how no one at the Registry Office or the police station tries to discourage him. Everywhere he goes, people treat Aryana with exquisite politeness, apparently trying to be helpful and addressing him with almost ceremonious subservience.
The remark of a civil servant that he is "overwhelmed that you (Aryana) would deign to speak with me", is hard to believe, until we realise that these flowery phrases actually conceal a spirit of frozen rigidity that Aryana finds it almost impossible to break through.
The German reader will find the complicated forms of address and exaggerated demonstrations of courtesy strange, but they show very adeptly how the antiquated system of feudal repression still permeates modern society, making itself felt keenly in the era represented in the novel.
Aryana is forced to realise everywhere he goes that, behind the apparent openness and hospitality of Iranian society, there lurk insincerity, narrow-mindedness and a lack of freedom. Able to see through the system of rigid conventions, he repeatedly offends others with his openness and unconcealed criticism.
An inextricable tangle of contradictory feelings
Whether he exposes poems recited in honour of the guests at a garden party as florid and hollow or makes fun of the unreliable civil servants who have stood him up, or when he fights with officials, accusing them of serving a despotic, corrupt and backward state, he is doomed always to remain a stranger in his own country.
He even fails to inspire any understanding in his old friend Kourosh. Even when Kourosh shows him letters he once wrote from abroad expressing a yearning for his homeland and saying how much he always wanted to return, Aryana can still find no solution to his identity problem. His feelings for Iran have become an inextricable tangle of contradictory emotions, his only remaining clear wish to escape the country again.
Esfandiary succeeds in integrating the fate of the homeless Aryana into real political events of the period. He recounts incidents that at the time led to a state of near civil war between government troops and followers of Mossadegh's National Front.
Against this backdrop, Aryana's desperate quest for the needed document remains gripping to the very end, the various stations to which he is referred becoming more and more grotesque, and finally taking him to the highest levels of politics.
Politics "as disgusting as the bureaucracy"
In the end he is promised that he will receive his identity card at the direct behest of the Minister of War – a thread of hope onto which Aryana clings, although by then he comprehends that he has become caught up in a politics that is "no less irrational, no less medieval and disgusting than the bureaucracy."
Despite occasional satirical elements, the novel remains realistic throughout. One of its strongest aspects is its ability to maintain a grim sense of humour in the face of all the sinister occurrences, the author revealing therein a mordant scorn for a moribund social and political system.
Volker Kaminski
© Qantara.de 2009
F. M. Esfandiary, who later referred to himself as FM-2030, was born in Brussels in 1930. He was the son of an Iranian diplomat and spent his childhood in countries including England, Iran, Afghanistan and India. He participated in the 1948 Olympic Games as part of the Iranian fencing team. Esfandiary was a member of the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine, a writer, university lecturer, philosopher and futurologist. He died in New York in 2000.
Ilija Trojanow on F.M. Esfandiary
Searching for Identity in Iran's Labyrinthine Bureaucracy
F.M. Esfandiary's novel "Identity Card" was published in the mid-1960s. A dissection of the inhuman absurdities of the Iranian bureaucratic system, it is a book that has lost nothing of its relevance under the mullahs, as Ilija Trojanow, translator of the newly published German translation, tells Nimet Seker
Interview with Kader Abdolah
"The Ayatollahs Want To Be Bombed"
Kader Abdolah's novel "The House of the Mosque" describes the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on the daily life of a tradition-conscious family. Ilja Braun spoke with the author about the novel, the situation in Iran and his status as an exile writer
Navid Kermani's "Metaphysical Revolts"
Is the Creator a Sadist?
In his new book Navid Kermani explores the question of divine justice and the meaning of suffering. His starting point is the Job motif and "The Book of Suffering" by the Persian mystic Fariduddin Attar. By Lewis Gropp


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In 2005 in an eighth grade charter school classroom in Southeast, Washington, DC, Eric Goldstein was impacted by a conversation between himself and his students. This inspired the creation of a non-profit organization that now reaches thousands of students around the globe. The students complained to Eric, their teacher, that school had little to do with what, as they say, "was happening in real life outside of school." He heard what they said - he "got" it.
In the weeks that followed this conversation a new entity was created - One World Education. It is an organization that publishes middle and high school student writing about culture and local and global issues on their website, www.oneworldeducation.org. The organization also offers middle and high school teachers from DC, Maryland and Virginia professional development and compensation to design the One World Curriculum around the student-authored material, which becomes the primary source. The curriculum is then made freely available to teachers. The One World Curriculum provides middle and high school teachers with project and literacy-based lesson plans on core academic subjects and 21st century skills designed around the primary sources that are written by teenagers.
The idea for this approach arose from that initial conversation. When searching for lesson plans that offered a youth perspective on the topics he was teaching, Mr. Goldstein found close to none. The one youth-written primary source that he did find, he used to design his own lesson plan. When he used this he found his students were more engaged, asked more questions about the content, and shared their response, that they could relate to the author of the article. This reaction was something Eric never experienced with other curricula he used.
He decided to ask those students to write about the topics and issues they cared about. Topics of their writing tended to be mostly about their ethnic origins, countries they have traveled to, and issues in their neighborhoods. Goldstein asked two things of the assignment. The students had to write about a personal experience with a place, issue or topic and they also had to provide information they thought would be valuable for other young people to know.
Goldstein's plan was to improve his students' literacy skills through a peer editing process. When students wrote about things they cared about they were more than when engaged in graded assignments, and they were hopeful of what would happen next. This writing was then adapted as curriculum with these same students, an idea that has grown from one classroom to many around the city.
Last year, 2009, One World Curriculum was piloted in five schools in the Washington, D.C. area with 200 students in order to assess teacher satisfaction and student engagement. "I knew this model of students learning from the writing of other students worked from my own experience, but we needed to see if it worked on a larger scale," Goldstein shared. Teachers spoke of increased student engagement, assignment completion, and fewer classroom disruptions when using the One World Curriculum. The pilot results have been an incredible boost for the young organization that is looking to private foundations for funding.
With the pilot's evaluation Goldstein's beliefs were validated and it is when he knew the curriculum had the capacity to impact a wider audience. Although the organization works primarily with individual schools and teachers, they have started conversations with DC Public Schools to have the One World Curriculum formally adopted by the district. "Teachers need resources that engage students and sends a message that youth perspectives are valuable. Students need to feel their voices and ideas are heard and taken seriously. The One World Curriculum allows both to happen," Goldstein offers. In the organization's first four months of teacher memberships, over fifty teachers in the DC region have registered and are using the One World Curriculum.
During their first full year of operations, One World Education launched a Culture and Global Issues Reflection Contest around the city. Over 115 students submitted written Reflections. Six students became One World Education Student Ambassadors after having their Reflections published on the site within the curriculum. One Ambassador shared, " I can't believe that thousands of students around DC are learning about fresh water issues from my Reflection." Another student said that, "One World Education is where MySpace meets National Geographic." Another contest is starting in January of 2010.
Goldstein, after starting One World Education, is enjoying his role as executive director. The organization currently has two employees and a dedicated team of volunteers and interns. The organization also has a Community Program that partners teachers with after-school programs, builds journals for students to write outside of school, and offers leadership classes, called LearnShops, for students and teachers. The goal of the organization, according to Goldstein, is to open Reflection submissions to students around the country in another year, and after that to serve as an online outlet for students around the world to share and learn about core academic subjects and 21st century skills from people their age. This is another variation on the theme of "Teachers never know how far their influence reaches".
Visit www.oneworldeducation.org for more information on One World Education.

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The beautiful Sarah Bernhardt peony
Sarah Bernhardt peonies are by far my favorite peony, they are large, fragrant, and have a double pink flower that blooms early June-July.
This lovely euro sham is from Bella Notte Linens. I love their linens, they are of high quality, and best of all, machine washable!
Okay, let's get back to peonies.
The white peony you see here is the Festiva Maxima, its large double white flower is very fragrant. And when I mean fragrant, it just takes one cut stem to put in a small bathroom and the scent is filled.
With all that pink and white, let's change things up a bit and introduce......
The Karl Rosenfeld peony is slightly fragrant, but that's okay because it's vivid double red flower is just enough to make you smile and say ahhhhh.
I hope you all enjoyed this post on peonies from my garden. These flowers are truly breathtaking and are perfect in my eyes. If only they were repeat flowering like roses I would truly be happy, but I guess we can't have everything.
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Elegant feather earrings, handmade in Brighton by John Moore.
Inspired by the engineered beauty of a bird's feather, these long, elegant earrings from Moore's 'Flight' collection are handmade from hand-dyed, anodised aluminium with stainless steel hooks. The hooks are built into the design and fasten at the back to keep them secure. The aluminium is textured with a delicate lined pattern that beautifully catches the light. They are extremely lightweight, comfortable to wear and will make a bold, colourful statement with a casual outfit or evening wear.
Please note that due to the vagaries of the dyeing process, the colour may differ slightly from the photographs.
The process of anodising aluminium is unique in creating a transparent oxide that not only absorbs pigment but is hard and scratch resistant making it very durable. It is also strong and lightweight making it the perfect material for earrings because it doesn't pull on the lobes. Unlike paint applied on top of a material, with dyed, anodised aluminium the special dyes actually soak permanently into the surface of the metal, rather like a tattoo on skin.
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Color for the cheeks and face. Various formulas. Different looks. FROST: Iridescent, lightly shimmering colour. Adds highlights: provides a frosted 'bloom' to the cheeks. MATTE: Flat matte finish. Goes on lightly. Builds well. Blends with the skin. SATIN: Light-refractive sheen-style finish. Adds subtle highlights to the skin. SHEERTONE: Shy-on tints in a sheer-on micro-refined powder. Not transparent. Goes on faint. Looks real. SHEERTONE SHIMMER: Jet-milled and micro-fine, just like Sheertone, but tickled with just-enough shimmer to make light dance on the cheeks.
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I've been sitting on this blush for a long time. Decided to use it today for the first time. In the pan it doesn't look very appealing but once applied to my cheeks....WOW. A nice shimmering bronzy rosy shade (that's how it translate on my NC45 skintone). Its neutral and understated and I can see myself wearing this with all my bright and dark lippies. Love it.
Gingerly blush by Mac is a go to blush for me. I know it looks really boring in the pan but it gives my skin. Kim K also uses this blush as well. It applies very smoothly and blends really well plus it's a matte blush so it's great if your not into shimmery blushes.
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Peachykeen is a wonderful warm coral/peach pink sheer blush with gold shimmer. Many call this blush from MAC a dupe for Nars orgasm. It is similar in color, and a few dollars cheaper. This blush is marketed as a sheertone, and thus the product isn't really buildable. You might have to reapply this blush throughout the day to maintain the beautiful warm glow it adds to your cheeks. I prefer to work with blushers that are more pigmented, and through your application you can sheer them out if you need too, but you can't really do that with this blush because it is very sheer already! I am giving this blush a 4.5 because it's color is beautiful, it's texture is very nice, and it delivers precisely what it says it will. I am taking off half a star for staying power.
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GBrowse_syn User Interface Help
GBrowse_syn is a GBrowse based synteny viewer. This page provides help on using GBrowse_syn. See the GBrowse_syn page for other information on GBrowse_syn.
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Slate is notorious in online circles for being a constant hive of contrarian thinking. There isn't a popular opinion out there that Slate isn't happy to play Devil's Advocate against, often at the expense of all logic and reason. Click onto Slate any given day, and you may find yourself subject to headlines such as, "The Godfather: Was It Really All That Good?," or, "Why Hugging Is Cruel," or, "Forget The Water Shortage. It's All About the Gin, by Christopher Hitchens". Things like that.
But this week, Slate has reached its nadir. Yesterday, a writer there named Jonah Weiner penned an opinion piece explaining why universally loathed nu-metal band Creed is actually crazy awesome.
If your impulse on hearing that it has reunited is to groan, stifle it long enough to locate a copy of Creed's 2004 Greatest Hits collection. It's a fantastic baker's dozen of first-rate schlock-rock, courtesy of one of the most underrated and unfairly maligned groups in pop history.
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Stop right there, Weiner. I'll be judge of whether or not I think Creed still blows.
/puts on headphones
/listens to "With Arms Wide Open"
No. No, that's just as horrible as I remembered. This is not the first time Weiner has tried to convince you that you should like music you inherently dislike. He wrote virtually the same missive for Limp Bizkit back in April.
What's revealed is a band at once more stupid, more fun, and more interesting than history has given it credit for.
Now, perhaps you like Creed and Limp Bizkit. I'm not going to judge you for that. Whatever floats your boat.
What I disagree with here is the sort of purposeful widespread contrarianism both these articles represent. Weiner doesn't really like Creed all that much. He simply likes the idea of being the first person to go against the grain and embrace them as a nostalgia act. He's trying to stay ahead of the hipster curve. AND, should Creed's somehow ever become popular with white people who live in Brooklyn, he gets bragging rights for being the first to foresee such a turnaround in reputation. He's so cool, he stakes out uncool positions right before they become cool! COOL!
There's no doubt that conventional wisdom needs to be blown up with sound thinking on occasion. The men who wrote "Freakonomics" can now eat caviar for breakfast every day for doing it. But there are people out there like Weiner, and ESPN demon puppet Skip Bayless, who seek out the unpopular opinion and cling to it in hopes of being vindicated at a later date. And they present that opinion as definitive. Creed is underrated. Bizkit never got enough credit. It's purely an exercise in egotism. EVERYONE WAS WRONG ABOUT THIS ONE THING AND I'M THE ONLY ONE SMART ENOUGH TO SEE OTHERWISE! Don't be fooled. Or else, you may end up subjecting yourself to "Nookie" again for no good reason.
Drew Magary is the author of "Men With Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook" and a columnist for Deadspin.com.


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The Mercedes-AMG GT embodies the sensual purity of sportiness and emotion. The two-seater is characterized by hallmark rear-wheel drive proportions. The V8 biturbo front mid-engine ensures optimum weight distribution, which establishes a basis for superb driving dynamics. The long hood with its pronounced powerdomes, a greenhouse that has been moved far back, the large wheels and broad tail end make up the distinctive look.
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Once they've put their superhero films behind them, Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) and Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) will topline The Long Red Road. The feature film will be an adaptation of the Brett C. Leonard play by the same name. Hardy previously starred in the play as Sam, a man living on an Indian reservation in South Dakota who attempts to drink away his sorrows; Hardy will reprise his role in the film. Shannon is attached to play Sam's older brother, Bob. Hit the jump for more on The Long Red Road.
Variety goes on to say that the plot of The Long Red Road thickens when a man from Sam's past comes calling and Sam is forced to look at the road that led him to the man he has become. The theatrical version was previously directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, although there is no report as of yet that attaches the actor/director to the film. The Long Red Road will be the first feature from Whipsmart, headed by Paul Neesan and Richard Fant.
Hardy, who previously starred as the villainous Bane in this summer's The Dark Knight Rises, will next be seen as one of the Bondurant brothers in John Hillcoat's Depression-era drama, Lawless. He is currently filming Mad Max: Fury Road for director George Miller. Shannon will next appear as a nefarious character in Premium Rush, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He also stars as General Zod in next summer's Man of Steel for Warner Bros. For those of you who are interested, take a look at this video behind the scenes of The Long Red Road, featuring Hardy and Hoffman:


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VICTORIA - Happy happy hour, British Columbia.
New liquor laws took effect Friday that allow bars and pubs to offer for the first time the popular time-limited drink specials.
B.C. was the only province in Canada that did not allow licensed bars and restaurants to change their prices during the course of a day.
Under the new rules, the minimum drink price is $3 for a single-ounce cocktail, a five-ounce glass of wine or a 12-ounce sleeve of beer.
"With happy hours up and running in B.C., operators can cater to groups by offering drink specials for 'team nights,' for example, helping fill their seats on slow days or during not-so-busy times," Poma Dhaliwal, president of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees, said in a statement.
Other changes to provincial liquor laws include dropping the requirement for customers to order food with drinks in a licensed restaurant and allowing hosts with a special occasion licence to serve homemade and U-brew beer, wine or cider.
Government officials said the new rules balance industry needs with health and safety considerations. The minimum prices for happy-hour drinks were put in place to encourage responsible consumption, said a statement from the Justice Ministry.
"Allowing licensees, such as pubs, restaurants and lounges, to alter their liquor prices throughout the course of the day is a pocket-book friendly change for British Columbians that will help the industry attract customers at times when business may typically be slow," it said.
In January, the provincial government endorsed 73 recommendations in a report on B.C. liquor laws.
Those changes include increasing the variety of alcohol available at sporting events and allowing mixed-spirit drinks at music festivals and in sports venues. The province will also allow liquor sales at grocery stores.
So far, 14 of the 73 recommendations have been implemented. Government aims to have most in place by next spring.


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Did you miss the 2007 tax filing season? You better get on it, time is running out!
The latest from the IRS newsroom:
Refunds totaling more than $1.1 billion may be waiting for nearly 1.1 million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2007, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. However, to collect the money, a return for 2007 must be filed with the IRS no later than Monday, April 18, 2011.
The IRS estimates that half of these potential 2007 refunds are $640 or more.
Some people may not have filed because they had too little income to require filing a tax return even though they had taxes withheld from their wages or made quarterly estimated payments. In cases where a return was not filed, the law provides most taxpayers with a three-year window of opportunity for claiming a refund. If no return is filed to claim a refund within three years, the money becomes property of the U.S. Treasury.
For 2007 returns, the window closes on April 18, 2011. The law requires that the return be properly addressed, mailed and postmarked by that date. There is no penalty for filing a late return qualifying for a refund.
The IRS reminds taxpayers seeking a 2007 refund that their checks will be held if they have not filed tax returns for 2008 and 2009. In addition, the refund will be applied to any amounts still owed to the IRS, and may be used to offset unpaid child support or past due federal debts such as student loans.


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Long before he was a gay-baiting U.S. Senate candidate, and long before he was a dipshit broadcaster for ESPN, Craig James was approached by Mark Cuban to invest in the company that eventually sold in 1999 for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock. James's partner in the deal was Ross Perot Jr., and James's stake was said to be 10 percent, which would have netted more than $500 million. The deal apparently fell apart because Cuban and one of Perot's advisers didn't get along. Said Cuban of James to the Dallas Morning News: "He had it in his grasp and let it go!" Unlike those five hookers James killed while at SMU.
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