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"A man walking alone on a deserted beach, brandishing a lantern in his outstretched hand, might be a fool. But, for a ship that went astray on a stormy night, he might be the savior."
Saturday, December 23, 2006
My Best Wishes for the Holidays
I might get overwhelmed with the hubbub of the festive season and miss blogging so terribly that I'd sneak away to my PC in the after hours for a quickie.
In any case, whether this would be my last post of 2006 or not, I would like to wish each and everyone of you a Merry Xmas, a Blessed Eid Adha and a Happy New Year.
Through this blog, I can only offer something modest along with my wishes. I gave it some serious thought and the best I could come up with is the gift of music.
I would like you to enjoy this audio stream below of a magnificent guitar duel by Carlos Santana & Ottmar leibert. I hope it gives you as much pleasure as it did to me, with a Cognac in hand and a fine Cuban cigar.
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May your life be as wonderful as this musical gem Samba Pa Ti (1992).
Happy Days To All…
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35 comments:
- The Syrian Brit said...
Abu Fares,
Let me be the first to wish you Eid Mubarak, a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.. well, at least the first cyberfriend to do it!..
All the best, and may the coming year bring you and yours continuing happiness, good health and contentment..
- Unknown said...
Dear Syrian Brit
Cyber or not, you're one real friend to me.
Happy 3 in 1, to you and your family.
ADHA MOBARAK ! (Blessed Eid Adha)
Happy New Year..
& Merry christmas...
To Abu Fares & his family:
..wishing u a great vacation with ur family...
Same wishes to all of u..
- Unknown said...
Kol 3am Wa Anta Bi Kheir Black Hawk
May the coming days and ways be all yours to take with joy and grace.
- Dubai Jazz said...
كل عام و انت بخير يا أبو فارس , و أتمنى لك عيدي أضحى و ميلاد سعيدين.
Abu Fares;
Happy new year in advance, wish you also a happy Eid al Adha, and merry Christmas.
Dubai Jazz
- Unknown said...
Dubai Jazz
Happy Holidays season to you my friend.
Wishing you the best of times.
- Shannon said...
Abu Fares, Happy holidays! I wish you all the best in '07. Enjoy the time with your family.
- Unknown said...
Hey Shannon
Happy Holidays to you and yours.
BTW I tried to watch your latest posted video but couldn't.
Enjoy 007, how about that???
- Highlander said...
Abufares , thank you so much and Happy 3 in 1 as you say to you and your family . That song was awesome .
- Angel said...
Dear Abufares,
Wishing you, your family and loved ones a magical Festive Season filled with Peace, Happiness, Good health, Tidal Wave of Love, and Bright Futures.
- Unknown said...
I'm glad you enjoyed the guitar piece.
Happy Days to you.
- Unknown said...
Thank you Angel for your wonderful wishes. Same to you and yours.
- Karin said...
EID MUBARAK to you and your family dear friend!
Thanks so much for having given us so much pleasure over the last months, lots of laughter, a tremendous amount of fun!!
Enjoy every minute with your family!
Only the BEST to you ... have a GREAT time!!
- Unknown said...
Hi Karin
Thank you for your warm wishes.
More importantly, thank you for bringing a wonderful new dimension into my life.
Being my friend is a treasure I would cherish forever.
Happy feast Abufares. Really wonderful blog :) I've just bookmarked it after reading some of your cool posts..
God bless Tartous..
Santana rules of course, and I'm assuming you will NOT be listening to Fairuz's "Laylet Eid"? :)
Enjoy the holidays, and promise you won't come back telling us about all the wonderful things you ate! Actually, I was kidding, please do!
Eid mubarak to you all.
- Unknown said...
Hello Nour
Ahlan Wa Sahlan to my humble blog.
Thank you for your wishes. I look forward reading more of your blog (which I've just happily discovered) and seeing you in this comment section.
Merry Xmas, Adha Moubarak and Happy New Year
- Unknown said...
What can I say. I just returned from the mountains. I had a great plate of Fattouch, some great assorted Mezza and more than my share of good homemade Arak. I kid you not, I really wish you were there. The weather gorgeous, the whole ambiance appetizing and the little fire begging for wonderful company.
Meery Xmas, Adha Moubarak and Happy New Year to you and yours.
Benjamin Franklin
THE Perfectibility of Man! Ah heaven, what a dreary themel The perfectibility of the Ford car! The perfectibility of which man ? I am many men. Which of them are you going to perfect ? I am not a mechanical contrivance.
Education! Which of the various me's do you propose to educate, and which do you propose to suppress ?
Anyhow, I defy you. I defy you, oh society, to educate me or to supress me, according to your dummy standards.
The ideal man! And which is he, if you please? Benjamin Franklin or Abraham Lincoln? The ideal man! Roosevelt or Porfirio D،az?
There are other men in me, besides this patient ass who sits here in a tweed jacket. What am I doing, playing the patient ass in a tweed jacket? Who am I talking to? Who are you, at the other end of this patience?
Who are you? How many selves have you? And which of these selves do you want to be?
Is Yale College going to educate the self that is in the dark of you, or Harvard College?
The ideal self! Oh, but I have a strange and fugitive self shut out and howling like a wolf or a coyote under the ideal windows. See his red eyes in the dark? This is the self who is coming into his own.
The perfectibility of man, dear God! When every man as long as he remains alive is in himself a multitude of conflicting men. Which of these do you choose to perfect, at the expense of every other?
Old Daddy Franklin will tell you. He'll rig him up for you, the pattern American. Oh, Franklin was the first downright American. He knew what he was about, the sharp little man. He set up the first dummy American.
At the beginning of his career this cunning little Benjamin drew up for himself a creed that should 'satisfy the professors of every religion, but shock none'.
Now wasn't that a real American thing to do ?
' That there is One God, who made all things.'
(But Benjamin made Him.)
'That He governs the world by His Providence.'
(Benjamin knowing all about Providence.)
' That He ought to be worshipped with adoration, prayer, and thanks- giving.'
(Which cost nothing.)
'But-' But me no buts, Benjamin, saith the Lord.
'But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to men.'
(God having no choice in the matter.)
' That the soul is immortal.'
(You'll see why, in the next clause.)
'And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.'
Now if Mr Andrew Carnegie, or any other millionaire, had wished to invent a God to suit his ends, he could not have done better. Benjamin did it for him in the eighteenth century. God is the supreme servant of men who want to get on, to produce. Providence. The provider. The heavenly storekeeper. The everlasting Wanamaker.
And this is all the God the grandsons of the Pilgrim Fathers had left. Aloft on a pillar of dollars.
' That the soul is immortal.'
The trite way Benjamin says itl
But man has a soul, though you can't locate it either in his purse or his pocket-book or his heart or his stomach or his head. The wholeness of a man is his soul. Not merely that nice little comfortable bit which Benjamin marks out.
It's a queer thing is a man's soul. It is the whole of him. Which means it is the unknown him, as well as the known. It seems to me just funny, professors and Benjamins fixing the functions of the soul. Why, the soul of man is a vast forest, and all Benjamin intended was a neat back garden. And we've all got to fit into his kitchen garden scheme of things. Hail Columbia !
The soul of man is a dark forest. The Hercynian Wood that scared the Romans so, and out of which came the white- skinned hordes of the next civilization.
Who knows what will come out of the soul of man? The soul of man is a dark vast forest, with wild life in it. Think of Benjamin fencing it off!
Oh, but Benjamin fenced a little tract that he called the soul of man, and proceeded to get it into cultivation. Providence, forsoothl And they think that bit of barbed wire is going to keep us in pound for ever? More fools they.
This is Benjamin's barbed wire fence. He made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock.
Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself i.e., waste nothing.
Lose no time, be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary action.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Avoid extremes, forbear resenting injuries as much as you think they deserve.
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Rarely use venery but for health and offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
A Quaker friend told Franklin that he, Benjamin, was generally considered proud, so Benjamin put in the Humility touch as an afterthought. The amusing part is the sort of humility it displays. 'Imitate Jesus and Socrates,' and mind you don't outshine either of these two. One can just imagine Socrates and Alcibiades roaring in their cups over Philadelphian Benjamin, and Jesus looking at him a little puzzled, and murmuring: 'Aren't you wise in your own conceit, Ben?'
Henceforth be masterless,' retorts Ben. ' Be ye each one his own master unto himself, and don't let even the Lord put His spoke in.' 'Each man his own master' is but a puffing up of masterlessness.
Well, the first of Americans practiced this enticing list with assiduity, setting a national example. He had the virtues in columns, and gave himself good and bad marks according as he thought his behaviour deserved. Pity these conduct charts are lost to us. He only remarks that Order was his stumbling block. He could not learn to be neat and tidy.
Isn't it nice to have nothing worse to confess ?
He was a little model, was Benjamin. Doctor Franklin. Snuff-coloured little man! Immortal soul and all!
The immortal soul part was a sort of cheap insurance policy.
Benjamin had no concern, really, with the immortal soul. He was too busy with social man.
(1) He swept and lighted the streets of young Philadelphia.
(2) He invented electrical appliances.
(3) He was the centre of a moralizing club in Philadelphia, and he wrote the moral humorisms of Poor Richard.
(4) He was a member of all the important councils of Philadelphia, and then of the American colonies.
(5) He won the cause of American Independence at the French Court, and was the economic father of the United States.
Now what more can you want of a man? And yet he is infra dig., even in Philadelphia.
I admire him. I admire his sturdy courage first of all, then his sagacity, then his glimpsing into the thunders of electricity, then his common-sense humour. All the qualities of a great man, and never more than a great citizen. Middle-sized, sturdy, snuff-coloured Doctor Franklin, one of the soundest citizens that ever trod or 'used venery'.
I do not like him.
And, by the way, I always thought books of Venery were about hunting deer.
There is a certain earnest naivet' about him. Like a child. And like a little old man. He has again become as a little child, always as wise as his grandfather, or wiser.
Perhaps, as I say, the most complete citizen that ever 'used venery'.
Printer, philosopher, scientist, author and patriot, impeccable husband and citizen, why isn't he an archetype?
Pioneer, Oh Pioneers! Benjamin was one of the greatest pioneers of the United States. Yet we just can't do with him.
What's wrong with him then ? Or what's wrong with us ?
I can remember, when I was a little boy, my father used to buy a scrubby yearly almanac with the sun and moon and stars on the cover. And it used to prophesy bloodshed and famine. But also crammed in corners it had little anecdotes and humorisms, with a moral tag. And I used to have my little priggish laugh at the woman who counted her chickens before they were hatched and so forth, and I was convinced that honesty was the best policy, also a little priggishly. The author of these bits was Poor Richard, and Poor Richard was Benjamin Franklin, writing in Philadelphia well over a hundred years before.
And probably I haven't got over those Poor Richard ` tags yet. I rankle still with them. They are thorns in young flesh.
Because, although I still believe that honesty is the best policy, I dislike policy altogether; though it is just as well not to count your chickens before they are hatched, it's still more hateful to count them with gloating when they are hatched. It has taken me many years and countless smarts to get out of that barbed wire moral enclosure that Poor Richard rigged up. Here am I now in tatters and scratched to ribbons, sitting in the middle of Benjamin's America looking at the barbed wire, and the fat sheep crawling under the fence to get fat outside, and the watch-dogs yelling at the gate lest by chance anyone should get out by the proper exit. Oh America! Oh Benjamin! And I just utter a long loud curse against Benjamin and the American corral.
Moral America! Most moral Benjamin. Sound, satished Ben!
He had to go to the frontiers of his State to settle some disturbance among the Indians. On this occasion he writes:
We found that they had made a great bonfire in the middle of the square; they were all drunk, men and women quarrelling and fighting. Their dark-coloured bodies, half-naked, seen only by the gloomy light of the bonfire, running after and beating one another with fire-brands, accompanied by their horrid yellings, formed a scene the most resembling our ideas of hell that could be well imagined. There was no appeasing the tumult, and we retired to our lodging. At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice.
The next day, sensible they had misbehaved in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their counsellors to make their apology. The orator acknowledged the fault, but laid it upon the rum, and then endeavoured to excuse the rum by saying: 'The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use; and whatever he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he had made the rum, he said: " Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with." And it must be so.'
And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited all the seacoast . . .
This, from the good doctor with such suave complacency, is a little disenchanting. Almost too good to bc true.
But there you are! The barbed wire fence. 'Extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth.' Oh, Benjamin Franklin! He even ' used venery' as a cultivator of seed.
Cultivate the earth, ye gods! The Indians did that, as much as they needed. And they left off there. Who built Chicago? Who cultivated the earth until it spawned Pittsburgh, Pa?
The moral issue! Just look at it! Cultivation included. If it's a mere choice of Kultur or cultivation, I give it up.
Which brings us right back to our question, what's wrong with Benjamin, that we can't stand him? Or else, what's wrong with us, that we kind fault with such a paragon?
Man is a moral animal. All right. I am a moral animal. And I'm going to remain such. I'm not going to be turned into a virtuous little automaton as Benjamin would have me. 'This is good, that is bad. Turn the little handle and let the good tap flow,' saith Benjamin, and all America with him. 'But first of all extirpate those savages who are always turning on the bad tap.'
I am a moral animal. But I am not a moral machine. I don't work with a little set of handles or levers. The Temperance- silence-order- resolution-frugality-industry-sincerity - justice- moderation-cleanliness-tranquility-chastity-humility keyboard is not going to get me going. I'm really not just an automatic piano with a moral Benjamin getting tunes out of me.
Here's my creed, against Benjamin's. This is what I believe:
'That I am I.'
' That my soul is a dark forest.'
'That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.'
'That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.'
' That I must have the courage to let them come and go.'
' That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.'
There is my creed. He who runs may read. He who prefers to crawl, or to go by gasoline, can call it rot.
Then for a 'list'. It is rather fun to play at Benjamin.
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Know that you are responsible to the gods inside you and to the men in whom the gods are manifest. Recognize your superiors and your inferiors, according to the gods. This is the root of all order.
Resolve to abide by your own deepest promptings, and to sacrifice the smaller thing to the greater. Kill when you must, and be killed the same: the must coming from the gods inside you, or from the men in whom you recognize the Holy Ghost.
Demand nothing; accept what you see fit. Don't waste your pride or squander your emotion.
Lose no time with ideals; serve the Holy Ghost; never serve mankind.
To be sincere is to remember that I am I, and that the other man is not me.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.
Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.
Don't be too clean. It impoverishes the blood.
The soul has many motions, many gods come and go. Try and find your deepest issue, in every confusion, and abide by that. Obey the man in whom you recognize the Holy Ghost; command when your honour comes to command.
Never 'use' venery at all. Follow your passional impulse, if it be answered in the other being; but never have any motive in mind, neither offspring nor health nor even pleasure, nor even service. Only know that 'venery' is of the great gods. An offering-up of yourself to the very great gods, the dark ones, and nothing else.
See all men and women according to the Holy Ghost that is within them. Never yield before the barren.
There's my list. I have been trying dimly to realize it for a long time, and only America and old Benjamin have at last goaded me into trying to formulate it. ,
And now I, at least, know why I can't stand Benjamin. He tries to take away my wholeness and my dark forest, my freedom. For how can any man be free, without an illimitable background? And Benjamin tries to shove me into a barbed wire paddock and make me grow potatoes or Chicagoes.
And how can I be free, without gods that come and go? But Benjamin won't let anything exist except my useful fellow men, and I'm sick of them; as for his Godhead, his Providence, He is Head of nothing except a vast heavenly store that keeps every imaginable line of goods, from victrolas to cat-o'-nine tails.
And how can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? But Benjamin doesn't let me have a soul of my own. He says I am nothing but a servant of mankind - galley-slave I call it - and if I don't get my wages here below - that is, if Mr Pierpont Morgan or Mr Nosey Hebrew or the grand United States Government, the great US, US or SOMEOFUS, manages to scoop in my bit, along with their lump - why, never mind, I shall get my wages HEREAFTER.
Oh Benjaminl Oh Binjum! You do NOT suck me in any longer.
And why, oh why should the snuff-coloured little trap have wanted to take us all in? Why did he do it?
Out of sheer human cussedness, in the first place. We do all like to get things inside a barbed wire corral. Especially our fellow men. We love to round them up inside the barbed wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. ' Work,you free jewel, WORK!' shouts the liberator, cracking his whip. Benjamin, I will not work. I do not choose to be a free democrat. I am absolutely a servant of my own Holy Ghost.
Sheer cussedness! But there was as well the salt of a subtler purpose. Benjamin was just in his eyeholes - to use an English vulgarism, meaning he was just delighted - when he was at Paris judiciously milking money out of the French monarchy for the overthrow of all monarchy. If you want to ride your horse to somewhere you must put a bit in his mouth. And Benjamin wanted to ride his horse so that it would upset the whole apple-cart of the old masters. He wanted the whole European apple-cart upset. So he had to put a strong bit in the mouth of his ass.
'Henceforth be masterless.'
That is, he had to break-in the human ass completely, so that much more might be broken, in the long run. For the moment it was the British Government that had to have a hole knocked in it. The first real hole it ever had: the breach of the Amurican rebellion.
Benjamin, in his sagacity, knew that the breaking of the old world was a long process. In the depths of his own underconsciousness he hated England, he hated Europe, he hated the whole corpus of the European being. He wanted to be American. But you can't change your nature and mode of consciousness like changing your shoes. It is a gradual shedding. Years must go by, and centuries must elapse before you have finished. Like a son escaping from the domination of his parents. The escape is not just one rupture. It is a long and half-secret process.
So with the American. He was a European when he first went over the Atlantic. He is in the main a recreant European still. From Benjamin Franklin to Woodrow Wilson may be a long stride, but it is a stride along the same road. There is no new road. The same old road, become dreary and futile. Theoretic and materialistic.
Why then did Benjamin set up this dummy of a perfect citizen as a pattern to America ? Of course, he did it in perfect good faith, as far as he knew. He thought it simply was the true ideal. But what we think we do is not very important. We never really know what we are doing. Either we are materialistic instruments, like Benjamin, or we move in the gesture of creation, from our deepest self, usually unconscious. We are only the actors, we are never wholly the authors of our own deeds or works. IT is the author, the unknown inside us or outside us. The best we can do is to try to hold ourselves in unison with the deeps which are inside us. And the worst we can do is to try to have things our own way, when we run counter to IT, and in the long run get our knuckles rapped for our presumption.
So Benjamin contriving money out of the Court of France. He was contriving the first steps of the overthrow of all Europe, France included. You can never have a new thing without breaking an old. Europe happens to be the old thing. America, unless the people in America assert themselves too much in opposition to the inner gods, should be the new thing. The new thing is the death of the old. But you can't cut the throat of an epoch. You've got to steal the life from it through several centuries.
And Benjamin worked for this both directly and indirectly. Directly, at the Court of France, making a small but very dangerous hole in the side of England, through which hole Europe has by now almost bled to death. And indirectly in Philadelphia, setting up this unlovely, snuff-coloured little ideal, or automaton, of a pattern American. The pattern American, this dry, moral, utilitarian little democrat, has done more to ruin the old Europe than any Russian nihilist. He has done it by slow attrition, like a son who has stayed at home and obeyed his parents, all the while silently hating their authority, and silently, in his soul, destroying not only their authority but their whole existence. For the American spiritually stayed at home in Europe. The spiritual home of America was, and still is, Europe. This is the galling bondage, in spite of several billions of heaped-up gold. Your heaps of gold are only so many muck-heaps, America, and will remain so till you become a reality to yourselves.
All this Americanizing and mechanizing has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. Absolutely got down by her own barbed wire of shalt-nots, and shut up fast in her own 'productive' machines like millions of squirrels running in millions of cages. It is just a farce.
Now is your chance, Europe. Now let Hell loose and get your own back, and paddle your own canoe on a new sea, while clever America lies on her muck-heaps of gold, strangled in her own barbed wire of shalt-not ideals and shalt-not moralisms. While she goes out to work like millions of squirrels in millions of cages. Production!
Let Hell loose, and get your own back, Europe!
Dear Abu Fares,
I was suddenly reminded of this old favorite above, from D.H. Lawrence's "Studies in Classical American Literature", and impulsively moved to give it to you for Christmas...!! It is not even a bad read (re-read?) during these holidays, aproaching a new year, ...good with a cigar, curled up by the fire, after that fist cognac... short enough to finish with second congnac and pass it on to Om Fares with a little kiss and a smile ...Santana in the background ...etc...!! (even if he does ramble on a bit towards the end...)
Enjoy (I Hope)...!!
Best wishes for a Mery Christmas, a Happy Eid, and a Happy New Year... and for many happy returns...!
- Unknown said...
Dear Naji
God willing I'd be able to read all of your quotation before the end of the year. I mean this year 2006.
Thank you for your wishes, hoping for the same to you.
- Shadi HIJAZI said...
Merry christmas, Adha Mubarak and Happy new year to you Abu Fares, to your family, and to everyone here.
Wish you a wonderful time in this holiday season.
- Unknown said...
Hi Shadi
Happy Holidays to you. Inshallah the New Year brings you good news, and good news only.
this is one of the best blogs i ever saw...i also dislike fairooz' over-simplified and over-rated songs, what ever happened to real composers, and her voice omg..stop shrieking...independantly of this i really like your posts which i have been reading all day...great blog
- Unknown said...
Hi Anonymous
Thank you for reading my blog all day long. I just hope it was worthwhile your time.
- Dubai Jazz said...
Hi Abu Fares, you are finally tagged!
I know it is a festive season and you have vowed to spend your time with your family, so ..no rush, just take your time!
Season's greetings from Abu Abdo and family to you and your family and all your readers
Abu Abdo
- Unknown said...
Hi Dubai Jazz
I'll get on it asap (even before reading what it's all about).
Take care, Adha Moubarak
- Unknown said...
Abu Abdo
Kol 3am Wa Anta Wa Om Abdo wal Awlad Bi Kheir.
Adha Moubarak.
- Ascribo said...
Dear Abufares,
I wish you a very happy Eid and holidays with your family. I really look forward to seeing you wearing that jacket;-) and I hope you'd be able to post something about Eid itself...
Have a great time "off"
- Unknown said...
Hi Ascribo
Long time no hear!!!
I will get back to posting asap. Unfortunatelt, I've been sick with a terrible cold since my last one.
I'll post about the Eid, whether I get to enjoy it or not.
- Arab Lady said...
Happy Holiday Season man! Enjoy with ur family...best wishes
- Unknown said...
Hello ArabLady
Thank you for your wishes.
I do hope that this Eid and the coming year be to your liking and go, as much as possible, your way.
Dear Abufares
Happy Eid and Happy new year. Hope I can spend this holiday season with you all. My love to all the family. Again Adha Mubarak.
- Unknown said...
Dear Mannona
Kol 3am Wa Anti Wal Jami3 Bi Alf Kheir.
Sorry for not calling you in the last few days but I've been tucked in bed with a cold.
I'm feeling much better now and will get in touch with you at the first opportunity.
Say hi to all.


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Captivated by the timeworn beauty of discarded old French wine barrels, designer Rudi Nijssen reimagines them as a chandelier. Handcrafted from reclaimed French oak staves and hoops, the openwork design – inspired by the French Empire form – is at once rustic and refined, organic and elegant. At home indoors and out, it proudly bears the marks and imperfections of salvaged wood.

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Northern lure: Diners head to Gordonsville
The much-acclaimed French-Provencal restaurant, Pomme, has been luring diners from Charlottesville, Richmond, and beyond to the historic center of Gordonsville since January.
Well, this month a second new eatery could further enhance this town's profile as a dining destination: The Toliver House Restaurant. Located right on evolving Main Street in a renovated 130-year old building (a former general store, residence, and restaurant) that has been vacant for two years, the Toliver House will likely (ABC permit-pending) open this week.
Eager for a new challenge, co-owner and GM John Siver bought the building with his business partner, equestrian Vicky Castegren, in late March and has since overseen renovation of the potential-rich property. What was before a very traditional ambience (i.e. old photographs everywhere) has been freshened up and modernized to create an ambience both elegant and relaxed.
Light green, mauve, and claret shades of paint took the place of old wood paneling in the restaurant's three dining rooms. The wrap-around screened porch now sports new tables, ceiling fans, and a stereo.
New hardwood floors, cherry-stained furniture, and lighting fixtures seal the new deal, though history has been preserved in details like fireplaces and the foyer, which is still adorned with old photos of Gordonsville people and places.
Siver's had a fascinating career that belies his under-30 age– he's a former Navy S.E.A.L. and federal firefighter (to name just a few high-caliber jobs) who lived in Italy including the glamorous "Emerald Coast" of Sardinia- for four years before returning to his native upstate New York. When his friend Castegren, a Gordonsville resident, told him about the Toliver House opportunity, he couldn't resist. "I loved the idea of creating a restaurant from the ground up," he says.
Siver also clearly loves the drama and spontaneity of the biz. "To me dinner is like theater, and 5:30 is curtain call," he says.
What part does his military training play in restaurant management? It's apparently all in the details. "There's a little Martha Stewart in me, but the government really made me into a detail person," he says.
Chef Jonathan Hayward, formerly of the C&O and Escafé, is in charge of the restaurant's brand-new kitchen. The American/Continental menu, which Siver says is all about offering the best "bang for your buck," features starters like fried ginger-marinated calamari atop a scallion cream sauce and a salad of local tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil. The entrée-acte stars an oven-roasted Virginia trout with Stitt's grits (grits with parmesan and butter, named after Birmingham restaurateur Frank Stitts), grilled chicken breast with fresh mango salsa, and a black angus NY strip steak with green peppercorn sauce.
Enjoying a pre-opening night out, Toliver House's Hayward and Siver were two of the many guests at the inaugural meeting of the Charlottesville Chefs' Supper Club, which took place at Fellini's #9 Monday, July 18. The brainchild of Fellini's new chef, Adam Beckel, this innovative, food-centered club is intended to bring chefs and serious foodies together at a different hosting restaurant once a month to push the culinary envelope, encourage collaboration, share purveyor info, make some money for charity and (for those not cooking) simply enjoy the pleasures of fine dining.
At this prototypical event, Beckel teamed up with Todd Grieger of Mono Loco to prepare a seven course meal that wouldn't quit calamari in chili butter with kalamata olives, capers, red grapes, and spinach; fricasseed quail in roasted red pepper crespelle with a Marsala tomato ragu.
Attendees included chefs Melissa Close of Palladio (host of the October club meeting), Denise Yetzer of Cavalier Produce, and representatives of the night's non-profit beneficiary, WorkSource, which provides job training and employment for people with disabilities. Interested chefs and foodies should contact Beckel or Fellini's owner Jackie Dunkle for more info on how to join the club.
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Even once the gang (minus Snooki) was out at Karma, they didn't seem able to re-create the spontaneity — and immaturity — that turned Jersey Shore into a cultural phenomenon. Maybe it's because the roommates have grown up or maybe it's simply that they've been doing the same thing every summer for four years. Vinny even points out that he's already "smashed" every girl at Karma. So what's a juicehead to do now? Go grenade-hunting?
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NORWALK, CT. - January 15, 2013 - Jonathan Adelstein, president of PCIA - The Wireless Infrastructure Association and former FCC Commissioner, will deliver the morning keynote address on 'Investing in America's Wireless Future' at Super Wi-Fi Summit on Wednesday, January 30, at 9 a.m. EST, TMC (News - Alert) and Crossfire Media announced. Super Wi-Fi Summit is collocated with ITEXPO, the world's largest and best-attended communications and technology trade show, being held January 30 - February 1, 2013, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida.
'I am pleased to be a part of this event that highlights the role of wireless broadband in our nation's communications network. Wi-Fi is a growing part of the solution for meeting the explosive demands for wireless broadband data,' Adelstein said. 'Delivering that broadband is critical to our nation's economic growth and productivity, the benefits of which extend beyond the wireless world to empower small business growth, and innovation in manufacturing, health care, education and most leading sectors of our economy.'
Recently leaving government work for the private sector, Adelstein is now president and CEO of PCIA - The Wireless Infrastructure Association, the trade association for the telecommunications infrastructure industry that includes companies such as AT&T (News - Alert) and Verizon. PCIA provides expertise and support in the areas of advocacy, communications, events and educations to its members: the carriers, infrastructure providers and professional services firms that own and manage more than 130,000 telecommunications facilities throughout the world.
Adelstein previously served as the 17th Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, a position to which he was appointed to by President Barack Obama. Adelstein also previously served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 2002 to 2009.
Adelstein will kick off The Super Wi-Fi Summit with an opening keynote address on 'Investing in America's Wireless Future,' discussing the role of Super Wi-Fi, and other unlicensed spectrum options, as important components of the Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) that must be built to fulfill policymakers' wireless broadband goals. Adelstein will explore the policies needed to ensure the country remains a leader in the wireless innovation and deployment.
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Entrepreneurs interested in starting high-tech businesses, don't fret! Admittedly, the year has been difficult for many dotcom start-ups that launched with fanfare and publicity but didn't haul in the dollars they expected. Many new business ideas were tested--everything from targeted content sites to B2B exchanges--but few were able to execute.
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The Basics: OK, so it's not sexy. But selling products and services to Uncle Sam online is something better than sexy--it's lucrative.
As local, state and federal agencies enter the ranks of online shoppers, a new crop of Internet companies is springing up to supply them with everything from staples to software.
Background Required: You need military or e-commerce experience, or a little of both. Of course, if you don't have either skill but hire people who do, Uncle Sam may still want you.
Who: Brad Allen, 44, co-founder, chair and CEO (co-founded with Keith Allen, 35, and Mark Dowd, 40)
What: eFederal Systems Inc. , Washington, DC
When It Started: the Fourth of July, 2000
What It Does: provides software applications and professional services for buyers and suppliers in the government market
Why It Rocks: The 20-person company has found a fail-safe market. As Brad points out, "Governments spend more than $500 billion annually and almost never go out of business."
"Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists," says Brad.
billion: amount estimated to be spent on e-government (including hardware, software, and internal and external services) in 2005
SOURCE: Gartner
He should know. His eFederal Store, an online store designed specifically for government agencies, sells more than 100,000 different office supplies and computer products and lets agencies purchase those items using government-issued credit cards. His other company, eFederal B2G Workplace, allows government agencies to track purchase card usage, select from a variety of vendors, and analyze their own audit trails and strategic spending.
But it takes more than a few good men to tap this market-it takes experience. Brad and his co-founders had the right stuff: Brad had some e-commerce experience--he sold his first online company, a golf shop called Buygolf.com , in late 1999--and his brother Keith, now vice president of sales and marketing, had previously sold computer hardware to the government. Dowd, now vice president of operations, had military experience and had worked for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, a government consulting firm.
Before enlisting in this type of business, be aware of the downsides. For example, stringent bidding rules, technological limitations and cautious attitudes may discourage government buyers from using start-up e-tailers for their purchases. And analysts say the public sector has moved more slowly into online buying than businesses or consumers have--for several reasons, including Y2K-bug fixes that drained the technology budgets of government agencies for several years. Even now, just 35 percent of local agencies operate their own Web sites.
Moreover, the e-government sector may be out of reach for many start-ups, because it takes years to master the intricacies of the market and requires continuing investments just to understand the government's needs. And, as anyone who's contracted with the government knows, the long sales cycle in the public sector translates into a long wait before achieving a return on investment.
But if you're successful, rest assured that Uncle Sam probably won't be going out of business anytime soon.
Corporate E-Learning
The Basics: Why would you want to get into a market that's already been invaded by several industry leaders and plenty of start-ups? Because the opportunities have only just begun to boom. E-learning is the hot service among organizations seeking to train employees and improve financial performance. Web-enabled courses can range from specific training about companies' core competencies to generic topics like management.
Background Required: An educational or high-tech background is important if you want to start a successful e-learning company, but the most significant factors that lead to success are business experience, management skills and the ability to offer quality customer service. If you make your first priority hiring a quality team of employees with educational or high-tech backgrounds, you've learned your lesson well.
Who: Jonathan Estes, 39, CEO (co-founded with Vance Remick, 58, and David Hadden, 36, president)
What: New Course Inc. , Chapel Hill, North Carolina
When It Started: 1996
What It Does:
provides educational services to help companies transition from face-to-face training to
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Why It Rocks: With 20 employees, New Course Inc. continues to grow steadily.
"Online learning allows a company to train a whole group of people on a computer, instead of having them sit in a class with an instructor. They can log on anywhere, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to participate," says Estes. "Companies aren't limited by distance, space or time with e-learning."
billion: 2003 sales in the e-learning market
SOURCE: The Yankee Group
Estes acknowledges that hundreds of players, including five or six large, well-funded companies, are already playing the game, but he says that plenty of "unique technology is still wide open."
Estes is currently developing a software product called ProCourse that helps customers get the most from training by identifying employees' skills-development needs and providing access to training resources. Estes claims the product will cut employee training time and the attrition rates for fast-growing companies.
Another way to differentiate yourself: Many existing companies are coming at the market "from a high-technology perspective, but they're leaving education behind," says Estes. "However, if someone comes at this space with a strong education component, where adult learning principles are applied to the e-learning level, he or she will rise to the top."
Wireless Tech
The Basics: Welcome to the world of wireless: Many start-ups are gaping at the sheer size of the wireless market and jumping in to sell products and services to the many, many wireless product and service users.
A popular start-up choice: wireless ASPs. These companies usually make their money by letting customers communicate via any and all of their wireless devices anytime, anywhere.
Background Required: Obviously, it's crucial to have some experience in the wireless space--or hire people who do-to run a competitive start-up in this area.
Sanjoy Malik, 42,
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What: Air2Web Inc. , Atlanta
When It Started: 1999
What It Does: helps companies deliver enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM solutions to their customers and employees via any digital device
Why It Rocks: Already employing 185 workers, this company has snagged 30 to 50 large customers, including CBS SportsLine.com and UPS.
million plus: estimated number of people per month who will use mobile commerce services in 2005
Malik, a pioneer in the mobile technology field, created Air2Web because he saw the future, and it was wireless. "Mobile devices were becoming more sophisticated when I started, so I knew there was a great need for applications to help people use their devices in more compelling ways than, say, just as a phone," he says.
Malik considers the most important factor for success "a business idea that will ultimately be a money-making endeavor, as opposed to just an innovative idea."
For the entrepreneurs who come across such ideas, the opportunities should only get bigger. "A year or two from now," predicts Malik, "every company will be wireless."
The Basics: Wireless ASPs aren't the only ASPs in the sea. In fact, ASPs in general, which deliver and manage application and computer services from remote data centers for multiple users via the Internet or private networks, are a quickly growing field that's like honey to high-tech entrepreneurs.
Why is this market growing so quickly? According to the ASP Industry Consortium, ASPs offer customers multiple benefits, like sparing them from having to procure and implement complex systems themselves. ASPs also provide financial flexibility and reduced risk. And with no capital expenditure on software, hardware and IT technology, organizations can test new technology with minimal impact in their existing environment.
Background Required: Stephen Lane, a research director of the Aberdeen Group, says you should have a technology background to start an ASP, "because, after all, you're acting like somebody's IT department. You're their CIO or director of operations."
Who: Andrew Feinberg, 30, co-founder
What: NetCracker Technology Corp. , Waltham, Massachusetts
When It Started: 1999
What It Does: offers network inventory management solutions through an ASP model
Why It Rocks: It's already grown to about 150 employees and should add another 100 workers by year-end.
billion: estimated ASP revenues by 2003 in a market set to increase fivefold by 2003
SOURCE: Current Analysis
Feinberg says more companies are outsourcing services in ASPs today for one simple reason: necessity. "Companies lack the resources to build and support technology in-house," he says. "They realize that, to stay cutting-edge, they have to deal with outsourced vendors."
Feinberg adds that cost is another significant motivator for potential clients, as outsourcing "is quite often significantly less expensive in the long-term."
Feinberg is already looking beyond the company's current growth, propelled by its in-house solutions, to all the future opportunities provided by the ASP model, which he considers significant. "We're now dealing with large customers," he says, "but there's a great market in the midsize range, and we plan to aggressively target those companies this year and in the following years."
Human Search Engine
And now for something totally different . . . we couldn't resist throwing in this dark-horse idea, because, frankly, it's something we're dying to use.
Here's how it works: For a small fee, customers can call a human search engine company's 800 number to help them find information they need from the Web, whether it's directions to the DaimlerChrysler building for a lost cab driver, how much caffeine a certain product contains or who designed a gown they saw on the Emmys. It's not hard to see that plenty of people would forsake a cumbersome Internet search for this more convenient service.
One company has a jump-start on offering this . . . and benefiting from it, too. INetNow, a Los Angeles-based human "voice portal" company, has grown considerably since opening its doors in late 1999--it started with three employees, now has 55 and, by the end of the year, should employ more than 400 people.
"Many of us depend on information from the Internet every day. When we leave our desks and don't have access to the information, we want it," says Michael Evans, 35, iNetNow vice president of marketing and communications. "And our company delivers it."
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I've been a happy customer of Amazon, with barely a reason to be disappointed. The Audible subsidiary seems to have missed the customer service memo though, and is a bit of a black sheep in Amazons lineup.
Briefly, some of the problems I've had with Audible:
- My email communication preferences keep being reset. Time will pass and I'm eventually bombarded with emails for a free trial, or books on sale.
- My first cancellation never took effect. The second ended my membership the day I was charged, and no refund was processed.
- I was billed for three months, with no email notifications of the charges.
To give Audible credit, I was refunded completely. Hence the three stars.
Although I feel it should never have got to that. It's a practice I've seen before. Hope the customer forgets the trial, and throw in a few billing bloopers and hope they don't notice. Charging people for a service they don't plan is theft, or at a minimum completely dishonest scumbaggery.
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There might be a reason second-year high school students are known as sophomores. The word sophomoric means unsophisticated and immature.
Lets face it, high school sophomores, most of whom are only 15 or 16 years old, dont always behave appropriately, and they might not always make the most responsible decisions.
But there are exceptions to the rule. And the Stevenson boys basketball team is proving that sophomores dont necessarily have to be sophomoric on the court.
The Patriots are headed to the state finals for just the third time in school history and they are getting there in large part on the strength of their sophomore class. Sophomore guards Jalen Brunson and Connor Cashaw lead the team in scoring at 21.8 points and 16.2 points per game respectively. A third sophomore, forward Cameron Green, is Stevensons biggest spark off the bench. He averages 6.9 points and can be a monster on the boards.
The biggest question now for Stevenson, which will take on Edwardsville (30-2) in Fridays 8:15 p.m. Class 4A semifinal at the Peoria Civic Center, is how these young guns will respond under the hotter and brighter lights of the states biggest stage. Will the sophomores be able to resist the sophomoric tendencies theyve avoided all season?
I think well be fine, said Brunson, who started last season as a freshman, as did Cashaw. I think well handle everything downstate very well. We handled (the supersectional) well and the crowd was really loud. I got butterflies in my stomach at times, but you cant ever let that determine how you play. Youve got to remember how hard youve worked to get to this point.
Brunson and Cashaw, who do a majority of the ball-handling for Stevenson, worked an efficient game in the supersectional. The Patriots had only 9 turnovers to 15 assists against Rockford Boylan and they hit 47 percent of their shots, including 50 percent of their 20 attempts from 3-point range.
Weve got good guards and I trust them. They are veterans now, Stevenson coach Pat Ambrose said. They played a lot last year and theyre battle-tested.
They also have support. Stevensons young sophomores can look to steady seniors Andy Stempel and John Duffy for help. Meanwhile, assistant coaches Kevin Stineman and John Taylor can also provide perspective. They made up the backcourt of Stevensons last state finals team in 2007.
Being downstate is a big stage and were young. But we have mental toughness and well have a lot of people guiding us in the right direction, Cashaw said. Its really good that guys like Stineman and Taylor have experienced this moment before. We can look to them.
Stineman can personally vouch for the growth of Brunson and Cashaw. He goes against them every day at practice.
Stineman went on to play at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and now works in sales in the area. He rushes to practice after work each day and his main responsibility is working with the guards and running scout team against them.
They may be sophomores, but theyre tenured out there. They play like theyve been doing it for years, Stineman said of Brunson and Cashaw. They keep their composure so well, its impressive.
Jalen is so good. What is he 16 years old? But he plays the game like hes 30. His basketball IQ is so good. Connor is the same way. From his freshman year to now, the strides he has made have been unbelievable.
Theyve played so well against some really good teams all season. Being downstate is going to be no different for them.
Well, it might be just a little bit different.
Its likely every player at the state finals will feel more butterflies than usual. And for Stevensons sophomores, as savvy as they are, the nerves may be magnified. They still are very young.
The nerves will probably be there a little bit, but I think well settle into the games and do what we do best, said Green, who scored 8 points and grabbed 7 rebounds in the supersectional against Rockford Boylan. Weve got some young 15 and 16 year olds, but I feel like well be able to play at our maximum level because were a pretty mature group.
In other words, prepare to see sophomores being anything but sophomoric in Peoria.


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BOSTON (AP) The Boston Red Sox declined to tender 2013 contracts to right-hander Scott Atchison, left-hander Rich Hill and outfielder Ryan Sweeney, making them eligible for free agency.
The team also announced Friday that it had tendered contracts to the other 30 unsigned players on the major league roster.
Atchison was 2-1 with a 1.58 ERA in 42 games last season, all in relief. Hill made 25 relief appearances for the Red Sox, going 1-0 with a 1.83 ERA. Sweeney hit .260 with no homers and 16 RBIs in 63 games and was on the disabled list three times.
The team also appointed Victor Rodriguez as assistant hitting coach. Greg Colbrunn became the hitting coach on Wednesday under new manager John Farrell. Rodriguez was Boston's minor league hitting coordinator the past six seasons.


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The city of Karachi, on the edge of the Arabian Sea, has fizzed with life since Alexander the Great was strutting around Asia's deserts on his horse.
This chaotic and ruthless trading metropolis of more than 20 million is the giant turbine that drives Pakistan's creaking economy, providing the largest part of the national revenues.
Yet by midafternoon Thursday, Karachi's shopkeepers began hastily hauling down their steel shutters and heading home, suffering for a third consecutive day from an acute case of the jitters.
Karachi has been gripped by anxiety since news broke on Tuesday that the demagogic leader of the city's dominant political party has been arrested in London, some 5,000 miles away.
Altaf Hussain, 60, has been running the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) — and, some observers say, the city itself — for more than two decades from Britain, where he sought political asylum and later took citizenship.
During his self-imposed exile, he's become famous for his tireless efforts to nurture support back home, often by delivering very long and passionate speeches by telephone that are relayed by loudspeaker to crowds of besotted followers sitting in Karachi's streets.
The events of the past three days prove that those tactics are not as eccentric as they sound.
The charismatic Hussain and his highly organized party have shown they can bring one of the world's largest and most raucous cities to a near standstill.
All it took was an announcement that he was being held for questioning on allegations of money laundering.
It's a strange thing, witnessing a vast city stop in its tracks. It usually takes 45 minutes or longer to drive the 11 miles from Karachi international airport to downtown.
The roads have been so empty over the past few days that it's become possible to whiz along at 60 miles an hour, cutting the time by half.
There's been none of the usual blaring and barging of tangled traffic, and none of the dazzling din of crowded streets. Fearful of being torched by rioters, many gas stations have shut down, posted guards at the gates, and sealed off their premises with screens, metal barricades, or branches of trees. Markets, cafes and schools have been empty.
In the city center, there sometimes seemed to be more kites sailing high over the rooftops in big, slow circles, riding the hot thermal currents, than people. The only hints of Karachi's sizzling energy are the enormous garish billboards, silently urging the merits of mobile phones, Johnny Rockets burgers, and fancy shirts.
There was a brief respite Thursday morning, when the city seemed to begin to return to normal. But soon rumors of possible violence began to fly, and anxiety kicked in again.
Much of this phenomenon is about fear. Karachi is blighted by deadly rivalries between ethnic and sectarian groups that have intensified in recent years with an influx of Taliban militants from the mountains bordering Afghanistan. Last year there were more than 3,000 killings in the city.
MQM cadres are often among the victims. But the party's critics claim it is also responsible for much of the bloodletting. In the past, there have been many allegations of murder and land-grabbing, though observers say these are hard to prove, and always dismissed as fabrications by party officials.
Hussain and the MQM's power base is Karachi's large population of Mohajirs, who are Urdu speakers whose families migrated to the city from India during the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
Ideologically, the party is against Pakistan's long tradition of feudalism and political dynasties. It sells itself as middle-class, modern, secular and therefore strongly opposed to the Islamic religious right.
But Hussain's pulling-power seems to owe more to his personality than his manifesto.
"We love personality cults in South Asia," says Badar Alam, editor of The Herald magazine. "Hussain has very carefully, and very successfully, cultivated a personality cult. He's not just a political leader. He is also known as a spiritual leader for the community he represents."
Some in that community are now out in force in his hometown.
A big throng of people, including children, are staging a sit-in under a huge open canopy in the center of Karachi, defying sweltering temperatures to flourish flags and chant slogans in support of Hussain. Some of them have been there since his arrest was announced, say officials.
They will stay here until they have assurances that Hussain's "basic rights are being protected, and that he is not been subjected to undue stress," said Muhammed Farooq Sattar, one of the MQM's top leaders. "Their biggest concern is for the safety of his health, his life, his well-being."
Karachi's residents worry about what the backlash might be if Hussain is charged or convicted; others are growing concerned about the effect of Karachi's paralysis on the national coffers.
"Livelihoods and the economic health of the city and country are severely being affected, while a perpetual feeling of tension pervades the metropolis," said an editorial in Dawn, Pakistan's foremost English-language newspaper.
It said Hussain's supporters "must realize that the legal system in the U.K. works differently and no amount of street power, whether in Pakistan or elsewhere, will influence the course of the law."
Those economic concerns are shared by 65-year-old rickshaw driver Bakht Moin Khan. He says Karachi's jittery shutdown meant his daily income of around $4 has vanished.
"People are afraid of coming out," he said, adding: "I want this place to return to normal — right now."
No city in the world has a political situation quite like Karachi. That Pakistani city, one of the world's largest, is dominated by a single political party and that party is ruled by a leader who has not seen his city in decades. He runs the party from his home in greater London. Whatever that distant leader does affects Karachi and so did something recently done to him. NPR's Philip Reeves sent us a letter from Karachi.
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: The air is unpleasantly hot and sticky. That's what you would expect in summer, in a giant metropolis beside the Arabian Sea. That heat doesn't deter this flag-waving crowd. They're holding a sit-in in the middle of Karachi. It's in support of a man 5,000 miles away. That man is Altaf Hussain, one of Pakistan's most powerful and controversial leaders. His political party, the MQM, has dominated Karachi for years. These are his devotees. Hussain was arrested in Britain Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering. There's been a crowd here ever since. His arrest's having an extraordinary impact in Pakistan. Karachi's one of the world's largest cities. It's also one of its more violent. When people here heard Hussain was being held by Scotland Yard, they feared there would be riots. They rushed home, en masse, causing enormous traffic jams. After that, Karachi pretty much shut down. Yesterday, the city began coming back to life. Then rumors started flying and, by the afternoon, you didn't have to drive far to see anxiety kicking in again.
REEVES: Normally - this is normally a very busy area in town. Just looking at the shops out of the window - that one's closed, another's closed, open, closed, closed, closed, closed, closed. So the city is locking up. It's strange, seeing a vast and raucous port city stop in its tracks. Karachi is Pakistan's economic hub. It generates the lion's share of the national revenues. Lots of money's being lost, thanks to Scotland Yard's arrest of Hussain. Much of this is about fear - Karachi is awash with feuding ethnic and sectarian groups, armed with guns and grudges. Party workers regularly wind up dead. Hussain's chief following are Karachi's Urdu speakers, who originally migrated from India during partition. His party holds almost all Karachi's 20 seats in Pakistan's parliament. But his real power lies on the city streets, exercised by his multitude of activists. This is all about South Asia's tradition of personality cults, says Karachi journalist, Badar Alam.
BADAR ALAM: And he has, very carefully and very successfully, cultivated a personality cult. He is not just a political leader. He is also known as a spiritual leader for the community that he represents.
REEVES: Hussain's political enemies have, over the years, accused his party of murder and extortion and land grabbing - allegations the party denies.
MUHAMMAD FAROOQ SATTAR: They are fabricated, concocted.
REEVES: That's Muhammad Farooq Sattar, a top MQM politician. In the early '90s, Hussain took refuge in London, and has run his MQM party from there ever since. His absence doesn't seem to matter to his devotees at the sit-in. Sattar says they'll stay here, in the sweltering heat, until they're sure the British are treating their beloved leader properly.
SATTAR: They are concerned about whether his basic rights are being protected. And their gravest concern is safety of his health, his life, his well-being.
REEVES: The order's gone out to Hussain's followers to stay calm and they seem to be obeying. But plenty of people here worry about what might happen in Karachi if their beloved leader winds up in a British jail. Philip Reeves, NPR News, Karachi.
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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XXXI
All your Roman bioarch news for the month of July, with quite a lot of finds coming from England this month...
Finds and Features
Finds and Features
- 1 July - Roman Shrine Found at Rutland Water Nature Reserve (BBC News). A Roman-era shrine found in Rutland, England, dating to about 100 AD included the burial of a middle-aged man in the center along with possible sacrificial cattle and sheep.
|Shrine burial from Rutland, England (BBC)
- July - CSI: Italian Renaissance (Smithsonian Magazine). This article profiles the work of Gino Fornaciari. His work is largely on Medieval Italian remains, but the entire article is worth a read. His findings over the years are truly amazing!
- 5 July - Danish Archaeologists Discover Ancient Killing Fields in the Ukraine (Eurekalert and PastHorizons). At the Greek colonial site of Chersonesos, skeletons from the 3rd century BC seem to indicate a military invasion that killed a large proportion of the population.
- 6 July - Il Tesoro di Gabii, sulla via Prenestina Torna Alla Luce una Magnifica Villa Patrizia (La Repubblica). A short piece on the archaeological site of Gabii just outside of Rome, which my former advisor, Nic Terrenato, is excavating. There is a brief mention of some of the tombs found at the site (some of which I've examined).
- 10 July - Possible New Roman Settlement Unearthed in Derby (ITV.com). This four-sentence brief mentions the discovery of a partial skeleton, likely dating to the Roman period, in Derby, England.
- 17 July - Corinium's Dead - Excavating Cirencester's Tetbury Road Roman Cemetery (Current Archaeology). This nice article reports on the 100+ skeletons uncovered at Roman Cirencester in the past half century and what their bones and artifacts are telling us about the inhabitants.
|Skeleton from Gloucester (BBC)
- 24 July - Roman Cemetery Unearthed in Abdoun (Ammon News). At least 12 burials dating back to Roman times were recently found in Abdoun (Amman), Jordan.
- 31 July - Roman Skeletons Discovered in Gloucester (BBC News). Not much in the way of reporting on this one yet; hopefully we'll get more details soon, as this cemetery found outside of Gloucester is being heralded as "one of the most significant finds in the city in the past 30 years." It's unclear how many skeletons have been recovered (in addition to the 40 or so found decades ago) and how many have yet to be excavated.
- 2 July - How X-rays Demystified a 2,500-year-old Battle Wound (LiveScience). This find was reported a couple months ago (see RBC XXIX), but one of the scientists who took part in the analysis of this ancient Greek skeleton wrote a bit more about it. There are now pictures as well.
- 8 July - N. Searcy et al., Parasitism of the Zweeloo Woman: Dicrocoeliasis evidenced in a Roman-period bog mummy. International Journal of Palaeopathology.
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— From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan
At a stop at Smoky Row Coffee Shop in Oskaloosa, Obama sat down to eat some pumpkin pie with four local women and ended up having to explain how he was not a Muslim.
An older woman seated at the table asked Obama to explain his Muslim
heritage, to which the candidate replied, "This is something that keeps
on being misreported, so I'm glad you asked me."
Obama was referring to an e-mail chain accusing him of being a Muslim
with an intent to undermine the United States. Early this year, false
reports also circulated that he had attended a madrassa as a child.
Obama explained his connection to Islam in this way:
"My father was from Kenya," he said, "and a lot of people in his
village were Muslim. He didn't practice Islam. Truth is he wasn't very
religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas, and
they married and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I've
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never practiced Islam."
More: "For a while, I lived in Indonesia because my mother was teaching there. And that's a Muslim country. And I went to school. But I didn't practice. But what I do think it does is it gives me insight into how these folks think, and part of how I think we can create a better relationship with the Middle East and that would help make us safer is if we can understand how they think about issues."
"But I'm a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ and have been there 15 years," Obama added.
But the woman who asked the question still wasn't satisfied. She asked Obama to "define what a Christian is."
"Somebody who believes in Jesus Christ as our lord and savior," the senator responded.
"I'm so glad to hear that," she said.
Any other discussion of religion was quickly put to a close by campaign staffers, who ushered in a ruddy-cheeked little girl to talk with Obama.