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His Excellency S. K. Ghusayni Embassy of Lebanon 2560 28th Street, NW Washington, DC 20008
I am applying for the position of Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. Since the position, which was advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education, requires some teaching at Université Saint Joseph, I am sending a set of my credentials to you and to representatives of the respective institutions. This is a particularly exciting position as I would be able to use my knowledge of Arabic and French, which would enhance the effectiveness of my English language instruction.
As my enclosed curriculum vitae indicates, I received a Ph.D., magna cum laude, with a major in English and Linguistics, from Yale University in 1994. Prior to that, I obtained a B.A., magna cum laude, in French, and an M.A., summa cum laude, in French Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moreover, during my Fulbright Scholarship for the study of French literature at the Sorbonne, I read extensively the works of writers from Algeria, Tunis, Martinique, and other Francophone countries.
The paramount experience that has influenced my decision to apply for this position, however, was a three-year teaching position at Mohammed V University in Morocco. Not only did I teach English, but I also developed an innovative program in Arabic using computer-assisted pedagogy. It was recognized as a major breakthrough in Arabic language instruction.
During the week of 18 February, I plan to be in Washington, D.C., and would like to arrange an interview with you at your convenience. I will telephone you next week to arrange that meeting. Please feel free to call me at 216/555-8209 or fax me at 216/555-8210.
Thank you for your consideration. I remain
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Each year about this time we start thinking of those cemeteries we are going to walk or at least visit as soon as the weather allows. Visiting a cemetery in the city is very different than visiting a small rural cemetery in the middle of nowhere. If a rural cemetery is on your list here are some tips for that visit. Much of this has been posted before on one of my other blogs.
Cemeteries can be pretty remote with no one to see or hear you and quite possibly no other visitors for a long time, particularly if the cemetery is inactive.
Know how to get there. In some counties you can pick out a cemetery from several miles away [it is the only spot with trees] but that is not true everywhere. Google and Microsoft have detailed online maps. You can search GNIS, the government's geographic names database at: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ for location and then plot it on the map of your choice with a couple clicks. Don't forget the map.
If there is a map of the cemetery or an online listing of any sort that gives you clues on how to locate the particular stone print it out and take it along. USGenWeb sites often have cemetery listings, sometimes maps or layouts. Make a note of the people buried around your ancestor so if for some reason their stone is unreadable you'll know you are in the right place and can go from there. Stone lists for Logan County can be found at http://logan.ilgenweb.net/stonelist.htm.
Wear a hat and take plenty of water. The only drinking available is highly likely to be what you brought with you. Dehydration is dangerous. Someone suggested if you drink too much water you'll need the facilities and the cemeteries have no facilities. I'll leave it to you to figure out how to deal with that situation in the middle of nowhere. If you plan to be at the cemetery awhile you should take some snacks or even pack a lunch along with the water. In olden days people often picnicked in cemeteries. You can too.
Don't go alone if you can avoid it. Take your cell phone. You could have trouble with your vehicle. [This is the voice of experience long before cell phones. It was a LONG walk.] You could fall and hurt yourself or even break something. The ground will not be smooth and level. Stones have been known to topple. Some places, particularly where cemeteries are not mowed regularly, have critters [they dug those ankle wrenching holes] or stinging bugs. Be safe. Take a friend and a cell phone. I always have a first aid kit in the car.
Take your camera with a large memory card but don't forget pen and paper or a recording device. If you record on tape or digitally be sure to spell everything out even if it is spelled wrong. You might want to have your camera date each photo. If it is small cemetery do yourself and fellow researchers a favor and photograph each stone. You are there. It is an act of genealogical kindness. At a minimum draw a map of the stone location area so the next person can find the stone.
Recently I read an excellent suggestion from Jean Hibben. She takes a picture of the cemetery entrance first and then the stones. That way your pictures are partially organized when you download them.


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First off here is the latest from Lu Vega. I will let you dig into it, but basically he believes he found a correlation between the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the 22 chapters in the Book of Revelation. Here is his email to me which I thought was very encouraging, relatable to this season, and of course gives a great introduction to his discovery...
Hello Brad,
Hope you and family are doing well. We are still here, lol. We are so very close though and the Church Body is genuinely sensing it, at least those that have eyes to see and ears to hear. Pertaining to the Rev 12 Sign, I too then thought about a 9 month gestation type of period after the Sign. However, there are disparaging variables to choose from, 271 days, 270, 280? Back in December I too did some calculations about it and ended up sometime in July though. So, we'll have to see. It would be wonderful if by the end of Summer, we are called up, if not, I just don't know what to say except keep coming before the LORD. We cannot stop watching despite our failed attempts and misunderstandings.
I do sense an importance of the up and coming Central Blood Moon of July 27, 2918 that is called a 'Bull's Eye' and over Jerusalem. Its pair occurred in June 15, 2011. What is unique is that this Blood Moon eclipse occurs on the Tu'B'Av or 'Valentines Day' for Israel where the Benjamites were allowed to 'snatch' their wives from the vineyards, etc. Not sure what to make of it but as most Watchers, some are scratching their heads and others though are sensing a lull; it does come in cycles and perhaps we are following the ebbs and flows of the birth pangs. I have wondered too and in my latest studies, I believe the LORD gave me a confirmation or evidence about the sequence/timing of the Rapture as a consolation perhaps.
It is not pertinent to any exact season or feast but general overall sequence based on the book of Revelation. This is based on the direct comparison of the Hebrew Alef-Bet 22 letter to the 22 chapters of Revelation. Given this evidence, it might confirm and console those in that the Rapture of the Bride of Christ will occur before the 7-year Tribulation Period, whenever that is and starts, if this theory holds water. I have compiled an essay and chart to demonstrate this pattern and evidence. I share it with you to vet it out and see if it is plausible and if so to share with your online Rev 12 Daily community to encourage and perhaps for some to be consoled that if this Cipher is true or could be, we have assurance and one more piece of evidence for a pre-Tribulation Rapture!
Here are the links online:
1. Link to PDF Essay: http://nebula.wsimg.com/33b7efe850b3dcd4e788e1b8efa181c7?AccessKeyId=D40106E1331C24ABD7C3&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
2. Link to full size chart: http://nebula.wsimg.com/e2fa3ffbadfc51fbb19087906bc8111b?AccessKeyId=D40106E1331C24ABD7C3&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
Secondly, Scott Clarke appeared on Samantha White's ever growing Maranatha Morning channel this week. Once it gets rolling its a fast paced hour in which Scott shares a lot of the things he has been studying lately, including the ever controversial Parable of the 10 Virgins. I think it was great that Scott appeared on Sam's channel and I hope it helps her following grow even more as she is so encouraging and uplifting.... which is so so SO needed during this current season of waiting we are all currently experiencing.
Last but not least, if you haven't read Gary's super encouraging article on waiting you need to check that out. I know most of you guys follow Unsealed very closely already but I share it anyway because it was SO GOOD and so encouraging.


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Going Gluten free: The Beginning
Although I know people who are gluten intolerant I assumed the symptoms were just of a digestive nature. The blog mentions that skin symptoms could be things like "redness, dryness, itching and rashes". After reading this I started doing some searches and a lot of people link a direct correlation to gluten in their diet to ill effects on their skin. A lot of the skin symptoms seem close to what I get, especially unexplained sensitivities.
Given that the skin cycle is meant to be 28 days I have decided to go gluten free for at least a month to see what, if any benefit it brings me.
So this is where it begins.
One thing I can say is that cutting out gluten in your diet is expensive, not only do the items cost that bit extra but I have made a lot of bad buys ( I have tried 5 different brands of bread in the run up to this test and all have been terrible).
From doing my searches quite a lot of people seemed to find a benefit with changing their skincare to gluten free as well so I followed suit and have changed completely over to the Pai range.
I have read a lot of positives from going gluten free; feeling more healthy, less tired, clearer skin and losing weight. I'll be back in about a months time to let you know how it goes.
All the items in the photos I bought myself.
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Can't wait to hear your results from the change. It's really interesting how food can make a huge difference to our skin.ReplyDelete
I am so looking forward to seeing how you get on!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean about it being costly - I know I've spent more on alternatives. I'm currently cutting out yeast and it is more difficult that I first anticipated as it's in things I would never had imagined. I miss 'normal' bread even though I've gotten used to the rye variants.
I love the Nakd bars, my favourite is the cocoa mint!
Good luck and keep us posted on the results :-)ReplyDelete
Look forward to seeing your progress! Good luck :)ReplyDelete
Good for you! I can't wait to hear how it goes. I've contemplated trying to go gluten free as well. I know my body thrives on being dairy free but I slipped on that after I stopped breastfeeding my sun. I know for my health I need to give it up again. Maybe I'll just be gung ho and give up both! LOLReplyDelete
Umm I obviously meant son not sun LOLReplyDelete
Good luck! My son has coeliac disease, so is completely gluten-free, so I know it's expensive! Try Genius bread - available from Sainsburys and Waitrose. It's the best of a bad job :)ReplyDelete
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I'm hoping something good will come of it, shame I can't make myself cut out the chocolate though ;)
Hi Meeta,
I'll make sure to check out the cocoa mint :) Have you not had yeast for a while and if so have you felt/noticed any improvements?
Hi Ana Marta,
Thank you, I'll make sure to do an update post :)
Hi Vintage Makeup,
Thanks you! Lets hope it does some good :)
Hi PerilouslyPale,
I went daily free before to see if that helped with my acne and nothing, I really didn't get on with the milk alternatives, I think it was made from rice, not sure I could go back there ;) It is hard giving up the things we like, I have already starting staring with envy at people eating their sandwiches at work!
Hi too_busy_to_stitch,
Thank you. It must be so difficult for your boy, I really hadn't realised how many things Gluten was in, makes going out to eat almost impossible. Thank you for the rec, I have written that brand down and will seek it out this weekend as I think it might be my last hope ;)
Hi ReplicaReplyDelete
It's been 2 weeks since I cut it out and I have noticed positive improvements although yeast is one of a few things I've changed. I will get into more depth in an upcoming post.
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Me again. I just remembered I came across a website that specialises in gluten free recipe ideas that I quite like looking at for reference/inspiration:
Meeta x
Those Eat Natural bars are delicious! Good luck with your new regimen, I'm looking forward to reading about your results. I find that what I eat has a big impact on the way my skin looks. I cut the amount of dairy and I try not to go overboard with white bread and pasta but it's quite hard. Also I take Omega 3 supplements and I got a humidifier last year. I think proper skincare products are only part of the solution, unfortunately. xReplyDelete
Hi Meeta,ReplyDelete
I'll look forward to your post, thats really good you are seeing some effects, I'm not seeing/feeling anything of an improvement as yet. Thank you so much for that link, really useful as making interesting meals has been somewhat of a struggle :)
Hi Klara,
Thanks, the bars are really nice, although the gluten free bars seem to be the most expensive. I really think I should cut down on my sugar intake really but I can't seem to do that one as I always succumb, sometimes its not much fun trying to be good and healthy ;) x


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As of Saturday, March 22, 2008, at least 3,996 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,253 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.More here.
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I know there are plenty of people out there who like to make out to Luke Bryan songs. Maybe "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" or "Drunk on You." (Hopefully not "Take My Drunk Ass Home.") But it kind of makes you wonder: What songs does Bryan himself make out to? People, magazine asked him. And his candid response was, "My wife and I, our big make-out song is 'Can't Get You Off My Mind' by Lenny Kravitz. That's always been our song." Bryan also opened up about few other songs that fit into his life. Like how he sings Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" when he karaokes. How he sings the national anthem in the shower. How he dedicates his 2007 tune "We Rode in Trucks" to the troops. And how he's jealous that he didn't record "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" before Blake Shelton did.


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We are well in to the new year and I'm sure I am not the only one still trying to figure out how to make my life a little healthier. But I have to be honest, my energy is low for learning something from scratch. About all I can muster is cheating off someone's cliff notes version. When my oldest son was one and diagnosed with food allergies, I had to completely figure that out on my own. I had to teach myself to cook, I had to figure out what foods he could tolerate and how to prepare them. It was so much work. But that was my only focus at the time. While we have the food allergies figured out (dare I say we are almost outgrowing all of them???) the whole living approach that was very much a part of his early diet has gotten neglected. And while I enjoy reading and learning new things I don't feel ready to take it all on myself. Which is why I need to make sure that you all know Andrea Howe. I met Andrea last year at Alt Summit. She lives about half an hour from me and we've been lucky enough to see each other a few times since the conference. Her blog, For the Love of, is amazing. With her fashion background she talks about real woman fashion problems, how to make things work for you and even does DIYs for accessories. She's got adorable children and she is very frank with what is going on in her life. I adore her.
But the real reason I want to make sure you know about her is because of a sort of side project she started called Gwyneth Made Me Do It. Yes, that Gwyneth. Immediately I was interested in Gwyneth's cookbook and getting back to a more healthful way of eating. I was delighted when Andrea created the Instagram account to chronicle her experience with the book (you can read how the whole thing got started in this post here). For real, I have learned so much from her. Andrea talks about everything from how to choose the right meat, to how she got her kid's off chicken nuggets to what ingredients you really don't want to see on your food labels. She shares recipes (the above is a more healthy version of a ranch dip that she served at a Christmas party) and information that I find truly important. Oh and now she also writes a column on it for Babble.
She is a mom of 3, with picky eaters just like the rest of us. But she's willing to put in the work and really figure out what is best for her family. And she shares all the highs and lows along the way. Take the time to read through her body of work and you will come away feeling like you have found your new best friend who just wants you to be the best version of you. She has done a complete makeover on the way her family eats and shows that making your family's health a priority is hugely important. And totally doable.
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text: We have had enough of these sand jockeys trying to push everyone around with their scare tactics. No American fighting man or woman, or for that matter, every free nations fighting force has ever hidden their faces in battle. They are nothing more than a band of cut throats and barbarians and in the true sense of the word, "Cowards". We have now put them on notice. The free nations of the world are ready to strike back with a force that will put them down forever! We have designed this shirt to tell them just that.


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One company embroiled in the nation's property foreclosure crisis is not unprepared for a fight.
In Washington, D.C., Merscorp Inc. has retained several well-heeled lobbyists and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying efforts since the start of the mortgage crisis and economic meltdown.
Merscorp Inc. is the parent company of Virginia-based Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), which serves as an electronic registry for 67 million U.S. mortgages — more than 60 percent of the country's total.
MERS was created in the 1990s by the mortgage banking industry to save them significant sums of cash by capitalizing on the digital revolution. The firm's motto is "process loans, not paperwork."
The ease of this streamlining process has brought trouble and detractors, however, especially in the face of the $12 trillion real estate bubble's burst, and the company's role in helping banks foreclose on properties, as the Washington Post recently reported.
"Several state courts have rejected attempts by MERS to act on behalf of banks seeking to foreclose on delinquent mortgages," the Post reported last week. "And Congress is weighing legislation that would bar home loan giant Fannie Mae from buying any mortgage listed in MERS, potentially a death knell for the registry."
Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi recently summed up the company's status this way: "In short, the mortgage industry considers MERS owner enough to foreclose on you, but not owner enough to be sued, or reasoned with, or even to provide basic customer service."
In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee in November, Merscorp Chief Executive Officer R.K. Arnold maintained his firm did not profit from foreclosures or decide when to foreclose upon a property.


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Corner towers of the Forbidden City were established in 1420, rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). As one part of the Forbidden City, they served as the defense facility just as the lofty walls, the gate towers and the moat. The corner towers rest on the base with Buddist-style building surrounded with stone columns. the four corner towers of the Forbidden City inherited the flexibility of the traditional wood structure construction and the skillful combination of the function and decoration indicated the superb and excellent craftsmanship of ancient Chinese craftsman.
The Forbidden City is surrounded by a 7.9 metres high city wall and a 6 metres deep by 52 metres wide moat. The walls are 8.62 metres wide at the base, tapering to 6.66 metres at the top. These walls served as both defensive walls and retaining walls for the palace. They were constructed with a rammed earth core, and surfaced with three layers of specially baked bricks on both sides, with the interstices filled with mortar.
Overview and HistoryIn the Stone Age, "Peking Man" lived near Beijing -- as many as 500,000 years ago. The earliest relics in China are stone tools dating to this time period. Between four and five thousand years ago there were agricultural settlements southwest of Beijing. They were the beginning of a city that would go through several name changes over the millenia.The legendary Yellow Emperor Huang Di battled Chiyou "in the wilderness of the Zhou prefecture." Zhoulu is a town to the west of modern Beijing. The Yellow Emperor's successor, Emperor Yao, established a capital city called Youdo. Youdo became a place called Ji, and Ji was taken over by the Marquis of Yan during the period of the Warring States (475 B.C.)Ji remained an important city for ten centuries. From China's first feudal empire through to the end of the Tang Dynasty, Ji was a strategic military center in the campaign to unite all of China.By the end of the Tang Dynasty in 907 A.D., the Qidan army came from the north and occupied Ji. They called it Nanjing, which meant "southern capital." During this time the Liao Dynasty ruled and carried out many reconstruction projects in the city, fortifying it for greater military use.The Nuzhen army conquered the Liao and established the Jin dynasty as of 1115 A.D., moving the city of Ji and renaming it "Zhongdu" which means "Central Capital." This meant more expansion and construction of palaces until the city spanned five kilometers across and contained an estimated one million people.Mongolian raiders invaded Zhongdu in 1215 A.D. and renamed it Dadu. Under Kublai Khan the Yuan Dynasty took Dadu as its capital and unified China!Since Zhongdu had been destroyed by fire in the change from Jin to Yuan dynasties, Kublai Khan took on a reconstruction project that was to expand the city into rectangular shape. It became the political center of the country with three main areas -- imperial palaces, the city walls, and the canal.By the coming of the thirteenth century, Dadu was a world famous city which astounded Marco Polo when he arrived. In his record he writes, "You must know that it is the greatest palace that ever was..."In 1368 Ming soldiers captured Dadu and renamed it Beiping or "Northern Peace." It went through another period of reconstruction which saw walls twelve meters high built around its perimeter, walls ten meters thick which took fifteen years to build. When they were done, Beiping became the official capital of the Ming Dynasty. With the completion of the palaces and gardens in 1420, Emperor Yongle renamed the city Beijing, "Northern Capital."Beijing grew once more and took on a rectangular shape with two distinct sections, the Inner City (Tartar) and the Outer City (Chinese). Its city planners gave it an organized arrangement that still felt relaxed.The Qing Dynasty came along circa 1644 A.D. and the Manchus built extended suburban gardens. These took more than a whole century to make, but when they were finished the open-air pavilions and palaces stood as a masterpiece of Chinese architecture. This was proper to show the power and refinement of traditional China, a fitting design for the capital of the empire.The Qing Dynasty lasted until 1911 but collapsed into chaos at the hands of the Northern Warlords. Beijing suffered a lack of leadership until 1949, when the People's Liberation Army entered the city. From Tian'anmen Square in the center of the city, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.Since then it has continued to expand, surpassing the nine gates of the inner city wall, beyond the seven outer gates, and into the suburbs. Beijing now takes up 750 square kilometers! The city retains its old symmetry with a central axis that runs north-south, and the Imperial Palace Museum at the center. This palace was once called the "Forbidden City" but it is now a museum open to the public.Getting ThereThe Beijing Capital International Airport is located 25km northeast of the city. It is the center of China's civil aviation network and it connects to 69 cities worldwide. The airport is linked to the city by bus, taxi and Beijing Subway Airport Line.The city government operates one bus line and private buses go and come from several hotels. The taxi stand is outside the terminal, as always, so don't ride with the drivers who harass you inside the terminal. A ride to the city center should cost about 70 RMB plus 15 RMB highway toll. You should also know that there's an airport tax of 90 RMB for international travelers. Keep your receipt!TransportationWithin the city you can choose from 67,000 GPS-equipped taxis, the bus or the metro. Half of their buses are running on natural gas now, which is a good move considering the city is adding fifty new bus routes per year. Whoa!The metro has two routes, the Loop Line and Line One. The Loop has sixteen stations and it runs parallel to where the city wall stood in the Ming era. Line One has twenty-one stops going from the suburbs on one side all the way across to the other side. It is safe to assume that there will be more metro lines to follow as Beijing grows.People and CultureOne of the unique sights in Beijing is a park filled with retired people doing their exercises early in the morning. Tai ch'i, QiGong, sword dancing and shadow boxing are forms of exercise and relaxation which have existed for more than two thousand years and are still popular today.Drinking tea in a teahouse and enjoying a folk opera in an old-style theater are both popular activities in Beijing culture. Beijing has more bars and pubs than any other Chinese city (more than 400), and it's also full of antique shops, silk markets and museums.Things to do, RecommendationsBeijing is massive and filled with interesting things to explore. For just a few examples, take a look at these:The National Stadium (bird's nest), the Water Cube, and ruins of the Yuan Dynasty city wall.If you like art, you have to check out the 798 Art District. It's named for Factory #798 and the district contains hundreds of galleries, bookstores and restaurants. Have fun!Text by Steve Smith.


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Last week, the story of a "ghost" or a mysterious light making its way inside an Anytime Fitness club in our home base of Overland Park, KS, made national and international headlines. The light was caught on tape from a surveillance camera inside the club.
I was about to report on this story, too, until I read some reader comments that followed a published report. Many people make good claims that the ghost or orb or whatever was merely a mite or a bug that crawled across the camera lens. My favorite comment is as follows:
"The Ittsy-Bittsy Spider walked across the camera's lens,
Down came the reporters and is featured on CNN,
Up came the conspiracy theriorist (sic) who thought they saw a ghost,
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest young adult franchise of them all?
Up to this year, the answer has been as clear as Windex: "Harry Potter." The boy wizard's journey of self-discovery produced a franchise so successful that it seemed as if it had been charmed by the benevolent wand of a fairy godmother: seven books and eight films, the final installment released last July.
Now that Harry's story is told, Hollywood's major studios are set to release a flood of replacement teen franchises over the next two years that they hope will prove to be just as resilient. While the requisite sword fights, evil beasts, and wise father figures are certain to get screen time, the new slate of entertainment is inviting its audience into worlds that are darker, gorier, and apocalyptic. The hero journey in "Harry Potter" and forbidden love triangle in "Twilight" feel trite among the following:
•"Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," which updates the story of gingerbread-munching waifs with a look at their adult years in which they become vengeful bounty hunters.
•"The Hunger Games," based on the wildly successful teen lit trilogy set in a postapocalyptic future where teens are forced to fight to the death for public entertainment.
•Two versions of Snow White's story: "Mirror, Mirror," a parody featuring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, and "Snow White and the Huntsman," a fantasy epic featuring "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart in the title role.
•"Ender's Game," a sci-fi thriller based on the Orson Scott Card series set in a dystopian world that follows a young boy recruited by the military to fight an alien invasion but who later realizes he's participating in genocide.
•"Oz: The Great and Powerful," a prequel to the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" that pits the wizard (James Franco) against three devious witches.
Television is also plundering fairy tales and fantasy literature to deliver darker revisions of the originals. Besides "Grimm," an NBC cop drama featuring characters from the classic tales, viewers can also tune into "Once Upon a Time," a reworking of fairy tales set in the present day on ABC, and "Game of Thrones," an HBO series of medieval fantasy.
Fantasy fare is maturing to correspond with the "Harry Potter" audience, which is older and now hungry for entertainment that is more evolved with a realistic element of danger, says Brad Ricca, who teaches at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and whose book, "Super Boys," a history of Superman, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.
" 'Harry Potter' primed its audience for these new types of movies. [Studios are] trying to get at the now older 'Harry Potter' audience, which is looking to somewhere new to eat their popcorn," Mr. Ricca says.
One obvious reason why fairy tales are continually valuable: They're cheap. "They're in the public domain so they don't belong to anyone," which means studios "don't have to deal with a crotchety author," says Naomi Wood, who teaches at Kansas State University in Manhattan and is an expert on children's literature.
The interest in reviving fantasy literature and fairy tales is cyclical, says Ms. Wood, primarily because the genre is "so malleable" to current political and social dilemmas. They work particularly well for movies and television because "the images are so concise and powerful" and can "encode so much meaning in so many ways," she says.
For example, Wood says, Walt Disney's 1950 "Cinderella" became "the first Cinderella in history that actually celebrates housework," which is counter to every representation of the fairy tale dating back to the time of classical antiquity when it first appeared. The reason: The suburbanization of postwar America resulted in messages that promoted domesticity, aiming to redirect women from factories back to the kitchen.
Likewise, the short fiction of British writer Angela Carter in the late 1970s was praised for reimagining tales such as "Bluebeard," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Little Red Riding Hood" as allegories for feminist empowerment.
This forthcoming crop of fantasy fare is likewise a product of the past decade, which witnessed economic uncertainty, endless military action, the threat of terrorism, and the growing distrust of corporate and government powers. Coming of age during those years is a generation of young people who, as they near adulthood, are becoming naturally suspicious of the world around them, says Ricca.
"Fairy tales are always popular, especially today where our leaders and role models may look like kindly men and women but are really sinister witches and animals," he says.
The themes of "The Hunger Games" and "Ender's Game," in particular, feature young protagonists forced into violent situations by a shadowy political leadership that wields power unscrupulously behind the scenes.
"They reflect exactly what we see in the news: You die or you survive. It can be an accident or it can be terrorism, but that's it – good or bad," says Becky DiBiasio, an expert in fantasy literature and film at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. For a growing number of young people, "life doesn't fit in the terms of law and order anymore. It's not Sherlock Holmes logical; it's illogical."
The difference between many of these new adaptations and the "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" franchises is that their protagonists have a choice in the outcome, rather than following a path to their destiny. That message echoes what is driving the current "Occupy" movement in cities across the United States, says Eric Rabkin, an expert on fantasy literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The film and book franchises are portraying the "sense that we all have of being watched, in a recession in which huge portions of the population are sure there are nameless and faceless plutocrats who caused it and there is nothing we seem to be able to do to stop it," Mr. Rabkin says.
The fantastic realm allows its audience to believe that one young person can make a difference against such injustice, even if the harsh realities of real life suggest the opposite.
The apocalyptic backdrop of these franchises reflects that "we are recognizing that life for kids today is, in fact, darker."
"The wish is not just that the person can make a difference, but what the kid does in that world that can prove to us it can be done," Rabkin says.


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One of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic contributors to the American songbook, Van Dyke Parks is best known as an arranger for artists ranging from The Byrds and The Beach Boys (the legendary lost album Smile) to more recent work with Inara George and Joanna Newsom. Before that, he was a child actor, starring opposite Ezio Pinzo on the TV show Bonino. (He also played a lawyer on an episode of Twin Peaks.) But it's as a solo artist that Parks' voice is best heard. Beginning with 1968's Song Cycle, his albums have followed a sporadic and winding path that's taken him through the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris (Jump!), calypso (Discover America and Clang Of The Yankee Reaper), and the history of Japanese-American relations (Tokyo Rose). Even when he's drawn on the songwriting of others, his versions sound like no one else's: See Yankee Reaper's swinging take on Pachelbel's Canon In D Major for proof. Given the eccentric fluidity of his orchestrations, it's not surprising he'd never found a way to take them on the road, but that changed recently, when at age 67 he undertook the first tour of his career. Backed by the Brooklyn quartet Clare And The Reasons, whose vocalist, Clare Manchon, is the daughter of his old friends Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Parks took to the road to hone songs from an album to be released in 2011. As he finalized his preparations for the tour, Parks talked to The A.V. Club from his home about inventing music video, scoring "The Bare Necessities," and the songwriter next to whom Neil Young and Paul Simon are "a bunch of trash."
Van Dyke Parks: What's A.D. stand for?
The A.V. Club: A.V., like audio-visual.
VDP: Oh wow, that's amazing. Years ago I wanted to make movies for records at Warner Bros., and it became a problem what to call the department. I knew that we wanted video, and I knew that we wanted to promote audio, but I didn't know which word to put first because that hyphen didn't exist. That's 1970. Now it's a common hyphen.
AVC: When you say you wanted to make movies for records, do you mean proto-music videos?
VDP: Absolutely. I used the expression MTV. I was directly under the CEO, the head of the company, whose name was Mo Ostin. I asked him for that permission; I used that expression. I told him "I wanted my music television." I made 13 films, put them on a 10-minute reel so they could show it at a neighborhood theater.
AVC: One of the things that's interesting about your career is that you've moved back and forth between music and film, or worked in both at once.
VDP: First of all, I just want to thank you for saying that I have a career. My mother once said to me, "Van Dyke, we've always thought it was amazing how you put your retirement before your career." I'm coming out to tour to change all that. I wanted to develop an income stream for artists that I thought were being too hard-pressed to do road promotions; they needed a new way to promote their music and that's why I did it. Years before, when I was a boy, I was on a television show with a great actress, Dorothy Gish. She had made the film industry, she and her sister, for D.W. Griffith and other equal film people. An American seed, a French invention, and they ran with it. I was told when I was a boy, "That woman over there in a bit part was once the great Ms. Gish, who was a great global film star who made the film industry what it became." So I complimented her when we had a few minutes off. I had a big part, she had a little part. I said, "Miss Gish, I understand you were very important in the silent-film era." She said, "Thank you very much, young man." I was about 9. I decided not to leave the conversation there. She seemed to be kind of lonely, and I said, "Miss Gish, weren't you scared when you heard the talkies were coming?" She said, "That's a good question. Actually, when we first heard that film would have sound, they didn't use that expression. We all just naturally assumed that the sound would be music." Now that's to illustrate that people have thought of sight and sound as one megillah. There's a very symbiotic potential for film and music, and I've always been interested in it. I never forgot that. It was a big deal to hear that from a person of her age and rank. It confirmed in my mind that music and film would be something I would explore. So I did.
AVC: Obviously, when you're scoring a movie, you're responding to the images, but do you create your own images when you're writing songs?
VDP: I do think that music, can—pardon me, let me use a big word here—enunciate, give clarity to, what is being visually seen. It can bring something in the most subtle way, make something rise to a conscious or cognitive level, where people finally recognize something is happening. Of course, the way to find that cannot be told, it has to be discovered, but I've spent many, many, many efforts agonizing about that. The thing I'm up to now is a total departure from all this stuff, of 40 years of recording records, and living my life in seclusion, in a monastic kind of isolation, doing television shows, scores for movies long forgotten, and orchestrating for many other people. I just thought at the age of 67 I might as well start spending my so-called retirement in full battle speed, and enjoy discovering what performance is all about. And performance of course is an art. I love Marcel Marceau, I love people who try to present the performance art, and I want to learn something of that. I want to be a companionable presence in the room, but I also want to learn from this. I want to get my land legs in performance, because I'm perched to release an album in the spring. I'll have it done in the spring, probably about February of next year, and I want to tour again, but with some lessons learned. My campaign motto is "I've suffered like hell for my music all my life. Now it's your turn."
AVC: One of the things that's characteristic about your sound, both your own recordings and the arrangements you've done, is a real diversity of instrumentation, using the orchestra for accents and not just to sustain chords. You're touring this time with a band, not a symphony orchestra.
VDP: Yeah, it's an entirely different thing. I'm so fortunate, the opening group, which is of no lesser rank, Clare And The Reasons. Clare Manchon, do you know how to spell her name?
AVC: I do.
VDP: Okay, just because she matters to me. Clare, her husband, Olivier, he plays violin and everything else. Xylophone, they go everywhere. They're just great, and they're all superior musicians. They all have perfect pitch. I don't. I'm just a working-class stiff, but I'll give them a run for their money. They'll open the show, and they are mystical, magical, marvelous, dreamscape, seductive, so appealing, a beautiful experience to see these kids do their work and then they stay and have the good grace to accompany me on my set. I'm a lucky guy is what I'm saying.
AVC: You've earned some of it as well.
VDP: All the stars came together. This is the first time I've really found an opportunity. It just happened. I was so thrilled with it that I decided finally to get an agent. Now I'm in show business.
AVC: Why haven't you toured before? Was it stage fright, or just never having the motivation?
VDP: I had three kids to put through college. I worked hard here to do what I know, which is basically to be part of the collaborative part of music in many anonymous activities. I've made a living at it since I came out here. My first job was as arranger for a song called "The Bare Necessities" on The Jungle Book score. My first union job. Since that time, I've spent a great deal of time obsessing on the potential of the studio, the technology. Because there is a difference between canned music and live music, and I love canned music. I can remember 1948, Spike Jones; that was my first awesome experience. It totally floored me to hear what Spike Jones did with a piece called "Cocktails For Two."
AVC: That's an amazing record.
VDP: Lot of tuneful percussion in it, marimba, xylophone, things that honked. And then in 1953, Les Paul and Mary Ford. Les Paul attracted my ear. This was totally ear candy. It was stunning, serious music. It had nothing to do with my style, but it took me beyond the confines of my boarding school where I was studying classical music. At the American Boychoir School, which is the truth, I heard this thing, Les Paul and Mary Ford doing "Lover," and that changed my life, because that was the first multi-track guitar. Les Paul by his own invention arrived at an eight-track machine. How did that happen? It was all just so mysterious and delicious, a confection for the ear. And then the great, great Esquivel, who did such thrilling things in the age of hi-fi stereo, and then the synthesizer came along. I did commercials on that. That was in '69. And all of this, having seen Road Runner cartoons, and having a lot of cartoon consciousness, you hear that kind of inescapable low-brow approach to music—not epic, but still somehow I played out that feel of cartoon consciousness. It was my contribution to pop art.
AVC: It was a revelation when those Carl Stalling Project CDs came out to hear just how radical the scores for some of the Looney Tunes were, very much in the vein of Spike Jones. You don't hear it when you're watching the cartoons, but they're amazingly avant-garde in some respects.
VDP: There were the Carl Stallings, and [later] Hal Willner and The Beau Hunks, with the Laurel And Hardy stuff. They sold 250,000 units of that stuff, The Beau Hunks. That's a lot of people interested in old-time music. But my point is that I played it out. I have no idea what the future will bring, and hopefully I can do a definitive work with music and film, but for now I just want to take this moment to do something in music. What really brought me here when I came to California to play in coffeehouses with my brother was the live arena.
AVC: Given the live sound of this tour, will the next record reflect that stripped-down instrumentation?
VDP: Absolutely. The idea is to pull forward. I took it to the limit; I made every mistake I could possibly make on my first record. I played it for the head of Warner Bros., and he said, "So where are the songs?" My daughter, later on, she grows up, gains beauty, at the age of 16 or 17 she heard Song Cycle for the first time. She says, "Dad, they should've called this Song Psycho."
I realized the turbulence I came from. I was a basket case in the '60s. My brother died, my older brother, my sainted brother, the lion of the litter, he died and left me bereft. Then John Kennedy died, then Robert Kennedy died, then Martin Luther King died. I mean, everybody was dying. Our nation was in trauma. Any individual who was awake knew that we were in a catastrophic situation, socially, economically—the race issues, people getting hosed down in the South, the war, sitting down at dinnertime and watching the news seeing babies burn from American napalm. So there was every reason to be in a state of agitation, and I've got to say that many people tuned into Song Cycle and forgave it for being a real example of the pathology of the '60s. Yet I really learned from that. I made all my mistakes, and even to this day I believe this is absolutely vital, pivotal to the creative process: You must reserve the right to be wrong. You must reserve the right to fail, or you'll never get anything done. It'll be brain dead. Either brain dead or condemned to be a product with the lifespan of a jar of yogurt. Durable goods, that's what it's about. I think, I believe, unless I've miscalculated, I will bring durable goods.
AVC: Your experience of hearing Les Paul while studying at the American Boychoir School reminds me of Jimmy Webb, who grew up playing organ in his father's church but had his life changed by Elvis.
VDP: We share that in common, absolutely. I love Jimmy, you know, as a person.
AVC: You can hear the combined influences of classical and pop in your songs.
VDP: Don't get me wrong here. Nothing disturbs me about dead white guys' music. My favorite composer is Bach. If I was only allowed only thing, it could be Bach's cello suites, solo cello. Just something satisfying where every line ended up on its feet. Every cat got turned up and down on its feet again, up and down the tree. Listening to Bach is like watching a Fellini movie; all of the subplots are resolved, and there's logic in them, so I love them. I think Bach is the sexiest composer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm constantly learning about what the song form should be. My favorite songwriter, by the way, is an Italian man by the name of Paolo Conte. Here's a guy who just puts every American songwriter that I know, and that probably includes me, into a long shadow. I'm talking about all of these navel-gazers, Randy Newman, James Taylor, Paul Simon, you name it, Manny, Moe, and Jack, Neil Young—this is all a bunch of trash considering the enlightenment and high craft of a man like Paolo Conte. Stuff comes to me out of the ether, from nowhere; there's no reason for me to have my head turned like that—it's not fair. This is what that guy did, absolutely floored me with his ability. I'd say he's the greatest songwriter of our time. It's like Brian Wilson. What does he have that I don't have? Courage. Look at the courage that he put into himself. He was punished for it; they treated him like a rusty nail and tried to bang him down into the shingles, but they couldn't do it.
Tom Waits, you look at Tom Waits' work; every record he does demands a little bit more of his audience. He's a tunesmith, but he's in a constant pattern of self re-invention. I don't think he's trying to be testy; I don't try to be testy by being non-classifiable. I'm just a guy, I'm trying to respond to what's around me, to the immediacy of others' needs, not the advancement of my popularity.


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There will be two versions, Zubuntu-Base and Zubuntu-Desktop.
The Zubuntu-Base contains "just" the kernel, a working X Server and some basic applications. I leave it up to you to decide what additional packages to install. A lot of the applications can be installed directly from the Mojo repository.
The Zubuntu-Desktop contains, apart from all the packages in Zubuntu-Base, a more complete set of standard applications. Only packages missing currently are PIM applications (Calendar & Contact).
Both Zubuntu distro's will be targeted at the Zaurus Spitz (SL-C3x00) and Akita (SL-C1000) models first. I'm still in the process of getting an alternative boot kernel (kexecboot) working for at least the SL-C7x0 and SL-C860 models, but this will take some more time I'm afraid. I recently acquired a Tosa (SL-C6000L), but I still have to check what is needed to get Zubuntu working on this specific model.
Linux Kernel 2.6.26, EABI only, patched for use with Android 1.0 Sound: Tested and working, including volume control on the back of the device Touchscreen: Tested and working Network: Tested and working (tested with Linksys WCF12, Buffalo WL12-CF-S11, Billionton CFLT2-10B) Rotation: Automatic rotation in X Server once the display is flipped. Brightness control (Fn-3 and Fn-4): Tested and working Bluetooth support: Added, but untested USB Host: Added, but untested
Installed applications in Zubuntu-Desktop
Desktop: LXDE Launcher: LXLauncher (installed, but disabled on default) File manager: PCManFM Multimedia player: Audacious Web browser: Firefox 3. Thinking about replacing it by Midori. Network manager: WICD Text editor: Leafpad Word processor: Abiword Spreatsheet: Gnumeric Email: Sylpheed PDF: xPDF Instant Messenger: Pidgin Games: xMahjongg
Additional extras
Android 1.0. Will become available later as a seperate download
Help wantedSome of you offered help already. Thanks a lot! If you're able and willing to help in any way, please drop me a line using the "Contact Me" form, and we'll see what we can work out.
Also, if you think I'm forgetting something important, or if you have any suggestions or improvements, let me know.
Shameless footnoteOnce more, if you like what I'm doing here, and/or it is of any help to you, please keep pressing those advertisements. The more you press, the more it keeps me motivated.
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Based on Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" I used the Mojo "Hasty Hippogriff" repositories. Bravo to the guys from the Mojo project. A job well done!
I'm currently using the Xfce desktop environment. A lot of standard applications have to be added, but the hardware support like sound, touchscreen, auto rotation, network etc. seems to work.
More on this later :-)
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Now, plans were to combine two ongoing projects of mine, Android and Zubuntu, and make it into one distro. But I'm still having too much problems with Zubuntu (I'm working on the 8.04 release) so I switched, for the time being, to Poky. I read that OpenenedHand was recently acquired by Intel, so we might see some (more) of Poky back in Moblin in one of the next releases.
So what you download and install here is mainly a Poky distro in the first place. It's very stable and pretty complete. Give it a try, I like it better each time I see and use it. It's based on a 2.6.26 kernel patched for Android. Although the Android SDK was based on a 2.6.25, I ported the patches needed to get it working in 2.6.26.
Android is pretty basic I guess. I didn't test all features, and I'm sure that a some things don't work yet. Like the touchscreen for instance.
Installing Poky & AndroidInstallation on the Zaurus is done in the usual way:
1. Download the following files and copy them to a SD card.
zImage.bin updater.sh gnu-tar android-root.tar.gz
2. Remove battery and power adapter cable
3. Wait for 5 seconds
4. Replace battery, close and lock battery cover
5. Attach power adapter cable
6. Keep OK button pressed while pressing on/off switch
7. From the Japanese menu, choose option 4 (Update), then 2 (SD) and finally Y
Flashing starts, and you are asked if you want to flash the kernel, if you want the microdrive to be formatted and if you want the root filesystem to be installed. Accept all questions answering them with y
After flashing is complete, the machine is rebooted and Poky starts. First boot takes some time because of initial configuration taking place.
Now, before getting on to Android, play around in Poky and see if you like it. It's really worth a try!
Starting AndroidYou have to exit the Poky interface by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace simultaneously. On the prompt, press Enter and login with user root. No password is needed. Now type:
chroot /home/android /init
Android should boot now.
Exit AndroidI haven't found a better way, so let me know if there is one. Press Fn-Right to see the Android console, and type "reboot" to reboot the machine. Poky will be (re)started.
Enjoy Android, and hopefully Poky. Thanks again for Speculatrix for sharing some hosting space. Much appreciated!
By the way, if you like what I'm doing, be so kind to click on as much advertisements (on the left) as you can.
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Anyway, since Google released a Beta of Android for us to play with two days ago, I was just thinking if this would be of any interest.
See for yourself here. The user interface has been revamped pretty extensively. It looks great!
So, anyone in for another Android experiment then?
SDK download can be found here. I dusted off my developer tools already to see if I can make this work on my Zaurus again
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I tried a lot of different Window Managers and setups, but in my opinion none of them fitted the Zaurus very well. That's why I only uploaded a minimal version so far.
After reading Mark Shuttleworth's blog about the Netbook Remix AppLaucher I thought I'd give it a try, just to see if I could get it working on my Zaurus. Another proof of concept so to say.
Unfortunately, this isn't currently possible using frisky or grumpy. The repositories simply don't contain all the right packages or package versions. So I had to make a small sidestep by creating a Debian-Lenny distribution. The Debian Lenny repositories have a huge amount of packages, and they're much more up-to-date than I thought!
After having Lenny ready and working, I compiled the Netbook Remix packages. Using the XFCE Window Manager I set up the top panel and started the launcher. Although the launcher doesn't work (yet), I think this will become my favorite Zaurus setup. The idea behind maximus and the go-home button are great, and the launcher should fit the Zaurus very well.
The launcher exits with an error saying that the "XServer appears to lack required GLX support". Too bad, maybe I'll try to use the xserver-xorg to see if that helps.
Anyway, a lot has to be done. My quest for the perfect Zaurus setup hasn't finished yet. My next proof of concept could well be the mobile Firefox, Mozilla Fennec. We'll see.
Good news by the way. I understand that work on the Ubuntu 8.04 for ARM has started. The Mojo guys hope to have a working (minimal) version within a few weeks time. Great work!
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The struggle for a decent installer continues. More on this later.
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Most of my spare time went into this project the last couple of weeks. I've managed to get a fairly complete system running now, although it's very difficult to get all the tiny bits and pieces fit into the right place and position.
A lot of time is spent finding out stuff that has already been done by others. I'm not complaining, it's just that this work isn't as efficient as it could have been. But hey, since I'm far from a Linux guru I'm still learning a lot, and for me that's worth a good thing.
I've updated the minimal image. It can be downloaded here. The version number has gone up from 0.1 to 0.3.
Same instructions apply as before, so read all the details here. I hope to fix a few other things soon, like sound, automatic Xserver rotation, brightness adjustment, right mouse click simulation, easy wireless network configuration, the hardware clock and other things I've forgotten right now.
One good thing is my experience with Xfce. I like it, it looks good and the performance is better than I expected.
If you're going to use this in Qemu, make sure you rename /etc/keymap-2.6.map temporarily, since you don't want to use the Zaurus keyboard mapping in Qemu.
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So I started investigating alternatives. I'm flashing a Xfce image on my Zaurus right now. Let's see how this turns out. Hopefully it's blazing fast of course. First impression is that it still looks great (I'm using the Xubuntu theme). In Qemu the performance is... okay I guess. I hope the Zaurus beats Qemu this time.
There are lots of other choices regarding WM's, and the suggestions some of you made tell me that it may also be a great matter of taste.
That's why I will upload two different images. One being a minimal image, on which people can install whatever they like and the other being a complete desktop image, with a standard set of packages pre-installed, like Firefox, Gnumeric, Abiword, Sylpheed, gqview etc
I'm very content with the Qemu solution by the way, were I pre-configure the complete image before I try it on the Zaurus. It saves me lots and lots of time. I can't imagine doing all the fiddling, configuration and installation directly on the Zaurus in the way I do it now.
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I'm currently experimenting with other window managers. First one I'm trying is Xfce. If this one's too heavy too, I'll try Fluxbox, Openbox and finally IceWM.
In the meantime, the ubuntu-minimal root filesystem is in it's third version here. Most errors are gone luckily.
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Except for the fact that someone might physically come behind my computer and log in to my ... say, bank account, is it safe to have my login information (usernames/account#s and passwords) saved on my computer? Would it be possible for someone to steal them through the net?
OS X 10.4.10, usually firefox (sometimes omniweb, sometimes camino).


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The now-defunct but significant newspaper for covering news events in Jersey City and northern Hudson County was the Hudson Dispatch. It was a local independent newspaper that began as the Harrison Dispatch, circa 1874, in Harrison, NJ, and was said to have started in East Newark by publisher Trelease, Simonds & Company.
In 1877, the newspaper was sold to a printer who convinced the political leader and Hudson County Sheriff Robert "Bob" Davis to invest in the Dispatch. It moved to Jersey City in 1887, relocated to Union Hill (now Union City) in 1890, and finally took residence in the Dispatch Building at 400 Thirty-eight Street in Union City. Under its new name, the newspaper was noted for its investigative reporting of Hudson County politics and primarily served the communities of Union City, Weehawken, West New York and North Bergen.
Sold to Media News Group of Houston in 1986, the Dispatch was taken over by its competitor, the Jersey Journal, in 1991. By that time the newspaper had been in existence for approximately 117 years, but its circulation had slipped to 30,000 and suffered from a loss of revenue and advertising. Mindful of the Dispatch's journalistic tradition in the county, the Jersey Journal for awhile printed the Hudson Dispatch logo along with its own name on its masthead.


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Here's a confession: I find myself resisting describing myself as an atheist, and I wonder why that is. Since I can't claim certainty, I suppose I could use the rubbery rubric of agnosticism. But right or wrong, I can't believe there are gods (and there have been times when I'd have liked to). So why the reticence? Maybe it's fear of reprisal; it is, after all, an untidy time for people like me, whose offense is only looking at the world with clear eyes, neither willing nor able to go beyond reality and the observable; the constitutional inability to make a leap of faith, even as our country seems unstoppably heading toward theocracy. But I think it's something different.
As I've thought about it, it seems that atheism ought to be the default assumption, for anyone. Certain things ought to go without saying. One should not have to describe oneself, for example, as a mathist. Or a gravitist. (Yes, I realize the analogy is sort of a semantic contradiction, but you get the picture.) I believe the grass grows; I believe in chlorophyll. I (sort of) understand radioactive decay, and I understand (to a degree) its relation to measuring the age of the earth. I know (mostly) why planes fly and I don't need to claim an angel holds them up; I don't think the earth rides on the back of a turtle, and it seems reasonable that anyone would assume that about me. Nor does the fact that I don't know everything lead me to fill in the blanks with imaginary answers. I can wait. Belief in the demonstrable ought to be the default baseline for anyone, and it shouldn't need a particular label.
Okay, maybe "realist."
Or "normal."
It's when you begin to come up with magical explanations (ones, I must point out, that other believers in other magic will decry ferociously and consider false magic, capital blasphemy, compared to their version of it, with no sense of irony whatever), that it seems labels should be applied. I think of those judges who sentence people to wearing a sign after they stole something. People who didn't steal anything don't need a sign saying so. Not believing in gods oughtn't need particularizing any more than breathing does. I do breathe; I admit it. But it'd be strange to identify me as a breather, wouldn't it?
A world-view ought to start with reality. Reality is enough. Reality is, for one thing, real. Realists shouldn't need to explain it, or to have (loaded) labels applied. Nor, for that matter, should they feel the need to brag about it, or get in the faces of others. Why should the world need a movement that announces its commitment to reality?
Except for the fact that any realist can't help being shocked, worried, and appalled at the direction we're headed in the US, as magical thinking has become the basis for a major political party; as intelligence, the quest for knowledge, are considered elitist and abhorrent, actively and proudly mocked and scorned. In that party, belief in god seems to have become synonymous with rejection of science, with denialism, with economic amnesia. It needn't be thus; it wasn't always so. But those who wonder why there are suddenly a few highly outspoken and, as some have called them, "militant" atheists out there need only look at today's Republican party, its teabaggers, its "values voters" for the answer. Scary, hateful, regressive, aggressively ill-informed people.
There's where labels belong, seems to me.
Sid Schwab
United States


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Middle School Students Who Get Off College Track, Cannot Get Back On
A new study from ACT focuses on the extent to which students who are academically far-off-track for college can catch up within four years. Researchers examined multiple cohorts of eighth-grade students whose EXPLORE (a test administered by ACT) scores were more than one standard deviation below benchmark scores associated with being on-track. Ten percent or fewer students who were far-off-track in the eighth grade attained ACT College Readiness Benchmarks by 12th grade. A separate analysis using state test scores for students in grade four and their EXPLORE scores in grade eight obtained similar results. For both fourth and eighth grade cohorts, the overall percentage of students catching up was lower in high-poverty schools. Even at more successful high-poverty high schools, fewer than 20 percent of far-off-track eighth graders attained College Readiness Benchmarks by 12th grade. These results indicate policymakers must emphasize prevention over remediation. Prevention strategies should be conceived more broadly — for example, giving every student access to a content- and vocabulary-rich curriculum in the early years, or implementing programs and strategies that improve student attendance and academic behaviors. Efforts to close academic preparation gaps should begin as early as possible, be more intensive, and take as long as necessary. Based on the study's results, policymakers should not assume that rapid catching up is possible if only educators try harder.
See the report: http://www.act.org/research-policy/policy-publication


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Family Programs for International Students Announced
The Augustana International Programs Office is seeking Sioux Falls-area families interested in learning about new cultures, languages and traditions to participate in its Host Family and Friendship Family Programs.
Augustana Reports Largest Number of International Students
Fifty four new students representing 20 countries and five continents will begin their studies at Augustana this fall -- the College's largest-ever incoming class of international students.
Augustana Professor Authors Book on 'Economic Dysfunction'
"Fubarnomics," the new book by Dr. Robert W. Wright, Nef Family chair of political economy, tackles conditions like financial bubbles and collapses and probes the dark recesses of economic dysfunction.
College and Community Band Returns from Concert Tour
Members of the Augustana College and Community Band are back in the U.S. after a two-week concert tour of Greece and Turkey. The Band presented four concerts and performed with native artists.
Rob Oliver Editorial Says No Need to Go Away to Do Research
President Rob Oliver's recent editorial in the Argus Leader emphasizes the need to convey to the young people of our region that they don't need to go away to go far in scientific research.
Augustana Sees 250 Percent Increase in Anthropology Majors
Augustana College is reporting a 250 percent increase in the number of students enrolled in its anthropology major. This fall, Augustana's student roster will list 21 anthropology majors.
Augustana Presents Holiday Jam With the Hegg Brothers
Tickets are now on sale for "Holiday Jam With the Hegg Brothers," a musical evening of holiday favorites in St. Paul, Minn., presented by Augustana in celebration of the College's 150th anniversary.
Sophomore Honors Award Recipients Announced
Four rising juniors have been selected to receive the prestigious Sophomore Honors, an award which recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at an early stage of their college careers.
Professor Emeritus Richard Forman Passes Away at 82
Dr. Richard W. Forman, professor emeritus of Mathematics, died Wednesday, June 30. He was 82. The funeral service was held on Tuesday, July 6, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
The Augustana Band Bound for Egypt in January 2011
In its infancy, the Augustana Band stayed close to home. Today, with a rich tradition of excellence firmly established, the band is preparing for its fourth international tour, exploring the Nile Valley of Egypt.